I'm halfway through Len Deighton's "Blitzkrieg" in which he explains Hitler's rise to power and how it was used. I was going to attempt to write a humourous response to the parent, stating that Hitler took away many of the rights of his own citizens, wrongly imprisioned and tried citizens of other countries, manipulated England and France into supporting his attacking other countries when I realized that the parent wasn't all that fallacious.
You realize of course that if you had such a sweater, it would cut through anything it snagged on.
You're probably thinking that probably isn't a bad thing - the world would become a much smoother place (and safe for traditional textiles). But everytime I put on a knitted sweater, a part of me gets snagged or caught in part of the sweater.
Maybe because of porn thread yesterday, when I saw the term Money-Shots in the introduction, I immediately got a vision of appolectic Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson when they find out that not only is there life on Mars but their reproductive processes are similar to ours (with the same predillictions for watching them).
Spam of the 21st century: "Grateful, teenaged Martian sluts eager to thank you for taking them away from their dry, cold, dark homes."
The article (sorry not online) just gives the example of one C-5 being able to replace "12 heavy trucks".
I would agree - I would expect a mix of C-17s, C-130s, CH-47s and CH-53s rather than using just C-5s.
Just doing a Google search on the C-5, it is rated (from http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-5.htm) as having a "Fully Loaded" takeoff distance of 12,200 ft with a "Fully Loaded" landing distance of 4,900 ft. Maybe the strategy is to land a full aircraft and take off in a nearly empty one.
Even in this case, I would think a fully loaded C-5 (anywhere from 770,000 lbs to 840,000 lbs (same source)) would break up the pavement of any modest runway almost from the first landing.
Regardless, the point is that the military recognizes the dangers of sending loaded trucks along potentially unsecured routes and is looking for a way to keep drivers out of harm's way.
You might be interested in knowing that, according to AW&ST, the army/air force in Iraq has found in many cases that it is more efficient to transport cargo within Iraq via C-5, instead of 12 large trucks.
The reason was because the loading and unloading areas could be secured but not the highways in between.
I'm reading through your comment and wondering which party Darl sees himself as?
I mean, couldn't he perceive himself as the humiliated victim (ie the kid sick of being unpopular) in this situation and must retalitate? He has started carrying a gun now...
Hopefully, the purpose of the pump 'n dump isn't to get enough funds for an A-Bomb.
Or could it be that people that are not web-saavy have a small penis that they can't get up because they're worried about their mortgage or that poor guy in Nigeria that can't get his money out?
Maybe there's an obvious correlation here that we just don't see because we are web-saavy.
In the long process of watching Jack Valenti putting a revolver, which only has one bullet in the cylinder, to his head and seeing which pull of the trigger is going to blow his head off, this could be the pull that does it.
As most people know, MPAA companies control most of the major networks and produce their shows.
So instead of taping shows as they come on, people will either, avoid TV shows (other than say the news and sports) all together or buy DVD sets of ones that they know are good. A few new shows will flourish, but they're going to have to be very good to survive the lack of quality after being recorded out of the TV/PVR.
Carrying this on, this means that the only product that the MPAA companies will have to sell that anybody will want to buy will be old shows like "Seinfield" and movies. Some shows may become successful by word of mouth, but the MPAA can't depend on seeing any revenue from them except by DVD sales.
As this happens, local TV stations will see a tremendous loss of advertising revenue and they will either go out of business or be forced to look for non-MPAA developed content that doesn't have the bits set.
This will be interesting because you could see an explosion of independently developed TV shows that would be more popular than MPAA developed shows. Advertisers would then start sponsoring independent shows, taking money away from the MPAA.
The MPAA's response? Probably two fold, one force advertisers that want to sponsor live events (like the Superbowl/Oscars) to pay for shows that nobody watches and, two, cancel the network affiliations of stations that show independent productions. Neither one of these options will result in increased revenue for MPAA companies.
In fact, they will probably result in the MPAA member companies being destroyed by either anti-trust legislation or lack of revenue caused by consumer outrage. Of course, one of the current MPAA companies will go rogue and disable the bits in an effort to regain the trust of the consumer, when this is successful, other MPAA companies will leave the fold in an effort to survive/avoid anti-trust lawsuits.
In any case, the MPAA is not going to be a credible force in the future.
Let's hope our new TV Overlords are more responsive to their customer's needs.
the first steps in producing the powered armor of RAH's "Starship Troopers".
I found it interesting to use the term "Pilot" for the user/wearer - especially in light that the exoskeleton is designed to be used with apparently little training.
It's nice to see that we are taking the first steps (excuse the pun) to fight back after space insects destroy Buenos Aires.
This is an unfortunate reference and if it was the basis for deciding to buy the license from SCO, it was an uninformed opinion.
A couple of excellent references on why the jury decision came out the way it did are:
Outrage : The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
REASONABLE DOUBTS : THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE O. J. SIMPSON CASE by Alan M. Dershowitz
The long and the short of both books is that the prosecution didn't have their game face on and blew the case before the trial even started.
The comment above "Law means what the judge/jury feels right will win" is exactly right - I just wish something other than the Simpson case was used as a reference as something that went unexpectedly.
Probably a better thought, as my company's lawyers have told me on several occasions, when you go to court, nobody wins.
Sorry for the personal soapbox but the reference to the Simpson case in this way made me question the validity of the decision to buy the SCO License.
I really liked the book, but I would have...
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probably added a step stating that the problem symptoms and causes should be articulated clearly (probably between #3 and #4) before trying to fix anything. I've seen too many engineers/programmers/technicians list symptoms and attack them individually, only to discover that they were related.
On the surface, this flies in the face of "divide and conquer" - but what I'm really saying here is make sure you have the problem bounded before you attack it.
Also, with Step 9, I would have liked to see more emphasis on ensuring that nothing else is affected by the "fix". Making changes to code to fix a problem is often a one step forward and two steps backwards when you don't completely understand the function of the code that was being changed.
All in all, an excellent book in a little understood area.
The big/. question that nobody seems to be commenting on is whether or not the movie will be hand drawn or digitally produced. According to Groening on the (Simpson's) season three and Futurama (season two) commentary is that this season's shows are now all digital.
Digital seems to be the preferred method because you don't need a legion of Koreans (look at the credits of the original series) to draw/paint the cells, resulting in cheaper costs and scenes can be played over and changed to better suit the mood of the scene in almost real time.
I think this is the reason why the more recent seasons have not had the great "camera work" of the early ones and why Futurama looks so great in comparison.
Where this is leading is if Digital is taken advantage of (like Futurama) it means that there will probably be a different visual style to the movie (and the latest seasons) due to what digital composition allows. While this season's shows haven't really shown the advantages of digital, I wonder if the movie will take advantage of it to give us a whole new look on an old classic.
I'm more afraid that this will be the CEO/Senior Exec's opportunity to get a whack of cash.
Personally, I don't see a strong reason for Opera going public except to make somebody rich in the short term.
Long term? Well, we're still dealing with the fallout of that from similar companies the '90s - no new products/revenue streams but lots of new Lexuses.
I'm reminded of what an American Airlines pilot said after he took a couple of days training on a "glass cockpit" (a couple of computer screens on the instrument panel rather than a myriad of gauges) Airbus:
"Now I know what a dog feels like watching TV."
If there is a much simpler theory, then don't be surprised if when you first see it, it feels like your head is imploding.
that it is free and the license built into the browser allows for development work. There aren't an awful lot of other programming languages/development that can boast this.
Having Javascript already available in the browsers is an advantage because a very great majority of computer tech teachers that I have met have troubles with even understanding the concept of directories and paths, let alone have a snowball's chance in hell of installing something like gcc under Cygwin.
Going off on a personal rant, I would like to see teachers be a lot more scrupulous with respect to licensing software. How seriously is a kid going to take the classroom instruction on not sharing other people's IP when the teacher tells them to download VB, QBASIC or some other clearly copywritten tool into their PCs?
As an added bonus, Javascript is not terrible to program in and you can come up with some good simple client side games. How about Pong, Tic-Tac-Toe, Minefield, Battleship, etc.?
I think that using Javascript for teaching programming is a step in the right direction, but it sounds like this book could have done a better job in making it compelling for kids.
An American and a Soviet citizen are arguing about their respective forms of government. The American proclaims loudly, "In America, if we don't like the way something is being done, we can walk up the steps to the House of Representatives and complain without fear of retribution."
The Soviet isn't impressed; "We can do the same thing."
The American is surprised at this statement and the Soviet citizen continues with, "We too can walk into the Kremlin and complain all we want about America."
Shouldn't they have like 5 Flash RAM's? My guess is that they have at least two with some kind of arbitration circuitry.
I don't know anything about the architecture of the computers on the Rover(s), but I suspect when the term "Flash RAM" is used, they are talking about the redundant Flash memory, the mux/demux and arbitration circuitry. This means that if something on the Flash memory subsystem fails, it is simply described as a "Flash RAM" problem. I would suspect that the Flash memory would be considered to be a lot less reliable than the mux/demux/arbitration electronics.
Modern spacecraft seem to use rad-hardened versions of commercial processors which do not have the completely separate dual memory channels of the AP101s used in the shuttle orbiters.
Rather than using a three pronged approach using filters, expensive computation and digital stamps to combat spammers, how about a simple tool that has three prongs?
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I'm halfway through Len Deighton's "Blitzkrieg" in which he explains Hitler's rise to power and how it was used. I was going to attempt to write a humourous response to the parent, stating that Hitler took away many of the rights of his own citizens, wrongly imprisioned and tried citizens of other countries, manipulated England and France into supporting his attacking other countries when I realized that the parent wasn't all that fallacious.
We live in scary times,
myke
I'm looking forward to your career as the Ron Popeil of the new Millenium!
myke
You realize of course that if you had such a sweater, it would cut through anything it snagged on.
You're probably thinking that probably isn't a bad thing - the world would become a much smoother place (and safe for traditional textiles). But everytime I put on a knitted sweater, a part of me gets snagged or caught in part of the sweater.
Personally, I don't want to get any smoother.
myke
Maybe because of porn thread yesterday, when I saw the term Money-Shots in the introduction, I immediately got a vision of appolectic Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson when they find out that not only is there life on Mars but their reproductive processes are similar to ours (with the same predillictions for watching them).
Spam of the 21st century: "Grateful, teenaged Martian sluts eager to thank you for taking them away from their dry, cold, dark homes."
Laugh - it's friday.
myke
The article (sorry not online) just gives the example of one C-5 being able to replace "12 heavy trucks".
I would agree - I would expect a mix of C-17s, C-130s, CH-47s and CH-53s rather than using just C-5s.
Just doing a Google search on the C-5, it is rated (from http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-5.htm) as having a "Fully Loaded" takeoff distance of 12,200 ft with a "Fully Loaded" landing distance of 4,900 ft. Maybe the strategy is to land a full aircraft and take off in a nearly empty one.
Even in this case, I would think a fully loaded C-5 (anywhere from 770,000 lbs to 840,000 lbs (same source)) would break up the pavement of any modest runway almost from the first landing.
Regardless, the point is that the military recognizes the dangers of sending loaded trucks along potentially unsecured routes and is looking for a way to keep drivers out of harm's way.
myke
You might be interested in knowing that, according to AW&ST, the army/air force in Iraq has found in many cases that it is more efficient to transport cargo within Iraq via C-5, instead of 12 large trucks.
The reason was because the loading and unloading areas could be secured but not the highways in between.
Check out the February 23rd Issue.
myke
I'm reading through your comment and wondering which party Darl sees himself as?
I mean, couldn't he perceive himself as the humiliated victim (ie the kid sick of being unpopular) in this situation and must retalitate? He has started carrying a gun now...
Hopefully, the purpose of the pump 'n dump isn't to get enough funds for an A-Bomb.
myke
Or could it be that people that are not web-saavy have a small penis that they can't get up because they're worried about their mortgage or that poor guy in Nigeria that can't get his money out?
Maybe there's an obvious correlation here that we just don't see because we are web-saavy.
myke (aka "The Tripod")
Doesn't the Star Wars mythology take place a "Long Time Ago"?
If this is true (and who can say it isn't), this means that Papero is actually a throwback to C3P0.
myke
Or quite terrible depending...
Actually, I would consider the biggest variable in the determination of quality would be the amount of alcohol consumed.
In the long process of watching Jack Valenti putting a revolver, which only has one bullet in the cylinder, to his head and seeing which pull of the trigger is going to blow his head off, this could be the pull that does it.
As most people know, MPAA companies control most of the major networks and produce their shows.
So instead of taping shows as they come on, people will either, avoid TV shows (other than say the news and sports) all together or buy DVD sets of ones that they know are good. A few new shows will flourish, but they're going to have to be very good to survive the lack of quality after being recorded out of the TV/PVR.
Carrying this on, this means that the only product that the MPAA companies will have to sell that anybody will want to buy will be old shows like "Seinfield" and movies. Some shows may become successful by word of mouth, but the MPAA can't depend on seeing any revenue from them except by DVD sales.
As this happens, local TV stations will see a tremendous loss of advertising revenue and they will either go out of business or be forced to look for non-MPAA developed content that doesn't have the bits set.
This will be interesting because you could see an explosion of independently developed TV shows that would be more popular than MPAA developed shows. Advertisers would then start sponsoring independent shows, taking money away from the MPAA.
The MPAA's response? Probably two fold, one force advertisers that want to sponsor live events (like the Superbowl/Oscars) to pay for shows that nobody watches and, two, cancel the network affiliations of stations that show independent productions. Neither one of these options will result in increased revenue for MPAA companies.
In fact, they will probably result in the MPAA member companies being destroyed by either anti-trust legislation or lack of revenue caused by consumer outrage. Of course, one of the current MPAA companies will go rogue and disable the bits in an effort to regain the trust of the consumer, when this is successful, other MPAA companies will leave the fold in an effort to survive/avoid anti-trust lawsuits.
In any case, the MPAA is not going to be a credible force in the future.
Let's hope our new TV Overlords are more responsive to their customer's needs.
myke
the first steps in producing the powered armor of RAH's "Starship Troopers".
I found it interesting to use the term "Pilot" for the user/wearer - especially in light that the exoskeleton is designed to be used with apparently little training.
It's nice to see that we are taking the first steps (excuse the pun) to fight back after space insects destroy Buenos Aires.
myke
A couple of excellent references on why the jury decision came out the way it did are:
The long and the short of both books is that the prosecution didn't have their game face on and blew the case before the trial even started.
The comment above "Law means what the judge/jury feels right will win" is exactly right - I just wish something other than the Simpson case was used as a reference as something that went unexpectedly.
Probably a better thought, as my company's lawyers have told me on several occasions, when you go to court, nobody wins.
Sorry for the personal soapbox but the reference to the Simpson case in this way made me question the validity of the decision to buy the SCO License.
myke
Snidley Whiplash!
myke
probably added a step stating that the problem symptoms and causes should be articulated clearly (probably between #3 and #4) before trying to fix anything. I've seen too many engineers/programmers/technicians list symptoms and attack them individually, only to discover that they were related.
On the surface, this flies in the face of "divide and conquer" - but what I'm really saying here is make sure you have the problem bounded before you attack it.
Also, with Step 9, I would have liked to see more emphasis on ensuring that nothing else is affected by the "fix". Making changes to code to fix a problem is often a one step forward and two steps backwards when you don't completely understand the function of the code that was being changed.
All in all, an excellent book in a little understood area.
myke
The big /. question that nobody seems to be commenting on is whether or not the movie will be hand drawn or digitally produced. According to Groening on the (Simpson's) season three and Futurama (season two) commentary is that this season's shows are now all digital.
Digital seems to be the preferred method because you don't need a legion of Koreans (look at the credits of the original series) to draw/paint the cells, resulting in cheaper costs and scenes can be played over and changed to better suit the mood of the scene in almost real time.
I think this is the reason why the more recent seasons have not had the great "camera work" of the early ones and why Futurama looks so great in comparison.
Where this is leading is if Digital is taken advantage of (like Futurama) it means that there will probably be a different visual style to the movie (and the latest seasons) due to what digital composition allows. While this season's shows haven't really shown the advantages of digital, I wonder if the movie will take advantage of it to give us a whole new look on an old classic.
myke
Knowing the cheapskates around here...
myke
I'm more afraid that this will be the CEO/Senior Exec's opportunity to get a whack of cash.
Personally, I don't see a strong reason for Opera going public except to make somebody rich in the short term.
Long term? Well, we're still dealing with the fallout of that from similar companies the '90s - no new products/revenue streams but lots of new Lexuses.
myke
I'm reminded of what an American Airlines pilot said after he took a couple of days training on a "glass cockpit" (a couple of computer screens on the instrument panel rather than a myriad of gauges) Airbus:
"Now I know what a dog feels like watching TV."
If there is a much simpler theory, then don't be surprised if when you first see it, it feels like your head is imploding.
myke
that it is free and the license built into the browser allows for development work. There aren't an awful lot of other programming languages/development that can boast this.
Having Javascript already available in the browsers is an advantage because a very great majority of computer tech teachers that I have met have troubles with even understanding the concept of directories and paths, let alone have a snowball's chance in hell of installing something like gcc under Cygwin.
Going off on a personal rant, I would like to see teachers be a lot more scrupulous with respect to licensing software. How seriously is a kid going to take the classroom instruction on not sharing other people's IP when the teacher tells them to download VB, QBASIC or some other clearly copywritten tool into their PCs?
As an added bonus, Javascript is not terrible to program in and you can come up with some good simple client side games. How about Pong, Tic-Tac-Toe, Minefield, Battleship, etc.?
I think that using Javascript for teaching programming is a step in the right direction, but it sounds like this book could have done a better job in making it compelling for kids.
myke
An American and a Soviet citizen are arguing about their respective forms of government. The American proclaims loudly, "In America, if we don't like the way something is being done, we can walk up the steps to the House of Representatives and complain without fear of retribution."
The Soviet isn't impressed; "We can do the same thing."
The American is surprised at this statement and the Soviet citizen continues with, "We too can walk into the Kremlin and complain all we want about America."
myke
It's nice to see expertise in something totally frivolous like building things out of Legos being rewarded.
myke
Concerned Onlooker wrote:
Not every man is design impaired, and color and styling may be among the criteria evaluated in a purchase.
While this is true, the small minority of men that aren't design impaired embarrass the hell out of the rest of us.
myke
Shouldn't they have like 5 Flash RAM's? My guess is that they have at least two with some kind of arbitration circuitry.
I don't know anything about the architecture of the computers on the Rover(s), but I suspect when the term "Flash RAM" is used, they are talking about the redundant Flash memory, the mux/demux and arbitration circuitry. This means that if something on the Flash memory subsystem fails, it is simply described as a "Flash RAM" problem. I would suspect that the Flash memory would be considered to be a lot less reliable than the mux/demux/arbitration electronics.
Modern spacecraft seem to use rad-hardened versions of commercial processors which do not have the completely separate dual memory channels of the AP101s used in the shuttle orbiters.
myke
Rather than using a three pronged approach using filters, expensive computation and digital stamps to combat spammers, how about a simple tool that has three prongs?
myke