And M$ DOES give older versions the capability of reading, if not writing, the newer formats. Assuming you know to look. And where to look. And can roll it out (can we say another $5K for SMS and SMS CALS ???)
It's an interesting paradox: people want it, but all too many can't get it, especially with the implosion of DSL providers. Those of us still up and running on Covad's network get worried, seeing stockholder/bondholder efforts to preserve THEIR equity, CO de-activations, and general nervousness about the service in general.
Yet cable, with its' shared bandwidth, is growing like crazy. As a former @Home user, I hated having bandwidth drop to modem speeds in the evening. But if it's all you can get, what other choice is there ?? (And no, the new StarBand service does NOT support Linux, nor do they claim to ever intend to support "minor operating systems". . . I asked, and was shocked....)
I picked up a couple of P-120's and P-133's several months ago: ~$35/cpu only, or ~120 for CPU/Monitor/keyboard/mouse. All had either 64 or 128MB of RAM, and were circa 1994 vintage.
Of course, the trick is knowing when and where to buy them, and beating the professional buyers who grab everything in sight. (it's a real feeding frenzy. ..).
Can't tell you for everywhere, but in the Washington DC area, details are here.
Government IT is INCREDIBLY fragmented. Standards ?? What standards ?? It might be a good thing to get Uncle Sugar to standardize on a few things, to get the cost down. (Trust me, I've been there. ..)
Like, say, a "standard" server. I've seen everything from mega-Sun boxen, to 486's as servers, running everything from Novell 3 and NT 3.5 to RedHat, BSD, and Solaris boxes. ..in some cases, mixes of NT and Unix, with no SAMBA, and zero configuration managment (i.e. Mail is one department, Users a second, Fileservers a third, and all run independentely. ..). We're talking some real nightmare networks, from an admin standpoint. . .
Now imagine a caveat, from the top down: a standard Federal Webserver (Apache), a standard Federal Mailserver (Sendmail) , on 2-3 standard platforms (say, Solaris, OpenBSD, and [insert your favorite distro here]. Desktops are Mandrake with StarOffice or OpenOffice.
Yes, Uncle Sam would need a lot of new admins.
But imagine the savings in software costs. Consider a central Federal security site: "Here are today's patches for Config X...". Imagine the chagrin of BillGatus of Borg. . .
But how large are the femtosecond lasers, manipulation for the store, sensors to detect the florescence, firmware, etc. ????
My rough guess would be room-sized, at current technology. Give it 10-20 years, and then you'll likely see a unit to fit in a home computing unit (whatever THEY will look like by then.....)
This allows basically 2-d nanostructures. But we're still building it in the "macro" fashion: doing templates, using bulk chemical processes for "developing", etc. I can see this leading to a nanoscale manipulating arm, but this is just a step on the road. We'll be at genuine nanotech when we can do molecular nanoconstruction on the single-atom/molecule/fragment scale, in three dimensions. When will THAT be ?? No clue, but I'm hoping for under 10 years. . .
. . . with a book that features descriptions of masturbation, requirements for human sacrifice, carnage, even symbolic cannibalism, yet is widely distributed . . ..
This sort of "trash" shouldn't be allowed in any child's hands, can't you hear the cries rise from America ???
. ..until, of course, they realize that I'm talking about the Bible. [evil grin]
Parents were distant and disinterested, gave child whatever they wanted without question.
Kid buys guns, ammo, nasty rock albums, violent games. And enough explosive material, albeit badly, and luckily, incompetently set up, to kill hundreds
Parents never question, nor even apparentely LOOK in kid's bedroom, where reportedly massive evidence was lying in plain sight
Kid goes totally postal.
Yep. Sounds like those darned video games are to blame to me. . .
But then, how will I get my 7.62 gigawatts. . .
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. ..for my Delorean Time Machine ??? I can only afford Wal-Mart fuel !!!!
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S.1618 "The Murkowski Bill" was never passed, and never signed into law. The S.1618 designation identifies it as a bill introduced to the US Senate.
If it had passed, it would be referred to as Public Law XX-YYY, and as a US Code citation, i.e. XX USC YYY (differing values of X and Y for both cases cited above. ..)
Yes, it's FUD. Feel free to ignore it. Any remove that actually hits an address will likely add your address to 6.02x10^23 additional spam lists. . . .
Simple. They're due then. I owe Uncle Sam a little this year, so he's not getting any free interest on it by paying it before it's due. If I'd had a refund coming, I would have filed by Feb. 7th or so. My taxes and forms have been ready since the 10th of February. It's just smart management of my assets (although, if I had done it MORE intelligently, I'd have zeroed the amount owed. But you can't always plan your paid overtime, or your consulting income.....)
Minor quibble: according to Boeing, the first 747 flew in 1969.
The first OPERATIONAL C-5 was delivered in the summer of 1970. First flight was in 1968. The original study contract came out in 1964, the contract to produce came out in 1965, according to Lockheed-Martin
I've read elsewhere that it's likely that Secretary Rumsfield will cut either the F-22 or the JSF. My bet is on the F-22 being cut.
As for bombers, the B-52 is a perfectly acceptable platform. ..for standoff launching of cruise-missile type weapons. As an ex B-52 EW officer, I can say that a bomber with the radar cross-section of Saskatchewan won't last long in a modern air defense environment, unless that area has been totally sanitized of modern Air Defense assets. B-1's can do conventional, but nowehere as quickly, with as wide a range of weapons, or as effectively as the old Buffosaurus...
Air Refueling: the -R modifications have done wonderful things to the KC-135s, but still, we need more tankers. A 767 tanker mod comes to mind, as does a 767 AWACS mod (the E-3's date from the late 1970s, and have early 1960's airframes. ..).
Cargo: we need a lot more C-17s. Period. The Starlifters are ancient. . ..
Fighters: Now, for where I really piss off the fighter community. The future of air operations is in RPVs and eventually autonomous air vehicles. But, alas, the Air Force, and to a lesser extent, Naval Aviation, is run by Fighter Pilots. . .
. ..of Colonel Buzz Aldrin ?? Colonel John Glenn ? Capt. Chuck Yeager ?? You tend to get a LOT of exploration and advancement out of military people: most of the Astronaut and Cosmonaut corps are military or ex-military. . ..
And from experience, there are a LOT of wannabe Space Cadets in the USAF: MOST of us, at least when I was in, wanted to go to space and explore.
In other words, perhaps you might want to examine your assupmtions about the military and its' culture, prior to lambasting it. . .
Let's look at the results of military weapons programs, shall we ??? The need for a jet cargo plane/tanker had a little spinoff called the Boeing 707. . . the plane that jump-started international passenger aviation.
Then, the US military needed a wide-bodied heavy-lift cargo craft. We got the C-5. The loser in THAT competition became the Boeing 747. Which further revolutionized air travel, AND kick-started Wide-body technology. . .
I could continue with things like helicopters, GPS, the TCP/IP protocol, and many others, which were originally developed for the US military. An organization with just as many spinoffs as NASA, just less publicity on them. . .
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. .."ten thousand spoons" is what our lawyers will use on you for quoting Alanis without compensation. You may then petition for a knife, to end it. . .
So it's a stupid tradition. Big deal. But I'll also note that early cosmonauts and astronauts had no relief systems in their suits. As Alan Shepard found out, and as dramatized in "The Right Stuff". . .
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M$ wants you to pay no matter WHAT you do..
It's an interesting paradox: people want it, but all too many can't get it, especially with the implosion of DSL providers. Those of us still up and running on Covad's network get worried, seeing stockholder/bondholder efforts to preserve THEIR equity, CO de-activations, and general nervousness about the service in general.
Yet cable, with its' shared bandwidth, is growing like crazy. As a former @Home user, I hated having bandwidth drop to modem speeds in the evening. But if it's all you can get, what other choice is there ?? (And no, the new StarBand service does NOT support Linux, nor do they claim to ever intend to support "minor operating systems". . . I asked, and was shocked....)
You know. . . the 12-week night-school-and-Transcender specials. . .
I know it was naive, but I look at the potential... not the likely outcome, but the best outcome...
Color me "Byers". . .
I picked up a couple of P-120's and P-133's several months ago: ~$35/cpu only, or ~120 for CPU/Monitor/keyboard/mouse. All had either 64 or 128MB of RAM, and were circa 1994 vintage.
Of course, the trick is knowing when and where to buy them, and beating the professional buyers who grab everything in sight. (it's a real feeding frenzy. . .).
Can't tell you for everywhere, but in the Washington DC area, details are here.
Not in the DC area ?? Try here
If there's a Fed CIO, he/she can make policy and require everyone to follow.....
Like, say, a "standard" server. I've seen everything from mega-Sun boxen, to 486's as servers, running everything from Novell 3 and NT 3.5 to RedHat, BSD, and Solaris boxes. . .in some cases, mixes of NT and Unix, with no SAMBA, and zero configuration managment (i.e. Mail is one department, Users a second, Fileservers a third, and all run independentely. . .). We're talking some real nightmare networks, from an admin standpoint. . .
Now imagine a caveat, from the top down: a standard Federal Webserver (Apache), a standard Federal Mailserver (Sendmail) , on 2-3 standard platforms (say, Solaris, OpenBSD, and [insert your favorite distro here]. Desktops are Mandrake with StarOffice or OpenOffice.
Yes, Uncle Sam would need a lot of new admins. But imagine the savings in software costs. Consider a central Federal security site: "Here are today's patches for Config X...". Imagine the chagrin of BillGatus of Borg. . .
. . .or Red Fedoras. . .
But how large are the femtosecond lasers, manipulation for the store, sensors to detect the florescence, firmware, etc. ????
My rough guess would be room-sized, at current technology. Give it 10-20 years, and then you'll likely see a unit to fit in a home computing unit (whatever THEY will look like by then.....)
This allows basically 2-d nanostructures. But we're still building it in the "macro" fashion: doing templates, using bulk chemical processes for "developing", etc. I can see this leading to a nanoscale manipulating arm, but this is just a step on the road. We'll be at genuine nanotech when we can do molecular nanoconstruction on the single-atom/molecule/fragment scale, in three dimensions. When will THAT be ?? No clue, but I'm hoping for under 10 years. . .
I got my install ISO image there yesterday, and am getting the ext cd image today as we speak. Decent data rate.
Of course, now that I've mentioned it, I expect it to be /.ed in no time. . .
Obvious case in point: Manuel Noriega, still sitting in US Federal Prison...
I admit, that's supposition... I've tried looking it up, but had little success....
This sort of "trash" shouldn't be allowed in any child's hands, can't you hear the cries rise from America ???
. . .until, of course, they realize that I'm talking about the Bible. [evil grin]
Yep. Sounds like those darned video games are to blame to me. . .
. . .for my Delorean Time Machine ??? I can only afford Wal-Mart fuel !!!!
If it had passed, it would be referred to as Public Law XX-YYY, and as a US Code citation, i.e. XX USC YYY (differing values of X and Y for both cases cited above. . .)
Yes, it's FUD. Feel free to ignore it. Any remove that actually hits an address will likely add your address to 6.02x10^23 additional spam lists. . . .
Simple. They're due then. I owe Uncle Sam a little this year, so he's not getting any free interest on it by paying it before it's due. If I'd had a refund coming, I would have filed by Feb. 7th or so. My taxes and forms have been ready since the 10th of February. It's just smart management of my assets (although, if I had done it MORE intelligently, I'd have zeroed the amount owed. But you can't always plan your paid overtime, or your consulting income.....)
The first OPERATIONAL C-5 was delivered in the summer of 1970.
First flight was in 1968.
The original study contract came out in 1964, the contract to produce came out in 1965, according to Lockheed-Martin
As for bombers, the B-52 is a perfectly acceptable platform. . .for standoff launching of cruise-missile type weapons. As an ex B-52 EW officer, I can say that a bomber with the radar cross-section of Saskatchewan won't last long in a modern air defense environment, unless that area has been totally sanitized of modern Air Defense assets. B-1's can do conventional, but nowehere as quickly, with as wide a range of weapons, or as effectively as the old Buffosaurus...
Air Refueling: the -R modifications have done wonderful things to the KC-135s, but still, we need more tankers. A 767 tanker mod comes to mind, as does a 767 AWACS mod (the E-3's date from the late 1970s, and have early 1960's airframes. . .).
Cargo: we need a lot more C-17s. Period. The Starlifters are ancient. . . .
Fighters: Now, for where I really piss off the fighter community. The future of air operations is in RPVs and eventually autonomous air vehicles. But, alas, the Air Force, and to a lesser extent, Naval Aviation, is run by Fighter Pilots. . .
And from experience, there are a LOT of wannabe Space Cadets in the USAF: MOST of us, at least when I was in, wanted to go to space and explore.
In other words, perhaps you might want to examine your assupmtions about the military and its' culture, prior to lambasting it. . .
Then, the US military needed a wide-bodied heavy-lift cargo craft. We got the C-5. The loser in THAT competition became the Boeing 747. Which further revolutionized air travel, AND kick-started Wide-body technology. . .
I could continue with things like helicopters, GPS, the TCP/IP protocol, and many others, which were originally developed for the US military. An organization with just as many spinoffs as NASA, just less publicity on them. . .
. . ."ten thousand spoons" is what our lawyers will use on you for quoting Alanis without compensation. You may then petition for a knife, to end it. . .
So it's a stupid tradition. Big deal. But I'll also note that early cosmonauts and astronauts had no relief systems in their suits. As Alan Shepard found out, and as dramatized in "The Right Stuff". . .
To Yuri Gagarin, first human in space. May he be but the first of untold numbers to come to explore the Final Frontier. . .