Stand up 2 WSUS servers, one on a connected network, one on the disconnected network. Download all products and classifications that you need on the connected one, sneakernet them over to the disconnected one and import them. https://technet.microsoft.com/... If you're going to need to patch custom applications, then you're going to need to look into something like Configuration Manager with SCUP if you want to have compliance data for the installation, otherwise you can just create a software distribution package.

So the question I have is, does the fact we have a large moon also the reason we still have our protective magnetic field? I've always kind of assumed the answer is yes without researching it. Wouldn't the relationship of our earth moon magnetic fields interacting each other creates some sort of signature that we can look for? That seems like it could be a potentially noisy event.

We are far too savage at this point to become part of the federation of planets.. or whatever its called.

+1 for Funspot. I recommend watching "The King of Kong" a dozen times, which shouldn't be a problem if you're a geek, then go to Funspot.

One of the major talking points about this game is the fact that every quest in the game has spoken quest text. The amount of work it’s taken to accomplish this is a massive expense. The fatal flaw here is... Who ever said that games wanted to HEAR every single quest that’s in the game? What happens if there is a bug in one of the quests and you have to change the text? 1) you have to keep a LIVE production studio to make sure you can record any changes to the quests which may arise 2) you now have a LOT more data to transmit to the clients for any patches as opposed to pure quest text. Oh you've also increased the amount of data required for any new content you want to develop and distribute after release by a factor of 1000. It is nice to release new or additional content after release.. I know there are a lot of RPers out there who love quests and read and savor every single word, but most players are simply barely skim the text, hit accept and then want to move on to the next one so they can be done quickly and move on to the next one. IMO this feature of spoken quest is why costs are so high on this project and will wind up killing it.

I can think of numerous applications which would make a revolutoinary product and only require one of these devices. The primary one being an intelligent vacuum which can actively avoid obsticales, empty its own waste bin, and recharge itself. Now that there are also 10+ million of these devices out there, and a large number of them are being used for robotics hobbiest/engineers/etc, and are actively working on resolving this issue. I suspect the kinect 2 or some other future product will have a genuine solution to this shortcoming. In the meantime, i am eagerly awaiting my robotic vacuum cleaner.

Oh my goodness, what a Segway into a capaign for the dangers of driving recreational vehicles.

I have a funny story about X-Wing vs Tie Fighter. I was at E3 in Atlanta in 1998? (the one year they had it there), One evening I was at the bar at my hotel close to the convention center. I was trying to pick up a woman who was sitting at the bar, and talking to her about video games in general. During my ramblings, I made a few comments about xwing vs tie fighter and some guy walks up to me and says "OK tell me what you don't like about X wing vs Tie fighter". I said "oh, you must work for lucasarts".. he's like .. yup, So I gave him both barrels my true feelings on the game. I had been a big fan of the X-Wing and Tie fighter games and considered myself a 'skilled' player. When I played XW/TF it was a very very steep learning curve, even the training missions were super difficult, and made the single player very unpleasant because you never felt like you were able to accomplish anything. I said a few other negative things and could tell I had really rattled his cage. All he shot back was.. "Well have you tried the multi player?" I told him I hadn't (ironically this game was torn apart because of its horrible multi player later, in fact there was a documented post mortem in trade magazines on how poorly it was developed) he said, "Well the multiplayer is great!" I assured him he was probably right and that I'd check it out ^rolls eyes^. I then said that I was a big fan of a lot of their other products and asked if he wanted to swap business cards. He said "Oh you mean like a business contact?" I said yeah, and we traded cards and I didn't even look at it, just put it in my wallet, bid him a nice evening and continued my conversation with the woman I was trying to bed. The next day I looked at the card, It was from Jack Sorenson, the president of Lucasarts.. I still have that card around somewhere. I never did call him up. I wonder if he would have remembered me.

Isn't it entirely possible that the lines themselves, made of either plasma or iron filings, are actually caused/created by the amount of intensity of magnitized matierial present in the field? (the magntized material interaciting with the other material itself)

You can also offer to dispose of his broken "hard drive" and either salvage all the parts, or just slap a new or used HDD in it and you've got a new computer! Of course then, you'll have to come up with some clever excuse when he comes over and sees you using his broken hard drive.

This isn't an apt analogy, I don't see how this is insightful.

We're not making complete inaccurate observations. like your polar bear theory, that would simply assume that every star we see has a solar system with one planet like ours and we assume that each has an earth around it with a population close to ours.

The equasion discussed is trying to eliminate 99.99999 percent of stars out there (excuse my inaccurate percent, its just an example), and state that according to our knowlege of statistics coupled with our understanding of the galaxy, this would be the percentage of habitable planets with intelligent civilations on them; according to our best estimates. At least thats my take away from it. we're using statistics in conjunction with our