That works if you have a cop on every corner. Except it still doesn't work. The suicide bombers would not have been stopped by a copper drawing his gun, cos, well, noone suspected them.
The camera's do not stop the crime, just as having police patrol areas doesn't stop crime. The cameras allow the authorities to record who it was that blew themselves up (such as in the first wave of suicide bombings in london) and to capture the images of the second lot of suicide bombers who failed.
"Beyond a reasonable doubt" requires proving opportunity. Bit hard to kill someone if you're already in jail, and it's something the DA could easily find out.
Of course, the defense attorney should have called the DA and told them to get their collective heads out of their asses and check the prison records as well.
If she was killed her body or parts of would have turned up by now. You mean like hoffa's have? Wait, hoffa hasn't turned up, dead or alive in all this time. Oh my!
If america had an iraqi strategy, other than "take out saddam hussein and be welcomed by the populace with flowers and streamers and pretty things", it wouldn't be in the mess it is today.
Well, this member of a D&D group won't be bugging his DM to get this stuff, and I don't think anyone else in our group will convert either. The DM was hooked on Dragon/Dungeon, and they're not going to make up those sales online.
It remains to be seen wether they'll make enough money doing it this way; i doubt it.
Sure, you want to base everything on something stable, rock solid with a pedigree and much use, but the problems with those attributes is that you end up with limitations, design flaws that must be worked around with ugly hacks that cause yet more limitations.
In the end, it boils down to what you want X to do, how you want to do it, and how you're gonna support it. 10 years? yeah, I don't see an issue with that. Once you get into the twenties and over, I don't think that many things are going to be flexible enough unless your product focus is narrow (and already covered by the product).
You're absolutely right, the subclaim "The system of claim 1, wherein said geographical search area is a point of interest" really narrows it down. It narrows it down from claim 1 "A system which associates on-line information with geographic areas, said system comprising:" (a server on the internet) with the geographic area being.. anywhere in the known universe that could be or is "a point of interest". That's really narrowing it down. Really.
Well, you'd think so, but it's not as self evident as you'd think, especially if you're not technologically literate. Sure, I could google my name, but I'm not good with dealing with people (on or offline) and that's where these people come in.
Sure, the trees can be regrown. Too bad for the underlying ecosystem which gets totally trashed.
Ever see the landscape berefit of trees? Just stumps as far as can be seen - no large or even medium size animals, very little ground cover, erosion increased by magnitudes. Sure, there are plantations - in this case, nothing but ordered trees as far as the eye can see, with little return of other plants and animals.
I agree with your numbers, but they don't mirror real world usage. In the real world, that drive will probably mostly be full, leaving less room for the write balancing to work it's magic. It's not doom and gloom stuff, but it's not manymany years stuff.
That's assuming that the write-balancing can only work on free space. Pretty sure that's right, but i can't confirm it at the moment.
You make all these references to how the feds can more easily track (most) people, you make references to how the government can intimidate people into doing what they want, but i'm failing to see how it's on the rise. Large groups of organised people always have ways to oppress and track other people - yet if the current us government is doing this in a grand, hidden conspiracy, it's really, really sucking at it. I'm failing to see how a majority of people polled in the us want troops out against a background of super sekrit government intimidation.
Sure, it's more than possible. Is it happening? If it is, it's with the normal incompetance of the current us government.
They're too right wing on morality issues, and they followed the us government straight into iraq. They refused to acknowledge their mistakes over the children overboard affair, and their workplace law reforms went too far.
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It'll boost the economy, what with all the Anti Moller Skycar devices being sold (aka SAMs)
Which requires a server platform (2k server, 2k3 server, etc). Not many of those lying around most people's houses.
That works if you have a cop on every corner. Except it still doesn't work. The suicide bombers would not have been stopped by a copper drawing his gun, cos, well, noone suspected them.
The camera's do not stop the crime, just as having police patrol areas doesn't stop crime. The cameras allow the authorities to record who it was that blew themselves up (such as in the first wave of suicide bombings in london) and to capture the images of the second lot of suicide bombers who failed.
If a volcanic dust cloud makes growing food impossible, having or not having protectionist tariffs will not make a difference. Srsly.
Try following the HTML link - http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007 q3/jAppServer2004-20070606-00065.html
Is more indepth on the systems and tuning parameters used.
"Beyond a reasonable doubt" requires proving opportunity. Bit hard to kill someone if you're already in jail, and it's something the DA could easily find out.
Of course, the defense attorney should have called the DA and told them to get their collective heads out of their asses and check the prison records as well.
up by now. You mean like hoffa's have? Wait, hoffa hasn't turned up, dead or alive in all this time. Oh my!
If america had an iraqi strategy, other than "take out saddam hussein and be welcomed by the populace with flowers and streamers and pretty things", it wouldn't be in the mess it is today.
Well, this member of a D&D group won't be bugging his DM to get this stuff, and I don't think anyone else in our group will convert either. The DM was hooked on Dragon/Dungeon, and they're not going to make up those sales online.
It remains to be seen wether they'll make enough money doing it this way; i doubt it.
Sure, you want to base everything on something stable, rock solid with a pedigree and much use, but the problems with those attributes is that you end up with limitations, design flaws that must be worked around with ugly hacks that cause yet more limitations.
In the end, it boils down to what you want X to do, how you want to do it, and how you're gonna support it. 10 years? yeah, I don't see an issue with that. Once you get into the twenties and over, I don't think that many things are going to be flexible enough unless your product focus is narrow (and already covered by the product).
You're absolutely right, the subclaim "The system of claim 1, wherein said geographical search area is a point of interest" really narrows it down. It narrows it down from claim 1 "A system which associates on-line information with geographic areas, said system comprising:" (a server on the internet) with the geographic area being .. anywhere in the known universe that could be or is "a point of interest". That's really narrowing it down. Really.
Well, you'd think so, but it's not as self evident as you'd think, especially if you're not technologically literate. Sure, I could google my name, but I'm not good with dealing with people (on or offline) and that's where these people come in.
Damn young engineers should get off my lawn! *shakes fist at 'em*
You mean like microsoft's gold level for Live! ?
*nods* thanks.
Sure, the trees can be regrown. Too bad for the underlying ecosystem which gets totally trashed.
Ever see the landscape berefit of trees? Just stumps as far as can be seen - no large or even medium size animals, very little ground cover, erosion increased by magnitudes. Sure, there are plantations - in this case, nothing but ordered trees as far as the eye can see, with little return of other plants and animals.
Lose it? Cringely has been trolling for years, and slashdot and the internet just keep lapping it up.
Ahh, you're talking about episode 3 of half life 2 there, no doubt? :)
DoD has guns. MIT/HP don't.
Doesn't the token getting dropped/network breaking break a token network?
I agree with your numbers, but they don't mirror real world usage. In the real world, that drive will probably mostly be full, leaving less room for the write balancing to work it's magic. It's not doom and gloom stuff, but it's not manymany years stuff.
That's assuming that the write-balancing can only work on free space. Pretty sure that's right, but i can't confirm it at the moment.
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You make all these references to how the feds can more easily track (most) people, you make references to how the government can intimidate people into doing what they want, but i'm failing to see how it's on the rise. Large groups of organised people always have ways to oppress and track other people - yet if the current us government is doing this in a grand, hidden conspiracy, it's really, really sucking at it. I'm failing to see how a majority of people polled in the us want troops out against a background of super sekrit government intimidation.
Sure, it's more than possible. Is it happening? If it is, it's with the normal incompetance of the current us government.
They're too right wing on morality issues, and they followed the us government straight into iraq. They refused to acknowledge their mistakes over the children overboard affair, and their workplace law reforms went too far.