I see you've totally missed Tom Theismann, Eloise Pritchart, Rob S. Pierre (Ruthless, yes, evil, no), Shannon Foraker, Lester Tourville, Sonja Hemphill and the many other characters who have been 'Bad guys' at one point who aren't evil. St. Just, one of the few truly evil Peeps, is a historic character. Although Weber does have a hate on for beurocrats (Ask him about the INS someday, he comes by it honestly) and 'Liberal Politicians (Note that most of the Liberals and Conservative Lords are based off current Democrats).
The first 6-7 or so books were very much Hornblower/Napoleonic Wars, right down to the head bad guy being Rob S. Pierre (Robespierre), but as of Ashes of Victory, Weber's really started to build his own story arc and the Tech has started to vary a lot from the Nelson's Navy in Space deal. He's also started to bring in Baen's big guns for the short stories (Eric Flint & John Ringo, Baen's most successful new authors of the last 5 years), and is even doing a non-Honor Novel set in the universe with Eric Flint (Crown of Slaves), using the characters from Eric's Short stories (From the Highlands & Fanatic) and on of his own (Service of the Sword).
Cheating (AIMbot's and hacks, like what's made FPS online play suck so much) on a X-Box, requires the ability to run Unsigned Code. To run Unsigned Code, one must have a Mod Chip. Ergo, the only current way to cheat on X-Box Live requires a Mod-Chip. And the main reason to get a Mod Chip is to run pirated Games, everything else is minority usage. Microsoft is right on this one, I'm afraid.
So cheaters are banned, as are pirates. If you really need another Linux box, buy another damned X-Box, they're cheap.
The Cole wasn't even armored (Since the US Navy doesn't have any armored ships in commission other than the Aircraft Carriers). The Cole is what the Navy refers to as Tin Cans for a reason, they have lots of firepower, but depend on their active defenses excessively (Phalanx and the SM-2ER missiles). Think of the outrage if they had actually sunk the attacking craft before it blew up.
1 Mac II, 1 Mac IIsi, 1 Centris 660AV, 1 Newton MessagePad 130, 1 Powerbook 170, 1 NeXT MonoStation, and 1 PS2 Model 55/386, that's merely what's currently functional and sufficiently odl to be classic hardware.
Actually I'm not spreading any disinformation, you obviously know little about OS X and less about Darwin, the BSD core of OS X.
Darwin & OS X are running a full BSD environment on top of a Mach microkernel. It is a BSD variant, as much as FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD is.
Darwin/OS X also has a full environment of BSD tools, not a partial environment. Apple isn't a 3rd party vendor, it's a first party vendor selling a BSD implementation, it's also the number one Unix vendor in terms of seats sold and the fastest growing.
As to 3rd party software support, since the introduction of OS X, BSD has better 3rd party support, with even MS Office and IE available (Because, whether you ignore it or not, OS X is BSD). Apple also hasn't stolen a damned thing from BSD, because under the BSD license, as long as credit is given, it can't be stolen, and apart from Aqua and it's associated graphics libraries(Which are a NeXT legacy, closed source, and have nothing to do with BSD), Apple has given everything back to the BSD world, in the form of Darwin, which has full source available.
As to Mac OS X, I'll go ahead and keep on using mine box as a DNS, SMB server, Shell server, Unix Workstation, and everything else I used to use my Linux box for, since OS X does it easier than Linux ever did. And I'll go on running Photoshop, since it actually runs on OS X, unlike any other *nix that you could name.
Pickup the Hardcover of War of Honor by David Weber. Bring a laptop & extra batteries, spend the flight reading the 22 excellent Science Fiction Novels and collections on the free (And freely redistributable) CD included with the hardcover.
The Friends of Honor CD is something new in publishing, a CD containing unencumbered E-Texts of 22 current books, with a license which simply specifies that you can't charge for copies.
This happened in the transition to System 6, and again with MultiFinder, and yet again when System 7 came along. It was stable for so long because Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 did so very little to the UI other than making it 3D and adding control-clicking. The UI was mature and the updates were bug fixes and feature adds on the back end (HFS+, More PPC Native code, USB, FireWire). Mac OS X is still evolving,, it's more like System 5/6 than the feature complete (UI-wise) System 7.
And Apple has always been anal retentive about the UI, this is nothing new. Expect this to settle out when the UI is feature-complete, then UI tweaking won't break between major version updates (10.2 should really be 10.5 by Apple's old naming convention).
Oh and the obligatory 'This Ain't News' comment. Users have been bitching about this since the Public Beta, 10.0 broke Public beta utils, 10.1 broke 10.0 utils, of course 10.2 was going to break 10.1 utils, this was a frikkin' given, with the changes to Aqua and Quartz in 10.2.
Not sure about Contax, but Nikon's fastest lens is an f1.2 50mm, and the Leica lens is an M Rangefinder lens, not a 35mm SLR lens, so the Canon is still the fastest '35mm SLR lens' in existence.
You do realize that all of Kodak's professional Digital bodies are F5 bases, right?
And the D100 doesn't meter with non-CPU (AF or AI-P) lenses, neither does the F55/N55,F65/N65 and F80/N80, all other Nikon AF bodies will work with AI or later lenses.
Note that Pentax is even better for this, with 3 mounts, K (MF), KAF (Will only work with KAF lenses, bodies are low-end) and KAF2(Will work with all K lenses, bodies are mid-high Amateur range), so with the exception of their cheapest current bodies, any K mount lens will work on their newest cameras without modification.
Minolta and Canon have changed their mount once, going to a larger mount when they moved to AF. A good choice, as they weren't in the position that Nikon was, with professionals still using cameras from 1959 with current production lenses.
What you want then is an EOS D60, 6.3MP EOS Digital body, with all you want. Fastest lens available is f1.0 (Canon 50mm f1.0, just happens to be the fastest 35mm SLR lens in existence), lens converion is 1.6x (Multiply your lens focal length by 1.6 to get 35mm equivalent, as the sensor is smaller than the 24x36mm frame of 35mm/135 film.)
Ever seen the result of turning on an old Pentium 66 with no heatsink. The system's heatsink had fallen off in transit, the system fired up fine, then blew the CPU through the case. Oops.
Quark will have shipped Native for OS X by the time they do this. Note also that this will only affect New Hardware, so your dual-1GHz G4 will still run OS 9 just fine. And scanner support under OS X is just fine, as long as you have a new scanner, it's old scanners that have support issue, since their idiot manufacturers haven''t written stable drivers yet. Lack of drivers of old scanners ain't Apple's fault, so bitch to your scanner manufacturer (Most of whom are using OS X as an excuse to make people buy new scanners).
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And to really confuse the issue, I've got X running on my PS/2 (Courtesy of Desqview/X)
So My PS2 is an X-Box.
And a nice monitor stand (Which is it's main use).
Do need to find a MCA Ethernet adaptor for it, so it can get on the net.
Bzzzt, wrong.
David is not a scientologist.
I see you've totally missed Tom Theismann, Eloise Pritchart, Rob S. Pierre (Ruthless, yes, evil, no), Shannon Foraker, Lester Tourville, Sonja Hemphill and the many other characters who have been 'Bad guys' at one point who aren't evil. St. Just, one of the few truly evil Peeps, is a historic character. Although Weber does have a hate on for beurocrats (Ask him about the INS someday, he comes by it honestly) and 'Liberal Politicians (Note that most of the Liberals and Conservative Lords are based off current Democrats).
The first 6-7 or so books were very much Hornblower/Napoleonic Wars, right down to the head bad guy being Rob S. Pierre (Robespierre), but as of Ashes of Victory, Weber's really started to build his own story arc and the Tech has started to vary a lot from the Nelson's Navy in Space deal. He's also started to bring in Baen's big guns for the short stories (Eric Flint & John Ringo, Baen's most successful new authors of the last 5 years), and is even doing a non-Honor Novel set in the universe with Eric Flint (Crown of Slaves), using the characters from Eric's Short stories (From the Highlands & Fanatic) and on of his own (Service of the Sword).
The Crazy Finn
Show me the Cheater kiddy who knows how to do that to IP.
The Crazy Finn
Ummm, No.
Cheating (AIMbot's and hacks, like what's made FPS online play suck so much) on a X-Box, requires the ability to run Unsigned Code. To run Unsigned Code, one must have a Mod Chip. Ergo, the only current way to cheat on X-Box Live requires a Mod-Chip. And the main reason to get a Mod Chip is to run pirated Games, everything else is minority usage. Microsoft is right on this one, I'm afraid.
So cheaters are banned, as are pirates. If you really need another Linux box, buy another damned X-Box, they're cheap.
The Crazy Finn
The Cole wasn't even armored (Since the US Navy doesn't have any armored ships in commission other than the Aircraft Carriers). The Cole is what the Navy refers to as Tin Cans for a reason, they have lots of firepower, but depend on their active defenses excessively (Phalanx and the SM-2ER missiles). Think of the outrage if they had actually sunk the attacking craft before it blew up.
OK, my bad.
Canada does normally fall under the US organization, so Canada is likely covered, if fact I can probably name a couple fo these 325 employees.
The Sales & Service team at WorldCom Canada alone is 200 people.
Your numbers are way off, there are several thousand people in Sales & Service at WorldCom.
Heh, know the feeling
1 Mac II, 1 Mac IIsi, 1 Centris 660AV, 1 Newton MessagePad 130, 1 Powerbook 170, 1 NeXT MonoStation, and 1 PS2 Model 55/386, that's merely what's currently functional and sufficiently odl to be classic hardware.
Actually I'm not spreading any disinformation, you obviously know little about OS X and less about Darwin, the BSD core of OS X.
Darwin & OS X are running a full BSD environment on top of a Mach microkernel. It is a BSD variant, as much as FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD is.
Darwin/OS X also has a full environment of BSD tools, not a partial environment. Apple isn't a 3rd party vendor, it's a first party vendor selling a BSD implementation, it's also the number one Unix vendor in terms of seats sold and the fastest growing.
As to 3rd party software support, since the introduction of OS X, BSD has better 3rd party support, with even MS Office and IE available (Because, whether you ignore it or not, OS X is BSD). Apple also hasn't stolen a damned thing from BSD, because under the BSD license, as long as credit is given, it can't be stolen, and apart from Aqua and it's associated graphics libraries(Which are a NeXT legacy, closed source, and have nothing to do with BSD), Apple has given everything back to the BSD world, in the form of Darwin, which has full source available.
As to Mac OS X, I'll go ahead and keep on using mine box as a DNS, SMB server, Shell server, Unix Workstation, and everything else I used to use my Linux box for, since OS X does it easier than Linux ever did. And I'll go on running Photoshop, since it actually runs on OS X, unlike any other *nix that you could name.
Teh Crazy Finn
BSD is the most popular *NIX on the mac, what the heck do you think Darwin and OS X are? BSD both, Darwin is completely free to boot.
Gentoo/PPC? bah, why bother with optimised code available (Which Linux/PPC doesn't qualify as)
Pickup the Hardcover of War of Honor by David Weber. Bring a laptop & extra batteries, spend the flight reading the 22 excellent Science Fiction Novels and collections on the free (And freely redistributable) CD included with the hardcover.
The Friends of Honor CD is something new in publishing, a CD containing unencumbered E-Texts of 22 current books, with a license which simply specifies that you can't charge for copies.
www.baen.com for more info.
Well, UUNet, MCI WorldCom and Digex are all the same company.
This happened in the transition to System 6, and again with MultiFinder, and yet again when System 7 came along. It was stable for so long because Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 did so very little to the UI other than making it 3D and adding control-clicking. The UI was mature and the updates were bug fixes and feature adds on the back end (HFS+, More PPC Native code, USB, FireWire). Mac OS X is still evolving,, it's more like System 5/6 than the feature complete (UI-wise) System 7.
And Apple has always been anal retentive about the UI, this is nothing new. Expect this to settle out when the UI is feature-complete, then UI tweaking won't break between major version updates (10.2 should really be 10.5 by Apple's old naming convention).
Oh and the obligatory 'This Ain't News' comment. Users have been bitching about this since the Public Beta, 10.0 broke Public beta utils, 10.1 broke 10.0 utils, of course 10.2 was going to break 10.1 utils, this was a frikkin' given, with the changes to Aqua and Quartz in 10.2.
The Crazy Finn
Not sure about Contax, but Nikon's fastest lens is an f1.2 50mm, and the Leica lens is an M Rangefinder lens, not a 35mm SLR lens, so the Canon is still the fastest '35mm SLR lens' in existence.
Buy an S-Type, it's a Contour.
You do realize that all of Kodak's professional Digital bodies are F5 bases, right?
And the D100 doesn't meter with non-CPU (AF or AI-P) lenses, neither does the F55/N55,F65/N65 and F80/N80, all other Nikon AF bodies will work with AI or later lenses.
Note that Pentax is even better for this, with 3 mounts, K (MF), KAF (Will only work with KAF lenses, bodies are low-end) and KAF2(Will work with all K lenses, bodies are mid-high Amateur range), so with the exception of their cheapest current bodies, any K mount lens will work on their newest cameras without modification.
Minolta and Canon have changed their mount once, going to a larger mount when they moved to AF. A good choice, as they weren't in the position that Nikon was, with professionals still using cameras from 1959 with current production lenses.
The Crazy Finn
What you want then is an EOS D60, 6.3MP EOS Digital body, with all you want. Fastest lens available is f1.0 (Canon 50mm f1.0, just happens to be the fastest 35mm SLR lens in existence), lens converion is 1.6x (Multiply your lens focal length by 1.6 to get 35mm equivalent, as the sensor is smaller than the 24x36mm frame of 35mm/135 film.)
The Crazy Finn
Ever seen the result of turning on an old Pentium 66 with no heatsink. The system's heatsink had fallen off in transit, the system fired up fine, then blew the CPU through the case. Oops.
Hell, I got this once. Packard Bell MPC2 486SX box, with Panasonic 2x drive, tray broken off by Large Coffee mug, user bitched. this was circa 1994.
Not as funny as the guy who dumped his Wheaties into the keyboard of a 12 hour old laptop and wanted a free replacement.
Deep Impact also used Orion.
Nice to see a book on Ol' Bang Bang.
The Crazy Finn
You'll just have to read the rest of the series, John has only been hinting at what the Alldenata are/is.
And the really effective Nano is all vat-type, so no nano-weapons.
The Crazy Finn
Quark will have shipped Native for OS X by the time they do this. Note also that this will only affect New Hardware, so your dual-1GHz G4 will still run OS 9 just fine. And scanner support under OS X is just fine, as long as you have a new scanner, it's old scanners that have support issue, since their idiot manufacturers haven''t written stable drivers yet. Lack of drivers of old scanners ain't Apple's fault, so bitch to your scanner manufacturer (Most of whom are using OS X as an excuse to make people buy new scanners).
The Crazy Finn
Oh, and Hell's Fair will have the previous 3 in the series and a Special Treat on CD-ROM.
The Crazy Finn