This may come as a great shock to you, but "fox news" isn't a magic phrase that negates anything you choose not to believe. The Carter Center is a tax-exempt organization which has to file annual reports. According to the Carter Center's filings, he's collected millions from the Saudi royals, for a start. He also got millions form the governments of Denmark, Japan, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdo, as well as Coca-Cola, the Delta Airlines Foundation, the Ford Foundation etc. And amongst the founders of the Center are several Jews. What exactly is your point?
And imagine, a NeoCon complaining when somebody dare say that Israel's politics aren't kosher - a view shared by many Israelis. Does anybody really need reminder that Israel was about the only friend of the Apartheid state South Africa? Coincidence?
The Nobel Prize selection committees are whacked. They gave it to Carter, and not Gandhi??? Because Ghandi was seen as a flip-flopping, nationalistic racist (in 1937). Kinda:
There are, he wrote, "sharp turns in his policies, which can hardly be satisfactorily explained by his followers. (...) He is a freedom fighter and a dictator, an idealist and a nationalist. He is frequently a Christ, but then, suddenly, an ordinary politician."
Gandhi had many critics in the international peace movement. The Nobel Committee adviser referred to these critics in maintaining that he was not consistently pacifist, that he should have known that some of his non-violent campaigns towards the British would degenerate into violence and terror.
... "One might say that it is significant that his well-known struggle in South Africa was on behalf of the Indians only, and not of the blacks whose living conditions were even worse."
In 1947, his position in the India-Pakistan war didn't help him either:
"Mr. Gandhi told his prayer meeting to-night that, though he had always opposed all warfare, if there was no other way of securing justice from Pakistan and if Pakistan persistently refused to see its proved error and continued to minimise it, the Indian Union Government would have to go to war against it. No one wanted war, but he could never advise anyone to put up with injustice. If all Hindus were annihilated for a just cause he would not mind. If there was war, the Hindus in Pakistan could not be fifth columnists. If their loyalty lay not with Pakistan they should leave it. Similarly Muslims whose loyalty was with Pakistan should not stay in the Indian Union."
Participants were college students whose politics ranged from "very liberal" to "very conservative."
Sorry, but polling COLLEGE STUDENTS does NOT reflect the general populous. Is this stat a little rigged? Very rigged? Think for a minute here--aren't college students naturally more open to doing things? I have seen an awful lot of college students go from "mad liberal" to moderate in a matter of a few years as I am in a "spectatorial" position where we hire guys fresh out of school and watch how they change throughout their careers.
--parasonic So your argument is that open-minded Conservatives and closed-minded Liberals don't go to college? Or that they made all the Conservatives in the study up?
Or do you just don't want to admit that the guys you hire close their minds while working at your place?
Don't forget this quote:
"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
So yeah, you can flame them as much as you want, they're not going to change that easily. An open mind gets into a well guarded and barred fortress by presenting a wooden horsie. "Now where could be the harm in that", the conservative thought.
Of course, those of us using phones that get snarky about shutting down, like my Blackberry, usually can solve the problem by popping the battery. The "off" button on my 7130e is a sleep button that leaves the antenna powered and wakes automatically when there is a call. To save power overnight one has to turn off the antenna and then put the phone to sleep, or just pull the battery. On occasion, the antenna power down stalls and never completes. Failure to turn off the antenna results in a serious overnight drain on the battery many nights, so the battery being removable is an important feature to me. Please don't tell me that is why people want a user replaceable battery on the iPhone?
Since when is a column store database and a relational database mutually exclusive concepts?
It doesn't. The original blog is about Row-oriented DBMS vs. Column-oriented DBMS, and the author of the article (or his know-it-all-better editor) confused himself enough to believe somebody abbreviated that as RDBMS which of course means Relational DBMS. The submitter probably not reading the Wikipedia article he linked to didn't help either.
Who are you to challenge the intelligence of people like Einstein, Martin Luther, Okay, what the hell did Luther do that was so great? Bring a schism to Christianity that would lead all of Europe into a number of wars where millions of Christians killed each other - I wonder what would have happened if he hadn't believed in God.
First of all (apart from your percentage calculation), your numbers for Iraqi population completely ignore refugees leaving Iraq (ca. 100,000 per months, about 2.5 million since the invasion). Second, the 71,000 number is for all deaths reported in English language media only, the actual number may be much higher.
we don't need people being deluded about their imaginary friends, too.
Yes. Hear, hear! Who needs all that crap imaginary friends saddle you with?
We need fewer people with moral values such as "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not commit adultery." The earth could be a paradise if we could just rid ourselves of such chafing limitations. There's a certain BOOK that's chock-full with "... unless somebody says your God said it's okay.".
Wrong. The company in Ireland received calls from AT&T's lawyers at 03:00. Yes, they're that far up their own asses they didn't bother to take timezones into account. How they got the home numbers of the senior workers is also odd. 3:00 AM in Ireland is 10:00 PM in New York, 7:00 PM in Los Angeles. Why would a lawyer work that late?
Remember, AT&T is just SBC renamed. SBC bought the name, and apparently because SBC had such a bad reputation, changed names. And after considering "Enron" and "The Nazi Party", they went with AT&T?
You keep saying Apple is locking people in, but have they said anything to indicate they care about unlocking?
Apple is doing deals with networks to get a kickback from the data usage of iPhone users. Pulling this off requires that the users be locked in on special tariffs that are only for iPhone users. So yes, Apple do care about unlocking, as it breaks this revenue stream.
Interesting theory, but why then would AT&T only offer plans with unlimited data? Or did you mean "SMS usage"?
You think that because a piece of SOFTWARE costs $X it means that if they charged $X-1 they'd go bankrupt? So you think because they could sell OS X for $X-1 without going bancrupt, both OS X and the other software they had to write for the iPhone doesn't cost anything.
Well, just tell GWB that the voyagers might find hidden WMDs out there. That should ensure proper financing.:-) No, no, what would he do with such useless information. Tell him they can find WMD in Iran, then he'll listen.
The "broadcast flag": DHCP includes a way in which client implementations unable to receive a packet with a specific IP address can ask the server or relay agent to use the broadcast IP address in the replies (a "flag" set by the client in the requests). The definition of DHCP states that implementations "should" honor this flag, but it doesn't say they "must". Some Microsoft TCP/IP implementations used this flag, which meant in practical terms, relay agents and servers had to implement it. A number of BOOTP-relay-agent implementations (e.g. in routers) handled DHCP just fine except for the need for this feature, thus they announced new versions stated to handle DHCP.
(PS: can anybody tell me why italics don't work in the above blockquote, but bold does?)
About as much as your predictions that are based on a 21 second video. I bet this thing here will cost way more than iPhone at launch but it's justified cos first it will for sure have the specs that go with the year 2007 (instead of 2003 iPhone) and second it wont be crippled to the end..
there goes my prediction:D Yeah, sure, "The best is yet to come". Like zooming in and out of Photos - its not like that's something you want to show people when demoing how great your new device handles photos. Or like a 3h talk time that is standard for "G3" phones.
Giving that feature is a child's game, others do it, why they fail to do so is incomprehensible. So people will feel l33t when it still can be done with a little work. And others won't be pestered with Crazy Frog and Fitty Sent.
I'm actually pretty excited to see iPhone features make their way into non Apple products. Sure it is blatant idea theft. Sure Nokia is leeching whatever "coolness" they can from Apples form factor. Who cares? We have PCs that aren't proprietary because of blatant idea theft. Hell, we really wouldn't have spinning cubes in Linux were it not for ideas presented in other operating systems. Noah Wylie, while playing Steve Jobs said that "good artists copy, great artists steal". I do not mind getting quality (if Apple like) features at a lower price than Apple is willing to offer. The problem is that most just copy and don't actually "steal". "Looking just like the original" isn't enough, it has to act like it too. And the fact that they didn't show any multi-touch features means Nokia is merely a "good" artist.
The only way I'd buy an iPhone-like device is if it wasn't from Apple. I hate their overly-controlling, overpriced, pay for the brand name, turbo-hype, and looks over functionality. Nokia on the other hand just makes phones and they're good. So you will prefer the Nok-iPhone because they will cut down on the looks, and the lacking functionality will thus have the upper hand? Yeah, that makes sense.
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He also got millions form the governments of Denmark, Japan, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdo, as well as Coca-Cola, the Delta Airlines Foundation, the Ford Foundation etc. And amongst the founders of the Center are several Jews. What exactly is your point?
And imagine, a NeoCon complaining when somebody dare say that Israel's politics aren't kosher - a view shared by many Israelis. Does anybody really need reminder that Israel was about the only friend of the Apartheid state South Africa? Coincidence?
Sorry, but polling COLLEGE STUDENTS does NOT reflect the general populous. Is this stat a little rigged? Very rigged? Think for a minute here--aren't college students naturally more open to doing things? I have seen an awful lot of college students go from "mad liberal" to moderate in a matter of a few years as I am in a "spectatorial" position where we hire guys fresh out of school and watch how they change throughout their careers.
--parasonic So your argument is that open-minded Conservatives and closed-minded Liberals don't go to college? Or that they made all the Conservatives in the study up?
Or do you just don't want to admit that the guys you hire close their minds while working at your place?
"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
So yeah, you can flame them as much as you want, they're not going to change that easily.
An open mind gets into a well guarded and barred fortress by presenting a wooden horsie. "Now where could be the harm in that", the conservative thought.
Hey, the first three are dupes anyway.
Okay, at the risk of sounding stupid...
Since when is a column store database and a relational database mutually exclusive concepts?
It doesn't. The original blog is about Row-oriented DBMS vs. Column-oriented DBMS, and the author of the article (or his know-it-all-better editor) confused himself enough to believe somebody abbreviated that as RDBMS which of course means Relational DBMS. The submitter probably not reading the Wikipedia article he linked to didn't help either.Well, just look at some tests.
Well, there are fast flash-disks, and there are slooooow flash-disks. Think about it.
First of all (apart from your percentage calculation), your numbers for Iraqi population completely ignore refugees leaving Iraq (ca. 100,000 per months, about 2.5 million since the invasion). Second, the 71,000 number is for all deaths reported in English language media only, the actual number may be much higher.
Yes. Hear, hear! Who needs all that crap imaginary friends saddle you with?
We need fewer people with moral values such as "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not commit adultery." The earth could be a paradise if we could just rid ourselves of such chafing limitations.
There's a certain BOOK that's chock-full with "... unless somebody says your God said it's okay.".
Apple is doing deals with networks to get a kickback from the data usage of iPhone users. Pulling this off requires that the users be locked in on special tariffs that are only for iPhone users. So yes, Apple do care about unlocking, as it breaks this revenue stream.
Interesting theory, but why then would AT&T only offer plans with unlimited data? Or did you mean "SMS usage"?So you think because they could sell OS X for $X-1 without going bancrupt, both OS X and the other software they had to write for the iPhone doesn't cost anything.
Hey, so we actually got something useful out of this story ;-)
No, no, what would he do with such useless information. Tell him they can find WMD in Iran, then he'll listen.
Don't you mean "You just can't have Spock without Bones", you green-blooded insensitive clod? He's dead too, Jim.
there goes my prediction