And I can speak from experience that Azureus' use of Java is the biggest thing wrong with it. The program looks like a windows program, but the interface is unresponsive and hangs easily. I find this to be similar with other Java client side programs.
Russia. They're cozy with Iran and have been actively supporting their nuclear efforts. Also, keep in mind that at this point, Russia is less of a cohesive national government and more like a bunch of local political bosses furthering their own interests. Their military is still good enough to keep us occupied, and they have lots of nukes. So do Pakistan/India. Iran is close themselves (2-5 years.)
China is the dominant military power in the region; and they might take the opportunity to go after Taiwan if the US military was embroiled in a real war (not an insurgency, an honest-to-goodness real war) elsewhere. They'd go after Japan if the US military got too weakened in an involved conflict; they're still pretty pissed about what Japan did to China in WWII.
The only reason I can think of that China wouldn't get involved is money. The US is their biggest market.
You forgot option C: China gradually overtakes the US as the dominant global military and economic power over the next 50 years and the US becomes a relic, much like the EU (sorry guys.) It takes a long time to mobilize 1.2 billion people, but the economic policy makers in China finally seem to "get it" (unlike Russia wrt Stalin, China learned from the disasters Mao caused.)
But the UN is largely irrelevant. The prime objective of the UN is to give people a forum for diplomacy so something like WWII never happens again. But if they can't stop unilateral aggression (they didn't stop us invading Iraq, we lied and made up a pretty good cover story) then they have failed. Iraq can still turn into a world war; all it would take is an Iraqi militant assassinating the Shah of Iran and the entire powderkeg in the middle east would explode into a global conflict with nuclear weapons.
No, Dell does not sell AMD computers. Dell also only sells direct, and are by far the biggest PC manufacturer in the world, so yes, excluding Dell in this case makes the stats meaningless.
Yeah, but that still requires people to change their named root files. Any router with an embedded caching nameserver will never change.
And this still creates a mess once domains start expiring and changing. You'd have to keep them synced with the current "USA" root servers. All this would do is allow new "Non-USA" TLDs, but even then, what company in their right mind is going to buy a domain name under a TLD that doesn't work in half the world?
Nothing changes in this case, the US is still in control of everything, you're just making a local copy of it. And you still don't have control because if you do something that your ISPs don't like, they'll just go back to using the ICANN root servers.
This whole thing is stupid. The current DNS setup may not be ideal, but it's so widespread and so pull-oriented (DNS servers pull from root servers, which are specified in a flat file) that there's really no changing it now even if we wanted to.
The effectiveness of their "new" DNS servers would lie in the hands of the people who create the BIND packages and set the root server list. The EU can create their own root server network all they like; it doesn't mean anyone will use it.
The internet would only segment if the EU created their own root servers if (and this is a big if) administrators and ISPs wanted to inconvenience their users by using the "new" DNS roots. And this still wouldn't stop savvy end-users (who would also set up their friends' machines this way as well) to use other DNS servers which are using the ICANN roots.
So basically, they're not going to segment the internet, even if they wanted to. The only way that would work is if they could remove the routing tables to the US root servers at the major peering points, and even still, it would be trivial to circumvent. The internet will adapt, it always does...
The second part of this comment is why bloggers are not considered the same as traditional news media.
Traditional news media at least attempts to make sure they got the story right. They do fact checking, carefully organize sources, etc. All that stuff you had to learn when writing research papers. I'm not talking TV news here, because we all know Fox News doesn't fact-check shit.
Most bloggers can't even get the details of an article they link to correct (case in point: Slashdot.) While the traditional media does screw up every once in a while, bloggers are epidemically lazy and excited about their new information, so they can turn around and tell other people.
If a blogger posts something very scandalous, but documents sources (even anonymous ones, the reporter should know who they are so the information can be verified) I'd be inclined to call it journalism and protect it. But a blogger posting an anecdotal account of someone famous doing something scandalous is not journalism, it's gossip.
On OS X, I've found Fire to be a pretty decent, no frills client. You can chat, and that's all I want. iChat is just annoying to try to use, Apple's UI team must have been on acid that day.
I would guess not; AJAX + DHTML is not really cross-browser compatible. At all. Unless MS explicitly wrote code supporting Firefox/Opera, it probably doesn't.
There's a difference between posting a biased opinion based on personal bias and being paid to inject the viewpoint of your employer into an article while claiming to be impartial.
Nobody said he didn't have the right to give his "opinion," but we also have the right to know where it came from so it can be dismissed as being as impartial as a corporate press release.
I dunno, once you get over the fact that it's windows, MCE can be pretty nice. The.wmv format irks me though.
I have a Myth box, and it.. well it's ok. It crashes quite frequently (most often when it tries to change a channel to record a show on the channel I was already watching) and it lacks a certain... "polish" that windows MCE has (this is mainly in the UIs; myth's skins are amateurish at best and god awful ugly at worst.. and this goes for the LxM skins as well, though LxM's guide data service is nice.) The main reason I stick to myth is the ease of exporting the.nuv files to xvid.
It's been almost 6 months since the last release, and I'm afraid that Myth has hit that inevitable point in open source development where the developers want to rewrite the whole thing. I don't read any of the development lists though, so I could be wrong, it could have just stopped.:)
The POWER series has this on-chip, so it's a whole lot faster than doing it via software and it doesn't require a reboot. The dynamic partitioning is the real difference between the POWER series and the PowerPC chips IBM sold to Apple. This is a feature carried over from IBM's mainframe days, and if you actually need it, it is very cool.
The UN likes to pretend it's relevant. Meanwhile, everyone just ignores UN resolutions (Iraq? Iran? North Korea?) while the UN is unwilling to back them up, and unwilling to stop anyone who will unilaterally enforce their will upon other nations (the "Coalition of the willing," aka the US and UK.)
So it's pretty much just a dog and pony show for international politics. None of the countries involved in the UN have any respect for it; and with good reason, the UN is only as strong as there are enough countries willing to go along with its decisions. Or go against them, in the case of the Iraq war, with absolutely no consequences. Either way it just doesn't matter.
MS Office has evolved well beyond a simple suite of Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation software.
I'm no fan of MS but I can recognize that the office package is much more than just the programs. The major program used by most businesses is Outlook in combination with MS Windows Server 2k3 as a domain controller. People use outlook and exchange because they work with other things, like the Blackberry server software (which, if you can believe it, is even more unstable than exchange.)
I love open source and use it whenever possible. The problem with MS stuff is that everyone uses it, it's compatible with software from other vendors, and there are a lot of programs built on top of it. If you don't have full Outlook compatability (including calendars, address book, etc. because all these things are stored on the exchange server) then nobody will seriously use your software, point blank. The open source alternatives do not (no, they don't, I have several people at my office who try to use them and they don't work right; calendars get out of sync, address books get wiped, etc.)
You're not going to beat MS at their own game. Their marketroids are very good at convincing CTOs they need the latest and greatest MS product, and if you use them as the products are supposed to be used, they work well enough. SharePoint is already the most popular corporate intranet platform, and it's integrated with Office as well. Office is a client/server package, and if you want to replace MS Office, you have to be compatible with the server.
I guess I can see the appeal of a fanless graphics card, but not in a home theater. In a home theater you rarely need any sort of high res 3d capabilities, so most people opt for onboard video. If you need DVI for your $4000 LCD TV you can just buy a cheap GeForce/Radeon or whatever with DVI at Fry's for under $50.
If you want games, get an X-Box or PS2. I find PC games really hard to play on a TV with a keyboard anyway.
The process of matter -> energy is considered power production. Usually some sort of exothermic reaction (say, burning diesel fuel) releases the energy stored in matter (e=mc^2 and all that jazz) The efficiency is nowhere near fusion, but it's the same principle.
Not a problem with this congress. The line item veto was introduced because the Republicans kept tacking stupid amendments on to necessary legislation so they could dare Clinton to veto it (and then use it against him in the next legislation; "Clinton vetoed the Feed All Starving Children bill! He hates children!" when he vetoed it because there was a rider that assigned a $10 billion construction contract to Halliburton.)
It's a constant cycle though, notice how the economy tanks after the Republicans have been in power for 6-8 years? Our national debt perfectly reflects the money management skills of most americans...
The problem with the constitution is that its meaning depends on context and interpretation; it doesn't cover all situations by a long shot. That's why the SCOTUS exists, they're the "official" interpreters of the constitution.
I think the term you're looking for is a one-party socialist bureaucracy. China's not really communist anymore, but they are definitely socialist. Basically China is capitalist, except the government owns and operates all the key industries as if they were corporations, which makes them socialist.
This only works because of globalization, China can control the entire industry in their country and compete with foreign corporations who don't have the benefit of being able to unilaterally set wage rates. China is in a much better economic standing than the US, because the government and the corporations are one and have the same goal. In the US the corporations both attempt to control the government and undermine it, I'll let you figure out who will probably be more successful in 100 years.
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And I can speak from experience that Azureus' use of Java is the biggest thing wrong with it. The program looks like a windows program, but the interface is unresponsive and hangs easily. I find this to be similar with other Java client side programs.
Yep, if you're multihomed, you can confidently have your marketing guys say "100% uptime." And stuff like this L3 "qwhoops" don't affect you.
Russia. They're cozy with Iran and have been actively supporting their nuclear efforts. Also, keep in mind that at this point, Russia is less of a cohesive national government and more like a bunch of local political bosses furthering their own interests. Their military is still good enough to keep us occupied, and they have lots of nukes. So do Pakistan/India. Iran is close themselves (2-5 years.)
China is the dominant military power in the region; and they might take the opportunity to go after Taiwan if the US military was embroiled in a real war (not an insurgency, an honest-to-goodness real war) elsewhere. They'd go after Japan if the US military got too weakened in an involved conflict; they're still pretty pissed about what Japan did to China in WWII.
The only reason I can think of that China wouldn't get involved is money. The US is their biggest market.
You forgot option C: China gradually overtakes the US as the dominant global military and economic power over the next 50 years and the US becomes a relic, much like the EU (sorry guys.) It takes a long time to mobilize 1.2 billion people, but the economic policy makers in China finally seem to "get it" (unlike Russia wrt Stalin, China learned from the disasters Mao caused.)
But the UN is largely irrelevant. The prime objective of the UN is to give people a forum for diplomacy so something like WWII never happens again. But if they can't stop unilateral aggression (they didn't stop us invading Iraq, we lied and made up a pretty good cover story) then they have failed. Iraq can still turn into a world war; all it would take is an Iraqi militant assassinating the Shah of Iran and the entire powderkeg in the middle east would explode into a global conflict with nuclear weapons.
Fun.
Yes but anyone who reads slashdot should know that Dvorak is a tard. And knowing is half the battle.
IBM too.
No, Dell does not sell AMD computers. Dell also only sells direct, and are by far the biggest PC manufacturer in the world, so yes, excluding Dell in this case makes the stats meaningless.
Yeah, but that still requires people to change their named root files. Any router with an embedded caching nameserver will never change.
And this still creates a mess once domains start expiring and changing. You'd have to keep them synced with the current "USA" root servers. All this would do is allow new "Non-USA" TLDs, but even then, what company in their right mind is going to buy a domain name under a TLD that doesn't work in half the world?
Nothing changes in this case, the US is still in control of everything, you're just making a local copy of it. And you still don't have control because if you do something that your ISPs don't like, they'll just go back to using the ICANN root servers.
This whole thing is stupid. The current DNS setup may not be ideal, but it's so widespread and so pull-oriented (DNS servers pull from root servers, which are specified in a flat file) that there's really no changing it now even if we wanted to.
The effectiveness of their "new" DNS servers would lie in the hands of the people who create the BIND packages and set the root server list. The EU can create their own root server network all they like; it doesn't mean anyone will use it.
The internet would only segment if the EU created their own root servers if (and this is a big if) administrators and ISPs wanted to inconvenience their users by using the "new" DNS roots. And this still wouldn't stop savvy end-users (who would also set up their friends' machines this way as well) to use other DNS servers which are using the ICANN roots.
So basically, they're not going to segment the internet, even if they wanted to. The only way that would work is if they could remove the routing tables to the US root servers at the major peering points, and even still, it would be trivial to circumvent. The internet will adapt, it always does...
The second part of this comment is why bloggers are not considered the same as traditional news media.
Traditional news media at least attempts to make sure they got the story right. They do fact checking, carefully organize sources, etc. All that stuff you had to learn when writing research papers. I'm not talking TV news here, because we all know Fox News doesn't fact-check shit.
Most bloggers can't even get the details of an article they link to correct (case in point: Slashdot.) While the traditional media does screw up every once in a while, bloggers are epidemically lazy and excited about their new information, so they can turn around and tell other people.
If a blogger posts something very scandalous, but documents sources (even anonymous ones, the reporter should know who they are so the information can be verified) I'd be inclined to call it journalism and protect it. But a blogger posting an anecdotal account of someone famous doing something scandalous is not journalism, it's gossip.
On OS X, I've found Fire to be a pretty decent, no frills client. You can chat, and that's all I want. iChat is just annoying to try to use, Apple's UI team must have been on acid that day.
I would guess not; AJAX + DHTML is not really cross-browser compatible. At all. Unless MS explicitly wrote code supporting Firefox/Opera, it probably doesn't.
There's a difference between posting a biased opinion based on personal bias and being paid to inject the viewpoint of your employer into an article while claiming to be impartial.
Nobody said he didn't have the right to give his "opinion," but we also have the right to know where it came from so it can be dismissed as being as impartial as a corporate press release.
I dunno, once you get over the fact that it's windows, MCE can be pretty nice. The .wmv format irks me though.
.nuv files to xvid.
:)
I have a Myth box, and it.. well it's ok. It crashes quite frequently (most often when it tries to change a channel to record a show on the channel I was already watching) and it lacks a certain... "polish" that windows MCE has (this is mainly in the UIs; myth's skins are amateurish at best and god awful ugly at worst.. and this goes for the LxM skins as well, though LxM's guide data service is nice.) The main reason I stick to myth is the ease of exporting the
It's been almost 6 months since the last release, and I'm afraid that Myth has hit that inevitable point in open source development where the developers want to rewrite the whole thing. I don't read any of the development lists though, so I could be wrong, it could have just stopped.
The POWER series has this on-chip, so it's a whole lot faster than doing it via software and it doesn't require a reboot. The dynamic partitioning is the real difference between the POWER series and the PowerPC chips IBM sold to Apple. This is a feature carried over from IBM's mainframe days, and if you actually need it, it is very cool.
The UN likes to pretend it's relevant. Meanwhile, everyone just ignores UN resolutions (Iraq? Iran? North Korea?) while the UN is unwilling to back them up, and unwilling to stop anyone who will unilaterally enforce their will upon other nations (the "Coalition of the willing," aka the US and UK.)
So it's pretty much just a dog and pony show for international politics. None of the countries involved in the UN have any respect for it; and with good reason, the UN is only as strong as there are enough countries willing to go along with its decisions. Or go against them, in the case of the Iraq war, with absolutely no consequences. Either way it just doesn't matter.
MS Office has evolved well beyond a simple suite of Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation software.
I'm no fan of MS but I can recognize that the office package is much more than just the programs. The major program used by most businesses is Outlook in combination with MS Windows Server 2k3 as a domain controller. People use outlook and exchange because they work with other things, like the Blackberry server software (which, if you can believe it, is even more unstable than exchange.)
I love open source and use it whenever possible. The problem with MS stuff is that everyone uses it, it's compatible with software from other vendors, and there are a lot of programs built on top of it. If you don't have full Outlook compatability (including calendars, address book, etc. because all these things are stored on the exchange server) then nobody will seriously use your software, point blank. The open source alternatives do not (no, they don't, I have several people at my office who try to use them and they don't work right; calendars get out of sync, address books get wiped, etc.)
You're not going to beat MS at their own game. Their marketroids are very good at convincing CTOs they need the latest and greatest MS product, and if you use them as the products are supposed to be used, they work well enough. SharePoint is already the most popular corporate intranet platform, and it's integrated with Office as well. Office is a client/server package, and if you want to replace MS Office, you have to be compatible with the server.
...next, Google Space!
I guess I can see the appeal of a fanless graphics card, but not in a home theater. In a home theater you rarely need any sort of high res 3d capabilities, so most people opt for onboard video. If you need DVI for your $4000 LCD TV you can just buy a cheap GeForce/Radeon or whatever with DVI at Fry's for under $50.
If you want games, get an X-Box or PS2. I find PC games really hard to play on a TV with a keyboard anyway.
Huh, and I always thought that Tempur-Pedic made up the "Certified by the space foundation! It's really from space!" thing. Guess I was wrong.
Though you probably have an image problem if 99% of the country knows of your existence through late-night mattress infomercials...
The process of matter -> energy is considered power production. Usually some sort of exothermic reaction (say, burning diesel fuel) releases the energy stored in matter (e=mc^2 and all that jazz) The efficiency is nowhere near fusion, but it's the same principle.
You mean like SSL?
Not a problem with this congress. The line item veto was introduced because the Republicans kept tacking stupid amendments on to necessary legislation so they could dare Clinton to veto it (and then use it against him in the next legislation; "Clinton vetoed the Feed All Starving Children bill! He hates children!" when he vetoed it because there was a rider that assigned a $10 billion construction contract to Halliburton.)
It's a constant cycle though, notice how the economy tanks after the Republicans have been in power for 6-8 years? Our national debt perfectly reflects the money management skills of most americans...
The problem with the constitution is that its meaning depends on context and interpretation; it doesn't cover all situations by a long shot. That's why the SCOTUS exists, they're the "official" interpreters of the constitution.
I think the term you're looking for is a one-party socialist bureaucracy. China's not really communist anymore, but they are definitely socialist. Basically China is capitalist, except the government owns and operates all the key industries as if they were corporations, which makes them socialist.
This only works because of globalization, China can control the entire industry in their country and compete with foreign corporations who don't have the benefit of being able to unilaterally set wage rates. China is in a much better economic standing than the US, because the government and the corporations are one and have the same goal. In the US the corporations both attempt to control the government and undermine it, I'll let you figure out who will probably be more successful in 100 years.