The US picked Grand Forks North Dakota for the ABM site. IIRC the Sprint missiles there were the fastest acclerating missiles ever built, even today nothing can out accelerate them, they looked like a huge golf tee.
Yes...when will electronics get the same rights as electronics in the Bank's Culture novels?
My personal feelings on the rights of animals, electronics and humans are quite simple. If the being is self-aware I don't think they should be killed. The exception to this are cows and chickens...because I like to eat them, I don't kill them...I leave that up to someonelse...except for the time I capped the cow with the.45...that damned cow was a pain in the butt...always getting out of the pasture.
What was the name fo that critter...Dagget? Something like that.
Except the one is BG could defend...I want an AIBO that will attack...put a pepper spray device in the head and order it to guard the dor until it hears the owners voice to tell it to stand down. Hell my iMac has voice reconition now for logging in...why not a AIBO?
Personally (and I'll prbly piss people off with this comment) I feel that nature (acting through bugs and disease) needs to do more to limit out of control population growth.
I don't think hunter/killer nannites flying around killing insects is that good of an idea.
If we have all these little nanites running around cleaning our bodies and making us live better and healthier lives...whats that going to do to the population explosion?
I enjoy an afternoon of American Football and the ESPN recap, and I also love the A&E/History Channel/Sci-FI.
Try not to stereotype people that enjoy televised sports as being dunderheads that won't watch "educational" programing. One can always get around channels you don't want to watch by programing the TV to by-pass them.
If you are getting channels you don't want, contact your cable provider. I know that here in Portland OR it took alot to get some of the channels we wanted (Sci-Fi) so fight to get things taken off the cable.
OS 9 will be in stores on the 23rd of October (in the US at least), X Client should have been out in the first Quarter of '00, but I read over at Macosrumors that there is some delays going on, so there could be a public preview and that it should ship in the 2nd Quarter of '00. Personally I';d bet it comes out at the WWDC in May of next year.
I have been running OS 9 on an older Mac (75MHz 6200) and the TCP/IP and File Sharing seem to have really gotten alot snappier.
I've had a very interesting medical history (think cancer x2) and I know that I don't want my medical records on-line.
Now if this stuff gets out in the public sector with insurance companies and employeers getting ahold of this it could become hard to find a job, especially if the economy dips and the job market flip-flops so that employeers have the upper hand.
Although I would love to have a copy of my Mayo Clinic records just to page through...I don't want this information on a vulnerable network...and you know when this stuff is put online it will prbly be sitting on NT boxes.
I'm an American and I am glad we are building this. I'm from the part of South Dakota that used to have Minuteman missile silos. In fact I was as close to Ground Zero as anyone in the United States. I'm also from an Indian Reservation in South Dakota (Chyenne River Indian Reservation) so I have seen all the proverty, homelessness and drug addiction you can shake a bottle of Boone's Farm at.
As far as I am concerned this missile system will be a shield not a sword.
Would a missile defence system be worth the money if a North Korean ICBM was heading towards the Bay Area was intercepted?
You are right, China's military is not small...but it does not have the same level of mechanization that a NATO or Eastern European military does. Nor does China have a large ICBM or SLBM force.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/icbm/index.h tml puts China at having about 20 ICBMs. Wyoming has 5 times that many.
Perhaps I am wrong, but won't this technology be used for the proposed missile defence system in Japan, South Korea and perhaps Taiwan?
Since Apple and IBM are togeather on the PowerPCs, I'll bet that IBM will slide some money under the table to Apple before Apple with sue a business partner.
Although Paul Allen's company Ticketmaster did sue Paul Allen's company Microsoft over linking and banner ads and the like a few years ago.
If these are plastic panels like the Nokia phones have (just got my 5170 yesterday and my Orange panel is getting here today) as opposed to sliding a panel in a sleave like the PB 1400s, does Nokia have the patent on that (I didn't read the Apple patent that was linked to above.)
I don't know about Colorado...but here in Oregon they don't teach tax law in the K-12 schools. Myself...I use a Tax program.
Now what do taxes have to do with teaching everyone in the US a new system of measurement? I work in public education and I will tell you that it would be hell to get teachers reeducated so they can teach the Metric System.
I said that because I know that they have no idea what metric measurements are. See I leave my car's LED displays to metric because I happen to use the metric system when I drive. and all three of them freak out when they look over and see how fast I am going.
Try getting your 66 year old grandmother who has been managing a farm for 40 years to switch from acres to hectares and pounds to kilos.
I wasn't being sexist...I was making a point. If the US switched to the metric system who is going to reeducate everyone.
So where are we going to get all the money to go metric?
Who is going to pay for teacher education, then new text books and finally teaching the kids. Also how many road signs in the United States will have to be changed? Here is a more sinple answer. How many millions of dollars will it take to replace all the gas station signs in the US?
Do you think my mother, grandmother or girlfirend have the faintest idea how long a kilometer is? How many people out there in the US know the metric system?
Alot of products have both systems of measurement on the package already but where is the money going to come from for education and replacment.
Yes they did. Becuase the British did the work for them in the Med.
On November 12,1940, British torpedo bombers launched an attack on the Taranto harbor in Italy. It was studied by the Japanese and many of the same ideas were used against Pearl Harbor.
1. The Germans did the same thing to London during the Blitz. 2. It was just the Americans bombing Japan. 3. The Brits and Americans firebombed Germany too (Hamburg, Dresden).
While the firestorms in the Japanese cities did more damage and killed as many people as the atomic bombs in WW2, it took hundreds of planes every night for 2-3 days. The atomic bomb takes one plane.
The Soviet Union did. They had some in the same class as our ALCM and SLCMs. And they were working on some 3000km ranged ALCMs.
Not sure if China is working on any cruise missiles. Check out the Federation of American Scientists (www.fas.org). They have a newly revised China section.
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Is this true?
If it is where can I find more information on it?
I looked on the FCC website, but the search engine there isn't all that friendly.
Why not have a RoboPigeon that goes in behind the RoboFly and deploys some of that IP transmission "dust"?
The US picked Grand Forks North Dakota for the ABM site. IIRC the Sprint missiles there were the fastest acclerating missiles ever built, even today nothing can out accelerate them, they looked like a huge golf tee.
Yes...when will electronics get the same rights as electronics in the Bank's Culture novels?
.45...that damned cow was a pain in the butt...always getting out of the pasture.
My personal feelings on the rights of animals, electronics and humans are quite simple. If the being is self-aware I don't think they should be killed. The exception to this are cows and chickens...because I like to eat them, I don't kill them...I leave that up to someonelse...except for the time I capped the cow with the
Ummm Tacos...
Was is Battlestar Galactica by any chance?
What was the name fo that critter...Dagget? Something like that.
Except the one is BG could defend...I want an AIBO that will attack...put a pepper spray device in the head and order it to guard the dor until it hears the owners voice to tell it to stand down. Hell my iMac has voice reconition now for logging in...why not a AIBO?
Don't alot of those pesky bugs pollanate plants?
Personally (and I'll prbly piss people off with this comment) I feel that nature (acting through bugs and disease) needs to do more to limit out of control population growth.
I don't think hunter/killer nannites flying around killing insects is that good of an idea.
If we have all these little nanites running around cleaning our bodies and making us live better and healthier lives...whats that going to do to the population explosion?
Hey. Now that's kind of elitist isn't it?
I enjoy an afternoon of American Football and the ESPN recap, and I also love the A&E/History Channel/Sci-FI.
Try not to stereotype people that enjoy televised sports as being dunderheads that won't watch "educational" programing. One can always get around channels you don't want to watch by programing the TV to by-pass them.
If you are getting channels you don't want, contact your cable provider. I know that here in Portland OR it took alot to get some of the channels we wanted (Sci-Fi) so fight to get things taken off the cable.
OS 9 will be in stores on the 23rd of October (in the US at least), X Client should have been out in the first Quarter of '00, but I read over at Macosrumors that there is some delays going on, so there could be a public preview and that it should ship in the 2nd Quarter of '00. Personally I';d bet it comes out at the WWDC in May of next year.
I have been running OS 9 on an older Mac (75MHz 6200) and the TCP/IP and File Sharing seem to have really gotten alot snappier.
I just got the latest copy of Wired, and they had a photo of a Replay TV with it's lid off...and it even has two Firewire ports in it.
Here is a little article about Firewire vs. USB 2.0, for what it's worth.
http://www.mackido.com/Hardware/USB20.html
I've had a very interesting medical history (think cancer x2) and I know that I don't want my medical records on-line.
Now if this stuff gets out in the public sector with insurance companies and employeers getting ahold of this it could become hard to find a job, especially if the economy dips and the job market flip-flops so that employeers have the upper hand.
Although I would love to have a copy of my Mayo Clinic records just to page through...I don't want this information on a vulnerable network...and you know when this stuff is put online it will prbly be sitting on NT boxes.
Sounds like the "Young Ones" actually.
I can sure boot my Beige G3 Power Mac from a floppy.
I'm an American and I am glad we are building this. I'm from the part of South Dakota that used to have Minuteman missile silos. In fact I was as close to Ground Zero as anyone in the United States. I'm also from an Indian Reservation in South Dakota (Chyenne River Indian Reservation) so I have seen all the proverty, homelessness and drug addiction you can shake a bottle of Boone's Farm at.
As far as I am concerned this missile system will be a shield not a sword.
Would a missile defence system be worth the money if a North Korean ICBM was heading towards the Bay Area was intercepted?
You are right, China's military is not small...but it does not have the same level of mechanization that a NATO or Eastern European military does. Nor does China have a large ICBM or SLBM force.
h tml puts China at having about 20 ICBMs. Wyoming has 5 times that many.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/icbm/index.
Perhaps I am wrong, but won't this technology be used for the proposed missile defence system in Japan, South Korea and perhaps Taiwan?
Since Apple and IBM are togeather on the PowerPCs, I'll bet that IBM will slide some money under the table to Apple before Apple with sue a business partner.
Although Paul Allen's company Ticketmaster did sue Paul Allen's company Microsoft over linking and banner ads and the like a few years ago.
If these are plastic panels like the Nokia phones have (just got my 5170 yesterday and my Orange panel is getting here today) as opposed to sliding a panel in a sleave like the PB 1400s, does Nokia have the patent on that (I didn't read the Apple patent that was linked to above.)
I don't know about Colorado...but here in Oregon they don't teach tax law in the K-12 schools. Myself...I use a Tax program.
Now what do taxes have to do with teaching everyone in the US a new system of measurement? I work in public education and I will tell you that it would be hell to get teachers reeducated so they can teach the Metric System.
I said that because I know that they have no idea what metric measurements are. See I leave my car's LED displays to metric because I happen to use the metric system when I drive. and all three of them freak out when they look over and see how fast I am going.
Try getting your 66 year old grandmother who has been managing a farm for 40 years to switch from acres to hectares and pounds to kilos.
I wasn't being sexist...I was making a point. If the US switched to the metric system who is going to reeducate everyone.
So where are we going to get all the money to go metric?
Who is going to pay for teacher education, then new text books and finally teaching the kids. Also how many road signs in the United States will have to be changed? Here is a more sinple answer. How many millions of dollars will it take to replace all the gas station signs in the US?
Do you think my mother, grandmother or girlfirend have the faintest idea how long a kilometer is? How many people out there in the US know the metric system?
Alot of products have both systems of measurement on the package already but where is the money going to come from for education and replacment.
I remember seeing these at Sears and Wards back in the 80's.
Yes they did. Becuase the British did the work for them in the Med.
On November 12,1940, British torpedo bombers launched an attack on the Taranto harbor in Italy. It was studied by the Japanese and many of the same ideas were used against Pearl Harbor.
When did Germany launch an ICBM? If you are talking about the V2...it was an SRBM - like a SCUD or Lance missile.
1. The Germans did the same thing to London during the Blitz.
2. It was just the Americans bombing Japan.
3. The Brits and Americans firebombed Germany too (Hamburg, Dresden).
While the firestorms in the Japanese cities did more damage and killed as many people as the atomic bombs in WW2, it took hundreds of planes every night for 2-3 days. The atomic bomb takes one plane.
The Soviet Union did. They had some in the same class as our ALCM and SLCMs. And they were working on some 3000km ranged ALCMs.
Not sure if China is working on any cruise missiles. Check out the Federation of American Scientists (www.fas.org). They have a newly revised China section.
Macnn.com is reporting that there is a $30,000 fine for using AirPort in France. Will this apply to all wireless networks like Dell's new AeroNet?
Will the French drive around in little vans with DF'ing for laptops?