i remember, this guy used to troll the eclipse.org newsgroups. not only was was arrogant and combative about everything, and when it came time for him to put up or shut up, his code stank! check out this thread to get an example of some of his discourse:
i had the 'privilege' of looking at some of his code, and not only did it have basic logic errors and would it have broken everyone else's code, but he just didn't 'get' basic concepts, like the usage of anonymous inner classes for event handling code. it's like he read all the stuff he talked about in a book but never actually wrote a program. i would bet that he certainly never collaborated on a project. i wouldn't trust him to program his way out of a for loop.
i remember him boasting at the time about how he had a book coming out, and i honestly thought he was some twelve-year-old making it up. that's how he was acting. i can't believe this guy slipped through the cracks of some publisher, even O'reilly.
i was in the navy, and there was a woman in my unit by the last name Swallow. her rank was Seaman...
in another navy unit (ET school), we had to do labs with lab partners. Seaman Cox was wisely paired with Seaman Beavers. When it was time for their lab assignment, the instructor would yell out, "Cox and Beavers!" it never got old.
you're missing the point; we know for a fact that the 9/11 attacks wouldn't have happened if gore had been president. therefore, no response would have been necessary.
pardon me, but this requires a longish explaination/history lesson (i would also like to point out beforehand that i'm an israel supporter):
if you had listened to al-queada statements since well before the attacks, you would know that their principle reason for the 9/11 attacks is because of the U.S. policy on israel and the palestinians (they always think the U.S. is evil, but this was the recent straw that broke the camel's back).
these countries hate eachother, and the only way that they can be made to get along is by very strong coercion by the U.S. *on both sides*, which means at least giving the appearance to muslims of keeping israel in check as well as keeping the palestinians in check. the U.S. must look like it is applying pressure on both sides. president clinton did exactly that and (if you can remember back then) we were very close to a peace agreement, and palestinian attacks on israel were a small fraction of what they are today.
israel, and pro-israel supporters in the U.S., resented the fact that they were so constrained in what they could do to retaliate to terrorist attacks, and israel especially resented basically having to seek permission/approval from the U.S. on how they could retaliate. as a result, some of the more-influential pro-isreali groups in the U.S. seriously disliked the clinton/gore administration and supported the bush run for president.
when president bush came into office, one of his first policy changes was that the U.S. "would no longer be taking as active a role in the israeli-palestinian peace process". this was standard political payback for pro-israeli groups that supported him during the election. when i heard this statement, i remember thinking to myself, "oh, my God, this will cause nothing but problems." this was akin to someone picking up a time bomb, starting to diffuse it, but then deciding to drop it instead. needless to say, the bomb blew up. the muslim world saw this policy change as giving israel the green light to kick the crap out of the palistinians, and as history shows, the israelis seriously stepped up their retaliatory attacks.
these problems, according to al-quaeda, is the U.S.'s fault for enabling israel to 'subjugate palestine'. hence, they had to come up with a way to hit the U.S. in a spectacular way. the 9/11 attacks were born.
but don't believe me, look at any al-quaeda leadership interview and they say basically the same thing.
no, the space station is in near earth orbit to accomodate americans. the space shuttle is only capable of carrying cargo to low earth orbit. this low orbit is a much greater hinderence to using the station as a stepping stone to interplanetary travel than it's inclination.
why do we americans always have to feel that we are superior to everyone else in every respect? the fact is, the russian space program is and always has been at least a decade ahead of ours. i always thought it was ironic that when 'mir' was in orbit, we americans with one side of our mouths would call it a junk heap, yet with the other side of our mouths beg the russians to allow our astronaughts to stay on board. our best attempt at a space station, 'skylab', was a fraction of the size and fell on australia.
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you dolt! VI counts as 6!
i remember, this guy used to troll the eclipse.org newsgroups. not only was was arrogant and combative about everything, and when it came time for him to put up or shut up, his code stank! check out this thread to get an example of some of his discourse:
e ch nology/msg00654.html
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.t
i had the 'privilege' of looking at some of his code, and not only did it have basic logic errors and would it have broken everyone else's code, but he just didn't 'get' basic concepts, like the usage of anonymous inner classes for event handling code. it's like he read all the stuff he talked about in a book but never actually wrote a program. i would bet that he certainly never collaborated on a project. i wouldn't trust him to program his way out of a for loop.
i remember him boasting at the time about how he had a book coming out, and i honestly thought he was some twelve-year-old making it up. that's how he was acting. i can't believe this guy slipped through the cracks of some publisher, even O'reilly.
i was in the navy, and there was a woman in my unit by the last name Swallow. her rank was Seaman...
in another navy unit (ET school), we had to do labs with lab partners. Seaman Cox was wisely paired with Seaman Beavers. When it was time for their lab assignment, the instructor would yell out, "Cox and Beavers!" it never got old.
if they were french fighters, gnome would have kicked kde's ass long ago.
whoops, gravitiational acceleration is 32 ft/sec^2
[quote] ...Or maybe they should start using "pounds" as a unit of mass...
[/quote]
'pounds' is also a unit of mass. there are two types: pounds force (lbf) and pounds mass (lbm).
on earth at sea level (i.e., gravitational acceleration of 32 ft/sec^sec), 1 lbm generates 1 lbf.
you're missing the point; we know for a fact that the 9/11 attacks wouldn't have happened if gore had been president. therefore, no response would have been necessary.
pardon me, but this requires a longish explaination/history lesson (i would also like to point out beforehand that i'm an israel supporter):
if you had listened to al-queada statements since well before the attacks, you would know that their principle reason for the 9/11 attacks is because of the U.S. policy on israel and the palestinians (they always think the U.S. is evil, but this was the recent straw that broke the camel's back).
these countries hate eachother, and the only way that they can be made to get along is by very strong coercion by the U.S. *on both sides*, which means at least giving the appearance to muslims of keeping israel in check as well as keeping the palestinians in check. the U.S. must look like it is applying pressure on both sides. president clinton did exactly that and (if you can remember back then) we were very close to a peace agreement, and palestinian attacks on israel were a small fraction of what they are today.
israel, and pro-israel supporters in the U.S., resented the fact that they were so constrained in what they could do to retaliate to terrorist attacks, and israel especially resented basically having to seek permission/approval from the U.S. on how they could retaliate. as a result, some of the more-influential pro-isreali groups in the U.S. seriously disliked the clinton/gore administration and supported the bush run for president.
when president bush came into office, one of his first policy changes was that the U.S. "would no longer be taking as active a role in the israeli-palestinian peace process". this was standard political payback for pro-israeli groups that supported him during the election. when i heard this statement, i remember thinking to myself, "oh, my God, this will cause nothing but problems." this was akin to someone picking up a time bomb, starting to diffuse it, but then deciding to drop it instead. needless to say, the bomb blew up. the muslim world saw this policy change as giving israel the green light to kick the crap out of the palistinians, and as history shows, the israelis seriously stepped up their retaliatory attacks.
these problems, according to al-quaeda, is the U.S.'s fault for enabling israel to 'subjugate palestine'. hence, they had to come up with a way to hit the U.S. in a spectacular way. the 9/11 attacks were born.
but don't believe me, look at any al-quaeda leadership interview and they say basically the same thing.
it *is* horrible! no one should have to touch their car while driving it.
tell that to gus, ed, and roger.
no, the space station is in near earth orbit to accomodate americans. the space shuttle is only capable of carrying cargo to low earth orbit. this low orbit is a much greater hinderence to using the station as a stepping stone to interplanetary travel than it's inclination.
why do we americans always have to feel that we are superior to everyone else in every respect? the fact is, the russian space program is and always has been at least a decade ahead of ours. i always thought it was ironic that when 'mir' was in orbit, we americans with one side of our mouths would call it a junk heap, yet with the other side of our mouths beg the russians to allow our astronaughts to stay on board. our best attempt at a space station, 'skylab', was a fraction of the size and fell on australia.