And "pray tell me" which nation has stated that they will "wipe Israel off the face of the earth", and have identified America as a nation of evil that must be destroyed? Does it sound wise to give that national weapons that could do just that? Obviously not.
You should listen carefully to what US own politicians say. Believe me, the Iran's populist president pales in comparison.
Which nation has funded suicide bomberms, brainwashed children into blowing up people, and promoted the idea that all must adopt Islam or die? Certainly NOT Israel, and not the States.
And neither the Iran gov't had anything to do with what you are describing. Neither Iranians are religious fundamentalists. You should meet and talk to few Iranians to understand what kind of relaxed people they are.
Otherwise, undercover help to train mercenaries against your enemies is pretty standard practice, popularized in times of Cold War by US and Russia.
Has Israel ever threatened anyone with Nuclear weapons? No. Have they stated that Iran must be destroyed? No. What issues exactly has Israel caused in the international scene even after they had nuclear weapons? None.
Not with nuclear, but Israelis are seriously considering the war.
Yes, some Israeli fundamentalists are pretty bad ass, but for some reason get absolutely no screen time.
Israel essentially subjected millions and millions of people for miserable existence in refugee camps. Because the place where the people lived is where Israel state itself is. Try forcefully evicting your neighbors, taking over their home/apartments and see the reaction for yourself.
Let's have an attempt at being rational at least, instead of trying to justify putting horrific weapons into the hands of self professed killers.
I expect war soon, both sides are getting too crazy and belligerent.
I sincerely hope that all sides have no resources for the war.
Otherwise, yes, I have to agree about the war. The oil/gas reserves of the Iran are pretty lucrative target for the next war.
But in that context one shouldn't forget about the China: it is a major import/export partner of the Iran. China might not like others coming and taking what China itself no doubt would have loved to take. (BTW, India is too Iran's major partner.)
Iran is relatively independent and otherwise well connected locally and to other neighboring nations like China and India (check the main importers and exporters). The rate would have little impact on Iran itself.
Loss of rial to USD means that the US traders do not need the currency, which is needed only to do the business with Iran. And there were very little business to begin with.
Instead of helping Iran being more developed, better integrated with the rest of the world, so that a**holes like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not get elected, we do what?
All this high rhetoric about Iran is such a non-sense. The EU and US simply do not want Iran to become a major international player because they are very well positioned to also become very important player.
On a slow week-end I have read through all the Wikipedia material on Iran and honestly the mention of what Iran needs (and it needs little) to become a superpower are all over the place. Embargoes would do little, only slow it down. Real change inside the Iran could happen when Iran becomes a superpower - but it seems our politicians are not in favor of it.
BTW, slow down of Iran's peaceful nuclear program will have an impact on us in oil/gas dependent countries. Oil and gas are major sources of energy in Iran, but efficiency of Iran's processing is very low. Nuclear program supposed to free up quite a lot of the gas and the oil and allow to increase export or simply save the resources instead of wasting them.
They literally cannot tell the difference between bullshit and the truth.
And those who can, you simply avoid.
They have no idea just how complicated it can be, and no real appreciation either.
In my experience, most complications in IT come directly from the IT department trying to make their own life easier.
What's more, IT managers do not see the complexity as something negative. Quite the opposite: it provides justification to hire more subordinate admins.
We are damned if we do, and damned if we don't as far as explanations go, and nobody wants to take any responsibility.
What a load of B.S. Management of my department spent about 3 years wrangling from (mostly Windows-centric) IT our UNIX servers, to put them in our responsibility.
Otherwise, yes, comparison with janitor is a good one, really. And your dismissive tone in relation to janitors is just showing your own overrated ego. Disclosure: in parallel to being a junior sw developer, i was working part time janitor for several months. You should try it yourself.
That is not so simple. Misleading bit is that Apple advertises "included 1 year AppleCare, + extra 2 years for extra money," while saying nowhere that customers actually by law have 2 years of warranty.
Now, the simplest distinction of AppleCare and standard support is that former is international, latter is local.
IOW, there are some extras AppleCare covers, but they avoid mentioning how precisely it differs from the standard support, what's covered for 1 year, what's covered for 2 years, what's covered with the optional AppleCare.
I'm staying with FireFox (3.6) solely for the extensions.
I'm hearing that a lot, but the fact is that all the extensions I use (firebug, abp, it's all text, and some others) just run fine with the latest firefox too. What addon is it that does not work?
Poor choice of words on my part. It is not that I stay with 3.6 for extensions - it is that I'm staying with FireFox (the browser) for extensions. Last time I was checking, most my extensions should work on the new versions. The last one missing was the "rein, das Monochrome" theme and even it was updated few months ago.
Re 3.6. I have some subtle customizations applied in the about:config which one can never be sure that new versions still provide. Neither I can't recall now all the customizations applied. (E.g. remove the new tab button from tab bar, double click selects line, location of tab close button, etc.) Literally every major upgrade starting with the Fx 2.0 was pain in the butt because developers were continuously trimming the GUI-less options from the about:config. One had to resort to the extensions or whatnot to replace/augment the browser features/behavior to bring it in accord with my workflow and habits.
I'm staying with FireFox (3.6) solely for the extensions.
I have accepted the compromise that flexible configurable browser would be always losing in the performance department. And I'm fine with it.
All this rabid JS/etc performance is only needed on the handful of websites I actually do not use. Neither I see the live feed scrolling or sweeping or slide-out or fade-in thingies, a modern replacement of marquee and blink tags, as something I'm sorely missing.
The more a system becomes complex, the more one needs to see events as part of a whole and do some kind of analysis and correlation. This type of work is done more easily with databases. I like grep like everyone, but if I want to have a nice rollup of events based on time and source, I will get the info much more easily with a SQL query than with a regex piped into a reporting utility piped into a paging utility.
Typing 'grep <whatever>' is much much faster than: connecting to DB, typing query and realigning rows/columns on screen for readability.
I have to dig quite often through audit-log-like tables in DB created by our software and let me tell you that SQL doesn't make any correlations easy. Especially if we are talking about some production system were you end up self-joining a table with few dozen million rows (what you need to display for example the trivial thing as the time to the next/prev interesting event).
Neither the usual SQL tools are any good at displaying the data - as compared to displaying the SQL itself e.g. syntax highlighting. On text side of things, it takes minutes to create custom syntax for VIM for the problem at hand.
Why would you want to "reconvert" the Windows event log to text?
How many 3rd party applications actually use the Windows Event Log? I have seen probably one or two.
You know why? Because using it is a PITA - I have tried that twice as SW devel already in times of NT4 and W2K. (I was hoping to simplify critical error reporting of the Windows applications (including one GUI-less) and thought myself "WEL is just like syslog!" Oh gosh, Windows API proved me wrong.)
On Windows there is a lot of built-in capabilities for log exploring in Powershell or even in VBS/WMI. A toolbox contains many tools, not just grep.
Oh, so you like all that stuff over something as fool-proof, robust and simple as the grep? OK.
[...] the nice thing about not allowing the central federal government to get too powerful is that neither group can do much damage that way because almost all of the government a citizen experiences comes from the local and state levels.
Another nice thing, is that it is much cheaper for large business to bribe local politicians.
Local and state politicians no matter their affiliation are more accountable and it is much easier to relocate (and deny them your taxes) if you really have a problem with the way they run things.
Until the time comes when large business, which outgrew every standalone state, has purchased every other state and you have nowhere to move.
Yeah the government is dysfunctional, no dispute there, and it took the coordinated efforts of both parties (really a single Statist Party with two factions) to make it that way.
The gov't is dysfunctional because people allowed it to be so.
And also, honestly, I think that democracy (rule of majority) simply can't work when majority of people spend most of their lives passively consuming. Your US democracy is quite exemplary in that respect. It worked well when taking part in political process was highly involving, required some sort of commitment. And many did commit themselves, many were involved. And politicians couldn't dare to act against the will of people.
Another opinion could be that the majoritarian systems, based on populism, simply had no sufficient time to adapt themselves to the environment where information travels very fast and very cheaply. Never before it was so easy to manipulate opinion of the masses. I'm constantly reminded of the ancient Bread and circuses. Fast food and TV, to put it in modern terms.
None. They are all too sweet for me. I have settled on IIRC Kraft Foods one, which is sweet too - but not to the repulsive degree like e.g. Heinz. I'm talking about the ones sold in Germany. Note that the taste/etc differs from country to country, as was witnessed by my friend who frequently travels to Belgium and occasionally buys groceries there: their food is overall much less sweet.
Overall, I prefer mustard, which unfortunately in Germany is normally sweet too. But the "Thomy" branded "Sharf" one is pretty OK. And when added to the ketchup, it makes it pretty edible. Not a proper sauce, but better than nothing.
P.S. This is BTW quite interesting: I do not like the sweet ketchup, but I'm totally fine with the French moutarde au miel. But I think that can be attributed to the difference between HFCS/sugar and honey.
Ketchup is disgusting. It's a poor substitute for barbecue sauce... a very poor substitute.
Let me, as European summarize it better: both ketchup and barbecue sauce made in US are disgusting. One can as well sprinkle food with the sugar. I have tried several US brands here in Germany and they all suck big time.
Slashdot should just create a cron job to post these Firefox stories. They could save a lot of time in the long run.
Even more time could be saved, if Slashdot also had provided the cronjob service to its users: to automatically post comments to the Firefox version stories. It is even simpler than the stories/dups/random cron job, 'cause comments to the stories remain the same: option to copy user's comments from the past stories into the new stories should be On by default.
Slashdot Mirror
The most exhaustive summary on the problem I have seen to date.
Use basic HTML tags for formatting. Slashdot allows only some basic tags. See "What are post modes?" on this page for the list of allowed tags.
Crash course.
Use <p> to start new paragraph and <br> for a line break.
<quote> Quoted text </quote> is rendered like that:
Quoted text
<a href="http://whatever">Link to whatever</a> is rendered like that: Link to whatever.
You can a;ways experiment using the "Preview" button.
And "pray tell me" which nation has stated that they will "wipe Israel off the face of the earth", and have identified America as a nation of evil that must be destroyed? Does it sound wise to give that national weapons that could do just that? Obviously not.
You should listen carefully to what US own politicians say. Believe me, the Iran's populist president pales in comparison.
Which nation has funded suicide bomberms, brainwashed children into blowing up people, and promoted the idea that all must adopt Islam or die? Certainly NOT Israel, and not the States.
And neither the Iran gov't had anything to do with what you are describing. Neither Iranians are religious fundamentalists. You should meet and talk to few Iranians to understand what kind of relaxed people they are.
Otherwise, undercover help to train mercenaries against your enemies is pretty standard practice, popularized in times of Cold War by US and Russia.
Has Israel ever threatened anyone with Nuclear weapons? No. Have they stated that Iran must be destroyed? No. What issues exactly has Israel caused in the international scene even after they had nuclear weapons? None.
Not with nuclear, but Israelis are seriously considering the war.
Yes, some Israeli fundamentalists are pretty bad ass, but for some reason get absolutely no screen time.
Israel essentially subjected millions and millions of people for miserable existence in refugee camps. Because the place where the people lived is where Israel state itself is. Try forcefully evicting your neighbors, taking over their home/apartments and see the reaction for yourself.
Let's have an attempt at being rational at least, instead of trying to justify putting horrific weapons into the hands of self professed killers.
The horrific weapons are already in hands of killers. Worse, the killers have zero regret.
But for example Iran's both elected gov't and spiritual leadership openly said that use of nuclear weapon is against the (state) Islam religion.
I expect war soon, both sides are getting too crazy and belligerent.
I sincerely hope that all sides have no resources for the war.
Otherwise, yes, I have to agree about the war. The oil/gas reserves of the Iran are pretty lucrative target for the next war.
But in that context one shouldn't forget about the China: it is a major import/export partner of the Iran. China might not like others coming and taking what China itself no doubt would have loved to take. (BTW, India is too Iran's major partner.)
Iran is relatively independent and otherwise well connected locally and to other neighboring nations like China and India (check the main importers and exporters). The rate would have little impact on Iran itself.
Loss of rial to USD means that the US traders do not need the currency, which is needed only to do the business with Iran. And there were very little business to begin with.
Instead of helping Iran being more developed, better integrated with the rest of the world, so that a**holes like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not get elected, we do what?
All this high rhetoric about Iran is such a non-sense. The EU and US simply do not want Iran to become a major international player because they are very well positioned to also become very important player.
On a slow week-end I have read through all the Wikipedia material on Iran and honestly the mention of what Iran needs (and it needs little) to become a superpower are all over the place. Embargoes would do little, only slow it down. Real change inside the Iran could happen when Iran becomes a superpower - but it seems our politicians are not in favor of it.
BTW, slow down of Iran's peaceful nuclear program will have an impact on us in oil/gas dependent countries. Oil and gas are major sources of energy in Iran, but efficiency of Iran's processing is very low. Nuclear program supposed to free up quite a lot of the gas and the oil and allow to increase export or simply save the resources instead of wasting them.
Reminded:
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
--Redd Foxx
They literally cannot tell the difference between bullshit and the truth.
And those who can, you simply avoid.
They have no idea just how complicated it can be, and no real appreciation either.
In my experience, most complications in IT come directly from the IT department trying to make their own life easier.
What's more, IT managers do not see the complexity as something negative. Quite the opposite: it provides justification to hire more subordinate admins.
We are damned if we do, and damned if we don't as far as explanations go, and nobody wants to take any responsibility.
What a load of B.S. Management of my department spent about 3 years wrangling from (mostly Windows-centric) IT our UNIX servers, to put them in our responsibility.
Otherwise, yes, comparison with janitor is a good one, really. And your dismissive tone in relation to janitors is just showing your own overrated ego. Disclosure: in parallel to being a junior sw developer, i was working part time janitor for several months. You should try it yourself.
Why we never hear "patent allowed," but instead always we hear this:
[...] a stage musician and inventor who was annoyed because Marconi's patents prevented him from using wireless.
That is not so simple. Misleading bit is that Apple advertises "included 1 year AppleCare, + extra 2 years for extra money," while saying nowhere that customers actually by law have 2 years of warranty.
Now, the simplest distinction of AppleCare and standard support is that former is international, latter is local.
IOW, there are some extras AppleCare covers, but they avoid mentioning how precisely it differs from the standard support, what's covered for 1 year, what's covered for 2 years, what's covered with the optional AppleCare.
I'm staying with FireFox (3.6) solely for the extensions.
I'm hearing that a lot, but the fact is that all the extensions I use (firebug, abp, it's all text, and some others) just run fine with the latest firefox too. What addon is it that does not work?
Poor choice of words on my part. It is not that I stay with 3.6 for extensions - it is that I'm staying with FireFox (the browser) for extensions. Last time I was checking, most my extensions should work on the new versions. The last one missing was the "rein, das Monochrome" theme and even it was updated few months ago.
Re 3.6. I have some subtle customizations applied in the about:config which one can never be sure that new versions still provide. Neither I can't recall now all the customizations applied. (E.g. remove the new tab button from tab bar, double click selects line, location of tab close button, etc.) Literally every major upgrade starting with the Fx 2.0 was pain in the butt because developers were continuously trimming the GUI-less options from the about:config. One had to resort to the extensions or whatnot to replace/augment the browser features/behavior to bring it in accord with my workflow and habits.
I'm staying with FireFox (3.6) solely for the extensions.
I have accepted the compromise that flexible configurable browser would be always losing in the performance department. And I'm fine with it.
All this rabid JS/etc performance is only needed on the handful of websites I actually do not use. Neither I see the live feed scrolling or sweeping or slide-out or fade-in thingies, a modern replacement of marquee and blink tags, as something I'm sorely missing.
"Fool-proof" and "regular expression" in the same sentence do not compute [...]
No prob, just assume in my original comment 'fgrep' instead of 'grep'.
Facing all the complexity of the extensions, the fact that the dumb Xfce appeals to so many users seems to be almost miraculous.
P.S. Though IceWM remains my personal favorite.
Thanks, but no, thanks.... been happy with KDE4 after GNOME screwed GNOME3.
But I still wish somebody made a port of Xfce for KDE...
The more a system becomes complex, the more one needs to see events as part of a whole and do some kind of analysis and correlation. This type of work is done more easily with databases. I like grep like everyone, but if I want to have a nice rollup of events based on time and source, I will get the info much more easily with a SQL query than with a regex piped into a reporting utility piped into a paging utility.
Typing 'grep <whatever>' is much much faster than: connecting to DB, typing query and realigning rows/columns on screen for readability.
I have to dig quite often through audit-log-like tables in DB created by our software and let me tell you that SQL doesn't make any correlations easy. Especially if we are talking about some production system were you end up self-joining a table with few dozen million rows (what you need to display for example the trivial thing as the time to the next/prev interesting event).
Neither the usual SQL tools are any good at displaying the data - as compared to displaying the SQL itself e.g. syntax highlighting. On text side of things, it takes minutes to create custom syntax for VIM for the problem at hand.
Why would you want to "reconvert" the Windows event log to text?
How many 3rd party applications actually use the Windows Event Log? I have seen probably one or two.
You know why? Because using it is a PITA - I have tried that twice as SW devel already in times of NT4 and W2K. (I was hoping to simplify critical error reporting of the Windows applications (including one GUI-less) and thought myself "WEL is just like syslog!" Oh gosh, Windows API proved me wrong.)
On Windows there is a lot of built-in capabilities for log exploring in Powershell or even in VBS/WMI. A toolbox contains many tools, not just grep.
Oh, so you like all that stuff over something as fool-proof, robust and simple as the grep? OK.
[...] the nice thing about not allowing the central federal government to get too powerful is that neither group can do much damage that way because almost all of the government a citizen experiences comes from the local and state levels.
Another nice thing, is that it is much cheaper for large business to bribe local politicians.
Local and state politicians no matter their affiliation are more accountable and it is much easier to relocate (and deny them your taxes) if you really have a problem with the way they run things.
Until the time comes when large business, which outgrew every standalone state, has purchased every other state and you have nowhere to move.
Yeah the government is dysfunctional, no dispute there, and it took the coordinated efforts of both parties (really a single Statist Party with two factions) to make it that way.
The gov't is dysfunctional because people allowed it to be so.
And also, honestly, I think that democracy (rule of majority) simply can't work when majority of people spend most of their lives passively consuming. Your US democracy is quite exemplary in that respect. It worked well when taking part in political process was highly involving, required some sort of commitment. And many did commit themselves, many were involved. And politicians couldn't dare to act against the will of people.
Another opinion could be that the majoritarian systems, based on populism, simply had no sufficient time to adapt themselves to the environment where information travels very fast and very cheaply. Never before it was so easy to manipulate opinion of the masses. I'm constantly reminded of the ancient Bread and circuses. Fast food and TV, to put it in modern terms.
None. They are all too sweet for me. I have settled on IIRC Kraft Foods one, which is sweet too - but not to the repulsive degree like e.g. Heinz. I'm talking about the ones sold in Germany. Note that the taste/etc differs from country to country, as was witnessed by my friend who frequently travels to Belgium and occasionally buys groceries there: their food is overall much less sweet.
Overall, I prefer mustard, which unfortunately in Germany is normally sweet too. But the "Thomy" branded "Sharf" one is pretty OK. And when added to the ketchup, it makes it pretty edible. Not a proper sauce, but better than nothing.
P.S. This is BTW quite interesting: I do not like the sweet ketchup, but I'm totally fine with the French moutarde au miel. But I think that can be attributed to the difference between HFCS/sugar and honey.
Ketchup is disgusting. It's a poor substitute for barbecue sauce... a very poor substitute.
Let me, as European summarize it better: both ketchup and barbecue sauce made in US are disgusting. One can as well sprinkle food with the sugar. I have tried several US brands here in Germany and they all suck big time.
Here you go, boy.
Right now JPEG org promises that you will not be sued for implementing the basic JPEG 2000.
I'm studying German at the moment. Any tip for a good dictionary on the subject?
Just for your information, GEMA also collects money from the live performances.
IIRC, reason quoted was that the live performances harm CD sales and thus harm artists' profits.
realFireFoxVersion(x) = (5 - 4.5/x + x/1000).toString()+"beta"
FTFY.
I think you were looking for this.
Slashdot should just create a cron job to post these Firefox stories. They could save a lot of time in the long run.
Even more time could be saved, if Slashdot also had provided the cronjob service to its users: to automatically post comments to the Firefox version stories. It is even simpler than the stories/dups/random cron job, 'cause comments to the stories remain the same: option to copy user's comments from the past stories into the new stories should be On by default.