Agreed, Microsoft should pull MS Office from Apple and listen to the whinning.
"what? you are begging for our applications and you have stuck your foot in your mouth by creating boot camp"
On a side note, I wish Apple would grow a pair and release Final Cut Pro on Windows or better just release their OS. Only way I could enjoy FCP was during a couple random early college courses where they provided Macs and AutoCAD support on the Mac was dropped for like 10 years on the Mac since the early 90's.
Their latest one though with the PC character going through all the ages of MS OS are pretty lame, the whole "it's not gonna have any of the problems the last OS had...." and not to mention the fact that maybe MS might have actually created a fairly secure and speedy OS with Win7.
Vista didn't get enough credit though, although Win7 handles UAC better but by now most applications have adapted to the Vista style driver system and Vista took most of the hits to roll out the red carpet for Win7.
We will upgrade because that's the nature of the business and I think MS has really got it this time with performance and security. Nothing impressed me with Mac's and any other OS's. Laptop prices are coming down like crazy and saw a nice mini laptop for $210 and 15" screen one for $410 with Win7. My boss is 'tighter than a frogs ass under water', but that is smart in this economy.
XP you have to tiptoe around with and be careful what you handle, Vista/Win7 are pretty damn sandboxed in and secure. It also nice to have that sense of security by not getting hit by drive by downloads and random downloads out there.
Got a cheap($149) presale OEM copy of Win7 Ultimate at FRY's so I hopped on it since I figured might as well get my moneys worth out of since day one and I kind of pirated my way through with XP. OEM is fine because I can change all the hardware, you just might have to call them up and basically tell them "yes, this is the only computer that is running Windows now".
Ummm *true* XP compatibility and polished drivers now that Vista took the brutal hit on the new driver system, so most developers have dove into the new driver system. I think Linux missed the biggest opportunity ever to swoop in on the Vista blunder, they let it slip right through their fingers and didn't impress any businesses.
XP is getting pretty damn old now, what more else is there to explain besides support being dropped in the near future and machines that are 8+ years old.
People didn't switch to Vista because it was a little bloat(graphics system) until the service pack and hardware prices had not caught up to the performance demanded by it, almost all developers have released Vista drivers which are more than likely to be compatible with Win7. Vista just rolled out the red carpet for Win7, of course most will not switch switch until a service pack for Win7 but already the stability and minimal hardware requirments make it very appealing.
XP is that damn good though still as you can see by some of the defenders of it around here, but I never saw any of the praising for it around here until Vista was about to be launched. All of a sudden it was actually a good OS.
So don't rush right away to demand an ansewer right yet as to why you should upgrade, you just have to wait it out like any desktop OS and let your environment/economy allow you to change over.
If you are a regular user, than the next 2 years will be great years to get deals on laptops/desktops with Win7 if you have been waiting. Business people will allow the the usual 1 year or service pack to sink in and than make the transition. XP still might be a lot of the backbone of some core applications but with Win7 XP compatibility it is looking more than ever appealing.
P.S. - We don't plan on upgrading any of our computers in our engineer and drafting room, those AutoCAD programs are essential and nothing too revolutionary has happened in AutoCAD that makes us want to upgrade to the newest versions. Although AutoCAD does support Vista and most of our older file formats have long been dropped that were only supported under >XP.
Yep that is 100% correct and I can contest to that.
Even during our senior year in high school all of us seemed to have our medical marijuana cards even though we couldn't even buy alcohol/cigarettes. Although fake ID's were a lot easier to get back than before 9/11.
It is bad in Los Angeles County in some areas, you have all these gangsters who see these places as a huge lottery if they get in there. Not only do you get the weed but also lots of cash moving through these places, guys showing up drunk to these places and just general abuse. Far cry from when they first opened and everything was not behind bars like it is these days with the security guard strapped as soon as you walk in.
I contest I pulled the old *chronic back pain* to get mine, but I didn't renew my card after seeing how much abuse was going on and the real marijuana patients were still getting harassed by the feds.
If you live in L.A., we are currently at the epicenter(get it?) of the Marijuana controversy. You see the state of California is at odds with the Feds and the District Attorney of Los Angeles, they have been hounding to shut these places down. Well Obama just told the Feds to "cool it" on cracking down on the dispenseries and to respect *STATE LAWS*, the L.A. D.A. still has not cooled off and is trying to take this through the courts.
Additionally I can get just as good stuff as the dispenseries with 30% less tax on it.
I paid $1 and its a good game, I pirated it earlier and it was just sitting in a folder waiting to be extracted. I don't know why I never unzipped it to install, but as soon as I bought it I got into it. Although got bored after level 3.
You have to pay more than 30cents so that the company gets some of the money rather than Paypal getting it all.
Everywhere I have gone in the world Ukraine, Russia, Germany, England, Mexico.... they all love the curse word becuase it is so easy to use and describes the situation.
He even has his buddy help him out, tag team action on the donkey? *high five* "very nice"
On a side note, they have a UAV operations center somewhere by Tustin, California and you can talk to the guys at the bar after they get off a days work of UAV surveillance. Of course it is all classified, but I read a couple places where some guys got into discussion with them.
Weird you go to war in the morning and come home to your kids/wife in the evening.
There was just a huge discussion about these type of wars and how Nuclear weapons have allowed us to avoid massive casualties and WW3, how we now have these never ending mini wars with the Middle East.
Obviously the designers know this is designed for a warzone like Afghanistan in mind, this is the best bang for buck surveillance tool to use in Afghanistan and certain areas of Iraq. The JLENS can already detect cruise missiles from 340 miles away, I think these guys know what they are doing and are smart enought to deploy it in areas where they are not threatened. So this has long been though out, probably since WW2.
They are actually already deployed in FOB in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2004, what is it 2009 now and I think these things have proven their point.
The U.S Army's Space and Missile Defense command plans to have an unmanned spy-ship capable of loitering at 20,000-feet (for up to three weeks) ready to deploy by mid-2011.
Dubbed the Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV), the craft will be based on Lockheed Martin's P-791 experimental hybrid airship, which you can see in the video below. The smaller P-791 was 125-foot long, but flew six tests in 2006. It's known as a hybrid because only 80% of its lift comes from buoyancy; the other 20% comes from three downward thrusters on each side.
Actually, the guy was running a chop shop and had a house of stolen goods that will easily be traceable.
These are the scumbags who collect all the stuff from your car that had its window smashed in to grab that thing that is worth $5, still doesn't justify this though. Although this happens all the time where officers go through these drug deals houses and they have all the latest expensive gadgets and toys.
Although to be truthful, I have seen silly stuff like this even on the show COPS. I remember they did some Miama drug raid and found all these silly toys this guy had, everytime they would pull something out they would play with it and set it down.
9 hours of searching though the house, something like a year of previous surveillance leading up to get the warrant for the raid and the operation they listed cost about $4,000. I was surprised they listed the actual cost of the operation, but the previous surveillance had to involve lots of paid man hours of just sitting watching in the car. Which basically makes the warrant voided and illegal as soon as the cops turned on that Wii.
Shitty ass article on Slashdot cannot even link to a Youtube link or comment by the police, here all of 10 seconds it took me.
With guns drawn and flashlights cutting through darkened rooms, Polk County undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco near Lakeland in March.
As investigators searched the home for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering Difalco's house, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame.
While some detectives hauled out evidence such as flat screen televisions and shotguns, others threw strikes, gutter balls and worked on picking up spares.
A Polk County sheriff's detective cataloging evidence repeatedly put down her work and picked up a Wii remote to bowl. When she hit two strikes in a row, she raised her arms above her head, jumping and kicking.
While a female detective lifted a nearby couch looking for evidence, another sheriff's detective focused on pin action.
But detectives with the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the Auburndale, Lakeland and Winter Haven police departments did not know that a wireless security camera connected to a computer inside Difalco's home was recording their activity.
The recording obtained by News Channel 8 showed several members of the county's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force entering the house shortly after 8 a.m. According to the search warrant, their mission was to search for drugs, stolen property and the fruits of any illegal drug activity.
Now there are questions on how the impromptu bowling tournament might affect the case against Difalco.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd denies it will have any effect.
"That absolutely is not true; that doesn't invalidate the search at all," Judd said. "Now the defendant would like for it to invalidate the search, but unfortunately for him, it won't."
Judd, who watched the video during an interview last week, called the situation an embarrassment.
"I'm not pleased that they played that Wii bowling game," Judd said. The sheriff's office oversees the drug task force. Judd said he initiated an internal administrative investigation of the incident.
"That is not appropriate conduct at a search warrant," he said. "But I am less pleased with the supervision that didn't walk in and say, turn that off. That's what supervision should have done."
It's not all that bad, Discovery might be bad but there is Discovery Science so don't be so quick to tarnish the Discovery brand.
Right now they have on tonight.... -PopSci's Future Of -How It's Made -Next World - Future home designs -Building the Future -Exploring Einstein: Life of a Genius -Dark Secret of Hendrik Schon -Einstein Beautiful Equation -In Too Deep -Patent Blending -Beyond Tomorrow -Big -Master Blaster
That is a listing of all the shows for the next 8+ hours, that is extreme science coverage right there.
The good channels are still there, it's just we have a lot more channels and choices these days. I find it more interesting that people expect Science out of T.V..
On my summer trip to Washington D.C. and many of the museums like the Natural History, I noticed most of the pieces were donated by very rich people or they had huge galleries that were donated by them.
I think most of them started off in private collectors hands and when they die they will donate them to remember their names.
You can only get so old and rich that there comes a point where you want to be remembered and money can't buy it.
Just wait, eventually deals come around. Check daily
They had just a month ago upgrades for purchase at $49 for Home Premium upgrade and $119 for Ultimate version.
Now I don't know about you, I took advantage of the free Vista Business copy when they did the deal to launch Vista. I got 3 copies out of it, basically I told them the cd-key was smeared and I needed a new one(haha sold to other people). Free is free. Now I have 2 copies of Vista Business that can be upgraded. Although to be honest the hardware capability has caught up to Vista and they have all but fixed the issues with the SP patches I like everyone else pirated XP all the way up to Vista, I kind of regret not actually purchasing a legit XP key because it was really a good OS and the upgrading would have been cheaper if I had not come across the free Vista copies. Windows 7 looks like a solid product I could invest in as a power user, since I will most likely transfer the key to my next upgraded rig. Though the laptop scene is looking better and better every year, they have more than enough power these days to handle the latest games and are better at upgrading.
The party part gets real corny for a lot of people, me personally I am a little worried on how to throw a party like that and attract the people to it without drugs or alcohol. A Windows 7 kegger party?
Well SDTV are starting to really get the short end of the stick.
The HDTV haters might not see it, but more and more of the picture on the screen is starting to be cut off. I notice it more and more with cropped movies and newscastj, text being cut off on the bottom of the screen.
don't forget about them almost burning down the space station, when they didn't test some not so flammable material which shot out a 4 foot flame and almost burnt through the outer wall.
Add to it all the banned chemicals and other stuff they used to make those rockets still contaminates the ground.
Speaking as someone who lives a couple blocks from Boeing and their Huntington Beach facility where they built the second stage rockets for the Saturn and much of the space industry, there are still efforts to get it cleaned up and yet I drive by those rusting buckets everyday that stored all the heavy acids/leads. I guess while filling those bins they would constantly overflow and splash out the side, you will hear some crazy stories from a lot of the aerospace guys in what they used to dump in the ground and get away with.
This was all done right next to one of the last great wetlands Bolsa Chica left in California also, literally one of the biggest bird sanctuaries and untouched. So now they are injecting the sites around there with this chemical that is supposed to extract all this stuff at a cost of a couple million, so the costs for Apollo go well beyond the initial development costs.
I am sure the EPA would have a different say these days and the costs to contain the facility would be pretty high.
Theres nothing worse than a heckler, they are the most bitter type of people who contribute nothing creatively to life.
Serioulsy who cares if people like Britney Spears and American Idol, it gives them joy in their life and they like to listen to it. You start to sound like the Taliban.
I hate people who tell other people what and who they should listen to, you people are the worse and add to it you use it as a crutch excuse for pirating. Reminds me of the song "It's my party and I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to"
Early on in my construction career we used to constantly see electricians using this method to run lines.
They tie a piece of plastic bag on the end of a piece of string and stand on the other end with a vaccum, the plastic bag acts like a parachute and pulls it all the way through the piping in a matter of seconds.
Anyways this is done all of America and I even saw something on 'This Old House' when they had to do it in old sewer line.
The one I liked is where they inserted this tube of epoxy like material; once they get the tube in there they insert the gel it expands the old sewer line and once finished the epoxy that has expanded to make the line even wider will harden to provide a perfectly sealed tube. So now you have a brand new sewer line inside of an old brick one that is perfectly sealed for another 60-100 years, I will take that story over pulling copper through sewer lines.
A quick search for 'laying fiber in sewer lines' in Google turns up dozens of better articles than this one paragraph wonder and pretty drawn pic. No video of this thing in action or field results? Sounds like snake oil to me and some wasted man hours trying to use this thing in real world situations.
The British are the ones who apparently everyone has been watching for awhile.
Wheres the Journalisim around here, a pretty picture and one paragraph article is pretty weak. Speaking as a contractor who works with Civil Engineer I cannot see this little sub being very practical in the going through some of the obstacles in a sewer and them spending more time unclogging it. The first thing I do when surveying a job is to estimate the costs of it and decide what tools I will need to accomplish this task.
Hell some of the machies I have seen some contractors and Verizon service guys bring out are atleast 150+ pounds to do the job and have the strength to pull it.
I liked the ones where the boring guys have a little rfid signal at the end of a drill and he stands in the street with this probe that detects the depth of the probe and can guide the operators drill bit in the right direction/depth. No digging up the streets and just have to make sure you don't run right into water pipes or electrical.
Well speaking as somebody who works side by side a Civil Engineer and on roads all day long; more money.
While your average highway in America has something like 8" inches of asphalt on a foot of gravel, I think the Germans use like 12" on 24". Those 4 extra inches allow for great roads, easier on the cars, flexibility and longer term use. They fill their patches much quicker and dedicate a huge amount of their budget for these roads. That gravel allows for larger loads also and aborb more, that's why they have huge thick 24" slabs of concrete outside a fire station so the driveway doesn't start warping.
Throwing more money at it is really what the Germans do to the Autobahn, but they have perfected the patching procedure over time and have ridiculous response time.
I do this all the time when giving businesses estimates for asphalt repairs; people don't like the price so they cheap out on the work and when cracks start showing up after the next big rain they complain (sorry I warned you so you can't sue me). It's like, no shit when you cheap out on repair jobs you just end up paying more in the long run.
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Agreed, Microsoft should pull MS Office from Apple and listen to the whinning.
"what? you are begging for our applications and you have stuck your foot in your mouth by creating boot camp"
On a side note, I wish Apple would grow a pair and release Final Cut Pro on Windows or better just release their OS. Only way I could enjoy FCP was during a couple random early college courses where they provided Macs and AutoCAD support on the Mac was dropped for like 10 years on the Mac since the early 90's.
Their latest one though with the PC character going through all the ages of MS OS are pretty lame, the whole "it's not gonna have any of the problems the last OS had...." and not to mention the fact that maybe MS might have actually created a fairly secure and speedy OS with Win7.
Vista didn't get enough credit though, although Win7 handles UAC better but by now most applications have adapted to the Vista style driver system and Vista took most of the hits to roll out the red carpet for Win7.
Yeah, but Windows Media Player even deletes the files for you in Windows 7.
They're not dropping support for XP, they have added it unlike it was missing in XP and it will be fully supported now.
Screenshots of it.
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/xp_mode_pre_shots.asp
Windows 7 Feature Focus (mehhh but still)
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/ff.asp
We will upgrade because that's the nature of the business and I think MS has really got it this time with performance and security. Nothing impressed me with Mac's and any other OS's. Laptop prices are coming down like crazy and saw a nice mini laptop for $210 and 15" screen one for $410 with Win7.
My boss is 'tighter than a frogs ass under water', but that is smart in this economy.
XP you have to tiptoe around with and be careful what you handle, Vista/Win7 are pretty damn sandboxed in and secure. It also nice to have that sense of security by not getting hit by drive by downloads and random downloads out there.
Got a cheap($149) presale OEM copy of Win7 Ultimate at FRY's so I hopped on it since I figured might as well get my moneys worth out of since day one and I kind of pirated my way through with XP. OEM is fine because I can change all the hardware, you just might have to call them up and basically tell them "yes, this is the only computer that is running Windows now".
Ummm *true* XP compatibility and polished drivers now that Vista took the brutal hit on the new driver system, so most developers have dove into the new driver system. I think Linux missed the biggest opportunity ever to swoop in on the Vista blunder, they let it slip right through their fingers and didn't impress any businesses.
XP is getting pretty damn old now, what more else is there to explain besides support being dropped in the near future and machines that are 8+ years old.
People didn't switch to Vista because it was a little bloat(graphics system) until the service pack and hardware prices had not caught up to the performance demanded by it, almost all developers have released Vista drivers which are more than likely to be compatible with Win7. Vista just rolled out the red carpet for Win7, of course most will not switch switch until a service pack for Win7 but already the stability and minimal hardware requirments make it very appealing.
XP is that damn good though still as you can see by some of the defenders of it around here, but I never saw any of the praising for it around here until Vista was about to be launched. All of a sudden it was actually a good OS.
So don't rush right away to demand an ansewer right yet as to why you should upgrade, you just have to wait it out like any desktop OS and let your environment/economy allow you to change over.
If you are a regular user, than the next 2 years will be great years to get deals on laptops/desktops with Win7 if you have been waiting.
Business people will allow the the usual 1 year or service pack to sink in and than make the transition. XP still might be a lot of the backbone of some core applications but with Win7 XP compatibility it is looking more than ever appealing.
P.S. - We don't plan on upgrading any of our computers in our engineer and drafting room, those AutoCAD programs are essential and nothing too revolutionary has happened in AutoCAD that makes us want to upgrade to the newest versions. Although AutoCAD does support Vista and most of our older file formats have long been dropped that were only supported under >XP.
Yep that is 100% correct and I can contest to that.
Even during our senior year in high school all of us seemed to have our medical marijuana cards even though we couldn't even buy alcohol/cigarettes. Although fake ID's were a lot easier to get back than before 9/11.
It is bad in Los Angeles County in some areas, you have all these gangsters who see these places as a huge lottery if they get in there. Not only do you get the weed but also lots of cash moving through these places, guys showing up drunk to these places and just general abuse. Far cry from when they first opened and everything was not behind bars like it is these days with the security guard strapped as soon as you walk in.
I contest I pulled the old *chronic back pain* to get mine, but I didn't renew my card after seeing how much abuse was going on and the real marijuana patients were still getting harassed by the feds.
If you live in L.A., we are currently at the epicenter(get it?) of the Marijuana controversy. You see the state of California is at odds with the Feds and the District Attorney of Los Angeles, they have been hounding to shut these places down. Well Obama just told the Feds to "cool it" on cracking down on the dispenseries and to respect *STATE LAWS*, the L.A. D.A. still has not cooled off and is trying to take this through the courts.
Additionally I can get just as good stuff as the dispenseries with 30% less tax on it.
I paid $1 and its a good game, I pirated it earlier and it was just sitting in a folder waiting to be extracted. I don't know why I never unzipped it to install, but as soon as I bought it I got into it. Although got bored after level 3.
You have to pay more than 30cents so that the company gets some of the money rather than Paypal getting it all.
There is one universal word "fuck" and "shit"
Everywhere I have gone in the world Ukraine, Russia, Germany, England, Mexico.... they all love the curse word becuase it is so easy to use and describes the situation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia
Sorry, I had to post one of the infamous 'Donkey Love' videos and this one has music.
Donkey Love
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=325_1253735346
He even has his buddy help him out, tag team action on the donkey?
*high five*
"very nice"
On a side note, they have a UAV operations center somewhere by Tustin, California and you can talk to the guys at the bar after they get off a days work of UAV surveillance. Of course it is all classified, but I read a couple places where some guys got into discussion with them.
Weird you go to war in the morning and come home to your kids/wife in the evening.
It's illegal here in California and in New York, those states are always a little head of America and usually the rest follow suit.
A simple Google search of 'Little Rock, Alaska'
City information for LITTLE ROCK, ALASKA
https://webappsprod01.exim.gov/apps%5Cusmap%5Cusmap.nsf/Cities/ALASKA.LITTLE_ROCK?OpenDocument
I think there is a Springfield in every state of America also.
The water cannon trucks seem to be popular in Europe, why not in the US?
Or do they create some kind of controversy because of the Little Rock, AK incident with firefighters using the hoses on the African-American students.
It does seem to me though that the water cannons are harsh, it's like a dozen cops all taking a swing at you in a couple seconds.
We Californians have him on loan dealing with all the mutants up in Sacramento, Pelosi is playing the chick with three breasts.
There was just a huge discussion about these type of wars and how Nuclear weapons have allowed us to avoid massive casualties and WW3, how we now have these never ending mini wars with the Middle East.
Obviously the designers know this is designed for a warzone like Afghanistan in mind, this is the best bang for buck surveillance tool to use in Afghanistan and certain areas of Iraq. The JLENS can already detect cruise missiles from 340 miles away, I think these guys know what they are doing and are smart enought to deploy it in areas where they are not threatened. So this has long been though out, probably since WW2.
They are actually already deployed in FOB in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2004, what is it 2009 now and I think these things have proven their point.
Direct link to video in the article, not a crapware site.
250-Foot Long Hybrid Airship Will Spy Over Afghanistan Battlefields in 2011
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=63a_1253757652
The U.S Army's Space and Missile Defense command plans to have an unmanned spy-ship capable of loitering at 20,000-feet (for up to three weeks) ready to deploy by mid-2011.
Dubbed the Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV), the craft will be based on Lockheed Martin's P-791 experimental hybrid airship, which you can see in the video below. The smaller P-791 was 125-foot long, but flew six tests in 2006. It's known as a hybrid because only 80% of its lift comes from buoyancy; the other 20% comes from three downward thrusters on each side.
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Another cools one is the JLENS which is tethered to the ground.
Raytheon JLENS cruise-missile defense aerostat
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=079_1251344203
"The US Army this week showed off its latest high-tech blimp laden with powerful radar systems capable of detecting incoming threats 340 miles away."
Actually, the guy was running a chop shop and had a house of stolen goods that will easily be traceable.
These are the scumbags who collect all the stuff from your car that had its window smashed in to grab that thing that is worth $5, still doesn't justify this though. Although this happens all the time where officers go through these drug deals houses and they have all the latest expensive gadgets and toys.
Although to be truthful, I have seen silly stuff like this even on the show COPS. I remember they did some Miama drug raid and found all these silly toys this guy had, everytime they would pull something out they would play with it and set it down.
9 hours of searching though the house, something like a year of previous surveillance leading up to get the warrant for the raid and the operation they listed cost about $4,000. I was surprised they listed the actual cost of the operation, but the previous surveillance had to involve lots of paid man hours of just sitting watching in the car.
Which basically makes the warrant voided and illegal as soon as the cops turned on that Wii.
Shitty ass article on Slashdot cannot even link to a Youtube link or comment by the police, here all of 10 seconds it took me.
Link to video
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8bc_1253652224&c=1#comments
Link to article and comment by the Department
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/21/undercover-drug-investigators-embarrass-polk-sheri/
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With guns drawn and flashlights cutting through darkened rooms, Polk County undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco near Lakeland in March.
As investigators searched the home for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering Difalco's house, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame.
While some detectives hauled out evidence such as flat screen televisions and shotguns, others threw strikes, gutter balls and worked on picking up spares.
A Polk County sheriff's detective cataloging evidence repeatedly put down her work and picked up a Wii remote to bowl. When she hit two strikes in a row, she raised her arms above her head, jumping and kicking.
While a female detective lifted a nearby couch looking for evidence, another sheriff's detective focused on pin action.
But detectives with the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the Auburndale, Lakeland and Winter Haven police departments did not know that a wireless security camera connected to a computer inside Difalco's home was recording their activity.
The recording obtained by News Channel 8 showed several members of the county's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force entering the house shortly after 8 a.m. According to the search warrant, their mission was to search for drugs, stolen property and the fruits of any illegal drug activity.
Now there are questions on how the impromptu bowling tournament might affect the case against Difalco.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd denies it will have any effect.
"That absolutely is not true; that doesn't invalidate the search at all," Judd said. "Now the defendant would like for it to invalidate the search, but unfortunately for him, it won't."
Judd, who watched the video during an interview last week, called the situation an embarrassment.
"I'm not pleased that they played that Wii bowling game," Judd said. The sheriff's office oversees the drug task force. Judd said he initiated an internal administrative investigation of the incident.
"That is not appropriate conduct at a search warrant," he said. "But I am less pleased with the supervision that didn't walk in and say, turn that off. That's what supervision should have done."
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It's not all that bad, Discovery might be bad but there is Discovery Science so don't be so quick to tarnish the Discovery brand.
Right now they have on tonight....
-PopSci's Future Of
-How It's Made
-Next World - Future home designs
-Building the Future
-Exploring Einstein: Life of a Genius
-Dark Secret of Hendrik Schon
-Einstein Beautiful Equation
-In Too Deep
-Patent Blending
-Beyond Tomorrow
-Big
-Master Blaster
That is a listing of all the shows for the next 8+ hours, that is extreme science coverage right there.
The good channels are still there, it's just we have a lot more channels and choices these days.
I find it more interesting that people expect Science out of T.V..
I dunno, maybe it might not be a bad thing.
On my summer trip to Washington D.C. and many of the museums like the Natural History, I noticed most of the pieces were donated by very rich people or they had huge galleries that were donated by them.
I think most of them started off in private collectors hands and when they die they will donate them to remember their names.
You can only get so old and rich that there comes a point where you want to be remembered and money can't buy it.
Just wait, eventually deals come around.
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They had just a month ago upgrades for purchase at $49 for Home Premium upgrade and $119 for Ultimate version.
Now I don't know about you, I took advantage of the free Vista Business copy when they did the deal to launch Vista. I got 3 copies out of it, basically I told them the cd-key was smeared and I needed a new one(haha sold to other people). Free is free.
Now I have 2 copies of Vista Business that can be upgraded.
Although to be honest the hardware capability has caught up to Vista and they have all but fixed the issues with the SP patches
I like everyone else pirated XP all the way up to Vista, I kind of regret not actually purchasing a legit XP key because it was really a good OS and the upgrading would have been cheaper if I had not come across the free Vista copies.
Windows 7 looks like a solid product I could invest in as a power user, since I will most likely transfer the key to my next upgraded rig. Though the laptop scene is looking better and better every year, they have more than enough power these days to handle the latest games and are better at upgrading.
The party part gets real corny for a lot of people, me personally I am a little worried on how to throw a party like that and attract the people to it without drugs or alcohol.
A Windows 7 kegger party?
Well SDTV are starting to really get the short end of the stick.
The HDTV haters might not see it, but more and more of the picture on the screen is starting to be cut off. I notice it more and more with cropped movies and newscastj, text being cut off on the bottom of the screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYHY_BVj1Xo
I can't imagine the water tower being too complicated in electronics,open valve to get the water to the site to cool the concrete right?
Other electronics on shuttle though must be checked.
don't forget about them almost burning down the space station, when they didn't test some not so flammable material which shot out a 4 foot flame and almost burnt through the outer wall.
Add to it all the banned chemicals and other stuff they used to make those rockets still contaminates the ground.
Speaking as someone who lives a couple blocks from Boeing and their Huntington Beach facility where they built the second stage rockets for the Saturn and much of the space industry, there are still efforts to get it cleaned up and yet I drive by those rusting buckets everyday that stored all the heavy acids/leads. I guess while filling those bins they would constantly overflow and splash out the side, you will hear some crazy stories from a lot of the aerospace guys in what they used to dump in the ground and get away with.
This was all done right next to one of the last great wetlands Bolsa Chica left in California also, literally one of the biggest bird sanctuaries and untouched. So now they are injecting the sites around there with this chemical that is supposed to extract all this stuff at a cost of a couple million, so the costs for Apollo go well beyond the initial development costs.
I am sure the EPA would have a different say these days and the costs to contain the facility would be pretty high.
Theres nothing worse than a heckler, they are the most bitter type of people who contribute nothing creatively to life.
Serioulsy who cares if people like Britney Spears and American Idol, it gives them joy in their life and they like to listen to it. You start to sound like the Taliban.
I hate people who tell other people what and who they should listen to, you people are the worse and add to it you use it as a crutch excuse for pirating.
Reminds me of the song "It's my party and I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to"
Early on in my construction career we used to constantly see electricians using this method to run lines.
They tie a piece of plastic bag on the end of a piece of string and stand on the other end with a vaccum, the plastic bag acts like a parachute and pulls it all the way through the piping in a matter of seconds.
Anyways this is done all of America and I even saw something on 'This Old House' when they had to do it in old sewer line.
The one I liked is where they inserted this tube of epoxy like material; once they get the tube in there they insert the gel it expands the old sewer line and once finished the epoxy that has expanded to make the line even wider will harden to provide a perfectly sealed tube. So now you have a brand new sewer line inside of an old brick one that is perfectly sealed for another 60-100 years, I will take that story over pulling copper through sewer lines.
A quick search for 'laying fiber in sewer lines' in Google turns up dozens of better articles than this one paragraph wonder and pretty drawn pic. No video of this thing in action or field results? Sounds like snake oil to me and some wasted man hours trying to use this thing in real world situations.
This pic can never go wrong once you mention the sewer system and IT.
http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1306297~fde4d620918f10bdf0c9bc3069b26be1/New%20Fiber.jpg
US Patent 6584252 - Method and system for providing fiber optic cable to end users
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6584252/description.html
Here is a listing for contractors who do this stuff with all different types of toys in America.
http://www.magicyellow.com/category/Utility_Contractors/Cities.html
The British are the ones who apparently everyone has been watching for awhile.
Wheres the Journalisim around here, a pretty picture and one paragraph article is pretty weak. Speaking as a contractor who works with Civil Engineer I cannot see this little sub being very practical in the going through some of the obstacles in a sewer and them spending more time unclogging it. The first thing I do when surveying a job is to estimate the costs of it and decide what tools I will need to accomplish this task.
Hell some of the machies I have seen some contractors and Verizon service guys bring out are atleast 150+ pounds to do the job and have the strength to pull it.
I liked the ones where the boring guys have a little rfid signal at the end of a drill and he stands in the street with this probe that detects the depth of the probe and can guide the operators drill bit in the right direction/depth. No digging up the streets and just have to make sure you don't run right into water pipes or electrical.
Well speaking as somebody who works side by side a Civil Engineer and on roads all day long; more money.
While your average highway in America has something like 8" inches of asphalt on a foot of gravel, I think the Germans use like 12" on 24". Those 4 extra inches allow for great roads, easier on the cars, flexibility and longer term use. They fill their patches much quicker and dedicate a huge amount of their budget for these roads. That gravel allows for larger loads also and aborb more, that's why they have huge thick 24" slabs of concrete outside a fire station so the driveway doesn't start warping.
Throwing more money at it is really what the Germans do to the Autobahn, but they have perfected the patching procedure over time and have ridiculous response time.
I do this all the time when giving businesses estimates for asphalt repairs; people don't like the price so they cheap out on the work and when cracks start showing up after the next big rain they complain (sorry I warned you so you can't sue me). It's like, no shit when you cheap out on repair jobs you just end up paying more in the long run.