All I can say for the reason behind not having a machine interface us due to the antiquity of the system. It is still using a mainframe but they don't want to change that if it isn't broken because the importance of the system is very very high and they leave it running ALL the time. It is unbelievably stable and I'm sure they don't want to muck with that.
Without going into details all I can say is that your mental picture is wrong and if you don't believe me then all I can say is "too bad". However it is a mainframe and it runs very well and processes about 3 million transactions per day (if I remember correctly). Also, the server room houses many other computer systems, some of them brand spanking new ( I won't say how I know). The FBI isn't as old fashioned as you perceive it to be. Have a look at http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ncic.htm for slightly more info (nontechnical and unclassified public information).
I'm already on a contract (I'm a subcontractor) under Lockheed Martin for the FBI and recently Northrop won a contract and had employees working in the same building I was working in. The project Northrop was working on ended up being behind schedule with Northrop behind on documentation and other things. Given, they were new to the environment and LM has been around for over 4 years now in the same environment but if that is any indication of future performance then Northrop won't win the bid for this new Sentinel contract. LM did win a re-bid for the existing contract that I'm on so they must be doing something that the FBI likes. Also, the fact that the VCF failed was not entirely the fault of SAIC since the FBI couldn't agree on requirements and their management for the project was always changing. Anyone would fail to meet requirements if the requirements never stabilize.
What about someone else's house? Parents can't control every house their child will ever be in. See another post I posted just a few minutes ago above this one concerning a useful example where children go to each other's house and parents can't know all the houses a child will go to or the parents who run those houses.
And don't get all excited. I'm an atheist so I'm not some religious right wing zealot..
You are just the left wing atheist who thinks anyone on the right is a right wing religious zealot. They are people just like you and they are just standing up for their religion because it is being silenced in public. Why do people like you insist on calling every single person who doesn't agree with you a zealot, especially when the other side doesn't sink low enough to call you that? Is that all you can do (name-calling) to fight for your side? Tolerance means allowing all religions to be expressed, not all religions except Christianity. By the way, do you celebrate Christmas?
Why does responsiblity have to be a 1 way street? Why are we not enforcing any responsibility on those who write the games? A producer and consumer exists in this scenario. Why is responsiblity only being placed on the consumer? The sad fact is producers of any medium have free reign over what they produce and what better way to stop sewage from flowing through society than at its source? Parents are not necessarily deferring their responsiblities to the state but what are they supposed to do when their child(Bobby) goes to a friend's house? What if the parents know that friend and say it's okay because they know Johnny's parents have similar views but then Johnny takes his friend Bobby to someone ELSE's house where neither Johnny nor Bobby's parents know Billy's parents or their views? Parents can't watch their children all the time. The common source is the producer of the games or movies or tv shows.
I'm not choosing either side here but one difference between movies and games is that children have an active and INTERactive role in a game as opposed to a movie thus children can see direct consequence of their own actions in the game.
And everytime you post something like you did it makes you sound like a zealot who calls anyone who doesn't agree with you a religious extremist(you did not do it this time but your kind has done it for other stories that have been posted in the past). There are two sides to every situation. It's just too bad your side is all too willing to use any name you can think of(in this case you chose to use 'hillbillies') to put a label on members of the other side.
He is testing our intelligence and we obviously failed (or at least those who believe in incorrect interpretations of incomplete evidence that represents snapshots in time with gaping holes that those same people are happy to ignore).
I'd go in for the mansion. Is a yact an animal? Maybe you mean yacht. I used to like Lotus Elises but i don't think I'd like the interior. I think I'd like to be owned by a Porsche Boxster, and a supermodel.
We understand so much about the Universe, we can see millions of light years away using these amazing telescopes, but we STILL haven't set foot on the next planet over.
And many children on this planet STILL don't have food available to them every day of their lives. Let's tackle problems here on Earth before thinking we can afford to go beyond our own world and start working on something else. Don't be a coder and start adding features before the existing bugs are fixed because you will just add more bugs.
You can't put a corporation in jail. $100,000 is a slap on the wrist; probably any fine that will be assessed is a slap on the wrist and probably is just a drop in the bucket of all the money that Sony will spend on legal matters in any given year.
You can't put a corporation in jail but as you state, people in the corporation knew about it. I'm sure any one of them would love to go to jail. $100k is a slap on the wrist but it is $100k for each violation for some of the lawsuits that have been filed. *That* may not end up being a slap on the wrist. I'd love to see Sony fined a bunch of money or even 1 Chief Officer from Sony Ent. go to jail over this.
From my experience the pull out strategy doesn't work as well as advetised. You always leave something behind and don't know until it's too late and it comes back and begins asking for an allowance.
Given that the PS2 and PSP had issues, the difference is that (on the surface at least) the PS2 and PSP had, exactly as you say, defects while the 360 seems to be experiencing design flaws due to not knowing how to design a system that can operate in the environment that the target audience will be running it in.
The power supply for the XBox 360 is almost as large as the XBox 360 itself. Maybe the power supply should be stood on its side, but I doubt people are considering that when they go to use the XBox 360.
Almost being at most 25% of the XBox360's size. The length is about the same but of course the width is not there. From the picture I can't tell if the depth/height (depending on your viewpoint) is the same or not and I don't own one either so all I can go on are pictures. Bottomline: The power pack is big but it isn't "almost" as large as the XBox360 itself.
And there is the difference. The US would not agree. I for one prefer to have decent reception before I want to watch TV on a phone with a 1.5" screen. Perfect the phone THEN add features.
Which holiday would that be? There are like 100 a year and granted, most have passed, but there are still a few left (not all are printed on a calendar).
The transfer rates that are always advertised are those from the cache in the drive and not from the platter to the rest of the system so as you say, the real, or at least the one that matters, rate is the transfer from the platter to the rest of the system which is indeed much slower than the transfer rate manufacturers, and even some reviewers, like to tout.
The more logical a solution sounds, and especially if a Chief X Officer in the company didn't think of it, the less chance it has of being implemented.
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All I can say for the reason behind not having a machine interface us due to the antiquity of the system. It is still using a mainframe but they don't want to change that if it isn't broken because the importance of the system is very very high and they leave it running ALL the time. It is unbelievably stable and I'm sure they don't want to muck with that.
Without going into details all I can say is that your mental picture is wrong and if you don't believe me then all I can say is "too bad". However it is a mainframe and it runs very well and processes about 3 million transactions per day (if I remember correctly). Also, the server room houses many other computer systems, some of them brand spanking new ( I won't say how I know). The FBI isn't as old fashioned as you perceive it to be. Have a look at http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ncic.htm for slightly more info (nontechnical and unclassified public information).
I'm already on a contract (I'm a subcontractor) under Lockheed Martin for the FBI and recently Northrop won a contract and had employees working in the same building I was working in. The project Northrop was working on ended up being behind schedule with Northrop behind on documentation and other things. Given, they were new to the environment and LM has been around for over 4 years now in the same environment but if that is any indication of future performance then Northrop won't win the bid for this new Sentinel contract. LM did win a re-bid for the existing contract that I'm on so they must be doing something that the FBI likes. Also, the fact that the VCF failed was not entirely the fault of SAIC since the FBI couldn't agree on requirements and their management for the project was always changing. Anyone would fail to meet requirements if the requirements never stabilize.
Time zone difference.
The same way that "intelligent" people can find nothing better to use as a part of their vocabulary than the word "fuck".
What about someone else's house? Parents can't control every house their child will ever be in. See another post I posted just a few minutes ago above this one concerning a useful example where children go to each other's house and parents can't know all the houses a child will go to or the parents who run those houses.
And don't get all excited. I'm an atheist so I'm not some religious right wing zealot..
You are just the left wing atheist who thinks anyone on the right is a right wing religious zealot. They are people just like you and they are just standing up for their religion because it is being silenced in public. Why do people like you insist on calling every single person who doesn't agree with you a zealot, especially when the other side doesn't sink low enough to call you that? Is that all you can do (name-calling) to fight for your side? Tolerance means allowing all religions to be expressed, not all religions except Christianity. By the way, do you celebrate Christmas?
Why does responsiblity have to be a 1 way street? Why are we not enforcing any responsibility on those who write the games? A producer and consumer exists in this scenario. Why is responsiblity only being placed on the consumer? The sad fact is producers of any medium have free reign over what they produce and what better way to stop sewage from flowing through society than at its source? Parents are not necessarily deferring their responsiblities to the state but what are they supposed to do when their child(Bobby) goes to a friend's house? What if the parents know that friend and say it's okay because they know Johnny's parents have similar views but then Johnny takes his friend Bobby to someone ELSE's house where neither Johnny nor Bobby's parents know Billy's parents or their views? Parents can't watch their children all the time. The common source is the producer of the games or movies or tv shows.
I'm not choosing either side here but one difference between movies and games is that children have an active and INTERactive role in a game as opposed to a movie thus children can see direct consequence of their own actions in the game.
Five billion quintiplitilion unptuplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars
how many zeros are in that?
And everytime you post something like you did it makes you sound like a zealot who calls anyone who doesn't agree with you a religious extremist(you did not do it this time but your kind has done it for other stories that have been posted in the past). There are two sides to every situation. It's just too bad your side is all too willing to use any name you can think of(in this case you chose to use 'hillbillies') to put a label on members of the other side.
He is testing our intelligence and we obviously failed (or at least those who believe in incorrect interpretations of incomplete evidence that represents snapshots in time with gaping holes that those same people are happy to ignore).
I'd go in for the mansion. Is a yact an animal? Maybe you mean yacht. I used to like Lotus Elises but i don't think I'd like the interior. I think I'd like to be owned by a Porsche Boxster, and a supermodel.
Were you let go for your experiment or for another reason?
Um, which holiday is this gift guide meant for?
We understand so much about the Universe, we can see millions of light years away using these amazing telescopes, but we STILL haven't set foot on the next planet over.
And many children on this planet STILL don't have food available to them every day of their lives. Let's tackle problems here on Earth before thinking we can afford to go beyond our own world and start working on something else. Don't be a coder and start adding features before the existing bugs are fixed because you will just add more bugs.
You can't put a corporation in jail. $100,000 is a slap on the wrist; probably any fine that will be assessed is a slap on the wrist and probably is just a drop in the bucket of all the money that Sony will spend on legal matters in any given year.
You can't put a corporation in jail but as you state, people in the corporation knew about it. I'm sure any one of them would love to go to jail. $100k is a slap on the wrist but it is $100k for each violation for some of the lawsuits that have been filed. *That* may not end up being a slap on the wrist. I'd love to see Sony fined a bunch of money or even 1 Chief Officer from Sony Ent. go to jail over this.
From my experience the pull out strategy doesn't work as well as advetised. You always leave something behind and don't know until it's too late and it comes back and begins asking for an allowance.
I can't see that happening, but maybe if I had the bionic eyes then I could.
Given that the PS2 and PSP had issues, the difference is that (on the surface at least) the PS2 and PSP had, exactly as you say, defects while the 360 seems to be experiencing design flaws due to not knowing how to design a system that can operate in the environment that the target audience will be running it in.
The power supply for the XBox 360 is almost as large as the XBox 360 itself. Maybe the power supply should be stood on its side, but I doubt people are considering that when they go to use the XBox 360.
Almost being at most 25% of the XBox360's size. The length is about the same but of course the width is not there. From the picture I can't tell if the depth/height (depending on your viewpoint) is the same or not and I don't own one either so all I can go on are pictures. Bottomline: The power pack is big but it isn't "almost" as large as the XBox360 itself.
And there is the difference. The US would not agree. I for one prefer to have decent reception before I want to watch TV on a phone with a 1.5" screen. Perfect the phone THEN add features.
Give the gift of Linux this holiday season.
Which holiday would that be? There are like 100 a year and granted, most have passed, but there are still a few left (not all are printed on a calendar).
The transfer rates that are always advertised are those from the cache in the drive and not from the platter to the rest of the system so as you say, the real, or at least the one that matters, rate is the transfer from the platter to the rest of the system which is indeed much slower than the transfer rate manufacturers, and even some reviewers, like to tout.
It's so simple, why isn't this more common?
The more logical a solution sounds, and especially if a Chief X Officer in the company didn't think of it, the less chance it has of being implemented.