Last I checked the Abrams' 120mm fired APFSDS Depleted Uranium as its main armament, not HEAT... But it's been about 8 years since I kept up with that stuff.
Maybe instead of bothering with OpenGL game developers should just donate a little time or money to Wine or Cedega?
That's funny, Wine doesn't seem to be on the Android market....
You're missing the point. PC gaming is irrelevant. As it is, even dedicated portable gaming consoles seem to be becoming irrelevant. What is relevant are millions of small form factor devices, all of which use OpenGL and none of which run Windows. That is where gaming is going.
Another way to look at it: He should never have been put in the position where he could have denied it.
You know his lying under oath had nothing to do with Republicans or politics, right? It was in a sexual harassment suit. He lied under oath to prevent a woman he previously mistreated from getting justice after the Supreme Court told him being the President of the United States does not make one immune from civil suits.
You should read the S&P report itself because it makes the point quite strongly. Links to that have already been posted here.
Actually I linked to the report myself in my first comment, if you had read it. And I quoted the relevant section that said they didn't care whether Congress raised revenues or cut spending.
Quoting again, quote "We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act." "
Read that quote in context, it's on page 4. It's not talking about why they downgraded the credit rating, it's talking about changes to their 'baseline' scenario. It's not slamming Congress for not raising revenues, it's simply saying they expected the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2012/2013, and now it seems they won't, so their predictions are now slightly different. This is not being explained in reference to the reasoning for the downgrade.
The reason the credit rating was downgraded is primarily because Congress waited until the absolute last minute to pass a half-measure simply to prevent default.
On top of that, the guy from S&P who the person I was responding to said he "saw him say it live!" never mentions revenue once, as far as I saw, in that transcript. Feel free to correct me on that.
Seriously, people cherry-picking quotes to support one side or the other in this argument is ridiculous. S&P was very upfront in the beginning:
Standard & PoorÃ(TM)s takes no position on the mix of spending and revenue measures that Congress and the Administration might conclude is appropriate for putting the U.S.Ã(TM)s finances on a sustainable footing.
How do you reconcile a cut and dry, black and white statement like that with people's attempted spinning of an out of context sentence from the middle of a paragraph unrelated to the reasons of the downgrade?
STOP TRYING TO BLAME ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER! They're BOTH going to destroy us at this rate!
Standard & Poorâ(TM)s takes no position on the mix of spending and revenue measures that Congress and the Administration might conclude is appropriate for putting the U.S.â(TM)s finances on a sustainable footing.
We have a spending problem. S&P wanted to see debt reduction, they wanted to see a bigger amount of savings, but they didn't care where the savings came from. If anything, they listed cuts to entitlement programs like medicare and social security as more important than anything else (because they quite frankly are).
Laying this entirely at the feet of the Republicans is just more blind partisanship. Both parties are worthless and ineffective. Arguing about which one is worse than the other isn't going to help us get out of this situation. Our entire system of government needs a massive shakeup at all levels, and it's going to happen one way or another: either at the ballot box in the short term, or in a complete collapse of the government in the long-term.
The temporary funding bill that was passed by the House (HR 2553) on 7//20 doesn't change any regs. It just funds the FAA and removes subsidies over $1k/ticket for airports within 90 miles of a hub. That line you've been fed about this being a fight over unions? It's a lie. Go look the bill up yourself on Thomas. I'd link to it, but Thomas links expire after 30 minutes. The Senate chose not to pass it to protect $3k+ ticket subsidies in Nevada.
Was it dick to include that in the bill? Probably. But if keeping the FAA working was that important, they would've held their nose and passed it anyway. The subsidies were more important. That's all there is to it.
I'm not defending the Tea Party here, just pointing out this particular instance has nothing to do with them, or with what you've been told.
Well everyone at my company does during the furlough, but we're contractors. There was some discussion about whether the Fed employees qualify, but none of them are around for me to ask.:)
The e-mail we got from FAA headquarters had links to info on how to file for unemployment, so I think they do, but I can't give you any proof offhand.
Spoken as someone who doesn't use a single Microsoft product to feed my family, C# is better than Java. It just is. ESPECIALLY if you're doing web/enterprise work. Them's the breaks. Java was bad when Sun was running the show, and they were just incompetent. Oracle is incompetent AND evil, and in charge of a fundamentally flawed language. Not a winning combinarion.
Oh I agree. The Senate should have funded the FAA, no question. But I just wanted to make sure no one thought that thousands of FAA workers were being forced to work without pay.
No, instead, they're collecting unemployment checks... So they get paid less money at a greater cost to the taxpayer for no value being created. WTG Congress.
Hell, we don't even call them 'drones' in the aviation industry. 'Drones' are targets for military tests. The current term in favor is 'UAS', or 'Unmanned Aircraft System', but there was some talk of switching to 'Remote Piloted Vehicle' or 'Remote Piloted System' or some such...
Anyway, this doesn't really meet the standard for what the FAA is usually concerned about vis a vis UASes. It's an RC helicopter.
Then again, the RQ-11 is even smaller and it's considered a 'UAS', technically... But I don't think anyone's really concerned about little things like that.
And you might feel differently if you were ever asked to work without a paycheck for a month or more, as the employees of the FAA are doing.
Just to be clear, only 40 FAA employees have been asked to work without pay. The rest (who weren't involved in critical safety ops) weren't even given the option and were sent home. Those 40 will be paid once this is all worked out, and they will not under any circumstances walk off the job because they fought tooth and nail to get that position. We've lost a few of our best pilots in the past because they immediately jumped at the chance to work as a safety inspector, and if any of these guys walked off the job there is a line a mile long of people waiting to take their place and work for free on the hope they'd get repaid when things go back to normal.
Yes, I am serious, this is how hard people actually fight for those particular jobs.
I for one would love to see a solution to a racism problem that doesn't involve race. If you come up with a solution, let me know, I'll be here (seriously).
Sadly LUS rolled out fiber just a few months after I left Lafayette. And the substation they picked for initial rollout was where my apartment had been. Ah well. So jealous now that I have to deal w/ Comcast up here... All I hear is good things from my friends/family that are using LUSFiber back home.
Interesting that you say that it stays up in a power outage, as that was BellSouth and Cox's talking point about why the LUS system would be bad (Our systems run on copper, so they carry their own power, and stay up in a power outage!).
but to me the pure syntactic overhead of dealing with full repo URLs makes it a much bigger pain than it should be.
Try using carat (^) in a recent SVN client. If you're in a working directory, it's a stand-in for the base repository URL. so svn+ssh://foo.bar.biz/svn/widget/trunk could be written as: ^/trunk
They're getting all Star Trek series. They have almost all of Bablylon 5. They have every episode of every Stargate series. They have Lost. They have every episode of Futurama through Season 5. They have all but the current season of Doctor Who (2005 series).
Actually, funnily enough, Abraham Lincoln is the reason those states that once formed the Confederacy have been strictly DEMOCRAT states for most of the previous century.
Hell, Vitter was the first Republican senator elected in my home state since the civil war...
But don't let facts get in the way of your cognitive dissonance.
Foursquare is worthless spam I could do without. Unfortunately the only option on Buzz is to completely block all Twitter posts from a user, which would essentially mean unfollowing three of my friends. It's an option I'm seriously considering, however.
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Last I checked the Abrams' 120mm fired APFSDS Depleted Uranium as its main armament, not HEAT... But it's been about 8 years since I kept up with that stuff.
That's funny, Wine doesn't seem to be on the Android market....
You're missing the point. PC gaming is irrelevant. As it is, even dedicated portable gaming consoles seem to be becoming irrelevant. What is relevant are millions of small form factor devices, all of which use OpenGL and none of which run Windows. That is where gaming is going.
You know his lying under oath had nothing to do with Republicans or politics, right? It was in a sexual harassment suit. He lied under oath to prevent a woman he previously mistreated from getting justice after the Supreme Court told him being the President of the United States does not make one immune from civil suits.
Actually I linked to the report myself in my first comment, if you had read it. And I quoted the relevant section that said they didn't care whether Congress raised revenues or cut spending.
Read that quote in context, it's on page 4. It's not talking about why they downgraded the credit rating, it's talking about changes to their 'baseline' scenario. It's not slamming Congress for not raising revenues, it's simply saying they expected the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2012/2013, and now it seems they won't, so their predictions are now slightly different. This is not being explained in reference to the reasoning for the downgrade.
The reason the credit rating was downgraded is primarily because Congress waited until the absolute last minute to pass a half-measure simply to prevent default.
On top of that, the guy from S&P who the person I was responding to said he "saw him say it live!" never mentions revenue once, as far as I saw, in that transcript. Feel free to correct me on that.
Seriously, people cherry-picking quotes to support one side or the other in this argument is ridiculous. S&P was very upfront in the beginning:
How do you reconcile a cut and dry, black and white statement like that with people's attempted spinning of an out of context sentence from the middle of a paragraph unrelated to the reasons of the downgrade?
STOP TRYING TO BLAME ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER! They're BOTH going to destroy us at this rate!
Got a link to the transcript?
That's not what they said at all:
We have a spending problem. S&P wanted to see debt reduction, they wanted to see a bigger amount of savings, but they didn't care where the savings came from. If anything, they listed cuts to entitlement programs like medicare and social security as more important than anything else (because they quite frankly are).
Laying this entirely at the feet of the Republicans is just more blind partisanship. Both parties are worthless and ineffective. Arguing about which one is worse than the other isn't going to help us get out of this situation. Our entire system of government needs a massive shakeup at all levels, and it's going to happen one way or another: either at the ballot box in the short term, or in a complete collapse of the government in the long-term.
Everyone hates everyone else's representative, their representative isn't the problem.
Hi. My company is one of the groups furloughed.
The temporary funding bill that was passed by the House (HR 2553) on 7//20 doesn't change any regs. It just funds the FAA and removes subsidies over $1k/ticket for airports within 90 miles of a hub. That line you've been fed about this being a fight over unions? It's a lie. Go look the bill up yourself on Thomas. I'd link to it, but Thomas links expire after 30 minutes. The Senate chose not to pass it to protect $3k+ ticket subsidies in Nevada.
Was it dick to include that in the bill? Probably. But if keeping the FAA working was that important, they would've held their nose and passed it anyway. The subsidies were more important. That's all there is to it.
I'm not defending the Tea Party here, just pointing out this particular instance has nothing to do with them, or with what you've been told.
Well everyone at my company does during the furlough, but we're contractors. There was some discussion about whether the Fed employees qualify, but none of them are around for me to ask. :)
The e-mail we got from FAA headquarters had links to info on how to file for unemployment, so I think they do, but I can't give you any proof offhand.
Hi.
Spoken as someone who doesn't use a single Microsoft product to feed my family, C# is better than Java. It just is. ESPECIALLY if you're doing web/enterprise work. Them's the breaks. Java was bad when Sun was running the show, and they were just incompetent. Oracle is incompetent AND evil, and in charge of a fundamentally flawed language. Not a winning combinarion.
Oh I agree. The Senate should have funded the FAA, no question. But I just wanted to make sure no one thought that thousands of FAA workers were being forced to work without pay.
No, instead, they're collecting unemployment checks... So they get paid less money at a greater cost to the taxpayer for no value being created. WTG Congress.
You can't "solve" someone's preference.
Hell, we don't even call them 'drones' in the aviation industry. 'Drones' are targets for military tests. The current term in favor is 'UAS', or 'Unmanned Aircraft System', but there was some talk of switching to 'Remote Piloted Vehicle' or 'Remote Piloted System' or some such...
Anyway, this doesn't really meet the standard for what the FAA is usually concerned about vis a vis UASes. It's an RC helicopter.
Then again, the RQ-11 is even smaller and it's considered a 'UAS', technically... But I don't think anyone's really concerned about little things like that.
Just to be clear, only 40 FAA employees have been asked to work without pay. The rest (who weren't involved in critical safety ops) weren't even given the option and were sent home. Those 40 will be paid once this is all worked out, and they will not under any circumstances walk off the job because they fought tooth and nail to get that position. We've lost a few of our best pilots in the past because they immediately jumped at the chance to work as a safety inspector, and if any of these guys walked off the job there is a line a mile long of people waiting to take their place and work for free on the hope they'd get repaid when things go back to normal.
Yes, I am serious, this is how hard people actually fight for those particular jobs.
Thanks for mentioning us contractors, most of the news stories don't seem to care much about us...
I've got one. Don't consider race.
Sadly LUS rolled out fiber just a few months after I left Lafayette. And the substation they picked for initial rollout was where my apartment had been. Ah well. So jealous now that I have to deal w/ Comcast up here... All I hear is good things from my friends/family that are using LUSFiber back home.
Interesting that you say that it stays up in a power outage, as that was BellSouth and Cox's talking point about why the LUS system would be bad (Our systems run on copper, so they carry their own power, and stay up in a power outage!).
You think Democrats aren't in the pockets of banks? Seriously?
Try using carat (^) in a recent SVN client. If you're in a working directory, it's a stand-in for the base repository URL. so svn+ssh://foo.bar.biz/svn/widget/trunk could be written as: ^/trunk
Dude, you live in Canada. You get the good beer and the bad NetFlix. That's the deal.
They're getting all Star Trek series. They have almost all of Bablylon 5. They have every episode of every Stargate series. They have Lost. They have every episode of Futurama through Season 5. They have all but the current season of Doctor Who (2005 series).
WTF NetFlix have you been looking at?
Nope. The punk decided his life was worth less than a physical object when he chose to break into my house.
Actually, funnily enough, Abraham Lincoln is the reason those states that once formed the Confederacy have been strictly DEMOCRAT states for most of the previous century.
Hell, Vitter was the first Republican senator elected in my home state since the civil war...
But don't let facts get in the way of your cognitive dissonance.
What is Facebook?
Foursquare is worthless spam I could do without. Unfortunately the only option on Buzz is to completely block all Twitter posts from a user, which would essentially mean unfollowing three of my friends. It's an option I'm seriously considering, however.
Sony has gone a bit beyond "doesn't give you good customer service".