In this movie, Clint Eastwood's character, is tasked with stealing a top secret Soviet Plane controlled via brain waves. The catch is he had to think in Perfect Russian! (his character was a retired double spy). I Used to love that movie
He said he was disappointed with the judge's refusal to let him present some evidence, including a "corporate mortality file" that IBM maintained on its workers and a study showing that IBM workers had higher rates of cancer than the population at large.
Does anyone know why these record were kept out of the proceedings?
100% of accidents are caused by passengers who had a drink and missread a sign while the driver was speeding to deliver closed a case of beer to his roommate.
your boss asks you to write some stupid program that you KNOW, from experience, he'll forget about in the next 2 hours, and that the program in question is useless (usually the request is a knee jerk reaction to some problem). You tell him "I'll do it" knwing full well you wont do it (that's lying) and yet you have the best interest of the company in mind; as your time is better spentelsewhere (i.e. reading slashdot)
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First, butter is probably a bad analogy, because it loses its independent identity when it is mixed into the cake and cooked.
I agree with your assesment and would add, that the use of this analogy is not coincidental. Everyone knows that butter cannot be extracted from the resulting mix. Thus once read and accepted as true, the analogy leads the reader to conclude that ALL of the code in linux has been tainted with SCO butter.
The machine also will have about 256 megabytes of dynamic random access memory. But Microsoft will upgrade that to 512 megabytes if Sony puts in more.
This sounds like a bunch of technobabble, geared towards impressing "analysts". I can't imagine why any company would make a crucial decision, such as the amount of RAM the product will have, based on what the other guy is doing and not its own technical goals for the device.
Things like morality and ethics aren't just stupid games philosophers play. What people believe is right and wrong has a real, though indirect impact on society. It ultimately come back to you, although for most people it's difficult to see.
I agree whole heartedly with you on the value of ethics and morality. However the game is stacked against the common worker: see Enron, Mutual Funds, Parmalat, Tyco... And it is no secret that most corporations, at least public ones, cannot be trusted to do right by their employees, b/c in the end what matters to "them" is the bottomline.
But only to the companies that are willing to pay to be sponsored links. As it has been said, google has zero responsibility to sites that rely on its results for business
I for one, look at other sites for info on companies selling stuff. Pricewatch.com (not affiliated to it in any form) is an excellent example of a site that helps customers compare prices, location, availabilty, etc. of Computer parts and electronics
There are plenty of corporate websites that offer their content in multiple languages (bbc.co.uk comes to mind). of course they could always register several names or opt for the ascii equivalent. In any event it is not as cut and dry as you put it.
Mod the parent up.
This is probably what they are doing, Take an MSH script, compile it to the intermediate language (CIL) and run it.
All that the would have to make sure of is that the pertinent namespaces are implicitly imported, and Voila, all the benefits of a modern programming language at the fingertips of sysadmins.
.NET is has nothing to do with COM/DCOM. It is a ground up effort to integrate a true object framework and the languages designed to take advantage of it. With that in mind,.NET is an umbrella that covers several different technologies.
Of course, M$ has opened the environment so that legacy COM/DCOM can be used, however COM is NOT the underlying technology.
Disclaimer, I despise M$' tactics, but, as a tech person, I cannot dismiss the merits of the.NET framework
As for the review, some initial comments tipped the fact that this person has little in depth knowledge of the underlying technologies he is criticizing.
i.e. (which seemed to me much more graspable than complex monsters like CORBA and J2EE.
j2ee is much simpler to use than COM/DCOM/MSQM/IIS/VBSCRIPT and all the other technoogies that you would have needed to complete the functionality of a j2ee compliant app server
Whether GM food is safe or not, has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not Nano scale materials are. Studies hae to be completed in order to make sure that things are handled correctly.
It's not about stopping research, develoment and commercialization of nano technologies, it should be about making them safe for humans and the environment.
In New York (as i'm sure many other places as well), you can get a ticket for "running" a red light. No points are given because you cannot tell who was driving, but the issues are similar. I guess their standing is: it is your car, you are responsible.
A while back, I got one of this fines in the mail, and ignored it, it went away. I'm not sure who was driving the car at the time.
A little background. I'm American but from the south as in South American, actually from Colombia. I have lived in the US for almost 14 years.
The mistake came about b/c I work in a commodities trading firm and was intimately involved in the push to switch to the Euro from the original currencies (as a financial institution we had to do it in the first phase).
When I wrote the comment I incorrectly equated membership in the Euro with that of the EU.
Is there a common perception that the recent France-Germany anti-American alignment is "The EU" and that Britain (and maybe some other countries) are not part of it?
It is very clear for people here that the Blair and the UK are aligned with the US for the long run. As for who is and who isn't part of the EU, I believe you'd be hard pressed to find people who actually know. Whatever the reasons maybe -Education, lack of media exposure, an egocentric, and one track minded society, etc-, The fact remains that people here care very little about what goes on outside. Ultimately I believe that, the average person, knows little about the intricacies of the EU (self included).
I'm curious, when you say you "marched against[..]", was it againt inclusion in the EU or the Euro?
That's why I believe that for this to work, only already translated sampels are used. As for single to many and many to many word translations, as long as the sets of words don't change, I don see a problem doing the match. aster all a space is a character.
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In this movie, Clint Eastwood's character, is tasked with stealing a top secret Soviet Plane controlled via brain waves. The catch is he had to think in Perfect Russian! (his character was a retired double spy). I Used to love that movie
Boy I'm getting old!
Does anyone know why these record were kept out of the proceedings?
That's why They have: http://Search.yahoo.com
100% of accidents are caused by passengers who had a drink and missread a sign while the driver was speeding to deliver closed a case of beer to his roommate.
your boss asks you to write some stupid program that you KNOW, from experience, he'll forget about in the next 2 hours, and that the program in question is useless (usually the request is a knee jerk reaction to some problem). You tell him "I'll do it" knwing full well you wont do it (that's lying) and yet you have the best interest of the company in mind; as your time is better spentelsewhere (i.e. reading slashdot)
I agree with your assesment and would add, that the use of this analogy is not coincidental. Everyone knows that butter cannot be extracted from the resulting mix. Thus once read and accepted as true, the analogy leads the reader to conclude that ALL of the code in linux has been tainted with SCO butter.
The machine also will have about 256 megabytes of dynamic random access memory. But Microsoft will upgrade that to 512 megabytes if Sony puts in more.
This sounds like a bunch of technobabble, geared towards impressing "analysts". I can't imagine why any company would make a crucial decision, such as the amount of RAM the product will have, based on what the other guy is doing and not its own technical goals for the device.
It also comes with a handy set top grill.
How about 100 swiming pools?
To undermine MS' dominance:
Fund OS awareness at all levels
Fund OS projects
(insert initiative here)
In short, do something similar to what the Federal and State governments are doing in the US, with Tobacco settlement Money.
Buy Used games, you can usually get 3 to 6 month old games for less than 50% retail (GameStop, Half.com etc)
I agree whole heartedly with you on the value of ethics and morality. However the game is stacked against the common worker: see Enron, Mutual Funds, Parmalat, Tyco... And it is no secret that most corporations, at least public ones, cannot be trusted to do right by their employees, b/c in the end what matters to "them" is the bottomline.
I for one, look at other sites for info on companies selling stuff. Pricewatch.com (not affiliated to it in any form) is an excellent example of a site that helps customers compare prices, location, availabilty, etc. of Computer parts and electronics
There are plenty of corporate websites that offer their content in multiple languages (bbc.co.uk comes to mind). of course they could always register several names or opt for the ascii equivalent. In any event it is not as cut and dry as you put it.
All that the would have to make sure of is that the pertinent namespaces are implicitly imported, and Voila, all the benefits of a modern programming language at the fingertips of sysadmins.
www.Furthurnet.org it is p2p and target only bands that allow free distribution of their work.
Of course, M$ has opened the environment so that legacy COM/DCOM can be used, however COM is NOT the underlying technology.
Disclaimer, I despise M$' tactics, but, as a tech person, I cannot dismiss the merits of the .NET framework
As for the review, some initial comments tipped the fact that this person has little in depth knowledge of the underlying technologies he is criticizing.
i.e. (which seemed to me much more graspable than complex monsters like CORBA and J2EE.
j2ee is much simpler to use than COM/DCOM/MSQM/IIS/VBSCRIPT and all the other technoogies that you would have needed to complete the functionality of a j2ee compliant app server
This clolonialism thing has gone too far!!! now you are proposing invading Europe, Will the madness ever end?! ;)
It's not about stopping research, develoment and commercialization of nano technologies, it should be about making them safe for humans and the environment.
A while back, I got one of this fines in the mail, and ignored it, it went away. I'm not sure who was driving the car at the time.
The mistake came about b/c I work in a commodities trading firm and was intimately involved in the push to switch to the Euro from the original currencies (as a financial institution we had to do it in the first phase).
When I wrote the comment I incorrectly equated membership in the Euro with that of the EU.
Is there a common perception that the recent France-Germany anti-American alignment is "The EU" and that Britain (and maybe some other countries) are not part of it?
It is very clear for people here that the Blair and the UK are aligned with the US for the long run. As for who is and who isn't part of the EU, I believe you'd be hard pressed to find people who actually know. Whatever the reasons maybe -Education, lack of media exposure, an egocentric, and one track minded society, etc-, The fact remains that people here care very little about what goes on outside. Ultimately I believe that, the average person, knows little about the intricacies of the EU (self included). I'm curious, when you say you "marched against[..]", was it againt inclusion in the EU or the Euro?
Thank you for the correction. (the flame wasn't warranted, I'm not a troll, I made a mistake)
The UK is not part of the EU
That is what I meant, thanks for the correction (the beauty of not previewing).
That's why I believe that for this to work, only already translated sampels are used. As for single to many and many to many word translations, as long as the sets of words don't change, I don see a problem doing the match. aster all a space is a character.