It sort of makes sense when you think about what they were dealing with.
A major problem they had in Misrata was snipers. That cheap unreliable inaccurate RC toy would still be handy to poke around a corner and hopefully make a sniper keep his head down for a few seconds while a bunch of fighters make a break across the road towards the snipers position. Assuming the guy feeding it was actually required (that might've just been the proof on concept version), he could still be behind cover too.
Hell even if it just made those untrained fighters feel a bit better about running across the road, it's probably done its job.
Why did the US remain in the war 'till the bitter end?
Presumably (with some urging from Churchill) to prevent the Soviets from carrying on across the rest of Europe, which would probably give the Allies an even bigger threat to face in the future.
The Soviets would then have all Europes resources, industry and Nazi scientists. Stalin was huge supporter of equal rights when it came to sending people off to the gulag. And the Soviets had a preexisting ideological reason to pick a fight with the US/UK that Hitler never had.
I expected to be taught something that I would actually USE in my career. I haven't used Calculus or Physics since college.
I'm not so sure. You probably have no way knowing how much benefit you got from them. You may not use the actual subjects any more, but you've probably subconsciously used their abstract thinking and problem solving. There is more to a field than just the subject matter details.
I say that as a self taught developer who's only formal CS was a couple of filler first year papers during a Civil Engineering degree 20 yrs ago. As a developer now (who now wishes for more of a CS background) I still appreciate all the calculus and physics I did back then. I can't remember much of the details, but the way of thinking has stuck with me and I do feel they were good mental training for being a developer.
All he wanted was to cripple us. And where he failed, we did it to ourselves. So ultimately, he won.
Not really. Costing the US a huge amount of money was only ever the means to achieve his ends. And none of his real goals were achieved.
The Saudi government is still in control of Mecca. For the most part any fallen Middle Eastern dictators have been replaced by 'free-er'ish regimes rather than fundamentalist theocracies, and Afganistan is no longer a fundamentalist theocracy. The US has a much bigger presence in the Middle East than before. The desire for personal freedom seems to be winning out over jihad across large chunks of the younger populations in the Middle East.
The main reason Osama wanted to attack the US (and allies) was to drive them out of the holy lands (ie mainly the troops in Saudi Arabia during/after Desert Shield) - but they ended up leaving because they weren't needed there anymore not because they were driven out.
I think attacking western civilians on their own soil was a strategic error - it gives the west a good reason to not give up. If you just fight an expensive foriegn war of attrition against western militaries, they are much more likely to loose the political will to continue.
No, maybe they did. But can you really think of a better way to die than eating ice cream? It doesn't get much better. (This is me showing the fear merited by the situation).
No way! After that much ice cream, you'll end up dying from severe sinus pain - ouch!
Who would MS be catering for otherwise? Those customers that require official guest OS support from their hypervisor, but don't require official support for the guest OS itself?
Yay for the 42S. I never really grokked RPN before I got the 42S with it's two rows of output - 20yrs ago in my first year of engineering. Once I could see (and more easily track mentally) the two values the operator was going to work on and how they popped off the stack, it all instantly fell into place and made perfect sense.
They had awesome manuals too. I remember writing a program for figuring out 2nd moments of intertia and centroids of composite shapes where you entered a sequence of dimensions for the rectangular components. The programming was very assembler like but different in a high level recorded macro kind of way.
I did covet the 48G one guy in the class had though (a pity he didn't really know how to use it).
I've still got the 42S, but don't use it much anymore - it seems to chew though batteries really quickly now for some reason.
Personally I think ANZAC day is celebrated for a different reason. It was a bit later on after that (due to the massive bungling of Gallipoli by the British and waste of life) that Australians and NZers started to identify themselves as Australians and NZers rather than just subjects of the British Empire.
If that campaign had been successful, then that growing feeling of independence would have started much later - probably not until after WWII (eg after the British screwed up the defence of Singapore instead hehe).
Return to the X way, and it makes perfect sense, unlike Photoshop, which takes over the screen, and then presents its windows within the master window.
Isn't the Mac Photoshop multi window just like the GIMP? Or am I remembering that wrong?
We rarely see problems with them... other than the sales guys (and girls) dropping them and spilling the occasional coffee over the keyboard.
Even that didn't hurt my R51 Thinkpad (pre Lenovo). About 4 or 5 years back, my of my kids knocked my elbow and a cup of black coffee went all over the keyboard and soaked down into the case - while it was running. I quickly yanked the power and battery then started chanting "oh shit" over and over in my head.
After calming down and taking it apart as best I could then cleaning up all the parts (coffee gets pretty sticky), I then let all the bits dry out for a day or so.
I couldn't believe that it still worked when I put it back together, and it is still my main computer at home. Although these days I'm now starting to want something a little faster.
Very roughly the main thing that sets a framework apart from a library (they both have APIs) is how your code gets run vs how the framework/library code gets run.
With a library, your program calls the 3rd party code when it needs it to do something. Your code is in charge of the program flow.
With a framework, you're basically adding your own bits of code into a predefined structure to alter how it works. The framework is in charge of the program flow and ends up calling your code when it hits the relevant point.
A library just gets used while a framework gets extended. And most frameworks usually include other libraries themselves:)
You must've stopped looking a while ago. Admittedly it looked very grim a couple of years back when KVM hit the big time and Xen was stuck with their aging fork of 2.6.18 and not getting on well with the Linux kernel team.
But it's different now - the last year or so seems to have been the busiest I've ever seen the Xen devel list and the pace still seems to be increasing. And I've been following along since 2.x or so about 6 or 7 years ago. Additionally the relationship with the Linux kernel upstream seems much improved now too.
Most of the big or well known "cloud" or virtual Linux server providers still seem to use Xen - eg EC2, Rackspace cloud, Softlayers cloud, Linode, Slicehost, Rimuhosting etc.
Ahhh, that brings back memories. Trumpet was good for the dial-up but not so good on the LAN (I can't remember why though).
So when we (a 10 PC small business with no real IT skills) set up our first proxy (Wingate) in the mid 90's, we ended up using Wolverine on our 3.11 machines.
That stuff seems all so cringlingly primitive now:)
I'm not saying magnitude measurements/scales aren't important - just that the public and the media uses them in a context where intensity measurements/scales are much more relevant to the human experience of the event. As if the magnitude of the quake is the be-all and end-all when talking about actual physical effects and results of the quake, and get puzzled as to how smaller quakes can be much more intense.
I don't really care much about which measurements or scales are used for either magnitude or intensity, just that the distinction between magnitude and intensity is better understood and each is used in the appropriate context.
Yes there are other factors, but for common use, it's fine.
Really? Richter magnitude is nearly meaningless in common use. People would have a far easier time instinctively relating to a peak G-Force number than an exponential scale of energy released that has no units and requires all kinds of inaccurate mental arithmetic about how far away, how deep, duration, geology etc before you can relate it to any actual human experience of the event.
you're like a soil specialist bitching because the layman sues the word 'dirt'.
Nope its the other way around.
More like laymen aren't using the word dirt when they just mean dirt, but are instead using the wrong soil specialist terms they don't understand out of context.
Richter magnitude is only important to seismologists and has very little bearing on how serious an earthquake is. It is a measure of the energy released - not how bad the shaking is.
Any early warning system will be calibrated by acceleration and the magnitude won't come into it.
No instruments measure the richter magnitude directly - they measure the shaking and the magnitude is calculated after the fact based on lots of those readings taken in different places.
I hope the media (and the public) would stop referring to the Richter scale so much and use things like peak ground acceleration and/or modified mercalli scales etc to describe how bad an earthquake is.
eg the latest earthquake in Christchurch NZ (a 6.3 magnitude aftershock) had a higher peak ground acceleration (1.88g) than recorded anywhere in the original 7.1 magnitude quake last september (1.26g). Correspondingly it caused a lot more destruction.
Either that or the tech-founder loses interest when the company reaches the point where there aren't any more interesting ways to grow (ie their job becomes boring) and picks that time to step aside.
... and brave the Three Terrors of the Fire Swamp...
At first glance I thought you wrote the Three Tenors of the Fire Swamp, and was trying to figure out if that was a reference to some new initiation test for downloading Opera.
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It sort of makes sense when you think about what they were dealing with.
A major problem they had in Misrata was snipers. That cheap unreliable inaccurate RC toy would still be handy to poke around a corner and hopefully make a sniper keep his head down for a few seconds while a bunch of fighters make a break across the road towards the snipers position. Assuming the guy feeding it was actually required (that might've just been the proof on concept version), he could still be behind cover too.
Hell even if it just made those untrained fighters feel a bit better about running across the road, it's probably done its job.
In NZ when I was a kid back in the 70s there was was a brand of ground coffee called Faggs that my folks would buy.
Hmmm... I wonder.... wait a sec, they're still around...
http://www.faggs.co.nz/
Presumably (with some urging from Churchill) to prevent the Soviets from carrying on across the rest of Europe, which would probably give the Allies an even bigger threat to face in the future.
The Soviets would then have all Europes resources, industry and Nazi scientists. Stalin was huge supporter of equal rights when it came to sending people off to the gulag. And the Soviets had a preexisting ideological reason to pick a fight with the US/UK that Hitler never had.
iRan so far away...
There is no meaningful difference. If you want to be pedantic about it, anyone who knows something only thinks they know that something.
Because complete and total certainty isn't possible, saying 'I know something' is just convenient shorthand for 'I think I know something'.
Well said!
I'm not so sure. You probably have no way knowing how much benefit you got from them. You may not use the actual subjects any more, but you've probably subconsciously used their abstract thinking and problem solving. There is more to a field than just the subject matter details.
I say that as a self taught developer who's only formal CS was a couple of filler first year papers during a Civil Engineering degree 20 yrs ago. As a developer now (who now wishes for more of a CS background) I still appreciate all the calculus and physics I did back then. I can't remember much of the details, but the way of thinking has stuck with me and I do feel they were good mental training for being a developer.
Trendy? MBA word? Really?
Can some bit of jargon that eventually spread to the mainstream and has been in use for decades really be called trendy?
But I totally agree with you about Webinar - that would have to be the worst language crime - urggh.
Not really. Costing the US a huge amount of money was only ever the means to achieve his ends. And none of his real goals were achieved.
The Saudi government is still in control of Mecca. For the most part any fallen Middle Eastern dictators have been replaced by 'free-er'ish regimes rather than fundamentalist theocracies, and Afganistan is no longer a fundamentalist theocracy. The US has a much bigger presence in the Middle East than before. The desire for personal freedom seems to be winning out over jihad across large chunks of the younger populations in the Middle East.
The main reason Osama wanted to attack the US (and allies) was to drive them out of the holy lands (ie mainly the troops in Saudi Arabia during/after Desert Shield) - but they ended up leaving because they weren't needed there anymore not because they were driven out.
I think attacking western civilians on their own soil was a strategic error - it gives the west a good reason to not give up. If you just fight an expensive foriegn war of attrition against western militaries, they are much more likely to loose the political will to continue.
No way! After that much ice cream, you'll end up dying from severe sinus pain - ouch!
Yeah it does seem strange.
Who would MS be catering for otherwise? Those customers that require official guest OS support from their hypervisor, but don't require official support for the guest OS itself?
Yay for the 42S. I never really grokked RPN before I got the 42S with it's two rows of output - 20yrs ago in my first year of engineering. Once I could see (and more easily track mentally) the two values the operator was going to work on and how they popped off the stack, it all instantly fell into place and made perfect sense.
They had awesome manuals too. I remember writing a program for figuring out 2nd moments of intertia and centroids of composite shapes where you entered a sequence of dimensions for the rectangular components. The programming was very assembler like but different in a high level recorded macro kind of way.
I did covet the 48G one guy in the class had though (a pity he didn't really know how to use it).
I've still got the 42S, but don't use it much anymore - it seems to chew though batteries really quickly now for some reason.
Aren't you confusing it with Betacam?
Personally I think ANZAC day is celebrated for a different reason. It was a bit later on after that (due to the massive bungling of Gallipoli by the British and waste of life) that Australians and NZers started to identify themselves as Australians and NZers rather than just subjects of the British Empire.
If that campaign had been successful, then that growing feeling of independence would have started much later - probably not until after WWII (eg after the British screwed up the defence of Singapore instead hehe).
Isn't the Mac Photoshop multi window just like the GIMP? Or am I remembering that wrong?
Ummm... isn't the point of federated authentication to avoid having one provider in charge?
I'm not really sure how your comment relates to the topic - let alone how it got +5 insightful.
Even that didn't hurt my R51 Thinkpad (pre Lenovo). About 4 or 5 years back, my of my kids knocked my elbow and a cup of black coffee went all over the keyboard and soaked down into the case - while it was running. I quickly yanked the power and battery then started chanting "oh shit" over and over in my head.
After calming down and taking it apart as best I could then cleaning up all the parts (coffee gets pretty sticky), I then let all the bits dry out for a day or so.
I couldn't believe that it still worked when I put it back together, and it is still my main computer at home. Although these days I'm now starting to want something a little faster.
Very roughly the main thing that sets a framework apart from a library (they both have APIs) is how your code gets run vs how the framework/library code gets run.
With a library, your program calls the 3rd party code when it needs it to do something. Your code is in charge of the program flow.
With a framework, you're basically adding your own bits of code into a predefined structure to alter how it works. The framework is in charge of the program flow and ends up calling your code when it hits the relevant point.
A library just gets used while a framework gets extended. And most frameworks usually include other libraries themselves :)
You must've stopped looking a while ago. Admittedly it looked very grim a couple of years back when KVM hit the big time and Xen was stuck with their aging fork of 2.6.18 and not getting on well with the Linux kernel team.
But it's different now - the last year or so seems to have been the busiest I've ever seen the Xen devel list and the pace still seems to be increasing. And I've been following along since 2.x or so about 6 or 7 years ago. Additionally the relationship with the Linux kernel upstream seems much improved now too.
Most of the big or well known "cloud" or virtual Linux server providers still seem to use Xen - eg EC2, Rackspace cloud, Softlayers cloud, Linode, Slicehost, Rimuhosting etc.
Ahhh, that brings back memories. Trumpet was good for the dial-up but not so good on the LAN (I can't remember why though).
So when we (a 10 PC small business with no real IT skills) set up our first proxy (Wingate) in the mid 90's, we ended up using Wolverine on our 3.11 machines.
That stuff seems all so cringlingly primitive now :)
I'm not saying magnitude measurements/scales aren't important - just that the public and the media uses them in a context where intensity measurements/scales are much more relevant to the human experience of the event. As if the magnitude of the quake is the be-all and end-all when talking about actual physical effects and results of the quake, and get puzzled as to how smaller quakes can be much more intense.
I don't really care much about which measurements or scales are used for either magnitude or intensity, just that the distinction between magnitude and intensity is better understood and each is used in the appropriate context.
Really? Richter magnitude is nearly meaningless in common use. People would have a far easier time instinctively relating to a peak G-Force number than an exponential scale of energy released that has no units and requires all kinds of inaccurate mental arithmetic about how far away, how deep, duration, geology etc before you can relate it to any actual human experience of the event.
Nope its the other way around.
More like laymen aren't using the word dirt when they just mean dirt, but are instead using the wrong soil specialist terms they don't understand out of context.
Richter magnitude is only important to seismologists and has very little bearing on how serious an earthquake is. It is a measure of the energy released - not how bad the shaking is.
Any early warning system will be calibrated by acceleration and the magnitude won't come into it.
No instruments measure the richter magnitude directly - they measure the shaking and the magnitude is calculated after the fact based on lots of those readings taken in different places.
I hope the media (and the public) would stop referring to the Richter scale so much and use things like peak ground acceleration and/or modified mercalli scales etc to describe how bad an earthquake is.
eg the latest earthquake in Christchurch NZ (a 6.3 magnitude aftershock) had a higher peak ground acceleration (1.88g) than recorded anywhere in the original 7.1 magnitude quake last september (1.26g). Correspondingly it caused a lot more destruction.
Either that or the tech-founder loses interest when the company reaches the point where there aren't any more interesting ways to grow (ie their job becomes boring) and picks that time to step aside.
It could work both ways.
At first glance I thought you wrote the Three Tenors of the Fire Swamp, and was trying to figure out if that was a reference to some new initiation test for downloading Opera.