I doubt that there systems will be on the public internet, and I doubt that the users of these systems will be allowed to install or run any of their own software. Since most of the security enhancements deal with that kind of thing, they aren't going to make much of a difference in this environment. As for stability, I have not found Windows 2000 to be any worse than XP/2003, possibly slightly better, but its hard to say exactly. Besides, take a look at the Xbox - it runs a stripped down version of Windows 2000 and it doesn't suffer from the same problems that its desktop version does, and that's closer to what the Navy is going to use, not the full blown desktop OS.
And I don't get the reactions from people who I tell that I don't have a TV. Much like the original poster, I don't say it's evil or anything, though I do believe that there are a good number of people who watch too much of it. I just find that TV is a lousy source of information, and a lousy source of entertainment. I might watch a little, but I cannot justify the cost of cable/satellite for what would amount to a few hours a month, so I just do without instead. If you enjoy it, fine. Just don't call me a freak or something because I don't.
Pretty much. While I don't think the bug in Windows 95 was intentional, the "fix" sure seemed like an attempt to intentionally obsolete Windows 95 and push people to to 98.
Probably because Iran has openly stated its desire to wipe Israel off the map should it ever have the means to do so. I'm not a big fan of US foreign policy, but I don't recall them ever making such statements.
On the other hand, the US has declared Iran to be part of the "Axis of Evil". While it's not clear exactly what that means, one of the three countries in the Axis of Evil has been invaded by the US and its government toppled.
That patch was kind of annoying. It had to be installed while in Windows. When it came out, it was Ok because faster AMD CPUs would only fail to boot some of the time. By the time the K6-3 rolled out, it would fail to boot every time. Which meant that you couldn't get into Windows to apply the patch. I had to resort to applying the patch to an older machine, figuring out what files it modified, then copying those files over to my K6-3 machine.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist when it comes to PC operating systems, not everything they make. For example, the XBox is a fancy computer that's heavily locked down like the iPhone, but Microsoft gets a free pass with it for the most part. What's your point?
Well, the Macbook Pro is the cheapest laptop in Apple's line up that offers a decent sized screen, and doesn't use integrated graphics. And it costs $2000. I didn't want to spend that kind of money to get what I want, so I bought a PC laptop for hundreds less. Sure, I may not have features like a built in iSight camera, but those are features I don't want to spend any money on anyway so it's no big deal. The "build the equilivent" game works both ways. Many times, to get all the features that a mid range or even lower end PC has in an Apple, you have to buy a higher end Apple machine costing a lot more.
Wrong. Well, sort of. Enterprise class RAID chassies also leave room between the drives so the heat can escape. It may not be a full drive width, but it's usually a centimeter or so. Regular PC cases often just put them right on top of each other, which means the drives get hot. Spacing them out every other bay in this case is just common sense. Alternatively, just get those 5.25" to 3.5" kits and install them in the 5.25" bays, that way there is plenty of air around the drives.
The thing is, with a RAID set up you typically have a bunch of the same model of drive, usually bought at the same time from the same supplier, and have been running for the same amount of time in the same conditions. If some flaw takes down one drive, the chances of another drive going down for the same reason is a lot more likely than you might think.
But Cisco did have the iPhone in 2000, and that was before most the "iTems" in your list. Besides, Cisco got the iPhone from when they bought Infogear, who was shipping iPhones back in 1997, before even the iMac. I don't follow how Apple should have control over the iPhone trademark just because they also have a bunch of other products that start with the letter i.
It's not really the same at all. In the case of this guy hacking into someone's computer, the hacker could have pretty easily planted the images on the computer. The hacker basically admitted that he had complete access to the guy's PC for quite a while. If the judge wanted to defend himself, this would likely be the first thing would point out. It would be more like you claiming that a house you had broken into had drugs hidden in it, and you knew this because you had access to the house for some time because you copied the owner's spare key.
I've also installed Vista on a 5 year old system, a P4 1.5Ghz with 1GB of memory. With it's 5 year old GeForce2 video card, I didn't get Aero, but it ran well enough that you could get stuff done with it and not get annoyed.
If you have any evidence that global warming trends are going to change suddenly, please present it. Otherwise, you are bringing little to the debate, other than "OMG you can never be totally certain, so they may still be wrong!!!". In other words, it's just disagreement for the sake of disagreeing, until you can come up with a logical arguement to the contrary. Things like coming out of an ice age, even a little ice age - are not going to suddenly change things in the short term. Geological events happen in time spans that involve tens of thousands and millions of years. In other words, if recent trends are part of a long trend, it's going to continue like it is now as far as human timescales are concerned. If recent warming trends are due to human activity, they are almost certainly going to continue unless we dramatically change our behavior. And even if the planet stopped warming tomorrow, we would still have to deal with things like disappearing glaciers and strange weather until things come back into equilibrum. I may not be absolutely certain, but I'm over 95% certain that things will continue to warm like they have been, barring some catastrophe like a major volcano. And I feel that's good enough that we should act upon it.
Tinier nitpick: That's not always true. Take 5 people, with incomes of $10, $30, $30, $30, and $60. Median income is $30, but only 20% of our population makes less than median.
It's already trivially cheap. A few gigs of flash and a couple cheap cameras is well under the deductable on my insurance. And if it is useful only once in showing that an accident was not my fault, its paid for itself. The only step left is to figure out how to get the pieces working together the way I want it to, and to get them in the car.
Of course, the land may be claimed, but if it's undefended, the claim is fairly weak as anyone can claim to own a hunk of rock in the middle of nowhere. To really own it, you have to have a presence in the area so you can keep others off of your territory. Hans Island is a good example of a mostly worthless uninhabited hunk of rock which is claimed by atleast two nations, none of which actually seem to interested enough in it to keep a constant presence in the area to back up their claim.
You could simply set up shop somewhere on some uninhabited island, and it would pretty much become yours unless the government that claims it (or someone else) actually decides to go to the trouble of visiting the island with enough force to throw you off of it. That's more or less how Sealand came to be anyway, as England didn't seem interested enough in their old radar outposts to keep squatters off of them.
I cant think of any type of being known to man that doesn't expand at the limit that their resources allow them to. If beings like that exist on Earth, they are in the great minority.
The reason why you don't see them is because any being like that they are long extinct - forced out by all the other species which do reproduce and compete for the same resources. If such a race of beings exist, they must have certainly have no competition (or live in some kind of a place with unexhaustable resources).
On the other hand, I would hope that soon anyone offered a cut of the "profits" would laugh in the face of whoever is making the deal and tell them to go screw themselves. However, knowing the MAFIAA types, they would likely move onto some other trick which would work until people catch on, etc.
On the other hand, the people who disclaim global warming should be modded down. All they do is give the appearance of a debate, when in actuality, there isn't. Global warming is a fact, and to say otherwise is to go against years of climate data. Global warming is real, its effects are real. To deny it is akin to saying the world is flat. It's just simply not true.
Of course, we still haven't determined why the planet is warming. It could be a natural cycle. It could be due to human activity. It's most likely some combination of both. Some people seem to think that if they can "prove" that is due some kind of natural phenomenon, that they can declare some kind of victory. I don't get this viewpoint at all - the planet is warming, the effects are real regardless of cause, the question is (and this is place for opinions): What are we going to do about it?
No, we want the MPAA to hang because we see that they abuse the legal system and use mafia-like tactics to extort money out of people who are caught violating copyright. How it happens is not so important, but to be able to hang them for a violating copyright themselves does have a bit of irony to it.
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I doubt that there systems will be on the public internet, and I doubt that the users of these systems will be allowed to install or run any of their own software. Since most of the security enhancements deal with that kind of thing, they aren't going to make much of a difference in this environment. As for stability, I have not found Windows 2000 to be any worse than XP/2003, possibly slightly better, but its hard to say exactly. Besides, take a look at the Xbox - it runs a stripped down version of Windows 2000 and it doesn't suffer from the same problems that its desktop version does, and that's closer to what the Navy is going to use, not the full blown desktop OS.
And I don't get the reactions from people who I tell that I don't have a TV. Much like the original poster, I don't say it's evil or anything, though I do believe that there are a good number of people who watch too much of it. I just find that TV is a lousy source of information, and a lousy source of entertainment. I might watch a little, but I cannot justify the cost of cable/satellite for what would amount to a few hours a month, so I just do without instead. If you enjoy it, fine. Just don't call me a freak or something because I don't.
Pretty much. While I don't think the bug in Windows 95 was intentional, the "fix" sure seemed like an attempt to intentionally obsolete Windows 95 and push people to to 98.
Probably because Iran has openly stated its desire to wipe Israel off the map should it ever have the means to do so. I'm not a big fan of US foreign policy, but I don't recall them ever making such statements.
On the other hand, the US has declared Iran to be part of the "Axis of Evil". While it's not clear exactly what that means, one of the three countries in the Axis of Evil has been invaded by the US and its government toppled.
That patch was kind of annoying. It had to be installed while in Windows. When it came out, it was Ok because faster AMD CPUs would only fail to boot some of the time. By the time the K6-3 rolled out, it would fail to boot every time. Which meant that you couldn't get into Windows to apply the patch. I had to resort to applying the patch to an older machine, figuring out what files it modified, then copying those files over to my K6-3 machine.
There's a reason even the asshats at RIAA haven't gone this far.
Sony rootkit anyone? Though I'm going to guess that the RIAA won't try that again soon.
You're forgetting the forth type of person, the Winona Ryders of the world who can afford it, but steal it anyway.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist when it comes to PC operating systems, not everything they make. For example, the XBox is a fancy computer that's heavily locked down like the iPhone, but Microsoft gets a free pass with it for the most part. What's your point?
Well, the Macbook Pro is the cheapest laptop in Apple's line up that offers a decent sized screen, and doesn't use integrated graphics. And it costs $2000. I didn't want to spend that kind of money to get what I want, so I bought a PC laptop for hundreds less. Sure, I may not have features like a built in iSight camera, but those are features I don't want to spend any money on anyway so it's no big deal. The "build the equilivent" game works both ways. Many times, to get all the features that a mid range or even lower end PC has in an Apple, you have to buy a higher end Apple machine costing a lot more.
Wrong. Well, sort of. Enterprise class RAID chassies also leave room between the drives so the heat can escape. It may not be a full drive width, but it's usually a centimeter or so. Regular PC cases often just put them right on top of each other, which means the drives get hot. Spacing them out every other bay in this case is just common sense. Alternatively, just get those 5.25" to 3.5" kits and install them in the 5.25" bays, that way there is plenty of air around the drives.
The thing is, with a RAID set up you typically have a bunch of the same model of drive, usually bought at the same time from the same supplier, and have been running for the same amount of time in the same conditions. If some flaw takes down one drive, the chances of another drive going down for the same reason is a lot more likely than you might think.
In other words, have backups.
But Cisco did have the iPhone in 2000, and that was before most the "iTems" in your list. Besides, Cisco got the iPhone from when they bought Infogear, who was shipping iPhones back in 1997, before even the iMac. I don't follow how Apple should have control over the iPhone trademark just because they also have a bunch of other products that start with the letter i.
It's not really the same at all. In the case of this guy hacking into someone's computer, the hacker could have pretty easily planted the images on the computer. The hacker basically admitted that he had complete access to the guy's PC for quite a while. If the judge wanted to defend himself, this would likely be the first thing would point out. It would be more like you claiming that a house you had broken into had drugs hidden in it, and you knew this because you had access to the house for some time because you copied the owner's spare key.
I've also installed Vista on a 5 year old system, a P4 1.5Ghz with 1GB of memory. With it's 5 year old GeForce2 video card, I didn't get Aero, but it ran well enough that you could get stuff done with it and not get annoyed.
Hard to say, that's simply a horrible picture in terms of the lighting.
If you have any evidence that global warming trends are going to change suddenly, please present it. Otherwise, you are bringing little to the debate, other than "OMG you can never be totally certain, so they may still be wrong!!!". In other words, it's just disagreement for the sake of disagreeing, until you can come up with a logical arguement to the contrary. Things like coming out of an ice age, even a little ice age - are not going to suddenly change things in the short term. Geological events happen in time spans that involve tens of thousands and millions of years. In other words, if recent trends are part of a long trend, it's going to continue like it is now as far as human timescales are concerned. If recent warming trends are due to human activity, they are almost certainly going to continue unless we dramatically change our behavior. And even if the planet stopped warming tomorrow, we would still have to deal with things like disappearing glaciers and strange weather until things come back into equilibrum. I may not be absolutely certain, but I'm over 95% certain that things will continue to warm like they have been, barring some catastrophe like a major volcano. And I feel that's good enough that we should act upon it.
Fine, make it $10, $30, $30, $35, and $60. Now the median is still $30, but 40% make more, and 20% make less.
Tinier nitpick: That's not always true. Take 5 people, with incomes of $10, $30, $30, $30, and $60. Median income is $30, but only 20% of our population makes less than median.
It's already trivially cheap. A few gigs of flash and a couple cheap cameras is well under the deductable on my insurance. And if it is useful only once in showing that an accident was not my fault, its paid for itself. The only step left is to figure out how to get the pieces working together the way I want it to, and to get them in the car.
Dude, you're arguing with a guy who's screenname is "Logic and Reason". I don't think you're going to win this one.
Of course, the land may be claimed, but if it's undefended, the claim is fairly weak as anyone can claim to own a hunk of rock in the middle of nowhere. To really own it, you have to have a presence in the area so you can keep others off of your territory. Hans Island is a good example of a mostly worthless uninhabited hunk of rock which is claimed by atleast two nations, none of which actually seem to interested enough in it to keep a constant presence in the area to back up their claim.
You could simply set up shop somewhere on some uninhabited island, and it would pretty much become yours unless the government that claims it (or someone else) actually decides to go to the trouble of visiting the island with enough force to throw you off of it. That's more or less how Sealand came to be anyway, as England didn't seem interested enough in their old radar outposts to keep squatters off of them.
I cant think of any type of being known to man that doesn't expand at the limit that their resources allow them to. If beings like that exist on Earth, they are in the great minority.
The reason why you don't see them is because any being like that they are long extinct - forced out by all the other species which do reproduce and compete for the same resources. If such a race of beings exist, they must have certainly have no competition (or live in some kind of a place with unexhaustable resources).
On the other hand, I would hope that soon anyone offered a cut of the "profits" would laugh in the face of whoever is making the deal and tell them to go screw themselves. However, knowing the MAFIAA types, they would likely move onto some other trick which would work until people catch on, etc.
On the other hand, the people who disclaim global warming should be modded down. All they do is give the appearance of a debate, when in actuality, there isn't. Global warming is a fact, and to say otherwise is to go against years of climate data. Global warming is real, its effects are real. To deny it is akin to saying the world is flat. It's just simply not true.
Of course, we still haven't determined why the planet is warming. It could be a natural cycle. It could be due to human activity. It's most likely some combination of both. Some people seem to think that if they can "prove" that is due some kind of natural phenomenon, that they can declare some kind of victory. I don't get this viewpoint at all - the planet is warming, the effects are real regardless of cause, the question is (and this is place for opinions): What are we going to do about it?
No, we want the MPAA to hang because we see that they abuse the legal system and use mafia-like tactics to extort money out of people who are caught violating copyright. How it happens is not so important, but to be able to hang them for a violating copyright themselves does have a bit of irony to it.