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US Military Dead during Iraq War 1060
Well, you said that Clinton had done nothing about the 1st WTC planting. I'd call catching those responsible (one of whom BTW had plans...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1061
Charlie Gibbs Ain't it just? Mind you, as an imperial power, we caused many total screw-ups around the world...that, well, we kind of owed a "debt...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1062
So we invade, occupy and throw uncounted billions of $ into Iraq (who had nothing to do with terrorism against the west)- and do nothing to Saudi Arabia-Syria to name two...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1063
doing basis It was the best next step. Any other country would have invoked all mutual-defense treaties that Muslim countries have with...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1064
So we attack the uninvolved (and lie about why we're doing it) because we're afraid to attack those reponsible? Dubya is fully empowered...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1065
Sorry. I had a very bad typo. It should have been "adapt" not adopt. But the fear a success. It would mean a severe loss of power to them. Nope...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1066
how They are worrying a lot about it. That's why they are doing something about it today and not waiting until...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1068
Alan Balmer couldn't Text of UN Resolution 1441: "2. Decides, while acknowledging paragraph 1 above, to...
US Military Dead during Iraq War 1069
bah An interesting hypothesis... Please, by all means, PROVE it...you have access to the programmes...supply a...
Regarding interrupt sharing architectures
well in 360 ... there were channels which were typically shared i-o bus. the processor could mask interrrupts from individual channels. allowing interrupts from a channel allowed that any pending interrupts from devices on that...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1072
Curious. I worked for IBM for 26 years, mostly as a programmer, and never saw anyone slashing the letter O. In fact, there was an IBM Interdivisional Programming Standard on handwritten characters that...
Tell the Difference Between These Three Pictures 1073
rpl" The programming courses taught to IBM customers were generally done by people in the IBM sales divisions, rather than the development or service divisions. I know that many aspects of "culture" differed between divisions...
The greatest man ever 1074
We've got a credit card ad over here where the narrator's got a puncture. He keeps saying 'pssent,' BBC...
practical applications for synchronous and asynchronous communication
Rob Warnock pc-rt had done a custom 4mbit t-r card for its 16bit bus but. the rs-6000 was forced to use the ps2 microchannel 16mbit t-r card (32bit...
Tru64 and the DECSYSTEM 20 1076
wrote, in part: In the year 1981, when IBM introduced the IBM Personal Computer to the world, it was advertised as a personal computer...
Tru64 and the DECSYSTEM 20 1077
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:55:25 -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler Someone noted that it must be the AS-400, because the current...
Tru64 and the DECSYSTEM 20 1078
the issue is what you call power and what you call power-pc. original power was rios ... absolutely no cache coherency and no capability for consistent shared memory multiprocessing...
Tru64 and the DECSYSTEM 20 1079
One way to look at the difference is that for the Mac, CISC support was accomplished by adding a layer of emulation for CISC software on RISC hardware...
The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1080
Sigh! You should become one and see how we're treated. Then you haven't really looked at how EEO is working (or rather, not working). You really...
The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1081
snip "Become"? I'm female, not married, and not financially dependent on anyone else. Close enough? I've been making my own financial...
The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1082
Reread what I wrote; I was talking about female disapproval. Let me give you some examples. I was not one of them because I wouldn't...
The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1083
Well, you did also say "This petrifies males." I guess that phrase stuck in my head better than...
The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1084
Well, yes and no... Replacing damaged rail and ties, once you transport the new materials to the site, in itself, is a straightforward matter. The roadbed, however, is another matter...
The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1085
distance, Only around ports. Have you ever driven across a state? I can't speak for Texas or Oklahoma or Iowa, but...
Urban transit was: The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey
Morten Reistad People just don't consider the cost of these mammoth highway systems and their maintenance, together with the opportunities for tapping the public till. It takes much less to maintain an operate a railway...
The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1087
Its happening here, Ireland, a very 'enteprising' man is building up a grbutt strip airport outside Dublin, without planning permission, to jet status. As Dublin Airport...
The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1088
There are several Navy bases in the Mojave desert. They are ideal for weapons development (China Lake, CA) or...
Clbuttic Computer Calendar 2005
Charlie Gibbs" Multics PL-I code for line printer calendars is available at Info segment: 08-20-80 calendar Syntax: calendar {paths} {-controlargs} Function: prints a calendar for one month. The preceding and following months are also...
IBM 3614 and 3624 ATM's
On Thu, 02 Dec 04 13:24:42 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, ... or electricians, or plumbers, or welders, or telco guys ... they all have the capability to...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1091
keith You are asking an Anarchist to chose a preferable form of taxation. Answer : Mu. Keith, you are incapable of discussing anything because you...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1092
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:48:29 +0000, Rupert Pigott When I grew up in the 70's (born 1968) we had a rather large house, mom...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1093
removing-hotmail-this.com says... Charity is not taxation. Oh, BS. You wander off into the weeds on some...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1094
Color televisions and VCR's and the like can be bought extremely cheaply now compared to then...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1095
K Williams SNIP - god only knows how the attribs work now In which case don't call it...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1096
keith ... snip ... You totally miss the point. Let us buttume a 'clientage' of 100 individuals, 10 of whom are non-deserving, in a population of 1000 (just...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1097
Okay, we start with 900 supporting an overhead burden of 100. Since this is a a right, no means test, as one...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1098
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:28:52 +0000, CBFalconer No, I unerstand your point. You have no problem with theft. I do. "non-deserving"? You change the argument to those who...
After Silicon : the move to BioComputing 1102
K Williams SNIP Which is what high-quality Education is good at, which is why it's so important that *everyone* gets a shot at it (and is motivated to make the most of it). AFAICT...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1103
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins The answer is simple - place the lines in concrete vaults, just as they are in the cities. Or, as an alternative, use very sturdy (and thick) pvc pipes. I have seen...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1104
Granted, I'm not in a big city (Huntsville, AL), but most of the local fiber is on poles. The inter-city stuff is...
Unsuprvised comms personell
This reminds me of a story, I need to trot out again: The year is 1988, and I am working for an IXC in Cambridge, MA...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1106
A lot of the time wasted is due to trivial reboots and re-installation of drivers for no apparent reason. My favorite problem is Windows asking...
Telecomm Price Pressure was Announce The Vintage Computer Forum
But you are discounting the leaps in technology that have taken place in the last...
Telecomm Price Pressure was Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1108
ze feune *This* is more or less my answer too, but it would have taken me quite a lot of effort to write...
Telecomm Price Pressure was Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1109
Well, yes and no. You are mixing together two different parts here. The core of every network are the fiberoptic cables, mostly financed during the dotcom boom. Less than a pecent of...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1110
We will see a huge worldwide battle between the internet charging model and the phone charging model the next decade. The phone...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1111
I wuz. I want to run at least one system with Win98SE-W2K because of the multiple monitor support. It *very* nice to have 3 17" monitors yet have that. As of FreeBSD...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1112
SNIP Don't knock it, it's important. How on earth do you think we can spot correlations between stuff like the weather changing and a particular crash happening ? :) I doubt you...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1113
I didn't say it wasn't important. By staring at the screen 8x7. JMF stared at a SYSDPY screen updating itself every 30 seconds just before he started coming up with the CPU...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1114
That "multi-state" view with lots of alternative desktops is important in a job setting; where I may have a desktop with a NMS running, a couple of desktops...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1115
snip snap And here we go again. If you want a quiet, affordable and reliable board it must be designed as...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1116
Backhoe operators are supposed to be alert and watch for the telltale red tinted concrete marking a...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1117
There are still horror stories. Installations in dense city areas are often covered in welded steel pipe just to be safe. Military guys like...
Announce The Vintage Computer Forum 1118
Looked at one? I've written them by hand, while testing my SOAP server engine. I don't think XML and "bloat...
CAS and LLSC was High Level buttembler for MVS & VM & VSE 1119
But the single R-M-W instructions aren't very common to begin with. The real gotcha is finding the critical sections where...
CAS and LLSC was High Level buttembler for MVS & VM & VSE 1120
Reading was accomplished by splitting a bubble into two, and sending one down the read path while the other continues in the storage loop. All of the...
creat 1121
can get. We use these computer thingies as extensions to our own brains. They do some things very well, lots better than us, actually, but they...