As mentioned in the article, riot police used a "brief blast" that caused the crowd to recoil, giving the riot police room to safely use tear gas and bean bag projectiles.
I think we can all agree that a brief burst of oppression is better than a prolonged one, but why should we put up with either? To attack the however many people acting violently and with blatant disregard to the nature of the otherwise peaceful protest, the police fired an area-of-effect weapon into the crowd. A crowd of journalists and peaceful demonstrators, which contained a small group (groups) of violent fools.
In my opinion, that's not the action you take. That's an act of escalation. You've taken innocent people, and attacked them. Subjugation was obviously the intent of the police officers at that time, and very well executed it was. Any less of a complete disabling of everyone present would have resulted in the demonstration becoming a riot, simply because when cornered (as any large press of people is by the sheer volume of numbers), the natural response is to lash out viciously and unrelentingly at the source of danger until it is utterly destroyed.
While playing GTA, you learn quickly how to recover from a skid, how to turn an uncontrolled spin into a powerslide, how to avoid rolling your vehicle, how to safely control a skid to avoid a collision and what sort of collisions are least damaging if you cannot avoid a collision. These skills do translate to real life - although I'd never before regained control of an actual vehicle which loses traction on ice or gravel, I've spared myself a severe accident on three occasions (once at a 100 foot long patch of black ice, once on a long stretch of frozen ice which looked like snow-covered pavement, and once when run off a mountain road by a logging truck driver who passed illegally) thanks in part to the combat driving skills learned in games like GTA and Interstate '76.
At best, what playing GTA did was help decrease your reaction time (actually skills at pre-emption, reaction times are uniform across most individuals) and handling fight-or-flight responses better in a stressful situation.
How you regain control of the car differs too; I guess by "power slide" you mean drift, as you can't powerslide a front wheel drive car. You can try and match the acceleration of the rear with the front, but it's not the same method of control at all. You rely on being just past the limits of traction in a rear-wheel drift; Attempt that in a front wheel drive and you'll end up in a spin. Plus, if you're already spinning, you want to regain traction before you attempt a recovering manoeuvre, meaning that you apply little or no power until grip is restored.
GTA doesn't teach you anything useful apart from getting out of a burning car. Oh, and to lock your doors to avoid carjacking.
My wireless keyboard and mouse work for weeks on a couple of AAA batteries. You're going to have to try extremely hard to tell me that this kind of energy level can't be produced by induction in a mat on your desk, especially as they're already charging mobile phones with it
No, this went to court. To have the internet connection disconnected, they'd need to point at the CEO, stick their tongue out, and shout "FILE SHARER!" three times.
Ok, I just tried that, and it came out as "THAATH THAAYAAAH!" so maybe the tongue idea was a bit off.
I had a rant written here, but I can say all I want to by posting "Don't tell me what does and does not work for me. I'm telling you what doesn't work. Printer doesn't work. Webcam doesn't work. 3D graphics doesn't work. I'm glad that your 3D graphics work, and that your webcam works. Mine does not."
What will a home user do with an 80 core, 1TB RAM sysetm? Ray tracing? Protein folding? Local weather prediction? All things really high on the list for personal computers.
I've tried to get that all working (all hardware at least 18 months old now, except the phone) in Ubuntu since 6.x
I'm waiting for 9.10 next. I try every release. I'm also trying Mint, Fedora, and Mandriva when I can be bothered to download them (DVD packages don't inspire me).
I would like nothing more than to dump Windows, but I need wireless networking, phone sync, and 3D graphics first. The rest I can play with.
Getting full screen flash to perform well on Linux is not the fault of your hardware, which is what this solution is. I have quite a mediocre PC running Windows, and Flash works full screen just fine.
I also have a gaming PC with a more than capable second card not being used, but which would probably allow me the small performance boost I need to keep me from upgrading just yet. I think that I'm more the target market than you are.
Yeah, but when I installed Windows 7, my wireless network card, printer, 3D graphics, webcam, bluetooth dongle, external hard drive, dual displays, and Touch Diamond 2 mobile phone all connected and worked immediately.
I've tried to get that all working (all hardware at least 18 months old now, except the phone) in Ubuntu since 6.x
Torvalds' use of the term "Bloated" in this case refers specifically to a loss of performance and an increase in size and memory usage, not of confusion
Tell me, when your girlfriend says that she feels "bloated" once a month, do you try and explain to her why the ironing won't do itself, because she said she's "confused"?
I've never known the word "bloated" to mean anything other than "fat, lazy, potentially leaking in an embarrassing way, temperamental performance issues, and a predisposition to just sitting there and going nothing."
1. Report accurately on poignant world events, or specialist news which is well researched and factually accurate.
2. Increase readership.
3. Charge more for advertising space.
4....
Get out and exercise more, then look for a job in any industry. Your next employer will see from your resume that you're not a slacker when it gets tough, and you knuckle down to what needs to get done.
The great thing about extremely knowledgeable about a certain product or technology is that you can sell your knowledge in order for others to sell their product. Yeah, I'm talking about going into Marketing. Putting the details down which techs want to hear hidden among the blurb which impresses the PHB.
You won't get top-ring sys-admin pay, but you'll get petrol in your car and gas in your oven.
My signature within the bank is my signature. The signature on all of my debit / credit cards is CHECK I.D. written with a permanent marker.
My driving license has a photograph, and a copy of my signature on it (UK license) so they can verify it's me. Nobody else can use the cards by signing ("Uhhh the chip doesn't work, can I sign?" is a common scam).
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As mentioned in the article, riot police used a "brief blast" that caused the crowd to recoil, giving the riot police room to safely use tear gas and bean bag projectiles.
I think we can all agree that a brief burst of oppression is better than a prolonged one, but why should we put up with either? To attack the however many people acting violently and with blatant disregard to the nature of the otherwise peaceful protest, the police fired an area-of-effect weapon into the crowd. A crowd of journalists and peaceful demonstrators, which contained a small group (groups) of violent fools.
In my opinion, that's not the action you take. That's an act of escalation. You've taken innocent people, and attacked them. Subjugation was obviously the intent of the police officers at that time, and very well executed it was. Any less of a complete disabling of everyone present would have resulted in the demonstration becoming a riot, simply because when cornered (as any large press of people is by the sheer volume of numbers), the natural response is to lash out viciously and unrelentingly at the source of danger until it is utterly destroyed.
While playing GTA, you learn quickly how to recover from a skid, how to turn an uncontrolled spin into a powerslide, how to avoid rolling your vehicle, how to safely control a skid to avoid a collision and what sort of collisions are least damaging if you cannot avoid a collision. These skills do translate to real life - although I'd never before regained control of an actual vehicle which loses traction on ice or gravel, I've spared myself a severe accident on three occasions (once at a 100 foot long patch of black ice, once on a long stretch of frozen ice which looked like snow-covered pavement, and once when run off a mountain road by a logging truck driver who passed illegally) thanks in part to the combat driving skills learned in games like GTA and Interstate '76.
At best, what playing GTA did was help decrease your reaction time (actually skills at pre-emption, reaction times are uniform across most individuals) and handling fight-or-flight responses better in a stressful situation.
How you regain control of the car differs too; I guess by "power slide" you mean drift, as you can't powerslide a front wheel drive car. You can try and match the acceleration of the rear with the front, but it's not the same method of control at all. You rely on being just past the limits of traction in a rear-wheel drift; Attempt that in a front wheel drive and you'll end up in a spin. Plus, if you're already spinning, you want to regain traction before you attempt a recovering manoeuvre, meaning that you apply little or no power until grip is restored.
GTA doesn't teach you anything useful apart from getting out of a burning car. Oh, and to lock your doors to avoid carjacking.
My wireless keyboard and mouse work for weeks on a couple of AAA batteries. You're going to have to try extremely hard to tell me that this kind of energy level can't be produced by induction in a mat on your desk, especially as they're already charging mobile phones with it
No, this went to court. To have the internet connection disconnected, they'd need to point at the CEO, stick their tongue out, and shout "FILE SHARER!" three times.
Ok, I just tried that, and it came out as "THAATH THAAYAAAH!" so maybe the tongue idea was a bit off.
"... In Illegal Immigrant Job Stealing Swine Flu Related Terrorist Plot" says the Daily Mail.
I had a rant written here, but I can say all I want to by posting "Don't tell me what does and does not work for me. I'm telling you what doesn't work. Printer doesn't work. Webcam doesn't work. 3D graphics doesn't work. I'm glad that your 3D graphics work, and that your webcam works. Mine does not."
I use one password for all of my accounts. It opens my Keepass store.
It's not a simple password.
What will a home user do with an 80 core, 1TB RAM sysetm? Ray tracing? Protein folding? Local weather prediction? All things really high on the list for personal computers.
Still, you'd never need to heat your house again.
So what was the point of the OP?
But the rest of it was bang-on, right?
I've tried to get that all working (all hardware at least 18 months old now, except the phone) in Ubuntu since 6.x
I'm waiting for 9.10 next. I try every release. I'm also trying Mint, Fedora, and Mandriva when I can be bothered to download them (DVD packages don't inspire me).
I would like nothing more than to dump Windows, but I need wireless networking, phone sync, and 3D graphics first. The rest I can play with.
Getting full screen flash to perform well on Linux is not the fault of your hardware, which is what this solution is. I have quite a mediocre PC running Windows, and Flash works full screen just fine.
I also have a gaming PC with a more than capable second card not being used, but which would probably allow me the small performance boost I need to keep me from upgrading just yet. I think that I'm more the target market than you are.
Yes, but I also have a sack truck, two rolls of duct tape, a pair of bulldog clips, and access to the 3-phase supply.
Actually, come to think of it, that is extremely fast. Just the significant quantity of processes causes slowdown.
His quote by itself is very self-loathing but to add that tit's unavoidable really says a lot
You think calling yourself a tit is self-loathing?! Here, let me help expand your mind
Yeah, but when I installed Windows 7, my wireless network card, printer, 3D graphics, webcam, bluetooth dongle, external hard drive, dual displays, and Touch Diamond 2 mobile phone all connected and worked immediately.
I've tried to get that all working (all hardware at least 18 months old now, except the phone) in Ubuntu since 6.x
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Torvalds' use of the term "Bloated" in this case refers specifically to a loss of performance and an increase in size and memory usage, not of confusion
Tell me, when your girlfriend says that she feels "bloated" once a month, do you try and explain to her why the ironing won't do itself, because she said she's "confused"?
I've never known the word "bloated" to mean anything other than "fat, lazy, potentially leaking in an embarrassing way, temperamental performance issues, and a predisposition to just sitting there and going nothing."
Just like the Windows kernel.
1. Report accurately on poignant world events, or specialist news which is well researched and factually accurate. ...
2. Increase readership.
3. Charge more for advertising space.
4.
It's amazing how close the "Continue editing" and "Submit" buttons are when you have a coffee in one hand.
First, a brick wall doesn't continually generate money.No, but bridges do! Would you like to buy one? :D
Get out and exercise more, then look for a job in any industry. Your next employer will see from your resume that you're not a slacker when it gets tough, and you knuckle down to what needs to get done.
Do charity work. You have the time.
The great thing about extremely knowledgeable about a certain product or technology is that you can sell your knowledge in order for others to sell their product. Yeah, I'm talking about going into Marketing. Putting the details down which techs want to hear hidden among the blurb which impresses the PHB.
You won't get top-ring sys-admin pay, but you'll get petrol in your car and gas in your oven.
This what the CYA folder is for.
My signature within the bank is my signature. The signature on all of my debit / credit cards is CHECK I.D. written with a permanent marker.
My driving license has a photograph, and a copy of my signature on it (UK license) so they can verify it's me. Nobody else can use the cards by signing ("Uhhh the chip doesn't work, can I sign?" is a common scam).