i'm not a conspiracy theorist, and i don't particularly care for michael moore, all i meant was that if elections are going to be decided by, 'well i guess you jumped higher than i did,' then they're not really elections. given that the last two have been determined in a similar fashion (or maybe you didn't notice that they've stopped counting ohio's ballots), i have no reason to suspect the outcome of the next election will be any different.
its obvious that you know how to spell, but conceptually there is no connection between a quantity and a verb tense.
you're not any safer. your deficit isn't any lower. you're not creating new jobs. your government isn't any smaller than before. and you'll probably never _elect_ anyone ever again.
are you aware of the estimates of deaths in a military conflict with north korea (#,000,000 in the first 20 minutes)? or that seoul and most of its suburbs are in an area known as the 'kill zone?' 30,000 artillery pieces within 30km of your capitol IS something to be afraid of.
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why don't the nice KDE people and the nice Gnome people work on developing a library that sits on top of this and then we can stop all the stupid name calling and use the right tool for the right job
this is a great idea, except for one thing. the burden of proof would be on the infringee. and in real life that means that when you were sued over infringement you would counter-sue, and in order to win you would have to prove conclusively and beyond any reasonable shadow of doubt. IANAL but i know how hard it is to satisfy a judges demands in such a situation.
most likelz it would come in some sort of cartridge that protected surface access. really protected it. and just to be on the safe side the unit would perform all operations in a vacuum.
well if you want to use DSP chips for processing power, just look here.
DSP PCI card 16 GFLOPS, example - 1 million point Arctan2 2.63 msec. i wonder if they have linux drivers?
the BBC covered this last night. i couldn't find the media link, but here is the page. i suppose its really not surprising. part of it has to do with relaxed laws concerning research, which other posters have mentioned, the rest of it with a large supply of skilled workers/researchers.
i guess the question it spawns is how much longer the west, and principally the US, can continue to maintain such a differential in standard of living vis-a-vis places like india. all other things being equal, and in the absence of no new earth-shatttering productivity gains, i don't think it will be long.
in case anyone forgot, not only is microsoft research their neighbor, but it was also the first microsoft research center outside the us. wired has more about what you can get for $80 million.
1. Prove Allende was overthrown by the CIA, please.
You know what, I can't prove that Allende was overthrown by the CIA. But I can add at least two more instances to the above that you seem to have conveniently left out.
Perhaps you've heard of East Timor. If you have, and you're familiar with the history of East Timor you might also know that on the day before Suharto invaded East Timor President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henrey Kissinger visited Suharto. Now I suppose you'd like to tell me that the subject of the invasion wasn't at least one of the items discussed. No, I don't have any special knowledge of that meeting, nor can I cite any references, but the interesting item to note would be that the invasion started as soon as Ford and Kissinger were back in US territory.
And maybe you've even heard of Cyprus? I imagine that you think that Turkey just decided that they would launch an attack to save their citizens from being persecuted by the Greeks? And you thought they would do that on their own, without asking anyone's opinion? Maybe you know that in the year prior to the invasion Greece finally overthrew the dictatorship established by the US and England.
So by now you must be telling yourself that I'm some kind of european left-wing radical, right? Except that I'm not; I'm an american. But I'm one of those americans who think that questioning authority is one of the principles upon which our country was founded; and damn you if you think its treasonous to do so, for surely you failed to understand something about the history of the country that you profess to cherish. And I don't know about the parent post as I haven't bothered reading it.
As far as the foreign press being 'more' accurate than The New York Times, well, perhaps you'd like to tell me the The New York Times is more accurate than The Guardian or Le Monde. By the way, I usually read the International Herald Tribune, which is owned by The New York Times.
But if you're going to tell me that Fox is objective journalism, or even CNN for that matter, you're wrong. Not dumb or stupid, just plain wrong. I've seen it with my own eyes. And if you think for one second that the invasion of Iraq wasn't motivated by some ill-conceived power trip you're also wrong. Or maybe you should ask yourself why Halliburton has open-ended contracts worth tens of billions of dollars, awarded as quickly as they were announced, for which _your_ tax dollars are paying (I had $72,000 in exceptions which are being taken to pay for your tax break, or rather to finance the War on Iraq).
But lastly let me tell you about Chile. You see, I lived in Chile. So I think I might have a perspective that you're lacking, with your red, white and blue, dyed-in-the-wool mindset. Yeah, we (US) needed the copper, and yeah, Allende nationalized businesses that he had no need or reason or even sense in nationalizing (or perhaps you can tell me what relation a candy factory has to national security). But that most certainly doesn't justify the abuses that took place under Pinochet. Or should I start telling you about people held on islands and tortured for months at a time, for no other reason than that Allende picked them as his Minister of Culture.
I suggest that you consider foreign opinions as readily as you consider those from your own country, and ask yourself if there might not be some truth behind them. Truths that you most probably would be a little uncomfortable in acknowledging. As for myself, this much I know to be true. Or don't you, who work for the Department of Defense, know of some of our own dirty little secrets?
its 10:39AM monday morning, at least where i am(GMT-2). they do have a couple of large m$ word documents, 1590k and 1460k, but all the mpegs have broken links!
does the timing of all of this strike anyone else as intentional? that just when microsoft was starting to lose server interest share to linux at an ever-increasing rate a plague descends upon linux. does it further seem coincidental that microsoft has announced a number of open source/linux initiatives recently?
i think there are several things going on here, but they all originate from strategic, and not tactical, decisions by redmond. let me start with a comment i heard from a coworker (he's in technical sales), "if anyone can figure out how to make money out of linux, its microsoft."
one: microsoft has recently started to be perceived in the marketplace as stodgy. no, i don't have any business case studies to back it up; i feel it. so they're attempting to tell the world that they can change with the times like the best of them. how? by announcing open source initiatives, etc.
two: despite microsofts continued rants about TCO, business' experience probably show that linux TCO, especially in the area of server administration, and down-time associated with virii, patches and other security issues, is in fact lower. ergo microsoft's focus on security and providing 'enhanced' command-line tools for server administration.
three: they (redmond) know just how long it takes a suit to be completed. this whole series of events figures into some long-range plan. what, i don't know. remember though, this court date for the start of the suit is after the release of longhorn. my bet is that there will be a slew of patches and other enforced upgrades between now and then to change the balance. not in the home, where microsoft is feeling threatened, but in the corporate world, where they are quite seriously running scared.
if you're curious about some of the history of microsoft and the certication of windows for government work, click here, and look elsewhere for the story of ed curry. its been linked to here on slashdot before.
if you want to know more about what the eal4 certification that windows 2000 sp3 currently has, click here.
i fint it interesting that you haven't bought a cd for a couple of years. as an american living overseas i haven't bought a cd in 6-9 months, mostly because record stores close by 8pm, they have a lousy selection (consisting mostly of top40 bands), and the prices are outrageous (take the highest us price and add 18% tax). however whenever i'm in the us i buy as many as i can comfortably fit in my luggage. sure i have mp3s, almost exclusively from music in my own collection; those that aren't are live recordings. i have very little interest in buying a single here and a single there.
but there's one interesting thing going on. i'll never replace the music i do own again. ever. it will be migrated from one media to another for as long as i live, and likely for as long as my survivors want. that upgrade from vinyl thing only happened once as far as i'm concerned. but the record companies are trying to build in a similar 'periodic cycle' via the licensing agreements for music bought online. its just one more way they're trying to screw over the consumer.
will most likely be the water company. how else are you going to get the raw materials in bulk? they already have the network for liquid materials.
someone wrote a story about this a long time ago, where the worst thing that could possibly happen to you was being cut off from the pipe that supplied raw materials. looks like its on the way.
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i'm not a conspiracy theorist, and i don't particularly care for michael moore, all i meant was that if elections are going to be decided by, 'well i guess you jumped higher than i did,' then they're not really elections. given that the last two have been determined in a similar fashion (or maybe you didn't notice that they've stopped counting ohio's ballots), i have no reason to suspect the outcome of the next election will be any different.
its obvious that you know how to spell, but conceptually there is no connection between a quantity and a verb tense.
maybe these guys. in fact, they sponsor events for precisely that reason.
you're not any safer.
your deficit isn't any lower.
you're not creating new jobs.
your government isn't any smaller than before.
and you'll probably never _elect_ anyone ever again.
are you aware of the estimates of deaths in a military conflict with north korea (#,000,000 in the first 20 minutes)? or that seoul and most of its suburbs are in an area known as the 'kill zone?' 30,000 artillery pieces within 30km of your capitol IS something to be afraid of.
why don't the nice KDE people and the nice Gnome people work on developing a library that sits on top of this and then we can stop all the stupid name calling and use the right tool for the right job
this is a great idea, except for one thing. the burden of proof would be on the infringee. and in real life that means that when you were sued over infringement you would counter-sue, and in order to win you would have to prove conclusively and beyond any reasonable shadow of doubt. IANAL but i know how hard it is to satisfy a judges demands in such a situation.
at work i've used a p4 2.6, and i'm currently using a single cpu g5. the experience is nowhere near as pleasant as using my old dual p3 at home.
most likelz it would come in some sort of cartridge that protected surface access. really protected it. and just to be on the safe side the unit would perform all operations in a vacuum.
the very first thing i did with the G5 at work was to fink xmms so i wouldn't have to use iTunes.
Latent Semantic Analysis is another such tool. Look here and herefor more info.
well if you want to use DSP chips for processing power, just look here.
DSP PCI card 16 GFLOPS, example - 1 million point Arctan2 2.63 msec. i wonder if they have linux drivers?
i know of someone who obtained a fake passport, years ago, not by using a fake birth certificate, but by faking immigration and naturalization papers!
i guess the question it spawns is how much longer the west, and principally the US, can continue to maintain such a differential in standard of living vis-a-vis places like india. all other things being equal, and in the absence of no new earth-shatttering productivity gains, i don't think it will be long.
in case anyone forgot, not only is microsoft research their neighbor, but it was also the first microsoft research center outside the us. wired has more about what you can get for $80 million.
these people think so.
was your tongue inside your cheek when you said, "Double plus good I say, who wants all that information anyway!" michael?
1. Prove Allende was overthrown by the CIA, please.
You know what, I can't prove that Allende was overthrown by the CIA. But I can add at least two more instances to the above that you seem to have conveniently left out.
Perhaps you've heard of East Timor. If you have, and you're familiar with the history of East Timor you might also know that on the day before Suharto invaded East Timor President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henrey Kissinger visited Suharto. Now I suppose you'd like to tell me that the subject of the invasion wasn't at least one of the items discussed. No, I don't have any special knowledge of that meeting, nor can I cite any references, but the interesting item to note would be that the invasion started as soon as Ford and Kissinger were back in US territory.
And maybe you've even heard of Cyprus? I imagine that you think that Turkey just decided that they would launch an attack to save their citizens from being persecuted by the Greeks? And you thought they would do that on their own, without asking anyone's opinion? Maybe you know that in the year prior to the invasion Greece finally overthrew the dictatorship established by the US and England.
So by now you must be telling yourself that I'm some kind of european left-wing radical, right? Except that I'm not; I'm an american. But I'm one of those americans who think that questioning authority is one of the principles upon which our country was founded; and damn you if you think its treasonous to do so, for surely you failed to understand something about the history of the country that you profess to cherish. And I don't know about the parent post as I haven't bothered reading it.
As far as the foreign press being 'more' accurate than The New York Times, well, perhaps you'd like to tell me the The New York Times is more accurate than The Guardian or Le Monde. By the way, I usually read the International Herald Tribune, which is owned by The New York Times.
But if you're going to tell me that Fox is objective journalism, or even CNN for that matter, you're wrong. Not dumb or stupid, just plain wrong. I've seen it with my own eyes. And if you think for one second that the invasion of Iraq wasn't motivated by some ill-conceived power trip you're also wrong. Or maybe you should ask yourself why Halliburton has open-ended contracts worth tens of billions of dollars, awarded as quickly as they were announced, for which _your_ tax dollars are paying (I had $72,000 in exceptions which are being taken to pay for your tax break, or rather to finance the War on Iraq).
But lastly let me tell you about Chile. You see, I lived in Chile. So I think I might have a perspective that you're lacking, with your red, white and blue, dyed-in-the-wool mindset. Yeah, we (US) needed the copper, and yeah, Allende nationalized businesses that he had no need or reason or even sense in nationalizing (or perhaps you can tell me what relation a candy factory has to national security). But that most certainly doesn't justify the abuses that took place under Pinochet. Or should I start telling you about people held on islands and tortured for months at a time, for no other reason than that Allende picked them as his Minister of Culture.
I suggest that you consider foreign opinions as readily as you consider those from your own country, and ask yourself if there might not be some truth behind them. Truths that you most probably would be a little uncomfortable in acknowledging. As for myself, this much I know to be true. Or don't you, who work for the Department of Defense, know of some of our own dirty little secrets?
i was introduced to Douglas Adams when PBC aired this in the states. no doubt its one of the many treasures that exist in their archives.
its 10:39AM monday morning, at least where i am(GMT-2). they do have a couple of large m$ word documents, 1590k and 1460k, but all the mpegs have broken links!
if you mean for watching dvd movies, try ogle.
does the timing of all of this strike anyone else as intentional? that just when microsoft was starting to lose server interest share to linux at an ever-increasing rate a plague descends upon linux. does it further seem coincidental that microsoft has announced a number of open source/linux initiatives recently?
i think there are several things going on here, but they all originate from strategic, and not tactical, decisions by redmond. let me start with a comment i heard from a coworker (he's in technical sales), "if anyone can figure out how to make money out of linux, its microsoft."
one: microsoft has recently started to be perceived in the marketplace as stodgy. no, i don't have any business case studies to back it up; i feel it. so they're attempting to tell the world that they can change with the times like the best of them. how? by announcing open source initiatives, etc.
two: despite microsofts continued rants about TCO, business' experience probably show that linux TCO, especially in the area of server administration, and down-time associated with virii, patches and other security issues, is in fact lower. ergo microsoft's focus on security and providing 'enhanced' command-line tools for server administration.
three: they (redmond) know just how long it takes a suit to be completed. this whole series of events figures into some long-range plan. what, i don't know. remember though, this court date for the start of the suit is after the release of longhorn. my bet is that there will be a slew of patches and other enforced upgrades between now and then to change the balance. not in the home, where microsoft is feeling threatened, but in the corporate world, where they are quite seriously running scared.
if you're curious about some of the history of microsoft and the certication of windows for government work, click here, and look elsewhere for the story of ed curry. its been linked to here on slashdot before.
if you want to know more about what the eal4 certification that windows 2000 sp3 currently has, click here.
i fint it interesting that you haven't bought a cd for a couple of years. as an american living overseas i haven't bought a cd in 6-9 months, mostly because record stores close by 8pm, they have a lousy selection (consisting mostly of top40 bands), and the prices are outrageous (take the highest us price and add 18% tax). however whenever i'm in the us i buy as many as i can comfortably fit in my luggage. sure i have mp3s, almost exclusively from music in my own collection; those that aren't are live recordings. i have very little interest in buying a single here and a single there.
but there's one interesting thing going on. i'll never replace the music i do own again. ever. it will be migrated from one media to another for as long as i live, and likely for as long as my survivors want. that upgrade from vinyl thing only happened once as far as i'm concerned. but the record companies are trying to build in a similar 'periodic cycle' via the licensing agreements for music bought online. its just one more way they're trying to screw over the consumer.
will most likely be the water company. how else are you going to get the raw materials in bulk? they already have the network for liquid materials.
someone wrote a story about this a long time ago, where the worst thing that could possibly happen to you was being cut off from the pipe that supplied raw materials. looks like its on the way.
it may just be a bunch of smoke and mirrors, but its a bunch that there going to make damn sure we have to live with!