Not really - the stories are loosely adapted, but nothing alike - both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are great examples. I don't know about Pinnochio because I never read the book.
Synopsis of Snow White (Grimm version) Snow White's mom (not a witch) is jealous that she's not the most beautiful and hires a huntsman to knife her to death and bring Snow-White's lungs and liver to her so that she can eat them. After that, she repeatedly tries to kill Snow-White and sorta succeeds with a poisoned apple. Some love-sick prince buys the glass coffin the dwarves put her body in and eventually dislodges the poisoned apple which miraculously brings her back to life. At their wedding, the mom is put into glowing hot iron shoes and forced to dance until she dies.
What I'm not quite sure of - she was 7 when she became more beautiful than the queen and her mom became jealous. Her mom had to be jealous for a while, or there was some serious cradle robbing on the prince's part:)
Synopsis of Snow White - Disney version (from what I remember): Jealous witch gives Snow White a poisoned apple, she dies and gets put in a glass coffin. Prince comes and kisses her, waking her. Lots of songs and stuff. Prince and Snow-White get married and live happily ever after.
You're right in that Hitler and Stalin had a secret agreement to divvy Poland in the early part of the war (oh, yeah, the secret agreement). "Peace in our Time" I think was earlier - maybe the excuse for not going to war when Germany broke the Treaty of Versailles, or even the invasion of Poland. Both declared war on September 3, but neither really did much until about May of 1940 (nearly a year later) when Germany invaded France and Chamberlain resigned as British PM and Churchill took over (although I do remember some troops going to Norway, which was earlier, but I don't remember who or where).
As for some of the rest of your post, not really correct. First off, I think you meant Yugoslavia (the Czech republic wasn't formed until later), but that wasn't invaded until 1941. Germany could probably have conquered Britain, but they would have needed a Normandy like invasion. Hitler opted for isolation (destroying supply ships) and rocketing/bombing them into surrender rather than sacrifice a large number of troops. His generals incorrectly predicted Britain would crack under bombardment in just a few months. It probably didn't hurt that the British knew of their plans (with the cracked Enigma codes). France also knew Germany planned to invade them (also through Enigma) but didn't think the Ardennes were crossable.
Hitler and Stalin weren't enemies at the beginning of the war, but there definitely were tensions between the two countries later on. I would suspect that this had more to do with fear of a united Europe (with a warmonger at the helm) than anything else. I also suspect Stalin was expecting Germany to be defeated early on and they basically would get free land out of the deal (part of Poland).
I disagree about the war being a war between the USSR and Nazi Germany - but I do agree that the Americans weren't of much help, aside from maybe saving a few million lives by providing targets (it was a very green army). The Allied invasion at Normandy was a necessity to avoid communist rule of Europe, though, as the USSR would have claimed everything they conquered a satellite nation or part of their own, had they won (some US generals wanted to push on and attack Russia).
maybe they plan a name switch to "Tender Lovin' Care"...:)
Unfortunately (perhaps, as I actually found the one Trading Spaces I watched quite funny), the TLC makeover has been very popular and The Discovery Channel (parent) plans to make similar changes to the Discovery Channel (channel).
Hmm... I would like to say I watch more TV now that I've got a PVR, but I've been using it as an excuse to skip shows more often for doing other stuff, like computer gaming.
I have to agree that the religious schmaltz is getting a bit excessive (but I don't blame ABC - CBS has been doing it for years), and with Mel making a hit movie about Jesus, I only expect it to get worse - a lot worse - "Later tonight, an all new 'Just Crucify Me' guest starring Paris Hilton as Mary Magdeline followed by the reality series you've been waiting for 'Survivor: Golgotha'."
My first reaction after reading this was "mmm Twinkies" but then I pulled my head together before I got to my orgy of bloodshed:)
For the most part, I think your post is right on the money, but I have to disagree with you on one thing - you can't really call World War I (formerly the Great War) and World War II the same war because they were a generation apart, had different mitigating circumstances and were started by different countries in different countries, and for different reasons. Several factors from the end of World War I did cause Hitler/Nazis to rise to power and start World War II (which is probably why you are tying them together), but many of the issues were resolved or being resolved (inflation, poverty, unemployment) in Germany well before the invasion of Poland and the start of the war. Also note that even the invasion of Poland didn't really start the second World War or even cause much of a reaction - yes, Poland's allies Britain and France declared war two days after the invasion, but neither one did anything because they feared starting another Great War (which is exactly what Hitler was expecting). The world didn't wake up to Hitler's aspirations until Germany invaded France several months later that the real world war started (and incidentally, the French relied a bit too heavily on the Maginot Line + "impassible" Ardennes forest and probably were beaten easier than the Poles, Paris being captured in 2 days, where Warsaw was 2 weeks). Both the "Polish cavalry charge" and "French Surrender after hearing a shot" were propoganda the German Wehrmacht used to inspire the people and troops, which worked awfully well, since people still think those today.
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Some history, for the less informed - at the end of the Great War, Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles and cede the mineral rich Saarland to the League of Nations (precursor to the United Nations) and the valuable coal mines to the French (giving them significant influence in the region). The debt from the war reparations, loss of the mineral rich mining region, and loss of wartime jobs caused mass inflation and devaluation currency. The Nazi party used the regional instability to push forward their agenda and promised to restored stability if they took power (which they did in basically the same way as Stalin - by killing people). After taking power, Hitler stopped reparations for the Great War (a violation the Treaty of Versailles, but was allowed because of the countries' inner turmoil and lauded by the German people) and retook the Saarland (technically, got them to rejoin, but there was a lot of expulsion of foreigners and Nazi troops had basically moved in, anyway). The Nazi's then turned inward and began putting people to work and restoring the currency before the outbreak of the war.
The invasion of Poland and start of World War II may have been to further boost the economy - Germany was building tanks, weapons, and airplanes in an effort to get their people to work, and needed an excuse to build more and put more people to work (America basically did the same thing to get out of the Great Depression). The Nazis also figured out a way to build a large army quickly - train only officers under the 100000 unit limit imposed by the Treaty of Versailles and have them train troops when they decided to break the treaty (thus, they quickly built a large army). After breaking the treaty, they needed to figure out a way to go to war, so why not target a culture/people that they wanted exterminated, anyway, and especially one that would close a flank (Russia was viewed as a socialist ally)? Germany staged an invasion from Poland using concentration camp prisoners wearing Polish uniforms and claimed Poland was invading them, instigating the attack and delaying reaction.
In many ways, I think the invasion was to create a "friendly flank" by bridging the socialist Soviet Union (which also invaded Poland two we
Back in 1992, there was no GUI for the web (Mosaic came out in late 1993), so you'd have to be using Lynx, or something similar if there was such a beast, as I did way back then. I don't think many people realized the potential, even after Mosaic, though, because there was so little content at the time, and most of it was really bad (I can't say I was an exception, but at least I had a page, not something marked under construction). Mosaic's idea was to make a graphical based html viewer, which happened to have been heavily influenced by Gopher (the GUI versions of Gopher, at least). Honestly, I though Lynx was an unwieldy piece of crap and html wasn't worth the effort as it would be dead in a couple of years... real forward thinking:)
After creating my first web page (early 1994, but it wasn't done until March) I pretty much abandoned the web until I was offered extra disk space just before Netscape 1.0 (2MB initially, then 10MB, which was a kingdom of stash space since our UNIX drive quota was only 2MB). I was quickly driven to learn html so I could create a page and they wouldn't have an excuse to take my stash away... I was a disk space addict:)
The $10K rule for airports was enacted primarily to prevent drug smuggling, because drugs are bought with cash (to reduce tracability).
One of my old roommates from college, who, btw, was a bit paranoid (he was a recovered heroin/dope addict) believed the metal strips in $20s were put there specifically to set off metal detectors if too many of them were on a person... Sounds like he's driving trucks these days:)
Even Windows makes a distinction between an admin user and general user (in their NT based OSes). You need to log in as an administrative user to install software (but most people run as this user in Windows, so it compromises the security benefit). CUPS is probably closest to a service in Windows (NT/200x/XP), so that would need to be installed and configured by an administrator. Not to say I defend CUPS - it's certainly not very intuitive and I've spent more than a few weekends messing around with it to support my hybrid home network (consisting of Windows, Linux, and Mac boxes, a winprinter, and a general printer off the mac).
As a sidenote, Apple uses a hybrid approach for root installs - nobody runs as root (usually), but there is an admin user with 'sudo' priveleges that types in his/her password to install software.
Ah, the T remover, which I think it was described as a TEE-remover (what's a TEE-remover?)... I really wanted to put Trent in it and get Ren, but the game wouldn't let me:) (Trent was your sidekick if you played as a male [decided by the bathroom you enter at the beginning of the game], Tiffany the female...).
Personally I loved the docks - Hickory Dickory Dock, Whazzup Dock, Donald Dock... I don't think I simultaneously laughed and groaned at the same time so much in my life.
Qwest customers lucky, huh? In my experience, they move slower than a dead cow, so it's nice that they finally are making pre-emptive moves rather than following the pack.
The best service I could get from them is 640/256, and then only in selected areas, which didn't include mine until about 2 months ago (actually, it supposedly did, but the area was "saturated" with an expected 2-4 year wait for service according to the Qwest rep I talked to several years ago). They started caring and added hardware when, between cell phones and cable, they were losing most of their residential customers (as this article confirms).
I recently switched to Qwest because the incumbent was required for Speakeasy/Covad (1500/768 with 2 static IPs, but I'm paying $70). Not too long after the switch, I started getting weekly calls pushing Qwest's 256 service for $26. Not bad for price, but it still tops out at 640/256 (which just dropped from $50 to $35, so I don't laugh at them and tell them Speakeasy offers 1500/256 for that same price) and I still can't get a static IP. At least SBC offers 1500-3000 service in some areas (and that's $50/month in some promotions). The best I can do is $90/month for that kind of service, and not from Qwest, and then almost exclusively Business line only (Speakeasy being the only exception I'm aware of, and I've done extensive research including calling a bunch of no-name providers that don't even show up on Broadband Reports).
I agree with you on PPPoE suckage and have avoided it like the plague. I don't know how much of SBC uses it, but if a good chunk of it does, I'd rather have 3rd party than either.
I also noticed that the Apple games were lacking. According to Moby Games, Origin published the following Apple ][ games: 2400 A.D. Autoduel Knights of Legend Omega (1989) Space Rogue Tangled Tales Ultima I-V + Ultima Trilogy Windwalker
At least two are missing: Moebius (sequel to Windwalker) and Times of Lore (they exist on Moby Games, just not as Apple ][ games)
Interesting to see someone liked Times of Lore... I thought it was godawful, but I had a theory that if I couldn't figure out a game by trial-and-error in about 6 minutes, it wasn't worth playing.
Actually, times haven't changed much - I still don't read instruction manuals unless I'm paid to do it;)
How is Apple's implementation of SCSI any different than anyone elses? SCSI by design isn't hot swappable, which really isn't mac-like, so it was nice that they moved external to firewire (internal is the non-hot swappable IDE), but this was a universal problem. SCSI also requires terminators by design (auto terminating and connectors are not part of the standard and are device dependent, not bus depenedent).
At the time Apple added SCSI, there were few options for a periphrial connector. Technologies like IDE (or its predecessors) were designed as drive connectors, not periphrial connectors, so SCSI was a better choice for external devices (it could do drives and periphrials). It was used internally for drives because it was faster than alternative connectors.
I always liked how there was a warning that reading the rulebook is treason (and then encourages reading it...) - we had a rules-lawyer who kept getting himself killed by telling the GM he was running the game wrong or using the wrong table or any number of stupid things...
I went through clones fast sometimes, especially with kill happy GMs, but that guy lost all 6 in less than 20 minutes, and only about 3 of which he had a character in the game - with the most lenient GM I've ever had for Paranoia (heck, I think everyone else made Green or Blue clearance before being finished off). I admit, I've lost 6 in under 20 minutes, myself, with a different, kill happy GM - losing 3 to walking land mines alone and almost losing another for failing to test certain R&D equipment such as the thermonuclear hand grenade, but I DID end up testing it:) My first two clones were killed in the initial briefing when the GM read something like 20 pages of text and you needed to quote one exact sentence or die (and the GM changed the sentence after I failed the first time).
In New Mexico, you would need a breathalizer to drive. In 'old' Mexico, you can have a beer in both hands as you drive (provided you're not drunk).
Talk about extremes:)
I doubt the breathalizer thing will work, anyhow - airline pilots used to suck oxygen for a couple of minutes after a 3 martini lunch and pass the breathalizer test at airports and I'm sure an unmonitored test like this could much more easily be tampered with (heck, just put a filter over the intake). Basically, they'd need an anti-tampering law, as well, or this legislation would get them nowhere.
Talk about old news... or maybe just good predicting - this was part of my networking class 10 years ago.
First, there was supposed to be FTTC (Fiber To The Curb) and then FTTH (Fiber To The Home) to replace the telephone network. FTTC has been partially implemented in some areas. The Cable company has moved on this much faster than the phone company, though. FTTC is basically fiber optic cable to a neighborhood, and POTS (Plain Old Telephone System for the acronym impared) from there to the home. The shorter distance to the digital switch (the fiber) allows faster connections on the local line - sorta how 56k modems required a certain distance to the CO(Central Office of the phone company) to get their speed boost - basically, the signal can only run at a certain speed for a certain distance before getting distorted and unusable.
FTTH would be great, but I'm not counting on it anytime soon - I saw the estimated cost years ago, and I could see why FTTC was deemed feasible and FTTH not.
I thought it was interesting that they pretty much stole that plotpoint from the US bombing Baghdad the first time - the CIA had supplied flawed technology to Iraq that made their modern Artillery unable to hit US warplanes, so they ended up having to manually aim the guns to get any planes shot down.
What really got to me more than anything was the shoddy medicine - it was worse than Star Trek's bad medicine (they can do nothing for someone 2 seconds dead? Give me a break - a real ER would be working on the guy for 10 minutes). The Cylons can create perfect replicas of people, and yet the humans that built them can't even cure cancer. Sheez - I suspect we'll have a cure for cancer _long_ before we have BattleStar sized space ships... Didn't the first BSG just shove injured people into little plastic shells and they heal automatically in there (yeah, it's vague on how, but there could be nanobots in there).
More ranting... not virus, trojan... I guess that's forgivable - I recently finished reading the Blue Nowhere, and apparently all the expert Deaver researched through _also_ got that wrong. Morons, the lot of them:)
Yeah - gotta like the SBC speeds. Qwest is still pushing their crappy 256/256 or 640/256 dynamic IP service in MSP and I laugh at them every time they call (I can do better, even at those speeds). I wanted a static IP, which is why I dumped Comcast, and I had a single option: Speakeasy. Unfortunately, Speakeasy's not a cheap provider, so I do pay quite a bit ($70 now for my 1500/768, will be $90 in January unless I downgrade to 1500/256). I'm thinking of trying to find some people in my area willing to go wireless broadband, though, and start reselling my 1500/768 Speakeasy connection (which they allow and encourage with a 50% discount, and even provide the billing - but I provide support to users using it). Heck, just finding one neighbor to do it may make it cheaper than the base rate...
If you haven't tried broadband reports, you should - I was able to browse several hundred broadband providers prices in my area. Accuracy isn't 100%, though (for some reason, it thinks my CLEC has a provider that is only in the CLEC south of me), so use it as a tool for investigating what you want.
Here's the dots I've connected: Apple I's were $666 dollars Apple was started by Jobs/Wozniak and later run by just Jobs Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas Disney rakes in cash distributing Pixar movies Pixar dumps Disney Comcast offers Disney $66.6 billion
I don't know - I thought solid state physics was the hardest class I've ever taken. I dropped out of the class about 1/2 way through (and I was still running a C at the time) then heard that the teacher gave 1 A, 3 Bs, 5 Cs, 2 Ds, and 15 Fs (with close to 20 drops that probably also would be Fs). Maybe I should've stayed in - that class made me drop the major for the much easier CS (which I was pretty much a B student in, mainly because I didn't show up for classes much and missed a number of pop quizzes).
Kinda funny, though, switching from CE, where I studied every day for several hours, to CSCI, where I rarely studied for, aside from doing assignments (but some of those assignments were beasts, especially in Graphics I and II and UI design).
WINE replaces the Windows API calls with X equivalents (and maybe now Quartz?), so it's faster because WINE Is Not an Emulator, it is native code replacing APIs called from a Windows App. You need an emulator to translate the program being run but any calls to Windows APIs are run natively. The speed cost will be how much time is spent in the emulated code rather than the actual Windows API code.
Windows itself is (mostly) abstracted from the hardware anyhow, which was done initially to support Alpha processors and why it can work.
actually, the 601/66 WAS faster, but mainly because Apple dumped clock doubling at the same time. A 33MHz Mac actually ran on a 66MHz 68040 chip, so technically, the chips were the same speed.
This emulator had a couple of advantages though - first, no endian swapping (as you mentioned) and second, a trick called dynamic recompilation, where commonly used instructions or loops were stored in L1 or L2 Cache. The same developer went on to develop Virtual PC's dynamic recompilation engine for Connectix. Because of this, non-native apps could be run at about 2/3 speed. By the 100MHz 601, apps were running about the same speed or slightly faster than a 33MHz 68040 (the 604e/150 was easily much faster). PC emulation using VPC 1.0 ran roughly 1/3-1/2 speed on a 604e/150. I believe my system reported a speed of 43MHz, but performance-wise it was closer to 66MHz (some sprite based games like X-Men were even faster, but some apps like Word were slower).
Back in my emulator days (Virtual PC 1.0-2.0 era), there were a number of lively discussions in IRC and on a couple of emu-lists on why Bochs would never be as fast as something like Virtual PC.
Basically, it's because Bochs is written for platform compatibility, not for speed. Because of that, hardware reordering optimizations and true dynamic recompilation are not possible. Bochs also couldn't be fully register and cache optimized or use some of the PPC hardware tricks such as byte swapping using the PCI hardware endian swap (there was a way to do this on PPC 75xx and 85xx hardware). You also need to depend on the compiler to best optimize certain things like block copies. A non-optimized copy may copy large blocks using the integer unit which has a max of 4 bytes, where the floating point and altivec units can copy twice as much data per cycle (or more... not really up on the latest hardware). All PPC macs have multiple processing units that can work in parallel (as do all PCs as of Pentium Pro and all but the original MMX units), but I don't know if Bochs is written to best use parallel execution because of backwards compatibility issues (or Altivec, for that matter).
Since this project is targeting macosx, I wonder if there are plans to processor optimize Bochs, though...
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Not really - the stories are loosely adapted, but nothing alike - both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are great examples. I don't know about Pinnochio because I never read the book.
:)
Synopsis of Snow White (Grimm version)
Snow White's mom (not a witch) is jealous that she's not the most beautiful and hires a huntsman to knife her to death and bring Snow-White's lungs and liver to her so that she can eat them. After that, she repeatedly tries to kill Snow-White and sorta succeeds with a poisoned apple. Some love-sick prince buys the glass coffin the dwarves put her body in and eventually dislodges the poisoned apple which miraculously brings her back to life. At their wedding, the mom is put into glowing hot iron shoes and forced to dance until she dies.
What I'm not quite sure of - she was 7 when she became more beautiful than the queen and her mom became jealous. Her mom had to be jealous for a while, or there was some serious cradle robbing on the prince's part
Synopsis of Snow White - Disney version (from what I remember):
Jealous witch gives Snow White a poisoned apple, she dies and gets put in a glass coffin. Prince comes and kisses her, waking her. Lots of songs and stuff. Prince and Snow-White get married and live happily ever after.
You're right in that Hitler and Stalin had a secret agreement to divvy Poland in the early part of the war (oh, yeah, the secret agreement). "Peace in our Time" I think was earlier - maybe the excuse for not going to war when Germany broke the Treaty of Versailles, or even the invasion of Poland. Both declared war on September 3, but neither really did much until about May of 1940 (nearly a year later) when Germany invaded France and Chamberlain resigned as British PM and Churchill took over (although I do remember some troops going to Norway, which was earlier, but I don't remember who or where).
As for some of the rest of your post, not really correct. First off, I think you meant Yugoslavia (the Czech republic wasn't formed until later), but that wasn't invaded until 1941. Germany could probably have conquered Britain, but they would have needed a Normandy like invasion. Hitler opted for isolation (destroying supply ships) and rocketing/bombing them into surrender rather than sacrifice a large number of troops. His generals incorrectly predicted Britain would crack under bombardment in just a few months. It probably didn't hurt that the British knew of their plans (with the cracked Enigma codes). France also knew Germany planned to invade them (also through Enigma) but didn't think the Ardennes were crossable.
Hitler and Stalin weren't enemies at the beginning of the war, but there definitely were tensions between the two countries later on. I would suspect that this had more to do with fear of a united Europe (with a warmonger at the helm) than anything else. I also suspect Stalin was expecting Germany to be defeated early on and they basically would get free land out of the deal (part of Poland).
I disagree about the war being a war between the USSR and Nazi Germany - but I do agree that the Americans weren't of much help, aside from maybe saving a few million lives by providing targets (it was a very green army). The Allied invasion at Normandy was a necessity to avoid communist rule of Europe, though, as the USSR would have claimed everything they conquered a satellite nation or part of their own, had they won (some US generals wanted to push on and attack Russia).
maybe they plan a name switch to "Tender Lovin' Care"... :)
Unfortunately (perhaps, as I actually found the one Trading Spaces I watched quite funny), the TLC makeover has been very popular and The Discovery Channel (parent) plans to make similar changes to the Discovery Channel (channel).
Hmm... I would like to say I watch more TV now that I've got a PVR, but I've been using it as an excuse to skip shows more often for doing other stuff, like computer gaming.
I have to agree that the religious schmaltz is getting a bit excessive (but I don't blame ABC - CBS has been doing it for years), and with Mel making a hit movie about Jesus, I only expect it to get worse - a lot worse -
"Later tonight, an all new 'Just Crucify Me' guest starring Paris Hilton as Mary Magdeline followed by the reality series you've been waiting for 'Survivor: Golgotha'."
actually, PG-13 was invented BECAUSE OF Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (and Gremlins), not FOR IJ&tToD. The first PG-13 movie was Red Dawn.
My first reaction after reading this was "mmm Twinkies" but then I pulled my head together before I got to my orgy of bloodshed :)
For the most part, I think your post is right on the money, but I have to disagree with you on one thing - you can't really call World War I (formerly the Great War) and World War II the same war because they were a generation apart, had different mitigating circumstances and were started by different countries in different countries, and for different reasons. Several factors from the end of World War I did cause Hitler/Nazis to rise to power and start World War II (which is probably why you are tying them together), but many of the issues were resolved or being resolved (inflation, poverty, unemployment) in Germany well before the invasion of Poland and the start of the war. Also note that even the invasion of Poland didn't really start the second World War or even cause much of a reaction - yes, Poland's allies Britain and France declared war two days after the invasion, but neither one did anything because they feared starting another Great War (which is exactly what Hitler was expecting). The world didn't wake up to Hitler's aspirations until Germany invaded France several months later that the real world war started (and incidentally, the French relied a bit too heavily on the Maginot Line + "impassible" Ardennes forest and probably were beaten easier than the Poles, Paris being captured in 2 days, where Warsaw was 2 weeks). Both the "Polish cavalry charge" and "French Surrender after hearing a shot" were propoganda the German Wehrmacht used to inspire the people and troops, which worked awfully well, since people still think those today.
HISTORY BACKGROUND STUFF - keep out if you don't care!
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Some history, for the less informed - at the end of the Great War, Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles and cede the mineral rich Saarland to the League of Nations (precursor to the United Nations) and the valuable coal mines to the French (giving them significant influence in the region). The debt from the war reparations, loss of the mineral rich mining region, and loss of wartime jobs caused mass inflation and devaluation currency. The Nazi party used the regional instability to push forward their agenda and promised to restored stability if they took power (which they did in basically the same way as Stalin - by killing people). After taking power, Hitler stopped reparations for the Great War (a violation the Treaty of Versailles, but was allowed because of the countries' inner turmoil and lauded by the German people) and retook the Saarland (technically, got them to rejoin, but there was a lot of expulsion of foreigners and Nazi troops had basically moved in, anyway). The Nazi's then turned inward and began putting people to work and restoring the currency before the outbreak of the war.
The invasion of Poland and start of World War II may have been to further boost the economy - Germany was building tanks, weapons, and airplanes in an effort to get their people to work, and needed an excuse to build more and put more people to work (America basically did the same thing to get out of the Great Depression). The Nazis also figured out a way to build a large army quickly - train only officers under the 100000 unit limit imposed by the Treaty of Versailles and have them train troops when they decided to break the treaty (thus, they quickly built a large army). After breaking the treaty, they needed to figure out a way to go to war, so why not target a culture/people that they wanted exterminated, anyway, and especially one that would close a flank (Russia was viewed as a socialist ally)? Germany staged an invasion from Poland using concentration camp prisoners wearing Polish uniforms and claimed Poland was invading them, instigating the attack and delaying reaction.
In many ways, I think the invasion was to create a "friendly flank" by bridging the socialist Soviet Union (which also invaded Poland two we
Back in 1992, there was no GUI for the web (Mosaic came out in late 1993), so you'd have to be using Lynx, or something similar if there was such a beast, as I did way back then. I don't think many people realized the potential, even after Mosaic, though, because there was so little content at the time, and most of it was really bad (I can't say I was an exception, but at least I had a page, not something marked under construction). Mosaic's idea was to make a graphical based html viewer, which happened to have been heavily influenced by Gopher (the GUI versions of Gopher, at least). Honestly, I though Lynx was an unwieldy piece of crap and html wasn't worth the effort as it would be dead in a couple of years... real forward thinking :)
:)
After creating my first web page (early 1994, but it wasn't done until March) I pretty much abandoned the web until I was offered extra disk space just before Netscape 1.0 (2MB initially, then 10MB, which was a kingdom of stash space since our UNIX drive quota was only 2MB). I was quickly driven to learn html so I could create a page and they wouldn't have an excuse to take my stash away... I was a disk space addict
The $10K rule for airports was enacted primarily to prevent drug smuggling, because drugs are bought with cash (to reduce tracability).
:)
One of my old roommates from college, who, btw, was a bit paranoid (he was a recovered heroin/dope addict) believed the metal strips in $20s were put there specifically to set off metal detectors if too many of them were on a person... Sounds like he's driving trucks these days
Even Windows makes a distinction between an admin user and general user (in their NT based OSes). You need to log in as an administrative user to install software (but most people run as this user in Windows, so it compromises the security benefit). CUPS is probably closest to a service in Windows (NT/200x/XP), so that would need to be installed and configured by an administrator. Not to say I defend CUPS - it's certainly not very intuitive and I've spent more than a few weekends messing around with it to support my hybrid home network (consisting of Windows, Linux, and Mac boxes, a winprinter, and a general printer off the mac).
As a sidenote, Apple uses a hybrid approach for root installs - nobody runs as root (usually), but there is an admin user with 'sudo' priveleges that types in his/her password to install software.
but Chooser itself was a bad name (Apple admits this), and being used for both network and printing made it confusing to the end user.
:)
At least I can find the printer setup in OS X
Ah, the T remover, which I think it was described as a TEE-remover (what's a TEE-remover?)... I really wanted to put Trent in it and get Ren, but the game wouldn't let me :) (Trent was your sidekick if you played as a male [decided by the bathroom you enter at the beginning of the game], Tiffany the female...).
Personally I loved the docks - Hickory Dickory Dock, Whazzup Dock, Donald Dock... I don't think I simultaneously laughed and groaned at the same time so much in my life.
Qwest customers lucky, huh? In my experience, they move slower than a dead cow, so it's nice that they finally are making pre-emptive moves rather than following the pack.
The best service I could get from them is 640/256, and then only in selected areas, which didn't include mine until about 2 months ago (actually, it supposedly did, but the area was "saturated" with an expected 2-4 year wait for service according to the Qwest rep I talked to several years ago). They started caring and added hardware when, between cell phones and cable, they were losing most of their residential customers (as this article confirms).
I recently switched to Qwest because the incumbent was required for Speakeasy/Covad (1500/768 with 2 static IPs, but I'm paying $70). Not too long after the switch, I started getting weekly calls pushing Qwest's 256 service for $26. Not bad for price, but it still tops out at 640/256 (which just dropped from $50 to $35, so I don't laugh at them and tell them Speakeasy offers 1500/256 for that same price) and I still can't get a static IP. At least SBC offers 1500-3000 service in some areas (and that's $50/month in some promotions). The best I can do is $90/month for that kind of service, and not from Qwest, and then almost exclusively Business line only (Speakeasy being the only exception I'm aware of, and I've done extensive research including calling a bunch of no-name providers that don't even show up on Broadband Reports).
I agree with you on PPPoE suckage and have avoided it like the plague. I don't know how much of SBC uses it, but if a good chunk of it does, I'd rather have 3rd party than either.
I also noticed that the Apple games were lacking. According to Moby Games, Origin published the following Apple ][ games:
;)
2400 A.D.
Autoduel
Knights of Legend
Omega (1989)
Space Rogue
Tangled Tales
Ultima I-V + Ultima Trilogy
Windwalker
At least two are missing: Moebius (sequel to Windwalker) and Times of Lore (they exist on Moby Games, just not as Apple ][ games)
Interesting to see someone liked Times of Lore... I thought it was godawful, but I had a theory that if I couldn't figure out a game by trial-and-error in about 6 minutes, it wasn't worth playing.
Actually, times haven't changed much - I still don't read instruction manuals unless I'm paid to do it
How is Apple's implementation of SCSI any different than anyone elses? SCSI by design isn't hot swappable, which really isn't mac-like, so it was nice that they moved external to firewire (internal is the non-hot swappable IDE), but this was a universal problem. SCSI also requires terminators by design (auto terminating and connectors are not part of the standard and are device dependent, not bus depenedent).
At the time Apple added SCSI, there were few options for a periphrial connector. Technologies like IDE (or its predecessors) were designed as drive connectors, not periphrial connectors, so SCSI was a better choice for external devices (it could do drives and periphrials). It was used internally for drives because it was faster than alternative connectors.
I always liked how there was a warning that reading the rulebook is treason (and then encourages reading it...) - we had a rules-lawyer who kept getting himself killed by telling the GM he was running the game wrong or using the wrong table or any number of stupid things...
:) My first two clones were killed in the initial briefing when the GM read something like 20 pages of text and you needed to quote one exact sentence or die (and the GM changed the sentence after I failed the first time).
I went through clones fast sometimes, especially with kill happy GMs, but that guy lost all 6 in less than 20 minutes, and only about 3 of which he had a character in the game - with the most lenient GM I've ever had for Paranoia (heck, I think everyone else made Green or Blue clearance before being finished off). I admit, I've lost 6 in under 20 minutes, myself, with a different, kill happy GM - losing 3 to walking land mines alone and almost losing another for failing to test certain R&D equipment such as the thermonuclear hand grenade, but I DID end up testing it
In New Mexico, you would need a breathalizer to drive. In 'old' Mexico, you can have a beer in both hands as you drive (provided you're not drunk).
:)
Talk about extremes
I doubt the breathalizer thing will work, anyhow - airline pilots used to suck oxygen for a couple of minutes after a 3 martini lunch and pass the breathalizer test at airports and I'm sure an unmonitored test like this could much more easily be tampered with (heck, just put a filter over the intake). Basically, they'd need an anti-tampering law, as well, or this legislation would get them nowhere.
Talk about old news... or maybe just good predicting - this was part of my networking class 10 years ago.
First, there was supposed to be FTTC (Fiber To The Curb) and then FTTH (Fiber To The Home) to replace the telephone network. FTTC has been partially implemented in some areas. The Cable company has moved on this much faster than the phone company, though. FTTC is basically fiber optic cable to a neighborhood, and POTS (Plain Old Telephone System for the acronym impared) from there to the home. The shorter distance to the digital switch (the fiber) allows faster connections on the local line - sorta how 56k modems required a certain distance to the CO(Central Office of the phone company) to get their speed boost - basically, the signal can only run at a certain speed for a certain distance before getting distorted and unusable.
FTTH would be great, but I'm not counting on it anytime soon - I saw the estimated cost years ago, and I could see why FTTC was deemed feasible and FTTH not.
I thought it was interesting that they pretty much stole that plotpoint from the US bombing Baghdad the first time - the CIA had supplied flawed technology to Iraq that made their modern Artillery unable to hit US warplanes, so they ended up having to manually aim the guns to get any planes shot down.
:)
What really got to me more than anything was the shoddy medicine - it was worse than Star Trek's bad medicine (they can do nothing for someone 2 seconds dead? Give me a break - a real ER would be working on the guy for 10 minutes). The Cylons can create perfect replicas of people, and yet the humans that built them can't even cure cancer. Sheez - I suspect we'll have a cure for cancer _long_ before we have BattleStar sized space ships... Didn't the first BSG just shove injured people into little plastic shells and they heal automatically in there (yeah, it's vague on how, but there could be nanobots in there).
More ranting... not virus, trojan... I guess that's forgivable - I recently finished reading the Blue Nowhere, and apparently all the expert Deaver researched through _also_ got that wrong. Morons, the lot of them
Yeah - gotta like the SBC speeds. Qwest is still pushing their crappy 256/256 or 640/256 dynamic IP service in MSP and I laugh at them every time they call (I can do better, even at those speeds). I wanted a static IP, which is why I dumped Comcast, and I had a single option: Speakeasy. Unfortunately, Speakeasy's not a cheap provider, so I do pay quite a bit ($70 now for my 1500/768, will be $90 in January unless I downgrade to 1500/256). I'm thinking of trying to find some people in my area willing to go wireless broadband, though, and start reselling my 1500/768 Speakeasy connection (which they allow and encourage with a 50% discount, and even provide the billing - but I provide support to users using it). Heck, just finding one neighbor to do it may make it cheaper than the base rate...
If you haven't tried broadband reports, you should - I was able to browse several hundred broadband providers prices in my area. Accuracy isn't 100%, though (for some reason, it thinks my CLEC has a provider that is only in the CLEC south of me), so use it as a tool for investigating what you want.
There's got to be a conspiracy going on...
Here's the dots I've connected:
Apple I's were $666 dollars
Apple was started by Jobs/Wozniak and later run by just Jobs
Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas
Disney rakes in cash distributing Pixar movies
Pixar dumps Disney
Comcast offers Disney $66.6 billion
I don't know - I thought solid state physics was the hardest class I've ever taken. I dropped out of the class about 1/2 way through (and I was still running a C at the time) then heard that the teacher gave 1 A, 3 Bs, 5 Cs, 2 Ds, and 15 Fs (with close to 20 drops that probably also would be Fs). Maybe I should've stayed in - that class made me drop the major for the much easier CS (which I was pretty much a B student in, mainly because I didn't show up for classes much and missed a number of pop quizzes).
Kinda funny, though, switching from CE, where I studied every day for several hours, to CSCI, where I rarely studied for, aside from doing assignments (but some of those assignments were beasts, especially in Graphics I and II and UI design).
Internet pornographer, Spammer, Adware provider, Mobster, Drug dealer, Hit man, Paris Hilton's boyfriend...
:)
oh, you probably mean legit job
WINE replaces the Windows API calls with X equivalents (and maybe now Quartz?), so it's faster because WINE Is Not an Emulator, it is native code replacing APIs called from a Windows App. You need an emulator to translate the program being run but any calls to Windows APIs are run natively. The speed cost will be how much time is spent in the emulated code rather than the actual Windows API code.
Windows itself is (mostly) abstracted from the hardware anyhow, which was done initially to support Alpha processors and why it can work.
actually, the 601/66 WAS faster, but mainly because Apple dumped clock doubling at the same time. A 33MHz Mac actually ran on a 66MHz 68040 chip, so technically, the chips were the same speed.
This emulator had a couple of advantages though - first, no endian swapping (as you mentioned) and second, a trick called dynamic recompilation, where commonly used instructions or loops were stored in L1 or L2 Cache. The same developer went on to develop Virtual PC's dynamic recompilation engine for Connectix. Because of this, non-native apps could be run at about 2/3 speed. By the 100MHz 601, apps were running about the same speed or slightly faster than a 33MHz 68040 (the 604e/150 was easily much faster). PC emulation using VPC 1.0 ran roughly 1/3-1/2 speed on a 604e/150. I believe my system reported a speed of 43MHz, but performance-wise it was closer to 66MHz (some sprite based games like X-Men were even faster, but some apps like Word were slower).
Back in my emulator days (Virtual PC 1.0-2.0 era), there were a number of lively discussions in IRC and on a couple of emu-lists on why Bochs would never be as fast as something like Virtual PC.
Basically, it's because Bochs is written for platform compatibility, not for speed. Because of that, hardware reordering optimizations and true dynamic recompilation are not possible. Bochs also couldn't be fully register and cache optimized or use some of the PPC hardware tricks such as byte swapping using the PCI hardware endian swap (there was a way to do this on PPC 75xx and 85xx hardware). You also need to depend on the compiler to best optimize certain things like block copies. A non-optimized copy may copy large blocks using the integer unit which has a max of 4 bytes, where the floating point and altivec units can copy twice as much data per cycle (or more... not really up on the latest hardware). All PPC macs have multiple processing units that can work in parallel (as do all PCs as of Pentium Pro and all but the original MMX units), but I don't know if Bochs is written to best use parallel execution because of backwards compatibility issues (or Altivec, for that matter).
Since this project is targeting macosx, I wonder if there are plans to processor optimize Bochs, though...