Look at the Vietnam mess. We were incountry with real soldiers, not just so-called advisors, for 9 years, 1964-1973. The situation never improved. There is no time when it would not have been better to have left the country and gotten it over. Maybe that's not very clear; I mean that absolutely nothing was better for having stayed in that long, or any length of time. We did not salvage pride or any political goals by staying there at all. One day was too long.
This war in Iraq sure looks similar; deja vu all over again. Bogus reasons for getting the authorizing resolution through Congress. Bogus press releases about light at the end of the tunnel or turning the corner. Nonsense body counts, bogus other statistics. It is just getting worse and worse. We cannot "win", winning isn't even in the dictionary there.
We ought to just get out, now, there is nothing whatsoever to salvage by staying in one day longer. The elections will do nothing to cut down the insurgency. The greedy power hungry idiots who win that election will not be popular and will have no say. Pretty soon some general will assasinate the elected president just as happened in Vietnam.
Who needs fancy calculations? Geostationary orbit, which takes 24 hours and thus appears stationary from someone on earth, is 22,300 miles or so (I have forgotten it in km). Low earth orbit, 200 miles, takes about 90 minutes. You can see that even moving the orbit the final 200 miles to the surface is not much of a change, only 1%, so maybe an orbit at sea level would only last 89 minutes. Of course the atmosphere might have something to say about the feasibility.
Maybe someone actually wants to know how the new horse and old horse compare.
Maybe the knee jerk reaction is yours. Maybe your base assumption is that any question concerning Microsoft is a negative question. Maybe you are just paranoiad and can't recognize an honest question when you see it.
If people use it, and the company that used to maintain it stops, either users will maintain it, or they will find something else in its place. If no one cares enough to maintain it when orphaned, then it wasn't very good or very popular to start with. This has happened quite a few times with kernel features that lost maintainers and were eventuallt dropped.
Seems pretty good, but two things seemed rather out of place. It has only USB 1.1, not 2.0. And it has double Gigabit Ethernet plus a separate 10/100 Ethernet connection, but no Firewire. I'd rather have had Firewire than the silly Ethernet port.
No audio other than the case speaker.
Graphics is pretty limited. But on the other hand, both these would almost certainly be upgraded by most people, so no point in putting much on there.
But the 1.1 USB and silly Ethernet port seem, well, silly.
Roosevelt came into office when the depression was three years old, and Hoover had done nothing to alleivate any suffering. Stock market crash October 1929, election November 1932, inauguration March 1933.
Some "routine recession", it had lasted three years so far with no uptick in sight, far longer than any recession to date.
The Japanese internment was despicable, but it could be more fairly blamed on lies and forged evidence by his lackeys. He should have had enough backbone to not sign the executive order, but it wasn't his idea. Furthermore, that was 1942, February I think, 9 years after he came into office, after the war had started, and after the economy finally came out of the depression.
How many of the rest of your beliefs are backed up by facts as accurate as this?
They also have this little interesting feature of their anatomy where they have a big bladder in their head and they piss out the front of their head. So they're constantly pissing in each other's faces.
Then you say
I'm not fond of a president that thinks and urinates with the same body part.
I am confused. Are you saying President Bush is a lobster?
Legs by their very nature are a pulsing power stroke, thus continously accelerating, even if by a small amount, it happens every single stroke. Rotating mass is the very devil on a human powered vehicle. I have seen estimates that weight on the rims is worth ten times as much weight on the frame.
A bunch of countries around the world peg their currency to the almighty US dollar.
As for the US protecting IP, first is the assumption that IP really is P, and it certainly isn't the way the US over-enforces it and pressures other countries to copycat our rampany Disney-led control of it. Then you might want to check your own history, and the US rampant copyright violations in the 1800s.
Proxy wars? You compare them to massive wars like the ones that ravaged Europe twice in the 1900s and just about constantly prior to Waterloo in 1815? I think maybe you are the one lacking in historical knowledge.
Let's see, the US has never manipulated its currency, has always respected intellectual property, has never reverse engineered anynody else's products.... like I said, riiiight.
Besides, most intellectual property isn't. Only suckers for corporate welfare believe that particular slice of propaganda.
And you are some kind of blowhard if you think I like what's going on. If you read that from my rant, it's because you wanted to, not because I said it.
And war? Seems to me that the 60 years since the end of the last global war have been a lot more peaceful than almost any other period in history.
Queen Victoria's reign was pretty peaceful unless you count massive colonization as lopsided war.
If you stick to just the US, maybe so. But a global economy matches. We do get lower prices here, from Wal-Mart on. India, China, all sorts of places get better wages.
It all balances out. That's why it's a global economy.
More likely the Chinese government will be gradually wedged open by all the research requirements. A few exceptions here and there for foreign companies to conduct proper research and development. A few domestic partners let in on the uncensored web. A few party hacks wanting uncensored access. Pretty soon it will be the norm.
The evil communist Chinese geniuses planned this going back to Mao and continuing with the Gang of Four and Deng and so on. Keep the masses low in power so labor costs are low so we can sucker the western world into outsourcing and thereby lowering themselves economically by raising us economically.
Riiiight. You've sold me on that idea, sonny.
I got offshored, and it's a bitch finding a job. I don't like it. But outsourcing and offshoring are a natural result of a free market, and if I believe in a free market when it comes to steel and cars, I'd be pretty hypocritical to suddenly stop when my own ox is being gored.
Repeat: outsourcing and offshoring are natural parts of a free market.
You know what I like best about having a global economy? It encourages cooperation and reduces the chances of war. The Chinese are learning that trade --> booming economy, and they like that. Sooner or later they will realize that huge primitive army is best converted to gainful employment.
The US used to know this, until Shrub found a golden opportunity to finish Daddy's war and help his oil buddies. The US is now going to learn it again, just as Microsoft has taught the rest of the computer industry that playing with Microsoft doesn't involve a level playing field, and Microsoft finds it harder and harder to find partners. Coalitions of the willing require partners, not the old style teamwork where the leader cracks the whip and the team pulls harder.
Arnold won because Gray Davis, the governor being recalled, was a do nothing moron who ate campaign funds and passed favors in return. He was widely perceived as an absolute loser who did nothing but sit on his hands, especially during the power crisis, like Bush Sr doing nothing about the economy but ten times the bad vibes.
Anyone could have done a better job than Gray Davis. Arnie's name helped him stand out in a crowded field. The most "popular" other two candidates were the lt. governor, perceived as a typical lt governor / vice president do-nothing incompetent party hack without an original thought in his brain, and a right wing republican completely out of touch with the electorate. Arnie is so moderate that I would not have been surprised to see him switch to the Democrat party, at least until he sold his soul at the Republican convention for a candidate (Bush) farther from his own opinions than the opposition (Kerry).
No, obviously not. You've been listening to Rush or some other crackpot.
Laws by definition are CREATED by legislatures.
Our legal system is common law, meaning that most actual legal usage comes from court cases clarifying the rather vague laws passed by legislatures. If the constituion guarantees privacy, then laws which violate that right are unconstitutional. This is not creating law, it is sharpening the definition, fine tuning it.
I dare you -- show just one single LAW which a court has CREATED. Don't reference some judgement and call it a law. It's not. It's a precedent, or a judgement, not a law.
And a word of advice... be careful of what you wish for. Corporations came to be considered almost as individuals with rights due to a court decision based on the 14th (?) amendment. I doubt very much that the right wingers who hate liberal interpretations of laws would want that particular interpretation overturned by so-called constitutional purists.
Like Windows being the most common platform for mail transport agents, the platform upon which the vast majority of mail transport agents run, the platform which exerts so much total control over mail delivery that it can dictate terms to that puny leftover remnant of the nonconforming world.
Within the decade the spinning hard disk may go the way of the floppy and CRT
For how many decades now has this been predicted? Holographic memory, battery backed RAM, yada yada yada. Methinks rotating storage will be around for more than the rest of the decade.
They use 3 physical dimensions to determine the order of the strokes, ie, the 4th dimension. But do they keep that 3rd physical dimension around? Would that make it 4d? Or if they discard it, that sort of brings it back to 3d, but since 2 of the d are combined into one, maybe it's 3.5d?
My head is spinning, and I can't even tell if that is 2d or 3d, because time is certainly involved to have a spin.
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Look at the Vietnam mess. We were incountry with real soldiers, not just so-called advisors, for 9 years, 1964-1973. The situation never improved. There is no time when it would not have been better to have left the country and gotten it over. Maybe that's not very clear; I mean that absolutely nothing was better for having stayed in that long, or any length of time. We did not salvage pride or any political goals by staying there at all. One day was too long.
This war in Iraq sure looks similar; deja vu all over again. Bogus reasons for getting the authorizing resolution through Congress. Bogus press releases about light at the end of the tunnel or turning the corner. Nonsense body counts, bogus other statistics. It is just getting worse and worse. We cannot "win", winning isn't even in the dictionary there.
We ought to just get out, now, there is nothing whatsoever to salvage by staying in one day longer. The elections will do nothing to cut down the insurgency. The greedy power hungry idiots who win that election will not be popular and will have no say. Pretty soon some general will assasinate the elected president just as happened in Vietnam.
We ought to just get out.
This thing can select stations under program control. You got a robotic arm under cron control?
Who needs fancy calculations? Geostationary orbit, which takes 24 hours and thus appears stationary from someone on earth, is 22,300 miles or so (I have forgotten it in km). Low earth orbit, 200 miles, takes about 90 minutes. You can see that even moving the orbit the final 200 miles to the surface is not much of a change, only 1%, so maybe an orbit at sea level would only last 89 minutes. Of course the atmosphere might have something to say about the feasibility.
Why the hell did I ever learn how to do something useful and helpful to others?
You mean like post to slashdot?
Maybe someone actually wants to know how the new horse and old horse compare.
Maybe the knee jerk reaction is yours. Maybe your base assumption is that any question concerning Microsoft is a negative question. Maybe you are just paranoiad and can't recognize an honest question when you see it.
If people use it, and the company that used to maintain it stops, either users will maintain it, or they will find something else in its place. If no one cares enough to maintain it when orphaned, then it wasn't very good or very popular to start with. This has happened quite a few times with kernel features that lost maintainers and were eventuallt dropped.
I just put one together. Up to 16GB of RAM, 4 SATA, 2 ATA133, 2 SCSI u320.
Tyan K8S Pro
Seems pretty good, but two things seemed rather out of place. It has only USB 1.1, not 2.0. And it has double Gigabit Ethernet plus a separate 10/100 Ethernet connection, but no Firewire. I'd rather have had Firewire than the silly Ethernet port.
No audio other than the case speaker.
Graphics is pretty limited. But on the other hand, both these would almost certainly be upgraded by most people, so no point in putting much on there.
But the 1.1 USB and silly Ethernet port seem, well, silly.
Roosevelt came into office when the depression was three years old, and Hoover had done nothing to alleivate any suffering. Stock market crash October 1929, election November 1932, inauguration March 1933.
Some "routine recession", it had lasted three years so far with no uptick in sight, far longer than any recession to date.
The Japanese internment was despicable, but it could be more fairly blamed on lies and forged evidence by his lackeys. He should have had enough backbone to not sign the executive order, but it wasn't his idea. Furthermore, that was 1942, February I think, 9 years after he came into office, after the war had started, and after the economy finally came out of the depression.
How many of the rest of your beliefs are backed up by facts as accurate as this?
A recent Salon articlehad some fascinating info on lobsters, in particular
They also have this little interesting feature of their anatomy where they have a big bladder in their head and they piss out the front of their head. So they're constantly pissing in each other's faces.
Then you say
I'm not fond of a president that thinks and urinates with the same body part.
I am confused. Are you saying President Bush is a lobster?
Legs by their very nature are a pulsing power stroke, thus continously accelerating, even if by a small amount, it happens every single stroke. Rotating mass is the very devil on a human powered vehicle. I have seen estimates that weight on the rims is worth ten times as much weight on the frame.
75 people in Dept A had no reboot today from their Windows XP.
In a small town in France, Jean-Louis had a baguette for lunch along with some delicious red wine from the local winery.
On Slashdot, an Anonymous Coward dared not post under a real name because he was too ashmed of his own rant.
What if you use fake names to bid at Sotheby's?
What if you use fake names to bid on wheat futures?
What if you use fake names anywhere?
Duh.
A bunch of countries around the world peg their currency to the almighty US dollar.
As for the US protecting IP, first is the assumption that IP really is P, and it certainly isn't the way the US over-enforces it and pressures other countries to copycat our rampany Disney-led control of it. Then you might want to check your own history, and the US rampant copyright violations in the 1800s.
Proxy wars? You compare them to massive wars like the ones that ravaged Europe twice in the 1900s and just about constantly prior to Waterloo in 1815? I think maybe you are the one lacking in historical knowledge.
Let's see, the US has never manipulated its currency, has always respected intellectual property, has never reverse engineered anynody else's products .... like I said, riiiight.
Besides, most intellectual property isn't. Only suckers for corporate welfare believe that particular slice of propaganda.
And you are some kind of blowhard if you think I like what's going on. If you read that from my rant, it's because you wanted to, not because I said it.
And war? Seems to me that the 60 years since the end of the last global war have been a lot more peaceful than almost any other period in history.
Queen Victoria's reign was pretty peaceful unless you count massive colonization as lopsided war.
If you stick to just the US, maybe so. But a global economy matches. We do get lower prices here, from Wal-Mart on. India, China, all sorts of places get better wages.
It all balances out. That's why it's a global economy.
More likely the Chinese government will be gradually wedged open by all the research requirements. A few exceptions here and there for foreign companies to conduct proper research and development. A few domestic partners let in on the uncensored web. A few party hacks wanting uncensored access. Pretty soon it will be the norm.
The evil communist Chinese geniuses planned this going back to Mao and continuing with the Gang of Four and Deng and so on. Keep the masses low in power so labor costs are low so we can sucker the western world into outsourcing and thereby lowering themselves economically by raising us economically.
Riiiight. You've sold me on that idea, sonny.
I got offshored, and it's a bitch finding a job. I don't like it. But outsourcing and offshoring are a natural result of a free market, and if I believe in a free market when it comes to steel and cars, I'd be pretty hypocritical to suddenly stop when my own ox is being gored.
Repeat: outsourcing and offshoring are natural parts of a free market.
You know what I like best about having a global economy? It encourages cooperation and reduces the chances of war. The Chinese are learning that trade --> booming economy, and they like that. Sooner or later they will realize that huge primitive army is best converted to gainful employment.
The US used to know this, until Shrub found a golden opportunity to finish Daddy's war and help his oil buddies. The US is now going to learn it again, just as Microsoft has taught the rest of the computer industry that playing with Microsoft doesn't involve a level playing field, and Microsoft finds it harder and harder to find partners. Coalitions of the willing require partners, not the old style teamwork where the leader cracks the whip and the team pulls harder.
Arnold won because Gray Davis, the governor being recalled, was a do nothing moron who ate campaign funds and passed favors in return. He was widely perceived as an absolute loser who did nothing but sit on his hands, especially during the power crisis, like Bush Sr doing nothing about the economy but ten times the bad vibes.
Anyone could have done a better job than Gray Davis. Arnie's name helped him stand out in a crowded field. The most "popular" other two candidates were the lt. governor, perceived as a typical lt governor / vice president do-nothing incompetent party hack without an original thought in his brain, and a right wing republican completely out of touch with the electorate. Arnie is so moderate that I would not have been surprised to see him switch to the Democrat party, at least until he sold his soul at the Republican convention for a candidate (Bush) farther from his own opinions than the opposition (Kerry).
No, obviously not. You've been listening to Rush or some other crackpot.
... be careful of what you wish for. Corporations came to be considered almost as individuals with rights due to a court decision based on the 14th (?) amendment. I doubt very much that the right wingers who hate liberal interpretations of laws would want that particular interpretation overturned by so-called constitutional purists.
Laws by definition are CREATED by legislatures.
Our legal system is common law, meaning that most actual legal usage comes from court cases clarifying the rather vague laws passed by legislatures. If the constituion guarantees privacy, then laws which violate that right are unconstitutional. This is not creating law, it is sharpening the definition, fine tuning it.
I dare you -- show just one single LAW which a court has CREATED. Don't reference some judgement and call it a law. It's not. It's a precedent, or a judgement, not a law.
And a word of advice
They can't ruin music. No one in their right mind would call that top40 pop40 pablum anything similar to music.
They can wall off their corporate music business, lock it up behind patents and copyright swindles, and music will flourish outside the walls.
The universe outside their little walled off corner is bigger than inside.
Cricket page
It says If a batsman gets out without scoring any runs, he is said to be out for a duck.
Does breaking the duck means not being skunked, finally getting some scores on the board?
Germans, Algerians, Vietnamese ....
Like Windows being the most common platform for mail transport agents, the platform upon which the vast majority of mail transport agents run, the platform which exerts so much total control over mail delivery that it can dictate terms to that puny leftover remnant of the nonconforming world.
NOT!
Within the decade the spinning hard disk may go the way of the floppy and CRT
For how many decades now has this been predicted? Holographic memory, battery backed RAM, yada yada yada. Methinks rotating storage will be around for more than the rest of the decade.
They use 3 physical dimensions to determine the order of the strokes, ie, the 4th dimension. But do they keep that 3rd physical dimension around? Would that make it 4d? Or if they discard it, that sort of brings it back to 3d, but since 2 of the d are combined into one, maybe it's 3.5d?
My head is spinning, and I can't even tell if that is 2d or 3d, because time is certainly involved to have a spin.