Dvorak is optimized for writing English. Most coders - like most computer users in general - do not use English
Further to that, where I am, almost all keyboards are not QWERTY, but a version of AZERTY, and that's because I'm in a non-English speaking country. It may be surprising to some, but the majority of people in the world to not speak English as their first language.
Really, how somme can bring up amazing claims from a small sample size of an essentially self-selected group, and have it posted to the front page of slashdot is beyond belief.
Google maintains that it is open to requests for information from foreign governments as long as the requests comply with U.S. laws and that they are issued within the country where the information is stored
SWIFT process the majority of fund transfers in and out of the EU.
I wish that SWIFT had acted the same way as Google. Instead they gave the US govt full access to their entire database. SWIFT is a Belgian company, and the Belgian government's investigation into the matter said that SWIFT broke Belgian (and also EU) laws in giving full access.
The Belgian government decided that they would not take action aginst SWIFT as they were between a rock and a hard place, since they coldn't comply with both the US request and EU laws.
Good on Google for standing up for peoples' rights.
The BBC is biased. They do have political and editorial agendas which they push.
I am not British, but I get BBC1, BBC1 and BBC World and I watch their news often. I also watch the news on CNN, as well as RTL, TF1, France 2 (in French). I like to compare how the same story is reported.
It's not just the single story, but the other stories they show or don't show, the frequency of the story.
When a story tickles the BBC's editorial fancy, they'll keep hammering it home, non-stop with huge amounts of the news dedicated to it, and disregard other things which other news organisations think are just as important. CNN do the same thing, but usually have a different slant on they story.
The effect is that although the individual story is reasonable, put it together with all of the other stories and commentary, and it re-enforces one view on events and is no longer just reporting on something, but trying to influence they way the audience is thinking about the subject.
The BBC does do things to spice up their news and make it a form of entertainment. I'm not saying there's anything bad in that, as long as you recognise that is what they do.
I tell you, this post and several others like it have gone a long way to explaining to me why the USA is so
Well, I'm not from the US, so you can dismiss me with the same arguments.
If the babies are dead, what's the difference? Can any of them really claim the moral high ground? I could make excuses for any of them, it still doesn't being the babies back to life.
I've used it a fair bit (it was called Raptor when it was in beta, and has been out for a while).
The most interesting thing about it is that it's actually a TOAD killer. TOAD has been around for years, and still does slightly more than Oracle's product, but has about 95% of the market. This is sort of like a MS practise of cloning a better product, realasing it for free to kill off the competition.
Anyway, I hope TOAD dies, and not just becuase I'm a DBA and hate stopping developers and non-developers causing problems in my databases, but the makers of TOAD hired the developer of TORA ( a open source TOAD clone) and killed it off - and noone else seemed to have the time/ability to carry on developing TOAD.
Why go through all this again? We *know* that if you grant unnecessary powers and simply trust that they will not be abused, they *will* be abused. Why on earth did we allow PATRIOT through?
Maybe it can't get past the dock (which is hardly a given), but it would still cause immense immediate and economic damage to blow one in a busy port.
Of course, they don't even have to plan to get that far or even dock. Imagine if they stopped under the bridge in San Francisco, just in the entrance to the bay.
On a positive note, I'm sure that Larry would get a great view of it from his office in 500 Oracle Park Way.
I think your American perspective doesn't seem to give you a good idea on how the rest of the world uses the internet.
There are only two US based sites I normally use, this one, and Oracle's.
Every other site I use is outside of the US.
I order stuff from amazon.co.uk and amazon.fr - yes, it is a US parent company, but the UK and French sites belong to their UK and French companies.
When I order dinner over the internet, what, do you think I order from somewhere in Plano Texas? I think I might be a little cold by the time it get's here.
If the US internet was cut off, I might miss/., but I've still got theregister.co.uk. And I'm sure that Oracle would quickly more their support services access to be distributed around the world.
You know, maybe the rest of the world would be better off is the US lost control and decided to split. Business would work around it, and US spam would be contained.
Whoever modded that as offtopic, I hope you get killed in meta-moderation.
Just beacuse you don't agree, doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Let me restate in clearer langauge -
The parent makes an emotive argument, saying offhand that diesel subs are a big threat and even Iran has one.
I point out that this is not correct. Subs from places like Iran could never make it close to the US. You need a alot of support for a diesel sub, they can't travel anywhere as far as a nuke.
And the topic.... the article is about sonar for detecting subs, right?
If you don't agree, or have more information, saying that a diesel sub is a threat to the US, then come up with your argument, and I'd respect you.
The biggest sub threat to the US has been, and will always be, a Russian boomer under the artic ice pack, and not any of the countries that could get a diesel sub close enough without ship support (unless you're scared of Canada).
Never mind the fact active Sonar is the best way to catch a diesel powered submarine. Never mind the fact almost every country in the world has diesel submarines, including Iran.
So what is your purpose of stating that?
Are you trying to scare people in to believing that a diesel electrics from places like Iran have the range and capability to make it to the US?
You must know full well that the range and ability of diesel electrics limit their operating areas to mostly coastal locations.
Geez... so those Iranians are going to be able to attack the US of A with their weapons of mass destruction via diesel submarines!
Very emotive.
You should consider getting a job in the White House.
What situation? Going through a green light without clairvoyantly knowing that the other car is not going to stop?
I have to agree with the parent. Looking at what other drivers are doing and being able to anticiapte is part of skillful driving.
The route I take to work every day has a large number of foreign drivers, who are less aware of the traffic rules, flow and general conditions. On one short streach of road I've witnessed many accidents, near misses, and multiple times car driving down the wrong side of the road (and the road is divided with trees in the middle).
You know what I do? Every time I go through a green traffic light, I look to make sure that the cars on the crossing road are either stopped or slowing. I generally lower my speed a little and shift into a lower gear. This way, there's very little chance that I will not be able to avoid someone running a red.
I might get hit one day, but it's not much effort to reduce the risk.
Really, it's not magic. You don't need to have pretend magically abilities to try.
Do you want me to run out into the car park and check again for you? Now, unless someone has swapped out my engine, last time I checked it was a Toyota.
Looked at wikipedia, eh? Well did you consider looking at the Lotus website instead?
At least, that's the one one sale in the US. In Europe, it also comes with the lower power 1.8 MG engine. When the MG enging is tuned upto 200hp, it tends to be very give very difry emissions and has the habit of exploding. The Toyota engine is rock solid at 190 bhp.
The reason why the Toyota engine is used is because it had already passed the US emissions test - which were too expensive and would have taken Lotus too long if they did it themselves.
The reason why a Toyota gear box is used is because it was cheaper than trying to make one themselves, and the Toyota gearbox is of high quality.
I had an earlier model Elise with the MG engine, and now the new one with the Toyota engine and gearbox, and the Toyota version is far superior.
Yes, but re-read my post, or look up the specifications of the Lotus Elise 111R, which is the model also on sale in the US.
It's not just the engine management system, but almost everything except the wheels.
The engine and gear box come as a single unit from Toyota and are installed as provided into the car. All of the bits which connect the gear box to the engine (running gear, etc) is also provided by Toyota.
It's a complete operating system (i.e. car) built around the Linux kernel (i.e. engine).
Just like the Lotus, everything inside is made by Toyota. Lotus added the shell and suspension, and that's it.
Nope, and an engine without car doesn't do much more either. That's why almost no one runs Linux without GNU.
I totally agree.
And just as Lotus don't feel the need to call it a Lotus/Toyota Elise, why should anyone feel the need to call it GNU/Linux/
We don't include "Ford" in Toyota because there are no Ford components in Toyota's cars.
So; my Lotus, which has a Toyota engine, Toyota gearbox, Toyota running gear, and a Lotus-modified Toyota enigine control system, then logically be called a Lotus/Toyota....... or is that Toyota/Lotus, since the engine (kernel) is make by Toyota....
Makes sense.... after all a car without an engine wouldn' t do much, would it?
So.... why my isn't my car called a Lotus/Toyota Elise, but instead is just called a Lotus Elise?
You bring out a straw man attack, since you're the only one who mentions restrictions on incoming people, and then you try to add on a personal attack.
So, you really think that you've got a weak argument, and can't come up with a good counter, eh?
You obviously haven't traveled enough to know what you're talking
Hmm.... you know, slashdot is a big place, and you might just be surprised by the people you come across. Do you really want to compare our travels?
Ok, for starters, I have dual nationality, speak two languages, and live over 10,000 miles from my birth place.
And you?
(So, you've been to Japan, so have I. You've worked in the US, so have I.... how many other countries have you worked, hmm...)
Correction, ALL governments restrict the real world travel of their citizens.
Where did you get that idea? Just because the US does it, then, of course, all governments do it?
Well, I'm sorry to say that you're wrong. In fact, as far as western countries go, I'd say that the US is one of the few that does stop people.
I just had a look at an Australian government site, www.smarttraveller.gov.au (I won't make it a hyprerlink, you can cut and paste if you really want to look). It has a list of countries which the Oz govt recommends that you don't visit, but as far as restrictions go?
See www.smarttraveller.gov.au/advice_meaning.html -
The department does not and cannot make decisions for people about when, where or whether they should travel.
There, can't be any more clear.
btw, "The department" is the Australian "Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade".
I get BBC 1 and BBC2, and lived in Oz for 25-odd years.
Yes, you're right. the BBC is more compareable to the govt channels than the commercial channels.
If fact alot of show and formats which are locally produced by the ABC are copies of BBC shows.
Is Match of the Day still on (in Vic showing really footy of course)? That's a clone of a longer running BBC show of the same name, with similar segments and even the same theme tune!
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If nobody pirated their games, there would be no need for the DRM. Pirates are at least as responsible for DRM as media companies. So if you don't like DRM, then stop pirating games, music, and movies. You're just making life difficult for paying customers.
Oh my! This is one of the most silly things I've read here all day.
Pirates are the only ones NOT affected by this DRM. And pirates don't care.
The only people affected are the poor paying customers. The pirates have a far better playing experience than the legitmate customers.
Do you think that if banks started charging people $5 every time they saw a teller to cover losses from robberies, that all bank robbers would think "Hmm... that $5 charge is too much....since I'm part of the problem, I'll become a Java programmer instead." ?
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Dvorak is optimized for writing English. Most coders - like most computer users in general - do not use English
Further to that, where I am, almost all keyboards are not QWERTY, but a version
of AZERTY, and that's because I'm in a non-English speaking country. It may be
surprising to some, but the majority of people in the world to not speak English
as their first language.
Really, how somme can bring up amazing claims from a small sample size of
an essentially self-selected group, and have it posted to the front page of
slashdot is beyond belief.
It must be a slow news day....
What??!!?1one
You're telling me that there are more countries in the world than the US and Canada?
And these other countries are showing movies before they're released in the US?
Terrorists!
Can we bomb them?
Google maintains that it is open to requests for information from foreign governments as long as the requests comply with U.S. laws and that they are issued within the country where the information is stored
SWIFT process the majority of fund transfers in and out of the EU.
I wish that SWIFT had acted the same way as Google. Instead they gave the US govt full access to their entire database. SWIFT is a Belgian company, and the Belgian government's investigation into the matter said that SWIFT broke Belgian (and also EU) laws in giving full access.
The Belgian government decided that they would not take action aginst SWIFT as they were between a rock and a hard place, since they coldn't comply with both the US request and EU laws.
Good on Google for standing up for peoples' rights.
The BBC is biased. They do have political and editorial agendas which they push.
I am not British, but I get BBC1, BBC1 and BBC World and I watch their news often. I also watch the news on CNN, as well as RTL, TF1, France 2 (in French). I like to compare how the same story is reported.
It's not just the single story, but the other stories they show or don't show, the frequency of the story.
When a story tickles the BBC's editorial fancy, they'll keep hammering it home, non-stop with huge amounts of the news dedicated to it, and disregard other things which other news organisations think are just as important. CNN do the same thing, but usually have a different slant on they story.
The effect is that although the individual story is reasonable, put it together with all of the other stories and commentary, and it re-enforces one view on events and is no longer just reporting on something, but trying to influence they way the audience is thinking about the subject.
The BBC does do things to spice up their news and make it a form of entertainment. I'm not saying there's anything bad in that, as long as you recognise that is what they do.
I tell you, this post and several others like it have gone a long way to explaining to me why the USA is so
Well, I'm not from the US, so you can dismiss me with the same arguments.
I have an even simpler definition for you: ....
they are decried as evil baby killers
How about this, it's even simpler!
Those that kill babies, are Evil Baby Killers.
Hezbollah, Israel, drunken drivers, depressed mothers, disgruntled fathers.
If the babies are dead, what's the difference? Can any of them really claim
the moral high ground? I could make excuses for any of them, it still doesn't
being the babies back to life.
Reagan did far worse, and lied, etc., but he was creamated with honors.
... as long we don't have to wait until they're dead to have them cremated....
Well, that sound fair. I'm all for that then....
And here's an oldie, but a goody....
What's the difference between a Belgian and an American?
An American showers every day and goes shopping once a week.
(My wife is Belgian, and she agrees that it's funny and true.)
Slashdot badly needs a way to moderate articles themselves, and "-1 Conflict of Interest" [...] and "-1 Excess Pagination"
That's a good idea, which many people have expressed before.
In fact, we sort of have the ability to do it - tagging!
Currently, the tags I see are :
[+] vista, stupid, microsoft, vaporware (tagging beta)
Now, if the article was tagged with something like "RevenueWhore", then everyone would be able to spot it and skip it.
I know that I normally read the comments first before looking at the article, so this would stop me from visiting the site.
I've used it a fair bit (it was called Raptor when it was in beta, and has been out for a while).
The most interesting thing about it is that it's actually a TOAD killer. TOAD has been around for years, and still does slightly more than Oracle's product, but has about 95% of the market. This is sort of like a MS practise of cloning a better product, realasing it for free to kill off the competition.
Anyway, I hope TOAD dies, and not just becuase I'm a DBA and hate stopping developers and non-developers causing problems in my databases, but the makers of TOAD hired the developer of TORA ( a open source TOAD clone) and killed it off - and noone else seemed to have the time/ability to carry on developing TOAD.
Why go through all this again? We *know* that if you grant unnecessary powers and simply trust that they will not be abused, they *will* be abused. Why on earth did we allow PATRIOT through?
I have one word for you -
"Baaaa"
Maybe it can't get past the dock (which is hardly a given), but it would still cause immense immediate and economic damage to blow one in a busy port.
Of course, they don't even have to plan to get that far or even dock. Imagine if they stopped under the bridge in San Francisco, just in the entrance to the bay.
On a positive note, I'm sure that Larry would get a great view of it from his office in 500 Oracle Park Way.
I think your American perspective doesn't seem to give you a good idea on how the rest of the world uses the internet.
/., but I've still got theregister.co.uk. And I'm sure that Oracle would quickly more their support services access to be distributed around the world.
There are only two US based sites I normally use, this one, and Oracle's.
Every other site I use is outside of the US.
I order stuff from amazon.co.uk and amazon.fr - yes, it is a US parent company, but the UK and French sites belong to their UK and French companies.
When I order dinner over the internet, what, do you think I order from somewhere in Plano Texas? I think I might be a little cold by the time it get's here.
If the US internet was cut off, I might miss
You know, maybe the rest of the world would be better off is the US lost control and decided to split. Business would work around it, and US spam would be contained.
Whoever modded that as offtopic, I hope you get killed in meta-moderation.
Just beacuse you don't agree, doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Let me restate in clearer langauge -
The parent makes an emotive argument, saying offhand that diesel subs are a big threat and even Iran has one.
I point out that this is not correct. Subs from places like Iran could never make it close to the US. You need a alot of support for a diesel sub, they can't travel anywhere as far as a nuke.
And the topic.... the article is about sonar for detecting subs, right?
If you don't agree, or have more information, saying that a diesel sub is a threat to the US, then come up with your argument, and I'd respect you.
The biggest sub threat to the US has been, and will always be, a Russian boomer under the artic ice pack, and not any of the countries that could get a diesel sub close enough without ship support (unless you're scared of Canada).
Never mind the fact active Sonar is the best way to catch a diesel powered submarine. Never mind the fact almost every country in the world has diesel submarines, including Iran.
So what is your purpose of stating that?
Are you trying to scare people in to believing that a diesel electrics from places like Iran have the range and capability to make it to the US?
You must know full well that the range and ability of diesel electrics limit their operating areas to mostly coastal locations.
Geez... so those Iranians are going to be able to attack the US of A with their weapons of mass destruction via diesel submarines!
Very emotive.
You should consider getting a job in the White House.
What situation? Going through a green light without clairvoyantly knowing that the other car is not going to stop?
I have to agree with the parent. Looking at what other drivers are doing and being able to anticiapte is part of skillful driving.
The route I take to work every day has a large number of foreign drivers, who are less aware of the traffic rules, flow and general conditions. On one short streach of road I've witnessed many accidents, near misses, and multiple times car driving down the wrong side of the road (and the road is divided with trees in the middle).
You know what I do? Every time I go through a green traffic light, I look to make sure that the cars on the crossing road are either stopped or slowing. I generally lower my speed a little and shift into a lower gear. This way, there's very little chance that I will not be able to avoid someone running a red.
I might get hit one day, but it's not much effort to reduce the risk.
Really, it's not magic. You don't need to have pretend magically abilities to try.
Do you want me to run out into the car park and check again for you? Now, unless someone has swapped out my engine, last time I checked it was a Toyota.
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Looked at wikipedia, eh? Well did you consider looking at the Lotus website instead?
Try this -
http://www.grouplotus.com/car/car_tech_specs.php?
Click on the Elise 111R, that's the one on sale with the Toyota powerplant.
Ok, Lotus pays Toyota, that's fine.
SuSE pays GNU the price they ask - nothing.
There's no difference there.
Now, if GNU insisted that any technology which used a significant portion of GNU software, that it then be called GNU/Whatever, then fine.
But they don't.
So there's no point on harping on by anyone why it SHOULD be called GNU/Linux.
True, It's the 2ZZ-GE.
At least, that's the one one sale in the US. In Europe, it also comes with the lower power 1.8 MG engine. When the MG enging is tuned upto 200hp, it tends to be very give very difry emissions and has the habit of exploding. The Toyota engine is rock solid at 190 bhp.
The reason why the Toyota engine is used is because it had already passed the US emissions test - which were too expensive and would have taken Lotus too long if they did it themselves.
The reason why a Toyota gear box is used is because it was cheaper than trying to make one themselves, and the Toyota gearbox is of high quality.
I had an earlier model Elise with the MG engine, and now the new one with the Toyota engine and gearbox, and the Toyota version is far superior.
Yes, but re-read my post, or look up the specifications of the Lotus Elise 111R, which is the model also on sale in the US.
It's not just the engine management system, but almost everything except the wheels.
The engine and gear box come as a single unit from
Toyota and are installed as provided into the car. All
of the bits which connect the gear box to the engine
(running gear, etc) is also provided by Toyota.
It's a complete operating system (i.e. car) built around the Linux kernel (i.e. engine).
Just like the Lotus, everything inside is made by Toyota. Lotus added the shell and suspension, and that's it.
Nope, and an engine without car doesn't do much more either. That's why almost no one runs Linux without GNU.
I totally agree.
And just as Lotus don't feel the need to call it a Lotus/Toyota Elise, why should anyone feel the need to call it GNU/Linux/
We don't include "Ford" in Toyota because there are no Ford components in Toyota's cars.
So; my Lotus, which has a Toyota engine, Toyota gearbox, Toyota running gear, and a Lotus-modified Toyota enigine control system, then logically be called a Lotus/Toyota
Makes sense.... after all a car without an engine wouldn' t do much, would it?
So.... why my isn't my car called a Lotus/Toyota Elise, but instead is just called a Lotus Elise?
Oh, I know why
Yep, natd is right.
Maybe in 10 years time IT will be the big earner again, but by then I'll be a million bucks ahead of that poor post-grad flipping burgers at McD's.
Now, I left Australia about 10 years ago, and I've been contracting around Europe for the last 8 years, getting AUD$350-$400k/year.
So, while you may be ahead of somone at MickeyD's, you're $2,000,000 behind me and, if I stop now, you'll need about 25 more years just to catch up.
You still think that an auto electrician is better than the opportunities available in IT?
Amazing.
You bring out a straw man attack, since you're the only one who mentions restrictions on incoming people, and then you try to add on a personal attack.
So, you really think that you've got a weak argument, and can't come up with a good counter, eh?
You obviously haven't traveled enough to know what you're talking
Hmm.... you know, slashdot is a big place, and you might just be surprised by the people you come across. Do you really want to compare our travels?
Ok, for starters, I have dual nationality, speak two languages, and live over 10,000 miles from my birth place.
And you?
(So, you've been to Japan, so have I. You've worked in the US, so have I.... how many other countries have you worked, hmm...)
(Right, so what is "traveled enough", anyway)?
Correction, ALL governments restrict the real world travel of their citizens.
Where did you get that idea? Just because the US does it, then, of course, all governments do it?
Well, I'm sorry to say that you're wrong. In fact, as far as western countries go, I'd say that the US is one of the few that does stop people.
I just had a look at an Australian government site, www.smarttraveller.gov.au (I won't make it a hyprerlink, you can cut and paste if you really want to look). It has a list of countries which the Oz govt recommends that you don't visit, but as far as restrictions go?
See www.smarttraveller.gov.au/advice_meaning.html -
The department does not and cannot make decisions for people about when, where or whether they should travel.
There, can't be any more clear.
btw, "The department" is the Australian "Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade".
I get BBC 1 and BBC2, and lived in Oz for 25-odd years.
Yes, you're right. the BBC is more compareable to the govt channels than the commercial channels.
If fact alot of show and formats which are locally produced by the ABC are copies of BBC shows.
Is Match of the Day still on (in Vic showing really footy of course)? That's a clone of a longer running BBC show of the same name, with similar segments and even the same theme tune!
If nobody pirated their games, there would be no need for the DRM. Pirates are at least as responsible for DRM as media companies. So if you don't like DRM, then stop pirating games, music, and movies. You're just making life difficult for paying customers.
Oh my! This is one of the most silly things I've read here all day.
Pirates are the only ones NOT affected by this DRM. And pirates don't care.
The only people affected are the poor paying customers. The pirates have a far better playing experience than the legitmate customers.
Do you think that if banks started charging people $5 every time they saw a teller to cover losses from robberies, that all bank robbers would think "Hmm... that $5 charge is too much....since I'm part of the problem, I'll become a Java programmer instead." ?