> Meh, those ICBMs are all underground, in bunkers designed to withstand a nuke. They have time.
If you want to conduct a first strike, sure. If you have incoming warhead, not quite. "Withstand a nuke" does not mean what you think it means. It does not mean "The assembly area is going to be intact after a hit with all your tools in the same place on the desk". It means "The missile is going to probably lift-off, but the launch crew is not necessarily going to be a good shape".
Also, USAF and the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces target multiple warheads per silo, just to make sure.
There is also the issue of submarines carrying 24 missiles with 3 warheads apiece. That is not a realistic scenario for the whole assembly/disassembly thing.
That said, this is basically what happened on the missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Someone had to screw in the fuses and stuff into the weapon. In person. Inside the aircraft.
She read an ad that said "Come to the White House, get a taste of the presidency" She came in the White House and tasted the president. So she needed glasses? Why all the fuss?
On the Mac you do not even have to do that step. Or, for that matter, know about the existence of VLC. That is the entire point. Also, QT is better than VLC, and the Mac also comes with a video EDITOR.
You lucky young kids of today. ENIAC drew 50 kW of power, dimmed the lights of Philly and had a team of people with roller-skates replacing the tubes in the main memory as they blew. As for bit-banging, they actually did that with switches.
The Apple II had a DISassembler, it can take a stream of hex opcodes and print the assembler code on screen. It certainly did not have an assembler in ROM, you had to type in Hex Opcodes.
Man I miss that. Once wrote a program to draw an explosion in Low-Res graphics mode and it was at $300, right next to the graphics memory. Made a mistake and the shrapnel-pixels shot through my code. The program literally blew itself up. I, of course, forgot to save it. Typed the thing in by hand in Hex.
Gonzales: There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you "Dirty Harry"? De Georgio: Ah that's one thing about our Harry, doesn't play any favorites! Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Spics, Honkies, Chinks, you name it. Harry hates everybody equally. Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans? De Georgio: Ask him. Harry Callahan: Especially Spics. — Dirty Harry
I hear your argument, but coding is what the military calls a force multiplier. Coding gives you the ability to teach machines to do the work for you. On their own. This is something none of the other skills do. That gives someone who can think like that a major, major leg up in life.
While I am no fan of the man, have no illusion about George W. He is more of a scholar than people give him credit for. The man has a reputation for being very well read.
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Calling a mission to Mars "into the Galaxy" is like calling yourself a brain surgeon because you once removed a splinter from your finger.
So Windows finally arrives at the point my Mac reached in 2008?
As opposed to changing a strange entry in an obscure text file, the Linux way?
Why? I just upgraded to a dual 14 core Xeon, 256GB Ram and paid 2400. Where do you get 33K from??!!
China won't attack the US, the own half the place!
> Meh, those ICBMs are all underground, in bunkers designed to withstand a nuke. They have time.
If you want to conduct a first strike, sure. If you have incoming warhead, not quite. "Withstand a nuke" does not mean what you think it means. It does not mean "The assembly area is going to be intact after a hit with all your tools in the same place on the desk". It means "The missile is going to probably lift-off, but the launch crew is not necessarily going to be a good shape".
Also, USAF and the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces target multiple warheads per silo, just to make sure.
There is also the issue of submarines carrying 24 missiles with 3 warheads apiece. That is not a realistic scenario for the whole assembly/disassembly thing.
That said, this is basically what happened on the missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Someone had to screw in the fuses and stuff into the weapon. In person. Inside the aircraft.
I have a few lying around if they are interested
Yeah, I am in the same boat due to browser testing and I love my Lumia too. Shame Windows Phone is a dead duck.
Sounds like Tywin Lannister and his constant whining about "legacy"
The moons of Mars are so small that you could jump into orbit because of lack of gravity. So no.
Aw come on, Monica made a little mistake.
She read an ad that said "Come to the White House, get a taste of the presidency"
She came in the White House and tasted the president. So she needed glasses? Why all the fuss?
Jesus, you must be joking. Bash is the worst programming language ever invented. It is bloody worse than ASM.
On the Mac you do not even have to do that step. Or, for that matter, know about the existence of VLC. That is the entire point.
Also, QT is better than VLC, and the Mac also comes with a video EDITOR.
Like the old rule says: If your parents are poor, it's not your fault. I your in-laws are poor, it's your own fault.
> most programmers who can hack at window manager code designing the look'n'feel of a distro.
And there, in one short sentence is why "Linux on the Desktop" is always 10 years in the future.
You lucky young kids of today. ENIAC drew 50 kW of power, dimmed the lights of Philly and had a team of people with roller-skates replacing the tubes in the main memory as they blew. As for bit-banging, they actually did that with switches.
The Apple II had a DISassembler, it can take a stream of hex opcodes and print the assembler code on screen. It certainly did not have an assembler in ROM, you had to type in Hex Opcodes.
Man I miss that. Once wrote a program to draw an explosion in Low-Res graphics mode and it was at $300, right next to the graphics memory. Made a mistake and the shrapnel-pixels shot through my code. The program literally blew itself up. I, of course, forgot to save it. Typed the thing in by hand in Hex.
Gonzales: There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you "Dirty Harry"?
De Georgio: Ah that's one thing about our Harry, doesn't play any favorites! Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Spics, Honkies, Chinks, you name it. Harry hates everybody equally.
Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans?
De Georgio: Ask him.
Harry Callahan: Especially Spics.
— Dirty Harry
I hear your argument, but coding is what the military calls a force multiplier. Coding gives you the ability to teach machines to do the work for you. On their own. This is something none of the other skills do. That gives someone who can think like that a major, major leg up in life.
"Another Aspie Wanker"
Christ. I don't know where to begin. that "Aspie Wanker" achieved more before he was 25 than you ever will in your life.
How hard can it be? Very. This is basically what CSS does and it took 20 years to reach a state where a native GUI is still better
Hard problem
Lovely bitch though.
The Guardian had an article about the roles of the civil service vs the government today:
http://www.theguardian.com/pol...
Makes for quite interesting reading.
While I am no fan of the man, have no illusion about George W. He is more of a scholar than people give him credit for. The man has a reputation for being very well read.