the amount of freedom a press has is proportional to the amount of information they have to dig up. how much info do you have to dig up in costa rica?
This is exactly the kind of apathy that America in general displays to other countries. Life does go on in other countries too and that does generate news. Going by your logic, China and India which have ~4 times the population of the US, and hence ~4 times the news, should be allowed ~4 times less freedom! Freedom of the press is not a function fo the amout of information.
rumsfeld censors his briefings to the press cause we're at war. is costa rica at war?
I think you have bought in everything the propoganda machinery puts out.
and finally, again who cares? it all comes out in the end. what we don't know now we will know in about 30-40 years anyway and we'll be flummoxed as to why we thought we needed to know so much in the first place. case in point. the cuban missle crisis. recently tons of info has been declassified regarding those 13 days. how many of you cared? if the info is irrelevant now it was just as irrelevant then.
It is not for some set of individuals to decide what's important to the rest of the country in terms of news. That is exactly what is meant by censorship. If the press was truly free, the information would be available and then the readers would decide the value of the information. Value of information (other than veracity) has nothing to do with the freedom to provide it.
I recently found out that the GPS satellites are actually owned by the US and this was causing concern among even the European "allies". It looks like they are planning on putting up their own GPS satellites. Check out this Wired article.
Do they switch processors and programs as well?
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Right now the games seem to AMD/Shredder vs. Intel/Fritz. Is there going to be a round with AMD/Fritz vs. Intel/Shredder? Any why not have plain AMD/Fritz vs. Intel/Fritz?
I have to repeat this (unable to give proper credit though...)
What is the difference between Larry Ellison and God?
God dosen't think that he is Larry Ellison.
That's from Larry's biography: The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson. The sub-title is God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison.
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Subaru offers a titanium shifter knob as an option on its Impreza line of cars. Personally, I think it doesn't blend in with the rest of the interior.
From a Linux advocates point of view, there isn't much difference between Sun and Microsoft. Don't be fooled by the saying "My enemy's enemy is my friend", because it doesn't apply here.
If you look at Sun's home page, the article just below the one bashing Linux on the mainframe is:
Feature Story: Sun Broadens Support for Linux
Aggressive new program expands the role of Linux on entry- level servers.
Go figure!
I think you are confusing certification of individuals on a certain programming language or platform as opposed to certification of an implementation of a spec. The MCSE, Sun Java Developer and other certification programs exist to certify an individual's skills. The JBoss issue is about certifying JBoss' implementation of the J2EE spec.
Why don't these researchers dedicate their energies to producing better contraceptives ?
Because every time researchers come up with a new product, several groups try to fight its introduction into the market, and lawsuits soon follow
Besides that, the population problem is not so much a problem for most of the developed countries. It's countries where this matters most - like China and India - where research on contraceptives goes on.
At my company (a very large software company:) ), one of the division's bug count is now nearing 2 million. A hundred thousand bugs in a bug tracking system is nothing great and proves nothing about scalability.
Tthe poster I originally responded to was already using Oracle as the database which is not open source by any stretch of imagination. And if one is already using Oracle, the extra cost for Orion ($1500 if I remember right) is probably not going to be that much of an overhead.
Actually we did this with AIX as well. That was at a university about 6 years ago.
Another "stupid password scheme" was also in place at the same univ. Every one was given accounts on all the common systems. Ofcourse some people, esp. faculty, never used all the machines - they had their own personal "workstations". The initial password for all the accounts - the user IDs themselves! Unlimited privileged accounts. Those were the days when everybody used or rather "abused" the.rhosts file and an account one system meant an almost unlimited set of accounts on other machines including at other universities where the profs. collaborated.
The profs and admins never got of a whiff of ituntil one day one of the profs actually tried to access one of his dormant accounts. And guess what! He found a good old undergraduate programming class assignment complete with those beautiful program headers every programmer is taught to include in code - including Author! Took a whole semester for the uproar to die down and for me to get out of that mess. I was the big idiot who spread the good cheer about the open accounts.
It's an obituary by Jill Lawless of the Associated Press (AP) as indicated on the NyTimes page. I guess all the others (BBC, CNN, NYTimes) just used it with minor modifications.
Another passenger aircraft which could do Mach 2+ was the Tupolev TU-144. Unfortunately following a crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973, the planes were taken out of service by 1978.
unit test first... I would say this could be a good idea, but I suspect that it's impossible more often than not. And when there's scope creep and the deadline's tomorrow, do we update the test plan first? yeah, right.
In the object oriented world it is often easy to unit test. Specify the bare bones interfaces of other objects that your object depends on and you cna very well compile and unit test your object. If you have used Smalltalk, you'll find it is very easy to build a unit-testing framework.
Just wanted to mention that "Kannada" has nothing to do with Canada (as the parent poster probably assumed). It's a south Undian language. Infact it is the official language of the state which is home to India's Silicon Valley - Bangalore and is spoken by a few million.
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Right now the games seem to AMD/Shredder vs. Intel/Fritz. Is there going to be a round with AMD/Fritz vs. Intel/Shredder? Any why not have plain AMD/Fritz vs. Intel/Fritz?
In India, in the national language (Hindi), the shopkeepers are called banias (ba-nee-yah).
I have to repeat this (unable to give proper credit though...)
What is the difference between Larry Ellison and God?
God dosen't think that he is Larry Ellison.
That's from Larry's biography: The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson. The sub-title is God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison.
Subaru offers a titanium shifter knob as an option on its Impreza line of cars. Personally, I think it doesn't blend in with the rest of the interior.
Try news://newscache3.freenet.de/
Feature Story: Sun Broadens Support for Linux Aggressive new program expands the role of Linux on entry- level servers.
Go figure!
I think you are confusing certification of individuals on a certain programming language or platform as opposed to certification of an implementation of a spec. The MCSE, Sun Java Developer and other certification programs exist to certify an individual's skills. The JBoss issue is about certifying JBoss' implementation of the J2EE spec.
And in case you are wondering there's also apache.slashdot.org for Apache stuff.
The only sport I found in the word list was "CRICKET". Looks like God intended His subjects to play only cricket!
I feel your pain dude - I've been down the same path :(
At my company (a very large software company :) ), one of the division's bug count is now nearing 2 million. A hundred thousand bugs in a bug tracking system is nothing great and proves nothing about scalability.
Tthe poster I originally responded to was already using Oracle as the database which is not open source by any stretch of imagination. And if one is already using Oracle, the extra cost for Orion ($1500 if I remember right) is probably not going to be that much of an overhead.
Another "stupid password scheme" was also in place at the same univ. Every one was given accounts on all the common systems. Ofcourse some people, esp. faculty, never used all the machines - they had their own personal "workstations". The initial password for all the accounts - the user IDs themselves! Unlimited privileged accounts. Those were the days when everybody used or rather "abused" the .rhosts file and an account one system meant an almost unlimited set of accounts on other machines including at other universities where the profs. collaborated.
The profs and admins never got of a whiff of ituntil one day one of the profs actually tried to access one of his dormant accounts. And guess what! He found a good old undergraduate programming class assignment complete with those beautiful program headers every programmer is taught to include in code - including Author! Took a whole semester for the uproar to die down and for me to get out of that mess. I was the big idiot who spread the good cheer about the open accounts.
Offtopic, but had to add that that would be the USA-centric view of the world. The largest IPO ever was that of ENEL in Italy at $19 billion.
It's an obituary by Jill Lawless of the Associated Press (AP) as indicated on the NyTimes page. I guess all the others (BBC, CNN, NYTimes) just used it with minor modifications.
Another passenger aircraft which could do Mach 2+ was the Tupolev TU-144. Unfortunately following a crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973, the planes were taken out of service by 1978.
Not really funny ... back in those days, the x86 based machines weren't capable of running as servers. (Linux zealots note: this is circa 1993).
Yeah! Sneakers was pretty factual too. Imagine breaking some of the commonly used cryptosystems. That would be something all parties would kill for.
Just wanted to mention that "Kannada" has nothing to do with Canada (as the parent poster probably assumed). It's a south Undian language. Infact it is the official language of the state which is home to India's Silicon Valley - Bangalore and is spoken by a few million.