It works under w32 and compiles for w32 too, not just playstation. And although the company (at least one guy from it at aceshardware forums) does not like to promote vectorc for scientific programming it is at least as useful for serious purposes too. I guess he is talking about a compiler both the running and the target platform is linux. It is (compiled code is) damn fast under w32, I'm considering buying or the intel compiler, which I haven't been able to test yet.
nonsense. It is not the superiority of cisc, it is the superiority of amd and intel. Opposite is also nonsense, cpus do not directly execute instructions for the last 20 years or so, there is always a layer for translation to simpler operations. It is not the architecture that counts- after all every current cpu is risc in a sense- it is the implementation.
Actually I like preloading libraries of my commonly used programs. If star/open office make that "trickery and deception" an option, I would probably use it. Waiting 15 more seconds while starting x and launching star/open office in 5 seconds is better than the alternative. When I start x, I know I'll have to wait some time, when I'm clicking on an application's icon I'm expecting to see as soon as I click.
A better option might be going after opera and noticing that good gui based app. does not require megs of loaded libraries. e.g. opera launches way faster than konqueror.
I was happy for a moment for having used very good coding practices since day one. You didn't have to spoil it.
I wonder if the excellent coding practice of using ++ instead of +=1 were used in the code too. I would be really impressed if they did.
...safely would be very hard considering the people in the plane. Wouldn't latest events be nearly as horrific if those planes hit some abandoned building in the middle of nowhere? I mean, sure h2 aircraft idea is cool but what is the fuss about it being anti-terror device?
Though all windows programs I've seen can read rtf, not all linux office suits do. E.g. Koffice does not import rtf.
BTW What is the point in converting a document if you already have ms office installed? For transition this may be an option but what about external documents after transition? (yes, whoever send word docs around should be shot, but noone yet volunteered for the job and they are still alive)
A quatum computer can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, someone takes another step to building one of those and all you can think is DIGITAL PRIVACY? Either I don't know what an np-complete problem is and how solving one relates to solving other np-compelete problems or you are complete nuts.
It might be because of motion sickness associated with coriolis effect in inner ear. when you turn your head, or move in direction that is not exactly perpedicular or parallel to rotation direction, you would get different signals for the definition of "up" from different ears which might result in severe motion sickness. Then again it might not, after all people are doing fine without gravity which mess with sense of balance too.
Wine+The Bat!. I know this sounds lame but I checked more than 2 dozen different (native) clients before settling on this buggy and slow (both related to wine only) combination. When The Bat! is ported to linux, there will be one.
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oh, yeah? How much do you think Afganistan's GNP is? And how much it would be if Clinton ruled there as a retirement hobby?
I'm living in a poor country and I'm a businessman in CPI so I know full well that we can't possibly make ourselves rich, unless we come up with high quality, high tech stuff to export; in global market low tech stuff does not leave enough profits and low quality goods are immediatly replaced with high quality imports, destroying local firms. And to make high quality, high tech stuff, we need goor R&D centers, education, infrastructure and an established industry. All of these items require money. In order to make money we must come up with high quality, high tech stuff to export...on and on. I don't know how to break this chain but I well know that unless it is broken, someday US taxpayers will cease to support us and my own country will become one of those rouge nations. We have some radical islamic parties here, and number of their votes strongly correlate with economic growth (or lack therof) before the election.
You see, not all underdeveloped countries have oil to sell.
(I know, US is already helping us. Thanks a million from saving this atheist businessman from death or going bust. I just want you to help others too. And not necessarily to those who are suspected of attacking your country, there are many others.)
So what will be the result? There are obvious drawbacks of your scheme but I'll let them pass. Suppose it worked like a dream and noone can hijack a plane with knives anymore. So what? You could have put come kind of poisonous gas in your coffee cup. You could have been trained and mastered -along with your collegues- in martian arts. You could do a million things to hijack a plane, if you are determined enough. Usual security checks discourage people from hijacking, but cannot deter a determined hijacker. Unless they are kept absolutely secret, there will always be a way around them. BUT suppose you could make all planes unhijackable. Again, so what? A lot of countries have faced terrorist attacks by various means and piloting a plane into a building is only one way to do it. There are trains to blow up, power stations to sabotage, stadiums to burn, chemicals to poison subway stations, cinemas to shoot in... you get the picture. Although airport security IS important (and railroad security, stadium secuirty, power station security...) it is not a effective tool to stop terrorism. Unless everyone goes into bunkers and keeps separate, destorying or capturing majority of present terrorists and changing social climate not allowing new ones is the only option.
[boq]Defensive perimeters, land mines, etc., have proven historically to be ineffectual in that kind of territory with a motivated enemy. But, as one mujahdeen was quoted, "I do not fear the Russians, but I fear their helicoptors."
Now IANAG (General), but I believe the best way to go about something like this is a long series of directed raids by missile, bomber, helicopter and (most importantly) Special Forces units [eoq]
Turkey fought a similar war, and there are only two high(mid) tech tools that did more than marginal help: helicopters and pilotless surveliance planes. Granted, we did not have intelligent missiles or spy sattelites but we had pretty much everyting else. None helped, nor will they when their operators are americans.
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ObL and Saddam are only two guys, there are literally tens of other countries that has quite the same economical and political conditions. The next attack can be from another middle east, an african or a middle asian source. Powerful nations should start discussing about stabilizing political climate and helping poor nations. Iraq and Afganistan can as well be the last of those who receive help.
I think waiting until they attack, exterminating them and then helping them is a bad idea.
while it is true that you cannot defend against them by passive means (increasing border security etc.), it is quite possible to defend by exterminating them. Almost all terrorist organisations confirm to your definition of current enemy, and they have always been confirming to it. With sufficient intelligence, it is possible to fight against them. World's most powerful nation should be so easy to despair. After all, many smaller nations did fight against these groups before and some have even succeded.
Wars can and did differentiate between civilians and soliders. In this case the target is terrorist and I belive a civilized country with vast intelligence resources can and SHOULD differentiate between civilians and terrorists. US has taken far too many civilian lives during the last five wars he participated, can not even the deaths of thousands of its own children teach him that killing civilians is unjustified, whatever the cause?
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It works under w32 and compiles for w32 too, not just playstation. And although the company (at least one guy from it at aceshardware forums) does not like to promote vectorc for scientific programming it is at least as useful for serious purposes too. I guess he is talking about a compiler both the running and the target platform is linux. It is (compiled code is) damn fast under w32, I'm considering buying or the intel compiler, which I haven't been able to test yet.
nonsense. It is not the superiority of cisc, it is the superiority of amd and intel. Opposite is also nonsense, cpus do not directly execute instructions for the last 20 years or so, there is always a layer for translation to simpler operations. It is not the architecture that counts- after all every current cpu is risc in a sense- it is the implementation.
Actually I like preloading libraries of my commonly used programs. If star/open office make that "trickery and deception" an option, I would probably use it. Waiting 15 more seconds while starting x and launching star/open office in 5 seconds is better than the alternative. When I start x, I know I'll have to wait some time, when I'm clicking on an application's icon I'm expecting to see as soon as I click. A better option might be going after opera and noticing that good gui based app. does not require megs of loaded libraries. e.g. opera launches way faster than konqueror.
I was happy for a moment for having used very good coding practices since day one. You didn't have to spoil it. I wonder if the excellent coding practice of using ++ instead of +=1 were used in the code too. I would be really impressed if they did.
...safely would be very hard considering the people in the plane. Wouldn't latest events be nearly as horrific if those planes hit some abandoned building in the middle of nowhere? I mean, sure h2 aircraft idea is cool but what is the fuss about it being anti-terror device?
Though all windows programs I've seen can read rtf, not all linux office suits do. E.g. Koffice does not import rtf. BTW What is the point in converting a document if you already have ms office installed? For transition this may be an option but what about external documents after transition? (yes, whoever send word docs around should be shot, but noone yet volunteered for the job and they are still alive)
Ok, you're right. I was under the impression that cracking an RSA key was an np-complete problem. Ok mods, give it to me.
A quatum computer can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, someone takes another step to building one of those and all you can think is DIGITAL PRIVACY? Either I don't know what an np-complete problem is and how solving one relates to solving other np-compelete problems or you are complete nuts.
It might be because of motion sickness associated with coriolis effect in inner ear. when you turn your head, or move in direction that is not exactly perpedicular or parallel to rotation direction, you would get different signals for the definition of "up" from different ears which might result in severe motion sickness. Then again it might not, after all people are doing fine without gravity which mess with sense of balance too.
Wine+The Bat!. I know this sounds lame but I checked more than 2 dozen different (native) clients before settling on this buggy and slow (both related to wine only) combination. When The Bat! is ported to linux, there will be one.
oh, yeah? How much do you think Afganistan's GNP is? And how much it would be if Clinton ruled there as a retirement hobby? I'm living in a poor country and I'm a businessman in CPI so I know full well that we can't possibly make ourselves rich, unless we come up with high quality, high tech stuff to export; in global market low tech stuff does not leave enough profits and low quality goods are immediatly replaced with high quality imports, destroying local firms. And to make high quality, high tech stuff, we need goor R&D centers, education, infrastructure and an established industry. All of these items require money. In order to make money we must come up with high quality, high tech stuff to export...on and on. I don't know how to break this chain but I well know that unless it is broken, someday US taxpayers will cease to support us and my own country will become one of those rouge nations. We have some radical islamic parties here, and number of their votes strongly correlate with economic growth (or lack therof) before the election. You see, not all underdeveloped countries have oil to sell. (I know, US is already helping us. Thanks a million from saving this atheist businessman from death or going bust. I just want you to help others too. And not necessarily to those who are suspected of attacking your country, there are many others.)
So what will be the result? There are obvious drawbacks of your scheme but I'll let them pass. Suppose it worked like a dream and noone can hijack a plane with knives anymore. So what? You could have put come kind of poisonous gas in your coffee cup. You could have been trained and mastered -along with your collegues- in martian arts. You could do a million things to hijack a plane, if you are determined enough. Usual security checks discourage people from hijacking, but cannot deter a determined hijacker. Unless they are kept absolutely secret, there will always be a way around them. BUT suppose you could make all planes unhijackable. Again, so what? A lot of countries have faced terrorist attacks by various means and piloting a plane into a building is only one way to do it. There are trains to blow up, power stations to sabotage, stadiums to burn, chemicals to poison subway stations, cinemas to shoot in... you get the picture. Although airport security IS important (and railroad security, stadium secuirty, power station security...) it is not a effective tool to stop terrorism. Unless everyone goes into bunkers and keeps separate, destorying or capturing majority of present terrorists and changing social climate not allowing new ones is the only option.
[boq]Defensive perimeters, land mines, etc., have proven historically to be ineffectual in that kind of territory with a motivated enemy. But, as one mujahdeen was quoted, "I do not fear the Russians, but I fear their helicoptors." Now IANAG (General), but I believe the best way to go about something like this is a long series of directed raids by missile, bomber, helicopter and (most importantly) Special Forces units [eoq] Turkey fought a similar war, and there are only two high(mid) tech tools that did more than marginal help: helicopters and pilotless surveliance planes. Granted, we did not have intelligent missiles or spy sattelites but we had pretty much everyting else. None helped, nor will they when their operators are americans.
ObL and Saddam are only two guys, there are literally tens of other countries that has quite the same economical and political conditions. The next attack can be from another middle east, an african or a middle asian source. Powerful nations should start discussing about stabilizing political climate and helping poor nations. Iraq and Afganistan can as well be the last of those who receive help. I think waiting until they attack, exterminating them and then helping them is a bad idea.
...World's most powerful nation should NOT be so easy to despair...
while it is true that you cannot defend against them by passive means (increasing border security etc.), it is quite possible to defend by exterminating them. Almost all terrorist organisations confirm to your definition of current enemy, and they have always been confirming to it. With sufficient intelligence, it is possible to fight against them. World's most powerful nation should be so easy to despair. After all, many smaller nations did fight against these groups before and some have even succeded.
Wars can and did differentiate between civilians and soliders. In this case the target is terrorist and I belive a civilized country with vast intelligence resources can and SHOULD differentiate between civilians and terrorists. US has taken far too many civilian lives during the last five wars he participated, can not even the deaths of thousands of its own children teach him that killing civilians is unjustified, whatever the cause?