You don't need a college degree to be a journalist or to even practice journalism. There are many respected college papers where the students (who may or may not be full blown journalism majors) are doing the exact same things, with the same high standards, as any city newspaper.
I don't have to publish the source unless I distribute. I can take all the GPL code I want, make all the changes I want, but as long as I don't distribute the resulting work, I don't have to publish jack or squat. I can simply enjoy all the benefits in-house. This is quite explicit from the FAQ. Now, in terms of Novel and this contest specifically, it's quite obvious that they will be distributing the resulting work, so of course they will be required to publish the source. The contestants will therefore have that protection.
I'm on a monthly subscription. I just received a Tivo as a Christmas present and frankly, after doing some research, I came away with ZERO confidence that Tivo as a company would be around in the 2+ years it would take me to recoup my lifetime subscription investment. Since I got the box as a gift, I'm not tied to keeping it if Tivo goes belly up tommorow. I haven't hacked it or upgraded it. No need. I don't watch that much TV anyways so if Alias gets deleted due to space issues, it's no big deal.
With all the turmoil and churn in the DVR industry right now, especially Tivo themselves, there's no way in hell I want to get tied down to any long term plan. For early adopters who got in 2-3 years ago, sure lifetime was the way to go. Now though? Doesn't seem wise. If Tivo as a company goes TU (tango upsilon) tomorrow, I'm out $24-36 bucks for use of their guide data and $40 for a wireless USB NIC..which I can use elsewhere.
What? The world's pathetic reaction to Dafur and it's contemptible reaction to Rwanda wasn't enough to prove that point long before this?
Just be thankful the world is reacting at all I say. If this had not have been a natural disaster, but rather another genocide or brutal regime killing people, the world would still be sitting on its collective hands watching the death toll rise. Natural disasters are easy to deal with. No messy issues with who is the "good guy" and who is the "bad guy", just throw money at it to prove how much you care.
How does Afghanistan impact German interests? Or France's? Tenuous at best. Whatever the reason, I'm grateful that they and other countries, such as Canada, are there. Why did it take an attack on the US to mobilize support for dealing with the Taliban and Al Queda in Afghanistan.
How does the tsnuami's devastation affect Europe's or the US's national interest? But yet everyone is there...why? Because it's the right thing to do. 1,000,000 Rwandans died and most Western Countries (including the US) decided it wasn't in their national interest. And that was preventable. Earthquakes and tsunamis are not.
National interest is a tough thing to pin down. Is it not in France and Germany's interest to have a stable Iraq? (I guess it could be argued that the status quo with a brutal regime in Iraq was in France's petrochemical interests.) Or is it more in their national interest to to provide a counter-weight to the US?
And can we please stop with the idea that if you can't eliminate all humanitarian problems at once, you shouldn't work toward eliminating any? That's just dumb. Kyoto Treaty only addresses a 5% reduction in harmful emissions, most experts say a 60% reduction is needed to have any affect...I guess the world should just dump the whole thing.
The poster I was replying to suggested France and Germany could have been brought on board if humanitarian issues were emphasized instead of WMD, I'm simply exploring his train of thought...what's your angle? Cards on the table time...Are humanitarian issues enough to rouse France and Germany to action? The US has a track record that says it will make an attempt at least, in Somalia and Haiti..not a whole lot of US national interest in either case. Why Somalia and not Turkmenistan? I don't know. Is Turkmenistan a problem? Do you think it needs action? What's the bar for action? 1000 deaths at the hands of the govt? 10,000? 100,000? You tell me.
Valid points...but why did the US have to spell it out for everyone? Was it some big secret, known only to the US, that the sanctions were hurting the Iraqi people, and not Saddam? Was it some big secret that Saddam and his sons were running a killing machine?
Regardless of whatever the US said about terrorism links, WMD..pink bunnies, whatever, those facts remain the same. If what you say is true, and Germany (and thus France) could have been brought into the Coalition if WMD was not the focus, that's an indictment on them for not acting..not the US. A sovereign nation should not depend on the US saying the "magic words" to rouse them to a response when the facts are screaming out for action.
Put it this way. If another brutal dictator arises and is clearly killing his people and sanctions prove to be causing more suffering to his people..would France and Germany act? Pretend the US doesn't even exist...would they act?
$ psrinfo -v Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 12/21/2004 19:53:16
on-line since 12/19/2004 18:00:57.
The i386 processor operates at 300 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor $ uname -a SunOS mrhat 5.10 s10_74 i86pc i386 i86pc
There is Solaris 10 running on a 300mhz Gateway P6. I bought that workstation in 1998. Not enough to convince you?
$ psrinfo -v Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 12/21/2004 19:57:36
on-line since 12/21/2004 00:11:10.
The i386 processor operates at 850 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor. $ uname -a SunOS gobbles 5.10 s10_74 i86pc i386 i86pc
There you see the same Solaris 10 version running on my Dell Inspiron 8000 *laptop*, which I bought 3 years ago. Both of these systems are in my house. Pretty ghetto eh?
The really cool thing is this...I run THE EXACT SAME BUILD on a dual 2.8 Ghz x86 machine at work, as well as 4 domain Sun 15k SPARC machine at work, as well as my main workstation, a SunBlade 2500. The 3 Node Sun v880 cluster running Oracle RAC I do cluster and filesystem testing on? same stuff. The 8 node x86 cluster I'm about to build? same stuff. The Sun v100 Sparc machine I use to run my webserver and mail server at home? same stuff.
Alberta is more than 10 miles from St. John, North Dakota. You're thinking Manitoba. St. John is north of Dunseith and Belcourt ND...nowhere near Alberta. You've got a little bit of Manitoba and all of Saskatchewan before you hit Alberta.
You don't even have to look outside the US to see that spending more money on education doesn't necessarily equate to better educated kids. North Dakota and South Dakota both consistently rank high on things like test scores, graduation rates, but rank at the bottom of spending on a per pupil basis.
Also, in the US, education is mostly a state run thing. I wonder if would be more beneficial to rank the US states individually along side of countries that organize their education at the national level.
Spot on. So what? What's the point of this story? Is there some sort of parallel? Only older, less tech savvy South Koreans use email. Citizens of Western Country "Foo" still email...therefore, the citizens of Western Country "Foo" are less tech savvy? Is that what we're supposed to learn from this?
Does their use of SMS enable them to perform feats of superhuman ability? Is leading to a cure for cancer? Is it doing anything to get their northern neighbor to remove the thosands of artillery pieces pointed at their country? What?
"The new generation hate agonizing and waiting and tend to express their feelings immediately," said Professor Lee.
So South Koreans need to learn patience? Maybe they need to work on their "quiet time" skills.
The knock on Sun from the financial community is that Sun *DIDN'T* get rid of their R&D during the downturn, unlike most other companies. It's obvious you know nothing of Sun. R&D investment is one thing they hung on to.
Yes, it is amazing to watch the leap of logic required to believe that Kerry is going to convince nations (with their own self-interest) to send their troops into the mess that is currently Iraq just so the US can lower its percentage of the casualties.
That's a great sales pitch. US: "Hey France, we want you to take on 15% of our casualties...how's about it?" France: "Let's see, currently we're taking 0% casualties and we get to pontificate about the American Pig-Dogs at our leisure...er, how about NOT."
Thank goodness that Congress stepped in and asserted a few checks and balances, otherwise this could have gotten out of hand!
Or not...
The failure of Congress to voice even token dissent on every foreign policy decision since 9/11 is the biggest failure of the entire system in my view. Every Congresscritter should be voted out of office and barred from even running for town dogcatcher for the rest of their miserable lives.
Half the country knows George Bush and Co. are a bunch of half-wits with their own agendas, but we deserve better from Congress. That they chose to goosestep to the White House's tune with nary a word of protest is unforgiveable.
"...On the Christians, "starting" the Crusades, first it is specically the Roman Catholic Church. Neither the non-Chalcedonians nor the Eastern Orthodox sent troops. In fact, these were raped and plundered by the Crusaders...
And even more than the Catholic Church, it was the people that were to become Brits, French and Germans. It was more of a land grab than a religious thing...sure it was cloaked in the mantle of religion, but the Crusades were essentially Europeans doing what Europeans do best...stealing other's land. They killed other Christians to get to the Holy Land, once there, they squabbled and fought amongst themselves and made alliances with the Muslims as they saw fit. Not exactly religious purists those Crusaders. The Crusades were European politics, just transported to the Holy Land.
Canada and New Zealand persue politics of the weak. That's not a putdown, its simply geo-political reality. They know they can't act like a superpower, because they can't project any power...anywhere. Acting tough simply isn't an option for these countries. So they are wedded at the hip to the ideal of "being polite" and trying to solve all of their disputes inside multilateral organization like the UN.
For better or worse, the US can contemplate the use of force when dealing with other countries (Afghanistan and Iraq). They can also use diplomacy (dealing with the EU, China, NK,..etc, etc) and go to the UN, like they are currently doing over the Sudan crisis. The US has options, Canada and New Zealand do not.
The old saying "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" is generally applied to the US in situations like this. There is another side to that coin though. "When you don't have a hammer, you do your best to pretend nails don't even exist".
The problem I see with the hysterical attitude is that atomic and nuclear secrets are not really secrets anymore. The secret of splitting the atom to build devices is well spread throughout the world. What the good ol' US of A has an edge in (now that the Russkies are on the skids) would probably be in the areas of higher yields, lower fallout and/or miniturization. All of which take more sophistication (read billions and billions of dollars) than your average nuke power or wacked out terrorist has.
The one exception would be China, who everyone from the DOD on down wants to paint as the next Big Bad (easy to justify huge budgets against the Big Bads of the world, harder to justify huge budgets when you don't have a concrete enemy). But as we all know, Clinton sold all the nuke secrets to the Chinese in the 90's. So that cat's out of the bag too. What secrets were left were probably leaked by some Opus Dei CIA nut to the Russians.
How a company acts while facing inward isn't the same thing as how it acts while facing outward.
Microsoft can be honest amongst its developers, make sure they communicate well internally and the code may be simple for them.
Saying software development should be open and honest doesn't always imply that J. Random Goober on the street should be privy to it, or even agree with it.
Have you EVER asked a Mexican if he really wants to be called 'American'? I suspect you have not. Ask a Canadian if deep down, they secretly yearn to assume the mantle of 'American'.
This was well established long, long before it became fashionable to bash American arrogance. Take Tocqueville's Democracy in America for example. No one mistakes that for writings about the entirety of N. and S. America. If a Frenchman in the 1800s can figure out what is meant by 'America', then by god so can you.
Around the world, everyone knows what is being talked about when the word American gets used. No one, except pedantic twats on the Internet, wastes more 2 milliseconds of thought over this issue. And if they did, they quickly be pissed that they'll never get those 2 milliseconds back.
Sure, the Tartars catapulted bodies of plague victims during a seige in the 1300s. But throwing a plague victim's body is a far cry from knowing that the vector is flea-ridden rats and using the rodents instead.
Having worked at Sun I was able to attend a few talks given by Bill Joy. Frankly, stupid is not a word that a Slashdot poster should be using in the same sentence with his name.
Agree or disagree with the man, he may be right, he may be wrong..time will tell, but he is anything but stupid.
No, his point was to put Bush's faith in perspective for all of the "He's a nutter...and a looney" people out there. Other Presidents have had a deep faith in a higher power and the country somehow survived. I think we'll survive GWB too.
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You don't need a college degree to be a journalist or to even practice journalism. There are many respected college papers where the students (who may or may not be full blown journalism majors) are doing the exact same things, with the same high standards, as any city newspaper.
I don't have to publish the source unless I distribute. I can take all the GPL code I want, make all the changes I want, but as long as I don't distribute the resulting work, I don't have to publish jack or squat. I can simply enjoy all the benefits in-house. This is quite explicit from the FAQ. Now, in terms of Novel and this contest specifically, it's quite obvious that they will be distributing the resulting work, so of course they will be required to publish the source. The contestants will therefore have that protection.
With all the turmoil and churn in the DVR industry right now, especially Tivo themselves, there's no way in hell I want to get tied down to any long term plan. For early adopters who got in 2-3 years ago, sure lifetime was the way to go. Now though? Doesn't seem wise. If Tivo as a company goes TU (tango upsilon) tomorrow, I'm out $24-36 bucks for use of their guide data and $40 for a wireless USB NIC..which I can use elsewhere.
Just be thankful the world is reacting at all I say. If this had not have been a natural disaster, but rather another genocide or brutal regime killing people, the world would still be sitting on its collective hands watching the death toll rise. Natural disasters are easy to deal with. No messy issues with who is the "good guy" and who is the "bad guy", just throw money at it to prove how much you care.
How does the tsnuami's devastation affect Europe's or the US's national interest? But yet everyone is there...why? Because it's the right thing to do. 1,000,000 Rwandans died and most Western Countries (including the US) decided it wasn't in their national interest. And that was preventable. Earthquakes and tsunamis are not.
National interest is a tough thing to pin down. Is it not in France and Germany's interest to have a stable Iraq? (I guess it could be argued that the status quo with a brutal regime in Iraq was in France's petrochemical interests.) Or is it more in their national interest to to provide a counter-weight to the US?
And can we please stop with the idea that if you can't eliminate all humanitarian problems at once, you shouldn't work toward eliminating any? That's just dumb. Kyoto Treaty only addresses a 5% reduction in harmful emissions, most experts say a 60% reduction is needed to have any affect...I guess the world should just dump the whole thing.
The poster I was replying to suggested France and Germany could have been brought on board if humanitarian issues were emphasized instead of WMD, I'm simply exploring his train of thought...what's your angle? Cards on the table time...Are humanitarian issues enough to rouse France and Germany to action? The US has a track record that says it will make an attempt at least, in Somalia and Haiti..not a whole lot of US national interest in either case. Why Somalia and not Turkmenistan? I don't know. Is Turkmenistan a problem? Do you think it needs action? What's the bar for action? 1000 deaths at the hands of the govt? 10,000? 100,000? You tell me.
Regardless of whatever the US said about terrorism links, WMD..pink bunnies, whatever, those facts remain the same. If what you say is true, and Germany (and thus France) could have been brought into the Coalition if WMD was not the focus, that's an indictment on them for not acting..not the US. A sovereign nation should not depend on the US saying the "magic words" to rouse them to a response when the facts are screaming out for action.
Put it this way. If another brutal dictator arises and is clearly killing his people and sanctions prove to be causing more suffering to his people..would France and Germany act? Pretend the US doesn't even exist...would they act?
Stop limiting your visits to Disneyworld and you might be more qualified to talk about America.
$ psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 12/21/2004 19:53:16
on-line since 12/19/2004 18:00:57.
The i386 processor operates at 300 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor
$ uname -a
SunOS mrhat 5.10 s10_74 i86pc i386 i86pc
There is Solaris 10 running on a 300mhz Gateway P6. I bought that workstation in 1998. Not enough to convince you?
$ psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 12/21/2004 19:57:36
on-line since 12/21/2004 00:11:10.
The i386 processor operates at 850 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
$ uname -a
SunOS gobbles 5.10 s10_74 i86pc i386 i86pc
There you see the same Solaris 10 version running on my Dell Inspiron 8000 *laptop*, which I bought 3 years ago. Both of these systems are in my house. Pretty ghetto eh?
The really cool thing is this...I run THE EXACT SAME BUILD on a dual 2.8 Ghz x86 machine at work, as well as 4 domain Sun 15k SPARC machine at work, as well as my main workstation, a SunBlade 2500. The 3 Node Sun v880 cluster running Oracle RAC I do cluster and filesystem testing on? same stuff. The 8 node x86 cluster I'm about to build? same stuff. The Sun v100 Sparc machine I use to run my webserver and mail server at home? same stuff.
Alberta is more than 10 miles from St. John, North Dakota. You're thinking Manitoba. St. John is north of Dunseith and Belcourt ND...nowhere near Alberta. You've got a little bit of Manitoba and all of Saskatchewan before you hit Alberta.
You don't even have to look outside the US to see that spending more money on education doesn't necessarily equate to better educated kids. North Dakota and South Dakota both consistently rank high on things like test scores, graduation rates, but rank at the bottom of spending on a per pupil basis.
Also, in the US, education is mostly a state run thing. I wonder if would be more beneficial to rank the US states individually along side of countries that organize their education at the national level.
Does their use of SMS enable them to perform feats of superhuman ability? Is leading to a cure for cancer? Is it doing anything to get their northern neighbor to remove the thosands of artillery pieces pointed at their country? What?
So South Koreans need to learn patience? Maybe they need to work on their "quiet time" skills.
The knock on Sun from the financial community is that Sun *DIDN'T* get rid of their R&D during the downturn, unlike most other companies. It's obvious you know nothing of Sun. R&D investment is one thing they hung on to.
That's a great sales pitch. US: "Hey France, we want you to take on 15% of our casualties...how's about it?" France: "Let's see, currently we're taking 0% casualties and we get to pontificate about the American Pig-Dogs at our leisure...er, how about NOT."
Or not...
The failure of Congress to voice even token dissent on every foreign policy decision since 9/11 is the biggest failure of the entire system in my view. Every Congresscritter should be voted out of office and barred from even running for town dogcatcher for the rest of their miserable lives.
Half the country knows George Bush and Co. are a bunch of half-wits with their own agendas, but we deserve better from Congress. That they chose to goosestep to the White House's tune with nary a word of protest is unforgiveable.
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Sure, a closed network system outside your normal system. They're sure to stay in their little sandbox aren't they.
And even more than the Catholic Church, it was the people that were to become Brits, French and Germans. It was more of a land grab than a religious thing...sure it was cloaked in the mantle of religion, but the Crusades were essentially Europeans doing what Europeans do best...stealing other's land. They killed other Christians to get to the Holy Land, once there, they squabbled and fought amongst themselves and made alliances with the Muslims as they saw fit. Not exactly religious purists those Crusaders. The Crusades were European politics, just transported to the Holy Land.
For better or worse, the US can contemplate the use of force when dealing with other countries (Afghanistan and Iraq). They can also use diplomacy (dealing with the EU, China, NK, ..etc, etc) and go to the UN, like they are currently doing over the Sudan crisis. The US has options, Canada and New Zealand do not.
The old saying "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" is generally applied to the US in situations like this. There is another side to that coin though. "When you don't have a hammer, you do your best to pretend nails don't even exist".
The one exception would be China, who everyone from the DOD on down wants to paint as the next Big Bad (easy to justify huge budgets against the Big Bads of the world, harder to justify huge budgets when you don't have a concrete enemy). But as we all know, Clinton sold all the nuke secrets to the Chinese in the 90's. So that cat's out of the bag too. What secrets were left were probably leaked by some Opus Dei CIA nut to the Russians.
How a company acts while facing inward isn't the same thing as how it acts while facing outward.
Microsoft can be honest amongst its developers, make sure they communicate well internally and the code may be simple for them.
Saying software development should be open and honest doesn't always imply that J. Random Goober on the street should be privy to it, or even agree with it.
Have you EVER asked a Mexican if he really wants to be called 'American'? I suspect you have not. Ask a Canadian if deep down, they secretly yearn to assume the mantle of 'American'.
This was well established long, long before it became fashionable to bash American arrogance. Take Tocqueville's Democracy in America for example. No one mistakes that for writings about the entirety of N. and S. America. If a Frenchman in the 1800s can figure out what is meant by 'America', then by god so can you.
Around the world, everyone knows what is being talked about when the word American gets used. No one, except pedantic twats on the Internet, wastes more 2 milliseconds of thought over this issue. And if they did, they quickly be pissed that they'll never get those 2 milliseconds back.
Get over it and move on.
Sure, the Tartars catapulted bodies of plague victims during a seige in the 1300s. But throwing a plague victim's body is a far cry from knowing that the vector is flea-ridden rats and using the rodents instead.
Your theory falls apart when you realize that topics like germs and disease carriers and how they spread infections are relatively new.
Your rat throwing caveman was much more likely to wave a bunch of buffalo bones in the hopes that the ThunderGods would cast a hex on his enemy.
Agree or disagree with the man, he may be right, he may be wrong..time will tell, but he is anything but stupid.
No, his point was to put Bush's faith in perspective for all of the "He's a nutter...and a looney" people out there. Other Presidents have had a deep faith in a higher power and the country somehow survived. I think we'll survive GWB too.