A huge proportion of the GNP of the Third Reich, especially in its last years, that went towards the development and production of "terror weapons", mainly guided missiles (the V1 and V2). The only military justification of this effort would be if the Nazis also had atomic bomb capability since one ton of payload wouldn't otherwise justify the cost of the missile. After the war, investigation of internal memos of the ministry of technology written in 1938, dismissed the possibility of commiting resouces into development of atomic weaponry as "Jewish Science". Thus the undoubtable engineering excellence of the Pienemunde group was (thankfully) rendered mostly harmless by the bigotry of their leaders.
Some ants definitely like electricity. I lived for a few years in an old house in Singapore where there were a number of wires about the place that we didn't know what they were connected to. I found that the ants tended to follow the cables that werelive - either AC, telephone or speaker cables.
I had a Laptop computer in that house and had to throw away one floppy drive and the CDROM when they got infested by ants (eggs and all).
There is plenty of trade in Pirate software, VCDs and, over the past 6 months DVDs made in Malaysia and sold in Johore Bharu - just over the causeway from Singapore at abut Rm8 (US$1.50) each. Most of these are for the local (ASEAN) market but I have seen plenty of examples of DVDs that are targeted at expatriates and business travellers.
As for police reinforcement - I've seen it for myself - In a shopping mall called Holiday Plaza where a lot of the pirate electronics is openly traded - all the stalls will close down for half a day every month or so. The police will perform a token raid, fine any traders that didn't pay the bribe beforehand and leave.
Business can then proceed. I suspect that the authorities are slightly more serious about staming down on the manufacture rather than the sale of contraband CDs but even so, a Royal Malaysian Navy patrol vessel raiding a token pirate ship will serve nothing more than government propaganda. One or two stories on the evening news. The Singaporeans will say they were Malaysian, the malaysians will say they were Indonesian and the Indonesians will say they were Chinese.
It's rather Ironic that the NYT article discussing the right to link in such a balanced and enlightened manner, itself contains no hyperlinks to any of the sites that it is discussing.
In fact, it would indicate the opposite - the fact that it happened in the past 100 years (and we're not sure about when it happened before that) suggests that the "once in a thousand years" might be a bit optimistic.
Likewise if you've tossed ten heads in a row the chance of the next being a head is more than 50% because the coin is probably loaded.
The ability to run applications on an Unix server from an NT desktop would be great for people like me who need to run Windows in order to be able to read MSWord enclosures in my email whilst also running graphical applications on the departmental numbercruncher. The third party tools to do this are expensive and flakey. Surely an X11 server is something that should be part of any default graphical OS ?
The quality of applications that come bundled with the various incarnations of MSWindows is noticeably poorer where these are apps intended to provide connectivity to other OSs <i>c.f.</i> MSTelnet, hyperterminal & command line ftp.
Isn't this omission of quality connectivity tools a blatant example of how Microsoft is using its monopoly on the desktop to mike life difficult for people who want to connect to a robust multi-user OS ?
The BBC tried this as an experiment a few years ago with a single experimental programme on Prime time television. One grand master (I've forgotten who) vs. everybody else. People phoned in their move after a chess "expert" discussed the best avaiable options. Every move the option with the most votes was used. The single grand master won hands down. It was embarrassing. There was obviously no coherent strategy just a lowest common denominator. A good example of why even a democracy needs an executive branch.
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A huge proportion of the GNP of the Third Reich, especially in its last years, that went towards the development and production of "terror weapons", mainly guided missiles (the V1 and V2).
The only military justification of this effort would be if the Nazis also had atomic bomb capability since one ton of payload wouldn't otherwise justify the cost of the missile.
After the war, investigation of internal memos of the ministry of technology written in 1938, dismissed the possibility of commiting resouces into development of atomic weaponry as "Jewish Science".
Thus the undoubtable engineering excellence of the Pienemunde group was (thankfully) rendered mostly harmless by the bigotry of their leaders.
Some ants definitely like electricity.
I lived for a few years in an old house in Singapore where there were a number of wires about the place that we didn't know what they were connected to. I found that the ants tended to follow the cables that werelive - either AC, telephone or speaker cables.
I had a Laptop computer in that house and had to throw away one floppy drive and the CDROM when they got infested by ants (eggs and all).
Just one of the facts of life in the tropics.
There is plenty of trade in Pirate software, VCDs and, over the past 6 months DVDs made in Malaysia and sold in Johore Bharu - just over the causeway from Singapore at abut Rm8 (US$1.50) each. Most of these are for the local (ASEAN) market but I have seen plenty of examples of DVDs that are targeted at expatriates and business travellers.
As for police reinforcement - I've seen it for myself - In a shopping mall called Holiday Plaza where a lot of the pirate electronics is openly traded - all the stalls will close down for half a day every month or so. The police will perform a token raid, fine any traders that didn't pay the bribe beforehand and leave.
Business can then proceed.
I suspect that the authorities are slightly more serious about staming down on the manufacture rather than the sale of contraband CDs but even so, a Royal Malaysian Navy patrol vessel raiding a token pirate ship will serve nothing more than government propaganda. One or two stories on the evening news.
The Singaporeans will say they were Malaysian, the malaysians will say they were Indonesian and the Indonesians will say they were Chinese.
"Anarchy" was Alan Cox's user name with SUCS when they started work on NET3.
A lot of people trust his source now.
It's rather Ironic that the NYT article discussing the right to link in such a balanced and enlightened manner, itself contains no hyperlinks to any of the sites that it is discussing.
In fact, it would indicate the opposite - the fact that it happened in the past 100 years (and we're not sure about when it happened before that) suggests that the "once in a thousand years" might be a bit optimistic.
Likewise if you've tossed ten heads in a row the chance of the next being a head is more than 50% because the coin is probably loaded.
The ability to run applications on an Unix server from an NT desktop would be great for people like me who need to run Windows in order to be able to read MSWord enclosures in my email whilst also running graphical applications on the departmental numbercruncher. The third party tools to do this are expensive and flakey. Surely an X11 server is something that should be part of any default graphical OS ?
The quality of applications that come bundled with the various incarnations of MSWindows is noticeably poorer where these are apps intended to provide connectivity to other OSs <i>c.f.</i> MSTelnet, hyperterminal & command line ftp.
Isn't this omission of quality connectivity tools a blatant example of how Microsoft is using its monopoly on the desktop to mike life difficult for people who want to connect to a robust multi-user OS ?
The BBC tried this as an experiment a few years ago with a single experimental programme on Prime time television. One grand master (I've forgotten who) vs. everybody else. People phoned in their move after a chess "expert" discussed the best avaiable options. Every move the option with the most votes was used.
The single grand master won hands down. It was embarrassing. There was obviously no coherent strategy just a lowest common denominator. A good example of why even a democracy needs an executive branch.