There was a lot of area bombing done during WW II, mostly at night, because daylight bombing was too dangerous and the bomb sights used at night weren't accurate enough. Now, of course, we can and have hit specific buildings in a city with almost no collateral damage from misses. Taking out major headquarters buildings is a good idea (Chop off the head and the body dies.) once they're identified, but even if that's not possible, isolating the battlefield is a better use of air power than simple ground support although the effects aren't as obvious in the short run.
And really, we all know this isn't going to be won from the air.
I'm no proponent of "Victory through Air-Power," but as long as we have Air Supremacy, we might as well make proper use of it. (Why go all the trouble to get it if we're not going to use it?) Cut their supply lines, bomb any supply dumps we can locate and attack any truck convoys we find. That will isolate their front-line troups, making it easier for our ground forces to smash them and win the war. Make no mistake: it's the infantry and armor who are going to finish this in the long run, but the Air Force can make their job much easier if they do their part properly.
One other thing I like about this form of reviewing articles is the fact that it can also prevent a small group of reviewers with an axe to grind rejecting everything that doesn't fit their world-view. I won't say that it's being done right now, but I do know that it's been claimed at least once.
Their mentality is that a concrete building would never burn.
And they'd be right, if there were nothing inside those buildings except concrete, structural steel and other non-flammable materials. As it happens, there's also lots of fabric, carpeting, padding (in chairs and under carpets) as well as paper-goods and many other things that burn very nicely, TYVM.
Being a firefighter is dangerous; damned dangerous. Going up in a jetpack to get a good, close-up look at a fire it a skyscraper isn't going to change that one way or the other. I'm sure that they'll have no difficulty finding people to use them.
As the family tech guru, I've gone from teaching people how to use non-IE browsers to how to install the best possible Ad/Flash/tracking-blocking software I can find on all their personal computers and devices.
If they know that little about computers, the chances are that all they want is email and web surfing, and if that's true, you can easily set them up with Linux and cut your support time by 90%.
I don't know how easy it is to get administrator privileges under Windows now (I don't use it any more.) but I'm sure most of us can remember when most Windows users either ran as Administrator or automatically granted those privileges to any program that asked. It's never been that easy under Linux, simply because very few users have ever felt the need to run as root unless they needed to. Of course, there are always going to be those who grant root access to any Linux programs that ask, but just keeping people from using root/Administrator for regular tasks is a good first line of defense against things like this.
Holy crap, I'm old and even I never used a slide rule.
No, you're not old, you just think you are. I used a slide rule in high school and college, although electronic desktop calculators were just starting to come out. I didn't buy my first four-function calculator until I was in the Navy, back in '72; if memory serves, I got it in Hong Kong for almost $200 American, and it lasted for several decades.
Well, just assume that you have one major left-wing party, one major right-wing party and any other parties you have are two small to get enough members elected to your legislature to make a big difference, or as head of state. And, right now, we're in the middle of one of our bouts of dirty politics so that what a candidate stands for is less important than how badly they can smear their opponents.
Thank you. I'd added the bit about getting partisan to avoid having this devolve into a flame-fest with people blaming whichever party they think is evil.
As for other indicators, unemployment has been decreasing in Japan steadily since a peak in 2009.
If Japan measures unemployment the same way as the US Government does, that doesn't mean a thing. In the US, if you're not receiving unemployment benefits, you're considered to have "left the workforce" and aren't counted as unemployed. And before you start in with the partisan politics, this practice goes back at least thirty years, if not more, regardless of which party is in charge.
That's because it wasn't intended to be one. My personal opinion is that for the most part, it's a solution looking for a problem, but I'd rather learn to work with it than waste my time complaining, especially as I don't have the coding skills to do anything about it.
Then there are people like me. I started using Linux back in the '90s, just to learn it. I ended up moving to Fedora with Fedora Core 6, and made it my main OS with Fedora 9. I can't say that I was thrilled with systemd when it came along, but I realized that it wasn't going away any time soon, and learned enough to work with it. At this point, I suspect, sooner or later every mainstream Linux distro is going to end up using it so if you want to work in Linux system administration you're either going to have to know something about it or find yourself stuck in a dead-end niche job.
But seriously... developers should be able to expect >4GB of RAM on any computer made this decade, and stop being afraid of stamping 64-bit as a requirement.
I can't argue with that, considering that most computers today come with 8GB RAM and a 64-bit OS. I won't say that we'll never see 12GB as the standard, but for the time being, they should be writing games for what people have now, not for what they may have ten or fifteen years in the future.
This is nothing more than another example of something I've believed for years: if you give your devs workstations with bleeding-edge speed, the newest graphics cards and far more RAM than most consumer machines can hold, they'll produce games that can only run on their machines. Yes, it's nice to have all of that stuff to make it faster to compile and test your code, but you should also have testing machines with nothing more than a mainstream computer can be expected to have right out of the box and not ship the product until it will run properly on them.
Actually, many first-generation immigrants are quite successful, at least by their own standards. They have much better lives than they would have had if they'd stayed home, and are able to send their children to college, something that they'd never have dreamt of doing in the Old Country. Just because they don't end up in the 1% doesn't mean that they're not a success.
No. They're applying for permission to run a test, in public, of using drones for delivery and inventory checking, not for permanent permission to use them that way. The headline is quite specific about that as written.
You could potentially stay with a company for a while if you demonstrated the ability shift roles and learn new technologies as they emerge.
Or, you can do what one of my friends did: specialize in maintenance programming in the one language (COBOL in her case) that her company uses. She's been there for over thirty years, and expects to stay there until she retires. Of course, in her case it helps that everything she works on was developed in-house, and it would cost way, way too much to migrate to something newer.
And then ~20 years later Hitler charged around it with tanks.
You do know, don't you, that tanks were first developed by the British during WWI? To be specific, they were first used at The Battle of Flers-Courcellette in 1916.
Actually, if they told him to use the MAV, that gives him permission, right there. I think that they left the pirate thing in because it was funny, not because it was right. There are times that that's the best choice and this may have been one of them.
My understanding is that there's a certain optimal thickness for a phone and any design element that forces the phone to be thicker makes it less desirable.
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There was a lot of area bombing done during WW II, mostly at night, because daylight bombing was too dangerous and the bomb sights used at night weren't accurate enough. Now, of course, we can and have hit specific buildings in a city with almost no collateral damage from misses. Taking out major headquarters buildings is a good idea (Chop off the head and the body dies.) once they're identified, but even if that's not possible, isolating the battlefield is a better use of air power than simple ground support although the effects aren't as obvious in the short run.
Why not just replace the sites with redirects to fundamentalist Christian sites, or porn sites and let their heads explode.
And really, we all know this isn't going to be won from the air.
I'm no proponent of "Victory through Air-Power," but as long as we have Air Supremacy, we might as well make proper use of it. (Why go all the trouble to get it if we're not going to use it?) Cut their supply lines, bomb any supply dumps we can locate and attack any truck convoys we find. That will isolate their front-line troups, making it easier for our ground forces to smash them and win the war. Make no mistake: it's the infantry and armor who are going to finish this in the long run, but the Air Force can make their job much easier if they do their part properly.
One other thing I like about this form of reviewing articles is the fact that it can also prevent a small group of reviewers with an axe to grind rejecting everything that doesn't fit their world-view. I won't say that it's being done right now, but I do know that it's been claimed at least once.
Their mentality is that a concrete building would never burn.
And they'd be right, if there were nothing inside those buildings except concrete, structural steel and other non-flammable materials. As it happens, there's also lots of fabric, carpeting, padding (in chairs and under carpets) as well as paper-goods and many other things that burn very nicely, TYVM.
Being a firefighter is dangerous; damned dangerous. Going up in a jetpack to get a good, close-up look at a fire it a skyscraper isn't going to change that one way or the other. I'm sure that they'll have no difficulty finding people to use them.
To actually get rid of it all...
...and make sure that it never ever comes back, reformat your hard disk and install Linux instead. It's the only way to be sure.
As the family tech guru, I've gone from teaching people how to use non-IE browsers to how to install the best possible Ad/Flash/tracking-blocking software I can find on all their personal computers and devices.
If they know that little about computers, the chances are that all they want is email and web surfing, and if that's true, you can easily set them up with Linux and cut your support time by 90%.
I don't know how easy it is to get administrator privileges under Windows now (I don't use it any more.) but I'm sure most of us can remember when most Windows users either ran as Administrator or automatically granted those privileges to any program that asked. It's never been that easy under Linux, simply because very few users have ever felt the need to run as root unless they needed to. Of course, there are always going to be those who grant root access to any Linux programs that ask, but just keeping people from using root/Administrator for regular tasks is a good first line of defense against things like this.
Holy crap, I'm old and even I never used a slide rule.
No, you're not old, you just think you are. I used a slide rule in high school and college, although electronic desktop calculators were just starting to come out. I didn't buy my first four-function calculator until I was in the Navy, back in '72; if memory serves, I got it in Hong Kong for almost $200 American, and it lasted for several decades.
Even better, install Privacy Badger and it will block player.ooyala.com and the cookies it uses to track you from one site to another.
Well, just assume that you have one major left-wing party, one major right-wing party and any other parties you have are two small to get enough members elected to your legislature to make a big difference, or as head of state. And, right now, we're in the middle of one of our bouts of dirty politics so that what a candidate stands for is less important than how badly they can smear their opponents.
Thank you. I'd added the bit about getting partisan to avoid having this devolve into a flame-fest with people blaming whichever party they think is evil.
As for other indicators, unemployment has been decreasing in Japan steadily since a peak in 2009.
If Japan measures unemployment the same way as the US Government does, that doesn't mean a thing. In the US, if you're not receiving unemployment benefits, you're considered to have "left the workforce" and aren't counted as unemployed. And before you start in with the partisan politics, this practice goes back at least thirty years, if not more, regardless of which party is in charge.
That's not much of an endorsement.
That's because it wasn't intended to be one. My personal opinion is that for the most part, it's a solution looking for a problem, but I'd rather learn to work with it than waste my time complaining, especially as I don't have the coding skills to do anything about it.
Then there are people like me. I started using Linux back in the '90s, just to learn it. I ended up moving to Fedora with Fedora Core 6, and made it my main OS with Fedora 9. I can't say that I was thrilled with systemd when it came along, but I realized that it wasn't going away any time soon, and learned enough to work with it. At this point, I suspect, sooner or later every mainstream Linux distro is going to end up using it so if you want to work in Linux system administration you're either going to have to know something about it or find yourself stuck in a dead-end niche job.
Yes, that's how it should be done. In this case, it looks as though the specs were decided by the devs, and QA had no choice but to go along.
But seriously... developers should be able to expect >4GB of RAM on any computer made this decade, and stop being afraid of stamping 64-bit as a requirement.
I can't argue with that, considering that most computers today come with 8GB RAM and a 64-bit OS. I won't say that we'll never see 12GB as the standard, but for the time being, they should be writing games for what people have now, not for what they may have ten or fifteen years in the future.
This is nothing more than another example of something I've believed for years: if you give your devs workstations with bleeding-edge speed, the newest graphics cards and far more RAM than most consumer machines can hold, they'll produce games that can only run on their machines. Yes, it's nice to have all of that stuff to make it faster to compile and test your code, but you should also have testing machines with nothing more than a mainstream computer can be expected to have right out of the box and not ship the product until it will run properly on them.
Actually, many first-generation immigrants are quite successful, at least by their own standards. They have much better lives than they would have had if they'd stayed home, and are able to send their children to college, something that they'd never have dreamt of doing in the Old Country. Just because they don't end up in the 1% doesn't mean that they're not a success.
No. They're applying for permission to run a test, in public, of using drones for delivery and inventory checking, not for permanent permission to use them that way. The headline is quite specific about that as written.
You could potentially stay with a company for a while if you demonstrated the ability shift roles and learn new technologies as they emerge.
Or, you can do what one of my friends did: specialize in maintenance programming in the one language (COBOL in her case) that her company uses. She's been there for over thirty years, and expects to stay there until she retires. Of course, in her case it helps that everything she works on was developed in-house, and it would cost way, way too much to migrate to something newer.
And then ~20 years later Hitler charged around it with tanks.
You do know, don't you, that tanks were first developed by the British during WWI? To be specific, they were first used at The Battle of Flers-Courcellette in 1916.
Actually, if they told him to use the MAV, that gives him permission, right there. I think that they left the pirate thing in because it was funny, not because it was right. There are times that that's the best choice and this may have been one of them.
My understanding is that there's a certain optimal thickness for a phone and any design element that forces the phone to be thicker makes it less desirable.