But then there were companies who even after their ignorance was shed continued to do business with the Reich.
The book IBM and the Holocaust details this for once such company. There was even a slashdot review of this book i believe. Here is a choice quote from the website:
IBM and the Holocaust takes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries -- all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction.
It's nice to see chemical engineers getting the props we deserve. I'm a grad student, but I talk to the undergrads about it. Even though the average starting salary is high, the undergrads are having a harder time finding good jobs. There are fewer jobs out there, but those that are out there are fairly high paying. This is no where where we were in the late 90's.
I have an older Kryptonite lock, and I cannot open it with a pen. This is only because the diameter of the barrel lock is slightly larger than the pen. So I dont think it was a case of "lets make cheaper locks", rather a design change lead to a smaller diameter barrell which happens to fit a bic pen perfectly.
I have no doubt that if you could find a pen with a larger diameter, you could pick my lock just as easily. I'm currently looking for an alternative. If my bike gets stolen in the process, I'm going to be looking into that insurance frim Kryptonite --- which was one of the reasons I purchased a lock from them in the first place.
There are many opensource licenses. All opensource means is that the code is available for inspection and modification. Opensource is more a copyright issue and has nothing to do with patents. The gpl --- which is not the same as opensource --- addresses both copyright and patent issues.
I believe we're on internet 2 here, but I cannot get to it. More likely, MIT has a cache and forces all browser requests through that cache. So the document was probably already in the cache before the slashdotting.
I even donated a little to the charity he suppports. If anyone isn't aware, I know it's hard to miss the splash message, but vim is charitywre. Bram wants doantions to be sent to iccf holland which are used to help children in Uganda. I use this editor every day that I use a computer (which is pretty much every day) and I think it's great that Bram uses his work to help others less fortunate.
I work in a small research group (10-15 people) and our solution was to install windows 2003 server on an older box and use rdesktop access windows. Sadly we need windows for things like our plotter which is only supported in windows. If you have a small group and have an older computer to spare, I think rdesktop is a good solution.
It's ironic you would mention schizophrenia, I just read martian time slip from phillip k dick. it's a classic book in sci-fi, but it also gave me an interesting perspective on the disease as it was understood 30+ years ago.
So if you are say a graduate student in the United States and you move back to India after having purchases some music on itunes what do you do? Are you legally obligated to delete them?
If you are on a business trip to India, is it then legal?
when you install *linux* you typically install from a distribution which gives you much more by default than a windows install cd. so when i install redhat, i click on the "everything" button, which comes with licq, gimp, apache, ssh (server + client), compilers, editors, open office, koffice, kde, gnome, xwindows, etc.
so the first thing i do is install redhat. since almost everything else i use, that doesn't come with redhat, i have installed in/opt which is on it's own partition, i dont have to reinstall anything really. it's much nice that when i used nt.
Perhaps MySQL is such a common name that people haven't heard of better alternatives out there. Presumably the book that this story reviews, which gives it even more publicity, is yet another reason that someone might consider MySQL without even thinking about alternatives.
This is what almost got me. I started mucking around with databases in '99, and the first book I found was Mysql & msql from O'reilly. I read throught the book and started messing around. I found a message board or something, where someone was responding to a comment where the responder said something like "hey why aren't you using PostgreSQL?". That got me to ask the question, what is the PostgreSQL thing? Since I wasn't too entrenched, I eventually started using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL.
I'm happy that I started using PostgreSQL because of all the features. MySQL may be faster for db's that dont change much (i.e. few inserts, deletes and updates), but I don't really notice the effects for what I do.
You may have this perception because people rarely use PHP code to do heavy lifting.
I would have to agree with you here. If you are going to compare speed of perl to speed of php, you have to compare the two doing the same thing.
Also, You cannot forget CPAN. The PHP folks will typically say something like, well we have PEAR. Unless PEAR has made some amazing strides in the last year or so, it is still no comparision to the massive body of code that CPAN provides.
use https, scp, rsync over ssh, stunnel. really the only thing i do that is not encrypted is read slashdot. when i send mail, i ssh to a server which i control. it's easy enough to set up your web server to use https, and i transfer everything using scp or rsync over ssh. i dont know much about irc.
bush jr. had to deal with the results of the decisions made by clinton-just as every president must do. with a recession approaching, there are many options. those taken by bush jr would be considered by many to be suboptimal. that is if optimality was defined by an intention to stimulate the economy and reduce magnitude and druation of the recession. the "new economy" and it's ramifications didnt end with the 90's.
for further reading i would suggest: the roaring nineties written by josepth stiglitz. stiglitz, who won the nobel prize in economics, was part of the clinton administration. i just finished it and i think it gives a great overview of what went wrong and what went right with the "new economy". he is fairly balanced-being critical of both bush and clinton. also, you dont have to be an economist to appreciate the arguments presented in this text.
MemTestx86 (as you have found): Allow me one point further int he favor of it, major memory makers will accept their RAM bad, no questions asked (in my experience) if you tell them it was checked and found bad, via MemTextx86.
i'd like to second this. i had some crucial ram giving me trouble so i called their tech support folks, told them memtest86 failed, and they were quite satisfied. it turns out that our motherboard came with two different chipsets. the chipset we had was incompatable with the memory they sent and they crossshiped the replacement.
I would not be surprised if this reactor didn't require a pretty pure ethanol.
also keep in mind that water/ethanol solutions have an azeotrope of 95% at and around atmospheric conditions. this means the driving force for separation (the concentration difference between the liquid and vapor phases) is effectively zero under atmospheric pressure. so unless you want to do pressure/swing distillation-which is very energy intensive-the best you can get is 95% ethanol (190 proof for those of you that drink the stuff).
i dont know why this guy was marked troll. i've had the same expirence with oo. i've only used the versions which come with redhat, so that might be the problem. in my expirence it's really slow.
i just started oowriter on a dual athlon MP 2200+ running redhat 9. it took 10 seconds for the splashscreen to open up and 9 more seconds for the application to start. that's almost 20 seconds just for a word processor to start.
i'm not going to comment much on the interface design except to say that it's not very responsive.
they claim to sell alot of the same laptops as the major vendors less the ms tax. i read somewhere on their site that they buy the laptops from the same place as dell or gateway. the major vendors basically stick their logo on them and sell the laptops as their own. they will even preinstall linux, and they have a bulletin board where they answer linux related questions.
since it's not a name brand company, you can check out the reviews at reseller ratings.
i guess i should mention that i'm in no way affiliated with this company. i stumbled across them when a friend asked me where he should buy a laptop without windows.
the mini ipod isnt shipping yet. i considered getting one for my girlfriend, but they wont be availabel till after vday. at least that is what apple said. it's weird, they let you get to where you're about to pay for something before they tell you it's not available.
if by spending the same amount of money (or less) you can accomplish 1 while you are currently only accomplishing 2, then you are at a suboptimal state.
this only considers the monetary aspectes though. many would argue that if 1 and/or 2 violates your civil liberties, then that violation should trump the benefits and 1 and/or 2 should be dropped.
there is the alternative arguement that, if you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to loose. this is clearly incorrect, as the article alludes to improper use of the cameras by the athorities. since the athorities are people, corruptible, prone to error, etc., there is no guarantee that the cameras will only be used against the guilty.
many people, myself included, dont really care if they are filmed and put on tv. however, there are quite a few people, who at a minimum, dont want their image placed on the nightly news to be laughed at. this misappropriation is harmless at best.
i think the example cited in the article, the video of a person attempting suicide, is a better example. would you want a video of your father trying to kill himself shown on the nightly news? sure he's not doing anything wrong, but imagine the impact that would have on your family.
there is a balance to be reached, but i think 1 camera for every 14 people is tipping too far away from the rights of the individual.
Well to both of you, the company isn't exactly claiming to be the first to think of it.
i think the original poster ( the Oh puLEASe guy) was referring to the title of the article: Dutch invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels-which is kind of implying that the concept was the invention of these dutch folks. of course original poster didnt read the article.
so the poster is probably either
- new to slashdot and didnt realize that slashdot has a habit of sensationalizing their headlines or
- has been posting here for a while and like a good little slasdotter, didnt bother to read the article and decided to rely on amature reporters and editors to provide all the information he needed to make decisions.
Slashdot Mirror
The book IBM and the Holocaust details this for once such company. There was even a slashdot review of this book i believe. Here is a choice quote from the
website:
place a checkbox in the advanced search options:
[ ] display search results your government wont allow you to view.
It's nice to see chemical engineers getting the props we deserve. I'm a grad student, but I talk to the undergrads about it. Even though the average starting salary is high, the undergrads are having a harder time finding good jobs. There are fewer jobs out there, but those that are out there are fairly high paying. This is no where where we were in the late 90's.
I have an older Kryptonite lock, and I cannot open it with a pen. This is only because the diameter of the barrel lock is slightly larger than the pen. So I dont think it was a case of "lets make cheaper locks", rather a design change lead to a smaller diameter barrell which happens to fit a bic pen perfectly.
I have no doubt that if you could find a pen with a larger diameter, you could pick my lock just as easily. I'm currently looking for an alternative. If my bike gets stolen in the process, I'm going to be looking into that insurance frim Kryptonite --- which was one of the reasons I purchased a lock from them in the first place.
There are many opensource licenses. All opensource means is that the code is available for inspection and modification. Opensource is more a copyright issue and has nothing to do with patents. The gpl --- which is not the same as opensource --- addresses both copyright and patent issues.
I believe we're on internet 2 here, but I cannot get to it. More likely, MIT has a cache and forces all browser requests through that cache. So the document was probably already in the cache before the slashdotting.
I even donated a little to the charity he suppports. If anyone isn't aware, I know it's hard to miss the splash message, but vim is charitywre. Bram wants doantions to be sent to iccf holland which are used to help children in Uganda. I use this editor every day that I use a computer (which is pretty much every day) and I think it's great that Bram uses his work to help others less fortunate.
i got this when i simply searched for 'mailinator', but it doenst seem to be giving the error any longer.
I work in a small research group (10-15 people) and our solution was to install windows 2003 server on an older box and use rdesktop access windows. Sadly we need windows for things like our plotter which is only supported in windows. If you have a small group and have an older computer to spare, I think rdesktop is a good solution.
It's ironic you would mention schizophrenia, I just read martian time slip from phillip k dick. it's a classic book in sci-fi, but it also gave me an interesting perspective on the disease as it was understood 30+ years ago.
So if you are say a graduate student in the United States and you move back to India after having purchases some music on itunes what do you do? Are you legally obligated to delete them?
If you are on a business trip to India, is it then legal?
does anyone have a script for automating the download of the allofmp3.com files, renaming them, etc that i can call using procmail?
when you install *linux* you typically install from a distribution which gives you much more by default than a windows install cd. so when i install redhat, i click on the "everything" button, which comes with licq, gimp, apache, ssh (server + client), compilers, editors, open office, koffice, kde, gnome, xwindows, etc.
/opt which is on it's own partition, i dont have to reinstall anything really. it's much nice that when i used nt.
so the first thing i do is install redhat. since almost everything else i use, that doesn't come with redhat, i have installed in
Perhaps MySQL is such a common name that people haven't heard of better alternatives out there. Presumably the book that this story reviews, which gives it even more publicity, is yet another reason that someone might consider MySQL without even thinking about alternatives.
This is what almost got me. I started mucking around with databases in '99, and the first book I found was Mysql & msql from O'reilly. I read throught the book and started messing around. I found a message board or something, where someone was responding to a comment where the responder said something like "hey why aren't you using PostgreSQL?". That got me to ask the question, what is the PostgreSQL thing? Since I wasn't too entrenched, I eventually started using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL.
I'm happy that I started using PostgreSQL because of all the features. MySQL may be faster for db's that dont change much (i.e. few inserts, deletes and updates), but I don't really notice the effects for what I do.
You may have this perception because people rarely use PHP code to do heavy lifting.
I would have to agree with you here. If you are going to compare speed of perl to speed of php, you have to compare the two doing the same thing.
Also, You cannot forget CPAN. The PHP folks will typically say something like, well we have PEAR. Unless PEAR has made some amazing strides in the last year or so, it is still no comparision to the massive body of code that CPAN provides.
use https, scp, rsync over ssh, stunnel. really the only thing i do that is not encrypted is read slashdot. when i send mail, i ssh to a server which i control. it's easy enough to set up your web server to use https, and i transfer everything using scp or rsync over ssh. i dont know much about irc.
bush jr. had to deal with the results of the decisions made by clinton-just as every president must do. with a recession approaching, there are many options. those taken by bush jr would be considered by many to be suboptimal. that is if optimality was defined by an intention to stimulate the economy and reduce magnitude and druation of the recession. the "new economy" and it's ramifications didnt end with the 90's.
for further reading i would suggest: the roaring nineties written by josepth stiglitz. stiglitz, who won the nobel prize in economics, was part of the clinton administration. i just finished it and i think it gives a great overview of what went wrong and what went right with the "new economy". he is fairly balanced-being critical of both bush and clinton. also, you dont have to be an economist to appreciate the arguments presented in this text.
MemTestx86 (as you have found): Allow me one point further int he favor of it, major memory makers will accept their RAM bad, no questions asked (in my experience) if you tell them it was checked and found bad, via MemTextx86.
i'd like to second this. i had some crucial ram giving me trouble so i called their tech support folks, told them memtest86 failed, and they were quite satisfied. it turns out that our motherboard came with two different chipsets. the chipset we had was incompatable with the memory they sent and they crossshiped the replacement.
I would not be surprised if this reactor didn't require a pretty pure ethanol.
also keep in mind that water/ethanol solutions have an azeotrope of 95% at and around atmospheric conditions. this means the driving force for separation (the concentration difference between the liquid and vapor phases) is effectively zero under atmospheric pressure. so unless you want to do pressure/swing distillation-which is very energy intensive-the best you can get is 95% ethanol (190 proof for those of you that drink the stuff).
i dont know why this guy was marked troll. i've had the same expirence with oo. i've only used the versions which come with redhat, so that might be the problem. in my expirence it's really slow.
i just started oowriter on a dual athlon MP 2200+ running redhat 9. it took 10 seconds for the splashscreen to open up and 9 more seconds for the application to start. that's almost 20 seconds just for a word processor to start.
i'm not going to comment much on the interface design except to say that it's not very responsive.
did you consider these guys power notebooks?
they claim to sell alot of the same laptops as the major vendors less the ms tax. i read somewhere on their site that they buy the laptops from the same place as dell or gateway. the major vendors basically stick their logo on them and sell the laptops as their own. they will even preinstall linux, and they have a bulletin board where they answer linux related questions.
since it's not a name brand company, you can check out the reviews at reseller ratings.
i guess i should mention that i'm in no way affiliated with this company. i stumbled across them when a friend asked me where he should buy a laptop without windows.
the mini ipod isnt shipping yet. i considered getting one for my girlfriend, but they wont be availabel till after vday. at least that is what apple said. it's weird, they let you get to where you're about to pay for something before they tell you it's not available.
you spend money to:
1) prevent and solve crimes
2) solve crimes
3) accomplish nothing
if by spending the same amount of money (or less) you can accomplish 1 while you are currently only accomplishing 2, then you are at a suboptimal state.
this only considers the monetary aspectes though. many would argue that if 1 and/or 2 violates your civil liberties, then that violation should trump the benefits and 1 and/or 2 should be dropped.
there is the alternative arguement that, if you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to loose. this is clearly incorrect, as the article alludes to improper use of the cameras by the athorities. since the athorities are people, corruptible, prone to error, etc., there is no guarantee that the cameras will only be used against the guilty.
many people, myself included, dont really care if they are filmed and put on tv. however, there are quite a few people, who at a minimum, dont want their image placed on the nightly news to be laughed at. this misappropriation is harmless at best.
i think the example cited in the article, the video of a person attempting suicide, is a better example. would you want a video of your father trying to kill himself shown on the nightly news? sure he's not doing anything wrong, but imagine the impact that would have on your family.
there is a balance to be reached, but i think 1 camera for every 14 people is tipping too far away from the rights of the individual.
that might make you pretty unique around here :).
Well to both of you, the company isn't exactly claiming to be the first to think of it.
i think the original poster ( the Oh puLEASe guy) was referring to the title of the article: Dutch invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels-which is kind of implying that the concept was the invention of these dutch folks. of course original poster didnt read the article.
so the poster is probably either
- new to slashdot and didnt realize that slashdot has a habit of sensationalizing their headlines
or
- has been posting here for a while and like a good little slasdotter, didnt bother to read the article and decided to rely on amature reporters and editors to provide all the information he needed to make decisions.