rouglhly 1 million Americans that died saving you from yourselves.
That's some rough math considering we're looking at 116,516 in WWI and 405,399 in WWII. And that's total deaths with the European and Pacific theatres combined, the American losses in Europe in WWII number just under 300,000. In contrast, the Soviets lost a total of over 21 million people in WWII. By your logic, we should then first thank Stalin for helping us avoid speaking German and then thank Eisenhower, Kennedy et al for not speaking Russian. Maybe you should thank us Europeans for not speaking Navajo...
How much did that cost, who did we bill?
It's all about the money, isn't it? Never mind the lofty ideals of freedom, democracy and good will towards man, whenever this topic comes up it's always about the money. The US didn't setup the Marshall Plan to be helpful or kind, it did so to influence European policy and build a bulkhead against the Soviet Union, much like they did with the Eastern bloc countries.
Have we ever been paid back?
Yes. The loans have been paid back, as stipulated in the European Recovery Program. The grants ($11.8 billion from 1948 to 1952) have been paid back indirectly many times over, as designed. At the end of WWII, the US had an unsustainable trade imbalance and urgently needed to get dollars out into the world so American companies could convert to civilian production and find markets for their goods abroad. I'd say this plan worked admirably and everyone won out until the Bretton Woods trade triangle collapsed in the 70's. We don't owe you jack shit.
Who is the first to offer assistance when disasters happen throughout the world?
That would be the UN. The US must generally be dragged kicking and screaming into anything that can't easily be used to promote American national interests. Oh, there's a famine in Sudan? Tough luck. In the last 20+ years, the US has intervened globally exactly once without having any ulterior motives and that time you were so uninterested and unable to follow-through that it turned into a bit of a disaster. I'm referring to Somalia, in case you hadn't figured it out.
maybe next time we'll let you all handle the next one by yourselves.
That was my initial reaction, until I realized it said "changed 2x" so he had one and then bought another and yet another, making three total. It just goes to show that Macs are really a lot cheaper than Wintels when you figure in the "This computer is too slow, I need a new one" syndrome that Wintel users run into after their 50th malware infection.;-)
And I'm not making that up as much as I want to, almost every week a customer wants to buy a new box and when I ask them why it turns out their existing one is so infected as to be unusable. Most of the time, I clean them up, give them Firefox / AdAware / AVG and pocket a lot more profit than if I had simply sold him a new whitebox.
Ironically, for the last week, my best-functioning Linux workstation has been my laptop (Acer Travelmate 8004) due to my upgrading the desktops to AMD 64 and it's taken a while to find and install new drivers. I even tried installing Win XP 64-bit, but the state of those drivers are miserable to say the least so I reverted back to the 32-bit version for now. I'm most used to Gentoo, but you may be better off with Ubuntu or Mandrake and www.linux-on-laptops.com.
And yes, most empires come to an end. So will Microsoft. But if it goes with a bang or a whimper, I cannot say. There are about 40 billion reasons in favour of the long, drawn-out whimper theory, though. Then again the Cascadias might intervene.
"Which of the following would you prefer: a puppy, a flower from your sweetie, or a large, properly formatted data disk."
This is Slashdot. Exactly how do you propose that question would help? We have no use for puppies unless accompanied by large amounts of duct tape and we have never seen a "sweetie" in real life unless a Mars bar counts so gimme that disk and let me post, dammit!
The photographer has a few more photos online as well as captions to all of them. The cows apparently die due to rocket fuel poisoned soil, not by being hit by the spent booster stages.
My only complaint with that is that his address actually is billg@microsoft.com. Bill (and thereby Microsoft) doesn't believe in the firstname.lastname address format.
Well, I'm not a doctor and having never even seen your arm makes me doubly unqualified to answer that... But, what DO you do with your left hand? Type a lot? Jack off to call-kelly.com? If you type a lot, what kind of keyboard do you have and how much does it tilt? Apparently, less tilt is better, since one of the risk factors is excessive tilting of the hand "upwards" and a wrist rest helps with that. If you haven't got a gel-filled wrist rest, just fold a towel and place in front of your keyboard - if it helps, thank Douglas Adams. In what position do you sleep? Does the hand get 'stuck' in an awkward position, maybe squeezed under your head or upper body? Anything else repetitive you do with your southpaw? Another poster suggested strenghtening the arm muscles, that may help you too.
I dunno, that's just a few things off the top of my head that I've been watching out for lately.
Exactly, and the neat thing with the Perific is that it invites that, you can hold it almost any way you like. As a regular mouse, one-hand pistol-grip, two-handed in the air, rest it against the desk and use the trackball, whatever - it's even got two programmable buttons in the back so you can hold your left hand around it. It's insane. Only downside is the wireless range is't nearly as good as my Logitechs' and I've got a really 'dirty' RF environment here (lots of monitors, WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM, DECT and 3 wireless Logitech keyboards, it's a good thing I've already reproduced) that's not helping.
When I recently started feeling a tingling smarting pain in my right arm, I got a Perific Dual Mouse and after the first week I not only have gotten used to it, I'm also almost symptom-free. I tend to change between using it as a regular mouse and setting it on end and using it as a trackball. Sometimes, I use it with the pistol-grip but rarely use the two-handed grip. It's a bit smaller than the Logitechs I'm normally used to, but it's pretty easy to switch between them. If you have any kind of RSI condition or even if you're afraid of getting it, I'd strongly recommend looking into the Perific mouse.
Well, it still doesn't explain the apparent non-mirroring of the images, unless the full Odyssey spacecraft was captured by a single imaging band or what the hey they call them. I seem to recall this issue coming up when Malin figured out how to adapt the spacecraft rotation to the speed of the underlying countryside, but it's funnier to speculate than look it up.:-)
Ah, I see what you're saying. But it can't be so, because that would cause both images to be total blurs. Each image of the Odyssey must be within a single scanline of the camera. Actually, come to think of it, the camera probably takes an instant shot of a vertical strip, waits until the craft has rotated and then takes another strip. It doesn't scan like a scanner at all, it just wouldn't work, methinks.
AFAIUI (as far as I understand it) it's not passing back and forth, just forth and then some more forth. So no mirror image, but you can see the second orbiter has rotated slightly in the other shot.
And I believe the handheld scanner would not create a mirror image either since it'd sense it's going 'backwards' and arrange the scanlines accordingly. I am slightly ashamed to admit I never tried that while I had one though so it's possible no one ever implemented that 'feature'.
The Perific Dual Mouse already does this, except it can also be used as a regular mouse, two-handed, pistol-grip, you name it. It's probably even better ergonimically speaking, since it allows for more varied usage. And, it has more buttons and a trackball. Win-win!
You probably already have what you may need (except the MyhtTV box which you may or may not know that you need) so add old stuff you DON'T need. I have kept an old TP/BNC hub around simply because the Amiga's Hydra network cards are BNC only. I plan on adding the two A2000s I have in the attic to my home network any year now. This is in addition to the Gentoo Linux fileserver, MythTV box, AMD64 workstation, notebook and NetGear WiFi AP / FW that already are connected. Oh, and then there's the digital photo frame project that's 98% done and therefore not really interesting anymore that's been lying around since 2003. I really should get that 100% done and connect it...
Or you could just build a cluster to blink your Christmas lights at several GHz.;-)
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Damn, I stopped thinking too soon. :-( I sit corrected.
That's some rough math considering we're looking at 116,516 in WWI and 405,399 in WWII. And that's total deaths with the European and Pacific theatres combined, the American losses in Europe in WWII number just under 300,000. In contrast, the Soviets lost a total of over 21 million people in WWII. By your logic, we should then first thank Stalin for helping us avoid speaking German and then thank Eisenhower, Kennedy et al for not speaking Russian. Maybe you should thank us Europeans for not speaking Navajo...
How much did that cost, who did we bill?
It's all about the money, isn't it? Never mind the lofty ideals of freedom, democracy and good will towards man, whenever this topic comes up it's always about the money. The US didn't setup the Marshall Plan to be helpful or kind, it did so to influence European policy and build a bulkhead against the Soviet Union, much like they did with the Eastern bloc countries.
Have we ever been paid back?
Yes. The loans have been paid back, as stipulated in the European Recovery Program. The grants ($11.8 billion from 1948 to 1952) have been paid back indirectly many times over, as designed. At the end of WWII, the US had an unsustainable trade imbalance and urgently needed to get dollars out into the world so American companies could convert to civilian production and find markets for their goods abroad. I'd say this plan worked admirably and everyone won out until the Bretton Woods trade triangle collapsed in the 70's. We don't owe you jack shit.
Who is the first to offer assistance when disasters happen throughout the world?
That would be the UN. The US must generally be dragged kicking and screaming into anything that can't easily be used to promote American national interests. Oh, there's a famine in Sudan? Tough luck. In the last 20+ years, the US has intervened globally exactly once without having any ulterior motives and that time you were so uninterested and unable to follow-through that it turned into a bit of a disaster. I'm referring to Somalia, in case you hadn't figured it out.
maybe next time we'll let you all handle the next one by yourselves.
Promises, promises...
And I'm not making that up as much as I want to, almost every week a customer wants to buy a new box and when I ask them why it turns out their existing one is so infected as to be unusable. Most of the time, I clean them up, give them Firefox / AdAware / AVG and pocket a lot more profit than if I had simply sold him a new whitebox.
Huh?. There's ample room for dozens of people!
Yeah, with the actors playing against a bluescreen and the shaft is digitally inserted... -Bill, I run Linux. -Nooooooooooo!
(IIRC that scene was actually shot with the shaft painted on glass plates in front of the camera, but that's not half as fun)
And yes, most empires come to an end. So will Microsoft. But if it goes with a bang or a whimper, I cannot say. There are about 40 billion reasons in favour of the long, drawn-out whimper theory, though. Then again the Cascadias might intervene.
No, you could not.
They've gotten much, much better on that too lately.
Hey! T-shirts are shirts too, you know!
This is Slashdot. Exactly how do you propose that question would help? We have no use for puppies unless accompanied by large amounts of duct tape and we have never seen a "sweetie" in real life unless a Mars bar counts so gimme that disk and let me post, dammit!
A large disssk, my preciousss.
The photographer has a few more photos online as well as captions to all of them. The cows apparently die due to rocket fuel poisoned soil, not by being hit by the spent booster stages.
The fire-bombing of Dresden.
My only complaint with that is that his address actually is billg@microsoft.com. Bill (and thereby Microsoft) doesn't believe in the firstname.lastname address format.
This is not the story you are looking for.
Mailing Wil a "get better" card - $3.
Buying him weird medications over the Internet - $99.
Trying to slashdot his server - Priceless.
I dunno, that's just a few things off the top of my head that I've been watching out for lately.
Exactly, and the neat thing with the Perific is that it invites that, you can hold it almost any way you like. As a regular mouse, one-hand pistol-grip, two-handed in the air, rest it against the desk and use the trackball, whatever - it's even got two programmable buttons in the back so you can hold your left hand around it. It's insane. Only downside is the wireless range is't nearly as good as my Logitechs' and I've got a really 'dirty' RF environment here (lots of monitors, WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM, DECT and 3 wireless Logitech keyboards, it's a good thing I've already reproduced) that's not helping.
When I recently started feeling a tingling smarting pain in my right arm, I got a Perific Dual Mouse and after the first week I not only have gotten used to it, I'm also almost symptom-free. I tend to change between using it as a regular mouse and setting it on end and using it as a trackball. Sometimes, I use it with the pistol-grip but rarely use the two-handed grip. It's a bit smaller than the Logitechs I'm normally used to, but it's pretty easy to switch between them. If you have any kind of RSI condition or even if you're afraid of getting it, I'd strongly recommend looking into the Perific mouse.
It's supposed to be like that. It's Microsoft's Shared Source initiative where they do like SCO and obfuscate code by using weird fonts.
No, say it ain't so! A Google program that's in beta? I'm shocked!
Ah, I see what you're saying. But it can't be so, because that would cause both images to be total blurs. Each image of the Odyssey must be within a single scanline of the camera. Actually, come to think of it, the camera probably takes an instant shot of a vertical strip, waits until the craft has rotated and then takes another strip. It doesn't scan like a scanner at all, it just wouldn't work, methinks.
And I believe the handheld scanner would not create a mirror image either since it'd sense it's going 'backwards' and arrange the scanlines accordingly. I am slightly ashamed to admit I never tried that while I had one though so it's possible no one ever implemented that 'feature'.
The Perific Dual Mouse already does this, except it can also be used as a regular mouse, two-handed, pistol-grip, you name it. It's probably even better ergonimically speaking, since it allows for more varied usage. And, it has more buttons and a trackball. Win-win!
Or you could just build a cluster to blink your Christmas lights at several GHz. ;-)