basically what every colonial power did when the colonies developed independence movements. the dutch did it in indonesia, the brits in india and kenya, the belgians in congo
France was more than happy to turn a blind eye when Saddam Hussein was slaughtering thousands of Kurds for fun, as long as the French oil tankers could still load up.
Uh, would you mind telling us what the US did about it while they loaded their tankers with iraqi oil and gleefully watched while saddam conducted a war against iran (even taking down an iranian passenger jet)? curious minds would like to know
Even "emigrating" to Canada has a lot of problems.
compared to population size, canada lets more people in than the US
Until you get Canadian citizenship (and thus, give up your US citizenship.
you dont't have to give any old citizenship to get the canadian citizenship. if your old country strips you of your citizenship when you take another one, it's not canada's problem
The reverse doesn't happen, though!), you're wages are taxed heavily by Canada, the IRS also taxes you at the top tax bracket,
many countries have treaties to prevent double taxation. afaik, there is one between canada and the US
His entire fame is based on a silly hand-waving generalization, that is completely obsurd and obvious to any skilled programmer.
and his letter is responsible for it being "obvious to every skilled programmer". it had the impact because he was at that time a highly regarded contributor to programming language (algol) and operating system progress (iirc, he invented semaphores)
The fact is that PC software writers (along with embedded ones) invented "lean and mean" and the Mainframe/Mini-born OS's have only gotten fatter over time.
no offence, but you don't knoe what you are talking about. the PC started out with 64KB, which for many oldtimers was a luxury, and initially the only language available was Basic, which doesn't require much from the compiler. PDP8s came with much less memory. Older machines were even more limited.
Lean and mean? How about an Algol compiler an a very small machine (8KW, no mass storage) that read and compiled programs. At the end of the compilation the compiler was gone, overwritten by the ready to execute program (Algol60 on Zuse23). I haven't seen anything like that on PCs (not that it was needed: it always could write to floppies)
i can't speak for him, but here are a couple of potential reasons:
1. it only measures in a common currency, i.e. is subject to exchange rate fluctuations, and doesn't take into account the differences in cost of living
2. it measures the total economic output, regardless of the population size. afaik, the population of the czech republic is significantly lower than that of the US of A (i'm also sure that the spending on education in the report is on a per capita basis. so the great-grandparent is probably an indication of the poor math standing of his country)
3.if you are dissatisfied with the GDP of your country, go poison a big population centre's water supply: the cost of cleanup, medical treatment and burial of the victims will increase the GDP
the OECD compares the results of the countries. they leave it to the governments of the participating countries to break down the results further. so why don't you ask your government. other countries do it, though typically the breakdowns come out a while after the OECD report.
depends on how you look at it. 9 countries wereadded compared to last time, and canada dropped one place in each of the rankings. conclusion: in each of the rankings, only one of the 9 new countries was better (assuming that none of the countries that were better than canada last time dropped below canada this time around)
there are people who simply cannot express themselves coherently in their native language. this completely unrelated to spelling errors and (simple) grammatical errors. look at some of the articles. they are incoherent and don't make any sense. i have seen similar by native speakers in several languages
Maybe. But also maybe reducing EA's profit will drive away stockholders, ultimately reducing EA's capacity to pay workers.
and here i thought that the workers are paid frome sales revenues, and what is left over gets distributed to the stock holders. thanks for the education, genius
frankly, i don't give a damn about state law: bush's margin of victory(?, we really don't know) was well below the known error rate of the machinery used in most counties to "count" (guess would have been a more correct term) the votes. this alone should habe triggered a statewide manual recount. combine this that the votes were run several times through the same machinery, with bush's lead shrinking every time, and that this process was stopped before the results stabilized, is feed enough for conspiracy theorists, regardless whether they are right or not.
the other thing that really infuriated me was the reason given for refusing a manual recount: if elections are supposed to have any meaning, a correct vote count should have high priority over a "timely inauguration"
The bottom line is, do we need them? No. Can they help us? No. Are they doing this out of their own self-interests? Probably. Does Europe want to continue to alienate itself from America? Sure seems like it.
so why did the state department invite them to monitor the election?
"Can open source and closed standards work together?
No they can't really
tell me, how open are posix, ANSI C, or the internet standards? are linux, *bsd, apache open source or not?
"Under such a scheme Sun could maintain control of the Java API but allow open implementations."
Sun never learns. When they got into fight over java with Mircrosoft the result was MS making.NET.
MS put out an incompatible java in yet another attempt to control the internet. in order to prevent that, sun had to do something. so MS didn't like the outcome and decided to do its own standard. fine, but at least we can pretty much rely on the java we have installed on our systems run whatever claims to be java
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but you trust yours? enough said
europe had a few incidents as well. the last one was in erfurt, but i also baguely remember something in the uk a while back
basically what every colonial power did when the colonies developed independence movements. the dutch did it in indonesia, the brits in india and kenya, the belgians in congo
Uh, would you mind telling us what the US did about it while they loaded their tankers with iraqi oil and gleefully watched while saddam conducted a war against iran (even taking down an iranian passenger jet)? curious minds would like to know
compared to population size, canada lets more people in than the US
Until you get Canadian citizenship (and thus, give up your US citizenship.
you dont't have to give any old citizenship to get the canadian citizenship. if your old country strips you of your citizenship when you take another one, it's not canada's problem
The reverse doesn't happen, though!), you're wages are taxed heavily by Canada, the IRS also taxes you at the top tax bracket,
many countries have treaties to prevent double taxation. afaik, there is one between canada and the US
and you're probably getting paid in $CDN to boot.
if trends continue, you might be glad ;-)
does that mean you are going to start a preventive war when one of your "enemies" starts developing this technology for himself?
C++ was far more influenced by Simula
and his letter is responsible for it being "obvious to every skilled programmer". it had the impact because he was at that time a highly regarded contributor to programming language (algol) and operating system progress (iirc, he invented semaphores)
Kay did great work and contributed a lot to OO, but smalltalk came much later than andused ideas from Simula
What software did Tim O'Reilly write?
no offence, but you don't knoe what you are talking about. the PC started out with 64KB, which for many oldtimers was a luxury, and initially the only language available was Basic, which doesn't require much from the compiler. PDP8s came with much less memory. Older machines were even more limited.
Lean and mean? How about an Algol compiler an a very small machine (8KW, no mass storage) that read and compiled programs. At the end of the compilation the compiler was gone, overwritten by the ready to execute program (Algol60 on Zuse23).
I haven't seen anything like that on PCs (not that it was needed: it always could write to floppies)
are you confusing the czech repiblic with chechenya?
i checked out the questions from the last test: you are wrong. the tests are designed to measure the students' unbderstanding of the subjects
1. it only measures in a common currency, i.e. is subject to exchange rate fluctuations, and doesn't take into account the differences in cost of living
2. it measures the total economic output, regardless of the population size. afaik, the population of the czech republic is significantly lower than that of the US of A (i'm also sure that the spending on education in the report is on a per capita basis. so the great-grandparent is probably an indication of the poor math standing of his country)
3.if you are dissatisfied with the GDP of your country, go poison a big population centre's water supply: the cost of cleanup, medical treatment and burial of the victims will increase the GDP
the OECD compares the results of the countries. they leave it to the governments of the participating countries to break down the results further. so why don't you ask your government. other countries do it, though typically the breakdowns come out a while after the OECD report.
depends on how you look at it. 9 countries wereadded compared to last time, and canada dropped one place in each of the rankings. conclusion: in each of the rankings, only one of the 9 new countries was better (assuming that none of the countries that were better than canada last time dropped below canada this time around)
is that why they have two official languages?
there are people who simply cannot express themselves coherently in their native language. this completely unrelated to spelling errors and (simple) grammatical errors. look at some of the articles. they are incoherent and don't make any sense. i have seen similar by native speakers in several languages
Huh? afaik, the only OS running on them was AIX, and that came with X
no. only the processor
and here i thought that the workers are paid frome sales revenues, and what is left over gets distributed to the stock holders. thanks for the education, genius
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the other thing that really infuriated me was the reason given for refusing a manual recount: if elections are supposed to have any meaning, a correct vote count should have high priority over a "timely inauguration"
so why did the state department invite them to monitor the election?
No they can't really
tell me, how open are posix, ANSI C, or the internet standards? are linux, *bsd, apache open source or not?
"Under such a scheme Sun could maintain control of the Java API but allow open implementations."
Sun never learns. When they got into fight over java with Mircrosoft the result was MS making .NET.
MS put out an incompatible java in yet another attempt to control the internet. in order to prevent that, sun had to do something. so MS didn't like the outcome and decided to do its own standard. fine, but at least we can pretty much rely on the java we have installed on our systems run whatever claims to be java