Indeed they aren't all buyable. You'd bet some of them would have refused some way or another.
Small OSS company : "70 billion war chest, you say? Going to buy out all OSS, eh? Okay, my company will sell for 80 billion." Oracle representative : "Are you out of your mind? It isn't worth ONE billion!" Small OSS company : "That's correct. It's worth 80 billion. Now, are you going to buy it or go away?"
Although Booen says that for security reasons he cannot divulge the distance at which the laser-based systems can shoot down incoming threats (or the UAVs' altitudes during the Navy test), he notes that the military would not be interested in the new laser technology if it could not at least double the range of existing weapons.
That would imply that at least in this case it would give longer range and higher accuracy.
Also, regarding the lasers:
The Phalanx--a rapid-fire, computer-controlled, radar-guided gun system--used electro-optical tracking and radio frequency sensors to provide range data to the LaWS, which is made up of six solid-state lasers with an output of 32 kilowatts that simultaneously focus on a target.
So they use the already-existing Phalanx platform for targeting and tracking. Also also:
The weapon combines a 20-millimeter Gatling gun that fires at a rate of either 3,000 or 4,500 shots per minute, with radar to search for and track targets
So it seems that the new laser weapon will supplement or replace the existing gatling gun, and they indicate the laser will more than double the effective range of the setup.
Norway. And I think I can safely say that our police is different than the police in USA. They're normally not armed, and need a special permit to arm themselves. In some of the more violent areas they have guns in the car, but it's locked down, and they need a confirmation from HQ to be able to use them.
A cop being stabbed, or even hurt at all when on duty is fairly rare here, and tend to hit the top 5 news cases for the day. If someone dies on duty, it's several weeks of news about it, detailed investigation, and so forth.
I remember two stories, both from the Obama visit in Oslo.
The first one started on a live sending, the camera crew spotted some protesters and a lot of police at one end of the (densely packed) plaza where Obama was. So they hurried over, figuring they'd get some juicy news. They asked one of the officers there if they were stopping the protesters from entering. "No," answered the officer. "We're trying to clear a path in for them, but it's just too many people here". The reporter sounded very sceptical, and asked the leader of the protesters. He confirmed it, and finished by saying "we really appreciate the effort, they've really tried to help us here. But we're happy, we got the protest going, we got a chance to display our opinions, even though we didn't manage to get into the plaza, and I see we're clearly outnumbered", with a smile on his face.
The other story was in an interview with the Oslo police chief after the visit, and he was asked how many complaints that came in. He smiled and said the only sort of "complaint" they've gotten was a german journalist that was a bit stumped by finding no-one that had anything bad to say about the police. The journalist clearly couldn't understand how that was possible, adding that something like that would never happen in Germany.
Our police is by no means perfect, and they have a lot of faults. But I'm constantly amazed at the expected quality of cops in other countries. Ours are at least trying to be non-violent, they're friendly, and they use common sense when doing their job. And they know that they're here to help and protect the people.
Amateur. What you'd want to do is play The Retarded Computer Idiot for him. If you ever did real tech support, you'd know this guy.
Here are some of the tricks:
* When asked to right click, always double click
* Always mix (or invent) terms. Your OS is Windows Explorer. Your browser is google. Your dropdown menu is your roller.
* Always, always always write differently than what the person says. He wants you to go to evilsite.com you go to lardtub.com
* Mishear stuff. Remember, you're partly deaf on both ears, and have -10 on eyesight. And your dog just ate your glasses.
* Talk to him about the weather, and your wife, son or the tree in the back yard. Spiders and roaches are also good.
* Use loooong time on EVERY action. 25 minutes to boot the computer? Sure. And always remark how slow things are going right when you need it.
The goal is to make the other one so frustrated that he want to kill someone. His choices would be his coworkers or himself - a win-win situation indeed. Just screaming at them lets them go quicker to the next in line, and might get a small chuckle from them. Instead, bind up their time and rob them of their sanity.
A lot of it is psychological; users convince themselves that computers are too complicated for them to understand, so they are.
And THAT is, I think, the REAL genius behind Apple. It's not necessarily easier than other systems, but they make the user think it is. When they try to use the machine with the attitude "this is simple, everyone says so, that's why I paid so much money for it. So even I should be able to use it" - and lo and behold, it is simple.
But, when the user thinks it is too complicated for them, it damn well will be. Error messages like "Low on battery power. You should connect the charger soon or the computer will shut off" could just as well be written in Swahili, and people will refuse to use any common sense at all.
I think the main difference between techies and other people is their initial attitude of "I should be able to figure this out" when encountering something new.
First you copy this quote. Then you paste it into the comment box. Then you post the quote in any vaguely appropriate thread. Then you get an instant +5 karma.
The real reason why it was thrown out was that the plaintiff submitted the complaint in 13 large volumes, detailing a lot of sniffing and braid pulling. There was also a lot of unexplained references to wheels in it. After reading the first two volumes the court judged that he was a complete twit and had nothing to do in a police force.
Microsoft has announced that a new system update will be released over Xbox Live on April 6th that will allow support for USB flash drives as a storage option for Xbox 360 content. This means 360 owners can use any USB flash drive over 1GB (up to 16GB) in size to back up profiles, saves, demos, etc.
Yes, that mean that you can only use 16 GB of an USB disk. What, did you think MS were growing soft on their old days?
Don't worry, the Android tablets will soon be here. Steve Jobs have personally recommended them, and as we all know Android strive to please in every way.
First of all, you should have your editor set to use either tab or spaces, and if spaces convert all tabs automagically. Mixing tabs and spaces in python is like mixing drugs and alcohol. Stick to one and you get happy days, take both and, and well... Just don't do it.
And, about braces:
>>> from __future__ import braces SyntaxError: not a chance (, line 1)
I bet there's one in the CIA that starts every morning like this : "One more day of checking Tor image captures for hidden data. *picks up extra large hand lotion bottle* God I love this job!"
Fully agree. Have the HTC Hero, and except for one emergency update (that turned it from "extremely slow" to "usable") nothing have happened. They promised a new version in November, but still haven't done anything. It will be my last HTC phone..
While RAM, cpu speed and harddisk space have increased dramatically the last decade, harddisk speed is maybe only 3-4 times faster.
Try an SSD, and your hdd speed will finally start catching up to the rest of the computer. I think you will notice a huge difference.
And one more thing, if you mean that Word 2007 and Word 3 is the same, why don't you just use Word 3? I'm sure that starts fast enough for you on a modern computer.
Then you punish people WHEN THEY MAKE A MESS! Or do you want to punish them only if they make a mess with certain things? How about if it was an accident or deliberate?
Why don't you ban airplanes and cars while you're at it. They can be pretty hard to clean up when they crash.
Good for you. I've seen that problem consistently across 5 machines (3 laptops, two desktops - one with SSD) with several games. It is especially noticable on the Dawn of War games, but I've seen it on other games too. It is *especially* noticable if you batch install 50 games at the same time. Seems like it hits an internal limit and goes boom. The worst I've seen was about 16 hours. It was not cpu limited, not HD limited (SSD), and not ram limited (got 6 gb ram on this machine). I have no idea why it's so slow, but it is, it's annoying, and I wish it wasn't so.
"It takes literally minutes to reinstall 9Gb of game from a Steam Backup if you suddenly get the urge to play it again, or you can redownload it if you lose your backup."
Too bad those minutes are around 300-400.. At least, that's my experience (games with many small files kill Steam restore - even on SSD)
actually, turbo means that some of the cores are set to powersave, and thus creating less heat (intel's solution can actually power off unused cores completely), thus the remaining cores are able to produce more heat, aka run faster.
Intel's boosting solution is better ATM since those cpu's can power off cores completely, while amd's solution can only set them in powersave mode. And that's why Intel's cpu's still hold an edge in apps that only run on 1-2 cores. While AMD gives you six cores for the price of a 4core intel cpu. If you can use them all, amd wins.
The boosting itself happens automatically depending on load IIRC.
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Indeed they aren't all buyable. You'd bet some of them would have refused some way or another.
Small OSS company : "70 billion war chest, you say? Going to buy out all OSS, eh? Okay, my company will sell for 80 billion."
Oracle representative : "Are you out of your mind? It isn't worth ONE billion!"
Small OSS company : "That's correct. It's worth 80 billion. Now, are you going to buy it or go away?"
From the article :
Although Booen says that for security reasons he cannot divulge the distance at which the laser-based systems can shoot down incoming threats (or the UAVs' altitudes during the Navy test), he notes that the military would not be interested in the new laser technology if it could not at least double the range of existing weapons.
That would imply that at least in this case it would give longer range and higher accuracy.
Also, regarding the lasers:
The Phalanx--a rapid-fire, computer-controlled, radar-guided gun system--used electro-optical tracking and radio frequency sensors to provide range data to the LaWS, which is made up of six solid-state lasers with an output of 32 kilowatts that simultaneously focus on a target.
So they use the already-existing Phalanx platform for targeting and tracking. Also also:
The weapon combines a 20-millimeter Gatling gun that fires at a rate of either 3,000 or 4,500 shots per minute, with radar to search for and track targets
So it seems that the new laser weapon will supplement or replace the existing gatling gun, and they indicate the laser will more than double the effective range of the setup.
tell me... where do you live?
Norway. And I think I can safely say that our police is different than the police in USA. They're normally not armed, and need a special permit to arm themselves. In some of the more violent areas they have guns in the car, but it's locked down, and they need a confirmation from HQ to be able to use them.
A cop being stabbed, or even hurt at all when on duty is fairly rare here, and tend to hit the top 5 news cases for the day. If someone dies on duty, it's several weeks of news about it, detailed investigation, and so forth.
I remember two stories, both from the Obama visit in Oslo.
The first one started on a live sending, the camera crew spotted some protesters and a lot of police at one end of the (densely packed) plaza where Obama was. So they hurried over, figuring they'd get some juicy news. They asked one of the officers there if they were stopping the protesters from entering. "No," answered the officer. "We're trying to clear a path in for them, but it's just too many people here". The reporter sounded very sceptical, and asked the leader of the protesters. He confirmed it, and finished by saying "we really appreciate the effort, they've really tried to help us here. But we're happy, we got the protest going, we got a chance to display our opinions, even though we didn't manage to get into the plaza, and I see we're clearly outnumbered", with a smile on his face.
The other story was in an interview with the Oslo police chief after the visit, and he was asked how many complaints that came in. He smiled and said the only sort of "complaint" they've gotten was a german journalist that was a bit stumped by finding no-one that had anything bad to say about the police. The journalist clearly couldn't understand how that was possible, adding that something like that would never happen in Germany.
Our police is by no means perfect, and they have a lot of faults. But I'm constantly amazed at the expected quality of cops in other countries. Ours are at least trying to be non-violent, they're friendly, and they use common sense when doing their job. And they know that they're here to help and protect the people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajb5_9l7paU
Sometimes even getting there in time doesn't help much
Bah, forgot adding a link.. Anyway : http://www.undeadreport.com/2007/12/aa-12-shotgun-anti-zombie-weapon-of-choice/
How do you kill that which is already dead?
Duh, a shotgun of course!
Amateur. What you'd want to do is play The Retarded Computer Idiot for him. If you ever did real tech support, you'd know this guy.
Here are some of the tricks:
* When asked to right click, always double click
* Always mix (or invent) terms. Your OS is Windows Explorer. Your browser is google. Your dropdown menu is your roller.
* Always, always always write differently than what the person says. He wants you to go to evilsite.com you go to lardtub.com
* Mishear stuff. Remember, you're partly deaf on both ears, and have -10 on eyesight. And your dog just ate your glasses.
* Talk to him about the weather, and your wife, son or the tree in the back yard. Spiders and roaches are also good.
* Use loooong time on EVERY action. 25 minutes to boot the computer? Sure. And always remark how slow things are going right when you need it.
The goal is to make the other one so frustrated that he want to kill someone. His choices would be his coworkers or himself - a win-win situation indeed.
Just screaming at them lets them go quicker to the next in line, and might get a small chuckle from them. Instead, bind up their time and rob them of their sanity.
A lot of it is psychological; users convince themselves that computers are too complicated for them to understand, so they are.
And THAT is, I think, the REAL genius behind Apple. It's not necessarily easier than other systems, but they make the user think it is.
When they try to use the machine with the attitude "this is simple, everyone says so, that's why I paid so much money for it. So even I should be able to use it" - and lo and behold, it is simple.
But, when the user thinks it is too complicated for them, it damn well will be. Error messages like "Low on battery power. You should connect the charger soon or the computer will shut off" could just as well be written in Swahili, and people will refuse to use any common sense at all.
I think the main difference between techies and other people is their initial attitude of "I should be able to figure this out" when encountering something new.
First you copy this quote.
Then you paste it into the comment box.
Then you post the quote in any vaguely appropriate thread.
Then you get an instant +5 karma.
the plaintiff, Robert Jordan
The real reason why it was thrown out was that the plaintiff submitted the complaint in 13 large volumes, detailing a lot of sniffing and braid pulling. There was also a lot of unexplained references to wheels in it. After reading the first two volumes the court judged that he was a complete twit and had nothing to do in a police force.
http://www.xboxpotato.com/2010/03/usb-flash-drive-support-coming/
Microsoft has announced that a new system update will be released over Xbox Live on April 6th that will allow support for USB flash drives as a storage option for Xbox 360 content. This means 360 owners can use any USB flash drive over 1GB (up to 16GB) in size to back up profiles, saves, demos, etc.
Yes, that mean that you can only use 16 GB of an USB disk. What, did you think MS were growing soft on their old days?
Mage over wave, you say? How can I subscribe to your newsletter? :)
Newsletter, you say? How interesting, could you print it out and send it by postal mail?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20061019.jpg
And oblig Penny Arcade
And the end goal was to distribute your own malicious payload, I guess?
Don't worry, the Android tablets will soon be here. Steve Jobs have personally recommended them, and as we all know Android strive to please in every way.
First of all, you should have your editor set to use either tab or spaces, and if spaces convert all tabs automagically. Mixing tabs and spaces in python is like mixing drugs and alcohol. Stick to one and you get happy days, take both and, and well... Just don't do it.
And, about braces:
>>> from __future__ import braces
SyntaxError: not a chance (, line 1)
I use Tor to browse porn, too :)
I bet there's one in the CIA that starts every morning like this :
"One more day of checking Tor image captures for hidden data. *picks up extra large hand lotion bottle* God I love this job!"
Actually.. No, I can't. That's the CDMA version, I (being in Europe) got the GSM version. Which still have 1.5 as latest official release.
Fully agree. Have the HTC Hero, and except for one emergency update (that turned it from "extremely slow" to "usable") nothing have happened. They promised a new version in November, but still haven't done anything. It will be my last HTC phone..
Your comment reminded me of this story:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Classic-WTF-The-Complicators-Gloves.aspx
A mighty fine story about overcomplication :)
While RAM, cpu speed and harddisk space have increased dramatically the last decade, harddisk speed is maybe only 3-4 times faster.
Try an SSD, and your hdd speed will finally start catching up to the rest of the computer. I think you will notice a huge difference.
And one more thing, if you mean that Word 2007 and Word 3 is the same, why don't you just use Word 3? I'm sure that starts fast enough for you on a modern computer.
Then you punish people WHEN THEY MAKE A MESS! Or do you want to punish them only if they make a mess with certain things? How about if it was an accident or deliberate?
Why don't you ban airplanes and cars while you're at it. They can be pretty hard to clean up when they crash.
Good for you. I've seen that problem consistently across 5 machines (3 laptops, two desktops - one with SSD) with several games. It is especially noticable on the Dawn of War games, but I've seen it on other games too. It is *especially* noticable if you batch install 50 games at the same time. Seems like it hits an internal limit and goes boom. The worst I've seen was about 16 hours. It was not cpu limited, not HD limited (SSD), and not ram limited (got 6 gb ram on this machine). I have no idea why it's so slow, but it is, it's annoying, and I wish it wasn't so.
"It takes literally minutes to reinstall 9Gb of game from a Steam Backup if you suddenly get the urge to play it again, or you can redownload it if you lose your backup."
Too bad those minutes are around 300-400.. At least, that's my experience (games with many small files kill Steam restore - even on SSD)
actually, turbo means that some of the cores are set to powersave, and thus creating less heat (intel's solution can actually power off unused cores completely), thus the remaining cores are able to produce more heat, aka run faster.
Intel's boosting solution is better ATM since those cpu's can power off cores completely, while amd's solution can only set them in powersave mode. And that's why Intel's cpu's still hold an edge in apps that only run on 1-2 cores. While AMD gives you six cores for the price of a 4core intel cpu. If you can use them all, amd wins.
The boosting itself happens automatically depending on load IIRC.