The caste system society in India is now more or less similar to class system societies in many other parts of the world (including developed countries).
While I agree with your assessment that caste system is bad, I think the sentence "Any intelligent person should not look respectfully at India as a country until the caste system is snuffed out in every form". Rememer, USA has had won two world wars, built the best highway systems in the world, built the bomb, and sent men to moon -- all before it was OK for blacks to sit in the same row seats as whites in a bus.
So, while there are some things that are bad with India, it should not be used as a reason for denying her some other good things.
This will put Sun in a bad light eventually. They should have taken the moral high ground -- they should have at least held off pulling out ads in the WSJ.
It is an interesting tale that one can tell for the generations to come. As more such things get unearthed, the more I belive RMS's vision was very clear indeed.
I believe more than the "enviroloonies", the current administration is more driving fears in the minds of the "consumers" (no more citizens) about the word "nuclear".
This is like saying ASCII works for everyone. It is more than just the format on which the "real format" is based on. It would be ideal to have a full specification or detailed, non obfuscated documentation.
"For all you know, there are no other people out there - maybe your senses are being mislead:... by yourself - you've suffered psychological trauma this is all a dream"
Have you guys seen the movies "Jacob's Ladder" and "Mulholland Dr."? Not recent ones, so spoilers are fine... Both are about dreams of people just moments before they die.
That is a fairly unsustainable business approach. Sort of analogous to preventing theft by giving expensive stuff to potential thieves for free. A society cannot afford such high maintenance thieves, nor can it afford the likes of SCO.
Are there any plans to extend Bittorrent into areas such as webcasting (I believe it is a similar model with small delays for people that access the content later?)
I tried to short SCOX at about noon time when Datek said "you cannot short SCOX today". Someone on yahoo boards mentioned that once the short shares are over a percentage of float, there is no more short selling allowed for that day. The first sentence of my response was "you moved too late". Looks like a lot of smart traders have already made their moves.
SGI ditched their core IRIX. They started moving towards NT on their machines. So, the analogy does not apply directly here.
Furthermore, regarding competing with Dell in the x86 arena, the redhat/sun/oracle partnership has some chance of becoming stronger than redhat/dell partnership.
Well, we will have to wait and see. I think sun is a good company -- and teaming up with oracle and redhat can't be a bad move at this point.
Having the latest versions JDK and also J2EE SDK built in with the system may mean that the Apache Tomcat/ant and other things will also come bundled with redhat (and most likely pre-configured just like mod_perl and mod_php).
A brand new installation of redhat can then run things like servlets, jsps, etc., just like we can now run mod_perl and all that without end users having to build and install it.
Buddy... If you have to explain whether some "computer system" has a "standard for a freaking UI" to *FRIENDS AND FAMILY*, you probably have more to worry about than the format wars.
Just a few weeks ago, I felt that Mozilla was good enough and that there was no need to try anything else -- till I downloaded Mozilla Firebird (some nightly after 0.5), and boy is it good...
Here are the main things:
The customization is tremendous. I managed to shave off a couple of toolbars from the screen -- only one toolbar with more buttons and options than what I put with Mozilla 1.4b.
The extensions are wonderful too. Simple things like NukeImage, Tabbrowser extensions, Adblock, and a tonne of other extensions.
So, right now I use both Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird, and I see the little Mozilla offsprings dethroning parent Mozilla very soon.
Soon it will be the time to say, "The king is dead, long live the king."
To sum up the last few posts: Electronic Voting can't be trusted, NVidia can't be trusted, Microsoft Update can't be trusted... that's enough for one day. I'll go to sleep right now.
That is a nice lead into enjoying The Matrix Reloaded.
I know a lot of people who are good at logic problems or churning out code for a living, who wouldn't recognize art if it came and hit them in the face. However, most of them also think reading a lot of stuff (junk) on the net is also not worth it.
I would say something like, "if you are a reader of slashdot, you are more likely to think, or would think that you think", so more inclined towards thoughtful plots than the average population.
Not at all. I watch movies for the eye candy and adrenalin. What I want to think, I read a book.
We have progressed as a society from the time when people were told that "reading a book is akin to thinking via the writer's mind", i.e., not think on one's own, to the point where reading a book is now elevated to the level of thinking.
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The breadth of story telling or the variety in stories in Bollywood is very small. They cater to a narrow audience of Indian moviegoers who mainly like a "virtuous" woman lead, a clearly spelled out "good vs evil" story, often romantic themes or very narrow social themes. They also often conform to the social stereotypes and tread carefully while dealing with the censors.
The process of story telling is cumbersome too. There is often a "comic relief" song or a "wet" song that interferes with the story telling. Further, the story telling is so in your face, with no scope for alternative interpretations. If the character feels pain, you will be "told so" a dozen times instead of just "showing it" once.
The top stars of Bollywood do not like to pick up grey characters (e.g. Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath, Robin Williams in Insomnia, or Denzel Washington in Training Day). Very frequently a story is made to fit the actor's profile, and not the other way around.
One more killer is that there is frequently a main story, and a few, unrelated subplots in the movie. Kinda like padding together two or three movies and making a "kichdi" (a mixed vegetable and rice dish). And, there is too much emphasis on "puppy love" too. All stories need a hero, heroine, a villan, a couple of sub plots (sometimes multiple heroes and heroines -- the ones that don't get paired die in the end battle).
This is a good place for speech interface or a touch keypad (one could always use some tissue to click on a link). Furthermore, bathroom reading may not need a lot of keyboard interactions.
I agree... It is also just a matter of time before some people's careers or lives will be irreversibly harmed by this "shoot first, ask questions later" approach. All for protecting a dying business model of corportations that refuse to be nimble.
I hope that one day the RIAA programs will trespass some secret government sites and the execs get punished as severely as Kevin Mitnick was.
But if you're looking for something a little more than crash, bang, wallop then this second instalment will leave you cold. Reloaded is crammed full of the cod philosophy that fans of the original loved but which left me distinctly unimpressed.
The plot is even more convoluted than before and flits between everything from religion to quantum physics and mathematics.
This reviewer didn't like the plot line of the first one, and didn't like the second one. I liked the plot of the first one, so may be I will like the second one too:)
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My biggest complaint about the cost of living in the US is that the "standard of living" is a moving target here. If you have an old, well running car or if you have an old house, somehow you are supposed to make an extra effort in earning more so that you can move to a "nicer place" with a "nicer car".
The real estate prices too are in a way, silly. The cost of land is not much, the houses are getting bigger and bigger, and no one can find a place that is good but small enough to be affordable. Just like the dream of owing new SUVs, a lot of the cost of living is in the minds.
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The caste system society in India is now more or less similar to class system societies in many other parts of the world (including developed countries).
While I agree with your assessment that caste system is bad, I think the sentence "Any intelligent person should not look respectfully at India as a country until the caste system is snuffed out in every form". Rememer, USA has had won two world wars, built the best highway systems in the world, built the bomb, and sent men to moon -- all before it was OK for blacks to sit in the same row seats as whites in a bus.
So, while there are some things that are bad with India, it should not be used as a reason for denying her some other good things.
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Shouldn't it be mod'ed as ...ahem... informative? God knows how the AC picked this up. Nice catch.
The finest porn of Utah -- recommended by Sen. Hatch.
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This will put Sun in a bad light eventually. They should have taken the moral high ground -- they should have at least held off pulling out ads in the WSJ.
It is an interesting tale that one can tell for the generations to come. As more such things get unearthed, the more I belive RMS's vision was very clear indeed.
S
My understanding is that Sun already has a perpetual license. So no need to pay new money.
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I believe more than the "enviroloonies", the current administration is more driving fears in the minds of the "consumers" (no more citizens) about the word "nuclear".
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For java there is the jdk + bluej (bluej.org) combination. bluej is an IDE intended to teach java to beginners.
For Perl, shell, and C, a combination of (x)emacs, and cygwin will do the trick.
For C and Pascal, one could also download the "antique software" from Borland (remember Turbo C and Turbo Pascal)
I am sure there are some old Basic environments available for free for windows users.
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This is like saying ASCII works for everyone. It is more than just the format on which the "real format" is based on. It would be ideal to have a full specification or detailed, non obfuscated documentation.
S
"For all you know, there are no other people out there - maybe your senses are being mislead: ... by yourself - you've suffered psychological trauma this is all a dream"
Have you guys seen the movies "Jacob's Ladder" and "Mulholland Dr."? Not recent ones, so spoilers are fine... Both are about dreams of people just moments before they die.
S
That is a fairly unsustainable business approach. Sort of analogous to preventing theft by giving expensive stuff to potential thieves for free. A society cannot afford such high maintenance thieves, nor can it afford the likes of SCO.
S
Lucky you... Datek (ameritrade) f**ked me :(
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Are there any plans to extend Bittorrent into areas such as webcasting (I believe it is a similar model with small delays for people that access the content later?)
S
I tried to short SCOX at about noon time when Datek said "you cannot short SCOX today". Someone on yahoo boards mentioned that once the short shares are over a percentage of float, there is no more short selling allowed for that day. The first sentence of my response was "you moved too late". Looks like a lot of smart traders have already made their moves.
S
SGI ditched their core IRIX. They started moving towards NT on their machines. So, the analogy does not apply directly here.
Furthermore, regarding competing with Dell in the x86 arena, the redhat/sun/oracle partnership has some chance of becoming stronger than redhat/dell partnership.
Well, we will have to wait and see. I think sun is a good company -- and teaming up with oracle and redhat can't be a bad move at this point.
S
Having the latest versions JDK and also J2EE SDK built in with the system may mean that the Apache Tomcat/ant and other things will also come bundled with redhat (and most likely pre-configured just like mod_perl and mod_php).
A brand new installation of redhat can then run things like servlets, jsps, etc., just like we can now run mod_perl and all that without end users having to build and install it.
S
Buddy... If you have to explain whether some "computer system" has a "standard for a freaking UI" to *FRIENDS AND FAMILY*, you probably have more to worry about than the format wars.
S
Just a few weeks ago, I felt that Mozilla was good enough and that there was no need to try anything else -- till I downloaded Mozilla Firebird (some nightly after 0.5), and boy is it good...
Here are the main things:
The customization is tremendous. I managed to shave off a couple of toolbars from the screen -- only one toolbar with more buttons and options than what I put with Mozilla 1.4b.
The extensions are wonderful too. Simple things like NukeImage, Tabbrowser extensions, Adblock, and a tonne of other extensions.
So, right now I use both Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird, and I see the little Mozilla offsprings dethroning parent Mozilla very soon.
Soon it will be the time to say, "The king is dead, long live the king."
S
That is a nice lead into enjoying The Matrix Reloaded.
S
I know a lot of people who are good at logic problems or churning out code for a living, who wouldn't recognize art if it came and hit them in the face. However, most of them also think reading a lot of stuff (junk) on the net is also not worth it.
I would say something like, "if you are a reader of slashdot, you are more likely to think, or would think that you think", so more inclined towards thoughtful plots than the average population.
S
We have progressed as a society from the time when people were told that "reading a book is akin to thinking via the writer's mind", i.e., not think on one's own, to the point where reading a book is now elevated to the level of thinking. S
The breadth of story telling or the variety in stories in Bollywood is very small. They cater to a narrow audience of Indian moviegoers who mainly like a "virtuous" woman lead, a clearly spelled out "good vs evil" story, often romantic themes or very narrow social themes. They also often conform to the social stereotypes and tread carefully while dealing with the censors.
The process of story telling is cumbersome too. There is often a "comic relief" song or a "wet" song that interferes with the story telling. Further, the story telling is so in your face, with no scope for alternative interpretations. If the character feels pain, you will be "told so" a dozen times instead of just "showing it" once.
The top stars of Bollywood do not like to pick up grey characters (e.g. Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath, Robin Williams in Insomnia, or Denzel Washington in Training Day). Very frequently a story is made to fit the actor's profile, and not the other way around.
One more killer is that there is frequently a main story, and a few, unrelated subplots in the movie. Kinda like padding together two or three movies and making a "kichdi" (a mixed vegetable and rice dish). And, there is too much emphasis on "puppy love" too. All stories need a hero, heroine, a villan, a couple of sub plots (sometimes multiple heroes and heroines -- the ones that don't get paired die in the end battle).
S
This is a good place for speech interface or a touch keypad (one could always use some tissue to click on a link). Furthermore, bathroom reading may not need a lot of keyboard interactions.
S
I agree... It is also just a matter of time before some people's careers or lives will be irreversibly harmed by this "shoot first, ask questions later" approach. All for protecting a dying business model of corportations that refuse to be nimble.
I hope that one day the RIAA programs will trespass some secret government sites and the execs get punished as severely as Kevin Mitnick was.
S
But if you're looking for something a little more than crash, bang, wallop then this second instalment will leave you cold. Reloaded is crammed full of the cod philosophy that fans of the original loved but which left me distinctly unimpressed.
The plot is even more convoluted than before and flits between everything from religion to quantum physics and mathematics.
This reviewer didn't like the plot line of the first one, and didn't like the second one. I liked the plot of the first one, so may be I will like the second one too :)
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My biggest complaint about the cost of living in the US is that the "standard of living" is a moving target here. If you have an old, well running car or if you have an old house, somehow you are supposed to make an extra effort in earning more so that you can move to a "nicer place" with a "nicer car".
The real estate prices too are in a way, silly. The cost of land is not much, the houses are getting bigger and bigger, and no one can find a place that is good but small enough to be affordable. Just like the dream of owing new SUVs, a lot of the cost of living is in the minds.
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Isn't it a little too cumbersome to "write" via XML? "Literate programming", where the documentation and the code are tied in, may not be a bad idea.
Ofcourse, at the end, it is *what* is being said that is more important and *how* -- than *in what format*.
The basic flaw these days among techies is that many don't write well. Changing the format is almost similar to chaging the typeface or the font.
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