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Hypothetical, but what if the package had been a bomb and police had shrugged it off. Or had gone to check it out and it exploded killing the officers and by-standers? You don't take that chance. This is why they have polcies and proceedures. Especially if you find several boxes with the same M.O. Oh and they have plenty of grounds for criminal and civil action. Trust me, as screwed up as TORT (civil) laws are here in the United States you can sue about anything if you have the money to hire a lawyer. Time Warner and the city will settle out of court and that will be over. The two that pulled the stunt will see some kind of probaition or community service. And here is the really sick part. I've worked around marketeers and many would KILL for this kind of publicity. If their goal was to make people aware of ATHF, they suceeded wildly. It generated "buzz". Now whether that is good or ill could be debated, but as the old addage goes: there is no bad publicity.

Wrong. The Core of MacOS X is BSD, which is UNIX not "unix-like". Technically it's freeBSD with Mach Kernel. Here is why I switched about four years ago: My PC tower didn't work right. The motherboard hated the soundcard which hated the 3D drivers which hated windows and I was sick of it. I was doing a fair bit with linux based webservers and FreeBSD servers. It was okay, but my printer lacked drivers, so did my scanner, so Linux on the desktop still wasn't the best option for me. About that time I wanted a laptop and was getting ready to leave out of the country for 3 months and finally wanted something that worked. So I got an iBook. Finally I had a single platform from which I could use Microsoft Office, Photoshop, plus do all my Unix work I needed to with MYSQL et. al., and ran handy mac only software like final cut. Since then I've transitioned into video production which is dominated by tools like Final Cut Studio. I know of more and more people who are buying Apple laptops over everyone else. Desktops are still dominated by PC, but this past year I bought my dad an iMac to replace his old Windows 98 box that had crapped out finally. I wasn't totally sold on the switch to Intel, but now with the software I need out in Universal, it's a good move. Especially since the rendering engine in programs like Lightwave are tuned for x86. Now my Dad could run XP if he wanted via bootcamp, but why? Yes Apple is a few dollars more, but it's also a far more flexiable platform at this time. The main reason why Linux has stayed in the server room is Apple. Most people like me switched from Linux to Mac early on because we saw the flexiablity and abilty to have a system "That just works". Those firmly in the Linux camp get off by having to configure everything and think that's cool. I used too as well, but then I got into the real world and discovered how valubale time was. I want a computer that just works with a minium of fuss. Macs do that. I think people are starting to trend back towards Mac now with the iPod and iTunes. This new Apple TV device will probably help as well.

Try reinstalling the program. The data in saved files should be unaffected by this. I havn't used Access in a while since moving to Mac and using PostgreSQL as my primary DB, but I remember doing something similar once back in college. That machine loaded a fresh windows 2000 install every time it booted (from the network) and I just restarted the machine and everything came back.

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/ they did an entire episode about this once. They figured out exactly what ingrediants worked the best. And if you want to try at home, use DIET COKE, not the regular stuff. Astpertaime gives it an extra kick.

I've used Schuland & Partner AG for 10 years now. (That's the German Company that owns 1&1) And I can't complain. We use them for our corporate hosting and dedicated servers at work. Very reasonable and I can't complain. But I work on sites in the US and in the EU and dealing with EU can be a different ballgame. (EU data protection laws and such) Whenever we make any server changes, we always plan for a 72-hour delay. Usually it's completed with in 24 hours.

First off let me say this: We don't have to send our kids to these places to die. Not when we have bombs, drones, and tactical nukes. Outside of a relief agency, name one time the UN has intervened usefully since 1956? And even on the Humanitarian side of things they don't have a great track record. But they are better than nothing. The UN, like the US nuclear weapons policy, is a relic of the Cold War. Gee...and when you're getting kickbacks, or your son is, from a little thing called the Oil-for-food program, you think that might sway the UN's opinion a little? And if you want to get technical, as far as I can tell this was a renewal of hostilities from the 1991 cease-fire agreement. Iraq broke the terms of cease-fire. I don't hear anyone disputing that. And finally: when you get the UN involved, all you get is a cease-fire...which does nothing but put things off till another day. Call me old fashion, but I still like the days when it took an act of War from congress to go to war and the war didn't end until surrender/treaty. The US found chemical weapons in Iraq. Most were stored improperly and inert, some wasn't, but the problem here was with the term "stockpile". What constitutes a stockpile? 5 chemical shells? 10? 100? 1000? Furthermore, Saddam had all the gear to start up production again once sanctions were lifted. Yeah, that's the truth. Anyone else remember the stories of Baby's being pulled off life support in Kuiwait City in 1990? The stories proved to be complete lies, yet exiled refugees told them before Congress in 1990/1991. Also, the Clinton era orders on HUMIT (Human Intelligence) really hurt the CIA. The whole point of the CIA is to deal with bad people and do bad things...just make sure it doesn't wind up on the front page of the New York Times. Now there gets to be a lot of arguement here, but the Sunni/Shiite split not only along religous, but ethnic lines as well. A vast majority of Sunni's are Arab (in that region...I'm not sure what Indoneasia is off the top of my head) while the vast majority of Shiite are Persian (i.e. the ethnic populus of Iran). Basically I think this goes back more to ethnic lines than religon as those population groups have been fighting long before the founding of the Islamic religon. So in that regaurds, you have the Persians, Kurds, and Sunni. The single largest bloc of which are those siding with the Persian. (Again whether they consider themselves Arab or Persian I can't recall.) I think our single biggest mistake here was thinking there was anything to hold Iraq together. There isn't. There wasn't such a thing as an "Iraqi" until the 1950's. Loyalities in that part of the world are much more to tribal/famliy/ethnic/religous lines. It may have been best to divide the country in three, pull US troops up the Kurdish areas (where we haven't seen a lot of problems and the local population was very pro-western) and then sit on the new Kurdistan/Turkish boarder to make sure they didn't start shooting at eachother. Then let the Sunnis and Shiite shoot it out. Which Army are you talking about? The conscripts? Most of them surrendered or just went home. They weren't there to fight and I doubt would have made an effective military force. Conscripts were not in uniform by choice. Most of the "career" military folks, especially the trained units of the republican gaurd, were loyal to Saddam, not Iraq. That doesn't even include the "special republican gaurds" and the baathist para-military units. They were loyal to the regieme. That being said, there were no truely unifying leaders in exile for the country nor many calling for democracy on the streets. There was no Charles De Gaulle for the Iraqi people to whom they could rally behind. The Shiite, if we use the typical definitions on Iraq, are the largest single bloc of people in the geographical boundries of Iraq. To quote (Adele Stevenson I think): "The Middle East is a problem with boarders". Some british guy in the late 1940's drew lines on a map and suddenly new countries existed. It used to be just "Arabia". When the house of Saud came along and gained power, it became "Saudi Arabia"...and a few smaller countries. And you're right about Iran meddeling in the affairs. Why do you think the US let Saddam subdue the uprising in (1993 iirc)? It was so the Shiites wouldn't gain power because they would become a proxy of Iran giving the Iranians control of too much of the world's oil production. The Shiites didn't forget that either. Why Al Sadr is still alive is beyond me. Again this goes back to basic rules of engagement. If Al Sadr is in a Mosque...blow up the damned Mosque. We blew up church bell towers in World War II when German snipers hid inside. I saw plenty of Churches, Catholic and Luthern, still with pot marks and rebuilt sections due to Allied bombing when I lived near Hamburg, Germany. And one day they will have backing form Iran? That's already happening. What is going on now in Iraq is NOT an insurgancy. It is a proxy war being fought by Iran against the United States. Iran is using the Shiite Militias in Iraq much the same way they used Hezbullah as a proxy force against Israel last summer. Don't forget we captured a few Iranian special forces in Iraq a couple months ago... He becomes forceful: Kill him. Given the current world affairs, the Regaen era self-imposed restriction on state sponsored assassination needs to end. We know where theAyatollahs in Iran live...we have extremely accurate missles...and taking out the Iranian leadership without taking on the rest of the population...priceless. (It worked pretty damn well with Kadafi over in Libya.) (Just like the next time Hugo Chavaz's plane flys over the ocean...it has mysterious mechanical trouble and is never seen again. SM-3's have a habit of doing that.) Of course we need to get our troops out of the area in order to take a more forceful approach otherwise risk retalliation. Syria and Iran are no friends of the US. And the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Take Afganistan against the Soviets. Bin Ladan was not our friend, but in the 1980's: the Soviets were both our enemys. Both Al-Queda and the Iranians have a common foe in the region: the United States. This has more to do with Israel than Iraq. Iran ships weapons to Hezbollah in Lebenon via Syria. Historically it worked in Germany. Granted Nazi's were only about 10 - 15% of the German population, but I don't think the Bath party was much larger than that. They just happened to rule the country by force for 30 years. Yes, but I think the Kurds could be reasoned with and told in no uncertain terms: okay we'll support dividing Iraq into 3 countries. You get a Kurdistan, but you have to regonize the border of Turkey. Furthermore: you get to have your own "national guard" to protect your streets. But there will be permanent US military bases and your army will be the US Army. Let them spend their oil money on building up their people, not trying to enlarge the land. If they want to welcome in kurdish populations from Turkey, let them. To quell Turkey, offer some kind of pipeline deal where Turkey sees some oil revenue and the US continues it's support for Turkey's bid to get into the EU. After all, Turkey is part of NATO...but that didn't keep the Turks and Greeks using NATO weapons from shooting at each other back in the 1960's either. Again, in hindsight, dividing the country up may have been a better solution. Not a perfect solution, but then we probably could have retreated to the north and then let the Arabs and Persians fight it out...then we deal with the victor. And the Saudi's aren't are allies. Not really. They are the ones funding folks like Bin Ladan. The way to deal with those folks is: Assassinations. We know who these people are, start killing them and not all to quitely. People seem to think twice when cruise missiles beging flying through bedroom windows. And it only takes a few before people get the point too. The ole terrorist/freedom fighter debate. Not going to go there, because it won't end. Again, from what I see, what the US is fighting now is a proxy war with Iran...only we won't bomb Iran. We are going to have to do something about Iran. Personally, without an internal revolt, I see Iran getting nuked by 2010. Either by the United States or by the Israelis.

All OS's made in the US have to give their encryption keys to the US government before they be exported.

I have serious heat issues with AMD in the past. Personally I'm a fan of the PowerPC processor line, but I got my Dad a DualCore iMac for christmas. I did some rendering tests and was extremely impressed with rendering times for 3D animation. I'm not ready to abandon my Quadcore G5 for video editing and compositing just yet.

We had a scheduled power outage here today and I haven't had any problems since everything turned back on. I'll check the settings and see about setting the reset to 1440 and see if that helps.

4 years ago when I switched to Mac.

I have a WPA commerical key and as well as MAC address filtering (only my powerbook allowed). I'll try updating the firmware.

I went cheap and got a Belkin wireless router and it had to be reset every 2 mintues otherwise it would loose connection my motorola surfboard cable modem. The LAN still functioned, but....So I went out and got the Linksys 54g, which is the router I've set up at work and other places before, but now I'm having the same problem. The first day it ran like a champ, but now two days later I'm having to reset the thing about every 15 minutes. (Save config changes). I can still connect to the router and other computers on the LAN, but it keeps needing to be reset for a connection to the internet. This goes for wireless as well as wired (like my PS2) connections. Is there a setting I need to change. I've owned these before with high traffic areas and they only needed to be reset every week or so. Here is it just me, my roommate, and the PS2 that is conencted. And now that classes have begun again, the PS2 is hardly getting used.

We start liquidifngy coal to produce synthetic fuels. This isn't new technology. The Germans did it in World War two after they lost their oil fields to the Red Army. Problem now is that it is extremely expensive to do this on a large scale. But once oil hits $75 a barrel, it suddenly becomes economical. That's why when you see oil starting to hit $70 mark, you start to see the middle east begin to get ancy. Also, we'll see more energy from wind that sunlight. Some people may have to get over their NIMBY attudies about seeing the mills sticking outo f the ocean off the coast. Already your seeing a lot of these facilities in Kansas and the other plain states. The Dakotas are perfect for wind energy and farmers make a nice profit for their 3 acres of land the towers take up. And they can still farm AROUND the towers. 3 Acres of Corn @ 140 bushels an acre and $3 a bushel = $1260 Typically farmers get $30,000 up front + yearly land lease payment and free electricity for their home/shop. Just with what they get up front, your talking about farming that land for almost a life time to earn that much. Let's face it, solar power isn't going to do you a lot of good if you live in Seattle. Now if you live in Arizona or New Mexico, different story. Also, electric cars still pollute. They just shift it from their tail pipe to a Power plant's smoke stack or a nuclear reactor. Now, when I look at a new car in another 5 years or so, I'll be looking for a flexfuel hybrid. (Let someone else work the bugs out of both technologies).

It's an off shore platform. Last time I checked, you needed land to be considered a country. As it stands, it's probably more like "in international waters" than an actual country. That is why Vatican city is still technically the smallest country in the world.

Yes, it should run fine with boot camp. I bought my Dad a new Dual Core 2Ghz iMac for my Dad and testing out applications. Office works fine through rossetta, as does Photoshop (PPC version), but PS takes a tradmendous resource hit from rosetta. The dual core 2Ghz system isn't much faster than my 1Ghz G4 powerbook when rendering some PS filters. So far Dad's only gotten a couple minutes on the Mac as I've been hogging all the time setting everything up. He installed Turbotax and it runs smoothly on the intel mac as does office so he's happy. That's my update.

I read through Bruce Cambell's autobiography once over a cup of coffee at Barnes and Noble. Really an interesting book, especially if you have any interest in the indie film business. Really the book is more of a "How to do a low budget indie film" than an autobiography other than about his brief stints as a real hollywood actor.

Try using another tag, like embed, and see if that will then play on FF. That's normally what I use with Quicktime files. Yes, not fancy, but it plays on any browser.

Just been through this with my dad. I have cable at my condo, but it's a business account with 5MB/s both ways so I can run Xgrid through the internet and for business reasons. (There are days when I'm uploading 9GB of video and wish I had a faster connection).For him, the phone company offers a $20 a month 384k/384k DSL package. Which is plenty for him as the only thing he downloads now is OSX system updates and sometimes he is sent pictures or sends pictures he scans as he is scanning all the old photo albums into his new iMac. For general surfing, once you get above 256k, I've never noticed a lot of difference in terms of how fast a webpage pops up. If your doing a lot of podcast, video, and pirating of software (or other such stuff) that's the only reason to carry the faster service. I'm in video production and it is not uncommon for me to transfer several GB files to people half way around the world. Usually what slows that process down is their end. Of the six companies I do work for, only one has a connection where I actually get about 1MB/S transer rates. Most of the others are in the 100 - 200kbps range, most likely because of BW throttles on their end. As with anything, it depends on what your going to do with the connection.

Macs: Pros: No virus, little spyware Most Opensource apps for Linux run fine on OSX You can find all major commercial software for OSX, including Adobe, MS Office, Quark. Apple only apps: iLife, Final Cut Pro, Logic, etc. Now you can run OSX and Windows on the same box Cons Price. Apple hardware comes a premium Apple tends to nickle and dime you (remember, Ilife was once free!) Most popular games are ported to mac, and now with the Intel boxes, I look for increased support. But the fact of the matter is most Mac users use their computer for work not play. They aren't playing games on their mac. In fact the only game I have is Stronghold and Vegastrike...and I rarely play either one. THat's what the PS2 is for!

I bought PS2 slim line at a pawn shop about a year ago for $120, and that was the system, memory card, 2 games, and 2 controllers. Cheaper than the used prices at other places. The prices for new games have already dropped by $10, but getting used games is the way to go. I will spend $20 for a "Greatest Hits" title, but $15 or less for a used game is usually more my price range.

Microsoft copy Apple...never...ever...ever...I still think it's funny Zune isn't compatiable with Vista

BBedit, but then again that's for Mac...

Xbox 360...the next gen Mac...Well, kinda....Microsoft went to PPC processors and Apple went Intel...go figure...Anyway, now with the Xboxes shipping at $200 below the PS3 with HD-DVD roms and lots of titles available, I think they have a decided leg up in the format wars. That being said, I think the Wii is still the platform to watch because it is different. In terms of game play, the PS3 is a PS1 with fancier graphics (and I guess limited motion sensor control), the 360 is basically an Xbox with better performance, but yet game play on both the PS2 and Xbox are evolutionary.The Wii is something totally different that I think invites a whole different crowd into gaming. It is more of a revolution in how one actually interacts with the game. Your no longer just mashing buttons. I've not played the PS3 yet, but I have the Xbox360 and Wii. Wii is a fun party machine. A group and stand around and play tennis and watch others make fools of themselves or strike swords and it's fun to watch...at least entertaining, kinda of like the DDR games a few years back or guitar hero for the PS2. I've said this before, I have no plans on buying a next gen console, but at $250...I could entertain the notion of maybe getting a Wii some day. But I don't play games enough anymore to justify spending $500 on a system and $60 on a game let alone $750. $750 buys me a copy of Apple Shake which I turn around and use to earn a living. Or it buys more RAM to make working easier...or pays for a month's rent. Is a video game system worth a month's rent....not to me.

Disclaimer: I am not a Lawyer...yet (just in law school) But more and more college professors are using paper checking services to catch cheating. As far as that is concerned, it is understandable, but what I do not like is my material being submitted to databases for future reference. No mater what your professor may like to claim, if you write it, it's your copyright (providing you are not infriniging on others rights) So make sure you always document and cite your sources correctly. Some professors, and even schools now, are wording it into their agreements that you must allow professors or the insistution do whatever they wish with the work. Read all such fine print carefully and never just sign on the dotted line. If you need a couple days to read it over, they may not like it, but they have to grant it. (If not, there could be serious doubt to the contract's validity and "good faith" of such a contract) Here is something that some of us have begun doing to our papers: creating a footer on everypage that reads:Copyright © 2006 By YOUR NAME.This material may not be copied or transmited in any form, including electronically, without express written permission of the Author. What does this mean? Well simple, EVEN THE ACT OF TRANSMITTING THE PAPER TO CHECK IT IN is in violation of the terms of copyright. Now I don't support plagurizing at all, but at the same time I have more of a problem with others submitting my works to outside sources without asking. So if your professor is in love with said service, and they never made you sign anything in the syllbus...use it...see what they do...

I enjoyed Halo 1, Halo 2 was just a rent for me. Frankly, played through the game and then it ended.