I'm an avid UO server software developer (not RunUO) myself and I can explain a little as to why: Years ago, Richard Garriot who held the rights to Ultima Online at that time sent out an open letter where he declared that he was fine with people developing uo server software and running free servers (freeshards) as long as they did not turn a profit from them.
Haider never became PM of Austria. Haider never had a mandate in any state level function in Austria. Haider did not win any election at state level in Austria.
The election you are talking about did not take place in 2000 but in 1999. These are the results:
The people's party coalitioned with the freedom party, but Haider had to retreat to Carinthia and pull out of any state level agitation, which he mostly did. Today Haider's Freedom party is below 10% in most elections.
This is purely political. It sounds like someone who didn't like the outcome of the 2000 election wants to make a statement. I wonder if the representatives of this group are elected or directly appointed. If they are appointed by the governments that don't currently support US policies (Germany, France, etc.), the reasoning becomes much clearer.
The OSCE is an organisation with statutes and election that is indepedendant of any governments. It is not funded by countries individually either. What is true is that political parties may ask people to participate in the OSCE.
What purpose other than embarassment can there possibly be? I know, for example, Germany would be (rightfully) embarrassed if the British sent election officials to ensure the Germans' process was clean.
Also, the OSCE monitors elections only in countries they are invited by. Your fears were wrong.
That aside, having one's election monitored should not be an embarrassment. Ever. You americans have nothing to lose, only to win.
This is called a
heisenbug, in case you are wondering. They occur mostly due to a smashed stack and are indeed damn hard to track.
You can of course use assembly to track the bug, but I myself find that tedious. If you are programming in plain C (and not C++), you can use lint, a tool that evaluates sourcecode, very often. When lint reports no more possible problems you are done.
If you happen to use C++ you'll probably have to shell out big bucks for a linter or be out of luck because there are only commercial linters available.
Tho, that's why I always have a Linux system with
valgrind, which is amongst other things a memory debugging tool, available on it (unfortunately valgrind does not work on any of the BSDs). Valgrind will scream and give a stack backtrace when your program does something wrong - be it an off-by-one error, be it memory being read uninitialized or whaterver. A truly genial tool.
Windows may be free, but when you really want to do something with that machine, you will inevitably at one point shell out big bucks. For development, which I like to do, for example.
The reason I don't like to do Windows is because after I have installed a $free_unix, I can do this:
aeons:/usr/home/ava$ which emacs /usr/local/bin/emacs aeons:/usr/home/ava$ which cc /usr/bin/cc aeons:/usr/home/ava$ which CC /usr/bin/CC aeons:/usr/home/ava$ which perl /usr/bin/perl aeons:/usr/home/ava$ which python /usr/local/bin/python aeons:/usr/home/ava $ which mozilla /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla aeons:/usr/home/a va$ uname FreeBSD
It's thas simple. And it's all there, even without going through a thousand urls to download whatever program that just won't match these other operating systems anyways. And if I ever need some other piece of software I can have it in a minute by simply pkg_add -r'ing it. Simple convenience, I guess. Priceless.
Also the quick sort is not the perfect sort of all uses. It is very good at sorting in memory but sucks when sorting on a hard disk.
NO.
That's why there is an O notation and if you had some education you'd know that too. Quicksort will perform the exact same number of operations on the same list. The only difference is the latency of each operation. But this latency is there for every sorting algorithm, how much it will matter will depend on whether an algorithm is O(ln n), O(n), O(n^2) or even worse. If you are interested: Quicksort has O(n^2) in the worst case [= list was sorted already] but O(n log n) in average.
That's why I believe PhDs are useful (I'm not, myself): Computer Science is not interested in how much slower a harddisk will perform when compared to the latest Ubermemory, but instead wants to know for how many years people can go for some coffee if they perform some calculation - or if there could be a faster way perhaps.
Wrong wrong wrong. If somebody gives you software, you can use it from then on. Once the files are in your possession, you can use them, unless you've somehow signed a specific prior contract promising you won't.
If you download software, then you are actively seeking to acquire that software. Nobody gives it to you. The software is at most being made available to you, but it is not given to you.
As a metaphor: If I leave my front door open anybody can go in and take stuff from my house. That does not mean that they may do so though. Since software is meant to be used that's a chewing gum point however, but let's get to that in a second:
If you don't plan to give out copies of the program, you have no need to agree to the GPL, or even read it.
From the GPL FAQ, on the question whether users have fair use rights on a GPLed program:
"Yes, you do. "Fair use" is use that is allowed without any special permission. Since you don't need the developers' permission for such use, you can do it regardless of what the developers said about it--in the license or elsewhere, whether that license be the GNU GPL or any other free software license.
Note, however, that there is no world-wide principle of fair use; what kinds of use are considered "fair" varies from country to country."
So fair use is nothing generic and nothing you can count on. If there are liability problems you have a case that is beyond fair use in any event. In this case you must agree on the GPL to get what the license gives you in terms of warranty - which is, as you rightly point out, no warranty at all.
Wrong. Go read the GPL before lying about it anymore.
*shrugs*. So strong words. For the sake of clarity, "no warranty" can be considered to also mean "not liable for damages" (of course, it means other things too). Can you stop trolling now puh-lease?
Not needed. Because you do not have a right to use Linux as well as its accompanying utilities, the GNU tools - and if you don't have a right to use something, you can hardly sue somebody because that something did misbehave.
Except of course if you agree to the GNU General Public License, which the software is licensed under. Then you can use it. Obviously only under the terms of the GPL, which explicitly state that you must not hold the author liable for any damages caused.
Also interesting: In most countries of the world (such as my country, Austria), EULAs are not enforcible because the user does not get any more rights granted than what he got anyways when he bought the software. The GPL, in contrast, is enforcible.
Impeached? You ought to tell the world for what ridiculous reasons too.
Hell, he had sex with a woman. Not a very attractive woman, but still understandable. I suppose the affair with her did not hinder him in his presidential duties - because, after all - he could have had sex with his wife too and that was not considered hindering (interestingly enough, since his wife had political functions and Lewinsky not [!]).
Is sex with a person other than your wife a crime?
America must wake up and listen to itself, because a president like GWB is highly unamerican.
Reading slashdot, whenever there is a political debate, I get the feeling that americans see themselves singled out in the world (see grandparent). The media might tell them so. This is not true; of course the Bush administration is not well regarded anywhere in the world for their spectacular dilletantism.
I don't think Michael Moore tries to appear credible. If he were trying to, he would have a mandate somewhere or at least a function in a political party.
He rightly says that there's something wrong in the US, but he's not delivering opinions on how to make it better. That's why he's no politician. He's an entertainer.
A populistic entertainer though, but then, he has a point and that's what the freedom of press is all about.
That's right! It needs to be pointed out that neoliberalism is not the same as liberalism - but not anywhere in the world!
Neoliberalism means freedom in an economic sense, i.e. total deregulation of the market. Liberalism on the other hand means freedom in every sense and is usually geared towards the people.
A more detailed explanation of liberalism, if you are interested: People's freedom does not only mean their right to say everything, go where they please, etc.. Consider, for example, democratic russia (RF)! The people there are now 'free' - but how free are they really? They are only as free to go where they please as much as their available money will allow, which basically means nowhere out of the RF.
So liberalism is basically all about real freedom (whatever that may be), this has nothing to do with neoliberalism. A primary key to real freedom is a working economy though, so liberals do usually push a strong market agenda.
As an ultra unimportant functionary in the austrian Socialdemocratic party (labour), I can see where the misunderstanding comes from though! The right winged party do often times classify themselves as those who aspire to true liberty. Take for example the Freedom Party (Haider's party): They have strong nationalistic views actually but broadcast that they are the little men's party, that they are a better labour party. They tell people that they would like to give them freedom by lowering taxes, hence leaving more money in their pockets - which is of course completely wrong.
The illustrated is a typical case of a hidden neoliberal agenda (deflux of money from social institutions like healthcare and privatisation of stately matters like this). This agenda is totally 'in program' of a typical right wing party which stems from strong feudalistic sources. In effect people are misinformed about the implications of their vote, tricked into believing something utterly wrong like that neoliberalism would benefit the working population. The trick is to smear concepts and well defined political terms because only an uninformed population is a right voting population.
I took a look at your site and stumbled about quite a few 'issues' (as you call them) in what should have been your positions paper, such as..:
Marriage
The blessed union of marriage must remain only between a man and a woman. Anything else is contrary to God's purposes for mankind. I support a Constitutional amendment to preserve the sanctity of marriage.
Oh my god. You are calling this a political position? You'd be laughed away in my country. Besides the utter bullshit that is the differing between hetero- and homosexual relationships, you are reasoning with god, a fictional - or at least unproven - entity with no clearly defined properties. Care to elaborate on how you asked god about his purposes for mankind? I do hope he gave it to you in writing, and hopefully he was also musing about why he made people gay in the first place. Would it be okay to kill jews too because god told you to please do that? Again, this is no political position. It is an opinion, as in a comment.
Religion & Christianity
Lower courts and groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union continue to push religion, and Christianity specifically, out of our society. Religion should be protected and displays of religion encouraged, even on public property, as upheld by the Supreme Court. The Constitution guarantees freedom to practice religion, and expressly prohibits Congress from restricting that right.
Apart from not being a political position but merely an opinion again, this one is contradicting in itself. Freedom to practice religion includes that displays of religion not be encouraged. Mind numbing.
Tax policy
Americans pay too much tax, supporting a wasteful and bloated government. Lowering taxes generates economic growth, as demonstrated by tax cuts passed by George W. Bush(...). If elected, I pledge to never cast a vote which will result in higher taxes.
You have true insight and I congratulate you, Sir. Of course, taxes are evil, evil, evil. Obviously, if governments lower taxes, the economy will just grow and we will have more money due to economic growth! Boy, were we stupid in the past when we invented taxes (To our defense, we thought that we could use them to do economically stupid things like welfare, which oh, you want to cut too). Mind numbingly stupid. And oh well, not a political position again. You're a very unpolitical politician, you know? You label this page which is the only part offering insight into what you will do - 'Stands on Issues'. What do these stands do? What will you do about your 'stands'? People do not care about how you think about stuff as a public mandatary, but how you will cast your votes or what kind of bills you will propose.
Right. I'll spare myself from more looks at your 'stands' on issues. It is unbelievable that a person with so little knowledge about politics like you can run for Congress in the United States of America. But that brings me to another topic you seem reluctant to talk about (such as your positions): What has been your political way in the past? What functions (in what organizations/referates?), what mandates have you had? Which organizations put you on what positions on the election lists? This might come as a complete surprise to you, but people considering to cast their vote for you just might want to know.
Sir, *your site's content* is a terrible political joke. But on the other hand, I partly had a good laugh and people reading excerpts from your stands might have too. So thank you.
In the FreeBSD 3.something days I remember to have used isdn4bsd - a very fine software package. I am not sure if that still holds true today, but iirc it did just what you asked for.
(*) Disclaimer: I'm no prophet, so please take my post with a grain of salt.
The international press (for example the press in my country, Austria) is assuming the opposite to happen. And I share their view. Central Europe believes these assaults to happen because the Iraquis would prefer the US to move out of their country.
With Saddam Hussain being put on display in a humiliative fashion - him playing the role of a broken man whose two sons have been killed by the very forces that now have control of his life - this might anger those who lead these assaults even more.
The situation down there is not a beautiful one; the rest of the world blames the many problems on the Bush administration. We are sincerely hoping that you will vote their asses out of office next time and elect somebody with a finer understanding of the world into what's easily the world's most important political function. The rest of the world needs a different US. You might not care, tho - but I for one hope you do.
I believe this is where access falls short. I don't believe the syntax of access is 100% standard.
And neither is MySQL's syntax. The SQL for example has nested queries. MySQL does not have that.
In the end it's all about relational calculus. You can teach that with both tools at hand.
The article seems to suggest that Access is very bad at being serving a database (i.e., it is not suitable for real database work) - and that is certainly the truth, yet you will hardly need a real database for teaching relational calculus. Either Access and MySQL will do.
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I'm an avid UO server software developer (not RunUO) myself and I can explain a little as to why: Years ago, Richard Garriot who held the rights to Ultima Online at that time sent out an open letter where he declared that he was fine with people developing uo server software and running free servers (freeshards) as long as they did not turn a profit from them.
Haider never became PM of Austria. Haider never had a mandate in any state level function in Austria. Haider did not win any election at state level in Austria.
The election you are talking about did not take place in 2000 but in 1999. These are the results:
Socialdemocratics: 37.85%
People's Party: 16.98%
Freedom Party (Haider's party!): 24.77%
Greens: 10.33%
Liberals: 6.96%
The people's party coalitioned with the freedom party, but Haider had to retreat to Carinthia and pull out of any state level agitation, which he mostly did. Today Haider's Freedom party is below 10% in most elections.
Yours sincerely,
an Austrian.
Also, the OSCE monitors elections only in countries they are invited by. Your fears were wrong.
That aside, having one's election monitored should not be an embarrassment. Ever. You americans have nothing to lose, only to win.
What is Form 180, please? I'm not from the US, hence don't know the probably obvious.
This is called a heisenbug, in case you are wondering. They occur mostly due to a smashed stack and are indeed damn hard to track.
You can of course use assembly to track the bug, but I myself find that tedious. If you are programming in plain C (and not C++), you can use lint, a tool that evaluates sourcecode, very often. When lint reports no more possible problems you are done.
If you happen to use C++ you'll probably have to shell out big bucks for a linter or be out of luck because there are only commercial linters available.
Tho, that's why I always have a Linux system with valgrind, which is amongst other things a memory debugging tool, available on it (unfortunately valgrind does not work on any of the BSDs). Valgrind will scream and give a stack backtrace when your program does something wrong - be it an off-by-one error, be it memory being read uninitialized or whaterver. A truly genial tool.
The reason I don't like to do Windows is because after I have installed a $free_unix, I can do this:
It's thas simple. And it's all there, even without going through a thousand urls to download whatever program that just won't match these other operating systems anyways. And if I ever need some other piece of software I can have it in a minute by simply pkg_add -r'ing it. Simple convenience, I guess. Priceless.
That's why there is an O notation and if you had some education you'd know that too. Quicksort will perform the exact same number of operations on the same list. The only difference is the latency of each operation. But this latency is there for every sorting algorithm, how much it will matter will depend on whether an algorithm is O(ln n), O(n), O(n^2) or even worse. If you are interested: Quicksort has O(n^2) in the worst case [= list was sorted already] but O(n log n) in average.
That's why I believe PhDs are useful (I'm not, myself): Computer Science is not interested in how much slower a harddisk will perform when compared to the latest Ubermemory, but instead wants to know for how many years people can go for some coffee if they perform some calculation - or if there could be a faster way perhaps.
As a metaphor: If I leave my front door open anybody can go in and take stuff from my house. That does not mean that they may do so though. Since software is meant to be used that's a chewing gum point however, but let's get to that in a second: From the GPL FAQ, on the question whether users have fair use rights on a GPLed program: "Yes, you do. "Fair use" is use that is allowed without any special permission. Since you don't need the developers' permission for such use, you can do it regardless of what the developers said about it--in the license or elsewhere, whether that license be the GNU GPL or any other free software license.
Note, however, that there is no world-wide principle of fair use; what kinds of use are considered "fair" varies from country to country."
So fair use is nothing generic and nothing you can count on. If there are liability problems you have a case that is beyond fair use in any event. In this case you must agree on the GPL to get what the license gives you in terms of warranty - which is, as you rightly point out, no warranty at all. *shrugs*. So strong words. For the sake of clarity, "no warranty" can be considered to also mean "not liable for damages" (of course, it means other things too). Can you stop trolling now puh-lease?
Not needed. Because you do not have a right to use Linux as well as its accompanying utilities, the GNU tools - and if you don't have a right to use something, you can hardly sue somebody because that something did misbehave.
Except of course if you agree to the GNU General Public License, which the software is licensed under. Then you can use it. Obviously only under the terms of the GPL, which explicitly state that you must not hold the author liable for any damages caused.
Also interesting: In most countries of the world (such as my country, Austria), EULAs are not enforcible because the user does not get any more rights granted than what he got anyways when he bought the software. The GPL, in contrast, is enforcible.
Impeached? You ought to tell the world for what ridiculous reasons too.
Hell, he had sex with a woman. Not a very attractive woman, but still understandable. I suppose the affair with her did not hinder him in his presidential duties - because, after all - he could have had sex with his wife too and that was not considered hindering (interestingly enough, since his wife had political functions and Lewinsky not [!]).
Is sex with a person other than your wife a crime?
Indeed! A very insightful comment.
America must wake up and listen to itself, because a president like GWB is highly unamerican.
Reading slashdot, whenever there is a political debate, I get the feeling that americans see themselves singled out in the world (see grandparent). The media might tell them so. This is not true; of course the Bush administration is not well regarded anywhere in the world for their spectacular dilletantism.
I don't think Michael Moore tries to appear credible. If he were trying to, he would have a mandate somewhere or at least a function in a political party.
He rightly says that there's something wrong in the US, but he's not delivering opinions on how to make it better. That's why he's no politician. He's an entertainer.
A populistic entertainer though, but then, he has a point and that's what the freedom of press is all about.
That's right! It needs to be pointed out that neoliberalism is not the same as liberalism - but not anywhere in the world!
Neoliberalism means freedom in an economic sense, i.e. total deregulation of the market. Liberalism on the other hand means freedom in every sense and is usually geared towards the people.
A more detailed explanation of liberalism, if you are interested: People's freedom does not only mean their right to say everything, go where they please, etc.. Consider, for example, democratic russia (RF)! The people there are now 'free' - but how free are they really? They are only as free to go where they please as much as their available money will allow, which basically means nowhere out of the RF.
So liberalism is basically all about real freedom (whatever that may be), this has nothing to do with neoliberalism. A primary key to real freedom is a working economy though, so liberals do usually push a strong market agenda.
As an ultra unimportant functionary in the austrian Socialdemocratic party (labour), I can see where the misunderstanding comes from though! The right winged party do often times classify themselves as those who aspire to true liberty. Take for example the Freedom Party (Haider's party): They have strong nationalistic views actually but broadcast that they are the little men's party, that they are a better labour party. They tell people that they would like to give them freedom by lowering taxes, hence leaving more money in their pockets - which is of course completely wrong.
The illustrated is a typical case of a hidden neoliberal agenda (deflux of money from social institutions like healthcare and privatisation of stately matters like this). This agenda is totally 'in program' of a typical right wing party which stems from strong feudalistic sources. In effect people are misinformed about the implications of their vote, tricked into believing something utterly wrong like that neoliberalism would benefit the working population. The trick is to smear concepts and well defined political terms because only an uninformed population is a right voting population.
This brings me to an interesting point that I have always wanted to know, and maybe you can give me the answer to that:
What and where do you need how much majority to change the US constitution?
Here in Austria, it's 2/3 in our parliament, as in the European Union.
Apart from not being a political position but merely an opinion again, this one is contradicting in itself. Freedom to practice religion includes that displays of religion not be encouraged. Mind numbing.
You have true insight and I congratulate you, Sir. Of course, taxes are evil, evil, evil. Obviously, if governments lower taxes, the economy will just grow and we will have more money due to economic growth! Boy, were we stupid in the past when we invented taxes (To our defense, we thought that we could use them to do economically stupid things like welfare, which oh, you want to cut too). Mind numbingly stupid. And oh well, not a political position again. You're a very unpolitical politician, you know? You label this page which is the only part offering insight into what you will do - 'Stands on Issues'. What do these stands do? What will you do about your 'stands'? People do not care about how you think about stuff as a public mandatary, but how you will cast your votes or what kind of bills you will propose.
Right. I'll spare myself from more looks at your 'stands' on issues. It is unbelievable that a person with so little knowledge about politics like you can run for Congress in the United States of America. But that brings me to another topic you seem reluctant to talk about (such as your positions): What has been your political way in the past? What functions (in what organizations/referates?), what mandates have you had? Which organizations put you on what positions on the election lists? This might come as a complete surprise to you, but people considering to cast their vote for you just might want to know.
Sir, *your site's content* is a terrible political joke. But on the other hand, I partly had a good laugh and people reading excerpts from your stands might have too. So thank you.
The impact of EULAs is doubtable in Europe. In my country, Austria, EULAs are not legaly binding as far as I know.
Actually, at least my country - Austria - stopped them from spreading fud too. Afaik the Cechz aswell.
In the FreeBSD 3.something days I remember to have used isdn4bsd - a very fine software package. I am not sure if that still holds true today, but iirc it did just what you asked for.
(*) Disclaimer: I'm no prophet, so please take my post with a grain of salt.
The international press (for example the press in my country, Austria) is assuming the opposite to happen. And I share their view. Central Europe believes these assaults to happen because the Iraquis would prefer the US to move out of their country.
With Saddam Hussain being put on display in a humiliative fashion - him playing the role of a broken man whose two sons have been killed by the very forces that now have control of his life - this might anger those who lead these assaults even more.
The situation down there is not a beautiful one; the rest of the world blames the many problems on the Bush administration. We are sincerely hoping that you will vote their asses out of office next time and elect somebody with a finer understanding of the world into what's easily the world's most important political function. The rest of the world needs a different US. You might not care, tho - but I for one hope you do.
And neither is MySQL's syntax. The SQL for example has nested queries. MySQL does not have that.
In the end it's all about relational calculus. You can teach that with both tools at hand.
The article seems to suggest that Access is very bad at being serving a database (i.e., it is not suitable for real database work) - and that is certainly the truth, yet you will hardly need a real database for teaching relational calculus. Either Access and MySQL will do.
In Soviet Russia Power Unplugs YOU!
G. Baron and P. Kirschenhofer. An introduction to maths for computer scientists, Vol 1 & 3, Springer/Vienna.
D. E. Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol 1 - 3, Addison-Wesley
N.L. Biggs. Discrete mathematics, Oxford University Press
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K.H. Rosen. Discrete mathematics and its applications, McGraw-Hill
There are quite a few free UO servers out there, if you liked the game you indeed might want to give it a try - playing is free after all:
The Panultima Endeffect
World of Honor
The Forgotten Realm
A 747 does mach 0.78, just like all of the commercial jets available today (B737, all Airbus, etc.).