How about the fact that the vipers used attitudinal (sp?) jets but the cylons seemed not to need them (or for that matter any other form of propulsion). Maybe I missed it but why was it the cylons could turn on a dime but the vipers had trouble to even keep formation?
Ok, let's put aside the possibility of hacker attacks to the system or even hijackers getting access to hazmat trucks.
What of the question of safety systems on the satellites? One or more of the units gets whacked by a micro-meteor and shorts out. Now you have the possibility of trucks being shut down over a wide area on interstates, local roads, wherever and causing accidents (i.e. cars/trucks slamming into the now disabled hazmat vehicles, or the drivers losing control and slamming into bridges...).
Think of all the hazmat all over the roads where these accidents have occurred. Do we have enough skilled clean-up crews available for such a possibility?
Imagine the implications for Internet/Intranet applications running off application servers. The company I work for (and the group I work in) has many web-based java applications that access customer data from a database (I know, this describes many businesses). The issues we come across no longer deal with processors being the bottleneck, but memory. If this MRAM stuff comes into production, this will vastly improve the performance of data-intensive applications.
So it won't be merely IBM and Sun that benefit from the technology, but all their customers as well.
Let's not lose focus of what is the real issue. It's not the fact that the distros aren't including certain bells and whistles, but because of that fact that wide-spread adoption remains slow. If you put a desktop into your corporate environment, the users don't have much to say about it. But if you make the desktop usable and friendly, the users will like it, get to know it quicker, and more likely want to use it at home - because that's what they get used to.
MS knew this from the beginning. They didn't just happen to put a few games into their system. It was to get the users used to point-and-click operations and thought processes.
In order for Linux distros to become more mainstream, they need to be more acceptable to Joe Q. User to the point they will be willing to invite it into their home(s).
Try this, unplug the offending users PC from the network. When they complain that they can't access any of the systems they need to, explain to them that thier machine was causing network slowdowns and that, by unplugging the PC from the net, the overall performance has gone back up and YOUR systems are now working just fine.
Then tell them you'll allow them back on when they fix the virus on their system.
Perhaps the large devices mentioned in the article are annouced as a feint to the real devices (smart dust). Picture the enemy finding all these deployed (large) devices in the field and shooting them or stealing them but missing the real comm devices.
Not to say that the larger units are fakes, no reason to deploy something that doesn't work. But if the enemy thinks it has all the large devices accounted for, then it wont go looking for something smaller that might be doing the work too.
With all the advances we've been seeing in CF, SD, memory stick, memory sizes, why would anyone go with a HD that takes more power to run and would degrade your battery life?
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It would seem you have some unresolved hostility.
You might want to get that checked.
Are you saying that the telemarketer/business owner is not responsible for his/her actions?
That's like saying let's all charge Smith and Wesson for murder because some guy bought one of their guns and shot someone (not knowing it was against the law, so it's OK).
Please, ignorance of the law doesn't hold up in any court.
Let's not forget that IBM PC company themselves chose to preload M$ because they thought they couldn't compete with the other PC manufacturers. There was a point (however brief) in time when IBM had the business market in it's hands, as far as PCs were concerned, and could have pushed OS/2 into every corporate cubicle just by preloading if for free.
Following the M$ model, having the OS at work would've caused consumers to want it at home as well for the familiarity. This would've brought more developers into the fray and could've given M$ some real competition.
The PC company choose not to and promptly shot its OS company between the eyes.
I have to disagree here... I'm not sure what "percentage" of the population I'm in here, but I've worked with computers for 14 years now and still enjoy PC gaming when I get home.
Granted I can only do so after the kids are in bed and the wife is not requiring my attention. But I do get a couple of games in a week for stress relief.
I prefer the title "Sir"... as in "please Sir, can you fix my system?" or, "I know I shouldn't have typed in 'Format', but could you find it in your heart to help me Sir?"
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If MS designed buildings: 30% of the time, you put your key in the front door and the whole house collapses, causing you to rebuild.
As if politicians could keep quiet about anything?
How about the fact that the vipers used attitudinal (sp?) jets but the cylons seemed not to need them (or for that matter any other form of propulsion). Maybe I missed it but why was it the cylons could turn on a dime but the vipers had trouble to even keep formation?
Or they themselves will become the transistors! Millions of engineers standing or sitting depending upon the state of 1 or 0.
What of the question of safety systems on the satellites? One or more of the units gets whacked by a micro-meteor and shorts out. Now you have the possibility of trucks being shut down over a wide area on interstates, local roads, wherever and causing accidents (i.e. cars/trucks slamming into the now disabled hazmat vehicles, or the drivers losing control and slamming into bridges...).
Think of all the hazmat all over the roads where these accidents have occurred. Do we have enough skilled clean-up crews available for such a possibility?
So it won't be merely IBM and Sun that benefit from the technology, but all their customers as well.
MS knew this from the beginning. They didn't just happen to put a few games into their system. It was to get the users used to point-and-click operations and thought processes.
In order for Linux distros to become more mainstream, they need to be more acceptable to Joe Q. User to the point they will be willing to invite it into their home(s).
Wow, I thought I was the only one who read that series!
Will the overhead screens in each classroom be blue?
You announce (loudly) that you will be arresting someone.
All the script kiddies that might be involved panic and start making arrangements to leave the country.
Viola, you start gathering up the suspects!
Then tell them you'll allow them back on when they fix the virus on their system.
Not to say that the larger units are fakes, no reason to deploy something that doesn't work. But if the enemy thinks it has all the large devices accounted for, then it wont go looking for something smaller that might be doing the work too.
Maybe they were bouncing the signal off the sun?
Takes War Chalking (or Driving) to a new/easier level.
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It would seem you have some unresolved hostility. You might want to get that checked.
Could it be possible for such an open-minded country to have such a closed system? Surely you jest.
That's like saying let's all charge Smith and Wesson for murder because some guy bought one of their guns and shot someone (not knowing it was against the law, so it's OK).
Please, ignorance of the law doesn't hold up in any court.
Unless, of course, you upgraded to the newest JDK and then it would fill and empty the door while opening and closing the garbage all day.
Following the M$ model, having the OS at work would've caused consumers to want it at home as well for the familiarity. This would've brought more developers into the fray and could've given M$ some real competition.
The PC company choose not to and promptly shot its OS company between the eyes.
Granted I can only do so after the kids are in bed and the wife is not requiring my attention. But I do get a couple of games in a week for stress relief.
Pardon my attitude, but I'll wait until the other shoe drops... then use Linux anyway .
See, it's simple!
Actually, It's aliens taking our picture and you just saw the flash. I hope they got my good side!
The problem with that, is Win2k is supposedly built on "NT technology" so you'll never see that source.