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Who gets second interviews at the NSA? What are they looking for in their candidates for hire? What kinds of positions are available at the NSA?
Honestly, though... is the technology used by the NSA really that far advanced from what's available in the commercial market? Everything in my experience tells me the opposite is usually true of government agencies. (Sort off off the subject... but I used to deliver flowers for a small florist in WIlliamsburg, VA. Once I had a delivery to a lesser known military installation that was widely belived to be a cover for a (notorious?) CIA installation. I tried to leave the delivery at the gate, but, bemused, they ushered me through.... No address or markings on any of the buildings... I was scared out of my mind (yeah, I used to get star struck, too. Living in L.A. cured that.). When I finally found the intended recipient, he was working in a single-wide portable unit (like a half-size residential trailer). I knocked on the door, which opened up to two or three guys working in very dim light (there were no windows) hovering over equipment with all manner of blinking lights and dials. I swear to God, it looked like it was built in the '50's and had been wide use since the early '60's. It was 1988.)
Granted... I don't think its very necessary for the NSA to be using cutting edge or "tomorrow's" technology to effectively do what everyone believes that they do... but the rumors of, say, having every phone call made digitally recorded and scanned for flagging for future analysis by some monster computers system for certain key words to be just absolutely incredible. Anybody see Closet Land? Interesting... but left me with the distict feeling of bullshit. (Feel free to disagree... or (my minds blank) offer up some other incredible rumors of their technology.)
honestly, not my intention... my ignorance was assumed... I was really asking to be corrected.
THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL THE RESPONCES!! One thing I've noticed is that its not easy to find information about this sort of thing unless you are experienced... and I'm really not!
So... does "Royal" really not signify anything about this (I don't see it on the vocab lists posted)? I've often noticed it on usenet newsgroups attached to (from what I've seen from responces) a quality rip... is it just someone's personal moniker?
I could have sworn that a "screener" was just another word for "cam," a designation that means the pirated version comes from someone sneaking a camera into a theater and bootlegging it that way. If you have the DVD, why do this? Also, I thought that the proper designation for a prerelease that is bootlegged from a DVD preview was "Royal." If anyone can correct me on this, I'd appreciate it, as AFAIK, there is no bootleggers vocabulary list anywhere... and the whole culture, from a socialogical standpoint, is very interesting.
Even I thought they would start with the low end machines...
Apple pulled it off, as far as keeping everyone guessing wrong.
And who else was so sure there would be a new Mini??
Did anyone think the iMac was getting remade??
Apple won't because that was probably a condition in the contract for them to receive the insane discounts.
I had considered this... but I can't see how it would hurt Intel for Apple to have 2 platforms.
The thing that really hurts me is that they didn't buy themselves any speed doing this. People keep complaining that the powerbook G4's can't edit HD, but the Pentium-M's won't be able to either.
Totally! And what happens when Apple finally gets to wanting to replace the new dual-core G5s, and the Intel chip base, while it might be slightly faster by that time, simply doesn't smoke the G5? (hypothetically speaking, of course)
The correct solution to that problem, if they wanted to solve it was to incorporate one or two 1GHz fixed point DSPs, and provided an open API to access them for math acceleration.
neat idea... there are already outboard firewire solutions for this, though, aren't there?
Looks like someone beat me to the punch... but still, neither the wiki nor the 3M link mentions the color, its original cost, or anything about the fact that it was synthetic plasma... so I'm still hoping someone else remembers and posts a link referencing that, or if I am confused... what the heck my brain is remembering.
I do remember something about when Cray reported about the liquid that they were using to do liquid cooling... but I can't find any relevant links on it, so I'll just offer what I remember, as wildly inaccurate as it may be, in the hopes that some subsequent poster will find the link, and/or remember correctly.
What I remember is that the liquid Cray was using was, first of all, kind of pink or peachy in color, and that it was an entirely non-conducting liquid, that it was riduculously expensive, and that it was a synthetic form of human (blood) plasma!!
I'm not sure I understand why Apple has to abandon IBM entirely in the switch to Intel. Why couldn't they have both platforms? Why not sell a PowerMac x86 along side a PowerMac G5? I just don't see the disadvantage, nor why Intel would object to it.
You make some strong points. I really thought the switch was a mistake at first, too. I'm going to miss the whole velocity engine/RISC processing stuff. But the problem wasn't just the "roadmap." IBM wasn't paying enough attention to Apple. They were moving to focusing the G5 production for gaming consoles, and Apple was only a tiny bit of their market. I wish it hadn't happened, but I think that is the real reason behind the switch.
I think the time would be right for the new dual-core Yonah PowerBooks to be introduced. To wait until spring, I think, would suck a lot of air out of the line. Imagine how many dual-core Yonah WinTops will be available by then.
Hey... take it easy... I was just putting it in perspective... the man's gotta a lotta doe!
Frankly, I don't like their product, and I don't buy it as it is inferior to almost every other alternative (well, Office is ok). This is probably due to the fact that I am a Windows Admin. And before you start about how MS is responsible for my job... it isn't so. Interestingly, the Senior Systems Archetect of the Microsoft Implementation Group at the Univ. where I work uses a dual-G5. I'm stuck with a lowly G4 iMac (though, quite happily), but that will be replaced soon with a G5 iMac. And later this year, when all the Dells in the office are 3 years old, when I make the proposal for their replacement... guess which platform I am going to support? I won't be a Windows Admin for long.;)
But Bill Gates? I think he's great. I've always liked him. When he appeared live on the big screen that one year at the Apple conference (was it a stock holders annual meeting? or a MacWorld? dunno), introduced by Steve Jobs... the audience booed him. I always thought that was incredibly rude. The should have cheered. He's a fellow Mac lover and Mac user, and has been since 1984.
since if there aren't enough titles that I want, I'm not gonna buy into the new format
Totally! What are they thinking? Just how long do they expect this pittance of titles to entertain the masses? How are they going to compete with DVD? On DVD, there are like a gazillion titles! This just doesn't make sense! Why would they develop a whole new superior format, and only release a handful of titles? If that was the plan all along... why didn't they just build the titles into the player? That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
I, for one, am waiting for the next next generation movie format. Maybe by then they'll learn to release more titles than this.
He is a study in cult of personality. Speaking as someone who hates crowds, mind you, I am not exactly popular (nor particularly unpopular). I've noticed that I have friends, some I just consider natural born leaders (with all of their ignorace/faults). The one thing I've noticed is that tall people tend to more often get people to listen...er, rather... people naturally listen to them/believe them, even if what they say is really dumb. Sociologically speaking, I really wonder what all of the traits are of the person that is naturally popular, the person that no matter what they do, never seems to do anything to maintain friendships, never calls anyone back, seems to always be busy with something, always has people sort of following them. I think Bill Clinton is another decent example of this. What is it about these people? Napoleon wasn't tall, so its not just height. Could it be a biological/chemical/genetic trait? Or is it something that even the most naturally unpopular person could master?
I'm not sure this will be great, it'll probably suck, but I see some strategy behind it.
Q: Traditionally, who is buying new music? What age group, traditionally, drives record sales?
A: the 11-16 year old crowd... and of the feminine persuasion (Grrls... little girls)
Q: Who do 11-16 year old girls swoon over?
A: Justin Timberlake
Q: Is the name "Urge" making any more sense?
A: not sure
If they are lumping all the *nix OS's together, why do they bother distinguishing between UNIX and Linux? Even when they are fucking something up they can't get it right.
People are built differently. Some people of the same height have different lengthed legs. My uncle, not a tall man, always says he's 6'5" when sitting down, because his head is very close to the roof of a car when he sits in one. You must have a body like his, and are not "all legs" like these other tall chaps.
masted ships can be rigged to sail into a wind, but at a much slower speed than sailing with the wind.
This is false. From sailing, I know that the fastest tack is actually into the wind at a 45 degree angle in a close haul (granted, there is some descrepancy between experts, so, Pirate Steve may say "Arg... a broad reach is fastest!" but none the less, its still not exactly sailing with the wind, but at a 45 degree angle away from the direction the wind blows). However, this is true of typically configured sailing vessels, and not necessarily true of, say, certain America's Cup class ships equipped with spinnaker sails. Also, I think a keel is absolutely essential for this to work... but this would be different in a ship without a keel (like an airship).
There are what... like 110 nuclear reactors in the US, and all of them, (ALL OF THEM, thats every single one) have a temporary containment facility for storing the spent rods that is full (as in no more room). This is one of those problems the news never seems to report on, but its a big problem, and it scares the crap out of me that we never hear what's happening. What do we do with the waste? The problem with, say, burying it 1000 feet below some desert is that, say, 10,000 years from now when everyone has forgotten everything that ever happened during our century, those rods are still going to be hot. And they are likely to remain hot for another 30,000 years after that.
What really gets me is that the whole reason that so much effort was put into developing the technology for nuclear reactors in the first place was for fuel for weapons. But its not even that, really. Its that if the same amount of effort, research and development was put into, say, solar power, then today solar power would be just as cheap as nuclear... but without the waste. Now... granted, that's a big if. However... if one considers why we needed to develop more and more nuclear weapons, then it will be easy to see that it all could have been avoided if the powers had let Patton go all the way to Berlin... and then into Russia.
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Who gets second interviews at the NSA? What are they looking for in their candidates for hire? What kinds of positions are available at the NSA?
Honestly, though... is the technology used by the NSA really that far advanced from what's available in the commercial market? Everything in my experience tells me the opposite is usually true of government agencies. (Sort off off the subject... but I used to deliver flowers for a small florist in WIlliamsburg, VA. Once I had a delivery to a lesser known military installation that was widely belived to be a cover for a (notorious?) CIA installation. I tried to leave the delivery at the gate, but, bemused, they ushered me through.... No address or markings on any of the buildings... I was scared out of my mind (yeah, I used to get star struck, too. Living in L.A. cured that.). When I finally found the intended recipient, he was working in a single-wide portable unit (like a half-size residential trailer). I knocked on the door, which opened up to two or three guys working in very dim light (there were no windows) hovering over equipment with all manner of blinking lights and dials. I swear to God, it looked like it was built in the '50's and had been wide use since the early '60's. It was 1988.)
Granted... I don't think its very necessary for the NSA to be using cutting edge or "tomorrow's" technology to effectively do what everyone believes that they do... but the rumors of, say, having every phone call made digitally recorded and scanned for flagging for future analysis by some monster computers system for certain key words to be just absolutely incredible. Anybody see Closet Land? Interesting... but left me with the distict feeling of bullshit. (Feel free to disagree... or (my minds blank) offer up some other incredible rumors of their technology.)
honestly, not my intention... my ignorance was assumed... I was really asking to be corrected.
THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL THE RESPONCES!! One thing I've noticed is that its not easy to find information about this sort of thing unless you are experienced... and I'm really not!
So... does "Royal" really not signify anything about this (I don't see it on the vocab lists posted)? I've often noticed it on usenet newsgroups attached to (from what I've seen from responces) a quality rip... is it just someone's personal moniker?
I could have sworn that a "screener" was just another word for "cam," a designation that means the pirated version comes from someone sneaking a camera into a theater and bootlegging it that way. If you have the DVD, why do this? Also, I thought that the proper designation for a prerelease that is bootlegged from a DVD preview was "Royal." If anyone can correct me on this, I'd appreciate it, as AFAIK, there is no bootleggers vocabulary list anywhere... and the whole culture, from a socialogical standpoint, is very interesting.
Even I thought they would start with the low end machines...
Apple pulled it off, as far as keeping everyone guessing wrong.
And who else was so sure there would be a new Mini??
Did anyone think the iMac was getting remade??
I had considered this... but I can't see how it would hurt Intel for Apple to have 2 platforms.
The thing that really hurts me is that they didn't buy themselves any speed doing this. People keep complaining that the powerbook G4's can't edit HD, but the Pentium-M's won't be able to either.
Totally! And what happens when Apple finally gets to wanting to replace the new dual-core G5s, and the Intel chip base, while it might be slightly faster by that time, simply doesn't smoke the G5? (hypothetically speaking, of course)
The correct solution to that problem, if they wanted to solve it was to incorporate one or two 1GHz fixed point DSPs, and provided an open API to access them for math acceleration.
neat idea... there are already outboard firewire solutions for this, though, aren't there?
Looks like someone beat me to the punch... but still, neither the wiki nor the 3M link mentions the color, its original cost, or anything about the fact that it was synthetic plasma... so I'm still hoping someone else remembers and posts a link referencing that, or if I am confused... what the heck my brain is remembering.
I had no idea cooking oil was a poor conductor...
I do remember something about when Cray reported about the liquid that they were using to do liquid cooling... but I can't find any relevant links on it, so I'll just offer what I remember, as wildly inaccurate as it may be, in the hopes that some subsequent poster will find the link, and/or remember correctly.
What I remember is that the liquid Cray was using was, first of all, kind of pink or peachy in color, and that it was an entirely non-conducting liquid, that it was riduculously expensive, and that it was a synthetic form of human (blood) plasma!!
OK... another nice point...
but I still don't see any reason why Apple couldn't produce and support 2 platforms.
hmm... that could be.
I'm not sure I understand why Apple has to abandon IBM entirely in the switch to Intel. Why couldn't they have both platforms? Why not sell a PowerMac x86 along side a PowerMac G5? I just don't see the disadvantage, nor why Intel would object to it.
You make some strong points. I really thought the switch was a mistake at first, too. I'm going to miss the whole velocity engine/RISC processing stuff. But the problem wasn't just the "roadmap." IBM wasn't paying enough attention to Apple. They were moving to focusing the G5 production for gaming consoles, and Apple was only a tiny bit of their market. I wish it hadn't happened, but I think that is the real reason behind the switch.
Maybe you can't run SQL Server... but you can certainly work on it!
What kind of work are you doing?
I think the time would be right for the new dual-core Yonah PowerBooks to be introduced. To wait until spring, I think, would suck a lot of air out of the line. Imagine how many dual-core Yonah WinTops will be available by then.
Hey... take it easy... I was just putting it in perspective... the man's gotta a lotta doe!
Frankly, I don't like their product, and I don't buy it as it is inferior to almost every other alternative (well, Office is ok). This is probably due to the fact that I am a Windows Admin. And before you start about how MS is responsible for my job... it isn't so. Interestingly, the Senior Systems Archetect of the Microsoft Implementation Group at the Univ. where I work uses a dual-G5. I'm stuck with a lowly G4 iMac (though, quite happily), but that will be replaced soon with a G5 iMac. And later this year, when all the Dells in the office are 3 years old, when I make the proposal for their replacement... guess which platform I am going to support? I won't be a Windows Admin for long. ;)
But Bill Gates? I think he's great. I've always liked him. When he appeared live on the big screen that one year at the Apple conference (was it a stock holders annual meeting? or a MacWorld? dunno), introduced by Steve Jobs... the audience booed him. I always thought that was incredibly rude. The should have cheered. He's a fellow Mac lover and Mac user, and has been since 1984.
Well, I, for one welcome our new mood-sensing digital overlords. --- "Do the dumb things I gotta do... touch the puppet head." (TMBG, c.1985)
I'd mug Bill Gates. The take? $100,000 for every man, women and child there.
Totally! What are they thinking? Just how long do they expect this pittance of titles to entertain the masses? How are they going to compete with DVD? On DVD, there are like a gazillion titles! This just doesn't make sense! Why would they develop a whole new superior format, and only release a handful of titles? If that was the plan all along... why didn't they just build the titles into the player? That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
I, for one, am waiting for the next next generation movie format. Maybe by then they'll learn to release more titles than this.
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He is a study in cult of personality. Speaking as someone who hates crowds, mind you, I am not exactly popular (nor particularly unpopular). I've noticed that I have friends, some I just consider natural born leaders (with all of their ignorace/faults). The one thing I've noticed is that tall people tend to more often get people to listen...er, rather... people naturally listen to them/believe them, even if what they say is really dumb. Sociologically speaking, I really wonder what all of the traits are of the person that is naturally popular, the person that no matter what they do, never seems to do anything to maintain friendships, never calls anyone back, seems to always be busy with something, always has people sort of following them. I think Bill Clinton is another decent example of this. What is it about these people? Napoleon wasn't tall, so its not just height. Could it be a biological/chemical/genetic trait? Or is it something that even the most naturally unpopular person could master?
I'm not sure this will be great, it'll probably suck, but I see some strategy behind it.
Q: Traditionally, who is buying new music? What age group, traditionally, drives record sales?
A: the 11-16 year old crowd... and of the feminine persuasion (Grrls... little girls)
Q: Who do 11-16 year old girls swoon over?
A: Justin Timberlake
Q: Is the name "Urge" making any more sense?
A: not sure
If they are lumping all the *nix OS's together, why do they bother distinguishing between UNIX and Linux? Even when they are fucking something up they can't get it right.
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People are built differently. Some people of the same height have different lengthed legs. My uncle, not a tall man, always says he's 6'5" when sitting down, because his head is very close to the roof of a car when he sits in one. You must have a body like his, and are not "all legs" like these other tall chaps.
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Now, I can at least visualize what is being discussed... though understanding why its significant is going to take a little more study.
masted ships can be rigged to sail into a wind, but at a much slower speed than sailing with the wind.
This is false. From sailing, I know that the fastest tack is actually into the wind at a 45 degree angle in a close haul (granted, there is some descrepancy between experts, so, Pirate Steve may say "Arg... a broad reach is fastest!" but none the less, its still not exactly sailing with the wind, but at a 45 degree angle away from the direction the wind blows). However, this is true of typically configured sailing vessels, and not necessarily true of, say, certain America's Cup class ships equipped with spinnaker sails. Also, I think a keel is absolutely essential for this to work ... but this would be different in a ship without a keel (like an airship).
There are what... like 110 nuclear reactors in the US, and all of them, (ALL OF THEM, thats every single one) have a temporary containment facility for storing the spent rods that is full (as in no more room). This is one of those problems the news never seems to report on, but its a big problem, and it scares the crap out of me that we never hear what's happening. What do we do with the waste? The problem with, say, burying it 1000 feet below some desert is that, say, 10,000 years from now when everyone has forgotten everything that ever happened during our century, those rods are still going to be hot. And they are likely to remain hot for another 30,000 years after that.
What really gets me is that the whole reason that so much effort was put into developing the technology for nuclear reactors in the first place was for fuel for weapons. But its not even that, really. Its that if the same amount of effort, research and development was put into, say, solar power, then today solar power would be just as cheap as nuclear... but without the waste. Now... granted, that's a big if. However... if one considers why we needed to develop more and more nuclear weapons, then it will be easy to see that it all could have been avoided if the powers had let Patton go all the way to Berlin... and then into Russia.