Whenever I called for technical support they would always say, "You know your vote doesn't count anyway."
The above comment was intended for amusement purposes only and in no way reflects true events.
Amusement? Nothing amuses me more than truth, as in "you couldn't make up this stuff."
Consider when Diebold CEO, Walden O'Dell wrote in a fund raising letter that he was committed "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President." I don't bloody understand how much more the company's image could be tarnished.
So it's time for Microsoft to prop up their revenue stream. This is no surprise. Several flavours, which means you can decide how much tax you want to pay, based upon your needs. The curve, however continues to flatten and you'll find there are still a lot of Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000 and Win XP users who won't budge until they have to. (We just retired a Win 95 machine at work) Microsoft will continue to pull support for many of these legacy users, but many are beyond caring.
I suppose the timing of Vista has something to do with a Superbowl media blitz, more than the code being ready. Though I'll likely switch to a Mac before I go to Vista, It would be interesting to look it over and see if security is any closer to that we enjoyed on Mainframes 20 years ago. Probably only a little bit more. Geez, it's like these people never seem to get it and Windows continues to be the technology equivelent of the Tar Baby. Meanwhile, they've got billions in reserve, which at least some of should have gone into better development.
Travelling that fast....how much wind effect would there actually be?
Well, wind is only one factor. Moisture density (clouds) could come into play as well. You're talking 200 miles, where only a very slight variation on forces acting on a small mass, (3.2Kg) could be enough to miss by a city block. At least the Tomahawk has guidance systems. Hitting the chinese embassy in Beograd was an intelligence failure, not guidance.
I'd be very careful accounting for winds over a distance of 200 miles, particularly where chinese embassies are located. Must be a hell of a job to be spotter for this kind of weapon.
What happens to the projectiles in these things? Such a gauss density I would assume, beyond simply
the accelleration of the projectile has to be considerable.
The coin shrinker is only 1600-2500 J
Assuming 2500 J in a space of 3 mm does to an object the size of a quarter, 8 mega Joules would have an equivilent magnetic density spread over a gun 96 metres in length. Or me math is fscked...
Is there more to NASA's side of the story or is this a further sign of their incompetence?
The article paints a picture where anyone would be an idiot to skip research into this type of engine and then says NASA was doing so because of "risk". I doubt that's the whole side of the story but if even a smidgin of it's true that's yet another major flaw exhibited by NASA. Why are we trying to save the shuttle again?
Maybe NASA subscribes to the theory "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", as in what they have works and has worked for some time. Changing formula may require complete change in vehicle design. Not something to take lightly.
Joyce Park, CTO of invitation site Renkoo.com, has written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other individual efforts.
There are, but they don't look much different from the men, if you know what i mean.
And here I was thinking it was simply because there aren't as many women nerdy enough to get excited by the fact there are genders to connectors, which means.. gulp.. female connectors!(!!!)
[Is it possible] That most people won't spend over $400 on a phone because there aren't any phones worth spending that much on? The high end market may be small... but there's no reasoning given for not spending so much... maybe it's just because nothing (until now, IMO) has been worth the extra $$?
I didn' think so, back when they rolled out the Motorola RAZR, with it's sky-high initial asking price. Now I go to the pub and there's about 5 people there with them. The RAZR is becoming ubiquitous and there are no shortage or people with gripes about them.
I think the worries on the iPhone will prove about as damning as those of the RAZR. Some people carry around their own Reality Distortion Fields, so I take the doubters with a granule of NaCl.
Honestly. You have some points, but one of the greatest in COBOL's favour is it's pervasivness.
A few years ago I was working at a job where we were doing everything in a 4th Generation Language. We got outsourced (thanks to a CIO who just popped in for a couple years to pad his resumee) to a company which had an integrated product written entirely in COBOL. (Of course they ran their code on an HP platform, which by now has been retired and HP support will soon, also end. COBOL survives because people still develop and keep old business apps written in it. Some work, by code, never changes.
The other major advantage of COBOL is it's library for handling business computation and I/O. That stuff exists in other languanges, but as an example with Microsoft's Visual Studio, it's all done differently (and somewhat stupidly re-defining formatting for the nth time.)
The IP cartels have forgotten how business works: sell people products that they want at a reasonable price, and people will purchase your product.
Video game consoles are about as restrictive as you can get and they still like hotcakes.
Microsoft simply flubbed by entering a fairly open market with a restrictive product. They never have really got it -- They enjoy a near monopoly and unheard of profitability due to having a product corporate America bought into: Windows. They didn't learn much on their way to success, other than copying look and feel from the Mac.
Some tell you they are the same plastic as soda bottles. Though the one I just got a new compact flash memory card in didn't bother to say. I just put it all out with the recycleables and trust those people to know what to do with it.
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Whenever I called for technical support they would always say, "You know your vote doesn't count anyway."
The above comment was intended for amusement purposes only and in no way reflects true events.
Amusement? Nothing amuses me more than truth, as in "you couldn't make up this stuff."
Consider when Diebold CEO, Walden O'Dell wrote in a fund raising letter that he was committed "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President." I don't bloody understand how much more the company's image could be tarnished.
Let's call it Wal-Lix
This is a job for Agatha Hetrodyne
So it's time for Microsoft to prop up their revenue stream. This is no surprise. Several flavours, which means you can decide how much tax you want to pay, based upon your needs. The curve, however continues to flatten and you'll find there are still a lot of Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000 and Win XP users who won't budge until they have to. (We just retired a Win 95 machine at work) Microsoft will continue to pull support for many of these legacy users, but many are beyond caring.
I suppose the timing of Vista has something to do with a Superbowl media blitz, more than the code being ready. Though I'll likely switch to a Mac before I go to Vista, It would be interesting to look it over and see if security is any closer to that we enjoyed on Mainframes 20 years ago. Probably only a little bit more. Geez, it's like these people never seem to get it and Windows continues to be the technology equivelent of the Tar Baby. Meanwhile, they've got billions in reserve, which at least some of should have gone into better development.
Travelling that fast....how much wind effect would there actually be?
Well, wind is only one factor. Moisture density (clouds) could come into play as well. You're talking 200 miles, where only a very slight variation on forces acting on a small mass, (3.2Kg) could be enough to miss by a city block. At least the Tomahawk has guidance systems. Hitting the chinese embassy in Beograd was an intelligence failure, not guidance.
if you can only fire 10 per day.
I'd be very careful accounting for winds over a distance of 200 miles, particularly where chinese embassies are located. Must be a hell of a job to be spotter for this kind of weapon.
What happens to the projectiles in these things? Such a gauss density I would assume, beyond simply the accelleration of the projectile has to be considerable. The coin shrinker is only 1600-2500 J
Assuming 2500 J in a space of 3 mm does to an object the size of a quarter, 8 mega Joules would have an equivilent magnetic density spread over a gun 96 metres in length. Or me math is fscked...
I actually have a crapload of methane to donate, whom do I contact?
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Is there more to NASA's side of the story or is this a further sign of their incompetence? The article paints a picture where anyone would be an idiot to skip research into this type of engine and then says NASA was doing so because of "risk". I doubt that's the whole side of the story but if even a smidgin of it's true that's yet another major flaw exhibited by NASA. Why are we trying to save the shuttle again?
Maybe NASA subscribes to the theory "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", as in what they have works and has worked for some time. Changing formula may require complete change in vehicle design. Not something to take lightly.And here I was thinking it was simply because there aren't as many women nerdy enough to get excited by the fact there are genders to connectors, which means .. gulp .. female connectors!(!!!)
oh gosh, oh golly, gee whillikers!
[Is it possible] That most people won't spend over $400 on a phone because there aren't any phones worth spending that much on? The high end market may be small... but there's no reasoning given for not spending so much... maybe it's just because nothing (until now, IMO) has been worth the extra $$?
I didn' think so, back when they rolled out the Motorola RAZR, with it's sky-high initial asking price. Now I go to the pub and there's about 5 people there with them. The RAZR is becoming ubiquitous and there are no shortage or people with gripes about them.
I think the worries on the iPhone will prove about as damning as those of the RAZR. Some people carry around their own Reality Distortion Fields, so I take the doubters with a granule of NaCl.
iPod Phone, Phone iPod, Apple Phone, Granny Smith, Red Delicious...
iNatterBox, iPhwn, iThingie, iTem, iTool, iMate, iDoodad...
I'm puzzeled, with 2.5 years lead-time, they didn't research this. Seems simply applying for a trademark would have revealed someone already had it.
i see a trend here, eh.
screaming about how the birds are spying on him makes a bit more sense now.....
He always did. You just started listening
In Canada.. coins track YOU!
no no no no!
In The Great White North the money trail follows YOU!
It's OK, as long as they have the patch of the patch of the bug formerly known as Prince.
That gives you some time to save up for it, rather than put it on your iCreditCard
Honestly. You have some points, but one of the greatest in COBOL's favour is it's pervasivness.
A few years ago I was working at a job where we were doing everything in a 4th Generation Language. We got outsourced (thanks to a CIO who just popped in for a couple years to pad his resumee) to a company which had an integrated product written entirely in COBOL. (Of course they ran their code on an HP platform, which by now has been retired and HP support will soon, also end. COBOL survives because people still develop and keep old business apps written in it. Some work, by code, never changes.
The other major advantage of COBOL is it's library for handling business computation and I/O. That stuff exists in other languanges, but as an example with Microsoft's Visual Studio, it's all done differently (and somewhat stupidly re-defining formatting for the nth time.)
The problem I had with COBOL, PL/1, Pascal and Modula 2 were they were wordy.
A lot of typing to perform simple operations. This is why I like C, minimal typing for great power.
More or less works for Java and later languages, too.
Yeah, like, have a singer express her honest opinion of the leader of the good ol' free world.
Sometimes it seems people welcome the mob to control their thoughts and lives...
The IP cartels have forgotten how business works: sell people products that they want at a reasonable price, and people will purchase your product.
Video game consoles are about as restrictive as you can get and they still like hotcakes.
Microsoft simply flubbed by entering a fairly open market with a restrictive product. They never have really got it -- They enjoy a near monopoly and unheard of profitability due to having a product corporate America bought into: Windows. They didn't learn much on their way to success, other than copying look and feel from the Mac.
I didn't really expect to find Urban Assault Vehicles in civilian airspace anyway.
What part of Department of Homeland Security and Post 9/11 was confusing to you?
IIRC, the Prez signed some bill into law allowing him to declare martial law in states.
No, more like this
Some tell you they are the same plastic as soda bottles. Though the one I just got a new compact flash memory card in didn't bother to say. I just put it all out with the recycleables and trust those people to know what to do with it.