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Why did they not simply pursue a GUI for the ][ series instead of branching off with a completely different product?

Also, you're talking Apples to oranges -- the Apple /// didn't have a GUI, so giving the Apple ][ a GUI wouldn't have helped it replace the Apple ///. In fact, the reason the Apple /// failed is because most people felt the Apple ][ was a superior, more flexible computer, so they kept buying those.

Apple did eventually paste a GUI onto the Apple ][ series, as well -- have you forgotten the Apple //gs? The problem there was, not only was the IBM PC already going like gangbusters by the time it was released, not only was the //gs competing with both the Amiga and the Atari ST for the color games market, but Apple had already released its first Mac by the time the //gs came out. There was a well-documented battle going on between the Apple ][ camp and the Mac camp at Apple, and the Mac camp won. Nobody was going to promote the Apple //gs as Apple's gold-standard software development platform if it meant cannibalizing Mac sales.

You cannot be anti-invasion and anti-Saddam

Description of False Dilemma

# Either 1+1=4 or 1+1=12.
# It is not the case that 1+1=4.
# Therefore 1+1=12.

You are either with George W. Bush, or you are with the terrorists.
(Many of whom were directly supported by multiple members of GWB's administration durring the 1980s)

Sorry, I'm not with GWB or the terrorists. They are all assholes.

Bush comes out on top because he was in favor of having one less dictator than you and willing to act on it.

Funny how his father was unwilling to act on it back in 1991. The infrastructure of Iraq was already destroyed. Saddam's troops were not loyal to him. You would almost think that politicians supported dictators who rule with an Iron Fist.

Not to mention, Saddam was a bad guy long before he invaded Kuwait. The radical-left and others were against Saddam long before he offically became the enemy of the United States. Just listen to the song VX Gas Attack by Skinny Puppy, released in 1988.

John W. Nystrom of Philadelphia devised about fifty years ago the tonal system&quot of numeration in which 16 is the base instead of 10 as in the decimal system. The numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., were called An, De, Ti, Go, etc., and new characters were devised for 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. This system embraced also a new division of the year into 16 months, these having the names Anuary, Debrian, Timander, Gostus, Suvenary, Bylian, Ratamber, Mesidius, Nictorary, Kolumbian, Husander, Victorius, Lamboary, Polian, Fylander, Tonborious, the first two letters of each month being the names of the sixteen numerals.

The year began at the winter solstice, that being the Anth of Anuary. Every month had tonra days except for Debrian, Gostus, and Lamboary, which had only tonby, but Debrian had an extra day in leap years.

The powers of ton were: ton, san, mill, bong. These could be used as prefixes to indicate multiplication or as suffixes to indicate division. For instance, the day was divided into ton (sixteen) tims, a tim into ton timtons, and a timton into ton timsans.

You're all sorta right.. here is one of my favorite aviation pages It'll tell you more than you ever wanted to know about airplane physics (from a pilot's point of view). Chapter 1 covers these altitude/speed/power concepts...

http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/00index.html

Although far from comprehensive, they're summaries of topics that have come up in a physics teachers' email list.

See here

Not in depth theory, but an excellent explanation . . .

himi

oil is from compressed carbon compounds (dinosaurs, etc.)

Thomas Gold

U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1570, The Future of Energy Gases, 1993

Modern information re-directs attention to the theories of a non-biological, primeval origin. Among this information is the prominence of hydrocarbons-gases, liquids and solids-on many other bodies of the solar system, as well as in interstellar space. Advances in high-pressure thermodynamics have shown that the pressure-temperature regime of the Earth would allow hydrocarbon molecules to be formed and to survive between the surface and a depth of 100 to 300 km. Outgassing from such depth would bring up other gases present in trace amounts in the rocks, thus accounting for the well known association of hydrocarbons with helium. Recent discoveries of the widespread presence of bacterial life at depth point to this as the origin of the biological content of petroleum.

You may be interested in this site.

For one detailed explanation of the principles of flight available on the net: See How It Flies and also a great way to learn to fly planes!

When up into MIR I go, I
Sometimes find some violet fungi.
Then I linger, darkly brooding
On the poison they're exuding.

With apologies to Roguelet's ABC.

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Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
Niels Bohr