I'm wondering if you've read anything other than the half-dozen shorts he'd written & published prior to 1945.
Arguably his best work was written in the mid to late '50's (Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Podkayne of Mars, the Door Into Summer, the meaty bits of Stranger).
Most of which had very little of any of the faults you mention (little to no sex, apart from Stranger, some anti-communism, but that's a feature of everything he wrote, and little self-righteousness.) What you're bitching about are the post-1960's works.
Actually they did end up providing the cash for the reactors. After years of congress putting it off (And the administration not even trying to push the issue), the cash was allocated in 2000, and the prelude to construction started. Of course, these reactors would do no good, as N.K. doesn't have the grid to actually distibute the power from the reactors.
It was more than a little oil, more like a half million barrels a year.
Frankly both parties dropped the ball during the 90's (Clinton for trying the buyoff on a country which has never respected treaties, and the Republicans for blocking a program that might possibly have helped and couldn't have hurt).
Bush's program seems to be 'Make the Chinese deal with it', which, with the Chinese left as the only group still propping up Kim, and the country with the most to lose from both the status quo and a N.K. Collapse, and who've continually tried to get the US to deal with the issue, is probably the best course.
Check out http://denbeste.nu for some very good essays on the issue, and what's at stake.
That's probably because the original Punisher Movie had little to do with the real Punisher Character. It makes Starship Troopers look like an authentic adaptation of the novel.
The new Punisher movie seems to actually have the proper character.
They enable us to accomplish our work without too much agravation.
Stable, kinda. Buggy, sure. Functional, yup.
As long as we can work on spreadsheets,.doc files, access our monitoring webpages and get SSH sessions to our Unix boxes and telnet sessions to our routers, our desktops work.
Your definition is wrong. You've confused ideal with adequate.
While some of those may be incompatible variants of unix (And I pretty much collected all of those under the xBSD variant), you'd be hard pressed to call AIX or Solaris variants of the same OS, as they share very little, if any legacy code, despite SCO's FUD. they are Unix-descended OS's, but distinct OS's in their own right. And certainly standards based (POSIX, TCP/IP, numerous others). Standards based means they can talk to each other, not that they are identical (djbdns and BIND are both based on the same standard, and are certainly compatible from a client perspective, but they are VERY different pieces of software)
And that goes for maybe half of the OS's I listed. The rest are certainly their own OS (Even Mac OS X isn't really a unix form a kernel perspective, even if it is from the userspace perspective.)
To all the businesses that are still running NT 4 and Win2K Pro on their desktops because XP Pro offers them nothing beyond eye-candy.
Stability and Security would be enough to encourage the business market to actually upgrade.
Heck, I work for a major tech company, and our desktops are still primarily NT 4, with Win2K only on laptops. The damned POS's still work, so why spend the money on new OS's, when we can spend the money on useful infrastructure.
I said exactly what you did, just more tersely. What the heck do you thing 'run the same software' means?
But Sun does make their money in the server market. The workstation market is break-even only (That's why SGI has mostly dropped out of it). And the Server market is by no means just the Internet. In fact, you really don't need the big iron for serving Internet content, but rather for crunching numbers or running big privated databases.
Dell doesn't play in the space where Sun or IBM make their profits, sure, IBM and Sun would love to make money in that space, but they live off the big iron.
You want servers for a LAN, buy Dell. You want a 32 processor job with 32GB of RAM and a multi-terrabyte SAN array, good luck buying Dell.
Nope, ATi bought ArtX late in the dev cycle for the GC after the part was mature and the GC contract signed.
Still doesn't change the fact the ArtX part is crap, ATi quickly dumped the PC version, since the visual quality was atrocious. ATi mostly bought them for the guaranteed income and the foothold in the Console market.
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I'm wondering if you've read anything other than the half-dozen shorts he'd written & published prior to 1945.
Arguably his best work was written in the mid to late '50's (Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Podkayne of Mars, the Door Into Summer, the meaty bits of Stranger).
Most of which had very little of any of the faults you mention (little to no sex, apart from Stranger, some anti-communism, but that's a feature of everything he wrote, and little self-righteousness.) What you're bitching about are the post-1960's works.
Heh,
Heinlein's the guy you can thank for being able to get laid on a waterbed. Among his many acomplishments, he invented waterbeds.
And Newton Too (which is of course an Apple tech.)
Try Palm.
This is BeFS. Which is now owned by Palm.
Smaller files too. I remmber that too, and when the average user directory was under 5MB, even NT could handle 5000 users (Been There, done that).
My personal directoryon our corporate fileserver is currently just under 700MB. I'm nowhere near the worst offender.
The issue is that usage growth has outstripped filesystem capabilities.
Actually they did end up providing the cash for the reactors. After years of congress putting it off (And the administration not even trying to push the issue), the cash was allocated in 2000, and the prelude to construction started. Of course, these reactors would do no good, as N.K. doesn't have the grid to actually distibute the power from the reactors.
It was more than a little oil, more like a half million barrels a year.
Frankly both parties dropped the ball during the 90's (Clinton for trying the buyoff on a country which has never respected treaties, and the Republicans for blocking a program that might possibly have helped and couldn't have hurt).
Bush's program seems to be 'Make the Chinese deal with it', which, with the Chinese left as the only group still propping up Kim, and the country with the most to lose from both the status quo and a N.K. Collapse, and who've continually tried to get the US to deal with the issue, is probably the best course.
Check out http://denbeste.nu for some very good essays on the issue, and what's at stake.
Yes, Sales are treated as a transaction. Goods for Considerations. Contracts are treated differently.
Correction: Because Laptops don't come that way, and even homebuilt boxes don't come with Dell's nice warrantee.
That's a Sales Transaction, not a contract. Different rules.
Because Laptops don't come that way (Or with Dell's nice Warrantee)
That's probably because the original Punisher Movie had little to do with the real Punisher Character. It makes Starship Troopers look like an authentic adaptation of the novel.
The new Punisher movie seems to actually have the proper character.
Big thing for the in-dash ones is DVD nav systems and keeping passengers happy.
And the Minivan types are designed so the driver doesn't hear what the kids are watching.
Ever heard of Final Cut Pro?
Soundtrack?
Shake?
DVD Studio Pro?
Logic?
While there are similar apps for the PC, there isn't anything that matches these apps for anywhere near the same price.
There certainly are Killer apps for Mac OS X, but they certainly aren't the iApps.
They enable us to accomplish our work without too much agravation.
.doc files, access our monitoring webpages and get SSH sessions to our Unix boxes and telnet sessions to our routers, our desktops work.
Stable, kinda. Buggy, sure. Functional, yup.
As long as we can work on spreadsheets,
Your definition is wrong. You've confused ideal with adequate.
While some of those may be incompatible variants of unix (And I pretty much collected all of those under the xBSD variant), you'd be hard pressed to call AIX or Solaris variants of the same OS, as they share very little, if any legacy code, despite SCO's FUD. they are Unix-descended OS's, but distinct OS's in their own right. And certainly standards based (POSIX, TCP/IP, numerous others). Standards based means they can talk to each other, not that they are identical (djbdns and BIND are both based on the same standard, and are certainly compatible from a client perspective, but they are VERY different pieces of software)
And that goes for maybe half of the OS's I listed. The rest are certainly their own OS (Even Mac OS X isn't really a unix form a kernel perspective, even if it is from the userspace perspective.)
hell yes.
To all the businesses that are still running NT 4 and Win2K Pro on their desktops because XP Pro offers them nothing beyond eye-candy.
Stability and Security would be enough to encourage the business market to actually upgrade.
Heck, I work for a major tech company, and our desktops are still primarily NT 4, with Win2K only on laptops. The damned POS's still work, so why spend the money on new OS's, when we can spend the money on useful infrastructure.
Mac OS X
eComstation (OS/2 v4.52+ toys)
xBSD
Solaris
HP-UX
AIX
True64 Unix
IRIX
AmigaOS 3.9 (Yep, there is a current version of AmigaOS)
QNX
RTOS
And there are certainly more.
Did you read what I said?
I said exactly what you did, just more tersely. What the heck do you thing 'run the same software' means?
But Sun does make their money in the server market. The workstation market is break-even only (That's why SGI has mostly dropped out of it).
And the Server market is by no means just the Internet. In fact, you really don't need the big iron for serving Internet content, but rather for crunching numbers or running big privated databases.
Dell doesn't play in the space where Sun or IBM make their profits, sure, IBM and Sun would love to make money in that space, but they live off the big iron.
You want servers for a LAN, buy Dell. You want a 32 processor job with 32GB of RAM and a multi-terrabyte SAN array, good luck buying Dell.
Or it's most likely to cause widespread problems and a cascading failure.
Can't call it either way yet.
Except that their competition (IBM RS/6000's, HP PA-RISC boxes, etc) cost the same.
Sun's low-end stuff isn't much, but their highend server boxes are killer. Only reason to by the dinky boxes is that they run the same software.
The part was crap.
Doesn't mean that the base tech or the developers were.
Remember, the guys who built the Radeon's were the same folks who built the crappy Rage 128.
Nope, ATi bought ArtX late in the dev cycle for the GC after the part was mature and the GC contract signed.
Still doesn't change the fact the ArtX part is crap, ATi quickly dumped the PC version, since the visual quality was atrocious. ATi mostly bought them for the guaranteed income and the foothold in the Console market.
Incorrect. Canada does not use ISO Standard paper. That's a European thing.
And Considering the Population of Europe and that of the US are approximately equal, they surely ain't the minority.
And you can change the bloody defaults, that's what the properties dialog is for.
Yes, but an Integer-only MP3 decoder runs on significantly lower-end hardware than Tremor, the Integer Ogg Vorbis Decoder.
Yet another win for the Industry Standard.