Just wait till it's time to move your site to another machine. Or try to set up multiple web servers with the same setup to sit behind a load balancer. That's when you'll be wishing you had config files you could just copy to the new machines. I know I have.
Why not just launch a second plane already full of liquid oxygen, the do an in-flight refueling job once they are both airborne?
Seems much easier than carrying around all that extra gear to convert oxygen, and the extra fuel to fly around for 3 hours generating it.
The idea was that it took a certain amount of time to mobilize the massive amount of troops and material on the railroads. If your enemy started mobilizing and you did not, you were screwed. So you had to start your mobilization timetables going if the other guy looked like he was. etc, etc, etc...
So they weren't 'set up and ready to go', but the mechanisms for mobilizing them were.
hmmm... this brings to mind a few possibilities. When advancing on an enemy population center, naturally all the civilians will be getting the hell out of there. So, you launch a few air strike into the city, get the civilians running out of the city in mass, then launch a few of the EMP shells at them.
Now you have clogged all of your enemies avenues of approach into the city, making it extremely dificult for them to bring in reinforcments. Basically what the Germans did in WW2, but "nicer".
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Actually, the HEDP is a round with a selector on it so you can designate if you are firing against a ground or air target (hense, "Dual Purpose"). If set to ground, it works like a regular HEAT round (shaped charge warhead and such). If set to air, it tells the round to use it's proximity fuse for taking out helos.
It's not as effective as a HEAT or Sabot round against heavier armor, but it will do fine against lighter vehicles, and is supposed to be much better than a HEAT round against troops. And of course, the added bonus of having something usefull against helos.
Yes, I see this exact same thing in my Comp Sci classes. 95% of the people are in them because
"that is where the money is". I am one of the few who are interested in what they were teaching, not just passing the tests. Of course, it does make the class easier to pass when everyone else does not care, but then the professors really have to dumb down the curriculum or else almost the entire class will fail.
And it is not the same in all disciplines. I took some mechanical and electrical engineering courses, and I was supprised that the majority of the people were interested in it.
Well lets see... I could stop fighting my tank, pull out my paper map and protracter, spend 5 minutes figuring out my coordinates, 5 more trying to get arty on the radio, then hope they can understand my grid and corrections through jammed radio traffic.
Or I could just click where I want the arty on the digitized map, let the commo system take care of the details, and get back to fighting the tank.
1 man
plus mechanical controls
plus display systems
plus ejection seat
plus pressurized crew compartment
plus survival equipment
etc...
Though still, I'm not too sure about 25%
I was in the Army as a tank crewman back in '93 - '96. This was a time when much of the old guard was being phased out in the big budget cuts.
Anyway, with the old hands moving out, the kids that had grown up with computer games got into tank gunner slots. Those of us who had grown up with computers routinely and easily out-shot many of hte old timers with 15-20 years of tanking under their belts.
Maybe all the "had-eye-coordination" BS actually is worth something.
Actually, much of the problems in the Gulf could have been avoided if the pilots had done just a little more rudimentary training in identifying friendly armored vehicles. In that gun camera footage from the Apache they show on Discovery channel, you can plainly see (for anyone that knows what they are looking for) the big ass fuel tanks on the M113 and the obvious TOW laucher on the Bradley they are firing at.
And they didn't just fire at them in the heat of battle. They hovered there for 5-10 minutes trying to fugure out if they are in the right location. If they had just looked through their sights they would have known what they were looking at. The problem was they were relying on the instrumentation, which was wrong.
Many times, the most advanced technology is no replacement for simple training
OK, as a new Linux user I have to say something. Linux is not any harder to use for the end user. But, (BUT!) trying to do any sort of changes to the system (something a homeuser would want to do) IS much harder. Even something as simple as installing softare, or even changing a monitor.
I've just recently installed Linux on one of my old systems to run a counter-strike server. I have some limited experience with Solaris from school, so I was not coming into totaly blind.
The initial install was pretty simple. Not something your average user would want to handle (I wouldn't expect my parents to be able to handle it, or even any of my brothers for that matter). The redhat installer detected everything but my monitor just fine. Setting up partitions should be automated a little better. But I've got enough computer experience that I worked through it.
After the install, I added in a network card. Piece of cake. Pluggedd it in, turned it on, and it was detected.
From there things went bad. The redhat recommended partition sizes would not hold all the files I needed to add for the counter-strike server. So, I do a little research on how to add another partion. I play around for a while, figure out how to create a new partition, add a filesystem, and mount it. But then I royally screw up trying to copy the existing usr directory into it.
Time for a reinstall.
So I do a reinstall, setting up the partions better this time. I get the counter-strike server running pretty easily by following a tutorial. great everything is running fine.
A few weeks later my monitor goes out (not linux fault, it was running on my windows box). So I borrow a new from work. Plug it in, turn on my linux machine. No good. As soon as Xwindows starts up the signal gets scrambled (refresh rate too high). But how do I just boot into text mode? (I had set graphical login in the install) No idea.
So I spend all night trying figure out how to NOT boot into the graphical login. By piecing together some info I can find about 'LILO', and xwindows, and 10 other 'tutorials', eventually I figure that I need to:
- hit control-X on the OS loader.
- enter 'linux 3'
- use Xconfigurator (capital X, the rest lower case of course, even though most references to it call it XConfigurator or xconfigurator) to change my monitor settings.
Could not be more wrong. Soldiers need training on how to hit a man size target that is only exposed for a short time, with a rifle. That is why they use pop-up targets with the shape of a human.
The reason they can and will kill another human in combat is because if they do not, that human will kill them or their budies. If they do not pull the trigger, they are letting down their buddies, their unit, and their country. It is their job. It is NOT because they have been conditioned to fire at man shaped targets.
[The above is based on the opinion tank crewman with 7 years of experience.]
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Just wait till it's time to move your site to another machine. Or try to set up multiple web servers with the same setup to sit behind a load balancer. That's when you'll be wishing you had config files you could just copy to the new machines. I know I have.
That's always been a big complaint of mine as well. And from what I've seen of ASP.NET, that's exactly what they are doing.
No music and no Dr Pepper makes programmers... something... something....
Nah... all you have to do is change op=addcheck to op=do in the query string.
Further proof that any game based on the designers old role-playing games inevitably suck©
> 4. Stylus removal or return is On/Off Switch
Seriously, this is the greatest, simplest idea I've ever seen. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?
Or maybe I'm just a sucker for "common sense".
-nt-
Why not just launch a second plane already full of liquid oxygen, the do an in-flight refueling job once they are both airborne? Seems much easier than carrying around all that extra gear to convert oxygen, and the extra fuel to fly around for 3 hours generating it.
Scientists do know better.
Reporters, however, do not.
The idea was that it took a certain amount of time to mobilize the massive amount of troops and material on the railroads. If your enemy started mobilizing and you did not, you were screwed. So you had to start your mobilization timetables going if the other guy looked like he was. etc, etc, etc... So they weren't 'set up and ready to go', but the mechanisms for mobilizing them were.
hmmm... this brings to mind a few possibilities. When advancing on an enemy population center, naturally all the civilians will be getting the hell out of there. So, you launch a few air strike into the city, get the civilians running out of the city in mass, then launch a few of the EMP shells at them.
Now you have clogged all of your enemies avenues of approach into the city, making it extremely dificult for them to bring in reinforcments. Basically what the Germans did in WW2, but "nicer".
Actually, the HEDP is a round with a selector on it so you can designate if you are firing against a ground or air target (hense, "Dual Purpose"). If set to ground, it works like a regular HEAT round (shaped charge warhead and such). If set to air, it tells the round to use it's proximity fuse for taking out helos.
It's not as effective as a HEAT or Sabot round against heavier armor, but it will do fine against lighter vehicles, and is supposed to be much better than a HEAT round against troops. And of course, the added bonus of having something usefull against helos.
Yes, I see this exact same thing in my Comp Sci classes. 95% of the people are in them because "that is where the money is". I am one of the few who are interested in what they were teaching, not just passing the tests. Of course, it does make the class easier to pass when everyone else does not care, but then the professors really have to dumb down the curriculum or else almost the entire class will fail.
And it is not the same in all disciplines. I took some mechanical and electrical engineering courses, and I was supprised that the majority of the people were interested in it.
Well lets see... I could stop fighting my tank, pull out my paper map and protracter, spend 5 minutes figuring out my coordinates, 5 more trying to get arty on the radio, then hope they can understand my grid and corrections through jammed radio traffic.
Or I could just click where I want the arty on the digitized map, let the commo system take care of the details, and get back to fighting the tank.
That actually sounds ideal.
Can you imagine trying to use a regular laptop trackpoint dealie to call for an arty strike while bouncing over broken terrain at 40 mph?
"Shit, I think I just called for fire right on top of us."
In a little RTS game, no big deal. In a real combat enviroment, it might sort of suck.
Shoulder pains from carrying around 8 lbs? Man, you definitely are a computing professional!
That is like saying a station wagon looks like a full size van© A BMP looks nothing like a Bradley© A Bradley is huge tall machine, the BMP is small an squat© The Bradley has a large 2 man turret, the BMP a small, barely 1 man© The BMP has an exposed missle sitting on top of the the turret, the Bradley has a big box on the side of the turret that houses the TOW© If you can distinguish that it is a vehicle, you should be able to tell the difference between a BMP and a Bradley© If you can't, you shouldn't be at the controls of a weapon system©
1 man
plus mechanical controls
plus display systems
plus ejection seat
plus pressurized crew compartment
plus survival equipment
etc... Though still, I'm not too sure about 25%
I was in the Army as a tank crewman back in '93 - '96. This was a time when much of the old guard was being phased out in the big budget cuts.
Anyway, with the old hands moving out, the kids that had grown up with computer games got into tank gunner slots. Those of us who had grown up with computers routinely and easily out-shot many of hte old timers with 15-20 years of tanking under their belts.
Maybe all the "had-eye-coordination" BS actually is worth something.
Actually, much of the problems in the Gulf could have been avoided if the pilots had done just a little more rudimentary training in identifying friendly armored vehicles. In that gun camera footage from the Apache they show on Discovery channel, you can plainly see (for anyone that knows what they are looking for) the big ass fuel tanks on the M113 and the obvious TOW laucher on the Bradley they are firing at.
And they didn't just fire at them in the heat of battle. They hovered there for 5-10 minutes trying to fugure out if they are in the right location. If they had just looked through their sights they would have known what they were looking at. The problem was they were relying on the instrumentation, which was wrong.
Many times, the most advanced technology is no replacement for simple training
OK, as a new Linux user I have to say something. Linux is not any harder to use for the end user. But, (BUT!) trying to do any sort of changes to the system (something a homeuser would want to do) IS much harder. Even something as simple as installing softare, or even changing a monitor.
I've just recently installed Linux on one of my old systems to run a counter-strike server. I have some limited experience with Solaris from school, so I was not coming into totaly blind.
The initial install was pretty simple. Not something your average user would want to handle (I wouldn't expect my parents to be able to handle it, or even any of my brothers for that matter). The redhat installer detected everything but my monitor just fine. Setting up partitions should be automated a little better. But I've got enough computer experience that I worked through it.
After the install, I added in a network card. Piece of cake. Pluggedd it in, turned it on, and it was detected.
From there things went bad. The redhat recommended partition sizes would not hold all the files I needed to add for the counter-strike server. So, I do a little research on how to add another partion. I play around for a while, figure out how to create a new partition, add a filesystem, and mount it. But then I royally screw up trying to copy the existing usr directory into it.
Time for a reinstall.
So I do a reinstall, setting up the partions better this time. I get the counter-strike server running pretty easily by following a tutorial. great everything is running fine.
A few weeks later my monitor goes out (not linux fault, it was running on my windows box). So I borrow a new from work. Plug it in, turn on my linux machine. No good. As soon as Xwindows starts up the signal gets scrambled (refresh rate too high). But how do I just boot into text mode? (I had set graphical login in the install) No idea.
So I spend all night trying figure out how to NOT boot into the graphical login. By piecing together some info I can find about 'LILO', and xwindows, and 10 other 'tutorials', eventually I figure that I need to:
- hit control-X on the OS loader.
- enter 'linux 3'
- use Xconfigurator (capital X, the rest lower case of course, even though most references to it call it XConfigurator or xconfigurator) to change my monitor settings.
Nice, easy and intuitive eh?
"If you haven't heard Tetsuya Komuro's work..."
...then you are not a japanabee.
He did the music for Speed 2! He is better than all the boy bands! Wow he must be absolutly godamned amazing! But then I am drunk. What do I know.
If you are really worried about uptime, don't use GraniteCanyon.
I use it for my site. It's fine for what I need it for, but does have occasional outages.
Could not be more wrong. Soldiers need training on how to hit a man size target that is only exposed for a short time, with a rifle. That is why they use pop-up targets with the shape of a human.
The reason they can and will kill another human in combat is because if they do not, that human will kill them or their budies. If they do not pull the trigger, they are letting down their buddies, their unit, and their country. It is their job. It is NOT because they have been conditioned to fire at man shaped targets.
[The above is based on the opinion tank crewman with 7 years of experience.]
-nt-