nope the commanding officers rarely attended the meetings forcing instead mid level managers (colonel's) to do nothing but actually attend endless meetings.
In another article I read there are some 1800 LT colonels, and 700 actual troop commanding jobs for them in the british army. that is just asking for trouble.
Slashdot today: Fire and explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport Slashdot one week from now: Explosion and fire at Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport Slashdot one month from now: A Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport burned down three city blocks.
It is more than that. Take a convertible notebook/ tablet. In regular notebook mode you have your standard windows/OS X interface. You rotate the screen to tablet mode and now it looks morelike iOS or windows mobile 7. The underling OS modifying the apps appearance on the fly. Like switching window managers without shutting any applications down.
While this is pointed toward desktop all in ones the concept is the same.
Take that hp touch machine you pointed out add a hinge and a tilt sensor. And some intelligent software. The patent describes a method of tilting a touch screen tochange the GUI.
So the computer works like normal with mice and keyboards. But then you tilt the screen and the GUI changes to one that works better for touch screens, scrollbars vanish, drop down menus vanish. Think of turning your smart phone from vertical to horizantal the screen changes. This patent does that with desktops. Turning your GUI from keyboard/mouse to multi touch.
Some that MSFT should have done with windows tablets 8 years ago. Touch screens require a different GUI. Some MSFT couldn't figure out on their own.
Iran can and has struck first. Iran can and has recently used chemical weapons.
Fully expect Iran to move into Iraq once US troops leave. they will do so under the same supposed reason the USA did, to stablize the region, and defend the shites from the kurds and sunni's.
sure tablets have been out for a decade. but until someone put a tablet GUI on it they weren't worth very much. When apple annouced the iPad I was both happy and sad. Happy that the form factor that I have wanted for a decade would finally be available, sad that it would take 12-18 months before anyone else could ever come close to duplicating the software/hardware/price point.
now I simply have to wait for andriod 3.0 to come out, along with some decently assembled hardware and i will finally have what I wanted when Bill gates annouced windows for tablets 8 years ago.
Your talking about a hunter. he is already carrying a small first aid kit, knife, compass, local maps, matches(or lighter), small food and water supplies, probably a length of rope, weapon, ammo, and what ever else he may need.
a pocket for a separate GPS, camera, and mp3 player, that use regular batteries is the least of his worries. Finding an MP3/ video player, and camera that can be run on regular batteries is far harder than it should be.
With the ipad it is different. I see more ipads in businesses than any other tablet. Mostly in sales, where they need quick boot time(seconds count) and laptops become combersome to carry.
the iphone is one thing, but ipads are appearing where ever some one only really needs quick multimedia access. I would have one myself but I would use it for the web and several sites I use use flash. Give me an ipad running flash and i would jump at it.
The reason there hasn't beem any peasant revolts is because of those damn socialist liberals and their medicare, unemployment wages, and host of other socialist ideas that keep people from losing their homes, and all of their income the moment they are laid off.
This recession proves that those policies work. Of course you will never have that point of view on Fox news ever.
In reality satillites suck at short term survalince. It is very costly to make them change orbits and depending on location you may get an hour on target.
Airships basically are going to replace crash prone drones at altitudes that SAMs. Can't easily shoot down. They can be slow moving as you haul them deflated by ship they can use solar cells and electric motor to stay above the target area for weeks unlike satellites (hours),drones (maybe a day).
The advantages are obvious once you pull your head out of TV land and try coming back to the real world.
only two of the four reactors where damaged. At least for a couple of decades there were workers there working on the other reactors which continued to deliver power to the Ukraine.
The big problem would be the construction workers who have to build the shielding. that takes the longest time with the most # of people involved.
Your an idiot. Spending $180 a year for nothing. The day zune pass closes or you stop paying all your music is gone. You can never listen to it again. You signed up for unlimited nothing. Stop paying them and listen as your music stops.
At least with iTunes and amazon. If you cantafford to buy more music youcan listen to what you have already bought instead of losing it all.
depends do you want the food that those rural area's produce? Whether it be meat, or corn, or even strawberries, do you want the items produced transported to your city?
I think that is a fair trade off The city supports the advancement of the rural areas, while the city gets to eat, and live. Because when was the last time you saw a high rise farm?
The real problem with the USPS isn't the "last mile" where local deliveries and people actually deliver mail. That is usually pretty efficient. No it's their back end system. I have seen first class mail with proper labeling take anywhere from 2 days to 3 weeks to go 90 miles between two small cities.(Once i received a card from my grandmother 22 days after my birthday, I figured she forgot until I looked the postage mark the post office puts on mail and realized she sent it 3 days before my birthday) . Combine that with Post office tracking to track your packages. However that only seems to update it once or twice a week, as I can never actually track my package until after it arrives. And when you send a letter/package you never know when it will actually arrive.
Now occasional misplaced items happen(I watched UPS tracking on two boxes sent from the same source, go through two different cities with different delivery days. ) However with the post office you don't know if it will actually arrive. combine with random thievery(gift cards being stolen out of letters?) And overall trust in the system goes down.
um extinction of animals is caused by the simple fact one animal was conceived itself to be so important all it does is eat and fuck. in one century we have tripled the number of people on this planet. Even with both WW I and WW II, the population increased. that singluar event is killing for animals for extinction than anything else.
Nope according to quantum theory they didn't exist before because we couldn't measure them. Or was that intelligent design? I always get the two confused. Both require the belief that in the beginning there was nothing and then it exploded.
It is one thing I wish they would save a shuttle for.
NASA as a publicity fund raising stunt should save one shuttle's worth of parts and go retrieve the Hubbell Space telescope instead of crashing it into the ocean. Have the shuttle land and the load it directly for a flight to DC. Giving the whole pile (shuttle with Hubbell inside) to the Smithsonian.
Now that would be an awesome display. Heck I would donate money to help make that happen. To bad NASA doesn't think like awesome anymore.
oddly enough the shuttle has the same safety as soyuz with roughly 2% failure. Of course no one wants to actually say that. We have lost 2 shuttles, but have launched 2.5 times more shuttles/people than russia has 3 man capsules.
No a new smaller reusable capsule for personnel launches, and then a larger heavy lift rocket for equipment combined with a manned space station would be a far better option. Instead of launching the lab up with every launch.
So are you going to sign up to go free the chinese? how about iran? north korea? half of Africa? Stabilize Somalia? Why didn't he also invade (insert any country name here)
Who determines what is oppressive? where is the line drawn?
This is the true future "green" tech that will solve our energy problems.
Our true energy problem isn't production it is storage. Can you imagine if every home had a block that could store enough electricity for 6 hours of running their entire house(more if you turned off the stove and heaters) You could use Solar/wind power to trickle charge it and the mains to keep it full up when you needed to at night.
Small businesses would also benefit greatly. It would stabilize the overall grid, brown outs would all be gone and blackouts would only be caused by long term effects(like a major storm) not too many air conditionaers
according to the head company they actually only made 5 million rubles. something about selling all the rights to a seperate corporation to hold the assests.
If harry Potter movies have made less than $100 million combined than Avatar is no where close to $2.7 billion.
don't you love hollywood accounting? They make Golden Sachs and Enron look legit.
Actually who would want to be our president? you have to be a moron to even consider it. For any given situation you have one of three tools, diplomacy, lawyers, or soldiers. if you can't fix it with those three tools then your screwwed. Every one who goes to live in the white house comes out pale withdrawn, and much grayer than when they went in. The president of teh USA get's all the blame but rarely can do anything about it.
As an example BP's oil spill. BP is a company so diplomacy won't work. he can sue them or send in the army. The army doesn't have any experience in shutting down underwater oil wells so that won't work and suing them would take 5 years anyways. Therefore Obama can only let BP work add a little pressure but in reality is helpless. Yet he gets all the blame for failure.
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nope the commanding officers rarely attended the meetings forcing instead mid level managers (colonel's) to do nothing but actually attend endless meetings.
In another article I read there are some 1800 LT colonels, and 700 actual troop commanding jobs for them in the british army. that is just asking for trouble.
close but not quite
Slashdot today: Fire and explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport
Slashdot one week from now: Explosion and fire at Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport
Slashdot one month from now: A Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport burned down three city blocks.
That way they aren't technically dupes.
It is more than that. Take a convertible notebook/ tablet. In regular notebook mode you have your standard windows/OS X interface. You rotate the screen to tablet mode and now it looks morelike iOS or windows mobile 7. The underling OS modifying the apps appearance on the fly. Like switching window managers without shutting any applications down.
While this is pointed toward desktop all in ones the concept is the same.
I love slashdot. No one ever reads the articles.
Take that hp touch machine you pointed out add a hinge and a tilt sensor. And some intelligent software. The patent describes a method of tilting a touch screen tochange the GUI.
So the computer works like normal with mice and keyboards. But then you tilt the screen and the GUI changes to one that works better for touch screens, scrollbars vanish, drop down menus vanish. Think of turning your smart phone from vertical to horizantal the screen changes. This patent does that with desktops. Turning your GUI from keyboard/mouse to multi touch.
Some that MSFT should have done with windows tablets 8 years ago. Touch screens require a different GUI. Some MSFT couldn't figure out on their own.
Iran can and has struck first. Iran can and has recently used chemical weapons.
Fully expect Iran to move into Iraq once US troops leave. they will do so under the same supposed reason the USA did, to stablize the region, and defend the shites from the kurds and sunni's.
when some one comes out with a new device.
sure tablets have been out for a decade. but until someone put a tablet GUI on it they weren't worth very much. When apple annouced the iPad I was both happy and sad. Happy that the form factor that I have wanted for a decade would finally be available, sad that it would take 12-18 months before anyone else could ever come close to duplicating the software/hardware/price point.
now I simply have to wait for andriod 3.0 to come out, along with some decently assembled hardware and i will finally have what I wanted when Bill gates annouced windows for tablets 8 years ago.
Your talking about a hunter. he is already carrying a small first aid kit, knife, compass, local maps, matches(or lighter), small food and water supplies, probably a length of rope, weapon, ammo, and what ever else he may need.
a pocket for a separate GPS, camera, and mp3 player, that use regular batteries is the least of his worries. Finding an MP3/ video player, and camera that can be run on regular batteries is far harder than it should be.
With the ipad it is different. I see more ipads in businesses than any other tablet. Mostly in sales, where they need quick boot time(seconds count) and laptops become combersome to carry.
the iphone is one thing, but ipads are appearing where ever some one only really needs quick multimedia access. I would have one myself but I would use it for the web and several sites I use use flash. Give me an ipad running flash and i would jump at it.
The reason there hasn't beem any peasant revolts is because of those damn socialist liberals and their medicare, unemployment wages, and host of other socialist ideas that keep people from losing their homes, and all of their income the moment they are laid off.
This recession proves that those policies work. Of course you will never have that point of view on Fox news ever.
be happy you don't know. PBR is why other countries think american beer sucks.
In reality satillites suck at short term survalince. It is very costly to make them change orbits and depending on location you may get an hour on target.
Airships basically are going to replace crash prone drones at altitudes that SAMs. Can't easily shoot down. They can be slow moving as you haul them deflated by ship they can use solar cells and electric motor to stay above the target area for weeks unlike satellites (hours),drones (maybe a day).
The advantages are obvious once you pull your head out of TV land and try coming back to the real world.
Aol, prodigy, compuserve are/were private internets. What happened? They couldn't meet demand.
All future efforts will fail to meet demand and growth as well
only two of the four reactors where damaged. At least for a couple of decades there were workers there working on the other reactors which continued to deliver power to the Ukraine.
The big problem would be the construction workers who have to build the shielding. that takes the longest time with the most # of people involved.
Your an idiot. Spending $180 a year for nothing. The day zune pass closes or you stop paying all your music is gone. You can never listen to it again. You signed up for unlimited nothing. Stop paying them and listen as your music stops.
At least with iTunes and amazon. If you cantafford to buy more music youcan listen to what you have already bought instead of losing it all.
depends do you want the food that those rural area's produce? Whether it be meat, or corn, or even strawberries, do you want the items produced transported to your city?
I think that is a fair trade off The city supports the advancement of the rural areas, while the city gets to eat, and live. Because when was the last time you saw a high rise farm?
The real problem with the USPS isn't the "last mile" where local deliveries and people actually deliver mail. That is usually pretty efficient. No it's their back end system. I have seen first class mail with proper labeling take anywhere from 2 days to 3 weeks to go 90 miles between two small cities.(Once i received a card from my grandmother 22 days after my birthday, I figured she forgot until I looked the postage mark the post office puts on mail and realized she sent it 3 days before my birthday) . Combine that with Post office tracking to track your packages. However that only seems to update it once or twice a week, as I can never actually track my package until after it arrives. And when you send a letter/package you never know when it will actually arrive.
Now occasional misplaced items happen(I watched UPS tracking on two boxes sent from the same source, go through two different cities with different delivery days. ) However with the post office you don't know if it will actually arrive. combine with random thievery(gift cards being stolen out of letters?) And overall trust in the system goes down.
um extinction of animals is caused by the simple fact one animal was conceived itself to be so important all it does is eat and fuck. in one century we have tripled the number of people on this planet. Even with both WW I and WW II, the population increased. that singluar event is killing for animals for extinction than anything else.
Nope according to quantum theory they didn't exist before because we couldn't measure them. Or was that intelligent design? I always get the two confused. Both require the belief that in the beginning there was nothing and then it exploded.
It is one thing I wish they would save a shuttle for.
NASA as a publicity fund raising stunt should save one shuttle's worth of parts and go retrieve the Hubbell Space telescope instead of crashing it into the ocean. Have the shuttle land and the load it directly for a flight to DC. Giving the whole pile (shuttle with Hubbell inside) to the Smithsonian.
Now that would be an awesome display. Heck I would donate money to help make that happen. To bad NASA doesn't think like awesome anymore.
oddly enough the shuttle has the same safety as soyuz with roughly 2% failure. Of course no one wants to actually say that. We have lost 2 shuttles, but have launched 2.5 times more shuttles/people than russia has 3 man capsules.
No a new smaller reusable capsule for personnel launches, and then a larger heavy lift rocket for equipment combined with a manned space station would be a far better option. Instead of launching the lab up with every launch.
So are you going to sign up to go free the chinese? how about iran? north korea? half of Africa? Stabilize Somalia? Why didn't he also invade (insert any country name here)
Who determines what is oppressive? where is the line drawn?
This is the true future "green" tech that will solve our energy problems.
Our true energy problem isn't production it is storage. Can you imagine if every home had a block that could store enough electricity for 6 hours of running their entire house(more if you turned off the stove and heaters) You could use Solar/wind power to trickle charge it and the mains to keep it full up when you needed to at night.
Small businesses would also benefit greatly. It would stabilize the overall grid, brown outs would all be gone and blackouts would only be caused by long term effects(like a major storm) not too many air conditionaers
but a president can't do anything directly
the president can only propose a law. but that law must go through congress first. were it goes through committees who gut it.
The president can only sign a law after it has been passed by both houses, until then you have no direct control, only influence.
the federal government is an aggregator of ideas. It does really very little without communities and company's to support it.
This is the true purpose of the balance of power. It isn't taught because so very few can understand it.
according to the head company they actually only made 5 million rubles. something about selling all the rights to a seperate corporation to hold the assests.
If harry Potter movies have made less than $100 million combined than Avatar is no where close to $2.7 billion.
don't you love hollywood accounting? They make Golden Sachs and Enron look legit.
regulations and laws mean lawyers and that takes years and doesn't stop the problem today.
all he can do is try to prevent another one. but that doesn't clean up the mess right now.
try again with more thought next time.
Actually who would want to be our president? you have to be a moron to even consider it. For any given situation you have one of three tools, diplomacy, lawyers, or soldiers. if you can't fix it with those three tools then your screwwed. Every one who goes to live in the white house comes out pale withdrawn, and much grayer than when they went in. The president of teh USA get's all the blame but rarely can do anything about it.
As an example BP's oil spill. BP is a company so diplomacy won't work. he can sue them or send in the army. The army doesn't have any experience in shutting down underwater oil wells so that won't work and suing them would take 5 years anyways. Therefore Obama can only let BP work add a little pressure but in reality is helpless. Yet he gets all the blame for failure.