Illegal building of settlements
Everybody in the world except a tiny minority agrees that Israel is illegally occupying the territories gained after the 1967 war. That's a FACT.
Violation of UN resolutions since 30 years
Israel is violating UN resolution 242, which was voted by the security council and thus is binding by opposition to general assembly resolutions which are not binding.
The fact that the resolution is binding or not does not change anything to the fact that Israel is violating them by the way.
Israeli exactions in occupied territories
The fact that other armies would be worse does not change the fact that Israel is commiting exactions, period.
Israel's offer to the palestinians is not clear, 95% of the territories cut in small pieces is not an acceptable offer. Until I've seen the papers explaining clearly the offer I won't believe either the palestinian or the israeli side as to what was proposed during these discussions
collective punishments
Destroying a house is a collective punishment, the other people who live in this house are not automatically responsible of what their brother/son had done, the people who live in the apartments nearby are not responsible either
Olive fields have been destroyed for non-military reasons many times, this is also documented.
discrimination towards Israeli-Arabs
As said before, being able to be elected is not a proof of non-discrimination.
Israeli-arab communities receive less funds than israeli jewish counterparts.
Arabs can't live in jewish settlements
etc...
Go see This report from Amnesty International
Re:Why are Europeans so fixated on hating Israel?
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Why ?
Palestinians have CLEARLY a worse life in Israel than they would in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia,...
Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia,... do not: - violate UN resolutions - violate Geneva conventions on rules of war - occupy illegaly the land of another people - do collective punishments...
Life in Israel is nice for Israeli jews, but not for the arabs. Israel is an apartheid state.
Life in these arab countries under dictatorship is what's called an "internal matter" of these countries, these are sovereign countries and even though most of the world disagree with what's happening inside, they can't do much.
In Israel's case, it's not an internal matter, Israel is violating international resolutions, occupying another people's land, this is an international matter.
Re:Why are Europeans so fixated on hating Israel?
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Why ?
Probably because they don't hate them, they are just disgusted at the way Israel act, which means: - legalization of torture - illegal building of settlements in occupied areas in violation of Geneva Conventions - violation of UN resolutions since 30 years - Israeli army exactions in occupied territories, documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,... - collective punishments (houses destruction, olive trees fields destructions,...), which is a violation of human rights and a war crime - discrimination towards Israeli-Arabs (and no, being able to be elected is not a proof of non-discrimination)...
It's so easy to always accuse people of anti-semitism whenever they criticize Israel, but it won't hide the crimes of the state of Israel, and one day this country will have to pay for these crimes the same way Switzerland had to pay for the jewish gold in its banks, the same way Germany had to pay for everything it has done during World War II,...
Most Microsoft applications use the concept of resource to separate the text from the application, translating the application becomes then simply a matter of translating the strings in the resource and updating the binary.
Linux has something similar by using the gettext() function.
The hardest part is really translating correctly the text, taking into account the particularities of every language, the customs,... and obviously, keeping the translated version up to date.
1) It's not jaleousy. People everywhere around the world resent the way USA behaves around the world. In the middle east, in asia, in europe,... If you think everybody's jaleous, you obviously need to travel around the world and see by yourself why they are so angry. Jaleousy can't be the reason why two thirds of the world want you to get an enormous slap in the face.
2) The big problem of the EU is not military, it's political. Together, the EU is probably as powerful as USA, they have the weapons, the money, all the technology, they can build everything themselves. Their big problem is that they don't have the political resolve USA has when it comes to deciding that they will go and act.
The point 2) is why USA is the only superpower of the world, if the europeans get their shit together, USA is going to lose a lot of its dominance.
Do a better job than they do for a better price, that's as simple as that.
Thing is, there's no way USA can match indian prices, and indian software engineers are usually quite decent, so USA is going to lose more and more IT jobs.
Now, if you want to put barriers to importation to protect your jobs, imagine if other countries did the same with USA and stopped buying US software, most of you would be in DEEP trouble.
So let the free market decide, because you will probably lose a protectionist war, the european union has now as much power as you do economically, and they already have used their power to curb US protectionist policies before.
It's a question of scale, Bush is probably not better than this fascist. Simply here the GOP is called "right", and over there it's called "extreme right".
The "Many Eyes" system is good in theory and doesn't work that well in reality.
The fact that you can look at the code doesn't mean that you actually read it.
sendmail, bind and wu_ftpd have been around for years and years, they are some of the most used open source tools, yet their code is in no way better than closed source tools.
99% of the people absolutely don't care about the sources, why should they have to spend 20 more minutes downloading a bigger package if they absolutely don't care about it ?
Who do you think you are to require people to open their code ? If you don't like closed source software, don't buy it, it's as simple as that.
Authors also have a right to freedom, it's not only for the users.
Re:still not good as good as opensource
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sendmail, wu_ftpd and bind have proven that this is not true.
Open source does not give any advantage simply because almost nobody actually reads the code.
In theory, yes you can read it, in real life however, almost nobody takes advantage of this to audit the code and search for problems.
The fact that open source allows you to read the code doesn't mean that people actually read it.
One more proof that these two websites are less and less appealing to people who have a brain and use it.
Windows XP shares >90% of its code with.NET Server, both products were written by the Server platform group, not the Client group.
This explain why the Client group has such a high percentage of profit and why the Server platform group didn't.
It shouldn't be that hard to use your brain once in a while instead of spreading lies about your opponent, it actually might even be useful and intelligent.
MS proposes to give some of their software in RESPONSE to a demand.
It is perfectly their right to give whatever they want to give, like you and me.
For one reason or another, they didn't give everything the school needs.
They didn't propose to donate, they were ASKED to donate, and they gave something, but obviously, some people don't like it when they don't get everything for free.
Slashdot is definitely becoming less and less interesting, more and more of the articles found here are either duplicates or stupid MS bashing, and that's really sad, this site could be so much more than a message board for MS haters.
It's perhaps 10 teraFLOPS, but it's 1024 computers loosely coupled. The SGI box has 64 CPU, and Linux's scheduler has nothing that matches the capabalities of Solaris or IRIX when it comes to scalability in term of number of CPU, it's even worse than Windows in this view, and.NET Server has got a lot of improvements in that regard...
Windows runs correctly(ie. with acceptable performance) on computers with 1 to 32 CPU TODAY, and.NET Server will extend this to 64 and perhaps even more.
As of today, nobody uses Linux IN PRODUCTION with more than 8 CPU, so actually, Linux is playing catch up with Windows in this field also.
Well, it's explained here: http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Mags/TargetSwitzerland.htm by an american.
Don't get me wrong, every country had done good and bad things, including Switzerland and european countries(colonialism comes to mind).
What annoys me A LOT is that USA tend to think that they are a better country than any other when it comes to freedom, free speech, etc...
Well, I've been living in Seattle for two years now, and even though USA is not a dictatorship, there's definitely not more freedom than in western european countries, the main difference is that citizens in this country are more ignorant to how the world around them evolve because the education system and the TV in USA SUCKS REALLY BAD.
Moreover, this country absolutely refuse severything that is not 100% in its best interest even though it would be in the best interest of the world as a whole, things like the Kyoto protocol, the international tribunal on war crime,... have been accepted by a majority of countries all around the world, but USA refuses them and tries to undermine them because even though is does not represent a threat of an kind to USA, it does not serve their interest.
That kind of thing creates a lot enemies around the world, it would be much better to use common sense to avoid having enemies around the world than sending soldiers. Switzerland is a country respected everywhere around the world because it does not mess up with other countries interests, and that's the reason why terrorists do not attack Switzerland, why people in Switzerland do not live with the fear of being targeted, and that's a much better way of life from my experience.
They first did a genocide on their own land with the native americans, then decided it would be much more interesting to have genocides out of the country.
So they decided to support dictators like Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, almost every dictatorship in south america, Israel's occupation of palestinian land and settlements in violation of international law, Pol Pot in Cambodgia, some napalm on the civilians in Vietnam, some defoliant to kill people even years after the end of the war, opposing the international tribunal for war crimes and trying to undermine it at all costs, using biological weapons against their own citizens,...
Sometimes I think USA and the rest of the world just don't have the same meaning for the world "civilized"...
Given that OpenOffice mimicks the GUI of MS Office(did you see how similar the GUI(buttons position, style, etc...) is ?) I tend to think that OpenOffice is actually nothing else that an Office clone, actually it's just worse, but very similar.
Slashdot Mirror
Amnesty International Go see by yourself
Illegal building of settlements
Everybody in the world except a tiny minority agrees that Israel is illegally occupying the territories gained after the 1967 war. That's a FACT.
Violation of UN resolutions since 30 years
Israel is violating UN resolution 242, which was voted by the security council and thus is binding by opposition to general assembly resolutions which are not binding.
The fact that the resolution is binding or not does not change anything to the fact that Israel is violating them by the way.
Israeli exactions in occupied territories
The fact that other armies would be worse does not change the fact that Israel is commiting exactions, period.
Israel's offer to the palestinians is not clear, 95% of the territories cut in small pieces is not an acceptable offer. Until I've seen the papers explaining clearly the offer I won't believe either the palestinian or the israeli side as to what was proposed during these discussions
collective punishments
Destroying a house is a collective punishment, the other people who live in this house are not automatically responsible of what their brother/son had done, the people who live in the apartments nearby are not responsible either Olive fields have been destroyed for non-military reasons many times, this is also documented.
discrimination towards Israeli-Arabs
As said before, being able to be elected is not a proof of non-discrimination.
Israeli-arab communities receive less funds than israeli jewish counterparts.
Arabs can't live in jewish settlements
etc...
Go see This report from Amnesty International
Why ?
: ...
Palestinians have CLEARLY a worse life in Israel than they would in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia,...
Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia,... do not
- violate UN resolutions
- violate Geneva conventions on rules of war
- occupy illegaly the land of another people
- do collective punishments
Life in Israel is nice for Israeli jews, but not for the arabs. Israel is an apartheid state.
Life in these arab countries under dictatorship is what's called an "internal matter" of these countries, these are sovereign countries and even though most of the world disagree with what's happening inside, they can't do much.
In Israel's case, it's not an internal matter, Israel is violating international resolutions, occupying another people's land, this is an international matter.
Why ?
...
Probably because they don't hate them, they are just disgusted at the way Israel act, which means:
- legalization of torture
- illegal building of settlements in occupied areas in violation of Geneva Conventions
- violation of UN resolutions since 30 years
- Israeli army exactions in occupied territories, documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,...
- collective punishments (houses destruction, olive trees fields destructions,...), which is a violation of human rights and a war crime
- discrimination towards Israeli-Arabs (and no, being able to be elected is not a proof of non-discrimination)
It's so easy to always accuse people of anti-semitism whenever they criticize Israel, but it won't hide the crimes of the state of Israel, and one day this country will have to pay for these crimes the same way Switzerland had to pay for the jewish gold in its banks, the same way Germany had to pay for everything it has done during World War II,...
Israel is a criminal state, as Iraq is.
Most Microsoft applications use the concept of resource to separate the text from the application, translating the application becomes then simply a matter of translating the strings in the resource and updating the binary.
Linux has something similar by using the gettext() function.
The hardest part is really translating correctly the text, taking into account the particularities of every language, the customs,... and obviously, keeping the translated version up to date.
There's a few thing you don't quite understand.
1) It's not jaleousy.
People everywhere around the world resent the way USA behaves around the world. In the middle east, in asia, in europe,...
If you think everybody's jaleous, you obviously need to travel around the world and see by yourself why they are so angry.
Jaleousy can't be the reason why two thirds of the world want you to get an enormous slap in the face.
2) The big problem of the EU is not military, it's political. Together, the EU is probably as powerful as USA, they have the weapons, the money, all the technology, they can build everything themselves.
Their big problem is that they don't have the political resolve USA has when it comes to deciding that they will go and act.
The point 2) is why USA is the only superpower of the world, if the europeans get their shit together, USA is going to lose a lot of its dominance.
Do a better job than they do for a better price, that's as simple as that.
Thing is, there's no way USA can match indian prices, and indian software engineers are usually quite decent, so USA is going to lose more and more IT jobs.
Now, if you want to put barriers to importation to protect your jobs, imagine if other countries did the same with USA and stopped buying US software, most of you would be in DEEP trouble.
So let the free market decide, because you will probably lose a protectionist war, the european union has now as much power as you do economically, and they already have used their power to curb US protectionist policies before.
As far as I know, you don't need to be strong and tall to lead an army.
Hitler was far from being strong and tall, yet he led an enormous army(to defeat, thank god).
It's a question of scale, Bush is probably not better than this fascist.
Simply here the GOP is called "right", and over there it's called "extreme right".
The "Many Eyes" system is good in theory and doesn't work that well in reality.
The fact that you can look at the code doesn't mean that you actually read it.
sendmail, bind and wu_ftpd have been around for years and years, they are some of the most used open source tools, yet their code is in no way better than closed source tools.
99% of the people absolutely don't care about the sources, why should they have to spend 20 more minutes downloading a bigger package if they absolutely don't care about it ?
Who do you think you are to require people to open their code ? If you don't like closed source software, don't buy it, it's as simple as that.
Authors also have a right to freedom, it's not only for the users.
sendmail, wu_ftpd and bind have proven that this is not true.
Open source does not give any advantage simply because almost nobody actually reads the code.
In theory, yes you can read it, in real life however, almost nobody takes advantage of this to audit the code and search for problems.
The fact that open source allows you to read the code doesn't mean that people actually read it.
Repeat after me...
E N C R Y P T I O N
Sniff as much as you want, it won't help much.
One more proof that these two websites are less and less appealing to people who have a brain and use it.
.NET Server, both products were written by the Server platform group, not the Client group.
Windows XP shares >90% of its code with
This explain why the Client group has such a high percentage of profit and why the Server platform group didn't.
It shouldn't be that hard to use your brain once in a while instead of spreading lies about your opponent, it actually might even be useful and intelligent.
Actually MS could even have given the OS, problem is:
SchoolNet has asked MS to cover the cost of the Windows XP Pro OEM given with the Acer computer.
Which is quite different than asking MS for a free OS.
In this case, MS would have had to pay Acer 9'000$ for its own product !
Now it's not hard to guess why MS said no.
MS proposes to give some of their software in RESPONSE to a demand.
It is perfectly their right to give whatever they want to give, like you and me.
For one reason or another, they didn't give everything the school needs.
They didn't propose to donate, they were ASKED to donate, and they gave something, but obviously, some people don't like it when they don't get everything for free.
Slashdot is definitely becoming less and less interesting, more and more of the articles found here are either duplicates or stupid MS bashing, and that's really sad, this site could be so much more than a message board for MS haters.
Well...
.NET Server has got a lot of improvements in that regard...
.NET Server will extend this to 64 and perhaps even more.
It's perhaps 10 teraFLOPS, but it's 1024 computers loosely coupled. The SGI box has 64 CPU, and Linux's scheduler has nothing that matches the capabalities of Solaris or IRIX when it comes to scalability in term of number of CPU, it's even worse than Windows in this view, and
Windows runs correctly(ie. with acceptable performance) on computers with 1 to 32 CPU TODAY, and
As of today, nobody uses Linux IN PRODUCTION with more than 8 CPU, so actually, Linux is playing catch up with Windows in this field also.
Sad but true.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp
Blame the admin
What I think of the swiss behaviour during WW2 ?
d .htm by an american.
Well, it's explained here: http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Mags/TargetSwitzerlan
Don't get me wrong, every country had done good and bad things, including Switzerland and european countries(colonialism comes to mind).
What annoys me A LOT is that USA tend to think that they are a better country than any other when it comes to freedom, free speech, etc...
Well, I've been living in Seattle for two years now, and even though USA is not a dictatorship, there's definitely not more freedom than in western european countries, the main difference is that citizens in this country are more ignorant to how the world around them evolve because the education system and the TV in USA SUCKS REALLY BAD.
Moreover, this country absolutely refuse severything that is not 100% in its best interest even though it would be in the best interest of the world as a whole, things like the Kyoto protocol, the international tribunal on war crime,... have been accepted by a majority of countries all around the world, but USA refuses them and tries to undermine them because even though is does not represent a threat of an kind to USA, it does not serve their interest.
That kind of thing creates a lot enemies around the world, it would be much better to use common sense to avoid having enemies around the world than sending soldiers.
Switzerland is a country respected everywhere around the world because it does not mess up with other countries interests, and that's the reason why terrorists do not attack Switzerland, why people in Switzerland do not live with the fear of being targeted, and that's a much better way of life from my experience.
Just my 2 cents.
That's right, americans are smarter.
They first did a genocide on their own land with the native americans, then decided it would be much more interesting to have genocides out of the country.
So they decided to support dictators like Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, almost every dictatorship in south america, Israel's occupation of palestinian land and settlements in violation of international law, Pol Pot in Cambodgia, some napalm on the civilians in Vietnam, some defoliant to kill people even years after the end of the war, opposing the international tribunal for war crimes and trying to undermine it at all costs, using biological weapons against their own citizens,...
Sometimes I think USA and the rest of the world just don't have the same meaning for the world "civilized"...
Corel already tried and we all saw the result: slow and dismissed by the market.
Even though JVMs improved a lot in the meantime, there's no way a JVM is going to make an app such as OpenOffice as smooth to use as a native version.
They'd better work on a native version, instead of working on something which has not a single chance of attracting users.
Given that OpenOffice mimicks the GUI of MS Office(did you see how similar the GUI(buttons position, style, etc...) is ?) I tend to think that OpenOffice is actually nothing else that an Office clone, actually it's just worse, but very similar.
NT4 Alpha, NT4 PPC and NT4 MIPS failed more because the CPU failed to gain market share than because of NT4.
The sales of machines with these processors were way too small to justify commitment from MS which is a company selling products by the million.
As for XBox, I fail to see how it could be flagged as a failure.
We should check if the CTO of Worldcom had any link to Al-Quaeda, who knows this might be the cyberwarfare attack we were warned about :+)
:+)
This bin Laden is really a smart guy, he used USA's capitalist system to destroy their most important communication system
No, like what Amnesty International describes here : http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/mde/israel+a nd+the+occupied+territories+!Open
o ns/index. asp
or here(an israeli human rights group):
http://www.btselem.org/English/Publicati
Oh, and as a matter of fact, Lebanon is a democracy. Representatives are elected, there's an opposition group, opposition to Syrian presence,...
Yes, but no one in Iran was sentenced to life in prison because he stole a pair of shoes or a pizza.
Hint: California's three strikes law
See http://www.amend3strikes.org for more informations on how good US laws are.