My question is how often does the average consumer really visit a website like mpaa.org, riaa.org, or any other corporate entity presence? For me, it is less than 0.005 (or less than a 1/2%). I think the last time I visited riaa.org was a couple years ago when/. mentioned the site had been hacked. I've never visited a General Motors website, the company that makes my favorite breakfast cereal or laundry detergent. I've just never had the desire.
Well GM isn't that far fetched given they sell vehicles. When searching for my first new car I went to many different sites that I haven't gone to since (Honda, Nissan, Chevy, Mitsubishi, GM, etc.). As far as some other sites though, I take it you don't go to a site in order to find information on how to contact a corporation to provide them your opinion or suggestions? I exercise my right to do that often even if I'm not a customer of the company. I may never go to the site again but I at least go there one time to contact them. Obviously I can't and dont go to every one of them (more.com than.org too) but I try to do my fair share as a Christian, American, health-conscious consumer.
Actually, you ever hear of spooning? I hadn't until a couple months ago when the woman I'm seeing told me about it. It sounded like something sexual but it wasn't, however I took that one step further and now we use a new term together: forking.
People who need govt to enforce their religion must not have much faith in the power of its message.
People who think the US gov't enforces a particular religion should move to a Middle Eastern country to be reminded of what a government religion really is. The key point is that in a country that has a real state-sponsored religion, you are punished for not obeying. The US, on the other hand, is an example of a country that has religious roots, a religious foundation, religion in government, religion (although dwindling) in public, but you are not punished if you do not conform to any of those. That is what freedom of (not 'from') religion means. Religion in government is not the same as government in religion. Go ask a member of your local al Qaeda users group what it feels like to be in a real state-sponsored religion country.
One of the possibilities that this opens is that there is life that has been evolving separately from the rest of terrestrial life for millions of years. In theory life could live off the volcanic chemicals just as it does at undersea vents. This could be the really interesting part of the discovery.
Wow, good thing I brought my boots to work today. I'm going to need them for more than just snow I guess.
There's nothing to believe or disbelieve; it's pretty clearly a fact.
If you believe the IPCC report written by scientists that had to write to an abstract of the report which was written before they even wrote up their individual sections that made up the report. They had to tailor their portions to what the report was already destined to explain, not to mention that many credible scientists do not believe evidence supports global warming. Subsequent reports have been changing the likelihood (as in, it is less likely) that global warming is real. Why should anyone believe those who believe it is real when a few decades ago scientists said the world was cooling? What's in it for you to believe the group of scientists pushing that global warming is real as opposed to the other group?
But let's pretend that not believing in global warming is a valid perspective, and not just something you were spoon-fed by the Global Climate Coalition (a group formed by oil companies)...
Who says that you weren't spoon fed? Did you do your own research to independently conclude it is real? We're all spoon fed unless we are lucky enough to have the data/tools/knowledge at hand to form our own conclusions.
Pollution genuinely does fuck up the planet.
Yeah, I believe that's why it is called 'pollution'.
Energy consumption is a non-issue. We don't pay much for electricity.
Reducing energy consumption isn't just about saving money, it's about not fucking up the planet too.
It's about not f*cking up the planet only if you actually believe in global warming.
Over the middle of the ocean the aircraft will have been at perhaps 38000 feet and in a flight configuration, giving time to attempt various restart procedures, declare an emergency and glide to an airfield - a transatlantic flight is rarely out of gliding distance to a landing strip, and a flight from China likewise.
Really? From the 2nd linked article:
At high altitudes, planes that lose power can glide for distances of up to 100 miles, according to Boeing, helped by starting at cruising speeds of more than 600mph. At less than 1,000ft and at much slower speeds, they can drop like a stone.
100 miles isn't much over an ocean that is 3000 miles across. This might help in the south Pacific that has a lot of little islands or if you are close to the African coast (Azores, a decade or so ago I read about a flight that had to make an emergency landing there by gliding to one of the islands) coming from the west side of the Atlantic but in the middle of the ocean 100 miles isn't going to do shit.
Also, from China to the UK a flight will be going over land but from China to the US it will head over water however I think a large portion of that flight will be over land because the flight path is actually up towards the southern edge of Alaska because it is shorter than going due east. Unless you are going south from the northern hemisphere or north from the southern hemisphere a flight will probably head toward the appropriate pole to cut down on flight time and thus largely avoid open water which is a good thing. In that case, 100 miles may be useful to reach a landing strip on land.
You even got the capital letters right there Homer - you just didn't follow through to the logical (and correct) acronym: DHS - Doh!
You even got the capital letters right there Homer - you just didn't follow through to the proper name for which you were using the letters. 'DHS' is not an acronym but an abbreviation. No word is formed by the letters 'DHS'.
Why do these monsters always seem to appear in cities? There's been so many movie monsters popping up in New York, Tokyo... eventually, probability dictates that one should pop up in the middle of nowhere. That's what my monster movie's gonna be about: a giant monster that pops up in the middle of Kansas. It'll terrorize a corn field and like two farmers.
Is this close enough to monsters popping up out of the city?
If you are going to use fancy words or phrases then at least spell them correctly. It's 'per se', not 'per say'. The English language just wasn't made for phonetic spellers.
if you could get a computation to figure out the mass and molecular composition of an object, disassembly of the mass>turn into energy>transmit energy>translate into mass>re-assemble.
Actually, what happens when "teleporting" a particle is that physicists just measure all the properties of particle A and make particle B take on those properties. Now, in so doing particle A is modified and you end up with particle A that used to be particle B. I don't consider that teleporting (at least not what I expected it to be) and that's why I put teleporting in quotes initially. So if you were to scale that up you would have to have a computer capable of measuring every atom that makes up a person and to store all that data (spin, velocity, location, etc.) and then have another whole set of particles on which to apply those properties and of course you have to get it just right because the old set of particles will be modified and not exist the same as they originally did. So you don't have to disassemble the mass assuming all atoms can be measured without doing that. The ease of teleportation really comes down to size, not whether the object is alive or not, although if you get it wrong that's when you better hope you were experimenting on something inanimate.
Sorry, it just isn't that interesting that they found out about a crippled notebook.
You do realize we didn't know it was crippled until the official announcement, right? It was interesting at the time until Jobs revealed what it really was.
I live in an apartment right now and in the summer time (no electric heat) my bill is about $45 and in the winter time (now) my bill is about $80 a month. I don't know how much of that is the computer. Given your 72Kw hours per month and that I recently read that a Kw is about $0.07 (not sure where in the country that was) that would be about $4.60 a month or about 10% of my bill in the summer time.
this leaves with the impression this guys just got lucky. It's like they identified each faint dot as an asteroid, and one just turned out to be exactly that. I imagine they just pointed at each dot
Not exactly. Although most asteroids are found by trained eyes (to distinguish among artifacts on the photograph from a 1 mile object thousands of miles away) the students were at least able to narrow their search by looking at objects that were on 1 photograph but not on the previous ones taken in the sequence. Anything new would be a possible asteroid or a possible artifact but they at least wouldn't have to just point to each and every dot visible in the photograph.
is their enterprise service bus (ESB) which provides a web services infrastructure
I think I completely understand each individual word in that sentence, but I have no idea what it means as a collective sentence. How does an ESB providing a web service infrastructure differ from say the AMP part of the LAMP stack? A web server? A Java Server? A bunch of libraries built to enforce business rules? A framework like Hibernate or Spring? I don't do enterprise wide things, so I don't understand many of the enterprise needs per say, so I apologize if I said something really stupid.
Well I'm actually not a developer but a systems engineer and I've read up on some service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services information for my job. One thing I didn't say in my original post (but it crossed my mind and I decided not to) is that "web services" in the context of SOA is not the same as services provided over the web like a website run by the LAMP stack. Web services from a SOA point of view is meant to create a decoupling of business logic from transport and presentation, making the software infrastructure model more of the way the business works instead of the technology itself. That's my understanding of it (by the way, I'm only a mid-level guy, not senior level so any seniors please chime in if I say something wrong).
What does this mean then as far as an implementation is concerned? It means you create services built on using XML for your messages and something like SOAP for your message containers and then HTTP for your transport. The HTTP is still used on the front-end for users to access your site (if you run an e-commerce site or a web portal) however HTTP also is what runs between the various backend servers for transporting messages from server to server. A service could be something like "sign up user" or "submit shopping cart" and the business information that makes up that transaction is put into a XML message and the message can travel to any and all servers that need to process the information.
Creating a SOA also makes your business more open to others who can interact with your business on a machine to machine basis by publishing your services in a registry. The registry specifies how a user uses your service such as specifying inputs and what to expect as output. BEA also has a registry application but I don't recall it's product name and I'm too lazy to look it up. The language the registry is made with is called UDDI (I don't recall what the abbreviation expands to offhand). Each service is described using web services description language (WSDL). Instead of having a farm of specialized servers the servers become more generalized and provide business services instead of specific functions.
SOA is an architecture so it isn't anything concrete. That's where design and implementation come into play. Web services are built from the ground up based on how your business runs and again, nothing concrete. There are frameworks and IDEs for speeding that up but I don't know what all they help with. BEA sells an IDE for that too but I don't recall the product name. The BEA ESB is built using Java and acts basically as an application server but it's not quite the same I believe. This is where I get out of my realm of limited knowledge so I better stop here and just let others chime in or direct you to various websites such as BEA and others like IBM (who makes their own ESB). There are many standards for web services as well. One set comes from OASIS. Look up OASIS in the context of web services and the WS* standards (WS = web services).
I'd recommend if you are at least familiar with application servers to download BEA's AquaLogic and WebLogic applications for free (I don't recall if they are time limited) to try them out. One warning, BEA's products are known to be resource hogs so make sure you have at least a couple gigs of spare RAM if you are going to install those 2 applications. They each use multiple Java VMs at the same time. You'll also need a database backend (like Oracle). Both WebLogic (application server) and their AquaLogic come with examples you can install and run to help you learn how they operate.
I believe there is a difference between having fun and mocking something such that it is not good to always be joking around or always being serious but a balance must be struck. But saying one should mix being serious with taking part in mocking something or someone is not the way to act. Intentionally mocking something/someone says something about your personality that is not a good thing as opposed to just being carefree or non-serious.
I already pay TimeWarner $45 a month for 5mbps. There is no statement regarding how much of that I'm not supposed to use even though I'm paying for it. And to be technically correct, I can't go over my bandwidth (5mbps) without tampering with my modem. What I can go over is the amount of data I download every month, however as I stated above, TW has not specified what that limit is and neither has any other broadband provider that I know of (but I don't know the details of every provider). With the current situation, if TW doesn't want me downloading at 5mbps every second of the month then 1 of 2 things need to happen: they build out their network so that users who pay for that level of service are not penalized because they actually use it or TW needs to lower the 5mbps if their network can't support their customers using what they are buying.
For the record, I've been generally happy with TW's service. It has gotten bad recently however, specifically their news service. After they outsourced it a little over a year ago I had to adjust but it wasn't bad (except they never told anyone, the techs know nothing about changes like that) but for the last couple months bandwidth to the news service is horrible, almost useless. Connections to the server aren't closed on their end properly and then I get errors saying I'm over my connection limit. And since it is outsourced anyone at TW knows nothing about it.
I believe one of the reasons Linux doesn't boot faster than it does is that there's a kernel feature that, for security, randomizes the addresses at which various code is loaded into memory each time you boot. This is supposed to protect against buffer overflows that jump to a fixed address in memory. The problem is that it means you can't speed up booting by simply caching an image of the initialized state of a lot of your memory in a freshly booted system.
I don't know about other people's Linux boxes, but on mine the time taken to start Gnome is comparable to the time it takes to boot into gdm. That's one of the reasons I run fluxbox rather then Gnome.
Do you mind if I ask why you feel the need to power down anyway? Besides the obvious answer of "it saves energy and thus money" what other reason is there? It doesn't save that much money on a monthly basis (especially if you aren't a gamer) and if you are in a house and have a separate room for the PC then noise probably isn't a reason to not keep it running all the time. So what else is left?
My PC stays up for about 30 days at a time so I reboot on average 12 times a year (XP Pro with SP2). My system probably takes 45 sec to boot, nothing major.
Freedom of religion does not prevent my right to mock it.
It just goes to show that those who do not have religion are the ones who need it the most because they feel mocking others because of what they believe is a good way to spend their time. It's just like those who are mocking are back in grade school again and making fun of a classmate for whatever stupid reason they can think of for that particular day of the week. It is sad when a person invests time in mocking others. It shows you are a great contributor to society.
In BEA's case there talking about Tuxedo ( distributed messaging/ queuing system), weblogic ( J2EE app Server) and aqualogic ( a compilation of buzzwords compliant programs that I don't understand).
Tuxedo has C++, Corba, Java and other APIs for performing transaction processing of an enterprise application. It is expensive and not worth it in my opinion. WebLogic is okay (expensive again) but I prefer it over JBoss as far as having a nice GUI console. AquaLogic is their enterprise service bus (ESB) which provides a web services infrastructure.
I think your scales are off. The 2004 tsunami was a massive loss of life (225,000 people in eleven countries) compared to the 2,999 people killed in the airplane attack of 9/11/01.
I was a little appalled at the lack of coverage and donations given to the victims of the tsunami compared to the massive outpouring given to the 9/11 victims. It must just be that fact that I am in America now, and the media / government is so stuck on only looking inside the country and not what happens in other countries (unless it involves oil).
As I mentioned in a post just a few days ago, there is a different between people dying accidentally and people being murdered. Essentially, when comparing an act of God and murder, one is legal and one is not. Even when a person accidentally kills another the sentence is less harsh when compared to the punishment for murder. Yes, almost a quarter million people died in 2004 and many countries sent money to provide assistance. A small percentage of that were murdered 3 years prior to that. We can't help acts of God but we can help murder. Murder should never happen and steps are being attempted to make sure something like the events on 9/11/2001 do not happen again. By the way, there are many places the US has troops deployed and many of them are not in oil-rich countries so your bias against the President because you think he wants oil is unfounded.
Wow, what a concept. Could you imagine the president of the most powerful nation in the world not actually being smart enough for the position?...er...wait a sec....
I'll take your comment as the joke it sounds like however to be fair [1] many Presidents have graduated from prestigious schools and Bush is no exception. Just from Harvard alone we have: "Seven Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University. These include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. Bush and Hayes graduated from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, respectively, while the others graduated from Harvard College. Some fifty Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the University." So although Bush may seem stupid (and maybe he finished at the bottom of his class) he still graduated from the same school as Kennedy and other notable Presidents. Not everyone is good at public speaking either but that doesn't mean they are stupid; it does however mean they are easy targets for those who are ignorant and like making fun of people like they are in junior high school again.
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Well GM isn't that far fetched given they sell vehicles. When searching for my first new car I went to many different sites that I haven't gone to since (Honda, Nissan, Chevy, Mitsubishi, GM, etc.). As far as some other sites though, I take it you don't go to a site in order to find information on how to contact a corporation to provide them your opinion or suggestions? I exercise my right to do that often even if I'm not a customer of the company. I may never go to the site again but I at least go there one time to contact them. Obviously I can't and dont go to every one of them (more .com than .org too) but I try to do my fair share as a Christian, American, health-conscious consumer.
...wanna fork()?Actually, you ever hear of spooning? I hadn't until a couple months ago when the woman I'm seeing told me about it. It sounded like something sexual but it wasn't, however I took that one step further and now we use a new term together: forking.
I believe another, but different 'wine' occurs after the spawn().
Don't forget that people have to be convinced that it ('it' can be anything in this case) isn't really broken for that motto to be useful.
People who think the US gov't enforces a particular religion should move to a Middle Eastern country to be reminded of what a government religion really is. The key point is that in a country that has a real state-sponsored religion, you are punished for not obeying. The US, on the other hand, is an example of a country that has religious roots, a religious foundation, religion in government, religion (although dwindling) in public, but you are not punished if you do not conform to any of those. That is what freedom of (not 'from') religion means. Religion in government is not the same as government in religion. Go ask a member of your local al Qaeda users group what it feels like to be in a real state-sponsored religion country.
Wow, good thing I brought my boots to work today. I'm going to need them for more than just snow I guess.
If you believe the IPCC report written by scientists that had to write to an abstract of the report which was written before they even wrote up their individual sections that made up the report. They had to tailor their portions to what the report was already destined to explain, not to mention that many credible scientists do not believe evidence supports global warming. Subsequent reports have been changing the likelihood (as in, it is less likely) that global warming is real. Why should anyone believe those who believe it is real when a few decades ago scientists said the world was cooling? What's in it for you to believe the group of scientists pushing that global warming is real as opposed to the other group?
But let's pretend that not believing in global warming is a valid perspective, and not just something you were spoon-fed by the Global Climate Coalition (a group formed by oil companies)...Who says that you weren't spoon fed? Did you do your own research to independently conclude it is real? We're all spoon fed unless we are lucky enough to have the data/tools/knowledge at hand to form our own conclusions.
Pollution genuinely does fuck up the planet.Yeah, I believe that's why it is called 'pollution'.
It's about not f*cking up the planet only if you actually believe in global warming.
Really? From the 2nd linked article:
At high altitudes, planes that lose power can glide for distances of up to 100 miles, according to Boeing, helped by starting at cruising speeds of more than 600mph. At less than 1,000ft and at much slower speeds, they can drop like a stone.100 miles isn't much over an ocean that is 3000 miles across. This might help in the south Pacific that has a lot of little islands or if you are close to the African coast (Azores, a decade or so ago I read about a flight that had to make an emergency landing there by gliding to one of the islands) coming from the west side of the Atlantic but in the middle of the ocean 100 miles isn't going to do shit.
Also, from China to the UK a flight will be going over land but from China to the US it will head over water however I think a large portion of that flight will be over land because the flight path is actually up towards the southern edge of Alaska because it is shorter than going due east. Unless you are going south from the northern hemisphere or north from the southern hemisphere a flight will probably head toward the appropriate pole to cut down on flight time and thus largely avoid open water which is a good thing. In that case, 100 miles may be useful to reach a landing strip on land.
You even got the capital letters right there Homer - you just didn't follow through to the proper name for which you were using the letters. 'DHS' is not an acronym but an abbreviation. No word is formed by the letters 'DHS'.
Is this close enough to monsters popping up out of the city?
If you are going to use fancy words or phrases then at least spell them correctly. It's 'per se', not 'per say'. The English language just wasn't made for phonetic spellers.
Actually, what happens when "teleporting" a particle is that physicists just measure all the properties of particle A and make particle B take on those properties. Now, in so doing particle A is modified and you end up with particle A that used to be particle B. I don't consider that teleporting (at least not what I expected it to be) and that's why I put teleporting in quotes initially. So if you were to scale that up you would have to have a computer capable of measuring every atom that makes up a person and to store all that data (spin, velocity, location, etc.) and then have another whole set of particles on which to apply those properties and of course you have to get it just right because the old set of particles will be modified and not exist the same as they originally did. So you don't have to disassemble the mass assuming all atoms can be measured without doing that. The ease of teleportation really comes down to size, not whether the object is alive or not, although if you get it wrong that's when you better hope you were experimenting on something inanimate.
You do realize we didn't know it was crippled until the official announcement, right? It was interesting at the time until Jobs revealed what it really was.
Street cred. Same reason why crackers race to break copy-protection on software or rip the latest blockbuster.
I live in an apartment right now and in the summer time (no electric heat) my bill is about $45 and in the winter time (now) my bill is about $80 a month. I don't know how much of that is the computer. Given your 72Kw hours per month and that I recently read that a Kw is about $0.07 (not sure where in the country that was) that would be about $4.60 a month or about 10% of my bill in the summer time.
Not exactly. Although most asteroids are found by trained eyes (to distinguish among artifacts on the photograph from a 1 mile object thousands of miles away) the students were at least able to narrow their search by looking at objects that were on 1 photograph but not on the previous ones taken in the sequence. Anything new would be a possible asteroid or a possible artifact but they at least wouldn't have to just point to each and every dot visible in the photograph.
Well I'm actually not a developer but a systems engineer and I've read up on some service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services information for my job. One thing I didn't say in my original post (but it crossed my mind and I decided not to) is that "web services" in the context of SOA is not the same as services provided over the web like a website run by the LAMP stack. Web services from a SOA point of view is meant to create a decoupling of business logic from transport and presentation, making the software infrastructure model more of the way the business works instead of the technology itself. That's my understanding of it (by the way, I'm only a mid-level guy, not senior level so any seniors please chime in if I say something wrong).
What does this mean then as far as an implementation is concerned? It means you create services built on using XML for your messages and something like SOAP for your message containers and then HTTP for your transport. The HTTP is still used on the front-end for users to access your site (if you run an e-commerce site or a web portal) however HTTP also is what runs between the various backend servers for transporting messages from server to server. A service could be something like "sign up user" or "submit shopping cart" and the business information that makes up that transaction is put into a XML message and the message can travel to any and all servers that need to process the information.
Creating a SOA also makes your business more open to others who can interact with your business on a machine to machine basis by publishing your services in a registry. The registry specifies how a user uses your service such as specifying inputs and what to expect as output. BEA also has a registry application but I don't recall it's product name and I'm too lazy to look it up. The language the registry is made with is called UDDI (I don't recall what the abbreviation expands to offhand). Each service is described using web services description language (WSDL). Instead of having a farm of specialized servers the servers become more generalized and provide business services instead of specific functions.
SOA is an architecture so it isn't anything concrete. That's where design and implementation come into play. Web services are built from the ground up based on how your business runs and again, nothing concrete. There are frameworks and IDEs for speeding that up but I don't know what all they help with. BEA sells an IDE for that too but I don't recall the product name. The BEA ESB is built using Java and acts basically as an application server but it's not quite the same I believe. This is where I get out of my realm of limited knowledge so I better stop here and just let others chime in or direct you to various websites such as BEA and others like IBM (who makes their own ESB). There are many standards for web services as well. One set comes from OASIS. Look up OASIS in the context of web services and the WS* standards (WS = web services).
I'd recommend if you are at least familiar with application servers to download BEA's AquaLogic and WebLogic applications for free (I don't recall if they are time limited) to try them out. One warning, BEA's products are known to be resource hogs so make sure you have at least a couple gigs of spare RAM if you are going to install those 2 applications. They each use multiple Java VMs at the same time. You'll also need a database backend (like Oracle). Both WebLogic (application server) and their AquaLogic come with examples you can install and run to help you learn how they operate.
I believe there is a difference between having fun and mocking something such that it is not good to always be joking around or always being serious but a balance must be struck. But saying one should mix being serious with taking part in mocking something or someone is not the way to act. Intentionally mocking something/someone says something about your personality that is not a good thing as opposed to just being carefree or non-serious.
I already pay TimeWarner $45 a month for 5mbps. There is no statement regarding how much of that I'm not supposed to use even though I'm paying for it. And to be technically correct, I can't go over my bandwidth (5mbps) without tampering with my modem. What I can go over is the amount of data I download every month, however as I stated above, TW has not specified what that limit is and neither has any other broadband provider that I know of (but I don't know the details of every provider). With the current situation, if TW doesn't want me downloading at 5mbps every second of the month then 1 of 2 things need to happen: they build out their network so that users who pay for that level of service are not penalized because they actually use it or TW needs to lower the 5mbps if their network can't support their customers using what they are buying.
For the record, I've been generally happy with TW's service. It has gotten bad recently however, specifically their news service. After they outsourced it a little over a year ago I had to adjust but it wasn't bad (except they never told anyone, the techs know nothing about changes like that) but for the last couple months bandwidth to the news service is horrible, almost useless. Connections to the server aren't closed on their end properly and then I get errors saying I'm over my connection limit. And since it is outsourced anyone at TW knows nothing about it.
Do you mind if I ask why you feel the need to power down anyway? Besides the obvious answer of "it saves energy and thus money" what other reason is there? It doesn't save that much money on a monthly basis (especially if you aren't a gamer) and if you are in a house and have a separate room for the PC then noise probably isn't a reason to not keep it running all the time. So what else is left?
My PC stays up for about 30 days at a time so I reboot on average 12 times a year (XP Pro with SP2). My system probably takes 45 sec to boot, nothing major.
It just goes to show that those who do not have religion are the ones who need it the most because they feel mocking others because of what they believe is a good way to spend their time. It's just like those who are mocking are back in grade school again and making fun of a classmate for whatever stupid reason they can think of for that particular day of the week. It is sad when a person invests time in mocking others. It shows you are a great contributor to society.
Tuxedo has C++, Corba, Java and other APIs for performing transaction processing of an enterprise application. It is expensive and not worth it in my opinion. WebLogic is okay (expensive again) but I prefer it over JBoss as far as having a nice GUI console. AquaLogic is their enterprise service bus (ESB) which provides a web services infrastructure.
As I mentioned in a post just a few days ago, there is a different between people dying accidentally and people being murdered. Essentially, when comparing an act of God and murder, one is legal and one is not. Even when a person accidentally kills another the sentence is less harsh when compared to the punishment for murder. Yes, almost a quarter million people died in 2004 and many countries sent money to provide assistance. A small percentage of that were murdered 3 years prior to that. We can't help acts of God but we can help murder. Murder should never happen and steps are being attempted to make sure something like the events on 9/11/2001 do not happen again. By the way, there are many places the US has troops deployed and many of them are not in oil-rich countries so your bias against the President because you think he wants oil is unfounded.
I'll take your comment as the joke it sounds like however to be fair [1] many Presidents have graduated from prestigious schools and Bush is no exception. Just from Harvard alone we have: "Seven Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University. These include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. Bush and Hayes graduated from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, respectively, while the others graduated from Harvard College. Some fifty Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the University." So although Bush may seem stupid (and maybe he finished at the bottom of his class) he still graduated from the same school as Kennedy and other notable Presidents. Not everyone is good at public speaking either but that doesn't mean they are stupid; it does however mean they are easy targets for those who are ignorant and like making fun of people like they are in junior high school again.