Err... you do know that the "thou shalt not kill" is actually a mistranslation? The Hebrew verb stem used (in both versions of the commandments), is the infrequent R.TZ.KH, not the (common) verb for killing, H.R.G. Actually, while murder is a better translation, the concept of manslaughter may be closer to the meaning, as evidenced in the stem's usage in Numbers 35:12, where it is used for an unjustifiable, but not premeditated or even intentional, homicide.
Of course, the reason for the currency of "Thou shalt not kill" is its presence in the King James Version, which, while a fine piece of literature and a religious text in its own right, is one of the worst translations of the Bible. If you locate a reprint of the 1611 Edition KJO. Apparently, the divine inspriation and correction dissipated when it came time to write the preface.
The old PC keyboard port is usually called an AT port/connector, having debuted on IBM's 286 line (I miss mine) and then heavily cloned. Since the PS/2 was IBMs second generation of Personal (Computer) Systems, in some sense, yes, the PS/1 quip is true in spirit. As for the keyboard on the XT, it looks the same, but the signals are different and is not interchangable with the AT.
There have been things far worse than the situation today. The odd thing is, I don't believe change is effected by getting people to act, but rather by eventual legislative reconsideration - don't forget, even PATRIOT passed with a definite sunset date requiring reevaluation.
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You know, at the last place i worked, gmail grew in usage from about 2 people to about 20 in about a month. And then it got filtered.
Prefacing the address of the login page with https instead of http (a habit from quick and dirty solution to a home problem) got by the http block just fine. I had never even noticed it was filtered.
Not usually going to work, but worth a shot if you are in those circumstances. And if it does work, well, keep it to yourself - IT may know, but the receptionist won't. It has been my experience that IT won't proactively block something if 99% of users can't figure it out and it doesn't pose a security threat, especially if they might use themselves (yes, they too were generally blocked).
Just as an aside, but the SBL isnt a religious group seeking to distribute the bible, its an very well respected academic society which publishes both books of academic interest (usually in Engligh, sometimes in German, and others) and maintains a peer journal, usually focusing on the ancient near east (not so many illuminated manuscripts, but if someone were writing on biblical translations in the middle ages, sure). That a group of historians, linguists, archeologist, sociologists, etc. might want to have a say in a document format meant to be distributable, portable, and designed to last isnt all that surprising.
Moreover, I suspect they may have more technical insight than most - LTR/RTL, printed and script, heavy diacritical use, cuneiform, IPA and other transliteration schemes, etc. are technical hurdles they've been dealing with for quite some time now in both printed and electronic format. They have even been freely distributing a Hebrew font for years.
Just wanted to clear that up, lest people think they are a group of bible thumpers or modern monks (e-monks?).
It seems that there are two camps here, people who read the article/are familiar with the back story, and those who
want to complain about America/New York/the MTA/or their own local government and project it on this situation. The only common mistake I see in some of the former camp's posts is the budgetary one. The latter shares a theme of sound and fury. I am not sure about the reprehensibility of the copyright use here - I can generally tell when a map is out of date or in error - can the same be said for a tourist?
Now, I grew up and still live in Manhattan, and I am pretty familiar with the MTA. It is not as much of a hassle to get a paper
map as has been suggested - station booths generally do have the folding map - both bus and subway - available, for free, and just recently there was a giveaway of a small pocket map the size of a credit card when there was a change in service. The MTAs maps online have simply gotten beter over time as has their site design/usefulness.
Also, there have been people making their own MTA maps for PDA screens for a very long time, some of which are very innovative in their use of space. This guy uses the MTA's map, knows that to be illegal. He refers to it as his map, which it isn't. He get a lot of press claiming innovation, which it isn't. He gets a C&D. He then does what everyone else has been doing for years, making his own (and distributing it). Why does anyone care about this?
A better question is this - why hasn't anyone in this thread directed their fury at the real problem with using the MTA: being subject to the city's blatant attempt to weaken the 4th Amendment?
Ok, then I won't treat you post as a troll. Let me see if I can clarify the problem in what you said.
The main point is, Judeo-Christianity is a term of political convenience, generally denoting a certain agenda, and an American term at that. My OED dates its use to 1899. In other words, in your post, you use an ahistoric term to describe a historic phenomenon. That in and of itself is not so bad - historians do it all the time, e.g. terms of post modernist, feminist and neo/post colonial theory are useful in analyzing specific texts, events, etc. but often become anachronistic when applied on a broad scale.
I would argue that rigorous intellectual study is the study of difference - and to ascribe commonality where there is none, or little, or merely superficial is lazy, but more importantly, self-defeating.
Let me ask you a question. Why did you write Judeo-Christian instead of Jewish and Christian? I may be wrong, but it might be an (innocent) attempt to leverage lack of exposure to one group of religious movements by exposure to another, predicated on the existence of term that suggests one can assume knowledge of one roughly translates into the other. Just something to think about.
Now, regarding your initial claim, the pagan and Zoroastrian roots of Jewish and Christian, there are a few issues. For reasons I won't get into here the first chance Zoroastrianism and Judaism would have to seriously cross-pollinate would be during the Babylonian exile, at which point the foundation of Israelite religion - and the holidays - was already in place. It is likely that certain ideas were incorporated or reinterpreted into Judaism (and in the other direction as well - directionality can be a bitch to prove in this type of history) at this point - but provides nothing material long lasting influence on practice, as far as I know.
Also, some of the philosophical changes might have been in response to rejecting new beliefs - but we were discussing holidays, and that is off topic on a thread far off topic. The second time one would look for Zoroastrian influence on the main stream of Jewish (i.e. sects that survived) practice would be during the Sassinid dynasty in Persia, when the second and more popular "Babylonian" Talmud was under composition and some redaction. Here too, however, the calendar has already been more or less fixed - the rabbinic holidays that were added to the calendar were already done before entry to Persia, only the details were left.
By the way, note that this second Zoroastrian-Jewish encounter takes place during and after Constantine's conversion, and well after the formation of the variety of Christian sects - and thus after the most direct influence of Judaism on Christianity. If change happened here, after the divergence of Christianity from a hypothetical "common thread" would it still be Judeo-Christian? The imprecision introduced by terms of convenience is often less than convenient:-)
Paganism, I can't even begin to respond to because of the vagueness of the term. Pagan is a Latin colloquial term with a loaded history of diverse usage as such is probably not the right term to describe religious and cultic phenomena in the ANE ~1000-3000 BCE. You might be referring to pantheism, polytheism, or even monolatristic religions (where Israelite religion best fits). You might be referring to Greek or possibly Roman cults. Whatever it is, it is not a specific movement (especially used in the sense of a not-one-of-us-heathen) which one can point to. If you want to talk about the correlations (and *possible* influence) between the literature of Ugarit and Israel, and the social implications, fine. If you want to consider how Israelite religion went from a collection of diverse monolatristic cults to a temple centralized and later decentralized mostly monotheistic "religion," That too is possible. Can't talk about "Pagans" though.
I really didn't want to get into this, but this thread has a fundamental flaw which is causing people to talk past each other.
Scratch that, it has two.
Historical, traditional, Rabbinic (pick one, each bears its own semantic weight) Judaism is orthoprax - i.e. centered around "right" action. The Orthodox in general are not orthodox; particularly in questions of "theology" - a word foreign to Judaism - which, incidentally is another word that did not have a proper analogue until a couple of hundred years ago in Hebrew. The point of all this, is that there is a fair amount of variety in beliefs (or even the degree of belief needed) amongst Jews that do not cause fundamental schisms. Weaken or strengthen religious requirements - well, then poof - you just created a new community.
An example would be monotheism, an innovation that is strongly associated with Jews. Well, in practise, yes, everyone (everyone being defined as rabbis who produced written texts - because of the primacy of texts) has to concede to the Halachic (loosely defined as the bounds of the the praxis mentioned above) requirement of a "belief" in one God. Defining his nature is a task left to the interpreter - opinions defining God as a detached Aristotelian entity of some kind, or a undefinable infinity who yet has a means of directly interfacing with man, whether there are 7 elements in this interface/subordinate entities/vessels (pick one, choose one) or 10, whether this undefinable universal mass retracted a bit and thus allowed for the creation of this structure, and the world, which He (sorry, just a convention) nevertheless permeates in some fashion, or whether all of the above is bunk and you should just worry about the spaces of sand between heated plates of an oven which might allow for it to be immune from ritual impurity and the opinions thereupon are
1. Often found on the same shelf
2. Held by the same person at different points in their lives, and occaisionally in one day
3. Utterly irrelevant if the person is tithing, not eating improperly slaughtered meat, not lighting or extinguishing candles on the Sabbath, or carrying past 2000 cubits of the city limits (and certainly not from private to public domain)
Christianity - itself a dangerous term, referring to a vareity of religious traditions - which is often condensed into "Protestant" and (Roman) "Catholic" in the States - ignoring a significant number of churches outside of those traditions - nevertheless, Christianity often divides on dogmatic terms - of course they may have ritualistic implications, but it is the belief that defines, demarcates, and sanctifies. In other words, while it may be possible to identify actual dogma within a Christian relgious structure, I would hesitate to say the same can be done in any Jewish community, even one with a common level of "relgiousity."
And the second flaw is that people (including some claiming to be Jews) somehow think quoting Hebrew Scriptures (or worse, "Old Testament") especially without recourse to a standard Hebrew text indicates positions held by Jews in some fasion or another. It doesn't work that way when approaching the question from a historian's perspective (you might want to quote thinkers contemporary to the period you wish to describe) or speaking internally within the community (at best, a biblical citation is a jumping off point for citing a later commentary - once a talmudic citation, these days, usually medieval). Hell, the Dominicans figured that one out in the 13th century - google Pablo Christiani.
And, having lived in Berlin, I can tell you that a "Berliner" in Berlin is called a "Pfannkuche" (literally, pancake). So in Berlin, JFK's statement was not ambigious at all. "Ich bin Berliner" would also be correct and have avoided all the jokes from the wiseasses. Oh well. Google it, the Berliner/Pfannkuche thing was the same back then.
I'm glad that people are doing language acquisition studies, but the findings aren't that revolutionary.
What intrests me a bit more is langage change (read the aforemetioned book for a possible example) in animals. Now that would be interesting reading.
Actually, IIRC Coren had only estimated a ~300 word vocalbulary, but I'm not certain about that.
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So, the fact that I have a 10/100/1000 copper connection means that I can't connect to their network?
I went to Case from 1997-99. At least back then, you are right.
Case was using 155Mb ATM over fiber into each dorm room. I think I still have my PCI ATM adapter somewhere (don't tell anyone, they cost a fortune back then). I believe they boasted the largest ATM installation outside of General Motors. (The fiber has been in place for well over 10 years - I think they chose to install it in 1988.)
Anyway, not everyone could use the fiber directly, (were there ISA ATM cards?) and while I don't recall the details from the time, there was some sort of dongle+packet translation into Ethernet, which played havoc with the overall network traffic regarless of what kind of machine you brought to the party.
I do remember hearing things had changed a bit (I transfered out to NYU) - and here is a good article that seems to discuss a good bit of Case's IT history.
As an aside, CWRU students do put this to work - Hell, I knew someone who got a RIAA letter in 1997 for ftp serving. Even back then, files on the local SMB network would put many P2P systems to shame. To be fair though, there were many who put it to good and innovative use. And if you ever have to deal with ATM and Linux, CWRULUG (though out of date) would be a good place to start.
At Case, its probably only 50% that have no use for Gig Ethernet - and the other half is very happy to take their share of the bandwidth.
What about Roomba - I think the first useful, mass produced robot - they even sell the thing at "Bed, Bath, and Beyond" here in New York - deserves a nomination for opening the mass market robotics realm.
They should also propose a law to tax Jews at a higher rate, because everyone knows they are going to be cheating some Good German down the line and profiting.
At least one good thing about the EU - expanding eurozone capitalism is bound to cause this to fail - don't like the tax? Buy in the Czech Republic, Poland, etc.
But it doesn't suprise me that it starts here.
Damn glad to be leaving this country come Tuesday after half a year. Guten tag. Ich will mein leben zurueck.
Not entirely so. There is a back catalogue of decades of software that runs on my PC. Not to mention emulation.
Not every PC gamer is interested in the most recent and latest - consider the plethora of abandonware sites on the internet. I myself, enjoy computer gaming but do not like the warcraft-style games and have mixed feelings about the quake model, and so get along nicely with gaming on a P3 notebook with an 8MB 3d card. Admittedly, I am planning to replace my desktop soon - but my desktop is a slow PII:-)
Look, there are two things I have to point out:
I only need one machine for all these generations of software; my house isn't littered with past machines.
Consoles are progressively looking more like PCs - not the other way around.
And for a great game that doesn't need any 3D acceleration and was released this year? Try this.
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Err... you do know that the "thou shalt not kill" is actually a mistranslation? The Hebrew verb stem used (in both versions of the commandments), is the infrequent R.TZ.KH, not the (common) verb for killing, H.R.G. Actually, while murder is a better translation, the concept of manslaughter may be closer to the meaning, as evidenced in the stem's usage in Numbers 35:12, where it is used for an unjustifiable, but not premeditated or even intentional, homicide.
Of course, the reason for the currency of "Thou shalt not kill" is its presence in the King James Version, which, while a fine piece of literature and a religious text in its own right, is one of the worst translations of the Bible. If you locate a reprint of the 1611 Edition KJO. Apparently, the divine inspriation and correction dissipated when it came time to write the preface.
(OT, but the correction has to be made)
Yeah, but salt levels aren't associated with leukemia clusters . Tunsten is (warning, PDF).
GP was suggesting the clamshell Zaurus models, which Dynamism does indeed sell.
I suspect you went looking under notebooks on their site; most consider the Zauruses in the PDA plus category; here's the link.
Danes were good folk in the war years, but the story you allude to didn't happen.
The old PC keyboard port is usually called an AT port/connector, having debuted on IBM's 286 line (I miss mine) and then heavily cloned. Since the PS/2 was IBMs second generation of Personal (Computer) Systems, in some sense, yes, the PS/1 quip is true in spirit. As for the keyboard on the XT, it looks the same, but the signals are different and is not interchangable with the AT.
They are rarely brought up these days, but the various Sedition Acts that have appeared in American history were very nasty, particularly the form taken during the 1st Red Scare.
You know, at the last place i worked, gmail grew in usage from about 2 people to about 20 in about a month. And then it got filtered. Prefacing the address of the login page with https instead of http (a habit from quick and dirty solution to a home problem) got by the http block just fine. I had never even noticed it was filtered. Not usually going to work, but worth a shot if you are in those circumstances. And if it does work, well, keep it to yourself - IT may know, but the receptionist won't. It has been my experience that IT won't proactively block something if 99% of users can't figure it out and it doesn't pose a security threat, especially if they might use themselves (yes, they too were generally blocked).
Just as an aside, but the SBL isnt a religious group seeking to distribute the bible, its an very well respected academic society which publishes both books of academic interest (usually in Engligh, sometimes in German, and others) and maintains a peer journal, usually focusing on the ancient near east (not so many illuminated manuscripts, but if someone were writing on biblical translations in the middle ages, sure). That a group of historians, linguists, archeologist, sociologists, etc. might want to have a say in a document format meant to be distributable, portable, and designed to last isnt all that surprising.
Moreover, I suspect they may have more technical insight than most - LTR/RTL, printed and script, heavy diacritical use, cuneiform, IPA and other transliteration schemes, etc. are technical hurdles they've been dealing with for quite some time now in both printed and electronic format. They have even been freely distributing a Hebrew font for years.
Just wanted to clear that up, lest people think they are a group of bible thumpers or modern monks (e-monks?).
Remember, the OP is a gamer bitching about gamers.
Just be glad it wasn't in 1337 too.
I'll see your special intrest group and raise you the "independent" Chinese media.
Twice.
It seems that there are two camps here, people who read the article/are familiar with the back story, and those who want to complain about America/New York/the MTA/or their own local government and project it on this situation. The only common mistake I see in some of the former camp's posts is the budgetary one. The latter shares a theme of sound and fury. I am not sure about the reprehensibility of the copyright use here - I can generally tell when a map is out of date or in error - can the same be said for a tourist?
Now, I grew up and still live in Manhattan, and I am pretty familiar with the MTA. It is not as much of a hassle to get a paper map as has been suggested - station booths generally do have the folding map - both bus and subway - available, for free, and just recently there was a giveaway of a small pocket map the size of a credit card when there was a change in service. The MTAs maps online have simply gotten beter over time as has their site design/usefulness.
Also, there have been people making their own MTA maps for PDA screens for a very long time, some of which are very innovative in their use of space. This guy uses the MTA's map, knows that to be illegal. He refers to it as his map, which it isn't. He get a lot of press claiming innovation, which it isn't. He gets a C&D. He then does what everyone else has been doing for years, making his own (and distributing it). Why does anyone care about this?
A better question is this - why hasn't anyone in this thread directed their fury at the real problem with using the MTA: being subject to the city's blatant attempt to weaken the 4th Amendment?
Ok, then I won't treat you post as a troll. Let me see if I can clarify the problem in what you said.
:-)
The main point is, Judeo-Christianity is a term of political convenience, generally denoting a certain agenda, and an American term at that. My OED dates its use to 1899. In other words, in your post, you use an ahistoric term to describe a historic phenomenon. That in and of itself is not so bad - historians do it all the time, e.g. terms of post modernist, feminist and neo/post colonial theory are useful in analyzing specific texts, events, etc. but often become anachronistic when applied on a broad scale.
I would argue that rigorous intellectual study is the study of difference - and to ascribe commonality where there is none, or little, or merely superficial is lazy, but more importantly, self-defeating.
Let me ask you a question. Why did you write Judeo-Christian instead of Jewish and Christian? I may be wrong, but it might be an (innocent) attempt to leverage lack of exposure to one group of religious movements by exposure to another, predicated on the existence of term that suggests one can assume knowledge of one roughly translates into the other. Just something to think about.
Now, regarding your initial claim, the pagan and Zoroastrian roots of Jewish and Christian, there are a few issues. For reasons I won't get into here the first chance Zoroastrianism and Judaism would have to seriously cross-pollinate would be during the Babylonian exile, at which point the foundation of Israelite religion - and the holidays - was already in place. It is likely that certain ideas were incorporated or reinterpreted into Judaism (and in the other direction as well - directionality can be a bitch to prove in this type of history) at this point - but provides nothing material long lasting influence on practice, as far as I know.
Also, some of the philosophical changes might have been in response to rejecting new beliefs - but we were discussing holidays, and that is off topic on a thread far off topic. The second time one would look for Zoroastrian influence on the main stream of Jewish (i.e. sects that survived) practice would be during the Sassinid dynasty in Persia, when the second and more popular "Babylonian" Talmud was under composition and some redaction. Here too, however, the calendar has already been more or less fixed - the rabbinic holidays that were added to the calendar were already done before entry to Persia, only the details were left.
By the way, note that this second Zoroastrian-Jewish encounter takes place during and after Constantine's conversion, and well after the formation of the variety of Christian sects - and thus after the most direct influence of Judaism on Christianity. If change happened here, after the divergence of Christianity from a hypothetical "common thread" would it still be Judeo-Christian? The imprecision introduced by terms of convenience is often less than convenient
Paganism, I can't even begin to respond to because of the vagueness of the term. Pagan is a Latin colloquial term with a loaded history of diverse usage as such is probably not the right term to describe religious and cultic phenomena in the ANE ~1000-3000 BCE. You might be referring to pantheism, polytheism, or even monolatristic religions (where Israelite religion best fits). You might be referring to Greek or possibly Roman cults. Whatever it is, it is not a specific movement (especially used in the sense of a not-one-of-us-heathen) which one can point to. If you want to talk about the correlations (and *possible* influence) between the literature of Ugarit and Israel, and the social implications, fine. If you want to consider how Israelite religion went from a collection of diverse monolatristic cults to a temple centralized and later decentralized mostly monotheistic "religion," That too is possible. Can't talk about "Pagans" though.
Perhaps I should suggest
News to me. Must have missed the Judeochristianity department when deciding how to apply to grad school to study this stuff.
Oh, and it's spelled "Zoroastrian."
Nice troll, though.
Perhaps you were thinking of this?
Sigh.
I really didn't want to get into this, but this thread has a fundamental flaw which is causing people to talk past each other.
Scratch that, it has two.
Historical, traditional, Rabbinic (pick one, each bears its own semantic weight) Judaism is orthoprax - i.e. centered around "right" action. The Orthodox in general are not orthodox; particularly in questions of "theology" - a word foreign to Judaism - which, incidentally is another word that did not have a proper analogue until a couple of hundred years ago in Hebrew. The point of all this, is that there is a fair amount of variety in beliefs (or even the degree of belief needed) amongst Jews that do not cause fundamental schisms. Weaken or strengthen religious requirements - well, then poof - you just created a new community.
An example would be monotheism, an innovation that is strongly associated with Jews. Well, in practise, yes, everyone (everyone being defined as rabbis who produced written texts - because of the primacy of texts) has to concede to the Halachic (loosely defined as the bounds of the the praxis mentioned above) requirement of a "belief" in one God. Defining his nature is a task left to the interpreter - opinions defining God as a detached Aristotelian entity of some kind, or a undefinable infinity who yet has a means of directly interfacing with man, whether there are 7 elements in this interface/subordinate entities/vessels (pick one, choose one) or 10, whether this undefinable universal mass retracted a bit and thus allowed for the creation of this structure, and the world, which He (sorry, just a convention) nevertheless permeates in some fashion, or whether all of the above is bunk and you should just worry about the spaces of sand between heated plates of an oven which might allow for it to be immune from ritual impurity and the opinions thereupon are
1. Often found on the same shelf
2. Held by the same person at different points in their lives, and occaisionally in one day
3. Utterly irrelevant if the person is tithing, not eating improperly slaughtered meat, not lighting or extinguishing candles on the Sabbath, or carrying past 2000 cubits of the city limits (and certainly not from private to public domain)
Christianity - itself a dangerous term, referring to a vareity of religious traditions - which is often condensed into "Protestant" and (Roman) "Catholic" in the States - ignoring a significant number of churches outside of those traditions - nevertheless, Christianity often divides on dogmatic terms - of course they may have ritualistic implications, but it is the belief that defines, demarcates, and sanctifies. In other words, while it may be possible to identify actual dogma within a Christian relgious structure, I would hesitate to say the same can be done in any Jewish community, even one with a common level of "relgiousity."
And the second flaw is that people (including some claiming to be Jews) somehow think quoting Hebrew Scriptures (or worse, "Old Testament") especially without recourse to a standard Hebrew text indicates positions held by Jews in some fasion or another. It doesn't work that way when approaching the question from a historian's perspective (you might want to quote thinkers contemporary to the period you wish to describe) or speaking internally within the community (at best, a biblical citation is a jumping off point for citing a later commentary - once a talmudic citation, these days, usually medieval). Hell, the Dominicans figured that one out in the 13th century - google Pablo Christiani.
And now it is cheap - its called an HP100LX. I see them on ebay for ~$50. 200LX is still pricey tho.
It runs for weeks on AA batteries.
I don't know exactly, but apparently, it involved shaving her head.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and pay to see yesterday's stories again!
And, having lived in Berlin, I can tell you that a "Berliner" in Berlin is called a "Pfannkuche" (literally, pancake). So in Berlin, JFK's statement was not ambigious at all. "Ich bin Berliner" would also be correct and have avoided all the jokes from the wiseasses. Oh well. Google it, the Berliner/Pfannkuche thing was the same back then.
If it's anything like Israel (which it is, and yes I've been to both), it's not really an intermission.
It's a smoking break.
I'm glad that people are doing language acquisition studies, but the findings aren't that revolutionary.
What intrests me a bit more is langage change (read the aforemetioned book for a possible example) in animals. Now that would be interesting reading.
Actually, IIRC Coren had only estimated a ~300 word vocalbulary, but I'm not certain about that.
So, the fact that I have a 10/100/1000 copper connection means that I can't connect to their network?
I went to Case from 1997-99. At least back then, you are right.
Case was using 155Mb ATM over fiber into each dorm room. I think I still have my PCI ATM adapter somewhere (don't tell anyone, they cost a fortune back then). I believe they boasted the largest ATM installation outside of General Motors. (The fiber has been in place for well over 10 years - I think they chose to install it in 1988.)
Anyway, not everyone could use the fiber directly, (were there ISA ATM cards?) and while I don't recall the details from the time, there was some sort of dongle+packet translation into Ethernet, which played havoc with the overall network traffic regarless of what kind of machine you brought to the party.
I do remember hearing things had changed a bit (I transfered out to NYU) - and here is a good article that seems to discuss a good bit of Case's IT history.
As an aside, CWRU students do put this to work - Hell, I knew someone who got a RIAA letter in 1997 for ftp serving. Even back then, files on the local SMB network would put many P2P systems to shame. To be fair though, there were many who put it to good and innovative use. And if you ever have to deal with ATM and Linux, CWRULUG (though out of date) would be a good place to start.
At Case, its probably only 50% that have no use for Gig Ethernet - and the other half is very happy to take their share of the bandwidth.
What about Roomba - I think the first useful, mass produced robot - they even sell the thing at "Bed, Bath, and Beyond" here in New York - deserves a nomination for opening the mass market robotics realm.
Too bad their formmail thing is broken.
I'm supposed to be surprised about this?
They should also propose a law to tax Jews at a higher rate, because everyone knows they are going to be cheating some Good German down the line and profiting.
At least one good thing about the EU - expanding eurozone capitalism is bound to cause this to fail - don't like the tax? Buy in the Czech Republic, Poland, etc.
But it doesn't suprise me that it starts here. Damn glad to be leaving this country come Tuesday after half a year.
Guten tag. Ich will mein leben zurueck.
Not entirely so. There is a back catalogue of decades of software that runs on my PC. Not to mention emulation.
:-)
Not every PC gamer is interested in the most recent and latest - consider the plethora of abandonware sites on the internet. I myself, enjoy computer gaming but do not like the warcraft-style games and have mixed feelings about the quake model, and so get along nicely with gaming on a P3 notebook with an 8MB 3d card. Admittedly, I am planning to replace my desktop soon - but my desktop is a slow PII
Look, there are two things I have to point out:
I only need one machine for all these generations of software; my house isn't littered with past machines.
Consoles are progressively looking more like PCs - not the other way around.
And for a great game that doesn't need any 3D acceleration and was released this year? Try this.