I'm more interested to see what they will do with 'Q'
Just above your comment is a suggestion for "Queer Quail". However, since Shuttleworth is a South African, I would rather bet on "Quintessential Quagga".
geeks like Unix, so we should be stuck in the 1970s until the end of time
It has been said that the cave geek who invented the wheel made it square. Then another cave geek improved it, making it triangular: one less bump per turn.
Repeat after me: not every change is for the better.
a federal antitrust case against Google could set new boundaries for Internet competition, much as the Justice Department suit against Microsoft Corp. a decade ago broke ground applying antitrust law to new technologies
Yes, and we all know how much that decade-old antitrust suit changed the world...
there's many things that could cause problems, like plain old programming bugs.
It's about the same thing when people say that "XP does not crash, it's faulty device drivers that crash".
If a system should be reliable, then it should be reliable, no excuses accepted. It does not matter if it's system bugs, application bugs, hardware failures or power outages, a system that pretends to achieve 99.999% availability should take all that into account.
The operating system is not at fault if the power goes down, of course, it's a sloppy engineer that designs a system without redundant power supply. But, likewise, a sloppy engineer will prefer a system that lets him configure and operate it by click-and-drag, instead of a carefully designed and tested set of procedures.
A critical system should NEVER depend on an operating system that does not have a proper batch language. That should be a compact and powerful script language, using TEXT files for configuration that can be hand edited if needed, that can be stored and archived in a version control system, so that bugs can be tracked.
It's true that Jordan tried to annex the West Bank, but they agreed in 1974 that the West Bank was not part of Jordan... They were not Jordan citizens for the most part... Jordan has been at peace with Israel and fully recognizes their sovereignty since 1994. However, both Syria and Jordan have fairly little to do with this particular conflict
I cut a few parts from your post to compare that with this simple fact: the Israeli constitution states that any Jew may claim the Israeli citizenship. If Arabs had this same sense of partnership, there would be no conflict in the Middle East. Why is it that this very small slice of the Arab nation, those that call themselves the "Palestinians", are today mired in this internal war between "Hamas" and "Fatah"? If they cannot make peace even between themselves, then why should Israel try to make peace with them?
It seems that Arabs are always at war, Israel is just a pretext, if Israel didn't exist they would find plenty of excuses to make war. Sunnites vs. Shiites, for instance, or Hashemites vs. Palestinians, or whatever two small sections of the greater Arab nations, they are always at war...
I recommend Monaco over São Paulo on common sense grounds
If it's a question of common sense, Rio de Janeiro trumps both São Paulo and Monaco. Prices a tenth of Monaco's and kidnapping ratio a hundredth of São Paulo's.
In a city known for violent carjackings, this guy's response was to bulletproof his ostentatious Porsche, instead of simply driving a less conspicuous car
What's the point in being rich if you can't spend it? In his place I'd do exactly the same.
If you have money that was legally earned, you owe no apologies to anyone, you are entitled to it. Do you think the law allows some immoral ways to earn money? Change the law. I see no point in criticizing people just because they have money.
The (hypothetical) woman down the hall being beaten by her husband isn't allowed to forcibly evict me from my apartment to get away from him.
I thought only car analogies were allowed here... OK, just kidding. The situation in Israel is more like an abused woman who moves to a new apartment to get away from her husband who beat her. Her new neighbors say "hey, we are into this sadomasochism thing too! Let's slap that bitch around!" Only to find that she has taken self-defense training and got a gun and learned to shoot.
When the old Palestine British protectorate was divided by the United Nations in the 1940s, the smaller Jewish part was named Israel and the larger part of the territory was named Jordan. "Palestine" is actually Jordan. But, different from Israel, Jordan was never a fully democratic country and in september 1970, the "Black September", a faction of the Jordanians tried to overthrow the government and failed. That faction are the people now known as "Palestinians".
When Egypt sat down to negotiate and recognized the right of Israel to exist, they got back all the territory they had lost in the wars against Israel. If Syria and Jordan wished to negotiate, they would probably get the same results Egypt did. The problem is that it's a bit hard to negotiate with someone whom you have publicly sworn to kill, unless you agree to back off a bit from that position.
If the U.S. doesn't have a history of meddling in middle eastern affairs, there is no 9/11. This is the explanation given by the terrorists. What reason is there to lie?
1) Do you think terrorists have no reason to lie?
2) Do you think people who hijack airplanes and hit a building with it are perfectly rational and will never lie without a reason?
The Quran says something like "these words will be valid until man touches the moon", or something like that. Probably that was meant to say those words were eternal, but actually it makes some sort of sense: a sufficiently advanced technology makes many religious commandments obsolete.
I still use Perl for quick-and-dirty stuff, small scripts that I will use once and then throw away. Often it's a one-liner, like "cat out.txt | perl -ne 'if (/\s{3}(\w+)\s/){print $1}'", or something like that. But for a really clear to understand and maintain software, I think Python is *much* better than Ruby.
Ruby fans hate me for this, but I sometimes say that Ruby is Perl++. Or, in other words, "it's the syntax, stupid". Although I don't really like the forced indentation in Python (what if someone else used tab characters, for instance?), I think Python has the best syntax of any language when it comes to readability. Oh, sure, people can still write 600 line functions in Python, but they are easy to read lines.
Ruby, OTOH, doesn't have a coherent syntax. Code blocks sometimes are declared between curly braces, but in other cases they have a generic "end" statement (does anybody here remember Fortran?). And too many of those funny characters you get when you press shift plus a number key. And many other details, each one not so important by itself, but in the end it all adds up into code that's significantly harder to read than Python code.
"Cultural commodity." I guess that's the latest pro-piracy propaganda used to justify not paying artists for their work
In economics language, a "commodity" is a product put up for sale to make a living. Usually, the word is reserved for products that are totally exchangeable, without different categories which could have different prices. In this respect, a music album would not be a commodity, but an argument could be made that contemporary popular music is more or less exchangeable.
Calling something a "commodity" does not mean one is claiming that it is free for anyone to grab. Gold, for instance, is a commodity.
However, one could claim that the way the RIAA handles the music trade resembles the way another cartel has handled the diamond market. Their contempt for ethics do not contribute to making them loved by the public, so the verbal attacks on them are perfectly understandable.
- Despite rumours to the contrary, most of Microsoft's enterprise-level software is pretty solid, unless it's a 1.0 or 2.0 release.
Linux has been rock-solid from version 1. Version 3 isn't being planned yet.
- Our Exchange implementation was engineered by someone who knew what he was doing, and is now supported by someone who knows what he's doing.
The main complaint against Linux is that it requires someone who "knows what he is doing". If the same is required of Microsoft solutions, then why not just use Linux?
you find it in a car, dump it in some predetermined location with counter measures, and lead the cops to a trap?
I'd leave it at my garage. The perfect alibi, the police themselves would testify I never left my home while whatever they were investigating happened.
anyone know why they charge so much more in the UK?
I think the level of health and social services provided by the UK government compared to what is provided in the US will give you a clue.
Robert Heinlein created the acronym TANSTAAFL, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch". I would add NFHCASSE, "no free health care and social services either".
the Catholic Catechism teaches that everything that self-moves possesses a soul
IIRC, it was Thomas Aquinas who wrote that cannibals cannot have a soul, because they cannot resurrect in the Final Judgement. The argument goes that one resurrects when the decomposed parts of the body come together again, but since the cannibal's body is composed of parts of bodies of other people, a cannibal cannot resurrect in the Final Judgement, therefore he cannot have a soul.
Scientific programming is done in fortran. All of it. Not a single line is written in C.
It's true that by the time C became popular, there already existed many libraries in Fortran that had been tested and debugged, so no new development on those lines was needed. But most new scientific software is being written in C. There are a few diehards who will never admit it, but for all practical purposes Fortran is dead as a development language.
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Just above your comment is a suggestion for "Queer Quail". However, since Shuttleworth is a South African, I would rather bet on "Quintessential Quagga".
It has been said that the cave geek who invented the wheel made it square. Then another cave geek improved it, making it triangular: one less bump per turn.
Repeat after me: not every change is for the better.
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Yes, and we all know how much that decade-old antitrust suit changed the world...
It's about the same thing when people say that "XP does not crash, it's faulty device drivers that crash".
If a system should be reliable, then it should be reliable, no excuses accepted. It does not matter if it's system bugs, application bugs, hardware failures or power outages, a system that pretends to achieve 99.999% availability should take all that into account.
The operating system is not at fault if the power goes down, of course, it's a sloppy engineer that designs a system without redundant power supply. But, likewise, a sloppy engineer will prefer a system that lets him configure and operate it by click-and-drag, instead of a carefully designed and tested set of procedures.
A critical system should NEVER depend on an operating system that does not have a proper batch language. That should be a compact and powerful script language, using TEXT files for configuration that can be hand edited if needed, that can be stored and archived in a version control system, so that bugs can be tracked.
I guess what they mean is that they complete a thousand trades in three seconds.
I cut a few parts from your post to compare that with this simple fact: the Israeli constitution states that any Jew may claim the Israeli citizenship. If Arabs had this same sense of partnership, there would be no conflict in the Middle East. Why is it that this very small slice of the Arab nation, those that call themselves the "Palestinians", are today mired in this internal war between "Hamas" and "Fatah"? If they cannot make peace even between themselves, then why should Israel try to make peace with them?
It seems that Arabs are always at war, Israel is just a pretext, if Israel didn't exist they would find plenty of excuses to make war. Sunnites vs. Shiites, for instance, or Hashemites vs. Palestinians, or whatever two small sections of the greater Arab nations, they are always at war...
If it's a question of common sense, Rio de Janeiro trumps both São Paulo and Monaco. Prices a tenth of Monaco's and kidnapping ratio a hundredth of São Paulo's.
Take the neighborhood where I live for instance. Big houses cost the equivalent of US$2 to 3 million, and a four-bedroom apartment goes for US$350k. Now how's that compared to a single-bedroom apartment in Monaco? How many layers of bullet-proofing can you get for your Porsche at that price?
In a city known for violent carjackings, this guy's response was to bulletproof his ostentatious Porsche, instead of simply driving a less conspicuous car
What's the point in being rich if you can't spend it? In his place I'd do exactly the same.
If you have money that was legally earned, you owe no apologies to anyone, you are entitled to it. Do you think the law allows some immoral ways to earn money? Change the law. I see no point in criticizing people just because they have money.
The only problem is finding a fishbowl small enough to carry but big enough to hold a shark.
I thought only car analogies were allowed here... OK, just kidding. The situation in Israel is more like an abused woman who moves to a new apartment to get away from her husband who beat her. Her new neighbors say "hey, we are into this sadomasochism thing too! Let's slap that bitch around!" Only to find that she has taken self-defense training and got a gun and learned to shoot.
When the old Palestine British protectorate was divided by the United Nations in the 1940s, the smaller Jewish part was named Israel and the larger part of the territory was named Jordan. "Palestine" is actually Jordan. But, different from Israel, Jordan was never a fully democratic country and in september 1970, the "Black September", a faction of the Jordanians tried to overthrow the government and failed. That faction are the people now known as "Palestinians".
When Egypt sat down to negotiate and recognized the right of Israel to exist, they got back all the territory they had lost in the wars against Israel. If Syria and Jordan wished to negotiate, they would probably get the same results Egypt did. The problem is that it's a bit hard to negotiate with someone whom you have publicly sworn to kill, unless you agree to back off a bit from that position.
1) Do you think terrorists have no reason to lie?
2) Do you think people who hijack airplanes and hit a building with it are perfectly rational and will never lie without a reason?
The Quran says something like "these words will be valid until man touches the moon", or something like that. Probably that was meant to say those words were eternal, but actually it makes some sort of sense: a sufficiently advanced technology makes many religious commandments obsolete.
Such as C++, for instance?
Try writing a large program that needs to do heavy number-crunching in Java/Ruby/Perl/Python, or whatever is your preferred language.
I still use Perl for quick-and-dirty stuff, small scripts that I will use once and then throw away. Often it's a one-liner, like "cat out.txt | perl -ne 'if (/\s{3}(\w+)\s/){print $1}'", or something like that. But for a really clear to understand and maintain software, I think Python is *much* better than Ruby.
Ruby fans hate me for this, but I sometimes say that Ruby is Perl++. Or, in other words, "it's the syntax, stupid". Although I don't really like the forced indentation in Python (what if someone else used tab characters, for instance?), I think Python has the best syntax of any language when it comes to readability. Oh, sure, people can still write 600 line functions in Python, but they are easy to read lines.
Ruby, OTOH, doesn't have a coherent syntax. Code blocks sometimes are declared between curly braces, but in other cases they have a generic "end" statement (does anybody here remember Fortran?). And too many of those funny characters you get when you press shift plus a number key. And many other details, each one not so important by itself, but in the end it all adds up into code that's significantly harder to read than Python code.
You could at least read the summary, it's a BIOS that runs Linux without booting windows.
I guess you're just trolling, but OK, I'll bite:
In economics language, a "commodity" is a product put up for sale to make a living. Usually, the word is reserved for products that are totally exchangeable, without different categories which could have different prices. In this respect, a music album would not be a commodity, but an argument could be made that contemporary popular music is more or less exchangeable.
Calling something a "commodity" does not mean one is claiming that it is free for anyone to grab. Gold, for instance, is a commodity.
However, one could claim that the way the RIAA handles the music trade resembles the way another cartel has handled the diamond market. Their contempt for ethics do not contribute to making them loved by the public, so the verbal attacks on them are perfectly understandable.
She was *born* in the mid-twenties.
Linux has been rock-solid from version 1. Version 3 isn't being planned yet.
The main complaint against Linux is that it requires someone who "knows what he is doing". If the same is required of Microsoft solutions, then why not just use Linux?
Dude, that joke is so 1993!
The current version is going from 4.0 to 3.5.9
I don't know about the others, but the last time I did it they gave me (+5, Insightful)
I'd leave it at my garage. The perfect alibi, the police themselves would testify I never left my home while whatever they were investigating happened.
I think the level of health and social services provided by the UK government compared to what is provided in the US will give you a clue.
Robert Heinlein created the acronym TANSTAAFL, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch". I would add NFHCASSE, "no free health care and social services either".
IIRC, it was Thomas Aquinas who wrote that cannibals cannot have a soul, because they cannot resurrect in the Final Judgement. The argument goes that one resurrects when the decomposed parts of the body come together again, but since the cannibal's body is composed of parts of bodies of other people, a cannibal cannot resurrect in the Final Judgement, therefore he cannot have a soul.
It's true that by the time C became popular, there already existed many libraries in Fortran that had been tested and debugged, so no new development on those lines was needed. But most new scientific software is being written in C. There are a few diehards who will never admit it, but for all practical purposes Fortran is dead as a development language.