I'd say your post is more of an offtopic than flamebait. How is what you're saying related to Dmitry's case? He didn't break any copyrights, he didn't steal any IP. His company wrote a program that can possibly be used to make illegal copies, sure. Well, so can a copy machine, but I don't see the book publishers suing Xerox. I don't give a shit about "information wants to be free" mantra, but I know injustice when I see it.
Corporate greed has overshadowed proper management of politics.
Let's see: there was a riot. A bunch of hoodlums were tearing the town apart, looting, attacking police with petrol bombs, etc. One of the cops (apparently) lost his head an shot one of the rioters. I don't see where the corporate greed comes in.
(Yes, I know that most protesters were peaceful. Note that the victim was from the militant wing though.)
Who's pleading? All the posts I saw from Java developers were either indifferent or actually approved the removal of the lame 5-year old VM - less confusion this way. (I, being a Java developer, also think it's a good thing.)
It's java, Swing in particular. It's reasonably responisive half of the time but when it enters one of its mood swings (pun intended) it can take up to ten seconds for the UI to 'wake up' again. I notice that with JBuilder too. It's not our programmers who are at fault it's the runtime.
What you are describing sounds like you are doing some time-consuming stuff in the Swing thread. A common mistake - we have all been there. But certainly not the runtime's fault.
Sybase is a quality product and I don't understand why we have issues solely with the JDBC side of things.
Executing people, even retarted, is against Human Rights
This misunderstanding of human rights is actually quite symptomatic of this age. Human rights are not a universal concept. A person has as many rights as the law of the land grants him, no less and no more. In particular, the United Nation has a number of agreements on human rights, by which the states who signed them must abide.
Nowhere does it say that executing people is illegal. The Universal Declaration on Human Rights does grant a right to life; in particular, it says: "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life." Notice the arbitrarily.
People always say these days "people have a right to this," "animals have a right to that." Bullshit! The only rights people have are the ones explicitly listed in legislative documents in effect.
Um... the parent to your post was saying, At the same time though AMD generally gets more done per cycle than Intel, rending the clockspeed somewhat irrelevant. Indeed Intel itself gets more done per clock cycle with the P3 than the P4 gets.
I don't know if you are being a troll or just plain ignorant.
Australian Constitution.
That site (found in 5 seconds with Google) seems to have many constitutions of many nations listed, and it might be worth a read next time you feel like insulting some country you know nothing about.
Not all countries have constitutions. Great Britain, for example, does just fine without one.
Thus suggesting that a country doesn't have a constitution does not constitute an insult to that country. Why are you so defensive? I don't have anything against au.
In America denying someone the chance to put down their religion, whatever it is, would be unconstituational.. is something like this the case in Australia?
If their legal system is based on the British, they might not even have a constitution.
So if you earn the money to buy a trophy, you earned the trophy? If you earn the money to buy a purple heart medal, you earned the medal?
What you earn in life is not the same as what you can afford to buy.
That's exactly the point Tito made: going into space is NOT a medal. It's not a mystic journey available to select few, it is something that everyone can do!
Yes, it was research. It may not have been the most hard-hitting, or vital research, but comparing John Glenn to Dennis Tito is
insulting. John Glenn earned his place in space. He risked his life to be the first man to orbit the Earth in a capsule that was little
more than a projectile. He went back into space as a genuine hero to many Americans. Dennis Tito was nothing but a crass opportunist using his money to buy something he could never earn.
Bullshit. Whether or not Glenn "earned" it, it was still a joyride, so it's doubly hypocritical for him to call Tito's trip misuse of equipment.
Tito is a pioneer no less than Glenn: commercial exploration of space is going to be crucial in the future, and Tito's trip is an important early step.
This is a really crappy article, at least the part that applies to Java. First of all, the correct analogue to PHP would be a JSP, not a straight servlet. With JSP, the first Java example would not be any longer than the Perl and PHP ones.
Also, that business about having to be careful not to confuse the class names is hogwash: that's what packages are for.
Propery is a man-made tool we use to serve higher goals. Those who take property rights for natural rights make a serious error.
Wrong. Property does indeed come from nature. Animals defend their property vigorously, especially in situations of limited resources (such as food, territory, etc.)
If you are using a stand-alone system with dial-up (modem or ISDN) access then what is the address of your NIC?
Good point, you don't a MAC then. Plus you can change the MAC on most cards. Plus you don't have to use your MAC to generate the IPv6 address, you can use any number. So it's all not that scary, really.
Even politicians sometimes form their answers based on what they think should be done, and not on the "tone of the question". Sorry, Slashdot just isn't a big enough slice of the electorate for Bush to start karma-whoring here.
The real reason is probably that the answers were compiled by staffers from pieces of old speeches, and they didn't find an appropriate quote for Wicca, Santaria, Shinto etc.
(And I can understand why they didn't find the "I don't consider witchcraft to be a religion" quote appropriate here:))
Yes, that is the symbol for an angstrom, however, I believe that they meant one Ampere-hour, which means it will run at one amp for one hour for that amount of fuel. It's the rate of fuel usage and the power derived from that amount of fuel.
No, power is in Watts. Amperes measure the current; and Ampere-hours measure electrical charge. All this doesn't apply very well here.
I think they probably meant 1 1/2 hours, and the funky symbol for 1/2 got warped somehow.
On the other hand, non-US students who choose to attend university in the US because they don't consider college in their home country adequate comprise a vast majority of student visa holders
Actually, I don't think it's true. Job prospects play much bigger role. I know it's like that in my case:)
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I'd say your post is more of an offtopic than flamebait. How is what you're saying related to Dmitry's case? He didn't break any copyrights, he didn't steal any IP. His company wrote a program that can possibly be used to make illegal copies, sure. Well, so can a copy machine, but I don't see the book publishers suing Xerox. I don't give a shit about "information wants to be free" mantra, but I know injustice when I see it.
yep, that's the one.
Let's see: there was a riot. A bunch of hoodlums were tearing the town apart, looting, attacking police with petrol bombs, etc. One of the cops (apparently) lost his head an shot one of the rioters. I don't see where the corporate greed comes in.
(Yes, I know that most protesters were peaceful. Note that the victim was from the militant wing though.)
Who's pleading? All the posts I saw from Java developers were either indifferent or actually approved the removal of the lame 5-year old VM - less confusion this way. (I, being a Java developer, also think it's a good thing.)
It's java, Swing in particular. It's reasonably responisive half of the time but when it enters one of its mood swings (pun intended) it can take up to ten seconds for the UI to 'wake up' again. I notice that with JBuilder too. It's not our programmers who are at fault it's the runtime.
What you are describing sounds like you are doing some time-consuming stuff in the Swing thread. A common mistake - we have all been there. But certainly not the runtime's fault.
Sybase is a quality product and I don't understand why we have issues solely with the JDBC side of things.
Maybe their Java programmers suck.
Executing people, even retarted, is against Human Rights
This misunderstanding of human rights is actually quite symptomatic of this age. Human rights are not a universal concept. A person has as many rights as the law of the land grants him, no less and no more. In particular, the United Nation has a number of agreements on human rights, by which the states who signed them must abide.
Nowhere does it say that executing people is illegal. The Universal Declaration on Human Rights does grant a right to life; in particular, it says: "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life." Notice the arbitrarily.
People always say these days "people have a right to this," "animals have a right to that." Bullshit! The only rights people have are the ones explicitly listed in legislative documents in effect.
Um... the parent to your post was saying, At the same time though AMD generally gets more done per cycle than Intel, rending the clockspeed somewhat irrelevant. Indeed Intel itself gets more done per clock cycle with the P3 than the P4 gets.
The Pentium 4 is MUCH faster than Athlon on FP. The 1.7 GHz P4 scores a SPECfp of 598 and the 1.4 GHz Athlon scores a laughable 426.
Wait a second, maybe I'm missing something here:
(598/1.7)/(426/1.4) = 351.76 / 304.29 = 1.156.
Intel seems to be faster per cycle, but not overwhelmingly so. Or are these benchmarks non-linear?
You mean "the whipping boy of other third-world nations with poor human rights records," right?
How the hell is this insightful? Flamebait if I ever saw one.
I don't know if you are being a troll or just plain ignorant.
Australian Constitution.
That site (found in 5 seconds with Google) seems to have many constitutions of many nations listed, and it might be worth a read next time you feel like insulting some country you know nothing about.
Not all countries have constitutions. Great Britain, for example, does just fine without one.
Thus suggesting that a country doesn't have a constitution does not constitute an insult to that country. Why are you so defensive? I don't have anything against au.
In America denying someone the chance to put down their religion, whatever it is, would be unconstituational.. is something like this the case in Australia?
If their legal system is based on the British, they might not even have a constitution.
The files are all of the form .. is a USER FRIENDLY name that can easily be typed and rememberd.
:)
Indeed, easy to type - no typing at all required!
Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://! etc.
Wait, wasn't Christa McAuliffe an ordinary person? I guess this lays the foundation for ordinary people coming back from space.
Well, did she technically go into space? What height did the Challenger reach?
So if you earn the money to buy a trophy, you earned the trophy? If you earn the money to buy a purple heart medal, you earned the medal?
What you earn in life is not the same as what you can afford to buy.
That's exactly the point Tito made: going into space is NOT a medal. It's not a mystic journey available to select few, it is something that everyone can do!
Yes, it was research. It may not have been the most hard-hitting, or vital research, but comparing John Glenn to Dennis Tito is
insulting. John Glenn earned his place in space. He risked his life to be the first man to orbit the Earth in a capsule that was little
more than a projectile. He went back into space as a genuine hero to many Americans. Dennis Tito was nothing but a crass opportunist using his money to buy something he could never earn.
Bullshit. Whether or not Glenn "earned" it, it was still a joyride, so it's doubly hypocritical for him to call Tito's trip misuse of equipment.
Tito is a pioneer no less than Glenn: commercial exploration of space is going to be crucial in the future, and Tito's trip is an important early step.
I smell an "X-Files" episode, if Fox can spring to fly Mulder and Skully (the heck with Doggit) to the U.K. to film it. Could be cool.
Dude, Doggett is cool. Just look how much better the series is this year than last year.
On an overpopulated planet.
What planet would that be? Certainly not ours, which is easily capable of sustaining a much larger population than currently exists.
Sustaining, yes. Sustaining while maintaining reasonable living standards and ecology, no.
try GNU regexps, or http://www.javaregex.com/; also this review site has about 10 links to Java regexp implementations.
One of the beauties of Java - the ease of finding software and integrating it into your code.
This is a really crappy article, at least the part that applies to Java. First of all, the correct analogue to PHP would be a JSP, not a straight servlet. With JSP, the first Java example would not be any longer than the Perl and PHP ones.
Also, that business about having to be careful not to confuse the class names is hogwash: that's what packages are for.
Propery is a man-made tool we use to serve higher goals. Those who take property rights for natural rights make a serious error.
Wrong. Property does indeed come from nature. Animals defend their property vigorously, especially in situations of limited resources (such as food, territory, etc.)
If you are using a stand-alone system with dial-up (modem or ISDN) access then what is the address of your NIC?
Good point, you don't a MAC then. Plus you can change the MAC on most cards. Plus you don't have to use your MAC to generate the IPv6 address, you can use any number. So it's all not that scary, really.
Gawd, did he even catch the tone of the question?
Even politicians sometimes form their answers based on what they think should be done, and not on the "tone of the question". Sorry, Slashdot just isn't a big enough slice of the electorate for Bush to start karma-whoring here.
The real reason is probably that the answers were compiled by staffers from pieces of old speeches, and they didn't find an appropriate quote for Wicca, Santaria, Shinto etc.
:))
(And I can understand why they didn't find the "I don't consider witchcraft to be a religion" quote appropriate here
Yes, that is the symbol for an angstrom, however, I believe that they meant one Ampere-hour, which means it will run at one amp for one hour for that amount of fuel. It's the rate of fuel usage and the power derived from that amount of fuel.
No, power is in Watts. Amperes measure the current; and Ampere-hours measure electrical charge. All this doesn't apply very well here.
I think they probably meant 1 1/2 hours, and the funky symbol for 1/2 got warped somehow.
On the other hand, non-US students who choose to attend university in the US because they don't consider college in their home country adequate comprise a vast majority of student visa holders
:)
Actually, I don't think it's true. Job prospects play much bigger role. I know it's like that in my case