With all due respect, I wasn't name calling. You were making unfounded, uneducated claims about the usefulness of the space program. There are way too many Americans that do that exact same thing and each one of them is a threat to our very important space program. Being called ignorant isn't necessarily an insult, everyone is ignorant on one topic or another, I was simply pointing out one that you were. Granted, I was slightly peeved because it is irritating how many people don't realize the many benefits of NASA. Regards, Steve
With all due respect, the war should have happened, it just should have happened with the backing of the U.N. However, the United Nations is weak, they tend to coward frequently, and it takes forever to achieve anything (nothing is quite as hard as getting 200 nations to agree on a topic). So many of the countries in it are scared of the short term economic impact that they don't realize the long term impact. There was a reason Saddam stopped letting the U.N. in his country, and the U.N. didn't enforce what it should have. As much as I hate Bush, America did the world a favor. Your analogies and conclusions are flawed btw, I don't have time to get into it right now, but look up your facts and dont just believe what the media tells you (hint: they're biased too) Regards, Steve
If you're referring to Iraq, quite a few chemical agents have been found, just not in the huge amounts previously thought (Google for it). That is not to say that they weren't snuck out of the country weeks before the invasion. Do you really think there was no reason why Saddam Hussein all the sudden stopped letting the U.N. in? The U.N. did nothing in retaliation and they let Hussein's leash get a little too long. It was damn near a repeat of how Europe let the Germans pretty much trample over them until they had no choice but to fight back in 1939. The U.S. damn near may have avoided World War 3 simply because they stepped up when everyone else was being a coward, and noone will ever admit it because noone wants to think that Bush amy have made a better decision than themself. This isn't meant as flamebait but if anyone knows anything about history and Hussein's thinking, you know exactly where I'm coming from. Regards, Steve
In all fairness, at the time we were "allies" if by nothing else then the fact that we shared enemies.(You know the whole "The enemy of your enemy is your friend" thing) Regards, Steve
Typically you only attack someone when you envy what they have. Think of the basis of robberies (you want the money), car jackings (you want a nicer car), fights over women (you want that girl), wars (you want that land). If you see someone with something better than you and you want it, sometimes it is human instinct to have an initial reaction that more or less makes you want to just take it. Alot of people confuse hatred with greed, this isn't a new problem. Alot of people have the mindset that "If I can't have it then you can't have it either". I think this is the larger problem at hand. They may call it jihad or whatever they want, but its interesting to see how many of them turned when offered money or better lives, or sometimes even just good food and some safety. Regards, Steve
You sir are clueless about "that big ol' comet we blasted". you can learn just about everything you need to using spectroscopy, and we are examing the inner layers of the comet which required such an impact. Its one thing to bring back a small sample from the top and examine it, its another to evalute a comet as a larger piece and its interior. If you sent a rover to earth from some distant planet and only brought back a small sample, would it be right for them to assume that the whole world was ice, or water, or dirt, or filled with bacteria? Both missions will certainly tell us alot of things that we didn't know before, but NASA's mission is telling us a whole lot more about the composition and general structure. Japan's mission is a little more specific and narrow focused, which makes sense considering that space agencies typically know what others are working on (except for the chinese) so why duplicate work. One thing is for sure, if a comet is ever headed towards earth, NASA's mission brought us a whole lot closer to understanding how to neutralize the threat.
Who said NASA'a space shuttle was bad? It is revolutionary, just expensive as hell and slightly ahead of its time, even more so then government projects like Arpanet were. As far as ISS goes, the only reason that thing is even in orbit is because of NASA. 6 space agencies claim to be apart of the project, but the only two that have ever done anything are the Russians and Americans. The Americans are also responsible for taking up just about every part of the station, the Russians took up 3. If NASA ever had trouble sending people up, it was simply because of red tape and senseless bureaucracy, the russians are a bit less worried about people dying. Everybody knocks NASA, but they are one of the few space agencies that does kickass things on a regular basis. Sure they could do something cool once and then never again and their saftey record could be perfect, but that isn't the point. Get your facts straight, the truth is that the majority of what we know about space is a as result of NASA. Of course the Russians deserve credit here too. Regards, Steve
The difference between those who fail and those who succeed is those who succeed usually fail more but eventually succeed from learning from their history. If you give up when something doesn't work, then why try at all? There is a quote from someone saying something to the affect of "If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're not thinking revolutionary enough". Regards, Steve
Don't forget that the U.S. is now arming some of its fight jets with lasers to shoot down missiles. In a decade or so I presume it will be pretty common on U.S. ships of any sort. Regards, Steve
Considering that the U.S. is already arming its fighter jets with lasers that destroy rockets, it doesn't seem like much of a problem to me. They can just plop a laser or two on this huge aircraft have some fighter jets escort it and all will be merry. Regards, Steve
It was improper of me to sterotype all of the french together, for that I apologize. I am friends with quite a few french people and joke about it all the time with them. It just seems that as part of their culture they feel like they are entitled to certain things which they aren't necessarily entitled to. Judging a nation by a few citizens is just as bad as claiming all americans are war hungry like Bush. My point remains however that the standard work week in France is 35 hours and that in my eyes is not acceptable. Employers should be motivating their employees to work more. Regards, Steve
Well thankfully most of these jobs are french jobs being cut. The french are infamous for being lazy as working too much impacts their social life. They have ridiculous amounts of vacation and holidays and only work 35 hours a week. They are currently fighting to lower the 35 hours even lower, it is absurd. What sane company would want to hire any employees from that country? It is a similar situation in many other european nations too (not to stereotype all of Europe, I'm a fan of quite a few places, mostly London) Americans may work for relativly high wages, but we tend to work many hours (50+ a week), have 2 weeks vacation per year and a few sick days, not to mention that it is not uncommon for an American to give up their weekend or a family event to go into work and get shit done that is time critical. Regards, Steve
The problem is that those impoverished people voted in an impoverished mayor who doesn't know his ass from his hand, he was "one of them" so he'd understand their "needs". The federal government's job is supposed to remain on a national scale, if a city needs assitance, the mayor must ask the governor, if the governor decides that the state doesn't have the resources then it is the govenor's job to request federal assistance. Neither the governor or mayor requested assistance until the hurrican hit. It is their incompetence that is at fault here. I didn't vote for Bush, I'm not necessarily a fan of his, but people need to stop pointing fingers in the wrong direction.
The federal government can't possibly keep such detailed tabs on every state and city. What next? Are they suppoed to monitor huge blizzards in North Dakota? We don't need the federal government spread out any further, there is a reason there is a hierarchy of federal->state->city and for too long people have been overlapping them. Just like people who are too litigious always sue the biggest target they can for the most money, everyone is pointing the finger at the next biggest target because a) they want more money and b) they dont want the finger pointed at them. There was a mandatory evacuation and it wasn't enforced. Mandatory means mandatory, they should have gone in with guns and handcuffs and taken out anyone who didn't want to leave. They also should of had buses to let them get on. Most of this is all the fault of the mayor. If the governor hears no complaints how is he supposed to know that everything wasn't taken care of? And if the governor doesn't know, then the federal government definitly won't. Stupid people should not be allowed to vote, they are too easily influence by things that don't matter. Regards, Steve
P.S. If you read any of my posts about the firefox issue from yesterday, you'll see I was trying to spread the word about the config change but unfortunately none were modded up so I'm not sure how visible my posts were to everyone. The guy who reported the vulnerability was also a complete ass hole about the way he did it, totally immature.
The difference is, even if if takes a few days for a patch, Firefox's problems have mostly been fixable in a matter of seconds through a config change. In this case it is also true. about:config set enableIDN to false. Regards, Steve
The exploit depends on everything being dashes, it causes the borwser to crash, but I don't believe code can be executed as the guy claims. You just get a really corrupted heap. Regards, Steve
Well I went to the guys exploit site that he had in his advisory and nothing happened despite my browser being supposed to crash. He also said that you can execute arbitray code, but the exploit depends on everything being dashes. I'd be suspicious about the severity of the bug, but yes it does need fixing. Regards, Steve
Umm... I don't beleive you know what you're talking about. A GC would reduce the footprint, the overhead is usually insignificant. Flexibility has nothing to do with anything. I know what windows is telling you isn't necessarily 100% accurate but it gets you in the ballpark and when Opera is using 15Mb according to windows and Firefox is using 145Mb according to windows, you don't need to load any debugging tools to tell you that there is a problem in firefox somewhere. When you see windows reporting that memory usage is consistently going up overtime despite the program appearing to not be doing anything, there is a memory leak, there are many memory leaks in firefox (this is commonly known). Many of the memory leaks that have previously been fixed would have also been suppresed by a GC, which is most likely a pattern going foward. I think you've been misinformed about garbage collecting in general. There is a reason that just about every modern language implements garbage collecting (Java,.Net, Python, etc...). It shows your ignorance by the fact that you simply disregard it as a solution. Regards, Steve
I think you've been spoiled by too much ram. I've had firefox take up 145 Mb of memory, that is ridiculous. I've seen what can be done in 5Mb or so. Opera is a good example (stays around 15Mb for me), albeit it could be even better. With a proper design there is no reason why the base memory footprint can't be 3Mb or so, and then there is just additional memory needed for each website being viewed. A web browser doesn't do too much more then any office program and Excel rarely goes above 4Mb or so for me despite being so complex and supporting so many things. Regards, Steve
I'm the GPP os the thread. Read my post and you'll see that it clearly states it wouldn't cure all of the problems but it would help and its better than nothing. I said that the developers could still work on keeping the memory footprint down, but the GC would help. Regards, Steve
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With all due respect, I wasn't name calling. You were making unfounded, uneducated claims about the usefulness of the space program. There are way too many Americans that do that exact same thing and each one of them is a threat to our very important space program. Being called ignorant isn't necessarily an insult, everyone is ignorant on one topic or another, I was simply pointing out one that you were. Granted, I was slightly peeved because it is irritating how many people don't realize the many benefits of NASA.
Regards,
Steve
With all due respect, the war should have happened, it just should have happened with the backing of the U.N. However, the United Nations is weak, they tend to coward frequently, and it takes forever to achieve anything (nothing is quite as hard as getting 200 nations to agree on a topic). So many of the countries in it are scared of the short term economic impact that they don't realize the long term impact. There was a reason Saddam stopped letting the U.N. in his country, and the U.N. didn't enforce what it should have. As much as I hate Bush, America did the world a favor. Your analogies and conclusions are flawed btw, I don't have time to get into it right now, but look up your facts and dont just believe what the media tells you (hint: they're biased too)
Regards,
Steve
If you're referring to Iraq, quite a few chemical agents have been found, just not in the huge amounts previously thought (Google for it). That is not to say that they weren't snuck out of the country weeks before the invasion. Do you really think there was no reason why Saddam Hussein all the sudden stopped letting the U.N. in? The U.N. did nothing in retaliation and they let Hussein's leash get a little too long. It was damn near a repeat of how Europe let the Germans pretty much trample over them until they had no choice but to fight back in 1939. The U.S. damn near may have avoided World War 3 simply because they stepped up when everyone else was being a coward, and noone will ever admit it because noone wants to think that Bush amy have made a better decision than themself. This isn't meant as flamebait but if anyone knows anything about history and Hussein's thinking, you know exactly where I'm coming from.
Regards,
Steve
In all fairness, at the time we were "allies" if by nothing else then the fact that we shared enemies.(You know the whole "The enemy of your enemy is your friend" thing)
Regards,
Steve
Typically you only attack someone when you envy what they have. Think of the basis of robberies (you want the money), car jackings (you want a nicer car), fights over women (you want that girl), wars (you want that land). If you see someone with something better than you and you want it, sometimes it is human instinct to have an initial reaction that more or less makes you want to just take it. Alot of people confuse hatred with greed, this isn't a new problem. Alot of people have the mindset that "If I can't have it then you can't have it either". I think this is the larger problem at hand. They may call it jihad or whatever they want, but its interesting to see how many of them turned when offered money or better lives, or sometimes even just good food and some safety.
Regards,
Steve
The funny thing is how ignorant you are. Read this.
Regards,
Steve
You sir are clueless about "that big ol' comet we blasted". you can learn just about everything you need to using spectroscopy, and we are examing the inner layers of the comet which required such an impact. Its one thing to bring back a small sample from the top and examine it, its another to evalute a comet as a larger piece and its interior. If you sent a rover to earth from some distant planet and only brought back a small sample, would it be right for them to assume that the whole world was ice, or water, or dirt, or filled with bacteria? Both missions will certainly tell us alot of things that we didn't know before, but NASA's mission is telling us a whole lot more about the composition and general structure. Japan's mission is a little more specific and narrow focused, which makes sense considering that space agencies typically know what others are working on (except for the chinese) so why duplicate work. One thing is for sure, if a comet is ever headed towards earth, NASA's mission brought us a whole lot closer to understanding how to neutralize the threat.
Who said NASA'a space shuttle was bad? It is revolutionary, just expensive as hell and slightly ahead of its time, even more so then government projects like Arpanet were. As far as ISS goes, the only reason that thing is even in orbit is because of NASA. 6 space agencies claim to be apart of the project, but the only two that have ever done anything are the Russians and Americans. The Americans are also responsible for taking up just about every part of the station, the Russians took up 3. If NASA ever had trouble sending people up, it was simply because of red tape and senseless bureaucracy, the russians are a bit less worried about people dying. Everybody knocks NASA, but they are one of the few space agencies that does kickass things on a regular basis. Sure they could do something cool once and then never again and their saftey record could be perfect, but that isn't the point. Get your facts straight, the truth is that the majority of what we know about space is a as result of NASA. Of course the Russians deserve credit here too.
Regards,
Steve
The difference between those who fail and those who succeed is those who succeed usually fail more but eventually succeed from learning from their history. If you give up when something doesn't work, then why try at all? There is a quote from someone saying something to the affect of "If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're not thinking revolutionary enough".
Regards,
Steve
Don't forget that the U.S. is now arming some of its fight jets with lasers to shoot down missiles. In a decade or so I presume it will be pretty common on U.S. ships of any sort.
Regards,
Steve
Considering that the U.S. is already arming its fighter jets with lasers that destroy rockets, it doesn't seem like much of a problem to me. They can just plop a laser or two on this huge aircraft have some fighter jets escort it and all will be merry.
Regards,
Steve
It was improper of me to sterotype all of the french together, for that I apologize. I am friends with quite a few french people and joke about it all the time with them. It just seems that as part of their culture they feel like they are entitled to certain things which they aren't necessarily entitled to. Judging a nation by a few citizens is just as bad as claiming all americans are war hungry like Bush. My point remains however that the standard work week in France is 35 hours and that in my eyes is not acceptable. Employers should be motivating their employees to work more.
Regards,
Steve
Ahh the benefits of having the source to everything on your system.
Regards,
Steve
Well thankfully most of these jobs are french jobs being cut. The french are infamous for being lazy as working too much impacts their social life. They have ridiculous amounts of vacation and holidays and only work 35 hours a week. They are currently fighting to lower the 35 hours even lower, it is absurd. What sane company would want to hire any employees from that country? It is a similar situation in many other european nations too (not to stereotype all of Europe, I'm a fan of quite a few places, mostly London) Americans may work for relativly high wages, but we tend to work many hours (50+ a week), have 2 weeks vacation per year and a few sick days, not to mention that it is not uncommon for an American to give up their weekend or a family event to go into work and get shit done that is time critical.
Regards,
Steve
You have to install an extension.
Regards,
Steve
The problem is that those impoverished people voted in an impoverished mayor who doesn't know his ass from his hand, he was "one of them" so he'd understand their "needs". The federal government's job is supposed to remain on a national scale, if a city needs assitance, the mayor must ask the governor, if the governor decides that the state doesn't have the resources then it is the govenor's job to request federal assistance. Neither the governor or mayor requested assistance until the hurrican hit. It is their incompetence that is at fault here. I didn't vote for Bush, I'm not necessarily a fan of his, but people need to stop pointing fingers in the wrong direction.
The federal government can't possibly keep such detailed tabs on every state and city. What next? Are they suppoed to monitor huge blizzards in North Dakota? We don't need the federal government spread out any further, there is a reason there is a hierarchy of federal->state->city and for too long people have been overlapping them. Just like people who are too litigious always sue the biggest target they can for the most money, everyone is pointing the finger at the next biggest target because a) they want more money and b) they dont want the finger pointed at them. There was a mandatory evacuation and it wasn't enforced. Mandatory means mandatory, they should have gone in with guns and handcuffs and taken out anyone who didn't want to leave. They also should of had buses to let them get on. Most of this is all the fault of the mayor. If the governor hears no complaints how is he supposed to know that everything wasn't taken care of? And if the governor doesn't know, then the federal government definitly won't. Stupid people should not be allowed to vote, they are too easily influence by things that don't matter.
Regards,
Steve
Thank you.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. If you read any of my posts about the firefox issue from yesterday, you'll see I was trying to spread the word about the config change but unfortunately none were modded up so I'm not sure how visible my posts were to everyone. The guy who reported the vulnerability was also a complete ass hole about the way he did it, totally immature.
Or... yea because in IE you can't go to about:config and set enableIdn to false thus fully solving the problem.
Regards,
Steve
The difference is, even if if takes a few days for a patch, Firefox's problems have mostly been fixable in a matter of seconds through a config change. In this case it is also true. about:config set enableIDN to false.
Regards,
Steve
The exploit depends on everything being dashes, it causes the borwser to crash, but I don't believe code can be executed as the guy claims. You just get a really corrupted heap.
Regards,
Steve
Well I went to the guys exploit site that he had in his advisory and nothing happened despite my browser being supposed to crash. He also said that you can execute arbitray code, but the exploit depends on everything being dashes. I'd be suspicious about the severity of the bug, but yes it does need fixing.
Regards,
Steve
Umm... I don't beleive you know what you're talking about. A GC would reduce the footprint, the overhead is usually insignificant. Flexibility has nothing to do with anything. I know what windows is telling you isn't necessarily 100% accurate but it gets you in the ballpark and when Opera is using 15Mb according to windows and Firefox is using 145Mb according to windows, you don't need to load any debugging tools to tell you that there is a problem in firefox somewhere. When you see windows reporting that memory usage is consistently going up overtime despite the program appearing to not be doing anything, there is a memory leak, there are many memory leaks in firefox (this is commonly known). Many of the memory leaks that have previously been fixed would have also been suppresed by a GC, which is most likely a pattern going foward. I think you've been misinformed about garbage collecting in general. There is a reason that just about every modern language implements garbage collecting (Java, .Net, Python, etc...). It shows your ignorance by the fact that you simply disregard it as a solution.
Regards,
Steve
I think you've been spoiled by too much ram. I've had firefox take up 145 Mb of memory, that is ridiculous. I've seen what can be done in 5Mb or so. Opera is a good example (stays around 15Mb for me), albeit it could be even better. With a proper design there is no reason why the base memory footprint can't be 3Mb or so, and then there is just additional memory needed for each website being viewed. A web browser doesn't do too much more then any office program and Excel rarely goes above 4Mb or so for me despite being so complex and supporting so many things.
Regards,
Steve
I'm the GPP os the thread. Read my post and you'll see that it clearly states it wouldn't cure all of the problems but it would help and its better than nothing. I said that the developers could still work on keeping the memory footprint down, but the GC would help.
Regards,
Steve
Nope, here is one worth reading about.
Regards,
Steve
SVG support is excellent in Deer Park Alpha 2. When released, I see SVG + Ajax revolutionizing the web.
Regards,
Steve