Actually, there were 2 major mobile launcher systems.
The one you're thinking of is ICBMs on trains. They tested part of it at Vandenberg AFB, CA. I was stationed there in the AF, and there's still an area with a mess of railroad tracks where the tests were conducted.
The other system was the GLCM (ground launched cruise missile). These were actually operational for 2 years in the 80s at RAF Molesworth, UK. That was my last duty station. There are still huge drive-thru bunkers the launchers were stored in. They were eliminated them with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1988.
When I started using it, you had the command line, screen menu, & tablet menus. Over the years, they added pull-down menus & dialog boxes; then in the Unix version (may it rest in peace...) & Windows versions added toolbars & pop-up menus.
It's highly customizable, with custom menus, linetypes, hatch patterns, and even fonts (although it takes a lot more talent than I've got to construct a font using a numeric drawing language).
Eventually I learned how to program, first using scripts, DIESEL macros in menus, then AutoLisp, & DCL for dialog boxes. Now you can use C, C++, VBA, and Visual Lisp as well.
Each version kept backwards compatibility for the UI, customization, & programming (not file formats unfortunately).
When commands eventually got dialog boxes, you could still use the CLI version by prefixing the command with an _. The CLI version was used automatically if called from an AutoLisp routine. The foreign language versions of AutoCAD could still use all the English commands by prefixing them with a period(? IIRC).
I think a lot can be learned from AutoCAD about making efficient GUIs. It uses a good combination of GUI & CLI that just makes sense. I think XMLterm is pretty good in this respect, and Nautilus looks interesting (haven't tried it personally yet).
Regardless, we'll see a lot of progress in this area in the next year or two. Especially as people start using XML as a technology instead of a buzzword.
I think Zero-Tolerance is needed, if somebody does something severe enough (i.e. brings a gun or heroin/cocaine/whatever to school).
What's needed is a Common Sense(TM) Policy. I read of a school that expelled a kid who brought a fingernail clippers to school, claiming it could be used as a weapon. Every incident should be reviewed on a case by case basis. If I was a school administrator where something like that happened, I'd fire the teacher/principal that expelled the kid.
does not track any usage outside of the Juno browser.
How do you know? Have you read the source code?
and it's not tracking where you go.
Again, how do you know?
What's the difference? And part of the contract requires the application to make connections to the internet and install software... the software it's installing is new banner ads and updates to the browser.
There's a huge difference. Did you actually read the privacy policy? Only the last 2 points of the previous comments are being sarcastic. The policy really does say that Juno can download their software onto your computer, change your screensaver (which you aren't allowed to disable), and require you to run your computer 24 hrs/day (and not pay for the electricity, hope you don't live in CA).
Re:Been done here for ages, and it works.
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Tell that to Martin Luther King, Jr. He worked to protest the government in power and was trying to unseat them by peaceful and lawful means. However, those in power liked being in power and didn't care for his activities.
MLK was not protesting the gov't, and definitely not trying to unseat it. He was protesting segregation, "Jim Crow" laws, and other forms of racial discrimination.
no one would ever buy music again and it would kill music as a profession except for a few heavily marketed superstars (Britney Spears, N'Sync, etc) and truly talented groups (Pink Floyd, U2, Metallica, etc) in certain genres who could still make money touring.
You've got it all wrong. Those heavily marketed superstars are the only ones that would be adversely affected. For every well known national act, there are hundreds of bands & musicians that make a decent living playing gigs in bars & clubs all over the world. They make almost all of their money off the cover charge. If they make a CD, they usually sell enough just to break even.
Besides that, napster & MP3s are helping some local artists build fanbases beyond their local area, without selling their souls to a record company.
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OK, I looked for statistics on HIV/AIDS transmission, and here's what I found:
A CDC Report on HIV and Its Transmission. It doesn't give any numbers, but says "now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies." I guess it's still possible to contract HIV thru a blood transfusion. But, according to the American Red Cross:
It cannot be stressed enough that the American Red Cross and the FDA consistently agree that the current blood supply is safe and no patients have been harmed.
That's since a 1993 consent decree between the FDA & ARC. The ARC does 3 separate tests for HIV, plus 9 other tests for other diseases.
On the second point, it's not unhealthy behavior on the wife's part, she's an innocent victim. This is similar to the hypothetical situation of contracting HIV from being raped.
Jon,
Years ago, when it was still possible to get AIDS through blood transfusions, a fear of AIDS might be justified.
In third world countries, where people aren't as educated/informed about AIDS, I can understand why it's still spreading & we should make an effort to educate them.
However, in the US & other countries, the only way adults can get AIDS is by sharing drug needles or promiscuous/unprotected sex.
Therefore, I have absolutely no sympathy for adults in the US that get AIDS now as a result of their unhealthy behavior.
I get my DSL from Qwest, but use another ISP. Here in Minneapolis, most ISPs (including Qwest) either don't let you or don't say anything about running servers. I went with Citilink, because they explicitly allowed DSL users to run servers. They've since merged with MNinter.net, to form Infinetivity, and now their site doesn't say anything about running servers, but I haven't had any problems.
One good note, I originally got DSL at 256Kb/s. This past summer, I noticed higher (almost double) download speeds. A couple weeks later, I got a letter saying they'd upgraded my line to 640Kb/s download (still 256Kb/s uploads), at no extra charge!
The 1st aircraft of this type was the YF-12, a USAF supersonic interceptor, its only weapon being the D-21 drone missile it carried piggyback.
Some of them were jointly funded/developed with the CIA as recon aircraft, called the A-12 Oxcart. These airframes were actually the fastest, setting many records. All the pilots of these aircraft were active duty USAF, sometimes "on loan" to the CIA.
The SR-71 was an improvement in the design, including some of the first hi-res digital cameras and synthetic aperture radar. These were all flown by the USAF until the mid 90s.
Interestingly, this is the 1st aircraft the AF willingly retired in recent times. They fought to keep all previous aircraft, until their budget forced them to move on. Why? We can't be sure, but the AF uses satellites for a lot of their recon now, they still have a tactical recon aircraft in the U-2, RPVs are starting to be used more, and the $80k/hr cost to fly them was pretty expensive.
A few SR-71s were transferred to NASA _then_ for high altitude/speed research. A couple years later, 3 SR-71s were returned to AF service for about a year by congress, against AF wishes.
Titanium research has nothing to do with NASA or the space program. The metallurgy of titanium was developed almost exclusively in the design of the SR-71 Blackbird (& variations known as the YF-12 & A-12 Oxcart). For more information, check out "Kelly: More Than My Share of It All," by Clarence L. 'Kelly' Johnson or "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed," by Ben R. Rich.
Sidenote: it was meant to be called the RS-71, but Nixon reversed the letters when it was revealed to the public, so they stuck with SR-71.
Just checked them out. They're not accepting any new zones due to abuse of their services.
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Citing restrictions imposed by the journal Nature, where her report is to appear, Dr. Hau refused to discuss her work in detail.
Two years ago, however, Nature published Dr. Hau's description of work in which she slowed light to about 38 miles an hour in a system involving beams of light shone through a chilled sodium gas.
This really bothers me, how scientists can't talk about their own work because of some exclusive contract with some journal. It's no big deal if they have an exclusive contract to be the first to publish their papers, but not even talk about it? That's ridiculous.
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I work part-time for the UMN construction dept doing AutoCAD drafting. Last summer, one of the projects I worked on was to put access card readers outside each door to the elevators down to the steam tunnels. Unfortunately, I never got to go down inside the tunnels. The closest I got was taking digital photos & dimensions of each site.
I have seen the maps for them though. They go from the steam plant down to the area of the medical bldgs & there's a branch that goes under the river over to the west bank! The tunnels are ~100 ft below the surface.
First of all, what do you mean by strong? Compressive strength, elastic strength, hardness, or something else entirely? Metals are used in many different ways. Each metal has unique qualities that determine what it'll get used for. An alloy that makes good golf clubs probably isn't ideal for computer casing.
Second, the article you linked doesn't even compare "liquidmetal's" strength to titanium. It says it's "very strong and very hard," but not any more than another metal.
What it does say:
the liquidmetal alloy transfers more energy when striking a ball than either titanium or steel.
Lighter than stainless steel but heavier than titanium, Liquidmetal Golf officials assert the alloy has a lower vibrational response than the other two traditional materials. That should translate to superior feel and less shock at impact.
Liquidmetal is non-crystalline, and thus bears no weak and inconsistent spots.
a proprietary alloy
exclusive licensing agreement with Cal Tech
Since it's heavier than titanium, you probably wouldn't want to use it in a notebook computer, where every ounce counts.
The fact that it's non-crystalline just means that a sample of liquidmetal is uniform, so it won't have a weak spot that fails before the rest of the sample.
It's unfortunate that universities now enter exclusive contracts, instead of publishing their findings to benefit everyone.
Finally, the golf clubs are over $400 each! If liquidmetal was so great, why aren't all golf clubs made of it now?
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Actually, there were 2 major mobile launcher systems.
The one you're thinking of is ICBMs on trains. They tested part of it at Vandenberg AFB, CA. I was stationed there in the AF, and there's still an area with a mess of railroad tracks where the tests were conducted.
The other system was the GLCM (ground launched cruise missile). These were actually operational for 2 years in the 80s at RAF Molesworth, UK. That was my last duty station. There are still huge drive-thru bunkers the launchers were stored in. They were eliminated them with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1988.
I'm part Irish, so I'll predict 2001-03-17 17:45:35.
Did you check out the link in the Wired article to the Humane Society?
I'm a long time AutoCAD user, since Rel. 9.
When I started using it, you had the command line, screen menu, & tablet menus. Over the years, they added pull-down menus & dialog boxes; then in the Unix version (may it rest in peace...) & Windows versions added toolbars & pop-up menus.
It's highly customizable, with custom menus, linetypes, hatch patterns, and even fonts (although it takes a lot more talent than I've got to construct a font using a numeric drawing language).
Eventually I learned how to program, first using scripts, DIESEL macros in menus, then AutoLisp, & DCL for dialog boxes. Now you can use C, C++, VBA, and Visual Lisp as well.
Each version kept backwards compatibility for the UI, customization, & programming (not file formats unfortunately).
When commands eventually got dialog boxes, you could still use the CLI version by prefixing the command with an _. The CLI version was used automatically if called from an AutoLisp routine. The foreign language versions of AutoCAD could still use all the English commands by prefixing them with a period(? IIRC).
I think a lot can be learned from AutoCAD about making efficient GUIs. It uses a good combination of GUI & CLI that just makes sense. I think XMLterm is pretty good in this respect, and Nautilus looks interesting (haven't tried it personally yet).
Regardless, we'll see a lot of progress in this area in the next year or two. Especially as people start using XML as a technology instead of a buzzword.
I think Zero-Tolerance is needed, if somebody does something severe enough (i.e. brings a gun or heroin/cocaine/whatever to school).
What's needed is a Common Sense(TM) Policy. I read of a school that expelled a kid who brought a fingernail clippers to school, claiming it could be used as a weapon. Every incident should be reviewed on a case by case basis. If I was a school administrator where something like that happened, I'd fire the teacher/principal that expelled the kid.
Again, how do you know?
There's a huge difference. Did you actually read the privacy policy? Only the last 2 points of the previous comments are being sarcastic. The policy really does say that Juno can download their software onto your computer, change your screensaver (which you aren't allowed to disable), and require you to run your computer 24 hrs/day (and not pay for the electricity, hope you don't live in CA).
Besides that, napster & MP3s are helping some local artists build fanbases beyond their local area, without selling their souls to a record company.
The surface of the external tank is covered by a 2.5 cm thick coating of spray-on polyisocyanurate foam.
See NASA's external tank reference page.
A CDC Report on HIV and Its Transmission. It doesn't give any numbers, but says "now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies." I guess it's still possible to contract HIV thru a blood transfusion. But, according to the American Red Cross:That's since a 1993 consent decree between the FDA & ARC. The ARC does 3 separate tests for HIV, plus 9 other tests for other diseases.
On the second point, it's not unhealthy behavior on the wife's part, she's an innocent victim. This is similar to the hypothetical situation of contracting HIV from being raped.
Did you see the Dodge commercial after the superbowl?
All the apples fall out of a tree, then a red Dodge race car falls out, "this car's one bad apple."
How's that for a coincidence?
Jon,
Years ago, when it was still possible to get AIDS through blood transfusions, a fear of AIDS might be justified.
In third world countries, where people aren't as educated/informed about AIDS, I can understand why it's still spreading & we should make an effort to educate them.
However, in the US & other countries, the only way adults can get AIDS is by sharing drug needles or promiscuous/unprotected sex.
Therefore, I have absolutely no sympathy for adults in the US that get AIDS now as a result of their unhealthy behavior.
I get my DSL from Qwest, but use another ISP. Here in Minneapolis, most ISPs (including Qwest) either don't let you or don't say anything about running servers. I went with Citilink, because they explicitly allowed DSL users to run servers. They've since merged with MNinter.net, to form Infinetivity, and now their site doesn't say anything about running servers, but I haven't had any problems.
One good note, I originally got DSL at 256Kb/s. This past summer, I noticed higher (almost double) download speeds. A couple weeks later, I got a letter saying they'd upgraded my line to 640Kb/s download (still 256Kb/s uploads), at no extra charge!
First of all, the CA state senator that wrote the deregulation bill, Steve Peace, is a Democrat.
Second, the deregulation bill passed unanimously.
Another Minnesotan here.
Actually, we've got 2 nuke plants (Monticello & Prairie Island).
Most of the coal burned here is mined in Montana, not ND.
The easiest way to do it would be to just use different screen resolutions, i.e. 640x480 for the industrial site & 1280x1024 for the desktop.
That's funny! Please mod up.
The 1st aircraft of this type was the YF-12, a USAF supersonic interceptor, its only weapon being the D-21 drone missile it carried piggyback.
Some of them were jointly funded/developed with the CIA as recon aircraft, called the A-12 Oxcart. These airframes were actually the fastest, setting many records. All the pilots of these aircraft were active duty USAF, sometimes "on loan" to the CIA.
The SR-71 was an improvement in the design, including some of the first hi-res digital cameras and synthetic aperture radar. These were all flown by the USAF until the mid 90s.
Interestingly, this is the 1st aircraft the AF willingly retired in recent times. They fought to keep all previous aircraft, until their budget forced them to move on. Why? We can't be sure, but the AF uses satellites for a lot of their recon now, they still have a tactical recon aircraft in the U-2, RPVs are starting to be used more, and the $80k/hr cost to fly them was pretty expensive.
A few SR-71s were transferred to NASA _then_ for high altitude/speed research. A couple years later, 3 SR-71s were returned to AF service for about a year by congress, against AF wishes.
Titanium research has nothing to do with NASA or the space program. The metallurgy of titanium was developed almost exclusively in the design of the SR-71 Blackbird (& variations known as the YF-12 & A-12 Oxcart). For more information, check out "Kelly: More Than My Share of It All," by Clarence L. 'Kelly' Johnson or "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed," by Ben R. Rich.
Sidenote: it was meant to be called the RS-71, but Nixon reversed the letters when it was revealed to the public, so they stuck with SR-71.
Just checked them out. They require you to put banner ads on your website. No thanks.
Just checked them out. They're not accepting any new zones due to abuse of their services.
I work part-time for the UMN construction dept doing AutoCAD drafting. Last summer, one of the projects I worked on was to put access card readers outside each door to the elevators down to the steam tunnels. Unfortunately, I never got to go down inside the tunnels. The closest I got was taking digital photos & dimensions of each site.
I have seen the maps for them though. They go from the steam plant down to the area of the medical bldgs & there's a branch that goes under the river over to the west bank! The tunnels are ~100 ft below the surface.
They're also paying server operators to host tournaments. You get paid for each player connecting.
Read more about it here.
Download the server binaries for Redhat 5-7 here.
Second, the article you linked doesn't even compare "liquidmetal's" strength to titanium. It says it's "very strong and very hard," but not any more than another metal.
What it does say:
- the liquidmetal alloy transfers more energy when striking a ball than either titanium or steel.
- Lighter than stainless steel but heavier than titanium, Liquidmetal Golf officials assert the alloy has a lower vibrational response than the other two traditional materials. That should translate to superior feel and less shock at impact.
- Liquidmetal is non-crystalline, and thus bears no weak and inconsistent spots.
- a proprietary alloy
- exclusive licensing agreement with Cal Tech
Since it's heavier than titanium, you probably wouldn't want to use it in a notebook computer, where every ounce counts.The fact that it's non-crystalline just means that a sample of liquidmetal is uniform, so it won't have a weak spot that fails before the rest of the sample.
It's unfortunate that universities now enter exclusive contracts, instead of publishing their findings to benefit everyone.
Finally, the golf clubs are over $400 each! If liquidmetal was so great, why aren't all golf clubs made of it now?