Harvard also gets special deals from Apple on returned orders etc. These are available only from Harvard TPC's own site, but can be pretty dramatic. How about a 17" Powerbook with an extended warranty for $2,979? Or a 15" combo drive TiBook with an extended warranty and a free Airport card for $1,799?
The beauty of a two party system is that you can convince the "masses" that superficial differences between the two are fundamental and perpetuate the system.
A fine example of Gramscian Hegemenoy in action. But don't forget this aspect,
"Among the many meanings of democracy, the most realistic and concrete one seems to me to be that which connects with the concept of hegemony. In an hegemonic system, there is democracy between the leading group and the groups led to the extent that (the development of the economy and thus) the legislation (that expresses this development) favors the (molecular) transition from the groups led to the leading group."
Actually, due to Apple's agressive educational discounting, I can get the 15.2" TiBook for just a shade more than that with a Superdrive.
Harvard is selling the 15.2" TiBooks are $1,799 (867Mhz, DVD/CD-RW) and $2,479 (1Ghz, DVD-R/CD-RW), including an Airport card and extended warranty. The iBook 800Mhz (DVD/CD-RW) for $1,099. The 12.1" Powerbook is $1,559 including a free Airport Extreme card and extended warranty. The Queen Mother 17" book is $2,979, including the extended warranty (Airport Extreme and Bluetooth are built in). A Superdrive eMac is $1,059.
Yeah, NPR is so left wing that they appointed Kevin Klose, Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau, as their president. The IBB is the US Government run network which operates the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio and TV Marti and Radio Free Asia.
Apple has great educational discounts. Right now Harvard is selling the iBook 800Mhz (DVD/CD-RW) for $1,099. The 12.1" Powerbook is $1,559 including a free Airport Extreme card and extended warranty. The 15.2" TiBooks are $1,799 (867Mhz, DVD/CD-RW) and $2,479 (1Ghz, DVD-R/CD-RW), including an Airport card and extended warranty. They Queen Mother 17" book is $2,979, including the extended warranty (Airport Extreme and Bluetooth are built in). A Superdrive eMac is $1,059.
Next time I go to a birthday party I'm gonna tell the person I give a present to that it's GPL-licensed. That way, if they actually use the present, they have to go give it away.
No, they can use it and copy it as much as they like without restriction. But if they give it away or sell it, or a copy of it, they have to include the blueprints and possibly the raw materials.
If Apple was worried about profits on clones, they could just jack up the prices of licenses, which would be a lot cheaper than manufacturing the hardware themselves
This is in fact precisely what Gil Amelio did. The license agreements Mike Spindler negotiated were for all versions of System 7.x. Amelio had the OS team merge some bits from Copeland into the System 7.x tree, renamed it MacOS 8 and called all the clone makers in for new contract talks. According to Amelio's book about his Apple experience, the new scheme was profitable, but it got Steved. He also said there was no reason, other than hatred of Sculley, for Steve to kill the Newton. According to him it was turning the corner financially and markets were appearing.
Agreed. I actually prefer SST musically. I mean Minutemen/Firehose, Bad Brains AND Husker Du?! My favorite rock album of all time, I Against I (Bad Brains), was SST.
Oh c'mon there are a ton of successful indies out there.. but yeah it's cool that Dischord is still doing their thing.
I didn't mean to imply there weren't other successful indies, although I suspect we have different standards for success. Dischord is successful because it keeps pumping out music and helps maintain a local environment conducive to the production of new music. They pay high royalties and charge low prices. Dischord is a success because no major has sued them out of existence or convinced them to sell (which they will never do).
No distributors, indy or otherwise, are keeping Dischord alive because Dischord doesn't use distributers. They don't wholesale at all. Every customer gets the same low price regardless of whether she buys one item or a thousand.
I am glad the CSM published this, but disappointed they did not mention pioneering Dischord Records. Dischord is truly "in the business of making music, not money." They charge fans exactly what they charge record stores and forego distributors entirely. Send Dischord $10 and they send you a CD, post paid. In some cases you can even get vinyl. Dischord are just good people.
WINS remains broken. OS X Samba can't browse across a router. At least it not longer has that annoying behavior where you can only browse the WINS server itself.
How many PowerPC early adopters felt burned when they discovered their systems couldn't run the latest Mac OS?
I would think that if you were an early PowerMac adopter in March 1994 you would not be too disappointed when Apple released an operating system (MacOS 9.2) which did not support it in 2001. MacOS through 9.1 supported all PPC based Macs.
Some say the Supreme Court of the United States stepped in and handed the election to Bush, as if the Supreme Court is not the final arbiter of Constitutionality of election law. It is such, as defined in Article II Section 1 and Amendment 14.
Article II Section 1 (and 2 through 4 for that matter) says no such thing. Section 1 doesn't even mention the court and the rest of Article II only refers to the President's power to appoint Court Justices.
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.
The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
I should mention that small states did get a slight boost because every states got two electors for their two senators. You number of electors is equal to your number of reps and senators.
The Electoral COllege was designed to give the smaller states a say in the election
IIRC the EC was always proportional to population, like the House of Representatives. Small states got less representation. And it wasn't even slightly democratic, since there was no popular vote until the 1824 election. Senators were not elected until the ratification of the 17th Ammendment in 1913.
See, you and I know that we can take a copy of Oracle 9i and put it on a copy of RedHat 7.3 and expect it to perform rather reliably, right?
So long as you install the 6.2 compatibility libraries. Or is that Oracle 8? Whatever, I can't say the same for ChiliASP. That you can only run on 7.3 if you never update glibc. IIRC, that glibc version is a moderate security problem. If Sun were only willing to recompile the damn app...but as you say, they don't want to validate it. So I have to convert all that ASP to PHP (via asp3php I suppose). This is why proprietary software sucks.
Please. The french stood back while the american colonists took the brunt of that shit then claimed victory, and move they would later try in ww2.
Without the French Navy disrupting British supply and ensuring ours we would have lost that war going away. The French sent the British packing at the Battle of the Virginia Capes, then blockaded Chesapeake Bay and transported American and French troops to Yorktown, forcing Cornwallis's surrender.
You forgot the military did not issue cleaning kits with the M16 till after the hearings. After the military started issueing the cleaning kits and also chromed the chamber(prevents build up) teh # of jamming issues went down dramatically.
BTW my personal preference after having fired both the AK and the M16 is by far and away the M16. The AK feels very loose when firing.
They didn't issue them to every GI but they did issue some to each platoon, IIRC (could be wrong). The reason was that Stoner's design, firing the powder he intended needed extrordinarily infrequent cleaning. The army's based its cleaning standards on the tests they had done with Winchester ammo and Special Forces and ARVN field experience with the AR15. The chromed chambers and increased cleaning requirements were hacks to overcome the powder mistake, which they refused to admit or fix. Last I heard (mid eighties) they were still using the same Dupont powder.
I agree that the M16 is a more precise and better balanced instrument. It also doesn't have a giant safety which makes an audible clack to give away your position or a muzzle brake which is deafeningly loud for a rifle chambered for a varmint cartridge.
the scuds shot down by patriots in gulf war I caused a lot of damage when they fell out of the sky
Assuming a patriot actually shot them down. The DOD originally claimed 80% success over Israel. When the GAO debunked that they backed down to a claim of 25%. However according to the GAO report on Patriot performance (#147743).
About 9 percent of the Patriot's Operation Desert Storm engagements are supported by the strongest evidence that an engagement resulted in a warhead kill-engagements during which observable evidence indicates a Scud was destroyed or disabled after a Patriot detonated close to the Scud. For example, the strongest evidence that a warhead kill occurred would be provided by (1) a disabled Scud with Patriot fragments or fragment holes in its guidance and fuzing section or (2) radar data showing evidence of Scud debris in the air following a Patriot detonation. The other 16 percent of the engagements the Army is highly confident resulted in warhead kills are not supported by such evidence. In these cases, however, radar tracking data collected proves that in some cases the Patriots came close to the Scuds, but it does not prove or disprove whether the Patriots came close enough to have a high probability of destroying, disabling, or diverting them.
3The Army defines a "warhead kill" as the destruction or disabling of the target?s warhead. It defines a "mission kill" as an engagement during which the Patriot intercepter diverts the Scud from itu intended target, thereby preventing it from causing significant ground damage.
4The Army has classified for national security reasons the number of warhead kills that Patriot is credited with achieving during Desert Storm. Therefore, this report provides percentages, rather than exact numbers.
AK-47 is not that good, in fact, it's a pretty piss poor rifle in accuracy. The only reason people use it is that it is cheap. There is a saying, "The only people who buy AK-47's are people who can't afford M-16's."
This is kind of a metaphysical issue. Each system is the pinnacle of its design philosophy.
The Kalashnikov is inherently rugged and tolerant of environmental variables. AK derivatives operate flawlessly in sand and water, at any temperature. Years ago I read an interview with Uziel Gal where he said that was why IMI (meaning Israel Galili and himself) chose the AK as the basis for the Galil. Israeli combat experience showed the AKs to be the only weapon to operate at or near 100% efficiency in desert combat.
The AR-15 is a totally different animal. It is a beautifully balanced and elegant design. While the AK was based on proven designs and manufacturing methods, the AR-15 was ground breaking. New materials and manufacturing techniques made it feather light, robust and easy to produce. Eugene Stoner's baby was an unbelievably efficient weapon. As you say it was more accurate than the AKs. Its ammunition was also (at the time, AKs have caught up) lighter, which meant you could carry more of it, and more destructive. The lightweight small bore cartridge also made the weapon easier to use.
Unfortunately, the AR-15s strength turned out to be its weakness. It was such a finely balanced design that the slightest change in specifications completely destroyed its functionality. This is painfully clear from the history of the M-16 in Vietnam. While the AR-15 was highly prized in that war, the "militarized" M-16 was a disaster. To the casual observer, the differences between the two weapons were trivial. The M-16 had faster twist rifling, which improved the already excellent accuracy but drastically reduced the bullet's destructiveness. The bullet retained stability after impact while the AR-15's tumbled. The M-16 had a plunger on the right side of the receiver for forcing the bolt closed when jammed with debris. Forcing a debris jammed bolt home is probably not going to solve your problem and can permanently damage the weapon. But neither of these changes explained the shocking reduction in reliability between the two designs. The AR-15's reliability had been outstanding, both in tests and in combat. The M-16 was terrible. GI's and parental complaints were so voluminous they sparked congressional hearings. What had changed? Believe it or not the cause of this unreliability, which probably killed hundreds of GIs (and wounded thousands), was a simple change in the type of gunpowder in the cartridge. Against Stoner's advice the DOD had changed from a Winchester bar powder to their standard ball powder. The higher chamber pressure and temperature, as well as the dirtier combustion, completely destroyed the functionality of the weapon. It took years of tweaking to bring the M16 back to reasonable reliability standards. The problems never occurred in testing because the Army never bothered testing the new powder. The M16 evaluation was all don with Stoner's Winchester powder.
By contrast, the AK variants can digest any ammo you cram into the magazine with roughly equal efficiency. The Russians learned there lesson during WWII when brass shortages forced them to use steel cartridge cases. If you can cram it in the chamber, the AK will fire it, eject it and load another.
The AR-15 is a fine piece of engineering. Israeli soldiers who used the Galil like it because of its balance and light weight. And for theIDF's current uses it is probably perfect. But it isn't any lighter than the AK-74 and accuracy is a secondary consideration. Reliability, durability, flexibility and quantity are more important. The Kalashnikov wins on all those counts. For most militaries I think the AK-74 is a better choice.
I also think the Browning Hi Power was a much better design than the 1911, and only twelve years newer (design not production).
with the exception of fuel injection and emissions "add-ons", has changed very little in the last 50 years.
Actually, fuel injection is older than 50 years. Daimler-Benz aircraft motors were using it by 1932, although it took Rolls Royce another eleven years to add it to the Merlin. Other than the belated addition of FI, the Merlin was a remarkable design. It was all aluminium, dual-stage supercharged unit with four valves and two plugs per cylinder. The exhaust valves were filled with sodium to improve cooling.
I think the biggest changes in internal combustion engines over the last half century are the addition of solid state electronic management and improved production methods and materials. These have rendered high end technologies like the Merlin sported practical for mass production and distribution.
This is the single biggest annoyance imho. Why can't they just do it the Mac way? Put everything for one programm in a single directory and that's it. No more problems with installing, just copy the directory from CD to HD or from HD to HD and you're good to go.
Apple didn't really do that. You are deceived by the fact that most older MacOS apps were statically compiled binaries. But MacOS has supported shared code since System 7.5. shared libraries lived in the Extensions folder, so at least you always knew where to look for them. MacOS 9.x actually has two shared code architectures, the old Shared Library Manager and the Code Fragment Manager (for Carbon). Much worse than shared code were the inits Apple allowed developers to load at boot. Many applications were dependent on these extensions or control panels.
An example of a MacOS app which relies on shared libraries is Microsoft Office. The only reason you can drag and drop install Office on MacOS is because it automatically installs any missing libraries. That is a function of the app, not the OS design. An example of a system function dependent on shared libraries is Open Transport.
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Joss answered answered reader's questions in this feature in today's Times online.
$0 reg. etc.
Yes. Apple also hosts online stores for schools. Harvard's pricing at the Harvard Apple store is noticably lower than College Park's.
1GHz PowerPC G4
256MB SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
SuperDrive
$1099
1GHz PowerPC G4
128MB SDRAM
60GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo drive
$849
800MHz PowerPC G4
128MB SDRAM
40GB Ultra ATA drive
CD-ROM drive
$699
Harvard also gets special deals from Apple on returned orders etc. These are available only from Harvard TPC's own site, but can be pretty dramatic. How about a 17" Powerbook with an extended warranty for $2,979? Or a 15" combo drive TiBook with an extended warranty and a free Airport card for $1,799?
A fine example of Gramscian Hegemenoy in action. But don't forget this aspect,
"Among the many meanings of democracy, the most realistic and concrete one seems to me to be that which connects with the concept of hegemony. In an hegemonic system, there is democracy between the leading group and the groups led to the extent that (the development of the economy and thus) the legislation (that expresses this development) favors the (molecular) transition from the groups led to the leading group."
-Antonio Gramsci-
Actually, due to Apple's agressive educational discounting, I can get the 15.2" TiBook for just a shade more than that with a Superdrive.
Harvard is selling the 15.2" TiBooks are $1,799 (867Mhz, DVD/CD-RW) and $2,479 (1Ghz, DVD-R/CD-RW), including an Airport card and extended warranty. The iBook 800Mhz (DVD/CD-RW) for $1,099. The 12.1" Powerbook is $1,559 including a free Airport Extreme card and extended warranty. The Queen Mother 17" book is $2,979, including the extended warranty (Airport Extreme and Bluetooth are built in). A Superdrive eMac is $1,059.
Yeah, NPR is so left wing that they appointed Kevin Klose, Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau, as their president. The IBB is the US Government run network which operates the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio and TV Marti and Radio Free Asia.
Apple has great educational discounts. Right now Harvard is selling the iBook 800Mhz (DVD/CD-RW) for $1,099. The 12.1" Powerbook is $1,559 including a free Airport Extreme card and extended warranty. The 15.2" TiBooks are $1,799 (867Mhz, DVD/CD-RW) and $2,479 (1Ghz, DVD-R/CD-RW), including an Airport card and extended warranty. They Queen Mother 17" book is $2,979, including the extended warranty (Airport Extreme and Bluetooth are built in). A Superdrive eMac is $1,059.
No, they can use it and copy it as much as they like without restriction. But if they give it away or sell it, or a copy of it, they have to include the blueprints and possibly the raw materials.
This is in fact precisely what Gil Amelio did. The license agreements Mike Spindler negotiated were for all versions of System 7.x. Amelio had the OS team merge some bits from Copeland into the System 7.x tree, renamed it MacOS 8 and called all the clone makers in for new contract talks. According to Amelio's book about his Apple experience, the new scheme was profitable, but it got Steved. He also said there was no reason, other than hatred of Sculley, for Steve to kill the Newton. According to him it was turning the corner financially and markets were appearing.
Agreed. I actually prefer SST musically. I mean Minutemen/Firehose, Bad Brains AND Husker Du?! My favorite rock album of all time, I Against I (Bad Brains), was SST.
I didn't mean to imply there weren't other successful indies, although I suspect we have different standards for success. Dischord is successful because it keeps pumping out music and helps maintain a local environment conducive to the production of new music. They pay high royalties and charge low prices. Dischord is a success because no major has sued them out of existence or convinced them to sell (which they will never do).
No distributors, indy or otherwise, are keeping Dischord alive because Dischord doesn't use distributers. They don't wholesale at all. Every customer gets the same low price regardless of whether she buys one item or a thousand.
I am glad the CSM published this, but disappointed they did not mention pioneering Dischord Records. Dischord is truly "in the business of making music, not money." They charge fans exactly what they charge record stores and forego distributors entirely. Send Dischord $10 and they send you a CD, post paid. In some cases you can even get vinyl. Dischord are just good people.
Plus, Amy Pickering is a fox.
WINS remains broken. OS X Samba can't browse across a router. At least it not longer has that annoying behavior where you can only browse the WINS server itself.
I would think that if you were an early PowerMac adopter in March 1994 you would not be too disappointed when Apple released an operating system (MacOS 9.2) which did not support it in 2001. MacOS through 9.1 supported all PPC based Macs.
Article II Section 1 (and 2 through 4 for that matter) says no such thing. Section 1 doesn't even mention the court and the rest of Article II only refers to the President's power to appoint Court Justices.
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.
The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the executio
I should mention that small states did get a slight boost because every states got two electors for their two senators. You number of electors is equal to your number of reps and senators.
IIRC the EC was always proportional to population, like the House of Representatives. Small states got less representation. And it wasn't even slightly democratic, since there was no popular vote until the 1824 election. Senators were not elected until the ratification of the 17th Ammendment in 1913.
Without the French Navy disrupting British supply and ensuring ours we would have lost that war going away. The French sent the British packing at the Battle of the Virginia Capes, then blockaded Chesapeake Bay and transported American and French troops to Yorktown, forcing Cornwallis's surrender.
Interesting. I would assume you would install it when your mind was clouded by guilt and shame. This reminds me of two quotes from St. Augustine-
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." [everyone's favorite]
and
"Love and do what you will"
But I am a Jew so, what do I know?
I agree that the M16 is a more precise and better balanced instrument. It also doesn't have a giant safety which makes an audible clack to give away your position or a muzzle brake which is deafeningly loud for a rifle chambered for a varmint cartridge.
Assuming a patriot actually shot them down. The DOD originally claimed 80% success over Israel. When the GAO debunked that they backed down to a claim of 25%. However according to the GAO report on Patriot performance (#147743).
About 9 percent of the Patriot's Operation Desert Storm engagements are supported by the strongest evidence that an engagement resulted in a warhead kill-engagements during which observable evidence indicates a Scud was destroyed or disabled after a Patriot detonated close to the Scud. For example, the strongest evidence that a warhead kill occurred would be provided by (1) a disabled Scud with Patriot fragments or fragment holes in its guidance and fuzing section or (2) radar data showing evidence of Scud debris in the air following a Patriot detonation. The other 16 percent of the engagements the Army is highly confident resulted in warhead kills are not supported by such evidence. In these cases, however, radar tracking data collected proves that in some cases the Patriots came close to the Scuds, but it does not prove or disprove whether the Patriots came close enough to have a high probability of destroying, disabling, or diverting them.
3The Army defines a "warhead kill" as the destruction or disabling of the target?s warhead. It defines a "mission kill" as an engagement during which the Patriot intercepter diverts the Scud from itu intended target, thereby preventing it from causing significant ground damage.
4The Army has classified for national security reasons the number of warhead kills that Patriot is credited with achieving during Desert Storm. Therefore, this report provides percentages, rather than exact numbers.
This is kind of a metaphysical issue. Each system is the pinnacle of its design philosophy.
The Kalashnikov is inherently rugged and tolerant of environmental variables. AK derivatives operate flawlessly in sand and water, at any temperature. Years ago I read an interview with Uziel Gal where he said that was why IMI (meaning Israel Galili and himself) chose the AK as the basis for the Galil. Israeli combat experience showed the AKs to be the only weapon to operate at or near 100% efficiency in desert combat.
The AR-15 is a totally different animal. It is a beautifully balanced and elegant design. While the AK was based on proven designs and manufacturing methods, the AR-15 was ground breaking. New materials and manufacturing techniques made it feather light, robust and easy to produce. Eugene Stoner's baby was an unbelievably efficient weapon. As you say it was more accurate than the AKs. Its ammunition was also (at the time, AKs have caught up) lighter, which meant you could carry more of it, and more destructive. The lightweight small bore cartridge also made the weapon easier to use.
Unfortunately, the AR-15s strength turned out to be its weakness. It was such a finely balanced design that the slightest change in specifications completely destroyed its functionality. This is painfully clear from the history of the M-16 in Vietnam. While the AR-15 was highly prized in that war, the "militarized" M-16 was a disaster. To the casual observer, the differences between the two weapons were trivial. The M-16 had faster twist rifling, which improved the already excellent accuracy but drastically reduced the bullet's destructiveness. The bullet retained stability after impact while the AR-15's tumbled. The M-16 had a plunger on the right side of the receiver for forcing the bolt closed when jammed with debris. Forcing a debris jammed bolt home is probably not going to solve your problem and can permanently damage the weapon. But neither of these changes explained the shocking reduction in reliability between the two designs. The AR-15's reliability had been outstanding, both in tests and in combat. The M-16 was terrible. GI's and parental complaints were so voluminous they sparked congressional hearings. What had changed? Believe it or not the cause of this unreliability, which probably killed hundreds of GIs (and wounded thousands), was a simple change in the type of gunpowder in the cartridge. Against Stoner's advice the DOD had changed from a Winchester bar powder to their standard ball powder. The higher chamber pressure and temperature, as well as the dirtier combustion, completely destroyed the functionality of the weapon. It took years of tweaking to bring the M16 back to reasonable reliability standards. The problems never occurred in testing because the Army never bothered testing the new powder. The M16 evaluation was all don with Stoner's Winchester powder.
By contrast, the AK variants can digest any ammo you cram into the magazine with roughly equal efficiency. The Russians learned there lesson during WWII when brass shortages forced them to use steel cartridge cases. If you can cram it in the chamber, the AK will fire it, eject it and load another.
The AR-15 is a fine piece of engineering. Israeli soldiers who used the Galil like it because of its balance and light weight. And for theIDF's current uses it is probably perfect. But it isn't any lighter than the AK-74 and accuracy is a secondary consideration. Reliability, durability, flexibility and quantity are more important. The Kalashnikov wins on all those counts. For most militaries I think the AK-74 is a better choice.
I also think the Browning Hi Power was a much better design than the 1911, and only twelve years newer (design not production).
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I think the biggest changes in internal combustion engines over the last half century are the addition of solid state electronic management and improved production methods and materials. These have rendered high end technologies like the Merlin sported practical for mass production and distribution.
Apple didn't really do that. You are deceived by the fact that most older MacOS apps were statically compiled binaries. But MacOS has supported shared code since System 7.5. shared libraries lived in the Extensions folder, so at least you always knew where to look for them. MacOS 9.x actually has two shared code architectures, the old Shared Library Manager and the Code Fragment Manager (for Carbon). Much worse than shared code were the inits Apple allowed developers to load at boot. Many applications were dependent on these extensions or control panels.
An example of a MacOS app which relies on shared libraries is Microsoft Office. The only reason you can drag and drop install Office on MacOS is because it automatically installs any missing libraries. That is a function of the app, not the OS design. An example of a system function dependent on shared libraries is Open Transport.