So you don't use the card for the actual vote but at the check-in station. Then they give you some form of temporary card for the voting booth with no identifiers back to your check-in.
Agreed, but then one piece needs to be put in place - mandatory signs at those facilities using this paint so that doctors know they are about to be cut off from the network. Your example is good, but the more relevant one is specialty doctors doing transplants - those calls can and do come at any time if a donor is found for your patient. I'm not worried about the cheese grater, or a bad highway accident for that matter. But if she's on a donor list for a kidney or a heart, then she will have a specific doctor and he will have a team, including other doctors I'm sure. I'm not worried about the nurses not being reachable, as there are other nurses available. And I have no complaint with a doctor taking a movie every damned night - so long as he knows and has been made aware that he won't get phone calls while sitting inside the theater (and I hope he's wise enough to step out into the hall at least twice during the movie, just to be certain).
Reproduced 3 times for me:
Work laptop, WinXP Pro SP1 using Opera 8 - locked up and spent 5 minutes clicking End Now, and trying to bring up the taskmgr. Finally had to kill the machine to get out of it. Lost an important IM with a coworker across the country too.:@
At home, desktop WinXp Pro SP2 on an Athlon 64 using both Netscape 7.2 and IE 6.02 - a few minutes of fighting for each and I was thankfully able to kill each without rebooting.
Oh, and tried all of the movie links I've seen listed here so far, they all do it, including the original post.
step 5) open the registry (RegEdit) and search for "RunOnce"; directly above it will be "Run". We don't search the registry for "Run" because it appears like 1000 times. Delete any keys in the "Run" folder that don't look right. Search about 3 more times for this entry - it appears in multiple places.
Unfortunately, I had a customer's machine last year that taught me something - Registry keys are just like path names. So if they want, mal/spyware authors can put their startup entry somewhere else entirely as long as they use the HKCU\Software\.etc.\Run as the key name, and their exe for the value (or perhaps it was both as simply a value under the Default key... can't recall now). Since Windows reads and processes the entire registry at startup, it will find that and run it just like it's part of the Run entries. Wish I could recall which particular piece of crud was doing this, but I'm drawing a blank atm.
If you think your major isn't working out for you, talk to someone instead of continuing to struggle or dropping out. There is no harm in changing majors, and if you stay at the same school your courses will still work for prereq's and such.
Look over your Registrar's list of minors and cross reference them with your course work occassionaly. With my school's math requirements for a BS in Comp Sci, any CS student finished their math courses 1 course short of a math minor. Find a way to get those minors as they'll help round out your resume.
The executive producer of JFETS is Rob Sears, and he's quoted as saying
"I keep two measures of success in mind for JFETS," he tells me. "Number one, I want guys who have been to the Middle East to go into those rooms and have their hair stand on end. And number two, to have the project be an election-year trophy for Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz so they can say, We're transforming the Army."
roughly 1/4 of the way into the article.
He's wrong entirely on his second reason. The ICT program has been in the works longer than Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have been in their current positions. From the beginning of the article:
By contrast, the Army's bill for underwriting ICT for the last five years was $45 million. Rehearsing even a single mission in the field also requires weeks of planning and construction.
Rumsfeld began his job in 2001, and at the time these decisions were made - guessing 5-7 years ago - he was still working in the private industry. Wolfowitz was appointed in 2001 also, and
"For the last seven years, Dr. Wolfowitz has served as Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. (
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/wolfowitz-bi o.html Whitehouse Bio)
Prior to 2001 he was not involved in defense or military preparedness spending.
Mr Sears needs to check his facts on who is responsible for what. President Clinton and his staff pushed the ICT initiative - not Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz or Rumsfeld. This administration simply gets to enjoy the fruits of someone else's purchasing decisions.
From the way the articles reads to me, this is more of a final run before sending people into harms way, not a replacement to boot camp and live fire excercises. Train up the battalions as usual, but then instead of spending millions making a mock Middle Eastern town, training and setting up enemy combatants and civies, and using paint guns/laser tag/whatever they have now - you simply send them to Ft Sill for 2 weeks of prep training on fighting in wherever they need to go. All of the money has already been spent on making the Ft Sill facilities and the article said they can make a new battle environment in the computers within about a day.
This should save some lives as our troops will be able to better understand the environment they are being sent to beforehand instead of before it's too late and they or a squad mate are killed, or they kill/injure the wrong people while learning the lay of the land.
However, why put the complete system on the flash drive? Simply put the OS itself onto the flash drive with logs and swap on a regular HD along with all of the user space, then the OS could boot up and shutdown really fast. And in the case of Windows - even with how often we are forced to do updates the flash drive could survive several years of weekly updates.
That's how I'd use mine - a single 2-3GB flash drive with the OS, everything else on a regular HD.
And I agree with Tet - my CRT won't be leaving the desk anytime soon. And doing the occassional tech for hire stuff I even use my floppy drive a couple of times a month. I'm not saying I wouldn't mind getting rid of them, but to me they are both still the best tools for the job.
This link also provides links to his other papers, all in pdf format. I'm on dialup and still downloading, but the intro text for the above page says his algorithm works on TIFF and JPEG/GIFs with minimal compression. Hope someone puts up a demo page sometime soon.
Certain functions make a lot of sense and will quickly become automated. Retail checkout, fast food ordering, toll booths, even more farm labor, all will grow more and more automated.
I can see those jobs being automated, right up until the point that Those In Charge realize that all of the nation's teenagers have even less to do. I'm sorry, but most teenagers with nothing to do just burn up gas driving the parents' car around and getting into fights - at least here in mid Missouri where I've lived my whole life.
Plus, there is the whole consideration of whether customer's would willingly buy goods from robot clerks at the same rate as they did previously from human clerks. The young would adapt so that after 20 years of trials here and there, the companies could seriously push robotic clerks. Now the other concern is that batteries/electricity, and maintenance still may keep the price too prohibitive for a very long time.
Might I suggest the Wheel of Time? It's an FPS that requires brains and patience to play - it is not a twitch game such as the Quake or Unreal series, but it is exceptionaly fun. The game won several game of the year awards - including GameSpy iirc. It is about 5 years old so should run just fine on whatever computer you have. The community is very dedicated to the game and has no known cheaters. Also, we are extremely helpful and if you ask for help on the servers 90% of the players will jump to [Teacher]name mode and the current games will go into teaching someone how to play.
We truly do want new players. You should be able to find WoT in the bargain bin somewhere. Stop by the official WoT Clan Forums and introduce yourself and ask for whatever help you need (the main Game forum is basically empty these days).
First, I hope your kid gets better. As a gamer/nerd, I also watch out for what my kids play and I have to respect any parent that says they read the labels and buy accordingly. Kudos to you.
Second, from reading over the posts, it sounds like you've done nothing wrong. You have the right hardware (PC with LCD using a digital and not analog video card), your kid had no seizure history, and you've been responsible in the titles purchased. While there may be no legal reparations possible (IANAL) the publisher and developers both deserve to know about this incident. It allows them to possibly make personal reparations to you and your family. It allows them to possibly look into their development, publishing, labeling policies. And being a PC game, it might also push them into the development of a patch for the game to reduce the intensity of that final level.
Finally, I'd go ahead and post the name of the game here since this crowd is not likely to start a news jihad against the companies for this incident. And other people may have similar problems with that title, or other titles from the same developer. Useful knowledge to have for any letters you choose to write.
Again, good luck to you and your kid, and kudos to you for taking some responsibility for your kid in this day-n-age when most parents think it's everyones' responsibility but theirs.
You see, the thing is, you forgot your TPS report. You did get the memo that we're using those now, right? I'll just send it to you again just to make sure you understand.
If the entire traffic grid was wired to a central location - say the same station where the almost standard CCD camera feeds go - then you simply plot each emergency vehicles route in advance. Then you have the next 2 lights become green in the emergency vehicle's direction, and keep triggering as you go. If the intersections are far enough apart you should do the standard yellow-to-red sequence for the cross traffic - as someone else here said, going straight to red causes accidents. You can also add a simple red siren to the top of each pole that lights up whenever that intersection is triggered.
This eliminates any remote devices that the public DOES NOT need, allows everyone to know what is going on, and gives the emergency vehicle full confidence in right of way, and the fastest possible path for each emergency call. Add a $5000 minimum fine to any idiot who runs an emergency red light, and people will pay attention to it.
So what we need is some millionare to come up with a serious website and sign new artists, and pay them fairly by the song. When everyone sees the new artists making more money from someone who treats them fairly, perhaps some of the established artists will jump ship for the new service. Eventually, it's win-win for the artists and public.
Now if I could just come up with a few million...:\
3. Most likely cause of destruction was damage to heat shield.
Actually, the heat shield can take a bit of a beating, so to speak, and still get the crew home. Far more likely is a problem with flight control - the analogy commanders have used in the past for re-entry is that the shuttle is akin to a brick. Tilt it just slighly askew and it could flip, spin, break and or burn. This is far more likely than a burn through.
So long as there is a warning posted on the outside of the theater that this is a digital domain - fine. I'm going to be a bit more than pissed if there isn't a warning and I spend $10 to see a good movie and find 20 backlit displays nearby during the flick. I've got a laptop and love the idea with a cafe/dining setup, but not for the typical movie theater.
is that there is actually an MLA standard for citing online articles, yet once your prof gets it the material may have changed or be completely gone. During the 2000 election crap I actually tried linking to a couple of CNN articles that promptly disappeared - you couldn't even find them in searches! Thankfully I had printed each source as I used it (which added up) and I was able to give those to the prof for proof.
This is a print medium, like it or not, so versioning and archiving must be done or using such materials for sources will quickly die and we'll all be back to researching the old fashioned way. Which does at least get you better results usually, it just takes forever to find all of your sources, many of which may be 5 years out of date. With the Internet, the sources can be up to date.
The National Dairy Counsil and a coalition of American dairy farmers have teamed up to go after Christianity for their use of "Got Jesus?" in tv ads aired during the 98 Superbowl...
I actually did a paper a year ago on the need for a science court in US governmental decision making. One of the key points I kept running into in my research was that nothing science related a first year president pushes for, or even gets through, will be seen before he leaves office - even if he does two turns. Each project gets re-evaluated by the president, committees, congress, etc repeatedly throughout it's life. Usually the next president either downsizes it, kills it, upsizes it, or ignores it. They rarely say "that's cool as it is, just give them the same amount this year." Most science required 3 or 4 terms before results were truly seen.
So, in all actuallity, Clinton either started this or continued it on from his predecessor. GWB had jack to do with it other than to see the results and maybe a final bill.
So instead of ~$400 to fix a broken display they could end up paying for the whole unit when the water drips/sprays all over the keyboard and then down to the inards. Brilliant...
Personally, I'd have engineered the water tank to the bottom of the unit or as another drive bay. Gravity would force the water from a broken unit outside the laptop.
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So you don't use the card for the actual vote but at the check-in station. Then they give you some form of temporary card for the voting booth with no identifiers back to your check-in.
Agreed, but then one piece needs to be put in place - mandatory signs at those facilities using this paint so that doctors know they are about to be cut off from the network. Your example is good, but the more relevant one is specialty doctors doing transplants - those calls can and do come at any time if a donor is found for your patient. I'm not worried about the cheese grater, or a bad highway accident for that matter. But if she's on a donor list for a kidney or a heart, then she will have a specific doctor and he will have a team, including other doctors I'm sure. I'm not worried about the nurses not being reachable, as there are other nurses available. And I have no complaint with a doctor taking a movie every damned night - so long as he knows and has been made aware that he won't get phone calls while sitting inside the theater (and I hope he's wise enough to step out into the hall at least twice during the movie, just to be certain).
Reproduced 3 times for me: :@
Work laptop, WinXP Pro SP1 using Opera 8 - locked up and spent 5 minutes clicking End Now, and trying to bring up the taskmgr. Finally had to kill the machine to get out of it. Lost an important IM with a coworker across the country too.
At home, desktop WinXp Pro SP2 on an Athlon 64 using both Netscape 7.2 and IE 6.02 - a few minutes of fighting for each and I was thankfully able to kill each without rebooting.
Oh, and tried all of the movie links I've seen listed here so far, they all do it, including the original post.
Downloaded to desktop and viewed there - np.
No, more like this.
The executive producer of JFETS is Rob Sears, and he's quoted as saying
roughly 1/4 of the way into the article. He's wrong entirely on his second reason. The ICT program has been in the works longer than Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have been in their current positions. From the beginning of the article: Rumsfeld began his job in 2001, and at the time these decisions were made - guessing 5-7 years ago - he was still working in the private industry. Wolfowitz was appointed in 2001 also, and Prior to 2001 he was not involved in defense or military preparedness spending. Mr Sears needs to check his facts on who is responsible for what. President Clinton and his staff pushed the ICT initiative - not Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz or Rumsfeld. This administration simply gets to enjoy the fruits of someone else's purchasing decisions.From the way the articles reads to me, this is more of a final run before sending people into harms way, not a replacement to boot camp and live fire excercises. Train up the battalions as usual, but then instead of spending millions making a mock Middle Eastern town, training and setting up enemy combatants and civies, and using paint guns/laser tag/whatever they have now - you simply send them to Ft Sill for 2 weeks of prep training on fighting in wherever they need to go. All of the money has already been spent on making the Ft Sill facilities and the article said they can make a new battle environment in the computers within about a day.
This should save some lives as our troops will be able to better understand the environment they are being sent to beforehand instead of before it's too late and they or a squad mate are killed, or they kill/injure the wrong people while learning the lay of the land.However, why put the complete system on the flash drive? Simply put the OS itself onto the flash drive with logs and swap on a regular HD along with all of the user space, then the OS could boot up and shutdown really fast. And in the case of Windows - even with how often we are forced to do updates the flash drive could survive several years of weekly updates.
That's how I'd use mine - a single 2-3GB flash drive with the OS, everything else on a regular HD.
And I agree with Tet - my CRT won't be leaving the desk anytime soon. And doing the occassional tech for hire stuff I even use my floppy drive a couple of times a month. I'm not saying I wouldn't mind getting rid of them, but to me they are both still the best tools for the job.
This link also provides links to his other papers, all in pdf format. I'm on dialup and still downloading, but the intro text for the above page says his algorithm works on TIFF and JPEG/GIFs with minimal compression. Hope someone puts up a demo page sometime soon.
I can see those jobs being automated, right up until the point that Those In Charge realize that all of the nation's teenagers have even less to do. I'm sorry, but most teenagers with nothing to do just burn up gas driving the parents' car around and getting into fights - at least here in mid Missouri where I've lived my whole life.
Plus, there is the whole consideration of whether customer's would willingly buy goods from robot clerks at the same rate as they did previously from human clerks. The young would adapt so that after 20 years of trials here and there, the companies could seriously push robotic clerks. Now the other concern is that batteries/electricity, and maintenance still may keep the price too prohibitive for a very long time.
*shrug* Just my $.02.
Might I suggest the Wheel of Time? It's an FPS that requires brains and patience to play - it is not a twitch game such as the Quake or Unreal series, but it is exceptionaly fun. The game won several game of the year awards - including GameSpy iirc. It is about 5 years old so should run just fine on whatever computer you have. The community is very dedicated to the game and has no known cheaters. Also, we are extremely helpful and if you ask for help on the servers 90% of the players will jump to [Teacher]name mode and the current games will go into teaching someone how to play.
We truly do want new players. You should be able to find WoT in the bargain bin somewhere. Stop by the official WoT Clan Forums and introduce yourself and ask for whatever help you need (the main Game forum is basically empty these days).
First, I hope your kid gets better. As a gamer/nerd, I also watch out for what my kids play and I have to respect any parent that says they read the labels and buy accordingly. Kudos to you.
Second, from reading over the posts, it sounds like you've done nothing wrong. You have the right hardware (PC with LCD using a digital and not analog video card), your kid had no seizure history, and you've been responsible in the titles purchased. While there may be no legal reparations possible (IANAL) the publisher and developers both deserve to know about this incident. It allows them to possibly make personal reparations to you and your family. It allows them to possibly look into their development, publishing, labeling policies. And being a PC game, it might also push them into the development of a patch for the game to reduce the intensity of that final level.
Finally, I'd go ahead and post the name of the game here since this crowd is not likely to start a news jihad against the companies for this incident. And other people may have similar problems with that title, or other titles from the same developer. Useful knowledge to have for any letters you choose to write.
Again, good luck to you and your kid, and kudos to you for taking some responsibility for your kid in this day-n-age when most parents think it's everyones' responsibility but theirs.
You see, the thing is, you forgot your TPS report. You did get the memo that we're using those now, right? I'll just send it to you again just to make sure you understand.
Can't wait to go see it. But I want to see Jackson do a 30 page per book adaptation for Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
If the entire traffic grid was wired to a central location - say the same station where the almost standard CCD camera feeds go - then you simply plot each emergency vehicles route in advance. Then you have the next 2 lights become green in the emergency vehicle's direction, and keep triggering as you go. If the intersections are far enough apart you should do the standard yellow-to-red sequence for the cross traffic - as someone else here said, going straight to red causes accidents. You can also add a simple red siren to the top of each pole that lights up whenever that intersection is triggered.
This eliminates any remote devices that the public DOES NOT need, allows everyone to know what is going on, and gives the emergency vehicle full confidence in right of way, and the fastest possible path for each emergency call. Add a $5000 minimum fine to any idiot who runs an emergency red light, and people will pay attention to it.
So what we need is some millionare to come up with a serious website and sign new artists, and pay them fairly by the song. When everyone sees the new artists making more money from someone who treats them fairly, perhaps some of the established artists will jump ship for the new service. Eventually, it's win-win for the artists and public.
:\
Now if I could just come up with a few million...
Actually, the heat shield can take a bit of a beating, so to speak, and still get the crew home. Far more likely is a problem with flight control - the analogy commanders have used in the past for re-entry is that the shuttle is akin to a brick. Tilt it just slighly askew and it could flip, spin, break and or burn. This is far more likely than a burn through.
Not that anything like this is good.
This is /. for crying out loud - where's the open source angle?! Are the scientists going to build a cocunut PC running FreeBSD or something??
So long as there is a warning posted on the outside of the theater that this is a digital domain - fine. I'm going to be a bit more than pissed if there isn't a warning and I spend $10 to see a good movie and find 20 backlit displays nearby during the flick. I've got a laptop and love the idea with a cafe/dining setup, but not for the typical movie theater.
is that there is actually an MLA standard for citing online articles, yet once your prof gets it the material may have changed or be completely gone. During the 2000 election crap I actually tried linking to a couple of CNN articles that promptly disappeared - you couldn't even find them in searches! Thankfully I had printed each source as I used it (which added up) and I was able to give those to the prof for proof.
This is a print medium, like it or not, so versioning and archiving must be done or using such materials for sources will quickly die and we'll all be back to researching the old fashioned way. Which does at least get you better results usually, it just takes forever to find all of your sources, many of which may be 5 years out of date. With the Internet, the sources can be up to date.
You've never tried to install hardware in a Compaq, have you? ;) :)
Otherwise, I agree with you.
The National Dairy Counsil and a coalition of American dairy farmers have teamed up to go after Christianity for their use of "Got Jesus?" in tv ads aired during the 98 Superbowl...
So, in all actuallity, Clinton either started this or continued it on from his predecessor. GWB had jack to do with it other than to see the results and maybe a final bill.
-JDPersonally, I'd have engineered the water tank to the bottom of the unit or as another drive bay. Gravity would force the water from a broken unit outside the laptop.