They have missiles thought to be capable of hitting in South Korea and Japan. Hitting South Korea is a no-brainer, they have SCUD type missles with a 300+ mile range that can pretty much cover it. Japan is only ~650 miles away, and they have tested a satellite launching rocket that went far past that distance.
And if the UN attacks North Korea, the batshit insane leader will start lobbing nukes.
Unfortunately the world is a little more complex than you'd make out. Yes, leaders of both places are evil. The consequences for attacking one can be vastly different than that for another. It sucks, but that's reality.
It's not a problem. You sell cruises to rednecks on decoy target ships armed with.50 cal machine guns. You could cover the whole coast in good 'ol boys paying for the chance to smoke some pirates with their buddies. The solution will pay for itself.
Don't forget the shady stuff the maker of NoScript tried just 2 years ago. He silently killed part of AdBlock on comuters it was installed on, and obfuscated what he was doing. The shit really hit the fan before he started backpedaling and reversed his position. I don't trust the guy.
You kind of missed playing a game. Need For Speed, Hawk, etc, tend to need a bit of CPU. I'd like a core for that itself while all the other stuff is handled by another core.
You mean YOUR smartphone workloads are inherently serial. I'm streaming Pandora, while playing a video game, while receiving notifications that new email is arriving, new SMS messages coming in, while waiting on the batch files to finish running in my ssh session to my server at work.
You are missing the point. No, you can't see well reading text on the bottom of the screen while focusing at the top. Neither is your color discrimination going to be as good for that text at the bottom of the screen. That's because the eye doesn't have many cones except in the central area. The periphery is mainly rods. And while rods aren't great for color, etc, they are spectacular at motion detection. So no, you can't read that text way over to the side while focusing your attention on something directly in front of you, but you can see movement over on the side. Which may alert you that someone is moving over there, or there is an incoming missile over there, or any number of things which may be important information to have.
Depends on the carrier, and the phone. Verizon had a deal for a while with free tethering with a Palm Pre Plus or Pixie Plus, but not for a lot of other phones.
You might want to check out some newspapers sometime, or any actual news channel (a.k.a. not FAUX News). We had this little thing called a 'banking crisis' a little while ago. Banks did a lot of bad things. It was bad. You might have noticed people talking about having to bail out a whole mess of the largest banks in the country before they failed, and a lot of other nasty stuff that people who read the news learned about.
Conventional wisdom among economists, and not FAUX news pundants, is that high levels of goverment spending is the most likely way to avoid, or pull the economy out of a major depression.
Obama is spending to try stave off another Great Depression brought on by deregulation and shenanigans pulled by a previous administration that started 2 wars and tried to keep them off the books.
Then you are asking for a gesture from the film makers, not us scientists. They are the ones that have the say as to what goes into their film. Slashdot isn't probably the best forum for a request to film makers.
Yep. Just to give more background for the young-uns, I was a very young school kid in the 70's. We were told to learn the metric system and get used to it, because before we were out of high school, the country was going to be converted over entirely to the metric system.
That proclamation from our teachers was after congress passed The Metric Conversion Act in 1975. They created the U.S. Metric Board to oversee the conversion.
1979 - The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms required wine producers/importers to switch to metric.
1980 - The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms required required distilled spirits producers/importers to switch to metric.
1982 - Reagan disbands the Metric Board, and fires everyone associated with it.
So we have Reagan to thank for our reliance on an outdated system of measurement. As well as the new trend for Republicans to deficit spend like mad, ballooning the National Debts as never before, and getting religious nut wings involved in politics like never before.
Maybe it's time for the professors as a whole to grow the hell upMaybe it's time for the professors as a whole to grow the hell up.
Or maybe it's time for morons to realize what professors actually do for a living. Sometimes you take weeks or months of your 'spare' time writing grants. You get a score in the top 6% in your field like my friend just did, and it still didn't make the cutoff for funding in his area. So all that time essentially went down the drain. Now he's writing another grant, to try to keep funding for his technicians, post-docs and graduate students. Oh, and he teaches classes in addition to all the other mentoring duties he has. Then of course there's writing papers for peer review publications. Those things that actually add to your CV and get you recognition in your field.
Think he really wants to spend extra hours of his precious time editing a wiki page, when a 12-year old with an attitude who has been on the wiki longer can just reject his edits or change them? Think again.
Hmm, what do they mean by 'in the areas most likely to be affected by a catastrophe: Japan, Asia, and the US.'?
Europe has a lot of nuclear reactors. So does Russia.
Do they mean the US is likely to be affected by Japan's current problem reactor site?
Hopefully folks who own a Geiger counter know enough to not be worried about it being a problem for the US. Is the author one of the overhyping idiots that think the 'higher' levels of radiation in Tokyo, which are still lower than those normally occurring in Denver or Mexico City, are a danger?
They were helping the troops. The helped POWs, they helped with medical aid.
Coffee and donuts were another way for them to get funds for the other aid. Coffee and donuts weren't supposed to be taken as the aid.
You might check out the Red Cross's page on what they think their achievements and important works were.
Let's see...
Service at Military Installations
emergency communications that kept military personnel in touch with their families,
financial assistance in the form of interest-free loans and grants for emergency purposes,
verification of the need for emergency leave by reporting to military authorities the findings of home chapters regarding emergencies so the military could make decisions about granting or denying leave,
counsel and advice concerning personal problems,
comfort items, kits, reading material, and other supplies.
Service in Military Hospitals
communications services, including a free "first-call-home" for the wounded to contact family members,
morale support to the wounded,
help with personal and family problems,
social work support for hospitalized servicemen,
medically approved recreational activities,
financial aid,
distribution of envelopes and sheets of paper for correspondence.
Home Service
counseling for personal and family problems,
an emergency link between a distantly stationed man and his family in order to keep the family together and informed during a crisis,
assistance with applications for government benefits,
financial assistance,
referral of family members to other community sources for specialized aid not provided by the Red Cross.
You'll note, they never mentioned providing coffee and donuts...
No, what the internet excels at is spreading of myths and FUD by people who can't be bothered to get the basic facts straight before 'going viral on some punks'. This is a nice example of that. Read the post above yours.
I wasn't aware a function of the Red Cross was to give coffee and donuts to soldiers. I thought the army/navy/air force/marines were supposed to feed them.
I thought the red cross was supposed to supply food/medicine in emergencies or to POWs. Wanting coffee and a donut is not an emergency.
I don't put much stock in your grandfathers preferences there.
Ahh, for mobile it's an entirely different story. Most folks buy a phone for a heavy discount from their carrier in turn for signing a (usually 2-year) contract.
There are a few folks who buy phones (usually unlocked) outright and separately get a phone contract, or go month-to-month, but they are in the vast, vast minority because unlocked phones do little good for you in the U.S..
We have 4 major wireless carriers. 2 use GSM technology like the rest of the world, the other 2 use CDMA. Since phones are usually either GSM or CDMA, you can't migrate from one group to the other at all because the technolgies are totally incompatible.
To make matters worse, the 2 GSM carriers use different frequencies for 3G data, so if you move from one carrier to the other, suddenly the best you will ever do for data speeds is EDGE. yuck. Of course, that will be little worry now, because the big GSM carrier (ATT) just bought the smaller one (T-Mobile)
As for the CDMA carriers (Sprint, Verizon), they often don't want to activate a phone that was built for the other CDMA carrier. Sometimes you can get them to do it, but it's often a hassle, sometimes they just won't.
If you have a landline, you pay for that line of phone service. If you want to attach 1 phone to the line, that's fine. If you want to attach 5 different phones to that line, one in each of 5 different rooms in your home for more convienience, that's fine, just buy the phones and hook them up. There's no change to your line agreement/price depending on the number of phones hooked up to it.
Back in the day, you had to pay rent to Ma Bell for each of the 5 phones, because you weren't allowed to buy them.
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They have missiles thought to be capable of hitting in South Korea and Japan. Hitting South Korea is a no-brainer, they have SCUD type missles with a 300+ mile range that can pretty much cover it. Japan is only ~650 miles away, and they have tested a satellite launching rocket that went far past that distance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8134388.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/world/asia/06korea.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/05korea.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31728902/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/s-korea-n-korea-missiles-can-hit-key-targets/
And if the UN attacks North Korea, the batshit insane leader will start lobbing nukes.
Unfortunately the world is a little more complex than you'd make out. Yes, leaders of both places are evil. The consequences for attacking one can be vastly different than that for another. It sucks, but that's reality.
MS's policy is 2x that of LTS.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
It's not a problem. You sell cruises to rednecks on decoy target ships armed with .50 cal machine guns. You could cover the whole coast in good 'ol boys paying for the chance to smoke some pirates with their buddies. The solution will pay for itself.
Don't forget the shady stuff the maker of NoScript tried just 2 years ago. He silently killed part of AdBlock on comuters it was installed on, and obfuscated what he was doing. The shit really hit the fan before he started backpedaling and reversed his position. I don't trust the guy.
http://www.techjaws.com/the-noscript-controversy/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/app-security/217201461
I don't have an iphone.
You kind of missed playing a game. Need For Speed, Hawk, etc, tend to need a bit of CPU. I'd like a core for that itself while all the other stuff is handled by another core.
You mean YOUR smartphone workloads are inherently serial. I'm streaming Pandora, while playing a video game, while receiving notifications that new email is arriving, new SMS messages coming in, while waiting on the batch files to finish running in my ssh session to my server at work.
You are missing the point. No, you can't see well reading text on the bottom of the screen while focusing at the top. Neither is your color discrimination going to be as good for that text at the bottom of the screen. That's because the eye doesn't have many cones except in the central area. The periphery is mainly rods. And while rods aren't great for color, etc, they are spectacular at motion detection. So no, you can't read that text way over to the side while focusing your attention on something directly in front of you, but you can see movement over on the side. Which may alert you that someone is moving over there, or there is an incoming missile over there, or any number of things which may be important information to have.
Depends on the carrier, and the phone. Verizon had a deal for a while with free tethering with a Palm Pre Plus or Pixie Plus, but not for a lot of other phones.
You might want to check out some newspapers sometime, or any actual news channel (a.k.a. not FAUX News). We had this little thing called a 'banking crisis' a little while ago. Banks did a lot of bad things. It was bad. You might have noticed people talking about having to bail out a whole mess of the largest banks in the country before they failed, and a lot of other nasty stuff that people who read the news learned about.
Conventional wisdom among economists, and not FAUX news pundants, is that high levels of goverment spending is the most likely way to avoid, or pull the economy out of a major depression.
http://www.edinformatics.com/investor_education/us_debt.htm
Where does it start skyrocketing? Reagan.
http://www.lafn.org/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart-2004.gif
Obama is spending to try stave off another Great Depression brought on by deregulation and shenanigans pulled by a previous administration that started 2 wars and tried to keep them off the books.
Then you are asking for a gesture from the film makers, not us scientists. They are the ones that have the say as to what goes into their film. Slashdot isn't probably the best forum for a request to film makers.
Yep. Just to give more background for the young-uns, I was a very young school kid in the 70's. We were told to learn the metric system and get used to it, because before we were out of high school, the country was going to be converted over entirely to the metric system.
That proclamation from our teachers was after congress passed The Metric Conversion Act in 1975. They created the U.S. Metric Board to oversee the conversion.
1979 - The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms required wine producers/importers to switch to metric.
1980 - The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms required required distilled spirits producers/importers to switch to metric.
1982 - Reagan disbands the Metric Board, and fires everyone associated with it.
So we have Reagan to thank for our reliance on an outdated system of measurement. As well as the new trend for Republicans to deficit spend like mad, ballooning the National Debts as never before, and getting religious nut wings involved in politics like never before.
Maybe it's time for the professors as a whole to grow the hell upMaybe it's time for the professors as a whole to grow the hell up.
Or maybe it's time for morons to realize what professors actually do for a living. Sometimes you take weeks or months of your 'spare' time writing grants. You get a score in the top 6% in your field like my friend just did, and it still didn't make the cutoff for funding in his area. So all that time essentially went down the drain. Now he's writing another grant, to try to keep funding for his technicians, post-docs and graduate students. Oh, and he teaches classes in addition to all the other mentoring duties he has. Then of course there's writing papers for peer review publications. Those things that actually add to your CV and get you recognition in your field.
Think he really wants to spend extra hours of his precious time editing a wiki page, when a 12-year old with an attitude who has been on the wiki longer can just reject his edits or change them? Think again.
Hmm, what do they mean by 'in the areas most likely to be affected by a catastrophe: Japan, Asia, and the US.'?
Europe has a lot of nuclear reactors. So does Russia.
Do they mean the US is likely to be affected by Japan's current problem reactor site?
Hopefully folks who own a Geiger counter know enough to not be worried about it being a problem for the US. Is the author one of the overhyping idiots that think the 'higher' levels of radiation in Tokyo, which are still lower than those normally occurring in Denver or Mexico City, are a danger?
And my great uncle would disagree with you.
Coffee and donuts were another way for them to get funds for the other aid. Coffee and donuts weren't supposed to be taken as the aid.
You might check out the Red Cross's page on what they think their achievements and important works were.
Let's see...
Service at Military Installations
Service in Military Hospitals
Home Service
You'll note, they never mentioned providing coffee and donuts...
http://www.redcross.org/museum/history/korean.asp
http://www.redcross.org/museum/history/60-79_c.asp
No, what the internet excels at is spreading of myths and FUD by people who can't be bothered to get the basic facts straight before 'going viral on some punks'. This is a nice example of that. Read the post above yours.
I wasn't aware a function of the Red Cross was to give coffee and donuts to soldiers. I thought the army/navy/air force/marines were supposed to feed them.
I thought the red cross was supposed to supply food/medicine in emergencies or to POWs. Wanting coffee and a donut is not an emergency.
I don't put much stock in your grandfathers preferences there.
Amazingly, technology has advanced in 100 years, and some things that might have been applicable then, aren't now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Ahh, for mobile it's an entirely different story. Most folks buy a phone for a heavy discount from their carrier in turn for signing a (usually 2-year) contract.
There are a few folks who buy phones (usually unlocked) outright and separately get a phone contract, or go month-to-month, but they are in the vast, vast minority because unlocked phones do little good for you in the U.S..
We have 4 major wireless carriers. 2 use GSM technology like the rest of the world, the other 2 use CDMA. Since phones are usually either GSM or CDMA, you can't migrate from one group to the other at all because the technolgies are totally incompatible.
To make matters worse, the 2 GSM carriers use different frequencies for 3G data, so if you move from one carrier to the other, suddenly the best you will ever do for data speeds is EDGE. yuck. Of course, that will be little worry now, because the big GSM carrier (ATT) just bought the smaller one (T-Mobile)
As for the CDMA carriers (Sprint, Verizon), they often don't want to activate a phone that was built for the other CDMA carrier. Sometimes you can get them to do it, but it's often a hassle, sometimes they just won't.
I'd much prefer the European system.
If you have a landline, you pay for that line of phone service. If you want to attach 1 phone to the line, that's fine. If you want to attach 5 different phones to that line, one in each of 5 different rooms in your home for more convienience, that's fine, just buy the phones and hook them up. There's no change to your line agreement/price depending on the number of phones hooked up to it.
Back in the day, you had to pay rent to Ma Bell for each of the 5 phones, because you weren't allowed to buy them.
Mandatory? I have a box to pick up over-the-air broadcasts that I got a free coupon for from the government, and I own it.
Phones are necessary for emergency calls for ambulances, fire department, police etc,etc. Cable is entertainment which is kinda optional.
The people who bitch about how much better it was when there was one Ma Bell mostly weren't alive when there was a Ma Bell.
Having to pay a rental fee for every phone in your home every month because you were not allowed to own your own phone wasn't exactly a great thing.