Helicopters can be even worse because of their crash behavior. Rotor blades tend to shatter and turn into multiple, randomly targetted, high speed projectiles.
The whole "military buildup helped break the Soviet Union" might have some truth to it... You can't factor out the military buildup; however, crediting SDI is pretty unrealistic.
Not really. You pretty much can factor out the military buildup. The Soviet military budget grew at a steady 1-1.5 percent anually from 1975 to 1988. There was no change in the growth rate under Reagan. Furthermore, Soviet spending on weapons procurement didn't rise at all under Reagan. Then in 1988 Gorbachev cut the overall military budget back to 1980 levels. All this while they were fighting a hot war in Afghanistan. When exactly did the USSR go "bankrupt" anyway? It was political bankruptcy which killed the CPSU regime, not economic bankruptcy. The economy was in decline, but it was far from collapsed. That came later under the Russian Federation.
Aside from the hundreds of Communists holding elected office across Europe (France, Italy, Russia...), the Japan Communist Party currently holds 18 seats in the Diet and the Iraq Communist Party just won two Assembly seats in the recent elections. Not sure how the Kurdistan Communist Party fared.
Neither would have made a dime without Mike Markkula. Jobs most important accomplishment was bringing Markkula on board as Apple's first President. Markkula was a technical wizard, a marketing guru and an industry insider. And as Johnny Appleseed, he was an innovator in freeware.
I suspect it is the high cost of housing that is driving them away. In 2004, The average single family home sale price state wide was $431,500. In greater Boston it was $620,213. That was up 12% and 11% respectively over 2003. Meanwhile we have lost 191,000 jobs since 2001.
One problem is that the drug patent system is hopelessly corrupted. Rather than encouraging innovation it encourages rebranding. The drug companies meat and 'taters is not breakthrough drugs but new versions of old drugs, tweaked just enough to weasel a new patent. The FDA says that more than 70 percent of new drugs approved in the last decade "do not constitute qualitative improvements over existing treatments." Dennis Kucinich proposes (and has introduced legislation for) a system of public patents.
Those are called eyewiteness accounts. For what it is worth, Pearse more or less agreed with you. He felt that because he crashed upon landing, his March 1902 flight was not successful. He credited the Wright brothers. However, I did not say Pearse beat the Wrights to the punch on flight. I said he beat them to the punch on adding the internal an combustion engine and control surfaces. His engine was an immediate success, but the control surfaces, while more advanced than the Wrights, were not fully refined by the time of his 1902 takeoff and crash.
I was arguing that the airplane was invented in the US, and that the inventors get to name their invention what they want.
I guess that depends on what you mean by invented the aeroplane/airplane. The first powered flight of a heavier than air aircraft took place in France in 1890. The designer and pilot was
Clement Ader. He flew 160 feet at an altitude of about eight inches. The major contributions of the Wright Brothers were the internal combustion engine and comprehensive controls, which greatly increased the range and practicality of the craft. However, it appears that Kiwi backyard hobbyist Richard Pearse bet them to the punch on those counts as well.
In college, circa 1985, I knew a legally blind guy who used a chord keyset input device on his Macintosh. He also had a chord keyset device for taking notes in class.
One company getting to lock down a market for a trivial piece of software like a word processor or a spreadsheet and set prices arbitrarily is not natural or healthy. People just get used to things like this, and then afterward convince themselves that something worse would have happened if capitalism were still in effect.
That is capitalism. Capitalism does not mean competition. It is an ownership model not a market model. Monopoly capitalism is still capitalism, even if it is state planned (as in Fascism). Also, I am not sure what you mean by natural. Monopolies are endemic to capitalism. That is why we need anti-trust law. Ever heard of a natural monopoly? Some markets can only function as monopolies.
The issue regarding running up2date, or any package management system on hundreds of VPS systems is that it either takes a herculean effort to coordinate updates so they don't run at the same time, and don't interfere with client activities (a schedule which constantly needs to be rescheduled because customers come and go...), or you need to have disk I/O capable of handling that many concurrent updates. Even with six 15K SCSI disks in RAID 10, there's no way our servers could handle that many concurrent updates.
I see. I assumed that if you were running hundreds of server you had an enterprise storage array. One thing your situation highlights is the need for a free software enterprise scheduling system a la CA Autosys. We have hundreds of servers ourselves, physical and VM, but we run on Clariion and DMX.
In my opinion, up2date has more in common with Microsoft's Windows Update utility than it does with apt-get. We don't need users to have latest versions; we can provide for that through other methods. We need to be able to install custom binaries and dependencies quickly and easily for customers wanting special applicatiosn. Having the latest versions installed is a beneficial byproduct of apt, but just isn't our primary requirement.
That is true of up2date for the versions of RHL you run, but not of up2date on Fedora, which is why I specifically asked about Fedora. You can manage custom patches and dependencies with RPM and up2date on Fedora. It isn't clear to me how it would be different than doing so with apt, but I haven't used apt in a long time (It couldn't even do rollbacks back then. I assume it can now). But if you need to do that for different packages on each of hundreds of servers, it sounds like no package management management system would be easy, which I think was your point.
I am not clear to what extent VPS would complicate things. I haven't worked with them, just VMs. But it seems to me each OS should be able to run its own package manager without drama. RH 7.3 and 9 updates are available through Fedora Legacy. If your PHB requires commercial support, you can buy it from Progeny, founded by Ian Murdoch, the man who put the Ian in DenIAN. Progeny also ported Apt to RPM and Anaconda to Debian.
Up2date would probably be fine for your Core 2 installs. But yum or apt would allow uniformity accross versions. I don't understand your point about running yum on many virtual servers. It isn't doing anything unless you are running an update, and you shouldn't need to do those simultaneously. You'd probably want to maintain your own repositories though.
How is apt on Debian better integrated than apt or yum on RHL/Fedora? Than up2date on Fedora (it was not so great on RHL)?
Yes, it's RPM vs Deb, but in essence, deb and apt always go together, while RPM exists as a living hell of its own on the RedHat systems I work with every day.
Do a man up2date. Also, you might want to look into yum. And of course, you know about apt for rpm.
I would add that the day it made sense to have a two-button mouse over a one-button mouse was the day that contextual menus were invented, because that was the first time that a consistent meaning was applied to the second button.
You mean 1978? That is when Xerox introduced contextual menus. Not sure if they were the first. I want to know what ever happened to click-hold. Apple seems to have largely abandoned it.
Well, Afghanistan was obvious. Then when they started making noise about Iraq and inspections again it wasn't hard to figure out that something (aka Bush finishing his father's war) was on the way. The one thing I didn't really expect was the American populace being dumb enough to believe it when Bush claimed Saddam was involved with the WTC attack. So now that we've discussed that... which country do you think is going to get it next? Iran or North Korea?
OK, I thought you meant that was your immediate reaction to the attack. I was in Bankok at the time and turned on CNN just after the second plane hit. I turned to my wife and said, "well, I guess we are invading Afghanistan." Coincidentally, We had to fly out over Afghanistan on the way home.
At this point the administration seems to be working pretty hard to avoid confrontation with North Korea. And I have trouble believing even they are dumb enough to invade Iran. The fact is they are not in a military position to invade anybody. They are way over-extended as it is. I don't think they could sell it to the Republican party leadership, much less the press (who are showing slight signs of guilt about their complicity in the Iraq fiasco). I guess Syria is still a possibility, simply because a large part of the neocon argument for invading Iraq was long-term destabilization of Syria. Perle and Feith made this clear in their paper, A Clean Break:
A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.
I think we can assume that they will not intervene in Columbia, as they must understand that would be another Vietnam. However, I think there is a decent chance that either they or a proxy (El Salvador? Honduras is the obvious choice but they are increasingly independent, leaving Iraq over the Negroponte appointment etc.) will invade Nicaragua in 2006. The FSLN swept the recent municipal elections and are almost certain to retake the government this year. Amazingly, the Bush administration seems to think that matters, despite the fact that the FSLN barely even qualifies as a labor party at this point. Rumsfield recently went to Managua and convinced Bolanos to scrap the country's meager anti-aircraft defenses (about 1500 aincient SA-7 shoulder fired missiles) under the laughable pretext of ensuring they wouldn't fall into the hands of terrorists. The only rational explanation is that the US wants Nicaragua to be morevulnerable to low level air assault. Now why would that be?
Really? You are more insightful than I. I assumed he would bomb the fuck out of Afghanistan. It never occured he would attack the Middle East. That was too far fetched. The only possible connections were through Saudi Arabia and there was no way we were attacking them. It never occured to me that Bush would use it as an excuse to invade a random third country like Iraq.
No you don't. Spitefulcrow said "international strike on American property." There is no evidence that the Morgan attack was international. The only successful, major, pre-2001 international attack on American soil was the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. All the other attacks you googled were either domestic or perpetrated by seperatists from occupied territory (Puerto Rico). So spitefulcrow does have a short memory regarding the 1993 bombing but other than that there wasn't much. OTOH, there were a number of unsuccessful attempts. The FBI thwarted several during the Clinton administration. And of course, there have been lots of domestic attacks.
The US Air Force, like most, awarded as many kills as "confirmed" downed aircraft. Thus if two pilots shot down a single enemy, they each received half a "kill." The whole kill credit system is a bit shady and unempirical. History shows that claims rarely match up with the administrative records of the enemy. Interestingly, the Japanese Army and Navy did not give any credit whatsoever and discouraged pilots from keeping score.
Even in large hospitals this can be an issue. Researchers pay their own way (grant money), and often quite a bit more. You can count on a Macintosh populations more or less directly proportional to the size of your research community. Also a few GNU/Linux workstations and the odd OpenVMS or Beowulf cluster (no kidding, I once found an unsanctioned Beowulf cluster in a lab).
The hospital I work for has repeatedly ranked first in Hospital/Health System Information Technologylists published by Information Week and other like publications and organizations. The bulk of our clinical systems are based on Intersystems Caché, which is basically the most current descendent of M/MUMPS. Increasingly, the front end is web based, but there are still apps that require terminal emulation. Although we too held a Y2K upgrade free for all, that was five years ago, and many of those desktops are still in service. Five years used to be our oficial desktop service life expectation, but now we are a little more rational about that (four years IIRC). We support ~7,000 desktops.
Interestingly, Caché is pretty cross platform. It runs on a variety of hardware and OSes, including OpenVMS, various unices, GNU/Linux and OS X. It also turns out to be an appropriate and cost effective solution for medical record management. Not surprising considering its M/MUMPS heritage. After all, M was developed at Mass General.
Don't forget the remarkable exploits of the Polish Air Force. Although logistically absorbed into the RAF after the fall of Poland, the Polish Air Force was an independent, Polish trained and financed entity. In fact it was the fourth largest air force in the war. During the Battle of Britain, the Polish Air force accounted for 18% of German air-to-air losses and produced 40 aces.
Amazingly, the Polish air forces, unlike the rest of the Polish Army, even mounted a reasonably effective defense during the German invasion. Flying 158 woefully obsolete PZL P.7 and PZL P.11 fighters they managed to destroy between 100 and 200 German aircraft.
Incidentally, the highest scoring US ace of the European theatre was a Polish-American who served in the Polish Air Force. Francis Gabreski volunteered for the RAF's 315-th (Polish) Fighter Squadron "Deblinski." Later he founded an exchange program between the Air Corps and the Polish Air Force and flew for the US. He ended the war with a total of 30 kills. In Korea he added 6.5 more.
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Helicopters can be even worse because of their crash behavior. Rotor blades tend to shatter and turn into multiple, randomly targetted, high speed projectiles.
Aside from the hundreds of Communists holding elected office across Europe (France, Italy, Russia...), the Japan Communist Party currently holds 18 seats in the Diet and the Iraq Communist Party just won two Assembly seats in the recent elections. Not sure how the Kurdistan Communist Party fared.
Neither would have made a dime without Mike Markkula. Jobs most important accomplishment was bringing Markkula on board as Apple's first President. Markkula was a technical wizard, a marketing guru and an industry insider. And as Johnny Appleseed, he was an innovator in freeware.
I suspect it is the high cost of housing that is driving them away. In 2004, The average single family home sale price state wide was $431,500. In greater Boston it was $620,213. That was up 12% and 11% respectively over 2003. Meanwhile we have lost 191,000 jobs since 2001.
One problem is that the drug patent system is hopelessly corrupted. Rather than encouraging innovation it encourages rebranding. The drug companies meat and 'taters is not breakthrough drugs but new versions of old drugs, tweaked just enough to weasel a new patent. The FDA says that more than 70 percent of new drugs approved in the last decade "do not constitute qualitative improvements over existing treatments." Dennis Kucinich proposes (and has introduced legislation for) a system of public patents.
Poor comparison. The article said Elektro had a full 700 word vocabulary.
Those are called eyewiteness accounts. For what it is worth, Pearse more or less agreed with you. He felt that because he crashed upon landing, his March 1902 flight was not successful. He credited the Wright brothers. However, I did not say Pearse beat the Wrights to the punch on flight. I said he beat them to the punch on adding the internal an combustion engine and control surfaces. His engine was an immediate success, but the control surfaces, while more advanced than the Wrights, were not fully refined by the time of his 1902 takeoff and crash.
I guess that depends on what you mean by invented the aeroplane/airplane. The first powered flight of a heavier than air aircraft took place in France in 1890. The designer and pilot was Clement Ader. He flew 160 feet at an altitude of about eight inches. The major contributions of the Wright Brothers were the internal combustion engine and comprehensive controls, which greatly increased the range and practicality of the craft. However, it appears that Kiwi backyard hobbyist Richard Pearse bet them to the punch on those counts as well.
In college, circa 1985, I knew a legally blind guy who used a chord keyset input device on his Macintosh. He also had a chord keyset device for taking notes in class.
Spitefulcrow, it sure looks like I was wrong about Iran. Sy Hersh has a remarkable track record.
That is capitalism. Capitalism does not mean competition. It is an ownership model not a market model. Monopoly capitalism is still capitalism, even if it is state planned (as in Fascism). Also, I am not sure what you mean by natural. Monopolies are endemic to capitalism. That is why we need anti-trust law. Ever heard of a natural monopoly? Some markets can only function as monopolies.
I am not clear to what extent VPS would complicate things. I haven't worked with them, just VMs. But it seems to me each OS should be able to run its own package manager without drama. RH 7.3 and 9 updates are available through Fedora Legacy. If your PHB requires commercial support, you can buy it from Progeny, founded by Ian Murdoch, the man who put the Ian in DenIAN. Progeny also ported Apt to RPM and Anaconda to Debian.
Up2date would probably be fine for your Core 2 installs. But yum or apt would allow uniformity accross versions. I don't understand your point about running yum on many virtual servers. It isn't doing anything unless you are running an update, and you shouldn't need to do those simultaneously. You'd probably want to maintain your own repositories though.
How is apt on Debian better integrated than apt or yum on RHL/Fedora? Than up2date on Fedora (it was not so great on RHL)?
Do a man up2date. Also, you might want to look into yum. And of course, you know about apt for rpm.
You mean 1978? That is when Xerox introduced contextual menus. Not sure if they were the first. I want to know what ever happened to click-hold. Apple seems to have largely abandoned it.
OK, I thought you meant that was your immediate reaction to the attack. I was in Bankok at the time and turned on CNN just after the second plane hit. I turned to my wife and said, "well, I guess we are invading Afghanistan." Coincidentally, We had to fly out over Afghanistan on the way home.
At this point the administration seems to be working pretty hard to avoid confrontation with North Korea. And I have trouble believing even they are dumb enough to invade Iran. The fact is they are not in a military position to invade anybody. They are way over-extended as it is. I don't think they could sell it to the Republican party leadership, much less the press (who are showing slight signs of guilt about their complicity in the Iraq fiasco). I guess Syria is still a possibility, simply because a large part of the neocon argument for invading Iraq was long-term destabilization of Syria. Perle and Feith made this clear in their paper, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.
I think we can assume that they will not intervene in Columbia, as they must understand that would be another Vietnam. However, I think there is a decent chance that either they or a proxy (El Salvador? Honduras is the obvious choice but they are increasingly independent, leaving Iraq over the Negroponte appointment etc.) will invade Nicaragua in 2006. The FSLN swept the recent municipal elections and are almost certain to retake the government this year. Amazingly, the Bush administration seems to think that matters, despite the fact that the FSLN barely even qualifies as a labor party at this point. Rumsfield recently went to Managua and convinced Bolanos to scrap the country's meager anti-aircraft defenses (about 1500 aincient SA-7 shoulder fired missiles) under the laughable pretext of ensuring they wouldn't fall into the hands of terrorists. The only rational explanation is that the US wants Nicaragua to be morevulnerable to low level air assault. Now why would that be?
Really? You are more insightful than I. I assumed he would bomb the fuck out of Afghanistan. It never occured he would attack the Middle East. That was too far fetched. The only possible connections were through Saudi Arabia and there was no way we were attacking them. It never occured to me that Bush would use it as an excuse to invade a random third country like Iraq.
The US Air Force, like most, awarded as many kills as "confirmed" downed aircraft. Thus if two pilots shot down a single enemy, they each received half a "kill." The whole kill credit system is a bit shady and unempirical. History shows that claims rarely match up with the administrative records of the enemy. Interestingly, the Japanese Army and Navy did not give any credit whatsoever and discouraged pilots from keeping score.
Even in large hospitals this can be an issue. Researchers pay their own way (grant money), and often quite a bit more. You can count on a Macintosh populations more or less directly proportional to the size of your research community. Also a few GNU/Linux workstations and the odd OpenVMS or Beowulf cluster (no kidding, I once found an unsanctioned Beowulf cluster in a lab).
The hospital I work for has repeatedly ranked first in Hospital/Health System Information Technologylists published by Information Week and other like publications and organizations. The bulk of our clinical systems are based on Intersystems Caché, which is basically the most current descendent of M/MUMPS. Increasingly, the front end is web based, but there are still apps that require terminal emulation. Although we too held a Y2K upgrade free for all, that was five years ago, and many of those desktops are still in service. Five years used to be our oficial desktop service life expectation, but now we are a little more rational about that (four years IIRC). We support ~7,000 desktops.
Interestingly, Caché is pretty cross platform. It runs on a variety of hardware and OSes, including OpenVMS, various unices, GNU/Linux and OS X. It also turns out to be an appropriate and cost effective solution for medical record management. Not surprising considering its M/MUMPS heritage. After all, M was developed at Mass General.
The Germans and Italians outnumbered them.
Don't forget the remarkable exploits of the Polish Air Force. Although logistically absorbed into the RAF after the fall of Poland, the Polish Air Force was an independent, Polish trained and financed entity. In fact it was the fourth largest air force in the war. During the Battle of Britain, the Polish Air force accounted for 18% of German air-to-air losses and produced 40 aces.
Amazingly, the Polish air forces, unlike the rest of the Polish Army, even mounted a reasonably effective defense during the German invasion. Flying 158 woefully obsolete PZL P.7 and PZL P.11 fighters they managed to destroy between 100 and 200 German aircraft.
Incidentally, the highest scoring US ace of the European theatre was a Polish-American who served in the Polish Air Force. Francis Gabreski volunteered for the RAF's 315-th (Polish) Fighter Squadron "Deblinski." Later he founded an exchange program between the Air Corps and the Polish Air Force and flew for the US. He ended the war with a total of 30 kills. In Korea he added 6.5 more.