An interesting argument and also testable. So who has been criminally prosecuted for mishandling classified material accidentally (without intent)? Given the massive volume of classified material and just basic human error you would expect that hundreds of thousands of government employees would be prosecuted every year for this type of thing. That does not happen and it's important for the government to prove intent for criminal prosecution. Snowden intended to release information, Clinton did not -- that is the major difference regardless of how you feel about either of them.
There are more key concepts more easily taught in Python than in other languages. I had my 9 year old on Khan Academies Javascript course, which was good at teaching concepts, but only as far as Javascript has them. For a real OO implementation and ease of use Python stood out. I got my son the excellent "Python for Kids" by Jason R. Briggs and he picked up a lot about classes and methods very quickly. IDLE is an easy to use tool for beginners, and other resources are great. I like Python as it's a real language used to solve real problems (unlike Scratch et al). Come AP testing time (US) he may have to switch to Java, but there is a good chance the test will be Python by then.
Better yet read well sourced and well written journalism from Mother Jones from just a few months ago (http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants). Or ask yourself why the feds just indicted someone who was 15 year old at the time if his alleged offenses (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-24/news/bs-md-teen-indict-terrorism-20111024_1_terrorism-charges-jihad-jane-courtroom).
As for the original post, someone ought to tell Mr. Elahi about 18 USC 1001 where it is a crime to lie to a federal agent. Folks have been indicted on this for misremembering dates on conversations and this is the law that send Martha Stewart to jail.
There are many benefits to walking and biking but losing weight is not one of them. This is covered in good detail, citing latest medical research, in "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. The reason is straight forward while fatty acids move from your fat tissue to your muscles when you exercise, those same fatty acids return to your fat tissue when you rest. If you add that to the effect of an increased appetite that you are compelled to act upon after you exercise (aka "working up an appetite") the net is that you don't lose weight by exercise. Changing your diet, on the other hand, is very effective. There is obviously a lot more to this, but this is the rationale in a nutshell.
This is sad because the whole purpose of the Europeans investing in Galileo was to have there own GPS system that could not be shutdown by the United States. If they give on that, then they don't really need the system. What's the point of building an independent system if it's not, you know, indepentdent.
I know Imperial America is coming, I'm just waiting for the Pax Americana.
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"I'm catholic and from Scotland originally, so I'm not really from a computing background"
Agumentum ad absurdum. I'm catholic (ex) and from Scotland and a software engineer (have a degree and everything) and there are plenty of others. Why don't you call your boyfriend back, even if you don't want a relationship you may be able to patch things up enough so he can help you use your computer and keep from failing college.
Dude, I you are not disagreeing with me. I agree that back in the day Sun had the best OS/Hardware combination around. Most of the dot coms circa '98 '99 were buying sun boxes like crazy. That was then, this is now. Now price/performance points matter more than anything. Yes they will keep selling to very large clients who have large installations, need the support/stability more than air and have tons of money (ala banks and stock exchanges). Yes they will be around for a while, they are still a monster, and the article is complete FUD.
HP and IBM leadership saw the commodity server/os thing comming post dot com crash and moved their products and services with the market. Sun did not as a result they lost the low to middle-end server market. I don't think they will get it back. I hope they succeed in whatever they are doing now, but right now it hurts to be a sun employee/share holder.
I actually agree with you regarding Java, Sun should hold on to it. However, if Sun continues it's slide I would rather they open source it than sell it to a vendor (like IBM) who is going mutilate to put in a lot of proprietary tie ins to their product line (like websphere).
Dude check out the HP website, past 2006 they will no longer support Tru64 or be selling Alpha based servers. They are trying to get their Tru64 customers to move to HP-UX or Linux. HP sees no reason to support three different UNIX platforms.
The reality is that commodity processors and OSs (ala Itanium running Linux) kick all but the largest vendor specific architectures in terms of performance per dollar. This is the market that HP and IBM are in now. Besides what do you need a big piece of iron for? Load balancers can distribute Http requests across a large number of commodity servers. J2EE natively supports distributed processing for apps. You still may need some significant hardware for your databases, but with some care you can distribute that processing too.
I wish Sun all the best for their desktop products however they missed the boat on the server side. That was the fault of their leadership. Pride always goes before a fall.
This article is typical of the Economist, poor research and a lot of speculation passed off as fact. Don't get me wrong I like the Economist, they cover many important stories without excessive spin and sometimes their speculation is insightful. However, they're called The Economist and pass themselves off as a business magazine, but they do not have a permanent section on technology and no technology editor. Many of their writers are just new college graduates with the instruction to fill up as much space as possible.
The article purports to be about Linux business desktop users and complains that there are too few games for Linux?! I can't remember the last time I completed my status report with my latest high scores.
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An interesting argument and also testable. So who has been criminally prosecuted for mishandling classified material accidentally (without intent)? Given the massive volume of classified material and just basic human error you would expect that hundreds of thousands of government employees would be prosecuted every year for this type of thing. That does not happen and it's important for the government to prove intent for criminal prosecution. Snowden intended to release information, Clinton did not -- that is the major difference regardless of how you feel about either of them.
I agree.
There are more key concepts more easily taught in Python than in other languages. I had my 9 year old on Khan Academies Javascript course, which was good at teaching concepts, but only as far as Javascript has them. For a real OO implementation and ease of use Python stood out. I got my son the excellent "Python for Kids" by Jason R. Briggs and he picked up a lot about classes and methods very quickly. IDLE is an easy to use tool for beginners, and other resources are great. I like Python as it's a real language used to solve real problems (unlike Scratch et al). Come AP testing time (US) he may have to switch to Java, but there is a good chance the test will be Python by then.
Better yet read well sourced and well written journalism from Mother Jones from just a few months ago (http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants). Or ask yourself why the feds just indicted someone who was 15 year old at the time if his alleged offenses (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-24/news/bs-md-teen-indict-terrorism-20111024_1_terrorism-charges-jihad-jane-courtroom).
As for the original post, someone ought to tell Mr. Elahi about 18 USC 1001 where it is a crime to lie to a federal agent. Folks have been indicted on this for misremembering dates on conversations and this is the law that send Martha Stewart to jail.
There are many benefits to walking and biking but losing weight is not one of them. This is covered in good detail, citing latest medical research, in "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. The reason is straight forward while fatty acids move from your fat tissue to your muscles when you exercise, those same fatty acids return to your fat tissue when you rest. If you add that to the effect of an increased appetite that you are compelled to act upon after you exercise (aka "working up an appetite") the net is that you don't lose weight by exercise. Changing your diet, on the other hand, is very effective. There is obviously a lot more to this, but this is the rationale in a nutshell.
This is sad because the whole purpose of the Europeans investing in Galileo was to have there own GPS system that could not be shutdown by the United States. If they give on that, then they don't really need the system. What's the point of building an independent system if it's not, you know, indepentdent.
I know Imperial America is coming, I'm just waiting for the Pax Americana.
"I'm catholic and from Scotland originally, so I'm not really from a computing background"
Agumentum ad absurdum. I'm catholic (ex) and from Scotland and a software engineer (have a degree and everything) and there are plenty of others. Why don't you call your boyfriend back, even if you don't want a relationship you may be able to patch things up enough so he can help you use your computer and keep from failing college.
Dude, I you are not disagreeing with me. I agree that back in the day Sun had the best OS/Hardware combination around. Most of the dot coms circa '98 '99 were buying sun boxes like crazy. That was then, this is now. Now price/performance points matter more than anything. Yes they will keep selling to very large clients who have large installations, need the support/stability more than air and have tons of money (ala banks and stock exchanges). Yes they will be around for a while, they are still a monster, and the article is complete FUD.
HP and IBM leadership saw the commodity server/os thing comming post dot com crash and moved their products and services with the market. Sun did not as a result they lost the low to middle-end server market. I don't think they will get it back. I hope they succeed in whatever they are doing now, but right now it hurts to be a sun employee/share holder.
I actually agree with you regarding Java, Sun should hold on to it. However, if Sun continues it's slide I would rather they open source it than sell it to a vendor (like IBM) who is going mutilate to put in a lot of proprietary tie ins to their product line (like websphere).
Dude check out the HP website, past 2006 they will no longer support Tru64 or be selling Alpha based servers. They are trying to get their Tru64 customers to move to HP-UX or Linux. HP sees no reason to support three different UNIX platforms.
The reality is that commodity processors and OSs (ala Itanium running Linux) kick all but the largest vendor specific architectures in terms of performance per dollar. This is the market that HP and IBM are in now. Besides what do you need a big piece of iron for? Load balancers can distribute Http requests across a large number of commodity servers. J2EE natively supports distributed processing for apps. You still may need some significant hardware for your databases, but with some care you can distribute that processing too.
I wish Sun all the best for their desktop products however they missed the boat on the server side. That was the fault of their leadership. Pride always goes before a fall.
This article is typical of the Economist, poor research and a lot of speculation passed off as fact. Don't get me wrong I like the Economist, they cover many important stories without excessive spin and sometimes their speculation is insightful. However, they're called The Economist and pass themselves off as a business magazine, but they do not have a permanent section on technology and no technology editor. Many of their writers are just new college graduates with the instruction to fill up as much space as possible.
The article purports to be about Linux business desktop users and complains that there are too few games for Linux?! I can't remember the last time I completed my status report with my latest high scores.