Oh but the Soviet Union was the enemy while Japan is an ally? Don't you see? If one of our citizens, or allied nation's citizens dies while traveling in a remote and/or desolate country we are more likely to hear about it than a foreigner of a country deemed hostile to us dying in our own countries. In a way the foreigner in question is not that important so it's ok to make insensitive jokes about it, or so they think.
I totally agree that this is censorship. I live in Venezuela and the government considered the Simpsons inappropriate for a morning show so it got replaced by Baywatch. The official reason was "Televen (the network) presumably could infringe the broadcasting prohibitions during said schedule with messages that are a threat to the integral formation of children and teenagers." So I guess it's alright to make you stupid and have all the girls have a perfect role model of how breasts should be, but having a little humor is way out of line. Besides the funny part of it all is that kids are actually at school at 11 AM so the law is completely absurd.
I think the main difference and why most of the focus goes to the radiation issues is that we understand that even though there was an awful lot of people that died during the quake and the tsunami, those are natural incidents. Radiation on the other hand is something we choose to be part of or not plus the consequences of a nuclear disaster stay with us for an extended period of time.
I'm not against nuclear energy but if everybody uses a car and the car keeps crashing, everybody is going to question the safety of using such technology. That way carmakers keep doing research on how to make the car safer. In a way this is what happens after each nuclear incident. It teaches us how to tackle this very powerful energy source but still try to be careful about it.
I guess you could argue that living in a seismic area is a matter of choice too, but then again if you were born someplace it's hard to break the cultural and family ties unless you really have better opportunities elsewhere.
The Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard doesn't suck. In fact, it's one of the best laptop keyboards out there. I agree that the trackpad isn't great but I'm really fond of the eraserhead which is a cool tech that is almost lost nowadays.
The mac looks cool, has very nice battery life, the sleep mode just works even when you had to use Linux PPC (it never did in Windoze) and you can run the three major operating systems in one machine. Oh and he was getting it for free which is the major obstacle to most people getting a Mac. What is there not to like?
You obviously have never developed in a Mac. The fact that Unix tools don't run as well is like complaining that Cygwin is proof that package management sucks in Windows. The "package" in a Mac is called a bundle and it's both ingenious and simple at the same time. The bundle is the reason why installing and uninstalling an app in a Mac is as simple as dragging and dropping the app icon to the Applications folder.
As far as serious web hosting goes, who in their right mind would use expensive and premium hardware for an operation with very low margins. Hell, even Windows is having a hard time to compete against Linux in that area, unless you need.NET stuff. But the Xserve was used and much appreciated in scientific labs and even companies where it was nice to have a server that could handle mission critical stuff without the price of a Sun or SGI server. Again, the problem with the server space is that everybody realized that is way cheaper to get a bunch of x86 machines tied together with Linux. That is a major reason why companies like the aforementioned SGI and Sun found themselves in deep trouble and had to focus on niche markets instead.
You are aware that Textmate is not part of OS X right? It is just a third party application that he chose over stuff like BBEdit or TextWrangler for no logical reason. It's like saying, oh Linux sucks so much since Joe's Own Editor is really crappy.
What does TextMate has to do with anything I ask? It is not a standard part of a Mac and if he thinks the editor sucks, then he could get another Mac editor he likes. Just like the parent post said, the Mac is really good since it is the only platform where you can install all the major commercial operating systems and test out how the website is exactly going to look.
He is just stupid in the sense that if he likes Linux so much, then he could simply install Linux in the Mac, which I have to say used to be all the rage with YellowDog and Gentoo PPC. Even if you think the hardware is overpriced, I still have to see a PC laptop that has a suspend mode that works as well as the Mac does, even when running Linux. Sure, the Mac is expensive, and so is a Porsche, and you would be mad to call a car like that a piece of crap, even if you can get a Mustang for less.
Why shouldn't I be envious, and why shouldn't I leave my boss high and dry for a different job that pays twice as much?
Because afterwards you will be a money whore. Stick to programming, raise a family and have a normal life. That my friend, is a lot more rewarding than working with an organized mafia and still do what you like for a living. Who told you scientists get rich anyway?
It's part of the collective paranoia that sets in when somebody blows himself up. If there were no terrorism for like fifty years, people would care a lot less than they do right now and even figure that somebody is kind of crazy by supporting laws that make life harder on the scientific types.
The problem is that terrorism is the extreme way of making a point and is likely to be used a lot from now on, and not only by international organizations but also local and regional groups. Besides, terrorism nowadays caters to a lot of issues, like shooting a politician, while such incidents would be called a murder before, as in was the case with Kenneddy's assassination.
Really? I'm no cell tower technician, but as with most commercial 2-way radio, I would imagine that the only thing needed to really work is that you have the proper authorization to use your nearest antenna so to speak. That location dependent billing scenario that somebody else wrote about is really hard to find in the market place so I don't think the cell phone companies have any need of data like this. Therefore I'm in favor of approving legislation to make such data logging illegal.
By making it nicer to search first and foremost with Google. The other options being rather clumsy or having to go thru separate plugin install procedures. Chrome is one of the best browsers out there and Firefox in general does not represent a threat to them since it defaults to Google. So if Microsoft didn't come up with IE9, they will slowly be finding themselves surrounded by the very tactics they used to do to the now defunct Netscape, especially when it comes to promoting Bing.
At this point the only competition Google has are regional search engines and Bing, more or less. So just by having an awesome product, they have created a defacto monopoly that has entrenched so much in our lives, as Windows has done on the PCs we buy.
Yes, you can use competing products, but that does not hide the fact that they are the market leaders by far, and will keep leading it in the short term at the very least. Try to get rid of every single Google product in your life, and unless you live in Russia (Yandex) or China (Baidu), most likely you will find yourself exploring new frontiers.
Yeah, they make nice products when they face competition, there is no doubt about it. But even then, some of the commercial practices are questionable and that's where most of the hate comes from. For instance, you buy an XBox360 and a PS3. In the XBox you have to pay a monthly fee to play online games where as in the PS3 is completely free. If Microsoft is the only player in town in that particular case then we would be in a world of hurt. Luckily, having options pushes Microsoft to do the right thing, even if it doesn't end up doing most of the time.
To me, that's what Linux and free software is really all about, more about options instead of being a much superior product.
Some people use Windows, others Mac, some others Linux and they probably end up trashing the other bunch based on their choice. It's the same with programming and this guy. Employers have the money and they can decide how to hire people based on very subjective reasons. I remember stories of people trying to be smart-asses by asking prospective employees if they knew by asking if they knew about some random fact and discarding people who either didn't knew or didn't agree with their views.
I have had to deal with companies who would discard you right away if you didn't live in the place where they do business, that is even if you tell them that you can start working the next day and are willing to relocate and cover all expenses.
This in general would make you think twice about working in a place where they judge people based on a whim, but if you don't have a job, then by all means get rid of.NET in the resume you send to Expensify. That way everybody is happy and you might be on your way to land a job. When there aren't many options people have to deal with a lot of crap, including stuff like this.
Sony is shutting down Linux and I think it might have to do out of fear that if a lot of people like the Air Force guys from the article start buying PS3 as mere CPUs, all of the sudden Sony will be subsidizing a lot more than they thought they could get in return with the sales of games.
Don't be weary of Chrome then because that's your only option at the moment.
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It would need open source hardware for that too, or at least open source specs. There is way too many issues to make that happen, from hardware vendors wanting to protect their intellectual property and a hostile community to anything closed source. From the programming standpoint this is the kernel developers official stand: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.37/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt , or let me put it another way, we don't want your stupid driver cause we have a so much better architecture, so you either include it with our kernel or begone. Funny enough, most companies have chosen the second option. Typical Linux mentality that keeps the desktop system from going forward cause you need to be l33t.
Sorry if my post offends a lot of Linux developers but try to take it as constructive criticism to leave politics aside and just provide an alternative to something that works without having to suffer a vendor lock-in (namely nVidia).
Same here, went back to Chrome, especially because of font rendering and speed. I did download the so called font tweaker for Firefox and it reminds me a lot of the font issues in Linux. You still get crappy output no matter the setting.
I do, works fine over here, especially after you tweak it by disabling UAC. It's my computer and I have a good antivirus and if worse comes to worse, I'll just reinstall the machine and restore data from backups, which to this date hasn't been necessary. Pretty stable system for me even if it sounds surprising to you.
The UN is supposed to promote peace, not war. More about promoting dialogue. In either case it is not supposed to become a world government in itself. Read this paper on the matter which pretty much reflects a huge chunk of US Foreign Policy:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/52425/jesse-helms/saving-the-un-a-challenge-to-the-next-secretary-general
So if interfering in other people's affairs is necessary why is the international community supporting the fight in Bahrain AGAINST the rebels and doing nothing in Yemen, just like they did in Rwanda not so long ago. Besides even the Lybian issue is starting to get messy, as this Arab League recent statement shows:
"What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone, and what we want is the protection of civilians and not the bombardment of more civilians,"
This is regime change disguised under humanitarian action. Crimes against the civilian population is just the excuse to get in. Hell, there are crimes against the civilian population in Palestine and nobody gives a damn, and it's not only Israel, Egypt is also blocking their side of the frontier. So try to come up with something better than "war crimes are comitted against civilians". Read this if you are still not convinced: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5470047.ece
Try to follow the thread. We we talking about the Marines in the Korean context. I think it's best for the Koreans to decide what they wanted to live under or fight for whatever they thought was right. If it was full democracy, go for it, if it was Kim, then what the hell, one more enemy but it is their country you know.
Of course it wasn't France's problem, they took a calculated gamble against their common enemy just like they are doing now. Oh wait, you thought the French were helping out of their good hearts? Lol. And before you go on and call everybody else stupid, just take a look in the mirror.
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Oh but the Soviet Union was the enemy while Japan is an ally? Don't you see? If one of our citizens, or allied nation's citizens dies while traveling in a remote and/or desolate country we are more likely to hear about it than a foreigner of a country deemed hostile to us dying in our own countries. In a way the foreigner in question is not that important so it's ok to make insensitive jokes about it, or so they think.
I totally agree that this is censorship. I live in Venezuela and the government considered the Simpsons inappropriate for a morning show so it got replaced by Baywatch. The official reason was "Televen (the network) presumably could infringe the broadcasting prohibitions during said schedule with messages that are a threat to the integral formation of children and teenagers." So I guess it's alright to make you stupid and have all the girls have a perfect role model of how breasts should be, but having a little humor is way out of line. Besides the funny part of it all is that kids are actually at school at 11 AM so the law is completely absurd.
I think the main difference and why most of the focus goes to the radiation issues is that we understand that even though there was an awful lot of people that died during the quake and the tsunami, those are natural incidents. Radiation on the other hand is something we choose to be part of or not plus the consequences of a nuclear disaster stay with us for an extended period of time.
I'm not against nuclear energy but if everybody uses a car and the car keeps crashing, everybody is going to question the safety of using such technology. That way carmakers keep doing research on how to make the car safer. In a way this is what happens after each nuclear incident. It teaches us how to tackle this very powerful energy source but still try to be careful about it.
I guess you could argue that living in a seismic area is a matter of choice too, but then again if you were born someplace it's hard to break the cultural and family ties unless you really have better opportunities elsewhere.
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The Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard doesn't suck. In fact, it's one of the best laptop keyboards out there. I agree that the trackpad isn't great but I'm really fond of the eraserhead which is a cool tech that is almost lost nowadays.
He was getting it for free so price wasn't really an issue.
The mac looks cool, has very nice battery life, the sleep mode just works even when you had to use Linux PPC (it never did in Windoze) and you can run the three major operating systems in one machine. Oh and he was getting it for free which is the major obstacle to most people getting a Mac. What is there not to like?
You obviously have never developed in a Mac. The fact that Unix tools don't run as well is like complaining that Cygwin is proof that package management sucks in Windows. The "package" in a Mac is called a bundle and it's both ingenious and simple at the same time. The bundle is the reason why installing and uninstalling an app in a Mac is as simple as dragging and dropping the app icon to the Applications folder.
As far as serious web hosting goes, who in their right mind would use expensive and premium hardware for an operation with very low margins. Hell, even Windows is having a hard time to compete against Linux in that area, unless you need .NET stuff. But the Xserve was used and much appreciated in scientific labs and even companies where it was nice to have a server that could handle mission critical stuff without the price of a Sun or SGI server. Again, the problem with the server space is that everybody realized that is way cheaper to get a bunch of x86 machines tied together with Linux. That is a major reason why companies like the aforementioned SGI and Sun found themselves in deep trouble and had to focus on niche markets instead.
You are aware that Textmate is not part of OS X right? It is just a third party application that he chose over stuff like BBEdit or TextWrangler for no logical reason. It's like saying, oh Linux sucks so much since Joe's Own Editor is really crappy.
What does TextMate has to do with anything I ask? It is not a standard part of a Mac and if he thinks the editor sucks, then he could get another Mac editor he likes. Just like the parent post said, the Mac is really good since it is the only platform where you can install all the major commercial operating systems and test out how the website is exactly going to look.
He is just stupid in the sense that if he likes Linux so much, then he could simply install Linux in the Mac, which I have to say used to be all the rage with YellowDog and Gentoo PPC. Even if you think the hardware is overpriced, I still have to see a PC laptop that has a suspend mode that works as well as the Mac does, even when running Linux. Sure, the Mac is expensive, and so is a Porsche, and you would be mad to call a car like that a piece of crap, even if you can get a Mustang for less.
Why shouldn't I be envious, and why shouldn't I leave my boss high and dry for a different job that pays twice as much?
Because afterwards you will be a money whore. Stick to programming, raise a family and have a normal life. That my friend, is a lot more rewarding than working with an organized mafia and still do what you like for a living. Who told you scientists get rich anyway?
It's part of the collective paranoia that sets in when somebody blows himself up. If there were no terrorism for like fifty years, people would care a lot less than they do right now and even figure that somebody is kind of crazy by supporting laws that make life harder on the scientific types. The problem is that terrorism is the extreme way of making a point and is likely to be used a lot from now on, and not only by international organizations but also local and regional groups. Besides, terrorism nowadays caters to a lot of issues, like shooting a politician, while such incidents would be called a murder before, as in was the case with Kenneddy's assassination.
Really? I'm no cell tower technician, but as with most commercial 2-way radio, I would imagine that the only thing needed to really work is that you have the proper authorization to use your nearest antenna so to speak. That location dependent billing scenario that somebody else wrote about is really hard to find in the market place so I don't think the cell phone companies have any need of data like this. Therefore I'm in favor of approving legislation to make such data logging illegal.
By making it nicer to search first and foremost with Google. The other options being rather clumsy or having to go thru separate plugin install procedures. Chrome is one of the best browsers out there and Firefox in general does not represent a threat to them since it defaults to Google. So if Microsoft didn't come up with IE9, they will slowly be finding themselves surrounded by the very tactics they used to do to the now defunct Netscape, especially when it comes to promoting Bing. At this point the only competition Google has are regional search engines and Bing, more or less. So just by having an awesome product, they have created a defacto monopoly that has entrenched so much in our lives, as Windows has done on the PCs we buy. Yes, you can use competing products, but that does not hide the fact that they are the market leaders by far, and will keep leading it in the short term at the very least. Try to get rid of every single Google product in your life, and unless you live in Russia (Yandex) or China (Baidu), most likely you will find yourself exploring new frontiers.
Yeah, they make nice products when they face competition, there is no doubt about it. But even then, some of the commercial practices are questionable and that's where most of the hate comes from. For instance, you buy an XBox360 and a PS3. In the XBox you have to pay a monthly fee to play online games where as in the PS3 is completely free. If Microsoft is the only player in town in that particular case then we would be in a world of hurt. Luckily, having options pushes Microsoft to do the right thing, even if it doesn't end up doing most of the time. To me, that's what Linux and free software is really all about, more about options instead of being a much superior product.
Some people use Windows, others Mac, some others Linux and they probably end up trashing the other bunch based on their choice. It's the same with programming and this guy. Employers have the money and they can decide how to hire people based on very subjective reasons. I remember stories of people trying to be smart-asses by asking prospective employees if they knew by asking if they knew about some random fact and discarding people who either didn't knew or didn't agree with their views. I have had to deal with companies who would discard you right away if you didn't live in the place where they do business, that is even if you tell them that you can start working the next day and are willing to relocate and cover all expenses. This in general would make you think twice about working in a place where they judge people based on a whim, but if you don't have a job, then by all means get rid of .NET in the resume you send to Expensify. That way everybody is happy and you might be on your way to land a job. When there aren't many options people have to deal with a lot of crap, including stuff like this.
Sony is shutting down Linux and I think it might have to do out of fear that if a lot of people like the Air Force guys from the article start buying PS3 as mere CPUs, all of the sudden Sony will be subsidizing a lot more than they thought they could get in return with the sales of games.
Don't be weary of Chrome then because that's your only option at the moment.
It would need open source hardware for that too, or at least open source specs. There is way too many issues to make that happen, from hardware vendors wanting to protect their intellectual property and a hostile community to anything closed source. From the programming standpoint this is the kernel developers official stand: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.37/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt , or let me put it another way, we don't want your stupid driver cause we have a so much better architecture, so you either include it with our kernel or begone. Funny enough, most companies have chosen the second option. Typical Linux mentality that keeps the desktop system from going forward cause you need to be l33t. Sorry if my post offends a lot of Linux developers but try to take it as constructive criticism to leave politics aside and just provide an alternative to something that works without having to suffer a vendor lock-in (namely nVidia).
Same here, went back to Chrome, especially because of font rendering and speed. I did download the so called font tweaker for Firefox and it reminds me a lot of the font issues in Linux. You still get crappy output no matter the setting.
I do, works fine over here, especially after you tweak it by disabling UAC. It's my computer and I have a good antivirus and if worse comes to worse, I'll just reinstall the machine and restore data from backups, which to this date hasn't been necessary. Pretty stable system for me even if it sounds surprising to you.
Yes, we have seen it before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bush_mission_accomplished.jpg
The UN is supposed to promote peace, not war. More about promoting dialogue. In either case it is not supposed to become a world government in itself. Read this paper on the matter which pretty much reflects a huge chunk of US Foreign Policy: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/52425/jesse-helms/saving-the-un-a-challenge-to-the-next-secretary-general So if interfering in other people's affairs is necessary why is the international community supporting the fight in Bahrain AGAINST the rebels and doing nothing in Yemen, just like they did in Rwanda not so long ago. Besides even the Lybian issue is starting to get messy, as this Arab League recent statement shows: "What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone, and what we want is the protection of civilians and not the bombardment of more civilians," This is regime change disguised under humanitarian action. Crimes against the civilian population is just the excuse to get in. Hell, there are crimes against the civilian population in Palestine and nobody gives a damn, and it's not only Israel, Egypt is also blocking their side of the frontier. So try to come up with something better than "war crimes are comitted against civilians". Read this if you are still not convinced: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5470047.ece
Try to follow the thread. We we talking about the Marines in the Korean context. I think it's best for the Koreans to decide what they wanted to live under or fight for whatever they thought was right. If it was full democracy, go for it, if it was Kim, then what the hell, one more enemy but it is their country you know.
Of course it wasn't France's problem, they took a calculated gamble against their common enemy just like they are doing now. Oh wait, you thought the French were helping out of their good hearts? Lol. And before you go on and call everybody else stupid, just take a look in the mirror.