its approximately 10% of our troop strength. We also have committed many other resources other than just troops to iraq and bush just announced plans to WITHDRAW troops from korea and other places.
this presents two problems. While troops may not be the way to contain a nuclear power, political power is. When we remove our troops and then the n. koreans do this the US looks weak politically. Since most nations arent very happy with us right now anyway, this is a Bad Thing (tm).
the second problem is our resource commitment elsewhere. The U.S.'s primary strngth is not military, its economic and technological. our economy is not doing well, and what resources we do have to commit are commited elsewhere in a war that shouldnt have happened (at least not when it did)
itll be interesting to see if the stations will pick such a political movie up at the critical point moore wants them to. The networks may be afraid of offending a group that may still be in power at the end of the election.
well, I can put an mp3 as a ringtone on it and play it then. However, the phone only has like 5 or 6 megs of storage space, so not very useful. I believe motorola has an mp3 player accessory for the phone though, an addon.
I just got a motorola v600 from at&t, bluetooth works fine, I transfer pics to my laptop easily, ringtones onto it, etc. I also noticed I tend to get better reception than my friends on verizon, more coverage perhaps....
obligatory disclaimer, I dont work at/with at&t at all aside from being a customer
I completely agree. As long as space travel remains a municipal project, it will forever lag, forever be subject to budget cuts, forever be subject to the whims of politics. It must move into the private sector. Everyone looks at cost of space flight, the resources of the government and that of private corporations and says "only a government can afford it." However, the fact is governments dont spend nearly as much as the private sector as a whole could afford to spend. Not to mention, once there is an economic reason to do private space flight (be it colonization, mining, etc.), it will fall to the prviate sector to devolope it.
to summarize, manned space flight will not move far beyond what we have now until the private sector is the wind driving it. --Aaron
as a freshmen who just moved into college I can say the NUMBER ONE THING is keeping your door locked. I have my laptop and my desktop with me. My roomate has a laptop. We also have a TV, stereo, cell phones, etc. I'm not worried about the stuff getting stolen (in my dorm room at least) 'cause we keep the bloody door locked.
the other thing I would say: don be an idiot and use common sense. i.e. if you're walking around at night by yourself dont pull out your ipod to change a song.
no actually I'm not. I understand the difference. However, free media very often encourages free speech. Allowing said free speech to reach a wider audience.
Advertising also allows free speech to be free. Many news sites for example that would normally charge for their articles, dont because of ads. see the top of slashdot for ex. In fact, what do subscribers here get? ad-free pages! because they pay for it
yeah, but VPN?
besides, there are a lot of remote montiroing tools out there that use various forms of encryption. Leaving your network umprotected is just asking for trouble.
For that matter, why is it news worthy if they get hacked then? after all, its already wide open
insecure purposely?
what about SSH?
what about VPN?
jesus, arent these scientist smart?
cant they use some tools
for that matter, cant someone creat a gui so the dont have to?
this is the most riddiculous thing I've ever heard.
The ONLY technology that will solve EVERYTHING
alright, so I'll say first I'm a pessimist. But even so, there is no such thing as a end-all be-all solution to any problem in the world. A startek typ replicator would cause an enourmous number of problems in todays world. The markets on everything would fall through the floor, and it still wouldnt solve the food problem. The main problem with feeding everyone is cost and transportation. Here in the states for example, we pay farmers to burn their crops. Why? because it keeps the market steady. Why dont we give it to india? 2 reasons, one: we'd have to insure that it wasnt resold within a market touched on by the US's because that would hurt us (and every country has to selfish to some degree). two, and the more important reason to me: transporting it to india from the mid-west would be a huge bitch that nobody has the money to pay for.
just my 2 cents
--Aaron
but hey, it almost guarantees free internet in some neighborhoods.
tell me about it, one of my friends has no less than 8 unencrypted wireless networks accessible from his house.
The annoying thing about it is, I didnt know about that until after a day when I had to fix his computer. Dialed up to my ISP with my laptop to grab drivers. spent about half an hour online downloading them.
Went into his computer room (I'd d/ld the drivers in the living room so I could play cards while it d/ld and monitor it), put my laptop on the desk and immediatly his neighbors networks showed up. I guess they were too weak to penetrate the wall, but the computer room has a big window. I tested a couple of them, sure enough high-speed internet at my fingertips.
I almost cried.
last time I went there, had to check my e-mail. Hooked up to the wireless network. SSHd into my machine at home. It was all good!
Moral of the story: check for unencrypted networks before you dial up.
hmmmmmmmmmmm.....
lessee, we have the powerPC by IBM, used both in their own machines and in apple hardware. We have the sparc machines by sun (which may or may not exist for much longer). We have AMD, which is becoming more and more mainstream, perhaps the biggest competitor intel has had in a long time. Oh and we forgot one other thing... how about all the chips that go into devices like phones and PDAs. You know, the motorola chips and such. For that matter, what about GPUs on graphics cards?
seems like there are a long more processors out there than the article says, dont you think?
ah, but han does have moral ambiguities, its a point thats made emphatically in the original film. On one hand he's a smuggler trying to make money at all costs, and on the other he's a guy who wants to do good. The character conflict is shown for example when han takes his money and leaves, but shows up to cover lukes ass at the end of the movie.
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While I agree with you to some extent, I'll point out something:
hand shooting second doesnt neccesarily show he's beeing nice. It could just be a casual confidence masking his actual nervousness, something I've always felt was a trademark of the han solo character in the original films. Han may not shoot first also because he's a smuggler, and smugglers dont shoot before trying to talk their way out of something first.
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radioShark eh? does it eat pirates?
thats because you post on slashdot....
its approximately 10% of our troop strength. We also have committed many other resources other than just troops to iraq and bush just announced plans to WITHDRAW troops from korea and other places.
this presents two problems. While troops may not be the way to contain a nuclear power, political power is. When we remove our troops and then the n. koreans do this the US looks weak politically. Since most nations arent very happy with us right now anyway, this is a Bad Thing (tm).
the second problem is our resource commitment elsewhere. The U.S.'s primary strngth is not military, its economic and technological. our economy is not doing well, and what resources we do have to commit are commited elsewhere in a war that shouldnt have happened (at least not when it did)
itll be interesting to see if the stations will pick such a political movie up at the critical point moore wants them to. The networks may be afraid of offending a group that may still be in power at the end of the election.
well, I can put an mp3 as a ringtone on it and play it then. However, the phone only has like 5 or 6 megs of storage space, so not very useful. I believe motorola has an mp3 player accessory for the phone though, an addon.
I just got a motorola v600 from at&t, bluetooth works fine, I transfer pics to my laptop easily, ringtones onto it, etc. I also noticed I tend to get better reception than my friends on verizon, more coverage perhaps....
obligatory disclaimer, I dont work at/with at&t at all aside from being a customer
I completely agree. As long as space travel remains a municipal project, it will forever lag, forever be subject to budget cuts, forever be subject to the whims of politics. It must move into the private sector. Everyone looks at cost of space flight, the resources of the government and that of private corporations and says "only a government can afford it." However, the fact is governments dont spend nearly as much as the private sector as a whole could afford to spend. Not to mention, once there is an economic reason to do private space flight (be it colonization, mining, etc.), it will fall to the prviate sector to devolope it.
to summarize, manned space flight will not move far beyond what we have now until the private sector is the wind driving it.
--Aaron
or "Patterns", wait.....
as a freshmen who just moved into college I can say the NUMBER ONE THING is keeping your door locked. I have my laptop and my desktop with me. My roomate has a laptop. We also have a TV, stereo, cell phones, etc. I'm not worried about the stuff getting stolen (in my dorm room at least) 'cause we keep the bloody door locked.
the other thing I would say: don be an idiot and use common sense. i.e. if you're walking around at night by yourself dont pull out your ipod to change a song.
--Aaron
try enzyte
vibrators against bush
is this an intentional pun?
That's 'cause you eat on your keyboard man. try using a plate... :-P
see BoldAC's above post about vibrator, sounds like a winning combination
no actually I'm not. I understand the difference. However, free media very often encourages free speech. Allowing said free speech to reach a wider audience.
Advertising also allows free speech to be free. Many news sites for example that would normally charge for their articles, dont because of ads. see the top of slashdot for ex. In fact, what do subscribers here get? ad-free pages! because they pay for it
sing it with me now:
spam spam spam spam. spam spam spam spam. SPAM! wonderul SPAM!
because playboy hasnt lapsed into the public domain yet...
wait a few (read: lots) of years and you'll be seeing 'em tossed up there, editors duitifully rendering pictures into ascii, etc.
see my post "cant someone creat a gui so the dont have to?"
yeah, but VPN?
besides, there are a lot of remote montiroing tools out there that use various forms of encryption. Leaving your network umprotected is just asking for trouble. For that matter, why is it news worthy if they get hacked then? after all, its already wide open
insecure purposely? what about SSH? what about VPN? jesus, arent these scientist smart? cant they use some tools for that matter, cant someone creat a gui so the dont have to?
this is the most riddiculous thing I've ever heard.
The ONLY technology that will solve EVERYTHING
alright, so I'll say first I'm a pessimist. But even so, there is no such thing as a end-all be-all solution to any problem in the world. A startek typ replicator would cause an enourmous number of problems in todays world. The markets on everything would fall through the floor, and it still wouldnt solve the food problem. The main problem with feeding everyone is cost and transportation. Here in the states for example, we pay farmers to burn their crops. Why? because it keeps the market steady. Why dont we give it to india? 2 reasons, one: we'd have to insure that it wasnt resold within a market touched on by the US's because that would hurt us (and every country has to selfish to some degree). two, and the more important reason to me: transporting it to india from the mid-west would be a huge bitch that nobody has the money to pay for.
just my 2 cents
--Aaron
but hey, it almost guarantees free internet in some neighborhoods.
tell me about it, one of my friends has no less than 8 unencrypted wireless networks accessible from his house.
The annoying thing about it is, I didnt know about that until after a day when I had to fix his computer. Dialed up to my ISP with my laptop to grab drivers. spent about half an hour online downloading them.
Went into his computer room (I'd d/ld the drivers in the living room so I could play cards while it d/ld and monitor it), put my laptop on the desk and immediatly his neighbors networks showed up. I guess they were too weak to penetrate the wall, but the computer room has a big window. I tested a couple of them, sure enough high-speed internet at my fingertips.
I almost cried.
last time I went there, had to check my e-mail. Hooked up to the wireless network. SSHd into my machine at home. It was all good!
Moral of the story: check for unencrypted networks before you dial up.
--Aaron
hmmmmmmmmmmm.....
lessee, we have the powerPC by IBM, used both in their own machines and in apple hardware. We have the sparc machines by sun (which may or may not exist for much longer). We have AMD, which is becoming more and more mainstream, perhaps the biggest competitor intel has had in a long time. Oh and we forgot one other thing... how about all the chips that go into devices like phones and PDAs. You know, the motorola chips and such. For that matter, what about GPUs on graphics cards?
seems like there are a long more processors out there than the article says, dont you think?
ah, but han does have moral ambiguities, its a point thats made emphatically in the original film. On one hand he's a smuggler trying to make money at all costs, and on the other he's a guy who wants to do good. The character conflict is shown for example when han takes his money and leaves, but shows up to cover lukes ass at the end of the movie.
While I agree with you to some extent, I'll point out something:
hand shooting second doesnt neccesarily show he's beeing nice. It could just be a casual confidence masking his actual nervousness, something I've always felt was a trademark of the han solo character in the original films. Han may not shoot first also because he's a smuggler, and smugglers dont shoot before trying to talk their way out of something first.
just something for you to think about
--Aaron