The charges themselves have been all but corroborated by the White House and certainly nobody is denying the content is true. The only (campaign) issue is whether these actual embodiments are from the time period they claim to be. That appears to be false, but notice how this relatively minor point has come to dominate the debate.
Who really cares if someone forged, misrepresented or just misunderstood the nature of this document? The point is that Bush dropped the ball when he was supposed to be defending the country in the 1970's, a job he got by virtue of being his father's son in the first place.
(The forgery/whatever question is interesting from a 'trust in media' standpoint, but from a "is Bush reliable or a security flip-flopper" viewpoint it is irrelevant.)
if it would be acceptable to hack a whois database to see what domains are registered to google.com and just go there without solving the math problem. In fact, maybe they'd prefer that way, since Google has nothing to do with prime numbers but everything to do with the Internet.
But that's beside the point. Since when do you need to justify owning a piece of metal?
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for home use. The manufacture of new RAM and the disposal of old causes pollution, which kills people. Therefore, make it illegal to own more than 640 KB.
I happen to use Sybase at work. It's....OK. I tried converting our whole app (couple hundred LOC and several GB of data) to postgresql. It took me less than a week and it ran better. Converting from MS SQL to Sybase isn't going to be any easier than that.
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Java started out seeming cool because it was the Write Once, Run Anywhere language. And it was Somehow Internet Related back when that was cool.
After a while, though, people started noticing that Java is slow as mole asses. And it's a huge memory hog. But worst, I think, was when it started to dawn on programmers who actually think that Write Once, Run Anywhere doesn't have anything to do with the language you write in. It has to do with thinking portably.
It's very easy to write a non-portable app in Java. You have to make sure you use architecture and OS independent functions and algorithms if you want to be portable. And if you are going to do that, why not just choose any language you want (that has a compiler for the target OS)? Like C, which is fast? Or a scripting language, which is easy?
And of course finally, Java is uncool because it is a buzzword that non-programmers use.
The test was to give them 4 or 5 items and ask them which was which. If they can't tell, they can't count well. If they can't count well, according to the theory, it is as a result of them not having words for higher numbers.
But later in the same article we find this: "There are not really occasions in their daily lives where the Pirahã need to count,"
This statement is in direct opposition to the stated theory. In this quote, the scientist is saying that the causitive arrow points the other direction. They don't have much need to count -> their language doesn't contain those words.
To my mind, their failures on the tests are more parsimoniously explained by their simply not having had much practice with a technique (counting) they don't use much and their language merely reflects this.
Maybe I'm old and out of touch, but I don't know what half the blurbs on Slashdot are even talking about anymore. Could we have more explanation on acronyms and jargon, please?
He's invested nothing. If he walks away and the kid dies, he loses a few minutes of time and milligrams of protein. Investing years and a lot of effort to protect that tiny initial investment (your argument) doesn't make genetic sense.
All this talk about embedding MathML is useless unless sites people actually post on (90% of which are based on slashcode or scoop) serve XML, which none of them do.
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This plan seems to be The Right Way--make sure that the IP address that claims to be from domain.com is authorized by domain.com to send email. I mean, duh, this is how it should have been to begin with. If there are any problems with it, those are just people that were exploiting a design flaw to begin with.
over the "air waves" reminds me of The Adolescence of P-1. When I read it, in the early 90's, I thought "yeah right". Now that viruses can spread so easily, though, any program can essentially hijack the CPU of any computer, which makes the idea of an AI taking over all our computer systems even more plausible.
I see some physics equations, a couple incomprehensible "crude sketches" and a battery pack. Where's the pictures of the actual project, let alone video of it in action?
I was very outraged when my data on subatomic particle interaction was undermined for political purposes. I wrote several angry letters to the White House about it and denounced Bush to all my friends and colleagues.
Then I got a reply.
The reply gently and wisely pointed out that "politics" is what makes things happens. "Politics" makes public school and thus high literacy possible. "Politics" is what puts police on the streets to keep us safe. "Politics" is what the Constitution is all about.
The letter went on to note that while the White House obviously didn't dispute my data, any scientific finding must have an *interpretation* put on top of it to make it useful. The letter writer indicated several points on which I had to admit my interpretation was colored by my political views and that the White House interpretation was more conservative (scientifically) than mine.
That letter writer was George W Bush. The man I will be voting for on November 2.
These numbers point out out just how little penetration into the market MS actually has. 600 million users is only 10% of the 6 billion potential users out there. Most of these potential users are not very interested in paying a "computing tax" to a US corporation.
Of course, they probably won't have to pay, since many of these countries are fairly lax about copyright laws. In order to really get Linux, the People's OS, out to them it would probably be a good idea to petition their governments to *follow Microsoft's lead* and crack down on software pirates. That drives up the cost of Windows and Linux wins!
Yeah, that would be a great approach for the CIA to use. Get a huge bullhorn and announce that they are there. There's no other way to learn Arabic and if they wanted to listen in they couldn't just lurk.
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Who really cares if someone forged, misrepresented or just misunderstood the nature of this document? The point is that Bush dropped the ball when he was supposed to be defending the country in the 1970's, a job he got by virtue of being his father's son in the first place.
(The forgery/whatever question is interesting from a 'trust in media' standpoint, but from a "is Bush reliable or a security flip-flopper" viewpoint it is irrelevant.)
I took at a poll on job satisfaction at a Bush rally and it was around 95%. I guess America thinks Bush is doing a bang-up job!
I wonder if there will be people on *Earth* in 30 years.
if it would be acceptable to hack a whois database to see what domains are registered to google.com and just go there without solving the math problem. In fact, maybe they'd prefer that way, since Google has nothing to do with prime numbers but everything to do with the Internet.
But that's beside the point. Since when do you need to justify owning a piece of metal?
for home use. The manufacture of new RAM and the disposal of old causes pollution, which kills people. Therefore, make it illegal to own more than 640 KB.
That's because guns in the hands of the people == less power for government. It's all about the Second Amendment, baby!
I happen to use Sybase at work. It's....OK. I tried converting our whole app (couple hundred LOC and several GB of data) to postgresql. It took me less than a week and it ran better. Converting from MS SQL to Sybase isn't going to be any easier than that.
So...duh.
After a while, though, people started noticing that Java is slow as mole asses. And it's a huge memory hog. But worst, I think, was when it started to dawn on programmers who actually think that Write Once, Run Anywhere doesn't have anything to do with the language you write in. It has to do with thinking portably.
It's very easy to write a non-portable app in Java. You have to make sure you use architecture and OS independent functions and algorithms if you want to be portable. And if you are going to do that, why not just choose any language you want (that has a compiler for the target OS)? Like C, which is fast? Or a scripting language, which is easy?
And of course finally, Java is uncool because it is a buzzword that non-programmers use.
s/reefs/reeves/
But later in the same article we find this: "There are not really occasions in their daily lives where the Pirahã need to count,"
This statement is in direct opposition to the stated theory. In this quote, the scientist is saying that the causitive arrow points the other direction. They don't have much need to count -> their language doesn't contain those words.
To my mind, their failures on the tests are more parsimoniously explained by their simply not having had much practice with a technique (counting) they don't use much and their language merely reflects this.
Maybe I'm old and out of touch, but I don't know what half the blurbs on Slashdot are even talking about anymore. Could we have more explanation on acronyms and jargon, please?
He's invested nothing. If he walks away and the kid dies, he loses a few minutes of time and milligrams of protein. Investing years and a lot of effort to protect that tiny initial investment (your argument) doesn't make genetic sense.
That doesn't sound very darwinian. "Keeping the couple intact longer" is group selectionism. Keep trying.
that a person who lives in Canada may not be able to hear the accent? I've knoown a lot of Canadians and they all say "aboot".
All this talk about embedding MathML is useless unless sites people actually post on (90% of which are based on slashcode or scoop) serve XML, which none of them do.
This plan seems to be The Right Way--make sure that the IP address that claims to be from domain.com is authorized by domain.com to send email. I mean, duh, this is how it should have been to begin with. If there are any problems with it, those are just people that were exploiting a design flaw to begin with.
That sounds a little too much like a "citizen tracking ID" for my taste.
over the "air waves" reminds me of The Adolescence of P-1. When I read it, in the early 90's, I thought "yeah right". Now that viruses can spread so easily, though, any program can essentially hijack the CPU of any computer, which makes the idea of an AI taking over all our computer systems even more plausible.
I see some physics equations, a couple incomprehensible "crude sketches" and a battery pack. Where's the pictures of the actual project, let alone video of it in action?
Then I got a reply.
The reply gently and wisely pointed out that "politics" is what makes things happens. "Politics" makes public school and thus high literacy possible. "Politics" is what puts police on the streets to keep us safe. "Politics" is what the Constitution is all about.
The letter went on to note that while the White House obviously didn't dispute my data, any scientific finding must have an *interpretation* put on top of it to make it useful. The letter writer indicated several points on which I had to admit my interpretation was colored by my political views and that the White House interpretation was more conservative (scientifically) than mine.
That letter writer was George W Bush. The man I will be voting for on November 2.
Of course, they probably won't have to pay, since many of these countries are fairly lax about copyright laws. In order to really get Linux, the People's OS, out to them it would probably be a good idea to petition their governments to *follow Microsoft's lead* and crack down on software pirates. That drives up the cost of Windows and Linux wins!
How hard would it be to just use the old non-working keyboard itself?
Yeah, that would be a great approach for the CIA to use. Get a huge bullhorn and announce that they are there. There's no other way to learn Arabic and if they wanted to listen in they couldn't just lurk.