Face Of Battle is indeed a fine book. The histiorography in the introduction is worth reading by itself, his shift from romantic descriptions of battles to more logical modes of battle analysis. Also worth reading are his books Mask Of Command and Five Armies In Normandy. The Mask Of Command is particularly useful in describing why Hitler was a bad leader, and Grant was so good. I read Grant's autobiography on the strength of that book.
I work for a financial company and if the rest use their bright shiny oracle databases like we do - and I don't think we're atypical - then, no, they have no idea how to use a database. Or build applications. At all. Not a clue.I can't begin to describe the inability, the sheer awesome crap-ness of what they do. The amount of work-arounds that the programmers implement to short-circuit the crap-ness. Really, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Microsoft were so desperate to get on the netbook wagon, they forced OEMs to use XP - an OS which was officially dead - at knockdown prices. That's the evidence right there.
And even XP can't really operate with SSD, and the netbook market has been skewed with netbooks with hard-disks, because "hard disks are better for you." Duh. If XP or 7 or whatever the fuck ms and it's apologists are force-feeding us these days, I bet that SSD would suddenly become "good". I looked for a "netbook" with SSD the other week in trawl of non-techie emporiums and I could not find one. All the netbooks I found were XP with hard-disks.
Yes, we have too much surveillance. And it hasn't reduced crime by an amount commensurate with the cost, IMO.
The English used to refer to England standing in for the whole of the UK. A synecdoche if you will. So, the monarch of this torpid islands used to sign themselves King or Queen of England, and that would apply to the whole. The multiple volume Oxford History of England was, you guessed it, a history of the UK. It has changed, particularly since devolution. We are British now, apparently, although this tends to apply those outside of London.
And I find myself... not caring. I've not heard anything about Windows 7 that makes it compelling.
XP on netbook: that truly stank of desperation, and will be marked as the point when MS truly lost it. And they had to screw the netbook spec with a hard-disk to shoe-horn it into place. Epic failure.
Noting ephemera in books has along and noble history in books. I've owned literature study books absolutely crawling with notes, sometimes useful, some not. But that was in the day when second-hand books were more plentiful. I prefer the notes to be in pencil as I could rub them out. People who use high-lighters should be shot.
I've also owned books which had to be sliced open. That's right: books came with the pages folded and you had to cut each fold to read the individual pages.
Now that books are becoming virtualised, that relationship will change. It will be a great loss if we cannot record our thoughts with the book. Indeed, using hyper-links, I think annotating books will become a deeper exercise.
Actually, the Romans were reluctant to spend any money at all on their forces; forcing Generals to bulk out their forces with less reliable native auxillaries.
What will bring you to your knees is your inability to keep spending to a level to compete with, say, China.
We've just come off the back of the biggest glut of easy money yet not one ISP seems to have taken advantage of it to lay more fibre. If there was an easy bet to be made five years ago, betting that bandwidth demand would increase would be that bet.
There was easy money out there, yet no one seems to have taken advantage of it. No one seems to have invested in laying more cable in the last quarter. It seems that most capitalists these days are risk-averse. Which to me is very sad.
I was a big fan in the day so when I saw the upcoming new series, I obtained a copy of the first series. It hadn't aged well. Worse, the new program was... just... hideous, and utter shit as AC says.
Star Wars never worked, would never have worked, was never built, will never be built.
What Reagan may have done was probably hasten the end of the Soviet Union by forcing it to spend like crazy on weapons programs. Then again, I think he was lucky. The Soviet Union was ripe for collapse anyway, and it just happened on his watch. I think that's the most likely explanation.
"There is currently no evidence from clinical trials in humans that injecting or consuming vitamin C is an effective way to treat cancer.
"Some research even suggests that high doses of antioxidants can make cancer treatment less effective, reducing the benefits of radiotherapy and chemotherapy."
The human body discards Vitamin C once it has reached saturation.
Actually, your slur on poor Gore is quite amusing.
I suppose you mean Jim Bakker - that's two k's - whose benighted career had the virtue of being somewhat racey. When I was watching the US elections that Gore lost, I found myself hoping - desperately - that Gore would find the common touch, some excitement, some charisma, some racey-ness, if you will. Alas, no. I felt I was watching a dull, provincial bank-clerk clearly out of his depth. And so it goes.
I trust Gore in the field of policy; not in science. In this case, and in most others, the Gore meme is a straw-man intended to misdirect the discourse. How he is impugned as "untrustworthy", I have no idea. Indeed, Gore is renowned for being rather a dull, bookish fellow, one of the reasons people did not vote for him. Maybe you have some contrary evidence from a reputable source?
I trust the consensus of climatologists, which, AFAIK, seems to indicate that Global Warming is taking place. Unless someone can show me some strong positive evidence to the contrary, I'm inclined to believe the majority in this case.
Yes, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century - a greater scientist than Freeman Dyson if one counts Nobel Prizes - and for years he kept banging on about Vitamin C as a cure for cancer. At one time, he even put his wife through the treatment. Vitamin C as a cure for cancer is baloney. Pauling wasn't a nutritionist.
If you dab your toe in a field outside your expertise, you're liable to get it bitten off. I wouldn't take the advice of a Doctor of medicine on writing PERL.
as in the rule of the road, which also covers submarines.
Rule 13
Overtaking
(a) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Rules of Part B, Sections I and II, any vessel overtaking any other shall keep out of the way of the vessel being overtaken.
(b) A vessel shall be deemed to be overtaking when coming up with another vessel from a direction more than 22.5 degrees abaft her beam, that is, in such a position with reference to the vessel she is overtaking, that at night she would be able to see only the sternlight of that vessel but neither of her sidelights.
(c) When a vessel is in any doubt as to whether she is overtaking another, she shall assume that this is the case and act accordingly.
(d) Any subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall not make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these Rules or reliever her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear.
I'm guessing the sub was overtaking the surface ship.
Officer Of The Watch has *full* command when he - or she - is on watch. However, the OOW is supposed to call the Old Man whenever traffic gets busy. If a ship is in busy waters, the Captain should be on the bridge *anyway*, particularly if the OOW is a junior officer.
I used to manage 10 windows machines, some old, some new. Each had their own box. I wanted to buy one big box, and run all the build OS's - plus Linux - on the same box. Voila: (in theory) no new machines, just load up another OS on the multi-core and away we go.
I wonder if MS are using this as a way of getting at Xen and VMware?
I'd rather trust tried and trusted technology to do anything engineering. Latest Apache server? Uh, no thanks. I'd rather stick to dear old 1.3.*. I'd prefer windows 3.1 to Vista if I was going to stick my arse in the deep, deep cold of space. The 286 chipset to whatever whizz-bangery that powers the latest netbook. Especially if I was riding into the sweet unknown, I'd want my technology tried trusted, fully debugged. I don't want any blue-screens as I try and land in the zero-warmth of space.
We in the UK are experiencing one of the coldest snaps in 20 years, where such weather used to happen 1 in 5 pre-1900. Australia, on the other hand, is experiencing the hottest heat-wave in a very long time.
I don't think the UK authorities were deceived: global warming is having an effect, but it's not stopped the old weather patterns completely. However, we really don't know the real effect of global warming. Weather may become more unpredictable and go to extremes.
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Face Of Battle is indeed a fine book. The histiorography in the introduction is worth reading by itself, his shift from romantic descriptions of battles to more logical modes of battle analysis. Also worth reading are his books Mask Of Command and Five Armies In Normandy. The Mask Of Command is particularly useful in describing why Hitler was a bad leader, and Grant was so good. I read Grant's autobiography on the strength of that book.
I work for a financial company and if the rest use their bright shiny oracle databases like we do - and I don't think we're atypical - then, no, they have no idea how to use a database. Or build applications. At all. Not a clue.I can't begin to describe the inability, the sheer awesome crap-ness of what they do. The amount of work-arounds that the programmers implement to short-circuit the crap-ness. Really, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Microsoft were so desperate to get on the netbook wagon, they forced OEMs to use XP - an OS which was officially dead - at knockdown prices. That's the evidence right there.
And even XP can't really operate with SSD, and the netbook market has been skewed with netbooks with hard-disks, because "hard disks are better for you." Duh. If XP or 7 or whatever the fuck ms and it's apologists are force-feeding us these days, I bet that SSD would suddenly become "good". I looked for a "netbook" with SSD the other week in trawl of non-techie emporiums and I could not find one. All the netbooks I found were XP with hard-disks.
Yes, we have too much surveillance. And it hasn't reduced crime by an amount commensurate with the cost, IMO.
The English used to refer to England standing in for the whole of the UK. A synecdoche if you will. So, the monarch of this torpid islands used to sign themselves King or Queen of England, and that would apply to the whole. The multiple volume Oxford History of England was, you guessed it, a history of the UK. It has changed, particularly since devolution. We are British now, apparently, although this tends to apply those outside of London.
Good posting. A page turner no less ;-)
I thought they patented windows a long time ago. Hey ho.
And I find myself ... not caring. I've not heard anything about Windows 7 that makes it compelling.
XP on netbook: that truly stank of desperation, and will be marked as the point when MS truly lost it. And they had to screw the netbook spec with a hard-disk to shoe-horn it into place. Epic failure.
Are these connected to the Facebook quizzes? a lot of these are infuriatingly ill-spelt.
Noting ephemera in books has along and noble history in books. I've owned literature study books absolutely crawling with notes, sometimes useful, some not. But that was in the day when second-hand books were more plentiful. I prefer the notes to be in pencil as I could rub them out. People who use high-lighters should be shot.
I've also owned books which had to be sliced open. That's right: books came with the pages folded and you had to cut each fold to read the individual pages.
Now that books are becoming virtualised, that relationship will change. It will be a great loss if we cannot record our thoughts with the book. Indeed, using hyper-links, I think annotating books will become a deeper exercise.
Religionism is the worst of all isms: it blinds you to everything but the gods at the center.
Actually, the Romans were reluctant to spend any money at all on their forces; forcing Generals to bulk out their forces with less reliable native auxillaries.
What will bring you to your knees is your inability to keep spending to a level to compete with, say, China.
We've just come off the back of the biggest glut of easy money yet not one ISP seems to have taken advantage of it to lay more fibre. If there was an easy bet to be made five years ago, betting that bandwidth demand would increase would be that bet.
There was easy money out there, yet no one seems to have taken advantage of it. No one seems to have invested in laying more cable in the last quarter. It seems that most capitalists these days are risk-averse. Which to me is very sad.
I was a big fan in the day so when I saw the upcoming new series, I obtained a copy of the first series. It hadn't aged well. Worse, the new program was ... just ... hideous, and utter shit as AC says.
A lot - no, nearly all - of the people who lost their money in the recent scams were nearly all highly educated people.
Highly educated != the ability to see a scam coming.
But I see you're someone with an axe to grind just looking for a hook ...
Your distortion of history is ... unbelievable.
Star Wars never worked, would never have worked, was never built, will never be built.
What Reagan may have done was probably hasten the end of the Soviet Union by forcing it to spend like crazy on weapons programs. Then again, I think he was lucky. The Soviet Union was ripe for collapse anyway, and it just happened on his watch. I think that's the most likely explanation.
What Reagan DID do was almost cause WWIII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 After 83, he entered into a period of rapprochement with the Soviet Union.
indeed. I live by the scientific method. And google.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7540822.stm
so ... maybe
"There is currently no evidence from clinical trials in humans that injecting or consuming vitamin C is an effective way to treat cancer.
"Some research even suggests that high doses of antioxidants can make cancer treatment less effective, reducing the benefits of radiotherapy and chemotherapy."
The human body discards Vitamin C once it has reached saturation.
Actually, your slur on poor Gore is quite amusing.
I suppose you mean Jim Bakker - that's two k's - whose benighted career had the virtue of being somewhat racey. When I was watching the US elections that Gore lost, I found myself hoping - desperately - that Gore would find the common touch, some excitement, some charisma, some racey-ness, if you will. Alas, no. I felt I was watching a dull, provincial bank-clerk clearly out of his depth. And so it goes.
I trust Gore in the field of policy; not in science. In this case, and in most others, the Gore meme is a straw-man intended to misdirect the discourse. How he is impugned as "untrustworthy", I have no idea. Indeed, Gore is renowned for being rather a dull, bookish fellow, one of the reasons people did not vote for him. Maybe you have some contrary evidence from a reputable source?
I trust the consensus of climatologists, which, AFAIK, seems to indicate that Global Warming is taking place. Unless someone can show me some strong positive evidence to the contrary, I'm inclined to believe the majority in this case.
Yes, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century - a greater scientist than Freeman Dyson if one counts Nobel Prizes - and for years he kept banging on about Vitamin C as a cure for cancer. At one time, he even put his wife through the treatment. Vitamin C as a cure for cancer is baloney. Pauling wasn't a nutritionist.
If you dab your toe in a field outside your expertise, you're liable to get it bitten off. I wouldn't take the advice of a Doctor of medicine on writing PERL.
the subtitles. Lot of people out there want to see movies but the ones they want to see haven't sub-titles for the country where they live.
as in the rule of the road, which also covers submarines.
Rule 13
Overtaking
(a) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Rules of Part B, Sections I and II, any vessel overtaking any other shall keep out of the way of the vessel being overtaken.
(b) A vessel shall be deemed to be overtaking when coming up with another vessel from a direction more than 22.5 degrees abaft her beam, that is, in such a position with reference to the vessel she is overtaking, that at night she would be able to see only the sternlight of that vessel but neither of her sidelights.
(c) When a vessel is in any doubt as to whether she is overtaking another, she shall assume that this is the case and act accordingly.
(d) Any subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall not make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these Rules or reliever her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear.
I'm guessing the sub was overtaking the surface ship.
Officer Of The Watch has *full* command when he - or she - is on watch. However, the OOW is supposed to call the Old Man whenever traffic gets busy. If a ship is in busy waters, the Captain should be on the bridge *anyway*, particularly if the OOW is a junior officer.
I used to manage 10 windows machines, some old, some new. Each had their own box. I wanted to buy one big box, and run all the build OS's - plus Linux - on the same box. Voila: (in theory) no new machines, just load up another OS on the multi-core and away we go.
I wonder if MS are using this as a way of getting at Xen and VMware?
I'd rather trust tried and trusted technology to do anything engineering. Latest Apache server? Uh, no thanks. I'd rather stick to dear old 1.3.*. I'd prefer windows 3.1 to Vista if I was going to stick my arse in the deep, deep cold of space. The 286 chipset to whatever whizz-bangery that powers the latest netbook. Especially if I was riding into the sweet unknown, I'd want my technology tried trusted, fully debugged. I don't want any blue-screens as I try and land in the zero-warmth of space.
We in the UK are experiencing one of the coldest snaps in 20 years, where such weather used to happen 1 in 5 pre-1900. Australia, on the other hand, is experiencing the hottest heat-wave in a very long time.
I don't think the UK authorities were deceived: global warming is having an effect, but it's not stopped the old weather patterns completely. However, we really don't know the real effect of global warming. Weather may become more unpredictable and go to extremes.