Forgive me for providing actual evidence, and do note that the UK did hold into that territory - it still belongs to its residents.
I think you're also being unfair to the Argie pilots. They were not incompetent idiots and their machismo merely meant that they pushed home attacks that other people may have feared to make.
Your points around training and familiarity with the aircraft are very relevant though. The UK has a history of winning wars and battles when outnumbered, out equipped, and facing superior tactics purely because our armed forces are just better trained. The Falklands was an example of numerically inferior elite troops rolling over conscripts.
The harriers had a fuel and focus advantage over the Argentine aircraft, which were operating at the edge of their viable combat range and mostly targeting naval forces, but that doesn't disregard the very one sided outcome to all of the dogfights.
Btw, mocking 1960s airframes in a 1982 war is a bit silly when defending a 1970s airframe in 2015, especially when claiming that as a reason for being noncompetitive to another 1960s airframe.
I'm happy to accept that the F15 is an excellent aircraft. I've been in one. I do wonder how it would fare against an equally well trained air force though.
Write yourself a letter granting authorisation to publish and monetise video footage of the game you wrote, sign it, scan it, and send it to Youtube as proof that you have authorisation.
I must admit, I like the concept and I admired the cartoon that inspired the book.
I'm just not terribly enthused by the book. It feels like it'll be very hard work to get through - there are more than a thousand words in the English language because the others are so bloody useful.
Ok, taking you seriously for a moment here: You've been double-bluffed.
Randall knows that the methodology is flawed. He's posting it as a self-referential deconstruction of the methodology that led to false beliefs, intentionally using junk science to discredit non-science secure in the knowledge that his science savvy readers will understand this and admire the inherent contradiction in what he's posting.
None of which detracts from the sheer common bloody sense insight that he's included for the benefit of those that missed the nuance above.
Somehow you fell through the cracks. Perhaps you should read a different web comic.
His humour varies from 'meh' to 'proper laugh', but his wry and often dry insight varies from 'meh' to 'that hurts', and it's the combination of humour and insight that makes me keep reading his cartoons.
You can average mildly amusing if your peaks are high enough and if humour isn't your only schtick.
I think Standards Committees get bogged down by politics rather than technical challenges, but otherwise I agree with you.
A good API is a work of art, an engineering masterpiece and a key success factor for adoption. Java grew popular not because it was faster than the alternatives, or because it had better IDEs, or because it was great for building UIs, it grew popular because it was bloody well designed and easy to use.
The solid reliable fast implementation came years later.
I'm not saying you could buy them at retail for less than $1, but I wouldn't expect to pay much more. For 96 million I'd be expecting a serious discount.
Lessig and his activities have been mentioned on Slashdot every year for around 15 years now. Of all the presidential candidates he's probably the most closely linked to traditional Slashdot subjects, and has been influential in a number of Slashdot community interest areas.
I thought it was very watchable. Not a movie great, but the CGI was very well implemented, the story was derivative but well constructed and it was a competent professional film.
Boxing is boring. Robot on Robot action I'd tune in for - shit, I watched Robot Wars, which was largely the same thing.
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I love your baive optimism. Hope it works out for you.
It is close to impossible to "hack a computer" via the internet.
You have an interesting learning experience heading your way.
Starvation is more fun than ketogenic diets.
Sure, three days without food hurts. It's still better than cutting out all the food I like eating.
Allowing large-scale copyright infringement.
What's sane about current copyright laws?
Forgive me for providing actual evidence, and do note that the UK did hold into that territory - it still belongs to its residents.
I think you're also being unfair to the Argie pilots. They were not incompetent idiots and their machismo merely meant that they pushed home attacks that other people may have feared to make.
Your points around training and familiarity with the aircraft are very relevant though. The UK has a history of winning wars and battles when outnumbered, out equipped, and facing superior tactics purely because our armed forces are just better trained. The Falklands was an example of numerically inferior elite troops rolling over conscripts.
The harriers had a fuel and focus advantage over the Argentine aircraft, which were operating at the edge of their viable combat range and mostly targeting naval forces, but that doesn't disregard the very one sided outcome to all of the dogfights.
Btw, mocking 1960s airframes in a 1982 war is a bit silly when defending a 1970s airframe in 2015, especially when claiming that as a reason for being noncompetitive to another 1960s airframe.
I'm happy to accept that the F15 is an excellent aircraft. I've been in one. I do wonder how it would fare against an equally well trained air force though.
I guess the question is what the role of the A-10 is in a world of drones.
It's definitely one of the most successful airframes in military history though.
Erm. 2003, on both counts.
Sure. It's faster, it's possibly more maneuvreable when using forward thrust.
It can't use vector thrust. British harriers used that to great effect to dogfight against conventional aircraft.
The F15 is an excellent aircraft, rather pretty from a distance and quite awesome up close, but don't go knocking a decent VTOL airframe.
Write yourself a letter granting authorisation to publish and monetise video footage of the game you wrote, sign it, scan it, and send it to Youtube as proof that you have authorisation.
Of course it's nonsense. Shit, I used the term "self-referential deconstruction", you can't get much more nonsense than that.
Here's the thing. Doesn't stop it being right.
I must admit, I like the concept and I admired the cartoon that inspired the book.
I'm just not terribly enthused by the book. It feels like it'll be very hard work to get through - there are more than a thousand words in the English language because the others are so bloody useful.
So use them!
You say this as though cunnilingus is a bad thing.
In the case of herpes simplex I'd agree, but otherwise..
Ok, taking you seriously for a moment here: You've been double-bluffed.
Randall knows that the methodology is flawed. He's posting it as a self-referential deconstruction of the methodology that led to false beliefs, intentionally using junk science to discredit non-science secure in the knowledge that his science savvy readers will understand this and admire the inherent contradiction in what he's posting.
None of which detracts from the sheer common bloody sense insight that he's included for the benefit of those that missed the nuance above.
Somehow you fell through the cracks. Perhaps you should read a different web comic.
His humour varies from 'meh' to 'proper laugh', but his wry and often dry insight varies from 'meh' to 'that hurts', and it's the combination of humour and insight that makes me keep reading his cartoons.
You can average mildly amusing if your peaks are high enough and if humour isn't your only schtick.
There was me thinking we have five thousand linux servers running Java in our UK data centre alone.
Bugger, wonder what we're using instead then?
I think Standards Committees get bogged down by politics rather than technical challenges, but otherwise I agree with you.
A good API is a work of art, an engineering masterpiece and a key success factor for adoption. Java grew popular not because it was faster than the alternatives, or because it had better IDEs, or because it was great for building UIs, it grew popular because it was bloody well designed and easy to use.
The solid reliable fast implementation came years later.
The irony being that BEA bought JRockit because their JVM implementation was significantly better than Sun's on Intel, and Oracle bought BEA.
This is before Oracle bought Sun, so Oracle were themselves doing to Sun what they're claiming Google have done to them.
Fundamentally it all boils down to Larry Ellison and his company being cunts.
I tell my girls to scream. I tell them that I will come in the room and blow the rapist's brains out if they scream.
erm. Make sure you understand _why_ she's screaming. Just that.. some girls are.. noisy.
Oh please? You're claiming that he's lying?
Guantanamo Bay is a fucking gulag by any other name.
Sweden can not be trusted, and sadly the law just doesn't come into it:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/...
Good luck being rich in place with no poor people. Your luxury lifestyle is very labour intensive.
Of course, that's ignoring the other obvious outcome: if I'm dying of thirst and you're watering your lawn, bloodshed will ensue.
They're not exactly cheap though are they.
I'm not saying you could buy them at retail for less than $1, but I wouldn't expect to pay much more. For 96 million I'd be expecting a serious discount.
Lessig and his activities have been mentioned on Slashdot every year for around 15 years now. Of all the presidential candidates he's probably the most closely linked to traditional Slashdot subjects, and has been influential in a number of Slashdot community interest areas.
Then you're a racist idiot.
I thought it was very watchable. Not a movie great, but the CGI was very well implemented, the story was derivative but well constructed and it was a competent professional film.
Boxing is boring. Robot on Robot action I'd tune in for - shit, I watched Robot Wars, which was largely the same thing.