Yes, but didn't the Catholic Church try and prevent the translation of the Bible from Latin into other languages? Rather than suing, they just burned the infiringers. One of the causes of the Protestant Reformation if I recall my history correctly.
Things have changed a lot since the early 1900's when most immigrants came from Europe, in case you haven't noticed.
Check your stats. Of the temp workers coming to the US, over 10% were from the UK, 7.5% Canada, and 7.5% from Germany. These are the number 1, 2, and 4 countries (Japan is 3, France 7, and Russia 9). For straight immigration, Mexico swamps all others and the top 10 are all third world. That doesn't tell you that Europeans are not still emmigrating. In fact, 10 years ago, Europeans gov'ts were panicing over the brain drain of European professors seeking higher salaries at US universities.
Well things like quality of public education, health care, employment laws, and civil liberties are high on my list since they directly affect my quality of life. Last time I checked, the US was ranked along with 3rd-world countries in public education, the health care system is a mess (especially if you're not rich), employment laws clearly favor companies and corporations (except this new ruling in Calif), and Americans arn't even allowed to read certain source code.
Most health care systems in most countries are a mess. There is a lengthy waiting list for many surgeries in Canada and the UK for example. Public ed in the US is a local responsibility and quality varies greatly from juristiction to juristiction. Go check the OECD website. Overall US expenditure per capita on public education surpasses most Western European countries as well as Japan. There are differences between math/sci attainment at the 8th grade level, but these are not statistically meaningful. Employment laws? What good does a pro worker law do if you can't get a job? Have you checked the Western European unemployment rates lately? (9.2% Finland, 8.5% France, 8% overall in Europe). Most states in the US have right-to-work laws that are like CAs. And it was Norway that arrested the guy who wrote the DeCSS code.
Er, Most Americans have parents/grandparents... from Western Europe. That is very far from a
total absence of foreigners from western European countries. You must live a very insular life if you don't know anybody in the States who is an emigre from Western Europe.
I'd prefer to live in a country that's competetive with Sweden in standard-of-living.
Define standard of living. The US has a per capita income that is quite competitive with Sweden. Oh! Maybe you meant "has a high tax rate so the gov't can coddle you from cradle to grave." I think even the Swedes have gotten a bit tired of that.
But other bands of Loyalists had been forced to escape from Albany, from the insults, boycotting and persecution of the "Minute Men" and "Committees of Safety," going north during 1775 and 1776 when Sir Guy Carleton provided for their temporary care at St. Johns, Chambly, Sorel, and Montreal.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Many Loyalists joined the Loyalist regiments AFTER being severly persecuted for their beliefs. And remember, threats of violence against a population backed up with one or two "examples" may render violence against everyone unnecessary. The rest will leave "voluntarily."
Disclaimer: My Great-Great-Something-Grandfather fought for Washington during the Battle of Manhatten, was wounded, and after recovering joined a Loyalist regiment. We don't know why he switched sides. He received a land grant in New Brunswick after the war.
I don't want my tax dollars spent to make someone a millionare.
Why not? I want the research efforts of government to be open enough that we all have an equal chance of becoming millionaires. All you need do is be smart enough to recognize the commercial potential of any publicly funded research.
BTW, do you even pay taxes? I sure do! And to be told that I cannot attempt to profit from the research efforts that my tax dollars paid for means that you are stealing from me twice!
No, if the gov't requires the GPLing of proprietary enhancements, that would be theft of the enhancement, something forbidden by the US Constitution which requires that the gov't pay for any private property taken for a public purpose.
And I live in the Midwest, so I haven't a clue how things are in Redmond. When you grow up you will realize that even the worst villians occasionally have something useful to say.
Years ago the University Ag Campus where I went to school had a meat shop where you could get cheap beef/poultry/pork, etc. These were animals that had been raised on the Ag Campus farms for research and teaching and were no longer of use in whatever project. But they got into hot water with the Krogers supermarket chain because they were a gov't entity competing with private enterprise. NSA's Linux enhancements are no different. It isn't clear to me that MS is in the wrong here. Gov't should not be writing GPLd software that cannot be used in proprietary applications. A BSD style license would be much better. And such software efforts should be relegated to research only and not be attempts to build production ready software.
Hmmm, we could just jack up the price of non-renewable raw materials until you ARE willing to change your lifestyle. Economic solutions would work at least as well as technical solutions, but unfortunately aren't politically feasible.
A couple of years ago, Forbes ran an article on 64-bit machines. The article had some silly mistakes. Among others, it claimed that Unix was a programming language. But the best was the claim that a 64-bit machine could address 64! bytes of memory.
Now I'm a programmer, so when I see those kind of mistakes, I have to wonder if I should trust them when they run articles on biotechnology or some other area of technology where I know very little.
Nah, I've got one of their not-quite-server-but-too-big-for-a-workstation cases. The hard drive bay is held to the case with ticky-tacky plastic tabs on the front. Except they don't quite fit so the drive bay is not quite solidly mounted to the case. And that same hard drive bay holds the lock mechanism for the side door which means the door is not quite held onto the case. Their engineering is better than some I've seen, but still has lots of room for improvement.
The French didn't help us out of ideals or altruism. They did it because they hated the British. Between the War of Independence and the War of 1812, we fought an undeclared quasi-war with the French. Don't romanticise history too much.
Poster must be from Alabama. Governor Fob James once said that the Constitution could not forbid school prayer because the Constitution did not apply to the states.
Sitting at the bottom of Lake Superior are 1000s of logs that sank while being shipped to market. They have almost no deterioration due to the cold and lack of O2 at the bottom of the lake. Because they are from original old growth forests, they have an incredibly fine grain that is quite valuable. There are companies hauling them up right now and selling them to musical instrument makers and folks like Bill Gates for office panneling.
So why not just grow forests? Chop them down every 100-200 years and dump the logs into the Arctic Ocean or the Black Sea: places that are way cold and have little O2. Instant carbon sequestration.
You obviously did not read the links posted by the parent. They are self-serving press releases by Mitnik claiming that Markoff libeled him. They sound just as I stated in my original reply: like the voice of a whining child. Perhaps Markoff did libel Mitnik, but I won't believe that until I see a reasonably independent analysis of the case.
I think that I'll trust Markoff rather than some idiot cracker who still sounds like a spoiled 15 year old teenager who thinks that the world owes him a living. Mitnick fsckd up and needs to come to grips with the fact that he alone is responsible for his own actions and subsequent problems.
The Soviets collapsed for many complex reasons. One of my professors in Natural Resource Economics used to claim that it was the Saudis who brought down the Soviets. The Reagen admin in the US raised the stakes by drastically increasing the US defense budget while the Saudis dropped the price of oil by a large amount. The Soviets could not afford to match the increase in their already huge defense budgets as a result of the oil price squeeze. So ya, much as I dislike the right wing, they might well have been the straw that broke the camel's back in this case.
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So we put our radio observatories out in space just like we did with the Hubble telescope.
I've done this (managed a team in India from the States). Although good tools can help, the MOST important problem that you will face is:
Communication
Accents are different so English may not be the common language you think it is.
Cultural norms are different so that someone may tell you they understood your instructions when they didn't really.
Their day is your night so common conference call times may be hard to arrange and be quite expensive.
There is a wide variety of skill levels among Indian programmers, much wider than among US programmers. Since you won't really know what the quality of your team is until you have worked with them for a month or so, it is an extra imperative that you follow good software requirements gathering, design, coding, and testing principals. No shortcuts! Without good documentation, you will constantly be tripped up by the communication problem.
A good local manager who has been brought to the States for a week and been thoroughly run through the documentation can make a huge difference to the success of the project. They will be able to solve local problems and locate suitable skill sets. They will be invaluable in making sure that practices like nightly builds are being followed, that warnings and errors in the code are being noticed, that code reviews are taking place, etc.
Analog SciFi once printed a poem called Pavlov's Cat. I wish I could remember it as a poem, but the gist is that while Pavlov is training his dogs, Pavlov's cat repeatedly rubs up against his leg, meows, and walks to the door until Pavlov finally lets him outside. By the end of the poem, Pavlov's dogs are salivating at the sound of a bell and Pavlov is automatically letting his cat out when it meows.
But they can still link the club card to you via
the info on your credit/debit card. Since the credit/debit card is more likely to contain your correct info, if I were running their IT, I'd set
it up to automatically link the names or some such
if the name on the club card didn't match the name on the debit card.
This can be defeated if you regularly ask for a new card or swap cards with your friends. I've got Karl Marx on a Kroger barcode. Anyone wanna trade for him?
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Yes, but didn't the Catholic Church try and prevent the translation of the Bible from Latin into other languages? Rather than suing, they just burned the infiringers. One of the causes of the Protestant Reformation if I recall my history correctly.
Things have changed a lot since the early 1900's when most immigrants came from Europe, in case you haven't noticed.
Check your stats. Of the temp workers coming to the US, over 10% were from the UK, 7.5% Canada, and 7.5% from Germany. These are the number 1, 2, and 4 countries (Japan is 3, France 7, and Russia 9). For straight immigration, Mexico swamps all others and the top 10 are all third world. That doesn't tell you that Europeans are not still emmigrating. In fact, 10 years ago, Europeans gov'ts were panicing over the brain drain of European professors seeking higher salaries at US universities.
Well things like quality of public education, health care, employment laws, and civil liberties are high on my list since they directly affect my quality of life. Last time I checked, the US was ranked along with 3rd-world countries in public education, the health care system is a mess (especially if you're not rich), employment laws clearly favor companies and corporations (except this new ruling in Calif), and Americans arn't even allowed to read certain source code.
Most health care systems in most countries are a mess. There is a lengthy waiting list for many surgeries in Canada and the UK for example. Public ed in the US is a local responsibility and quality varies greatly from juristiction to juristiction. Go check the OECD website. Overall US expenditure per capita on public education surpasses most Western European countries as well as Japan. There are differences between math/sci attainment at the 8th grade level, but these are not statistically meaningful. Employment laws? What good does a pro worker law do if you can't get a job? Have you checked the Western European unemployment rates lately? (9.2% Finland, 8.5% France, 8% overall in Europe). Most states in the US have right-to-work laws that are like CAs. And it was Norway that arrested the guy who wrote the DeCSS code.
And of course, the politics are totally different; notice that Republicans never win that state.
Too young to remember that Ronald Reagen used to gov of CA? The guy before Grey Davis was a Republican, too, IIRC.
Er, Most Americans have parents/grandparents... from Western Europe. That is very far from a total absence of foreigners from western European countries. You must live a very insular life if you don't know anybody in the States who is an emigre from Western Europe.
I'd prefer to live in a country that's competetive with Sweden in standard-of-living.
Define standard of living. The US has a per capita income that is quite competitive with Sweden. Oh! Maybe you meant "has a high tax rate so the gov't can coddle you from cradle to grave." I think even the Swedes have gotten a bit tired of that.
But you can profit! You can use linux and save the money you pay to M$
That isn't profit, it is cost reduction.
Ah! getting rich off selling someone else's work!
It isn't someone else's work. It is MINE! I paid their bills!
From your "learn more here:"
But other bands of Loyalists had been forced to escape from Albany, from the insults, boycotting and persecution of the "Minute Men" and "Committees of Safety," going north during 1775 and 1776 when Sir Guy Carleton provided for their temporary care at St. Johns, Chambly, Sorel, and Montreal.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Many Loyalists joined the Loyalist regiments AFTER being severly persecuted for their beliefs. And remember, threats of violence against a population backed up with one or two "examples" may render violence against everyone unnecessary. The rest will leave "voluntarily."
Disclaimer: My Great-Great-Something-Grandfather fought for Washington during the Battle of Manhatten, was wounded, and after recovering joined a Loyalist regiment. We don't know why he switched sides. He received a land grant in New Brunswick after the war.
I don't want my tax dollars spent to make someone a millionare.
Why not? I want the research efforts of government to be open enough that we all have an equal chance of becoming millionaires. All you need do is be smart enough to recognize the commercial potential of any publicly funded research.
BTW, do you even pay taxes? I sure do! And to be told that I cannot attempt to profit from the research efforts that my tax dollars paid for means that you are stealing from me twice!
No, if the gov't requires the GPLing of proprietary enhancements, that would be theft of the enhancement, something forbidden by the US Constitution which requires that the gov't pay for any private property taken for a public purpose.
And I live in the Midwest, so I haven't a clue how things are in Redmond. When you grow up you will realize that even the worst villians occasionally have something useful to say.
Years ago the University Ag Campus where I went to school had a meat shop where you could get cheap beef/poultry/pork, etc. These were animals that had been raised on the Ag Campus farms for research and teaching and were no longer of use in whatever project. But they got into hot water with the Krogers supermarket chain because they were a gov't entity competing with private enterprise. NSA's Linux enhancements are no different. It isn't clear to me that MS is in the wrong here. Gov't should not be writing GPLd software that cannot be used in proprietary applications. A BSD style license would be much better. And such software efforts should be relegated to research only and not be attempts to build production ready software.
Hmmm, we could just jack up the price of non-renewable raw materials until you ARE willing to change your lifestyle. Economic solutions would work at least as well as technical solutions, but unfortunately aren't politically feasible.
A couple of years ago, Forbes ran an article on 64-bit machines. The article had some silly mistakes. Among others, it claimed that Unix was a programming language. But the best was the claim that a 64-bit machine could address 64! bytes of memory.
Now I'm a programmer, so when I see those kind of mistakes, I have to wonder if I should trust them when they run articles on biotechnology or some other area of technology where I know very little.
Nah, I've got one of their not-quite-server-but-too-big-for-a-workstation cases. The hard drive bay is held to the case with ticky-tacky plastic tabs on the front. Except they don't quite fit so the drive bay is not quite solidly mounted to the case. And that same hard drive bay holds the lock mechanism for the side door which means the door is not quite held onto the case. Their engineering is better than some I've seen, but still has lots of room for improvement.
The French didn't help us out of ideals or altruism. They did it because they hated the British. Between the War of Independence and the War of 1812, we fought an undeclared quasi-war with the French. Don't romanticise history too much.
Nope, sorry. Midwest.
Sure, they found some replacement drummers, but they didn't replace Moon.
Poster must be from Alabama. Governor Fob James once said that the Constitution could not forbid school prayer because the Constitution did not apply to the states.
Sitting at the bottom of Lake Superior are 1000s of logs that sank while being shipped to market. They have almost no deterioration due to the cold and lack of O2 at the bottom of the lake. Because they are from original old growth forests, they have an incredibly fine grain that is quite valuable. There are companies hauling them up right now and selling them to musical instrument makers and folks like Bill Gates for office panneling.
So why not just grow forests? Chop them down every 100-200 years and dump the logs into the Arctic Ocean or the Black Sea: places that are way cold and have little O2. Instant carbon sequestration.
You obviously did not read the links posted by the parent. They are self-serving press releases by Mitnik claiming that Markoff libeled him. They sound just as I stated in my original reply: like the voice of a whining child. Perhaps Markoff did libel Mitnik, but I won't believe that until I see a reasonably independent analysis of the case.
I think that I'll trust Markoff rather than some idiot cracker who still sounds like a spoiled 15 year old teenager who thinks that the world owes him a living. Mitnick fsckd up and needs to come to grips with the fact that he alone is responsible for his own actions and subsequent problems.
The Soviets collapsed for many complex reasons. One of my professors in Natural Resource Economics used to claim that it was the Saudis who brought down the Soviets. The Reagen admin in the US raised the stakes by drastically increasing the US defense budget while the Saudis dropped the price of oil by a large amount. The Soviets could not afford to match the increase in their already huge defense budgets as a result of the oil price squeeze. So ya, much as I dislike the right wing, they might well have been the straw that broke the camel's back in this case.
So we put our radio observatories out in space just like we did with the Hubble telescope.
Communication
- Accents are different so English may not be the common language you think it is.
- Cultural norms are different so that someone may tell you they understood your instructions when they didn't really.
- Their day is your night so common conference call times may be hard to arrange and be quite expensive.
There is a wide variety of skill levels among Indian programmers, much wider than among US programmers. Since you won't really know what the quality of your team is until you have worked with them for a month or so, it is an extra imperative that you follow good software requirements gathering, design, coding, and testing principals. No shortcuts! Without good documentation, you will constantly be tripped up by the communication problem.A good local manager who has been brought to the States for a week and been thoroughly run through the documentation can make a huge difference to the success of the project. They will be able to solve local problems and locate suitable skill sets. They will be invaluable in making sure that practices like nightly builds are being followed, that warnings and errors in the code are being noticed, that code reviews are taking place, etc.
Analog SciFi once printed a poem called Pavlov's Cat. I wish I could remember it as a poem, but the gist is that while Pavlov is training his dogs, Pavlov's cat repeatedly rubs up against his leg, meows, and walks to the door until Pavlov finally lets him outside. By the end of the poem, Pavlov's dogs are salivating at the sound of a bell and Pavlov is automatically letting his cat out when it meows.
Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.
But they can still link the club card to you via the info on your credit/debit card. Since the credit/debit card is more likely to contain your correct info, if I were running their IT, I'd set it up to automatically link the names or some such if the name on the club card didn't match the name on the debit card.
This can be defeated if you regularly ask for a new card or swap cards with your friends. I've got Karl Marx on a Kroger barcode. Anyone wanna trade for him?