While I think the movie can stand on it's own there is very little in way of character development in the movie. The expectation really is that you already know the personalities of the characters.
So, do yourself a favour and watch the DVD set first. 2 episodes a day for a week, then see the movie.
I thought the series rather ho-key, but I had my tivo record episodes anyway when 'Space' channel ran them (Canadian channel, sci-fi theme). Thankfully they like to run them in-order, and the complete set, including the 'unaired' episodes.
I thought the movie was very good, as did a friend of mine who watched only a couple episodes of the show.
I've never had a virus infection on my own personal computer. (X86; DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows XP).
But if you think that means I don't run an anti-virus program on it you're wrong.
I don't run anything on my Mac. Until such time as the threat is higher than theory there is no point.
I have no doubt that a virus of significant threat will appear on the OS X platform one day. Until it does I have no reason to think any particular implementation of anti-virus software would be effective anyway. When theory meets practice theory seldom survives. ANd the only thing they have to write against right now is theory.
OS X running on x86 might be opening a can of worms.
Prices here for theaters are pretty good, they dropped the ticket price a few years ago.
3 of us went to see Serenity on Friday, it cost me $26~ for 3 tickets. As for concessions, the solution to that is to go to dinner, then go see a movie, you spend considerably less at the theater and, in my mind, have a more enjoyable time. (even though it is a more expensive night.)
Drop 20 GPS guided bombs over the target, if GPS is jammed they will do what, go up?
You strap a GPS unit onto a bomb and let it control the fins to guide it to it's target, but it will still hit the ground and explode. You won't be as effective as you had hoped, but I wouldn't want to be in the area.
As others have said, the bombs guided by GPS have the receivers in the rear (facing up as the bomb falls) and can therefor be shielded easily from most types of jamming.
As for blanketing a city block and thinking your safe, well, that won't do much good either. A Satelite image which is geo-referenced is accurate enough in a pinch. As others have mentioned, a laser-rangefinder will get you co-ordinates from a good distance away if you need it as well. Likely outside of jamming distances of the military signal.
We were able to wage war without GPS technology, its only more effective when it works. There are very few realistic scenarios that GPS technology could make worse. (Intentionally skewing the signal such that a specific target were hit instead of the intended target is an order of magnitude more difficult than simple jamming, and without the encryption codes only effective against the civilian frequencies.)
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that Apple doesn't make much money from selling songs.
I believe the statement has been overblown, and anyone who thinks it means Apple isn't making money from the iTunes store is fooling themselves.
Apple put a lot of money into iTMS, and I'm sure it will take a while for it to pay for itself and earn significant profit. That doesn't mean it isn't profitable business.
Spotlight doesn't do that much work that I would honestly expect it to significantly impact battery life.
Perhaps if you used spotlight to find all your files, as it would take some effort to search the index and list all the files. But I doubt you search for that many files in a session.
It is far more likely there is another process which is effecting battery life, or your battery is starting to show some wear and tear.
In this instance there are other fields in the index, and the records are processed sequentially.
As I mentioned, it is a queue of records. Once the records are processed the flag is toggled.
As for the hundred thousand records, it wasn't the rule for this table, it was an except which was created by a combination of factors outside of my control, it was however a good stress test.
I use a 4GL Database called Progress. (Not to be confused with postgresql).
Recently in code I was writing I needed to check the status of a flag, basicly to ignore all previously processed records in a queue.
Easy enough...
FOR EACH tablename WHERE NOT tablename.Processed
After a hundred thousand records were created the query was taking ages to run, in spite of tablename.Processed being an indexed logical field. I didn't realize it when I wrote the code, but a NOT statement disables index handling and is NOT equivalent to:
FOR EACH tablename WHERE tablename.Processed = FALSE
I did know this, somewhere in the back of my mind, but I so seldom use NOT on the initial field in an Index that it wasn't previously an issue.
It always pays to re-evluate the structure of your queries to verify they are using the most efficient index whenever possible. It also pays to step back and consider how data will be queried, not simply create indexes based on logical constraints and the initial obvious queries.
It is a police officers duty (and job) to make note of any pertinent facts.
In this case, the officer said it was a one-way street, while the driver said it was a two-way street.
That is a pertinent detail.
I almost got my first speeding ticket a couple of weeks ago. I was pulled over doing 23km/h over the limit. (14.x MPH). Around here thats a $200+ fine. After handing the officer my license and registration he received a high priority call.
One of the women at work heard about it and was very upset, she was hit with a speeding ticket the week before.
Selective Availability has been turned off since the CLinton administration.
Selective Availability was turned off during the first Gulf War. (opposite of what he implied). (US military was using mostly civilian GPS units and wanted the improved accuracy).
There is no reasonable expectation that Selective Availability will be turned on again; there have been multiple demonstrations of methods to cancel out the effects of SA and as such it servers little purposes on a day to day basis.
It may be beneficial to turn on SA -if- someone were to launch a weapon at the United States (for instance). But even then, most weapons do not require the level of accuracy that the US military wants.
(The U.S. military wants to blow up strategic targets, while terrorists want to blowup anybody and anything that will get the noticed. (never mind they tend to use much better navigational tools than GPS units... people.))
GPS does not require a highly accurate independent clock.
If you want accuracy down to the centimeter level there are some steps you would need to take. But mapping the location of a village on a map doesn't even require the level of accuracy you will get with a GPS received. Any GPS receiver.
While GPS does require a highly accurate clock, it is basicly self-calibrating. You simply turn on a GPS Receiver and wait a reasonable period of time and it will set the internal clock itself, it will download the satellite data so the next time it starts it will lock on faster, etc. A GPS unit bought new today typical can receive 12, or more satellites at once, will configure itself at it's new location in under 10 minutes. (It may take considerably longer than normal start times if a GPS unit has traveled a great distance, and has out of date ephemeris data, but it will sync up on it's own. (Older units sometimes needed to be nudged, you would have to get them an approximation of their starting co-ordinates, didn't have to be right, just approximate).
(This data will be automatically downloaded by the GPS when it is active, but may take several hours to collect all the data. Not really a big concern since it will collect it on an ongoing basis.)
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What, you mena because he didn't see it before '99 he hasn't seen it at all?
Don't know about you, but I have seen lots of movies between 1999 and October 4th, 2005.
But maybe I just have an unusual amount of free time.
While I think the movie can stand on it's own there is very little in way of character development in the movie. The expectation really is that you already know the personalities of the characters.
So, do yourself a favour and watch the DVD set first.
2 episodes a day for a week, then see the movie.
I thought the series rather ho-key, but I had my tivo record episodes anyway when 'Space' channel ran them (Canadian channel, sci-fi theme). Thankfully they like to run them in-order, and the complete set, including the 'unaired' episodes.
I thought the movie was very good, as did a friend of mine who watched only a couple episodes of the show.
I've never had a virus infection on my own personal computer. (X86; DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows XP).
But if you think that means I don't run an anti-virus program on it you're wrong.
I don't run anything on my Mac. Until such time as the threat is higher than theory there is no point.
I have no doubt that a virus of significant threat will appear on the OS X platform one day. Until it does I have no reason to think any particular implementation of anti-virus software would be effective anyway. When theory meets practice theory seldom survives. ANd the only thing they have to write against right now is theory.
OS X running on x86 might be opening a can of worms.
Prices here for theaters are pretty good, they dropped the ticket price a few years ago.
3 of us went to see Serenity on Friday, it cost me $26~ for 3 tickets.
As for concessions, the solution to that is to go to dinner, then go see a movie, you spend considerably less at the theater and, in my mind, have a more enjoyable time. (even though it is a more expensive night.)
Have you looked into the exceptions allowed for libraries in regards to books? It is quite possible they have the legal right to have archive copies.
Drop 20 GPS guided bombs over the target, if GPS is jammed they will do what, go up?
You strap a GPS unit onto a bomb and let it control the fins to guide it to it's target, but it will still hit the ground and explode. You won't be as effective as you had hoped, but I wouldn't want to be in the area.
As others have said, the bombs guided by GPS have the receivers in the rear (facing up as the bomb falls) and can therefor be shielded easily from most types of jamming.
As for blanketing a city block and thinking your safe, well, that won't do much good either. A Satelite image which is geo-referenced is accurate enough in a pinch. As others have mentioned, a laser-rangefinder will get you co-ordinates from a good distance away if you need it as well. Likely outside of jamming distances of the military signal.
We were able to wage war without GPS technology, its only more effective when it works. There are very few realistic scenarios that GPS technology could make worse. (Intentionally skewing the signal such that a specific target were hit instead of the intended target is an order of magnitude more difficult than simple jamming, and without the encryption codes only effective against the civilian frequencies.)
Actually it is illegal.
Check out the legal history ragarding MAP pricing.
The restrictions on MAP pricing are that a company may not advertise the product for less. It does NOT mean they may not sell it for less.
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that Apple doesn't make much money from selling songs.
I believe the statement has been overblown, and anyone who thinks it means Apple isn't making money from the iTunes store is fooling themselves.
Apple put a lot of money into iTMS, and I'm sure it will take a while for it to pay for itself and earn significant profit. That doesn't mean it isn't profitable business.
Since when does the supplier legally tell you what you can sell a product for?
Generally, that is considered illegal.
But hey, who am I to talk, I haven't been convicted of price fixing, so how should I know?
Oh wait, they have.
I hope you are aware that it doesn't work if somebody wants to hack your network.
It only works to prevent your neighbor from accidentally using your network.
If you use WEP, or no encryption the hardware address is sent in the clear and can be picked up by sniffers.
WHat nobody has mentioned it what it costs when adults willing put themselves in danger (for the thrill) and need to be saved.
$20K-$60K isn't unusual in the least.
(Which is only about half of the automated system cost, which has thhe potential to save multiple lives without incuring significantly more costs.
Uh-oh, sounds like they have a new movie set and can start filming Waterworld 2
Let's hope they don't.
So it wouldn't be a natural disaster if 300 million people moved in with you? :)
Spotlight doesn't do that much work that I would honestly expect it to significantly impact battery life.
Perhaps if you used spotlight to find all your files, as it would take some effort to search the index and list all the files. But I doubt you search for that many files in a session.
It is far more likely there is another process which is effecting battery life, or your battery is starting to show some wear and tear.
In this instance there are other fields in the index, and the records are processed sequentially.
As I mentioned, it is a queue of records. Once the records are processed the flag is toggled.
As for the hundred thousand records, it wasn't the rule for this table, it was an except which was created by a combination of factors outside of my control, it was however a good stress test.
Marginally off topic.
I use a 4GL Database called Progress. (Not to be confused with postgresql).
Recently in code I was writing I needed to check the status of a flag, basicly to ignore all previously processed records in a queue.
Easy enough...
FOR EACH tablename WHERE NOT tablename.Processed
After a hundred thousand records were created the query was taking ages to run, in spite of tablename.Processed being an indexed logical field. I didn't realize it when I wrote the code, but a NOT statement disables index handling and is NOT equivalent to:
FOR EACH tablename WHERE tablename.Processed = FALSE
I did know this, somewhere in the back of my mind, but I so seldom use NOT on the initial field in an Index that it wasn't previously an issue.
It always pays to re-evluate the structure of your queries to verify they are using the most efficient index whenever possible. It also pays to step back and consider how data will be queried, not simply create indexes based on logical constraints and the initial obvious queries.
My Canon will stay on for long periods, but only if there is no tape in the unit.
If there is a tape it will power off unless it is recording something.
I pay $40(CDN)/week on gas with gas prices where they are now.
(Actually, it's closer to 5*$40/month).
Journaling will allow the filesystem to be fixed, without causing further corruption.
It doesn't guarantee a file isn't corrupt.
The problem under OS X is the preference files are not flushed to disk when they should be. (They occasionally get corrupted and cause grief)
Great, so I get X bandwidth between me, and the local telco switch... at which point it's merged with 253 neighbors.
Me, I get better bandwidth on Bad days than anyone I know with residential DSL service in this city.
(500-800KBytes per second on downloads).
It is a police officers duty (and job) to make note of any pertinent facts.
In this case, the officer said it was a one-way street, while the driver said it was a two-way street.
That is a pertinent detail.
I almost got my first speeding ticket a couple of weeks ago. I was pulled over doing 23km/h over the limit. (14.x MPH). Around here thats a $200+ fine. After handing the officer my license and registration he received a high priority call.
One of the women at work heard about it and was very upset, she was hit with a speeding ticket the week before.
His statements are bogus.
Selective Availability has been turned off since the CLinton administration.
Selective Availability was turned off during the first Gulf War. (opposite of what he implied). (US military was using mostly civilian GPS units and wanted the improved accuracy).
There is no reasonable expectation that Selective Availability will be turned on again; there have been multiple demonstrations of methods to cancel out the effects of SA and as such it servers little purposes on a day to day basis.
It may be beneficial to turn on SA -if- someone were to launch a weapon at the United States (for instance). But even then, most weapons do not require the level of accuracy that the US military wants.
(The U.S. military wants to blow up strategic targets, while terrorists want to blowup anybody and anything that will get the noticed. (never mind they tend to use much better navigational tools than GPS units... people.))
GPS does not require a highly accurate independent clock.
If you want accuracy down to the centimeter level there are some steps you would need to take. But mapping the location of a village on a map doesn't even require the level of accuracy you will get with a GPS received. Any GPS receiver.
While GPS does require a highly accurate clock, it is basicly self-calibrating. You simply turn on a GPS Receiver and wait a reasonable period of time and it will set the internal clock itself, it will download the satellite data so the next time it starts it will lock on faster, etc. A GPS unit bought new today typical can receive 12, or more satellites at once, will configure itself at it's new location in under 10 minutes. (It may take considerably longer than normal start times if a GPS unit has traveled a great distance, and has out of date ephemeris data, but it will sync up on it's own. (Older units sometimes needed to be nudged, you would have to get them an approximation of their starting co-ordinates, didn't have to be right, just approximate).
(This data will be automatically downloaded by the GPS when it is active, but may take several hours to collect all the data. Not really a big concern since it will collect it on an ongoing basis.)
I'll take canons method instead thanks.
The printhead is a seperate peice, You install it when you get the printer, and you install the ink over top of it.
My printer got clogged and I had to pull it out to clean it, but it wasn't a big deal. (actually, it was quite easy and has been fine since.).
The average consume doesn't print enough to require a replacement head, but the ability to clean it if/when it gets clogged is good.
Apple made it amazingly simple.
Just install xCode.
It has everything you need to make applications run on a Mac.