What puzzles me is why the US didn't pick a strong, smart and militarish guy like Clarke.
Clarke got in the game a little late. But yes, Clarke would have stood a better chance than Kerry I'd imagine. Clarke had some baggage but they could be handled.
If I ran the Democrat party I would have put Clarke and Lieberman on a ticket and beaten Bush silly. Clarke had the military background and be able to hammer Bush on Vietnam service and his experience with Kosovo. Lieberman would have appealed to the religious right and blunted the GOP's standing with the religious right.
But no. You had a New England Democrat instead. It's not the US really. It's the Democrat party base. They're the one that selected Kerry. I could see myself, a Republican, voting for Clarke or Lieberman sooner than I could ever vote for Kerry. Unfortunately, both Clarke and Lieberman are perceived to be too conservative for the Democrat base.
If any issue had something to do with Bush winning, it's the gay marriage issue. Practically everyone out there is reporting that security was the 3rd ranked issue to the voters. The first being morality and the second being economics. Ohio, in particular was hit hard in the economics sense.
It is the general opinion of the anti-Bush crowd that terrorism is why Bush won. No, morality is why Bush won. The turn out for the GOP was driven primarily by evangelical Christians motivated partially by gay marriage issue on the ballot in 11 states.
You need to take a look at the bigger picture. Not only did Bush win, the Republicans increased their footprint in the Senate and the House. This isn't a Bush victory. It's a Republican across the board victory.
Terrorism played a part in this election but for the people in middle America, it wasn't what got them to the polls. The sooner the Democrats start dealing with religious America they'll stand a better chance.
Did you notice that any Democratic presidential candidate that came close to winning the presidency came from the Bible belt and all the New Englanders lost the majority? Gore, Clinton, Carter vs. Dukakis, Kerry.
On Election Day, we learned just how much the British meddling hurt the Democrats. In 2000, Al Gore had won Clark County by 324 votes; his margin would have been larger absent Ralph Nader's 1,347 votes the same day. But this year, Clark County threw itself into electoral reverse. Of the 115 Ohio counties that Al Gore won in 2000, John Kerry won every single one -- with the conspicuous exception of Clark, which went to Bush this year by 1,620 votes.
The source is OpinionJournal's Political Diary. Thanks for helping George Bush. I'm sure he'll thank you.
Any quality clothing store will do this. The move towards discount stores have resulted in the death of customer service.
When I go to the Ferragamo boutique to get my shoes, the sales guy don't take me to the cash register. He rings up the sale, walks over to me, presents me with the total, I hand him my credit card, he walks to the cash register and processes the transaction, comes back with the receipt and a clipboard to get my signature. I sign and he hands me back my credit card in a credit card sized envelope. While waiting for the entire thing from start to finish, I sat on a very comfortable chair.
Service isn't dead in America. It's just doesn't exist at the discount level. Hell, the guys there will know my taste and actually sends me a card when stuff I like comes in.
A friend sent this to me... who sent it from some other friend. Isn't this how most chain letters start?
Does anyone actually have first hand experience with this sort of malfunction? I'd be more likely to believe someone lying to me with a first hand account than 3rd or 4th hand account that are true.
There's more to training soldiers than simply shooting. Take a look at games like SOCOM or Full Spectrum Warrior. The focus is less on the ability to put cursor over target and press button and more on active thinking in analyzing a situation.
For example, with FSW you command a full 8 man team. You give orders and control fire zones. You don't target anything. There is a lag between the time the order is issued and the troops respond. You also don't control explicitly where they go. You instruct destinations and the troops figure out how to best achieve that. If you plan badly and walk them through a crossfire you have dead troops. It's real simple.
How do you mount an assault down an alley that's covered with a RPG on one end with elevation and infantry on the sides when your team of 8 is on the opposite end and has to make their way down said alley without casualty? You use everything you know.
Combat is primarily problem solving. The solutions are fairly well known. How do you apply those well known solutions when the scenario is a total curve ball?
If you think military training games are purely FPS, you don't know anything about how the military works.
Absolutely. Everybody installs their own JVM, which means that Sun's concept of installing one JVM everywhere is a disastrous failure. Sun needs to fix this ASAP, starting with the licensing terms which don't allow anyone to ship an incomplete JVM with their app. Small apps are impossible because of this.
This is the reason for the Java certification. If your JVM meets the requirements then it can be called Java compliant. If someone goes off and install an uncertified JVM they gamble on it working according to the spec.
If it only walks like a duck but doesn't quack like a duck it's probably not a duck to begin with.
The downside of java -- in this circumstance --- was having to deal with classpath and compiling cycles and whatnot
Consider getting better tools. Eclipse or even IBM's Visual Age Java back in '96 compiled in the background so you weren't even aware of the compile cycle. Eclipse is free.
If you've attended the Apple stores they have Macs sitting around for people to interact with and even though a good deal of the interaction is unsupervised, nothing destructive happens with the box and life is relatively good.
No, the Israelis are experts in terrorism surveillance. They have people with checkpoints. We don't. We are way behind.
We've been dealing with terrorism for 3 years. They've been at it for about half a century. After 9/11, we went to the Israelis to get help on how to handle airlines for example.
The quality of the information doesn't have to be good. There just needs to be information. The only thing they really care about is that there's a way to quantify who's reading their online content so they can sell the advertising.
The reason for the information collection is to determine general audience demographic. As long as they have something they can go to the advertiser and sell it doesn't really matter to NYT or their equivalences.
Even the act of registration is sufficient to determine readership growth which is probably one metric by which someone's going to get a bonus.
Hackers make shit work. It doesn't matter what they use or how they approach it. At the end of the day, Stuff Just Works(tm).
Most of great programming boils down to a thorough understanding of algorithms and data structures. As long as you have a good data structure to support whatever you're getting to work, hammering out code in whatever language you have at hand shouldn't be a significant challenge.
Bugger me if I know. My mark of a great hacker is Knuth. The rest of the pack are just a bunch of pretenders.
There are bugs at sensitive systems and non-sensitive systems. The likelihood of a terrorist getting into a development group for sensitive systems (military radar control, missile guidance systems, etc.) is slim. Here in the US, we actually have the FBI inspect you, your neighbors, your friends, your family, etc. before clearance is granted.
It's very thorough. We're more likely to get spies than terrorists through the system. However, there are also development methodology that present obstacles to this.
You're never presented with a scenario that is fool-proof. You can arrive at a scenario that give you a good way of filtering out 99.99999% of the crazies out there.
HBO has commercials. They're just not in the format you're familiar with. Sex in the City for example has fairly commercials spliced right into the story line. This isn't like having a particular brand of soda in a shot like in the movies they aren't produced by HBO. This is a full stop the storyline and let's talk about the product for a minute moment.
You keep fighting it but advertising is making its way into everything.
Car mods that moves its safety parameters beyond legally defined boundaries are already illegal. The actual modification itself historically has not been illegal but the end product certainly is. I haven't read the ruling or the article for that matter but from the write up it's not clear if the chip is illegal or modified boxes are illegal.
You have no idea how much corporations would love to give up grants and cash benefits and lose the taxation. It's simply more overhead to figure out what is taxable, what isn't taxable, what they qualify for, what they don't qualify for.
Simply ditching the corporate tax code and grants and cash benefits system would make the entire corporate machinery more efficient. It'd also reduce overhead on the government side trying to figure out who's compliant with what.
There's a godawful lot of things you have to point the JDK to in order for it get everything it needs. I used to hack on a code metrics analysis tool. The build instruction for Windows was a complete mess.
Mac OS X just did things right. It did it even better than Solaris.
However, this being a development tool rightfully has some fairly high minimum knowledge requirements. If you're trying to get it to find lib/tools.jar by upgrading to the latest JDK, you're not in the intended audience for this sort of thing. I'm not being insulting. It's just that most people who work with Java knows what lib/tools.jar is and how to get it found.
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Clarke got in the game a little late. But yes, Clarke would have stood a better chance than Kerry I'd imagine. Clarke had some baggage but they could be handled.
If I ran the Democrat party I would have put Clarke and Lieberman on a ticket and beaten Bush silly. Clarke had the military background and be able to hammer Bush on Vietnam service and his experience with Kosovo. Lieberman would have appealed to the religious right and blunted the GOP's standing with the religious right.
But no. You had a New England Democrat instead. It's not the US really. It's the Democrat party base. They're the one that selected Kerry. I could see myself, a Republican, voting for Clarke or Lieberman sooner than I could ever vote for Kerry. Unfortunately, both Clarke and Lieberman are perceived to be too conservative for the Democrat base.
If any issue had something to do with Bush winning, it's the gay marriage issue. Practically everyone out there is reporting that security was the 3rd ranked issue to the voters. The first being morality and the second being economics. Ohio, in particular was hit hard in the economics sense.
It is the general opinion of the anti-Bush crowd that terrorism is why Bush won. No, morality is why Bush won. The turn out for the GOP was driven primarily by evangelical Christians motivated partially by gay marriage issue on the ballot in 11 states.
You need to take a look at the bigger picture. Not only did Bush win, the Republicans increased their footprint in the Senate and the House. This isn't a Bush victory. It's a Republican across the board victory.
Terrorism played a part in this election but for the people in middle America, it wasn't what got them to the polls. The sooner the Democrats start dealing with religious America they'll stand a better chance.
Did you notice that any Democratic presidential candidate that came close to winning the presidency came from the Bible belt and all the New Englanders lost the majority? Gore, Clinton, Carter vs. Dukakis, Kerry.
The source is OpinionJournal's Political Diary. Thanks for helping George Bush. I'm sure he'll thank you.
Any quality clothing store will do this. The move towards discount stores have resulted in the death of customer service.
When I go to the Ferragamo boutique to get my shoes, the sales guy don't take me to the cash register. He rings up the sale, walks over to me, presents me with the total, I hand him my credit card, he walks to the cash register and processes the transaction, comes back with the receipt and a clipboard to get my signature. I sign and he hands me back my credit card in a credit card sized envelope. While waiting for the entire thing from start to finish, I sat on a very comfortable chair.
Service isn't dead in America. It's just doesn't exist at the discount level. Hell, the guys there will know my taste and actually sends me a card when stuff I like comes in.
A friend sent this to me ... who sent it from some other friend. Isn't this how most chain letters start?
Does anyone actually have first hand experience with this sort of malfunction? I'd be more likely to believe someone lying to me with a first hand account than 3rd or 4th hand account that are true.
Or better yet, why not go from common run time to Mindstorm specific native code.
There's more to training soldiers than simply shooting. Take a look at games like SOCOM or Full Spectrum Warrior. The focus is less on the ability to put cursor over target and press button and more on active thinking in analyzing a situation.
For example, with FSW you command a full 8 man team. You give orders and control fire zones. You don't target anything. There is a lag between the time the order is issued and the troops respond. You also don't control explicitly where they go. You instruct destinations and the troops figure out how to best achieve that. If you plan badly and walk them through a crossfire you have dead troops. It's real simple.
How do you mount an assault down an alley that's covered with a RPG on one end with elevation and infantry on the sides when your team of 8 is on the opposite end and has to make their way down said alley without casualty? You use everything you know.
Combat is primarily problem solving. The solutions are fairly well known. How do you apply those well known solutions when the scenario is a total curve ball?
If you think military training games are purely FPS, you don't know anything about how the military works.
You forgot about gun control.
This is the reason for the Java certification. If your JVM meets the requirements then it can be called Java compliant. If someone goes off and install an uncertified JVM they gamble on it working according to the spec.
If it only walks like a duck but doesn't quack like a duck it's probably not a duck to begin with.
ZeroG makes a great installer. It solves deployment problems.
Consider getting better tools. Eclipse or even IBM's Visual Age Java back in '96 compiled in the background so you weren't even aware of the compile cycle. Eclipse is free.
It works.
If you've attended the Apple stores they have Macs sitting around for people to interact with and even though a good deal of the interaction is unsupervised, nothing destructive happens with the box and life is relatively good.
You think we're doing a better job than Israel with terrorism? Our border is porous. They're about to put in a goddamn wall.
No, the Israelis are experts in terrorism surveillance. They have people with checkpoints. We don't. We are way behind.
We've been dealing with terrorism for 3 years. They've been at it for about half a century. After 9/11, we went to the Israelis to get help on how to handle airlines for example.
Seriously. I get porn delivered to my cube.
It's just all over the place here.
The quality of the information doesn't have to be good. There just needs to be information. The only thing they really care about is that there's a way to quantify who's reading their online content so they can sell the advertising.
The reason for the information collection is to determine general audience demographic. As long as they have something they can go to the advertiser and sell it doesn't really matter to NYT or their equivalences.
Even the act of registration is sufficient to determine readership growth which is probably one metric by which someone's going to get a bonus.
It's not the OS distribution. It's the Mono project. Think about it.
Hackers make shit work. It doesn't matter what they use or how they approach it. At the end of the day, Stuff Just Works(tm).
Most of great programming boils down to a thorough understanding of algorithms and data structures. As long as you have a good data structure to support whatever you're getting to work, hammering out code in whatever language you have at hand shouldn't be a significant challenge.
Bugger me if I know. My mark of a great hacker is Knuth. The rest of the pack are just a bunch of pretenders.
This explains everyting you need to know. But basically FFS is a compatibility thing. Apple still recommends its HFS+.
There are bugs at sensitive systems and non-sensitive systems. The likelihood of a terrorist getting into a development group for sensitive systems (military radar control, missile guidance systems, etc.) is slim. Here in the US, we actually have the FBI inspect you, your neighbors, your friends, your family, etc. before clearance is granted.
It's very thorough. We're more likely to get spies than terrorists through the system. However, there are also development methodology that present obstacles to this.
You're never presented with a scenario that is fool-proof. You can arrive at a scenario that give you a good way of filtering out 99.99999% of the crazies out there.
HBO has commercials. They're just not in the format you're familiar with. Sex in the City for example has fairly commercials spliced right into the story line. This isn't like having a particular brand of soda in a shot like in the movies they aren't produced by HBO. This is a full stop the storyline and let's talk about the product for a minute moment.
You keep fighting it but advertising is making its way into everything.
Car mods that moves its safety parameters beyond legally defined boundaries are already illegal. The actual modification itself historically has not been illegal but the end product certainly is. I haven't read the ruling or the article for that matter but from the write up it's not clear if the chip is illegal or modified boxes are illegal.
In the entire history of game ownership, I've never managed to damage a single disc to the point where it is no longer playable.
What the hell are you other people doing with yours?
You have no idea how much corporations would love to give up grants and cash benefits and lose the taxation. It's simply more overhead to figure out what is taxable, what isn't taxable, what they qualify for, what they don't qualify for.
Simply ditching the corporate tax code and grants and cash benefits system would make the entire corporate machinery more efficient. It'd also reduce overhead on the government side trying to figure out who's compliant with what.
Getting rid of it all would be a huge boon.
There's a godawful lot of things you have to point the JDK to in order for it get everything it needs. I used to hack on a code metrics analysis tool. The build instruction for Windows was a complete mess.
Mac OS X just did things right. It did it even better than Solaris.
However, this being a development tool rightfully has some fairly high minimum knowledge requirements. If you're trying to get it to find lib/tools.jar by upgrading to the latest JDK, you're not in the intended audience for this sort of thing. I'm not being insulting. It's just that most people who work with Java knows what lib/tools.jar is and how to get it found.