My alma mater is still teaching a three-hour course. I hear they get headhunters from all over looking for people who know that language. http://www.pittstate.edu/
IMO the language sucks massively and I felt dirty the first time I looked at code, but the prof (Dr. Cummings) makes it bearable (and that's a high compliment considering my opinion of the lang); I like her besides.
Do you know any push-bikers who wear armored clothing like motorcyclists do? I know you'll never go as fast as a moto, but I'd still feel safer in even summer-weight armor than in thin clothes, especially with the idiot cagers around.
Have you looked at AWD cars like Subarus or Audis? Always power to all four wheels and there's three differentials so that if only one tire has traction, the power goes to that wheel. Plus being cars they'll handle better than an SUV or pickup.
Others have cited the foul black smoke[1] belching out of diesel trucks. Another reason is that back in the early '80s General Motors had a few diesel-powered cars that IIRC didn't have turbochargers, probably for price reasons. They were infamous for their slow acceleration.
[1] I saw one last year that looked like there was a godsdamn forest fire coming out its tailpipe. It was truly its own smoke screen.
Firstly, I detest Bush and nearly everything he's done since taking office, and I'm not anti-military. But I'll be devil's advocate just for the sake of discussion.
Say that neocon claims are right, and there would have been a campaign of terror attacks in the US had we not done what we have[1]. There could have been thousands more US civilian deaths[2] and trillions of dollars in damage and economic disruption. Are the lives of a few thousand volunteer soldiers worth that? They knew what they were signing up for. None of them were forced into signing up[3].
[1] Ignoring the all the terrorists and anti-USA sentiment that the Iraq occupation has created. If the GOP cared about the future, they'd raise taxes and pay down the national debt.
[2] Also ignoring all the dead Iraqi civilians, 'cause they're just ragheads, right?
[3] Also ignoring the stop-loss people, but the contract does say Uncle Sam owns their asses for 8 years once they sign.
problem is that the whole country was used to a dictator
You see this elsewhere as well, Russia for example. Russia has always been ruled by either an autocrat (tsar, Putin) or a small elite (Politburo, oligarchs). The population has no deep conception of being part of a democracy, and there's the human tendency of preferring the devil you know.
It's the same deal for e.g. China and most of the Middle East. Western and Northern Europe was finally able to break free of that cycle, but I can't offer reasons why they could.
As it happens, I have one. It's a circa-1987 Zenith with 2x720K floppies, 640K of RAM, and a 4.77 MHz 8088, all driving a blue-on-white mono-CGA LCD screen. Still works, except for the battery pack.
FWIW it worked on Ubuntu 6.06.1 right off, provided I didn't have Compiz running at the time. I was using ATI's proprietary driver on a Radeon 9600. Framerate was comparable to the Windows version (I dual-boot).
Realistically Intel will have to implement these instructions on their processors for any programs to use them. Macs aside, who's going to write a program that only a tiny (but growing as old PCs are replaced) percentage of the market can run?
And they have a proven track record of area denial.
Which is defeated by the Chinese-hordes technique of sending your cannon-fodder troops (or Jews, if you're in the SS) through the minefield first, then having your better troops walk where they did.
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My alma mater is still teaching a three-hour course. I hear they get headhunters from all over looking for people who know that language. http://www.pittstate.edu/
IMO the language sucks massively and I felt dirty the first time I looked at code, but the prof (Dr. Cummings) makes it bearable (and that's a high compliment considering my opinion of the lang); I like her besides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG
It sounds like the grunts knew what they wanted but the REMFs didn't listen to the grunts and fucked it up.
Do you know any push-bikers who wear armored clothing like motorcyclists do? I know you'll never go as fast as a moto, but I'd still feel safer in even summer-weight armor than in thin clothes, especially with the idiot cagers around.
Have you looked at AWD cars like Subarus or Audis? Always power to all four wheels and there's three differentials so that if only one tire has traction, the power goes to that wheel. Plus being cars they'll handle better than an SUV or pickup.
Others have cited the foul black smoke[1] belching out of diesel trucks. Another reason is that back in the early '80s General Motors had a few diesel-powered cars that IIRC didn't have turbochargers, probably for price reasons. They were infamous for their slow acceleration.
[1] I saw one last year that looked like there was a godsdamn forest fire coming out its tailpipe. It was truly its own smoke screen.
But the bank had hardwired Ethernet.
Firstly, I detest Bush and nearly everything he's done since taking office, and I'm not anti-military. But I'll be devil's advocate just for the sake of discussion.
Say that neocon claims are right, and there would have been a campaign of terror attacks in the US had we not done what we have[1]. There could have been thousands more US civilian deaths[2] and trillions of dollars in damage and economic disruption. Are the lives of a few thousand volunteer soldiers worth that? They knew what they were signing up for. None of them were forced into signing up[3].
[1] Ignoring the all the terrorists and anti-USA sentiment that the Iraq occupation has created. If the GOP cared about the future, they'd raise taxes and pay down the national debt.
[2] Also ignoring all the dead Iraqi civilians, 'cause they're just ragheads, right?
[3] Also ignoring the stop-loss people, but the contract does say Uncle Sam owns their asses for 8 years once they sign.
You see this elsewhere as well, Russia for example. Russia has always been ruled by either an autocrat (tsar, Putin) or a small elite (Politburo, oligarchs). The population has no deep conception of being part of a democracy, and there's the human tendency of preferring the devil you know.
It's the same deal for e.g. China and most of the Middle East. Western and Northern Europe was finally able to break free of that cycle, but I can't offer reasons why they could.
Nice ad-hom.
Mod parent up.
It's aimed at the NK elite, dumbass. Piss them off and maybe they'll be open to a palace coup.
Yes, he was just here. Tall gentleman, wearing US-issue camouflage, intense gaze, bearded, looked Middle-Eastern.
That's not the only thing I messed up on. Hail Eris.
zOMG, someone on ./ spelt bureaucracy correctly!
And how many ping-pong balls could fit in the fora?
As it happens, I have one. It's a circa-1987 Zenith with 2x720K floppies, 640K of RAM, and a 4.77 MHz 8088, all driving a blue-on-white mono-CGA LCD screen. Still works, except for the battery pack.
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Here's someone else's website: http://members.tripod.com/~net2000plus/zenith181.
FWIW it worked on Ubuntu 6.06.1 right off, provided I didn't have Compiz running at the time. I was using ATI's proprietary driver on a Radeon 9600. Framerate was comparable to the Windows version (I dual-boot).
Realistically Intel will have to implement these instructions on their processors for any programs to use them. Macs aside, who's going to write a program that only a tiny (but growing as old PCs are replaced) percentage of the market can run?
Same objection to anyone else with strong religious beliefs[1]: how do we know they will place the law of the land over the laws of their religion?
[1] Or a strong partisan: good of the country, or good of their own narrow interests?
Fascinating.
So a blogger made a claim about Microsoft and now it's on the front page. One might suspect a deliberate troll.
FP!
I don't know how long they're good for, but additives exist that will stabilize gasoline.
Which is defeated by the Chinese-hordes technique of sending your cannon-fodder troops (or Jews, if you're in the SS) through the minefield first, then having your better troops walk where they did.