Interesitng argument, but wasn't Hong Kong also particularly resource constrained - yet they manage to thrive?
Other economies have been resource constrained in one way or another and have thrived on the resourcefullness of their people - Germany for instance whole life blood is, still today, is essentially export (reminds me of China in that regards).
I agree that where the old Chinese ways have to change to thrive - but isn't parts of Russia just as corrupt as China? they've never really became the global economic superpower years after the fall - despite all that promise. Besides all that, Russia under Putin is going more and more into a dictatorship while China seems to be slowly opening up.
India has the brains but it's also something at least 20 years in the making, at least. They need to particularly expand infrastructure in all areas (roads, water, sewage, etcetera).......
Personally, I think China is striving for self-suffiency and will start outbidding the US for natural resources. Scary for U.S., pragmatic (for them).
But I've been in multiple countries outside the US (including England) for relatively long period and was just commenting in the differences in journalism overall.
Actually I would think that difference only underlines as a product of my domestic media and it's weakness and not an inherent difference between our peoples.
Our media willingly plays softball with politician X - they get invited to the news conference or WhiteHouse or some such as a reward.
If the media banded together and refused the politicians coverage that the politicians so desperately seek - politicians would be willing to answer hardball questions.
But they are let off the hook and the spin gets out there unless something really drastic event happens where the media is forced to get off their asses and start questioning things.
Which is what should've been doing in the first place.
But then - most "journalists" these days are actually just reporters.
I understand the point - but it's the media that allows Bush/other_politicians to get away with it - if the news treated his scripted townhalls (or anybody elses) as the joke they are or went the other route by simply not presenting them because they aren't newsworthy - perhaps our politicians would be forced to answer the tough questions to get the coverage they so desire.
Perhaps it has to do with our daily TV & pop Magazine (Times, Life) and Newspapers that assume we're stupid and write/talk/present things to us as if we're at the 6th grade level.
If that's all you see, read, or hear 90% of the time - it will eventually filter down into your communication unless you actively prevent it. It will eventually spread to all media.
The british newspapers, I'm told, write at a 12th grade level.
If you ever watched the Daily Show where they showed the difference between George Bush's Social Security town hall meetings and the one PM Tony Blair did before his election - you will see the stark contrast in how the media treats it's viewers - intelligent adults vs. idiotic grown children.
(In short, it was 1000000 x more confrontational with people asking intelligent questions versus here where everybody had to kiss GWB's balls to ask a stupid & simplistic question)
From TFA: "Oracle database, Windows operating system, Unix hardware and an Apache webserver is a bad combination"
It sounds like they are already using Windows because they go on to say that Apache is telling them that the Windows version is experimental and some such and so is the support.
My question is what is considered "Unix hardware?" Are they talking about Solaris?
Many of the articles after the bombings here in the US made it sound like the 15k cameras are stateowned and operated.
But that's the media I guess. By the same vein, much of the coverage makes it sound like Katrina only hit New Orleans when parts of Missisippi were just as badly hurt.
As the old saying goes, those who trade in liberty for security deserve neither.
How many times will the governing officials tell us this old lie that our liberties are blocking their jobs and they get away with it? Could they post examples rather than ringing the old fear mongering bell?
Would the tragedy on 9/11 not have happened? I thought the whole impetus and sudden motivation for increased airport security was 9/11 itself. Not a sudden decrease in liberties (fuck the so-called Patriot act).
How about the London Bombings? How would decreased liberties have stopped them where over 15,000 cameras in London couldn't?
It is easy to hold up Liberty when in good times, but how in the world are we to "teach" the rest of countries Democracy/Liberty when our goverments perservere to constantly restrict ours?
Now, this is going to be the most cold-hearted assessment of all to most people - but how many people died in the London Bombings (or even 9/11) versus how many people die of heart attacks each year?
Should we outlaw McDonalds now? Wouldn't outlawing fast food save more lives?
Because restricted freedoms affect nearly 100% of the population minus a lucky few at the top of the hierarchy.
Yeah, I was thinking along the same line but wanted confirmation - even though the summary says it's okay (I have take time to read the article past the first page - it's pretty long) I learned not to trust the typical/. summaries.
Asking as a business consultant - Would you be able legally put this on a usb stick w/o another license just like you can make a back_up cassette of your CD's under the fair_use clause or would you need another license?
Hm... when it comes to when micropayments online - say a penny per transaction - should I welcome or fear this development?
How many free services/sites will start charging cash to use their services (a penny per page view) that will seem cheap at first view (it's only a penny!) but will start nibbling away at your wallet over time.
Exporting jobs is just plain bad for any economy. It reduces jobs and increases the money flow out of the country. The US is experiencing some serious economic draining ATM.
Studied Macro-economics long ago. The academic answer is not really always the case, because it frees up resources (people) in one economy to do what they are better at or what is more profitable.
If she export a thousand jobs to China for making ping-pong balls and we convert our thousand workers to something else (say making foobar which goes for $100 each and each worker can make 3 of in an hour), it can be a win/win sitiation - their economies get 1000 more jobs that didn't exist before and we maximize the potential of our workforce.
Of course, I wonder if economic academics figure in the cost of building up China and other countries (competition for resources such as oil, future competition in the marketplace, etcetera).
True, but if I don't like my local officials, not only can I get them voted out - if unsucessful I can also at least move away from them (as unpleasant as that solution is) and still be well within my native country.
I'm probably not bright enough to really comprehend this subject but does this theory fit in with Occam's razor premise that the simplest answer is usually correct?
It seems that sometimes fanciful theories pop up that seem to just shoot wildly in the dark for lack of observable/obtainable info.
At least it's not a human-centric nonfalsiable unlimited paralell universes or time travel can't alter history theory........
Because the Supreme Court is more important than the President and Congress. It's pathetic and sad, but true, they are the last line of defense between the government and the Constitution.
Especially in recent times as the executive and legislative branches grab more and more money and power for themselves in the guise of representing the people - the Supreme Court seems to be the one branch actually interested in what the Constitution says other than figuring ways around it (even though I think that's going down the drain slowly too with that last property & profit decision in June).
It's harder to buy a judge - they don't need reelecting. There's only nine of them (easier to monitor them unlike Congress) and they don't try to do as much in secrecy as say, the White House.
Plus, except for death and voluntary retirement, most Supreme Judge's terms extend right past the president that nominates them. the congress that confirms them into infinity.
Their biases alone will not only determine crap like abortion, but whether highstake legisition like DMCA is constitutional. Multiply that by all the technologicial issues (stem cell, cloning, etcetera) and you can easily see the Supreme Court as the trump card of any movement - be it conservative, liberal, free software, open software, etcetera.
It comes down to them.
I would dare say in the longterm, the two upcoming new Justices (whoever they may be) will impact us more than any elected politician short of President ever will.
Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox as much as the next Slashdotter, but don't we all want a more secure Internet Explorer for our Windows-using friends as well?
This is going to sound completely selfish but I say no - because in the longterm, I want people to have more of an incentive to turn away from Microsoft - not keep using it. Or at least not give companies an excuse to design IE-only compatible websites.
I think any other free alternative is better than a MS dominated future. Hell, MS didn't even make this plug-in so how can I trust them to secure the rest of their apps?
Experience with ABS systems is instructive. ABS systems definitely improve braking, but don't reduce accidents. Drivers with ABS use their shorter stopping distance to follow more closely, cancelling out the safety benefits.
I was under the impression that ABS doesn't reduce braking distance (indeed, in some instances even increases it) but that it simply prevented the front brakes from locking up - allowing the driver to steer (around the obstacle) in emergencies.
I tend to agree with him - a language can try to save you from yoursolf too much. Also, a language can get you burned without much effort.
It's a question of whether you want to learn to do things the safe way and know when you are going to the edge or if you want the language to hold your hand but also be there to spank you if you are trying something that it considers out of bounds.
As someone who lives both in Germany and USA I notice the same things.
Not just a lack of obese people but that the obese people there would merely be called chubby here.
But it's not just the cities - but the rural areas where the driving everywhere problem is much worse - Germany has bike paths/sidewalks everywhere. And not bike paths/trails where you have to drive to likely to be right by your front door. And the bikepaths/sidewalks often follow the major roads out of town. A lot of the farmer's fields also let you drive through without problem which helps a lot.
But the motivation of biking it is because you can get your shopping/errands done that way - stores tend to be close by and clumped together - you can get to the post office/groceries/etcetera w/o driving all over town.
The cause of this is the zoning - Europe tends to let shopowners live above their shops on the second floor - while American townships tends to keep residential and commercial strictly seperate.
This is may be the leading cause why America tends to have so many super-centers for everything and so few modest size supermarkets (think Aldi as the normal size of a supermarket in Europe.) Mom and Pop shopkeepers can't save the overhead of having just one place to do both business and living. Not to mention saving the bother to drive there.e
Of course, Europe is adopting American style thing in many areas and so is getting American style problems (associated with super-centers and obesity).
Ever since I started eating more naturally (getting away from salt/fat, sweet snacks), I don't think I've encountered a food that tastes better when processed in any way - canned, frozen, concentrated, deep fried as in finished potato chips, dried, etcetera - that tasted better than it's natural or freshly cooked counterpart. Not to mention the benefits of fresh fruits/vegetables.
Or in the case of velveta, other airspray cheeses made of oil/water instead of a milk - any that tasted better than the traditional cheeses - feta, gruyvere, etcetera.
Once you get used to them. Then artificial starts tasting just that - artificial.
Plus it's cheaper in the long run - healthwise.
Most new inventions in food is just another processing step that will inevitably cost money to the consumer.
(Note - not against pesticides or irradiation that increase yields but 7 year old sandwiches sound very suspect.)
Of course the public will always be after the panacea of 0 calorie snacks, thanks to the hope provided by 0 calorie splenda and the once promising olean.....
Overall, I've found OpenOffice to be a fine MS Office replacement for my needs. OpenOffice's word processor is more than ready for prime time. As for the other components, I generally wouldn't recommend using them in an environment where it was important to maintain compatibility with Microsoft products.
What reversed logic from the reviewer. It should read:
Overall, I've found Microsoft Office to be a fine Open Office replacement for my needs. Microsoft's word processor is more than ready for prime time. As for the other components, I generally wouldn't recommend using them in an environment where it was important to maintain compatibility with any other products.
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On broadcast TV most nights of the week you can watch CSI with all of it's gruesome details or some other shows/movies with all of it's violence.
Oh wait, those have to be shown after the extremely late hour of 9pm.
I see. Because of that strict security, THE CHILDREN are being protected.
Let's thank the government for doing our thinking and parenting for us again. Where would we ever be without them?
Interesitng argument, but wasn't Hong Kong also particularly resource constrained - yet they manage to thrive?
Other economies have been resource constrained in one way or another and have thrived on the resourcefullness of their people - Germany for instance whole life blood is, still today, is essentially export (reminds me of China in that regards).
I agree that where the old Chinese ways have to change to thrive - but isn't parts of Russia just as corrupt as China? they've never really became the global economic superpower years after the fall - despite all that promise. Besides all that, Russia under Putin is going more and more into a dictatorship while China seems to be slowly opening up.
India has the brains but it's also something at least 20 years in the making, at least. They need to particularly expand infrastructure in all areas (roads, water, sewage, etcetera).......
Personally, I think China is striving for self-suffiency and will start outbidding the US for natural resources. Scary for U.S., pragmatic (for them).
I guess the .co.uk address was a hint :)
But I've been in multiple countries outside the US (including England) for relatively long period and was just commenting in the differences in journalism overall.
Actually I would think that difference only underlines as a product of my domestic media and it's weakness and not an inherent difference between our peoples.
Our media willingly plays softball with politician X - they get invited to the news conference or WhiteHouse or some such as a reward.
If the media banded together and refused the politicians coverage that the politicians so desperately seek - politicians would be willing to answer hardball questions.
But they are let off the hook and the spin gets out there unless something really drastic event happens where the media is forced to get off their asses and start questioning things.
Which is what should've been doing in the first place.
But then - most "journalists" these days are actually just reporters.
I understand the point - but it's the media that allows Bush/other_politicians to get away with it - if the news treated his scripted townhalls (or anybody elses) as the joke they are or went the other route by simply not presenting them because they aren't newsworthy - perhaps our politicians would be forced to answer the tough questions to get the coverage they so desire.
Perhaps it has to do with our daily TV & pop Magazine (Times, Life) and Newspapers that assume we're stupid and write/talk/present things to us as if we're at the 6th grade level.
If that's all you see, read, or hear 90% of the time - it will eventually filter down into your communication unless you actively prevent it. It will eventually spread to all media.
The british newspapers, I'm told, write at a 12th grade level.
If you ever watched the Daily Show where they showed the difference between George Bush's Social Security town hall meetings and the one PM Tony Blair did before his election - you will see the stark contrast in how the media treats it's viewers - intelligent adults vs. idiotic grown children.
(In short, it was 1000000 x more confrontational with people asking intelligent questions versus here where everybody had to kiss GWB's balls to ask a stupid & simplistic question)
I tried to find the clip but I can't find it.
Um, yeah.
And why isn't any of that geekiness (methods) discussed in the ridicously short 1 paragraph article? Just the results.
Slashdot - News for Archaeologists?
and not "first cocktail"?
:(
Still not sure what that mini-article has to do with technology or news for nerds.
From TFA:
"Oracle database, Windows operating system, Unix hardware and an Apache webserver is a bad combination"
It sounds like they are already using Windows because they go on to say that Apache is telling them that the Windows version is experimental and some such and so is the support.
My question is what is considered "Unix hardware?" Are they talking about Solaris?
If I had mod points, I'd give you a few.
Many of the articles after the bombings here in the US made it sound like the 15k cameras are stateowned and operated.
But that's the media I guess. By the same vein, much of the coverage makes it sound like Katrina only hit New Orleans when parts of Missisippi were just as badly hurt.
As the old saying goes, those who trade in liberty for security deserve neither.
How many times will the governing officials tell us this old lie that our liberties are blocking their jobs and they get away with it? Could they post examples rather than ringing the old fear mongering bell?
Would the tragedy on 9/11 not have happened? I thought the whole impetus and sudden motivation for increased airport security was 9/11 itself. Not a sudden decrease in liberties (fuck the so-called Patriot act).
How about the London Bombings? How would decreased liberties have stopped them where over 15,000 cameras in London couldn't?
It is easy to hold up Liberty when in good times, but how in the world are we to "teach" the rest of countries Democracy/Liberty when our goverments perservere to constantly restrict ours?
Now, this is going to be the most cold-hearted assessment of all to most people - but how many people died in the London Bombings (or even 9/11) versus how many people die of heart attacks each year?
Should we outlaw McDonalds now? Wouldn't outlawing fast food save more lives?
Because restricted freedoms affect nearly 100% of the population minus a lucky few at the top of the hierarchy.
Yeah, I was thinking along the same line but wanted confirmation - even though the summary says it's okay (I have take time to read the article past the first page - it's pretty long) I learned not to trust the typical /. summaries.
Asking as a business consultant - Would you be able legally put this on a usb stick w/o another license just like you can make a back_up cassette of your CD's under the fair_use clause or would you need another license?
This would be used as a recovery stick.
Hm... when it comes to when micropayments online - say a penny per transaction - should I welcome or fear this development?
How many free services/sites will start charging cash to use their services (a penny per page view) that will seem cheap at first view (it's only a penny!) but will start nibbling away at your wallet over time.
Just a stray thought.
Exporting jobs is just plain bad for any economy. It reduces jobs and increases the money flow out of the country. The US is experiencing some serious economic draining ATM.
Studied Macro-economics long ago. The academic answer is not really always the case, because it frees up resources (people) in one economy to do what they are better at or what is more profitable.
If she export a thousand jobs to China for making ping-pong balls and we convert our thousand workers to something else (say making foobar which goes for $100 each and each worker can make 3 of in an hour), it can be a win/win sitiation - their economies get 1000 more jobs that didn't exist before and we maximize the potential of our workforce.
Of course, I wonder if economic academics figure in the cost of building up China and other countries (competition for resources such as oil, future competition in the marketplace, etcetera).
True, but if I don't like my local officials, not only can I get them voted out - if unsucessful I can also at least move away from them (as unpleasant as that solution is) and still be well within my native country.
Is this figuring in transport? (Colorado vs foreign countries).
Though I could see ways of how Colorado to East Coast by truck would still be more expensive than Mid-east/Norway/etcetera to East Coast USA by boat.
I'm probably not bright enough to really comprehend this subject but does this theory fit in with Occam's razor premise that the simplest answer is usually correct?
It seems that sometimes fanciful theories pop up that seem to just shoot wildly in the dark for lack of observable/obtainable info.
At least it's not a human-centric nonfalsiable unlimited paralell universes or time travel can't alter history theory........
fuck all the politics , lets remember the man..
Agreed and Disagreed.
Agreed with anything relating to Renquist.
Disagreed when it comes time to replace him.
Because the Supreme Court is more important than the President and Congress. It's pathetic and sad, but true, they are the last line of defense between the government and the Constitution.
Especially in recent times as the executive and legislative branches grab more and more money and power for themselves in the guise of representing the people - the Supreme Court seems to be the one branch actually interested in what the Constitution says other than figuring ways around it (even though I think that's going down the drain slowly too with that last property & profit decision in June).
It's harder to buy a judge - they don't need reelecting. There's only nine of them (easier to monitor them unlike Congress) and they don't try to do as much in secrecy as say, the White House.
Plus, except for death and voluntary retirement, most Supreme Judge's terms extend right past the president that nominates them. the congress that confirms them into infinity.
Their biases alone will not only determine crap like abortion, but whether highstake legisition like DMCA is constitutional. Multiply that by all the technologicial issues (stem cell, cloning, etcetera) and you can easily see the Supreme Court as the trump card of any movement - be it conservative, liberal, free software, open software, etcetera.
It comes down to them.
I would dare say in the longterm, the two upcoming new Justices (whoever they may be) will impact us more than any elected politician short of President ever will.
Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox as much as the next Slashdotter, but don't we all want a more secure Internet Explorer for our Windows-using friends as well?
This is going to sound completely selfish but I say no - because in the longterm, I want people to have more of an incentive to turn away from Microsoft - not keep using it. Or at least not give companies an excuse to design IE-only compatible websites.
I think any other free alternative is better than a MS dominated future. Hell, MS didn't even make this plug-in so how can I trust them to secure the rest of their apps?
Experience with ABS systems is instructive. ABS systems definitely improve braking, but don't reduce accidents. Drivers with ABS use their shorter stopping distance to follow more closely, cancelling out the safety benefits.
I was under the impression that ABS doesn't reduce braking distance (indeed, in some instances even increases it) but that it simply prevented the front brakes from locking up - allowing the driver to steer (around the obstacle) in emergencies.
Hi,
I think Paul Grahams sums up why Ada never made it and why C did:
http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
Scroll down to Point 4 "Hackability"
I tend to agree with him - a language can try to save you from yoursolf too much. Also, a language can get you burned without much effort.
It's a question of whether you want to learn to do things the safe way and know when you are going to the edge or if you want the language to hold your hand but also be there to spank you if you are trying something that it considers out of bounds.
As someone who lives both in Germany and USA I notice the same things.
Not just a lack of obese people but that the obese people there would merely be called chubby here.
But it's not just the cities - but the rural areas where the driving everywhere problem is much worse - Germany has bike paths/sidewalks everywhere. And not bike paths/trails where you have to drive to likely to be right by your front door. And the bikepaths/sidewalks often follow the major roads out of town. A lot of the farmer's fields also let you drive through without problem which helps a lot.
But the motivation of biking it is because you can get your shopping/errands done that way - stores tend to be close by and clumped together - you can get to the post office/groceries/etcetera w/o driving all over town.
The cause of this is the zoning - Europe tends to let shopowners live above their shops on the second floor - while American townships tends to keep residential and commercial strictly seperate.
This is may be the leading cause why America tends to have so many super-centers for everything and so few modest size supermarkets (think Aldi as the normal size of a supermarket in Europe.) Mom and Pop shopkeepers can't save the overhead of having just one place to do both business and living. Not to mention saving the bother to drive there.e
Of course, Europe is adopting American style thing in many areas and so is getting American style problems (associated with super-centers and obesity).
Ever since I started eating more naturally (getting away from salt/fat, sweet snacks), I don't think I've encountered a food that tastes better when processed in any way - canned, frozen, concentrated, deep fried as in finished potato chips, dried, etcetera - that tasted better than it's natural or freshly cooked counterpart. Not to mention the benefits of fresh fruits/vegetables.
Or in the case of velveta, other airspray cheeses made of oil/water instead of a milk - any that tasted better than the traditional cheeses - feta, gruyvere, etcetera.
Once you get used to them. Then artificial starts tasting just that - artificial.
Plus it's cheaper in the long run - healthwise.
Most new inventions in food is just another processing step that will inevitably cost money to the consumer.
(Note - not against pesticides or irradiation that increase yields but 7 year old sandwiches sound very suspect.)
Of course the public will always be after the panacea of 0 calorie snacks, thanks to the hope provided by 0 calorie splenda and the once promising olean.....
Overall, I've found OpenOffice to be a fine MS Office replacement for my needs. OpenOffice's word processor is more than ready for prime time. As for the other components, I generally wouldn't recommend using them in an environment where it was important to maintain compatibility with Microsoft products.
What reversed logic from the reviewer. It should read:
Overall, I've found Microsoft Office to be a fine Open Office replacement for my needs. Microsoft's word processor is more than ready for prime time. As for the other components, I generally wouldn't recommend using them in an environment where it was important to maintain compatibility with any other products.
There, that's better.