It is simply not true that mildly resourceful people get what they want regardless. The harder it is to acquire or do something, the more likely it is that it will not be done at all. It works like that for all other aspects of human endeavors, not sure why you think this differs from it.
I guess that explains our amazingly successful war on drugs, and our amazingly successfull war on terrorism, and our amazingly successfull war on poverty and let's not forget Prohibition.
BASIC was designed as a learning language to ease the way into full-blown FORTRAN. BASIC is more than sufficient to teach and refine skills that real programers use regularly defining the problem, planning a solution to the problem, testing the solution to insure it realy does what it was designed to do, implimenting the solution, evaluating whether the solution actually solves the problem. These are skills that every businessman needs to utilize on a regular basis as well. The lack of these skills probably explains the most failures of small businesses to live past their first two years. Of course we do have to remember that Derek Sivers is confusing marking up some HTML and pasting in a few javascript snippets from the internet and changing varible names with programming.
Pro racers break even straight crank arms, and often replace parts that are fatigued because they can feel the part loosing it's spring or snap. Watch the big boys in a sprint finish sometime, they're standing up on the bicycle and throwing the frame back and forth through 40 degrees while they are peddling, every part is bending and snapping back on every stroke. I'm surprised they don't try and make the bicycles harmonic and the cyclist's prefered sprint finish!
Some times when racing, bicyclist run on a fixed cog with no free-wheel ratchet, the springs would greatly reduce road shock from being transmitted into the legs under those conditions, not as much but still some with a free-wheel. I don't see racers using the interdrive crank simply because it looks heavy and racers will spend big bucks to shave off a gram or two. The odd things I noticed about the Z, they stated "Except for top dead center and bottom dead center, this crank had no dead spots." racers don't have deadspots anyways, because the shoes they wear lock into the peddles and the train themselve to use their ankles to flex past top and bottom dead center dead-spots. Even wiihout shoe cleat or cage peddles, recrational riders can easily learn to ankle. The other thing is that the Z-crank sure looks like it would be hazardous in high-speed turns!
It's been a couple decades but even with COBOL 77 you had the DISPLAY command that would print a line on the console without too much programming; I guess short is relative, but most of the repetitive things like the environments were just yanking out the punched cards from the front last program. When I took COBOL, modular programming was an ugly hack, now I probably wouldn't recognize the language.
Sometimes patient safety is broader than is realized at first glance, personally I wouldn't want my Intensive care nurse groggy and half brain-dead due to coming down with the flu: maybe they should have just transfered her to the morgue untill flu season is over.
The Army was using them in Afganistan, some of the bullets had an unfortunant tendency to bounce off things that you'd normally expect bullets to punch through, like the windshields of trucks running through check-points. There are at least two version one is a bismuth alloy which is supposedly the less effective than the standard military lead based ammo, and the other is a copper jacketed steel bullet which is reported to penetrate better than traditional bullets.
Never forget that inteligence and stupidity are two separate issues, infact it takes a great deal of intellegence to accomplish exceedingly stupid things.
Would that be Win95, Win95A, Win95B or Win95C? Since you could upgrade (for free) from Win95 through Win95B, we might consider them service packs, but you couldn't upgrade from Win95B to Win95C without paying, just like you had to pay to go from Win98 to Win98SE.
I only lasted 2 weeks with GNOME3, then wiped everything and installed kubuntu. KDE seems like they're headed down this path of fixing things that aren't broken and ignoring things that are, but Microsoft and Gnome are clearly winning that race.
Oh yes it's obvious because we all know that wind turbines are really were so great they don't need all of that corporate welfare to operate profitably; oh wait they do, realy businessmen won't even build them without a government bribery.
In most countries and even States, spending by the Troops stationed there is an important part of the local economy. The Mi National Guard goes to the effort to pay all of the troops a $50.00 advance on their pay so they'd have pocket money to spend at the local establishments, one year they paid the advance with two dollar bills, so the source of the money would be more obvious.
Experience has shown that people almost universally squander the change to prepare aforded to them through the early warnings; the media was constantly referring to Sandy as a huricane even though it wasn't, imagine what would have happened if it were the real Cat 3 huricane, that the area is over-due for!
How is Congress going to make payments on their $3.6T expenditures (including loan repayments) with only $2.1T in tax revenue if they can't raise the debt ceiling? And no, the Fed does not just "print money."
Actually they can,but the rub is there is several kinds of money, when most people think of money they think of M0: The total of all physical currency including coinage. M0 = Federal Reserve Notes + US Notes + Coins. It is not relevant whether the currency is held inside or outside of the private banking system as reserves.
yet most economists mean at least M1: The total amount of M0 (cash/coin) outside of the private banking system plus the amount of demand deposits, travelers checks and other checkable deposits.
which means not only can the FED print money, anybody can; when you write a check, you've increased the money supply by the amount of the check untill the check clears. I recall when I was in Italy, the Italian Lira was exchanged at 1,000 to the U$ dollars, banks, normal retail comercial banks would print their own 20, 10 and 5 Lira notes ( 10 Lira being worth arround a US cent).
I've had a pretty eclectic assortment of friends, some of whom I thought were pretty off the charts right-wing conspiracy theory, John Birch loving, trilateral commision hating wing-nut. They always told me that the gun registration records would be used against gun owners, when the left was taking over the government; I always thought "yeah right". Now we have a president doing his best imitation of inciteing class warfare and the liberal press is publishing lists of gun owners, who would have thought the wing-nut were mostly right.
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It is simply not true that mildly resourceful people get what they want regardless. The harder it is to acquire or do something, the more likely it is that it will not be done at all. It works like that for all other aspects of human endeavors, not sure why you think this differs from it.
I guess that explains our amazingly successful war on drugs, and our amazingly successfull war on terrorism, and our amazingly successfull war on poverty and let's not forget Prohibition.
BASIC was designed as a learning language to ease the way into full-blown FORTRAN. BASIC is more than sufficient to teach and refine skills that real programers use regularly
defining the problem,
planning a solution to the problem,
testing the solution to insure it realy does what it was designed to do,
implimenting the solution,
evaluating whether the solution actually solves the problem.
These are skills that every businessman needs to utilize on a regular basis as well. The lack of these skills probably explains the most failures of small businesses to live past their first two years.
Of course we do have to remember that Derek Sivers is confusing marking up some HTML and pasting in a few javascript snippets from the internet and changing varible names with programming.
Pro racers break even straight crank arms, and often replace parts that are fatigued because they can feel the part loosing it's spring or snap. Watch the big boys in a sprint finish sometime, they're standing up on the bicycle and throwing the frame back and forth through 40 degrees while they are peddling, every part is bending and snapping back on every stroke. I'm surprised they don't try and make the bicycles harmonic and the cyclist's prefered sprint finish!
Some times when racing, bicyclist run on a fixed cog with no free-wheel ratchet, the springs would greatly reduce road shock from being transmitted into the legs under those conditions, not as much but still some with a free-wheel. I don't see racers using the interdrive crank simply because it looks heavy and racers will spend big bucks to shave off a gram or two. The odd things I noticed about the Z, they stated "Except for top dead center and bottom dead center, this crank had no dead spots." racers don't have deadspots anyways, because the shoes they wear lock into the peddles and the train themselve to use their ankles to flex past top and bottom dead center dead-spots. Even wiihout shoe cleat or cage peddles, recrational riders can easily learn to ankle. The other thing is that the Z-crank sure looks like it would be hazardous in high-speed turns!
It's been a couple decades but even with COBOL 77 you had the DISPLAY command that would print a line on the console without too much programming; I guess short is relative, but most of the repetitive things like the environments were just yanking out the punched cards from the front last program. When I took COBOL, modular programming was an ugly hack, now I probably wouldn't recognize the language.
Sometimes patient safety is broader than is realized at first glance, personally I wouldn't want my Intensive care nurse groggy and half brain-dead due to coming down with the flu: maybe they should have just transfered her to the morgue untill flu season is over.
The Army was using them in Afganistan, some of the bullets had an unfortunant tendency to bounce off things that you'd normally expect bullets to punch through, like the windshields of trucks running through check-points. There are at least two version one is a bismuth alloy which is supposedly the less effective than the standard military lead based ammo, and the other is a copper jacketed steel bullet which is reported to penetrate better than traditional bullets.
Never forget that inteligence and stupidity are two separate issues, infact it takes a great deal of intellegence to accomplish exceedingly stupid things.
Would that be Win95, Win95A, Win95B or Win95C? Since you could upgrade (for free) from Win95 through Win95B, we might consider them service packs, but you couldn't upgrade from Win95B to Win95C without paying, just like you had to pay to go from Win98 to Win98SE.
It's a brain-set thing, your brain is either hard-wired to prefer hierarcial organization or it's not.
If you upgraded to win95 from a previous installation of win3.1/DOS6.11, Program Manager migrated across the upgrade.
Lastly, do people even shut down their machines anymore for anything other then updates? Everyone I know hibernates their machines.
yes for boot sector virus scans.
I only lasted 2 weeks with GNOME3, then wiped everything and installed kubuntu. KDE seems like they're headed down this path of fixing things that aren't broken and ignoring things that are, but Microsoft and Gnome are clearly winning that race.
Your in the wrong time zone, first post of the new year probably went to an Australian.
I guess the article editor also doesn't allow editing of submitted posts.
I've been visiting slashdot for a long time, and there have been countless of times I've seen submitted posts altered.
... but few for the better
Oh yes it's obvious because we all know that wind turbines are really were so great they don't need all of that corporate welfare to operate profitably; oh wait they do, realy businessmen won't even build them without a government bribery.
Sure your not confusing circumsision with castration?
In most countries and even States, spending by the Troops stationed there is an important part of the local economy. The Mi National Guard goes to the effort to pay all of the troops a $50.00 advance on their pay so they'd have pocket money to spend at the local establishments, one year they paid the advance with two dollar bills, so the source of the money would be more obvious.
Experience has shown that people almost universally squander the change to prepare aforded to them through the early warnings; the media was constantly referring to Sandy as a huricane even though it wasn't, imagine what would have happened if it were the real Cat 3 huricane, that the area is over-due for!
How is Congress going to make payments on their $3.6T expenditures (including loan repayments) with only $2.1T in tax revenue if they can't raise the debt ceiling? And no, the Fed does not just "print money."
Actually they can,but the rub is there is several kinds of money, when most people think of money they think of
M0: The total of all physical currency including coinage. M0 = Federal Reserve Notes + US Notes + Coins. It is not relevant whether the currency is held inside or outside of the private banking system as reserves.
yet most economists mean at least
M1: The total amount of M0 (cash/coin) outside of the private banking system plus the amount of demand deposits, travelers checks and other checkable deposits.
which means not only can the FED print money, anybody can; when you write a check, you've increased the money supply by the amount of the check untill the check clears. I recall when I was in Italy, the Italian Lira was exchanged at 1,000 to the U$ dollars, banks, normal retail comercial banks would print their own 20, 10 and 5 Lira notes ( 10 Lira being worth arround a US cent).
It's not the idea that is stolen, it's the right to control distribution
Crack and meth addicts aren't know for the logic, and you seriously under-estimate the cost of a pistol on the blackmarket.
I've had a pretty eclectic assortment of friends, some of whom I thought were pretty off the charts right-wing conspiracy theory, John Birch loving, trilateral commision hating wing-nut. They always told me that the gun registration records would be used against gun owners, when the left was taking over the government; I always thought "yeah right". Now we have a president doing his best imitation of inciteing class warfare and the liberal press is publishing lists of gun owners, who would have thought the wing-nut were mostly right.
Actually the Regulations are the formal definitions as to how the training and operating procedures are to be conducted; for example, Army Regulation 380-5 is the Department of the Army Information Security Program. In the begining it was just Baron Von Steuben's Drill Manual, Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States.
Put innerdepravity.com into google then click images, Remy is actually quite good at his craft.