I understand the macro issue quite well and, outside of turning them off, the other option is to 'sign' the files. But how do I at company X know that I can trust you at office Y? Active Directory and Passport.
And I know it's going to be a fucking nightmare. I don't warrant the vision, but I will be getting paid (hopefully) to both implement and fix it. Now not accepting Excel spreadsheets just shows your CIO (or whoever is making the decisions) is a neanderthal.
They're doing this for SharePoint which is going to be the lynchpin for EVERYTHING they're doing. Specifically, SharePoint + Groove. Remember, Ray Ozzie is driving this. All of these patches are aimed at OFFICE. Think about it. Collaboration. Real-time working on documents from different locations. Chatting. VoIP. It's coming. And Linux doesn't have an answer. Sorry. SugarCRM doesn't cut it. So, yeah, Konquerer has fish and ssh from the URL line, but virtual work locations is going to be where it's at. Open Source would do well to integrate drupal + wiki + OpenOffice or somesuch to get the equivalent. Instead RMS is probably somewhere bitching about the vagueries of licensing.
As it is, Bush appears to have mostly blown off N. Korea with his "I won't negotiate" stance.
You are on crack. Bush has been trying to get North Korea at the table for six party talks since the beginning of his presidency. Whereas he gets skewered for 'going it alone' in Iraq (with 18 UN resolutions and 3 congressional authorizations of force) he gets skewered for not 'going it alone' on North Korea.
And nobody talks about Albright or Carter and their great efforts in North Korea. Boy, that worked great.
I'll just give you the most notorious ones: Nicaragua, The Congo, Cambodia, Argentine, Chile, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq... Tens of thousands of people died.
Wow, most of those were Communist and non of them had U.S. troops deployed there.
Arab's been trying to get peace since the early 70's but radical Israelis always had their way.
Israel has been trying to get peace since they first started buying land from the indigenous folks in the 1920's. They have even given back land that they won in wars that were started by neighboring countries. For example, they pulled out of Lebanon in 2000, so what was the recent conflict about? Why was Hezbollah lobbing missiles? The Palestinians have been given a good deal of their land back - have they taken steps to solidify their government or build an infrastructure? No? Why not? They need more land? Heck, they had more trade until Arafat kept stepping up the killings.
What is it exactly that Arabs want that Israel will not give them? It can't be land or economic separation, so what is it?
Still, when you lived under an oppresive regime and seen the horrific things that happen to people who oppose it, you begin to overlook the cowardice of your fellow citizens. Such things as civil disobedience cost lives in there.
That is true in America as well. It is the price for freedom. This is why Americans have given lives liberating France twice, for one example.
I also had long hearted discussions with people who lived on the "other" side of the Berlin wall, and the majority says it was better before the wall came down.
No doubt this is due in part to the flight of younger people West to find more economic potential. Just talking with one last week. I can guarantee you they do not miss the Stazi and if they still miss that kind of government, there's always Belarus and Iran.
I can understand the ignorance (or bliss) of Americas such as yourself from accepting the truth and not some distorted version. All kidding aside, I most sincerely empathize since I read the US media everyday and I can clearly see why you would be cut from reality. I'll reiterate my advice to you: read some alternative media. Do it just for the laughs since you seem to be really convinced of your principles. Whatcha gotta loose? The worst scenario is that you'd end up with a broader perspective on things.
Judging from your flawed understanding of history, perhaps you could try reading some historical works which are accepted and spend less time pointing out how ignorant others are. The hubris you display does you little service in pushing your agenda and propaganda.
I have read quite a bit of alternative media. In fact, I was probably doing so before you were old enough to read. What I have found is that it is largely reactionary and emotional which, despite some salient points, does little to either improve people's lives or deal with reality.
A list of historical votes against the inane anti-Israeli votes in the UN does not convince one of Israel's right to exist or not exist, it merely underscores the anti-Israel sentiment of the UN. Further, before the Iraq war, the only place where Arabs had ever been legally elected as representatives was in Israel.
You would do well to understand better the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Sykes-Picot agreement. Even better, go back and study The Great Game, the struggle between Russia and Britain over dominance in Southern Asia. Fascinating period and we're still dealing with the ramifications today.
And good luck in your struggle. Maybe some day you can be free and less tolerant of other people's cowardice and determination to live by the sword.
What does my nationality have to do with anything?
Yes, it's a bigger threat to mankind than Marxism or militant Islam. Please allow me to make my point. Militant Islam, it only stems from American interventionism in Arab countries and its blatant support of Israel. That's a subject I know very well, since I'm a muslim myself.
Could you give specific examples of intervention that you speak of? Should the US stop giving money to Palestine and Egypt? Should we turn our back on a legally founded country because the people who sold or evacuated the land in the hopes of fighting to gain it back say so?
I grew up in an Arab/Muslim country that's, like all other Arab countries (with the exception of Palestine and Lebanon), a dictatorship.
You forgot to mention Iraq. And while Lebanon might be considered a 'democracy', considering their ineffectiveness of removing a terrorist organization from operating openly within their borders displays they have little by way of political self determination. Or are you suggesting that Hezbollah is really the true military wing of Lebanon, in which case, there are entirely different issues at hand.
There is no political solution to the problem because the Pan-Arab movement has been killed in the womb with the help of Western powers. The only hope seems to emerge from Islamists. I don't condone their methods nor do I agree with their agenda but I do know they're the only ones who can make a change.
Actually, the hope should not come from proxies or rebels but from the people themselves. In Iraq there is finally some economic and political self determination. Iraqis are free to vote and are not limited to the corrupt organizations that comprise Palestinian leadership. Or the vain, ineffectual leadership of Lebanon. Your inability to see political process as a vehicle for change merely confirms the narrow view that many have of Islam and its incapability to engage in rational, tempered political discourse.
If it's for the worse, then be it! As long as they show some resistance to Bush&co, I'll vote for them any time. However, the dictatorial regime makes it impossible for them to acheive any kind of power. That is exactly why they're fed up with the US supporting oppressive regimes and channel that anger in suicide attacks and such.
Good plan. Let's see how this works out. I'm betting about as well as it did for the Germans and Japanese, though.
Marxism is not perfect; No system is. Yet, I fail to see how Marxism could put the lives of millions in danger as capitalism is now doing.
Read up on the purges of Russia, the starving of Ukrania, the killing fields of Cambodia, North Vietnamese, North Korean and Chinese purges, Idi Admin, etc. and you may yet see how Marxism could put scores of millions in 'danger' (actually death.) Just because you're not familiar with the historical atrocities that were the outcomes of people applying Marx's principles on economic reformation doesn't mean they didn't happen or that 'no one can say'.
I don't have the resources to convince you of Marxism's viability but then again, who has? The trouble starts when you link it with Leninism (which most Americans do). Now, there is no way I can revert whatever the propaganda has fed generations of Americans but I can confidently claim that a socialist model is definitely no threat to our lives.
I'm sure they said something similar when Hitler brought National Socialism and said he would clean up the problem with Jews and Gypsies. Granted, the US is moderately socialist, however, one segment of society living off another segment of society is ripe for abuse and societal strife.
It can only improve the confort of the less-fortunate while not starving the rich to death. Socialism is the only close thing to Marxism that I have any knowledge of.
Well, that jamming station must not have worked well and I highly doubt it was put there by the Russians. I cannot think of a clear motive for it. Probably sold as surplus or exchanged for payment by a disgruntled soldier and found its way to Iraq.
You're kidding, right? I'm pretty sure the two generals Putin sent to secure Baghdad might have had something to do with it, possibly in exchange for some of Saddam's oil vouchers. Or do you believe folks are all fundamentally honest.
FWIW, this is OLD news about satellites. I've theorized that the Skytel IV thing in the 90's was due to Chinese experiments with the nav systems they lifted from the rocket Clinton launched over there despite Warren Christopher's warnings.
Besides, wasn't that the famous bombing run that had to fly around France because they wouldn't let Reagan use their airspace? F-14's don't have that kind of range (or payload.)
Bro, gear up for MEPIS. Debian-based distro that uses the Ubuntu repositories. 64 bit coming next month, but you owe it to yourself to rip a Live CD and check it out. I'm freaking loving it. Seriously. Warren was a NeXT developer.
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All mortal beings are subject to being 'deceased'.
It's part of the circle of life according to Elton John.
Of course this now gives me some ammo against the Linux+nVidia fans I personally know. As Nelson Muntz would say: "Ha ha".
So what are you? A Linux+ATI fan? w00t - you finally get to hit back. So now the nVidia folks know what it's like to run Linux without 3D support.
Boy, you showed them, tough guy.
Presidential elections?
I understand the macro issue quite well and, outside of turning them off, the other option is to 'sign' the files.
But how do I at company X know that I can trust you at office Y?
Active Directory and Passport.
And I know it's going to be a fucking nightmare. I don't warrant the vision, but I will be getting paid (hopefully) to both implement and fix it.
Now not accepting Excel spreadsheets just shows your CIO (or whoever is making the decisions) is a neanderthal.
But this is MIT. I'm sure that they can think a bit past the very pedantic Wikipedia.
Scores of MIT students are now googling 'wikipedia' to see if they can meet chicks there...
They're doing this for SharePoint which is going to be the lynchpin for EVERYTHING they're doing.
Specifically, SharePoint + Groove. Remember, Ray Ozzie is driving this. All of these patches are aimed at OFFICE . Think about it. Collaboration. Real-time working on documents from different locations. Chatting. VoIP.
It's coming.
And Linux doesn't have an answer. Sorry. SugarCRM doesn't cut it.
So, yeah, Konquerer has fish and ssh from the URL line, but virtual work locations is going to be where it's at.
Open Source would do well to integrate drupal + wiki + OpenOffice or somesuch to get the equivalent.
Instead RMS is probably somewhere bitching about the vagueries of licensing.
Want friendly? Try MEPIS. MP3 codecs out of the box and the same repos as Ubuntu.
It's the best kept (non) secret out there.
As it is, Bush appears to have mostly blown off N. Korea with his "I won't negotiate" stance.
You are on crack. Bush has been trying to get North Korea at the table for six party talks since the beginning of his presidency. Whereas he gets skewered for 'going it alone' in Iraq (with 18 UN resolutions and 3 congressional authorizations of force) he gets skewered for not 'going it alone' on North Korea.
And nobody talks about Albright or Carter and their great efforts in North Korea. Boy, that worked great.
'truely' is spelled 'truly', champ.
I'm a Republican and I thought this was funny.
Wish I had mod points. Well played, sir.
CodeWeavers running on MEPIS is going to seem like a snap to most windows users.
I am getting diarrhea just reading this story.
That is why they call it 'fast food'.
It's a win/win situation. Folding@Home crunches more data and the electric company makes more money.
Ah, but what if all that power generation/transmission is causing the illnesses Folding@Home is seeking to cure...wouldn't that be ironic.
I'll just give you the most notorious ones: Nicaragua, The Congo, Cambodia, Argentine, Chile, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq ... Tens of thousands of people died.
Wow, most of those were Communist and non of them had U.S. troops deployed there.
Arab's been trying to get peace since the early 70's but radical Israelis always had their way.
Israel has been trying to get peace since they first started buying land from the indigenous folks in the 1920's. They have even given back land that they won in wars that were started by neighboring countries. For example, they pulled out of Lebanon in 2000, so what was the recent conflict about? Why was Hezbollah lobbing missiles?
The Palestinians have been given a good deal of their land back - have they taken steps to solidify their government or build an infrastructure? No? Why not? They need more land?
Heck, they had more trade until Arafat kept stepping up the killings.
What is it exactly that Arabs want that Israel will not give them?
It can't be land or economic separation, so what is it?
Still, when you lived under an oppresive regime and seen the horrific things that happen to people who oppose it, you begin to overlook the cowardice of your fellow citizens. Such things as civil disobedience cost lives in there.
That is true in America as well. It is the price for freedom. This is why Americans have given lives liberating France twice, for one example.
I also had long hearted discussions with people who lived on the "other" side of the Berlin wall, and the majority says it was better before the wall came down.
No doubt this is due in part to the flight of younger people West to find more economic potential. Just talking with one last week. I can guarantee you they do not miss the Stazi and if they still miss that kind of government, there's always Belarus and Iran.
I can understand the ignorance (or bliss) of Americas such as yourself from accepting the truth and not some distorted version. All kidding aside, I most sincerely empathize since I read the US media everyday and I can clearly see why you would be cut from reality. I'll reiterate my advice to you: read some alternative media. Do it just for the laughs since you seem to be really convinced of your principles. Whatcha gotta loose? The worst scenario is that you'd end up with a broader perspective on things.
Judging from your flawed understanding of history, perhaps you could try reading some historical works which are accepted and spend less time pointing out how ignorant others are. The hubris you display does you little service in pushing your agenda and propaganda.
I have read quite a bit of alternative media. In fact, I was probably doing so before you were old enough to read. What I have found is that it is largely reactionary and emotional which, despite some salient points, does little to either improve people's lives or deal with reality.
A list of historical votes against the inane anti-Israeli votes in the UN does not convince one of Israel's right to exist or not exist, it merely underscores the anti-Israel sentiment of the UN. Further, before the Iraq war, the only place where Arabs had ever been legally elected as representatives was in Israel.
You would do well to understand better the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Sykes-Picot agreement. Even better, go back and study The Great Game, the struggle between Russia and Britain over dominance in Southern Asia. Fascinating period and we're still dealing with the ramifications today.
And good luck in your struggle. Maybe some day you can be free and less tolerant of other people's cowardice and determination to live by the sword.
Let me guess...you're American, right?
What does my nationality have to do with anything?
Yes, it's a bigger threat to mankind than Marxism or militant Islam. Please allow me to make my point.
Militant Islam, it only stems from American interventionism in Arab countries and its blatant support of Israel. That's a subject I know very well, since I'm a muslim myself.
Could you give specific examples of intervention that you speak of? Should the US stop giving money to Palestine and Egypt? Should we turn our back on a legally founded country because the people who sold or evacuated the land in the hopes of fighting to gain it back say so?
I grew up in an Arab/Muslim country that's, like all other Arab countries (with the exception of Palestine and Lebanon), a dictatorship.
You forgot to mention Iraq. And while Lebanon might be considered a 'democracy', considering their ineffectiveness of removing a terrorist organization from operating openly within their borders displays they have little by way of political self determination. Or are you suggesting that Hezbollah is really the true military wing of Lebanon, in which case, there are entirely different issues at hand.
There is no political solution to the problem because the Pan-Arab movement has been killed in the womb with the help of Western powers. The only hope seems to emerge from Islamists. I don't condone their methods nor do I agree with their agenda but I do know they're the only ones who can make a change.
Actually, the hope should not come from proxies or rebels but from the people themselves. In Iraq there is finally some economic and political self determination. Iraqis are free to vote and are not limited to the corrupt organizations that comprise Palestinian leadership. Or the vain, ineffectual leadership of Lebanon. Your inability to see political process as a vehicle for change merely confirms the narrow view that many have of Islam and its incapability to engage in rational, tempered political discourse.
If it's for the worse, then be it! As long as they show some resistance to Bush&co, I'll vote for them any time. However, the dictatorial regime makes it impossible for them to acheive any kind of power. That is exactly why they're fed up with the US supporting oppressive regimes and channel that anger in suicide attacks and such.
Good plan. Let's see how this works out. I'm betting about as well as it did for the Germans and Japanese, though.
Marxism is not perfect; No system is. Yet, I fail to see how Marxism could put the lives of millions in danger as capitalism is now doing.
Read up on the purges of Russia, the starving of Ukrania, the killing fields of Cambodia, North Vietnamese, North Korean and Chinese purges, Idi Admin, etc. and you may yet see how Marxism could put scores of millions in 'danger' (actually death.) Just because you're not familiar with the historical atrocities that were the outcomes of people applying Marx's principles on economic reformation doesn't mean they didn't happen or that 'no one can say'.
I don't have the resources to convince you of Marxism's viability but then again, who has? The trouble starts when you link it with Leninism (which most Americans do). Now, there is no way I can revert whatever the propaganda has fed generations of Americans but I can confidently claim that a socialist model is definitely no threat to our lives.
I'm sure they said something similar when Hitler brought National Socialism and said he would clean up the problem with Jews and Gypsies. Granted, the US is moderately socialist, however, one segment of society living off another segment of society is ripe for abuse and societal strife.
It can only improve the confort of the less-fortunate while not starving the rich to death. Socialism is the only close thing to Marxism that I have any knowledge of.
Lucky you.
Capitalism has ran amock and the US can only
The World *DOES* have a seriously greedy corporate culture which is a far bigger threat to humanity than anything else.
Bigger than Marxism or militant Islam?
No it isn't.
Is too.
He's from a small island.
He doesn't understand the size of land you're talking about.
Well, that jamming station must not have worked well and I highly doubt it was put there by the Russians. I cannot think of a clear motive for it. Probably sold as surplus or exchanged for payment by a disgruntled soldier and found its way to Iraq.
You're kidding, right? I'm pretty sure the two generals Putin sent to secure Baghdad might have had something to do with it, possibly in exchange for some of Saddam's oil vouchers.
Or do you believe folks are all fundamentally honest.
FWIW, this is OLD news about satellites. I've theorized that the Skytel IV thing in the 90's was due to Chinese experiments with the nav systems they lifted from the rocket Clinton launched over there despite Warren Christopher's warnings.
But I'm crazy that way.
That's because when you pay volunteers, they become employees. And anyone who's ever worked in an office knows how that works.
How's it work with politicians?
Besides, wasn't that the famous bombing run that had to fly around France because they wouldn't let Reagan use their airspace?
F-14's don't have that kind of range (or payload.)
Bro, gear up for MEPIS. Debian-based distro that uses the Ubuntu repositories.
64 bit coming next month, but you owe it to yourself to rip a Live CD and check it out.
I'm freaking loving it. Seriously. Warren was a NeXT developer.
Get out of the basement, she's a 'Miss'.
...it could help. But if the first link in the chain is broken, don't trust the chain.
<VOICE TYPE="PYTHON" MOVIE="HOLY GRAIL" CHARACTER="Sir Bevedere">Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?</VOICE>
Just did a check on programming the Gumstix and there's no Ruby support. Damn.
And no VB either? How they going to sell these things?!?!?!?