There was much rejoicing amount the two Ada programmers left in the planet for the approval of this standard. Ooops.
You know you are doing poorly when the major user of your product, in this case the military, has been turning away from Ada to C/C++ for the last decade. The F-35 is one example. Even parts of the F-16 software have been rewritten to C/C++ by now. There are still some use cases but all newly written software seems to be C++. Another example is SpaceX who used C/C++ to write their flight control software as well.
Yeah but mules can graze and drink water from ponds. Did you think the Mongols invaded 1/3rd of the surface of the Earth by carrying rations from Mongolia or what?
Actually I have read Sun Tzu's Art of War. Several times. Perhaps you should enlighten me to the place where he states combat troops aren't required to win a war against the US? You do realize the US not only has ICBMs as well but a whole load more SLBMs capable of second strike capability than China. Only one Chinese ICBM presently has enough range to hit almost the entire CONUS and that is the DF-31A. The DF-41 is supposed to have enough range but it is unknown if it has entered service yet or even if its R&D phase is complete. The US has no such issues with their ICBMs.
Iomega only had widespread success in that short time period between floppy disks and widespread CD-RWs. Ever since then they have spent their time selling useless products at inflated prices with their usual slipshod drive quality. At best they could be selling tape drives by now. The DVD-RW market is saturated and flash drives do the rest of the tasks we would use removable storage so... what are they supposed to be doing then? Holographic storage? Heh.
I also give my backing to R. There are other packages which look more like integrated though like Octave or Euler. You can even get Mathematica for Linux but it is somewhat expensive.
Well its not a good idea to use explosive reactive armor when you have your own infantry nearby in the first place. Which you should if you are doing urban warfare.
The US used to have liquid fueled ICBMs as well like the Redstone. The Russians took more time developing solid-ICBMs because some of the liquid vendors like Yangel had a lot of political clout. But they also use solids like the Topol-M.
1) NK doesn't have massive bodies to throw at the problem. Their population is 25 million. South Korea alone has twice the population.
2) I really doubt the Korean War Chinese human wave meme. Sure they had lots of troops but the Soviet Union also had a lot of WWII surplus they trivially gave away. Which tanks did NK have? T34-85s which back then were quite respectable. The Soviet Union reportedly gave China 1837 T-34-85 tanks. The Soviet Union even had some of their WWII veterans flying Mig-15s in there.
You can hardly call Greece, Portugal or Spain sovereign. You just have to see how they bend over to the IMF and EU commissars to figure it out. It doesn't matter how unpopular the dictates are. The way the European patent that passed recently works and the unaccountability of the ECB are plain indications of organizations out of control by the citizens of the nation states that actually founded the EU. Canada and Australia regularly bend over to the US. It may be Assange this day, or someone else the other. Switzerland has recently had to bend over and break their own national law on secrecy of financial transactions when UBS was forced to disclose data to the US IRS recently. So you were saying?
Don't compare North Korea with Afghanistan. North Korea has a much smaller land area and is easily targetable by naval forces and the US has the largest navy in the world. The only thing North Korea has for them is having China as an ally basically. Afghanistan is a large mountanious land locked country and that is why it is such a problem for any world naval power to control it. Iran is almost as bad as Afghanistan. But North Korean terrain wasn't that much of an issue during the Korean War and it wouldn't be an issue now.
I disagree regarding the main engines. The SSME Block II engines required a lot less maintenance than previous engines did. Most of the cost was in the solid rocket boosters, drop tank, hypergolic OMS/RCS and TPS maintenance.
Black swan events are just fluff for being fatalistic. Stupidest pseudo-theory I ever heard. Car bombs had been used before. It was just the scope that was somewhat larger. You ignore the fact that the US entered WWI because of the sinking of the Lusitania passenger vessel. Wars have been started for less.
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You know you are doing poorly when the major user of your product, in this case the military, has been turning away from Ada to C/C++ for the last decade. The F-35 is one example. Even parts of the F-16 software have been rewritten to C/C++ by now. There are still some use cases but all newly written software seems to be C++. Another example is SpaceX who used C/C++ to write their flight control software as well.
Yeah but mules can graze and drink water from ponds. Did you think the Mongols invaded 1/3rd of the surface of the Earth by carrying rations from Mongolia or what?
Horses were still widely used in WWII even. Even when they were not being used in the frontlines they were being used for transporting troop supplies.
Great. Why doesn't Apple make their MPEG-4 patents royalty free as well then?
Not just that. There are EU standards forbidding the sale of gadgets with sharp corners.
They could also easily port over any old DOS games which use DOSBox or ScummVM to run. If they bothered doing it at least.
So it possibly has habitable planets just like in Frontier: Elite 2! Except in Frontier Mars is supposedly terraformed.
Actually I have read Sun Tzu's Art of War. Several times. Perhaps you should enlighten me to the place where he states combat troops aren't required to win a war against the US? You do realize the US not only has ICBMs as well but a whole load more SLBMs capable of second strike capability than China. Only one Chinese ICBM presently has enough range to hit almost the entire CONUS and that is the DF-31A. The DF-41 is supposed to have enough range but it is unknown if it has entered service yet or even if its R&D phase is complete. The US has no such issues with their ICBMs.
Iomega only had widespread success in that short time period between floppy disks and widespread CD-RWs. Ever since then they have spent their time selling useless products at inflated prices with their usual slipshod drive quality. At best they could be selling tape drives by now. The DVD-RW market is saturated and flash drives do the rest of the tasks we would use removable storage so... what are they supposed to be doing then? Holographic storage? Heh.
I also give my backing to R. There are other packages which look more like integrated though like Octave or Euler. You can even get Mathematica for Linux but it is somewhat expensive.
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Well its not a good idea to use explosive reactive armor when you have your own infantry nearby in the first place. Which you should if you are doing urban warfare.
The original PNAC plan was to start simultaneous wars in Iraq and North Korea. But the situation in Afghanistan put that in question.
The US used to have liquid fueled ICBMs as well like the Redstone. The Russians took more time developing solid-ICBMs because some of the liquid vendors like Yangel had a lot of political clout. But they also use solids like the Topol-M.
If that was a problem because of the spy sats you would just send them disassembled in parts.
1) NK doesn't have massive bodies to throw at the problem. Their population is 25 million. South Korea alone has twice the population.
2) I really doubt the Korean War Chinese human wave meme. Sure they had lots of troops but the Soviet Union also had a lot of WWII surplus they trivially gave away. Which tanks did NK have? T34-85s which back then were quite respectable. The Soviet Union reportedly gave China 1837 T-34-85 tanks. The Soviet Union even had some of their WWII veterans flying Mig-15s in there.
The T-80 didn't fare that well in Chechnya.
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You use firewalls or cut the pacific fiber optic cables. Done.
Nuclear ICBMs mean they blow up your territory but they don't win the war. They need boots in the ground to win.
The Chinese just need to do the same thing the Japanese did. They use their dollars to buy property in the US.
Russia, China, India are on the other side of the ocean.
You can hardly call Greece, Portugal or Spain sovereign. You just have to see how they bend over to the IMF and EU commissars to figure it out. It doesn't matter how unpopular the dictates are. The way the European patent that passed recently works and the unaccountability of the ECB are plain indications of organizations out of control by the citizens of the nation states that actually founded the EU. Canada and Australia regularly bend over to the US. It may be Assange this day, or someone else the other. Switzerland has recently had to bend over and break their own national law on secrecy of financial transactions when UBS was forced to disclose data to the US IRS recently. So you were saying?
Don't compare North Korea with Afghanistan. North Korea has a much smaller land area and is easily targetable by naval forces and the US has the largest navy in the world. The only thing North Korea has for them is having China as an ally basically. Afghanistan is a large mountanious land locked country and that is why it is such a problem for any world naval power to control it. Iran is almost as bad as Afghanistan. But North Korean terrain wasn't that much of an issue during the Korean War and it wouldn't be an issue now.
Nah. MySQL is better than MSSQL.
I disagree regarding the main engines. The SSME Block II engines required a lot less maintenance than previous engines did. Most of the cost was in the solid rocket boosters, drop tank, hypergolic OMS/RCS and TPS maintenance.
Black swan events are just fluff for being fatalistic. Stupidest pseudo-theory I ever heard. Car bombs had been used before. It was just the scope that was somewhat larger. You ignore the fact that the US entered WWI because of the sinking of the Lusitania passenger vessel. Wars have been started for less.