Well, he was handling the sales orders for NASA at the time, which was the primary source for such images at the time, so I took his claim seriously. But that's obviously FOAF for you. I'll see if I can find a better reference for you. (Web searching isn't a big help, too many positive hits.)
Perhaps so, but that wasn't what I discussed years back with the person who managed the sales of the photos. That person referred specifically to pictures of the US.
And there's a big difference between 'knows what goes on there' and 'color photos with 1 meter resolution of the whole base'. That's enough to pick out doorways, barracks, guardstations, and fuel storage.
Not that material can't be published this way, such as CentOS or Ubuntu DVD images: I've grabbed them this way very effectively. But be quite certain that I test their checksums before burning or mounting them. The veracity of software published this way, or to a lesser extent of video content, is a big problem for Bittorrent.
And you think it's not mixed with wax, flour, and lye..... why? Where I live the cocaine quality is extremely poor, according to the newspaper articles about people being poisoned. That may also have to do with the tight economy right now, but heroin has apparently recovered from its high prices and poor quality and fear of shared needles immediately after the Afghanistan invasion, so smart dealers are staying with that.
Good aerial photos of potential military targets are extremely useful to missile guidance systems. Even if you use a non-visual guidance system, the high resolution photos are excellent for locating a base very precisely and adjusting inertial guidance systems. And the same issues apply to potential civilian protest or enemy sabotage at nuclear facilities: good quality aerial photos are very useful for plotting the location of the nuclear materials, access routes, security facilities, places to hide, and escape routes.
During the 1970's and 1980's one of the largest purchasers of US satellite photographs was the People's Republic of China. I wonder why?
No, that's Congress's and the Supreme Court's job. They haven't been doing it lately.
The reason for competing departments in the US Executive department is to provide a department willing to disagree, and possibly arrest or even shoot, members of the other department to prevent mutiny against the President's orders.
One-off? Excuse me, but I have all 12 original issues. In comic book terms, it was an epic, and the time between issues let you really digest the previous ones. Reading it all at once as a graphic novel is an insult to the original author and artists.
You shouldn't have to 'make up' the time. You schedule in slack on the train schedule for unforseen events. This is like Scotty's old quote about inflating estimates to look like a miracle worker. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Scott)
Keeping your own media around is a major, major pain in the neck, and interferes profoundly. 20 minutes swapping cd's and finding patches, when I can just 'delete local content' and reload it at whim? If I visit a friend and want to play any of a stack of multiplayer games with them, I can simply log in and download and it Just Works, without my having to go get my keys or pirate a key for their insallation media so we can play a multi-player game at the same time. And they're making old games available at reasonable prices. the complete pack of X-Com games, running on modern hardware, for $15? That's sweet.
But Craigslist keeps competing with the sheriff's wife, son, and poodle. He's just trying to shut down the international competition and avoid his family being outsourced by businessmen from Taiwan.
I've found most companies to be far, far _less_ reasonable. I've never seen the problem you describe with off-line mode, seriously. And the hassle they save me by keeping my keys straight for me and letting me play my games on different machines seems a good balance between their desire to get paid, and my desire to play without trouble.
If your connection to the Steam servers is unavailable, it asks about playing in 'disconnected mode' and plays correctly by itself. I've done so, repeatedly, with my laptop.
Stream really is being as reasonable as they can about this.
Steam has been doing this correctly for years now. Your subscription is well handled, the DRM is very reasonable, and when you log in you get access to any of your purchased games for download or temporary deletion if your disk space is cramped, and you can play your games on another computer by simply logging in. They've been adding classic games like some of the Thief and X-com games, and it all works well, even if they're offline at the moment.
I'll buy a boxed game when it's on sale or let people buy me games so I can unwrap them under the Christmas tree, but buying them a Valve compatible game means not worrying about losing their media or secret decoder license numbers.
Won't happen. I spent some time discussing such options with a researcher in the field when this was done roughly 10 years ago in the USA. (I have a blind programmer friend, so I paid close attention.)
The brain does not get direct optical signals like a TV camera and television. There are multiple layers of fascinating processing that occur directly in the retina. before the signal ever gets to the optic nerve, including edge detection, motion detection, and color detection. In fact, the spread of current from these electrodes immersed in the salty, conductive vitreous fluid of the inside of the eye is so large that it cannot help but stimulate the nerves in far, far too large a region of the retina. This swamps the signals of the retina. You may as well try typing at a keyboard with basketballs. You might be able to guess what part of the keyboard got hit, but the balls are just too big to hit individual letters. And for the kind of edge and motion detection the eye does automatically, it's like trying to type sentences with capital letters and punctuation.
The surgery is tricky, like operating on wet kleenex, and the risk of infection traveling to the brain is very real, so it's not something to do lightly.
This is not comparable. As much as Thompson bravely resisted criminal orders, and was definitely a hero, he was in fact following US law and the US Army's "Code of Conduct". So Thompson was following the law, not saying the law was bad and therefore it should be disobeyed.
I just wish we had more people like Thompson to serve at Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraig.
But-but-but-but!!! Where will they get their underpaid graduate students, unwilling to report nuclear material handling violations and willing to ignore exposure guidelines, just so that they can take home that knowledge of nuclear weapons to Pakistans, where they can spread it to our partners like Iran and North Korea?
Ordinarily, I'd think that was a racist comment, but I actually saw this occurring in the nuclear engineering department of my city's best engineering school 20 years ago, and it was pretty frightening. It stopped when the Army visited the nuclear facility on an inspection tour and a US general expressed his deep concerns. And yes, the department had to shift a lot of its handling of students to get US students after that, improving their safety, doing less obviously military work, and being much more aware of where these nuclear experts might go with their educations and their access to classified research materials.
Yes, I've used NIS with locked passwords for easy UNIX/Linux account management, and the Kerberos built into Active Directory for single-sign-on password management. You need a very recent version of OpenSSH and Putty so that you get true single sign-on, but it can even be integrated to HTTPS services with cooperation of the Active Directory manager in setting up keys for Kerberos services on the Apache server.
Samba 3 right now does work quite well, and for most applications, you don't need uid synchronization between Samba and Active Directory.
wu-imapd, and HylaFAX. I got asked to look at both of them in legacy systems a few years ago. (wu-imapd was replaced with dovecot, and HylaFAX is still in use there.)
CentOS is a fascinatingly different story. CentOS has drivers among the 'centosplus' repository that RHEL does _not_ yet support for commercial use. They're reasonable drivers, such as the NTFS driver, but RHEL didn't support that for precisely the kind of reasons a server distribution shouldn't add unnecessary features or updates.
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Well, he was handling the sales orders for NASA at the time, which was the primary source for such images at the time, so I took his claim seriously. But that's obviously FOAF for you. I'll see if I can find a better reference for you. (Web searching isn't a big help, too many positive hits.)
Perhaps so, but that wasn't what I discussed years back with the person who managed the sales of the photos. That person referred specifically to pictures of the US.
And there's a big difference between 'knows what goes on there' and 'color photos with 1 meter resolution of the whole base'. That's enough to pick out doorways, barracks, guardstations, and fuel storage.
Not that material can't be published this way, such as CentOS or Ubuntu DVD images: I've grabbed them this way very effectively. But be quite certain that I test their checksums before burning or mounting them. The veracity of software published this way, or to a lesser extent of video content, is a big problem for Bittorrent.
And you think it's not mixed with wax, flour, and lye..... why? Where I live the cocaine quality is extremely poor, according to the newspaper articles about people being poisoned. That may also have to do with the tight economy right now, but heroin has apparently recovered from its high prices and poor quality and fear of shared needles immediately after the Afghanistan invasion, so smart dealers are staying with that.
Good aerial photos of potential military targets are extremely useful to missile guidance systems. Even if you use a non-visual guidance system, the high resolution photos are excellent for locating a base very precisely and adjusting inertial guidance systems. And the same issues apply to potential civilian protest or enemy sabotage at nuclear facilities: good quality aerial photos are very useful for plotting the location of the nuclear materials, access routes, security facilities, places to hide, and escape routes.
During the 1970's and 1980's one of the largest purchasers of US satellite photographs was the People's Republic of China. I wonder why?
No, that's Congress's and the Supreme Court's job. They haven't been doing it lately.
The reason for competing departments in the US Executive department is to provide a department willing to disagree, and possibly arrest or even shoot, members of the other department to prevent mutiny against the President's orders.
One-off? Excuse me, but I have all 12 original issues. In comic book terms, it was an epic, and the time between issues let you really digest the previous ones. Reading it all at once as a graphic novel is an insult to the original author and artists.
You shouldn't have to 'make up' the time. You schedule in slack on the train schedule for unforseen events. This is like Scotty's old quote about inflating estimates to look like a miracle worker. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Scott)
Keeping your own media around is a major, major pain in the neck, and interferes profoundly. 20 minutes swapping cd's and finding patches, when I can just 'delete local content' and reload it at whim? If I visit a friend and want to play any of a stack of multiplayer games with them, I can simply log in and download and it Just Works, without my having to go get my keys or pirate a key for their insallation media so we can play a multi-player game at the same time. And they're making old games available at reasonable prices. the complete pack of X-Com games, running on modern hardware, for $15? That's sweet.
But Craigslist keeps competing with the sheriff's wife, son, and poodle. He's just trying to shut down the international competition and avoid his family being outsourced by businessmen from Taiwan.
I've found most companies to be far, far _less_ reasonable. I've never seen the problem you describe with off-line mode, seriously. And the hassle they save me by keeping my keys straight for me and letting me play my games on different machines seems a good balance between their desire to get paid, and my desire to play without trouble.
If your connection to the Steam servers is unavailable, it asks about playing in 'disconnected mode' and plays correctly by itself. I've done so, repeatedly, with my laptop.
Stream really is being as reasonable as they can about this.
Steam has been doing this correctly for years now. Your subscription is well handled, the DRM is very reasonable, and when you log in you get access to any of your purchased games for download or temporary deletion if your disk space is cramped, and you can play your games on another computer by simply logging in. They've been adding classic games like some of the Thief and X-com games, and it all works well, even if they're offline at the moment.
I'll buy a boxed game when it's on sale or let people buy me games so I can unwrap them under the Christmas tree, but buying them a Valve compatible game means not worrying about losing their media or secret decoder license numbers.
Won't happen. I spent some time discussing such options with a researcher in the field when this was done roughly 10 years ago in the USA. (I have a blind programmer friend, so I paid close attention.)
The brain does not get direct optical signals like a TV camera and television. There are multiple layers of fascinating processing that occur directly in the retina. before the signal ever gets to the optic nerve, including edge detection, motion detection, and color detection. In fact, the spread of current from these electrodes immersed in the salty, conductive vitreous fluid of the inside of the eye is so large that it cannot help but stimulate the nerves in far, far too large a region of the retina. This swamps the signals of the retina. You may as well try typing at a keyboard with basketballs. You might be able to guess what part of the keyboard got hit, but the balls are just too big to hit individual letters. And for the kind of edge and motion detection the eye does automatically, it's like trying to type sentences with capital letters and punctuation.
The surgery is tricky, like operating on wet kleenex, and the risk of infection traveling to the brain is very real, so it's not something to do lightly.
No, he's wearing the IBM designed body armor.
Not unless he can aim for the cane toads (http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/ozreading/activities/toad_rag.htm)
This is not comparable. As much as Thompson bravely resisted criminal orders, and was definitely a hero, he was in fact following US law and the US Army's "Code of Conduct". So Thompson was following the law, not saying the law was bad and therefore it should be disobeyed.
I just wish we had more people like Thompson to serve at Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraig.
But-but-but-but!!! Where will they get their underpaid graduate students, unwilling to report nuclear material handling violations and willing to ignore exposure guidelines, just so that they can take home that knowledge of nuclear weapons to Pakistans, where they can spread it to our partners like Iran and North Korea?
Ordinarily, I'd think that was a racist comment, but I actually saw this occurring in the nuclear engineering department of my city's best engineering school 20 years ago, and it was pretty frightening. It stopped when the Army visited the nuclear facility on an inspection tour and a US general expressed his deep concerns. And yes, the department had to shift a lot of its handling of students to get US students after that, improving their safety, doing less obviously military work, and being much more aware of where these nuclear experts might go with their educations and their access to classified research materials.
I've been getting recruiter calls from several EU countries. Apparently Linux and open source experts are in high demand, including in Ireland.
And you accuse _me_ of being pedantically correct but irrelevant, when you say "certain languages fit some problems better than others"?
Yes, I've used NIS with locked passwords for easy UNIX/Linux account management, and the Kerberos built into Active Directory for single-sign-on password management. You need a very recent version of OpenSSH and Putty so that you get true single sign-on, but it can even be integrated to HTTPS services with cooperation of the Active Directory manager in setting up keys for Kerberos services on the Apache server.
Samba 3 right now does work quite well, and for most applications, you don't need uid synchronization between Samba and Active Directory.
wu-imapd, and HylaFAX. I got asked to look at both of them in legacy systems a few years ago. (wu-imapd was replaced with dovecot, and HylaFAX is still in use there.)
CentOS is a fascinatingly different story. CentOS has drivers among the 'centosplus' repository that RHEL does _not_ yet support for commercial use. They're reasonable drivers, such as the NTFS driver, but RHEL didn't support that for precisely the kind of reasons a server distribution shouldn't add unnecessary features or updates.
And _that_ is a fair comparison.