This isn't even about leaving a peaceful Iraq anymore. I think you would find that a lot of Americans that want us out of there don't care at all if Iraq destabilizes and turns to chaos. We have no strategy for success because we don't even know what success is. Their government supposedly won't make the decisions necessary to make things stable. Screw it, get us out of there. Forget the cost of "losing". At this point, the cost of "winning" seems to be a lot higher. Of course, no one can even guess at these costs because no one even knows what winning or losing is defined by.
I would like to see the evidence of this. The high quality swords made in Japan (I classify this because in times of war, the construction quality suffered greatly due to the need for increased production) were constructed in such a way as to give a very hard edge that would hold pretty well and could still be re-polished when nicks did happen. At the same time these swords were slightly flexible (presumably to absorb shock and thereby improve durability, though I can't speak as an expert on this). These days there is just no need and little demand for such fine craftsmanship. It's like saying that you can make a bottle of premium Pier Noir in a chemistry lab. You can make a fairly decent and acceptable bottle with good repeatability, but it takes a good craftsman long and hard work to create a bottle worth celebrating.
You want them to dismantle a book of what are probably brittle pages from 1542 to run it through a paper mangling auto feed scanner? Your suggestion disturbs and outrages me.
It is you who do not believe in protecting the innocent. Until these images were found, the man was by all standards of the law, innocent. Taking and searching his hard drive without a warrant is therefore theft of an innocent man's property. The same would apply for you or anyone else.
And how was it discovered that he had these pictures? Was a search warrant for his files issued? If not, then the point of this stands. Find sufficient evidence to get a search warrant, THEN nail him.
Agreed. This is a case of CYA. I would also consider discussing it with HR, depending on the reputation that your HR group has for protecting internal whistle blowing activity.
I'm not talking about dealing with multiple devices. I'm talking about extra traffic on the bus due to the more brute force control that USB uses. USB data transfer requires a lot more token and handshaking messages in general.
Not really. The overhead is mostly on the bus with requests, ACKs, etc. It's also worth noting that the Firewire bus has built in parity. Processors have long been more than capable of handling USB.
You can't make a USB target disk mode unless you either violate the USB standard and sell special Type A to Type A USB cables or you install a USB Type B connector in the laptops.
Assuming that you are refering to USB 2.0 and not 3.0, which isn't out yet, there are distinct advantages and disadvantages with Firewire. A standard Firewire bus is rated to 400 Mb/s, while USB 2.0 is rated to 450 Mb/s. However, the USB High Speed protocol with individual devices is limited to 400 Mb/s. In addition, the USB protocol has a lot more overhead when it comes to control of the bus. The entire USB bus is fully controlled by a single host computer, whereas Firewire is an intelligent bus that requires less overhead. What all of this generally amounts to is that when it comes to a single continuous data stream, Firewire still beats USB 2.0 by quite a bit. But when it comes to managing multiple devices, or transfering many small files, the differences are not so great. For external hard drives and digital video cameras, Firewire beats USB 2.0, especially if you run Firewire 800, which is capable of 800 Mb/s.
This makes for poor comparison. I won't disagree with you on the first part, but to say that liberals (and I shall assume that the Democratic Party is the defining political authority on liberalism) conversely enjoy freedom is a farce. Both conservatives and liberals alike enjoy freedom and in politics enjoy taking it away. My freedom was taken away with the Patriot Act, the ~$850 million bailout, industry regulation, use of my taxes to pay welfare, etc. All of these things have been supported by both liberals and conservatives to varying degrees. We can blame certain items more centrally on one or the other, but they both love to take away freedom.
I don't know about publishers asking for who should review your work. In my experience, the publishers I have worked with ask who should not peer review the article. But this may vary from journal to journal. The publishers organize the peer review even though the reviewers work for free. It would be questionable if it wasn't an independent party selecting or organizing the review.
Publishers serve as "unbiased" (yeah I know that's debatable) forums for peer review of scientific journalism and create centralized repositories that make finding articles a lot easier. They are hardly a middle man that adds no value. With that said, charging unsubscribed users $29 for a single four to six page article before they can even know if it will be useful is outrageous.
Elbot failed to convince me when he said "Nice to meet you, John. That name has a 404 Not Found Not Found The requested URL/scripts/helper/cgi-bin/elbots_helper.exe was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) mod_jk/1.2.18 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c Server at localhost Port 80 background, doesn't it?"
The answer would have been simple (the implementation not so simple). You make a Legacy Windows emulator that runs inside Vista. This worked well for Apple's OS X. Though I am sure implementing this for Windows would have involved a lot more bloat than Classic did.
Rules and enforcement are two different things. Enforcement of Part 15 puts limits on EM radiation. You think the FCC are jerks with enforcement? Try working with the FDA.
This is more than rediculous. Turn over any mouse and look at the labeling. See that FCC logo? That means that the device passed the FCC's stringent EMI testing requirements. This crap is regulated, and manufactures dump a good bit of cash in making sure their design's pass testing. If these devices interfere with an airplane's control systems, then that's poor design on their part and the FAA might want to take a second look at their own design regulations.
I used to feel this way, but this year I have observed that Presidential elections are a great way to get people who were until then completely uninterested in politics to genuinely be interested. This is most effective with people who turned 18 between now and the last Presidential election. I know of at least one person who has flip-flopped on their general interest in politics and is now actually looking up what the candidates for local office are saying.
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This isn't even about leaving a peaceful Iraq anymore. I think you would find that a lot of Americans that want us out of there don't care at all if Iraq destabilizes and turns to chaos. We have no strategy for success because we don't even know what success is. Their government supposedly won't make the decisions necessary to make things stable. Screw it, get us out of there. Forget the cost of "losing". At this point, the cost of "winning" seems to be a lot higher. Of course, no one can even guess at these costs because no one even knows what winning or losing is defined by.
I would like to see the evidence of this. The high quality swords made in Japan (I classify this because in times of war, the construction quality suffered greatly due to the need for increased production) were constructed in such a way as to give a very hard edge that would hold pretty well and could still be re-polished when nicks did happen. At the same time these swords were slightly flexible (presumably to absorb shock and thereby improve durability, though I can't speak as an expert on this). These days there is just no need and little demand for such fine craftsmanship. It's like saying that you can make a bottle of premium Pier Noir in a chemistry lab. You can make a fairly decent and acceptable bottle with good repeatability, but it takes a good craftsman long and hard work to create a bottle worth celebrating.
You want them to dismantle a book of what are probably brittle pages from 1542 to run it through a paper mangling auto feed scanner? Your suggestion disturbs and outrages me.
It is you who do not believe in protecting the innocent. Until these images were found, the man was by all standards of the law, innocent. Taking and searching his hard drive without a warrant is therefore theft of an innocent man's property. The same would apply for you or anyone else.
And how was it discovered that he had these pictures? Was a search warrant for his files issued? If not, then the point of this stands. Find sufficient evidence to get a search warrant, THEN nail him.
Agreed. This is a case of CYA. I would also consider discussing it with HR, depending on the reputation that your HR group has for protecting internal whistle blowing activity.
I'm not talking about dealing with multiple devices. I'm talking about extra traffic on the bus due to the more brute force control that USB uses. USB data transfer requires a lot more token and handshaking messages in general.
Not really. The overhead is mostly on the bus with requests, ACKs, etc. It's also worth noting that the Firewire bus has built in parity. Processors have long been more than capable of handling USB.
I still use SCSI for my Bernoulli drive.
Interesting idea. Though I think at that point you might as well just go ahead and ship non standard A-A cables.
You can't make a USB target disk mode unless you either violate the USB standard and sell special Type A to Type A USB cables or you install a USB Type B connector in the laptops.
Assuming that you are refering to USB 2.0 and not 3.0, which isn't out yet, there are distinct advantages and disadvantages with Firewire. A standard Firewire bus is rated to 400 Mb/s, while USB 2.0 is rated to 450 Mb/s. However, the USB High Speed protocol with individual devices is limited to 400 Mb/s. In addition, the USB protocol has a lot more overhead when it comes to control of the bus. The entire USB bus is fully controlled by a single host computer, whereas Firewire is an intelligent bus that requires less overhead. What all of this generally amounts to is that when it comes to a single continuous data stream, Firewire still beats USB 2.0 by quite a bit. But when it comes to managing multiple devices, or transfering many small files, the differences are not so great. For external hard drives and digital video cameras, Firewire beats USB 2.0, especially if you run Firewire 800, which is capable of 800 Mb/s.
This makes for poor comparison. I won't disagree with you on the first part, but to say that liberals (and I shall assume that the Democratic Party is the defining political authority on liberalism) conversely enjoy freedom is a farce. Both conservatives and liberals alike enjoy freedom and in politics enjoy taking it away. My freedom was taken away with the Patriot Act, the ~$850 million bailout, industry regulation, use of my taxes to pay welfare, etc. All of these things have been supported by both liberals and conservatives to varying degrees. We can blame certain items more centrally on one or the other, but they both love to take away freedom.
In 1996 here in the United States, my school was still using Apple IIs and electronic typewritters for typing classes.
You forgot Windows 2.1. Yes it existed... I have a copy.
I still have not figured out how people manage to get a B.S. by partying for four years.
I don't know about publishers asking for who should review your work. In my experience, the publishers I have worked with ask who should not peer review the article. But this may vary from journal to journal. The publishers organize the peer review even though the reviewers work for free. It would be questionable if it wasn't an independent party selecting or organizing the review.
Publishers serve as "unbiased" (yeah I know that's debatable) forums for peer review of scientific journalism and create centralized repositories that make finding articles a lot easier. They are hardly a middle man that adds no value. With that said, charging unsubscribed users $29 for a single four to six page article before they can even know if it will be useful is outrageous.
Elbot failed to convince me when he said "Nice to meet you, John. That name has a 404 Not Found Not Found The requested URL /scripts/helper/cgi-bin/elbots_helper.exe was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) mod_jk/1.2.18 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c Server at localhost Port 80 background, doesn't it?"
It doesn't increase security. What it does do is provide a non overly-aggravating transition that can be isolated from the main system.
The answer would have been simple (the implementation not so simple). You make a Legacy Windows emulator that runs inside Vista. This worked well for Apple's OS X. Though I am sure implementing this for Windows would have involved a lot more bloat than Classic did.
When I saw that it was from Fox News, I thought it was April 1st.
Rules and enforcement are two different things. Enforcement of Part 15 puts limits on EM radiation. You think the FCC are jerks with enforcement? Try working with the FDA.
This is more than rediculous. Turn over any mouse and look at the labeling. See that FCC logo? That means that the device passed the FCC's stringent EMI testing requirements. This crap is regulated, and manufactures dump a good bit of cash in making sure their design's pass testing. If these devices interfere with an airplane's control systems, then that's poor design on their part and the FAA might want to take a second look at their own design regulations.
I used to feel this way, but this year I have observed that Presidential elections are a great way to get people who were until then completely uninterested in politics to genuinely be interested. This is most effective with people who turned 18 between now and the last Presidential election. I know of at least one person who has flip-flopped on their general interest in politics and is now actually looking up what the candidates for local office are saying.