Couldn't such a system easily be crippled by people submitting millions of domains, thus rendering the system unusable? Or how quickly can a host be checked?
But that doesn't change the situation when you receive such an archive. It's even harder to get to its content because you have to switch to Windows for a while, maybe even reboot (if you have only one computer) and install that program.
If it's not important you can ignore the mail or request an archive in some other format. But there are cases where that's not an option.
Every time someone sends you a zip archive that you need and that doesn't work because you don't have that particular Windows zip program X it will concern and annoy you.
In just a few years, Hitler managed to transform Germany from an highly agricultural, economically decrepit country into a modern, industrial, profitable one.
Profitable? He put everything into preparing Germany for war. All resources went into infrastructure and industry aimed at that goal. Had he not actually started war, the country would have gone broke after a short while.
I also doubt that agriculture became much more efficient (less farmers feeding the same number of people) in the '30s, so I don't see the major change in that field.
DC is great for what it is - creating relatively small, closed communities. But if you are looking for something rare the huge p2p networks are just unbeatable with their gigantic amounts of shared data.
I've recently started looking at log files of my website. I have hits from close to 100 countries so far, many small poor ones among them, but not a single hit from Saudia Arabia. Is Internet access not common there? From the article it seems that only porn is not available, and my site has a more technical nature.
However, when you say 'they continued to fight back' it's worth mentioning that a large number of French people collaborated with the occupying forces, some of them gladly.
Depending on who you talk to in France you might get the misleading impression that a majority was fighting in the Resistance.
That's the meaning of politics - identifying important issues and trying to get things done in those particular areas. In OSS just like in 'normal' politics.
I was just under the impression that Linus - so far - refused to deal with this. He didn't want to tell people what to do or get into all those discussions about GUIs, applications etc. He was busy with the kernel and he was hopeful that everything else would be handled by others. Not a bad strategy, I'd like to add.
It seems to me that he is now more outspoken about non-kernel issues.
He's more than a kernel hacker, he's an open source leader. Part of his role in the community is to set direction, identify problem areas, and do all of those other things that leaders do.
But weren't these political things exactly what he didn't want to do in the past? He always emphasized that he wanted to do a good job on the kernel without the ideological 'overhead' which some other prominent figures put so much effort into.
Logos must have a simple structure. It must be possible to recognize them in black and white, when scaled down to a very small size, etc.
That existing picture is not a logo.
hard to reproduce...
== hard to forge...
So what? That may be a good quality for a banknote, but we're talking about a logo. Take a look at the logo of Deutsche Bank. Everybody can copy it in three seconds, nonetheless it's a great logo. It's a great logo because it's so easy to memorize and associate with the brand.
While Adobe may not have spent time developing the code itself, I'm fairly certain that this code adds to the bottom line of development costs...which also adds to the bottom line of the product cost to the end user (unless they tack that expenditure onto some other product).
But the interfacing part should be trivial.
Photoshop loads the image, calls is_image_ok(img); from the API that was given to them and checks whether that function returns true or false.
Note, however, that.yu is supposed to be replaced by.cs (ISO 3166-1 changed from yu to cs), but the progress is rather slow.
Sorry. What I really wanted to say (searching for the links somehow made me forget that) - yu to cs is another case of changed ccTLDs, where acceptance of the new code or at least removal of the old one is doubtful. Just like.su where you have a lot of new.ru domains (and domains from other countries that were created after the Soviet Union ceased to exist).
(Also, I'm told.dd was dissolved when the two Germanies unified, but I'm not sure.dd was ever active to begin with.)
According to this Usenet posting (in German) there were a few.dd domains in 1989, but only a year later there was the German reunification, and.dd went away.
It is of course possible to find similarities in situations where people are held captive. Between Nazi concentration camps, Guantanamo Bay, Stalin's Gulags, and any regular prison.
However, I think it's inappropriate to make the comparison with Nazi concentration camps unless the properties that make them stand out can be found. This is not the case with Guantanamo Bay. Not by a far stretch.
Nobody knows what will happen there in the future, and speculation is not making a comparison work (flawed logic: A has begun at that level, and B is at that level now, so B is going to become like A).
We - and hopefully many journalists - should point out what is wrong with Guantanamo Bay. Nazi comparisons make this effort harder, because they are not credible and decrease credibility of those who utter them, and in consequence, harm the cause of fighting for human rights.
Last, not least, I think the flooding of discussions with Nazi comparisons these days diminishes the memory of those who suffered in those camps 60 years ago.
The people in guantanamo bay don't have a right to counsel, don't have a right to fair trial, don't have a right to be returned to their country of origin (look it up, it's a right for pow's), don't have any rights at all. They have been placed effectively outside US law (US courts have tried, and failed, to apply their jurisdiction to guantanamo bay). Claiming that guantanamo bay is not a concentration camp is just as silly as claiming that bush is the new hitler.
It depends on what you call a concentration camp. If the Nazi term is meant, then no, it's certainly not. No children, no Zyklon B, no exploiting of the work force of innocent civilians, no gruesome medical experiments.
However, it is a real shame what happens in Guantanamo Bay. I just don't see the necessity for Nazi comparisons. But I guess that's not so uncommon in the US. Nazi over time seems to have become a general insult for unpleasant authoritative people (see Seinfeld's Soup Nazi).
There is no systematic persecution, capture and killing of Muslims in the US. No citizen rights are taken away because a person is a Muslim. The people at Guantanamo are supposed to be criminals. Therefore, the comparison fails to work out.
That's not to say that what happens at Guantanamo and elsewhere doesn't stink.
My point in this thread is simply that these big Nazi comparisons do not lead anywhere. They're factually wrong and they are not helpful when going against the many existing shortcomings of the Bush administration (because anyone claiming that Bush equals Hitler sounds like, sorry, an idiot).
As for the quote by Rev. Niemoller, nobody in the US has to fear for their life when they speak out against what happens in Guantanamo.
I will die happy if I'm able to say "Hitler was a great political leader." without idiots like you bringing upt he Holocaust as if that was the only god damn thing he did.
Yes, how impolite of me to mention this trifle that separates him from Bush. Obviously Hitler has had various qualities or he wouldn't have come that far. Hardly anyone is denying that.
Yes, the Holocaust was a horrible thing. No, I do not suspect America is engaging in a Holocaust. This does NOT preclude Bush from rising to power in the exact same fashion as Hitler.
That's the thing with comparisons - if you draw one, you must live with people pointing out that there are huge inaccuracies. In this case, the size of New Jersey. That's all I did.
And no, Bush is not rising (or has been risen) to power in the exact same fashion either. Not even close.
We can show you the elements of Nazi Germany on one side of a page and the elements of NeoCon America on the other, draw lines between them, and you dismiss us as "snobby Europeans".
Being European and leaning slightly to the left I'd like to see that page drawn up. And please don't be coy with details, I know my German history. Make sure to mark the counterparts of the Holocaust and the Gleichschaltung in bold so I won't miss them.
I think that it is our work as computer-scientists and tecnitians to educate everyone we can
Most people don't want to know. It has nothing to do with laziness, but there's only so much time that they're willing to spend on computers.
I'm not sure if there's a solution unless the program / OS part of a computer is more or less read-only (some pre-installed applications, and that's it).
They both have the same intellectual value (zero), so which one has a higher entertainment value?
Of course Bush's entertainment value is lower. But that's exactly the point I'm trying to make. Unfortunately, entertainment beats politics. No matter what you think of President Bush, he's the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, so what he does and says is of high interest. Or so you should think. But Paris Hilton, Michael Jackson and the others seem to matter more to the general public.
For the last time, we don't give a damn about Jackson, Bryant, Peterson, Limbaugh, or anybody else. Just shut up about it already and report some REAL news.
I'm not sure who you refer to as we, but it's not the majority of people. The general public loves celebrities, yellow press and the whole star-mania. It's the glamour, the wealth, the dirty secrets. Maybe the ordinary guy can dream about the what-if scenario of being in that position, etc., that's probably dealt with in psychology 101.
That stuff sells. Of course it's not hard news, but the media give to the people what they want. The Simple Life had a bigger audience than the interview with President Bush (first one after the capturing of Saddam Hussein) broadcast at the same time. Go figure.
Most of the article is dead-on when it comes to the different cultures of development. However, the following
I've encountered too many Unix programmers who sneer at Windows programming, thinking that Windows is heathen and stupid.
[...]
It's rather rare to find such bigotry among Windows programmers, who are, on the whole, solution-oriented and non-ideological.
does not quite relect my personal experience, and I am mostly working in the Windows world (at the moment). The bigotry can be found everywhere, and I've given up on trying to explain the advantages of one culture to people who are claiming the superiority of the other one.
Let me emphasize what an interesting read the Raymond book is. Very much recommended. Certain issues are too often considered 'common knowledge', although they're not, and the book explains the Unix culture well to those who are interested in technology, regardless of ideology. After all, a lot of things can be used on Windows, too, although they may not be the usual way to do it.
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Couldn't such a system easily be crippled by people submitting millions of domains, thus rendering the system unusable? Or how quickly can a host be checked?
The Stryker is an 18-ton infantry vehicle, already deployed by the U.S. army in places such as Iraq.
Undoubtedly named after Ted Stryker, who commanded the mission on that memorable day at Macho Grande?
But that doesn't change the situation when you receive such an archive. It's even harder to get to its content because you have to switch to Windows for a while, maybe even reboot (if you have only one computer) and install that program.
If it's not important you can ignore the mail or request an archive in some other format. But there are cases where that's not an option.
Every time someone sends you a zip archive that you need and that doesn't work because you don't have that particular Windows zip program X it will concern and annoy you.
In just a few years, Hitler managed to transform Germany from an highly agricultural, economically decrepit country into a modern, industrial, profitable one.
Profitable? He put everything into preparing Germany for war. All resources went into infrastructure and industry aimed at that goal. Had he not actually started war, the country would have gone broke after a short while.
I also doubt that agriculture became much more efficient (less farmers feeding the same number of people) in the '30s, so I don't see the major change in that field.
DC is great for what it is - creating relatively small, closed communities. But if you are looking for something rare the huge p2p networks are just unbeatable with their gigantic amounts of shared data.
I've recently started looking at log files of my website. I have hits from close to 100 countries so far, many small poor ones among them, but not a single hit from Saudia Arabia. Is Internet access not common there? From the article it seems that only porn is not available, and my site has a more technical nature.
All true.
However, when you say 'they continued to fight back' it's worth mentioning that a large number of French people collaborated with the occupying forces, some of them gladly.
Depending on who you talk to in France you might get the misleading impression that a majority was fighting in the Resistance.
That's the meaning of politics - identifying important issues and trying to get things done in those particular areas. In OSS just like in 'normal' politics.
I was just under the impression that Linus - so far - refused to deal with this. He didn't want to tell people what to do or get into all those discussions about GUIs, applications etc. He was busy with the kernel and he was hopeful that everything else would be handled by others. Not a bad strategy, I'd like to add.
It seems to me that he is now more outspoken about non-kernel issues.
He's more than a kernel hacker, he's an open source leader. Part of his role in the community is to set direction, identify problem areas, and do all of those other things that leaders do.
But weren't these political things exactly what he didn't want to do in the past? He always emphasized that he wanted to do a good job on the kernel without the ideological 'overhead' which some other prominent figures put so much effort into.
too complicated...
for whom? for what?
Logos must have a simple structure. It must be possible to recognize them in black and white, when scaled down to a very small size, etc.
That existing picture is not a logo.
hard to reproduce...
== hard to forge...
So what? That may be a good quality for a banknote, but we're talking about a logo. Take a look at the logo of Deutsche Bank. Everybody can copy it in three seconds, nonetheless it's a great logo. It's a great logo because it's so easy to memorize and associate with the brand.
While Adobe may not have spent time developing the code itself, I'm fairly certain that this code adds to the bottom line of development costs...which also adds to the bottom line of the product cost to the end user (unless they tack that expenditure onto some other product).
But the interfacing part should be trivial.
Photoshop loads the image, calls is_image_ok(img); from the API that was given to them and checks whether that function returns true or false.
Note, however, that .yu is supposed to be replaced by .cs (ISO 3166-1 changed from yu to cs), but the progress is rather slow.
.su where you have a lot of new .ru domains (and domains from other countries that were created after the Soviet Union ceased to exist).
Sorry. What I really wanted to say (searching for the links somehow made me forget that) - yu to cs is another case of changed ccTLDs, where acceptance of the new code or at least removal of the old one is doubtful. Just like
For the record, ccTLDs have been sucessfully dissolved before: .cs in 1995 and .zr in 2001.
.yu is supposed to be replaced by .cs (ISO 3166-1 changed from yu to cs), but the progress is rather slow.
.dd was dissolved when the two Germanies unified, but I'm not sure .dd was ever active to begin with.)
.dd domains in 1989, but only a year later there was the German reunification, and .dd went away.
Note, however, that
(Also, I'm told
According to this Usenet posting (in German) there were a few
Sorry for replying so late.
It is of course possible to find similarities in situations where people are held captive. Between Nazi concentration camps, Guantanamo Bay, Stalin's Gulags, and any regular prison.
However, I think it's inappropriate to make the comparison with Nazi concentration camps unless the properties that make them stand out can be found. This is not the case with Guantanamo Bay. Not by a far stretch.
Nobody knows what will happen there in the future, and speculation is not making a comparison work (flawed logic: A has begun at that level, and B is at that level now, so B is going to become like A).
We - and hopefully many journalists - should point out what is wrong with Guantanamo Bay. Nazi comparisons make this effort harder, because they are not credible and decrease credibility of those who utter them, and in consequence, harm the cause of fighting for human rights.
Last, not least, I think the flooding of discussions with Nazi comparisons these days diminishes the memory of those who suffered in those camps 60 years ago.
The people in guantanamo bay don't have a right to counsel, don't have a right to fair trial, don't have a right to be returned to their country of origin (look it up, it's a right for pow's), don't have any rights at all. They have been placed effectively outside US law (US courts have tried, and failed, to apply their jurisdiction to guantanamo bay). Claiming that guantanamo bay is not a concentration camp is just as silly as claiming that bush is the new hitler.
It depends on what you call a concentration camp. If the Nazi term is meant, then no, it's certainly not. No children, no Zyklon B, no exploiting of the work force of innocent civilians, no gruesome medical experiments.
However, it is a real shame what happens in Guantanamo Bay. I just don't see the necessity for Nazi comparisons. But I guess that's not so uncommon in the US. Nazi over time seems to have become a general insult for unpleasant authoritative people (see Seinfeld's Soup Nazi).
There is no systematic persecution, capture and killing of Muslims in the US. No citizen rights are taken away because a person is a Muslim. The people at Guantanamo are supposed to be criminals.
Therefore, the comparison fails to work out.
That's not to say that what happens at Guantanamo and elsewhere doesn't stink.
My point in this thread is simply that these big Nazi comparisons do not lead anywhere. They're factually wrong and they are not helpful when going against the many existing shortcomings of the Bush administration (because anyone claiming that Bush equals Hitler sounds like, sorry, an idiot).
As for the quote by Rev. Niemoller, nobody in the US has to fear for their life when they speak out against what happens in Guantanamo.
I will die happy if I'm able to say "Hitler was a great political leader." without idiots like you bringing upt he Holocaust as if that was the only god damn thing he did.
Yes, how impolite of me to mention this trifle that separates him from Bush. Obviously Hitler has had various qualities or he wouldn't have come that far. Hardly anyone is denying that.
Yes, the Holocaust was a horrible thing. No, I do not suspect America is engaging in a Holocaust. This does NOT preclude Bush from rising to power in the exact same fashion as Hitler.
That's the thing with comparisons - if you draw one, you must live with people pointing out that there are huge inaccuracies. In this case, the size of New Jersey. That's all I did.
And no, Bush is not rising (or has been risen) to power in the exact same fashion either. Not even close.
We can show you the elements of Nazi Germany on one side of a page and the elements of NeoCon America on the other, draw lines between them, and you dismiss us as "snobby Europeans".
Being European and leaning slightly to the left I'd like to see that page drawn up. And please don't be coy with details, I know my German history. Make sure to mark the counterparts of the Holocaust and the Gleichschaltung in bold so I won't miss them.
I think that it is our work as computer-scientists and tecnitians to educate everyone we can
Most people don't want to know. It has nothing to do with laziness, but there's only so much time that they're willing to spend on computers.
I'm not sure if there's a solution unless the program / OS part of a computer is more or less read-only (some pre-installed applications, and that's it).
I'd really like to do some data mining on those myself.
;-)
Can't they make them available for download? That would be one large access_log file...
They both have the same intellectual value (zero), so which one has a higher entertainment value?
Of course Bush's entertainment value is lower. But that's exactly the point I'm trying to make. Unfortunately, entertainment beats politics. No matter what you think of President Bush, he's the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, so what he does and says is of high interest. Or so you should think. But Paris Hilton, Michael Jackson and the others seem to matter more to the general public.
For the last time, we don't give a damn about Jackson, Bryant, Peterson, Limbaugh, or anybody else. Just shut up about it already and report some REAL news.
I'm not sure who you refer to as we, but it's not the majority of people. The general public loves celebrities, yellow press and the whole star-mania. It's the glamour, the wealth, the dirty secrets. Maybe the ordinary guy can dream about the what-if scenario of being in that position, etc., that's probably dealt with in psychology 101.
That stuff sells. Of course it's not hard news, but the media give to the people what they want. The Simple Life had a bigger audience than the interview with President Bush (first one after the capturing of Saddam Hussein) broadcast at the same time. Go figure.
While you're in the mood try this shell classic:
$ fg blow
Most of the article is dead-on when it comes to the different cultures of development. However, the following
I've encountered too many Unix programmers who sneer at Windows programming, thinking that Windows is heathen and stupid.
[...]
It's rather rare to find such bigotry among Windows programmers, who are, on the whole, solution-oriented and non-ideological.
does not quite relect my personal experience, and I am mostly working in the Windows world (at the moment). The bigotry can be found everywhere, and I've given up on trying to explain the advantages of one culture to people who are claiming the superiority of the other one.
Let me emphasize what an interesting read the Raymond book is. Very much recommended. Certain issues are too often considered 'common knowledge', although they're not, and the book explains the Unix culture well to those who are interested in technology, regardless of ideology. After all, a lot of things can be used on Windows, too, although they may not be the usual way to do it.