"Also with a lot of support of other countries at the time."
Um, No. You got Britain, Australia and Poland. Nobody else sent troops for the invasion.
A whole bunch of countries that count themselves as your friends told you invading Iraq would be a "Really Bad Idea". They warned you that Iraq, which was really three separate nations welded together by the iron fist of the Baathist dictatorship would come apart at the seams as soon as the regime was toppled. They also told you to look at what had just happened in Yugoslavia after the fall of Tito if you needed an example of why it was a bad idea. Of course George W and his neo-con advisers thought they didn't need to heed the good advice of friends and the lessons of history. We all know how well it turned out.
I have a pair of noise cancelling headphones I wear on the bus. I used to get this weird noise once in a while, especially when the battery was running low. Often enough to pique my curiosity, but not enough to bother me. Now I know what it is.
Actually, jetlineners glide just fine, they have big long wings and a very low drag streamlined shape. LD ratio (= lift/drag ratio = roughly the same as glide ratio) of a Boeing 747 is about 17. That translates to gliding about 110 miles from an initial altitude of 35,000 feet with no engines. Not as good as a modern sailplane (LD > 50) but a lot better than our most expensive and famous glider, the Space Shuttle which has an LD of about 4.5. For a truly amazing example google "Gimli Glider"
You have been misinformed. No true fanboi has ever said that. Despite the fact that Mac hardware has always had a 25% - 40% price premium over similar non-Mac hardware, the fanbois will always find a way to loudly deny this. They could almost pull it off in the PowerPC days, but now when the machine internals are often chip for chip identical it gets to be faintly ridiculous.
I feel your pain. My comment you quoted was directed more at the corporate IT managers at head office. I actually get along fine with the local IT people. The big problem is that there aren't enough of them here, and also they have no say in what "the company" decrees we are going to use. It's all decided by the bosses at corporate HQ. They decide that decide they need 3 different remote control programs running at the same time to admin our PCs. This is why we get the mountain of suck that is Symantec EndPoint on our PCs. They decide to put all our AutoCAD licenses on a server in New Jersey, when our WAN was losing connection 2 or 3 times a week for 2 hours at a crack. Centralize everything, because it's easier for the bosses. Too bad the engineers who actually _Bring_ Money_In_ can't work because they can't get a AutoCad licence.
There were a few more that turned out to be nvidia and a sound driver. My XP box at home will run on 18 processes. I assume that a networked corporate PC might have a few more, but good lord this is ridiculous. I wouldn't mind so much if it all sat quietly in the background, but when it slows my PC down to the point where it's unusable 2 or 3 times a day I start to get pissed.
100% Correct. My PC at work is currently running 42 processes. 19 of those processes are IT department Altiris/Symantec crapola. Even on my brand new PC with a dual core cpu and 4 GB of RAM it sometimes bogs my machine down to a crawl. This is all about the lazy self-serving gits making their own jobs easier at the expense of making my job more difficult.
"The current generation likes what they are growing up with and they are rarely impressed with what you regard as an all time classic."
Allow me to disagree. My two kids are in the early teenage years. They know all about the popular stuff today, and yes they do like some of it. But they also have access to my music library (about 10k songs, lots of old hard rock and metal mostly, but a little of everything else) and they have decided they like quite a bit of the old stuff as well. They listen to the White Stripes, Jack Johnson and the Arctic Monkees, but I also hear them blasting Thin Lizzy, UFO and Blue Oyster Cult. For every rapper wanna-be kid at their school with baggy-ass pants and a sideways ballcap, there is one with ripped jeans and a led zepellin T shirt.
Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.
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um no 9-11*2000=-21991 (see arithmetic precedence)
"Also with a lot of support of other countries at the time."
Um, No. You got Britain, Australia and Poland. Nobody else sent troops for the invasion.
A whole bunch of countries that count themselves as your friends told you invading Iraq would be a "Really Bad Idea". They warned you that Iraq, which was really three separate nations welded together by the iron fist of the Baathist dictatorship would come apart at the seams as soon as the regime was toppled. They also told you to look at what had just happened in Yugoslavia after the fall of Tito if you needed an example of why it was a bad idea. Of course George W and his neo-con advisers thought they didn't need to heed the good advice of friends and the lessons of history. We all know how well it turned out.
I have a pair of noise cancelling headphones I wear on the bus. I used to get this weird noise once in a while, especially when the battery was running low. Often enough to pique my curiosity, but not enough to bother me. Now I know what it is.
"Oh please". Wow, what an argument...
He should have used the full version:
"Oh please. I mean, come on."
eraktoplanes - Ah yes the famous Russian erecto-plane. I think you want "Ekranoplan".
In the interest of Getting Things Right, I'll point out that it's "Daylight Saving Time" not "Daylight Savings Time".
Actually, jetlineners glide just fine, they have big long wings and a very low drag streamlined shape. LD ratio (= lift/drag ratio = roughly the same as glide ratio) of a Boeing 747 is about 17. That translates to gliding about 110 miles from an initial altitude of 35,000 feet with no engines. Not as good as a modern sailplane (LD > 50) but a lot better than our most expensive and famous glider, the Space Shuttle which has an LD of about 4.5. For a truly amazing example google "Gimli Glider"
It's nice here in the summery. In the wintery it rains all the time.
Glad bags are awesome. Those ones with the fold over top...did you know that you can put sandwiches in them!
Fanboi: "Wah! Wah! Macs are too expensive"
You have been misinformed. No true fanboi has ever said that. Despite the fact that Mac hardware has always had a 25% - 40% price premium over similar non-Mac hardware, the fanbois will always find a way to loudly deny this. They could almost pull it off in the PowerPC days, but now when the machine internals are often chip for chip identical it gets to be faintly ridiculous.
Oh sure, great rules, we'll all be flat on our asses in about 20 minutes.
Good to know.
For us SI/metric users, a quick question: how many passles in a shitload?
It was the deadly Cumulo-Granitus cloud.
"Don't be (quite as) evil"
but compensates for it by having more stupid.
I feel your pain. My comment you quoted was directed more at the corporate IT managers at head office. I actually get along fine with the local IT people. The big problem is that there aren't enough of them here, and also they have no say in what "the company" decrees we are going to use. It's all decided by the bosses at corporate HQ. They decide that decide they need 3 different remote control programs running at the same time to admin our PCs. This is why we get the mountain of suck that is Symantec EndPoint on our PCs. They decide to put all our AutoCAD licenses on a server in New Jersey, when our WAN was losing connection 2 or 3 times a week for 2 hours at a crack. Centralize everything, because it's easier for the bosses. Too bad the engineers who actually _Bring_ Money_In_ can't work because they can't get a AutoCad licence.
Troll? If only.
ACLIENT.EXE; AClntUsr.EXE; AeXNSAgent.exe; alertsvc.exe ; ccApp.exe; CCSRVC.exe; ccSvcHst.exe; Client.exe; jusched.exe; lucoms~1.exe; MNMSrvc.exe; nisserv.exe; Rtvscan.exe; Semsvc.exe; SescLU.exe; Smc.exe; SmcGui.exe; SymCorpUI.exe; symlcsvc.exe; Wmiprvse.exe
There were a few more that turned out to be nvidia and a sound driver. My XP box at home will run on 18 processes. I assume that a networked corporate PC might have a few more, but good lord this is ridiculous. I wouldn't mind so much if it all sat quietly in the background, but when it slows my PC down to the point where it's unusable 2 or 3 times a day I start to get pissed.
100% Correct. My PC at work is currently running 42 processes. 19 of those processes are IT department Altiris/Symantec crapola. Even on my brand new PC with a dual core cpu and 4 GB of RAM it sometimes bogs my machine down to a crawl. This is all about the lazy self-serving gits making their own jobs easier at the expense of making my job more difficult.
Huzzah. Well played Sir!
Right Next to the Hottest Furnace, and it's reserved for people who utter the phrase "All you gotta do now is write the software"
From the summary - "All that needs to be done now is build a system able to decode the light signatures.""
"The current generation likes what they are growing up with and they are rarely impressed with what you regard as an all time classic."
Allow me to disagree. My two kids are in the early teenage years. They know all about the popular stuff today, and yes they do like some of it. But they also have access to my music library (about 10k songs, lots of old hard rock and metal mostly, but a little of everything else) and they have decided they like quite a bit of the old stuff as well. They listen to the White Stripes, Jack Johnson and the Arctic Monkees, but I also hear them blasting Thin Lizzy, UFO and Blue Oyster Cult. For every rapper wanna-be kid at their school with baggy-ass pants and a sideways ballcap, there is one with ripped jeans and a led zepellin T shirt.
Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.
Last I looked, the Earth has this "atmosphere" thingy which should take care of that little problem.
That does it you bastard, I'm voting for McCain!