basically they're saying: "it's free as long as you don't package it".
Heuristic to watch war movies
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Review: U-571
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The heuristic that was previously employed when deciding to see an US warmovie:
if(film.countryoforigin == "U.S."){
fprintf(stderr, "\t Buggers, bound for disappointment\n");
if(film.subtitle == "Based on a true story"){
fprintf(stderr, "\t Historical Inaccurate and U.S. egoboasting film, consider renting The_Postman\n");
if (film.credit == "In Memory of all the American Heroes that did this or that\n"){
fprintf(stderr, "\t Danger Danger\n);
exit(-1);
}
} }
has been optimised over the last decade: if(film.countryoforigin == "U.S."){
fprintf(stderr,"\t Don't Bother\n");
exit(-100); }
Dunno about all the businesses, but putting it like that is a bit too strong. I know of a large technical information that automatically send back the documents in M$ format with the notice that they should send it in something generally readeble like pdf.
The guy assured me that companies do this only once and from then on use the pdf html or...
Okay, it's very expensive, and most ppl will just not be interested to do this. But there are quite a number of people that dream to go to space, but for one or another reason, could never get there. After all, not all ppl have the inclination to join the military for X year in order to get a very small chance at chance to the training... Let's not even talk about nationalities and politics... At least those people now have a chance at making their dream come true and it's only a feather on the Russians cap that they are the ones implementing it first. With the US, Russia, EU, India and Japan already out there (I must be forgetting some), others are bound to join too. This can only be a good idea to make space interesting again (and let's hope they'll stop bombing each other to hell while humanity has a new challenge).:wq
This series reminds me of a BBC series from a couple of years ago: "silent witness". Even though I like that one better, CSI is enjoyable,... Since quality is difficult to find in today's television series, I will not use the word "rip-off" in this context,...
We have fission reactors, not fusion reactors. AFAIK are the fusion reators on te brink of being put to commercial use in Europe... Weren't they building a first test reactor that would produce more fusion energy than it was consuming for the startup?
Because the ppl in the study seemed to live longer when they were sleeping only 7h, this doesn't mean that they live longer because they sleep only 7h.
The need for long nightrest might be an indication for an underlying disorder that caused the shorter lifespan and that is harder to pinpoint....
Very good that ID still spends time to port their magnificent games to Linux.
I hope they continue to do so, because there deffinately is a public for Linux fps.
And as long as they do so, I'll continue to buy their games and love playing them.
I just hope that if they release a Linux release of one of their future games, they
don't wait months to release it after the win32 version.
I definately think this unfairly skewed the distribution. I for one bought a win32 version but only played it in Linux.
Same goes for RTCW, only a pitty of the packaging system,...
> My guess is that the most creative software
> opportunities will remain in the US for some time,
> and the more routine development efforts will
> continue to be transfered overseas
hm, and cleverly used disinformation by the press can be used for bringing down enterprised with key-technology that is not US based. But then again, that's hard to prove once the damage is done...
It's just that some events in the last years made us think a bit more along these lines,...
I personally think that the idea of of "souvereignty" of a country is the basis of the French sueing Yahoo is completely wrong. It obviously nothing more than a attempt to censorship, in this case not the press, but yahoo.
If this would be extended, then China would, for example, be able to force the other countries to censor their news, because it would not stroke with the "countries souvereignty and is able to be seen in China via satellite.
Even more, a news-paper stand would have to ask every chinese-looking person if they are Chinese or not.
Absurd.
If France is so concerned about the memorabilia, then, in my view, THEY should block the content, installing something of a great french firewall.
I'm even wondering about the legislation: (I think we all can assume that the Judges and 'experts', that pass laws are always running behind the reality)
1. who would they think that would enforce something as volatile as information (because the offering of memorabilia is just information, is it not).
2. if a company is UK based, and a US citizen does a transaction: on which legislation is the transaction subject to?
Personally, I don't think the internet should be limited at all (yes, I know about the questionable content sites), but isn't this all 'progress', or even better, change?
Change has its good and bad side, and it's not that easy to split them up. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater I'd say.
Any geo based limitation is censorship, and if it's implemented the advantages of the net for information will be anihilated.
Do we have to draw the line somewhere? (Content based). I believe not. I think it's time ppl, legislation and copyright organisations would stop and think about this,...
Change is never easy, often, stopping it is hard, the only other option would then be to slow it down,... (cf. Angel One?) And is this interesting?
Oh well, next thing I'll know, someone will throw obsceneties at me in a reply. Perhaps if they'd stop for a second why they can do this? Right, because it's not censored...
I have read the "Forever War" and like the contents, I don't think I have to add to the reviews.
I just want to point out there is a cartoon version of Marvano and Haldeman. It has reached quite a status in it's genre of realistic (?) cartoon books (note: these kinds of cartoons are quite different as the ones I've seen from the states). It's a series of 3 hard-covers.
In the series "Vrije Vlucht" from Dupuis. I have it in Dutch, it exists in French, but I'm not quite sure if it's available in English.
Marvano has gained the "Gouden Adhemar" just recently for his work on realistic scifi cartoons, especially "The Forever War" and "Dallas Barr"
Well, since you're more experienced in English (? not seeing the grammatical errors in your post) and in Chinese, I guess I'll have to consider those words.
My impressions came from (second hand) a friend that was learning Chinese and a two collegues (former, they're gone now).
The Chinese always assured my it was difficult and had exceptions. Who was I to argue, I just extrapolated this view,..
Even though Chinese might become one of the big languages on the net, I don't think it will ever become the mainstream language. That role, my friends, I see reserved for English.Let me explain.
First of all, I want to stress that I myself am not a native English speaker.
If one looks at the general evolution of languages in Europe (and by extension in America(?)), I think you can notice there is an overall trend to simplicity. I do not think this has to do with the education level or intelligence of the people speaking the language (as some might imply), but by having a clear way of communicating.
If I remember correctly, Celtic had conjugations at the end of a word AND in the beginning. Latin had it only in the end. In the middle ages, most conjugations were dropped from languages or (in the case of English) evolved to some kind of simple mixture.
At this point, English has little exceptions, very little conjugations (or simple, as well as for the verb as for the nouns) AND it uses a simple character set to write (no umlauts and other things). And it's alive and spoken by a good deal of the world population
Let me put this in perspective. I myself am Flemish (a Dutch variant). The smaller half of the country speaks French (Belgium), and we got French before we learnt English. A good portion of the Flemish has studied German (another language in this country). Everyone of these languages has a grammar far more intricate than English (not to speak about the accents French has on e's).
Still most of the Flemish clearly prefer to use English in a professional environment even considerig the demographical composition of the country... Why you would ask? Right.
I think it is relatively safe to hope that English will become the language in the Western World.
Now, if we come back to the Chinese, as far as I know (and I have had a couple of Chinese collegues), Chinese does not posses any of the advantages: it has a very large character set, a difficult prononciation with variations in how you pronounce a word and no easy to cathegorise grammar.
I guess the step to Chines as a e-language is just to great for the rest of the world and I guess this is a good thing, considering the alternative...
The thing that surprises me the most in this white paper, is that they are claiming that having only one solution (e.g. browser, windowmanager) is good. I guess this is the way they are convincing people monopoly is a good thing.
For one thing, I know people that *are* using their IE on embedded products and CE, and don't want to persue it because of huge problems, crashes and unstability, even though the company payed big licensing fees. Don't be mistaking, it's a _big_ player in the embedded devices market.
Of course, if people (or should I say managers, since all too often, decisions of this kind are taken by managers that are not hindered by any technical knowled whatsoever) believe this FUD in the white paper, they are likely to believe MS is the only solution and will not consider other alternatives.
But the ECBS engineers and ultimately the customers will be the disadvantaged in this case, since they will have to get a product working on defective technology and an inferior product will be sold to the customers,...
So in the end, we're all worse off if this disinformation is believed and not counteracted.
I guess it shows again what can happen/is happening, when Marketing is used out of proportion,...
I got the same thing this morning, and was actually checking/. to see if I was the only one with this problem. LOL.
I agree that *at least the actual source code* should compile from scratch when giving a new release (being a programmer myself).
I at least hope the 2.4.11 and 2.4.14 probs are not a preview of things to come (and we have these kinds of problems every 2 versions).
The 2.5 branch should really be started: these kinds of problems belong in the development branch and not in the 'stable' tree.
These kinds of remarks are just pathetic and just prove the level of intelligence of the writer.
C'mon, let's just hope that all the EU and German good intentions don't stay with intentions and the users can be convinced of the use of this conversion;)
Of course, I can only give an estimate for our university (KULeuven, Flanders). And the use there is basically on two (or more)different planes:
1. First, there is obviously the students. As in most places, this started from an OS used by informatics students, to a much wider base: I seem to remember philosophers, engineering, political sciences,... It's nice to see people joining the internal newsgroups to get support for their first install, evolving to experts over the years,...
2. But most importantly (and going to the question), that would be the research. In our department, unix machines (HP, Solaris), are more and more being replaced by some kind of Linux stations (or clusters). One of the important reasons is the cost (getting rid of large maintenance contracts and expensive hardware), but equally important is de quality and availability of software.
In our research group, there is a gradual but continuing shift towards Linux. Where people join without much knowledge of it, they see the advantages (stability, quality of LaTeX, development tools, ease of use,...) and most of them either shift their workstation to Linux or use it with ssh and some Xclient (some ppl are doing 100% Linux development on a Linux server, themselves running Windows for,... yep, the dreaded outlook and M$ Office).
3. This entire Linux-isation is partially supported by the university network itself, since it has promoted Linux to the official university networking OS. It is the OS governing the network. All this gets a, by times, interesting exchange between students and sysadmins going.
4. I can also think of some ppl that moved to a company after graduating, either in Linux consulting, either in software development, using Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
nope, not really.
:)
We proposed to call it winex-light
basically they're saying: "it's free as long as you don't package it".
The heuristic that was previously employed when deciding to see an US warmovie:
if(film.countryoforigin == "U.S."){
fprintf(stderr, "\t Buggers, bound for disappointment\n");
if(film.subtitle == "Based on a true story"){
fprintf(stderr, "\t Historical Inaccurate and U.S. egoboasting film, consider renting The_Postman\n");
if (film.credit == "In Memory of all the American Heroes that did this or that\n"){
fprintf(stderr, "\t Danger Danger\n);
exit(-1);
}
}
}
has been optimised over the last decade:
if(film.countryoforigin == "U.S."){
fprintf(stderr,"\t Don't Bother\n");
exit(-100);
}
Dunno about all the businesses, but putting it like that is a bit too strong.
...
I know of a large technical information that automatically send back the documents in M$ format with the notice that they should send it in something generally readeble like pdf.
The guy assured me that companies do this only once and from then on use the pdf html or
Okay, it's very expensive, and most ppl will just not be interested to do this.
But there are quite a number of people that dream to go to space, but for one or another reason, could never get there. After all, not all ppl have the inclination to join the military for X year in order to get a very small chance at chance to the training...
Let's not even talk about nationalities and politics...
At least those people now have a chance at making their dream come true and it's only a feather on the Russians cap that they are the ones implementing it first.
With the US, Russia, EU, India and Japan already out there (I must be forgetting some), others are bound to join too.
This can only be a good idea to make space interesting again (and let's hope they'll stop bombing each other to hell while humanity has a new challenge).:wq
Just hope they didn't do the following :)
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
echo "1" >
This series reminds me of a BBC series from a couple of years ago: "silent witness". ... Since quality is difficult to find in today's television series, I will not use the word "rip-off" in this context, ...
Even though I like that one better, CSI is enjoyable,
We have fission reactors, not fusion reactors.
AFAIK are the fusion reators on te brink of being put to commercial use in Europe...
Weren't they building a first test reactor that would produce more fusion energy than it was consuming for the startup?
Because the ppl in the study seemed to live longer when they were sleeping only 7h, this doesn't mean that they live longer because they sleep only 7h.
The need for long nightrest might be an indication for an underlying disorder that caused the shorter lifespan and that is harder to pinpoint....
way to go,fight them with legal means like they do you
:))
Very good that ID still spends time to port their magnificent games to Linux. ...
I hope they continue to do so, because there deffinately is a public for Linux fps.
And as long as they do so, I'll continue to buy their games and love playing them.
I just hope that if they release a Linux release of one of their future games, they
don't wait months to release it after the win32 version.
I definately think this unfairly skewed the distribution. I for one bought a win32 version but only played it in Linux.
Same goes for RTCW, only a pitty of the packaging system,
> My guess is that the most creative software
...
> opportunities will remain in the US for some time,
> and the more routine development efforts will
> continue to be transfered overseas
hm, and cleverly used disinformation by the press can be used for bringing down enterprised with key-technology that is not US based. But then again, that's hard to prove once the damage is done...
It's just that some events in the last years made us think a bit more along these lines,
I personally think that the idea of of "souvereignty" of a country is the basis of the French sueing Yahoo is completely wrong. It obviously nothing more than a attempt to censorship, in this case not the press, but yahoo.
...
... (cf. Angel One?) And is this interesting?
If this would be extended, then China would, for example, be able to force the other countries to censor their news, because it would not stroke with the "countries souvereignty and is able to be seen in China via satellite.
Even more, a news-paper stand would have to ask every chinese-looking person if they are Chinese or not.
Absurd.
If France is so concerned about the memorabilia, then, in my view, THEY should block the content, installing something of a great french firewall.
I'm even wondering about the legislation: (I think we all can assume that the Judges and 'experts', that pass laws are always running behind the reality)
1. who would they think that would enforce something as volatile as information (because the offering of memorabilia is just information, is it not).
2. if a company is UK based, and a US citizen does a transaction: on which legislation is the transaction subject to?
Personally, I don't think the internet should be limited at all (yes, I know about the questionable content sites), but isn't this all 'progress', or even better, change?
Change has its good and bad side, and it's not that easy to split them up. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater I'd say.
Any geo based limitation is censorship, and if it's implemented the advantages of the net for information will be anihilated.
Do we have to draw the line somewhere? (Content based). I believe not. I think it's time ppl, legislation and copyright organisations would stop and think about this,
Change is never easy, often, stopping it is hard, the only other option would then be to slow it down,
Oh well, next thing I'll know, someone will throw obsceneties at me in a reply. Perhaps if they'd stop for a second why they can do this? Right, because it's not censored...
I have read the "Forever War" and like the contents, I don't think I have to add to the reviews.
I just want to point out there is a cartoon version of Marvano and Haldeman. It has reached quite a status in it's genre of realistic (?) cartoon books (note: these kinds of cartoons are quite different as the ones I've seen from the states). It's a series of 3 hard-covers.
In the series "Vrije Vlucht" from Dupuis. I have it in Dutch, it exists in French, but I'm not quite sure if it's available in English.
Marvano has gained the "Gouden Adhemar" just recently for his work on realistic scifi cartoons, especially "The Forever War" and "Dallas Barr"
Well, since you're more experienced in English (? not seeing the grammatical errors in your post) and in Chinese, I guess I'll have to consider those words. ..
My impressions came from (second hand) a friend that was learning Chinese and a two collegues (former, they're gone now).
The Chinese always assured my it was difficult and had exceptions. Who was I to argue, I just extrapolated this view,
Even though Chinese might become one of the big languages on the net, I don't think it will ever become the mainstream language. That role, my friends, I see reserved for English.Let me explain.
First of all, I want to stress that I myself am not a native English speaker.
If one looks at the general evolution of languages in Europe (and by extension in America(?)), I think you can notice there is an overall trend to simplicity. I do not think this has to do with the education level or intelligence of the people speaking the language (as some might imply), but by having a clear way of communicating.
If I remember correctly, Celtic had conjugations at the end of a word AND in the beginning. Latin had it only in the end. In the middle ages, most conjugations were dropped from languages or (in the case of English) evolved to some kind of simple mixture.
At this point, English has little exceptions, very little conjugations (or simple, as well as for the verb as for the nouns) AND it uses a simple character set to write (no umlauts and other things). And it's alive and spoken by a good deal of the world population
Let me put this in perspective. I myself am Flemish (a Dutch variant). The smaller half of the country speaks French (Belgium), and we got French before we learnt English. A good portion of the Flemish has studied German (another language in this country). Everyone of these languages has a grammar far more intricate than English (not to speak about the accents French has on e's).
Still most of the Flemish clearly prefer to use English in a professional environment even considerig the demographical composition of the country... Why you would ask? Right.
I think it is relatively safe to hope that English will become the language in the Western World.
Now, if we come back to the Chinese, as far as I know (and I have had a couple of Chinese collegues), Chinese does not posses any of the advantages: it has a very large character set, a difficult prononciation with variations in how you pronounce a word and no easy to cathegorise grammar.
I guess the step to Chines as a e-language is just to great for the rest of the world and I guess this is a good thing, considering the alternative...
Managers
^^^^^^^^
'nough said
The thing that surprises me the most in this white paper, is that they are claiming that having only one solution (e.g. browser, windowmanager) is good. I guess this is the way they are convincing people monopoly is a good thing. ...
...
For one thing, I know people that *are* using their IE on embedded products and CE, and don't want to persue it because of huge problems, crashes and unstability, even though the company payed big licensing fees. Don't be mistaking, it's a _big_ player in the embedded devices market.
Of course, if people (or should I say managers, since all too often, decisions of this kind are taken by managers that are not hindered by any technical knowled whatsoever) believe this FUD in the white paper, they are likely to believe MS is the only solution and will not consider other alternatives.
But the ECBS engineers and ultimately the customers will be the disadvantaged in this case, since they will have to get a product working on defective technology and an inferior product will be sold to the customers,
So in the end, we're all worse off if this disinformation is believed and not counteracted.
I guess it shows again what can happen/is happening, when Marketing is used out of proportion,
I got the same thing this morning, and was actually checking /. to see if I was the only one with this problem. LOL.
I agree that *at least the actual source code* should compile from scratch when giving a new release (being a programmer myself).
I at least hope the 2.4.11 and 2.4.14 probs are not a preview of things to come (and we have these kinds of problems every 2 versions).
The 2.5 branch should really be started: these kinds of problems belong in the development branch and not in the 'stable' tree.
These kinds of remarks are just pathetic and just prove the level of intelligence of the writer.
;)
C'mon, let's just hope that all the EU and German good intentions don't stay with intentions and the users can be convinced of the use of this conversion
Of course, I can only give an estimate for our university (KULeuven, Flanders). And the use there is basically on two (or more)different planes: ... It's nice to see people joining the internal newsgroups to get support for their first install, evolving to experts over the years, ...
...) and most of them either shift their workstation to Linux or use it with ssh and some Xclient (some ppl are doing 100% Linux development on a Linux server, themselves running Windows for, ... yep, the dreaded outlook and M$ Office).
1. First, there is obviously the students. As in most places, this started from an OS used by informatics students, to a much wider base: I seem to remember philosophers, engineering, political sciences,
2. But most importantly (and going to the question), that would be the research. In our department, unix machines (HP, Solaris), are more and more being replaced by some kind of Linux stations (or clusters). One of the important reasons is the cost (getting rid of large maintenance contracts and expensive hardware), but equally important is de quality and availability of software.
In our research group, there is a gradual but continuing shift towards Linux. Where people join without much knowledge of it, they see the advantages (stability, quality of LaTeX, development tools, ease of use,
3. This entire Linux-isation is partially supported by the university network itself, since it has promoted Linux to the official university networking OS. It is the OS governing the network. All this gets a, by times, interesting exchange between students and sysadmins going.
4. I can also think of some ppl that moved to a company after graduating, either in Linux consulting, either in software development, using Linux.