All throughout school we've been taught why communism and oppressive governments of countries like China or Cuba are "bad". They gave us logical reasoning that led to the conclusion that these things are...evil.
The schools I went to never had such brainwashing. Is the state of education in the US really so bad? Don't answer this, I probably already know the answer.
China & Cuba definatly have bad things going on in their country. The US definatly has good things going on. Also, C&C have good things, and the US has bad things. To say that the things which you consider important are the only important things shows incredible arrogance.
In most of the rest of the world, a government which executes minors, has a huge percentage of it's population in jail, mainly for minor drug offenses, and denies it's sickest citizens health care would be considered inhumane, yet as that is what you are used to in the US you don't consider it "enlightening" to learn this.
The US has a long history of meddling in the affairs of other nations, from the United Fruit Company's affairs in Central America, to Vietnam and more.
This is not to say that only China & the US have governments which abuse their powers. Every government does, from the smallest to the largest.
Open Your eyes, and see what your government does wrong, this is more important to you than what happens on the other side of the planet.
The problem I have is that 80% of features are never used by most people.
If you look at a good design, you can add features without slowing down the main system. For example, in Unix, you can add a new foobar program, which you can now use in pipelines (ps -ef | foobar | more). If you never use foobar, it doesn't slow you down.
Again, everything that the religious right is at odds with. You can't say "bullshit" on the air, or display nudity, or even talk about sex, and it's even hard to talk about breast cancer, pregnancy, or STD's (ignorance of which leads to serious problems for kids).
This is an example of how the citizens of the US don't really have many practical rights, compared to their European & Canadian cousins.
Most Americans get all offended when they hear this, but consider:
In Canada, you can buy a Cuban cigar. In Canada, you can say those 7 words on the TV. In Canada, you can't have your money & property seized just because a cop thinks it's related to drugs. In Canada, you can rebroadcast a TV signal. In Canada, you can't have a webpage yanked just because someone complains it violates their copyright, they have to prove it. In Canada, you don't have to register for the draft. In Canada, you can go to a beach and take off your bikini top (If you're a woman).
"Now that software development is moving out of its "gold rush" period, where the firstest gets the mostest,"
Seems to me that the pressures of 'first to market' are getting worse, not better. The marketing message is "Who cares how buggy it is, as long as it's available now?"
At the start of the Outer Limits, it says "here is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We can reduce the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits."
However, despite this announcement, they actually have no control over your TV or you.
Similarly, in Canada, they have no rights to prevent retransmittion. We're Canadians. We're not from that backwater country where it's citizens have no useful rights.
I think the major problem is that it's a binary file.
One of Unix's great strengths is that all the configuration files are straight text. This makes it easy to fix problems. A binary file is impossible to fix if it gets corrupted.
Grabbing just one page from each server is going to be faster than spidering the entire site. Therefore I'd expect netcraft to be ahead of all the search engines.
Netcraft's measure is by number of servers, while this measure is by number of pages.
It's not suprising that they both agree, but it's certainly possible that larger sites might have a different server to the average site, causing a difference.
I don't think that anyone (with any sense) will claim that Linux is 100% scalable from the 386 with 4Mb to the you_can't_afford_it hardware. However, Unix OS's are. Linux makes a good low end, if you outgrow that, then you can easily switch to a commerical Unix such as Solaris running on a 64 processor machine, or OS/390 running on whatever number of processors you care to specify.
NT gives you no such migration path. If you outgrow the amount that PC hardware can support, you're stuck. And while a 8-X system is much more powerful than PC's were a few years ago, they are still many orders of magnitude smaller than the Enterprise class systems I mention above.
Actually, with most filesystems, a small icon will take up exactly the same amount of space as a large icon, one allocation block.
The only difference is that with a small icon, most of the block is wasted, while with a larger icon, less of the block is wasted.
Try it yourself, check how much free space you have, create a small file, and check how much free space you have again. free_space_before > free_space_after + filesize
AT&T splitting into AT&T, NCR & Lucent was almost 20 years after the original MFJ.
At the time of the MFJ, the primary supplier to AT&T & the Bells was the company which came to be Nortel. As Lucent & Nortel are most definatly in comptetition, it appears that the MFJ has increased competition.
One problem is that Verisign & Thwate have a major advantage over any competitor in that the browsers contain CA records, while a competitor would not. This is the principle reason that Verisign has a bigger marketshare than Thwate, because VS's CA was in Navigator & MSIE earlier than Thwate's were.
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You can drink as much alcohol you like, as long as you don't drive until you've sobered up.
Changing the entire number makes it impossible to reconstruct any number, and it certainly makes it impossible to track me.
The schools I went to never had such brainwashing. Is the state of education in the US really so bad? Don't answer this, I probably already know the answer.
China & Cuba definatly have bad things going on in their country. The US definatly has good things going on. Also, C&C have good things, and the US has bad things. To say that the things which you consider important are the only important things shows incredible arrogance.
In most of the rest of the world, a government which executes minors, has a huge percentage of it's population in jail, mainly for minor drug offenses, and denies it's sickest citizens health care would be considered inhumane, yet as that is what you are used to in the US you don't consider it "enlightening" to learn this.
The US has a long history of meddling in the affairs of other nations, from the United Fruit Company's affairs in Central America, to Vietnam and more.
This is not to say that only China & the US have governments which abuse their powers. Every government does, from the smallest to the largest.
Open Your eyes, and see what your government does wrong, this is more important to you than what happens on the other side of the planet.
The US isn't really so different to the countries it arbitrarily chooses to oppose.
If you look at a good design, you can add features without slowing down the main system. For example, in Unix, you can add a new foobar program, which you can now use in pipelines (ps -ef | foobar | more). If you never use foobar, it doesn't slow you down.
Obviously MS Word is not a good design.
People outside of the US are not affected in any way.
This is an example of how the citizens of the US don't really have many practical rights, compared to their European & Canadian cousins.
Most Americans get all offended when they hear this, but consider:
In Canada, you can buy a Cuban cigar.
In Canada, you can say those 7 words on the TV.
In Canada, you can't have your money & property seized just because a cop thinks it's related to drugs.
In Canada, you can rebroadcast a TV signal.
In Canada, you can't have a webpage yanked just because someone complains it violates their copyright, they have to prove it.
In Canada, you don't have to register for the draft.
In Canada, you can go to a beach and take off your bikini top (If you're a woman).
Seems to me that the pressures of 'first to market' are getting worse, not better. The marketing message is "Who cares how buggy it is, as long as it's available now?"
All the channels broadcast by Icrave are freely available over a (Big enough) antenna in Toronto.
The BBC puts these programs on their Web page
Fox 29 broadcasting from Buffalo often has adverts targeted directly towards Ontario.
However, despite this announcement, they actually have no control over your TV or you.
Similarly, in Canada, they have no rights to prevent retransmittion. We're Canadians. We're not from that backwater country where it's citizens have no useful rights.
One of Unix's great strengths is that all the configuration files are straight text. This makes it easy to fix problems. A binary file is impossible to fix if it gets corrupted.
And just as Scientology lost with the DMCA (See http://www.primenet.com/~xenubat/un blocked.html for details), I don't think the MPAA is going to win in the long run on this.
Votes on postcards about who & which orifice I should insert it into....
Grabbing just one page from each server is going to be faster than spidering the entire site. Therefore I'd expect netcraft to be ahead of all the search engines.
Netcraft's measure is by number of servers, while this measure is by number of pages.
It's not suprising that they both agree, but it's certainly possible that larger sites might have a different server to the average site, causing a difference.
You can see Sue being prepared for display on her webc am.
The AFU FAQ Shows this as False
NT gives you no such migration path. If you outgrow the amount that PC hardware can support, you're stuck. And while a 8-X system is much more powerful than PC's were a few years ago, they are still many orders of magnitude smaller than the Enterprise class systems I mention above.
Wally Cleaver: That's your tough luck.
The only difference is that with a small icon, most of the block is wasted, while with a larger icon, less of the block is wasted.
Try it yourself, check how much free space you have, create a small file, and check how much free space you have again. free_space_before > free_space_after + filesize
At the time of the MFJ, the primary supplier to AT&T & the Bells was the company which came to be Nortel. As Lucent & Nortel are most definatly in comptetition, it appears that the MFJ has increased competition.
One problem is that Verisign & Thwate have a major advantage over any competitor in that the browsers contain CA records, while a competitor would not. This is the principle reason that Verisign has a bigger marketshare than Thwate, because VS's CA was in Navigator & MSIE earlier than Thwate's were.
Customers?