What's the 105 mm cannon (or "howitzer" as the article described it) on the AC-130 used for? 105 mm is a bit small for reasonably modern artillery, and if you'd need fast shelling of an area and you don't have any howitzers in range, wouldn't you call in a regular bombing or robot/missile strike instead of sending up a "flying howitzer"?
I'd imagine it'd be more useful for direct fire purposes like tank-busting, but then again I'd imagine some AP missile (or LASER, to stay on topic...) would be more useful and accurate fired from a plane than a cannon.
Actually, to my unenlightened self the whole Hercules Gunship concept seems a bit silly.
Just prohibit the exportation of American TV shows and movies. That's where most of our European prejudice against the inhabitants of the Trans-Atlantic colonies comes from.
You are totally correct in that many of us "Yurpeens" need to take a serious look in the mirror before ventilating complaints about alledged American ignorance. Also, an entire population doesn't have to be retarded just because they misspell words like "colour" and "aluminium".;)
Quit spouting off ridiculous claims of inventing aeroplanes, television and so on. We all know that Germans are behind every invention made before the year 1945.;) And no, I'm not German.
I agree, Apple's "Pro" mouse is pretty to look at, but I hate to use it (I still prefer it over my Powerbook's trackpad or iMac puck style "mouse" though).
Not only is it worthless in the same aspect as other Mac mice, i.e. the single "button" (or in this case, switch), but the "flipping the whole top" operation instead of clicking a button separate from the mouse chassis takes away any possible advantage of the much touted ability of using the mouse on "any" surface. You still need a hard and flat surface, otherwise the whole mouse will follow your clicking and you'll have to increase your pressure accordingly. For example, right now I'm in bed watching TV with the Powerbook in my knees, and the Pro mouse tracks perfectly on my sheets, but instead of just clicking a mouse button I have to push the whole lump of transparent plastic a couple of cm down into the mattress.
The best kind of mouse I have used so far is the Wizard 3-button mice for my Amigas. Precise and fast movement plus exactly the right sensitivity and feedback of the buttons. A scroll wheel is unnecessary with this mouse, just hold the middle button and drag - much better control than a wheel.
The MS Intellimouse comes in second here.
Since the link to this new mouse is slashdotted it's a bit hard to see if it's a better concept than Apple's Pro mouse.
Ah, yes, of course. How simple. Anything the defense says are facts, and anything from the prosecution is FUD.
I understand that you have a system of compulsory jury duty in the USA. Do you have some kind of test that weeds out jurors who don't understand that the different sides in a courtroom are likely to present different stories?
Also, why is RedHat so far behind in terms of its adoption of Mozilla builds to its RedHat Network service?
I recommend having a look at Red Hat's / Pennington's "Gnomehide" (ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/gnomehide/) which right now at least provides Mozilla 0.9.7 and Nautilus 1.0.6 packages working together.
Until I found out about Gnomehide I hated downloading the latest Moz builds from mozilla.org only to find out that they always broke Nautilus' HTML/man view. Now I always have a reasonably recent and working Mozilla/GNOME/Nautilus setup. OK, Nautilius in itself isn't working reasonably, it's still slower than a dead snail nailed to the bottom of a vat of molasses and it has a long way to go to deserve the 1.x version numbering, but you know what I mean...
Beware though: this stuff in unofficially released and not supported by Red Hat - don't bother filing bug reports in their Bugzilla system!
Those regarding Moderaterna (the "Conservatives") as extremists are most probably extremists themselves. If Moderaterna were even half as traditionally conservative as e.g. the US Republicans, the British Tories or the German CDU, then they'd be regarded as "fascists" by our dear Swedish communist intelligentsia.
If you're automatically associating the word "moderate" (Sw. "moderat") with a political party then I think you have a weak vocabulary. "Moderat" hasn't been highjacked and had its meaning changed by Swedish politics like so many other words like e.g. "osolidarisk" (Engl. "un-solidary"(?)) which now thanks to our socialistic climate of society has the same meaning as "class traitor", "contra-revolutionary" or "bandit" did in the Soviet Union, i.e. a label for politically incorrect people, thoughts or actions.
In real life when I look down I can't see my feet. I have not seen my feet in many years.
Are you the one who keeps sending me "PENIS ENLARGEMENT" spam? I didn't believe what you wrote in the e-mail messages, and your claims above are equally incredible.
What's really behind the price difference between the Athlon/Pentium and the Duron/Celeron? What is so much more expensive in the fabrication process of the "real" CPUs compared to their "value" counterparts? Actually, you'd think that the Durons/Celerons would be more expensive than the Athlons/Pentiums, since I presume that the first are made in smaller volumes. I'd also guess that the redesign of existing "real" CPUs into "value" versions would mean higher R&D costs than the common cranking-up of clock frequencies in the "real" CPUs.
Perhaps you can see that IANAHP (hardware person). I simply don't see a raison d'être for the "value" versions, other than for use in laptops.
I have a Linux powered floor. Yep, there's a computer running Linux standing on it. It's not as cool as my AmigaOS powered chest of drawers though. It's a chest of drawers with an Amiga 4000 standing on it.
If it only was running, I think my C-64 powered closet would be the coolest thing around here. Not nearly as cool as a motherboard strung up in a plastic Christmas tree of course.
No problem really. The big deal is that MS removed their browser ban.
If a(n) (in)famous company like MS publicly admits that any information on the WWW should be accessible by any browser, then the recent media buzz we have seen covering this might hit some "webmasters" of other companies with the cluestick, and make them realise that it's not only those pesky, obscure open source outfits that adhere to WWW standards on their sites. MS may be evil, but they're also influential.
OTOH, I beleive MS will "invent" a new "standard" now and use it on msn.com, and for some strange reason the only browser capable of utilising the standard will be the latest MSIE. "We're sorry, but your inferior browser will not let you experience the MSN.com site at its full extent. Please upgrade your browser."
I remember when they tried to market the movie "2(VLSPADKTNV KAAWGKVGAH AGEYGAEALE RMFLSFPTTK TYFPHFDLSH GSAQVKGHGK KVADALTNAV AHVDDMPNAL SALSDLHAHK LRVDPVNFKL LSHCLLVTLA AHLPAEFTPA VHASLDKFLA SVSTVLTSKY R)2(VHLTPEEKSA VTALWGKVNV DEVGGEALGR LLVVYPWTQR FFESFGDLST PDAVMGNPKV KAHGKKVLGA FSDGLAHLDN LKGTFATLSE LHCDKLHVDP ENFRLLGNVL VCVLAHHFGK EFTPPVQAAY QKVVAGVANA LAHKYH)", but apparently the audience wasn't prepared for something like that. They had to rename it "Hemoglobin". Some people still didn't quite get it, so it became "Bleeders".
You can't just rush out and buy an Amiga to get a hacking toy. Not if you have newer owned one before.
Getting an Amiga is like getting a child. You need to prepare yourself for the arrival of a new family member. You need to ask yourself if you are mentally ready to fully appreciate the technical superiority you will have at your hands.
Yes, you will swear when your Amiga cries (GURUs), you will lose sleep over trying to find the balance between different patches and hacks, but the Amiga will always reward you at the end of the day, and then you must prepare for wanting more, more and MORE!
Also, you might start loathing the disadvantages, shortcomings and quirks of other platforms, but don't do that. You will find that they sometimes can have their uses and by knowing your Amiga you'll know where the good things in the other platforms came from and what to expect in the future.
By all means, get an Amiga. But if you get one and discover that you are not yet prepared for one, please make sure that it comes to a new, loving home. The world has millions of closets with neglected and incarcerated Amigas who failed to find families who would love them and give them the attention they deserved and craved for.
My company has $100 million worth of assets. Some companies are easily in the billions. Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to move that amount of money simply because your browser doesn't work?
How about trying? I'd like to see the face of the banker who realizes his bank could lose a customer worth (m|b)illions over something that really shouldn't be an issue.
My bank doesn't allow anything else than IE or NS 4.x, but my bank doesn't give a defecation about what I tell their Internet support division simply because my measly savings doesn't count (and I don't know any alternative online banks that would work for me).
Megabuck companies have a voice here, and those companies should speak up.
The bank is supporting 92% of the internet browsing populations -- what more can you ask for?
Why, 100% of course. If a company has $100M and explains that "your bank has hired incompetent people to do your online banking service, we might come back to you when you find people who at least are familiar with the basics of the Internet/WWW, i.e. following open standards" then a smart bank will take heed. If 10, 100 or 1000 (yeah, I know, dream on) companies do the same then something must happen.
If you go to the vast majority of banks and ask "Does your banking portal work with Linux broswers?" they won't have a clue what you are talking about.
If you ask the same question (BTW, that should be "does it work with ANY browser/OS?", not just Linux) armed with $100M, the bank will surely find somebody who can answer your question.
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What's the 105 mm cannon (or "howitzer" as the article described it) on the AC-130 used for? 105 mm is a bit small for reasonably modern artillery, and if you'd need fast shelling of an area and you don't have any howitzers in range, wouldn't you call in a regular bombing or robot/missile strike instead of sending up a "flying howitzer"?
I'd imagine it'd be more useful for direct fire purposes like tank-busting, but then again I'd imagine some AP missile (or LASER, to stay on topic...) would be more useful and accurate fired from a plane than a cannon.
Actually, to my unenlightened self the whole Hercules Gunship concept seems a bit silly.
Inquiring artillerists' minds want to know.
"Antimater"? When I was a kid, we called condoms "rubbers".
Just prohibit the exportation of American TV shows and movies. That's where most of our European prejudice against the inhabitants of the Trans-Atlantic colonies comes from.
;)
;) And no, I'm not German.
You are totally correct in that many of us "Yurpeens" need to take a serious look in the mirror before ventilating complaints about alledged American ignorance. Also, an entire population doesn't have to be retarded just because they misspell words like "colour" and "aluminium".
Quit spouting off ridiculous claims of inventing aeroplanes, television and so on. We all know that Germans are behind every invention made before the year 1945.
"Redundant"? Brilliant. What's even more brilliant is that a comment posted almost 2 hours later is modded 4, Funny.
BTW, check out the time travelling Amiga 500.
I agree, Apple's "Pro" mouse is pretty to look at, but I hate to use it (I still prefer it over my Powerbook's trackpad or iMac puck style "mouse" though).
Not only is it worthless in the same aspect as other Mac mice, i.e. the single "button" (or in this case, switch), but the "flipping the whole top" operation instead of clicking a button separate from the mouse chassis takes away any possible advantage of the much touted ability of using the mouse on "any" surface. You still need a hard and flat surface, otherwise the whole mouse will follow your clicking and you'll have to increase your pressure accordingly. For example, right now I'm in bed watching TV with the Powerbook in my knees, and the Pro mouse tracks perfectly on my sheets, but instead of just clicking a mouse button I have to push the whole lump of transparent plastic a couple of cm down into the mattress.
The best kind of mouse I have used so far is the Wizard 3-button mice for my Amigas. Precise and fast movement plus exactly the right sensitivity and feedback of the buttons. A scroll wheel is unnecessary with this mouse, just hold the middle button and drag - much better control than a wheel.
The MS Intellimouse comes in second here.
Since the link to this new mouse is slashdotted it's a bit hard to see if it's a better concept than Apple's Pro mouse.
Ah, yes, of course. How simple. Anything the defense says are facts, and anything from the prosecution is FUD.
I understand that you have a system of compulsory jury duty in the USA. Do you have some kind of test that weeds out jurors who don't understand that the different sides in a courtroom are likely to present different stories?
Also, why is RedHat so far behind in terms of its adoption of Mozilla builds to its RedHat Network service?
I recommend having a look at Red Hat's / Pennington's "Gnomehide" (ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/gnomehide/) which right now at least provides Mozilla 0.9.7 and Nautilus 1.0.6 packages working together.
Until I found out about Gnomehide I hated downloading the latest Moz builds from mozilla.org only to find out that they always broke Nautilus' HTML/man view. Now I always have a reasonably recent and working Mozilla/GNOME/Nautilus setup. OK, Nautilius in itself isn't working reasonably, it's still slower than a dead snail nailed to the bottom of a vat of molasses and it has a long way to go to deserve the 1.x version numbering, but you know what I mean...
Beware though: this stuff in unofficially released and not supported by Red Hat - don't bother filing bug reports in their Bugzilla system!
Those regarding Moderaterna (the "Conservatives") as extremists are most probably extremists themselves. If Moderaterna were even half as traditionally conservative as e.g. the US Republicans, the British Tories or the German CDU, then they'd be regarded as "fascists" by our dear Swedish communist intelligentsia.
If you're automatically associating the word "moderate" (Sw. "moderat") with a political party then I think you have a weak vocabulary. "Moderat" hasn't been highjacked and had its meaning changed by Swedish politics like so many other words like e.g. "osolidarisk" (Engl. "un-solidary"(?)) which now thanks to our socialistic climate of society has the same meaning as "class traitor", "contra-revolutionary" or "bandit" did in the Soviet Union, i.e. a label for politically incorrect people, thoughts or actions.
In real life when I look down I can't see my feet. I have not seen my feet in many years.
Are you the one who keeps sending me "PENIS ENLARGEMENT" spam? I didn't believe what you wrote in the e-mail messages, and your claims above are equally incredible.
What's really behind the price difference between the Athlon/Pentium and the Duron/Celeron? What is so much more expensive in the fabrication process of the "real" CPUs compared to their "value" counterparts? Actually, you'd think that the Durons/Celerons would be more expensive than the Athlons/Pentiums, since I presume that the first are made in smaller volumes. I'd also guess that the redesign of existing "real" CPUs into "value" versions would mean higher R&D costs than the common cranking-up of clock frequencies in the "real" CPUs.
Perhaps you can see that IANAHP (hardware person). I simply don't see a raison d'être for the "value" versions, other than for use in laptops.
Your an idot!
Don't you mean "you're an iDot"?
Aren't Indians as American as you can get? In the politically correct sphere I believe they're referred to as native Americans though.
I have a Linux powered floor. Yep, there's a computer running Linux standing on it. It's not as cool as my AmigaOS powered chest of drawers though. It's a chest of drawers with an Amiga 4000 standing on it.
If it only was running, I think my C-64 powered closet would be the coolest thing around here. Not nearly as cool as a motherboard strung up in a plastic Christmas tree of course.
Hey, Tim Rue!
Your dementia is thoroughly documented for the good of humanity. Find all your insane ramblings through Usenet history.
Also, unlike Clarke, that Clancy person doesn't write his stories on an Amiga.
What is claimed to be the world's first school for "hackers" has recently opened in Paris.
If that was true it would be great, since we already have schools against hackers.
Oh, wait. The article was about a school for crackers
No problem really. The big deal is that MS removed their browser ban.
If a(n) (in)famous company like MS publicly admits that any information on the WWW should be accessible by any browser, then the recent media buzz we have seen covering this might hit some "webmasters" of other companies with the cluestick, and make them realise that it's not only those pesky, obscure open source outfits that adhere to WWW standards on their sites. MS may be evil, but they're also influential.
OTOH, I beleive MS will "invent" a new "standard" now and use it on msn.com, and for some strange reason the only browser capable of utilising the standard will be the latest MSIE. "We're sorry, but your inferior browser will not let you experience the MSN.com site at its full extent. Please upgrade your browser."
Offtopic? Damn ignorant moderator who wouldn't recognise the amino acid sequence of adult human hemoglobin if it jumped up and bit him in the ass.
Personally I find it impressive that the foresight in the ext2 design allowed for ext3 to evolve the way it did with the backwords compatibility
Can Explore2fs access ext3 filesystems from Windows on a dual boot system? If not, is there any other tool that can?
I remember when they tried to market the movie "2(VLSPADKTNV KAAWGKVGAH AGEYGAEALE RMFLSFPTTK TYFPHFDLSH GSAQVKGHGK KVADALTNAV AHVDDMPNAL SALSDLHAHK LRVDPVNFKL LSHCLLVTLA AHLPAEFTPA VHASLDKFLA SVSTVLTSKY R)2(VHLTPEEKSA VTALWGKVNV DEVGGEALGR LLVVYPWTQR FFESFGDLST PDAVMGNPKV KAHGKKVLGA FSDGLAHLDN LKGTFATLSE LHCDKLHVDP ENFRLLGNVL VCVLAHHFGK EFTPPVQAAY QKVVAGVANA LAHKYH)", but apparently the audience wasn't prepared for something like that. They had to rename it "Hemoglobin". Some people still didn't quite get it, so it became "Bleeders".
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You can't just rush out and buy an Amiga to get a hacking toy. Not if you have newer owned one before.
Getting an Amiga is like getting a child. You need to prepare yourself for the arrival of a new family member. You need to ask yourself if you are mentally ready to fully appreciate the technical superiority you will have at your hands.
Yes, you will swear when your Amiga cries (GURUs), you will lose sleep over trying to find the balance between different patches and hacks, but the Amiga will always reward you at the end of the day, and then you must prepare for wanting more, more and MORE!
Also, you might start loathing the disadvantages, shortcomings and quirks of other platforms, but don't do that. You will find that they sometimes can have their uses and by knowing your Amiga you'll know where the good things in the other platforms came from and what to expect in the future.
By all means, get an Amiga. But if you get one and discover that you are not yet prepared for one, please make sure that it comes to a new, loving home. The world has millions of closets with neglected and incarcerated Amigas who failed to find families who would love them and give them the attention they deserved and craved for.
...detect the presence of pathogens like anthrax and smallpox.
Anthrax and smallpox are diseases, not pathogens. The pathogens causing those diseases are Bacillus anthracis and Variola major/minor.
Isn't the Internet a no-no in Afghanistan?
Yes, but what does that have to do with demonstrations in Bangladesh? Read the story. Follow the links.
http://www.pardeike.net/danger.hqx
How long do you think it'll be before the trolls start posting goatse.hqx links?
My company has $100 million worth of assets. Some companies are easily in the billions. Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to move that amount of money simply because your browser doesn't work?
How about trying? I'd like to see the face of the banker who realizes his bank could lose a customer worth (m|b)illions over something that really shouldn't be an issue.
My bank doesn't allow anything else than IE or NS 4.x, but my bank doesn't give a defecation about what I tell their Internet support division simply because my measly savings doesn't count (and I don't know any alternative online banks that would work for me).
Megabuck companies have a voice here, and those companies should speak up.
The bank is supporting 92% of the internet browsing populations -- what more can you ask for?
Why, 100% of course. If a company has $100M and explains that "your bank has hired incompetent people to do your online banking service, we might come back to you when you find people who at least are familiar with the basics of the Internet/WWW, i.e. following open standards" then a smart bank will take heed. If 10, 100 or 1000 (yeah, I know, dream on) companies do the same then something must happen.
If you go to the vast majority of banks and ask "Does your banking portal work with Linux broswers?" they won't have a clue what you are talking about.
If you ask the same question (BTW, that should be "does it work with ANY browser/OS?", not just Linux) armed with $100M, the bank will surely find somebody who can answer your question.