There's a reason that the Marines teach three round bursts.
The fact that only the US M-16 variant is missing the "full-auto" setting says more about that reason having more to do with quality of the operator than the barrel of the weapon.
I've personally fired thousands of rounds through a C7 (Canadian M16) in a single sitting (don't ask) and never had an issue with the barrel melting... it was hot as hell though.
(in Montréal, we have sex-shop advertisement in the subway and animated sex advice columns on the subway electronic information system)
When's the last time you you were outside of la belle province? Seriously, there are more sex shops in Calgary than I've ever seen in Montreal, spare Ste. Catherine's street maybe.
The funny thing about Michael Coren is although he's a conservative Christian, is pretty logical compared to the nuts down south.
He'll apply his beliefs to his views, but usually he makes pretty good points, and likes to debate openly with opposing views. I've never seen him ridicule his guests like the fox losers do.
I'm sorry? Anti-freeze down the drain? Who does this?
You winterize exposed piping by closing any water source that is designed to fill the pipe, draining the pipe, leaving the drain open and just walking away.
In "the frozen north" anti-freeze will freeze too... aside from killing everyone off in the spring.
I'm only responding because you were modded insightful:
This is news for nerds not because of what is happening, but because of HOW it's happening.
Not only is Oxfam going directly to the internet to mount a campaign against a corporation (in and of itself a cool thing - proving yet a gain the power of the internet), the corporation responded in kind.
This type of one to one presentation of views has never happened before in such a powerful way. It could herald a new method of consumer/producer interaction, which of course may spill into political spheres. All because of the internet.
It is proof that the internet is radically changing the face of our entire society, so much so that we are only on the cusp of realizing what may happen. Geeky enough for you now?
The Zune may become more of a threat than people think,
I have my doubts about the Zune. I think MS is missing a key piece of marketing strategy with mp3 players that isn't present in their traditional market: Being cool matters.
I'm not sure they (ms) adequately understand the market. Wearing a much smaller sony mp3 player isn't cool. Using a possibly better Zune isn't cool either. Having an iPod is cool. With portable players, cool is in.
In order to beat Apple, any newcomer has to sufficiently reinvent "cool". That's a lot harder than actually improving the product offering - it has nothing to do with technology either.
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Just wanted to say, well done!
Nice way to learn, and get a name out there for yourself.
I ran it (the proof of concept) on the same version and it didn't transmit anything to google.
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Only in America would that comment be labeled "Insightful".
Give it up already... global warming is real.
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There are always more features to be added. The real strength of agile development is that it recognizes this and breaks up the development into small manageable changes, instead of trying to ignore the feature requests.
You're bang on with that assessment. The big issue though is that this type of thinking is near-impossible to sell to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Soon, This long time windows user will do something never done before: I will pay for an OS. (Yes I know about Linux - my time is worth more than a few hundred bucks.)
Unfortunately for Microsoft, that OS will be not be vista, as it doesn't run on a mac.:-)
So are you playing Devil's advocate here or are you really trying to say there are no avenues for a company other than custom, ground up solutions?
Neither, I'm simply countering your initial assertion that it is more efficient to modify off the shelf products than it is to build your own. In many situations, it is not. You agree to this.
I think you got a little miffed at my saying your comment was ignorant. I wasn't using the word as an insult, but its literal meaning.
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How about an email app that actually calls emails "emails" instead of "memos"?
How about archives that actually work?
How about attaching images in a way that doesn't embed them so as to be unreadable by other clients?
How about not having "Reply" and "Reply to all" as two separate buttons?
Need I continue?
He said: maybe
At what point in history was Quebec City ever the capital of Canada, the country?
Because the fucking Americans changed the damn time change dates and we were dumb enough to follow them.
Wrong country....
Canada does not use Social Security Numbers. It uses Social Insurance Numbers, which are always 9 digits.
There's a reason that the Marines teach three round bursts .
The fact that only the US M-16 variant is missing the "full-auto" setting says more about that reason having more to do with quality of the operator than the barrel of the weapon.
I've personally fired thousands of rounds through a C7 (Canadian M16) in a single sitting (don't ask) and never had an issue with the barrel melting... it was hot as hell though.
(in Montréal, we have sex-shop advertisement in the subway and animated sex advice columns on the subway electronic information system)
When's the last time you you were outside of la belle province? Seriously, there are more sex shops in Calgary than I've ever seen in Montreal, spare Ste. Catherine's street maybe.
The funny thing about Michael Coren is although he's a conservative Christian, is pretty logical compared to the nuts down south.
He'll apply his beliefs to his views, but usually he makes pretty good points, and likes to debate openly with opposing views. I've never seen him ridicule his guests like the fox losers do.
We have a Liberal Party of Canada up here.
Not liberal as in "liberal/conservative".
I'm sorry? Anti-freeze down the drain? Who does this?
You winterize exposed piping by closing any water source that is designed to fill the pipe, draining the pipe, leaving the drain open and just walking away.
In "the frozen north" anti-freeze will freeze too... aside from killing everyone off in the spring.
I'm only responding because you were modded insightful:
This is news for nerds not because of what is happening, but because of HOW it's happening.
Not only is Oxfam going directly to the internet to mount a campaign against a corporation (in and of itself a cool thing - proving yet a gain the power of the internet), the corporation responded in kind.
This type of one to one presentation of views has never happened before in such a powerful way. It could herald a new method of consumer/producer interaction, which of course may spill into political spheres. All because of the internet.
It is proof that the internet is radically changing the face of our entire society, so much so that we are only on the cusp of realizing what may happen. Geeky enough for you now?
Last time I checked vendor lock-in was working pretty well for the iPod.
What lock in is that? All 30 GB of songs on my ipod are mp3's, about as free as free can be.
The Zune may become more of a threat than people think,
I have my doubts about the Zune. I think MS is missing a key piece of marketing strategy with mp3 players that isn't present in their traditional market: Being cool matters.
I'm not sure they (ms) adequately understand the market. Wearing a much smaller sony mp3 player isn't cool. Using a possibly better Zune isn't cool either. Having an iPod is cool. With portable players, cool is in.
In order to beat Apple, any newcomer has to sufficiently reinvent "cool". That's a lot harder than actually improving the product offering - it has nothing to do with technology either.
Just wanted to say, well done!
Nice way to learn, and get a name out there for yourself.
Canada is a lot closer.
Here's a graph including the "significantly warmer" middle ages.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temp
Insightful my ass. How about incorrect.
I ran it (the proof of concept) on the same version and it didn't transmit anything to google.
Only in America would that comment be labeled "Insightful".
Give it up already... global warming is real.
There are always more features to be added. The real strength of agile development is that it recognizes this and breaks up the development into small manageable changes, instead of trying to ignore the feature requests.
You're bang on with that assessment. The big issue though is that this type of thinking is near-impossible to sell to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
When the hippies stop smoking so much...seriously, who cares?
So somebody actually does use that visualization crap. :-)
Soon, This long time windows user will do something never done before: I will pay for an OS. (Yes I know about Linux - my time is worth more than a few hundred bucks.)
:-)
Unfortunately for Microsoft, that OS will be not be vista, as it doesn't run on a mac.
So are you playing Devil's advocate here or are you really trying to say there are no avenues for a company other than custom, ground up solutions?
Neither, I'm simply countering your initial assertion that it is more efficient to modify off the shelf products than it is to build your own. In many situations, it is not. You agree to this.
I think you got a little miffed at my saying your comment was ignorant. I wasn't using the word as an insult, but its literal meaning.
I'm POSITIVE there are certain cases (perhaps many), that require a custom solution, written in-house, on company time...
Then we're in agreement, what's the problem?
but that doesn't seem the most efficient way to me
Have you ever considered that perhaps you knowledge of the process is less than complete?
Good Point. You should add though that volitilty also translates directly to salaries as well... high in the good times, low in the bad.