Actually in Kyllo v. U.S. SCOTUS made a VERY broad generalization not at all a specific ruling on thermal imaging.
Held: Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a Fourth Amendment "search," and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.
linky
Why should there be lines, have "lanes" with RFID readers embedded in the floor with spaces between. The passenger gets an RFID tag to go with his boarding pass, then when you grab your bags you walk through a "lane" with your baggage and boarding pass. If a bag leaves without the accompanying boarding pass token having been read within x seconds then sound an alarm for the baggage personell. This way your personell can just deal with people who lost their RFID tag or flagged incidents that apear to be theft, and lost luggage, even if RFID eliminates 90% of problems (not likely) that still leaves millions of incidents per year.
is useless. There needs to be a standard definied AND there has to be a mapping back to the current barcode standard so that luggage can still be handled at airports that haven't yet upgraded.
I forgot that 2k does not have a native tool for it though NTFS does support it. You can use the freeware tool Junction from sysinternals available here to do it. It's per directory not per file so MUCH more limited then true symlinks but it would allow you to mount a common plugin directory.
What OS would that be? All current versions of windows support syml^h^h^h reparse points. Of course they aren't a natural part of the OS but they HAVE been there since win2k was released almost 5 years ago.
Hmm, I have the Mozilla click to play flash plugin installed, I have aminations turned to once, and popups blocked. When people see me browsing they can't believe how non-distracting an experience it is. That's how I've converted plenty of people over, that and telling them I won't clean the spyware crap off their machine again if they insist on continuing to run IE.
This is NOT an attack on you, however I can't see why people buy 4 bangers. I have a 240bhp DOHC V-6 in a full sized sedan with automatic transmission and 6 months a year I get 24-26mpg. During the winter I get around 22 but such is life in the great white north (Ohio). Btw this is from 115K to 150K miles on the odomoter with almost all of the previous miles being highway (it was my fathers car and he's a salesman with a large territory, he put those first 115K on in 22 months!)
The only real way to get change is for gas to be allowed to rise to real world levels. If American's were paying $5/gallon like Europe then you would probably see a shift to more european like demographics when it came to automobile ownership. Btw anyone who can afford the GTO can afford the gas guzzler tax =)
Diesel's will get MUCH better next year when low sulphur higher quality diesel becomes mandated nation wide. Of course from a lung disease standpoint the diesel is inherintly worse as even with 100% combustion there will still be particulates formed. The tradeoff of course is better fuel economy and lower production of other noxious gasses.
There IS another guide, check out consumer reports, car and driver, and other trade mags which often do extended drive reviews. In almost every case I have seen these writeups include average fuel economy and total repair bills for the 1-2 year life of the extended drive. In the case of car and driver they are automotive enthusiests so their numbers can generally be considered worst case =)
My guess is that less than 1/1,000th of one percent of their long distance traffic targets the countries in question yet these malware programs result in more than one percent of their billing complaints. My personal solution would be to do exactly what they have implemented with the additional remedy of being able to remove the call block for those customers who so request. They can already do this with 900 blocking so the ability should either exist in their software or be easily added.
How about they not implement something until they at least submit it as a draft standard, this way the other vendors can work off the draft standard to insure cross product compatibility.
Check out the bigger PSU's at any hardware site, Antec makes a couple, as do some other manufacturers. From what I could see it didn't matter if it was a good spec 550W or a 650W none of them spec'd above 36A for the +12V rail. I personally generally check out stuff like this at newegg.
Yeah, USB is a dumb computer centric interface. FireWire on the other hand is an intelligent peer to peer interface with QOS among other important features. That's why Magic (the sucessor to MIDI) is based on FireWire not USB.
The problem with standards is their's so many to choose from. Or in the case of SQL every vendor seems to think that the standardized language is inadequate and yet they make no roads towards improving the standard. This leads to every vendor having their own superset of the language which makes maintainability in cross database projects exceedingly difficult and migration in applications that aren't designed for it incredibly difficult. As to fundamental flaws in the concepts around SQL I have yet to hear a concrete argument against it, mostly vague rantings from people who's ideas weren't chosen by the marketplace to serve real world needs.
If you want to do something like that then the best solution I can think of would be a 3D implementation of the hyper tree like this example from inxight. THAT would actually change the way that we interact with the system, as you point out looking glass is just a fancy fake 3D window dressing on the same old concepts.
How having multiple Mozilla windows open and at 90 degrees horizontal is somehow more efficient than having multiple tabs open?!? I mean I really don't see how this is supposed to improve efficiency at all.
Not only that but the Prescott P4 2.4Ghz is only $10 more than the Celeron 2.8, and the P4 part will wipe the floor with the Celeron even giving up 400Mhz. The worst thing you can do to a P4 core is make it stall waiting for reads, and quartering the cache is guarenteed to do that, so why anyone would consider the Celeron for anything other than a web browsing box I can't fathom (and even then you would have to be stupid to use the fastest part).
Unless you are trying to do something really cool like use the GPU as a really high performance SIMD coprocessor. With the advent of general purpose languages for the vertex shaders this is exactly what the GPU is, but you can't use it as such because of AGP's abysmal writeback performance. I know of quite a few high performace computing people that are interested in what will be capable with multiple PCIe GPU's plus dual host CPU's. The performance per case might be high enough to justify the cost of the cards since more communication can be local avoiding the need for more expensive interconnect channels.
Nah, these cards draw a LOT of power, but not anywhere near 400W. They DO draw over 150W from the 12V rail though so getting a PSU with 4 12V rails capable of handling in excess of 300W on 12V is going to be somewhat problematic. Run of the mill 550W PSU's supply max 24A @ 12V which is NOT enough for the cards, let alone cards plus motherboard. The biggest PSU I could find were capable of 36A @ 12V which gives you an overhead of under 100W for all other 12V devices in the case, this includes hard drive(s), motherboard, cd/dvd rom(s), etc. Guess you are going to need a server class case with multiple PSU's to run this kind of a configuration!
Yes, one if for the USB 1.x layer for the USB2 chip and the other is for the USB 1.x native chip. Most motherboards have both these days as adding some USB 1.x ports with an additional chip is cheap. I know my motherboard is like this, even under windows devices are redetected if I move them from a USB2 port to a USB 1.x port.
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Actually in Kyllo v. U.S. SCOTUS made a VERY broad generalization not at all a specific ruling on thermal imaging.
Held: Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a Fourth Amendment "search," and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.
linky
Shouldn't that include the body?
Almost always it's a missed connection, generally due to delays on the previous leg.
Why should there be lines, have "lanes" with RFID readers embedded in the floor with spaces between. The passenger gets an RFID tag to go with his boarding pass, then when you grab your bags you walk through a "lane" with your baggage and boarding pass. If a bag leaves without the accompanying boarding pass token having been read within x seconds then sound an alarm for the baggage personell. This way your personell can just deal with people who lost their RFID tag or flagged incidents that apear to be theft, and lost luggage, even if RFID eliminates 90% of problems (not likely) that still leaves millions of incidents per year.
is useless. There needs to be a standard definied AND there has to be a mapping back to the current barcode standard so that luggage can still be handled at airports that haven't yet upgraded.
Even better would be the Intellivision controller. In fact when I first saw the iPod that's EXACTLY what I thought of =)
I forgot that 2k does not have a native tool for it though NTFS does support it. You can use the freeware tool Junction from sysinternals available here to do it. It's per directory not per file so MUCH more limited then true symlinks but it would allow you to mount a common plugin directory.
What OS would that be? All current versions of windows support syml^h^h^h reparse points. Of course they aren't a natural part of the OS but they HAVE been there since win2k was released almost 5 years ago.
Hmm, I have the Mozilla click to play flash plugin installed, I have aminations turned to once, and popups blocked. When people see me browsing they can't believe how non-distracting an experience it is. That's how I've converted plenty of people over, that and telling them I won't clean the spyware crap off their machine again if they insist on continuing to run IE.
This is NOT an attack on you, however I can't see why people buy 4 bangers. I have a 240bhp DOHC V-6 in a full sized sedan with automatic transmission and 6 months a year I get 24-26mpg. During the winter I get around 22 but such is life in the great white north (Ohio). Btw this is from 115K to 150K miles on the odomoter with almost all of the previous miles being highway (it was my fathers car and he's a salesman with a large territory, he put those first 115K on in 22 months!)
The only real way to get change is for gas to be allowed to rise to real world levels. If American's were paying $5/gallon like Europe then you would probably see a shift to more european like demographics when it came to automobile ownership. Btw anyone who can afford the GTO can afford the gas guzzler tax =)
Diesel's will get MUCH better next year when low sulphur higher quality diesel becomes mandated nation wide. Of course from a lung disease standpoint the diesel is inherintly worse as even with 100% combustion there will still be particulates formed. The tradeoff of course is better fuel economy and lower production of other noxious gasses.
There IS another guide, check out consumer reports, car and driver, and other trade mags which often do extended drive reviews. In almost every case I have seen these writeups include average fuel economy and total repair bills for the 1-2 year life of the extended drive. In the case of car and driver they are automotive enthusiests so their numbers can generally be considered worst case =)
My guess is that less than 1/1,000th of one percent of their long distance traffic targets the countries in question yet these malware programs result in more than one percent of their billing complaints. My personal solution would be to do exactly what they have implemented with the additional remedy of being able to remove the call block for those customers who so request. They can already do this with 900 blocking so the ability should either exist in their software or be easily added.
How about they not implement something until they at least submit it as a draft standard, this way the other vendors can work off the draft standard to insure cross product compatibility.
Check out the bigger PSU's at any hardware site, Antec makes a couple, as do some other manufacturers. From what I could see it didn't matter if it was a good spec 550W or a 650W none of them spec'd above 36A for the +12V rail. I personally generally check out stuff like this at newegg.
Yeah, USB is a dumb computer centric interface. FireWire on the other hand is an intelligent peer to peer interface with QOS among other important features. That's why Magic (the sucessor to MIDI) is based on FireWire not USB.
Apple donated the name FireWire to the 1394 Trade Association. linky
The problem with standards is their's so many to choose from. Or in the case of SQL every vendor seems to think that the standardized language is inadequate and yet they make no roads towards improving the standard. This leads to every vendor having their own superset of the language which makes maintainability in cross database projects exceedingly difficult and migration in applications that aren't designed for it incredibly difficult. As to fundamental flaws in the concepts around SQL I have yet to hear a concrete argument against it, mostly vague rantings from people who's ideas weren't chosen by the marketplace to serve real world needs.
If you want to do something like that then the best solution I can think of would be a 3D implementation of the hyper tree like this example from inxight. THAT would actually change the way that we interact with the system, as you point out looking glass is just a fancy fake 3D window dressing on the same old concepts.
How having multiple Mozilla windows open and at 90 degrees horizontal is somehow more efficient than having multiple tabs open?!? I mean I really don't see how this is supposed to improve efficiency at all.
Not only that but the Prescott P4 2.4Ghz is only $10 more than the Celeron 2.8, and the P4 part will wipe the floor with the Celeron even giving up 400Mhz. The worst thing you can do to a P4 core is make it stall waiting for reads, and quartering the cache is guarenteed to do that, so why anyone would consider the Celeron for anything other than a web browsing box I can't fathom (and even then you would have to be stupid to use the fastest part).
Unless you are trying to do something really cool like use the GPU as a really high performance SIMD coprocessor. With the advent of general purpose languages for the vertex shaders this is exactly what the GPU is, but you can't use it as such because of AGP's abysmal writeback performance. I know of quite a few high performace computing people that are interested in what will be capable with multiple PCIe GPU's plus dual host CPU's. The performance per case might be high enough to justify the cost of the cards since more communication can be local avoiding the need for more expensive interconnect channels.
Nah, these cards draw a LOT of power, but not anywhere near 400W. They DO draw over 150W from the 12V rail though so getting a PSU with 4 12V rails capable of handling in excess of 300W on 12V is going to be somewhat problematic. Run of the mill 550W PSU's supply max 24A @ 12V which is NOT enough for the cards, let alone cards plus motherboard. The biggest PSU I could find were capable of 36A @ 12V which gives you an overhead of under 100W for all other 12V devices in the case, this includes hard drive(s), motherboard, cd/dvd rom(s), etc. Guess you are going to need a server class case with multiple PSU's to run this kind of a configuration!
Yes, one if for the USB 1.x layer for the USB2 chip and the other is for the USB 1.x native chip. Most motherboards have both these days as adding some USB 1.x ports with an additional chip is cheap. I know my motherboard is like this, even under windows devices are redetected if I move them from a USB2 port to a USB 1.x port.