It's all psychological. The polygraph is there to make you want to be as honest and accurate on your application as humanly possible. People will be far less likely to try to conceal or omit things if they know that the accuracy of their application will be asked about during a polygraph. They don't really care all that much about the actual results - it's there as a sort of panopticon for the hiring process.
Get real. Our current enemies can barely figure out how to operate a forty year old rpg. Where are they going to get the equipment, the knowledge, or the skill to conduct "fancy electronic spoofing"? Besides, it's not like it would be difficult to exactly track the location of the vehicles from a command center. If you see any deviation from the planned route, send Apaches.
Neither format takes full use of compression to allow more video content to be stored on an individual disc; if you look at WMV-HD you can fit HD movies on a conventional DVD, so you should be able to (using the same compression) fit the entire LotR movies on a single HD-DVD/Blu-Ray disc (but you can't because neither format supports decent compression).
Are you sure? I was under the impression that both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD standards would support VC1 for sure, which is basically a standardization of WMV9.
So what is it going to be used for? Suicide bomber cars?
Unlikely, as they would be too easy to intercept and destroy. What they really want to use them for is logistics. So much of the military's manpower is concentrated on logistics, that's where the real potential for saving money and saving lives is. What they really want is a convoy of trucks that can be programmed to go from Supply Base A to Tactical Operations Center B, then proceed to Staging Area C, without having to put human drivers in the vehicles.
I second this. It works really well. Don't let an irrational hatred of thermal printers based on register receipt printers turn you off to the Dymo Labelwriters.
I'm sure people will use a killer app if it was called "U Nasty" if it did what the users wanted.
I'm sure you're wrong, because no PHB is seriously going to consider allowing the installation of a program called "U Nasty" on a stodgy corporate network. Convincing them to use "Firefox" is hard enough! It should be named "Internet Navigator Professional 2005."
Nah, the reason for a tollbooth is increased revenue.
It is also to prevent over-utilization. The tolls are set high enough to discourage casual crossing, making sure that traffic remains flowing for productive activity.
I've done it. It works. It was pretty awesome, actually - I would edit the code on Visual studio, but the project lived on the Linux box, so changes happened live.
You're missing the point. The problem is not that metadata can be accessed for files that the user should not have access to; this is trivial with NTFS/UNIX file permissions, and I don't anticipate that it will be a problem in Vista. The problem is controlling access to files that you DO have access to. For example, I may want to give you access to a file without giving you access to the metadata, or I may have some files for which I want metadata to be ignored, or contain false metadata, and so on. These problems are *NOT* implementation-specific, they are inherent to any metadata scheme, which isn't to say that there aren't solutions, just not obvious nor simple ones.
Most of the time looks like you must guess the correct date.
No, it is a de-facto standard in this country. That is the way dates virtually all dates are written, so there is not often confusion. For international compatibility, we use named months or the ISO format. The U.S. military, for example, has standardized on YYYYMMDD (and HHMM, obviously).
Incidentally, it's not entirely without logic. The order of the numbers matches the way we usually talk, i.e., ("December Twenty-First, Two-thousand and five"). Except for the the holiday colloquially known as the "4th of July," the vast majority of people say it in the format, "month day, year." Whether the written or oral ordering of the date this way came first, or simultaneously, I do not know, but it is at least consistent.
You should consider downloading the Rhapsody music service client (I guess you can use it in a browser, now, too.) You can search track names, artist names, album name, or composer names, but the primary level of classification is artist. Click an artist to view their discography in chronological order. The really nice thing is that you can click the "view all" button to see albums and tracks that exist but are not available on the service, so you can usually get the complete discography.
My guess is that the overall efficiency is horrid, because you've got the weight of the battery, the weight of the traction motors and the weight of the generator.
But you use a smaller-sized (and presumably) lighter engine - tuned for maximum efficiency by operating continuously at a specific rpm - and eliminate the mechanical transmission entirely. My guess is it would be a wash. Use ultracapacitors instead of batteries and maybe you come out ahead.
No, what you discribe is not what OP was talking about. He's talking about things like when you go to "my computer," and it shows your system volumes. Along the side of the window, it also shows hyperlinks, such as: (In the "System Tasks" pane) "View System Information", "Add or Remove Programs", "Change a Setting", (In the "Other Places" pane) "My Network Places", "My Documents", "Shared Documents", "Control Panel". Seems sort of ho-hum, but the thing to note is that as you navigate around and click on different things, the options change as appropriate. For instance, go to your home folder, and the options change to "Make a new folder", "Publish the folder to the web", "Share this folder". Select a file, it changes to various file management functions. Go into your pictures folder, it gives you picture management functions. Etc., etc.
To most power users, it is a pointless waste of space, because they already know those features exist, and know where to find them. But to new or inexperienced users, it really is a productive interface. Microsoft has implemented this interface in both Windows and Office to great effect.
Hopefully the Asterisk devs will implement this and quick. I'm dying for something like MS Live Communications Server (with the Office Communicator) that works with Asterisk.
Why would a diesel electric be more efficient? You've got losses in the generator and losses in the traction motor, not to mention the need to link the two. Unless you need the massive low-speed torque of an electric motor, what's the up side?
Generators and motors can really be quite efficient. Keep in mind a traditional mechanical transmission is not 100% efficient either. I think you could see significant efficiency gains by (a) enabling the diesel to operate at its most efficient point, depending purely on the power demanded, (b) energy recovery through regenerative braking, and (c) smaller displacement. Current ICE engines have to be able to generate maximum required output power at any given time. Using a diesel-electric, you can store energy in reserves during periods of reduced demand, and draw from the reserves during peak demand, so you can get away with using a smaller displacement engine.
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It's all psychological. The polygraph is there to make you want to be as honest and accurate on your application as humanly possible. People will be far less likely to try to conceal or omit things if they know that the accuracy of their application will be asked about during a polygraph. They don't really care all that much about the actual results - it's there as a sort of panopticon for the hiring process.
That's just like my idea for a Jump To Conclusions Mat. You see, it's this mat, with different conclusions on it...
Get real. Our current enemies can barely figure out how to operate a forty year old rpg. Where are they going to get the equipment, the knowledge, or the skill to conduct "fancy electronic spoofing"? Besides, it's not like it would be difficult to exactly track the location of the vehicles from a command center. If you see any deviation from the planned route, send Apaches.
Are you sure? I was under the impression that both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD standards would support VC1 for sure, which is basically a standardization of WMV9.
Unlikely, as they would be too easy to intercept and destroy. What they really want to use them for is logistics. So much of the military's manpower is concentrated on logistics, that's where the real potential for saving money and saving lives is. What they really want is a convoy of trucks that can be programmed to go from Supply Base A to Tactical Operations Center B, then proceed to Staging Area C, without having to put human drivers in the vehicles.
I second this. It works really well. Don't let an irrational hatred of thermal printers based on register receipt printers turn you off to the Dymo Labelwriters.
Okay, great! So "Gnome" is pronounced "Nome," because when a "gn" starts a word, the "g" is silent. Right?
I'm sure you're wrong, because no PHB is seriously going to consider allowing the installation of a program called "U Nasty" on a stodgy corporate network. Convincing them to use "Firefox" is hard enough! It should be named "Internet Navigator Professional 2005."
It is also to prevent over-utilization. The tolls are set high enough to discourage casual crossing, making sure that traffic remains flowing for productive activity.
Yes, it's type.
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/ is a great example of a highly usable, nicely polished .NET desktop application.
I've done it. It works. It was pretty awesome, actually - I would edit the code on Visual studio, but the project lived on the Linux box, so changes happened live.
Huh? Ever heard of a little thing called ASP.NET?
You're missing the point. The problem is not that metadata can be accessed for files that the user should not have access to; this is trivial with NTFS/UNIX file permissions, and I don't anticipate that it will be a problem in Vista. The problem is controlling access to files that you DO have access to. For example, I may want to give you access to a file without giving you access to the metadata, or I may have some files for which I want metadata to be ignored, or contain false metadata, and so on. These problems are *NOT* implementation-specific, they are inherent to any metadata scheme, which isn't to say that there aren't solutions, just not obvious nor simple ones.
You speak as though taxes are not themselves an unavoidable drain on the profits of a small business.
No, it is a de-facto standard in this country. That is the way dates virtually all dates are written, so there is not often confusion. For international compatibility, we use named months or the ISO format. The U.S. military, for example, has standardized on YYYYMMDD (and HHMM, obviously).
Incidentally, it's not entirely without logic. The order of the numbers matches the way we usually talk, i.e., ("December Twenty-First, Two-thousand and five"). Except for the the holiday colloquially known as the "4th of July," the vast majority of people say it in the format, "month day, year." Whether the written or oral ordering of the date this way came first, or simultaneously, I do not know, but it is at least consistent.
"Grepnet" is silly-sounding but also applicable.
Wow, you're behind the times. MS pioneered the scroll wheel back in 1996, almost 10 years ago.
What if you kill and restart explorer.exe? Does that make a difference?
You should consider downloading the Rhapsody music service client (I guess you can use it in a browser, now, too.) You can search track names, artist names, album name, or composer names, but the primary level of classification is artist. Click an artist to view their discography in chronological order. The really nice thing is that you can click the "view all" button to see albums and tracks that exist but are not available on the service, so you can usually get the complete discography.
But you use a smaller-sized (and presumably) lighter engine - tuned for maximum efficiency by operating continuously at a specific rpm - and eliminate the mechanical transmission entirely. My guess is it would be a wash. Use ultracapacitors instead of batteries and maybe you come out ahead.
To most power users, it is a pointless waste of space, because they already know those features exist, and know where to find them. But to new or inexperienced users, it really is a productive interface. Microsoft has implemented this interface in both Windows and Office to great effect.
Hopefully the Asterisk devs will implement this and quick. I'm dying for something like MS Live Communications Server (with the Office Communicator) that works with Asterisk.
Generators and motors can really be quite efficient. Keep in mind a traditional mechanical transmission is not 100% efficient either. I think you could see significant efficiency gains by (a) enabling the diesel to operate at its most efficient point, depending purely on the power demanded, (b) energy recovery through regenerative braking, and (c) smaller displacement. Current ICE engines have to be able to generate maximum required output power at any given time. Using a diesel-electric, you can store energy in reserves during periods of reduced demand, and draw from the reserves during peak demand, so you can get away with using a smaller displacement engine.