...ones currently known. It's just depressing to think that we've been around for over a hundred thousand years if not millions of years (other homo species) with a working brain, and only started civilization 6,000 years ago. Something must've been present between or prior to the successive ice ages since intelligent upright apes discovered tools. I'm not talking about advanced technology, but advanced tool-dependent agricultural social structures. Perhaps something on the level of the Olmecs, Egyptians, or Indus cultures that followed are too much to hope for. But, it doesn't make sense that in all that time nothing more significant that running around looking for nuts and mastadons developed. Somewhere, there was a village.
ABAP is an acronym for "Advanced Business Application Programming". Why they had to develop their own language is a mystery considering the number of available friendly-licensed languages out there.
Buying Veritas gives them an improved Backup and Recovery offering than what they currently have.
They currently use Ghost for scheduled backup purposes (incremental, full, image). Hard to beat its ability to image a live system by "pushing" from the workstation to a shared network drive without any server-side software. This gives true full system restore capabilities since it's really a digital image, not just files, folders, and registry configurations.
"I asked if they'd like to have a list of name pronunciations; and I said that although I knew that a film must differ greatly from a book, I hoped they were making no unnecessary changes in the plot or to the characters--a dangerous thing to do, since the books have been known to millions of people for decades. They replied that the TV audience is much larger, and entirely different, and would be unlikely to care about changes to the books' story and characters."
It makes one wonder, if producers aren't going to respect the written work, why produce a film version of it at all? If the target isn't the readership, then why bother introducing a title to those who are "unlikely to care about changes to the books' story and characters"?
It's almost like they took the success of "The Lord of The Rings film for granted, and didn't pay heed to the incredible fidelity Jackson and crew kept with the original work. Earthsea deserved better, and so did its fans. Le Guin is partly to blame. We can only hope that authors are more serious about retaining final say about changes in a film version of their work in the future.
People need to feel that what they're being taught is relevant to them; otherwise, they'll never learn it. I can attest to this, as I'm sure can most people here.
I agree with you. Here's a free online video on demand series called "For All Practical Purposes" meant to address the issue with 26 half-hour programs (Episode 14, "Zero Sum Games" is pretty neat) from the Annenberg Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the accompanying textbook. That was the easy part. Now, how're we going to get the kids to watch it?
As for the grocery clerk, I'm not responsible for his security.
No, but he's responsible for yours, at least while you're in his shop. And, his manager is responsible for his. The same applies to the White House, but expand it to the whole country.
Negligence can be criminal, but that really isn't the question is it? What the situation comes down to is that will it hurt business if executives are held responsible for negligence that costs lives? The answer in the minds of those who have the power to make these decisions is yes, it will hurt business. The result is a bifurcation of justice for the haves and the have-nots. Is this a second crime to compound the first? Yes, it is.
= 9J =
Think of it as science.
on
HIV Vaccine
·
· Score: 1
Science is "Open Source" by nature (related to the theory that information wants to be free). The role of public university research is to bring to bear all Open Source scientific knowledge in order to benefit the public. If you leave private corporations out of the picture, the population of Open Source scientists shrinks to those employed by universities, government agencies, and those in the private sector who contribute free time thinking about public problems. Not too different from Open Source in the software world. Divided into thousands of individual or small group projects, their past contributions remain uncountable. Focused on a handful of projects, their contributions would be incalculable.
...with multiple corporations and universities investmenting in countless volunteer and paid hours for over 20 years. Linux came along after over a decade of BSD development and snowballed into a respectable juggernaught. Not because it's particularly superior to BSD technically (both still have pros and cons), but because it's protected by the GPL. More people just seem to like the idea of contributing to something they know will be reciprocated in kind. It grew while BSD whithered in mind share (it'll never die as long as someone cares) because of license differences. I don't see Solaris (a BSD derivative) as having anything as comparable to the enticement of the GPL. If Solaris was GPL'd, then I'd have to say that Linux would have been frozen in the market. As it is now, there's no reason for others to contribute to Solaris, so Solaris is will continue to go the way of BSD in general.
The parent claimed that Sun should have dropped a more mature, more cohesive, more scalable kernel and turned their attention to the Linux kernel. That's flat ludicrous from an investement standpoint.
It would be if you assume that not going to Linux or Open Source isn't crucial to the company's future. With the inevitable grind of Open Source on existing business models, including the growing Asian (Japan+Korea+China=Asian Linux) and European (city and national governments) and South American (city and national goverments) markets, Sun will be perceived as a relic whether it deserves the stigma or not.
How strange would it be for Sun to be recognized for an excellent Open Source office suite, and not an Open Source operating system. How ironic that they may very well end up displacing MS-Office with StarOffice (a purchase that was a direct attack on M$ by an Operating System/Hardware company), but be in the unenviable position of having it run on Windows or eventually another vendor's Linux distribution and not their own.
Disdain for Linux and fence stradling Open Source software in general isn't going to help their case. Certainly not from the viewpoint of world governments (the largest employers) or the largest private corporations that don't hesitate to outsource jobs to lower costs. Imagine what the growing number of tight-budgeted middle and small sized businesses are thinking when they see more and more vendors supporting Linux and only a single vendor supporting Solaris.
It isn't that Sun couldn't maintain it's Unix dominance for a lengthy period of time, it's that it doesn't realize it isn't worth maintaining dominance in a product that is sliding daily into the category of being a commodity. By the time it realizes this, others (Novell, IBM...etc. ) will have capitalized on having been there fully commited from the start. But, Sun seems to be on a different tack in stradling the fence by pooh-poohing Linux (and the GPL) on one hand and schizophrenically hedging its bets by marketing a GNU/Linux-based "Java Desktop" of which I now hear it is wasteing resources porting to Solaris.
The critical piece is the Designer, who sits between the end user and the programmer, and asks the tough questions: "Do you really want that? Let me explain the implications of what you just asked for."
I agree with the general idea you've broached. However, most often the failure point in a project and its most difficult aspect isn't the designing process.
It's what comes before the design during the requirements gathering phase where most projects fail. A good Business Analyst can make or break a project. Someone who can thoroughly gather and document only the necessary aspects of a client's business and clarify it with a model for the technical team (including the Designer, Systems Analyst and Architect) is a rare bird.
Someone who can take an existing business model, and extend it to include currently non-existing processes without mistakes, helping the Designer avoid introducing bugs in the proposed system, is coming close to rumor. This is one of the main reasons why the majority of the larger projects fail. There are other reasons, but you'll find even most of those are dependent on this one.
Okay, you have a valid viewpoint. You think abortion is murder.
Abortion for rape/incest victims or those where the life of the mother is threatened, that's fine.
Assuming you're first viewpoint in valid, how does it stop being murder in the second point? Oh, it's just your opinion that makes it alright. How convenient.
Rationality isn't within the province of blind faith.
The fact is that the people who gave shrub another 4 years are more religious. His base of religious zealots were clearly more effective in convincing their neighbors that shrub was one of the faithful, than liberal moderates were at convincing strangers that Kerry was actually a war hero. There's no arguing with fundamentalism, and the only cure I know of is a liberal education. Anything less, and you get years of wars, rights violations, and the walls separating church and state crumbling. Note, a liberal education isn't devoid of studying religion, but finds it a necessary part in making a well rounded person who is able to appreciate and defend his liberties.
This election was more of an indicator of the sad state of liberal programs currently in schools and inability of the poor to access such an education than anything else. The poor in the South learn their lessons in churches, just as the poor in the Middle-East do. The language they hear it in is different, but the message is startlingly similar. God rules the country, not any Constitution or government.
I won't defend stupid decisions, but I will note that when people are hurting they turn towards religion. Shrub has sold himself as a religious man, and Kerry didn't. A defining and admirable aspect of born again Christianity is that the "sinner" can repent and absolve himself of all past sins by accepting Christ (however defined by the various sects and denominations). The Red states bought that Shrub is reborn. We know better.
I say that the Democratic party's best defense against religious fundamentalism is education. They need to start rebuilding the walls between church and state by winning current court cases and more of them. They need to start attacking at every possible opportunity rather than roll over and take it up the rectum like they have been from groups like Bush's "Swift Boat" Republicans. More importantly, they need to stop alienating the liberals who actually are fighting. The Democrats need to bring themselves back into the Liberal fold where Nader, Moore, and the Green party are waiting for them. They need to start backing up these fighters, instead of distancing themselves from them. The Democrats have forgotten how to fight, and need to start by liberating the minds of the young while the right-wing is busy liberating oil wells from their owners. They've got 2 years before the next elections, and they better have a "moral" center like the Red states do, but in defense of liberty, and not one particular religion.
"A liberal education... frees a person from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family, and even his nation."
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Political Animal
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis,
1820.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be... " - Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, Jan 6th, 1816
I wouldn't be surprised if Bush winning was a good thing for Europe. I suspect it may unite and strengthen the bonds they've been building over the last couple of decades. Not the growing European Union, but something that'll function more as a United States of Europe. A natural counter to the one across the ocean, as we've been unable to find balance in ourselves since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Currently, there's nothing to restrain our baser selves. Even we can't do it. Maybe political natural selection can. As we continue to lash out against the world, the world will have to develop defenses against us. Persians had the Greeks, the Greeks had the Romans, and the Romans had the Barbarian hordes. The world has a way of working things out. If it isn't U.S.E, maybe China...who knows? Let's hope the porcupine doesn't have to learn how to grow quills before we find the right way of handling it.
I've wondered about how such a prestigious set of schools could allow a knucklehead into their hallowed halls. Then, I remembered a history class where I learned that the aristocracy had privileges that the serfs didn't. Doing some research, I learned of the appropriately coined term, "Legacy".
You're absolutely right, he did graduate from Ivy League universities given the chances that apparently neither you or I deserve. Did he get that chance fairly? No. Is he a hypocrite? Yes.
First Andover, then Yale, then Harvard, then the Whitehouse. Anyone who doesn't believe that the aristocratic power of Legacy exists has his head in the sand.
Slashdot Mirror
= 9J =
= 9J =
= 9J =
They currently use Ghost for scheduled backup purposes (incremental, full, image). Hard to beat its ability to image a live system by "pushing" from the workstation to a shared network drive without any server-side software. This gives true full system restore capabilities since it's really a digital image, not just files, folders, and registry configurations.
= 9J =
It makes one wonder, if producers aren't going to respect the written work, why produce a film version of it at all? If the target isn't the readership, then why bother introducing a title to those who are "unlikely to care about changes to the books' story and characters"?
It's almost like they took the success of "The Lord of The Rings film for granted, and didn't pay heed to the incredible fidelity Jackson and crew kept with the original work. Earthsea deserved better, and so did its fans. Le Guin is partly to blame. We can only hope that authors are more serious about retaining final say about changes in a film version of their work in the future.
= 9J =
= 9J =
I agree with you. Here's a free online video on demand series called "For All Practical Purposes" meant to address the issue with 26 half-hour programs (Episode 14, "Zero Sum Games" is pretty neat) from the Annenberg Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the accompanying textbook. That was the easy part. Now, how're we going to get the kids to watch it?
= 9J =
No, but he's responsible for yours, at least while you're in his shop. And, his manager is responsible for his. The same applies to the White House, but expand it to the whole country.
Negligence can be criminal, but that really isn't the question is it? What the situation comes down to is that will it hurt business if executives are held responsible for negligence that costs lives? The answer in the minds of those who have the power to make these decisions is yes, it will hurt business. The result is a bifurcation of justice for the haves and the have-nots. Is this a second crime to compound the first? Yes, it is.
= 9J =
= 9J =
= 9J =
It would be if you assume that not going to Linux or Open Source isn't crucial to the company's future. With the inevitable grind of Open Source on existing business models, including the growing Asian (Japan+Korea+China=Asian Linux) and European (city and national governments) and South American (city and national goverments) markets, Sun will be perceived as a relic whether it deserves the stigma or not.
How strange would it be for Sun to be recognized for an excellent Open Source office suite, and not an Open Source operating system. How ironic that they may very well end up displacing MS-Office with StarOffice (a purchase that was a direct attack on M$ by an Operating System/Hardware company), but be in the unenviable position of having it run on Windows or eventually another vendor's Linux distribution and not their own.
Disdain for Linux and fence stradling Open Source software in general isn't going to help their case. Certainly not from the viewpoint of world governments (the largest employers) or the largest private corporations that don't hesitate to outsource jobs to lower costs. Imagine what the growing number of tight-budgeted middle and small sized businesses are thinking when they see more and more vendors supporting Linux and only a single vendor supporting Solaris.
It isn't that Sun couldn't maintain it's Unix dominance for a lengthy period of time, it's that it doesn't realize it isn't worth maintaining dominance in a product that is sliding daily into the category of being a commodity. By the time it realizes this, others (Novell, IBM ...etc. ) will have capitalized on having been there fully commited from the start. But, Sun seems to be on a different tack in stradling the fence by pooh-poohing Linux (and the GPL) on one hand and schizophrenically hedging its bets by marketing a GNU/Linux-based "Java Desktop" of which I now hear it is wasteing resources porting to Solaris.
= 9J =
I agree with the general idea you've broached. However, most often the failure point in a project and its most difficult aspect isn't the designing process.
It's what comes before the design during the requirements gathering phase where most projects fail. A good Business Analyst can make or break a project. Someone who can thoroughly gather and document only the necessary aspects of a client's business and clarify it with a model for the technical team (including the Designer, Systems Analyst and Architect) is a rare bird.
Someone who can take an existing business model, and extend it to include currently non-existing processes without mistakes, helping the Designer avoid introducing bugs in the proposed system, is coming close to rumor. This is one of the main reasons why the majority of the larger projects fail. There are other reasons, but you'll find even most of those are dependent on this one.
= 9J =
= 9J =
= 9J =
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an undeniable genius; but he was late, and standing on the shoulders of giants.
= 9J =
If you don't have the answer, I'll help you figure it out. But, let me know if you do.
= 9J =
Okay, you have a valid viewpoint. You think abortion is murder.
Abortion for rape/incest victims or those where the life of the mother is threatened, that's fine.
Assuming you're first viewpoint in valid, how does it stop being murder in the second point? Oh, it's just your opinion that makes it alright. How convenient.
Rationality isn't within the province of blind faith.
= 9J =
Talking out of your A-Hole isn't a valid source either. Either make a correction, a valid argument, or a coherent disagreement.
Still waiting...
= 9J =
= 9J =
This election was more of an indicator of the sad state of liberal programs currently in schools and inability of the poor to access such an education than anything else. The poor in the South learn their lessons in churches, just as the poor in the Middle-East do. The language they hear it in is different, but the message is startlingly similar. God rules the country, not any Constitution or government.
I won't defend stupid decisions, but I will note that when people are hurting they turn towards religion. Shrub has sold himself as a religious man, and Kerry didn't. A defining and admirable aspect of born again Christianity is that the "sinner" can repent and absolve himself of all past sins by accepting Christ (however defined by the various sects and denominations). The Red states bought that Shrub is reborn. We know better.
I say that the Democratic party's best defense against religious fundamentalism is education. They need to start rebuilding the walls between church and state by winning current court cases and more of them. They need to start attacking at every possible opportunity rather than roll over and take it up the rectum like they have been from groups like Bush's "Swift Boat" Republicans. More importantly, they need to stop alienating the liberals who actually are fighting. The Democrats need to bring themselves back into the Liberal fold where Nader, Moore, and the Green party are waiting for them. They need to start backing up these fighters, instead of distancing themselves from them. The Democrats have forgotten how to fight, and need to start by liberating the minds of the young while the right-wing is busy liberating oil wells from their owners. They've got 2 years before the next elections, and they better have a "moral" center like the Red states do, but in defense of liberty, and not one particular religion.
"A liberal education ... frees a person from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family, and even his nation."
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Political Animal
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be... " - Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, Jan 6th, 1816
= 9J =
= 9J =
= 9J =
= 9J =
You're absolutely right, he did graduate from Ivy League universities given the chances that apparently neither you or I deserve. Did he get that chance fairly? No. Is he a hypocrite? Yes.
First Andover, then Yale, then Harvard, then the Whitehouse. Anyone who doesn't believe that the aristocratic power of Legacy exists has his head in the sand.
= 9J =
= 9J =