You know, Israel has defied the UN for/decades/, and continues to get away with it. It's nice to have powerful American friends, and ones who have a magic cloak against hypocrisy.
But when you want to do something illegal, you can just claim you are enforcing UN resolutions. Like this: ram a ridiculous law through the UN, then enforce it at home while blaming the UN.
You should really read Unit Testing in Java: How the Tests Drive the Code. XP is about small, direct steps, and when these are done with tests first, they greatly improve the quality of the code. You can draw all the big, fancy, pie-in-the-sky diagrams you want, and still get sloppy code.
Apparently, all you have to do is present something that looks like an ID, and claim it is one. The officer shrugs, thinks "Oh, well, what do I know?", and waves you on. Fun.
Apple has been contibuting to GCC too you know. Objective C support, PowerPC optimizations, etc (scroll down to optimizations). Another advantage of OSS. The improvements on their hardware were due to their own efforts, and much more radical than the increases to x86 Linux.
Unfortunately, on the Intel side, Apple is going with the Intel compiler, probably because it's faster than GCC Intel. No OSS. But maybe Apple doesn't need to contribute to that because Intel will keep doing good work.
The whole point of a lawsuit, after all, is to try to prove that somebody did something illegal. In fact, if the EFF loses this case, it will establish a precedent that what AT&T did is not illegal.
Go on, go on... I know you can do it! The next logical step is... If the EFF/wins/ this case, it establishes what AT&T did was illegal! And possibly even the order itself! Maybe that's what the EFF is trying to do! Now you can argue that they do not have the track record to do this, but I can't see how you miss the whole point of their lawsuit... and get modded +5.
There's the question of the wisdom of arbitrarily curbing the Executive's constituional authority, which would make it more difficult for the Executive to fulfill its constitutional responsiblities.
Nothing arbitrary about it. Either the Executive has that power, or not. The courts tend to decide such matters. You seem to be trying to create grey areas where there are none. And dropping the word "constitutional" repeatedly in your statement seemingly supporting the Executive tapping whoever they want does not show it has that power. What next, the Executive can do whatever they want, no balances, no protections, no laws?
I hope that the EFF does lose this suit, thus bolstering Bush's case for Executive freedom of action in military matters during wartime
Oh good god, that/is/ what you're "arguing"! Sad when statements like these come from Americans, and then we tell the rest of the world that we're going to teach them how to run Republics, and what freedom is about. So the prez can tap whoever he likes without court approval? How about jail whoever he likes (if he calls them terrorists, of course)? Indefinitely? And as this DOJ has argued, these terrorists will just use lawyers to pass messages to other terrorists, so we deny them lawyers, too? In fact, we can't let anyone know we have them, so we take them in secret, and don't even admit we have them (of course, real terrorists would notice that their operatives have been "disappeared"... but don't confuse me with logic!). You know what would help the war? Internment camps! Hey, worked for us before! Let's jail everyone of the ethnicity we declare war on this week (of course, war wasn't really declared... but don't stop me, I'm on a roll!), and their lawyers, and anyone else who supports these terrorists... like those kids with their anti-war signs, and their anti-Bush signs. Hell, let's jail anyone with anti-Bush signs! You either with us or against us, ya know! Why does this all sound so familiar, though? I feel like I've read this all before... Oh, right, those history books, in the chapter usually titled "The Start of Great Police States".
You raid a cell in Pakistan, find a U.S. phone number on a computer there. In criminal justice terms, that's not probable cause to tap a phone line.
Don't be silly. Of course it is. Especially with our secret, rubber-stamp FISA court. The least we can do is keep track of what the Executive is doing. What next? A secret Executive? Nevermind, don't reply, it will just depress me.
AT&T is expected to ask to see the court-issued warrant. Just like you would, when the police come to your door and ask to turn your house upside-down to protect everyone from terrorists.
Simply providing their search engine to China in censored form... isn't evil. What is evil is the Chinese governments [sic] restrictions on free speech...
Simply providing Nazi Germany with guns isn't evil. What is evil is the Nazi government's use of those guns.
No, Apple actually did design the bookshelf computer back in the 80's, and it was an ingenious design (separate processor, drive, graphics, etc modules). Read AppleDesign; it's hard to get but can be found in some libraries. Practically pornography, and will make you weep at the wonderful designs that never made it out of their design shop.
Who cares if it's non-renewable? As we use the most cost-effective resource, we discover others. Even the sun is non-renewable on long enough time-scales.
I'm more interested in the side effects, ie pollution. But your pet technology doesn't fare so well there, so I've noticed all the mindless slashbot "nuclear is cool!" crowd doesn't like to mention it.
An objective assessment of pros and cons serves everyone well, including your tech if it happens to be the most effective.
The airline's insurance company does not want to pay out, neither do passengers want to die. Therefore, they will make efforts to be safe and reliable in order to get more business. It might indeed raise the price of a ticket on a reputable airline, but that price is paid only by those who choose to use that service. No tax-supported bureaucracy, no regulatory overhead. The actual "costs" to "society" are reduced dramatically, and there are more resources available to do something productive.
That sounds great in theory, but so did a lot of things that fell apart in practice. In particular, you are assuming airline executives know exactly how much to cut in order to be perfectly competitive, the execution will be perfect, and they will never be tempted to cut just a bit more to survive against a competitor. Otherwise, you are assuming that anybody would want to be on the planes of the airline that does go too far and is eliminated by "the invisible hand of the perfect market". Finally, you assume that the market does not tend towards a monopoly. Unfortunately, history and present day are littered with counter-examples to your assumptions.
Interestingly, nothing in your post addresses the study under discussion, which itself finds yet another hole in "perfect market" theories.
If that is your sig, please correct it. The "your" should be "you're". Write it all out, as "you are", if it confuses you.
NASA space flight centres are down south for reasons of pork barrel politics and proximity to the equator. It is much harder to recruit for those, than say, Greenbelt.
Never heard of the other place you hoped would make some kind of point.
Despite the same-sex-marriage amendment that got passed recently, I have found people generally to be very accepting of my sexual orientation -- in greater proportions to the people I knew when I lived in Washington, DC or Pittsburgh.
That's a pretty big despite. Not to mention, a pretty hard to believe statement about those cities. Are you sure it was Pittsburgh and DC you were living in, and not burbia like Greensburg and NoVA?
There's a 100% gay-friendly church in a nearby town...
Of course, there are gay-friendly churches in the same town in these cities...
There's a thriving arts center in my community with programs that rival most things I saw when I lived in cities (Washington, DC and Pittsburgh) or on visits to the coasts.
Ha ha ha! Don't be silly! You are trying to pit a rural Ohio "arts centre" against the Andy Warhol museum, DCAC and MoMA?! I'm sorry you lost your job and your pet, but did you have to lose your mind, too? I suppose next you will tell us your local ChuckeeCheeze beats out 2 Amys, and all the cuisine these cities have to offer? I can understand you are trying to feel better about having to move out of the city, but let's not go crazy! And what is up with the mods?
Actually, I see a lot of commonality, summarized by the oft expressed comment:
Information wants to be free.
The GPL preserves that freedom. Maybe your understanding of people here being against copyright is wrong; maybe people here want a more permissive copyright.
(Maybe also people here are angry that kids can go to jail on the one hand, while corporations roam free for much worse. Maybe also people here have many different views, and one can not compare different views of different people and call them hypocritical.)
I hate to break it to you, but the only country that cared about self-determination for Tibet was India. A couple of years ago, when India gave that up in exchage for a border and trade deal, Tibet was officially done.
The Chinese haven't been communist in a long time. Just old, self-serving dictators hiding behind a flag. Happens in a lot of places.
Whether or not the average/. libertarian sensibility likes it or not, governments have done many important things that private enterprise would never have done, from major medical research, to the internet, to all spaceflight to date.
Actually, the specialized skills you mention being needed for a game are available in programmer "collectives" like Ambrosia (see my post to parent).
So if you have a great idea for a game, but need others skills, you can probably find people willing to help in collectives like these. Or make one of your own.
These guys aren't billionaires, but they say they make a very nice life, and have fun at it.
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You /want/ the UN to invade countries?
/decades/, and continues to get away with it. It's nice to have powerful American friends, and ones who have a magic cloak against hypocrisy.
You know, Israel has defied the UN for
But when you want to do something illegal, you can just claim you are enforcing UN resolutions. Like this: ram a ridiculous law through the UN, then enforce it at home while blaming the UN.
You should really read Unit Testing in Java: How the Tests Drive the Code. XP is about small, direct steps, and when these are done with tests first, they greatly improve the quality of the code. You can draw all the big, fancy, pie-in-the-sky diagrams you want, and still get sloppy code.
Apparently, all you have to do is present something that looks like an ID, and claim it is one. The officer shrugs, thinks "Oh, well, what do I know?", and waves you on. Fun.
Macs aren't great for upgrading their hardware.
???
Apple has been contibuting to GCC too you know. Objective C support, PowerPC optimizations, etc (scroll down to optimizations). Another advantage of OSS. The improvements on their hardware were due to their own efforts, and much more radical than the increases to x86 Linux.
Unfortunately, on the Intel side, Apple is going with the Intel compiler, probably because it's faster than GCC Intel. No OSS. But maybe Apple doesn't need to contribute to that because Intel will keep doing good work.
It's not as if J2EE is the only way to do web application development with Java. Some times a Mack truck is needed, most of the time a pickup will do.
The whole point of a lawsuit, after all, is to try to prove that somebody did something illegal. In fact, if the EFF loses this case, it will establish a precedent that what AT&T did is not illegal.
Go on, go on... I know you can do it! The next logical step is... If the EFF /wins/ this case, it establishes what AT&T did was illegal! And possibly even the order itself! Maybe that's what the EFF is trying to do! Now you can argue that they do not have the track record to do this, but I can't see how you miss the whole point of their lawsuit... and get modded +5.
There's the question of the wisdom of arbitrarily curbing the Executive's constituional authority, which would make it more difficult for the Executive to fulfill its constitutional responsiblities.
Nothing arbitrary about it. Either the Executive has that power, or not. The courts tend to decide such matters. You seem to be trying to create grey areas where there are none. And dropping the word "constitutional" repeatedly in your statement seemingly supporting the Executive tapping whoever they want does not show it has that power. What next, the Executive can do whatever they want, no balances, no protections, no laws?
I hope that the EFF does lose this suit, thus bolstering Bush's case for Executive freedom of action in military matters during wartime
Oh good god, that /is/ what you're "arguing"! Sad when statements like these come from Americans, and then we tell the rest of the world that we're going to teach them how to run Republics, and what freedom is about. So the prez can tap whoever he likes without court approval? How about jail whoever he likes (if he calls them terrorists, of course)? Indefinitely? And as this DOJ has argued, these terrorists will just use lawyers to pass messages to other terrorists, so we deny them lawyers, too? In fact, we can't let anyone know we have them, so we take them in secret, and don't even admit we have them (of course, real terrorists would notice that their operatives have been "disappeared"... but don't confuse me with logic!). You know what would help the war? Internment camps! Hey, worked for us before! Let's jail everyone of the ethnicity we declare war on this week (of course, war wasn't really declared... but don't stop me, I'm on a roll!), and their lawyers, and anyone else who supports these terrorists... like those kids with their anti-war signs, and their anti-Bush signs. Hell, let's jail anyone with anti-Bush signs! You either with us or against us, ya know! Why does this all sound so familiar, though? I feel like I've read this all before... Oh, right, those history books, in the chapter usually titled "The Start of Great Police States".
You raid a cell in Pakistan, find a U.S. phone number on a computer there. In criminal justice terms, that's not probable cause to tap a phone line.
Don't be silly. Of course it is. Especially with our secret, rubber-stamp FISA court. The least we can do is keep track of what the Executive is doing. What next? A secret Executive? Nevermind, don't reply, it will just depress me.
Talk a deep breath, and think before you post.
There were no warrants. That's the whole problem.
AT&T is expected to ask to see the court-issued warrant. Just like you would, when the police come to your door and ask to turn your house upside-down to protect everyone from terrorists.
Uh, wouldn't broadband in your neighborhood affect all remote sites equally?
Nice comment. A ton of Disney "Short Films" appeared on the iTunes home screen yesterday.
Jobs has somehow managed to make his small companies rival the capabilities of Sony. Convergence and all that.
This guy is one hell of a CEO.
Simply providing their search engine to China in censored form... isn't evil. What is evil is the Chinese governments [sic] restrictions on free speech...
Simply providing Nazi Germany with guns isn't evil. What is evil is the Nazi government's use of those guns.
Really?
Lucky you. I got my library to buy that book, wish I had, too. Its price is mirroring AAPL right now.
If you find that picture, maybe provide a link to a scan? It was really cool...
It was Apple.
No, Apple actually did design the bookshelf computer back in the 80's, and it was an ingenious design (separate processor, drive, graphics, etc modules). Read AppleDesign; it's hard to get but can be found in some libraries. Practically pornography, and will make you weep at the wonderful designs that never made it out of their design shop.
Who cares if it's non-renewable? As we use the most cost-effective resource, we discover others. Even the sun is non-renewable on long enough time-scales.
I'm more interested in the side effects, ie pollution. But your pet technology doesn't fare so well there, so I've noticed all the mindless slashbot "nuclear is cool!" crowd doesn't like to mention it.
An objective assessment of pros and cons serves everyone well, including your tech if it happens to be the most effective.
The airline's insurance company does not want to pay out, neither do passengers want to die. Therefore, they will make efforts to be safe and reliable in order to get more business. It might indeed raise the price of a ticket on a reputable airline, but that price is paid only by those who choose to use that service. No tax-supported bureaucracy, no regulatory overhead. The actual "costs" to "society" are reduced dramatically, and there are more resources available to do something productive.
That sounds great in theory, but so did a lot of things that fell apart in practice. In particular, you are assuming airline executives know exactly how much to cut in order to be perfectly competitive, the execution will be perfect, and they will never be tempted to cut just a bit more to survive against a competitor. Otherwise, you are assuming that anybody would want to be on the planes of the airline that does go too far and is eliminated by "the invisible hand of the perfect market". Finally, you assume that the market does not tend towards a monopoly. Unfortunately, history and present day are littered with counter-examples to your assumptions.
Interestingly, nothing in your post addresses the study under discussion, which itself finds yet another hole in "perfect market" theories.
Maybe most professionals would rather not live in rural America?
I just know this has something to do with the article. It feels like we are on to something here...
If that is your sig, please correct it. The "your" should be "you're". Write it all out, as "you are", if it confuses you.
NASA space flight centres are down south for reasons of pork barrel politics and proximity to the equator. It is much harder to recruit for those, than say, Greenbelt.
Never heard of the other place you hoped would make some kind of point.
Despite the same-sex-marriage amendment that got passed recently, I have found people generally to be very accepting of my sexual orientation -- in greater proportions to the people I knew when I lived in Washington, DC or Pittsburgh.
That's a pretty big despite. Not to mention, a pretty hard to believe statement about those cities. Are you sure it was Pittsburgh and DC you were living in, and not burbia like Greensburg and NoVA?
There's a 100% gay-friendly church in a nearby town...
Of course, there are gay-friendly churches in the same town in these cities...
There's a thriving arts center in my community with programs that rival most things I saw when I lived in cities (Washington, DC and Pittsburgh) or on visits to the coasts.
Ha ha ha! Don't be silly! You are trying to pit a rural Ohio "arts centre" against the Andy Warhol museum, DCAC and MoMA?! I'm sorry you lost your job and your pet, but did you have to lose your mind, too? I suppose next you will tell us your local ChuckeeCheeze beats out 2 Amys, and all the cuisine these cities have to offer? I can understand you are trying to feel better about having to move out of the city, but let's not go crazy! And what is up with the mods?
Or maybe shift /all/ your development work to India. Then they're in the same timezone.
If timezone and accent is all that American programmers have to offer, we are in serious trouble.
Actually, I see a lot of commonality, summarized by the oft expressed comment:
Information wants to be free.
The GPL preserves that freedom. Maybe your understanding of people here being against copyright is wrong; maybe people here want a more permissive copyright.
(Maybe also people here are angry that kids can go to jail on the one hand, while corporations roam free for much worse. Maybe also people here have many different views, and one can not compare different views of different people and call them hypocritical.)
a better way of wording that would be: only a handful of video cards are capable of driving the 30"
I hate to break it to you, but the only country that cared about self-determination for Tibet was India. A couple of years ago, when India gave that up in exchage for a border and trade deal, Tibet was officially done.
Until, perhaps, China splits up.
The Chinese haven't been communist in a long time. Just old, self-serving dictators hiding behind a flag. Happens in a lot of places.
/. libertarian sensibility likes it or not, governments have done many important things that private enterprise would never have done, from major medical research, to the internet, to all spaceflight to date.
Whether or not the average
Actually, the specialized skills you mention being needed for a game are available in programmer "collectives" like Ambrosia (see my post to parent).
So if you have a great idea for a game, but need others skills, you can probably find people willing to help in collectives like these. Or make one of your own.
These guys aren't billionaires, but they say they make a very nice life, and have fun at it.