Actually, the total killed in the camps was closer to 11 million, six million of whom were Jews. The remainder were Gypsies, gays, the disabled, dissidents, communists, and generally anyone else who came to the attention of the SS.
I took a data comms class serveral years ago taught by a woman from Sprint. She said that during the Loma Prieta earthquake in California in 1989, the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (a Department of Energy Lab working on modeling nuclear reactions) was able to move a petabyte of data to their hotsite in Florida in 30 seconds.
That was 10 years ago. She said that she had no idea how they did it and that it was orders of magnitude faster than the aggregate bandwidth of the Sprint data network at the time.
This may be an urban legend; after all she did not say how she got this information, but today that factoid is probably the only thing I remember from the class!
I set up a lab once naming all the machines after characters in the Iliad. The Aecheans were on one side of the room and the Trojans on the other. The printer was named Diomedes of the Great War Cry.
Today I work on a WAN that goes all over the world. Our servers in each office are named after famous streets or landmarks in their city. It works pretty well. If you have a prompt for champs-elysees or eiffel , you should know what city you are working in.
I don't think we need to worry about a population explosion of cloned mammoths bringing on ecological disaster. Remember, these are *clones*, and as such will have the same configuration of X and Y chromosomes as the original organism.
So, if the one the one they dug up is male, all clones will be male. If it was female, all of the clones will be female. The only way we could get a population explosion would be if we cloned thousands of mammoths. Since the process is difficult and expensive, I don't think that is very likely.
It will be very interesting to see if a cloned mammoth would be able to interbreed with a modern elephant. Some of these hybrids (like mules) are sterile, but some others are fertile. That's the only way I could imagine herds of mammoths taking over the planet.
I'm pretty bummed that episodes 7 - 9 are not going to be made. I can understand that they are a tremendous effort for Lucas and that he might not want to spand the rest of his life doing Star Wars.
It's just that episode 3 is going to be really depressing. Amidala gets killed, Luke and Leia are taken from their parents, and Anakin goes over to the dark side while Sidious/Palpatine takes control of the galaxy. I'm already imagining myself saying "I waited 30 years for THIS!"
Imagine the kids and young geeks in training coming up now. This is going to be an incredibly bad way for our mythological saga to end.
Of course, I always wondered what Lucas was going to *DO* for three more movies after the Empire was defeated...
Unfortunately the article was vague and did not mention any of the nonprofits by name. If they did, you could check with the IRS to find out their tax status since this is a matter of public record.
Note that in the US there are several types of nonprofits. The ones that I am most familiar with are 501(c)(3) tax-exempt or charitable nonprofits. The groups mentioned in the article may be incorporated under a different standard and could have different regulations apply to them.
There is anothe, even worse, flaw in what MS has done. Nonprofits are forbidden from accepting any "quid pro quo" donations. That is, a nonprofit risks losing its nonprofit status if it accepts a donation with the understanding that it will perform a specific service for the donor. So if these nonprofits were supported by MS donations, it is doubly bad for them to be coerced into illegal political lobbying.
Again, I can't say it loud enough, IANAL. Any GJ++++(-$) types out there with more info, please speak up!
Microsoft may have done a lot more damage than they thought with this latest snafu.
IANAL, but I spent many years working with nonprofit organizations. Tax exempt nonprofits (501 c3 corporations under US law) are prohibited from political lobbying. By following Microsoft's prodding on this, there is an excellent chance that these nonprofits have just given up their tax exempt status.
Probably not what they had in mind, but an excellent come-uppance for those who mindlessly follow the Evil Empire.
Mac OS X Server includes Samba as part of the package. It is installed by default, as are NFS and AppleShare file services. I ran OS X Server on my powerbook for close to six months and gave it a fairly thorough testing. I was impressed by some features and depressed by others. My biggest criticism of OS X Server is that it *STILL* uses a windowing system derived from the NeXT window manager and not X. The NeXT window manager was a great ide, and it is still a solid technology, but no one else supports it. Porting X based apps will be much more difficult than porting between other unixen. This will mean that Apple will remain in the marginalized software position they are in now. By the way, I am now running LinuxPPC on my PowerBook, and I haven't booted into Mac OS in weeks. I have to give credit to the LinuxPPC people, USB works great in their distro. I will probably be installing it on my iMac at home this weekend.
Among Romans, Janus was best known as the god of the portal. Statues of Janus were often erected over doorways with one face looking out and the other looking into the house.
It isn't really fair to consider him one of the lesser gods. More like one of the more personal gods. Roman worship at home was more directed to the hearth gods, the animistic spirits called the Numines, and guys like Janus. The household gods.
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I'm glad you think that most /. readers are normal.
Frankly, I don't care what the coder looks like, I care what the *code* looks like.
Actually, the total killed in the camps was closer to 11 million, six million of whom were Jews. The remainder were Gypsies, gays, the disabled, dissidents, communists, and generally anyone else who came to the attention of the SS.
I took a data comms class serveral years ago taught by a woman from Sprint. She said that during the Loma Prieta earthquake in California in 1989, the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (a Department of Energy Lab working on modeling nuclear reactions) was able to move a petabyte of data to their hotsite in Florida in 30 seconds.
That was 10 years ago. She said that she had no idea how they did it and that it was orders of magnitude faster than the aggregate bandwidth of the Sprint data network at the time.
This may be an urban legend; after all she did not say how she got this information, but today that factoid is probably the only thing I remember from the class!
>"Apple is dead."
>"The world market for computers is 5"
>"DAT will replace tapes and CDs"
I'm with you on the last three, but come on....
Tron rules!
The last movie I rented was Battlestar Galactica, and no, I'm not kidding.
I can see the patent application now:
A computer program for greeting the planet in a variety of machine readable formats.
What does it cost to file a patent application? This would almost be worth it to see just how rediculous the process has become.
I set up a lab once naming all the machines after characters in the Iliad. The Aecheans were on one side of the room and the Trojans on the other. The printer was named Diomedes of the Great War Cry.
Today I work on a WAN that goes all over the world. Our servers in each office are named after famous streets or landmarks in their city. It works pretty well. If you have a prompt for champs-elysees or eiffel , you should know what city you are working in.
I don't think we need to worry about a population explosion of cloned mammoths bringing on ecological disaster. Remember, these are *clones*, and as such will have the same configuration of X and Y chromosomes as the original organism.
So, if the one the one they dug up is male, all clones will be male. If it was female, all of the clones will be female. The only way we could get a population explosion would be if we cloned thousands of mammoths. Since the process is difficult and expensive, I don't think that is very likely.
It will be very interesting to see if a cloned mammoth would be able to interbreed with a modern elephant. Some of these hybrids (like mules) are sterile, but some others are fertile. That's the only way I could imagine herds of mammoths taking over the planet.
I'm pretty bummed that episodes 7 - 9 are not going to be made. I can understand that they are a tremendous effort for Lucas and that he might not want to spand the rest of his life doing Star Wars.
It's just that episode 3 is going to be really depressing. Amidala gets killed, Luke and Leia are taken from their parents, and Anakin goes over to the dark side while Sidious/Palpatine takes control of the galaxy. I'm already imagining myself saying "I waited 30 years for THIS!"
Imagine the kids and young geeks in training coming up now. This is going to be an incredibly bad way for our mythological saga to end.
Of course, I always wondered what Lucas was going to *DO* for three more movies after the Empire was defeated...
Unfortunately the article was vague and did not mention any of the nonprofits by name. If they did, you could check with the IRS to find out their tax status since this is a matter of public record.
Note that in the US there are several types of nonprofits. The ones that I am most familiar with are 501(c)(3) tax-exempt or charitable nonprofits. The groups mentioned in the article may be incorporated under a different standard and could have different regulations apply to them.
There is anothe, even worse, flaw in what MS has done. Nonprofits are forbidden from accepting any "quid pro quo" donations. That is, a nonprofit risks losing its nonprofit status if it accepts a donation with the understanding that it will perform a specific service for the donor. So if these nonprofits were supported by MS donations, it is doubly bad for them to be coerced into illegal political lobbying.
Again, I can't say it loud enough, IANAL. Any GJ++++(-$) types out there with more info, please speak up!
Microsoft may have done a lot more damage than they thought with this latest snafu.
IANAL, but I spent many years working with nonprofit organizations. Tax exempt nonprofits (501 c3 corporations under US law) are prohibited from political lobbying. By following Microsoft's prodding on this, there is an excellent chance that these nonprofits have just given up their tax exempt status.
Probably not what they had in mind, but an excellent come-uppance for those who mindlessly follow the Evil Empire.
Mac OS X Server includes Samba as part of the package. It is installed by default, as are NFS and AppleShare file services. I ran OS X Server on my powerbook for close to six months and gave it a fairly thorough testing. I was impressed by some features and depressed by others. My biggest criticism of OS X Server is that it *STILL* uses a windowing system derived from the NeXT window manager and not X. The NeXT window manager was a great ide, and it is still a solid technology, but no one else supports it. Porting X based apps will be much more difficult than porting between other unixen. This will mean that Apple will remain in the marginalized software position they are in now. By the way, I am now running LinuxPPC on my PowerBook, and I haven't booted into Mac OS in weeks. I have to give credit to the LinuxPPC people, USB works great in their distro. I will probably be installing it on my iMac at home this weekend.
Among Romans, Janus was best known as the god of the portal. Statues of Janus were often erected over doorways with one face looking out and the other looking into the house.
It isn't really fair to consider him one of the lesser gods. More like one of the more personal gods. Roman worship at home was more directed to the hearth gods, the animistic spirits called the Numines, and guys like Janus. The household gods.
--Battra
I can't help myself, I'm a mythology geek!