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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (53870)	10/5/2001 4:22:11 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

I wonder what the track record is for cultures and religions achieving preeminence by destroying other cultures and religions?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (53870)	10/5/2001 5:52:00 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Nice try Zeev....but the writer knows a lot less about history than many of the posters on this thread... >>>For centuries, even before the Crusades, Islam was the dominant world religion, <<<< Absolute rubbish... Islam had its followers, but prior to the crusades Christianity had the population base (and the followers) that Islam could only dream about. Probably there were some of the Oriental religions that dwarfed both Islam and Christianity in terms of membership. This thread has some pretty well read historians and Mr. Joe Gelman comes up short.... Why does Islam hate the West???? Here we have a handful of theories as firm as the dry grains of sand that you can hold in your hand. Every Religion has a few dangerous, vicious, half cocked, extremists, that need to be brought under control. Why these people surface from time to time has never been well explained. Have a good week-end...Jerome

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (53870)	10/5/2001 6:18:22 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Could this be the next killer app the thread is waiting for???? "A very neat compact PC?? HP readies compact Pentium 4 PC By CNET News.com Staff October 5, 2001, 9:00 a.m. PT news.cnet.com By Matthew Broersma Hewlett-Packard will launch a Pentium 4 version of its stripped-down e-PC at the beginning of next year. The e-PC will be the smallest desktop running on Intel's flagship processor, which creates packaging challenges because it generates more heat than previous models. HP revved the e-PC line at the beginning of October with a new model that allows for more expandability and uses an improved chipset. Consumers can't add more memory to current ePCs, for instance, or even access the inside of the computer. The only major part that can be changed is the hard drive. The company demonstrated the hardiness of the previous model, which is about a year old, by linking 225 e-PCs to create a supercomputer in a French laboratory. Packing the Pentium 4 into a small package is difficult because its intense heat output generally requires larger, noisier heat-dissipation machinery. The e-PC is about the size of a hardback dictionary, with memory expansion slots, CD-ROM drive, hard-disk drive and processor packed in like sardines in a can. HP technicians had to come up with a path for the air to be able to easily flow through all these elements. The result is an unusually quiet desktop computer, HP says. So far, small PCs that don't allow for much configuration, such as the e-PC and Compaq Computer's iPaq, have failed to grab much of the PC market, but that could change. Industry analysts such as Gartner say that because they are less complex and don't crash as often, compact PCs can reduce overall ownership costs by 6 percent to 8 percent compared with traditional PCs. The e-PC is not a niche product, HP insists. "We think this will be the office PC," said an HP spokesman. The company believes the compact PC approach could take more than 85 percent of the market, which is dominated by workers who don't need a full PC's expandability. The Pentium 4 e-PC will be in prototype form in November and will begin production in December, HP said. Staff writer Matthew Broersma reported from London. Go to Front Door \| Enterprise \| Search \| One Week View