Why, oh why, should a 7 year old have an account that her parents can't (and don't) have direct, constant and consistent access to?
This is not flamebait. I'm really quite concerned that someone believes that a 7 year old should be keeping information from their parents. I don't think a 12 year old should be either, but that's another story.
XML doesn't seem like a big deal. SGML was around since the mid-80s, making it over 20 years old.
Mid-80s...or perhaps the 60s. Anyways, "ancient history"....
Oh, and notice that if you look at the above link, and follow the link to the OED project...then you'll see references to our friend Mr. Bray yet again.
moderate Muslims have to accept some responsibility for what is done in the name of their faith
Absolutely agreed. Most of the "moderate" Muslims I know are actually quite sickened by the radical things they see, but often they are more frightened of retaliation than non-Muslims. The number of Muslims victimized "in the name of God/Sha'ria/Al Qaeda/Ayatollah/Taliban/misc_thugs" eclipses the number of non-Muslims victims.
But as a group, you are correct that this vast majority of the group must stand up, refute the violence and immorality of the extreme factions, and let the rest of the world know who and what the "silent majority" are.
with people marching through the streets of London
Ah, right. The Muslims. I forgot that they all came out...well, not all, but the majority of them...I'm sure it was a majority.
Oh, and just how was it that this particular group caught on to the issue? Wasn't it some widely publicized...er...
I don't respect the beliefs of Christians or Muslims
Lack of respect? Hmmmm....I respect people who have beliefs that are different from mine assuming those beliefs don't impose hardships on others.
Lumping entire groups of people (and the two you've mentioned are about 1/3 the population of the planet) into a category because a minor handful of whackos claiming to belong to that group are, well, whackos is a pretty simplistic thinking.
Are all you atheists that way? [Careful, you may be answering for me too...]
Say what you like about Christians [...] but they do seem to take criticism and mockery a hell of a lot better than Muslims.
Before you go too far believing that, ask yourself exactly how it is that you seem to know this? What is your window to this perception? Where is it that you see these "Muslims" taking it the wrong way...and do you have the same optics in similar "Christian" situations?
CNN's job is not to give you a balanced, clear, concise or even true view of the world. Their job is to sell advertisements.
If someone is going to render there machine usable only by root, then I strongly doubt they've taken the time or have the knowledge to implement security precautions listed above. If they know how, they likely should and likely won't render their machine useless.
In addition, if they really might render the machine useless, they likely shouldn't have it on the 'net.
I'm going to guess that one or two people at Sun DID think this through, they just forgot to fill Jeff Gould in on the details so he didn't have to do any thinking before writing his article.
Yes Jeff, Jonny Schwartz spent $1B and THEN he started trying to figure out what to do with it.
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what do you need support for, again?
Because the vast majority of corporations don't want to be solely dependent on "Harry the IT guy" and want to have a responsible party to address issues that may arise. If you are a middle manager in charge of a solution based on some software, and that software starts misbehaving, you want to put "working with XXX support to resolve" in your executive summary, regardless of who actually ends up fixing the problem (and regardless of who actually caused the problem).
Haven't we always said that the rationale behind open source is you can offer the product for free, then offer paid support?
We've always said that there are business models that can be successful when the software is given away for free. Paid support is one model, is part of other models. There are also business models that will not be successful regardless of the software licensing.
However, if there was no need for any documentation, however, I seriously doubt Apple would spend the time and money on all this documentation.
In addition, the Mac does have an intuitive interface...unless you define "intuitive" as "works just like the system I have adjusted my behaviour to put up with its quirks". That is, if you are expecting the Mac to make simple tasks hard-to-do, then you'd be wrong.
In addition to Novakyu's comment (lots of student's are at Ivy-league schools because of social/financial backgrounds), recognize that my biggest beef with GWB is his complete lack of knowledge of anything beyond the borders of Texas. I don't give a damn if the President graduated from Harvard or from College Just Up The Street, most of the information taught will be the same regardless of where you go.
But it is completely insane that the leader of a nation in the age of globalization and intertwined national economies would not know basic economic, geographic and political facts about their largest trading partners, key allies and potential threats.
I don't blame GWB for becoming President; that took 1/2 of a nation (or just about). But for him to believe that he's surrounded himself by the brightest and best advisers and for blindly and blatantly ignoring any and all criticisms... for that I place accountability of his dreadful leadership with him.
Bin Laden believes that the restoration of Sharia law will set things right in the Muslim world
But this has NOTHING to do with Islam. Please realize that. Remember that Saddam, a very very non-religious individual, wrapped himself in Islam whenever he needed to rally the troops and/or attract allies in his neighbours.
Bin Laden says lots of things, preaches lots about Islam. But Islam ("Peace") has the exact same religious fundamentals as both Christianity and Judaism. Jesus is a great Prophet in the religion, and "the Jesus rule" (love thy neighbour) is also the Golden Rule in Islam. As with most religions, the extremists/freaks attempt to redefine the religion in their own image...CNN/Fox/The American People have let the extremists bastardize the definition of Islam.
Bin Laden is to Islam what a mafioso is to Catholicism. Rally around the church everyone, praise the lord...or we'll whack y'a!
Stepping into a war, when INVITED, is completely sensible. If a nation is being invaded and requests the assistance of other nations, then it is justifiable, moral and often in one's self-interest to provide such assistance.
The question about genocide/extermination within one country's own borders is another matter. Personally I believe that this should be the key role of a body such as the United Nations: to establish consensus, define and implement policy on a per-case basis.
Currently, however, the West has a bad reputation of involving itself in some locations on the bases of "freedom/peace/democracy" in locations that are blatantly in their self-interest and ignoring other locations where similar (or even worse) atrocities are occuring, mostly in places not of strategic or economic benefit to the West.
he was told that they can not stop doing that. Allah requires it.
And in history, "we" were told that black people were not part of "God's people" by various churches. Just because one fool states something doesn't mean that has anything at all to do with the religion they claim to be a part.
Western civilization is the best thing to ever happen to the world
And it got that way because the people THEMSELVES took up the charge and established that civilization. It was not thrust down their throat, it was not created by an external FOREIGN force. Western civilization could NOT have come about by people who didn't fundamentally understand the people who encompass that civilization.
Learn history? Learn history?? Like what, the formation of Isreal? Pakistan? Afghanistan?
Learn history? Like learn what happens when a foreign force intervenes in Iraq (I'm talking 30 years ago...oh, 15 years ago...oh, today).
C'mon. This isn't a GWB slam-a-thon. This is a Western-leaders-listen-to-your-own-experts-a-thon. GWB is just the latest.
But there is a sizable group of people that won't be happy until our men all have beards, and our women are wearing burkas.
What a load of crap. Show me one statement/website/whatever where ANY pseudo-legitimate group has even suggested such a thing (other than home-grown groups)?
You have completely misinterpreted what the rest of the world (not just the Islamic part) has been saying to the West. They want the West to quit meddling in their own affairs...they don't want to convert you...they don't even like you.
Messing with oil prices is a major part of the problem that the economy faces right now.
Messing with oil prices is a major part of the problem that US foreign policy faces right now.
Messing with oil prices is a major part of the problem that the environment faces right now.
C++ & Python does seem to be a weird and cumbersome choice though. But when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail
One person's hammer is another person's "right tool". If you read the article, it appears to me that the guy who ported the code has a clue about a few things. I'm gonna bet that his choice of Python was thought through. Likely he is leveraging some existing infrastructures that he knows, thus speeding the time-to-release. To me, that's a very handy hammer.
The code is now open. Feel free to hack onto oblivion the design choices you don't appreciate.
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This is not flamebait. I'm really quite concerned that someone believes that a 7 year old should be keeping information from their parents. I don't think a 12 year old should be either, but that's another story.
Mid-80s...or perhaps the 60s. Anyways, "ancient history"....
Oh, and notice that if you look at the above link, and follow the link to the OED project...then you'll see references to our friend Mr. Bray yet again.
There is sanity to these progressions....
Absolutely agreed. Most of the "moderate" Muslims I know are actually quite sickened by the radical things they see, but often they are more frightened of retaliation than non-Muslims. The number of Muslims victimized "in the name of God/Sha'ria/Al Qaeda/Ayatollah/Taliban/misc_thugs" eclipses the number of non-Muslims victims.
But as a group, you are correct that this vast majority of the group must stand up, refute the violence and immorality of the extreme factions, and let the rest of the world know who and what the "silent majority" are.
Ah, right. The Muslims. I forgot that they all came out...well, not all, but the majority of them...I'm sure it was a majority.
Oh, and just how was it that this particular group caught on to the issue? Wasn't it some widely publicized...er...
Lack of respect? Hmmmm....I respect people who have beliefs that are different from mine assuming those beliefs don't impose hardships on others.Lumping entire groups of people (and the two you've mentioned are about 1/3 the population of the planet) into a category because a minor handful of whackos claiming to belong to that group are, well, whackos is a pretty simplistic thinking.
Are all you atheists that way? [Careful, you may be answering for me too...]
Before you go too far believing that, ask yourself exactly how it is that you seem to know this? What is your window to this perception? Where is it that you see these "Muslims" taking it the wrong way...and do you have the same optics in similar "Christian" situations?
CNN's job is not to give you a balanced, clear, concise or even true view of the world. Their job is to sell advertisements.
I was going to post a Google Images link, but without SafeSearch the result list isn't exactly what you might expect...
In addition, if they really might render the machine useless, they likely shouldn't have it on the 'net.
Yes Jeff, Jonny Schwartz spent $1B and THEN he started trying to figure out what to do with it.
I'm sorry, how do you define floundering ??
Because the vast majority of corporations don't want to be solely dependent on "Harry the IT guy" and want to have a responsible party to address issues that may arise. If you are a middle manager in charge of a solution based on some software, and that software starts misbehaving, you want to put "working with XXX support to resolve" in your executive summary, regardless of who actually ends up fixing the problem (and regardless of who actually caused the problem).
We've always said that there are business models that can be successful when the software is given away for free. Paid support is one model, is part of other models. There are also business models that will not be successful regardless of the software licensing.
In addition, the Mac does have an intuitive interface...unless you define "intuitive" as "works just like the system I have adjusted my behaviour to put up with its quirks". That is, if you are expecting the Mac to make simple tasks hard-to-do, then you'd be wrong.
But it is completely insane that the leader of a nation in the age of globalization and intertwined national economies would not know basic economic, geographic and political facts about their largest trading partners, key allies and potential threats.
I don't blame GWB for becoming President; that took 1/2 of a nation (or just about). But for him to believe that he's surrounded himself by the brightest and best advisers and for blindly and blatantly ignoring any and all criticisms ... for that I place accountability of his dreadful leadership with him.
Decency? Morality? Hmm....maybe I'll give them a whirl myself someday....
But this has NOTHING to do with Islam. Please realize that. Remember that Saddam, a very very non-religious individual, wrapped himself in Islam whenever he needed to rally the troops and/or attract allies in his neighbours.
Bin Laden says lots of things, preaches lots about Islam. But Islam ("Peace") has the exact same religious fundamentals as both Christianity and Judaism. Jesus is a great Prophet in the religion, and "the Jesus rule" (love thy neighbour) is also the Golden Rule in Islam. As with most religions, the extremists/freaks attempt to redefine the religion in their own image...CNN/Fox/The American People have let the extremists bastardize the definition of Islam.
Bin Laden is to Islam what a mafioso is to Catholicism. Rally around the church everyone, praise the lord...or we'll whack y'a!
The question about genocide/extermination within one country's own borders is another matter. Personally I believe that this should be the key role of a body such as the United Nations: to establish consensus, define and implement policy on a per-case basis.
Currently, however, the West has a bad reputation of involving itself in some locations on the bases of "freedom/peace/democracy" in locations that are blatantly in their self-interest and ignoring other locations where similar (or even worse) atrocities are occuring, mostly in places not of strategic or economic benefit to the West.
The difference is that Microsoft is a marketing firm that employs some programmers. ;-)
I like turtles!
And in history, "we" were told that black people were not part of "God's people" by various churches. Just because one fool states something doesn't mean that has anything at all to do with the religion they claim to be a part.
And it got that way because the people THEMSELVES took up the charge and established that civilization. It was not thrust down their throat, it was not created by an external FOREIGN force. Western civilization could NOT have come about by people who didn't fundamentally understand the people who encompass that civilization.
Learn history? Learn history?? Like what, the formation of Isreal? Pakistan? Afghanistan?
Learn history? Like learn what happens when a foreign force intervenes in Iraq (I'm talking 30 years ago...oh, 15 years ago...oh, today).
C'mon. This isn't a GWB slam-a-thon. This is a Western-leaders-listen-to-your-own-experts-a-thon. GWB is just the latest.
What a load of crap. Show me one statement/website/whatever where ANY pseudo-legitimate group has even suggested such a thing (other than home-grown groups)?
You have completely misinterpreted what the rest of the world (not just the Islamic part) has been saying to the West. They want the West to quit meddling in their own affairs...they don't want to convert you...they don't even like you.
Messing with oil prices is a major part of the problem that the economy faces right now.
Messing with oil prices is a major part of the problem that US foreign policy faces right now.
Messing with oil prices is a major part of the problem that the environment faces right now.
Wow, what a concept. Could you imagine the president of the most powerful nation in the world not actually being smart enough for the position?
One person's hammer is another person's "right tool". If you read the article, it appears to me that the guy who ported the code has a clue about a few things. I'm gonna bet that his choice of Python was thought through. Likely he is leveraging some existing infrastructures that he knows, thus speeding the time-to-release. To me, that's a very handy hammer.
The code is now open. Feel free to hack onto oblivion the design choices you don't appreciate.