What will happen is that our currency will tank (further).
This will cause a lot of problems in the short term, but in the long term, a weak dollar will cause major gains in local manufacturing, which, since everyone seems to equate prosperity with making cars, will be good for us.
I showed apt/yum to the MCSE onsite and he about came in his pants (which is twice as disturbing if you were there...yech). Yea, it's that good.
*nix package management systems blow the windows version out of the water...And that doesn't even count stuff like being able to install multiple different versions of the same software on the same system.
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It's not despite, it's because. The PC FPS market is widely fragmented across a wide number of games, and the console FPS market is...Halo.
It's easy to be the biggest fish if you're the only fish.
People tend to make their own economic decisions based on the quality of the item, and the cost of the item.
Very few people base their decisions off the "place of origin" of the item. That's why "Buy USA/Don't Buy China" campaigns tend not to work, aside cases where there is a clear benefit to the more expensive item (e.g. unleaded toys).
It works fine for a while. The problem is, once you start building a middle class, you can't sustain the flow of cheap labor to the factories, and then the whole thing turns to shit, and you have to hope you can transition your economy away from cheap labor, and into more skilled work.
The Soviet problem was more one of pure communism. The economy went stagnant, the black market thrived, and factory productivity was terrible.
China won't have those problems so much, but they will have the same issues every other developing country has, the same ones we had in the early 1900's.
Cheap labor always kills the industrial base of countries with expensive labor. If it wasn't China, it would have been India.
If they turn into a large menace they will have themselves to blame. Same if they turn into a large peaceful country.
You've decided that a country which is just now getting a middle class is never going to be a democracy? Most of China is still living large on the peasant lifestyle; those people have to be educated before there will be any significant attempt on their part to take power.
Rest assured, once they get some money, they will demand their share of political power. The only way to prevent that is to keep the bulk of the population ignorant and isolated, and that only works for so long.
We could have an unlimited pool of labor, just allow unlimited immigration. We could produce dirt cheap manufactured goods, just repeal the minimum wage laws and some of the federal worker protections. Most people don't think that's a good idea.
The idea of breeding your own population boom is silly. Historically we've always siphoned off other peoples.
You don't have a use for them, so what makes you think someone else will?
If you're not worried about the possibility of someone recovering sensitive data off of them, donate them to some charity...Maybe someone there will find a use for them, but don't be surprised if they refuse your tech junk: they won't want to pay the disposal fee either.
That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. When our currency tanked it was an economic nut-punch to China. When our economy tanked it was like a fricking sledgehammer.
China is in a seriously bad situation right now. Their crazy growth has been a calculated attempt to try and build up their economy before their demographics catch up to them: their "all families get 1 kid" bump makes the baby boomers look like a population contraction. They must build up a cushion before those people get too old to work.
This happening right now is about the worst thing imaginable for them. Manufacturing economies are critically reliant on other countries buying their goods, and China cannot afford an economic contraction at this point in their development.
I missed the logic part of Algebra II. Maybe you meant Geometry?
Having actually majored in Logic and Comp Sci at different times, I can safely say that the 2 paltry logic-ish courses, and three proof-free math classes most compsci students have to take are no substitute for a hard-ass class in deductive proofs.
Since logic and reasoning are hardly ever taught at the high school level, it might be better to just have an "applied logic" class with a programming element. Make 'em program in Prolog, and do first order (non-modal) logic problems.
I can think of a dozen unix/linux rootkits without even trying. Just because it's harder to install them, doesn't mean it's impossible. If you think you don't need to run any sort of security software (not Norton, of course, because they suck), then one day you're going to have a very very rude awakening.
You should run a virus scanner, just to keep from accidentally forwarding viral crap to other people. Infected files and attachments, etc. And assuming you're safe is equally foolish. I run plenty of security software on my linux boxes.
Norton, however, is a turd. Anyone who runs Norton gets what they deserve. It's like a parasite that eats cycles for no reason, and cannot be removed without killing the host.
WWII was basically caused by the war reparations demanded by the "winners" of WWI. WWI wasn't as clear cut as WWII; everybody was basically looking for an excuse for war and everyone was working under the assumption that there was going to be a war, so it's no surprise that one started.
It ended up being such a nightmare because both sides lost so many people that the governments were afraid that they'd be overthrown by their own people if they didn't "win" the war, so no one was willing to stop fighting.
Then the US decides to come in, and our assistance allowed France and the UK to declare themselves the winner, and to subjugate the axis countries to the point where they couldn't help but try it again in a few decades.
Lot of people actually saw it coming. Hell, J.M Keynes actually wrote a book that predicted WWII in 1919...It was one of the things that cemented his fame as a great economist.
I think it's safe to say though that Europe lost its taste for war after WWII. It basically ended their reign as world powers, cost them an entire generation of young men (the second in a row), and laid waste to the bulk of the fricking continent.
Some jargon is necessary. The vast majority is not.
Legal writing in this country is still obeying conventions that were formed in english common law hundreds of years ago: I'm not talking about laws, I'm talking about things like writing the number out, then following it with the same number in parentheses (e.g "Five (5)" ) which is a disambiguation that crept in to legal documents because of clerks with bad penmanship.
Indirect, passive grammar, certain torturous word choices "It having been said by the plaintiff" as opposed to "The plaintiff said." The legal tendency to use three words where one will do, "is of the opinion that" instead of "believes" and "in light of the fact that" instead of "because." It's all vintage legalese, and all pointless.
There are a lot of things that could be dramatically simplified without causing any significant ambiguity.
Still stupid. Not like they don't have real problems they could be trying to solve, rather than trying to condemn a guy for saying mean things about their imaginary friend.
When you're more conservative than the Vatican, there is a problem.
It'd be more useful to see laws written in something resembling plain language. There is no excuse for 1,000 page omnibus bills. If it was line-item budgets, that would be one thing.
When you can't understand the law, you can't obey the law. And since ignorance of the law is no excuse, you can basically be arrested for anything. What a world.
I disagree. It's a more rigid definition based on increased understanding of the phenomena.
Grandfathering in Pluto because people used to think it was a planet would be no more acceptable than giving every large Kuiper object that we discover (and we've already discovered ones that are bigger than Pluto) planetary status.
Either way the schoolkids are gonna be pissed off, but it's not a popularity contest.
That would be a huge burden on employers, especially these days. If you get 1,000 resumes for a job, you probably don't even look at 25% of them, but then you owe all those other people a letter? What are you going to tell them? "Sorry bub, I'm sure you're qualified, but you were at the bottom of the pile."
And, in the end, it doesn't matter. If you don't get the job because you have a topless picture on your Facebook page, they're still going to say something like, "We decided that Bob here was a better fit for our team dynamic" or some other mealy-mouthed horseshit. People who hire other people seldom have anything better to do with their time than to make up justifications like that in their heads.
I actually tend not to use that method except with RDBMs like MySQL, and I only use them in a limited way (I don't maintain a "history"; I just defer the actual deletes for an hour or two, so I can lock down the "writer" account to update and insert only).
It's a bit different with a fancy RDBMs like MSSQL or Oracle. You can actually dump the stuff to a real history table there, using a trigger and a stored procedure.
This is a response to a legitimate privacy concern.
Saying, "The government should be forced to re-invent the wheel instead of using a popular free service" is silly. YouTube is perfectly acceptable in most respects.
If they had stayed with YouTube, despite privacy concerns, that would have been bad. But there is nothing wrong with starting out using a popular free site.
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What a wasted buy. Firefox is dead, long live Iceweasel!
Can't kill an OSS project by buying it.
What will happen is that our currency will tank (further).
This will cause a lot of problems in the short term, but in the long term, a weak dollar will cause major gains in local manufacturing, which, since everyone seems to equate prosperity with making cars, will be good for us.
I showed apt/yum to the MCSE onsite and he about came in his pants (which is twice as disturbing if you were there...yech). Yea, it's that good.
*nix package management systems blow the windows version out of the water...And that doesn't even count stuff like being able to install multiple different versions of the same software on the same system.
It's not despite, it's because. The PC FPS market is widely fragmented across a wide number of games, and the console FPS market is...Halo.
It's easy to be the biggest fish if you're the only fish.
People tend to make their own economic decisions based on the quality of the item, and the cost of the item.
Very few people base their decisions off the "place of origin" of the item. That's why "Buy USA/Don't Buy China" campaigns tend not to work, aside cases where there is a clear benefit to the more expensive item (e.g. unleaded toys).
It works fine for a while. The problem is, once you start building a middle class, you can't sustain the flow of cheap labor to the factories, and then the whole thing turns to shit, and you have to hope you can transition your economy away from cheap labor, and into more skilled work.
The Soviet problem was more one of pure communism. The economy went stagnant, the black market thrived, and factory productivity was terrible.
China won't have those problems so much, but they will have the same issues every other developing country has, the same ones we had in the early 1900's.
Cheap labor always kills the industrial base of countries with expensive labor. If it wasn't China, it would have been India.
If they turn into a large menace they will have themselves to blame. Same if they turn into a large peaceful country.
You've decided that a country which is just now getting a middle class is never going to be a democracy? Most of China is still living large on the peasant lifestyle; those people have to be educated before there will be any significant attempt on their part to take power.
Rest assured, once they get some money, they will demand their share of political power. The only way to prevent that is to keep the bulk of the population ignorant and isolated, and that only works for so long.
We could have an unlimited pool of labor, just allow unlimited immigration. We could produce dirt cheap manufactured goods, just repeal the minimum wage laws and some of the federal worker protections. Most people don't think that's a good idea.
The idea of breeding your own population boom is silly. Historically we've always siphoned off other peoples.
I'd probably just use perl.
$data = "your data to be written a zillion times";
$x = 0;
while(1){
open(OUT >"$x.txt") || die "Unable to create file $x.txt = $!";
print OUT $data;
close(OUT);
$x++;
}
It'll keep running until the disk runs out of space, or maybe until X overflows it's type, which I suppose is possible, though unlikely.
You don't have a use for them, so what makes you think someone else will?
If you're not worried about the possibility of someone recovering sensitive data off of them, donate them to some charity...Maybe someone there will find a use for them, but don't be surprised if they refuse your tech junk: they won't want to pay the disposal fee either.
That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. When our currency tanked it was an economic nut-punch to China. When our economy tanked it was like a fricking sledgehammer.
China is in a seriously bad situation right now. Their crazy growth has been a calculated attempt to try and build up their economy before their demographics catch up to them: their "all families get 1 kid" bump makes the baby boomers look like a population contraction. They must build up a cushion before those people get too old to work.
This happening right now is about the worst thing imaginable for them. Manufacturing economies are critically reliant on other countries buying their goods, and China cannot afford an economic contraction at this point in their development.
I missed the logic part of Algebra II. Maybe you meant Geometry?
Having actually majored in Logic and Comp Sci at different times, I can safely say that the 2 paltry logic-ish courses, and three proof-free math classes most compsci students have to take are no substitute for a hard-ass class in deductive proofs.
Since logic and reasoning are hardly ever taught at the high school level, it might be better to just have an "applied logic" class with a programming element. Make 'em program in Prolog, and do first order (non-modal) logic problems.
That would be a cool class.
I can think of a dozen unix/linux rootkits without even trying. Just because it's harder to install them, doesn't mean it's impossible. If you think you don't need to run any sort of security software (not Norton, of course, because they suck), then one day you're going to have a very very rude awakening.
You should run a virus scanner, just to keep from accidentally forwarding viral crap to other people. Infected files and attachments, etc. And assuming you're safe is equally foolish. I run plenty of security software on my linux boxes.
Norton, however, is a turd. Anyone who runs Norton gets what they deserve. It's like a parasite that eats cycles for no reason, and cannot be removed without killing the host.
WWII was basically caused by the war reparations demanded by the "winners" of WWI. WWI wasn't as clear cut as WWII; everybody was basically looking for an excuse for war and everyone was working under the assumption that there was going to be a war, so it's no surprise that one started.
It ended up being such a nightmare because both sides lost so many people that the governments were afraid that they'd be overthrown by their own people if they didn't "win" the war, so no one was willing to stop fighting.
Then the US decides to come in, and our assistance allowed France and the UK to declare themselves the winner, and to subjugate the axis countries to the point where they couldn't help but try it again in a few decades.
Lot of people actually saw it coming. Hell, J.M Keynes actually wrote a book that predicted WWII in 1919...It was one of the things that cemented his fame as a great economist.
I think it's safe to say though that Europe lost its taste for war after WWII. It basically ended their reign as world powers, cost them an entire generation of young men (the second in a row), and laid waste to the bulk of the fricking continent.
Some jargon is necessary. The vast majority is not.
Legal writing in this country is still obeying conventions that were formed in english common law hundreds of years ago: I'm not talking about laws, I'm talking about things like writing the number out, then following it with the same number in parentheses (e.g "Five (5)" ) which is a disambiguation that crept in to legal documents because of clerks with bad penmanship.
Indirect, passive grammar, certain torturous word choices "It having been said by the plaintiff" as opposed to "The plaintiff said." The legal tendency to use three words where one will do, "is of the opinion that" instead of "believes" and "in light of the fact that" instead of "because." It's all vintage legalese, and all pointless.
There are a lot of things that could be dramatically simplified without causing any significant ambiguity.
Still stupid. Not like they don't have real problems they could be trying to solve, rather than trying to condemn a guy for saying mean things about their imaginary friend.
When you're more conservative than the Vatican, there is a problem.
Leaves room for comments to be inserted, and most of the people who read them are old and blind.
It'd be more useful to see laws written in something resembling plain language. There is no excuse for 1,000 page omnibus bills. If it was line-item budgets, that would be one thing.
When you can't understand the law, you can't obey the law. And since ignorance of the law is no excuse, you can basically be arrested for anything. What a world.
I disagree. It's a more rigid definition based on increased understanding of the phenomena.
Grandfathering in Pluto because people used to think it was a planet would be no more acceptable than giving every large Kuiper object that we discover (and we've already discovered ones that are bigger than Pluto) planetary status.
Either way the schoolkids are gonna be pissed off, but it's not a popularity contest.
That would be a huge burden on employers, especially these days. If you get 1,000 resumes for a job, you probably don't even look at 25% of them, but then you owe all those other people a letter? What are you going to tell them? "Sorry bub, I'm sure you're qualified, but you were at the bottom of the pile."
And, in the end, it doesn't matter. If you don't get the job because you have a topless picture on your Facebook page, they're still going to say something like, "We decided that Bob here was a better fit for our team dynamic" or some other mealy-mouthed horseshit. People who hire other people seldom have anything better to do with their time than to make up justifications like that in their heads.
Some of us were born John Smith, you insensitive clod!
Downloading the source, paying for the extra bandwidth and storage, and whatever app you're using to keep track of your videos, etc, etc, etc.
As opposed to letting some other service take care of all those details for you.
I actually tend not to use that method except with RDBMs like MySQL, and I only use them in a limited way (I don't maintain a "history"; I just defer the actual deletes for an hour or two, so I can lock down the "writer" account to update and insert only).
It's a bit different with a fancy RDBMs like MSSQL or Oracle. You can actually dump the stuff to a real history table there, using a trigger and a stored procedure.
This is a response to a legitimate privacy concern.
Saying, "The government should be forced to re-invent the wheel instead of using a popular free service" is silly. YouTube is perfectly acceptable in most respects.
If they had stayed with YouTube, despite privacy concerns, that would have been bad. But there is nothing wrong with starting out using a popular free site.