Oh, come on! W2k and (they say) WinXP is pretty much stable enough for a decent workstation. Fact is the quality of MS software _has_ improved.
I still like GNU/Linux better, but that is just as much based on political and economical as technical views. It is just a better choice in almost all areas, and you can't beat the price! But quit slamming MS for their BSODs, they did something about their stability issues, and if you wish to be taken seriously as a OSS advocate you should admit that.
I mean, it's not like we dont have any other arguments, is there?
Well, sweden has had a "socialist" government for most of a century now. (They have lost a few elections every now and then, but never two in a row.) They are in power as we speak, and it looks like they are going to win the next election, that takes place later this year, too. And it is still a free, democratic country, with a healthy capitalist economy. The socialists aren't wery socialistic anymore IMHO, but anyway, I think it shows that many americans are a little to paranid about left wingers.
A left wing government is by no means a guarantee for the end of the world as you know it...
Neat idea... Just write a http proxy that applies an XSLT to the document. Generate the tag-values from the opensecrets.org database (if they have one). Could probably be done by one person in a week or two, if opensecrets keep a reasonable usable database, and are willing to cooperate.
If I were an american I would be tempted to write the thing myself... It would be great to just go to a website and see all bills with a header that indicated which elected officials was involved, and their voting record and ties to special interests.
Hell, if anyone wants to do this, I am willing to contribute just because it's cool...
Oh, come on! The US can go halfway across the globe and kick some random countrys ass at least every ten years, but you can't switch a few road signs? Of cource you could if you wanted to!
Amen! I have a really good mechanics book by an american author. I resently started looking through it for the first time in years (I'm experimenting a little with 3d physics.)
I keep thinking how much slimmer and better the book could have been without all that conversion bloat. Guess thats why I always prefered european books in uni. They are usually more compact.
Yeah, and for space exploration that something should be what the majority of the global science community uses, SI-units. Of course the imperial system works, but sooner or later one of them has to go, and measuring stuff in bodyparts seems to be a step backwards to me. Base-10 is a good foundation to build on.
Hmm... maybe we really should switch to metric time.
Be honest, how many IT folk have you encountered whos primary computer is, like, five years old? The number is disturbingly high.
I am a professional programmer. My primary box (well, at least the mb and CPU, everything else has been replaced at least once...) is pushing on 4 years right now. Still works ok for anything I usually run on it. Both on W2K and Linux. With the exception of modern games, of course.
I recently thought of upgrading, but decided on a big-ass TFT as my next buy instead. I simply need it more than one or two extra GHz.
If I should need more powerful hardware, I bring a laptop home from work...
The town you refer to was founded by Swedish immigrants.
The original Falun is still alive and well in sweden. It's several hundred years old and most known for sausages and a (also hundreds of years old) brand of red paint. Real boring place IMHO. ...no gongs and no zealots though, sorry.
What's even worse is that separate colonies of bacteria, each in their own biofilms, appear to be able to communicate to each other regarding threats. Across small distances of course, I'm not saying they've got mobile phones or anything...
Well, in a few years they probably _will_ have mobile phones considering the pace of bacterial evolution (induced by our overuse of antibiotics) and the evolution of mobile phones...
The problem is that The Hague have a very high standard of proof, and that the US have had no problem with this court passing judgement over others, and has even demanded it in many cases. (I'll quote the US department of state):
"The U.S. also is calling for Milosevic and other high-ranking Serbian officials to be tried as war criminals at The Hague."
This position of "it's good enough for the people we don't like, but not for us" makes it look like the US has something to hide, and only wants to use the war crimes tribunal to railroad it's enemies, and themself be free of any responsibilities. This could undermine the authority of the court if others follow the US example. The whole point of the tribunal is to enforce rules that apply uniformly to everyone.
What Bush is doing is actually different than what at least one other US president did. Bill Clinton supported The Hauge (as far as I know).
I think Bush is making a big mistake, it will come back to bite the world bigtime if he neuters this court.
Hope not though...
I would like to hear you ellaborate a bit about The Hague. you might clue me in a bit about what the hell Mr Bush is whining about.
Noone else seems to have a problem, but to the US this is the biggest deal in the world, apperantly. On the other hand the Bush administration (IMHO) tries to weasel it's way out of any and all international agreements. What is his problem with agreeing to common rules and sticking to them?
So who is going to handle that then? The government?
I wasn't aware there were a world government... oh, you mean the US should yet again directly control the root servers. Well, if that is what happens, I won't be surprised.
The DNS system is the worst thing that has ever happened to the web.
one could argue that any sane leader has to constantly think this way
Any leader period. Only difference is what they consider to be the "lesser evil". I am sure GWB and OBL for example have quite conflicting views on this...
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Thanks... now I have to whipe coffee stains of my monitor.
Yeah. I used to listen to them when I was younger.
They really made a thing out of not getting any airtime.
Just listen to "Please Play This Song On The Radio" and read the up yours message to MTV in oner of their booklets.
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God? We made him. In our image.
We need something to believe in. Whatever people can believe is ok. I for one would prefer that more people believed in science. But science takes a lot of work, and physics doesn't claim to hold all the answers, yet, or ever.
So most people still like smoke and mirrors better. And, really, who can blame them. Easy answers, set rules, authority from above. It is very seductive.
I think we can hold Tim Berners-Lee completely responsible for that.
Yes, ol' Tim is definitly aiding the terrorists.
The W3C advocates open standards, and we all know that is Evil.
After all, if we have open standards the terrorists have already won.
I believe that his theory of general relativity was proved mathematically Sure, Einstein did that himself. (How the hell would he have dared to release the theory otherwise...) But a matematical proof don't really prove anything in physics, math is just a model, and if you built your model on the wrong premises, well...
Experiment are the sole judge of any theory. Math is just a very important tool, it can help determin what might work. But it can't prove anything in physics.
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Oh, come on!
W2k and (they say) WinXP is pretty much stable enough for a decent workstation. Fact is the quality of MS software _has_ improved.
I still like GNU/Linux better, but that is just as much based on political and economical as technical views.
It is just a better choice in almost all areas, and you can't beat the price!
But quit slamming MS for their BSODs, they did something about their stability issues, and if you wish to be taken seriously as a OSS advocate you should admit that.
I mean, it's not like we dont have any other arguments, is there?
Well, sweden has had a "socialist" government for most of a century now. (They have lost a few elections every now and then, but never two in a row.) They are in power as we speak, and it looks like they are going to win the next election, that takes place later this year, too.
And it is still a free, democratic country, with a healthy capitalist economy.
The socialists aren't wery socialistic anymore IMHO, but anyway, I think it shows that many americans are a little to paranid about left wingers.
A left wing government is by no means a guarantee for the end of the world as you know it...
Neat idea...
Just write a http proxy that applies an XSLT to the document. Generate the tag-values from the opensecrets.org database (if they have one).
Could probably be done by one person in a week or two, if opensecrets keep a reasonable usable database, and are willing to cooperate.
If I were an american I would be tempted to write the thing myself...
It would be great to just go to a website and see all bills with a header that indicated which elected officials was involved, and their voting record and ties to special interests.
Hell, if anyone wants to do this, I am willing to contribute just because it's cool...
One cool thing about the US GNP is that California could break away, and by itself it would the the worlds No 5 economy by GNP/GDP
;-)
Don't even think about it!
You already had your civil war.
Are you slow learners or something?
Oh, come on!
The US can go halfway across the globe and kick some random countrys ass at least every ten years, but you can't switch a few road signs?
Of cource you could if you wanted to!
Amen!
I have a really good mechanics book by an american author. I resently started looking through it for the first time in years (I'm experimenting a little with 3d physics.)
I keep thinking how much slimmer and better the book could have been without all that conversion bloat.
Guess thats why I always prefered european books in uni.
They are usually more compact.
Yeah, and for space exploration that something should be what the majority of the global science community uses, SI-units.
Of course the imperial system works, but sooner or later one of them has to go, and measuring stuff in bodyparts seems to be a step backwards to me.
Base-10 is a good foundation to build on.
Hmm... maybe we really should switch to metric time.
Be honest, how many IT folk have you encountered whos primary computer is, like, five years old? The number is disturbingly high.
I am a professional programmer.
My primary box (well, at least the mb and CPU, everything else has been replaced at least once...) is pushing on 4 years right now.
Still works ok for anything I usually run on it. Both on W2K and Linux. With the exception of modern games, of course.
I recently thought of upgrading, but decided on a big-ass TFT as my next buy instead.
I simply need it more than one or two extra GHz.
If I should need more powerful hardware, I bring a laptop home from work...
Damn! You mean Adobe will stop selling Photoshop for Linux?
...oh, wait.
Next thing you'll probably tell me that Microsoft will recall MS Office for Linux too!
So, in your definition the attacks of, say, USS Cole and The Pentagon were not acts of terrorism?
Those were definitly military targets.
Just curious what you think about this.
The town you refer to was founded by Swedish immigrants.
...no gongs and no zealots though, sorry.
The original Falun is still alive and well in sweden. It's several hundred years old and most known for sausages and a (also hundreds of years old) brand of red paint. Real boring place IMHO.
What's even worse is that separate colonies of bacteria, each in their own biofilms, appear to be able to communicate to each other regarding threats. Across small distances of course, I'm not saying they've got mobile phones or anything...
;-)
Well, in a few years they probably _will_ have mobile phones considering the pace of bacterial evolution (induced by our overuse of antibiotics) and the evolution of mobile phones...
And yet he didn't vaporize most of the middle east during his e=mc^2 ascent to heaven. (70kg matter makes a _lot_ of energy...)
;-)
Truly miraculous
This could undermine the authority of the court if others follow the US example. The whole point of the tribunal is to enforce rules that apply uniformly to everyone.
What Bush is doing is actually different than what at least one other US president did. Bill Clinton supported The Hauge (as far as I know).
I think Bush is making a big mistake, it will come back to bite the world bigtime if he neuters this court.
Hope not though...
I would like to hear you ellaborate a bit about The Hague.
you might clue me in a bit about what the hell Mr Bush is whining about.
Noone else seems to have a problem, but to the US this is the biggest deal in the world, apperantly.
On the other hand the Bush administration (IMHO) tries to weasel it's way out of any and all international agreements.
What is his problem with agreeing to common rules and sticking to them?
All the world isn't texas you know, George.
So who is going to handle that then? The government?
I wasn't aware there were a world government...
oh, you mean the US should yet again directly control the root servers.
Well, if that is what happens, I won't be surprised.
The DNS system is the worst thing that has ever happened to the web.
one could argue that any sane leader has to constantly think this way
Any leader period.
Only difference is what they consider to be the "lesser evil".
I am sure GWB and OBL for example have quite conflicting views on this...
Thanks... now I have to whipe coffee stains of my monitor.
thats all thats required, being connected in some way or related.
So, six degrees of Al Quaida anyone?
Sure. But they aren't clothing
A friend of mine spent a year in the US.
He used to wear a "Darwin Fish" t-shirt.
(Yes, he got into a lot of trouble for it.)
Yeah.
I used to listen to them when I was younger.
They really made a thing out of not getting any airtime.
Just listen to "Please Play This Song On The Radio" and read the up yours message to MTV in oner of their booklets.
God?
We made him.
In our image.
We need something to believe in. Whatever people can believe is ok.
I for one would prefer that more people believed in science. But science takes a lot of work, and physics doesn't claim to hold all the answers, yet, or ever.
So most people still like smoke and mirrors better.
And, really, who can blame them.
Easy answers, set rules, authority from above.
It is very seductive.
I think we can hold Tim Berners-Lee completely responsible for that.
Yes, ol' Tim is definitly aiding the terrorists.
The W3C advocates open standards, and we all know that is Evil.
After all, if we have open standards the terrorists have already won.
Ok, maybe I was a little harsh. (I have a hangover)
You actually made me feel a little embarassed...
I believe that his theory of general relativity was proved mathematically
Sure, Einstein did that himself. (How the hell would he have dared to release the theory otherwise...)
But a matematical proof don't really prove anything in physics, math is just a model, and if you built your model on the wrong premises, well...
Experiment are the sole judge of any theory. Math is just a very important tool, it can help determin what might work.
But it can't prove anything in physics.