Microsoft has thousands of programmers working full-time; Linux is maintained by volunteers, working in their spare time. That means that Microsoft can easily allocate more resources to fixing a security bug than Linux can. This being true, you'd expect Microsoft to get bug patches out quicker than Linux, but it's almost always the opposite. And, of course, with rare exceptions, the Microsoft patches come out only on Patch Tuesday, while the Linux patches come out as quickly as the various distros fold them into their updates. And, if that's not fast enough for you, you can always download the source and compile it for yourself, something that Microsoft would never allow.
No. I'm talking about firming up the muscles so that you can hold your gut in better, as well as changing some of that flab into muscle. That lowers your waist size even if your weight stays constant.
I still need to request a seat-belt extender on airplanes.
I don't know how much weight you actually lost, but just losing weight isn't always enough; you need to get some exercise to firm up your abs. Try sit-ups and crunches; you'd be surprised how much of a difference they can make, even if your weight doesn't change. And as an added benefit, if you get your stomach out of the way, your wife might just be able to see what you've got down below.
In general, I agree with you; I mostly wanted to point out that ship-killing missiles aren't as effective as you might think against some of our older ships.
Since firing a gun once a minute under local control is unlikely to hit anything nowadays, that means a battleship can be mission-killed without going through the armor.
Actually, that depends on the mission. It's highly unlikely that any of our battleships will ever find themselves shooting against enemy battleships or cruisers, fighting to maintain Control of the Sea. Their main mission is more likely to be shore bombardment, and a firing rate of one minute is adequate for that, as is local control using the existing 1930's technology. I know it's fashionable to laugh at how old and "out of date" their fire control systems are, but they have their advantages. They're more than accurate enough to do the job, they're rugged enough to withstand the pounding of the gun's recoil and they can't be EMPed.
There's one thing that article doesn't really take into consideration: WW II era warships, such as battleships, are designed not only to deal damage to the enemy, they're designed to absorb hits from equivalent ships and keep fighting. A battleship's main armor will either reflect or absorb a hit by just about any gun of smaller caliber than its own, and there are sealed, empty compartments called "voids" just inside the armor to keep hits that get through from damaging anything important. I won't go so far as to say that they can't be damaged by these missiles, but it's going to take more than one or two hits to put a battleship out of action unless the enemy's lucky enough to hit a magazine, and that's not exactly easy. As an example, it was much harder to sink The Bismark, even with "ship killing" weapons than most people realize.
Nice. So, we don't have money for the unemployed, for the ill, or even for veterans benefits
I'm a 'Nam vet with service-connected hearing loss. The VA has no trouble paying for my hearing aids and batteries. I have a number of other, non-service connected conditions and, as I'm also unemployed, the VA is kind enough to give me the various medications I need free of charge, along with care by a nurse practitioner and all the needed lab work. I don't know why you think we don't have enough money for VA benefits, but if they can pay for mine, they've certainly got enough for vets with greater needs than me!
Who does it on the fingertips? That's stupid! You do it on the side of the finger, near the nail. Not only is it less sensitive, you're not constantly irritating the site. And, I get my supplies from the VA and use what they give me.
I've always thought it was more hubris. It takes quite a bit of arrogance to believe that humanity can change the Earth's climate that much, that fast.
if you need to do so often then the scar tissue does make you need to use a higher setting
I was able to keep the unit set to 3.5 from the time I started using it in March '02, right up until I started insulin. Now, for some reason, it's up to 4. It always hurt, just not quite as much as it does now. As Lawrence said, "The trick is not minding that it hurts."
No thanks, I've already had enough experience with it. Two broken bones and several kidney stones were enough. I've been testing my bg for eight years, finally went on insulin back in May. If you do it just right, you literally don't feel the hypo; if not, there's a little sting. About the only way to handle the lancets and blood test is to learn not to mind the fact that it's going to hurt, every time.
It happens so fast you really don't feel any pain at all.
Keep telling yourself that; you might fool yourself into believing it. I'm diabetic. Right now, I use those lancets twice a day to test my blood glucose. I also give myself insulin every morning. Guess which one hurts more. One hint: it's not the hypo.
That wasn't the Emperor, it was one of his ministers. Franz Joseph told Mozart to put the music back. Not that this invalidates your point, mind you, but it's a nit that needed picking.
The earth has never heated by this much, this fast, in any history we can read. It typically takes thousands or tens of thousands of years, and happening within the past 100 years, more than half of the increase in the past 50? That is not natural.
In a word, NO. Compare the climate of 1800 with that of 1850, and you'll see that it was much warmer in 1850 than it had been fifty years ago, possibly (I'm not sure, here) as much as in the last fifty years. And, I might add, recent evidence suggests that when the glaciers start moving they move fast. The last time they came to visit, they covered almost all of Britain in well under a century with ice over a kilometre thick.
If I were one of those columnists, I'd find every excuse I could to quote Rockin' Robin: "Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet!"
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As for telling Microsoft to support it, tell me how many Linux vendors support their distributions from 2001
Probably the same number of Linux vendors who charge for upgrades. This whole article is based on a false dichotomy: either this Microsoft OS or that Microsoft OS, as though there were no other possible choices. If you're going to have to migrate to a new OS, why not migrate to one that's free (no license costs to deplete your budget) stable and not subject to today's crop of viruses, malware and trojans. (Oh my!) Yes, there's training costs involved, but that's true with any new OS, especially for the rank and file who can't see for themselves that 90%+ of what they do hasn't changed and has to be led by the nose through learning how to do their jobs again.
Try squeezing a wet towel, you won't get all the water out.
So what? You don't want to get it all out. All you need to do is get enough out that it's no longer saturated and can absorb more water. A wet towel absorbs water faster than a dry one because you don't have surface tension to worry about, and the same's probably true with oil. Run the saturated cloth through a wringer to press out most of the oil into a containment vessel, then spread it out again to pick up more.
I do hope you understand that the only place that Vietnam "defeated" the US was at the conference table. They never, not even once, defeated us on the ground. Even when they sent 150,000 men across the boarder in The Eastertide Offensive, US forces drove them back, smashing all of their armor and mechanized transport and sending the 50,000 survivors stumbling home on foot. I know; I was in Tonkin Gulf at the time, and my ship's shore bombardment was part of what crushed them.
The idea that the NVA and/or the Viet Cong defeated the US is a myth invented by the anti-war movement in an attempt to justify their cowardly, almost treasonous actions.
You can donate a maximum of $1100 to each party or candidate every year.
Yes, and there are people who follow the lead of Howard Hughes, and do exactly that: give the maximum to every candidate, no matter what their platform. That way, whoever wins, they'll be able to say, "I gave."
I have a home espresso machine that makes a quad shot, and I have a full pot, every morning, with breakfast. Not to wake up, because I generally don't eat until an hour or so after I'm out of bed, but because I like the taste of espresso. And, why have an espresso machine if you're not going to use it?
One of the questions asked if you feel protective towards people who are being taken advantage of. Apparently, whoever wrote this has empathizing with a victim confused with wanting to protect the victim. Sometimes, the best way to help in cases like that is with tough love. You stand back, let it happen and let them learn from the experience.
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Microsoft has thousands of programmers working full-time; Linux is maintained by volunteers, working in their spare time. That means that Microsoft can easily allocate more resources to fixing a security bug than Linux can. This being true, you'd expect Microsoft to get bug patches out quicker than Linux, but it's almost always the opposite. And, of course, with rare exceptions, the Microsoft patches come out only on Patch Tuesday, while the Linux patches come out as quickly as the various distros fold them into their updates. And, if that's not fast enough for you, you can always download the source and compile it for yourself, something that Microsoft would never allow.
No. I'm talking about firming up the muscles so that you can hold your gut in better, as well as changing some of that flab into muscle. That lowers your waist size even if your weight stays constant.
I don't know how much weight you actually lost, but just losing weight isn't always enough; you need to get some exercise to firm up your abs. Try sit-ups and crunches; you'd be surprised how much of a difference they can make, even if your weight doesn't change. And as an added benefit, if you get your stomach out of the way, your wife might just be able to see what you've got down below.
Or both. The two aren't mutually exclusive, you know.
Since firing a gun once a minute under local control is unlikely to hit anything nowadays, that means a battleship can be mission-killed without going through the armor.
Actually, that depends on the mission. It's highly unlikely that any of our battleships will ever find themselves shooting against enemy battleships or cruisers, fighting to maintain Control of the Sea. Their main mission is more likely to be shore bombardment, and a firing rate of one minute is adequate for that, as is local control using the existing 1930's technology. I know it's fashionable to laugh at how old and "out of date" their fire control systems are, but they have their advantages. They're more than accurate enough to do the job, they're rugged enough to withstand the pounding of the gun's recoil and they can't be EMPed.
There's one thing that article doesn't really take into consideration: WW II era warships, such as battleships, are designed not only to deal damage to the enemy, they're designed to absorb hits from equivalent ships and keep fighting. A battleship's main armor will either reflect or absorb a hit by just about any gun of smaller caliber than its own, and there are sealed, empty compartments called "voids" just inside the armor to keep hits that get through from damaging anything important. I won't go so far as to say that they can't be damaged by these missiles, but it's going to take more than one or two hits to put a battleship out of action unless the enemy's lucky enough to hit a magazine, and that's not exactly easy. As an example, it was much harder to sink The Bismark, even with "ship killing" weapons than most people realize.
I'm a 'Nam vet with service-connected hearing loss. The VA has no trouble paying for my hearing aids and batteries. I have a number of other, non-service connected conditions and, as I'm also unemployed, the VA is kind enough to give me the various medications I need free of charge, along with care by a nurse practitioner and all the needed lab work. I don't know why you think we don't have enough money for VA benefits, but if they can pay for mine, they've certainly got enough for vets with greater needs than me!
Thank you. I've just snarfed that and fed it to my Usenet sigmonster.
Who does it on the fingertips? That's stupid! You do it on the side of the finger, near the nail. Not only is it less sensitive, you're not constantly irritating the site. And, I get my supplies from the VA and use what they give me.
No, at least not at first. I was diagnosed with Type II when they were trying to find out what caused my first stone.
I've always thought it was more hubris. It takes quite a bit of arrogance to believe that humanity can change the Earth's climate that much, that fast.
I was able to keep the unit set to 3.5 from the time I started using it in March '02, right up until I started insulin. Now, for some reason, it's up to 4. It always hurt, just not quite as much as it does now. As Lawrence said, "The trick is not minding that it hurts."
No thanks, I've already had enough experience with it. Two broken bones and several kidney stones were enough. I've been testing my bg for eight years, finally went on insulin back in May. If you do it just right, you literally don't feel the hypo; if not, there's a little sting. About the only way to handle the lancets and blood test is to learn not to mind the fact that it's going to hurt, every time.
Keep telling yourself that; you might fool yourself into believing it. I'm diabetic. Right now, I use those lancets twice a day to test my blood glucose. I also give myself insulin every morning. Guess which one hurts more. One hint: it's not the hypo.
That wasn't the Emperor, it was one of his ministers. Franz Joseph told Mozart to put the music back. Not that this invalidates your point, mind you, but it's a nit that needed picking.
In a word, NO. Compare the climate of 1800 with that of 1850, and you'll see that it was much warmer in 1850 than it had been fifty years ago, possibly (I'm not sure, here) as much as in the last fifty years. And, I might add, recent evidence suggests that when the glaciers start moving they move fast. The last time they came to visit, they covered almost all of Britain in well under a century with ice over a kilometre thick.
If I were one of those columnists, I'd find every excuse I could to quote Rockin' Robin: "Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet!"
Probably the same number of Linux vendors who charge for upgrades. This whole article is based on a false dichotomy: either this Microsoft OS or that Microsoft OS, as though there were no other possible choices. If you're going to have to migrate to a new OS, why not migrate to one that's free (no license costs to deplete your budget) stable and not subject to today's crop of viruses, malware and trojans. (Oh my!) Yes, there's training costs involved, but that's true with any new OS, especially for the rank and file who can't see for themselves that 90%+ of what they do hasn't changed and has to be led by the nose through learning how to do their jobs again.
So what? You don't want to get it all out. All you need to do is get enough out that it's no longer saturated and can absorb more water. A wet towel absorbs water faster than a dry one because you don't have surface tension to worry about, and the same's probably true with oil. Run the saturated cloth through a wringer to press out most of the oil into a containment vessel, then spread it out again to pick up more.
I do hope you understand that the only place that Vietnam "defeated" the US was at the conference table. They never, not even once, defeated us on the ground. Even when they sent 150,000 men across the boarder in The Eastertide Offensive, US forces drove them back, smashing all of their armor and mechanized transport and sending the 50,000 survivors stumbling home on foot. I know; I was in Tonkin Gulf at the time, and my ship's shore bombardment was part of what crushed them.
The idea that the NVA and/or the Viet Cong defeated the US is a myth invented by the anti-war movement in an attempt to justify their cowardly, almost treasonous actions.
Yes, and there are people who follow the lead of Howard Hughes, and do exactly that: give the maximum to every candidate, no matter what their platform. That way, whoever wins, they'll be able to say, "I gave."
I have a home espresso machine that makes a quad shot, and I have a full pot, every morning, with breakfast. Not to wake up, because I generally don't eat until an hour or so after I'm out of bed, but because I like the taste of espresso. And, why have an espresso machine if you're not going to use it?
One of the questions asked if you feel protective towards people who are being taken advantage of. Apparently, whoever wrote this has empathizing with a victim confused with wanting to protect the victim. Sometimes, the best way to help in cases like that is with tough love. You stand back, let it happen and let them learn from the experience.
I realize that this is Slashdot, but did you even RTFS? Right up there, the list of ingredients includes corn.
Of course not. However, we're still only talking about a few thousand people, not almost a million.