There were stories about the "discovery" of how spider silk self-assembled a while back.
Of course, I've not read the article linked above.
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2000/06/19/56.asp
I can't find it now, but they talked last year about how they'd figured out how the spiders assembled the strands and that they'd applied that to a industrial method to pull the unassmbled silk through a small hole and it would self-assemble.
The modern concept of the patent was established in England where, in 1449, King Henry VI awarded a patent to John of Utynam for stained glass manufacturing.
"Beginning in 1552, a series of "letters patents" was issued by the Crown. The monarchy began a trend of issuing patents for its own benefit and for the benefit of officers and friends of the Court.4 Patents were issued on entire industries, not just inventions. For example, the Stationers enjoyed complete control over the publishing industry in England. The balance of power soon shifted towards those whom the monarchy decided to favor. Reform began with reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Francis Bacon commented that the Queen would grant patents for any invention that she deemed useful to the country. In an effort to curb further abuses of power, Parliament, in 1624, passed the English Statute of Monopolies, which outlawed all royally sanctioned monopolies. Realizing the importance of protecting inventors and the economic benefits associated with encouraging innovation, an exception was allowed for patents of "new manufactures." These patents were awarded to the inventor as long as their new devices did not hurt trade or result in price increases. Additionally, a statutory limit of fourteen years was imposed on English patents."
Florida has alot of defense industry, which doesn't move much. Tourism, which isn't going anywhere. Military bases, which while they might close, Florida's are pretty safe (Eglin - SOG/Armaments Testing, Tyndall - F/A-22 Training, Jacksonville/Mayport - Carriers, Sub support, surface warfare, Tampa - CentCom, Pensacola - Naval Aviation Training, Blue Angels, Key West - Coasties, Drug Interdiction). Agriculture and Sugar production.
So I don't think Florida is in danger of industry moving because of a LAN Tax.
Is also the Didn't Pay Attention to the Movie guy.
I've clicked on one review. K-19 the Widowmaker. I just watched it the other night.
"Unfortunately, the movie also seriously alters physics. We're told that the out-of-control reactor is on the verge of exploding and when it does, it will set off the nuclear warheads on board the sub and destroy a nearby American Navy vessel."
That's not what the movie plot stated. The sub was near a NATO listening post and there was a NATO ship there, if the reactor melts down the resulting cloud of radioactive steam and waste from the reactor will destroy the base and possibly the ship in turn causing NATO to think it's something nuclear.
"The answer: dive a whole 300 meters under the ocean. Is this supposed to quench the fireball? 300 meters is nothing compared with the blast area of a multi-megaton nuclear explosion."
The K-19 might have to dive to 300 meters and flood it's self not to contain the nuclear blasts but to flood the ship, cooling the reactor and leaving it deep enough that NATO can't recover it.
As a mostly uninterested Linux dabbler who has gone entirely to OS X, from what I've read about Linus saying in reguards to new technologies like Firewire and including that in Linux, yea, at times he does act like he has blinders on.
My point was from something he said years ago, 1998 to be exact. He wasn't that interested in Firewire becuase it was something that only went in Camcorders.
Ike refused to help France in '54 because of the way they were carryin' on in Africa and the Middle East, so he didn't send in the B-52s or '47s to help bomb.
Then in the early 60s we have the Soviets regrouping, Missiles in Cuba, we will crush you speeches, Berlin Wall, shootdowns of recon planes in East Germany,Castro in Cuba, then the Gulf of Tonkin.
"Remember Yankee Station? It was a spot in the ocean where the destroyer USS Maddox -- gathering intelligence for the South Vietnamese -- was attacked by four North Vietnamese patrol boats on August 2, 1964. Maddox -- aided by carrier aircraft -- severely damaged the attackers, leaving at least one dead in the water. The next night the Maddox (and the USS Turner Joy sent to reinforce it) reported another attack. LBJ then demanded, and got on August 7, open-ended authority to use military forces in Vietnam. (The Democratic convention met three weeks later to nominate LBJ as its presidential candidate).
In the decades since we've learned that much of what Congress was told about the Tonkin Gulf incident was right, and some was an error but not a lie. After many years of analysis of intelligence and logs, the Navy determined that there hadn't been a second attack. But by 1968, the McGoverniks had already convinced themselves that the Tonkin Gulf resolution was a fraud, based on an entirely on a needlessly provoked and fictionally reported incident."
Uncle Ho in the 50s was pulled between Capitalism and Communism, but in the end the threats of Communism outweighed America's ability to stay out of Vietnam.
Wars to free slaves are just. Wars that save lives are just.
If the Second World War hadn't happened as it did, if the Allies had sat by as Germany annexed Poland and Eastern Europe and eventually overran the Soviet Union that would have emboldened the Imperial Japanese and instead of tens of millions dying, hundreds of millions would be enslaved.
Actually, the helicopters in the film and TV show MASH were used extensivly in the Korean War by the United Nations.
The bubble cockpit piston driven helo from MASH is the H-13 Sioux (model 47) from Bell Aircraft. It was produced from 1946 to 1973. They were used for medivac and recon starting in 1951 and they evacuated around 18,000 UN casualties during the conflict.
The Sioux was replaced by the OH-6A Cayuse early in the Vietnam conflict.
In Korea the Navy used the Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw and the H-21 Shawnee
With the right libraries of detail and generic sections and knowledge of local codes anyone with half a brain in thier head can pump out good plans.
I worked in the construction industry and CAD industry for a while and let me tell you that 70% of the drawings that come out of an Architect's office have something major wrong with them.
Here is a wonderful example. Bon Marche Eugene OR, there was a sliding security grate for the main entrance. The engineering plans had it un-rocked. The architects come down and demand that it's to be sheetrocked and finished.
The only problem, is the slot wasn't big enough for a man and a hammer. Wasn't big enough for an air compressor. So we had to fuck around in that dark hole for 30 hours to get it finished.
British English also had spelling changes driven by dictionary makers.
However American English wasn't defined by an Academy in the French sense and it continues to evolve, due to the influences of Hollywood and American popular culture that is the English that will survive.
"Due to the wide reach of US media vis-a-vis the more limited impact of contemporary British culture in the US, knowledge of American English in Britain is more common than the reverse."
"The first American dictionary was written by Noah Webster in 1828. At the time America was a relatively new country and Webster's particular contribution was to show that the region spoke a different dialect from Britain, and so he wrote a dictionary with many spellings differing from the standard. Many of these changes were initiated unilaterally by Webster.
Webster also argued for many "simplifications" to the idiomatic spelling of the period. Somewhat ironically, many, although not all, of his simplifications fell into common usage alongside the original versions, resulting in a situation even more confused than before.
Many words are shortened and differ from other versions of English. Words such as center are used instead of centre in other versions of English. And there are many other variations.
American English has further changed due to the influx of non-English speakers whose words sometimes enter American vernacular. Many words have entered American English from Spanish, etc."
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_Briti sh _English_Differences
"Henry Sweet predicted in 1877 that within a century, American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible, but it may be the case that increased world-wide communication through television, the Internet, or globalization has reduced the tendency to regionalisation. This can result either with some variations becoming extinct (as, for instance, apartment has been gradually displacing flat in much of the world) or that wide variations are accepted as "perfectly good English" everywhere."
I'm no expert but there is a good description of differences in the variants of English here
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#M aj or_Dialects_of_English
"Compared to British English, American English is conservative in its phonology. It is often claimed that certain rural areas in North America speak "Elizabethan English," but in fact the standard American English of the upper Midwest has a sound profile much closer to seventeenth century English than the current speech of England has."
"American English has some small differences from British English. American English has both spelling and grammatical differences from British English, some of which were made as part of an attempt to rationalize the English spelling used by British English at the time. Unlike many 20th century language reforms (e.g., Turkey's alphabet shift, Norway's spelling reform) the American spelling changes were not driven by government, but by textbook writers and dictionary makers.
The first American dictionary was written by Noah Webster in 1828. At the time America was a relatively new country and Webster's particular contribution was to show that the region spoke a different dialect from Britain, and so he wrote a dictionary with many spellings differing from the standard. Many of these changes were initiated unilaterally by Webster.
Webster also argued for many "simplifications" to the idiomatic spelling of the period. Somewhat ironically, many, although not all, of his simplifications fell into common usage alongside the original versions, resulting in a situation even more confused than before.
Many words are shortened and differ from other versions of English. Words such as center are used instead of centre in other versions of English. And there are many other variations. "
I stopped shopping at the Oregon/Washington Computer Stores/the Mac Store because of sales drones playing "I'm smarter than the customer."
I'd ordered a 5GB Firefly drive (SmartDisk 1.8" firewire hard disk) from the Apple Store and when I wanted a second they were back-ordered so I went to the local Computer Store (the Pacific Northwest's "Premier" Apple Specialist) and asked for one.
"Never heard of it."
Can I get a 5 gigabyte drive in 1.8 or 2.5 inch?
"No one makes drives that small anymore." "Nope no one does in any form factor."
Really? No one?
"Nope drives that small haven't been made for a long time."
Then where does Apple get the 5GB* drives for the iPod?
- Dumb blank stares as I leave with my 300 dollars I wanted to spend there.
*This was last July, when there still was a 5GB iPod
If you have to ask questions of the Frys salespersons, you shouldn't be in Frys.
As for the low res on the displays, I think they have a bunch of them slaved through a KVM box that's of shitty quality and don't do better than 640 or 800.
In the Frys Wilsonville store it seems like they are running at higher res these days.
While the Internet has more than everything a geek might want to shop for, Fry's allows one the chance to poke at it, to pick it up and carry it around the store, then say "Fuck it" and leave it on a pallet of old NT4 Server books which are "On Sale" by the row of every electric razor blade you'd ever need.
I love Frys. I wouldn't buy anything more complex than a Case Fan or DVDs from them, but I love Frys.
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/printpage/0,5 94 2,6259212,00.html "An A-10 "Warthog" warplane was shot down near Baghdad, believed to be the first fixed-wing aircraft downed by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile since the war began."
http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/func ti on/view/categoryid/164/documentid/1987/history/3,6 56,164,1987 "The A-10's durability has also been highlighted over Iraq, with at least three Warthogs damaged by anti-aircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles. Despite severe damage, including, at least one plane having nearly lost an entire engine, all made it back, although a fourth A-10 was downed and the pilot recovered with minor injuries."
http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.asp?sto ry id=16869 "An A-10 "Warthog" warplane shot down near Baghdad early in the day was believed to be the first fixed-wing aircraft downed by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile since the war began. U.S. Central Command said the pilot ejected safely, was recovered by ground forces and was in good condition."
B-2s can't fire Cruise Missiles, nor can B-1s. As for altitude, B-2's ceiling is 50,000. The only manned USAF aircraft with service ceilings above 50,000 for combat operations are F-15C, F/A-22, U-2/TR-1.
As for SAMs, SA-2s did a good job in Vietnam, and it only takes one lucky shot on a big plane to make them too "vulerable" to use in the future.
"Generally speaking, most bombing raids were conducted during the middle of the night, local time. Why? To avoid surface-based defenses? Partially. But our forces are essentially immune to ground-based attack."
That's not true.
Aircraft were lost to Iraqi SAMs (and American SAMs) so don't say that our forces were immune to ADA/SAMs.
The real reason we did alot of our operations at night is the danger to large, slow aircraft to optically guided SAMs. Modern Russian, European, American SAMs can be directed either optically with command control all the way to target, or command control to a point then it goes active. If it's the day time there is a greater danger of someone with a modern SAM guiding optically for the boost stage then you have much less reaction time when the missile goes active and homing.
No, the software tech support and shipping of Betas is nothing like the car industry or other industries dealing with physical devices.
You talk about new cars and the Model T. Lets take a real software example, like when Adobe changed the default RGB level in Macintosh Photoshop. It was like if you put your car into drive and then the steering reversed.
So then after much yelling and really snarky Adobe reps at Software Expos and Graphics Expos they issue a patch, but you have to poke around for it and it doesn't really fix the problem.
They then fix the problem, but you have to pay to upgrade to get it.
Car makers don't do that, but software makers do.
Lets say Ford ships a vehicle with a serious problem, they fix the problem for free if enough people have the problem or if it impacts the operation of the vehicle to the point it's unusable or unsafe.
Someone ships a piece of software with a serious problem, oh like Razor's Edge corrupting databases or not printing. You complain, they blame it on you, on Microsoft, on a printer driver.
But wait, we have a fix. You need to buy a new version of Windows Server and a new version of Razor's Edge, but wait, another product of ours you are using won't work with the new one or it won't work with new Server, we change our mind every other day.
If I go down to Honda and there's a problem with a Civic's doors, they don't blame it on the gas or on the maker of the shocks.
Actually some nuclear subs have had swimming pools.
The Typhoon (NATO name) nuclear missile submarine has a swimming pool in it.
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/10/23/38544_. ht ml
"...crew's rest area is like a club with lots of conveniences. There is a gym, a sauna, and even a pool there. We saw some submariners swimming there, having good time at work."
http://arms.host.sk/navy/941.htm
Modern American submarines all have air conditioning aboard.
"In addition, we have conducted many trials on actual and smaller scale components and systems on the Large Scale Vehicle (Kokanee) and other test platforms, as well as the actual Seawolf, itself. Some of the many unclassified equipment items in which the Division played a large part include: - Air conditioning compressors"
http://www.usscod.org/fact.html "Habitability is heavily stressed in the construction of modern submarines. Specially designed color schemes, mechanical conveniences, air conditioning, and the best chow in the Navy are supplied to make the vessels more livable. A full time staff is maintained by Electric Boat Division to work out 'human engineering' problems."
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There were stories about the "discovery" of how spider silk self-assembled a while back.
Of course, I've not read the article linked above.
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2000/06/19/56.asp
I can't find it now, but they talked last year about how they'd figured out how the spiders assembled the strands and that they'd applied that to a industrial method to pull the unassmbled silk through a small hole and it would self-assemble.
http://www.m-cam.com/~watsonj/usptohistory.html
The modern concept of the patent was established in England where, in 1449, King Henry VI awarded a patent to John of Utynam for stained glass manufacturing.
"Beginning in 1552, a series of "letters patents" was issued by the Crown. The monarchy began a trend of issuing patents for its own benefit and for the benefit of officers and friends of the Court.4 Patents were issued on entire industries, not just inventions. For example, the Stationers enjoyed complete control over the publishing industry in England. The balance of power soon shifted towards those whom the monarchy decided to favor. Reform began with reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Francis Bacon commented that the Queen would grant patents for any invention that she deemed useful to the country. In an effort to curb further abuses of power, Parliament, in 1624, passed the English Statute of Monopolies, which outlawed all royally sanctioned monopolies. Realizing the importance of protecting inventors and the economic benefits associated with encouraging innovation, an exception was allowed for patents of "new manufactures." These patents were awarded to the inventor as long as their new devices did not hurt trade or result in price increases. Additionally, a statutory limit of fourteen years was imposed on English patents."
The math and physics for rocketry is mostly figured out.
The problem we face are chemical (fuels), metalurgical (fuel pumps, pipes, cyronics) and materials sciences (what to make the thing out of).
I don't see where Carmack has any background in these.
Florida has alot of defense industry, which doesn't move much. Tourism, which isn't going anywhere. Military bases, which while they might close, Florida's are pretty safe (Eglin - SOG/Armaments Testing, Tyndall - F/A-22 Training, Jacksonville/Mayport - Carriers, Sub support, surface warfare, Tampa - CentCom, Pensacola - Naval Aviation Training, Blue Angels, Key West - Coasties, Drug Interdiction). Agriculture and Sugar production.
So I don't think Florida is in danger of industry moving because of a LAN Tax.
Is also the Didn't Pay Attention to the Movie guy.
I've clicked on one review. K-19 the Widowmaker. I just watched it the other night.
"Unfortunately, the movie also seriously alters physics. We're told that the out-of-control reactor is on the verge of exploding and when it does, it will set off the nuclear warheads on board the sub and destroy a nearby American Navy vessel."
That's not what the movie plot stated. The sub was near a NATO listening post and there was a NATO ship there, if the reactor melts down the resulting cloud of radioactive steam and waste from the reactor will destroy the base and possibly the ship in turn causing NATO to think it's something nuclear.
"The answer: dive a whole 300 meters under the ocean. Is this supposed to quench the fireball? 300 meters is nothing compared with the blast area of a multi-megaton nuclear explosion."
The K-19 might have to dive to 300 meters and flood it's self not to contain the nuclear blasts but to flood the ship, cooling the reactor and leaving it deep enough that NATO can't recover it.
As a mostly uninterested Linux dabbler who has gone entirely to OS X, from what I've read about Linus saying in reguards to new technologies like Firewire and including that in Linux, yea, at times he does act like he has blinders on.
My point was from something he said years ago, 1998 to be exact. He wasn't that interested in Firewire becuase it was something that only went in Camcorders.
Vietnam is complicated.
Ike refused to help France in '54 because of the way they were carryin' on in Africa and the Middle East, so he didn't send in the B-52s or '47s to help bomb.
Then in the early 60s we have the Soviets regrouping, Missiles in Cuba, we will crush you speeches, Berlin Wall, shootdowns of recon planes in East Germany,Castro in Cuba, then the Gulf of Tonkin.
"Remember Yankee Station? It was a spot in the ocean where the destroyer USS Maddox -- gathering intelligence for the South Vietnamese -- was attacked by four North Vietnamese patrol boats on August 2, 1964. Maddox -- aided by carrier aircraft -- severely damaged the attackers, leaving at least one dead in the water. The next night the Maddox (and the USS Turner Joy sent to reinforce it) reported another attack. LBJ then demanded, and got on August 7, open-ended authority to use military forces in Vietnam. (The Democratic convention met three weeks later to nominate LBJ as its presidential candidate).
In the decades since we've learned that much of what Congress was told about the Tonkin Gulf incident was right, and some was an error but not a lie. After many years of analysis of intelligence and logs, the Navy determined that there hadn't been a second attack. But by 1968, the McGoverniks had already convinced themselves that the Tonkin Gulf resolution was a fraud, based on an entirely on a needlessly provoked and fictionally reported incident."
Uncle Ho in the 50s was pulled between Capitalism and Communism, but in the end the threats of Communism outweighed America's ability to stay out of Vietnam.
Oh yes, there can be "Just Wars".
Wars to free slaves are just. Wars that save lives are just.
If the Second World War hadn't happened as it did, if the Allies had sat by as Germany annexed Poland and Eastern Europe and eventually overran the Soviet Union that would have emboldened the Imperial Japanese and instead of tens of millions dying, hundreds of millions would be enslaved.
Actually, the helicopters in the film and TV show MASH were used extensivly in the Korean War by the United Nations.
The bubble cockpit piston driven helo from MASH is the H-13 Sioux (model 47) from Bell Aircraft. It was produced from 1946 to 1973. They were used for medivac and recon starting in 1951 and they evacuated around 18,000 UN casualties during the conflict.
The Sioux was replaced by the OH-6A Cayuse early in the Vietnam conflict.
In Korea the Navy used the Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw and the H-21 Shawnee
I've done this more than once.
OS X on a 266 G3 makes a great server. OS X on a 466 G3 makes a decent workstation.
You need to get at least 512MB of RAM, I suggest 768 while you are in there blowing away the dust.
Stock video card sucks even if you got the extra 4MB module and went to 6 total, go find a first generation Radeon PCI card.
I'd go grab an Orange Micro combo USB/Firewire card while you are at it too.
Then either upgrade the stock 4 or 6GB hard disk, or get an external Firewire drive and use the stock drive as boot.
Or you can get a 500 or 600 MHz iMac for the same price and a lot less headache.
I was being a smartass.
I guess it's expected that on Monday mornings people might not have any sense of humor.
Oh well.
How can they be shipping, the IBM tour guides say they ain't making the chips yet.
http://www.macnn.com/news/20383
That's elitism.
With the right libraries of detail and generic sections and knowledge of local codes anyone with half a brain in thier head can pump out good plans.
I worked in the construction industry and CAD industry for a while and let me tell you that 70% of the drawings that come out of an Architect's office have something major wrong with them.
Here is a wonderful example. Bon Marche Eugene OR, there was a sliding security grate for the main entrance. The engineering plans had it un-rocked. The architects come down and demand that it's to be sheetrocked and finished.
The only problem, is the slot wasn't big enough for a man and a hammer. Wasn't big enough for an air compressor. So we had to fuck around in that dark hole for 30 hours to get it finished.
"Design is more than scientific, it is creative."
Not when it's senseless.
Nintendo isn't all about "kids games" and you know what, a game for "adults" doesn't always have to have boobies and pimps in it.
Nintendo has the titles, I bought my GC for Mario, Zelda, Mario-Kart and F-Zero. They keep pumping those out and I'll keep playing and buying.
For me the only PS/2 game I'm looking foreward to is SOCOM 2.
I can play the GC all day long and my hands don't hurt, the PS/2 controller really bugs me.
I love my Cube.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, it is my favorite by far over the PS/2.
I got my girlfriend a GC game at Xmas and she enjoyed the hell out of me playing it and her helping me.
British English also had spelling changes driven by dictionary makers.
i sh _English_Differences
However American English wasn't defined by an Academy in the French sense and it continues to evolve, due to the influences of Hollywood and American popular culture that is the English that will survive.
"Due to the wide reach of US media vis-a-vis the more limited impact of contemporary British culture in the US, knowledge of American English in Britain is more common than the reverse."
"The first American dictionary was written by Noah Webster in 1828. At the time America was a relatively new country and Webster's particular contribution was to show that the region spoke a different dialect from Britain, and so he wrote a dictionary with many spellings differing from the standard. Many of these changes were initiated unilaterally by Webster.
Webster also argued for many "simplifications" to the idiomatic spelling of the period. Somewhat ironically, many, although not all, of his simplifications fell into common usage alongside the original versions, resulting in a situation even more confused than before.
Many words are shortened and differ from other versions of English. Words such as center are used instead of centre in other versions of English. And there are many other variations.
American English has further changed due to the influx of non-English speakers whose words sometimes enter American vernacular. Many words have entered American English from Spanish, etc."
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_Brit
"Henry Sweet predicted in 1877 that within a century, American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible, but it may be the case that increased world-wide communication through television, the Internet, or globalization has reduced the tendency to regionalisation. This can result either with some variations becoming extinct (as, for instance, apartment has been gradually displacing flat in much of the world) or that wide variations are accepted as "perfectly good English" everywhere."
I'm no expert but there is a good description of differences in the variants of English here
M aj or_Dialects_of_English
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#
"Compared to British English, American English is conservative in its phonology. It is often claimed that certain rural areas in North America speak "Elizabethan English," but in fact the standard American English of the upper Midwest has a sound profile much closer to seventeenth century English than the current speech of England has."
"American English has some small differences from British English. American English has both spelling and grammatical differences from British English, some of which were made as part of an attempt to rationalize the English spelling used by British English at the time. Unlike many 20th century language reforms (e.g., Turkey's alphabet shift, Norway's spelling reform) the American spelling changes were not driven by government, but by textbook writers and dictionary makers.
The first American dictionary was written by Noah Webster in 1828. At the time America was a relatively new country and Webster's particular contribution was to show that the region spoke a different dialect from Britain, and so he wrote a dictionary with many spellings differing from the standard. Many of these changes were initiated unilaterally by Webster.
Webster also argued for many "simplifications" to the idiomatic spelling of the period. Somewhat ironically, many, although not all, of his simplifications fell into common usage alongside the original versions, resulting in a situation even more confused than before.
Many words are shortened and differ from other versions of English. Words such as center are used instead of centre in other versions of English. And there are many other variations. "
I stopped shopping at the Oregon/Washington Computer Stores/the Mac Store because of sales drones playing "I'm smarter than the customer."
I'd ordered a 5GB Firefly drive (SmartDisk 1.8" firewire hard disk) from the Apple Store and when I wanted a second they were back-ordered so I went to the local Computer Store (the Pacific Northwest's "Premier" Apple Specialist) and asked for one.
"Never heard of it."
Can I get a 5 gigabyte drive in 1.8 or 2.5 inch?
"No one makes drives that small anymore."
"Nope no one does in any form factor."
Really? No one?
"Nope drives that small haven't been made for a long time."
Then where does Apple get the 5GB* drives for the iPod?
- Dumb blank stares as I leave with my 300 dollars I wanted to spend there.
*This was last July, when there still was a 5GB iPod
My view of Frys is...
If you have to ask questions of the Frys salespersons, you shouldn't be in Frys.
As for the low res on the displays, I think they have a bunch of them slaved through a KVM box that's of shitty quality and don't do better than 640 or 800.
In the Frys Wilsonville store it seems like they are running at higher res these days.
Because it has everything.
While the Internet has more than everything a geek might want to shop for, Fry's allows one the chance to poke at it, to pick it up and carry it around the store, then say "Fuck it" and leave it on a pallet of old NT4 Server books which are "On Sale" by the row of every electric razor blade you'd ever need.
I love Frys. I wouldn't buy anything more complex than a Case Fan or DVDs from them, but I love Frys.
Yea, aircraft were.
5 94 2,6259212,00.html
c ti on/view/categoryid/164/documentid/1987/history/3,6 56,164,1987
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The A-10 lost was lost to a SAM.
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/printpage/0,
"An A-10 "Warthog" warplane was shot down near Baghdad, believed to be the first fixed-wing aircraft downed by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile since the war began."
http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/fun
"The A-10's durability has also been highlighted over Iraq, with at least three Warthogs damaged by anti-aircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles. Despite severe damage, including, at least one plane having nearly lost an entire engine, all made it back, although a fourth A-10 was downed and the pilot recovered with minor injuries."
http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.asp?st
"An A-10 "Warthog" warplane shot down near Baghdad early in the day was believed to be the first fixed-wing aircraft downed by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile since the war began. U.S. Central Command said the pilot ejected safely, was recovered by ground forces and was in good condition."
B-2s can't fire Cruise Missiles, nor can B-1s. As for altitude, B-2's ceiling is 50,000. The only manned USAF aircraft with service ceilings above 50,000 for combat operations are F-15C, F/A-22, U-2/TR-1.
As for SAMs, SA-2s did a good job in Vietnam, and it only takes one lucky shot on a big plane to make them too "vulerable" to use in the future.
That's nonsense.
Bombs have, do and will go off near a target, destroy it and not cause collateral damage.
"Generally speaking, most bombing raids were conducted during the middle of the night, local time. Why? To avoid surface-based defenses? Partially. But our forces are essentially immune to ground-based attack."
That's not true.
Aircraft were lost to Iraqi SAMs (and American SAMs) so don't say that our forces were immune to ADA/SAMs.
The real reason we did alot of our operations at night is the danger to large, slow aircraft to optically guided SAMs. Modern Russian, European, American SAMs can be directed either optically with command control all the way to target, or command control to a point then it goes active. If it's the day time there is a greater danger of someone with a modern SAM guiding optically for the boost stage then you have much less reaction time when the missile goes active and homing.
No, the software tech support and shipping of Betas is nothing like the car industry or other industries dealing with physical devices.
You talk about new cars and the Model T. Lets take a real software example, like when Adobe changed the default RGB level in Macintosh Photoshop. It was like if you put your car into drive and then the steering reversed.
So then after much yelling and really snarky Adobe reps at Software Expos and Graphics Expos they issue a patch, but you have to poke around for it and it doesn't really fix the problem.
They then fix the problem, but you have to pay to upgrade to get it.
Car makers don't do that, but software makers do.
Lets say Ford ships a vehicle with a serious problem, they fix the problem for free if enough people have the problem or if it impacts the operation of the vehicle to the point it's unusable or unsafe.
Someone ships a piece of software with a serious problem, oh like Razor's Edge corrupting databases or not printing. You complain, they blame it on you, on Microsoft, on a printer driver.
But wait, we have a fix. You need to buy a new version of Windows Server and a new version of Razor's Edge, but wait, another product of ours you are using won't work with the new one or it won't work with new Server, we change our mind every other day.
If I go down to Honda and there's a problem with a Civic's doors, they don't blame it on the gas or on the maker of the shocks.
Actually some nuclear subs have had swimming pools.
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The Typhoon (NATO name) nuclear missile submarine has a swimming pool in it.
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/10/23/38544_
"...crew's rest area is like a club with lots of conveniences. There is a gym, a sauna, and even a pool there. We saw some submariners swimming there, having good time at work."
http://arms.host.sk/navy/941.htm
Modern American submarines all have air conditioning aboard.
http://www.dt.navy.mil/pao/excerpts%20pages/199
"In addition, we have conducted many trials on actual and smaller scale components and systems on the Large Scale Vehicle (Kokanee) and other test platforms, as well as the actual Seawolf, itself. Some of the many unclassified equipment items in which the Division played a large part include: - Air conditioning compressors"
http://www.usscod.org/fact.html
"Habitability is heavily stressed in the construction of modern submarines. Specially designed color schemes, mechanical conveniences, air conditioning, and the best chow in the Navy are supplied to make the vessels more livable. A full time staff is maintained by Electric Boat Division to work out 'human engineering' problems."