That helps clear up the mystery of why MSFT raised the price of RT for OEMs.
Win RT includes full versions of Word, Excel, Power Point and One Note. The same MS Office bundle that tops the bestseller lists in retail software sales for the OSX and Windows platforms.
Personally, I think a company that makes obscene boatloads of money is charging too much.
The company that is making "obscene" boatloads of money has a product people really want to buy --- and sells it at a price point they are more than willing to pay.
MS Office never exits the top ten bestseller lists in OSX and Windows software sales.
prior to Windows 7 their desktop operating systems were terrible
The MSDOS and Windows OS runs well on hardware that is midline at the time of release and entry level a year or so later.
The Ford Model T wasn't the most technologically sophisticated car on the road. But its design and engineering made perfect sense given the existing infrastructure ---- or lack of it --- and the potential for mass market sales.
It's not cut & paste, it's a character map difference. Those A(TM)'s are almost certainly smart quotes.
Of course they are.
But you'll see the same problem whenever you try to post a quote to Slashdot that uses an em dash or almost any other special character or symbol in common use.
"It isnÃ(TM)t that Chrome doesnÃ(TM)t support touch, but itÃ(TM)s slower to respond and not everything seems to work Ã" with IE9, it just does." IÃ(TM)m constantly exploring what applications and hardware can do to make my life easier. And IÃ(TM)m far from alone in having a touch of the Mr Magoo about me, so maybe itÃ(TM)s about time that developers started taking the problem a little more seriously?"
The term "Microsoft tax" refers to the practice of every PC maker other than Apple to force customers to buy a copy of Windows with every name-brand PC.
The OEM system install has been the gold standard in the consumer market for thirty years:
a balanced and tested configuration of hardware and software --- office workhorse or home appliance --- that meets a particular need and price point and is sold under warranty.
Bare Bones doesn't sell worth spit.
Walmart --- with its enormous purchasing power and presence in big box retail --- spent the better part of a decade trying to sell an OEM Linux PC to the middle class shopper.
It never found a winning formula, and, like so many others, Walmart discovered that maintaining a dual inventory and support structure for the newcomer to Linux sucked rocks ---
and that after-market sales in the Linux market sucked rocks.
Which is why in 2012 Walmart.com thousands of items branded for use with a Windows PC ---but only fifty or so for the Android tablet.
The same type of arguments circulated before WWI. Surely, in a modern, globalized world where German and English bankers could both own shares in Argentinian railroads, and where British citizens bought German paints and medicines, and Germans bought licences for British patented manufacturing, war could never break out.
That's right. The CHOSE to buy windows, rather than pay for alternatives whose costs and inconvenience were artificially inflated by Microsoft's abuse of its monopoly powers.
What alternatives?
The first and arguably the only successful mass market *NIX desktop client OS is OSX 10, released in 2001, and available only for the Macintosh.
In 2012 a default install of the Chromium browser through the Ubuntu Store does not include support for audio and video playback. That was a "WTF?" moment for me like no other.
Retail list for MSDOS in 1982 was $50. $130, adjusted for inflation.
1/5 the price of CP/M 86.
That made the MSDOS PC a viable product before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS. In software, most market niches were being filled by brand name commercial-grade software within a year or two.
Windows 95 entered the market with support for a deep --- and rock-solid --- backlist of MSDOS and Win 3 titles.
The eight-bit era is defined by the custom hardware built into the C-64, Atari, Apple II, etc..
The launch of the IBM PC and PC clones ignited an explosion of affordable and easy to install third-party hardware add-ons and replacements.
Hardware. Software. Services.
Anyone could build product for the Windows market. It was the Gold Rush, the Wild, Wild West.
When you build for a market that grows to 10x the size of the C-64 --- 100x the size of the C-64 --- things begin to happen very quickly.
The MSDOS PC is an office workhorse in 1980. In 1990 it is a gaming platform. In 1995 the masses are taking Windows online with AOL and Win 95 is beginning to challenge the Mac in media play and creation...
In 2000 Edmund Scientific was purchased by Science Kit and Boreal Laboratories, a western New York based science supply company. Science Kit and Boreal Laboratories is part of a group of companies that provide science supplies to elementary, middle, and high schools as well as colleges and universities.
Edmund Scientific sells high quality beginner and student microscopes in all price ranges.
Edmund's prepared slide sets have been in their catalogs for decades. You really can't go wrong here.
My brother is extremely dyslexic. Has problems writing his own name.
If the student has an impairment, then the teacher/mentor needs to help that student a little more. That's all it means. It was my understanding from the submitter that the child is not mentally handicapped, merely behind the curve.
The submitter said nothing about his grandson being dyslexic. He said that this ten year old homeschooled boy was not reading at his age level and had been taught almost nothing about science ---
while you propose to bring him up to speed in organic and inorganic chemistry in a bare four weeks.
After week 4, the kid will either have lost interest, or will be sufficently hooked to ingest chemistry directly from the internet, with some mentoring and tutoring.
In this case, the submitter want to know if there is a way to teach chemistry without putting the kid into an environment that they found to be an epic waste of time.
This ten year old boy cannot read or write at the same level as public schooled children his age. He has almost no foundation in the sciences or mathematics on which you can build.
Since when did PC become synonymous with "Microsoft Windows"?
No later than 1995.
But Apple's "1984" commercial introducing the Mac cast a very long shadow.
"1984" became a signature representation of Apple computers. It was scripted as a thematic element in the 1999 docudrama, Pirates of Silicon Valley, which explores the rise of Apple and Microsoft (the film opens and closes with references to the commercial including a re-enactment of the heroine running towards the screen of Big Brother and clips of the original commercial) The "1984" ad was also prominent in the 20th anniversary celebration of the Macintosh in 2004, as Apple reposted a new version of the ad on its website. In this updated version, an iPod, complete with signature white earbuds, was digitally added to the heroine.
The OSX and Linux desktop in 2012 runs on a subset of the hardware designed for the Windows platform.
Apple cultivates sales through trendy upscale botiques. OEM Linux tends to conjure up images of an overstock sale at Wal-Mart. Microsoft remains distinctly and profitably focused on a global middle-class.
There are only a bare handful of easily recognizable client applications for OSX and Linux that haven't been ported to Windows or began as a native Windows app.
That has never been true the other way around.
OSX needed Boot Camp for the same reason Linux needed Wine. The generic PC runs Windows.
Thanks to efforts like the Humble Indie Bundle, there are already a bunch of games on Steam that have Linux ports.
The Humble Bundle is a reality check:
The average Windows user is paying $7.26 for games which have been widely sold and frequently discounted for Windows sales elsewhere,
The average Linux user paying $12.24 "for the ports."
But in total payments by platform Linux delivers a bare 1/8 of the total. The Humble Bundle V
The Humble Bundle works very well both as a charitable promotion and a sampling of Indie gaming. But it sends a mixed message about Linux as a platform for commercial development and retail sales.
That's how we got self-opening doors. When TOS came out and Disney was planning EPCOT, they saw Star Trek and their "imagineers" went to Paramount to find out how they accomplished it.
In "When The Sleeper Wakes" (1889) H. G. Wells describes an automatic upward sliding door. I would be amazed if there weren't working industrial examples even then.
The first automatic sliding doors for use by people were invented in 1954 by Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton; the first one was installed in 1960. It made use of a mat actuator. The idea came to them in the mid-1950's, when they saw that existing swing doors had difficulty operating in the high winds of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Upward sliding garage doors date from the 1920's; the first electric door openers (not automatic) were sold in 1926. The rolltop desk, which has a similar form, was around in the mid-eighteenth century.
Microsoft encourages the idea that the Start screen is the Windows 8 "home page." From there, a few mouse gestures or a keyboard shortcut will take you almost anywhere you want to go. If you need access to common functions previously available on the old Start menu, you can right-click on the lower left to bring up the Power User list. You can even modify this list, though Microsoft won't officially support or document the method for doing so.
They are going out of their way so you can run Fedora on the new hardware. And you want to ditch them because of it? Remind me never to buy you a beer.
They went out of their way to avoid exploiting Red Hat's privileged position with OEMS to gain an advantage over other Linux distros:
We explored the possibility of producing a Fedora key and encouraging hardware vendors to incorporate it, but turned it down for a couple of reasons. First, while we had a surprisingly positive response from the vendors, there was no realistic chance that we could get all of them to carry it. That would mean going back to the bad old days of scouring compatibility lists before buying hardware, and that's fundamentally user-hostile. Secondly, it would put Fedora in a privileged position. As one of the larger distributions, we have more opportunity to talk to hardware manufacturers than most distributions do. Systems with a Fedora key would boot Fedora fine, but would they boot Mandriva? Arch? Mint? Mepis? Adopting a distribution-specific key and encouraging hardware companies to adopt it would have been hostile to other distributions. We want to compete on merit, not because we have better links to OEMs.
That seems like less harm then depriving the rightful owners of the code access, the american taxpayer.
Simply out of curiosity:
of what possible use is internal accounting software designed for enterprises on the scale of the US government to the average American taxpayer?
The software in question keeps track of money exchanged between US government agencies and, according to the authorities, its development cost nearly $10 millions.
He said to the FBI that he did so that the code would be available to him in the event of losing his job, and to use it for his private business, which is teaching computer programming.
Mozart wrote his operas, Shakespeare wrote his plays, Nobunaga conquered Japan, Genghis Kahn ruled an empire, Rome took Europe, the Mings handled China, and Ogg invented fire all without a single patent or copyright protection to their name.
When Elizabeth or James is your patron --- and maybe a silent partner in what is for all practical purposes a national theater ---- you do not need to go to law to protect your interests.
What you cannot do without risking the headman's axe is to publish or stage any work that threatens their regime.
We fixed a Depression, killed Adolf Hitler, held Stalin in check, invented the atom bomb, rebuilt Europe and Japan, built a national infrastructure of highways and electricity, got Jim Crow off the books at least, added a Moon rock to our mood ring collection and then watched Al Gore invent the internet -- all without a single corporation as the driving force.
What Yamamoto feared most was the industrial capacity of the United States.
Eighteen American shipyards built 2,751 Libertys between 1941 and 1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design. More than 2,400 of these ships survived the war.
Range 20,000 nm. Speed 11 knots. Capacity 10,856 t.
Willys-Overland and Ford, under the direction of Charles E. Sorensen (Vice-President of Ford during World War II), produced about 640,000 Jeeps between them, which was about 18% of all the wheeled military vehicles built in the U.S. during the war.
Jeeps were used by every service of the U.S. military. An average of 145 were supplied to every Army infantry regiment. Jeeps were used for many other purposes including cable laying, saw milling, as firefighting pumpers, field ambulances, tractors and, with suitable wheels, would even run on railway tracks.
The Elco company may have had an advantage owing to their experience in small-boat building, having built 550 80 ft (24 m) sub chasers for the Royal Navy during World War I. Additionally, in 1921, they introduced the famous 26 ft (7.9 m) "Cruisette", (a gasoline cabin cruiser). This success in small-boat building was followed in the 1930s with 30-ft to 57-ft "Veedettes" and "Flattops", which were gasoline-powered boats that set the highest standard in a golden era of boating.
The Elco Naval Division boats were the largest in size of the three types of PT boats built for the Navy used during World War II. By war's end, more of the Elco 80 ft (24 m) boats were built than any other type of motor torpedo boat (326 of their 80 ft (24 m) boats were built). The 80 ft (24 m) wooden-hulled craft were classified as boats in comparison with much larger steel-hulled destroyers, but were comparable in size to many wooden sailing ships in history. They had a 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) beam. Though often said to be made of plywood, they were actually made of two diagonal layered 1 in (25 mm) thick mahogany planks, with a glue-impregnated layer of canvas in between. Holding all this together were thousands of bronze screws and copper rivets. This type of construction made it possible for damage to the wooden hulls of these boats to be easily repaired at the front lines by base force personnel.
In opinion polling how you build your statistical universe and ask your questionasshapes the answers you will get ---
which will most likely be the answers you wanted to hear all along.
This system blatantly discriminates against those with limited access to computers and the Internet: the poor, elderly, ill. disabled and so on. It's only coincidence that they are the ones most in need of social services, of course.
Oh wait, he was one of the (ahem, so called) justices that ruled that corporations are people
Corporate Personhold is at least two hundred years old in American law.
Since at least Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts.
In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394 (1886), the Supreme Court noted in dicta in a headnote that corporations as persons for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. In a headnote --- not part of the opinion --- the reporter noted that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does."
The basis for allowing corporations to assert protection under the U.S. Constitution is that they are organizations of people, and that people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively. In this view, treating corporations as "persons" is a convenient legal fiction that allows corporations to sue and to be sued, provides a single entity for easier taxation and regulation, simplifies complex transactions that would otherwise involve, in the case of large corporations, thousands of people, and that protects the individual rights of the shareholders as well as the right of association.
Unfortunately a lot of linux distro coders don't seem to know where the dividing line between wryly amusing and lame is when it comes to naming releases.
The same can be said for FOSS developers generally.
The problem only gets worse when they port their apps to other operating systems and markets.
I find it odd that, with his background is video games, the mac is not a more successful gaming platform.
The Mac entered the market in 1984 with a nine inch 512x342 black and white screen, 128 KB RAM and a $5200 price tag, adjusted for inflation. It would be three years before the Mac supported color with the introduction of the Mac II. MacIntosh
Slashdot Mirror
That helps clear up the mystery of why MSFT raised the price of RT for OEMs.
Win RT includes full versions of Word, Excel, Power Point and One Note. The same MS Office bundle that tops the bestseller lists in retail software sales for the OSX and Windows platforms.
Personally, I think a company that makes obscene boatloads of money is charging too much.
The company that is making "obscene" boatloads of money has a product people really want to buy --- and sells it at a price point they are more than willing to pay.
Looks like knee-jerk anti-Microsoftism to me.
No kidding.
Office 2013 RT includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, and will ship as an integral part of Windows RT. ARM-powered Windows RT to run "Office 2013 RT"
MS Office never exits the top ten bestseller lists in OSX and Windows software sales.
prior to Windows 7 their desktop operating systems were terrible
The MSDOS and Windows OS runs well on hardware that is midline at the time of release and entry level a year or so later.
The Ford Model T wasn't the most technologically sophisticated car on the road. But its design and engineering made perfect sense given the existing infrastructure ---- or lack of it --- and the potential for mass market sales.
It's not cut & paste, it's a character map difference. Those A(TM)'s are almost certainly smart quotes.
Of course they are.
But you'll see the same problem whenever you try to post a quote to Slashdot that uses an em dash or almost any other special character or symbol in common use.
"It isnÃ(TM)t that Chrome doesnÃ(TM)t support touch, but itÃ(TM)s slower to respond and not everything seems to work Ã" with IE9, it just does."
IÃ(TM)m constantly exploring what applications and hardware can do to make my life easier. And IÃ(TM)m far from alone in having a touch of the Mr Magoo about me, so maybe itÃ(TM)s about time that developers started taking the problem a little more seriously?"
When will Slashdot support cut & paste?
The term "Microsoft tax" refers to the practice of every PC maker other than Apple to force customers to buy a copy of Windows with every name-brand PC.
The OEM system install has been the gold standard in the consumer market for thirty years:
a balanced and tested configuration of hardware and software --- office workhorse or home appliance --- that meets a particular need and price point and is sold under warranty.
Bare Bones doesn't sell worth spit.
Walmart --- with its enormous purchasing power and presence in big box retail --- spent the better part of a decade trying to sell an OEM Linux PC to the middle class shopper.
It never found a winning formula, and, like so many others, Walmart discovered that maintaining a dual inventory and support structure for the newcomer to Linux sucked rocks ---
and that after-market sales in the Linux market sucked rocks.
Which is why in 2012 Walmart.com thousands of items branded for use with a Windows PC ---but only fifty or so for the Android tablet.
The same type of arguments circulated before WWI. Surely, in a modern, globalized world where German and English bankers could both own shares in Argentinian railroads, and where British citizens bought German paints and medicines, and Germans bought licences for British patented manufacturing, war could never break out.
Comments, A_Lee
You are wrong. The desktop is not an OS feature, it is a program run and selected by the user. And customized by the user to his/her needs.
This doesn't work in an office environment where twenty percent or more of your clerical staff are temps or part time volunteers.
That's right. The CHOSE to buy windows, rather than pay for alternatives whose costs and inconvenience were artificially inflated by Microsoft's abuse of its monopoly powers.
What alternatives?
The first and arguably the only successful mass market *NIX desktop client OS is OSX 10, released in 2001, and available only for the Macintosh.
In 2012 a default install of the Chromium browser through the Ubuntu Store does not include support for audio and video playback. That was a "WTF?" moment for me like no other.
Retail list for MSDOS in 1982 was $50. $130, adjusted for inflation.
1/5 the price of CP/M 86.
That made the MSDOS PC a viable product before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS. In software, most market niches were being filled by brand name commercial-grade software within a year or two.
Windows 95 entered the market with support for a deep --- and rock-solid --- backlist of MSDOS and Win 3 titles.
The eight-bit era is defined by the custom hardware built into the C-64, Atari, Apple II, etc..
The launch of the IBM PC and PC clones ignited an explosion of affordable and easy to install third-party hardware add-ons and replacements.
Hardware. Software. Services.
Anyone could build product for the Windows market. It was the Gold Rush, the Wild, Wild West.
When you build for a market that grows to 10x the size of the C-64 --- 100x the size of the C-64 --- things begin to happen very quickly.
The MSDOS PC is an office workhorse in 1980. In 1990 it is a gaming platform. In 1995 the masses are taking Windows online with AOL and Win 95 is beginning to challenge the Mac in media play and creation...
In 2000 Edmund Scientific was purchased by Science Kit and Boreal Laboratories, a western New York based science supply company. Science Kit and Boreal Laboratories is part of a group of companies that provide science supplies to elementary, middle, and high schools as well as colleges and universities.
Edmund Scientific sells high quality beginner and student microscopes in all price ranges.
Edmund's prepared slide sets have been in their catalogs for decades. You really can't go wrong here.
My brother is extremely dyslexic. Has problems writing his own name.
If the student has an impairment, then the teacher/mentor needs to help that student a little more. That's all it means. It was my understanding from the submitter that the child is not mentally handicapped, merely behind the curve.
The submitter said nothing about his grandson being dyslexic. He said that this ten year old homeschooled boy was not reading at his age level and had been taught almost nothing about science ---
while you propose to bring him up to speed in organic and inorganic chemistry in a bare four weeks.
After week 4, the kid will either have lost interest, or will be sufficently hooked to ingest chemistry directly from the internet, with some mentoring and tutoring.
In this case, the submitter want to know if there is a way to teach chemistry without putting the kid into an environment that they found to be an epic waste of time.
This ten year old boy cannot read or write at the same level as public schooled children his age. He has almost no foundation in the sciences or mathematics on which you can build.
Since when did PC become synonymous with "Microsoft Windows"?
No later than 1995.
But Apple's "1984" commercial introducing the Mac cast a very long shadow.
"1984" became a signature representation of Apple computers. It was scripted as a thematic element in the 1999 docudrama, Pirates of Silicon Valley, which explores the rise of Apple and Microsoft (the film opens and closes with references to the commercial including a re-enactment of the heroine running towards the screen of Big Brother and clips of the original commercial) The "1984" ad was also prominent in the 20th anniversary celebration of the Macintosh in 2004, as Apple reposted a new version of the ad on its website. In this updated version, an iPod, complete with signature white earbuds, was digitally added to the heroine.
1984 (advertisement)
The OSX and Linux desktop in 2012 runs on a subset of the hardware designed for the Windows platform.
Apple cultivates sales through trendy upscale botiques. OEM Linux tends to conjure up images of an overstock sale at Wal-Mart. Microsoft remains distinctly and profitably focused on a global middle-class.
There are only a bare handful of easily recognizable client applications for OSX and Linux that haven't been ported to Windows or began as a native Windows app.
That has never been true the other way around.
OSX needed Boot Camp for the same reason Linux needed Wine. The generic PC runs Windows.
Thanks to efforts like the Humble Indie Bundle, there are already a bunch of games on Steam that have Linux ports.
The Humble Bundle is a reality check:
The average Windows user is paying $7.26 for games which have been widely sold and frequently discounted for Windows sales elsewhere,
The average Linux user paying $12.24 "for the ports."
But in total payments by platform Linux delivers a bare 1/8 of the total. The Humble Bundle V
The Humble Bundle works very well both as a charitable promotion and a sampling of Indie gaming. But it sends a mixed message about Linux as a platform for commercial development and retail sales.
That's how we got self-opening doors. When TOS came out and Disney was planning EPCOT, they saw Star Trek and their "imagineers" went to Paramount to find out how they accomplished it.
In "When The Sleeper Wakes" (1889) H. G. Wells describes an automatic upward sliding door. I would be amazed if there weren't working industrial examples even then.
The first automatic sliding doors for use by people were invented in 1954 by Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton; the first one was installed in 1960. It made use of a mat actuator. The idea came to them in the mid-1950's, when they saw that existing swing doors had difficulty operating in the high winds of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Upward sliding garage doors date from the 1920's; the first electric door openers (not automatic) were sold in 1926. The rolltop desk, which has a similar form, was around in the mid-eighteenth century.
Automatic Door
What Disney admired was the speed and mechanical simplicity of the Star Trek prop.
I mean, seriously? Starting stuff from the stupid Start screen? Cripple the regular version of Visual Studio to only write apps for this screen?
Visual Studio Express 12 is limited to Metro apps.
Not VS 2012 Pro and higher.Compare Visual Studio 2012 editions
Microsoft encourages the idea that the Start screen is the Windows 8 "home page." From there, a few mouse gestures or a keyboard shortcut will take you almost anywhere you want to go. If you need access to common functions previously available on the old Start menu, you can right-click on the lower left to bring up the Power User list. You can even modify this list, though Microsoft won't officially support or document the method for doing so.
Windows 8 Release Preview Impressions, Windows 8 Tip: Edit the Power User Tasks Menu
They are going out of their way so you can run Fedora on the new hardware. And you want to ditch them because of it? Remind me never to buy you a beer.
They went out of their way to avoid exploiting Red Hat's privileged position with OEMS to gain an advantage over other Linux distros:
We explored the possibility of producing a Fedora key and encouraging hardware vendors to incorporate it, but turned it down for a couple of reasons. First, while we had a surprisingly positive response from the vendors, there was no realistic chance that we could get all of them to carry it. That would mean going back to the bad old days of scouring compatibility lists before buying hardware, and that's fundamentally user-hostile. Secondly, it would put Fedora in a privileged position. As one of the larger distributions, we have more opportunity to talk to hardware manufacturers than most distributions do. Systems with a Fedora key would boot Fedora fine, but would they boot Mandriva? Arch? Mint? Mepis? Adopting a distribution-specific key and encouraging hardware companies to adopt it would have been hostile to other distributions. We want to compete on merit, not because we have better links to OEMs.
Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora
That seems like less harm then depriving the rightful owners of the code access, the american taxpayer.
Simply out of curiosity:
of what possible use is internal accounting software designed for enterprises on the scale of the US government to the average American taxpayer?
The software in question keeps track of money exchanged between US government agencies and, according to the authorities, its development cost nearly $10 millions.
Programmer pleads guilty to US govt software source code theft
He said to the FBI that he did so that the code would be available to him in the event of losing his job, and to use it for his private business, which is teaching computer programming.
Mozart wrote his operas, Shakespeare wrote his plays, Nobunaga conquered Japan, Genghis Kahn ruled an empire, Rome took Europe, the Mings handled China, and Ogg invented fire all without a single patent or copyright protection to their name.
When Elizabeth or James is your patron --- and maybe a silent partner in what is for all practical purposes a national theater ---- you do not need to go to law to protect your interests.
What you cannot do without risking the headman's axe is to publish or stage any work that threatens their regime.
We fixed a Depression, killed Adolf Hitler, held Stalin in check, invented the atom bomb, rebuilt Europe and Japan, built a national infrastructure of highways and electricity, got Jim Crow off the books at least, added a Moon rock to our mood ring collection and then watched Al Gore invent the internet -- all without a single corporation as the driving force.
What Yamamoto feared most was the industrial capacity of the United States.
Eighteen American shipyards built 2,751 Libertys between 1941 and 1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design. More than 2,400 of these ships survived the war.
Range 20,000 nm. Speed 11 knots. Capacity 10,856 t.
Liberty Ship
Willys-Overland and Ford, under the direction of Charles E. Sorensen (Vice-President of Ford during World War II), produced about 640,000 Jeeps between them, which was about 18% of all the wheeled military vehicles built in the U.S. during the war.
Jeeps were used by every service of the U.S. military. An average of 145 were supplied to every Army infantry regiment. Jeeps were used for many other purposes including cable laying, saw milling, as firefighting pumpers, field ambulances, tractors and, with suitable wheels, would even run on railway tracks.
Jeep
The Elco company may have had an advantage owing to their experience in small-boat building, having built 550 80 ft (24 m) sub chasers for the Royal Navy during World War I. Additionally, in 1921, they introduced the famous 26 ft (7.9 m) "Cruisette", (a gasoline cabin cruiser). This success in small-boat building was followed in the 1930s with 30-ft to 57-ft "Veedettes" and "Flattops", which were gasoline-powered boats that set the highest standard in a golden era of boating.
The Elco Naval Division boats were the largest in size of the three types of PT boats built for the Navy used during World War II. By war's end, more of the Elco 80 ft (24 m) boats were built than any other type of motor torpedo boat (326 of their 80 ft (24 m) boats were built). The 80 ft (24 m) wooden-hulled craft were classified as boats in comparison with much larger steel-hulled destroyers, but were comparable in size to many wooden sailing ships in history. They had a 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) beam. Though often said to be made of plywood, they were actually made of two diagonal layered 1 in (25 mm) thick mahogany planks, with a glue-impregnated layer of canvas in between. Holding all this together were thousands of bronze screws and copper rivets. This type of construction made it possible for damage to the wooden hulls of these boats to be easily repaired at the front lines by base force personnel.
PT Boat
In opinion polling how you build your statistical universe and ask your questionasshapes the answers you will get ---
which will most likely be the answers you wanted to hear all along.
This system blatantly discriminates against those with limited access to computers and the Internet: the poor, elderly, ill. disabled and so on. It's only coincidence that they are the ones most in need of social services, of course.
Oh wait, he was one of the (ahem, so called) justices that ruled that corporations are people
Corporate Personhold is at least two hundred years old in American law.
Since at least Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts.
In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394 (1886), the Supreme Court noted in dicta in a headnote that corporations as persons for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. In a headnote --- not part of the opinion --- the reporter noted that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does."
The basis for allowing corporations to assert protection under the U.S. Constitution is that they are organizations of people, and that people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively. In this view, treating corporations as "persons" is a convenient legal fiction that allows corporations to sue and to be sued, provides a single entity for easier taxation and regulation, simplifies complex transactions that would otherwise involve, in the case of large corporations, thousands of people, and that protects the individual rights of the shareholders as well as the right of association.
Corporations as persons
Unfortunately a lot of linux distro coders don't seem to know where the dividing line between wryly amusing and lame is when it comes to naming releases.
The same can be said for FOSS developers generally.
The problem only gets worse when they port their apps to other operating systems and markets.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
I find it odd that, with his background is video games, the mac is not a more successful gaming platform.
The Mac entered the market in 1984 with a nine inch 512x342 black and white screen, 128 KB RAM and a $5200 price tag, adjusted for inflation. It would be three years before the Mac supported color with the introduction of the Mac II. MacIntosh
I gave up on the holidays calendar years ago due to an overabundance of errors -- primarily inclusions of US holidays in the Canada calendar.
Iti s a good bet that a Canadian will live within commuting distance of the American border or will have business and personal contacts in the states.