Civilian versions are nothing like that, since they're based off completely different chassis.
h2 and h3, yes. the "h1", which was just "hummer" prior to the introduction of the 2 and 3, is pretty much a real humvee minus the.50-cal that goes in the middle. i imagine it'd make an awesome off-roader, though i've never bothered looking up any stats.
mainstream xiantity has had ~2000 years to mellow out, so yes, it's not that bad on average. that said, only 500 years ago it was still starting wars and burning people at the drop of a hat, and it's still throwing off new cults every bit as bad as scientology all the time.
there's a mac plus in my parent's basement, complete with imagewriter ii, pre-scsi HD20, external second 800kB floppy drive, and 14.4k hayes modem, all in working condition last time it was unboxed and powered up (about five years ago, iirc). ah, word 4.0 and dungeon of doom, those were the days....
Ex-cons: In the UK, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act means that after a certain period of time a conviction can be considered "spent"
I'm sure that doesn't cover high ranking government jobs.
if they're never rebooted, wanna bet they're exploitable? most unix systems are full of local escalation vulnerabilities. this sounds like a good excuse to hack your own box.
Defining species based on whether animals can breed is not a perfect definition. Fin and Blue whales have been known to breed, to form hybrid species, for example.
almost all the cat species are interfertile to some extent. it's not just ligers--there are lepjags and jaglions and so on. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_hybrid) futhermore, most of the female crosses are fertile, so you can get some really ridiculously-named crosses like "leoliguar", and its entirely possible to have a population of, say, lions which have a couple tiger ancestors several generations back, wich would only be distinguishable through careful genetic analysis.
I suspect most cats big enough to be used as guide cats are also big enough to be a threat. Cats are more vicious pound for pound than dogs. They have to be; cats aren't pack animals. What I wouldn't give for a nice panther though.
As an aside, dogs are amazingly different from wolves despite being 99.8% the same DNA wise. Only one season a year and permanent puppyhood - domestic dogs don't become adults, we've bred that out of them somehow. Wolves, on the other hand, change noticeably around 3 years of age. Dogs are also much, much better at picking up signals from people - and unlike wolves, they're always eager to please if bought up properly. A wolf'll only do something if it feels like it, or if it'll get something out of it!
inducing neoteny seems to be one of the main things that constitutes domestication. i read somewhere that the original wild version of the housecat, which is still out there in its natural habitat in north africa, southern europe, and western asia, is very friendly as a newborn kitten, but loses all interest in people around six weeks and is completely useless as a pet.
And an amusing anecdote to finish - we used to take our wolves out to county shows, as they're socialied and enjoyed meeting people. One morning at the Kent show we let the wolves into their mobile enclosure and they watched intently as some Rottweilers came over, along with their (big-mouthed) owners. The blokes were going on about how their dogs could "have" our wolves easily, yet both dogs cowered away when Duma, one of our soppier wolves with people, casually gazed at them, raised her lip soundlessly, showing impressive fangs. Those Rottweilers knew better than to come any closer, much to the chagrin of their owners!
i wonder if dogs consider wolves to be adults, and thus automatically higher up the pack hierarchy?
If you really have to defragment, do a file-level image with SuperDuper, wipe the drive, and restore from the image. Much less painful than a reinstall. (I don't think a disk-level image made in Disk Utility would work, since those are sector-based and will be just as fragmented, won't they?)
the version by They Might Be Giants was a huge hit with the geek crowd in the mid 90s, at least in america. (the song itself actually dates to the 50s.)
Isn't something only "informative" if it provides new information? Is there really anyone here who hasn't known that song by heart for at least ten years?
If I could some how use the iPhone in my pocket to text or surf and see the text in front of my face rather than looking down all the time would be a plus.
someone just released an app that lets you compose email against a live feed from the camera: Email n' Walk
Why am I so ashamed - to admit that this sounds pretty hot?
should i be ashamed or proud that the first thing it brought to my mind was "that's a continuity error--sub-ether is hitchhiker's guide technobabble!"?
they used to joke that you could identify high-level meetings at the pentagon by who came to the door to get the pizza--if it was a full colonel, you knew something important was going on.
Slashdot Mirror
I see this on my MAC
you read slashdot on your lipstick? what's it run, netbsd?
My grandfather actually had that between his house and my uncle's (next door). Of course, he was an actual railroad telegrapher.
Civilian versions are nothing like that, since they're based off completely different chassis.
h2 and h3, yes. the "h1", which was just "hummer" prior to the introduction of the 2 and 3, is pretty much a real humvee minus the .50-cal that goes in the middle. i imagine it'd make an awesome off-roader, though i've never bothered looking up any stats.
and schizophrenia is a one-man unpopular religion.
mainstream xiantity has had ~2000 years to mellow out, so yes, it's not that bad on average. that said, only 500 years ago it was still starting wars and burning people at the drop of a hat, and it's still throwing off new cults every bit as bad as scientology all the time.
there's a mac plus in my parent's basement, complete with imagewriter ii, pre-scsi HD20, external second 800kB floppy drive, and 14.4k hayes modem, all in working condition last time it was unboxed and powered up (about five years ago, iirc). ah, word 4.0 and dungeon of doom, those were the days....
Ex-cons: In the UK, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act means that after a certain period of time a conviction can be considered "spent" I'm sure that doesn't cover high ranking government jobs.
Of course not--that's when you become ineligible.
how can you possibly expect me to take someone named "Smedley Darlington Butler" seriously?
if they're never rebooted, wanna bet they're exploitable? most unix systems are full of local escalation vulnerabilities. this sounds like a good excuse to hack your own box.
Defining species based on whether animals can breed is not a perfect definition. Fin and Blue whales have been known to breed, to form hybrid species, for example.
almost all the cat species are interfertile to some extent. it's not just ligers--there are lepjags and jaglions and so on. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_hybrid) futhermore, most of the female crosses are fertile, so you can get some really ridiculously-named crosses like "leoliguar", and its entirely possible to have a population of, say, lions which have a couple tiger ancestors several generations back, wich would only be distinguishable through careful genetic analysis.
I suspect most cats big enough to be used as guide cats are also big enough to be a threat. Cats are more vicious pound for pound than dogs. They have to be; cats aren't pack animals. What I wouldn't give for a nice panther though.
i think leopards are supposed to be tameable....
As an aside, dogs are amazingly different from wolves despite being 99.8% the same DNA wise. Only one season a year and permanent puppyhood - domestic dogs don't become adults, we've bred that out of them somehow. Wolves, on the other hand, change noticeably around 3 years of age. Dogs are also much, much better at picking up signals from people - and unlike wolves, they're always eager to please if bought up properly. A wolf'll only do something if it feels like it, or if it'll get something out of it!
inducing neoteny seems to be one of the main things that constitutes domestication. i read somewhere that the original wild version of the housecat, which is still out there in its natural habitat in north africa, southern europe, and western asia, is very friendly as a newborn kitten, but loses all interest in people around six weeks and is completely useless as a pet.
And an amusing anecdote to finish - we used to take our wolves out to county shows, as they're socialied and enjoyed meeting people. One morning at the Kent show we let the wolves into their mobile enclosure and they watched intently as some Rottweilers came over, along with their (big-mouthed) owners. The blokes were going on about how their dogs could "have" our wolves easily, yet both dogs cowered away when Duma, one of our soppier wolves with people, casually gazed at them, raised her lip soundlessly, showing impressive fangs. Those Rottweilers knew better than to come any closer, much to the chagrin of their owners!
i wonder if dogs consider wolves to be adults, and thus automatically higher up the pack hierarchy?
If you really have to defragment, do a file-level image with SuperDuper, wipe the drive, and restore from the image. Much less painful than a reinstall. (I don't think a disk-level image made in Disk Utility would work, since those are sector-based and will be just as fragmented, won't they?)
the version by They Might Be Giants was a huge hit with the geek crowd in the mid 90s, at least in america. (the song itself actually dates to the 50s.)
Isn't something only "informative" if it provides new information? Is there really anyone here who hasn't known that song by heart for at least ten years?
I suggest Pink Floyd. "I have become comfortably numb...."
If I could some how use the iPhone in my pocket to text or surf and see the text in front of my face rather than looking down all the time would be a plus.
someone just released an app that lets you compose email against a live feed from the camera: Email n' Walk
i always took that to be the brand name, and something of a play on non-rhotic english accents.
Betazoid sub-ether porn diallers
Why am I so ashamed - to admit that this sounds pretty hot?
should i be ashamed or proud that the first thing it brought to my mind was "that's a continuity error--sub-ether is hitchhiker's guide technobabble!"?
other laws:
Imagine pointing the wand at your receiver and giving an upward flitting motion and the receiver bumps up the volume.
Do I have to say "wingardium leviosa"?
The bigoted wingnuts came out of the woodwork and voted for Bush while they were there.
Would these be the same wingnuts who voted for both Obama and Proposition 8 this time around?
they used to joke that you could identify high-level meetings at the pentagon by who came to the door to get the pizza--if it was a full colonel, you knew something important was going on.
i've heard that the 8-piece rock band drum controller, on the highest level, is actually pretty close to real rock drumming. any truth to that?
much like "is she prettier than me", the key is to answer "of course not!" as quickly as possible, and without looking first.