TFS says that the participants averaged 38.4 hours of sleep over 30 days. That's just over one hour per night. I don't think so. Either there's a major typo in TFS or whoever wrote up the study is missing a very obvious error.
That depends on how clear the day was. On a good, clear afternoon, max practical range was somewhere around the horizon unless you had spotters. Night actions were often fought at ranges of a few thousand feet because radar wasn't as reliable back then as it is now.
To be fair every election the map is red with tiny, deep blue dots at the cities. This time what Trump got was the countryside, plus all the factory workers abandoned by both parties.
Most of the time, the city people get out the vote, while many of the rural folk don't bother. This time, the country people came out in force, and in many cases overwhelmed the city slickers.
... the voting public do not like and do not trust Hillary Clinton.
That's part of it. There's also the fact that she made it very plain that she planned to give us four more years of the failed, ineffectual policies of O'bama, and rural America stood up and said, "Enough is enough!" and voted for Trump. If you look at a map that shows voting patterns county by county, you'll see that for the most part, only the big cities went Blue, and the rest of the state (even in places like California) went Red. In California, the Blue enclave on the coast had enough voters to drag the rest of the state into Hillary's camp, but in many of the battleground states, the rural voters who often sit out things like this made their strength show and dragged their states into Trump's camp.
It's always possible, of course, that my memory's wrong; after all, it was over forty years ago. However, at the time, my impression was that on a clear day their maximum range was the horizon. If they could see it, they could hit it, or at least bracket it.
Even more to the point, Hillary openly promised us four more years of O'bama's failed, ineffectual foreign and domestic policies, and the public has made it very, very clear that they want something different. Now they've got it.
4) There's so much guidance and propulsion crap onboard, there's hardly any (24 lbs) room for the High Explosive for the warhead.
What's the total weight of the projectile? I ask, because I happen to know that a 16" armor piercing round weighs 2700 pounds, of which 150 pounds is the bursting charge.
To be fair, the biggest WWII guns only had a range of 24 miles and a pattern size of 200 m.
I remember reading the manual for those back when I was in the Navy in '72. If memory serves, the range was 25 nautical miles, which comes out to a tad more than 28.66 statute miles. Of course, my memory may be wrong, as it's been over 40 years.
I used to marvel at the brown smog that hung over Californian cities like the SF Bay and LA.
I take it, then, that you haven't actually visited LA in the last several decades. Because of high and well enforced emission standards and required gas additives, the air in LA is considerably cleaner than it was in the 50's and 60's. Back in 1978, you could rarely see the mountains at the east end of the San Fernando Valley if you were looking from the central part; now, it's remarkable if you can't see it from the far west end. Yes, our cars and our gas cost more, but the health benefits have been worth it.
Or a marketplace solution. If enough people stop using Windows because of all the spyware, Microsoft will have two options: take it out or go out of business. No, I don't expect that to happen, but it's not impossible and would get rid of the issue once and for all.
EMET doesn't block malware from exploiting vulnerabilities, it tries to prevent malware from doing any damage after it gets through. If so, that's not at all unreasonable. You can't ever block all possible holes; at best, you can block the ones you know about, but you can add an extra layer of protection to the programs and files that malware targets. If so, that even gives you a little bit of protection against zero day exploits, because it doesn't do crackers any good to get in if they can't steal or corrupt your data.
If we didn't know it already, here's proof that to Microsoft, sticking to a monthly patch schedule is more important than keeping their customer's computers safe. And, when it comes down to it, why should they do it differently, when we all know that there are millions of people out there shelling out good money for the Latest and Greatest version of every Microsoft product, even when they know that bugs and vulnerabilities won't be patched in a prompt and timely manner. Say what you want about Linux not being bug proof, but at least the various distros release patches as soon as they're available, rather than holding them back until the next monthly patch-fest.
What the hell are they smoking? Apple, the various Linux distributions, and the BSDs all are committed to "investigating reported security issues and proactively updating impacted devices as soon as possible."
True. Very true. However, strictly speaking, only Apple and RHEL have customers.
Then it continues with realizing that an assumption isn't necessarily true, and finishes with finding a means to force that assumption to be invalid.
Back in the mid 80s, I did some work at JPL with the late Dan Alderson. Generally speaking, an if/else if sequence ends without another if because all possible cases have been listed. Dan, however, would use a final if, specifying what should be the only possible situation, with an else aborting the program with the comment "1 = 2" to indicate an unexpected situation rather than continue. I never saw it come up, but he did tell me once that it had happened a few times.
I'm suggesting that we know exactly what Hillary is going to do, and we don't really know what Trump's planning. If you don't like the direction the country's been heading for the last eight years, you shouldn't vote for somebody who's committed to continuing BO's policy and hope that whatever Trump's plans are they won't be as bad as what we've got.
And now we know what Obama meant when he claimed that he'd run the most transparent administration in history: absolutely nothing. Just remember, a vote for Hillary is a vote for four more years of lies, evasions, secret warrants and other unconstitutional actions.
I'm not an orbital mechanic and ICBW, but wouldn't calculations based only on the Sun's tilt point to two locations on opposite sides? Wouldn't you need something else, such as perturbations of one of the other Outer Planets to narrow it down?
If this rumor is true, Apple will have succeeded in creating the ultimate in vendor lock-in because there will no longer be any way to escape from them once you've bought in.
The rich, of course, assuming that there are any left who haven't moved to a country that's dedicated to confiscating everything they've got to buy votes from the poor.
upgrade screws everything up because new-GNOME has no relationship to old-GNOME.
There's a simple and obvious fix for that: don't use GNOME. Most of the other DEs I've experimented with respect your decisions about how you want your desktop to look and don't reset everything to their ideas of perfection with every upgrade.
But really, the typical solution is that you have data centers all over the country.
This is why I specified a world-wide disaster. Yes, the probability is very, very low, but the point I was making was that there's no way to be sure that you'll never be brought down no matter what happens.
Notice that I specified, " Even if your data centers are hardened enough to keep the flare from frying your servers and routers..." to point out that your equipment doesn't have a good chance of surviving such an event, but I was trying to make the point that even if the machines are still functional there's a limit to how long they'll stay up if the power's down.
I take it that you didn't follow the link I gave. If you had, you'd have learned that the effects were observed all around the world, in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
I used the Carrington Event as an example because its effects were so spectacular, and its effect on the modern power/communications grid (and the computers that run it) could be equally wide spread. Take your pick of any kind of disaster that brings down a major portion of the grid and the result's the same: the data centers only stay up until their reserves of generator fuel runs out.
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TFS says that the participants averaged 38.4 hours of sleep over 30 days. That's just over one hour per night. I don't think so. Either there's a major typo in TFS or whoever wrote up the study is missing a very obvious error.
That depends on how clear the day was. On a good, clear afternoon, max practical range was somewhere around the horizon unless you had spotters. Night actions were often fought at ranges of a few thousand feet because radar wasn't as reliable back then as it is now.
To be fair every election the map is red with tiny, deep blue dots at the cities. This time what Trump got was the countryside, plus all the factory workers abandoned by both parties.
Most of the time, the city people get out the vote, while many of the rural folk don't bother. This time, the country people came out in force, and in many cases overwhelmed the city slickers.
... the voting public do not like and do not trust Hillary Clinton.
That's part of it. There's also the fact that she made it very plain that she planned to give us four more years of the failed, ineffectual policies of O'bama, and rural America stood up and said, "Enough is enough!" and voted for Trump. If you look at a map that shows voting patterns county by county, you'll see that for the most part, only the big cities went Blue, and the rest of the state (even in places like California) went Red. In California, the Blue enclave on the coast had enough voters to drag the rest of the state into Hillary's camp, but in many of the battleground states, the rural voters who often sit out things like this made their strength show and dragged their states into Trump's camp.
It's always possible, of course, that my memory's wrong; after all, it was over forty years ago. However, at the time, my impression was that on a clear day their maximum range was the horizon. If they could see it, they could hit it, or at least bracket it.
Hillary represents business as usual...
Even more to the point, Hillary openly promised us four more years of O'bama's failed, ineffectual foreign and domestic policies, and the public has made it very, very clear that they want something different. Now they've got it.
4) There's so much guidance and propulsion crap onboard, there's hardly any (24 lbs) room for the High Explosive for the warhead.
What's the total weight of the projectile? I ask, because I happen to know that a 16" armor piercing round weighs 2700 pounds, of which 150 pounds is the bursting charge.
To be fair, the biggest WWII guns only had a range of 24 miles and a pattern size of 200 m.
I remember reading the manual for those back when I was in the Navy in '72. If memory serves, the range was 25 nautical miles, which comes out to a tad more than 28.66 statute miles. Of course, my memory may be wrong, as it's been over 40 years.
I used to marvel at the brown smog that hung over Californian cities like the SF Bay and LA.
I take it, then, that you haven't actually visited LA in the last several decades. Because of high and well enforced emission standards and required gas additives, the air in LA is considerably cleaner than it was in the 50's and 60's. Back in 1978, you could rarely see the mountains at the east end of the San Fernando Valley if you were looking from the central part; now, it's remarkable if you can't see it from the far west end. Yes, our cars and our gas cost more, but the health benefits have been worth it.
Or a marketplace solution. If enough people stop using Windows because of all the spyware, Microsoft will have two options: take it out or go out of business. No, I don't expect that to happen, but it's not impossible and would get rid of the issue once and for all.
EMET doesn't block malware from exploiting vulnerabilities, it tries to prevent malware from doing any damage after it gets through. If so, that's not at all unreasonable. You can't ever block all possible holes; at best, you can block the ones you know about, but you can add an extra layer of protection to the programs and files that malware targets. If so, that even gives you a little bit of protection against zero day exploits, because it doesn't do crackers any good to get in if they can't steal or corrupt your data.
If we didn't know it already, here's proof that to Microsoft, sticking to a monthly patch schedule is more important than keeping their customer's computers safe. And, when it comes down to it, why should they do it differently, when we all know that there are millions of people out there shelling out good money for the Latest and Greatest version of every Microsoft product, even when they know that bugs and vulnerabilities won't be patched in a prompt and timely manner. Say what you want about Linux not being bug proof, but at least the various distros release patches as soon as they're available, rather than holding them back until the next monthly patch-fest.
True. Very true. However, strictly speaking, only Apple and RHEL have customers.
Back in the mid 80s, I did some work at JPL with the late Dan Alderson. Generally speaking, an if/else if sequence ends without another if because all possible cases have been listed. Dan, however, would use a final if, specifying what should be the only possible situation, with an else aborting the program with the comment "1 = 2" to indicate an unexpected situation rather than continue. I never saw it come up, but he did tell me once that it had happened a few times.
I'm suggesting that we know exactly what Hillary is going to do, and we don't really know what Trump's planning. If you don't like the direction the country's been heading for the last eight years, you shouldn't vote for somebody who's committed to continuing BO's policy and hope that whatever Trump's plans are they won't be as bad as what we've got.
And now we know what Obama meant when he claimed that he'd run the most transparent administration in history: absolutely nothing. Just remember, a vote for Hillary is a vote for four more years of lies, evasions, secret warrants and other unconstitutional actions.
I'm not an orbital mechanic and ICBW, but wouldn't calculations based only on the Sun's tilt point to two locations on opposite sides? Wouldn't you need something else, such as perturbations of one of the other Outer Planets to narrow it down?
If this rumor is true, Apple will have succeeded in creating the ultimate in vendor lock-in because there will no longer be any way to escape from them once you've bought in.
What else do you expect? As far as most of the mainstream media is concerned, they're just a pair of flyover states.
The rich, of course, assuming that there are any left who haven't moved to a country that's dedicated to confiscating everything they've got to buy votes from the poor.
upgrade screws everything up because new-GNOME has no relationship to old-GNOME.
There's a simple and obvious fix for that: don't use GNOME. Most of the other DEs I've experimented with respect your decisions about how you want your desktop to look and don't reset everything to their ideas of perfection with every upgrade.
But really, the typical solution is that you have data centers all over the country.
This is why I specified a world-wide disaster. Yes, the probability is very, very low, but the point I was making was that there's no way to be sure that you'll never be brought down no matter what happens.
Notice that I specified, " Even if your data centers are hardened enough to keep the flare from frying your servers and routers..." to point out that your equipment doesn't have a good chance of surviving such an event, but I was trying to make the point that even if the machines are still functional there's a limit to how long they'll stay up if the power's down.
I take it that you didn't follow the link I gave. If you had, you'd have learned that the effects were observed all around the world, in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
I used the Carrington Event as an example because its effects were so spectacular, and its effect on the modern power/communications grid (and the computers that run it) could be equally wide spread. Take your pick of any kind of disaster that brings down a major portion of the grid and the result's the same: the data centers only stay up until their reserves of generator fuel runs out.