What is an original Adobe app? Illustrator and Photoshop and PostScript, otherwise the big "core" tools came from outside, Aldus for Pagemaker and GoLive was GoLive CyberStudio. FrameMaker came from Frame Technologies.
Only file search I use on OS X is by content. I index folders I know I'll need to get into, so when I know I had X in some file in "School Stuff" and so I search by content.
Wasn't Sherlock on 8.5 the first "desktop search" tool? For the Apple/Windows fight, or did it get web intergration with 9? It's been so long ago I forgot.
Never been to jail have you? I did a weekend for something stupid, in an "easy" jail, Dewey County South Dakota, one other fella in there and me. It's not that fun when its just two of you watching HBO. The novelty wears off really, really, really fast.
"target? with a nuke you don't need to park the warhead through the window; somewhere in the vicinity is good enough."
Actually, you do need decent targeting with a nuke, dispite the public's perception. With a hardened target, like a silo, command center, you need to get close. If you are using a cruise missile, you need to guide it somehow, before GPS the mode was photographic guidence.
Driving in a truck with a ton of fuel oil and some ANFO, you might check Google maps to see where barricades are, so they fuzz them out.
No it hasn't. You can stand infront of the Pentagon, White House, Supreme Court, Federal Courts, Capital and snap away. I've been on Pensacola NAS, Ellsworth AFB (which has B-1Bs and nukes), Fort Lewis, Pearl Harbor (nukes), Warren (nukes), McCord, Mountain Home, as a civilian and taken all sorts of pictures.
I think these are blurred because of an agreement with the sat providers about giving detail that could be used for targeting. The Government knows full well that the Brits, French, Russians, Japanese and Chinese can target, but they don't want Iran or AQ buying good photos from a commercial site.
Shuttle, Skylab, Apollo were going to evolve into a series of systems that worked togeather for operations in Low Earth Orbit (Shuttle), Geosync and Lunar (Saturn) with Apollo going to the Moon and supplying exploration and basing they through the 70s to early 80s.
Then in about 1970-71 after the 1970 election cycle, the big cuts were driven in the Senate. Skylab was curtailed, Apollo 18 was killed after the hardware was bought and 19-20 were canned. The Landers for 18 and on were a new "block" then the 13-17 landers which were more advanced than 11-12. For example, when it was decided that 17 was the last landing, the LEM for 18 was swapped out which allowed multiple depressurizations and repress cycles. So it was killed at the point where we were good at exploring, now that the launch and landing was figured out.
The budget cuts killed the engineering and piloting expertise, forced the US into a much more limited Shuttle and killed further missions to Skylab.
We had the building blocks in place for a permanent space base, heavy lift and a lunar base, the Senate killed that.
Well, we did do it in stages. Apollo was to go to Apollo 20, then the Manned Station was going to be the permanent station, coupled with an Air Force manned station and then more missions to the Moon with Shuttle doing the stuff to the station or stations.
Then the Democrats with Mondale leading the charge hit the Nasa budget hard and the program was gutted.
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"A 40,000mm bridge is a 40m bridge. That's less than 120 feet. People have built multiple KM bridges long before now, the new Millau bridge in france is 2.5 KM in length."
Is it made out of carbon nanotubles or anything with the strength it would take for a Space Elevator?
"Congress passed the first DST law in 1918 and repealed it the next year. Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed year-round DST for three years during the Second World War. In 1966, Congress approved a uniform DST standard for the whole country. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon had the nation go on DST for 15 consecutive months in order to conserve energy. The last president to modify DST was Ronald Reagan, who advanced DST's start date to the first Sunday in April."
"As Michael Downing points out in his new book, Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, urban businessmen were a major force behind the adoption of DST in the United States. They thought daylight would encourage workers to go shopping on their way home. They also tried to make a case for agriculture, though they didn't bother to consult any actual farmers. One pamphlet argued that DST would benefit the men and women who worked the land because "most farm products are better when gathered with dew on. They are firmer, crisper, than if the sun has dried the dew off." At least that was the claim of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, chaired by department-store magnate A. Lincoln Filene."
"We're also informed that DST helps conserve energy, apparently because people arriving home when the sun is still up don't switch on their lights. Didn't it occur to anybody that maybe they compensate by switching them on earlier in the morning? Moreover, people who arrive home from work an hour earlier during the hot summer months are probably more prone to turning up their air conditioners. According to Downing, the petroleum industry once was "an ardent and generous supporter" of DST because it believed people would hop in their cars and drive for pleasure -- and guzzle more gas.
But the very worst thing about DST is that it's bad for your health. According to Stanley Coren, a sleep expert at the University of British Columbia, the number of traffic accidents and fatal industrial mishaps increase on the Monday after we spring forward. The reason, presumably, is because losing even a single hour of sleep over the weekend makes a lot of people a bit drowsier on what we might usefully call Black Monday. Unfortunately, there's no compensating effect of a super-safe Monday as we go off DST and "fall back" in the autumn."
So the invasion of Canada in the War of 1812 and the burning of York didn't alienate the Canadians any? And before anyone goes...but we burned Washington!
No, Canada didn't.
I know that it is popular to think that the burning of the White House and the Capital Building in Washington D.C. was either carried out by Canadian soldiers or by units from Canada, but that isn't true.
Units from the British territories in what now is Canada did capture Detroit and other Forts and settlements on the Western Frontier of the United States in the War of 1812, but the units that took part in the Invasion of Maryland were not Canadian.
The Invasion of Maryland or the Chesapeake occurred after the surrender of Napoleon in 1814. Maj. Gen. Robert Ross was given the duty of leading the expedition to the Chesapeake in May 1814, a duty for which he was personally chosen by fellow Irishman the Duke of Wellington because of Ross' leadership abilities in the Iberian peninsula campaigns.
Ross arrived in the Chesapeake in mid-August with the 4th, 21st, 44th, and 85th Regiments of Foot. Once these troops were added to the Royal Marines provided by commander-in-chief Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, Ross could call on around 4,000 troops for operations against the Americans.
The Units Ross arrived in the Chesapeake in mid-August with the 4th, 21st, 44th, and 85th Regiments of Foot.
None of these units came from Canada nor were raised from Canadian regions.
The 4th was a "Kings Own" Regiment from England
The 21st was and is Scottish
The 44th was from East Essex
Looking around, it appears that some Swiss units took part in the War of 1812 against the United States at Plattsburg NY in 1814 and the Siege of Fort Erie
Two Royal Marine units also took part in the attack on Washington Corps of Colonial Marines, Royal Marines and 3rd Royal Marine Battalion
They burned Washington in the late evening of August 23, 1814, then the next morning a Hurricane or Tropic Storm hit the region and dispersed the British forces and put out the fire, there are reports that a Tornado came down in the center of the burnt out Capital Building.
Wow, I drove from Oregon to South Dakot and back last summer, paid cash and I can tell you there aren't traffic cams out past, oh, Hood River Oregon all the way to say Sioux Falls South Dakota. I wasn't stopped and I drove the hell out of the trip, at least 10-15 over the limit the whole way. So where was my trip logged or where did the ID come into play?
Well, since it seems they are gettinng thier imagery from Landsat, maybe there are commerical restrictions for using USGS data for foriegn countries and that's why it's just the US and Canada now.
Well. It depends. Some want a photocopy of the receipt and an original UPC, and some want the original receipt and a photocopy and original UPC and some want block letters and some want you to sign in block letters and some want your cat's collar and some want things they didn't put in the rebate form and some want an orignal rebate form and a copy of your dog's left paw and they don't tell you that because they don't want to give you money and if by chance you did everything right you'll get a rebate.
In 6-18 months.
Wait, it got here to us a day late. No rebate for you.
I'm not going into the Clinton deal, but on Iraq and WMDs. Congress isn't going to go after Bush on Iraq because Congress voted to support beating the hell out of Iraq with a B-52 for a wide variety of reasons, WMD wasn't the only one.
It's the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq from 2002 or PUBLIC LAW 107-243--OCT. 16, 2002. Some highlights
"Whereas in 1998 Congress concluded that Iraq's continuing weapons of mass destruction programs threatened vital United States interests and international peace and security, declared Iraq to be in "material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations" and urged the President "to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations" (Public Law 105-235);
Whereas Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations;
Whereas Iraq persists in violating resolutions of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait;
Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States, including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces engaged in enforcing the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council;
Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;
Whereas Iraq continues to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations, including organizations that threaten the lives and safety of American citizens;"
And the big point
"SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.
(a) AUTHORIZATION. The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to
(1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and
(2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq."
Bush didn't start the War in Iraq on deceit, Congress laid out a list of reasons for the United States to go to war.
How many homebuilt dual 64-bit motherboards are out there? A couple, all running more than $250 and the CPUs, to get to a G5 2.5 GHz speed, $7-800 per CPU, so for CPUs and board it's close to $2000. The price margins between x86 and Apple in the towers are pretty darned close.
An embedded view of the Mac Mini, Part 1: Apple's new PowerPC BSP http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/l ibrar y/pa-macmini1/?ca=dgr-mw01macminip1
"A lot of early coverage of the Mac Mini compares it to desktop PCs, or even micro-ATX cases and other small PCs. What it looks like, though, is a high-end embedded development board. Comparing it to other embedded systems, you'll find that it's not much bigger, and it's smaller than some. It has a broader array of connectors, a faster processor, support for a very large amount of memory, and comes with self-hosted development tools. In short, if you look at it as an embedded development platform, it's a competitive one."
Apple - College dropout from Reed College and not sure where Woz went. Microsoft - College dropout from rich family
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They are not super expensive compared to new factory built x86. A PowerBook is comparable in price to Dells or Thinkpads of similar configuration. Likewise a G5 Tower or MacMini or iMac is comparable to PCs.
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What is an original Adobe app? Illustrator and Photoshop and PostScript, otherwise the big "core" tools came from outside, Aldus for Pagemaker and GoLive was GoLive CyberStudio. FrameMaker came from Frame Technologies.
I use it for rough translations for when I'm on my MUSH and need some dirty Spanish or French.
Only file search I use on OS X is by content. I index folders I know I'll need to get into, so when I know I had X in some file in "School Stuff" and so I search by content.
Wasn't Sherlock on 8.5 the first "desktop search" tool? For the Apple/Windows fight, or did it get web intergration with 9? It's been so long ago I forgot.
There would be alot of people getting geeked in Gnomergan if this was a "feature" of WoW. And if not there, then in Uldaman or a host of other places.
Never been to jail have you? I did a weekend for something stupid, in an "easy" jail, Dewey County South Dakota, one other fella in there and me. It's not that fun when its just two of you watching HBO. The novelty wears off really, really, really fast.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_County%2C_So
Anyone know of anywhere to get some nice LED desklaps or something little to illuminate my computer desk?
It was in Guyana, maybe they couldn't get Kool-aid.
"target? with a nuke you don't need to park the warhead through the window; somewhere in the vicinity is good enough."
Actually, you do need decent targeting with a nuke, dispite the public's perception. With a hardened target, like a silo, command center, you need to get close. If you are using a cruise missile, you need to guide it somehow, before GPS the mode was photographic guidence.
Driving in a truck with a ton of fuel oil and some ANFO, you might check Google maps to see where barricades are, so they fuzz them out.
No it hasn't. You can stand infront of the Pentagon, White House, Supreme Court, Federal Courts, Capital and snap away. I've been on Pensacola NAS, Ellsworth AFB (which has B-1Bs and nukes), Fort Lewis, Pearl Harbor (nukes), Warren (nukes), McCord, Mountain Home, as a civilian and taken all sorts of pictures.
I think these are blurred because of an agreement with the sat providers about giving detail that could be used for targeting. The Government knows full well that the Brits, French, Russians, Japanese and Chinese can target, but they don't want Iran or AQ buying good photos from a commercial site.
No, it's not dense and Mondale wasn't brillant.
Shuttle, Skylab, Apollo were going to evolve into a series of systems that worked togeather for operations in Low Earth Orbit (Shuttle), Geosync and Lunar (Saturn) with Apollo going to the Moon and supplying exploration and basing they through the 70s to early 80s.
Then in about 1970-71 after the 1970 election cycle, the big cuts were driven in the Senate. Skylab was curtailed, Apollo 18 was killed after the hardware was bought and 19-20 were canned. The Landers for 18 and on were a new "block" then the 13-17 landers which were more advanced than 11-12. For example, when it was decided that 17 was the last landing, the LEM for 18 was swapped out which allowed multiple depressurizations and repress cycles. So it was killed at the point where we were good at exploring, now that the launch and landing was figured out.
The budget cuts killed the engineering and piloting expertise, forced the US into a much more limited Shuttle and killed further missions to Skylab.
We had the building blocks in place for a permanent space base, heavy lift and a lunar base, the Senate killed that.
Well, we did do it in stages. Apollo was to go to Apollo 20, then the Manned Station was going to be the permanent station, coupled with an Air Force manned station and then more missions to the Moon with Shuttle doing the stuff to the station or stations.
Then the Democrats with Mondale leading the charge hit the Nasa budget hard and the program was gutted.
"A 40,000mm bridge is a 40m bridge. That's less than 120 feet. People have built multiple KM bridges long before now, the new Millau bridge in france is 2.5 KM in length."
Is it made out of carbon nanotubles or anything with the strength it would take for a Space Elevator?
No, so it's not in the same class structurally.
What happened to Greyhawk?
Thats the first thing I thought of, Oxyclean on /....huh?
If you want to be on DST year round, move to the edge of a timezone and then you can feel like you are on DST all the time.
I personally think DST is idiotic and pointless.
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Here is a...semi-serious piece on it
http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200504
"Congress passed the first DST law in 1918 and repealed it the next year. Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed year-round DST for three years during the Second World War. In 1966, Congress approved a uniform DST standard for the whole country. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon had the nation go on DST for 15 consecutive months in order to conserve energy. The last president to modify DST was Ronald Reagan, who advanced DST's start date to the first Sunday in April."
"As Michael Downing points out in his new book, Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, urban businessmen were a major force behind the adoption of DST in the United States. They thought daylight would encourage workers to go shopping on their way home. They also tried to make a case for agriculture, though they didn't bother to consult any actual farmers. One pamphlet argued that DST would benefit the men and women who worked the land because "most farm products are better when gathered with dew on. They are firmer, crisper, than if the sun has dried the dew off." At least that was the claim of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, chaired by department-store magnate A. Lincoln Filene."
"We're also informed that DST helps conserve energy, apparently because people arriving home when the sun is still up don't switch on their lights. Didn't it occur to anybody that maybe they compensate by switching them on earlier in the morning? Moreover, people who arrive home from work an hour earlier during the hot summer months are probably more prone to turning up their air conditioners. According to Downing, the petroleum industry once was "an ardent and generous supporter" of DST because it believed people would hop in their cars and drive for pleasure -- and guzzle more gas.
But the very worst thing about DST is that it's bad for your health. According to Stanley Coren, a sleep expert at the University of British Columbia, the number of traffic accidents and fatal industrial mishaps increase on the Monday after we spring forward. The reason, presumably, is because losing even a single hour of sleep over the weekend makes a lot of people a bit drowsier on what we might usefully call Black Monday. Unfortunately, there's no compensating effect of a super-safe Monday as we go off DST and "fall back" in the autumn."
http://www.mcmaster.ca/inabis98/occupational/core
More than ever in US history?
So the invasion of Canada in the War of 1812 and the burning of York didn't alienate the Canadians any? And before anyone goes...but we burned Washington!
No, Canada didn't.
I know that it is popular to think that the burning of the White House and the Capital Building in Washington D.C. was either carried out by Canadian soldiers or by units from Canada, but that isn't true.
Units from the British territories in what now is Canada did capture Detroit and other Forts and settlements on the Western Frontier of the United States in the War of 1812, but the units that took part in the Invasion of Maryland were not Canadian.
The Invasion of Maryland or the Chesapeake occurred after the surrender of Napoleon in 1814. Maj. Gen. Robert Ross was given the duty of leading the expedition to the Chesapeake in May 1814, a duty for which he was personally chosen by fellow Irishman the Duke of Wellington because of Ross' leadership abilities in the Iberian peninsula campaigns.
Ross arrived in the Chesapeake in mid-August with the 4th, 21st, 44th, and 85th Regiments of Foot. Once these troops were added to the Royal Marines provided by commander-in-chief Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, Ross could call on around 4,000 troops for operations against the Americans.
The Units
Ross arrived in the Chesapeake in mid-August with the 4th, 21st, 44th, and 85th Regiments of Foot.
None of these units came from Canada nor were raised from Canadian regions.
The 4th was a "Kings Own" Regiment from England
The 21st was and is Scottish
The 44th was from East Essex
Looking around, it appears that some Swiss units took part in the War of 1812 against the United States at Plattsburg NY in 1814 and the Siege of Fort Erie
Two Royal Marine units also took part in the attack on Washington
Corps of Colonial Marines, Royal Marines and 3rd Royal Marine Battalion
They burned Washington in the late evening of August 23, 1814, then the next morning a Hurricane or Tropic Storm hit the region and dispersed the British forces and put out the fire, there are reports that a Tornado came down in the center of the burnt out Capital Building.
Really?
Wow, I drove from Oregon to South Dakot and back last summer, paid cash and I can tell you there aren't traffic cams out past, oh, Hood River Oregon all the way to say Sioux Falls South Dakota. I wasn't stopped and I drove the hell out of the trip, at least 10-15 over the limit the whole way. So where was my trip logged or where did the ID come into play?
Well, since it seems they are gettinng thier imagery from Landsat, maybe there are commerical restrictions for using USGS data for foriegn countries and that's why it's just the US and Canada now.
Well. It depends. Some want a photocopy of the receipt and an original UPC, and some want the original receipt and a photocopy and original UPC and some want block letters and some want you to sign in block letters and some want your cat's collar and some want things they didn't put in the rebate form and some want an orignal rebate form and a copy of your dog's left paw and they don't tell you that because they don't want to give you money and if by chance you did everything right you'll get a rebate.
In 6-18 months.
Wait, it got here to us a day late. No rebate for you.
I'm not going into the Clinton deal, but on Iraq and WMDs. Congress isn't going to go after Bush on Iraq because Congress voted to support beating the hell out of Iraq with a B-52 for a wide variety of reasons, WMD wasn't the only one.
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It's the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq from 2002 or PUBLIC LAW 107-243--OCT. 16, 2002. Some highlights
"Whereas in 1998 Congress concluded that Iraq's continuing weapons of mass destruction programs threatened vital United States interests and international peace and security, declared Iraq to be in "material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations" and urged the President "to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations" (Public Law 105-235);
Whereas Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations;
Whereas Iraq persists in violating resolutions of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait;
Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States, including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces engaged in enforcing the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council;
Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;
Whereas Iraq continues to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations, including organizations that threaten the lives and safety of American citizens;"
And the big point
"SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.
(a) AUTHORIZATION. The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to
(1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and
(2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq."
Bush didn't start the War in Iraq on deceit, Congress laid out a list of reasons for the United States to go to war.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/2
http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf
Yea, they are in the same ballpark.
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How many homebuilt dual 64-bit motherboards are out there? A couple, all running more than $250 and the CPUs, to get to a G5 2.5 GHz speed, $7-800 per CPU, so for CPUs and board it's close to $2000. The price margins between x86 and Apple in the towers are pretty darned close.
An embedded view of the Mac Mini, Part 1: Apple's new PowerPC BSP
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/
"A lot of early coverage of the Mac Mini compares it to desktop PCs, or even micro-ATX cases and other small PCs. What it looks like, though, is a high-end embedded development board. Comparing it to other embedded systems, you'll find that it's not much bigger, and it's smaller than some. It has a broader array of connectors, a faster processor, support for a very large amount of memory, and comes with self-hosted development tools. In short, if you look at it as an embedded development platform, it's a competitive one."
Apple - College dropout from Reed College and not sure where Woz went.
Microsoft - College dropout from rich family
They are not super expensive compared to new factory built x86. A PowerBook is comparable in price to Dells or Thinkpads of similar configuration. Likewise a G5 Tower or MacMini or iMac is comparable to PCs.