Well, the impressive tech, plus drilling with the equipment, keeps the Swedish military in pretty good condition. Which is why it doesn't see much real use. Looks fierce enough that it doesn't actually have to fight.
"Know what you are putting on your machines" is great advice for a sysadmin. In fact, Do not permit employees to download... without first clearing the license terms with... legal.... bar the use of proprietary software except to the extent that the company can account for the permitted licenses comes under the heading of "best practices" for a sysadmin.
And remember, once the GPL, MPL, Artistic License, etc, have been cleared through legal, anything under those licenses is no longer barred from downloading.
Which is, after all, most of the country. FM is line of sight, AM is a wasteland. So unless you're in or near a city, there's not much good on. I used to live in Utah and except for Salt Lake there wasn't much, if anything, on the radio. Down in Cedar City, where I lived, you had one pop station, one classic rock, one country top 40, and NPR. Oh, and a college station which you could hear on some of the campus, if you had properly propitiated the radio gods first, if school was in session. I would've loved to have had XM then.
In the War on Terrorism, security personnel at Chicago's O'Hare airport wrestle would-be passenger Merline A. Grelpner, 91, to the ground after an alert screener notices that she is carrying an object that is later confirmed, by the FBI, using spectrographic analysis, to be a pretzel. The Department of Homeland Insecurity places the nation on a Code Magenta Alert (''A Tad Higher Than Relatively High, But Not Totally High.'')
On the domestic terrorism front, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, tightening up its procedures, quietly reverses its decision to grant a student visa to Osama bin Laden. This decisive action enables the Department of Homeland Insecurity to ratchet the nation's Color Code Security Status all the way down to Mauve (''Calm, But Tense'').
In other film news, al Qaeda, apparently seeking to disprove reports that its leader is dead, releases its latest video, The Osama bin Laden Fugitive Workout. The Department of Homeland Insecurity decides to ratchet the nation's Color Code Security Status up a notch to Key Lime (''Partly Cloudy'').
On June 14 a giant asteroid, discovered only three days earlier, passes within 75,000 miles of the Earth. Congress immediately holds hearings, with the Democrats charging that the Bush administration should have known about it sooner, and the Republicans noting that the asteroid had been heading this way during all eight years of the Clinton administration. The CIA acknowledges, under questioning, that at one point it was tracking the asteroid, but lost the file. In the end, all parties agree that airport security needs to be tightened.
The nation's Color Code Security Status is quickly raised to Maroon (''Dark Brownish Red'').
On the history front, divers seeking to recover the gun turret of the USS Monitor on the ocean floor off the coast of North Carolina discover surprising evidence that the Civil War gunship was sunk by . . . Iraq. The nation's Color Code Security Status is raised to Peach (''Viewer Discretion Advised'').
U.S. news organizations observe the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with investigative reports about the nation's continued vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor knives and pepper spray on 14 commercial flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled 15 pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House. The nation's Color Code Security Status is ratcheted up to its third-highest level, Burnt Umber (''Medium Rare'').
the scariest news comes from North Korea, which announces that, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the United States, it is developing nuclear weapons. An angry President Bush responds by pointing out that ''if you spell Korea backward, you get Aerok, which sounds a heck of a lot like . . . Iraq.'' Reacting quickly, the Department of Homeland Insecurity produces, in mere hours, a new National Security Color Code: Tangerine (''UH-oh'').
In an ominous development, SEC agents confirm reports that Martha Stewart recently contracted with a leading New York architectural firm to design her a cave. The National Security Color Code is quickly bumped up to Jalapeno (''Everyone DOWN!'').
the news is not so good from a remote, forbidding mountain region near Westport, Conn., where SEC agents prepare to attack a 24,500-square-foot, centrally heated, country-French-style cave containing Martha Stewart, only to discover that their worst-case nightmare scenario has become a reality: The fugitive taste goddess has gotten hold of a nuclear food processor. ''If she presses the power button,'' states one official, ''New England is radioactive cole slaw.'' In response, the National Security Color Code is ratcheted up to its highest level, Traffic Cone Orange (''Yipes'').
are the Mac zealots. They make the most rabid Linux zealot look positively mellow. If you say one bad word about the Mac, regardless of how true it is, they mailbomb you. Which is why you don't see much coverage of Mac in the mainstream computer press. It's too much hassle. Not the Mac, the zealots.
You rode a Triumph, didn't you? I remember the 69 Bonneville a friend had. No turn signals, horn, or brake lights. Just a headlight and a taillight. And those lovely, high quality, Lucas Electronics. Lucas, Prince of Darkness.
IIRC, during the Challenger hearings it turned out that there were something like 1,00 criticality one systems. Systems with no backup from which a failure could lead to loss of an orbiter. Not just major criticality one areas like, say, a wing falling off or heat shield components, but o-rings, electrical systems, etc. I wonder how many criticality one systems are left?
The failure of Columbia, as with Challenger, was one of process, i.e. beaurocracy, as much as a mechanical one. "Take off your engineer hats, and put on your manager hats." "We don't really need to have the Air Force look at it with a KH-11." Etc.
Saw both of them on TV. Live. Saw the first launch of Columbia, skipped school that day (9th grade) to watch.
He said he wanted to spend around $2,000. A digital SLR that's equivalent in resolution, versatility, and toughness to, say, a Pentax K-1000 or Nikon FM2 will cost around $5,000. So he could buy the manual camera, a decent selection of lenses, and shoot several thousand frames, for the price of just the digital SLR body.
"not good for existing light photography"? Huh? You don't need a light meter for that. Figure 1/1000 (the max speed IIRC) at F11 for sunlight, F8 if it's weak/hazy sunlight, 5.6 for cloudy, 4 for heavy clouds, 2.8 or 1.4 for well lit interiors. Adjust speed/F-stop as needed for depth of field control.
In some states, especially ones like California where direct democracy is popular, there can be dozens of items on the ballot. Sure, if the vote was just "Select one of candidate A, B, or C" it'd be easy. But when you add in several bond issues, some highway votes, a couple of proposed laws, etc, it can become difficult to count by hand in a reasonable timeframe.
True, on 286/386 PC's. Then came the 486, and I had the joy of porting software. Fortunately for whoever replaced me, I did not assume that all future ints would be 32 bits.
Every country plans for every possibility that it can. The US had (and probably has) plans on the books for invading Canada and Mexico. I'm sure the UK has plans for invading Ireland and France. India, no doubt, has plans for invading Ceylon, Austrailia, and Indonesia.
The existence of the plans doesn't mean they'll be used, however.
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I apply the duck test. If it looks like Unix, acts like Unix, etc, then it's Unix. Of course, it's X Windows plus the GNU tools that make Linux look/quack/swim like Unix.
all you had to do was watch that one. IIRC, Carrie Fisher was on Bennies. Not sure what the other actors were on. The scriptwriters were probably just drunk.
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Well, the impressive tech, plus drilling with the equipment, keeps the Swedish military in pretty good condition. Which is why it doesn't see much real use. Looks fierce enough that it doesn't actually have to fight.
And remember, once the GPL, MPL, Artistic License, etc, have been cleared through legal, anything under those licenses is no longer barred from downloading.
Which is, after all, most of the country. FM is line of sight, AM is a wasteland. So unless you're in or near a city, there's not much good on. I used to live in Utah and except for Salt Lake there wasn't much, if anything, on the radio. Down in Cedar City, where I lived, you had one pop station, one classic rock, one country top 40, and NPR. Oh, and a college station which you could hear on some of the campus, if you had properly propitiated the radio gods first, if school was in session. I would've loved to have had XM then.
On some of the channels. But even there, it's far fewer than on regular radio.
Although, to be fair, I know a former nudie bar dancer, and a former porn model, and they are two of the politest, most ladylike women I know.
are the Mac zealots. They make the most rabid Linux zealot look positively mellow. If you say one bad word about the Mac, regardless of how true it is, they mailbomb you. Which is why you don't see much coverage of Mac in the mainstream computer press. It's too much hassle. Not the Mac, the zealots.
is wooing developers with lots of good tools and documentation.
Have the Brits figured out electronics yet?
The failure of Columbia, as with Challenger, was one of process, i.e. beaurocracy, as much as a mechanical one. "Take off your engineer hats, and put on your manager hats." "We don't really need to have the Air Force look at it with a KH-11." Etc.
Saw both of them on TV. Live. Saw the first launch of Columbia, skipped school that day (9th grade) to watch.
But if all you're doing is snapshots, a 5mp digital is adequate.
That's why.
"not good for existing light photography"? Huh? You don't need a light meter for that. Figure 1/1000 (the max speed IIRC) at F11 for sunlight, F8 if it's weak/hazy sunlight, 5.6 for cloudy, 4 for heavy clouds, 2.8 or 1.4 for well lit interiors. Adjust speed/F-stop as needed for depth of field control.
In some states, especially ones like California where direct democracy is popular, there can be dozens of items on the ballot. Sure, if the vote was just "Select one of candidate A, B, or C" it'd be easy. But when you add in several bond issues, some highway votes, a couple of proposed laws, etc, it can become difficult to count by hand in a reasonable timeframe.
True, on 286/386 PC's. Then came the 486, and I had the joy of porting software. Fortunately for whoever replaced me, I did not assume that all future ints would be 32 bits.
The existence of the plans doesn't mean they'll be used, however.
I apply the duck test. If it looks like Unix, acts like Unix, etc, then it's Unix. Of course, it's X Windows plus the GNU tools that make Linux look/quack/swim like Unix.
And then there is the newest Unix on the block, a BSD variant, known as OS X. A User Friendly Unix.
Deterrence.
It's about bandwidth, which p2p systems eat like Americans sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner.
They disappeared years ago.
If you're referring to the train station scene, they aren't Indian programmers, they're Indian programs.
all you had to do was watch that one. IIRC, Carrie Fisher was on Bennies. Not sure what the other actors were on. The scriptwriters were probably just drunk.
usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
I saw it in 3-D. Starring Molly Ringwald. I've been trying to forget it ever since.