"The Swiss government walked a tightrope between doing the morally right thing and securing its own survival."
You could say the same of Vichy. The fact is, all governments were faced with a choice between resisting or submitting. Some fought, some submitted. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Britain, France -- fought. Switzerland, Norway, Spain, Austria, Vichy France -- submitted. I am not talking about the people, just the governments.
OK, you'll have to brush up your WWII history knowledge. Comparing Switzerland's stance towards the Nazis to that of Austria is completely wrong. Austria welcomed the Führer with open arms. Switzerland shot down German planes and let its people know that any declaration of surrender should be considered an enemy lie.
The Swiss had an ignominious history in WWII. They looked out for their own financial interests at the expense of all others.
Won't this ever stop? Yes, there where some assholes that made a profit out of the desperate situation of wealthy Jews, yes, in hindsight, the Swiss government didn't criticize Nazi Germany as much as it should have. But, as always, you have to consider the context. As of 1940, Switzerland was completely surrounded by the Nazis. The Swiss government walked a tightrope between doing the morally right thing and securing its own survival. Calling Switzerland a profiteer of WWII is, quite simply, historically wrong.
Besides, Switzerland formed an independant comission to illuminate its role in the war. I'm not aware that any other country did something comparable to look at its past failings.
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Did anything come out of this? I compiled and tried it back in August, but it (unsurprisingly) crashed all the time and had some major rendering bugs. I never heard anything about the project after the initial announcment.
Well, the sanitized docs for the R300/R500 chips lead to very usable opensource 2D/3D drivers in less than half a year. Let's give AMD the benefit of the doubt here, they've proven to deliver useful documentation in the past.
He ignores Django's own take on their differences with traditional MVC, and prefers to just bash a straw man.
I haven't had the time to read the whole piece yet, but I strongly doubt the author's intent was to ignore Django's take on MVC or even bash it. Him being a Django core developer and all...
Yours is a better plan why again? If you go to that effort, why not focus instead on encrypting key files instead of locking down a system to which a thief has physical access?
I don't know about you, but I would prefer not getting my laptop back over some idiot looking through all my private stuff and posting the funny bits to youtube any day.
Encrypting only important files sounds nice in theory, but in practice you have the swap file, you have temporary directories and all kinds of other holes where your private files can slip through your encryption scheme. If you want encryption, do it over the whole disk.
I think you misunderstood the excerpt. What it says is that KDE lost ground in the last few years, which it did. Even SuSE, once a cornerstone of KDE's market share, defaults to Gnome now. Kubuntu is not on par with Ubuntu, and Red Hat/Fedora always was a Gnome shop. Today, no major distro has KDE as its default desktop environment. I'd call that "losing ground".
I hope KDE 4 is able to stop or even reverse this trend. I use 4.1 on a daily basis since Beta 1. It's mostly stable and shows big improvements compared to 4.0.
KDE uses something similar for its press releases:
May 27, 2008 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project is proud to announce the first beta release of KDE 4.1.
As a public service to the Slashdot community I'm going to blatantly violate copywrite and post the lyrics here so we can all see them after geocities melts down
If you bothered to read the article, you'd seen that the author has exactly your arguments why the adoption of Vista could be this slow.
BTW, I don't see why these arguments should speak in favor of Microsoft. Vista does not deliver what the mutli-billion, five years long development cycle promised. XP is enough for most people and they probably don't see why they should pay hundreds of dollars for an eye-candy-only upgrade (of course there were huge changes behind the curtains, e.g. all the DRM "improvements", but the end user does not care for such things).
Not only. I used to get that "here are my new pics" message from a friend of mine. He's a friggin' CS student. When I told him to get rid of it he said he doesn't bother since the virus didn't have any noticeable effect on his system. I couldn't believe my ears...
Fossett may have been the first to fly SOLO around the world, but Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew round the world non stop without refueling in 1986.
Rutan and Yeager flew in a plane (the Voyager). The first ones to do it with a balloon were Bertrand Piccard and Steve Fosset onboard the Breitling Orbiter III.
The important of cracking Enigma cannot ever be overstated. There is a general agreement amongst historians that the Allies ability to read the German's encrypted traffic shaved a couple of years off the war.
I would go as far and say that cracking Enigma prevented nuclear bombs over Europe. Nevertheless, the names of Rejewski, Turing and others have been forgotten or never known by the public. It's a shame.
Perhaps the GP confused the UK case with the german gmail case. In Germany, the name G-mail and the domain gmail.de was already taken when Google launched Gmail. Google not only didn't get the domain gmail.de, they even aren't allowed to use the Gmail trademark in Germany. Instead, they use googlemail.com (but not googlemail.de, despite owning the domain).
So why do the A380s that are flying manage without all that cable?
Prototypes can do without on-board entertainment systems while production machines cannot. Imagine flying to Singapore without Julia Roberts! The horrors!!
They are very nice looking watches that have a habit of falling apart or stopping for little or no reason.
My Fossil watch bought in 2000 is still going strong despite quite a rough life, including some very intensive mountain biking and military training school and service.
To be correct, some of them are made by Sony. Lenovo also ships batteries from Sanyo and Panasonic. You can find out from where your battery comes with Lenovo's Parts Lookup tool. If you're running Linux and have the tp_smapi module loaded, following command should also do it:
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The Wikipedia article you quote says it has a Linux kernel (citing this interview as source), so what's the confusion?
"The Swiss government walked a tightrope between doing the morally right thing and securing its own survival." You could say the same of Vichy. The fact is, all governments were faced with a choice between resisting or submitting. Some fought, some submitted. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Britain, France -- fought. Switzerland, Norway, Spain, Austria, Vichy France -- submitted. I am not talking about the people, just the governments.
OK, you'll have to brush up your WWII history knowledge. Comparing Switzerland's stance towards the Nazis to that of Austria is completely wrong. Austria welcomed the Führer with open arms. Switzerland shot down German planes and let its people know that any declaration of surrender should be considered an enemy lie.
Please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_World_Wars#World_War_II
The Swiss had an ignominious history in WWII. They looked out for their own financial interests at the expense of all others.
Won't this ever stop? Yes, there where some assholes that made a profit out of the desperate situation of wealthy Jews, yes, in hindsight, the Swiss government didn't criticize Nazi Germany as much as it should have. But, as always, you have to consider the context. As of 1940, Switzerland was completely surrounded by the Nazis. The Swiss government walked a tightrope between doing the morally right thing and securing its own survival. Calling Switzerland a profiteer of WWII is, quite simply, historically wrong.
Besides, Switzerland formed an independant comission to illuminate its role in the war. I'm not aware that any other country did something comparable to look at its past failings.
Did anything come out of this? I compiled and tried it back in August, but it (unsurprisingly) crashed all the time and had some major rendering bugs. I never heard anything about the project after the initial announcment.
Well, the sanitized docs for the R300/R500 chips lead to very usable opensource 2D/3D drivers in less than half a year. Let's give AMD the benefit of the doubt here, they've proven to deliver useful documentation in the past.
He ignores Django's own take on their differences with traditional MVC, and prefers to just bash a straw man.
I haven't had the time to read the whole piece yet, but I strongly doubt the author's intent was to ignore Django's take on MVC or even bash it. Him being a Django core developer and all...
nmap was not built for hacking. It's useful for all kind of stuff.
Cars are not built for robbing banks. They are useful for all kind of stuff.
Xrumer was built for cracking CAPTCHAs and posting spam to forums, blogs and other websites. There is no other use case for it.
See a pattern?
Yours is a better plan why again? If you go to that effort, why not focus instead on encrypting key files instead of locking down a system to which a thief has physical access?
I don't know about you, but I would prefer not getting my laptop back over some idiot looking through all my private stuff and posting the funny bits to youtube any day.
Encrypting only important files sounds nice in theory, but in practice you have the swap file, you have temporary directories and all kinds of other holes where your private files can slip through your encryption scheme. If you want encryption, do it over the whole disk.
Not to rain on your parade, but exactly how are you intending to use browsers in cluster computing?
Didn't you get the memo? The browser is the new operating system! So, naturally, it belongs on a cluster.
I think you misunderstood the excerpt. What it says is that KDE lost ground in the last few years, which it did. Even SuSE, once a cornerstone of KDE's market share, defaults to Gnome now. Kubuntu is not on par with Ubuntu, and Red Hat/Fedora always was a Gnome shop. Today, no major distro has KDE as its default desktop environment. I'd call that "losing ground".
I hope KDE 4 is able to stop or even reverse this trend. I use 4.1 on a daily basis since Beta 1. It's mostly stable and shows big improvements compared to 4.0.
If you violate copyright, do it right.
This is ./, the summary is almost never correct.
If you bothered to read the article, you'd seen that the author has exactly your arguments why the adoption of Vista could be this slow.
BTW, I don't see why these arguments should speak in favor of Microsoft. Vista does not deliver what the mutli-billion, five years long development cycle promised. XP is enough for most people and they probably don't see why they should pay hundreds of dollars for an eye-candy-only upgrade (of course there were huge changes behind the curtains, e.g. all the DRM "improvements", but the end user does not care for such things).
Not only. I used to get that "here are my new pics" message from a friend of mine. He's a friggin' CS student. When I told him to get rid of it he said he doesn't bother since the virus didn't have any noticeable effect on his system. I couldn't believe my ears...
Sorry, it was Piccard an Brian Jones, of course.
Rutan and Yeager flew in a plane (the Voyager). The first ones to do it with a balloon were Bertrand Piccard and Steve Fosset onboard the Breitling Orbiter III.
I would go as far and say that cracking Enigma prevented nuclear bombs over Europe. Nevertheless, the names of Rejewski, Turing and others have been forgotten or never known by the public. It's a shame.
Lawyers, I guess.
Perhaps the GP confused the UK case with the german gmail case. In Germany, the name G-mail and the domain gmail.de was already taken when Google launched Gmail. Google not only didn't get the domain gmail.de, they even aren't allowed to use the Gmail trademark in Germany. Instead, they use googlemail.com (but not googlemail.de, despite owning the domain).
Prototypes can do without on-board entertainment systems while production machines cannot. Imagine flying to Singapore without Julia Roberts! The horrors!!
It's truthful, but classless. Apple screws up big time, and they have no better idea than to insult Microsoft? Common, that's so cheap...
My Fossil watch bought in 2000 is still going strong despite quite a rough life, including some very intensive mountain biking and military training school and service.
The german newsticker heise.de cites 80 watts for a X1900 card while folding.
...after reading this little story.
I have a battery from Sanyo, unfortunately, so no free, new battery for me :(
To be correct, some of them are made by Sony. Lenovo also ships batteries from Sanyo and Panasonic. You can find out from where your battery comes with Lenovo's Parts Lookup tool. If you're running Linux and have the tp_smapi module loaded, following command should also do it: