Yeah, making them effectively worthless, and dropping a lot of the value that is propping up the Yuan. Oh but they could make it all back on their industrial strength.... except as you pointed out, they just plunged their largest consumer market into recession. The U.S.(21%) is actually not that much bigger an export partner than, say the E.U.(18%). I am not as sure as you seem to be that they wouldn't do it. It has to do a lot with pride, which they have lots of.. And it's not like they have to worry about being re-elected, you know.
Some grandparent made some(not quite new, but still interesting) comments about the similarities between (the) late empire of Rome and the US.
I have some of my own: * I mean, towards the end, the romans started marrying horses...The POTUS is going for a cowboy image... * They had a lot of problems with poisoning coming from pipes leaking lead into the water..The US is even worse off, i hear that in some parts, it is flying through the air..:-)
Well, the current administration seem to think so. Or maybe it a relativity thing.
Let's begin with asserting that the year is 2007 and that it is widely known that phones are tapped.
Let's then use a 12-year-old terrorist as an example:
Even a 12-year-old would be paranoid enough to STFU about stuff like this on the phone.
Even a 12-year-old would be paranoid enough to STFU about stuff like this on e-mail. If he has watched more than ONE movie that touches this subject, and talked to ANYONE else about this, he will also know that using encryption doesn't help(acres, NSA) and draws attention.
So, what can one get out of evesdropping like this?
Industrial secrets, corporate people hasn't become as paranoid as the should, yet.
Possibilities to map the opposition.
A means to convince the people that one actually is doing something to lessen the terrorist threat and that there is a way to combat terrorism except to change a completely fucked up foreign policy? And that one isn't from Venus?
I believe you just set the new fanboi standard for years to come.
Or at least that's what you thought you did.
Because I think they are so great, that they should have a private space shuttle and launch facility to dispose at their will. For free of course(i won't mind). And with blow jobs happening by default, so they don't have to demean themselves by having to ask for it.
I have that in my laptop. Unfortunately I only have a 2 gig harddrive but I do have 56k on my video card. 56K? Christ! I can't see how anybody could ever need more.
Me, I have to make do with a measly 64 bits!//Nicklas
The ignorance on slashdot is amazing. Organizations run private key management servers, the machines don't ever [directly] talk to microsoft. And the server editions of windows don't even have "WGA." Many are ignorant of this, yes, but that is probably because they never need to bother with crap like that, Linux users as some of them actually are.
"Windows Genuine Advantage": Naming it that way is really an grave insult. They must have laughed their asses off in that meeting.
There's already a word for the few people who are willing to do business and invest even knowing they face a major risk of prison time by doing so. "Mobsters". What makes you think organized crime is large enough to absorb the total market cap of NYSE+NASDAQ when every fund manager and IRA and 401(k) holder cashes out simultaneously? Because the market can't possibly function and offer returns so high that a significant number of people living legit would knowingly accept the risk you're describing, no matter how many records they're permitted to grovel through (which only serve to tell them whether they're already fucked and didn't know it yet). I'd say that this is a completely invalid comparison. Mobsters have the intent of doing something illegal from the beginning. If your comparison WAS valid, it would mean that the owner of the companies also had that intent, which makes them into criminals anyway.
Obviously, there can be no part of society where one isn't responsible for once actions. This is an area where the legislation is lagging a bit to far behind reality, especially since corporations nowadays aren't afraid of venturing into politics and other really nasty ways of competing on something else than the merit of their products.
Hm. "US and EU invalidation of Chinese purchased US and EU debt"
What, you think it is that easy? "We don't owe you anymore?". That would be to completely destroy all U.S. economic credibility. An incredibly stupid move. Even to stop paying interests would be catastrophic. And why the hell should EU get behind that?
And what do you think the Chinese would counter with? Maybe sanctions? Maybe they are less dependent of the U.S. than the other way around? Do you really want to test that? This is not Venezuela we are talking about.
The only result would be that all nations that feel they might have differences with the U.S.(of which there are many) in the future would stop lending money to the U.S.
Also, this is insanely hypocritical, as U.S. has been doing this for ages. That the U.S. performs industrial espionage has been, and is, widely recognized as a fact by other countries.
I am also from a Borland background, and I understand why you would like VS more. It is really not that different. It has the same logic. VS is heavily inspired by Delphi, if you ask me. I started with Eclipse a couple of years ago, and after a somewhat problematic start, I'd say it is much more flexible(some actually use Eclipse functionality in their applications). And as others has stated, it can be used to write in a host of different languages.
As for solidity, I have had many more problems using VS than Eclipse. Not really sure how VS could convey a "solid" feeling actually. Not that others are much better, I have yet to encounter such an IDE. Sure, most feel great in the beginning but then they all seem to deteriorate, for some reason. That reason might be me, I don't know.:-) Anyway, yes, Eclipse has alse deteriorated, but not at all as much as VS (or Delphi) did on me. It still feels good, if not even better, after i have installed some l33t pluginz.
Also, there are really great commercial plug ins for Eclipse. There are for VS too, but with Eclipse, you don't have to pay anything for the IDE.
I don't use Eclipse for JAVA, since i don't do must JAVA coding. BTW.
Yep, picking up dancing from a book would seen like an even worse idea..:-)
Actually, we have a few who have been working as professional dancers(like ballet and similar) that picked up martial arts to stay fit. And (super-)fit they are, with great flexibility and control. As one could expect, they pick up the techniques almost immediately, the only small hurdle i have noticed some of them having is adapting to the notion of kicking with force, which is very different thing balance-wise than just stretching out your leg. But the most interesting thing is that they seem to have good timing, which must stem from constantly having to adjust to a partner.
I don't know about tougher, but I sometimes notice that I unconsciously move to evade when some friend does some joking hitting gesture. It is actually quite weird how fast I picked up those patterns and brought them with me out of the training, and they are almost impossible to suppress. If I sometimes understands what is coming soon enough for me to be able to consciously think: "Don't act weird now!", I actually have to force myself to stand still. It would be horrible if someone thought I'd be doing that to look cool, or something.
I never had those reflexes before I joined the "badass" group. Maybe it is some other kind of more (a bit pavlovian) learning, "if i don't do this it will hurt". It's kind of like how they say beaten dogs act. A not very flattering comparison maybe.. Probably true, though:-)
In fact, i strained my back when I fell down some slippery stairs..So I can't claim something like "That sore loser Tyson, hit me in the back when I left, he did.."..:-)
Hmm..The thing is that it is really hard to know that you do it right even if you know how to do. For a technique to be effective in a fighting situation it has to be repeated literally thousands of times, and somebody has to be there to correct you many of those times. It has nothing to do with it _looking_ nice, because some techniques will look awful not matter how well you do them, simply because you are either a little bit to tall, muscular, fat, or whatever. As a general rule, they look better the smaller you are.
Anyway, the only way to really learn to be an effective fighter is to practice fighting with people better than you. You simply need to get your ass handed to you to develop. I trained kung-fu(sanshou) for many years and one day i felt that I had come far enough to train in the group where all those elite guys train (you may know the kind, instructors, K1-fighters and the like). Needless to say, i got my ass kicked. I think I lost every damn round for the next 5 months. Another thing, at that level, they don't hold back much either. I found that completely insane and it almost made me quit training altogether. But at the same time, I felt that I improved at an equally insane pace. I also noticed that the biggest reason it hurt so much was because of the way i took the blows. When the odd moment occurred that I actually landed something it was floppy and unclean stuff that only brought a (horrific) smile to the opponents face. So I learned that the secret to getting hurt less is to constantly move and thereby becoming a harder target to hit cleanly(i.e. hurtingly). Obviously, the hard part is combining moving well with aggressively attacking an opponent. Even harder it is to to that also well.
Anyway, because of a strained muscle in the back, I had to go slower for a while, and returned to training with my old group for a couple of weeks. The difference was incredible. I felt like i was fighting children. Well...except for that one guy, an ex wrestler, who actually threw me from one end of the ring to the other just for fun at one time, the bastard. But except for him, I had no opposition at all(he is now also in my group, and yes, sometimes people do fly through the air).
I am still one of the worst in the "l33t" group, but now, it is actually fun and really interesting(well right now I've had a child and haven't trained for a while, but..).
But my first point is: Yeah, you can learn really basic stuff from reading a book, but to become any good, you have to do a lot of sparring. It is really a mindset thing and something that is completely impossible to learn by using just written instruction. If someone actually thinks that, it is just because that someone has no idea how fucking great some fighters are. A good fighter overpowers you in a way normal people can't imagine. Movies aren't even close in conveying that feeling. You will freeze up, try to protect yourself, and actually not understand what happens.
My second point is: My techniques are in no way better looking than they were before. They are not even much better in any other way either. Being a good fighter is not about individual heavy or fast techniques, it is about timing(which according to me includes reading the opponent), tactics and automatic behavior. Among those, I'd say timing is the most important. If you have great timing, you don't need to be very fast, powerful, flexible or anything. Your techniques will hurt sufficiently because they were delivered at the exact moment when they are the most effective. Your opponent will feel he/she is fighting with a mind-reading wizard.
There are more points, and i know that the parent probably did not mean that one can become a great fighter from looking in a book. It is just that some people seem to think that simply using breathing techniques or following some "path" is the way to greatness. I'm just am saying: that is just bullshit. It is fun, cool, and I love that stuff, but it is bullshit.
So if you weren't religious, you would do these things? Automatically?
BTW, those are interesting examples of typical atheist behaviour you mention there.
I'd know, since I am an atheist(which i became I choose between that and supporting the devil).
And you forgot some other things we do:
* We start wars over atheistic issues.
* We suppress other flavors of atheism.
* We expect other to follow inapplicable, ancient atheist laws.
I am sure there are many other things i have forgotten.
Ok, I give up. If you dismiss everything I say, what is there for me to say?
It is by far the largest, if you take in account for how much less money Russian weaponry cost.
You actually agree with me on those two extremely important points, and still you say Russia is not one of the most influential countries in the world? And there are other points where they are important. Like space technology, for example.
Obviously Chinas influence is larger that Russia's in its region. Obviously Australia influence is larger that Russia's in its region.
Talk about bullshit comments. Would i say something that stupid? Of, course, you wouldn't know that but i wouldn't.
India is the USs biggest friend? That's a laughable assumption.
Sad thing, really, that the countries that got the veto couldn't handle the responsibility. In particular the US, of course. Sorry, but no. The time has come when the US can't do what it wants anymore.
It is you who should open your eyes. The great influence the US once had is gone. For good, I think. Is is not only about money, it is about trust. The rest of the world lost all faith in "America". The American dream/way is not interesting anymore. Instead of interested in, people are now scared of. And that's important.
But if you want to talk money, remember that the US is practically owned by the Chinese. Remember paying for goods using government bonds all those years?
Because politics is about psychology, pride, trust, greed and, yeah money. But never only money. Lot's like economy, come to think of it.
Yeah, that list is significant. However. You are talking about economical influence over 3rd world countries, which can be useful, especially when it comes to creating a "coalition of the willing".
But what are YOU talking about??
Russia is one of the worlds largest oil and gas producers, and carries as such substantial weight in most of Europe and Asia.
Russia is one of the worlds largest (if not the worlds largest) arms exporter in the world, and AK47 has killed the most people in the world.
Russia was a superpower, and old habits die hard.
How well economies develop is not only about the fed setting just the right interest rate(a weaker weapon than one might think, actually), but also about peoples perception of the future. Why do you think it was so important that Greenspan expressed himself so cautiously?
It was not that people themselves would get scared, but that they would think that _others_ would get scared!
To say that markets aren't affected by psychological factors is plain ignorant.
Hell, technical analysis using such factors has been a part of trading forever now.
If politicians wouldn't consider the psychological impact of their decisions there would be chaos.
"The UN is a bigger thing outside the US. " That is irrelevant. We are comparing US and Russia. "But why care about that side? " Exactly. I wasn't comparing, that was you.
How do you measure power?/Politically, Russia has influence only on handful of countries. Compare with US. As in political influence. Russia has great influence in large parts of the world.
US once did, but don't anymore. How do you measure US power?
Confidence is BS. There is no such things in countries. This term is only used for people. BS?? Confidence >> national pride is extremely important factors. Economy is psychology.
Russia is like US only in bad ways: namely, imperialistic ambitions. Yep. As i said. What i stated was a typical symptom of that.
UN. Right, especially if one of the other members ignores pretty much anything that UN says, especially when it concerns "Israel". The UN is a bigger thing outside the US. But why care about that side? And there are some other matters than those that the US is involved in.
"Russia will only join WTO if it benefits them" Isn't that what I said?
I guess it is more to Russians in WTO than steel, lumber and enriched uranium. What that what you meant by this? Or have i missed something?
I disagree. Russia is one of the biggest and most powerful countries in the world. Putin, and Russia, is way past the point needing longer needing international recognition. On the contrary, i'd say that a new and very confident Russia has emerged over the last years. The most obvious sign of this is the way Putin has acted lately, hardly the way of someone yearning for international recognition. Russia is like the US in many ways. Acting out internal politics as foreign policies is one of those similarities. Russia will only join WTO if is benefits them. It's not like it's way cool and beats being one of the few members of the UN security counsel that can veto stuff.
They would have gone after the Chechens anyway. Remember, this is Russia we are talking about. Political correctness has never been an issue.
How is that different from apache that needs chroot,.htaccess and various directory directives along with an application server configuration? Windows security is way more granular than *nix, it can be scary but IIS is not hard to modify security settings. People just need to understand the interactions between the different parts of the application, IIS ==> Worker process ==> Com/DCOM object ==> file system. Once you got those interactions down, modifying IIS security becomes a joke. No, it is not that different if you put it like that. It is just that I think that the ISS implementation is counter-intuitive and, the more i think about it, quite strange. And I have way more experience with IIS than Apache.
Once you got those interactions down, modifying IIS security becomes a joke. Except that getting them down can be a pain. "Access denied", "Insufficient rights", "Invalid context"..... What? Who? Where?
Whatever. In the end, it is a matter of preference, obviously.
The hardest part about IIS security is that it uses the file system permissions for most (but not all) of the security. One thing this makes tricky is you can't always be sure what effective user various processes are running as, so you don't know what permissions they need. IIS 6 has improved this a bit, but IIS 4-5 were a bear to get working with a secured-down OS (e.g., one that didn't give "Everyone" read permission to C:\ and all sub-directories).
Then, you have the permissions that are controlled by the IIS GUI, like "read", "write", and "directory browsing" access. It's not hard, really, but the interaction between this and the file system permissions can cause you pain when things aren't working for some reason. Thanks, it think that about sums it up. One more thing though, application pools add another layer of complexity, since they operate as some user, and that user has to be a member of special groups. Add some roaming policies and a little bit more to that and you got my workplace right there:-)
Easier to configure IIS than apache? Hell no, i use webmin for that(unless tweaking is needed). Can't get much easier.
No one "masters" IIS in one week. In many ways, IIS is way more complex and difficult than Apache.
Apache, on the other hand, has a certain "way" everything is done. If one bother to RTFM and learn that "way", one can actually "master" apache in a weekend. Or at least be securely productive.
IIS has one way for each thing and it is relatively common for different parts to conflict with each other.
Security on IIS is really hard. It is really easy to forget some obscure setting, because of all those damn tabs.
Troubleshooting an IIS server is also really hard. Its logging plain sucks(although it has gotten better) and almost the entire operating system is involved in answering a regular http-request. Also, i have on 2 or 3 occasions had its settings database go corrupt on me. Which is fantastically difficult to deduce since things just slowly deteriorates for no apparent/actual reason.
And, sometimes, when for example the permissioning subsystem crashes(aaaaaarrrrgghh..), only a reboot works. Great.
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I am not as sure as you seem to be that they wouldn't do it.
It has to do a lot with pride, which they have lots of.. And it's not like they have to worry about being re-elected, you know.
Some grandparent made some(not quite new, but still interesting) comments about the similarities between (the) late empire of Rome and the US.
I have some of my own:
* I mean, towards the end, the romans started marrying horses...The POTUS is going for a cowboy image...
* They had a lot of problems with poisoning coming from pipes leaking lead into the water..The US is even worse off, i hear that in some parts, it is flying through the air..
Let's begin with asserting that the year is 2007 and that it is widely known that phones are tapped.
Let's then use a 12-year-old terrorist as an example:
- Even a 12-year-old would be paranoid enough to STFU about stuff like this on the phone.
- Even a 12-year-old would be paranoid enough to STFU about stuff like this on e-mail. If he has watched more than ONE movie that touches this subject, and talked to ANYONE else about this, he will also know that using encryption doesn't help(acres, NSA) and draws attention.
So, what can one get out of evesdropping like this?- Industrial secrets, corporate people hasn't become as paranoid as the should, yet.
- Possibilities to map the opposition.
- A means to convince the people that one actually is doing something to lessen the terrorist threat and that there is a way to combat terrorism except to change a completely fucked up foreign policy? And that one isn't from Venus?
*sigh*I believe you just set the new fanboi standard for years to come.
Or at least that's what you thought you did.
Because I think they are so great, that they should have a private space shuttle and launch facility to dispose at their will.
For free of course(i won't mind). And with blow jobs happening by default, so they don't have to demean themselves by having to ask for it.
Me, I have to make do with a measly 64 bits!
"Windows Genuine Advantage": Naming it that way is really an grave insult.
They must have laughed their asses off in that meeting.
Like anyone would know the difference..
Mobsters have the intent of doing something illegal from the beginning. If your comparison WAS valid, it would mean that the owner of the companies also had that intent, which makes them into criminals anyway.
Obviously, there can be no part of society where one isn't responsible for once actions.
This is an area where the legislation is lagging a bit to far behind reality, especially since corporations nowadays aren't afraid of venturing into politics and other really nasty ways of competing on something else than the merit of their products.
Hm.
"US and EU invalidation of Chinese purchased US and EU debt"
What, you think it is that easy? "We don't owe you anymore?".
That would be to completely destroy all U.S. economic credibility. An incredibly stupid move.
Even to stop paying interests would be catastrophic.
And why the hell should EU get behind that?
And what do you think the Chinese would counter with? Maybe sanctions? Maybe they are less dependent of the U.S. than the other way around? Do you really want to test that? This is not Venezuela we are talking about.
The only result would be that all nations that feel they might have differences with the U.S.(of which there are many) in the future would stop lending money to the U.S.
Also, this is insanely hypocritical, as U.S. has been doing this for ages.
That the U.S. performs industrial espionage has been, and is, widely recognized as a fact by other countries.
I am also from a Borland background, and I understand why you would like VS more. It is really not that different. It has the same logic. VS is heavily inspired by Delphi, if you ask me.
:-)
I started with Eclipse a couple of years ago, and after a somewhat problematic start, I'd say it is much more flexible(some actually use Eclipse functionality in their applications).
And as others has stated, it can be used to write in a host of different languages.
As for solidity, I have had many more problems using VS than Eclipse. Not really sure how VS could convey a "solid" feeling actually.
Not that others are much better, I have yet to encounter such an IDE. Sure, most feel great in the beginning but then they all seem to deteriorate, for some reason. That reason might be me, I don't know.
Anyway, yes, Eclipse has alse deteriorated, but not at all as much as VS (or Delphi) did on me. It still feels good, if not even better, after i have installed some l33t pluginz.
Also, there are really great commercial plug ins for Eclipse. There are for VS too, but with Eclipse, you don't have to pay anything for the IDE.
I don't use Eclipse for JAVA, since i don't do must JAVA coding. BTW.
Yep, picking up dancing from a book would seen like an even worse idea.. :-)
:-)
:-)
Actually, we have a few who have been working as professional dancers(like ballet and similar) that picked up martial arts to stay fit. And (super-)fit they are, with great flexibility and control.
As one could expect, they pick up the techniques almost immediately, the only small hurdle i have noticed some of them having is adapting to the notion of kicking with force, which is very different thing balance-wise than just stretching out your leg.
But the most interesting thing is that they seem to have good timing, which must stem from constantly having to adjust to a partner.
I don't know about tougher, but I sometimes notice that I unconsciously move to evade when some friend does some joking hitting gesture. It is actually quite weird how fast I picked up those patterns and brought them with me out of the training, and they are almost impossible to suppress. If I sometimes understands what is coming soon enough for me to be able to consciously think: "Don't act weird now!", I actually have to force myself to stand still. It would be horrible if someone thought I'd be doing that to look cool, or something.
I never had those reflexes before I joined the "badass" group.
Maybe it is some other kind of more (a bit pavlovian) learning, "if i don't do this it will hurt".
It's kind of like how they say beaten dogs act. A not very flattering comparison maybe.. Probably true, though
In fact, i strained my back when I fell down some slippery stairs..So I can't claim something like "That sore loser Tyson, hit me in the back when I left, he did.."..
Hmm..The thing is that it is really hard to know that you do it right even if you know how to do.
For a technique to be effective in a fighting situation it has to be repeated literally thousands of times, and somebody has to be there to correct you many of those times.
It has nothing to do with it _looking_ nice, because some techniques will look awful not matter how well you do them, simply because you are either a little bit to tall, muscular, fat, or whatever. As a general rule, they look better the smaller you are.
Anyway, the only way to really learn to be an effective fighter is to practice fighting with people better than you. You simply need to get your ass handed to you to develop.
I trained kung-fu(sanshou) for many years and one day i felt that I had come far enough to train in the group where all those elite guys train (you may know the kind, instructors, K1-fighters and the like).
Needless to say, i got my ass kicked. I think I lost every damn round for the next 5 months.
Another thing, at that level, they don't hold back much either. I found that completely insane and it almost made me quit training altogether.
But at the same time, I felt that I improved at an equally insane pace. I also noticed that the biggest reason it hurt so much was because of the way i took the blows. When the odd moment occurred that I actually landed something it was floppy and unclean stuff that only brought a (horrific) smile to the opponents face.
So I learned that the secret to getting hurt less is to constantly move and thereby becoming a harder target to hit cleanly(i.e. hurtingly). Obviously, the hard part is combining moving well with aggressively attacking an opponent. Even harder it is to to that also well.
Anyway, because of a strained muscle in the back, I had to go slower for a while, and returned to training with my old group for a couple of weeks. The difference was incredible. I felt like i was fighting children. Well...except for that one guy, an ex wrestler, who actually threw me from one end of the ring to the other just for fun at one time, the bastard. But except for him, I had no opposition at all(he is now also in my group, and yes, sometimes people do fly through the air).
I am still one of the worst in the "l33t" group, but now, it is actually fun and really interesting(well right now I've had a child and haven't trained for a while, but..).
But my first point is: Yeah, you can learn really basic stuff from reading a book, but to become any good, you have to do a lot of sparring. It is really a mindset thing and something that is completely impossible to learn by using just written instruction.
If someone actually thinks that, it is just because that someone has no idea how fucking great some fighters are. A good fighter overpowers you in a way normal people can't imagine. Movies aren't even close in conveying that feeling. You will freeze up, try to protect yourself, and actually not understand what happens.
My second point is: My techniques are in no way better looking than they were before. They are not even much better in any other way either. Being a good fighter is not about individual heavy or fast techniques, it is about timing(which according to me includes reading the opponent), tactics and automatic behavior. Among those, I'd say timing is the most important. If you have great timing, you don't need to be very fast, powerful, flexible or anything. Your techniques will hurt sufficiently because they were delivered at the exact moment when they are the most effective. Your opponent will feel he/she is fighting with a mind-reading wizard.
There are more points, and i know that the parent probably did not mean that one can become a great fighter from looking in a book. It is just that some people seem to think that simply using breathing techniques or following some "path" is the way to greatness.
I'm just am saying: that is just bullshit. It is fun, cool, and I love that stuff, but it is bullshit.
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Did i mention I c
I also thought so first. But i don't think so. If it was a joke, it was a really crappy one.
So if you weren't religious, you would do these things? Automatically? BTW, those are interesting examples of typical atheist behaviour you mention there. I'd know, since I am an atheist(which i became I choose between that and supporting the devil). And you forgot some other things we do: * We start wars over atheistic issues. * We suppress other flavors of atheism. * We expect other to follow inapplicable, ancient atheist laws. I am sure there are many other things i have forgotten.
Ok, I give up.
If you dismiss everything I say, what is there for me to say?
It is by far the largest, if you take in account for how much less money Russian weaponry cost.
You actually agree with me on those two extremely important points, and still you say Russia is not one of the most influential countries in the world?
And there are other points where they are important. Like space technology, for example.
Obviously Chinas influence is larger that Russia's in its region.
Obviously Australia influence is larger that Russia's in its region.
Talk about bullshit comments. Would i say something that stupid? Of, course, you wouldn't know that but i wouldn't.
India is the USs biggest friend? That's a laughable assumption.
Sad thing, really, that the countries that got the veto couldn't handle the responsibility. In particular the US, of course.
Sorry, but no. The time has come when the US can't do what it wants anymore.
It is you who should open your eyes. The great influence the US once had is gone. For good, I think.
Is is not only about money, it is about trust. The rest of the world lost all faith in "America".
The American dream/way is not interesting anymore. Instead of interested in, people are now scared of. And that's important.
But if you want to talk money, remember that the US is practically owned by the Chinese. Remember paying for goods using government bonds all those years?
Because politics is about psychology, pride, trust, greed and, yeah money. But never only money. Lot's like economy, come to think of it.
Yeah, that list is significant. However. You are talking about economical influence over 3rd world countries, which can be useful, especially when it comes to creating a "coalition of the willing". But what are YOU talking about?? Russia is one of the worlds largest oil and gas producers, and carries as such substantial weight in most of Europe and Asia. Russia is one of the worlds largest (if not the worlds largest) arms exporter in the world, and AK47 has killed the most people in the world. Russia was a superpower, and old habits die hard. How well economies develop is not only about the fed setting just the right interest rate(a weaker weapon than one might think, actually), but also about peoples perception of the future. Why do you think it was so important that Greenspan expressed himself so cautiously? It was not that people themselves would get scared, but that they would think that _others_ would get scared! To say that markets aren't affected by psychological factors is plain ignorant. Hell, technical analysis using such factors has been a part of trading forever now. If politicians wouldn't consider the psychological impact of their decisions there would be chaos. "The UN is a bigger thing outside the US. " That is irrelevant. We are comparing US and Russia. "But why care about that side? " Exactly. I wasn't comparing, that was you.
I disagree. Russia is one of the biggest and most powerful countries in the world.
Putin, and Russia, is way past the point needing longer needing international recognition.
On the contrary, i'd say that a new and very confident Russia has emerged over the last years.
The most obvious sign of this is the way Putin has acted lately, hardly the way of someone yearning for international recognition.
Russia is like the US in many ways. Acting out internal politics as foreign policies is one of those similarities.
Russia will only join WTO if is benefits them.
It's not like it's way cool and beats being one of the few members of the UN security counsel that can veto stuff.
They would have gone after the Chechens anyway. Remember, this is Russia we are talking about. Political correctness has never been an issue.
Like what?
..that no one has yet welcomed our new dusty interstellar overlords!
Well if no one else does, I, for one, will.
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My god man, do they want tea?
It is just that I think that the ISS implementation is counter-intuitive and, the more i think about it, quite strange.
And I have way more experience with IIS than Apache. Once you got those interactions down, modifying IIS security becomes a joke. Except that getting them down can be a pain. "Access denied", "Insufficient rights", "Invalid context"..... What? Who? Where?
Whatever. In the end, it is a matter of preference, obviously.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=262047&cid=20
Then, you have the permissions that are controlled by the IIS GUI, like "read", "write", and "directory browsing" access. It's not hard, really, but the interaction between this and the file system permissions can cause you pain when things aren't working for some reason. Thanks, it think that about sums it up.
One more thing though, application pools add another layer of complexity, since they operate as some user, and that user has to be a member of special groups.
Add some roaming policies and a little bit more to that and you got my workplace right there
Easier to configure IIS than apache?
Hell no, i use webmin for that(unless tweaking is needed). Can't get much easier.
No one "masters" IIS in one week.
In many ways, IIS is way more complex and difficult than Apache.
Apache, on the other hand, has a certain "way" everything is done. If one bother to RTFM and learn that "way", one can actually "master" apache in a weekend. Or at least be securely productive.
IIS has one way for each thing and it is relatively common for different parts to conflict with each other.
Security on IIS is really hard. It is really easy to forget some obscure setting, because of all those damn tabs.
Troubleshooting an IIS server is also really hard. Its logging plain sucks(although it has gotten better) and almost the entire operating system is involved in answering a regular http-request. Also, i have on 2 or 3 occasions had its settings database go corrupt on me. Which is fantastically difficult to deduce since things just slowly deteriorates for no apparent/actual reason.
And, sometimes, when for example the permissioning subsystem crashes(aaaaaarrrrgghh..), only a reboot works. Great.