Considering the volume of air traffic between Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, it is entirely possible that this was simply the first step in his travel plans.
Yep, a large proportion of the asylum seekers and refugees from the middle east that eventually make it to NZ come through Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur being one of the major air hubs between NZ and the rest of the world.
Star Wars Episode IV was told without "fancy effects",
Really? Star Wars special effects were about as fancy as effects got in the 70s.
Most other films of the time compared badly. The Star Wars "making of" documentaries were both popular and fascinating because people really did want to see how those fancy new effects were made.
MAPI? MAPI was 'deemphasised' in Exchange 2007 and I think actually deprecated in Exchange 2010.
Writing MAPI clients these days is wasted effort considering even MS wants to move away from it. The Gnome Evolution connectors have shifted away from the original OWA based version (for Exchange 2000/2003) as well as the MAPI version (for Exchange 2007) to concentrate on a new web services one for Exchange 2010 onwards.
Also I seem to recall that if your Exchange server predates Exchange Web Services (eg 2003 and earlier), those older versions bundled Outlook licenses with the Exchange CALs anyway.
Republic has all kinds of definitions. one of the broadest/loosest definitions just means a country not headed by a monarch. Which is orthogonal to whether a country is democratic or not.
eg there are totalitarian undemocratic republics as well as democratic republics, and democratic countries than aren't republics.
And for another example the debate for Australia becoming a republic is centered around not having a monarch as head of state any more. That mostly symbolic change would have very little effect on the actual structure and workings of the existing Australian democratic system.
If the are so evil, why did the US help them getting power?
The US didn't directly help the Taliban. They and Pakistan supported the general decentralised grass roots resistance to the Soviet invasion. After the USSR pulled out (Mission Accomplished!) a civil war started between lots of factions, and the US dropped the problem in Pakistans lap. The Taliban was just one extra zealous faction that sprung up and ended up taking over most of the country by the mid 90s - other warlords (eg the Northern Alliance) still controlled some areas.
Quite some time had passed between the Soviets (and the US) pulling out and the Taliban taking over Kabul. Pakistan was just happy to have some stability next door for a while.
Since when does the US government limit itself to doing what it can afford? Look at the debt levels now and tell me that the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were affordable.
They thought they were affordable - they just had huge budget, schedule and political blowouts due to unrealistic naive expectations.
As for North Korea and Iran - they know they can't afford those ones (well at least they know for sure now). Hence not really trying to jump into something big there.
To me that comment read like "affordable" wasn't just referring to money.
Tomcat is absolutely garbage. I think it has to boot the whole JVM to serve up your one file.
No. When Tomcat starts up, that's your JVM boot right there. It stays running until you stop Tomcat. All the apps and files served by that Tomcat instance are served using the same JVM process. It will spawn extra threads for extra connections when required though.
In fact most other web stuff uses a long running process like that. It's mostly only CGI or 'CGI-like' configurations and PHP that work by starting up from scratch for each request.
That and because it's too expensive to lose. In real terms, a single F-22 probably costs about the same as a dozen squadrons of Spitfires did in WWII.
Well that is the cost side of the equation. As for the benefit side: one single F-22 will never have the same critical importance to the defense and security of the US as a dozen squadrons of Spitfires did to the UK in 1940.
Also, I wonder how the pilot training costs compare between the two as well - after all from what I've heard that winning the Battle of Britain (for both sides) was more about not running out of fully trained aircrew rather than not running out of aircraft.
I seem to remember IE3 being one of the first if not the first browsers to have any kind of CSS support (which of course was pretty limited and nobody used it back then anyway). But yeah it was worse than Netscape 3 in about every other way.
As you say though - the tables were turned (no pun intended) with IE4 and 5. Netscape 4 seriously overstayed its welcome. It was the equivalent of IE6 around 10-12yrs ago.
Civil engineering is "engineering" in the same way political science is "science". (It's not.)
Do go on...
I'm curious as to how this great deception that has been done to to the general public. Those dastardly civil engineers have managed to get their blasphemy taught in actual engineering schools alongside other forms of engineering - even being taught a lot of the same common subjects as other engineers and shockingly ending up with the same degrees. They have managed to infiltrate and even head professional engineering bodies in quite a few countries.
I've worked for a company that mandated irrevocably deleting emails as soon as legally possible. Why? "One email, a SINGLE email, can make the difference between a multi million dollar lawsuit..."
The thing I find telling about this corporate culture is that they think that any random old email is far more likely to be incriminating rather than something that absolves them.
If Israel is not the US's friend, then who is, exactly?
I'm struggling to think of any other close US allies that have caused the US so much pain or that have been as able to or willing to try and manipulate and take advantage of the US (or their other allies) so much.
Just a hypothetical and probably pointless exercise in gauging US self interest...
Would the US have been better off over the last 60 or so years without having Israel as an ally? Would the US have been able to have better influence over the rest of the region otherwise?
Going back 60 something years, knowing what it knows now, would the US have allied itself with Israel in the first place?
I dare say that without Israel the big bad US would find itself either lonely or fraternizing with scoundrels.
Didn't that happen anyway? While we're talking hypothetically, it could even be argued that without Israel the US could have had more friends and less need to befriend scoundrels.
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Yep, a large proportion of the asylum seekers and refugees from the middle east that eventually make it to NZ come through Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur being one of the major air hubs between NZ and the rest of the world.
For most, yes. Like it was for example Avatar and Jurassic Park.
And LOTR too - generally mainstream audiences don't flock to space or fantasy movies unless they are some sort of breakthrough in special effects.
I haven't actually seen them, but I reckon (as you suspect) it's misplaced nerd rage stemming from Lucas breaking their rose tinted glasses.
Really? Star Wars special effects were about as fancy as effects got in the 70s.
Most other films of the time compared badly. The Star Wars "making of" documentaries were both popular and fascinating because people really did want to see how those fancy new effects were made.
I agree with your post, but just have to point out that Ruby and Python are actually class based rather than prototype based like Javascript is.
Sure it does. It tells us that more developers are now able or willing to work on LibreOffice and that the fork is working.
It tells us that the development community is growing and and momentum is building after stagnating under the watch of Sun and Oracle.
Surely a growing active community is better than a shrinking and stagnating one?
MAPI? MAPI was 'deemphasised' in Exchange 2007 and I think actually deprecated in Exchange 2010.
Writing MAPI clients these days is wasted effort considering even MS wants to move away from it. The Gnome Evolution connectors have shifted away from the original OWA based version (for Exchange 2000/2003) as well as the MAPI version (for Exchange 2007) to concentrate on a new web services one for Exchange 2010 onwards.
Also I seem to recall that if your Exchange server predates Exchange Web Services (eg 2003 and earlier), those older versions bundled Outlook licenses with the Exchange CALs anyway.
My favourite bit was this...
"...as did e-commerce skills like JavaScript, Joomla, and VBScript."
huh?
Isn't the difference between a year and a century 2 orders of magnitude rather than 3?
Yeah if I was killed by a lightning strike (or a natural disaster of some kind) I don't think I'd describe it as natural causes.
If anyone knows that, he would. Anonymous Coward has been here longer than anyone else!
Republic has all kinds of definitions. one of the broadest/loosest definitions just means a country not headed by a monarch. Which is orthogonal to whether a country is democratic or not.
eg there are totalitarian undemocratic republics as well as democratic republics, and democratic countries than aren't republics.
And for another example the debate for Australia becoming a republic is centered around not having a monarch as head of state any more. That mostly symbolic change would have very little effect on the actual structure and workings of the existing Australian democratic system.
The US didn't directly help the Taliban. They and Pakistan supported the general decentralised grass roots resistance to the Soviet invasion. After the USSR pulled out (Mission Accomplished!) a civil war started between lots of factions, and the US dropped the problem in Pakistans lap. The Taliban was just one extra zealous faction that sprung up and ended up taking over most of the country by the mid 90s - other warlords (eg the Northern Alliance) still controlled some areas.
Quite some time had passed between the Soviets (and the US) pulling out and the Taliban taking over Kabul. Pakistan was just happy to have some stability next door for a while.
They thought they were affordable - they just had huge budget, schedule and political blowouts due to unrealistic naive expectations.
As for North Korea and Iran - they know they can't afford those ones (well at least they know for sure now). Hence not really trying to jump into something big there.
To me that comment read like "affordable" wasn't just referring to money.
No. When Tomcat starts up, that's your JVM boot right there. It stays running until you stop Tomcat. All the apps and files served by that Tomcat instance are served using the same JVM process. It will spawn extra threads for extra connections when required though.
In fact most other web stuff uses a long running process like that. It's mostly only CGI or 'CGI-like' configurations and PHP that work by starting up from scratch for each request.
But yeah, nginx is great :)
Well that is the cost side of the equation. As for the benefit side: one single F-22 will never have the same critical importance to the defense and security of the US as a dozen squadrons of Spitfires did to the UK in 1940.
Also, I wonder how the pilot training costs compare between the two as well - after all from what I've heard that winning the Battle of Britain (for both sides) was more about not running out of fully trained aircrew rather than not running out of aircraft.
I seem to remember IE3 being one of the first if not the first browsers to have any kind of CSS support (which of course was pretty limited and nobody used it back then anyway). But yeah it was worse than Netscape 3 in about every other way.
As you say though - the tables were turned (no pun intended) with IE4 and 5. Netscape 4 seriously overstayed its welcome. It was the equivalent of IE6 around 10-12yrs ago.
What if you live in a houseboat near an airport?
Do go on...
I'm curious as to how this great deception that has been done to to the general public. Those dastardly civil engineers have managed to get their blasphemy taught in actual engineering schools alongside other forms of engineering - even being taught a lot of the same common subjects as other engineers and shockingly ending up with the same degrees. They have managed to infiltrate and even head professional engineering bodies in quite a few countries.
How have they managed to pull this off?
The thing I find telling about this corporate culture is that they think that any random old email is far more likely to be incriminating rather than something that absolves them.
I know a chunk of pure(ish) Lithium metal and water make a fun reaction, but is the Lithium in a battery in that kind of form?
I'm curious.
Why exactly?
What would your life have been like otherwise? Would the US now be more like eg Australia instead?
Frankly these days I'm struggling to see how that exactly would be a tragedy for your rights and freedoms.
Nitpick: The US successfully sued MS and won. What they failed to do was actually punish them.
She refers to herself as "massive ordnance"?!? Yikes.
I'm struggling to think of any other close US allies that have caused the US so much pain or that have been as able to or willing to try and manipulate and take advantage of the US (or their other allies) so much.
Just a hypothetical and probably pointless exercise in gauging US self interest...
Would the US have been better off over the last 60 or so years without having Israel as an ally? Would the US have been able to have better influence over the rest of the region otherwise?
Going back 60 something years, knowing what it knows now, would the US have allied itself with Israel in the first place?
Didn't that happen anyway? While we're talking hypothetically, it could even be argued that without Israel the US could have had more friends and less need to befriend scoundrels.
Is HTML5 (or Flash for that matter) just about streaming video in your world?