"If you have nothing to hide why should you mind constantly being monitored by big brother?"
Because us American's have a natural and benificial mistrust of big business and big government! I don't care that the probability of missuse is low I care that it is non-zero. Hell look at EZ-Pass, until they figured out that it would basically stillbirth the system and cost more in employee time and money, they wanted to automate tickets for people who went between tollbooths impossibly fast for the speedlimit. Basically the government should have to show a compelling need to implement things that could very easily invade peoples privacy, if the need isn't sufficient then the government should go jump in a lake.
What I can't figure out is WHY the Harrier's max speed is so slow. It's got about 80% (22K lbs vs 27K lbs) of the thrust of an F-16 and it's max weight configuration is almost 50% lighter (10K Kilos vs 16K Kilos) yet it's max speed is around 1/3rd (550 knots vs 1,500). What is the factor limiting the Harrier to such slow speeds?
Since the Predator drones already carry Hellfire missles and have killed targets after positive ID from telecontrolling pilots I don't think the enemy is going to laugh. Hell they don't know what hits em, one second they are driving along the next they are dead.
Dude, the contract was never going to Airbus to begin with. The bid info was given to Boing so their own bid wouldn't seem out whack. The DoD has determined that keeping Boing and LM solvent is a matter of national security so they will get the majority of contracts depsite any appearance of an open bidding process. If they have to they will do the same thing IT companies do with H1B workers, design the specs so only the American company can meet all the points (the obvious one is say asking for a domestic passenger jet to be converted to an air tanker rather than just a passenger jet to be converted). And frankly I thik they are 100% justified in doing this, keeping the knowledge and technology to build these kinds of important national assets around is well worth whatever the cost. Plus if we are going to spend the kind of money we do on national defense it should at least be spent where it will go back into the economy.
I don't think anything will ever replace the titanium bathtub for close air support. Those things are amazing. They can take a beating, kill a tank, yet can fly slow enough to kill infantry with the vulcan cannon.
I guess you never heard of Viatnam where helicopters saved so many lives that they literally can't be counted. Just because a handfull of helo's have been taken down by barages of light arms fire doesn't mean the tech should be abandoned. Heck fewer people probably died from crashes then from a single convoy trying to escape by road vs similar circumstances.
T lines cost not because of the bandwidth (although dedicated T bandwidth is MUCH different from many times oversold residential bandwidth) but because of the regulated service. When a business T line goes down a truck usually rolls in less than an hour, when a residential line goes down you usually spend almost an hour on hold and another hour going through the idiot script.
The 1.2Ghz is the hottest of the AMD cpu's because it was the last one to be made on the old process with the old design. I know because I have one =) As far as AMD's P-rating, they are generally very conservative. I know when the 2400+ came out they were beating the 2.4Ghz P4 on 9/10 benchmarks.
Because after install you only need the play cd? Or if you have an expansion installed you need the newest expansion disk in the drive. Either way there isn't a lot of disk swapping like there was with the BG games.
It comes from taking a LOT of risk. The development cycle for most Bioware titles is probably around 2X longer than the rest of the industry. That makes development costs that much higher, but with the quality that they are known for it usually pays off with them having titles that are top sellers for long periods of time. They also do a VERY good job at patch support unlike some other companies. In a lot of ways they remind me of Blizzard North.
Well they had that spat with RAD where RAD had claimed that they would have Bink support ready for Linux and then wanted to charge Bioware a SIX figure sum for the pleasure. Then they had Borland release a version of Kylix so anemic that the toolset couldn't be ported. Then they had WotC make them jump through all sorts of hoops to get clearance for the 'new' platform. Trust me it would have been MUCH easier for Bioware to just give up and drop Linux support since it brought in so little additional revenue and cost them tons of time for lawyers, management, and developers. Not only that but they got HUGE negative vibe and communications from a vocal minority of the Linux user base. Overall I think they showed some real tenacity in eventually getting the port out.
The problem is that the provider will not countersign changes to the contract. If their rep had the ability to countersign a stricken clause like any real contract then I don't think it would be an issue. Besides the reason they are invalid is that they do not pass the consideration definition of most states contract law. Basically these clauses are all benifit for the provider and no benifit for the consumer. Besides the provider isn't going to waste their time and money suing a pissed off former customer.
The FCC mandate is that it take no more than 3 HOURS to port a number. If it is going to take 3 days then find out where the holdup is and file a complaint with the FCC. If it's on your new providers part then ask them what their problem is.
These are not generally binding and the two times a provider has tried to tell my dad that he is bound to one of these auto-extended contracts he has told them he will see them in court. At that point both providers gave up on the claim. I assume these clauses are not valid in most jurisdiction and that they are put in place as a retention tactic against people who are not strong willed to leave.
God I hope not. That would also break NTFS4DOS, the sysadmin's best friend. For practical purposes it would probably mean going back to FAT(32) for boot volumes.
Actually what you do with Ti calculators is put your commonly used functions (Sumation, Integration, Derivation, etc) into your custom menu, then calling it up is only two keys away, one for custom menu, the second for it's numeric quick-key =) Spelling functions out does not work most of the time as the functions are called by an internal symbol which is represented by a human readable lable. The biggest problem with the Ti92/89 is that their CPU is DOG slow. The best solution I have seen is to run a Ti-89 emulator on a linux and ARM based handheld, of course then you lose all the nice hard buttons only to have them replaced by slow software buttons. My solution was to just take the laptop to class with Maple once the Ti-89 got unbearably slow.
Unlike Lucas Jackson has shown himself to be able to use CG animation to immerse people in the story. Lucas's use of CG is so blatent in many places that it jars you from the story.
Most modern systems support PXE boot so you can lan boot even without a bootable NIC. Put together a minimal linux system with PCI probing and all the drivers needed for your various systems hardware and you should be able to go without local disks at all.
Cache efficiency goes WAY up with a CISC design and since cache size and memory latency are the number one bottlenecks in modern CPU designs CISC wins. Sorry but even the G5 is a lot more CISC like than a traditional RISC processor as far as ISA goes. At the core allmost all CPU's are a minimalistic RISC design as the grandparent poster stated.
The traveling salesman problem should really be renamed to the airline scheduling problem. Airlines spend a LOT of money on large computers to ring more efficiency out of their huge capital investments.
The IP address can be backtracked to the leasing POP and from there to the RADIUS server and the access logs. From the access logs you get the idiots phone number and from there their home address. This of course assumes no phone spoofing.
Courts aren't in the business of restoring peoples faith in hte law. And they are not in the business in picking which laws are good or bad.
I guess you've never heard of judicial activism. Also the power of the court is not just a blind ruler on matters of law but as a check and balance against the other two branches of government. I think the strong court we have is overall a VERY good thing.
The only problem is they don't always know WHERE a particular repeater is. They know where they laid it but these cables have a tendancy to move quite a bit, especially after a split.
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You sound like the stupid British.
"If you have nothing to hide why should you mind constantly being monitored by big brother?"
Because us American's have a natural and benificial mistrust of big business and big government! I don't care that the probability of missuse is low I care that it is non-zero. Hell look at EZ-Pass, until they figured out that it would basically stillbirth the system and cost more in employee time and money, they wanted to automate tickets for people who went between tollbooths impossibly fast for the speedlimit. Basically the government should have to show a compelling need to implement things that could very easily invade peoples privacy, if the need isn't sufficient then the government should go jump in a lake.
What I can't figure out is WHY the Harrier's max speed is so slow. It's got about 80% (22K lbs vs 27K lbs) of the thrust of an F-16 and it's max weight configuration is almost 50% lighter (10K Kilos vs 16K Kilos) yet it's max speed is around 1/3rd (550 knots vs 1,500). What is the factor limiting the Harrier to such slow speeds?
Since the Predator drones already carry Hellfire missles and have killed targets after positive ID from telecontrolling pilots I don't think the enemy is going to laugh. Hell they don't know what hits em, one second they are driving along the next they are dead.
Dude, the contract was never going to Airbus to begin with. The bid info was given to Boing so their own bid wouldn't seem out whack. The DoD has determined that keeping Boing and LM solvent is a matter of national security so they will get the majority of contracts depsite any appearance of an open bidding process. If they have to they will do the same thing IT companies do with H1B workers, design the specs so only the American company can meet all the points (the obvious one is say asking for a domestic passenger jet to be converted to an air tanker rather than just a passenger jet to be converted). And frankly I thik they are 100% justified in doing this, keeping the knowledge and technology to build these kinds of important national assets around is well worth whatever the cost. Plus if we are going to spend the kind of money we do on national defense it should at least be spent where it will go back into the economy.
I don't think anything will ever replace the titanium bathtub for close air support. Those things are amazing. They can take a beating, kill a tank, yet can fly slow enough to kill infantry with the vulcan cannon.
I guess you never heard of Viatnam where helicopters saved so many lives that they literally can't be counted. Just because a handfull of helo's have been taken down by barages of light arms fire doesn't mean the tech should be abandoned. Heck fewer people probably died from crashes then from a single convoy trying to escape by road vs similar circumstances.
T lines cost not because of the bandwidth (although dedicated T bandwidth is MUCH different from many times oversold residential bandwidth) but because of the regulated service. When a business T line goes down a truck usually rolls in less than an hour, when a residential line goes down you usually spend almost an hour on hold and another hour going through the idiot script.
The 1.2Ghz is the hottest of the AMD cpu's because it was the last one to be made on the old process with the old design. I know because I have one =) As far as AMD's P-rating, they are generally very conservative. I know when the 2400+ came out they were beating the 2.4Ghz P4 on 9/10 benchmarks.
Because after install you only need the play cd? Or if you have an expansion installed you need the newest expansion disk in the drive. Either way there isn't a lot of disk swapping like there was with the BG games.
It comes from taking a LOT of risk. The development cycle for most Bioware titles is probably around 2X longer than the rest of the industry. That makes development costs that much higher, but with the quality that they are known for it usually pays off with them having titles that are top sellers for long periods of time. They also do a VERY good job at patch support unlike some other companies. In a lot of ways they remind me of Blizzard North.
Well they had that spat with RAD where RAD had claimed that they would have Bink support ready for Linux and then wanted to charge Bioware a SIX figure sum for the pleasure. Then they had Borland release a version of Kylix so anemic that the toolset couldn't be ported. Then they had WotC make them jump through all sorts of hoops to get clearance for the 'new' platform. Trust me it would have been MUCH easier for Bioware to just give up and drop Linux support since it brought in so little additional revenue and cost them tons of time for lawyers, management, and developers. Not only that but they got HUGE negative vibe and communications from a vocal minority of the Linux user base. Overall I think they showed some real tenacity in eventually getting the port out.
The problem is that the provider will not countersign changes to the contract. If their rep had the ability to countersign a stricken clause like any real contract then I don't think it would be an issue. Besides the reason they are invalid is that they do not pass the consideration definition of most states contract law. Basically these clauses are all benifit for the provider and no benifit for the consumer. Besides the provider isn't going to waste their time and money suing a pissed off former customer.
RH 4.2 shipped Metro-X on the core disks. But every distro since 5.0 has been completely free in the core set.
The FCC mandate is that it take no more than 3 HOURS to port a number. If it is going to take 3 days then find out where the holdup is and file a complaint with the FCC. If it's on your new providers part then ask them what their problem is.
These are not generally binding and the two times a provider has tried to tell my dad that he is bound to one of these auto-extended contracts he has told them he will see them in court. At that point both providers gave up on the claim. I assume these clauses are not valid in most jurisdiction and that they are put in place as a retention tactic against people who are not strong willed to leave.
God I hope not. That would also break NTFS4DOS, the sysadmin's best friend. For practical purposes it would probably mean going back to FAT(32) for boot volumes.
Actually what you do with Ti calculators is put your commonly used functions (Sumation, Integration, Derivation, etc) into your custom menu, then calling it up is only two keys away, one for custom menu, the second for it's numeric quick-key =) Spelling functions out does not work most of the time as the functions are called by an internal symbol which is represented by a human readable lable. The biggest problem with the Ti92/89 is that their CPU is DOG slow. The best solution I have seen is to run a Ti-89 emulator on a linux and ARM based handheld, of course then you lose all the nice hard buttons only to have them replaced by slow software buttons. My solution was to just take the laptop to class with Maple once the Ti-89 got unbearably slow.
Unlike Lucas Jackson has shown himself to be able to use CG animation to immerse people in the story. Lucas's use of CG is so blatent in many places that it jars you from the story.
Considering that GCC and the GNU toolchain has been used for much of their crossplatform development kit for a while now.
Most modern systems support PXE boot so you can lan boot even without a bootable NIC. Put together a minimal linux system with PCI probing and all the drivers needed for your various systems hardware and you should be able to go without local disks at all.
Cache efficiency goes WAY up with a CISC design and since cache size and memory latency are the number one bottlenecks in modern CPU designs CISC wins. Sorry but even the G5 is a lot more CISC like than a traditional RISC processor as far as ISA goes. At the core allmost all CPU's are a minimalistic RISC design as the grandparent poster stated.
The traveling salesman problem should really be renamed to the airline scheduling problem. Airlines spend a LOT of money on large computers to ring more efficiency out of their huge capital investments.
The IP address can be backtracked to the leasing POP and from there to the RADIUS server and the access logs. From the access logs you get the idiots phone number and from there their home address. This of course assumes no phone spoofing.
Courts aren't in the business of restoring peoples faith in hte law. And they are not in the business in picking which laws are good or bad.
I guess you've never heard of judicial activism. Also the power of the court is not just a blind ruler on matters of law but as a check and balance against the other two branches of government. I think the strong court we have is overall a VERY good thing.
The only problem is they don't always know WHERE a particular repeater is. They know where they laid it but these cables have a tendancy to move quite a bit, especially after a split.