May I respectfully disagree, on behalf of all the dead GIs who "went with what they had," in their case being non-armored HUMMVs and worthless body armor.
Read "Paths of Glory" for an earlier instance of the same Charlie Foxtrot.
With rare exception, it's far better to postpone action until properly prepared than to follow blind orders. I suspect Sun Tzu would agree.
Meritorius medal for streamlining things w/ perl, and a dishonorable discharge for doing *anything* with Excel.
And before the accusations fly, my statement stands no matter what spreadsheet program you replace "Excel" with. They aren't database tools and shouldn't be used as such.
Just add "Some people believe" or "Some scientist's doubt" to the beginning of the sentence, and you are home free.
I always preferred the political speech (aka prosecutor's question) version: "I challenge Mr. [name] to deny that he kills kittens while setting baby seals on fire."
Can someone familiar with the NYC concept of "key money," a wad of cash handed over for the right to assume a lease on an apartment (that's what I've read, not necessarily the whole story) comment on the similarity or difference between that cash transaction and this one?
Dunno about the system designers, but this Joe Dignan guy is either woefully ignorant or a total asshole. Nothing is worse-looking and intrusive to the urban (and suburban) environment than elevated highways, elevated "subway" lines, and the like. Just because there's free airspace doesn't mean it should be filled in.
All us/.-ers, being highly experienced software jocks, know perfectly well that anything sent in an email might as well be posted up in Times Square. It might have made it a bit more difficult for the bidders to find out the names of the other bidders, but even if each one were sent a separate, one-address, email, the info is on servers all over the place (insert lame joke about asking the NSA for the other bidders' emails).
This is global capitalism at its best:-) . Now all the US (and Korean and Chinese and Japanese and...) chip manufacturers have a whole nation of potential new competitors. The New Russia is out to crush all economic competitors! Communism within the borders but Capitalism to conquer the world!
(you can assign your own level of humor, sarcasm, and paranoia to this post.)
so if it takes 350 W/h to run at a 100% duty cycle, it might only use 75-100 W/h realistically.
I'm guessing you mean W-h there:-). I understand there's a common abbreviating method for words which puts a slash between them ("w/o" for "without") but for scientific units, a slash always means division.
Really, now, if you take a couple steps back it becomes clear that the primary downside of GMO is patents. The court cases over seeds, and bits of genetic material, which have merged with other varieties of plants, are just plain ugly.
There's also that little problem of preprogrammed 2nd-generation infertility. Be really funny if that jumped a few species here and there.
GMO Food is to Liberals as Global Warming is to Conservatives.
Insightful my ass. Apparently you've got no f@*&ing idea what a "liberal" is. -- or that it is, or was, the far Right that railed against additives such as fluoridation. Pretty much the only people against GMO are those who either have skin in the game (small producers of edibles) or are stubbornly ignorant of the meaning of genetic modification.
and the auction by the government only legitimizes it further as a real asset worth real money.
Only if they actually get some bids. I'd love to see a scenario where only one bidder shows up and (despite the $200k honest money requirement) bids 50cents.
Oblig: why doesn't the USgovt put it on eBay with a BIN of $Xmillion?
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I was not commenting on your particular conflict; merely on a glaring example of poor planning and support by superior officers (including Rumsfeld).
If you reread my rant, you'll see I accused the people issuing orders of being blind.
May I respectfully disagree, on behalf of all the dead GIs who "went with what they had," in their case being non-armored HUMMVs and worthless body armor.
Read "Paths of Glory" for an earlier instance of the same Charlie Foxtrot.
With rare exception, it's far better to postpone action until properly prepared than to follow blind orders. I suspect Sun Tzu would agree.
Meritorius medal for streamlining things w/ perl, and a dishonorable discharge for doing *anything* with Excel.
And before the accusations fly, my statement stands no matter what spreadsheet program you replace "Excel" with. They aren't database tools and shouldn't be used as such.
Just add "Some people believe" or "Some scientist's doubt" to the beginning of the sentence, and you are home free.
I always preferred the political speech (aka prosecutor's question) version: "I challenge Mr. [name] to deny that he kills kittens while setting baby seals on fire."
Can someone familiar with the NYC concept of "key money," a wad of cash handed over for the right to assume a lease on an apartment (that's what I've read, not necessarily the whole story) comment on the similarity or difference between that cash transaction and this one?
Dunno about the system designers, but this Joe Dignan guy is either woefully ignorant or a total asshole. Nothing is worse-looking and intrusive to the urban (and suburban) environment than elevated highways, elevated "subway" lines, and the like. Just because there's free airspace doesn't mean it should be filled in.
Nice, but no thanks: I'll wait for iScam-II, with a built-in Sarcasm Detector.
Oblig: ... and it didn't even occur to you to warn *them* about 9/11 ? Sheesh. You could have saved us all a LOT of sorrow.
No, you just need to stop making such shitty cars.
Seems a lot of people got whooshed by the original post, so:
I have changed your automobile safety design. Pray I do not change it further -- T. Durden
Which, if you've never heard of it, is a place in the Atlantic where a bunch of ocean currents sort of cancel each other out...
I've not heard of one there but I understand that there is a huge one in the Pacific.
The Atlantic one is known as "New Jersey."
All us /.-ers, being highly experienced software jocks, know perfectly well that anything sent in an email might as well be posted up in Times Square. It might have made it a bit more difficult for the bidders to find out the names of the other bidders, but even if each one were sent a separate, one-address, email, the info is on servers all over the place (insert lame joke about asking the NSA for the other bidders' emails).
I just hope it doesn't discover the Goatse Nebula, or the Goatse Galaxy.
You can see it in the image collected. Just bend over a bit more to get closer to the monitor...
This is global capitalism at its best :-) . Now all the US (and Korean and Chinese and Japanese and...) chip manufacturers have a whole nation of potential new competitors. The New Russia is out to crush all economic competitors! Communism within the borders but Capitalism to conquer the world!
(you can assign your own level of humor, sarcasm, and paranoia to this post.)
"You just pucker up and blow...."
It's fairly obvious that he's developing all the technologies needed for an evil fortress built on the moon.
Well, we'll know for certain when he starts up a computer cluster called Mycroft.
Just dropping in to say that anyone who names a company after a pinball game has my vote.
Plus I loved that machine.
easy for you to say, being dead and all.
il ya de[sic] francais[sic] ici , vous et[sic] un[sic] clod[sic] insensitive[sic]
FTFY :-)
so if it takes 350 W/h to run at a 100% duty cycle, it might only use 75-100 W/h realistically.
I'm guessing you mean W-h there :-). I understand there's a common abbreviating method for words which puts a slash between them ("w/o" for "without") but for scientific units, a slash always means division.
Speaking of acronyms ...
I see what /. did there. (probably unintentionally)
Let them try to figure those abbreviations out!
(and yes, for you OCD-ers I made them up out of nothing).
BTW, Does anyone use TTFN any more? that one far predates things like internets and even chatrooms.
Either way it oort to be interesting.
Hey, I'm from Baaahston and I don't get the joke, you insensitive clod!
Really, now, if you take a couple steps back it becomes clear that the primary downside of GMO is patents. The court cases over seeds, and bits of genetic material, which have merged with other varieties of plants, are just plain ugly.
There's also that little problem of preprogrammed 2nd-generation infertility. Be really funny if that jumped a few species here and there.
GMO Food is to Liberals as Global Warming is to Conservatives.
Insightful my ass. Apparently you've got no f@*&ing idea what a "liberal" is. -- or that it is, or was, the far Right that railed against additives such as fluoridation. Pretty much the only people against GMO are those who either have skin in the game (small producers of edibles) or are stubbornly ignorant of the meaning of genetic modification.
and the auction by the government only legitimizes it further as a real asset worth real money.
Only if they actually get some bids. I'd love to see a scenario where only one bidder shows up and (despite the $200k honest money requirement) bids 50cents.
Oblig: why doesn't the USgovt put it on eBay with a BIN of $Xmillion?