First off de-Baathfication was explicit US policy. The Ba'ath party has been hostile to the west since 1940 when Michel Aflaq founded it. Further at the time of the invasion the opposition to the US was Sunni, with Shia and Kurd supporting, the Ba'ath was primarily Sunni. I can understand the desire for continuity, but George HW Bush had asked the Ba'ath to make minor changes, as had Clinton. That policy had failed. It was not unreasonable to the United States to conclude that the Ba'ath had no intention of ever assisting.
The warmongers who came in with Bush (i.e. Cheney and his crew) were calling to overthrow Hussein the entire time Bill Clinton was in office. This is all well documented, even if it was never reported in the main stream press.
I sure I'm going to get slammed for saying this. I think it is fair to blame the west for the destruction of Iraqi universities that happened in 2003. However, a decade later we multiple attempts to try and rebuild Iraq.
1) It wasn't Americans that were backing Al Quida in Iraq and opposing the occupation. 2) It wasn't Americans that decided to have a religious civil war. 3) It wasn't Americans that decided to develop closer ties with Iran that had interests in preventing stabilization under the United States.
The people who decided they wanted George Bush to fail so much they were willing to trash their own country were the Iraqis. I understand why, lots of people don't like occupation governments and George Bush was an occupier right out of a comic book. But I think at this point the US should take credit for having done their best to try and pacify the country and whatever failures there are came from a the Iraqi people's "better to rule in hell than serve in heaven" attitude.
When do you think there was this golden age of uncrashy software? Prior to the webapps and scripting we had lots of VB desktop apps. Before that pointer errors and memory leaks as the rule not the exception.
Of course we need to focus on quality. But Americans in general won't pay for quality, and quality is very expensive. Apple is (very nicely) training them to pay for quality.
I don't know what "North America long distance" is some sort of international calling plan. In which case you might want to use a gateway where international calls run a few cents per minute.
But Verizon for example puts between $15/mo and $18/mo (24 mo) into a higher end smart phone and charges you $350 to terminate early (-$10 / mo). Your lockin represents a fair estimate of their costs.
But for me, the main purpose is to develop for the phone, not to use it as a phone, so when you add in the cost of a Mac and software to program for iOS devices, the Android platform wins by a HUGE margin.
Unless you mean developing for your own phone in which case maybe. But last year the sales of the Apple market were 7x the size of the Android, Blackberry and Nokia market combined. So if it is commercial software development then you have to consider sales potential.
I don't even understand how your proposal would work. There is far more demand for spectrum than there is spectrum. It is a scarce resource.
The government needs to carve it up into usable chunks. From there they can either:
a) Give it away b) Sell it.
The real advantage of (b) is that in general that is how we handle most scarce resources, we force people to pay a lot for them. Further having people buy it creates money to fund other services. You are not addressing scarcity.
I was more of a Mandrake user than a Mandriva user.
Essentially the idea was that while most distributions were pretty good about getting software onto your system the initial setup was quite often too hard. Nothing worked out of the box right. Mandrake had stuff setup and had a unified system for minor reconfiguration.
For example Mandrake invented the idea of an administrative panal. They were the first distribution that tied setting across multiple apps together into a unified framework. So for example I could issue a command like "mandrake-security 3" and everything from my xwindows to my password scheme to my firewall setting would all change. This was like the linux commend line configuration or webmin except it actually worked.
And lots of stuff from the webserver to the ftp server just worked. You pressed one button it was on and setup in a way you could use it. I'll agree beyond minor reconfiguration it got difficult. Another example is they merged KDE and Gnome together, before this was easy. They understood people were going to want to use applications from both sets while still wanting a desktop that at least looked consistent.
The point was it got you a workstation Linux running quickly that pretty much did everything you wanted. It was setup well for the person who used a diverse group of software lightly, which is very different than the typical Unix which is setup for a person who uses a small subset heavily. For what I wanted: a good TeX with a minium of hassles plus other stuff Windows couldn't do when I needed it quickly and easily, it just perfect.
Autolisp (Autocad), ELisp (Emacs), Franz (became Mathematica), Nyquist (sound processing), MELT (internal programming language for writing compilers inside of GCC).
Interesting. Agreed you are a counter point. Though having read it almost 20 years after (and given you/. # I'm assuming you were born around 1990)... there might be something generational.
If you didn't like the movie you wouldn't have liked the comic. The movie was fun for fans of the comics and the sorts of people who would have liked the comic a generation later. That ain't nearly enough to make a major blockbuster special effects movie a financial success.
No... Norvig's variant: Any sufficiently complicated Common Lisp program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of Prolog.
OSX machines can be administered via. OSX admins or Unix admins. Trying to admin a Unix, be it Solaris, AIX, Linux or OSX like a Windows machine is genuine a load of suck.
1) OSX versions have a 2 year lifespan. You cannot write your instructions in typical Windows "click here" style. 2) FileVault included does Full disk encryption on OSX. Prior to 10.7 PGP WDE worked fine. 3) The way to script changes in you would click through is using the AppleScript browser and automater. You can read off from there the various changes possible. Other than that, yes you need to use defaults and you can google that stuff.
4) The way you are supposed to do what you were trying to do is with OSX server which offers automatic admin and config.
The OSX kernel is a lot slower than the linux kernel. The iOS interface will generally crush most Linux interfaces doing the same sort of work. You aren't being detailed enough to compare though.
A good way to test is run your XWindows Linux stuff under quartz-wm.
The whole premise of this article is wrong. During the time when Mandriva was Mandrake, the Linux OS part of Mandrake was profitable. However, they diversified into Educational Products, that were going to be sold to European schools. That business lost a ton of money. They went bankrupt and reformed as Mandriva.
Ubuntu sort of took the power user desktop niche away and I don't know if Mandriva could have been successful with Ubuntu there. But Mandrake did exactly what the article suggests.
The carriers are running out of spectrum. The people to blame are congress here. The FCC has recommended that high def TV spectrum be auctioned off to where it is needed. So far congress hasn't moved.
Read what I wrote. It wasn't a mistake it was a choice. It was a choice made for good reasons. We have no idea of what happens historically if we had made the opposite choice. The US could be a lot like the Soviet Union was, where the intelligence services are part of day to day politics and law enforcement and political enforcement are completely intermixed. We saw a lot of that happening during the Bush administration. Under Nixon when FBI counter intelligence was used against student radicals we saw student radicals become actual subverses and start to coordinate with foreign elements skilled in using US counter intelligence.
This is not about "blame" it is about knowing who did what and why. Knowing facts rather than platitudes. If you "don't care" then don't bring the topic up.
Contempt requires no proof, as the judge was a witness to the crime of contempt. You can be held in jail in the US for hundreds of years for contempt with no appeals, no hearings, and no way of oversight.
That's just not true on any count. In most states imprisonment is severely limited. For example Texas has a maximum of 6 months and a maximum fine of $500 / day. Most states require contempt hearing before another judge except for trivial fines. All states allow for appeals (usually via. writ of habeas corpus), hearings and oversight.
The most common contempt in our current system is for unwillingness to pay child support. All 50 states allow these contempt orders to be appealed quickly and easily. In most states imprisonment is for days after fugitives are found. The system of family courts are not perfect. But our justice system is just not designed to handle detailed cases over the piddling amounts of money in most middle class families. The system is not perfect but it is not at all what you are describing their are checks at every level.
If he did lose the money in an investment such that he didn't produce it because he could not, is it within the norms of our society to hold innocent people in jail? Sadly, it seems the answer is all too often "yes."
The court determined beyond a reasonable doubt he still had the money. He argued he didn't. He is no more legally innocent then all sorts of other people who have been convicted of crimes. Is it possible his story was true, yes but far less likely than many other innocent people.
At best while in the course of trying to avoid paying a judgement he transfered money around illegal and lost the money. Which is sorta like the people who were involved in all sorts of felonies and get convicted for something worse while trying to cover up the crimes they were actually doing. It happens, and it is unfortunate.
And going back to encryption all these protections would exist.
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First off de-Baathfication was explicit US policy. The Ba'ath party has been hostile to the west since 1940 when Michel Aflaq founded it. Further at the time of the invasion the opposition to the US was Sunni, with Shia and Kurd supporting, the Ba'ath was primarily Sunni. I can understand the desire for continuity, but George HW Bush had asked the Ba'ath to make minor changes, as had Clinton. That policy had failed. It was not unreasonable to the United States to conclude that the Ba'ath had no intention of ever assisting.
Not reported in the mainstream press? This wasn't some secret plan it was US policy passed by both parties:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Liberation_Act
I sure I'm going to get slammed for saying this. I think it is fair to blame the west for the destruction of Iraqi universities that happened in 2003. However, a decade later we multiple attempts to try and rebuild Iraq.
1) It wasn't Americans that were backing Al Quida in Iraq and opposing the occupation.
2) It wasn't Americans that decided to have a religious civil war.
3) It wasn't Americans that decided to develop closer ties with Iran that had interests in preventing stabilization under the United States.
The people who decided they wanted George Bush to fail so much they were willing to trash their own country were the Iraqis. I understand why, lots of people don't like occupation governments and George Bush was an occupier right out of a comic book. But I think at this point the US should take credit for having done their best to try and pacify the country and whatever failures there are came from a the Iraqi people's "better to rule in hell than serve in heaven" attitude.
When do you think there was this golden age of uncrashy software? Prior to the webapps and scripting we had lots of VB desktop apps. Before that pointer errors and memory leaks as the rule not the exception.
Of course we need to focus on quality. But Americans in general won't pay for quality, and quality is very expensive. Apple is (very nicely) training them to pay for quality.
Hold the hold button and the off/on button together for about 5 seconds. That will do a hard reset of your iphone.
I don't know what "North America long distance" is some sort of international calling plan. In which case you might want to use a gateway where international calls run a few cents per minute.
But Verizon for example puts between $15/mo and $18/mo (24 mo) into a higher end smart phone and charges you $350 to terminate early (-$10 / mo). Your lockin represents a fair estimate of their costs.
Most cell providers only have national plans, long distance is free. How are they gouging?
Unless you mean developing for your own phone in which case maybe. But last year the sales of the Apple market were 7x the size of the Android, Blackberry and Nokia market combined. So if it is commercial software development then you have to consider sales potential.
I don't even understand how your proposal would work. There is far more demand for spectrum than there is spectrum. It is a scarce resource.
The government needs to carve it up into usable chunks. From there they can either:
a) Give it away
b) Sell it.
The real advantage of (b) is that in general that is how we handle most scarce resources, we force people to pay a lot for them. Further having people buy it creates money to fund other services. You are not addressing scarcity.
OK.... now I'm not sure. 10 years doesn't seem long enough to not relate.
Oh well.
I was more of a Mandrake user than a Mandriva user.
Essentially the idea was that while most distributions were pretty good about getting software onto your system the initial setup was quite often too hard. Nothing worked out of the box right. Mandrake had stuff setup and had a unified system for minor reconfiguration.
For example Mandrake invented the idea of an administrative panal. They were the first distribution that tied setting across multiple apps together into a unified framework. So for example I could issue a command like "mandrake-security 3" and everything from my xwindows to my password scheme to my firewall setting would all change. This was like the linux commend line configuration or webmin except it actually worked.
And lots of stuff from the webserver to the ftp server just worked. You pressed one button it was on and setup in a way you could use it. I'll agree beyond minor reconfiguration it got difficult. Another example is they merged KDE and Gnome together, before this was easy. They understood people were going to want to use applications from both sets while still wanting a desktop that at least looked consistent.
The point was it got you a workstation Linux running quickly that pretty much did everything you wanted. It was setup well for the person who used a diverse group of software lightly, which is very different than the typical Unix which is setup for a person who uses a small subset heavily. For what I wanted: a good TeX with a minium of hassles plus other stuff Windows couldn't do when I needed it quickly and easily, it just perfect.
Autolisp (Autocad), ELisp (Emacs), Franz (became Mathematica), Nyquist (sound processing), MELT (internal programming language for writing compilers inside of GCC).
Interesting. Agreed you are a counter point. Though having read it almost 20 years after (and given you /. # I'm assuming you were born around 1990)... there might be something generational.
If you didn't like the movie you wouldn't have liked the comic. The movie was fun for fans of the comics and the sorts of people who would have liked the comic a generation later. That ain't nearly enough to make a major blockbuster special effects movie a financial success.
That's why DSL's in LISP are nice. They just admit the problem and include LISP underneath for when you want to do something different.
No... Norvig's variant: Any sufficiently complicated Common Lisp program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of Prolog.
Darn I have mod points but didn't read this one until I'd already commented above. Well done!
The movie lost money, mainly because special effects are expensive and R cuts the audience. The comic was a huge money maker.
OSX machines can be administered via. OSX admins or Unix admins. Trying to admin a Unix, be it Solaris, AIX, Linux or OSX like a Windows machine is genuine a load of suck.
1) OSX versions have a 2 year lifespan. You cannot write your instructions in typical Windows "click here" style.
2) FileVault included does Full disk encryption on OSX. Prior to 10.7 PGP WDE worked fine.
3) The way to script changes in you would click through is using the AppleScript browser and automater. You can read off from there the various changes possible. Other than that, yes you need to use defaults and you can google that stuff.
4) The way you are supposed to do what you were trying to do is with OSX server which offers automatic admin and config.
The OSX kernel is a lot slower than the linux kernel. The iOS interface will generally crush most Linux interfaces doing the same sort of work. You aren't being detailed enough to compare though.
A good way to test is run your XWindows Linux stuff under quartz-wm.
The whole premise of this article is wrong. During the time when Mandriva was Mandrake, the Linux OS part of Mandrake was profitable. However, they diversified into Educational Products, that were going to be sold to European schools. That business lost a ton of money. They went bankrupt and reformed as Mandriva.
Ubuntu sort of took the power user desktop niche away and I don't know if Mandriva could have been successful with Ubuntu there. But Mandrake did exactly what the article suggests.
The carriers are running out of spectrum. The people to blame are congress here. The FCC has recommended that high def TV spectrum be auctioned off to where it is needed. So far congress hasn't moved.
Wow, talk about misrepresenting the articles.
Here is the data from the original article:
Data calls per subscriber:
HTC Google Nexus One: 221%
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i: 157%
HTC Desire: 156%
Uplink data volumes:
3G Modems (various): 2654%
HTC Desire S: 323%
iPhone 4S: 320%
Downlink data volumes:
3G Modems (various): 2432%
iPhone 4S: 276%
Samsung Galaxy S: 199%
The Washington Post article, mentions the 4S as "Siri equipped". No one is saying much about Siri here at all.
I'm tired of being lectured.
Read what I wrote. It wasn't a mistake it was a choice. It was a choice made for good reasons. We have no idea of what happens historically if we had made the opposite choice. The US could be a lot like the Soviet Union was, where the intelligence services are part of day to day politics and law enforcement and political enforcement are completely intermixed. We saw a lot of that happening during the Bush administration. Under Nixon when FBI counter intelligence was used against student radicals we saw student radicals become actual subverses and start to coordinate with foreign elements skilled in using US counter intelligence.
This is not about "blame" it is about knowing who did what and why. Knowing facts rather than platitudes. If you "don't care" then don't bring the topic up.
That's just not true on any count. In most states imprisonment is severely limited. For example Texas has a maximum of 6 months and a maximum fine of $500 / day. Most states require contempt hearing before another judge except for trivial fines. All states allow for appeals (usually via. writ of habeas corpus), hearings and oversight.
The most common contempt in our current system is for unwillingness to pay child support. All 50 states allow these contempt orders to be appealed quickly and easily. In most states imprisonment is for days after fugitives are found. The system of family courts are not perfect. But our justice system is just not designed to handle detailed cases over the piddling amounts of money in most middle class families. The system is not perfect but it is not at all what you are describing their are checks at every level.
The court determined beyond a reasonable doubt he still had the money. He argued he didn't. He is no more legally innocent then all sorts of other people who have been convicted of crimes. Is it possible his story was true, yes but far less likely than many other innocent people.
At best while in the course of trying to avoid paying a judgement he transfered money around illegal and lost the money. Which is sorta like the people who were involved in all sorts of felonies and get convicted for something worse while trying to cover up the crimes they were actually doing. It happens, and it is unfortunate.
And going back to encryption all these protections would exist.