Those guilty of fraudulence and malice, the hypocrites, the barraters, the simonists,the magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves.
If there is a product that is better than the others out there, or a specialized product that no one else makes the DoD can buy it outright, do a streamlined bid process or allocate money to commanders or even issue money to a soldier to make up for thier personal purchase.
Theres a file I found in July talking about what worked and didn't work in Iraq in the equipment the soldiers used, and they covered all sorts of things, from sniper scopes, to Talkabouts to Camelback water bags.
There was an issue about the Camelbacks the DoD had bought not being as good as some soldiers mail-ordered and that they needed to find out what was up with the current DoD models from thier order.
"In February 2002 the Army named its new interim armored vehicle after two soldiers who received the Medal of Honor. The Stryker is named in honor of Spc. 4 Robert F. Stryker, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War, and Pfc. Stuart S. Stryker, who received the award for his actions during World War II. Both men were killed in action. They were not related."
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohiib1.htm
"Rank and organization. Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company E, 513th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division. Place and date: Near Wesel, Germany, 24 March 1945. Entered service at: Portland, Oreg. Birth. Portland, Oreg. G.O. No.: 117, 11 December 1945. Citation. He was a platoon runner, when the unit assembled near Wesel, Germany after a descent east of the Rhine. Attacking along a railroad, Company E reached a point about 250 yards from a large building used as an enemy headquarters and manned by a powerful force of Germans with rifles, machineguns, and 4 field pieces. One platoon made a frontal assault but was pinned down by intense fire from the house after advancing only 50 yards. So badly stricken that it could not return the raking fire, the platoon was at the mercy of German machine gunners when Pfc. Stryker voluntarily left a place of comparative safety, and, armed with a carbine, ran to the head of the unit. In full view of the enemy and under constant fire, he exhorted the men to get to their feet and follow him. Inspired by his fearlessness, they rushed after him in a desperate charge through an increased hail of bullets. Twenty-five yards from the objective the heroic soldier was killed by the enemy fusillades. His gallant and wholly voluntary action in the face of overwhelming firepower, however, so encouraged his comrades and diverted the enemy's attention that other elements of the company were able to surround the house, capturing more than 200 hostile soldiers and much equipment, besides freeing 3 members of an American bomber crew held prisoner there. The intrepidity and unhesitating self-sacrifice of Pfc. Stryker were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service."
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohviet2.htm
"Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Loc Ninh, Republic of Vietnam, 7 November 1967. Entered service at: Throop, N.Y. Born: 9 November 1944, Auburn, N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c. Stryker, U.S. Army, distinguished himself while serving with Company C. Sp4c. Stryker was serving as a grenadier in a multicompany reconnaissance in force near Loc Ninh. As his unit moved through the dense underbrush, it was suddenly met with a hail of rocket, automatic weapons and small arms fire from enemy forces concealed in fortified bunkers and in the surrounding trees. Reacting quickly, Sp4c. Stryker fired into the enemy positions with his grenade launcher. During the devastating exchange of fire, Sp4c. Stryker detected enemy elements attempting to encircle his company and isolate it from the main body of the friendly force. Undaunted by the enemy machinegun and small-arms fire, Sp4c. Stryker repeatedly fired grenades into the trees, killing enemy snipers and enabling his comrades to sever the attempted encirclement. As the battle continued, Sp4c. Stryker observed several wounded members of his squad in the killing zone of an enemy claymore mine. With complete disregard for his safety, he threw himself upon the mine as it was detonated. He was mortally wounded as his body absorbed the blast and shielded his comrades from the explosion. His unselfish actions were responsible for saving the lives of at least 6 of his fellow soldiers. Sp4c. Stryker's great personal bravery was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army."
"Oil trapped in underground pockets of the North Slope comes in many flavors, some of it light-colored and easily pourable and some of it blackish and tar-like. Oil's density and viscosity depends on exactly what types of animal and plant life were cooked to form the oil. Prehistoric plants, for example, turn into light oils and gas. Oil's character is further determined by the pressure and heat it forms under."
"The critters and algae that are now crude oil lived hundreds of millions of years ago when a shallow ocean covered what is now Alaska's North Slope. The gradual rise of the Brooks Range, caused by the Pacific plate shoving over the top of the North American plate, pushed out the ocean and eventually buried enormous amounts of ocean plants and animals."
I'm not sure of the length of the Sludge and Critter ages, but I'd wager it's more than 80 million years.
http://www.4chemistry.co.uk/oil-forming.htm
"Oil was gradually made over millions of years as enormous numbers of dead animals and plants (plankton) got deposited and buried on the sea bed. Not all were eaten or fully decomposed (due to lack of oxygen), and their organic (once living) remains slowly turned into oil due to pressure and heat of the rocks."
Please note that my wildassed guess and numbers is about as accurate as your wildassed guess and numbers.
"The research paper also mentions that everyday, we are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all the plants growing during a whole year just for our cars."
If there's 600,000,000 of plants and plant material out there to burn in fossil fuels...and we burn a years worth of it a day. And you divide 600 million by 365...that gives us 1643835 years worth of fossil fuels.
A much more optomistic projection that even the Skeptical Environmentalist!
I'm going to go drive my 5.7 liter Chevy truck around then just for the hell of it.
"As of January 1, 2001, domestic cars in the U.S. averaged 10.2 years. This is the highest average age for domestic cars in operation in more than 55 years," reported James A. Lang, President of Lang Marketing Resources, Inc., (www.langmarketing.com), a Wyckoff, New Jersey research and consulting firm specializing in the Vehicle Products Industry. Lang Marketing maintains a database of vehicles on U.S. roads."
"During the 1990s, the average age of domestic cars in the U.S. skyrocketed. At the beginning of the decade, domestic cars averaged 8.1 years, soaring to 8.5 years during 1992 and averaging 9.2 years at mid-decade. The domestic car population in the U.S. averaged 9.6 years at the beginning of 1998, increasing to 10.0 years by 2000."
Seemed to me this wasn't a story about flight sims for learning to fly so much as it was about how Microsoft's Flight Simulator can help you learn to fly!
No talk about other sims by name, smelled like Adware to me
They are sore that somehow Apple suckered them into building IE for Mac, giving them 150 million dollars in 1997, making Office Mac not suck and getting Bill Gates to appear on video at MacWorld Boston '97 to shore up investor confidence while Steve took back Apple.
Through all of that, MS really didn't gain anything and MS's Anti-company survived.
I bet Steve Ballmer and a bunch of other suits are still wondering what the hell happened.
Yep, another poster talked about that, but I'll had to it.
USB was out on VAIOs and Packaged Hells and Compaqs but the periph makers weren't pushing it, and it was just that flat hole that nothing worked with.
Apple shipped the iMac and it was all USB, suddenly more and more HP and Epsons shipped with USB cables, then the PC makers started to push it a little harder and then 98SE came out with better USB support.
Same goes for Firewire/IEEE 1394 - it wasn't until Apple really started on the Firewire bandwagon with iMovie that it took off, remeber back when Linus said Fireware was just for movie cameras and Macs?
American Indian tribes in the United States were being driven off thier land long before the Europeans showed up, and while waves of disease to coincide with the settlement of the Americas, even the worst things the Americans did the the American Indians, like the Trail of Tears pale when compared to the sorts of things the Aztecs did to other tribes.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wars19c.htm 4,0 00 out of 14,000 Cherokee die on route.
Even if there werw 4-6 million American Indians in the current United States and all of them died, which didn't happen, the US wouldn't even break into the top 10 death tolls of the 19th Century or the 20th.
"I lived in China 22 years and just left there one year ago, so i believe I know better than most people here."
I've not lived in China, but my "biased view" isn't from what the Bush Administrations say or what the media shows me.
It comes from actions.
1. Great Leap Forward - 20 to 30 million dead from forced collectivization of farms and hardships caused by the Communist Government
2. Invasion and occupation of Tibet
3. Oppression of Muslim and other minority groups.
4. Tiananmen Square, 1989
5. Demand that Taiwan be "reunited" with Communist China even if it is by force of arms.
"But the real problem is, would US ever give China "the wheel", if they don't do it themselves?"
Oh yea, we were more than happy to "give them pieces of the whole wheel and brake assembly" in the late 90s to help thier commerical launch vehicles get those Iridium sats up into orbit without launch vehicle failures.
I assume that the Eisenhower and Truman administrations weren't involved in collectvization movements that amplified the effects of a drought and forced people to farming that knew nothing of farming which lead to the deaths of 18 to 40 million people so that we'd have a Great Leap Foreward.
The policies of the G8 do not lead to starvation in Africa. Africans die because of a lack of infrastructure.
Life isn't far, the economic policies of the G8, the EU, NAFTA aren't far all the time to all the people.
However the G8 and EU and NAFTA are not executing people who refuse to move from thier farms to a factory city. The G8 and EU and NAFTA are not machine-gunning protesters in thier respective capitals, nor are the G8 and EU and NAFTA causing 8 to 10 million to die a year by forcing collectivization.
If I sounded high and mighty, I'm sorry, but I know that the successes and failures of the American Space Programs didn't come from slave labor, prisoning scientists who fail and aren't built on the bones of the millions who didn't die during the Dust Bowl of the 30s or the hard winters of the late 50s or 60s.
The Soviet and Communist Chinese industrial and scientific successes are built on the bones of millions of dead.
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/shefacts.htm "The Shenzhou spacecraft appears similar to the Russian Soyuz, but is different in dimensions (slightly larger and heavier) and does not seem to use any detailed parts copied from the Soyuz or built under license. Therefore although it follows the classic layout of the Soyuz, adopts many of the same technical solutions, and the re-entry vehicle has the same shape, it cannot be considered strictly a 'copy'. And if one considers Shenzhou to be a copy of the Soyuz, then was the Soyuz design stolen - from the American General Electric Apollo spacecraft proposal?"
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/wastolen.htm
More linked stuff:)
"Whoever flies aboard Shenzhou-5, they will not be the first person born in China to fly in space. William Anders, born in Hong Kong, orbited the moon in December 1968. Shannon Lucid, born in Shanghai, holds the world record for a woman for time in space (over 223 days in space on 5 spaceflights). And physicist Taylor Wang, also born in Shanghai, spent seven days in space aboard shuttle mission STS-51-B in 1985."
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/couzhou5.htm
I'm all for the Chinese entering space, but like the Soviets before and after the Second World War and the reconstruction of Germany in the 30s these technological and engineering feats have been accomplished through social and political changes which lead to the deaths of millions and the destruction of cultural identities for millions more.
Good luck to the crew and the staff who accomplished this, and I hope that we will see less and less oppression in China of thier minorities.
This moving data that might be incorrect or that might incrue legal or law-enforcment action is the just sort of deal that will get the RIAA and MPAA to point and scream - "Lookit...P2P *is* just for breaking the law! MIT is using it to pass around data that might be false so they don't get sued! We told you so!"
Actually, no most of that sort of information isn't "Top-Secret".
The location and type of the nuclear weapons assigned to the USS Nimitz Battle-Group might be "Top-Secret" but where Admiral Hagbutt's Comcast bill is sent isn't "Top-Secret".
I really think the most important part of this story and the changes in the GIA is the fact that they want to move it to a system where they can't be sued if they post incorrect information.
That is a bad, bad idea.
So, I'm going to post personal information about public figures, but incase I fuck-up and so if someone out for Admiral Hagbutt RPGs 1098 Elm Harbor Drive where the Mendozas live...I can't be sued.
Run an OS 10.0.4 box along side of a 10.1.0 box or a 10.0.4 along side a 10.2.0 box and then do a file copy or a browse to a network server and fart around with the machine at the sametime.
Or fire up IE and browse/. articles with more than 50 comments.
Slashdot Mirror
Yea, there are alot of more "Xtreme" names in the rolls of the Medal of Honor.
Like Murphy or Agerholm or Gordon or Shughart.
Level 8- the Malebolge
Those guilty of fraudulence and malice, the hypocrites, the barraters, the simonists,the magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves.
I think crappy spy-ware fits in there somewhere.
Actually, it's not all bid on now.
If there is a product that is better than the others out there, or a specialized product that no one else makes the DoD can buy it outright, do a streamlined bid process or allocate money to commanders or even issue money to a soldier to make up for thier personal purchase.
Theres a file I found in July talking about what worked and didn't work in Iraq in the equipment the soldiers used, and they covered all sorts of things, from sniper scopes, to Talkabouts to Camelback water bags.
There was an issue about the Camelbacks the DoD had bought not being as good as some soldiers mail-ordered and that they needed to find out what was up with the current DoD models from thier order.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/gro und/iav.htm
"In February 2002 the Army named its new interim armored vehicle after two soldiers who received the Medal of Honor. The Stryker is named in honor of Spc. 4 Robert F. Stryker, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War, and Pfc. Stuart S. Stryker, who received the award for his actions during World War II. Both men were killed in action. They were not related."
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohiib1.htm
"Rank and organization. Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company E, 513th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division. Place and date: Near Wesel, Germany, 24 March 1945. Entered service at: Portland, Oreg. Birth. Portland, Oreg. G.O. No.: 117, 11 December 1945. Citation. He was a platoon runner, when the unit assembled near Wesel, Germany after a descent east of the Rhine. Attacking along a railroad, Company E reached a point about 250 yards from a large building used as an enemy headquarters and manned by a powerful force of Germans with rifles, machineguns, and 4 field pieces. One platoon made a frontal assault but was pinned down by intense fire from the house after advancing only 50 yards. So badly stricken that it could not return the raking fire, the platoon was at the mercy of German machine gunners when Pfc. Stryker voluntarily left a place of comparative safety, and, armed with a carbine, ran to the head of the unit. In full view of the enemy and under constant fire, he exhorted the men to get to their feet and follow him. Inspired by his fearlessness, they rushed after him in a desperate charge through an increased hail of bullets. Twenty-five yards from the objective the heroic soldier was killed by the enemy fusillades. His gallant and wholly voluntary action in the face of overwhelming firepower, however, so encouraged his comrades and diverted the enemy's attention that other elements of the company were able to surround the house, capturing more than 200 hostile soldiers and much equipment, besides freeing 3 members of an American bomber crew held prisoner there. The intrepidity and unhesitating self-sacrifice of Pfc. Stryker were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service."
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohviet2.htm
"Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Loc Ninh, Republic of Vietnam, 7 November 1967. Entered service at: Throop, N.Y. Born: 9 November 1944, Auburn, N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c. Stryker, U.S. Army, distinguished himself while serving with Company C. Sp4c. Stryker was serving as a grenadier in a multicompany reconnaissance in force near Loc Ninh. As his unit moved through the dense underbrush, it was suddenly met with a hail of rocket, automatic weapons and small arms fire from enemy forces concealed in fortified bunkers and in the surrounding trees. Reacting quickly, Sp4c. Stryker fired into the enemy positions with his grenade launcher. During the devastating exchange of fire, Sp4c. Stryker detected enemy elements attempting to encircle his company and isolate it from the main body of the friendly force. Undaunted by the enemy machinegun and small-arms fire, Sp4c. Stryker repeatedly fired grenades into the trees, killing enemy snipers and enabling his comrades to sever the attempted encirclement. As the battle continued, Sp4c. Stryker observed several wounded members of his squad in the killing zone of an enemy claymore mine. With complete disregard for his safety, he threw himself upon the mine as it was detonated. He was mortally wounded as his body absorbed the blast and shielded his comrades from the explosion. His unselfish actions were responsible for saving the lives of at least 6 of his fellow soldiers. Sp4c. Stryker's great personal bravery was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army."
Back in the early 90s the Marines got bunches of Newtons for inventory tracking and stuff.
They counted plants.
What about the untold megatons of krill and protozoa and mongooses that have been decaying over the megayears?
I never said my figure was the end all be all figure.
It was a wild out my ass number, kind of like the wild out thier ass number the people doing the "report" or "study" used.
Actually, we don't really know what mainly created oil. Others have linked to stuff on that here today, but here is another one.
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr
Not only peat turned to oil
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF13/133
"Oil trapped in underground pockets of the North Slope comes in many flavors, some of it light-colored and easily pourable and some of it blackish and tar-like. Oil's density and viscosity depends on exactly what types of animal and plant life were cooked to form the oil. Prehistoric plants, for example, turn into light oils and gas. Oil's character is further determined by the pressure and heat it forms under."
"The critters and algae that are now crude oil lived hundreds of millions of years ago when a shallow ocean covered what is now Alaska's North Slope. The gradual rise of the Brooks Range, caused by the Pacific plate shoving over the top of the North American plate, pushed out the ocean and eventually buried enormous amounts of ocean plants and animals."
I'm not sure of the length of the Sludge and Critter ages, but I'd wager it's more than 80 million years.
http://www.4chemistry.co.uk/oil-forming.htm
"Oil was gradually made over millions of years as enormous numbers of dead animals and plants (plankton) got deposited and buried on the sea bed. Not all were eaten or fully decomposed (due to lack of oxygen), and their organic (once living) remains slowly turned into oil due to pressure and heat of the rocks."
Please note that my wildassed guess and numbers is about as accurate as your wildassed guess and numbers.
"Why don't you replace the 350 with a 502 instead? That'll rankle the slashbots, big time."
Because that'll take money away that I could use to buy gas with for my 9 block drive to the Store, and my drive across the street to the post office.
"The research paper also mentions that everyday, we are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all the plants growing during a whole year just for our cars."
If there's 600,000,000 of plants and plant material out there to burn in fossil fuels...and we burn a years worth of it a day. And you divide 600 million by 365...that gives us 1643835 years worth of fossil fuels.
A much more optomistic projection that even the Skeptical Environmentalist!
I'm going to go drive my 5.7 liter Chevy truck around then just for the hell of it.
"As of January 1, 2001, domestic cars in the U.S. averaged 10.2 years. This is the highest average age for domestic cars in operation in more than 55 years," reported James A. Lang, President of Lang Marketing Resources, Inc., (www.langmarketing.com), a Wyckoff, New Jersey research and consulting firm specializing in the Vehicle Products Industry. Lang Marketing maintains a database of vehicles on U.S. roads."
"During the 1990s, the average age of domestic cars in the U.S. skyrocketed. At the beginning of the decade, domestic cars averaged 8.1 years, soaring to 8.5 years during 1992 and averaging 9.2 years at mid-decade. The domestic car population in the U.S. averaged 9.6 years at the beginning of 1998, increasing to 10.0 years by 2000."
http://www.langmarketing.com/docs/news04-23.htm
Yep.
Seemed to me this wasn't a story about flight sims for learning to fly so much as it was about how Microsoft's Flight Simulator can help you learn to fly!
No talk about other sims by name, smelled like Adware to me
They are sore that somehow Apple suckered them into building IE for Mac, giving them 150 million dollars in 1997, making Office Mac not suck and getting Bill Gates to appear on video at MacWorld Boston '97 to shore up investor confidence while Steve took back Apple.
Through all of that, MS really didn't gain anything and MS's Anti-company survived.
I bet Steve Ballmer and a bunch of other suits are still wondering what the hell happened.
Yep, another poster talked about that, but I'll had to it.
USB was out on VAIOs and Packaged Hells and Compaqs but the periph makers weren't pushing it, and it was just that flat hole that nothing worked with.
Apple shipped the iMac and it was all USB, suddenly more and more HP and Epsons shipped with USB cables, then the PC makers started to push it a little harder and then 98SE came out with better USB support.
Same goes for Firewire/IEEE 1394 - it wasn't until Apple really started on the Firewire bandwagon with iMovie that it took off, remeber back when Linus said Fireware was just for movie cameras and Macs?
American Indian tribes in the United States were being driven off thier land long before the Europeans showed up, and while waves of disease to coincide with the settlement of the Americas, even the worst things the Americans did the the American Indians, like the Trail of Tears pale when compared to the sorts of things the Aztecs did to other tribes.
0 00 out of 14,000 Cherokee die on route.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wars19c.htm
4,
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/021018.html
4,000
Even if there werw 4-6 million American Indians in the current United States and all of them died, which didn't happen, the US wouldn't even break into the top 10 death tolls of the 19th Century or the 20th.
"I lived in China 22 years and just left there one year ago, so i believe I know better than most people here."
I've not lived in China, but my "biased view" isn't from what the Bush Administrations say or what the media shows me.
It comes from actions.
1. Great Leap Forward - 20 to 30 million dead from forced collectivization of farms and hardships caused by the Communist Government
2. Invasion and occupation of Tibet
3. Oppression of Muslim and other minority groups.
4. Tiananmen Square, 1989
5. Demand that Taiwan be "reunited" with Communist China even if it is by force of arms.
"But the real problem is, would US ever give China "the wheel", if they don't do it themselves?"
Oh yea, we were more than happy to "give them pieces of the whole wheel and brake assembly" in the late 90s to help thier commerical launch vehicles get those Iridium sats up into orbit without launch vehicle failures.
So did the Soviets.
I assume that the Eisenhower and Truman administrations weren't involved in collectvization movements that amplified the effects of a drought and forced people to farming that knew nothing of farming which lead to the deaths of 18 to 40 million people so that we'd have a Great Leap Foreward.
The policies of the G8 do not lead to starvation in Africa. Africans die because of a lack of infrastructure.
Life isn't far, the economic policies of the G8, the EU, NAFTA aren't far all the time to all the people.
However the G8 and EU and NAFTA are not executing people who refuse to move from thier farms to a factory city. The G8 and EU and NAFTA are not machine-gunning protesters in thier respective capitals, nor are the G8 and EU and NAFTA causing 8 to 10 million to die a year by forcing collectivization.
If I sounded high and mighty, I'm sorry, but I know that the successes and failures of the American Space Programs didn't come from slave labor, prisoning scientists who fail and aren't built on the bones of the millions who didn't die during the Dust Bowl of the 30s or the hard winters of the late 50s or 60s.
The Soviet and Communist Chinese industrial and scientific successes are built on the bones of millions of dead.
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/shefacts.htm
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"The Shenzhou spacecraft appears similar to the Russian Soyuz, but is different in dimensions (slightly larger and heavier) and does not seem to use any detailed parts copied from the Soyuz or built under license. Therefore although it follows the classic layout of the Soyuz, adopts many of the same technical solutions, and the re-entry vehicle has the same shape, it cannot be considered strictly a 'copy'. And if one considers Shenzhou to be a copy of the Soyuz, then was the Soyuz design stolen - from the American General Electric Apollo spacecraft proposal?"
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/wastolen.ht
More linked stuff
"Whoever flies aboard Shenzhou-5, they will not be the first person born in China to fly in space. William Anders, born in Hong Kong, orbited the moon in December 1968. Shannon Lucid, born in Shanghai, holds the world record for a woman for time in space (over 223 days in space on 5 spaceflights). And physicist Taylor Wang, also born in Shanghai, spent seven days in space aboard shuttle mission STS-51-B in 1985."
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/couzhou5.ht
I'm all for the Chinese entering space, but like the Soviets before and after the Second World War and the reconstruction of Germany in the 30s these technological and engineering feats have been accomplished through social and political changes which lead to the deaths of millions and the destruction of cultural identities for millions more.
Good luck to the crew and the staff who accomplished this, and I hope that we will see less and less oppression in China of thier minorities.
Like those Russian CPUs that were "soon to be in prototype" back in 98-99 that were going to kick Intel and AMDs ass in the 2000-2002 time-frame.
This moving data that might be incorrect or that might incrue legal or law-enforcment action is the just sort of deal that will get the RIAA and MPAA to point and scream - "Lookit...P2P *is* just for breaking the law! MIT is using it to pass around data that might be false so they don't get sued! We told you so!"
Actually, no most of that sort of information isn't "Top-Secret".
The location and type of the nuclear weapons assigned to the USS Nimitz Battle-Group might be "Top-Secret" but where Admiral Hagbutt's Comcast bill is sent isn't "Top-Secret".
I really think the most important part of this story and the changes in the GIA is the fact that they want to move it to a system where they can't be sued if they post incorrect information.
That is a bad, bad idea.
So, I'm going to post personal information about public figures, but incase I fuck-up and so if someone out for Admiral Hagbutt RPGs 1098 Elm Harbor Drive where the Mendozas live...I can't be sued.
That's outstanding.
"remember, this is a site where any article that embarasses or makes Microsoft looks bad is automatically posted."
Unless it has to do with a cool game. Then MS, Winders and Xbox are alright
A GUI isn't part of the OS?
Apple considers the Quartz and Quartz Extreme engine and the GUI, Aqua, parts of the OS.
So even though you don't consider the GUI to be part of the OS, the folks who made the OS do.
As for not hearing this arguement before a new version is coming, then you've not listened very hard.
From the second the OS X Public Beta and 10.0 came out people complained about the speed of the GUI and some of the bundled applications.
Even before 10.1 was announced.
There were other gaps in the US manned space program before.
After Mercury from May 1963 to to Mar 1965.
After Gemini from Nov. 1966 to Oct. 1968.
After Apollo-Skylab from July 1975 to 1981.
I don't think anyone said the US was not capable of manned spaceflight because of a gap.
You don't believe it?
/. articles with more than 50 comments.
Run an OS 10.0.4 box along side of a 10.1.0 box or a 10.0.4 along side a 10.2.0 box and then do a file copy or a browse to a network server and fart around with the machine at the sametime.
Or fire up IE and browse
The OS does get *that* much faster.