They are proud of being "paramilirary" and don't consider it derogatory.
The point is, you appeared to be dissing them (and Lindh's association with them) based on your perceived position of western superiority. How they feel about the term itself isn't the point.
China ignores IP laws for it's own convienence, not to foster innovation and opportunity.
Like the USA did, until it was to their advantage to enforce international rules.
There is a reason why communist countries have to put up walls to keep their people in, after all...
Oh, would you like a couple of hundred million Chinese emigrants? I have at least some sympathy for the Chinese system, it can't be easy to manage a billion people.
I'm really sorry that English has separate words for rigidly maintained military groups and loosely organized military groups. I'm sure that's "why they hate us."
Thales' SHOUTING of the word 'paramilitary' was clearly derogatory.
The next great world power is going to be a country that has less stringent IP laws, and a reasonable patent system, one that encourages invention and improvement of invention.
Once again, we impose our western definitions on other cultures, and refuse to respect them because they don't live by our terminology. I wonder why they hate us?
John Walker Lindh is A MEMBER OF THE TALIBAN, and is charged as a traitor to the United States, is only receiving 20 years in jail.
Why is being a member of a political party in a foreign country a crime? The US were never at war with the Taleban until a group that operated out of their country committed the 911 atrocities. Even then, the Taleban offered to extradite OBL if the US could offer any evidence that he was involved. GWB declined, so they said get stuffed, quite reasonably IMO. I really don't understand why affiliation with the government that the US helped to establish is suddenly treason.
Sorry, I don't understand. The way I heard the story, Gaiman started writing it, and about half way through, realised that he was getting out of his home turf, and that this was more of a Pratchett sort of book, so he handed the manuscript only. Of course the real story probably isn't as simple as that, but that's the gist. I heard the story from a friend who spoke at length with Gaiman. Pratchett's telling of the story (which I heard first hand) plays up the co-operative side of the process.
I don't know where the literal half way division comment comes from.
1,000 years - is that long enough? We have parchments that are 5,000 years old, we need to match or even exceed that. If civilisation is to come to a thundering catastrophic end, it might not get back up to our level of technology (sufficient to read the disks) for 10,000 years. this is a little better, but I'd like a bit more still.
Apparently they're actually playing down the comedic aspects of the book.
Good! I always thought that the first half (Gaiman) was superior to the second half (Pratchett). Did you notice how the plot came grinding to a halt half way through, and it just meandered from there?
My heart bleeds for you. Oh woe, my browser window isn't ridiculously wide, what am I to do? Anyway, I thought layout was up to the browser. What about printing it? Should it widen the paper to thirty feet? Layout can't be mandated in the HTML standard.
They had build an AMD Duron 800 system with a cheap lightweight 250W PSU. One year later, it started pumping out black smoke and hissing. We replaced the PSU with a 350W, and it works now - and crashes less often.
(we usually talk directly to the author of a piece of code when we're having problems with it)
Good for you, but I imagine a Linux developer getting a call from Google asking for help would be chuffer to bits. The same Linux developer getting called by, say, the US Govt, or Wal Mart, or Monsanto would probably not be quite so buzzed. This is why Linux support is not regarded as reliable in big corporations.
In, say, a transport company, buying replacement tyres (sorry, tires) for the trucks, and even buying new trucks if the operation is on a large scale, is a routine task that wouldn't have to go past the board. Thus it is with Google and servers. You probably experience delays with IT purchasing because your company isn't one whose entire product is the output capacity of their servers (CMIIW).
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Not ten, I don't think. Maybe twenty-five.
Once again, we impose our western definitions on other cultures, and refuse to respect them because they don't live by our terminology. I wonder why they hate us?
So what does "mad props" mean anyway?
Sorry, I don't understand. The way I heard the story, Gaiman started writing it, and about half way through, realised that he was getting out of his home turf, and that this was more of a Pratchett sort of book, so he handed the manuscript only. Of course the real story probably isn't as simple as that, but that's the gist. I heard the story from a friend who spoke at length with Gaiman. Pratchett's telling of the story (which I heard first hand) plays up the co-operative side of the process.
I don't know where the literal half way division comment comes from.
1,000 years - is that long enough? We have parchments that are 5,000 years old, we need to match or even exceed that. If civilisation is to come to a thundering catastrophic end, it might not get back up to our level of technology (sufficient to read the disks) for 10,000 years. this is a little better, but I'd like a bit more still.
That's the way Pratchett tells it.
My heart bleeds for you. Oh woe, my browser window isn't ridiculously wide, what am I to do? Anyway, I thought layout was up to the browser. What about printing it? Should it widen the paper to thirty feet? Layout can't be mandated in the HTML standard.
Yeah, but Mozilla users don't!
neither have I!
They had build an AMD Duron 800 system with a cheap lightweight 250W PSU. One year later, it started pumping out black smoke and hissing. We replaced the PSU with a 350W, and it works now - and crashes less often.
In, say, a transport company, buying replacement tyres (sorry, tires) for the trucks, and even buying new trucks if the operation is on a large scale, is a routine task that wouldn't have to go past the board. Thus it is with Google and servers. You probably experience delays with IT purchasing because your company isn't one whose entire product is the output capacity of their servers (CMIIW).