Well, in the words of my German air force buddy who is now a Patriot missile operator: "If I can't fly, nobody can."
Probably something akin to that. Then again, a given handheld or even vehicle mounted radio only has SO much bandwidth upon which it can transmit...it's not quite as simple as simply changing frequency to avoid a jammer, as noted with the wiki link above. A base or a naval vessel has quite a bit more flexibility, and thusly broadband jamming would be harder (plus they can potentially overpower a jammer if they've got a beefy enough transmitter). I guess it depends...sometimes it is worthwhile to deafen everyone if your eyesight is keener than your opponent's...
Still, if you are transmitting voice on let's say 150 Mhz and someone is transmitting a high pitched whine (taking up more bandwidth, thusly...16khz or so) at a higher amplitude than your voice transmission, it's gonna get cruddy. Even FM gets F!'ed up by this. Then again, all you have to do is change frequencies, but I don't see where attenuation comes in handy for defeating a broadband jammer.
Same principle would apply to airborne data transmission, I would think. Correct me if I'm wrong, I only renewed my license for the hell of it because I am a bad ham and the internets is more fun than my HT:(
The pic from TFA looks a bit dainty for combat use. I think a whip antenna is probably still more reliable and has a smaller radar signature for short range communication (IE a couple dozen miles). And the big ones, well, there's no hiding them.
Plus that whole bright and hot thing tends to attract the attention of certain guided missiles and sensor systems...not good! Maybe if they paint the glass or something...at least the light problem is solved.
"Yes, Klaus, fuck zat bitch good, she is liking ze nasty...boobiess? So vat, ve see zem everywhere. And ze depiction of ze Schwanz going into ze Fotze. Und zen ze Scheißen und shpanken und...oh mein Gott! A veapon! You don't need to be hurting anyone, Klaus...you can vork zis out peacefully. Violence is not a solution! Perhaps you can rent a car somewhere...ze exercise vill be good for you. If you shtop, ze police vill certainly sort it aus and realize it's all a grosse misunderstand."
No war = Raytheon doesn't sell very many Tomahawks or FLIRs or anything of that sort. Cheney's buddies at Halliburton don't get to do their no-bid contract thing. Blackwater doesn't get to go postal with fucking impunity (at four to five times the rate that real soldiers get paid). Even our legitimate servicemen and women are twiddling their thumbs. CNN doesn't have something really gut-wrenching to cover (although it seems the media have become bored with the war because it's the same thing on and on now). And our fearless leader (and the puppeteers, ie, PNAC) has no glorious cause with which to catapult America back to its "former" greatness. I guess the first neoconservatives read 1984 when it was published back in the 50's and said: "Hey! This is a great model of government, except let's throw in more capitalism. And have Hate Week all year long!"
I think it's important for users (and developers) of such sites to keep in mind that most people want only a limited degree of visibility. Like you said, people do want to share those drunken escapades with their friends, but not necessarily with strangers, or worse, employers, or worse, mom and dad.
So it's perhaps prudent to give control over the visibility of content, but at the same time, I think people need to realize that a person's MyFace page is not necessarily descriptive of them in every environment or context. Most people behave differently at work than they do with close friends. And being a lawfully drunk weirdo on your own time doesn't really bear much on your professional life unless you show up hungover. Which could happen either way.
My point: people should not take these sites too seriously.
Aye, but having a small...unit...is un-American. Hence the use of four ='s to perpetuate the illusion of the contrary for these folks. I mean, how accurate is "USA PATRIOT Act" in name versus function/motive?
I agree that your suggestion is more reflective of reality, however.
They exist (both Arabs and Jews)...some humans in the Middle East have gotten over the whole religious/ethnic rivalry bullshit; they just don't happen to be in government. Religious nationalism is to blame all around, not just Muslims (although Wahhabism is simply Islamic nationalism, as far as I am concerned...psychos), not just Jews, not just Christians. When enough people there say "this is bullshit, I just want to go to work, go to pray at my cathedramosqagogue, come home, and have dinner with my family without getting shot at or blown up," then peace can begin.
"Always delight the customer" was the motto of my system design class instructor in college...I say that a lot around my workplace and people are a bit astonished, since apparently my predecessors didn't have that maxim. I don't think Web 2.0 concepts would contribute to that end, much as outsourcing has failed to do for a few reasons (semantic barrier with language, time difference, lack of face-to-face interaction, etc.).
And on top of that, the developers before me simply tried to pass off half-assed technical solutions ("here, go into SQL and run this script, and then change this variable and run it again" instead of automating the task or at least writing a small app to help them manage their data). Same with just giving dbowner to every non technical person who had to access the server directly instead of through a controlled interface that strictly let them do what they needed to without having the power to blow up everything.
Plus, half the problems are the kind that non-IT folks just put their hands up and say "I don't know what the hell is wrong with it," or call us and say "is the server down?" Which server? Good luck learning Linux commands and Python, laiety.
Anyways, I definitely agree: really kick ass at your job and you'll keep it. And the best way to do that is to delight the customer...especially if that customer is your boss or 100% indispensible people in the company.
Cue continuous number countdown in infinite discreet values between 3 and 0 as parodic analogy to aforementioned war in 3, 2.99999999999999999999999999999...
It's kinda hard to "filter taste" when your primary motive is to sell sound recordings to which you have purchased the selling rights. If they can work out a sufficiently lucrative record contract (for them, the label), don't be surprised to see "Drunken Austrians Flushing Toilets And Screaming Obscenities" touted as "the next Madonna!" or "amazing compositions...touched my soul" from the standard shills for that kind of crap.
Kind of like SOME (not all) professional, career "musicians" will write complete crap songs...they have to to put bread on the table, whereas an independent or otherwise part-time musician will have a better self-filter, and say "nah, it isn't that good." Marketing really does determine who you see though...I've seen many top notch bands locally (better than some national acts I've seen/heard), but not many people outside of the area will know them. And I know there can only be x number of national acts, but still...
Nah...blades get dull before a self-respecting zombie survivalist would run out of ammunition (except in the UK; sorry, friends)...and dull blades are about as worthless as an empty gun. Sure, you could sharpen it later, but you could also find more ammo later, too. And there's that whole "keeping your distance so you don't get bit'" bit.
Personally, when I finally run out of ammo, I'll be switching to either the morningstar or the pipe wrench until I find more ammo.
And the hazmat gloves AND gas mask (to protect the faceholes from zombie splatter too)...that's a good call. I'm prepared, just need to stock up a little more on ammo.
PS - If anyone thinks preparing for zombies is kitschy, just remember that it isn't THAT much different than preparing for a pandemic.
Well, as long as it's not like Vista:XP in that it can arguably be called a downgrade, as I think the only "redeeming" point of Vista for most people (not me) is its eye-candy.
My roommate posted a comic on the fridge and told me "I thought this was funny, but you and [other roommate] might not think so." It said basically what you said: the number of people killed ACROSS THE WHOLE PLANET in aircraft accidents in 2001 (including terrorism) is less than half of all deaths attributable to falling in ONLY THE UK (and went on to criticize the Terror Scare we are experiencing right now). You are more likely to slip on the curb and bust your head open on the pavement than to be killed in a hijacked airplane. More likely to be struck by lightning, even. Apparently, the people responsible for ensuring public safety of us Americans have never heard of a Pareto chart.
"Hmm...cancer, heart disease, car accident involving alcohol...those aren't that scary. Impaled by dolphin wielding a power tool! Sweet Jesus, that's terrifying...put that on the top of the list, Dick. I don't wanna see a dolphin so much as look at a dremel tool...shoot 'em if you see 'em."
Yeah, no kidding. Some of us in Northern CO were trying to get shit done at work, but our site could not get to our third party connections to retrieve data, thereby denying partial service. At least 911 isn't on the same circuit!
And some of us don't really enjoy watching other people doing something entertaining (ostensibly...baseball is boring as hell, as you said) when we ourselves could be doing something more entertaining, interactive, and rewarding in the long term. Accomplish something for ourselves instead of hide in the nationalism of fandom.
"What'd you do this weekend?" "I watched the game, Smith was awesome, in the third inning he was like...blah blah blah. What'd you do?" "I built a tesla coil. It's awesome." "...wow. Wow."
The only people I have more contempt for are the ones who respond: "I can't go to the pool party with you and the Swedish women's ski team...I have a raid until 10, and the Horde really needs me."
Hmm, I can get Vista and have less control over my own system, half (or more) of my software won't work with it, and it has all that annoying eye-candy crap from the Mac that I hate....sounds awesome!
Slashdot Mirror
Well, in the words of my German air force buddy who is now a Patriot missile operator: "If I can't fly, nobody can."
Probably something akin to that. Then again, a given handheld or even vehicle mounted radio only has SO much bandwidth upon which it can transmit...it's not quite as simple as simply changing frequency to avoid a jammer, as noted with the wiki link above. A base or a naval vessel has quite a bit more flexibility, and thusly broadband jamming would be harder (plus they can potentially overpower a jammer if they've got a beefy enough transmitter). I guess it depends...sometimes it is worthwhile to deafen everyone if your eyesight is keener than your opponent's...
Still, if you are transmitting voice on let's say 150 Mhz and someone is transmitting a high pitched whine (taking up more bandwidth, thusly...16khz or so) at a higher amplitude than your voice transmission, it's gonna get cruddy. Even FM gets F!'ed up by this. Then again, all you have to do is change frequencies, but I don't see where attenuation comes in handy for defeating a broadband jammer.
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Same principle would apply to airborne data transmission, I would think. Correct me if I'm wrong, I only renewed my license for the hell of it because I am a bad ham and the internets is more fun than my HT
The pic from TFA looks a bit dainty for combat use. I think a whip antenna is probably still more reliable and has a smaller radar signature for short range communication (IE a couple dozen miles). And the big ones, well, there's no hiding them.
Plus that whole bright and hot thing tends to attract the attention of certain guided missiles and sensor systems...not good! Maybe if they paint the glass or something...at least the light problem is solved.
Usually that's a lead-in to some bullshit dating article...too bad toggle switches don't apply in that field!
That could also be dangerous, as many slashdotters would begin to be able to understand the opposite sex.
That's not ectoplasm on your walls...
And it's the opposite in Europe.
"Yes, Klaus, fuck zat bitch good, she is liking ze nasty...boobiess? So vat, ve see zem everywhere. And ze depiction of ze Schwanz going into ze Fotze. Und zen ze Scheißen und shpanken und...oh mein Gott! A veapon! You don't need to be hurting anyone, Klaus...you can vork zis out peacefully. Violence is not a solution! Perhaps you can rent a car somewhere...ze exercise vill be good for you. If you shtop, ze police vill certainly sort it aus and realize it's all a grosse misunderstand."
Seriously. Shawarma with saffron rice FTW.
I guess I am a bad American for liking terrorist food...hummus...Hamas...same thing, right?
War? What is it good for? Profit! Say it again!
No war = Raytheon doesn't sell very many Tomahawks or FLIRs or anything of that sort. Cheney's buddies at Halliburton don't get to do their no-bid contract thing. Blackwater doesn't get to go postal with fucking impunity (at four to five times the rate that real soldiers get paid). Even our legitimate servicemen and women are twiddling their thumbs. CNN doesn't have something really gut-wrenching to cover (although it seems the media have become bored with the war because it's the same thing on and on now). And our fearless leader (and the puppeteers, ie, PNAC) has no glorious cause with which to catapult America back to its "former" greatness. I guess the first neoconservatives read 1984 when it was published back in the 50's and said: "Hey! This is a great model of government, except let's throw in more capitalism. And have Hate Week all year long!"
I think it's important for users (and developers) of such sites to keep in mind that most people want only a limited degree of visibility. Like you said, people do want to share those drunken escapades with their friends, but not necessarily with strangers, or worse, employers, or worse, mom and dad.
So it's perhaps prudent to give control over the visibility of content, but at the same time, I think people need to realize that a person's MyFace page is not necessarily descriptive of them in every environment or context. Most people behave differently at work than they do with close friends. And being a lawfully drunk weirdo on your own time doesn't really bear much on your professional life unless you show up hungover. Which could happen either way.
My point: people should not take these sites too seriously.
Well, if the fate of FISA is any indicator, I wouldn't put money on any other communications medium remaining sacrosanct.
Aye, but having a small...unit...is un-American. Hence the use of four ='s to perpetuate the illusion of the contrary for these folks. I mean, how accurate is "USA PATRIOT Act" in name versus function/motive?
I agree that your suggestion is more reflective of reality, however.
Can you point to "Jews" who advocate the same?
They exist (both Arabs and Jews)...some humans in the Middle East have gotten over the whole religious/ethnic rivalry bullshit; they just don't happen to be in government. Religious nationalism is to blame all around, not just Muslims (although Wahhabism is simply Islamic nationalism, as far as I am concerned...psychos), not just Jews, not just Christians. When enough people there say "this is bullshit, I just want to go to work, go to pray at my cathedramosqagogue, come home, and have dinner with my family without getting shot at or blown up," then peace can begin.
Eh, it looks close enough to C that it can, in the vein of C++ and C#, be referred to as C====>
Yes, and 44100 khz is exactly equal* to analog ;)
Sounds like Time Cube math.
"Educators are lying bastards. -1 × -1 = +1 is WRONG, it is academic stupidity and is evil."
*Close enough for me, anyways
"Always delight the customer" was the motto of my system design class instructor in college...I say that a lot around my workplace and people are a bit astonished, since apparently my predecessors didn't have that maxim. I don't think Web 2.0 concepts would contribute to that end, much as outsourcing has failed to do for a few reasons (semantic barrier with language, time difference, lack of face-to-face interaction, etc.). And on top of that, the developers before me simply tried to pass off half-assed technical solutions ("here, go into SQL and run this script, and then change this variable and run it again" instead of automating the task or at least writing a small app to help them manage their data). Same with just giving dbowner to every non technical person who had to access the server directly instead of through a controlled interface that strictly let them do what they needed to without having the power to blow up everything. Plus, half the problems are the kind that non-IT folks just put their hands up and say "I don't know what the hell is wrong with it," or call us and say "is the server down?" Which server? Good luck learning Linux commands and Python, laiety. Anyways, I definitely agree: really kick ass at your job and you'll keep it. And the best way to do that is to delight the customer...especially if that customer is your boss or 100% indispensible people in the company.
Cue continuous number countdown in infinite discreet values between 3 and 0 as parodic analogy to aforementioned war in 3, 2.99999999999999999999999999999...
It's kinda hard to "filter taste" when your primary motive is to sell sound recordings to which you have purchased the selling rights. If they can work out a sufficiently lucrative record contract (for them, the label), don't be surprised to see "Drunken Austrians Flushing Toilets And Screaming Obscenities" touted as "the next Madonna!" or "amazing compositions...touched my soul" from the standard shills for that kind of crap.
Kind of like SOME (not all) professional, career "musicians" will write complete crap songs...they have to to put bread on the table, whereas an independent or otherwise part-time musician will have a better self-filter, and say "nah, it isn't that good." Marketing really does determine who you see though...I've seen many top notch bands locally (better than some national acts I've seen/heard), but not many people outside of the area will know them. And I know there can only be x number of national acts, but still...
Not until the world conquest / democide is over. The wiki is written by the victors.
Any gas mask rated for NBC warfare (nuclear, biological, chemical).
Nah...blades get dull before a self-respecting zombie survivalist would run out of ammunition (except in the UK; sorry, friends)...and dull blades are about as worthless as an empty gun. Sure, you could sharpen it later, but you could also find more ammo later, too. And there's that whole "keeping your distance so you don't get bit'" bit.
Personally, when I finally run out of ammo, I'll be switching to either the morningstar or the pipe wrench until I find more ammo.
And the hazmat gloves AND gas mask (to protect the faceholes from zombie splatter too)...that's a good call. I'm prepared, just need to stock up a little more on ammo.
PS - If anyone thinks preparing for zombies is kitschy, just remember that it isn't THAT much different than preparing for a pandemic.
Well, as long as it's not like Vista:XP in that it can arguably be called a downgrade, as I think the only "redeeming" point of Vista for most people (not me) is its eye-candy.
Kinda like Gore is the voter choice winner, but Bush was the "official winner"
Cheers to that, man.
My roommate posted a comic on the fridge and told me "I thought this was funny, but you and [other roommate] might not think so." It said basically what you said: the number of people killed ACROSS THE WHOLE PLANET in aircraft accidents in 2001 (including terrorism) is less than half of all deaths attributable to falling in ONLY THE UK (and went on to criticize the Terror Scare we are experiencing right now). You are more likely to slip on the curb and bust your head open on the pavement than to be killed in a hijacked airplane. More likely to be struck by lightning, even. Apparently, the people responsible for ensuring public safety of us Americans have never heard of a Pareto chart.
"Hmm...cancer, heart disease, car accident involving alcohol...those aren't that scary. Impaled by dolphin wielding a power tool! Sweet Jesus, that's terrifying...put that on the top of the list, Dick. I don't wanna see a dolphin so much as look at a dremel tool...shoot 'em if you see 'em."
Yeah, no kidding. Some of us in Northern CO were trying to get shit done at work, but our site could not get to our third party connections to retrieve data, thereby denying partial service. At least 911 isn't on the same circuit!
And some of us don't really enjoy watching other people doing something entertaining (ostensibly...baseball is boring as hell, as you said) when we ourselves could be doing something more entertaining, interactive, and rewarding in the long term. Accomplish something for ourselves instead of hide in the nationalism of fandom.
"What'd you do this weekend?"
"I watched the game, Smith was awesome, in the third inning he was like...blah blah blah. What'd you do?"
"I built a tesla coil. It's awesome."
"...wow. Wow."
The only people I have more contempt for are the ones who respond: "I can't go to the pool party with you and the Swedish women's ski team...I have a raid until 10, and the Horde really needs me."
Hmm, I can get Vista and have less control over my own system, half (or more) of my software won't work with it, and it has all that annoying eye-candy crap from the Mac that I hate....sounds awesome!
XP ain't broke, so don't try to fix it, M$!!!