If Dubya had been president, he would have Nuked Iran or Iraq for the USS Cole bombing instead of hunting them down in Kenya, etc.
That's why voted for Dubya. If anything, he should have nuked Baghdad, Tripoli, and Kandahar after 9/11. When one of your enemies attacks you, you really have to go after them all, innocent or not.
Chirac's opposition to the war is not really the French issue with we right wingers. Chirac using France and Europe as a counterpoint to American power is. In other words, Chirac sees France as the leader of an opposition to the United States simply for the sake of opposing it.
Chirac made numerous trips around the world decrying everything about American culture and as a consequence, the American people, and he's attempted to rally the world to his vision of France as the leader of a block standing against the American "threat". If he wants to view the USA as a threat, that's fine by him, but you can't honestly say France is a friend to the United States for painting us that way.
Thus, we on the right believe that to say the USA has alienated our "French ally" has missed the point. France is not our ally. She's a "friendly" rival because she wants to be, and I just don't see a reason why the United States needs to kiss up to France if France is going to be so petulant.
The widespread adoption of programmer testing over the past five years has been driven by the demonstrable productivity and quality of the resulting code
The quality of software has been continually declining for the last decade, I think. If anything, we're just better at teaching users to avoid things that don't work.
In the shootout, what are they comparing. Actually, why is C++ slower than C? I know that going through virtual methods will always be slower than straight up function calls, but what else is going on in there?
First off, computers are communications devices and everyone has a need to communicate...
If you have the right software on it... like, "how do I nurse my sick farm animal back to health. My kid has this or that symptoms, should I take him or her to the doctor.... show me how to make better tools for myself."
Sure, people doing "real" work don't need to worry if their presentation supports 34 or 75 chart types, but, you know, if someone in the third world sells their produce directly on ebay, they wouldn't have to go through a buyer or agent from the USA trying to cash in.
Free trade would actually work in that case, rather than making Walmart compounds everywhere.
I'm saying that it is a two way street. Americans follow what is going on in Europe more than they ever have before, thanks to the Internet and talk Radio. It used to be that in the 1970s and 1980s a German or French head of state could trash the USA and our USA news would overlook it as local politics. Today, that all winds up back on this side of the Atlantic.
A great example of this was Chirac's trip to Asia, where he just trashed America in a speech really meant for Asian consumption only. Within 2 hours of its delivery, drudgereport had it, then, it was all over the internet right wing sites, such as Free Republic, alt.politics. The next day, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity commented on it as well, offering that as proof that the French are partners that cannot be trusted because they really are out to get us. In short, remarks such as the kind Chirac makes tend to help right leaning base firm itself up in light of left wing criticism that we are not accomodating enough as a nation. The lefties say, "we should be nicer to the French", and I say, "why, they are out to get us, here is what Chirac said."
Finally, the mainstream American media: CNN, NBC, etc, aired none of it, further reinforcing the perception of the American center - right that the media is against the USA.
You run around telling everyone on the planet that Americans are dangerous, and we yankees look at people like you and say, see, there's proof that the world hates us. Screw them!
Even though American mainstream media did not run stories of Chirac's Asia trip and his continual insults of the United States, the conservative press picked up on it and it was everywhere. Same deal with Shroeder.
Europeans cannot condemn the United States in local politics and then pretend they are our allies on the world stage. We know who our friends are, and if we do not have any, then so be it.
Yeah, but the problem with paper votes is that they are easily fraudable. All I have to do is have my vote counters damage the ballots of my opponent and they will become rejected. I can do this in any way, by making an extra mark (voting twice invalidates), by accidentally ripping one, etc.
The powers that be that are arguing against electronic voting are basically arguing to keep the old games in check. They will use the paper trail to trump the more accurate results of the machine and have something to manipulate and anyone that believes otherwise is a moron.
Theoretically, we only -think- that somebody can't factor large numbers quickly, but it is has not actually been proven that this is the case. So even without quantum computing, one could still invent the algorithm that does fast factoring and then the world would change.. cause if you can do fast factoring, then a whole class of problems would be solvable more quickly.
Once someone builds a quantum computer, and of course, we know that people can build them, then, its obvious that all combinatorial based encryption schemes are doomed and should not be used. The internet as we know it is dead and its time to get over it and figure out where to go next.
I don't see why IPV6 needs to have 128 bits for addresses. You can tag every atom in the universe with its own IPV6 address. Why not do something simple like just have every segment of TCP be a 16 bit value instead of a byte? That way you could have 12312.2342.121212.3423 as a valid network address, and, 2^64 addresses out to be enough for anybody...
Or how about Syria? Geez, even China is censoring everything. For all the other faults of the USA, we're pretty good about letting people have their say, even under this administration. How many other countries let their people write what is written about Bush or Clinton for their own leaders?
>If the government funded some development, they would have no reason to utter phrases such as the following in planning >meetings:
They would have -every- reason...
> * Forget the bugs, we have to get this out in time for (Christmas rush, tax season, whatever)
Forget the bugs, we have to get this out in time for the congressional budget review.
> * Once we get their money, then we'll work on fixing the bugs
Once congress gives us more money, then we'll fix all the bugs. We need more people.
> * Let's push the release up to ahead of our competitor's product to eat into their sales > * Let's wait until after our competitor releases their product since ours is better.
Someone else making software is draining money away from public software, so lets legislate to stop them.
Either that, or Ginsburg's Word keeps crashing, Thomas's spell check doesn't work....
Pay up MS.
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>People are so wrapped up in how Uncle Sam will protect us >from the terrorists that they forget to ask the question >that's much more important: Who will protect us from Uncle >Sam?
That's why you have to vote for massive tax and program cuts. A small government is a powerless one. Get rid of the entitlements, the discretionary spending, and leave just a smaller military, and you won't have to fear government so much simply because it won't have money to act.
Every release of Visual Studio means we wind up using Google more and more for help. If -that- is the shape of things to come from Microsoft, I can readily envision an MS search engine with a very cool u/i that doesn't let you find anything at all.
The Congress did declare war twice, when it authorized first the invasion of any country known to harbor Al Qaeda shortly after 9/11, then, the invasion of Iraq. Both votes are defacto declarations of war.
For long space voyages, a lesson from the past is in order to preserve crew discipline. Consider how the British did it, when ships were at sea for months at a time, there was no radio or niceties that we live with.
a) The Captain rules the ship with an iron fist and has a compliment of marines to back him up.
b) The crew is fairly well paid, is issued a bit of a booze ration, but does exactly what the Captain says or they are whipped or thrown out the airlock.
Apple was the original personal computer darling and Jobs played a big role behind that. Apple has long been a media favorite for doing things their way and bucking the Microsoft wave.
Everyone already knows about Windows, its not something to love, its sorta, you have it, like the electric company. MS gets its press releases but everyone figures out the story sooner or later so if you are going to report, report on Apple and Linux and what's going on out there in the world beyond "the utility."
>. But the problem with your plan, which they'd favor, is that >emphasizing the sink now more than the emissions would pass all that >pollutiuon through the atmosphere
That's all well and good, but, controlling emissions != controlling the atmosphere, unless you can control all of the emissions from everything everywhere, which is just silly. It seems it ought to be much easier to have a few manmade places on earth that just clean the air out, regardless of the source.
I actually think the USA should make such machines, and then charge the world for the carbon it removes.
The whole IPV6 scheme blows chunks. I used to be able to type 124.23.11.222, or something like it, and I'd enter four numbers to represent my lot of a few billion addresses. Even 124.23.11.222.234.122 would be managable and that would provide 65k x 4 billion addresses, which ought to be enough for everyone. But IPV6 addresses look aweful. They really do.
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If Dubya had been president, he would have Nuked Iran or Iraq for the USS Cole bombing instead of hunting them down in Kenya, etc.
That's why voted for Dubya. If anything, he should have nuked Baghdad, Tripoli, and Kandahar after 9/11. When one of your enemies attacks you, you really have to go after them all, innocent or not.
Chirac's opposition to the war is not really the French issue with we right wingers. Chirac using France and Europe as a counterpoint to American power is. In other words, Chirac sees France as the leader of an opposition to the United States simply for the sake of opposing it.
Chirac made numerous trips around the world decrying everything about American culture and as a consequence, the American people, and he's attempted to rally the world to his vision of France as the leader of a block standing against the American "threat". If he wants to view the USA as a threat, that's fine by him, but you can't honestly say France is a friend to the United States for painting us that way.
Thus, we on the right believe that to say the USA has alienated our "French ally" has missed the point. France is not our ally. She's a "friendly" rival because she wants to be, and I just don't see a reason why the United States needs to kiss up to France if France is going to be so petulant.
I ran Windows XP 64 bit and it was series of never ending disasters. Best of all was having to dredge up a floppy drive to get SATA support.
The widespread adoption of programmer testing over the past five years has been driven by the demonstrable productivity and quality of the resulting code
The quality of software has been continually declining for the last decade, I think. If anything, we're just better at teaching users to avoid things that don't work.
In the shootout, what are they comparing. Actually, why is C++ slower than C? I know that going through virtual methods will always be slower than straight up function calls, but what else is going on in there?
First off, computers are communications devices and everyone has a need to communicate...
If you have the right software on it... like, "how do I nurse my sick farm animal back to health. My kid has this or that symptoms, should I take him or her to the doctor.... show me how to make better tools for myself."
Sure, people doing "real" work don't need to worry if their presentation supports 34 or 75 chart types, but, you know, if someone in the third world sells their produce directly on ebay, they wouldn't have to go through a buyer or agent from the USA trying to cash in.
Free trade would actually work in that case, rather than making Walmart compounds everywhere.
I'm saying that it is a two way street. Americans follow what is going on in Europe more than they ever have before, thanks to the Internet and talk Radio. It used to be that in the 1970s and 1980s a German or French head of state could trash the USA and our USA news would overlook it as local politics. Today, that all winds up back on this side of the Atlantic.
A great example of this was Chirac's trip to Asia, where he just trashed America in a speech really meant for Asian consumption only. Within 2 hours of its delivery, drudgereport had it, then, it was all over the internet right wing sites, such as Free Republic, alt.politics. The next day, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity commented on it as well, offering that as proof that the French are partners that cannot be trusted because they really are out to get us. In short, remarks such as the kind Chirac makes tend to help right leaning base firm itself up in light of left wing criticism that we are not accomodating enough as a nation. The lefties say, "we should be nicer to the French", and I say, "why, they are out to get us, here is what Chirac said."
Finally, the mainstream American media: CNN, NBC, etc, aired none of it, further reinforcing the perception of the American center - right that the media is against the USA.
You run around telling everyone on the planet that Americans are dangerous, and we yankees look at people like you and say, see, there's proof that the world hates us. Screw them!
Even though American mainstream media did not run stories of Chirac's Asia trip and his continual insults of the United States, the conservative press picked up on it and it was everywhere. Same deal with Shroeder.
Europeans cannot condemn the United States in local politics and then pretend they are our allies on the world stage. We know who our friends are, and if we do not have any, then so be it.
Yeah, but the problem with paper votes is that they are easily fraudable. All I have to do is have my vote counters damage the ballots of my opponent and they will become rejected. I can do this in any way, by making an extra mark (voting twice invalidates), by accidentally ripping one, etc.
The powers that be that are arguing against electronic voting are basically arguing to keep the old games in check. They will use the paper trail to trump the more accurate results of the machine and have something to manipulate and anyone that believes otherwise is a moron.
Theoretically, we only -think- that somebody can't factor large numbers quickly, but it is has not actually been proven that this is the case. So even without quantum computing, one could still invent the algorithm that does fast factoring and then the world would change.. cause if you can do fast factoring, then a whole class of problems would be solvable more quickly.
Once someone builds a quantum computer, and of course, we know that people can build them, then, its obvious that all combinatorial based encryption schemes are doomed and should not be used. The internet as we know it is dead and its time to get over it and figure out where to go next.
Yeah I got a little zealous typing in 1's and 2's really fast and when I hit send, I was like "doh!"
I don't see why IPV6 needs to have 128 bits for addresses. You can tag every atom in the universe with its own IPV6 address. Why not do something simple like just have every segment of TCP be a 16 bit value instead of a byte? That way you could have 12312.2342.121212.3423 as a valid network address, and, 2^64 addresses out to be enough for anybody...
Or how about Syria? Geez, even China is censoring everything. For all the other faults of the USA, we're pretty good about letting people have their say, even under this administration. How many other countries let their people write what is written about Bush or Clinton for their own leaders?
>If the government funded some development, they would have no reason to utter phrases such as the following in planning >meetings:
They would have -every- reason...
> * Forget the bugs, we have to get this out in time for (Christmas rush, tax season, whatever)
Forget the bugs, we have to get this out in time for the congressional budget review.
> * Once we get their money, then we'll work on fixing the bugs
Once congress gives us more money, then we'll fix all the bugs. We need more people.
> * Let's push the release up to ahead of our competitor's product to eat into their sales
> * Let's wait until after our competitor releases their product since ours is better.
Someone else making software is draining money away from public software, so lets legislate to stop them.
Either that, or Ginsburg's Word keeps crashing, Thomas's spell check doesn't work....
Pay up MS.
>People are so wrapped up in how Uncle Sam will protect us >from the terrorists that they forget to ask the question >that's much more important: Who will protect us from Uncle >Sam?
That's why you have to vote for massive tax and program cuts. A small government is a powerless one. Get rid of the entitlements, the discretionary spending, and leave just a smaller military, and you won't have to fear government so much simply because it won't have money to act.
Every release of Visual Studio means we wind up using Google more and more for help. If -that- is the shape of things to come from Microsoft, I can readily envision an MS search engine with a very cool u/i that doesn't let you find anything at all.
The Congress did declare war twice, when it authorized first the invasion of any country known to harbor Al Qaeda shortly after 9/11, then, the invasion of Iraq. Both votes are defacto declarations of war.
For long space voyages, a lesson from the past is in order to preserve crew discipline. Consider how the British did it, when ships were at sea for months at a time, there was no radio or niceties that we live with.
a) The Captain rules the ship with an iron fist and has a compliment of marines to back him up.
b) The crew is fairly well paid, is issued a bit of a booze ration, but does exactly what the Captain says or they are whipped or thrown out the airlock.
This model did take over the world, you know.
Apple was the original personal computer darling and Jobs played a big role behind that. Apple has long been a media favorite for doing things their way and bucking the Microsoft wave.
Everyone already knows about Windows, its not something to love, its sorta, you have it, like the electric company. MS gets its press releases but everyone figures out the story sooner or later so if you are going to report, report on Apple and Linux and what's going on out there in the world beyond "the utility."
One wonders how many Microsoft developers are bailing because they are sick of the increasing lack of creative room under Herr Ballmer.
>. But the problem with your plan, which they'd favor, is that >emphasizing the sink now more than the emissions would pass all that >pollutiuon through the atmosphere
That's all well and good, but, controlling emissions != controlling the atmosphere, unless you can control all of the emissions from everything everywhere, which is just silly. It seems it ought to be much easier to have a few manmade places on earth that just clean the air out, regardless of the source.
I actually think the USA should make such machines, and then charge the world for the carbon it removes.
The whole IPV6 scheme blows chunks. I used to be able to type 124.23.11.222, or something like it, and I'd enter four numbers to represent my lot of a few billion addresses. Even 124.23.11.222.234.122 would be managable and that would provide 65k x 4 billion addresses, which ought to be enough for everyone. But IPV6 addresses look aweful. They really do.
You tell a newbie to open up a configuration file to edit it, and the next thing you know, you get a litany of disasters because the editor itself is a pain.