Good point. but OSX is BSD derived so is, IMO, part of the greater open-source community so does not clash with the sentiments here. I would be glad to learn / help integrate OSX into schools.
acording to my measurements a cd is aprox 16 inch diameter. sound barrier is aprox 13200 inch per sec. so 16 inch * 100 per sec (100x) gives only 1600 inch per sec. The threshold then is actually 13200 / 16 = 825. So when the japanese come out with a 35teraflop pocket computer with an internal 825X DVD-CD-RW beware of Hiroshima revenge... It probably will sprout green tentacles and destroy the city with sonic booms of death..
Damn fine points, although I take issue with item 4. They should buy hardware for the poor schools and let the schools choose the operating system (although most will still choose WinBlows).
easy there sport! just cuz you were too stupid to join a service that didnt treat you like moranic trash (which in your case would be warranted) doesnt mean you have to get all hooah and start inter-service slandering.
Now as for the clinton=shit.. I agree with you. and am very conservative myself (but not always republican). But I still believe that ignoring injustice is condoning it. I thought you served, didnt that give you a sense of serving something greater than your own self interests? Doesn't it say that you are not a self-centered self-serving piece if shit like most liberals? Come on man have a sense of justice!
Having worked the Bosnia and Kosovo missions myself (although from the comfort and safety of California and England as an intel weenie) all I have to say is: right on!
Looking for mass graves of innocent civillians is no fun but it is even less fun without the tools to do it (lasers and other technology are great for looking as well as shooting guys).
And as for my two cents on the mision: we should be the worlds cops. we have the capability we should serve more than just our own interests. But I take issue with the fact that we left Somalia, ignored the Ethiopia/Eritrea war (it was the largest conventional war at the time and noone here ever knew about it) and let things develop in the middle east the way they have. If we are going to do it, lets do it equally. Not just for those that make the news and get the civillian population all whiny-about-the-images-on-TV...
previous poster regarding the effects of the 5.56mm M16 round wounding more often than killing were correct and the results are two-fold: 1) injured soldier requires carring for, resources, medicine, personnel, etc. (a big cost on resources) 2) psychological damage to home and 2nd echelon troops from seeing endless river of screaming wounded coming back from front line is considerable. One other side effect is the 5.56 ammo is lighter and smaller thus more can be carried and transported (logisitics). Ground troops (who want to kill the other guy before getting killed) were loath to give up the 7.62mm M14 and the.45 M1911 because they had greater kill rates. And we went with the Beretta M9 as a trade deal with Italy so we could deploy troops from there (used heavily years later in the Balkans).
good points, and thank you for taking the time to respond to his emotional histeria. I just got annoyed and yelled at him. idiots like that get under my skin something fierce..;-)
jesus you have emotional baggage! Always picked last for the teams in gym class or something? Read the biographies of Tesla, Einstein, Bohr, and Edison. Competition was integral to their work. They fought and argued with eachother, disagreed on ideas, etc. Competition is healthy. Study history, study economics, study the history of science...
how in the hell were we *ever* behind the USSR in anything other than corruption?.. And correct me if I am wrong but all of the wonderfull technology that you used to make that stupid post was developed in free-world competition-based economies (largely here in the US). Get a clue and study the last two hundred years of economic and technological development then come back and post an appology for being an idiot.
agreed.. there is a balance to be struck between maturity of language and developers and improvements on existing models. One huge thing going for C/C++ is both the language and user-base have matured to a point where I would trust them to "build a bridge" where as i still dont quite trust java / java developers that much..
Hell yeah! I would love to see schools teach usefull things! ya know useless things like logic, communication, adaptive learning, resource analysis. Pumping out trained monkeys in todays horse-and-buggy technology (MSFT) is a major disservice to the community.
agreed! but the rub there is getting competent sys admins! how many have you come across in your professional life? I haven't found many, and have found just as few competent developers.
indeed! also an old straight-edge punk and an avid freedom hawk I cant say this kid is anything more than an emotional teenager lacking judgement. Being ex-military and believing strongly in the constitution, I say fix the problems (and there are problems) using the mechanisms it has provided. But freedom requires eternal vigilance and we should watch these things closely so I see why it was posted to/.
indeed.. I might not have laughed as hard because I rather enjoyed that summer I spent coding basic on an atari 8bit.. but I would have laughed if they told me how much I'd be making doing it.. I guess now the laugh is on the dean of my highschool..;-)
I have no degree at all, got kicked out of highschool (for ditching class too often). However, that summer I spent when I was 13 yr old with my atari 800xe and my blazing fast 9600baud modem doing basic programming must have clicked because I fell into unix like it was an old friend and am now a Vice President at a *MAJOR* bank doing developement for foreign exchange systems and starting my own internet services company on the side.
That said there are things that I missed out on from college and plan on going back someday. I have a huge amount of respect for the EE's that design and build the hardware that allows knuckleheads like me write bloated software, I would love to be able to do the math that would help me understand if string theory reaaly is the unifying theory of physics, and I would really like to be able to read Thomas Aquinas's City of God in latin (cuz then Id be cool at parties..;-).. so go to college for what you love. Thats my advice. So when you end up as a sysadmin working at Argonne Labs on their huge-a** linux cluster or writing code for Motorola to do peer-to-peer wireless distributed applications, or some other really fun thing, you will have that Latin in the bag..;-)
this sounds like a kernel task, and I imagine it would re-use aspects of the sleep state. I could see this as simply a hack in the kernel that would accept a particular signal and place the process into a sleep mode but rather than writing to swap, writing to a special partition. this sounds reasonable but i have not played much with the kernel and only written a few programs that use signals..
This signal could be triggered by nut or some other UPS monitoring device or syslog or perhaps just set to run fairly often (like a journaling FS except for physical memory).. hmmm.. maybe I am just blathering..
Yes.. The story looks a little.. cooked?.. At any rate I will say one thing "trying" to discredit microsoft might be the wrong description so they may not be equal-opposites. Try pointing out its ACTUAL flaws where as this concocted story is just a sales/rally pitch..
you worthless bastard;-).. I am not exactly savvy on the usenet/message board games. I just couldn't help but jump on that horrible stupid blathering. But I still say that fun as it may be to get idiots like me to respond you should keep the faux stupidity to yourself and protect the innocent. Get attention some other way.. cross dress maybe?
Yes I read his other comments and I know he is on the M$ payroll but I had to post a reply in fear that others reading might take what he says seriously. Although I have worked with a fair number of EXTREMELY stupid consultants (read Anderson or whatever they call themselves now).. Sorry I am a sucker for blatantly dangerous stupid provocations.;-)
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LOL.. yeah I have taken to using fork || spawn in normal conversations and get strange looks till I realize I wasn't speaking to another geek..
Good point. but OSX is BSD derived so is, IMO, part of the greater open-source community so does not clash with the sentiments here. I would be glad to learn / help integrate OSX into schools.
acording to my measurements a cd is aprox 16 inch diameter. sound barrier is aprox 13200 inch per sec. so 16 inch * 100 per sec (100x) gives only 1600 inch per sec. The threshold then is actually 13200 / 16 = 825. So when the japanese come out with a 35teraflop pocket computer with an internal 825X DVD-CD-RW beware of Hiroshima revenge... It probably will sprout green tentacles and destroy the city with sonic booms of death..
Damn fine points, although I take issue with item 4. They should buy hardware for the poor schools and let the schools choose the operating system (although most will still choose WinBlows).
trolling?.. or just REALLY stupid?
NPR covered these stories and did it well. The american press is more than corporations with stock prices and ratings to consider. and yes it is free.
easy there sport! just cuz you were too stupid to join a service that didnt treat you like moranic trash (which in your case would be warranted) doesnt mean you have to get all hooah and start inter-service slandering. Now as for the clinton=shit.. I agree with you. and am very conservative myself (but not always republican). But I still believe that ignoring injustice is condoning it. I thought you served, didnt that give you a sense of serving something greater than your own self interests? Doesn't it say that you are not a self-centered self-serving piece if shit like most liberals? Come on man have a sense of justice!
Having worked the Bosnia and Kosovo missions myself (although from the comfort and safety of California and England as an intel weenie) all I have to say is: right on! Looking for mass graves of innocent civillians is no fun but it is even less fun without the tools to do it (lasers and other technology are great for looking as well as shooting guys). And as for my two cents on the mision: we should be the worlds cops. we have the capability we should serve more than just our own interests. But I take issue with the fact that we left Somalia, ignored the Ethiopia/Eritrea war (it was the largest conventional war at the time and noone here ever knew about it) and let things develop in the middle east the way they have. If we are going to do it, lets do it equally. Not just for those that make the news and get the civillian population all whiny-about-the-images-on-TV...
previous poster regarding the effects of the 5.56mm M16 round wounding more often than killing were correct and the results are two-fold: 1) injured soldier requires carring for, resources, medicine, personnel, etc. (a big cost on resources) 2) psychological damage to home and 2nd echelon troops from seeing endless river of screaming wounded coming back from front line is considerable. One other side effect is the 5.56 ammo is lighter and smaller thus more can be carried and transported (logisitics). Ground troops (who want to kill the other guy before getting killed) were loath to give up the 7.62mm M14 and the .45 M1911 because they had greater kill rates. And we went with the Beretta M9 as a trade deal with Italy so we could deploy troops from there (used heavily years later in the Balkans).
LOL.. nice. but the question is why would you give oral to an isreali after having fun with the terrorists?..
you whining ninny..
good points, and thank you for taking the time to respond to his emotional histeria. I just got annoyed and yelled at him. idiots like that get under my skin something fierce.. ;-)
jesus you have emotional baggage! Always picked last for the teams in gym class or something? Read the biographies of Tesla, Einstein, Bohr, and Edison. Competition was integral to their work. They fought and argued with eachother, disagreed on ideas, etc. Competition is healthy. Study history, study economics, study the history of science...
how in the hell were we *ever* behind the USSR in anything other than corruption?.. And correct me if I am wrong but all of the wonderfull technology that you used to make that stupid post was developed in free-world competition-based economies (largely here in the US). Get a clue and study the last two hundred years of economic and technological development then come back and post an appology for being an idiot.
agreed.. there is a balance to be struck between maturity of language and developers and improvements on existing models. One huge thing going for C/C++ is both the language and user-base have matured to a point where I would trust them to "build a bridge" where as i still dont quite trust java / java developers that much..
Hell yeah! I would love to see schools teach usefull things! ya know useless things like logic, communication, adaptive learning, resource analysis. Pumping out trained monkeys in todays horse-and-buggy technology (MSFT) is a major disservice to the community.
agreed! but the rub there is getting competent sys admins! how many have you come across in your professional life? I haven't found many, and have found just as few competent developers.
agreed! But we should be watchfull of how the system treats him. i.e. not another Kevin..
indeed! also an old straight-edge punk and an avid freedom hawk I cant say this kid is anything more than an emotional teenager lacking judgement. Being ex-military and believing strongly in the constitution, I say fix the problems (and there are problems) using the mechanisms it has provided. But freedom requires eternal vigilance and we should watch these things closely so I see why it was posted to /.
indeed.. I might not have laughed as hard because I rather enjoyed that summer I spent coding basic on an atari 8bit.. but I would have laughed if they told me how much I'd be making doing it.. I guess now the laugh is on the dean of my highschool.. ;-)
I have no degree at all, got kicked out of highschool (for ditching class too often). However, that summer I spent when I was 13 yr old with my atari 800xe and my blazing fast 9600baud modem doing basic programming must have clicked because I fell into unix like it was an old friend and am now a Vice President at a *MAJOR* bank doing developement for foreign exchange systems and starting my own internet services company on the side.
;-).. so go to college for what you love. Thats my advice. So when you end up as a sysadmin working at Argonne Labs on their huge-a** linux cluster or writing code for Motorola to do peer-to-peer wireless distributed applications, or some other really fun thing, you will have that Latin in the bag.. ;-)
That said there are things that I missed out on from college and plan on going back someday. I have a huge amount of respect for the EE's that design and build the hardware that allows knuckleheads like me write bloated software, I would love to be able to do the math that would help me understand if string theory reaaly is the unifying theory of physics, and I would really like to be able to read Thomas Aquinas's City of God in latin (cuz then Id be cool at parties..
this sounds like a kernel task, and I imagine it would re-use aspects of the sleep state. I could see this as simply a hack in the kernel that would accept a particular signal and place the process into a sleep mode but rather than writing to swap, writing to a special partition. this sounds reasonable but i have not played much with the kernel and only written a few programs that use signals.. This signal could be triggered by nut or some other UPS monitoring device or syslog or perhaps just set to run fairly often (like a journaling FS except for physical memory).. hmmm.. maybe I am just blathering..
Yes.. The story looks a little.. cooked?.. At any rate I will say one thing "trying" to discredit microsoft might be the wrong description so they may not be equal-opposites. Try pointing out its ACTUAL flaws where as this concocted story is just a sales/rally pitch..
you worthless bastard ;-).. I am not exactly savvy on the usenet/message board games. I just couldn't help but jump on that horrible stupid blathering. But I still say that fun as it may be to get idiots like me to respond you should keep the faux stupidity to yourself and protect the innocent. Get attention some other way.. cross dress maybe?
Yes I read his other comments and I know he is on the M$ payroll but I had to post a reply in fear that others reading might take what he says seriously. Although I have worked with a fair number of EXTREMELY stupid consultants (read Anderson or whatever they call themselves now).. Sorry I am a sucker for blatantly dangerous stupid provocations. ;-)