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I checked out the full repository of an open source project I have been tinkering with in both SVN and Git (libgdx). The SVN was MUCH larger than the Git repository on my hard drive (i think 33% more, but I can't remember).
Another example is Django. A Subversion checkout (only trunk, no branches or tags) uses 186 MByte on hard drive, a Git clone uses 87 MByte. That's really astonishing when considering that the git clone contains 6 years of history and 10600 commits.
Please explain to me how exactly China selling their x trillion USD worth of reserves would devalue the Euro?
Their total foreign exchange reserves are $2.5 trillion, only a part of it is in USD (the major part, though). China already began buying massive amounts of Euro, under the premise of helping countries in peril of bankruptcy, like Greece and Ireland. With the current state of the Euro, it doesn't take much bad news anymore to sink it, completely.
And, of course, our globalized markets mean that when the US sneezes, Europe gets a cold. Rest assured that China is capable of sending the US economy directly into intensive care, and with it the Eurozone.
Actually, if they did something that devalued the USD, it would hurt them badly.
The Telegraph article I linked to named this course of action, rather appropriately, the nuclear option. China won't use this weapon lightly, but if the US would implement such a drastic embargo as proposed by drinkypoo, what other choice do they have?
Essentially, we're living in an economic cold war between China and the West (US, mostly). Both sides have the tools to annihilate the other's economy, but not without destroying or badly hurting its own.
Who cares? The economy doesn't depend on that shit. What's more interesting is what percentage of actually useful items are made in China (which is still ridiculously high) and what's even more interesting is how much of that stuff can't be made here, which is to say almost none of it. If we stopped buying Chinese stuff for whatever reason you'd see toaster and eggbeater factories pop back up overnight. Or, more likely, they'd pop back up in Mexico again.
If the US would take such drastic measures, China would probably answer by selling their $2.5 trillions in foreign exchange reserves, most of them US Dollars. That would devalue the USD and EUR to virtually zero, bringing about economic turmoil of unprecedented magnitude.
Let's face it: China got us by the balls, and they are ready to squeeze them.
With bit.ly, you can simply append a "+" to the URL and get an information page showing, between other information, which URL hides behind it, e.g. http://bit.ly/cTGasX+. I don't know if they have a setting to always display this info page, but I'm sure there are usersrcipts and bookmarklets out there that automatically append a "+" to every bit.ly link.
Please tell me you aren't someone who is going to condemn an entire industry because of one accident. No human enterprise ever attempted managed to get underway without mistakes.
If it's an industry where one mistake translates to environmental and economical damage on the scale we are witnessing at the gulf coast right now, then yes, condemning (and perhaps even abolishing) said industry may be the right thing to do.
That statement from Jobs is absolutely tactless. Not only did he ridicule the work of the KHTML devs ("a small open source project"), he didn't even feel like writing out its name. I really love what Apple's done with WebKit, but Jobs could at least acknowledge that, thanks to KHTML, they had a great foundation to build upon.
An antitrust case against Apple would really be fun to watch - all those fanboys squirming.
Fanboys wouldn't be the only ones squirming. Imagine how the inflated stock price of AAPL would collapse if an antitrust case with chances of success would be made against Apple.
My HTC Desire plays most flash content (but not Shockwave), and I think the HTC Legend does, too. I have it disabled most of the time, though, most flash content on the web consists of annoying ads stealing my battery juice.
Formula1's obsession with security only really began with Ayrton Senna's tragic death. What the engineers have achieved since then is nothing else but breathtaking. Have a look at some crashes from the last decade on Youtube (e.g. Robert Kubica in 2007). In todays F1 cars, you can basically drive into a concrete wall at 120 mph and come out of the wreck with little more than a dizzy head. And that's what you call "not doing their job"?
A cardiac surgeon doesn't know much otolaryngology;
That analogy would be correct if people wouldn't know the difference between Java programmers and C++ programmers. I'm pretty sure every cardiologist would feel a bit insulted if a patient wouldn't know the difference between him and a nurse. Nothing against nurses, every hospital would collapse without their work.
If you mean this DjangoCMS: yes, I use it for a couple of smalish sites (bigger ones to follow). While it has great potential, it's very noticeable that it is a new product that has not seen a stable release yet (although its version number is 2.0.0 RC2). It's a fast moving target right now, but I really like the direction it is going. With a bit of polish and some community building, this could become one of Django's killer applications.
Not if you want to write commercial software on top of it, which is what Nokia wants to enable.
I know the terms of the GPL and LGPL, thank you. I simply think it's unfair to make Riverbank look like the bad guys and Nokia the saviours. Riverbank provided superb Python bindings for a long time and Phil (the guy behind PyQt and Riverbank) offered great support for GPL-users on the mailing list. PySide has a long way to go to offer a comparable experience (just read the blog post on PySide of the main PyKDE developer)
What about the countries they originally came from? Do they not want them back? Why? Or is it that they don't want to go back? If so why?
Oh, most of their countries of origin would love to take them back. Then throw them into jail and torture them. In the specific case of the 17 Uighurs, the country of origin is China. We all know how much China likes members of ethnic minorities, especially if said members were in Afghanistan and could have been subject to terrorist training. The Wikipedia article got a bit of background information on the topic.
The Guananamo Uighurs are also a subject of discussion in e.g. Germany. While the possible threat of terrorism is generally assessed as non-existant, the German government tries hard to avoid any quarrels with China. Granting asylum to these detainees would certainly stress the diplomatic relationship between the two countries.
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I checked out the full repository of an open source project I have been tinkering with in both SVN and Git (libgdx). The SVN was MUCH larger than the Git repository on my hard drive (i think 33% more, but I can't remember).
Another example is Django. A Subversion checkout (only trunk, no branches or tags) uses 186 MByte on hard drive, a Git clone uses 87 MByte. That's really astonishing when considering that the git clone contains 6 years of history and 10600 commits.
I guess Assange didn't like that the swiss bank PostFinance closed his account.
PostFinance isn't a bank, it's a subsidiary of the Swiss Post.
Please explain to me how exactly China selling their x trillion USD worth of reserves would devalue the Euro?
Their total foreign exchange reserves are $2.5 trillion, only a part of it is in USD (the major part, though). China already began buying massive amounts of Euro, under the premise of helping countries in peril of bankruptcy, like Greece and Ireland. With the current state of the Euro, it doesn't take much bad news anymore to sink it, completely.
And, of course, our globalized markets mean that when the US sneezes, Europe gets a cold. Rest assured that China is capable of sending the US economy directly into intensive care, and with it the Eurozone.
Actually, if they did something that devalued the USD, it would hurt them badly.
The Telegraph article I linked to named this course of action, rather appropriately, the nuclear option. China won't use this weapon lightly, but if the US would implement such a drastic embargo as proposed by drinkypoo, what other choice do they have?
Essentially, we're living in an economic cold war between China and the West (US, mostly). Both sides have the tools to annihilate the other's economy, but not without destroying or badly hurting its own.
Who cares? The economy doesn't depend on that shit. What's more interesting is what percentage of actually useful items are made in China (which is still ridiculously high) and what's even more interesting is how much of that stuff can't be made here, which is to say almost none of it. If we stopped buying Chinese stuff for whatever reason you'd see toaster and eggbeater factories pop back up overnight. Or, more likely, they'd pop back up in Mexico again.
If the US would take such drastic measures, China would probably answer by selling their $2.5 trillions in foreign exchange reserves, most of them US Dollars. That would devalue the USD and EUR to virtually zero, bringing about economic turmoil of unprecedented magnitude.
Let's face it: China got us by the balls, and they are ready to squeeze them.
With bit.ly, you can simply append a "+" to the URL and get an information page showing, between other information, which URL hides behind it, e.g. http://bit.ly/cTGasX+. I don't know if they have a setting to always display this info page, but I'm sure there are usersrcipts and bookmarklets out there that automatically append a "+" to every bit.ly link.
I would have gone for an Austrian patent clerk...
That was actually a German patent clerk in a Swiss patent office. Europe is complicated...
The Swiss have long protected all their military force in underground bunkers. This is one reason Hitler did not attack them.
Could you please stop spreading false information that historians debunked decades ago? Thanks.
Please tell me you aren't someone who is going to condemn an entire industry because of one accident. No human enterprise ever attempted managed to get underway without mistakes.
If it's an industry where one mistake translates to environmental and economical damage on the scale we are witnessing at the gulf coast right now, then yes, condemning (and perhaps even abolishing) said industry may be the right thing to do.
That statement from Jobs is absolutely tactless. Not only did he ridicule the work of the KHTML devs ("a small open source project"), he didn't even feel like writing out its name. I really love what Apple's done with WebKit, but Jobs could at least acknowledge that, thanks to KHTML, they had a great foundation to build upon.
An antitrust case against Apple would really be fun to watch - all those fanboys squirming.
Fanboys wouldn't be the only ones squirming. Imagine how the inflated stock price of AAPL would collapse if an antitrust case with chances of success would be made against Apple.
My HTC Desire plays most flash content (but not Shockwave), and I think the HTC Legend does, too. I have it disabled most of the time, though, most flash content on the web consists of annoying ads stealing my battery juice.
Formula1's obsession with security only really began with Ayrton Senna's tragic death. What the engineers have achieved since then is nothing else but breathtaking. Have a look at some crashes from the last decade on Youtube (e.g. Robert Kubica in 2007). In todays F1 cars, you can basically drive into a concrete wall at 120 mph and come out of the wreck with little more than a dizzy head. And that's what you call "not doing their job"?
A combination of canvas, SVG, WebGL and Javascript should be enough to do most of what Flash can do.
Meanwhile, a girl might want to spend more than your toy's ticket price on a Symbian.
Haven't you heard? Symbian has been made Free by that rubber company.
That's what he did. Admittedly, MontyScrewedUpSQL sounds a lot better than MariaDB...
Makes you wonder what those guys from pypy could do for Python if they got some proper funding
A cardiac surgeon doesn't know much otolaryngology;
That analogy would be correct if people wouldn't know the difference between Java programmers and C++ programmers. I'm pretty sure every cardiologist would feel a bit insulted if a patient wouldn't know the difference between him and a nurse. Nothing against nurses, every hospital would collapse without their work.
I'm sure something similar is feasible for Ruby too.
It certainly is.
And there's also a Python port of GWT, very aptly named pyjamas.
If you mean this DjangoCMS: yes, I use it for a couple of smalish sites (bigger ones to follow). While it has great potential, it's very noticeable that it is a new product that has not seen a stable release yet (although its version number is 2.0.0 RC2). It's a fast moving target right now, but I really like the direction it is going. With a bit of polish and some community building, this could become one of Django's killer applications.
Or isn't the GPL considered open anymore?
Not if you want to write commercial software on top of it, which is what Nokia wants to enable.
I know the terms of the GPL and LGPL, thank you. I simply think it's unfair to make Riverbank look like the bad guys and Nokia the saviours. Riverbank provided superb Python bindings for a long time and Phil (the guy behind PyQt and Riverbank) offered great support for GPL-users on the mailing list. PySide has a long way to go to offer a comparable experience (just read the blog post on PySide of the main PyKDE developer)
If you cannot get the source to open-source, open-source the source.
PyQt is open source. Or isn't the GPL considered open anymore?
In honor of another famous German scientist named Hofmann I propose: LSDium
That guy was from Switzerland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
If it isn't Linux based, I'm wondering what stuff like this does in webOS.tar
So, yes, it's Linux based.
What about the countries they originally came from? Do they not want them back? Why? Or is it that they don't want to go back? If so why?
Oh, most of their countries of origin would love to take them back. Then throw them into jail and torture them. In the specific case of the 17 Uighurs, the country of origin is China. We all know how much China likes members of ethnic minorities, especially if said members were in Afghanistan and could have been subject to terrorist training. The Wikipedia article got a bit of background information on the topic.
The Guananamo Uighurs are also a subject of discussion in e.g. Germany. While the possible threat of terrorism is generally assessed as non-existant, the German government tries hard to avoid any quarrels with China. Granting asylum to these detainees would certainly stress the diplomatic relationship between the two countries.