It has been shown throughout history that a weaker force can win and overthrow a dominating military power.
The key word is can. Equally:
It has been shown throughout history that a weaker force can rarely win and overthrow a dominating military power.
Just because you are the underdog does not mean you will win. Just because there have been some memorable occasions where a weaker force has won, doesn't mean it will always happen. The reason these battles are memorable is because it is unusual that the weaker force won.
The US has support more than enough right wing dicatorships though south america to know the truth of that.
Dislaimer: I'm not the AC who commented on your sig, although I have commented on it before.
What point are you trying to make by your sig? I am curious to know exactly what/who your God is. Is this some clever reference (eg Thor), or are you making a serious point (eg Jesus was nailed to a tree by representatives of the human race, I worship them ie I am a humanist).
I think going AWOL might have put paid to that idea.
85% on Verbal Aptitude
Unless Verbal Aptitude means something other than what I think it does, reading his speeches would seem to suggest that there was a mistake in the scoring. Or is that the way that everyone on Texas speaks?
First off, my apologies for a rather sarcastic comment. That just wasn't either kind or fair, however funny I thought it might have been.
I find it a little hard to explain why I find the show so funny. Sure Dilbert has an exploitative boss, but this guy is in another class.
I think what makes is so funny is that every episode he says something and does the complete opposite. But he does it seemingly without meaning to. He is not aware of how appalling he is. And that is quite an achievement. Dilbert's PHB is, in many cases, quite aware of how bad he is.
Of the other people in the office, I think we can relate to the show because we know people like them. Eg Gareth and the whole military thing.
The humour is also very dry. There is, for me at least, something about English humour. It is an aquired taste, and maybe the fact that I am Australian means I relate to it better. I think English humour is also blacker, which I also appreciate.
For me, the best way to describe the show is to compare it to Faulty Towers. The one constant in Faulty Towers is that Basil Faulty never gets anything right. Watching it is excruciating, beause you just want him to get something right, even if it is as small as hanging a picture, or not mentioning the war. And yet he never does. It is like watching someone stumbling through a minefield and hitting all the mines. I find it hard to watch a full episode of Faulty Towers, no matter how much I find it funny.
For me watching The Office is a very similar experience.
I'm not trying to prove you are an idiot. A better way of phrasing my smarmy comment is that different humour appeals to different people. The does not imply that any form of humour is superiour to another. Frankly I consider that some forms of humour are lower than others, but I accept that fact that I may be wrong. Each has their place.
I'm 6'4 with very long arms. Finding a suit coat that fits at all is an exercise in frustration. If I ever switch to a job where I need wear a suit each day, I plan to got for a quick weekend to Singapore and a visit to a tailor. I live in Australia, so Singapore is relatively close.
Given that I work in the IT industry and that I am a director of the company I work for, I don't see myself needing to do that all that soon.
ALICE: Where is here? Human: Where I am sitting ALICE: You are at where. Human: Give the girl a medal ALICE: I don't have it to give. Human: that was an order soldier ALICE: What is your credit card number?
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I am disputing that particular story. I imagine that there was probably software tinkering. I am pointing out that if you want to provide an example to help prove your point, try to provide one with a greater factual basis.
There was a slashdot article about the sploding pipline a while ago. Here is the dupe.
The general consensus on this article was that it was rubbish, a cold war wet dream, for several reasons: 1. The only recorded explosions of the time were attributed directly to other causes 2. The Soviets didn't use the technology described in the article.
I'd certainly think that the US at that time was capable of deliberately causing an explosion that killed hundreds of soviet civilans, but in that case I don't think that is the explanation.
Please understand the difference between unrequested popups and requested popups.
If we blocked requested popups, the functionality of the web as we know it would be significantly diminished. Try installing the tabbed browser extension and switch the new window links option to open in current tab. Now try using the web for a week with this settings.
My sister went on exchange to London for 6 months with her company. The funny thing was the reactions of the dentists. In Australia they used to say "ooooh not good" when they looked into her mouth.
In England they called over collegues to show them how good her teeth were.
This is just another way of saying maths is everything. Everything in life is about Mathematics and can be explained, organised, ordered and controlled through the use of Maths.
I could equally argue that everything is a system that needs to be controlled. From my training as a robotics engineer this makes sense to me. Everything has inputs, and outputs that react according to the inputs. My fiance takes an input of flowers and outputs a smile. Just wait til I apply a Kalman filter to her! Equally all programming could be considered a system that needs to be controlled.
Or all programming could be considered a process. A chemical engineer might see things more this way. Variable a goes through processes B, C and F and the result us X.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
All these are occasionally useful ways of describing things, but they are not the only lens through which one should view everything. Programming is not Mathematics
I hear this a lot, but I think more people write code that does text processing than write code that does number crunching. The most maths I do is calculating totals at the bottom of a page of numbers. Sure I do a little (if I take the front 3 characters off a string, what is left etc), but not much. The actual maths in any programming I do could be done by a high school student.
I think not. I look forward to adding foes and friends as a way of separating the chaff from the wheat. You are chaff.
You will notice that my friends list is as long as my foes list, which seems relatively balanced to me.
I could respond in a true slashdot manner and insult you for any deficiencies that I consider you have (real or imagined), but I don't consider that insults really add to a discussion.
I am a big fan of percussive maitenance, however I have decided to use it a little more carefully lately. It used to be my one size fits all solution.
Recently I have been getting a bit of noise from my PSU. I think a fan is hitting a casing, or something like that. Given that it was intermittent, I thought a good clean whack would sort things out. After the third solid smack the computer froze and wouldn't restart. Sigh. I had to reseat the RAM.
Well, now you can credit them for rewriting Sybase as SQL Server, producing a better product.
According to my history of SQL Server, Microsoft rewrote SQL Server for windows NT in 1992. Until then the results of the joint development with Sybase had run only on OS/2. This was not just a simple porting to a new platform, the kernel was rewritten as part of the port, while the products still remained exactly compatible in features.
Since then SQL Server has had what I would call 3 major releases. 6.5, 7, 2000 and they are on the point of releasing 2005 (yukon).
FUD is FUD, whether it comes from open source or elsewhere.
This squares with my current theory of pasword generation.
I used to use a random password generator I'd hacked together. However it is my understanding that computers are bad at generating random numbers. You end up needing a good seed.
In addition random string passwords are harder to remember. I had a 10 character random string password consisting of upper and lower case characters and numbers. This was a password I typed in a couple of times a day for a year or so and I still had trouble remembering it.
Another approach is to start with a word or phrase and then convert letters to 1337 speak. This is not much better than the original word.
My preference is to take a couple of unrelated words and to inject a number and some form of punctuation into the word.
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Funnier still is the fact that someone modded me up for asking.
But the question still stands. What exactly do you mean by your sig?
It has been shown throughout history that a weaker force can win and overthrow a dominating military power.
The key word is can. Equally:
It has been shown throughout history that a weaker force can rarely win and overthrow a dominating military power.
Just because you are the underdog does not mean you will win. Just because there have been some memorable occasions where a weaker force has won, doesn't mean it will always happen. The reason these battles are memorable is because it is unusual that the weaker force won.
The US has support more than enough right wing dicatorships though south america to know the truth of that.
God is on the side of the big battalions.
Dislaimer: I'm not the AC who commented on your sig, although I have commented on it before.
What point are you trying to make by your sig? I am curious to know exactly what/who your God is. Is this some clever reference (eg Thor), or are you making a serious point (eg Jesus was nailed to a tree by representatives of the human race, I worship them ie I am a humanist).
I am curious to know.
95% in Officer Quality
I think going AWOL might have put paid to that idea.
85% on Verbal Aptitude
Unless Verbal Aptitude means something other than what I think it does, reading his speeches would seem to suggest that there was a mistake in the scoring. Or is that the way that everyone on Texas speaks?
First off, my apologies for a rather sarcastic comment. That just wasn't either kind or fair, however funny I thought it might have been.
I find it a little hard to explain why I find the show so funny. Sure Dilbert has an exploitative boss, but this guy is in another class.
I think what makes is so funny is that every episode he says something and does the complete opposite. But he does it seemingly without meaning to. He is not aware of how appalling he is. And that is quite an achievement. Dilbert's PHB is, in many cases, quite aware of how bad he is.
Of the other people in the office, I think we can relate to the show because we know people like them. Eg Gareth and the whole military thing.
The humour is also very dry. There is, for me at least, something about English humour. It is an aquired taste, and maybe the fact that I am Australian means I relate to it better. I think English humour is also blacker, which I also appreciate.
For me, the best way to describe the show is to compare it to Faulty Towers. The one constant in Faulty Towers is that Basil Faulty never gets anything right. Watching it is excruciating, beause you just want him to get something right, even if it is as small as hanging a picture, or not mentioning the war. And yet he never does. It is like watching someone stumbling through a minefield and hitting all the mines. I find it hard to watch a full episode of Faulty Towers, no matter how much I find it funny.
For me watching The Office is a very similar experience.
I'm not trying to prove you are an idiot. A better way of phrasing my smarmy comment is that different humour appeals to different people. The does not imply that any form of humour is superiour to another. Frankly I consider that some forms of humour are lower than others, but I accept that fact that I may be wrong. Each has their place.
Assuming you have a relatively normal body shape.
I'm 6'4 with very long arms. Finding a suit coat that fits at all is an exercise in frustration. If I ever switch to a job where I need wear a suit each day, I plan to got for a quick weekend to Singapore and a visit to a tailor. I live in Australia, so Singapore is relatively close.
Given that I work in the IT industry and that I am a director of the company I work for, I don't see myself needing to do that all that soon.
The whooshing sound you heard while watching the office? That was the sound of the entire show going over your head.
It might be able to tech support for Dell though.
It was accurate in one way when I talked to it:
ALICE: Where is here?
Human: Where I am sitting
ALICE: You are at where.
Human: Give the girl a medal
ALICE: I don't have it to give.
Human: that was an order soldier
ALICE: What is your credit card number?
Its nice to read an insightful comment with historically accurate examples. Thanks.
Fair enough.
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I am disputing that particular story. I imagine that there was probably software tinkering. I am pointing out that if you want to provide an example to help prove your point, try to provide one with a greater factual basis.
There was a slashdot article about the sploding pipline a while ago. Here is the dupe.
The general consensus on this article was that it was rubbish, a cold war wet dream, for several reasons:
1. The only recorded explosions of the time were attributed directly to other causes
2. The Soviets didn't use the technology described in the article.
I'd certainly think that the US at that time was capable of deliberately causing an explosion that killed hundreds of soviet civilans, but in that case I don't think that is the explanation.
No.
Please understand the difference between unrequested popups and requested popups.
If we blocked requested popups, the functionality of the web as we know it would be significantly diminished. Try installing the tabbed browser extension and switch the new window links option to open in current tab. Now try using the web for a week with this settings.
My sister went on exchange to London for 6 months with her company. The funny thing was the reactions of the dentists. In Australia they used to say "ooooh not good" when they looked into her mouth.
In England they called over collegues to show them how good her teeth were.
This is just another way of saying maths is everything. Everything in life is about Mathematics and can be explained, organised, ordered and controlled through the use of Maths.
I could equally argue that everything is a system that needs to be controlled. From my training as a robotics engineer this makes sense to me. Everything has inputs, and outputs that react according to the inputs. My fiance takes an input of flowers and outputs a smile. Just wait til I apply a Kalman filter to her! Equally all programming could be considered a system that needs to be controlled.
Or all programming could be considered a process. A chemical engineer might see things more this way. Variable a goes through processes B, C and F and the result us X.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
All these are occasionally useful ways of describing things, but they are not the only lens through which one should view everything. Programming is not Mathematics
I basically do the same job and I enjoy it.
.Net, and I also get to play around with perl a bit, but basically the same job.
We are migrating to
Why is programming maths?
I hear this a lot, but I think more people write code that does text processing than write code that does number crunching. The most maths I do is calculating totals at the bottom of a page of numbers. Sure I do a little (if I take the front 3 characters off a string, what is left etc), but not much. The actual maths in any programming I do could be done by a high school student.
I think not. I look forward to adding foes and friends as a way of separating the chaff from the wheat. You are chaff.
You will notice that my friends list is as long as my foes list, which seems relatively balanced to me.
I could respond in a true slashdot manner and insult you for any deficiencies that I consider you have (real or imagined), but I don't consider that insults really add to a discussion.
I am a big fan of percussive maitenance, however I have decided to use it a little more carefully lately. It used to be my one size fits all solution.
Recently I have been getting a bit of noise from my PSU. I think a fan is hitting a casing, or something like that. Given that it was intermittent, I thought a good clean whack would sort things out. After the third solid smack the computer froze and wouldn't restart. Sigh. I had to reseat the RAM.
trabant
Well, now you can credit them for rewriting Sybase as SQL Server, producing a better product.
According to my history of SQL Server, Microsoft rewrote SQL Server for windows NT in 1992. Until then the results of the joint development with Sybase had run only on OS/2. This was not just a simple porting to a new platform, the kernel was rewritten as part of the port, while the products still remained exactly compatible in features.
Since then SQL Server has had what I would call 3 major releases. 6.5, 7, 2000 and they are on the point of releasing 2005 (yukon).
FUD is FUD, whether it comes from open source or elsewhere.
You've just earned yourself a foe.
I was just typing out an impassioned response to this, when I reread your comment and realised you were quoting from the MySQL documentation.
This is just insane. There is no other way to describe it. Clearly concepts like DRI clearly just whooshed right over the heads of the MySQL team.
You know what is sad about that?
Word 2K3 only found 5 grammatical errors in your post.
This squares with my current theory of pasword generation.
I used to use a random password generator I'd hacked together. However it is my understanding that computers are bad at generating random numbers. You end up needing a good seed.
In addition random string passwords are harder to remember. I had a 10 character random string password consisting of upper and lower case characters and numbers. This was a password I typed in a couple of times a day for a year or so and I still had trouble remembering it.
Another approach is to start with a word or phrase and then convert letters to 1337 speak. This is not much better than the original word.
My preference is to take a couple of unrelated words and to inject a number and some form of punctuation into the word.