Is the difference really tenured or non-tenured? Or is it, younger or older.
Having been to graduate school I'd wager its Freshman classes vs interesting upper division or graduate level courses. Its probably less age and more teaching an uninteresting class. When teaching more interesting classes or classes related to their research the tenured professors probably do a far better job.
How's the battery life on the c7? It's got an x86 processor in it, which is the main reason I haven't replaced my existing 13" ultraportable with something like that.
Don't know. I'm just tinkering around with it at home and I'm usually plugged in.
No, I got the attempt at humor. Its just that Steve laughing ruined it. If anything he'd be jealous. I think Steve wished he could have ditched Wall Street as Dell is doing.
No need to stick with the cut-down Linux, reinstall with a full Linux distro. I picked up an Acer C7 with this in mind. It seems to work quite nicely, its the first laptop I've installed Linux on with a complete set of functioning drivers.:-)
Admittedly the screen is mediocre and the touchpad crappy, but its a $200 box and such shortcoming should be expected. However for light to moderate Linux use it would seem a decent solution.
Speaking of which, Steve Jobs must be laughing in his tomb. Dell should "re-embourse the shareholders and close the shop".
While he is returning money to shareholders he is not shutting down Dell. Its going private, its not going to be beholden to the quarterly desires of Wall Street. Dell is probably better of this way.
Depends on what you are doing. Driving a tank in a sleet storm at 2 am on a track that can barely be called a road is not fun. Tanks churn up mud and dust, and you get covered with it. Everything on the tank ends up like sandpaper. You constantly bang into hard metal objects. It wears you out. Very dangerous too. My driver drove under a tree we didn't see one night. My only warning was the.50 cal hitting the branches. I ducked, but lost my goggles. Went by there the next day, the goggles were on a branch that would have taken my head off. Overall, when the weather is nice, and you are cruising over open terrain, yes it is fun.
My Dad was Cavalry in the 1960s. Firepower may have improved but it seems that comfort hasn't changed too much.:-)
"Now, with almost 50% better battery life as promised by Intel for Windows tablets, the OEMs have no real need to come out with Windows RT based tablets and hybrids anymore." Why would a manufacturer buy an OS nobody seems to want instead of using Android? What's MS's advantage here?
For the exact same reason people have been using Windows for decades. They want to run specific Windows based software. With these tablets running x86 rather than ARM the legacy x86 applications become usable. Assuming drivers and other factors cooperate.
I do not expect I will be buying another iPhone ever again. The device is far too tiny... My wife's Galaxy Note phone is awesome... reasonable screen size, and even comes with a stylus.
I guess if you are carrying around a purse then the larger phones are not really an issue.
Personally I miss smaller phones, in particular my Moto Razor flip phone where I didn't have to worry about putting things in the same pocket as the phone. That said, the increased functionality of a smartphone does seem worth having to put coins and other screen scratchers in a different pocket.
First, Apple releases a tiny 7" tablet, against Jobs recommendation when he was alive.
My understanding is that Jobs was against a 7" tablet when they could *not* match the 1024x768 resolution of the full sized non-retina iPad. Over time pixels per inch improved and this technical objection no longer applied. The 7" iPad mini introduced no display fragmentation, a pixel per pixel match for the existing non-retina full sized iPad.
Now they come up with a cheap iPhone, further eroding Aple's premium image.
The "C" in iPhone 5C is for "color" not "cheap". "Cheap" was Wall Street speculation regarding a hypothetical developing world focused phone. Wall Street did not expect the current iPhone 5 to be discontinued, they expected the 5 to move into the midrange iPhone slot. Apple did something different, they discontinued the 5 and introduced the 5C as the phone for that midrange price slot. IMHO that was a smart move. The 5C is less likely to cannibalize 5S sales than the 5.
Alas, how can you actually know if those circumstances might apply or not? After all, you can't legally read anything into a plea of the 5th other than this alleged witness won't be testifying. Only the witness can know if they might be in danger of self incriminating or not, but if they answer any questions about it, they will be incriminated.
The 3rd party could be granted immunity from prosecution for anything incriminating that they mention. That removes 5th amendment protection.
Why are criminal defendants allowed to remain silent, but not third-party witnesses like Risen?
Because the defendant's right to a fair trial trumps the third party's desire not to get involved. What if the information from the third party could exonerate the defendant?
The Fifth Amendment should be extended to any party in any type of court. Testimony should always be voluntary to all parties, unless there is an immediate danger to the life and safety of a third party. Even with this system, I could see this being paraded and manipulated in court and used to extract testimony.
Our Constitution and our laws are supposed to strike a balance between your rights and the rights of others. The reason that an uninvolved third party should be compelled to testify is so that the defendant receives a fair trial by having all available information brought forward. What if that witness' information could exonerate an accused innocent but the witness would like to remain silent for personal revenge or personal gain?
"Warfighter" seems to be trying to distinguish between those service members who are in combat roles and those who are in non-combat roles.
Any service member who's not a medic or a chaplain is a combatant, according to the Law of Armed Conflict. Besides, neither mortars nor rocket propelled grenades nor roadside bombs distinguish between the folks in infantry and the folks in logistics.
I understand that quite well. I grew up around a WW2 paratrooper. He told me how at Bastogne they were reinforced by the truck drivers who were making one-way trips to get supplies in before Bastogne was completely cut off. He said these truck drivers had not fired a rifle since basic training and had not received any real infantry training either. Despite their non-combat MOS and deficient for the circumstances training, they were still soldiers who fought bravely and endured great hardship.
So "warfighter" is redundant.
"Warfighter" may be jargon but its use is absolutely intended to distinguish between those in a combat MOS and those who are not. It is not interchangeable with "service member" given its common usage.
"Warfighter
These are the people in any branch of the military whose primary job is killing people and breaking things." http://www.jargondatabase.com/Category/Military/General-Military-Jargon/Warfighter
Thanks for the correction. Time to read the book again, it's obviously been too long.
I used to recommend reading Starship Troopers (Heinlein), Forever War (Haldeman), and Armor (Steakley) back to back. But I've decided to add Old Man's War (Scalzi) to that suggestion list. The later doesn't have the armored suits of the others but I think fits in well in its own way.
Comment from the 'Starship Troopers' wiki entry:... In 2012, an article on the US military buying ballistic face masks specifically referenced the "big steel gorilla[s]" of Starship Troopers...
And Starship Troopers use of the term "big gorillas" was in reference to WW1 (1914-18) slang. IIRC anti-ballistic steel face masks were also tried out in WW1. There is a little history mixed in with that fiction.
I think it was "mobile infantry" in ST. In Heinlein's day the term "mechanized infantry" was already in use, troops riding in vehicles along side tanks.
Now if we could only get those drop pods.
Personally I'm hoping for something to drop those pods from.:-)
Throw in the fact that when you shoot down a drone, you don't lose a pilot that cost years of expensive training that could easily run into a fair fraction of a million dollars to replace
Don't forget the Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) team that may be sent into harms way if we hear from the pilot once he is on the ground. For example when an F-16 pilot went down in Serbia, O'Grady, the rescue force included 2 CH-53 transport helicopters, 2 AH-1 helicopter gunships, 2 AV-8 ground attack jets, their crews and 51 Marine infantryman. The AH-1's took missile fire but successfully evaded. The CH-53's were hit with small arms fire.
So who else remembers the uber cool Casio smart watches of the 80s? (Contacts in your Watch! Cool!) And how long they were actually cool for...
In the early 90s some good friends purchased a $75 Casio in a duty free shop they were passing through and gave it to me as a birthday present. It had a pressure sensor so it could estimate altitude or depth under water. I used it while scuba diving for years, it was generally within 3-5 feet of my analog depth gauge. Pretty impressive for a $75 watch IMHO.
Why would someone buy unmanned machines that have to be manned?
Think commercial aviation. Commercial aircraft fly around on autopilot a lot, they can even land themselves.
Similarly the combines/tractors/etc are on autopilot. Precisely navigating the fields, precisely dispensing varied levels of fertilizer or pesticide as testing indicated. Such automation increases yields/profits.
Government agencies have little power to regulate what private individuals do on their own land, and even less when it involves agriculture.
That is so untrue. Do not confuse a lack of power with a decision to give a group with lobbyists a break.
Extensive checks and searching goes back centuries...
Checks at international borders, sure. But today's network of internal border checkpoints is new.
As recently as the 1990s, Americans could travel freely within the country. But today, I can't drive from Texas to California without passing through one of their make-believe border checkpoints. That bullshit doesn't go back centuries.
No, in the 1980s (and possibly earlier) there were definitely "border checkpoints" in California. Agricultural inspection stations checking for and confiscating raw fruits and vegetables and other plants. Ordinary travelers were stopped. They definitely searched your belongings if they felt like it.
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Is the difference really tenured or non-tenured? Or is it, younger or older.
Having been to graduate school I'd wager its Freshman classes vs interesting upper division or graduate level courses. Its probably less age and more teaching an uninteresting class. When teaching more interesting classes or classes related to their research the tenured professors probably do a far better job.
How's the battery life on the c7? It's got an x86 processor in it, which is the main reason I haven't replaced my existing 13" ultraportable with something like that.
Don't know. I'm just tinkering around with it at home and I'm usually plugged in.
Maybe you're too young to remember but... to put you back in context: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html In essence, I made a funny.
No, I got the attempt at humor. Its just that Steve laughing ruined it. If anything he'd be jealous. I think Steve wished he could have ditched Wall Street as Dell is doing.
No need to stick with the cut-down Linux, reinstall with a full Linux distro. I picked up an Acer C7 with this in mind. It seems to work quite nicely, its the first laptop I've installed Linux on with a complete set of functioning drivers. :-)
Admittedly the screen is mediocre and the touchpad crappy, but its a $200 box and such shortcoming should be expected. However for light to moderate Linux use it would seem a decent solution.
Well played, congrats.
Speaking of which, Steve Jobs must be laughing in his tomb. Dell should "re-embourse the shareholders and close the shop".
While he is returning money to shareholders he is not shutting down Dell. Its going private, its not going to be beholden to the quarterly desires of Wall Street. Dell is probably better of this way.
Depends on what you are doing. Driving a tank in a sleet storm at 2 am on a track that can barely be called a road is not fun. Tanks churn up mud and dust, and you get covered with it. Everything on the tank ends up like sandpaper. You constantly bang into hard metal objects. It wears you out. Very dangerous too. My driver drove under a tree we didn't see one night. My only warning was the .50 cal hitting the branches. I ducked, but lost my goggles. Went by there the next day, the goggles were on a branch that would have taken my head off. Overall, when the weather is nice, and you are cruising over open terrain, yes it is fun.
My Dad was Cavalry in the 1960s. Firepower may have improved but it seems that comfort hasn't changed too much. :-)
We need more CEOs with egos tied to their companies. At least they don't just loot them and run...
I get the sentiment and there is a degree of truth there but here is a counterexample: Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC
Always practice due diligence. Even if someone's name is on the sign, even if the founders are still running the place.
"Now, with almost 50% better battery life as promised by Intel for Windows tablets, the OEMs have no real need to come out with Windows RT based tablets and hybrids anymore." Why would a manufacturer buy an OS nobody seems to want instead of using Android? What's MS's advantage here?
For the exact same reason people have been using Windows for decades. They want to run specific Windows based software. With these tablets running x86 rather than ARM the legacy x86 applications become usable. Assuming drivers and other factors cooperate.
I do not expect I will be buying another iPhone ever again. The device is far too tiny... My wife's Galaxy Note phone is awesome... reasonable screen size, and even comes with a stylus.
I guess if you are carrying around a purse then the larger phones are not really an issue.
Personally I miss smaller phones, in particular my Moto Razor flip phone where I didn't have to worry about putting things in the same pocket as the phone. That said, the increased functionality of a smartphone does seem worth having to put coins and other screen scratchers in a different pocket.
First, Apple releases a tiny 7" tablet, against Jobs recommendation when he was alive.
My understanding is that Jobs was against a 7" tablet when they could *not* match the 1024x768 resolution of the full sized non-retina iPad. Over time pixels per inch improved and this technical objection no longer applied. The 7" iPad mini introduced no display fragmentation, a pixel per pixel match for the existing non-retina full sized iPad.
Now they come up with a cheap iPhone, further eroding Aple's premium image.
The "C" in iPhone 5C is for "color" not "cheap". "Cheap" was Wall Street speculation regarding a hypothetical developing world focused phone. Wall Street did not expect the current iPhone 5 to be discontinued, they expected the 5 to move into the midrange iPhone slot. Apple did something different, they discontinued the 5 and introduced the 5C as the phone for that midrange price slot. IMHO that was a smart move. The 5C is less likely to cannibalize 5S sales than the 5.
Alas, how can you actually know if those circumstances might apply or not? After all, you can't legally read anything into a plea of the 5th other than this alleged witness won't be testifying. Only the witness can know if they might be in danger of self incriminating or not, but if they answer any questions about it, they will be incriminated.
The 3rd party could be granted immunity from prosecution for anything incriminating that they mention. That removes 5th amendment protection.
Jobs would never stand for this.
Oh yes he would, he actually did something similar. Flower Power and Dalmatian iMacs.
Don't forget Bill The Galactic Hero.
Shamefully I must confess that I have not read that one yet. I understand it is also a classic.
Why are criminal defendants allowed to remain silent, but not third-party witnesses like Risen?
Because the defendant's right to a fair trial trumps the third party's desire not to get involved. What if the information from the third party could exonerate the defendant?
The Fifth Amendment should be extended to any party in any type of court. Testimony should always be voluntary to all parties, unless there is an immediate danger to the life and safety of a third party. Even with this system, I could see this being paraded and manipulated in court and used to extract testimony.
Our Constitution and our laws are supposed to strike a balance between your rights and the rights of others. The reason that an uninvolved third party should be compelled to testify is so that the defendant receives a fair trial by having all available information brought forward. What if that witness' information could exonerate an accused innocent but the witness would like to remain silent for personal revenge or personal gain?
"Warfighter" seems to be trying to distinguish between those service members who are in combat roles and those who are in non-combat roles.
Any service member who's not a medic or a chaplain is a combatant, according to the Law of Armed Conflict. Besides, neither mortars nor rocket propelled grenades nor roadside bombs distinguish between the folks in infantry and the folks in logistics.
I understand that quite well. I grew up around a WW2 paratrooper. He told me how at Bastogne they were reinforced by the truck drivers who were making one-way trips to get supplies in before Bastogne was completely cut off. He said these truck drivers had not fired a rifle since basic training and had not received any real infantry training either. Despite their non-combat MOS and deficient for the circumstances training, they were still soldiers who fought bravely and endured great hardship.
So "warfighter" is redundant.
"Warfighter" may be jargon but its use is absolutely intended to distinguish between those in a combat MOS and those who are not. It is not interchangeable with "service member" given its common usage.
"Warfighter
These are the people in any branch of the military whose primary job is killing people and breaking things."
http://www.jargondatabase.com/Category/Military/General-Military-Jargon/Warfighter
Thanks for the correction. Time to read the book again, it's obviously been too long.
I used to recommend reading Starship Troopers (Heinlein), Forever War (Haldeman), and Armor (Steakley) back to back. But I've decided to add Old Man's War (Scalzi) to that suggestion list. The later doesn't have the armored suits of the others but I think fits in well in its own way.
Comment from the 'Starship Troopers' wiki entry: ... In 2012, an article on the US military buying ballistic face masks specifically referenced the "big steel gorilla[s]" of Starship Troopers...
And Starship Troopers use of the term "big gorillas" was in reference to WW1 (1914-18) slang. IIRC anti-ballistic steel face masks were also tried out in WW1. There is a little history mixed in with that fiction.
"Warfighter" is jargon. "Service members" is the general term for anyone in the military.
"Warfighter" seems to be trying to distinguish between those service members who are in combat roles and those who are in non-combat roles.
As far as old terminology goes I think "troops" would be a better fit, something that can apply to soldiers, Marines, sailors in a shore party, etc.
... the mechanized infantry of ST.
I think it was "mobile infantry" in ST. In Heinlein's day the term "mechanized infantry" was already in use, troops riding in vehicles along side tanks.
Now if we could only get those drop pods.
Personally I'm hoping for something to drop those pods from. :-)
Throw in the fact that when you shoot down a drone, you don't lose a pilot that cost years of expensive training that could easily run into a fair fraction of a million dollars to replace
Don't forget the Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) team that may be sent into harms way if we hear from the pilot once he is on the ground. For example when an F-16 pilot went down in Serbia, O'Grady, the rescue force included 2 CH-53 transport helicopters, 2 AH-1 helicopter gunships, 2 AV-8 ground attack jets, their crews and 51 Marine infantryman. The AH-1's took missile fire but successfully evaded. The CH-53's were hit with small arms fire.
So who else remembers the uber cool Casio smart watches of the 80s? (Contacts in your Watch! Cool!) And how long they were actually cool for...
In the early 90s some good friends purchased a $75 Casio in a duty free shop they were passing through and gave it to me as a birthday present. It had a pressure sensor so it could estimate altitude or depth under water. I used it while scuba diving for years, it was generally within 3-5 feet of my analog depth gauge. Pretty impressive for a $75 watch IMHO.
Why would someone buy unmanned machines that have to be manned?
Think commercial aviation. Commercial aircraft fly around on autopilot a lot, they can even land themselves. Similarly the combines/tractors/etc are on autopilot. Precisely navigating the fields, precisely dispensing varied levels of fertilizer or pesticide as testing indicated. Such automation increases yields/profits.
Government agencies have little power to regulate what private individuals do on their own land, and even less when it involves agriculture.
That is so untrue. Do not confuse a lack of power with a decision to give a group with lobbyists a break.
Extensive checks and searching goes back centuries...
Checks at international borders, sure. But today's network of internal border checkpoints is new.
As recently as the 1990s, Americans could travel freely within the country. But today, I can't drive from Texas to California without passing through one of their make-believe border checkpoints. That bullshit doesn't go back centuries.
No, in the 1980s (and possibly earlier) there were definitely "border checkpoints" in California. Agricultural inspection stations checking for and confiscating raw fruits and vegetables and other plants. Ordinary travelers were stopped. They definitely searched your belongings if they felt like it.