I always hear this but decided steel was better after watching so many robot battles on TV. The carbon fiber bots always lose.. they look like shreded wheat.
So the Driver must be recent enough to support VDPAU, Check. The Application must be compiled with VDPAU support, Check.
Don't know why you consider this overly complicated? This is the same thing you'd have to do with windows. The only difference is with the windows version of the app it would probably have everything+kitchensink compiled in whereas on linux there would be many variants and options. Ubuntu type distros probably ship the app with kitchensink compiled in by default anyways.
Isn't there a galactic north pole too? Doesn't the galaxy have a North/South property of it's own? The earth fits inside the galaxy and each has it's own North pole. I don't see what's wrong with the idea that there might be something larger than the universe with it's own time property?
About 5 years ago the government made a big push towards being paperless. Especially for the military. LESs are online, every record gets digitized now (including medical), training manuals and regulations are distributed by cd instead of book. Not only that but paper recycling is absolutely manditory, no exceptions.
Maybe it's the civilian government that is still operating primarily with paper. Military organizions only use it as a temporary means of information storage, not a primary.
The only places you run into some real tree-killing is rediculous quarterly briefings to staff officers, book sized powerpoint presentations printed and bound to be used once and recycled. That's a case of entrenched habit that the current senior officers are loath to change.
At my job if email goes down, work stops.. 100% shutdown. The organization has largely gone paperless. I'd imagine most other gov't organizations are the same way. That's only one service of many.. so cybersecurity is very important in my book. Unfortunately a national level of security seems impossible, offensively yes, but not defensively.
Change is almost always painful and scary but you'll be happy for it in the end. Update the code and be glad they don't stay backwards compatable to every iteration of the language.
It's better to clean up and remove the old stuff and continue improving the language. They don't have enough resources to bugfix and improve such a lengthy/aging codebase.
No one is exclusively blaming the NYT. But if a set of terrorists want maximum exposure and public interest to push their agenda.. the NYT can make that happen. If a captive's life depends on the NYT keeping their mouth shut then they WOULD be to blame if they did otherwise. The NYT wouldn't be pulling the trigger but spotlighting those that did (and profiting from it).
Publishing these photos saved a lot of lives and had an influence on the policies of a country that still claims to be a democracy.
Abu Ghraib, i will be honest, i cringe at it's mention. Publishing those photos was terrible for the US Army's public image. The policy changes that took place happened not because the photos were published. They took place because a small group of soldiers abused their authority and the leadership failed to identify and fix the abuse until way too late.
The US Army is not the typical civilian run government organization. It is a tool of the civilian government (to include what equipment it uses in combat). There is nothing gained by covering up a problem. In fact, not correcting a problem almost ensures that it will happen again.
Fucking Abu Ghraib... we will carry that shame for a long time... even though it was commited by a few soldiers, it will be remembered by all of us.
That only works because other people bought computers to further fund the research into bigger and better computers... not to mention lowers the cost of production on the older ones.
There's more than one person in the world who can fix your computer... and you won't have to mail it in to anyone. There's probably a mom&pop computer repair shop down the road from you too, if you want professional tech support. Not only that but each individual part has a factory warranty as well.
A home built machine doesn't mean some guy glued a bunch of old TVs together, it's a controlled assembly of components from (most likely) well known companies. It's not like building a Car from parts and more like setting up your bedroom, you have to buy each piece of furnature and arrange it in a logical way.
I'll call you to come repair my HMMWV the next time it breaks down in the middle of a mortared hellhole fob.
We need soldier mechanics, soldier IT admins, soldier construction workers, and soldier doctors.
You can't elemenate those military jobs and make them civilian, even during peace time. Those soldier's need those jobs to practice and prepare for the day they are deployed. I do believe that civilian counterparts (as equals) in those positions for peace time continiuity and knowledge bases is an excellent idea.
I belive the real reason for all this conversion is because the Army has been downsized to the point of not being able to field as many trigger pullers. Not being able to expand to wartime tables they had to convert as many jobs as possible to maximize the personel capable of deploying combat positions.
I'd say an Oath is a Moral "contract" and a Contract is a Legal "contract". God is not part of any oath i've ever taken. The US Constitution is the highest authority in the country.
It's nice to talk to a contractor that has had good experiences working inside the government. I'm being very honest, it's good to hear a gov employee say they take their job very seriously.
I have mostly dealt with KBR and NG which left a bad taste in my mouth. The worst cases being the $7,000 per month (rent) canvas tents my platoon lived in and a $100K generator that wouldn't run more than 10 hrs without someone babysitting it. The true reasons the Iraq war has cost us so much money.
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Try EVE, it's more like paper-rock-scissors. No one setup is perfect, everybody dies to something.
I was asking a question but "yes" to your question of my question.
Map of underwater cables
http://www.nrc.nl/multimedia/archive/00170/270808ECO_glasvezel_170984a.jpg
I see a red squiggle going from NK to China (and a few of them going directly from China to the US)
Are you proposing a few dropped anchors accross international cables?
I always hear this but decided steel was better after watching so many robot battles on TV. The carbon fiber bots always lose.. they look like shreded wheat.
I would hope those Europeans don't just disappear, they must be somewhere in the world
American Soldiers fight for the Constitution (and freedom).
God and Country is a British thing i think?
Oil is a business interest, for all nations (and easily becomes a political one).
So the Driver must be recent enough to support VDPAU, Check.
The Application must be compiled with VDPAU support, Check.
Don't know why you consider this overly complicated? This is the same thing you'd have to do with windows. The only difference is with the windows version of the app it would probably have everything+kitchensink compiled in whereas on linux there would be many variants and options. Ubuntu type distros probably ship the app with kitchensink compiled in by default anyways.
Whatever makes you happy, man
Isn't there a galactic north pole too? Doesn't the galaxy have a North/South property of it's own? The earth fits inside the galaxy and each has it's own North pole. I don't see what's wrong with the idea that there might be something larger than the universe with it's own time property?
Aye, i get tired of boarding trade vessels and ransoming the crew's lives for cash to pay off my debts. I do enough of that in the real world!
About 5 years ago the government made a big push towards being paperless. Especially for the military. LESs are online, every record gets digitized now (including medical), training manuals and regulations are distributed by cd instead of book. Not only that but paper recycling is absolutely manditory, no exceptions.
Maybe it's the civilian government that is still operating primarily with paper. Military organizions only use it as a temporary means of information storage, not a primary.
The only places you run into some real tree-killing is rediculous quarterly briefings to staff officers, book sized powerpoint presentations printed and bound to be used once and recycled. That's a case of entrenched habit that the current senior officers are loath to change.
At my job if email goes down, work stops.. 100% shutdown. The organization has largely gone paperless. I'd imagine most other gov't organizations are the same way. That's only one service of many.. so cybersecurity is very important in my book. Unfortunately a national level of security seems impossible, offensively yes, but not defensively.
The two situations are opposites. In your situation, exposure of the info would PREVENT deaths. With the media situation, exposure would CAUSE deaths.
If you, by action or in-action, caused someone to die (even indirectly) you share in the blame, correct?
I will mark your comments about me as an honest misunderstanding. I was in Al Hillah at the market on 28 Feb 2005.
Found an article about companies and taxes.. it was one of the sources in the Amazon.com WP article i think.
Nvidia at 2.2% tax: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0423_corporate_taxes/22.htm
Boeing at 3.2% : http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0423_corporate_taxes/18.htm
Amazon.com at 4.1% : http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0423_corporate_taxes/15.htm
Change is almost always painful and scary but you'll be happy for it in the end. Update the code and be glad they don't stay backwards compatable to every iteration of the language.
It's better to clean up and remove the old stuff and continue improving the language. They don't have enough resources to bugfix and improve such a lengthy/aging codebase.
hahaha, thanks for that! I can't believe they put that in the official manual. Too awesome
They DO get taxed, their company HQ has a physical location and they MUST pay business taxes. Boeing and Nvidia pay LESS taxes than Amazon.com does.
Evolution through conflict, eh?
No one is exclusively blaming the NYT. But if a set of terrorists want maximum exposure and public interest to push their agenda.. the NYT can make that happen. If a captive's life depends on the NYT keeping their mouth shut then they WOULD be to blame if they did otherwise. The NYT wouldn't be pulling the trigger but spotlighting those that did (and profiting from it).
Publishing these photos saved a lot of lives and had an influence on the policies of a country that still claims to be a democracy.
Abu Ghraib, i will be honest, i cringe at it's mention. Publishing those photos was terrible for the US Army's public image. The policy changes that took place happened not because the photos were published. They took place because a small group of soldiers abused their authority and the leadership failed to identify and fix the abuse until way too late.
The US Army is not the typical civilian run government organization. It is a tool of the civilian government (to include what equipment it uses in combat). There is nothing gained by covering up a problem. In fact, not correcting a problem almost ensures that it will happen again.
Fucking Abu Ghraib... we will carry that shame for a long time... even though it was commited by a few soldiers, it will be remembered by all of us.
That only works because other people bought computers to further fund the research into bigger and better computers... not to mention lowers the cost of production on the older ones.
You NEED first adopters.
There's more than one person in the world who can fix your computer... and you won't have to mail it in to anyone. There's probably a mom&pop computer repair shop down the road from you too, if you want professional tech support. Not only that but each individual part has a factory warranty as well.
A home built machine doesn't mean some guy glued a bunch of old TVs together, it's a controlled assembly of components from (most likely) well known companies. It's not like building a Car from parts and more like setting up your bedroom, you have to buy each piece of furnature and arrange it in a logical way.
I'll call you to come repair my HMMWV the next time it breaks down in the middle of a mortared hellhole fob.
We need soldier mechanics, soldier IT admins, soldier construction workers, and soldier doctors.
You can't elemenate those military jobs and make them civilian, even during peace time. Those soldier's need those jobs to practice and prepare for the day they are deployed. I do believe that civilian counterparts (as equals) in those positions for peace time continiuity and knowledge bases is an excellent idea.
I belive the real reason for all this conversion is because the Army has been downsized to the point of not being able to field as many trigger pullers. Not being able to expand to wartime tables they had to convert as many jobs as possible to maximize the personel capable of deploying combat positions.
I'd say an Oath is a Moral "contract" and a Contract is a Legal "contract". God is not part of any oath i've ever taken. The US Constitution is the highest authority in the country.
It's nice to talk to a contractor that has had good experiences working inside the government. I'm being very honest, it's good to hear a gov employee say they take their job very seriously.
I have mostly dealt with KBR and NG which left a bad taste in my mouth. The worst cases being the $7,000 per month (rent) canvas tents my platoon lived in and a $100K generator that wouldn't run more than 10 hrs without someone babysitting it. The true reasons the Iraq war has cost us so much money.
NG said it went through an outside firm, that doesn't mean it did. Not only that but this could have been from a personal computer.
Northrop Grumman is a business. Their employees don't take an oath to support (or defend) the constitution. It's all about the money.