There's nothing more pathetic than boring academics who try and catagorize the Net into something it isn't. There's nothing spiritual about the net. Perhaps, there's something spiritual about some of the wacko's who use the net, but that has nothing to do with the Net itself.
Of course Gore and Bush are not a perfect representative for you or me. Who would be? No one could possibley fit that role (unless it was one of us, in which case the other would be disappointed). 40-some-odd percent of this country does vote in presidential elections. Most people who don't vote are either ignorant or lazy. Indeed, some are just disenchanted. Would more gridlock enchant them? I do believe in spirited debate. A voice is diferent from a power. Every American doesn't need a power seat in Washington. If the founding fathers felt that was wise, they would have created a pure democracy, as opposed to a representative democracy. I don't approve of political parties for the same reason George Washington disapproved of them. But, we have them, like it or not. I say, keep it to two!
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION ends up dividing your government into representative groups that are too diverse to reach consensus. Just look at the political inability of parlamentary systems with Proportional Representation. Examples, Isreal, Germany, Austria, etc. These countries are paralyzed to take significant and desicive action when required. Their leaders are shackled by weak "collolition governments" that end up pandering out pork projects to buy votes. If you think we've got gridlock now, just implement preference voting, and its like.
Absolutely. What a joke! What is all of the fuss about! The FBI can open your postal mail and tap your phone line. What's the difference! Unless the FBI can break a 128bit key with a PIII in a few seconds, I fail to see what the excitement is all about.
There really should be a third-party for C'thulu and the parties nominee (C'thulu) should be on the ballet in all 50 states. C'thulu could be invited to the debates:
Leir: Ok, this question is for you, C'Thulu. Given your influence over the Dreamworld, do you intend on running political adds in people's dreams?
Gore: - I'll answer that question! Of course he does! And, I'd like to remind the voters that I am a candidate that has not been asleep at the wheel for the past 10000 years!
I disagree. Sun has already reacted to C# in the most appropriate manner: No reaction. C# is a joke that will at its best replace VB on IAS.
Sun is simply trying to court the open source community towards Java. Sun's reluctance to submit Java to a standards committee is justified. Standards don't garauntee compliance. Look at the C++ Standard Lib and STL.
The record industry is not the enemy. If artists don't want to make their music free, the artists are the enemy. The record industry's motives are money. At least we know where they stand. People like Tipper's motives are all about control over people. The record industry doesn't want to control you, they just want your money. You tell me which one is worse.
Forget about GW. What about Tipper and her crusade against music!!!. GW may sound like an idiot, but he's for less government, and more for private sector self-regulation. Tipper would love to regulate everything everything from your games to your tv shows.
I hate to say my windows experience is a little different. I love having to call GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle("kernel32.dll"), "GetDiskFreeSpaceEx") just to see if their crappy kernel supports the method. And then there's the lovely unicode "stub" methods that make you want to puke when they do nothing but fail. Then there's the fifty or so GDI methods that vary from 95 to 98 to NT. Don't forget the always fun TrackMouseEvent lack of support across winX. Its a little hard making services cross platform. God forbid you're a game developer, and having fun with direct X versions. And don't say win2k and winMe will solve the problem!!
If you're building anything remotely complicated on windows, you'll end up with win98 and winNT binaries!
RedHat + #.0 = a bunch of stuff they downloaded off the net the night before and burned onto a cd.
RedHat + #.1 = usable product
RedHat + #.2 = something to be proud of.
You're trading screen flickering refresh rates for residual images. Plasma displays don't have the residual image problem but they are expensive. LCD residual will drive you nuts.
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There's nothing more pathetic than boring academics who try and catagorize the Net into something it isn't. There's nothing spiritual about the net. Perhaps, there's something spiritual about some of the wacko's who use the net, but that has nothing to do with the Net itself.
I mean IPV4 not IPV5 (which was scrapped)
I meant IPV4. Thanks
IPV6 will actually increase the size of the routing tables, beacuse routers will have to support both IPV5 and IPV6 tables
Under IPV5, they will run out of IPs before they run out of memory!
Of course Gore and Bush are not a perfect representative for you or me. Who would be? No one could possibley fit that role (unless it was one of us, in which case the other would be disappointed). 40-some-odd percent of this country does vote in presidential elections. Most people who don't vote are either ignorant or lazy. Indeed, some are just disenchanted. Would more gridlock enchant them? I do believe in spirited debate. A voice is diferent from a power. Every American doesn't need a power seat in Washington. If the founding fathers felt that was wise, they would have created a pure democracy, as opposed to a representative democracy. I don't approve of political parties for the same reason George Washington disapproved of them. But, we have them, like it or not. I say, keep it to two!
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION ends up dividing your government into representative groups that are too diverse to reach consensus. Just look at the political inability of parlamentary systems with Proportional Representation. Examples, Isreal, Germany, Austria, etc. These countries are paralyzed to take significant and desicive action when required. Their leaders are shackled by weak "collolition governments" that end up pandering out pork projects to buy votes. If you think we've got gridlock now, just implement preference voting, and its like.
D&D movie looks stupid. For sure its not going to touch Lord of the Rings.
Absolutely. What a joke! What is all of the fuss about! The FBI can open your postal mail and tap your phone line. What's the difference! Unless the FBI can break a 128bit key with a PIII in a few seconds, I fail to see what the excitement is all about.
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I've seen toliet-paper prints that are more facinating.
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Leir: Ok, this question is for you, C'Thulu. Given your influence over the Dreamworld, do you intend on running political adds in people's dreams?
Gore: - I'll answer that question! Of course he does! And, I'd like to remind the voters that I am a candidate that has not been asleep at the wheel for the past 10000 years!
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About time somebody used a palm for something other than better CPU for a lego mindstorm
Sun is simply trying to court the open source community towards Java. Sun's reluctance to submit Java to a standards committee is justified. Standards don't garauntee compliance. Look at the C++ Standard Lib and STL.
The record industry is not the enemy. If artists don't want to make their music free, the artists are the enemy. The record industry's motives are money. At least we know where they stand. People like Tipper's motives are all about control over people. The record industry doesn't want to control you, they just want your money. You tell me which one is worse.
Forget about GW. What about Tipper and her crusade against music!!!. GW may sound like an idiot, but he's for less government, and more for private sector self-regulation. Tipper would love to regulate everything everything from your games to your tv shows.
I hate to say my windows experience is a little different. I love having to call GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle("kernel32.dll"), "GetDiskFreeSpaceEx") just to see if their crappy kernel supports the method. And then there's the lovely unicode "stub" methods that make you want to puke when they do nothing but fail. Then there's the fifty or so GDI methods that vary from 95 to 98 to NT. Don't forget the always fun TrackMouseEvent lack of support across winX. Its a little hard making services cross platform. God forbid you're a game developer, and having fun with direct X versions.
And don't say win2k and winMe will solve the problem!!
If you're building anything remotely complicated on windows, you'll end up with win98 and winNT binaries!
6.2 seems pretty stable for me too.
RedHat + #.0 = a bunch of stuff they downloaded off the net the night before and burned onto a cd.
RedHat + #.1 = usable product
RedHat + #.2 = something to be proud of.
You're trading screen flickering refresh rates for residual images. Plasma displays don't have the residual image problem but they are expensive. LCD residual will drive you nuts.
Assembly is the way to go.
Maybe he should be on the list for the past 2 decades, but what did he do in the 90's other than watch as apple tanked.
Looks like this is another seti. This is basically the same deal right?
Why on earth would you want to run Linux on a Spark anyway. I mean solaris has its annoying quirks, but it kicks ass.