Linux was created so that Linus could have a Unix-like OS and terminal emulator on his PC. To some extent it was surely a reaction to the default (Microsoft) PC software environment.
Sadly, the European Patent Office believes that patent law will soon be changed to allow software patents, and in the mean time is providing advice to patent applicants on how to work around the existing restriction. (Source: EuroLinux.)
It was about synchronisation - semaphores, mutexes, and critical sections were all compared. For synchronisation between threads within a process, it looks like critical sections may be faster; however, it will of course depend on how much contention there is and, as you say, whether the system has multiple processors. Because of that, I don't think these benchmarks are very useful.
"9 times out of 10 it's an electric razor. But the other time it's a dildo. Company policy is never to refer to it as 'your dildo', merely as 'a dildo'." - (probably misquoted from) Fight Club
Some day, those numbers may well map to something else if you don't include the 1. They're warning you now so that you make the change before that happens. The same thing happened here in the UK with the changes to London numbers and the change to all UK numbers. In fact London suffered through 3 area code changes in the last 15 years - from 1 to 71/81 to 171/181 (national change) to 20 with 7/8 in front of the local numbers.
I don't think there's any way to import things in project files. There's some support for substitution of environmental variables, which might be helpful. In case you didn't know, it's also possible to select multiple projects in the project dialog box and set options for them at the same time.
I'd like to see the radio scanner that can pick up calls on a GSM or CDMA-based network. GSM encrypts essentially everything; it has some known flaws but it would take a concerted effort over several days to exploit them. CDMA allows multiple users to use the same frequencies at the same time through some coding scheme (which I don't understand), so although it doesn't require encryption I believe the coding scheme is sufficiently complex that a simple radio scanner would not be able to extract individual calls from the mush.
Doesn't DTMF mean "Dual Tone Multi Frequency"? Hence, you are missing some frequencies. One DTMF code is actually several frequencies overlayed.
Each code is represented by exactly two frequencies together, hence the word Dual. One of those frequencies comes from the first 4 listed; the other from the last 4. This allows for 16 codes - 0-9, *, #, and A-D. I believe those last 4 are only found on telco equipment. Hopefully none of the telcos are 'securing' any control systems by giving them 'numbers' that include those codes, but you never know.
I considered SVG to be suffering from feature creep 18 months ago when I was directed to write a virtual plotter driver for it. Unless it's the first ever standard to get simpler over time, this is not a good example.
This would indicate that you should include a charset parameter in the Content-Type meta tag, in which case neither of the defaults (for HTML or HTTP) will come into play.
<meta http-equiv=> tags are a disgusting kluge. You should use the real HTTP header if at all possible.
"Søren" would be more correct, as not everybody uses the same character set.
The document character set for HTML 4 is the Universal Character Set, tthe character set defined by ISO 10646 and by Unicode. Any browser that does not treat those two entity references as meaning the same character in an HTML 4 document is broken.
Keep on reading. Other parts of the Torah and Prophets (can't look up right now) command the destruction of entire tribes.
Do you think that this was right?
So where would you put all of the Jews from Arab countries who were thrown out when Israel was founded in 1948?
Good question, but I don't think that it justifies retaliation against a different group of Arabs.
The UN has Uganda, Cuba, and Sudan on its Human Rights committee. I take anything the UN says or does with a serious grain of salt.
The UN certainly has its flaws - but the Security Council includes a number of countries that don't tend to agree, and yet they were able to agree on this.
God does. The UN can take it up with Him.
I find the existence and power of the UN a whole lot more credible.
The Koran states that Israel is Jewish land, and Moslems are to stand by the Jews to protect this land.
That's interesting, if true - which I won't dispute, as am not in the least bit familiar with the Koran. I still don't believe it justifies occupation by force if the people currently living in that land don't go along with this. Of course Jews should be allowed to live in peace throughout the historical area of Israel, or wherever else they wish to.
The Arabs have not obeyed their own religion, because they have decided they hate Jews (as a symbol of the West) more than they love God.
You're conflating race and religion there - some Arabs are Christian, and some of them probably aren't religious at all. You're also ascribing beliefs to a large group of people who
are unlikely all to share them. It is probably true that most people in the occupied terrorists hate the occupying forces, and they have good reason to. If their hatred extends to all Jews then they are quite wrong, but they are only falling into the same trap you just did.
Furthermore, the Cananites who were marked for destruction were not marked because of a whim. It's because of their foul practices. One of the nicer was Moloch worship, where parents would smash the skulls of their infant children against an altar so they would have good crops.
If this was a universal practice among the Canaanites, it would surely cause the tribe to dwindle and disappear. So I don't believe it ever was. It strikes me that this is probably wartime propaganda. Why not kill only those people who committed such crimes (as the book of Leviticus commands)?
As a nice modern variation on this theme, we now have Arabs busing children to war zones, using them as cover while Arab snipers shoot at troops. The only difference I see is that the Moloch worshipers didn't try to push the job of killing their children off on someone else, and then blame them for doing so.
That is sickening behaviour, but I don't believe it is something that Arabs in general, or Palestinians in general, will do.
You can keep on defending them. But you are defending evil. What does that make you?
Tell me, what evil am I defending? If you think I'm defending murder by anyone, you are wrong.
You never answered my question about the West Bank being "foreign territory." Or are you just going to not admit that you are wrong?
UN Security Council resolution 242 called the withdrawal from all occupied territory following the Six Day War. So far as I am aware, no country has accepted the legitimacy of Israel's acquisition of this territory. I do not see why I should.
Let's go back to what you said:
Jews have returned to their home after 2,000 years of exile and found squatters there.
I find this analogy absurd. Is Germany, or Ireland, the home of Americans whose ancestors came from there a few hundred years ago? No. What makes Israel the home of all Jews, then? The UN did establish a Jewish state in 1948, but that did not include those occupied territories.
Based on their actions since the Jews started returning, they should be evicted.
It was their home too. I don't believe that anyone has more or less of a right to live in Israel/Palestine, as long as they don't want to kill other people or steal their land. And I don't believe that anyone should be condemned on the basis of what people of the same race or religion have done.
To pretend that Israel is not Jewish land and to say that Jews are "occupying" Israel is vile and disgusting. Why the hell does every other group in the world have right to its homeland except the Jews?
As I said, I wasn't disputing the legitimacy of the state. However, I do dispute any claim that people should be ejected from their homes because they became part of another country, or because another country wishes to enlarge its territory, or because they belong to the same racial or religious group as criminals.
There were Arabs living there for thousands of years too. The book you refer to details some of the atrocities done to them when the Israelites first moved into that area.
I'm not arguing the right of the state of Israel to exist. I'm speaking of the territories of the Gaza Strip and West Bank which have remained occupied following a war over 30 years ago.
Extradition agreements are made on a one-to-one basis; there is no international law that makes extradition a universal (or ever near-universal) norm.
If the US could ask Afghanistan to extradite anyone for crimes in the US, perhaps Afghanistan should ask the US to extradite Americans who conspire to spread Christianity in Afghanistan?
I'm not saying that the US shouldn't go after whoever is responsible, with or without the cooperation of the government of the country/ies they are in, but your appeal to 'extradition' is invalid.
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Linux was created so that Linus could have a Unix-like OS and terminal emulator on his PC. To some extent it was surely a reaction to the default (Microsoft) PC software environment.
If I remember correctly, MS didn't sell DOS upgrades at all until MS-DOS 5.0 - which was more or less a response to DR-DOS 5.0.
Sadly, the European Patent Office believes that patent law will soon be changed to allow software patents, and in the mean time is providing advice to patent applicants on how to work around the existing restriction. (Source: EuroLinux.)
It was about synchronisation - semaphores, mutexes, and critical sections were all compared. For synchronisation between threads within a process, it looks like critical sections may be faster; however, it will of course depend on how much contention there is and, as you say, whether the system has multiple processors. Because of that, I don't think these benchmarks are very useful.
"9 times out of 10 it's an electric razor. But the other time it's a dildo. Company policy is never to refer to it as 'your dildo', merely as 'a dildo'." - (probably misquoted from) Fight Club
Some day, those numbers may well map to something else if you don't include the 1. They're warning you now so that you make the change before that happens. The same thing happened here in the UK with the changes to London numbers and the change to all UK numbers. In fact London suffered through 3 area code changes in the last 15 years - from 1 to 71/81 to 171/181 (national change) to 20 with 7/8 in front of the local numbers.
Your figures are way out. $12/CD works out to about 20/min; a minute at 128 Kbps takes up about 1 MB; so at that rate 100 GB is worth about $20,000.
I don't think there's any way to import things in project files. There's some support for substitution of environmental variables, which might be helpful. In case you didn't know, it's also possible to select multiple projects in the project dialog box and set options for them at the same time.
Can you run that off the cigarette lighter in a car, though?
I'd like to see the radio scanner that can pick up calls on a GSM or CDMA-based network. GSM encrypts essentially everything; it has some known flaws but it would take a concerted effort over several days to exploit them. CDMA allows multiple users to use the same frequencies at the same time through some coding scheme (which I don't understand), so although it doesn't require encryption I believe the coding scheme is sufficiently complex that a simple radio scanner would not be able to extract individual calls from the mush.
Each code is represented by exactly two frequencies together, hence the word Dual. One of those frequencies comes from the first 4 listed; the other from the last 4. This allows for 16 codes - 0-9, *, #, and A-D. I believe those last 4 are only found on telco equipment. Hopefully none of the telcos are 'securing' any control systems by giving them 'numbers' that include those codes, but you never know.
I considered SVG to be suffering from feature creep 18 months ago when I was directed to write a virtual plotter driver for it. Unless it's the first ever standard to get simpler over time, this is not a good example.
That's the character encoding, not the document character set. Numeric character references always refer to code positions in the document character set.
<meta http-equiv=> tags are a disgusting kluge. You should use the real HTTP header if at all possible.
Then the document character set is ISO 8859-1, and there is the same equivalence.
The document character set for HTML 4 is the Universal Character Set, tthe character set defined by ISO 10646 and by Unicode. Any browser that does not treat those two entity references as meaning the same character in an HTML 4 document is broken.
So in Malaysia do they talk about companies being dot-commies? That makes them sound like reds under the web, or something.
The first article appears to be have been removed, so use Google's cached copy of the page instead.
You can start at home by bombing the CIA School of the Americas, or whatever it's called now.
Do you think that this was right?
Good question, but I don't think that it justifies retaliation against a different group of Arabs.
The UN certainly has its flaws - but the Security Council includes a number of countries that don't tend to agree, and yet they were able to agree on this.
I find the existence and power of the UN a whole lot more credible.
That's interesting, if true - which I won't dispute, as am not in the least bit familiar with the Koran. I still don't believe it justifies occupation by force if the people currently living in that land don't go along with this. Of course Jews should be allowed to live in peace throughout the historical area of Israel, or wherever else they wish to.
You're conflating race and religion there - some Arabs are Christian, and some of them probably aren't religious at all. You're also ascribing beliefs to a large group of people who are unlikely all to share them. It is probably true that most people in the occupied terrorists hate the occupying forces, and they have good reason to. If their hatred extends to all Jews then they are quite wrong, but they are only falling into the same trap you just did.
If this was a universal practice among the Canaanites, it would surely cause the tribe to dwindle and disappear. So I don't believe it ever was. It strikes me that this is probably wartime propaganda. Why not kill only those people who committed such crimes (as the book of Leviticus commands)?
That is sickening behaviour, but I don't believe it is something that Arabs in general, or Palestinians in general, will do.
Tell me, what evil am I defending? If you think I'm defending murder by anyone, you are wrong.
UN Security Council resolution 242 called the withdrawal from all occupied territory following the Six Day War. So far as I am aware, no country has accepted the legitimacy of Israel's acquisition of this territory. I do not see why I should.
Let's go back to what you said:
I find this analogy absurd. Is Germany, or Ireland, the home of Americans whose ancestors came from there a few hundred years ago? No. What makes Israel the home of all Jews, then? The UN did establish a Jewish state in 1948, but that did not include those occupied territories.
It was their home too. I don't believe that anyone has more or less of a right to live in Israel/Palestine, as long as they don't want to kill other people or steal their land. And I don't believe that anyone should be condemned on the basis of what people of the same race or religion have done.
As I said, I wasn't disputing the legitimacy of the state. However, I do dispute any claim that people should be ejected from their homes because they became part of another country, or because another country wishes to enlarge its territory, or because they belong to the same racial or religious group as criminals.
There were Arabs living there for thousands of years too. The book you refer to details some of the atrocities done to them when the Israelites first moved into that area.
I'm not arguing the right of the state of Israel to exist. I'm speaking of the territories of the Gaza Strip and West Bank which have remained occupied following a war over 30 years ago.
The WTC was insured for that full amount. Hopefully terrorism was not on the list of exclusions.
Just bomb the rest of the world. Non-Americans don't really count, after all. Right?
Extradition agreements are made on a one-to-one basis; there is no international law that makes extradition a universal (or ever near-universal) norm.
If the US could ask Afghanistan to extradite anyone for crimes in the US, perhaps Afghanistan should ask the US to extradite Americans who conspire to spread Christianity in Afghanistan?
I'm not saying that the US shouldn't go after whoever is responsible, with or without the cooperation of the government of the country/ies they are in, but your appeal to 'extradition' is invalid.