European Governments have long history of allowing fascist states to run wild as long as they promise not to turn on them. In September 1938 in Munich the UK and France signed an agreement with Hitler that allowed him to invade Czechoslovakia. The agreement signed over mountainous border region of this country to Germany. That left it without ability to defend itself against German invasion and in fact doubled Germany's military production potential, since the military industry of Czechoslovakia was one of the largest in Europe at the time. Many analyst say that without this agreement and with UK and France helping Czechoslovakia to defend itself, the whole World War II would be just a border conflict between Germany and Czechoslovakia ending with Germany likely losing.
But with its military potential doubled, Germany, Austria, Italy and now Czechoslovakia under their control the nazis had compact land and the natural next stop was the Blitzkrieg and invasion of Poland starting the 7 year long war which devastated the whole continent. Letting Israel devastate Lebannon with US help and US destroy Iraq is just par for the course for UK and France. Business as usual.
An organization that doesn't have the creativity to create something often doesn't have even the creativity necessary to copying it successfully.
Amen to that! Did you see the pictures? It's just butt ugly.
And the name? I can see how I tell someone I heard it in My Zune and they will think the sound came to me with the autumn winds...
I find it completely impossible to watch american football without the 30 second skip button. It's the most boring game on earth without it, but it is kind of fast paced and interesting sport when you can skip all the time when absolutely nothing happens.
Some fortune 500 company who didn't install windows correctly is gonna have all their computers shut off at once and MS is going to get sued like there's no tomorrow. And that'll pretty much be the end of WGA.
I have heard this exact same argument for key activation. Nobody sued. Nothing happened.
And don't forget that Chinese prime ministeer has better relations with Gates than Bush. At least judging by his recent visit to US.:) He seems to have a fast track to other world leaders as well and somehow I have the feeling a man already used to this kind of power wouldn't corrupt so easily as others on the post of President of US. And he might actually do something with the terrible state of education and broadband penetration in this country.
I use the lines of code as a metric in change review process. The lower the changed line count, the higher the chance your change gets approved. If you can make a new feature under 10 lines or a bugfix under 2 lines, that gives me a hint you actually likely found the real cause of the problem or the right place where to plug the new code. If I see a lot of repetition in your code, it will almost never get approved, since you likely missed the mark.
If someone on my team wrote over 5000 lines of code before the year end, I would reject all his changes for the rest of the year just out of principle. That is a 5000 lines of code that someone will need to understand, maintain, write bugfixes for,...
So yes, I use the lines of code as maybe the most important metric.
If all the techies in US would close their BoA accounts and transfered balance on their BoA credit cards to other banks, they would notice. If they outsource to India, we should save 20% too and outsource to some credit union or other bank. Maybe Indian one? I know I will close it this very month.
That's funny... not only did I leave, I don't even have to pay state income tax anymore >:)
As I see it, you checked out. We shall see if you manage to leave. As far as I know you are returning 4 times a year so far. Wouldn't call that 'leave'.:)
Yankee group can claim no bias all they like - but I am sick of Laura DiDio fud being posted here (Oh she of 'SCO's claims are justified after looking at the source' fame).
Every time I heard about Microsoft, someone was mentioning this 800 pound gorilla and made me confused. That is until I saw the picture of Laura DiDio. Obviously with her on their side, Microsoft cannot lose.
But, should any government expect to implant chips in my body, tattoo a series of numbers on my wrist or demand I wear a Star Of David, in the name of "administrative tracking", I'm sure as hell not staying. We gave that a shot in Europe back in the 30s and 40s - it wasn't too popular.
I second that. The history shows that the only safe thing is to leave any fascist state as soon as it starts down this road.
We live in a democracy. If you don't vote, you don't have any rights. Slaves, women, immigrants, childern. Its always the same thing. No vote, no power, no rights.
I was born and grew up behind the iron curtain and now live in US for 5 years. I completely agree with you. The propaganda in the Eastern Europe has never been even remotely close to the levels which I see in US. People, both democrats and republicans are totally brainwashed and cannot think for themselves. I used to think it was only the republicans, but then I tried to tell some of the democrat friends that I agree in part with some of the republican ideas and got the same reaction. And even people without affiliation to any party are totally hooked on the 'We are the Good Guys(TM)', 'Good vs. Evil' and 'We are Spreading Democracy' lines.
In such environment it is quite normal that the Democrats get away with saying that half a million dead Iraqi childern is a price they are willing to pay. And the Republicans just go and invade the country without any real reason saying that all the loss in lives, health and wealth is price they are willing to pay. And the general population is still on the Good Guys bandwagon.
Democracy is a horrible form of government, with the sole benefit being all other forms of government are much, much worse.
I didn't say that there are any forms of government currently in effect that would be better than representative democracy.
The last thing any country in the world needs is to be ruled by an individual or a group that fancies themselves 'enlightened', 'intellectual' or 'anointed' for leadership. Such people are inevitably no better at anything than anyone else, they just have an unwarrantedly high opinion of themselves.
Oh, so you are describing again what I think is wrong with democracy, where the group you describe are the elected representatives.
I'll take my chances with Democratic/Republic type governments, thanks. As a group, they have undisputably outperformed any other nation with a non-democratic government in pretty much every category that exists. Sure, the soviets made a good run of it, but they ultimately collapsed, didn't they?
Actually, that is not true. The autoritative meritocracy that is currently rulling China under the guise of "communist party" is outperforming all the current democractic governments for some reason, including the government of India, which had a very lucky draw with some good leaders.
And if you want to claim anything about US success, let me remind you that all China needs to do to kill US economy is to put all the US dollars they hold in circulation all at once.
You have just managed to define the basic problem of democracy and why it is not sustainable in the long run. Congratulations. None of the political systems are better or worse for they all allow for exploitation of those who don't have or don't know by those who do. Feeling somehow safe just because you are living in a democratic country is major foolishness.
What more, democracy is even more dangerous than some other forms, since you will always find more than half in numbers of those who don't know or don't have in your population to exploit so you can force whatever you want onto the population as a whole.
This obviously does not work. Every mathematician will tell you that more data is better than less data. Especially with the near infinite computing power we have right now. This tactics might have worked when human labor was required to go through the data, but it is not the case anymore. Right now the only course we have is to give them less data, not more.
Poor you, I feel really sorry for you holding a job where you have no use of math. Math is the one major thing that gives me edge on my coworkers. Math is why I can do in two hours what takes others two days. Math is why I know and they just guess. Math lets me win any debate and gives me proof that I am right and they are wrong. Math is the reason my job is fun and their's is not.
So the american citizens were screwed by the greedy corporations, who gamed the system and the even greedier polititians who even wrote their own rules for the system and now they're whining about it all the time on their blogs and everywhere else. Quit bitching and figure out how to make money, not whine over the lost opportunities.
You talk about it like this was something Oracle just did to catch up with DB2. Oracle has been on Linux before DB2. It is ported to linux since 8i version and Linux has been the primary development platform for Oracle RDBMS since the version 9i. Which means that it is developed on and for Linux and Solaris and others are now just ports of the Linux version. Oracle has been pushing the Oracle on Linux for so many years now, touting the cheap hardware to offset the cost of licenses, I wonder there is still someone who considers this as a new development.
The installer in 10g has improved radically over the previous version. You should give it a try. It has been a long outstanding problem and they really made an effort to do something about it. It will be even better in the next version from what I've seen.
Actually, you likely have it backwards. If I understand it right, before 1972 these meetings could not be closed. The 1972 law did allow for closed meetings and to pass it, there was a 15 day clause put on the objection of some or other congressman. All they are doing now is dealing with the objection, since the legislator who objected is likely already dead and if he wouldn't, no chance he would dare to repeat his performance.
So the 1972 crisis is likely what eroded the freedoms the first time and the current one just allows them to continue the course.
Am I the only one who thinks that things like media and entertainment should not be core parts of an OS
Then you obviously don't get it. Just read carefully the next time slashdotters will make excuses, why they stick with windows and don't switch to Linux or Mac.
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But with its military potential doubled, Germany, Austria, Italy and now Czechoslovakia under their control the nazis had compact land and the natural next stop was the Blitzkrieg and invasion of Poland starting the 7 year long war which devastated the whole continent. Letting Israel devastate Lebannon with US help and US destroy Iraq is just par for the course for UK and France. Business as usual.
Amen to that! Did you see the pictures? It's just butt ugly. And the name? I can see how I tell someone I heard it in My Zune and they will think the sound came to me with the autumn winds...
Microsoft: Zune
Both apparently unsuccessful rip-off of the
Mazda: Zoom-Zoom
I find it completely impossible to watch american football without the 30 second skip button. It's the most boring game on earth without it, but it is kind of fast paced and interesting sport when you can skip all the time when absolutely nothing happens.
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I have heard this exact same argument for key activation. Nobody sued. Nothing happened.
And don't forget that Chinese prime ministeer has better relations with Gates than Bush. At least judging by his recent visit to US. :) He seems to have a fast track to other world leaders as well and somehow I have the feeling a man already used to this kind of power wouldn't corrupt so easily as others on the post of President of US. And he might actually do something with the terrible state of education and broadband penetration in this country.
If someone on my team wrote over 5000 lines of code before the year end, I would reject all his changes for the rest of the year just out of principle. That is a 5000 lines of code that someone will need to understand, maintain, write bugfixes for, ...
So yes, I use the lines of code as maybe the most important metric.
If all the techies in US would close their BoA accounts and transfered balance on their BoA credit cards to other banks, they would notice. If they outsource to India, we should save 20% too and outsource to some credit union or other bank. Maybe Indian one? I know I will close it this very month.
As I see it, you checked out. We shall see if you manage to leave. As far as I know you are returning 4 times a year so far. Wouldn't call that 'leave'. :)
Every time I heard about Microsoft, someone was mentioning this 800 pound gorilla and made me confused. That is until I saw the picture of Laura DiDio. Obviously with her on their side, Microsoft cannot lose.
I second that. The history shows that the only safe thing is to leave any fascist state as soon as it starts down this road.
You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.
We live in a democracy. If you don't vote, you don't have any rights. Slaves, women, immigrants, childern. Its always the same thing. No vote, no power, no rights.
In such environment it is quite normal that the Democrats get away with saying that half a million dead Iraqi childern is a price they are willing to pay. And the Republicans just go and invade the country without any real reason saying that all the loss in lives, health and wealth is price they are willing to pay. And the general population is still on the Good Guys bandwagon.
I didn't say that there are any forms of government currently in effect that would be better than representative democracy.
The last thing any country in the world needs is to be ruled by an individual or a group that fancies themselves 'enlightened', 'intellectual' or 'anointed' for leadership. Such people are inevitably no better at anything than anyone else, they just have an unwarrantedly high opinion of themselves.
Oh, so you are describing again what I think is wrong with democracy, where the group you describe are the elected representatives.
I'll take my chances with Democratic/Republic type governments, thanks. As a group, they have undisputably outperformed any other nation with a non-democratic government in pretty much every category that exists. Sure, the soviets made a good run of it, but they ultimately collapsed, didn't they?
Actually, that is not true. The autoritative meritocracy that is currently rulling China under the guise of "communist party" is outperforming all the current democractic governments for some reason, including the government of India, which had a very lucky draw with some good leaders.
And if you want to claim anything about US success, let me remind you that all China needs to do to kill US economy is to put all the US dollars they hold in circulation all at once.
What more, democracy is even more dangerous than some other forms, since you will always find more than half in numbers of those who don't know or don't have in your population to exploit so you can force whatever you want onto the population as a whole.
This obviously does not work. Every mathematician will tell you that more data is better than less data. Especially with the near infinite computing power we have right now. This tactics might have worked when human labor was required to go through the data, but it is not the case anymore. Right now the only course we have is to give them less data, not more.
Poor you, I feel really sorry for you holding a job where you have no use of math. Math is the one major thing that gives me edge on my coworkers. Math is why I can do in two hours what takes others two days. Math is why I know and they just guess. Math lets me win any debate and gives me proof that I am right and they are wrong. Math is the reason my job is fun and their's is not.
So the american citizens were screwed by the greedy corporations, who gamed the system and the even greedier polititians who even wrote their own rules for the system and now they're whining about it all the time on their blogs and everywhere else. Quit bitching and figure out how to make money, not whine over the lost opportunities.
You talk about it like this was something Oracle just did to catch up with DB2. Oracle has been on Linux before DB2. It is ported to linux since 8i version and Linux has been the primary development platform for Oracle RDBMS since the version 9i. Which means that it is developed on and for Linux and Solaris and others are now just ports of the Linux version. Oracle has been pushing the Oracle on Linux for so many years now, touting the cheap hardware to offset the cost of licenses, I wonder there is still someone who considers this as a new development.
The installer in 10g has improved radically over the previous version. You should give it a try. It has been a long outstanding problem and they really made an effort to do something about it. It will be even better in the next version from what I've seen.
That is exactly what Microsoft would like to know.
So the 1972 crisis is likely what eroded the freedoms the first time and the current one just allows them to continue the course.
Then you obviously don't get it. Just read carefully the next time slashdotters will make excuses, why they stick with windows and don't switch to Linux or Mac.