Everything's bigger in Texas, especially the ignorance of our children. It's the law. We done made them smarty-pants book writers put Gawd in where all that science nonsense used to go. And then we cleaned up a few things in the history books that were making us uncomfortable too. Y'all in Missouri is just a bunch of johnny-come-latelys.
One of those very specific use cases is called a "spreadsheet", which Calc handles with the grace of a drunk puppy.
[citation needed]
OK, let me save you some time. You're going to cite one of the very specific use cases I mentioned. "A spreadsheet" is not one of those cases. I use Calc more than any other app in the suite and it works just fine, for me,...as "a spreadsheet".
Except that "as good" is a very slippery term. There are certain, very specific, use cases where MS Office is clearly "better". If one encounters enough of those cases, the value provided by the pay-to-play tools is higher. Outside of that, your assertion is false. In other words, I use OpenOffice (Symphony, actually) every day. It does everything I need it to do. Being free, it is of almost infinitely higher value than MS Office. But that's just me.
As for TFA, you're using RIAA math here, guys. That's just stupid. Downloader != potentially-paying-customer. At least get that part right.
No, moderators, no. Not "informative" - stupid. As in "whoosh". The CDC does not actually believe in a zombie threat. They do, however, believe in the threat of various, very real, viral contagions. You know. Like the flu?
First of all, "web developer" covers a lot of ground. You seriously need to narrow your focus. Maybe by technology. Maybe by target market. Whatever, but you need to be a lot more specific about where you want to be and what you want to be doing, if for now other reason than the fact that there are thousands of "web developers" who live and work off-shore and will be your competition when you enter the job market. The best thing you can do for yourself is to distinguish yourself from nameless, faceless off-shore workers. Do it with your mastery of a given technology (recognizing that you will always be refreshing your skill set if you hope to remain employed) or with your familiarity with a given business need.
Oh dear me. The 911 guys were upper middle class graduate students in Germany.
...who were motivated entirely by what they saw as injustice (social, religious, take your pick) going on "back home". The dichotomy may not be lost on you or me, but it most certainly was on those guys. Nice try.
Anything they can do to hasten their slide back into the Dark Ages the better it is for the rest of us.
Hasn't yet improved the lot of "the rest of us", and we have recent examples aplenty to demonstrate just how stupid it is to ignore it when it happens. In fact, it's going to end very badly for us when a bunch of religious fundamentalists with a "Dark Ages" world view get their hands on a real WMD. September 11 will look like a picnic.
Seriously. It is the fear and ignorance that is borne of neglect that breeds the kind of despair that produces suicide bombers and those who can be manipulated into believing that wholesale slaughter of innocents is not just the will of some invisible man in the sky, but is a ticket to "paradise" for any human who carries it out. So, no. Letting them slide back into the Dark Ages is the very last fucking thing we should be doing.
On the contrary, compared to the fundamentalist nut-jobs who've infiltrated the TX state school board, the RCC is positively enlightened and evolution-friendly. The RCC's doesn't include the requirement that believers take every word of scripture as "the one true and unerring word of god". Which is good, because that allows them to look like they didn't really mean to burn all those heretics who had the temerity to suggest that the Earth was not the center of the universe and other Satan-spawned deceptions. Aaaaanyway..., it's just as well. We like to keep our kids stoopid here in the grate state of Texas, so all them liberal elitists can go hang out with their Papist buddies and stop filling our kids minds with all that truth nonsense.
making console depend on layers of complexity in user space, yeah that'll all be there when things go south.... the console is there for emergencies, needs to depend on as little as possibile
Ain't broke. Nuff said. Okay..., maybe not quite, but let's solve the problem(s) without creating new ones. And yes, busting the console most definitely will create problems.
These people have chosen to be enemies of the USA.
Well, gosh. Yes. If you can prove that, fine. We even have a well-defined process for proving "beyond a reasonable doubt" such assertions. Why, all of a sudden, has that process become inadequate? When that process has served so well to prevent the kind of tyranny that inevitably descends from narrow-minded thinking like that quoted above, should we even consider abandoning it?
Really? And compared to your average tablet, how does the Celeron fare? The Chromebook's niche is not that of a PC. Hell, it's not even like that of a traditional notebook. Given that, the Celeron processor is more than up to the task.
Of course there's an element of "the country with the largest army wins" (for a given definition of win), but the idea that these systems are stupid enough to shoot down missiles that aren't going to hit targets is laughable.
Not at all. The "will it hit it's target" question is not one that can be easily answered in enough cases that the math does not matter. All I have to do is get close and I look like enough of a threat to draw a response. It's possible that defensive systems could collect enough information (flight profile, radar signature, exhaust temp) from a possible threat to make guess on whether or not it's worth shooting at, but that's a losing game in the end. All the adversary has to do is make his crowd pleasers look enough like the decoys.
The Minister has asked the Commissioner (of Revenue, Andrew Treusch) to investigate and take any and all necessary corrective action.
...means that the Minister is referring to sad state of customer "service" in the agency and not to someone who's poking fun at it. But that's a sucker bet, for sure.
Ignorant, undisciplined, slack-jawed rednecks
Bigotry? How quaint.
Hardly. More like long standing observation. I own a few guns. By comparison to most folk, most gun owners included, I shoot a lot, so I'm in a position to gauge the makeup of the group "armed populace". For every serious accomplished shooter, there are probably 20 or 30 whose qualifications range from "might be a threat" to "more likely to shoot himself in the leg and shouldn't be trusted with anything more dangerous than a pointed stick". The latter group is heavily populated by the aforementioned slack-jawed rednecks. Same goes for gun shows, where the more-dangerous-to-himself tool seems to be perennially drawn. Am I generalizing? Of course, but that group is most certainly out there. It is large and it's profile is high. It is hardly bigotry to make that observation.
The Apache is supposed to be able to take 23mm shots at the engines and rotors, but I wonder how many shots it can take.
I wonder how many RPG or similar weapons are in civilian nonmercenary hands in the USA.
So the Barrett, or any "sniper" rifle in.50 BMG, in the hands of some Walter Mitty, is not likely to be an effective weapon against the Apache. Keep in mind, one of the key ingredients in the sniper's bag of tricks is concealment. Unless he is in an extraordinary position, he's not going to get a shot that can reliably bring it down. So he must shoot again, and again, risking discovery. At that point, if the pilot decides to engage, the Apache wins.
As for the survivalists, recognizing that there are exceptions, they exactly the type of dumb-ass would-be targets that I'd expect to mowed down when faced with any challenge by trained and disciplined military opponents, especially when the opponent's have weapons and ordinance that the yokels don't. The Branch Davidian fiasco was a fair fight until somebody (not going to get into that here) set the building on fire. Survivalists, holded up, building. Take your pick of weapons and tactics for that scenario.
Yes. Definitely. Ignorant, undisciplined, slack-jawed rednecks with a few AR-15's are not a match for Blackhawk helicopters. If it comes down to citizens fighting the U.S. military, it's going to be far more than the size of a militia member's magazine that affects the outcome.
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Everything's bigger in Texas, especially the ignorance of our children. It's the law. We done made them smarty-pants book writers put Gawd in where all that science nonsense used to go. And then we cleaned up a few things in the history books that were making us uncomfortable too. Y'all in Missouri is just a bunch of johnny-come-latelys.
One of those very specific use cases is called a "spreadsheet", which Calc handles with the grace of a drunk puppy.
[citation needed] ...as "a spreadsheet".
OK, let me save you some time. You're going to cite one of the very specific use cases I mentioned. "A spreadsheet" is not one of those cases. I use Calc more than any other app in the suite and it works just fine, for me,
Except that "as good" is a very slippery term. There are certain, very specific, use cases where MS Office is clearly "better". If one encounters enough of those cases, the value provided by the pay-to-play tools is higher. Outside of that, your assertion is false. In other words, I use OpenOffice (Symphony, actually) every day. It does everything I need it to do. Being free, it is of almost infinitely higher value than MS Office. But that's just me.
As for TFA, you're using RIAA math here, guys. That's just stupid. Downloader != potentially-paying-customer. At least get that part right.
No, moderators, no. Not "informative" - stupid. As in "whoosh". The CDC does not actually believe in a zombie threat. They do, however, believe in the threat of various, very real, viral contagions. You know. Like the flu?
First of all, "web developer" covers a lot of ground. You seriously need to narrow your focus. Maybe by technology. Maybe by target market. Whatever, but you need to be a lot more specific about where you want to be and what you want to be doing, if for now other reason than the fact that there are thousands of "web developers" who live and work off-shore and will be your competition when you enter the job market. The best thing you can do for yourself is to distinguish yourself from nameless, faceless off-shore workers. Do it with your mastery of a given technology (recognizing that you will always be refreshing your skill set if you hope to remain employed) or with your familiarity with a given business need.
Oh dear me. The 911 guys were upper middle class graduate students in Germany.
...who were motivated entirely by what they saw as injustice (social, religious, take your pick) going on "back home". The dichotomy may not be lost on you or me, but it most certainly was on those guys. Nice try.
Least efficient way of making the stuff. The tractors burn more diesel harvesting the stuff than the energy it will produce. .
Not that I am inclined to disagree, but please... [citation needed]
Anything they can do to hasten their slide back into the Dark Ages the better it is for the rest of us.
Hasn't yet improved the lot of "the rest of us", and we have recent examples aplenty to demonstrate just how stupid it is to ignore it when it happens. In fact, it's going to end very badly for us when a bunch of religious fundamentalists with a "Dark Ages" world view get their hands on a real WMD. September 11 will look like a picnic.
Seriously. It is the fear and ignorance that is borne of neglect that breeds the kind of despair that produces suicide bombers and those who can be manipulated into believing that wholesale slaughter of innocents is not just the will of some invisible man in the sky, but is a ticket to "paradise" for any human who carries it out. So, no. Letting them slide back into the Dark Ages is the very last fucking thing we should be doing.
...and both are for those who feel the need to embrace superstitions that were born of what was once simply practical advice.
On the contrary, compared to the fundamentalist nut-jobs who've infiltrated the TX state school board, the RCC is positively enlightened and evolution-friendly. The RCC's doesn't include the requirement that believers take every word of scripture as "the one true and unerring word of god". Which is good, because that allows them to look like they didn't really mean to burn all those heretics who had the temerity to suggest that the Earth was not the center of the universe and other Satan-spawned deceptions. Aaaaanyway..., it's just as well. We like to keep our kids stoopid here in the grate state of Texas, so all them liberal elitists can go hang out with their Papist buddies and stop filling our kids minds with all that truth nonsense.
A patent on regular deliveries boinking all the stay at home wives in the neighborhood.
You forgot "...on a computer".
What? They have that already? I need to not get out so much.
The scary part is that 99% of their viewers will, as usual, swallow that bullshit without a second thought.
making console depend on layers of complexity in user space, yeah that'll all be there when things go south.... the console is there for emergencies, needs to depend on as little as possibile
Ain't broke. Nuff said. Okay..., maybe not quite, but let's solve the problem(s) without creating new ones. And yes, busting the console most definitely will create problems.
If this can happen it points to the fact that the entire DMCA process is utterly broken and open to abuse.
No proof is required on the side of the claimant, but the accused can immediately lose their...
Oh, lighten up. It's not like we have a system where citizens can be executed without even the least access to due process. Oh... wait.
These people have chosen to be enemies of the USA.
Well, gosh. Yes. If you can prove that, fine. We even have a well-defined process for proving "beyond a reasonable doubt" such assertions. Why, all of a sudden, has that process become inadequate? When that process has served so well to prevent the kind of tyranny that inevitably descends from narrow-minded thinking like that quoted above, should we even consider abandoning it?
Really? And compared to your average tablet, how does the Celeron fare? The Chromebook's niche is not that of a PC. Hell, it's not even like that of a traditional notebook. Given that, the Celeron processor is more than up to the task.
Of course there's an element of "the country with the largest army wins" (for a given definition of win), but the idea that these systems are stupid enough to shoot down missiles that aren't going to hit targets is laughable.
Not at all. The "will it hit it's target" question is not one that can be easily answered in enough cases that the math does not matter. All I have to do is get close and I look like enough of a threat to draw a response. It's possible that defensive systems could collect enough information (flight profile, radar signature, exhaust temp) from a possible threat to make guess on whether or not it's worth shooting at, but that's a losing game in the end. All the adversary has to do is make his crowd pleasers look enough like the decoys.
"Insightful". Really? No substance and only a grammar school name-calling now counts as insight?
You keep using that word...
The Minister has asked the Commissioner (of Revenue, Andrew Treusch) to investigate and take any and all necessary corrective action.
...means that the Minister is referring to sad state of customer "service" in the agency and not to someone who's poking fun at it. But that's a sucker bet, for sure.
Megaupload had the same policy of removing copyrighted content. Even providing special access for rights holders to flag content themselves.
It's not like Doctom wanted Mega to be a Pirate Bay...
Quite right. But then if I'm Megaupload, I'm not going to cry about all this hub-bub. It's free publicity.
Ignorant, undisciplined, slack-jawed rednecks Bigotry? How quaint.
Hardly. More like long standing observation. I own a few guns. By comparison to most folk, most gun owners included, I shoot a lot, so I'm in a position to gauge the makeup of the group "armed populace". For every serious accomplished shooter, there are probably 20 or 30 whose qualifications range from "might be a threat" to "more likely to shoot himself in the leg and shouldn't be trusted with anything more dangerous than a pointed stick". The latter group is heavily populated by the aforementioned slack-jawed rednecks. Same goes for gun shows, where the more-dangerous-to-himself tool seems to be perennially drawn. Am I generalizing? Of course, but that group is most certainly out there. It is large and it's profile is high. It is hardly bigotry to make that observation.
Do you realize how many of those "slack jawed rednecks" are current or former military?
Yes. Not enough. Not even close.
But one of those survivalists could probably take out helis with 1/100th of his arsenal.
You could take out most helis with a high powered sniper rifle as long as you are willing and able to wait for the right shot(s). http://www.vpc.org/graphics/50Helicopters.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82
The Apache is supposed to be able to take 23mm shots at the engines and rotors, but I wonder how many shots it can take.
I wonder how many RPG or similar weapons are in civilian nonmercenary hands in the USA.
So the Barrett, or any "sniper" rifle in .50 BMG, in the hands of some Walter Mitty, is not likely to be an effective weapon against the Apache. Keep in mind, one of the key ingredients in the sniper's bag of tricks is concealment. Unless he is in an extraordinary position, he's not going to get a shot that can reliably bring it down. So he must shoot again, and again, risking discovery. At that point, if the pilot decides to engage, the Apache wins.
As for the survivalists, recognizing that there are exceptions, they exactly the type of dumb-ass would-be targets that I'd expect to mowed down when faced with any challenge by trained and disciplined military opponents, especially when the opponent's have weapons and ordinance that the yokels don't. The Branch Davidian fiasco was a fair fight until somebody (not going to get into that here) set the building on fire. Survivalists, holded up, building. Take your pick of weapons and tactics for that scenario.
Yes. Definitely. Ignorant, undisciplined, slack-jawed rednecks with a few AR-15's are not a match for Blackhawk helicopters. If it comes down to citizens fighting the U.S. military, it's going to be far more than the size of a militia member's magazine that affects the outcome.
A peer reviewed study that doesn't quite jive with the prevailing line of thinking appears in the prestigious journal Nature.
But don't worry, some blogger says it may not be correct. Alarmist Rejoice!
You keep using that word. I don't not think it means what you think it means. The "alarmist" view is not the one that has the overwhelming consensus.