Carter was not a disaster. Too many people speak too much about how little they know.
Carter was a Naval Academy grad who went on to serve in submarines, particuarly in the nuclear service under Rickover himself, and during his stint he was in charge of a special rescue crew that was responsible for cleaning up a failed experiemntal reactor, by actually climbing into the radioactive chamber, which they did, including himself. He went home and became a farmer, and later Governor of GA, and fairly successful and popular at that.
When he was President he didnt' just preach conservation during the energy crisis, but led by example (and when you know how rarely Prseident's do THAT!) and had solar heaters isntalled at the White House, and wore sweaters if the building were cold. You like beer? He deregulated the beer industry. Prior to that, it was illegal to run a home brewery. He also was behind the airline deregulation (which at the time was a reasonable thing...that fact that it's now swung to the opposite side of the too much/too little regulation spectrum not withstanding)
Overall, his presidency was rather uneventful. It is a tankless job that always results in at least one half the country calling you an idiot and playing armchair quarterback. on top of that, Carter was a transitionary president, the country having just gotten out of Vietnam, and the focus moving inward. Presidents in such situations especially tend to be negatively viewed, and lucky if they make it out alive with nothing major happening. Carter's only really big fumble was the botched rescue of the hostages, and that owed more to planning problems (oversights and mistakes, overly complex, too many moving parts, as well as mechanical and maintenance failuers, etc) than to the adminstration.
Carters biggest problem was a seeming lack of confidence in his own position. But since then he's continued to act as a diplomat and representive for our nation,a nd been highly successful at that as well.
He may not have been a shining star of the likes of Jefferson or Lincoln, but neither that does not make him a disaster. He was far from it, and political ideology aside, he continues to be a good example of a good American citizen who loves and serves his country.
one of those things where msot folks get it, and get over it, and thats the end of the story, with only a minor population developing an adverse or chronic condition. the article is essentially FUD
it is a valid point. originally there was a parity of force which no longer exists.
however, even by the Civil War that parity had begun to erode. yet what did you see, but even people within the military (mainly officers given the setup of the military at the time) choosing sides and bringing their equipment with them.
and you'd likely see the same thing today if it ever happened again, though probably on an even bigger scale. not many that presently serve in the military would willingly turn their weapons on fellow citizens, and if things ever got that bad that the gov turned on the citizenry, well over half the military would oppose the government, and bring all their toys and expertise with them.
it's a little different when you spend all your time outside working and only need an "inside" for a place to sleep. nowadays we have "things" and rooms have grown to accomadate them. closets and dressers, large individual beds, tv's, desks, etc.
"Wasn't long ago Florida officials would show up at your house and cut down your citrus trees because of 'undermining of agriculture' [because they're diseased with extremely contagious citrus canker bacteria, which once present in an area are extremely persistant and prone to recurrance even if the diseased trees are removed and new ones grown]"
libertarian != conservative libertarian != tea party libertarian != republican It is not a new convenient shorthand buzzword for any and all ills percieved by the left, and is no more accurate than someone on the right associating all democrats with socialists.
What the f does libertarian have to do with it? I wish to God you idiots trolling/. would learn just exactl what libertarian even means, the 4 or 5 different varieties of it, and stop blaming it for everything because you're just making yourselves look stupid and uninformed. you dont know what you're talking about, and its getting old.
addendum: point being, with such a large installed base of cards that run 9, and games that run 9, getting 9 running more efficiently on linux is a big boon to linux gaming.
combined that with D9 BEING probably the longest lasting of them, many games, including new, still support it natively due to the large number of cards still out there that arent D11 compatible. with cards 5 and 6 years old still running games, even new ones, more than acceptably, the constant pressure to upgrade to the newest shiny constanly is lagely absent. and that would leave a huge market untapped if they didnt support it. its much different than a few years before when cards had a much shorter lifecycle, and you could expect your market to be upgrading every year.
(frankly I cant see a whole helluva lot of difference between 9 and 11 when playing, if the devs did their job right, unless I pause the game and actually look for the differences. When running and gunning, its not really noticable unless the devs were lazy. even crysis3 can be made to work with 9, and it still looks beautiful)
"Citizen 1138, age 11, you punched a classmate. DNA Analysis reveals are prone to violence, and will be locked up for the protection of society." Like the perfect storm of combining self-fulfilling prophecy with zero tolerance overreactions. like the story of Joey (the minor petty thief who was a good kid, until they locked him for 6 years over a pack of gum. by the time he got out, he was hardened and conditioned to taking what he needed to survive) taken to the extreme.
but ya, it compeltely ignores the ideas of self-control, free-will, and growth as an individual.
i left out the word "permanent". very important. as in "permanent deformation". in the elastic deformation zone, its like a spring, and returns to its original shape. yield strength is the point at which it becomes inelastic, and it no longer resumes original shape. but anyway. yield and brittle are directly linked. both are caused by the additives used in making hte steel alloy. part of the art and science of making and engineering steel alloys is increasing/achieving the yield strenght without increasing brittleness. A36 was used for years because it was easy to make, cheap, and had a great balance between strength and hardness. In the past few decades however some newer formulations have come to the fore, such A992 (largely replacing A36 now in projects).
The GP mentions 470Mpa. That isn't even a particularly high strength of steel; it's abit above the common (A36 is ~250Mpa, A992 is ~345), but that's to be expeccted of a container ship: the additional weight required with a lower strength steel would be enormous, and reduce payload (the 470MPa indicates its one of hte many corrosion resistant high strength steels, which makes sense also for a sea-going vessel). But there's steel alloys used in construction that go as high as 690 MPa (A514), or even 800-930 Mpa (related alloy, A517, used in boilers and simlar pressure vessles). Your typical skyscraper is built using a combination of A514 and A992, or similar, these days.
(short version: the two AC's here are rather uniformed)
you're making the same mistake. High strength != brittle. its not a direct relationship. Brittleness comes from hardness rather than strength. in higher strength steels hardness tends to come along for the ride, but at that point you're getting down into the real nitty gritty of the actual formulas used in doping hte iron to make the steel. part of the materials science of high strenght steels is making the allow just right such that you can achieve the high strength without the brittleness.
Yield strength has nothing to do with brittleness. In steels brittleness is a function of hardness, not yield strength. Two steels can have the same yield strength, and yet have vastly different degrees of brittleness.
In steels yield strength has to do with the plastic (or elastic) theory of steel deformation. IE, it's the point at which deformation begins.
Technically yield strength is the point of deformation for all materials, just that for some, such as glass, there is no plastic deformation but rather instaneaously go into catastrophic failure. Steel used for construction is engineered specifically so that it does have known plastic deformation characteristics, and when it reaches the yield point it undergoes this deformation for some time before reaching the ultimate failure point.
This is first year materials science and structural engineering stuff.
the fact he and many of/. confuse this with "professional" behaviour proves the level of ignorance present. such behaviour is by its very nature *NOT* professional in nature.
short version: you can be honest and direct, and be professional at the same time. In fact, its what being professional is. you people are confusing professionalism with office politicking.
Professionalism is always a good thing. you're a fool to think otherwise. shouting matches are not productive. emotions get in the way and mar/bias opinions and performance. the fact the neckbeards voted you insightful only further shows how much the/. crowd needs to grow up.
Some questions: Cop pulls you over. Want professionalism or to start out with a litany of curses and insults to your heritage with your ticket? Marines fight a battle, finish it. Aftwerwards: you want professionalism and moving onto the next task, or videos of them urinating on corpses afteraward? Big Bank Mega CEO bumps into you in Starbucks, you accidentally spill his coffee all over him. Want professionalism, or your money to disappear? Politicians elected to a job, to represent their people. You want a professional who does that, or one who decides he knows better than you?
Cherry picked examples, sure. But the point is simple. Professionalism is not bad. Professionalism does not mean lying or backstabbings. That view is shortsighted, immature, and ignorant.
so merit makes abusive languange and threats and physical intimidation ok? ya, sure. try it in the real world, see how that works out for you.
there is a big difference between "hey this is broke" and "hey you stupid b***h, you f***ing idiot, you broke this s***. i should come over to your house and break your fingers to keep you from screwing up my s*** even more".
Linus is more and more becoming like a spoiled child, and no longer relevant. every time he opens his mouth to complain about the way his baby is evolving he just digs himself deeper.
We may be the land of the free...but that doesn't mean there arent bad people here out to take advantage of the unwary. he mentioned atlanta; he's right. It's not a nice place in the wee hours. Hell, there's places you just don't go even in broad daylight, especially if you're the wrong color.
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Ya, the "1%" rich people totally didnt exist and take advantage of political favors prior to Reagan being elected. It was like POOF! Like magic.
Carter was not a disaster. Too many people speak too much about how little they know.
Carter was a Naval Academy grad who went on to serve in submarines, particuarly in the nuclear service under Rickover himself, and during his stint he was in charge of a special rescue crew that was responsible for cleaning up a failed experiemntal reactor, by actually climbing into the radioactive chamber, which they did, including himself. He went home and became a farmer, and later Governor of GA, and fairly successful and popular at that.
When he was President he didnt' just preach conservation during the energy crisis, but led by example (and when you know how rarely Prseident's do THAT!) and had solar heaters isntalled at the White House, and wore sweaters if the building were cold. You like beer? He deregulated the beer industry. Prior to that, it was illegal to run a home brewery. He also was behind the airline deregulation (which at the time was a reasonable thing...that fact that it's now swung to the opposite side of the too much/too little regulation spectrum not withstanding)
Overall, his presidency was rather uneventful. It is a tankless job that always results in at least one half the country calling you an idiot and playing armchair quarterback. on top of that, Carter was a transitionary president, the country having just gotten out of Vietnam, and the focus moving inward. Presidents in such situations especially tend to be negatively viewed, and lucky if they make it out alive with nothing major happening. Carter's only really big fumble was the botched rescue of the hostages, and that owed more to planning problems (oversights and mistakes, overly complex, too many moving parts, as well as mechanical and maintenance failuers, etc) than to the adminstration.
Carters biggest problem was a seeming lack of confidence in his own position. But since then he's continued to act as a diplomat and representive for our nation,a nd been highly successful at that as well.
He may not have been a shining star of the likes of Jefferson or Lincoln, but neither that does not make him a disaster. He was far from it, and political ideology aside, he continues to be a good example of a good American citizen who loves and serves his country.
one of those things where msot folks get it, and get over it, and thats the end of the story, with only a minor population developing an adverse or chronic condition. the article is essentially FUD
it is a valid point. originally there was a parity of force which no longer exists.
however, even by the Civil War that parity had begun to erode. yet what did you see, but even people within the military (mainly officers given the setup of the military at the time) choosing sides and bringing their equipment with them.
and you'd likely see the same thing today if it ever happened again, though probably on an even bigger scale. not many that presently serve in the military would willingly turn their weapons on fellow citizens, and if things ever got that bad that the gov turned on the citizenry, well over half the military would oppose the government, and bring all their toys and expertise with them.
dont forgot civil rights protestors in the 60's protected by people with guns
dont confuse city planning with a "planned city/community".
it's a little different when you spend all your time outside working and only need an "inside" for a place to sleep. nowadays we have "things" and rooms have grown to accomadate them. closets and dressers, large individual beds, tv's, desks, etc.
you kinda left out the diseased part. as in
"Wasn't long ago Florida officials would show up at your house and cut down your citrus trees because of 'undermining of agriculture' [because they're diseased with extremely contagious citrus canker bacteria, which once present in an area are extremely persistant and prone to recurrance even if the diseased trees are removed and new ones grown]"
libertarian != conservative
libertarian != tea party
libertarian != republican
It is not a new convenient shorthand buzzword for any and all ills percieved by the left, and is no more accurate than someone on the right associating all democrats with socialists.
What the f does libertarian have to do with it? I wish to God you idiots trolling /. would learn just exactl what libertarian even means, the 4 or 5 different varieties of it, and stop blaming it for everything because you're just making yourselves look stupid and uninformed. you dont know what you're talking about, and its getting old.
addendum: point being, with such a large installed base of cards that run 9, and games that run 9, getting 9 running more efficiently on linux is a big boon to linux gaming.
combined that with D9 BEING probably the longest lasting of them, many games, including new, still support it natively due to the large number of cards still out there that arent D11 compatible. with cards 5 and 6 years old still running games, even new ones, more than acceptably, the constant pressure to upgrade to the newest shiny constanly is lagely absent. and that would leave a huge market untapped if they didnt support it. its much different than a few years before when cards had a much shorter lifecycle, and you could expect your market to be upgrading every year.
(frankly I cant see a whole helluva lot of difference between 9 and 11 when playing, if the devs did their job right, unless I pause the game and actually look for the differences. When running and gunning, its not really noticable unless the devs were lazy. even crysis3 can be made to work with 9, and it still looks beautiful)
"Citizen 1138, age 11, you punched a classmate. DNA Analysis reveals are prone to violence, and will be locked up for the protection of society."
Like the perfect storm of combining self-fulfilling prophecy with zero tolerance overreactions. like the story of Joey (the minor petty thief who was a good kid, until they locked him for 6 years over a pack of gum. by the time he got out, he was hardened and conditioned to taking what he needed to survive) taken to the extreme.
but ya, it compeltely ignores the ideas of self-control, free-will, and growth as an individual.
i left out the word "permanent". very important. as in "permanent deformation". in the elastic deformation zone, its like a spring, and returns to its original shape. yield strength is the point at which it becomes inelastic, and it no longer resumes original shape. but anyway. yield and brittle are directly linked. both are caused by the additives used in making hte steel alloy. part of the art and science of making and engineering steel alloys is increasing/achieving the yield strenght without increasing brittleness. A36 was used for years because it was easy to make, cheap, and had a great balance between strength and hardness. In the past few decades however some newer formulations have come to the fore, such A992 (largely replacing A36 now in projects).
The GP mentions 470Mpa. That isn't even a particularly high strength of steel; it's abit above the common (A36 is ~250Mpa, A992 is ~345), but that's to be expeccted of a container ship: the additional weight required with a lower strength steel would be enormous, and reduce payload (the 470MPa indicates its one of hte many corrosion resistant high strength steels, which makes sense also for a sea-going vessel). But there's steel alloys used in construction that go as high as 690 MPa (A514), or even 800-930 Mpa (related alloy, A517, used in boilers and simlar pressure vessles). Your typical skyscraper is built using a combination of A514 and A992, or similar, these days.
(short version: the two AC's here are rather uniformed)
you're making the same mistake.
High strength != brittle. its not a direct relationship. Brittleness comes from hardness rather than strength. in higher strength steels hardness tends to come along for the ride, but at that point you're getting down into the real nitty gritty of the actual formulas used in doping hte iron to make the steel. part of the materials science of high strenght steels is making the allow just right such that you can achieve the high strength without the brittleness.
Yield strength has nothing to do with brittleness. In steels brittleness is a function of hardness, not yield strength. Two steels can have the same yield strength, and yet have vastly different degrees of brittleness.
In steels yield strength has to do with the plastic (or elastic) theory of steel deformation. IE, it's the point at which deformation begins.
Technically yield strength is the point of deformation for all materials, just that for some, such as glass, there is no plastic deformation but rather instaneaously go into catastrophic failure. Steel used for construction is engineered specifically so that it does have known plastic deformation characteristics, and when it reaches the yield point it undergoes this deformation for some time before reaching the ultimate failure point.
This is first year materials science and structural engineering stuff.
another idiot /.'er talking about libertarianism without even knowing what it is
you realy have no clue what you're talking about.
very few people actually make those claims
the fact he and many of /. confuse this with "professional" behaviour proves the level of ignorance present. such behaviour is by its very nature *NOT* professional in nature.
short version: you can be honest and direct, and be professional at the same time. In fact, its what being professional is. you people are confusing professionalism with office politicking.
Professionalism is always a good thing. you're a fool to think otherwise. shouting matches are not productive. emotions get in the way and mar/bias opinions and performance. the fact the neckbeards voted you insightful only further shows how much the /. crowd needs to grow up.
Some questions:
Cop pulls you over. Want professionalism or to start out with a litany of curses and insults to your heritage with your ticket?
Marines fight a battle, finish it. Aftwerwards: you want professionalism and moving onto the next task, or videos of them urinating on corpses afteraward?
Big Bank Mega CEO bumps into you in Starbucks, you accidentally spill his coffee all over him. Want professionalism, or your money to disappear?
Politicians elected to a job, to represent their people. You want a professional who does that, or one who decides he knows better than you?
Cherry picked examples, sure. But the point is simple. Professionalism is not bad. Professionalism does not mean lying or backstabbings. That view is shortsighted, immature, and ignorant.
so merit makes abusive languange and threats and physical intimidation ok? ya, sure. try it in the real world, see how that works out for you.
there is a big difference between "hey this is broke" and "hey you stupid b***h, you f***ing idiot, you broke this s***. i should come over to your house and break your fingers to keep you from screwing up my s*** even more".
Linus is more and more becoming like a spoiled child, and no longer relevant. every time he opens his mouth to complain about the way his baby is evolving he just digs himself deeper.
We may be the land of the free...but that doesn't mean there arent bad people here out to take advantage of the unwary. he mentioned atlanta; he's right. It's not a nice place in the wee hours. Hell, there's places you just don't go even in broad daylight, especially if you're the wrong color.
first thing i thought was red herring