I believe Mig-25's have been clocked at over Mach 3 on reconnaissance flights at least twice. However at those speeds you pretty much crumple up the plane and throw it in the trash after landing. Mach 2.5 is the safe operational limit. I have heard that even at that speed you severely impact engine life.
I'm gonna say yes. Off the top of my head I can't think of any other reason for weed to be brown. I expect that you still get brown weed in the UK because it is imported from the third world. Most USian weed is now domestic and relatively small batch. Small, local cultivators have a lot of incentive to put in the extra effort and produce quality product. My information is old, so it might be wrong. And my knowledge of the UK market is nonexistent.
This is exactly correct. You can also increase the level of CBD and CBN in by exposing it to heat and light during the drying process. This catalyzes the breakdown of THC into CBD and CBN. The downsides are:
1) Increased drowsiness and reduced function. CBD and CBN produce a "heavy" high.
2) Poor taste. High heat/light drying increases the level of sugar, which tastes "harsh" when smoked. Back in the 70s when most US weed was grown on large mexican farms and left to dry in the sun, the growers would then soak the product in water to remove the sugars. This also leached out the chlorophyl, rendering the weed brown. In the 1980s, when slow drying became prevalent, brown product became rare. I doubt it exists at all today.
The Bronfmans made Whiskey, not Kool-Aid. Admittedly, Sam Bronfman bent some ethical rules smuggling product through Capone's Chicago organization during prohibition, but overall the family has a good rep.
"Time was, 6% was considered full employment." - George Will
He was referring to pre-Reagan days. Now Democrats themselves get bent out of shape over 6% unemployment as everybody "knows" it should be sub-4%. Guess why? It wasn't just because Reagan "meant well, at least".
It sounds like you are trying to say Reagan got unemployment below 4%. That is not true. During his two terms unemployment averaged 7.5%, peaking at 10.8% in 1982 and bottoming at 5.2% in 1989. The average rate under Carter was 6.5% and never rose above 7.1%. The only times since WWII that unemployment dipped into the low 4% range were under Johnson and Clinton.
Also I have never heard an economist call 6% full employment. Back in the Phillips curve days most people considered 4% full emplyment. Since the advent of the Cult of Friedman (and his NAIRU), nobody really talks about full employment.
I'm not sure what you mean about the cowboy myth. There is very real documentation of the bandits that roamed the Western U.S. in the 19th century: witness accounts, wanted posters, photographs, legal documents, you name it. Locals really would put together a possy and hunt them down when they became too much of a problem. So I don't know what you're referring to as a myth. There are fictions stories and movies, but no one is ascribing any kind of historical accuracy to them.
I'm not sure what they mean either. But what you describe are not cowboys, but criminals. Cowboys were agricultural workers. There is plenty of "mythology" surrounding them. For instance the idea that they all owned horses and carried guns. In most of the 19th centurty west it was illegal for cowhands to carry guns. It was also unusual for a 19th century cowboy to own his own horse. Those were typically supplied by their employer. Sometimes small ranchers would sell horses to hands at the end of a season, but it wasn't prevelant, mainly because horse ownership was a potentially significant burden to an unemployed cowboy. Also, most cowboys didn't work for independent ranchers. They worked for large cattle companies based in the east and Britain. These companies formed "Cattlemen's Associations" which dominated western politics and squeezed out independent competition. They pushed through legislation banning gun ownership by cowboys and banning cattle ownership by non-members, especially cowboys. That is what Cattle Kate was executed for, taking cattle in payment for goods and services. The opression of independent ranchers and workers by the cattlemen's associations was the cause of several range wars, most notably the Johnson County War.
Also most people probably underestimate the level of minority penetration in the cowboying trade. The very first American cowboys were slaves in Texas, and even in the post civil war free range golden age of the trade, a good 25% of cowboys were black. Some modern rodeo events, notably bulldogging, originatesd in black cowboying practices. Another 12-15% of early American cowboys were Mexican Vaqueros. Their contribution to the tradecraft is perhaps even more fundamental. They basically invented American horsemanship. As the 20th century dawned the number of black cowboys decreased while vaqueros increased. Some sources claim they were a full 33% of the industry by 1900.
By coincidence, a friend of mine is prosecuting a cattle rustling case as we speak.
This model has been disastrously unsuccessful in the past. Exportable cash crops crowd out domestic food production leaving agricultural workers poor and malnourished.
The technology sounds like fermentation to me. My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Ubuntu doens't have any analogue to Red Hat's Kickstart or SuSE's YaST when it comes to creating standard workstation or server configurations for automatic installation.
I suspect you are using OpenSuse. We are talking about Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop. IIRC, it installs GNOME automagically. At any rate, they definitely push GNOME. There was reason they bought Ximian after all.
If you're considering deploying Linux, you would do well to consider hiring a Linux expert to help you with such things, just as you hire Windows experts.
The hospital's clinical system run on a three tier (net, app, database) GFS/RHEL4 cluster which PXE boots diskless servers then pivotroots them to a SAN file system (essentially a home rolled iSCSI substitute to work around the inadequacies of FC SAN boot). Staff members have contributed code to the kernel and various GNU projects. In fact, while designing the clinical cluster one of the engineers discovered a bug in RedHat's code, patched it and contributed it upstream. I wouldn't say we have any Windows "experts" although we have some capable admins.
On the desktop, it is a juice-squeeze issue. Destops are a necessary evil. All our clinical applications are webified, thanks to Halamka, who wrote much of that code himself. Novell is good enough for that as is, and has good enterprise support to boot. It certainly isn't worth our while to devote resources to making it as good as Ubuntu for laptop users. Oh BTW, our current Windows based locked down kiosk machines run OpenOffice.org.
You still miss the point. They shouldn't have to DO anything to the SUSE default install to get it to work like Ubuntu's. It either just works out of the box or it doesn't. Ubuntu, OS X and Windows for the purposes of this evaluation worked out of the box. SUSE didn't.
To be fair, Suse's GNOME worked as well or better than Windows. And overall it was more stable and reliable.
Hmmm. Teah, enterprise support from Canonical is lacking, IMHO. OTOH, Ubuntu has all of the same enterprise and developer features that SuSE has. OTOH, from in terms of systems administration, Ubuntu currently lacks some of the slick tools that are and have been a part of YaST, such as the graphical LVM (logical volume management) tools. Not that Ubuntu doesn't support LVM, and the text-mode installer certainly works great with LVM, but YaST is just a better all-around admin tool than anything in Ubuntu. Plus, Ubuntu doens't have any analogue to Red Hat's Kickstart or SuSE's YaST when it comes to creating standard workstation or server configurations for automatic installation.
Yast is one of the things we dislike about Suse. The interface is confusing to say the least, and Novell has done a poor job of integrating it with GNOME. We also experienced a high failure rate, with many components just crapping out. Most importantly, as Halamka noted in the article, it does terrible job of update and install management. You are right about the LVM GUI and install tools. That is part of why John said that Suse was a more enterprise oriented distribution. I was just saying that the GUI administration tools in a default Suse install are total hamburger from a workstation operator's perspective. The GNOME tools are not available in the base GNOME locations, they are partially aggregated in a control panel app which also includes parts of Yast in some places and a panel for Yast itself. And Yast itself does not work well.
Um, Mac Mini. Admittedly, the price of $599 seems too expensive for 'low-end' hardware, but it's diminuitive 6.5"x6.5"x2" size seems to be tailor-made for kiosk applications.
I said "options." I don't think one choice constitutes options. I would want to be able to choose between vendors. The capital cost is not so high as to be a dealbreaker, but if it changed, we would be SOL.
It would be a big PITA because it isn't just window dressing. You would first have to sort out all the management tools. They mix and match GNOME and Yast components. The interfaces between the two are inconsistgent and their launchers are semi-randomly distributed throughout the interface. You would have to go through and make packages for all the missing GNOME tools, then make sure the interfaces were all stock, since they change some of them. Then you could start reconfiguring the base GUI to conform to GNOME standards. It would probably be easier to just install it without its own GNOME and install stock GNOME from scratch. Of course then your package management would be borked. Anyway, his point is that as delivered Suse would make a decent kiosk machine with a limited application set. However, for a workstation OS it would need a reworked interface and package management. You could redo that yourself, but why? You would lose the only advantage the distro currently has, great enterprise tech support. That said, the interface is no worse than Windows.
6 minutes? 20 seconds? Is that true? I use Thunderbird (on Kubuntu), and it starts up in a second. I can't imagine waiting that long for an email client to load up. What is it doing that takes so long? Is this typical behavior for Evolution?
Since this was one of his major complaints with Linux (and it's a valid one: six minutes is much too long to wait!), it seems like it's something that should be fixed ASAP if it is a widespread issue.
It is a real issue. Evolution's Exchange connector basically does not cache anything locally. There is a setting for it, but it doesn't work. Based on Halamka's recommendation, Novell has written a caching patch for Evolution and submitted it to the upstream code tree. They also patched a bunch of other bugs he identified. So Evolution/Exchange users can thank Halamka for finally getting this fixed. I have tested these patches and they work.
No, but he's a CIO publicly holding forth on the suitability of one Linux over another for certain applications based on the failure to understand that you can change the desktop environment! Maybe I'm a Linux snob but that seems like a striking lack of understanding. It's not like he was complaining about the lack of some obscure functionality and I chimed in with "its fixed in CVS so stop spredding FUD you M$ a$troturfer"!
No, he actually understands the situation much better than you. For one thing, he knows that the default desktop environment in Suse is not KDE, it is a very customized version of GNOME. However, for purposes of this evaluation it didn't matter to him how customizable GNOME is. The important question was how the two distributions performed without massive re-engineering. Otherwise he might as well have started with Debian itself. I believe he made that clear in the article. Hence he concluded that the default GNOME config in Ubuntu was much better then the default implementation in Suse, and the default package management in Ubuntu was far better than the equivelent in Suse. He knew he could make either GNOME install behave as he pleased. I have actually seen him use gconf. He also knew he could install apt-rpm and all the OpenSuse repositories and make Suse's package management more like Ubuntu's. This is why we have distributions, to optimize GNU/Linux for specific niches. If we were just going to start with a ablank slate and customize everything to meet our need we would all be running Debian.
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Sweet. And with my Macbook and a copy of Parallels, I can have them all. That's the beauty of virtualization on the Intel Macs. You cease worrying about which OS is the best compromise; you simply use the best OS for the task at hand.
Actually, Halamka agrees with you. But he also needs a subnotebook and Apple doesn't make one. For work that requirement outweighs his preference for OS X. All this laptop needs to do is basic business stuff like email and presentations, and Ubuntu is more than good enough at that. At home, he uses a big clunky Macbook (see previous articles).
it sounds like part of it was that he likes gnome better than kde for his own use. i wonder if he knows he can run either on whatever distro he would like. -- i know there was more to it than that, but i thought that was an interesting facet of the description.
His analysis of the interfaces is spot on. Suse hasn't shipped with KDE as the default environment for years. It uses a very customized GNOME which functions a lot more like Windows. For instance, by default the main launcher shows your most recently used apps. It looks different every time you use it. Also the management tools, some of which are GNOME and some of which are Yast panels, are not consistently placed and can be difficult to navigate. He thought the default Ubuntu GNOME implementation was much better laisd out. And he knows you can change either one to look like whatever you want, but why should he have to when Ubuntu gets it right in the first place?
However, the big difference between the two distros is that Yast sucks and Synaptic, aptitude and friends are great. That also comes up in the article.
And I wouldn't think SUSE and Ubuntu are really all that different from a support perspective. Not sure why he thinks OSX is better for researchers, though. I tried looking at the article for more information, but I'm not going to wade through 17 pages of ads...
Having been part of this evaluation process, I can tell you that Ubuntu is much easier to support, but Novell offers far better enterprise support (including developer resources) for Suse, which is more important for the applications he proposes. I won't speak for John, but my guess is he thinks OS X is better for researchers because it it runs all the unixy apps the researchers require and even in its most wild and wooly user installed form is easily supportable by our existing resources. You can read the first article for more information. As John points out in the article, we have no control over what researchers buy with their grant money anyway. Except for a few "power users" who prefer GNU, there is pretty much concensus among researchers that OS X is the best platform for them. At any rate my experience here has been that there is no net cost to supporting OS X since our marginal cost for supporting Macs is lower than Windows boxes. OTOH, it probably isn't as good for kiosk workstation applications because of the lack of low end hardware options. In that application, where distributed support is a small fraction of cost, the best route is to keep capital cost to a minimum, which means GNU.
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Sounds plausible. For my own experience, I had two and one came to me with cooling problems. The head survived a couple of boilovers. The second was of course, orange with black interiror. The pain with 240s I remember was vapor lock on the '73s. Easily fixable, or avoidable by not buying a '73. The b510 was an awesome car in general. All Datsuns of that era had tough transmissions too.
Is rs79 short for 1979 R100RS, or is it some kind of car thing?
I thought s/Datsun/Nissan/ because Datsuns had a poor reputation for quality.
In the northeastern US they had a rep for under-engineered bodywork. The 10 guage uncoated steel body on the 240Z did not stand up well to New England Winters. But the rest of the car was rock solid and the drivetrains were downright bullet proof. IMHO, if you didn't mind cutting out some rust every once in a while, Datsuns were by far the most robust Japanese imports of the 70s and early 80s. They were also the fastest and had the most racing success (Paul Newman and Bob Sharpe racing out of CT for instance.)
He strikes me as an interesting and capable man. If I were you I would be full of questions.
On a related note, I had a friend who went out with Colin Powell's daughter. He was also friends with KennyInouye. Speaking of Colin Powell (totally OT, but funny), two years ago year my dad got a voice mail message for the then Secretary of State. Turns out they were next to each other on my uncle's (by marriage) speed dial. It would be a lot funnier if you knew my dad, who among other things, is quite proud of completeing his Army career without advancing beyond the rank of Private First Class. Same planet, different worlds.
In fact I'd say that in my data center the driver used to be containerization and is increasingly consolidation. The reasons are radically increased power costs and increasingly complex disaster recovery issues. Virtualization offers significant advantages in both areas.
Yes, Saddam occasionally would kick the U.N. inspectors out for a few weeks
Actually that isn't true. Saddam never expelled the UN inspectors. UNSCOM was expelled from Iraq in 1998, but it was Clinton who kicked them out, not Saddam. Iraq did temporarily expel American inspectors in 1997 after they learned that CIA infiltrators in UNSCOM had passed intelligence which the US used to facilitate a coup attempt. In response, UNSCOM chief Richard Butler withdrew all his teams to Kuwait. But the crisis was short lived and everyone was back to work in a week. Inspections limped along until December 1998, when Clinton decided his purposes were better served by bombing. The US then told UNSCOM they needed to evacuate for safety reasons and Director Richard Butler happily obliged. Go back and read the news reports of the day and you will see no mention of Saddam expelling non-American UNSCOM members. That factoid developed later. Several UNSCOM officials, including director Rolf Ekeus and David Kaye, have admitted that the US illegally used the inspection program for espionage.
"As time went on, some countries, especially the US, wanted to learn more about other parts of Iraq's capacity." The US even tried to find information about the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein. [Rolf Ekeus, Director of UNSCOM 1991-1997, Financial Times, 7/29/03]
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I believe Mig-25's have been clocked at over Mach 3 on reconnaissance flights at least twice. However at those speeds you pretty much crumple up the plane and throw it in the trash after landing. Mach 2.5 is the safe operational limit. I have heard that even at that speed you severely impact engine life.
I'm gonna say yes. Off the top of my head I can't think of any other reason for weed to be brown. I expect that you still get brown weed in the UK because it is imported from the third world. Most USian weed is now domestic and relatively small batch. Small, local cultivators have a lot of incentive to put in the extra effort and produce quality product. My information is old, so it might be wrong. And my knowledge of the UK market is nonexistent.
This is exactly correct. You can also increase the level of CBD and CBN in by exposing it to heat and light during the drying process. This catalyzes the breakdown of THC into CBD and CBN. The downsides are: 1) Increased drowsiness and reduced function. CBD and CBN produce a "heavy" high. 2) Poor taste. High heat/light drying increases the level of sugar, which tastes "harsh" when smoked. Back in the 70s when most US weed was grown on large mexican farms and left to dry in the sun, the growers would then soak the product in water to remove the sugars. This also leached out the chlorophyl, rendering the weed brown. In the 1980s, when slow drying became prevalent, brown product became rare. I doubt it exists at all today.
Also I have never heard an economist call 6% full employment. Back in the Phillips curve days most people considered 4% full emplyment. Since the advent of the Cult of Friedman (and his NAIRU), nobody really talks about full employment.
Also most people probably underestimate the level of minority penetration in the cowboying trade. The very first American cowboys were slaves in Texas, and even in the post civil war free range golden age of the trade, a good 25% of cowboys were black. Some modern rodeo events, notably bulldogging, originatesd in black cowboying practices. Another 12-15% of early American cowboys were Mexican Vaqueros. Their contribution to the tradecraft is perhaps even more fundamental. They basically invented American horsemanship. As the 20th century dawned the number of black cowboys decreased while vaqueros increased. Some sources claim they were a full 33% of the industry by 1900.
By coincidence, a friend of mine is prosecuting a cattle rustling case as we speak.
This model has been disastrously unsuccessful in the past. Exportable cash crops crowd out domestic food production leaving agricultural workers poor and malnourished. The technology sounds like fermentation to me. My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
I suspect you are using OpenSuse. We are talking about Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop. IIRC, it installs GNOME automagically. At any rate, they definitely push GNOME. There was reason they bought Ximian after all.
On the desktop, it is a juice-squeeze issue. Destops are a necessary evil. All our clinical applications are webified, thanks to Halamka, who wrote much of that code himself. Novell is good enough for that as is, and has good enterprise support to boot. It certainly isn't worth our while to devote resources to making it as good as Ubuntu for laptop users. Oh BTW, our current Windows based locked down kiosk machines run OpenOffice.org.
I said "options." I don't think one choice constitutes options. I would want to be able to choose between vendors. The capital cost is not so high as to be a dealbreaker, but if it changed, we would be SOL.
It would be a big PITA because it isn't just window dressing. You would first have to sort out all the management tools. They mix and match GNOME and Yast components. The interfaces between the two are inconsistgent and their launchers are semi-randomly distributed throughout the interface. You would have to go through and make packages for all the missing GNOME tools, then make sure the interfaces were all stock, since they change some of them. Then you could start reconfiguring the base GUI to conform to GNOME standards. It would probably be easier to just install it without its own GNOME and install stock GNOME from scratch. Of course then your package management would be borked. Anyway, his point is that as delivered Suse would make a decent kiosk machine with a limited application set. However, for a workstation OS it would need a reworked interface and package management. You could redo that yourself, but why? You would lose the only advantage the distro currently has, great enterprise tech support. That said, the interface is no worse than Windows.
However, the big difference between the two distros is that Yast sucks and Synaptic, aptitude and friends are great. That also comes up in the article.
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Sounds plausible. For my own experience, I had two and one came to me with cooling problems. The head survived a couple of boilovers. The second was of course, orange with black interiror. The pain with 240s I remember was vapor lock on the '73s. Easily fixable, or avoidable by not buying a '73. The b510 was an awesome car in general. All Datsuns of that era had tough transmissions too.
Is rs79 short for 1979 R100RS, or is it some kind of car thing?
He strikes me as an interesting and capable man. If I were you I would be full of questions.
On a related note, I had a friend who went out with Colin Powell's daughter. He was also friends with Kenny Inouye. Speaking of Colin Powell (totally OT, but funny), two years ago year my dad got a voice mail message for the then Secretary of State. Turns out they were next to each other on my uncle's (by marriage) speed dial. It would be a lot funnier if you knew my dad, who among other things, is quite proud of completeing his Army career without advancing beyond the rank of Private First Class. Same planet, different worlds.
In fact I'd say that in my data center the driver used to be containerization and is increasingly consolidation. The reasons are radically increased power costs and increasingly complex disaster recovery issues. Virtualization offers significant advantages in both areas.