Copa America finished 3 weeks ago. The winner, Brazil, did not qualify to the Olympics. The runner up, Argentina, is doing great in the Olympics, thank you very much.
The Olympic football competition is designed to be a weakened tournament with age limits (all but three playesr have to be younger than 23). Having said that Portugal fielded Cristiano Ronaldo, on e of ther best players in the past Euro Cup in which he was fundamental to reach the final.
In synthesis you know jackshit what you are talking about and Iraq are doing a great job.
In 1998 Linux had been in development for a few years and has delimited clearly the sphere of privileges for different users, UNIX and mainframe OSes had done it for even longer. MacOS, was a networked OS and did not allow connections willy-nilly. I don't remember about OS2 but I believe you were required to login to your own machine.
For goodness sake, Novell Netware was making a killing as the network OS of choice and you did need to login to access the network resources, using a prompt you could not ignore.
Sorry but by the time W98 came out there was a big enough body of knolewdge that require a minimum of security architectured in the desing of any OS.
MS failed miserably, so please stop defending them about this one please like if there were no others at the same time doing things better.
Any OS at that time had mechanisms to isolate privileged tasks from normal users. UNIX (of course), mainframe OSes and Linux had root, MacOS, although was a network OS by then (AppleTalk?) only opened network services that were specifically configured to be open, otherwise there was no way to own it remotely.
The dumbtards at MS (for chrissakes, by 1998 I had been using Linux to connect to the Internet for 2 years) did not put any security constraints in their cosumer grade OS.
Sorry, but they failed that Engineering test and they did badly.
DDT high concentrations of course are not found in nature (er, Duh!) the problem with it is that it accumulates in fatty tissues, so the higher you are in the food chain the more you accumulate in your body, with the effects mentioned above.
And it takes 15 years to degrade in the environment.
So you say you are, but frankly to be still debating global warming (which is how your comment came accross, maybe is not what you wanted to imply) is frankly a show of ignorance, no matter if you are a Nobel Prize winner.
.... at least attempt to have a long term view of problems.
People defending DDT usage are eminent short termists, which could not care less about future generations as long as they are OK during their lifetimes.
And host the games at a national level, not by a city only.
And why not host the games worldwide? That way shouldering the cost would be much easier.
The problem with the IOC is that they are lazy bastards leeching the system for all what is is worth, they are killing the spirit of the Olympcis for the sake of milking as much money as possible from their little money earner.
I think it is time that people wake up and realize that a place in which you can't drink or eat whatever you please is a place you should not support with your custom (which seems to be happening in Athens at least on thie intiial stages in several sports).
The problem with the Olympics is that they have been hijacked by local politicians and corrupt IOC officials, the former use the Olympics as an excuse to highlight infrastructural improvements that should have been done anyway. The later, well, we know abut Salt Lake City scandals, still now the BBC unmasked a Bulgarian IOC member that is alleged was willing to sell his vote to the higgest bidder for the 2012 selection of the host city.
Most civilized countries have an Olympic stadium (for goodness sake, my country, Mexico, must have at least 5 or 6 with enough capacity , I am thinking 40000+), venues for Gymnastics, indoor sports and can learn (in case they don't know how!) how to organize street events like cycling, marthons or thriathlons. Also most ountries will have an Olympic sized swimming pool (note that only one pool is used) that could be comfortably used for diving and waterpolo.
With todays electronics miniaturization you can set up a media centre pretty much in any big convention centre in any place in the world.
To all developers and software "manufacturers": get your heads out of your behinds and smell the fresh air to get some oxygen in your brains.
The model of selling software for mass market consumption is dead. Finito, Kaputt. Only a handful of companies are making money selling software to the masses (there are many companies ut ther making money of selling niche software, but popular software is different).
Popular software will be pirated. Period. I don't like it, I don't condone it but it is like if I was a zebra complaining abut lions having a meal on my cousing or brother. It sucks but it is the way it is.
Your options? Services. Yeah, I know, the S word shows its ugly head again. Your software is just the honey to attract consumers to your real business: merchandise, community servers, new or extended features (that may your product niche or multiniche).
Or media hype (which most companies can't afford) so you generate high expectations and do your sale in the first week after release of your product. Pretty much like blockbuster moves.
Stop trying to commercialize thoughts (software is just that) and ideas. Those are too fluid to be albe ever to pin them down to commercial interests.
The open edition of Xandros allows you to trial Netraverse's virtual machine.
I have been running W98 (with latest patches), I use MS IE 6.0 and Suns Java VM latest version (need all this for work, I would not do that of my own volition) in my computer at home with Xandros and it works quite well. I added Apple's application for multimedia (sorry, I forgot its name, the famous one:-) ) and it works fine.
If you need to use Windows occasionally this is an excellent solution (I believe they only support W98 at the moment).
And some people seem unable to see the most distinctive difference between a "life peerage" obatined based in your own merits and hard work and a nobility title given to you as a birth right.
The first one is an affirmation of a society that values effort and achievement, the second is the reflection that values privilege.
The difference could not be more glaringly obvious.
If you are going to deploy a technology you are not familiar with you hire an expert. Period.
If you don't you are the one to blame, lets not go rounds pretending otherwise.
Linux is truly usable in many levels above Windows that is not funny.
The command line, that many astroturfers like yourself attack so vehemently, is perhaps the most important tool in Linux: you can create reproducible results that you can document and automatize. YOu have no idea how important this is becoming in today's enterprise. Windows does not provide facilities for this, Linux does and does so free of charge.
That is impossible with a point and click interface, be that Windows or any other, since you, as an user, are tied of hands constrained only to the options presented by the manufacturer nad can't script the results to replicate them elsewhere.
A simple directory search in Windows is an absolute pain, with the Linux command line you can be as expresive as you need to be to solve a problem.
You can't inherit an academic degree, that is obtained based on your persona effort and abaility.
A nobility title gives you a position in society irrespective of whatever you have done (good or bad) in life.
No wonder people with democratic instincts hated so much such monstruosities (not enough to get rid of their own slaves some of them, but that is another history).
An standard is a common agreement (either by mutual negotiation or impossed by force) which allows all the relevant players in the same field to provide a certain service without reinventing the wheel.
When you don't have standards you end with things like competing systems doing exactly the same thing without adding any value to the people that use the different products.
Power plugs around the world are a wonderful example of this.
If MS was interested at all in helping web developers they will go to the recognized standards body and will propose the standard which surely would be approved immediately given the track record of MS innovating in the IT industry. Disk compression and web brosers come to mind.
But no, that is not MS style, they like to impose things, shoulder competition out of contention using their monopoly,
And in spite of those unethical tactics, they still get fanboys like you applauding their efforts to obliterate any hope of a sane IT industry.
Slaves did not have any rights nor did have any saying on their conditions.
All the people you are mentioning are no slave labour, not by any meaningful descriptiong or any meaningful context,
You could say cheap labour and you may have a point, but that would be like saying the sky looks blue or air is transparent, I mean it is self evident that companies want the cheapest labour they can get, it is just you silly USians that seem unable to understand this in spite of you being home of the more savage capitalist system in the world.
It never stop to amaze me how so many geeks feel exploited but at the same time seem unable to utter that dreaded word: NO!
Do you need to lern Smalltalk for work? What is stopping you to do it during business hours? The workload? Well, gee, then are you suppossed to hold the world in your shoulders if your manager can't allocate resources?
I have never worked more than 40 hours a week, and now I work 35. 09:00 to 17:00 (one hour lunch) and I leave. Need to study? I do, during business hours.
All this mindless self inmmolation so the corrupt CEOs can make obscene gains even if they screw up things is the most self defeating attittude of US workers.
Work ethic has its place, but more often than not I just perceive unending masochism.
He used intelligence for his political (and perhaps economical) gain.
He has awarded juicy contracts to companies (without looking for the best deal) of his chums and associates (that latter on overcharge your goverment).
He has done precious little against the medieval country from which financiers and ground soldiers of the 9-11 attack came (US-Saudi relations are in reasonbaly good health).
He has done nothing to cut your addiction from foreign oil).
He put a chum of Unocal, yet another US company, as president of AFghanistan (surprise: Unocal wins contracts for gas pipeline trhough AFghanistan).
And still you consider him a credible alternative?
What does this individual need to do for you to finally see the light? Appear in a party picture with Osama bin Laden?
The Spanish Conquistadors, no more than a couple of hundred, conquered the vast Aztec empire, whose capital city, Tenochtitlan (today's Mexico City) was inhabited by 200 000 souls.
How did they manage to do that? People that were living under the control of the Aztecs allied themsleves against the Aztecs helping the outsiders (which were seen as gods or demigods, due to their firearms and horses, which did not exist in America).
I reckon that many countries, if given a chance by alien conquerors, will willingly ally themselves against a current, more present enemy, than repel the new masters. IF anything an alien signal may mean for many people a chance for liberation, not a call for planetary peace.
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My guess is that proponents of free software should be delighted (I certainly am).
It is very encouraing that many companies are seeing sofware as what it should be: ideas to be shared on top of which businesses can be grown.
Copa America finished 3 weeks ago. The winner, Brazil, did not qualify to the Olympics. The runner up, Argentina, is doing great in the Olympics, thank you very much.
The Olympic football competition is designed to be a weakened tournament with age limits (all but three playesr have to be younger than 23). Having said that Portugal fielded Cristiano Ronaldo, on e of ther best players in the past Euro Cup in which he was fundamental to reach the final.
In synthesis you know jackshit what you are talking about and Iraq are doing a great job.
In 1998 Linux had been in development for a few years and has delimited clearly the sphere of privileges for different users, UNIX and mainframe OSes had done it for even longer. MacOS, was a networked OS and did not allow connections willy-nilly. I don't remember about OS2 but I believe you were required to login to your own machine.
For goodness sake, Novell Netware was making a killing as the network OS of choice and you did need to login to access the network resources, using a prompt you could not ignore.
Sorry but by the time W98 came out there was a big enough body of knolewdge that require a minimum of security architectured in the desing of any OS.
MS failed miserably, so please stop defending them about this one please like if there were no others at the same time doing things better.
Any OS at that time had mechanisms to isolate privileged tasks from normal users. UNIX (of course), mainframe OSes and Linux had root, MacOS, although was a network OS by then (AppleTalk?) only opened network services that were specifically configured to be open, otherwise there was no way to own it remotely.
The dumbtards at MS (for chrissakes, by 1998 I had been using Linux to connect to the Internet for 2 years) did not put any security constraints in their cosumer grade OS.
Sorry, but they failed that Engineering test and they did badly.
I don't believe you:
http://www.epa.gov/pbt/ddt.htm
DDT high concentrations of course are not found in nature (er, Duh!) the problem with it is that it accumulates in fatty tissues, so the higher you are in the food chain the more you accumulate in your body, with the effects mentioned above.
And it takes 15 years to degrade in the environment.
" ..... recently is has been global warming.... "
So you say you are, but frankly to be still debating global warming (which is how your comment came accross, maybe is not what you wanted to imply) is frankly a show of ignorance, no matter if you are a Nobel Prize winner.
.... at least attempt to have a long term view of problems.
People defending DDT usage are eminent short termists, which could not care less about future generations as long as they are OK during their lifetimes.
Nope, Not a bit.
And host the games at a national level, not by a city only.
And why not host the games worldwide? That way shouldering the cost would be much easier.
The problem with the IOC is that they are lazy bastards leeching the system for all what is is worth, they are killing the spirit of the Olympcis for the sake of milking as much money as possible from their little money earner.
I think it is time that people wake up and realize that a place in which you can't drink or eat whatever you please is a place you should not support with your custom (which seems to be happening in Athens at least on thie intiial stages in several sports).
The problem with the Olympics is that they have been hijacked by local politicians and corrupt IOC officials, the former use the Olympics as an excuse to highlight infrastructural improvements that should have been done anyway. The later, well, we know abut Salt Lake City scandals, still now the BBC unmasked a Bulgarian IOC member that is alleged was willing to sell his vote to the higgest bidder for the 2012 selection of the host city.
Most civilized countries have an Olympic stadium (for goodness sake, my country, Mexico, must have at least 5 or 6 with enough capacity , I am thinking 40000+), venues for Gymnastics, indoor sports and can learn (in case they don't know how!) how to organize street events like cycling, marthons or thriathlons. Also most ountries will have an Olympic sized swimming pool (note that only one pool is used) that could be comfortably used for diving and waterpolo.
With todays electronics miniaturization you can set up a media centre pretty much in any big convention centre in any place in the world.
So again, why do we need 6 billion US$ for this?
To all developers and software "manufacturers": get your heads out of your behinds and smell the fresh air to get some oxygen in your brains.
The model of selling software for mass market consumption is dead. Finito, Kaputt. Only a handful of companies are making money selling software to the masses (there are many companies ut ther making money of selling niche software, but popular software is different).
Popular software will be pirated. Period. I don't like it, I don't condone it but it is like if I was a zebra complaining abut lions having a meal on my cousing or brother. It sucks but it is the way it is.
Your options? Services. Yeah, I know, the S word shows its ugly head again. Your software is just the honey to attract consumers to your real business: merchandise, community servers, new or extended features (that may your product niche or multiniche).
Or media hype (which most companies can't afford) so you generate high expectations and do your sale in the first week after release of your product. Pretty much like blockbuster moves.
Stop trying to commercialize thoughts (software is just that) and ideas. Those are too fluid to be albe ever to pin them down to commercial interests.
.... that would judge me as a person for a fscking radio.
So frankly I fail to see exactly what point you are trying to make.
There are many girls out there that can see beyond idiotic stereotypes.
That is exactly where one can make an stand.
If you fail to do so then other companies will see a fertile ground to make businesses plans out of extorting money.
Insurance companies wanting to make sure you are not breaking the law in order to insure you!
The unreasonable bastards!
The open edition of Xandros allows you to trial Netraverse's virtual machine.
:-) ) and it works fine.
I have been running W98 (with latest patches), I use MS IE 6.0 and Suns Java VM latest version (need all this for work, I would not do that of my own volition) in my computer at home with Xandros and it works quite well. I added Apple's application for multimedia (sorry, I forgot its name, the famous one
If you need to use Windows occasionally this is an excellent solution (I believe they only support W98 at the moment).
And some people seem unable to see the most distinctive difference between a "life peerage" obatined based in your own merits and hard work and a nobility title given to you as a birth right.
The first one is an affirmation of a society that values effort and achievement, the second is the reflection that values privilege.
The difference could not be more glaringly obvious.
Don't insult our intelligence please.
If you are going to deploy a technology you are not familiar with you hire an expert. Period.
If you don't you are the one to blame, lets not go rounds pretending otherwise.
Linux is truly usable in many levels above Windows that is not funny.
The command line, that many astroturfers like yourself attack so vehemently, is perhaps the most important tool in Linux: you can create reproducible results that you can document and automatize. YOu have no idea how important this is becoming in today's enterprise. Windows does not provide facilities for this, Linux does and does so free of charge.
That is impossible with a point and click interface, be that Windows or any other, since you, as an user, are tied of hands constrained only to the options presented by the manufacturer nad can't script the results to replicate them elsewhere.
A simple directory search in Windows is an absolute pain, with the Linux command line you can be as expresive as you need to be to solve a problem.
I wish I could slap some moderators.
You can't inherit an academic degree, that is obtained based on your persona effort and abaility.
A nobility title gives you a position in society irrespective of whatever you have done (good or bad) in life.
No wonder people with democratic instincts hated so much such monstruosities (not enough to get rid of their own slaves some of them, but that is another history).
An standard is a common agreement (either by mutual negotiation or impossed by force) which allows all the relevant players in the same field to provide a certain service without reinventing the wheel.
When you don't have standards you end with things like competing systems doing exactly the same thing without adding any value to the people that use the different products.
Power plugs around the world are a wonderful example of this.
If MS was interested at all in helping web developers they will go to the recognized standards body and will propose the standard which surely would be approved immediately given the track record of MS innovating in the IT industry. Disk compression and web brosers come to mind.
But no, that is not MS style, they like to impose things, shoulder competition out of contention using their monopoly,
And in spite of those unethical tactics, they still get fanboys like you applauding their efforts to obliterate any hope of a sane IT industry.
I am dissapointed, Very much.
Slaves did not have any rights nor did have any saying on their conditions.
All the people you are mentioning are no slave labour, not by any meaningful descriptiong or any meaningful context,
You could say cheap labour and you may have a point, but that would be like saying the sky looks blue or air is transparent, I mean it is self evident that companies want the cheapest labour they can get, it is just you silly USians that seem unable to understand this in spite of you being home of the more savage capitalist system in the world.
It never stop to amaze me how so many geeks feel exploited but at the same time seem unable to utter that dreaded word: NO!
Do you need to lern Smalltalk for work? What is stopping you to do it during business hours? The workload? Well, gee, then are you suppossed to hold the world in your shoulders if your manager can't allocate resources?
I have never worked more than 40 hours a week, and now I work 35. 09:00 to 17:00 (one hour lunch) and I leave. Need to study? I do, during business hours.
All this mindless self inmmolation so the corrupt CEOs can make obscene gains even if they screw up things is the most self defeating attittude of US workers.
Work ethic has its place, but more often than not I just perceive unending masochism.
He lied to you.
He used intelligence for his political (and perhaps economical) gain.
He has awarded juicy contracts to companies (without looking for the best deal) of his chums and associates (that latter on overcharge your goverment).
He has done precious little against the medieval country from which financiers and ground soldiers of the 9-11 attack came (US-Saudi relations are in reasonbaly good health).
He has done nothing to cut your addiction from foreign oil).
He put a chum of Unocal, yet another US company, as president of AFghanistan (surprise: Unocal wins contracts for gas pipeline trhough AFghanistan).
And still you consider him a credible alternative?
What does this individual need to do for you to finally see the light? Appear in a party picture with Osama bin Laden?
What about if they ask for the holly prophet Muhammed, peace upon him?
The Spanish Conquistadors, no more than a couple of hundred, conquered the vast Aztec empire, whose capital city, Tenochtitlan (today's Mexico City) was inhabited by 200 000 souls.
How did they manage to do that? People that were living under the control of the Aztecs allied themsleves against the Aztecs helping the outsiders (which were seen as gods or demigods, due to their firearms and horses, which did not exist in America).
I reckon that many countries, if given a chance by alien conquerors, will willingly ally themselves against a current, more present enemy, than repel the new masters. IF anything an alien signal may mean for many people a chance for liberation, not a call for planetary peace.