Blockading Japan until they capitulated - the Japanese Imperial Navy was non-existent, the Japanese air force was destroyed, all they had was millions of barely trained civilians to defend against invasion. No invasion was necessary, just put a blockade up around Japan, starve them of oil and other necessities to run a modern country, and they would have given in eventually.
Because drones can be flown from home-based stations far removed from the country where they are employed, the best defence will be saturation carpet bombing of the home country with nuclear weapons to assure that the maximum number of potential drone-control sites are destroyed and laid to ruin via electromagnetic pulse.
Thats no different to the long range bombing missions carried out by the B-1B, B-2 and B-52 in any recent conflict - they primarily launch from bases thousands of miles away (Guam, UK, continental US et al).
Such a court case has already been won - Dodge vs Ford Motor Company. Basically, Ford was not allowed to use amassed corporate profits to become a charitable entity to its staff and the public at large, and the result was increased dividends being paid out to Ford shareholders.
I find it amusing that everyone rails against IE (rightfully so in many ways) for not following standards, but every web developer I know (and being one in a lively local web development community, I am exposed to a fair number) still has to check sites in IE plus a multitude of other browsers. When there are differences between standards compliant browsers, theres something wrong with the standard imho.
As I said, it depends on how the problem is stated - I have seen variations of the treadmill problem where the way it was stated made it possible for the plane to never leave the ground.
Your personal example has no bearing here, because even with the treadmill problem the plane will still require ground speed to achieve flight - neither the actions of the treadmill will produce airflow over the wings, which means the aircraft will still need to move forward on the treadmill before becoming airborne.
Dropbox is mainly written in Python, and that just has a standard Windows installer. There is no indication that Python is in anyway related to it when you install it, but its there.
The problem with your 'science' is that jet engines certainly work at supersonic speeds, up to and including Mach 3, and they don't do it by using up tonnes of fuel per second. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Every time I have seen the 'plane on a treadmill' problem stated, the way in which it was stated has always been flawed to a point where its ambiguous and unanswerable - there are some ways to state it where the result potentially is that the plane will never leave the treadmill, depending on how you interpret the question.
And I think that was the entire point of the question posed.
Now, cue the jackasses thinking they did the right thing. I'll cut out my kidney with a disposable drinking straw if anyone can reasonably argue this as ethical.
So much for being allowed a difference of opinion...
I don't see this as being ethical or unethical - its simply another sales method. Were you promised the extra content and features in the original sale? No? Then whats the problem? Your purchase isn't faulty.
Right, and there are absolutely no nations anywhere near that the US which could be used as a launching pad. It's not as if the Baring straight was a tiny stretch of water. It's not as if the US has the worlds largest undefended border on the northern side.
The problem with that approach was that prior to the invasion and defeat of Nazi occupied Europe was the invasion and defeat of Nazi occupied North Africa, Nazi occupied Sicily, Nazi occupied Italy and other very significant stepping stones which, along with the steady pushing of the Red Army, caused irreparable damage to the German war machine.
Further to that, the only initial stepping stone in any of the western advances was... British soil or a British occupied territory (Britain controlled significant portions of North Africa, the Gibraltar Straits, Crete and other positions which turned out to be strategically important). There were no other spring boards available to the western forces, no other countries were allowing it. To have achieved the same end without Britain would have meant a huge logistical task of recreating the Normandy landings from across the Atlantic, with a supply chain stretching a thousand miles at best, either by invading Fortress Europe directly, or by invading a non-hostile but non-cooperative country first.
Yes, the US could have joined with the Soviet Union and moved men and machines across the Baring Straits, but one of the overriding factors in the success of the allied attacks in WW2 was that they were on multiple fronts. Simply throwing more resources at the eastern front may not have had the effect desired.
Buy a media kit from any Microsoft large account reseller - you could also buy your licenses under an Open Agreement at the same time. Just checked with both my LARs account handlers and they both have Windows 2003 and Windows 2003 R2 available for immediate sale, and media kits are still available for both.
Obviously you do not understand just how expensive UPSes actually are - you just added several tens of millions of dollars to the annual running cost of your data center.
UPSes are *that* expensive. If you really wanted to guard against a generator failure, you double up on generators but you do not spend more than you need on UPSes. A UPS should be there to smooth the transition to the generator, not to run the site for any significant length of time.
It takes minutes for an ordinary user to setup an Excel spreadsheet with a large data set (for example, a raw sales figure dump) and perform analysis on it. To setup and use a database for the same task would take much longer and require a totally different skill set.
Let me add my own little story, which happened back in the good old days of June 2009.
The company had spent the past year rearchitecting the entire IT infrastructure, as the complete core application suite for the business was, other than your standard peripheral utilities like Office et al, green screen based, using a proprietary language from the early 1980s that was barely still maintained and wasn't going anywhere fast.
It was my job to handle the systems infrastructure side of the deal, while another team handled software development and I was way ahead of them - the core business applications were still in the planning stages while the infrastructure to handle and host them was well advanced. The platform we chose was well designed, with onsite redundancy built into the base cost and easily scalable - dare I say it myself, it was a good job. The only thing I had no hand in on the hardware side was the actual building infrastructure, as we had moved to custom built offices about 5 years prior, and there was someone else on the team that handled telecoms and the building. But we had a UPS and a generator, so all seemed well in the world.
Alongside the new infrastructure came the new business continuity plan. Well, I say 'new' - I can't really say there was an 'old' BCP. Sure, we rented space at a major BC facilities provider, but there had never been any test, and there wasn't even any written documentation as to what to do.
Here is where I must admit my first failure - the BCP was not treated as an integral, tied-in-like-a-knot part of the infrastructure, it was a separate project running alongside. Sure, the new infrastructure was designed to take a local server failure through redundancy, or even allow ease of moving to an offsite location. That part of it was all in place. My failure was in not ensuring that the offsite location actually existed as the new infrastructure grew.
However, by the start of 2009, the basic infrastructure needs of the BCP were well known, costed and presented to the company board of directors. And there it sat. Every month I would ask them if it had been signed off, if I could spend the money. Every month I received a negative answer, it just hadn't been discussed at these busy directors meetings.
And that was my second failure. I had no sponsor in those meetings, there was basically no IT representation (the IT director had resigned after the modernisation was pushed through, he wanted no part in it as he had not been taking the business forward himself). With no sponsor, no one wanted to raise the potential spending of a hundred thousand pounds themselves. And so it sat.
Then one day in June, we had a routine fan replacement on the UPS. The engineer was signed in, did the replacement under the watchful eye of a senior helpdesk technician, and flipped the UPS back from maintenance bypass to full protected mains. And that was when the first bang happened.
And all the lights went dark. All the whirring stopped. All the phones stopped ringing. All the people stopped talking.
It was blissfully quiet for a few precious seconds. And then it was painfully quiet for about another 5. And then all hell broke loose.
The core business applications did not fair well. The 30 year old architecture essentially had no failsafe for database writes, and as the server had quit in the midst of several thousand writes, we knew we had just lost a significant amount of data.
Its worth taking several seconds out to explain how the core application language does its job. Firstly, there is no database server, its all C-ISAM datafiles directly read from and written to by each individual application. Locks are handled by each application internally, with OS level locking preventing concurrent writes to the same record in the data file. No database engine, no transaction logging, no roll backs, no error correction, nothing. There was nothing in the language to protect those poor l
In your rush to criticise 'Microsoft land', you must have overlooked his closing statement regarding 'if the backup generator failed to kick in'.
You cannot have uptime without power. A mains outage coupled with an unexpected generator failure *will* result in downtime - your decision now is whether you wish your servers to be gracefully shutdown, or just have the rug pulled from under them and hours or days of potential angst as a result. Which is it?
And before you suggest larger UPSes for longer protection, consider why you have both a generator and a UPS in the first place - UPSes cost a lot, they cost a lot to buy, and they cost a lot to maintain, and then they cost a lot to replace after only a few years. A generator in comparison costs a lot less all round.
Yes, because all games released these days are nothing more than reskinned sports games. Discussion over, your point is far too strong to argue against...
Both libraries and radio music have inherent limitations built in that have the potential to make an individual purchase more appealing to some - a library has to actually purchase (or otherwise acquire a legal copy) before they can lend, and they can only lend that copy out to one person at a time. Recording radio means you have to wait around for the next song you want to appear on the play list, and play lists are rarely advertised anywhere in full so you again have to listen to the show (or record the entire show, and edit it).
Pioneered? Glastonbury Festival (a huge music and arts festival in the South West of England) has been doing this for years - tickets are issued to named persons with photos being printed on the ticket, and that person has to show official ID on entry along with the ticket. Named and details are checked against the ticket and the purchasing database, and any negative matches are turned away.
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Blockading Japan until they capitulated - the Japanese Imperial Navy was non-existent, the Japanese air force was destroyed, all they had was millions of barely trained civilians to defend against invasion. No invasion was necessary, just put a blockade up around Japan, starve them of oil and other necessities to run a modern country, and they would have given in eventually.
Because drones can be flown from home-based stations far removed from the country where they are employed, the best defence will be saturation carpet bombing of the home country with nuclear weapons to assure that the maximum number of potential drone-control sites are destroyed and laid to ruin via electromagnetic pulse.
Thats no different to the long range bombing missions carried out by the B-1B, B-2 and B-52 in any recent conflict - they primarily launch from bases thousands of miles away (Guam, UK, continental US et al).
Such a court case has already been won - Dodge vs Ford Motor Company. Basically, Ford was not allowed to use amassed corporate profits to become a charitable entity to its staff and the public at large, and the result was increased dividends being paid out to Ford shareholders.
Doesn't that just lead to tyranny and despotism?
You tell me. Did the defeat of the "Native Americans" and the colonization of the "new world" lead to tyranny and despotism?
It did for the natives...
Because they have different leanings, viewpoints and reporting styles? How many people seriously restrict themselves to a single news source?
Define 'make a CD'...
I find it amusing that everyone rails against IE (rightfully so in many ways) for not following standards, but every web developer I know (and being one in a lively local web development community, I am exposed to a fair number) still has to check sites in IE plus a multitude of other browsers . When there are differences between standards compliant browsers, theres something wrong with the standard imho.
As I said, it depends on how the problem is stated - I have seen variations of the treadmill problem where the way it was stated made it possible for the plane to never leave the ground.
Your personal example has no bearing here, because even with the treadmill problem the plane will still require ground speed to achieve flight - neither the actions of the treadmill will produce airflow over the wings, which means the aircraft will still need to move forward on the treadmill before becoming airborne.
Dropbox is mainly written in Python, and that just has a standard Windows installer. There is no indication that Python is in anyway related to it when you install it, but its there.
This new concept of 'if it disagrees with me, its a troll' is fascinating. Your entire scientific premise is wrong, what about that makes me a troll?
The problem with your 'science' is that jet engines certainly work at supersonic speeds, up to and including Mach 3, and they don't do it by using up tonnes of fuel per second. You have no idea what you are talking about.
No it doesn't, it works on the same principle as a rocket engine - the only difference being source of propellant mass.
Every time I have seen the 'plane on a treadmill' problem stated, the way in which it was stated has always been flawed to a point where its ambiguous and unanswerable - there are some ways to state it where the result potentially is that the plane will never leave the treadmill, depending on how you interpret the question.
And I think that was the entire point of the question posed.
Now, cue the jackasses thinking they did the right thing. I'll cut out my kidney with a disposable drinking straw if anyone can reasonably argue this as ethical.
So much for being allowed a difference of opinion...
I don't see this as being ethical or unethical - its simply another sales method. Were you promised the extra content and features in the original sale? No? Then whats the problem? Your purchase isn't faulty.
Right, and there are absolutely no nations anywhere near that the US which could be used as a launching pad. It's not as if the Baring straight was a tiny stretch of water. It's not as if the US has the worlds largest undefended border on the northern side.
The problem with that approach was that prior to the invasion and defeat of Nazi occupied Europe was the invasion and defeat of Nazi occupied North Africa, Nazi occupied Sicily, Nazi occupied Italy and other very significant stepping stones which, along with the steady pushing of the Red Army, caused irreparable damage to the German war machine.
Further to that, the only initial stepping stone in any of the western advances was ... British soil or a British occupied territory (Britain controlled significant portions of North Africa, the Gibraltar Straits, Crete and other positions which turned out to be strategically important). There were no other spring boards available to the western forces, no other countries were allowing it. To have achieved the same end without Britain would have meant a huge logistical task of recreating the Normandy landings from across the Atlantic, with a supply chain stretching a thousand miles at best, either by invading Fortress Europe directly, or by invading a non-hostile but non-cooperative country first.
Yes, the US could have joined with the Soviet Union and moved men and machines across the Baring Straits, but one of the overriding factors in the success of the allied attacks in WW2 was that they were on multiple fronts. Simply throwing more resources at the eastern front may not have had the effect desired.
Buy a media kit from any Microsoft large account reseller - you could also buy your licenses under an Open Agreement at the same time. Just checked with both my LARs account handlers and they both have Windows 2003 and Windows 2003 R2 available for immediate sale, and media kits are still available for both.
Obviously you do not understand just how expensive UPSes actually are - you just added several tens of millions of dollars to the annual running cost of your data center.
UPSes are *that* expensive. If you really wanted to guard against a generator failure, you double up on generators but you do not spend more than you need on UPSes. A UPS should be there to smooth the transition to the generator, not to run the site for any significant length of time.
It takes minutes for an ordinary user to setup an Excel spreadsheet with a large data set (for example, a raw sales figure dump) and perform analysis on it. To setup and use a database for the same task would take much longer and require a totally different skill set.
Let me add my own little story, which happened back in the good old days of June 2009.
The company had spent the past year rearchitecting the entire IT infrastructure, as the complete core application suite for the business was, other than your standard peripheral utilities like Office et al, green screen based, using a proprietary language from the early 1980s that was barely still maintained and wasn't going anywhere fast.
It was my job to handle the systems infrastructure side of the deal, while another team handled software development and I was way ahead of them - the core business applications were still in the planning stages while the infrastructure to handle and host them was well advanced. The platform we chose was well designed, with onsite redundancy built into the base cost and easily scalable - dare I say it myself, it was a good job. The only thing I had no hand in on the hardware side was the actual building infrastructure, as we had moved to custom built offices about 5 years prior, and there was someone else on the team that handled telecoms and the building. But we had a UPS and a generator, so all seemed well in the world.
Alongside the new infrastructure came the new business continuity plan. Well, I say 'new' - I can't really say there was an 'old' BCP. Sure, we rented space at a major BC facilities provider, but there had never been any test, and there wasn't even any written documentation as to what to do.
Here is where I must admit my first failure - the BCP was not treated as an integral, tied-in-like-a-knot part of the infrastructure, it was a separate project running alongside. Sure, the new infrastructure was designed to take a local server failure through redundancy, or even allow ease of moving to an offsite location. That part of it was all in place. My failure was in not ensuring that the offsite location actually existed as the new infrastructure grew.
However, by the start of 2009, the basic infrastructure needs of the BCP were well known, costed and presented to the company board of directors. And there it sat. Every month I would ask them if it had been signed off, if I could spend the money. Every month I received a negative answer, it just hadn't been discussed at these busy directors meetings.
And that was my second failure. I had no sponsor in those meetings, there was basically no IT representation (the IT director had resigned after the modernisation was pushed through, he wanted no part in it as he had not been taking the business forward himself). With no sponsor, no one wanted to raise the potential spending of a hundred thousand pounds themselves. And so it sat.
Then one day in June, we had a routine fan replacement on the UPS. The engineer was signed in, did the replacement under the watchful eye of a senior helpdesk technician, and flipped the UPS back from maintenance bypass to full protected mains. And that was when the first bang happened.
And all the lights went dark. All the whirring stopped. All the phones stopped ringing. All the people stopped talking.
It was blissfully quiet for a few precious seconds. And then it was painfully quiet for about another 5. And then all hell broke loose.
The core business applications did not fair well. The 30 year old architecture essentially had no failsafe for database writes, and as the server had quit in the midst of several thousand writes, we knew we had just lost a significant amount of data.
Its worth taking several seconds out to explain how the core application language does its job. Firstly, there is no database server, its all C-ISAM datafiles directly read from and written to by each individual application. Locks are handled by each application internally, with OS level locking preventing concurrent writes to the same record in the data file. No database engine, no transaction logging, no roll backs, no error correction, nothing. There was nothing in the language to protect those poor l
In your rush to criticise 'Microsoft land', you must have overlooked his closing statement regarding 'if the backup generator failed to kick in'.
You cannot have uptime without power. A mains outage coupled with an unexpected generator failure *will* result in downtime - your decision now is whether you wish your servers to be gracefully shutdown, or just have the rug pulled from under them and hours or days of potential angst as a result. Which is it?
And before you suggest larger UPSes for longer protection, consider why you have both a generator and a UPS in the first place - UPSes cost a lot, they cost a lot to buy, and they cost a lot to maintain, and then they cost a lot to replace after only a few years. A generator in comparison costs a lot less all round.
Yes, because all games released these days are nothing more than reskinned sports games. Discussion over, your point is far too strong to argue against...
Both libraries and radio music have inherent limitations built in that have the potential to make an individual purchase more appealing to some - a library has to actually purchase (or otherwise acquire a legal copy) before they can lend, and they can only lend that copy out to one person at a time. Recording radio means you have to wait around for the next song you want to appear on the play list, and play lists are rarely advertised anywhere in full so you again have to listen to the show (or record the entire show, and edit it).
300 versions of the same app really don't count as "options".
They do whenever we talk about Linux applications...
I really want that 'Im a PC' image for my desktop :)
Pioneered? Glastonbury Festival (a huge music and arts festival in the South West of England) has been doing this for years - tickets are issued to named persons with photos being printed on the ticket, and that person has to show official ID on entry along with the ticket. Named and details are checked against the ticket and the purchasing database, and any negative matches are turned away.