No, he didn't misread. "Anti-personnel" refers to anything that is capable of multiple kills. The distinction between anti-personnel and anti-armor is that anti-armor is designed to penetrate, well, armor. Trust me, if you shoot an anti-armor weapon into a mass of troops, its going to make a mess of the carpet.
Regarding/.'s speed, there are still massive DoS'es going on right now and it's hardly/.'s fault that things are slow.
And by the way, nobody gives a rat's ass about your karma.
You're not entirely correct, brother. 11B's are some of the Army's brightest, according to several senior NCO sources who I trust, and according to my own experience. Some say that the toughness of the 11B job is what attracts intelligent guys. (Note for non-Army people: I say "guys" because 11B is an all-male job title [MOS] in the US Army). As my E-7 mentor says, "any swingin' dick can go carry gas cans or pave sidewalks but it takes motivation to be an infantryman. Most dumbasses aren't very motivated".
It also takes quite a bit of technical aptitude. If you don't believe me, have a look at field manuals 7-8 and 7-7J and the Bradley Gunnery field manual (whose designator escapes me at the moment). This is highly technical, highly tactical stuff. Prior to choosing a military career, I worked as a senior systems architect for one of the premier unix shops in the country. I've been programming for and sysadmining Sun, FreeBSD, and Linux machines since 1993. Hell, look at my/. userid.;-) Why in the hell would I quit a high-paying and comfortable job to be in the Infantry? Simple: this is the life. The cameraderie and excitement are second to none. There's not a single day that I don't thank God for getting me out from behind a desk and putting me in what I think is the world's coolest job.
I agree with you on the unrealistic aspects of America's Army, but do you think they would ever recruit anybody if the game was completely accurate? Who would play it if you had to PCS the HMMWVs and water buffalo before you went on a mission? "Sorry, soldier, but your vehicle is deadlined. You cannot leave the motor pool until the fuel pump wiring harness is repaired. Press F1 to request a new wiring harness from maintenance or F2 to "borrow" one from an unattended HMMWV in the lot next door".
Cadet Snell TARNG, 1/141st Infantry (Mechanized), Camp Bullis TX U of TX @ San Antonio, Army ROTC
Did anyone notice that Shania Twain lip-sync'ed her songs but Gwyn (sp?) Stefani and Sting sang their songs live?
And good lord, did Shania not have the most annoying group of band members? That guy with the cheezy keyboard-that-looks-like-a-guitar really annoyed me.
all those billions to kick the Taliban out of Afghanistan are payback for all the billions we spent helping them in in the first place.
Would you mind providing some references for your figure of "billions" spent to put the Taliban in power? Is that a little hihg or were you just talking out of your ass?
Those Sony/Ericsson T68i's sure do look cool but their website is impossibly short on information. I've yet to figure out the answers to these simple questions:
1) What cellular provider supports these phones?
2) What is the average speed for Internet access?
3) When accessing the Internet through these phones, do you have to dial up first or are the packets handled by the cellular provider?
What a bunch of crap. How do you know that these problems are related to the OS? In all likelyhood, these problems are caused by shoddy programming of the application which runs on top of it. I've seen *plenty* of poorly-written *nix apps crater, on all of the OSes that you mention.
I've run Windows CE on an iPAQ for several years now without a single OS-related problem. For a control group, I've run Linux since early 1994, FreeBSD since 1996, QNX between 2000-2001 and Mac OS X since early 2001. All of these operating systems are quite stable but it's not hard to find a poorly-written application for them.
IMHO, this guy's problem was that he bought a BMW. Recent (1993+) BMWs are notorious for little nags like these. BMW loves to load its high-end BMWs with gee-wiz features but their quality control is horrible. Example: When the M3 convertable came out, my manager at the time bought one and was stuck driving with her top down for a day when the one-touch convertable system refused to work.
The funny thing about the Coke story is, if that guy would have bought 2000 cases of the "new" Coke, they'd probably be worth something by now. As you know, Coke switched back the the old recipie after the public outcry.
FWIW, The Texas Department of Transportation uses it to manage all auto registration (and maybe driver registration--haven't been there yet) records. That's a fairly big installation because there are at least one Texas DoT in every county (well, maybe not Loving Country TX, pop 81, heh) in TX.
I'm still trying to load that Quicktime video from their/.'ed server but I believe this was the same type of coaster mentioned in this WiReD Magazine article a couple of years ago.
Back in the late 80's, I bought an inexpensive (corded) phone at Radio Shack. I was going to gut it to make my own lineman's handset. I pried the thing open with a pair of pliers and discovered, much to my surprise, a sizeable peice of metal attached to the inside of this phone. The was put in there to add weight to this peice of crap. Apparently, people would never buy the phone if it felt like the cheap peice of 3"x2" circuit board that really was!
It seems that this is quite common. Open up most any cheap handheld electronic gadget and you're likely to find a weight inside.
Actually, I've had no problems with x.0-RELEASEs. We installed 3.0-RELEASE on our machines the day it was released. We were waiting for it because we needed support for our SCSI card. This was before I knew about -SNAPSHOTs. Anyway, we installed it and ended up running it for like two years without a reboot. I remember a few security issues that could be patched while the machine was running but I don't remember any showstopper stability issues or system corruption issues. In fact, in all the releases that I've installed since 2.something-really-low, I don't think I've ever seen an unstable or dangerous -RELEASE.
As Alex pointed out, this is a service, not a peice of software. I understand your confusion, though... My link pointed to a peice of free software which works with this non-free service. It's sort of like using an opensource newsreader to read a subscription news service.
This TV-Now thing looks to be a better bet. It's not free but that (to me) is not a bad thing--you'll have somebody to complain to if it doesn't work or the listings are incorrect.
For those poor Slashdot readers who have never had the chance to taste real venison jerky, let me recommend a site to you: VenisonWorld.com. Venison World is a little store in po-dunk Eden, TX. Eden is out in the middle of nowhere but I used to drive through there several times a year while travelling between home and college. The venison jerky that this place sells is quite pricey but is really out of this world. That Oberto beef jerky for sale at the 7-Eleven can't touch this stuff.
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[Sorry for the tangentially off-topic message here but it's somewhat related so I will post anyway...]
I just got a Sony Clie PEG-SJ20 tonight from my father. I would like to play OGG/mp3 on it but I'm unable to locate an 802.11 card for my handheld. Until I can come up with fast wireless access, music playback on this device is kind of pointless. I need to be able to access more than a handful of songs for this to work. Do any of you have one of these Clie things and if so, have you worked out wireless TCP/IP for it yet?
Speaking of dupe detection, I should have checked other comments before I posted. It seems that a nearly identical comment was posted by someone else a few hours earlier.;-)
It shouldn't be too hard to add some dupe prevention code to Slash. It seems that you could snag all URLs out of a story and compare them to URLs from the last 60 days or so and if there is a match, present a warning to the editor.
Oh for the days when in an echomail group when you can see the second generation of replies to a message before actually seeing the original message. (If the originator had less than steller connections.. the whole store and forward this is great, except when your mail has to go out 4 or 5 mail batch points to get where it is going)
Actually, I thought routed netmail [was that the term for it? it's been a while...] was cool as hell. For the heck of it, I would write messages to sysops in Africa (even to the little Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius once!) asking them about their board and their countries. Sometimes, for the heck of it, I would attempt a direct modem connection and then would have to explain to my parents why I made a one-minute call to Tunisia. Most of the time, I'd send the message via routed netmail and eagerly await the response, which would let me view the headers for the lengthy return path. Once, I sent a routed netmail to one of these far-away sysops, only to have him direct-dial his response back to me!
Funny you mention old Fidonet. For the hell of it, I went and read a Fidonews issue a few months ago. Even though it's been ten years since I read FidoNews regularly, and even though Fido is a mere ghost of its former self, THEY ARE STILL FIGHTING! IT WILL NEVER END! When there are two people left on FidoNet, they will still argue about who gets to be the ZC.
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No, he didn't misread. "Anti-personnel" refers to anything that is capable of multiple kills. The distinction between anti-personnel and anti-armor is that anti-armor is designed to penetrate, well, armor. Trust me, if you shoot an anti-armor weapon into a mass of troops, its going to make a mess of the carpet.
Regarding
And by the way, nobody gives a rat's ass about your karma.
Most high GT scores dont want to be 11B
/. userid. ;-) Why in the hell would I quit a high-paying and comfortable job to be in the Infantry? Simple: this is the life. The cameraderie and excitement are second to none. There's not a single day that I don't thank God for getting me out from behind a desk and putting me in what I think is the world's coolest job.
PFC Gruhn:
You're not entirely correct, brother. 11B's are some of the Army's brightest, according to several senior NCO sources who I trust, and according to my own experience. Some say that the toughness of the 11B job is what attracts intelligent guys. (Note for non-Army people: I say "guys" because 11B is an all-male job title [MOS] in the US Army). As my E-7 mentor says, "any swingin' dick can go carry gas cans or pave sidewalks but it takes motivation to be an infantryman. Most dumbasses aren't very motivated".
It also takes quite a bit of technical aptitude. If you don't believe me, have a look at field manuals 7-8 and 7-7J and the Bradley Gunnery field manual (whose designator escapes me at the moment). This is highly technical, highly tactical stuff. Prior to choosing a military career, I worked as a senior systems architect for one of the premier unix shops in the country. I've been programming for and sysadmining Sun, FreeBSD, and Linux machines since 1993. Hell, look at my
I agree with you on the unrealistic aspects of America's Army, but do you think they would ever recruit anybody if the game was completely accurate? Who would play it if you had to PCS the HMMWVs and water buffalo before you went on a mission? "Sorry, soldier, but your vehicle is deadlined. You cannot leave the motor pool until the fuel pump wiring harness is repaired. Press F1 to request a new wiring harness from maintenance or F2 to "borrow" one from an unattended HMMWV in the lot next door".
Cadet Snell
TARNG, 1/141st Infantry (Mechanized), Camp Bullis TX
U of TX @ San Antonio, Army ROTC
Did anyone notice that Shania Twain lip-sync'ed her songs but Gwyn (sp?) Stefani and Sting sang their songs live?
And good lord, did Shania not have the most annoying group of band members? That guy with the cheezy keyboard-that-looks-like-a-guitar really annoyed me.
all those billions to kick the Taliban out of Afghanistan are payback for all the billions we spent helping them in in the first place.
Would you mind providing some references for your figure of "billions" spent to put the Taliban in power? Is that a little hihg or were you just talking out of your ass?
This is slightly OT but what the hell...
Those Sony/Ericsson T68i's sure do look cool but their website is impossibly short on information. I've yet to figure out the answers to these simple questions:
1) What cellular provider supports these phones?
2) What is the average speed for Internet access?
3) When accessing the Internet through these phones, do you have to dial up first or are the packets handled by the cellular provider?
My iPAQ runs Windows PocketPC, not Windows CE. No matter...they're very closely related.
What a bunch of crap. How do you know that these problems are related to the OS? In all likelyhood, these problems are caused by shoddy programming of the application which runs on top of it. I've seen *plenty* of poorly-written *nix apps crater, on all of the OSes that you mention.
I've run Windows CE on an iPAQ for several years now without a single OS-related problem. For a control group, I've run Linux since early 1994, FreeBSD since 1996, QNX between 2000-2001 and Mac OS X since early 2001. All of these operating systems are quite stable but it's not hard to find a poorly-written application for them.
IMHO, this guy's problem was that he bought a BMW. Recent (1993+) BMWs are notorious for little nags like these. BMW loves to load its high-end BMWs with gee-wiz features but their quality control is horrible. Example: When the M3 convertable came out, my manager at the time bought one and was stuck driving with her top down for a day when the one-touch convertable system refused to work.
Go easy on it? Why the hell did you post it here, then?
Only limits would be power and cables
And power lines (don't want your cable to touch one of them)
And the little bastards in the neighborhood with BB guns
And sign codes (many places prohibit tethered balloons)
And constant re-alignment due to swaying in the wind
but otherwise, an interesting idea
The funny thing about the Coke story is, if that guy would have bought 2000 cases of the "new" Coke, they'd probably be worth something by now. As you know, Coke switched back the the old recipie after the public outcry.
I think it would go more like this...
You: [key in the code for a screwdriver]
Clippy: I see that you have dispensed orange juice. Would like Corn Flakes or Frosted Mini-Wheats to go with your breakfast.
You: [curses]
FWIW, The Texas Department of Transportation uses it to manage all auto registration (and maybe driver registration--haven't been there yet) records. That's a fairly big installation because there are at least one Texas DoT in every county (well, maybe not Loving Country TX, pop 81, heh) in TX.
I'm still trying to load that Quicktime video from their /.'ed server but I believe this was the same type of coaster mentioned in this WiReD Magazine article a couple of years ago.
Back in the late 80's, I bought an inexpensive (corded) phone at Radio Shack. I was going to gut it to make my own lineman's handset. I pried the thing open with a pair of pliers and discovered, much to my surprise, a sizeable peice of metal attached to the inside of this phone. The was put in there to add weight to this peice of crap. Apparently, people would never buy the phone if it felt like the cheap peice of 3"x2" circuit board that really was!
It seems that this is quite common. Open up most any cheap handheld electronic gadget and you're likely to find a weight inside.
Actually, I've had no problems with x.0-RELEASEs. We installed 3.0-RELEASE on our machines the day it was released. We were waiting for it because we needed support for our SCSI card. This was before I knew about -SNAPSHOTs. Anyway, we installed it and ended up running it for like two years without a reboot. I remember a few security issues that could be patched while the machine was running but I don't remember any showstopper stability issues or system corruption issues. In fact, in all the releases that I've installed since 2.something-really-low, I don't think I've ever seen an unstable or dangerous -RELEASE.
As Alex pointed out, this is a service, not a peice of software. I understand your confusion, though... My link pointed to a peice of free software which works with this non-free service. It's sort of like using an opensource newsreader to read a subscription news service.
This TV-Now thing looks to be a better bet. It's not free but that (to me) is not a bad thing--you'll have somebody to complain to if it doesn't work or the listings are incorrect.
When they burn or catch fire the least bit, they produce toxic smokes and serious greenhouse gases.
As opposed to straw, which simply burns down! God forbid somebody knocks a candle over in your house.
Adobe--maybe--but I'm not buying the strawbale idea. Your sales pitch sounds waaay too much like those hippies selling geodesic domes in the 70s.
Faaaaar out!
For those poor Slashdot readers who have never had the chance to taste real venison jerky, let me recommend a site to you: VenisonWorld.com. Venison World is a little store in po-dunk Eden, TX. Eden is out in the middle of nowhere but I used to drive through there several times a year while travelling between home and college. The venison jerky that this place sells is quite pricey but is really out of this world. That Oberto beef jerky for sale at the 7-Eleven can't touch this stuff.
[Sorry for the tangentially off-topic message here but it's somewhat related so I will post anyway...]
I just got a Sony Clie PEG-SJ20 tonight from my father. I would like to play OGG/mp3 on it but I'm unable to locate an 802.11 card for my handheld. Until I can come up with fast wireless access, music playback on this device is kind of pointless. I need to be able to access more than a handful of songs for this to work. Do any of you have one of these Clie things and if so, have you worked out wireless TCP/IP for it yet?
Good point. JonKatz was redundant before he ever posted a story.
Speaking of dupe detection, I should have checked other comments before I posted. It seems that a nearly identical comment was posted by someone else a few hours earlier.
It shouldn't be too hard to add some dupe prevention code to Slash. It seems that you could snag all URLs out of a story and compare them to URLs from the last 60 days or so and if there is a match, present a warning to the editor.
Oh for the days when in an echomail group when you can see the second generation of replies to a message before actually seeing the original message. (If the originator had less than steller connections .. the whole store and forward this is great, except when your mail has to go out 4 or 5 mail batch points to get where it is going)
Actually, I thought routed netmail [was that the term for it? it's been a while...] was cool as hell. For the heck of it, I would write messages to sysops in Africa (even to the little Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius once!) asking them about their board and their countries. Sometimes, for the heck of it, I would attempt a direct modem connection and then would have to explain to my parents why I made a one-minute call to Tunisia. Most of the time, I'd send the message via routed netmail and eagerly await the response, which would let me view the headers for the lengthy return path. Once, I sent a routed netmail to one of these far-away sysops, only to have him direct-dial his response back to me!
Damn, those were the days!
Funny you mention old Fidonet. For the hell of it, I went and read a Fidonews issue a few months ago. Even though it's been ten years since I read FidoNews regularly, and even though Fido is a mere ghost of its former self, THEY ARE STILL FIGHTING! IT WILL NEVER END! When there are two people left on FidoNet, they will still argue about who gets to be the ZC.