The Pinks were also used as strikebreakers and anti-union thugs. Opposition to them was so strong that the Anti-Pinkerton Act was passed in 1893. "An individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar organization, may not be employed by the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia." It's still on the books.
According to Peter Norton (1985), "[C-A-D] works dependably as long as the keyboard interrupt service is working. If [not], there are two possible reasons: Either the keyboard interrupt vector [hex 36 through 39] has been changed or a clear interrupt instruction (CLI), which disables interrupts, has been performed without an accompanying start interrupt instruction (STI)." It's hard to say that the PC had an operating system when it could boot into ROM BASIC.
I think the reason for the reset button is because some programs could freeze the machine hard, such that C-A-D- didn't work. I found a review from InfoWorld October 3 1983 of the Eagle 1600. "One fantastic ease-of-use feature is the hardware reset. On the IBM PC, there is no way to reset the computer save turning it off and on again. [C-A-D] performs a software reset but not a hardware reset. Eagle has put a magic push button on the back of the computer. A simple push and the Eagle is reset instantly."
I love "people behind the scenes" articles. My only quibble though is with "few of these consumers were aware of Bradley’s shortcut quietly lingering in their machines" until the early 1990s. I find that hard to believe. I certainly knew about it. I have a 1985 book by Peter Norton which says "Ctrl-Alt-Del is probably used more often than any other key combination." Searching Google Books, limited to the 1980s, finds many matches, including the 1983 "The Inevitable Beginner's Manual", and 1987 "Small Computers in Libraries" ("not even the 'three-finger salute' (control-alt-delete) will work"). Windows certainly made computers more popular, but I think those consumers of the 1980s were also aware of the key combination.
dev - there are a few notable counter-examples. In Turtledove's "The Road Not Taken", humans didn't learn the simple technique that enables interstellar travel until aliens with matchlock weapons invade, and lose miserably. In Niven's Known Space series, the Thrintun are of low intelligence but use mental powers to enslave the aliens who visit, and from there take over the galaxy. In Arthur C. Clarke's "Rescue Party", most species in the galaxy take millions of years to progress from sapience to radio, while humans manage it in under 400,000 years. (There are other Golden Age stories with a similar theme; we're more intelligent, but late to the scene.)
We stayed there back in 2010. The clowns were cute, the price decent, the rooms fine; and a check of various travel sites show that most agree. There's nothing scary about the place, except of course for those scared of clowns. (As I'm scared of heights, there are many tall hotels which frighten me.)
I fenced when I was in college. It was fun, but I wasn't very good at it. Like any other fighting sport, it takes a lot of practice to get really good, and there's a big difference between expert and average. Sometimes we would go two or three against the top fencer in our group. We would rarely win. That gave me a visceral understanding of the old quote, "God made some men small, and some men large; but Colt made them all equal."
How odd - I zoom in and I still see it as 2041, but May 24 is also a Friday in 2013, and that would be the day after the I-5 bridge collapse ... Hmm, perhaps it's time for *me* to get glasses!
Why does the dateline seem to read "Friday, May 24, 2041"? That date actually *is* a Friday, but I suspect no time machines were involved. Also, the Santa Barbara News-Press doesn't have that article in its archive, and the picture seems to be of the I-5 bridge collapse over the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Wash.
The lineup also caught my eye. After second viewing I was about to complain that there was a cut from the beginning to the actual trick. Then I realized that the text during the cut was "what you are *about* to has no edits", not "the entire video has no edits." Double sneaky!
The title says "land mammals", which excludes whales and dolphins. Most of the animals in the woods are not mammals. I included rats in my earlier analysis. There are several times more mice than rats, but they are smaller.
There are under 100 million kangaroo. At under 20 kg each, that gives at most 2 squares. There are as many sheep in Australia as kangaroo.
If you do a mouseover, Randall points out that bacteria overwhelm us by mass by 1000-fold, even excluding the several pounds of bacteria in each of us. Speaking of ants, there are many times more ants by mass than humans. For some more definite numbers, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_%28ecology%29 . There's also grasses, trees, and corals in the ecosystem, if one wanted to include all species.
There are 4 billion tons of humans that can fit in a cubic mile, if mushed together. That picture shows that there's only 358 million tons of humans, so yet, we easily fit into that cube. But describing the size of a cube is little different than giving the total mass. The raccoon cube, for example, would be a lot smaller.
You are free to feel skeptical. It's best to back up that skepticism with numbers. The numbers I've been able to find back up Randall's chart. A more complete chart, which included all species, would need to include the millions of acres of foodcrops.
No. I was mostly enjoying my terminology. Researching now, Wikipedia says "In France and Italy, sashes, featuring the national flag tricolours and worn on the right shoulder, are used by public authorities and local officials", and another site says "Most are worn from the right shoulder to the left hip, but there are exceptions. You will note above that the Order of the Seraphim and the Order of the Elephant have nearly identical light blue sashes; the most obvious difference is that they are worn in different directions."
I think the reason for the reset button is because some programs could freeze the machine hard, such that C-A-D- didn't work. I found a review from InfoWorld October 3 1983 of the Eagle 1600. "One fantastic ease-of-use feature is the hardware reset. On the IBM PC, there is no way to reset the computer save turning it off and on again. [C-A-D] performs a software reset but not a hardware reset. Eagle has put a magic push button on the back of the computer. A simple push and the Eagle is reset instantly."
There are under 100 million kangaroo. At under 20 kg each, that gives at most 2 squares. There are as many sheep in Australia as kangaroo.
If you do a mouseover, Randall points out that bacteria overwhelm us by mass by 1000-fold, even excluding the several pounds of bacteria in each of us. Speaking of ants, there are many times more ants by mass than humans. For some more definite numbers, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_%28ecology%29 . There's also grasses, trees, and corals in the ecosystem, if one wanted to include all species.
There are 4 billion tons of humans that can fit in a cubic mile, if mushed together. That picture shows that there's only 358 million tons of humans, so yet, we easily fit into that cube. But describing the size of a cube is little different than giving the total mass. The raccoon cube, for example, would be a lot smaller.
You are free to feel skeptical. It's best to back up that skepticism with numbers. The numbers I've been able to find back up Randall's chart. A more complete chart, which included all species, would need to include the millions of acres of foodcrops.