Bullshit, while it might not require specific type training for the model of the jet it would take experience in flying a large jet to fly one into a building (according to aviation experts back here in europe).
I wouldn't think much expertise would be needed as long as the hijackers don't have to take off themselves, then they could force the pilots to navigate towards NY and when close enough kill the pilots and take over the controls. Read this BBC article:
And a terrorist with no previous flying experience would have found it relatively easy to steer a plane through the final moments of its journey and into its target, David Learmount, Operations and Safety Editor of Flight International, told BBC News Online.
"It would be dead easy to aim an aircraft at a target that big," he said.
I'm not sure I quite follow you (please mind your spelling and grammar), but if base pair sequences in DNA should be considered to be cryptography, then so should any other language that you don't understand. I don't understand a single word or even letter of Urdu, but Urdu is nothing that is used to intentionally keep anything secret from us who don't know the language. BTW, what "key" AA sequences required to form BP's are you talking about? It's the other way round (well, of course the DNA-polymerase complexes are built from AA sequences, but the polymerases are naturally also made from DNA blueprints). I don't think we really "cracked the genetic code" in 1961, we just learned the unknown language of BP sequences when we compared it to the already known language of AA sequences. If I write GAUGAA-UGUUCUUCC and it is known that those letters are a BP sequence, then it's not encrypted, and anybody who knows which BP-triplet code for a certain AA can see that I've just written DE-CSS in English...;)
He's not "doing your HTML", because if he really was doing HTML then browsers wouldn't matter. Obviously he has not been taught HTML, he has been taught how to do Internet Explorer pages. OTOH, it's a Good Thing that he doesn't know Netscape specific tags. The only tags an HTML author should need to know are HTML tags.
Simply tell him that you're publishing for the WORLD Wide Web on the INTERnet and if he can't comprehend that concept then he shouldn't be playing with HTML.
Thanks to all that replied. This one, in particular, was quite informative.
Perhaps it was informative, but what's more important is that it was incorrect.
The Boing Ball comes from the "Boing" demo, which displayed a rotating red-and-white-chequered ball bouncing around in a "box", making the "boing" sound as it hit the walls of the box. It's from the very earliest days of the Amiga, I think the legend has it that Miner et al. made this demo the night before some big trade show where they would display the A1000. The boing demo is available from Aminet (.readme).
The "Juggler" demo referred to in the post you're replying to is a raytraced animation which showed off the HAM graphics mode. It features a figure standing on a green and yellow IIRC landscape juggling transparent balls (not chequered, but they refract the chequered background). You can get this demo/animation from Aminet (.readme) as well.
Shortly thereafter, the name aluminum was adopted to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements, [...]
That's obviously supposed to be "the name aluminium was adopted to conform with the 'ium' ending". I just cut and pasted the quote from the lanl.gov site. Damn Americans, they can't get the story straight when the story is about proving themselves wrong!;)
(L. alumen, alum) The ancient Greeks and Romans used alum as an astringent and as a mordant in dyeing. In 1761 de Morveau proposed the name alumine for the base in alum, and Lavoisier, in 1787, thought this to be the oxide of a still undiscovered metal.
Wohler is generally credited with having isolated the metal in 1827, although an impure form was prepared by Oersted two years earlier. In 1807, Davy proposed the name aluminum for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminum was adopted to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements, and this spelling is now in use elsewhere [this being a US site, they don't feel obliged to say "everywhere else"] in the world.
Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society officially decided to use the name aluminum thereafter in their publications.
Davy was British, so he had that modern feature of not accepting world standards in common with the English speaking people in the Trans-Atlantic Colonies. "Shortly thereafter" the mistake was corrected with the standardised Aluminium spelling (just to be revoked by the stubborn (ignorant?) ACS in 1925).
3. Trashier television, magazines, and newspapers.
I don't think that is possible.
4. Even more licensing, permits, and taxes.
You have all gotten away far too easily for too long by now!:)
5. We get Soccer Hooligans! (see item 2)
No, you get football hooligans. Football is the game in which a BALL is manipulated with the players' FEET. Not the game in which some elliptoid mass is tossed between the participants.
7. We get too look down on the Australians.
Everybody is free, no, obliged, to do that already!;)
8. We'll get to drive boxy ugly little cars made made out of plastic and wood by Germans experienced at new and unusual torture techniques.
NO country has mass-produced a good and beautiful car in the last 30 years. When beautiful cars were made, they were made by the British, the Germans and to some extent by the Italians.
10. (And probably the best) We'll get to kick some proverbial English ass (again) and become independent once again.
No, it's the symbol for an ångström. Anders Jonas Ångström (1814-74) was a Swedish physicist, and in Swedish the letters "Å" and "Ä" are not simpy "accented" "A's", and "Ö" is not just another "O". In e.g. German, "Ä" is sorted under "A" in dictionaries etc., while it's the second last letter in the alphabet in Swedish. Now everybody write after me: Smörgåsbord (there's no such thing as a "smorgasbord").
Would somebody please kill the amoeba responsible for the above moderation? If a bank's Internet service only welcomes customers with IE or Netscape, then it's not an Internet (WWW) service - it's an IE and Netscape service. The bank offices gladly accept written checks and forms no matter if I used a Mont Blanc or a Bic pen to fill them in. A WWW service should be the same.
They're trying to dig up Mussolini and promising he's going to run for office again - REAL SOON NOW!-tm
Once again, that would imply a re-launch of an old productline. This is has nothing to do with a rotten corpse, it's more like: "We have dug up Mussolinis corpse, cultivated germ cells with DNA from the corpse and spliced it with DNA from Hitler and Stalin to build the greatest dictator the Earth has ever seen, complete with an added 5 kg of gold ornaments to a new version of the black Italian uniforms you've kept in such a fond memory!".
No, but you can make fun of the nth product announcement from a company (how many different savior companies has Amiga had now???) that has yet to produce any actual product.
The SDK is an actual product. Furthermore, it was released just 9 (8?) months after McEwen's/Moss' buyout of Amiga Inc. from Gate$-way. The only product that has been announced from this company is the SDK (which you can buy now), they have also mentioned that they will produce a computer with the code name "Amiga One" but have NOT announced any details simply because they don't want to follow the tradition of earlier companies which we all have mocked. Things are happening now. For the first time since before Jay Miner et al sold Amiga to Commodore, the name Amiga seems to be in the hands of people who care for the technology.
Amiga is Back? Contributed by CmdrTaco on Friday January 30, @09:05AM
Jan. 30, 1998! Back then Gate$-way sat on the Amiga patents. As we all know by now, the efforts of the people Gateway assigned/hired for the Amiga project went down the drain when Gate$-way pulled the plug on everything and hoped this would finally kill any hopes for a new Amiga. It didn't .:)
You are right in that Amiga Inc. has handled this badly. For starters, the new agreement is not at the URL the SDK docs say it should be at. And there are no dates on the agreements. <IANAL>The new agreement only refers to "the software product", but that should apply to the SDK, since that's the only software product Amiga Inc. delivers so far. When there are two agreements and it's unclear which one supercedes the other (though I think it's obvious that the one on the website is always the newer) I think you can take your pick as to which one you'd like to follow.</IANAL> If you write them, please tell them to put the new agreement up at the URL printed in the docs. Anyways, the licence agreement delivered with the SDK is obsolete and invalid and people should stop moaning about non-existing licensing fees. It just unnecessarily upsets slashdotters and other similarly ignorant FUD-susceptible hordes.
There will be no more reports in Italian media on the actions of Alleanza Nazionale in the parliament (because Alessandra Mussolini's grandfather Benito is STILL dead).
Idiot. The article isn't about the "classic" Amiga (A1000-A4000T) or its OS (1.x-3.x). It's about the forthcoming Amiga OS (or DE as Amiga Inc. want to call it). You can't flog an unborn horse.
What does the SDK for the future AmigaDE have to do with obsolete technology (well OK, so the DE and software for it will run on obsolete technology like e.g. x86-processors)? And do you still think 150,000 people would have downloaded an Apple ][ emulator for sentimental reasons if they had to pay 100USD per copy? .-..- -.... --- -....-.- -.- -.....-.. -.-.- -...-.-
So, I think this is a great idea, and a high quality implementation, but the licensing stuff looks stinky. Too bad. Maybe they will open source it in a year or so?
Sigh! There are no licensing fees involved. The new revised license agreement is onl ine for all to read. You only pay Amiga Inc. if you want your software to be "Certified by Amiga" and get marketing support from Amiga Inc.
If the german's not perfect, don't flame; I've only had two years of high school german.
Yes, your German sucks (and I'm not a native German speaker), but what's worse is that you and the moderators don't know their Kraftwerk lyrics by heart. What is the world coming to?
"Troll"?? Would somebody please take the responsible moderator out behind the shed and shoot him? Before he is shot I'll explain my post to him: The stuff I listed are things that aren't needed or desired to be included in the purchase of a house. The article was about the forced inclusion of Windows when buying hardware. Get it, mongoloid?
In the Windows case I think it's like selling a house without the spark plugs... or the surf board... or the jello... or the chromatograph... or the rusk... or the shoulder-straps... or the dromedary.... or the Gulf of Bothnia... or the finalist... or the still-born... or the pharynx... or the goad... or the space shuttle... or the human methylglutaryl coenzyme A-reductase... or the asparagus... or the demigod... or the shirt-sleeve... or the suffragan... or the oil-tanker... or the Cretaceous... or the representative democracy... or the Hottentot... or the pole-vault...
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Could somebody who's not too ashamed of admitting they have used Frontpage please explain what the "Web components" are?
I wouldn't think much expertise would be needed as long as the hijackers don't have to take off themselves, then they could force the pilots to navigate towards NY and when close enough kill the pilots and take over the controls. Read this BBC article:
Where's the "-5, Tim Rue" mod option?
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Damn, you beat me to that comment! I'm never going to upgrade from 2.4.2.
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Im Rhythmus bleiben!
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Offentlighetsprincipen!
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I'm not sure I quite follow you (please mind your spelling ;)
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and grammar), but if base pair sequences in DNA should be
considered to be cryptography, then so should any other language that
you don't understand. I don't understand a single word or even letter
of Urdu, but Urdu is nothing that is used to intentionally keep
anything secret from us who don't know the language.
BTW, what "key" AA sequences required to form BP's are you talking
about? It's the other way round (well, of course the DNA-polymerase
complexes are built from AA sequences, but the polymerases are
naturally also made from DNA blueprints).
I don't think we really "cracked the genetic code" in 1961, we just
learned the unknown language of BP sequences when we compared it to the
already known language of AA sequences. If I write GAUGAA-UGUUCUUCC
and it is known that those letters are a BP sequence, then it's not
encrypted, and anybody who knows which BP-triplet code for a certain AA
can see that I've just written DE-CSS in English...
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He's not "doing your HTML", because if he really was doing HTML then browsers wouldn't matter. Obviously he has not been taught HTML, he has been taught how to do Internet Explorer pages.
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OTOH, it's a Good Thing that he doesn't know Netscape specific tags. The only tags an HTML author should need to know are HTML tags.
Simply tell him that you're publishing for the WORLD Wide Web on the INTERnet and if he can't comprehend that concept then he shouldn't be playing with HTML.
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Thanks to all that replied. This one, in particular, was quite informative.
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Perhaps it was informative, but what's more important is that it was incorrect.
The Boing Ball comes from the "Boing" demo, which displayed a rotating red-and-white-chequered ball bouncing around in a "box", making the "boing" sound as it hit the walls of the box. It's from the very earliest days of the Amiga, I think the legend has it that Miner et al. made this demo the night before some big trade show where they would display the A1000. The boing demo is available from Aminet (.readme).
The "Juggler" demo referred to in the post you're replying to is a raytraced animation which showed off the HAM graphics mode. It features a figure standing on a green and yellow IIRC landscape juggling transparent balls (not chequered, but they refract the chequered background). You can get this demo/animation from Aminet (.readme) as well.
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"Going for -100 Karma"?
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Mod this guy up!
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The reason, by the way, we European like socialism is because it works
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Speak for yourself!
Functional healthcare system != socialism.
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Shortly thereafter, the name aluminum was adopted to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements, [...]
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That's obviously supposed to be "the name aluminium was adopted to conform with the 'ium' ending". I just cut and pasted the quote from the lanl.gov site. Damn Americans, they can't get the story straight when the story is about proving themselves wrong!
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Huh? You don't get it, do you? From http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic
Davy was British, so he had that modern feature of not accepting world standards in common with the English speaking people in the Trans-Atlantic Colonies. "Shortly thereafter" the mistake was corrected with the standardised Aluminium spelling (just to be revoked by the stubborn (ignorant?) ACS in 1925).
3. Trashier television, magazines, and newspapers.
I don't think that is possible.
4. Even more licensing, permits, and taxes.
You have all gotten away far too easily for too long by now!
5. We get Soccer Hooligans! (see item 2)
No, you get football hooligans. Football is the game in which a BALL is manipulated with the players' FEET. Not the game in which some elliptoid mass is tossed between the participants.
7. We get too look down on the Australians.
Everybody is free, no, obliged, to do that already!
8. We'll get to drive boxy ugly little cars made made out of plastic and wood by Germans experienced at new and unusual torture techniques.
NO country has mass-produced a good and beautiful car in the last 30 years. When beautiful cars were made, they were made by the British, the Germans and to some extent by the Italians.
10. (And probably the best) We'll get to kick some proverbial English ass (again) and become independent once again.
You probably mean "some English arse".
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The symbol is one for an angstrom
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No, it's the symbol for an ångström. Anders Jonas Ångström (1814-74) was a Swedish physicist, and in Swedish the letters "Å" and "Ä" are not simpy "accented" "A's", and "Ö" is not just another "O". In e.g. German, "Ä" is sorted under "A" in dictionaries etc., while it's the second last letter in the alphabet in Swedish.
Now everybody write after me: Smörgåsbord (there's no such thing as a "smorgasbord").
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(Score: -10, Tim Rue)
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Would somebody please kill the amoeba responsible for the above moderation?
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If a bank's Internet service only welcomes customers with IE or Netscape, then it's not an Internet (WWW) service - it's an IE and Netscape service.
The bank offices gladly accept written checks and forms no matter if I used a Mont Blanc or a Bic pen to fill them in. A WWW service should be the same.
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They're trying to dig up Mussolini and promising he's going to run for office again - REAL SOON NOW!-tm
:)
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Once again, that would imply a re-launch of an old productline. This is has nothing to do with a rotten corpse, it's more like: "We have dug up Mussolinis corpse, cultivated germ cells with DNA from the corpse and spliced it with DNA from Hitler and Stalin to build the greatest dictator the Earth has ever seen, complete with an added 5 kg of gold ornaments to a new version of the black Italian uniforms you've kept in such a fond memory!".
No, but you can make fun of the nth product announcement from a company (how many different savior companies has Amiga had now???) that has yet to produce any actual product.
The SDK is an actual product. Furthermore, it was released just 9 (8?) months after McEwen's/Moss' buyout of Amiga Inc. from Gate$-way. The only product that has been announced from this company is the SDK (which you can buy now), they have also mentioned that they will produce a computer with the code name "Amiga One" but have NOT announced any details simply because they don't want to follow the tradition of earlier companies which we all have mocked. Things are happening now. For the first time since before Jay Miner et al sold Amiga to Commodore, the name Amiga seems to be in the hands of people who care for the technology.
Amiga is Back? Contributed by CmdrTaco on Friday January 30, @09:05AM
Jan. 30, 1998! Back then Gate$-way sat on the Amiga patents. As we all know by now, the efforts of the people Gateway assigned/hired for the Amiga project went down the drain when Gate$-way pulled the plug on everything and hoped this would finally kill any hopes for a new Amiga. It didn't .
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You are right in that Amiga Inc. has handled this badly. For starters, the new agreement is not at the URL the SDK docs say it should be at. And there are no dates on the agreements.
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<IANAL>The new agreement only refers to "the software product", but that should apply to the SDK, since that's the only software product Amiga Inc. delivers so far. When there are two agreements and it's unclear which one supercedes the other (though I think it's obvious that the one on the website is always the newer) I think you can take your pick as to which one you'd like to follow.</IANAL>
If you write them, please tell them to put the new agreement up at the URL printed in the docs.
Anyways, the licence agreement delivered with the SDK is obsolete and invalid and people should stop moaning about non-existing licensing fees. It just unnecessarily upsets slashdotters and other similarly ignorant FUD-susceptible hordes.
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There will be no more reports in Italian media on the actions of Alleanza Nazionale in the parliament (because Alessandra Mussolini's grandfather Benito is STILL dead).
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Idiot. The article isn't about the "classic" Amiga (A1000-A4000T) or its OS (1.x-3.x). It's about the forthcoming Amiga OS (or DE as Amiga Inc. want to call it). You can't flog an unborn horse.
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What does the SDK for the future AmigaDE have to do with obsolete technology (well OK, so the DE and software for it will run on obsolete technology like e.g. x86-processors)? And do you still think 150,000 people would have downloaded an Apple ][ emulator for sentimental reasons if they had to pay 100USD per copy? .- -.. .. --- -....- .- -.- - .. ...- .. - .-.- - ...-.-
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So, I think this is a great idea, and a high quality implementation, but the licensing stuff looks stinky. Too bad. Maybe they will open source it in a year or so?
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Sigh! There are no licensing fees involved. The new revised license agreement is onl ine for all to read.
You only pay Amiga Inc. if you want your software to be "Certified by Amiga" and get marketing support from Amiga Inc.
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Yes, your German sucks (and I'm not a native German speaker), but what's worse is that you and the moderators don't know their Kraftwerk lyrics by heart.
What is the world coming to?
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Either they don't know the meaning of "Pandora's Box", or the reports I read about WinCE to be used in cars were true. Oh, the humanity!
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"Troll"??
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Would somebody please take the responsible moderator out behind the shed and shoot him?
Before he is shot I'll explain my post to him: The stuff I listed are things that aren't needed or desired to be included in the purchase of a house. The article was about the forced inclusion of Windows when buying hardware. Get it, mongoloid?
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In the Windows case I think it's like selling a house without the spark plugs... or the surf board... or the jello... or the chromatograph... or the rusk... or the shoulder-straps... or the dromedary.... or the Gulf of Bothnia... or the finalist... or the still-born... or the pharynx... or the goad... or the space shuttle... or the human methylglutaryl coenzyme A-reductase... or the asparagus... or the demigod... or the shirt-sleeve... or the suffragan... or the oil-tanker... or the Cretaceous... or the representative democracy... or the Hottentot... or the pole-vault...
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Bah! I flunked a pharmacology exam for Arvid Carlsson, the laureate for the Medicine & Physiology prize! (Score: 5, Interesting)
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