You would withhold your (essentially) charitable donations of foriegn aid to people who are dying based upon their political beliefs? Presumably free speech is only applicable for Americans then?
...kind of makes me wonder if the French Government is taking this "War on Terrorism" seriously.
Incidentally, not many countries outside the US are. While flying in the US and England is still a royal pain in the butt, France is mostly back to normal, and airports in Australia/NZ barely even registered any changes in the first place. Just so you know.
Other countries have immigrants and/or foriegn visitors too. Those immigrants preserve aspects of their culture and behaviour wherever they settle. In fact, not only are are immigration rates higher in several non-US countries, but having travelled quite a lot, I strongly believe that those immigrants manage to simultaneously maintain stronger cultural ties to their old traditions in non-US countries, and also manage to integrate better into the local community as well.
I'm not sure what deeply traditional American customs you are referring to in your penultimate paragraph, apart from complaining about the service, perhaps?
Don't get me wrong, like I said earlier in this thread, I love America and Americans, but that can't blind me to all of the above.
Actually, Yes, I strongly feel that people from the better-educated countries outside the US have a much better knowledge of geography.
A taxi driver once mistook me for American, and during a friendly conversation he bet me the price of the cab ride that I couldn't guess which African country he was from. When he figured out I was English, he tried to withdraw from the bet. Because he knew that I'd soon figure out he was from Eritrea. I love America and have many American friends, but how many Americans would have figured that out? Knowledge outside US borders is not America's strong suit.
The wealthy classes are already really smarter than average folk. Not across the board, obviously, but certainly as a trend. Have you visited any 'average folk' recently? The majority of mankind is thick as pigshit.
>> It also responds well to compression, due to redundancy.
This isn't really a good thing about XML, so much as a description of how to lessen the impact of one of the bad things about XML.
Isn't that the first step down the slippery slope of losing editorial objectivity?
At first, it makes no difference. Then the well-intentioned editor thinks "I'll do a good job on this story because it has a big-name sponsor and might get a lot of readers". Then the tired but well-intentioned editor thinks "I'll rush this story off quickly - it hasn't got a sponsor, so maybe no-one will read it." Eventually, it has become the norm to only run stories that are approved of by big media cartels.
Be aware that Numerical Recipies is a great place to go for inspiration, but contains several vexing bugs and innacuracies, in my experience particularly so in sections about dynamics and methods of integration.
It does *too* move through space as a wave. At an instant in time, the orthogonal magnetic and electric fields which make up the microwaves vary through space. As time progresses, those variations then propogate forwards through space.
Yes - the increase in speed (as percieved by any one end user) is generally not a significant factor. But the scaleability - how much resource is used by each transaction, and hence how soon is your box brought to its knees when your site gets/.ed, that's something Oracle have really been working on, as have Microsoft on SQLserver.
Incidentally, SQLServer is currently the holder of the fastest database setup in the world, as measured in transactions per second by independant council TPC, on an expensive custom hardware/software setup, designed by Microsoft.
Tartley
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I think you mean an array of void *.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who think in binary, and those who don't.
You would withhold your (essentially) charitable donations of foriegn aid to people who are dying based upon their political beliefs? Presumably free speech is only applicable for Americans then?
Incidentally, not many countries outside the US are. While flying in the US and England is still a royal pain in the butt, France is mostly back to normal, and airports in Australia/NZ barely even registered any changes in the first place. Just so you know.
I'm not sure what deeply traditional American customs you are referring to in your penultimate paragraph, apart from complaining about the service, perhaps?
Don't get me wrong, like I said earlier in this thread, I love America and Americans, but that can't blind me to all of the above.
Actually, Yes, I strongly feel that people from the better-educated countries outside the US have a much better knowledge of geography.
A taxi driver once mistook me for American, and during a friendly conversation he bet me the price of the cab ride that I couldn't guess which African country he was from. When he figured out I was English, he tried to withdraw from the bet. Because he knew that I'd soon figure out he was from Eritrea. I love America and have many American friends, but how many Americans would have figured that out? Knowledge outside US borders is not America's strong suit.
The wealthy classes are already really smarter than average folk. Not across the board, obviously, but certainly as a trend. Have you visited any 'average folk' recently? The majority of mankind is thick as pigshit.
>> It also responds well to compression, due to redundancy. This isn't really a good thing about XML, so much as a description of how to lessen the impact of one of the bad things about XML.
>> have stories "sponsored" by certain companies
Isn't that the first step down the slippery slope of losing editorial objectivity?
At first, it makes no difference. Then the well-intentioned editor thinks "I'll do a good job on this story because it has a big-name sponsor and might get a lot of readers". Then the tired but well-intentioned editor thinks "I'll rush this story off quickly - it hasn't got a sponsor, so maybe no-one will read it." Eventually, it has become the norm to only run stories that are approved of by big media cartels.
To all /. folks - Love your work.
Be aware that Numerical Recipies is a great place to go for inspiration, but contains several vexing bugs and innacuracies, in my experience particularly so in sections about dynamics and methods of integration.
hey dude,
Check out the moderators FAQ at:
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I would have emailed you this, but I don't think you have entered an email address on your slashdot profile.
Sorry - I moderated your comment down.
Tartley
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It does *too* move through space as a wave. At an instant in time, the orthogonal magnetic and electric fields which make up the microwaves vary through space. As time progresses, those variations then propogate forwards through space.
There would be nothing else for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.
Incidentally, SQLServer is currently the holder of the fastest database setup in the world, as measured in transactions per second by independant council TPC, on an expensive custom hardware/software setup, designed by Microsoft.
Tartley
There's a reason they call me that. We won't go into it here.