There are different feelings about it because it means different things. There's economic globalization, political globalization, military globalization, information glabalization etc...
Those whose power relies on misinformation or lack of information (hello Talibans, China & North Korea) hate information globalization. People on the left hate economic globalization because corporations use it as a way to escape the law (abuse worker or pollute where it is legal or tolerated). etc etc etc...
In the end globalization can be the greatest or the worst thing depending of how it is made. If it gives big corporations gaining more power, cultures distruction and uniformisation, then it is a horrible thing. If it means education and cultural growth, then it is good. It is all what we do of it. And right now, it just seems to benefit Coca Cola, Microsoft and Sony more than the poor kids in Manila.
Actually it is plausible, if an engine fell before the plane crashed it is very well possible that it is an accident. Terrorist usually don't crash the plane by detaching the plane's engine.
On the other hand the likelyness that two major aircrash happens on NYC itself in a 2 months time is very very low...
First of all, we have a term for countries where only the police and military are armed: police states
Yeah, like European countries are police state (lol). USA is much more a police state than most western countries. You have much more freedom in Holland than in USA (and that's just one counter example amongst many others).
If you start banning things that are not bad by themselves (people do harm, things don't), where will it end?
[sarcams]True. So lets legalize the sale and manufacture of nukes and biological and chemical weapons. After all anthrax doesn't kill people, people kill people.[/sarcasm]
Sometimes people will realize that a bit of freedom as to be given away if we want to be alive to exercise some of it. Deads have no use freedom.
It cannot be free because to be trustable you have to check real world IDs, certificates, etc... this paperworks need to be done by someone and I doubt that someone will want to do it for free. Paperworks is not as fun as hacking the kernel !
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There's now a command to load tables from master in replication mode... this is really great as having to set up a slave requires you to stop the master, do a backup, load it into the slave, then start both databases... being able to get the slave ready and sync'ed in just one command is great.
Well 1 year ago no one in his right mind would touch PostgreSQL as it was buggy and slow as hell. Now it has improved (but could improve some more...)
At the same time MySQL was always rock solid and fast as hell but missing lots of features. They are improving on that too.
In the end we only have two databases with radical different philosophies - one rich but bloated and one fast but poor. Both are overcoming their weak points. In the end they'll be pretty close in spead and functionnality...
I never hear much about "alternative" commercial databases like Frontbase or SOLID Server... what good are they ? Did anyone tried them in a web environement ?
InnoDB does also transactions... it also offers row-level locking which improve performance under high-loads. There's no good reason to use BDB tables anymore.
Please define what is "more free". MySQL cost exactly 0.00 $. The source is available for anyone to use, compile and modify at will. That's all that matters to me.
Yeah - it is so much better to make sure that everybody and their dog is armed to the teeth... I even propose that the government subsidise guns so that even the poorest people can go around with the latest Glock. The streets will be so much safer this way...
It is useful - many countries have stopped manufacturing mines and destroyed the stocks they owned. Even if small quantities are manufactured in secret (much like chemical and bio warfare which are forbidden), the dissemination in third world countries (which is were land mines are used and cause so many injuries and death) would be greatly reduced.
What you are saying is that because making murder illegal doesn't stop murders, then we should keep it legal. I'm sorry, I don't buy your logic...
Maybe before trying to get rid of existing landmines, the US could finally sign the treaty banning landmines. Along China, they are the last to oppose banning of landmines. It is nice to know that the profit of the US military industry is more important than stoping more kids of loosing one leg (or their life for the less lucky ones).
You mean Saddam is a dictator because he wasn't elected with a majority of votes ? Yeah... so did Bush.
US is starving both Iraq and Cuba to death, but I tell you, it is not Saddam or Castro who are hungry. When 5000 people dies in the WTC the US mourns, when ten times more kids die in Cuba or Iraq of lack of availability of medicine and food because of foreign US policy, not a single American gives a damn.
When Pinochet with the help of the CIA became a dictator and started mass torture and killing of political opponents, we didn't hear the US protest either.
Invasion of Iraq ? Nobody but the brits will support that. Most other western nations oppose the US policy regarding Iraq and are in favor of lifting sanctions (which, just like Cuba, just kills more civilians than anything else).
US won't do anything against Iraq because everyone knows Saddam is not responsible for what happened, and there would be massive internationnal oposition.
On the other hand, nobody likes the Talibans very much...
What is ridiculous is this whole "war on terrorism". Yeah like you can actually use cruise missiles against a bunch of people scatered around the world. Bombing Afghanistan will not kill Bin Laden, just a bunch of poor people. Beside, after the war with the Soviets and the civil war, there's hardly anything left to bomb in there anyway. They'll just make the rumble bounce.
The war on terrorism is the ideal blanket for another dictatorship to happen. Everyone can be a terrorist, especially everyone who does not conform to the norm. 1984, here we go !
Missiles are nice but not very efficient. Expensive, easely detected. It is much more effective to have a nuke moved around to the target (preferably in a high place like the top of a building) and have it detonated from there. You can detect a flying ICBM, but it is much harder to detect a nuke into a big crate going around in your average truck (briefcase, as it is said the critical mass can fit into a plain briefcase).
...because if Middle East countries had decided do nuke US, they wouldn't need to do such a complicated scheme to get nukes. Pakistan already has nukes. No need to take over the ones in Israel...
With 8 of those drives (which would fit into a regular PC with RAID controler) you could finally reach a Terabyte. Gee, now no point in compressing those CDs into MP3, might as well keep them in clean WAVE files:)
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There are different feelings about it because it means different things. There's economic globalization, political globalization, military globalization, information glabalization etc...
Those whose power relies on misinformation or lack of information (hello Talibans, China & North Korea) hate information globalization. People on the left hate economic globalization because corporations use it as a way to escape the law (abuse worker or pollute where it is legal or tolerated). etc etc etc...
In the end globalization can be the greatest or the worst thing depending of how it is made. If it gives big corporations gaining more power, cultures distruction and uniformisation, then it is a horrible thing. If it means education and cultural growth, then it is good. It is all what we do of it. And right now, it just seems to benefit Coca Cola, Microsoft and Sony more than the poor kids in Manila.
Actually it is plausible, if an engine fell before the plane crashed it is very well possible that it is an accident. Terrorist usually don't crash the plane by detaching the plane's engine.
On the other hand the likelyness that two major aircrash happens on NYC itself in a 2 months time is very very low...
First of all, we have a term for countries where only the police and military are armed: police states
Yeah, like European countries are police state (lol). USA is much more a police state than most western countries. You have much more freedom in Holland than in USA (and that's just one counter example amongst many others).
If you start banning things that are not bad by themselves (people do harm, things don't), where will it end?
[sarcams]True. So lets legalize the sale and manufacture of nukes and biological and chemical weapons. After all anthrax doesn't kill people, people kill people.[/sarcasm]
Sometimes people will realize that a bit of freedom as to be given away if we want to be alive to exercise some of it. Deads have no use freedom.
What are you worried about, astronauts infecting the Moon people or the Martians? Maybe mass rape and genocide of the Venusians?
Don't forget : everything that goes up also goes down...
It cannot be free because to be trustable you have to check real world IDs, certificates, etc... this paperworks need to be done by someone and I doubt that someone will want to do it for free. Paperworks is not as fun as hacking the kernel !
There's now a command to load tables from master in replication mode... this is really great as having to set up a slave requires you to stop the master, do a backup, load it into the slave, then start both databases... being able to get the slave ready and sync'ed in just one command is great.
Yes it does, if you install and use the latest InnoDB table handler (see www.innodb.com )
Well 1 year ago no one in his right mind would touch PostgreSQL as it was buggy and slow as hell. Now it has improved (but could improve some more...)
At the same time MySQL was always rock solid and fast as hell but missing lots of features. They are improving on that too.
In the end we only have two databases with radical different philosophies - one rich but bloated and one fast but poor. Both are overcoming their weak points. In the end they'll be pretty close in spead and functionnality...
I never hear much about "alternative" commercial databases like Frontbase or SOLID Server... what good are they ? Did anyone tried them in a web environement ?
InnoDB does also transactions... it also offers row-level locking which improve performance under high-loads. There's no good reason to use BDB tables anymore.
BTW : Slashdot runs on InnoDB tables.
is more free
Please define what is "more free". MySQL cost exactly 0.00 $. The source is available for anyone to use, compile and modify at will. That's all that matters to me.
Foreign keys are supported since yesterday with the InnoDB table handler (check www.innodb.com for more infos).
Yeah - it is so much better to make sure that everybody and their dog is armed to the teeth... I even propose that the government subsidise guns so that even the poorest people can go around with the latest Glock. The streets will be so much safer this way...
It is useful - many countries have stopped manufacturing mines and destroyed the stocks they owned. Even if small quantities are manufactured in secret (much like chemical and bio warfare which are forbidden), the dissemination in third world countries (which is were land mines are used and cause so many injuries and death) would be greatly reduced.
What you are saying is that because making murder illegal doesn't stop murders, then we should keep it legal. I'm sorry, I don't buy your logic...
Maybe before trying to get rid of existing landmines, the US could finally sign the treaty banning landmines. Along China, they are the last to oppose banning of landmines. It is nice to know that the profit of the US military industry is more important than stoping more kids of loosing one leg (or their life for the less lucky ones).
You mean Saddam is a dictator because he wasn't elected with a majority of votes ? Yeah... so did Bush.
US is starving both Iraq and Cuba to death, but I tell you, it is not Saddam or Castro who are hungry. When 5000 people dies in the WTC the US mourns, when ten times more kids die in Cuba or Iraq of lack of availability of medicine and food because of foreign US policy, not a single American gives a damn.
When Pinochet with the help of the CIA became a dictator and started mass torture and killing of political opponents, we didn't hear the US protest either.
Invasion of Iraq ? Nobody but the brits will support that. Most other western nations oppose the US policy regarding Iraq and are in favor of lifting sanctions (which, just like Cuba, just kills more civilians than anything else).
US won't do anything against Iraq because everyone knows Saddam is not responsible for what happened, and there would be massive internationnal oposition.
On the other hand, nobody likes the Talibans very much...
I have one ! The original box, Amiga version :)
What is ridiculous is this whole "war on terrorism". Yeah like you can actually use cruise missiles against a bunch of people scatered around the world. Bombing Afghanistan will not kill Bin Laden, just a bunch of poor people. Beside, after the war with the Soviets and the civil war, there's hardly anything left to bomb in there anyway. They'll just make the rumble bounce.
The war on terrorism is the ideal blanket for another dictatorship to happen. Everyone can be a terrorist, especially everyone who does not conform to the norm. 1984, here we go !
Missiles are nice but not very efficient. Expensive, easely detected. It is much more effective to have a nuke moved around to the target (preferably in a high place like the top of a building) and have it detonated from there. You can detect a flying ICBM, but it is much harder to detect a nuke into a big crate going around in your average truck (briefcase, as it is said the critical mass can fit into a plain briefcase).
...because if Middle East countries had decided do nuke US, they wouldn't need to do such a complicated scheme to get nukes. Pakistan already has nukes. No need to take over the ones in Israel...
www.gnupg.org
NOT made in the USA... open-source, compatible with PGP.
With 8 of those drives (which would fit into a regular PC with RAID controler) you could finally reach a Terabyte. Gee, now no point in compressing those CDs into MP3, might as well keep them in clean WAVE files :)
"The Kyoto protocol will arm US economy"
yeah yeah right...