There's room for debate about what Hayden beleives, but if you were to ask me, I would say that, if a person cannot identify "probable cause" as the key concept of the 4th Amendment, that person is unqualified for any executive branch office.
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GEN. HAYDEN: No, actually -- the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us against unreasonable search and seizure.
QUESTION: But the --
GEN. HAYDEN: That's what it says.
QUESTION: But the measure is probable cause, I believe.
GEN. HAYDEN: The amendment says unreasonable search and seizure.
QUESTION: But does it not say probable --
GEN. HAYDEN: No. The amendment says --
QUESTION: The court standard, the legal standard --
GEN. HAYDEN: -- unreasonable search and seizure.
QUESTION: The legal standard is probable cause, General.
It should be noted that Mr. Hayden, Bush's nominee to lead the CIA (after the hasty departure of the felonious Mr. Goss and his #3-in-command Mr. Foggo), recently stated in a press conference that the words "probable cause" do not appear in the 4th Amendment.
I'm somewhat inclined to agree with you. Although the thermal paste is grossly overapplied in this case, most of it is just squished out to the sides. if you study the photographs you will see that the layer on the chips and on the contact surface of the heatsink is relatively normal.
Still, the computer in question is not designed to cool itself entirely through case-air contact. It has two internal fans which move air over the internal heatsink. If the internal heatsink is working better, the case will be less hot.
Maybe someone can post a link to a page in the SomethingAwful forum where someone has measured the before and after using the computer's internal sensors.
This doesn't make sense because their volume is not up. As mentioned upthread, these laptops are manufactured by Asustek, and Asustek has a huge volume already.
All you can really conclude is that Asustek has poor quality controls, regardless of the brand under contract.
You should send your 10,000 reasons to some of the several services that have been operating this way for years.
Naysayers can just please go away. Borrowing a car for an hour is not a complicated transaction. You reserve the car, walk up to it, wave your electronic key, and drive off. It's *EASY* and it *WORKS IN PRACTICE*. You can't argue with success.
All you naysayers are such geniuses! If only your keen business insight was around 10 years ago, you could have prevented City Car Share and Auto Share from the horrible failure of their current businesses!
Oh, wait.
To address your moronic "points", please note that, although the key is in the car, the car's ignition system is tied to an electronic key-card access system. So busting into the car to grab the key nets you nothing at all.
And the "no human in the loop" ignores all those humans in the loop. If you show up to take a car and it's damaged, you just note it in the log book. The car service figures out who was responsible later. And, the cars are inspected, serviced, and cleaned weekly by - surprise! - a human.
The USSR also had a ground-based antisatellite near Dushanbe in what is now Kazakhstan. The installation is believed to have been a testbed for energy weapons and has a dedicated hydroelectric power plant.
Since the site is a pile of smoldering wreckage, let's talk about something else: the web. Specifically, when did you start needed a database to serve up five static files?
The dividing line seems to be which computers can run the latest Mac OS X and which cannot. The Pismo model PowerBook G3 is still relatively valuable (about $400) while the older models of the same laptop, which have the same CPU but lack FireWire ports and cannot run Tiger, are worth rather less.
But a beginner programmer has no effin' idea why he needs a "class" or any of that other crap. Every programmer needs to write trivial programs before they can understand the abstractions necessary for making more complex ones. For the same reason, you do not learn engineering by sitting down in front of a PRO/Engineer workstation. How can you understand finite element analysis and solid modelling if you haven't been to the workshop to break some bits of metal?
If you haven't tried it lately, writing a trivial program in Windows is practically impossible. Just try to write a program that draws on the screen or plays music (two things that you learned immediately on the C64).
You have to be kidding me. Kids cannot learn to program by learning a toolchain any more than they can learn to program by reading about the 7 habits of highly synergistic junior vice presidents of microsoft. That was/is why the C64 and platforms like it were/are the ideal platform for learning programming. The environment of such a computer is imperative. You can type a command and have that thing happen immediately. POKE $SOMETHING. Pen down; move to x,y. Why they heck would anyone want to learn to program in MS Visual Shitstain 15.1 when they could make something happen. The young programmer who writes uses a computer to move a Lego car is going to have a much more memorable experience than the one who "learns" to instantiate W32SomeClassWithAReallyLongNameThatsHardToReadOnTh eScreen(and, has, forty, two, arguments, and, no, discernable, reason, to, exist);
C&C did have huge "replayability" i.e. addiction potential. I played it in 4-player LANs constantly. The original was hilariously unbalanced: Nod could build swarms of Nod Bikes and vast fields of Turrets at a tiny cost. GDI had no equivalent. But by the time the 1.22 version was patched up, the cost of Nod Bikes and Turrets was brought back in line with comparable GDI units.
I hope they can come out with another C&C that is just plain fun, like the original. Looking back at C&C, the graphics are hilariously bad by modern standards, but you didn't notice it at the time. What you *did* notice was a half-dozen guys with hard hats and blueprints piling out of a stealth APC you didn't see coming, and putting your Mobile Construction Yard on the real estate market:)
That's great, but what does that have to do with Mr. Bezos? Are you saying he has been paid in straight shares? Because as far as I can tell from the company's SEC filings, that is not the case. Anyway the last thing Bezos needs is more shares of Amazon.com. He's the founder, and he already owns 25% of the company.
I see you've never been paid with incentive stock options. These are never free. The stock is granted at a certain strike price, which is normally the market price on the day of the grant. The grantee must pay this price per share to exercise the option. Therefore, after the exercise, the stock behaves exactly like a regular investment. However, the grantee owes a substantial tax payment immediately upon exercising the option, even if the shares are not sold. This is why incentive stock options can sometimes be more risky than simply buying shares.
Anyway, I think even you can see that the CEO in this scenario is going to make squat if the share price does not increase, therefore he has an incentive to make the share price go up, which aligns his self-interest with that of the other shareholders.
One of the screenshots on the AVS Forum shows the Toshiba displaying an EULA on boot. That doesn't seem like the sort of thing that enhances the viewing experience.
You don't explain Linux's stability because it's not stable on the desktop. Linux has a great reputation for stability because it's mainly installed on server equipment of at least moderate quality. Linux on the desktop is a disaster. Just as an example, yesterday I removed a FireWire DVD burner from my Linux computer and the kernel panicked. This is not uncommon. I can think of a dozen different ways to confuse Linux by adding or removing hardware.
Sim City 4 never worked right on Windows, either, so don't blame Aspyr too quickly. I bought the deluxe version of the game for Windows, installed it on my bog-standard computer running Windows 2000, and it just didn't do anything. If you double-clicked the application icon, absolutely nothing happened. That game was an embarrassment to the craft of computer programming.
Thanks for your insightful commentary. I was not trying and will not try to compare Jobs and Amelio (or Spindler) on their deeper impacts upon the structure and culture of Apple Computer, because I've never worked there and don't know anybody who did or does. I just wanted to throw a wrench into the Jobs hero-worshipping. From the perspective of actually moving product, Jobs is slightly better than Amelio. From the perspective of self-promotion and self-enrichment, Jobs is "insanely great".
I don't think you can give Amelio credit for bringing back Jobs. That was another sweet deal on Jobs part: he acquired Apple Computer for negative-four-hundred-million dollars. Incredible.
Under Jobs, Apple has only once, in the most recent quarter, surpassed Gil Amelio's revenue record. I think a fair way to look at Jobs is that he's a company builder and marketer whose ability to actually produce economic results is approximately on par with the best CEO from Apple's history.
Now, the Pixar thing, that was visionary. Jobs bought the company from its founder and previous owners for a song. That was a nice piece of dealing.
Your neat little worldview doesn't match reality. Neither side was "in power" when the regulations where passed. The latest and most significant restrictions were passed by a Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate, signed by a Democratic President, and approved by a split Supreme Court.
I'll grant them most of these entries, but Apache was clearly not the first free web server. NCSA httpd was the first, and Apache is a derivative of that. The two coexisted for a few years, during which period it was possible to switch between them without even changing the config file. I think NCSA httpd project finally expired around 1996.
Here's the thing. On television and radio, you can buy advertising time to the exclusion of the other party. This makes television and radio unlike "speech". No matter how much you speak, you can't keep the other guy from speaking. And no matter how much bandwidth you buy for your website, you can hardly expect to keep the next guy from opening his website.
Conclusion: Internet like speech. Television, radio unlike speech. Hence the reason the FEC regulates certain things and not others.
Reasonably stable. Ubuntu is 2 months and 1 week away from a release they plan to support for 5 years. I haven't had any real problems with it, just transient uninstallable packages.
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There's room for debate about what Hayden beleives, but if you were to ask me, I would say that, if a person cannot identify "probable cause" as the key concept of the 4th Amendment, that person is unqualified for any executive branch office.
--
GEN. HAYDEN: No, actually -- the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us against unreasonable search and seizure.
QUESTION: But the --
GEN. HAYDEN: That's what it says.
QUESTION: But the measure is probable cause, I believe.
GEN. HAYDEN: The amendment says unreasonable search and seizure.
QUESTION: But does it not say probable --
GEN. HAYDEN: No. The amendment says --
QUESTION: The court standard, the legal standard --
GEN. HAYDEN: -- unreasonable search and seizure.
QUESTION: The legal standard is probable cause, General.
It should be noted that Mr. Hayden, Bush's nominee to lead the CIA (after the hasty departure of the felonious Mr. Goss and his #3-in-command Mr. Foggo), recently stated in a press conference that the words "probable cause" do not appear in the 4th Amendment.
I'm somewhat inclined to agree with you. Although the thermal paste is grossly overapplied in this case, most of it is just squished out to the sides. if you study the photographs you will see that the layer on the chips and on the contact surface of the heatsink is relatively normal.
Still, the computer in question is not designed to cool itself entirely through case-air contact. It has two internal fans which move air over the internal heatsink. If the internal heatsink is working better, the case will be less hot.
Maybe someone can post a link to a page in the SomethingAwful forum where someone has measured the before and after using the computer's internal sensors.
This doesn't make sense because their volume is not up. As mentioned upthread, these laptops are manufactured by Asustek, and Asustek has a huge volume already.
All you can really conclude is that Asustek has poor quality controls, regardless of the brand under contract.
Naysayers can just please go away. Borrowing a car for an hour is not a complicated transaction. You reserve the car, walk up to it, wave your electronic key, and drive off. It's *EASY* and it *WORKS IN PRACTICE*. You can't argue with success.
All you naysayers are such geniuses! If only your keen business insight was around 10 years ago, you could have prevented City Car Share and Auto Share from the horrible failure of their current businesses!
Oh, wait.
To address your moronic "points", please note that, although the key is in the car, the car's ignition system is tied to an electronic key-card access system. So busting into the car to grab the key nets you nothing at all.
And the "no human in the loop" ignores all those humans in the loop. If you show up to take a car and it's damaged, you just note it in the log book. The car service figures out who was responsible later. And, the cars are inspected, serviced, and cleaned weekly by - surprise! - a human.
No, I was just going from the bare assertions made in the print edition of Soviet Military Power (1988).
Here's a pic of the installation from before 1988, courtesy of the Federation of American Scientists.
Since the site is a pile of smoldering wreckage, let's talk about something else: the web. Specifically, when did you start needed a database to serve up five static files?
Discuss amongst yourselves.
The dividing line seems to be which computers can run the latest Mac OS X and which cannot. The Pismo model PowerBook G3 is still relatively valuable (about $400) while the older models of the same laptop, which have the same CPU but lack FireWire ports and cannot run Tiger, are worth rather less.
But a beginner programmer has no effin' idea why he needs a "class" or any of that other crap. Every programmer needs to write trivial programs before they can understand the abstractions necessary for making more complex ones. For the same reason, you do not learn engineering by sitting down in front of a PRO/Engineer workstation. How can you understand finite element analysis and solid modelling if you haven't been to the workshop to break some bits of metal?
If you haven't tried it lately, writing a trivial program in Windows is practically impossible. Just try to write a program that draws on the screen or plays music (two things that you learned immediately on the C64).
You have to be kidding me. Kids cannot learn to program by learning a toolchain any more than they can learn to program by reading about the 7 habits of highly synergistic junior vice presidents of microsoft. That was/is why the C64 and platforms like it were/are the ideal platform for learning programming. The environment of such a computer is imperative. You can type a command and have that thing happen immediately. POKE $SOMETHING. Pen down; move to x,y. Why they heck would anyone want to learn to program in MS Visual Shitstain 15.1 when they could make something happen. The young programmer who writes uses a computer to move a Lego car is going to have a much more memorable experience than the one who "learns" to instantiate W32SomeClassWithAReallyLongNameThatsHardToReadOnTh eScreen(and, has, forty, two, arguments, and, no, discernable, reason, to, exist);
Due to the order in which redirection and pipeline construction is handled in the shell, your file "post" is now empty.
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C&C did have huge "replayability" i.e. addiction potential. I played it in 4-player LANs constantly. The original was hilariously unbalanced: Nod could build swarms of Nod Bikes and vast fields of Turrets at a tiny cost. GDI had no equivalent. But by the time the 1.22 version was patched up, the cost of Nod Bikes and Turrets was brought back in line with comparable GDI units.
:)
I hope they can come out with another C&C that is just plain fun, like the original. Looking back at C&C, the graphics are hilariously bad by modern standards, but you didn't notice it at the time. What you *did* notice was a half-dozen guys with hard hats and blueprints piling out of a stealth APC you didn't see coming, and putting your Mobile Construction Yard on the real estate market
That's great, but what does that have to do with Mr. Bezos? Are you saying he has been paid in straight shares? Because as far as I can tell from the company's SEC filings, that is not the case. Anyway the last thing Bezos needs is more shares of Amazon.com. He's the founder, and he already owns 25% of the company.
I see you've never been paid with incentive stock options. These are never free. The stock is granted at a certain strike price, which is normally the market price on the day of the grant. The grantee must pay this price per share to exercise the option. Therefore, after the exercise, the stock behaves exactly like a regular investment. However, the grantee owes a substantial tax payment immediately upon exercising the option, even if the shares are not sold. This is why incentive stock options can sometimes be more risky than simply buying shares.
Anyway, I think even you can see that the CEO in this scenario is going to make squat if the share price does not increase, therefore he has an incentive to make the share price go up, which aligns his self-interest with that of the other shareholders.
One of the screenshots on the AVS Forum shows the Toshiba displaying an EULA on boot. That doesn't seem like the sort of thing that enhances the viewing experience.
You don't explain Linux's stability because it's not stable on the desktop. Linux has a great reputation for stability because it's mainly installed on server equipment of at least moderate quality. Linux on the desktop is a disaster. Just as an example, yesterday I removed a FireWire DVD burner from my Linux computer and the kernel panicked. This is not uncommon. I can think of a dozen different ways to confuse Linux by adding or removing hardware.
Sim City 4 never worked right on Windows, either, so don't blame Aspyr too quickly. I bought the deluxe version of the game for Windows, installed it on my bog-standard computer running Windows 2000, and it just didn't do anything. If you double-clicked the application icon, absolutely nothing happened. That game was an embarrassment to the craft of computer programming.
Thanks for your insightful commentary. I was not trying and will not try to compare Jobs and Amelio (or Spindler) on their deeper impacts upon the structure and culture of Apple Computer, because I've never worked there and don't know anybody who did or does. I just wanted to throw a wrench into the Jobs hero-worshipping. From the perspective of actually moving product, Jobs is slightly better than Amelio. From the perspective of self-promotion and self-enrichment, Jobs is "insanely great".
I don't think you can give Amelio credit for bringing back Jobs. That was another sweet deal on Jobs part: he acquired Apple Computer for negative-four-hundred-million dollars. Incredible.
Under Jobs, Apple has only once, in the most recent quarter, surpassed Gil Amelio's revenue record. I think a fair way to look at Jobs is that he's a company builder and marketer whose ability to actually produce economic results is approximately on par with the best CEO from Apple's history.
Now, the Pixar thing, that was visionary. Jobs bought the company from its founder and previous owners for a song. That was a nice piece of dealing.
Your neat little worldview doesn't match reality. Neither side was "in power" when the regulations where passed. The latest and most significant restrictions were passed by a Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate, signed by a Democratic President, and approved by a split Supreme Court.
I'll grant them most of these entries, but Apache was clearly not the first free web server. NCSA httpd was the first, and Apache is a derivative of that. The two coexisted for a few years, during which period it was possible to switch between them without even changing the config file. I think NCSA httpd project finally expired around 1996.
Here's the thing. On television and radio, you can buy advertising time to the exclusion of the other party. This makes television and radio unlike "speech". No matter how much you speak, you can't keep the other guy from speaking. And no matter how much bandwidth you buy for your website, you can hardly expect to keep the next guy from opening his website.
Conclusion: Internet like speech. Television, radio unlike speech. Hence the reason the FEC regulates certain things and not others.
Reasonably stable. Ubuntu is 2 months and 1 week away from a release they plan to support for 5 years. I haven't had any real problems with it, just transient uninstallable packages.