once we became strong enough we even had a hand in helping those threated by totalitarist regimes from being subjugated
You really helped the people of Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran... didn't you?
No, the US is a much like all great powers past and present. It bumbles along doing a combination of doing what it thinks is right and what best serves it's own strategic interests. Occasionally it does things right, like getting rid of Saddam, occasionally it gets things wrong, like Somalia.
Of course it was on the side of good in the second world war, for which I am, to this day, grateful. I'm a great supporter of the US but some of the people who spout off in it's defence in Slashdot do it no service, and as for the infantile anti-americanism of some europeans, well most of them are as jingoistic and short-sighted as the unthinking flag wavers.
Maybe nobody told you, but the punishment for the crime is...being locked up. Yes it may have escaped your notice, peabrain, but in most democracies governments do not pass laws stating that anyone found gulity of breaking certain laws should be locked up AND tortured. Your DUE PROCESS does not just cover the trial it also covers the punishment as well.
The punishment does not consist of being raped, tortured or otherwise abused while you are in prison.
Much better people than you have given their lives over the last few months so that some other people don't have to suffer like that.
I'd also like to thankyou for confirming my generalisation above that most Slashdot readers are dickheads. You are a particularly fine example and you're probably getting a hard-on now jts thinking about prison rape:-x
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Actually, the amount of jokes about prison rape, SCO "having to bite the pillow", somebody or other getting "bitchslappped", somebody or other being somebody's "ho'", etc etc and fucking cetera, on Slashdot makes me realise that the cliche about the majority of geeks having sexual problems and hangups of some nature are true. You know, typical virgin teenage boys.
Much of CORBA's complexity is due to the fact that building distributed systems is complex. Lots of project that have tried to build middleware try to start off being simpler than CORBA but inthe end fininsh up just as complex (see J2EE). The complexity comes not from it being portable but being able to be used in C++, Java, Cobol etc etc
Anyone interested in issues about speeding in the UK should be aware that there is a group of people who think that because they are better than average drivers (doesn't everybody ?), then speed limits shouldn't apply to them. Now that there is a technology that can catch them when they are speeding and they get punished for breaking the law, they whinge on about a police/government conspiracy to replace taxation with speed fines, anti-car, anti-driver coalitions and the come up with all these fanciful statistics showing that driving faster than the speed limit is good for the national economy, speeding isn't really dangerous for pedestrians, all traffic calming measures are dangerous etc. etc.
I think I would trust a story in the Sun more than I would trust these people and that's saying something
Get in touch with me about the requirements. I'm looking for ideas for an OSS project that I could start off.
I work for a company that consults for local gov and public sector in the UK so I know the sector. Although Oracle are trying to move into this area there may be a need for OSS solutions for smaller organisation/authorities,
Arguing that a law doesn't stop a crime being commited therefore you shouldn't have that law is spurious. Pot use and underage drinking are a lot less than they would be if they weren't illegal. If that law helps stop one kid getting drunk and killing himself it's worth having. If a spam law stopped just a small percentage of spam it would still save shedloads of money worldwide that is now wasted dealing with spam.
I think the most interesting quite from the article was this
They're all trying to build servers that already exist and do a whole bunch of stuff that's already out there...I think there's a lot of room to not just create an alternative to Microsoft but really take the next step and do something new.
Listen to him guys, he's a CEO.
Now I'm going to take those Fenders off, thay don't twang like they used to, and get me some Ernie Balls.
I can only assume that you don't have children. Crying is only the noisiest method they have of verbally communicating. They have lot's of others.
Sometimes I think that Kurt Vonnegut got the idea about the aliens in "The Breakfast of Champions" who communicate by tap-dancing and farting, by watching babies and young children.
Actually, I've no idea of what you're talking about.
I really hate this geeky "thing" where geeks are supposed to be bespectacled social inadequates who can't get a leg-over. I'm a geek, I was top of the year at school and got prizes for academic achievement. I started programing at 14 (in 1970) I was also captain of the school rugby team, went climbing and hiking regulary, worked out in the gym, played in the dramatic society, started a folk group and got laid a few times.
I also set fire to the science lab, nearly elecrocuted our physics teacher, connected the bunsen burners to the water supply. I really enjoyed school and went on to do science at University.
Thirty years on I still do quite a lot of that stuff (not as much as I'd like to) and I still hack code, run linux boxes, network my house... read Slashdot even
Ow Nahw i' ain't.
Oim a bleedin' norvener an' even Oi knahw i's twenny foiv quid
It comes comes from my Grandad taking me to the horse racing and to the bookies and explaining the intricacies of a yanky, three cross doubles and a cross treble and how to read a form book, when I was a nipper,
(Sorry about that pathetic attempt at phonetically spelling cockney)
A QA manager that I worked with remarked once that it's possible to be IS09001 compliant and still be manufacturing concrete parachutes, as long as your processes are documented and repeatable. I think the same applies to CMM
Totally off topic but this reminds me of when I first went to live in Germany, many moons ago, and people asked me what I missed most about the UK and I always replied "the Indian restaurants." Since I've returned to live in the UK people ask me what I miss about Germany and I always reply "the Turkish kebab shops".
Let me guess. You're american:-) or at least someone who uses "I guess" in an American-English cultural context.
Even the mechanics are a bit of a problem. German grammar is quite different to English. It's true that Anglo-Saxon was a Germanic language, a branch of Old High German (I think but I'm not 100% sure) but it's changed so much over the years with various Viking languages and Norman French (which was a mix of old French and some other Viking languages) that there's not much relationship between them nowadays. Inflection and the Conjunctive case have all but disappeared from modern English and who nowadays knows when to use who and when to use whom.
All of this means that any non-human translation is going to be nowhere nears as good as a human for quite a while yet (IMO)
cheers
Phil
Yes I read that part, I guess it depends on the language. English being Germanic should n't be too much of a problem I guess
Then like most guesswork you'd be wrong. For example a german poet might refer to a "tree". Now the meanings associated with trees in German culture are very different from those in British English culture. In German you would have associations with Germanic Mythology, the old folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, the modern german environmental movement. In english you'd probably think of things like Robin Hood and men in tights, "Hearts of Oak" and the british navy and various modern prejudices against anyone who cares about the environment (tree hugger).
So that to a german or english speaker the word tree conjures up very different images. Thats why with even related languages (though German and English aren't as close as you probably think they are) it takes a skilled translator of literature to bring across what the original author possibly intended. You need to be well versed in the "culture" of both languages to translate effectively,
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once we became strong enough we even had a hand in helping those threated by totalitarist regimes from being subjugated
You really helped the people of Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran... didn't you?
No, the US is a much like all great powers past and present. It bumbles along doing a combination of doing what it thinks is right and what best serves it's own strategic interests. Occasionally it does things right, like getting rid of Saddam, occasionally it gets things wrong, like Somalia.
Of course it was on the side of good in the second world war, for which I am, to this day, grateful. I'm a great supporter of the US but some of the people who spout off in it's defence in Slashdot do it no service, and as for the infantile anti-americanism of some europeans, well most of them are as jingoistic and short-sighted as the unthinking flag wavers.
Thank you
Toilet paper.
I can live without anything else but I need a proper wipe after my morning dump or I just can't function
A Stoning! A Stoning !
Maybe nobody told you, but the punishment for the crime is...being locked up. Yes it may have escaped your notice, peabrain, but in most democracies governments do not pass laws stating that anyone found gulity of breaking certain laws should be locked up AND tortured. Your DUE PROCESS does not just cover the trial it also covers the punishment as well. The punishment does not consist of being raped, tortured or otherwise abused while you are in prison.
:-x
Much better people than you have given their lives over the last few months so that some other people don't have to suffer like that.
I'd also like to thankyou for confirming my generalisation above that most Slashdot readers are dickheads. You are a particularly fine example and you're probably getting a hard-on now jts thinking about prison rape
Actually, the amount of jokes about prison rape, SCO "having to bite the pillow", somebody or other getting "bitchslappped", somebody or other being somebody's "ho'", etc etc and fucking cetera, on Slashdot makes me realise that the cliche about the majority of geeks having sexual problems and hangups of some nature are true. You know, typical virgin teenage boys.
Much of CORBA's complexity is due to the fact that building distributed systems is complex. Lots of project that have tried to build middleware try to start off being simpler than CORBA but inthe end fininsh up just as complex (see J2EE). The complexity comes not from it being portable but being able to be used in C++, Java, Cobol etc etc
Bzzt wrong ! It was Douglas Adams.
Anyone interested in issues about speeding in the UK should be aware that there is a group of people who think that because they are better than average drivers (doesn't everybody ?), then speed limits shouldn't apply to them. Now that there is a technology that can catch them when they are speeding and they get punished for breaking the law, they whinge on about a police/government conspiracy to replace taxation with speed fines, anti-car, anti-driver coalitions and the come up with all these fanciful statistics showing that driving faster than the speed limit is good for the national economy, speeding isn't really dangerous for pedestrians, all traffic calming measures are dangerous etc. etc.
I think I would trust a story in the Sun more than I would trust these people and that's saying something
Intelligent individuals don't watch the Discovery Channel to learn about things
Funny, I could have sworn that the hangovers I had in Normandy were caused by the local cider :-)
Get in touch with me about the requirements. I'm looking for ideas for an OSS project that I could start off.
I work for a company that consults for local gov and public sector in the UK so I know the sector. Although Oracle are trying to move into this area there may be a need for OSS solutions for smaller organisation/authorities,
datacannibal@uk.yahoo.com
Arguing that a law doesn't stop a crime being commited therefore you shouldn't have that law is spurious. Pot use and underage drinking are a lot less than they would be if they weren't illegal.
If that law helps stop one kid getting drunk and killing himself it's worth having. If a spam law stopped just a small percentage of spam it would still save shedloads of money worldwide that is now wasted dealing with spam.
Listen to him guys, he's a CEO.
Now I'm going to take those Fenders off, thay don't twang like they used to, and get me some Ernie Balls.
Looking at the bits that would be missing I must say that I wouldn't miss them. Especially as most of Yorkshire seems to disappear :-)
I can only assume that you don't have children. Crying is only the noisiest method they have of verbally communicating. They have lot's of others.
Sometimes I think that Kurt Vonnegut got the idea about the aliens in "The Breakfast of Champions" who communicate by tap-dancing and farting, by watching babies and young children.
They're not all named Ian (or Iain) the rest of them are all named Steve,
Actually, I've no idea of what you're talking about.
I really hate this geeky "thing" where geeks are supposed to be bespectacled social inadequates who can't get a leg-over. I'm a geek, I was top of the year at school and got prizes for academic achievement. I started programing at 14 (in 1970) I was also captain of the school rugby team, went climbing and hiking regulary, worked out in the gym, played in the dramatic society, started a folk group and got laid a few times.
I also set fire to the science lab, nearly elecrocuted our physics teacher, connected the bunsen burners to the water supply. I really enjoyed school and went on to do science at University.
Thirty years on I still do quite a lot of that stuff (not as much as I'd like to) and I still hack code, run linux boxes, network my house... read Slashdot even
Am I or am I not a geek ?
Nope, the next step is to kidnap the baby of the guy who flew the thing. Using a remote control getaway car, of course
Does the New Oxford American Dictionary explain the diference between "to" and "too" as well :-)
Isn't IBM from the country that calls its national baseball championship the World series ??!!??!!?
Ow Nahw i' ain't.
Oim a bleedin' norvener an' even Oi knahw i's twenny foiv quid
It comes comes from my Grandad taking me to the horse racing and to the bookies and explaining the intricacies of a yanky, three cross doubles and a cross treble and how to read a form book, when I was a nipper,
(Sorry about that pathetic attempt at phonetically spelling cockney)
A QA manager that I worked with remarked once that it's possible to be IS09001 compliant and still be manufacturing concrete parachutes, as long as your processes are documented and repeatable. I think the same applies to CMM
Totally off topic but this reminds me of when I first went to live in Germany, many moons ago, and people asked me what I missed most about the UK and I always replied "the Indian restaurants." Since I've returned to live in the UK people ask me what I miss about Germany and I always reply "the Turkish kebab shops".
It's a funny old world innit ?
Let me guess. You're american :-) or at least someone who uses "I guess" in an American-English cultural context.
Even the mechanics are a bit of a problem. German grammar is quite different to English. It's true that Anglo-Saxon was a Germanic language, a branch of Old High German (I think but I'm not 100% sure) but it's changed so much over the years with various Viking languages and Norman French (which was a mix of old French and some other Viking languages) that there's not much relationship between them nowadays. Inflection and the Conjunctive case have all but disappeared from modern English and who nowadays knows when to use who and when to use whom.
All of this means that any non-human translation is going to be nowhere nears as good as a human for quite a while yet (IMO)
cheers
Phil
Yes I read that part, I guess it depends on the language. English being Germanic should n't be too much of a problem I guess
Then like most guesswork you'd be wrong. For example a german poet might refer to a "tree". Now the meanings associated with trees in German culture are very different from those in British English culture. In German you would have associations with Germanic Mythology, the old folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, the modern german environmental movement. In english you'd probably think of things like Robin Hood and men in tights, "Hearts of Oak" and the british navy and various modern prejudices against anyone who cares about the environment (tree hugger). So that to a german or english speaker the word tree conjures up very different images. Thats why with even related languages (though German and English aren't as close as you probably think they are) it takes a skilled translator of literature to bring across what the original author possibly intended. You need to be well versed in the "culture" of both languages to translate effectively,
cheers and tschuess
Phil