It's OK, sometimes the peas and carrots mix a little, but it's still perfectly edible... I see this expenditure as a cost-effective, creative alternative vs. PR coming from a buy of ad-time on tv. It gets the army a little PR and introduces some realism vs most other FPSs. The only people to complain might be other game companies in the niche of providing semi-realistic miltary FPS, but all indications is that there's no real effect there, see Call of Duty and Modern Warfare sales...

Rober Oppenheimer might disagree that jocks are the best way to win wars.

I've got to the get the name of Windex's astroturf agency - brilliant marketing!

CITATION NEEDED:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/09/23/flu-shots-h1n1-seasonal.html

Heres a CBC news report about preliminary data from the Public Health Agency of Canada. No conclusions, but interesting data.

It would never work, the legislators would be too afraid of the "blame" function.

This is what makes me laugh when you hear about eBay's CEO thinking of a run for CA governor and the blurbs introducing the candidate as CEO fortune whatever company eBay... Of course, that prolly guarantees she'll be our next governor.

I can see that individual smart grid components may be more vulnerable to EMP, but overall shouldn't a smart grid be more resistant to having nodes removed from it? Our current grid doesn't deal with imbalances very well - often causing outages in areas which could technically get power, but where it can't be delivered because of archaic grid deisgn. Remember the Northeast blackout in 2003? I'm thinking that an EMP may physically damage our current grid technology less, but the effect across the system would be more widespread and long lasting because of lack of flexibility in the current grid.

I think the core of the problem is the American blind-faith that competitive markets will emerge if only government doesn't regulate anything. I'm ready for a balance of regulation shifting that line on that is considered anti-competitive behavior unrelated to the service itself - such as lock-ins, or coupling of technical capabilities. Figuring out that line isn't easy, or as simple as a "regulate nothing" mantra, but it's preferable to the current morass - cell service being just one area.

I think Europe has a more pragmatic view of market regulation than America currently does - and it shows in a lot of areas.

Ooo maybe we should ban roadsigns too, a terrorist might be able to find their way around.

Seriously, WTF is the thinking here. Oh thats right - there is none.

Surely you jest.

So I can get the stability of windows with the a compatibility an open-source desktop... hey why don't I load it on expensive Apple hardware and go for an all around win!?

Honestly, it's a little difficult to see the point it seems like you'd getting the worst of two worlds with KDE on windows....

It does until you call a function that doesn't support stand alone executables from one of the many available toolboxes.

Matlab and it's toolboxes are a great tools for analysis, but for direct production deployments of exe's there are a great many inconvenient detours involved. (Matlab has been steadily improving this though...)

I heard that it was Somalian pirates... or post-banking-collapse Icelandic Vikings. Have you ever heard of Mad Olav!