Comment If you say it is so it must be (Score 1) 564
Market to Balckberry: You Are Dying.
Market to Balckberry: You Are Dying.
Does the TSA actually have any real authority to patrol a football game?
The football stadium is privately owned and unlike an airport does not fall under any government security oversight.
Were the owners of the stadium notified that the TSA would have a presence at the game?
Now I know that there are those that will say the TSA can and will do what it wants wherever it wants. That is how they operate, without having to explain their actions, thinking that will keep the bad guys in check. But the TSA/Homeland security is a government organization and are to be held accountable to the public.
But unlike the massive airport presence there is no precedent for them to be at a football game.
Were they reacting to a specific threat?
Someone in the TSA decided for whatever reason they should be present at this game. The question is why.
Write your local representative asking about this disturbing new trend. Voice your concerns over the police like state and abuse of power all in the name of safety.
Or don't do anything but complain amongst ourselves and go along with everything they ask us to do. Which is what they really want.
Just about every recording studio runs some type of Digital Audio Workstation, and a lot of those are OS X machines running Avid's ProTools software.
While ProTools is available for Windows, I don't see many Windows boxes in recording studios.
In music production Apple products continue to dominate.
10 years ago we would have said "that is a cool hack".
Yes, smartphones are capable devices, but they don't do everything. They weren't designed to do everything. I have already seen Iphone apps(audio spectrum analyzer/oscilloscope) which attempt to replace dedicated hardware used in my line of work. It is neat to have a portable something that does it all, but if it doesn't do it as well or better than the original device I fail to see the point beyond the cool, small factor.
And believe it or not, not everyone has a smartphone.
There was a reason that the tricorder and communicator where not combined into 1 device.
While I won't go so far as to say that the problems with the LHC are cool, I do think it is to be expected. The LHC is a highly complex instrument with countless sub-assemblies and parts. I am sure that every effort was made to model the interaction of all these parts but the truth is that no one knows how it will perform untill it is physically assembled and then put into use. To expect it to work without incident as soon as it is powered up is unrealistic.
Compare it to the design and construction of a modern day airliner. Computer models are used to design, plan and aid in construction but a full size working aircraft is still produced before they start shipping them off to waiting customers.
The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.