What kind of world is it when a three page, "paper" gets a link on slashdot? No data was analyzed, the opposing arguments were set up as straw men, and the dominant rhetorical technique was mind numbing repetition.
OK, you've said what, six, seven times, now, that three ports should be blocked. But why? Isn't this just the simple, elegant and wrong solution?
Really? My dictionary defines empire thusly: Empire Of, relating to, or characteristic of a neoclassic style, as in clothing or the decorative arts, prevalent in France during the first part of the 19th century.
In political terms, there's still a fair bit of debate whether the United States constitutes an empire or hegemony. The distinction seems to be rather too subtle to be of much value. But for you conspiracy fans out there, the US could be said to control the World largely through manipulation of the World Bank and IMF--the policies promoted thusly may seem neutral, but tend to favour the US view of things.
Regardless of whether the US is a hegemon, an empire, or hyperpuissance, the fact that US policies are translated into political control over persons who have no say in the matter should be of grave concern to USians. It matters not how benevolent this rule may be-- the ruled must be given the opportunity to choose for themselves.
Everyone knows that "Server Operating Systems" cost three times as much as "Workstation Operating Systems. Why would an individual need such power? *and don'tmention Linux, please. The distinction used to ignorable, but SCO seems intent on reimposing that ancient pricing model.
It's quite simple. Of the population, 98% is Han Chinese. Of those Han, 85% have ancestors who lived on the islands prior to 1949. This group is most often referred to as the Taiwanese. The other 15% (Mainlanders) consists of persons who emigrated after 1949 and their descendants. To a certain extent, separation of the ethnic groups was encouraged and enforced by KMT policies, but if one feels the need to categorize children of Taiwanese-Mainlander unions, self-identification might be a good place to start.
(For that matter, self determination would be a better solution to the Taiwan "question" than all this sabre-rattling and quoting of self-serving rhetoric.)
The ISS is locked in one orbit, as the independent polar platforms were killed off some time ago. So, even with a fully staffed station, the shuttle would still be useful as a scientific platform. I'm not sure if the STS-107 mission fit into this category, as such information is understandably lost in the noise. As for EXPLORING, well, one can explore with a telescope.
Dude, I think you forgot the standard boilerplate about
It is the common aspiration of the Chinese people to safeguard national unity and to realize the complete reunification of the motherland. Any attempt against this historical trend is doomed to failure. etc. etc.
I fail to see why the political objectives of the United States must coincide with those of China. The two countries are rivals. Get over it.
Of course. However, the USA report is as long as it is mostly because a lot of information is still available. The Chinese report contains sentences such as
"In June at least 150 people were executed across China for drug-related crimes to mark the UN-designated International Anti-Drugs Day on 26 June."
whereas, if the US tried to pull such a stunt, Amnesty International would devote lengthy paragraphs to reporting the incident.
China, the US, and Taiwan should each clean up their acts. On the other hand, a PRC condemnation of Taiwan on human rights grounds is absurd.
The Amnesty International report for Taiwan. And for China Software piracy, is, by comparison, piddling. (And in any case, the PRC is hardly a paragon of virtue.)
there's the whole pirated anime problem. The pirated anime "problem" was summed at as Taiwan isn't a member of the Berne convention. Now, although the Berne convention dates back to the 19th century, even the PRC wasn't a signatory until 1992. And Taiwan-- well there's this large hulking monster of a country that seems to believe that if Taiwan accedes to any International Intellectual Property conventions, that somehow violates that bully's sovereignty. So, even if Taiwan wants to impose rather draconian IP laws, it's all tangled up in the cross-straits issue. Taiwan does have bilateral agreements with some countries, but oh my, is that a low rumble of protest I'm hearing from the reds? That must be the secret plan of PRC-- block Taiwan from acceding to treaties "protecting" IP, smear Taiwan as a country of Pirates, and since high seas piracy is a breach of international law, it has some kind of Casus Belli.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to bathe. I've spent far too much time reading about TRIPS, GATT, and the Berne convention, and feel rather... dirty.
Australia has sent peacekeepers to East Timor in 1999, and may have been involved, under rather shadier circumstances, in a 1975 "intervention" as well. Indonesia itself has played host to several terrorist groups, some with separatist intentions and others with anti-Western ideologies. And of course, paranoia can elevate the perceived risk of even the most marginal organizations.
Wintel hardware is crap and not at all scalable. It's like comparing a ferrari (z hardware) to a pinto (wintel) and saying "well, they're both cars". Sure the ferrari costs more, but it's a hell of a lot more likely to be able to win in a race.
Reasoning by analogy is always fraught with pitfalls. The Ferrari can't carry more than two people. The IBM machine is designed for fast I/O. The Ferrari breaks down a lot. The IBM is designed to be highly reliable.
Perhaps a better, but still rather imperfect analogy would be to a tractor trailer--lots of horsepower, but not a speed daemon. Lots of cargo space. A decent diesel engine that can stand up to abuse.
IBM thinks that if you replace 20-30 Intel CPUs , all running at 5% utilization, with a single zSeries CPU running at 85-90% utilization, you'll save money and aggravation. On the other hand, if those 20-30 Intel CPUs are rendering CGI for a film, or modeling a jet engine (and thus running near 100% load), a zSeries CPU would only be able to take on the work of 4-5 Intel CPUs, if that.
Thanks for the links. Pity that the historical sources are not online, though. The Denning book does mention that the Great Red Spot came into "striking prominence" in 1878, implying that the GRS is far from static. The Great Red Spot varies from 30 Mm to 40 Mm from decade to decade.
This Usenet post argues that the observational history of the spot is muddled. Still, without ready access to primary source material, I feel I'm flogging a dead horse.
I do have a general science text from the 1830s that, in its description of Jupiter fails to mention the spot--highlighting the banded nature of Jupiter instead. But that sort of evidence is quite weak.
The trouble is, many of us acquired an addiction to SCO stuff when it was mildly interesting-- legal maneuvers, kernel history, intrigue and incompetence. Now, all the SCO stories are about still-looming threats, old German court decisions, lack of indemnification, and continuing insider trades. I think the slashdot crew is cutting their smack more and more, and it's really not worth the effort to scan semi random responses, the odd death threat and peals of "Mummy! I'm scared."
It would be nice to read the actual notes of Hooke and Cassini-- as the Enclyclopedia Britannica is unsure of the details
Its discovery in the 1660s is attributed to Gian Domenico Cassini or Robert Hooke.
and the Wikipedia seems to attribute the discovery to Galileo. In fact, it seems that these sources may have been backtracking-- the Great Red Spot is rather stable (having been described in detail, in the early 19th century), Galileo, Hooke, and Cassini observed Jupiter with crude telescopes capable of resolving such detail, ergo, one of these three astronomers must have been the first to observe the GRS. If anyone has access to primary text material pointing to 17th century observations of the GRS, feel free to post them.
The spot was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1664. The spot is HUGE (large enough to hold to Earths) and back in the 15'th centurty it was much brighter.
Really? You have some idea of of how the GRS appeared 200 years before Hooke (in the mid seventeenth century) inferred the rotational period of Jupiter? The earliest definitive observations of the GRS, btw, are those of Heinrich Schwabe (1831)
Luckily, most of us don't attend the University of Melbourne. Usually, readers stop trying to impose academic discipline on./ right around, say, day one.
Seltzer used to be quite active on a couple of mailing lists dedicated to preparing legal briefs in a Universal v. RemierdesEldred v Ashcroft and similar legal cases.The lists were (and still are) idealistic and noisy, but the legal discussion (archived by Lexis-Nexis at one point) was a lot of fun.
The British used to have this neats shortwave service known as the BBC World Service. I say used to, because many of the transmitters have been replaced in function by RealAudio streams of the service and by the news.bbc.co.uk website. But I suppose that even the worldwide shortwave network had its detractors.
Slashdot Mirror
What kind of world is it when a three page, "paper" gets a link on slashdot? No data was analyzed, the opposing arguments were set up as straw men, and the dominant rhetorical technique was mind numbing repetition.
OK, you've said what, six, seven times, now, that three ports should be blocked. But why? Isn't this just the simple, elegant and wrong solution?
So, when can we throw out the Concord
It's actually just "Concorde", not "the Concord". No definite article necessary
Really?
My dictionary defines empire thusly:
Empire
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a neoclassic style, as in clothing or the decorative arts, prevalent in France during the first part of the 19th century.
In political terms, there's still a fair bit of debate whether the United States constitutes an empire or hegemony. The distinction seems to be rather too subtle to be of much value. But for you conspiracy fans out there, the US could be said to control the World largely through manipulation of the World Bank and IMF--the policies promoted thusly may seem neutral, but tend to favour the US view of things.
Regardless of whether the US is a hegemon, an empire, or hyperpuissance, the fact that US policies are translated into political control over persons who have no say in the matter should be of grave concern to USians. It matters not how benevolent this rule may be-- the ruled must be given the opportunity to choose for themselves.
Everyone knows that "Server Operating Systems" cost three times as much as "Workstation Operating Systems. Why would an individual need such power?
*and don'tmention Linux, please. The distinction used to ignorable, but SCO seems intent on reimposing that ancient pricing model.
It's quite simple. Of the population, 98% is Han Chinese. Of those Han, 85% have ancestors who lived on the islands prior to 1949. This group is most often referred to as the Taiwanese. The other 15% (Mainlanders) consists of persons who emigrated after 1949 and their descendants. To a certain extent, separation of the ethnic groups was encouraged and enforced by KMT policies, but if one feels the need to categorize children of Taiwanese-Mainlander unions, self-identification might be a good place to start.
(For that matter, self determination would be a better solution to the Taiwan "question" than all this sabre-rattling and quoting of self-serving rhetoric.)
The ISS is locked in one orbit, as the independent polar platforms were killed off some time ago. So, even with a fully staffed station, the shuttle would still be useful as a scientific platform. I'm not sure if the STS-107 mission fit into this category, as such information is understandably lost in the noise.
As for EXPLORING, well, one can explore with a telescope.
I fail to see why the political objectives of the United States must coincide with those of China. The two countries are rivals. Get over it.
Of course. However, the USA report is as long as it is mostly because a lot of information is still available. The Chinese report contains sentences such as
"In June at least 150 people were executed across China for drug-related crimes to mark the UN-designated International Anti-Drugs Day on 26 June."
whereas, if the US tried to pull such a stunt, Amnesty International would devote lengthy paragraphs to reporting the incident.
China, the US, and Taiwan should each clean up their acts. On the other hand, a PRC condemnation of Taiwan on human rights grounds is absurd.
The Columbia mission wasn't a cargo mission. It wasn't even an ISS mission. It was scientific mission using SpaceHab.
The Amnesty International report for Taiwan. And for China Software piracy, is, by comparison, piddling. (And in any case, the PRC is hardly a paragon of virtue.)
there's the whole pirated anime problem.
...
The pirated anime "problem" was summed at as Taiwan isn't a member of the Berne convention. Now, although the Berne convention dates back to the 19th century, even the PRC wasn't a signatory until 1992. And Taiwan-- well there's this large hulking monster of a country that seems to believe that if Taiwan accedes to any International Intellectual Property conventions, that somehow violates that bully's sovereignty. So, even if Taiwan wants to impose rather draconian IP laws, it's all tangled up in the cross-straits issue. Taiwan does have bilateral agreements with some countries, but oh my, is that a low rumble of protest I'm hearing from the reds?
That must be the secret plan of PRC-- block Taiwan from acceding to treaties "protecting" IP, smear Taiwan as a country of Pirates, and since high seas piracy is a breach of international law, it has some kind of Casus Belli.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to bathe. I've spent far too much time reading about TRIPS, GATT, and the Berne convention, and feel rather
dirty.
Australia has sent peacekeepers to East Timor in 1999, and may have been involved, under rather shadier circumstances, in a 1975 "intervention" as well. Indonesia itself has played host to several terrorist groups, some with separatist intentions and others with anti-Western ideologies. And of course, paranoia can elevate the perceived risk of even the most marginal organizations.
Wintel hardware is crap and not at all scalable. It's like comparing a ferrari (z hardware) to a pinto (wintel) and saying "well, they're both cars". Sure the ferrari costs more, but it's a hell of a lot more likely to be able to win in a race.
Reasoning by analogy is always fraught with pitfalls.
The Ferrari can't carry more than two people. The IBM machine is designed for fast I/O. The Ferrari breaks down a lot. The IBM is designed to be highly reliable.
Perhaps a better, but still rather imperfect analogy would be to a tractor trailer--lots of horsepower, but not a speed daemon. Lots of cargo space. A decent diesel engine that can stand up to abuse.
IBM thinks that if you replace 20-30 Intel CPUs , all running at 5% utilization, with a single zSeries CPU running at 85-90% utilization, you'll save money and aggravation. On the other hand, if those 20-30 Intel CPUs are rendering CGI for a film, or modeling a jet engine (and thus running near 100% load), a zSeries CPU would only be able to take on the work of 4-5 Intel CPUs, if that.
Thanks for the links. Pity that the historical sources are not online, though. The Denning book does mention that the Great Red Spot came into "striking prominence" in 1878, implying that the GRS is far from static. The Great Red Spot varies from 30 Mm to 40 Mm from decade to decade.
This Usenet post argues that the observational history of the spot is muddled. Still, without ready access to primary source material, I feel I'm flogging a dead horse.
I do have a general science text from the 1830s that, in its description of Jupiter fails to mention the spot--highlighting the banded nature of Jupiter instead. But that sort of evidence is quite weak.
The trouble is, many of us acquired an addiction to SCO stuff when it was mildly interesting-- legal maneuvers, kernel history, intrigue and incompetence. Now, all the SCO stories are about still-looming threats, old German court decisions, lack of indemnification, and continuing insider trades. I think the slashdot crew is cutting their smack more and more, and it's really not worth the effort to scan semi random responses, the odd death threat and peals of "Mummy! I'm scared."
If anyone has access to primary text material pointing to 17th century observations of the GRS, feel free to post them.
The spot was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1664. The spot is HUGE (large enough to hold to Earths) and back in the 15'th centurty it was much brighter.
Really? You have some idea of of how the GRS appeared 200 years before Hooke (in the mid seventeenth century) inferred the rotational period of Jupiter? The earliest definitive observations of the GRS, btw, are those of Heinrich Schwabe (1831)
No. Apple wants (eventually) to be seen as a serious UNIX systems provider. Thus its conscious mimicry of "System V, Release 4.3" style names.
Luckily, most of us don't attend the University of Melbourne. Usually, readers stop trying to impose academic discipline on ./ right around, say, day one.
Er, that's Reimerdes as in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes. The mailing list archives might also be of interest.
Why don't you look her up on Lexis/Nexis, read her articles, and then come to your conclusions?
Seltzer used to be quite active on a couple of mailing lists dedicated to preparing legal briefs in a Universal v. Remierdes Eldred v Ashcroft and similar legal cases.The lists were (and still are) idealistic and noisy, but the legal discussion (archived by Lexis-Nexis at one point) was a lot of fun.
The British used to have this neats shortwave service known as the BBC World Service. I say used to, because many of the transmitters have been replaced in function by RealAudio streams of the service and by the news.bbc.co.uk website. But I suppose that even the worldwide shortwave network had its detractors.
The occasional use of an obscure, unported windows program should not necessarily dictate one's choice of platform.