I have Redhat for Server.
I have Macintosh for almost everything
I have Win2K for Games. I was running NT4 but one day it blew up on me and I thought, what the heck, I'll put Win2K on it for a change. A hell of alot better for games than NT4. As for why I wasn't running Win9x...because there's no SMP support in it.
So there's a consumer with W2K for playing games:)
You get used to it fast. When OS 8 out and introduced the Contextual Menu in 97, I picked it up quick, mouse with the right and pinkie finger to the Control key with the left . Then I went out a few monthes later and got my Kensington Orbit.
Now I have an MS Intellithingy Explorer. Really nice mouse on a Mac. Oh and I still have my Kensington Orbit for playing Q3 and UT, because I just can't get used to a mouse in those two games.
For years...no decades people in the US have whined about how the Corporations are running everything and takine our rights away.
I'm 27, I still have my Right to Bare Arms, my Right of Free Speech, My Right to Record stuff on my Replay TV and my Right to Download P0rn on my G3.
I've been all over the World, and I'm pretty up to date on Geo-political issues, and IMHO there isn't a more free Democratic-Republic on Earth.
Corporations are not evil. They are just there. Attempting to do what is right for thier shareholders and employees.
To answer your question. It's not that bad./. just has alot of Chicken Little's screaming the sky is falling all the time.
If you think the US is bad...I suggest you go out and read up on...Oh. Nazi Germany, Czarist or Communist Russia, most of Central and Southern Africa. North Korea or Communist China...Places where there really are no rights.
I thought the article was pretty stupid, typical end of the year...no news...gotta blather about something negative.
Now the argument that not much happened between 100 CE and 1700 CE is just flat wrong. Off the top of my hungover head. Printing Press, Compass, Rockets, Gunpowder and Microscope are pretty important.
I'd say without the lightblub...advanced communications networks or gene therapy wouldn't happen. After all there is a LED blinking in that fibre switch that's sending the light down the fibre that gets these packets around.
I think that invention is moving along quite quicky, it's just that when you are so far advanced it's hard to make things really jump out. It's also hard to sit there as the advance happens and say...wow...that's gonna change the world.
When they sent the first email 30 years ago...did anyone there say...Wow...This is gonna change the world! Nope. When Chuck Yeager flew through faster than sound did anyone say...Wow this is going to change military aviation? Nope. It was just another day.
IMHO you can't sit there and say invention is slowing...or speading up...because invention isn't a finite thing that can be measured that way.
The American ASAT and the Russian 51T6 Gorgon - which is the ABM system that defend Moscow...while they could hit Mir...it is against International Agreements to do so. That's why the American ASAT, which was launched from an F-15 was abandoned in the late 80s. The Russian ABMs are still operational...I think. But they are nuclear armed.
Bah - Bush was Governor of Texas...where is the Johnson Space Center? Texas. Bush's brother is Governor of Florida...where is the Kennedy Space Center...come on...you know...yep Florida.
I figured that Bush would increase funding for NASA, kind of like his daddy did from 89-93. Clinton never understood it. I doubt Gore did either, even though I did for for Gore...I had serious doubts about him.
Suppose your Navy Destroyer is hit with a missile or a bunch of wackos pop off a couple hundred pounds of C4 next to the hull. Think a Logitech or MS Mouse will keep working? I know that the computers will keep running, all of those things are on shock mounts. Have you seen the over-enginered flat panel displays the DoD buys?
But the mouse? Will it keep running? You need something...stout so that you'll be able to keep inputing.
Just because it's not the kind of mouse that most people need on thier desk...The Military and heavy industry has other needs that many geeks just don't get.
TNN got the rights to Star Trek the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
Yes. The Nashville Network. Over the next five years they will rebrand themselves into The Nation's Network. Sci Fi tried to get the Star Trek series, but TNN outbid them.
The Genie (AIR-2) had a 1.5 KT W-25 atomic warhead. It was live fired in 1957 and 4-5 engineers and a film guy from the Army Unit that did all the atomic bomb filming stood right under it as it was command detonated at 19,000. Shot John of operation Plumbob. It was deployed on the F-101, F-89, F-106, and F-102. The Canadian Air Force also deployed them on CF-101s until the 1980s.
Falcon (AIM-26A) had a.5 KT W-54 warhead. That Air to Air missile that was in service before the Sparrow. Most had a conventional warhead but it could be fitted with the nuke if need be.
Nike Hercules (SAM) - Carried a 20KT W-31 warhead
Talos (SAM) - carried a 5KT W-30 warhead
BOMARC (SAM) - carried a 7-10 KT W-40 warhead - US and Canada
Terrier (SAM) - carried a 1KT W-45-0 warhead
Spartan and Sprint - nuclear tipped ABMs. Sprint was really neat. It could acclerate from 0 to 3,200 feet/sec.
The US Navy also had a number of anti-submarine nukes like the ASROC or the Sea Lance.
I think the planning for the US Civil Engineering using atomic devices was Project Plowshare. I think the first use of this was going to be up on the coast of Alaska and they wanted to dig a large harbor north of Nome.
The US never did this...but the Soviets did between 50-60 times. I need to look in my National Geographics...they did a story about this in 1994.
The Shuttle's turn around time was to be 15 days. Now we are launching them every month. NASA doesn't have the funding...it's all about dollars and NASA doesn't get them. Why is the Shuttle what it is today...with the External fuel tanks that burn up and the SRBs that get detached? Because of budget cuts in the early 70s.
"Defund NASA if you want space exploration" - will private companies fund space telescopes that don't make them any money? Will they fund new deep space engines in tests? Will they spend money to send probes to the outer planets or comets?
No to all three - because a private company needs to spend money to make money. Exploration has never been funded from the private sector. NASA does explore space...as well as it can with it's budget.
Military spending is just only getting back to 1992 dollar amounts - for it's size and structure the US Military is underfunded.
I think NASA should be better funded - It has been cut every year under the Clinton Administration or had it's budget remain the same without even increases to offset inflation.
Pull 15 billion dollars from Welfare and toss it to NASA. Better yet - Cut the entire budget of the DEA and give it to NASA.
The display is really nice...even if it is a 12.1.
I get complements all the time when I use my Tangerine iBook at work, about how bright anc clear the screen is even under intense light and from the side.
The iBooks have been shipping with 64MB of RAM since...MacWorld/MacExpo Tokyo. Thats when they all bumped to 6GB HDs and then iBook SE in Graphite came out.
I think that all the Macs should ship with 128...but that would cut into profits...and I'm a shareholder...SOOOO...leave it at 64 for now:).
"Reigniting old rumors which have surfaced several times in the past few years, the latest edition of The Drudge Report speculates on an impending merger announcement between Pixar, Apple, and Disney. We advise readers to be highly skeptical of this rumor; AppleInsider first published an article more than 18 months ago that also suggested a possible Apple/Disney merger was in the works."
This has popped up so many times, I laughed so hard when Drudge put this up there.
And compared to Drudge.../. is hella better. When was the last time "the President's Talking Penis" was a 72 point headline on/.?
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Not to be flamebaity. But Bose are really crap compared to other speakers in the same price range.
I have Redhat for Server.
:)
I have Macintosh for almost everything
I have Win2K for Games. I was running NT4 but one day it blew up on me and I thought, what the heck, I'll put Win2K on it for a change. A hell of alot better for games than NT4. As for why I wasn't running Win9x...because there's no SMP support in it.
So there's a consumer with W2K for playing games
You get used to it fast. When OS 8 out and introduced the Contextual Menu in 97, I picked it up quick, mouse with the right and pinkie finger to the Control key with the left . Then I went out a few monthes later and got my Kensington Orbit.
Now I have an MS Intellithingy Explorer. Really nice mouse on a Mac. Oh and I still have my Kensington Orbit for playing Q3 and UT, because I just can't get used to a mouse in those two games.
I have an April 1997 PCWorld that talks about Windows NT 5 coming out in June of 1997, even though it is a year late.
For years...no decades people in the US have whined about how the Corporations are running everything and takine our rights away.
/. just has alot of Chicken Little's screaming the sky is falling all the time.
I'm 27, I still have my Right to Bare Arms, my Right of Free Speech, My Right to Record stuff on my Replay TV and my Right to Download P0rn on my G3.
I've been all over the World, and I'm pretty up to date on Geo-political issues, and IMHO there isn't a more free Democratic-Republic on Earth.
Corporations are not evil. They are just there. Attempting to do what is right for thier shareholders and employees.
To answer your question. It's not that bad.
If you think the US is bad...I suggest you go out and read up on...Oh. Nazi Germany, Czarist or Communist Russia, most of Central and Southern Africa. North Korea or Communist China...Places where there really are no rights.
Because when you buy a Viao, you are buying a Windows licence.
I thought the article was pretty stupid, typical end of the year...no news...gotta blather about something negative.
Now the argument that not much happened between 100 CE and 1700 CE is just flat wrong. Off the top of my hungover head. Printing Press, Compass, Rockets, Gunpowder and Microscope are pretty important.
I'd say without the lightblub...advanced communications networks or gene therapy wouldn't happen. After all there is a LED blinking in that fibre switch that's sending the light down the fibre that gets these packets around.
I think that invention is moving along quite quicky, it's just that when you are so far advanced it's hard to make things really jump out. It's also hard to sit there as the advance happens and say...wow...that's gonna change the world.
When they sent the first email 30 years ago...did anyone there say...Wow...This is gonna change the world! Nope. When Chuck Yeager flew through faster than sound did anyone say...Wow this is going to change military aviation? Nope. It was just another day.
IMHO you can't sit there and say invention is slowing...or speading up...because invention isn't a finite thing that can be measured that way.
Against the law.
The American ASAT and the Russian 51T6 Gorgon - which is the ABM system that defend Moscow...while they could hit Mir...it is against International Agreements to do so. That's why the American ASAT, which was launched from an F-15 was abandoned in the late 80s. The Russian ABMs are still operational...I think. But they are nuclear armed.
Bah - Bush was Governor of Texas...where is the Johnson Space Center? Texas. Bush's brother is Governor of Florida...where is the Kennedy Space Center...come on...you know...yep Florida.
I figured that Bush would increase funding for NASA, kind of like his daddy did from 89-93. Clinton never understood it. I doubt Gore did either, even though I did for for Gore...I had serious doubts about him.
Don't know about the rest of the world, but that's what everyone in the Midwest calls a 18-wheeler.
A semi-truck.
A Freightliner, Peterbuilt, Kenworth, GM/Volvo...A big-rig.
Suppose your Navy Destroyer is hit with a missile or a bunch of wackos pop off a couple hundred pounds of C4 next to the hull. Think a Logitech or MS Mouse will keep working? I know that the computers will keep running, all of those things are on shock mounts. Have you seen the over-enginered flat panel displays the DoD buys?
But the mouse? Will it keep running? You need something...stout so that you'll be able to keep inputing.
Just because it's not the kind of mouse that most people need on thier desk...The Military and heavy industry has other needs that many geeks just don't get.
TNN got the rights to Star Trek the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
Yes. The Nashville Network. Over the next five years they will rebrand themselves into The Nation's Network. Sci Fi tried to get the Star Trek series, but TNN outbid them.
It's .74 AUs from the Sun, that's only about 20 million miles from Earth.
Pioneer 10 and 11 are the ones that are waaay out there.
Looks more like an M-109 155mm Howitzer.
Less of a tank and more of a SP howitzer.
If I spend a year on the ISS...do I have to pay taxes for my income that year?
The Genie (AIR-2) had a 1.5 KT W-25 atomic warhead. It was live fired in 1957 and 4-5 engineers and a film guy from the Army Unit that did all the atomic bomb filming stood right under it as it was command detonated at 19,000. Shot John of operation Plumbob. It was deployed on the F-101, F-89, F-106, and F-102. The Canadian Air Force also deployed them on CF-101s until the 1980s.
.5 KT W-54 warhead. That Air to Air missile that was in service before the Sparrow. Most had a conventional warhead but it could be fitted with the nuke if need be.
Falcon (AIM-26A) had a
Nike Hercules (SAM) - Carried a 20KT W-31 warhead
Talos (SAM) - carried a 5KT W-30 warhead
BOMARC (SAM) - carried a 7-10 KT W-40 warhead - US and Canada
Terrier (SAM) - carried a 1KT W-45-0 warhead
Spartan and Sprint - nuclear tipped ABMs. Sprint was really neat. It could acclerate from 0 to 3,200 feet/sec.
The US Navy also had a number of anti-submarine nukes like the ASROC or the Sea Lance.
I think the planning for the US Civil Engineering using atomic devices was Project Plowshare. I think the first use of this was going to be up on the coast of Alaska and they wanted to dig a large harbor north of Nome.
The US never did this...but the Soviets did between 50-60 times. I need to look in my National Geographics...they did a story about this in 1994.
Davy Crocket -
155mm recoiless rocket with a W-54 20-250 ton yield nuclear device on the tip. Range of a 1000 feet to 2.5 miles.
400 warheads were built.
It was designed to give an Army infantry unit the ability to assault large units of Soviet armour.
It was first live fired on 7 July 1962 with the Little Feller II test. It was in servie from 1965 till 1971.
The Shuttle's turn around time was to be 15 days. Now we are launching them every month. NASA doesn't have the funding...it's all about dollars and NASA doesn't get them. Why is the Shuttle what it is today...with the External fuel tanks that burn up and the SRBs that get detached? Because of budget cuts in the early 70s.
"Defund NASA if you want space exploration" - will private companies fund space telescopes that don't make them any money? Will they fund new deep space engines in tests? Will they spend money to send probes to the outer planets or comets?
No to all three - because a private company needs to spend money to make money. Exploration has never been funded from the private sector. NASA does explore space...as well as it can with it's budget.
12 years is the youngest I'll drink.
I like Dalwhinnie and Oban as well as Balvine Single Barrel 15 year old.
I'm a big fan of Balvine Singel Barrel because often you will get a 17-20 year old scotch for the price of a 15.
Why the military?
Military spending is just only getting back to 1992 dollar amounts - for it's size and structure the US Military is underfunded.
I think NASA should be better funded - It has been cut every year under the Clinton Administration or had it's budget remain the same without even increases to offset inflation.
Pull 15 billion dollars from Welfare and toss it to NASA. Better yet - Cut the entire budget of the DEA and give it to NASA.
You can get it @ boarders here in the Portland Metro area.
We also got it in Vermillion SD @ USD in the early 90s.
The display is really nice...even if it is a 12.1.
I get complements all the time when I use my Tangerine iBook at work, about how bright anc clear the screen is even under intense light and from the side.
The iBooks have been shipping with 64MB of RAM since...MacWorld/MacExpo Tokyo. Thats when they all bumped to 6GB HDs and then iBook SE in Graphite came out.
:).
I think that all the Macs should ship with 128...but that would cut into profits...and I'm a shareholder...SOOOO...leave it at 64 for now
From macnn.com this morning...
/.?
"Reigniting old rumors which have surfaced several times in the past few years, the latest edition of The Drudge Report speculates on an impending merger announcement between Pixar, Apple, and Disney. We advise readers to be highly skeptical of this rumor; AppleInsider first published an article more than 18 months ago that also suggested a possible Apple/Disney merger was in the works."
This has popped up so many times, I laughed so hard when Drudge put this up there.
And compared to Drudge.../. is hella better. When was the last time "the President's Talking Penis" was a 72 point headline on