I got your point, but most USians even today buy the fake idea of american exceptionalism when clearly that is not the case, and really believe that most of US's wars in the last century are for justice, democracy and the sugar-coated-crap-of-the-day and not because those wars where in US or US' oligarchs interests.
I will try to remember that when here in Mexico we found -again- another mass grave and found -again- that the DEA and ATF sent thousands of weapons to the drug lords.
Most measures are done 1m above ground unless stated otherwise because that is the standard way to measure. Also, unless most people manning the measuring equipment is from China, Hokkaido or Kyushu, I doubt they would fiddle with the measures since they live there an is in their best interest to provide reliable measures of radiation contamination. I'm sure that most of them love their children, their friends and the town where they live.
Wouldn't be easier and with far less bureaucratic overhead to provide the funds directly to the universities and requesting by law, that from all the enrolled students, an x percentage of scholarships for low income students across the whole nation? Individualism is fine and dandy, but by definition nations are collective, is in the best interest of everyone to guarantee that every young man gets an education and hopefully, feel grateful to his nation and community.
I'm from Mexico, but IIRC, from the last decade only 2 years have been the US Congress with a Democrat majority, not that it mattered since it was a majority of spineless democrats unable and unwilling to support a president of their own party. In foreign policy both parties are indistinguishable, but in internal politics there are several nuances of difference among democrats and republicans as long they don't step on the toes of american oligarchs.
If he lives in eastern Tokyo metropolitan area there is a slim chance that he indeed have something to worry about like in Chiba or in Saitama. If he lives in western Tokyo he doesn't have absolutely nothing to worry about. Levels in Tokyo in practical terms are at the same level than before the disaster. It would have been helpful if the poster wrote in which zone lives. The MEXT readings in the previous format put Bunkyo-ku as Tokyo's ward with the highest readings, but still not something to worry about.
Still, I liked more the previous graph version that MEXT had under prime minister Kan since it clearly put visual info about the highest levels recorded by prefecture, the normal recorded levels and the current levels.
The ICC as a mayor weakness in the fact that the US government as been undermining it since the beginning, for the ones that mistrust US foreign policy this is a tacit admission that the US is committing crimes against humanity.
Things will get interesting since many members of Gaddafi's regime that undoubtedly had a hand in most of the atrocities of his rule are now born again democrats, and the ethnic cleansing of black people done by "libyan democrats" will go unpunished. Maybe with is death now libyan people can start to ask the unpleasant questions to the members of his regime.
I find very impressive that many people can overlook the big burning elephant in the room that is libyan oil. For all the empty rhetoric about freedom that NATO used in Libya, they were very happy to go along with Gaddafi an all the arab ruthless bastards for several decades. Is patently clear that for european leaders the lives of brown skinned people are of less value than a dog.
The one's that damage the reputation of the police are the bad cops that don't deserve the uniform. As a unionized public servant I get pissed off when one of my coworkers mistreat citizens and we can't be even 10% as armful as a police officer. The union should welcome proof of officers misconduct since that bad officers make people mistrust the whole police force and makes everyone's job harder. Maybe they want worst riots in Paris than the ones in London in the near future to have something to brag about.
You must be kidding. Check out how many Linux projects flourish in Brazil's government.
Yes, under almost a decade of an efficient and effective social democrat government in coalition with brazilian industrialists*, a neat combination that the rest of the subcontinent or East Asia don't have. The Microsoft monoculture comes from the rampant software piracy that makes Microsoft products be of the same price in practical terms of any Linux distribution for the common man. Here only governments and large companies try to keep track of the licenses of the software they use.
* This is one of the reasons of why Brazil's Workers Party managed to keep the Presidency despite the constant corruption scandals.
If the computing environment in South East Asia from were he claims to be is similar to the one in Latin America with a monoculture of Microsoft is not hard to believe that he is expressing his true, honest opinion. The neat thing of slashdot is its diversity of opinions, we should welcome opinions that go against the groupthink as long they are not trollish.
I use it for mail, it is very convenient since it is like a home address, my yahoo mail address has been the same since 1996, maybe earlier. By using it with the mail app in OS X and iOS devices it isn't slower than Google's or Microsoft's offers. Also, in Japan Yahoo auctions is still the most popular site, they beat eBay. Still, asking $44 billlion for that was a stretch. Maybe a third of that was in the realm of reasonable.
In the previous tread someone posted about the lousy management of Yahoo, an it is true since it was Yahoo who funded Google but they were stupid enough to not try to keep a substantial share of that company. Google could have been Yahoo's equivalent of the Bell Labs and their cash cow.
Africa would get a good lift up if the Europeans and Americans paid reparations for the damage done under the colonial conquest of the continent and the slave trade. Despite being mostly a tax evading scheme, I will recognize Gates that at least him is doing it in a far bigger scale than what would be recommended by his accountants and enough to do a palpable good. Here in Mexico, our billionaires are 150% assholes.
It will flood Tokyo, and, for that matter, most japanese cities, we can say goodbye to the Netherlands and most coastal cities where lives a majority of people around the world. Personally, I think that we must pursue more efficient and clean industrial processes and means of transportation, since, even if global warming is not clearly anthropogenic, we stand to benefit from cleaner air and water, and cities without perpetual traffic jams.
Yup, I would like to ear the opinion of grandparent about what he thinks about the USA training the members of the mexican special forces that became the Zetas drug cartel, or the fact that the ATF shipped several thousands firearms to the mexican drug lords, and then lost track of them only to be used to kill an american officer in my country, or the 90,000 death and disappeared or 250,000 displaced in the drug war that the mexican puppet government i holding on US's behalf. Also, I would like to know what he thinks about the pseudo apartheid regime that Israel keeps with the US taxpayer support in the occupied territories of Palestine, or if the bombing of Nagasaki was justified in military terms.
Well, one thing in favor of the spanish is that despite the diseases that they brought to the New World they recognized as human beings the natives very soon and they married without much trouble with them, making mestizo a huge chunk of the modern Latin American population, and established laws to protect communal lands that lasted up to the independence of the spanish colonies. The europeans that settled in what is now the east coast of USA obliterated systematically with ruthless efficiency the natives.
Sadly, after independence, the new governments and the mestizo behaved far worst than the Spanish Crown against the indians. I despise Subcomandante Marcos, but after hearing how many white and mestizo mexicans degrade indians, saying that the life of an indian was of less value than a chicken, I'm surprised that they didn't take arms with such force before.
In terms of impact, Ritchie had more direct impact upon the world than Jobs, Shakespeare, Plato, and possibly even Einstein. The work of his mind is in, or directly assists, every household in the world with any sort of modern convenience. He was a modern-day Leonardo.
And I don't even like programming.
Maybe, but if it weren't for the men that brought us the personal computer revolution and the computer as a appliance the impact of Ritchie's contributions would have been limited only to the experts in the field. We can say that men like Ritchie composed and performed the music, men like Jobs produced the album, published and broadcasted it to the enjoyment of billions.
When I was a 3 years old kid I visited my dad's workplace. They had one of the 4 or 6 computers in a large city with a population of 1.2 million in a Mexico more developed than South Korea or Taiwan at the time, a Honeywell Level 64 with 512 or 768k of memory, 6 large disk drive units that appeared to me washing machines, 4 open reel half inch tape drives, 2 line printers and a punch card reader; all the personnel wearing lab coats. The thing was programmed in Fortran and I doubt that it ran UNIX or C programs. A far, far different IT landscape than what we have today. Now you don't need a lab coat to use a computer:)
I envy and admire you because not only you knew a man of historic relevance, you worked in one of the greatest research centers in the world too. Being from a third world country like Mexico, I face everyday the consequences of the lack of good investment in education and R&D by our government and self absorbed rich elite. On a side note, it appears that many of the pioneers in the IT industry have nothing in common with the derogatory stereotype of the computer nerd. Being kind and incredibly smart was normal for them.
Ok, over, on top, whatever, english is not my first language and this is the fist thing that caught my eye when I woke up, but if it made you chuckle, it was a fortunate mistake, don't you think =) ?
Men like Ritchie developed the tools that we enjoy to use to do our jobs, men like Steve Jobs brought the customers that pay for the food in our table and the roof over our heads. The praise that both have received is well deserved, and, in the case of Ritchie, it has been far too low for his accomplishments.
Indeed, is sad to see two of the most influential figures in our industry pass away so soon. Thank to them, I have a well paid job and managed to do many of the things that in the poverty of my childhood looked like crazy dreams.
I must confess that I never put myself to learn C properly. The best homage that I can think now is to sit down and learn it, even if my job don't demand it.
Just like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hidalgo, Bonaparte, Bolivar, de Gaulle and well, like what has been claimed by almost every political leader in human history.
Stallman is far more a politician than a coder. He is the head of the Free -as in Freedom- Software Fundation. Freedom is a political term. I doubt that Stallman devotes more than 2% of his time to code, but I'm pretty sure that he devotes most of his time to promote his political views. Now, try in a democracy to tell the people that everyone that doesn't agree with you is a fool and see how well you will do in the polls.
If you think that the success of Apple comes only from marketing then I guess that you believe that Microsoft, HP, IBM, Sony, Gateway, Acer, Nokia, Motorola, LG and Samsung were managed by stupid idiots that couldn't think of a such simple, obvious thing.
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I got your point, but most USians even today buy the fake idea of american exceptionalism when clearly that is not the case, and really believe that most of US's wars in the last century are for justice, democracy and the sugar-coated-crap-of-the-day and not because those wars where in US or US' oligarchs interests.
I will try to remember that when here in Mexico we found -again- another mass grave and found -again- that the DEA and ATF sent thousands of weapons to the drug lords.
Most measures are done 1m above ground unless stated otherwise because that is the standard way to measure. Also, unless most people manning the measuring equipment is from China, Hokkaido or Kyushu, I doubt they would fiddle with the measures since they live there an is in their best interest to provide reliable measures of radiation contamination. I'm sure that most of them love their children, their friends and the town where they live.
Wouldn't be easier and with far less bureaucratic overhead to provide the funds directly to the universities and requesting by law, that from all the enrolled students, an x percentage of scholarships for low income students across the whole nation? Individualism is fine and dandy, but by definition nations are collective, is in the best interest of everyone to guarantee that every young man gets an education and hopefully, feel grateful to his nation and community.
I'm from Mexico, but IIRC, from the last decade only 2 years have been the US Congress with a Democrat majority, not that it mattered since it was a majority of spineless democrats unable and unwilling to support a president of their own party. In foreign policy both parties are indistinguishable, but in internal politics there are several nuances of difference among democrats and republicans as long they don't step on the toes of american oligarchs.
I see that your optimism is lost :P
If he lives in eastern Tokyo metropolitan area there is a slim chance that he indeed have something to worry about like in Chiba or in Saitama. If he lives in western Tokyo he doesn't have absolutely nothing to worry about. Levels in Tokyo in practical terms are at the same level than before the disaster. It would have been helpful if the poster wrote in which zone lives. The MEXT readings in the previous format put Bunkyo-ku as Tokyo's ward with the highest readings, but still not something to worry about.
Now, the most update info is here:
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/
Still, I liked more the previous graph version that MEXT had under prime minister Kan since it clearly put visual info about the highest levels recorded by prefecture, the normal recorded levels and the current levels.
The ICC as a mayor weakness in the fact that the US government as been undermining it since the beginning, for the ones that mistrust US foreign policy this is a tacit admission that the US is committing crimes against humanity.
Things will get interesting since many members of Gaddafi's regime that undoubtedly had a hand in most of the atrocities of his rule are now born again democrats, and the ethnic cleansing of black people done by "libyan democrats" will go unpunished. Maybe with is death now libyan people can start to ask the unpleasant questions to the members of his regime.
I find very impressive that many people can overlook the big burning elephant in the room that is libyan oil. For all the empty rhetoric about freedom that NATO used in Libya, they were very happy to go along with Gaddafi an all the arab ruthless bastards for several decades. Is patently clear that for european leaders the lives of brown skinned people are of less value than a dog.
The one's that damage the reputation of the police are the bad cops that don't deserve the uniform. As a unionized public servant I get pissed off when one of my coworkers mistreat citizens and we can't be even 10% as armful as a police officer. The union should welcome proof of officers misconduct since that bad officers make people mistrust the whole police force and makes everyone's job harder. Maybe they want worst riots in Paris than the ones in London in the near future to have something to brag about.
You must be kidding. Check out how many Linux projects flourish in Brazil's government.
Yes, under almost a decade of an efficient and effective social democrat government in coalition with brazilian industrialists*, a neat combination that the rest of the subcontinent or East Asia don't have. The Microsoft monoculture comes from the rampant software piracy that makes Microsoft products be of the same price in practical terms of any Linux distribution for the common man. Here only governments and large companies try to keep track of the licenses of the software they use.
* This is one of the reasons of why Brazil's Workers Party managed to keep the Presidency despite the constant corruption scandals.
If the computing environment in South East Asia from were he claims to be is similar to the one in Latin America with a monoculture of Microsoft is not hard to believe that he is expressing his true, honest opinion. The neat thing of slashdot is its diversity of opinions, we should welcome opinions that go against the groupthink as long they are not trollish.
I stand corrected.
I use it for mail, it is very convenient since it is like a home address, my yahoo mail address has been the same since 1996, maybe earlier. By using it with the mail app in OS X and iOS devices it isn't slower than Google's or Microsoft's offers. Also, in Japan Yahoo auctions is still the most popular site, they beat eBay. Still, asking $44 billlion for that was a stretch. Maybe a third of that was in the realm of reasonable.
In the previous tread someone posted about the lousy management of Yahoo, an it is true since it was Yahoo who funded Google but they were stupid enough to not try to keep a substantial share of that company. Google could have been Yahoo's equivalent of the Bell Labs and their cash cow.
Africa would get a good lift up if the Europeans and Americans paid reparations for the damage done under the colonial conquest of the continent and the slave trade. Despite being mostly a tax evading scheme, I will recognize Gates that at least him is doing it in a far bigger scale than what would be recommended by his accountants and enough to do a palpable good. Here in Mexico, our billionaires are 150% assholes.
It will flood Tokyo, and, for that matter, most japanese cities, we can say goodbye to the Netherlands and most coastal cities where lives a majority of people around the world. Personally, I think that we must pursue more efficient and clean industrial processes and means of transportation, since, even if global warming is not clearly anthropogenic, we stand to benefit from cleaner air and water, and cities without perpetual traffic jams.
Yup, I would like to ear the opinion of grandparent about what he thinks about the USA training the members of the mexican special forces that became the Zetas drug cartel, or the fact that the ATF shipped several thousands firearms to the mexican drug lords, and then lost track of them only to be used to kill an american officer in my country, or the 90,000 death and disappeared or 250,000 displaced in the drug war that the mexican puppet government i holding on US's behalf. Also, I would like to know what he thinks about the pseudo apartheid regime that Israel keeps with the US taxpayer support in the occupied territories of Palestine, or if the bombing of Nagasaki was justified in military terms.
Well, one thing in favor of the spanish is that despite the diseases that they brought to the New World they recognized as human beings the natives very soon and they married without much trouble with them, making mestizo a huge chunk of the modern Latin American population, and established laws to protect communal lands that lasted up to the independence of the spanish colonies. The europeans that settled in what is now the east coast of USA obliterated systematically with ruthless efficiency the natives.
Sadly, after independence, the new governments and the mestizo behaved far worst than the Spanish Crown against the indians. I despise Subcomandante Marcos, but after hearing how many white and mestizo mexicans degrade indians, saying that the life of an indian was of less value than a chicken, I'm surprised that they didn't take arms with such force before.
In terms of impact, Ritchie had more direct impact upon the world than Jobs, Shakespeare, Plato, and possibly even Einstein. The work of his mind is in, or directly assists, every household in the world with any sort of modern convenience. He was a modern-day Leonardo.
And I don't even like programming.
Maybe, but if it weren't for the men that brought us the personal computer revolution and the computer as a appliance the impact of Ritchie's contributions would have been limited only to the experts in the field. We can say that men like Ritchie composed and performed the music, men like Jobs produced the album, published and broadcasted it to the enjoyment of billions.
When I was a 3 years old kid I visited my dad's workplace. They had one of the 4 or 6 computers in a large city with a population of 1.2 million in a Mexico more developed than South Korea or Taiwan at the time, a Honeywell Level 64 with 512 or 768k of memory, 6 large disk drive units that appeared to me washing machines, 4 open reel half inch tape drives, 2 line printers and a punch card reader; all the personnel wearing lab coats. The thing was programmed in Fortran and I doubt that it ran UNIX or C programs. A far, far different IT landscape than what we have today. Now you don't need a lab coat to use a computer :)
I envy and admire you because not only you knew a man of historic relevance, you worked in one of the greatest research centers in the world too. Being from a third world country like Mexico, I face everyday the consequences of the lack of good investment in education and R&D by our government and self absorbed rich elite. On a side note, it appears that many of the pioneers in the IT industry have nothing in common with the derogatory stereotype of the computer nerd. Being kind and incredibly smart was normal for them.
Ok, over, on top, whatever, english is not my first language and this is the fist thing that caught my eye when I woke up, but if it made you chuckle, it was a fortunate mistake, don't you think =) ?
Have a nice day.
Men like Ritchie developed the tools that we enjoy to use to do our jobs, men like Steve Jobs brought the customers that pay for the food in our table and the roof over our heads. The praise that both have received is well deserved, and, in the case of Ritchie, it has been far too low for his accomplishments.
Indeed, is sad to see two of the most influential figures in our industry pass away so soon. Thank to them, I have a well paid job and managed to do many of the things that in the poverty of my childhood looked like crazy dreams.
I must confess that I never put myself to learn C properly. The best homage that I can think now is to sit down and learn it, even if my job don't demand it.
Just like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hidalgo, Bonaparte, Bolivar, de Gaulle and well, like what has been claimed by almost every political leader in human history.
Stallman is far more a politician than a coder. He is the head of the Free -as in Freedom- Software Fundation. Freedom is a political term. I doubt that Stallman devotes more than 2% of his time to code, but I'm pretty sure that he devotes most of his time to promote his political views. Now, try in a democracy to tell the people that everyone that doesn't agree with you is a fool and see how well you will do in the polls.
If you think that the success of Apple comes only from marketing then I guess that you believe that Microsoft, HP, IBM, Sony, Gateway, Acer, Nokia, Motorola, LG and Samsung were managed by stupid idiots that couldn't think of a such simple, obvious thing.