Wow, 9 days, yea, thats how Macs work now, they stay up pretty much until you need to do a software update that requires a reboot. Uptime on my iMac here is 31 days, 17:55, because I've not patched it yet.
My xserve has done over 365 serving files/html.
Vista/XP it doesn't matter, OS X since 10.1 has just been more stable in my experience.
I didn't say USB/Wifi were Apple inventions, I said they were the first to deploy them across the product lines. They did the same thing with DVD-ROM drives, but missed the boat on CD-R/RWs.
Go back to the launch of the iMac and show me what makers deployed USB that vocally, then to iBook launch and show who had Wifi.
"The technology had been standardised; it had a name; now Wi-Fi needed a market champion, and it found one in Apple, a computer-maker renowned for innovation. The company told Lucent that, if it could make an adapter for under $100, Apple would incorporate a Wi-Fi slot into all its laptops. Lucent delivered, and in July 1999 Apple introduced Wi-Fi as an option on its new iBook computers, under the brand name AirPort. âoeAnd that completely changed the map for wireless networking,â'
OK, we have a 1099 dollar MacBook here and a 799 HP laptop here. The Apple is more expensive, one less USB port, same size screen, and IEEE 1394 port on my Mac.
The HP that lacks "selling sex appeal, social status, and "having a good time"' hangs every couple hours, wifi drops hourly and reboots 3-5 times a week. My sexy, social status having a good time Mac has 9 days uptime right now.
I've been using computers for 30 years now, our first computer was a IBM PC XT in April '83, first laptop I used was a Toshiba T1000, so I've been around the sexy and unsexy for a while, I use a Mac because I find them to be more stable and reliable, not because they have cool commercials and neat stores.
Apple is very much a technology company, they invented Firewire/IEEE 1394, pioneered USB and Wifi enabled computers across entire lines.
Or, "what do you mean you wave at people you meet on the road?"
Umm, you don't have to wave more than once every 10-20 minutes.
I was back for a wedding in '01, we were late to make it to Pierre for our flight back, my Grandmother who still lived in South Dakota let me drive, I was going about 15 over on Highway 83, met a Highway Patrol car, he waved, I waved. Grandmother says "oh you better slow down now..." Hell Grandma, thats the only cop we will see all day, if anything I should speed up...
The only thing I don't like about driving back there is the lack of FM radio coverage.
Where I grew up, Eagle Butte, about 1/3rd of the streets in town were gravel, and all the roads off the Highway were gravel and then off the gravel roads, the section line roads were dirt.
Yugoslavia wasn't a Warsaw Pact state and I remember the name, and the names of all the states it became, thanks.
Czechoslovakia is now two states, which was voted on and happened all nice and calmly.
The poster I replied to said - "After the Kremlin exited Eastern Europe..." therefore we are ignoring the USSR.
The three states you mention, Hungary, Poland and Albania - well the remark that Poland "never used to be where it is now", isn't accurate, but thats fine. Its been bigger, its been smaller but its generally been centered on what is now Poland.
Hungary as a melting pot, wow its diverse! - Hungarian 92.3%, Roma 1.9%, other or unknown 5.8% (2001 census)
Roman Catholic 51.9%, Calvinist 15.9%, Lutheran 3%, Greek Catholic 2.6%, other Christian 1%, other or unspecified 11.1%, unaffiliated 14.5% (2001 census)
Iran, its got a nationalistic streak, its going to remain whole just fine. Israel will bomb it unless they agree to give up offensive weapons, but it will survive as a state.
"American" is different because the United States is specifically a diverse nation, thirty-one ancestry groups have more than a million members with a ton of religions and a system where one group doesn't generally subjugate another, well not since the end of the Indian Wars at least.
In the 1800s, yea we'd have the Crow fighting with the Federal forces against the Sioux and Cheyenne. But the Federal Government never used the German-Americans to keep the Irish-Americans down.
While the US and West backed Iraq during parts of the Iran-Iraq War, the US was trying very hard to come to arrangements with the Islamic government following the fall of the Shah, all the work that was in play came apart when the student groups attacked the US embassy and held it. Desert One's failure further threw things down the drain.
Hezbollah's attack on the Americans and French in Lebanon made it even worse, but things were recovering enough that the US, Saudis and Israelis worked out the Iran-Contra deals with Iran.
"The folks running the government are Iranian. The president is Iranian. The secret police are Iranian. The thugs who will torture and kill democracy advocates are Iranian."
There is no "Iranian" Iran is a hegemony like the United States. From Wikipedia - The main ethnic groups are Persians (51%), Azeris (24%), Gilaki and Mazandarani (8%), Kurds (7%), Arabs (3%), Baluchi (2%), Lurs (2%), Turkmens (2%), Laks, Qashqai, Armenians, Persian Jews, Georgians, Assyrians, Circassians, Tats, Mandaeans, Gypsies, Brahuis, Hazara, Kazakhs and others (1%).
So its hard to compare what is or isn't happening in Iran to what happened in the Warsaw Pact states, they are not cultural melting pots. Its also not proper to call Iran a "failed state", Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and it looks like Mexico are going down the road to "failed state" while Somalia is one and Afghanistan was one until NATO showed up.
Mine was Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia, and while I didn't find out from a slide, there was a year of Doctors not diagnosing and my discovering what it was and pitching that to my neurosurgeon and getting a treatment that worked.
If its an American airplane, Cessna through Boeing, or if it has American built engines or is an American carrier the FAA gets a say in it and the NTSB gets to investigate.
That said, in other countries, like with the Airbus/Air France 447, since the engines are American the NTSB is taking up an assistance role, not a lead role in the investigation.
A Sienna? No way. More like a big pick-up. Silverado 3500 HD, 4 door and long bed, maybe dualies for the horde's extra weight. Plus they could shoot their bows from all the windows and from in the bed.
No, the Soviets having nukes was not why the US didn't invade China or nuke the DPRK and/or China in 1950.
The US didn't do those things because the civilian leadership of the US didn't want to get into a massive war with China and some of the military leadership did, so the failure to invade/nuke is due to reigning in MacArthur and not because the Soviets had a handful of fission bombs
There is that problem, getting in the Service Academies is going to take being well rounded with a number of interests outside of "hacking" but not a cookie cutter corporate type who "works for the man".
They will get intellectuals and outside the box thinkers but not one discipline people. I knew a guy back in the late 90s that was a UNIX sysadmin at a USGS station in Alaska but also a qualified para rescue diver/swimmer. Yea, multiple discipline people.
Seeing has how hard the standards are to get in and maintain a GPA at a service school, I'd put money on West Port or the Naval Academy verses MIT/Cal Tech
Microsoft did that, they shoveled developers from the Mac group to Vista so they could get Vista out on time, which delayed Mac Office. That didn't work so well.
Apple did the same thing to get the iPhone out on time, which delayed the Mac OS release.
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Wow, 9 days, yea, thats how Macs work now, they stay up pretty much until you need to do a software update that requires a reboot. Uptime on my iMac here is 31 days, 17:55, because I've not patched it yet.
My xserve has done over 365 serving files/html.
Vista/XP it doesn't matter, OS X since 10.1 has just been more stable in my experience.
I didn't say USB/Wifi were Apple inventions, I said they were the first to deploy them across the product lines. They did the same thing with DVD-ROM drives, but missed the boat on CD-R/RWs.
Go back to the launch of the iMac and show me what makers deployed USB that vocally, then to iBook launch and show who had Wifi.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-spec7.html
IBM's history of the USB standard credits the iMac.
http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/rwolff/EE580/history_of_wifi.htm
"The technology had been standardised; it had a name; now Wi-Fi needed a market champion, and it found one in Apple, a computer-maker renowned for innovation. The company told Lucent that, if it could make an adapter for under $100, Apple would incorporate a Wi-Fi slot into all its laptops. Lucent delivered, and in July 1999 Apple introduced Wi-Fi as an option on its new iBook computers, under the brand name AirPort. âoeAnd that completely changed the map for wireless networking,â'
Sure...
OK, we have a 1099 dollar MacBook here and a 799 HP laptop here. The Apple is more expensive, one less USB port, same size screen, and IEEE 1394 port on my Mac.
The HP that lacks "selling sex appeal, social status, and "having a good time"' hangs every couple hours, wifi drops hourly and reboots 3-5 times a week. My sexy, social status having a good time Mac has 9 days uptime right now.
I've been using computers for 30 years now, our first computer was a IBM PC XT in April '83, first laptop I used was a Toshiba T1000, so I've been around the sexy and unsexy for a while, I use a Mac because I find them to be more stable and reliable, not because they have cool commercials and neat stores.
Apple is very much a technology company, they invented Firewire/IEEE 1394, pioneered USB and Wifi enabled computers across entire lines.
Or, "what do you mean you wave at people you meet on the road?"
Umm, you don't have to wave more than once every 10-20 minutes.
I was back for a wedding in '01, we were late to make it to Pierre for our flight back, my Grandmother who still lived in South Dakota let me drive, I was going about 15 over on Highway 83, met a Highway Patrol car, he waved, I waved. Grandmother says "oh you better slow down now..." Hell Grandma, thats the only cop we will see all day, if anything I should speed up...
The only thing I don't like about driving back there is the lack of FM radio coverage.
When I describe it to people I say - I grew up 90 miles from a hospital, 90 miles from a pizza joint.
Eagle Butte is "bigger" for the reservation towns. Lantry, Timber Lake are much more desolate.
Where I grew up, Eagle Butte, about 1/3rd of the streets in town were gravel, and all the roads off the Highway were gravel and then off the gravel roads, the section line roads were dirt.
Not as rural as say out at Mud Butte or Opal SD.
I thought he did, but wasn't sure and too lazy to google, so thats why I just focused on what I knew for sure ;)
It relates to /. because CmdrTaco is from Michigan, he went to Hope College in Holland.
You mean like in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nevada, etc where the majority of roads in rural areas and some of the state highways have been gravel?
I'm old, I remember when big stretches of Highway 63 in South Dakota were still gravel, as was Highway 73 south of Faith
Yugoslavia wasn't a Warsaw Pact state and I remember the name, and the names of all the states it became, thanks.
Czechoslovakia is now two states, which was voted on and happened all nice and calmly.
The poster I replied to said - "After the Kremlin exited Eastern Europe..." therefore we are ignoring the USSR.
The three states you mention, Hungary, Poland and Albania - well the remark that Poland "never used to be where it is now", isn't accurate, but thats fine. Its been bigger, its been smaller but its generally been centered on what is now Poland.
In 1020, its pretty much where it is now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poland1020.png
Poland as a melting pot - Polish 96.7%, German 0.4%, Belarusian 0.1%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 2.7%
Roman Catholic 89.8% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, other 0.3%, unspecified 8.3% (2002)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/PL.html
Hungary as a melting pot, wow its diverse! - Hungarian 92.3%, Roma 1.9%, other or unknown 5.8% (2001 census)
Roman Catholic 51.9%, Calvinist 15.9%, Lutheran 3%, Greek Catholic 2.6%, other Christian 1%, other or unspecified 11.1%, unaffiliated 14.5% (2001 census)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/HU.html
And Albania, also diverse as heck.
Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian) (1989 est.)
Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/AL.html
Iran, its got a nationalistic streak, its going to remain whole just fine. Israel will bomb it unless they agree to give up offensive weapons, but it will survive as a state.
"American" is different because the United States is specifically a diverse nation, thirty-one ancestry groups have more than a million members with a ton of religions and a system where one group doesn't generally subjugate another, well not since the end of the Indian Wars at least.
In the 1800s, yea we'd have the Crow fighting with the Federal forces against the Sioux and Cheyenne. But the Federal Government never used the German-Americans to keep the Irish-Americans down.
While the US and West backed Iraq during parts of the Iran-Iraq War, the US was trying very hard to come to arrangements with the Islamic government following the fall of the Shah, all the work that was in play came apart when the student groups attacked the US embassy and held it. Desert One's failure further threw things down the drain.
Hezbollah's attack on the Americans and French in Lebanon made it even worse, but things were recovering enough that the US, Saudis and Israelis worked out the Iran-Contra deals with Iran.
"The folks running the government are Iranian. The president is Iranian. The secret police are Iranian. The thugs who will torture and kill democracy advocates are Iranian."
There is no "Iranian" Iran is a hegemony like the United States. From Wikipedia - The main ethnic groups are Persians (51%), Azeris (24%), Gilaki and Mazandarani (8%), Kurds (7%), Arabs (3%), Baluchi (2%), Lurs (2%), Turkmens (2%), Laks, Qashqai, Armenians, Persian Jews, Georgians, Assyrians, Circassians, Tats, Mandaeans, Gypsies, Brahuis, Hazara, Kazakhs and others (1%).
Languages - Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2% - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/IR.html
So its hard to compare what is or isn't happening in Iran to what happened in the Warsaw Pact states, they are not cultural melting pots. Its also not proper to call Iran a "failed state", Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and it looks like Mexico are going down the road to "failed state" while Somalia is one and Afghanistan was one until NATO showed up.
Mine was Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia, and while I didn't find out from a slide, there was a year of Doctors not diagnosing and my discovering what it was and pitching that to my neurosurgeon and getting a treatment that worked.
Continental dropped pieces at CDG and that lead to the Concorde crash back in 2000, so it doesn't just happen in Mexico.
If its an American airplane, Cessna through Boeing, or if it has American built engines or is an American carrier the FAA gets a say in it and the NTSB gets to investigate.
That said, in other countries, like with the Airbus/Air France 447, since the engines are American the NTSB is taking up an assistance role, not a lead role in the investigation.
A Sienna? No way. More like a big pick-up. Silverado 3500 HD, 4 door and long bed, maybe dualies for the horde's extra weight. Plus they could shoot their bows from all the windows and from in the bed.
A total of about 190 Pony Express stations were placed at intervals of about 10 miles (16 km) along the approximately 2,000 miles (3,200 km) route.
They ran the route in 10 days, so around 200 miles a day, but it was 20 horses per day.
Yes they do have speed limits, but they are not legally binding for traffic (speeding tickets), but are for liability in case of accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Speed_limits
No, the Soviets having nukes was not why the US didn't invade China or nuke the DPRK and/or China in 1950.
The US didn't do those things because the civilian leadership of the US didn't want to get into a massive war with China and some of the military leadership did, so the failure to invade/nuke is due to reigning in MacArthur and not because the Soviets had a handful of fission bombs
How was the Second Iraq War/Operation Iraqi Freedom, a bad thing?
Do the Iraqi people now have a freely elected government? Yep. Is Saddam and his sons in power? Nope.
Explain how it was a "almost wholly bad war"?
There is that problem, getting in the Service Academies is going to take being well rounded with a number of interests outside of "hacking" but not a cookie cutter corporate type who "works for the man".
They will get intellectuals and outside the box thinkers but not one discipline people. I knew a guy back in the late 90s that was a UNIX sysadmin at a USGS station in Alaska but also a qualified para rescue diver/swimmer. Yea, multiple discipline people.
Seeing has how hard the standards are to get in and maintain a GPA at a service school, I'd put money on West Port or the Naval Academy verses MIT/Cal Tech
Microsoft did that, they shoveled developers from the Mac group to Vista so they could get Vista out on time, which delayed Mac Office. That didn't work so well.
Apple did the same thing to get the iPhone out on time, which delayed the Mac OS release.
I'm from a Indian Reservation, lived there for 21 years, still have family and friends back there.
The welfare system from my experience is a terrible system that is more addictive and destructive than any drug.
The system the Federal Government through the BIA created is the worst thing that has happened to the American Indians.
Six months for crops?
Not really, 2-4 depending on the species