Thats different departments. Certain departments are filled with idiots, like the TSA, who will take the multi-tool from pilots in the cockpit firearm program, because they may use the multi-tool to "gain control of the aircraft."
Regardless it still requires a warrant to arrest someone, unless they have positive proof that they are an enemy combatant.
And getting convictions are tough, particularly against groups that are so well segmented like terrorist groups, often the best way to get them are on the little things, like how they got Martha.
It makes you wonder if they really are "fighting a war against terrorism" or merely using the pretext of war as an excuse to stifle the expression of Islam in America.
Now that is the stupidest thing I have seen all day. If anything Islam is more protected now than it was before 9-11, law enforcement is not allowed to profile period, or else they are sued by the ACLU.
There is one problem with your argument, that simply visiting the sites makes you someone that they instantly label as an enemy combatant. It doesn't. As much as researching money laundering, doesn't makes you a drug dealer.
Even under the PATRIOT act, there are still checks and balances, some cases the government wins, others it loses. The PATRIOT act allowing the government to streamline the process when dealing with terrorists, which scatter alot more quickly than other criminals.
Didn't say I agreed with it, but Microsoft is correct on their assumption. The OEMs can choose to install it if they want, along with their usual bevy of crap.
Also just because it's there doesn't mean that even half-way technically adept people will use it. I have a new customer that runs a multi-million dollar pool business from his home computer (running XP Pro), he knew his way around computers, but believe it or not, he had not one back up, even though he has had a history of crashes.
December 24th, I received a call, his computer has crashed. I come there and check it out, sure enough his entire hard drive had crapped out, there was nothing I could do about it, it appeared the FAT table was gone for the main partition. The secondary partition was showed files, but the data was unreadable.
Luckily for my client a drive recovery server was able to get his data back (at the cost of nearly $5k). He still hasn't learned his lesson though, instead of buying a RAID 1 array, and sending backups to off site back up (as I suggested, and the cheapest option too), he buys a Viao notebook and decides that he will do the backup to it.
I predict that I will be getting a call from him in the next year, when his notebook hard drive craps out.
Thank God 2k3 comes preloaded with AOL, MSN, WMP and Solitare.
Only if you buy the copy from the trench coated man on the street corner.
On your list, WMP 9 is the only thing that 2k3 preinstalls with. Which is sort of helpful (if you are doing video streaming, you don't have to goto another machine to see if the video actually works, among other things). But 2003 includes alot of improvements over 2000 and NT4, some you may use, other that would be of no use to you.
Some of the systems work fine in almost every environment, it's simply that overall Southwest refuses to use them. Whenever possible they like to develop it in house.
They believe in doing things differently from all the rest of the airlines, but IMO they are throwing the baby out with the bath water in somes cases, developing your own software has left them behind when it comes to web orders, which is possible revenue, and less seats empty.
Don't get me wrong I respect Southwest, but there are areas where they could have done better.
It's isn't that easy, for the longest time Southwest was the hardest to book a flight for because they had no web system that could figure out it's route system (only 5 years later they just released one). Up about about July of this year to book a web flight you needed a route map and schedule to figure out what cities you had to go throuh if there was no direct flight option.
The hub-spoke system is easier to manage, and can be profitable if the airlines relize that they aren't unlimited resources, and decentralize the hubs on a limited basis.
Anyways Southwest doesn't drink anyone's koolaid, they run all their own in house designed systems (I am not sure they are even on Sabre anymore), including web apps. It's an intresting concept, but it probably causes their IT managers to pull their hair out.
Because simply getting off the pad with a new rocket is quite an accomplishment. For the government a first launch that makes it's 90% of the way is a success because they have learned to expect failures, and this one was a minor one compared to blowing up on the pad.
As for the guberment being the customers, Boeing had a rocket that fills a void that they needed, and the DoD decided to finance it.
Well the signal you are receiving might be better than ever. But the software on some of the basic devices, like phones, may not be able to handle the unusual position, and stay locked on, since it's speed would be rather high, and would have to change satellites on a regular basis.
Actually own would be the improper word, regulate is more proper, and that starts at about 100 ft (where hazard lights are required), or lower if you are on an instrument approach.
Even below that they already regulate it extensively all the way to below ground level, but it becomes the FAA concern at 100 ft or above, or along instrument approaches.
Pilots on the other hand could be fined if they come with in 1000 ft in populated areas, or 500 ft to a structure or person in a rural areas. But outside of that we are allowed to get as low as we want, as long as you have taken proper precautions for an engine out scenario. Though there is a altitude limit of 1500 ft for aerobatics.
Ding ding ding... someone that actually gets it right. AMD has solved, at least in part the memory bottle neck. I have personally tested AMD Athlon 64 vs Pentium 4 HT, the Athlon 64 wipes the Pentiums nose when it comes to loading programs.
I think Intel is realizing that because they are desperate to get DDR2 and other faster memory technologies through, but it won't help until they integrate the memory controller.
I should note I was sceptical about the AMD move, but after comparing two exactly the same systems, and the AMD clobbering the Pentium 4, with the only difference being CPU and directly related components. AMD has a winner with it's Hyper Transport Bus, and it scales quite well, of course there is an upper limit because you still have north bridge to control IDE, AGP and other such. But it's a fix for our current issues, like the integrated L2 (and later on die) L2 cache during the Pentium time.
Have a high end system with the stuttering bug, when I lowered the resolutions from 1024x768 to 800x600 it made it playable during the times that it has stuttering problems.
Heat and power consumption are other ways. There are also feature sets like outputs.
For the media player folks you should also consider one of the newer video cards because Nvidia now has a DVD decoder out that uses the DirectX9 compatible cards to offload some of the calculations off of the CPU onto the video card GPU.
Because ABL is a two pronged project. The YAL-1 is simply a prototype, there are two ways that they can go with the laser system, both are under test at the moment.
The first is a Patriot replacement system for ballistic missile defense (ie not dual role like the Patriot is. It would be a dedicated airborne asset not subject to the ground commander, instead under the Air Component commander. The positioning for SAM sites, and missile defense are different). The second is a true planet wide ballistic missile shield using the laser in space.
The biggest argument against space lasers is that it ain't going to work, a project like ABL proves that the laser systems are viable. There are other off shot projects including laser weapons, and anti-artillery weapon systems using the lasers, but those are generally using much more compact laser components.
Military developments are expensive, not much you can do about it except either be second class in everything, or over specialize and get your ass kicked in an area that you aren't prepared for.
This is not designed with US based ABM. Instead it's meant to be used over the battlefield, as a replacement for the Patriot missile system.
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Well being someone that has been online gaming since Descent and Kali. Later moved onto the Quake series, HL, et al. I would say that I have had some exposure to FPS games.
I enjoyed Halo, it was one of the best FPS's that I have played since I left Comdex to pick up Half-Life (planned ahead brought my computer and reserved it in Lost Wages, since I had to be there for the show anyways). The game just felt right, and the controls worked really well, even though I still prefer the mouse and keyboard overall.
I think the funniest thing is that my recent purchase of a 6800 GT so I can play Half-Life 2 coming out at the end of the month, could have bought me a complete Xbox, with Halo 1 and 2, HD pack, and a Xbox Live subscription, and still have had money left over to buy pizza.
Oh well I still believe it was cheaper than my SLI Voodoo 2 upgrade I made years ago.
Why bring humans into the loop if you don't have to. Have the computer print out human readable receipts, that are also electro-optical readable.
Then if an automatic recount is trigger, simply scan the ballots, you will have a recount much more quickly (it hurts the stock market for the count to be in limbo for so long), and it's unlikely that two independent systems would fail, but at worst case, you can always hand recount.
The OS was first launched on the 12th, and the Extenders aren't supposed to be out until mid-Nov. But the MS Rep that I talked to (the local SQL sales rep that is a MCE fan) said that it will be able to play DVDs and such.
You are probably going to have to rip it into some other format. Keep tuned to my Journal on the RvB website, or reply to be journal here and I can tell you. There are no docs on the MCE 2005 cd.
I don't think that possible because it would be some type of infringement (patent or otherwise).
Those $30 DVD makers might have found super-cheap sources of parts, and have worked out a favorable deal with the DVD forum.
The Xbox 2 team is probably dancing the happy dance, since they will probably be able to get a better deal, since VC-9 is included with HD-DVD, which might lower their DVD licensing costs.
You could always go back to rabbit ears, that's the closest you are going to get to live TV. Your cable/sat, home theater, and plasma TV are slowing down your cable signal so you aren't exactly getting live TV either. It was most noticeable when I could predict how a play would go during the Superbowl using my handheld TV.
The Media center extenders aren't just live TV, they are all your recorded content (including ripped DVDs), pictures, music, and other features brought from your media center to any TV where you can get Ethernet. You can be watching one thing on the MCPC connected TV, while during another on the MCE connected TV, including watching two different live channels if you have an available tuner card (ie not being used for recording or watching live TV on another source).
So saying that, is like saying "Why pay for cable when I can get all the channels using Rabbit ears."
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Regardless it still requires a warrant to arrest someone, unless they have positive proof that they are an enemy combatant.
And getting convictions are tough, particularly against groups that are so well segmented like terrorist groups, often the best way to get them are on the little things, like how they got Martha.
It makes you wonder if they really are "fighting a war against terrorism" or merely using the pretext of war as an excuse to stifle the expression of Islam in America.
Now that is the stupidest thing I have seen all day. If anything Islam is more protected now than it was before 9-11, law enforcement is not allowed to profile period, or else they are sued by the ACLU.
Even under the PATRIOT act, there are still checks and balances, some cases the government wins, others it loses. The PATRIOT act allowing the government to streamline the process when dealing with terrorists, which scatter alot more quickly than other criminals.
Also just because it's there doesn't mean that even half-way technically adept people will use it. I have a new customer that runs a multi-million dollar pool business from his home computer (running XP Pro), he knew his way around computers, but believe it or not, he had not one back up, even though he has had a history of crashes.
December 24th, I received a call, his computer has crashed. I come there and check it out, sure enough his entire hard drive had crapped out, there was nothing I could do about it, it appeared the FAT table was gone for the main partition. The secondary partition was showed files, but the data was unreadable.
Luckily for my client a drive recovery server was able to get his data back (at the cost of nearly $5k). He still hasn't learned his lesson though, instead of buying a RAID 1 array, and sending backups to off site back up (as I suggested, and the cheapest option too), he buys a Viao notebook and decides that he will do the backup to it.
I predict that I will be getting a call from him in the next year, when his notebook hard drive craps out.
Microsoft figures, correctly IMO, that 90% of the XP Home users won't use the backup tool, and doesn't install it.
Only if you buy the copy from the trench coated man on the street corner.
On your list, WMP 9 is the only thing that 2k3 preinstalls with. Which is sort of helpful (if you are doing video streaming, you don't have to goto another machine to see if the video actually works, among other things). But 2003 includes alot of improvements over 2000 and NT4, some you may use, other that would be of no use to you.
Learned that long ago from a military man, I understood why later, he did a tour at the Pentagon.
They believe in doing things differently from all the rest of the airlines, but IMO they are throwing the baby out with the bath water in somes cases, developing your own software has left them behind when it comes to web orders, which is possible revenue, and less seats empty.
Don't get me wrong I respect Southwest, but there are areas where they could have done better.
The hub-spoke system is easier to manage, and can be profitable if the airlines relize that they aren't unlimited resources, and decentralize the hubs on a limited basis.
Anyways Southwest doesn't drink anyone's koolaid, they run all their own in house designed systems (I am not sure they are even on Sabre anymore), including web apps. It's an intresting concept, but it probably causes their IT managers to pull their hair out.
No Word.NET would replace eMacs. Though I am not sure which would be more bloated.
As for the guberment being the customers, Boeing had a rocket that fills a void that they needed, and the DoD decided to finance it.
Well the signal you are receiving might be better than ever. But the software on some of the basic devices, like phones, may not be able to handle the unusual position, and stay locked on, since it's speed would be rather high, and would have to change satellites on a regular basis.
Even below that they already regulate it extensively all the way to below ground level, but it becomes the FAA concern at 100 ft or above, or along instrument approaches.
Pilots on the other hand could be fined if they come with in 1000 ft in populated areas, or 500 ft to a structure or person in a rural areas. But outside of that we are allowed to get as low as we want, as long as you have taken proper precautions for an engine out scenario. Though there is a altitude limit of 1500 ft for aerobatics.
I think Intel is realizing that because they are desperate to get DDR2 and other faster memory technologies through, but it won't help until they integrate the memory controller.
I should note I was sceptical about the AMD move, but after comparing two exactly the same systems, and the AMD clobbering the Pentium 4, with the only difference being CPU and directly related components. AMD has a winner with it's Hyper Transport Bus, and it scales quite well, of course there is an upper limit because you still have north bridge to control IDE, AGP and other such. But it's a fix for our current issues, like the integrated L2 (and later on die) L2 cache during the Pentium time.
Have a high end system with the stuttering bug, when I lowered the resolutions from 1024x768 to 800x600 it made it playable during the times that it has stuttering problems.
For the media player folks you should also consider one of the newer video cards because Nvidia now has a DVD decoder out that uses the DirectX9 compatible cards to offload some of the calculations off of the CPU onto the video card GPU.
The first is a Patriot replacement system for ballistic missile defense (ie not dual role like the Patriot is. It would be a dedicated airborne asset not subject to the ground commander, instead under the Air Component commander. The positioning for SAM sites, and missile defense are different). The second is a true planet wide ballistic missile shield using the laser in space.
The biggest argument against space lasers is that it ain't going to work, a project like ABL proves that the laser systems are viable. There are other off shot projects including laser weapons, and anti-artillery weapon systems using the lasers, but those are generally using much more compact laser components.
Military developments are expensive, not much you can do about it except either be second class in everything, or over specialize and get your ass kicked in an area that you aren't prepared for.
This is not designed with US based ABM. Instead it's meant to be used over the battlefield, as a replacement for the Patriot missile system.
I enjoyed Halo, it was one of the best FPS's that I have played since I left Comdex to pick up Half-Life (planned ahead brought my computer and reserved it in Lost Wages, since I had to be there for the show anyways). The game just felt right, and the controls worked really well, even though I still prefer the mouse and keyboard overall.
I think the funniest thing is that my recent purchase of a 6800 GT so I can play Half-Life 2 coming out at the end of the month, could have bought me a complete Xbox, with Halo 1 and 2, HD pack, and a Xbox Live subscription, and still have had money left over to buy pizza.
Oh well I still believe it was cheaper than my SLI Voodoo 2 upgrade I made years ago.
Then if an automatic recount is trigger, simply scan the ballots, you will have a recount much more quickly (it hurts the stock market for the count to be in limbo for so long), and it's unlikely that two independent systems would fail, but at worst case, you can always hand recount.
Nothing like watching a CRT monitor explode to brighten your day.
Just goes to show you, you don't need to browse /. to feel the effected of a site being DDOS'ed out of existence.
It wasn't killing your dashboard, it was loading the Star Wars Battle Front demo.
The OS was first launched on the 12th, and the Extenders aren't supposed to be out until mid-Nov. But the MS Rep that I talked to (the local SQL sales rep that is a MCE fan) said that it will be able to play DVDs and such.
You are probably going to have to rip it into some other format. Keep tuned to my Journal on the RvB website, or reply to be journal here and I can tell you. There are no docs on the MCE 2005 cd.
Those $30 DVD makers might have found super-cheap sources of parts, and have worked out a favorable deal with the DVD forum.
The Xbox 2 team is probably dancing the happy dance, since they will probably be able to get a better deal, since VC-9 is included with HD-DVD, which might lower their DVD licensing costs.
The Media center extenders aren't just live TV, they are all your recorded content (including ripped DVDs), pictures, music, and other features brought from your media center to any TV where you can get Ethernet. You can be watching one thing on the MCPC connected TV, while during another on the MCE connected TV, including watching two different live channels if you have an available tuner card (ie not being used for recording or watching live TV on another source).
So saying that, is like saying "Why pay for cable when I can get all the channels using Rabbit ears."