Is it really that hard to understand that the gun is a deterrent, not a 'thugicide'?
Drawing a gun always escalates situation. If the attacker chooses to respond, very likely one of you will end up dead or seriously wounded, with 50/50 chance. Your marksman and gun handling skills aren't really that important in such a stressful situation; if anything, actual combat experience would help, but I don't think many people have it. Are you really willing to play that lottery?
When you pull a gun (hopefully after taking one or more courses in lethal force usage) you are sending a message to the criminal : this episode is over.
Or, the message is: fuck, he's got a gun, shoot!
You seem to ignore many factors: how dumb your opponent is, how much guts he have, how many of companions he got, is he on drugs...
Never pull a gun unless you absolutely determined to use it.
if dig camera manufacturers did not LIE and count the colors seperately RGBG (two greens per blue and red) then the megapixels would not be 400% inflated.
Sorry, but they don't lie: they still have the same amount of effective pixels as declared, and each pixel registers its own photons. Sure color interpolation amounts for some quality loss, but it is far from 400%.
even the best real 1920x1080 camera (the Thompson Viper) can take a phot at that res in one 60th of a second exposure at 12 bits of color depth.
There's Sigma SD-10, a DSLR that has more resolution that you would consider 'real'. It has a three-layer Foveon matrix (each corresponding to a base color), and each of them amounts to 3.3 megapixels.
Thats a joke compared to a 40 dollar SLR camera.
That 'joke' would still yield better quality images (given to the same photographer).
The down side is there seems to be a strong gender correlation to being passionate about CS. For of the femenine persuasion when they are passionate about something it tends to be in the liberal arts/musical/medical side of things.
We have two female hackers here, coding in Ruby and Tcl/Tk under Linux. Both are quite good at that. So while fewer females tend to like CS, those who do like it definitely exist.
Would you debate that smoking causes cancer? No, because there is a strong correlation between smoking and probability of lung cancer.
Similarily, there are certain forms of cancer that manifest mainly due to radioactive contamination. Thyroid gland is known to accumulate iodine, which is normally not radioactive, but in contaminated areas is prevaletnly present as a radioactive isotope. Hence, a person (esp. a child) living there would inevitably accumulate a lot of radioactive material in the small volume of the gland, thus greatly increasing likehood of tissue pathology in that area.
I live in Belarus (where about 70% of Chernobyl contamination fell out), and since the accident the thyroid gland is on routine medical checklist here. Large percentage of children here have gland anomalities, but due to proper profilactics (e.g. consuming salt enriched with non-radioactive iod) very few cases develop do cancer.
There were many troops, just not admitted to. However, the vast majority of the Soviet forces involved were NV people (not ethnic Russians), under the command of the Soviet colonial governor Ho.
By your definition of agression US has attacked virtually every country. Sorry, I don't operate with the definitions deliberately maked up.
The USSR invaded and annexed all of South Vietnam in the mid-1970s.
USSR never did that. There were no Soviet troops in Vietnam. Try reading sometimes.
NV should have stayed north of its side of the international border.
There was no "international border". It was a civil war (that is, until the USA interfered), which started when South Vietnamese government refused to hold country-wide elections as was previously negotiated at the Geneva conference.
Without the US interference the civil war would end much sooner, with much less blood and with the same result.
USSR never invided any part of Vietnam, USA did. Read your own history books.
If they had decided for peace (instead of invasion of South Vietnam), southeastern Asia would have been a lot better off.
Vietnam would be much better off if it wasn't poured by napalm as thoroughly.
Oh, but I see that you're just another self-righteous warmonger. I suggest you to voluntarily participate in a military conflict: people usually come out much calmer and not as narrow-minded after that (those who survive that is). Besides, you'll have a luxury to check firsthand how good the fights can be.
Funny thing though, warmongers are never apt to try it out themselves.
The USSR fought the bad fight in Afghanistan and Vietnam. Their invasions there were about nothing more than aggression, and millions of lives were lost.
USSR have never invaded Vietnam, USA did, under a false pretext. And most of these particular millions were killed by US servicemen armed with US weapons and funded by US taxpeyers. Pay credit where it's due.
And there is no such thing in the world as a "good fight".
..Vietnam for the US and Afghanistan for the USSR (Ok, the USSR was fighting the good fight and the US not, but their methods did not differ much, and civilians suffered most in both cases).
I wouldn't say that USSR was fighting a "good fight" in Afghanistan. The war was largely unjustified and resulted from political incompetence of the old farts who ruled USSR by that time.
My father have spent three years in Afghan campaign, and by his opinion it wasn't a particularily worthy enterprise.
When you are a programmer, you are NOT the driver -- you are the engine builder.
Agreed. But the book in question did exactly that comparision.
And if you don't have the basics down, how will you have a proper foundation for the rest of your knowledge?
I'm all for getting the basics right:) It is the submitter's statement that the knowledge of assembly is the key difference from mediocrity was irriating me. Knowledge of whatever topic alone isn't going to give you excellence. I've seen some very good developers, and if I could point at anything distinguishing them from the rest (apart from expertise, which tends to accumulate with time) it would be their ability to concentrate and mental stamina.
I've found that the key difference between mediocre and excellent programmers is whether or not they know assembly language.
You've found it wrong. Learning assembly language is not that great undertaking, and clearly it is not the decisive factor in programmer's qualification. To bend the book's metaphor, knowing how a carburetor works isn't the thing that makes you a good race driver.
Being in the trenches since '97, I find your implication (that such a trivial thing as knowing a few mnemonics and monkey tricks is what determines excellence in our trade) insulting. For heaven's sake, most of CS grads here go through assembly course: it's just as basic as it gets.
Since when an operating system have to have preemptive multitasking?
Primary function of an OS is to provide operating environment for applications, that is: handle I/O, interface to hardware, do some common low-level operations. Other features (e.g. any form of multitasking, memory management, GUI) can be included or not, based on specific needs.
And you know what? For an organizer, preemptive multitasking isn't anywhere near top priority: typically one uses a limited set of applications for very short periods of time, one at a time. Convenience and responsiveness are far more important.
Palm was designed to be a handheld organizer, and it is very good at that (even the early models). However, with time people pushed it much further, way beyond its original goals, hence it is worth updating.
Am not a typical Palm user, and often whished for Palm to have multitasking (e.g. I sit in IRC and suddenly need to look up someone's address), but for most Palm users it is not an essential feature.
What's left and why, exactly, will the economy survive? Oh, right, we'll all get jobs dealing with people face-to-face, selling things to people with no money.
Within the demand/supply theory, as labour pool (and population's buying ability) depelts, the wages and cost of living should both reduce, making the U.S. workers competitive again.
You can't change the world, But you can change the facts, When you change the facts, You change point of view, When you change point of view, You can change the vote, And when you change the vote, You can change the world.
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Is it really that hard to understand that the gun is a deterrent, not a 'thugicide'?
Drawing a gun always escalates situation. If the attacker chooses to respond, very likely one of you will end up dead or seriously wounded, with 50/50 chance. Your marksman and gun handling skills aren't really that important in such a stressful situation; if anything, actual combat experience would help, but I don't think many people have it. Are you really willing to play that lottery?
When you pull a gun (hopefully after taking one or more courses in lethal force usage) you are sending a message to the criminal : this episode is over.
Or, the message is: fuck, he's got a gun, shoot!
You seem to ignore many factors: how dumb your opponent is, how much guts he have, how many of companions he got, is he on drugs...
Never pull a gun unless you absolutely determined to use it.
Now, when they will outsource the recipients to China as well?
I just see it:
"Enlarge your party membership"
"Hot XXX caucasian teens"
The foveon 3.3 megapixel you mentioned probably cannot capture 3.3 in one 60th of a second.
Of course it can. 1/60th of a second ain't that fucking fast shutter speed.
if dig camera manufacturers did not LIE and count the colors seperately RGBG (two greens per blue and red) then the megapixels would not be 400% inflated.
Sorry, but they don't lie: they still have the same amount of effective pixels as declared, and each pixel registers its own photons. Sure color interpolation amounts for some quality loss, but it is far from 400%.
even the best real 1920x1080 camera (the Thompson Viper) can take a phot at that res in one 60th of a second exposure at 12 bits of color depth.
There's Sigma SD-10, a DSLR that has more resolution that you would consider 'real'. It has a three-layer Foveon matrix (each corresponding to a base color), and each of them amounts to 3.3 megapixels.
Thats a joke compared to a 40 dollar SLR camera.
That 'joke' would still yield better quality images (given to the same photographer).
You could just name this story "I am a geek and married".
But then can we have GNOME 2.6 in unstable meanwhile, please?
Another fun thing to do was to roll the monitor's brightness wheel into full black. Turn the computer on, and OUCH! it's dead!
For example, e-mail was one of the things that kept the world informed about the attempted coup in Russia in 1996.
It was Soviet Union and 1991.
Email, however, didn't help much back in 1993, when the Yeltsin actually used military force to get done with the parliament.
The down side is there seems to be a strong gender correlation to being passionate about CS. For of the femenine persuasion when they are passionate about something it tends to be in the liberal arts/musical/medical side of things.
We have two female hackers here, coding in Ruby and Tcl/Tk under Linux. Both are quite good at that. So while fewer females tend to like CS, those who do like it definitely exist.
Now even slashdotters can have a girlfriend.
'Lay down your arms' enscribed in the sky from horizon to horizon, could make an effect for the army of an invaded state.
Would you debate that smoking causes cancer? No, because there is a strong correlation between smoking and probability of lung cancer.
Similarily, there are certain forms of cancer that manifest mainly due to radioactive contamination. Thyroid gland is known to accumulate iodine, which is normally not radioactive, but in contaminated areas is prevaletnly present as a radioactive isotope. Hence, a person (esp. a child) living there would inevitably accumulate a lot of radioactive material in the small volume of the gland, thus greatly increasing likehood of tissue pathology in that area.
I live in Belarus (where about 70% of Chernobyl contamination fell out), and since the accident the thyroid gland is on routine medical checklist here. Large percentage of children here have gland anomalities, but due to proper profilactics (e.g. consuming salt enriched with non-radioactive iod) very few cases develop do cancer.
However some definitely do, and people die.
There were many troops, just not admitted to. However, the vast majority of the Soviet forces involved were NV people (not ethnic Russians), under the command of the Soviet colonial governor Ho.
By your definition of agression US has attacked virtually every country. Sorry, I don't operate with the definitions deliberately maked up.
Good luck troll, try feeding other place.
The USSR invaded and annexed all of South Vietnam in the mid-1970s.
USSR never did that. There were no Soviet troops in Vietnam. Try reading sometimes.
NV should have stayed north of its side of the international border.
There was no "international border". It was a civil war (that is, until the USA interfered), which started when South Vietnamese government refused to hold country-wide elections as was previously negotiated at the Geneva conference.
Without the US interference the civil war would end much sooner, with much less blood and with the same result.
Credit for the Vietnam War lies with the USSR.
USSR never invided any part of Vietnam, USA did. Read your own history books.
If they had decided for peace (instead of invasion of South Vietnam), southeastern Asia would have been a lot better off.
Vietnam would be much better off if it wasn't poured by napalm as thoroughly.
Oh, but I see that you're just another self-righteous warmonger. I suggest you to voluntarily participate in a military conflict: people usually come out much calmer and not as narrow-minded after that (those who survive that is). Besides, you'll have a luxury to check firsthand how good the fights can be.
Funny thing though, warmongers are never apt to try it out themselves.
Actually it is now belived Germany attacked Russia when it did because otherwise Russia would have attacked a little later itself.
It is believed that Elvis is there on the Moon.
The USSR fought the bad fight in Afghanistan and Vietnam. Their invasions there were about nothing more than aggression, and millions of lives were lost.
USSR have never invaded Vietnam, USA did, under a false pretext. And most of these particular millions were killed by US servicemen armed with US weapons and funded by US taxpeyers. Pay credit where it's due.
And there is no such thing in the world as a "good fight".
I wouldn't say that USSR was fighting a "good fight" in Afghanistan. The war was largely unjustified and resulted from political incompetence of the old farts who ruled USSR by that time.
My father have spent three years in Afghan campaign, and by his opinion it wasn't a particularily worthy enterprise.
When you are a programmer, you are NOT the driver -- you are the engine builder.
:) It is the submitter's statement that the knowledge of assembly is the key difference from mediocrity was irriating me. Knowledge of whatever topic alone isn't going to give you excellence. I've seen some very good developers, and if I could point at anything distinguishing them from the rest (apart from expertise, which tends to accumulate with time) it would be their ability to concentrate and mental stamina.
Agreed. But the book in question did exactly that comparision.
And if you don't have the basics down, how will you have a proper foundation for the rest of your knowledge?
I'm all for getting the basics right
I've found that the key difference between mediocre and excellent programmers is whether or not they know assembly language.
You've found it wrong. Learning assembly language is not that great undertaking, and clearly it is not the decisive factor in programmer's qualification. To bend the book's metaphor, knowing how a carburetor works isn't the thing that makes you a good race driver.
Being in the trenches since '97, I find your implication (that such a trivial thing as knowing a few mnemonics and monkey tricks is what determines excellence in our trade) insulting. For heaven's sake, most of CS grads here go through assembly course: it's just as basic as it gets.
Since when an operating system have to have preemptive multitasking?
Primary function of an OS is to provide operating environment for applications, that is: handle I/O, interface to hardware, do some common low-level operations. Other features (e.g. any form of multitasking, memory management, GUI) can be included or not, based on specific needs.
And you know what? For an organizer, preemptive multitasking isn't anywhere near top priority: typically one uses a limited set of applications for very short periods of time, one at a time. Convenience and responsiveness are far more important.
Palm was designed to be a handheld organizer, and it is very good at that (even the early models). However, with time people pushed it much further, way beyond its original goals, hence it is worth updating.
Am not a typical Palm user, and often whished for Palm to have multitasking (e.g. I sit in IRC and suddenly need to look up someone's address), but for most Palm users it is not an essential feature.
What's left and why, exactly, will the economy survive? Oh, right, we'll all get jobs dealing with people face-to-face, selling things to people with no money.
Within the demand/supply theory, as labour pool (and population's buying ability) depelts, the wages and cost of living should both reduce, making the U.S. workers competitive again.
You can't change the world,
But you can change the facts,
When you change the facts,
You change point of view,
When you change point of view,
You can change the vote,
And when you change the vote,
You can change the world.
Hey, MS partisans, go tell us again how Linux is as vulnerable as Windows?
..and I'll be your next President!
*evil laughter*