What's the panic? The requirement to give up your original citizenship is very common [...]. I wouldn't be surprised if even was handled this way in the USA and Canada.
The only similar requirement in the United States is a clause in the Oath of Allegiance that prospective new citizen takes:
"... I [...] renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen."
However, there are many people who become US citizens but still maintain at least some of the benefits of their former citizenship; for instance, my wife was naturalized in 1998 but was subsequently able to obtain a Mexican passport. By contrast, service as an officer in the armed forces or with the CIA or FBI requires one to have actually renounced all foreign citizenship and titles.
My understanding of BitTorrent is that different chunks of a download are routed to and temporarily stored for retransmission on the PCs of a number of individuals who have BitTorrent software running, but with each chunk being encrypted so that an individual has no idea of what's passing through his/her PC.
No, each user of BitTorrent knows exactly what files he's downloading or sharing. You're probably getting it miked up with one or all of these other protocols:
I'd rather they just list tel:// URLs in messages and webpages where appropriate, but integration is a good thing. I haven't signed up for Skype because, between Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ and my cell phone, there are already too many ways to contact me instantly. Besides, I just use gaim for 90% of my IMing anyway...
I bought a student copy of Matlab, and somehow the CD got cracked. Since the copy-protection for that particular release depended on the CD being in the drive during use, I was able to convince MathWorks customer service to replace the CD, although I had to pay their standard shipping/handling charge. I would expect any software publisher that cared about its customers to so the same thing.
My guess is that there's one on each side of the screen so that the user can use his right hand or his left hand. I like the design, although it looks like they've decided to steal the Ubuntu colors...
Did we do anything about it? Nope. We ignored it. I didn't even bring it up to our managers. Why? Because in documenting the issue we would have most certainly violated the licensing agreement,
While the incident appears to have been some time ago, I think you ought to at least have documented the issue internally, sending reports as high as the officers of your company. That documentation, of course, would have been proprietary and confidential. What the other company didn't know couldn't have been used against you. Even if you couldn't have made the ASP fix their product, your HR department would have known not to rely on it for confidential communications.
...someone has finally noticed that the UN is unelected...
We could change that. I've said before that I think the ambassador from the United States to the UN should be directly elected by the people, not chosen by whatever procedure we use now. The same could happen in any other country with free elections.
As soon as you start sending me text files with UTF-8 (or UTF-16) characters, I can never be sure if what I see on the screen is the correct character (if it displays at all, instead of being a gray box), and even if it is, I typically have no idea how to type it it (what 3-key combinatation of alt/ctrl/whatever does this particular editor expect?). In fact even in ISO-8859-1 I don't like the upper 128 because I never remember how to type them in. 7-bit ASCII is, simply, universal and will never be obsolete. (And even that suffers from 3 different cr/lf standards, so I can't edit a Unix text document in Notepad without converting it, but at least that's manageable.)
Sure, UTF-8 is a little bit brittle; but I don't see what the big problem is with extended characters. That's what alternate input-methods are for, or, if I want a really obscure character, I can just look it up.
Now it's true that Slashdot seems to edit out 16-bit characters in comments for some reason...
While in some cases a different user-agent could arise for the reasons you cite, it might also be that someone views the same site with a different browser because the first one didn't work very well; or that someone has multiple computers (say a laptop and a desktop) behind the same personal firewall.
On the other hand, if there's a whole lab behind one IP address, it's quite possible that each system has the exact same configuration...
That's the way I feel about wine sometimes. Some people have spent a lot of effort trying to get Microsoft Office to work, but KWord and OpenOffice both edit Word documents just fine; I don't have an MS Office license anyway.
After reading the article, it seems like this amount is all the money (cash and "real property") the spammers had. Sure, they could start again, but with what capital? This way they can at least go out and start working real jobs, and not use taxpayers' money by getting a free lunch every day in Federal prison.
KDE is developed in C++/Qt. Gnome is developed in C/GTK. Two extremely different toolkits in separate languages. It'd probably be possible to port Gnome to C++/Qt, or KDE to C/GTK.
I wouldn't say that the two toolkits are extremely different, just separately implemented. There's no technical reason why you couldn't write an application that displays a Gtk+ window and a Qt window side-by-side (although the two event-loops might need to run in separate threads); but it would take a lot of "glue" code to use a QLineEdit control in a Gtk::Window (gtkmm).
From what I've seen, this project is just a more-detailed extension of FreeDesktop's work, dealing with things like menu-editing, printing, and putting icons in the "notification area". Most of that doesn't require shared libraries at all; in fact, the existence of two separately-written libraries that interact nicely helps to ensure interoperability with other programs that might come along in the future.
As a CS student, I can actually read the relevant RFCs during a networking class, or the online manual for some piece of software a professor is discussing; or I can write short sample programs to test the ideas presented in the lecture before they I forget them. However, my laptop only has a two-hour battery and classes are always at least one-and-a-half hours long, so I still take the majority of my notes on paper.
Another reason I feel bad about using my laptop in class is that many students either don't have a laptop or don't bring it to school because it might get damaged or stolen. (I bought mine used on EBay, added Arabic stickers to the keyboard, and only have Linux installed... I don't have to worry about the insane premium of a new laptop.) I know one guy who keeps the main copy of all his thesis-research on a memory-card in his cell phone, and he got really scared when he dropped it on the street one day by mistake and drove off.
I think it's different at a number of law schools and MBA programs: new students are provided with a standard laptop, and they don't tinker with it so much as just use M$ Office to type notes and papers. This lady is a law professor, no?
I can see the advantage of virtualizing multiple versions of Windows and Linux in a test environment (which is what VMware, QEMU and other products allow one to do). I can also understand virtualizing one or two legacy apps that won't run on the other operating system. Virtualizing a set of JVMs? Why? Doesn't the JVM already run under an operating system, which provides paging, thread scheduling, protections and resource allocation?
All IT jobs - all of them posted anywhere - require not only a degree, but years of experience in the field as well. Even entry level positions require this.
You will never see, in the IT industry, a job that says, "no experience, but you have a diploma? We'll hire!"
While it sees almost impossible to find postings for such jobs, I think that openings that require a college degree but do not require experience do exist. I'm such a person (BS in computer-science from a school with a famous football team, almost two years of grad-school at another state university, no significant work-experience), and two recruiters have called me just this week. I've also seen more e-mail messages about companies looking for students on the CS department's mailing list since the beginning of the year than previously, and started to get e-mail from recruiters who want my resume in MS WORD format.
Now, it's true that the phone-calls did not lead to interviews. If anyone knows of a near-future position-opening that involves developing software in {C++|Java|MySQL|Oracle|perl/Tk|PHP|Qt|VoiceXML|vtk }, but preferably all of the above at once, I'd love to hear about it.
Christianity and Islam are both monotheistic religions. Each claims that there is only one true god, which we call God (with a capital "G") in English. In Arabic, the word for a god (any member of a polytheistic pantheon) is 'ilahu; the word for the one and only monotheistic diety, literally "the god", is al-laahu (normally transliterated as Allah in English, and Alá in Spanish). Since they both believe that there is only one, self-evident, all-creating, true god, they must be referring to the same being.
To be more specific, the Christian bible translated into modern standard arabic normally uses "Allah" where "God" would be used in English and "ar-Rabbu" for "Lord" (or at least for most of the "Jehovah" references in the old testament).
Whether or not Muhammed may have been influenced by animistic or polytheistic traditions among the Arab tribes, the Qur'aan makes explicit reference to Jewish and Christian concepts, and the speaker explicitly identifies himself ("themselves" gramatically) as the same being who revealed the 10 commandments to Moses and who "sent" Jesus. There are a lot of theories about the origin of the "Jewish god", but anyone who believes that he is an actual, all-powerful being ought to accept that followers of other monotheistic religions are trying to talk about the same being. You, on the other hand, appear not to believe that such a being exists; so why are theories relevant about what might have been the pre-Jewish member of one pantheon and the pre-Muslim member of another, when "Allah", "my Father in Heaven", and "I AM THAT I AM" are fundamentally the same concept today?
Forget digital signatures; my bank (Bank One) doesn't even use SPF; they don't even have an SPF record for any of their domains (bankone.com, chase.com, jpmorganchase.com, cardmemberservices.com,...).
Then again, my university doesn't have an SPF record either, their web-mail client doesn't pay attention to SPF, and a lot of messages wouldn't be treated properly by an SPF filter anyway because they're forwarded from my old e-mail address at a university where I earned a previous degree.
Now, I don't agree with everything in that tract either; for instance, I don't see how persecution of Falun Gong practitioners constitutes "genocide" (since members do not, and have not, constituted any particular ethnic group). Still, it's hypocritical for the Chinese Communist Party to claim it's fighting a cult when it has such a track-record of violence and secrecy itself.
The few examples of self-immolation were probably not specifically the result of Falun Dafa teaching, but rather a possible response in a world made completely illogical by the actions of the police and CCP agents.
Before the crackdown, there were 10,000 children in China who said "The Emperor has no clothes" and a hundred million who looked for themselves.
Roaming profiles have major issues. The standard way to do that sort of thing under UNIX is to have home directories centrally mounted via NFS or AFS. During login, the desktop looks for just a few files. In windows, upon login, a process runs to load the entire registry into local memory and apply security policies; I often see it taking 5 or 10 minutes on modern machines that are so configured, whereas CDE takes 10 to 30 seconds to load up on a 10-year-old SPARCstation.
I am skeptical of your motives. I do not practice Falun Dafa, but, as far as I can see, it's in the same class as Tae Kwon Do (which I have practiced), yoga, karate... it's a set of exercises and a set of principles such as self-respect, spread informally. In fact, during the Japanese occupation of Cho'son and Manchuria (before WWII), it was illegal for Korean nationals to practice martial arts such as Karate. Now karate and t'ae kwon do are both Olympic sports. Falun Dafa has no element of competition, but suppose it did, and the IOC decided to include an event in it: would China abstain from the Olympics because of that?
In a sense, Falun Dafa is very revolutionary, just not in the way the CCP claims it is. Likewise, true Christianity is very revolutionary, and activities of christian groups are heavily restricted in China...
Falun Dafa is also like Linux. Certain recent leaders of the CCP claimed that it had some sort of secret, central backbone, because that's how the CCP itself was for many years. However, it doesn't, no more that Linux has a secret backbone. Anyone who's studied Falun Dafa could go teach a new science based on it at any moment.
I repeat, I am not associated with Falun Gong, but I think your statement that "Anyone associated with falungong seems a little bit shady" is misinformed or disingenuous. Certain elements in the Chinese government (who, we hope, will be corrected by the Chinese people) are a little bit shady, or perhaps very corrupt; however, I'll avoid making blanket statements because I haven't yet been physically present in any part of China.
The "Contact Us" link is broken for me, too, and I was asking a question about something different; that's funny, I've been able to use their contact-forms in the past...
for (recordp = buffer;... ; recordp += ((struct tagEMR *) record)->nSize) { switch (iType) { case EMR_ARC: { EMRARC * rec = recordp; error_if(rec.nSize != sizeof(EMRARC)); Arc(hdc, rec.rclBox.left, rec.rclBox.top, rec.rclBox.right,rec.rclBox.bottom, rec.ptlStart.x, rec.ptlStart.y, rec.ptlEnd.x, rec.ptlEnd.y); } break; /*... etc. for all 200 or so functions */ default: error(); } }
Note that EMR_ARC is a small integer constant (value 45) that's guaranteed to stay the same between Windows releases, while Arc is the address of a fuction in memory, revealed to the program at runtime by the linker (it happens to be 0x77f43c88 on a particular Windows XP machine and using a particular compiler).
Now, the natural way to have implemented this by mistake would be:
The lowest common denominator takes you back to partial implementations of Java 1.2 or the like; Kaffe, Classpath, and the like, with no Swing GUI and I'm not sure if Eclipse will run well with these "partial" Java environments.
Eclipse is a package in FC4, compiled with gcj. It's fairly stable, and the user-interface is the same as in a version of Eclipse running with Sun Java on another platform.
The most recent time this was discussed by the wine developers is in this thread. At one time some Mono developers were linking wine to mono, but then they got upset about the changes in the Wine API for Linux programs (this was before the 0.9 release), and they decided to just do all WinForms-related stuff with native.NET code. AFAIK no one has tried to do anything in that direction since the 0.9 release.
I have a cable modem. I'm sure some IP still goes over satellite links; a lot goes over leased or owned fiber-optic cables. ISDN runs over wires rented from the phone company, but the the data channel does not run "over" a voice channel, although the data stream (synchronous 8-bit transmission) was designed especially for carrying telephone-quality voice. A T3 line can also be used to carry an uncompressed TV video stream, but that doesn't mean that a patent mentioning a "telephone" also applies to a TV set. A T1 line can carry uncompressed real-time CD-quality audio, but that also doesn't mean that a patent mentioning a "telephone" applies to a CD player.
Besides, "most data transfer" probably happens over LANs.
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The only similar requirement in the United States is a clause in the Oath of Allegiance that prospective new citizen takes:
However, there are many people who become US citizens but still maintain at least some of the benefits of their former citizenship; for instance, my wife was naturalized in 1998 but was subsequently able to obtain a Mexican passport. By contrast, service as an officer in the armed forces or with the CIA or FBI requires one to have actually renounced all foreign citizenship and titles.I'd rather they just list tel:// URLs in messages and webpages where appropriate, but integration is a good thing. I haven't signed up for Skype because, between Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ and my cell phone, there are already too many ways to contact me instantly. Besides, I just use gaim for 90% of my IMing anyway...
I bought a student copy of Matlab, and somehow the CD got cracked. Since the copy-protection for that particular release depended on the CD being in the drive during use, I was able to convince MathWorks customer service to replace the CD, although I had to pay their standard shipping/handling charge. I would expect any software publisher that cared about its customers to so the same thing.
My guess is that there's one on each side of the screen so that the user can use his right hand or his left hand. I like the design, although it looks like they've decided to steal the Ubuntu colors...
While the incident appears to have been some time ago, I think you ought to at least have documented the issue internally, sending reports as high as the officers of your company. That documentation, of course, would have been proprietary and confidential. What the other company didn't know couldn't have been used against you. Even if you couldn't have made the ASP fix their product, your HR department would have known not to rely on it for confidential communications.
We could change that. I've said before that I think the ambassador from the United States to the UN should be directly elected by the people, not chosen by whatever procedure we use now. The same could happen in any other country with free elections.
Sure, UTF-8 is a little bit brittle; but I don't see what the big problem is with extended characters. That's what alternate input-methods are for, or, if I want a really obscure character, I can just look it up.
Now it's true that Slashdot seems to edit out 16-bit characters in comments for some reason...
On the other hand, if there's a whole lab behind one IP address, it's quite possible that each system has the exact same configuration...
Having mentioned Wine, the OP might want to check out the Wine applications database to get more ideas.
After reading the article, it seems like this amount is all the money (cash and "real property") the spammers had. Sure, they could start again, but with what capital? This way they can at least go out and start working real jobs, and not use taxpayers' money by getting a free lunch every day in Federal prison.
I wouldn't say that the two toolkits are extremely different, just separately implemented. There's no technical reason why you couldn't write an application that displays a Gtk+ window and a Qt window side-by-side (although the two event-loops might need to run in separate threads); but it would take a lot of "glue" code to use a QLineEdit control in a Gtk::Window (gtkmm).
From what I've seen, this project is just a more-detailed extension of FreeDesktop's work, dealing with things like menu-editing, printing, and putting icons in the "notification area". Most of that doesn't require shared libraries at all; in fact, the existence of two separately-written libraries that interact nicely helps to ensure interoperability with other programs that might come along in the future.
As a CS student, I can actually read the relevant RFCs during a networking class, or the online manual for some piece of software a professor is discussing; or I can write short sample programs to test the ideas presented in the lecture before they I forget them. However, my laptop only has a two-hour battery and classes are always at least one-and-a-half hours long, so I still take the majority of my notes on paper.
Another reason I feel bad about using my laptop in class is that many students either don't have a laptop or don't bring it to school because it might get damaged or stolen. (I bought mine used on EBay, added Arabic stickers to the keyboard, and only have Linux installed... I don't have to worry about the insane premium of a new laptop.) I know one guy who keeps the main copy of all his thesis-research on a memory-card in his cell phone, and he got really scared when he dropped it on the street one day by mistake and drove off.
I think it's different at a number of law schools and MBA programs: new students are provided with a standard laptop, and they don't tinker with it so much as just use M$ Office to type notes and papers. This lady is a law professor, no?
I can see the advantage of virtualizing multiple versions of Windows and Linux in a test environment (which is what VMware, QEMU and other products allow one to do). I can also understand virtualizing one or two legacy apps that won't run on the other operating system. Virtualizing a set of JVMs? Why? Doesn't the JVM already run under an operating system, which provides paging, thread scheduling, protections and resource allocation?
All IT jobs - all of them posted anywhere - require not only a degree, but years of experience in the field as well. Even entry level positions require this.
You will never see, in the IT industry, a job that says, "no experience, but you have a diploma? We'll hire!"
While it sees almost impossible to find postings for such jobs, I think that openings that require a college degree but do not require experience do exist. I'm such a person (BS in computer-science from a school with a famous football team, almost two years of grad-school at another state university, no significant work-experience), and two recruiters have called me just this week. I've also seen more e-mail messages about companies looking for students on the CS department's mailing list since the beginning of the year than previously, and started to get e-mail from recruiters who want my resume in MS WORD format.
Now, it's true that the phone-calls did not lead to interviews. If anyone knows of a near-future position-opening that involves developing software in {C++|Java|MySQL|Oracle|perl/Tk|PHP|Qt|VoiceXML|vtk }, but preferably all of the above at once, I'd love to hear about it.
To be more specific, the Christian bible translated into modern standard arabic normally uses "Allah" where "God" would be used in English and "ar-Rabbu" for "Lord" (or at least for most of the "Jehovah" references in the old testament).
Whether or not Muhammed may have been influenced by animistic or polytheistic traditions among the Arab tribes, the Qur'aan makes explicit reference to Jewish and Christian concepts, and the speaker explicitly identifies himself ("themselves" gramatically) as the same being who revealed the 10 commandments to Moses and who "sent" Jesus. There are a lot of theories about the origin of the "Jewish god", but anyone who believes that he is an actual, all-powerful being ought to accept that followers of other monotheistic religions are trying to talk about the same being. You, on the other hand, appear not to believe that such a being exists; so why are theories relevant about what might have been the pre-Jewish member of one pantheon and the pre-Muslim member of another, when "Allah", "my Father in Heaven", and "I AM THAT I AM" are fundamentally the same concept today?
Then again, my university doesn't have an SPF record either, their web-mail client doesn't pay attention to SPF, and a lot of messages wouldn't be treated properly by an SPF filter anyway because they're forwarded from my old e-mail address at a university where I earned a previous degree.
Digital signatures would be nice, too.
Now, I don't agree with everything in that tract either; for instance, I don't see how persecution of Falun Gong practitioners constitutes "genocide" (since members do not, and have not, constituted any particular ethnic group). Still, it's hypocritical for the Chinese Communist Party to claim it's fighting a cult when it has such a track-record of violence and secrecy itself.
The few examples of self-immolation were probably not specifically the result of Falun Dafa teaching, but rather a possible response in a world made completely illogical by the actions of the police and CCP agents.
Before the crackdown, there were 10,000 children in China who said "The Emperor has no clothes" and a hundred million who looked for themselves.
Roaming profiles have major issues. The standard way to do that sort of thing under UNIX is to have home directories centrally mounted via NFS or AFS. During login, the desktop looks for just a few files. In windows, upon login, a process runs to load the entire registry into local memory and apply security policies; I often see it taking 5 or 10 minutes on modern machines that are so configured, whereas CDE takes 10 to 30 seconds to load up on a 10-year-old SPARCstation.
In a sense, Falun Dafa is very revolutionary, just not in the way the CCP claims it is. Likewise, true Christianity is very revolutionary, and activities of christian groups are heavily restricted in China...
Falun Dafa is also like Linux. Certain recent leaders of the CCP claimed that it had some sort of secret, central backbone, because that's how the CCP itself was for many years. However, it doesn't, no more that Linux has a secret backbone. Anyone who's studied Falun Dafa could go teach a new science based on it at any moment.
I repeat, I am not associated with Falun Gong, but I think your statement that "Anyone associated with falungong seems a little bit shady" is misinformed or disingenuous. Certain elements in the Chinese government (who, we hope, will be corrected by the Chinese people) are a little bit shady, or perhaps very corrupt; however, I'll avoid making blanket statements because I haven't yet been physically present in any part of China.
The "Contact Us" link is broken for me, too, and I was asking a question about something different; that's funny, I've been able to use their contact-forms in the past...
Now, the natural way to have implemented this by mistake would be:
Instead, it looks like the programmer did something more like:That has to be deliberate.Eclipse is a package in FC4, compiled with gcj. It's fairly stable, and the user-interface is the same as in a version of Eclipse running with Sun Java on another platform.
The most recent time this was discussed by the wine developers is in this thread. At one time some Mono developers were linking wine to mono, but then they got upset about the changes in the Wine API for Linux programs (this was before the 0.9 release), and they decided to just do all WinForms-related stuff with native .NET code. AFAIK no one has tried to do anything in that direction since the 0.9 release.
Besides, "most data transfer" probably happens over LANs.