I know that the military likes imposing names like Falcon or Comanche, but anyone else notice that one of the End Times predictors is a plague of cicadas (locusts) flying in from parts unknown?
And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth. And there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. 3 And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree: but only the men who have not the sign of God on their foreheads. 5 And it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but that they should torment them five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man. 6 And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them. 7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as lions. 9 And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle. 10 And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them 11 a king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans). 12 One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.
Seems like a weapon that could be used even against heavily guarded outdoor events like the swearing in(?) ceremony of the U.S. president, the Kremlin military parade or the Pope delivering Mass. Or how about a Justin Bieber concert.
Better watch out, someone might get mad at you suggesting harm to the Bieb.
Oh god. Those horrible little fly by night operations? The companies that would try to charge you $5-$10 for screen-savers, or excel addons, or smiliy icons, or mp3 converters. I'm personally glad I never have to deal with such two-bit con men ever again.
Anyway, I went off on a tangent, but the point is, yes, you have an unlimited amount of time to get to 20. However, because of the adjustments, you're probably going to hit 20 in like a solid day of playing, unless you are deliberately trying not to level, at which point you have to wonder why the hell you are playing the game...
I find this very satisfactory to keep one of my neighbor's adhd kid enthused forever, lol. They lose money with that kid =)
Although, I had to help them bump the vid card to 21st century specs, lol.
Okay I'll play, how are those Chromebook gonna run the educational software they've already bought? How is it gonna run the software that those kids will use IRL like MS Office, which BTW schools can get REAL cheap thanks to MSFT edu pricing? Answer they can't,
If you can play Assassin's Creed on your phone... I think... maybe, just maybe... they can, probably work something out... technically... probably right? I mean... full 30fps streamed shooter is harder than uh what was it? MS Office?
Oh wait, there's Office 360? Would that solve that problem? Or the obvious... get off of the MS teat and use the built in Google Docs/Apps.
Or since they own licenses for everything, just stream the VMs to the tablets/chromebooks. Run it all in the cloud.
So, the other "software"? That you were talking about? Um, Rewrite? Some people get coding jobs, or it opens new avenues of income for some?
Maybe some of the teachers it potentially does displace, go on to write school software and become much better off, earning more money like stalwart educators should.
Now, please rail on now about how worthless Chromebooks are and kids can't possibly get an decent education with just the Internet.
Well, ok. With "just the Internet", how does a child learn to identify and prioritize information he receives from the Internet?
You have to have some place to start. Throwing a kid onto the internet and saying "learn it for yourself" isn't a productive way to teach kids anything. How do you counteract the damage if the first website they come across teaches them that 2+2=6 or something equally wrong? How do they realize there is a foundation for all of the advanced topics they will come across, and better yet, which foundations are relevant?
Maybe you are trolling? Or a shill for the teacher's union?
But the internet is the PORTAL; it is not the DESTINATION.
School... is the destination.
When they pass thru the PORTAL that is your front door, there is more danger involved than if they open a site they shouldn't.
So, considering that the path to the destination is laden with dangers in both ways, IRL or online... I choose online as the DESTINATION.
And since they are accessing school from my home, I will be the responsible parent and have some form of a proxy to block sites that they shouldn't see.
There is virtually nothing a tablet computer is going to do that can't be done with some combination of pen, paper, and an overhead
As for your comment, you could say the same thing about the ball point pen vs quill and ink. "There is virtually nothing a ball point pen is going to do that can't be done with some combination of ink, quill, and a candle."
Sorry, I'll get off your lawn now.
Grod say no thing can be done better than pointy rock and heavy rock...
And by that I do not mean cameras and facial recognition. I'm thinking about in games and books where the characters had strange hair and make up styles. Now, it's becoming plausible.
That's not what plausible means.
Time to update your dictionary to the 19th century???
plausible (plôz-bl) adj. 1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible
The writer was very correct in his usage. Maybe you haven't seen enough steampunk/cyberpunk movies?
Also the hairdos are a bit ridiculous. If more than a couple people do this, then wouldn't "the watchers" just flag anyone with preposterous hair for additional scrutiny?
Hey you insensitive clod, I used to wear my hair that way in the 80s!
Thin client was just fine as a term in the 90s. But since nearly a couple decades have gone by, we need to change the name again??
So, the new ATM is a chip or chips that get, everything including their ROM from the server, every time they are initialized? I don't think so... I'm sure some code is on there so... it's not a zero client, it's a thin client.
Welcome to the 21st century Diebold! {11 years later}
-AI
Waiting for a thin client spoof so they can steal even more data.
Social sites such as bars cited as responsible for 33% of divorces,
The top 3 reasons cited: Inappropriate comments to members of the opposite sex; Separated spouses saying nasty comments about each other; Friends reporting spouse’s behaviour.
More news @ 11, or make that 12, the year, 2012, when NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
Though I still cringe when people say they "could care less."
That begs the question if inappropriate use of "begs the question" is like, worse, like, than like using the word like, like in as the first like word after every like lung inhalation. I think that is a full 360 degree reversal from your suggestion.
I live in the corner of a quad of homes that creates an interesting amplifying effect of sounds, within the area. So that a house that is completely on the other side, hundreds of feet away, you can clearly hear people talk. [Yeah, it DOES suck].
So, the other day, I heard this teen-thing speaking to her folks and about the 20th like, I was gonna "say loudly" since that's all one has to do...
I don't believe so. If they were interested in learning and adapting, they would have reran the exercise with the same parameters to see how they can defeat the opfor.
I am willing to agree with everyone about how bad it looks like they stopped the exercise, reset boats and made a set of parameters that made the blue win.
However... it would have been MUCH MUCH worse to KEEP AT IT, IN FRONT OF THE WORLD... and lose a dozen times.
Instead, learn from your VERY OBVIOUS mistake, do some misdirection, run and hide in the nearest alleyway and reevaluate your position.
And hopefully, learn, in private, away from the eyes of the world.
Signed up just to say thanks for the above common sense post. It and the links make for very informative if uncomfortable reading. My apologies for wasting your time with this.
I hope and think you are right. And yet, brinksmanship is a dangerous game. You get both sides thinking, "they couldn't possibly be crazy enough to call my bluff, it would be a disaster!" Look at WWI. What a pointless, disastrous war that was.
Not to be picky, but are there any wars that were not pointless? Disastrous? All war can be prevented with diplomacy and détente. Before you argue the point, consider the words.
You realize the shipping lanes are in UAE territorial waters.
Any attack on shipping is an act of war on our ally. Who do you thinks wins when you bring a speedboat to a helicopter fight?
Actually, I'd consider that a draw... with sufficient heat dissipation, a speedboat could avoid most dangerous missile fire and then only come under rocket fire or machine gun... which would be matched by an RPG or shoulder fired missile from a speedboat, or 50 cal fire.
Plus, the people in the helicopter have a lot longer ways to fall. If you're in the boat and things don't look good... grab ur shit and bail.
Worst case scenario, a comrade picks you up and you have to fight again. Best case, US picks you up and you get treated to 3 squares until the fight is over. Then you get to decide if you want to go back or ask to stay in the US. Of course by then, you'll be hooked on the US TV and have to have your Kardashians, so.., you'll stay.
If they go toe to toe with the US over the straight they'll have no backers. The chinese need that straight open. They have a strong interest in free trade. Europeans are finally on board. The Russians are not going to be the outsider if the US, China, and EU are largely in agreement. And there's the Arabs that are also scared that Iran is going to start threatening them with nukes.
So... no friends.
The US almost WANTS iran to attack it just for the justification.
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I know that the military likes imposing names like Falcon or Comanche, but anyone else notice that one of the End Times predictors is a plague of cicadas (locusts) flying in from parts unknown?
And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth. And there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. 3 And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree: but only the men who have not the sign of God on their foreheads. 5 And it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but that they should torment them five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man. 6 And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them. 7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as lions. 9 And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle. 10 And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them 11 a king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans). 12 One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.
-AI
Seems like a weapon that could be used even against heavily guarded outdoor events like the swearing in(?) ceremony of the
U.S. president, the Kremlin military parade or the Pope delivering Mass. Or how about a Justin Bieber concert.
Better watch out, someone might get mad at you suggesting harm to the Bieb.
-AI
Don't call me til we have subs that can drop
frickin sharks that can deploy frickin remora
that have lasers attached to their frickin heads.
Then I'll be impressed.
-AI
Oh god. Those horrible little fly by night operations? The companies that would try to charge you $5-$10 for screen-savers, or excel addons, or smiliy icons, or mp3 converters. I'm personally glad I never have to deal with such two-bit con men ever again.
Yeah, thank god there aren't any fly-by-nite companies with no real presence that charge $5 for screensavers:
https://market.android.com/details?id=airborne.nflwp_nomarket&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImFpcmJvcm5lLm5mbHdwX25vbWFya2V0Il0.
or $10 for Office addons:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobisystems.editor.office_registered&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2Jpc3lzdGVtcy5lZGl0b3Iub2ZmaWNlX3JlZ2lzdGVyZWQiXQ..
or icons:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.droidicon.launcherproicons&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kcm9pZGljb24ubGF1bmNoZXJwcm9pY29ucyJd
et al
yeah... thank fucking god for that...
-AI
Anyway, I went off on a tangent, but the point is, yes, you have an unlimited amount of time to get to 20. However, because of the adjustments, you're probably going to hit 20 in like a solid day of playing, unless you are deliberately trying not to level, at which point you have to wonder why the hell you are playing the game...
I find this very satisfactory to keep one of my neighbor's adhd kid
enthused forever, lol. They lose money with that kid =)
Although, I had to help them bump the vid card to 21st century specs, lol.
-AI
I am nearly certain that you just wrote something in English. Nearly.
I recognized it as English too... perhaps American, as far as what was conveyed? It is vexed.
-AI
Okay I'll play, how are those Chromebook gonna run the educational software they've already bought? How is it gonna run the software that those kids will use IRL like MS Office, which BTW schools can get REAL cheap thanks to MSFT edu pricing? Answer they can't,
Ever heard of OnLive? http://www.onlive.com/
If you can play Assassin's Creed on your phone...
I think... maybe, just maybe... they can, probably
work something out... technically... probably right?
I mean... full 30fps streamed shooter is harder than
uh what was it? MS Office?
Oh wait, there's Office 360? Would that solve that
problem? Or the obvious... get off of the MS teat
and use the built in Google Docs/Apps.
Or since they own licenses for everything, just
stream the VMs to the tablets/chromebooks.
Run it all in the cloud.
So, the other "software"? That you were talking
about? Um, Rewrite? Some people get coding
jobs, or it opens new avenues of income for some?
Maybe some of the teachers it potentially does
displace, go on to write school software and become
much better off, earning more money like stalwart
educators should.
Bad thing in this economy?
-AI
Now, please rail on now about how worthless Chromebooks are and kids can't possibly get an decent education with just the Internet.
Well, ok. With "just the Internet", how does a child learn to identify and prioritize information he receives from the Internet?
You have to have some place to start. Throwing a kid onto the internet and saying "learn it for yourself" isn't a productive way to teach kids anything. How do you counteract the damage if the first website they come across teaches them that 2+2=6 or something equally wrong? How do they realize there is a foundation for all of the advanced topics they will come across, and better yet, which foundations are relevant?
Maybe you are trolling? Or a shill for the teacher's union?
But the internet is the PORTAL; it is not the DESTINATION.
School... is the destination.
When they pass thru the PORTAL that is your front door,
there is more danger involved than if they open a site they
shouldn't.
So, considering that the path to the destination is laden
with dangers in both ways, IRL or online... I choose online
as the DESTINATION.
And since they are accessing school from my home, I
will be the responsible parent and have some form of a
proxy to block sites that they shouldn't see.
-AI
There is virtually nothing a tablet computer is going to do that can't be done with some combination of pen, paper, and an overhead
As for your comment, you could say the same thing about the ball point pen vs quill and ink. "There is virtually nothing a ball point pen is going to do that can't be done with some combination of ink, quill, and a candle."
Sorry, I'll get off your lawn now.
Grod say no thing can be done better than pointy rock and heavy rock...
now get off Grod cave entrance!
-AI
I for one welcome the new DIY beauty tips. Ten bux says Moxie Marlinspike shows up to a con with a full-face tattoo just for this purpose.
Well, there is a SLIGHT problem with using a tattoo for this purpose. Which should become obvious on your second night on the town.
So, what you are saying is... Mike Tyson's tribal tat would be a BAD(?) idea? /s
=)
-AI
How would climber's sunglasses, which normally protect the nose and shield the eyes, work for this?
Here, let me google that for you...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+does+facial+recognition+work
-AI
And by that I do not mean cameras and facial recognition. I'm thinking about in games and books where the characters had strange hair and make up styles. Now, it's becoming plausible.
That's not what plausible means.
Time to update your dictionary to the 19th century???
plausible (plôz-bl)
adj.
1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible
The writer was very correct in his usage. Maybe you
haven't seen enough steampunk/cyberpunk movies?
-AI
Also the hairdos are a bit ridiculous. If more than a couple people do this, then wouldn't "the watchers" just flag anyone with preposterous hair for additional scrutiny?
Hey you insensitive clod, I used to wear my hair that way in the 80s!
-AI
Who the fuck is making up these stupid names.
Thin client was just fine as a term in the 90s. But since
nearly a couple decades have gone by, we need to change
the name again??
So, the new ATM is a chip or chips that get, everything
including their ROM from the server, every time they are
initialized? I don't think so... I'm sure some code is on there
so... it's not a zero client, it's a thin client.
Welcome to the 21st century Diebold! {11 years later}
-AI
Waiting for a thin client spoof so they can steal even more data.
Social sites such as bars cited as responsible for 33% of divorces,
The top 3 reasons cited:
Inappropriate comments to members of the opposite sex;
Separated spouses saying nasty comments about each other;
Friends reporting spouse’s behaviour.
More news @ 11, or make that 12, the year, 2012, when NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
-AI
Though I still cringe when people say they "could care less."
That begs the question if inappropriate use of "begs the question" is like, worse, like, than like using the word like, like in as the first like word after every like lung inhalation. I think that is a full 360 degree reversal from your suggestion.
I live in the corner of a quad of homes that creates an interesting
amplifying effect of sounds, within the area. So that a house that
is completely on the other side, hundreds of feet away, you can
clearly hear people talk. [Yeah, it DOES suck].
So, the other day, I heard this teen-thing speaking to her folks
and about the 20th like, I was gonna "say loudly" since that's
all one has to do...
"Like will you shut the fuck up"
But tis the season and all that crap.
-AI
I don't believe so. If they were interested in learning and adapting, they would have reran the exercise with the same parameters to see how they can defeat the opfor.
I am willing to agree with everyone about how bad it looks
like they stopped the exercise, reset boats and made a
set of parameters that made the blue win.
However... it would have been MUCH MUCH worse to
KEEP AT IT, IN FRONT OF THE WORLD... and lose
a dozen times.
Instead, learn from your VERY OBVIOUS mistake, do
some misdirection, run and hide in the nearest alleyway
and reevaluate your position.
And hopefully, learn, in private, away from the eyes of the world.
-AI
And China is an ally of Iran.
And Iran is China's largest trading partner? If shit went down China would forget all else and side with Iran? Give us all a reality break.
I'd say like most industrialized nations, being without
oil would put a damper on their ability to make products
for the capitalistic west.
-AI
capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.
Link to Millennium Challenge 2002 is already in discussions on this article. Highlighting part is mine.
Yeah, I read about that on my iPad... no wait, I mean my iPhone, oh? no...?
Hmmm, I guess I didn't since they weren't around then.
Wait! You mean... we have progressed technologically in the past 10 years?
-AI
USA bad.
$my_country good.
No,
$your_country bad,
$my_country good.
Oh yeah... NOW I get it! /s
-AI
Malcolm Gladwell touches about a similar situation in his book Blink. He talks about the largest ever war exercise called the Millennium Challenge.
Thanks from the read... but don't you think they learned and adapted
in the past decade?
-AI
Signed up just to say thanks for the above common sense post. It and the links make for very informative if uncomfortable reading. My apologies for wasting your time with this.
Oh wow, you openly announced your newness?
You must be new here.
-AI
I hope and think you are right. And yet, brinksmanship is a dangerous game. You get both sides thinking, "they couldn't possibly be crazy enough to call my bluff, it would be a disaster!" Look at WWI. What a pointless, disastrous war that was.
Not to be picky, but are there any wars that were not pointless? Disastrous?
All war can be prevented with diplomacy and détente. Before you argue the
point, consider the words.
-AI
You realize the shipping lanes are in UAE territorial waters.
Any attack on shipping is an act of war on our ally. Who do you thinks wins when you bring a speedboat to a helicopter fight?
Actually, I'd consider that a draw... with sufficient heat dissipation,
a speedboat could avoid most dangerous missile fire and then only
come under rocket fire or machine gun... which would be matched
by an RPG or shoulder fired missile from a speedboat, or 50 cal fire.
Plus, the people in the helicopter have a lot longer ways to fall. If
you're in the boat and things don't look good... grab ur shit and bail.
Worst case scenario, a comrade picks you up and you have to fight
again. Best case, US picks you up and you get treated to 3 squares
until the fight is over. Then you get to decide if you want to go back
or ask to stay in the US. Of course by then, you'll be hooked on the
US TV and have to have your Kardashians, so.., you'll stay.
-AI
No one likes them.
If they go toe to toe with the US over the straight they'll have no backers. The chinese need that straight open. They have a strong interest in free trade. Europeans are finally on board. The Russians are not going to be the outsider if the US, China, and EU are largely in agreement. And there's the Arabs that are also scared that Iran is going to start threatening them with nukes.
So... no friends.
The US almost WANTS iran to attack it just for the justification.
China is an ally of Iran. They have strong trade across the borders.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ML13Ak01.html
Russia doesn't need the strait.
North Korea is a wild-card that should be avoided finding where it lies.
-AI