If the rich spend their money on a blimp ride, the money goes from one rich person to the other. I don't see the use of that. I'd rather taxe them (and my self), so there is an opportunity to build public schools or do something about crime.
It also detects bad breath and will offer you a mint promptly; it will search other bluetooth phines in the vicinity for a goor partner, or, if you're married, somebody to work overtime with; it will tell you when you can cross the street and it will tell you when you need to pick up your phone. It will also focus your camera and tell you to say cheese.
I'm totally against (hands full) cellphone calls while driving. I really don't care if somebody wrecks his or her car against a tree while calling and breaks all the bones in their body, but there are other people on the road aswell.
When on the road there is only one thing that is important and that is safety.
The next step is this: when you want to listen to your over priced cds your stereo will have to check every song for authenticity with the RIAA, so if your stereo isn't tcp-ip enabled and connected to the net, it's going to be a very quiet romantic evening with your significant other.
1. exporting the food and selling it (subsedised) in 3rd world countries under the price that local farmers ask, while protecting your own market (cotton)
2. going to war to secure oil and give friendly companies contracts in iraq. that is not democracy, it's imperialism and crime.
3. enron. morgages. health insurance. education. environment. bush.
everybody makes mistakes and nobody is perfect, so that is ok, but some modesty would be in order. you're not alone in this world, so please open your eyes and stop behaving that way.
Butwhat's wring about being honest about is, instead of coming up with lame excuses like "terrorism", "W's of MD" or "suffering people".
Just say "Hey, we need to get rid of Sadam because we need his oil and he wouldn't let us have it". I'm sure we'll understand and see the reason in that.
After all. Camels don't run on oil, so why would they need it anyway?
Bring a boot cd with a basic os that makes a secure connection to a server outside the us to download an image of your fully operating os and the data you need.
Well, not really, but if the police (and higher up the investigation chain) aren't able to (and already do so) tap IM and video streams I'll eat my socks.
Soon Bush will anounce a machine that will receive your brainwaves, detect if you're not with him, conclude you're therefore against him and will shoot you on thought.
With 1 in 16 people being Muslim in the Netherlands, if all Muslims are really that dangerous, I expexted the Netherlands to be a Muslim country a long time ago. Fact is it isn't. People like Wilders fail to see that.
I won't deny there are dangerous Muslims with dangerous ideas. But there are Christians aswell that rather have their children die than allow them a blood transfusion, wich is, in my opinion, also a danrerous outing your religion.
I came across traffic death statistics last week. In the EU last yeas 40000+ people were killed in traffic accidents. I bet it's about the same in the US. Now let's take the US and the EU together for a period of 5 years. That makes.. 2 * 40000 * 5 = 400000 lethal traffic incidents. Compare that to 4000 (rounded up BIGtime) deaths by terrorism and you do the math.
I agree terrotism is a LOT scarier than traffic, but fact is you're way more likely to be killed in traffic than by terrorism.
So coming back to that movie. I think politicians and especially Wilders take things way out of proportion. In general, most people just want to have a house, food and some money (some want more than others) to have a nice living and no matter what background or religion, there ale ALWAYS some fanatic nutcases.
Some make it into politics, and we have had some bad experience with that in Europe, and others form terrorist cells, but in most cases it's a small group with a lot of impact that spoils it for the rest and now Wilders gets waytoo much attention for his movie, wich, at this moment nobody has seen yet.
Theoretically you're right, but reality is different. A company just can't start from scratch each time they extend their product.
And frankly, you reactions make it look like you've never worked with.NET
Oh. Please don't think I'm all pro M$. Tux TM OS is cool too, but I don't know about a development framework for linux that can do what.net can do. I know there is Mono, but that's not a Tux TM invention.
> Wrappers are acceptance of defeat as far as consistent infrastructure development is concerned.
As af ar I know and you don't there is a different reason. "Type safe" and "managed" are your Google keywords for today.
> This only means that Microsoft "technologies" developed before dotnet are even crappier than dotnet itself (and dotnet runs on top of them). But we already knew that.
Even if this is right, your comment shows you're rather "new" at programming. I'll explain. Option 1: rewrite (i mean completely really rewrite) the wrapped classes. Hey! We need to rewrite and test almost everything (application / os) that has been built on this classes that were working, but nor have been rewritten. Option 2: write a wrapper, possibly fix/catch bugs from wrapped classes, and no rewrite of apps and os.
Yes, your code could be so much better and nicer with option 1, but there are limiting factors like time and money.
What can you say? That you didn't saw this coming? Really?
In the Netherlands there will be a travelcard that can be used in the whole country. Train, bus, tram, subway, everything.
They come in two flavours. One, *cough* anonymous, wihthout reduction and one, personalised, with 40% reduction. It appears anonymity comes at a price.
But who cares. They wouldn't do anything bad with it. They wouldn't use it to datamine your behaviour.
Recently I heared this story. I can't tell if it's true, but it sounds likely. They are still running trials with the cards and there are "some" flaws in the system. Somebody, with a registered card, described his traven from A to B and back again. After that trip, he found there was more money on his card than before and he wrote a story about is. Anonymously.
But surprisingly enough he got a call from the card company, so he asked how he got his phonenumber. The answer was "what do you think?".
After working with Windows servers and Linux servers, with the same level of experience, personally I find Linux easier to configure, more documentation and easier to make your own hacks to get done what you want.
No crappy applications where you can't find the right button to turn off a frature, but simple text files with settings. Nice. I like it.
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If the rich spend their money on a blimp ride, the money goes from one rich person to the other.
I don't see the use of that. I'd rather taxe them (and my self), so there is an opportunity to build public schools or do something about crime.
It also detects bad breath and will offer you a mint promptly; it will search other bluetooth phines in the vicinity for a goor partner, or, if you're married, somebody to work overtime with; it will tell you when you can cross the street and it will tell you when you need to pick up your phone. It will also focus your camera and tell you to say cheese.
I'm totally against (hands full) cellphone calls while driving. I really don't care if somebody wrecks his or her car against a tree while calling and breaks all the bones in their body, but there are other people on the road aswell.
When on the road there is only one thing that is important and that is safety.
Yes. It's a switch (four actually).
One of them is even marked "KABOOOM".
And this, dear parents, is why you make an image of your kids computer and just put it back when the computer gets "slow".
It will save you that day of irritation and removing all the junk.
I guess that's worth a few bucks, isn't it?
The next step is this: when you want to listen to your over priced cds your stereo will have to check every song for authenticity with the RIAA, so if your stereo isn't tcp-ip enabled and connected to the net, it's going to be a very quiet romantic evening with your significant other.
1. exporting the food and selling it (subsedised) in 3rd world countries under the price that local farmers ask, while protecting your own market (cotton)
2. going to war to secure oil and give friendly companies contracts in iraq. that is not democracy, it's imperialism and crime.
3. enron. morgages. health insurance. education. environment. bush.
everybody makes mistakes and nobody is perfect, so that is ok, but some modesty would be in order. you're not alone in this world, so please open your eyes and stop behaving that way.
Democracy was only a way to get to the oil...
One other matter is, what is the "being-online-while-dead" protocol.
Do you answer incoming messages on IQC when you're reading the old chats, do you send a mass-message to everybody in the list? Same goes for e-mail.
I thought shooting then on sight would be a nice and permanent solution to the problem, but I can live with billing them 2M a month ;)
I can perfectly understand Iraq was all about securing oil reserves for the future. Same for Afghanistan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline.
Butwhat's wring about being honest about is, instead of coming up with lame excuses like "terrorism", "W's of MD" or "suffering people".
Just say "Hey, we need to get rid of Sadam because we need his oil and he wouldn't let us have it". I'm sure we'll understand and see the reason in that.
After all. Camels don't run on oil, so why would they need it anyway?
At least it's good to know a government is willing to go a long way to keep you from knowing if they fucked up.
Bring a boot cd with a basic os that makes a secure connection to a server outside the us to download an image of your fully operating os and the data you need.
Let them search your formatted harddisk....
C:\>dir
command.com
C:\>_
It should be "Paypal plans to allow Lynx only"...
Well, not really, but if the police (and higher up the investigation chain) aren't able to (and already do so) tap IM and video streams I'll eat my socks.
Soon Bush will anounce a machine that will receive your brainwaves, detect if you're not with him, conclude you're therefore against him and will shoot you on thought.
There is some truth in it ;)
And the internetz is an instrument for spreading illegal copies of music. The internetz is so illegal..
With 1 in 16 people being Muslim in the Netherlands, if all Muslims are really that dangerous, I expexted the Netherlands to be a Muslim country a long time ago. Fact is it isn't.
People like Wilders fail to see that.
I won't deny there are dangerous Muslims with dangerous ideas. But there are Christians aswell that rather have their children die than allow them a blood transfusion, wich is, in my opinion, also a danrerous outing your religion.
I came across traffic death statistics last week. In the EU last yeas 40000+ people were killed in traffic accidents. I bet it's about the same in the US. Now let's take the US and the EU together for a period of 5 years. That makes.. 2 * 40000 * 5 = 400000 lethal traffic incidents.
Compare that to 4000 (rounded up BIGtime) deaths by terrorism and you do the math.
I agree terrotism is a LOT scarier than traffic, but fact is you're way more likely to be killed in traffic than by terrorism.
So coming back to that movie. I think politicians and especially Wilders take things way out of proportion. In general, most people just want to have a house, food and some money (some want more than others) to have a nice living and no matter what background or religion, there ale ALWAYS some fanatic nutcases.
Some make it into politics, and we have had some bad experience with that in Europe, and others form terrorist cells, but in most cases it's a small group with a lot of impact that spoils it for the rest and now Wilders gets waytoo much attention for his movie, wich, at this moment nobody has seen yet.
Theoretically you're right, but reality is different. A company just can't start from scratch each time they extend their product.
.NET
.net can do. I know there is Mono, but that's not a Tux TM invention.
And frankly, you reactions make it look like you've never worked with
Oh. Please don't think I'm all pro M$. Tux TM OS is cool too, but I don't know about a development framework for linux that can do what
> Wrappers are acceptance of defeat as far as consistent infrastructure development is concerned.
As af ar I know and you don't there is a different reason.
"Type safe" and "managed" are your Google keywords for today.
> This only means that Microsoft "technologies" developed before dotnet are even crappier than dotnet itself (and dotnet runs on top of them). But we already knew that.
Even if this is right, your comment shows you're rather "new" at programming. I'll explain.
Option 1: rewrite (i mean completely really rewrite) the wrapped classes. Hey! We need to rewrite and test almost everything (application / os) that has been built on this classes that were working, but nor have been rewritten.
Option 2: write a wrapper, possibly fix/catch bugs from wrapped classes, and no rewrite of apps and os.
Yes, your code could be so much better and nicer with option 1, but there are limiting factors like time and money.
What can you say? That you didn't saw this coming? Really?
In the Netherlands there will be a travelcard that can be used in the whole country. Train, bus, tram, subway, everything.
They come in two flavours. One, *cough* anonymous, wihthout reduction and one, personalised, with 40% reduction. It appears anonymity comes at a price.
But who cares. They wouldn't do anything bad with it. They wouldn't use it to datamine your behaviour.
Recently I heared this story. I can't tell if it's true, but it sounds likely. They are still running trials with the cards and there are "some" flaws in the system. Somebody, with a registered card, described his traven from A to B and back again. After that trip, he found there was more money on his card than before and he wrote a story about is. Anonymously.
But surprisingly enough he got a call from the card company, so he asked how he got his phonenumber. The answer was "what do you think?".
I find this disturbing.
After working with Windows servers and Linux servers, with the same level of experience, personally I find Linux easier to configure, more documentation and easier to make your own hacks to get done what you want.
:)
No crappy applications where you can't find the right button to turn off a frature, but simple text files with settings. Nice. I like it.
AND Linux it's fun to play with
I don't think that I want some music industry to have influence over how the internetz should be used.
But hey. They already make me pay more for my blank cd's, so I guess I'm allowed now to burn some music on it.
I might not know a lot about the Mac, but that Photoshop wasn't called MS-Photoshop for a good reason, THAT I knew :D