Well, Dassault makes CATIA, so there goes a big chunk of your aircraft CAD software right there.
If Boeing uses it to great effect when designing the 777, do not think that they (and Lockmart and Northrop Grumman) use it do design prototypes, the JSF designs, etc. everywhere now.
The big Euro military electronics companies try to pimp their goods to US military buyers.
In the past, the US military branches have brought in things like the Rapier air defense missile system (USMC, Army), Harriers (USMC), LAV/Stryker (originally developed in Canada), the 120mm smoothbore cannon in the M1A1 tank, the 105mm howitzer used by the US Army, etc.
Some of the tactical communications stuff, like MSE, may also have stuff made by European companies.
But they're "ally" companies, too. GEC Marconi, Dassault, etc., sell systems or subsystems to the US military, and vice versa...
But so far, nothing from Ching Meng Fai Shek Electronics...
I do remember reading that the big problem with the sale of Unocal to CNOOC was not the oil reserves, but for the metal mining rights to some strategic metals that Unocal has...
That is why you don't experience the world swirling around as your eye darts from detail to detail.
Yes, it's because it takes a small, but finite, amount of time for your brain to reset and reacquire its focus.
This also explains why pigeons, doves, chickens, etc. walk the way they do moving their head in fits and starts as they walk forward. The time lag for them to refocus their attention/eyes is pretty long.
It also explains another visual semi-trick or observation. People tend to blink more frequently when trying to absorb visual information faster than they usually do - each blink is like a camera taking a picture. Eye movement - flicking eyes from one area to another, works similarly, too. But when people get overwhelmed visually, their blink rate drops way off.
The bike crashes I've had as an adult, I remember them quite vividly, from the "Oh Shit!" moment of realization that it's going to happen to "come on, stop rolling already!"/ "This is really going to hurt..."/"your head makes a funny sound bouncing off of the side of a panel van in a bike helmet" to "Owwwww...that sucked."
Of course, if I were go to back to the spot where the one happened, the embankment I rolled down won't be quite so tall, etc.
Another one was walking off the back of a scaffold on the side of a "chicken truck" while loading chickens. Again, "Oh shit" to "wow free fall is cool" to "where is the ground already?POWWW...oooooowwwww". It was a good 8 ft to the ground. Luckily I landed on wet, soft turf, and not pavement, with most of force initially sucked up by back and shoulder blade, not back of the head..
Well, I think that Joe Sixpack would say that "blindness" means "cannot see". Whether it is macular degeneration, detached retina, severe cataracts, loss of eye, emotional trauma (i.e, people so traumatized they stop acknowledging visual inputs).
I think the last item is what is appropriate, it's a situational, transient *functional* blindness.
Too bad it's not necessarily related to having to leave. right. now. and not seeing your car keys right where you left them, even though you're staring right at the spot on the table or kitchen counter where they are, so you are half an hour late because of the self-imposed snipe hunt you had to go on in order to find them, right where you left them.
I'm worried about College and University connections. Usage limits and even outright censorship are the norm on High School networks. I'd like to change this, but for now, it's just a fact of life.
Well, this is a political issue, is it not? It's definitely not a technical, infrastructure or economic issue. Gotta protect the kids!
NAT is a detriment to the Public Internet. On one hand, yes, but it's no more a detriment really to the Internet than PBXs are to the POTS. Both end up doing the same thing, really.
The Internet was never democratic. In its early days, only a few in the CS depts had accts on the "Internet" cmmputer. It slowly spread from there. At the Univ. of Washington (1987-89), we had 3 internetworking protocols: BITNET (IBM Mainframe-IBM Mainframe), DECNet, and ArpaNet (hard to count UUCP really, but I suppose one should). It was WAYYYY cool to have an account on the ArpaNet machine, not the least of which it had games on it. Having an acct on the 4381 was big because you could use BITNET Relay to IM other people on other IBM computers. You had to have some connections to get a RITA acct (the 11/750 that had the TCP/IP ArpaNet/Internet connection, and had the BSD source on it...), even if you worked for UW Academic Computing Services...
So it has NEVER been democratic, even at universities.
Well, this would run contrary to what the current BRAC (Base ReAlignment Commission) is doing, which includes shutting down/"realigning" a bunch of National Guard and Army Reserve facilities across the country.
As far as optical fiber goes, how much "dark" fiber is already in the ground in the US from the 90's?
So your argument was kind of a red herring.
The observation in the US is that Comcast, RoadRunner, Verizon/Qwest/SBC basically control broadband deployment in the US, not the FCC. These companies, when they're not trying to slit each other's throats (wrong kind of competition), are more than happy to keep padding congressional pockets and keep the FCC under control. Oh, and a few local and state buyoffs help too, to quell any minor uprisings by the untermenschen locals who have gotten tired of eating cake.
There are other "broadband" options besides cable or telco DSL, but they're in the minority. I'm using wireless broadband supplied by MacOnline (www.maconline.com), which is for me just ends up being what I wish I could get from cable or telco DSL: Broadband internet service with no buy-in to the network provider's lowest-common-denominator bundled bullshit and their bullshit TOS agreements.
768Kbps SDSL. Static IP. Works for me.
Now, my birth mother in Lance Creek, WY, well, they'd probably have to use satellite-based service. If you know where Lance Creek, WY, is, you'll understand why cable, telco DSL, 3G, et al., will NEVER reach a good third of the US physically (i.e., between the front range of the Rocky Mts and the Mississippi River, not withstanding major metropolitan areas like Denver or Kansas City.
From a practical standpoint this is like anything else that you discard, it doesn't belong to you any more...if that were the case, then dumpster diving would not be illegal on those grounds. But oftentimes it is. Even if the garbage is off the company's premises and in the dump.
If you think that some people with eye problems aren't allowed to drive, and driving is part of the job, then by all accounts I feel the employer has the right to refuse to employ you.
As would most people. But what if the potential employee had a magic gizmo that gave him enough spatial and situational awareness to operate a vehicle safely without having functional eyes?
An ADA lawyer would probably argue that this is a reasonable accomodation, especially if the employee is already using it.
There is discrimination, and there are safety issues.
Remember, the Pol Pots figured everyone who wore eyeglasses was an "intellectual", and therefore, a threat, and they were persecuted/killed outright.
Well, if that is the argument, then, we'd better just cancel Social Security out-right. Why? Well, think of all those poor suckers, who through accident or just bad life, are doomed to live the rest of their lives on SSI, the disability part of Social Security. All of our social security taxes go into the trust fund to pay out for these lifetime moochers. That's just not fair!
Insurance companies want to know the risks ahead of time so they can set the rates, and adjust their payout rules, to ensure their profits.
Just like if you honestly beat a casino game, the casino will cut you off, one way or the other.
I don't like paying taxes for idiots who build shake roof houses in the mountains of the Western US, or buy houses built in 100-yr floodplains (and then rebuild there after their house gets washed away..sometimes more than once!).
If you think your health insurance and hospital visits are expensive just because the companies are gouging the honest people only for profits, well...you'd be wrong.
Emergency Rooms are mandated (by US federal law) to take all comers, and worry about the financial details later. It is not worth the risk to the hospital to dicker around about whether an emergent ER patient has $$$ or not. They fix them up. If the patient can't pay, the cost is passed on to everyone else. The hospital, and community, cannot afford to NOT have an ER. So it goes on and on.
Knowing the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
But then you only have to throw in a few biomedical coincidences... "African-Americans have higher incidences of high blood pressure, sickle-cell anemia, etc.". And it goes downhill from there.
Replace "African-Americans" with "people with specific genetic sequence markers at Cx54:1258 have higher incidence of high blood pressure", and if that is your only metric, and it happens that the preponderence (51:49? no. 2:1? 8:1?) of people with these markers are of African descent, well, you now have medically justified, genetic discrimination, at least as far as companies like BNSF are concerned.
Employers aren't always bad; aren't always in the wrong....and neither are employees. Things have gone bad at a company when it's pretty obvious the company management feels that the employees cannot be trusted. People tend to raise (or lower...) themselves to the expectations put upon them. If you assume everyone working for you is a liar, cheat, thief, etc., then, oddly enough, you're probably going to find that you have a lot of employees like that.
And further, especially for an at-will employer, why would it not want to avoid workers who won't be able to effectively perform certain tasks, or workers who statistically may become liabilities in the future? What is the source for the reasoning that everyone has a "right" to work, and to work for a particular employer, to those who believe that?
Well, it's reducing the employee then to a piece of chattel, basically. Instead of being valued as a contributor, the employee is viewed as a risk factor on the expense side. Just like you don't keep obsolete equipment around (unless you're a total cheapskate or spendthrift), now management has determined that it's got a lot of cost liability in those employees (is it a higher liability in BNSF's case compared to reducing its rail and rolling stock maintenance, increasing the risks of a derailment potentially involving large quantities of hazardous materials that are typically shipped by rail???). The management feels like it IS the company, but it's not.
Might as well incorporate policies at the company that employees have to be between the ages of 25 and 40, have a BMI score lower than 25, not drink, not smoke, have 2.3 kids, a credit score of 650 or higher, no bankruptcies declared within the last 7 years, etc. But I assume this would hold also for upper management/executives as well, no?
But of course, it won't. It almost never does. Will a CFO retire when he hits 40? Nope.
Might as well put little crystals in everyone's hands, make a weekly extravaganza show to see if the Runners (whose hand-crystals have stopped glowing) can make it out (which they never do, i.e., they get killed in the game), etc.
Maybe that's the whole purpose of the continuing war with SouthwestAsia.
Hmm, I seem to see an awful lot of possible interpretations, and only one of them involves murder.
Or, the intent is to use a visual image with so much implied badness that when the next person walks into that door, be it a Kirby vacuum salesman, the person's in-laws, or the people coming in for the 3pm staff meeting, that it completely kills off whatever planned agenda they might have had before going in, and all they are then thinking about is what the hell you might want to do with that gun so obviously placed.
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.
As far as the remark about Sweden, a couple of years ago, a high-level government official in Sweden was indeed whacked off by a nutjob with a handgun while getting into his car to go somewhere inane.
Edison was briliant, but yes, IIRC, he was also likely a jerk, a petty one at that.
What I heard was that he wanted to discredit alternating current (AC) power, and electrocuting animals was his way of doing it. Edison favored direct current (DC) power. The problem is that given the technology of the time, and it is still largely true today, due to the physics involved, AC is generally a better long-distance electrical power transmission method.
I'm not sure how stable Tesla was, but he was right about AC.
The battle really was between Westinghouse and Edison. Westinghouse saw Tesla's ideas and saw his chance to get at Edison.
So I doubt MS will go after Apple (by way of a SW example, remember all the aspects of the Apple GUI MS copied, and the derivatives of that it patented, and Apple also patented, who actually had the kernal of the idea is debatable).
Someone too young to know about the "Look and Feel" lawsuit that Apple had against Microsoft, which was eventually settled out of court?
e that that it supports the sort of society that we want to build on top of it. "
What would the Taliban in Afghanistan want it to be like? What about the American Taliban, er, the neoCons? What would Pol Pot have had it do?
Before we assume that the forces of "light" and all that is good and sweet will do it, let's prepare for what the darker sides of us (because all this bad things that are driving American political dialog right now) will allow it to be, and assume that it will happen.
Uh, Google Earth's interface is not better than Google Maps. It's different, but that's about it.
The one thing that google maps lacks is "click-to-zoom", i.e., clicking on an area will zoom in 1-2 levels, centered on where you click (just like Mapquest does).
Google Earth *is* cool, but it's not *better* than google maps.
Ajax enriches the web app experience, not the Windows desktop. Because at that point, it's as relevant in Windows as it is in KDE, Darwin, etc.
Yes, but when is the miracle that will be Avalon be out? Avalon seems to want to have targeted XUL. But AJAX is neatly sidestepping both Avalon and XUL.
But I bet there are quite a few Microsoft-oriented developers/consultants/IT Shops, etc., that are quietly marking time until Longhorn...er, Windows Vista, is close to going gold, and these islands are ones we have not been hearing about, because as much as the Slashdot crowd sneers at just about everything Microsoft, these Microsoft types are just as antagonistic and rabid about their Microsoft love with regard to things that aren't Microsoft.
Yes, and as things start to play out similarly in Mozambique, where will we all fit in when Robert Mugabe writes the historionic books, as a hero of the masses, along side Idi Amin, Saddam Hussain and the former Shah of Iran?
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Well, Dassault makes CATIA, so there goes a big chunk of your aircraft CAD software right there.
If Boeing uses it to great effect when designing the 777, do not think that they (and Lockmart and Northrop Grumman) use it do design prototypes, the JSF designs, etc. everywhere now.
The big Euro military electronics companies try to pimp their goods to US military buyers.
In the past, the US military branches have brought in things like the Rapier air defense missile system (USMC, Army), Harriers (USMC), LAV/Stryker (originally developed in Canada), the 120mm smoothbore cannon in the M1A1 tank, the 105mm howitzer used by the US Army, etc.
Some of the tactical communications stuff, like MSE, may also have stuff made by European companies.
But they're "ally" companies, too. GEC Marconi, Dassault, etc., sell systems or subsystems to the US military, and vice versa...
But so far, nothing from Ching Meng Fai Shek Electronics...
I do remember reading that the big problem with the sale of Unocal to CNOOC was not the oil reserves, but for the metal mining rights to some strategic metals that Unocal has...
Go back and watch "Escape from New York" again.
That is why you don't experience the world swirling around as your eye darts from detail to detail.
Yes, it's because it takes a small, but finite, amount of time for your brain to reset and reacquire its focus.
This also explains why pigeons, doves, chickens, etc. walk the way they do moving their head in fits and starts as they walk forward. The time lag for them to refocus their attention/eyes is pretty long.
It also explains another visual semi-trick or observation. People tend to blink more frequently when trying to absorb visual information faster than they usually do - each blink is like a camera taking a picture. Eye movement - flicking eyes from one area to another, works similarly, too. But when people get overwhelmed visually, their blink rate drops way off.
No, but it is a logical extension to go there.
/"your head makes a funny sound bouncing off of the side of a panel van in a bike helmet" to "Owwwww...that sucked."
The bike crashes I've had as an adult, I remember them quite vividly, from the "Oh Shit!" moment of realization that it's going to happen to "come on, stop rolling already!"/ "This is really going to hurt..."
Of course, if I were go to back to the spot where the one happened, the embankment I rolled down won't be quite so tall, etc.
Another one was walking off the back of a scaffold on the side of a "chicken truck" while loading chickens. Again, "Oh shit" to "wow free fall is cool" to "where is the ground already?POWWW...oooooowwwww". It was a good 8 ft to the ground. Luckily I landed on wet, soft turf, and not pavement, with most of force initially sucked up by back and shoulder blade, not back of the head..
Hmm... how about maybe...hyperventillating and almost blacking out?
Well, I think that Joe Sixpack would say that "blindness" means "cannot see". Whether it is macular degeneration, detached retina, severe cataracts, loss of eye, emotional trauma (i.e, people so traumatized they stop acknowledging visual inputs).
I think the last item is what is appropriate, it's a situational, transient *functional* blindness.
Too bad it's not necessarily related to having to leave. right. now. and not seeing your car keys right where you left them, even though you're staring right at the spot on the table or kitchen counter where they are, so you are half an hour late because of the self-imposed snipe hunt you had to go on in order to find them, right where you left them.
I'm worried about College and University connections. Usage limits and even outright censorship are the norm on High School networks. I'd like to change this, but for now, it's just a fact of life.
Well, this is a political issue, is it not? It's definitely not a technical, infrastructure or economic issue. Gotta protect the kids!
NAT is a detriment to the Public Internet.
On one hand, yes, but it's no more a detriment really to the Internet than PBXs are to the POTS.
Both end up doing the same thing, really.
The Internet was never democratic. In its early days, only a few in the CS depts had accts on the "Internet" cmmputer. It slowly spread from there. At the Univ. of Washington (1987-89), we had 3 internetworking protocols: BITNET (IBM Mainframe-IBM Mainframe), DECNet, and ArpaNet (hard to count UUCP really, but I suppose one should). It was WAYYYY cool to have an account on the ArpaNet machine, not the least of which it had games on it. Having an acct on the 4381 was big because you could use BITNET Relay to IM other people on other IBM computers. You had to have some connections to get a RITA acct (the 11/750 that had the TCP/IP ArpaNet/Internet connection, and had the BSD source on it...), even if you worked for UW Academic Computing Services...
So it has NEVER been democratic, even at universities.
Well, this would run contrary to what the current BRAC (Base ReAlignment Commission) is doing, which includes shutting down/"realigning" a bunch of National Guard and Army Reserve facilities across the country.
As far as optical fiber goes, how much "dark" fiber is already in the ground in the US from the 90's?
So your argument was kind of a red herring.
The observation in the US is that Comcast, RoadRunner, Verizon/Qwest/SBC basically control broadband deployment in the US, not the FCC. These companies, when they're not trying to slit each other's throats (wrong kind of competition), are more than happy to keep padding congressional pockets and keep the FCC under control. Oh, and a few local and state buyoffs help too, to quell any minor uprisings by the untermenschen locals who have gotten tired of eating cake.
There are other "broadband" options besides cable or telco DSL, but they're in the minority. I'm using wireless broadband supplied by MacOnline (www.maconline.com), which is for me just ends up being what I wish I could get from cable or telco DSL: Broadband internet service with no buy-in to the network provider's lowest-common-denominator bundled bullshit and their bullshit TOS agreements.
768Kbps SDSL. Static IP. Works for me.
Now, my birth mother in Lance Creek, WY, well, they'd probably have to use satellite-based service. If you know where Lance Creek, WY, is, you'll understand why cable, telco DSL, 3G, et al., will NEVER reach a good third of the US physically (i.e., between the front range of the Rocky Mts and the Mississippi River, not withstanding major metropolitan areas like Denver or Kansas City.
...all the drug testing does is filter out the stupid/obstinant ones. The smart ones get past the initial screens.
You rest easier because of this? I don't. But I don't lose a lot of sleep about it, either.
Besides, we've elected at least two people to high political office with cocaine habits in their past.
So get off the high-and-mighty hobbyhorse.
From a practical standpoint this is like anything else that you discard, it doesn't belong to you any more ...if that were the case, then dumpster diving would not be illegal on those grounds. But oftentimes it is. Even if the garbage is off the company's premises and in the dump.
If you think that some people with eye problems aren't allowed to drive, and driving is part of the job, then by all accounts I feel the employer has the right to refuse to employ you.
As would most people. But what if the potential employee had a magic gizmo that gave him enough spatial and situational awareness to operate a vehicle safely without having functional eyes?
An ADA lawyer would probably argue that this is a reasonable accomodation, especially if the employee is already using it.
There is discrimination, and there are safety issues.
Remember, the Pol Pots figured everyone who wore eyeglasses was an "intellectual", and therefore, a threat, and they were persecuted/killed outright.
Well, if that is the argument, then, we'd better just cancel Social Security out-right. Why? Well, think of all those poor suckers, who through accident or just bad life, are doomed to live the rest of their lives on SSI, the disability part of Social Security. All of our social security taxes go into the trust fund to pay out for these lifetime moochers. That's just not fair!
Insurance companies want to know the risks ahead of time so they can set the rates, and adjust their payout rules, to ensure their profits.
Just like if you honestly beat a casino game, the casino will cut you off, one way or the other.
I don't like paying taxes for idiots who build shake roof houses in the mountains of the Western US, or buy houses built in 100-yr floodplains (and then rebuild there after their house gets washed away..sometimes more than once!).
If you think your health insurance and hospital visits are expensive just because the companies are gouging the honest people only for profits, well...you'd be wrong.
Emergency Rooms are mandated (by US federal law) to take all comers, and worry about the financial details later. It is not worth the risk to the hospital to dicker around about whether an emergent ER patient has $$$ or not. They fix them up. If the patient can't pay, the cost is passed on to everyone else. The hospital, and community, cannot afford to NOT have an ER. So it goes on and on.
Knowing the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
We're all going to die. Some day.
So what exactly is your point, Cheetos-boy?
and isn't the Pope infallible?
Only the current Pope.
I have the feeling that the new Pope will make GWB and Karl Rove look like choirboys.
But then you only have to throw in a few biomedical coincidences... "African-Americans have higher incidences of high blood pressure, sickle-cell anemia, etc.". And it goes downhill from there.
Replace "African-Americans" with "people with specific genetic sequence markers at Cx54:1258 have higher incidence of high blood pressure", and if that is your only metric, and it happens that the preponderence (51:49? no. 2:1? 8:1?) of people with these markers are of African descent, well, you now have medically justified, genetic discrimination, at least as far as companies like BNSF are concerned.
Employers aren't always bad; aren't always in the wrong. ...and neither are employees. Things have gone bad at a company when it's pretty obvious the company management feels that the employees cannot be trusted. People tend to raise (or lower...) themselves to the expectations put upon them. If you assume everyone working for you is a liar, cheat, thief, etc., then, oddly enough, you're probably going to find that you have a lot of employees like that.
And further, especially for an at-will employer, why would it not want to avoid workers who won't be able to effectively perform certain tasks, or workers who statistically may become liabilities in the future? What is the source for the reasoning that everyone has a "right" to work, and to work for a particular employer, to those who believe that?
Well, it's reducing the employee then to a piece of chattel, basically. Instead of being valued as a contributor, the employee is viewed as a risk factor on the expense side. Just like you don't keep obsolete equipment around (unless you're a total cheapskate or spendthrift), now management has determined that it's got a lot of cost liability in those employees (is it a higher liability in BNSF's case compared to reducing its rail and rolling stock maintenance, increasing the risks of a derailment potentially involving large quantities of hazardous materials that are typically shipped by rail???). The management feels like it IS the company, but it's not.
Might as well incorporate policies at the company that employees have to be between the ages of 25 and 40, have a BMI score lower than 25, not drink, not smoke, have 2.3 kids, a credit score of 650 or higher, no bankruptcies declared within the last 7 years, etc. But I assume this would hold also for upper management/executives as well, no?
But of course, it won't. It almost never does. Will a CFO retire when he hits 40? Nope.
Might as well put little crystals in everyone's hands, make a weekly extravaganza show to see if the Runners (whose hand-crystals have stopped glowing) can make it out (which they never do, i.e., they get killed in the game), etc.
Maybe that's the whole purpose of the continuing war with SouthwestAsia.
Hmm, I seem to see an awful lot of possible interpretations, and only one of them involves murder.
Or, the intent is to use a visual image with so much implied badness that when the next person walks into that door, be it a Kirby vacuum salesman, the person's in-laws, or the people coming in for the 3pm staff meeting, that it completely kills off whatever planned agenda they might have had before going in, and all they are then thinking about is what the hell you might want to do with that gun so obviously placed.
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.
As far as the remark about Sweden, a couple of years ago, a high-level government official in Sweden was indeed whacked off by a nutjob with a handgun while getting into his car to go somewhere inane.
Edison was briliant, but yes, IIRC, he was also likely a jerk, a petty one at that.
What I heard was that he wanted to discredit alternating current (AC) power, and electrocuting animals was his way of doing it. Edison favored direct current (DC) power. The problem is that given the technology of the time, and it is still largely true today, due to the physics involved, AC is generally a better long-distance electrical power transmission method.
I'm not sure how stable Tesla was, but he was right about AC.
The battle really was between Westinghouse and Edison. Westinghouse saw Tesla's ideas and saw his chance to get at Edison.
So I doubt MS will go after Apple (by way of a SW example, remember all the aspects of the Apple GUI MS copied, and the derivatives of that it patented, and Apple also patented, who actually had the kernal of the idea is debatable).
Someone too young to know about the "Look and Feel" lawsuit that Apple had against Microsoft, which was eventually settled out of court?
e that that it supports the sort of society that we want to build on top of it. "
What would the Taliban in Afghanistan want it to be like? What about the American Taliban, er, the neoCons? What would Pol Pot have had it do?
Before we assume that the forces of "light" and all that is good and sweet will do it, let's prepare for what the darker sides of us (because all this bad things that are driving American political dialog right now) will allow it to be, and assume that it will happen.
Uh, Google Earth's interface is not better than Google Maps. It's different, but that's about it.
The one thing that google maps lacks is "click-to-zoom", i.e., clicking on an area will zoom in 1-2 levels, centered on where you click (just like Mapquest does).
Google Earth *is* cool, but it's not *better* than google maps.
Ajax enriches the web app experience, not the Windows desktop. Because at that point, it's as relevant in Windows as it is in KDE, Darwin, etc.
Yes, but when is the miracle that will be Avalon be out? Avalon seems to want to have targeted XUL. But AJAX is neatly sidestepping both Avalon and XUL.
But I bet there are quite a few Microsoft-oriented developers/consultants/IT Shops, etc., that are quietly marking time until Longhorn...er, Windows Vista, is close to going gold, and these islands are ones we have not been hearing about, because as much as the Slashdot crowd sneers at just about everything Microsoft, these Microsoft types are just as antagonistic and rabid about their Microsoft love with regard to things that aren't Microsoft.
Yes, and as things start to play out similarly in Mozambique, where will we all fit in when Robert Mugabe writes the historionic books, as a hero of the masses, along side Idi Amin, Saddam Hussain and the former Shah of Iran?