I saw alot of talk about "corporate welfare" in the 80s and early 90s and I've always thought...what is corporate welfare.
You take Federal funding and give it to companies and what happens to it? It will go to wages for employees, money spend on R&D, money spent on suppliers, contractors, etc. If the company getting the "corporate welfare" pays dividends...Shareholders get some money...at the very least stock prices go up.
Now in the welfare system, money is doled out and there is little to no return on it. So I think corporate investment is a better term for contracts like this than, "corporate welfare".
That's my offtopic remark. Ontopic, I think that the Russians should do whatever they want with space tourists as long as they don't use the ISS for sleepovers...at this time. Once it's finished...have all the sleepovers we can up there.
There was something in Wired about this when SW Ep 1 came out, and on the Macintosh news websites.
Somthing in the SGI licences to ILM makes ILM talk and show only SGI boxes even though there are Macs used for 2 and 3D work and sound editing, and some NT boxes used for 3D work.
But because of the licence, all ILM shows are SGI boxes. However...that said...most of the work is done on SGI boxes at ILM IIRC.
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In The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, he comments that the German Nuclear scientists still in Nazi Germany knew that the Americans and Brits were working on Atomic devices of some sort because all the papers that used to be in the scientific journals stopped showing up and previously published scientists stop publishing.
Well, I'm really glad that Whistler can burn CDs on an early beta.
Yep I can't burn CDs on my OS X, yet.
However...how many things has Microsoft not fixed with Windows 95/98/Me/NT4 in the past 6 years that are still bitting installed systems in the ass?
Things like...Microsoft IIS hole gives System-level access.
It's been out for almost 6 years...and it's not fixed?
MS OS releases have been so fun of features that get fully killed before they ship in the past it's not funny. Apple was upfront enough to annouce that they could either have CD burning in OS X or they could have Disk Burner and iTunes burn to non-Apple CD-Rs and RWs. How much support does MS offer to old OSes? Not a hell of a lot.
Where is SP7 for NT4? Oh wait, there isn't one. Where is USB support for NT4? Oh wait, there isn't going to be any.
I read it just now up till the point where he starts to quote Bill Gate's "The Road Ahead" then I paused, snorted and decided I'd try to read it again when I wasn't at work and could shout at the screen about how stupid MS is.
When I read things like this, I have the feeling that MS is either very stupid or very scared. I almost get a sense from MS of the kind of ignorant dispair you get with press releases from Soviet-style governments. In 20 years will places like Sovietski.com be selling MS apparel and glassware like they do with the Russians/Eastern Europeans?
Since Sealand "isn't UK property" that's why the UK would use the Royal Marines or SAS or Royal Navy instead of Police.
Personally, I don't think a metal platform built by the UK government in the Second World War can NOT be the property of the UK, or be an independant nation-state...but that's not the issue at hand.
The issue at hand is...Sealand...what's to stop the UK government from taking them out by force? Nothing. The Royal Marines or SAS could go in there, arrest every last squatter and there is NOTHING that any other goverment could do or say about it. Well people might pipe up and whine. But Sealand isn't going to get any protection from anyone. And with the increasing Federalization of Europe...Sealand's chances are slipping away. French, Dutch...whatever links to the Internet will become irrelevant.
The only way to assult a position is to be heavily armed and strike with overwhelming force.
The BATF didn't do those things at Waco and look what happened to them...dead agents and a standoff that made martyrs out of very heavily armed nutjobs with a penchant for pedophilia and the Bible.
Ruby Ridge was also a bad case, but look what happened with the fools in Montana...Heavily armed FBI in huge numbers surround them and there is a peaceful resolution.
People here sometimes get it in thier head that FBI=BoogieMan . It's not true, they are just doing thier job in this case. If I had a website linked with the Seattle WTO riots and now the FTAA riots, I'd be expecting the FBI or Secret Service (don't call them the SS...that's just rude). If your site was involved with something like this and you didn't expect the FBI to send you a court order...you're an idiot.
Well, yea I know who Goddard is. I didn't say the US got all of it's rocket technology from the Germans. The statement is true. The US got rocket technology from the Germans. Alot of our technology did come from the Germans. As did alot of Russian rocket technology.
What did this all have to do with the AF and the X-33? Nothing...the thread all started off of "and let's not forget their success with developing jet power rapidly in the 40s (with the help of the German military)".
So I might have been offtopic. Sorry.
BTW - I think it'd been nice if the USAF did help keep that project alive.
Couple hours ago, after I posted, I was surfing around and found a website linked off the Federation of American Scientist website - www.fas.org - and there was a link to a page (on another computer...that's why I don't remeber it) about the history of the P-80. 4 were sent to Europe and used for recon. Some places say they were in Italy, others in England...so I'm not sure.
I know the B-29 that was sent to Europe in WW2 was done just so the German's would think it was there in a show of force. Something like, leaving it in the open till they were sure than a photo bird had flown over, then took it back to the States.
I think I was wrong on that first US combat jet's name. I think it was the called the XP-59 AiraComet. The AirCobra was the Bell P-39, disliked by the Americans and Brits, it was used by the Russians as an Anti-Tank attack plane to great effect.
In spring of 41 the US got the blueprints for the Gloster E-28/29 jet prototype's engines...and that was used in the XP-59.
The Lockheed P-80A was the first US fighter to be sent to a combat zone (Italy) and then was used to great effect in Korea. It used a GE engine, not the engine the Bell XP-59 used.
The US got rocket technology from the Germans, as did the Brits and Russians.
However...US jet technology was initially jointly developed with the British. The US did get some Me 262s late in the war and after the war from the Germans, and those engines were higher powered but had extremely short lives.
The first American combat jet was the AirCobra, but it never went into combat, then the P-80 was sent to Italy in spring of '45...but never saw combat. Had the Allied invasion of Japan taken place in Nov 45 and spring of 46 more of the more advanced P-80s would have flown in combat. But the atomic bomb ended the invasion plans.
"If it had been Apple's, then you know it would've done better. Sure, Intel has a vested interest in promoting USB, and sure, Intel is a pretty big company. But as big as Apple? Not by a long shot."
Intel is much, much bigger than Apple is. Intel's marketcap is 185.81 billion USD while Apple's is 7.7 billion USD as of 7.52 am PDT today.
I agree though that Firewire is much better than USB 2.0. As for those that wonder why Firewire isn't on more motherboards...well...thank Intel for that.
There are Epson scanners and printers that have Firewire, as well as some Canons and Agfas...but the Firewire for Printers and Scanners are only on the high end machines.
Now I like USB for keyboards and mice and PDAs, but bo does it suck compared to Firewire for things like CD burners.
USB 2.0 just seemed like a half-assed attempt to overthrow Firewire using Intel's might.
I recall reading the fastest a MiG 25 was clocked by the west were MiG-25 recon birds flying out of Syria and chased by Israel F-4s. I'd read that they were clocked at Mach 2.7.
The MiG-25 was designed not to fight the F-15, but to intercept the XB-70 bomber, which was a Mach 3+ high altitude delta wing bomber, like a nasty Concorde with nukes. The XB-70 was canned and then development started on the B-1B, but the MiG-25 continued. The F-15 was actually designed to beat the MiG-25...not the other way around.
We didn't capture any Russian ships or airplanes in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Russian Missiles were there in Cuba to offset American Missiles in Turkey. The Russian UN and US Ambassitors were asked privately and publicly if there were missiles in Cuba and they said no.
Then it became a poltical game.
Go see Thirteen Days and you might understand better.
Not our fault that the Chinese don't have the ability to project power. The Russians do still fly surveillance flights off the coast of the Western US.
If the Chinese wanted to, they could buy some Tu-95s or Tu-22s and fly Elint flights off the US coast and see what professional interception looks like.
Australia/Asia's freedoms that exsist today are because of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Air Corps (Air Force today), as well as the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Dutch forces and the Free French. The US took the brunt of the fighting simply becuase the other United Nations forces were more involved in Europe.
Yes...it was nearly 50 years ago, but it's because of the sacrifices of those men against an oppresive Imperal Japanese military that Australia and Asia have the freedoms that they enjoy today.
War isn't cool, but it has been and will be a part of foreign policy of all nations. It's been that way in one form or another since Man formed communities.
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If I put a metallic external program in my Microwave it'll crash.
And spark and smoke.
Sierra Club and Greenpeace will go off on the Administration of whatever President would suggest mining it for raw materials.
Nope. South Dakota, although I have family in Kansas on both the English and Potawatomi fronts.
I saw alot of talk about "corporate welfare" in the 80s and early 90s and I've always thought...what is corporate welfare.
You take Federal funding and give it to companies and what happens to it? It will go to wages for employees, money spend on R&D, money spent on suppliers, contractors, etc. If the company getting the "corporate welfare" pays dividends...Shareholders get some money...at the very least stock prices go up.
Now in the welfare system, money is doled out and there is little to no return on it. So I think corporate investment is a better term for contracts like this than, "corporate welfare".
That's my offtopic remark. Ontopic, I think that the Russians should do whatever they want with space tourists as long as they don't use the ISS for sleepovers...at this time. Once it's finished...have all the sleepovers we can up there.
There was something in Wired about this when SW Ep 1 came out, and on the Macintosh news websites.
Somthing in the SGI licences to ILM makes ILM talk and show only SGI boxes even though there are Macs used for 2 and 3D work and sound editing, and some NT boxes used for 3D work.
But because of the licence, all ILM shows are SGI boxes. However...that said...most of the work is done on SGI boxes at ILM IIRC.
In The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, he comments that the German Nuclear scientists still in Nazi Germany knew that the Americans and Brits were working on Atomic devices of some sort because all the papers that used to be in the scientific journals stopped showing up and previously published scientists stop publishing.
On Mac OS X?
I thought the 10.0.2 patch fixed the wu-ftp bug. So it was about three weeks.
Smallpox.
It's cured. The cure saw the light of day.
My 3 OS X boxes aren't...Shakey.
In fact I have two iMacs (333 and a 400) that are used 8-12 hours a day and only have been rebooted for the updates.
The updates are nice though. I wouldn't call them too often or too infrequent.
Well, I'm really glad that Whistler can burn CDs on an early beta.
Yep I can't burn CDs on my OS X, yet.
However...how many things has Microsoft not fixed with Windows 95/98/Me/NT4 in the past 6 years that are still bitting installed systems in the ass?
Things like...Microsoft IIS hole gives System-level access.
It's been out for almost 6 years...and it's not fixed?
MS OS releases have been so fun of features that get fully killed before they ship in the past it's not funny. Apple was upfront enough to annouce that they could either have CD burning in OS X or they could have Disk Burner and iTunes burn to non-Apple CD-Rs and RWs. How much support does MS offer to old OSes? Not a hell of a lot.
Where is SP7 for NT4? Oh wait, there isn't one. Where is USB support for NT4? Oh wait, there isn't going to be any.
And the list goes on and on.
I'd be interested in that too.
I had two seperate regimens of radiation treatments over the course of 2 years.
And what about drugs like Vincristine or MP6 that mess around with the actual cell division and replication of the DNA while your on it?
Take Radiation and nasty chemicals at the same time and what does that do to a person?
I read it just now up till the point where he starts to quote Bill Gate's "The Road Ahead" then I paused, snorted and decided I'd try to read it again when I wasn't at work and could shout at the screen about how stupid MS is.
When I read things like this, I have the feeling that MS is either very stupid or very scared. I almost get a sense from MS of the kind of ignorant dispair you get with press releases from Soviet-style governments. In 20 years will places like Sovietski.com be selling MS apparel and glassware like they do with the Russians/Eastern Europeans?
Since Sealand "isn't UK property" that's why the UK would use the Royal Marines or SAS or Royal Navy instead of Police.
Personally, I don't think a metal platform built by the UK government in the Second World War can NOT be the property of the UK, or be an independant nation-state...but that's not the issue at hand.
The issue at hand is...Sealand...what's to stop the UK government from taking them out by force? Nothing. The Royal Marines or SAS could go in there, arrest every last squatter and there is NOTHING that any other goverment could do or say about it. Well people might pipe up and whine. But Sealand isn't going to get any protection from anyone. And with the increasing Federalization of Europe...Sealand's chances are slipping away. French, Dutch...whatever links to the Internet will become irrelevant.
Bah.
The only way to assult a position is to be heavily armed and strike with overwhelming force.
The BATF didn't do those things at Waco and look what happened to them...dead agents and a standoff that made martyrs out of very heavily armed nutjobs with a penchant for pedophilia and the Bible.
Ruby Ridge was also a bad case, but look what happened with the fools in Montana...Heavily armed FBI in huge numbers surround them and there is a peaceful resolution.
People here sometimes get it in thier head that FBI=BoogieMan . It's not true, they are just doing thier job in this case. If I had a website linked with the Seattle WTO riots and now the FTAA riots, I'd be expecting the FBI or Secret Service (don't call them the SS...that's just rude). If your site was involved with something like this and you didn't expect the FBI to send you a court order...you're an idiot.
Well, yea I know who Goddard is. I didn't say the US got all of it's rocket technology from the Germans. The statement is true. The US got rocket technology from the Germans. Alot of our technology did come from the Germans. As did alot of Russian rocket technology.
What did this all have to do with the AF and the X-33? Nothing...the thread all started off of "and let's not forget their success with developing jet power rapidly in the 40s (with the help of the German military)".
So I might have been offtopic. Sorry.
BTW - I think it'd been nice if the USAF did help keep that project alive.
Couple hours ago, after I posted, I was surfing around and found a website linked off the Federation of American Scientist website - www.fas.org - and there was a link to a page (on another computer...that's why I don't remeber it) about the history of the P-80. 4 were sent to Europe and used for recon. Some places say they were in Italy, others in England...so I'm not sure.
I know the B-29 that was sent to Europe in WW2 was done just so the German's would think it was there in a show of force. Something like, leaving it in the open till they were sure than a photo bird had flown over, then took it back to the States.
I agree with that.
I think I was wrong on that first US combat jet's name. I think it was the called the XP-59 AiraComet. The AirCobra was the Bell P-39, disliked by the Americans and Brits, it was used by the Russians as an Anti-Tank attack plane to great effect.
In spring of 41 the US got the blueprints for the Gloster E-28/29 jet prototype's engines...and that was used in the XP-59.
The Lockheed P-80A was the first US fighter to be sent to a combat zone (Italy) and then was used to great effect in Korea. It used a GE engine, not the engine the Bell XP-59 used.
The US got rocket technology from the Germans, as did the Brits and Russians.
However...US jet technology was initially jointly developed with the British. The US did get some Me 262s late in the war and after the war from the Germans, and those engines were higher powered but had extremely short lives.
The first American combat jet was the AirCobra, but it never went into combat, then the P-80 was sent to Italy in spring of '45...but never saw combat. Had the Allied invasion of Japan taken place in Nov 45 and spring of 46 more of the more advanced P-80s would have flown in combat. But the atomic bomb ended the invasion plans.
I work for a private school that has a .edu.
So it's not been limited all the time to higher ed.
"If it had been Apple's, then you know it would've done better. Sure, Intel has a vested interest in promoting USB, and sure, Intel is a pretty big company. But as big as Apple? Not by a long shot."
Intel is much, much bigger than Apple is. Intel's marketcap is 185.81 billion USD while Apple's is 7.7 billion USD as of 7.52 am PDT today.
I agree though that Firewire is much better than USB 2.0. As for those that wonder why Firewire isn't on more motherboards...well...thank Intel for that.
There are Epson scanners and printers that have Firewire, as well as some Canons and Agfas...but the Firewire for Printers and Scanners are only on the high end machines.
Now I like USB for keyboards and mice and PDAs, but bo does it suck compared to Firewire for things like CD burners.
USB 2.0 just seemed like a half-assed attempt to overthrow Firewire using Intel's might.
I recall reading the fastest a MiG 25 was clocked by the west were MiG-25 recon birds flying out of Syria and chased by Israel F-4s. I'd read that they were clocked at Mach 2.7.
The MiG-25 was designed not to fight the F-15, but to intercept the XB-70 bomber, which was a Mach 3+ high altitude delta wing bomber, like a nasty Concorde with nukes. The XB-70 was canned and then development started on the B-1B, but the MiG-25 continued. The F-15 was actually designed to beat the MiG-25...not the other way around.
We didn't capture any Russian ships or airplanes in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Russian Missiles were there in Cuba to offset American Missiles in Turkey. The Russian UN and US Ambassitors were asked privately and publicly if there were missiles in Cuba and they said no.
Then it became a poltical game.
Go see Thirteen Days and you might understand better.
Not our fault that the Chinese don't have the ability to project power. The Russians do still fly surveillance flights off the coast of the Western US.
If the Chinese wanted to, they could buy some Tu-95s or Tu-22s and fly Elint flights off the US coast and see what professional interception looks like.
Australia/Asia's freedoms that exsist today are because of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Air Corps (Air Force today), as well as the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Dutch forces and the Free French. The US took the brunt of the fighting simply becuase the other United Nations forces were more involved in Europe.
Yes...it was nearly 50 years ago, but it's because of the sacrifices of those men against an oppresive Imperal Japanese military that Australia and Asia have the freedoms that they enjoy today.
War isn't cool, but it has been and will be a part of foreign policy of all nations. It's been that way in one form or another since Man formed communities.