Since it's a US project, I'd bet they are working on translations for missions that the US Military sees coming in the next few decades. Korea, China, Middle East.
As for African languages, if I remeber correctly, *most* African nations will also have large percentages of thier populations that speak French, English or in some cases Portuguese - from the european colonies. North African nations will have Arabic as thier main language.
A quick look at the CIA World Fact Book backs this up. - Random clicks of African nations.
Angola - Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages
Benin - French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
Ethiopia - Amharic, Tigrinya, Orominga, Guaraginga, Somali, Arabic, other local languages, English
Libya - Arabic, Italian, English
Rwanda - Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili)
There's a random sample of African nations from CIA World Fact Book. I got central Africa, western coast, North Africa and East Africa...so it's a pretty good regional sample.
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Why should it be illegal to make them?
Does the Consitution of the United States or any of the States within the U.S. say that making large vehicles is illegal?
Your comment that someone will die because an Excursion is "only thing that their sedentary, obese family will fit in?" is idiotic.
I drive a large vehicle (1991 Chevy full-size extended cab 350 truck) and safety on the road is a two way street, my observing the laws and other vehicles, and them doing the same.
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Why is it OK for Ford to make those beasts?
1. This is the United States, and people and corporations are free to make what they want unless for some reason it's being legislated/outlawed.
2. There is a demand for Excursions and demand drives the market.
3. Consumers have the right to buy what they want, and in the last 10 years consumers have wanted larger and larger SUVs. The Big 3 automakers didn't build them and then advertise to make the market, the consumers started with the Jeep Cherokee and the Chevy/GMC Suburban and then the rest of the makers started to build them.
Unless there is a safety, monopoly or legal issue, I think the burden of responsibility should be on the consumer.
Same here. No BSoD. However IE does get crashy on me. After using IE on Win9x/NT/2000/Mac OS Classic/Mac OS X - It seems to me that the most stable version of IE is the Classic MacOS Version.
My Windows 2000 install does two strange things.
1. Leaving it running with no open Applications running, it slowly starts to page into virtual memory alot - after 24-36 I have to reboot.
2. For some reason it will cause my motherboard to give me an overheat alarm, even though Red Hat running on the same box will not. The overheat problem just started a couple months ago.
Dispite those issues...it's a better Windows...not that that means much:)
I think the statement that Windows 2000 can handle as much or more traffic then any other server just because the MS sites are some of the highest traffic isn't that accurate.
We don't know how many servers it's taking to power all that do we? There might be twice as many Windows 2000 boxes driving that load as there driving Yahoo.
(Yahoo is second to MS according the Media Matrix - http://www.mediametrix.com/data/thetop.jsp)
I'll admit that Windows 2000 is better than Windows NT 4 - However it's not nearly as stable as Linux or a BSD in my experiance.
I'm from a long line of farmers in north-central South Dakota, and in my 15 years on the farm, I have seen all kinds of claims about this crop or that crop that have few predators.
And no matter what (sunflower, safflower, canola, 8 kinds of spring wheat, 5 kinds of winter wheat, seed corn, flax) when the grasshoppers came around...they were eaten. No matter what was planted...the weeds grew in. Hell a few times aphids even got so bad we had to buy ladybugs to take care of them.
In southern South Dakota...down by Pine Ridge and Yankton Reservations...there is alot of wild hemp growing, and those areas with the hemp get the worst grasshopper infestations.
My research is based on review of USDA weed and pest information and 15 years of farming in an area that wants hemp as a commercial crop.
Every plant on Earth has at least one thing that will munch on it. Even something as noxious as the Tabacco plant has a insect foe. And I'm sure there will be fungi that attack it (hemp).
I'm all for legalizing hemp for farm and industral use, but let's not blow smoke here.
I know it's common on the marijuana pages to talk about how perfect hemp is, but you take hemp out into the wild and start planting fields of it, you will get insect and weed problems. If you take a wheat field in say...the Dakotas, where alot of people want to legalize commercial hemp, if you are in a grasshopper year, you will instantly get a grasshopper problem, and then there will be weeds like Canada Thistle, Blue Mustard or Kochia. And without proper weed control it will get ugly fast, even for hardy plants like hemp.
Actually, if you look at the history of modern armies in the last 200 years, you will see that the vast majority of the time spent by the vast majority of soldiers is spent in the barracks or training.
Enhanced abilities to execute a mission, is simply another way of saying, "We are more capable than anyone else's army, so don't mess with us."
Nice try at trolling though, or perhaps it's a lack of understanding of how a modern army works. For a better understanding of that, look into military history books by Keegan, he always does a good job and he taught military history at Sandhurst.
This was true in older Macs - anything before spring of '97, and to a lesser extent 'till Jan of '98.
The old old Macs used special video and network cards and modems. And were all SCSI and ADB or Serial. (Note ADB is the same as S-Video).
Then Apple went to IDE and PCI. But with ADB and Serial, then in '98 they went all USB and tossed in Firewire.
Now your Mac has an IDE CD, Hard Drive, two USB ports, one or two Firewire ports and in the case of the towers, AGP and PCI slots.
The hardware isn't that damned expensive, it's a really good deal and it tends to last longer than your normal name brand or home built PC. At least that was my experiance when I was lead support tech for 1600 PCs and Macs, and it's my experiance now as lead support tech for 500 PCs and Macs.
Well I agree with Social Security, but Federal Income taxes do *some* good.
If you drive on an Interstate Highway, most state highways and most bridges in the US, then your taxes are helping to pay for them and thier upkeep.
If you like your imported beer/food/cars/whatever, tax dollars are spent to keep the sea lanes open, the costal waters safe and make sure things are inspected at various Federal levels, with some of that Tax money.
Since 1945, Income tax dollars have gone to defending Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and the US so we can buy all these neat things and sell them fewer neat things than we buy from them.
I've always had to argue with people that saying "my tax money is wasted", because in most cases, people in the US get something back for thier tax dollars.
As for the Free Speech aspects of spam...I've got to think about that.
1. Farm insurance is pretty expensive, some of that expense no doubt is because of fraud.
2. It's not like farmers don't know that TR-1s (U-2s) and satellites are doing this, they get copies all the time in the mail. In fact there is a *huge* depository of them in plain sight at Sioux Falls South Dakota - the EROS data center.
3. I noticed some people comparing this to the recent court case about IR and pot growing. It's not the same technology, this is a near infrared that lets them see through cloud cover, not walls. In all the pictures I've seen of the family farm, you couldn't see through the roof.
I like it. It's a good idea. The US should do something similar to this, the same way they funded the Interstate Highway System and funded the Electrifcation of rural areas in the 1930s-1960s.
Rural areas are being left behind when it comes to broadband, and in some places (Cheyenne River Indian Reservation of South Dakota) you can't even get a local dial-up number.
Yes, there are accents in the US, but it's not one single accent, and most of them do not sound like Dukes of Hazzard hillbilly.
I'm from South Dakota, and within South Dakota there are three distinct accents - Black Hills, East River and Rez (Rex being those from the Indian Reservations). Why I say this, is last weekend I went back to South Dakota for a wedding, and all the major accents were present for the wedding.
I have a bit of the Rez accent, along with some Black Hills, while my sister whom is living East River and on a Reservation, has some East River, Rez and a bit of the Minnesooota to her accent.
The same is true on a broader scale for the entire country. People from the south do not all sound alike. If all the states are as diverse as South Dakota, there's a whole bunch of accents. And I'd hope that in Canada there are as many differences as there are in the US.
Wow, for 1200 US you can get some *really* good Paradigm Monitor 11s and have decent speakers.
Yes Canada makes some nice speakers and with the strong US Dollar, it's a really good deal.
www.paradigm.ca - Really good, really affordable speakers that aren't a scam like Bose.
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Yep. For anyone that's interested in how bad the "nation building" mission in Somalia got, read Black Hawk Down by Bowden.
A book that looks at both sides of the battle in October of '93...although with more focus on the American side, but talks about things like how the UN forces were split up around the city, and when the US Army needed armor (tanks and APCs) that was the Pakistani's job and we had to beg/barrow/threaten to get some armor, and at the first sign of weapons fire the Pakistani driver starts shouting "We go now!"
But yes...we (US, Pakistan, Italy and others) did a great job of "peacekeeping" and aid distribution, but when the UN decided to start "king making" and "nation building" it all went down hill.
Heck, wern't there occasions in Bosnia where Canadian and British troops held at gun point by the local Serbs after they told UN HQ that they needed to defend themselves and HQ said don't resist?
Now years later, when it's time to capture war criminals in Bosnia, it's US Special Forces/SAS/Canadians under NATO command doing the snatches and gunfights to get the job done.
The UN doesn't work for military operations...because most of the time, the people on either side will belong to the UN...that doesn't make sense.
It was because of the UN Security Council that the aid mission of the US, Asia and Europe in Somalia turned into a "nation building" mission. A nation building mission that got alot of US, Pakistani, and Somali fighters and civilians killed.
It was because the UN didn't want to interfere in Bosnia back in '94-'95 that so many civilians were killed.
In my mind, the UN is just as bad as the League of Nations, unable to do anything right.
Keep the Economic and Social Council, and International Court of Justice. But do away with the military and security aspects of it.
I'd have to say there is a difference between drugs. Tobacco, Pot, alcohol are one thing, and cocaine, heroin, crank are something else.
Not all drug laws are the equivalent of moral laws. The production and distribution of cocaine, heroin and crank have serious geo-political, criminal, social and in the case of crank, environmental side effects that pot, alcohol and tobacco do not have.
I'm all for the decriminalization of pot, and for the legal war to end against tobacco (even though I'm not a user) and that the use of alcohol between the ages of 18 and 21 be legalized, but I am not for the legalization or decriminalization of your "hard" drugs like cocaine or crank. More needs to be spent on treatment, but it should not be legalized.
I always wanted a nice telescope when I was a kid, I grew up in western South Dakota, where you can get away from everything putting out light about five minutes from home.
So how much for a good telescope and the gear to hook it up to a computer? I have two Mac laptops (iBook 2000 and G4 Titanium) so Mac solutions would be best.
From what I remember from reading Crusade, the Mylar and now it's coiled ceramic and metal strips, are blown up over the sub station generation site, and then the pieces settle over the wires and cause a short when they touch the ground. And it doesn't blow up residental areas.
As fr timing, it's pretty easy to time your planes when you know that the cruise missiles are going to hit at 8.15 pm, have the planes there at 8.16 pm.
Chaff worked better when there wasn't Doppler Radar, now it's alot harder to hide behind chaff than use it for taking out sub stations, actually the Navy got the idea in the 70s after some chaff from an exercise knocked out the power in a Southern California powerstation.
Why do this instead of using an Anti-Radiation missile? Because you can launch a cruise missile from 1,000 km away, but a HARM or ALARM anti-radiation missile only has a range of 30-60 km. In the first wave, you're SEAD planes will get SAMs fired at them before they get in range to fire *ARMs at the targets.
You'll get much higher civilian casualties from bombing a power sub station or cruise missiling it, than you will from using Mylar.
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Since it's a US project, I'd bet they are working on translations for missions that the US Military sees coming in the next few decades. Korea, China, Middle East.
As for African languages, if I remeber correctly, *most* African nations will also have large percentages of thier populations that speak French, English or in some cases Portuguese - from the european colonies. North African nations will have Arabic as thier main language.
A quick look at the CIA World Fact Book backs this up. - Random clicks of African nations.
Angola - Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages
Benin - French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
Ethiopia - Amharic, Tigrinya, Orominga, Guaraginga, Somali, Arabic, other local languages, English
Libya - Arabic, Italian, English
Rwanda - Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili)
There's a random sample of African nations from CIA World Fact Book. I got central Africa, western coast, North Africa and East Africa...so it's a pretty good regional sample.
Why should it be illegal to make them?
Does the Consitution of the United States or any of the States within the U.S. say that making large vehicles is illegal?
Your comment that someone will die because an Excursion is "only thing that their sedentary, obese family will fit in?" is idiotic.
I drive a large vehicle (1991 Chevy full-size extended cab 350 truck) and safety on the road is a two way street, my observing the laws and other vehicles, and them doing the same.
Why is it OK for Ford to make those beasts?
1. This is the United States, and people and corporations are free to make what they want unless for some reason it's being legislated/outlawed.
2. There is a demand for Excursions and demand drives the market.
3. Consumers have the right to buy what they want, and in the last 10 years consumers have wanted larger and larger SUVs. The Big 3 automakers didn't build them and then advertise to make the market, the consumers started with the Jeep Cherokee and the Chevy/GMC Suburban and then the rest of the makers started to build them.
Unless there is a safety, monopoly or legal issue, I think the burden of responsibility should be on the consumer.
Like the subject says, arson is violence. In fact, asron is one of the most dangerous acts one can perform in an urban area.
Busting a window at a Starbucks or spray painting "ELF Rulz" on logging equipment is vandalism. Mass arson is violence.
Same here. No BSoD. However IE does get crashy on me. After using IE on Win9x/NT/2000/Mac OS Classic/Mac OS X - It seems to me that the most stable version of IE is the Classic MacOS Version.
:)
My Windows 2000 install does two strange things.
1. Leaving it running with no open Applications running, it slowly starts to page into virtual memory alot - after 24-36 I have to reboot.
2. For some reason it will cause my motherboard to give me an overheat alarm, even though Red Hat running on the same box will not. The overheat problem just started a couple months ago.
Dispite those issues...it's a better Windows...not that that means much
I think the statement that Windows 2000 can handle as much or more traffic then any other server just because the MS sites are some of the highest traffic isn't that accurate.
We don't know how many servers it's taking to power all that do we? There might be twice as many Windows 2000 boxes driving that load as there driving Yahoo.
(Yahoo is second to MS according the Media Matrix - http://www.mediametrix.com/data/thetop.jsp)
I'll admit that Windows 2000 is better than Windows NT 4 - However it's not nearly as stable as Linux or a BSD in my experiance.
I'm not blowing smoke.
I'm from a long line of farmers in north-central South Dakota, and in my 15 years on the farm, I have seen all kinds of claims about this crop or that crop that have few predators.
And no matter what (sunflower, safflower, canola, 8 kinds of spring wheat, 5 kinds of winter wheat, seed corn, flax) when the grasshoppers came around...they were eaten. No matter what was planted...the weeds grew in. Hell a few times aphids even got so bad we had to buy ladybugs to take care of them.
In southern South Dakota...down by Pine Ridge and Yankton Reservations...there is alot of wild hemp growing, and those areas with the hemp get the worst grasshopper infestations.
My research is based on review of USDA weed and pest information and 15 years of farming in an area that wants hemp as a commercial crop.
No natural enemies?
BS.
Every plant on Earth has at least one thing that will munch on it. Even something as noxious as the Tabacco plant has a insect foe. And I'm sure there will be fungi that attack it (hemp).
I'm all for legalizing hemp for farm and industral use, but let's not blow smoke here.
I know it's common on the marijuana pages to talk about how perfect hemp is, but you take hemp out into the wild and start planting fields of it, you will get insect and weed problems. If you take a wheat field in say...the Dakotas, where alot of people want to legalize commercial hemp, if you are in a grasshopper year, you will instantly get a grasshopper problem, and then there will be weeds like Canada Thistle, Blue Mustard or Kochia. And without proper weed control it will get ugly fast, even for hardy plants like hemp.
Actually, if you look at the history of modern armies in the last 200 years, you will see that the vast majority of the time spent by the vast majority of soldiers is spent in the barracks or training.
Enhanced abilities to execute a mission, is simply another way of saying, "We are more capable than anyone else's army, so don't mess with us."
Nice try at trolling though, or perhaps it's a lack of understanding of how a modern army works. For a better understanding of that, look into military history books by Keegan, he always does a good job and he taught military history at Sandhurst.
It's the older Apple LCD displays that use the DVI.
The more recent Apple CRTs (the Blue and White and Graphite) used regular VGA.
Geos - It was a GUI OS for the Commodore. I think there was even a browser for it.
And now it looks like Geos is being used in embedded solutions like the Nokia 9xxx phone.
http://www.breadbox.com/normal.html
I'm gonna be mod'ed down as redudant, however...
This was true in older Macs - anything before spring of '97, and to a lesser extent 'till Jan of '98.
The old old Macs used special video and network cards and modems. And were all SCSI and ADB or Serial. (Note ADB is the same as S-Video).
Then Apple went to IDE and PCI. But with ADB and Serial, then in '98 they went all USB and tossed in Firewire.
Now your Mac has an IDE CD, Hard Drive, two USB ports, one or two Firewire ports and in the case of the towers, AGP and PCI slots.
The hardware isn't that damned expensive, it's a really good deal and it tends to last longer than your normal name brand or home built PC. At least that was my experiance when I was lead support tech for 1600 PCs and Macs, and it's my experiance now as lead support tech for 500 PCs and Macs.
Well I agree with Social Security, but Federal Income taxes do *some* good.
If you drive on an Interstate Highway, most state highways and most bridges in the US, then your taxes are helping to pay for them and thier upkeep.
If you like your imported beer/food/cars/whatever, tax dollars are spent to keep the sea lanes open, the costal waters safe and make sure things are inspected at various Federal levels, with some of that Tax money.
Since 1945, Income tax dollars have gone to defending Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and the US so we can buy all these neat things and sell them fewer neat things than we buy from them.
I've always had to argue with people that saying "my tax money is wasted", because in most cases, people in the US get something back for thier tax dollars.
As for the Free Speech aspects of spam...I've got to think about that.
I'm glad this was used in this way.
1. Farm insurance is pretty expensive, some of that expense no doubt is because of fraud.
2. It's not like farmers don't know that TR-1s (U-2s) and satellites are doing this, they get copies all the time in the mail. In fact there is a *huge* depository of them in plain sight at Sioux Falls South Dakota - the EROS data center.
3. I noticed some people comparing this to the recent court case about IR and pot growing. It's not the same technology, this is a near infrared that lets them see through cloud cover, not walls. In all the pictures I've seen of the family farm, you couldn't see through the roof.
All in all it's a good thing.
I like it. It's a good idea. The US should do something similar to this, the same way they funded the Interstate Highway System and funded the Electrifcation of rural areas in the 1930s-1960s.
Rural areas are being left behind when it comes to broadband, and in some places (Cheyenne River Indian Reservation of South Dakota) you can't even get a local dial-up number.
Yes, there are accents in the US, but it's not one single accent, and most of them do not sound like Dukes of Hazzard hillbilly.
I'm from South Dakota, and within South Dakota there are three distinct accents - Black Hills, East River and Rez (Rex being those from the Indian Reservations). Why I say this, is last weekend I went back to South Dakota for a wedding, and all the major accents were present for the wedding.
I have a bit of the Rez accent, along with some Black Hills, while my sister whom is living East River and on a Reservation, has some East River, Rez and a bit of the Minnesooota to her accent.
The same is true on a broader scale for the entire country. People from the south do not all sound alike. If all the states are as diverse as South Dakota, there's a whole bunch of accents. And I'd hope that in Canada there are as many differences as there are in the US.
Wow, for 1200 US you can get some *really* good Paradigm Monitor 11s and have decent speakers.
Yes Canada makes some nice speakers and with the strong US Dollar, it's a really good deal.
www.paradigm.ca - Really good, really affordable speakers that aren't a scam like Bose.
Yep. For anyone that's interested in how bad the "nation building" mission in Somalia got, read Black Hawk Down by Bowden.
A book that looks at both sides of the battle in October of '93...although with more focus on the American side, but talks about things like how the UN forces were split up around the city, and when the US Army needed armor (tanks and APCs) that was the Pakistani's job and we had to beg/barrow/threaten to get some armor, and at the first sign of weapons fire the Pakistani driver starts shouting "We go now!"
But yes...we (US, Pakistan, Italy and others) did a great job of "peacekeeping" and aid distribution, but when the UN decided to start "king making" and "nation building" it all went down hill.
Heck, wern't there occasions in Bosnia where Canadian and British troops held at gun point by the local Serbs after they told UN HQ that they needed to defend themselves and HQ said don't resist?
Now years later, when it's time to capture war criminals in Bosnia, it's US Special Forces/SAS/Canadians under NATO command doing the snatches and gunfights to get the job done.
The UN doesn't work for military operations...because most of the time, the people on either side will belong to the UN...that doesn't make sense.
Get rid of the Security Council first.
It was because of the UN Security Council that the aid mission of the US, Asia and Europe in Somalia turned into a "nation building" mission. A nation building mission that got alot of US, Pakistani, and Somali fighters and civilians killed.
It was because the UN didn't want to interfere in Bosnia back in '94-'95 that so many civilians were killed.
In my mind, the UN is just as bad as the League of Nations, unable to do anything right.
Keep the Economic and Social Council, and International Court of Justice. But do away with the military and security aspects of it.
I'd have to say there is a difference between drugs. Tobacco, Pot, alcohol are one thing, and cocaine, heroin, crank are something else.
Not all drug laws are the equivalent of moral laws. The production and distribution of cocaine, heroin and crank have serious geo-political, criminal, social and in the case of crank, environmental side effects that pot, alcohol and tobacco do not have.
I'm all for the decriminalization of pot, and for the legal war to end against tobacco (even though I'm not a user) and that the use of alcohol between the ages of 18 and 21 be legalized, but I am not for the legalization or decriminalization of your "hard" drugs like cocaine or crank. More needs to be spent on treatment, but it should not be legalized.
Thanks for the info. I've spent about all I can spend on TVs and computers...so why not spend money on something new ;)
:).
Oh...Mod me down, I'm offttopic
I always wanted a nice telescope when I was a kid, I grew up in western South Dakota, where you can get away from everything putting out light about five minutes from home.
So how much for a good telescope and the gear to hook it up to a computer? I have two Mac laptops (iBook 2000 and G4 Titanium) so Mac solutions would be best.
It's not, well NASA has one or two, but the SR-71 was used by the USAF for recon until the late 1990s, I think it was 96 or 97.
B-17s usually flew at 25,000 feet.
B-29s at 25-32,000 feet.
They didn't practice pin-point bombing, the would plaster the country-side with bombs in hopes of hitting something.
The raid on Plosisti in Romania was done at low altitude, as were some of the later firebombing raids on Japan.
Why Mylar?
From what I remember from reading Crusade, the Mylar and now it's coiled ceramic and metal strips, are blown up over the sub station generation site, and then the pieces settle over the wires and cause a short when they touch the ground. And it doesn't blow up residental areas.
As fr timing, it's pretty easy to time your planes when you know that the cruise missiles are going to hit at 8.15 pm, have the planes there at 8.16 pm.
Chaff worked better when there wasn't Doppler Radar, now it's alot harder to hide behind chaff than use it for taking out sub stations, actually the Navy got the idea in the 70s after some chaff from an exercise knocked out the power in a Southern California powerstation.
Why do this instead of using an Anti-Radiation missile? Because you can launch a cruise missile from 1,000 km away, but a HARM or ALARM anti-radiation missile only has a range of 30-60 km. In the first wave, you're SEAD planes will get SAMs fired at them before they get in range to fire *ARMs at the targets.
You'll get much higher civilian casualties from bombing a power sub station or cruise missiling it, than you will from using Mylar.