There have certainly been spy sattelites launched from the shuttle, a quick google will reveal stories about those missions that appeared in major newspapers.
It's also not mandatory in any jusisdiction I know of if it's not raining or snowing. They're pushing it from the manufacturers' end with daytime running lights instead.
Israel offered Gaza to the Egyptians as part of the Sinai withdrawal. They wouldn't take it. Egypt is arguably more afraid of radical islamists than Israel, and demonstrably harsher in their treatment of them.
For example, I could see 3D artists using 4 or 8 cores easily.
We already are. Distributed single-frame rendering across a network is here today in many different renderers. The returns seem to diminish around 10 CPUs or so with current tech due to network/job management overhead, but if I could get an 8-core or 16-core machine today (at a reasonable price), I would.
At that time, the average cost to the bank per over the counter teller transaction was close to $1.00. The average cost to the bank for ATM transactions was $0.25. The average cost to the bank of online banking transactions was $0.02.
I hear bankers are really good at math.
Then how come I get charged for using an ATM, while teller service is free?
Of course, I've never really understood the point of a bank branch at all except as a place to install safe deposit boxes, and haven't lived in the same state as my bank in a long time.
The 'contest of strength' could come from entering button sequences on the controller in some kind of fast-paced rock-paper-scissors minigame. And you'd _feel_ it in your forearm.
I suggest you read up on Ali Soufan's work in investigating the Cole bombing and the networks that make up Al-Quaeda. As the author of a recent article on Soufan related in an interview:
Q: In your article, you describe Soufan's interrogation techniques. He engaged the suspects; he won their respect; he debated them on theological issues. In interrogations he carried out just after 9/11, these techniques worked very well; he got crucial information about the hijackers and their connections. His methods were very different from the "extreme measures" that we've been hearing about--waterboarding, sleep deprivation, humiliation--and that are being justified on the grounds that they're the only way to get this kind of information. Have we been given a false choice between abusing prisoners or letting something terrible happen?
A: Ali Soufan has shown that intelligent and careful interrogation can achieve real results. And it helps immensely, obviously, to have the language and cultural skills that he does. There are very few people in the American intelligence community that have his set of talents. The U.S. is known to have used these sorts of tactics. You mention the C.I.A.'s impulse has been to deliver Al Qaeda suspects to foreign intelligence agencies that could torture them and extract information the C.I.A. thought it couldn't otherwise obtain. However, what this abuse has yielded from the top Al Qaeda lieutenants is questionable. And I think that's because it's untrustworthy information obtained under torture.
Q: So the problem with torture isn't just that it's torture-- that it compromises America ethically, morally--but that torture doesn't always work.
A: It doesn't work. It often is misleading, as in the case of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, an Al Qaeda lieutenant who was tortured into saying that Saddam Hussein worked with Al Qaeda and had weapons of mass destruction. That was the information that the U.S. was trying to get out of him, and he gave it to the interrogators under torture, and that became part of the rationale for the U.S. going to war with Iraq--a disastrous consequence of choosing an unethical approach to gaining information.
There will be no settlement, and all avenues of appeal are being asphyxiated through a rigorous campaign of I-dotting and T-crossing.
SCO will stand for Smoking Crater Organization (formerly and once again Caldera), and perhaps SEC Comin' Over as well.
IBM has more or less bet the company on the viability of Linux, and their reputation for following contracts and respecting copyrights must remain ironclad for them to be credible as an organization enterprises can entrust with their most vital data.
SCO has no case, and there are many signs that the lawsuit is a suicide attack to buy time for the release of Vista, but IBM is making absolutely sure there will be no stain on Linux going forward, no matter how implausible.
Ford's pardon wasn't so much a cynical political move as an attempt to move the country onward. The deep national distrust of politicians engendered by the Nixon and Johnson administrations hadn't yet taken root in the culture, and lofty ideals could be spoken of more or less without irony. I don't know in the current climate whether a pardon or a lack of one would come off worse from a president of either party.
There's also the highly problematic fact that Bush likely has a great deal more to answer for than Nixon did.
Go down to your local DMV and spend a morning observing a more or less random sample from the general population. My guess is you'll drop that view right quick and consider the alternative hypothesis that you're hanging out in places where young, attractive people tend to congregate.
Yes, affixing a sticker with a malicious barcode over a legitimate one, then trying to make a purchase would be impossible. Not to mention a discount club key tag, which could be altered by the attacker at leisure.
I'm not sure. Stephenson is so heavily dependent on descriptions of characters' perceptions of their world that I would think it'd be really hard to film his work, even something structurally simpler like Zodiac. Sure, neo-victorians riding diamond airships around could be visually stunning, but the society portrayed is so different from ours it'd be hard to film without a lot of boring speeches.
Perhaps a treatment using a few vignettes, a la Sin City or Mystery Train could work, though.
Since they are rightfully in posession of the passwords file and usernames on the system, I imagine they ran a dictionary attack against all the user accounts.
2. the semantic mapping of the extension to filetype, WTF?
That bothered me at first, but it's a pretty nice convention to follow, so why not build it into the shell?
I don't recall DOS ever enforcing anything like that, other than.exe,.com, and.sys files. In fact, it was common in the pre-win95 days to see any of the following included with a new download: README, READ.ME, README.1ST, README.TXT, and everyone knew they were text files you viewed with edit.exe or |more.
In my family, the switch to win95 was a bit traumatic, as the naming convention for all my mom's Wordperfect documents was to have the.3 devoted to the month and year of original creation (and in Oct.-Dec., the 8th character of the filename): LETTER.491, or HALLOWE1.089. That was fun to deal with on hundreds of files.
Just like MTV used to play music videos, things change into new an creative ways to gouge us and subject us to advertising AND monthly fees.
I hate to break it to you, but when MTV showed only videos, it was an all-commercials channel. Now they actually run programs, albeit of the complete shite variety.
As I said, I'm not counting games (which I generally install to other partitions). I am counting, however, the last 4 versions of 3ds max (for accessing older projects/interoperating with clients), 2 versions of Photoshop (6 for speed, CS2 for power), 2 versions of Acrobat, the current AutoCAD, Sony Vegas, Quicktime/iTunes, MS Office 97, and dozens of other supporting apps, utilities, and plugins. My Progams total about 5 GB, and my Windows directory is 2 GB. Add a 6-year, 1.5 GB mail store, and it's plenty roomy for the forseeable life of this machine.
15 GB of free HDD space (if you don't have this free, I don't know what else to say)
My Win2k workstation loaded with CAD, graphics, NLE, and 3D animation apps has a 10 GB partition for Windows and all installed software, and has done fine with same for a long time, leaving the hundreds of remaining GB on the machine free for lots of huge data files and the occasional game install. I find an install directory larger than a dual-layer DVD rather shocking.
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There have certainly been spy sattelites launched from the shuttle, a quick google will reveal stories about those missions that appeared in major newspapers.
It's also not mandatory in any jusisdiction I know of if it's not raining or snowing. They're pushing it from the manufacturers' end with daytime running lights instead.
Israel offered Gaza to the Egyptians as part of the Sinai withdrawal. They wouldn't take it. Egypt is arguably more afraid of radical islamists than Israel, and demonstrably harsher in their treatment of them.
Please try to avoid talking about Kafka and that worthless French fuckwit in the same breath.
Pould you prefer Miss Cleo or Dionne Warwick?
How about George Orwell? Oh, wait...
We already are. Distributed single-frame rendering across a network is here today in many different renderers. The returns seem to diminish around 10 CPUs or so with current tech due to network/job management overhead, but if I could get an 8-core or 16-core machine today (at a reasonable price), I would.
Would you prefer "crypto-fascist?"
Ironically, Enron's motto was actually "ask why."
I'm genuinely curious - what benefit do you see in letting people who can't pass a basic safety test own a gun?
I go into a bank where I'm not an account holder, and I can get $20 in quarters from a teller at no extra charge.
At that same bank, making an ATM withdrawal can cost me as much as $2.50.
I hear bankers are really good at math.
Then how come I get charged for using an ATM, while teller service is free?
Of course, I've never really understood the point of a bank branch at all except as a place to install safe deposit boxes, and haven't lived in the same state as my bank in a long time.
The 'contest of strength' could come from entering button sequences on the controller in some kind of fast-paced rock-paper-scissors minigame. And you'd _feel_ it in your forearm.
Q: In your article, you describe Soufan's interrogation techniques. He engaged the suspects; he won their respect; he debated them on theological issues. In interrogations he carried out just after 9/11, these techniques worked very well; he got crucial information about the hijackers and their connections. His methods were very different from the "extreme measures" that we've been hearing about--waterboarding, sleep deprivation, humiliation--and that are being justified on the grounds that they're the only way to get this kind of information. Have we been given a false choice between abusing prisoners or letting something terrible happen?
A: Ali Soufan has shown that intelligent and careful interrogation can achieve real results. And it helps immensely, obviously, to have the language and cultural skills that he does. There are very few people in the American intelligence community that have his set of talents. The U.S. is known to have used these sorts of tactics. You mention the C.I.A.'s impulse has been to deliver Al Qaeda suspects to foreign intelligence agencies that could torture them and extract information the C.I.A. thought it couldn't otherwise obtain. However, what this abuse has yielded from the top Al Qaeda lieutenants is questionable. And I think that's because it's untrustworthy information obtained under torture.
Q: So the problem with torture isn't just that it's torture-- that it compromises America ethically, morally--but that torture doesn't always work.
A: It doesn't work. It often is misleading, as in the case of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, an Al Qaeda lieutenant who was tortured into saying that Saddam Hussein worked with Al Qaeda and had weapons of mass destruction. That was the information that the U.S. was trying to get out of him, and he gave it to the interrogators under torture, and that became part of the rationale for the U.S. going to war with Iraq--a disastrous consequence of choosing an unethical approach to gaining information.
SCO will stand for Smoking Crater Organization (formerly and once again Caldera), and perhaps SEC Comin' Over as well.
IBM has more or less bet the company on the viability of Linux, and their reputation for following contracts and respecting copyrights must remain ironclad for them to be credible as an organization enterprises can entrust with their most vital data.
SCO has no case, and there are many signs that the lawsuit is a suicide attack to buy time for the release of Vista, but IBM is making absolutely sure there will be no stain on Linux going forward, no matter how implausible.
There's also the highly problematic fact that Bush likely has a great deal more to answer for than Nixon did.
Go down to your local DMV and spend a morning observing a more or less random sample from the general population. My guess is you'll drop that view right quick and consider the alternative hypothesis that you're hanging out in places where young, attractive people tend to congregate.
Yes, affixing a sticker with a malicious barcode over a legitimate one, then trying to make a purchase would be impossible. Not to mention a discount club key tag, which could be altered by the attacker at leisure.
Perhaps a treatment using a few vignettes, a la Sin City or Mystery Train could work, though.
OK, then, a chip that requires electrical contact to be read, like you find in smart cards.
Since they are rightfully in posession of the passwords file and usernames on the system, I imagine they ran a dictionary attack against all the user accounts.
That bothered me at first, but it's a pretty nice convention to follow, so why not build it into the shell?
I don't recall DOS ever enforcing anything like that, other than .exe, .com, and .sys files. In fact, it was common in the pre-win95 days to see any of the following included with a new download: README, READ.ME, README.1ST, README.TXT, and everyone knew they were text files you viewed with edit.exe or |more.
In my family, the switch to win95 was a bit traumatic, as the naming convention for all my mom's Wordperfect documents was to have the .3 devoted to the month and year of original creation (and in Oct.-Dec., the 8th character of the filename): LETTER.491, or HALLOWE1.089. That was fun to deal with on hundreds of files.
Not quite. I still remember the pain of trying to use standard formats like JPEG across multiple applications back in the system 6/7 days.
I hate to break it to you, but when MTV showed only videos, it was an all-commercials channel. Now they actually run programs, albeit of the complete shite variety.
I wouldn't be so sure. The iPod hi-fi's lack of radio functionality is even harder to understand if so.
As I said, I'm not counting games (which I generally install to other partitions). I am counting, however, the last 4 versions of 3ds max (for accessing older projects/interoperating with clients), 2 versions of Photoshop (6 for speed, CS2 for power), 2 versions of Acrobat, the current AutoCAD, Sony Vegas, Quicktime/iTunes, MS Office 97, and dozens of other supporting apps, utilities, and plugins. My Progams total about 5 GB, and my Windows directory is 2 GB. Add a 6-year, 1.5 GB mail store, and it's plenty roomy for the forseeable life of this machine.
My Win2k workstation loaded with CAD, graphics, NLE, and 3D animation apps has a 10 GB partition for Windows and all installed software, and has done fine with same for a long time, leaving the hundreds of remaining GB on the machine free for lots of huge data files and the occasional game install. I find an install directory larger than a dual-layer DVD rather shocking.