Any Jew or Arab who's even tangentially religious would know enough scripture to know that they descend from the same patriarchs.
Of course any KKK member who claims to be a christian should also be able to trace black & white descent through scripture (who was that Adam bloke again?), and that never helped.
>.... , so that unions can't create artificial shortages of labor Why would an artificial labor shortage be a good thing?
> manufacturers have production centers in several countries and excess capacity. Excess capacity costs lots of money. Wasting money is not a good thing for a company, and I really don't believe there's a big smoking man conspiracy here.
> The employee protections and environmental standards we enjoy in the US will quickly be eroded. Funny that - the U.S. has far less employee protection than most European countries already, and I don't see the standards changing.
> 1a. Nobody has a choice where they work- they work where they can because labor is in surplus.
Is this some kind of "In soviet russia..." jokes?
> 1b. No employer is moral- their only god is money and their only rule of morality is profit. Employers vary. Some are more or less moral. Your choice - see 1a. They do have cooperative societies all over the world these days, I believe.
>2. According to the Department of Labor- the average CEO now makes 417 times minimum wage. And? Unless you can show that someone else being rich actually harms you, I fail to see the problem.
>3. Not even the Japanese have noticed yet that the guy earning the most money is the most efficient person to cut- but I hope the stockholders here do soon. Just goes to show we don't disagree on everything;) Why cut 10 people on 50K if you could just fire one guy on 500K? Which is going to be better for the company (and all that immoral profit)?
The only trouble is the people making the decision s are the ones getting the most money; that's just the way it works.
> Wages never rise- they sink. Not in real life they don't. Go and have a look at some real statistics, or look at the standard of living in the naughties compared to - say - the fifites.
Hmmm... (assuming wildly you're American, given the topic, although this applies to pretty much any first world country)... so you live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world... at it's richest time ever... at it's most secure time since the 1940s... you've probably had a great education (or are going through it at the moment, this is/. after all), at least partially state funded, most likely better than your parents... and you have enough time to post on slashdot?
>Especially since any Indian can supposedly do any skilled labor position just as well as any American
Herr Marx would be awfully disappointed with your superiority complex. Marxism is all about internationalism, after all - doesn't the communist manifesto say "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"?
How would Google support Linux, exactly? I have no problems using google from my browsers, whether it's on XP, Linux, or even Symbian - that's the whole point, isnt it?
Err... Let me call BS on your calling BS. I'm desperately (sort of) looking for a good Excel replacement on Linux, and it just doesn't exist. Or if it does, it's not OpenOffice, and it's not GNumeric.
Neither of those is anywhere near Excel in usability and completeness. That's not to say that Excel doesn't have lots of issues - the extension abilities are horrid, it crashes / corrupts files far too often, it's gratuitously different between versions - but I've not seen anything to replace it.
PlanMaker might be on the right track - it's fast, it's easy to use - but it doesn't have the features yet. So I still have to boot Windows whenever I want to do spreadsheet work.
As for Word - it does a job, and it does a lot of things very well. It does a lot of other things very badly, and it's simply not suited to complex tasks (ever tried putting formula's in? Hah!). And it's too unstable. But obviously for most users it's good enough.
>Purging the existence of the Nazis from the collective memories of their people is primarily done by the Germans and the French. I can't speak for the French, but the Germans are doing anything but purging the collective memories of Nazi atrocities - if anything, they are overdoing the remembering sometimes (IMHO, I'm a German in exile, so I'll admit bias on this topic).
>All meaningful discussion and debate is squelched, and the official account of events is the only one legally allowed to be believed. Au contraire; AFAIK the only thing that's actually illegal is to claim that the holocaust didn't happen, or to wear Nazi regalia and use the Nazi salute.
That's very offensive - I know a couple of people on the committee, and they are hardworking people that largely volunteer their time and efforts for the benefit of the C++ community. Corrupt? I doubt it, but of course it's easy to make unfounded allegations on slashdot.
BTW, has it occured to you that the implementor of a library test suite might just have extremely good understanding of the library and its flaws, and hence recommends more changes to it than committee members who focus on other parts of the language? And do you really think that if someone suggested gratuitous changes for nefarious purposes the other people on the committee wouldn't notice?
I loved Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Quicksilver - my only complaint is that I can't read novels that size on the train because they're too heavy to comfortably carry around;)
Yes, Snow Crash is faster paced - but it's a much simpler story, with fewer characters and developments. I enjoy that, but I also enjoy it when an author takes more space to explore the story. And don't forget, it covers an entire lifetime!
It's like Euro 2008 - it's sponsored by Budweiser and McDonalds, so there'll be no German food and no German Beer at the events.
Now, I'll grant that some people are not convinced by German Food, but how can you come to Germany and try and sell Budweiser? I don't think it even qualifies as beer under traditional German law;)
That's not the point though - it's supposed to be compatible. Compatible does not mean "Formulas that look almost, but not quite the same", and it certainly doesn't include googling for a workaround.
I do hope that whoever thought "Oh, I know, I really hate commas in formulas, let's do semicolons instead, they look much nicer" is really proud of himself;(
£125/year for watching decent shows and listening to very good radio (radio4, of course, I'm showing my age) withoutbloody adverts seems a good deal to me.
Giving people the ability to opt out would be theoretically nice, but is practically not feasible.
I come from a C++ background, with a couple of yeas of Java, and I will boldly claim that Python is more productive than Java. It's more than a matter of taste, and I would love to be able to back that up experimentally.
The hyped language of the day always gets all the press, all the books, and all the idiots flocking to it, because it's fashionable and there's money in it. I've seen it with C++, Java, and C#, and I'm sure I'll see it again.
I know at least two investment banks that use python internally; I do most of my "pay the mortgage" programming in Python. It also seems to be getting more and more press.
So I can't see that it hasn't gained "acceptance in comercial development circles". Yes, it's not as visible as Java was, or C# is, but then it doesn't have a huge market machine behind it, either.
Paul certainly phrased it badly, but in essence his claim is that people who learn different programming languages because they enjoy programming are more likely to be good programmers than those who do it just for the money. And learning a less well-known language is indicative of that love.
Hear hear! Generally when it's claimed that speed was the cause of an accident, it's not the speed, but not keeping an appropriate distance to the car in front for the speed you're travelliung at.
I do wish the police cracked down on dangerous driving - lack of distance, overtaking on the wrong side, not using indicators etc - instead of focusing on the bogeyman "speed".
3. I think you're missing the point. If it's a "light truck" it should be sold, taxed, regulated and used as a light truck, and not be sold, and used as a car, but taxed and regulated more leniently as a truck.
Also, there is simply no good reason for people to drive humongous trucks as personal transport. I'm all for personal choice, but you should pay a fair price for it - my understanding is that the US has some skew in the tax system for SUVs.
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Also bear in mind that vee Germans have a penchant for long sentences, combined with long, rambling, deeply nested subclauses.
Any Jew or Arab who's even tangentially religious would know enough scripture to know that they descend from the same patriarchs.
Of course any KKK member who claims to be a christian should also be able to trace black & white descent through scripture (who was that Adam bloke again?), and that never helped.
>.... , so that unions can't create artificial shortages of labor
Why would an artificial labor shortage be a good thing?
> manufacturers have production centers in several countries and excess capacity.
Excess capacity costs lots of money. Wasting money is not a good thing for a company, and I really don't believe there's a big smoking man conspiracy here.
> The employee protections and environmental standards we enjoy in the US will quickly be eroded.
Funny that - the U.S. has far less employee protection than most European countries already, and I don't see the standards changing.
> 1a. Nobody has a choice where they work- they work where they can because labor is in surplus.
;) Why cut 10 people on 50K if you could just fire one guy on 500K? Which is going to be better for the company (and all that immoral profit)?
Is this some kind of "In soviet russia..." jokes?
> 1b. No employer is moral- their only god is money and their only rule of morality is profit.
Employers vary. Some are more or less moral. Your choice - see 1a. They do have cooperative societies all over the world these days, I believe.
>2. According to the Department of Labor- the average CEO now makes 417 times minimum wage.
And? Unless you can show that someone else being rich actually harms you, I fail to see the problem.
>3. Not even the Japanese have noticed yet that the guy earning the most money is the most efficient person to cut- but I hope the stockholders here do soon.
Just goes to show we don't disagree on everything
The only trouble is the people making the decision s are the ones getting the most money; that's just the way it works.
Envy is such an ugly thing.
> Wages never rise- they sink.
Not in real life they don't. Go and have a look at some real statistics, or look at the standard of living in the naughties compared to - say - the fifites.
> It just sucks to be us
... you've probably had a great education (or are going through it at the moment, this is /. after all), at least partially state funded, most likely better than your parents... and you have enough time to post on slashdot?
Hmmm... (assuming wildly you're American, given the topic, although this applies to pretty much any first world country)... so you live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world... at it's richest time ever... at it's most secure time since the 1940s
Yeah, that really sucks.
Bah. We don't know how good we have it.
>Especially since any Indian can supposedly do any skilled labor position just as well as any American
Herr Marx would be awfully disappointed with your superiority complex. Marxism is all about internationalism, after all - doesn't the communist manifesto say "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"?
Dear Mr. Marxist Hacker,
;)
you do realise that Herr Marx was an economist?
Sincerely,
Kraut
How would Google support Linux, exactly? I have no problems using google from my browsers, whether it's on XP, Linux, or even Symbian - that's the whole point, isnt it?
Err ... Let me call BS on your calling BS. I'm desperately (sort of) looking for a good Excel replacement on Linux, and it just doesn't exist. Or if it does, it's not OpenOffice, and it's not GNumeric.
Neither of those is anywhere near Excel in usability and completeness. That's not to say that Excel doesn't have lots of issues - the extension abilities are horrid, it crashes / corrupts files far too often, it's gratuitously different between versions - but I've not seen anything to replace it.
PlanMaker might be on the right track - it's fast, it's easy to use - but it doesn't have the features yet. So I still have to boot Windows whenever I want to do spreadsheet work.
As for Word - it does a job, and it does a lot of things very well. It does a lot of other things very badly, and it's simply not suited to complex tasks (ever tried putting formula's in? Hah!). And it's too unstable. But obviously for most users it's good enough.
So he was a socialist trade union organizer american icon.
And what's wrong with writing anti-Bush songs?
>Purging the existence of the Nazis from the collective memories of their people is primarily done by the Germans and the French.
I can't speak for the French, but the Germans are doing anything but purging the collective memories of Nazi atrocities - if anything, they are overdoing the remembering sometimes (IMHO, I'm a German in exile, so I'll admit bias on this topic).
>All meaningful discussion and debate is squelched, and the official account of events is the only one legally allowed to be believed.
Au contraire; AFAIK the only thing that's actually illegal is to claim that the holocaust didn't happen, or to wear Nazi regalia and use the Nazi salute.
>man.. where was I going wiht this incessant rant?!
Back to the home for the criminally insane bigots?
But you gotta ask yourself, punk, do I feel lucky?
I sure as hell wouldn't want to be the testcase!
That's very offensive - I know a couple of people on the committee, and they are hardworking people that largely volunteer their time and efforts for the benefit of the C++ community. Corrupt? I doubt it, but of course it's easy to make unfounded allegations on slashdot.
BTW, has it occured to you that the implementor of a library test suite might just have extremely good understanding of the library and its flaws, and hence recommends more changes to it than committee members who focus on other parts of the language? And do you really think that if someone suggested gratuitous changes for nefarious purposes the other people on the committee wouldn't notice?
I loved Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Quicksilver - my only complaint is that I can't read novels that size on the train because they're too heavy to comfortably carry around ;)
Yes, Snow Crash is faster paced - but it's a much simpler story, with fewer characters and developments. I enjoy that, but I also enjoy it when an author takes more space to explore the story. And don't forget, it covers an entire lifetime!
Nonononononono, the mission statement is in order - it's the practice that's not living up to it!
It's like Euro 2008 - it's sponsored by Budweiser and McDonalds, so there'll be no German food and no German Beer at the events.
;)
Now, I'll grant that some people are not convinced by German Food, but how can you come to Germany and try and sell Budweiser? I don't think it even qualifies as beer under traditional German law
That's not the point though - it's supposed to be compatible. Compatible does not mean "Formulas that look almost, but not quite the same", and it certainly doesn't include googling for a workaround.
;(
I do hope that whoever thought "Oh, I know, I really hate commas in formulas, let's do semicolons instead, they look much nicer" is really proud of himself
£125/year for watching decent shows and listening to very good radio (radio4, of course, I'm showing my age) withoutbloody adverts seems a good deal to me.
Giving people the ability to opt out would be theoretically nice, but is practically not feasible.
I come from a C++ background, with a couple of yeas of Java, and I will boldly claim that Python is more productive than Java. It's more than a matter of taste, and I would love to be able to back that up experimentally.
The hyped language of the day always gets all the press, all the books, and all the idiots flocking to it, because it's fashionable and there's money in it. I've seen it with C++, Java, and C#, and I'm sure I'll see it again.
I know at least two investment banks that use python internally; I do most of my "pay the mortgage" programming in Python. It also seems to be getting more and more press.
So I can't see that it hasn't gained "acceptance in comercial development circles". Yes, it's not as visible as Java was, or C# is, but then it doesn't have a huge market machine behind it, either.
Paul certainly phrased it badly, but in essence his claim is that people who learn different programming languages because they enjoy programming are more likely to be good programmers than those who do it just for the money. And learning a less well-known language is indicative of that love.
That seems to be a very sensible,
Hear hear! Generally when it's claimed that speed was the cause of an accident, it's not the speed, but not keeping an appropriate distance to the car in front for the speed you're travelliung at.
I do wish the police cracked down on dangerous driving - lack of distance, overtaking on the wrong side, not using indicators etc - instead of focusing on the bogeyman "speed".
3. I think you're missing the point. If it's a "light truck" it should be sold, taxed, regulated and used as a light truck, and not be sold, and used as a car, but taxed and regulated more leniently as a truck.
Also, there is simply no good reason for people to drive humongous trucks as personal transport. I'm all for personal choice, but you should pay a fair price for it - my understanding is that the US has some skew in the tax system for SUVs.