Hitler wasn't an immediate problem for the US. Japan was, and due to a complex set of treaties, that means once we declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on us, thus we declared war on Germany.
I think on a particular level the US wanted Germany to defeat the Soviet Union, Stalin was just as bad as Hitler. However due to Japan, that mean we needed to team up with the USSR against Germany, so we needed to wast American lives and resources, then we still had the problem with the USSR.
The real problem is, that people are strange things, we are not pure good or pure evil, we fall somewhere in the middle. Why can't we reward people for doing the right thing while punishing people for doing the wrong things.
Part of the problem is when we have hero's they will let us down, because they are human beings, Now Putin is damn close to being a nasty dictator, but you can admire his environmental activism, at the same time think that he is way to dangerous of a person to be president... Again!!
1. Custom App development/Using GNU open source applications. 2. Insuring a lock down of features such as a Camera. 3. Connecting to alternate VPN connections.
the iPad is good for most modern IT infrastructures. However there are a lot of older infrastructures out there that can be done with a PC but now with an iPad.
Depending on the company, for the most part if you get hired your vacation pay will go out the window anyways. Unless you are going to be a real jerk and put in your two week notice then take two week vacation. In that case you ex-boss will find a way to fire you... (just as easy as vacation request denied)
Why do you thinks these products fail. Is because they are trying to kill the competition vs. Find their own niche where the competition fails to thrive.
The iPad is here and it will stay as long as Apple Deems fit. Now that doesn't mean it need to be the only tablet on the block, but apple has left gaps for areas to success. 1. Low End Market (The Kindle Fire area) Low end Tablet, for those who don't need the fancy iPad. 2. Business Market. Businesses really don't care for the iPad closed nature. They need to do their own trusted tweaks to them. 3. High End Market. (Microsoft?) We want a full featured PC but just an optional keyboard.
Android had seemed to stay in the Me Too area. Its success in the phones wasn't as much as the success in the OS but because Apple stuck only on AT&T for too long and people didn't want to switch to AT&T for whatever reason (often good one), the tablets which had less success was because they are less tied to a carrier thus people make a choice. So you have an iPad or something else that is priced the same as an iPad and equal specs... You might as well go with the iPad. I am NOT saying Android is a bad OS or your tablet or phone is second par to the iPhone. But Apple got the image first, the rest are trying to takes its place in an area where Apple already has that place.
If you are stuck in a snowstorm... You will most likely get out in a day or so. Thus you don't need MRE but just trail mix and other food to keep your energy up. However unless you car has enough gas to keep the heat going, you may still want to go out and make a camp fire to keep warm. You can freeze to death just sitting in your car.
If you think about it. If you are currently at a job, you can get vacation pay, for that week, you get to see if the company is really a good fir for you. Also the company sees if you are a good fit for it.
Now if the company just doesn't hire people. Then there is a problem. Because they just found a way to get free labor. However I don't see that the case because it is really hard to do a lot of real work the first week.
Sorry I misread your post the first time... Now I am picturing the Muppets Fozzie the Bear doing that. But then you have to face the wrath of Disney lawyers.
The difference between MRE and non-parishables is the idea that an MRE is something you will be eating in an expected warfare condition. (Where you don't have the opportunity to make a camp fire, and live in an area and move out quickly) vs. Canned foods, where you have supplies where you would have a camp fire to cook, and setup a place to either reuse the cans or have a place to leave your garbage.
However even with the Mars Rover or even humans there... Science needs an Hypothesis and some plan of possibly testing for it. If we just assume Clay=Water. We see clay then we say there is water. We just test for clay. But if their is a Hypothesis that clay can form without water, There can be some differences you just may want to dig a little further and test out.
It is also the case that some instructors are more compatible with some people then others.
During my undergrad if there was a class that I was really interested in, I would often take it with the head professor, or the department chair... However if it was a class I wasn't interested in (I am sorry, I am human, I do not have equal interests in all my classes, some of them the only reason I take a class is because I was required to do so) then I would usually take an adjunct professor.
Why? The head professor who loves the material in all its glorious details, will go beyond just the requirements and gives you more information. The Adjunct will often not go into too much depth. It is more fun to be over your head if you are really interested in the topic, it is exciting to learn new and interesting things, however if the class is not interesting, if the material goes over your head you are stressing just to pass the class/not kill your GPA.
I loved computer science, I would love digging into the details reading past the requirements, just so I can learn more. I didn't hate literature, but it isn't a passion of mine, and having classes with professors who had so much passion in the topic, just created more stress to me, The stuff didn't move me in the same way, I wasn't too interested in spending my limited time digging into a tome and reading behind every line to see what new and insight that this author decided to say. Which in my opinion the between the line material seems to represent whatever mindset and beliefs you think of the time.
Undergrad Math Classes don't change too much over the years. The biggest change I have seen, is that Math classes will avoid using Greek Letters a little more (they still use them, but the materials taught has more English explaining what is going on, and less focus on every single Greek letter.
We live in a world where a woman sued and won against spilling hot coffee on herself, because the company didn't put a warning that their hot coffee is hot. Most slashdotters agree that the current patent system makes it too easy for someone to infringe on a patent and get sued by a patent troll for reinventing something that seemed reasonable to invent at the time.
I hate to sound like a supporter for big business. But even the smaller businesses have the problem they get a customer who is lawsuit happy and will sue for anything. Even if the company win the lawsuit, they loose because there is the legal costs and if the media get word of it, they are automatically assumed that they are the bad guy. Most companies (yes most of them) really do try hard to give their customers their best effort. Yes they want to make money too. But most companies try to make money selling a product the customers are happy to pay for, and feel they got a fair deal out of it. So they will come back again and give good word of mouth so they can sell more. But the truth of the matter you cannot make a product or service that pleases everyone. There will be some people who took your marketing then translated it into something that much better in their heads and when they got it, it was a huge let down. Or what is even more common, say in software, or in food service. The System breaks, or you get sick. You will go back and see what was the last thing you did differently, then blame that as the cause. Where you could have been infected the flu days before you went to the Chinese buffet or your PC just got too dusty and started to overheat causing errors. However there are some people who will sue them for every little thing. These companies are trying to protect their brand image and their bottom line. What most of use little guys don't understand is how much it costs to run a business, most don't have that much money to wast on lawsuits, or if they have insurance can't afford it going up.
The beliefs of Right and Left leaning change overtime. Lets go back to Thomas Jefferson (Tea Party Favorite) vs. John Adams (our Second President).
Jefferson had a strong free market view, vs John Adams who wanted more control... However Jefferson was considered an atheist compared to Adams, and he was more concerned with science.
Right now the Right Wing is rejecting science because of their connection to the Evangelical Christians, who went with the republican party on the abortion issue. Now if abortion wasn't an issue, you will probably see these Evangelical Christians disperse politically and the rejection of science wouldn't be as strongly connected to a party, which also adds additional core beliefs.
There are a lot of good IDE's for Linux. Netbeans, Eclipse... That isn't the problem. Developers won't develop for what wont be used.
Here is what I think Linux needs for desktop. Besides my normal rant we shouldn't try to make Linux for the desktop.
1. DRIVERS!!!! Let closed source drivers be added to Linux. The simple fact the hardware makers may not want to release their drivers for good or bad reasons... But in this ideological war of purity the causalities are end users a system that they cannot fully trust will operate hardware they they have paid money for.
2. Stop the stupid names. No more Gbla Kbla. You should know what the app you have does what.
3. More Advance GUI Configuration. Linux has a gap between the Grandma and the Experts. The GUI often doesn't allow us to do Advanced configuration but we need to go to the text.conf file to do the configurations and then not all the options are black and white, after you do a Google search you find in the config file you add this word in a different language will do the trick.
4. Don't copy Windows or Mac OS, make your own interface... Otherwise you will just look like a cheap ripoff.
5. Consistency - Copy and Paste needs to work across all apps. One single sound system that doesn't fight with each other, Multi-screen support works the same no matter what driver. You need to configure your printer once...
6. Celibate compatibility tools don't hide them. Be proud that you can connect to a windows domain network. have that feature available to the end users, an those other tools that work with other Systems. Ok fine SMB sucks compared to whatever, just because you hate Microsoft it doesn't mean the end users do, and if they feel comfortable that they can still work in an Microsoft environment they will be more likely adopt the system.
7.Configure it for fasting display speed. If you are doing a big cpu intensive job, graphics shouldn't skip a beat, but the background task will need to take its time. A fast OS for average joe is boot up speed, shutdown speed, and how smooth everything runs.
8. Be smart with eye candy. Too much makes it look like a toy, too little makes it look old and dated. Eye candy needs to be more then just cute but have a purpose. The Genie effect in OS X for example shows the people where that window went. Semi-Transparency shows that there is stuff behind the window but translucent enough to not distract you from the active window.
9. Take minor nitpicks seriously. If someone says something is hard or looks off then it is a problem that needs to be addressed,
10. Keep your ego aside. It is tough to do, but it is the only way to really make Linux work for the desktop.
I always find comparing someone to their parents... My political views differ greatly then may parent, my sister even more so. All of us are very different people.
We see God rolling the dice. And we found out that it is a D20. Thats right! Our universe is just one big D&D game. And we just figured out cosmic meta-gaming.
The secrete side to communism. Ideals are one thing, real life is an other. Communism on a large scale just creates a dictatorship, because it crosses a point past what is good for the group is good for the individuality.
China makes a lot of money off making iPhones and like devices (good for the country), so they are justified to have students help make them for less money so the whole gets more money out of the deal.
For some reason there is little discussion on actually a balanced diet. Instead of proposing a prohibition of some sort of food, try to encourage the right portion percentage in your diet. Americans tend to eat too much meat. But meat isn't bad but it needs to be in the right portion, it shouldn't be our main meal but a side dish. We should eat more vegetables, but we should also take in grains and starch... We tend to eat to much salt and sugar, but we don't need to cut it out of our diet.
For the most part vegans don't seem to suffer the health effects of obesity, but they suffer other health effects from not having a proper diet. I mean if you look at many long time vegans they look years older then their peers. (I could be due to all natural drugs err ummm "inhaled herbs" use too, or just a life of being a judgmental prick building up the negativity in their body)
I would go with misleading. They were trying to show what OIS is, implying that this is from the phone. However we get all sorts of misleading information in different ways. For example a Color Laser Printers test page print picture, Everything is is bright and smooth, and whenever you print your stuff it is grainy... It is because the test image being printed is designed to hide the faults of the printer. Or almost every TV/Computer/Device commercial you see. The screen being displayed isn't the actual screen but a digital mock-up because there would be too much glare with an actual picture. Think of an iPad commercial where every fingerprint sticks out.
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Hitler wasn't an immediate problem for the US. Japan was, and due to a complex set of treaties, that means once we declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on us, thus we declared war on Germany.
I think on a particular level the US wanted Germany to defeat the Soviet Union, Stalin was just as bad as Hitler. However due to Japan, that mean we needed to team up with the USSR against Germany, so we needed to wast American lives and resources, then we still had the problem with the USSR.
The real problem is, that people are strange things, we are not pure good or pure evil, we fall somewhere in the middle. Why can't we reward people for doing the right thing while punishing people for doing the wrong things.
Part of the problem is when we have hero's they will let us down, because they are human beings, Now Putin is damn close to being a nasty dictator, but you can admire his environmental activism, at the same time think that he is way to dangerous of a person to be president... Again!!
1. Custom App development/Using GNU open source applications.
2. Insuring a lock down of features such as a Camera.
3. Connecting to alternate VPN connections.
the iPad is good for most modern IT infrastructures. However there are a lot of older infrastructures out there that can be done with a PC but now with an iPad.
Depending on the company, for the most part if you get hired your vacation pay will go out the window anyways. Unless you are going to be a real jerk and put in your two week notice then take two week vacation. In that case you ex-boss will find a way to fire you... (just as easy as vacation request denied)
Why do you thinks these products fail. Is because they are trying to kill the competition vs. Find their own niche where the competition fails to thrive.
The iPad is here and it will stay as long as Apple Deems fit. Now that doesn't mean it need to be the only tablet on the block, but apple has left gaps for areas to success.
1. Low End Market (The Kindle Fire area) Low end Tablet, for those who don't need the fancy iPad.
2. Business Market. Businesses really don't care for the iPad closed nature. They need to do their own trusted tweaks to them.
3. High End Market. (Microsoft?) We want a full featured PC but just an optional keyboard.
Android had seemed to stay in the Me Too area. Its success in the phones wasn't as much as the success in the OS but because Apple stuck only on AT&T for too long and people didn't want to switch to AT&T for whatever reason (often good one), the tablets which had less success was because they are less tied to a carrier thus people make a choice. So you have an iPad or something else that is priced the same as an iPad and equal specs... You might as well go with the iPad.
I am NOT saying Android is a bad OS or your tablet or phone is second par to the iPhone. But Apple got the image first, the rest are trying to takes its place in an area where Apple already has that place.
If you are stuck in a snowstorm... You will most likely get out in a day or so. Thus you don't need MRE but just trail mix and other food to keep your energy up. However unless you car has enough gas to keep the heat going, you may still want to go out and make a camp fire to keep warm. You can freeze to death just sitting in your car.
If you think about it. If you are currently at a job, you can get vacation pay, for that week, you get to see if the company is really a good fir for you. Also the company sees if you are a good fit for it.
Now if the company just doesn't hire people. Then there is a problem. Because they just found a way to get free labor. However I don't see that the case because it is really hard to do a lot of real work the first week.
Sorry I misread your post the first time... Now I am picturing the Muppets Fozzie the Bear doing that. But then you have to face the wrath of Disney lawyers.
We have the right to bare arms, not the right to bare food.
We can get guns without arousing suspicion, but food, that you are opening up a new can of worms
The difference between MRE and non-parishables is the idea that an MRE is something you will be eating in an expected warfare condition. (Where you don't have the opportunity to make a camp fire, and live in an area and move out quickly) vs. Canned foods, where you have supplies where you would have a camp fire to cook, and setup a place to either reuse the cans or have a place to leave your garbage.
Volcanic activity?
Publish or parish.
However even with the Mars Rover or even humans there... Science needs an Hypothesis and some plan of possibly testing for it. If we just assume Clay=Water. We see clay then we say there is water. We just test for clay. But if their is a Hypothesis that clay can form without water, There can be some differences you just may want to dig a little further and test out.
It is also the case that some instructors are more compatible with some people then others.
During my undergrad if there was a class that I was really interested in, I would often take it with the head professor, or the department chair... However if it was a class I wasn't interested in (I am sorry, I am human, I do not have equal interests in all my classes, some of them the only reason I take a class is because I was required to do so) then I would usually take an adjunct professor.
Why? The head professor who loves the material in all its glorious details, will go beyond just the requirements and gives you more information. The Adjunct will often not go into too much depth. It is more fun to be over your head if you are really interested in the topic, it is exciting to learn new and interesting things, however if the class is not interesting, if the material goes over your head you are stressing just to pass the class/not kill your GPA.
I loved computer science, I would love digging into the details reading past the requirements, just so I can learn more. I didn't hate literature, but it isn't a passion of mine, and having classes with professors who had so much passion in the topic, just created more stress to me, The stuff didn't move me in the same way, I wasn't too interested in spending my limited time digging into a tome and reading behind every line to see what new and insight that this author decided to say. Which in my opinion the between the line material seems to represent whatever mindset and beliefs you think of the time.
I would say it would depend on the topic.
Undergrad Math Classes don't change too much over the years. The biggest change I have seen, is that Math classes will avoid using Greek Letters a little more (they still use them, but the materials taught has more English explaining what is going on, and less focus on every single Greek letter.
We live in a world where a woman sued and won against spilling hot coffee on herself, because the company didn't put a warning that their hot coffee is hot.
Most slashdotters agree that the current patent system makes it too easy for someone to infringe on a patent and get sued by a patent troll for reinventing something that seemed reasonable to invent at the time.
I hate to sound like a supporter for big business. But even the smaller businesses have the problem they get a customer who is lawsuit happy and will sue for anything. Even if the company win the lawsuit, they loose because there is the legal costs and if the media get word of it, they are automatically assumed that they are the bad guy.
Most companies (yes most of them) really do try hard to give their customers their best effort. Yes they want to make money too. But most companies try to make money selling a product the customers are happy to pay for, and feel they got a fair deal out of it. So they will come back again and give good word of mouth so they can sell more.
But the truth of the matter you cannot make a product or service that pleases everyone. There will be some people who took your marketing then translated it into something that much better in their heads and when they got it, it was a huge let down. Or what is even more common, say in software, or in food service. The System breaks, or you get sick. You will go back and see what was the last thing you did differently, then blame that as the cause.
Where you could have been infected the flu days before you went to the Chinese buffet or your PC just got too dusty and started to overheat causing errors. However there are some people who will sue them for every little thing. These companies are trying to protect their brand image and their bottom line.
What most of use little guys don't understand is how much it costs to run a business, most don't have that much money to wast on lawsuits, or if they have insurance can't afford it going up.
The beliefs of Right and Left leaning change overtime.
Lets go back to Thomas Jefferson (Tea Party Favorite) vs. John Adams (our Second President).
Jefferson had a strong free market view, vs John Adams who wanted more control... However Jefferson was considered an atheist compared to Adams, and he was more concerned with science.
Right now the Right Wing is rejecting science because of their connection to the Evangelical Christians, who went with the republican party on the abortion issue. Now if abortion wasn't an issue, you will probably see these Evangelical Christians disperse politically and the rejection of science wouldn't be as strongly connected to a party, which also adds additional core beliefs.
There are a lot of good IDE's for Linux. Netbeans, Eclipse... That isn't the problem. Developers won't develop for what wont be used.
Here is what I think Linux needs for desktop. Besides my normal rant we shouldn't try to make Linux for the desktop.
1. DRIVERS!!!! Let closed source drivers be added to Linux. The simple fact the hardware makers may not want to release their drivers for good or bad reasons... But in this ideological war of purity the causalities are end users a system that they cannot fully trust will operate hardware they they have paid money for.
2. Stop the stupid names. No more Gbla Kbla. You should know what the app you have does what.
3. More Advance GUI Configuration. Linux has a gap between the Grandma and the Experts. The GUI often doesn't allow us to do Advanced configuration but we need to go to the text .conf file to do the configurations and then not all the options are black and white, after you do a Google search you find in the config file you add this word in a different language will do the trick.
4. Don't copy Windows or Mac OS, make your own interface... Otherwise you will just look like a cheap ripoff.
5. Consistency - Copy and Paste needs to work across all apps. One single sound system that doesn't fight with each other, Multi-screen support works the same no matter what driver. You need to configure your printer once...
6. Celibate compatibility tools don't hide them. Be proud that you can connect to a windows domain network. have that feature available to the end users, an those other tools that work with other Systems. Ok fine SMB sucks compared to whatever, just because you hate Microsoft it doesn't mean the end users do, and if they feel comfortable that they can still work in an Microsoft environment they will be more likely adopt the system.
7.Configure it for fasting display speed. If you are doing a big cpu intensive job, graphics shouldn't skip a beat, but the background task will need to take its time. A fast OS for average joe is boot up speed, shutdown speed, and how smooth everything runs.
8. Be smart with eye candy. Too much makes it look like a toy, too little makes it look old and dated. Eye candy needs to be more then just cute but have a purpose. The Genie effect in OS X for example shows the people where that window went. Semi-Transparency shows that there is stuff behind the window but translucent enough to not distract you from the active window.
9. Take minor nitpicks seriously. If someone says something is hard or looks off then it is a problem that needs to be addressed,
10. Keep your ego aside. It is tough to do, but it is the only way to really make Linux work for the desktop.
I thought the broken record player did that.
So you are saying to save the world we should program in Python... Gotcha.
I always find comparing someone to their parents...
My political views differ greatly then may parent, my sister even more so. All of us are very different people.
Wow! our advancement in technology to make a machine that and travel faster then a human! Amazing. Perhaps we can make a machine that can fly too.
We see God rolling the dice. And we found out that it is a D20. Thats right! Our universe is just one big D&D game. And we just figured out cosmic meta-gaming.
The secrete side to communism.
Ideals are one thing, real life is an other. Communism on a large scale just creates a dictatorship, because it crosses a point past what is good for the group is good for the individuality.
China makes a lot of money off making iPhones and like devices (good for the country), so they are justified to have students help make them for less money so the whole gets more money out of the deal.
For some reason there is little discussion on actually a balanced diet.
Instead of proposing a prohibition of some sort of food, try to encourage the right portion percentage in your diet. Americans tend to eat too much meat. But meat isn't bad but it needs to be in the right portion, it shouldn't be our main meal but a side dish. We should eat more vegetables, but we should also take in grains and starch... We tend to eat to much salt and sugar, but we don't need to cut it out of our diet.
For the most part vegans don't seem to suffer the health effects of obesity, but they suffer other health effects from not having a proper diet. I mean if you look at many long time vegans they look years older then their peers. (I could be due to all natural drugs err ummm "inhaled herbs" use too, or just a life of being a judgmental prick building up the negativity in their body)
I would go with misleading. They were trying to show what OIS is, implying that this is from the phone. However we get all sorts of misleading information in different ways. For example a Color Laser Printers test page print picture, Everything is is bright and smooth, and whenever you print your stuff it is grainy... It is because the test image being printed is designed to hide the faults of the printer. Or almost every TV/Computer/Device commercial you see. The screen being displayed isn't the actual screen but a digital mock-up because there would be too much glare with an actual picture.
Think of an iPad commercial where every fingerprint sticks out.