As per earlier response, I do not understand (beyond the economics of flat screen production) this desire to settle for a narrow, wide screen format which is inferior for all usages except viewing wide screen movies. It is one thing to use it for a TV set as broadcasters are finally pushing all new content in that format (though it still blows for watching older stuff - black bars are far more tolerable on say Ben Hur than 4:3 tv show reruns). But quite another to force it down our throats in the computer world where it is decidedly not a good thing.
"better use of screen space" is quite subjective. In your movie example (and I have to wonder how many people really sit through an entire movie at their desk very often) - what is wrong with the black bars? 27.64" × 11.66" vs 25.44" × 15.9" - The image will be 2.2" less wide and only 0.9" less tall. The wide screen monitor does not make better use of screen space when it comes to viewing anything with a vertical orientattion, like documents, webpages, code, or pretty much anything but wide screen movies.
yes this was the brilliant ponzi scheme of social security too. What right do the old have to steal from the young? All this has resulted in is a sense of a) entitlement and b) a disincentive to plan for old age.
There was a time when fire "companies" existed and you paid a small sum to ensure coverage. In effect, it was a form of insurance. The problem with this comes when people live in a densely populated area and failure of one to insure may result in a fire that spreads. In an ideal world that person would be liable and have to pay for the damages but if they don't have fire insurance they probably have nothing else either. Thus the shift to public fire service.
comment for you and your parent: You: Probably right, they are not going to "give" 100% of that money to the employees. However, it puts them in a far better position to offer more competitive (higher) wages compared to their competitors. And perhaps instead of a 2% raise you might get.. gasp.. 4%. Parent: The additions to the medical plan that you do not want are likely as a result of either state mandates or soon, Obamacare mandates. Maternity stuff, drug stuff, psycho babble, etc. Some states, especially in the north east, basically force insurers to put the kitchen sink in the plan - in part as a result of lobbying by various health care unions. There is no escaping paying for materinty stuff even if you are a single male.
Wonder how well they hold up to strong winds.. those panels look flimsy and the solar thing is sure to get ripped off. Also looks like these are aimed only at hot places. Are there no refuges where it is cold?
Is this ad...story.. a joke? I have two 1600x1200 20" (ie, 100dpi) monitors. How is this any better except perhaps eliminating the bezel? 72% of the resolution and at 95 dpi instead of 100. Try again.
Parent should be modded up. The way the story summary was written you would think that health care is without cost to the employee if it is provided by the employer. It is not. That is money lost from a paycheck. That is additional cost which can make a company less competitive (and result in layoffs).
There is no such thing as free healthcare. Somebody pays - either through lower wages, fewer jobs or higher taxes. Funny how the more government has tried to "fix" healthcare the more expensive it has become.
Wrong. Estimates for China range from "several hundred" to about 1,500. But regardless of what the exact (and unknowable) figure is, the primary concern with reductions is there comes a point where a smaller adversary - ie, China, India, Pakistan, Israel can leapfrog over you. This point is typically estimated at around 600-1000 warheads. Nuclear weapons area lot cheaper to build and maintain than carrier battle groups and large armies. When one of those smaller countries sees that it can, at low cost, become the number one nuclear power they will take it.
People often try to read into this some undying love for XP. The reality is the useful life of hardware has been extended and combined with the recent and current ecomic climate, hardware purchases have been delayed or cancelled. As a case in point, I just upgraded my main development desktop. The old one was built in Dec 2002 and it was only recently that the performance dropped below tolerable. I would have upgraded the windows OS to 7 but it failed the compatability test.
I think the take away from my case and more generally is that since XP there is generally not a compelling reason to upgrade the OS, especially given many tech firms failure to support legacy products with drivers. XP worked fine. 7 is fine, as is 8. There are certainly under the hood improvements, but nothing so wonderful to junk hardware or make a $100 outlay for the OS.
I think we can all distinguish between spying on one's own citizens and spying on foreigners, in particular in foreign lands. That of course includes governments. Normally this kind of stuff stays under the radar, but this is not the first time it has happened. Israel has been caught quite a few times spying on the US and running agents to further their own national interests. France has a long history of doing corporate espionage on behalf of their own industries. The Brits have always had their fingers in everything.
Spying isn't just about military stuff. It is often about economics and politics and knowing what others are planning and doing (vs what they might say publicly).
It is good because it shows that BSD is not just viable but desirable for commercial use. Also, what do you base your assertion that Sony will not give back any modifications they have made? I'm not suggesting they will release the entire modified OS but it would not be too much of a reach to see them post a few bug patches, othewise they will need to keep making the same corrections after every release.
this technique, IIRC, only applies to acceleration of electrons. The primary use, as the article states, will be as a light source for bio/chem/materials research such as takes place in NSLS at Brookhaven. Beam time is always over subscribed so I'm sure there will be demand for something like this though it would be nice to have a better idea of the costs - I'm not sure this means every lab gets one or there might be one shared by an entire university or research center.
And in the event that an intercepted communication is later deemed to be from a US person, the requirement to promptly destroy the material may be suspended in a variety of circumstances. Among the exceptions are "communications that are enciphered or reasonably believed to contain secret meaning, and sufficient duration may consist of any period of time during which encrypted material is subject to, or of use in, cryptanalysis."
made some amazing equipment. It was sad when they were sold to Compaq. I never worked on a PDP-11 but did work on a DEC2060 during college. This was a 36 bit machine and used an improved version of the KL10 processor originally used in PDP-10s. IIRC there are a few TOPS20 (twenex) enthusiast sites on the net too.
program helped the NSA stop a 2009 al-Qaida plot to blow up New York City subways
No, what happened was (from Buzzfed)
Public — though not widely publicized — details of the Zazi plot cast into doubt the notion that a data mining program had much to do with the investigation. Zazi traveled to Pakistan in 2008 to train with al Qaeda. He was charged in 2009 with leading two other men in a plot to detonate suicide bombs in the New York subways.
The path to his capture, according to the public records, began in April 2009, when British authorities arrested several suspected terrorists. According to a 2010 ruling from Britain’s Special Immigration Appeals Commission, one of the suspects’ computers included email correspondence with an address in Pakistan....
Later that year, according to a transcript of Zazi’s July, 2011 trial, Zazi emailed his al Qaeda handler in Pakistan for help with the recipe for his bombs. He sent his inquiry to the same email address: sana_pakhtana@yahoo.com.
An FBI agent, Eric Jurgenson, testified, “I was notified, I should say. My office was in receipt of several e-mail messages, e-mail communications.” Those emails — from Zazi to the same sana_pakhtana@yahoo.com — “led to the investigation,” he testified.
Another case cited by that wonderduo Feinstein and Rodgers is of Headley. who cased the Mumbai hotel. Rather that quote why the NSA program had little if anything to do with his arrest (note he was previously a prized drug enforment for the DEA), just read this.
Is what it really comes down to. The older they get the more Americans want a "dad" or "mom" to take care of them. OMFG terrorists! Their chances of winning Lotto are better. Add in that older people remember a time when the government was preceived as "more trustworthy" (true or not) and you get these types of results. Not to disparrage Pew, but I have also seen surveys leaning slightly the other way. The real figure is probably a pretty even split.
The last couple of versions of IE have been far better than anything in the past and just as "safe" as firefox or chrome. I really only stay with firefox because of a handful of extensions and better ability to customize the layout. Not because of performance or security.
As to the power savings, sure take it with a grain of salt. But even taking it at face value and saying a savings of 1 watt per week per user we are talking on the order of a gigawatt per week. That is nothing to sneeze at if true. Of course, it is just a marketing ploy as 6 months from now the tables will be turned and Chrome or Opera may be in the "savings" lead.
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so basically you are saying I need to do a build world after I drop 9.1 on the new pc tomorrow, thanks.
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Courts have established that the police/government may not record conversations, even if they are not listened to, without a warrant. In effect, Clapper is arguing that the FISA order was a warrant to tap every phone line based on "probable cause". Bullshit. FISA/Patriot act as crap as it is still requires reasonable suspicion.
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As per earlier response, I do not understand (beyond the economics of flat screen production) this desire to settle for a narrow, wide screen format which is inferior for all usages except viewing wide screen movies. It is one thing to use it for a TV set as broadcasters are finally pushing all new content in that format (though it still blows for watching older stuff - black bars are far more tolerable on say Ben Hur than 4:3 tv show reruns). But quite another to force it down our throats in the computer world where it is decidedly not a good thing.
"better use of screen space" is quite subjective. In your movie example (and I have to wonder how many people really sit through an entire movie at their desk very often) - what is wrong with the black bars? 27.64" × 11.66" vs 25.44" × 15.9" - The image will be 2.2" less wide and only 0.9" less tall. The wide screen monitor does not make better use of screen space when it comes to viewing anything with a vertical orientattion, like documents, webpages, code, or pretty much anything but wide screen movies.
yes this was the brilliant ponzi scheme of social security too. What right do the old have to steal from the young? All this has resulted in is a sense of a) entitlement and b) a disincentive to plan for old age.
There was a time when fire "companies" existed and you paid a small sum to ensure coverage. In effect, it was a form of insurance. The problem with this comes when people live in a densely populated area and failure of one to insure may result in a fire that spreads. In an ideal world that person would be liable and have to pay for the damages but if they don't have fire insurance they probably have nothing else either. Thus the shift to public fire service.
comment for you and your parent: You: Probably right, they are not going to "give" 100% of that money to the employees. However, it puts them in a far better position to offer more competitive (higher) wages compared to their competitors. And perhaps instead of a 2% raise you might get.. gasp.. 4%. Parent: The additions to the medical plan that you do not want are likely as a result of either state mandates or soon, Obamacare mandates. Maternity stuff, drug stuff, psycho babble, etc. Some states, especially in the north east, basically force insurers to put the kitchen sink in the plan - in part as a result of lobbying by various health care unions. There is no escaping paying for materinty stuff even if you are a single male.
I guess you missed the 90s.
Wonder how well they hold up to strong winds.. those panels look flimsy and the solar thing is sure to get ripped off. Also looks like these are aimed only at hot places. Are there no refuges where it is cold?
Is this ad...story.. a joke? I have two 1600x1200 20" (ie, 100dpi) monitors. How is this any better except perhaps eliminating the bezel? 72% of the resolution and at 95 dpi instead of 100. Try again.
Parent should be modded up. The way the story summary was written you would think that health care is without cost to the employee if it is provided by the employer. It is not. That is money lost from a paycheck. That is additional cost which can make a company less competitive (and result in layoffs).
There is no such thing as free healthcare. Somebody pays - either through lower wages, fewer jobs or higher taxes. Funny how the more government has tried to "fix" healthcare the more expensive it has become.
Wrong. Estimates for China range from "several hundred" to about 1,500. But regardless of what the exact (and unknowable) figure is, the primary concern with reductions is there comes a point where a smaller adversary - ie, China, India, Pakistan, Israel can leapfrog over you. This point is typically estimated at around 600-1000 warheads. Nuclear weapons area lot cheaper to build and maintain than carrier battle groups and large armies. When one of those smaller countries sees that it can, at low cost, become the number one nuclear power they will take it.
The spying that is being spoken of against the EU is primarily directed at government officials, not random citizens.
People often try to read into this some undying love for XP. The reality is the useful life of hardware has been extended and combined with the recent and current ecomic climate, hardware purchases have been delayed or cancelled. As a case in point, I just upgraded my main development desktop. The old one was built in Dec 2002 and it was only recently that the performance dropped below tolerable. I would have upgraded the windows OS to 7 but it failed the compatability test.
I think the take away from my case and more generally is that since XP there is generally not a compelling reason to upgrade the OS, especially given many tech firms failure to support legacy products with drivers. XP worked fine. 7 is fine, as is 8. There are certainly under the hood improvements, but nothing so wonderful to junk hardware or make a $100 outlay for the OS.
I think we can all distinguish between spying on one's own citizens and spying on foreigners, in particular in foreign lands. That of course includes governments. Normally this kind of stuff stays under the radar, but this is not the first time it has happened. Israel has been caught quite a few times spying on the US and running agents to further their own national interests. France has a long history of doing corporate espionage on behalf of their own industries. The Brits have always had their fingers in everything.
Spying isn't just about military stuff. It is often about economics and politics and knowing what others are planning and doing (vs what they might say publicly).
not to mention bacon. Bacon? wtf. Beer.
It is good because it shows that BSD is not just viable but desirable for commercial use. Also, what do you base your assertion that Sony will not give back any modifications they have made? I'm not suggesting they will release the entire modified OS but it would not be too much of a reach to see them post a few bug patches, othewise they will need to keep making the same corrections after every release.
this technique, IIRC, only applies to acceleration of electrons. The primary use, as the article states, will be as a light source for bio/chem/materials research such as takes place in NSLS at Brookhaven. Beam time is always over subscribed so I'm sure there will be demand for something like this though it would be nice to have a better idea of the costs - I'm not sure this means every lab gets one or there might be one shared by an entire university or research center.
what about encrypted chat?
made some amazing equipment. It was sad when they were sold to Compaq. I never worked on a PDP-11 but did work on a DEC2060 during college. This was a 36 bit machine and used an improved version of the KL10 processor originally used in PDP-10s. IIRC there are a few TOPS20 (twenex) enthusiast sites on the net too.
No, what happened was (from Buzzfed)
Another case cited by that wonderduo Feinstein and Rodgers is of Headley. who cased the Mumbai hotel. Rather that quote why the NSA program had little if anything to do with his arrest (note he was previously a prized drug enforment for the DEA), just read this.
done right that can take up three or four hours a day.
Is what it really comes down to. The older they get the more Americans want a "dad" or "mom" to take care of them. OMFG terrorists! Their chances of winning Lotto are better. Add in that older people remember a time when the government was preceived as "more trustworthy" (true or not) and you get these types of results. Not to disparrage Pew, but I have also seen surveys leaning slightly the other way. The real figure is probably a pretty even split.
NOT THIS
The last couple of versions of IE have been far better than anything in the past and just as "safe" as firefox or chrome. I really only stay with firefox because of a handful of extensions and better ability to customize the layout. Not because of performance or security.
As to the power savings, sure take it with a grain of salt. But even taking it at face value and saying a savings of 1 watt per week per user we are talking on the order of a gigawatt per week. That is nothing to sneeze at if true. Of course, it is just a marketing ploy as 6 months from now the tables will be turned and Chrome or Opera may be in the "savings" lead.
so basically you are saying I need to do a build world after I drop 9.1 on the new pc tomorrow, thanks.
ah me?
Courts have established that the police/government may not record conversations, even if they are not listened to, without a warrant. In effect, Clapper is arguing that the FISA order was a warrant to tap every phone line based on "probable cause". Bullshit. FISA/Patriot act as crap as it is still requires reasonable suspicion.