As far as the 360 degree - I am simply quoting the marketing BS from Sukhoi website. Is it bollocks or not - I am not an aircraft designer to judge. AFAIK that tailcone on post-27 Sukhoi is there not for beauty purposes.
As far as the F14 - I have mentioned it.
As far as the 360 degree field of fire - if the Sukhoi BS is to be believed it mentions engagement and tracking. It does not mention firing. It starts making more sense when you consider that Russians have been working on blind firing with delayed lock since early 80-es. Essentially you fire a missile (or even 2 or 3 simultaneously) onto a pre-programmed course and they lock with n seconds delay. In order to fire this way you need to track a target only on your main avionics set and do not need a warhead lock at all. By the way do not try to tell bollocks on that one as I have held in my own hands the relevant PhD and one DSc thesises in math (don not ask where) on this and I have seen the math behind this - it improves odds to 85%+ kill rate even for a relatively primitive tracking warherad. I do not know if their current avionics sets can use this (and doing so in the air has its suicidal aspects). The latest surface to air systems definitely can use aspects of this technique.
If I understand correctly the statements in Sukhoi website and in a few other tidbits around the web which originated from them it is "lock the enemy anywhere and engage". That tailcone sticking from between the engines on the Su27 is apparently there not for beauty contest purposes. It has some guts in it. Once again, note the if (I am not an aircraft or weapon designer).
Suicide? Depends on what are you flying. A few interesting tidbits:
First of all this is a legit maenuver known as Cobra. F14 was the only old US aircraft that could do a small one (around 30 degrees), F15-18 cannot do it (until they get a vector upgrade one day).
Second it is suicide only with older US aircraft (dunno about newer ones) as they follow a different doctrine of engagement from the current Russian one. Current Russian doctrine of engagement and specs for Su27 specifies that it must be able to engage an enemy aircraft within 360 degree horisontal and vertical (full sphere, no dead zones), lock it and track it without losing it from there on. If this statement is true, a Sukhoi can lock an aircraft behind it, hit the breaks, end up behind it and fire so this maneuver actually makes some sense. With an F14 (dunno about more recent) there is no lock acquired on an aircraft which is behind the fighter jet and the time for lock acquisition is not short enough for a lock to be acquired after the Tom Cruise Wannabie "hit the breaks".
"something that hasn't been possible during most of recorded human history."
This is not quite correct. There is an object in the Arctic ocean which is known as the "Great Siberian Polynya". It is a wide space of open water which is usually open even in mid-winter and starts somewhere in the middle of the icefields above the east end of the Barents sea and goes east-north-east from there. Its actual position and size varies year on year. While it has never been all the way to the north pole its north-eastern edge in some years has been only a few hundred kilometers away from it. Enough for a conventional icebreaker or even a reinforced ship to try to make a break for it. Similarly its south-western edge in some years has been very close to the open waters of the Barents (though not as far west as Spitzbergen).
By the way, Russians have considered using this phenomenon for shipping in the soviet times and even did a few trial runs of convoys lead by Arctica class icebreakers through it (you still have to get to the Polynya and back from it across the ice fields). They abandoned it at the end. While it proved possible to run shipping in the ocean even in midwinter the shipments could not be moved further inland due to the lack of powerfull enough river icebreakers. The project was postponed till the first nuclear river icebreakers come on line. These were complete at about the time when the Soviet union fell apart and at that point nobody cared about centrally operated and organised super-shipping so they are sitting in Murmansk collecting rust.
Depends where you are. In the US - warming. In Europe - chilling as the gulfstream is supposed to stop. The forecast for UK is 9C lower average temperature and 15C lower minimum temperature during the winter. Considering the build quality of the average british house...
The bluegills from the setup in the article will not survive it. In fact very few species of fish will. Even tropical swamp species like Gurami prefer to have the temperature under 32 for most of the time.
Using it as a poison does not require any technical knowledge and is quite effective. While not as poisonous as some mercury compounds or pesticides, it is still poisonous enough to have effect. In addition to that, the howling of the media about Pu discovered in drinking water will provide the terrorists with what they want even if nobody dies. Go and try to explain Joe Average that the concentration is so low that it will not do a thing. As far as he is concerned it is plutonium. Scary stuff.
On the subject of the article - many phosphorganic, pyrethroids and other insecticides are temperature specific. Many will kill fish and insects only under specific temperature. They are harmless to warm blooded animals for this exact reason - the target is outside the optimal thermal range. Now, I have not followed advanced in this area, but what exactly will these fish do if someone pours a tanker of something that is the opposite in thermal specificity. Something harmless for coldblooded animals which kills warm blooded only?
The ad on slashdot for this article shows some incoming release from the Grand Theft Auto franchise for PSP. So we may not match violence to computer games and vice versa but google ads (or whatever broker Slashdot uses today) surely do. Quite entertaining actually.
In that case what you should be looking is the supported res and if it is supported on the DVI (or analogue VGA) inputs. These are quite different from the HD ones. For example, recent JVC LT26 LCD tvs support HD 1080p, but their native panel resolution is actually 1366x768. Frankly, I have no idea what is the supported frequency and resolution on the VGA input as it is not written anywhere.
IN conclusion, the Shanara series was great, and you suck.:P
First of all, thank you for getting so personal. Nothing like a good way to argue your case. Actually I should not be surprised, you are simply delivering an argument which is at the intellectual level of Shanara and Tomas Covenant. None of these is renowned for having the slightest trace of logic in the story. They are more well known for being built around: "You do not need to know cretin, the Great Wizard/Power that be/Kevin/Bollocks/Whatever says you so, follow blindly and obey while things happen to you". If you like that intellectual level I am not surprised that you do not find the Silmarillion particularly appealing. I am also not surprised that you have to get "personal" to attempt to prove your argument.
Second, if we look at Zelazny's work we should start in 1967 with the Lord of Light, not with Amber. It is one of the best Sci Fi books ever written. Especially in its original first edition form, without the last chapter grafted for the joy of cretins which want a "happy" ending to a story. We can of course go even earlier with "This Immortal", but it is clearly a beginner work.
Third, as a great fan of Herbert Sr, I was curious at what junior could do and I actually survived trying to stay afloat and not drown in his shite through the first three "House" books. I started the Machine Crusade, but its shite concentration, lack of sense, primitiveness in the black/white level of the characters proved too much. So, yes, I have suffered from his shite before passing judgement on it.
Fourth, I should have extended the list of "cater the retarded reader" with a few more examples. We can add Kevin J. Anderson and many others who "tell stories and construct relationships" by diluting already diluted material until it spans 10+ volumes and forms a saga. Usually the have to add some alien rape, incest and consequences from meeting various bastards to make the material stretch to that length (probably taking ideas from Thomas Covenant). Once again, I have actually read them before passing judgement. I have the bad habit of forgetting to supply myself with books before a holiday and end up buying at airports. There the choice is quite limited. So if there is no Banks, Hamilton, McLeod, etc I end up having to chew on horrid crap.
In fact I thought about putting the same chapter (which Jackson dropped from the movie) and Tom Bombadil as an example of style similarities between the Silmarilion and the LOTR. They are written by the same hand and Chris Tolkien is merely the scribe that is copying it.
The style in all 3 books is quite different. Hobbit is different from LOTR, most of the LOTR is different from the Silmarilion (most, but not all). Not surprising as one of them is intended as a children book, the other a book for adolescents and the Silmarilion is clearly and plainly reading for adults. Most of the cultural and religious aspects of it will be lost to anyone under a certain age (and over it).
In fact IMHO when I think of the Silmarilion, another book comes to my mind which was written at about the same time and printed fully as the author intended only postmortem - Master and Margarita. Both books are children of their time. They were originally envisioned and written at about the same time (pre-WW2) which is characterised by very high interest in legends and spiritualism. They have been edited many times by their authors, and they were never ever printed the way the author intended before their death.
I agree 100% as far as Frank Herbert Jr. There should be a special space in hell reserved for people like him. For people who shit on everything their fathers built.
Also, It is also quite obvious that Herbert Jr has written his books. They are written using the current modern American literature style which is beaten into kids in college. I still remember by own brush up with this experience with horror 15+ years later. It is the same style as used by Terry Brooks, Stephen Donaldson and most of the modern American Sci Fi/Fantasy writers. There are lots of repeats and a single idea is reiterated at least 3-4 times to ensure that the dumb reader gets it. The vocabulary is a fraction of the vocabulary of most of the older generation like Herbert Sr, Zelazny, Le Guin, Bradbury (in fact from the old generation - everybody but Azimov). The overall lexical construction is quite primitive as well. It is quite obvious who wrote these books.
As far as Chris Tolkien the situation is not so straightforward. He published at least one clearly and purely J.R.R. Tolkien Book - the Silmarilion. That was J.R.R. Tolkien all the way and if not for Chris Tolkien, it would have failed to see the light of day (it was published postmortem). The Unifinished Tales seem to be what junior sells them for - drafts, notes and unfinished tales. Looking at the style and vocabulary they also seem to be a J.R.R. Tolkien work, just quite what it says on the tin - unfinished.
I have no idea about this new book, but I hope that he does not join Hurbert junior in that circle of hell. He has done not that bad so far. He has shown some his dad's dirty laundry (stuff j.r.r. never intended to be published) but he has not shit on his grave just yet (or I missed that one in the bookshop).
May I remind you that she is not flying on the Shuttle. She is flying on the Soyuz which has a considerably lower per-seat launch cost. In fact, finally someone in NASA noticed the difference and the next US capsule will go back to Apollo/Soyuz basics.
A DVD player with HDMI is only 10 pounds or so more then an equivalent DVD player without (based on Philips prices). All TVs above 23in are now HDMI enabled as well so HDMI and HDMI price are not really a distinguishing factor when buying new kit. It is the other ports, legacy support and relevant features which matter - VGA, DVI, SuperScart, card reader for digital, digital support etc. I spent quite a bit of time making sure that my new TV got the lot - every single one of them and funnily enough it ended up having an HDMI port as well (which I do not use).
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- prof.dr.Edsger W.Dijkstra
IMHO Dijkstra is right and you are wrong. BASIC is a horrible language for learning to code and it is the wrong language to learn to code. It is not designed as a learning language. It takes the worst out of FORTRAN and mutilates it even further.
There are languages that are designed for that purpose and allow people to learn to code without mutilating their brain beyond recognition. I learned to code rather late (at the age of 14) and I had the opportunity to chose between Pascal, GraphFort, ASM (6502 and x86), Logo and BASIC. I learned them in exactly this order and used BASIC only in the rare occasions when the school forced us to work with it on 6502 based Apple ][ clones that could not do anything better. Even in that case I had a list of procedures which simulate recursion (and a few other suspects from "adult" languages) memorised so I could code in the horrid presudolanguage puke.
The problem with "Johnny can't code" is elsewhere. Johny does not have the stimulus to code. At all. In most households he is introduced at an early age to the computer as a toy and treats it as a toy while growing up. He does not look at it as a toolkit to assemble something usefull. He has no incentive to write anything in the first place and is getting less and less incentive as the personal computing continues to devolve to joe sub-average level. If you want Jonnie to code his parents have to provide him with a challenge which can be satisfied only by coding it. We grew up with it, trying to write a few "adult" programs which we (the adults) clearly know to be beyond Jonnie's patience and skill have not killed anyone. If Jonnie's parents have not bothered to provide him with such challenges and the tools to work on them (books on a real programming language), they should not bitch that he has no chance to become a programmer.
Which reminds me that I do not see one of the most banned books by Mark Twain. Nothing have banned as often as Letters from Earth (note that even Amazon says explicitly - uncensored version).
As a matter of fact the bible WAS on the catholic church list of limited access book all the way till the list was abolished in the mid-20 century. You had to be a member of the clergy to have access to it. Commoners were not allowed to read it. This was one of the things that brought puritans, calvinists and their ilk into existence - the right of the Joe Average to have access to all Holy Books.
First, let me ensure I got my trenches dug to the correct depth to duck for cover.
The answer is: Because it is not French.
The sole and only reason for not using smalltalk especially in the US is the not-invented-here mentality. I have yet to see a telecoms (dunno about other parts of the industry) smalltalk project whose roots are not from continental Europe. For example the Infovista carrier stuff which uses a smalltalk core was aquiried from Quallaby which surprise, surprise started its life as a french company. There are other examples as well, but I have yet to encounter a telecoms project which uses Smalltalk as its primary language and was started in the US (or UK).
Similarly, if you dig into any pre-2004 Ruby project you end up encountering some Samurai smiling at you with that characteristic smile that makes you feel like sushi.
Anyway, now it is time to duck in the freshly dug trench and wait until the flames have died out.
By the way here is the original of the aforementioned poll commissioned by Channel 4. While I find it disturbing, it is neither suprising, nor new to anyone who had to drive through Luton or Bradford. Also, there was similar material jokingly mentioning Britanistan in the annual threat assessment report by the french intelligence for their president 5-6 years ago which was leaked to the british media. The Sun nearly choked on their bile at the time. I bet that they hate to remember that one because the French have proved right all along.
A large proportion of the British muslim population are immigrants from Pakistan and to a lesser extent other British colonies. It is normal for them to hold these views as they fit their culture and upbringing. It is also normal for them to continue holding these views across multiple generations as a result of the fact that they live in tight communities and there are many of them. But it will end up all the same sooner or later. While their sons may not necessarily be British, their grandchildren will.
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Frankly, they got whatever they deserved. And if the guy who did it posted his own real info he will too.
Now, everybody keeps speaking how stupid the guy is for posting his real info along with that. Are all people who are commenting on it sure that these are the real contact details of a really existing Jason Fortuny. In fact if he exists, are they sure that it was him who posted this? What proof if any is that this is not a vile double-cross and this was not posted by someone pretending to be Jason Fortuny (or with contact details of another person)?
If Mr Smith pays all of his cards on time, has no loans, have not taken out finance to buy his car(s) and repays his mortgage ahead of schedule he will never get a job. Looking at his credit record the company can immediately see that they cannot hold him as a salaried slave. He is too organised, independent and has sufficient reserves to tell the aforementioned company to fuck off at any time while still having enough resources to go and find a new job.
Been there, seen that. I strongly suspect (in fact, based on info from internal sources I know) that this happened to me when applying for a job in the financial sector a while ago.
So it is not only a matter of being organised. When they look at your credit card record they have the possibility to judge on how much they can squeeze you. If it looks too good you are bound to have extra reserves and tell them to f*** off if they push you too hard. Companies (the kind that will do a credit check in the first place) do not like that.
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RTFA: he bought the battery off eBay. Nuff said, no need to say more, move along.
As far as the 360 degree - I am simply quoting the marketing BS from Sukhoi website. Is it bollocks or not - I am not an aircraft designer to judge. AFAIK that tailcone on post-27 Sukhoi is there not for beauty purposes.
As far as the F14 - I have mentioned it.
As far as the 360 degree field of fire - if the Sukhoi BS is to be believed it mentions engagement and tracking. It does not mention firing. It starts making more sense when you consider that Russians have been working on blind firing with delayed lock since early 80-es. Essentially you fire a missile (or even 2 or 3 simultaneously) onto a pre-programmed course and they lock with n seconds delay. In order to fire this way you need to track a target only on your main avionics set and do not need a warhead lock at all. By the way do not try to tell bollocks on that one as I have held in my own hands the relevant PhD and one DSc thesises in math (don not ask where) on this and I have seen the math behind this - it improves odds to 85%+ kill rate even for a relatively primitive tracking warherad. I do not know if their current avionics sets can use this (and doing so in the air has its suicidal aspects). The latest surface to air systems definitely can use aspects of this technique.
If I understand correctly the statements in Sukhoi website and in a few other tidbits around the web which originated from them it is "lock the enemy anywhere and engage". That tailcone sticking from between the engines on the Su27 is apparently there not for beauty contest purposes. It has some guts in it. Once again, note the if (I am not an aircraft or weapon designer).
This is not quite correct. There is an object in the Arctic ocean which is known as the "Great Siberian Polynya". It is a wide space of open water which is usually open even in mid-winter and starts somewhere in the middle of the icefields above the east end of the Barents sea and goes east-north-east from there. Its actual position and size varies year on year. While it has never been all the way to the north pole its north-eastern edge in some years has been only a few hundred kilometers away from it. Enough for a conventional icebreaker or even a reinforced ship to try to make a break for it. Similarly its south-western edge in some years has been very close to the open waters of the Barents (though not as far west as Spitzbergen).
By the way, Russians have considered using this phenomenon for shipping in the soviet times and even did a few trial runs of convoys lead by Arctica class icebreakers through it (you still have to get to the Polynya and back from it across the ice fields). They abandoned it at the end. While it proved possible to run shipping in the ocean even in midwinter the shipments could not be moved further inland due to the lack of powerfull enough river icebreakers. The project was postponed till the first nuclear river icebreakers come on line. These were complete at about the time when the Soviet union fell apart and at that point nobody cared about centrally operated and organised super-shipping so they are sitting in Murmansk collecting rust.
Depends where you are. In the US - warming. In Europe - chilling as the gulfstream is supposed to stop. The forecast for UK is 9C lower average temperature and 15C lower minimum temperature during the winter. Considering the build quality of the average british house...
The bluegills from the setup in the article will not survive it. In fact very few species of fish will. Even tropical swamp species like Gurami prefer to have the temperature under 32 for most of the time.
Using it as a poison does not require any technical knowledge and is quite effective. While not as poisonous as some mercury compounds or pesticides, it is still poisonous enough to have effect. In addition to that, the howling of the media about Pu discovered in drinking water will provide the terrorists with what they want even if nobody dies. Go and try to explain Joe Average that the concentration is so low that it will not do a thing. As far as he is concerned it is plutonium. Scary stuff.
On the subject of the article - many phosphorganic, pyrethroids and other insecticides are temperature specific. Many will kill fish and insects only under specific temperature. They are harmless to warm blooded animals for this exact reason - the target is outside the optimal thermal range. Now, I have not followed advanced in this area, but what exactly will these fish do if someone pours a tanker of something that is the opposite in thermal specificity. Something harmless for coldblooded animals which kills warm blooded only?
The ad on slashdot for this article shows some incoming release from the Grand Theft Auto franchise for PSP. So we may not match violence to computer games and vice versa but google ads (or whatever broker Slashdot uses today) surely do. Quite entertaining actually.
In that case what you should be looking is the supported res and if it is supported on the DVI (or analogue VGA) inputs. These are quite different from the HD ones. For example, recent JVC LT26 LCD tvs support HD 1080p, but their native panel resolution is actually 1366x768. Frankly, I have no idea what is the supported frequency and resolution on the VGA input as it is not written anywhere.
First of all, thank you for getting so personal. Nothing like a good way to argue your case. Actually I should not be surprised, you are simply delivering an argument which is at the intellectual level of Shanara and Tomas Covenant. None of these is renowned for having the slightest trace of logic in the story. They are more well known for being built around: "You do not need to know cretin, the Great Wizard/Power that be/Kevin/Bollocks/Whatever says you so, follow blindly and obey while things happen to you". If you like that intellectual level I am not surprised that you do not find the Silmarillion particularly appealing. I am also not surprised that you have to get "personal" to attempt to prove your argument.
Second, if we look at Zelazny's work we should start in 1967 with the Lord of Light, not with Amber. It is one of the best Sci Fi books ever written. Especially in its original first edition form, without the last chapter grafted for the joy of cretins which want a "happy" ending to a story. We can of course go even earlier with "This Immortal", but it is clearly a beginner work.
Third, as a great fan of Herbert Sr, I was curious at what junior could do and I actually survived trying to stay afloat and not drown in his shite through the first three "House" books. I started the Machine Crusade, but its shite concentration, lack of sense, primitiveness in the black/white level of the characters proved too much. So, yes, I have suffered from his shite before passing judgement on it.
Fourth, I should have extended the list of "cater the retarded reader" with a few more examples. We can add Kevin J. Anderson and many others who "tell stories and construct relationships" by diluting already diluted material until it spans 10+ volumes and forms a saga. Usually the have to add some alien rape, incest and consequences from meeting various bastards to make the material stretch to that length (probably taking ideas from Thomas Covenant). Once again, I have actually read them before passing judgement. I have the bad habit of forgetting to supply myself with books before a holiday and end up buying at airports. There the choice is quite limited. So if there is no Banks, Hamilton, McLeod, etc I end up having to chew on horrid crap.
Seconded.
In fact I thought about putting the same chapter (which Jackson dropped from the movie) and Tom Bombadil as an example of style similarities between the Silmarilion and the LOTR. They are written by the same hand and Chris Tolkien is merely the scribe that is copying it.
Ahem.
The style in all 3 books is quite different. Hobbit is different from LOTR, most of the LOTR is different from the Silmarilion (most, but not all). Not surprising as one of them is intended as a children book, the other a book for adolescents and the Silmarilion is clearly and plainly reading for adults. Most of the cultural and religious aspects of it will be lost to anyone under a certain age (and over it).
In fact IMHO when I think of the Silmarilion, another book comes to my mind which was written at about the same time and printed fully as the author intended only postmortem - Master and Margarita. Both books are children of their time. They were originally envisioned and written at about the same time (pre-WW2) which is characterised by very high interest in legends and spiritualism. They have been edited many times by their authors, and they were never ever printed the way the author intended before their death.
I agree 100% as far as Frank Herbert Jr. There should be a special space in hell reserved for people like him. For people who shit on everything their fathers built.
Also, It is also quite obvious that Herbert Jr has written his books. They are written using the current modern American literature style which is beaten into kids in college. I still remember by own brush up with this experience with horror 15+ years later. It is the same style as used by Terry Brooks, Stephen Donaldson and most of the modern American Sci Fi/Fantasy writers. There are lots of repeats and a single idea is reiterated at least 3-4 times to ensure that the dumb reader gets it. The vocabulary is a fraction of the vocabulary of most of the older generation like Herbert Sr, Zelazny, Le Guin, Bradbury (in fact from the old generation - everybody but Azimov). The overall lexical construction is quite primitive as well. It is quite obvious who wrote these books.
As far as Chris Tolkien the situation is not so straightforward. He published at least one clearly and purely J.R.R. Tolkien Book - the Silmarilion. That was J.R.R. Tolkien all the way and if not for Chris Tolkien, it would have failed to see the light of day (it was published postmortem). The Unifinished Tales seem to be what junior sells them for - drafts, notes and unfinished tales. Looking at the style and vocabulary they also seem to be a J.R.R. Tolkien work, just quite what it says on the tin - unfinished.
I have no idea about this new book, but I hope that he does not join Hurbert junior in that circle of hell. He has done not that bad so far. He has shown some his dad's dirty laundry (stuff j.r.r. never intended to be published) but he has not shit on his grave just yet (or I missed that one in the bookshop).
May I remind you that she is not flying on the Shuttle. She is flying on the Soyuz which has a considerably lower per-seat launch cost. In fact, finally someone in NASA noticed the difference and the next US capsule will go back to Apollo/Soyuz basics.
A DVD player with HDMI is only 10 pounds or so more then an equivalent DVD player without (based on Philips prices). All TVs above 23in are now HDMI enabled as well so HDMI and HDMI price are not really a distinguishing factor when buying new kit. It is the other ports, legacy support and relevant features which matter - VGA, DVI, SuperScart, card reader for digital, digital support etc. I spent quite a bit of time making sure that my new TV got the lot - every single one of them and funnily enough it ended up having an HDMI port as well (which I do not use).
-- prof.dr.Edsger W.Dijkstra
IMHO Dijkstra is right and you are wrong. BASIC is a horrible language for learning to code and it is the wrong language to learn to code. It is not designed as a learning language. It takes the worst out of FORTRAN and mutilates it even further.
There are languages that are designed for that purpose and allow people to learn to code without mutilating their brain beyond recognition. I learned to code rather late (at the age of 14) and I had the opportunity to chose between Pascal, GraphFort, ASM (6502 and x86), Logo and BASIC. I learned them in exactly this order and used BASIC only in the rare occasions when the school forced us to work with it on 6502 based Apple ][ clones that could not do anything better. Even in that case I had a list of procedures which simulate recursion (and a few other suspects from "adult" languages) memorised so I could code in the horrid presudolanguage puke.
The problem with "Johnny can't code" is elsewhere. Johny does not have the stimulus to code. At all. In most households he is introduced at an early age to the computer as a toy and treats it as a toy while growing up. He does not look at it as a toolkit to assemble something usefull. He has no incentive to write anything in the first place and is getting less and less incentive as the personal computing continues to devolve to joe sub-average level. If you want Jonnie to code his parents have to provide him with a challenge which can be satisfied only by coding it. We grew up with it, trying to write a few "adult" programs which we (the adults) clearly know to be beyond Jonnie's patience and skill have not killed anyone. If Jonnie's parents have not bothered to provide him with such challenges and the tools to work on them (books on a real programming language), they should not bitch that he has no chance to become a programmer.
Which reminds me that I do not see one of the most banned books by Mark Twain. Nothing have banned as often as Letters from Earth (note that even Amazon says explicitly - uncensored version).
As a matter of fact the bible WAS on the catholic church list of limited access book all the way till the list was abolished in the mid-20 century. You had to be a member of the clergy to have access to it. Commoners were not allowed to read it. This was one of the things that brought puritans, calvinists and their ilk into existence - the right of the Joe Average to have access to all Holy Books.
First, let me ensure I got my trenches dug to the correct depth to duck for cover.
The answer is: Because it is not French.
The sole and only reason for not using smalltalk especially in the US is the not-invented-here mentality. I have yet to see a telecoms (dunno about other parts of the industry) smalltalk project whose roots are not from continental Europe. For example the Infovista carrier stuff which uses a smalltalk core was aquiried from Quallaby which surprise, surprise started its life as a french company. There are other examples as well, but I have yet to encounter a telecoms project which uses Smalltalk as its primary language and was started in the US (or UK).
Similarly, if you dig into any pre-2004 Ruby project you end up encountering some Samurai smiling at you with that characteristic smile that makes you feel like sushi.
Anyway, now it is time to duck in the freshly dug trench and wait until the flames have died out.
Unfortunately not. Though I would not mind seeing some of our leaders receive the same treatment as Sad King Billy. They deserve it.
Applause.
By the way here is the original of the aforementioned poll commissioned by Channel 4. While I find it disturbing, it is neither suprising, nor new to anyone who had to drive through Luton or Bradford. Also, there was similar material jokingly mentioning Britanistan in the annual threat assessment report by the french intelligence for their president 5-6 years ago which was leaked to the british media. The Sun nearly choked on their bile at the time. I bet that they hate to remember that one because the French have proved right all along.
A large proportion of the British muslim population are immigrants from Pakistan and to a lesser extent other British colonies. It is normal for them to hold these views as they fit their culture and upbringing. It is also normal for them to continue holding these views across multiple generations as a result of the fact that they live in tight communities and there are many of them. But it will end up all the same sooner or later. While their sons may not necessarily be British, their grandchildren will.
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Frankly, they got whatever they deserved. And if the guy who did it posted his own real info he will too.
Now, everybody keeps speaking how stupid the guy is for posting his real info along with that. Are all people who are commenting on it sure that these are the real contact details of a really existing Jason Fortuny. In fact if he exists, are they sure that it was him who posted this? What proof if any is that this is not a vile double-cross and this was not posted by someone pretending to be Jason Fortuny (or with contact details of another person)?
Worse,
If Mr Smith pays all of his cards on time, has no loans, have not taken out finance to buy his car(s) and repays his mortgage ahead of schedule he will never get a job. Looking at his credit record the company can immediately see that they cannot hold him as a salaried slave. He is too organised, independent and has sufficient reserves to tell the aforementioned company to fuck off at any time while still having enough resources to go and find a new job.
Been there, seen that. I strongly suspect (in fact, based on info from internal sources I know) that this happened to me when applying for a job in the financial sector a while ago.
So it is not only a matter of being organised. When they look at your credit card record they have the possibility to judge on how much they can squeeze you. If it looks too good you are bound to have extra reserves and tell them to f*** off if they push you too hard. Companies (the kind that will do a credit check in the first place) do not like that.