A car bomb in the street out front of an office is a terribly inefficient way to murder someone, if at least one of your goals isn't to terrorize anyone else.
A car bomb is also a classic terrorist tool.
By the principle of parsimony, it's reasonable to assume that this was a terrorist act unless extraordinary evidence to the contrary is presented.
It's time to quit calling everything "terror".
It's time to quit calling everything that isn't terrifying "terror." Car bombs parked out front of government offices will probably never be not terrifying. So your complaint is poorly aimed.
The shock wave reflects from solid surfaces and the reflection sums with the main wave and other reflections, so you can have one window getting much more shock that an adjacent window gets, and damage at considerable distance from the center of the blast.
Not quite sure what you mean. Borders had a dying business model. They failed to react after online sales killed them. NFLX has a thriving business model. They killed brick-and-mortar video stores. Redbox isn't affecting them at all. But they keep slapping their customers.
More likely they're having to pay more for renewal of the same selection, and will have less money to increase their breadth.
It's going to get worse if they just knuckle under to the studios, who own the rights for a billion years and have no reason to capitulate to anyone's demands.
Load testing, yes, using virtual users. In fact, you can do it much better that way because you can ensure that all the things you want loaded will get loaded, even if they're crufty crap no user is going to even try to use.
But that takes writing test software, which can be as expensive as writing the original code. While convincing your friends to whitewash your fence for fun is an American tradition.
"Support" for Microsoft products currently comprises making tedious searches in their "knowledge" base and reading their circular answers to questions only peripherally related to the problem you're actually having.
Doesn't say "instance." Says "copy." It'd be hard to have 500 tasks running if you could only have one instance of the task object, e.g.
My computer is one box full of computer parts, regardless of how it gets configured by software.
So if I create 500 VMs on one computer and run 500 instances of the Windows kernel, I'm not violating my license, as long as the instances were started from the same copy of the software on the HD.
You don't purchase software. You purchase a software license. And a copy of the licensed software. You can sell the copy, but with it goes the license. This is an argument that was resolved in the licensor's favor half a century ago.
I won't disagree with that. I will disagree with duplicating that in a regimented fashion. The Army and Marines could be using the same intel and personnel systems, and the difference between them could be limited to the boots on the ground.
I'm sure someone will try to argue that it has to be specialized vertically, but they don't know much about systems architecture if they do.
Put a cork in it, meathead. My girlfriend is the smartest Marine you ever heard of (she's in the Army now, so that might account for some of it). But she was an MP when she was a Marine. It just blew my mind a little that there are computer programmers on staff. I expect that sort of thing to be contracted out.
"most units have no clue how the hell any other unit operates. The two units I was in had completely different missions and operated completely different to facilitate that mission"
That's exactly the problem. No coherency. It's bloody expensive and impossible to manage. If we don't know how things should operate in the first place, we're fucking up the design of our war machine and wasting a lot of money and manpower redoing things that should have been done right the first time.
And IMO that starts from the idea that we have distinct branches with massive overlap and duplication.
Not really. Facebook was a sleepy little town when MySpace was the hip city with a hundred million users and Rupert Murdoch looking to buy it.
Then Facebook got big by word-of-mouth, MySpace drove away its own base, and here we are, with Google trying to bury Facebook in features and steal its population away in a blitz.
The one thing that Google needs to do to make people otaku is the games. People like the social part, but the games make them click like lab rats.
As for MS, it's running on fumes, knowing that Windows and IE are all but fungible with Linux and N other browsers. But it's got a lot of fumes, so it's trying to diversify, to keep in as many games as it can. Story yesterday said they even made a sweet birthday video for Linux.
It's been a long while since anyone did real Beta testing, which is something you do before letting putative customers in the door. Now the norm is to open the door, put out a "pardon our dust" sign, and claim you're beta testing. Letting customers step in your mortar pail is not testing. Especially when you didn't let those customers help with your use cases in the first place...
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Venn diagram. Nice. That's made it nerdy enough to remain posted, then.
A car bomb in the street out front of an office is a terribly inefficient way to murder someone, if at least one of your goals isn't to terrorize anyone else.
A car bomb is also a classic terrorist tool.
By the principle of parsimony, it's reasonable to assume that this was a terrorist act unless extraordinary evidence to the contrary is presented.
It's time to quit calling everything "terror".
It's time to quit calling everything that isn't terrifying "terror." Car bombs parked out front of government offices will probably never be not terrifying. So your complaint is poorly aimed.
the west is engaged in an ideological war with Islam
That is the view of Islam. The West, however, is in a war with islamic militants, who have that same view.
Story would have led with something about the smell if it were, you'd think.
I saw one probably 400+ meters away blown out
The shock wave reflects from solid surfaces and the reflection sums with the main wave and other reflections, so you can have one window getting much more shock that an adjacent window gets, and damage at considerable distance from the center of the blast.
There's not much that's nerdier than Norwegians.
So, if I spit on the sidewalk in a ghost town, is it a legal issue?
Yes. You broke the law, even if there was nobody to enforce it.
Not quite sure what you mean. Borders had a dying business model. They failed to react after online sales killed them. NFLX has a thriving business model. They killed brick-and-mortar video stores. Redbox isn't affecting them at all. But they keep slapping their customers.
Anything is less fun if other nerds have used up all the good imagination space.
As far as I can tell, NFLX never booked a loss. They were making plenty of profit they could reinvest to grow the company.
They didn't need to change their model, much less twice.
if it helped provide a better selection.
More likely they're having to pay more for renewal of the same selection, and will have less money to increase their breadth.
It's going to get worse if they just knuckle under to the studios, who own the rights for a billion years and have no reason to capitulate to anyone's demands.
Or maybe it's the other way around.
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This is a brilliant film, if it's a real documentary.
But it's total crap if it's a mockumentary.
It's only a legal issue to the extent that it's enforced.
That's an ethical issue. It's always a legal issue.
Load testing, yes, using virtual users. In fact, you can do it much better that way because you can ensure that all the things you want loaded will get loaded, even if they're crufty crap no user is going to even try to use.
But that takes writing test software, which can be as expensive as writing the original code. While convincing your friends to whitewash your fence for fun is an American tradition.
If the license says you can't, then it's a legal issue. Physically it's clearly no problem at all.
"Support" for Microsoft products currently comprises making tedious searches in their "knowledge" base and reading their circular answers to questions only peripherally related to the problem you're actually having.
Doesn't say "instance." Says "copy." It'd be hard to have 500 tasks running if you could only have one instance of the task object, e.g.
My computer is one box full of computer parts, regardless of how it gets configured by software.
So if I create 500 VMs on one computer and run 500 instances of the Windows kernel, I'm not violating my license, as long as the instances were started from the same copy of the software on the HD.
Unless the license explicitly says I can't.
You don't purchase software. You purchase a software license. And a copy of the licensed software. You can sell the copy, but with it goes the license. This is an argument that was resolved in the licensor's favor half a century ago.
Does it matter? It finds out lots of things that are hella cool.
And a volume control that defaults to 11.
I won't disagree with that. I will disagree with duplicating that in a regimented fashion. The Army and Marines could be using the same intel and personnel systems, and the difference between them could be limited to the boots on the ground.
I'm sure someone will try to argue that it has to be specialized vertically, but they don't know much about systems architecture if they do.
Put a cork in it, meathead. My girlfriend is the smartest Marine you ever heard of (she's in the Army now, so that might account for some of it). But she was an MP when she was a Marine. It just blew my mind a little that there are computer programmers on staff. I expect that sort of thing to be contracted out.
"most units have no clue how the hell any other unit operates. The two units I was in had completely different missions and operated completely different to facilitate that mission"
That's exactly the problem. No coherency. It's bloody expensive and impossible to manage. If we don't know how things should operate in the first place, we're fucking up the design of our war machine and wasting a lot of money and manpower redoing things that should have been done right the first time.
And IMO that starts from the idea that we have distinct branches with massive overlap and duplication.
Not really. Facebook was a sleepy little town when MySpace was the hip city with a hundred million users and Rupert Murdoch looking to buy it.
Then Facebook got big by word-of-mouth, MySpace drove away its own base, and here we are, with Google trying to bury Facebook in features and steal its population away in a blitz.
The one thing that Google needs to do to make people otaku is the games. People like the social part, but the games make them click like lab rats.
As for MS, it's running on fumes, knowing that Windows and IE are all but fungible with Linux and N other browsers. But it's got a lot of fumes, so it's trying to diversify, to keep in as many games as it can. Story yesterday said they even made a sweet birthday video for Linux.
It's been a long while since anyone did real Beta testing, which is something you do before letting putative customers in the door. Now the norm is to open the door, put out a "pardon our dust" sign, and claim you're beta testing. Letting customers step in your mortar pail is not testing. Especially when you didn't let those customers help with your use cases in the first place...