Well.. Great Chinese poets write in classical Chinese. It doesn't stop you from speaking your local dialect though and it has been like that in China for more than a thousand years. Which I guess is the point of conservation and revival efforts in linguistics. It's more about the mindset of raising awareness so people can learn from something which they might not even know exists. Learning a language is hard and takes lots of effort, but so is most of the things worth treasuring in life.
That illustrates the differences in how Americans think of themselves and how the world thinks of America. In the case of China and the issues with Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang, China (and many observers) regards these as territorial and succession issues. It doesn't make it right to suppress these peoples, but such infractions are mainly played out as domestic issues on the world stage. Some would consider such as human rights issues and this is a view I subscribe to personally considering the history of the ruling Communist party in China. However, you cannot discount the fact there is a bit of a double standard also. For an example closer to home, take a look at the U.S. from the point of view of Civil Rights in the past 50 years. How much involvement from foreign powers was The U.S. willing to take?
On the other hand, America since the start of the cold war, has been *projecting* power to far reaches of the globe. Pretty much like how Great Britain and the colonial powers used to. However, the British and other European powers (and Japan) were at least forthright in their motives (ie. empire building and that famous burden). The reason why America is viewed with so much suspicion (ie. Iraq) nowadays is because the stated reasons of intervention are often very different from the actual reasons for doing so, or at least so it seems. For many people, America embodies the new imperialism and personally I find it surprising that so many are apparently oblivious to this fact. Maybe it is because people of recent generations living in the developed world isn't really aware of the suffering of the many peoples of the colonial era. For many in the developing world, however, this memory is still fresh in the collective consciousness.
You can argue that the U.S. has no alternative as the U.S.S.R was leveraging its might to maintain her own sphere of influence (a proxy war against free-market liberal nations). There is some truth in that also, but you might be aware that the cold war has ended some years ago. The troubling thing is the nature of international politics hasn't changed much. If developed nations subscribe more to a "do as I do" policy on the international stage, it will make it much harder for rouge nations to have any ammunition to fire back at all. Indeed, it may even win over peoples' hearts in the developing world, making the task of improving the governance of such countries a tad easier.
You should be installing the 32bit version of Kubuntu if you want to give your sister the best Linux desktop experience. A lot of it is because the x86_64 version needs a lot of working around to using certain binaries, including the Flash plugin and certain binary codecs.
Does anyone actually WANT to live in a high density residential building? A place where you can't bbq, fly a kite, play catch with your kid, engage in your latest and craziest idea like building a teepee?
Yes. Just because you can't imagine sharing with other people by using public parks and facilities, doesn't mean that no-one wants to. High-rise living has its benefits, and in many cases eliminates the need to have a car as a short journey to the local supermarket (or butchers/greengrocers) is probably faster on foot/mass transit.
What are you trying to define as business friendly? Does "business friendly" mean that businesses can take the work of others freely and use them in products without giving back the improvements they made back to the original authors? If that is you mean then no, the GPL is not business friendly as it was designed to specifically counteract that.
The use of dual licensing gives the author(s) the best of both worlds. If you want to build upon the fruits of others, either contribute code under the same terms, or pay for a license from the original authors. Tit-for-tat. do ut des. blahblahblah
Um.. the issue is whether the transaction took place in the UK or the US. Fraud is a crime whether in the US or UK. In the UK, gambling is not.
If a gambling operator is in the UK, and its customers are in the US, and it is illegal in US law to gamble through data lines, then I would believe that the customers are the ones breaking the law, as the operator of the gambling outfit if they do not have a presence in the US.
Linux got to where is is precisely because of the kernel devs not producing a stable API. Think about it, what would the kernel be if it was stripped of all the drivers? Not much use at all.
Now that Linux has a large userbase, you're arguing that is ok to relax that since some user wants binary drivers that just work. However, when you go that route, it's hard to go back because everybody *expects* the ABI to remain stable. Instead of improving the kernel, the devs will waste time sorting out ABI issues; not the best use of time.
Do we really want to be in a Free for All? Liberty requires that we make compromises. In society we must agree that we refrain from doing certain things, (such as assault, theft, murder, etc.) or otherwise not only are we infringing on the well-being of other people, we are disturbing the fabric on which society is built.
Why is the Internet any different? If the Internet has grown to a point where peoples' livelyhoods depend on it, shouldn't we put in a minimal level of responsibility to prevent the remaining big carriers from charging what effectively is an Internet tax? And before you say "the market would take care of it", have you noticed the consolidation in the telecoms market recently? The free market doesn't take care of everything. That's why we have anti-trust and anti-collusion legislation. And it works: Standard Oil, ADM, ATC, AT&T.
You got it the wrong way around. Google is not forcing anybody to use it's search (whether it has a monopoly on web search or not, it doesn't matter).
However, Microsoft, which has around 80% market share in the browser market, and around 90%+ in the OS market is abusing it's monopoly power by integrating a variety of products and services in its OS, either directly or indirectly (as in this case).
For example, if company A has a monopoly on cars (and has been deemed a monopoly), it can not require customers to use it's own brand of gas. Yes, company A doesn't have a monopoly in gas, and that is the point. The thing that is illegal is leveraging a monopoly to gain market advantage.
If Google was deemed a monopoly and was caught installing GoogleOS 2.0 to any user that visits google.com, then we are sure that both Microsoft and Apple will be up in arms.
Why would you take a course in Cantonese? Most of the hardware design jobs will be based in northern China or near Shanghai. Plus, Mandarin is much easier to learn.
But you're just ignoring the prompt to reboot. If the packager of the software is not confident that the software will run properly without a reboot, that says a lot about the architecture of the system and the expectation of its users.
Your list notwithstanding, a lot of installers require a reboot as part of the installation proceedure is done during the next bootup.
How much trouble do you think it is required to wrap the standard unix commands in something like python or ruby? Not a whole lot because most of the information will be string processing anyway.
Beside, the standard python and ruby libraries have a ton of features to interface with the OS.
and like every home system I've configured in the past decade) you could just install a scripting language like Perl, which blows away any *nix command line shell anyway.
Which is why MSH really isn't anything new. There's a reason we're not using some variant of the python interactive console as the shell. First, not everything is written in python. Second, changing the semantics from a simple file-based one to a intricate let's-pass-around-objects one is counterproductive in a shell environment when you have a thousand different programs that can interface with each other.
Why is it cool? With MSH, what you have is really an interpreted OO language. We have dozens of them. In fact, you can wrap the basic shell commands in ruby or python, and emulate something similar (For example, both languages have introspective properties allowing you to change the text-based representation of objects). The reason shell scripting is popular is not in spite of it being text-based, but rather bacause of it.
With sh, you don't need to understand the structures behind output and input, because, guess what? It is mostly in text, delimited, formatted, whatever. Yes, it's not very advanced just piping around data with file semantics, but it works well.
I'm sorry you got ripped off, but you'll never get a good chinese meal at restuarants that cater for "foreigners". What you need is to visit a friend, maybe from Hong Kong or Shanghai or Taipei and ask them to show you around the local eateries. You'll be surprised at the selection and quality of the local food. (Of course, ask them to order stuff which is palatible to you, nothing you find gross)
MSG was actually introduced by the Japanese, first as a seasoning, and then in ready-made foods. Now it's just about used anywhere. (Look on your can of potato chips). In fact even if the ingredients list doesn't contain MSG it probably does. Have you seen "Hydrolized 'x' Protein" on those lists? Well, all hydrolized protein products contain MSG.
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Well.. Great Chinese poets write in classical Chinese. It doesn't stop you from speaking your local dialect though and it has been like that in China for more than a thousand years. Which I guess is the point of conservation and revival efforts in linguistics. It's more about the mindset of raising awareness so people can learn from something which they might not even know exists. Learning a language is hard and takes lots of effort, but so is most of the things worth treasuring in life.
That illustrates the differences in how Americans think of themselves and how the world thinks of America. In the case of China and the issues with Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang, China (and many observers) regards these as territorial and succession issues. It doesn't make it right to suppress these peoples, but such infractions are mainly played out as domestic issues on the world stage. Some would consider such as human rights issues and this is a view I subscribe to personally considering the history of the ruling Communist party in China. However, you cannot discount the fact there is a bit of a double standard also. For an example closer to home, take a look at the U.S. from the point of view of Civil Rights in the past 50 years. How much involvement from foreign powers was The U.S. willing to take?
On the other hand, America since the start of the cold war, has been *projecting* power to far reaches of the globe. Pretty much like how Great Britain and the colonial powers used to. However, the British and other European powers (and Japan) were at least forthright in their motives (ie. empire building and that famous burden). The reason why America is viewed with so much suspicion (ie. Iraq) nowadays is because the stated reasons of intervention are often very different from the actual reasons for doing so, or at least so it seems. For many people, America embodies the new imperialism and personally I find it surprising that so many are apparently oblivious to this fact. Maybe it is because people of recent generations living in the developed world isn't really aware of the suffering of the many peoples of the colonial era. For many in the developing world, however, this memory is still fresh in the collective consciousness.
You can argue that the U.S. has no alternative as the U.S.S.R was leveraging its might to maintain her own sphere of influence (a proxy war against free-market liberal nations). There is some truth in that also, but you might be aware that the cold war has ended some years ago. The troubling thing is the nature of international politics hasn't changed much. If developed nations subscribe more to a "do as I do" policy on the international stage, it will make it much harder for rouge nations to have any ammunition to fire back at all. Indeed, it may even win over peoples' hearts in the developing world, making the task of improving the governance of such countries a tad easier.
Well, it is obvious that he didn't intend the modern American definition then, did he?
You should be installing the 32bit version of Kubuntu if you want to give your sister the best Linux desktop experience. A lot of it is because the x86_64 version needs a lot of working around to using certain binaries, including the Flash plugin and certain binary codecs.
Does anyone actually WANT to live in a high density residential building? A place where you can't bbq, fly a kite, play catch with your kid, engage in your latest and craziest idea like building a teepee?
Yes. Just because you can't imagine sharing with other people by using public parks and facilities, doesn't mean that no-one wants to. High-rise living has its benefits, and in many cases eliminates the need to have a car as a short journey to the local supermarket (or butchers/greengrocers) is probably faster on foot/mass transit.
What are you trying to define as business friendly? Does "business friendly" mean that businesses can take the work of others freely and use them in products without giving back the improvements they made back to the original authors? If that is you mean then no, the GPL is not business friendly as it was designed to specifically counteract that.
The use of dual licensing gives the author(s) the best of both worlds. If you want to build upon the fruits of others, either contribute code under the same terms, or pay for a license from the original authors. Tit-for-tat. do ut des. blahblahblah
Um.. the issue is whether the transaction took place in the UK or the US. Fraud is a crime whether in the US or UK. In the UK, gambling is not.
If a gambling operator is in the UK, and its customers are in the US, and it is illegal in US law to gamble through data lines, then I would believe that the customers are the ones breaking the law, as the operator of the gambling outfit if they do not have a presence in the US.
That's the ebuild script.
Linux got to where is is precisely because of the kernel devs not producing a stable API. Think about it, what would the kernel be if it was stripped of all the drivers? Not much use at all.
Now that Linux has a large userbase, you're arguing that is ok to relax that since some user wants binary drivers that just work. However, when you go that route, it's hard to go back because everybody *expects* the ABI to remain stable. Instead of improving the kernel, the devs will waste time sorting out ABI issues; not the best use of time.
Do we really want to be in a Free for All? Liberty requires that we make compromises. In society we must agree that we refrain from doing certain things, (such as assault, theft, murder, etc.) or otherwise not only are we infringing on the well-being of other people, we are disturbing the fabric on which society is built.
Why is the Internet any different? If the Internet has grown to a point where peoples' livelyhoods depend on it, shouldn't we put in a minimal level of responsibility to prevent the remaining big carriers from charging what effectively is an Internet tax? And before you say "the market would take care of it", have you noticed the consolidation in the telecoms market recently? The free market doesn't take care of everything. That's why we have anti-trust and anti-collusion legislation. And it works: Standard Oil, ADM, ATC, AT&T.
You got it the wrong way around. Google is not forcing anybody to use it's search (whether it has a monopoly on web search or not, it doesn't matter).
However, Microsoft, which has around 80% market share in the browser market, and around 90%+ in the OS market is abusing it's monopoly power by integrating a variety of products and services in its OS, either directly or indirectly (as in this case).
For example, if company A has a monopoly on cars (and has been deemed a monopoly), it can not require customers to use it's own brand of gas. Yes, company A doesn't have a monopoly in gas, and that is the point. The thing that is illegal is leveraging a monopoly to gain market advantage.
If Google was deemed a monopoly and was caught installing GoogleOS 2.0 to any user that visits google.com, then we are sure that both Microsoft and Apple will be up in arms.
Why would you take a course in Cantonese? Most of the hardware design jobs will be based in northern China or near Shanghai. Plus, Mandarin is much easier to learn.
You'll want this book -
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots : A Bullfighter's Guide (Hardcover)
by Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, Jon Warshawsky
ISBN: 0743269098
Yeah, UNIX machine administrate themselves.
I think the words you are looking for are "in spite of".
But you're just ignoring the prompt to reboot. If the packager of the software is not confident that the software will run properly without a reboot, that says a lot about the architecture of the system and the expectation of its users.
Your list notwithstanding, a lot of installers require a reboot as part of the installation proceedure is done during the next bootup.
I've read the times article (in print!) which is much better and contains diagrams. Here is the link to the eversion.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1801070
How much trouble do you think it is required to wrap the standard unix commands in something like python or ruby? Not a whole lot because most of the information will be string processing anyway.
Beside, the standard python and ruby libraries have a ton of features to interface with the OS.
Um.. did you read the post above that said that both of the officials named are both enginners? (Aerospace and Mechanical)
Why is it cool? With MSH, what you have is really an interpreted OO language. We have dozens of them. In fact, you can wrap the basic shell commands in ruby or python, and emulate something similar (For example, both languages have introspective properties allowing you to change the text-based representation of objects). The reason shell scripting is popular is not in spite of it being text-based, but rather bacause of it.
With sh, you don't need to understand the structures behind output and input, because, guess what? It is mostly in text, delimited, formatted, whatever. Yes, it's not very advanced just piping around data with file semantics, but it works well.
Javascript is a prototype based language which actually goes beyond the typical class/instance OO paradigm.
Not all deeds that good men do are good. Many of the worst of deeds are done with the best of intentions.
dlls? Ever wondered how osa.exe improved startup times for office, it loaded all the dlls in memory?
I'm sorry you got ripped off, but you'll never get a good chinese meal at restuarants that cater for "foreigners". What you need is to visit a friend, maybe from Hong Kong or Shanghai or Taipei and ask them to show you around the local eateries. You'll be surprised at the selection and quality of the local food. (Of course, ask them to order stuff which is palatible to you, nothing you find gross)
MSG was actually introduced by the Japanese, first as a seasoning, and then in ready-made foods. Now it's just about used anywhere. (Look on your can of potato chips). In fact even if the ingredients list doesn't contain MSG it probably does. Have you seen "Hydrolized 'x' Protein" on those lists? Well, all hydrolized protein products contain MSG.