The important thing is that we are going to spend Billions building up oil-rich Iraq
I thought you all said we were just there to steal the oil. Guess you were full of sh*t then too.
...so that the people there have things that tax paying American citizens don't even have (and, of course, they will still hate us)
Like what, Sunni insurgents making IEDs to kill Iraqis? And, news flash, members of certain minority sects (see Bathist Sunnis) are going to hate us regardless.
Bush can hardly afford to spend a little money on a proven and viable space technology...
A little money? Over a BILLION dollars is a little money? The damn thing needs a major repair mission to continue. The shuttle isn't ready to go. There's a NEW telescope in the pipeline, but you think it's okay to keep throwing dollars at this one.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it is a tv. Perhaps you did not actually RTFA or note the circuit diagram for the "Sinclair Pocket TV receiver". One doesn't need field and sync stages for a radio.
Sinclair achieved the reduced depth by moving the electron gun to the side rather than behind the phosphor screen. There's no indication what they are doing with the gun this time to reduce depth. I did wonder if they had licensed Sinclair's design.
Further reading reveals that the students (from Duke and North Carolina State Univ) adapted the commercial robot by adding sensors and code to allow autonomous operation. The commercial edition relies on an operator with an remote controller.
Being that it's a Duke newsletter, they obscured the part where the team lead went to NC State. Also, though now on the faculty at Duke, the team's advisor got his PhD in EE (robotics) from NC State (1998?).
He said he'd like to punch him in the nose. He didn't say he would punch him in the nose. In the dictionary and in court, there is a difference.
To the Secret Service there is not. And in the case of the Secret Service's mandate for protective services, you WILL lose in court. Take your dictionary and stupid behavior to jail with you.
Today, the Secret Service is authorized by law to protect:
* the President, the Vice President, (or other individuals next in order of succession to the Office of the President), the President-elect and Vice President-elect;
* the immediate families of the above individuals;
* former Presidents, their spouses for their lifetimes, except when the spouse re-marries. In 1997, Congressional legislation became effective limiting Secret Service protection to former Presidents for a period of not more than 10 years from the date the former President leaves office.
* children of former presidents until age 16;
* visiting heads of foreign states or governments and their spouses traveling with them, other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States, and official representatives of the United States performing special missions abroad;
* major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, and their spouses within 120 days of a general Presidential election
total switch from Windows to Linux would be three to four times more expensive - and take three times as long to deploy - as an upgrade from one version of Windows to a newer release.
I see many of you nodding your heads that this is true, but is it really? How many of you run Linux on something that wouldn't run WinXP? Sure, MS claims that XP will run on anything marginally better than a Sinclair ZX81. Experience says otherwise.
BUT, you can run a decent Linux installation with less. So if I don't have to upgrade my CPU, memory and potentially other components in the name of upgrading to XP or 2003, just how valid is that claim that a switch over to Linux and open source software will be 3 to 4 times as expensive. Who says that it will ALWAYS be more expensive?
More to the point, it seems that Raskin has had some chip on his shoulder since Jobs kicked him off the Mac team years ago. Raskin also uses this as another opportunity to hock his book. This is not even the first time this year. Witness an earlier occasion with Berkeley Groks in March of this year.
While attempting to locate the point of these so called paragraphs - a feat further complicated by the fact that the writer seems obsessed with her need to use hyphens - I was compelled to ponder whether said writer is more impressed with the prose of certain long-winded French writers of old - who perhaps are more conversant in both law and technology than she - than in the prospect that she'll ever assemble a passage that one might be able to read and comprehend.
My phone (Sony Ericsson T610) has Bluetooth support, so all it takes is a Bluetooth USB dongle and I can easily access the pictures via OBEX file transfer.
I'm guessing that you're not a Verizon customer? They have a habit of crippling Bluetooth features of their phones in the US.
Sales of the Mac only iPod were pretty good but no-where near stellar until a PC version was released.
You mean of course a PC version of the software. But where exactly is the iPod-killer from Microsoft?
Oh, that's right. There isn't one.
And does Ballmer's glib remark mean that BG no longer owns an iPod? Are they going to force him to use Microsoft kludge? (Can you say another-tablet-pc-debacle ?)
Take a look at the "Virtual Tour". Certainly it appears to be a high peak. The faux clouds are a nice touch. But the ride amounts to one climb, a twist as you come down and a small hill as you return to the station. Might be less than 25 seconds once you sit in the car.
Five hundred thousand votes out of 100 million IS NOT statistically significant. You can attempt to make of it what you will, but the fact remains. Half of one percent is not a plebiscite.
As for popular vote, we don't have one. Most of those who argue most vociferously about the issue conveniently forget two things:
1) JFK won by a comparatively small margin. There was also charges of voter fraud in that election (Illinois and Texas). Did JFK actually win those states or not?
2) The Gore campaign prepared extensively for the situation of losing the popular vote but winning the Electoral vote. They even wrote at least one legal brief to bolster their claim in such an eventuality. But coming up on the losing end of that scenario, THEN they claimed fraud.
Star Trek IV movie. The gist is TOS crew goes back in time to pick up a whale. This requires a trip to California and Alameda. Chekov is the one who asks about inspecting "Nuclear wessels".
This is also the movie where Scotty picks up an Mac Plus mouse and tries to talk into it. Then, after a spate of rolling his knuckles on the keyboard, up come the instructions for creating "transparent aluminum".
Two things that bother me about this theory. Both related to the fact that we're talking about an ANG unit.
1) I'd be suprised if an ANG unit would even HAVE an IBM Selectric in 1973. That would have been a state-of-the-art typewriter for an outfit that would not be accustomed to frontline equipment. This is National Guard, its not a unit at Maxwell AFB. It's much more likely that they would have used a non-ball typewriter. Hell, it might not have been electric.
2) This is a purported personal memo from the unit CO (commanding officer) to the file drawer. If, and I think that's a big if in itself, the CO did not type this kind of memo himself it would have been an enlisted troop. Might have been as high as an Airman First Class (A1C). Not exactly what one would consider a conscientuous executive-level typist. Again, this is the National Guard.
But "robust" doesn't mean what "vigorous" means. The latter just means they are trying hard (to counter-claim), but the former includes Forbes' judgment that the counter-claim is solid.
I understand your concern. But I think you're reading way to much into this. You assume that the person who writes the headline is the same individual authoring the content. It occurs to me that we need to send the Forbes editor a dictionary so they might choose a more appropriate word in the future.
If the story *is* true, then it's an embarrassment to the CIA that a journalist in a flea market did something that they should have been doing.
Because of course the CIA is everywhere all the time, right? No. Once CENTCOM heard about the existance of the computers from the editors at AM, the informed the CIA. CIA then sent someone to get the computers.
The enemy started thinking about these weapons before WWI. Despite their extreme danger, we only became aware of them when the enemy drew our attention to them by repeatedly expressing concerns that they can be produced simply with easily available materials
"Tonight on ActionNews 7 we'll show you how easy it would be for someone to poison the local reservoir. It's another installment in our ongoing series highlighting vulnerabilities in the metro area."
Sometimes one has to wonder which is more important to the Fourth Estate: lives or ratings. Btw, in case you think the above is merely for effect, think again. Stories like that have been a staple of Washington, DC area stations for the last year.
It's not just the delivery side of the mission. NASA wants to fix/replace several components as well to extend the life of the HST. So that cost figure includes the development and construction of the components.
It will be interesting to see who/what performs the mission. A friend at NASA Goddard says that the astronaut corps is lobbying hard to do the job.
Ever watch basketball in the 20 years before the US started sending acknowledged professionals? US kids were playing... foreign professionals. How about hockey? Notice that the Soviet Union team was made up of players from the Soviet Army?
Individual sports federations decide whether or not they allow "professionals" to compete. The definition of that word varies from sport to sport. The US had the opportunity in several sports before they ever decided to take advantage of it.
Can anyone name another instance where Microsoft owned the OS?
That's right, MS owned major portions (if not all) of the OS for the Apple II. The II was still a cash cow for Apple as they were trying to get the Mac underway. There was considerable discussion at the time in the Mac world that MS was able to get concessions from Apple (including the transfer of the source for Mac Basic to Microsoft) by threatening to kill the renewal of the OS license.
* No OS, no more Apple II to sell * No Apple II $, no Mac
I recognize your sarcasm, however reading the patent reveals that Microsoft lists GPS information repeatedly. There are several references to it in fact making the assumption that one day photos will incorporate, in their format or metadata, GPS data. At that point Microsoft will naturally assert that this new patent includes sorting by GPS as well.
CONCLUSION
[0072] Although the systems and methods have been described in language specific to structural features and/or procedures, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or procedures described. Rather, the specific features and procedures are disclosed as exemplary forms of implementing the claimed invention.
If we let anything out, yeah we meant that too. All your ideas are belong to us.
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The important thing is that we are going to spend Billions building up oil-rich Iraq
...so that the people there have things that tax paying American citizens don't even have (and, of course, they will still hate us)
...
I thought you all said we were just there to steal the oil. Guess you were full of sh*t then too.
Like what, Sunni insurgents making IEDs to kill Iraqis? And, news flash, members of certain minority sects (see Bathist Sunnis) are going to hate us regardless.
Bush can hardly afford to spend a little money on a proven and viable space technology
A little money? Over a BILLION dollars is a little money? The damn thing needs a major repair mission to continue. The shuttle isn't ready to go. There's a NEW telescope in the pipeline, but you think it's okay to keep throwing dollars at this one.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it is a tv. Perhaps you did not actually RTFA or note the circuit diagram for the "Sinclair Pocket TV receiver". One doesn't need field and sync stages for a radio.
Sinclair achieved the reduced depth by moving the electron gun to the side rather than behind the phosphor screen. There's no indication what they are doing with the gun this time to reduce depth. I did wonder if they had licensed Sinclair's design.
Further reading reveals that the students (from Duke and North Carolina State Univ) adapted the commercial robot by adding sensors and code to allow autonomous operation. The commercial edition relies on an operator with an remote controller.
Being that it's a Duke newsletter, they obscured the part where the team lead went to NC State. Also, though now on the faculty at Duke, the team's advisor got his PhD in EE (robotics) from NC State (1998?).
To the Secret Service there is not. And in the case of the Secret Service's mandate for protective services, you WILL lose in court. Take your dictionary and stupid behavior to jail with you.
From the USSS:
total switch from Windows to Linux would be three to four times more expensive - and take three times as long to deploy - as an upgrade from one version of Windows to a newer release.
I see many of you nodding your heads that this is true, but is it really? How many of you run Linux on something that wouldn't run WinXP? Sure, MS claims that XP will run on anything marginally better than a Sinclair ZX81. Experience says otherwise.
BUT, you can run a decent Linux installation with less. So if I don't have to upgrade my CPU, memory and potentially other components in the name of upgrading to XP or 2003, just how valid is that claim that a switch over to Linux and open source software will be 3 to 4 times as expensive. Who says that it will ALWAYS be more expensive?
More to the point, it seems that Raskin has had some chip on his shoulder since Jobs kicked him off the Mac team years ago. Raskin also uses this as another opportunity to hock his book. This is not even the first time this year. Witness an earlier occasion with Berkeley Groks in March of this year.
While attempting to locate the point of these so called paragraphs - a feat further complicated by the fact that the writer seems obsessed with her need to use hyphens - I was compelled to ponder whether said writer is more impressed with the prose of certain long-winded French writers of old - who perhaps are more conversant in both law and technology than she - than in the prospect that she'll ever assemble a passage that one might be able to read and comprehend.
My phone (Sony Ericsson T610) has Bluetooth support, so all it takes is a Bluetooth USB dongle and I can easily access the pictures via OBEX file transfer.
I'm guessing that you're not a Verizon customer? They have a habit of crippling Bluetooth features of their phones in the US.
"At Microsoft, we're not satisfied until you're not satisfied. And that's a promise."
Sales of the Mac only iPod were pretty good but no-where near stellar until a PC version was released.
You mean of course a PC version of the software. But where exactly is the iPod-killer from Microsoft?
Oh, that's right. There isn't one.
And does Ballmer's glib remark mean that BG no longer owns an iPod? Are they going to force him to use Microsoft kludge? (Can you say another-tablet-pc-debacle ?)
Take a look at the "Virtual Tour". Certainly it appears to be a high peak. The faux clouds are a nice touch. But the ride amounts to one climb, a twist as you come down and a small hill as you return to the station. Might be less than 25 seconds once you sit in the car.
How does that compare to other high rides?
But, in the end, for general purpose film, even a 6 mp digital SLR camera will give you better performance.
But the 35mm film camera of comparable quality is a fraction of the cost of its digital brethren.
Would someone with points please mod-up the parent for being informative as opposed to the usual diatribes on this topic?
Five hundred thousand votes out of 100 million IS NOT statistically significant. You can attempt to make of it what you will, but the fact remains. Half of one percent is not a plebiscite.
As for popular vote, we don't have one. Most of those who argue most vociferously about the issue conveniently forget two things:
1) JFK won by a comparatively small margin. There was also charges of voter fraud in that election (Illinois and Texas). Did JFK actually win those states or not?
2) The Gore campaign prepared extensively for the situation of losing the popular vote but winning the Electoral vote. They even wrote at least one legal brief to bolster their claim in such an eventuality. But coming up on the losing end of that scenario, THEN they claimed fraud.
Star Trek IV movie. The gist is TOS crew goes back in time to pick up a whale. This requires a trip to California and Alameda. Chekov is the one who asks about inspecting "Nuclear wessels".
This is also the movie where Scotty picks up an Mac Plus mouse and tries to talk into it. Then, after a spate of rolling his knuckles on the keyboard, up come the instructions for creating "transparent aluminum".
Two things that bother me about this theory. Both related to the fact that we're talking about an ANG unit.
1) I'd be suprised if an ANG unit would even HAVE an IBM Selectric in 1973. That would have been a state-of-the-art typewriter for an outfit that would not be accustomed to frontline equipment. This is National Guard, its not a unit at Maxwell AFB. It's much more likely that they would have used a non-ball typewriter. Hell, it might not have been electric.
2) This is a purported personal memo from the unit CO (commanding officer) to the file drawer. If, and I think that's a big if in itself, the CO did not type this kind of memo himself it would have been an enlisted troop. Might have been as high as an Airman First Class (A1C). Not exactly what one would consider a conscientuous executive-level typist. Again, this is the National Guard.
Mac OS X accesses Windows Servers using Samba, which was available on Linux when OS X was a sparkle in Steve Jobs eyes.
True. But remember that before OS X there was NextStep (and A/UX before that!). Steve's no neophyte to the *NIX world and neither is Apple.
But "robust" doesn't mean what "vigorous" means. The latter just means they are trying hard (to counter-claim), but the former includes Forbes' judgment that the counter-claim is solid.
I understand your concern. But I think you're reading way to much into this. You assume that the person who writes the headline is the same individual authoring the content. It occurs to me that we need to send the Forbes editor a dictionary so they might choose a more appropriate word in the future.
If the story *is* true, then it's an embarrassment to the CIA that a journalist in a flea market did something that they should have been doing.
Because of course the CIA is everywhere all the time, right? No. Once CENTCOM heard about the existance of the computers from the editors at AM, the informed the CIA. CIA then sent someone to get the computers.
The enemy started thinking about these weapons before WWI. Despite their extreme danger, we only became aware of them when the enemy drew our attention to them by repeatedly expressing concerns that they can be produced simply with easily available materials
"Tonight on ActionNews 7 we'll show you how easy it would be for someone to poison the local reservoir. It's another installment in our ongoing series highlighting vulnerabilities in the metro area."
Sometimes one has to wonder which is more important to the Fourth Estate: lives or ratings. Btw, in case you think the above is merely for effect, think again. Stories like that have been a staple of Washington, DC area stations for the last year.
It's not just the delivery side of the mission. NASA wants to fix/replace several components as well to extend the life of the HST. So that cost figure includes the development and construction of the components.
It will be interesting to see who/what performs the mission. A friend at NASA Goddard says that the astronaut corps is lobbying hard to do the job.
Ever watch basketball in the 20 years before the US started sending acknowledged professionals? US kids were playing ... foreign professionals. How about hockey? Notice that the Soviet Union team was made up of players from the Soviet Army?
Individual sports federations decide whether or not they allow "professionals" to compete. The definition of that word varies from sport to sport. The US had the opportunity in several sports before they ever decided to take advantage of it.
Can anyone name another instance where Microsoft owned the OS?
That's right, MS owned major portions (if not all) of the OS for the Apple II. The II was still a cash cow for Apple as they were trying to get the Mac underway. There was considerable discussion at the time in the Mac world that MS was able to get concessions from Apple (including the transfer of the source for Mac Basic to Microsoft) by threatening to kill the renewal of the OS license.
* No OS, no more Apple II to sell
* No Apple II $, no Mac
I recognize your sarcasm, however reading the patent reveals that Microsoft lists GPS information repeatedly. There are several references to it in fact making the assumption that one day photos will incorporate, in their format or metadata, GPS data. At that point Microsoft will naturally assert that this new patent includes sorting by GPS as well.
CONCLUSION
[0072] Although the systems and methods have been described in language specific to structural features and/or procedures, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or procedures described. Rather, the specific features and procedures are disclosed as exemplary forms of implementing the claimed invention.
If we let anything out, yeah we meant that too. All your ideas are belong to us.
Web page, how about FTP or Archie?
Aside, anyone know of an Archie server still in operation?