As I discovered in the boring days when K5 was down and I had no better thing to do than troll/.'s submission que; When it comes to Apple they apparently do not bother to check shit.
You touch upon a very complicated issue; One of the defining issues of the war of 1812 in fact. It was never easy to assemble a crew for a man of war in those days. 20 years service under threat of lash and cannon with little hope of standing on English soil in all that time is not a sales pitch many will fall for. So the British resorted to forced service; Both of their own people (the infamous press gangs of English ports) and of pirates, POWs, and when worse came to worse merchant seamen from whatever boats happened by. American shipping was particularly preyed upon for several reasons, not the least of which was the American's open defiance of the British blockade of the continent during the Napoleonic conflicts. American ships werre also far easier to serve on than British ships, 5 year enlistments with far less corporal punishment even in the USN, which led to many a British sailor's desertion to American vessels (whose captains too had difficulties raising crew so they welcomed desserters).
So sometimes the British were just retreiving their missing sailors yet sometimes they were illegaly preying on nuetral shipping (hell, it was not unknown for Royal Navy ships to press crew from their own merchant ships). Eventually there was a tussle over it (and other issues obviously) that ended in stalemate but the Napoleonic conflicts were also winding down which led to a smaller RN and the issue became moot.
Sorry, I didn't know we were only concerned with improving your C++ and Perl skills, I was coming from the angle of improving C++ or Perl themselves. You are right, you don't need to know about Babbage for that. Same as a fry cook doesn't need to know the history of grease traps. If you aspire to more than dredge work, say creating your own programming language or engineering a new method for cooking fries, then you will need to know your history.
But if you are content being the high tech equivlent of a brain-dead, teenage, minimum-wage earning fry cook, ignorance is perfectly acceptable.
I've mentioned before the inherant momentum problems in using ferrite core memory at the modern 100-133MHz speeds. Many of my mutant monkey research assistants have been killed by ferrite cores blowing holes in them on the way to near earth orbit when containment fails. Sad really.
So, if you want to make good, inventive, new rock and roll music, knowledge of Elvis and the Beatles is useless? No it won't affect your technical skills, just your creative skills. If you want to be the dime-a-dozen bass player of the digital world then no, you don't need to know history. If you want to actually do something new and inventive history is essential.
With this ruling, which makes perfect sense with regards to zoning laws (sorry P2P people, this doesn't cover you), it seems that online gambling should recieve the same protection. For adult businesses and gambling establishments the reasoning in controlling them via legislation is their 'secondary effects' on the immediate community. There is no other constitutional justification for controlling these industries and since online-only businesses do not have any significant detrimental effect on the surrounding communities they can not be contrilled via zoning restrictions. Any attempt to do so is most likely a violation of the seperation clause of the 1st amendment as the only reasoning behind controlling these industries is purely religous.
All this dog was missing was Rick Moranis turning to the camera and saying "Did you get that?". The expositional dialouge was truly horrid... worse than the rest of the bad dialouge.
Aircraft are not officially named would have been a better way to put it. More to do with production numbers than tradition as dirigibles were officially named IIRC.
But your solution adresses only the symptoms. Counter to what I've seen a distressing number of people say, this was not done out of pure evil. These people have their reasons and those reasons are what we must eradicate. Sure, if we find out who did it, we must retaliate and retaliate hard, but this is not a solution but rather a deterrent.
Take a look at anti-semitic propaganda from the early part of this past century. Jews are represented as small with big heads (and noses of course) and as being astonishingly dumb for a group that "controlled the finances of the world". Sounds like a Ferengi to me. I'm not saying that they did it purposefully, in fact I highly doubt they did, but the parallels are disturbing in their implications of the writer's ignorance if nothing else.
If you and Trek are ignorant of the portrayal of jews in anti-semitic screeds, that's your and Trek's problem, not mine.
one of the male (human) characters apparently becomes pregnant
Does he go to an alternate universe where there is a female version of himself, get tanked, sleep with her, and then discover that in the alternate universe the males get pregnant?
"For some reason she seemed to think watching two men have sex would turn me on!"
Star Trek represented a utopian vision of our future.
Uh huh, an utopian future where there have been no new works of art/literature/music since the 20th century. An utopia where ships have tele/empathic thought police masquerading as "ship's counselers". An utopia where homosexuality, in fact any deviation from the norm, is viewed as suspect. An utopia which claims to respect all ideologies yet reacts with instant and total hate for the Ferengi (and I won't even get into the anti-semitic overtones of that particular Trek ideal). Their utopia is a sterile place indeed.
They could make a damn good dark Trek series exploring the price the Federation payed for their "utopia". I don't think TOS suffers from this nearly to the degree TNG/DS9/STV do, so something had to have happened inbetween the 6th movie and TNG.
One little difference (that does not invalidate your point) is that unlike the US other nations can't invade Redmond. OPEC cuts us off and Venezuela (the closest OPEC member state) will suffer an invasion that will make the Wermacht blitzkrieg look positively sluggish. Brazil has no leverage with Microsoft at all, the US has the leverage of massive force when dealing with OPEC.
Not quite, an RWS M36 has a muzzle velocity of 1000 Feet per second (305 m/s). An M-60 Machine Gun (very fast 7.62 NATO round) only spits out bullets at 838 m/s (2750 f/s).
Are those BTO units from their websites? Cause those aren't the ones I'm seeing in catalouges.
The only Thinkpad I can find that matches anything like your specs only has 4MB of video memory (SMI Lynx), is over a pound heavier than the iBook, maxes out at 192MB of RAM (vs 576 for the iBook), and costs $100 more than what you list.
The only Celeron powered Sonys I can find run 12.1" screens. The one that seems similar to yours (800MHz Duron) only has a 10GB HD, is physicly much larger, and weighs 2 pounds more than an iBook.
The Compaq (speaking of shitty assed support) is funky. The cheapest 800MHz PIII I can find starts at $1349, has 64MB RAM, a 10GB HD, no DVD, and a 12" Screen. It also weighs in at 2 Lbs heavier than the iBook.
Even granting that you can BTO the machines you mention, they are ALL heavier and larger than an iBook, as much as it doesn't matter to you the Sony is the only one that doesn't 'gouge' you for Firewire, and they all come with 9x or ME while the iBook ships with OS9 AND OSX.
It's easy to compare favorably when you don't list the specs they all lose out on. Face it, the iBook is COMPETITIVE.... extremely so and anyone who isn't a PC ZEALOT recognizes the fact.
Funny how the PC zealots have gone from 'Macs are much more expensive' to 'Macs are barely competitive'... and that with a loaded comparison.
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Or the 'burnup in the atmosphere' effect... or the 'flies into nearby residential area' effect... or the...
So sometimes the British were just retreiving their missing sailors yet sometimes they were illegaly preying on nuetral shipping (hell, it was not unknown for Royal Navy ships to press crew from their own merchant ships). Eventually there was a tussle over it (and other issues obviously) that ended in stalemate but the Napoleonic conflicts were also winding down which led to a smaller RN and the issue became moot.
But if you are content being the high tech equivlent of a brain-dead, teenage, minimum-wage earning fry cook, ignorance is perfectly acceptable.
Now, what about online prostitution?
All this dog was missing was Rick Moranis turning to the camera and saying "Did you get that?". The expositional dialouge was truly horrid... worse than the rest of the bad dialouge.
Well you are in luck, it's sung by Rod Stewart. Worse luck sure, but luck nonetheless.
Robert E. Howard, C.L. Moore, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and L. Sprague de Camp would probably disagree with you there. Homer might as well.
Tolkein did, admittedly, bring the genre up to literary heights never before seen... since Homer at least.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
As an aside, Tim O'Reilly wrote a critical monograph about Frank Herbert and Dune in 1981 and has put it on the web here.
But your solution adresses only the symptoms. Counter to what I've seen a distressing number of people say, this was not done out of pure evil. These people have their reasons and those reasons are what we must eradicate. Sure, if we find out who did it, we must retaliate and retaliate hard, but this is not a solution but rather a deterrent.
If you and Trek are ignorant of the portrayal of jews in anti-semitic screeds, that's your and Trek's problem, not mine.
Does he go to an alternate universe where there is a female version of himself, get tanked, sleep with her, and then discover that in the alternate universe the males get pregnant?
"For some reason she seemed to think watching two men have sex would turn me on!"
Uh huh, an utopian future where there have been no new works of art/literature/music since the 20th century. An utopia where ships have tele/empathic thought police masquerading as "ship's counselers". An utopia where homosexuality, in fact any deviation from the norm, is viewed as suspect. An utopia which claims to respect all ideologies yet reacts with instant and total hate for the Ferengi (and I won't even get into the anti-semitic overtones of that particular Trek ideal). Their utopia is a sterile place indeed.
They could make a damn good dark Trek series exploring the price the Federation payed for their "utopia". I don't think TOS suffers from this nearly to the degree TNG/DS9/STV do, so something had to have happened inbetween the 6th movie and TNG.
Curse those actors for being bilaterally symetrical humanoids! That is the problem y'know; A woefull lack of non-human shaped actors.
The only Thinkpad I can find that matches anything like your specs only has 4MB of video memory (SMI Lynx), is over a pound heavier than the iBook, maxes out at 192MB of RAM (vs 576 for the iBook), and costs $100 more than what you list.
The only Celeron powered Sonys I can find run 12.1" screens. The one that seems similar to yours (800MHz Duron) only has a 10GB HD, is physicly much larger, and weighs 2 pounds more than an iBook.
The Compaq (speaking of shitty assed support) is funky. The cheapest 800MHz PIII I can find starts at $1349, has 64MB RAM, a 10GB HD, no DVD, and a 12" Screen. It also weighs in at 2 Lbs heavier than the iBook.
Even granting that you can BTO the machines you mention, they are ALL heavier and larger than an iBook, as much as it doesn't matter to you the Sony is the only one that doesn't 'gouge' you for Firewire, and they all come with 9x or ME while the iBook ships with OS9 AND OSX.
It's easy to compare favorably when you don't list the specs they all lose out on. Face it, the iBook is COMPETITIVE.... extremely so and anyone who isn't a PC ZEALOT recognizes the fact.
Funny how the PC zealots have gone from 'Macs are much more expensive' to 'Macs are barely competitive'... and that with a loaded comparison.