Believe it or not, there is this alliance called AIM. It used to be Apple, IBM and Motorola, but given Moto's problems, they have essentially dropped out for the embedded market. At any rate, the G5 was very much co-developed by Apple and IBM with some chip design and fab positions solely at Apple.
Apple is basically just an upscale systems integrator.
Without getting too much into the oft hashed out facts, just think about where the computer industry would be without Apple to do the R&D? I am not saying we owe everything to Apple Computer, but think about what you are saying before you type. Off the top of my head, here are a few things we owe to Apple: 1) Integrated motherboards consolidating most functions into a few chips with the Apple ][, 2) Plug and Play compatibility with NUBUS, 3) GUI with the Lisa, 4) First to use small form floppies with the Apple ][c, 5) First to implement CD-ROMs with Macintosh, 5) First to support on board sound and graphics with Macintsoh, 6) First to include built in networking with Macintosh, 7) First to develop the laser printer and postscript printing with the Laserwriter, 8) First to develop the PDA with the Newton, 9) First to develop the laptop form factor as we know it with the Powerbook, 10) First to leverage the GPU for routine interface with OS X, 11) First speech technology with the Apple ][, 12) First virtual programming environment with Hypercard, 13) Developed Firewire, 14) First company to ship a consumer digital camera with the Quicktake, 15) First cross platform standard for multi-media with Quicktime, 16) The first "multimedia" PC with the MacTV that integrated a television with stereo CD back in 1993 or so. We could go on and on here, but you get the point.
Apple's Xserve and G5-based machines are niche machines and they don't really offer compelling performance advantages
There is a reason that the number three supercomputer in the world right now is made up from off the shelf G5 hardware. It provides the performance for less money than the alternatives.
And OS X is severely handicapped in the market relative to Linux and Windows--OS X just isn't used very widely as a server operating system.
Well, that depends upon what you mean by handicapped. Marketshare? Sure. Useability? Not on your life. I've used Solaris, IRIX, Linux, Windows and others and nothing comes close to how easy, secure and convenient OS X is to administer for servers. Even the base desktop OS includes Apache that is as easy to use as dropping your html into a folder and pressing "Start" to function as a webpage and it can handle the traffic with the best of them. In fact, I am running a retinal anatomy site on an old G3 iMac that gets upwards of 45.000 hits/day from about 3000 unique users. The site is multimedia rich and yet, I never have to worry about it. When it was being hosted on W2k, I was constantly screwing around with it to keep things up and running smoothly and when it was on IRIX, it was stable, but IRIX was expensive and arcane as can be whenever changes were needed.
But the threat to Intel is AMD, not PPC.
Give it some time as the G5 really just came out. Between Apple running OS X and IBM running Linux shipping on systems now with the G5, there is going to be some significant market share being gained by those two companies.
Ahhhh, I am sure it will be said again here, but payback is in order. This sort of marketing angle will only go so far though as Apple and AMD have found out. What really matters is real power. This will translate into more sales as Apple is now finding out with significant interest in the G5 Xserve from a large number of corporations and government agencies. So, if Intel can get around some of the performance bottlenecks and deal with the loss of backwards compatibility, they may be able to get back on track.
Just say you don't know how to use Microsoft products.
While this has been the case with large IT groups within large governmental organizations in the past, this is starting to change within certain groups like subsets of the Department of Homeland Security and groups within the FBI and CIA. A number of those folks are going to other platforms like OS X for security reasons, convenience, management and hardware infrastructure like Altivec which can speed up cryptography significantly. Of course some of the older guys know Nextstep quite well and were fans of the NeXT boxes when they were de-rigeur at the NSA and places in the CIA and are quite happy with OS X.
Linux has also made big strides in places, particularly the TRUSTED flavors.
Oh, great. This is going to be worse than the ASFAB test I took in my first undergraduate year. Before my eyes lost their 20/17 rating, I planned to fly for the Marine Corps, but I had dudes from a number of government agencies aside from the armed services calling my apartment and dropping by both home and work.
So, it is stuff like this that is going to make anonymity much more important than it is now. The problem of course is that unless you are completely disenfranchised from society your academic records are known, any published writing you have is known, your credit rating is known (believe it or not, certain government agencies look very carefully at your credit rating when recruiting you), and "virtual" persona are relatively easy to correlate with specific persons (all of you anonymous cowards take note). And all you folks that think: "Well, my Ph.D. or M.D. is going to keep me out of the draft", take note. If you are under the age of 45, we are prime candidates.
I can make the smae statment about aspirin: give 10000mg to an 80 yr old with low blood pressure and see what happens....
So, you have just made the golden argument against dietary supplements and herbal remedies. Namely, there is no control over the industry so one really does not know what they are getting. Am I getting 50mg of the "active ingredient" or am I getting 500mg? There is no way of knowing because there are no controls on the manufacture and no standards that they follow. One manufacturer may provide next to nothing in the pills while another may provide a whopping dose, so how do you know?
By the way, 10000mg of aspirin would likely give anybody problems, not just an 80 year old with low blood pressure. The low blood pressure could actually help out as aspirin is an anticoagulant. So, if one had high blood pressure, there may be a higher incidence of hemorrhage or hemorrhagic stroke with high dosages of aspirin. More likely however for most folks would be an upset stomach, fever and possibly ulcerations and bleeding of the stomach and intestine if you don't puke it all up first.
Careful...... It should also be noted that in neurons in the hippocampus (and elsewhere), when the threshold for firing is decreased, the propensity for epileptiform discharges increases. The authors of the study claim that the neurons are bigger and fire more easily. I suppose that the ease of firing could simply be related to simple cable theory as predicted by Hodgkin and Huxley, but their explanation of increased dendritic count could also explain it nicely. However, other explanations could also be correct such as increased or upregulated glutamatergic channel count or increased receptor count.
researchers say the implications are profound for humans and the future of learning
At any rate, I regardless of the actual model, these sorts of public proclamations are troublesome as there are now going to be thousands upon thousands that will go out and start purchasing choline supplements just like their mass purchasing of melatonin (extracted from bovine pineal gland commonly, prion diseases anyone?), or ephedra (cardiac arrest anyone?), Aristolochia fangchi (kidney damage or cancer anyone?), shark cartilage (simply a lighter wallet anyone?), or any other unproven (not a troll, I am a scientist folks, so I want proof) supplement.
It seems to me that a number of these functions could be easily combined into one useful "sub-tablet" much like the Newton used to be. For instance:
1) I could not make phone calls on the Newton, but it seems to me that combining a WAP with code like iChat could easily be patched into a cellular network via a server which negotiates the call at perhaps a reduced price. VOIP, right? This way you don't have to worry about "locked" phones when you travel from one country to another or good around with those SIM cards. (where did I put that SIM card anyway? *as he digs furiously through his travel bag*)
2) I am not sure why folks like using their phones as cameras, but Sony has been integrating cameras into their Clie's for some time now and could easily be done. Although, again.....I am not sure why people want this. The CCDs would have to get LOTS better and you still have to deal with tiny lenses with lots of aberration in them. I much prefer my Canon Elph.
3) iPod. Well, yeah....music and why not movies too? This functionality could easily be emulated on any OS and as I recall, there are many folks that even play.mp3's off their old Newtons.
4) Well, the Newton was not a replacement for a full featured laptop, so if you want to do Photoshoppin or something like that, a sub-notebook will not cut it for screen real estate alone.
5) Cables? What cables? Use 802.11x and Bluetooth. Done.
6) Time? Apple for some time has had servers that are linked to atomic clocks so that you can set the time on your computer to an absolute time.
7) PDA? This would be an uber PDA. We don't need no stinkin Palm.
Shoot, there were people that were even using their Newtons as wireless web servers, so the functionality was there.
So, there. Seven devices that folks are totin around that could be all one device. I hate to say it but why does not Apple get back into this market? They could do it right.
Ummmm. As I recall, upon boot up, there absolutely was on the screen "Apple ][", not "Apple II". Oh, by the way, they are not "fonts" but are keys/ASCII symbols. You know "brackets"? On a QWERTY keyboard, they are just to the right of the "P" key?
Defined, they are respectively ][: Dec: 91 and 93 Hx: 5B and 5D Oct: 133 and 135
What today's hackers don't realize is how expensive phone service used to be.
Yes. Thus the whole impetus for getting the long distance numbers. The first month after I got my modem, (before I knew about the baby bell codes), my folks went absolutely ballistic at the phone bill saying to me: "You're Grounded!!!" which of course probably proved critical in my discovering the rest of the "wired" world through the phone codes. Man, they were screaming about my calling all over the country, but really had no idea of what I was actually doing with the computer or the implications. My Mom came in once when I was talking via text term to a friend on the other side of town and she was absolutely marveling at the fact that we could "talk" over the computer lines. This is a woman who had a doctorate but had never seen such a thing before. It's hard to appreciate just how novel that was back in 1983 to the vast majority of the population.
The novation applecat was the most amazing chunk of hardware you could add to an apple in those days.
You are not kidding. Those things were fully programable so that one could create a list of numbers to dial (or even dial randomly) and then log the numbers which were answered by computer modems for call back and investigation when you got back from school. I could not afford the Applecat at first and relyed on a cheap modem card and one of those phone handset cradles for a while before I could mow enough lawns around the neighborhood to purchase the Applecat. As I recall, it seems to have pulled about $300 out of my 14year old pockets, but there was a friend of mine (from a decidedly wealthy background) that was doing all sorts of custom programming on his even hooking up an old cassette player to function as an anwering machine which totally blew me away.
Hrmmmm. It was about 1983 that I purchased my first computer, an Apple ][+, and I found out that all of the baby bells which had started up had completely unsecured computer systems holding all those handy long distance access numbers. Of course in 1983, I was a 13 year old and hacking like that was more of a game than anything else. I feel bad about getting those numbers now, but we really had no idea it was "illegal" at the time. That experience though did help introduce me to computer users world wide and BBS's like the Pirates Cove and Crystal Caverns which was pre-Internet, but quite the educational experience.
BTW, there is a hot spot under Yellowstone and big cinder cones and a lot of lave flows in Idaho. I think there is a better than average changes of some major event in a short geological time frame.
Oh, there absolutely is, and its a whopper. What do you think is driving all the geysers? The real issue this poster was raising however was a more discrete event in the predictable near future, thus my post. At some point, the magma chamber may indeed break through, but there is no advanced knowledge of when that is going to be and certainly no conspiracy.
I suggest you wear your tinfoil hat. The government is gonna get you now.
No, no. You will notice I said "Cheny's", not "Cheney's".:-)
Yeah, that's it. Old man Cheny down the road. The farmer. Yeah, you know him.......The guy with the horses.......and....the....big...barn...at...the end of the road?
Well, my father in law follows the geology of the Yellowstone basin fairly closely because of his job as a park Ranger up in Grand Teton (his dream retirement job). In all the conversations I have had with him, he has said nothing of this. To add to that, he lives just outside Jackson Wyoming (Cheny's undisclosed location interestingly enough or at least I've seen him around the Jackson area a number of times) and one would think he would be out of there had there been any dramatic increases in geologic activity indicative of an eruption or large scale animal deaths as alleged in these rumors.
What software or strategies do you use to protect your parents' PCs? Is it possible for inexperienced users to surf the net in safety?"
Well, the solution is pretty simple actually. Since OS X does not have the virus/worm issues that Windows has, is easy to use and set-up, does not have the malware issues that Windows has, I purchased iBooks for my mother and my sister to use. They are cheap, quite effective, durable as can be and since they live many hundreds of miles away from me, I am not always having to do tech support over the phone (or video iChat). Quite frankly, I really don't have the time these days to do computer support so this really is the best solution. Additionally, I would much rather spend the time I have to interact with my family on more fulfilling topics than computer support.
Doesn't really matter. Thanks to AT&T's crappy customer service, and inability to provide global roaming on my recent trip to Southeast Asia, I'm planning on switching to a different provider in the next month or two.
Yes, I just looked into global roaming for an upcoming trip to Australia and New Zealand and AT&T absolutely cannot provide it to me for anything less than $5 a minute. So, it looks like T-Mobile is going to be getting my business.
Lets see: Bluetooth headset for hands-free calling, Bluetooth for automatic hands-free talk within my Bluetooth supported car, Bluetooth for wirelessly synching my phone and Palmpilot with my G5s at work, and at home and my Powerbook when I travel.
Once you have used it, Bluetooth is hard to give up.
Yeah, there is no Bluetooth on the new phones which is proving to be quite a hassle. It is amazing how ones life becomes adapted to a technology like Bluetooth that truly works, and then to have AT&T Wireless simply say, "sorry, you have to upgrade" simply sucks.
In medical school we certainly benefited from mnemonics for all sorts of things from cranial nerves to biochemical enzymes, but these guys are on a different level. Of course it could be reasoned that they are able to make other associations that seem logical (perhaps) that enable recall much easier.
Colors, musical notes, mathematical formulas......whatever makes sense.
Oh, come on now. Recipes were one of the first things I ever saw posted on the Internet even back when it was Arpanet. In fact, one of the reasons Xerox PARC gave for developing the GUI was to allow everyone to interact with a computer, even "kitchen wives" could be able to easily store and retrieve recipes on a computer without having to use "arcane" symbology.
To answer your question though, I think this link should be more than Slashdot worthy. The show is great, sufficiently geeky, and life is simply too short not to eat.....Good Eats.
There are many, many other links to recipes on the Internet. Food Network is one and Epicurious are the other principle resources I use.
I am not exactly sure, but there must have been some combination of bright light and higher energy radiation. From a retinal vision perspective, all one would need to do would be to activate opsins and this could easily be imagined happening with all of the high energy particles being emitted by the bomb.
Also, a quick google search reveals that others have relayed the same experience.
This comment in the essay: This is highest building in town and in April 26-27, 1986 after reactor exploaded, people gathered on the roof of this building to watch a beautiful shining that rised above APP. They didn't know this was shining of radiation. they learned it on next day when evacuation began reminded me of talks I had with some of my patients some years ago that either lived in southern Utah and Nevada, or were in the military. Whole families would gather on high mountains to watch the pretty lights from the atomic bombs being tested in the open air and I had one old army guy tell me that soldiers who were gathered at the exercises, if they were not issued goggles, were told to look away and cover your eyes with your hands. When the bomb went off, you could actually see the bones in your hands from all the X-rays that were emitted from the bomb.
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Apple isn't developing the PowerPC, IBM is.
Believe it or not, there is this alliance called AIM. It used to be Apple, IBM and Motorola, but given Moto's problems, they have essentially dropped out for the embedded market. At any rate, the G5 was very much co-developed by Apple and IBM with some chip design and fab positions solely at Apple.
Apple is basically just an upscale systems integrator.
Without getting too much into the oft hashed out facts, just think about where the computer industry would be without Apple to do the R&D? I am not saying we owe everything to Apple Computer, but think about what you are saying before you type. Off the top of my head, here are a few things we owe to Apple: 1) Integrated motherboards consolidating most functions into a few chips with the Apple ][, 2) Plug and Play compatibility with NUBUS, 3) GUI with the Lisa, 4) First to use small form floppies with the Apple ][c, 5) First to implement CD-ROMs with Macintosh, 5) First to support on board sound and graphics with Macintsoh, 6) First to include built in networking with Macintosh, 7) First to develop the laser printer and postscript printing with the Laserwriter, 8) First to develop the PDA with the Newton, 9) First to develop the laptop form factor as we know it with the Powerbook, 10) First to leverage the GPU for routine interface with OS X, 11) First speech technology with the Apple ][, 12) First virtual programming environment with Hypercard, 13) Developed Firewire, 14) First company to ship a consumer digital camera with the Quicktake, 15) First cross platform standard for multi-media with Quicktime, 16) The first "multimedia" PC with the MacTV that integrated a television with stereo CD back in 1993 or so. We could go on and on here, but you get the point.
Apple's Xserve and G5-based machines are niche machines and they don't really offer compelling performance advantages
There is a reason that the number three supercomputer in the world right now is made up from off the shelf G5 hardware. It provides the performance for less money than the alternatives.
And OS X is severely handicapped in the market relative to Linux and Windows--OS X just isn't used very widely as a server operating system.
Well, that depends upon what you mean by handicapped. Marketshare? Sure. Useability? Not on your life. I've used Solaris, IRIX, Linux, Windows and others and nothing comes close to how easy, secure and convenient OS X is to administer for servers. Even the base desktop OS includes Apache that is as easy to use as dropping your html into a folder and pressing "Start" to function as a webpage and it can handle the traffic with the best of them. In fact, I am running a retinal anatomy site on an old G3 iMac that gets upwards of 45.000 hits/day from about 3000 unique users. The site is multimedia rich and yet, I never have to worry about it. When it was being hosted on W2k, I was constantly screwing around with it to keep things up and running smoothly and when it was on IRIX, it was stable, but IRIX was expensive and arcane as can be whenever changes were needed.
But the threat to Intel is AMD, not PPC.
Give it some time as the G5 really just came out. Between Apple running OS X and IBM running Linux shipping on systems now with the G5, there is going to be some significant market share being gained by those two companies.
Ahhhh, I am sure it will be said again here, but payback is in order. This sort of marketing angle will only go so far though as Apple and AMD have found out. What really matters is real power. This will translate into more sales as Apple is now finding out with significant interest in the G5 Xserve from a large number of corporations and government agencies. So, if Intel can get around some of the performance bottlenecks and deal with the loss of backwards compatibility, they may be able to get back on track.
Why don't you expound on just what is being mischaracterized or what you feel is not being correctly presented? Come on now, let's hear it.
Just say you don't know how to use Microsoft products.
While this has been the case with large IT groups within large governmental organizations in the past, this is starting to change within certain groups like subsets of the Department of Homeland Security and groups within the FBI and CIA. A number of those folks are going to other platforms like OS X for security reasons, convenience, management and hardware infrastructure like Altivec which can speed up cryptography significantly. Of course some of the older guys know Nextstep quite well and were fans of the NeXT boxes when they were de-rigeur at the NSA and places in the CIA and are quite happy with OS X.
Linux has also made big strides in places, particularly the TRUSTED flavors.
Oh, great. This is going to be worse than the ASFAB test I took in my first undergraduate year. Before my eyes lost their 20/17 rating, I planned to fly for the Marine Corps, but I had dudes from a number of government agencies aside from the armed services calling my apartment and dropping by both home and work.
So, it is stuff like this that is going to make anonymity much more important than it is now. The problem of course is that unless you are completely disenfranchised from society your academic records are known, any published writing you have is known, your credit rating is known (believe it or not, certain government agencies look very carefully at your credit rating when recruiting you), and "virtual" persona are relatively easy to correlate with specific persons (all of you anonymous cowards take note). And all you folks that think: "Well, my Ph.D. or M.D. is going to keep me out of the draft", take note. If you are under the age of 45, we are prime candidates.
I can make the smae statment about aspirin: give 10000mg to an 80 yr old with low blood pressure and see what happens....
So, you have just made the golden argument against dietary supplements and herbal remedies. Namely, there is no control over the industry so one really does not know what they are getting. Am I getting 50mg of the "active ingredient" or am I getting 500mg? There is no way of knowing because there are no controls on the manufacture and no standards that they follow. One manufacturer may provide next to nothing in the pills while another may provide a whopping dose, so how do you know?
By the way, 10000mg of aspirin would likely give anybody problems, not just an 80 year old with low blood pressure. The low blood pressure could actually help out as aspirin is an anticoagulant. So, if one had high blood pressure, there may be a higher incidence of hemorrhage or hemorrhagic stroke with high dosages of aspirin. More likely however for most folks would be an upset stomach, fever and possibly ulcerations and bleeding of the stomach and intestine if you don't puke it all up first.
Oh, by the way......all of what I said above and.......First post.
Careful...... It should also be noted that in neurons in the hippocampus (and elsewhere), when the threshold for firing is decreased, the propensity for epileptiform discharges increases. The authors of the study claim that the neurons are bigger and fire more easily. I suppose that the ease of firing could simply be related to simple cable theory as predicted by Hodgkin and Huxley, but their explanation of increased dendritic count could also explain it nicely. However, other explanations could also be correct such as increased or upregulated glutamatergic channel count or increased receptor count.
researchers say the implications are profound for humans and the future of learning
At any rate, I regardless of the actual model, these sorts of public proclamations are troublesome as there are now going to be thousands upon thousands that will go out and start purchasing choline supplements just like their mass purchasing of melatonin (extracted from bovine pineal gland commonly, prion diseases anyone?), or ephedra (cardiac arrest anyone?), Aristolochia fangchi (kidney damage or cancer anyone?), shark cartilage (simply a lighter wallet anyone?), or any other unproven (not a troll, I am a scientist folks, so I want proof) supplement.
It seems to me that a number of these functions could be easily combined into one useful "sub-tablet" much like the Newton used to be. For instance:
.mp3's off their old Newtons.
1) I could not make phone calls on the Newton, but it seems to me that combining a WAP with code like iChat could easily be patched into a cellular network via a server which negotiates the call at perhaps a reduced price. VOIP, right? This way you don't have to worry about "locked" phones when you travel from one country to another or good around with those SIM cards. (where did I put that SIM card anyway? *as he digs furiously through his travel bag*)
2) I am not sure why folks like using their phones as cameras, but Sony has been integrating cameras into their Clie's for some time now and could easily be done. Although, again.....I am not sure why people want this. The CCDs would have to get LOTS better and you still have to deal with tiny lenses with lots of aberration in them. I much prefer my Canon Elph.
3) iPod. Well, yeah....music and why not movies too? This functionality could easily be emulated on any OS and as I recall, there are many folks that even play
4) Well, the Newton was not a replacement for a full featured laptop, so if you want to do Photoshoppin or something like that, a sub-notebook will not cut it for screen real estate alone.
5) Cables? What cables? Use 802.11x and Bluetooth. Done.
6) Time? Apple for some time has had servers that are linked to atomic clocks so that you can set the time on your computer to an absolute time.
7) PDA? This would be an uber PDA. We don't need no stinkin Palm.
Shoot, there were people that were even using their Newtons as wireless web servers, so the functionality was there.
So, there. Seven devices that folks are totin around that could be all one device. I hate to say it but why does not Apple get back into this market? They could do it right.
Ummmm. As I recall, upon boot up, there absolutely was on the screen "Apple ][", not "Apple II". Oh, by the way, they are not "fonts" but are keys/ASCII symbols. You know "brackets"? On a QWERTY keyboard, they are just to the right of the "P" key?
Defined, they are respectively ][: Dec: 91 and 93 Hx: 5B and 5D Oct: 133 and 135
What today's hackers don't realize is how expensive phone service used to be.
Yes. Thus the whole impetus for getting the long distance numbers. The first month after I got my modem, (before I knew about the baby bell codes), my folks went absolutely ballistic at the phone bill saying to me: "You're Grounded!!!" which of course probably proved critical in my discovering the rest of the "wired" world through the phone codes. Man, they were screaming about my calling all over the country, but really had no idea of what I was actually doing with the computer or the implications. My Mom came in once when I was talking via text term to a friend on the other side of town and she was absolutely marveling at the fact that we could "talk" over the computer lines. This is a woman who had a doctorate but had never seen such a thing before. It's hard to appreciate just how novel that was back in 1983 to the vast majority of the population.
The novation applecat was the most amazing chunk of hardware you could add to an apple in those days.
You are not kidding. Those things were fully programable so that one could create a list of numbers to dial (or even dial randomly) and then log the numbers which were answered by computer modems for call back and investigation when you got back from school. I could not afford the Applecat at first and relyed on a cheap modem card and one of those phone handset cradles for a while before I could mow enough lawns around the neighborhood to purchase the Applecat. As I recall, it seems to have pulled about $300 out of my 14year old pockets, but there was a friend of mine (from a decidedly wealthy background) that was doing all sorts of custom programming on his even hooking up an old cassette player to function as an anwering machine which totally blew me away.
Hrmmmm. It was about 1983 that I purchased my first computer, an Apple ][+, and I found out that all of the baby bells which had started up had completely unsecured computer systems holding all those handy long distance access numbers. Of course in 1983, I was a 13 year old and hacking like that was more of a game than anything else. I feel bad about getting those numbers now, but we really had no idea it was "illegal" at the time. That experience though did help introduce me to computer users world wide and BBS's like the Pirates Cove and Crystal Caverns which was pre-Internet, but quite the educational experience.
Ah, but your father in law is part of the massive conspiracy!
:-)
As a member of the Illuminati, I know that he is most certainly not a part of the conspiracy.
BTW, there is a hot spot under Yellowstone and big cinder cones and a lot of lave flows in Idaho. I think there is a better than average changes of some major event in a short geological time frame.
Oh, there absolutely is, and its a whopper. What do you think is driving all the geysers? The real issue this poster was raising however was a more discrete event in the predictable near future, thus my post. At some point, the magma chamber may indeed break through, but there is no advanced knowledge of when that is going to be and certainly no conspiracy.
I suggest you wear your tinfoil hat. The government is gonna get you now.
:-)
No, no. You will notice I said "Cheny's", not "Cheney's".
Yeah, that's it. Old man Cheny down the road. The farmer. Yeah, you know him.......The guy with the horses.......and....the....big...barn...at...the end of the road?
Well, my father in law follows the geology of the Yellowstone basin fairly closely because of his job as a park Ranger up in Grand Teton (his dream retirement job). In all the conversations I have had with him, he has said nothing of this. To add to that, he lives just outside Jackson Wyoming (Cheny's undisclosed location interestingly enough or at least I've seen him around the Jackson area a number of times) and one would think he would be out of there had there been any dramatic increases in geologic activity indicative of an eruption or large scale animal deaths as alleged in these rumors.
What software or strategies do you use to protect your parents' PCs? Is it possible for inexperienced users to surf the net in safety?"
Well, the solution is pretty simple actually. Since OS X does not have the virus/worm issues that Windows has, is easy to use and set-up, does not have the malware issues that Windows has, I purchased iBooks for my mother and my sister to use. They are cheap, quite effective, durable as can be and since they live many hundreds of miles away from me, I am not always having to do tech support over the phone (or video iChat). Quite frankly, I really don't have the time these days to do computer support so this really is the best solution. Additionally, I would much rather spend the time I have to interact with my family on more fulfilling topics than computer support.
Doesn't really matter. Thanks to AT&T's crappy customer service, and inability to provide global roaming on my recent trip to Southeast Asia, I'm planning on switching to a different provider in the next month or two.
Yes, I just looked into global roaming for an upcoming trip to Australia and New Zealand and AT&T absolutely cannot provide it to me for anything less than $5 a minute. So, it looks like T-Mobile is going to be getting my business.
Lets see: Bluetooth headset for hands-free calling, Bluetooth for automatic hands-free talk within my Bluetooth supported car, Bluetooth for wirelessly synching my phone and Palmpilot with my G5s at work, and at home and my Powerbook when I travel.
Once you have used it, Bluetooth is hard to give up.
Yeah, there is no Bluetooth on the new phones which is proving to be quite a hassle. It is amazing how ones life becomes adapted to a technology like Bluetooth that truly works, and then to have AT&T Wireless simply say, "sorry, you have to upgrade" simply sucks.
In medical school we certainly benefited from mnemonics for all sorts of things from cranial nerves to biochemical enzymes, but these guys are on a different level. Of course it could be reasoned that they are able to make other associations that seem logical (perhaps) that enable recall much easier.
Colors, musical notes, mathematical formulas......whatever makes sense.
Oh, come on now. Recipes were one of the first things I ever saw posted on the Internet even back when it was Arpanet. In fact, one of the reasons Xerox PARC gave for developing the GUI was to allow everyone to interact with a computer, even "kitchen wives" could be able to easily store and retrieve recipes on a computer without having to use "arcane" symbology.
To answer your question though, I think this link should be more than Slashdot worthy. The show is great, sufficiently geeky, and life is simply too short not to eat.....Good Eats.
There are many, many other links to recipes on the Internet. Food Network is one and Epicurious are the other principle resources I use.
I am not exactly sure, but there must have been some combination of bright light and higher energy radiation. From a retinal vision perspective, all one would need to do would be to activate opsins and this could easily be imagined happening with all of the high energy particles being emitted by the bomb.
Also, a quick google search reveals that others have relayed the same experience.
This comment in the essay: This is highest building in town and in April 26-27, 1986 after reactor exploaded, people gathered on the roof of this building to watch a beautiful shining that rised above APP. They didn't know this was shining of radiation. they learned it on next day when evacuation began reminded me of talks I had with some of my patients some years ago that either lived in southern Utah and Nevada, or were in the military. Whole families would gather on high mountains to watch the pretty lights from the atomic bombs being tested in the open air and I had one old army guy tell me that soldiers who were gathered at the exercises, if they were not issued goggles, were told to look away and cover your eyes with your hands. When the bomb went off, you could actually see the bones in your hands from all the X-rays that were emitted from the bomb.
Amazingly scary.