George Bush is an idiot, if we didn't have GW as president we wouldn't be in this situation. RIAA so owns GW, he probably told the judge to switch venues. If Howard Dean was president he would put the smack down on RIAA.
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I find the adwords to be useful. Sometimes I like to hop on google to find something to buy. Like around Christmas I know what I am looking for, so I can punch the item into google. Then I have content, reviews, etc and links to where I can buy the product. Bonus.
I download, it is an act of civil disobedience. In
Liar. Turn yourself in if you believe it is civil disobedience. If you truly believe in what you say you do, you would activitly stand and be counted. You see, if you break the law and you want the law changed, you need to make sure it is know, so others can see that it is an unjust law. But you won't do that, cause then you would have to go to jail/pay a fine/leave your mom's basement and not listen to your "free" music.
I think copyright is a fine thing. Without it we would remove the incentive to create new things. You think artists are starving now? Wait till we no longer have copyright, then no one will pay an artist to create.
It always seems to be the people who create nothing that demand the most to be free.
'We' have just had [Osama Bin Laden's Lackies] visit 'us'. I think that one of the biggest problems at the moment is the percieved ignorance of [al'qeada members] when it comes to foreign affairs, and at present this relates particularly to the lack of understanding of the politics of the [US], the rise of [middle east] feelings, and the role of [freedom and capitalism]. Writing these people off as insane is very naive. The cold reception that [al'qeada] has received in this country is due to a feeling that _[Osama]_ is a particularly naive [middle eastern fella] whose actions are not improving the situation or making the world a safer place. Whether this is in fact the case I do not know, but perception is more important than fact, as every marketing department knows.
So, you are basically saying that al'qeada/terrorists are in the right (because they must just be misunderstood) and the US is in the wrong (for defending its interests and people)? Why?
Does all the rest of the world suffer from some perverse disease that causes them to think terrorism is all right, or even a valid way to voice contention? It certainly seems that way with most of Europe supporting palestinians.
Appeasement has been shown not to work. I know how much folks hate hearing this now, but 1940's showed us this. While I do not have a problem trying to understand why they hate us, it does not give them the right to try to destroy us.
Those who support terrorism will be crushed. There is no other option. If we concede to their demands it makes terrorism a valid form of addressing greivances. Personally, I would hate to see that occur. Can you imagine a world where it is considered political discourse to blow up any random building full of people because you disagree with how some government is run?
What about what the US did in Iraq, you ask. We did not destroy random targets. Military targets and civilian targets are two separate issues. Yes, collateral damage is part of war, but never before has any nation attempted war with such precision. Under the much touted geneva conventions you will find it is actually the state that puts its military targets close to the civillian targets that is at fault, not the state that uses weapons against military targets. The US in Iraq did not target civillians, and you would have to be brain dead to think that they did, for the reason is it buys us nothing, and the anti-war crowd loves to latch onto pictures where children are all bloodied or dead. We had more direct news coverage in Iraq than any other war previous.
So you are suggesting we should have let Japan have its way, since their people were willing to die for their cause?
What do you notice about the US (or pretty much any western civilization) vs these other countries? We consider each death a huge loss. We have folks crying that we have lost 400+ in Iraq, we value life so much that we get weak in the knees when we have tiny losses compared to previous wars.
While these other folks may not be insane we are still required to stand against this. There is only so much we can do without sacraficing who we are to appease others.
For all your respect for people who wish ill on the US, you respect their culture, their lives, yet we are to simpley sit back and take it you suggest? Why is the US culture less than theirs?
Yeah, I do the same thing at restaurants. I eat a little off each person's plate as I wonder around. Its not like they would have eaten it anyways, and the restaurant wouldn't have gotten the money anyways and the custormers would not have gotten a refund on the food either.
So, I feel I take the moral high ground by taking the benefit of something I don't pay for and stiffing those who actually put money into creating it.
I do it with software. I don't pay for that. But, I also take gpl'd projects and make modifications and sell them as closed source. You know how easy it is to copy stuff, I don't see any reason to pay anyone for it. I mean copyrights are stupid.
That will get you up and running. To be useful you will want to edit the $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf file and add permissions to access the machine non-locally. Then in the pg_ctl line add "-o -i" to allow TCP connections (useful for jdbc connections).
(gasp) even SQL Server support these hints without a problem
While this might be the case for that particular feature, we have had issues with reading values from the result set with MSSQL jdbc drivers out of order.
select col1,col2 from table1;
rset.getString("col2"); rset.getString("col1");
causes either a NullPointerException or the next record's col1, I forget which. Either way, we had to write a sinkin' wrapper for result set because of this bug.
Anyways, it might be fixed now. This was an issue a while ago, and we don't trust that it works now.
Out of all the posts so far, yours has made the most sense I have seen. I would like to take it a little bit further though.
Besides just being for family and friends to be able to keep abreast of what is going on with me, it is mainly there for me.
I am currently developing certain features to my site that no one will ever see. Namely a personal calendar, address book, and also some bugdet software. No one sees these features because I have setup a login for the site which doesn't show the items on the menu if it doesn't pertain to you (if you are not me or my wife).
Once I login the menu will display a link to the calendar application I am writing and allow me to enter events for myself or view events that are upcoming. Sort of like a PDA, except it is online instead of in my pocket.
when a new Chinese Space Mission update is posted on slashdot some people start to complain: - China is the bastion of freedom and support for all its citizens (put the blinders on and ignore the civil rights abuses) - They are the most advanced in space technology (minus the russian support and research and copies of russian tech)
You have to know that China is not spending ALL the money on space travel (but everytime a US develops a weapon, its all the US spends money on, not research for AIDS and cancer). It's working on its own problems right now. It's a developping country but the thing is it's a hell of a developping country with almost a billion workers that are about to create the biggest market in the world.
You did that 30 years ago... ok. And what ?
What about doing REAL space and moon exploration instead of a big show off like the Appolo program was (yeah, like this isn't a propaganda thing, they REALLY want to do this for the human race and not just to prove that they are not as backwards as percieved outside)?
China is planning actual exploitation of moon ressources within the next 50 years (yeah, and we plan on having fusion powerplants the size of an eggcarton in 20 years). They could really become prevalent in the future just because of the bargain they are doing today. Imagine if they manage to set up a full moon base.
They would become prevalent in energy, astronomy, vacuum manufacturing and space exploration. You should think about it and maybe the US government should try to spend less money on war (cause we all know that is all they spend money on) and maybe a little more on space exploration...
Bud, here's a reality check, go cash it before you start floating away.
Everytime the US considers going it alone in any venture, we get the EU saying, "Wouldn't it be better to work on this together?" Do you see folks lining up to chat with China and help them here? Nope. Do you see China saying they want help (other than the russian tech)? Nope. Do you really think China is doing this other than for propganda reasons within and without China? Nope.
In some ways I think this is great, soley for the purpose of challenging other countries to work towards space. I would rather see another country like say Brazil or Japan or even EU's organization work towards this, because of the competition that it is sure to create.
However, you seem to only be looking at this through rose colored glasses. You seem to think that China is this freedom loving country that is doing this for the benefit of mankind. Wrong.
If you think China is such a great nation, move there. Also, when you complain that the US is too busy fighting wars to worry about this you show your true colors. The US is a super power, that means we are capable of working on many projects at a time. While NASA is not the most productive organization right now, and a shakeup and reorganization and prioritization would do wonders, it is still funded and capable (sure some witty idiot will say that our shuttles are still grounded, but where is the ESA's launch vehicle?). Which brings up a good point to all the EUians and Canadians, where are your folks in space? Why does the US always have to do the work, oh right, you don't want topay for it... right.
Anyways, my guess is that upon a second launch from China the US may get their checkbooks out and start signing blank checks for NASA. Or atleast if it looks like China will be successful in some fashion. The US will probably make a stand once it realizes there is a pride issue or security issue on the line. We are called the sleeping giant for a reason. When we are unprovoked and left alone we are at our worst and laziest. Once there is something for us to show, all our strength and might are brought to bear.
You want to know why were in a recession? Its simple, really.
You are right. We are not in a recession. Infact, if you would look around and read papers, internet, etc...
We have had strengthening indicators in all sections of the economy; productivity, capital spending, consumer spending, salaries, unemployment.
In short the economy is not just turning around, it is looking bright. Putting money into the pockets of people who earn it is the best way to keep the economy looking bright. That does not include taxing success into medicore submission, not paying people who the free market will bear, and giving free hand-outs to those who do not contribute.
Playing devils advocate here, yes, but the point should be clear. If I provide content, I expect to be compensated in some fashion, either from ads or charging users of the content.
If the content I provide is not worth paying for, so be it, I go out of business and have to work in some other industry where I am useful instead.
He intends to get Mach 3.5 performance out of normal turbojets at very high altitudes by using water and LOX injection, a concept that has been around since the late 50's, but one that nobody has put into practice.
Big bummer. I spent Saturday evening after I updated my 9000pro to a 9600pro cursing and swearing while it kept crashing on Morrowind whenever I'd load a zone. Once I figured out that downgrading the patches to 3.7 catalyst all things worked well.
If you take 1/2 profits and divide them by employees and are only getting 1500 per employee, you need to keep a certain amount of cash on for investment into the business and store up a little slow times.
However, until I no longer have to subsidise another person's use of drugs through medical expenses and lost productivity I am for keeping them illegal.
What really makes me sick (no pun intented) was when I was highschool working the usual highschool menial jobs I would get called in on my days off to cover for someone who was "sick" *cough* hungover *cough* stoned *cough* from the night before. On top of that when some folks were really sick is was since they have no immune system after partying all night and smoking all day.
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George Bush is an idiot, if we didn't have GW as president we wouldn't be in this situation. RIAA so owns GW, he probably told the judge to switch venues. If Howard Dean was president he would put the smack down on RIAA.
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I find the adwords to be useful. Sometimes I like to hop on google to find something to buy. Like around Christmas I know what I am looking for, so I can punch the item into google. Then I have content, reviews, etc and links to where I can buy the product. Bonus.
I download, it is an act of civil disobedience. In
Liar. Turn yourself in if you believe it is civil disobedience. If you truly believe in what you say you do, you would activitly stand and be counted. You see, if you break the law and you want the law changed, you need to make sure it is know, so others can see that it is an unjust law. But you won't do that, cause then you would have to go to jail/pay a fine/leave your mom's basement and not listen to your "free" music.
I think copyright is a fine thing. Without it we would remove the incentive to create new things. You think artists are starving now? Wait till we no longer have copyright, then no one will pay an artist to create.
It always seems to be the people who create nothing that demand the most to be free.
'We' have just had [Osama Bin Laden's Lackies] visit 'us'. I think that one of the biggest problems at the moment is the percieved ignorance of [al'qeada members] when it comes to foreign affairs, and at present this relates particularly to the lack of understanding of the politics of the [US], the rise of [middle east] feelings, and the role of [freedom and capitalism]. Writing these people off as insane is very naive. The cold reception that [al'qeada] has received in this country is due to a feeling that _[Osama]_ is a particularly naive [middle eastern fella] whose actions are not improving the situation or making the world a safer place. Whether this is in fact the case I do not know, but perception is more important than fact, as every marketing department knows.
So, you are basically saying that al'qeada/terrorists are in the right (because they must just be misunderstood) and the US is in the wrong (for defending its interests and people)? Why?
Does all the rest of the world suffer from some perverse disease that causes them to think terrorism is all right, or even a valid way to voice contention? It certainly seems that way with most of Europe supporting palestinians.
Appeasement has been shown not to work. I know how much folks hate hearing this now, but 1940's showed us this. While I do not have a problem trying to understand why they hate us, it does not give them the right to try to destroy us.
Those who support terrorism will be crushed. There is no other option. If we concede to their demands it makes terrorism a valid form of addressing greivances. Personally, I would hate to see that occur. Can you imagine a world where it is considered political discourse to blow up any random building full of people because you disagree with how some government is run?
What about what the US did in Iraq, you ask. We did not destroy random targets. Military targets and civilian targets are two separate issues. Yes, collateral damage is part of war, but never before has any nation attempted war with such precision. Under the much touted geneva conventions you will find it is actually the state that puts its military targets close to the civillian targets that is at fault, not the state that uses weapons against military targets. The US in Iraq did not target civillians, and you would have to be brain dead to think that they did, for the reason is it buys us nothing, and the anti-war crowd loves to latch onto pictures where children are all bloodied or dead. We had more direct news coverage in Iraq than any other war previous.
So you are suggesting we should have let Japan have its way, since their people were willing to die for their cause?
What do you notice about the US (or pretty much any western civilization) vs these other countries? We consider each death a huge loss. We have folks crying that we have lost 400+ in Iraq, we value life so much that we get weak in the knees when we have tiny losses compared to previous wars.
While these other folks may not be insane we are still required to stand against this. There is only so much we can do without sacraficing who we are to appease others.
For all your respect for people who wish ill on the US, you respect their culture, their lives, yet we are to simpley sit back and take it you suggest? Why is the US culture less than theirs?
Yeah, I do the same thing at restaurants. I eat a little off each person's plate as I wonder around. Its not like they would have eaten it anyways, and the restaurant wouldn't have gotten the money anyways and the custormers would not have gotten a refund on the food either.
So, I feel I take the moral high ground by taking the benefit of something I don't pay for and stiffing those who actually put money into creating it.
I do it with software. I don't pay for that. But, I also take gpl'd projects and make modifications and sell them as closed source. You know how easy it is to copy stuff, I don't see any reason to pay anyone for it. I mean copyrights are stupid.
Yeah, but try finding a lawyer to defend you on that on. :-(
Good thing you posted the reply. I had you marked as foe before I read the children comments.
The original made it past my humour filter right into the "I hate the US and am using stupid arugments to show it."
This is a pretty basic setup, with 0 optimizations, but it will get you going on a home machine:
/path/to/data
% setenv PGDATA
% initdb
% pg_ctl -l $PGDATA/postgresql.log start
% createdb dbname
% psql dbname
psql>
That will get you up and running. To be useful you will want to edit the $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf file and add permissions to access the machine non-locally. Then in the pg_ctl line add "-o -i" to allow TCP connections (useful for jdbc connections).
(gasp) even SQL Server support these hints without a problem
;
While this might be the case for that particular feature, we have had issues with reading values from the result set with MSSQL jdbc drivers out of order.
select col1,col2 from table1;
rset.getString("col2");
rset.getString("col1")
causes either a NullPointerException or the next record's col1, I forget which. Either way, we had to write a sinkin' wrapper for result set because of this bug.
Anyways, it might be fixed now. This was an issue a while ago, and we don't trust that it works now.
Out of all the posts so far, yours has made the most sense I have seen. I would like to take it a little bit further though.
Besides just being for family and friends to be able to keep abreast of what is going on with me, it is mainly there for me.
I am currently developing certain features to my site that no one will ever see. Namely a personal calendar, address book, and also some bugdet software. No one sees these features because I have setup a login for the site which doesn't show the items on the menu if it doesn't pertain to you (if you are not me or my wife).
Once I login the menu will display a link to the calendar application I am writing and allow me to enter events for myself or view events that are upcoming. Sort of like a PDA, except it is online instead of in my pocket.
Ouch, I'd hate to be the 3/5 of a windows user to have subscribed. :-)
when a new Chinese Space Mission update is posted on slashdot some people start to complain:
- China is the bastion of freedom and support for all its citizens (put the blinders on and ignore the civil rights abuses)
- They are the most advanced in space technology (minus the russian support and research and copies of russian tech)
You have to know that China is not spending ALL the money on space travel (but everytime a US develops a weapon, its all the US spends money on, not research for AIDS and cancer). It's working on its own problems right now. It's a developping country but the thing is it's a hell of a developping country with almost a billion workers that are about to create the biggest market in the world.
You did that 30 years ago... ok. And what ?
What about doing REAL space and moon exploration instead of a big show off like the Appolo program was (yeah, like this isn't a propaganda thing, they REALLY want to do this for the human race and not just to prove that they are not as backwards as percieved outside)?
China is planning actual exploitation of moon ressources within the next 50 years (yeah, and we plan on having fusion powerplants the size of an eggcarton in 20 years). They could really become prevalent in the future just because of the bargain they are doing today. Imagine if they manage to set up a full moon base.
They would become prevalent in energy, astronomy, vacuum manufacturing and space exploration. You should think about it and maybe the US government should try to spend less money on war (cause we all know that is all they spend money on) and maybe a little more on space exploration...
Bud, here's a reality check, go cash it before you start floating away.
Everytime the US considers going it alone in any venture, we get the EU saying, "Wouldn't it be better to work on this together?" Do you see folks lining up to chat with China and help them here? Nope. Do you see China saying they want help (other than the russian tech)? Nope. Do you really think China is doing this other than for propganda reasons within and without China? Nope.
In some ways I think this is great, soley for the purpose of challenging other countries to work towards space. I would rather see another country like say Brazil or Japan or even EU's organization work towards this, because of the competition that it is sure to create.
However, you seem to only be looking at this through rose colored glasses. You seem to think that China is this freedom loving country that is doing this for the benefit of mankind. Wrong.
If you think China is such a great nation, move there.
Also, when you complain that the US is too busy fighting wars to worry about this you show your true colors. The US is a super power, that means we are capable of working on many projects at a time. While NASA is not the most productive organization right now, and a shakeup and reorganization and prioritization would do wonders, it is still funded and capable (sure some witty idiot will say that our shuttles are still grounded, but where is the ESA's launch vehicle?). Which brings up a good point to all the EUians and Canadians, where are your folks in space? Why does the US always have to do the work, oh right, you don't want topay for it... right.
Anyways, my guess is that upon a second launch from China the US may get their checkbooks out and start signing blank checks for NASA. Or atleast if it looks like China will be successful in some fashion. The US will probably make a stand once it realizes there is a pride issue or security issue on the line. We are called the sleeping giant for a reason. When we are unprovoked and left alone we are at our worst and laziest. Once there is something for us to show, all our strength and might are brought to bear.
Start a nazi party in Germany or France.
Bzzt. Rejected.
You want to know why were in a recession? Its simple, really.
You are right. We are not in a recession. Infact, if you would look around and read papers, internet, etc...
We have had strengthening indicators in all sections of the economy; productivity, capital spending, consumer spending, salaries, unemployment.
In short the economy is not just turning around, it is looking bright. Putting money into the pockets of people who earn it is the best way to keep the economy looking bright. That does not include taxing success into medicore submission, not paying people who the free market will bear, and giving free hand-outs to those who do not contribute.
Smith, is that you Mr. Agent Smith?
That is an excellent site. Very fun.
Why is free content a good thing?
Playing devils advocate here, yes, but the point should be clear. If I provide content, I expect to be compensated in some fashion, either from ads or charging users of the content.
If the content I provide is not worth paying for, so be it, I go out of business and have to work in some other industry where I am useful instead.
He intends to get Mach 3.5 performance out of normal turbojets at very high altitudes by using water and LOX injection, a concept that has been around since the late 50's, but one that nobody has put into practice.
There is a bagel joke in here somewhere...
Ah yes,socialized medicine is great, as long as you do not have to pay the price of research.
Morrowind also broke.
Big bummer. I spent Saturday evening after I updated my 9000pro to a 9600pro cursing and swearing while it kept crashing on Morrowind whenever I'd load a zone. Once I figured out that downgrading the patches to 3.7 catalyst all things worked well.
Someone else from GR, cool beans.
Just a thought...
If you take 1/2 profits and divide them by employees and are only getting 1500 per employee, you need to keep a certain amount of cash on for investment into the business and store up a little slow times.
I am all for legalization of drugs.
However, until I no longer have to subsidise another person's use of drugs through medical expenses and lost productivity I am for keeping them illegal.
What really makes me sick (no pun intented) was when I was highschool working the usual highschool menial jobs I would get called in on my days off to cover for someone who was "sick" *cough* hungover *cough* stoned *cough* from the night before. On top of that when some folks were really sick is was since they have no immune system after partying all night and smoking all day.
Ah, nothing like sole music.