The funny thing is that one of the things he mentions is that they'll be trying to be #1 in "Security".
Think about it. M$ gave birth to the multi-billion dollar security that enriches
companies like MacAffey and Symantec. M$'s
bug ridden, virus enabling, bloated junk
has made the Windoze security industry what it is.
Naturally, instead of fixing the security problems
they created, M$ wants in on the largesse.
The habitats will be made of inflatable modules with multilayered kevlar-like walls. A prototype habitat will be launching on a SpaceX Falcon V next year.
SpaceX progress to date on their Falcon
booster is not consistent with launching a
large space station in 5 years. We can start
talking about this when they have lofted large
payload to LEO, say 25000lbs. They haven't even launched a small rocket yet. Inflatable modules
are a bad idea for space stations for the obvious reason that they can fail catastrophically if
torn. Traditional rigid pressure vessels will not. After the experience 2 Shuttle disasters
and near misses on the Mir space station. I hope rational engineering and design practices will be adhered to.
It seems to me that TCP/IP is an fine
engineering result that has benefited from being
in the right place at the right time. If circumstances were different we would be lauding the inventors of Banyan Vines or DECnet or some schlock
M$ protocol. Thankfully we are not.
But the idea of associating workmanlike engineering results with a theoretical genious like Turing
and other deserving winners of the Turing Award is irksome.
If you want evidence, look at your Glacier National Park. Check the temperature changes and mass changes of the glaciers. The evidence for climate change is there if you bother to look.
Yes, look at it. Glaciers have been in retreat for 12000 years. That is what happens in interglacial periods. No need to invoke CO2
emissions. No matter how enlightened your
global treaty you will not be able to use
it to favorably manipulate climate.
I am proud that the US leadership,
Republicans and Democrats, have stood firm against
this most egregious politicization of junk science.
Slashdot has played its part in trumpeting this
issue, usually by posting stories by the BBC (no
bias there). The fact is the hope for a global
climate treaty that restrains the growth of
the US and Asia will not happen. Pressure is not
mounting. It comes from the same shrill voices
in Europe that have been screeching for a decade.
I should think most real hackers would be embarrased to program in C# as they are to program in Java.
Tell me where the objective "fact" is in that statement.
To understand complex phenomena it often helps
to classify relevant data. I consider real
hackers to be those individuals who contribute
meaningfully to the core of useful free software.
These are the people who develop the Linux kernel,
gcc, X11, and a miriad of other packages that
make the GNU/Linux system the great acheivement
that it is. Others (lets call them faux hackers)
make lots of noise about trends and the language
du jour, but don't accomplish a lot for the
cause of free software. I classify C# and Java
programmers as faux hackers.
Language jihads really annoy me. The arguments used to support them generally have no basis in reason but instead rely on emotional outbursts.
This is not a language jihad, just a fact.
My posting was not emotional at all, though
it seemed to have gotten your color up.
C, C++ will not be significantly displaced
on GNU/Linux systems or other free software
by a M$ language for the simple reason that
there is no advantage to it. The emperor has
no clothes.
It is pretty obvious that Mono is not making
significant inroads into the free software
developer's toolbox. Free software is still dominated by C, C++, and to a lesser extent scripting languages like Python, Perl, and Ruby.
I should think most real hackers would be embarrased
to program in C# as they are to program in Java.
Because of their proprietary taint, whether
real of imagined, they will never be considered
the right thing. Miguel made a terrible career
mistake by going the Mono route. His reputation
continues to decline.
I wish the shuttle crews well and I hope the
return to flight is successful, but the transition
to the Crew Exploration Vehicle is much more
important for US space exploration Please NASA,
no more meat comets.
No, John Carmack is a complete neophyte aerospace
engineer-wannabe with money to waste. Why Burt
Rutan would offer his coattails to these other
clowns I'll never know.
You hardly need to blame GPS for the demise of
the lighthouse. More culpable was that great
innovation, the harbor buoy. This is a worthless
story even for slashdot.
Hubble is done. There
is a rumour that next year's NASA budget contains
no Hubble servicing money. The $2 billion it
costs would have to come out of other NASA
programs. Not likely.
It has always been a mystery to me that so
many difficult problems have been solved by
so many brilliant GNU teams (gas, gcc, gdb, gld, bfd, glibc,
emacs, m4, grub, bash...) that developing a good kernel has eluded them. The people that have developed these packages are certainly skilled enough. They have also demonstrated tremendous drive. Any ideas?
The afganistan has been re-captured by the warlords except pockets of territory near kabul, that Hamid Karzai rules. The afganistan government doesn't even rule most of the afganistan and who do you think rules those territories - wait let me guess taliban/alqaida?? You were asying something about alquida and war on terror ??
What is your news source? The New York Times? CBS? ABC? Flush out your headgear nubie! The Afghanistan
war has been a resounding success. How you can
maintain otherwise is beyond comprehension.
Yes, there are still
wild regions left in the country where Taliban
hide in caves. They are mopped up regularly.
Afghanistan was basically overrun in 2 months
by 20 airforce spotters. The US has never
encountered as inept an enemy as the Taliban.
IT has never had such a successful exercise
in nation building.
Perhaps, but consider that under Bush post 9/11 security policies Al-Qaida has been
degraded to the point where they cannot even
get away with taking a GI Joe hostage.
ATI's graphics drivers suck. Would it be
so hard guys to document your control registers
so one of us out here could write a decent driver?
Intel and AMD are wide open in this respect. Why
aren't you?
I find it interesting that Forbes casts the
dotcom bubble in such a negative light when at
the time they were the formost cheerleader of
the worst episode corporate corruption in 60 years. No hypocracy there.
The jargon file defines flaming as, "To post an email message intended to insult and provoke."
The high profile disputes the article discusses
don't really have that the element of
pettiness and spite that is the hallmark of
fine flaming.
China can always threaten to stop buying up US debt. That would mean a large spike in interest rates in order to make buying US debt more attractive to investors.
Sure, China could stop buying US debt. U.S.
interest rates would rise and economic growth
in the U.S. would slow. But this would threaten China's massive exports of rubber dog shit.
Since the Chinese regime's goal is full employment, they won't do anything to threaten that. President Bush and Vice-President Cheney
have been excellent stewards of the U.S.
economy.
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The funny thing is that one of the things he mentions is that they'll be trying to be #1 in "Security".
Think about it. M$ gave birth to the multi-billion dollar security that enriches companies like MacAffey and Symantec. M$'s bug ridden, virus enabling, bloated junk has made the Windoze security industry what it is. Naturally, instead of fixing the security problems they created, M$ wants in on the largesse.
The habitats will be made of inflatable modules with multilayered kevlar-like walls. A prototype habitat will be launching on a SpaceX Falcon V next year.
SpaceX progress to date on their Falcon booster is not consistent with launching a large space station in 5 years. We can start talking about this when they have lofted large payload to LEO, say 25000lbs. They haven't even launched a small rocket yet. Inflatable modules are a bad idea for space stations for the obvious reason that they can fail catastrophically if torn. Traditional rigid pressure vessels will not. After the experience 2 Shuttle disasters and near misses on the Mir space station. I hope rational engineering and design practices will be adhered to.
It seems to me that TCP/IP is an fine engineering result that has benefited from being in the right place at the right time. If circumstances were different we would be lauding the inventors of Banyan Vines or DECnet or some schlock M$ protocol. Thankfully we are not. But the idea of associating workmanlike engineering results with a theoretical genious like Turing and other deserving winners of the Turing Award is irksome.
If you want evidence, look at your Glacier National Park. Check the temperature changes and mass changes of the glaciers. The evidence for climate change is there if you bother to look.
Yes, look at it. Glaciers have been in retreat for 12000 years. That is what happens in interglacial periods. No need to invoke CO2 emissions. No matter how enlightened your global treaty you will not be able to use it to favorably manipulate climate.
I am proud that the US leadership, Republicans and Democrats, have stood firm against this most egregious politicization of junk science. Slashdot has played its part in trumpeting this issue, usually by posting stories by the BBC (no bias there). The fact is the hope for a global climate treaty that restrains the growth of the US and Asia will not happen. Pressure is not mounting. It comes from the same shrill voices in Europe that have been screeching for a decade.
I should think most real hackers would be embarrased to program in C# as they are to program in Java.
Tell me where the objective "fact" is in that statement.
To understand complex phenomena it often helps to classify relevant data. I consider real hackers to be those individuals who contribute meaningfully to the core of useful free software. These are the people who develop the Linux kernel, gcc, X11, and a miriad of other packages that make the GNU/Linux system the great acheivement that it is. Others (lets call them faux hackers) make lots of noise about trends and the language du jour, but don't accomplish a lot for the cause of free software. I classify C# and Java programmers as faux hackers.
Language jihads really annoy me. The arguments used to support them generally have no basis in reason but instead rely on emotional outbursts.
This is not a language jihad, just a fact. My posting was not emotional at all, though it seemed to have gotten your color up. C, C++ will not be significantly displaced on GNU/Linux systems or other free software by a M$ language for the simple reason that there is no advantage to it. The emperor has no clothes.
It is pretty obvious that Mono is not making significant inroads into the free software developer's toolbox. Free software is still dominated by C, C++, and to a lesser extent scripting languages like Python, Perl, and Ruby. I should think most real hackers would be embarrased to program in C# as they are to program in Java. Because of their proprietary taint, whether real of imagined, they will never be considered the right thing. Miguel made a terrible career mistake by going the Mono route. His reputation continues to decline.
I wish the shuttle crews well and I hope the return to flight is successful, but the transition to the Crew Exploration Vehicle is much more important for US space exploration Please NASA, no more meat comets.
No, John Carmack is a complete neophyte aerospace engineer-wannabe with money to waste. Why Burt Rutan would offer his coattails to these other clowns I'll never know.
Mr. Taylor,
Will you be answering all of these questions by yourself, or will Bill Gates have his hand up your ass making your mouth work?
any attempts by the Council of Ministers to ignore the will of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee.
Can anyone explain to me why the EU has established this 'Council of Ministers' and what role it has in making law? It seems to me to be undemocratic.
What about Carly's feelings?
Didn't Carly once quip, "The HP Way is not about a job for life by any means."
You hardly need to blame GPS for the demise of the lighthouse. More culpable was that great innovation, the harbor buoy. This is a worthless story even for slashdot.
China is poised to develop the world's first commercially operated "pebble bed" nuclear reactor
That should help their nuclear weapons proliferation effort a great deal. DPRK, and Iran are already lined up to buy one.
Hubble is done. There is a rumour that next year's NASA budget contains no Hubble servicing money. The $2 billion it costs would have to come out of other NASA programs. Not likely.
Whould it make sense for Apple to now completely rewrite it DOWN TO THE KERNEL LEVEL!!!
Sometimes being insanely great requires that you do insane things.
It has always been a mystery to me that so many difficult problems have been solved by so many brilliant GNU teams (gas, gcc, gdb, gld, bfd, glibc, emacs, m4, grub, bash ...) that developing a good kernel has eluded them. The people that have developed these packages are certainly skilled enough. They have also demonstrated tremendous drive. Any ideas?
The afganistan has been re-captured by the warlords except pockets of territory near kabul, that Hamid Karzai rules. The afganistan government doesn't even rule most of the afganistan and who do you think rules those territories - wait let me guess taliban/alqaida?? You were asying something about alquida and war on terror ??
What is your news source? The New York Times? CBS? ABC? Flush out your headgear nubie! The Afghanistan war has been a resounding success. How you can maintain otherwise is beyond comprehension. Yes, there are still wild regions left in the country where Taliban hide in caves. They are mopped up regularly. Afghanistan was basically overrun in 2 months by 20 airforce spotters. The US has never encountered as inept an enemy as the Taliban. IT has never had such a successful exercise in nation building.
The Patriot Act was the result of Paranoia.
Perhaps, but consider that under Bush post 9/11 security policies Al-Qaida has been degraded to the point where they cannot even get away with taking a GI Joe hostage.
They should moderate you +3 stupid. Going for cheap laughs, karma whore?
ATI's graphics drivers suck. Would it be so hard guys to document your control registers so one of us out here could write a decent driver? Intel and AMD are wide open in this respect. Why aren't you?
I find it interesting that Forbes casts the dotcom bubble in such a negative light when at the time they were the formost cheerleader of the worst episode corporate corruption in 60 years. No hypocracy there.
The jargon file defines flaming as, "To post an email message intended to insult and provoke." The high profile disputes the article discusses don't really have that the element of pettiness and spite that is the hallmark of fine flaming.
China can always threaten to stop buying up US debt. That would mean a large spike in interest rates in order to make buying US debt more attractive to investors.
Sure, China could stop buying US debt. U.S. interest rates would rise and economic growth in the U.S. would slow. But this would threaten China's massive exports of rubber dog shit. Since the Chinese regime's goal is full employment, they won't do anything to threaten that. President Bush and Vice-President Cheney have been excellent stewards of the U.S. economy.