of ocurse there were collaborators throughout europe. even in denmark and holland. and of course the croatian ustashi batallions were notorious. but, the vichy gov't ran much of occupied france, and while one could claim it was a "puppet" gov't, it was a french gov't. and they officailly sided with the nazis. in fact, it was vichy troops that fired first on US troops at cassblanca. not germans, not italians, but french. and nowhere else in europe was collaboration so widespread. in the baltic nations, those that had been stolen by stalin, they saw the nazis as possbile liberators from stalin (can you blame them), and it was only after the einsatzgruppen came by and "liquidated" the population, that things turned.
i never said that there weren't french who resisted. and i never said that there weren't french who were killed because of that. there were some very brave frenchmen who rescued allied bomber crewmen. but, as official policy, the vichy government, which was french, capitulated and asissted the nazis. and remember, the very first bullets fired at american troops in the ETO were fired by vichy french troops at cassablanca.it goes without saying that the french were not very helpful to the defeat of the nazis.
well, his book "second world war" is pretty good. i use it alot in my mod civ class in high school. Also, the "history of warfare" is a good rebuttal to clausewitz. (clausewitz argued that war is diplomacy by other means). also, he writes many, many articles in publications. and, if you like keegan, you'll like barbara tuchman. she passed away a few years ago, but two of her best are "guns of august" on ww1, and "a distant mirror" about the 14th century. i like to read alot on similar subjects by different authors. great perspective.
also, don't forget, besides folding, the french were the only ones who actively aided the nazis in rounding up jews and sending them to the ovens. for a nazi soldier, the easiest billet they could have had was in france. the french offered little, if any, resistance. not during the invasion, not after. for heroism, see the czech's and the town of lidice. or how about the chetniks. the french collaborated and offered us precious little help with d-day. all the francophiles try to rewrite history, but the fact is, the myth of the french resistance, is just that, a myth. having read numerous accounts of the ETO, from generals to privates, to historians like ambrose and keegan, none give more than token credit to la resistance. and did i mention thay actively rounded up and turned over their jews?
good point. someone at apple should look at the 14" iBook. the reason i bought the 12" was that the screen looks better. at 1028x764 on a 14" screen, it looks like crap. everything looks like it is stretched. it isn't nearly as crisp.
it looks like an older 1.2 version of gtk/gnome. something like off of rh6.x, or thereabouts. wonder if they whipped together the UI using glade. which would make pretty decent sense. writing the rendering part would be hard, but then they are just extending the GtkCanvas really. it's really not difficult programatically, it is tough mathematically. you have to kow fractals, etc. not 1st semester calculus, that's for sure.
i've purchased a few albums from iTMS. it comes in at 128k. select the album, burn an audio cd, then put the cd in and re-rip it. sound quality is good. you'd probably need some high grade equipment to tell the difference. okay, so it's not cd quality. fine. but in most mp3 players, i'd say that you'd need some really good ears to notice. and then you can burn an audio cd for playback anywhere without any drm. small price to pay, i'd say. but of course i'm only an afficianado, not a conesieur.
if written well, swing is a very good toolkit. i did a few (unscientific) tests, and discovered that the better way to use swing was not use multiple subclasses of the widgets rather than having one big class. write anything you need in the constructor, and put the methods i nthe subclass. also, if you use threading with swing, you'll notice a huge increase in performance. but that is not the easiest thing to code, and people would rather let the IDE do it for them. i don't kow.
i bought a g3 ibook little over a year ago. a week before the warranty ended, the screen started going blank. i got the extended warranty, but was a little pissed with not having my computer for a week. then, i bought a new g4 ibook, and less than 2 months pass, and the trackpad is all screwed up. so i send it back to. so they fix it. but, i am more than a little pissed. now, i can only think, when is the next thing gonna go out on me. apple is trying to enter the lower cost field, but at what cost?
technology will drive down labor costs. this goes back to david ricardo. if you buy the labor theory of value (ricardo and marx agreed here), fine. but that only works in labor intensive, agricultural economies. look at it this way: one, the number of people who can enjoy movies is significantly higher. two, the lower cost frees up capital for other areas. while they make low cost, low margin goods, we manufacture semiconductor chips and other high cost goods. three, with a greater distribution market for movies, there is more demand for those in the movie making business. this creates new job sectors and destroys old ones. market forces. nice? not really. smith, hume, and even ricardo argued trade was only to be bewtween equals. they would argue for free trade, but never in a situation where the standards of living were so remarkably dfferent, such as us and china. (on this i can kind of agree)
the problem i have with office is simply the closed file formats. i couldn't care less if the program is closed source. i use keynote everyday in my class. it is an awesome program. however, it uses an xml-based file format. and other programs can generate xml files, and can extract the data. in fact, apple publishes the specs. yet keynote is closed. word's format is designed to make you use word. and they change it to make you upgrade. that i have a problem with. free is a pipe dream. sure, it'd be nice, but open is the key.
office is still a carbon application. the rich language features are pure cocoa. in fact, putting them into any application is trivial. i seriously doubt that microsoft will migrate to using cocoa in office. in fact, i don't even see another office version for os x. with the introduction of keynote and safari, i guess apple doesn't either.
actually, life in israel is rather normal. they simply won't let the terrorists have the pleasure. when a terrorist bombs them, they have things cleaned up within hours. they get back to life as normal ASAP. also, israel has a thriving IT sector. like here, if we let the terrorists dictate how we'll live, they win.
the people who are going to buy these are buying dell for primarily one reason. it's a dell. now, you and i go, BFD. but, if you're a business, or even a serious professional, it is a tool. it is worth far more than $500 or whatever, to know that if your box takes a shit, they'll back it up. i just bought a canon A70 (pix of the kids) from ritz camera. yes, i could've gotten it elsewhere, with a better package. but you know what, i got their extended warranty, which basically says if i drop it off a building, and bring in the battery door, they'll replace it. now, what's that worth? that kind of peace of mind comes at a price. businesses expect that when they call, someone is there. if something goes to hell, they're gonna get something fixed. dell is still pretty good at service. even though they're PQ has taken a shit last couple of years.
first, i never tried to establish myself as a moderate. moderate means someone is unwilling to take a position. simply, when the question of what has priority, man or environment, i will always side with man. call it based on judeo-christian ethics if you will, or hell, even go back the the greek universal view of the world. the earth is here for us. it is ours for sustinence, etc. we are not caretakers of the world. there is nothing moderate in that stance. my first point was that environmentalism is a religion. it is the forceful removal of God, and in the vacuum you replace it with something. in this case, worshipping of the earth. it is pagan. it is demeaning to man. it destroys human rights. it is a religion.
mod me down, but environmentalism is a religion. do not confuse with conservationalism. i am a hunter and fisherman. nobody appreciates a clean environment more than i do. but the extreme measures, like those at kyoto, are based on faith as much as fact. furthermore, the assumptions and value judgements one must make are also religious. so what if species die off, or they are cleared for man. if trees and people are equal, that is YOUR RELIGION. fine. but please do not push your religion on me. the environmental movement is a cover for the global communists and socialist, one world governmentalists. (no, i don't need a tin foil hat.) everything that we need to do to "save" the environment is lower our standard of living. i don't think so. and lastly, why is the environmental movement headed by wealthy white people? you'd think there'd be a little more "color" if you will. perhaps they can see through the elitism?
i get lots of help calls from friends, ralatives, etc. i honestly answer that i can't help them with XP problems. i haven't used windows since 98. i do it nicely, and don't try to be mean, but i expalin that i use linux, and os x, and that i don't know to solve their problem. when they ask about viruses, i explain that i don't have that problem. just say no , and do it politely. if you help them, you are really just perpetuating the problem. and if they persist, at least bring them a cd with OO.org,,mozilla, and a few other open source goodies. besides, with all the probelms you'll try to solve, you remember once again why it is that you don't use windows!!
I'm not sure about how it works on Windows, but on a Mac you can have it in firewire disk mode and have iTunes open at the same time, which provides you access to both modes quite easily.
you know this and i know this because we have ipods. but around here, not reading the articles or not having actually using a product doesn't disqualify one from making preposterous claims and scurrilous reviews.
actually, this is very important. let me give yo a few reasons. not the least is that broadband has about 10-20% market, so 80% + are still dialing up.
one, at a school that has a fast connection, it would be great to offer students who don't have internet access at home the ability to log on...(this is a project i tried for a few years to get going, but district politics...arghhh). two, many times you go on vacation (and don't have an AOL coaster, er, CD handy.) you call home for 4-5 minutes at midnight, it isn't gonna cost a lot. remote access. three, cheap business VPN. most data can be easily web based, and this gives employees access from anywhere. this isn't so 1994. this is a very practical project. i mean, it isn't like everyone is downloading that latest linux.iso's every week.
from the article: Faster chips will also migrate to the Powerbook notebook line. There's a pretty good chance that a Powerbook G5 notebook will appear no later than the summer of 2004.
if they take care of heat issues, this would be awesome. even though they will be somewhat pricey, apple will sell a ton of these. i'll buy one.
Slashdot Mirror
great, and afterwards, i'll go have sex with a 13 year old.
1. use real name
2. put dot com after it
3. sued by big corporation
4. ???????
5. profit
of ocurse there were collaborators throughout europe. even in denmark and holland. and of course the croatian ustashi batallions were notorious. but, the vichy gov't ran much of occupied france, and while one could claim it was a "puppet" gov't, it was a french gov't. and they officailly sided with the nazis. in fact, it was vichy troops that fired first on US troops at cassblanca. not germans, not italians, but french. and nowhere else in europe was collaboration so widespread. in the baltic nations, those that had been stolen by stalin, they saw the nazis as possbile liberators from stalin (can you blame them), and it was only after the einsatzgruppen came by and "liquidated" the population, that things turned.
i never said that there weren't french who resisted. and i never said that there weren't french who were killed because of that. there were some very brave frenchmen who rescued allied bomber crewmen. but, as official policy, the vichy government, which was french, capitulated and asissted the nazis. and remember, the very first bullets fired at american troops in the ETO were fired by vichy french troops at cassablanca.it goes without saying that the french were not very helpful to the defeat of the nazis.
well, his book "second world war" is pretty good. i use it alot in my mod civ class in high school. Also, the "history of warfare" is a good rebuttal to clausewitz. (clausewitz argued that war is diplomacy by other means). also, he writes many, many articles in publications. and, if you like keegan, you'll like barbara tuchman. she passed away a few years ago, but two of her best are "guns of august" on ww1, and "a distant mirror" about the 14th century. i like to read alot on similar subjects by different authors. great perspective.
also, don't forget, besides folding, the french were the only ones who actively aided the nazis in rounding up jews and sending them to the ovens. for a nazi soldier, the easiest billet they could have had was in france. the french offered little, if any, resistance. not during the invasion, not after. for heroism, see the czech's and the town of lidice. or how about the chetniks. the french collaborated and offered us precious little help with d-day. all the francophiles try to rewrite history, but the fact is, the myth of the french resistance, is just that, a myth. having read numerous accounts of the ETO, from generals to privates, to historians like ambrose and keegan, none give more than token credit to la resistance. and did i mention thay actively rounded up and turned over their jews?
what could the plan be? turning the moon into some kind of death star?
hopefully.
good point. someone at apple should look at the 14" iBook. the reason i bought the 12" was that the screen looks better. at 1028x764 on a 14" screen, it looks like crap. everything looks like it is stretched. it isn't nearly as crisp.
it looks like an older 1.2 version of gtk/gnome. something like off of rh6.x, or thereabouts. wonder if they whipped together the UI using glade. which would make pretty decent sense. writing the rendering part would be hard, but then they are just extending the GtkCanvas really. it's really not difficult programatically, it is tough mathematically. you have to kow fractals, etc. not 1st semester calculus, that's for sure.
i've purchased a few albums from iTMS. it comes in at 128k. select the album, burn an audio cd, then put the cd in and re-rip it. sound quality is good. you'd probably need some high grade equipment to tell the difference. okay, so it's not cd quality. fine. but in most mp3 players, i'd say that you'd need some really good ears to notice. and then you can burn an audio cd for playback anywhere without any drm. small price to pay, i'd say. but of course i'm only an afficianado, not a conesieur.
how about slantinux?
if written well, swing is a very good toolkit. i did a few (unscientific) tests, and discovered that the better way to use swing was not use multiple subclasses of the widgets rather than having one big class. write anything you need in the constructor, and put the methods i nthe subclass. also, if you use threading with swing, you'll notice a huge increase in performance. but that is not the easiest thing to code, and people would rather let the IDE do it for them. i don't kow.
i bought a g3 ibook little over a year ago. a week before the warranty ended, the screen started going blank. i got the extended warranty, but was a little pissed with not having my computer for a week. then, i bought a new g4 ibook, and less than 2 months pass, and the trackpad is all screwed up. so i send it back to. so they fix it. but, i am more than a little pissed. now, i can only think, when is the next thing gonna go out on me. apple is trying to enter the lower cost field, but at what cost?
technology will drive down labor costs. this goes back to david ricardo. if you buy the labor theory of value (ricardo and marx agreed here), fine. but that only works in labor intensive, agricultural economies. look at it this way: one, the number of people who can enjoy movies is significantly higher. two, the lower cost frees up capital for other areas. while they make low cost, low margin goods, we manufacture semiconductor chips and other high cost goods. three, with a greater distribution market for movies, there is more demand for those in the movie making business. this creates new job sectors and destroys old ones. market forces. nice? not really. smith, hume, and even ricardo argued trade was only to be bewtween equals. they would argue for free trade, but never in a situation where the standards of living were so remarkably dfferent, such as us and china. (on this i can kind of agree)
the problem i have with office is simply the closed file formats. i couldn't care less if the program is closed source. i use keynote everyday in my class. it is an awesome program. however, it uses an xml-based file format. and other programs can generate xml files, and can extract the data. in fact, apple publishes the specs. yet keynote is closed. word's format is designed to make you use word. and they change it to make you upgrade. that i have a problem with. free is a pipe dream. sure, it'd be nice, but open is the key.
office is still a carbon application. the rich language features are pure cocoa. in fact, putting them into any application is trivial. i seriously doubt that microsoft will migrate to using cocoa in office. in fact, i don't even see another office version for os x. with the introduction of keynote and safari, i guess apple doesn't either.
actually, life in israel is rather normal. they simply won't let the terrorists have the pleasure. when a terrorist bombs them, they have things cleaned up within hours. they get back to life as normal ASAP. also, israel has a thriving IT sector. like here, if we let the terrorists dictate how we'll live, they win.
the people who are going to buy these are buying dell for primarily one reason. it's a dell. now, you and i go, BFD. but, if you're a business, or even a serious professional, it is a tool. it is worth far more than $500 or whatever, to know that if your box takes a shit, they'll back it up. i just bought a canon A70 (pix of the kids) from ritz camera. yes, i could've gotten it elsewhere, with a better package. but you know what, i got their extended warranty, which basically says if i drop it off a building, and bring in the battery door, they'll replace it. now, what's that worth? that kind of peace of mind comes at a price. businesses expect that when they call, someone is there. if something goes to hell, they're gonna get something fixed. dell is still pretty good at service. even though they're PQ has taken a shit last couple of years.
The effort is part of a government-sponsored program under which the three companies are competing to design a petascale-class computer by 2010.
will sun survive until then?
first, i never tried to establish myself as a moderate. moderate means someone is unwilling to take a position. simply, when the question of what has priority, man or environment, i will always side with man. call it based on judeo-christian ethics if you will, or hell, even go back the the greek universal view of the world. the earth is here for us. it is ours for sustinence, etc. we are not caretakers of the world. there is nothing moderate in that stance. my first point was that environmentalism is a religion. it is the forceful removal of God, and in the vacuum you replace it with something. in this case, worshipping of the earth. it is pagan. it is demeaning to man. it destroys human rights. it is a religion.
mod me down, but environmentalism is a religion. do not confuse with conservationalism. i am a hunter and fisherman. nobody appreciates a clean environment more than i do. but the extreme measures, like those at kyoto, are based on faith as much as fact. furthermore, the assumptions and value judgements one must make are also religious. so what if species die off, or they are cleared for man. if trees and people are equal, that is YOUR RELIGION. fine. but please do not push your religion on me. the environmental movement is a cover for the global communists and socialist, one world governmentalists. (no, i don't need a tin foil hat.) everything that we need to do to "save" the environment is lower our standard of living. i don't think so. and lastly, why is the environmental movement headed by wealthy white people? you'd think there'd be a little more "color" if you will. perhaps they can see through the elitism?
i get lots of help calls from friends, ralatives, etc. i honestly answer that i can't help them with XP problems. i haven't used windows since 98. i do it nicely, and don't try to be mean, but i expalin that i use linux, and os x, and that i don't know to solve their problem. when they ask about viruses, i explain that i don't have that problem. just say no , and do it politely. if you help them, you are really just perpetuating the problem. and if they persist, at least bring them a cd with OO.org, ,mozilla, and a few other open source goodies. besides, with all the probelms you'll try to solve, you remember once again why it is that you don't use windows!!
I'm not sure about how it works on Windows, but on a Mac you can have it in firewire disk mode and have iTunes open at the same time, which provides you access to both modes quite easily.
you know this and i know this because we have ipods. but around here, not reading the articles or not having actually using a product doesn't disqualify one from making preposterous claims and scurrilous reviews.
actually, this is very important. let me give yo a few reasons. not the least is that broadband has about 10-20% market, so 80% + are still dialing up.
.iso's every week.
one, at a school that has a fast connection, it would be great to offer students who don't have internet access at home the ability to log on...(this is a project i tried for a few years to get going, but district politics...arghhh). two, many times you go on vacation (and don't have an AOL coaster, er, CD handy.) you call home for 4-5 minutes at midnight, it isn't gonna cost a lot. remote access. three, cheap business VPN. most data can be easily web based, and this gives employees access from anywhere. this isn't so 1994. this is a very practical project. i mean, it isn't like everyone is downloading that latest linux
from the article: Faster chips will also migrate to the Powerbook notebook line. There's a pretty good chance that a Powerbook G5 notebook will appear no later than the summer of 2004.
if they take care of heat issues, this would be awesome. even though they will be somewhat pricey, apple will sell a ton of these. i'll buy one.