The Almaz station was flown with an onboard 23mm aircraft cannon.
From astronautix.com:
Vladimir Chelomei's Almaz OPS was the only manned military space station ever actually flown. The stations were equipped with an unprecedented array of sensors for 'man-in-the-loop' observation and targeting of mobile ground targets. One was equipped with a space-to-space gun. In the end the station officially proved that manned systems were not a cost-effective method for space reconnaissance and targeting. But the Almaz station provided the basis for the Russian Salyut, Mir, and the International Space Station space station modules.
It's kind of ironic that Kirk, not Picard, was eventually made an Admiral, since Picard was better suited for it.
Only to get himself busted back down to captain for being a reckless fool.
The only reason they didn't kick him out completely was because he was a successful reckless fool.
That would be Novell GroupWise
It's been around for at least a decade, back when I used to work with it it was powerful if somewhat idosyncratic and odd to administer - a mailbox simply would not work until you did a rebuild on it and I never found out why.
For the record ZenWorks is also way cool.
Presumably things like microkernels get around this by sharing memory directly with the kernel? Though that article says that microkernels still historically are slower than monolithic kernels, so the user-mode thing might clearly be an unresolvable problem here.
IANAT (I am not Andrew Tanenbaum);-)
Basically a microkernel that shared memory between processes would not be a microkernel. The page you linked to had another category:
Hybrid kernels (modified microkernels)
Hybrid kernels are essentially microkernels that have some "non-essential" code in kernelspace in order for that code to run more quickly than it would were it to be in userspace. This was a compromise struck early on in the adoption of microkernel based architectures by various operating system developers before it was shown that pure microkernels could indeed be high performers. Most modern operating systems today fall into this category, Microsoft Windows being the most popular example.
I agree with your data, but not with your conclusions. The fact that we are using a source of energy that is available in only limited supply implies to me that we need to change our sources of energy not that we need to reduce our standard of living to conserve our existing sources of energy. That implies to me rapid expansion of nuclear power for now and eventually fusion and solar power satellites.
I happen to think we have an amazing society and I'd like to see the rest of the world made just as wealthy as we are.
I'm currently trialling Fedora Core 3 for a possible deployment, it incorporates HAL and Udev which allow automatic mounting of CD-ROMs and USB storage devices. I haven't tried any firewire drives yet though.
I was quite enjoying Vice City for a while until I noticed a tendency to try and drive on the right side of the road which conflicted with the fact that in.au traffic is on the left side.
In future it would be nice if Rockstar games would include a switch to change the traffic handedness...
AFAIK the X-33 never reached the flight testing stage, you may be thinking about the DC-X which crashed on landing and caught fire after a number of test flights.
One of the reasons given by Imam Samudra for the Bali Bombings that killed approximately 200 Australians was that we had sent troops to East Timor to help when Indonesia withdrew.
I prefer to think of it as a super-saturated solution. All the prerequisites were there, Linus is the core around which everything crystallised.
IMNSHO Linus' true acheivement is not so much the crystals formation as the fact it's still accreting nicely the best part of a decade and a half afetr it started.
Which creates positive feedback: the more the climate warms,the more CO2 goes into the atmosphere.
Increasing the rate of decay will cause a small spike in CO2 production levels but they will converge back to the original rate when the excess matter has been converted. The long term rate of CO2 production would be dependent on the amount of organic matter that is available for conversion.
Thats a transient, not positive feedback.
Getting numbers accurate enough for forecasts is really hard. That's why climatologists talk about ranges and probabilities, and is the reason they're truthful when they say they need more research funding.
I agree that climatology is a very important science, what really annoys me is when this:
From the Guardian article:
"I don't think an increase of 2 ppm for two years in a row is highly significant - there are climatic perturbations that can make this occur," he said. "But the absence of a known climatic event does make these years unusual.
A comment that they have recieved some odd readings and they are looking further into them turns into:
From the story introduction:
This raises the ugly possibility that the capacity of a large carbon sink (possibly the oceans) has been exceeded, and the worst-case scenario is that a tipping point has been reached and a runaway warming scenario is in progress.
I've heard this technology described as "dirty vlans" - quarantining of suspect machines by the use of (Cisco) programmable switches and routers - but it was aimed at the business market, this would be the first time I've heard it suggested for use in the wider internet.
Every animated movie released in the US has fast-food tie-ins, video games tie-ins, actions figures, etc.
s/animated movie/movie capable of being sold to a younger audience/
You can thank George Lucas for that, he made an absolute mint with the merchandising for Star Wars. Everyone else has been climbing on to the bandwagon ever since - even Lord of the Rings has been cropping up in strange places
Lucas is still the worst however.
My apologies if I came across as peevish, I'm not trying to pour accelarant on the flames...
Nobody, even loonie despots, want's to use nukes, and if any country in the world has thier back to the wall it's North Korea.
Is Kim Jong Il sane - or sane enough to deal with? the best answer I can some up with is "Insufficient Data" and thank goodness it's not me that has to deal with him.
My understanding (IANAS, just a normal joe with an interest in military history) is that only a portion of any given unit is "ready to go" at any given time and that rotates around so that units can rest and recover. Getting everyone in a large unit "ready to go" simultaneously is possible but takes a large amount of effort and can only be maintained for a short amount of time before units have to be stood down to rest, perform maintenance etc.
A shell? What, a whole one? That couldn't just be a shell mislaid from earlier times?
yes, a whole one. Left from earlier times? perhaps - but it's more advanced than the premix binary rockets that I understood to be state-of-the-art for Iraq.
While looking for more info I turned up this
Worst of all, we didn't need to attack Iraq. We had Blix inside, troops massed on Iraqs borders. Any chemical attack, and we'd have been right to go right in.
There was a French proposal at the time that the US should do exactly that, unfortunately it wasn't a stable situation, the coalition couldn't keep it's forces in readiness indefinately and as soon as the troops started to leave the situation would have reverted back to it's earlier state.
Second of all, now where are those supposed weapons?
This is a very good question that I would like to hear an answer for. It wasn't just the US that was convinced that chemical and biological weapons existed. Troops in Iraq have turned up small traces of WMD's as well as a binary sarin shell that Iraq was not supposed to be able to manufacture.
Unfortunately I've never seen an honest examination of where the intelligence was flawed and why. A sneaking suspicion I've had is that Hussein believed that he really did have the weapons and the CIA were reading his mail.
This was never a unilateral war until the US made it one.
It never was unilateral, The UK had a very large contingent and a number of other countries also sent troops.
Personally I believe the NK leaderships first and only aim is to stay in power.
I did a bit of googling and found the following interesting information on the federation if american scientists webpage
quick summary: North Korea General Information
Total Military Force
Active: 1,082,000
Reserves: 4,700,000
2002 GDP 20bn
2002 Defense spending 5bn
interesting tidbit:
Strategic Force
In a roundtable discussion with the United States and China in Beijing on April 24, 2003, North Korean officials admitted for the first time that they possessed nuclear weapons. Furthermore, North Korean officials claim to have reprocessed spent fuel rods and have threatened to begin exporting nuclear materials unless the United States agrees to one-on-one talks with North Korea.
Compare that to Australia
which has a similar population
Total Military Force
Active: 53,650
Reserves: 20,300
2002 GDP 401bn
2002 Defense Spending 8.0bn
First off, IANAEB, but I think that the implication is that if one member of the group of monkeys walks bipedally, that other monkeys are likely to learn the behaviour. No lamarkian rewriting of the genome is required since the monkeys are already physically capable of it.
Slashdot Mirror
From astronautix.com:
The only reason they didn't kick him out completely was because he was a successful reckless fool.
That would be Novell GroupWise
It's been around for at least a decade, back when I used to work with it it was powerful if somewhat idosyncratic and odd to administer - a mailbox simply would not work until you did a rebuild on it and I never found out why.
For the record ZenWorks is also way cool.
I personally think it's more accurate to say that everyone is getting incredibly wealthy, it's just some are getting there faster than others.
Basically a microkernel that shared memory between processes would not be a microkernel. The page you linked to had another category:
I agree with your data, but not with your conclusions. The fact that we are using a source of energy that is available in only limited supply implies to me that we need to change our sources of energy not that we need to reduce our standard of living to conserve our existing sources of energy. That implies to me rapid expansion of nuclear power for now and eventually fusion and solar power satellites.
I happen to think we have an amazing society and I'd like to see the rest of the world made just as wealthy as we are.
I'm currently trialling Fedora Core 3 for a possible deployment, it incorporates HAL and Udev which allow automatic mounting of CD-ROMs and USB storage devices. I haven't tried any firewire drives yet though.
I was quite enjoying Vice City for a while until I noticed a tendency to try and drive on the right side of the road which conflicted with the fact that in .au traffic is on the left side.
In future it would be nice if Rockstar games would include a switch to change the traffic handedness...
Nobody is to Slashdot anybody even if - and I want to make this absolutely clear - even if they do say 'SCO'!
One of the reasons given by Imam Samudra for the Bali Bombings that killed approximately 200 Australians was that we had sent troops to East Timor to help when Indonesia withdrew.
I prefer to think of it as a super-saturated solution. All the prerequisites were there, Linus is the core around which everything crystallised.
IMNSHO Linus' true acheivement is not so much the crystals formation as the fact it's still accreting nicely the best part of a decade and a half afetr it started.
Thats a transient, not positive feedback. I agree that climatology is a very important science, what really annoys me is when this:
From the Guardian article: A comment that they have recieved some odd readings and they are looking further into them turns into:
From the story introduction:
In a business environment the only server you can contact is the one containing all the patches and service packs...
I've heard this technology described as "dirty vlans" - quarantining of suspect machines by the use of (Cisco) programmable switches and routers - but it was aimed at the business market, this would be the first time I've heard it suggested for use in the wider internet.
You can thank George Lucas for that, he made an absolute mint with the merchandising for Star Wars. Everyone else has been climbing on to the bandwagon ever since - even Lord of the Rings has been cropping up in strange places
Lucas is still the worst however.
Is Kim Jong Il sane - or sane enough to deal with? the best answer I can some up with is "Insufficient Data" and thank goodness it's not me that has to deal with him.
My understanding (IANAS, just a normal joe with an interest in military history) is that only a portion of any given unit is "ready to go" at any given time and that rotates around so that units can rest and recover. Getting everyone in a large unit "ready to go" simultaneously is possible but takes a large amount of effort and can only be maintained for a short amount of time before units have to be stood down to rest, perform maintenance etc.
While looking for more info I turned up this
There was a French proposal at the time that the US should do exactly that, unfortunately it wasn't a stable situation, the coalition couldn't keep it's forces in readiness indefinately and as soon as the troops started to leave the situation would have reverted back to it's earlier state.
Interesting
Thanks.
Troops in Iraq have turned up small traces of WMD's as well as a binary sarin shell that Iraq was not supposed to be able to manufacture.
Unfortunately I've never seen an honest examination of where the intelligence was flawed and why. A sneaking suspicion I've had is that Hussein believed that he really did have the weapons and the CIA were reading his mail. It never was unilateral, The UK had a very large contingent and a number of other countries also sent troops.
I did a bit of googling and found the following interesting information on the federation if american scientists webpage
quick summary:
North Korea General Information
Total Military Force
Active: 1,082,000
Reserves: 4,700,000
2002 GDP 20bn
2002 Defense spending 5bn
interesting tidbit: Compare that to Australia which has a similar population
Total Military Force
Active: 53,650
Reserves: 20,300
2002 GDP 401bn
2002 Defense Spending 8.0bn
Linux Australia has a page with details of the Free Trade Agreement. including the text of a speech given by Rusty Russell to the senate select commitee.
So far most of the debate in parliment has centered around the price of pharmaceuticals and the local content on australian television.