To be fair, the fact that time between plays is so long the game gets to be far more strategic than other forms of football. This is the more interesting part of football to me, at least -- the strategy behind play selection.
yeah I know its coaches playing chess on a green field. I've always said that US Football is more about playbook vs playbook than a real team vs team competition.
Different codes, but no padding and no separate teams for offensive and defensive, and the ball is in play for the entire match, not for a fraction of the time in American Football. I'd guess that the specialized American Footballers couldn't survive another code, yet there is a steady flow of Australian Footballers into America.
I don't think I ever met anyone who believed that Iraq was in retaliation for 9/11.
Let me introduce you to Mr Anonymous Coward and Mr SuperKendall who posted above - both arguing over the 100,000's of civilian deaths that were due to 9/11 retaliation. That has only occurred in Iraq and nowhere near that number has occurred in Afghanistan.
Many of those 10,000 supported the demise of the 3k, so I'm just fine with that.
The perpetrators were mainly Saudi, they trained in Afghanistan and the US public links all this with the war in Iraq - where a shitload of innocent people died, probably all of whom had nothing to do with 9/11. And even in Afghanistan a bucketload of innocent people died.
A) I don't really think that anyone but the person who wrote the Slashdot headline actually thinks this thing and the Rasberrpy Pi belong in the same category.
RTFA. The comparison to Rasberrpy Pi was in the article.
"These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate."
Headline matches the summary.
yes it matches.. sort of. The summary uses words like 'might' and 'could', but the headline uses 'can'. IMHO 'can' denotes something that is far more likely to occur than 'might' or 'could' - hence the headline is effectively editorializing (even if not explicitly done)
Most of the Catholic-church-secret-agent ones are pretty fun to watch...
Well if you want the Church of England version.. you can always hunt down Gerry Anderson's The Secret Service which features Father Stanley Unwin, the parish priest of a rural English village who also worked as a secret agent for BISHOP - a covert branch of British Intelligence that combats international criminal and terrorist threats.
It also featured the "Minimiser", a gadget that shrinks Unwin's assistant Matthew Harding to a fraction of his normal size for the purposes of conducting secret reconnaissance
'if there is a currency that can trade around the world, it's semi-anonymous, it's instant, it's not controlled by government or bank, what's the total value of that currency? The answer to that is, if it works, it's gotta be in the billions. It just has to be for all the reasons you might want to send money around the world.'
It's also going to be top of the list of every law enforcement agency across the globe. Governments tend not to like their citizens taking part in transactions that don't have a paper trail.
Logan's Run is such a panacea, really. Not only would it increase internet adoption, but imagine the other statistical benefits: It'd raise our percentage of college graduates, increase the average physical fitness of both men and women, improve our per-capita GDP, and even decrease cancer rates.
Damn you for taking my trolling post and converting it into a reasonable argument!
(Kirk Luoto).. "There were times when I thought maybe I should do something different," he says. But he quickly realized he wouldn't be happy in some of the higher-ranked jobs, especially the cubicle-based ones. "I don't like desks," he says.
There is a lot to be said about understanding what you like an don't like to do.
Well given your predeliction for wearing women's garments, it's no surprise that your career choice isn't faring well in the US. Perhaps you should move to a more enlightened country?
This isn't for Olympic staffers, just a data center company in London.
Nowhere in London will be immune from the buzz generated by the olympics, and being a part of it (even if it is a small part) will garner pride. And if all goes well, the people working there will have access to see all the olympic media 24/7. And if the data centre crashes and burns, they'll have the knowledge that the whole world is depending on them.
And while I have never worked on such a high profile job, 2 years ago I designed and coded the HMI that is used for humidity monitoring on the USS Missouri, now that it is finally a museum. I did all the work in an office. I didn't go to site in Hawaii (my colleague did - and he came back with stories that are worthy of the Daily WTF - fortunately nothing to do with our part!). But I still feel proud of the work I did for an important historical icon.
It's the preeminent world class sporting event that is only held every 4 years for which most of the entire world tunes in. And for which you'd be lucky to get a job at for only once in your lifetime. Wouldn't you expect people to go that little extra distance - If not for the money, but for the pride of saying you contributed?
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To be fair, the fact that time between plays is so long the game gets to be far more strategic than other forms of football. This is the more interesting part of football to me, at least -- the strategy behind play selection.
yeah I know its coaches playing chess on a green field. I've always said that US Football is more about playbook vs playbook than a real team vs team competition.
Hopefully this is a nail in the coffin for College Football.
And not High School football as well?
The solution is obvious, remove all padding.
You mean like they do in other parts of the world with Australian Rules Football or Rugby or Gaelic Football?
Different codes, but no padding and no separate teams for offensive and defensive, and the ball is in play for the entire match, not for a fraction of the time in American Football. I'd guess that the specialized American Footballers couldn't survive another code, yet there is a steady flow of Australian Footballers into America.
Why invent yet another new standard when there's a perfectly good one already in use, with lots of inventory in place?
FB IPO .. FB IPO .. FB IPO .. what other reason do you need??!?!?!
I don't think I ever met anyone who believed that Iraq was in retaliation for 9/11.
Let me introduce you to Mr Anonymous Coward and Mr SuperKendall who posted above - both arguing over the 100,000's of civilian deaths that were due to 9/11 retaliation. That has only occurred in Iraq and nowhere near that number has occurred in Afghanistan.
Many of those 10,000 supported the demise of the 3k, so I'm just fine with that.
The perpetrators were mainly Saudi, they trained in Afghanistan and the US public links all this with the war in Iraq - where a shitload of innocent people died, probably all of whom had nothing to do with 9/11. And even in Afghanistan a bucketload of innocent people died.
Iraq body count
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
But I can't seem to find a link for a war in Saudi Arabia, or the number of civilian deaths there.
A) I don't really think that anyone but the person who wrote the Slashdot headline actually thinks this thing and the Rasberrpy Pi belong in the same category.
RTFA. The comparison to Rasberrpy Pi was in the article.
Also in the article was the statement that it
targets digital signage and kiosks
which is not really the Pi-in-the-skies forte.
"These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate."
Headline matches the summary.
yes it matches .. sort of. The summary uses words like 'might' and 'could', but the headline uses 'can'. IMHO 'can' denotes something that is far more likely to occur than 'might' or 'could' - hence the headline is effectively editorializing (even if not explicitly done)
Most of the Catholic-church-secret-agent ones are pretty fun to watch...
Well if you want the Church of England version .. you can always hunt down Gerry Anderson's The Secret Service which features Father Stanley Unwin, the parish priest of a rural English village who also worked as a secret agent for BISHOP - a covert branch of British Intelligence that combats international criminal and terrorist threats.
It also featured the "Minimiser", a gadget that shrinks Unwin's assistant Matthew Harding to a fraction of his normal size for the purposes of conducting secret reconnaissance
What could be more exciting as that!
'if there is a currency that can trade around the world, it's semi-anonymous, it's instant, it's not controlled by government or bank, what's the total value of that currency? The answer to that is, if it works, it's gotta be in the billions. It just has to be for all the reasons you might want to send money around the world.'
It's also going to be top of the list of every law enforcement agency across the globe. Governments tend not to like their citizens taking part in transactions that don't have a paper trail.
Technically all they NEEDED was to hand over the encrypted message to the AU authorities
But what would the Australian authorities be doing with an Austrian server?
.AT has the mountains and .AU has the kangaroos?
When will people learn that
From the perspective of an expert user, {thing the user is expert with} is the superior tool.
No no no.
From the perspective of a normal user, the expert is the superior tool.
Gutsiest move this guy did, like walking into a hailstorm of bullets and hope his sacrifice will be for the greater good.
I saw that movie! Clint Eastwood did a great job!
The level of exposure doesn't matter. Your gender does
You just don't get it do you. Only men can be sex offenders, and then only if they are strangers to the children.
But Apple has fragrances .. which are so much more alluring than a smile flavour.
Logan's Run is such a panacea, really. Not only would it increase internet adoption, but imagine the other statistical benefits: It'd raise our percentage of college graduates, increase the average physical fitness of both men and women, improve our per-capita GDP, and even decrease cancer rates.
Damn you for taking my trolling post and converting it into a reasonable argument!
If you remove the single largest factor for non-adoption (age), the rates are generally pretty high
so you're suggesting Logan's Run as a solution to improving the rate of internet usage?
Who are you? some kinda liberal/commie/lefty who embraces Obamacare and is just itching for the death panels to get up and running?
You are forgetting that if you cut out the middlemen, then they don't get paid.
I wonder how many documents will mention Confessions Of An Economic Hit-man by John-Perkins?
(Kirk Luoto) .. "There were times when I thought maybe I should do something different," he says. But he quickly realized he wouldn't be happy in some of the higher-ranked jobs, especially the cubicle-based ones. "I don't like desks," he says.
There is a lot to be said about understanding what you like an don't like to do.
..and I'm OK.
Sorry.
Well given your predeliction for wearing women's garments, it's no surprise that your career choice isn't faring well in the US. Perhaps you should move to a more enlightened country?
Or, you know, rent them a room in a nearby hotel?
You really think that there will be rooms to rent during the Olympics? Yeah maybe .. but for really big $$$.
This isn't for Olympic staffers, just a data center company in London.
Nowhere in London will be immune from the buzz generated by the olympics, and being a part of it (even if it is a small part) will garner pride. And if all goes well, the people working there will have access to see all the olympic media 24/7. And if the data centre crashes and burns, they'll have the knowledge that the whole world is depending on them.
And while I have never worked on such a high profile job, 2 years ago I designed and coded the HMI that is used for humidity monitoring on the USS Missouri, now that it is finally a museum. I did all the work in an office. I didn't go to site in Hawaii (my colleague did - and he came back with stories that are worthy of the Daily WTF - fortunately nothing to do with our part!). But I still feel proud of the work I did for an important historical icon.
It's the preeminent world class sporting event that is only held every 4 years for which most of the entire world tunes in. And for which you'd be lucky to get a job at for only once in your lifetime. Wouldn't you expect people to go that little extra distance - If not for the money, but for the pride of saying you contributed?
That's what I clearly heard the admin of the threatpost's web server just exclaim.