equatorial circumference. Move very near to the pole and you can manage to stay in sunlight (unfortunately oblique, so you might not get enough energy) permanently.
I do indeed. My already existing repository system does happen to build the software automatically, tests if it meets specification and alerts the committing developer and his team leader if the committed code does not meet spec, It even has the nifty ability to produce line graphs of performance on critical tests so that you can watch performance go up and down over time for cases where performance degradation was not below the critical limit.
The only step missing is stomping all over the developers work, he would have to revert or correct the changes manually (taking all 3 to 5 mouse clicks or a single command line operation. And that itself could actually be automated in the script if I really wanted to, but its a bad idea, so I don't.
Its called CVS/SVN, cruise control, ANT and unit tests (junit, mbunit, etc) and a handful of reporting libraries.
By "wiped off the map" I mean, you place 100% of the surface area within the total destruction blast radius or at least multiple overlapping severe damage areas.
If you used every nuclear weapon that has ever existed (including the ones that have already been detonated or disassembled) at one time, they would destroy about 1% of its surface and effect about 2% of its surface. And that includes a significant area where most people residing there will survive the immediate and short term effects. Little hint here, China is larger than 2% of the worlds surface.
Even the larger operational nukes are estimated to have only a 50% to 75% kill rate for a large city. China is a very large country with vast rural areas and areas covered in small communities. A hundred nukes would set them back by about 40 years of infrastructure and somewhere in the range of 5% to 20% of their population at most. Would it suck for china? Absolutely. Would the government collapse? Probably. Would it be wiped off the map? No, not even if you used every nuke that ever existed. Would you be able to cause 90% casualties in a first strike? No, but you might get close with many more nukes and a global failure to respond with aid for a year or two.
I never said they couldn't devastate cities, just that the fear of nuclear winter, or the idea that "Even with 100 we could completely wipe China off the Earth" is utterly false for a largely rural nation like china. You could barely wipe Delaware off the map with a hundred such bombs.
You are dramatically overestimating the power of nuclear weapons.
Mt St Helens blew with 24 megatons of power. That is close to 2000 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb or about 1.8 times more powerful than the biggest bomb the US ever detonated.
Krakatoa blew with close to 200 megatons of power. That is 4 times more than the largest nuke ever blown and about 13000 times more than Hiroshima.
With 100 large nuclear weapons we can devastate 100 major cities or utterly destroy a couple dozen major cities.
Congress ties strings to dollars to coerce states to cede their rights and powers to the federal government. They hand out money to corporations without strings because congress and the senate are on the take for campaign contributions, vacations and hookers.
Is a fork, knife and plate a derivative work of a pork chop? No. But it extends the default interface (holding with your hand and gnawing on it) for convenience of the user.
Welcome to the new corporate feudal system where the top 2% of the people own half the resources and the bottom half of the people own 1% of the resources (resources includes the law in this case). Do not offend the the corporate liege lords, for they have unlimited legal irresponsibility and a virtually unlimited supply of lawyers and judges in their pocket.
Besides that java running with optimized options under hotspot can beat c++ in creating/destroying objects vs c++'s alloc/malloc by up to 4 times. In some cases it can push java to execute faster than c++ (well crafted c with structs would still beat them both though).
"Tragic mistake"? possibly at first, It may be possible that the chopper pilot was stupid enough to misidentify those cameras as weapons.
However, there was absolutely no question to any reasonable person that they fabricated a story in order to open fire on the people from the van that were trying to recover a wounded man. They were not retrieving weapons and dead bodies, they only attempted to pick up the wounded man. This severely limits the possibility that the earlier event was merely a mistake.
"criminal coverup"? yes.
"nothing to see here"? WTF. A soldier fabricating a story in order to receive permission to fire apon unarmed civilians and the following criminal cover-up is most definitely something to see. The pilot and everyone involved in the cover up need to be tried for war crimes.
"move along"? No. I am a patriotic American, and sometimes that means taking a stand and speaking out against murder and cover-ups like this even if, and especially if, they are perpetrated by the government.
I just watched the video. I didn't see an RPG in that video and I didn't see any AK's. All I saw was a lot of unarmed men and one guy holding a camera.
Also the pilot LIED about what the people from the van were doing. They were not collecting dead bodies and weapons. They were taking the wounded guy who was crawling in the street.
The bar has been raised by the cinema experience of Giant Squid vs Giant Shark. The sequel to Snakes on a Plane will require a 300+ meter long rattle snake leaping from the ground to destroy a 747 at cruising altitude.
Retrorockets are not necessarily for de-orbiting. They simply fire forwards, slowing to vehicle. There are conventional aircraft and even land vehicles with retro rockets.
It does not mean that at all. If the percentage of smokers is small and the percentage of non smokers large, the average will still balance out at ~100. I know its a dead horse and I am going to beat it anyway., This is Israel, military service is compulsory, everyone male and female must serve their tour of duty.
I noticed quite a few of those as well. Many items on that list are false and completely unsubstantiated. Java is very good, it is still my preferred language, but c#.NET is also fairly good.
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equatorial circumference. Move very near to the pole and you can manage to stay in sunlight (unfortunately oblique, so you might not get enough energy) permanently.
I do indeed. My already existing repository system does happen to build the software automatically, tests if it meets specification and alerts the committing developer and his team leader if the committed code does not meet spec, It even has the nifty ability to produce line graphs of performance on critical tests so that you can watch performance go up and down over time for cases where performance degradation was not below the critical limit.
The only step missing is stomping all over the developers work, he would have to revert or correct the changes manually (taking all 3 to 5 mouse clicks or a single command line operation. And that itself could actually be automated in the script if I really wanted to, but its a bad idea, so I don't.
Its called CVS/SVN, cruise control, ANT and unit tests (junit, mbunit, etc) and a handful of reporting libraries.
By "wiped off the map" I mean, you place 100% of the surface area within the total destruction blast radius or at least multiple overlapping severe damage areas.
If you used every nuclear weapon that has ever existed (including the ones that have already been detonated or disassembled) at one time, they would destroy about 1% of its surface and effect about 2% of its surface. And that includes a significant area where most people residing there will survive the immediate and short term effects. Little hint here, China is larger than 2% of the worlds surface.
Even the larger operational nukes are estimated to have only a 50% to 75% kill rate for a large city. China is a very large country with vast rural areas and areas covered in small communities. A hundred nukes would set them back by about 40 years of infrastructure and somewhere in the range of 5% to 20% of their population at most. Would it suck for china? Absolutely. Would the government collapse? Probably. Would it be wiped off the map? No, not even if you used every nuke that ever existed. Would you be able to cause 90% casualties in a first strike? No, but you might get close with many more nukes and a global failure to respond with aid for a year or two.
I never said they couldn't devastate cities, just that the fear of nuclear winter, or the idea that "Even with 100 we could completely wipe China off the Earth" is utterly false for a largely rural nation like china. You could barely wipe Delaware off the map with a hundred such bombs.
You are dramatically overestimating the power of nuclear weapons.
Mt St Helens blew with 24 megatons of power. That is close to 2000 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb or about 1.8 times more powerful than the biggest bomb the US ever detonated.
Krakatoa blew with close to 200 megatons of power. That is 4 times more than the largest nuke ever blown and about 13000 times more than Hiroshima.
With 100 large nuclear weapons we can devastate 100 major cities or utterly destroy a couple dozen major cities.
Congress ties strings to dollars to coerce states to cede their rights and powers to the federal government. They hand out money to corporations without strings because congress and the senate are on the take for campaign contributions, vacations and hookers.
Is a fork, knife and plate a derivative work of a pork chop? No. But it extends the default interface (holding with your hand and gnawing on it) for convenience of the user.
Welcome to the new corporate feudal system where the top 2% of the people own half the resources and the bottom half of the people own 1% of the resources (resources includes the law in this case). Do not offend the the corporate liege lords, for they have unlimited legal irresponsibility and a virtually unlimited supply of lawyers and judges in their pocket.
When have you ever had to agree to a TOS to view a cached page from google?
No it can not.
I would assume you are running hotspot with the server parameter? Anything else you do to bump java performance?
Besides that java running with optimized options under hotspot can beat c++ in creating/destroying objects vs c++'s alloc/malloc by up to 4 times. In some cases it can push java to execute faster than c++ (well crafted c with structs would still beat them both though).
How is a trial not part of due process?
I agree with you.
One of the most patriotic things an American can do is to stand up and speak out against the failings of his/her own government.
Where would we be now if our civil rights movements just sat down, shut up and let the tyranny of the state prevail?
"Tragic mistake"? possibly at first, It may be possible that the chopper pilot was stupid enough to misidentify those cameras as weapons.
However, there was absolutely no question to any reasonable person that they fabricated a story in order to open fire on the people from the van that were trying to recover a wounded man. They were not retrieving weapons and dead bodies, they only attempted to pick up the wounded man. This severely limits the possibility that the earlier event was merely a mistake.
"criminal coverup"? yes.
"nothing to see here"? WTF. A soldier fabricating a story in order to receive permission to fire apon unarmed civilians and the following criminal cover-up is most definitely something to see. The pilot and everyone involved in the cover up need to be tried for war crimes.
"move along"? No. I am a patriotic American, and sometimes that means taking a stand and speaking out against murder and cover-ups like this even if, and especially if, they are perpetrated by the government.
I saw a van happening apon a scene of destruction and attempting to bring a wounded man crawling in the street into their vehicle.
If it was my van I would have done the same, to bring him to a hospital.
The pilots claimed they were collecting dead bodies and weapons, no such thing occurred on the video.
The pilot clearly and unquestionably misrepresented the scene to his superior officer.
I just watched the video. I didn't see an RPG in that video and I didn't see any AK's. All I saw was a lot of unarmed men and one guy holding a camera.
Also the pilot LIED about what the people from the van were doing. They were not collecting dead bodies and weapons. They were taking the wounded guy who was crawling in the street.
Sure you can, just like this guy...
http://terminalgamer.com/2010/01/04/fan-waits-9-years-for-his-duke-nukem-forever-pre-order/
The bar has been raised by the cinema experience of Giant Squid vs Giant Shark. The sequel to Snakes on a Plane will require a 300+ meter long rattle snake leaping from the ground to destroy a 747 at cruising altitude.
how so? how exactly are they violating apples copyrights? I don't see anything they are doing that would even require a fair use defense.
We saw it last week.
Retrorockets are not necessarily for de-orbiting. They simply fire forwards, slowing to vehicle. There are conventional aircraft and even land vehicles with retro rockets.
It does not mean that at all. If the percentage of smokers is small and the percentage of non smokers large, the average will still balance out at ~100. I know its a dead horse and I am going to beat it anyway., This is Israel, military service is compulsory, everyone male and female must serve their tour of duty.
Not all of use are proctologists you know.
I noticed quite a few of those as well. Many items on that list are false and completely unsubstantiated. Java is very good, it is still my preferred language, but c# .NET is also fairly good.