It's a mini-GI bill that encourages people to help their country who would otherwise be put off completely by having to risk their lives by joining the military.
It won't have all the benefits of the GI bill, because you aren't risking your life.
But it makes a hell of a lot of sense to me.
"Sacrifice a little to make your community a little better and we'll help you a little bit to pay for college."
There are very few devices that actually use firewire, due to the massive success of USB.
That is not true. Case in Point: video cameras. And huge percentage of other devices that do use firewire were designed specifically for Macs. Apple had a very long history of advocating for Firewire.
Macs can also be hooked to eachother (as can PCs and Linux boxes) via crossover ethernet.
Target disk mode doesn't work over crossover ethernet. Target disk mode is a very cool, very useful feature.
Also, Apple's own support documentation from the Macbook and Macbook Pro update this spring: "FireWire connections are still the fastest way to migrate applications and data from an older computer to your new computer, however, these new models now offer the ability to perform a system migration over network connections." And network migration requires installing extra software whereas firewire migration has always been baked into the OS.
rare circumstances that ought to belong to the MNP market anyway
I assume you meant "MBP" instead of "MNP". But you are wrong. The most common use of firewire are removable hard drives and home video import from Mini-DV cams. There is nothing "pro" about either of those uses.
So you get cancer or have a freak accident and your entire savings are wiped out anyway.
And people without a half-million bankroll get to go bankrupt, destroying not only their finances but the future they've been trying to create for their children.
Excuse me for thinking your lack of empathy for fellow humans makes you an asshole.
Chess has become boring, like checkers or backgammon.
To even competitively play at the local club level you really need a ridiculously deep memorization of openings and endings. At the grandmaster level, they've basically memorized the tables used by computers.
Average games of chess only last around 60 moves. The depth of opening and closing books increasingly has reduced the middle game of actually interesting play. If it's not down to only 1-5 moves, it will be soon.
The game will be dead--or at least not interesting enough to be seriously played--long before it is solved.
P.S. You arrogant fans of Go can frak yourselves. Where do you think the scientists will go once they're done with chess. Enjoy it while it lasts.
He already said he's using his own server for educational purposes. If he breaks something, he'll have to fix it.
We learn by doing, there is no other way.
Also, the virtual platform can be hard to set up and optimize itself, and can cause confusing or misleading stats from your platform's performance monitoring tools.
Optimization is about finding bottlenecks and then using the scientific method.
The typical bottlenecks are CPU, RAM, Disk, and Network. A little research will reveal the tools that give you insight into those subsystems on your platform.
Using those tools, you can identify which processes are stressing each subsystem. Then a little more research will reveal the tools that give you insight into that process.
Then a little-to-a-lot more research will reveal what you can do to reduce the stress or beef-up your platform.
After you do this for a bit, you'll see why LAMP is usually referred to as a stack, and not as a turn-key server. Different parts of the stack need to be optimized for different subsystems.
Another very useful bit of research would be finding or writing your own tools to stress each of the subsystems.
Also the north-central Great Plains (North Dakota, Western Minnesota, South Dakota, Eastern Montana, and Southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan).
They routinely have flood disaster declarations, but those are mostly for the benefit of agriculture subsidies and support. It was notable and rare in 1997 in that the Red River actually flooded enough to damage the cities along it.
Of course, that area is also smack in the middle of the continent (Rugby, North Dakota is called the geographic center of North America) with inadequate rail and air service. Makes it a bitch to get stuff in and out of the region.
I bought her an expensive gold band inlaid with several small, though almost flawless (blood-free) diamonds that cost what was an incomprehensible amount at the time.
She bought me a several hundred US$ band. In retrospect, it was because she felt guilty about her band and wanted me to have something of similar value. She didn't understand that I thought she was worth much, much, much more than any ring ever could. (Sappy but true.)
I lost that ring within the year while playing a round of golf. I then found a simple, plain silver band of an unknown metal at Hot Topic in the closest mall for $10. I bought two and am now on the second. I lost the first/second looking for a new one since the first was lost off my finger and the second was deformed during a weight lifting incident.
THe guys' ring doesn't matter, while a good woman should care about hers up to the point where she can buy a better one for herself and keep the one you bought her for sentimental reasons.
You shouldn't case about your ring except to understand that you should have some sort of band on your left ring finger forever to indicate to other women that you won't be having sex with them.
First, the DB8 was probably overkill and is leading to signal loss on the wire.
I'm using a DB2 in a wooded, though flat, city, about 15-20 miles from the towers and my results are very good except in very bad thunderstorms. I've run the wire into my cable tv plant (with the assistance of an amplifier) and now I have free OTA to every cable drop in my house.
If you're in a modern apartment, the studs are probably metal, which means you're living in a faraday cage. Get the antenna to a window that faces towards the towers, if at all possible.
If your total cable run from antenna to tuner is more than ~100' (or ~30m) you'll be running into signal loss on the wire. Get an amplifier. That won't hurt in any case.
It's not like there aren't other games rated M on the Wii. No More Heroes is the first that comes to mind. There's also the Resident Evil series, I think Godfather and Scarface were ported over, etc.
From the video, the only unique thing about this game is the decision to make everything black and white but for the blood, which is bright red. Fewer colors is now a feature!
Overall, a pretty lame publicity grab. "Our game is so hardcore your mom won't let you buy it!" What they don't say is "Our game is so boring you won't play it after the novelty wears off and you've shown it to all of your friends."
I recognize there are serious issues at stake in this election, and serious differences between the candidates. And we will argue about them, as we should.
But it should remain an argument among friends; each of us struggling to hear our conscience, and heed its demands; each of us, despite our differences, united in our great cause, and respectful of the goodness in each other.
How that can end badly? Especially since John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan that will create millions of good American jobs, ensure our nation's energy security, get the government's budget and spending practices in order, and bring relief to American consumers.
Ask any fans of Magic: the Gathering or Dungeons & Dragons about Hasbro's digital offerings for those two giant games. Failure after failure after failure.
You really have to blame Google and Blizzard. They get the top online devs and everyone else gets table scraps.
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How about a subscription to Make or Craft, backed by your commitment of time and money towards a project per issue?
How about a subscription to Make or Craft, backed by your commitment of time and money towards a project per issue?
It wouldn't have been funny if he'd have warned you.
What are you doing on /. if you work policies are that strict?
This is super-super easy. I'm trying to avoid ad-hominem attacks on your geekiness.
Electronics Kit.
or
Chemistry Kit.
or
Toolbox full of basic carpentry and mechanic hand-tools.
Plus cold-hard cash for materials and an equivalent donation to his college fund if you are a relative and not the parents.
A college-level physics, chemistry, or engineering 101 type book could be inspirational too.
Don't forget lots and lots and lots of one-on-one time working together. Best gift my parents ever gave me.
Since you are a geek, and I'm lazy, I'll let you do the googling instead of linking to specific kits and advice.
It's a mini-GI bill that encourages people to help their country who would otherwise be put off completely by having to risk their lives by joining the military.
It won't have all the benefits of the GI bill, because you aren't risking your life.
But it makes a hell of a lot of sense to me.
"Sacrifice a little to make your community a little better and we'll help you a little bit to pay for college."
LOL!
Those are the best details I can come up with...
How did you miss the 14-page PDF on the same page you pulled your quotes from?
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/PreK-12EducationFactSheet.pdf
Why does it have a trackball?
It doesn't really matter whether you use git or subversion as long as you use vi as your text editor.
...not widely used outside the Macintosh scene...
What the hell are you talking about?
Even the Dell Inspiron 13 (Dell's cheapest non-netbook portable at $600) has a firewire interface.
There are very few devices that actually use firewire, due to the massive success of USB.
That is not true. Case in Point: video cameras. And huge percentage of other devices that do use firewire were designed specifically for Macs. Apple had a very long history of advocating for Firewire.
Macs can also be hooked to eachother (as can PCs and Linux boxes) via crossover ethernet.
Target disk mode doesn't work over crossover ethernet. Target disk mode is a very cool, very useful feature.
Also, Apple's own support documentation from the Macbook and Macbook Pro update this spring: "FireWire connections are still the fastest way to migrate applications and data from an older computer to your new computer, however, these new models now offer the ability to perform a system migration over network connections." And network migration requires installing extra software whereas firewire migration has always been baked into the OS.
rare circumstances that ought to belong to the MNP market anyway
I assume you meant "MBP" instead of "MNP". But you are wrong. The most common use of firewire are removable hard drives and home video import from Mini-DV cams. There is nothing "pro" about either of those uses.
That's great. Good for you.
So you get cancer or have a freak accident and your entire savings are wiped out anyway.
And people without a half-million bankroll get to go bankrupt, destroying not only their finances but the future they've been trying to create for their children.
Excuse me for thinking your lack of empathy for fellow humans makes you an asshole.
Chess has become boring, like checkers or backgammon.
To even competitively play at the local club level you really need a ridiculously deep memorization of openings and endings. At the grandmaster level, they've basically memorized the tables used by computers.
Average games of chess only last around 60 moves. The depth of opening and closing books increasingly has reduced the middle game of actually interesting play. If it's not down to only 1-5 moves, it will be soon.
The game will be dead--or at least not interesting enough to be seriously played--long before it is solved.
P.S. You arrogant fans of Go can frak yourselves. Where do you think the scientists will go once they're done with chess. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I disagree, strongly.
He already said he's using his own server for educational purposes. If he breaks something, he'll have to fix it.
We learn by doing, there is no other way.
Also, the virtual platform can be hard to set up and optimize itself, and can cause confusing or misleading stats from your platform's performance monitoring tools.
Optimization is about finding bottlenecks and then using the scientific method.
The typical bottlenecks are CPU, RAM, Disk, and Network. A little research will reveal the tools that give you insight into those subsystems on your platform.
Using those tools, you can identify which processes are stressing each subsystem. Then a little more research will reveal the tools that give you insight into that process.
Then a little-to-a-lot more research will reveal what you can do to reduce the stress or beef-up your platform.
After you do this for a bit, you'll see why LAMP is usually referred to as a stack, and not as a turn-key server. Different parts of the stack need to be optimized for different subsystems.
Another very useful bit of research would be finding or writing your own tools to stress each of the subsystems.
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Also the north-central Great Plains (North Dakota, Western Minnesota, South Dakota, Eastern Montana, and Southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan).
They routinely have flood disaster declarations, but those are mostly for the benefit of agriculture subsidies and support. It was notable and rare in 1997 in that the Red River actually flooded enough to damage the cities along it.
Of course, that area is also smack in the middle of the continent (Rugby, North Dakota is called the geographic center of North America) with inadequate rail and air service. Makes it a bitch to get stuff in and out of the region.
I bought her an expensive gold band inlaid with several small, though almost flawless (blood-free) diamonds that cost what was an incomprehensible amount at the time.
She bought me a several hundred US$ band. In retrospect, it was because she felt guilty about her band and wanted me to have something of similar value. She didn't understand that I thought she was worth much, much, much more than any ring ever could. (Sappy but true.)
I lost that ring within the year while playing a round of golf. I then found a simple, plain silver band of an unknown metal at Hot Topic in the closest mall for $10. I bought two and am now on the second. I lost the first/second looking for a new one since the first was lost off my finger and the second was deformed during a weight lifting incident.
THe guys' ring doesn't matter, while a good woman should care about hers up to the point where she can buy a better one for herself and keep the one you bought her for sentimental reasons.
You shouldn't case about your ring except to understand that you should have some sort of band on your left ring finger forever to indicate to other women that you won't be having sex with them.
What the fuck does this have to do with /.?!
Someone at /. HQ thought this was a good idea?
It used to be the S:N ratio went down here by the year.
Now it's by the day.
What are you doing in Dubai? I thought about finding work over there for a couple years to pad the ol' bank account before returning to the midwest.
First, the DB8 was probably overkill and is leading to signal loss on the wire.
I'm using a DB2 in a wooded, though flat, city, about 15-20 miles from the towers and my results are very good except in very bad thunderstorms. I've run the wire into my cable tv plant (with the assistance of an amplifier) and now I have free OTA to every cable drop in my house.
If you're in a modern apartment, the studs are probably metal, which means you're living in a faraday cage. Get the antenna to a window that faces towards the towers, if at all possible.
If your total cable run from antenna to tuner is more than ~100' (or ~30m) you'll be running into signal loss on the wire. Get an amplifier. That won't hurt in any case.
It's not like there aren't other games rated M on the Wii. No More Heroes is the first that comes to mind. There's also the Resident Evil series, I think Godfather and Scarface were ported over, etc.
From the video, the only unique thing about this game is the decision to make everything black and white but for the blood, which is bright red. Fewer colors is now a feature!
Overall, a pretty lame publicity grab. "Our game is so hardcore your mom won't let you buy it!" What they don't say is "Our game is so boring you won't play it after the novelty wears off and you've shown it to all of your friends."
See what I did there?
End badly?
I recognize there are serious issues at stake in this election, and serious differences between the candidates. And we will argue about them, as we should.
But it should remain an argument among friends; each of us struggling to hear our conscience, and heed its demands; each of us, despite our differences, united in our great cause, and respectful of the goodness in each other.
How that can end badly? Especially since John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan that will create millions of good American jobs, ensure our nation's energy security, get the government's budget and spending practices in order, and bring relief to American consumers.
No way!
Ask any fans of Magic: the Gathering or Dungeons & Dragons about Hasbro's digital offerings for those two giant games. Failure after failure after failure.
You really have to blame Google and Blizzard. They get the top online devs and everyone else gets table scraps.