Wind farms on the land take up massive amounts of landspace There are a lot of places where that doesn't matter, as the land is still suitable for agriculture...
Yeah, well, and you'd have to repatch and rebuild for each new version, and in fact make yourself a "mantainer" of your FF flavor. Don't ignore the fact that open source should also mean open proccess. Otherwise, a project is just a big bunch of free lines of code.
Isn't their job to be certain they can provide profit in the future for their shareholders (the owners of the company). Why would a company want to keep 10~13K employees that are obviously not necessary in the daily business? Simply because they are making a profit?
Isn't their job to be sure that every employee is needed? IMHO, when they suddenly discover that 13K people is "obviously" not necessary, management is not doing its job right... but you don't make that big splash on specialized media. Why the strike? Because they advertise the layoffs to the shareholders, to improve their image as a lean company, at the cost of the people: when you fire 13K at a time, you fire necessary and unnecessary people. When you say "500 a month", you have time to decide who is necessary and who is not... but you don't make that big splash on specialized media.
Yeah, but it still has that square screen with the writting zone which not only makes it look so 90's, but takes a good chunk from the screen... Which is corrected by the T5 for a merely $150 price
"a view which is automatically populated by the database like a table".
I suppose you are referring to materialized views, which are also present on Oracle. It ~is the base of ROLAP a "type" of OLAP (for you acronym lovers). I'm afraid Postgres doesn't have real support for this, yet. There is a project which aims to add it, but it is in a very early state, and it hasn't been updated for a year.
Technically they may still be breaking the law by cracking the DRM, but since they're doing so with the permission of the publishers, it'd be silly to call them to task for it.
Then someone else should sue them. If it's illegal, it's illegal. Period. If the law is wrong, change it. If it's not wrong, enforce it. Like we'd say in Spain, "... o follamos todos, o tiramos la puta al rio". Or something like that.
I certainly appluad companies that decide to play nice and sell drugs cheap to third world countries. I hold no ill will against those who do not. So, you approve murder... Because being able to sell drugs cheap in the 3rd world and not doing it is murder, you know?
Either way, nothing would get developed without the profit motive, and no one, rich or poor, would benefit from the non-existent drugs. Yeah, well, drugs are for the rich, fuck the rest of the world (you hold no ill will against those who do not, remember?).
The production costs of drugs are just zero, compared to the costs of investigation and testing, and knowing that no one can afford the "normal" fare in the 3rd world, why not sell it at a lower fare? Because that will impress some people, but not shareholders, which this is all about, not healing people, right?
Do you think that a geneticist is going to work his tail off to develop some vaccine to save some people in sub-saharan africa, who can't pay for it, or work for a profitible company that will reward him so he can live comfortably and maybe even send his kids to college? Beleive it or not, this paragraph is the most disappointing thing I've read in slashdot. Yes, I do think that. Yes, there are. And yes, there are people who would even die (and they do) to save some people in sub-saharan africa. But now I know your society is not able to understand that.
I regard Dijkstra's comment more as a fun phrase about something that is "basically" true: basic programmers are harder to teach in modern methodologies, they develop bad habits that have to be overcome. It's not that they are literally mentally crippled, but it takes longer for them to program "the correct way". The problem is that Dijkstra was one of the fathers of computing. Remember the algorithm after his name? Just a fun phrase and it becomes a quotation.
Analists say that they bought Handspring just for the treo 600 model... and I, for one, agree. At the end, a smartphone is just a pda with phone capabilities or a phone with pda capabilities. It's just a matter of integrating more things there, and well, dealing with the tough distribution channels, telcos, etc., which can be harder.
For a little more ($200, but I think last week it was $250), you can have a tungsten E, with a 320x320 screen, a divx-capable processor, and a memory expansion slot. There are also MS PPCs that cost a little bit more, but not that much, with more or less the same features.
As an spaniard, thank you. And thank you, moderators, to fall for a blatant generalization and stupid statements. Like: but cultural issues still remain Namely? Please? I think their behavior in this reguard is glaring example of the level of sophistication and competance in a highly technical field not being up to par. Ah, yes, one example and you regard all our technicians as incompetent. Truly insightful. Spain, South America, Africa and the less developed parts of Asia are main sources of spam (at least, the spam I receive). And why is it that everyone's here says that the main source of spam is still the USA?
Mmmm, not everybody. I'm a TDE customer, and my main mail account is theirs. But I say, fsck them -> fsck me. Because I'm really pissed off by their f****** policy of "we'll do what we want, we are the largest telco here". We're blocked in slashdot because of their "transparent" proxy, mail works like shit because of... you guessed, spam. If all this means that for one something will be done, it's a deal.
But the comparison is still not valid, as D is as beta as the 1.5 JDK, or more. Look at the bugs:
* -g is not implemented, because I haven't figured out how to do it yet. gdb still works, though, at the global symbol level.
* The code generator output has not been tuned yet, so it can be bloated.
* Shared libraries cannot be generated.
* The exception handling is not compatible with the way g++ does it. I don't know if this is an issue or not.
* The compiler sometimes gets the line number wrong on an error.
* The phobos D runtime library is inadequate.
* Need to write a tool to convert C.h files into D imports.
* Array op= operations are not implemented.
* In preconditions and out postconditions for member functions are not inherited.
* It cannot be run from the IDDE.
But that's what he just said... set protocol standards.. it is exactly like GSM.
No, it's not like GSM. In Europe you can only use GSM, in the bands allocated for GSM. And that was good for the market, everyone knew which game to play, unlike the US where multiple standards "rule".
Rather than have the authorities tell us what we can use each band for, tell us what protocol to use, and let us figure out what to use them for. You can't use every protocol in every band, and the authorities do well saying what goes where, as interferences occur.
Wider, fatter open spectrum... look what has been done so far in 2.4Ghz ISM. and it's a SHITTY piece of spectrum. In 2.4 Ghz, sorry to say, nothing relevant has been done yet as it is a local net what you do with wi-fi. But if 5km range wi-fi spots spread, you can bet that 20 people trying to set a cell like that in the same zone won't work well. Interferences aren't a problem now because there aren't much people now using the technology. And we'll then need a solution. Open up some real specttrum, set teh access standards, but don't tell us what to use it FOR.. and then we'll get somewhere. If you set the access standards you are already telling what are you using the spectrum for. If you are referring to voice calls, the problem is that without regulation, you woudn't have that nice international ubiquitous net, where one operator's client can connect to other operator, having an homogeneous number system. Taxing it like they do is another issue. Not that I call for an all-closed spectrum, far from that, but that is different from saying that everything should be "desregulated" because most of the times, in a shared environment, you have to set up rules to coexist.
So, basically, he believes that the spectrum is a medium which could be much like the internet, given protocols and standards that allowed things to connect using it. The problem with the spectrum is that if you don't state clearly what and where you transmit, it becomes a chaos of interferences. It has to be regulated to be useful. Another example is the US-european models of mobile/cell telephony, where the strong european regulation (mandatory GSM) in fact allowed a stronger market; in that example you also have the limit of the regulation, when european government's greed (or telco's stupidity, who knows) almost killed 3G by auctioning licences or charging enormous tariffs for spectrum access.
Even foreign governments. Sometimes, this is not the case. Take the South Africa government, for example, when they revolted against farmaceuticals. They said "we're going to produce anti-AIDS illegally because we can't afford your prices". There was a terrible political mess, internationally, because they were challenging the whole international patent system, and in the end the pharma-industry bended. They couldn't allow such a thing: a government making whatever it takes to protect their citizens, because it would have started a trend other countries might follow...
The new Spanish leader thinks that by removing troops from the middleast his country will be safer. Well they found another bomb on the train tracks today. I hope he realizes that deals cannot be made. As a spaniard who didn't vote this guy (Mr Zapatero), I can assure you that he hasn't said that removing the troops will turn our country safer. He said, months in advance of the attack, that he was going to withdraw the troops if the UN wasnt in charge in Iraq. Your argument is used by (assuming you`re from the US) your government to put pressure on ours, knowing that most people wouldnt know his position (which was an electoral promise).
Radical people (not just terrorists) do not listen to reason. Trying to work out a deal peacefully with a terrorist is not possible. If a person does believe it is possible I'll allow them to go over there and work things out. I'm sure they will be successful. First, the link between Iraq and terrorism has been proven at most doubtful. Second, he has never said that he was going to try to make a deal with them. Now we can discuss if putting UN in charge is a good idea or not, if Zapatero will be a good president or not, etc. But based on facts, not outright lies from your extreme wing.
I don't agree, these measures are good & fair, but IMHO, lack an important feature: anal prospection. BTW, $$$ latin americans, remember that altough in Spain they speak the same language as you, we^H^H they don't have such a funny and pleasant welcome. Don't come her^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H go there to do business.
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Well, my 19" TFT has 1280x1024, I find 1440x900 quite interesting in a laptop...
Wind farms on the land take up massive amounts of landspace
There are a lot of places where that doesn't matter, as the land is still suitable for agriculture...
Given that the final version will be 60 feet tall, I wonder how much will shipping cost...
Renault cars already have this, for the doors also: when you put the hand in the door handle it unlocks the doors.
Yeah, well, and you'd have to repatch and rebuild for each new version, and in fact make yourself a "mantainer" of your FF flavor.
Don't ignore the fact that open source should also mean open proccess. Otherwise, a project is just a big bunch of free lines of code.
Isn't their job to be certain they can provide profit in the future for their shareholders (the owners of the company). Why would a company want to keep 10~13K employees that are obviously not necessary in the daily business? Simply because they are making a profit?
Isn't their job to be sure that every employee is needed? IMHO, when they suddenly discover that 13K people is "obviously" not necessary, management is not doing its job right... but you don't make that big splash on specialized media.
Why the strike? Because they advertise the layoffs to the shareholders, to improve their image as a lean company, at the cost of the people: when you fire 13K at a time, you fire necessary and unnecessary people. When you say "500 a month", you have time to decide who is necessary and who is not... but you don't make that big splash on specialized media.
Yeah, but that's because they don't have to deal with such a high rate of obesity.
Not that they could, by how much they eat...
Yeah, but it still has that square screen with the writting zone which not only makes it look so 90's, but takes a good chunk from the screen... Which is corrected by the T5 for a merely $150 price
#include histerical laugh here
"Touch" yourself and you'll burn in hell, or go blind for it. Remember, God sees everything.
God forbid you try sex before marriage, you may get to completly know your mate before signing an ethernal agreement with him/her.
Don't ever use condoms. Sex's objective is reproductive and doing it just for fun is a sin. How to breed 8 children is your problem, though.
Homosexuality is a sin. Or an illness. Or both
We can argue if it is wrong or rigth, but you won't convince me it's coherent.
Well, I speak for the catholic part. I don't know about the orthodox but let me doubt they have a helthier POV.
"a view which is automatically populated by the database like a table".
I suppose you are referring to materialized views, which are also present on Oracle. It ~is the base of ROLAP a "type" of OLAP (for you acronym lovers). I'm afraid Postgres doesn't have real support for this, yet. There is a project which aims to add it, but it is in a very early state, and it hasn't been updated for a year.
Technically they may still be breaking the law by cracking the DRM, but since they're doing so with the permission of the publishers, it'd be silly to call them to task for it.
Then someone else should sue them. If it's illegal, it's illegal. Period. If the law is wrong, change it. If it's not wrong, enforce it. Like we'd say in Spain, "... o follamos todos, o tiramos la puta al rio". Or something like that.
I certainly appluad companies that decide to play nice and sell drugs cheap to third world countries. I hold no ill will against those who do not.
So, you approve murder... Because being able to sell drugs cheap in the 3rd world and not doing it is murder, you know?
Either way, nothing would get developed without the profit motive, and no one, rich or poor, would benefit from the non-existent drugs.
Yeah, well, drugs are for the rich, fuck the rest of the world (you hold no ill will against those who do not, remember?).
The production costs of drugs are just zero, compared to the costs of investigation and testing, and knowing that no one can afford the "normal" fare in the 3rd world, why not sell it at a lower fare? Because that will impress some people, but not shareholders, which this is all about, not healing people, right?
Do you think that a geneticist is going to work his tail off to develop some vaccine to save some people in sub-saharan africa, who can't pay for it, or work for a profitible company that will reward him so he can live comfortably and maybe even send his kids to college?
Beleive it or not, this paragraph is the most disappointing thing I've read in slashdot. Yes, I do think that. Yes, there are. And yes, there are people who would even die (and they do) to save some people in sub-saharan africa. But now I know your society is not able to understand that.
I regard Dijkstra's comment more as a fun phrase about something that is "basically" true: basic programmers are harder to teach in modern methodologies, they develop bad habits that have to be overcome. It's not that they are literally mentally crippled, but it takes longer for them to program "the correct way".
The problem is that Dijkstra was one of the fathers of computing. Remember the algorithm after his name? Just a fun phrase and it becomes a quotation.
Analists say that they bought Handspring just for the treo 600 model... and I, for one, agree. At the end, a smartphone is just a pda with phone capabilities or a phone with pda capabilities. It's just a matter of integrating more things there, and well, dealing with the tough distribution channels, telcos, etc., which can be harder.
For a little more ($200, but I think last week it was $250), you can have a tungsten E, with a 320x320 screen, a divx-capable processor, and a memory expansion slot.
There are also MS PPCs that cost a little bit more, but not that much, with more or less the same features.
They joined the EU in 1986.
The EU didn't exist in 1986, the EEC did. Spain's a founding member of the EU, but not of the EEC.
As an spaniard, thank you. And thank you, moderators, to fall for a blatant generalization and stupid statements. Like:
but cultural issues still remain
Namely? Please?
I think their behavior in this reguard is glaring example of the level of sophistication and competance in a highly technical field not being up to par.
Ah, yes, one example and you regard all our technicians as incompetent. Truly insightful.
Spain, South America, Africa and the less developed parts of Asia are main sources of spam (at least, the spam I receive).
And why is it that everyone's here says that the main source of spam is still the USA?
Mmmm, not everybody. I'm a TDE customer, and my main mail account is theirs. But I say, fsck them -> fsck me. Because I'm really pissed off by their f****** policy of "we'll do what we want, we are the largest telco here". We're blocked in slashdot because of their "transparent" proxy, mail works like shit because of... you guessed, spam.
If all this means that for one something will be done, it's a deal.
Er... have you seen the company's site? I don't think they'll have to worry about a sudden raise of international subscriptions...
About the only thing I understood was "Copyright © 2003 Walla! Communications LTD. All rights reserved".
But the comparison is still not valid, as D is as beta as the 1.5 JDK, or more. Look at the bugs:
.h files into D imports.
* -g is not implemented, because I haven't figured out how to do it yet. gdb still works, though, at the global symbol level.
* The code generator output has not been tuned yet, so it can be bloated.
* Shared libraries cannot be generated.
* The exception handling is not compatible with the way g++ does it. I don't know if this is an issue or not.
* The compiler sometimes gets the line number wrong on an error.
* The phobos D runtime library is inadequate.
* Need to write a tool to convert C
* Array op= operations are not implemented.
* In preconditions and out postconditions for member functions are not inherited.
* It cannot be run from the IDDE.
But that's what he just said... set protocol standards.. it is exactly like GSM.
No, it's not like GSM. In Europe you can only use GSM, in the bands allocated for GSM. And that was good for the market, everyone knew which game to play, unlike the US where multiple standards "rule".
Rather than have the authorities tell us what we can use each band for, tell us what protocol to use, and let us figure out what to use them for.
You can't use every protocol in every band, and the authorities do well saying what goes where, as interferences occur.
Wider, fatter open spectrum... look what has been done so far in 2.4Ghz ISM. and it's a SHITTY piece of spectrum.
In 2.4 Ghz, sorry to say, nothing relevant has been done yet as it is a local net what you do with wi-fi. But if 5km range wi-fi spots spread, you can bet that 20 people trying to set a cell like that in the same zone won't work well. Interferences aren't a problem now because there aren't much people now using the technology. And we'll then need a solution.
Open up some real specttrum, set teh access standards, but don't tell us what to use it FOR.. and then we'll get somewhere.
If you set the access standards you are already telling what are you using the spectrum for. If you are referring to voice calls, the problem is that without regulation, you woudn't have that nice international ubiquitous net, where one operator's client can connect to other operator, having an homogeneous number system. Taxing it like they do is another issue.
Not that I call for an all-closed spectrum, far from that, but that is different from saying that everything should be "desregulated" because most of the times, in a shared environment, you have to set up rules to coexist.
So, basically, he believes that the spectrum is a medium which could be much like the internet, given protocols and standards that allowed things to connect using it.
The problem with the spectrum is that if you don't state clearly what and where you transmit, it becomes a chaos of interferences. It has to be regulated to be useful.
Another example is the US-european models of mobile/cell telephony, where the strong european regulation (mandatory GSM) in fact allowed a stronger market; in that example you also have the limit of the regulation, when european government's greed (or telco's stupidity, who knows) almost killed 3G by auctioning licences or charging enormous tariffs for spectrum access.
Even foreign governments.
Sometimes, this is not the case. Take the South Africa government, for example, when they revolted against farmaceuticals. They said "we're going to produce anti-AIDS illegally because we can't afford your prices". There was a terrible political mess, internationally, because they were challenging the whole international patent system, and in the end the pharma-industry bended. They couldn't allow such a thing: a government making whatever it takes to protect their citizens, because it would have started a trend other countries might follow...
The new Spanish leader thinks that by removing troops from the middleast his country will be safer. Well they found another bomb on the train tracks today. I hope he realizes that deals cannot be made.
As a spaniard who didn't vote this guy (Mr Zapatero), I can assure you that he hasn't said that removing the troops will turn our country safer. He said, months in advance of the attack, that he was going to withdraw the troops if the UN wasnt in charge in Iraq. Your argument is used by (assuming you`re from the US) your government to put pressure on ours, knowing that most people wouldnt know his position (which was an electoral promise).
Radical people (not just terrorists) do not listen to reason. Trying to work out a deal peacefully with a terrorist is not possible. If a person does believe it is possible I'll allow them to go over there and work things out. I'm sure they will be successful.
First, the link between Iraq and terrorism has been proven at most doubtful. Second, he has never said that he was going to try to make a deal with them.
Now we can discuss if putting UN in charge is a good idea or not, if Zapatero will be a good president or not, etc. But based on facts, not outright lies from your extreme wing.
I don't agree, these measures are good & fair, but IMHO, lack an important feature: anal prospection.
BTW, $$$ latin americans, remember that altough in Spain they speak the same language as you, we^H^H they don't have such a funny and pleasant welcome. Don't come her^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H go there to do business.