Please somebody tell which channel in the U.S. is examining why almost every country on earth is in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq and its seizure of the oil wells ( or maybe they will eventually be sold to some joint US/"iraqi" company just like the saudis et. al. which is the same thing, Aramco is Arabian American Oil).
Actually many countrys are for the action in Iraq. France, Genrmany, Russia and China are big countrys and against it, so they get the coverage. Many small countrys are for it, but who cares what Latvia thinks, just to name one. (I don't even care enough to look up the correct spelling of their name, though they are for the action in Iraq)
As for seizure of the oil wells, the promiss so far is that the oil belongs to Iraq, After paying for rebuilding the country they will belong to Iraq, and hopefully the new country will be smart enough to sell them for a big amount, and then get taxes every year that amount to something that can get them on their feet, and keep them there ever after the oil runs out. Promisses have been broken in the past, but to say the wells are permently seized for US interest isn't the promis.
Which American station has explored the data that shows that _all_ the biological weapons came from the states? All the chemicals came from the states? Which one is looking at the fact that at the time of the chemical attacks by that bastard Sad-Ham, Iraq was the single largest recipient of american foreign aid cash.
Except for the supplies that came from Russia (I think others too, but I know that Russia sent chemcials to Iraq). And France will be directly responsible if they achive nukes.
Which American station is looking into the overthrow of democratic governments as American foriegn policy. in vietnam 56
Not sure about the others, but Vietnam was highly publicised during the war, and you can't read a history book about US in the 60s and 70s that doesn't go into a deep analysis of the situation there. The situation is far deeper than your simple sentence (which is true, but not the full truth) would lead someone to belive. There isn't room on/. to cover this topic though. (Even if I could remember all the facts)
Did any of you hear that the man listed to run Iraq after liberation is an american arms dealer? NO? Did any one hear that each of the 23 ministries will be headed by an American, No?Who else would you choose? The right person needs to know politics, something an arms dealer has to navigate often. American (and the UK, do not forget them) will win this war, and they can choose the leaders. They will start with their own people, with instructions to build the country and hand it over to Iraq. This can work,. just look at Japan. It can also fail. To pass judgement before it starts it wrong.
Or Haliburton, Cheney's company, with the contract to rebuild the oil wells. My god this does look profitable.
Correction: Cheney's former Company. He left the company before he became vice president. When someone enters politics from the private sector, they turn control of their stocks and money over to a blind trust, which means they trust someone to deal with all their money, and give them no clue how it is invested. The only other way would be to require someone interested in politics to decide before they are 16 if they want a pirvate sector or political carreer. If the latter they will never hold a real job except for one in politics because that could taint them. (Not even burger flipper at McDonalds, becuase McDonalds would then have a opportunity to brainwash them...) Get real, like most people, Cheney had a real job, he took a position that would result in a conflict of interest with his other jobs, so he left those jobs so he wouldn't have one.
You forget a different class that gets screwed: the people who don't live in the big city. I know people who can only get 2 snowy tv stations, and then only if the weather is perfect (when they sould be outside), and their rooftop antenna is pointed in their direction. They get another more radio stations, but most of them are AM stations that can't broadcast after dark. (AM radio has skip, after dark a little station can interfer with a different one, so only one station in the country is allowed a particular frequency after dark, but during they day many use it)
Why should there be a problem with different cards for personal and comercial networks. If the access is reasonably priced I'll just put in the comercial card all the time, and use a VPN (ssh) when I need to get to the personal network.
Oh, I see the problem, wireless is still a fringe technology and not cheap. My cell phone replaced my wired phone years ago, becuase it is cheaper for me. (No long distance charges, and more time than I can talk in a month for less than a wired line) In a few years expect that comercail data networks will be cheap enough that few people bother with a personal wireless setup.
Now if only someone would tell the major players this and get them to see the light.
Legally and technically, you are right that linux preceedes freeBSD. Practically, FreeBSD is a direct decendant of BSD, which was first by a long margin. Many hackers (The real ones) had access to BSD code for years before linux was even a gleam in Linus' eyes.
Again, not much you can do here other than take the kid in to the pediatrician, give them the medicine, and suck it up.
Watch the doctors though, some will give medicine everytime you come in, even if it won't help. Medicine works by killing things, when you are ill with something it works on, most of what it kills is bad, so you need it and must not ignore it. When you are ill (or healthy) but with something else that the medicine doesn't work on, the medicine just works on the body, which in the best case might be harmless, but more often will cause the body to get used to those drugs, and then become weaker without them.
When you take the kid in make it clear to the doctor that if he can't do anything you want to know that, not get a perscription for a drug that won't help. (many doctors are doing this now, but not all)
Haven't you read/. lately? all the good computer jobs are going to India where the highest paid guys get $8/hr. Happened to me, now I'm a carpender, where I don't make as much as I was, but it is better than the $4/hr my education would give me for my old job.
My favorite bookstore Has a number of books that will help anyone planning to make their own computer case. Not to mention all the fun science things that can help you do. Get the dead tree catalog, it has many books that are not online.
Hmmm... Have you ever worked for someone who made less than you.
I have actually. I knew one person who owned his own company that paid himself $8/hr, his next lowest paid emploiyee made $12/hr (a summer only guy who would have made more if the company expected the time spent training him could be spread out over a longer time). For equivelent work, his formen made ~$20/hr.
Of course this was all an accounting gimic, as a coproration he gets all the profits. And many of the things he wants the company buys. (He doesn't need a computer, he just uses the work computer...) However he did make less than anyone who worked for him on paper.
Because it has TV/video out that works, stero sound that works, it looks good next to a TV, and it is cheap. Sure I could build a computer with most of that, but cheap is already out, a nice looking case would just about be more than an Xbox. Now find a TV card that works on linux. (Doable, but not all work so be careful) Of course the computer I build would be faster, but that wasn't a requirement.
A xbox is a good machine for those expirimenting with linux as a control for their home enertainment system. It isn't good for general purpose computing, but it is good for living room applications. Drop MAME, stella, atari800, etc on it and you can play a lot more games. With a good net connection you can download movies from the internet and play them on a TV, which is bitter than the monitor most people have. (I don't know where to find legal movies, but that is a different issue. I'm sure you can find one though, which will prove to the judge that copyright infringement isn't the only reason for this)
At one time the US didn't extend byond the mississippi river, so anything west of the 13 origional colonies, was the west. As the Us expanded it was no longer accuarte to call it the west, but habbit was you still did. Eventially people fell into calling the old west the midwest, and the new west the west. (Of course now old west as a different connotation)
Sure as a tech I can design a network to be avaiable anywhere. (Even on airplanes during takeoff/landing, where most electronic devices are banned) However this artical make it clear that I shouldn't spend my time doing that unless someone is watching the overall ecconmic costs. Sure as an engineer that isn't my prime responsibility, but I should be aware that other issues exist, and if they are not being watched by someone who understand them (which I likely don't) then I should expect the project to fail.
It has been said that most technological project fails because of bad management. I believe it, because I've seen it. Engineers may not understand or know these issues, but it is the job of management to know they exist and solve them. Technical problems can be solved if resources are unlimited (Mostly money, but sometimes other). However that is not the case. Many projects have solved all the technological problems, but the cost was so high that nobody could afford them.
And how do I send email? I use an email address different from my ISP's provided one. (From the first ISP I signed up for cause that is where everyone knows me) They won't accept me because m y address isn't on of theirs. The ISP my mail is from won't accept me cause I'm not internal and anyone can forge a from line.
Sure I only speak English. (I pretend I can speak Spanish, but I'm not fooling myself, much less anyone who knows spanish.) I still installed all the lanuages translations KDE has on my computer. I have friends who speak other languages. They like the ability set the computer in their languages.
Only about 5 people have used my computer in the last 4 years, but one of them used a language other than english. It makes it worth it, and cost little disk space in todays world.
I keep hoping the cute girl from Sweden will come back and be impressed after using my comptuer. (It won't happen, but If I ever meet anouther girl...)
What if the hardware had failed? Linux can be made that stable (though it is more likely to be vulnerable to crackers...) but harddrives are still mechanical and crash randomly from time to time. You go luckly that time, but what about next trip?
Sure you can go with RAID and the like, but even still you need provisions for dealing with broken hardware. OpenBSD doen'st run when there is no harddrive.
Most people do not have enough deductions to make it worthwhile. Unless you are paying on a house (which is a lot of people, contradicting the above...) odds are you cannot get enough deductions to get over the standard deduction. I personally have $800 in deductions other than my house. Not even close to what I'd need without the house.
Of course if you own your buisness, or some such you can get there, but most people don't.
One thing that really surprized me was to learn that tools for work are not 100% deductable like everyone told me all this time, they are only deductable after they account for more than 2% of your income. That is a lot of tools.
Remember, unless you buy a house, all the talk about deductions isn't worth thinking about, just get married and have kids if you want to save on taxes. (Be prepared for all the other bills that will change, often to go up if you)
In order to be a level I trauma hosptial (where the ambulance goes after a serious emergency) the hospital MUST have a full team of trauma surgeons on staff and ready to enter the ER within minutes. Before the ambulence arrives they are ready. (This means if brian surgery is scheduled for the day, there are two brain surgeons in the hospital, one to do the surgery, and one doing other duties just in case an emergency comes up)
Seconds count in an emergency, and no doctor can safely get from a theator to the Emergency room in time to make a difference. So your example, while it sounds good and dramatic fails the test of realism.
Except that I need some extra cash, but I work on a team, and if one guy isn't there, than none of us can work. (I'm in construction, many jobs require at least 3 guys, sometimes more) In most other jobs there are deadlines that need to be met. It needs to work both ways, the company needs to be reasonable (if the guy who doesn't want to work just wants to go home and drink, that is different from watching the kids), but so do the workers. If there is a deadline, then I don't have a problem working late. I expect that deadlines like this don't come up often, as that is a sign of bad management planing. (OTOH, if I want overtime normally so deadlines are scheduled assuming I'll work overtime that is good planning)
Not to say anything against those who have died with AIDS (including my favorite high school teacher...), but very few of the people who have contacted AIDS or HIV did so in a way that they couldn't have prevented. I'm only aware of one case (I think there were a couple more that I can't remember) of someone getting it from a blood transfusion.
In particular, NOBODY has gotten HIV by touching a standard doorknob after an infected person touched it. The common cold often transmits in this way from person to person.
Considering the facts, and my personal behavior, my chances of getting HIV/AIDS are nearly nil. I don't do drugs, and I don't sleep around. Sure my values are a lot stricter than most people's, but even if your not willing to take that solution, you can take precautions. You should really, considering that AIDS is only the most famious, but not the most likely problem you can get by engaging in risky behavior.
Seriously, you shouldn't have your phone in the theator. you should instead be attending phones where you must leave your phone with the from desk, and if there is a call they will answer it (some sort of script so the caller knows they got the right number and you prefer not to be interupted, but have made emergency provisions), and then after verifying that it is an important call the ushers get you, otherwise you just get a message after the show. I hope you have the sense to sit in an asile seat near the exit.
There are many emergencys that might require you to take a phone call. None are critical enough that an extra 5 minutes will make a difference - if they are you should be at work not out on the town.
Yes there are theators that do this for you, I'm not just making this up. Demand your local one do it.
While I agree with most of your points, it is incorrect to state that the US went to war just after the deadline expired the US went to war. The deadlines have expired long ago, and the US is sure Iraq was not in compliance. France decided they wanted to extend the deadline again, the US decided that was enough. The deadline is for something that was requried 12 years ago (when Gulf war ! was over the UN/US required as a conditition of peace that Iraq give up these weapons), so any claim that it should be extended needs to be met with the Question: Why can't you be in compliance in 12 years, regaurdless of the latest deadline.
Now that the US is at war you cannot argue that the US was lieing about their non-compliance. Iraq promised to destory scuds that they have used against the US.
I'm certinly not for Iraq, though I admit I'm not sure if war is nessicary. However it is clear that whatever France/Genrmany/Russia/China was doing for the last 12 years didn't work. I don't know what else would have worked.
Well the i386 can directly access terrabytes of Ram. (I don't recall the exact amount). Unfortunatly you need to use segmented memory to do it, and anyone who remembers programing segmented memory in the days of the 8086 wants nothing to do with bringing it back.
The point is we can do it in theory, there is nothing standing in the way. Just nobody sane wants to. Which blows away your claim that we need to come up with a funkey addressing scheme.
Woah! I rememver running 10 users on a single 200 mhz sun years ago when that was a fast sparc. Depends a lot on your aps. Look at the specs of a cheap PC, and you will find that anyone is plenty fast. Most of your applications could run local on whatever machine you loged into, and you export X sessions only when you need to.
Second, remember this is supposably targeted at a home users. How many households do you know of that really can get 5 people at once doing something on the computer? Now make that 5 big things, because most things that people do on a computer don't need a lot of CPU.
I agree the prices are too low, but that doesn't change that it is workable to get close to those prices.
First of all, in most cases a fire will not destroy ALL papers. It will in the area that the first first starts, but just outside that area most papers are readable (often only once, so better get an expert to make that one time a copy). World Trade Center type disaster where everything is destroyed for everyone are rare. I used to heat with wood, after heating the house all day and night, I'd find the next morning some of the newspapers I used to light yesterday's fire still readable in the ashes. (you couldn't even breath in their direction without destorying them, but they were readable within those limits)
Of course I see your point: but with papers you should have copies of valuable documents stored offsite. It just happens that it is significantly cheaper and easier to store an electronic version of the document offsite. Easier because it should be automatic, cheaper because a tape that can hold thousands of documents (less if you use wasteful file formats like Word) in the space of one in a warehouse.
In most cases I find my office is full of papers, but almost of them are things I can easially print out again if I need them. I used to have a set of documents I'd print out at least weekly, the paper version was easier to read (and pin to the wall), but it was always out of date.
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Please somebody tell which channel in the U.S. is examining why almost every country on earth is in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq and its seizure of the oil wells ( or maybe they will eventually be sold to some joint US/"iraqi" company just like the saudis et. al. which is the same thing, Aramco is Arabian American Oil).
Actually many countrys are for the action in Iraq. France, Genrmany, Russia and China are big countrys and against it, so they get the coverage. Many small countrys are for it, but who cares what Latvia thinks, just to name one. (I don't even care enough to look up the correct spelling of their name, though they are for the action in Iraq)
As for seizure of the oil wells, the promiss so far is that the oil belongs to Iraq, After paying for rebuilding the country they will belong to Iraq, and hopefully the new country will be smart enough to sell them for a big amount, and then get taxes every year that amount to something that can get them on their feet, and keep them there ever after the oil runs out. Promisses have been broken in the past, but to say the wells are permently seized for US interest isn't the promis.
Which American station has explored the data that shows that _all_ the biological weapons came from the states? All the chemicals came from the states? Which one is looking at the fact that at the time of the chemical attacks by that bastard Sad-Ham, Iraq was the single largest recipient of american foreign aid cash.
Except for the supplies that came from Russia (I think others too, but I know that Russia sent chemcials to Iraq). And France will be directly responsible if they achive nukes.
Which American station is looking into the overthrow of democratic governments as American foriegn policy. in vietnam 56
Not sure about the others, but Vietnam was highly publicised during the war, and you can't read a history book about US in the 60s and 70s that doesn't go into a deep analysis of the situation there. The situation is far deeper than your simple sentence (which is true, but not the full truth) would lead someone to belive. There isn't room on /. to cover this topic though. (Even if I could remember all the facts)
Did any of you hear that the man listed to run Iraq after liberation is an american arms dealer? NO? Did any one hear that each of the 23 ministries will be headed by an American, No?Who else would you choose? The right person needs to know politics, something an arms dealer has to navigate often. American (and the UK, do not forget them) will win this war, and they can choose the leaders. They will start with their own people, with instructions to build the country and hand it over to Iraq. This can work,. just look at Japan. It can also fail. To pass judgement before it starts it wrong.
Or Haliburton, Cheney's company, with the contract to rebuild the oil wells. My god this does look profitable.
Correction: Cheney's former Company. He left the company before he became vice president. When someone enters politics from the private sector, they turn control of their stocks and money over to a blind trust, which means they trust someone to deal with all their money, and give them no clue how it is invested. The only other way would be to require someone interested in politics to decide before they are 16 if they want a pirvate sector or political carreer. If the latter they will never hold a real job except for one in politics because that could taint them. (Not even burger flipper at McDonalds, becuase McDonalds would then have a opportunity to brainwash them...) Get real, like most people, Cheney had a real job, he took a position that would result in a conflict of interest with his other jobs, so he left those jobs so he wouldn't have one.
You forget a different class that gets screwed: the people who don't live in the big city. I know people who can only get 2 snowy tv stations, and then only if the weather is perfect (when they sould be outside), and their rooftop antenna is pointed in their direction. They get another more radio stations, but most of them are AM stations that can't broadcast after dark. (AM radio has skip, after dark a little station can interfer with a different one, so only one station in the country is allowed a particular frequency after dark, but during they day many use it)
Why should there be a problem with different cards for personal and comercial networks. If the access is reasonably priced I'll just put in the comercial card all the time, and use a VPN (ssh) when I need to get to the personal network.
Oh, I see the problem, wireless is still a fringe technology and not cheap. My cell phone replaced my wired phone years ago, becuase it is cheaper for me. (No long distance charges, and more time than I can talk in a month for less than a wired line) In a few years expect that comercail data networks will be cheap enough that few people bother with a personal wireless setup.
Now if only someone would tell the major players this and get them to see the light.
Legally and technically, you are right that linux preceedes freeBSD. Practically, FreeBSD is a direct decendant of BSD, which was first by a long margin. Many hackers (The real ones) had access to BSD code for years before linux was even a gleam in Linus' eyes.
Again, not much you can do here other than take the kid in to the pediatrician, give them the medicine, and suck it up.
Watch the doctors though, some will give medicine everytime you come in, even if it won't help. Medicine works by killing things, when you are ill with something it works on, most of what it kills is bad, so you need it and must not ignore it. When you are ill (or healthy) but with something else that the medicine doesn't work on, the medicine just works on the body, which in the best case might be harmless, but more often will cause the body to get used to those drugs, and then become weaker without them.
When you take the kid in make it clear to the doctor that if he can't do anything you want to know that, not get a perscription for a drug that won't help. (many doctors are doing this now, but not all)
Haven't you read /. lately? all the good computer jobs are going to India where the highest paid guys get $8/hr. Happened to me, now I'm a carpender, where I don't make as much as I was, but it is better than the $4/hr my education would give me for my old job.
My favorite bookstore Has a number of books that will help anyone planning to make their own computer case. Not to mention all the fun science things that can help you do. Get the dead tree catalog, it has many books that are not online.
Hmmm... Have you ever worked for someone who made less than you.
I have actually. I knew one person who owned his own company that paid himself $8/hr, his next lowest paid emploiyee made $12/hr (a summer only guy who would have made more if the company expected the time spent training him could be spread out over a longer time). For equivelent work, his formen made ~$20/hr.
Of course this was all an accounting gimic, as a coproration he gets all the profits. And many of the things he wants the company buys. (He doesn't need a computer, he just uses the work computer...) However he did make less than anyone who worked for him on paper.
Because it has TV/video out that works, stero sound that works, it looks good next to a TV, and it is cheap. Sure I could build a computer with most of that, but cheap is already out, a nice looking case would just about be more than an Xbox. Now find a TV card that works on linux. (Doable, but not all work so be careful) Of course the computer I build would be faster, but that wasn't a requirement.
A xbox is a good machine for those expirimenting with linux as a control for their home enertainment system. It isn't good for general purpose computing, but it is good for living room applications. Drop MAME, stella, atari800, etc on it and you can play a lot more games. With a good net connection you can download movies from the internet and play them on a TV, which is bitter than the monitor most people have. (I don't know where to find legal movies, but that is a different issue. I'm sure you can find one though, which will prove to the judge that copyright infringement isn't the only reason for this)
At one time the US didn't extend byond the mississippi river, so anything west of the 13 origional colonies, was the west. As the Us expanded it was no longer accuarte to call it the west, but habbit was you still did. Eventially people fell into calling the old west the midwest, and the new west the west. (Of course now old west as a different connotation)
Sure as a tech I can design a network to be avaiable anywhere. (Even on airplanes during takeoff/landing, where most electronic devices are banned) However this artical make it clear that I shouldn't spend my time doing that unless someone is watching the overall ecconmic costs. Sure as an engineer that isn't my prime responsibility, but I should be aware that other issues exist, and if they are not being watched by someone who understand them (which I likely don't) then I should expect the project to fail.
It has been said that most technological project fails because of bad management. I believe it, because I've seen it. Engineers may not understand or know these issues, but it is the job of management to know they exist and solve them. Technical problems can be solved if resources are unlimited (Mostly money, but sometimes other). However that is not the case. Many projects have solved all the technological problems, but the cost was so high that nobody could afford them.
And how do I send email? I use an email address different from my ISP's provided one. (From the first ISP I signed up for cause that is where everyone knows me) They won't accept me because m y address isn't on of theirs. The ISP my mail is from won't accept me cause I'm not internal and anyone can forge a from line.
Sure I only speak English. (I pretend I can speak Spanish, but I'm not fooling myself, much less anyone who knows spanish.) I still installed all the lanuages translations KDE has on my computer. I have friends who speak other languages. They like the ability set the computer in their languages.
Only about 5 people have used my computer in the last 4 years, but one of them used a language other than english. It makes it worth it, and cost little disk space in todays world.
I keep hoping the cute girl from Sweden will come back and be impressed after using my comptuer. (It won't happen, but If I ever meet anouther girl...)
What if the hardware had failed? Linux can be made that stable (though it is more likely to be vulnerable to crackers...) but harddrives are still mechanical and crash randomly from time to time. You go luckly that time, but what about next trip?
Sure you can go with RAID and the like, but even still you need provisions for dealing with broken hardware. OpenBSD doen'st run when there is no harddrive.
Most people do not have enough deductions to make it worthwhile. Unless you are paying on a house (which is a lot of people, contradicting the above...) odds are you cannot get enough deductions to get over the standard deduction. I personally have $800 in deductions other than my house. Not even close to what I'd need without the house.
Of course if you own your buisness, or some such you can get there, but most people don't.
One thing that really surprized me was to learn that tools for work are not 100% deductable like everyone told me all this time, they are only deductable after they account for more than 2% of your income. That is a lot of tools.
Remember, unless you buy a house, all the talk about deductions isn't worth thinking about, just get married and have kids if you want to save on taxes. (Be prepared for all the other bills that will change, often to go up if you)
You missed the point. Read my post, and then read some of the memos and panic and hype about aids, and other litature from the same orginizations.
In order to be a level I trauma hosptial (where the ambulance goes after a serious emergency) the hospital MUST have a full team of trauma surgeons on staff and ready to enter the ER within minutes. Before the ambulence arrives they are ready. (This means if brian surgery is scheduled for the day, there are two brain surgeons in the hospital, one to do the surgery, and one doing other duties just in case an emergency comes up)
Seconds count in an emergency, and no doctor can safely get from a theator to the Emergency room in time to make a difference. So your example, while it sounds good and dramatic fails the test of realism.
Except that I need some extra cash, but I work on a team, and if one guy isn't there, than none of us can work. (I'm in construction, many jobs require at least 3 guys, sometimes more) In most other jobs there are deadlines that need to be met. It needs to work both ways, the company needs to be reasonable (if the guy who doesn't want to work just wants to go home and drink, that is different from watching the kids), but so do the workers. If there is a deadline, then I don't have a problem working late. I expect that deadlines like this don't come up often, as that is a sign of bad management planing. (OTOH, if I want overtime normally so deadlines are scheduled assuming I'll work overtime that is good planning)
Not to say anything against those who have died with AIDS (including my favorite high school teacher...), but very few of the people who have contacted AIDS or HIV did so in a way that they couldn't have prevented. I'm only aware of one case (I think there were a couple more that I can't remember) of someone getting it from a blood transfusion.
In particular, NOBODY has gotten HIV by touching a standard doorknob after an infected person touched it. The common cold often transmits in this way from person to person.
Considering the facts, and my personal behavior, my chances of getting HIV/AIDS are nearly nil. I don't do drugs, and I don't sleep around. Sure my values are a lot stricter than most people's, but even if your not willing to take that solution, you can take precautions. You should really, considering that AIDS is only the most famious, but not the most likely problem you can get by engaging in risky behavior.
Seriously, you shouldn't have your phone in the theator. you should instead be attending phones where you must leave your phone with the from desk, and if there is a call they will answer it (some sort of script so the caller knows they got the right number and you prefer not to be interupted, but have made emergency provisions), and then after verifying that it is an important call the ushers get you, otherwise you just get a message after the show. I hope you have the sense to sit in an asile seat near the exit.
There are many emergencys that might require you to take a phone call. None are critical enough that an extra 5 minutes will make a difference - if they are you should be at work not out on the town.
Yes there are theators that do this for you, I'm not just making this up. Demand your local one do it.
While I agree with most of your points, it is incorrect to state that the US went to war just after the deadline expired the US went to war. The deadlines have expired long ago, and the US is sure Iraq was not in compliance. France decided they wanted to extend the deadline again, the US decided that was enough. The deadline is for something that was requried 12 years ago (when Gulf war ! was over the UN/US required as a conditition of peace that Iraq give up these weapons), so any claim that it should be extended needs to be met with the Question: Why can't you be in compliance in 12 years, regaurdless of the latest deadline.
Now that the US is at war you cannot argue that the US was lieing about their non-compliance. Iraq promised to destory scuds that they have used against the US.
I'm certinly not for Iraq, though I admit I'm not sure if war is nessicary. However it is clear that whatever France/Genrmany/Russia/China was doing for the last 12 years didn't work. I don't know what else would have worked.
Well the i386 can directly access terrabytes of Ram. (I don't recall the exact amount). Unfortunatly you need to use segmented memory to do it, and anyone who remembers programing segmented memory in the days of the 8086 wants nothing to do with bringing it back.
The point is we can do it in theory, there is nothing standing in the way. Just nobody sane wants to. Which blows away your claim that we need to come up with a funkey addressing scheme.
Woah! I rememver running 10 users on a single 200 mhz sun years ago when that was a fast sparc. Depends a lot on your aps. Look at the specs of a cheap PC, and you will find that anyone is plenty fast. Most of your applications could run local on whatever machine you loged into, and you export X sessions only when you need to.
Second, remember this is supposably targeted at a home users. How many households do you know of that really can get 5 people at once doing something on the computer? Now make that 5 big things, because most things that people do on a computer don't need a lot of CPU.
I agree the prices are too low, but that doesn't change that it is workable to get close to those prices.
First of all, in most cases a fire will not destroy ALL papers. It will in the area that the first first starts, but just outside that area most papers are readable (often only once, so better get an expert to make that one time a copy). World Trade Center type disaster where everything is destroyed for everyone are rare. I used to heat with wood, after heating the house all day and night, I'd find the next morning some of the newspapers I used to light yesterday's fire still readable in the ashes. (you couldn't even breath in their direction without destorying them, but they were readable within those limits)
Of course I see your point: but with papers you should have copies of valuable documents stored offsite. It just happens that it is significantly cheaper and easier to store an electronic version of the document offsite. Easier because it should be automatic, cheaper because a tape that can hold thousands of documents (less if you use wasteful file formats like Word) in the space of one in a warehouse.
In most cases I find my office is full of papers, but almost of them are things I can easially print out again if I need them. I used to have a set of documents I'd print out at least weekly, the paper version was easier to read (and pin to the wall), but it was always out of date.
I knew I was old last year when I discoverd there is a station in my area playing nothing but '80s music, and I love it! When I was a kid only old folks listened to stations that playing nothing but music from a different decade. Now I am them.