Yep, I just installed Kazaa right over my Morpheus and all the files kept downloading like the should. Of course now I have to root out all the spyware, grumble grumble.
Re:Strange the Canadian Army had both those meals
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Haha, if you got your chiefs you'd know that although they would never admit to it the instructors go through the box first and make sure they get what they want. I remember teaching armoured crewmen QL3 and sitting in the back of a Bison with 2 boxes of the nicest strawberry mousse cake you've ever seen. We gave the candidates one piece each with their supper and they thought we were god when we "rewarded" them with an extra piece around midnight, meanwhile we had each had at least 5 pieces to ourselves. Were we mean? The troops never thought so!
Strange the Canadian Army had both those meals
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The breakfast versions of the Canadian Forces IMP (Individual Meal Pack) has contained Macaroni and cheese since at least the 1980s, and although it is no longer available now they also served a mean "ham & egg omlette". For anyone who has seen this notorious "omlette" it was like a compressed rubber sponge in a foil packet with ham floating at the bottom. Some people despised it, I thought it was rather good. I also know that the shelf life of these meals was 3 years. Maybe the cold up here helps them keep longer.
If you want to get a good idea of what the Canadian meals are like, check out the bottom of this page. MREs and the number each soldier gets a day vary greatly from country to country. No shitting but the French get pate de fois gras and a little wine in their rations, although they only get one box of rations for the whole day.
Canucks get 3 packs a day, each worth between 2500 and 3000 calories (soldiering takes a lot of energy), similar to the Americans they are rather formulaic in there content but much more substantial: the first foil pouch contains a main course (chili con carne, chicken breast, even cabbage rolls to please the Albertans), the dessert pouch (sliced peaches, pinapple spears, or the nasty cherry cake) follows, but the best part shall always remain the "goodie pack". Not only will it include the strangest brick of bread you've ever seen, it is also guaranteed to contain various condiments, juice crystals, soup, coffee, tea sugar and whitener, lifesavers (oh the irony), an after dinner mint (yes, really), a toothpick and either a candy bar or cookies. You can also expect to find matches, an industrial strength napkin, a long neck spoon (so your fingers don't get dirty) and best of all, a moist towlet (field shower is the other term that comes to mind). Much more substantial than the Americans but still lacking both the infamous bottle of tobasco sauce and the self heating pouch.
IMPs also include a survey as to how you liked your meal, a great bit of fun to fill out when your bored in the field. I can proudly say that because of my input they added mini-Ritz crackers and mini-Oreo cookies to the array of snacks that come with any ration pack. Whenever a Canadian soldier stuck in the mud or snow of the ubiquitous "field" looks into his/her ration pack and smiles to see they got mini-ritz cheese sandwiches rather than the instant (and useless) chocolate pudding that I helped contribute to that smile.
You're absolutely right. When I thought about it more I realized that even after replacing the entire upper-receiver there would still be problems. Sorry for the FUD on the M16, although I still stand by the rest of my info.
To the best of my knowledge that's not true. And although I can't back it up with fact (and that link reference hardly points to fact) let me point out a few things to support my argument.
The.50 is designed for "soft" targets such as trucks, jeeps, APCs, LAVs, bunkers, bivouacs, buildings etc... but is also designed to be used against the people that occupy them. I can assure you that those trained on the.50cal machine gun (at least as far as NATO countries are concerned) are also told that it is to be used against groups of infantry.
This having been said, as a rule of thumb the person aiming the.50cal won't use it against individuals for the same reason that you don't aim the APFSDS round of a tank against people: waste of valuable resources.
Might I also remind you that the caliber of choice for sniper rifles world-wide is the.50 caliber. A seldomly discussed fact is that snipers don't always go after people, but quite often are used to destroy equipment such as radar, generators or vehicles, the.50 cal does a great job of slicing through an engine block, but it also kills a person in a single shot, hence it's use. Range is another reason why.
Now, speaking from my years of experience in the Canadian Armoured Corps, I can assure you that soldiers are trained to use.50 cal against infantry when required to do so, but usualy that's the job of medium machine guns (at least in NATO the.50inch is Heavy machine gun caliber, 7.62mm is medium machine caliber and 5.56mm is light machine gun/rifle caliber (yeah, the M16 in vietnam was 7.62mm, but all the barrels have been replaced with 5.56mm for years now)).
I hope this clears things up a bit. Oh, and about those comments concerning the "wobbling" of the M16 round, that's not accurate either. The M16 (and all the variants that I'm aware of) have a rifled barrel, meaning that a high degree of spin (clockwise, if you're curious) is applied to the round as progresses through the barrel. This rifling effect causes the trajectory of the round to be less succeptible to wind and small branches, it also eliminates any wobble. On the other hand, as soon as the round hits something reasonably solid, such as a human bone, it will start to "tumble", causing further damange. The whole wobble argument was about fragmentation of rounds, which the metal jacket eliminates.
One last piece of information, at lot of tanks out there have a special round designed for them that looks like a really big shotgun round, which is used against infantry at close range (it is also often used to remove infantry that are mounting a neighbouring tank). It's range is under a couple hundred meters, but I've seen it cut up 50 wooden targets in a single shot. Now that's scary! Feel free to bring up any questions you have to that above info.
It is going to be a very important technology in the future, whether you like it or not.
Wether we like it or not it still gets rammed down our sensory input devices until it starts leaking out of our sensory output devices. Or at least, that's what people like you would have us complacently expect.
Let me give you the following important reasons why we should all make a concerted effort to have CLR run into the ground:
It creates a barrier between your code and the cpu which limits the potential for what anyone can do (can you say digital rights management?)
When newer processors come out it will slow down innovation because either:
you'll have to wait for the CLR to be updated to take advantage of new processor features
you'll have to wait longer to get the processor because of the coordination involved in making the CLR and processor features work properly.
And who's to say processor company A won't convince Microsoft that parts of the CLR's code should hinge on unique features of their processor that processor company B has yet to implement. Has anything been setup to make sure this doesn't happen?
We all know about the speed diferences between running bytecode through the JVM compared to running it as native code, imagine how bad things could potentialy be using CLR? It boggles the mind!!!
I hope this makes you stop, think and create an informed opinion rather than complacently acception whatever MS (or ANY OTHER ORGANISATION) dishes out as being the status quo.
So, Does a cop asking for your list and then a file constitute soliciting?
As long as you don't promote it, I don't see why not. But say that you publish it freely, broadcast it...well then better make sure no copyright stuff on it.
It all seems to boil down to the same, I guess the only thing that changes in the story is with this device there are digital police walking around sniffing in public places. Any predictions on how long until that comes to pass? Before or after UAVs* become
derigeur?
The police (dirty donut eatin' pig!) would need some means of triangulating your position based on the radio waves from your device.
Sadly enough it would be easier than that, all they would need is your IP address (or future equivalent) to get you. All the cop does is bait you by accepting all incoming downloads and as soon as the "incoming copyright file" alarm goes off he can ask everyone in a 5 meter radius to stop and give their IP. What's that you say? A cop can't solicite, like when trying to arrest prostitutes? Wrong again! He just has his maching set to accept incoming downloads, he never asked you to send him a copyright file.
Now, if you want to hear of something cooler, imagine everyone at a concert carrying one of these things and sharing not just songs and bootlegs from the band that is playing, but songs from different artists that others around them may enjoy. Since we can assume they all like the band that it is playing, it is quite possible that their likes will be similar when it comes to other music.
Trillian, fight the good fight!
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I'd just like to say how much I enjoy using trillian and that it has really made things easy for my parents and grandparents who are too simple to understand concepts such as IM wars. Email works irregarless of what client you use, why the heck can't anyone figure out how to do the same with instant messaging? Selfishness has caused the electronic society to drop the ball on this one.
Actually, i use a different technique Than the one which is taught to be proper - i learned on my own
Typing technique is not the main issue. You can type with two fingers and still manage to avoid CTS. Posture and elevation of the wrists, distance from the keyboard, etc... are what's important. If you want to brag, go talk to Mavis Beacon.
Processing power would be the first, but relatively easy to meet. The main issue would be the size of the HD, making sure there is enough room. Just script the rest if there isn't some other easy way to do it. Auto-It is what I would recommend if you are using a Winblows system.
...I've been going out with this chick for a few years now, at first I though we were going to get married, since our love had no bounds, but now I'm begining to dread the relationship more with each new day.
Listen! When you're going through school things always get frustrating 3/4 of the way through, and you're regurgitation of code is simply your mind settling into the most comfortable manner of getting respectable grades with the least amount of effort (that good ol' 20/80 rule). You don't even have a job in the IT industry yet!
If you want my advice (and you must since you posted that message), find yourself an interesting project that you can call your own, something that matches as closely as possible the ideals you had on the first day of CS. Nurture that project, if nothing else, when you finish class you'll have something to distinguish yourself from everyone else.
My next suggestion, don't give up hope in the face of boredom. You may not realize this now, but without any doubt you posess a vast amount of freedoms while in school that you will loose rather suddenly once strapped into the workforce. Go out and enjoy yourself, do things that you won't be able to do once the 40+ hour work week has smacked you across the head.
Where do I derive my advice? From having worked for 2 years after completing school, and realizing how much I missed the liberties that come with being a student returning for another 3 years of school.
Finaly, don't forget what Ghandi said: "Be the change you wish to see in others."
Remote access drives are fine and dandy, but...
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...what happens when you leave the city, or try connecting from the subway? Being forced to pick and choose which files I carry around with me during offline moments is both a waste of time and effort. And if it's a waste of effort then it won't get done regularly. Besides, in the context of the original submittor, MP3 and video playback would be required, and that means mondo drive space requirements. I don't think this boat would float without a hard drive of at least 10gigs.
Back in the day my helpdesk at Big Blue did sw/hw support for Burger King. One time a store called to say that one of their registers (basically a networked PS/2 with no HD and 2 floppies) wasn't working: no power, no fan, no nothing. We dispatch a field tech to the site, and when he goes to open the register notices a terrible smell. Figuring someone spilt something on the system board, he opened up the register to discover that a rat had eaten halfway through the power supply before electrocuting itself to death. I thought it was funny that a rat would rather eat a high voltage copper coil than a whopper. *rim shot*
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I think completely useless is just a little bit of an exaggeration, don't you?
Yep, I just installed Kazaa right over my Morpheus and all the files kept downloading like the should. Of course now I have to root out all the spyware, grumble grumble.
Haha, if you got your chiefs you'd know that although they would never admit to it the instructors go through the box first and make sure they get what they want. I remember teaching armoured crewmen QL3 and sitting in the back of a Bison with 2 boxes of the nicest strawberry mousse cake you've ever seen. We gave the candidates one piece each with their supper and they thought we were god when we "rewarded" them with an extra piece around midnight, meanwhile we had each had at least 5 pieces to ourselves. Were we mean? The troops never thought so!
The breakfast versions of the Canadian Forces IMP (Individual Meal Pack) has contained Macaroni and cheese since at least the 1980s, and although it is no longer available now they also served a mean "ham & egg omlette". For anyone who has seen this notorious "omlette" it was like a compressed rubber sponge in a foil packet with ham floating at the bottom. Some people despised it, I thought it was rather good. I also know that the shelf life of these meals was 3 years. Maybe the cold up here helps them keep longer.
If you want to get a good idea of what the Canadian meals are like, check out the bottom of this page. MREs and the number each soldier gets a day vary greatly from country to country. No shitting but the French get pate de fois gras and a little wine in their rations, although they only get one box of rations for the whole day.
Canucks get 3 packs a day, each worth between 2500 and 3000 calories (soldiering takes a lot of energy), similar to the Americans they are rather formulaic in there content but much more substantial: the first foil pouch contains a main course (chili con carne, chicken breast, even cabbage rolls to please the Albertans), the dessert pouch (sliced peaches, pinapple spears, or the nasty cherry cake) follows, but the best part shall always remain the "goodie pack". Not only will it include the strangest brick of bread you've ever seen, it is also guaranteed to contain various condiments, juice crystals, soup, coffee, tea sugar and whitener, lifesavers (oh the irony), an after dinner mint (yes, really), a toothpick and either a candy bar or cookies. You can also expect to find matches, an industrial strength napkin, a long neck spoon (so your fingers don't get dirty) and best of all, a moist towlet (field shower is the other term that comes to mind). Much more substantial than the Americans but still lacking both the infamous bottle of tobasco sauce and the self heating pouch.
IMPs also include a survey as to how you liked your meal, a great bit of fun to fill out when your bored in the field. I can proudly say that because of my input they added mini-Ritz crackers and mini-Oreo cookies to the array of snacks that come with any ration pack. Whenever a Canadian soldier stuck in the mud or snow of the ubiquitous "field" looks into his/her ration pack and smiles to see they got mini-ritz cheese sandwiches rather than the instant (and useless) chocolate pudding that I helped contribute to that smile.
Of the round as it travels forward through the barrel. The target doesn't have a say in this discussion ;-)
You're absolutely right. When I thought about it more I realized that even after replacing the entire upper-receiver there would still be problems. Sorry for the FUD on the M16, although I still stand by the rest of my info.
Looks like a pitchfork pistol to me ;-)
To the best of my knowledge that's not true. And although I can't back it up with fact (and that link reference hardly points to fact) let me point out a few things to support my argument.
The .50 is designed for "soft" targets such as trucks, jeeps, APCs, LAVs, bunkers, bivouacs, buildings etc... but is also designed to be used against the people that occupy them. I can assure you that those trained on the .50cal machine gun (at least as far as NATO countries are concerned) are also told that it is to be used against groups of infantry.
This having been said, as a rule of thumb the person aiming the .50cal won't use it against individuals for the same reason that you don't aim the APFSDS round of a tank against people: waste of valuable resources.
Might I also remind you that the caliber of choice for sniper rifles world-wide is the .50 caliber. A seldomly discussed fact is that snipers don't always go after people, but quite often are used to destroy equipment such as radar, generators or vehicles, the .50 cal does a great job of slicing through an engine block, but it also kills a person in a single shot, hence it's use. Range is another reason why.
Now, speaking from my years of experience in the Canadian Armoured Corps, I can assure you that soldiers are trained to use .50 cal against infantry when required to do so, but usualy that's the job of medium machine guns (at least in NATO the .50inch is Heavy machine gun caliber, 7.62mm is medium machine caliber and 5.56mm is light machine gun/rifle caliber (yeah, the M16 in vietnam was 7.62mm, but all the barrels have been replaced with 5.56mm for years now)).
I hope this clears things up a bit. Oh, and about those comments concerning the "wobbling" of the M16 round, that's not accurate either. The M16 (and all the variants that I'm aware of) have a rifled barrel, meaning that a high degree of spin (clockwise, if you're curious) is applied to the round as progresses through the barrel. This rifling effect causes the trajectory of the round to be less succeptible to wind and small branches, it also eliminates any wobble. On the other hand, as soon as the round hits something reasonably solid, such as a human bone, it will start to "tumble", causing further damange. The whole wobble argument was about fragmentation of rounds, which the metal jacket eliminates.
One last piece of information, at lot of tanks out there have a special round designed for them that looks like a really big shotgun round, which is used against infantry at close range (it is also often used to remove infantry that are mounting a neighbouring tank). It's range is under a couple hundred meters, but I've seen it cut up 50 wooden targets in a single shot. Now that's scary! Feel free to bring up any questions you have to that above info.
What is java missing from the criteria?
Wether we like it or not it still gets rammed down our sensory input devices until it starts leaking out of our sensory output devices. Or at least, that's what people like you would have us complacently expect.
Let me give you the following important reasons why we should all make a concerted effort to have CLR run into the ground:
- you'll have to wait for the CLR to be updated to take advantage of new processor features
- you'll have to wait longer to get the processor because of the coordination involved in making the CLR and processor features work properly.
And who's to say processor company A won't convince Microsoft that parts of the CLR's code should hinge on unique features of their processor that processor company B has yet to implement. Has anything been setup to make sure this doesn't happen?I hope this makes you stop, think and create an informed opinion rather than complacently acception whatever MS (or ANY OTHER ORGANISATION) dishes out as being the status quo.
...have them all log into .NET at the same time :-)
As long as you don't promote it, I don't see why not. But say that you publish it freely, broadcast it...well then better make sure no copyright stuff on it.
It all seems to boil down to the same, I guess the only thing that changes in the story is with this device there are digital police walking around sniffing in public places. Any predictions on how long until that comes to pass? Before or after UAVs* become derigeur?
Unmanned Aerial VehicleSadly enough it would be easier than that, all they would need is your IP address (or future equivalent) to get you. All the cop does is bait you by accepting all incoming downloads and as soon as the "incoming copyright file" alarm goes off he can ask everyone in a 5 meter radius to stop and give their IP. What's that you say? A cop can't solicite, like when trying to arrest prostitutes? Wrong again! He just has his maching set to accept incoming downloads, he never asked you to send him a copyright file.
Now, if you want to hear of something cooler, imagine everyone at a concert carrying one of these things and sharing not just songs and bootlegs from the band that is playing, but songs from different artists that others around them may enjoy. Since we can assume they all like the band that it is playing, it is quite possible that their likes will be similar when it comes to other music.
I'd just like to say how much I enjoy using trillian and that it has really made things easy for my parents and grandparents who are too simple to understand concepts such as IM wars. Email works irregarless of what client you use, why the heck can't anyone figure out how to do the same with instant messaging? Selfishness has caused the electronic society to drop the ball on this one.
Excellent question! Here's a grant for $50,000 I want answers in 6 weeks!
If only I hadn't commented earlier, I'd mod you up to insightful.
Cheers!
Actually, i use a different technique Than the one which is taught to be proper - i learned on my own
;-)
Typing technique is not the main issue. You can type with two fingers and still manage to avoid CTS. Posture and elevation of the wrists, distance from the keyboard, etc... are what's important. If you want to brag, go talk to Mavis Beacon.
I typed faster than the techer
Good for you, now try working on your accuracy
Get this keyboard.
Anyone who has a nagging pain in their wrists should learn how to use a keyboard properly.
I'm stuck with an iBM iSeries!
-okay, so maybe it's not that funny.
Processing power would be the first, but relatively easy to meet. The main issue would be the size of the HD, making sure there is enough room. Just script the rest if there isn't some other easy way to do it. Auto-It is what I would recommend if you are using a Winblows system.
Here here!
...and there was much rejoicing.
...I've been going out with this chick for a few years now, at first I though we were going to get married, since our love had no bounds, but now I'm begining to dread the relationship more with each new day.
Listen! When you're going through school things always get frustrating 3/4 of the way through, and you're regurgitation of code is simply your mind settling into the most comfortable manner of getting respectable grades with the least amount of effort (that good ol' 20/80 rule). You don't even have a job in the IT industry yet!
If you want my advice (and you must since you posted that message), find yourself an interesting project that you can call your own, something that matches as closely as possible the ideals you had on the first day of CS. Nurture that project, if nothing else, when you finish class you'll have something to distinguish yourself from everyone else.
My next suggestion, don't give up hope in the face of boredom. You may not realize this now, but without any doubt you posess a vast amount of freedoms while in school that you will loose rather suddenly once strapped into the workforce. Go out and enjoy yourself, do things that you won't be able to do once the 40+ hour work week has smacked you across the head.
Where do I derive my advice? From having worked for 2 years after completing school, and realizing how much I missed the liberties that come with being a student returning for another 3 years of school.
Finaly, don't forget what Ghandi said: "Be the change you wish to see in others."
...what happens when you leave the city, or try connecting from the subway? Being forced to pick and choose which files I carry around with me during offline moments is both a waste of time and effort. And if it's a waste of effort then it won't get done regularly. Besides, in the context of the original submittor, MP3 and video playback would be required, and that means mondo drive space requirements. I don't think this boat would float without a hard drive of at least 10gigs.
Back in the day my helpdesk at Big Blue did sw/hw support for Burger King. One time a store called to say that one of their registers (basically a networked PS/2 with no HD and 2 floppies) wasn't working: no power, no fan, no nothing. We dispatch a field tech to the site, and when he goes to open the register notices a terrible smell. Figuring someone spilt something on the system board, he opened up the register to discover that a rat had eaten halfway through the power supply before electrocuting itself to death. I thought it was funny that a rat would rather eat a high voltage copper coil than a whopper. *rim shot*