Yeah, I used 2.0 about that time. I liked it, and REXX was very powerful, a very good scripting language. But, yeah, time to move on I think. OS/2 is relegated to neckbeard's still maintaining their Amigas and C/64 machines playing block/character graphics games.
Hilarious. Except the typical prison inmate who likes to rape (or even engage in consensual sexual activities with) other prison inmates does not self identify as gay nor even bisexual.
I'm not aware of the politics in this, are they saying the systemd people are rude, or that they just refuse to make their code compatible?
Also with regard to systemd, I really do like distros that have it in my virtual machines because I can do a full reboot in seconds, whereas other distros take much longer. This is just flat out awesome for reducing lost time during maintenance when something doesn't go as planned.
Is there a particular reason we can't have something like that AND comply with the "do one thing and do it well" rule? I'm not familiar enough with the low level stuff.
Yes, use a normal init and put your boot and root on an ssd.
Small, cheap, expendable drones carrying the equivalent of a hand grenade could attack individual enemy soldiers. Slightly bigger ones could carry the equivalent of the warhead of an RPG, come close overhead of an armoured vehicle, and fire down into it. Ukraine could certainly use such things.
Brilliant idea
It attaches to a soldiers back, announcing "I'm a thirty second bomb, I'm a thirty second bomb! Twenty-nine! Twenty-eight! Twenty-seven!..."
The soldier runs for help from his fellows, hoping they can remove it in time...
It's a shame that TFA seems to suck, because this is a big concern for a lot of people. I encrypt my laptop, but at the border your rights are severely diminished and they can do all sorts of nasty things to you. So far the best option seems to be to carry an innocuous laptop with nothing of interest on it, and mail myself an encrypted flash drive with the real OS and data on it.
Even with a phone you can do a "nandroid" backup (on Android) of the real OS, wipe it back to factory and then restore when you reach safety.
And that backup goes online, encrypted and you download it once you are across the border.
Free speech is great in actual matters of opinion, but denying historical facts? Seriously, we are appalled if a government engages in propaganda, shouldn't we be appalled when commercial entities or other groups distort facts.
Oh wait, you must believe that the piles of ashes at concentration camps were evidence of massive barbecue parties.
Unfortunately people run foul of these kinds of laws for suggesting that the officially accepted version of events might be factually incorrect. For example to suggest that the actual figure of Jewish holocaust deaths was closer to 5 million than 6 million could get you into significant trouble in some countries.
Its not about distorting facts, its about the right to question them.
15 years? The researchers observed 2 SNPs in a population of chickens over 50 years; which is "15x faster" than the previous estimate of 2% evolution every million years. There also wasn't much selection on these chickens, as they were lab chickens, so even less-fit mutations would persist. One SNP was non-synonymous (meaning it results in a codon change), and one SNP was synonymous (no codon change).
I'm not seeing where they got "Significant changes in 15 years" out of the article.
Interestingly, theropods (which Chickens evolved from) evolved very rapidly themselves.
Also, bird (and probably dinosaur) DNA and chromosomes works a little differently to mammals. Birds can be split down the middle with one half being male, the other female. Mammals can't do that (because hormones). Also female birds can produce offspring without males. Turkeys do this fairly regularly, all the offspring are male.
Next thing you know the USA will have anti-holocaust denial laws (for the Nazi holocaust) and anti-holocaust assertion laws (for the Native American holocaust).
Remove the prohibitions on direct sales from manufacturers to the public. If the dealers survive, they are worth keeping. If the dealers fail, they were not.
My God Man! What you are describing sounds like a free market or something.
My attitude as well. The US may sometimes come across as an evil overlord, but I'd pick that evil overlord over its evil overlord competition - even though I'd prefer a non-evil overlord, or better, no overlord at all;)
Thank you for recognizing that while the USA is far from perfect, it is probably the least sucky option.
Signed, an American
Thank you for recognizing that the USA is far from perfect though please don't imagine that the USA sucks the least out of any other available country on Earth.
If I'm firing a chunk of metal at mach 1+, the ability of the target to both see it and respond is almost zero ( the navy tests had a projectile at >2500 m/s (hypersonic or about a mile every 2 seconds) ). The sheer transfer of kinetic energy is so absolutely massive, even if the speed of the projectile decreases massively, the round will essentially punch through almost any type of armor.
Also depending on distance from target, say it's hypersonic and we're only 5 miles away, the projectile will hit at something like 2k m/s -> anything near the target will also be greatly compromised.
Good job someone is developing laser weapons then, to shoot down the railgun projectiles.
With a traditional naval or tank shell, much of the damage comes from the explosive contents of the shell
Umm, the primary round shot from a tank gun is APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot). It's a big dart. No explosive at all.
It seems to me that tank vs tank combat is very rare these days and most of the time tanks aren't going to want an armor piercing round at all, they are going to want anti-personnel or anti-structure rounds.
One day, when the USA is at war with a country that can fight back like for like, then those AP rounds will come in handy but surely not in Afghanistan, for example.
I'm curious about the choice to use osmium. Sure, it is the densest element, but iridium is almost the same density and osmium easily forms toxic compounds while iridium doesn't (easily, I mean).
Dump the licence fee, switch to subscription, sell BBC programming to anyone in the world who wants it, stop forcing people in the UK who don't want it to pay for it.
The BBC are adamant that they make the highest quality programmes in the world, so I'm sure they'll have no problem finding new subscribers to make up for lost licence revenue.
Yeah they should load up their websites and apps with ads instead!
I was going to say, they didn't lose a dime on me. I never click on ads (except by mistake) so they wouldn't get any real ad revenue from me whether I use an ad blocker or not.
The statistics on ad click through suggests that the vast majority of the time its accidental.
How about a shop with a magazine rack which they let people peruse for free. Some third party stands outside and charges you to go into the bookstore and a portion of this goes to the bookstore. However this person is infected with something nasty and coughs at you as you go through the door.
No, the web site isn't charging the visitor anything to read the content (just like it's free to go into a bookstore), the web site is charging the advertiser. Retail and Websites have two completely different business models. What the website is saying is "Hey if you don't want to see ads, then you have to pay to read the content. If you don't want to pay for the content, then you have to see the ads.".
If you block ads, the advertisers stop giving the site owner money. If you go into the bookstore and read a book and don't buy it, the bookstore doesn't make any money and they stop stocking newer books. In both cases they eventually shut their doors.
No, I'm saying that the website owner has delegated the serving of ads to a third party who is acting in an egregious and unacceptable way.
Its up to the website owner to take that into their own hands, go to their ad provider and say "You are driving our ad revenue down by your behavior. Modify your ads, improve your security, so we can recover our ad revenue."
What I'm doing by blocking ads is giving the website owners the incentive to do this.
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Yeah, I used 2.0 about that time. I liked it, and REXX was very powerful, a very good scripting language. But, yeah, time to move on I think. OS/2 is relegated to neckbeard's still maintaining their Amigas and C/64 machines playing block/character graphics games.
You mean like Minecraft?
Hilarious. Except the typical prison inmate who likes to rape (or even engage in consensual sexual activities with) other prison inmates does not self identify as gay nor even bisexual.
I'm not aware of the politics in this, are they saying the systemd people are rude, or that they just refuse to make their code compatible?
Also with regard to systemd, I really do like distros that have it in my virtual machines because I can do a full reboot in seconds, whereas other distros take much longer. This is just flat out awesome for reducing lost time during maintenance when something doesn't go as planned.
Is there a particular reason we can't have something like that AND comply with the "do one thing and do it well" rule? I'm not familiar enough with the low level stuff.
Yes, use a normal init and put your boot and root on an ssd.
So, you are advocating that we invade them and slaughter pretty much everybody and then set up a puppet government?
Well aside from the fact that America does even this very badly, this is what America does best...
Small, cheap, expendable drones carrying the equivalent of a hand grenade could attack individual enemy soldiers. Slightly bigger ones could carry the equivalent of the warhead of an RPG, come close overhead of an armoured vehicle, and fire down into it. Ukraine could certainly use such things.
Brilliant idea
It attaches to a soldiers back, announcing "I'm a thirty second bomb, I'm a thirty second bomb! Twenty-nine! Twenty-eight! Twenty-seven!..."
The soldier runs for help from his fellows, hoping they can remove it in time...
Because the Mexican version can punish everyone. It's a form of equality through oppression.
SJW just want the oppression of those who don't follow their narrative.
SJW's seem to believe that certain races have original sin so if you are a SJW of that race you'd love some flagellation.
It's a shame that TFA seems to suck, because this is a big concern for a lot of people. I encrypt my laptop, but at the border your rights are severely diminished and they can do all sorts of nasty things to you. So far the best option seems to be to carry an innocuous laptop with nothing of interest on it, and mail myself an encrypted flash drive with the real OS and data on it.
Even with a phone you can do a "nandroid" backup (on Android) of the real OS, wipe it back to factory and then restore when you reach safety.
And that backup goes online, encrypted and you download it once you are across the border.
Done that with laptops as well.
No, they'll keep the device, beat and rape you, then illegally hold you without charging you anything and without granting you access to a lawyer.
Except it won't be illegal because it'll be at the border.
Free speech is great in actual matters of opinion, but denying historical facts? Seriously, we are appalled if a government engages in propaganda, shouldn't we be appalled when commercial entities or other groups distort facts.
Oh wait, you must believe that the piles of ashes at concentration camps were evidence of massive barbecue parties.
Unfortunately people run foul of these kinds of laws for suggesting that the officially accepted version of events might be factually incorrect. For example to suggest that the actual figure of Jewish holocaust deaths was closer to 5 million than 6 million could get you into significant trouble in some countries.
Its not about distorting facts, its about the right to question them.
15 years? The researchers observed 2 SNPs in a population of chickens over 50 years; which is "15x faster" than the previous estimate of 2% evolution every million years. There also wasn't much selection on these chickens, as they were lab chickens, so even less-fit mutations would persist. One SNP was non-synonymous (meaning it results in a codon change), and one SNP was synonymous (no codon change).
I'm not seeing where they got "Significant changes in 15 years" out of the article.
Interestingly, theropods (which Chickens evolved from) evolved very rapidly themselves.
Also, bird (and probably dinosaur) DNA and chromosomes works a little differently to mammals. Birds can be split down the middle with one half being male, the other female. Mammals can't do that (because hormones). Also female birds can produce offspring without males. Turkeys do this fairly regularly, all the offspring are male.
Birds work differently to mammals.
... how very European of them.
Next thing you know the USA will have anti-holocaust denial laws (for the Nazi holocaust) and anti-holocaust assertion laws (for the Native American holocaust).
from the ./ headline:
Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping?
Remove the prohibitions on direct sales from manufacturers to the public. If the dealers survive, they are worth keeping. If the dealers fail, they were not.
My God Man! What you are describing sounds like a free market or something.
This is AMERICA!
My attitude as well. The US may sometimes come across as an evil overlord, but I'd pick that evil overlord over its evil overlord competition - even though I'd prefer a non-evil overlord, or better, no overlord at all ;)
Am I sensing a bit of Stockholm syndrome?
Thank you for recognizing that while the USA is far from perfect, it is probably the least sucky option.
Signed, an American
Thank you for recognizing that the USA is far from perfect though please don't imagine that the USA sucks the least out of any other available country on Earth.
Right on! Road traffic neutrality! Fuck ambulances and fire engines! They can wait in the gridlock like everyone else!
Yeah because if that game lags out someone is going to die!
Rail guns have much better uses as deterrents.
If I'm firing a chunk of metal at mach 1+, the ability of the target to both see it and respond is almost zero ( the navy tests had a projectile at >2500 m/s (hypersonic or about a mile every 2 seconds) ). The sheer transfer of kinetic energy is so absolutely massive, even if the speed of the projectile decreases massively, the round will essentially punch through almost any type of armor.
Also depending on distance from target, say it's hypersonic and we're only 5 miles away, the projectile will hit at something like 2k m/s -> anything near the target will also be greatly compromised.
Good job someone is developing laser weapons then, to shoot down the railgun projectiles.
Umm, the primary round shot from a tank gun is APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot). It's a big dart. No explosive at all.
It seems to me that tank vs tank combat is very rare these days and most of the time tanks aren't going to want an armor piercing round at all, they are going to want anti-personnel or anti-structure rounds.
One day, when the USA is at war with a country that can fight back like for like, then those AP rounds will come in handy but surely not in Afghanistan, for example.
Unfortunately, the "Mach 8" version is ridiculously long and only works once. It needs rebuilding between shots, and is ridiculously expensive
So its perfect for the US navy.
I'm curious about the choice to use osmium. Sure, it is the densest element, but iridium is almost the same density and osmium easily forms toxic compounds while iridium doesn't (easily, I mean).
Its very small and no one is going to eat it.
A true British gentleman would never live in France.
I'm British, but no gentleman!
I'm very glad that Britain is in the EU. Why? So I can live anywhere in Europe EXCEPT the UK!
They don't need ads; They could just sell subscriptions as was suggested by the AC.
But ads would fit the pattern!
Dump the licence fee, switch to subscription, sell BBC programming to anyone in the world who wants it, stop forcing people in the UK who don't want it to pay for it.
The BBC are adamant that they make the highest quality programmes in the world, so I'm sure they'll have no problem finding new subscribers to make up for lost licence revenue.
Yeah they should load up their websites and apps with ads instead!
What could possibly go wrong...
U.S. websites will lose US$21.8 billion in ad revenue this year due to ad blockers
Advertisers saved US$21.8 billion by not advertising to unreceptive customers
Advertisers lost US$21.8 billion because people like you stubbornly refuse to be receptive customers!!
I was going to say, they didn't lose a dime on me. I never click on ads (except by mistake) so they wouldn't get any real ad revenue from me whether I use an ad blocker or not.
The statistics on ad click through suggests that the vast majority of the time its accidental.
How about a shop with a magazine rack which they let people peruse for free. Some third party stands outside and charges you to go into the bookstore and a portion of this goes to the bookstore. However this person is infected with something nasty and coughs at you as you go through the door.
No, the web site isn't charging the visitor anything to read the content (just like it's free to go into a bookstore), the web site is charging the advertiser. Retail and Websites have two completely different business models. What the website is saying is "Hey if you don't want to see ads, then you have to pay to read the content. If you don't want to pay for the content, then you have to see the ads.".
If you block ads, the advertisers stop giving the site owner money. If you go into the bookstore and read a book and don't buy it, the bookstore doesn't make any money and they stop stocking newer books. In both cases they eventually shut their doors.
No, I'm saying that the website owner has delegated the serving of ads to a third party who is acting in an egregious and unacceptable way.
Its up to the website owner to take that into their own hands, go to their ad provider and say "You are driving our ad revenue down by your behavior. Modify your ads, improve your security, so we can recover our ad revenue."
What I'm doing by blocking ads is giving the website owners the incentive to do this.