As much as I would hate the Taliban, outside of Afghanistan they had (have) plenty of supporters. This includes significant populations in all Muslim countries only 3 of which really supported them formally.
Thus you have to define 'peers'. Medical associations do not accept Chinese, Muslim, herbal and chiropractic Doctors at all. They have their own peers and societies. Thus the few communist states that do exist today should not be wiped out in the glorious name of Democracy because they do not have sufficient peers.
The whole reason why Taliban and Al Qaeda were such a threat to the US Govt was because of their enormous grassroot support (albeit uninformed). Millions of people still take them as 'saviors' of Islam from the Amerikanners, especially in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Yemen, Saudi, UAE, Qatar, Somalia and Indonesia. Those cluster bombs from the B-52s didnt help much there.
Here in Canada, you dont have to break all old allegiances. So people with real allegiances outside but who are sincere enough not to be able to lie just move north from USA. The ones who can and do lie remain, ie terrorists!
America is composed of Italians, Irish, Jews, not-so-loyal Brits and many religious minorities who were basically pushed out of their homes in Europe. They them discriminated against the Blacks for a while. When they assimilated in too, ya gotta have someone to kick to have fun.
Now you have Muslims, Gays and fat people. People just need someone in the society to hate.
I will begin by trying to define 'terrorist'. Anyone who terrorizes anyone else is a terrorist. That means the US ventures in Vietnam and Iraq where they tried to intimidate the civilians to drop support to their governments is just as terrorist as say the USSR trying to invade Afghanistan. So a government can be a terrorist organisation and all current governments are except some small ones ruling city states without their armies.
Next, the Taliban were a political group. They also represent an extremist thinking. They supported the Al Qaeda because of what they believed, not because they wanted to terrorize US citizens. They were terrorists because they terrorized Afghans. By the way Al Qaeda and the Taliban both killed more civilians in Afghanistan each, than Al Qaeda did on 9/11. They also fought for years trying to take over Afghanistan fully but never really did. One well-known former CIA chief testified in his book that the Taliban were created by US funds during the Soviet occupation years to create a strong religious resistance against USSR. Couple these facts with the fact that few people in Afghanistan ever supported the Taliban, and they were mostly composed of Pakistani army, that hardly makes the Taliban Afghan, let alone Al Qaeda.
A terrorist to some is a freedom fighter to others. People in foreign countries who supported the Taliban were usually sincere to their own countries and never supported them as a Threat to America or Democracy. They never knew of the Taliban's antics within Afghanistan.
A Pakistani-British kid raised in London was caught among the Taliban when the Americans came, and was interviewed. He joined because he thought he would be fighting the Russians defending Islam. He didnt know there would be cries of "Allah o Akbar" from both sides of the hill. Most people in Pakistan under the current Taliban propaganda still believe the Taliban should rightfully be in Afghanistan without knowing who the enemy is exactly.
Such is the sorry state of affairs of the region. I will just ask everyone to:
Never hate anyone single-mindedly. Information is skewed in every media and the world out there can be radically different.
Never sling around a word without completely understanding its definition and checking how it applies to yourself. Words like WMD, terrorist and wacky are some.
never treat anyone like the plague because he supported someone else. Many people even in America still defend communism, many others have strong religious affiliations of all sorts. None of them are absolutely evil, and evil only lies in the eyes of the beholder.
never support any form of government to the extreme that you impose it on others. Face it, democracy is a total failure in poorer countries where people only vote for the person most seen on TV, which is the richest politician around. The communists were in the same shoes a few years ago.
never assume yourself, your country or your religion to be the center of gravity of humanity. The Germans tried that half a century ago. Ask them how they feel now. Anyone is a savage/terrorist/evildoer/moron/unintelligent to someone else.
The AS/400 refers to either the hardware or the whole architecture of hardware+software.
Now if IBM releases this software and supports it making it commercially viable, companies with old ERP systems will have to hire younger employees to run their application servers on PS2. They will have a hard time keeping them away from the machines after work. The uptimes will always be less than 12 hours.
Manufacturers should build them stiffer or add a structure that doesnt allow the fibers to be bent that much. It will be really hard for network admins to lay their cables *very carefully* only to trip on it and break it.
About 2 months ago I remember seeing an s/390 basic mainframe with I think 4 CPUs in one tall rack selling as is for $5000 usd on eBay. I almost started a mortgage on the thing but they hadnt booted it and gave no guanrantees, even didnt know the parts were complete. The interface was an IBM laptop that came with it. Plus it wasnt shipping to Canada and I didnt think American friends had that kind of space in their dorms.
Still keeping an eye on the eBay for such items.
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This should be improved to use fats and lactose etc from the blood as well. I dont mind driving a small car powered by myself which is powered by Burger King. You get to eat all you can and you get to lose weight while speeding. I think I'll start a trucking company.
Knowing Microsoft and their best interests, this is merely an exercise to find any possible weaknesses of Linux and open software they could then authoritatively use on paper. Microsoft probably has another lab where they really compare Linux with Windows, and paste good code over.
But look at the situation in a positive light. Who better to criticize the weaker points of Linux than Microsoft?
22ms is decent indeed and will serve you more than well for FPS games and VoIP. For ATM networks, the maximum latency for voice is defined as 500ms. People can get by with 200ms and not know it unless theyre playing reflex games on the phone.
No its not about time we get focused here, when ISPs were over 500ms it was an issue. Below 50ms theres no issue at all unless you just WANT to have lower latency for the sake of it. And then counting hops and demarcating the bounds of your ISP gets you nowhere. If Sympatico is a reseller of Bells service, do you consider the city-wide Sympatico, Sympatico's WAN, Bell Canada, Bell global or Bell the carrier?
If the ping is below 50ms to most of the top 20 WWW sites, the ISP is good. We just have to worry about the guaranteed and the maximum burst bandwidths. I'd personally worry more about the costs nowadays and the trend among ISPS to implement rediculous monthly download caps.
Now its all fine and dandy to have Fujitsu and GeforceFX GO chips on embedded devices and their OpenGL API, but there must be a smooth way to use pre-existing software with this API. Most software would expect a complete OpenGL 1.1 to 1.4 implementation running on standard OSes like (uC)Linux, NetBSD and (someone correct me on this) QNX, Symbian and the rest. Such an OpenGL implementation should be released for most of the embedded 3d chips for all these OSes, possibly as extensions of Mesa under the free OSes, before it can be used at all. We cant expect to see many applications made for custom OSes running on custom cpu/3d chips using a custom OpenGL (ES)implementation. The importance of pre-existing software base for any platform is paramount.
Object Oriented design has always given the illusion of ease. Simple C or perl based structured programming can get the job done in a far more intuitive way, especially in enterprises.
In an enterprise there might be many departments located in different places with different needs. There will be varying levels of security and many coders working on various modules and expecting them to interconnect stably. Many customized clients will connect to the same centralized databases and perform standard transactions after being authenticated. The authentication structure itself will be distributed (LDAP?).
So a set of standards should be made and well-documented on how the clients will authenticate and how the transactions will be made. Sample clients would be developed and distributed with their sources among the departments/branches which they will alter and customize. They could do all this with Java, C, C++ or anything else. Now since the universities are spewing out tonnes of low-cost Java developers, thats the language of choice. Quite unfortunate if you ask me.
We went to see some movies in a local Cinema, and since they dont check customers leaving one cinema and entering another, we watched 4 movies in one day on the same ticket. To fill up the time till we saw T3, we had to watch Tomb Raider 2, but it was indeed a good movie. Enjoyed it more than T3.
Now the whole idea about Tomb Raider brings it down, a busty rich chick with a whole mansion and the MI6 at her disposal. Indiana Jones as an Archaeologist was a bit rediculous, but Lara Croft is pushing it with an ego. That itself discourages the action based audience (all adolescent guys or ones in their 20s). They need to improve the story lines and make it more believable both in the game and the movies in order to sell it. They should keep Angelina Jolie though.
Thats exactly my point. The people who are in the best position to really test the kernel are the ones who require at least some level of stability to run at least for a few days before a crash. If I had a mission critical server, I'd just run 2.4.21. If I had redundant servers, I could run a test server in parallel, but I have one overloaded Pentium1 that connects 5 networks together and is a file/web/database/game server.
I ran some of the 2.5.x kernels on this, some of which actually worked and I submitted some bugs, most of which were reported already. I understand the importance of contributing back and enjoy being myself on the bleeding edge (I use samba 3 etc, most appications are beta), but struggling with a kernel that doesnt even compile, and one that does, but doesnt boot is complicated to deal with, and currently given my job, I dont have the time to work out patches or chase the bugs.
My point is that most of the contributions will be sent back to the team when the stability level is about the same as say 2.4.2, where people really want to use the new features and believe a FEW of the bugs need ironing out. After the major ones with 2.6.test2 has been ironed out, the team should expect a surge of bugreports and contributions.
Theyre doing an excellent job by the way. I've high hopes and expectations of 2.6
I use Linux for a very multipurpose server... SNAT, pppoe, tokenring+ethernet+atm+arcnet+slip, apache+php+perl, postgresql, Nvidia and hordes of other stuff I cant think of now. The test1 crashed for me as I was configuring the networking portions.
For setups like me, I couldnt test Linux beta versions. The server is really not mission-critical but I believe 2.6 will keep crashing for me till version say 2.6.15 or something. I'll be trying to add my contributions to the community but not at such an alpha stage.
They say the answers are scripted. Like say someone asks whats going on, they say I dont know. Now the second mob will have the task of constantly asking whats going on repetitively. In all the hubub someone should walk in with a video camera. Will be funny. I wonder if there are such groups in Toronto... I wanna flash!
Its cool to not be allowed to talk with the public. What about everyone staring straight up in the sky and acting shocked.. making everyone around stare up. How about great dismay and sorrow... people with sad expressions and shaking heads like theyve heard something really wrong. That will make people find the closest news source.
And what about anonymously selecting a target and following him/her like a celebrity. Spooky.
How about everyone tired and looking for places to sleep in a place where its not allowed to sleep, say a fastfood place.
OK.. couldnt resist. How about EVERYONE entering a target indoor location, letting out a big one (biological gases) and leave. The place should not have any lit flames or smokers around, geeks are valuable.
Rememeber youre in slashdot. This is where people built beowulf PDAs and emulated a PC in a PC which ran an emulator which ran a PC. Its all because we can, and just because. Its that feeling of control over things and exercising it with no purpose which makes it all interesting and geeklike. Protesting something is just too usual.
Also note people would have different agendas.. geeks with differing nationalities etc, but a flash crowd gathers these various people with absolutely nothing in common except for the unreasonable excitement about creating a flash crowd. Try it. Youll never go back to protesting.
While they wont replace ALL employees of that sector, its easily possible the number of fast food robots will exceed employees in numbers. Robotics have made lots of advances and with powerful CPUs and languages to deal with them, sophisticated tasks can be handed over to them more economically than to a high school student.
Computers potentially already have more cpu and memory than a human....... can anyone remember 2 terabytes of text, graphics and audio??(our memories are very low resolution), and can you compete with a 386 in arithmetic and general logic? The deep blue bested the best of chess players and approximately that level of cpu power is already available on desktops. However many key features of the human thinking will remain missing from computers for a while, the biggest of which is learning and associating concepts. How many computers can listen to two foreigners talk and learn the language by listening alone?
Many complaints here that while the corporations are using up America's infrastructure and R & D, they should hire people over here as well. Capitalistic market pressure aside, lets look at the principles at work here.
Microsoft is using Americas infrastructure, American banks to loan, American universities to educate and R&D and then hires Indians to do the same work leaving out American BCSes in the cold.
But then the same Microsoft sells so much to the countries outside of America. The American economic power is based more on exports than its good self-containment, and this is very true of the tech sector. All those Taiwanese PCs manufactured need an OS to run and Linux cant run win32 binaries well. Sure 95% of the copies are pirated but for the ones that are not, considering all the computers in all of Asia and Europe, that tells something of where the wages of those Microsoft employees are coming from.
So in all fairness, if a corporation will hire employees from their own country, they should limit sales to that country as well, and only to companies which will have further products that will only sell within that country. We've seen what economic blockages do to China, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq etc and the same applies to a lesser extent to America as well. The reasoning that companies are responsible for hiring employees from their own country is flawed.
However the American tech sector was doing very well keeping an open economy with Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Australia during the economic boom, the wealthy countries had struck a profitable balance where they bought alot from the tech sector and gained many jobs there as well. In due time India will too join the club and the wages will neutralize again at a lower level, but the MARKET for IT will also grow. We will see more specialized companies, more segments of the market expand and generally bigger markets for any product than we had in 1998. If you're a programmer with 12 years experience, you'll have many more companies even in your own country ready to hire you.
Globalization will level the playing field for the poorer countries and that process will hurt. But the process will not take more than a generation in the case of the tech sector and after the dust has settled, will create a bigger market to sell to.
The idea as far as I understand it is to confine those people keeping the society safe, not to punish them for the principle of it. Of course it shouldnt be a walk in the park, but not having a girlfriend for the time should be sufficient as a punishment.
Just give them CS and twice as long sentences. The society will be safer.(unless the violent content breeds more crime when they get out).
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Its not him. Different one.
Although I had a commodore 64 too. Spilled tea on the disk drive.
As much as I would hate the Taliban, outside of Afghanistan they had (have) plenty of supporters. This includes significant populations in all Muslim countries only 3 of which really supported them formally.
Thus you have to define 'peers'. Medical associations do not accept Chinese, Muslim, herbal and chiropractic Doctors at all. They have their own peers and societies. Thus the few communist states that do exist today should not be wiped out in the glorious name of Democracy because they do not have sufficient peers.
The whole reason why Taliban and Al Qaeda were such a threat to the US Govt was because of their enormous grassroot support (albeit uninformed). Millions of people still take them as 'saviors' of Islam from the Amerikanners, especially in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Yemen, Saudi, UAE, Qatar, Somalia and Indonesia. Those cluster bombs from the B-52s didnt help much there.
Here in Canada, you dont have to break all old allegiances. So people with real allegiances outside but who are sincere enough not to be able to lie just move north from USA. The ones who can and do lie remain, ie terrorists!
Is THIS the kind of people taking our tech jobs away?!?
Man I must have the wrong approach to looking for work. They are looking for diversifying. I'll put gay nymphomaniac Siberian on my resume.
America is composed of Italians, Irish, Jews, not-so-loyal Brits and many religious minorities who were basically pushed out of their homes in Europe. They them discriminated against the Blacks for a while. When they assimilated in too, ya gotta have someone to kick to have fun.
Now you have Muslims, Gays and fat people. People just need someone in the society to hate.
Yes that was the only mainframe I could find for sale on eBay. Im pretty sure it doesnt boot and comes missing some stuff.
The AS/400 refers to either the hardware or the whole architecture of hardware+software.
Now if IBM releases this software and supports it making it commercially viable, companies with old ERP systems will have to hire younger employees to run their application servers on PS2. They will have a hard time keeping them away from the machines after work. The uptimes will always be less than 12 hours.
Manufacturers should build them stiffer or add a structure that doesnt allow the fibers to be bent that much. It will be really hard for network admins to lay their cables *very carefully* only to trip on it and break it.
About 2 months ago I remember seeing an s/390 basic mainframe with I think 4 CPUs in one tall rack selling as is for $5000 usd on eBay. I almost started a mortgage on the thing but they hadnt booted it and gave no guanrantees, even didnt know the parts were complete. The interface was an IBM laptop that came with it. Plus it wasnt shipping to Canada and I didnt think American friends had that kind of space in their dorms.
Still keeping an eye on the eBay for such items.
This should be improved to use fats and lactose etc from the blood as well. I dont mind driving a small car powered by myself which is powered by Burger King. You get to eat all you can and you get to lose weight while speeding. I think I'll start a trucking company.
Knowing Microsoft and their best interests, this is merely an exercise to find any possible weaknesses of Linux and open software they could then authoritatively use on paper. Microsoft probably has another lab where they really compare Linux with Windows, and paste good code over.
But look at the situation in a positive light. Who better to criticize the weaker points of Linux than Microsoft?
22ms is decent indeed and will serve you more than well for FPS games and VoIP. For ATM networks, the maximum latency for voice is defined as 500ms. People can get by with 200ms and not know it unless theyre playing reflex games on the phone.
No its not about time we get focused here, when ISPs were over 500ms it was an issue. Below 50ms theres no issue at all unless you just WANT to have lower latency for the sake of it. And then counting hops and demarcating the bounds of your ISP gets you nowhere. If Sympatico is a reseller of Bells service, do you consider the city-wide Sympatico, Sympatico's WAN, Bell Canada, Bell global or Bell the carrier?
If the ping is below 50ms to most of the top 20 WWW sites, the ISP is good. We just have to worry about the guaranteed and the maximum burst bandwidths. I'd personally worry more about the costs nowadays and the trend among ISPS to implement rediculous monthly download caps.
Now its all fine and dandy to have Fujitsu and GeforceFX GO chips on embedded devices and their OpenGL API, but there must be a smooth way to use pre-existing software with this API. Most software would expect a complete OpenGL 1.1 to 1.4 implementation running on standard OSes like (uC)Linux, NetBSD and (someone correct me on this) QNX, Symbian and the rest. Such an OpenGL implementation should be released for most of the embedded 3d chips for all these OSes, possibly as extensions of Mesa under the free OSes, before it can be used at all. We cant expect to see many applications made for custom OSes running on custom cpu/3d chips using a custom OpenGL (ES)implementation. The importance of pre-existing software base for any platform is paramount.
Object Oriented design has always given the illusion of ease. Simple C or perl based structured programming can get the job done in a far more intuitive way, especially in enterprises.
In an enterprise there might be many departments located in different places with different needs. There will be varying levels of security and many coders working on various modules and expecting them to interconnect stably. Many customized clients will connect to the same centralized databases and perform standard transactions after being authenticated. The authentication structure itself will be distributed (LDAP?).
So a set of standards should be made and well-documented on how the clients will authenticate and how the transactions will be made. Sample clients would be developed and distributed with their sources among the departments/branches which they will alter and customize. They could do all this with Java, C, C++ or anything else. Now since the universities are spewing out tonnes of low-cost Java developers, thats the language of choice. Quite unfortunate if you ask me.
We went to see some movies in a local Cinema, and since they dont check customers leaving one cinema and entering another, we watched 4 movies in one day on the same ticket. To fill up the time till we saw T3, we had to watch Tomb Raider 2, but it was indeed a good movie. Enjoyed it more than T3.
Now the whole idea about Tomb Raider brings it down, a busty rich chick with a whole mansion and the MI6 at her disposal. Indiana Jones as an Archaeologist was a bit rediculous, but Lara Croft is pushing it with an ego. That itself discourages the action based audience (all adolescent guys or ones in their 20s). They need to improve the story lines and make it more believable both in the game and the movies in order to sell it. They should keep Angelina Jolie though.
Thats exactly my point. The people who are in the best position to really test the kernel are the ones who require at least some level of stability to run at least for a few days before a crash. If I had a mission critical server, I'd just run 2.4.21. If I had redundant servers, I could run a test server in parallel, but I have one overloaded Pentium1 that connects 5 networks together and is a file/web/database/game server.
I ran some of the 2.5.x kernels on this, some of which actually worked and I submitted some bugs, most of which were reported already. I understand the importance of contributing back and enjoy being myself on the bleeding edge (I use samba 3 etc, most appications are beta), but struggling with a kernel that doesnt even compile, and one that does, but doesnt boot is complicated to deal with, and currently given my job, I dont have the time to work out patches or chase the bugs.
My point is that most of the contributions will be sent back to the team when the stability level is about the same as say 2.4.2, where people really want to use the new features and believe a FEW of the bugs need ironing out. After the major ones with 2.6.test2 has been ironed out, the team should expect a surge of bugreports and contributions.
Theyre doing an excellent job by the way. I've high hopes and expectations of 2.6
I use Linux for a very multipurpose server... SNAT, pppoe, tokenring+ethernet+atm+arcnet+slip, apache+php+perl, postgresql, Nvidia and hordes of other stuff I cant think of now. The test1 crashed for me as I was configuring the networking portions.
For setups like me, I couldnt test Linux beta versions. The server is really not mission-critical but I believe 2.6 will keep crashing for me till version say 2.6.15 or something. I'll be trying to add my contributions to the community but not at such an alpha stage.
They say the answers are scripted. Like say someone asks whats going on, they say I dont know. Now the second mob will have the task of constantly asking whats going on repetitively. In all the hubub someone should walk in with a video camera. Will be funny. I wonder if there are such groups in Toronto... I wanna flash!
Its cool to not be allowed to talk with the public. What about everyone staring straight up in the sky and acting shocked.. making everyone around stare up. How about great dismay and sorrow... people with sad expressions and shaking heads like theyve heard something really wrong. That will make people find the closest news source.
And what about anonymously selecting a target and following him/her like a celebrity. Spooky.
How about everyone tired and looking for places to sleep in a place where its not allowed to sleep, say a fastfood place.
OK.. couldnt resist. How about EVERYONE entering a target indoor location, letting out a big one (biological gases) and leave. The place should not have any lit flames or smokers around, geeks are valuable.
Rememeber youre in slashdot. This is where people built beowulf PDAs and emulated a PC in a PC which ran an emulator which ran a PC. Its all because we can, and just because. Its that feeling of control over things and exercising it with no purpose which makes it all interesting and geeklike. Protesting something is just too usual.
Also note people would have different agendas.. geeks with differing nationalities etc, but a flash crowd gathers these various people with absolutely nothing in common except for the unreasonable excitement about creating a flash crowd. Try it. Youll never go back to protesting.
While they wont replace ALL employees of that sector, its easily possible the number of fast food robots will exceed employees in numbers. Robotics have made lots of advances and with powerful CPUs and languages to deal with them, sophisticated tasks can be handed over to them more economically than to a high school student.
Computers potentially already have more cpu and memory than a human....... can anyone remember 2 terabytes of text, graphics and audio??(our memories are very low resolution), and can you compete with a 386 in arithmetic and general logic? The deep blue bested the best of chess players and approximately that level of cpu power is already available on desktops. However many key features of the human thinking will remain missing from computers for a while, the biggest of which is learning and associating concepts. How many computers can listen to two foreigners talk and learn the language by listening alone?
Many complaints here that while the corporations are using up America's infrastructure and R & D, they should hire people over here as well. Capitalistic market pressure aside, lets look at the principles at work here.
Microsoft is using Americas infrastructure, American banks to loan, American universities to educate and R&D and then hires Indians to do the same work leaving out American BCSes in the cold.
But then the same Microsoft sells so much to the countries outside of America. The American economic power is based more on exports than its good self-containment, and this is very true of the tech sector. All those Taiwanese PCs manufactured need an OS to run and Linux cant run win32 binaries well. Sure 95% of the copies are pirated but for the ones that are not, considering all the computers in all of Asia and Europe, that tells something of where the wages of those Microsoft employees are coming from.
So in all fairness, if a corporation will hire employees from their own country, they should limit sales to that country as well, and only to companies which will have further products that will only sell within that country. We've seen what economic blockages do to China, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq etc and the same applies to a lesser extent to America as well. The reasoning that companies are responsible for hiring employees from their own country is flawed.
However the American tech sector was doing very well keeping an open economy with Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Australia during the economic boom, the wealthy countries had struck a profitable balance where they bought alot from the tech sector and gained many jobs there as well. In due time India will too join the club and the wages will neutralize again at a lower level, but the MARKET for IT will also grow. We will see more specialized companies, more segments of the market expand and generally bigger markets for any product than we had in 1998. If you're a programmer with 12 years experience, you'll have many more companies even in your own country ready to hire you.
Globalization will level the playing field for the poorer countries and that process will hurt. But the process will not take more than a generation in the case of the tech sector and after the dust has settled, will create a bigger market to sell to.
In some countries it might :). Make sure you stop on all red lights.
But youre right. I stand corrected.
The idea as far as I understand it is to confine those people keeping the society safe, not to punish them for the principle of it. Of course it shouldnt be a walk in the park, but not having a girlfriend for the time should be sufficient as a punishment.
Just give them CS and twice as long sentences. The society will be safer.(unless the violent content breeds more crime when they get out).