I think the Net can be empowering for people because they have a choice whether or not to disclose their gender. These women-oriented sites are useful because they give scope for the flipside of this - that women can find other women with similar interests. However, I think there probably is a risk in making one's gender the central issue, that women will isolate themselves as a group within the Internet as a whole. *shrugs*
I was on an ADABAS/Natural project for a year, and am now being trained for an RPG programming project. Who says there's no 4GLs?:-)
OTOH I find RPG needs as much training as COBOL easily - I was trained in COBOL 2 years ago, and if anything I'm finding RPG harder because it is more column sensitive. 4GLs are pretty powerful stuff though for financial apps.
(Having said that I'd much rather be programming in Java!)
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I find Usenet useful, but there are loads of email mailing lists that do pretty well the same job, and which I find more relevant to my interests. You don't get any spam on the mailing list I'm on because it's run by an individual rather than a company like Onelist.com et al, and he doesn't permit any kind of abuses of that kind.
But the American (and British, and French etc, etc) people already know the truth of what's going on - they see the weapon cam films virtually every day on the news and can see whether or not NATO is telling the truth. Our media has been as open and truthful as possible, owning up to verifiable incidents of bombs hitting Serbian civilian targets, with NATO giving each day accounts of targets hit. Serbian media on the other hand has shown nothing but the few blunders NATO has made, along with lies, more lies and damned lies. The internet has been flooded (especially on IRC) with sites purporting to be about discussion of the issues surrounding the conflict in the Balkans, but when anyone tries to raise these issues (eg on #kosovo on Undernet) they get banned as the sites & channels are run by Serbs and Serb sympathisers who just will not allow NATO's case to be put. Given that a country like the US fights its wars dependant on the support of their people, and that their defeat in Vietnam was largely put down to lack of public support due to images of war on their media (and let's face it, war is horrible - there's no getting over that), can anyone blame NATO for putting a muzzle on Serbian lies which could damage chances of a satisfactory conclusion to the conflict? In WW2, the majority of casualties of any bombing of cities was civilians. Dresden was piled high with hundreds and thousands of dead civilians. If a hundred Serb civilians get killed by accident, yes, this is tragic - terrible! But given that NATO have called off bombing raids in mid flight because they could not be sure enough of hitting a military target, it should be obvious to anyone that NATO are bending over backwards to avoid civilian casualties. Smartbombs against military bunkers are a lot less likely to kill civilians as the Serbian artillery that was used on kosovar albanian villages. Artillery shells are inaccurate at best - not that the Serbs ever tried to avoid hitting civilians. They have tried from the start to kill as many kosovar albanian men of fighting age as they can. If the common Serbian people want an end to this conflict, the answer is in their hands - throw Milosevic out! He has done nothing but damage the country since he came to power. No good has come from him for the Serbian people; he has just led them into conflict, poverty and ruin.
I sympathise with Maynard for his past suffering. It's almost as bad here in the UK. When I was in senior school (age 11-16) I was constantly bullied by one group of lads who were all bigger and stronger than me. I wasn't particularly afraid of any one of them, but I knew that if I fought one, I would get the rest after me. One day I was coming out of the local newsagents after school with a bag of assorted sweets, when one of the gang ran past, grabbing the bag out of my hands. For the first time since I'd been at that school, my temper just went completely, and I ran after him. I caught him by the collar and yanked him backwards as he was running, so that he was pulled to the ground, whereupon I proceeded to hit him with my fists, elbows, knees & feet until I had no more energy to do so. In short I made a bloody mess of that guy, and got my sweets back. The next day, the other guys actually gave me some respect & left me alone. 5 years of constant bullying just built up the rage in me - I'm not normally like that at all. One guy I knew recently said I was "so laid back one of these days I'll fall over backwards". If someone so laid back could explode like that, I dread to think what might happen with a more violent type. Looks like it happened in Littleton.
After 11 years of being a goth, I still don't know how people connect trenchcoats with goth. I've never seen any of my friends wearing them. Shows how off the mark Steve Rickard is when he says trenchcoats are like a kind of uniform for goths.:-/
Erm... actually most Lords get secondary benefits, eg from large firms wanting someone influential on their board, or as consultants etc. The house of Lords are not elected by the people of Britain, but instead are appointed "by the Queen" ie by the government of the time in an attempt to stack the deck so they can railroad any silly bill they like through to become law. They tend too to be really old guys whose everyday reality is so different from the average citizen they have little idea what effect their legislation may have on the populace. They also tend to sleep a lot through the debates. I've no time for them.
I got an LG Phenom H/PC (RRP 499UKP) for 230UKP a couple of days ago at Tottenham Court Road, London. That's roughly 300 dollars, give or take a bit. How do Palmpilots compare against WinCE2, 8Mb RAM, 16Mb ROM, built in software modem, pre-installed 3rd party fax & comms software, and a keyboard? I was considering getting a palm-like device (Nino? Palm V? Still undecided.)
Can anyone offer advice on this who has used a number of different H/PCs and P/PCs?
Why?!? What a stupid, stupid thing to do. When Win95/98 are so crappy & buggy & full of security holes... If you've absolutely got to have Windoze, it ought to be NT. Having said that, the "Consumer" version of NT/win2k will probably be cut down to hell & expensive too. Talk about handing the world to Linux on a plate... Then again - great idea, Bill! *slaps Bill's back*
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I think the Net can be empowering for people because they have a choice whether or not to disclose their gender. These women-oriented sites are useful because they give scope for the flipside of this - that women can find other women with similar interests. However, I think there probably is a risk in making one's gender the central issue, that women will isolate themselves as a group within the Internet as a whole. *shrugs*
I was on an ADABAS/Natural project for a year, and am now being trained for an RPG programming project. Who says there's no 4GLs? :-)
OTOH I find RPG needs as much training as COBOL easily - I was trained in COBOL 2 years ago, and if anything I'm finding RPG harder because it is more column sensitive. 4GLs are pretty powerful stuff though for financial apps.
(Having said that I'd much rather be programming in Java!)
I find Usenet useful, but there are loads of email mailing lists that do pretty well the same job, and which I find more relevant to my interests. You don't get any spam on the mailing list I'm on because it's run by an individual rather than a company like Onelist.com et al, and he doesn't permit any kind of abuses of that kind.
You can tell I've just woke up - I misread that as "NASA's tennis ball sized Robot Assassins"
*wibble*
But the American (and British, and French etc, etc) people already know the truth of what's going on - they see the weapon cam films virtually every day on the news and can see whether or not NATO is telling the truth. Our media has been as open and truthful as possible, owning up to verifiable incidents of bombs hitting Serbian civilian targets, with NATO giving each day accounts of targets hit. Serbian media on the other hand has shown nothing but the few blunders NATO has made, along with lies, more lies and damned lies.
The internet has been flooded (especially on IRC) with sites purporting to be about discussion of the issues surrounding the conflict in the Balkans, but when anyone tries to raise these issues (eg on #kosovo on Undernet) they get banned as the sites & channels are run by Serbs and Serb sympathisers who just will not allow NATO's case to be put.
Given that a country like the US fights its wars dependant on the support of their people, and that their defeat in Vietnam was largely put down to lack of public support due to images of war on their media (and let's face it, war is horrible - there's no getting over that), can anyone blame NATO for putting a muzzle on Serbian lies which could damage chances of a satisfactory conclusion to the conflict?
In WW2, the majority of casualties of any bombing of cities was civilians. Dresden was piled high with hundreds and thousands of dead civilians. If a hundred Serb civilians get killed by accident, yes, this is tragic - terrible! But given that NATO have called off bombing raids in mid flight because they could not be sure enough of hitting a military target, it should be obvious to anyone that NATO are bending over backwards to avoid civilian casualties. Smartbombs against military bunkers are a lot less likely to kill civilians as the Serbian artillery that was used on kosovar albanian villages. Artillery shells are inaccurate at best - not that the Serbs ever tried to avoid hitting civilians. They have tried from the start to kill as many kosovar albanian men of fighting age as they can.
If the common Serbian people want an end to this conflict, the answer is in their hands - throw Milosevic out! He has done nothing but damage the country since he came to power. No good has come from him for the Serbian people; he has just led them into conflict, poverty and ruin.
I sympathise with Maynard for his past suffering. It's almost as bad here in the UK. When I was in senior school (age 11-16) I was constantly bullied by one group of lads who were all bigger and stronger than me. I wasn't particularly afraid of any one of them, but I knew that if I fought one, I would get the rest after me.
One day I was coming out of the local newsagents after school with a bag of assorted sweets, when one of the gang ran past, grabbing the bag out of my hands. For the first time since I'd been at that school, my temper just went completely, and I ran after him. I caught him by the collar and yanked him backwards as he was running, so that he was pulled to the ground, whereupon I proceeded to hit him with my fists, elbows, knees & feet until I had no more energy to do so. In short I made a bloody mess of that guy, and got my sweets back. The next day, the other guys actually gave me some respect & left me alone. 5 years of constant bullying just built up the rage in me - I'm not normally like that at all. One guy I knew recently said I was "so laid back one of these days I'll fall over backwards". If someone so laid back could explode like that, I dread to think what might happen with a more violent type. Looks like it happened in Littleton.
After 11 years of being a goth, I still don't know how people connect trenchcoats with goth. I've never seen any of my friends wearing them. Shows how off the mark Steve Rickard is when he says trenchcoats are like a kind of uniform for goths. :-/
Erm... actually most Lords get secondary benefits, eg from large firms wanting someone influential on their board, or as consultants etc. The house of Lords are not elected by the people of Britain, but instead are appointed "by the Queen" ie by the government of the time in an attempt to stack the deck so they can railroad any silly bill they like through to become law. They tend too to be really old guys whose everyday reality is so different from the average citizen they have little idea what effect their legislation may have on the populace. They also tend to sleep a lot through the debates. I've no time for them.
I got an LG Phenom H/PC (RRP 499UKP) for 230UKP a couple of days ago at Tottenham Court Road, London. That's roughly 300 dollars, give or take a bit. How do Palmpilots compare against WinCE2, 8Mb RAM, 16Mb ROM, built in software modem, pre-installed 3rd party fax & comms software, and a keyboard? I was considering getting a palm-like device (Nino? Palm V? Still undecided.)
Can anyone offer advice on this who has used a number of different H/PCs and P/PCs?
Why?!? What a stupid, stupid thing to do. When Win95/98 are so crappy & buggy & full of security holes... If you've absolutely got to have Windoze, it ought to be NT. Having said that, the "Consumer" version of NT/win2k will probably be cut down to hell & expensive too. Talk about handing the world to Linux on a plate... Then again - great idea, Bill! *slaps Bill's back*