More complicated than English? I think you mean different from (it's not more complicated for one born in Turkey).
English is a language where nouns are always the same - with the exception 's' in plural. In my language the expressions, "dog", "from dog", "to dog", "about dog", "with dog" each have a different form of the word "dog". Another set of forms for plural. The table is "he", the chair is "it" and the roof is "she" - each noun has this kind of property. Each adjective as well. In Russian language it is similar. In German less so, but still more complicated than in English. So yes, English is an easy language in comparison.
And regarding respect: kids in EU start learning 2nd language at age of 6 - in basic school. Obligatory. They often learn 3rd language later. I don't see that happening in US (correct me if I'm wrong). And being able to learn language so different from your own _does_ deserve respect.
what makes a bunch of carbon atoms organized as molecular skeletons any more important than carbon atoms organized as a rock?
Well it depends, whether the bunch of carbon atoms is organized as you, or they are organized as me. If it is the former, then the answer can be: nothing.
I know that both links are talking about the same incident.
I also did not say: "had ower the control to China". The suggestion is to hand the control over to an international body.
I just pointed out that the statement about US government never involving is not true. And it can show the trend. The incident itself is not interesting. The trend is. Even if the trend probably cannot be determined from single incident, there are number of incidents from other areas where US administration does things that the rest of the world does not like.
Taking DNS admin from the US is not a "victory for the good guy" by any stretch of the word.
May be. You make it sound to be the "good guy defeated"; you make impression that US is the only good guy in the block. And that is not the case. Even less with recent years of foreign US politics.
P.S.: Explain how FBI can use Patriot Act to charge a site owner on request by MPAA? Is this MPAA contributing it's share to terrorism fight?
Why is it that Vista is all about the user interface? Transperencey and tabbed browsing is just a part of the GUI and could be included in XP just like that. I want to know about the OS.
You are right. On the other hand it is a little bit difficult to take for example a screenshot of "New printing architecture" - Metro.
> >2. We get paid for the full development cycle, and no pressure to get it done on time, or even close.
> Get real! No pressure to get it done on time? What other engineering discipline would this be acceptable in? None. "Sorry sir, your bridge is not built yet - but we don't feel pressured to complete it in the timeframe we said we could do it in".
I must be living in a really strange country: The bridge Apollo in Bratislava, Slovakia - project worth at about $1000000 - is over the budget and late. The highway that should allow access to new Kia Motors facility in Slovakia (Kia is investing over 800 000 000 euro) - will be late and over the budget - both projects sponsored and closely watched by our government. I don't think any engineers are being held liable.
What scares me is that giving the UN control of the DNS servers will allow people from outside of America control an American's inherent right to free speech. If I put up a site that dishes on the Queen of England then she can petition the UN to revoke my domain name. If I wanted to put a site up called BRANDNAME-SUCKS.COM WIPO might close me down.
Right. Because the US is the place where where the free speech is well established and is not hindered by US Patriot Act or some other stupid laws. And US is not a place where a "wardrobe malfunction" during superbowl is a national disaster.</flamebait>
If you've read other comments on this topic and previous discussions on/. you'd notice number of suggestions comming from americans saying: hey, build you own DNS root servers, you don't have to use ours.
Well you have yours, and if we built ours, yours won't stop working. You can keep them and they will answer queries for US-based servers. Your right to free speech won't be in danger at all. (Or is my free speech in danger now, if I not live in US?) May be we, in the rest of the world, won't hear your free speech, but that is not worrying you, is it?
It isn't that I don't trust the UN - I just don't trust anyone I can't "see" in an American court.
BTW: with Patriot Act may be even your wife won't be able to "see" you in an American court.
As some other poster said: US administration screwed your image.
And some US citizens did not notice. Yet. Or they don't care.
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I don't get it. They modify the source and profit from doing so. I understand that they distribute compiled modified GPL source. And GPL says, they can't do that without publishing the modified source. They are clearly in violation of GPL.
here isn't always going to be a Kinko's or internet cafe nearby when you're in the midst of a terrorist attack or natural disaster
I have a little bit trouble following that. You mean like a plane crashes into a skyscraper and you scream on the top of your lungs: I need a computer NOW! Or there is a tsunami comming and you get an urgent need to print out your copy of driving license... um...
You need the stuff _after_ not _during_ the disaster.
This sort of thing was predicted in the Bible almost 2000 years ago that some sort of numeric identifier would be implanted in every person by a coming world government run by a powerful dictator.
Reminds me of tattoos on concentration camp prisoners during WWII. No, I don't want one, thankyouverymuch.
Yeah; I heard that reasoning before. And it is probably true.
What I don't understand is this: when you just listen, what is the difference between you and a wall?
Out of curiosity: what does 'user on the system' mean in your case?
At work I'm using remote desktop to server that has 4 processors, 4GB of RAM and RAID disk, running MS SQL, IIS and SharePoint. Sometimes Visual Studio.NET. The system is dying when 5 (that is five) users start doing something more intensive. I can see pixels popping up on the screen.
I remember talking to a sales guy in a partner company. He said: yes, users use only 10% of what our product can do. The point is that each user is using different 10%.
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English is a language where nouns are always the same - with the exception 's' in plural. In my language the expressions, "dog", "from dog", "to dog", "about dog", "with dog" each have a different form of the word "dog". Another set of forms for plural. The table is "he", the chair is "it" and the roof is "she" - each noun has this kind of property. Each adjective as well. In Russian language it is similar. In German less so, but still more complicated than in English. So yes, English is an easy language in comparison.
And regarding respect: kids in EU start learning 2nd language at age of 6 - in basic school. Obligatory. They often learn 3rd language later. I don't see that happening in US (correct me if I'm wrong). And being able to learn language so different from your own _does_ deserve respect.
1113213211 Siemens recruiting site ;-)
Well it depends, whether the bunch of carbon atoms is organized as you, or they are organized as me. If it is the former, then the answer can be: nothing.
I also did not say: "had ower the control to China". The suggestion is to hand the control over to an international body.
I just pointed out that the statement about US government never involving is not true. And it can show the trend. The incident itself is not interesting. The trend is. Even if the trend probably cannot be determined from single incident, there are number of incidents from other areas where US administration does things that the rest of the world does not like.
Taking DNS admin from the US is not a "victory for the good guy" by any stretch of the word.
May be. You make it sound to be the "good guy defeated"; you make impression that US is the only good guy in the block. And that is not the case. Even less with recent years of foreign US politics.
P.S.: Explain how FBI can use Patriot Act to charge a site owner on request by MPAA? Is this MPAA contributing it's share to terrorism fight?
You are right. On the other hand it is a little bit difficult to take for example a screenshot of "New printing architecture" - Metro.
Yeah, right.
> Get real! No pressure to get it done on time? What other engineering discipline would this be acceptable in? None. "Sorry sir, your bridge is not built yet - but we don't feel pressured to complete it in the timeframe we said we could do it in".
I must be living in a really strange country: The bridge Apollo in Bratislava, Slovakia - project worth at about $1000000 - is over the budget and late. The highway that should allow access to new Kia Motors facility in Slovakia (Kia is investing over 800 000 000 euro) - will be late and over the budget - both projects sponsored and closely watched by our government. I don't think any engineers are being held liable.
Right. Because the US is the place where where the free speech is well established and is not hindered by US Patriot Act or some other stupid laws. And US is not a place where a "wardrobe malfunction" during superbowl is a national disaster.</flamebait>
If you've read other comments on this topic and previous discussions on /. you'd notice number of suggestions comming from americans saying: hey, build you own DNS root servers, you don't have to use ours.
Well you have yours, and if we built ours, yours won't stop working. You can keep them and they will answer queries for US-based servers. Your right to free speech won't be in danger at all. (Or is my free speech in danger now, if I not live in US?) May be we, in the rest of the world, won't hear your free speech, but that is not worrying you, is it?
It isn't that I don't trust the UN - I just don't trust anyone I can't "see" in an American court.
BTW: with Patriot Act may be even your wife won't be able to "see" you in an American court.
As some other poster said: US administration screwed your image.
And some US citizens did not notice. Yet. Or they don't care.
I don't get it. They modify the source and profit from doing so. I understand that they distribute compiled modified GPL source. And GPL says, they can't do that without publishing the modified source. They are clearly in violation of GPL.
I have a little bit trouble following that. You mean like a plane crashes into a skyscraper and you scream on the top of your lungs: I need a computer NOW! Or there is a tsunami comming and you get an urgent need to print out your copy of driving license ... um ...
You need the stuff _after_ not _during_ the disaster.
Right. And that is what happened.
Shameless plug to my own collection: OOo is specifically mentioned here and here
Developers: Do you want to use approach A or B?
Sales: Both! And make it configurable!
Gnome was dropped from slackware because it was 'too difficult to build and maintain'. Is the situation improved by this new release?
Reminds me of tattoos on concentration camp prisoners during WWII.
No, I don't want one, thankyouverymuch.
With a firework?
Windows does not support hardware. It is other way around. Hardware supports Windows.
Yeah; I heard that reasoning before. And it is probably true.
What I don't understand is this: when you just listen, what is the difference between you and a wall?
Did you have a car accident? Do you use seat-belts?
That's what I thought...
Except that they signed Berne Convention about copyrights on 5th Sept. 1997(.pdf)
At work I'm using remote desktop to server that has 4 processors, 4GB of RAM and RAID disk, running MS SQL, IIS and SharePoint. Sometimes Visual Studio .NET. The system is dying when 5 (that is five) users start doing something more intensive. I can see pixels popping up on the screen.
Wrong. Ever heard about TCP handshake implemented differently by MS when IE talks to ISS? It has been discussed here before
I remember talking to a sales guy in a partner company. He said: yes, users use only 10% of what our product can do. The point is that each user is using different 10%.
You forgot the link