You gotta wonder what those zionists we're smoking when the succesfully instigated that doomed country of theirs... _It's_ _not_ _working_.
I am sure 6 million enlightened, prosperous, patriotic Israeli citizens give a crap. Neville Chamberlain held the same view of eastern Europe during the invasion of the Nazis. What is not working is the Muslim fantasy that the state is going anywhere. They stew in their hate and impotence and spawn terrorists, Inevitably their cause is set back. Sadly, your attitude is becoming more common with liberals in the west. I find it interesting that 30 years ago Israel drew much of its support in America from politically progressive left. But with the reconciliation of Catholics with the Jews led by Pope John Paul II, and the realization that Israel is a dependable custodian of the Christian holy sites, the support roles have reversed. Most US anti-Semitism festers on the political left.
Reasoning with Hezbullah is pointless. Trying to win the heart and minds of their recruitment ranks through passive response to provocation is pointless. Hezbullah's raison d'etre is to kill Jews. They have no other legitimate reason to exist. Peace didn't work. If that means some lebanese will be manufactured into junior Hezbullah, so be. All the rats in one trap.
I see that argument a lot. If they're using civilians as "shields", but those "shields" don't stop the attacks, then why are they still using them as "shields"?
The civilian deaths have much of the international community in an uproar. That is hezbullah's goal: to increase the cost of Israeli action.
And when you kill an innocent civilian, you've just given his/her family and friends a reason to join the "bad guys".
A Christian, Sunni, or Druse will never join Hezbullah, only Shia. There is nothing to be done about it except let them fight until there is a clear winner.
Some party has got to grow up and say "That's enough. We stop, unconditionally, and we hope you do the same". Anyone tolerating retaliatory reasoning just _wants_ _people_ _dead_.
I think you misunderstand the whole situation. Hezbullah doesn't have any claim to Israeli land. They just want Jews dead. They are a Iranian Shia backed gang who wants to supplant democracy with Islamic Fascism in Christian/Sunni/Druse dominated Lebannon. I for one rejoice in Israel's initiative in irradicating them at all costs.
Well, yeah... You're missing the disproportionate israeli reaction, killing lebanese civilians who have nothing to do with that...
Disproportionality is the only way to deal with terrorists. The border was peaceful until the Hezbullah incursion. If I were an Israeli I would not relish the prospect of being terrorised forever at an ever more lethal intensity. I would want to irradicate the problem. As for civilians, they were given fair warning to leave the area and go to central Lebanon were they would not be harmed. Hezbullah uses civilians as shields, launching attacks from aprtment buildings, residential areas.. If Hezbullah stopped doing this there would be no civilian casualties. Israel's only recourse is to ignore them in pursuit of the enemy.
The reason was to protest against the war on Lebanon
Hezbullah kidnaps and kills Israelis on their own territory. Israelis try to get them back. Hezbullah fires 100's of rockets into Israel to terrorise the civilian population. Israel wages war to exterminate Hezbullah. Chilean hacker defaces NASA website. Am I missing something?
You seem to understand sets. That puts you somewhat above the average slashdot reader. But your analogy is senseless. Python, PHP, or Ruby offer no new capabilities over the group I mentioned. If you know otherwise, please enlighten me. The GNU system can hardly be called a monoculture if you discard the PPR crap. I am not opposed to new languages. Just over specialized, broken, and confused ones.
I don't particularly like Python or Ruby myself. They're reasonably good languages, but neither takes a pragmatic enough approach for me. But, to each his own, and if you're actually serious about telling people to ignore them... well, what can I say to that? "Get bent" is about the nicest thing one can say to that nonsense
Have the guts to make a judgement. I say that these languages are BUTT ugly and have no capabilities beyond what can be acheived more elegantly with C, C++, Perl, or scheme. Python in particular makes me wretch. Getting bent is a reflex which, when shared by enough people of similar mind, makes systems better.
Seriously, who are YOU to tell people what to do with their time?
A predictable slashdot response. I am advising people not to waste their time. They should think about the architectural confusion they create by doing so.
It looks to me that the Asian countries are going to take over real space exploration. That's both good and bad. China isn't exactly known for sharing information, but at least they are doing it.
How do you figure? China has launched 2 missions in 4 years, for a total of 7 days in space. They are flying a rocket/spacecraft that is a virtual clone of a Soyuz which they purchased. They haven't developed anything fron scratch. . They have no heavy lift capability. They have never launched an unmanned exploration mission. They are practically begging the US to be allowed to dock with ISS. Aren't you being a bit premature?
PHP is one of several languages that GNU/Linux could do without. Python and Ruby are others. None of them provides capabilities beyond C, C++, Shell, Gawk, Perl, or scheme. Don't be tempted to use them. They simply divert effort that would be better applied elsewhere.
t seems like every time a rocket blows up or fails to launch the payload is lost. Why? It keeps happening, and the payloads keep being destroyed. Failsafes to prevent this need to be in place. I envision a payload pod with tripple redundant explosive release mechanisms, and capable of re-entering the atmosphere from orbit. I'd love to just once hear: "rocket blows up, payload recovered, re-launch expected after payload is tested and re-certified."
It comes down to cost. The mass fraction these small rockets deliver to orbit is tiny. I doubt that a robust abort system that you suggest is economically feasable. The researchers would not have bought the cheapest ride possible if reliability was paramount. This same rocket splashed the European Cryosat last year. The Russians conducted the postmortem in total secrecy as usual, treating their customers poorly, and probably did not get to the root of the problem. You get what you pay for. A Taurus or Pegasus rocket (Orbital Sciences) seem to suite the mission and are a lot more reliable.
For the second time in my life the scientific-industrial-complex, supported by a wide-eyed US media, is going to force a massively expensive, incredibly useless journey to that desert called the moon.
You might say the same thing about Antarctica. The moon and near Earth asteroids contain vast strategic metals resources.
In order to do what exactly? Beat the Chinese? We haven't been back to the moon since we "beat" the Soviets in space. Why? Because there is no value to doing so. Let's stop this mindless waste of tax dollars and, instead, strive to get control of spending.
It is very important to keep an eye on the Chinese even though their current space program is childish. It is simply not in the strategic US interest to see lunar travel dominated by them. Space travel is a powerful instrument of US national power. China's drive for cooperation with the US in space might influence their policies is ways that would be inpossible without the lure of technology and national prestige. I am all for a balanced budget. I'd like to see pork earmarks, farm subsidies, and middle class entitlements reduced not the NASA budget. Furthermore, the President's policy of low taxes have produced unexpectedly high tax receipts and cut the budget to $200 Billion. That is quite manageable given the T Bill demand of Japan and China.
One of the worst aspects of the governance of publicly held American companies is excessive, non-competative compansation of corporate officers. It grew to an extreme in the dot com bust of 2000. Many elements of corporate governance since been improved. For example with Sarbanes-Oxley it is more difficult to manipulate earnings. But the process by which corporate directors are elected and CXO's are paid lacks transparency. Conflicts of interest and cronyism abound. Small shareholders have little real recourse. For corporations that seek efficiency for maximum rate of return for shareholders, curbing excessive compensation is easy money.
I was talking about the C language. I didn't know about the static inline thing. That could be very useful. Except for that, in my mind, an inline function appearing anywhere other than a.h file is a bug. I also prefer to put them after, not in the class declaration in C++ and not implicit within.
You would think that the SGI name has enough high end appeal that nVidia or ATI would want to market SGI branded video cards. SGI could certainly be had cheap.
The very names CAR and CDR mean "contents of address register" and "contents of decrement register," direct references to hardware registers on the IBM 704. When the names of fundamental languages constructs are those of specific registers in a specific processor, that is not a "high-level language" at all. Later efforts to build machines with machine architectures optimized for implementation of LISP further show that LISP was not considered "a high-level language."
To make judgements on a language based such trivialities is ludicrous. For all we know car and cdr where retained for sentimental reasons. Lisp is far more influenced by the abstract lambda calculus than by specific machine instructions. Lisp is a high level language by any sane definition.
C makes an interesting comparison with Pascal; you can see that C is, in many ways, a computer language rather than a mathematical language. For example, the inclusion of specific constructs for increment and decrement (as opposed to just writing A:= A + 1) puts it closer, not to PDP-11 architecture, but to contemporary machine architecture in general.
Again you focus on the trivial. No sane person would judge Pascal by increment/decrement idioms. Focusing on Pascal's type system, parameter passing, lexically scoped functions and procedures would be more useful.
The claim that C cannot inline functions from another source file is also wrong. This is a limitation in gcc, but other compilers can do it, and IIRC the intel compiler can.
GCC supports inline functions and most other aspects of C99.
A 2% failure rate is to be expected, and that's what we've got.
Actually it is advertised as 1%. I have pointed out that over the life of the program of 17 flights the risk of losing a shuttle is about the same as the risk of losing a game of Russian Roulette.
IT and business unit employees will work more closely together -- and in some cases, interchangeably.
This runs completely counter to the outsourcing and cost focus of todays businesses. Indeed even people hired "permanantly" are usually seen as expendable at the end of major projects. These are the ones with the most domain knowledge. Business types tend to be "visionaries" and whip crackers. Rarely do the excel at requirements or planning. I have worked for major corporations since 1990 and I see the gulf between management and software professionals growing widerthan ever with the increasing sophistication of tools and the increasing complexity of projects. Engineering culture has all but disappeared.
Yes, this is why our leaders have summit meetings these days. To protect the interests of the rich bastards that finance their campaigns. Somebody hurry up and get a Pirate Party up and running. Oh right, there's no such thing as proportional representation in most places. Wonderful.
The purpose of this meeting seems to be to give the gangster Putin a victory lap. He liked Yukos so much he made it a country and got it into the G8. To think Putin and his cronies will be making champaign toasts while Khordokhovski rots in jail makes me sick. Russia leading the G8 democracies. What irony!
Right, the marketplace doesn't care. Have you checked the oil prices lately?
Fool. Most US electricity is generated using natural gas and coal. The price of natural gas has dropped nicely in the past year. It has been showing lately in my electric bill. Coal has always been cheap. After businesses realise that oil prices have been talked up by active deceitful threat compaign by Ahmedinejad and Chavez, oil price will drop drastically too.
...but why is this something our Congress is focusing on? How much time and money was just spent ignoring all the other needs so an oddball like this could get through?
Be certain that someone like Sun is lobbying for this. They have a power consumption advantage over some of their competitors, but the marketplace doesn't care. Convenient then to have the government mandate them caring.
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I am sure 6 million enlightened, prosperous, patriotic Israeli citizens give a crap. Neville Chamberlain held the same view of eastern Europe during the invasion of the Nazis. What is not working is the Muslim fantasy that the state is going anywhere. They stew in their hate and impotence and spawn terrorists, Inevitably their cause is set back. Sadly, your attitude is becoming more common with liberals in the west. I find it interesting that 30 years ago Israel drew much of its support in America from politically progressive left. But with the reconciliation of Catholics with the Jews led by Pope John Paul II, and the realization that Israel is a dependable custodian of the Christian holy sites, the support roles have reversed. Most US anti-Semitism festers on the political left.
Reasoning with Hezbullah is pointless. Trying to win the heart and minds of their recruitment ranks through passive response to provocation is pointless. Hezbullah's raison d'etre is to kill Jews. They have no other legitimate reason to exist. Peace didn't work. If that means some lebanese will be manufactured into junior Hezbullah, so be. All the rats in one trap.
The civilian deaths have much of the international community in an uproar. That is hezbullah's goal: to increase the cost of Israeli action.
A Christian, Sunni, or Druse will never join Hezbullah, only Shia. There is nothing to be done about it except let them fight until there is a clear winner.
I think you misunderstand the whole situation. Hezbullah doesn't have any claim to Israeli land. They just want Jews dead. They are a Iranian Shia backed gang who wants to supplant democracy with Islamic Fascism in Christian/Sunni/Druse dominated Lebannon. I for one rejoice in Israel's initiative in irradicating them at all costs.
Disproportionality is the only way to deal with terrorists. The border was peaceful until the Hezbullah incursion. If I were an Israeli I would not relish the prospect of being terrorised forever at an ever more lethal intensity. I would want to irradicate the problem. As for civilians, they were given fair warning to leave the area and go to central Lebanon were they would not be harmed. Hezbullah uses civilians as shields, launching attacks from aprtment buildings, residential areas.. If Hezbullah stopped doing this there would be no civilian casualties. Israel's only recourse is to ignore them in pursuit of the enemy.
Hezbullah kidnaps and kills Israelis on their own territory. Israelis try to get them back. Hezbullah fires 100's of rockets into Israel to terrorise the civilian population. Israel wages war to exterminate Hezbullah. Chilean hacker defaces NASA website. Am I missing something?
You seem to understand sets. That puts you somewhat above the average slashdot reader. But your analogy is senseless. Python, PHP, or Ruby offer no new capabilities over the group I mentioned. If you know otherwise, please enlighten me. The GNU system can hardly be called a monoculture if you discard the PPR crap. I am not opposed to new languages. Just over specialized, broken, and confused ones.
Our tastes are similar then. What about Lisp?
Have the guts to make a judgement. I say that these languages are BUTT ugly and have no capabilities beyond what can be acheived more elegantly with C, C++, Perl, or scheme. Python in particular makes me wretch. Getting bent is a reflex which, when shared by enough people of similar mind, makes systems better.
A predictable slashdot response. I am advising people not to waste their time. They should think about the architectural confusion they create by doing so.
How do you figure? China has launched 2 missions in 4 years, for a total of 7 days in space. They are flying a rocket/spacecraft that is a virtual clone of a Soyuz which they purchased. They haven't developed anything fron scratch. . They have no heavy lift capability. They have never launched an unmanned exploration mission. They are practically begging the US to be allowed to dock with ISS. Aren't you being a bit premature?
PHP is one of several languages that GNU/Linux could do without. Python and Ruby are others. None of them provides capabilities beyond C, C++, Shell, Gawk, Perl, or scheme. Don't be tempted to use them. They simply divert effort that would be better applied elsewhere.
It comes down to cost. The mass fraction these small rockets deliver to orbit is tiny. I doubt that a robust abort system that you suggest is economically feasable. The researchers would not have bought the cheapest ride possible if reliability was paramount. This same rocket splashed the European Cryosat last year. The Russians conducted the postmortem in total secrecy as usual, treating their customers poorly, and probably did not get to the root of the problem. You get what you pay for. A Taurus or Pegasus rocket (Orbital Sciences) seem to suite the mission and are a lot more reliable.
Great news! I had better clear off that Gentoo distribution I have been running on it for 2 years.
You might say the same thing about Antarctica. The moon and near Earth asteroids contain vast strategic metals resources.
It is very important to keep an eye on the Chinese even though their current space program is childish. It is simply not in the strategic US interest to see lunar travel dominated by them. Space travel is a powerful instrument of US national power. China's drive for cooperation with the US in space might influence their policies is ways that would be inpossible without the lure of technology and national prestige. I am all for a balanced budget. I'd like to see pork earmarks, farm subsidies, and middle class entitlements reduced not the NASA budget. Furthermore, the President's policy of low taxes have produced unexpectedly high tax receipts and cut the budget to $200 Billion. That is quite manageable given the T Bill demand of Japan and China.
The Rudi Giuliani Method
Hire more cops. Let them kick the hell out of the thieves and get them off the street. Let the iPod users listen to music without fear.
One of the worst aspects of the governance of publicly held American companies is excessive, non-competative compansation of corporate officers. It grew to an extreme in the dot com bust of 2000. Many elements of corporate governance since been improved. For example with Sarbanes-Oxley it is more difficult to manipulate earnings. But the process by which corporate directors are elected and CXO's are paid lacks transparency. Conflicts of interest and cronyism abound. Small shareholders have little real recourse. For corporations that seek efficiency for maximum rate of return for shareholders, curbing excessive compensation is easy money.
I was talking about the C language. I didn't know about the static inline thing. That could be very useful. Except for that, in my mind, an inline function appearing anywhere other than a .h file is a bug. I also prefer to put them after, not in the class declaration in C++ and not implicit within.
You would think that the SGI name has enough high end appeal that nVidia or ATI would want to market SGI branded video cards. SGI could certainly be had cheap.
To make judgements on a language based such trivialities is ludicrous. For all we know car and cdr where retained for sentimental reasons. Lisp is far more influenced by the abstract lambda calculus than by specific machine instructions. Lisp is a high level language by any sane definition.
Again you focus on the trivial. No sane person would judge Pascal by increment/decrement idioms. Focusing on Pascal's type system, parameter passing, lexically scoped functions and procedures would be more useful.
GCC supports inline functions and most other aspects of C99.
Actually it is advertised as 1%. I have pointed out that over the life of the program of 17 flights the risk of losing a shuttle is about the same as the risk of losing a game of Russian Roulette.
This runs completely counter to the outsourcing and cost focus of todays businesses. Indeed even people hired "permanantly" are usually seen as expendable at the end of major projects. These are the ones with the most domain knowledge. Business types tend to be "visionaries" and whip crackers. Rarely do the excel at requirements or planning. I have worked for major corporations since 1990 and I see the gulf between management and software professionals growing widerthan ever with the increasing sophistication of tools and the increasing complexity of projects. Engineering culture has all but disappeared.
The purpose of this meeting seems to be to give the gangster Putin a victory lap. He liked Yukos so much he made it a country and got it into the G8. To think Putin and his cronies will be making champaign toasts while Khordokhovski rots in jail makes me sick. Russia leading the G8 democracies. What irony!
Fool. Most US electricity is generated using natural gas and coal. The price of natural gas has dropped nicely in the past year. It has been showing lately in my electric bill. Coal has always been cheap. After businesses realise that oil prices have been talked up by active deceitful threat compaign by Ahmedinejad and Chavez, oil price will drop drastically too.
Be certain that someone like Sun is lobbying for this. They have a power consumption advantage over some of their competitors, but the marketplace doesn't care. Convenient then to have the government mandate them caring.