They don't do HP48s any more. I tried to get a replacement for my broken HP48G but if you try to buy it online, it is akin to daylight robbery, even in ebay they aren't cheap.
Well, in an equivalent technological level battle, they also would last 5 minutes. 40 years is a long time for military technology unless you are willing to spend lots of money to improve the ECM equipment and weapon platforms. On the other hand, since 1940s, America didn't fight a single equivalent enemy but always attacked nations much poorer and with worse technology. One of the ships you mention, Iowa, was used as a naval gun platform in the first Gulf war, about 50 years old but no one even fired a pistol gun to it because no one in that field had the capability.
Maximus/2 + OS/2 + the commercial SIO for OS/2 = 8 lines of modem plus 16 TCP/IP terminal ports and modems plus as many TCP/IP virtual connections as the SIO allowed, plus an other dedicated modem for the Fido. That was one of the setting I had before we pulled the plug.
OS/2 was the OS to run a BBS, never drops a single packet even under heaviest loads and the setup I describe up there was running on an ass-kicking Pentium 120 with 128MB of RAM. These days you hardly can run a modern Linux distribution on this kind of hardware.
Fuck you IBM. Damn, if it weren't for Linux and modern BSDs, I wouldn't have an OS to use now.
NATO is completely different. Greece and Turkey almost went to war against each other many times in the last 35 years. They still (IMHO, incorrectly) view each other as the biggest enemy. USA military help to Greece and Turkey had to be balanced so that it wouldn't tip in favour of one of the countries. When Turkey started building their own kit F-16's, Greece had to be given a bunch for free and the rest were purchased/loaned/given free.
You have to understand that Greece was under Ottoman rule for about 400 years and they won their independence in late 19th century. They also invaded Turkey after the first world war, at the same time of Turkish independence war, which was a mixture of a civil (against Ottoman rulers) and international (mainly against Greeks) war, which the outcome was Republic of Turkey. Greece on the other hand had to wait until Germans invaded them to get rid of its monarchy. After the WWII, they had a quite nasty civil var between republicans and communists. Later on a military junta gained control and as all right-wing rulers used the enemy as a political tool and to be fair enough, so did the Turkish right-wing. Both countries almost went to war because of Cyprus and else.
You're wrong. Dixons owns The Link brand mobile phone stores (and Currys and PC World). Dixons is for the impulse-buy while browsing in the high street. Currys sell you washing machines etc. PC world flogs expensive PCs, inkjet cartridges and games and the link will sell you overpriced mobile phones. That's why they are making money, they have whole of the high-street covered.
Nah, don't bother. You won't be able to buy any film soon.
If you want to switch to analouge, go mediom or large format, you can't buy film for that in most of the stores either so you can feel being obsolete immediately. I have a Yashica medium, I hardly use it,
Old people love the technology. I got a 3Mpixel camera as a christmas present a couple of years ago and she loves it. She also has broadband and thinks internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Google and Firefox makes her life very easy when she is looking for something on the net.
Old people love technology, they saw everything coming. Jet engines, TV, space exploration, satellites. My mother sometimes tells me how excited they were when Armstrong stepped on the moon. When was the last time you were so excited and what was it about? It is no comparison. In the last 20 years here hasn't been a real technological achievement but electronics. Computers got smaller and faster and cheaper, phones got mobile but it is still not a big change like TV being invented, civil jet aviation being introduced, someone landing on Moon.
To compare, I need civil space travel really starting, telephaty being invented and someone landing on Mars! Fat chance.
Iraq had many armored vehicles with effective guns, but did not know where the US hardware was while we knew exactly where they were.
Iraq also (allegedly) had loads of WMD which Colin Powel knew exactly where they were so that he paraded images on his imfamous speech in the UN council... And strangely enough American military with all their mighty sattelites couldn't find them.
The moral of this story is: Never trust generals and army.
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My Zire (21 I believe) lasts more than a couple of months easily. On the other hand it has no colour, no backlight, nothing. It is a lightweight m100, nothing else and as fast as the original Palms. On the other hand, it was dirt cheap and it does its job (taking notes down). My other PDA is an SL5500 so I usually use that one for fancier stuff.
The day I broke the LCD of my HP48, I cried. I am not ashamed about it. It was beautiful. I plugged it into an Hayes modem and dialed up my own BBS and logged in, what else can I brag about?:)
if you can live with the shame of having a BSD system, the answer is monowall. It just works.
The downside is you can't run seti@home on your firewall.
1. From 1987 to 1989, the detainee served as an infantryman in the Iraqi Army and received training on the mortar and rocket propelled grenades.
2. A Taliban recruiter in Baghdad convinced the detainee to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taliban in 1994.
Now... The problem is the first line, meaning that the Iraqi army gave this guy training to be an Al Queda operative. The fact is, Iraq didn't have a volunteer army as American or British armies are, they had an conscript army, meaning all Iraqi men at a certain age had to go through their couple of years and get trained.
This only documents that an Iraqi became an Al Queda operative. It doesn't mean that there is a link between the previous Iraqi government and the Al Queda, nor any funding. Even more, last couple of weeks news proves that there are British people who work as Al Queda operatives. Does this mean British Government has links with Al Queda?
I can't imagine a single SF american writer/movie maker actually writing against the war and his book/movie winning Nebula/Oscars.
On the other hand, if you hint about the 9/11 and evil empires (War of the Worlds remake, Star Wars 3 etc.) or someone being killed (The Passion of Jesus) for their love of Christian religion (but obviously not Islam), you will get lots of airtime and win lots of awards.
Nebula has been the SWFFA's own dildo for some time and most of the books get nominated/voted only by reading the back cover, at least Hugos are nominated by real fans.
While American writers go out and glorify their war and try to dehumanize the so called enemy, Brits are actually critising the whole expedition. Now we had the bombs in London, most of the people just want to disengage and leave Iraq to Americans, since it was a mess created by Americans in the first place (by supplying weapons and information to Saddam to oppose Iranians in eighties and so on).
I just finished Ken MacLeod's Newton's Wake. I say fuck the British, Scots are the new masters of SF!
Bank's The Algebraist is just like what you describe, something completely different from real life. Newton's Wake was quite good as well, with the same aspect: it was different than most of the American stuff I read these days.
To be fair, the only new writed I stumbled upon and liked this year was Jeff Noon and he is a british as well.
About all the good guys dying in the end, I was somewhat taken aback with Iain M. Bank's latest where almost everyone actually survives, which is a bummer.
owww, go and read Feersum Endjinn and then come back and complain it is hard to read.
Every time IMB changes the writing style it takes a good 10 minutes to get used to it so that you can stop reading it by actually moving your lips to understand what he wrote down. Very good book, as all of his stuff are.
Every time you install a GPL software, you agree to the GPL license. What's the difference? GPL isn't granted automatically, you have to agree it before you install the software. It is your responsibility to read the license and decide to use the software or not.
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They don't do HP48s any more. I tried to get a replacement for my broken HP48G but if you try to buy it online, it is akin to daylight robbery, even in ebay they aren't cheap.
Well, in an equivalent technological level battle, they also would last 5 minutes. 40 years is a long time for military technology unless you are willing to spend lots of money to improve the ECM equipment and weapon platforms. On the other hand, since 1940s, America didn't fight a single equivalent enemy but always attacked nations much poorer and with worse technology. One of the ships you mention, Iowa, was used as a naval gun platform in the first Gulf war, about 50 years old but no one even fired a pistol gun to it because no one in that field had the capability.
Argh... In Europe we use four ring binders and I have this nice Novell binder with three rings which I can't use... Damn you Americans! Arrrrgh! :)
PostreSQL has better licensing terms compared to MySQL because of MySQL's dual-licensing terms.
Nah. Wolverine...
Maximus/2 + OS/2 + the commercial SIO for OS/2 = 8 lines of modem plus 16 TCP/IP terminal ports and modems plus as many TCP/IP virtual connections as the SIO allowed, plus an other dedicated modem for the Fido. That was one of the setting I had before we pulled the plug. OS/2 was the OS to run a BBS, never drops a single packet even under heaviest loads and the setup I describe up there was running on an ass-kicking Pentium 120 with 128MB of RAM. These days you hardly can run a modern Linux distribution on this kind of hardware. Fuck you IBM. Damn, if it weren't for Linux and modern BSDs, I wouldn't have an OS to use now.
ahahahahah! I was a sysop so this was really funny for me! :) Damn, tears...
You have to understand that Greece was under Ottoman rule for about 400 years and they won their independence in late 19th century. They also invaded Turkey after the first world war, at the same time of Turkish independence war, which was a mixture of a civil (against Ottoman rulers) and international (mainly against Greeks) war, which the outcome was Republic of Turkey. Greece on the other hand had to wait until Germans invaded them to get rid of its monarchy. After the WWII, they had a quite nasty civil var between republicans and communists. Later on a military junta gained control and as all right-wing rulers used the enemy as a political tool and to be fair enough, so did the Turkish right-wing. Both countries almost went to war because of Cyprus and else.
Peh... I think your friend needs a new camera
You're wrong. Dixons owns The Link brand mobile phone stores (and Currys and PC World). Dixons is for the impulse-buy while browsing in the high street. Currys sell you washing machines etc. PC world flogs expensive PCs, inkjet cartridges and games and the link will sell you overpriced mobile phones. That's why they are making money, they have whole of the high-street covered.
If you want to switch to analouge, go mediom or large format, you can't buy film for that in most of the stores either so you can feel being obsolete immediately. I have a Yashica medium, I hardly use it,
Old people love technology, they saw everything coming. Jet engines, TV, space exploration, satellites. My mother sometimes tells me how excited they were when Armstrong stepped on the moon. When was the last time you were so excited and what was it about? It is no comparison. In the last 20 years here hasn't been a real technological achievement but electronics. Computers got smaller and faster and cheaper, phones got mobile but it is still not a big change like TV being invented, civil jet aviation being introduced, someone landing on Moon.
To compare, I need civil space travel really starting, telephaty being invented and someone landing on Mars! Fat chance.
Greece considers Turkey as their biggest enemy and therefore it was a sensitive information for Greeks.
Iraq also (allegedly) had loads of WMD which Colin Powel knew exactly where they were so that he paraded images on his imfamous speech in the UN council... And strangely enough American military with all their mighty sattelites couldn't find them.
The moral of this story is: Never trust generals and army.
My Zire (21 I believe) lasts more than a couple of months easily. On the other hand it has no colour, no backlight, nothing. It is a lightweight m100, nothing else and as fast as the original Palms. On the other hand, it was dirt cheap and it does its job (taking notes down). My other PDA is an SL5500 so I usually use that one for fancier stuff.
The day I broke the LCD of my HP48, I cried. I am not ashamed about it. It was beautiful. I plugged it into an Hayes modem and dialed up my own BBS and logged in, what else can I brag about? :)
if you can live with the shame of having a BSD system, the answer is monowall. It just works. The downside is you can't run seti@home on your firewall.
Does this mean if I'm living in USA and have some salt with me, I can destroy mass and convert into energy easily? Coool!
From the article you linked:
1. From 1987 to 1989, the detainee served as an infantryman in the Iraqi Army and received training on the mortar and rocket propelled grenades.
2. A Taliban recruiter in Baghdad convinced the detainee to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taliban in 1994.
Now... The problem is the first line, meaning that the Iraqi army gave this guy training to be an Al Queda operative. The fact is, Iraq didn't have a volunteer army as American or British armies are, they had an conscript army, meaning all Iraqi men at a certain age had to go through their couple of years and get trained.
This only documents that an Iraqi became an Al Queda operative. It doesn't mean that there is a link between the previous Iraqi government and the Al Queda, nor any funding. Even more, last couple of weeks news proves that there are British people who work as Al Queda operatives. Does this mean British Government has links with Al Queda?
And today is the 60th aniversary of Hiroshima. Ah the irony. You Americans sometimes make me sick.
On the other hand, if you hint about the 9/11 and evil empires (War of the Worlds remake, Star Wars 3 etc.) or someone being killed (The Passion of Jesus) for their love of Christian religion (but obviously not Islam), you will get lots of airtime and win lots of awards.
Nebula has been the SWFFA's own dildo for some time and most of the books get nominated/voted only by reading the back cover, at least Hugos are nominated by real fans.
While American writers go out and glorify their war and try to dehumanize the so called enemy, Brits are actually critising the whole expedition. Now we had the bombs in London, most of the people just want to disengage and leave Iraq to Americans, since it was a mess created by Americans in the first place (by supplying weapons and information to Saddam to oppose Iranians in eighties and so on).
Bank's The Algebraist is just like what you describe, something completely different from real life. Newton's Wake was quite good as well, with the same aspect: it was different than most of the American stuff I read these days.
To be fair, the only new writed I stumbled upon and liked this year was Jeff Noon and he is a british as well.
About all the good guys dying in the end, I was somewhat taken aback with Iain M. Bank's latest where almost everyone actually survives, which is a bummer.
Every time IMB changes the writing style it takes a good 10 minutes to get used to it so that you can stop reading it by actually moving your lips to understand what he wrote down. Very good book, as all of his stuff are.
Every time you install a GPL software, you agree to the GPL license. What's the difference? GPL isn't granted automatically, you have to agree it before you install the software. It is your responsibility to read the license and decide to use the software or not.