perhaps I should have more specific: you can't really get anything other than Vista when buying a Windows PC. And yes, before you jump, I know that Dell is selling XP machines again. When MS stops making available its other version(s) of Windows (read: XP) and only allow you to buy their newest wow version, then yes, their sales rates for Vista can only grow. Meanwhile, XP begins to level off and decline, effectively reducing the overall Windows sales rate. I applaud Dell for selling Ubuntu pcs, although I would prefer to just wipe an existing pc and install myself, install a dual boot (which I have now), or build a pc and install.
There is always the option of turning things off at night. And if there are persistent lights indicating power, then turning off the power strip would fix this too. A regular home/office computer should take only a minute to start back up again...
Yes, personal searches were bound to be the first thing to be mentioned, but what about when others (ISPs, bosses, co-workers) are performing these searches on computers you use? I'm sure most people are smart enough not to do such things at work, but what about pop-ups (you couldn't help getting those kinds of popups while searching for a 'fix' to an app), false matches (boss doesn't view, only flags you if the keyword search comes back positive), etc?
Presumably you could not recreate that same identical masterpiece if the original were destroyed. In this case they could. Yeah, for lack of time of coming up with a better analogy, I went with the painting. It's not so much the artistic value of the painting that I was trying to get across, but rather the presentation of the materials. They had $200,000 worth of data that when compiled represented $38 billion in information it referred to.
The value is based on what the data represents, not the material labor in re-scanning them. loose example, I could spen $30 on painting supplies and create a $100,000 masterpiece (well not by me, but, anyway...)
If you would rtfa, you would see that the system only works for finding your own position, relative to the stations. There is no way that you could use it to target other vessels or positions. As described, the system is for getting your own coordinates, not other's. And whoever keeps modding/dev/trash's replies up for him being a paranoid, misinformed idiot needs to have their mod status reviewed.
I'm guessing this system works under assumed conditions? Would terrain affect the return signal from the station? What about points or flows of varying salination between the submarine and the station? Surely that would affect the return signal (either speeding up or slowing down) and affect the submarine's calculations as to where exactly it is.
but they weren't boxes! it was a circuit board with LEDs and batteries attached. Until we have paper-thin sheets of high explosives, it's really not that threatening.
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perhaps I should have more specific: you can't really get anything other than Vista when buying a Windows PC. And yes, before you jump, I know that Dell is selling XP machines again. When MS stops making available its other version(s) of Windows (read: XP) and only allow you to buy their newest wow version, then yes, their sales rates for Vista can only grow. Meanwhile, XP begins to level off and decline, effectively reducing the overall Windows sales rate. I applaud Dell for selling Ubuntu pcs, although I would prefer to just wipe an existing pc and install myself, install a dual boot (which I have now), or build a pc and install.
Could the increase have to do with the fact that you can't really get anything other than Vista on a new PC?
There is always the option of turning things off at night. And if there are persistent lights indicating power, then turning off the power strip would fix this too. A regular home/office computer should take only a minute to start back up again...
Yes, personal searches were bound to be the first thing to be mentioned, but what about when others (ISPs, bosses, co-workers) are performing these searches on computers you use? I'm sure most people are smart enough not to do such things at work, but what about pop-ups (you couldn't help getting those kinds of popups while searching for a 'fix' to an app), false matches (boss doesn't view, only flags you if the keyword search comes back positive), etc?
The value is based on what the data represents, not the material labor in re-scanning them. loose example, I could spen $30 on painting supplies and create a $100,000 masterpiece (well not by me, but, anyway...)
If you would rtfa, you would see that the system only works for finding your own position, relative to the stations. There is no way that you could use it to target other vessels or positions. As described, the system is for getting your own coordinates, not other's. And whoever keeps modding /dev/trash's replies up for him being a paranoid, misinformed idiot needs to have their mod status reviewed.
This system is to find your position, not the enemy's. So being a 'few feet' off on calculating your own position could have its problems.
I'm guessing this system works under assumed conditions? Would terrain affect the return signal from the station? What about points or flows of varying salination between the submarine and the station? Surely that would affect the return signal (either speeding up or slowing down) and affect the submarine's calculations as to where exactly it is.
but they weren't boxes! it was a circuit board with LEDs and batteries attached. Until we have paper-thin sheets of high explosives, it's really not that threatening.