NO SHIT. This plucks my nerves more than anything. I can't count the number of morons I've talked to who support attacking Iraq "because of what they did to the World Trade Center". I find it astounding that there are so many uninformed people that can't tell the difference between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
Speaking of the former, shouldn't we still be trying to find him?
and those people we would call weak-willed moral relativists.
Thank you for the name calling.
There are some of us, thank you very much, who oppose the war on ideological grounds. Some of us believe that the function of the U.S. military should be to defend the citizens of the U.S., not to run around the world "installing" democracies. We should lead by example, not by force.
Unless, of course, you believe that Saddam only poses a threat to his own people, so why should we care?
Um, you really think that Saddam poses a threat to the U.S.? I've followed the administration's incredibly weak attempts to convince us that he does, but I still don't see it.
I don't believe for one second that this is primarily about oil, but it certainly isn't about the national security of the U.S.
My dad lost his card visiting relatives about 100 miles away in Virginia and didn't even realize it. When he got home he got a call from the credit card company, who said their software flagged a $600 purchase made at Home Depot in Virginia which didn't fit his profile, and asked whether he had made it. Sure enough, he checked his wallet and his card was gone. He realized he had left it sitting on top of an ATM or something. He did not have to pay for the Home Depot purchase.
I would like to hear your solutions to world peace.
Free trade. Nations which depend on each other for goods and services are less likely to bomb each other, and more likely to come to understand each other's culture.
It's not the only factor, but it's a big one which is often overlooked.
I would think FTP is slower since with FTP you have to login and build the data connection before the transfer begins. With HTTP it's a simple GET request.
As far as the actual data being sent, I believe that the file is sent the same way with both protocols. (just send the data via a TCP connection). I could be wrong though.
I'm not sure about this... (and I'm sure if I'm not someone will jump all over it) but I think FTP uses 'sliding windows' for transfers. Maybe it's called something else these days though...
Anyway, the basic idea has been around for a long time: the server will keep sending data packets even if the client has not acknowledged receiving some of the previous ones. There is usually a set window size... as in, it will send up to x packets ahead - after which, it will chill for a while and wait for responses to come back for previous ones.
This keeps the connection somewhat saturated, and reduces a lot of the latency from back & forth acknowledgment messages.
I don't know whether HTTP has this. I'm not even sure that FTP does, but I think so.
Anyone more knowledgeable than I care to comment and/or provide a clearer description?
I just wasted 98% of my brain cells trying to figure out what your parentathese and acromyns mean. Then the last 2% trying to sift through the RFC to confirm your statement.
Hear, hear. I have been railing about this forever.
$20 is just WAY too much to pay for a crappy CD, or even for a decent one for that matter. There are a zillion (mostly older) albums I would love to add to my collection, but I cannot justify spending that much for a stupid CD.
Price them at $6.95/each and watch revenue skyrocket, and MP3 downloads become less popular. I would buy a new CD at Borders each and every day, along with my coffee.
Instead of adapting, the dumbasses in the music industry prefer to whine to Congress for protectionist legislation.
I'm the primary author of PROPS, which is an Internet publishing system (CMS) designed specifically for online newspapers, magazines, and other such publications. It is written in PHP4, and is free software released under the GPL.
While our package still has some rough edges (it is at 0.6, and I consider the code to be of alpha quality) the software is in use on a number of live newspaper sites. As I've had my hands full with some other projects, it has been a while since I have had a chance to work on the code, however some other developers have recently been pitching in, and so I am hopeful that it won't be too much longer before we have a polished product ready. Any help toward that end would be greatly appreciated. In addition to programming help we welcome contributions of documentation, interface design, packaging, QA, support, demo templates, translations, etc.
We would also certainly be interested in cooperating, communicating and sharing code with any other open-source newspaper CMS teams, especially those who are working in PHP.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb, voting on what to have for lunch.
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Yeah, netconf is what I used. That's the only thing I could find under K-> Configuration -> Networking. It just barfed when I tried to apply the changes, and wiped out my primary interface.
I know my way around the text config files quite well, but I would prefer to point & click to configure things. Unlike some *nix users, I actually like GUIs.
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Well it's not as though your average newbie is going to want to set up two IP addresses for the same machine, is it ?
Yes, but the same tool (netconf - yuck) is used to set your primary IP address - or to set the machine to use DHCP. That's not uncommon at all.
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I used to be a big Mandrake fan-boy, but no longer. All I want is system configuration tools that work, and have a decent, consistent user interface. Is that too much to ask for?
I tried to add a second IP address to my machine the other day using the GUI admin tools provided in Mandrake 9, and it was a total mess. I ended up just editing the files in/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, which is what I should have done in the first place. Desktop users shouldn't have to deal with that, though.
I'm gonna give Xandros a spin next. Seems like a pretty well integrated desktop distro they have.
And, by the way, no one said the planet was 'sentient'
BTW, was it a planet, or was it the Sun? (or another star?) I have not seen this new version, and it has been many years since I saw the Russian version, so I don't remember. But the word 'solar' suggests Sun to me.
I belive you're referring to Steve Reich, but close enough.
Actually, I'm pretty sure he was referring to Steve Roach, who does ambient soundscapes and such. I was lucky enough to see him perform at a Cloudwatch event in Baltimore several years back. Brilliant shit.
Not to mention that the free market does tend to ignore certain costs and needs. Part of the VHF/UHF reallocation will be used to greatly expand the number of emergency channels for police, fire, ambulance, and other services. Think the free market will care about that? Doubt it.
A free market is simply one in which individuals are free to make their own economic decisions. Supply of goods and services is dictated by demand from consumers rather than central government planning. Surely you would agree that there is widespread consumer demand for emergency services?
As if somehow emergency communications would disappear without some government official allocating spectrum for them.
Yep. Reduce politicians' power to control the marketplace through legislation, and you reduce the incentive for corporations to try to influence that legislation. In fact, Microsoft's DC lobbying efforts were virtually nonexistant prior to the big antitrust case which caught them off guard:
That book is awesome!! One of my friends got it as a gift for another friend a couple holiday seasons ago. I highly recommend it.
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The Libertarianism idea would work fine. ..if people were smart consumers about what they bought.
If the govt treats people as morons who need to be told what to do cause they aren't able to make their own decisions, we'll end up with a society full of morons who aren't able to make their own decisions.
I agree that we need some regulation to prevent the use of force, fraud or environmental damage, but there is way too much paternalistic regulation that takes choices out of the hands of consumers, employees, businesses, and other participants in the marketplace.
(We need regulation based on ethics, morals, and fairness, not on who buys the most lawyers, but thats another rant for another day.)
And herein lies the practical argument against excessive regulation. The more regulation there is, the more that businesses have to depend upon political influence for a competitive edge, a.k.a. cronyism. See heavily-regulated China, where bribing government officials is a widespread practice, and a pretty standard part of doing business.
Actually, Corel Linux was supposedly resurrected as Xandros Linux, however I have seen little activity on their web site over the past few months. Shame, really. Seemed like a good effort.
it's up to the athiests (as the most vocal, organized, and generally accepted of these groups) to actually make something like this succeed.
Do you really think there is any significant population of atheists in the U.S.? Most surveys I have seen indicate that less than 1% of the population here labels themselves as atheist. A recent Newsweek article had a bunch of charts and graphs illustrating the breakdown of religious beliefs in the U.S., and atheist/agnostic did not even show up as a blip.
I know that as an atheist I feel very much alone in my area, to the point where it's not something I would mention publically (cept on/.) for fear of getting tarred and feathered. In fact, I don't even know any other atheists.
Does anyone know of a reliable online source listing the prevalence of atheism in the U.S. and/or other parts of the world?
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Al-quaeda and Saddam ARE NOT THE SAME THING!
NO SHIT. This plucks my nerves more than anything. I can't count the number of morons I've talked to who support attacking Iraq "because of what they did to the World Trade Center". I find it astounding that there are so many uninformed people that can't tell the difference between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
Speaking of the former, shouldn't we still be trying to find him?
and those people we would call weak-willed moral relativists.
Thank you for the name calling.
There are some of us, thank you very much, who oppose the war on ideological grounds. Some of us believe that the function of the U.S. military should be to defend the citizens of the U.S., not to run around the world "installing" democracies. We should lead by example, not by force.
Unless, of course, you believe that Saddam only poses a threat to his own people, so why should we care?
Um, you really think that Saddam poses a threat to the U.S.? I've followed the administration's incredibly weak attempts to convince us that he does, but I still don't see it.
I don't believe for one second that this is primarily about oil, but it certainly isn't about the national security of the U.S.
Yep.
My dad lost his card visiting relatives about 100 miles away in Virginia and didn't even realize it. When he got home he got a call from the credit card company, who said their software flagged a $600 purchase made at Home Depot in Virginia which didn't fit his profile, and asked whether he had made it. Sure enough, he checked his wallet and his card was gone. He realized he had left it sitting on top of an ATM or something. He did not have to pay for the Home Depot purchase.
I was impressed with how well all that worked.
I would like to hear your solutions to world peace.
Free trade. Nations which depend on each other for goods and services are less likely to bomb each other, and more likely to come to understand each other's culture.
It's not the only factor, but it's a big one which is often overlooked.
"HTTP is slower and less reliable than FTP"
I would think FTP is slower since with FTP you have to login and build the data connection before the transfer begins. With HTTP it's a simple GET request.
As far as the actual data being sent, I believe that the file is sent the same way with both protocols. (just send the data via a TCP connection). I could be wrong though.
I'm not sure about this... (and I'm sure if I'm not someone will jump all over it) but I think FTP uses 'sliding windows' for transfers. Maybe it's called something else these days though...
Anyway, the basic idea has been around for a long time: the server will keep sending data packets even if the client has not acknowledged receiving some of the previous ones. There is usually a set window size... as in, it will send up to x packets ahead - after which, it will chill for a while and wait for responses to come back for previous ones.
This keeps the connection somewhat saturated, and reduces a lot of the latency from back & forth acknowledgment messages.
I don't know whether HTTP has this. I'm not even sure that FTP does, but I think so.
Anyone more knowledgeable than I care to comment and/or provide a clearer description?
$5k!! I hope your processor has gold connectors on it or something!
Nah, but it has a wing on the back and one of those mufflers that goes 'Bzzzzzwwweeeeeeeee'.
I just wasted 98% of my brain cells trying to figure out what your parentathese and acromyns mean. Then the last 2% trying to sift through the RFC to confirm your statement.
I have just crashed with 0% brain matter left.
You need to create a swap partition!
Hear, hear. I have been railing about this forever.
$20 is just WAY too much to pay for a crappy CD, or even for a decent one for that matter. There are a zillion (mostly older) albums I would love to add to my collection, but I cannot justify spending that much for a stupid CD.
Price them at $6.95/each and watch revenue skyrocket, and MP3 downloads become less popular. I would buy a new CD at Borders each and every day, along with my coffee.
Instead of adapting, the dumbasses in the music industry prefer to whine to Congress for protectionist legislation.
...MP3s download YOU.
Check out Xandros also...
I'm the primary author of PROPS, which is an Internet publishing system (CMS) designed specifically for online newspapers, magazines, and other such publications. It is written in PHP4, and is free software released under the GPL.
While our package still has some rough edges (it is at 0.6, and I consider the code to be of alpha quality) the software is in use on a number of live newspaper sites. As I've had my hands full with some other projects, it has been a while since I have had a chance to work on the code, however some other developers have recently been pitching in, and so I am hopeful that it won't be too much longer before we have a polished product ready. Any help toward that end would be greatly appreciated. In addition to programming help we welcome contributions of documentation, interface design, packaging, QA, support, demo templates, translations, etc.
We would also certainly be interested in cooperating, communicating and sharing code with any other open-source newspaper CMS teams, especially those who are working in PHP.
Capitalism will always tend to make the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Bullshit. Capitalism makes the rich get richer and the poor get richer.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb, voting on what to have for lunch.
Yeah, netconf is what I used. That's the only thing I could find under K-> Configuration -> Networking. It just barfed when I tried to apply the changes, and wiped out my primary interface.
I know my way around the text config files quite well, but I would prefer to point & click to configure things. Unlike some *nix users, I actually like GUIs.
Well it's not as though your average newbie is going to want to set up two IP addresses for the same machine, is it ?
Yes, but the same tool (netconf - yuck) is used to set your primary IP address - or to set the machine to use DHCP. That's not uncommon at all.
I used to be a big Mandrake fan-boy, but no longer. All I want is system configuration tools that work, and have a decent, consistent user interface. Is that too much to ask for?
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, which is what I should have done in the first place. Desktop users shouldn't have to deal with that, though.
I tried to add a second IP address to my machine the other day using the GUI admin tools provided in Mandrake 9, and it was a total mess. I ended up just editing the files in
I'm gonna give Xandros a spin next. Seems like a pretty well integrated desktop distro they have.
And, by the way, no one said the planet was 'sentient'
BTW, was it a planet, or was it the Sun? (or another star?) I have not seen this new version, and it has been many years since I saw the Russian version, so I don't remember. But the word 'solar' suggests Sun to me.
I belive you're referring to Steve Reich, but close enough.
Actually, I'm pretty sure he was referring to Steve Roach, who does ambient soundscapes and such. I was lucky enough to see him perform at a Cloudwatch event in Baltimore several years back. Brilliant shit.
Not to mention that the free market does tend to ignore certain costs and needs. Part of the VHF/UHF reallocation will be used to greatly expand the number of emergency channels for police, fire, ambulance, and other services. Think the free market will care about that? Doubt it.
A free market is simply one in which individuals are free to make their own economic decisions. Supply of goods and services is dictated by demand from consumers rather than central government planning. Surely you would agree that there is widespread consumer demand for emergency services?
As if somehow emergency communications would disappear without some government official allocating spectrum for them.
That book is awesome!! One of my friends got it as a gift for another friend a couple holiday seasons ago. I highly recommend it.
The Libertarianism idea would work fine. . .if people were smart consumers about what they bought.
If the govt treats people as morons who need to be told what to do cause they aren't able to make their own decisions, we'll end up with a society full of morons who aren't able to make their own decisions.
I agree that we need some regulation to prevent the use of force, fraud or environmental damage, but there is way too much paternalistic regulation that takes choices out of the hands of consumers, employees, businesses, and other participants in the marketplace.
(We need regulation based on ethics, morals, and fairness, not on who buys the most lawyers, but thats another rant for another day.)
And herein lies the practical argument against excessive regulation. The more regulation there is, the more that businesses have to depend upon political influence for a competitive edge, a.k.a. cronyism. See heavily-regulated China, where bribing government officials is a widespread practice, and a pretty standard part of doing business.
Yep. Xine displayed it just fine for me.
Actually, Corel Linux was supposedly resurrected as Xandros Linux, however I have seen little activity on their web site over the past few months. Shame, really. Seemed like a good effort.
it's up to the athiests (as the most vocal, organized, and generally accepted of these groups) to actually make something like this succeed.
/.) for fear of getting tarred and feathered. In fact, I don't even know any other atheists.
Do you really think there is any significant population of atheists in the U.S.? Most surveys I have seen indicate that less than 1% of the population here labels themselves as atheist. A recent Newsweek article had a bunch of charts and graphs illustrating the breakdown of religious beliefs in the U.S., and atheist/agnostic did not even show up as a blip.
I know that as an atheist I feel very much alone in my area, to the point where it's not something I would mention publically (cept on
Does anyone know of a reliable online source listing the prevalence of atheism in the U.S. and/or other parts of the world?