A lot of bad laws are adopted by other countries after they've 'proven' themselves in the US: marijuana prohibition, indefinite copyright extension, software patents... So if you happen to be living outside the US, don't get too smug. Chances are, the guy running your country isn't any better than George W., he just doesn't have the means to fuck up on the same scale.
OK, I take that last one back, the odds are actually pretty good that your guy isn't as bad.
I can't imagine somebody who doesn't love Ramen though.
1. "Ramen" is a traditional Japanese dish consisting of noodles and broth, sometimes garnished with meat, vegetables, tofu, etc. What you are referring to is "instant ramen", which has only a tenuous connection with the real stuff.
2. You don't have to imagine it - there's plenty of people who can't stomach the stuff, myself included. Although I might feel differently if I was living in an armored personnel carrier.
Licensing issues, above all else, made it a real hassle to get Java on platforms like FreeBSD. Sun just formally announced that they'll release Java under the GPL.
Windows code names seem to come from resorts. They should call the next one "Fawlty Towers", in that case. It would give a good idea of the attitude that Microsoft takes towards its customers.
I bet it'd be even cheaper if you didn't have to pay for the container, and just pumped it straight into your car. But the real problem with unprocessed veg oil is that it thickens at low temperatures (easy to forget about if you're in Southern California).
Thirty years ago the same people who are now screaming that we must fight global warming were screaming that we needed to fight global cooling. Which people? Can you cite some specific examples?
In my opinion Adblock and Flashblock are the two most important reasons to use Firefox. Mine too. You don't even realize how annoying those Flash ads are until you use FlashBlock for a few months, then go use a browser that doesn't have it.
I think it started with some medieval theologians who used the Bible to reconstruct the entire family tree from Adam and Eve to the Virgin Mary's family, which in turn allowed them to estimate when Adam and Eve lived. The whole thing's pretty damn shaky even if you postulate that the Old Testament is literally true.
Funny you should mention that... My job involves writing code for Java-based content management systems. It's proprietary, so it doesn't meet the stated requirements, but it works just fine. I can think of quite a few things that work better in Java than in PHP, but I'm not interested in starting another boring flamewar. And besides, you're right about one thing: the language should be one of the less important considerations here. If there are PHP systems that do what you need, go ahead and use them. If they need customization, learn PHP, it's not that hard (certainly easier than trying to build your own system from scratch in Java, as some schmuck suggested above).
The trouble with "Asian" is that it's less specific than "Oriental". An Asian could be from Iran, or Siberia, or Kazakhstan, or Korea, or Sri Lanka. "Oriental" means you're from the easternmost part of Asia.
Another thing... "land of the rising sun" is clearly a Sinocentric term, yet the Japanese don't seem to have a problem with it.
Yes, they depend on engineers and geologists to make money. So it's in their interest to support those fields. On the other hand, ecologists and climatologists are not making them any money whatsoever - in fact, many of them are actively threatening their profits. So it's not at all surprising that they would try to distort the teaching of those sciences. And don't you go quoting Ayn Rand at me.
Vote for the one who agrees with you on most questionsThere's one serious flaw with this approach: it assumes that politicians tell the truth. When evaluating politicians, disregard what they say, and look at what they do.
I think O'Reilly does something on TV. I've been divorced from that particular medium for a while now, so I can't tell you much more than that; ask one of the over-45 old farts.
Germany also has roughly half the number of traffic fatalities per capita as the US, take that for what it is worth.
If you're trying to compare the safety of the traffic systems, then a per capita figure is useless, since Americans spend a lot more time in cars than Europeans. You'd want to look at the number of accidents per unit of time spent on the road, or number of accidents per number of cars, or something like that.
First of all, Microsoft doesn't put any effort into hardware compatibility, the hardware vendors do. Second, this issue is outdated. A few years ago, you could reasonably say that Windows has better overall hardware support, but since then, Linux has caught up, and might actually be ahead. (With some glaring exceptions, like wi-fi.)
it's becoming likely that GPLv3 will split FOSS software in two
The FOSS world is already split into way more than two. Can you think of any modern Linux or BSD distro that doesn't incorporate multiple licenses? There's GPL, Apache, BSD, Perl, and a bunch of others that I can't even remember. Some of those are mutually incompatible. Yet it all somehow hangs together.
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A lot of bad laws are adopted by other countries after they've 'proven' themselves in the US: marijuana prohibition, indefinite copyright extension, software patents... So if you happen to be living outside the US, don't get too smug. Chances are, the guy running your country isn't any better than George W., he just doesn't have the means to fuck up on the same scale.
OK, I take that last one back, the odds are actually pretty good that your guy isn't as bad.
I can't imagine somebody who doesn't love Ramen though.
1. "Ramen" is a traditional Japanese dish consisting of noodles and broth, sometimes garnished with meat, vegetables, tofu, etc. What you are referring to is "instant ramen", which has only a tenuous connection with the real stuff.
2. You don't have to imagine it - there's plenty of people who can't stomach the stuff, myself included. Although I might feel differently if I was living in an armored personnel carrier.
Whoa, back up. You're saying that China has tighter emission standards than the US? Since when?
I bet it'd be even cheaper if you didn't have to pay for the container, and just pumped it straight into your car. But the real problem with unprocessed veg oil is that it thickens at low temperatures (easy to forget about if you're in Southern California).
I think it started with some medieval theologians who used the Bible to reconstruct the entire family tree from Adam and Eve to the Virgin Mary's family, which in turn allowed them to estimate when Adam and Eve lived. The whole thing's pretty damn shaky even if you postulate that the Old Testament is literally true.
Boot Camp isn't a virtual machine, it's a dual-boot setup. Why wouldn't Vista run on it?
Funny you should mention that... My job involves writing code for Java-based content management systems. It's proprietary, so it doesn't meet the stated requirements, but it works just fine. I can think of quite a few things that work better in Java than in PHP, but I'm not interested in starting another boring flamewar. And besides, you're right about one thing: the language should be one of the less important considerations here. If there are PHP systems that do what you need, go ahead and use them. If they need customization, learn PHP, it's not that hard (certainly easier than trying to build your own system from scratch in Java, as some schmuck suggested above).
Getting way off topic now...
The trouble with "Asian" is that it's less specific than "Oriental". An Asian could be from Iran, or Siberia, or Kazakhstan, or Korea, or Sri Lanka. "Oriental" means you're from the easternmost part of Asia.
Another thing... "land of the rising sun" is clearly a Sinocentric term, yet the Japanese don't seem to have a problem with it.
Actually, you're both wrong. It's neither water nor CO2, but an electrical discharge.
The engineers who built the Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay obviously weren't praying hard enough.
You've got to admit: the Electric Universe crackpots are way more entertaining then the Creationist crackpots.
Yes, they depend on engineers and geologists to make money. So it's in their interest to support those fields. On the other hand, ecologists and climatologists are not making them any money whatsoever - in fact, many of them are actively threatening their profits. So it's not at all surprising that they would try to distort the teaching of those sciences. And don't you go quoting Ayn Rand at me.
Microsoft just so happens to be so uncreative that they gave their DB server application a name that is merely a description.Could have been worse...
Vote for the one who agrees with you on most questionsThere's one serious flaw with this approach: it assumes that politicians tell the truth. When evaluating politicians, disregard what they say, and look at what they do.
I think O'Reilly does something on TV. I've been divorced from that particular medium for a while now, so I can't tell you much more than that; ask one of the over-45 old farts.
If you're trying to compare the safety of the traffic systems, then a per capita figure is useless, since Americans spend a lot more time in cars than Europeans. You'd want to look at the number of accidents per unit of time spent on the road, or number of accidents per number of cars, or something like that.
The border fence is getting contracted to the same people who are doing the Big Dig. So you got nothing to worry about.
First of all, Microsoft doesn't put any effort into hardware compatibility, the hardware vendors do. Second, this issue is outdated. A few years ago, you could reasonably say that Windows has better overall hardware support, but since then, Linux has caught up, and might actually be ahead. (With some glaring exceptions, like wi-fi.)
The FOSS world is already split into way more than two. Can you think of any modern Linux or BSD distro that doesn't incorporate multiple licenses? There's GPL, Apache, BSD, Perl, and a bunch of others that I can't even remember. Some of those are mutually incompatible. Yet it all somehow hangs together.
And if public libraries had just been invented yesterday, the publishing companies would be filing the lawsuits as we speak.