John Kerry can end this debate once and for all. He can release ALL of his military records like the media, and Democrats, demanded of Bush! He will not do this because there is proof he is hiding that shows he actually tried to get a deferal, but he was denied the deferal. I am sure there is more he is hiding. I have heard an interview in which the person interviewed stated that John Kerry was first turned down for one his purple heart, but he later got it from another commander.
Actually all recounts have proven that Bush won Florida, and as a result won the Presidency. America doesn't have a national election. That is why national polls mean nothing. In case you don't know, America's president is elected by the electoral college and the citizens in each state vote for who their electoral votes will go to, and it is an all or nothing vote.
Where is your proof on this statement? CNN has admitted to lieing about Iraq during the time before Sadam's fall. It was in the media. What is your news source?
It's not conservatives who end arguments with statements like: "your, stupid" or something far worse.
No big deal here. You can guess the so-called censored stories. They are basically your conspiracy theory bash Bush stories! It's too bad they don't mention John Kerry, and the DNCs, attempt to censor the Swift Boat Veterans using these letters.
You're a liberal coward with no clue what is really going on around you! When evidence that challenges your view of the world is shown to you, you call people names.
You, Sir, have been watching too much Faux News. These guys couldn't care less about our way of life, except to the extent that it requires us to steal their oil to keep it operating.
If you watched more Fox News and/or listened to Conservative talk radio more, you'd know that it's the liberals that are trying to destroy our way of life. You should read the Drudge Report. You might be awakened from your liberal brain washing! From the site:
Kerry's campaign announced it had 'filed a legal complaint against Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT) before the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for violating the law with inaccurate ads that are illegally coordinated with the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign'
This is just the tip of the iceberg! The DNC (Democractic National Committee--the Democratic party) has sent legal letters threatening lawsuits against any TV stations who play the Swift Boat Veterans Against Kerry TV add!!! They are attempting to suppress the American publics write to free speech. Key top Democrats have also sent letters to bookstores, like Barnes N Noble, suggesting they remove the book Unfit for COmmand (see here and here for more information). Just try and go into a Barnes N Noble and buy the book. The bookstores near my town have been "out of" the book for four weeks--mean while they have plenty of copies of the Bush bashing books.
You liberals will say anything to make people believe you even if it is all a pack of lies! John Kerry can prove these people are wrong by releasing his ENTIRE military records like he, and other Democrats, demanded of President Bush, but he will not release all of his record because he knows that it would prove that he is a liar! He has admitted to committing war crimes. That alone should disqualify him from becoming President! I know I will get modded down for this, but I am sick of you liberal geeks whining! You complain about losing free speech. You say you are fighting against those that would take away free speach, but you are not. You are nothing but a bunch of whining geeks who have no idea that you have been brainwashed. It is worth it if I get modded down!
Do you know anything? Or do you plan on just spewing the lies of the liberals?
Yes it is. Have you even READ what Bin Laden wants? He wants Saudi Arabia to be freed of US military control. George W Bush has propagated the "destroy our way of life" lie. One can't win a war without learning the enemy's objective.
Bin Laden, like a lot of Islamic terrorists, want all the world to be Islamic states with Islam controling all of your life.
Both sides want peace. The peace that comes when the other side is completely gone (either dead, or no longer trying to re-enter the region).
That is simply not true. Palestinians don't want peace. They continue to blow up inocent people whose only crime is getting on a bus or going out to eat. Until that stops, there will be no peace in the Middle East.
The Zionists can't kill the Arabs, because that'd cause trouble with the USA/Europe/Pakistan. (Pakistan would and could kill ALL Israelites in retaliation) The "Palestinians" can't kill the Zionists because the USA has given them too much defensive weaponry.
This is Islamic propaganda. The fact that you use the word Zionists proves it. Pakistan cannot stand up to Isreal! Isreal is only doing what Europeans, and Americans, would do in similar circumstances! They are defending their people. How would you like to go get a pizza only to get blown up?!?
Isreal is not occupying Palestian land because there never was any country called Palestine! It is as simple as that. Isreal's neighbors use that line to assist in trying to extreminate Isrealies!
People just don't get it. Isreal doesn't care what any country thinks. The US is the only thing holding them back from defending themselves completely. Isreals listens to the US somewhat, but why should they listen to Europe? There is a lot of hostility towards Jews and Isreal in Europe--especially in France!
Microsoft is building a component arcitecture. They are extending the VB type model along. Unless Apple invented the component model, then I doubt this based on their work.
They tried to hide it in complicated talk about users and return on investmen, but it's just a shift to a component model that doesn't need a complicated UI involving menus. The problem with this idea is that it will limit what can be done. You will only be able to do what they, the creator of the component, want you to do.
From the article: "Briefly presents the motivation for Software Factories, a methodology developed at Microsoft. A Software Factory is a development environment configured to support the rapid development of a specific type of application."
Do we REALLY want to copy Microsoft's programming strategy? They don't exactly have a good record for producing quality code.
The last programming job I had was in an environment something like this. Quantity and speed are valued over quality.
It is possible, and it might be the future. Opensource could thrive in this environment, but it could also create a guild like system rather easily. Under this system, code would be guarded more than it is today, and advances will be fewer and farther indetween.
The amount of nudity in SG1 and sexual themes is very minimal compared to the number of episodes. Unlike Lexx and Farscape where you seemed to have to have at least on sexual reference a show at the minimum.
Let's face it. Lexx was Sci-Fi. It was some Sci-Fi geek writer trying to let off a lot of pent up sexual tension.
Sexual themes are usualy a sign the the writer can't think of anything better to write about. Take the misguided atempt to remake Battlestar Galactica. In the first hour, there was 2 sex scenes. That is an aweful lof of sex scenes for small mini-series!
I am licky enough to have started watching when it hit syndication (I didn't have show time). One of the best thing about Stargate is that haven't had to resort to over sexual themes to achieve this success! The have had good storylines and a lot of depth to the characters. I loved season eights big start. They did a great job, and I am looking forward to Stargate Atlantis. I have some reservations about the main vilans in the new series. It seems like they might be atempting to make it a bit of a horror series.
I thought it was a joke when I first saw the book. Think about it. Code complete coming from Microsoft? How complete is their code if it's full of security holes? I don't think I will read this book, or any similar, from Microsoft.
It won't knock out anything. Prevoius "student releases" have had outragous licensing scheme. The version the distribute with books has a clause that specifically says you cannot distribute anything you compile with the compiler.
Dev C++ is a great IDE, but it still has a little more to do before it can compete with VS. I am not holding my breath about this release. Especially considering the you do not know what the license will be.
The July 2004 C/C++ Users Journal covers Java and C++. It has an article on Java's new generics, and it is not better than C++'s. It's a step in the right direction, but not better.
I would like someone to rewrite this C++ code to fix all these problems with the code to compare apples to apples. Then we could have better numbers, and a better comparison. Joe M.
I don't have an automated means of building and benchmarking these things (and the scripts that came with the original shootout didn't run for me). I really do want you to test it on your own machine, but it's going to take some work, I guess. I compiled the C++ code with:
g++ [test].cpp -O2 -march=i386 -o [test]-386
g++ [test].cpp -O2 -march=i686 -o [test]-686
This brings me to ask the question: what exactly does the C++ results represent? Does it represent the best value, average, or slowest of the results with the two target platforms?
Then, there is the machine on which it was compiled. A P4? Let's see the results on a P3 or P2.
This test doesn't reflect C++ strengths--such as the STL and generic programming. I question these results. I still find it hard to believe that an interpreted language runs faster than a compiled language, and before all you Java zealots reply, on most systems, if not all, it doesn't run with out the aid of the jvm--therefore it is an interpreted language.
This is just another issue in a long list of reasons why the GNOME team doesn't get it anymore. It doesn't really matter. GNOME is dieing. They are falling behind. People want to perform tasks...not edit config files and do other type of Admin work.
Take the so-called "evil" windows key. It's a key, and I want to use it. It you don't like the fact that it has a windows logo on it, then paint the stupid key your favorite key and call it the command key.
My experience with gnomites is that they are forgetting that in the end, it isn't always about the itch you want to scratch. It's about users wanting to accomplish tasks with relative simplicity without worry about Admin tasks.
Personally, I use KDE because I can get things done. I press the windows key and I can navigate the "start" menu. I have both desktops loaded, but I use kde more. GNOME is the default desktop that comes up with startx, but I find myself continually type kde more than startx.
You are correct, but I would bet that the real reason they want to switch languages is two fold. First, would be to draw in new developers who get excited about the kid-in-the-candy-store high of programming in a new, and popular, language. The second would be so that those developers that don't have experience developing in one of these languages under their belt can add it to their resume.
I really don't like the idea of switching to any of the languages mentioned so far. Python is nice, but it is a scripting language meant for scripting tasks. C# is to new and owned by Microsoft completely. History has shown that Microsoft doesn't play well with others. They have left a lot of handless feeders of them.
I know I will receive a lot of complaints and insults for this. Java is nice too, but it isn't a fully compiled language. In order to run it on most platforms, you need to run it through the Java virtual machine. It is not a native compiled language and would limit the number of platforms that gnome can be run.
For example, Eclipse appears to be great as far an IDE goes, but its performance on both my own system and my borrowed system for real development would be seriously slow responsively.
C, and C++, should be fine for the development of gnome. It is easy to embed scripting ability in applications written in C++, and C, using SWIG for languages Java, python, and etc. It can be a good way to work out the bugs in algorithms before writing them in C++.
Have you every seen the effects of a foriegn plant introduced into an ecosystem where it wasn't properly tended? I have I remember seeing highways in Tennessee that were completely covered in a form of vine that was killing a lot of the plants. Granted that was the early 90s, but it wasn't pretty. I remember someone hearing that the vine was introduced to the area from somewhere else.
Add to this a frankinstein breed of plant, and what do you get? Trouble. Anybody remember the/. story about a Canadian company that sued someone because some of their genetically altered seeds dropped off of a truck and took root in the yard. This could lead to big trouble, and it could ruin some old lines of crops that have been farmed by several generations the old fashioned way!
You are right. I would rather see more conservation. We in New England could start using better technology that uses less water, and we need to develop more! I don't want to live on a world where we have to use moisture farms.
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John Kerry can end this debate once and for all. He can release ALL of his military records like the media, and Democrats, demanded of Bush! He will not do this because there is proof he is hiding that shows he actually tried to get a deferal, but he was denied the deferal. I am sure there is more he is hiding. I have heard an interview in which the person interviewed stated that John Kerry was first turned down for one his purple heart, but he later got it from another commander.
Actually all recounts have proven that Bush won Florida, and as a result won the Presidency. America doesn't have a national election. That is why national polls mean nothing. In case you don't know, America's president is elected by the electoral college and the citizens in each state vote for who their electoral votes will go to, and it is an all or nothing vote.
Where is your proof on this statement? CNN has admitted to lieing about Iraq during the time before Sadam's fall. It was in the media. What is your news source?
It's not conservatives who end arguments with statements like: "your, stupid" or something far worse.
No big deal here. You can guess the so-called censored stories. They are basically your conspiracy theory bash Bush stories! It's too bad they don't mention John Kerry, and the DNCs, attempt to censor the Swift Boat Veterans using these letters.
The list stinks. 2001 #2???? That is very stupid. It was a snooze fest. Blade runner is good? Wow. These people need to leave there lab!
You're a liberal coward with no clue what is really going on around you! When evidence that challenges your view of the world is shown to you, you call people names.
If you watched more Fox News and/or listened to Conservative talk radio more, you'd know that it's the liberals that are trying to destroy our way of life. You should read the Drudge Report. You might be awakened from your liberal brain washing! From the site:
This is just the tip of the iceberg! The DNC (Democractic National Committee--the Democratic party) has sent legal letters threatening lawsuits against any TV stations who play the Swift Boat Veterans Against Kerry TV add!!! They are attempting to suppress the American publics write to free speech. Key top Democrats have also sent letters to bookstores, like Barnes N Noble, suggesting they remove the book Unfit for COmmand (see here and here for more information). Just try and go into a Barnes N Noble and buy the book. The bookstores near my town have been "out of" the book for four weeks--mean while they have plenty of copies of the Bush bashing books.
You liberals will say anything to make people believe you even if it is all a pack of lies! John Kerry can prove these people are wrong by releasing his ENTIRE military records like he, and other Democrats, demanded of President Bush, but he will not release all of his record because he knows that it would prove that he is a liar! He has admitted to committing war crimes. That alone should disqualify him from becoming President!
I know I will get modded down for this, but I am sick of you liberal geeks whining! You complain about losing free speech. You say you are fighting against those that would take away free speach, but you are not. You are nothing but a bunch of whining geeks who have no idea that you have been brainwashed. It is worth it if I get modded down!
Do you know anything? Or do you plan on just spewing the lies of the liberals?
Yes it is. Have you even READ what Bin Laden wants? He wants Saudi Arabia to be freed of US military control.
George W Bush has propagated the "destroy our way of life" lie. One can't win a war without learning the enemy's objective.
Bin Laden, like a lot of Islamic terrorists, want all the world to be Islamic states with Islam controling all of your life.
Both sides want peace. The peace that comes when the other side is completely gone (either dead, or no longer trying to re-enter the region).
That is simply not true. Palestinians don't want peace. They continue to blow up inocent people whose only crime is getting on a bus or going out to eat. Until that stops, there will be no peace in the Middle East.
The Zionists can't kill the Arabs, because that'd cause trouble with the USA/Europe/Pakistan. (Pakistan would and could kill ALL Israelites in retaliation) The "Palestinians" can't kill the Zionists because the USA has given them too much defensive weaponry.
This is Islamic propaganda. The fact that you use the word Zionists proves it. Pakistan cannot stand up to Isreal! Isreal is only doing what Europeans, and Americans, would do in similar circumstances! They are defending their people. How would you like to go get a pizza only to get blown up?!?
Isreal is not occupying Palestian land because there never was any country called Palestine! It is as simple as that. Isreal's neighbors use that line to assist in trying to extreminate Isrealies!
People just don't get it. Isreal doesn't care what any country thinks. The US is the only thing holding them back from defending themselves completely. Isreals listens to the US somewhat, but why should they listen to Europe? There is a lot of hostility towards Jews and Isreal in Europe--especially in France!
Microsoft is building a component arcitecture. They are extending the VB type model along. Unless Apple invented the component model, then I doubt this based on their work.
They tried to hide it in complicated talk about users and return on investmen, but it's just a shift to a component model that doesn't need a complicated UI involving menus. The problem with this idea is that it will limit what can be done. You will only be able to do what they, the creator of the component, want you to do.
From the article:
"Briefly presents the motivation for Software Factories, a methodology developed at Microsoft. A Software Factory is a development environment configured to support the rapid development of a specific type of application."
Do we REALLY want to copy Microsoft's programming strategy? They don't exactly have a good record for producing quality code.
The last programming job I had was in an environment something like this. Quantity and speed are valued over quality.
It is possible, and it might be the future. Opensource could thrive in this environment, but it could also create a guild like system rather easily. Under this system, code would be guarded more than it is today, and advances will be fewer and farther indetween.
Ideas can be owned if they are talked about AND you sign a paper that says they own you.
I would like to see gnome use other keys on the keyboard (such as the windows key).
The amount of nudity in SG1 and sexual themes is very minimal compared to the number of episodes. Unlike Lexx and Farscape where you seemed to have to have at least on sexual reference a show at the minimum.
Let's face it. Lexx was Sci-Fi. It was some Sci-Fi geek writer trying to let off a lot of pent up sexual tension.
Sexual themes are usualy a sign the the writer can't think of anything better to write about. Take the misguided atempt to remake Battlestar Galactica. In the first hour, there was 2 sex scenes. That is an aweful lof of sex scenes for small mini-series!
I am licky enough to have started watching when it hit syndication (I didn't have show time). One of the best thing about Stargate is that haven't had to resort to over sexual themes to achieve this success! The have had good storylines and a lot of depth to the characters. I loved season eights big start. They did a great job, and I am looking forward to Stargate Atlantis. I have some reservations about the main vilans in the new series. It seems like they might be atempting to make it a bit of a horror series.
If you are correct, then maybe they should pass out free copies to the programming.
I thought it was a joke when I first saw the book. Think about it. Code complete coming from Microsoft? How complete is their code if it's full of security holes? I don't think I will read this book, or any similar, from Microsoft.
It won't knock out anything. Prevoius "student releases" have had outragous licensing scheme. The version the distribute with books has a clause that specifically says you cannot distribute anything you compile with the compiler.
Dev C++ is a great IDE, but it still has a little more to do before it can compete with VS. I am not holding my breath about this release. Especially considering the you do not know what the license will be.
The July 2004 C/C++ Users Journal covers Java and C++. It has an article on Java's new generics, and it is not better than C++'s. It's a step in the right direction, but not better.
I would like someone to rewrite this C++ code to fix all these problems with the code to compare apples to apples. Then we could have better numbers, and a better comparison.
Joe M.
This brings me to ask the question: what exactly does the C++ results represent? Does it represent the best value, average, or slowest of the results with the two target platforms?
Then, there is the machine on which it was compiled. A P4? Let's see the results on a P3 or P2.
This test doesn't reflect C++ strengths--such as the STL and generic programming. I question these results. I still find it hard to believe that an interpreted language runs faster than a compiled language, and before all you Java zealots reply, on most systems, if not all, it doesn't run with out the aid of the jvm--therefore it is an interpreted language.
This is just another issue in a long list of reasons why the GNOME team doesn't get it anymore. It doesn't really matter. GNOME is dieing. They are falling behind. People want to perform tasks...not edit config files and do other type of Admin work.
Take the so-called "evil" windows key. It's a key, and I want to use it. It you don't like the fact that it has a windows logo on it, then paint the stupid key your favorite key and call it the command key.
My experience with gnomites is that they are forgetting that in the end, it isn't always about the itch you want to scratch. It's about users wanting to accomplish tasks with relative simplicity without worry about Admin tasks.
Personally, I use KDE because I can get things done. I press the windows key and I can navigate the "start" menu. I have both desktops loaded, but I use kde more. GNOME is the default desktop that comes up with startx, but I find myself continually type kde more than startx.
What version of KDevelop? Does it have Anjuta, and if so, what version?
You are correct, but I would bet that the real reason they want to switch languages is two fold. First, would be to draw in new developers who get excited about the kid-in-the-candy-store high of programming in a new, and popular, language. The second would be so that those developers that don't have experience developing in one of these languages under their belt can add it to their resume.
I really don't like the idea of switching to any of the languages mentioned so far. Python is nice, but it is a scripting language meant for scripting tasks. C# is to new and owned by Microsoft completely. History has shown that Microsoft doesn't play well with others. They have left a lot of handless feeders of them.
I know I will receive a lot of complaints and insults for this. Java is nice too, but it isn't a fully compiled language. In order to run it on most platforms, you need to run it through the Java virtual machine. It is not a native compiled language and would limit the number of platforms that gnome can be run.
For example, Eclipse appears to be great as far an IDE goes, but its performance on both my own system and my borrowed system for real development would be seriously slow responsively.
C, and C++, should be fine for the development of gnome. It is easy to embed scripting ability in applications written in C++, and C, using SWIG for languages Java, python, and etc. It can be a good way to work out the bugs in algorithms before writing them in C++.
Have you every seen the effects of a foriegn plant introduced into an ecosystem where it wasn't properly tended? I have I remember seeing highways in Tennessee that were completely covered in a form of vine that was killing a lot of the plants. Granted that was the early 90s, but it wasn't pretty. I remember someone hearing that the vine was introduced to the area from somewhere else. /. story about a Canadian company that sued someone because some of their genetically altered seeds dropped off of a truck and took root in the yard. This could lead to big trouble, and it could ruin some old lines of crops that have been farmed by several generations the old fashioned way!
Add to this a frankinstein breed of plant, and what do you get? Trouble. Anybody remember the
You are right. I would rather see more conservation. We in New England could start using better technology that uses less water, and we need to develop more! I don't want to live on a world where we have to use moisture farms.