Maybe GWB and/or Bill Clinton are saints, sent from God himself; maybe they're full-on sociopaths. However, the most likely scenario is that they're the usual mixture of good and evil, altruism and selfishness, who through various turns-of-events became President despite their flaws.
Very well put, that's the most insightful statement I've ever seen in the politics section of Slashdot. To think that presidents may be allowed to be human...
What's really sad to see is how little people know of abuses of presidential power by presidents before Nixon, specifically Woodrow Wilson.
The valid question is "Are you switching to a 64-bit Operating System?"
SGI Irix and OSF/1 on Alpha users switched over a decade ago, Solaris went 64 bit on Sparc in 1998 and 64 bit on AMD64 in 2005.
The 32 to 64 transition was handled better on Solaris than on Linux (Sun had a lot of practice with supporting Solaris on 32 and 64 bit Sparc's before tackling the 32 to 64 bit transition on x86) as there is a standard way of providing both 32 and 64 bit bit support in applications and drivers.
Kind of fun seeing another transition, having lived through the 8 to 16 bit era (early 1980's) and the 16 to 32 bit era (1986-1995).
In the USA all broadcasts switched to color in 1967 I believe
The switch took place fall of 1966, but you're right in that the 1967 season was the first with all shows broadcast in color on CBS and ABC - NBC was full color at least a year earlier as RCA wanted to sell color TV's.
The 210Po was presumably made by neutron irradiation of 209Bi (209Bi(n,g)210Bi), where the 210Bi beta decays to 210Po. If there is a sufficient number of very high energy neutrons, some of the 210Po could undergo a 210Po(n,2n)209Po reaction and the signature would be traces of 209Po. This would imply a fast reactor used for isotope production - which are rare (IIRC, the last one in the US was that Fast Flux Test Facility which was shut down over 10 years ago).
This is similar to the idea of porting to different architectures as an aid for bug tracking.
On the other hand, if the same bug shows up across the ports of the package, it is a pretty safe bet to say the bug is in the code and not the compiler or OS. I had an experience recently using an app that was running on Solaris and OS X, getting sporadic crashes on both platforms and sure enough it was a very subtle bog (a number very close to one was being rounded to one).
Methinks that's an even more important reason for the reputation that Linux has for robustness than the so-called thousands of eyeballs looking over the code.
That's the collapse of the Thermohaline circulation currently keeping Europe temperate.
There was a recent article that debunked the idea that the thermohaline circulation was the primary cause for Europe's temperate climate stating that several times more heat was convected in the atmosphere than in the Atlantic. Then again, the article appeared in "American Scientist" which is probably too far right for your tastes.
I am not in the position to say whether the quoted numbers are accurate, but your posting had the most concrete numbers for the relative effects of CO2 as opposed to simply stating how much CO2 was entering the atmosphere.
One data point that argues that there is more involved with global climate change than CO2 is the change in temperature readings across the US during the 2 to 3 days of the "No-Fly" restrictions after 9/11/2001 - the nights were a couple of degrees cooler.
You've got a better handle on M$'s history than the OP, but you're still a bit off.
Microsoft started with the Altair 8800 in 1975 - though there have been allegations about dumpster diving for the code (MS Basic is unique enough and ugly enough that this probably isn't the case) and whose computer time was being used to develop BASIC leading to all sorts of speculation about who really owns the copyright to the original MS-Basic.
QDOS/86-DOS was a reverse engineering of CP/M - Seattle Computer was the outfit that designed the Z-80 card for the Apple II about a year before they started work on their 8086 system on an S-100 bus.
A frequent (and probably very true) comment about Microsoft is that they got where they are much more by their knowledge of the legal system than by echnical skills.
You are aware that Japan was planning to use bubonic plague infested fleas against the US force invading the Mariannas in June 1944? It was damn lucky for Japan that the submarine carrying the jars of fleas was sunk en route - otherwise the US would have gone into all out chemical and biological war with Japan with chem and bio weapons that had already been developed tested and stockpiled. You are also aware of the atrocities committed by the Japanese during their prosecution of the war - as for example what happened in Nanking in 1938.
Truman did the right thing when he ordered the bombing - it probably saved millions of Japanese lives.
I was a charter subscriber to PC Magazine and my subscription to PC World started with the 2nd issue. Gave up both subscriptions by the late 80's. Both magazines were started by Dean Bunnel and his crew - the best looking being Cheryl Woodard...
The question is: Is the Copperhead more like a laser guided rocket than an artillery shell? Does it experience the same initial SLAM that the conventional round does? Regular rockets do not. They accelerate over a longer distance than an artillery shell does. That SLAM is what would damage the electronics in the shell.
You obviously don't know much about munitions. Deke Parsoons was firing vacuum tube electronics out of cannons before the start of WWII. The US launched a nuclear weapon out of a cannon in May 1953. Safe to say the US military has had a bit of experience in the design of electronics that get shot out of cannons.
When was the last time that you needed the phone when power was out? There are times, I agree, but its been decades since I needed both power and the phone and both were missing. In real emergencies, there is also a cell phone network, and more often than not, a neighbors phone.
The answer to the question is to call the power company when the power was out - had a situation about 12 years ago where the power dropped out due to a wire breaking - power was eventually restored to the neighborhhod but not me (breaker had tripped on the pole pig). Cell phone is not always an answer as there are still a lot of dead zones (my current house seems to be one).
As Animats pointed out, modern mobo's already have power supply components. Modern CPU's are running at ~1.2V and maybe 60 to 80 amps or more - there is no way in hell that you're going to be able to supply that beast with something other than a switcher dedicated to the CPU - and it really doesn't make much difference if that switcher is being fed with 5V or 12V (as long as it is being fed the correct voltage). At 12V, you can get by with 6X less copper than at 5V for the power traces (remember (5/12)**2 ).
The light aircraft industry went into decline after World War II and never really recovered.
The light aircraft industry was quite healthy until the late 1970's, then product liability become the dominant cost in producing an airplane (in the mid to late 1980's, Cessna was estimating that a 172 would cost ~$40,000 in labor and materials, ~$70,000 for liability). The light aircraft industry has experienced a re-awakening after tort laws cut-off product liability for anything more than 12 years old.
certain rights were temporarily rescinded during World War II and were re-established afterwards.
The amount of rights rescinded depended a lot on whether or not you were ethnic Japanese (and one of the strongest supporters of sending the Japanese to concentration camps (using the pre-WWII meaning)was Earl Warren) - many people had their property confiscated (the folks in Handford did not leave willingly - the 90% "war profits" income tax bracket wasn't rescinded until the 1960's.
What's even worse is what happened during WWI - a good part of Orwell's 1984 was inspired by what happened in the US during WWI - the pervasive spying on citizens (it was illegal to say anything negative about the war effort and J Edgar Hoover had over 100,000 people spying on their fellow countrymen) - the government sponsored war rallies (do a search on George Creel and think about where Goebbels got his inspiration for the big lie).
The FOCAL language available on the PDP-8s was much closer to assembler in this regard: it's IF statement looked like this: "if (VARIABLE) L1 L2 L3", which would branch to L1 if VARIABLE was less than zero, L2 if equal to zero, L3 if greater than zero.
That's the Arithmetic IF from early FORTRAN (ca 1956) that relied on an instruction from an early IBM computer and still available, though deprecated, on current Fortran compilers.
Thallium stress test?? My stress tests involved the use of Technetium - which has a line in the same energy range as 235U and I did get a caution from my doctor about crossing the border (busiest one in the world is 30 miles south of here).
The Canadians were installing radiation detectors back in the 90's to detect smuggled cigarrettes - tobacco has a high concentration of potassium.
And just how is admiring Hitler more offensive than admiring the likes of Mao or Stalin? (especially the former for the refugees from the 60's)
At least Schwarzenegger hasn't advocated sending thousands of US citizens to concentration camps as did that "great shining light of civil rights" Earl Warren.
I was thinking more back to the 60's and early 70's ('course I was a young'un back then) and also by comparison with the SF Chromicle and SD Union of that era.
And of course this is the same L.A. Times that was sitting on the 'groping' story for months, only to release it the Thursday before the election. Pity in that the Times used to be a pretty decent newpaper.
Surprised that almost no one has drawn parallels with the HP mess.
If anything would be "liberated" it would be the PMT and associated electronics - the NaI crystal was a special from Saint Gobain, only thing unique was its size (presumably to give better energy resolution) and it sounds like he was using an off-the-shelf nuclide detection/identification software package.
What caused my eyebrows to shoot up was the claim that he could pick up gammas from uranium at one mile and also in the presence of shielding. Three problems with that assertion, one is that a mile of air at sea level isroughly equivalent to 3 feet of concrete, two the 1/r**2 fall-off in intensity is HUGE at 1 mile and three, uranium doesn't have much of a gamma line that stands out (only thing I could find that put out high energy gammas was the 234Pa decay product of 238U).
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Very well put, that's the most insightful statement I've ever seen in the politics section of Slashdot. To think that presidents may be allowed to be human...
What's really sad to see is how little people know of abuses of presidential power by presidents before Nixon, specifically Woodrow Wilson.
SGI Irix and OSF/1 on Alpha users switched over a decade ago, Solaris went 64 bit on Sparc in 1998 and 64 bit on AMD64 in 2005.
The 32 to 64 transition was handled better on Solaris than on Linux (Sun had a lot of practice with supporting Solaris on 32 and 64 bit Sparc's before tackling the 32 to 64 bit transition on x86) as there is a standard way of providing both 32 and 64 bit bit support in applications and drivers.
Kind of fun seeing another transition, having lived through the 8 to 16 bit era (early 1980's) and the 16 to 32 bit era (1986-1995).
The switch took place fall of 1966, but you're right in that the 1967 season was the first with all shows broadcast in color on CBS and ABC - NBC was full color at least a year earlier as RCA wanted to sell color TV's.
The 210Po was presumably made by neutron irradiation of 209Bi (209Bi(n,g)210Bi), where the 210Bi beta decays to 210Po. If there is a sufficient number of very high energy neutrons, some of the 210Po could undergo a 210Po(n,2n)209Po reaction and the signature would be traces of 209Po. This would imply a fast reactor used for isotope production - which are rare (IIRC, the last one in the US was that Fast Flux Test Facility which was shut down over 10 years ago).
On the other hand, if the same bug shows up across the ports of the package, it is a pretty safe bet to say the bug is in the code and not the compiler or OS. I had an experience recently using an app that was running on Solaris and OS X, getting sporadic crashes on both platforms and sure enough it was a very subtle bog (a number very close to one was being rounded to one).
Methinks that's an even more important reason for the reputation that Linux has for robustness than the so-called thousands of eyeballs looking over the code.
There was a recent article that debunked the idea that the thermohaline circulation was the primary cause for Europe's temperate climate stating that several times more heat was convected in the atmosphere than in the Atlantic. Then again, the article appeared in "American Scientist" which is probably too far right for your tastes.
One data point that argues that there is more involved with global climate change than CO2 is the change in temperature readings across the US during the 2 to 3 days of the "No-Fly" restrictions after 9/11/2001 - the nights were a couple of degrees cooler.
Microsoft started with the Altair 8800 in 1975 - though there have been allegations about dumpster diving for the code (MS Basic is unique enough and ugly enough that this probably isn't the case) and whose computer time was being used to develop BASIC leading to all sorts of speculation about who really owns the copyright to the original MS-Basic.
QDOS/86-DOS was a reverse engineering of CP/M - Seattle Computer was the outfit that designed the Z-80 card for the Apple II about a year before they started work on their 8086 system on an S-100 bus.
A frequent (and probably very true) comment about Microsoft is that they got where they are much more by their knowledge of the legal system than by echnical skills.
Truman did the right thing when he ordered the bombing - it probably saved millions of Japanese lives.
I was a charter subscriber to PC Magazine and my subscription to PC World started with the 2nd issue. Gave up both subscriptions by the late 80's. Both magazines were started by Dean Bunnel and his crew - the best looking being Cheryl Woodard...
You obviously don't know much about munitions. Deke Parsoons was firing vacuum tube electronics out of cannons before the start of WWII. The US launched a nuclear weapon out of a cannon in May 1953. Safe to say the US military has had a bit of experience in the design of electronics that get shot out of cannons.
The answer to the question is to call the power company when the power was out - had a situation about 12 years ago where the power dropped out due to a wire breaking - power was eventually restored to the neighborhhod but not me (breaker had tripped on the pole pig). Cell phone is not always an answer as there are still a lot of dead zones (my current house seems to be one).
As Animats pointed out, modern mobo's already have power supply components. Modern CPU's are running at ~1.2V and maybe 60 to 80 amps or more - there is no way in hell that you're going to be able to supply that beast with something other than a switcher dedicated to the CPU - and it really doesn't make much difference if that switcher is being fed with 5V or 12V (as long as it is being fed the correct voltage). At 12V, you can get by with 6X less copper than at 5V for the power traces (remember (5/12)**2 ).
The light aircraft industry was quite healthy until the late 1970's, then product liability become the dominant cost in producing an airplane (in the mid to late 1980's, Cessna was estimating that a 172 would cost ~$40,000 in labor and materials, ~$70,000 for liability). The light aircraft industry has experienced a re-awakening after tort laws cut-off product liability for anything more than 12 years old.
The amount of rights rescinded depended a lot on whether or not you were ethnic Japanese (and one of the strongest supporters of sending the Japanese to concentration camps (using the pre-WWII meaning)was Earl Warren) - many people had their property confiscated (the folks in Handford did not leave willingly - the 90% "war profits" income tax bracket wasn't rescinded until the 1960's.
What's even worse is what happened during WWI - a good part of Orwell's 1984 was inspired by what happened in the US during WWI - the pervasive spying on citizens (it was illegal to say anything negative about the war effort and J Edgar Hoover had over 100,000 people spying on their fellow countrymen) - the government sponsored war rallies (do a search on George Creel and think about where Goebbels got his inspiration for the big lie).
That's the Arithmetic IF from early FORTRAN (ca 1956) that relied on an instruction from an early IBM computer and still available, though deprecated, on current Fortran compilers.
Now who's the kook??
The Canadians were installing radiation detectors back in the 90's to detect smuggled cigarrettes - tobacco has a high concentration of potassium.
At least Schwarzenegger hasn't advocated sending thousands of US citizens to concentration camps as did that "great shining light of civil rights" Earl Warren.
I was thinking more back to the 60's and early 70's ('course I was a young'un back then) and also by comparison with the SF Chromicle and SD Union of that era.
Talking about offensive remarks...
Surprised that almost no one has drawn parallels with the HP mess.
What caused my eyebrows to shoot up was the claim that he could pick up gammas from uranium at one mile and also in the presence of shielding. Three problems with that assertion, one is that a mile of air at sea level isroughly equivalent to 3 feet of concrete, two the 1/r**2 fall-off in intensity is HUGE at 1 mile and three, uranium doesn't have much of a gamma line that stands out (only thing I could find that put out high energy gammas was the 234Pa decay product of 238U).
Don't you mean ex-representative Cunningham?