It will enhance the effectiveness of america's fighting force. By effectiveness I mean not only their ability to Kill Stuff(tm) but also their ability to not kill stuff. Maybe this will be the difference between soldiers bursting into rooms and spraying the slightest flash of movement and soldiers developing better room-clearance techniques which minimise collateral damage.
I'm not entirely sure why you think the only reason the U.S. army might fight in urban areas is "for strategic control over the resources of the country involved". Also, I'm not sure I know what you mean by that anyway??? Strategic control? Surely an element of that is minimising damage to infrastructure and essential services. Which is what they should be trying to do anyway...I believe this is in the Rules of Engagement and possibly the geneva convention as well. How is it a bad thing for them to try to do this better??
The reason this war has been so protracted is that the army is obviously not all that well equipped to fight in these situations, against a guerilla army, on their home-turf, in an urban environment.
Training soldiers to "think better" is the best thing for all concerned.
A well trained army is not a problem, but it may look like a problem if your elected representatives are perceived as using them as a tool of oppression I guess.
I may have fallen asleep in a few Physics lessons but...how TF do you know that this arbitrary galaxy 12 billion light years away exists *now*?
I see what you're saying...but I also see what the GP was alluding to. We can only say for certain that the galaxy existed 12 billion years ago because 12billion years ago + 3 and a half months it may have been consumed by Galactus.
What does the position entail and what are you looking for in a candidate? How many applicants have there been?
What you're saying sounds completely incongruous with what my fellow soon-to-be-graduates and I are facing. A friend of mine graduated last year, spent 8 months temping at 118 118 and is only now is she doing something related to computing,(and *that* involves rebuilding PCs, stuff that a school-leaver could probably do) despite being a very capable programmer.
:o) Here in the U.K. I've seen lots of jobs where they expect you to have good A-levels(final exams at 17/18). Am job-hunting at the moment(graduating this year), and I generally toss these aside as I have 3 Cs, not to mention seeing the reasoning behind it as infantile.
This is probably a result of so many universities churning out grads, that the only way to distinguish between two applicants is how well they did at A-level.
My dad's a self-employed plumber and electrician, and he worked/works precisely as hard as he does to make sure I didn't have to. He'd much rather I got a job "working in an office" than crawling about in people's lofts, digging holes or breathing in fibre-glass.
And you know what? So would I. I don't expect to graduate in May and go straight into a job earning 30-40k (GBP:o), I'll be happy as long as I can feed,clothe myself, even if I have to live at home for a while, but hopefully whatever job I get won't involve breaking my back.
I bow to your experience, and invaluable hindsight, but I got into computing because I love it and still do. I'm happy coding, happy. I know within myself that no amount of money would make up for being unhappy in my job.
Maybe all that will change after 20 years of doing make-work, poorly-managed projects and boring business apps but I'm willing to take the risk:o)
I can point you to ~10 people on my course who never miss a lecture/tutorial and will pass their degree.
I can point you to ~10 people to have attended maybe 5% of their lectures/tutorials and will pass their degree.
The majority miss a few lectures/tutorials here and there and will probably pass their degree.
I'm notorious for skipping pointless "read-from-the-slides" lectures and "remember-that-thing-you-did-in-the-first-year-let 's do-it-again" lectures, this has no bearing on how dependable I am at work. My last year, I was on placement, and I showed up at 9 every day, sometimes earlier, despite the fact I was working flexi-time. That includes one morning when I woke up at 8am on the lawn outside my flat, and another when I had to catch the first train back from London after crashing on my mate's hotel-room floor.
For some people, yes, they learn jack-shit, revise for exams that they forget about the next day, but some people do learn to learn:o)
Centralized control enables city officials to adjust rates on the fly, for example raising the rates during sporting events, concerts, or other times of high parking demand.
I've got a Zaurus, if I developed a C app for it and bundled it in an ipk, would it work on this parking meter? It's running the same speed StrongARM 1100 processor and it uses the ipkg format, and it's running a 2.4.* kernel...I can't think why it wouldn't
Stars in the spiral arms of the Milky Way are spontaneously collapsing in on themselves, but we needn't worry because the Earth is not a star. SLEEP EASY PLANET EARTH FOR YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR!
Please enlighten us as to how you connect to the magical world of the internet oh wise sage.
...but that last line from Bill Murray always has me PMSL. How on god's sweet earth did he manage to fall from grace and appear in Lost in Translation?
Yes! I couldn't agree with you more. But I won't hold my breath. At the moment I play oggalicious files on my Zaurus. Sucks battery, but it may suit your needs...it's also a PDA running GNU/Linux to boot...;o)
"Buy the trilogy, get to look at a sneak preview of the new/old Darth Vader costume, mortal, and be glad we've given you the chance. KNEEL BEFORE ZOD^H^H^HLUCAS EARTHLINGS!!!!"
What would be cool would be to computer control it to switch up a notch as you progress through Double Kill, Multi Kill, Monster Kill, GOOOOOODLIKE...etc.
Green for normal state, progressing through Green/Amber to ultra-bright, pulsating Red. Shit, you could just get so pumped, even without a mod for your headphones to jack up the volume in sync with the light...
Except the people moronic enough to give out their password to a guy on the street in return for a chocolate are probably the self-same people who put their "complicated" passwords, credit card numbers etc. in a text-file on their desktop so they can just copy and paste...
It's also probably important to note that the people giving out valid passwords on the street won't be anyone with access to "webmail systems and remote-accessible Linux boxes" or one would fucking hope not:o)
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It will enhance the effectiveness of america's fighting force. By effectiveness I mean not only their ability to Kill Stuff(tm) but also their ability to not kill stuff. Maybe this will be the difference between soldiers bursting into rooms and spraying the slightest flash of movement and soldiers developing better room-clearance techniques which minimise collateral damage.
I'm not entirely sure why you think the only reason the U.S. army might fight in urban areas is "for strategic control over the resources of the country involved". Also, I'm not sure I know what you mean by that anyway??? Strategic control? Surely an element of that is minimising damage to infrastructure and essential services. Which is what they should be trying to do anyway...I believe this is in the Rules of Engagement and possibly the geneva convention as well. How is it a bad thing for them to try to do this better??
The reason this war has been so protracted is that the army is obviously not all that well equipped to fight in these situations, against a guerilla army, on their home-turf, in an urban environment. Training soldiers to "think better" is the best thing for all concerned.
A well trained army is not a problem, but it may look like a problem if your elected representatives are perceived as using them as a tool of oppression I guess.
Does anyone know the availability of replacement parts in this time-line? Willing to travel up to 15 years. Cash waiting.
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Thanks guys. Thanks.
Even worse, I didn't see the story until just now when I got up. Pisses me off, cause I was up until 1am working on my final year project...
I'd prefer universal 36DD models...
I may have fallen asleep in a few Physics lessons but...how TF do you know that this arbitrary galaxy 12 billion light years away exists *now*?
I see what you're saying...but I also see what the GP was alluding to. We can only say for certain that the galaxy existed 12 billion years ago because 12billion years ago + 3 and a half months it may have been consumed by Galactus.
Or something...
What does the position entail and what are you looking for in a candidate? How many applicants have there been?
What you're saying sounds completely incongruous with what my fellow soon-to-be-graduates and I are facing. A friend of mine graduated last year, spent 8 months temping at 118 118 and is only now is she doing something related to computing,(and *that* involves rebuilding PCs, stuff that a school-leaver could probably do) despite being a very capable programmer.
So...what's the job?
:o) Here in the U.K. I've seen lots of jobs where they expect you to have good A-levels(final exams at 17/18). Am job-hunting at the moment(graduating this year), and I generally toss these aside as I have 3 Cs, not to mention seeing the reasoning behind it as infantile.
This is probably a result of so many universities churning out grads, that the only way to distinguish between two applicants is how well they did at A-level.
My dad's a self-employed plumber and electrician, and he worked/works precisely as hard as he does to make sure I didn't have to. He'd much rather I got a job "working in an office" than crawling about in people's lofts, digging holes or breathing in fibre-glass.
:o)
And you know what? So would I. I don't expect to graduate in May and go straight into a job earning 30-40k (GBP:o), I'll be happy as long as I can feed,clothe myself, even if I have to live at home for a while, but hopefully whatever job I get won't involve breaking my back.
I bow to your experience, and invaluable hindsight, but I got into computing because I love it and still do. I'm happy coding, happy. I know within myself that no amount of money would make up for being unhappy in my job.
Maybe all that will change after 20 years of doing make-work, poorly-managed projects and boring business apps but I'm willing to take the risk
If you're likening the guy to anyone from the office, surely it'd be Tim...I can't think of a time when Brent's pulled a prank on *anyone*.
If a prank is taken in jest, and it seems this one is, where's the harm? It's not like they put his stapler in some jelly...
I can point you to ~10 people on my course who never miss a lecture/tutorial and will pass their degree.
t 's do-it-again" lectures, this has no bearing on how dependable I am at work.
:o)
I can point you to ~10 people to have attended maybe 5% of their lectures/tutorials and will pass their degree.
The majority miss a few lectures/tutorials here and there and will probably pass their degree.
I'm notorious for skipping pointless "read-from-the-slides" lectures and "remember-that-thing-you-did-in-the-first-year-le
My last year, I was on placement, and I showed up at 9 every day, sometimes earlier, despite the fact I was working flexi-time. That includes one morning when I woke up at 8am on the lawn outside my flat, and another when I had to catch the first train back from London after crashing on my mate's hotel-room floor.
For some people, yes, they learn jack-shit, revise for exams that they forget about the next day, but some people do learn to learn
I've got a Zaurus, if I developed a C app for it and bundled it in an ipk, would it work on this parking meter? It's running the same speed StrongARM 1100 processor and it uses the ipkg format, and it's running a 2.4.* kernel...I can't think why it wouldn't
:o)
Just curious is all
"Some moderators are just in a dire need of a blow job."
And that should be modded "-1, Redundant" but you don't hear me compl...oh..shit.
Thanks to you, I have broken my thumbs trying to get 100% items on Metroid Fusion. Damn hyperspeed blocks..
:o)
But seriously, keep up the good work, I can't think of many more enjoyable ways to get crippling arthritis than Metroid
I couldn't fault his performance, but I wished I'd stayed at home and watched re-runs of SNL on Paramount Comedy or rented a few of his movies.
Apart from Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen's arse, that whole movie left me cursing FF Coppola's spermatazoons (and not for the first time either).
Stars in the spiral arms of the Milky Way are spontaneously collapsing in on themselves, but we needn't worry because the Earth is not a star. SLEEP EASY PLANET EARTH FOR YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR!
Please enlighten us as to how you connect to the magical world of the internet oh wise sage.
...but that last line from Bill Murray always has me PMSL. How on god's sweet earth did he manage to fall from grace and appear in Lost in Translation?
That probably puts paid to my question:
:o)
Could one chase the off-peakedness across time-zones?
Yes! I couldn't agree with you more. But I won't hold my breath. At the moment I play oggalicious files on my Zaurus. Sucks battery, but it may suit your needs...it's also a PDA running GNU/Linux to boot... ;o)
"Buy the trilogy, get to look at a sneak preview of the new/old Darth Vader costume, mortal, and be glad we've given you the chance. KNEEL BEFORE ZOD^H^H^HLUCAS EARTHLINGS!!!!"
UKians (and RestOfWorldians lucky enough to have caught the Fast Show/Swiss Toni spin off)...
Compare and contrast:
George Lucas
Swiss Toni
What would be cool would be to computer control it to switch up a notch as you progress through Double Kill, Multi Kill, Monster Kill, GOOOOOODLIKE...etc.
Green for normal state, progressing through Green/Amber to ultra-bright, pulsating Red. Shit, you could just get so pumped, even without a mod for your headphones to jack up the volume in sync with the light...
Except the people moronic enough to give out their password to a guy on the street in return for a chocolate are probably the self-same people who put their "complicated" passwords, credit card numbers etc. in a text-file on their desktop so they can just copy and paste...
:o)
It's also probably important to note that the people giving out valid passwords on the street won't be anyone with access to "webmail systems and remote-accessible Linux boxes" or one would fucking hope not
I gave my slashdot login/passwd away ages ago, and my karma's only gone up.
PC.......$600
DSL......$20/month
nmap.....free.
Being pipped to the post by a reporter with a snickers bar.....Priceless.
There are some things even money can't buy, for everything else there's Masterfoods, Plc.