The artillery the US Army used in WWI was primarily of French manufacture, the 75mm gun being a very common one in US use. The issue was ammunition supply for actual US guns. Well, also that most US artillery sucked at the time.
Any war gas used during WWI by Americans would have been supplied by Britain or France - US chemical weapon manufacturing capacity was near nil during the war. However, tests with war gases were conducted in the US during and after the war. Some gas-filled WW1 vintage shells were found at a former test firing range located in the Meadowlands, very near to Giants Stadium in NJ (and about 10 miles from NYC).
Can't find a web link - this happened in the early 90's. Fun stuff - the shells had phosgene, mustard and Lewisite, from what I understand. Mostly were still intact, even given the swampy environment.
I mean, who couldn't see this coming, after the issues this summer?
At least SCO had some verbatim (albeit legitimate) copying that they could show. This stuff isn't even exact, and in most cases it appears methods of operation have changed, variable names and defines have changed.
I agree. If Microsoft cared, they'd write the Cobol.NET implementation themselves. I mean, it's not like Microsoft didn't have a Cobol compiler in the distant past.
I keep on having flashbacks of Ricardo Montablan (of 'Fantasy Island' fame, as well as his role as Khan in Star Trek) singing 'Volare' on a TV commercial in the mid-1970s for the Chrysler/Plymouth car of the same name.
It was a big honking V8 that they made in woody wagon versions as well. My idiot parents bought one. Yeesh.
Anyway, the benchmarks on this card suck ass. The card is dead last in most things, and when it isn't, it has quality issues. I am not seeing a first generation winner here. I hope they don't fold up after this iteration of their cards.
Do you think they could offer a version that returns to the book continuity, without the gratuitous appearance of Arwen in Rohan and the silly Aragorn dream sequence?
Some of the problems might have been that you had to run one of the mass market distros to even get the installer to run.
Obviously Gentoo was out - so I couldn't install it there.
Atop RH 8 it ran like a dog, slower than molasses. Turning off the antialiasing helped, but not that much. The Win32 version was much more responsive. It appeared like the environment was running in some kind of emulation layer.
It didn't use the GNU toolchain so porting the apps was nigh unto impossible.
It didn't seem like a winner, and I happen to like Delphi...
Interfacewise? What the hell do you need other than a username field and a password field?
Stability would be nice. The Win32 clients in particular were horrendous for a very long time. Who knows, they may be better now, as well as better than Groupwise was in 2000. I know of one Netware server anywhere within my vicinity, amongst hundreds of servers.
Novell sucks at client software, though. I mean, years and years ago the DOS drivers were pretty stable but those days are long gone.
The Netware clients on Windows have always sucked ass. Sure, Microsoft can bear some of the blame here for doing its best to screw up Novell's client over the years, but Novell hasn't exactly shone interfacewise.
Also, if you use Groupwise, the interface is kind of clunky, etc.
If this is intended to bring Linux to the desktop, maybe the wrong company bought them.
The Army's significant web infrastructure runs on a completely different platform. I'm not going to say which one, except the boxes are purple. There are not _any_ Macintosh servers in any site that I am aware of. As I said, they exist in art departments, and not even in all of those. Some prefer win32.
You can believe a four year old news piece as you will. It's not like the military would ever allow a public assumption to continue without clarifying, right?
I used to work for Penske Truck Leasing out in Reading PA (A GE Capital company) so I am probably more familiar with their policies than most.
PTL probably suffered more harm from the plodding management and tinkering GE did than anything else. GE's bottom line looked great usually as the aggregate of its business units. The units themselves were sucking hind tit in their respective markets, however. Welch was a genius perhaps for pulling profitability from a bunch of indifferently run and mediocre businesses.
RH hardly has the same luxury. Unfortunately RH has no core business to rely on at this point - they just killed it.
Watch - RH is setting themselves up to be another expensive Unix vendor and ultimately for irrelevance.
I wonder exactly why it takes the mainstream press so long to get its head out of its ass when there is a story of this magnitude. I understand there is a follower mentality in most of the press. I also understand that it takes some time to research a story. I don't understand why Diebold was able to get away with this for so long, though.
Then again I don't think much of the American press anyway. Too centrally controlled, 0wned by too few companies. It wouldn't surprise me if the reason this stayed under a rock for so long was a few strategically placed phone calls.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps Mr. Lay was chosen as a sacrificial goat by the elites? There was something like 6 trillion dollars that winked out of existence during the recent stock market crash. A small fraction of that was Enron equities. Where did that money go? Well, it never existed in the first place, people were just convinced that the value actually existed. Sounds a lot like Enron, doesn't it? It wasn't just them, though. The obvious cases of corporate malfeasance pale in comparison to the simple duplicity of those who foisted obviously stupid business ideas onto the market. Check out Fucked Company for a nice list of those.
Who convinced the American public? Well, perhaps the same elites who are protecting themselves from your wrath by offering Mr. Lay as the goat. They soaked the American public for about 5 years of those trillions of dollars. Nearly everyone who had no clue about the financial markets but thought they did, suffered.
Do you feel the need to slake your blood lust for vengeance on Mr. Lay? Well, you aren't alone. Some ACs in this thread alone are professing eagerness to do so. I find it mildly amusing how easily you and they are manipulated into blaming this man, when there are so many deserving candidates of that wrath. How about the government regulators whose job it was to assure this didn't happen? Auditors? Dot bomb CEOs? How about the stockbrokers? Politicians who were all too willing to let the bubble enlarge, but hide now from the results of their tacit endorsement of this giant bilk of the American public - where are they on the vengeance list?
No, the target is Ken Lay. Perhaps the true size of the crime or its complexity are too much for you. If so, I am saddened. I assume the people here are college educated or soon will be. At least in theory they should be near the top of the intelligence scale. One would assume they would be more difficult to manipulate than this. You will make very useful tools of the elites in the years to come.
This is fairly typical Slashdot. Someone just advocated killing a private citizen in the US without due process and it gets modded up to 5, Interesting.
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The artillery the US Army used in WWI was primarily of French manufacture, the 75mm gun being a very common one in US use. The issue was ammunition supply for actual US guns. Well, also that most US artillery sucked at the time.
Some data about one US Field Artillery regiment.
Any war gas used during WWI by Americans would have been supplied by Britain or France - US chemical weapon manufacturing capacity was near nil during the war. However, tests with war gases were conducted in the US during and after the war. Some gas-filled WW1 vintage shells were found at a former test firing range located in the Meadowlands, very near to Giants Stadium in NJ (and about 10 miles from NYC).
Can't find a web link - this happened in the early 90's. Fun stuff - the shells had phosgene, mustard and Lewisite, from what I understand. Mostly were still intact, even given the swampy environment.
Really.
They don't look like copies to me. Close relatives, yes. Accomplish the same task, yes. Comments identical? No. This is bogus bullshit.
Call out the lawyers!
I mean, who couldn't see this coming, after the issues this summer?
At least SCO had some verbatim (albeit legitimate) copying that they could show. This stuff isn't even exact, and in most cases it appears methods of operation have changed, variable names and defines have changed.
I call bullshit.
Dude, i'm with you on this one, but he was at least lipsyncing in the commercial I remember!
I know it was him too - the face was unmistakable.
I agree. If Microsoft cared, they'd write the Cobol .NET implementation themselves. I mean, it's not like Microsoft didn't have a Cobol compiler in the distant past.
I keep on having flashbacks of Ricardo Montablan (of 'Fantasy Island' fame, as well as his role as Khan in Star Trek) singing 'Volare' on a TV commercial in the mid-1970s for the Chrysler/Plymouth car of the same name.
It was a big honking V8 that they made in woody wagon versions as well. My idiot parents bought one. Yeesh.
Anyway, the benchmarks on this card suck ass. The card is dead last in most things, and when it isn't, it has quality issues. I am not seeing a first generation winner here. I hope they don't fold up after this iteration of their cards.
Do you think they could offer a version that returns to the book continuity, without the gratuitous appearance of Arwen in Rohan and the silly Aragorn dream sequence?
Or am I asking too much?
Some of the problems might have been that you had to run one of the mass market distros to even get the installer to run.
Obviously Gentoo was out - so I couldn't install it there.
Atop RH 8 it ran like a dog, slower than molasses. Turning off the antialiasing helped, but not that much. The Win32 version was much more responsive. It appeared like the environment was running in some kind of emulation layer.
It didn't use the GNU toolchain so porting the apps was nigh unto impossible.
It didn't seem like a winner, and I happen to like Delphi...
Interfacewise? What the hell do you need other than a username field and a password field?
Stability would be nice. The Win32 clients in particular were horrendous for a very long time. Who knows, they may be better now, as well as better than Groupwise was in 2000. I know of one Netware server anywhere within my vicinity, amongst hundreds of servers.
Novell sucks at client software, though. I mean, years and years ago the DOS drivers were pretty stable but those days are long gone.
The Netware clients on Windows have always sucked ass. Sure, Microsoft can bear some of the blame here for doing its best to screw up Novell's client over the years, but Novell hasn't exactly shone interfacewise.
Also, if you use Groupwise, the interface is kind of clunky, etc.
If this is intended to bring Linux to the desktop, maybe the wrong company bought them.
I disagree. I run into lots all the time - just average chicks who don't have much special about them.
The Army's significant web infrastructure runs on a completely different platform. I'm not going to say which one, except the boxes are purple. There are not _any_ Macintosh servers in any site that I am aware of. As I said, they exist in art departments, and not even in all of those. Some prefer win32.
You can believe a four year old news piece as you will. It's not like the military would ever allow a public assumption to continue without clarifying, right?
I question Netcraft's data in this case. You should too. That's all I can say.
This dumbass troll again - you used it three months ago and here it is again, seducing the unwary.
The US Army's only macintoshes, to my knowledge, are used by the art departments of various units.
If I suggested using a Macintosh web server, i'd be laughed out of the room and probably ultimately fired.
So much for the military using a Mac web server.
You need to stop smoking that stuff.
The dot com companies had no cash in hand. Most depended on advertising...or had no plan at all to earn profits.
.coms.
$60 a user would have fixed all the problems of most of the
...and thereby destroy the hobbyist users who were responsible for the RH inroads at firms.
I know all of our RH boxes are getting converted to Gentoo at earliest opportunity.
I used to work for Penske Truck Leasing out in Reading PA (A GE Capital company) so I am probably more familiar with their policies than most.
PTL probably suffered more harm from the plodding management and tinkering GE did than anything else. GE's bottom line looked great usually as the aggregate of its business units. The units themselves were sucking hind tit in their respective markets, however. Welch was a genius perhaps for pulling profitability from a bunch of indifferently run and mediocre businesses.
RH hardly has the same luxury. Unfortunately RH has no core business to rely on at this point - they just killed it.
Watch - RH is setting themselves up to be another expensive Unix vendor and ultimately for irrelevance.
If they were losing money on that business they were managing it very poorly.
$60 a year with no overhead beyond bandwidth. Think about it.
They are just upselling you - good in the short run, shitty in the long run because many people will never pay the money.
It's a foolish move and ultimately it will prove out so.
In short: they don't care about your money.
This is a foolish attitude for any business.
Someone should tell desperate, single women about this.
There might be an explosion as the matter of women and anti-matter of geeks annihilate each other. What a way to go out with a bang, though!
Besides, Linus could use some groupies. It'll make Gates jealous at the very least.
I wonder exactly why it takes the mainstream press so long to get its head out of its ass when there is a story of this magnitude. I understand there is a follower mentality in most of the press. I also understand that it takes some time to research a story. I don't understand why Diebold was able to get away with this for so long, though.
Then again I don't think much of the American press anyway. Too centrally controlled, 0wned by too few companies. It wouldn't surprise me if the reason this stayed under a rock for so long was a few strategically placed phone calls.
What about all the rest of the slimeballs?
Don't worry, they'll rape a few tens of millions more people, and get away with it that time too.
Glad your sense of justice is so finely tempered. We get the government we deserve.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps Mr. Lay was chosen as a sacrificial goat by the elites? There was something like 6 trillion dollars that winked out of existence during the recent stock market crash. A small fraction of that was Enron equities. Where did that money go? Well, it never existed in the first place, people were just convinced that the value actually existed. Sounds a lot like Enron, doesn't it? It wasn't just them, though. The obvious cases of corporate malfeasance pale in comparison to the simple duplicity of those who foisted obviously stupid business ideas onto the market. Check out Fucked Company for a nice list of those.
Who convinced the American public? Well, perhaps the same elites who are protecting themselves from your wrath by offering Mr. Lay as the goat. They soaked the American public for about 5 years of those trillions of dollars. Nearly everyone who had no clue about the financial markets but thought they did, suffered.
Do you feel the need to slake your blood lust for vengeance on Mr. Lay? Well, you aren't alone. Some ACs in this thread alone are professing eagerness to do so. I find it mildly amusing how easily you and they are manipulated into blaming this man, when there are so many deserving candidates of that wrath. How about the government regulators whose job it was to assure this didn't happen? Auditors? Dot bomb CEOs? How about the stockbrokers? Politicians who were all too willing to let the bubble enlarge, but hide now from the results of their tacit endorsement of this giant bilk of the American public - where are they on the vengeance list?
No, the target is Ken Lay. Perhaps the true size of the crime or its complexity are too much for you. If so, I am saddened. I assume the people here are college educated or soon will be. At least in theory they should be near the top of the intelligence scale. One would assume they would be more difficult to manipulate than this. You will make very useful tools of the elites in the years to come.
This is fairly typical Slashdot. Someone just advocated killing a private citizen in the US without due process and it gets modded up to 5, Interesting.
When they come to shoot you, remember this moment.