Puerto Rico is not part of the USA, it belongs to the USA. It was given to the USA by Spain in 1898 afted its defeat in the Spanish American War.
Although its constitution names it a Comonwealth, it is actually a colony, a territory with some form of limited local government. Puerto Ricans are US citizens, and use the Dolar as a currency. We must abide by the American governmet, yet we cannot vote for the President or have representation in the Senate or in the Congress.
So there you have it, Puerto Rico is not part of the USA, it is an american territory.
On a related issue. About the future status of the island. 47% of the voters want statehood, 47% want to preserve the status quo and the remaining 6% want its independence. As you can infer from these numbers, the matters of status are actively debated on a daily basis, yet, no change seems posible in the near future.
Just tell them that for every woman in CS there are at least 50 men. They might have been geeky and quite possibly rejected in high school, but in college they will be highly coveted and will have a lot of men to choose from.;-)
And if they still want the jocks, they can wait to get out of college, land a high paying job and then go hunting for the man meat at the grill of the local Mc Donalds back in their hometowns.
1. They release their own linux distro (Caldera) making their code GPL.
2. They say that linux infringes their IP, although they have GPL'd it (They haven't proven that it is true anyway).
3. They try to convince everyone that the GPL is ilegal.
4. Their latest Unix distro is full of GPL software.
Please help me understand, perhaps I am too simple minded to ascertain their logic.
Think about The Real World for a second. They have months of videotape but only show a couple of hours. They only show "the good stuf".
NASA should make a miniseries focusing in the interesting parts of the process. Interview the families, inquire about their feelings, their fears. Take an angle of the fearfull yet proud son in the arms of a teary eyed wife of some astronaut who is about to risk his life in an extraterrestrial voyage to benefit mankind. Then play a multiple angle scene of the shuttle taking off. To be continued on the next episode...
The movie Adaptation provided a similar answer when the character played by Nichola's Cage said that there was nothing interesting about real life. Everytime, everyday, someone does a heroic act, someone dies for what he believes in...
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Perhaps I can answer your question.
Puerto Rico is not part of the USA, it belongs to the USA. It was given to the USA by Spain in 1898 afted its defeat in the Spanish American War.
Although its constitution names it a Comonwealth, it is actually a colony, a territory with some form of limited local government. Puerto Ricans are US citizens, and use the Dolar as a currency. We must abide by the American governmet, yet we cannot vote for the President or have representation in the Senate or in the Congress.
So there you have it, Puerto Rico is not part of the USA, it is an american territory.
On a related issue. About the future status of the island. 47% of the voters want statehood, 47% want to preserve the status quo and the remaining 6% want its independence. As you can infer from these numbers, the matters of status are actively debated on a daily basis, yet, no change seems posible in the near future.
Cheers,
Adolfo
I can't believe no one has mentioned this one.
;-).
Think about it! What other movie in history has shattered the memories of childhood of an entire generation.
And no, this is not mean't to be funny! It is rather insightfull really
Cheers
Adolfo
And this article is not flamebait because?
Just tell them that for every woman in CS there are at least 50 men. They might have been geeky and quite possibly rejected in high school, but in college they will be highly coveted and will have a lot of men to choose from. ;-)
And if they still want the jocks, they can wait to get out of college, land a high paying job and then go hunting for the man meat at the grill of the local Mc Donalds back in their hometowns.
Cheers,
Adolfo
I fail to understand...
1. They release their own linux distro (Caldera) making their code GPL.
2. They say that linux infringes their IP, although they have GPL'd it (They haven't proven that it is true anyway).
3. They try to convince everyone that the GPL is ilegal.
4. Their latest Unix distro is full of GPL software.
Please help me understand, perhaps I am too simple minded to ascertain their logic.
Cheers,
Adolfo
Think about The Real World for a second. They have months of videotape but only show a couple of hours. They only show "the good stuf".
NASA should make a miniseries focusing in the interesting parts of the process. Interview the families, inquire about their feelings, their fears. Take an angle of the fearfull yet proud son in the arms of a teary eyed wife of some astronaut who is about to risk his life in an extraterrestrial voyage to benefit mankind. Then play a multiple angle scene of the shuttle taking off. To be continued on the next episode...
The movie Adaptation provided a similar answer when the character played by Nichola's Cage said that there was nothing interesting about real life. Everytime, everyday, someone does a heroic act, someone dies for what he believes in...
Cheers,
Adolfo
I believe that native windows support for PostgreSQL is essential, not necesarily to deploy apps in that enviroment but to test and develop them. When I started using MySQL on my windows box, I had also looked into PostgreSQL. The lack of windows binaries for PostgreSQL made MySQL the default choice for me. On features alone PostgreSQL wins hand down. Also, in my experience, the faster performance of MySQL over PostgreSQL dissapears when I use InnoDB tables for transactional data processing. The doors to PostgreSQL have been open to many developers stuck in the windows world. Perhaps I will try PostgreSQL for my ASP.NET apps in addition to my trusty MySQL.
Cheers
Adolfo