All the flag discussion is moot. As been said before, The Apollo flags weren't planted as flags of colonisation. (No claims to territory were made at the time of the landings). They were more in the spirit of the flags that climbers put on top of Mt. Everest.
Considering the times, (still relatively deep in the Cold War), the only real effect would have been to fuel Communist claims of capitalist expansionism.)
Whoever does actually get their first with a full-blown commerical industrial colony will mostly likely be the first to scrap said treaty, followed by whoever makes it next. As far as I know, the Russians didn't even bother to claim the ice caves they discovered at the lunar pole. Right now making legal decisions on this makes about as much sense as the U.S. positions on cryptography.
Yep, I'm looking forward to the day like in the Heinlein novel, The Man Who Sold the Moon, Pepsi spends a ton of money for the right to spread lots of dark dust to put it's logo on the face of the Moon.
Heck, NJ's Governer Christine Whitman has already started her pioneering steps. Come watch some sports at the Continental Airlines Arena, catch your band at the PNC Bank Arts Center. I'm waiting anxiously to see who buys the right to rename the Great Falls next.
Let's not get bent out of shape here. The treaty has NEVER been enforced, Since the end of the Cold War, there's nothing TOO enforce, and nothing to enforce it with. Besides it's an American tradition to break treaties when land expansion is concerned, so I wouldn't worry.
The only thing besides lack of technology holding the corporates from expanding into space is that there isn't any money to be made there... yet. And that's the only reason they'll go, forget the Star Trek crap.
The flag is up there at six manned sights, but unlike Cortez and his contempoaries, Armstrong and the other lunar mission commanders made NO clain to lunar territory. As I remember the plaque reads "We Come In Peace For All Mankind" and it's signed by President Nixon among others.
"Space Command" it maybe, but it's all about watching "them" here on Earth.
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Apple didn't invent USB, true. But it's hard to deny that it was the iMac and it's funky look that put it on the map.
Millenium, like many before (and after) him has washed his hands of the public school system. I understand the reasons but I also see public schools as a line that needs to be drawn, as this is perhaps, the one hill that we can't afford to lose.
Public schools are for the forseeable future where the bulk of the future is coming from. Despite all the rhetoric of vouchers, charter schools, or the whatnot, it'll remain the only option for the majority of lower-class and an increasingly squeezed out middle-class segment of our society.
Public schools at their best are the meeting and mingling grounds of children from diverse backgrounds. At their worst, they're convenient scapegoats for those who champion idealogy over education.
Public schools are much like public toilets, the health of a society can be gauged on how well both are kept.
Actually, Canada left the British Commonwealth officially some years ago. There was a big celebration for the retirement of the last governer-general. That's the token official sent by the British Crown to member states of the Commonwealth. Actually, I suspect that the Brits are letting the Commonwealth detach by attrition, as I don't think any new governer-generals are being appointed to replace the ones leaving by old age.
That's not a fair comment, cancer. Macintosh logic boards aren't commodity items like the intel and intel-type chipsets you could pick up from a schlock shop in New York City or the monthly Ken Gordon show in New Jersey. They come from one supplier and the type of discounting you're used to simply does not exist. Logic board upgrades have never been a viable thing for Mac users, or for that matter any other platform that's not part of the 90% Wintel share.
CPU upgrades are a bit better deal, thanks mainly to pioneers like Newer Tech, enough of a deal for Apple to have considered ways to block them.
Actually, Gateway's server entrance was the purchase of ALR whose servers we used until we recently replaced them with an SGI twin Origin setup. The Amiga situation was different that it seems to have been guided by a faction that has never persuaded the rest of the company. Cobalt however is a living breathing easy-to-sell commercial product, the kind which they generally do well with.
Judging from Apple's policy with the BW G3's, rather than making any deep cuts with the existing Imac Series D, they're more likely to keep them at the same price and sweeten the pot by throwing in a printer and/or memory.
I remember Apple doing that on some of their earlier powerbooks, you could throttle down the CPU to save battery life. (and possibly your lap as well, those things could get rather warm.:)
I haven't seen it for awhile though, I doubt that hardly anyone ever used it.
Minority's post inspires a telling point. Minority defines literature the way I suppose an engineer would. The set story premises themselves are technical and... well boring. There are already story writing aids out for the two big platforms.
My point is... that if the story is sufficiently dull, boring, and straitjacketed, then it will make no difference if it was written by by a mind or knowledge base program.
JLG's license plate may have read "Amiga96", but it looks lime he was actually trying to court Apple. Be oversold itself to Apple which spent that 400 million JLG was asking for on an established complete OS instead. Ever since, Be's momentum has all but ground to a standstill. There's no such thing as "only one direction" for Amiga people to go. There's the various flavors of Linux running on hardware ranging from Apple G3's to Nintendo, there's QNX, or whatever might come out of those EuroAmiga folks. And there are places like slashdot. The computer might be history, but Amiga's greatest contribution, the community can not only just live on, but progress as well.
As for Gateway....The Amiga seems to be like those serial villains, just when you think it's finally gone......
If Linux weren't already the phenomenon strong enough to survive both Linux and Alan going to the Big Hacker House in the Sky, we wouldn't be here to talk about it. Also unfortunately unlike Trek Holodeck characters, these simulations wouldn't be quite as createive.
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All the flag discussion is moot. As been said before, The Apollo flags weren't planted as flags of colonisation. (No claims to territory were made at the time of the landings). They were more in the spirit of the flags that climbers put on top of Mt. Everest.
Considering the times, (still relatively deep in the Cold War), the only real effect would have been to fuel Communist claims of capitalist expansionism.)
Whoever does actually get their first with a full-blown commerical industrial colony will mostly likely be the first to scrap said treaty, followed by whoever makes it next. As far as I know, the Russians didn't even bother to claim the ice caves they discovered at the lunar pole. Right now making legal decisions on this makes about as much sense as the U.S. positions on cryptography.
Yep, I'm looking forward to the day like in the Heinlein novel, The Man Who Sold the Moon, Pepsi spends a ton of money for the right to spread lots of dark dust to put it's logo on the face of the Moon.
Heck, NJ's Governer Christine Whitman has already started her pioneering steps. Come watch some sports at the Continental Airlines Arena, catch your band at the PNC Bank Arts Center. I'm waiting anxiously to see who buys the right to rename the Great Falls next.
Let's not get bent out of shape here. The treaty has NEVER been enforced, Since the end of the Cold War, there's nothing TOO enforce, and nothing to enforce it with. Besides it's an American tradition to break treaties when land expansion is concerned, so I wouldn't worry.
The only thing besides lack of technology holding the corporates from expanding into space is that there isn't any money to be made there... yet. And that's the only reason they'll go, forget the Star Trek crap.
The flag is up there at six manned sights, but unlike Cortez and his contempoaries, Armstrong and the other lunar mission commanders made NO clain to lunar territory. As I remember the plaque reads "We Come In Peace For All Mankind" and it's signed by President Nixon among others.
"Space Command" it maybe, but it's all about watching "them" here on Earth.
Apple didn't invent USB, true. But it's hard to deny that it was the iMac and it's funky look that put it on the map.
Millenium, like many before (and after) him has washed his hands of the public school system. I understand the reasons but I also see public schools as a line that needs to be drawn, as this is perhaps, the one hill that we can't afford to lose.
Public schools are for the forseeable future where the bulk of the future is coming from. Despite all the rhetoric of vouchers, charter schools, or the whatnot, it'll remain the only option for the majority of lower-class and an increasingly squeezed out middle-class segment of our society.
Public schools at their best are the meeting and mingling grounds of children from diverse backgrounds. At their worst, they're convenient scapegoats for those who champion idealogy over education.
Public schools are much like public toilets, the health of a society can be gauged on how well both are kept.
Actually, Canada left the British Commonwealth officially some years ago. There was a big celebration for the retirement of the last governer-general. That's the token official sent by the British Crown to member states of the Commonwealth. Actually, I suspect that the Brits are letting the Commonwealth detach by attrition, as I don't think any new governer-generals are being appointed to replace the ones leaving by old age.
That's not a fair comment, cancer. Macintosh logic boards aren't commodity items like the intel and intel-type chipsets you could pick up from a schlock shop in New York City or the monthly Ken Gordon show in New Jersey. They come from one supplier and the type of discounting you're used to simply does not exist. Logic board upgrades have never been a viable thing for Mac users, or for that matter any other platform that's not part of the 90% Wintel share.
CPU upgrades are a bit better deal, thanks mainly to pioneers like Newer Tech, enough of a deal for Apple to have considered ways to block them.
Actually, Gateway's server entrance was the purchase of ALR whose servers we used until we recently replaced them with an SGI twin Origin setup. The Amiga situation was different that it seems to have been guided by a faction that has never persuaded the rest of the company. Cobalt however is a living breathing easy-to-sell commercial product, the kind which they generally do well with.
Judging from Apple's policy with the BW G3's, rather than making any deep cuts with the existing Imac Series D, they're more likely to keep them at the same price and sweeten the pot by throwing in a printer and/or memory.
I remember Apple doing that on some of their earlier powerbooks, you could throttle down the CPU to save battery life. (and possibly your lap as well, those things could get rather warm. :)
I haven't seen it for awhile though, I doubt that hardly anyone ever used it.
Minority's post inspires a telling point. Minority defines literature the way I suppose an engineer would. The set story premises themselves are technical and ... well boring. There are already story writing aids out for the two big platforms.
My point is... that if the story is sufficiently dull, boring, and straitjacketed, then it will make no difference if it was written by by a mind or knowledge base program.
JLG's license plate may have read "Amiga96", but it looks lime he was actually trying to court Apple. Be oversold itself to Apple which spent that 400 million JLG was asking for on an established complete OS instead. Ever since, Be's momentum has all but ground to a standstill. There's no such thing as "only one direction" for Amiga people to go. There's the various flavors of Linux running on hardware ranging from Apple G3's to Nintendo, there's QNX, or whatever might come out of those EuroAmiga folks. And there are places like slashdot. The computer might be history, but Amiga's greatest contribution, the community can not only just live on, but progress as well.
As for Gateway....The Amiga seems to be like those serial villains, just when you think it's finally gone......
Last I heard, he was buying up shares in a Seattle-based coffee shop chain. :)
If Linux weren't already the phenomenon strong enough to survive both Linux and Alan going to the Big Hacker House in the Sky, we wouldn't be here to talk about it. Also unfortunately unlike Trek Holodeck characters, these simulations wouldn't be quite as createive.