WW2 showed that a few subs can be devastating...only if the US manages to beat the encryption wil they have a chance to really rule the seas, and that's assuming that the EU subs don't just have roving orders (ie no contact for their mission duration). Thing is, the US hasn't had to really fight subs since ww2....in the cold war they might have practiced, but because it was a cold war the damage subs can do never crops up.
-stealth sucks and is demonstrably over rated...all you have to do is change your radar from high frequency to low and all stealth aircraft in existence stand out...all that held for example Iraq back from doing just this was export restrictions and cost.
-modern 'precision munitions' are still piss poor accuracy wise; 90% missed in the first gulf war, 75-60% did same in the second. Not only that, but the only way americans could really set foot on EU soil is if they have a friendly port to use as a staging area. If they don't (and if the US would invade), they'd have to build or occupy one...massive US casualies.
-the US is just as unsafe as any other place in the world...didn't 911 teach you anything?
-the US? Ethical? Have you even been following the news since the 1950's? As for that 'emprie'...wtf are you guys still doing in Iraq, a year after hostilities have supposedly (according to your own gov'ment) stopped?
Fact is, the US could probably occupy the EU...at massive cost. And they wouldn't hold it for long; guerilla warfare would make the cost of a cross-atlantic occupation too high.
As you say...if the accuracy is degraded, and can be disturbed by the US at will, then why in god's name spend the money?
IF these changes occur, then I'll be asking the relevant minister why we're going to spend money on a system that is not just redundant, but less usefull than the currently available one.
Nice try, no cigar (unfortunately); printing ink (even/especially laserprinter toner) is rather volatile...it does not last...have a look at something you printed out in 1985 (on your dotmatrix printer)...hell, have a look at something you printed out just a couple of years back.
Have an earthquake...what survives....your server or the books in a library?
Yeah, I know, water'll kill both, but you get the point; paper is more difficult to kill than anything stored electronically. And, yeah, you can set fire to paper...but see what data you fiund on a burned HD:)
CD-R's, contarary to popular belief (or at least manufacturers claims) only last about a year or two.
So what long term storage where you talking about specifically (and I mean ones people actiually use,,,tapes don't count either due to magnetic losses over time)?
I think that's the whole point Eco is trying to make; perceprion changes the way you think. There is a huge difference between trying to think up something pithy to say on some website and a well thought out, argumented case about something profound (to the individual or the masses).
Sure, both can happen on the net, but even so that is a fleeting thing; because paper is tangible, the connections made in the brain are stronger and the thought process is geared more towards the long term than the next hundred people viewing the frontpage.
It boils down to tangibility...some read from something one doesn't/cannot physically hold (billboard, monitor) is processed differently than something one does hold (paper, book, palmpilot).
But Eco goes deeper, and he's right...until we get a RAM reading device (in the sence that it is randomly accessible to a point where we know kinda where we acces it...ie a book made of e-ink [just like flipping pages of a book]) books will provide for better (not more!) food for thought than electronic memory.
Looking at the the number of posters considering her hot, and then having a look at her picture, it just shows how low the standards here at/. have sunk.
Of course, I'd do her, but I've been known to make bigger mistakes than that;)
Methinks Origin could easily do it with some curve fitting, edited with some photoshop (for the swallows) later on. Hell, Matlab can do it too if you set it up correctly (small stepping, and applying a second input you measure for only up to cos90), and edit the swalows in later.
Sorry, but NO! This is not good news for the consumer. The fact that this has been thrown out is a return to sanity. The fact that this case went to trial is such bad news for a society that the direction it's heading is quite obvious. And if not obvious, at the very least somewhat leading.
Sure, the study is 'slightly' biased. But an important thing to eep in mind is that windows also has a much, much larger installed user base.
Fact is, the more people use linux, the more people will be looking over it's code (for good and ill intents). And the more people who look into the linux code, and the more users linux has, the more security flaws will be found and exploited. Point being, sure, now linux is secure as houses (yeah yeah, also due to it's structure and whole OS mindset), but the more people use it, the more malicious people will write virusses and find exploitable code and...exploit it. For a large part, I'd say it's just a matter of numbers.
Strange...most of the students at my faculty of the uni do know about it because it's a good search engine for getting acedemic results to queries. Hell, if you know your search engines, you'd know to use different ones when looking for different things...google being one of the better ones for computer tech, for example.
Anyway, I was just stating fact, not MS bashing (although they are a convicted company); if MS would accuire Google, many tech people (and quite a few not so techie) would change their search engine out of fear, distrust and/or general principles.
For the mayority of users, ie those who just need wordprocessing, spreadsheets, webbrowsing and mayby some cd burning, mp3 playing and movie playing, linux is a perfectly fine solution.
I dunno what the guy was smoking, but to my mind, the above is what the average desktop market is, and linux is ready for it. All it lacks to go really mainstream is games.
Because the bloody system is corrupt. How else can you explain a clearly criminal act (exasperated by the repeated further missteps of MS violating any trust they might have built up) going not just unpunished, but almost blessed by the courts when that court just said 'We can fine you millions...we can (and should) do to you what we did to Bell...but we'll do nothing of the kind; just don't do it again'.
That is nothing if not corrupt. Or criminally negligent.
Now that's what SWG did very wrong...they should have added player contracts out of the box, as well as vehicles. Those just add so much emergent gameplay that players would have been able to make their own games (like drag racing hoverbikes for money...with an enforced/enforcable contract).
Hell, I bet with some auto-checking software (like visibility/size/animation checks) or even using that as the first hurdle before the online dev team checks 'em out, player created custom content (custom avatars!) could be feasable with a p2p content delivery system...
Bingo...as I read this, this is exactly what future big (as in successfull) MMORPG's will do. It has the 'episodic gaming' thing too, but with the episode being slightly longer time wise than people would have expected.
Not only that, but this is exactly what people want; after a while, the internet gaming community would be talking about 'hey, you remember when so-and so and the other clan got clobbered by the dragon in 'Dragonquest'?'.
It's like GTA3:VC...a great MMORPG venue if I ever saw one; not something to play for years, but definitely many, many months. This is the kind of system which will have to do until we get adequate automatic content generation tools (people, quests, dialogue etc) for real, interesting, persistant worlds [not to say that those don't need custom, well thought out plots/ environments etc, but most town folk just need to be generated, not hand plonked into the game].
I dunno...going by my circle of friends (including the rather large non-techie part of it), that's exactly what's holding back the adoption of the hybrid formfactor.
Not only that, but PDA's are predominantly sold to techies...that's their market; it therefore follows that PDA's with phones will sell to that segment too, instead of phones with PDA's. The success of the Treo only proves my point...and if the Treo 600 only had a bigger screen (the whole point of having a PDA!: data representation!), it would sell a hell of a lot more (ditto the earlier treo's).
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WW2 showed that a few subs can be devastating...only if the US manages to beat the encryption wil they have a chance to really rule the seas, and that's assuming that the EU subs don't just have roving orders (ie no contact for their mission duration). Thing is, the US hasn't had to really fight subs since ww2....in the cold war they might have practiced, but because it was a cold war the damage subs can do never crops up.
-stealth sucks and is demonstrably over rated...all you have to do is change your radar from high frequency to low and all stealth aircraft in existence stand out...all that held for example Iraq back from doing just this was export restrictions and cost.
-modern 'precision munitions' are still piss poor accuracy wise; 90% missed in the first gulf war, 75-60% did same in the second. Not only that, but the only way americans could really set foot on EU soil is if they have a friendly port to use as a staging area. If they don't (and if the US would invade), they'd have to build or occupy one...massive US casualies.
-the US is just as unsafe as any other place in the world...didn't 911 teach you anything?
-the US? Ethical? Have you even been following the news since the 1950's? As for that 'emprie'...wtf are you guys still doing in Iraq, a year after hostilities have supposedly (according to your own gov'ment) stopped?
Fact is, the US could probably occupy the EU...at massive cost. And they wouldn't hold it for long; guerilla warfare would make the cost of a cross-atlantic occupation too high.
As you say...if the accuracy is degraded, and can be disturbed by the US at will, then why in god's name spend the money?
IF these changes occur, then I'll be asking the relevant minister why we're going to spend money on a system that is not just redundant, but less usefull than the currently available one.
Thanks...I'll remember that one.
And I'm not being sarcastic.
Nice try, no cigar (unfortunately); printing ink (even/especially laserprinter toner) is rather volatile...it does not last...have a look at something you printed out in 1985 (on your dotmatrix printer)...hell, have a look at something you printed out just a couple of years back.
Have an earthquake...what survives....your server or the books in a library?
:)
Yeah, I know, water'll kill both, but you get the point; paper is more difficult to kill than anything stored electronically. And, yeah, you can set fire to paper...but see what data you fiund on a burned HD
The simple reason paper is better than anything else is that you can write in the margins.
And this is from someone who gleefully reads from his palmpilot in trams, trains, queues and bed, and has been doing so for a couple of years now.
And paper doesn't break so easily, and can be read anywhere (like in the sun on the beach).
CD-R's, contarary to popular belief (or at least manufacturers claims) only last about a year or two.
So what long term storage where you talking about specifically (and I mean ones people actiually use,,,tapes don't count either due to magnetic losses over time)?
"People are engaged a little bit differently."
I think that's the whole point Eco is trying to make; perceprion changes the way you think. There is a huge difference between trying to think up something pithy to say on some website and a well thought out, argumented case about something profound (to the individual or the masses).
Sure, both can happen on the net, but even so that is a fleeting thing; because paper is tangible, the connections made in the brain are stronger and the thought process is geared more towards the long term than the next hundred people viewing the frontpage.
It boils down to tangibility...some read from something one doesn't/cannot physically hold (billboard, monitor) is processed differently than something one does hold (paper, book, palmpilot).
But Eco goes deeper, and he's right...until we get a RAM reading device (in the sence that it is randomly accessible to a point where we know kinda where we acces it...ie a book made of e-ink [just like flipping pages of a book]) books will provide for better (not more!) food for thought than electronic memory.
Looking at the the number of posters considering her hot, and then having a look at her picture, it just shows how low the standards here at /. have sunk.
;)
Of course, I'd do her, but I've been known to make bigger mistakes than that
Hell, all you need to do is just calculate r'(t). Easy!
Methinks Origin could easily do it with some curve fitting, edited with some photoshop (for the swallows) later on. Hell, Matlab can do it too if you set it up correctly (small stepping, and applying a second input you measure for only up to cos90), and edit the swalows in later.
Sorry, but NO! This is not good news for the consumer. The fact that this has been thrown out is a return to sanity. The fact that this case went to trial is such bad news for a society that the direction it's heading is quite obvious. And if not obvious, at the very least somewhat leading.
Sure, the study is 'slightly' biased. But an important thing to eep in mind is that windows also has a much, much larger installed user base.
Fact is, the more people use linux, the more people will be looking over it's code (for good and ill intents). And the more people who look into the linux code, and the more users linux has, the more security flaws will be found and exploited.
Point being, sure, now linux is secure as houses (yeah yeah, also due to it's structure and whole OS mindset), but the more people use it, the more malicious people will write virusses and find exploitable code and...exploit it.
For a large part, I'd say it's just a matter of numbers.
Strange...most of the students at my faculty of the uni do know about it because it's a good search engine for getting acedemic results to queries. Hell, if you know your search engines, you'd know to use different ones when looking for different things...google being one of the better ones for computer tech, for example.
Anyway, I was just stating fact, not MS bashing (although they are a convicted company); if MS would accuire Google, many tech people (and quite a few not so techie) would change their search engine out of fear, distrust and/or general principles.
Judgemental SOB.
For the mayority of users, ie those who just need wordprocessing, spreadsheets, webbrowsing and mayby some cd burning, mp3 playing and movie playing, linux is a perfectly fine solution.
I dunno what the guy was smoking, but to my mind, the above is what the average desktop market is, and linux is ready for it. All it lacks to go really mainstream is games.
Nope...a MS-owned Google would simply mean Teoma getting a hell off a lot more traffic.
'I stand here before you as representing the MPAA, one of the leading advocates of First Amendment rights...'
If you have to state it for yourself, then you most likely aren't.
But only [kg] is SI! Don't confuse the poor JPL'ers who might be lurking here!
Because the bloody system is corrupt. How else can you explain a clearly criminal act (exasperated by the repeated further missteps of MS violating any trust they might have built up) going not just unpunished, but almost blessed by the courts when that court just said 'We can fine you millions...we can (and should) do to you what we did to Bell...but we'll do nothing of the kind; just don't do it again'.
That is nothing if not corrupt. Or criminally negligent.
Now that's what SWG did very wrong...they should have added player contracts out of the box, as well as vehicles. Those just add so much emergent gameplay that players would have been able to make their own games (like drag racing hoverbikes for money...with an enforced/enforcable contract).
Hell, I bet with some auto-checking software (like visibility/size/animation checks) or even using that as the first hurdle before the online dev team checks 'em out, player created custom content (custom avatars!) could be feasable with a p2p content delivery system...
Bingo...as I read this, this is exactly what future big (as in successfull) MMORPG's will do. It has the 'episodic gaming' thing too, but with the episode being slightly longer time wise than people would have expected.
Not only that, but this is exactly what people want; after a while, the internet gaming community would be talking about 'hey, you remember when so-and so and the other clan got clobbered by the dragon in 'Dragonquest'?'.
It's like GTA3:VC...a great MMORPG venue if I ever saw one; not something to play for years, but definitely many, many months. This is the kind of system which will have to do until we get adequate automatic content generation tools (people, quests, dialogue etc) for real, interesting, persistant worlds [not to say that those don't need custom, well thought out plots/ environments etc, but most town folk just need to be generated, not hand plonked into the game].
...now if it only ran a decent OS (preferably PalmOS, but Symbian would do in a pinch).
Yeah, 'cos as the cold war showed us, detente just doesn't work; an imbalanced power structure works best, doesn't it?
God man, don't you read any history?
I dunno...going by my circle of friends (including the rather large non-techie part of it), that's exactly what's holding back the adoption of the hybrid formfactor.
Not only that, but PDA's are predominantly sold to techies...that's their market; it therefore follows that PDA's with phones will sell to that segment too, instead of phones with PDA's. The success of the Treo only proves my point...and if the Treo 600 only had a bigger screen (the whole point of having a PDA!: data representation!), it would sell a hell of a lot more (ditto the earlier treo's).