Arguably, you could say one of the primary reasons Russia was able to successfully defend against the Germans was the fact that the Germans beat themselves, independant of the americans. Combine the ill-planned 'Operation Barbarossa' with a tenacious, motivated, well-led enemy, the Germans really had no chance.
Some factors of the German defeat:
1. Germany sent in a field army, not completely comfortable in urban environments
2. Germany was ill-prepared, both men and equipment for the cold environment
3. Germany was fighting a multi-front war (the only relationship to the americans)
4. Too long of supply lines, later succeptible to air attack (sturmavik)
In conclusion, I won't take anything away from the american involvement in WW2, they did their part, but to attribute any part of the German defeat in the Russian campaign to the americans, would be, in my opinion, disingenious to the Russian people who fought and died to save their homeland. Not to mention revisionism.
The day developers can write code that compiles the first time, then yes, otherwise, jesus, no.
I work as an Oracle DBA for a mid-size company, and I provide a day-old cleaned copy of production in a different environment/box, and it does the trick.
Playbooks aren't designed during the game, and the execution plan is decided by the offensive co-ordinator on the sidelines.
Arguably the players who suffer the most amount of concussions are the linemen, and I hate to generalize, but there is a reason these guys don't pick the plays.
Could be the piss poor job of marketing BlackBerry does. Arguably Apple is the advert king, and despite the strengths and weaknesses of each device, this could definitely make a considerable impact on what the sheeple purchase.
You must be a salesperson. I'm not a technology zealot, but Oracle is by far the most superior product in the market for mid ot large size datasets serving mid to large size queries (carefully chosen words;) ). I realize you can polish and sell a turd, but Oracle's scaling, robustness, and attention to detail regarding the optimization of its core engine, is what sells it, and has for the past ~30 years.
Now MS has the exact same yammering salespeople who drive me nuts when they tout the strength of their package, but I've explored it with the intimate detail that only a DBA can.
Read my lips: Its crap.
When you start to pull away from the sales pitch, super easy install, and drop and go fascade, you quickly unveil a half working SQL engine, a busted backup model, and an internal engine that turns itself into muck heaven forbid if anybody hit it with any sort of large query.
Sorry, its the Oracle DBMS engine that has made them the big bucks. Don't even get me started on Oracle forms and reports.
I disagree. MS software has a huge association factor with it. Most people, my mom included, can navigate the UI blindfolded. That counts for something.
By abstracting all the mathmatical conjecture. But then, you're left with "A brief history of the universe", and I suppose, tack an exam (of course, abstracting from the math), and you now have a "graduate-level" course.
Preach it, I have _never_ used my real name on the Internet. I use misnomers, aliases and fake names everywhere, without hesitation or prejudice. I don't give out my race, sex, age or religious beliefs, I relish in the anonymity.
I think its a sign of desperation. They know they are losing the war, and instead of changing with the times, they are adopting basically undefensable, unwinnable strategies.
I'm not forming an opinion on who's right or who's wrong, but I can tell you who is winning.
It's also possible to interpret various phrases of the bible to mean a whole host of things, and the dichotomy of such serves as the fuel to ignite many hatreds.
What I meant to say is, continue to use the TCP/IP protocol for your communication. You could technically communicate TCP/IP over two cans and a wire. I was being shmarmy of course, because it would nearly be impossible to connect to say, slashdot, without the telecom infrastructure, but heaven forbid the government put a "kill switch" (which I could argue that as well, thats the whole point of a decentralized communication system), we would find other ways.
I agree, in fact, I think the majority of the most popular hardcore titles were never intended, much less designed to be. For example, counter strike. The game's design has several casual gaming nuances, but for the gamers that enjoy CS, I have found the majority of them are by definition, hardcore gamers.
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Arguably, you could say one of the primary reasons Russia was able to successfully defend against the Germans was the fact that the Germans beat themselves, independant of the americans. Combine the ill-planned 'Operation Barbarossa' with a tenacious, motivated, well-led enemy, the Germans really had no chance.
Some factors of the German defeat:
1. Germany sent in a field army, not completely comfortable in urban environments
2. Germany was ill-prepared, both men and equipment for the cold environment
3. Germany was fighting a multi-front war (the only relationship to the americans)
4. Too long of supply lines, later succeptible to air attack (sturmavik)
In conclusion, I won't take anything away from the american involvement in WW2, they did their part, but to attribute any part of the German defeat in the Russian campaign to the americans, would be, in my opinion, disingenious to the Russian people who fought and died to save their homeland. Not to mention revisionism.
Anybody else miss Civ1, Civ2 and feel that all the micromanaging abilitys of >civ2 detract from the fun of the game?
I've bought and paid for every single Nickleback album I have in my collection. Which is none.
I predict michaelville to be home of the trolls.
I'm not sure I'm being trolled here, but compiled code is not garunteed to work properly, ever hear of a little thing called "logic error".
The day developers can write code that compiles the first time, then yes, otherwise, jesus, no.
I work as an Oracle DBA for a mid-size company, and I provide a day-old cleaned copy of production in a different environment/box, and it does the trick.
Playbooks aren't designed during the game, and the execution plan is decided by the offensive co-ordinator on the sidelines.
Arguably the players who suffer the most amount of concussions are the linemen, and I hate to generalize, but there is a reason these guys don't pick the plays.
Ask and you shall recieve...
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*cough* counterstrike *hack*
Could be the piss poor job of marketing BlackBerry does. Arguably Apple is the advert king, and despite the strengths and weaknesses of each device, this could definitely make a considerable impact on what the sheeple purchase.
Just a thought, however.
You must be a salesperson. I'm not a technology zealot, but Oracle is by far the most superior product in the market for mid ot large size datasets serving mid to large size queries (carefully chosen words
Now MS has the exact same yammering salespeople who drive me nuts when they tout the strength of their package, but I've explored it with the intimate detail that only a DBA can.
Read my lips: Its crap.
When you start to pull away from the sales pitch, super easy install, and drop and go fascade, you quickly unveil a half working SQL engine, a busted backup model, and an internal engine that turns itself into muck heaven forbid if anybody hit it with any sort of large query.
Sorry, its the Oracle DBMS engine that has made them the big bucks. Don't even get me started on Oracle forms and reports.
I think it would sink the company. The more acquistions Oracle buys, the farther away from their source market they get.
Oracle can invest all the capital they want, all I want is a decent install package for the Oracle Instant Client.
Concentrate on what made you those bucks Oracle.
I disagree. MS software has a huge association factor with it. Most people, my mom included, can navigate the UI blindfolded. That counts for something.
Its almost as if they don't want you to be able to listen to the music, period.
It's the rosetta stone, literally, it's the key. That number is the hash for 42.
By abstracting all the mathmatical conjecture. But then, you're left with "A brief history of the universe", and I suppose, tack an exam (of course, abstracting from the math), and you now have a "graduate-level" course.
Preach it, I have _never_ used my real name on the Internet. I use misnomers, aliases and fake names everywhere, without hesitation or prejudice. I don't give out my race, sex, age or religious beliefs, I relish in the anonymity.
You insensitive clod! My name really is Leroy Jenkins
I think its a sign of desperation. They know they are losing the war, and instead of changing with the times, they are adopting basically undefensable, unwinnable strategies.
I'm not forming an opinion on who's right or who's wrong, but I can tell you who is winning.
I think therein lies the problem, interpretation.
It's also possible to interpret various phrases of the bible to mean a whole host of things, and the dichotomy of such serves as the fuel to ignite many hatreds.
Disagree, if you've ever competitively gamed, you're wired. Minimal signal interference, no loss of signal due to dead or dying battery.
What I meant to say is, continue to use the TCP/IP protocol for your communication. You could technically communicate TCP/IP over two cans and a wire. I was being shmarmy of course, because it would nearly be impossible to connect to say, slashdot, without the telecom infrastructure, but heaven forbid the government put a "kill switch" (which I could argue that as well, thats the whole point of a decentralized communication system), we would find other ways.
Its a protocol people, find a different way or medium to transmit your information.
Maybe somebody asked for her red stapler, one too many times?
I agree, in fact, I think the majority of the most popular hardcore titles were never intended, much less designed to be. For example, counter strike. The game's design has several casual gaming nuances, but for the gamers that enjoy CS, I have found the majority of them are by definition, hardcore gamers.