Insightful? Just about every 'fact' is incomplete and your timeline is completely incorrect.
Among the things you mentioned, the Apple offer came first. The counter offer was not "ten times." More like a little under double.
BeOS was FORCED to port to Intel when Apple refused to disclose specs for the G3 line. This wasn't done on a whim, it was done out of technical necessity.
BeIA was the last ditch effort/nail in the coffin, not something that scared away developers. By that time, they had no developers left.
Norman Borlaug, by increasing crop yield per area REDUCED the amount of land used for agriculture. This also has the effect of REDUCING deforestation, thereby INCREASING atmospheric carbon loading. By increasing the pest resistance of the crop REDUCED agricultural pollution.
Does your payload blow shit up or does it take pictures? You don't think there's a difference between the two? Don't give me shit about military applications of spy satellites. There's a fundamental difference.
How does this happen? TFA is an article about a planet that has retrograde motion and someone manages to whip out a car analogy. And it even sort of makes sense. Well played, sir. Well played.
This, QFT and +1 means the same thing, at least the way I understand it. I see it a lot more on vBulletin. Just another way of saying 'agreed wholeheartedly.
That's a funny article. I guess I would be imitating him if this wasn't the first time I've mentioned on/. that I don't own a TV. Come to think of it, the last person who I told that I didn't own or watch a TV was a salesgirl at Frys who asked me if I had cable or satellite. That was some 4 months ago.
Really? History Channel and Discovery "interesting"? There was a time when they were 90% documentary/educational and 10% infotainment but these days, the reverse is true. Ghost hunters? Axe men? Deadliest Catch? UFO HUNTERS??? WTF is this shit?
I came back to the US this past December after several years in Africa. For a brief month, I had cable. In fact, it was the first thing I set up. Then I saw what was on and realized that not only had I not missed much, but I actually got a lot more out of not watching TV then I ever could watching it.
Nah. You're but an AC, but I'll help you out anyway. If you had any sort of decent education, you'd know how to pick up the tone of a given written passage. Because you are failing to understand the blindingly obvious that even the most brain dead blithering idiot would have picked up is that parent post and this reply are examples of condescension.
Okay, now you have a chance to be righteously indignant.
Give it a go. You'd be amazed at how quickly you stop worrying about what's on the TV anyway.
This. I gave up TV a while ago and I don't miss it at all. It'll be one of the most liberating things you'll do. After a while, you'll be wondering why you ever let that shit get into your brain for hours a day. Just like how a chain smoker quits and starts wondering to himself why he let himself breathe in a pack a day worth of smoke and carcinogens.
Every once in a while, I'll watch the Daily Show or 30 Rock, but I figure that's like having the occasional smoke or cigar with a drink.
People can go on and on with their righteous indignation over how they record their HDTV programming but when you walk away from it, you'll realize that getting your panties in a twist about a TV program is indicative of an addiction, not rationality.
Yeah, apparently, I missed a huge chunk of your point when I read it. Gotta work on that reading thing.
Honestly, I'm of two minds of this concept of junior officers. On the one hand, it's kind of a vestigial concept from the days of guys running around with swords. You ever wonder why we had to buy our own uniforms? No good reason other than that's the way we've done it for hundreds of years. Holdover from the days when officers brought their own horses and clothes because nobility had money.
On the other hand, there's a good reason that the process for commissioning was more formalized with more requirements than someone thinking that you might make "good officer material." That kind of commissioning scheme existed right into WWII.
At this point, service in Iraq has become very, very different from 5 years ago. At this point, most servicemen who are not specifically combat arms are likely to have their own laptops. Even a few years ago, people plugging their personal laptops into the network was becoming a problem.
And no, these days, most of the personnel over there are not "on" 24/7.
Your Marine friend is doing what all people do, which is complaining about a problem before he understands it.
Recruiters have always functioned under slightly different rules and in this case, recruiters are specifically exempt from this policy. In fact, many, if not most, recruiting offices of all branches have commercial/dial-up access set up specifically for this purpose.
The reasons for this are simple. One, it's a recruiter's job to communicate with the public at large. This is not your everyday serviceman's job. Second, OPSEC, COMSEC, etc are not a concern for the recruiter. For obvious reasons.
I'm ex Army, so I love making fun of how stupid Marines are, but in this case, the Marines are handling the situation as it should be and there is no breakdown of internal communications. This is your buddy misunderstanding policy because he'd like to have something to bitch about to his civilian friend, who in turn repeats his misunderstanding on/.
Well, the joke is that an infantry Lieutenant is just a guy who's in training to be a Captain. The Army's not going to let you make real decisions before then, because let's face it, you're kind of a moron.
That said, yes and no to the parent poster.
I've lead platoons where I had an administrative function more than anything else, for the simple reason that my platoon sergeant was much more tactically and technically proficient than me. Even better, my squad leaders knew their roles and were a pretty good bunch. Technically, command authority rested with me, but my PSG ran the platoon, ran it well and I wasn't inclined to fuck it up. If a decision needed to be made, they came to me, told me what the best course of action was and I'd put my figurative rubber stamp on it. Those guys made me look like an effective leader without me ever having to do much.
OTOH, I've also lead platoons where the PSG was a weak and the junior NCOs rode roughshod over everything. These guys couldn't be trusted to screw in a fucking light bulb without me threatening article 15s. This unit needed a lot of direct leadership and required a much firmer hand.
That cliche of the old, grizzled and wise sergeant and the naive, idiotic junior officer is just a cliche.
BTW, that first unit I described isn't all roses, either. There's a lot that can go wrong in that kind of scenario as well.
I wonder what what the North Koreas are going to think when they find out about this.
The tunnel system they had in the border areas is the king showing in their hand. As far as a paranoid North Korean is concerned, that was what assured destruction and kept the US from making the first strike. A nutty concern, of course, but let's face it, those North Koreans are a nutty bunch.
At some point, they're going to feel really cornered. Then things will get really interesting.
I went in the other day to buy a breadboard for a very simple project. I went in, got confused because there wasn't a components section. So I asked the kid working there if they had any breadboards. Blank stare. Had NO clue what I was talking about. I ended up at Frys, which is the only place in town for this kind of thing anymore.
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Insightful? Just about every 'fact' is incomplete and your timeline is completely incorrect.
Among the things you mentioned, the Apple offer came first. The counter offer was not "ten times." More like a little under double.
BeOS was FORCED to port to Intel when Apple refused to disclose specs for the G3 line. This wasn't done on a whim, it was done out of technical necessity.
BeIA was the last ditch effort/nail in the coffin, not something that scared away developers. By that time, they had no developers left.
Give me the definition of "pathetic". Thanks.
Whoops, to read decreasing carbon loading.
You have it exactly backwards, my friend.
The population is already there.
Norman Borlaug, by increasing crop yield per area REDUCED the amount of land used for agriculture. This also has the effect of REDUCING deforestation, thereby INCREASING atmospheric carbon loading. By increasing the pest resistance of the crop REDUCED agricultural pollution.
Why is it that these people insist on trying to apply a veneer of respectability to this shit?
Financial engineering is not engineering.
Economics is not a real science.
Finance is not real math.
The irony here is that 10.6 was almost exclusively an under-the-hood point upgrade to improve speed and stability.
I've never had this problem. I don't believe you have a problem. Even if you do, it's not a problem with Linux itself, it's a wetware issue.
Does your payload blow shit up or does it take pictures? You don't think there's a difference between the two? Don't give me shit about military applications of spy satellites. There's a fundamental difference.
How does this happen? TFA is an article about a planet that has retrograde motion and someone manages to whip out a car analogy. And it even sort of makes sense. Well played, sir. Well played.
My mother was an indian giver, you insensitive clod!
This, QFT and +1 means the same thing, at least the way I understand it. I see it a lot more on vBulletin. Just another way of saying 'agreed wholeheartedly.
Once again, real life imitates The Onion: Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television.
That's a funny article. I guess I would be imitating him if this wasn't the first time I've mentioned on /. that I don't own a TV. Come to think of it, the last person who I told that I didn't own or watch a TV was a salesgirl at Frys who asked me if I had cable or satellite. That was some 4 months ago.
Don't forget the porn? What did you think I meant by the internet?
Really? History Channel and Discovery "interesting"? There was a time when they were 90% documentary/educational and 10% infotainment but these days, the reverse is true. Ghost hunters? Axe men? Deadliest Catch? UFO HUNTERS??? WTF is this shit?
I came back to the US this past December after several years in Africa. For a brief month, I had cable. In fact, it was the first thing I set up. Then I saw what was on and realized that not only had I not missed much, but I actually got a lot more out of not watching TV then I ever could watching it.
Nah. You're but an AC, but I'll help you out anyway. If you had any sort of decent education, you'd know how to pick up the tone of a given written passage. Because you are failing to understand the blindingly obvious that even the most brain dead blithering idiot would have picked up is that parent post and this reply are examples of condescension.
Okay, now you have a chance to be righteously indignant.
See what I did there?
Well, if you're anything like me, you substituted one addiction for another. Mine teh internets. It's like trading nicotine for cocaine.
Give it a go. You'd be amazed at how quickly you stop worrying about what's on the TV anyway.
This. I gave up TV a while ago and I don't miss it at all. It'll be one of the most liberating things you'll do. After a while, you'll be wondering why you ever let that shit get into your brain for hours a day. Just like how a chain smoker quits and starts wondering to himself why he let himself breathe in a pack a day worth of smoke and carcinogens.
Every once in a while, I'll watch the Daily Show or 30 Rock, but I figure that's like having the occasional smoke or cigar with a drink.
People can go on and on with their righteous indignation over how they record their HDTV programming but when you walk away from it, you'll realize that getting your panties in a twist about a TV program is indicative of an addiction, not rationality.
Whose side are you on?
Yeah, apparently, I missed a huge chunk of your point when I read it. Gotta work on that reading thing.
Honestly, I'm of two minds of this concept of junior officers. On the one hand, it's kind of a vestigial concept from the days of guys running around with swords. You ever wonder why we had to buy our own uniforms? No good reason other than that's the way we've done it for hundreds of years. Holdover from the days when officers brought their own horses and clothes because nobility had money.
On the other hand, there's a good reason that the process for commissioning was more formalized with more requirements than someone thinking that you might make "good officer material." That kind of commissioning scheme existed right into WWII.
At this point, service in Iraq has become very, very different from 5 years ago. At this point, most servicemen who are not specifically combat arms are likely to have their own laptops. Even a few years ago, people plugging their personal laptops into the network was becoming a problem.
And no, these days, most of the personnel over there are not "on" 24/7.
Your Marine friend is doing what all people do, which is complaining about a problem before he understands it.
Recruiters have always functioned under slightly different rules and in this case, recruiters are specifically exempt from this policy. In fact, many, if not most, recruiting offices of all branches have commercial/dial-up access set up specifically for this purpose.
The reasons for this are simple. One, it's a recruiter's job to communicate with the public at large. This is not your everyday serviceman's job. Second, OPSEC, COMSEC, etc are not a concern for the recruiter. For obvious reasons.
I'm ex Army, so I love making fun of how stupid Marines are, but in this case, the Marines are handling the situation as it should be and there is no breakdown of internal communications. This is your buddy misunderstanding policy because he'd like to have something to bitch about to his civilian friend, who in turn repeats his misunderstanding on /.
Well, the joke is that an infantry Lieutenant is just a guy who's in training to be a Captain. The Army's not going to let you make real decisions before then, because let's face it, you're kind of a moron.
That said, yes and no to the parent poster.
I've lead platoons where I had an administrative function more than anything else, for the simple reason that my platoon sergeant was much more tactically and technically proficient than me. Even better, my squad leaders knew their roles and were a pretty good bunch. Technically, command authority rested with me, but my PSG ran the platoon, ran it well and I wasn't inclined to fuck it up. If a decision needed to be made, they came to me, told me what the best course of action was and I'd put my figurative rubber stamp on it. Those guys made me look like an effective leader without me ever having to do much.
OTOH, I've also lead platoons where the PSG was a weak and the junior NCOs rode roughshod over everything. These guys couldn't be trusted to screw in a fucking light bulb without me threatening article 15s. This unit needed a lot of direct leadership and required a much firmer hand.
That cliche of the old, grizzled and wise sergeant and the naive, idiotic junior officer is just a cliche.
BTW, that first unit I described isn't all roses, either. There's a lot that can go wrong in that kind of scenario as well.
I wonder what what the North Koreas are going to think when they find out about this.
The tunnel system they had in the border areas is the king showing in their hand. As far as a paranoid North Korean is concerned, that was what assured destruction and kept the US from making the first strike. A nutty concern, of course, but let's face it, those North Koreans are a nutty bunch.
At some point, they're going to feel really cornered. Then things will get really interesting.
Evidently, the North Koreans have underground tunnels straight out of LOTRs.
Big job, big bomb.
Unusual project? How about a simple project?
I went in the other day to buy a breadboard for a very simple project. I went in, got confused because there wasn't a components section. So I asked the kid working there if they had any breadboards. Blank stare. Had NO clue what I was talking about. I ended up at Frys, which is the only place in town for this kind of thing anymore.