Nice to see the haters are out today - having a nice time are you?
I understood the books I was reading very nicely thank you - I just didn't give a fuck about English Lit (and I still dont). And no, they weren't separate subjects when I was taking GCSEs (mid 1990s) - it was just "English". English Lit was a separate subject at A-Level, but not at GCSE.
Do I have to sit through months of dissection of Of Mice and Men that the class is walked through just to get to some pointless hidden meaning? No, I don't really - the book was obvious from the very first time I read it, I just didn't care for it much.
Its a contrived story with no real ongoing point in life, it has no depth of any real meaning and "technical mastery" is just another load of rubbish for those self important people who like to read more into something than is really there - if that offends you, then I don't really care. And I'm far from a "teenage" critic.
As for reading aloud - its boring and ridiculous to sit there and listen to 25 other teenagers trying to butcher any book, when I have no problems reading it myself. Infact, I have no problems reading it aloud - I've become quite a public orator since my school days when I want to be - its the fact that others reading it aloud for me does nothing for me. How about that? Want to explain to me how listening to others stumble over the most basic of phrases and sentences is going to improve my personal understanding of the work or my ability?
Fine, you got top grades in GCSE English - I guess that means you care a lot more about English Lit than I did. What does that have to do with an "inflated ego"? Not much. What does my point have to do with being bitter? Again, not much - its just that "English" as taught today (as in my day when I took GCSEs) has little to do with mastering the various technicalities and abilities of the written and spoken word, and much more to do with contrived, manufactured investigations into so called "literary classics".
So how about you go back to the literary classics you seem to so love defending, and let us out here in the real world get on with our lives.
More than 50% should be getting C or above, as the GCSE grades go from A*, A, B, C, D, E and Fail - C and above is slightly more than half on the range.
I got a C at GCSE English, despite the fact that I read five or more books a week, wrote novella length stories, had excellent typing skills, perfect writing technique and had read all of Shakespeare (out of choice) by the time I was 13. Why didn't I excell at English? Because it had fuck all to do with "English" and a heck of a lot of more to do with "English Lit".
Unless the curriculum has changed a *lot*, it's all about reading "Of Mice and Men" (a book that I read in a couple hours, several times over) and then spending 6 fucking months dissecting it to find ridiculous hidden meanings and literary bollocks. I used to get into serious trouble during English because the class had to read it "together" a chapter at a time - which bored the fuck it of me because I could finish the chapter in a tenth of the time of everyone else and picked up the book I was reading for enjoyment. At the end of the day, Of Mice and Men is a shallow story that I wouldn't ever read out of personal choice.
GCSE grades don't show everything.
What am I reading today? "The Age We Live In - A History Of The 19th Century, in 7 Divisions", published in 1883 covering the period of 1813 to 1883. Fantastic social and political insight into the period by the people that lived there. C at English? Sod that.
Your comparison makes sense only when ABC and Fox also run a competing network to Comcasts/NBCs. Until then, it's to the same situation as I describe.
Google is giving a lot of functionality to Android for free with regard to Google Maps - Apple has to license that functionality at a cost (there was a big thing made of the fact that turn by turn direction apps were against the terms of the license they held). So what should they do, pay the increased license cost and continue to be held hostage, or free themselves from the shackles of a competing organisation?
It's one thing when the people you do business with are just your suppliers, it's a whole different ball game when they are also your largest competitor and they also hold all the balls.
So what's disappointing in that? Nothing as far as I can see.
Yup, because no one could possibly produce anything better...
YouTube never made sense as a built in app - it also breaks your flow of usage if you want to view multiple videos on one page, as each takes you out of the fecking browser and into another app. Keep it all in the browser and allow it to full screen the video when requested - you know, like PornHub does!
And relying on a third service for what is rapidly becoming a central reason to have a multipurpose phone (mapping and turn by turn navigation) when the relationship between you and that third party was never going to fly, especially when that same third party is fostering a competitor to your platform - goodbye Google Maps, hello something better.
Except that MS hasn't dumped.Net at all - that was uninformed FUD and bullshit from the usual people..Net 4.5 is about to hit,.Net 5 is under active development and.Net (5.5/6) is being talked about. Anyone learning C# right now is as safe as any other language.
I'm willing to stand by my comments with a proper nick and an email address - you aren't...
You might be a C-130 mech, but I doubt you've ever done deep maintenance on one, because the total number of lubricants on a Herc is much more than 4. And if you are just using 4 in general maintenance then Lockheed ain't going to be happy with you.
No one is talking about phasing out the A-10, they are spending billions of dollars right now hanging new wings on 250 examples to keep it flying for the next 25 years...
The B-52 is a notable bomb truck, but it certainly cant haul twice the load of a B-2 - its more like a third more, and it requires more support structure to carry that payload the same distance as the B-2. The B-51 also can't be used on first day strikes these days due to the absolutely huge radar signature it has - if the Vietnamese could shoot it down in the 1970s, its going to get massacred by todays technology unless those SAM sites are taken out before the B-52 arrives.
My point? Theres a job to be done and the only suitable aircraft for that job are doing it. Once the integration of the F-22 has been completed, it will also do more of its job in operational theatres, rather than languishing in what basically amounts to advanced training roles right now.
Simpler maintenance is just one operational requirement on a shopping list with dozens of others - if you want to prioritise maintenance over everything else then sure, that's something we can do. Won't make for a good aircraft tho...
It doesn't say anything about American aircraft design - aircraft are complicated beasts, and if the lubrication used is out of spec for the task at hand then it may cause unexpected behaviour. Does it stick when it shouldn't? Does it jelly when it shouldn't? What is its operating temperature ranges? What does it react with?
There are many reasons why a specific lubricant can only be used in certain ways and places on an aircraft - you don't want a low friction lubricant with a narrow operating temperature being exposed to low temperatures for example, but you also don't want a lubricant which can be exposed to low temperatures to be used in its place because it probably has a different viscosity and this will change how the lubricant works.
The differences between an AK-47 and an M-16 is that an M-16 is a finicky beast, but its also a more accurate beast - you will achieve rates of fire and accuracy with an M-16 that you wouldn't with an AK-47, but it comes at the price of higher maintenance requirements.
She has something to say if said speech can affect her case in a significant way - entire cases can go to mistrial for comments said out of the court room.
Slashdot seems to lack a basic understanding of law and the court process these days...
The entire smartphone field has exploded over the past 6 years, so yeah, it does promote progress - unless you look at the past decade with a very blinkered view and skew it to fit your own conclusions...
Nice to see character assassinations of victims going on. So what if shes everything you have said - does that mean she cant ever be the victim of rape or abuse?
Also your opening comment certainly cements what I said in an comment earlier this week - any ruling a slashdot commenter doesnt like simply must have been down to corruption, stupidity or for a political reason, it couldnt *possibly* be due to the argument and ruling having decent legal standing.
I couldn't give a fuck what the rape stats for Sweden are - it doesn't have an effect on the fact that its their country and their laws. It also doesnt change the fact that the accusations made in the extradition request are also illegal under English law.
Yet another Assange supporter trying to deflect the attention away from Assange and on to other things peripheral to the case (and I might add, meaningless to it).
And then you end with a personal insult - an attack on the person because you can't attack anything else. You probably havent even read the ruling, so you cant even attack that (its fucking obvious 99% of pro-Assange commenters havent read the ruling, otherwise they would know that theres more than one accusation, more than one accuser and the judges have made detailed, lengthy arguments for their decisons - but thats too much like facts, when you seemingly dont have time for facts).
You, yes you, are why Slashdot has gone from being a decent place with decent discussions to being nothing more than an up market conspiracy nut hang out.
He has the ability to take it to the European Court of Justice - although, him skipping bail and hiding in another countries Embassy might not go in his favour in that matter.
Second, the only dumb enough people to use the term "rape" for what he did, are the Swedish.
Go and read the various UK court rulings on the matter - in one of them the Judge actually affirmed that the things Assange was being extradited for would also be classed as rape in the UK.
The problem is that no one on Slashdot gives a fuck about the truth in the Assange case, they just like to spout bullshit catch phrases such as yours, rubbish about "swedish rape"...
Points 70 onwards, discussing the "dual criminality" (that Assanges solicitor argued that extradition should only take place if the offences were offences in both the requesting jurisdiction and the extraditing jurisdiction (Sweden and UK respectively)). The judge in the extradition case finds dual criminality in all four allegations against Assange.
I've never had Java enabled in my browser - I've not noticed anything really missing from any websites I have ever visited. No big holes in the page, no missing functionality. Where are these wonderous hidden applets that you claim should be there?
Because the larger the working group gets, the more people need to know that Frank has a week off in two months time - otherwise someones going to book that very important meeting with that very important client slap bang in the middle of it. People are going to see that someones off at the same time as they require, and they are going to mark themselves down for vacation anyway and just argue it out later on.
But a vacation calendar should actually track more than just vacation time - it should track all planned and plan-able absence time. Vacations, lates, earlies, shift patterns, moved time, training periods etc etc etc. It should ideally track person dependencies - who cannot be off at the same time without serious authorisation. It should track banked hours and lieu time. It should track vacation preferences (I dont agree with it, but some companies give preference to those with children and families during known school holidays).
Theres an awful lot that a simple calendar or "just let them sort it out like adults" simply won't handle for you.
In answer to the parents question - I wrote my own, with all the above, about 10 years ago. I'd opensource it if I still had the code.
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Nice to see the haters are out today - having a nice time are you?
I understood the books I was reading very nicely thank you - I just didn't give a fuck about English Lit (and I still dont). And no, they weren't separate subjects when I was taking GCSEs (mid 1990s) - it was just "English". English Lit was a separate subject at A-Level, but not at GCSE.
Do I have to sit through months of dissection of Of Mice and Men that the class is walked through just to get to some pointless hidden meaning? No, I don't really - the book was obvious from the very first time I read it, I just didn't care for it much.
Its a contrived story with no real ongoing point in life, it has no depth of any real meaning and "technical mastery" is just another load of rubbish for those self important people who like to read more into something than is really there - if that offends you, then I don't really care. And I'm far from a "teenage" critic.
As for reading aloud - its boring and ridiculous to sit there and listen to 25 other teenagers trying to butcher any book, when I have no problems reading it myself. Infact, I have no problems reading it aloud - I've become quite a public orator since my school days when I want to be - its the fact that others reading it aloud for me does nothing for me. How about that? Want to explain to me how listening to others stumble over the most basic of phrases and sentences is going to improve my personal understanding of the work or my ability?
Fine, you got top grades in GCSE English - I guess that means you care a lot more about English Lit than I did. What does that have to do with an "inflated ego"? Not much. What does my point have to do with being bitter? Again, not much - its just that "English" as taught today (as in my day when I took GCSEs) has little to do with mastering the various technicalities and abilities of the written and spoken word, and much more to do with contrived, manufactured investigations into so called "literary classics".
So how about you go back to the literary classics you seem to so love defending, and let us out here in the real world get on with our lives.
You'd think you could do what Microsoft was too dumb to try and make a sandbox mode where .exe can't touch things it can't.
Sandboxing has existed in Windows since Windows 2000 (see SAFER) and has seen updates in every Windows version since.
More than 50% should be getting C or above, as the GCSE grades go from A*, A, B, C, D, E and Fail - C and above is slightly more than half on the range.
I got a C at GCSE English, despite the fact that I read five or more books a week, wrote novella length stories, had excellent typing skills, perfect writing technique and had read all of Shakespeare (out of choice) by the time I was 13. Why didn't I excell at English? Because it had fuck all to do with "English" and a heck of a lot of more to do with "English Lit".
Unless the curriculum has changed a *lot*, it's all about reading "Of Mice and Men" (a book that I read in a couple hours, several times over) and then spending 6 fucking months dissecting it to find ridiculous hidden meanings and literary bollocks. I used to get into serious trouble during English because the class had to read it "together" a chapter at a time - which bored the fuck it of me because I could finish the chapter in a tenth of the time of everyone else and picked up the book I was reading for enjoyment. At the end of the day, Of Mice and Men is a shallow story that I wouldn't ever read out of personal choice.
GCSE grades don't show everything.
What am I reading today? "The Age We Live In - A History Of The 19th Century, in 7 Divisions", published in 1883 covering the period of 1813 to 1883. Fantastic social and political insight into the period by the people that lived there. C at English? Sod that.
It's a matter of finding and following the right people on Twitter :) lots of people talking about .Net 5.0 at the moment!
Your comparison makes sense only when ABC and Fox also run a competing network to Comcasts/NBCs. Until then, it's to the same situation as I describe.
Google is giving a lot of functionality to Android for free with regard to Google Maps - Apple has to license that functionality at a cost (there was a big thing made of the fact that turn by turn direction apps were against the terms of the license they held). So what should they do, pay the increased license cost and continue to be held hostage, or free themselves from the shackles of a competing organisation?
It's one thing when the people you do business with are just your suppliers, it's a whole different ball game when they are also your largest competitor and they also hold all the balls.
So what's disappointing in that? Nothing as far as I can see.
Yup, because no one could possibly produce anything better...
YouTube never made sense as a built in app - it also breaks your flow of usage if you want to view multiple videos on one page, as each takes you out of the fecking browser and into another app. Keep it all in the browser and allow it to full screen the video when requested - you know, like PornHub does!
And relying on a third service for what is rapidly becoming a central reason to have a multipurpose phone (mapping and turn by turn navigation) when the relationship between you and that third party was never going to fly, especially when that same third party is fostering a competitor to your platform - goodbye Google Maps, hello something better.
Except that MS hasn't dumped .Net at all - that was uninformed FUD and bullshit from the usual people. .Net 4.5 is about to hit, .Net 5 is under active development and .Net (5.5/6) is being talked about. Anyone learning C# right now is as safe as any other language.
I'm willing to stand by my comments with a proper nick and an email address - you aren't...
You might be a C-130 mech, but I doubt you've ever done deep maintenance on one, because the total number of lubricants on a Herc is much more than 4. And if you are just using 4 in general maintenance then Lockheed ain't going to be happy with you.
No one is talking about phasing out the A-10, they are spending billions of dollars right now hanging new wings on 250 examples to keep it flying for the next 25 years...
The B-52 is a notable bomb truck, but it certainly cant haul twice the load of a B-2 - its more like a third more, and it requires more support structure to carry that payload the same distance as the B-2. The B-51 also can't be used on first day strikes these days due to the absolutely huge radar signature it has - if the Vietnamese could shoot it down in the 1970s, its going to get massacred by todays technology unless those SAM sites are taken out before the B-52 arrives.
My point? Theres a job to be done and the only suitable aircraft for that job are doing it. Once the integration of the F-22 has been completed, it will also do more of its job in operational theatres, rather than languishing in what basically amounts to advanced training roles right now.
Simpler maintenance is just one operational requirement on a shopping list with dozens of others - if you want to prioritise maintenance over everything else then sure, that's something we can do. Won't make for a good aircraft tho...
I'd love for you to come and design an aircraft someday, if you think its a solvable problem that doesn't carry penalties...
We've moved on from the days of the Wright brothers - even a Boeing 787 requires on average about 400 different types of lubricant.
One further point to say - sure, its possible to make systems resilient to using the wrong lubricant, but the penalty for that is ... weight.
More weight means a less efficient aircraft. More thrust required, higher fuel burn penalties, lower performance ratings etc etc etc.
So require a specific lubricant, put that in the maintenance manual and move on.
It doesn't say anything about American aircraft design - aircraft are complicated beasts, and if the lubrication used is out of spec for the task at hand then it may cause unexpected behaviour. Does it stick when it shouldn't? Does it jelly when it shouldn't? What is its operating temperature ranges? What does it react with?
There are many reasons why a specific lubricant can only be used in certain ways and places on an aircraft - you don't want a low friction lubricant with a narrow operating temperature being exposed to low temperatures for example, but you also don't want a lubricant which can be exposed to low temperatures to be used in its place because it probably has a different viscosity and this will change how the lubricant works.
The differences between an AK-47 and an M-16 is that an M-16 is a finicky beast, but its also a more accurate beast - you will achieve rates of fire and accuracy with an M-16 that you wouldn't with an AK-47, but it comes at the price of higher maintenance requirements.
She has something to say if said speech can affect her case in a significant way - entire cases can go to mistrial for comments said out of the court room.
Slashdot seems to lack a basic understanding of law and the court process these days...
No - you let someone in and they can get in until you unlink their device.
Which is trivial to do from the web interface.
Its not got much better in the years since - many articles put the F-22 in the 20 - 30 maintenance hours per flight hour window.
The entire smartphone field has exploded over the past 6 years, so yeah, it does promote progress - unless you look at the past decade with a very blinkered view and skew it to fit your own conclusions...
Nice to see character assassinations of victims going on. So what if shes everything you have said - does that mean she cant ever be the victim of rape or abuse?
Also your opening comment certainly cements what I said in an comment earlier this week - any ruling a slashdot commenter doesnt like simply must have been down to corruption, stupidity or for a political reason, it couldnt *possibly* be due to the argument and ruling having decent legal standing.
I couldn't give a fuck what the rape stats for Sweden are - it doesn't have an effect on the fact that its their country and their laws. It also doesnt change the fact that the accusations made in the extradition request are also illegal under English law.
Yet another Assange supporter trying to deflect the attention away from Assange and on to other things peripheral to the case (and I might add, meaningless to it).
And then you end with a personal insult - an attack on the person because you can't attack anything else. You probably havent even read the ruling, so you cant even attack that (its fucking obvious 99% of pro-Assange commenters havent read the ruling, otherwise they would know that theres more than one accusation, more than one accuser and the judges have made detailed, lengthy arguments for their decisons - but thats too much like facts, when you seemingly dont have time for facts).
You, yes you, are why Slashdot has gone from being a decent place with decent discussions to being nothing more than an up market conspiracy nut hang out.
He has the ability to take it to the European Court of Justice - although, him skipping bail and hiding in another countries Embassy might not go in his favour in that matter.
Second, the only dumb enough people to use the term "rape" for what he did, are the Swedish.
Go and read the various UK court rulings on the matter - in one of them the Judge actually affirmed that the things Assange was being extradited for would also be classed as rape in the UK.
The problem is that no one on Slashdot gives a fuck about the truth in the Assange case, they just like to spout bullshit catch phrases such as yours, rubbish about "swedish rape"...
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/assange-judgment.pdf
Points 70 onwards, discussing the "dual criminality" (that Assanges solicitor argued that extradition should only take place if the offences were offences in both the requesting jurisdiction and the extraditing jurisdiction (Sweden and UK respectively)). The judge in the extradition case finds dual criminality in all four allegations against Assange.
So shut the fuck up about "swedish rape".
I've never had Java enabled in my browser - I've not noticed anything really missing from any websites I have ever visited. No big holes in the page, no missing functionality. Where are these wonderous hidden applets that you claim should be there?
I have used both side by side, and I dispute your claim - its smoother some of the time, its worse some of the time.
But the audit logs will show who booked what first, and who checked what - which is the point of having such a system...
Plus you can always have the meeting calendaring as part of this system.
That doesn't work.
Because the larger the working group gets, the more people need to know that Frank has a week off in two months time - otherwise someones going to book that very important meeting with that very important client slap bang in the middle of it. People are going to see that someones off at the same time as they require, and they are going to mark themselves down for vacation anyway and just argue it out later on.
But a vacation calendar should actually track more than just vacation time - it should track all planned and plan-able absence time. Vacations, lates, earlies, shift patterns, moved time, training periods etc etc etc. It should ideally track person dependencies - who cannot be off at the same time without serious authorisation. It should track banked hours and lieu time. It should track vacation preferences (I dont agree with it, but some companies give preference to those with children and families during known school holidays).
Theres an awful lot that a simple calendar or "just let them sort it out like adults" simply won't handle for you.
In answer to the parents question - I wrote my own, with all the above, about 10 years ago. I'd opensource it if I still had the code.
Your last paragraph is enough to dismiss your entire post - a false flag operation? What evidence supports that?!
Just more evidence of the absurdity that frequents slashdot these days - its starting to reek of UFO levels of conspiracy talk and stupidity.