and in doing so, sent a clear message to all neighboring countries that should they grant protection to terrorist organizations we'll summarily remove them from power.
Or rather a message was sent that the United States will attack whom ever it wants, when ever it wants. So, you (the foreign power) had better not cross us (The United States), or we will find your links to terrorism and hit you with a preemptive strike.
Don't let anyone kid you, Iran is next on the chopping block. I'm not against invading Iran, so much as I'm against the inevitable lies the Bush administration will use to justify such an action. He would probably have a lot more support if he was just more straight forward about the motivations for his actions.
Saddam Hussein's regime has opened talks with Osama bin Laden, bringing closer the threat of a terrorist attack using chemical, biological or nuclear weapons
Except that even the Bush administration now admits that Saddam had no such weapons. Nice try.
The difference is that terrorism is hardly a significant threat. Terrorists have neither the ability nor the desire to destroy all life on this planet (as a full blown nuclear war would have). The Bush administration would like to make the case that terrorism is the gravest threat the US has ever faced, but it simply isn't. I would rather die in a terrorist attack than give up my freedoms.
Why are Republicans so willing to sacrifice everything that is great about this country for the illusion of security? The war on terror is a joke, and so is Mr. Bush.
It's possible he doesn't want to administer another operating system, no matter how cute the GUI is.
There is very little to administer. It isn't like with Windows where you have to run spyware removal software every day. In my experience I spend 0 time "administering" my Mac. It has a built in program to download and install updates, so occasionally I have to reboot, but that is about it.
Seriously, what is the big deal about administering "another" OS? Macs are very easy to use, I'm sure she could just do it herself.
I know, seriously, all other things being equal I would always take a Mac over a PC. The only reason I don't own a Mac is because they cost too much (not so much the case with the mac-mini anymore).
I mean really, unless you could get a comperable PC for less than the $500 price tag why would you even consider it?
Don't like OSX (It takes some getting used to, but I think it probably has the best UI of any OS out there)? Run PPC Linux.
In most schools you can get the same degree with a "C" as you can with an "A"
Yeah, try getting into a graduate school with less than a 3.0 (that is the bare minimum for most schools, and far below what they usually accept). As far as International students go, they usually have to out preform US stutdents to get into graduate schools in the US.
Personally I believe it's because a man can't rely on marrying a woman to be the source of income whereas a woman can.
I agree with you on this one. I think it is a much more likely explanation than the explanation that women just aren't suited for it.
Um, you realize, don't you, that 1/3 to 3/5 is still a minority of women?
Of course. I'm a man, and I can do math (sorry, horrible joke).
trying to raise his daughter in a gender-neutral environment
Right, so his experience with his daughter is conclusive evidence. Please, I don't care how hard he tried to raise her in a gender-neutral environment, it just isn't possible in the world today. I bet she had friends growing up, and not all of them were raised in gender-neutral environments, so you can't rule out the effects of socialization. Not to mention the fact that she probably at least saw some television programming.
Speaking of entertainment, the most horrible examples of negative socialization when it comes to gender roles are Disney movies. These are the movies that kids are supposed to watch. Is it any wonder that so many women growing up wanting to be princesses?
I'm an American graduate student, and from what I have seen in graduate school, I think there is a very good argument that can be made that the differences in this country between men and women can be attributed in large part to socialization. I'm in computer science, and as an undergraduate there were almost no women in any of my classes, and my classes were filled predominantly with Americans. However, now that I'm in graduate school, a great deal of the students in my program are international students, and women account for between 1/3 and 3/5 of the students.
Now why is it that in the US many women aren't excelling in math and science, where as in the rest of the world they are? I certainly don't think this points to a inherent lack of genetic quality in US born women. I think it is men like the president of Harvard who try to push their views on women from a young age in the country. That, and American women who want to believe that they didn't succeed because they can't rather than because they were unwilling to try.
If you ask me, the transparency of a text stream far outways any cost in performance.
It far outweighs it huh? I guess you have never heard of a large segment of the computing world refered to as embeded systems.
If you can develop a good parser (not that hard), the cost difference is negligable, if any.
This is simply untrue, development of a good parser is easy, but it's added bloat that isn't negligable for many computing devices outside of the PC/Server realm. Not to mention the added network traffic that uncompressed text yeilds (embeded devices don't always have the fastest I/O). Some say that the solution to reducing the network overhead of XML is compression. Compression takes CPU power, another thing lacking in may embeded devices.
My point is that there are actually a lot of applications where XML is just not well suited.
The students will be judged by the teachers who will be judged by the community.
Great, so if some town decides that math and science are the work of the devil, then no more math and science for the students in that community. Standards exist to ensure some kind of even playing field for all students. It would be a shame if most universities decide to stop admiting students from a particular school district, because of that district's community standards.
I already feel sorry for the students who are being forced to learn creationism in their public high schools. I would bet that top universities will be hesitant to admit them if they are interested in majoring in biology.
Both Perl and Javascript can be maintainable if the programmer designs their code with that goal in mind. Besides, Gmail has slightly more than 1000 lines of code. That really isn't really a maintenance nightmare.
Java is an object oriented language, but I could certainly write Java code that would be a major headache to maintain if I chose to do so. I think most maintenance problems come from poor coding habits, and not the language its self.
Couldn't we just ask spammers to stop? I'm sure if they were aware that many people didn't enjoy their email messages they would likely find a new way to advertise. They surely wouldn't want to offend potential customers, right?
Even if you don't use it for email, the RSS viewer is really slick. I just tried it out on my own feed: http://tfp.rajohnston.com/rdf.php, and it worked seamlessly. There are probably other viewers out there that do a good job, but this one is the best I have found so far.
As of this writing, my original parent post has been moded troll. So be it, but this wasn't a troll, I was serious. It looks like Microsoft wanted a fancy new term for a light-weight service pack. Pointless if you ask me. It just sounds like an excuse to put less effort into supporting one of their legacy products.
Explain to me again the value of buying commercial software if it becomes abandon-ware less than 5 years after its release? 5 years seems like a long time in the software world, but I would be super pissed if I couldn't get parts for my 5 year old car.
You're forgetting that the people who post on Slashdot with Inet2 access are most probably the only kind who do any kind of file sharing, because the rest are almost all serious researchers who do not really care too much for this kinda stuff.
Not really. My campus has Internet2 connections, and the only thing that determines which network my packets are going out on is the destination IP. If I am doing transfering files to/from an Internet2 participant, my traffic should get routed through that network, otherwise it will be routed over Internet1. So, anyone on this campus who is connected (including the freshman com majors) could potentially be sharing files through the Internet2.
This is why this is such a big deal to the RIAA MPAA, because a lot of the abuse is by college students trading with college students, and a lot of that trading could be going on through the Internet2.
While it's true that IPv4 vs IPv6 has nothing to do with Internet1 vs Internet2, apparently this guy had his question answered. How? We will never know, but suffice it to say his mind has been put at ease about this issue. I think we can all feel good about that. Am I right?
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and in doing so, sent a clear message to all neighboring countries that should they grant protection to terrorist organizations we'll summarily remove them from power.
Or rather a message was sent that the United States will attack whom ever it wants, when ever it wants. So, you (the foreign power) had better not cross us (The United States), or we will find your links to terrorism and hit you with a preemptive strike.
Don't let anyone kid you, Iran is next on the chopping block. I'm not against invading Iran, so much as I'm against the inevitable lies the Bush administration will use to justify such an action. He would probably have a lot more support if he was just more straight forward about the motivations for his actions.
Saddam Hussein's regime has opened talks with Osama bin Laden, bringing closer the threat of a terrorist attack using chemical, biological or nuclear weapons
Except that even the Bush administration now admits that Saddam had no such weapons. Nice try.
The difference is that terrorism is hardly a significant threat. Terrorists have neither the ability nor the desire to destroy all life on this planet (as a full blown nuclear war would have). The Bush administration would like to make the case that terrorism is the gravest threat the US has ever faced, but it simply isn't. I would rather die in a terrorist attack than give up my freedoms.
Why are Republicans so willing to sacrifice everything that is great about this country for the illusion of security? The war on terror is a joke, and so is Mr. Bush.
I have an excellent flu remedy I'd like to include. It involves gun powder and a swing-set.
It's possible he doesn't want to administer another operating system, no matter how cute the GUI is.
There is very little to administer. It isn't like with Windows where you have to run spyware removal software every day. In my experience I spend 0 time "administering" my Mac. It has a built in program to download and install updates, so occasionally I have to reboot, but that is about it.
Seriously, what is the big deal about administering "another" OS? Macs are very easy to use, I'm sure she could just do it herself.
Firefox would include a speller checker
I use a great Firefox extension called Spellbound.
I know, seriously, all other things being equal I would always take a Mac over a PC. The only reason I don't own a Mac is because they cost too much (not so much the case with the mac-mini anymore).
I mean really, unless you could get a comperable PC for less than the $500 price tag why would you even consider it?
Don't like OSX (It takes some getting used to, but I think it probably has the best UI of any OS out there)? Run PPC Linux.
1.) The joke is shit.
Admittedly
2.) Do you mind if i joke about the average american now, like with their average iq, ignorance, etc?
I would suspect our IQs are more likely below average. Still, go right ahead.
Damn, I was really hoping they were switching, because I had this great French bashing joke:
They aren't switching because of the performance/reliability/security/price of Linux, but rather because of the cute penguin.
Oh well...
Hmm... No
In most schools you can get the same degree with a "C" as you can with an "A"
Yeah, try getting into a graduate school with less than a 3.0 (that is the bare minimum for most schools, and far below what they usually accept). As far as International students go, they usually have to out preform US stutdents to get into graduate schools in the US.
Personally I believe it's because a man can't rely on marrying a woman to be the source of income whereas a woman can.
I agree with you on this one. I think it is a much more likely explanation than the explanation that women just aren't suited for it.
Um, you realize, don't you, that 1/3 to 3/5 is still a minority of women?
Of course. I'm a man, and I can do math (sorry, horrible joke).
trying to raise his daughter in a gender-neutral environment
Right, so his experience with his daughter is conclusive evidence. Please, I don't care how hard he tried to raise her in a gender-neutral environment, it just isn't possible in the world today. I bet she had friends growing up, and not all of them were raised in gender-neutral environments, so you can't rule out the effects of socialization. Not to mention the fact that she probably at least saw some television programming.
Speaking of entertainment, the most horrible examples of negative socialization when it comes to gender roles are Disney movies. These are the movies that kids are supposed to watch. Is it any wonder that so many women growing up wanting to be princesses?
I'm an American graduate student, and from what I have seen in graduate school, I think there is a very good argument that can be made that the differences in this country between men and women can be attributed in large part to socialization. I'm in computer science, and as an undergraduate there were almost no women in any of my classes, and my classes were filled predominantly with Americans. However, now that I'm in graduate school, a great deal of the students in my program are international students, and women account for between 1/3 and 3/5 of the students.
Now why is it that in the US many women aren't excelling in math and science, where as in the rest of the world they are? I certainly don't think this points to a inherent lack of genetic quality in US born women. I think it is men like the president of Harvard who try to push their views on women from a young age in the country. That, and American women who want to believe that they didn't succeed because they can't rather than because they were unwilling to try.
If you ask me, the transparency of a text stream far outways any cost in performance.
It far outweighs it huh? I guess you have never heard of a large segment of the computing world refered to as embeded systems.
If you can develop a good parser (not that hard), the cost difference is negligable, if any.
This is simply untrue, development of a good parser is easy, but it's added bloat that isn't negligable for many computing devices outside of the PC/Server realm. Not to mention the added network traffic that uncompressed text yeilds (embeded devices don't always have the fastest I/O). Some say that the solution to reducing the network overhead of XML is compression. Compression takes CPU power, another thing lacking in may embeded devices.
My point is that there are actually a lot of applications where XML is just not well suited.
Why would you run this on an MS system? The critical errors are so common that btail would discard them with the rest of the log file.
To think that women's rights really are the key to world peace...it boggles the mind...
But do the ends justify the means?
The students will be judged by the teachers who will be judged by the community.
Great, so if some town decides that math and science are the work of the devil, then no more math and science for the students in that community. Standards exist to ensure some kind of even playing field for all students. It would be a shame if most universities decide to stop admiting students from a particular school district, because of that district's community standards.
I already feel sorry for the students who are being forced to learn creationism in their public high schools. I would bet that top universities will be hesitant to admit them if they are interested in majoring in biology.
Both Perl and Javascript can be maintainable if the programmer designs their code with that goal in mind. Besides, Gmail has slightly more than 1000 lines of code. That really isn't really a maintenance nightmare.
Java is an object oriented language, but I could certainly write Java code that would be a major headache to maintain if I chose to do so. I think most maintenance problems come from poor coding habits, and not the language its self.
Javascript is more-or-less object oriented. Have you ever used it? It is actually a pretty clever little language, with quite a bit of utility.
Couldn't we just ask spammers to stop? I'm sure if they were aware that many people didn't enjoy their email messages they would likely find a new way to advertise. They surely wouldn't want to offend potential customers, right?
Simple solutions for simple problems, lol!
Even if you don't use it for email, the RSS viewer is really slick. I just tried it out on my own feed: http://tfp.rajohnston.com/rdf.php, and it worked seamlessly. There are probably other viewers out there that do a good job, but this one is the best I have found so far.
As of this writing, my original parent post has been moded troll. So be it, but this wasn't a troll, I was serious. It looks like Microsoft wanted a fancy new term for a light-weight service pack. Pointless if you ask me. It just sounds like an excuse to put less effort into supporting one of their legacy products.
Explain to me again the value of buying commercial software if it becomes abandon-ware less than 5 years after its release? 5 years seems like a long time in the software world, but I would be super pissed if I couldn't get parts for my 5 year old car.
Update Rollup is a half-assed Service Pack.
You're forgetting that the people who post on Slashdot with Inet2 access are most probably the only kind who do any kind of file sharing, because the rest are almost all serious researchers who do not really care too much for this kinda stuff.
Not really. My campus has Internet2 connections, and the only thing that determines which network my packets are going out on is the destination IP. If I am doing transfering files to/from an Internet2 participant, my traffic should get routed through that network, otherwise it will be routed over Internet1. So, anyone on this campus who is connected (including the freshman com majors) could potentially be sharing files through the Internet2.
This is why this is such a big deal to the RIAA MPAA, because a lot of the abuse is by college students trading with college students, and a lot of that trading could be going on through the Internet2.
While it's true that IPv4 vs IPv6 has nothing to do with Internet1 vs Internet2, apparently this guy had his question answered. How? We will never know, but suffice it to say his mind has been put at ease about this issue. I think we can all feel good about that. Am I right?