Except you don't - you light up the sky with 1 or more AWACS from 150 miles away and use THEM to guide your strike package to the target. The only radar your enemy ever sees is the active homers of the missiles coming to kill them.
The only good point made in that article was bulkhead deformation in a crash.
Overpressure was a stupid point that he spent half the article on. And one that would be easy to remedy with small fist-sized baffles through the entire bulkhead, and not just the door. I could solve that problem with $50 worth of materials at Home Depot.
I shouldn't have to surrender my right to freely travel by being groped, xrayed to death or permanently put on a list for standing up for myself. In FUCKING AMERICA!
In 2000, I could walk onto a plane in 5 minutes after performing curb-side checkin. And even then the 3 important questions (did you pack your bag, la de da) were stupid security theater.
Windows ME constantly gets a bad rap, but people forget that it served a very important purpose - it put the ISVs on notice that the Win9x line was DEAD. D.E.A.D Dead.
DOS based TSRs that a lot of software depended on - all were dying. Share.exe, remember that fiasco? I bet not.
In general, a usability nightmare, but it kicked a lot of developers into high gear.
Aside from some data consistency issues (related to the whole BigTable nonsense) - I find Facebooks UI pretty damn easy. A UI refresh is one thing they DON'T need, IMHO.
Except all the browsers I've tried so far (Android and iPhone) fail on browsing the popup selectors. Anything with an embedded scrollbar doesn't work right.
Haven't tried with iOS 4 yet, maybe this defect has been fixed.
Nevermind the fact that the single best time to shoot down a plane for a terrorist is when it's nearing it's terminus (either takeoff or landing), when it is both slow-moving and at low altitude.
Most terrorists won't have access to heavy-duty surface to air missiles - at best they'll have Stingers, which aren't very good at chasing high-altitude aircraft (effective range of 3 miles).
They don't teach you to cope with the emotional cost of killing someone - that's left for the public to deal with when they get back from war and are dumped into the streets.
You can't teach that - you either cope with it, get help coping with it, or go stark raving mad.
I've known a few lifers who went over to Iraq who've told me that since coming back they've thought an awful lot about eating a bullet.
I think this is different. If my Dad were away often (and he effectively was, working night shifts), I'd have killed to have a quick window I could poke my "virtual" head through and chat with him.
How is this any different than dad being in the living room or something? It's not like he's a total stranger.
It's not a set-up for everybody, but with today's folks having to be mobile, simply to keep themselves above water, unable to sell their homes, unable to move to where the jobs are... it's a great way to be in touch whenever the urge strikes, and not just as specific times of the day.
I've noticed that too, at parties I throw. No matter how much food or drink I put in other rooms, music, etc., I'm usually having to squeeze through people to work in the kitchen as everyone jam packs in there.
I even took to putting small dorm fridges with beer, and the kegerator in another room, and STILL - I don't understand it at all.
I mean, it's nice you want to socialize with the cook and everything, but give me a little space to work. Stir fry is tough when I have a person at each elbow.
What he didn't say is that most FATAL accidents happen over the speed limit. No numbers to prove that, but I'd bet on it. Okay, will here's a reference that says 1/3rd.
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We are never going to run out of copper.
Cheap copper, maybe, but there's more copper in this planet than the entire mass of the human race. I fear not for running out of copper.
Except you don't - you light up the sky with 1 or more AWACS from 150 miles away and use THEM to guide your strike package to the target. The only radar your enemy ever sees is the active homers of the missiles coming to kill them.
Spoken like someone bombed by a first-rate engineer. :-)
There should be a zero % corporate tax rate. Remember that all corporate taxes are just taxes passed on to the consumer through higher prices.
The only good point made in that article was bulkhead deformation in a crash.
Overpressure was a stupid point that he spent half the article on. And one that would be easy to remedy with small fist-sized baffles through the entire bulkhead, and not just the door. I could solve that problem with $50 worth of materials at Home Depot.
That's utter bullshit.
I shouldn't have to surrender my right to freely travel by being groped, xrayed to death or permanently put on a list for standing up for myself. In FUCKING AMERICA!
In 2000, I could walk onto a plane in 5 minutes after performing curb-side checkin. And even then the 3 important questions (did you pack your bag, la de da) were stupid security theater.
The IBM VM is the default when running Websphere.
Cake or Death!
Windows ME constantly gets a bad rap, but people forget that it served a very important purpose - it put the ISVs on notice that the Win9x line was DEAD. D.E.A.D Dead.
DOS based TSRs that a lot of software depended on - all were dying. Share.exe, remember that fiasco? I bet not.
In general, a usability nightmare, but it kicked a lot of developers into high gear.
FIX. THE. FUCKING. DATEPICKER..
Goddamn it.
+/- keys are not appropriate in a touch/drag interface. Dials are better.
Aside from some data consistency issues (related to the whole BigTable nonsense) - I find Facebooks UI pretty damn easy. A UI refresh is one thing they DON'T need, IMHO.
Except all the browsers I've tried so far (Android and iPhone) fail on browsing the popup selectors. Anything with an embedded scrollbar doesn't work right.
Haven't tried with iOS 4 yet, maybe this defect has been fixed.
Actually, it doesn't.
Many Linux systems/shells alias rm to 'rm -i', especially root accounts, to prevent this sort of foot-shooting.
The default rm will happily delete any file it can without prompting.
OMG dude! They have these things called airports, and there's planes leaving and departing them EVERY single minute along pre-determined routes! ZOMG!
Nevermind the fact that the single best time to shoot down a plane for a terrorist is when it's nearing it's terminus (either takeoff or landing), when it is both slow-moving and at low altitude.
Most terrorists won't have access to heavy-duty surface to air missiles - at best they'll have Stingers, which aren't very good at chasing high-altitude aircraft (effective range of 3 miles).
-Chris
If they're picking up trash on the side of the road, they're probably misdemeanors fulfilling their public-service requirements and not felons.
Plus they have tower-sharing agreements with Verizon - which means you get the best of the Verizon network, too.
Supposedly.
I think it's time to start a goatse storm, like the one that caused slashdot to add the [xyz.com] bits to the urls in comments.
Kill these fucking shorteners.
-Chris
Same reason I don't put away my food tray in a foodcourt. They have a person whose job that is...
No, that makes you a daft prick - now people who have trays full of food have to clean up your shitty mess before they can sit down and eat.
You, Sir, are a bastard.
Cardbank. I love it.
As opposed to being stuck in a submerged steel tube for 3-6 months?
They don't teach you to cope with the emotional cost of killing someone - that's left for the public to deal with when they get back from war and are dumped into the streets.
You can't teach that - you either cope with it, get help coping with it, or go stark raving mad.
I've known a few lifers who went over to Iraq who've told me that since coming back they've thought an awful lot about eating a bullet.
I think this is different. If my Dad were away often (and he effectively was, working night shifts), I'd have killed to have a quick window I could poke my "virtual" head through and chat with him.
How is this any different than dad being in the living room or something? It's not like he's a total stranger.
It's not a set-up for everybody, but with today's folks having to be mobile, simply to keep themselves above water, unable to sell their homes, unable to move to where the jobs are... it's a great way to be in touch whenever the urge strikes, and not just as specific times of the day.
I've noticed that too, at parties I throw. No matter how much food or drink I put in other rooms, music, etc., I'm usually having to squeeze through people to work in the kitchen as everyone jam packs in there.
I even took to putting small dorm fridges with beer, and the kegerator in another room, and STILL - I don't understand it at all.
I mean, it's nice you want to socialize with the cook and everything, but give me a little space to work. Stir fry is tough when I have a person at each elbow.
What he didn't say is that most FATAL accidents happen over the speed limit. No numbers to prove that, but I'd bet on it. Okay, will here's a reference that says 1/3rd.
http://www.smartmotorist.com/traffic-and-safety-guideline/excessive-speed-is-a-factor-in-one-third-of-all-fatal-crashes.html