Filibustering is a tool usable only in the Senate, whereby a group continues to debate the topic ad infinitum so that no vote can take place.
The Democrats will likely not oppose this bill en masse, and if a few of them attempt such a tactic they will undoubtably be accused of "holding Democracy hostage".
Bah, if you know Fortran you know COBOL, just do everything the hard way and try to think like a businessman while doing it. The differences are minimal and a good Fortran programmer can pick up COBOL in a weekend (and spend the rest of his life trying to forget).
What I'm more interested in is why exactly so many companies insist on doing all their new coding in COBOL. I mean, they can't help it with the legacy code they've got, but I went to a job interview recently where the guy was complaining up a storm about how much they paid for their new computer systems (WinNT boxes and a big IBM mainframe) and how slow all the code still is and then went on to inform me they do all their development in Visual BASIC and Cobol. I mean, why not just get people to use languages that perform a little better?
The problem is that in the virtual world Digimon and the like routinely eat your email messages, the only justice system is the noble system of slashdotting.
oh god, I can't tell you how many people won't interview me because they "want someone with a CS degree".
On the off chance they do give me an interview, the first question is "do you know COBOL?"... I will try out the "software testers" idea though, thanks for the advice.
When Mozilla 1.0 first came out some of the stuff on scottrade.com didn't work right (the Java streamer especially), but since then they've got everything working perfect.
I'm glad, I hate the idea of using something as insecure as IE to do anything important
I certainly didn't mean to imply that.
ADD and ADHD are serious disorders, but likewise they are quite rare (whereas 3.6% of children are now being given the treatment for it, and that percentage is rising quickly). My problem was not with treating people who honestly need it, my problem was with the way teachers have been using these drugs as the cure for any and all forms of misbehaving.
It seems like a lot of you guys are really down on Symantec and McAfee for not filtering this with their AntiVirus software, but consider this.
By clicking "I agree" on the EULA you are telling your computer "I want to do X". If you tell your computer you want to do X and Symantec's software tells your computer "he can't" how is that any different from all the DRM crap like Paladium?
I know the intention in this case would be to protect the user, but then again isn't that the tack that Microsoft is taking as well?
Odd, I've never seen a standard CD player not play a CDR. CD-RW's on the other hand.
I like knowing the type of media I'm getting, but the only time it ticks me off is when some advertises "original VCDs" and I get cheap blackbacked CDRs with DivX's on them and a crappy inkjet printed label.
Germany et al are forcing google into this. The fact that google is only censoring a minimal number of sites is a good sign that they aren't doing so willingly.
It just goes to show that this article is more about balance in the mainstream press than about the freedom to publish things.
In the U.S. you really can publish most anything you want. Notwithstanding some of the recent DMCA crap and excesses of IP, you are perfectly free to say whatever horrible things you want.
You'll probably never get on CNN saying that slavery is a good idea, but at the same time you can certainly publish your own newsletter if you have the money (or even start your own TV station).
Not so in Canada. The media may be a little less interested in slanting things toward their own political agenda, and a wider range of viewpoints may hit the mainstream public, but that's not near the same as a free press.
Try to have a copy of "The Turner Diaries" in Canada and see how far you get before being arrested for having hateful literature.
No one needs a first ammendment to publish a cookbook.
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Filibustering is a tool usable only in the Senate, whereby a group continues to debate the topic ad infinitum so that no vote can take place.
The Democrats will likely not oppose this bill en masse, and if a few of them attempt such a tactic they will undoubtably be accused of "holding Democracy hostage".
Bah, if you know Fortran you know COBOL, just do everything the hard way and try to think like a businessman while doing it. The differences are minimal and a good Fortran programmer can pick up COBOL in a weekend (and spend the rest of his life trying to forget).
What I'm more interested in is why exactly so many companies insist on doing all their new coding in COBOL. I mean, they can't help it with the legacy code they've got, but I went to a job interview recently where the guy was complaining up a storm about how much they paid for their new computer systems (WinNT boxes and a big IBM mainframe) and how slow all the code still is and then went on to inform me they do all their development in Visual BASIC and Cobol. I mean, why not just get people to use languages that perform a little better?
Just don't make the filename so obvious man,
C:\ren porn.zip pr0n.zip
they'll never know
That's great, but am I the only one who remembers having RAMdisks on my Atari 800?
Axlon used to make 128 KB Ramdisks, now that was power!
They're not really above being bought, they just have different bidders.
That's where the merger halt came from in the first place, the desire to keep European companies that donate heavily to them competitive.
I would guess the hit ADBE took today is more related to the downgrade from Deutsche Securities than anything MSFT did.
They could certainly try to split them up if they want, remember they managed to single handedly stop the GE-Honeywell merger.
The problem is that in the virtual world Digimon and the like routinely eat your email messages, the only justice system is the noble system of slashdotting.
and the only way out... is suicide!
oh god, I can't tell you how many people won't interview me because they "want someone with a CS degree".
On the off chance they do give me an interview, the first question is "do you know COBOL?"... I will try out the "software testers" idea though, thanks for the advice.
I specialized in Optical Physics. Not exactly an ideal cottage industry, unfortunately.
speaking of halloween, shouldn't some MSFT employee have leaked some sort of document by now?
heh... funny I just spent 5 years getting a double major B.S. in physics and math, only to find I can't do a damned thing with them.
:)
I was considering going to grad school for finance... too bad we can't swap degrees
When Mozilla 1.0 first came out some of the stuff on scottrade.com didn't work right (the Java streamer especially), but since then they've got everything working perfect.
I'm glad, I hate the idea of using something as insecure as IE to do anything important
I certainly didn't mean to imply that. ADD and ADHD are serious disorders, but likewise they are quite rare (whereas 3.6% of children are now being given the treatment for it, and that percentage is rising quickly). My problem was not with treating people who honestly need it, my problem was with the way teachers have been using these drugs as the cure for any and all forms of misbehaving.
My many many (JK-64) Krupsen from Sun are all 100% quiet... its eerie!
If I could bury the NFS server underneath the floorboards I wouldn't even need ears.
It seems like a lot of you guys are really down on Symantec and McAfee for not filtering this with their AntiVirus software, but consider this.
By clicking "I agree" on the EULA you are telling your computer "I want to do X". If you tell your computer you want to do X and Symantec's software tells your computer "he can't" how is that any different from all the DRM crap like Paladium?
I know the intention in this case would be to protect the user, but then again isn't that the tack that Microsoft is taking as well?
Odd, I've never seen a standard CD player not play a CDR. CD-RW's on the other hand.
I like knowing the type of media I'm getting, but the only time it ticks me off is when some advertises "original VCDs" and I get cheap blackbacked CDRs with DivX's on them and a crappy inkjet printed label.
Of course its wrong...
Not the point though
Germany et al are forcing google into this. The fact that google is only censoring a minimal number of sites is a good sign that they aren't doing so willingly.
I guess that's why drug use is so much lower now than it was back when it was legal...
errr, waitaminute.
cvsup RELENG_4_7 if I'm not mistaken.
No real need to update IMO. I'm still using 4.5 happily. I'd just wait until 5 comes out and update whatever packages and ports you feel the need to.
Since its HTML capable why don't they call it "Word X11"
Yeah, they sure don't seem to be blocking any more sites than they are being legally compelled to.
When they are just blocking willy-nilly my page always gets the axe.
couldn't they argue that penguin lands are being exploited by humanity since they use penguin likenesses to market such useful things?
It just goes to show that this article is more about balance in the mainstream press than about the freedom to publish things.
In the U.S. you really can publish most anything you want. Notwithstanding some of the recent DMCA crap and excesses of IP, you are perfectly free to say whatever horrible things you want.
You'll probably never get on CNN saying that slavery is a good idea, but at the same time you can certainly publish your own newsletter if you have the money (or even start your own TV station).
Not so in Canada. The media may be a little less interested in slanting things toward their own political agenda, and a wider range of viewpoints may hit the mainstream public, but that's not near the same as a free press.
Try to have a copy of "The Turner Diaries" in Canada and see how far you get before being arrested for having hateful literature.
No one needs a first ammendment to publish a cookbook.
Well, if you give the proof at a big university chances are you'll totally score with some PhD Math chick.