The stealth missile platform you mention would most likely be a submarine; armed with supercavitating torpedoes
*snip*
Bzzzzzzt! Wrong answer!
When you light off that supercavitating torpedo, everyone listening within 150-500 *Kilometers* knows where your sub is. And at that point you are no longer a stealthy, hidden platform
Supercavitating torpedoes are a gimmick right now. maybe in a few decades, but not now.
So, in the classes I've taken on working on large software projects there was one thing hammered home. Don't scratch your nose without using version control.
With this in mind, what are they claiming? Are they saying that J. Random Coder wiped the offending dynix/aix code from his workstation? In that case, the code is still in the Version Control history. Or is SCO claiming that IBM ordered developers to remove revisions of the offending code from the Version Control history?
Assuming that IBM *wanted* to do so, is this even possible for a good Version Control tool? I'm no CVS/SVN guru, but i thought the tools were specifically built to make this not possible.
but *liked* firefly's opening theme??? (or at least are neutral enough to not complain about it)
WTF, Over??
I thought the opening sequence was the only good thing about enterprise. It captured the spirit of exploration that drives us onward and upward. just because it wasn't a swelling, throbbing (heh) symphonic number it suxxors??
This one I couldn't let slide, if there were ever a group who should be legally barred from owning firearms, it's law enforcement. Most street cops I've met don't have the self control, the maturity, or the intelligence to handle weapons, and quite frankly cops with guns scare me more than any other group. *end snip*
Two words. Criminology majors.
Never seen one of 'em I'd trust at the range on a sunny saturday, let alone carrying unsupervised on the street. Keep the crappy redneck stereotype. If Those gomers are the cops of the future, I'm going to drown m'self in my mom's foot massager tub:(
Yeah, the Kellog Briand pact that outlawed war. We did so much good signing that in the 1920s. And the Washington and London Naval Limitations Treaties post WW I. Those really cut down on tensions during the '30s.
WTF???
Arms limitation treaties never work. Period.
And you expect a landmine treaty to be adhered to during any war that lasts more than 6 months??
...I knew a great deal about the gay bashing measure, but hadn't heard of the proposed amendment about the courts...
That's what is great about vote by mail here in our state. Everyone I know voted with the voters pamphlet and a newspaper open. Its a great way to keep track of the measures and candidates, and be able to make a more informed choice.
Now, if we could just make the #()%# adds stop when I vote;)
If you think the only way to fix something is to use your own kit, you have a big problem.
That's like working for free...and probably about as legal. You need to suck it up and tell the boss "we need this piece, and if we don't get it, Bad Things(tm & C ) will happen."
And document it to within an inch of its life.
that way, when the witch hunt starts, you can whip out those docs from your own personal Pearl Harbor file and show that you knew what you needed, and were told to sod off.
Holloway's laws of business...
- Always document everything, even the slightest move. that way you have a paper trail to cover your ass.
- If your employer is asking you to do dodgy things to keep them running, tell them what the bill will be. If they threaten your employment, its time to hit the silk anyway. they are going to make a smoking crater in the sand...
"That's the basis of the series! Do you have this complaint about Doctor Who as well?"
NO!
Doctor Who is a series based around time travel. And even after 20 years they did their best to not screw with their canon and storylines. The ST franchise has no compunctions with changing canon or storylines simply to show off better special effects (ex. Klingon makeup, "quantum" torps). Doctor Who didn't change their badguys to update them to new SPEFX.
Star trek is supposedly a spaceship western. If Berman wants to make a time travel show, he should make one. We don't need him to fit different types of shows into the ST franchise (coming soon...star trek survivor!).
For ghu's sake, please just toss the ST franchise into an airlock and let it go.
Slashdot Mirror
snip
/snip
There are many lame things about PETA. But what exactly about them shows a "lack of compassion"?
*DING*
http://blog.helpinganimals.com/2008/02/to_serve_man.php
Next!
The stealth missile platform you mention would most likely be a submarine; armed with supercavitating torpedoes
*snip*
Bzzzzzzt! Wrong answer!
When you light off that supercavitating torpedo, everyone listening within 150-500 *Kilometers* knows where your sub is. And at that point you are no longer a stealthy, hidden platform
Supercavitating torpedoes are a gimmick right now. maybe in a few decades, but not now.
Ah, Thank you Doctor!
Okay, here are some numbers (from wikipedia *shrug*).
Space Shuttle, $145 Billion total cost to 2005, or around $5 Billion per year.
B2 Bombers at 1.2 Billion x 21 = 25.2 Billion total
New CVN $4 Billion dollars x 8 = 32 Billion
so, where is the money being wasted??
So, in the classes I've taken on working on large software projects there was one thing hammered home. Don't scratch your nose without using version control.
With this in mind, what are they claiming? Are they saying that J. Random Coder wiped the offending dynix/aix code from his workstation? In that case, the code is still in the Version Control history. Or is SCO claiming that IBM ordered developers to remove revisions of the offending code from the Version Control history?
Assuming that IBM *wanted* to do so, is this even possible for a good Version Control tool? I'm no CVS/SVN guru, but i thought the tools were specifically built to make this not possible.
/me grabs occam's razor...
You missed the USGP last year, then...yes?
(I know it was Michelen and not Bridgestone, but still...)
jack
(with props to Mickleson and Morley)
Jack
"What about the huge piles of toxic and somewhat radioactive U-238 that you get at the end? Nobody ever seems to bring that up."
Three words
Depleated Uranium Rounds (for tanks, and anti-tank guns)
Jack
"The bottom line is that algorithmic compressibility is all we've got, and truth itself is a gossamer filigree we can at best approximate."
Best. Quote. Ever.
Jack
but *liked* firefly's opening theme??? (or at least are neutral enough to not complain about it)
WTF, Over??
I thought the opening sequence was the only good thing about enterprise. It captured the spirit of exploration that drives us onward and upward. just because it wasn't a swelling, throbbing (heh) symphonic number it suxxors??
*shrug*
I guess my musical tastes are just pervy
If you hate stumptown that much, GTFO
Here...here are all the cans from my house. Now you can afford a u-haul to go somewhere you don't hate. I live in Lents, so come on down for 'em.
Geeze, you'd think we ate his dog or something....
This one I couldn't let slide, if there were ever a group who should be legally barred from owning firearms, it's law enforcement. Most street cops I've met don't have the self control, the maturity, or the intelligence to handle weapons, and quite frankly cops with guns scare me more than any other group. *end snip*
Two words. Criminology majors.
Never seen one of 'em I'd trust at the range on a sunny saturday, let alone carrying unsupervised on the street. Keep the crappy redneck stereotype. If Those gomers are the cops of the future, I'm going to drown m'self in my mom's foot massager tub :(
now to refill the coffee mug.
WTF???
Arms limitation treaties never work. Period.
And you expect a landmine treaty to be adhered to during any war that lasts more than 6 months??
Lemme sell you a bridge, brother...
and me without mod points. Ya'll get a +1 funny from *me* /cleans coffee off monitor
I thought the case of US vs J. Davis, R.E. Lee, et al, 1865 settled this question. Quite starkly. Jack
...I knew a great deal about the gay bashing measure, but hadn't heard of the proposed amendment about the courts...
;)
That's what is great about vote by mail here in our state. Everyone I know voted with the voters pamphlet and a newspaper open. Its a great way to keep track of the measures and candidates, and be able to make a more informed choice.
Now, if we could just make the #()%# adds stop when I vote
That's like working for free...and probably about as legal. You need to suck it up and tell the boss "we need this piece, and if we don't get it, Bad Things(tm & C ) will happen."
And document it to within an inch of its life.
that way, when the witch hunt starts, you can whip out those docs from your own personal Pearl Harbor file and show that you knew what you needed, and were told to sod off.
Holloway's laws of business...
- Always document everything, even the slightest move. that way you have a paper trail to cover your ass.
- If your employer is asking you to do dodgy things to keep them running, tell them what the bill will be. If they threaten your employment, its time to hit the silk anyway. they are going to make a smoking crater in the sand...
My two centisols
NO!
Doctor Who is a series based around time travel. And even after 20 years they did their best to not screw with their canon and storylines. The ST franchise has no compunctions with changing canon or storylines simply to show off better special effects (ex. Klingon makeup, "quantum" torps). Doctor Who didn't change their badguys to update them to new SPEFX.
Star trek is supposedly a spaceship western. If Berman wants to make a time travel show, he should make one. We don't need him to fit different types of shows into the ST franchise (coming soon...star trek survivor!).
For ghu's sake, please just toss the ST franchise into an airlock and let it go.