You know, the GNUstep Project would love to have Chimera working on their platform.
(For those who don't know: GNUstep is a free implementation of the OpenStep specification, of which MacOS X is a direct descendant. There's a very high level of source code-level compatibility between the two platforms.)
Is there any reason why Chimera could not be ported to GNUstep?
The cost of living in some parts of Texas (Austin mainly) is higher than the cost of NYC. Of course, the highest in NYC is higher than anywhere else in the country, but the average cost of living in Austin is slightly higher than the average in NYC.
Either way, the pay rates are about the same. In Texas, the average garbage person makes around 32 - 36k a year. A teacher in most school districts starts out at something like 23k a year.
"You know, we're already providing a useful service to the citizens of Texas - it's not like we should have to obey the laws too!'
Seriously, though - weren't there some estimates that by 2010 major corporations would be in a position to blackmail the government to the point of having martial rights and extratorritarial soverignty?
The whole point of this "tax" is to cover the supposed cost of piracy. With money like that, they have no right to say you can't pirate - "Of course I can pirate, the cost to the recording industry was covered when I bought the blanks!"
Let me preface this by saying that I did quite enjoy both the HP movies, and the books for each.
However, something that always bothered me about the HP stories is the seemingly complete lack of responsibility by any of the adults.
The most glaring was the Malfoy-Potter duel in the Chambe of Secrets. If I were a teacher, and had told two students to use magic to "disarm only" and one sent a poisonous snake after the other - no matter how well the other could talk to it - that student would be expelled and probably face criminal charges. I mean, come on, he (at least partially) tried to kill someone!
Or with the quidditch match - Harry is chased after by a modified bludger that is obviously trying to seriously hurt him, and the adults don't do a damn thing! I mean, Hermione says that she can't zap it because she might hit Harry - but certainly someone like Dumbledore could? But none of the adults do anything!
I mean, it's not sending the best message to children - it's something akin to "You're on your own, and don't rely on the adults to help you." Grrr.
(Although I was pretty upset with the "deus ex machinae" endings of the first two. Harry's going to face certain death with - right in the nick of time, the car drives up. Or the phoenix flies in with the hat. Or his mom sacrifices herself, or or or...ugh.)
Heh. After rereading that, I realize it sounds pretty bad - but I swear I did like the movies. I just had some serious reservation about them...
The University of London was founded by Royal Charter, and is therefore (AFAIK) completely accredited. It's External Programme is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. Part of the charter of the school is that degrees are treated exactly the same, no matter where or how the degree was earned. That is, a degree earned by distance learning is treated the same as a degree earned brick-and-mortar. It's the largest university in the UK, so it can't be all bad...:)
Just my two cents. And, for the record, I'm an American and former expatriate in Europe.
The Italian government has initiated a program called Moses to help prevent the loss of the great city.
Yeah, but wouldn't Noah be a better name?
My advice: Be *really* careful
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As an American citizen who lived and worked in Europe (Luxembourg) for a year, let me tell you - be *really* careful.
While I love Luxembourg and the Luxembourgish, the company I worked for were complete bastards. Their business plan seemed to be something along these lines:
1. Hire people from outside the European Union. 2. Make them work, screw them over, don't pay them on time, and then cancel their residency visas if they complain. 3. Since they aren't citizens, they have to leave pretty rapidly after the visa cancellation, making it more trouble than it's worth to sue you. 4. Profit!
Seriously, this was about how it went. When I started working at this company, they had around 45 employees. They have around six employees and five managers now. (heh) People quit because of the mistreatment, and because most of us still haven't been paid.
Okay, so, no, not all companies are like this. I'm planning on moving back to Europe just as soon as I can. Just heed my warning: You aren't a citizen, and they know that. This can make things tricky.
This is (sort of) completely off-topic, but I have to toss this in - Elisha Gray is my great, great, great grandfather.
The supposed story is that Bell was in collusion with the patent clerk (who was, I believe, his brother-in-law or son-in-law). Elisha Gray began the patent filing process earlier than Bell, but was told that without a working model, no patent would be granted.
While I have no problem with his having to produce a working model, after Elisha Gray turned in his plans for a telephone, the patent clerk (knowing Bell was working on a similar project) gave Bell the plans, and then allowed Bell to apply and receive a patent even without a working model.
So, dammit, I could've been a billionaire. Stupid patents.
You constantly tell us how we're destroying the Earth, global warming, oil is bad - now you're honestly expecting us to believe that our entire galaxy is destroying things?!
Sorry to reply to my own post - let me clarify something here. When I say "Creationism", I don't mean right-wing dinosaurs-never-existed Creationism. I mean "the existance of an intelligent Creator and (at least somewhat) planned design for the Universe, as opposed to pure Atheism."
...but the article said pick anything. Since there are quite a few philosophers on Slashdot (and since I'm Jewish and this question gets a lot of thought from me, and when will I ever be able to ask again?) here's my question:
Do you see any reconciliation between science and the G-d of the Torah? What about between Science and any sort of Creationism at all? Do you see the possibility that science, as it approaches the moment of Creation itself, becomes more in tune with religion? I guess a big part of what I'm asking - do you see a place for (or proof of) G-d in science?
Thanks...sorry this isn't the usual Slashdot fare, but I can't help but ask.
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Nagios rocks my socks. Does everything most commercial apps do, and it's free. Rock solid too.
Hey! I was expecting them to have the kitchen sink by at least release 1.3!
Oh wait...
I mean, this guy must be drunk. Look at how he's typing:
"Bierbrauen" - WTF? What kind of English is that???
I mean, they seem to think they can opt out of the DNC list...
...is $250M in crucifixes to surround the South Pole and contain that blight on the world - Anti-Santa!
You know, the GNUstep Project would love to have Chimera working on their platform.
(For those who don't know: GNUstep is a free implementation of the OpenStep specification, of which MacOS X is a direct descendant. There's a very high level of source code-level compatibility between the two platforms.)
Is there any reason why Chimera could not be ported to GNUstep?
Yeah, but, I just don't think Elvis sounds as good when he's been translated to French.
The cost of living in some parts of Texas (Austin mainly) is higher than the cost of NYC. Of course, the highest in NYC is higher than anywhere else in the country, but the average cost of living in Austin is slightly higher than the average in NYC.
Either way, the pay rates are about the same. In Texas, the average garbage person makes around 32 - 36k a year. A teacher in most school districts starts out at something like 23k a year.
Which, incidentially, is about 7 - 10 more than the average pay of Texas schoolteachers.
Not to disparage the work of sanitation engineers, but I think teachers should make at least as much...
I hereby adopt subversion 0.16.
I am now Dimwit 22.16.
(Subversion - sub-version...get it? Ha ha? Ahhh...nobody has a sense of humor these days...)
"You know, we're already providing a useful service to the citizens of Texas - it's not like we should have to obey the laws too!'
Seriously, though - weren't there some estimates that by 2010 major corporations would be in a position to blackmail the government to the point of having martial rights and extratorritarial soverignty?
The whole point of this "tax" is to cover the supposed cost of piracy. With money like that, they have no right to say you can't pirate - "Of course I can pirate, the cost to the recording industry was covered when I bought the blanks!"
Before anyone says "Whoa, what and idiot!" or "heheheh *stupid snow-related joke* hehehe", I'd just like to say:
"Thank you for saving the lives of people you'll probably never meet, and who will never know that it was you who saved them."
I mean, come on - I just don't want this guy buried in an avalanche of negative comments. I mean, that might be like giving him the cold shoulder...
Okay, I'm going to stop now. Just leave it at the "thanks for the life-saving stuff..."
Let me preface this by saying that I did quite enjoy both the HP movies, and the books for each.
However, something that always bothered me about the HP stories is the seemingly complete lack of responsibility by any of the adults.
The most glaring was the Malfoy-Potter duel in the Chambe of Secrets. If I were a teacher, and had told two students to use magic to "disarm only" and one sent a poisonous snake after the other - no matter how well the other could talk to it - that student would be expelled and probably face criminal charges. I mean, come on, he (at least partially) tried to kill someone!
Or with the quidditch match - Harry is chased after by a modified bludger that is obviously trying to seriously hurt him, and the adults don't do a damn thing! I mean, Hermione says that she can't zap it because she might hit Harry - but certainly someone like Dumbledore could? But none of the adults do anything!
I mean, it's not sending the best message to children - it's something akin to "You're on your own, and don't rely on the adults to help you." Grrr.
(Although I was pretty upset with the "deus ex machinae" endings of the first two. Harry's going to face certain death with - right in the nick of time, the car drives up. Or the phoenix flies in with the hat. Or his mom sacrifices herself, or or or...ugh.)
Heh. After rereading that, I realize it sounds pretty bad - but I swear I did like the movies. I just had some serious reservation about them...
I know for a fact that the AUDIX system from Avaya/Lucent/Bell Labs runs on SVR4 Unix. I watch it boot up every time we loose power. :)
I also know that Avaya is moving a lot (maybe even all) of their voicemail stuff over to Linux and W2k.
Now BSD can die twice as fast!
(Note to moderators: Not a troll - just an sad attempt at humour. I'm writing this from my FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE box...)
The University of London was founded by Royal Charter, and is therefore (AFAIK) completely accredited. It's External Programme is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. Part of the charter of the school is that degrees are treated exactly the same, no matter where or how the degree was earned. That is, a degree earned by distance learning is treated the same as a degree earned brick-and-mortar. It's the largest university in the UK, so it can't be all bad...:)
Just my two cents. And, for the record, I'm an American and former expatriate in Europe.
The Italian government has initiated a program called Moses to help prevent the loss of the great city.
Yeah, but wouldn't Noah be a better name?
As an American citizen who lived and worked in Europe (Luxembourg) for a year, let me tell you - be *really* careful.
While I love Luxembourg and the Luxembourgish, the company I worked for were complete bastards. Their business plan seemed to be something along these lines:
1. Hire people from outside the European Union.
2. Make them work, screw them over, don't pay them on time, and then cancel their residency visas if they complain.
3. Since they aren't citizens, they have to leave pretty rapidly after the visa cancellation, making it more trouble than it's worth to sue you.
4. Profit!
Seriously, this was about how it went. When I started working at this company, they had around 45 employees. They have around six employees and five managers now. (heh) People quit because of the mistreatment, and because most of us still haven't been paid.
Okay, so, no, not all companies are like this. I'm planning on moving back to Europe just as soon as I can. Just heed my warning: You aren't a citizen, and they know that. This can make things tricky.
But hot air rises, right? So this thing goes over a fire to put it out, and then...FWOOM...it's in orbit!
This is (sort of) completely off-topic, but I have to toss this in - Elisha Gray is my great, great, great grandfather.
The supposed story is that Bell was in collusion with the patent clerk (who was, I believe, his brother-in-law or son-in-law). Elisha Gray began the patent filing process earlier than Bell, but was told that without a working model, no patent would be granted.
While I have no problem with his having to produce a working model, after Elisha Gray turned in his plans for a telephone, the patent clerk (knowing Bell was working on a similar project) gave Bell the plans, and then allowed Bell to apply and receive a patent even without a working model.
So, dammit, I could've been a billionaire. Stupid patents.
...of course, I'll use that new transfer protocol - TCP/IP over Flying Pigs.
...but I'll have to bundle up - my office just froze over.
..and maybe I won't have time - I think an attractive girl just mentioned that she may want to talk to me.
You constantly tell us how we're destroying the Earth, global warming, oil is bad - now you're honestly expecting us to believe that our entire galaxy is destroying things?!
Cry me a river, you damn liberals.
;)
Sorry to reply to my own post - let me clarify something here. When I say "Creationism", I don't mean right-wing dinosaurs-never-existed Creationism. I mean "the existance of an intelligent Creator and (at least somewhat) planned design for the Universe, as opposed to pure Atheism."
Sorry, just wanted to clear that up.
...but the article said pick anything. Since there are quite a few philosophers on Slashdot (and since I'm Jewish and this question gets a lot of thought from me, and when will I ever be able to ask again?) here's my question:
Do you see any reconciliation between science and the G-d of the Torah? What about between Science and any sort of Creationism at all? Do you see the possibility that science, as it approaches the moment of Creation itself, becomes more in tune with religion? I guess a big part of what I'm asking - do you see a place for (or proof of) G-d in science?
Thanks...sorry this isn't the usual Slashdot fare, but I can't help but ask.