Calling it a "Jewish State" is because its main purpose is to be a sanctuary for Jews from around the world -- what rights exactly are being denied from non-Jews?
A correction: The State of Israel was not declared as a "Jewish State", but as "State for the Jews", as in sanctuary from prosecutions (before, during, after WWII). The Israeli Independence Bill of Rights (Megilat Ha'Hatzmaut) states that "no person shall be descriminiated by religion, gender, profession..." etc., and it has become a Foundation Law in Israel (Chok Yesod), sort of like a quasi-consitution.
So Israel does not, as a country, promote descrimination. But, in a state of war, you cannot prevent inter-personal relationships from skewing from the norm.
Personally, before the Intifada has started, I visited many Arab cities and villages. Today, if I go there, I'd probably be beaten to death or something.... I guess the same would go the other way around, though Israelis will NEVER beat to death an Arab who wanders off into an Israeli city or village.
You're comparing apples and oranges here, as sibling posts state.
An average jewish family in Israel has 2 parents and ~3.5 kids. An average arab family in Israel has 3 parents (Man is married to two wives), plus an average of 8 kids from EACH wife, amounting to 14-16 kids.
Now you see the reason for Arabs being relatively poor.
As for water, 90% of Israeli water come from the Kinnereth, which is 100% Israeli territory. Have any evidence to the contrary.
This is simply because, when you max out your upstream, the TCP ACKs for the *downstream* are delayed some and then the TCP stack on the machines you download from slow down their sending. Simply set the max upload rate to be 20% lower than true max download. works great for me.
A conspiracy theory just occured to me. Linux runs on Big Iron (see Linux/390). Mono runs on Linux. COBOL.Net runs on Mono.
Now deduce your favorite conspiracy....
A few coworkers deduced than either: 1. Windows will be ported to Big Iron, as we're already on the way with the Data Center versions of Windows. (extremely unlikely) 2. M$ will go open-source and embrace Mono as its.NET for Big Iron. (unlikely) 3. M$ will port.NET to Linux, while sucking GPLed code from Mono, taking GPL to court and winning (likely)
Just like software nowadays, the car is licensed to you, you do not buy it. And if the manufacturer declares an End Of Life on your car, you need to upgrade to a new car. You *could* go with open-source cars, as long as you choose which of the 16 available steering wheels you want, and build it yourself.
No. The military usually wraps systems in a Faradday (sp?) cage, so that relatively weak (i.e. PCs) EM transmissions cannot leave the cage and therefore give away the location of the systems. This does not protect against EM pulses too much, as it cannot be a perfect cage (otherwise you couldn't physically enter and leave it).
I second that. I worked for the army before on various project, which are army-secret, not just NDAed. However, when I interviewed for various positions in the civilian sector, I could talk about almost everything (technologies, implementations, mechanisms, algorithms, etc.), as it is NOT a trade secret to mention them and explain the basics to an outsider. For instance, hypothetically, if I were to work on a ICBM software system, talking about the UI design of the operator text console will NOT violate any NDA or secrecy doc I signed.
I'm an Israeli, and as such am more intimate with the details of the annoucement. What the Israeli government drives at here is neither a stab at Microsoft for lower prices, Hebrew for Macs, or anything of that sorts.
What it drives for is open standards. Unfortunately, our economy is not too strong right now, and a when a poor fellow buys a computer, she cannot afford to pay another $129 on Windows, $200 on Word, or $300 on Office, which accumulates to (almost) more money than the hardware itself. She can install Linux, and will be able to use OpenOffice, of course. But what about opening Hebrew word files? No luck there.
As part of a cross-government effort for open standards (see some government sites for documents), they also drive for open standards. If pushing MS to do so by not buying their software anymore will accomplish that, then I salute 'em...:)
As for Linux penetration here in Israel, I can say it is no lesser than the situation in the US or Europe. No Munich yet, but we're getting there...
And I think you should (read more about TOC on the net), there's a (commercial, expensive) tool called Concerto (not the PBX company) that does the job fabulously. It helped us at a previous job handle a 200-programmer, ~15-project environment with crystal-clear focus on the *important* things, which you can easily overlook when handling a shared gantt with ~10000 tasks.
Well, you already pay for your broadband (if not, I salute you:), and you will never have to pay for software (in case your SIP client goes commercial, you will be able to switch to another OSS client), so how exactly do you figure you will have to pay more than you already pay today?
1. Being a student of the former poster (Hey Tal, enjoyed your physics exercises:), while currently not having mod points, I can vouch that it was the case. I know more than a single set of a cheater and a cheatee who approached him and told the truth.
2. Being a TA myself (CS, though), I tried the following approach - every student writes the names of the students around him, in all 8 directions, in a specially drawn 3x3 box. Now, this killed 99% of cheating, as we TAs could get a quick verification of cheating suspects. It also helped us recognize cheating, since we could check the tests in the order of seating. This, coupled with Tal's method, could probably locate almost all cheaters.
I had some spare resources in my team on the previous job, so we made the following practical joke: We put together a DCOM object that when activated played a random MP3 off a server at work. We installed it on every computer in our department (~40 people), and wrote a small program to activate all of them in a random order and delay at a click of a button. The voices we used were dogs barking, cats meowing, sheep, cows, chickens etc. in a low volume. You can imagine the project manager's face when I clicked a small button on my laptop during a meeting and his computer, and other present laptops started sounding like a barn yard. We kept this up for about two days (with 10-20 minute interval), until someone finally got how this worked. And this was a software shop....
Actually, I *do* have a unique idea (being somewhat of an analog to a high-speed analog circuit designer, I do not think anyone else has come up with the idea), and it has a *huge* market size. I estimate it at $50B a year.
Now, *that* is my problem when I try selling the idea to venture capitals. They see the number and think I'm mad or something.
I tried to underestimate market size (by truncation, pessimistical estimates etc.), though, but the VC's bid-counters usually find the rounding errors here and there in my math.
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Calling it a "Jewish State" is because its main purpose is to be a sanctuary for Jews from around the world -- what rights exactly are being denied from non-Jews?
..." etc., and it has become a Foundation Law in Israel (Chok Yesod), sort of like a quasi-consitution.
A correction: The State of Israel was not declared as a "Jewish State", but as "State for the Jews", as in sanctuary from prosecutions (before, during, after WWII). The Israeli Independence Bill of Rights (Megilat Ha'Hatzmaut) states that "no person shall be descriminiated by religion, gender, profession
So Israel does not, as a country, promote descrimination. But, in a state of war, you cannot prevent inter-personal relationships from skewing from the norm.
Personally, before the Intifada has started, I visited many Arab cities and villages. Today, if I go there, I'd probably be beaten to death or something.... I guess the same would go the other way around, though Israelis will NEVER beat to death an Arab who wanders off into an Israeli city or village.
You're comparing apples and oranges here, as sibling posts state.
An average jewish family in Israel has 2 parents and ~3.5 kids.
An average arab family in Israel has 3 parents (Man is married to two wives), plus an average of 8 kids from EACH wife, amounting to 14-16 kids.
Now you see the reason for Arabs being relatively poor.
As for water, 90% of Israeli water come from the Kinnereth, which is 100% Israeli territory. Have any evidence to the contrary.
This is simply because, when you max out your upstream, the TCP ACKs for the *downstream* are delayed some and then the TCP stack on the machines you download from slow down their sending. Simply set the max upload rate to be 20% lower than true max download. works great for me.
Ok, just kidding...
But, TI's DSPs run Linux. Check out this link
Yeah, I didn't feel like reading TFA. What will it do, aside from probably elevated exposure to radiation?
NSA has source code license for Windows, you say? I suggest that you google for "NT NSA key"....
Google does that, silly!
A conspiracy theory just occured to me. Linux runs on Big Iron (see Linux/390). Mono runs on Linux. COBOL.Net runs on Mono.
.NET for Big Iron. (unlikely) .NET to Linux, while sucking GPLed code from Mono, taking GPL to court and winning (likely)
Now deduce your favorite conspiracy....
A few coworkers deduced than either:
1. Windows will be ported to Big Iron, as we're already on the way with the Data Center versions of Windows. (extremely unlikely)
2. M$ will go open-source and embrace Mono as its
3. M$ will port
Just like software nowadays, the car is licensed to you, you do not buy it. And if the manufacturer declares an End Of Life on your car, you need to upgrade to a new car. You *could* go with open-source cars, as long as you choose which of the 16 available steering wheels you want, and build it yourself.
No. The military usually wraps systems in a Faradday (sp?) cage, so that relatively weak (i.e. PCs) EM transmissions cannot leave the cage and therefore give away the location of the systems. This does not protect against EM pulses too much, as it cannot be a perfect cage (otherwise you couldn't physically enter and leave it).
without any need to poll, I'd say 0% of Israeli jews/Durzi/Cherkesi and very close to that of Israeli Arabs.
Do you have a feminine equivalent for "fellow", you vocabulary-nazi, you...?
If so, I would gladly adopt it.
I second that. I worked for the army before on various project, which are army-secret, not just NDAed. However, when I interviewed for various positions in the civilian sector, I could talk about almost everything (technologies, implementations, mechanisms, algorithms, etc.), as it is NOT a trade secret to mention them and explain the basics to an outsider. For instance, hypothetically, if I were to work on a ICBM software system, talking about the UI design of the operator text console will NOT violate any NDA or secrecy doc I signed.
I'm an Israeli, and as such am more intimate with the details of the annoucement. What the Israeli government drives at here is neither a stab at Microsoft for lower prices, Hebrew for Macs, or anything of that sorts.
:)
What it drives for is open standards. Unfortunately, our economy is not too strong right now, and a when a poor fellow buys a computer, she cannot afford to pay another $129 on Windows, $200 on Word, or $300 on Office, which accumulates to (almost) more money than the hardware itself. She can install Linux, and will be able to use OpenOffice, of course. But what about opening Hebrew word files? No luck there.
As part of a cross-government effort for open standards (see some government sites for documents), they also drive for open standards. If pushing MS to do so by not buying their software anymore will accomplish that, then I salute 'em...
As for Linux penetration here in Israel, I can say it is no lesser than the situation in the US or Europe. No Munich yet, but we're getting there...
dunno what you're talking about. Checking my ReiserFS or ext3 is like 2 seconds long. Blame Microsoft for having a outdated file system.
And I think you should (read more about TOC on the net), there's a (commercial, expensive) tool called Concerto (not the PBX company) that does the job fabulously. It helped us at a previous job handle a 200-programmer, ~15-project environment with crystal-clear focus on the *important* things, which you can easily overlook when handling a shared gantt with ~10000 tasks.
He who controls the spice, controls the universe? :)
Actually, VoIP with the G.723 codec is rather clear, and only weighs 5.3Kbps (that is, 5.3 kilobit/s). much less that the 3G data rate.
Well, you already pay for your broadband (if not, I salute you :), and you will never have to pay for software (in case your SIP client goes commercial, you will be able to switch to another OSS client), so how exactly do you figure you will have to pay more than you already pay today?
Actually, he's not. But, hey, I'm not gay, so cool off.... :)
Two comments:
:), while currently not having mod points, I can vouch that it was the case. I know more than a single set of a cheater and a cheatee who approached him and told the truth.
1. Being a student of the former poster (Hey Tal, enjoyed your physics exercises
2. Being a TA myself (CS, though), I tried the following approach - every student writes the names of the students around him, in all 8 directions, in a specially drawn 3x3 box. Now, this killed 99% of cheating, as we TAs could get a quick verification of cheating suspects. It also helped us recognize cheating, since we could check the tests in the order of seating. This, coupled with Tal's method, could probably locate almost all cheaters.
Being an outfit operating out of a refuge camp near the village of Jenin, Israel, I wouldn't put too much trust in their software/
Yeah, absolutely shocking. Especially since they operate out of a refuge camp near Jenin, Israel.
I had some spare resources in my team on the previous job, so we made the following practical joke: We put together a DCOM object that when activated played a random MP3 off a server at work. We installed it on every computer in our department (~40 people), and wrote a small program to activate all of them in a random order and delay at a click of a button. The voices we used were dogs barking, cats meowing, sheep, cows, chickens etc. in a low volume. You can imagine the project manager's face when I clicked a small button on my laptop during a meeting and his computer, and other present laptops started sounding like a barn yard. We kept this up for about two days (with 10-20 minute interval), until someone finally got how this worked. And this was a software shop....
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Actually, I *do* have a unique idea (being somewhat of an analog to a high-speed analog circuit designer, I do not think anyone else has come up with the idea), and it has a *huge* market size. I estimate it at $50B a year.
Now, *that* is my problem when I try selling the idea to venture capitals. They see the number and think I'm mad or something.
I tried to underestimate market size (by truncation, pessimistical estimates etc.), though, but the VC's bid-counters usually find the rounding errors here and there in my math.
Any advice regarding this particular problem?