As Ezra Levant points out, even if you win these tribunals, you lose. The state has huge resources, lawyers, money, time, bureaucrats. You just have yourself. Being taken through the process is punishment itself, costly and time consuming. The net effect is oppression and fear - most people know that if it comes to the crunch the genuine courts will throw these cases out, but they don't want to go through the rigmarole of getting there. This really is tyranny; the executive and the legislative becoming the judiciary, the courts being used as a weapon in political and ideological battles. The Left have no morals, no scruples and no self-restraint in the depths to which they will stoop to enforce their world view.
It's worth pointing out that Ezra Levant has been hauled up before these nasty little thugs. Fascinatingly, he managed to film one of these kangaroo courts in action. Well worth a view.
There was always something just "right" about W2K. They had the DLL hell thing sorted out, but as an OS it kept its focus, was fast, straightforward, and a very clean evolution of NT4. I liked using it in a way that I hate XP+.
Don't agree with or like abortion - fine - don't have one.
And if you don't agree with domestic violence - fine - don't beat your wife!
(I think the point the Pope was making was about how we treat one another as human beings. Many replies on this thread, were they to represent the majority of humanity, would represent us entering a new dark ages. Sadly, I think our political elites, in Europe at least, are morally bankrupt).
Few people ever imagined you might ever have to actually define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, so they were caught a little off guard. But hey, who would want to be the first person accused of robophobia?
It would be interesting to find out what the domestic use is. It strikes me that for things like Netware integration, directory services of any kind, common desktop and policies, corporations don't have much choice bar Windows. But for home use, my guess is that more than a few % are Linux users.
Avoid immature fad "technologies" like AJAX Ajax is no big deal, it just means that you can now use browser based apps to do the job that were only really practicable for GUI apps previously. You can make a monster out of AJAX, or just use it sparsely in conventional pages to do things like table updates.
In 1994, a person of my ability and intelligence would have struggled to write software that delivers. Because so much can be achieved now with scripting languages, standards like XML, and with so much support and documentation available online, so much more can be done more quickly, and be done more transparently, with less intelligence, than in the past.
I did systems support in a big financial in 1997. Software was written in C++ on Windows. Builds would run overnight. Something wrong? Could be an OS thing, or a progam thing. DLL hell ensued. Process: debug problem, relink, recompile. Next day, retest. OK, so software passes testing. Next - software distribution - a process that itself needs testing in dev environments. Package software. Hit button to distribute to X000 clients. Some Windows NT, some older.
So much to go wrong, so many people involved. I'm not saying there isn't complexity in modern environments, but standards, and particularly web based apps take so many variables out of the equation.
Often something that might require hundreds of lines of code in PHP4 can be done with just a few in PHP5. The SimpleXML parser is probably the best example. Can you think of anything else?
Only a few years ago, I understood that 80% of corporate data resided on IMS. In my experience, even where big IBM shops used SQL server, Sybase etc, ultimately that data derived from IMS.
That statement (wasn't it Thomas Watson at IBM?), isn't so ridiculous after all. If we discount devices to access the internet, and the passive devices in between, there could theoretically only be one physical computer out there, serving up all the applications, websites, communications, streaming media etc that we need. The five figure could simply be the same machine replicated in real time around the globe for redundancy. I mean, Google itself is almost already one 'computer' that everyone uses... you see what I'm driving at.
The point is that the trend is back to centralisation. I don't think Watson had in mind intelligent terminals when he speculated the 'five' figure, but 'intelligent terminals' is increasingly what the PC is becoming.
I wish I could agree. Sound simply doesn't work on my Thinkpad with the latest kernel, NetworkManager is all over the place. I left Edgy for Feisty because Edgy was a nightmare - Feisty has been a bit better but not much. Maybe a clean install would sort things...
What you don't see is the billions and billions of Euros pumped into the French railways that have at times almost bankrupted the country. With less than that, the US put men on the Moon and developed the Shuttle. The French have fast trains. Whoopee Dooo.
It's unlikely that you would ever be running SELinux without knowing it. Yes, it comes with distros like RHEL4, but it's not turned on.
I bought a book on it, read the first two chapters, and then realised that I'd never really be able to single handedly use a system, administer it and run SELinux. There's nothing I do that's worth the effort. Maybe for bigger organisations with more important data and bigger budgets, but right now I can't see it.
The idea that open-source people would be more to the left, and proprietary people to the right, is just silly. I'm to the right of Genghis Khan on most matters, and rejected proprietary software years ago.
OSS/GPL software embodies all the virtuous right-wing ideals - giving of oneself without the expectation of remuneration, freedom, open and transparent competition on the basis of virtue, spontaneous human co-operation and freedom from monopolistic control by a "state".
Oh, come on! The dev community has worked twenty years to get to the point where you can reuse existing code without having to copy and paste it. We were calling this inheritance if I'm not mistaken. You are mistaken. Inheritance refers to deriving a class from another class.
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What makes anyone think that Windows 7 will be an improvement on XP or Vista?
As Ezra Levant points out, even if you win these tribunals, you lose. The state has huge resources, lawyers, money, time, bureaucrats. You just have yourself. Being taken through the process is punishment itself, costly and time consuming. The net effect is oppression and fear - most people know that if it comes to the crunch the genuine courts will throw these cases out, but they don't want to go through the rigmarole of getting there. This really is tyranny; the executive and the legislative becoming the judiciary, the courts being used as a weapon in political and ideological battles. The Left have no morals, no scruples and no self-restraint in the depths to which they will stoop to enforce their world view.
It's worth pointing out that Ezra Levant has been hauled up before these nasty little thugs. Fascinatingly, he managed to film one of these kangaroo courts in action. Well worth a view.
There was always something just "right" about W2K. They had the DLL hell thing sorted out, but as an OS it kept its focus, was fast, straightforward, and a very clean evolution of NT4. I liked using it in a way that I hate XP+.
And if you don't agree with domestic violence - fine - don't beat your wife!
(I think the point the Pope was making was about how we treat one another as human beings. Many replies on this thread, were they to represent the majority of humanity, would represent us entering a new dark ages. Sadly, I think our political elites, in Europe at least, are morally bankrupt).This, along with the generic O'Reilly PHP reference book, is the only useful PHP book I've ever read. I would recommend it.
Whilst that is true, they maintain a strong role in Lenovo, and Thinkpads still go under the IBM brand.
Given Ubuntu's good track record on Thinkpads, and IBM's commercial product support for Ubuntu, it's an odd choice.
But overall, how many people is that? And how long before such clips require written consent of all parties before they become legal?
Who will visit youtube when all that's on it are adolescent pranks shot on cellphones?
Few people ever imagined you might ever have to actually define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, so they were caught a little off guard. But hey, who would want to be the first person accused of robophobia?
It would be interesting to find out what the domestic use is. It strikes me that for things like Netware integration, directory services of any kind, common desktop and policies, corporations don't have much choice bar Windows. But for home use, my guess is that more than a few % are Linux users.
People are only moral relativists until somebody does something to hurt them, and then they become moral absolutists.
WTF has this got to to with /.?
I did systems support in a big financial in 1997. Software was written in C++ on Windows. Builds would run overnight. Something wrong? Could be an OS thing, or a progam thing. DLL hell ensued. Process: debug problem, relink, recompile. Next day, retest. OK, so software passes testing. Next - software distribution - a process that itself needs testing in dev environments. Package software. Hit button to distribute to X000 clients. Some Windows NT, some older.
So much to go wrong, so many people involved. I'm not saying there isn't complexity in modern environments, but standards, and particularly web based apps take so many variables out of the equation.
Only a few years ago, I understood that 80% of corporate data resided on IMS. In my experience, even where big IBM shops used SQL server, Sybase etc, ultimately that data derived from IMS.
The point is that the trend is back to centralisation. I don't think Watson had in mind intelligent terminals when he speculated the 'five' figure, but 'intelligent terminals' is increasingly what the PC is becoming.
I wish I could agree. Sound simply doesn't work on my Thinkpad with the latest kernel, NetworkManager is all over the place. I left Edgy for Feisty because Edgy was a nightmare - Feisty has been a bit better but not much. Maybe a clean install would sort things...
What you don't see is the billions and billions of Euros pumped into the French railways that have at times almost bankrupted the country. With less than that, the US put men on the Moon and developed the Shuttle. The French have fast trains. Whoopee Dooo.
The whole point is that one individual node doesn't get to make any decisions.
It's unlikely that you would ever be running SELinux without knowing it. Yes, it comes with distros like RHEL4, but it's not turned on. I bought a book on it, read the first two chapters, and then realised that I'd never really be able to single handedly use a system, administer it and run SELinux. There's nothing I do that's worth the effort. Maybe for bigger organisations with more important data and bigger budgets, but right now I can't see it.
The idea that open-source people would be more to the left, and proprietary people to the right, is just silly. I'm to the right of Genghis Khan on most matters, and rejected proprietary software years ago. OSS/GPL software embodies all the virtuous right-wing ideals - giving of oneself without the expectation of remuneration, freedom, open and transparent competition on the basis of virtue, spontaneous human co-operation and freedom from monopolistic control by a "state".