A Yale professor named John H. Langbein wrote an interesting paper comparing our system of plea bargaining with the medieval European law of torture. It is a very interesting read.
the US military uses converted shipping containers to house deployed soldiers in Afghanistan. They have lights, power, small window mounted heat/air conditioning units, and sometimes they're even wired for internet. Much more comfortable and private than tents or communal b-huts. Also, do you really need to let in sunlight to A) an internet cafe in B) the middle of the desert?
So, I'm in the market for an E-reader. Would the iPad be a better E-reader than the kindle or nook? The LCD display has pros (no annoying pause-and-flicker during page turns, night lite that doesn't suck, high contrast) and cons (battery life, glossy) but the 3G wireless access costs 19.99 per month instead of...nothing. That might be a deal breaker. I already have an iphone so features like web browsing, GPS, WiFI, etc don't really matter to me. It's not like I'm going to be carrying this thing around with me everywhere i go. Although, come to think of it, a small kindle or a nook would fit in one of my cargo pockets. this iPad thing needs a backpack.
I guess the games that come out for it might be cool. It remains to be seen how well the processor will handle it, but with a decent sized screen we might be able to get some nice RTS games or something. Although the same reasons large, quality apps on the app store are so few and far between will apply to this thing as well. If you write and sell software for a living, it's difficult to justify the risk of spending a lot of time and money to write an app given the stories about the app store's approval process being maddeningly arbitrary. Also, I think software development using X-Code and Objective-C is a miserable pain in the ass compared with... well... any other modern programming language at all.
Traurig zu sagen, aber Deutsch ist ein unheimlich klingende Sprache! Sie könnten Rezitation eines sonet über Tulpen und kommen aus, als wärst du über jemanden getroffen! Verwendung, die für humoristische Wirkung scheint harmlos auf mich! Hat England haben jede Art der freien Rede könnte dies durch Gesetz geschützt werden!
Partially, I think it depends on what kind of software you're writing. I've been tasked to write a vessel track prediction algorithm using Kalman filtering, so I've been relying heavily on what I learned in Cal I and II. Before that I was tasked with some 3D graphics work, so I had to go dig out my linear algebra textbook. Before that I was tasked with designing a few pages for our website, which I sucked at, and which my computer science degree didn't help me with at all, although if I had been a design major I probably would have kicked ass. Before that I was writing SQL to talk to our Oracle database, which I think is a perfect example of blue collar programming. Someone with no college degree who had taken a few database training courses would have probably done the job much better and faster than me.
Also, college gives students an opportunity to start a job search with a little bit of experience under their belts. If you participate in research, or semester-long group projects, or SOMETHING other than just Comp Sci I, II, Data Structures, Algorithms, etc, than that's something you can put on your resume that a high school graduate with a few technical training courses under his belt won't necessarily have.
fucking amen. if i wanted to use some dodgy shareware piece of shit as the default video player for firefox, i would have fucking set it up that way myself. i mean, come on. it won't even let you goto full screen without buying the "pro" version. fuck that.
Only if the government controlling the latter cannot, for one reason or another, order them to shoot anyone not wearing the right uniform. (Note: "Civilian clothing" counts as "not the right uniform" in this context).
I would refer you again to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Widespread killing of civilians was common. Also, look at the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. If there's one thing this decade should have taught us, it's that killing a bunch of civilians to get a few insurgents is counterproductive. Outrage over the civilian deaths always seems to generate more insurgents than you get rid of. Excessive brutality by the occupying force invariably plays into the hands of the insurgents.
Guerrillas can defeat massed tanks, aircraft, and crack troops. Take a look at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the US invasion of Vietnam. Reliance on "Heavy Stuff" limits an army's mobility and gives the insurgent safe havens and freedom of movement. And you know as well as I do that we wouldn't be using.22s and shotguns. We'd use sniper rifles and IEDs.
Wouldn't that mean the binoculars are only useful in the desert? Nice to see the US is really working hard to get troops out of the middle-east.
Exactly. My first thought when reading this was "what about winter?" Won't we feel stupid five years from now trying to defend Poland from Russia with our fancy heat binoculars. I'm worried that this is part of a trend. As our military tries to adapt to fighting insurgents in a desert, are we becoming less effective at fighting more conventional wars?
And speaking of insurgency, did anyone else notice the lack of guerrilla warfare conducted against the Russians by the Georgians? Don't they have any right wing nut jobs over there? Other than Saakashvili I mean. I'd like to think that anyone invading MY country would be bled by gun owning citizens night and day. God, Texas alone would probably swallow them whole.
I would argue that "must not randomly burst into flames" is a standard that should be applied to all consumer electronics, not just those of "unusually high quality."
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A Yale professor named John H. Langbein wrote an interesting paper comparing our system of plea bargaining with the medieval European law of torture. It is a very interesting read.
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the US military uses converted shipping containers to house deployed soldiers in Afghanistan. They have lights, power, small window mounted heat/air conditioning units, and sometimes they're even wired for internet. Much more comfortable and private than tents or communal b-huts. Also, do you really need to let in sunlight to A) an internet cafe in B) the middle of the desert?
So, I'm in the market for an E-reader. Would the iPad be a better E-reader than the kindle or nook? The LCD display has pros (no annoying pause-and-flicker during page turns, night lite that doesn't suck, high contrast) and cons (battery life, glossy) but the 3G wireless access costs 19.99 per month instead of...nothing. That might be a deal breaker. I already have an iphone so features like web browsing, GPS, WiFI, etc don't really matter to me. It's not like I'm going to be carrying this thing around with me everywhere i go. Although, come to think of it, a small kindle or a nook would fit in one of my cargo pockets. this iPad thing needs a backpack.
I guess the games that come out for it might be cool. It remains to be seen how well the processor will handle it, but with a decent sized screen we might be able to get some nice RTS games or something. Although the same reasons large, quality apps on the app store are so few and far between will apply to this thing as well. If you write and sell software for a living, it's difficult to justify the risk of spending a lot of time and money to write an app given the stories about the app store's approval process being maddeningly arbitrary. Also, I think software development using X-Code and Objective-C is a miserable pain in the ass compared with... well... any other modern programming language at all.
Traurig zu sagen, aber Deutsch ist ein unheimlich klingende Sprache! Sie könnten Rezitation eines sonet über Tulpen und kommen aus, als wärst du über jemanden getroffen! Verwendung, die für humoristische Wirkung scheint harmlos auf mich! Hat England haben jede Art der freien Rede könnte dies durch Gesetz geschützt werden!
smeg, yes it can!
Thanks. I keep forgetting that not everyone has the same cookies I do.
Partially, I think it depends on what kind of software you're writing. I've been tasked to write a vessel track prediction algorithm using Kalman filtering, so I've been relying heavily on what I learned in Cal I and II. Before that I was tasked with some 3D graphics work, so I had to go dig out my linear algebra textbook. Before that I was tasked with designing a few pages for our website, which I sucked at, and which my computer science degree didn't help me with at all, although if I had been a design major I probably would have kicked ass. Before that I was writing SQL to talk to our Oracle database, which I think is a perfect example of blue collar programming. Someone with no college degree who had taken a few database training courses would have probably done the job much better and faster than me.
Also, college gives students an opportunity to start a job search with a little bit of experience under their belts. If you participate in research, or semester-long group projects, or SOMETHING other than just Comp Sci I, II, Data Structures, Algorithms, etc, than that's something you can put on your resume that a high school graduate with a few technical training courses under his belt won't necessarily have.
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fucking amen. if i wanted to use some dodgy shareware piece of shit as the default video player for firefox, i would have fucking set it up that way myself. i mean, come on. it won't even let you goto full screen without buying the "pro" version. fuck that.
If you spend too much time reading your iPhone, your batteries will die. Then you will have no phone, and maybe get eaten by bears.
Could you make the argument that this bill would apply to windows and itunes? Both can be set up to share files on your computer.
Objective studies have repeatably shown this.
suspiciously vague. care to offer a link to one?
In her own words, from TFA: "They favor more toward students that got a 4.0. They help them more out with the job placement" just...wow.
Only if the government controlling the latter cannot, for one reason or another, order them to shoot anyone not wearing the right uniform. (Note: "Civilian clothing" counts as "not the right uniform" in this context).
I would refer you again to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Widespread killing of civilians was common. Also, look at the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. If there's one thing this decade should have taught us, it's that killing a bunch of civilians to get a few insurgents is counterproductive. Outrage over the civilian deaths always seems to generate more insurgents than you get rid of. Excessive brutality by the occupying force invariably plays into the hands of the insurgents.
Guerrillas can defeat massed tanks, aircraft, and crack troops. Take a look at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the US invasion of Vietnam. Reliance on "Heavy Stuff" limits an army's mobility and gives the insurgent safe havens and freedom of movement. And you know as well as I do that we wouldn't be using .22s and shotguns. We'd use sniper rifles and IEDs.
Wouldn't that mean the binoculars are only useful in the desert? Nice to see the US is really working hard to get troops out of the middle-east.
Exactly. My first thought when reading this was "what about winter?" Won't we feel stupid five years from now trying to defend Poland from Russia with our fancy heat binoculars. I'm worried that this is part of a trend. As our military tries to adapt to fighting insurgents in a desert, are we becoming less effective at fighting more conventional wars?
And speaking of insurgency, did anyone else notice the lack of guerrilla warfare conducted against the Russians by the Georgians? Don't they have any right wing nut jobs over there? Other than Saakashvili I mean. I'd like to think that anyone invading MY country would be bled by gun owning citizens night and day. God, Texas alone would probably swallow them whole.
Heh, "direct and candid feedback." I can only imagine.
*whoosh* watch more South Park
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how long do you live if you're nongamous?
would be a great name for a band.
I would argue that "must not randomly burst into flames" is a standard that should be applied to all consumer electronics, not just those of "unusually high quality."
Oops. I just took a look at the idle section and you're right. I'm very sorry. Jokes about poo would be a step up.
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