I have always believed that human beings real purpose in the eco-system was to serve as planet earths reproductive system. We transport the earths eco-system to other planets. Why do you think people from all ages have been fascinated with the stars and exploring. This attempt to catalog every living thing on the earth seems like a step in that direction.
These gatekeepers, by and large, are NOT liberals. And they control what gets published/aired. It has always been this way and this reality won't change anytime soon.
The myth that the rich are all conservative is an old lie. Warren Buffet (The second richest man in the U.S and prime funder of the Washington Post) and Ted Turner (CNN) are well know liberals. Rich people are for the most part not conservative. George Bush lost almost half the vote of those making more than $100,000 a year in the last election. Source.
Oh come on Communism has been in cartoons for a long time. Remember the Smurfs? They are all equal workers. Papa smurf wears a red hat? Brainy is the repressed intellectual. Hefty is the kgb. Gargamel is the evil capitalist trying to turn the smurfs (the proletariat) into gold. Anyone ever notice that Gargamel has very grotesque jewish features (big nose,etc) and his cat is named Asrael (Israel?).
Sure the price is cheaper, maybe. But what about in less developed countries were talent is far cheaper and software is far more expensive relatively.
I have been travelling around South America for the last 2 months and I've probably been to about 20 or 30 cybercafes. Nobody is using windows XP. Hahahaha. People were fine using Windows as long as it was free but now, with the piracy protection and all they are just going to stick to win2k and win98. This is kind of like the computers getting too fast issue. Everyone has a computer now and they are fast enough. Windows doesn't crash anymore and people don't need anymore features.
I talked to a guy who asked me about Linux who I met on the beach. He was the head of a large Chilean corporation who said that the software cops were coming to check out his licenses. I told him RedHat 8, Evolution, Star Office. Get the Point Of Sale and Call Center Running on Linux first. Oh yeah, and get a LINUX GURU.
This thing will be great as an anti-ship missle countermeasures. Check out this new Russian Weapon, the Sunburn missle, supersonic anti ship missle. If you had one of these lasers mounted on a destroyer, no matter how fast the incoming missle is flying a computer controlled gunner could point the laser at this thing and fry it as soon as it comes over the horizon. A destroyer or an aircraft carrier has enough electricity producing capability and heat dissipation that this would work.
All activists do is yell, scream and stamp their feet and tell drug developers that they should give away all their medicines for free. However, what ends up happening is that the drug providers decide that it is far less complex to spend all their money on developing hair loss and anti-impotence drugs because they can sell them for whatever they want and they won't be harrased by activists to give them away for free. The problem is is that the activists and politicians just talk. The drug companies actually produce the drugs and they aren't going to spend millions on drug development unless they are going to make a profit. The actual scientists, medical equipment producers, raw materials providers, etc at those labs aren't going to work for free either. In the end, somebody is going to have to pay for drug development which is very expensive.
The activists are unable to understand the irony of their activism.
This would have prevented the 9/11 attacks, how? Atta and his fellow terrorists made plenty of trial runs flying around the United States before their attacks. That's the sad part about a lot of the 9/11 aftermath is it would have done nothing to prevent the attacks yet it's being used as an excuse to implement all kinds of screwy privacy invasions.
Long ago and far away at the beginning of the Dot.Com bubble I worked with Don Marti. He is largely responsible for turning me into the linux zealot I am today:). I have never met a nicer or more jovial geek.
Not one of the comments posted here today displayed any perspective on September 11th from any view point informed by historical understanding, or at least of history that occurred before the birth date of the author.
I think the Washington Times put it best when they compared 1 year after September 11th to 1 year after December 7th, 1942: Link ---Quote---
Nobody was ready for "healing" on December 7, 1942, and "closure" was the last thing anybody wanted. America, on the first anniversary of that other date that lives in infamy -- often the benchmark by which September 11 is judged -- wanted blood and vengeance, without apology. No flowers, no teddy bears, and no exploration of the national angst. No presidential admonitions to think of Shinto as a religion of peace, no appeals to understand the frustrations that drove the misunderstood Nazis to rape Poland and bomb London. ---Quote---
We use resin, which is cheap ($500/host) but not free and it performs wonderfully. I've played around with jetty and tomcat but they just aren't as easy to configure and their documentation, speed, and apache integration are lacking. Resin is straight forward, fast and works well. I have also heard good things about Orion Server which recently became the basis for Oracle 9i and is also a pretty good bargain at a few thousand dollars per host.
I can just see it now super intelligent talking whales, mice, etc bent on fulfilling some mad environmentalist's dream of wiping humanity off the earth. This is basically the plot of Blue Submarine No 6, an anime movie.
Gold will always have resale value because it is an exchange traded commodity. If worse comes to worse you can always melt it down and sell it for $310 an ounce or more, if the price goes up. If you want to see the live price of gold you can go to Kitco and watch the value of your jewelry go up and down.
I guess everything I say on usenet going back 50 years will remain forever archived on google? Sheezh the privacy implications of it all.
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Two years age I replaced Mysql with postgres on our production ecommerce system. This was one of the early 7.0 releases. It's much faster, and much more stable than mysql and pretty much hassle free. The one thing I found was the query structure checking in mysql is so sloppy that the port to Postgres forced me to clean a lot of the queries up. I found some ambiguities that were caught by popstgres but would introduce subtle errors in the mysql based system. That, and Postgres has transactions.
I am convinced that the only reason people like Mysql is it has better marketing. The perfect example is those benchmarks they distribute with the software. Those are single user transactionless benchmarks!!! Single user benchmarks are not realistic. Anyway Postgres is far stabler faster product in my opinion.
Peering internet traffic reminds me of the Prisoner's Dilema.
First, the Prisoner's Dilema: Two prisoners are in separate cells. The prosecuting attorney says to each one separately: "If you rat on the other guy I'll give you less time". If they both rat then they both go to jail for a long amount of time. If one rats and the other doesn't the one that didn't goes to jail for a long sentence. The one that did gets set free for cooperating. If they both don't rat they get a plea bargain and get a short sentence.
Now for the telecom analogy: If one telecom charges another to peer traffic, the telecom that charges makes a lot of money and the one that doesn't looses a lot. If they both charge then they both loose because they won't send hardly any traffic and their customers will use less because of the high prices. If they both don't charge then they both win, because they do a lot of isp business and the market grows. The catch is, like the example above, if one of them charged and the other didn't the one that charged would do better than the one that didn't as compared to how the one that charged would have done if they had cooperated.
What is the solution for prisoner's dillema historically? It's tit for tat. If you defect (and rat on me). I will defect (and rat) on you. This works very well in games that are played over and over again. So what's going to happen is that the big portals are going to start charging the isps and vs. versa until they both decide to cooperate.
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Now it becomes evident why Microsoft hates the GPL. They hate it because it is not "embrace and extend"(TM) compatible. The BSD license however poses no "viral" problems for them.
India has a billion people and they use paper ballots, hand counted at the precinct level. The only thing that these sophisticated voting machines are for is for political dirty tricks and other skuldugery. What's so hard about counting votes on paper? That's the most reliable fool proof way to do it. Not so much in a technical sense but in a political sense in that the responsibility is distributed among many people so that if someone wants to cheat or rig the election or bunch chads twice it's much more difficult.
Remember the "Trans-Cap" The so called storage technology recovered from the Roswell aliens that stored 90gb!! It's already out of date... Damn those aliens have some catching up to do.
Professional short sellers LOVE to float bad news stories right at the ex-Dividend date (tomorrow for MCIT, WCOM's "Tracking stock").
The stock will automatically drop $.60 tomorrow at the open due to its dividend (MCIT) payout to shareholders of $.60 being set after the bell closed today.
That's a big, planned drop for a stock that already trades under $2 per share. Now toss in a little bad news, some fear-mongering, stir, and you've got yourself a panic selloff in MCIT and WCOM shares.
And someone out there will be waiting for their chance to buy a long distance company on the cheap, with Billions in annual earnings and hundreds of thousands of established, loyal customers.
Remember, when you want to buy a bargain, spread the bad news to coincide with the Ex-Dividend date...
In late 2000, China issued its first set of guidelines that required providers to track online chatrooms and bulletin boards and keep records of users' viewing times, addresses and telephone numbers.
Since January, Internet bars have been required to report attempts to open Web sites deemed subversive by the government, including those run by foreign media and the Falun Gong. Those that fail to install special software to track which sites users visit have been shut down.
The government is also eliciting the help of the masses in its cyber battle. In Shanghai, the police Internet office takes tips by e-mail on people who distribute banned information from the Web.
And the state-run Beijing Morning Post newspaper has set up a hot line for readers to report illegal Internet cafes, deemed "hei wangba" or "black cyber cafes." ---Quote
IMHO, The reason the record companies are so pissed off about people using file sharing is because they are not being compensated for their marketing efforts and that their marketing machines are getting tough competition from file sharing networks. They spend billions of dollars on marketing telling people what to buy. On MTV, on the radio, etc. When kids go out and get it off napster all their marketing dollars turn into nothing.
However their is also the competitive marketing threat.
How are they going to make billions ripping off artists with huge marketing fees if the internet makes it much easier for bands without record companies to market and this means they don't need the record companies.
IMHO, I think if it wasn't for the transformers movie, which had a very good script and storyline, people might have forgotten about the transformers the way they did, super mario bros, mortal kombat and all the other toy and game phenomenon that have come and gone. The movie left smart kids and even some adults with a good taste in their mouth about the whole phenomemnon that made it last.
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I have always believed that human beings real purpose in the eco-system was to serve as planet earths reproductive system. We transport the earths eco-system to other planets. Why do you think people from all ages have been fascinated with the stars and exploring. This attempt to catalog every living thing on the earth seems like a step in that direction.
The myth that the rich are all conservative is an old lie. Warren Buffet (The second richest man in the U.S and prime funder of the Washington Post) and Ted Turner (CNN) are well know liberals. Rich people are for the most part not conservative. George Bush lost almost half the vote of those making more than $100,000 a year in the last election.
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BTW, That's just what she's being accused of being. Whether or not she is anyone's opinion.
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One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.
Oh come on Communism has been in cartoons for a long time. Remember the Smurfs? They are all equal workers. Papa smurf wears a red hat? Brainy is the repressed intellectual. Hefty is the kgb. Gargamel is the evil capitalist trying to turn the smurfs (the proletariat) into gold. Anyone ever notice that Gargamel has very grotesque jewish features (big nose,etc) and his cat is named Asrael (Israel?).
Sure the price is cheaper, maybe. But what about in less developed countries were talent is far cheaper and software is far more expensive relatively.
I have been travelling around South America for the last 2 months and I've probably been to about 20 or 30 cybercafes. Nobody is using windows XP. Hahahaha. People were fine using Windows as long as it was free but now, with the piracy protection and all they are just going to stick to win2k and win98. This is kind of like the computers getting too fast issue. Everyone has a computer now and they are fast enough. Windows doesn't crash anymore and people don't need anymore features.
I talked to a guy who asked me about Linux who I met on the beach. He was the head of a large Chilean corporation who said that the software cops were coming to check out his licenses. I told him RedHat 8, Evolution, Star Office. Get the Point Of Sale and Call Center Running on Linux first. Oh yeah, and get a LINUX GURU.
This thing will be great as an anti-ship missle countermeasures. Check out this new Russian Weapon, the Sunburn missle, supersonic anti ship missle. If you had one of these lasers mounted on a destroyer, no matter how fast the incoming missle is flying a computer controlled gunner could point the laser at this thing and fry it as soon as it comes over the horizon. A destroyer or an aircraft carrier has enough electricity producing capability and heat dissipation that this would work.
The activists are unable to understand the irony of their activism.
This would have prevented the 9/11 attacks, how? Atta and his fellow terrorists made plenty of trial runs flying around the United States before their attacks. That's the sad part about a lot of the 9/11 aftermath is it would have done nothing to prevent the attacks yet it's being used as an excuse to implement all kinds of screwy privacy invasions.
Long ago and far away at the beginning of the Dot.Com bubble I worked with Don Marti. He is largely responsible for turning me into the linux zealot I am today :). I have never met a nicer or more jovial geek.
I think the Washington Times put it best when they compared 1 year after September 11th to 1 year after December 7th, 1942:
Link
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Nobody was ready for "healing" on December 7, 1942, and "closure" was the last thing anybody wanted.
America, on the first anniversary of that other date that lives in infamy -- often the benchmark by which September 11 is judged -- wanted blood and vengeance, without apology.
No flowers, no teddy bears, and no exploration of the national angst. No presidential admonitions to think of Shinto as a religion of peace, no appeals to understand the frustrations that drove the misunderstood Nazis to rape Poland and bomb London.
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We use resin, which is cheap ($500/host) but not free and it performs wonderfully. I've played around with jetty and tomcat but they just aren't as easy to configure and their documentation, speed, and apache integration are lacking. Resin is straight forward, fast and works well. I have also heard good things about Orion Server which recently became the basis for Oracle 9i and is also a pretty good bargain at a few thousand dollars per host.
I can just see it now super intelligent talking whales, mice, etc bent on fulfilling some mad environmentalist's dream of wiping humanity off the earth. This is basically the plot of Blue Submarine No 6, an anime movie.
Gold will always have resale value because it is an exchange traded commodity. If worse comes to worse you can always melt it down and sell it for $310 an ounce or more, if the price goes up. If you want to see the live price of gold you can go to Kitco and watch the value of your jewelry go up and down.
I guess everything I say on usenet going back 50 years will remain forever archived on google? Sheezh the privacy implications of it all.
I am convinced that the only reason people like Mysql is it has better marketing. The perfect example is those benchmarks they distribute with the software. Those are single user transactionless benchmarks!!! Single user benchmarks are not realistic. Anyway Postgres is far stabler faster product in my opinion.
First, the Prisoner's Dilema: Two prisoners are in separate cells. The prosecuting attorney says to each one separately: "If you rat on the other guy I'll give you less time". If they both rat then they both go to jail for a long amount of time. If one rats and the other doesn't the one that didn't goes to jail for a long sentence. The one that did gets set free for cooperating. If they both don't rat they get a plea bargain and get a short sentence.
Now for the telecom analogy: If one telecom charges another to peer traffic, the telecom that charges makes a lot of money and the one that doesn't looses a lot. If they both charge then they both loose because they won't send hardly any traffic and their customers will use less because of the high prices. If they both don't charge then they both win, because they do a lot of isp business and the market grows. The catch is, like the example above, if one of them charged and the other didn't the one that charged would do better than the one that didn't as compared to how the one that charged would have done if they had cooperated.
What is the solution for prisoner's dillema historically? It's tit for tat. If you defect (and rat on me). I will defect (and rat) on you. This works very well in games that are played over and over again. So what's going to happen is that the big portals are going to start charging the isps and vs. versa until they both decide to cooperate.
Now it becomes evident why Microsoft hates the GPL. They hate it because it is not "embrace and extend"(TM) compatible. The BSD license however poses no "viral" problems for them.
India has a billion people and they use paper ballots, hand counted at the precinct level. The only thing that these sophisticated voting machines are for is for political dirty tricks and other skuldugery. What's so hard about counting votes on paper? That's the most reliable fool proof way to do it. Not so much in a technical sense but in a political sense in that the responsibility is distributed among many people so that if someone wants to cheat or rig the election or bunch chads twice it's much more difficult.
Remember the "Trans-Cap" The so called storage technology recovered from the Roswell aliens that stored 90gb!! It's already out of date... Damn those aliens have some catching up to do.
http://accpc.com/tcaps
Haha.. you think China is communist. How does a country with some of the highest income inequality in the world qualify as communist?
Check out the wonderful regulations that you have to abide by to be a licensed internet cafe in China.
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In late 2000, China issued its first set of guidelines that required providers to track online chatrooms and bulletin boards and keep records of users' viewing times, addresses and telephone numbers.
Since January, Internet bars have been required to report attempts to open Web sites deemed subversive by the government, including those run by foreign media and the Falun Gong. Those that fail to install special software to track which sites users visit have been shut down.
The government is also eliciting the help of the masses in its cyber battle. In Shanghai, the police Internet office takes tips by e-mail on people who distribute banned information from the Web.
And the state-run Beijing Morning Post newspaper has set up a hot line for readers to report illegal Internet cafes, deemed "hei wangba" or "black cyber cafes."
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However their is also the competitive marketing threat.
How are they going to make billions ripping off artists with huge marketing fees if the internet makes it much easier for bands without record companies to market and this means they don't need the record companies.
IMHO, I think if it wasn't for the transformers movie, which had a very good script and storyline, people might have forgotten about the transformers the way they did, super mario bros, mortal kombat and all the other toy and game phenomenon that have come and gone. The movie left smart kids and even some adults with a good taste in their mouth about the whole phenomemnon that made it last.