What gets me is the large amount of songs which are only teniously related to this and the general anti-war (what is it good for?) songs on the list. It's almost as if the station is asking you not to think about the solution to this problem (IMHO it isn't bombing the shit out of a country which has had 20 years of having the shit bombed out of it)
I'm all for showing a little consideration, 'Leaving on a jet plane' is certainly guaranteed to upset someone who has lost a loved one, but any RATM song? this situation kind of reminds me of their song 'Bullet in the head' -Nothing proper 'bout your propaganda...
It strikes me that the people behind this want to make the US angry and spark off a great big war. Unfortuantly I see America paying a truly high price for this if it is tempted. Afganistan is some of the worst terrain in the world, anyone who has read Sun Tzu will tell you that it ain't worth it- terrain is the first thing to consider. Secondly, the US will lose friends if it gets involved in a major war, currently the world's (and this includes the vast majority of muslims too) have sympathy for the US, sure they say the US has a right to defend itself and bring people to justice, but if innocent civilians start to die in large numbers (as GWB says he is willing to) this good faith will evaporate. It will be impossible to mount strikes from Islamic countries, Europe won't get involved, and Britain- the US's closest ally has too many (voting)muslim citizens to want this to happen either. My main worry though is the following: Unstable middle east is further destabilised; Military led Pakistan is over by militant muslims; Pakistan and India hate each other anyway, the way is clear for war; they have nuclear weapons and have enough religion to not be afraid to use them; China is Pakistan's ally, the US and Britain are India's ally; Shit.
Yes, and the United States has a history of successfully winning wars.
Like Vietnam? Bay of Pigs? Somalia? Lebonon?
The entire reason Afganistan exists as a country is because the terrain is too hard to conquor, the Soviets didn't manage it, the Brits didn't manage (after three attempts!) The US will not manage it. There are too many people fighting for their homes (heard the one about a man fighting for his home be worth x normal soldiers, too much equipment left over from the cold war (much of it provided by the US so that those who wanted to could fight a terrorist war against the USSR- but hey killing Commie civilians is alright isn't it:-/ and when US planes start being shot down by US Stingers it's going to be pretty embaressing isn't it.)
And there's still the small matter of the being no evidence confirming Afganistan or Bin laden's hand- do you not think that if the US kills 4,700 innocent civilians to pursue it's politcal objectives it is just as bad as the people who organised this all?
There may be no lack of resolve now, but will that change when America's sons start coming home in bodybags? Vietnam was well supported until large amounts of US soldiers started dying- meanwhile 2m vietnamese died and the country was destroyed by agent orange. God Bless America, Pah!
flaimebait? get real! this deserves +X insightful and it's parent deserves -Y sad-navel-gazer. To many geeks jealously hold onto 'their' 'culture', we should be happy such a great book is being brought to a wider audience- with everything that entails (it's damn hard to get kids to read at times, as any parent will tell you)
What about that old family- was it the Tooks? I'm sure that Bilbo wasn't the first to celebrate 1 gross- 144 years, and he certainly wasn't the oldest ever hobbit at the time of the Hobbit- do you mean when he went to the elven land (at 144)
Isn't he young for a hobbit though? (I could be wrong, its 15 years since I last read the books)
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Are you willing to defend your nation and way of life at all cost and right a very terrible wrong?
You can't right this wrong, dead is dead those people can not be brought back however many innocent arabs you kill.
I would like to make it clear that I abhor tuesday's act, but there is no enemy to make a war upon- killing the people of Afganistan, Iraq or wherever would only stoop us to the level of tuesday's murderers.
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The BBC has a good piece on why the buildings collasped, turns out they did well holding up as long as they did- the piece also implies most more modern skyscrapers would do worse... the article
This is really cool. As a kid I played a lot with Lego, and fully intend any kids of mine to have access to a set (hey- if it's just for me;-).
As I got older I played with the Technic sets, but compared to some of the technological toys and gaming consoles around today I had heard that the Lego company wasn't doing to well- hopefully taking this kind of stance will prove to be really good for the company as well as the consumers as it could lead to a great Lego toy for older kids in a more modern age, it would also set a great precendent for other companies to see.
I always used the epoch date the page was served on as unique identifier for this kind of purpose. I actually thought of it myself, guess I'll have to patent it and watch the millions pour into the bank- unless any of you guys catch me first;-)
The idea that Russia is more stable than India is stupid. India is a real democracy, Russia is a oligarchy run by an ex-KGB lunatic. Russia is a once proud country on the brink of collapse, and is desperate. India is a country that is picking itself up from the third world and colonoism(sp?) and is clearly making real progress. The cynic in me suggests you are meerly an ignorant racist
The really sad thing about India is that it can afford to feed itself, but the setup of the country doesn't allow. The gap between rich and poor is too great, and despite democracy the richer city dwelling types are the ones who do the most voting. Besides- a GSV will only allow the country to become richer, and it's nuclear programme should hopefully ensure peace with Pakistan. It'll work out in the end- hopefully.
A computer engineer is someone who plays a part in the design or construction of hardware. A lot of this is logic work to prove that a chip won't lock up under certain conditions- actual silicon is more the field of a material scientist.
A software enginneer is what you know as a programmer- not just convering coding, coding, coding but covering algorithm design and general system design issues.
These are just two branches of Computer Science, which is in itself IMO a branch of Mathematics. Other branches are AI, Cybernetics, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Simulation.
If you're only just going into college, let's face it you probably don't know what you want to do when you've finished (if you do, I guarantee you will have changed your mind by the end;-)
There are very few employers who will be looking for a specialist in a small field at college graduate level- most want someone with a good all round education that they can turn into a specialist in THEM, this is how so many phyicists, mathematicians, etc get into the industry. You don't stop learning after college, college just proves you can learn to a certain standard.
Obviously a comp.sci. background is useful for any area of comp.sci. whereas if you study a smaller subject you may find yourself at a disadvantage if you go for jobs outside of that smaller subject, my advice to you is to take comp.sci., and do minors in something cool and arts or humanities based, that interests you, but is not computer related (try to find something;-) employers like to see more than one dimension to a prospect and it will pay big style both in your own prospects- but for yourself to
Depends what kind of geek you are I suppose, sure Durons aren't best for throwing billions of triangles over the screen a la Q3, but considering that they are considerably better than the celeron you really can't beat the price/performance ratio.
My flatmate has a duron (I am upgrading soon now that I've seen it) it's an all round great machine, compiles the kernel quickly, no problems (that I've heard of) and I would recommend one to anyone.
Surely cheaper computers are something to be cheered anyway, bring them to everyone I say.
ASP really isn't all that bad, so long as you make sure to use JavaScript as default instead of VBScript.
Half the problem is of course the people who use a product, I knew a company where they would insist server-side stuff was done in VBS, and all client side in JS (may have been otherway round but who cares?) There reason? Their programmers were to stupid to know what was client of server side otherwise!
I'm a BSD newbie so please be gentle, I thought I'd download 4.2 and take a look but I notice there 2 4.2 files, 4.2-install.iso and 4.2-RC2-install2.iso- which one should I install? Whats the difference? the Readme doesn't shead any light
Dost it matter if it's not 'supported' as in Celeron?
Are Compaq, Dell, IBM, etc. going to produce servers to sell to their clients unless Intel back them to the hilt?
I highly doubt it, they have to much to risk, and even say if they did how many people would buy them?
An SMP Celeron is a great development/home machine, but it would be madness to base anything business-critical on technology the manufacturers of which do not trust
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There are a lot of generally anti-war songs on the list though. Surely this is the time when they are most relevant and deserve the most airplay?
Isn't it Ironic, dont you think?
What gets me is the large amount of songs which are only teniously related to this and the general anti-war (what is it good for?) songs on the list. It's almost as if the station is asking you not to think about the solution to this problem (IMHO it isn't bombing the shit out of a country which has had 20 years of having the shit bombed out of it)
I'm all for showing a little consideration, 'Leaving on a jet plane' is certainly guaranteed to upset someone who has lost a loved one, but any RATM song? this situation kind of reminds me of their song 'Bullet in the head' -Nothing proper 'bout your propaganda...
It strikes me that the people behind this want to make the US angry and spark off a great big war. Unfortuantly I see America paying a truly high price for this if it is tempted. Afganistan is some of the worst terrain in the world, anyone who has read Sun Tzu will tell you that it ain't worth it- terrain is the first thing to consider. Secondly, the US will lose friends if it gets involved in a major war, currently the world's (and this includes the vast majority of muslims too) have sympathy for the US, sure they say the US has a right to defend itself and bring people to justice, but if innocent civilians start to die in large numbers (as GWB says he is willing to) this good faith will evaporate. It will be impossible to mount strikes from Islamic countries, Europe won't get involved, and Britain- the US's closest ally has too many (voting)muslim citizens to want this to happen either. My main worry though is the following: Unstable middle east is further destabilised; Military led Pakistan is over by militant muslims; Pakistan and India hate each other anyway, the way is clear for war; they have nuclear weapons and have enough religion to not be afraid to use them; China is Pakistan's ally, the US and Britain are India's ally; Shit.
Yes, and the United States has a history of successfully winning wars.
:-/ and when US planes start being shot down by US Stingers it's going to be pretty embaressing isn't it.)
Like Vietnam? Bay of Pigs? Somalia? Lebonon?
The entire reason Afganistan exists as a country is because the terrain is too hard to conquor, the Soviets didn't manage it, the Brits didn't manage (after three attempts!) The US will not manage it. There are too many people fighting for their homes (heard the one about a man fighting for his home be worth x normal soldiers, too much equipment left over from the cold war (much of it provided by the US so that those who wanted to could fight a terrorist war against the USSR- but hey killing Commie civilians is alright isn't it
And there's still the small matter of the being no evidence confirming Afganistan or Bin laden's hand- do you not think that if the US kills 4,700 innocent civilians to pursue it's politcal objectives it is just as bad as the people who organised this all?
There may be no lack of resolve now, but will that change when America's sons start coming home in bodybags? Vietnam was well supported until large amounts of US soldiers started dying- meanwhile 2m vietnamese died and the country was destroyed by agent orange. God Bless America, Pah!
he was 144, he celebrates with a party in the book
flaimebait? get real! this deserves +X insightful and it's parent deserves -Y sad-navel-gazer. To many geeks jealously hold onto 'their' 'culture', we should be happy such a great book is being brought to a wider audience- with everything that entails (it's damn hard to get kids to read at times, as any parent will tell you)
What about that old family- was it the Tooks? I'm sure that Bilbo wasn't the first to celebrate 1 gross- 144 years, and he certainly wasn't the oldest ever hobbit at the time of the Hobbit- do you mean when he went to the elven land (at 144)
Indeed, although he wrote LOTR for his son- who was away in the army- sending him chapters on a monthly or so basis and then published afterwards.
Isn't he young for a hobbit though? (I could be wrong, its 15 years since I last read the books)
You can't right this wrong, dead is dead those people can not be brought back however many innocent arabs you kill.
I would like to make it clear that I abhor tuesday's act, but there is no enemy to make a war upon- killing the people of Afganistan, Iraq or wherever would only stoop us to the level of tuesday's murderers.
The BBC has a good piece on why the buildings collasped, turns out they did well holding up as long as they did- the piece also implies most more modern skyscrapers would do worse... the article
Well, you've made *HIS* point very eloquently there I'm afraid...
This is really cool. As a kid I played a lot with Lego, and fully intend any kids of mine to have access to a set (hey- if it's just for me ;-).
As I got older I played with the Technic sets, but compared to some of the technological toys and gaming consoles around today I had heard that the Lego company wasn't doing to well- hopefully taking this kind of stance will prove to be really good for the company as well as the consumers as it could lead to a great Lego toy for older kids in a more modern age, it would also set a great precendent for other companies to see.
I always used the epoch date the page was served on as unique identifier for this kind of purpose. I actually thought of it myself, guess I'll have to patent it and watch the millions pour into the bank- unless any of you guys catch me first ;-)
The idea that Russia is more stable than India is stupid. India is a real democracy, Russia is a oligarchy run by an ex-KGB lunatic. Russia is a once proud country on the brink of collapse, and is desperate. India is a country that is picking itself up from the third world and colonoism(sp?) and is clearly making real progress. The cynic in me suggests you are meerly an ignorant racist
The really sad thing about India is that it can afford to feed itself, but the setup of the country doesn't allow. The gap between rich and poor is too great, and despite democracy the richer city dwelling types are the ones who do the most voting. Besides- a GSV will only allow the country to become richer, and it's nuclear programme should hopefully ensure peace with Pakistan. It'll work out in the end- hopefully.
A software enginneer is what you know as a programmer- not just convering coding, coding, coding but covering algorithm design and general system design issues.
These are just two branches of Computer Science, which is in itself IMO a branch of Mathematics. Other branches are AI, Cybernetics, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Simulation.
If you're only just going into college, let's face it you probably don't know what you want to do when you've finished (if you do, I guarantee you will have changed your mind by the end ;-)
There are very few employers who will be looking for a specialist in a small field at college graduate level- most want someone with a good all round education that they can turn into a specialist in THEM, this is how so many phyicists, mathematicians, etc get into the industry. You don't stop learning after college, college just proves you can learn to a certain standard.
Obviously a comp.sci. background is useful for any area of comp.sci. whereas if you study a smaller subject you may find yourself at a disadvantage if you go for jobs outside of that smaller subject, my advice to you is to take comp.sci., and do minors in something cool and arts or humanities based, that interests you, but is not computer related (try to find something ;-) employers like to see more than one dimension to a prospect and it will pay big style both in your own prospects- but for yourself to
Depends what kind of geek you are I suppose, sure Durons aren't best for throwing billions of triangles over the screen a la Q3, but considering that they are considerably better than the celeron you really can't beat the price/performance ratio.
My flatmate has a duron (I am upgrading soon now that I've seen it) it's an all round great machine, compiles the kernel quickly, no problems (that I've heard of) and I would recommend one to anyone. Surely cheaper computers are something to be cheered anyway, bring them to everyone I say.
ASP really isn't all that bad, so long as you make sure to use JavaScript as default instead of VBScript.
Half the problem is of course the people who use a product, I knew a company where they would insist server-side stuff was done in VBS, and all client side in JS (may have been otherway round but who cares?) There reason? Their programmers were to stupid to know what was client of server side otherwise!
I'm a BSD newbie so please be gentle, I thought I'd download 4.2 and take a look but I notice there 2 4.2 files, 4.2-install.iso and 4.2-RC2-install2.iso- which one should I install? Whats the difference? the Readme doesn't shead any light
I thought it was red ones that go fasta?
Are Compaq, Dell, IBM, etc. going to produce servers to sell to their clients unless Intel back them to the hilt?
I highly doubt it, they have to much to risk, and even say if they did how many people would buy them?
An SMP Celeron is a great development/home machine, but it would be madness to base anything business-critical on technology the manufacturers of which do not trust
What on earth does largely partly mean?
I was just looking at the CNN site, they seem to be refering to the republicans as GOP, as a non-americana I have no idea what this means- help?
Goes to show that a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush all along, Nader appears to have cost Gore Oregano, Ohio, and Florida. Sure hope he sleeps well