But, as I've said, it's no news. Recently, U.S. Gov. has put huge barriers against steel from others, more competitive countries (Brazil, E.U., etc.).
U.S. preaches capitalism to the world, and, by the way, I have nothing against that. But, when others show themselves better than U.S. in some tiny economic niche, all the courageous, competitive dogma goes away and "protective tarrifs" come in place.
Wasn't big american companies also subsidized? Airlines, Aerospace companies, etc...? What is so different with South Koreans?
I have two very stupid questions about a global flooding happening few thousands yrs ago:
1- If it really happened, wouldn't all river fishes be dead, since they cannot live in sea ?
2- Wouldn't we expect to find amazing evidences like whales and sharks skeletons in the most unusual places, from the animals trapped in some valley when the water came back to the normal levels ?
I understand most people don't like to take that "red pill". It's human. Just don't take the blue pill to seriously.
Considered the great portuguese poet ever, his most important work, "Os Lusiadas", is a story about the Portuguese explorations of the seas since 1400, and their achivements (like, discovering the route to India, "discovering" Madagascar, etc.). Since they were dealing with the highest technology of their time, I think it qualifies as an important poem inspired by technology.
"Os Lusiadas" is mandatory reading in many high schools in Brazil and Portugal. Some links:
Technology is the same for more than 100 yrs. Some improvements in geometry and isolation materials, apart from that, they're essentially the same.
I worked for sometime in a engineering company, and we were making an upgrade on a 80yrs old small hydrogenerator. The only stuff we changed was the isolation materials and the wiring. The core essentially remained untouched.
Meanwhile, in the deeps of Microsoft Mac Business Unit...
-Hi. I just want to see what you guys are doing here.
-Hi, Bill! We are doing many improvements in Office, Outlook...
-Calm down! No need to hurry! You guys seem to work too much!
-Indeed! Now we're porting SQL-Server to Mac OS X Server...
-I see. But as I said, there's no rush. Drink less coffee, work less daily hours, enjoy life more... Buy a videogame to your employees!
-Actually, we're very busy because we want to start to port the whole.NET...
-That's it! 6 months of vacation to everybody. On me! You guys deserve it!
After Delphi-2, M$ hired Delphi Chief Architect, Anders Hejlsberg (somewhat admitting Delphi was far superior). If, after that, VB has portions written in Delphi, I wouldn't be surprised.
It's important to remember that Hejlsberg is the man behind the.NET framework and C# language itself..NET framework has many characteristics that Delphi developers already uses. That's why the move to.NET, for Delphi developers, is a easier step than it is for C++, VB or Java Developers.
How in hell can you say that????? I was just comparing the way the old klingons behave with the new ones. It's you who is implying any racist consideration.
And, if this does matter to you, I am very less "white" then you might think.
Hummm... It may be, but, in "Enterprise", 100 yrs before NCC-1701 adventures, the governants of the Klingon Empire were already from the dumb species...
I think they have to be very creative mantain a plausible timeline;-)
Is it just me, or the old fashioned klingons were far better vilains that the new ones? I mean, old klingons were cynical, smart, dissimulated, and very dangerous.
But NG's (or motion-picture) style klingons are irracional, fanatic, even dumb, and it's by no way credible that this kind of civilization would ever manage to build any kind of science or engineering.
Note that both know how to be brutal, but the first ones used brutality as a tool for their objectives, and, for the new ones, it's an almost biological characteristic.
I remember that I've read, in a magazine, that the klingons of the 60's represented the enemies of the U.S. in that time (China, USSR), and, the klingons from 80 to date, represented the new ones (fanatics). It may be, but, as vilains, the previous generation of Klingons were way more fun.
The Bible also has some horrendous violent stories (like killing all mankind, children included, except for one family in a boat). Will they have the guts?
"The best thing about Delphi/Kylix is that you can dabble in Linux, and still use it to pay the bills"
One interesting thing happened to me regarding this. In a small TV, we created a news system. Its clients, inside the company, uses a Windows front-end writen in Delphi; To the web, we simply recompiled the data abstraction layer and created some small formating code and we had a full-featured apache-linux webserver app, with little effort.
If the folks at borland at least port this thing to the MAC...;-)
Create any kind of multiplatform (windows/linux) apps.
Use a WAY better RAD tool than VB (I used VB for a while).
Learn and use a full-featured OO language.
As a bonus, you can even generate.NET applications, if you need.
I use it since its first version (well, since Turbo Pascal 3.0, actually), and, altough it's not the tool I use most in daily job (I deal with Macs a lot), it's simply the best RAD tool I've seen. Try a free download. After all, you're the kind of guy they're targeting now.
I do know that antimatter has positive mass, only oposite electrical charge... But the energy that results from the destruction matter/antimatter itself will be counted as mass ???
Well, just a though.
I wonder what happens when a black-hole starts eating anti-matter (if it finds some). Does this decreases its mass, since matter and anti-matter destroy each other?
I use open-sourced interbase both for intranet and for a news app that I've developed for a TV station. It requires virtually zero administration, has all the stuff a RDBMS should have (triggers, stored procedures, user-defined functions, etc.).
It has versions for Linux, Windows, some Unices, etc., so it's easier if you entually decide trash out M$ in the server side.
John Mitchel, in 1783, had the idea that a star could be so heavy that the light itself could not escape its gravitational field. I think this precludes mr. Poe by some decades.
Not totally true. You are actually required to vote if you are in your electoral area in the election day. If, like me, you are not, you have to fill a paper to show to Justice you were not in your city.
Furthermore, if you do vote, you also can select null on the machine, so, you are not obligated to vote in no candidate, if you think none of them deserve your vote.
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But, as I've said, it's no news. Recently, U.S. Gov. has put huge barriers against steel from others, more competitive countries (Brazil, E.U., etc.).
U.S. preaches capitalism to the world, and, by the way, I have nothing against that. But, when others show themselves better than U.S. in some tiny economic niche, all the courageous, competitive dogma goes away and "protective tarrifs" come in place.
Wasn't big american companies also subsidized? Airlines, Aerospace companies, etc...? What is so different with South Koreans?
Demand free trade to 3rd world countries, close the internal market. Nothing to see here.
I have two very stupid questions about a global flooding happening few thousands yrs ago :
1- If it really happened, wouldn't all river fishes be dead, since they cannot live in sea ?
2- Wouldn't we expect to find amazing evidences like whales and sharks skeletons in the most unusual places, from the animals trapped in some valley when the water came back to the normal levels ?
I understand most people don't like to take that "red pill". It's human. Just don't take the blue pill to seriously.
You mean, people usally prefer the blue pill. I have to agree with this.
Considered the great portuguese poet ever, his most important work, "Os Lusiadas", is a story about the Portuguese explorations of the seas since 1400, and their achivements (like, discovering the route to India, "discovering" Madagascar, etc.). Since they were dealing with the highest technology of their time, I think it qualifies as an important poem inspired by technology.
"Os Lusiadas" is mandatory reading in many high schools in Brazil and Portugal. Some links:
http://web.rccn.net/Camoes/
http://lusiadas.gertrudes.com/
Technology is the same for more than 100 yrs. Some improvements in geometry and isolation materials, apart from that, they're essentially the same.
I worked for sometime in a engineering company, and we were making an upgrade on a 80yrs old small hydrogenerator. The only stuff we changed was the isolation materials and the wiring. The core essentially remained untouched.
Meanwhile, in the deeps of Microsoft Mac Business Unit...
.NET...
-Hi. I just want to see what you guys are doing here.
-Hi, Bill! We are doing many improvements in Office, Outlook...
-Calm down! No need to hurry! You guys seem to work too much!
-Indeed! Now we're porting SQL-Server to Mac OS X Server...
-I see. But as I said, there's no rush. Drink less coffee, work less daily hours, enjoy life more... Buy a videogame to your employees!
-Actually, we're very busy because we want to start to port the whole
-That's it! 6 months of vacation to everybody. On me! You guys deserve it!
As I recall...
Dilbert: No! C is not the grade of the project. It's the programming language I'll use on it.
PHB: (After a few seconds) OK. But why don't you program at least with B?
disclaimer: I'm a BIG Delphi Fan
.NET framework and C# language itself. .NET framework has many characteristics that Delphi developers already uses. That's why the move to .NET, for Delphi developers, is a easier step than it is for C++, VB or Java Developers.
After Delphi-2, M$ hired Delphi Chief Architect, Anders Hejlsberg (somewhat admitting Delphi was far superior). If, after that, VB has portions written in Delphi, I wouldn't be surprised.
It's important to remember that Hejlsberg is the man behind the
How in hell can you say that????? I was just comparing the way the old klingons behave with the new ones. It's you who is implying any racist consideration.
And, if this does matter to you, I am very less "white" then you might think.
Hummm... It may be, but, in "Enterprise", 100 yrs before NCC-1701 adventures, the governants of the Klingon Empire were already from the dumb species... I think they have to be very creative mantain a plausible timeline ;-)
Is it just me, or the old fashioned klingons were far better vilains that the new ones? I mean, old klingons were cynical, smart, dissimulated, and very dangerous.
But NG's (or motion-picture) style klingons are irracional, fanatic, even dumb, and it's by no way credible that this kind of civilization would ever manage to build any kind of science or engineering.
Note that both know how to be brutal, but the first ones used brutality as a tool for their objectives, and, for the new ones, it's an almost biological characteristic.
I remember that I've read, in a magazine, that the klingons of the 60's represented the enemies of the U.S. in that time (China, USSR), and, the klingons from 80 to date, represented the new ones (fanatics). It may be, but, as vilains, the previous generation of Klingons were way more fun.
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and so on...
The Bible also has some horrendous violent stories (like killing all mankind, children included, except for one family in a boat). Will they have the guts?
My condolences to the Gates family - what does Bill have? Cancer? Alzheimers? AIDS? ALS? CJD?
GPF?
Since Gellar is saying that she wants to quit the show in the next year, it's important to see if Sunnydale survives without her.
Well, maybe Sunnydale, but not the show.
"The best thing about Delphi/Kylix is that you can dabble in Linux, and still use it to pay the bills"
;-)
One interesting thing happened to me regarding this. In a small TV, we created a news system. Its clients, inside the company, uses a Windows front-end writen in Delphi; To the web, we simply recompiled the data abstraction layer and created some small formating code and we had a full-featured apache-linux webserver app, with little effort.
If the folks at borland at least port this thing to the MAC...
Create any kind of multiplatform (windows/linux) apps.
Use a WAY better RAD tool than VB (I used VB for a while).
Learn and use a full-featured OO language.
As a bonus, you can even generate .NET applications, if you need.
I use it since its first version (well, since Turbo Pascal 3.0, actually), and, altough it's not the tool I use most in daily job (I deal with Macs a lot), it's simply the best RAD tool I've seen. Try a free download. After all, you're the kind of guy they're targeting now.
I do know that antimatter has positive mass, only oposite electrical charge... But the energy that results from the destruction matter/antimatter itself will be counted as mass ??? Well, just a though.
I wonder what happens when a black-hole starts eating anti-matter (if it finds some). Does this decreases its mass, since matter and anti-matter destroy each other?
I use open-sourced interbase both for intranet and for a news app that I've developed for a TV station. It requires virtually zero administration, has all the stuff a RDBMS should have (triggers, stored procedures, user-defined functions, etc.).
It has versions for Linux, Windows, some Unices, etc., so it's easier if you entually decide trash out M$ in the server side.
John Mitchel, in 1783, had the idea that a star could be so heavy that the light itself could not escape its gravitational field. I think this precludes mr. Poe by some decades.
This program will update the counting as the numbers are computed.
Not totally true. You are actually required to vote if you are in your electoral area in the election day. If, like me, you are not, you have to fill a paper to show to Justice you were not in your city.
Furthermore, if you do vote, you also can select null on the machine, so, you are not obligated to vote in no candidate, if you think none of them deserve your vote.