If I fall into the anomaly category without cheating, I'll be screwed. What can I demonstrate in my defense? Not much. I find it hard to believe they can prove that you cheated without actually video-taping you cheating or something along those lines.
Anomalies are what they are, data anomalies, nothing more and nothing less.
This to the Nth power.
It also fails to take into account a student's study patterns and general aptitudes.
As such "harder" and "easier" questions are a matter of perspective.
Sure, maybe if you drop in your first year or something, the debt load is more manageable. But for someone 2-3 years in...
And exactly how inexpensive do you think college is? It's not just tuition. Try book fees, cost of living, etc. Even at a community college, you can rack up a HEFTY 5-digit debt load.
Yes. Because the project you're supposed to work on magically costs nothing. The cost of living in costless. Going to live freegan and dumpster dive for your meals eh?
Instead of coming out of college with a...DEGREE and a five-to-six digit debt, you're going to pay these people $100k to come out of college with just the debt?
This has been a clarion call for all these niche platform markets for DECADES now.
Funny, but the PC still seems quite sprightly! And it's not an "undead" kinda sprightliness. My brains have gone uneaten now for years.
Basically this is a bunch of marketing jackasses trying to create "spaces" to sell into. Basically hawking a bunch of only semi-useful crap that people really don't need if they have a PC. Is some of it nice to have? Sure. But just about all the functionality is STILL better on a PC (save the mobility thing). And the thing is, they're not really hawking the products themselves. They're looking to cash in on all the peripheral "services". Setup, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, etc. Not to mention possible subscription-style fees.
I don't want to game on my phone. I don't want to watch postage-stamp resolution videos on my phone. I don't want to waste time texting, sexting, tweeting, blogging, IM'ing, etc on my phone. I don't want to word-process on my phone. I don't want to edit images on my phone. I don't really wanna listen to music on my phone. I want to make PHONE CALLS. If I have to, I want a semi-to-very useful web browser (WEB, not web video), and if it takes halfway decent pics on occasion, great. But if it don't no big deal. And I want it to have a useful contact list/address book for memorization of contact info (including phone numbers). That and if it can do GPS and mapping, great. It's useful, but if it's not there, I won't cry. I don't need stock apps, magazine apps, fart apps, or any other kind of useless time-money-and-battery-wasting apps.
The PC is here until something truly better can come into all it's niches and outdo it. Until that happens, this is just a lot of flapping gums and hands outstretched, begging for money.
Okay, they specified the range in the article as 2300 feet. Which is 700 meters, not 800.
Second of all, they don't specify if that's "effective range". Nor whether it's effective range for point or area targeting.
Maximum range of an M16 is 3600 meters. Maximum effective range for point targets if 550 meters (1800 feet). Maximum effective range for area targets is 800 meters (2624 feet).
For the uninitiated: A point target is a target you can actually sight and shoot at. A person, object, etc. An area target is usually beyond the effective ability of the shooter to accurately sight, but is still within the effective "kill" range of the weapon. The far side of a field, down a street, etc.
Now at the MER, if you're using iron sights, the target is smaller than the front post. A decent telescopic system can work wonders for sighting and accurate fire at this range though.
Now if the 2300 feet is the MER for point targets, that's impressive. If it's area-targeting, it's less so. Though the smart ammo does make up for that.
And yeah, it's not really a "rifle". While the ammunition may be delivered the same way, it's really a semi-automatic mini-grenade launcher. So even if you don't hit your target dead on with the projectile, you can still kill him when the projectile explodes.
Now the ability of the weapon system to "dial" the range out or back a meter is quite interesting. But I don't foresee this replacing the mainstay weapons systems in the TO&E. They'll probably be issued to squads rather than every individual. Kinda the way heavier weapon systems are.
By tsarkon Tue Nov 23 05:37:49 PST 2010 Reply to this comment
195 dollars is a lot of money. But then there's no one competing with Verizon in terms of fairly speedy fiber, so I guess they can charge whatever sum they want.
I have a 100 Mbit fiber connection that costs me 36.1 dollars per month with taxes included (Sweden). There are no downloads quotas and I get the download speed I pay for. The reason why it's so cheap is because there is a hierarchy of tier providers. I only pay monthly for the last tier in the chain. The network maintenance costs are hidden somewhere in the apartment rent.
Yep. Sweden is roughly equivalent in size to the US Eastern Seaboard. But 80+% of their population is only occupying about 1/4th of the country's total landmass (about the size of North and South Carolina) with roughly the population of North Carolina. Population density even compared to that single state is laughable.
I'm certain it's MUCH easier to cover so little landmass and so few customers with such an even population distribution.
Currently the FIOS service ALREADY has more customers than the entire population of Sweden.
People griping about how great other countries have it have exactly ZERO grasp of the scale of what they're yapping about.
Yet another FINE example of intellectually stunted individuals being put in a position of educating our children. And another FINE example of said intellectual amoeba eschewing proper channels, or even common sense in implementing something that's utterly pointless and only generates an aura of fear and distrust in what is, ostensibly, an educational institution.
Beyond that, attempting to shoehorn Apple into a "enterprise" solution is not using the product as Apple intended.
PERIOD. I don't care if they're selling you "enterprise support" or not. Apple doesn't do that. They don't even fake doing it well. Their enterprise solution is "buy this and try it, buy that and try it, buy this other thing and try it, if none of them work, sorry, we don't do enterprise support".
Call me when the discussion has left the reality distortion field.
Bring your best laptop with you. Bring a cheapie that you don't mind losing. This way you don't have any real qualms about abandoning it when these ass-wipes pull this. Keep anything important on the machine, encrypted or otherwise. Have an internet dead-drop you can push things to before crossing borders. Leave anything important on the machine. Use a decent file shredder to eliminate it.
They refuse the validity of any laws they didn't write themselves.
As such, the 1st Amendment is meaningless to them.
Especially since they feel free to define anything except forking over your life savings to them for merely existing in the same universe as their product as "theft".
"I can tell you that you have the same short-sighted view as most students."
Nice. But had you actually understood my point you'd not have said this.
"Most of the time it is not just bandwidth that is constrained but flows."
Which highlights my point. Which was not about the network, constrained or otherwise.
But about the issue of essentially wasting time and money on turning students over to law enforcement for POSSIBLE misuses of file-sharing. That and creating a atmosphere of mistrust and assumed guilt IN AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.
If you want to argue technical semantics on top of that I'm fully prepared to. But be sure you know what I'm actually talking about before you do so.
Yep. Can see that all the dollars from tuition that haven't gone into their "resource constrained" network have gone into getting quality staff there! They've all had the highest quality lobotomies that money can buy!
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This to the Nth power.
It also fails to take into account a student's study patterns and general aptitudes.
As such "harder" and "easier" questions are a matter of perspective.
Again, lies, damn lies...and you know the rest.
17 exhibitionists
40 fights
112 traffic "crimes"
735 people littering
1575 people loitering (charged with mopery)
So this explains that small, almond-shaped void space inside my head...
GET OFF MY LAWN!
A mine shaft gap!
120 credit hours (2 years, an associate degree).
$100/credit hour.
Plus book and "lab fees".
You do the math.
Sure, maybe if you drop in your first year or something, the debt load is more manageable. But for someone 2-3 years in...
And exactly how inexpensive do you think college is? It's not just tuition. Try book fees, cost of living, etc. Even at a community college, you can rack up a HEFTY 5-digit debt load.
Debt possibly could not be an issue.
I'd prefer to not rely on such corner cases for a default situation.
Yes. Because the project you're supposed to work on magically costs nothing.
The cost of living in costless.
Going to live freegan and dumpster dive for your meals eh?
So. Lemme get this straight.
Instead of coming out of college with a...DEGREE and a five-to-six digit debt, you're going to pay these people $100k to come out of college with just the debt?
The drugs really that good eh?
*Golf*YAWN*Clap*
No. Many eyes makes BUGS shallow. You've misremembered the adage.
This is NOT a bug.
THE PC IS DYING!
This has been a clarion call for all these niche platform markets for DECADES now.
Funny, but the PC still seems quite sprightly! And it's not an "undead" kinda sprightliness. My brains have gone uneaten now for years.
Basically this is a bunch of marketing jackasses trying to create "spaces" to sell into. Basically hawking a bunch of only semi-useful crap that people really don't need if they have a PC. Is some of it nice to have? Sure. But just about all the functionality is STILL better on a PC (save the mobility thing). And the thing is, they're not really hawking the products themselves. They're looking to cash in on all the peripheral "services". Setup, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, etc. Not to mention possible subscription-style fees.
I don't want to game on my phone. I don't want to watch postage-stamp resolution videos on my phone. I don't want to waste time texting, sexting, tweeting, blogging, IM'ing, etc on my phone. I don't want to word-process on my phone. I don't want to edit images on my phone. I don't really wanna listen to music on my phone. I want to make PHONE CALLS. If I have to, I want a semi-to-very useful web browser (WEB, not web video), and if it takes halfway decent pics on occasion, great. But if it don't no big deal. And I want it to have a useful contact list/address book for memorization of contact info (including phone numbers). That and if it can do GPS and mapping, great. It's useful, but if it's not there, I won't cry. I don't need stock apps, magazine apps, fart apps, or any other kind of useless time-money-and-battery-wasting apps.
The PC is here until something truly better can come into all it's niches and outdo it. Until that happens, this is just a lot of flapping gums and hands outstretched, begging for money.
LET them play the game about a rich pedophile who ruined his face with plastic surgery.
Horrific doesn't even begin to describe it.
Okay, they specified the range in the article as 2300 feet. Which is 700 meters, not 800.
Second of all, they don't specify if that's "effective range". Nor whether it's effective range for point or area targeting.
Maximum range of an M16 is 3600 meters.
Maximum effective range for point targets if 550 meters (1800 feet).
Maximum effective range for area targets is 800 meters (2624 feet).
For the uninitiated:
A point target is a target you can actually sight and shoot at. A person, object, etc.
An area target is usually beyond the effective ability of the shooter to accurately sight, but is still within the effective "kill" range of the weapon. The far side of a field, down a street, etc.
Now at the MER, if you're using iron sights, the target is smaller than the front post. A decent telescopic system can work wonders for sighting and accurate fire at this range though.
Now if the 2300 feet is the MER for point targets, that's impressive. If it's area-targeting, it's less so. Though the smart ammo does make up for that.
And yeah, it's not really a "rifle". While the ammunition may be delivered the same way, it's really a semi-automatic mini-grenade launcher. So even if you don't hit your target dead on with the projectile, you can still kill him when the projectile explodes.
Now the ability of the weapon system to "dial" the range out or back a meter is quite interesting. But I don't foresee this replacing the mainstay weapons systems in the TO&E. They'll probably be issued to squads rather than every individual. Kinda the way heavier weapon systems are.
Not ROK Army or KATUSA, was stationed over there with the US Army.
Funnily enough, I was a medic.
How do ye think we got our gold in the first place boyo?
The plain, old fashioned, honest way of doin' it!
STEALIN'!
ARR! Yer not gettin' me gold!
I love the comment from the guy from Sweden.
Yep. Sweden is roughly equivalent in size to the US Eastern Seaboard. But 80+% of their population is only occupying about 1/4th of the country's total landmass (about the size of North and South Carolina) with roughly the population of North Carolina. Population density even compared to that single state is laughable.
I'm certain it's MUCH easier to cover so little landmass and so few customers with such an even population distribution.
Currently the FIOS service ALREADY has more customers than the entire population of Sweden.
People griping about how great other countries have it have exactly ZERO grasp of the scale of what they're yapping about.
Yet another FINE example of intellectually stunted individuals being put in a position of educating our children.
And another FINE example of said intellectual amoeba eschewing proper channels, or even common sense in implementing something that's utterly pointless and only generates an aura of fear and distrust in what is, ostensibly, an educational institution.
Kinda reminds me of my time in South Korea with the Army.
On bad pollution days, I'd finish up a PT run and start hacking up black crap.
I don't smoke. Never have. Never will.
I shudder to even envision how bad it is in China.
Pffft! I didn't know it was comedy hour.
Apple has one real niche. Multimedia production.
Beyond that, attempting to shoehorn Apple into a "enterprise" solution is not using the product as Apple intended.
PERIOD. I don't care if they're selling you "enterprise support" or not. Apple doesn't do that. They don't even fake doing it well. Their enterprise solution is "buy this and try it, buy that and try it, buy this other thing and try it, if none of them work, sorry, we don't do enterprise support".
Call me when the discussion has left the reality distortion field.
When traveling out-of-country, do not:
Bring your best laptop with you. Bring a cheapie that you don't mind losing. This way you don't have any real qualms about abandoning it when these ass-wipes pull this.
Keep anything important on the machine, encrypted or otherwise. Have an internet dead-drop you can push things to before crossing borders.
Leave anything important on the machine. Use a decent file shredder to eliminate it.
They refuse the validity of any laws they didn't write themselves.
As such, the 1st Amendment is meaningless to them.
Especially since they feel free to define anything except forking over your life savings to them for merely existing in the same universe as their product as "theft".
"I can tell you that you have the same short-sighted view as most students."
Nice. But had you actually understood my point you'd not have said this.
"Most of the time it is not just bandwidth that is constrained but flows."
Which highlights my point. Which was not about the network, constrained or otherwise.
But about the issue of essentially wasting time and money on turning students over to law enforcement for POSSIBLE misuses of file-sharing.
That and creating a atmosphere of mistrust and assumed guilt IN AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.
If you want to argue technical semantics on top of that I'm fully prepared to. But be sure you know what I'm actually talking about before you do so.
Yep. Can see that all the dollars from tuition that haven't gone into their "resource constrained" network have gone into getting quality staff there! They've all had the highest quality lobotomies that money can buy!