If maximum upward scalability from a PC host starting point was required, I'd go with Oracle. The fit on the low end is a bit awkward, but it's workable. You've got to be careful when you license Oracle because you can spend too much money very easily, but if you know what you're doing Oracle is scalable and cost-efficient.
On the low- to middle-end, you could try PostgreSQL's Oracle-compatibility layer.
However, it doesn't always help, as the more assets of greater value you have in combat, the more committed you are to protecting those assets, even when it's disadvantageous for you to do so.
An important factor in spawning the Anbar Awakening was that while US Army "patrols" rode around Baghdad once a day in *heavy* APCs, the Marines were consantly pounding the streets, showing their faces, rebuilding water and electricity plants and schools. When locals *finally* tired of Al-Qaeda, they already had a face-to-face comfort with the Marines.
While chess improves planning and critical thinking, it certainly is not enough.
Exactly. Russians love to play chess, but their military (except during the GPW, and even then soldiers were basically vengeful animals, and still political officers needed to be behind them with "bayonets", prodding them forward) is, and has been for hundreds of years, endemically corrupt and incompetent.
Maybe increased use of kontraktniki will turn the Russian Army into a professional force, but I have my doubts.
My own interest in the retrocomputing scene is the old 8 bit systems, and for those, it's very practical to play with them. The best thing about the old 8 bits is that they are fun.
How the hell did they get a.gov domain considering that they aren't even in power yet?
Simple: they asked W to do it, and he, being a nice guy who knows he's on the way out anyway and is making a big effort to ensure a smooth transition, told his people to let the Obamanites have at it.
What I really want to know is how material on a.gov website can be copyrighted by anyone besides the government?
Need to leave a simulation running for a week or two? Screen is there. Trying to do something slightly complicated/non-interuptable on a flaky connection? Run screen and you won't lose a thing when your connection drops. Need to start a dozen things in a hurry before wasting the remainder of the day in silly meetings?
Sane operating systems have "batch queues" that you submit shell scripts to, and which captures all text output to a log file.
Yeah, and the driver's license system is linked to the voter registration database. But what happens if you get married less than 30 days before an election?
Intelligent people should be able to solve such a problem.
I agree. But you don't seem to. You seem to be stating that one-person no-vote is desierable over one-person two-votes. Neither state is one-person one-vote. To achieve that, you should have flexible laws that accommodate changes in names for marriage, address changes, and such that get people excluded.
You do realize that it's possible to change/update a driver's license, right? (It didn't take my wife that much effort to go to the DMV and get her name/address changed.)
Along with the right to vote comes with it the responsibility to do all in your power to keep the vote fair.
Our data suggests that a greater number of Democrats than Republicans or Independents are excluded from voting under Indianaâ(TM)s voter identification laws.
Democrats and Independents are less competent at proving that they are who they say they are? Do we really want such people voting?
Bottom line: "one person, one vote" must mean exactly that; otherwise, elections can't be trusted.
I suspect the reason Adobe is slow to provide 64bit support is that the flash player is made up of closed source code from a variety of 3rd party companies.
Or that the code is chock-full of hand-optimized assembler code which won't translate to 64-bits.
I should just accept that life is messy, bloody, and savage and there is nothing to do about it?
Sure there's something to do about it: band together in common cause, creating societies of like-minded people. IOW, civilization.
Which had, in the US, until 40ish years ago, the task of reigning in people's animal instincts.
I think a sane member of an animal rights group can believe exactly as you say and come to a different conclusion: These are things to change, not simply accept.
Guys become vegetarians for two distinct reasons:
they're fools who can't see the world as it really is, or
their girlfriend is a vegetarian, and he wants to get/stay in her panties.
Girls/women who become vegetarian do so because they are "sensitive" and "caring" left-wing fascists, just as bad as religious fundamentalists.
These two quotes by George Orwell are about pre-WW2 British pacifism, but I think there's an excellent, but not perfect, parallel to vegetarianism:
"Pacifists are people who haven't faced the unpleasant facts of life, either economically or politically; if they did face those facts, they wouldn't be pacifists for long."
"Rightly hating violence, [pacifists] do not wish to recognise that it is integral to modern society and that their own fine feelings and noble attitudes are all the fruit of injustice backed up by force. They do not want to learn where their incomes come from."
When MSI ran into serious trouble with Linux returns,
The problem is, MSI doesn't say 4x what.
Thus, it's a meaningless statistic, and every time you read an article that mentions "Linux returns 4x greater than Windows" you wasted time learning nothing.
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Fleas on a dog ... without fear of retribution
Flea deterrence is a big business (at least in the USA).
If maximum upward scalability from a PC host starting point was required, I'd go with Oracle. The fit on the low end is a bit awkward, but it's workable. You've got to be careful when you license Oracle because you can spend too much money very easily, but if you know what you're doing Oracle is scalable and cost-efficient.
On the low- to middle-end, you could try PostgreSQL's Oracle-compatibility layer.
and given that their students are not all white men
Well duh. What's wrong with supporting CF and Sickle Cell Anemia?
The rank idiocy in academia makes me glad I'm long graduated college...
Congratulations on stumbling on the plot from GATTACA.
There was also an episode of Law & Order where a vengeful woman hires a prostitute to get a condom full of semen in order to frame a man for murder.
http://family.webshots.com/photo/1304355685015913979ZgLjmr
However, it doesn't always help, as the more assets of greater value you have in combat, the more committed you are to protecting those assets, even when it's disadvantageous for you to do so.
An important factor in spawning the Anbar Awakening was that while US Army "patrols" rode around Baghdad once a day in *heavy* APCs, the Marines were consantly pounding the streets, showing their faces, rebuilding water and electricity plants and schools. When locals *finally* tired of Al-Qaeda, they already had a face-to-face comfort with the Marines.
While chess improves planning and critical thinking, it certainly is not enough.
Exactly. Russians love to play chess, but their military (except during the GPW, and even then soldiers were basically vengeful animals, and still political officers needed to be behind them with "bayonets", prodding them forward) is, and has been for hundreds of years, endemically corrupt and incompetent.
Maybe increased use of kontraktniki will turn the Russian Army into a professional force, but I have my doubts.
My own interest in the retrocomputing scene is the old 8 bit systems, and for those, it's very practical to play with them. The best thing about the old 8 bits is that they are fun.
KidBasic, a.k.a. Basic-256 might interest you.
http://kidbasic.sourceforge.net/
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/index.html
As long as we get an American free day as well.
But America is relevant. (When was the last time you saw Germans going apeshit over the election of a new Australian PM?)
Here's a hint: if you are so desperate for water as to need this, there's probably very little moisture in the air anyway.
Large life rafts could also use them, with accompanying bicycle-pedal generator.
Pretty sure it's not, though.
Only if it's an involuntary choice.
How the hell did they get a .gov domain considering that they aren't even in power yet?
Simple: they asked W to do it, and he, being a nice guy who knows he's on the way out anyway and is making a big effort to ensure a smooth transition, told his people to let the Obamanites have at it.
What I really want to know is how material on a .gov website can be copyrighted by anyone besides the government?
Need to leave a simulation running for a week or two? Screen is there. Trying to do something slightly complicated/non-interuptable on a flaky connection? Run screen and you won't lose a thing when your connection drops. Need to start a dozen things in a hurry before wasting the remainder of the day in silly meetings?
Sane operating systems have "batch queues" that you submit shell scripts to, and which captures all text output to a log file.
Yeah, and the driver's license system is linked to the voter registration database. But what happens if you get married less than 30 days before an election?
Intelligent people should be able to solve such a problem.
I agree. But you don't seem to. You seem to be stating that one-person no-vote is desierable over one-person two-votes. Neither state is one-person one-vote. To achieve that, you should have flexible laws that accommodate changes in names for marriage, address changes, and such that get people excluded.
You do realize that it's possible to change/update a driver's license, right? (It didn't take my wife that much effort to go to the DMV and get her name/address changed.)
Along with the right to vote comes with it the responsibility to do all in your power to keep the vote fair.
only 85.9%
That's better than 5/6th of voters.
Our data suggests that a greater number of Democrats than Republicans or Independents are excluded from voting under Indianaâ(TM)s voter identification laws.
Democrats and Independents are less competent at proving that they are who they say they are? Do we really want such people voting?
Bottom line: "one person, one vote" must mean exactly that; otherwise, elections can't be trusted.
And then have the form rejected or the voter turned away at the polls for failing to produce the mouse's ID
Sadly, most states do not require a Government picture ID.
Obama's policy is about spreading the wealth back to the middle class as opposed to spreading it to the top 1%.
Don't tell me you believe that The Rich aren't going to find more ways to shelter their income.
And they have a JIT compiler that would be non-trivial to port to x86-64.
For the same reason? (Lots of hand-crafted assembly?)
I suspect the reason Adobe is slow to provide 64bit support is that the flash player is made up of closed source code from a variety of 3rd party companies.
Or that the code is chock-full of hand-optimized assembler code which won't translate to 64-bits.
I'm a vegetarian because I learned about how lax the standards that govern our food supply are.
Why would you think that plants are handled any better, especially when NAFTA opened the US and CAN to God-knows-what from Mexico and Central America?
http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news/Grapes--Melons-Implicated-in-Outbreaks-1271-1/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2445747/Salmonella-outbreak-linked-to-single-chilli.html
http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news/Vegetables-And-Fruits-Cause-More-US-Food-Illnesses--5831-1/
http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news/Bacterial-infestation-in-food-very-critical-21-5940-1/
http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news/Roma-tomatoes-the-culprits-for-salmonella-infection-7330-1/
I should just accept that life is messy, bloody, and savage and there is nothing to do about it?
Sure there's something to do about it: band together in common cause, creating societies of like-minded people. IOW, civilization.
Which had, in the US, until 40ish years ago, the task of reigning in people's animal instincts.
I think a sane member of an animal rights group can believe exactly as you say and come to a different conclusion: These are things to change, not simply accept.
Guys become vegetarians for two distinct reasons:
Girls/women who become vegetarian do so because they are "sensitive" and "caring" left-wing fascists, just as bad as religious fundamentalists.
These two quotes by George Orwell are about pre-WW2 British pacifism, but I think there's an excellent, but not perfect, parallel to vegetarianism:
... from an early age we taught our kids that
I don't know what they'll do when they become teenagers or when they go to college, but at least we've given them a grounding in truth.
When MSI ran into serious trouble with Linux returns,
The problem is, MSI doesn't say 4x what.
Thus, it's a meaningless statistic, and every time you read an article that mentions "Linux returns 4x greater than Windows" you wasted time learning nothing.
No, he's saying that you're a prick.
Gotta love those Leftists and their ad-hominem attacks...