As he inherited these wars, the only thing he can do is end them the best way he can. I've been protesting against the war in Iraq and was strongly opposed to the Afghan war. But honestly, I would not know how they could be ended with as little pain to the people living in Iraq or Afghanistan. As war is hell, I'm moderately in favour of immediate retreat. Once you've started a war though, there are no easy decisions to be made.
All in all, it is hardly fair to say he doesn't deserve it because he inherited a war. That he gets it after only months into office is an entirely different matter. I think the Nobel committee was mistaken if only because it puts Obama in a difficult position - I think his intentions were already quite apparent, I think this might make it more difficult to actually execute them.
PS. My religious extremist spelling checker suggests Osama as a replacement for Obama
If you do have a daughter I pity her, because you are overly protective. As long as she makes her own decisions at it I would seriously advise you to let her go, certainly at an age earlier than 25. Heck, why not make it 35, you'll have no grand kids but that's insignificant in regards of protecting her, no?
And Java and.NET have proved that we don't need a brain dead hardware protection either. NX bit? You can still corrupt the data, and the data is what the instructions are taking as state and input. NX is a stop gap measure that makes your computer marginally more safe.
And now we are going to use a 128 bit address space to prevent attacks? Really? I'd say the disadvantages clearly outweigh the advantages.
Some of us may recall a laptop manufacturer who claimed to have invented a keyboard that could use the kinetic energy of typing to help charge the battery - anyone have one?
Hey, this is Slashdot, I'm sure I speak for everybody when I say that there might be a few of us that care. Yes, please, lets have that curve (then at least weI'll have some curve this evening)!
The only real big benefit of managed code here is that if you use data structures are correctly (and this is a big if), and keep to immutable object instances, then you are reasonably sure that your threads don't influence each other since they cannot get into each others memory (and no, NX bits don't protect against data corruption).
Of course, managed code such as Java may also have concurrency features build into the language. I don't think managed code has to do much with that though.
Huh? They would feel that way if they could think that way. Kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it? There are probably quite a few animals that have superior brain functionality in some respects.
The problem with creationalists is that you actively reason backwards. You start with the theory (the conclusion) and then try to fit the world into that view. A true scientist (and yes, there are many that don't adhere to that) tries to do the same thing, just the exact other way around. Your post is a very clear example of that.
That said; guys, this is not a troll, just somebody that does not see science in its current form as the truth. If this was a scientific journal, this might be considered trolling, but since it isn't it should just be left alone, not modded down. If you can't see the point of this; try to call my aunt a troll to her face and see what happens:)
Don't know about that. Humans have a rather special brain, obviously more evolved, and at least more functional that apes. IMHO it is the most important thing that distinguishes us.
The whole driving business is basically to get people (including children) and/or materials from A to B. You have to stay at home to be safe. Hate to bring this to you, but I presume you would have gotten the hint sooner or later.
That would only work if the customer does not know the number of the person receiving the money. For larger transaction amounts the Dutch Rabobank requires you to fill in the total transaction amount as well. At first they forgot to notify the customer of the meaning of the number, rendering it mostly useless (and also showing how clueless even banks can be). Of course, this does not mean the money will be made out to the correct account at all.
I'm personally thinking of creating a USB stick or hard drive with a small Linux distro for the sole reason of doing banking; that way MITM attacks to the machine itself will at least become less of a problem.
Yes, let the security hinge on the real experts, the users! If you think this reply is too ironic, wait for my reply to the first one to propose to educate the users.
As fast food originated from bavarian food (highly rich food for farmers that need the energy) it is more likely that it made you Germans. And fat Germans at that as you don't have to work as hard.
Because we can't power anything through wireless, at least not in any practical or inexpensive fashion. So we either need batteries and battery replacements or a power connector, which kind defeats the purpose. Unless of course we can power them using alternative means ("solar" power panels, key clicking/mouse moving). Powering an antenna (array) requires quite some juice.
Don't know that. Giving all students hardware/software that can run the applications that were created for them does not seem to be a waste of money, especially since they will probably need a laptop anyway and getting them in a large amount is way cheaper than everybody trying to get his/her own.
Eh, anybody has some period marks left? Sorry about that.
Insightful? Educating the users so they can prevent a botnet? Only people who can't educate themselve still propose such a thing as a solution. In all the 20 years of (semi-)professional IT I've never seen that work.
Hi-Speed USB extends the speed of the connection from 12 Mbps on Original USB up to 480 Mbps on Hi-Speed USB, providing an attachment point for next-generation peripherals which complement higher performance PCs and user applications.
My very old 120GB drive is already faster with Firewire 400 than with USB 2.0, even on older computers. Just for fun also check the SanDisk firewire CF card readers and their performance vs USB.
USB 2.0 is nice and cheap and compatible. It is also completely crap for file transfers. USB 3.0 seems to solve a lot of the issues that 2.0 has at the cost of additional cables and pins. And that's not just speed, it is also polling and high latency etc.
Nope, they don't "give you pause". There was this guy who wrote anything he liked on the credit card bills. The only time he got stopped was when buying a very expensive TV (or a few of them actually) and he used NOT VALID as a signature. That raised a single eye-brow and he could not pay for the TV's that way. I presume though he wasn't what the sales people thought a risk.
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The moon is just the child of a knocked up mother earth, little wonder there is some love/hate relationship.
As he inherited these wars, the only thing he can do is end them the best way he can. I've been protesting against the war in Iraq and was strongly opposed to the Afghan war. But honestly, I would not know how they could be ended with as little pain to the people living in Iraq or Afghanistan. As war is hell, I'm moderately in favour of immediate retreat. Once you've started a war though, there are no easy decisions to be made.
All in all, it is hardly fair to say he doesn't deserve it because he inherited a war. That he gets it after only months into office is an entirely different matter. I think the Nobel committee was mistaken if only because it puts Obama in a difficult position - I think his intentions were already quite apparent, I think this might make it more difficult to actually execute them.
PS. My religious extremist spelling checker suggests Osama as a replacement for Obama
If you do have a daughter I pity her, because you are overly protective. As long as she makes her own decisions at it I would seriously advise you to let her go, certainly at an age earlier than 25. Heck, why not make it 35, you'll have no grand kids but that's insignificant in regards of protecting her, no?
And Java and .NET have proved that we don't need a brain dead hardware protection either. NX bit? You can still corrupt the data, and the data is what the instructions are taking as state and input. NX is a stop gap measure that makes your computer marginally more safe.
And now we are going to use a 128 bit address space to prevent attacks? Really? I'd say the disadvantages clearly outweigh the advantages.
Some of us may recall a laptop manufacturer who claimed to have invented a keyboard that could use the kinetic energy of typing to help charge the battery - anyone have one?
What manufacturer was that? ACME?
Hey, this is Slashdot, I'm sure I speak for everybody when I say that there might be a few of us that care. Yes, please, lets have that curve (then at least weI'll have some curve this evening)!
Illegal in Europe, afaik. If it looks like a buy it is a buy. We don't like those kind of games.
The only real big benefit of managed code here is that if you use data structures are correctly (and this is a big if), and keep to immutable object instances, then you are reasonably sure that your threads don't influence each other since they cannot get into each others memory (and no, NX bits don't protect against data corruption).
Of course, managed code such as Java may also have concurrency features build into the language. I don't think managed code has to do much with that though.
Huh? They would feel that way if they could think that way. Kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it? There are probably quite a few animals that have superior brain functionality in some respects.
The problem with creationalists is that you actively reason backwards. You start with the theory (the conclusion) and then try to fit the world into that view. A true scientist (and yes, there are many that don't adhere to that) tries to do the same thing, just the exact other way around. Your post is a very clear example of that.
That said; guys, this is not a troll, just somebody that does not see science in its current form as the truth. If this was a scientific journal, this might be considered trolling, but since it isn't it should just be left alone, not modded down. If you can't see the point of this; try to call my aunt a troll to her face and see what happens :)
Don't know about that. Humans have a rather special brain, obviously more evolved, and at least more functional that apes. IMHO it is the most important thing that distinguishes us.
Surprisingly heavy? Why, I always used rock to pad my laptop bag. I'll try another material tomorrow; maybe quicksilver, that seems nice and soft.
Passengers should be banned, too.
Spoken like a true road warrior. Passengers are just side effects of driving :)
The whole driving business is basically to get people (including children) and/or materials from A to B. You have to stay at home to be safe. Hate to bring this to you, but I presume you would have gotten the hint sooner or later.
That would only work if the customer does not know the number of the person receiving the money. For larger transaction amounts the Dutch Rabobank requires you to fill in the total transaction amount as well. At first they forgot to notify the customer of the meaning of the number, rendering it mostly useless (and also showing how clueless even banks can be). Of course, this does not mean the money will be made out to the correct account at all.
I'm personally thinking of creating a USB stick or hard drive with a small Linux distro for the sole reason of doing banking; that way MITM attacks to the machine itself will at least become less of a problem.
Yes, let the security hinge on the real experts, the users! If you think this reply is too ironic, wait for my reply to the first one to propose to educate the users.
As fast food originated from bavarian food (highly rich food for farmers that need the energy) it is more likely that it made you Germans. And fat Germans at that as you don't have to work as hard.
Because we can't power anything through wireless, at least not in any practical or inexpensive fashion. So we either need batteries and battery replacements or a power connector, which kind defeats the purpose. Unless of course we can power them using alternative means ("solar" power panels, key clicking/mouse moving). Powering an antenna (array) requires quite some juice.
Don't know that. Giving all students hardware/software that can run the applications that were created for them does not seem to be a waste of money, especially since they will probably need a laptop anyway and getting them in a large amount is way cheaper than everybody trying to get his/her own.
Eh, anybody has some period marks left? Sorry about that.
Insightful? Educating the users so they can prevent a botnet? Only people who can't educate themselve still propose such a thing as a solution. In all the 20 years of (semi-)professional IT I've never seen that work.
Directly from USB.org, link: here
Hi-Speed USB extends the speed of the connection from 12 Mbps on Original USB up to 480 Mbps on Hi-Speed USB, providing an attachment point for next-generation peripherals which complement higher performance PCs and user applications.
Why the heck would you want a cable to be named Sony/Philips Digital Interface? Shouldn't that be IDIFC in that case?
My very old 120GB drive is already faster with Firewire 400 than with USB 2.0, even on older computers. Just for fun also check the SanDisk firewire CF card readers and their performance vs USB.
USB 2.0 is nice and cheap and compatible. It is also completely crap for file transfers. USB 3.0 seems to solve a lot of the issues that 2.0 has at the cost of additional cables and pins. And that's not just speed, it is also polling and high latency etc.
Nope, they don't "give you pause". There was this guy who wrote anything he liked on the credit card bills. The only time he got stopped was when buying a very expensive TV (or a few of them actually) and he used NOT VALID as a signature. That raised a single eye-brow and he could not pay for the TV's that way. I presume though he wasn't what the sales people thought a risk.