I think they just mean naturally in that local area. I've seen miles of rust colored soil in Texas and Asia, but since it's an atoll, any sand would be white, since it's dead coral.
Great, there goes every single bit of hope that the PC industry may recover in Q4.
This is exactly why Microsoft should be punished severely, when an entire sector of the economy revolves around a single company. People aren't buying the latest & greatest PCs because they're major overkill for most peoples' needs and they can get by with year or two old ones. Just because a single company releases some resource intensive (hog) software shouldn't force people to upgrade their computers.
Second, my previous post was from memory. This time I did a really quick search on encyclopedia.com. I could've found multitudes more info backing me up with a more in-depth search. What source are you using besides pulling stories from your ass?
What are commonly called jackrabbits are really hares. There are 4 species of hares indigenous to North America:
Black-tailed Hare (Lepus californicus)
White-tailed Hare (Lepus townsendii)
Antelope Jackrabbit (Lepus alleni)
Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), also called the snowshoe rabbit
What you may have been thinking of is quoted from the hare article here:
The large brown hare, L. europaeus, is native to Europe, where it is valued as game. Introduced as a game animal in the NE United States, it has become an agricultural pest.
Yes, the coyote (Canis latrans) is indigenous to North America.
Mange is a skin disease caused by mites in mammals. There are 3 types of mange:
Demodectic Mange, caused by the microscopic mite Demodex canis
Cheyletiella mange, also known as walking dandruff
I have a 10U shock-mount rack case available, if anyone's interested. The rack is spring mounted inside a sturdy fiberglass case, and it's really deep, probably 24". I picked it up from a government surplus sale.
If anyone's interested, the first decent offer takes it. I would sell through ebay for security.
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Bill Shepherd is a US Navy SEAL, which are our most highly trained special operations forces. Military people are very mission oriented, and do whatever it takes to accomplish the mission.
There was a good article on CNN why military veterans make good IT workers that explains this.
I'm biased though, as I was in the US Air Force. My personal motto is "adapt, improvise, & overcome."
For the most part the articles are about what Rob & co. are interested in, but have you looked at some of the questions in Ask Slashdot recently? It seems like Cliff will post any question that hasn't been posted before, or has but asked in a slightly different way. Also, there have been many times that an article gets posted just so people stop submitting it, even though they'd rather not.
Windows 95 full: $150. Windows 98 full: $150. Windows ME full: $150.
I can understand why the full OS price didn't change, but how could they possibly justify $80-$90 for incremental upgrades? Here's what the Windows versions basically equate to:
95 = 4.0
98 = 4.1
Me = 4.2
Just about every new feature in 98 was available as a free download for 95. The only real features not downloadable: USB support (already in 95 OSR2) & multiple monitor support (useful to whom? maybe 0.1% of windows users).
I wasn't sure what new features were in Me, so I just checked out MS's top 10 reasons to upgrade. #1 is home movies, #2 is photos, & #3 is music. What?? Those are supposed to be compelling reasons to upgrade an OS? The only significant items of the 10 are #4 which idiot proofs the system files from being deleted & #5 which does a system rollback when the system gets screwed up.
Those inexpensive planes are incredibly useful in a combat zone. They tend to be low maintenance, require fewer parts per plane, and are much faster to get off the production lines. In addition, the Harrier concept is nearly 40 years old (going back to the pre-Harrier prototypes), and really needs to be replaced.
What are you smoking? The Harrier is one of the most complex, high maintenance aircraft in our inventory. They had lots of probems keeping them flying in the gulf war. And, the F-16 - while flying the most sorties of any type of aircraft - was the least effective.
Time & time again, dedicated single (or perhaps dual) purpose aircraft have proven much more capable at their mission than any multirole aircraft.
The F-22 is an interceptor and air-superiority fighter first, and anything else second.
True, but it can carry JDAM precision guided munitions, which will make it a very formidable strike platform.
The JSF will perform all the dirty close air support and rapid response for the Marines that the Air Force doesn't like to do.
The Air Force doesn't do CAS for the Marines because that's not part of the Joint Doctrine. The Marines are designed to be a self sustaining force.
While CAS may not be the most glamorous AF job, they definitely have the best CAS platform in history: the A-10. It's a shame that some near-sighted generals want to have the F-16 try to take over its roles.
Add to that the economic incentive (hundreds of billions of dollars in sales to allies like Spain, Portugal, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Australia), and you have strong reasons for keeping the program going.
The UK is the only other country committed to purchasing the JSF. It'll probably end up being far over-budget & too expensive for anyone else to buy any.
The russians have developed the next generation to follow the su-27.
The Su-35? It's been operational for about 10 years now. But the Russians have hardly built any because they're low on cash.
It is capable of doing the equivalent of stopping in mid air, and turning around in little space.
It can do the cobra maneuver? So can the MiG-29 & Su-27. It's impressive at airshows, but not very useful in combat. It was invented to try to fool pulse-doppler radar used by some missiles (i.e. AIM-120 AMRAAM), but most modern fighters' radar (i.e. APG-63/65/70) can still track it, close in and make an easy IR missile or gun kill.
The 3 Su-35s outfitted with 3D thrust vectoring are pretty impressive though. And about the only technology they've got over us is their IRST (infrared scan & track) system that lets them fire IR missiles off-boresight (i.e. over the shoulder).
The f-15 (our most superior fighter) will be obsolete in 5 years acording to the us air force. And guess what, our ex president turned down further funding for the Joint strike fighter...the next generation of aircraft.
The F-22 will start replacing the F-15 by then, & nothing is a match for the F-22.
The JSF will eventually replace the F-16, older F/A-18s, and RAF Harriers. It wasn't completely unfunded, just put on the back burner for now. Personally, I think another cheap, single engine, throwaway jet like the F-16 is a mistake waiting to happen. We should skip the JSF & build more F-22s.
Most shrink wrap agreements tell you that you receive the software as-is and if your lose all your data, your dog dies, and your house burns down; tough cookies.
If UCITA mandates warranties on proprietary software in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code, these kinds of statements should disappear from EULAs. Then if some software doesn't work as advertised, or causes damages, you should be able to recover your damages under the warranty.
Music scores are generally open - if Mozart had not written his down and shared it we would not only not be able to listen to his works today, but other musicians would have had more difficulty building on what he did.
Unfortunately, only the original score & really old printings are now public domain. If you go to a music store and buy the score for a Mozart piece, that particular arrangement is copyrighted.
Pharmaceutical companies publish their work, generally in the form of patents - but other companies can build on those patents.
I wouldn't speak so soon. Luckily, 39 of those companies dropped a lawsuit in South Africa, because they weren't getting their profits from generic versions of their patented drugs being sold to help the AIDS epidemic there. See this CNN story. One of the drugs was even partially developed at my school using gov't money. See this press release.
I seem to remember that he was a bit of a 'closed source' kinda guy. He basically (iirc) sat on a lot of his discoveries and did not share them. This is why he is listed as the co-discover of Calculus, because it was unpublished for so long.
No, he's listed as the co-discover of calculus because Leibniz independently discovered it at about the same time. Newton made some discoveries in the late 1660s, but didn't publish his Principia Mathematica until 1687. Liebniz published in 1684.
Also, their notations were different. Newton used what we call summation notation and limits. Liebniz used his "Characteristic Triangle" with legs dx & dy and hypotenuse an infinitesimal segment of the curve y=f(x)
But there are very few examples of scientists creating consumer goods for the love of discovery. One or two perhaps - I'm not sure what the intention behind invention of the lightbulb was.
Actually, Edison would only work on an invention if there was a lot of money involved. Most of the inventions he's credited with were really created by his many workers.
But nobody creates a passenger aircraft, or an automobile, or a new, nicer design of personal computer for pure creative self-actualising joy.
They may not be passenger aircraft, but look at the homebuilt aircraft community. Thousands of people build their own (mostly kits but some original) aircraft and go to airshows & meets just for enjoyment. There's an even bigger hobby car community, even though most just rebuild old cars.
I know exactly what you're talking about. In a previous job I had, they'd spent about $2 million on a GIS up to that point. I worked in the plan room, where we maintained the old paper & mylar drawings, including maps.
The maps the GIS people produced were supposed to replace the old ones eventually, but had lots of problems. For one example: on their screens, they used lots of colors and even printed them in color, but when copied they looked really bad and light colors disappeared.
Also, the only access to the GIS was in their office, and they were the only ones allowed to use it. They had some gee-whiz demos, but nothing very useful. That was just my first exposure to GIS though, about 7 years ago.
I think the situation has improved since then, especially since many GIS products can use a web browser as the client. There are many opportunities for open source/free software to commoditize the GIS backend & use web browsers as the frontend.
Now I've gone back to school for civil engineering, and I'm thinking of building a GIS for some municipality as my senior project, using all open source tools.
The SR-71's top speed record was Mach 3.24, which is still the record for air breathing propulsion powered aircraft. (Of course there've been plenty of rumors of top secret planes even faster.)
The F-15 can fly Mach 2.5 at high altitude, & many current fighter aircraft can fly Mach 2.1.
The X-15 (which was rocket powered) reached speeds of over Mach 7, which was the fastest human piloted aircraft ever. The space shuttle reaches Mach 25 (~17,000 mph) in order to reach orbit.
Does this really surprise anybody? This is the same company that submitted doctored videos as evidence in court.
As a corporation, they have absolutely no conscience. I'm sure there are some good, honest people working for MS, but I don't know how they can do it. I guess they must truly believe the propaganda.
Being a longtime AutoCAD user (since rel 9), I've tried just about every open source CAD program I could find. Unfortunately, none of them measure up to AutoCAD in terms of usability, features, and extensibility.
There is a CAD program called IntelliCAD that Visio developed before being bought by Microsoft. It's basically an AutoCAD clone, minus some of the 3D features (it even runs AutoLISP routines). Now its source code is available, albeit not under an open source or free software license.
On its online forum, several people expressed interest in porting it to Linux. One of its former developers from Visio said it should be possible, as the core code is pretty much ISO C++. The part that wouold take the most effort to port would be the GUI, as it's all MFC presently.
Some people have had success running it under WINE.
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I think they just mean naturally in that local area. I've seen miles of rust colored soil in Texas and Asia, but since it's an atoll, any sand would be white, since it's dead coral.
Second, my previous post was from memory. This time I did a really quick search on encyclopedia.com. I could've found multitudes more info backing me up with a more in-depth search. What source are you using besides pulling stories from your ass?
What are commonly called jackrabbits are really hares. There are 4 species of hares indigenous to North America:
- Black-tailed Hare (Lepus californicus)
- White-tailed Hare (Lepus townsendii)
- Antelope Jackrabbit (Lepus alleni)
- Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), also called the snowshoe rabbit
What you may have been thinking of is quoted from the hare article here:Yes, the coyote (Canis latrans) is indigenous to North America.
Mange is a skin disease caused by mites in mammals. There are 3 types of mange:
- Demodectic Mange, caused by the microscopic mite Demodex canis
- Cheyletiella mange, also known as walking dandruff
- Sarcoptic mange, also known as scabies
Maybe you should verify your info next time before you go posting lies and making a fool of yourself.I don't know where you're getting your info, but jack rabbits, coyotes, and mange are indigenous to North America.
Jack rabbit isn't the real species name though. Black tailed hares and white tailed hares are commonly called jack rabbits.
Coyotes have greatly increased their range, mostly where man has hunted wolves out of existence.
Mange is caused by mites that infest coyotes and domestic dogs.
I have a 10U shock-mount rack case available, if anyone's interested. The rack is spring mounted inside a sturdy fiberglass case, and it's really deep, probably 24". I picked it up from a government surplus sale.
If anyone's interested, the first decent offer takes it. I would sell through ebay for security.
Good point.
Bill Shepherd is a US Navy SEAL, which are our most highly trained special operations forces. Military people are very mission oriented, and do whatever it takes to accomplish the mission.
There was a good article on CNN why military veterans make good IT workers that explains this.
I'm biased though, as I was in the US Air Force. My personal motto is "adapt, improvise, & overcome."
For the most part the articles are about what Rob & co. are interested in, but have you looked at some of the questions in Ask Slashdot recently? It seems like Cliff will post any question that hasn't been posted before, or has but asked in a slightly different way. Also, there have been many times that an article gets posted just so people stop submitting it, even though they'd rather not.
It wasn't Slashdot that questioned TPC's worth, it was KhaosSpawn. Just because they post an article doesn't mean they necessarily agree with it.
Just about every new feature in 98 was available as a free download for 95. The only real features not downloadable: USB support (already in 95 OSR2) & multiple monitor support (useful to whom? maybe 0.1% of windows users).
I wasn't sure what new features were in Me, so I just checked out MS's top 10 reasons to upgrade. #1 is home movies, #2 is photos, & #3 is music. What?? Those are supposed to be compelling reasons to upgrade an OS? The only significant items of the 10 are #4 which idiot proofs the system files from being deleted & #5 which does a system rollback when the system gets screwed up.
They'd die of oxygen toxicity first. Oxygen becomes toxic to humans at ~2 atm pressure.
Time & time again, dedicated single (or perhaps dual) purpose aircraft have proven much more capable at their mission than any multirole aircraft.
True, but it can carry JDAM precision guided munitions, which will make it a very formidable strike platform.
The Air Force doesn't do CAS for the Marines because that's not part of the Joint Doctrine. The Marines are designed to be a self sustaining force.
While CAS may not be the most glamorous AF job, they definitely have the best CAS platform in history: the A-10. It's a shame that some near-sighted generals want to have the F-16 try to take over its roles.
The UK is the only other country committed to purchasing the JSF. It'll probably end up being far over-budget & too expensive for anyone else to buy any.
It can do the cobra maneuver? So can the MiG-29 & Su-27. It's impressive at airshows, but not very useful in combat. It was invented to try to fool pulse-doppler radar used by some missiles (i.e. AIM-120 AMRAAM), but most modern fighters' radar (i.e. APG-63/65/70) can still track it, close in and make an easy IR missile or gun kill.
The 3 Su-35s outfitted with 3D thrust vectoring are pretty impressive though. And about the only technology they've got over us is their IRST (infrared scan & track) system that lets them fire IR missiles off-boresight (i.e. over the shoulder).
The F-22 will start replacing the F-15 by then, & nothing is a match for the F-22.
The JSF will eventually replace the F-16, older F/A-18s, and RAF Harriers. It wasn't completely unfunded, just put on the back burner for now. Personally, I think another cheap, single engine, throwaway jet like the F-16 is a mistake waiting to happen. We should skip the JSF & build more F-22s.
I wouldn't speak so soon. Luckily, 39 of those companies dropped a lawsuit in South Africa, because they weren't getting their profits from generic versions of their patented drugs being sold to help the AIDS epidemic there. See this CNN story. One of the drugs was even partially developed at my school using gov't money. See this press release.
Also, their notations were different. Newton used what we call summation notation and limits. Liebniz used his "Characteristic Triangle" with legs dx & dy and hypotenuse an infinitesimal segment of the curve y=f(x)
I know exactly what you're talking about. In a previous job I had, they'd spent about $2 million on a GIS up to that point. I worked in the plan room, where we maintained the old paper & mylar drawings, including maps.
The maps the GIS people produced were supposed to replace the old ones eventually, but had lots of problems. For one example: on their screens, they used lots of colors and even printed them in color, but when copied they looked really bad and light colors disappeared.
Also, the only access to the GIS was in their office, and they were the only ones allowed to use it. They had some gee-whiz demos, but nothing very useful. That was just my first exposure to GIS though, about 7 years ago.
I think the situation has improved since then, especially since many GIS products can use a web browser as the client. There are many opportunities for open source/free software to commoditize the GIS backend & use web browsers as the frontend.
Now I've gone back to school for civil engineering, and I'm thinking of building a GIS for some municipality as my senior project, using all open source tools.
The SR-71's top speed record was Mach 3.24, which is still the record for air breathing propulsion powered aircraft. (Of course there've been plenty of rumors of top secret planes even faster.)
The F-15 can fly Mach 2.5 at high altitude, & many current fighter aircraft can fly Mach 2.1.
The X-15 (which was rocket powered) reached speeds of over Mach 7, which was the fastest human piloted aircraft ever. The space shuttle reaches Mach 25 (~17,000 mph) in order to reach orbit.
The speed of sound is approx 720 mph at sea level, and reduces with altitude.
Yeah, right! That's the clock that rolled over to 19100 last January.
5. It also assumes a closed system, i.e. no C-12 or C-14 has entered the system by another means, and none has escaped.
Does this really surprise anybody? This is the same company that submitted doctored videos as evidence in court.
As a corporation, they have absolutely no conscience. I'm sure there are some good, honest people working for MS, but I don't know how they can do it. I guess they must truly believe the propaganda.
Being a longtime AutoCAD user (since rel 9), I've tried just about every open source CAD program I could find. Unfortunately, none of them measure up to AutoCAD in terms of usability, features, and extensibility.
There is a CAD program called IntelliCAD that Visio developed before being bought by Microsoft. It's basically an AutoCAD clone, minus some of the 3D features (it even runs AutoLISP routines). Now its source code is available, albeit not under an open source or free software license.
On its online forum, several people expressed interest in porting it to Linux. One of its former developers from Visio said it should be possible, as the core code is pretty much ISO C++. The part that wouold take the most effort to port would be the GUI, as it's all MFC presently.
Some people have had success running it under WINE.