Your saying that Saddam should have been psychic ?.
No, he only had to notice that hundreds of thousands of troops were aligned against him and that Bush Sr. was on CNN issuing an ultimatum to Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait immeditely. For the mentally retarded: when a US president has hundreds of thousands of troops on your doorstep and issues an ultimatum, he's not bluffing.
Why do we care so much about the people of Kuwait whilst we have historically done nothing to help the Kurds ?
The US helped the kurds indirectly by enforcing the no-fly zones on Saddam over Kurdish territory and helped them directly to establish an autonomous democracy. I believe Bremmer himself was involved in that. What, you didn't think that democracy occurred spontaneously, did you?
I just find it strange that people like to bash the US so much when it is the sole source of freedom on the planet. Bashers could at least qualify their statements with something like, "Yeah, I know that the US is the ultimate source of my freedom to say this and that most other countries in the world, such as France, Germany, Russia, and China are much worse at the things I am about the accuse the US of, but...".
According to Saddam, he asked the US government if they would mind if he invaded Kuwait and was told that America would not intervence.
Maybe Saddam should have gotten a clue that the US didn't approve when Bush, Sr. deployed hundreds of thousands of US troops on the borders of Iraq and Kuwait. Or in 2003. Some people are just slow learners.
If true then it makes Husseins hatred of the US during the 90's make more sense.
I'd say he was a little upset about getting his ass kicked and having his expansionist ambitions stifled.
The humour lies in the fact that nobody truly thought that the machines that were really affected by the Y2K bug would still be in regular use - those machines being the big machines running custom software written in old languages that banks and other big companies use.
Most systems affected by Y2038 are Unix systems. Most Unix software is written in C/C++. C/C++ is not a single architecture and the variable sizes depend on the underlying architecture. In 2038, you will have a very hard time finding a process with smaller than 64-bit registers. The time_t type will be defined to be at least 64 bits, so there will be no problem on the system end.
Though, I suppose that there are dummies out there who habitually use 'int's instead of 'long's for unlimited countable things, so they could be in trouble.
but it was most definitely real, 2038 will be just as big a deal.
I defy you to purchase a processor with smaller than 64-bit registers in the year 2038. (Your cell phone will run at 1 THz and will be able to hold every TV program ever made.)
netscape/mozilla/firefox does not have 20% of the market. It has less than 8 percent.
I think the parent was referring to other reports which indicate that Mozilla, et al. are approaching 20% of users of tech-savvy sites. I'm sure Ma and Pa Kettle will still be using IE 3.0 for the next 20 years.
but VERY difficult to obtain control over their own data.
I doubt that would be the case for very long. It would only be a few months before users could access all of the information in the Passport system using readily available hacker tools.
Isn't it funny how Western society is always on the brink of disaster but somehow we never quite get there. (No, the actual kind of disaster, not the histrionics of the far left/right.) If you take a look around, beyond your personal agendas, things are actually pretty darn good.
"If most financial analysts watched a puppy growing for the first month of its life, they would conclude that a year from now it will be a 400-foot tall monster trashing downtown Tokyo."
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I'm not a big game player, so I bought it for the coolness factor, and it is cycle-for-cycle exactly what you see on a real Commodore-64.
What I found interesting about it was that the article hints that you could hook up a keyboard to the device and a drive and have a computer.
What I found interesting about the article and the C-1 project is that they aren't just hard-wired C64 emulators, but general-purpose user-programmable hardware-based hardware emulators. They can make the same piece of hardware emulate a number of different gaming systems just by changing the ROM.
It seems to me a bit like how Intel started out: they had a contract to make several different chips for the various functions of a calculator and they eventually said to themselves, "This is stupid; let's just make one general-purpose chip that can be programmed to do what these special-purpose chips would do and also sell it to other customers."
I have a few of these game-in-a-joystick devices, including this one, but I suspect that in the future, they will all have the same (Jeri's) hardware inside of them. Too bad it sounds like this was all a "work for hire" for her.
everyone was wondering how to get kids into tech, and how important it is to push extra (and internal) curricular activities at school. I said that that wasn't necessary, and this story goes to prove it.
Still, her story is from a previous era, when Commodores and Ataris roamed the land, but this is the era of welded-hood prepackaged clickamajigs. Kids with a general interest in technology may learn entirely different things from programming.
Sex change? Jeri a him??? Please.... She may play for the other team, but she's as XX-chromosome a female as you're ever going meet. Something you've quite obviously never done.
Maybe this person has the same silly notion as this AC:
"She's not a woman, but a lesbian, ie a man's brain in a woman's body. HTH."
Of course, this photo and this one are kind of interesting in that she is giving subtle clues that she likes the guy... or maybe that's just wishful thinking.:-)
[coyly looking away, subtle smile, playing with lip, hand laid out near his, tilting head to the left while looking him in the eye]
"I am an expert witness, because I say I am!" -- Don Henley, Garden of Allah
You see, there is this thing called a "basic personal exemption".
A tax scheme with a "basic personal exemption" is not a "flat tax"; it is a progressive tax scheme by definition--the more you make, the higher the effective rate you pay.
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Check out CWXML/BXML. Especially significant though perhaps unintuitive is the savings in compression time from the source data being more compact.
I guess their software developers will have to work overtime to put together some patches.
After all, how could something so simple as shining a beam on an airplane be a criminal act?
How could something so simple as removing a stop sign from an intersection be anything more than petty vandalism?
Why? The freepers go around with that mantra 24X7 so why do we have to repeat it?
Because it rightfully exposes most US bashers as hypocrites.
Your saying that Saddam should have been psychic ?.
No, he only had to notice that hundreds of thousands of troops were aligned against him and that Bush Sr. was on CNN issuing an ultimatum to Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait immeditely. For the mentally retarded: when a US president has hundreds of thousands of troops on your doorstep and issues an ultimatum, he's not bluffing.
Why do we care so much about the people of Kuwait whilst we have historically done nothing to help the Kurds ?
The US helped the kurds indirectly by enforcing the no-fly zones on Saddam over Kurdish territory and helped them directly to establish an autonomous democracy. I believe Bremmer himself was involved in that. What, you didn't think that democracy occurred spontaneously, did you?
I just find it strange that people like to bash the US so much when it is the sole source of freedom on the planet. Bashers could at least qualify their statements with something like, "Yeah, I know that the US is the ultimate source of my freedom to say this and that most other countries in the world, such as France, Germany, Russia, and China are much worse at the things I am about the accuse the US of, but...".
I believe that if you are nice to those who are mean to you, they will be mean to you in the future.
"It's unbelievable that something so mind-bogglingly useful evolved all by itself."
And only because we have such mind-bogglingly 'useful' minds are we able to contemplate just how mind-bloggling we really are.
(If it didn't evolve all by itself, no one would be capable of bemoaning the fact that it didn't.)
Maybe he likes to play dice? :-)
Maybe he's been in gambling rehab for the past few eons.
We didn't make too much noise as long as Saddam continued to pound the crap out of Iran.
Yeah, the US administration seemed to have some strange bugaboo about Islamic extremists at that time. We may never know why.
(What's your bet for the year that Iran detonates its first nuclear bomb? My bet is 2008.)
But it's also probably true that someone is going to be running a COBAL system in 2038 that has no source code and nobody knows how to fix.
But I don't think that COBOL even has a binary-integer type. Computations are done with BCD and numbers are normally stored in memory as characters.
According to Saddam, he asked the US government if they would mind if he invaded Kuwait and was told that America would not intervence.
Maybe Saddam should have gotten a clue that the US didn't approve when Bush, Sr. deployed hundreds of thousands of US troops on the borders of Iraq and Kuwait. Or in 2003. Some people are just slow learners.
If true then it makes Husseins hatred of the US during the 90's make more sense.
I'd say he was a little upset about getting his ass kicked and having his expansionist ambitions stifled.
The humour lies in the fact that nobody truly thought that the machines that were really affected by the Y2K bug would still be in regular use - those machines being the big machines running custom software written in old languages that banks and other big companies use.
Most systems affected by Y2038 are Unix systems. Most Unix software is written in C/C++. C/C++ is not a single architecture and the variable sizes depend on the underlying architecture. In 2038, you will have a very hard time finding a process with smaller than 64-bit registers. The time_t type will be defined to be at least 64 bits, so there will be no problem on the system end.
Though, I suppose that there are dummies out there who habitually use 'int's instead of 'long's for unlimited countable things, so they could be in trouble.
but it was most definitely real, 2038 will be just as big a deal.
I defy you to purchase a processor with smaller than 64-bit registers in the year 2038. (Your cell phone will run at 1 THz and will be able to hold every TV program ever made.)
In short, learn to write English, learn to write C, and don't worry about India!
Hinds' Seventh Law: "Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English."
Bruce's Seventh Law: "Make it possible for programmers to write programs in C, and you will find that programmers cannot write in C."
Repeat after me: Software is nothing like Construction.
Sure it is. If you put one bolt in the wrong place, the whole building will collapse.
netscape/mozilla/firefox does not have 20% of the market. It has less than 8 percent.
I think the parent was referring to other reports which indicate that Mozilla, et al. are approaching 20% of users of tech-savvy sites. I'm sure Ma and Pa Kettle will still be using IE 3.0 for the next 20 years.
but VERY difficult to obtain control over their own data.
I doubt that would be the case for very long. It would only be a few months before users could access all of the information in the Passport system using readily available hacker tools.
Isn't it funny how Western society is always on the brink of disaster but somehow we never quite get there. (No, the actual kind of disaster, not the histrionics of the far left/right.) If you take a look around, beyond your personal agendas, things are actually pretty darn good.
"If most financial analysts watched a puppy growing for the first month of its life, they would conclude that a year from now it will be a 400-foot tall monster trashing downtown Tokyo."
Next you're going to tell me that my new laptop doesn't _really_ need this 1200W subwoofer.
And that he doesn't really have the same model at home.
Do you like it?
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I'm not a big game player, so I bought it for the coolness factor, and it is cycle-for-cycle exactly what you see on a real Commodore-64.
That they're just making shit up?
Unless it's a story about U.N. corruption--then they'll bury it.
What I found interesting about it was that the article hints that you could hook up a keyboard to the device and a drive and have a computer.
What I found interesting about the article and the C-1 project is that they aren't just hard-wired C64 emulators, but general-purpose user-programmable hardware-based hardware emulators. They can make the same piece of hardware emulate a number of different gaming systems just by changing the ROM.
It seems to me a bit like how Intel started out: they had a contract to make several different chips for the various functions of a calculator and they eventually said to themselves, "This is stupid; let's just make one general-purpose chip that can be programmed to do what these special-purpose chips would do and also sell it to other customers."
I have a few of these game-in-a-joystick devices, including this one, but I suspect that in the future, they will all have the same (Jeri's) hardware inside of them. Too bad it sounds like this was all a "work for hire" for her.
everyone was wondering how to get kids into tech, and how important it is to push extra (and internal) curricular activities at school. I said that that wasn't necessary, and this story goes to prove it.
Still, her story is from a previous era, when Commodores and Ataris roamed the land, but this is the era of welded-hood prepackaged clickamajigs. Kids with a general interest in technology may learn entirely different things from programming.
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Sex change? Jeri a him??? Please.... She may play for the other team, but she's as XX-chromosome a female as you're ever going meet. Something you've quite obviously never done.
:-)
Maybe this person has the same silly notion as this AC:
"She's not a woman, but a lesbian, ie a man's brain in a woman's body. HTH."
Of course, this photo and this one are kind of interesting in that she is giving subtle clues that she likes the guy... or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
[coyly looking away, subtle smile, playing with lip, hand laid out near his, tilting head to the left while looking him in the eye]
"I am an expert witness, because I say I am!" -- Don Henley, Garden of Allah
You see, there is this thing called a "basic personal exemption".
A tax scheme with a "basic personal exemption" is not a "flat tax"; it is a progressive tax scheme by definition--the more you make, the higher the effective rate you pay.