This administration has made it abundantly clear that they are only concerned with getting reelected. To hell with anything that stands in their way and alienates their voting base.
In this respect, is it different from any other (recent) administration?
I think a 10 year term is much better than a 4 year term because it would give the office holder at least 5 - 7 years before they would have to worry about reelection right after they enter office. And perhaps they'd think about doing things for the good of the nation rather than themselves.
I think this shows that democracy is not perfect. Of all systems, democracy is the least bad. I don't think it would help to have the term be 10 years instead of 4 years. It would only enlarge the power of the government, which can be a dangerous thing. We should find out why it is that the shortsightedness of the government seems to be much worse in the USA than in many European countries. The Dutch government is currently taking a lot of bad (and impopular) decisions regarding the economy (e.g. budget deficit can absolutely not be more than 3%, our finance minister claims). Being Dutch, I have the impression that for example the Swiss system works well. They have a lot of referenda, but it seems the Swiss are using it wisely. It would be more correct to call it too much conservative than too much populistic. I could be wrong regarding Switserland, though. Solution: I don't know. But a longer term would not be it.
Python was not designed for education: it was based on the educational langauge ABC, and a co-objective was to create a language that was suitable for education. It was/is not its primary goal though, only secondary.
Ruby seems to be a very good programming language (somewhere between Python and Perl) - unfortunately, the developer mailing list is only in Japanese, as is a lot of documentation.
It would be cool to have this. Internet may indeed be(come) as basic as electricity in the future, and I do think the government has the task to provide it to everyone (<-- socialist speaking).
But perhaps there are more important things to happen first. Too many people in the USA and Europe suffer from poverty. Internet is not their first need - food is, and clothing. And the 'next' poverty level means almost never having luxery at all - a broadband internet connection is not very useful if you can't afford a computer to connect it to.
Congrats, you have proven that I lack any knowledge;-)
It seems the czechs do have a communist party, but I don't know their views. The same is true for Slovakia. To be honest, I've always thought all (ex-)communist countries had communist parties, and a pendulum democracy, but apparantly they don't. But I shudder to have someone like Simeon II having power over my legislation - but Bulgaria is only joining in a few years anyhow.
The EU is even more extreme in its introduced laws then the US because of the far greater number of political parties.
This is bound to become much, much worse in the coming years. There may be weird parties in the EP (European Parliament) already, but with middle and north-eastern europe getting into the EU soon, it is very likely that extremely conservative, extremely royalist and stalinist parties will join the European Parliament. I can already see an extremely-communist party from Poland or similar wanting to ban Microsoft from Europe altogether (which would not be such a bad idea after all;-)
You need much, much, much more than your odd supernova explosion to get life. Given the complexity of life, and the complexity of the beginning of life, it is, even with the universe being so huge, very well possible that life did emerge at only one place in the universe. To get life forms from the elements may be a chance of only 1 to 10^100. The size difference between the smallest life forms and the largest molecules is many orders of magnitude (I believe 6-10, so it differs a million to 10 billion times in size). This is not easily overcome. History has proven that it can be overcome, but given the unlikelyness, it may have happened only once.
I do. You can find out about the tabstop in the source when tabs and spaces are mixed. If tabs and spaces are mixed, and the alignment looks screwed, the source has a different tabstop than the destination.
Actually, it's the other way around, because Bittorrent distributes bandwidth very well so requires only much less uplink, while other p2p apps are much more bloated;-)
If you fetch almost everything from the internet, what's the point of downloading an iso at all? If your uplink is fast enough to do 'yum install ', I don't see why it isn't fast enough to perform 'minimal install' through FTP.
Unfortunately, I can't receive BBC 4 here in the Netherlands. Does anyone know if the BBC puts its documentaries online, in particular this one? The article says:
Tetris: From Russia with Love is broadcast in the UK on BBC Four on Thursday, 12 February, at 1900 GMT and Sunday, 15 February, at 2205 GMT.
Someone (or actually, someone's little brother) found the 'impossible bullet trick' in Commander Keen 6, more than 10 years after release (december 2001):
When falling, keen can shoot down. Sometimes, when you shoot carefully, keen will surf down on his bullet. When he hits the ground, he will actually land on his bullet, thus standing in the air. When "standing on a bullet", keen can shoot up and, voila! Keen flies into the air. No cheating involved!
How wonderful that for such a popular game, it took 10 years before somebody's little brother found it out and the information made it way to the internet...!
I agree here. Almost all games are a sequal to a previous game. It is forgivable that the number of new ideas decreases - they're running out - but a little more creativity would be welcome.
Actually, the only game for the PC that was ever really new was Tetris. The rest was, more or less, something of a genre which already existed on consoles or gameboys etc. When we look into a little more detail there have of course been a lot of new ideas, also by larger companies (civilization, worms,...), but nothing is as innovative as Tetris...
I like it very much when I can see a bit how a game is made, even if it's closed source: I like a game that is "reachable", that could be made in a typical "basement room" where a nerd would spend 12 hours a night programming it: sure, it looks great when the movement of the characters was modelled after real people by high-tech technology, and that is what most people like indeed. However, I'm not like most people:-)
I think this DIY idea is good, though. It reminds me of The Home of the Underdags, a really nice website...
this day, games are much less fun than they used to be. Most are giant commercial projects, without the real art of creating a nice-looking game in 16 colours with 320x200 resolution. With small opensource games, it does return a bit, though...
P.S. first post?
Througout the 20th century, Newton's laws have been broken down for extreme situations: high velocities (relativity), small scale (quantum mechanics) and complex situations (chaos theory). I don't understand why it would be a shock if they turned out not to work for extremely large scale objects: the theory of Dark Matter comes from a firm believe in Newtons Laws, which is not quite scientific.
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In this respect, is it different from any other (recent) administration?
I think a 10 year term is much better than a 4 year term because it would give the office holder at least 5 - 7 years before they would have to worry about reelection right after they enter office. And perhaps they'd think about doing things for the good of the nation rather than themselves.I think this shows that democracy is not perfect. Of all systems, democracy is the least bad. I don't think it would help to have the term be 10 years instead of 4 years. It would only enlarge the power of the government, which can be a dangerous thing. We should find out why it is that the shortsightedness of the government seems to be much worse in the USA than in many European countries. The Dutch government is currently taking a lot of bad (and impopular) decisions regarding the economy (e.g. budget deficit can absolutely not be more than 3%, our finance minister claims). Being Dutch, I have the impression that for example the Swiss system works well. They have a lot of referenda, but it seems the Swiss are using it wisely. It would be more correct to call it too much conservative than too much populistic. I could be wrong regarding Switserland, though. Solution: I don't know. But a longer term would not be it.
Python was not designed for education: it was based on the educational langauge ABC, and a co-objective was to create a language that was suitable for education. It was/is not its primary goal though, only secondary.
Ruby seems to be a very good programming language (somewhere between Python and Perl) - unfortunately, the developer mailing list is only in Japanese, as is a lot of documentation.
You want to have a NOARCHIVE header:
But perhaps there are more important things to happen first. Too many people in the USA and Europe suffer from poverty. Internet is not their first need - food is, and clothing. And the 'next' poverty level means almost never having luxery at all - a broadband internet connection is not very useful if you can't afford a computer to connect it to.
And then I don't even mentoin Africa.
It seems the czechs do have a communist party, but I don't know their views. The same is true for Slovakia. To be honest, I've always thought all (ex-)communist countries had communist parties, and a pendulum democracy, but apparantly they don't. But I shudder to have someone like Simeon II having power over my legislation - but Bulgaria is only joining in a few years anyhow.
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This is bound to become much, much worse in the coming years. There may be weird parties in the EP (European Parliament) already, but with middle and north-eastern europe getting into the EU soon, it is very likely that extremely conservative, extremely royalist and stalinist parties will join the European Parliament. I can already see an extremely-communist party from Poland or similar wanting to ban Microsoft from Europe altogether (which would not be such a bad idea after all ;-)
How about growing from 0 to 1, with someone putting together his/her own distro? :-)
You need much, much, much more than your odd supernova explosion to get life. Given the complexity of life, and the complexity of the beginning of life, it is, even with the universe being so huge, very well possible that life did emerge at only one place in the universe. To get life forms from the elements may be a chance of only 1 to 10^100. The size difference between the smallest life forms and the largest molecules is many orders of magnitude (I believe 6-10, so it differs a million to 10 billion times in size). This is not easily overcome. History has proven that it can be overcome, but given the unlikelyness, it may have happened only once.
"I'm a Perlist, don't you recognize my outraguous code, you silly king" ;-)
(Pythoneer speaking ;-)
So we can finally find out whether Microsoft uses 2, 4 or 8-sized tabs... ;-)
So it's in /fedora/core/test/1.90/i386/os/images/boot.iso
(Waiting till his own ISP has it so he can download it from a computer only 1 hop away ;-)
Actually, it's the other way around, because Bittorrent distributes bandwidth very well so requires only much less uplink, while other p2p apps are much more bloated ;-)
If you fetch almost everything from the internet, what's the point of downloading an iso at all? If your uplink is fast enough to do 'yum install ', I don't see why it isn't fast enough to perform 'minimal install' through FTP.
Tetris: From Russia with Love is broadcast in the UK on BBC Four on Thursday, 12 February, at 1900 GMT and Sunday, 15 February, at 2205 GMT.
- Project Gotham Racing 2 (2003), Microsoft
- Rampage Puzzle Attack (2001), Midway Games
- Tetris Worlds (2001), THQ Inc.
- Microsoft Puzzle Collection Entertainment Pack (2000), Swing! Entertainment Media AG
- The Next Tetris: Online Edition (2000), Crave Entertainment, Inc.
- Pandora's Box (1999), Microsoft
- Knight Moves (1996), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- Breakthru! (1994), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- El-Fish (1993), Maxis Software Inc.
- Super Tetris (1991), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- Faces (1990), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- Welltris (1989), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- Tetris (original) (1986)
Conclusion: He hasn't done much beyond Tetris indeed. Apart from El-Fish, Knight Moves, Pandora's Box, Puzzle Collection, Rampage Puzzle and Gotham Racing, they're all Tetris variants.But isn't Tetris more than enough to contribute to Humanity?
They seem to be cloning the cloning messages.
How often did we hear this before?
They seem to be cloning the cloning messages.
How often did...
When falling, keen can shoot down. Sometimes, when you shoot carefully, keen will surf down on his bullet. When he hits the ground, he will actually land on his bullet, thus standing in the air. When "standing on a bullet", keen can shoot up and, voila! Keen flies into the air. No cheating involved!
How wonderful that for such a popular game, it took 10 years before somebody's little brother found it out and the information made it way to the internet...!
Actually, the only game for the PC that was ever really new was Tetris. The rest was, more or less, something of a genre which already existed on consoles or gameboys etc. When we look into a little more detail there have of course been a lot of new ideas, also by larger companies (civilization, worms, ...), but nothing is as innovative as Tetris...
Nothing beats Tetris ;-)
I think this DIY idea is good, though. It reminds me of The Home of the Underdags, a really nice website...
this day, games are much less fun than they used to be. Most are giant commercial projects, without the real art of creating a nice-looking game in 16 colours with 320x200 resolution. With small opensource games, it does return a bit, though... P.S. first post?
Througout the 20th century, Newton's laws have been broken down for extreme situations: high velocities (relativity), small scale (quantum mechanics) and complex situations (chaos theory). I don't understand why it would be a shock if they turned out not to work for extremely large scale objects: the theory of Dark Matter comes from a firm believe in Newtons Laws, which is not quite scientific.
us geeks don't marry, so why would we want to search for wedding photo's? :-)