Man, I'm so tired of Slashdot hackers slamming Java. Yes, C/C++ is a powerful, ubiquitous language but it has some problems; such as a terrible, error-prone syntax. My biggest problem with C/C++ from a project management perspective is that it lacks the strong, explicit namespacing of Java. Java is an attempt to address some of these problems and some features are omitted specifically because of the problems they caused weren't worth the functionality they provided (such as multiple inheritance). Most of the Java griping I see is from programmers who simply don't know how to interpret their C tricks with Java; and therefore the language sucks.
If you think Java is just "dumbed down C/C++", then you haven't learned Java as well as you think. Like any language, Java plays its own role and the constant "C/C++ is bettter!" posts are simplistic.
Hell, you don't even have to go *that* far back. During the 1st Bush term, we helped stage coups against Aristide in Haiti (sp) and Chavez in Venezuela (both democratically elected). What's so hilarious (in a depressing way) is what happened afterwards. Chavez was brought *back* into power by the people and Aristide simply said in effect "Well, if you Americans claim I left the country voluntarily, then I should be able to go back..."
Mind you I'm American, but a lot of us are complete fools scarfing down whatever propaganda our leadership feeds us. I've seen the lie become truth so often in the past few years that I've developed a completely new respect for the foresight of George Orwell. The guy looks like a damned prophet today.
I've spent the last months evaluating PDAs for a migration project, and I'd have to say that Palms are superior simply because they're designed from the ground up to be handhelds. PPCs are mutations of the desktop. This results in all sorts of issues with efficiency and ergonomics.
PPCs tend to be initially favored because they resemble the desktop. But, after some real use of applications, you get to appreciate Palm's design choices. After a short acclimation period with Palm OS, you get used to the GUI metaphors and I think you'd find it to be the best option as well.
WHY - WHY - WHY - WHY - WHY does Slashdot insist on posting stories with absolutely no context in the summaries? I had no clue what Firefly or Serenity even was until I started reading posts. Hello, everyone hasn't been waiting in anticipation for this show or it wouldn't have been cancelled.
How about you editors start using the story summaries to SUMMARIZE, instead of just posting obscure references like Slashdot is a personal blog? We're not your roommates.
You misunderstood me. I don't disagree with you, in fact I applaud the ACLU for standing up where most people won't because of association. That was my point. The parent post implied some sort of a liberal bias to the ACLU, when in fact it's a citizens rights organization that simply happens to align with liberals on some major issues. e.g. Just because I agree with a Democrat on point X doesn't make me a Democrat.
Oh yeah, and the ACLU is dedicated to protecting the rights of *citizens* regardless of political affilliation. Only the ACLU has the balls to represent a child molester when there's blatent violation. When they take your rights away, they're not going to use a case against a nun. They're going to use the most reviled members of society (like terrorists).
Speaking of which, the ACLU is actually on the side of Rush Limbaugh regarding the privacy of his health records.
If you want some information on why the ACLU challenge to the recall was so important, I recommend watching the documentary "Enron" (I just saw it last night). Amazing how the citizens of Cal-ee-fornia could be duped into supporting an advocate of the company that got them into their financial situation.
Why can't people with objectionss to environmentalist theories express themselves without reverting to pejoratives like "hippie", "tree-hugger", or "Luddite"? It makes it very difficult to take your arguments as anything more than ideological marching orders.
You also don't seem to empathize with what environmentalists are saying. I think you can review some of the comments to this article to find that some concerns are neither irrational, knee-jerk, or Luddian (if that's a word).
You make some points that I simply can't accept. You're saying that environmentalism doesn't help humankind OR Mother Earth? You're saying that there's no point to prohibitions since people will do things anyways (you sound like an anarchist on that one)? You're saying that "we simply aren't going to make it" if nanotechnology is regulated?
I find it interesting that even the greatest "free market" advocates become "tree-hugging hippie Luddites" as soon as they start seeing the effects of pollution and toxin in their children.
Note, I can't call myself a hardcore environmentalist, but I completely agree wiht the fact that they're out there on the frontlines at least asking questions and trying to educate people.
If you actually watched any of those channels instead of getting your marching orders from Limbaugh, you'd know how idiotic you sound. I just got home from lunch after watching coverage on the scandal on CNN and MSNBC. And since I've known about the story since it first broke and I don't watch Fox News (now proven to make you stupid) you can bet that these networks have been covering the story.
Plus, UN does not equate to "those foreigners." The only person I've heard of charged (and convicted?) of oil-for-food scamming was an *AMERICAN*.
But in all honesty, I haven't been following the story all that closely because it pales in comparison to what's going on in Iraq.
The problem with "No Child Left Behind" is it's an unfunded mandate. Bush pressed for the teacher accountability but didn't shell out for the other part of the program; that being attempting to equalize funding between richer and poorer districts. Go into a crappy inner city school and compare its resources to a typical suburban school. The difference is a joke.
To tell a teacher who has nobly taken on that challenge that he or she has to take poor kids from uneducated backgrounds and make them compete with wealthier kids from educated backgrounds is insane. The biggest part of the joke is schools that don't cut the muster lose funding!
I worked at a high school in Kansas for 2 years for a school with a ton of cash to spend, but very little guidance on what to do with it. The school put a PC in every teacher's room as well as several computer labs, but didn't train the teachers at all on how to use them. I remember having teachers call me for help on the simplests tasks like copying files to a disk drive.
They also didn't have anywhere near enough tech support to deal with them all. Many of the computers were down and no one seemed to be formally assigned to desktop administration. I was a lab monitor, but I helped out where I could.
My point is, if computers aren't helping in the class room, it's probably because the school system doesn't have a plan for effectively using them. It's a big PR sell for the super intendent to say that he's got X computers per pupil in his district, to hell with what they're doing with them.
Just before I left, I'd heard that they had budgeted to buy every high school student a laptop, but still didn't have an adequate technology plan .
Why does Slashdot consistently post these kinds of stories with no context? Give us a little info on what it does, then we can decide quickly if it's a story we want to read.
Gore would have won Florida by any state-wide recounting scheme (I think there were 4). It was only some (or all) of the county-wide recounts that wouldn't have helped him.
As for "states rights," that term has inherited more definitions than the Founders originally envisioned. For example, it was used as a euphemism for pro-segregation during the civil rights struggle.
The issue with Diebold isn't as simplistic as you just made it sound. The fact that the CEO said he'd do everything he could to reelect Bush and the fact that a back-door for altering vote counts has been discovered should be the biggest story in the nation. I was absolutely horrified when I found this out through BugTraq. Greg Palast, one of the few honest journalists left out there, has reported on this as well. Chris Matthews had one of the discoverers (I think it was she) demonstrate the back-door on "Hardball" one night.
Here's a great example of how stats can be made to lie. Firstly, it was the first round of more stringent sanctions that caused most of the loss of civilian life in Iraq (including the 500,000 children claim I hear repeated). The sanctions were softened up after the UN accepted that they were killing civilians at a pretty horrible rate. Things had stabilized by the time we invaded, besides our almost daily bombing runs on targets in Iraq when Saddam wouldn't listen.
The Austrian sensation isn't as dirt-free as you might think. Do some digging around for Arnold's no-longer secret meeting with Enron execs a couple years (not sure of the time frame) before the recall. There's no coincidence that Bustamante's efforts to get back the $9 billion Enron stole from California (remember that whole energy price fixing scandal?) have stalled.
Arnold is the classic example of Sheeple getting herded to the slaughter house for personal gain. You give the ignorant masses too much credit.
Hmmm, I suppose that's some sort of a medival French siege weapon. I'd definitely classify this one as an aggressive legal maneuver. Let's see how well the IBM trebuchet counterattack works.
I'm not sure how closely you follow the wonkish side of politics, but Howard Dean has had a HUGE impact on this election, more specifically the voice of the Democrats. The Bush Administration and it's heavy-handed tactics had the Democrats too intimidated to take a stand. It took Dean's courageous and vocal criticisms of Bush to put the fight back into them. Without Dean, Kerry would still be using the "I'm more centrist than you are" strategy.
Unfortunately, he was too far to the left for the entrenched Democratic leadership which is why they all turned on him (behind-the-scenes maneuvering to sabotage his campaign).
As for "charging up the angry Bush-haters", that's precisely the reason Bush will probably lose this next election.
I'm not a big fan of Moore's work. I think incorporates humor to the extent that it allows for critics to berate his techniques. However...
This is a great film for Americans to see simply for the fact that it packages information on the Bush Administration and it's complete incompetence in a way that the average American can digest. Hell, there are still around 50% of us who think Iraq launched the 9/11 attacks (down from a high at over 70% at one time). And, the Bush administration is STILL trying to perpetuate this BS.
The people you hear picking over the details of this film and screaming about the lies are the same ones who don't have a problem with Bush and Cheney lying about Iraq.
Rice was trying to make the point that there was no "actionable intelligence" in the briefing. But, that was her attempt to downplay the significance of that memo. Those daily briefings are normally a paragraph or so long, and the memo in question was over a page. In intelligence lingo, it screamed that something was going to happen and SOON. Also, while it didn't say "expect an attack here," it should have at least lit a flamethrower under the executive branch's butts.
And, Rice didn't shoot down anything during her testimony. Her testimony as well as that of others revealed how completely unconcerned this administration was with Al-Qaeda.
"Those familiar with the Master File say it is poised for a fatal crash that would shut the government down."
Well, if it's been running essentially the same code for over forty years (with tax law changes probably every year), that has to say *something* for its reliability.
I love these on-line discussions about tracking the TERRORIST threat. Sorry if this is hard to read, it's in the ARABIC font. Man, sometimes I just want to declare JIHAD against my browser. You'd think I'd have better things to do than read Slashdot articles. They're written so well that they're KILLING AMERICANS free-time all over the country. But, what are you going to do, HIJACK our internet connections:) Hey, editors, this article is the BOMB!
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Man, I'm so tired of Slashdot hackers slamming Java. Yes, C/C++ is a powerful, ubiquitous language but it has some problems; such as a terrible, error-prone syntax. My biggest problem with C/C++ from a project management perspective is that it lacks the strong, explicit namespacing of Java. Java is an attempt to address some of these problems and some features are omitted specifically because of the problems they caused weren't worth the functionality they provided (such as multiple inheritance). Most of the Java griping I see is from programmers who simply don't know how to interpret their C tricks with Java; and therefore the language sucks.
If you think Java is just "dumbed down C/C++", then you haven't learned Java as well as you think. Like any language, Java plays its own role and the constant "C/C++ is bettter!" posts are simplistic.
Hell, you don't even have to go *that* far back. During the 1st Bush term, we helped stage coups against Aristide in Haiti (sp) and Chavez in Venezuela (both democratically elected). What's so hilarious (in a depressing way) is what happened afterwards. Chavez was brought *back* into power by the people and Aristide simply said in effect "Well, if you Americans claim I left the country voluntarily, then I should be able to go back..."
Mind you I'm American, but a lot of us are complete fools scarfing down whatever propaganda our leadership feeds us. I've seen the lie become truth so often in the past few years that I've developed a completely new respect for the foresight of George Orwell. The guy looks like a damned prophet today.
I've spent the last months evaluating PDAs for a migration project, and I'd have to say that Palms are superior simply because they're designed from the ground up to be handhelds. PPCs are mutations of the desktop. This results in all sorts of issues with efficiency and ergonomics.
PPCs tend to be initially favored because they resemble the desktop. But, after some real use of applications, you get to appreciate Palm's design choices. After a short acclimation period with Palm OS, you get used to the GUI metaphors and I think you'd find it to be the best option as well.
WHY - WHY - WHY - WHY - WHY does Slashdot insist on posting stories with absolutely no context in the summaries? I had no clue what Firefly or Serenity even was until I started reading posts. Hello, everyone hasn't been waiting in anticipation for this show or it wouldn't have been cancelled.
How about you editors start using the story summaries to SUMMARIZE, instead of just posting obscure references like Slashdot is a personal blog? We're not your roommates.
You misunderstood me. I don't disagree with you, in fact I applaud the ACLU for standing up where most people won't because of association. That was my point. The parent post implied some sort of a liberal bias to the ACLU, when in fact it's a citizens rights organization that simply happens to align with liberals on some major issues. e.g. Just because I agree with a Democrat on point X doesn't make me a Democrat.
Oh yeah, and the ACLU is dedicated to protecting the rights of *citizens* regardless of political affilliation. Only the ACLU has the balls to represent a child molester when there's blatent violation. When they take your rights away, they're not going to use a case against a nun. They're going to use the most reviled members of society (like terrorists).
Speaking of which, the ACLU is actually on the side of Rush Limbaugh regarding the privacy of his health records.
If you want some information on why the ACLU challenge to the recall was so important, I recommend watching the documentary "Enron" (I just saw it last night). Amazing how the citizens of Cal-ee-fornia could be duped into supporting an advocate of the company that got them into their financial situation.
Why can't people with objectionss to environmentalist theories express themselves without reverting to pejoratives like "hippie", "tree-hugger", or "Luddite"? It makes it very difficult to take your arguments as anything more than ideological marching orders.
You also don't seem to empathize with what environmentalists are saying. I think you can review some of the comments to this article to find that some concerns are neither irrational, knee-jerk, or Luddian (if that's a word).
You make some points that I simply can't accept. You're saying that environmentalism doesn't help humankind OR Mother Earth? You're saying that there's no point to prohibitions since people will do things anyways (you sound like an anarchist on that one)? You're saying that "we simply aren't going to make it" if nanotechnology is regulated?
I find it interesting that even the greatest "free market" advocates become "tree-hugging hippie Luddites" as soon as they start seeing the effects of pollution and toxin in their children.
Note, I can't call myself a hardcore environmentalist, but I completely agree wiht the fact that they're out there on the frontlines at least asking questions and trying to educate people.
If you actually watched any of those channels instead of getting your marching orders from Limbaugh, you'd know how idiotic you sound. I just got home from lunch after watching coverage on the scandal on CNN and MSNBC. And since I've known about the story since it first broke and I don't watch Fox News (now proven to make you stupid) you can bet that these networks have been covering the story. Plus, UN does not equate to "those foreigners." The only person I've heard of charged (and convicted?) of oil-for-food scamming was an *AMERICAN*. But in all honesty, I haven't been following the story all that closely because it pales in comparison to what's going on in Iraq.
The problem with "No Child Left Behind" is it's an unfunded mandate. Bush pressed for the teacher accountability but didn't shell out for the other part of the program; that being attempting to equalize funding between richer and poorer districts. Go into a crappy inner city school and compare its resources to a typical suburban school. The difference is a joke.
To tell a teacher who has nobly taken on that challenge that he or she has to take poor kids from uneducated backgrounds and make them compete with wealthier kids from educated backgrounds is insane. The biggest part of the joke is schools that don't cut the muster lose funding!
I worked at a high school in Kansas for 2 years for a school with a ton of cash to spend, but very little guidance on what to do with it. The school put a PC in every teacher's room as well as several computer labs, but didn't train the teachers at all on how to use them. I remember having teachers call me for help on the simplests tasks like copying files to a disk drive.
They also didn't have anywhere near enough tech support to deal with them all. Many of the computers were down and no one seemed to be formally assigned to desktop administration. I was a lab monitor, but I helped out where I could.
My point is, if computers aren't helping in the class room, it's probably because the school system doesn't have a plan for effectively using them. It's a big PR sell for the super intendent to say that he's got X computers per pupil in his district, to hell with what they're doing with them.
Just before I left, I'd heard that they had budgeted to buy every high school student a laptop, but still didn't have an adequate technology plan .
Some of the characters are *DEFINITE* rip-offs of Marvel heroes. In that case, they have a right to defend their IP.
Why does Slashdot consistently post these kinds of stories with no context? Give us a little info on what it does, then we can decide quickly if it's a story we want to read.
Actually, it's a small difference. A very, very, very small difference.
Gore would have won Florida by any state-wide recounting scheme (I think there were 4). It was only some (or all) of the county-wide recounts that wouldn't have helped him.
As for "states rights," that term has inherited more definitions than the Founders originally envisioned. For example, it was used as a euphemism for pro-segregation during the civil rights struggle.
The issue with Diebold isn't as simplistic as you just made it sound. The fact that the CEO said he'd do everything he could to reelect Bush and the fact that a back-door for altering vote counts has been discovered should be the biggest story in the nation. I was absolutely horrified when I found this out through BugTraq. Greg Palast, one of the few honest journalists left out there, has reported on this as well. Chris Matthews had one of the discoverers (I think it was she) demonstrate the back-door on "Hardball" one night.
Han Solo actually shoots at Wicket FIRST before they try to cook him.
Here's a great example of how stats can be made to lie. Firstly, it was the first round of more stringent sanctions that caused most of the loss of civilian life in Iraq (including the 500,000 children claim I hear repeated). The sanctions were softened up after the UN accepted that they were killing civilians at a pretty horrible rate. Things had stabilized by the time we invaded, besides our almost daily bombing runs on targets in Iraq when Saddam wouldn't listen.
The Austrian sensation isn't as dirt-free as you might think. Do some digging around for Arnold's no-longer secret meeting with Enron execs a couple years (not sure of the time frame) before the recall. There's no coincidence that Bustamante's efforts to get back the $9 billion Enron stole from California (remember that whole energy price fixing scandal?) have stalled.
Arnold is the classic example of Sheeple getting herded to the slaughter house for personal gain. You give the ignorant masses too much credit.
Hmmm, I suppose that's some sort of a medival French siege weapon. I'd definitely classify this one as an aggressive legal maneuver. Let's see how well the IBM trebuchet counterattack works.
I'm not sure how closely you follow the wonkish side of politics, but Howard Dean has had a HUGE impact on this election, more specifically the voice of the Democrats. The Bush Administration and it's heavy-handed tactics had the Democrats too intimidated to take a stand. It took Dean's courageous and vocal criticisms of Bush to put the fight back into them. Without Dean, Kerry would still be using the "I'm more centrist than you are" strategy.
Unfortunately, he was too far to the left for the entrenched Democratic leadership which is why they all turned on him (behind-the-scenes maneuvering to sabotage his campaign).
As for "charging up the angry Bush-haters", that's precisely the reason Bush will probably lose this next election.
I'm not a big fan of Moore's work. I think incorporates humor to the extent that it allows for critics to berate his techniques. However...
This is a great film for Americans to see simply for the fact that it packages information on the Bush Administration and it's complete incompetence in a way that the average American can digest. Hell, there are still around 50% of us who think Iraq launched the 9/11 attacks (down from a high at over 70% at one time). And, the Bush administration is STILL trying to perpetuate this BS.
The people you hear picking over the details of this film and screaming about the lies are the same ones who don't have a problem with Bush and Cheney lying about Iraq.
Rice was trying to make the point that there was no "actionable intelligence" in the briefing. But, that was her attempt to downplay the significance of that memo. Those daily briefings are normally a paragraph or so long, and the memo in question was over a page. In intelligence lingo, it screamed that something was going to happen and SOON. Also, while it didn't say "expect an attack here," it should have at least lit a flamethrower under the executive branch's butts.
And, Rice didn't shoot down anything during her testimony. Her testimony as well as that of others revealed how completely unconcerned this administration was with Al-Qaeda.
"Those familiar with the Master File say it is poised for a fatal crash that would shut the government down."
Well, if it's been running essentially the same code for over forty years (with tax law changes probably every year), that has to say *something* for its reliability.
I love these on-line discussions about tracking the TERRORIST threat. Sorry if this is hard to read, it's in the ARABIC font. Man, sometimes I just want to declare JIHAD against my browser. You'd think I'd have better things to do than read Slashdot articles. They're written so well that they're KILLING AMERICANS free-time all over the country. But, what are you going to do, HIJACK our internet connections :) Hey, editors, this article is the BOMB!
Gotta go, someone's at the door.