Chime in here with any information on this.
I was lead to believe at one point that the Mayan Calendar's "Beginning of time/End of time",
December 21 2012, corresponded to when our Solar System transverses the plane of the Milkway.
Where these people a few million years off? (Amongst other things)
I think that's something some new age nutjob added after the fact in order to sound more authoritative when they made their doomsday predictions.
Well, just saying he's wrong doesn't get us anywhere does it? Try something like: this sort of episode is not at all unknown in any totalitarian state. In fact, these events are considerably less common in the USA than in lots of other societies. Simple google searches will provide any amount of corroboration.
The disquieting thing is that they are becoming depressingly more frequent in the US.
Totalitarian state? Try any run-of-the-mill military dictatorship (and many countries with allegedly democratic governments).
Anyone know how to update the BIOS on a MacBook that is not running OSX? (running Linux).
Swap out the hard drive with Linux for one with OS X? Dual boot? I haven't tried it with grub or lilo, but I don't remember if you can install boot camp without running OS X first. I don't think you can boot from a USB drive. Back up data and Linux, install OS X, restore data and Linux?
On an unrelated note, why would you want to run a MacBook without OS X? I'm sure you've got a good reason, I'm honestly curious as to what it is. I realize this marks me as a heretic and an Apple fanboy, but you are paying a premium for the hardware and to me the only way that makes sense if you like OS X well enough to use it. Obviously, you may disagree, or have other reasons.
You don't even need a mainframe for that. IBM's pSeries/System p/Power Systems hardware will do it, too. Say you've got 10 LPARs (logical partitions) running on an 8-core machine. If one of the CPUs fails, it will try to swap in an unused CPU. If there's no unused CPUs, it will remove CPU capacity from one or more of the LPARs until it reaches a point where the CPU resources in use fall below the minimum allocated CPUs for all the running LPARs. At that point, it would shut down the lowest priority LPARs.
I suspect Sun's higher end gear would do something similar.
There were Muslims in the 2nd millennium BC? Maybe they were time travelers, ha!
Well, to be strictly accurate the area that as once Babylon was conquered by the Muslims. At that point, though, there hadn't been an independent Babylon for over a thousand years, and the people that lived in the area had been influenced culturally by the Greeks and various Persians who had ruled them since then.
The first humans to write (... writings that survived until today) ? Depending on what you count as a language, versus what are "mere iconographs", either Egyptians or Sumerians (southern Iraq, a region on the edge of what you'd call the middle east, written down by a people that were massacred to the last man by the current inhabitants of the middle east). Certainly, however, the idea of writing things down spread from ancient Egypt to the middle east, specifically to Babylonia. The people of Babylon were massacred by the muslims, their culture is gone.
The first civilization to actually "conquer" a large area, instead of staying put ? Either the Egyptians or the Jews... Conquer, in this case, mostly means building cities. It is thought that there was little or no warfare involved until 2 expanding civilizations met eachother.
The first civilization to conquer the entire known world ? The Romans.
The middle east, unless you count Egypt (and most don't), only comes into play very late indeed. Yes it's probably the place of origin of the religion of about 70% of the world's people, but that's about it.
The middle east is also the point of contact (well, before the muslims, who eradicated at least african civilization, but probably a few Asian ones as well), between all of earth's civilizations. Whatever spread the globe originated in one of 3 places, then spread to the middle east, then spread further.
The middle east is simply a very central location. Without reliable sea navigation (only discovered in the late middle ages), it is the only reliable point of contact between the different civilizations.
What the hell are you rambling on about? The Sumerians and Babylonians were massacred "down to the last man" by the early Muslims? Where do you get that idea? That is just plain wrong. Yes, they were conquered by the early Muslims, yes there were some individual massacres, but nothing terribly unusual for the time.
You're forgetting the people who've been doing virtualisation for 30 years - IBM.
Well, the OP is presumably talking about the x86 market. IBM's virtualization offerings for non-x86 platforms are inseparable from their hardware. For the x86 market, they're reselling VMware.
Sun and HP still have virtualization offerings of various sorts for Solaris and HP-UX (also tied to the hardware, but frankly not as good as what IBM has).
Look again, please. The Catholic Church's _historical_ beliefs on creationism, evolution, etc. have reflected all sorts of problems with it. The evolution of simpler to more sophisticated creatures, without divine personal guidance, flies in the face of the 'manifest destiny' and the 'right of kings' which are critical to European and Christian politics of the last few thousand years.
Uh, this is kind of confused. Manifest Destiny was pretty much an American thing. Perhaps you're thinking of Lebensraum, which was a 20th century German doctrine. Yeah, there have been plenty of expansionists in European history, but most of them just wanted to take over their neighbors and didn't have any fancy ideological reason for it. Evolution didn't affect that one way or another.
Not sure how the divine right of kings fits in here, either. The Church wasn't exactly happy about the divine right of kings, since an absolute monarch took away from the Church's power. The Church wanted to be able to depose (or at least undermine) monarchs it didn't like. If the right of kings was divine, they couldn't do that. Again, it's pretty independent of evolution, and by the time Darwin came along the era of the divine right of kings was pretty much over.
Anyway, the Catholic Church has learned from all that bad press they got with that Gallileo fellow and remained neutral at worst over the years. There have been individual Catholics and some Catholic organizations which have opposed evolution, but they're in the minority and don't reflect official policy. Yes, the official policy is to squeeze God in there (e.g., "special creation" of the soul), but only as an extra. They don't make any scientific claims at all.
Among the women I know, only a minority enjoy cooking (and most of those are in my wife's extended family). My wife does do a bit of cooking, but she doesn't really enjoy it. I do. So I also do most of the cooking.
I know of an organization where a guy on the IT staff made a mistake and put some of his own files on the gold image they were using for machines. Why yes, they were porn.
But not just any porn. No, this was home-made, amateur porn, featuring himself as one of the actors.
Better yet, he hadn't come out to his coworkers yet. However, a couple dozen of his coworkers quickly discovered that he was in fact gay at more or less the same time.
Right before Carly Fiona was finally forced out, she was caught hiring private investigators to illegally spy on / tap the communication of opposing members of HP's board of directories. It received a lot of attention here and other computer tech sites, it's not surprising the poster didn't spell out the details.
No, that was Patricia Dunn (HP chairman after Fiorina was forced out). Fiorina may have been an awful CEO, but she hasn't been implicated in that particular scandal.
And football supposedly had a much lower incidence of injuries before the introduction of "pads" (which quickly became an offensive weapon allowing harder hits)
Football has gone through a number of fairly large changes in the past fifty years which have tended to lead towards larger, stronger players who can apply more force. Any correlation between the introduction of pads and injuries is weaker because of that.
Specialization. In the old days players used to have to play offense and defense. Some of the more gigantic players would be a liability if they had to play on the other side.
Strength and conditioning programs, which were small or nonexistent in the days before pads. Nowadays they're pretty much mandatory.
Steroids, human growth hormone and other performance-improving drugs.
This isn't to say pads aren't a factor, as they may well be. Modern helmets are certainly a factor in some injuries. In both cases I guess the question is whether or not they prevent more injuries than they cause.
I ran into this a few weeks ago. I'm an American living in Canada, and my wife borrowed the first season of Dexter from somebody. Despite my best intentions, I got hooked on the damn thing.
Well, turns out the season finale was missing. It was late and the local video store was closed. My wife tried to get it on iTunes. Great, it's there, we can watch it for a few bucks. But no go--they've figured out we're in Canada from either our IP address or our credit card billing address. We tried a couple of other places, without any luck.
I might add that this was a DVD that has been out for a while, and is definitely available in Canada.
34K on a default judgment? Default judgment means he lost because he never showed up. How did you spend this much against a guy who never showed up to defend himself?
A good deal of the work a lawyer does is typically before the trial: lining up witnesses, developing a legal strategy, researching relevant cases, anticipating the other lawyer's strategy, etc. I'm sure the amount of preparation required varies depending on the type of case, but if your lawyer hasn't done this sort of legwork in advance you need a new lawyer.
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Chime in here with any information on this. I was lead to believe at one point that the Mayan Calendar's "Beginning of time/End of time", December 21 2012, corresponded to when our Solar System transverses the plane of the Milkway. Where these people a few million years off? (Amongst other things)
I think that's something some new age nutjob added after the fact in order to sound more authoritative when they made their doomsday predictions.
Well, just saying he's wrong doesn't get us anywhere does it? Try something like: this sort of episode is not at all unknown in any totalitarian state. In fact, these events are considerably less common in the USA than in lots of other societies. Simple google searches will provide any amount of corroboration.
The disquieting thing is that they are becoming depressingly more frequent in the US.
Totalitarian state? Try any run-of-the-mill military dictatorship (and many countries with allegedly democratic governments).
Anyone know how to update the BIOS on a MacBook that is not running OSX? (running Linux).
Swap out the hard drive with Linux for one with OS X? Dual boot? I haven't tried it with grub or lilo, but I don't remember if you can install boot camp without running OS X first. I don't think you can boot from a USB drive. Back up data and Linux, install OS X, restore data and Linux?
On an unrelated note, why would you want to run a MacBook without OS X? I'm sure you've got a good reason, I'm honestly curious as to what it is. I realize this marks me as a heretic and an Apple fanboy, but you are paying a premium for the hardware and to me the only way that makes sense if you like OS X well enough to use it. Obviously, you may disagree, or have other reasons.
You don't even need a mainframe for that. IBM's pSeries/System p/Power Systems hardware will do it, too. Say you've got 10 LPARs (logical partitions) running on an 8-core machine. If one of the CPUs fails, it will try to swap in an unused CPU. If there's no unused CPUs, it will remove CPU capacity from one or more of the LPARs until it reaches a point where the CPU resources in use fall below the minimum allocated CPUs for all the running LPARs. At that point, it would shut down the lowest priority LPARs.
I suspect Sun's higher end gear would do something similar.
There were Muslims in the 2nd millennium BC? Maybe they were time travelers, ha!
Well, to be strictly accurate the area that as once Babylon was conquered by the Muslims. At that point, though, there hadn't been an independent Babylon for over a thousand years, and the people that lived in the area had been influenced culturally by the Greeks and various Persians who had ruled them since then.
The first humans to write (... writings that survived until today) ? Depending on what you count as a language, versus what are "mere iconographs", either Egyptians or Sumerians (southern Iraq, a region on the edge of what you'd call the middle east, written down by a people that were massacred to the last man by the current inhabitants of the middle east). Certainly, however, the idea of writing things down spread from ancient Egypt to the middle east, specifically to Babylonia. The people of Babylon were massacred by the muslims, their culture is gone. The first civilization to actually "conquer" a large area, instead of staying put ? Either the Egyptians or the Jews ... Conquer, in this case, mostly means building cities. It is thought that there was little or no warfare involved until 2 expanding civilizations met eachother.
The first civilization to conquer the entire known world ? The Romans.
The middle east, unless you count Egypt (and most don't), only comes into play very late indeed. Yes it's probably the place of origin of the religion of about 70% of the world's people, but that's about it.
The middle east is also the point of contact (well, before the muslims, who eradicated at least african civilization, but probably a few Asian ones as well), between all of earth's civilizations. Whatever spread the globe originated in one of 3 places, then spread to the middle east, then spread further.
The middle east is simply a very central location. Without reliable sea navigation (only discovered in the late middle ages), it is the only reliable point of contact between the different civilizations.
What the hell are you rambling on about? The Sumerians and Babylonians were massacred "down to the last man" by the early Muslims? Where do you get that idea? That is just plain wrong. Yes, they were conquered by the early Muslims, yes there were some individual massacres, but nothing terribly unusual for the time.
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Oops, a little late. Sorry about that!
You're forgetting the people who've been doing virtualisation for 30 years - IBM.
Well, the OP is presumably talking about the x86 market. IBM's virtualization offerings for non-x86 platforms are inseparable from their hardware. For the x86 market, they're reselling VMware.
Sun and HP still have virtualization offerings of various sorts for Solaris and HP-UX (also tied to the hardware, but frankly not as good as what IBM has).
Or, you can get a gun.
What good's a gun going to do if he's not there when the thieves come?
There's also newegg.ca. It's a little odd since they charge you a "handling" fee that covers GST/PST.
Now, I haven't lived in Canada all that long, so I haven't tried NCIX yet. I probably will in the near future, for comparison.
Relax--it was named after George Herbert Walker Bush in the late nineties.
Look again, please. The Catholic Church's _historical_ beliefs on creationism, evolution, etc. have reflected all sorts of problems with it. The evolution of simpler to more sophisticated creatures, without divine personal guidance, flies in the face of the 'manifest destiny' and the 'right of kings' which are critical to European and Christian politics of the last few thousand years.
Uh, this is kind of confused. Manifest Destiny was pretty much an American thing. Perhaps you're thinking of Lebensraum , which was a 20th century German doctrine. Yeah, there have been plenty of expansionists in European history, but most of them just wanted to take over their neighbors and didn't have any fancy ideological reason for it. Evolution didn't affect that one way or another.
Not sure how the divine right of kings fits in here, either. The Church wasn't exactly happy about the divine right of kings, since an absolute monarch took away from the Church's power. The Church wanted to be able to depose (or at least undermine) monarchs it didn't like. If the right of kings was divine, they couldn't do that. Again, it's pretty independent of evolution, and by the time Darwin came along the era of the divine right of kings was pretty much over.
Anyway, the Catholic Church has learned from all that bad press they got with that Gallileo fellow and remained neutral at worst over the years. There have been individual Catholics and some Catholic organizations which have opposed evolution, but they're in the minority and don't reflect official policy. Yes, the official policy is to squeeze God in there (e.g., "special creation" of the soul), but only as an extra. They don't make any scientific claims at all.
Among the women I know, only a minority enjoy cooking (and most of those are in my wife's extended family). My wife does do a bit of cooking, but she doesn't really enjoy it. I do. So I also do most of the cooking.
Stupid mods! What kind of idiot modded that--oh, wait, it was me.
Carry on then!
I suspect that whatever happened, happened pretty quickly. The thing is, "pretty quickly" might mean "tens of thousands of years."
I vote for "dumb."
I know of an organization where a guy on the IT staff made a mistake and put some of his own files on the gold image they were using for machines. Why yes, they were porn.
But not just any porn. No, this was home-made, amateur porn, featuring himself as one of the actors.
Better yet, he hadn't come out to his coworkers yet. However, a couple dozen of his coworkers quickly discovered that he was in fact gay at more or less the same time.
Yeah, but what good is the bread machine going to do for you once the solar flares knock out the power grid?
Gas stove. My dumbass cousin got his electricity shut down recently, but trust me, he can cook quite well in the dark.
If you are in the U.S., brown skin and Mexican origin aren't going to be particularly important indicators of infection.
No kidding. I know a number of people who just came back from vacation in Mexico, so I personally would watch out for the tan and the relaxed looking.
Yes, but you can buy stock in the parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Right before Carly Fiona was finally forced out, she was caught hiring private investigators to illegally spy on / tap the communication of opposing members of HP's board of directories. It received a lot of attention here and other computer tech sites, it's not surprising the poster didn't spell out the details.
No, that was Patricia Dunn (HP chairman after Fiorina was forced out). Fiorina may have been an awful CEO, but she hasn't been implicated in that particular scandal.
And football supposedly had a much lower incidence of injuries before the introduction of "pads" (which quickly became an offensive weapon allowing harder hits)
Football has gone through a number of fairly large changes in the past fifty years which have tended to lead towards larger, stronger players who can apply more force. Any correlation between the introduction of pads and injuries is weaker because of that.
This isn't to say pads aren't a factor, as they may well be. Modern helmets are certainly a factor in some injuries. In both cases I guess the question is whether or not they prevent more injuries than they cause.
I ran into this a few weeks ago. I'm an American living in Canada, and my wife borrowed the first season of Dexter from somebody. Despite my best intentions, I got hooked on the damn thing.
Well, turns out the season finale was missing. It was late and the local video store was closed. My wife tried to get it on iTunes. Great, it's there, we can watch it for a few bucks. But no go--they've figured out we're in Canada from either our IP address or our credit card billing address. We tried a couple of other places, without any luck.
I might add that this was a DVD that has been out for a while, and is definitely available in Canada.
34K on a default judgment? Default judgment means he lost because he never showed up. How did you spend this much against a guy who never showed up to defend himself?
A good deal of the work a lawyer does is typically before the trial: lining up witnesses, developing a legal strategy, researching relevant cases, anticipating the other lawyer's strategy, etc. I'm sure the amount of preparation required varies depending on the type of case, but if your lawyer hasn't done this sort of legwork in advance you need a new lawyer.
A reasonable expectation of privacy replying to a message in a public message board?
If I recall correctly, they responded to him in email.
I think I'd rather listen to Nails n' Chalkboards Greatest Hits.
Let me make a recommendation: Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Makes Nails 'N Chalkboard sound almost pleasant.