According to Webster's, fundamentalism is "a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles". There certainly are some people and organizations which are part of the roman-catholic church (or tolerated by it) which fit that description. Ever heard of something called "Opus Dei"?
Iraq was so much better off with good old elected Hussein in office. br> Wait a couple of years until the US troops withdraw from Iraq and the internal conflicts flare into one nasty civil war. The country WOULD have been better off with Hussein if that happens, which is quite likely. Frankly, the current situation with daily terrorist bombings already isn't much better.
As the EU slips more and more into tyranny the US may not seems like such a bad place. br> Switch EU and US in that sentence and it gets one helluva lot closer to reality.
I would imagine that buying the textbooks, shipping the textbooks, and keeping the textbooks up to date would be a lot more expensive in the long run than by simply buying inexpensive computers for the kids.
I imagine you imagine wrongly. No handheld is going to get that cheap anytime soon, and textbooks need "updates" far less frequently than hardware needs repairing or replacing.
Actually, it's hosted on a university webserver, which means it's taxpayers' money...
I've always considered "Lords and Ladies" to be the best of the discworld novels. If only Hollywood would get its act together and do a movie that does Pratchett's genious justice. I do have the British animated features, but to be honest, those look like only negligibly more than 300 EUR were spent...
Basically, the legislation was installed because of the international outcry it would provoke if the Neo-Nazis went unchecked. Probably it was also mandated when Germany was still under allied occupation. And most people in Germany consider it a Good Thing to have some tools agains those icky types.
> While you may not agree with the way people thought and acted in the past, it is important NOT to whitewash history, and re-write it
That's definitely not what German laws against Nazi propaganda try to do. You can discuss history quite freely, provided that you don't promote Nazi ideals, or claim that there was no mass-murder on Jews, etc. In fact, even outright Nazi propaganda pieces like the movie "Jud Süß" can be shown if it's done in a proper context, like a history exhibition. My 10th grade history textbook quoted passages from "Mein Kampf"... quite effectively showing what a paranoid nutjob Hitler was.
> But from what I understand, MySQL uses some kind of bastardized SQL
As does Postgres. As does MSSQL. As does Oracle. I don't think there is a single DBMS in existence that doesn't have any proprietary "extensions" to SQL. Partially this is due to the earlier SQL standards missing vital features such as sequence/autoincrement, partially due to DB makers wanting to outshine the competition with features that may or may not be useful.
> But um against a newb a good go player can just clean the board regardless of handicap...
If by "newb" you mean someone who's just been explained the rules, then yes. But any good player who plays to win in such a game is an asshole. OTOH, to anyone with even very little experience, a 9 stone handicap really is a HUGE headstart, too big to lose by one mistake, even a big one. It basically gives you tentative control over the entire board.
There's still/already hundreds if not thousands of pr0n (and other) sites using the same model. This one at least has some actual content related to the topic rather than just links to other identical sites.
> WMD is ONE reason that Saddam was taken out, NOT the only one.
It was the one exclusively touted during the warmongering. Without the WMD lie, with "we wanna depose a dictator", Bush couldn't have sold this war to the public without scare tactics. Too obvious the question "why depose *this* dictator? Why not first drop our active support for some others?"
> Even impeached former President Bill Clinton admitted that Saddam had WMDs, and Saddam used WMDs on the Kurds.
Yup, those were to one given to him by Rumsfeld when he was still the USA's buddy.
Indeed non-fish sushi are nowadays common, though the majority does indeed contain raw fish. The nori is not a defining ingredient either, since the rolls (maki sushi) are only one of the two main forms of sushi, with the other (nigiri sushi) requiring no nori - a slab of fish (or whatever) is just placed on a lump of rice. The rice is the defining ingredient: if there's no rice, it's not sushi.
However, sushi historically developed in a way that makes only sense with fish, since the rice was used to conserve the fish by pickling it with lactic acid.
Part of the problem is that fansubs are infinitely more practical to handle than DVDs. A series just takes 2-4GB of hard disk space, and allows me to watch the whole thing without ever fumbling with the disks (and risking scratches in the process).
That's ridiculous. If you have any life, you rarely have the time to watch more than what a single DVD holds in one sitting. And changing a DVD poses no risk of scratches unless you handle it extremely carelessly.
Since fansub quality is, for all practical purposes, indistinguishable from DVD
No surround sound with AVIs last time I looked, and most fansubs still have visible compression artifacts, unlike most DVDs.
and the translations are often even better than their commercial counterparts,
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let me guess: you don't know Japanese worth squat, do you?
Just wondering... what does the/. effect actually do to the server?
Flood it with more requests than it can handle. Just like a DDOS Attack. The specific bottleneck may be network bandwidth, CPU cycles, RAM, or access to some backend system.
I'm writing some webserver code at the moment and am using mpatrol to make sure there's no memory leak. If there is, memory used by the webserver starts growing and eventually the webserver takes up so much memory that the kernel decides to kill it.
Now... this is only likely to happen under heavy traffic. During testing, you may never be able to see the extreme case scenario
Not true. Load tests aren't too difficult to do. Besides, memory leaks do NOT only manifest under heavy traffic, they just show up more quickly that way.
Who cares what it's for, the important thing is that it's another enty on the feature list!
BTW, the current iBooks even have a magnet sensor, though it's not advertized - it's used to detect when the display is being closed. There's a magnet in the left edge of the display and a sensor in the left edge of the keyboard.
The funny thing is: any other magnet that comes close to the sensor also triggers it and makes the unit go into standby mode:)
This is not in any way specific to government contracts. Private clients do the same thing all the time, and if it's a big customer, management is just as reluctant to put down their foot.
Except that if you find GM's prices too high or their quality too bad, there is very little that prevents you to switch to Ford or some other maker instead.
And, more importantly, YOU decide when "the old ones just aren't as good anymore". You're not forced to upgrade to stay compatible, or because the old ones are "not supported anymore" by the service garages.
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According to Webster's, fundamentalism is "a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles". There certainly are some people and organizations which are part of the roman-catholic church (or tolerated by it) which fit that description. Ever heard of something called "Opus Dei"?
Except among the "hip" crowd who pays lots of money to have the same f*#&ing annoying ringtone as all of the others - and a new one every other week.
If you think so, you're mistaken about the meaning of either "fundamentalist", "catholic" or "oxymoron".
UN != EU
Iraq was so much better off with good old elected Hussein in office.
br>
Wait a couple of years until the US troops withdraw from Iraq and the internal conflicts flare into one nasty civil war. The country WOULD have been better off with Hussein if that happens, which is quite likely. Frankly, the current situation with daily terrorist bombings already isn't much better.
As the EU slips more and more into tyranny the US may not seems like such a bad place.
br>
Switch EU and US in that sentence and it gets one helluva lot closer to reality.
I would imagine that buying the textbooks, shipping the textbooks, and keeping the textbooks up to date would be a lot more expensive in the long run than by simply buying inexpensive computers for the kids.
I imagine you imagine wrongly. No handheld is going to get that cheap anytime soon, and textbooks need "updates" far less frequently than hardware needs repairing or replacing.
Actually, it's hosted on a university webserver, which means it's taxpayers' money...
I've always considered "Lords and Ladies" to be the best of the discworld novels. If only Hollywood would get its act together and do a movie that does Pratchett's genious justice. I do have the British animated features, but to be honest, those look like only negligibly more than 300 EUR were spent...
Basically, the legislation was installed because of the international outcry it would provoke if the Neo-Nazis went unchecked. Probably it was also mandated when Germany was still under allied occupation. And most people in Germany consider it a Good Thing to have some tools agains those icky types.
> While you may not agree with the way people thought and acted in the past, it is important NOT to whitewash history, and re-write it
That's definitely not what German laws against Nazi propaganda try to do. You can discuss history quite freely, provided that you don't promote Nazi ideals, or claim that there was no mass-murder on Jews, etc. In fact, even outright Nazi propaganda pieces like the movie "Jud Süß" can be shown if it's done in a proper context, like a history exhibition. My 10th grade history textbook quoted passages from "Mein Kampf"... quite effectively showing what a paranoid nutjob Hitler was.
> But from what I understand, MySQL uses some kind of bastardized SQL
As does Postgres. As does MSSQL. As does Oracle. I don't think there is a single DBMS in existence that doesn't have any proprietary "extensions" to SQL. Partially this is due to the earlier SQL standards missing vital features such as sequence/autoincrement, partially due to DB makers wanting to outshine the competition with features that may or may not be useful.
> But um against a newb a good go player can just clean the board regardless of handicap...
If by "newb" you mean someone who's just been explained the rules, then yes. But any good player who plays to win in such a game is an asshole. OTOH, to anyone with even very little experience, a 9 stone handicap really is a HUGE headstart, too big to lose by one mistake, even a big one. It basically gives you tentative control over the entire board.
Thanks for being such a shiny example of what's wrong aobut America: arrogance, ignorance, absolute selfe-centeredness and short-sightedness.
Global warming is an observable fact. Junk science and propaganda is what the so-called "debunkers" are doing.
Inasmuch as it's what web forums attempt (and fail) to mimic adequately, yes.
There's still/already hundreds if not thousands of pr0n (and other) sites using the same model. This one at least has some actual content related to the topic rather than just links to other identical sites.
> WMD is ONE reason that Saddam was taken out, NOT the only one.
It was the one exclusively touted during the warmongering. Without the WMD lie, with "we wanna depose a dictator", Bush couldn't have sold this war to the public without scare tactics. Too obvious the question "why depose *this* dictator? Why not first drop our active support for some others?"
> Even impeached former President Bill Clinton admitted that Saddam had WMDs, and Saddam used WMDs on the Kurds.
Yup, those were to one given to him by Rumsfeld when he was still the USA's buddy.
And in fact his observation/prediction/whatever was not about processor speeds at all, but about IC complexity in terms of transistors.
At least it's only painful to a maximum of two people.
However, sushi historically developed in a way that makes only sense with fish, since the rice was used to conserve the fish by pickling it with lactic acid.
This is why we need "-1, Really Bad Pun"
That's ridiculous. If you have any life, you rarely have the time to watch more than what a single DVD holds in one sitting. And changing a DVD poses no risk of scratches unless you handle it extremely carelessly.
Since fansub quality is, for all practical purposes, indistinguishable from DVD
No surround sound with AVIs last time I looked, and most fansubs still have visible compression artifacts, unlike most DVDs.
and the translations are often even better than their commercial counterparts,
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let me guess: you don't know Japanese worth squat, do you?
Flood it with more requests than it can handle. Just like a DDOS Attack. The specific bottleneck may be network bandwidth, CPU cycles, RAM, or access to some backend system.
I'm writing some webserver code at the moment and am using mpatrol to make sure there's no memory leak. If there is, memory used by the webserver starts growing and eventually the webserver takes up so much memory that the kernel decides to kill it.
Now... this is only likely to happen under heavy traffic. During testing, you may never be able to see the extreme case scenario
Not true. Load tests aren't too difficult to do. Besides, memory leaks do NOT only manifest under heavy traffic, they just show up more quickly that way.
??? XP boots lightning-fast compared to Windows 2000 or 98, and beats more Linux installations as well.
Who cares what it's for, the important thing is that it's another enty on the feature list!
:)
BTW, the current iBooks even have a magnet sensor, though it's not advertized - it's used to detect when the display is being closed. There's a magnet in the left edge of the display and a sensor in the left edge of the keyboard.
The funny thing is: any other magnet that comes close to the sensor also triggers it and makes the unit go into standby mode
This is not in any way specific to government contracts. Private clients do the same thing all the time, and if it's a big customer, management is just as reluctant to put down their foot.
Except that if you find GM's prices too high or their quality too bad, there is very little that prevents you to switch to Ford or some other maker instead.
And, more importantly, YOU decide when "the old ones
just aren't as good anymore". You're not forced to upgrade to stay compatible, or because the old ones are "not supported anymore" by the service garages.