It is wrong to characterize a completely different world view (Islam, crossed with a proactive/appocolyptic/destiny-seaking streak) from that of Western Liberal Democracy as "Insane".
To belittle ones enemies like that lead to misjudgements of what they can do and why they do.
Now if you want to charaterize them as "evil", I am okay with that.
I don't think we need to adopt the word choices of the largest totalitarian nation in the world. Let's call Taiwan "Taiwan" or the the "Republic of Taiwan".
Genetic Algorithms have been used to tweak paramaters and settings in design in a small way for years. The classic example was Boeing (or was it the subcontractor? GE maybe?) using it at least in the early 1990's with jet engine design.
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It is wrong to characterize a completely different world view (Islam, crossed with a proactive/appocolyptic/destiny-seaking streak) from that of Western Liberal Democracy as "Insane".
To belittle ones enemies like that lead to misjudgements of what they can do and why they do.
Now if you want to charaterize them as "evil", I am okay with that.
I don't think we need to adopt the word choices of the largest totalitarian nation in the world. Let's call Taiwan "Taiwan" or the the "Republic of Taiwan".
Genetic Algorithms have been used to tweak paramaters and settings in design in a small way for years. The classic example was Boeing (or was it the subcontractor? GE maybe?) using it at least in the early 1990's with jet engine design.
I forgot to add...
9) easy clustering
10) RMS a flat indexed file system the was greate for that world of programs that just don't need a rdbms.
1) Multiple account-by-account security systems (unix really needs to swipe this)
2) Wonderfull Batch/Print queue system (unix is nowhere close). Easy to use, easy to create/manage queues, full featured.
3) DCL scripting language was pretty good for its type (better then sh)
4) A Command Line Interface that was pretty predicatable in its use, which was great for causual users.
5) Good on-line help that was nested. You didn't have to eyeball pages of "man" output.
6) Uptime reliabiity that Unix has only recently started to approach.
7) MMS was superior to make. CMS was a superior source code library. MMS and CMS were integrated.
8) I'll take EDT or LSE over vi any day!
I haven't admin'd VMS for 7 years but I have fond memories of it.
I like the idea of being able to run the MAC OS with VMware.
The 'New type of War" is Called "Assymetric War".
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Think of it as a sort of Guerilla War ++.
http://www.google.com/search?q=asymmetric+war&b