I actually read somewhere (I think on slashdot, maybe on BBC news) about several weeks ago that there was some effort going on with the US railway companies currently to provide a unified service and cooperate in order to start competing with airlines.
From a management point of view, storing "all" your data indeterminately will cause ever-increasing storage (and access!) costs, so "forgetfulness" is already being implemented by neccessity. While storage costs go down, if your storage volume goes up FASTER, you WILL hit some point after which the cost/amount growth will be exponential rather then linear for any given technological level.
In other words, the cost of storing "everything" depends on how fast your "everything" grows. After it hits a (moving) point, your costs will skyrocket.
Well, for one thing I wouldn't mind Solaris default utility programs having better functionality and accepting GNU style arguments without having to install GNU versions.
Maybe this is already the case (I was doing some work on Solaris boxes a couple years ago), but I remember it was a PITA to do grep and awk and find on Solaris due to things missing, since the bank I worked at had a policy of not installing 3d party utilities on production servers.
Pfft. This was already mentioned in some nice./ comment earlier, that there are 2 main modes of operation how the people in the US talk about their relations to the outside world: - there is the law you know, why don't country X abide by it? - how about we drop a big bomb on you?
Fortunately, that is not fully how the world works. If it did, the US would be down in the drain along with the rest of it by now.
I really liked George Carlin's monologue after Gulf war. It's called "Killing brown people". Too bad he seems to be not risking speaking anything like that now (then again, I haven't checked), as it seems to be even more on spot than before.
Sorry, that should've read: Because harrassing, arresting, prosecuting and deporting their own citizens is no priority stuff for countries that are used to slaughtering their own and nearest neighbours.
Yes. Because harrassing, arresting, prosecuting and deporting their own citizens is no priority stuff for countries that are used to or murdering">slaughtering their own and nearest neighbours. Retrial for Ponosov? Give me a break - as long as he has nothing of value to Russia they'd extradict him to the US as long as the US promises something good for it.
Sorry for flamebaiting - it is not really intended as a "my db has bigger ** than yours", but I do have to remark that since I code for both PostgreSQL and MySQL DBs occasionally, I have come to appreciate default PG online docs (compared to MySQL's default online docs) -- everything pertaining to commands/functions is concise and very well-organized.
>Ever want to launch a satellite from US soil again? Nah, thanks, Russian/Chinese soil works just as well for us.
>Ever want to do business with a US company again? We prefer selling to the EU, Russia, Africa and god knows who else. Actually, it is the US companies that want to do business with us. If they can't - too bad for them.
>You have an office in $random_country_we_are_invading Why should we? The US is stretched to deal with Iraq itself as it is, pretty good bet they can't spread their forces to the rest of the world as well. Egypt sounds nice at this time of year, or maybe Greece. Then again Russia has always been a favourite, and they don't care about satellite imagery for businesses as long as their military gets their copy of Pentagon for wall posters.
> I will use all my time and try to excel at my job so I can earn more and provide a good life to my family
Erm. So where exactly do you stop, if I may ask? How good a life do you and your family need to be able to say - now we are doing good, time to relax a bit and enjoy the life?
Louisiana Purchase to pay for his war with England.
Perhaps you meant to say "we wouldn't be this large had Napolean not stolen Louisiana from the Spanish and sold it to us to pay for his war with the Allies."?
Erm, not that I've ever been particularly interested in the US history, but wasn't England sort of in war with the US over independence or something? Or who are the Allies of the US during Napoleon's time you refer to?
Alternatively, it could just mean that the service is flooded with messages.
Happened first couple of times we used SMS-based voting for TV shows here in my country. Also happens occasionally on New Year's eve etc.
SMS service generally has capacity that presumes only a fraction of users will be sending an SMS at any particular moment.
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Not to say that your view is unfounded, but you are ignoring at least 2 other important aspects.
>>"Replacement" fertility rate--i.e., the number you need for merely a stable population, not getting any bigger, not getting any smaller--is 2.1 babies per woman. Some countries are well above that: the global fertility leader, Somalia, is 6.91, Niger 6.83, Afghanistan 6.78, Yemen 6.75. Notice what those nations have in common?
Yes. They are torn by wars. Beside fertility rate, there are such things as child mortality rate and life expectancy.
Check out http://tools.google.com/gapminder/ for data views. Basically we get around 200/1000 child die in Niger, versus around 7/1000 in the US and Estonia. Niger also has about half the life expectancy compared to any of them. If those people didn't breed at that rate, they'd be extinct by now.
It has always been that nations with low life expectancy and high mortality rates have high child birth rates. Else they wouldn't be around.
> Speeding is a crime, not using your turn signals is a crime
A guy I know recently got into crash when he was trying to drive his bike past some girl's car, who had failed to use her turn signals to show she would be turning. He smashed into the car's front door and got both his legs broken, the bike is in shreds.
I don't know about you, but I am pretty glad he would at least be getting his insurance money, which he wouldn't, if it it wasn't written that you gotta use your turn signals appropriately when driving.
Actually this is what is happening in Latvia, probably the rest of East Europe and all the former Soviet republics (dunno about West Europe, but I suspect they do the same).
The taxes are automatically deducted from your monthly salary, as long as you receive it officially (which a lot people still don't, even though it is slowly improving).
I don't think anyone considers this particularly GOOD, it is just the way it has been under Soviet rule, and since even the idea that some other people may be paying taxes like once a year is not well known, rewriting a tax system for that is not something anyone is prepared to do, neither what impact it might have on economy.
True. And I agree about that in case of alcohol and other substances, etc.
However, in case of games, if a parent can't somehow agree with the child to not to play them in the first place, I would predict increase in pirated (copied-from friend, d/loaded from inet) games and the possibility of BSA turning their sights towards a potential market (for now, I don't think anyone cares much, if you have a pirated GAME in the U.S., right, just a number of "serious" software packages?). Sort of another RIAA, targeting mostly kids?
Parental supervision anyway is more significant than law.
If you can't get the kid to NOT to buy the game, who says he needs to buy it to get it? He can loan it off a friend, download it on some warez site, go play it at his friend's house, etc.
A law would not do the job of the parents as long as there are enough parents around who say that playing violent games is OK, don't care, or just have spoilt their child.
The only analogy that comes to the mind is about not selling alcochol to minors. And that is different in at least this aspect: you can't copy booze; and if you drink the booze, there is no more booze. Both of these, when compared to games, make games much harder to control (with law).
First of all, it is pure marketroid-type of BS to talk about "eroding" and "declining" "presence on the web", when in fact the links are to "Top 500" lists.
This gives the absolutely false impression as if the number of websites in US, Asia and Europe are _falling_, when in fact it is simply the number of websites in other regions that is catching up.
Secondly, thanks for putting in title "Europe is ceding web dominance" and then telling that Eastern Europe is on rise, showing to whoever may care that EEU is not part of Europe proper.
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I actually read somewhere (I think on slashdot, maybe on BBC news) about several weeks ago that there was some effort going on with the US railway companies currently to provide a unified service and cooperate in order to start competing with airlines.
From a management point of view, storing "all" your data indeterminately will cause ever-increasing storage (and access!) costs, so "forgetfulness" is already being implemented by neccessity. While storage costs go down, if your storage volume goes up FASTER, you WILL hit some point after which the cost/amount growth will be exponential rather then linear for any given technological level.
In other words, the cost of storing "everything" depends on how fast your "everything" grows. After it hits a (moving) point, your costs will skyrocket.
Well, for one thing I wouldn't mind Solaris default utility programs having better functionality and accepting GNU style arguments without having to install GNU versions.
Maybe this is already the case (I was doing some work on Solaris boxes a couple years ago), but I remember it was a PITA to do grep and awk and find on Solaris due to things missing, since the bank I worked at had a policy of not installing 3d party utilities on production servers.
Pfft. This was already mentioned in some nice ./ comment earlier, that there are 2 main modes of operation how the people in the US talk about their relations to the outside world:
- there is the law you know, why don't country X abide by it?
- how about we drop a big bomb on you?
Fortunately, that is not fully how the world works. If it did, the US would be down in the drain along with the rest of it by now.
I really liked George Carlin's monologue after Gulf war. It's called "Killing brown people". Too bad he seems to be not risking speaking anything like that now (then again, I haven't checked), as it seems to be even more on spot than before.
Sorry, that should've read: Because harrassing, arresting, prosecuting and deporting their own citizens is no priority stuff for countries that are used to slaughtering their own and nearest neighbours.
Yes. Because harrassing, arresting, prosecuting and deporting their own citizens is no priority stuff for countries that are used to or murdering">slaughtering their own and nearest neighbours. Retrial for Ponosov? Give me a break - as long as he has nothing of value to Russia they'd extradict him to the US as long as the US promises something good for it.
Sorry for flamebaiting - it is not really intended as a "my db has bigger ** than yours", but I do have to remark that since I code for both PostgreSQL and MySQL DBs occasionally, I have come to appreciate default PG online docs (compared to MySQL's default online docs) -- everything pertaining to commands/functions is concise and very well-organized.
Imagined answers:
>Ever want to launch a satellite from US soil again?
Nah, thanks, Russian/Chinese soil works just as well for us.
>Ever want to do business with a US company again?
We prefer selling to the EU, Russia, Africa and god knows who else. Actually, it is the US companies that want to do business with us. If they can't - too bad for them.
>You have an office in $random_country_we_are_invading
Why should we? The US is stretched to deal with Iraq itself as it is, pretty good bet they can't spread their forces to the rest of the world as well. Egypt sounds nice at this time of year, or maybe Greece. Then again Russia has always been a favourite, and they don't care about satellite imagery for businesses as long as their military gets their copy of Pentagon for wall posters.
> I will use all my time and try to excel at my job so I can earn more and provide a good life to my family
Erm. So where exactly do you stop, if I may ask? How good a life do you and your family need to be able to say - now we are doing good, time to relax a bit and enjoy the life?
Excuse me, but hasn't the open source been around for a bit longer than "current model"?
I would say that it has already proven its sustainability.
Rather the opposite, as far as we are talking about presidents rather than prime-ministers, at least: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaira-Vike_Freiberga
Erm, not that I've ever been particularly interested in the US history, but wasn't England sort of in war with the US over independence or something? Or who are the Allies of the US during Napoleon's time you refer to?
Alternatively, it could just mean that the service is flooded with messages.
Happened first couple of times we used SMS-based voting for TV shows here in my country.
Also happens occasionally on New Year's eve etc.
SMS service generally has capacity that presumes only a fraction of users will be sending an SMS at any particular moment.
Not to say that your view is unfounded, but you are ignoring at least 2 other important aspects.
h as-the-world-become-a-better-place-2005.html
>>"Replacement" fertility rate--i.e., the number you need for merely a stable population, not getting any bigger, not getting any smaller--is 2.1 babies per woman. Some countries are well above that: the global fertility leader, Somalia, is 6.91, Niger 6.83, Afghanistan 6.78, Yemen 6.75. Notice what those nations have in common?
Yes. They are torn by wars. Beside fertility rate, there are such things as child mortality rate and life expectancy.
Check out http://tools.google.com/gapminder/ for data views. Basically we get around 200/1000 child die in Niger, versus around 7/1000 in the US and Estonia. Niger also has about half the life expectancy compared to any of them. If those people didn't breed at that rate, they'd be extinct by now.
It has always been that nations with low life expectancy and high mortality rates have high child birth rates. Else they wouldn't be around.
As regards the more peaceful parts of Africa and Asia (and the world in general) check out http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 , as well as http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/presentations/
Installation fails on Innotek Virtualbox, as the partitioner can't create partitions for some reason. Neither can fdisk.
Calendar for Thunderbird is available as plugin - I think it's called Lightning. Not sure how functional is that though.
> Speeding is a crime, not using your turn signals is a crime
A guy I know recently got into crash when he was trying to drive his bike past some girl's car, who had failed to use her turn signals to show she would be turning. He smashed into the car's front door and got both his legs broken, the bike is in shreds.
I don't know about you, but I am pretty glad he would at least be getting his insurance money, which he wouldn't, if it it wasn't written that you gotta use your turn signals appropriately when driving.
Actually this is what is happening in Latvia, probably the rest of East Europe and all the former Soviet republics (dunno about West Europe, but I suspect they do the same).
The taxes are automatically deducted from your monthly salary, as long as you receive it officially (which a lot people still don't, even though it is slowly improving).
I don't think anyone considers this particularly GOOD, it is just the way it has been under Soviet rule, and since even the idea that some other people may be paying taxes like once a year is not well known, rewriting a tax system for that is not something anyone is prepared to do, neither what impact it might have on economy.
Surely, you must mean Gordon Freeman?
True. And I agree about that in case of alcohol and other substances, etc.
However, in case of games, if a parent can't somehow agree with the child to not to play them in the first place, I would predict increase in pirated (copied-from friend, d/loaded from inet) games and the possibility of BSA turning their sights towards a potential market (for now, I don't think anyone cares much, if you have a pirated GAME in the U.S., right, just a number of "serious" software packages?). Sort of another RIAA, targeting mostly kids?
Parental supervision anyway is more significant than law.
If you can't get the kid to NOT to buy the game, who says he needs to buy it to get it?
He can loan it off a friend, download it on some warez site, go play it at his friend's house, etc.
A law would not do the job of the parents as long as there are enough parents around who say that playing violent games is OK, don't care, or just have spoilt their child.
The only analogy that comes to the mind is about not selling alcochol to minors. And that is different in at least this aspect: you can't copy booze; and if you drink the booze, there is no more booze. Both of these, when compared to games, make games much harder to control (with law).
There is plenty of Egyptian WoW players on European servers.
First of all, it is pure marketroid-type of BS to talk about "eroding" and "declining" "presence on the web", when in fact the links are to "Top 500" lists.
This gives the absolutely false impression as if the number of websites in US, Asia and Europe are _falling_, when in fact it is simply the number of websites in other regions that is catching up.
Secondly, thanks for putting in title "Europe is ceding web dominance" and then telling that Eastern Europe is on rise, showing to whoever may care that EEU is not part of Europe proper.
I wonder how would that work for those?
Let's say I am from Europe, and I post items on e-bay.
E-bay can report my sales to IRS np, but how is IRS going to try to do something about me?
If we didn't use it, would we really care to copmlain about it?