Well - the European countries contribute quite a lot of aid, plus their policies and international behavior are not quite as openly arrogant.. That, plus Europe being more willing to challenge Israel on their policies and actions, means that the evidence that "Europe is evil" is less convincing than the evidence that "America is evil".
And - Europe don't export quite as much crap music and crap movies..
Do as I say: Try to see things their way, don't nitpick and talk about "the reason" - I didn't.
Yup - but that's still too big.. My Siemens M65 has a decent camera, wap browsing, an organizer/phone book that is syncable and it's relatively sturdy.
America is hated for its arrogance and its selfishness.
Thanks to organized farm lobbies in the western countries (and probably concerns of strategic resources), there have been set up trade barriers that limit importing food from developing countries, while our subsidized produce is being exported to those countries. Not only do we refuse to buy their goods, but we export subsidized produce to them that thanks to those subsidies is cheaper than their domestic wares. Why do they put up with it? Since the alternative is even worse - not being able to export anything to the Western countries.
Basically, we cannot be expected to be loved when we actively make life hard for poor people in the above described fashion..
Oh - and exporting western culture into societies where decency is still a virtue is not a good idea either, that tends to rub people in power the wrong way..
Basically, if America and the West want to be loved, we need to see things their way too and come up with compromises where both sides make sacrifices..
If I can get a cell phone with a camera, an mp3 player and a flash card of some kind, I'll be in heaven!
(I got a camera on my current one - it's nice to have at parties, fun to play with. The pictures aren't to bad either, VGA resolution with relatively good quality colors if the light is OK or better)
By using a terrible word many, many times, its meaning is somewhat trivialized. Witness "Motherfucker".
Anyway, that slur is not completely without merit either. WASPs tend to be a bit hipocritical, jews tend to be good with money, blacks like to think of themselves as victims (sometimes rightly so) - at least in my limited experience and many hours of indocrination by the entertainment industry.
Why not be a bit honest and say that some stereotypes hold merit, but not on a personal scale?
With a bit of awk or grep, you could have your snort logs give you sounds for different events. Sure, it's not interesting to hear every single worm hit your firewall, but whenever someone's doing sneaky scans etc it would be a good idea if a big speaker went BONG in the war room.
That's the scientific way. You're not a real green. You scaremongering, or just a victim of scaremongering.
chances are that a single catastrophic failure in a nuclear power plant _will_ affect me.
What?! You REALLY need to read up on statistics. You might say that if there is a one in 100 000 chance a year of a catastrophic failure in a nuclear power plant and there's 100 000 nuclear power plants in the world then there will we one catastrophic failure a year. (The numbers are lower. Much lower.). Even if you live to be a hundre years old, there will only be a.3% chance of a catastropic failure in your neighborhood. And btw - Chernobyl proved to be less harmful than were forcasted.
The terrorist attack? Those structures have a LOT of concrete around the nuclear core where the dangerous stuff happens. The concrete is meant to contain accidents inside. But they also mean that crashing a plane into a nuclear reactor is a bit like crashing a car into a mountain - spectacular but ineffective.
I agree with Lovelock. We know that global warming is a global catastrophic event. Let's work on nuclear energy and green energy - the results of our failure to do anything about the problem right now are greater than a few large-scale catastrophes. Cynically put.
Ext3 is stable and there's a lot of useful available tools for it.
If, for the end user, the difference is marginal, why bother to make things more difficult than necessary for yourself?
Or maybe they've received unusually many bug reports for ReiserFS and thus concluded it's not stable enough for them to push it. After all, they want to be associated with (amongst other things) reliability.
Seems the slashdotters think a rocket-launch is the wrong approach. They might or might not be onto something.
How about having a huge, high-flying airplane carry the space shuttle as far up into the atmosphere as possible, and have the space shuttle do the rest for itself with its built-in propulsion?
I don't care if those who bought their bullshit and paid up lose their cash.
What I care about is that the responsible within SCO and their shareholders are held accountable. If what we suspect is the case (moved from software development business to litigation businiess), these lowlives really need to be put behind bars! After all, if this flies, what will stop another company from doing something similar?
I've seen a few of those (I live right by a place the model plane fans like to come to fly their planes). They seem to be going quickly enough to be able to intercept a plane during takeoff or landing. And they're largish, so they're probably able to carry enough explosives to do a bit of damage.
I mean - why use a rocket when you can use a model jet plane that can turn and have another go if it misses in the first attempt? And just land and refuel if you fail altogether?
"During the interview, have many, many questions." Very important. Have a list of questions ready. "How do you prioritize between social skills and technical skills when you hire someone?". "How is the company doing?". "What sorts of pension funds and health insurance do you offer to your employees?". "Do the employees socialize outside job functions?". That sorta thing.
This will look good to the potential employer - you are prepared, and you are also signalling that you are interested in finding a company that is right for you. It is also good for you, since you can often tell from the reply whether this is a good employer or not.
Linux has become tremendously popular in the enterprise partly because it is a cheap alternative for an edge operating system. Now, Linux is also maturing into the truly business critical server market, and has for some time.
For a business with perhaps 10-20 employees, an Xserve would do nicely! And - guess what - in many countries, that is a large number of companies. A 4-processor hot-swappable box is too big and too expensive for those companies. What they want is a server to run their mail, and to be their fileserver.
Otherwise, the real savings lie in finding suitable web applications hosted elsewhere.
Wouldn't it be better to pursue development or optimization of a renewable energy source?
- Wave power - Tidal power - Solar power - Wind power - Growing plants/trees and burning cellulose cleanly - Geothermal power - Lightning power - Fusion power
These are all potential power sources we can harness. Right here on earth. No space exploration program required.
We would also need to continue the development of fuel cells, but that's something we'll need to concentrate on anyhow.
Exactly. A would-be counterfeiter would just use a different program. Unless there is going to be mandatory currency note detection in all libraries for reading and displaying images, this is not gonna work very well at all. And even if it was mandatory, someone would remove the code from libjpg, libpng etc and make it available on your favorite p2p network..
So, really, this approach is fundamentally flawed. Gave a few coders an interesting challenge, though!
Absolutely. But Perl means we can produce more software with fewer manhours and fewer lines of code! Compared to our java-based competitors, we kick butt, both in terms of development team size and in terms of performance and TCO.
We have profiled our code and optimized the code where we spend most of our time. On those critical sections, we use most of the tricks in the book - dynamically created code, extensive use of hashes, etc. We can even write functions in C using XS if we want to!
Basically, Perl is about freedom. You get a high-level language with a lot of freedom to both do genius and very dumb things. And then you can write (or have someone write) C code for those truly performance-critical functions.
Perl looks ugly and looks hacky. I'll be the first to admit it. But once you figure it out, it's pretty damned powerful.
Anyhow - would you have learned this if you didn't ask? Keep attempting to offend, man:)
In the app we develop here at work, we are highly conscious of performance and scalability. Simply put - the more transactions we can process, the bigger and happier the customers. And more money in our pockets.
With Xeon with HT, our performance has increased quite dramatically. We use Perl, so we simply fork off the jobs that do the processing. The result is that we fill all the four virtual processors in Linux if we have a sufficient number of jobs running.
You two are not excluding each other. Let me summarize:
1. It is possible to become physically addicted to a number of substances. 2. Once you are physically addicted, it is hard to break the addiction. 3. Breaking the addiction is easier for some people. 4. Some people are better at managing their substance intake so that they don't get physically addicted.
I don't get it. Movies (except those pieces of trash whose only justification is "cool fx") age gracefully. I'd rather see a really good movie from 1973 (or 1933) than a mediocre movie from 2003!
Actually, I would prefer research that prevents or treats non-lethal conditions, especially those that put people in wheelchairs etc. Death is inevitable. Who knows how and when it will happen. Let's keep it that way, when we have more important issues to spend our resources on!
It's that simple. If we live longer, there will be more people on this planet. The better medicine becomes at preventing death, the bigger will the population problem become - especially if it is applied in nations with high birth rates and high mortality rates.
We have about five major threats to humankind:
- Lack of resources due to overpopulation - Climate change - A really bad pandemic - Nuclear holocaust - Meteor impact
(Also, note how terrorism is not part of that list, but it is the primary focus of the powerful nations right now)
If you have a paper trail, along with surprise reviews of the paper trails, you've cut costs and increased efficiency without compromising the integrity of the election.
I would rather have a closed-source voting machine with a paper trail than an open-source voting machine without a paper trail.
An open-source voting machine is best (I like OSS too), but if we concern ourselves with the integrity of the election, the above described measures are sufficient.
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Well - the European countries contribute quite a lot of aid, plus their policies and international behavior are not quite as openly arrogant.. That, plus Europe being more willing to challenge Israel on their policies and actions, means that the evidence that "Europe is evil" is less convincing than the evidence that "America is evil".
And - Europe don't export quite as much crap music and crap movies..
Do as I say: Try to see things their way, don't nitpick and talk about "the reason" - I didn't.
Yup - but that's still too big.. My Siemens M65 has a decent camera, wap browsing, an organizer/phone book that is syncable and it's relatively sturdy.
I'll just wait for the next generation!
America is hated for its arrogance and its selfishness.
Thanks to organized farm lobbies in the western countries (and probably concerns of strategic resources), there have been set up trade barriers that limit importing food from developing countries, while our subsidized produce is being exported to those countries. Not only do we refuse to buy their goods, but we export subsidized produce to them that thanks to those subsidies is cheaper than their domestic wares. Why do they put up with it? Since the alternative is even worse - not being able to export anything to the Western countries.
Basically, we cannot be expected to be loved when we actively make life hard for poor people in the above described fashion..
Oh - and exporting western culture into societies where decency is still a virtue is not a good idea either, that tends to rub people in power the wrong way..
Basically, if America and the West want to be loved, we need to see things their way too and come up with compromises where both sides make sacrifices..
If I can get a cell phone with a camera, an mp3 player and a flash card of some kind, I'll be in heaven!
(I got a camera on my current one - it's nice to have at parties, fun to play with. The pictures aren't to bad either, VGA resolution with relatively good quality colors if the light is OK or better)
By using a terrible word many, many times, its meaning is somewhat trivialized. Witness "Motherfucker".
Anyway, that slur is not completely without merit either. WASPs tend to be a bit hipocritical, jews tend to be good with money, blacks like to think of themselves as victims (sometimes rightly so) - at least in my limited experience and many hours of indocrination by the entertainment industry.
Why not be a bit honest and say that some stereotypes hold merit, but not on a personal scale?
With a bit of awk or grep, you could have your snort logs give you sounds for different events. Sure, it's not interesting to hear every single worm hit your firewall, but whenever someone's doing sneaky scans etc it would be a good idea if a big speaker went BONG in the war room.
What?! You REALLY need to read up on statistics. You might say that if there is a one in 100 000 chance a year of a catastrophic failure in a nuclear power plant and there's 100 000 nuclear power plants in the world then there will we one catastrophic failure a year. (The numbers are lower. Much lower.). Even if you live to be a hundre years old, there will only be a
The terrorist attack? Those structures have a LOT of concrete around the nuclear core where the dangerous stuff happens. The concrete is meant to contain accidents inside. But they also mean that crashing a plane into a nuclear reactor is a bit like crashing a car into a mountain - spectacular but ineffective.
I agree with Lovelock. We know that global warming is a global catastrophic event. Let's work on nuclear energy and green energy - the results of our failure to do anything about the problem right now are greater than a few large-scale catastrophes. Cynically put.
They are also getting free, positive publicity that makes people start to like them again after the GMail publicity disaster.
You know - if it works, don't fix it!
Ext3 is stable and there's a lot of useful available tools for it.
If, for the end user, the difference is marginal, why bother to make things more difficult than necessary for yourself?
Or maybe they've received unusually many bug reports for ReiserFS and thus concluded it's not stable enough for them to push it. After all, they want to be associated with (amongst other things) reliability.
Seems the slashdotters think a rocket-launch is the wrong approach. They might or might not be onto something.
How about having a huge, high-flying airplane carry the space shuttle as far up into the atmosphere as possible, and have the space shuttle do the rest for itself with its built-in propulsion?
I don't care if those who bought their bullshit and paid up lose their cash.
What I care about is that the responsible within SCO and their shareholders are held accountable. If what we suspect is the case (moved from software development business to litigation businiess), these lowlives really need to be put behind bars! After all, if this flies, what will stop another company from doing something similar?
I've seen a few of those (I live right by a place the model plane fans like to come to fly their planes). They seem to be going quickly enough to be able to intercept a plane during takeoff or landing. And they're largish, so they're probably able to carry enough explosives to do a bit of damage.
I mean - why use a rocket when you can use a model jet plane that can turn and have another go if it misses in the first attempt? And just land and refuel if you fail altogether?
"During the interview, have many, many questions." Very important. Have a list of questions ready. "How do you prioritize between social skills and technical skills when you hire someone?". "How is the company doing?". "What sorts of pension funds and health insurance do you offer to your employees?". "Do the employees socialize outside job functions?". That sorta thing.
This will look good to the potential employer - you are prepared, and you are also signalling that you are interested in finding a company that is right for you. It is also good for you, since you can often tell from the reply whether this is a good employer or not.
Linux has become tremendously popular in the enterprise partly because it is a cheap alternative for an edge operating system. Now, Linux is also maturing into the truly business critical server market, and has for some time.
For a business with perhaps 10-20 employees, an Xserve would do nicely! And - guess what - in many countries, that is a large number of companies. A 4-processor hot-swappable box is too big and too expensive for those companies. What they want is a server to run their mail, and to be their fileserver.
Otherwise, the real savings lie in finding suitable web applications hosted elsewhere.
Wouldn't it be better to pursue development or optimization of a renewable energy source?
- Wave power
- Tidal power
- Solar power
- Wind power
- Growing plants/trees and burning cellulose cleanly
- Geothermal power
- Lightning power
- Fusion power
These are all potential power sources we can harness. Right here on earth. No space exploration program required.
We would also need to continue the development of fuel cells, but that's something we'll need to concentrate on anyhow.
So, really, this approach is fundamentally flawed. Gave a few coders an interesting challenge, though!
Absolutely. But Perl means we can produce more software with fewer manhours and fewer lines of code! Compared to our java-based competitors, we kick butt, both in terms of development team size and in terms of performance and TCO.
:)
We have profiled our code and optimized the code where we spend most of our time. On those critical sections, we use most of the tricks in the book - dynamically created code, extensive use of hashes, etc. We can even write functions in C using XS if we want to!
Basically, Perl is about freedom. You get a high-level language with a lot of freedom to both do genius and very dumb things. And then you can write (or have someone write) C code for those truly performance-critical functions.
Perl looks ugly and looks hacky. I'll be the first to admit it. But once you figure it out, it's pretty damned powerful.
Anyhow - would you have learned this if you didn't ask? Keep attempting to offend, man
In the app we develop here at work, we are highly conscious of performance and scalability. Simply put - the more transactions we can process, the bigger and happier the customers. And more money in our pockets.
With Xeon with HT, our performance has increased quite dramatically. We use Perl, so we simply fork off the jobs that do the processing. The result is that we fill all the four virtual processors in Linux if we have a sufficient number of jobs running.
Actually, isn't this slightly different? I haven't tried iTunes, but I assume you can re-download if you accidentally delete a song?
If that's the case, there's no need to perform a backup. So then we're down to whether DRM is allowed at all under Norwegian Law.
You two are not excluding each other. Let me summarize:
1. It is possible to become physically addicted to a number of substances.
2. Once you are physically addicted, it is hard to break the addiction.
3. Breaking the addiction is easier for some people.
4. Some people are better at managing their substance intake so that they don't get physically addicted.
Have I missed something?
I don't get it. Movies (except those pieces of trash whose only justification is "cool fx") age gracefully. I'd rather see a really good movie from 1973 (or 1933) than a mediocre movie from 2003!
Actually, I would prefer research that prevents or treats non-lethal conditions, especially those that put people in wheelchairs etc. Death is inevitable. Who knows how and when it will happen. Let's keep it that way, when we have more important issues to spend our resources on!
It's that simple. If we live longer, there will be more people on this planet. The better medicine becomes at preventing death, the bigger will the population problem become - especially if it is applied in nations with high birth rates and high mortality rates.
We have about five major threats to humankind:
- Lack of resources due to overpopulation
- Climate change
- A really bad pandemic
- Nuclear holocaust
- Meteor impact
(Also, note how terrorism is not part of that list, but it is the primary focus of the powerful nations right now)
If you have a paper trail, along with surprise reviews of the paper trails, you've cut costs and increased efficiency without compromising the integrity of the election.
I would rather have a closed-source voting machine with a paper trail than an open-source voting machine without a paper trail.
An open-source voting machine is best (I like OSS too), but if we concern ourselves with the integrity of the election, the above described measures are sufficient.