"The best thing the Muslim community as a whole - but especially its leaders - could do is unequivocally condemn terrorism committed in the name of Islam and take steps to both prevent and punish it. But it doesn't appear to be doing that. "
Now, I don't know about the good ol US of A, but here in Canada, whenever I've read articles in the local papers concerning Islamic extremists, there has ALWAYS been a note of how the local Islamic/Muslim/etc. organizations/religious groups have condemned those persons actions.
So, perhaps the Muslim community IS condemning it, and you're either not looking for such examples, or not looking in the right places.
Now, as far as preventing it, they can do no more than condemn in written and spoken word. As far as punishing it, what could they realistically do? Say there's a scenario where a member of a local Muslim community in "Any-Town, North America" blows themselves up in a military recruiting office, purportedly to "punish" those who occupy their Holy Land and murder their people (as they would claim). How could the Muslim community punish such an individual when said invididual is already dead at their own hands? Their family? Who's to say their family should be held responsible for the actions and beliefs of a family member? In truth, their is no way to "punish it".
This could definitely be a revolution in rifle optics (a.k.a. scopes), I'd love to see someone implement this technology. It would mean a much smaller and more compact device, even with a small battery pack, I just wonder how rugged it could be...
You give much too much credit by saying 1% of owners of programmable calculators would know how to program them. It's much closer to 0.01%, possibly lower.
I'm a senior year Canadian high school student, and currently in a computers 10 class (Needed for the last couple credits). It's 3 things. Word, Excel, and Keyboarding. All of which I started using since getting my first PC in '97. The course is a joke, with highlights of the Word unit being on the difference between the backspace and delete keys, and the space and enter keys. Just about every single course is irrelevant to 99% of the school's populace. These are the kids who are attached to IM'ing, mySpace, and so forth.
Just to get through junior high, let alone high school (let me pause a moment, as I recall the US as not having a thing as junior high. In Canada, 1-6 is elementary, 7-9 junior high, 10-12 high school) you need to use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and so on.
Programming has no appeal to the younger generation. I can definitely see why the Commodore (and such) generation was appealed to it, but that appeal has been lost in this generation, with one major factor being labeled a stereotypical nerd/geek/etc.
Another reason is that computers already come very much developed, with Windows being the norm (it is quite rare to find but a few people in most any high school who know of Linux) with it's extensive and customizable graphic interface, there's no real drive to program, they just set their backgrounds, font, and color scheme and go. The advent of multiplayer online gaming is not to be disregarded. Specifically FPS' and MMORPG's, which take precedent over other activites (per-say) on the computer, which was lacking in the earlier generation.
Is this a bad thing? Certainly, we'll be seeing a major decline in the amount of programmers/CS majors in coming years, with an undoubtedly growing demand.
Should we care? Naturally. With less and less programmers, and more demand for them, companies will need to shell out bigger bucks to attract talent. Which translates to higher expense for the end user.
That's my $0.02 CAD. (0.0178918 USD)
Though I doubt much anyone will read this, my karma sucks
I work as a cashier at a grocery store, and they run MS XP Embedded. We have at least 1 till crash at least once a day. Causing major headaches, I wish we had them running on Linux...
I hate all the uber-hippies who strive to at least say that we can't let any species become extinct. Because we all know, if we don't preserve the earth in the EXACT way it is, then anarchy will ensue.
Seriously, species die out, new ones are discovered, even if human's die out, there will still be continuing life on Earth, we're gonna die sooner or later anyways so why bitch about it?
Ahh the pride I feel deep inside that my hometown University will be the first to offer courses that increases the wonderful "incr3ase your m3mber!!!!11" and the ever helpful "w@nt a collage degree!?11" messages.
For those of us too lazy and cheap to take the walk to EB Games, Best Buy, and the like.
Seriously, I'll miss SuprNova, it was the best place to find No-CD cracks, because I do own the games I got the cracks for, but Im just horrible at not losing my CD's.
No way in hell I or anyone my age (16) that I can concieve of would be this retarded POS.
[I]Tweens?[/I] anyone that uses that word and anyone that might theoretically fall under that category deserves to be slapped with a bit of fresh trout.
[I]If you are a self respecting 16 year old and if you had the option, would you get one of these or an iMac?[/I] Actually, I'd build my own computer.. again. And come out of it alot better with $1700 to spend rather than buy either.
I'm 16, Canadian, don't have a fake id, don't have a use for one. 18A/R rated movies - I don't get IDed for. Buying Cigarettes - I don't get IDed for. Buyin g Games - Watch me not get IDed for them. And it's not because I look 18, I don't. People don't really care. ESPECIALLY won't care for a freaking video game.
PS: If some clerk tries to ID me when I pick up my pre-ordered Half-Life 2, I'll spin kick them, then again, I might just be old enough to *legally* buy it by then...
How is he acting irresponsibly? Honestly! He quotes the launches as sometimes being visible across the Western U.S.
Now don't you think, that any country with an embassy, agent's or even (Break out the tinfoil hats) a Spy anywhere near the vicinity of a spaceport could record launch data with relative ease?
Oh yes, because something can't be known until it's posted on the internet...
Actually, no, the biggest one out (the 400gb one) has 5 80GB platters. But another major manufacturer is using 100GB platters in one if it's hard drives. I can't remember the manufacturers/hard drive models for the life of me.
I can't wait for 20,000 RPM S-ATA Drives to hit the streets.
That's hardly stylish, it's seemingly faux stainless finish with a candy orange or blue stripe down the middle. I'll take my blue MX-510 over it anyday.
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"The best thing the Muslim community as a whole - but especially its leaders - could do is unequivocally condemn terrorism committed in the name of Islam and take steps to both prevent and punish it. But it doesn't appear to be doing that. "
Now, I don't know about the good ol US of A, but here in Canada, whenever I've read articles in the local papers concerning Islamic extremists, there has ALWAYS been a note of how the local Islamic/Muslim/etc. organizations/religious groups have condemned those persons actions.
So, perhaps the Muslim community IS condemning it, and you're either not looking for such examples, or not looking in the right places.
Now, as far as preventing it, they can do no more than condemn in written and spoken word. As far as punishing it, what could they realistically do? Say there's a scenario where a member of a local Muslim community in "Any-Town, North America" blows themselves up in a military recruiting office, purportedly to "punish" those who occupy their Holy Land and murder their people (as they would claim). How could the Muslim community punish such an individual when said invididual is already dead at their own hands? Their family? Who's to say their family should be held responsible for the actions and beliefs of a family member? In truth, their is no way to "punish it".
This could definitely be a revolution in rifle optics (a.k.a. scopes), I'd love to see someone implement this technology. It would mean a much smaller and more compact device, even with a small battery pack, I just wonder how rugged it could be...
You give much too much credit by saying 1% of owners of programmable calculators would know how to program them. It's much closer to 0.01%, possibly lower.
I'm a senior year Canadian high school student, and currently in a computers 10 class (Needed for the last couple credits). It's 3 things. Word, Excel, and Keyboarding. All of which I started using since getting my first PC in '97. The course is a joke, with highlights of the Word unit being on the difference between the backspace and delete keys, and the space and enter keys. Just about every single course is irrelevant to 99% of the school's populace. These are the kids who are attached to IM'ing, mySpace, and so forth.
Just to get through junior high, let alone high school (let me pause a moment, as I recall the US as not having a thing as junior high. In Canada, 1-6 is elementary, 7-9 junior high, 10-12 high school) you need to use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and so on.
Programming has no appeal to the younger generation. I can definitely see why the Commodore (and such) generation was appealed to it, but that appeal has been lost in this generation, with one major factor being labeled a stereotypical nerd/geek/etc.
Another reason is that computers already come very much developed, with Windows being the norm (it is quite rare to find but a few people in most any high school who know of Linux) with it's extensive and customizable graphic interface, there's no real drive to program, they just set their backgrounds, font, and color scheme and go. The advent of multiplayer online gaming is not to be disregarded. Specifically FPS' and MMORPG's, which take precedent over other activites (per-say) on the computer, which was lacking in the earlier generation.
Is this a bad thing? Certainly, we'll be seeing a major decline in the amount of programmers/CS majors in coming years, with an undoubtedly growing demand.
Should we care? Naturally. With less and less programmers, and more demand for them, companies will need to shell out bigger bucks to attract talent. Which translates to higher expense for the end user.
That's my $0.02 CAD. (0.0178918 USD) Though I doubt much anyone will read this, my karma sucks
I work as a cashier at a grocery store, and they run MS XP Embedded. We have at least 1 till crash at least once a day. Causing major headaches, I wish we had them running on Linux...
I hate all the uber-hippies who strive to at least say that we can't let any species become extinct. Because we all know, if we don't preserve the earth in the EXACT way it is, then anarchy will ensue.
Seriously, species die out, new ones are discovered, even if human's die out, there will still be continuing life on Earth, we're gonna die sooner or later anyways so why bitch about it?
Skynet is active!
In Soviet Russia, federal identification card... wait a second...
Don't worry, they'll surrender pretty soon ;)
Ahh the pride I feel deep inside that my hometown University will be the first to offer courses that increases the wonderful "incr3ase your m3mber!!!!11" and the ever helpful "w@nt a collage degree!?11" messages.
Glad we're already here, though I here Greenland is free *snicker*
For those of us too lazy and cheap to take the walk to EB Games, Best Buy, and the like. Seriously, I'll miss SuprNova, it was the best place to find No-CD cracks, because I do own the games I got the cracks for, but Im just horrible at not losing my CD's.
Short Answer: Drugs, Sex, and Rock n Roll. Nothing's changed since the 60's I tell ya.
4 GB's of my hard drive can attest to that.
Wow! They're going to accept half of /. readers?
Sweet! Soon we can download stuff to our brains!
No way in hell I or anyone my age (16) that I can concieve of would be this retarded POS.
[I]Tweens?[/I] anyone that uses that word and anyone that might theoretically fall under that category deserves to be slapped with a bit of fresh trout.
[I]If you are a self respecting 16 year old and if you had the option, would you get one of these or an iMac?[/I]
Actually, I'd build my own computer.. again. And come out of it alot better with $1700 to spend rather than buy either.
I'm 16, Canadian, don't have a fake id, don't have a use for one. 18A/R rated movies - I don't get IDed for. Buying Cigarettes - I don't get IDed for. Buyin g Games - Watch me not get IDed for them. And it's not because I look 18, I don't. People don't really care. ESPECIALLY won't care for a freaking video game.
PS: If some clerk tries to ID me when I pick up my pre-ordered Half-Life 2, I'll spin kick them, then again, I might just be old enough to *legally* buy it by then...
Repetitive responses...
George Bush: That is something I've voted for
John Kerry: That is something George Bush did wrong, and ill do right
Ralph Nader: Ill give everyone hybrid cars, hot dogs are icky!
How is he acting irresponsibly?
Honestly! He quotes the launches as sometimes being visible across the Western U.S.
Now don't you think, that any country with an embassy, agent's or even (Break out the tinfoil hats) a Spy anywhere near the vicinity of a spaceport could record launch data with relative ease?
Oh yes, because something can't be known until it's posted on the internet...
That might just be the first cordless mouse Ill purchase.
Ill just wait til they come out with the same model but in a marble finish like my MX-510.
Actually, no, the biggest one out (the 400gb one) has 5 80GB platters. But another major manufacturer is using 100GB platters in one if it's hard drives. I can't remember the manufacturers/hard drive models for the life of me. I can't wait for 20,000 RPM S-ATA Drives to hit the streets.
That's hardly stylish, it's seemingly faux stainless finish with a candy orange or blue stripe down the middle. I'll take my blue MX-510 over it anyday.
This classic QDB Quote...
* iban is going to invent a marriage simulator. It's a blowup doll that sits on the couch, takes your money, and slowly inflates larger and larger
It's such a reassurance in today's youth when they are toting firearms.
I can see my house!