Feature creep is a serious problem for the military. They're still trying to build a replacement for the B-52 bomber. Each complex design creates its own set of problems. The B-1 radar jammer jams its own radar, the B-2 stealth technology can't fly in the rain, and the next design isn't expected to arrive until 2040. Meanwhile, the B-52 with upgrades will continue to fly. If the navigation computer reboots in mid-flight, the pilots can always break out the slide rulers and maps.
A single F-35 costs more than that program does, although I suppose an F-35 can at least fly.
The F-35 program is an insidious example. With contractor offices located in 44 states, it's very hard for Congress to cancel the program and explain to the folks back home why they voted for local layoffs.
I blame Bill Clinton for repealing the Glass-Seagall Act, which turned boring old banks into high octane casinos. But Wall Street is ultimately responsible for pushing the repeal and gaming the system.
I'm waiting for Wall Street to repay the country for causing the Great Recession. I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed (working 20 hours per month) for six months, and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011. I'm still trying to recover from that five years later.
I loved Fujitsu hard drives back in the day (late 1990's) when the first 1GB+ hard drives became affordable. IIRC, I had a 1GB and 3GB model. I avoided WD hard drives like the plague for 20 years, but recently started using them since the Seagate hard drives kept dying one day after the warranty expires.
I took apart an old car radio with vacuum tubes when I was five or so. Needless to say, it was a shocking experience. My mother was always amazed that I made it out of childhood without electrocuting myself.
I had a cassette recorder for the Commodore VIC-20 and 64 several years before I got the floppy drive. I had a huge number of cassettes for both programs and backups. One popular program in the various home computer magazines was a database to keep track of your programs on cassettes.
Slashdot has enough old farts who recognize the name, can pull copies of the electronic books off their shelves, and scream "Get off my lawn!" to all the young whippersnappers who can't tell a soldering iron from a hole in the ground.
Come to California. White folks are a minority in a minority-majority state. Also, the California Republican has more in common with the spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population. Not as many tea party nuts running around here.
Wrong! You forgot to mention the illegal occupation Palestine and the theft of their land.
Your forgot to mention that the Jordanians surrendered the West Bank to Israel after the 1967 war. The only significant border change since then was the Sinai Peninsula returned to Egypt under the 1978 Camp David accords.
Israel has a nuclear deterrent and its borders — Lebanon to the north, Syria and Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the south — haven't changed in decades.
You were lucky. I had to learn all flavors of Java at my community college after the Dot Com Bust. Assembly language and C++ got cancelled due to a lack of students. Computer programming was no longer the $$$ major. Everyone and their grandmother were jumping into healthcare courses.
When I was browsing college catalogs in the early 1990's, some colleges would allow the substitution of a programming language for the foreign language requirement. Needless to say, eight years of Commodore 64 BASIC wasn't transferrable.
Dummies books are a great introduction to a given topic. If I'm plunging into a topic for the first time, I would read the Dummies book before finding and reading a specialized book.
If Iran (Shiite) gets the bomb, than the rest of the Middle Eastern (Sunni) countries will have to get the bomb. In the grand scheme of things, Israel isn't that much of a threat to the Arabs. A nuclear war is more likely to break out between the Iranians and the Arabs.
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politicians write the rules, dont blame others for playing by the rules signed off on by politicians.
These days the politicians don't write the rules. The Wall Street lobbyists do. I'm not giving neither Wall Street nor the politicians a free pass.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/spending-bill-992-derivatives-citigroup-lobbyists
Feature creep is a serious problem for the military. They're still trying to build a replacement for the B-52 bomber. Each complex design creates its own set of problems. The B-1 radar jammer jams its own radar, the B-2 stealth technology can't fly in the rain, and the next design isn't expected to arrive until 2040. Meanwhile, the B-52 with upgrades will continue to fly. If the navigation computer reboots in mid-flight, the pilots can always break out the slide rulers and maps.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/b-52s-us-air-force-bombers.html
A single F-35 costs more than that program does, although I suppose an F-35 can at least fly.
The F-35 program is an insidious example. With contractor offices located in 44 states, it's very hard for Congress to cancel the program and explain to the folks back home why they voted for local layoffs.
I blame Bill Clinton for repealing the Glass-Seagall Act, which turned boring old banks into high octane casinos. But Wall Street is ultimately responsible for pushing the repeal and gaming the system.
I'm waiting for Wall Street to repay the country for causing the Great Recession. I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed (working 20 hours per month) for six months, and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011. I'm still trying to recover from that five years later.
The Republican Congress is a fine example.
FTFY - SIgned, Zorgon (Supreme Ruler of The Galaxy)
Uh, huh.
Zorgons appear to be cold-blooded, as they can be deterred by cold temperatures and were at one point distracted with a burning couch.
http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Zorgon_(Zathura)
If the Supreme Ruler of the Galaxy can be distracted by a burning couch, there may be hope for humanity. We got plenty of couches to burn up.
I loved Fujitsu hard drives back in the day (late 1990's) when the first 1GB+ hard drives became affordable. IIRC, I had a 1GB and 3GB model. I avoided WD hard drives like the plague for 20 years, but recently started using them since the Seagate hard drives kept dying one day after the warranty expires.
I took apart an old car radio with vacuum tubes when I was five or so. Needless to say, it was a shocking experience. My mother was always amazed that I made it out of childhood without electrocuting myself.
Extreme narcissism and self-importance are defining traits of the Baby Boomer generation!
FTFY - Signed, Gen Xer
As a child I wanted an Erector Set. My parents gave me Lincoln Logs instead. My childhood was ruined.
I had a cassette recorder for the Commodore VIC-20 and 64 several years before I got the floppy drive. I had a huge number of cassettes for both programs and backups. One popular program in the various home computer magazines was a database to keep track of your programs on cassettes.
Slashdot has enough old farts who recognize the name, can pull copies of the electronic books off their shelves, and scream "Get off my lawn!" to all the young whippersnappers who can't tell a soldering iron from a hole in the ground.
Come to California. White folks are a minority in a minority-majority state. Also, the California Republican has more in common with the spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population. Not as many tea party nuts running around here.
You know a song is really bad is when it goes straight to /dev/null without being heard.
Wrong! You forgot to mention the illegal occupation Palestine and the theft of their land.
Your forgot to mention that the Jordanians surrendered the West Bank to Israel after the 1967 war. The only significant border change since then was the Sinai Peninsula returned to Egypt under the 1978 Camp David accords.
Well, I recommend we sentence that computer to 365 days of Windows ME.
FTFY
Israel has a nuclear deterrent and its borders — Lebanon to the north, Syria and Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the south — haven't changed in decades.
That's a different kettle of fish. Pakistan and India both have nuclear weapons and hair-trigger alerts to use against each other.
Repeating the same BASIC class for 8 years is really, really bad.
I never took classes in BASIC. I taught myself on a Commodore 64 for eight years before I got into college.
Oh, hell. Making proper change is a new idea to some of these students. Most of whom will be working at McDonald's for all their lives.
You were lucky. I had to learn all flavors of Java at my community college after the Dot Com Bust. Assembly language and C++ got cancelled due to a lack of students. Computer programming was no longer the $$$ major. Everyone and their grandmother were jumping into healthcare courses.
When I was browsing college catalogs in the early 1990's, some colleges would allow the substitution of a programming language for the foreign language requirement. Needless to say, eight years of Commodore 64 BASIC wasn't transferrable.
Dummies books are a great introduction to a given topic. If I'm plunging into a topic for the first time, I would read the Dummies book before finding and reading a specialized book.
If Iran (Shiite) gets the bomb, than the rest of the Middle Eastern (Sunni) countries will have to get the bomb. In the grand scheme of things, Israel isn't that much of a threat to the Arabs. A nuclear war is more likely to break out between the Iranians and the Arabs.