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The Pankian Metaphor 3142
part of the possible problem in comprehending the situation is an implicit false buttumption that the "use" of fuel is directly proportional to the "use" of highway (wear&tear, aka...
The Pankian Metaphor 3143
ref: so for another method of coming up with first order approximation, is to move all existing fuel taxes to just heavy trucking fuel use. the detailed road design articles claim that the number...
The Pankian Metaphor 3144
re: somewhat along the theme of metrics, instrumentation, analysis, benchmarking, being able to correlate projected results with actual outcomes, auditing, etc ... recent article Decision-Support Systems: Lessons from the Military which then drifts...
The Pankian Metaphor 3145
in my original post, i postulated that you could have numbers for both types of distribution scenarios ... one is distribution showing pecent of...
Tribulations in Boston was: The Pankian Metaphor
The long-term parking is also cheaper at PVD (TF Green International, the Providence airport) than at Logan, it's easier to get around, your...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3147
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:03:28 +0200, Morten Reistad I saved the message for studying later, but there are several points I agree with (IAmNotAnEconomist). Its a good thing that Mainland China...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3149
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:18:26 +0200, Morten Reistad Agreed. Go back to the late 1800's-Early 1900's, China was seen as a...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3150
I was thinking in the sense of mathematical economy. Getting the mathematical modelling right. Ah, bitten by the US vs UK english. "Derivative" in UK...
The Pankian Metaphor was Goodbye to USENET
Starting from scratch? To make the first tin can, quite a while... First, I need to discover a need for the tin can. The average hunter...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3152
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:55:46 +0200, Morten Reistad Did he?.. I havn't read up about all this much, except the highly partisan views one reads...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3153
Wow. I don't think I've ever seen that word. Why is this; they're a RPITA...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3154
First, and foremost, accept reality. One of the things that I was absolutely appalled to...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3155
snip-- the battle of Plbuttey was a turning point, certainly, but i think that Clive, by then, was well...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3156
Ãnip For intermediate distances they are far superior to planes. London and Paris are becoming twin cities now, with the Eurostar down to 2:20 in travel time. This is only about an hour longer...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3157
Here we leave the Ural (river) definition that has been the clbuttic one. This is the most...
The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3158
spit I have no idea why this guy keeps unpleasant womaning about my posting in his newsgroup yet seems to want to continue the discussion. People...
The Pankian Metaphor 3159
IIRC, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich with some others who did not contradict. The tanks were built in factories in the ?Netherlands..I'm not quite sure...
The Pankian Metaphor 3160
Short answer : because they lost the first one. In 1919 they were set in a 4-way squeeze between...
The Pankian Metaphor 3161
A couple of reasons. The heavy reparations, which were intended to cripple Germany for a number of years, but not de-industrialize it...
The Pankian Metaphor 3162
Wouldn't some of the mess in Germany have been part of the cause of the Depression? If there's a very large population sector...
The Pankian Metaphor 3163
Larry Elmore supposedly radio communication during blietzkrieg help modernize manuver warfare. Boyd also quotes Guderian as "verbal orders only". the scenario is that war never goes perfectly and there...
The Pankian Metaphor 3164
German "Auftragstactik" (mission tactics; that is to say, "Tell me what my goal is, don't tell me how to accomplish it.") goes back further than that. The elder Moltke wrote it into the manuals, but...
The Pankian Metaphor 3165
A lot of what was done back then was borderline legal within the limits of the...
The Pankian Metaphor 3166
How? I found out that those "ejections" were real estate sales. If your approach was used, then the previous owners of my house could make a valid claim of repossession without paying...
The Pankian Metaphor 3167
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:45:58 GMT, Hank Oredson Imagine: You are in your modest...
The Pankian Metaphor 3168
S'okay. I got pooped out, too. Britain "owned" that geographical area. There was a plan to parbreastion the area into two "states" (I think they used this term but it has...
The Pankian Metaphor 3169
Britain sold the right to settle in Palestine to the Zionists through the Balfour declaration around 1917. There had been...
The Pankian Metaphor 3170
Good summary. You might have added that many Palestinian Arabs also moved north to Lebanon. The Arab members of my extended family were among these. (No...
The Pankian Metaphor 3171
I don't about the word "sold". I still haven't figured out the political and economic context of this decision. Yes. Until this thingie called nationalism started, Islam was tolerant of non-Islamic conclaves. All...
The Pankian Metaphor 3172
BAH you are so unbiased, logical, and well informed. So I am certain that you have some evidence to back up and justify, the opinions that you are posting. For...
The Pankian Metaphor 3173
I think that even written Arabic has diverged quite a bit, but the fact that every educated person...
The Pankian Metaphor 3174
spit greymaus hasn't been extrapolating far enough. I used to have his opinion until I started reading all this history stuff. Which experience of Brian's are you...
The Pankian Metaphor 3175
Warning: This is only a list of books that I typed to answer Rostyslaw's question about my sources. It is a very long list. BAH This will be an exception because the...
The Pankian Metaphor 3176
Yes. I think this is called diplomacy. It is a normal part of governing biz. OK. Most people seem to get this all confused. I misunderstood. My...
The Pankian Metaphor 3177
Look at a newspaper, a real newspaper, not a neo-con front. Hamas was founded with the help of Israel...
The Pankian Metaphor 3178
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:19:47 +0200, Morten Reistad AFAIK, the `Young Turks' held power from before WWI.. The old regime may have had a shadow existance, but...
The Pankian Metaphor was: Goodbye to USENET 3179
Now you sound exactly like liberals in this state. Nobody remembers that the problem with his open zipper had everything to do with working against anything that was a scintilla...
The Pankian Metaphor was: Goodbye to USENET 3180
I first met RMS the same day I first met Cliff Stoll (he was giving a talk about his then problems...
The Pankian Metaphor was: Goodbye to USENET 3181
BTW, Dennis Ritchie is also very nice in person. Buy him a beer. I just finished with a series of meetings at Stanford which included the 40th Ann. of the founding of the CS Dept...
The Pankian Metaphor 3182
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:21:54 -0500, Jeff Teunissen To put it mildly, I dislike eBay. That database disliked `War Games'.. I liked...
The Pankian Metaphor 3183
ARPANET required dedicated 56kbit links, expensive IMPs, homogeneous operation (based on the IMP boxes) and lots of inter-IMP chatter (I remember some joke in the late...
The Pankian Metaphor 3184
ref: note that during the period, the internal network wasn't exactly public-commercial network ... it was purely the...
The Pankian Metaphor 3185
for lots more drift ... in this period i was into high availability, fault isolation ... in part having helped with the...
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using 3390 mod9s 3187
Ron and Jenny Hawkins the other view is that caches were required because careful positioning was no longer...
using 3390 mod9s 3188
Anne & Lynn Wheeler the above is an old posting of the preface to the share presentation. the breastle page for that share presentation is SHARE 63 Presentation B874 DASD...
using 3390 mod9s 3189
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:17:59 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, Anne & Did they ever build a...
using 3390 mod9s 3190
I had done a lot of virtual memory (internal) enhancements on cp-67 and moved them over to vm...
using 3390 mod9s 3191
Ron and Jenny Hawkins there were also the electronic memory "1655" that emulated 2305, several hundred were made available for internal installations. i was somewhat caught by the explanation for the vendor's 1655s. supposedly the...
using 3390 mod9s 3192
ref: part of the caching-electronic store discussions that on in the 70s had to do with global LRU and global caches vis-a...
33803390 Conversion DISAPPOINTMENT
cp-67 on 360-67 had to translate ccws from the virtual machine ... and use data-chaining where the virtual machine CCW virtual data address was contiguous ... but the virtual pages...
Transition of platforms in british education 3194
It is which is a sign of some hope. That is not correct. That would have nothing to do with mainframes but...
Transition of platforms in british education 3195
On 1 Apr 2006 19:03:49 GMT The Apple was quite a bit earlier than the BBC and *much* higher quality. The BBC was designed down to a price, at which it unfortunately could not be...
Transition of platforms in british education 3196
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:37:07 +0100 The Newbrain should have been out more than a year before the Beebon surfaced. Had it been out on time colour would have...
Transition of platforms in british education 3197
On 2 Apr 2006 09:45:15 GMT Ah well, yes. The Spectrum and even worse the ZX80-ZX81 now those were true examples of the evils of designing down to a price...
Transition of platforms in british education 3198
I'm a Mac guy myself, so I hate to have to agree with this. The...
Transition of platforms in british education 3199
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:45:08 -0400, "Micheal H. McCabe" Well, for one thing, they mostly *do* have phones...
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