Who dropped 2 A-Bombs, leveling entire cities and leaving radiation/fallout for many years to come?
The United States Of America did.
Don't think that the Chinese, the Laoations, the Koreans, the Austrailians, the Russian, the New Zealanders, the Canadians, the Bristish, the Polish, the Hungairians, the French, the Norweageans......and the rest of the free world diden't cry with joy two days later.
THE WAR WAS OVER.
The murders, the rapes, the slavery, the gas-chambers, the suffering, the dyings had stopped. The maiming, the weeping, the misery had stopped.
The The Civilised World, of wich the United States Of America played her part, lived to see another day.
Killed over 35 million
Massacred over 300,000 civilians in 6-8 weeks in Nanjing
Forced hundred of thousands to become slave laborers/sex slaves
Committed biochemical warfare in labs and battlefields over 2,700 times, causing countless deaths, and intentionally flouted the Treaty of Geneva
Dissected over 3,000 live humans without anesthesia for biochemical experiments
Never punished most war criminals; they became key government, business, and academic leaders
The Japanese have long had a history of whitewashing WWII in their history education.
We had a Japanese exchange student who never even knew that his country was responsible for the murder of 30,000,000 Chinese people. I think he probably thought "RAPE-OF-NANKING" was a Famicom game.
Christ, only Austria is less willing to admit any sort of wrongdoing in that war.
No kidding. In Austria, you can *still* find people who thing that "we would haf won ze var if is wasen't for ze Jew, und zat kriminal Jew-loving Rosa-velt."
UBERMEN my ass... they can't even read enough to learn history.
No doubt the Acorn system was better (it looks like a really nice system) - the TRS-80 system was a hack on the casette port.
The reason that I say it was important, is that it was cheap: it cost about $250 (180 pounds) for 16 nodes. And it was early - it was available in 1978.
It was the the first system where a small school could afford a networked system at about $1600 per node for everything.
OpenBSD has PF - a really cool packet/nat/authentication/bandwidth limiter/port forwarding system that is really, really, cool
You can do clever things, like allow a certain amount of bandwith for sombody, but if they log in, the bandwith limit disappears.
Or parse the spam blackout litsts and block all incoming packets from them (spam trype networks have more that their fair share of crackers)
All withouht crypic config files.
I *REALLY* hope, for Linux's sake, that after FreeBSD ports PF (to replace their IPF), a Linux port will be forthcoming.
IPTables is just fine for simple firewalls, but PF has a much more sane syntax, and it can handle really complex networks without a headache.
PF is sooo good - it's worth learing a bit of OpenBSD to get it. If you're good at Linux - it will take to half a day to learn all you need to get PF on OpenBSD working, and that includes installing OpenBSD.
It's not hard at all - I came from a Windows background and dident even know VI and it only took me three days to learn enough about OpenBSD to get it working.
TRS-80 Model I/III - these affordable computers were the first to have inexpensive networking. They had a multiplexer device avaiable (think hub) that workied through the casette port - one computer could 'save' to another 'loading' computer. Cheap, by clever, flie-level networking for the masses
C-64/TI-99/VIC-20/ATARI 400(800) - The fist mas market computers that broght comuting to people who were more interested in the applications (word-processing and gams) then the computers themselves.
TRS-80 PC-2/SHARP ??? - the first pocket computers, they had a BASIC interpreter and could do normal computing functions and yet fit in your pocket. Link here . The precursors to PDA and 'smart phones'
TRS-80 Model 100 (Kerocera ???) - the first popular laptops.
ATARI ST/AMIGA 1000 - the first true 'multimedia' computers that broght music composition via computers to the masses.
SETI&Home Project - the first virtual supercomputer.
10. They usually list items that are still avertised in the meadium of the list. Top ten list of cars for example will never list the Edsel, the Durants or REOs. They will list Honda, Toyota and Fords.
9. Most lists are usually geard to non-enthusiests. They will mention items that most people know about, and won't go too far to explain new, yet important, items.
8. They are filled with lame items so that the list is ten items long.
7. They are filled with duplicates that make the same point.
6. They are filled with duplicated that appempt to make the same point.
5. Top ten lists should really start at Nine and count down to Zero. Especially if they deal with computing or mathmatics.
4. Top ten lists usually forget about the distant past - and only mention items that the reasership is familliar with. Like the list of important historical events that fails to mention items before 1950.
3. Top ten lists get tiring by the seventh item.
2. Top ten lists usually play for novelty - Like a car list wherer the 'flying car' will get mentioned, but the first diesel-engine car won't, even though in the grand scheme of things, the diesel engine is more important - it's considered boreing.
1.5 Some top ten lists will include another item, in order to appear to be cute.
1. Most top 10 lists are lame excuses to try to get attention. Like this one.
If we need database products, we need object oriented databases,
PostgreSQL is a OO database - you can have an 'employees' table that inherits all the data-types from your 'people' table, and has it's own tata types too boot.
You can select from one, both, or the other - or all the children of 'people', including the 'managers' table you just created under 'employees'
Works quite nicely with non-oo aware applications - they need not know then when they "select * from people" they transparently get everybody.
It's a myth. Do some research and find out what he really said, then compare it to what happened. His statement wan't false.
Actually, all us here in the vast-right-wing-conspiricy know we made all that Al Gore stuff up, and probably shoulden't repeat it - it's just that we just love to see y'all squirm and whine like little squirmy whiny things.
Because the best of them, Postgres, today is roughly equivalent to Oracle v6 (popular about 10 years ago), maybe 7.1 in some areas, and Oracle is at version 10 now - 7 major
I'll second that! PosgreSQL is great, I use it a lot, but your assement of it being like Oravle v6 is spot on.
however PostgreSQL does kick the crap out of MS SQL, and it's pace of improvment is very impressive - I don't think it will take them 10 years to catch up to Oracle 10.
For many folks - those outside the insulated, fat, privileged classes of the First World - it's all about bitter struggle, despair, and usually defeat.
All the more important to live a life of respect, and be able to help lift others out of their unfortuante circumastances.
Nothing good ever came out of dispair, nothing noble have out of hatred and fear.
"say to yourself "I'll play their little status game,""
(I know this is a troll, but I can't help but respond):
As soon as you said that, you lost.
If you mean by that, that I've lost my dency, inteligence and wit, then you're wrong.
No you haven't - *provided* you realise that it's just a game, and you're just playing it to get twoard your more noble goals. It hust a bunch of birds puffing up their feathers, not anything profound.
Being true to yourself is not about dress - Budda would still be budda if he wore a suit, a rag, or jeans.
With brilliant grammer skills like that I am sure you a wooing and awing a whole bunch of 7th graders.
Yep, managment-types like me.;)
Did it ever occur to you that some people have better things to worry about then trying to win the daily fashion show?
Life is an arbertairy game - some people are born with skill, looks or wit. There's no dishonor in trying to improve any of them. In fact, dressing decently is less burdensome than not - people give you better service, it's easier to move ahead, people listed better to you, etc...
I dress decently out of *LAZYNESS* - im too lazy to get people to look over my sloppy grooming, I'm too lazy to woo women with a bad hair-cut, I'm too lazy to not get served at a store because I stink.
Just like tidy code writing is *easier* in the long run, keeping a tidy appearence is easier in the long run.
And before you think I'm a shallow ass - I do know when to not-care, I'm a mountain climber/ distance hiker and I don't get a shit what I look like then.
What maked windows a "toy" operating systems is that it's native facilities for remote support suck. You can't swap a file out if it's in use and ssh isen't even included - not that it would help too much, cmd.exe sucks.
Windows is used by governments and big business the world over.
Sure, it's an ok desktop and can be pressed into service for small department servers - but not one of the top 500 super-computers run Windows. The state of Windows is like the state of Unix in the earily '80's - it's unteasted, full of securit-holes and flakey.
It'll be fine in ten years - but I'm not waiting 'round.
If I have *one* peice of advice that will help you get more more, respect and more oppertunities with the opposite sex....
Be like Larry... dress nicely. It *really* worked for me: treat it like a game, say to yourself "I'll play their little status game, and I'll *WIN*".
Even the most inteligent, thoughtfull potential mate will be more interested in you if you dress nicely - not gaudy, just nicely. JC Penny no-iron slacks and no-iron shits, with some really comfortable ECHO shoes and a decent Seiko watch are just fine. The JC Peenny slacks and shirt are economical - their made with poliester so they last a long time and don't abosrb stains.
As an IT professional, as many of us are, I get roped into supporting PC's and networks (sigh) for family members.
Make it easy on yourself, do what I do....
I give free Max OS X and free Linux/FreeBSD support. Everything elses is at my billable rate.
No need to support toy operating systems - especially when you consider that Microsoft had 50 billion is cash - they should support their crap, not you.
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Who dropped 2 A-Bombs, leveling entire cities and leaving radiation/fallout for many years to come?
...and the rest of the free world diden't cry with joy two days later.
The United States Of America did.
Don't think that the Chinese, the Laoations, the Koreans, the Austrailians, the Russian, the New Zealanders, the Canadians, the Bristish, the Polish, the Hungairians, the French, the Norweageans...
THE WAR WAS OVER.
The murders, the rapes, the slavery, the gas-chambers, the suffering, the dyings had stopped. The maiming, the weeping, the misery had stopped.
The The Civilised World, of wich the United States Of America played her part, lived to see another day.
And how were the Allied soldiers any less murdering bastards than the German ones?
Because they diden't mass murder civilians for sadistic pleasure.
Face it, the Allies were the *GOOD* guys. They fought for their survival.
The Gemrans and Japanes fought for EMPIRE. They fought so that they could murder millions of people for their pleasure.
Ug. That should be sjwar.org and not sjwar.com
For the rest of us there's the double decker Airbus A380 that will be making it's maiden flight in 2005.
The A380 will be a flop - with that many people on board, chances are, things will be rerouted left and right when one of the passangers gets sick.
I think Europe to Japan is a North Pole route, so it's a lot shorter then it sounds.
Much as I love Really Fast things, the enviromental effects will be the big hurdel, not noise.
And the best thing about a Polar route? - There's none of that pesky Ozone to get in the way of your hyper-speed aero-plane.
There Japanese were nowhere near as monstrous as the Third Reich.
The Japanese were *WERSE* than the Third Reich.
From sjwar.com
Killed over 35 million
Massacred over 300,000 civilians in 6-8 weeks in Nanjing
Forced hundred of thousands to become slave laborers/sex slaves
Committed biochemical warfare in labs and battlefields over 2,700 times, causing countless deaths, and intentionally flouted the Treaty of Geneva
Dissected over 3,000 live humans without anesthesia for biochemical experiments
Never punished most war criminals; they became key government, business, and academic leaders
The Japanese have long had a history of whitewashing WWII in their history education.
We had a Japanese exchange student who never even knew that his country was responsible for the murder of 30,000,000 Chinese people. I think he probably thought "RAPE-OF-NANKING" was a Famicom game.
Christ, only Austria is less willing to admit any sort of wrongdoing in that war.
No kidding. In Austria, you can *still* find people who thing that "we would haf won ze var if is wasen't for ze Jew, und zat kriminal Jew-loving Rosa-velt."
UBERMEN my ass... they can't even read enough to learn history.
No doubt the Acorn system was better (it looks like a really nice system) - the TRS-80 system was a hack on the casette port.
The reason that I say it was important, is that it was cheap: it cost about $250 (180 pounds) for 16 nodes. And it was early - it was available in 1978.
It was the the first system where a small school could afford a networked system at about $1600 per node for everything.
OpenBSD has PF - a really cool packet/nat/authentication/bandwidth limiter/port forwarding system that is really, really, cool
You can do clever things, like allow a certain amount of bandwith for sombody, but if they log in, the bandwith limit disappears.
Or parse the spam blackout litsts and block all incoming packets from them (spam trype networks have more that their fair share of crackers)
All withouht crypic config files.
I *REALLY* hope, for Linux's sake, that after FreeBSD ports PF (to replace their IPF), a Linux port will be forthcoming.
IPTables is just fine for simple firewalls, but PF has a much more sane syntax, and it can handle really complex networks without a headache.
PF is sooo good - it's worth learing a bit of OpenBSD to get it. If you're good at Linux - it will take to half a day to learn all you need to get PF on OpenBSD working, and that includes installing OpenBSD.
It's not hard at all - I came from a Windows background and dident even know VI and it only took me three days to learn enough about OpenBSD to get it working.
Hehe...
POKE 65495,0
Goot times!
They were great to cheat with too - looking like a large calculator you could store all sorts of hints for tests in them.
I recently found a PC-8 - the assembler is a lot of fun, though it's really just byte code for an in-ROM interpreter.
TRS-80 Model I/III - these affordable computers were the first to have inexpensive networking. They had a multiplexer device avaiable (think hub) that workied through the casette port - one computer could 'save' to another 'loading' computer. Cheap, by clever, flie-level networking for the masses
C-64/TI-99/VIC-20/ATARI 400(800) - The fist mas market computers that broght comuting to people who were more interested in the applications (word-processing and gams) then the computers themselves.
TRS-80 PC-2/SHARP ??? - the first pocket computers, they had a BASIC interpreter and could do normal computing functions and yet fit in your pocket. Link here . The precursors to PDA and 'smart phones'
TRS-80 Model 100 (Kerocera ???) - the first popular laptops.
ATARI ST/AMIGA 1000 - the first true 'multimedia' computers that broght music composition via computers to the masses.
SETI&Home Project - the first virtual supercomputer.
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Top Ten Reasons 'Top 10 Lists' Suck
10. They usually list items that are still avertised in the meadium of the list. Top ten list of cars for example will never list the Edsel, the Durants or REOs. They will list Honda, Toyota and Fords.
9. Most lists are usually geard to non-enthusiests. They will mention items that most people know about, and won't go too far to explain new, yet important, items.
8. They are filled with lame items so that the list is ten items long.
7. They are filled with duplicates that make the same point.
6. They are filled with duplicated that appempt to make the same point.
5. Top ten lists should really start at Nine and count down to Zero. Especially if they deal with computing or mathmatics.
4. Top ten lists usually forget about the distant past - and only mention items that the reasership is familliar with. Like the list of important historical events that fails to mention items before 1950.
3. Top ten lists get tiring by the seventh item.
2. Top ten lists usually play for novelty - Like a car list wherer the 'flying car' will get mentioned, but the first diesel-engine car won't, even though in the grand scheme of things, the diesel engine is more important - it's considered boreing.
1.5 Some top ten lists will include another item, in order to appear to be cute.
1. Most top 10 lists are lame excuses to try to get attention. Like this one.
hmmm...
MS Bob vs. My Pet Rock
MS Actimates Bareny vs. Inanimate Carbon Rod
If we need database products, we need object oriented databases,
PostgreSQL is a OO database - you can have an 'employees' table that inherits all the data-types from your 'people' table, and has it's own tata types too boot.
You can select from one, both, or the other - or all the children of 'people', including the 'managers' table you just created under 'employees'
Works quite nicely with non-oo aware applications - they need not know then when they "select * from people" they transparently get everybody.
It's a myth. Do some research and find out what he really said, then compare it to what happened. His statement wan't false.
Actually, all us here in the vast-right-wing-conspiricy know we made all that Al Gore stuff up, and probably shoulden't repeat it - it's just that we just love to see y'all squirm and whine like little squirmy whiny things.
Because the best of them, Postgres, today is roughly equivalent to Oracle v6 (popular about 10 years ago), maybe 7.1 in some areas, and Oracle is at version 10 now - 7 major
I'll second that! PosgreSQL is great, I use it a lot, but your assement of it being like Oravle v6 is spot on.
however PostgreSQL does kick the crap out of MS SQL, and it's pace of improvment is very impressive - I don't think it will take them 10 years to catch up to Oracle 10.
For many folks - those outside the insulated, fat, privileged classes of the First World - it's all about bitter struggle, despair, and usually defeat.
All the more important to live a life of respect, and be able to help lift others out of their unfortuante circumastances.
Nothing good ever came out of dispair, nothing noble have out of hatred and fear.
Try not to get bitter.
"say to yourself "I'll play their little status game,""
(I know this is a troll, but I can't help but respond):
As soon as you said that, you lost.
If you mean by that, that I've lost my dency, inteligence and wit, then you're wrong.
No you haven't - *provided* you realise that it's just a game, and you're just playing it to get twoard your more noble goals. It hust a bunch of birds puffing up their feathers, not anything profound.
Being true to yourself is not about dress - Budda would still be budda if he wore a suit, a rag, or jeans.
Dude, if you're thinking of ironing your own faeces then you've got bigger problems than just dress sense...
Ahhh!!!
No wonder all my slcks have turned dark-brown.
I thought there were no-wrinkle, but it turns out they just had a layer of 'crust.'
With brilliant grammer skills like that I am sure you a wooing and awing a whole bunch of 7th graders.
;)
Yep, managment-types like me.
Did it ever occur to you that some people have better things to worry about then trying to win the daily fashion show?
Life is an arbertairy game - some people are born with skill, looks or wit. There's no dishonor in trying to improve any of them. In fact, dressing decently is less burdensome than not - people give you better service, it's easier to move ahead, people listed better to you, etc...
I dress decently out of *LAZYNESS* - im too lazy to get people to look over my sloppy grooming, I'm too lazy to woo women with a bad hair-cut, I'm too lazy to not get served at a store because I stink.
Just like tidy code writing is *easier* in the long run, keeping a tidy appearence is easier in the long run.
And before you think I'm a shallow ass - I do know when to not-care, I'm a mountain climber/ distance hiker and I don't get a shit what I look like then.
Life is a fun game - try not to get bitter.
What maked windows a "toy" operating systems is that it's native facilities for remote support suck. You can't swap a file out if it's in use and ssh isen't even included - not that it would help too much, cmd.exe sucks.
Windows is used by governments and big business the world over.
Sure, it's an ok desktop and can be pressed into service for small department servers - but not one of the top 500 super-computers run Windows. The state of Windows is like the state of Unix in the earily '80's - it's unteasted, full of securit-holes and flakey.
It'll be fine in ten years - but I'm not waiting 'round.
Hey fellow Geeks....
Be like Larry... dress nicely.
If I have *one* peice of advice that will help you get more more, respect and more oppertunities with the opposite sex....
Be like Larry... dress nicely. It *really* worked for me: treat it like a game, say to yourself "I'll play their little status game, and I'll *WIN*".
Even the most inteligent, thoughtfull potential mate will be more interested in you if you dress nicely - not gaudy, just nicely. JC Penny no-iron slacks and no-iron shits, with some really comfortable ECHO shoes and a decent Seiko watch are just fine. The JC Peenny slacks and shirt are economical - their made with poliester so they last a long time and don't abosrb stains.
As an IT professional, as many of us are, I get roped into supporting PC's and networks (sigh) for family members.
Make it easy on yourself, do what I do....
I give free Max OS X and free Linux/FreeBSD support. Everything elses is at my billable rate.
No need to support toy operating systems - especially when you consider that Microsoft had 50 billion is cash - they should support their crap, not you.
I contend that almost none of those are part of the OS. They are nearly all applications.
Yes they are apps, but they come with the install media for FreeBSD - Just like IE and WMP come with XP.