To be honest, you may even be able to see it in New York. But the best place to watch is Cape Canaveral and Kennedy. I've been watching them live since 98 and it would be nice to see them again.
I've set up several non-admin accounts for the family that we use regularly, and many programs have to be run under the admin account. It is very annoying and a pain in the ass. Sometimes you won't realize it until you get the error. You'll run a program, access something someone else started using their account and have no idea that it was read only because it is under their account until you go to save. That's just one of the typical incompatibilities.
Acutally, we should convince the local governments of the 5 Justices voting yes to take THEIR houses by eminent domain. I even have the appropriate PUBLIC use for their former residences. A giant statue of the upraised middle finger, with the quotation, "Fuck the Poor" or "If you ain't rich, you're my bitch".
This was a deplorable decision, and whatever businesses gets the land should be boycotted. In fact, the town should be boycotted. The state should step in and eminent domain the town as a failed experiment that should not be left standing.
I've had to teach women who weren't good at math to learn college algebra (no different than high school algebra, and they hate to learn that for me it was elementary algebra) Very similar effects. It's not that they can't learn it, it is usually that they believe they can't learn it. Not too bad because occasionally you can get through and show them how. But during the next session, they often forget everything they have learned, which is very bad, because the new stuff builds on the old stuff.
So it goes with computers. Everything builds off the interfaces, the keyboard and the mouse. And if they can't or won't learn the mouse, it becomes very hard to operate a computer.
On a different note, I will often browse the intermet during meals. I eat with my right hand, so I operate the mouse with my left hand. No problem to switch mentally, use the middle finger for the left click and index for the right click. Occasionally I need to help out some coworkers on their machines, and several of them are left-handed. They have all switched the buttons to go with left handed use. It's tougher for me to use their mouse (right or left handed) than it is to just switch hands on a right handed setup.
I was asked to maintain some fortran code recently. it was an upgrade from the actual safety critical software we use. We used it to check the expected results. The operational software has been set for upgrade for the past 15 years (government of course) and it looks like it will last at least another 10 before it is replaced.
You are absolutely right, but if it hadn't been for Powell's actions, that ploy would have failed miserably. People would have seen it for the ratings grab it probably is. But instead, FOX can legitimately claim censorship concerns. What's to say one of the 'Moral' organizations isn't out to get FOX for any number of real and imagined immoralities. Any opportunity to complain and/or sue. Heck, Spongebob is being called gay by some group of idiots. Family Guy is fun to watch exactly because it is the type of show that pisses off any number of a'moral' organizations.
Since it is government property, all the cars probably will have GPS tracking any day now. Who watches the watchmen and all. Few jobs have the opportunity for abuse as Police (and Congress, but that's another discussion)
That's like telling the cop who pulled you over "I pay your salary" Try it sometime and see where it gets you. Unless you're Bill Gates, your taxes have no chance to pay for any one thing the govt does. My opinion is that yes, if he wants some small bit of data via an automated query, sure it should be free. If he requires a govt employee to do something to get it, he should pay a fee. If he wants all the data, he should pay a decent sized fee.
Who's to say he didn't just get the govt to pay for the GIS database just so he could get it all? As another taxpayer, if he is a prime beneficiary of the data, he should have ponied up more. That is primarily the reason that govt info in small amounts should be free or nearly free, but large data requests should cost, and depend on the costs of acquisition and distribution.
My example would be census data. Simple requests (population of every city, and common breakdowns, such as race, gender) should be available to everyone, via internet. A query tool of reduced data (non-privacy act data) could be made available as well, via the internet this could be easily done. The full data would only be available to the Census Bureau.
Like the parent post describes for one example, physics is physics. Starting with a satellite design book, anyone can estimate fairly well what a satellites capabilities are, given only basic details about the satellite. There's very little that is truly secret about the satellites. In many cases, it comes down to what wavelengths does it image in, how many pixels, and so on. Is it an imager or comm or signals gatherer. Basically, only the exact details can be protected, not the generalities.
Well this natural disaster is getting a lot of news coverage. Most of that is due to the fact that there are a lot of tourist locations in the affected regions. Hence, many countries have been affected. Thousands of Americans, thousands of Europeans. That makes it a page 1 event, at least for a few days. But in this case, there's no mystery as to the how, the why. The only things that can be news now is the aid. And news media are already 'creating' news on how much is being provided. Like focusing on how much the US govt is providing in direct funds, as if that is the only way the US is helping. Private donations in the US in the past week to at least one aid agency alone exceeded the total donated to that agency all of last year. Admittedly, the UK and Australia are providing a great deal of support.
But then again, when 4 hurricanes struck Florida, where was the UK support? Florida did get a lot of support, but as far as I could tell, it was all American. Fortunately, the loss of life was low in the US, but some of the Carribean got smacked around pretty hard (Jeanne killed 3000). But, hey hurricanes happen every year, and monitoring, prediction, and warning efforts are very successful (and building codes) and people can evacuate (millions of people evacuated, several times), well unless perhaps they are on those aforementioned islands. US and of course Red Cross and other agencies provided
Also, it didn't make much news over here, but didn't Japan have a couple of nasty hurricanes (tsunami?) hit them this year as well?
During the last century, we also had the flu epidemics, The Spanish flu during WW I killed 18 million or so, worldwide.
Most people lives are lived day to day. When you have to worry about all the little problems in your life, including deaths of loved ones, something thousands of miles away usually means very little. If it doesn't include people from any of my groups (race, nationality, religion, family, etc.) then I am not going to expend any further thought or concern on the matter. If you think that's wrong, well lots of people die every day; what makes these people any more special than the others? Just because they all died together? I should only care if people die in a natural disaster? I long ago learned to ignore what the media thinks is important. Let's face it, I shouldn't care what someone who is looking for attention thinks (Apply this reasoning to most slashdotters as well).
NOt only that, But I believe there are systems being designed to work with both GPS and Galileo, plus GLONASS (designed for higher latitudes--North Pole anyone? USSR now Russian system.) Plus, for those folks in Asia, there are localized guidance satellite systems based on geosynchronous satellite solutions. Those countries will likely deploy nav system that use the local plus GPS plus Galileo.
The burglar may not have had a gun at the time, but he had one within reach (the homeowner's) and was moving towards it and willing to use it. Therefore, the homeowner should have fired on the burglar. Until the burglar is stopped, the homeowner's life is in danger. The problem in California is too many Californians (and Mexicans as well). No one expects sanity out of anything from California anymore.
After training, POPFile does a pretty good job of recognizing the difference between spam from friends and spam from spammers...which unfortunately is most of my email. About a 99.2% success rate overall with 5 categories instead of just 2. Pretty good program.
My children were born at a hospital with a similar system. In fact, one time when I went out to get something for my wife, I had to wait at the elevators because a parent walking around with newborn had gotten too close to the elevators. So the elevators were disabled until they sorted it out.
When you've got your data in a spreadsheet instead of a database for one. If you've gone thru the efforts to create a database or have the ability to use SQL then you don't need pivot tables. But if you have your data in a spreadsheet, in Excel at least, the pivot table can be quite handy, and changing the way you look at the data can be easy. It's just another tool. It's basically for those times when you have too much data to look at simply and not enough to go ahead and build a proper database out of it. That's where Excel lives.
Some rough assumptions below to show how effective filtering will be. You assume that everyone will have that type of filter. Here are my assumptions for now. Assume that 20% have no filter, could be high, could be low. Another 50% have an inefficient filter, removes 50%. Another 20% have 95% efficiency. And the last 10% has 99.99% efficiency. Rough guesses and large margin of error. With those assumptions, out of 10000 emails, 4601 get through. People using filters are probably (an assumption, but reasonable) more likely not to waste their money
This brings you to the fool and his money ratio (how many emails that get through it takes to get one to send money) Hard to say with any accuracy, but the lead-in stated 30000 emails, assuming all got through. Maybe the fool and money ratio is closer to 20000 emails. So he would have to send closer to 50000 emails to get 1 money response due to filters.
The key for stopping spammers really isn't better filters. It's getting the clueless users to use them. Out of those 4601 emails that got thru, 4500 were in the classes with no or weak filtering. Those people move to the 90% filtering rate, the total goes to 801 emails, a vast reduction. You attack the problem from the other end, those who use better filters already and use a perfect filter and the total drops down to 4500. Spam filtering in the basic user email programs may be the best way to combat spam. For those who want choices, different programs for power users. But in the end it comes down to the fool and money ratio. As long as those people have access to the internet, spammers will be able to find them and part them from their money.
EA is there to make money, not take care of people. If they are treating their employees poorly who cares? If the game is good I'll buy it, if it's not I won't.
If the employees are treated poorly they should quit. That's how capitalism works, if all the good employees quit, or start demanding more and more money to make up for the poor working environment then EA will see that it's policies are not best for the bottom line and they will change. But why is everyone else up in arms? Let the employees and their employer deal with it as they should.
Well following your logic, who cares if all of their products are pirated? If I can copy it why shouldn't it? EA should build in better protection or lower prices to where its better for me to just buy the item instead of costs of copying myself/take the risk of copyright infringement. That's how capitalism works. People are there to take care of their own money, not EA. It's only illegal if you're caught/investigated. Just look at all the comments about how their (EA) practices border on the illegal (what is illegal is determined by the jury/judge/federal agency--just ask ABC re: Saving Private Ryan and Howard Stern). What goes for individuals holds true for companies in this case. Companies just have more money for brib...I mean compaign contributions.
Also this does impact people here. If EA is working their employees into the ground, it is very likely to affect the quality of their work. If I am going to drop 50 on a game, I don't want to worry if I am going to be frustrated due to bugs. So even if folks don't really care that they use slave labor, they may not drop their money on an EA product. And while that doesn't mean anything to you, it ought to mean something to EA. But maybe it won't if they feel the consumer really doesn't care.
Particularly if trying to use a file from an older version of office, or worse, when trying to work with multiple versions of Office. Then corrupt files become much more likely. All corrupted files I have ever had with Office have had at least two version of Office involved.
Yes but that might offend people who have lost the tips of extremities, say from home workshop accidents. Side story: My boss at the time (a Lt Col, USAF) lost the tip of his thumb that way. But his boss (Col, USAF) at the time had had a similar accident in the past. My boss while receiving sympathy also received one hell of a razzing for 'trying to suck up to the boss by emulating him'. Ah, it's good to be in non-politically correct environments.
I installed WinXP SP2, and so far, only one program has broken....Internet Explorer. OF course the only reason I used it was for...Windows Update. I think Microsoft is encouraging other OS use.
I love my work account. It is in the.mil domain, I get absolutely 0 unsolicited commercial emails (UCE). Now, I still get from 1-10 work related spams, but those aren't trying to sell me something.
My home spam filter is POPFile. I was away for a month. When I got back, I had about 1000 emails waiting for me. 55 were for opt-in (2/day) 20 were actual emails for me from family, and about 5 more that I was interested in and not spam. Around 900 were spam, all but one correctly identified as spam.
I still have to check every now and then to see if something was incorrectly ided as spam, but mainly only forwards from friends/family get misidentified. And truthfully most of those are really spam to me, just not UCE.
I keep a yahoo account for signups where I expect spam to quickly follow. That account gets 50-100 spams a day.
My regular mail is also spammed--most mail goes into the trash can. No automatic spam filter works there, and causes me greater hassles than spam emails do.
Common sense is also not a requirement to get a driver's license. Driving accidents kill more Americans than military actions do. So maybe we should force everyone to go through similar training to be allowed to drive a vehicle. For driving in LA, you'll be able to actually fire off some virtual rounds as well. Even better, actually encourage drunk virtual driving, just so that the trainees see what will happen when they get behind the wheel.
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To be honest, you may even be able to see it in New York. But the best place to watch is Cape Canaveral and Kennedy. I've been watching them live since 98 and it would be nice to see them again.
I've set up several non-admin accounts for the family that we use regularly, and many programs have to be run under the admin account. It is very annoying and a pain in the ass. Sometimes you won't realize it until you get the error. You'll run a program, access something someone else started using their account and have no idea that it was read only because it is under their account until you go to save. That's just one of the typical incompatibilities.
Acutally, we should convince the local governments of the 5 Justices voting yes to take THEIR houses by eminent domain. I even have the appropriate PUBLIC use for their former residences. A giant statue of the upraised middle finger, with the quotation, "Fuck the Poor" or "If you ain't rich, you're my bitch". This was a deplorable decision, and whatever businesses gets the land should be boycotted. In fact, the town should be boycotted. The state should step in and eminent domain the town as a failed experiment that should not be left standing.
So it goes with computers. Everything builds off the interfaces, the keyboard and the mouse. And if they can't or won't learn the mouse, it becomes very hard to operate a computer.
On a different note, I will often browse the intermet during meals. I eat with my right hand, so I operate the mouse with my left hand. No problem to switch mentally, use the middle finger for the left click and index for the right click. Occasionally I need to help out some coworkers on their machines, and several of them are left-handed. They have all switched the buttons to go with left handed use. It's tougher for me to use their mouse (right or left handed) than it is to just switch hands on a right handed setup.
I was asked to maintain some fortran code recently. it was an upgrade from the actual safety critical software we use. We used it to check the expected results. The operational software has been set for upgrade for the past 15 years (government of course) and it looks like it will last at least another 10 before it is replaced.
Except that the military are not allowed to do that (by law) You'll have to rely on police (or National Guard under the governor's power)
You are absolutely right, but if it hadn't been for Powell's actions, that ploy would have failed miserably. People would have seen it for the ratings grab it probably is. But instead, FOX can legitimately claim censorship concerns. What's to say one of the 'Moral' organizations isn't out to get FOX for any number of real and imagined immoralities. Any opportunity to complain and/or sue. Heck, Spongebob is being called gay by some group of idiots. Family Guy is fun to watch exactly because it is the type of show that pisses off any number of a'moral' organizations.
Since it is government property, all the cars probably will have GPS tracking any day now. Who watches the watchmen and all. Few jobs have the opportunity for abuse as Police (and Congress, but that's another discussion)
That's like telling the cop who pulled you over "I pay your salary" Try it sometime and see where it gets you. Unless you're Bill Gates, your taxes have no chance to pay for any one thing the govt does. My opinion is that yes, if he wants some small bit of data via an automated query, sure it should be free. If he requires a govt employee to do something to get it, he should pay a fee. If he wants all the data, he should pay a decent sized fee.
Who's to say he didn't just get the govt to pay for the GIS database just so he could get it all? As another taxpayer, if he is a prime beneficiary of the data, he should have ponied up more. That is primarily the reason that govt info in small amounts should be free or nearly free, but large data requests should cost, and depend on the costs of acquisition and distribution.
My example would be census data. Simple requests (population of every city, and common breakdowns, such as race, gender) should be available to everyone, via internet. A query tool of reduced data (non-privacy act data) could be made available as well, via the internet this could be easily done. The full data would only be available to the Census Bureau.
Like the parent post describes for one example, physics is physics. Starting with a satellite design book, anyone can estimate fairly well what a satellites capabilities are, given only basic details about the satellite. There's very little that is truly secret about the satellites. In many cases, it comes down to what wavelengths does it image in, how many pixels, and so on. Is it an imager or comm or signals gatherer. Basically, only the exact details can be protected, not the generalities.
But then again, when 4 hurricanes struck Florida, where was the UK support? Florida did get a lot of support, but as far as I could tell, it was all American. Fortunately, the loss of life was low in the US, but some of the Carribean got smacked around pretty hard (Jeanne killed 3000). But, hey hurricanes happen every year, and monitoring, prediction, and warning efforts are very successful (and building codes) and people can evacuate (millions of people evacuated, several times), well unless perhaps they are on those aforementioned islands. US and of course Red Cross and other agencies provided
Also, it didn't make much news over here, but didn't Japan have a couple of nasty hurricanes (tsunami?) hit them this year as well?
During the last century, we also had the flu epidemics, The Spanish flu during WW I killed 18 million or so, worldwide.
Most people lives are lived day to day. When you have to worry about all the little problems in your life, including deaths of loved ones, something thousands of miles away usually means very little. If it doesn't include people from any of my groups (race, nationality, religion, family, etc.) then I am not going to expend any further thought or concern on the matter. If you think that's wrong, well lots of people die every day; what makes these people any more special than the others? Just because they all died together? I should only care if people die in a natural disaster? I long ago learned to ignore what the media thinks is important. Let's face it, I shouldn't care what someone who is looking for attention thinks (Apply this reasoning to most slashdotters as well).
NOt only that, But I believe there are systems being designed to work with both GPS and Galileo, plus GLONASS (designed for higher latitudes--North Pole anyone? USSR now Russian system.) Plus, for those folks in Asia, there are localized guidance satellite systems based on geosynchronous satellite solutions. Those countries will likely deploy nav system that use the local plus GPS plus Galileo.
The burglar may not have had a gun at the time, but he had one within reach (the homeowner's) and was moving towards it and willing to use it. Therefore, the homeowner should have fired on the burglar. Until the burglar is stopped, the homeowner's life is in danger. The problem in California is too many Californians (and Mexicans as well). No one expects sanity out of anything from California anymore.
It was one of the Blue Collar Comedy guys, either Foxworthy or Engvall, I think Engvall.
After training, POPFile does a pretty good job of recognizing the difference between spam from friends and spam from spammers...which unfortunately is most of my email. About a 99.2% success rate overall with 5 categories instead of just 2. Pretty good program.
My children were born at a hospital with a similar system. In fact, one time when I went out to get something for my wife, I had to wait at the elevators because a parent walking around with newborn had gotten too close to the elevators. So the elevators were disabled until they sorted it out.
When you've got your data in a spreadsheet instead of a database for one. If you've gone thru the efforts to create a database or have the ability to use SQL then you don't need pivot tables. But if you have your data in a spreadsheet, in Excel at least, the pivot table can be quite handy, and changing the way you look at the data can be easy. It's just another tool. It's basically for those times when you have too much data to look at simply and not enough to go ahead and build a proper database out of it. That's where Excel lives.
Some rough assumptions below to show how effective filtering will be. You assume that everyone will have that type of filter. Here are my assumptions for now. Assume that 20% have no filter, could be high, could be low. Another 50% have an inefficient filter, removes 50%. Another 20% have 95% efficiency. And the last 10% has 99.99% efficiency. Rough guesses and large margin of error. With those assumptions, out of 10000 emails, 4601 get through. People using filters are probably (an assumption, but reasonable) more likely not to waste their money
This brings you to the fool and his money ratio (how many emails that get through it takes to get one to send money) Hard to say with any accuracy, but the lead-in stated 30000 emails, assuming all got through. Maybe the fool and money ratio is closer to 20000 emails. So he would have to send closer to 50000 emails to get 1 money response due to filters.
The key for stopping spammers really isn't better filters. It's getting the clueless users to use them. Out of those 4601 emails that got thru, 4500 were in the classes with no or weak filtering. Those people move to the 90% filtering rate, the total goes to 801 emails, a vast reduction. You attack the problem from the other end, those who use better filters already and use a perfect filter and the total drops down to 4500. Spam filtering in the basic user email programs may be the best way to combat spam. For those who want choices, different programs for power users. But in the end it comes down to the fool and money ratio. As long as those people have access to the internet, spammers will be able to find them and part them from their money.
Well following your logic, who cares if all of their products are pirated? If I can copy it why shouldn't it? EA should build in better protection or lower prices to where its better for me to just buy the item instead of costs of copying myself/take the risk of copyright infringement. That's how capitalism works. People are there to take care of their own money, not EA. It's only illegal if you're caught/investigated. Just look at all the comments about how their (EA) practices border on the illegal (what is illegal is determined by the jury/judge/federal agency--just ask ABC re: Saving Private Ryan and Howard Stern). What goes for individuals holds true for companies in this case. Companies just have more money for brib...I mean compaign contributions.
Also this does impact people here. If EA is working their employees into the ground, it is very likely to affect the quality of their work. If I am going to drop 50 on a game, I don't want to worry if I am going to be frustrated due to bugs. So even if folks don't really care that they use slave labor, they may not drop their money on an EA product. And while that doesn't mean anything to you, it ought to mean something to EA. But maybe it won't if they feel the consumer really doesn't care.
Particularly if trying to use a file from an older version of office, or worse, when trying to work with multiple versions of Office. Then corrupt files become much more likely. All corrupted files I have ever had with Office have had at least two version of Office involved.
Yes but that might offend people who have lost the tips of extremities, say from home workshop accidents. Side story: My boss at the time (a Lt Col, USAF) lost the tip of his thumb that way. But his boss (Col, USAF) at the time had had a similar accident in the past. My boss while receiving sympathy also received one hell of a razzing for 'trying to suck up to the boss by emulating him'. Ah, it's good to be in non-politically correct environments.
I installed WinXP SP2, and so far, only one program has broken....Internet Explorer. OF course the only reason I used it was for ...Windows Update. I think Microsoft is encouraging other OS use.
I love my work account. It is in the .mil domain, I get absolutely 0 unsolicited commercial emails (UCE). Now, I still get from 1-10 work related spams, but those aren't trying to sell me something.
My home spam filter is POPFile. I was away for a month. When I got back, I had about 1000 emails waiting for me. 55 were for opt-in (2/day) 20 were actual emails for me from family, and about 5 more that I was interested in and not spam. Around 900 were spam, all but one correctly identified as spam.
I still have to check every now and then to see if something was incorrectly ided as spam, but mainly only forwards from friends/family get misidentified. And truthfully most of those are really spam to me, just not UCE.
I keep a yahoo account for signups where I expect spam to quickly follow. That account gets 50-100 spams a day.
My regular mail is also spammed--most mail goes into the trash can. No automatic spam filter works there, and causes me greater hassles than spam emails do.
GPS is a low power signal. Wouldn't need to spoof it, just block it. Bad readings would be more suspicious than no readings.
Common sense is also not a requirement to get a driver's license. Driving accidents kill more Americans than military actions do. So maybe we should force everyone to go through similar training to be allowed to drive a vehicle. For driving in LA, you'll be able to actually fire off some virtual rounds as well. Even better, actually encourage drunk virtual driving, just so that the trainees see what will happen when they get behind the wheel.