You're right but I would suggest that regardless what happens to Scooter Libby the message has already been sent. Oppose the government and there will be consequences.
The government leads by example. If that's how they deal with dissent then the public will behave the same way.
There really is no such thing as 100% free speech. Free speech is culturally subjective.
For example, in many countries speaking out in favour of hate crimes is illegal. If speech was truly free then there would be no limitiation. Shortly after 9/11 people in the U.S., especially the media, were criticized and even punished for speaking out against the war in Iraq. Did the government defend their right to free speech? No.
A.xxx domain would have allowed countries who morally did not approve of pornography the ability to censor that material inside their own borders. I know censorship is a bad word but our society does it all the time. We don't allow hard core porn on network TV so what's wrong with giving people the ability to easily block it from coming in to their computer.
Just because you don't agree with a country's laws regarding free speech or censorship doesn't make them wrong. It just makes them different.
And who gave the U.S. the right to impose it's moral code on the rest of the world. I guess freedom is OK as long as it's the copywrited U.S. brand.
I think this battle over the DNS has been resolved for now but I don't think it's over by a long shot.
For enterprise strength app servers WebLogic and WebSphere are written in Java. Not as scalable but getting better is Tomcat also written in Java. The Java application I work on processes about 10 million transactions a week and was ported from the mainframe. The biggest porting headache was not the Java code but SQL differences between DB2 and Oracle. In terms of cost per transaction it's cheaper than many of our mainframe apps.
For development Eclipse is written in Java using SWT. Eclipse has become the new standard for open IDE tools.
Up until I lost it in a machine crash I had a Java email program program that I ran using Java 1.1 through to 1.5 on Linux, Windows and MacOS. When was the last time you had a program that didn't even need to be recompiled through 4 major operating system releases let alone as you moved it from OS to OS. Heck, with Linux a 0.0.1 change in the kernal could force a recompile.
Now, for pure number crunching Java is definitely not the right choice but most apps are not simply churning the CPU. Most real life apps also involve disk I/O, network I/O, etc. If 90% of your app is I/O then it's not going to make much of a difference what technology you use on the other 10%. So why not use Java and make it portable as well.
With Java, what you gain in portability, isolation from OS releases and a wealth of open source APIs far outweigh the less than 5% (yes it's that little) overhead that the Java runtime adds to 10% of your app.
I don't think Darwinism devalues life. Darwin's theory can be boiled down to simply survival of the fittest. The smartest, strongest and best adapted members of a species will pass their genes on to the next generation.
Of course it doesn't require a moral standard. It's a scientific theory.
Also, Darwinism has nothing to do with how the Earth came to be, random or otherwise. Darwinism addresses how things have, for lack of a better word, evolved since then. There is nothing random about natural selection.
I personally don't want the government answering to any other power than the electorate. Governments that make choices based on religious doctrine have proven time and time again that that approach breeds brutal, intolerant societies.
If the Christian fundamentalists want equal time for intelligent design in public schools then shouldn't public schools get equal time in church services for evolution?
And WHY would add a hard disk while the computer's ON?
One reason would be to add a hard disk to a server that must be up 24/7.
For a non-24/7 server it's easier and cheaper to add a hard disk to a server during normal working hours while it is in use rather than at 4:00am on Sunday morning during a regularly scheduled maintenance window.
The examples you cite are no longer the case today. Europe was able to evolve and become more civilized, why can't the US.
Canada abolished capital punishment almost 30 years ago and despite being next door to the US and having a similar culture the murder rate in Canada is dramatically lower than in the US.
According to NIST's website about their atomic clock:
The uncertainty of NIST-F1 is continually improving. In 2000 the uncertainty was about 1 x 10^-15, but as of the summer of 2005, the uncertainty has been reduced to about 5 x 10^-16, which means it would neither gain nor lose a second in more than 60 million years!
You're right, we do have to wait to see what the content providers do. At this point some of them have chosen a side and some have chosen both sides while others are still on the fence but the rubber doesn't hit the road until they actually start delivering product.
The consumer doesn't really have a choice in this. Hollywood likes the region code regardless if it makes sense or not. If HD-DVD doesn't have region codes and Blue Ray does then movies won't get released on HD-DVD and Blue Ray wins.
In this battle the tech companies have to suck up to the content providers not the consumer. The consumer will get stuck with whoever kisses Hollywood's ass the best.
NOTE: I don't know if Blue Ray actually does have support for region codes but I'm sure someone here does.
Satellite radio is not the same as analog radio. Analog radio is of lesser quality, has a relatively limited range and is not required to pay royalties or licensing fees. Satellite radio is CD or near CD quality, is continent wide and pays licensing fees.
This is no different than the way TV networks pay licensing fees for the shows that they broadcast.
What the RIAA has a problem with is the satellite radio providers giving their listeners the ability to record high quality copies of potentially hundreds of songs a month. That equates to a loss of hundreds of paid downloads for legitimate download services or dozens of CDs for brick and mortar music stores.
Nice to meet you. I'm Randy Flocker and these are my cousins Orny Flocker and Dumb Flocker. Of course you've probably met my sister the nun, Mother Flocker.
How about a Client Server Word processor, with the ability to check out chapters, a central indexing application, centrally contolled template library, and library access contol and centralised reporting on who has opened and editing documents.
It's been around for over a decade. It's called Lotus Notes.
He uses the same name, the same premise, the same look and the same behaviour. Sounds like a copyright violation to me and probably every lawyer out there.
Stallman is just pissed that people feel the Linux name is worth misusing to the point that Linus feels he has to protect it while the GNU name doesn't have enough perceived value to misuse.
When I was in university (1985-88) I worked in the computer lab and my buddy and I were asked to take a look at one of the secretary's PC that had a floppy drive that was acting up.
Rather than try to diagnose the problem at her desk we usually just replaced the drive and checked it out back at the lab. We removed the existing drive and plugged in the replacement. Because the floppy mounting was rather tedious we didn't completely mount it until we were sure it worked so my buddy held on to it while I powered up the machine.
Now what I haven't mentioned was that the power plugs in this particular brand of PC did not have a "notch" on them like modern PCs and we weren't paying attention to it so when we plugged in the drive we put the power plug on backwards.
When we powered up the machine smoke began pouring out of the floppy drive as my friend began screaming, "Turn it off, turn it off!".
When we realized our mistake we got a new drive and installed it correctly. When we left, the secretary (already cautious of computers) was now almost terrified by the PC on her desk.
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Just another case where people won't take personal responsibility and want someone else to pay for it.
On a slightly related note, it's nice to see that western society has successfully exported nuisance lawsuits to China.
You're right but I would suggest that regardless what happens to Scooter Libby the message has already been sent. Oppose the government and there will be consequences.
The government leads by example. If that's how they deal with dissent then the public will behave the same way.
How about "leaking" the name of a covert CIA operative 8 days after her husband questioned the rationale for the invasion/occupation of Iraq.
The criticism was not silenced but it certainly was punished. And I bet the next person thought twice about it.
The government is responsible for not only living up to the law of the land but also to enforce them.
There really is no such thing as 100% free speech. Free speech is culturally subjective.
.xxx domain would have allowed countries who morally did not approve of pornography the ability to censor that material inside their own borders. I know censorship is a bad word but our society does it all the time. We don't allow hard core porn on network TV so what's wrong with giving people the ability to easily block it from coming in to their computer.
For example, in many countries speaking out in favour of hate crimes is illegal. If speech was truly free then there would be no limitiation. Shortly after 9/11 people in the U.S., especially the media, were criticized and even punished for speaking out against the war in Iraq. Did the government defend their right to free speech? No.
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Just because you don't agree with a country's laws regarding free speech or censorship doesn't make them wrong. It just makes them different.
And who gave the U.S. the right to impose it's moral code on the rest of the world. I guess freedom is OK as long as it's the copywrited U.S. brand.
I think this battle over the DNS has been resolved for now but I don't think it's over by a long shot.
Metric dates use the Julian date to identify the day of the year. Stardates dont't.
Screw metric time. I'm switching to stardates.
For enterprise strength app servers WebLogic and WebSphere are written in Java. Not as scalable but getting better is Tomcat also written in Java. The Java application I work on processes about 10 million transactions a week and was ported from the mainframe. The biggest porting headache was not the Java code but SQL differences between DB2 and Oracle. In terms of cost per transaction it's cheaper than many of our mainframe apps.
For development Eclipse is written in Java using SWT. Eclipse has become the new standard for open IDE tools.
Up until I lost it in a machine crash I had a Java email program program that I ran using Java 1.1 through to 1.5 on Linux, Windows and MacOS. When was the last time you had a program that didn't even need to be recompiled through 4 major operating system releases let alone as you moved it from OS to OS. Heck, with Linux a 0.0.1 change in the kernal could force a recompile.
Now, for pure number crunching Java is definitely not the right choice but most apps are not simply churning the CPU. Most real life apps also involve disk I/O, network I/O, etc. If 90% of your app is I/O then it's not going to make much of a difference what technology you use on the other 10%. So why not use Java and make it portable as well.
With Java, what you gain in portability, isolation from OS releases and a wealth of open source APIs far outweigh the less than 5% (yes it's that little) overhead that the Java runtime adds to 10% of your app.
I don't think Darwinism devalues life. Darwin's theory can be boiled down to simply survival of the fittest. The smartest, strongest and best adapted members of a species will pass their genes on to the next generation.
Of course it doesn't require a moral standard. It's a scientific theory.
Also, Darwinism has nothing to do with how the Earth came to be, random or otherwise. Darwinism addresses how things have, for lack of a better word, evolved since then. There is nothing random about natural selection.
I personally don't want the government answering to any other power than the electorate. Governments that make choices based on religious doctrine have proven time and time again that that approach breeds brutal, intolerant societies.
If the Christian fundamentalists want equal time for intelligent design in public schools then shouldn't public schools get equal time in church services for evolution?
One reason would be to add a hard disk to a server that must be up 24/7.
For a non-24/7 server it's easier and cheaper to add a hard disk to a server during normal working hours while it is in use rather than at 4:00am on Sunday morning during a regularly scheduled maintenance window.
Sure Microsoft ripped off Java (which ripped off C and Smalltalk) but Micorsoft Bob was all theirs.
The examples you cite are no longer the case today. Europe was able to evolve and become more civilized, why can't the US.
Canada abolished capital punishment almost 30 years ago and despite being next door to the US and having a similar culture the murder rate in Canada is dramatically lower than in the US.
A bit more accurate than 10-9 sec/day
If you blocked your dogs' RFID tags and they turned out to be Al Qaeda operatives then you could be arrested for helping to conceal them.
You're right, we do have to wait to see what the content providers do. At this point some of them have chosen a side and some have chosen both sides while others are still on the fence but the rubber doesn't hit the road until they actually start delivering product.
The consumer doesn't really have a choice in this. Hollywood likes the region code regardless if it makes sense or not. If HD-DVD doesn't have region codes and Blue Ray does then movies won't get released on HD-DVD and Blue Ray wins.
In this battle the tech companies have to suck up to the content providers not the consumer. The consumer will get stuck with whoever kisses Hollywood's ass the best.
NOTE: I don't know if Blue Ray actually does have support for region codes but I'm sure someone here does.
Satellite radio is not the same as analog radio. Analog radio is of lesser quality, has a relatively limited range and is not required to pay royalties or licensing fees. Satellite radio is CD or near CD quality, is continent wide and pays licensing fees.
This is no different than the way TV networks pay licensing fees for the shows that they broadcast.
What the RIAA has a problem with is the satellite radio providers giving their listeners the ability to record high quality copies of potentially hundreds of songs a month. That equates to a loss of hundreds of paid downloads for legitimate download services or dozens of CDs for brick and mortar music stores.
I knew someone would get the Spaceballs reference.
Would that be raspberry jam?
Nice to meet you. I'm Randy Flocker and these are my cousins Orny Flocker and Dumb Flocker. Of course you've probably met my sister the nun, Mother Flocker.
How about a Client Server Word processor, with the ability to check out chapters, a central indexing application, centrally contolled template library, and library access contol and centralised reporting on who has opened and editing documents.
It's been around for over a decade. It's called Lotus Notes.
I've had a Tomcat server running for up to 5 months. The only time I restart it is when I make certain changes to the configuration that require it.
He uses the same name, the same premise, the same look and the same behaviour. Sounds like a copyright violation to me and probably every lawyer out there.
Stallman is just pissed that people feel the Linux name is worth misusing to the point that Linus feels he has to protect it while the GNU name doesn't have enough perceived value to misuse.
That's not to say the GNU project has no value.
When I was in university (1985-88) I worked in the computer lab and my buddy and I were asked to take a look at one of the secretary's PC that had a floppy drive that was acting up.
Rather than try to diagnose the problem at her desk we usually just replaced the drive and checked it out back at the lab. We removed the existing drive and plugged in the replacement. Because the floppy mounting was rather tedious we didn't completely mount it until we were sure it worked so my buddy held on to it while I powered up the machine.
Now what I haven't mentioned was that the power plugs in this particular brand of PC did not have a "notch" on them like modern PCs and we weren't paying attention to it so when we plugged in the drive we put the power plug on backwards.
When we powered up the machine smoke began pouring out of the floppy drive as my friend began screaming, "Turn it off, turn it off!".
When we realized our mistake we got a new drive and installed it correctly. When we left, the secretary (already cautious of computers) was now almost terrified by the PC on her desk.
Actually I'm glad that it was generated. I would hate to think there was someone out there who actually thought that way.
By the way, thanks for the link. It should come in handy.