What has genuinely surprised me is reading a biography of that well known Socialist... Winston Churchill. Although he came from a very privileged background (son of a Duke and born in the only privately owned palace in the UK) he was actually a key player in the introduction of the UKs compulsory National Insurance scheme in 1911. Clearly he did not do this to gain votes but because he thought it was just that what was the most powerful country in the world at the time (this was almost the height of the Empire) should care for its most unfortunate citizens. He also tended to side with the employees during labour disputes in the First World War and was in favour of a 100% tax on all commercial profits made during the war. None of this was done to gain votes - but because he thought it was the right thing to do.
Although it is clearly nitpicking, aren't things like Polaris and Trident submarine based ICBMs? The defining characteristic of an ICBM is surely range rather than where it is based?
"A non-firing soldiers that is a waste of space and gear." Interestingly enough most Allied soldiers, something like 60%, who were in combat never fired their gun - even ones in the Soviet Red Army. Antony Beevor's excellent recent book "D-Day: The Battle for Normandy" goes into this in some detail. German units, particularly SS units, seemed to fight a lot harder - perhaps because they knew their back was to the wall. Actually, in some ways the fact that it is actually really difficult to convert normal people into trained killers is actually rather cheering - maybe there is hope for us yet!
That's the first sensible idea I've heard about ending this war - mod this fellow up! I can't imagine the price the farmers growing the stuff get would be very high so it probably wouldn't even cost that much.
Britain's heavy bombing of Germany was pretty much for show - we had to do something and it was the only thing we could do. An understandable choice - if one that caused a lot of moral concerns at the time and ever since.
I belive the highest power output we've managed for a human build machine was 5.4 yottawatts - which seems more than enough. Of course there are some problems with kind of power source....
The contract that tests are done under usually also specifiies the retention policy - sometimes you have to be very careful to keep test records for X period of time and then destroy them after that time.
I once worked on a project that had to integrate with an existing commercial application - this was in an insurance company and the application was their core policy management system. We had a look at the database schema for the application and it looks pretty sensible, all we wanted to do was read some data from the tables so the technical risk was pretty low. However, turns out that the vendor had a clause in their contract that stopped the client from directly accessing "their" database schema - this wasn't for technical reasons, which I might have understood, but for what seemed like pure spite. They couldn't/wouldn't add an API call in the application to provide access to the data "legally" and simply accessing it anyway was vetoed by management because of the contract so we had to just give up.
One of the things that made me stop playing Ghost Recon was that I was getting a bit sick of shooting Mexicans in Mexico who didn't appear to be fighting for much more than stopping US interference in Mexico.
"Preventive maintenance fixes bugs which have not yet been reported" - surely though these bugs have been found by some kind of testing? Otherwise how do you know that they are actually bugs or are actually fixed? I've seen so many "optimisations to help scaling" over the years that were performed without any empirical evidence as to whether they actually helped or not. Quite a lot actually made things a lot *less* scaleable.
My wife is a lawyer and she is very clear about the difference between professional and academic qualifications - they can take the former away from you *and* if you don't have the qualification then you don't work in that job.
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What has genuinely surprised me is reading a biography of that well known Socialist ... Winston Churchill. Although he came from a very privileged background (son of a Duke and born in the only privately owned palace in the UK) he was actually a key player in the introduction of the UKs compulsory National Insurance scheme in 1911. Clearly he did not do this to gain votes but because he thought it was just that what was the most powerful country in the world at the time (this was almost the height of the Empire) should care for its most unfortunate citizens. He also tended to side with the employees during labour disputes in the First World War and was in favour of a 100% tax on all commercial profits made during the war. None of this was done to gain votes - but because he thought it was the right thing to do.
I would be more likely to get into an argument over the difference between software development and computer science.
Although it is clearly nitpicking, aren't things like Polaris and Trident submarine based ICBMs? The defining characteristic of an ICBM is surely range rather than where it is based?
The noise ewoks made when you shot them was very satisfying.
"A non-firing soldiers that is a waste of space and gear." Interestingly enough most Allied soldiers, something like 60%, who were in combat never fired their gun - even ones in the Soviet Red Army. Antony Beevor's excellent recent book "D-Day: The Battle for Normandy" goes into this in some detail. German units, particularly SS units, seemed to fight a lot harder - perhaps because they knew their back was to the wall. Actually, in some ways the fact that it is actually really difficult to convert normal people into trained killers is actually rather cheering - maybe there is hope for us yet!
That's the first sensible idea I've heard about ending this war - mod this fellow up! I can't imagine the price the farmers growing the stuff get would be very high so it probably wouldn't even cost that much.
Britain's heavy bombing of Germany was pretty much for show - we had to do something and it was the only thing we could do. An understandable choice - if one that caused a lot of moral concerns at the time and ever since.
I believe the British Chevaline upgrade to Polaris, to make sure we could take out Moscow, did have decoys: http://www.skomer.u-net.com/projects/chevaline.htm
I belive the highest power output we've managed for a human build machine was 5.4 yottawatts - which seems more than enough. Of course there are some problems with kind of power source....
The contract that tests are done under usually also specifiies the retention policy - sometimes you have to be very careful to keep test records for X period of time and then destroy them after that time.
That's easy - the crooks who used to run the bank get to keep as much as they want.
I once worked on a project that had to integrate with an existing commercial application - this was in an insurance company and the application was their core policy management system. We had a look at the database schema for the application and it looks pretty sensible, all we wanted to do was read some data from the tables so the technical risk was pretty low. However, turns out that the vendor had a clause in their contract that stopped the client from directly accessing "their" database schema - this wasn't for technical reasons, which I might have understood, but for what seemed like pure spite. They couldn't/wouldn't add an API call in the application to provide access to the data "legally" and simply accessing it anyway was vetoed by management because of the contract so we had to just give up.
Was there an Elite for the Apple 2?
Does being in VB.Net count as a bug? I rather like C#, but looking at VB.Net makes me deeply unhappy. :-)
I think you need to correct your statement to allow for Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.
One of the things that made me stop playing Ghost Recon was that I was getting a bit sick of shooting Mexicans in Mexico who didn't appear to be fighting for much more than stopping US interference in Mexico.
"Preventive maintenance fixes bugs which have not yet been reported" - surely though these bugs have been found by some kind of testing? Otherwise how do you know that they are actually bugs or are actually fixed? I've seen so many "optimisations to help scaling" over the years that were performed without any empirical evidence as to whether they actually helped or not. Quite a lot actually made things a lot *less* scaleable.
I presume Envy Life used "At the end of the day" as an idiom http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/at+the+end+of+the+day
That should have been: "Just because it isn't academically rigourous doesn't mean it's NOT cool and probably rather good fun to do"
My wife is a lawyer and she is very clear about the difference between professional and academic qualifications - they can take the former away from you *and* if you don't have the qualification then you don't work in that job.
Just because it isn't academically rigourous doesn't mean it's cool and probably rather good fun to do.
Surely an easier plan would be to set the RIAA on anyone who "pirates" valuable GPS signals without paying the appropriate fees? :-)
Actually, I was really COMMENTING on what LOOKS like rather ODD capitalization.
Oh - that's the one where the 3rd world war was everyone versus the bankers armed with cobalt bombs lurking under Swiss Alps?
OK assuming that we actually have the texts, vellum and clay tablets not being the most popular media these days.