IBM is strong on servers / mainframes. That's their bread and butter. Unfortunately, Websphere Studio Application Developer and Rational Software Architect can't be used to write the daily memos and do mathematical worksheets. Star Office is closed. Shut down. So forget it.
That's the problem. That's EXACTLY the problem. Open Source is owned by none giving it NO respect in corporate sense. IT departments have been saying this for many years. To be considered for real, open source must be "adopted" by a corporate entity which has the financial muscle acumen and the willingness to take risks. This is exactly what our Company Law allows us to do: taking risks without risking our pensions! Why hasn't anyone created a for-profit corporation which can "adopt" open source and whose charter says it will give back any profits back to the open source community? In a way a shell corporation for all the excellent stuff? Damn, Red Hat is nowhere near it and all other IT cos are not willing...
Before you all rejoice in hallelujah glory please remember that: 1) MS is a powerful marketing organisation with a single control center. It has millions to spend on lobbying. Instead of one central purchasing order they will go after each state/county and government organisation parallely and independently. 2) To take advantage of this situation the FOSS/Open Source has NO marketing budget or marketing plan except for some backdoor geeks. 3) Lobbyists that MS hires far outmatch the abilities of what FOSS can bring up.... Let's face facts ok? We have been a good, in fact excellent opening in a battle. The enemy has taken a big kick in its balls and is down for a few moments. But, we lack the control center and resources of taking advantage of it. If i were Red Hat or Ubuntu (in a corporate sense), i would be in NZ now talking to the main permanent secretaries and other pukes down there to hammer down an initial PoC for Linux/Open office. And yes i would offer a central help center staffed by real people who can train the department's IT staff and/or assist them in installing, fixing bugs, training staff, etc all the things Microsoft will do. And yes, i would sign a one-year contract with them offering them a FREE software with paid support. But, as FOSS supporter do i have a centralized marketing budget, people, resources to make it happen? NOOOO. Its likea Sniper going against an entire armoured division. Yeah it sounds gung-ho, but that does not win a war gentlemen. We need the three C's of marketing. Command, Control and a Corporate willing to take risks and Money. Once we have that in form of Red Hat or corporate Ubuntu we can talk about a Master Plan on taking down MS... Until then shut up the vodka bottles. Its too early to celebrate.
Much like high fructose corn syrup. How come no one filed a class action suit against the Corn growers lobby for "posioning" our children with corn syrup? If people can file cases for tobacco and Asbestos (it has been proven that asbestos causes cancer in real world) why can't they do for corn syrup? Coca Cola in India, Singapore Germany and China taste better than in US. Hell even Aussie coca cola (and their LIFT drink) tastes a lot better than in US. (on a totally unrelated matter aussie beer, the Fosters stuff is badder than horse piss. They make it for export. Try VB if you are in Aus)
I don't where you got your quack information, but it is a half-lie. Gas station owners hate mixing ethanol with Gasoline. Not only is it difficult, but also troublesome to handle both. One billing, One payment is what they prefer, not dealing with two or more suppliers. On the selling side, car owners spread information about which gas station is "reliable" and which is not. The last thing a Gas Station owner in a small 2-bit town needs is bad publicity because he put short term profits ahead of long-term growth. Gas station owners are NOT corporates to put short-term profits ahead. They are humans. They think long term, else they would not be in this dreary business of daily dealing with death and fumes and surly customers wanting cigarettes. And the last thing they want is standing on the stand in court to face a trial lawyer. How stupid do you think Gas station owners are?
If its a paradise as you say, why are you posting as an Anonymous Coward? Let me quote from Economist a few facts:
Almost since it first came to power in 2002, Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) Party has been under attack from Turkey's secular Ataturkist establishment, particularly the generals.
The generals and their allies believe that nothing less than the future of Ataturk's secular republic is at stake. Similar rumblings were heard when the now defunct pro-Islamic Welfare party first came to power in 1996. It was ejected a year later in a bloodless "velvet coup" and banned on similar charges to those now levelled at the AKP. But with each intervention the Islamists come back stronger.
Pressed for evidence of creeping Islamisation under the AKP, they point to the growing number of women who wear the headscarf, which is proscribed as a symbol of Islamic militancy in state-run institutions and schools.
The battle for Turkey's soul is being waged most fiercely in the country's schools. Egitim-Sen, a leftist teachers' union, charges that Islam has been permeating textbooks under the AKP. Darwin's theory of evolution is being whittled away and creationism is seeping in. Islamist fraternities, or tarikat, continue to ensnare students by offering free accommodation. The quid pro quo is that they fast and pray, and girls cover their heads.
In other words, the threat of radical Islam in Turkey may have increased thanks to the secularists' attack on the AKP.
Exactly. Well Said. The reason Wii became such a monstrous success is because of its simplicity. Its graphics isn't that great. I took one look at XBox 360 controller and did not buy it because it looked "so alien". I need a controller that goes with the flow. Like a joystick and one button. Or two buttons max. The key to earlier games being so good is because these guys knew human psychology and physiological limitations. Plus add to the constraints of those era. The human brain can at most do 3-4 tasks parallelly with two hands. The earlier CPUs can handle only so much on-screen painting. So the designers had to be clever to make use of psychology as much as CPU power. The iPhone enforces that simplicity today forcing developers to use their brains instead of LoC. The Wii does the same thing. No wonder EA hates it. KISS. Its a principle that is universal.
...nationalist nation like Saudi Arabia. For the past decade, muslim conservatives have slowly wormed themselves into Turkey's prominent positions and have implemented Sharia/Local Muslim laws. Ataturk's greatest legacy was a fiercely secular nation which was protected by its Army. The Army was highly secular and any attempts to make the country another muslim dictatorship was resisted with force. However in the past decade, the wise old men have slowly faded away and as a result the long-suppressed muslim irritator have come to the fore. They started with small things first: Hijabs for Girls and Women in College/School. This was resisted by many, but ultimately the conservatives won. Governmental jobs for non-secular muslim patriots and mullahs only. New vacancies are filled with these bearded monsters. A weak Parliment exploited by muslim conservatives who support any party as long as they get their way. The other parties too, in their mad hunger for short-term power cede more to muslims. Add to that the EU refusal to include Turkey as EU country (stupendously idiotic) has fanned the muslims cries of discrimination (they always have this inferiority complex) and led to more nationalism in muslim garb. Now call up any of your friends in Turkey and ask about the Political situation and they are more likely to reply with details of next-door Tailor. Fear has slowly permeated the country where phones are tapped. One in every 10,000 turks is now a spy for the muslim government.(And no i did not make this up. Read Economist magazine, last week's). The same scenario Hitler used to come to power is being reenacted here. Only this time its a trio of muslim mullahs who seek to overturn what was Ataturk's Greatest Achievement: Fierce Secularism. The day will come when Ataturk's birthday will no longer be a Holiday, and his face removed from Halls of Power and Public.
Considering that Turkey is a NATO ally and has nukes stationed by NATO, this is a terrifying thought. What best way for a mullah to acquire a nuke than to acquire a developed country which has many! Turkey looks like a strategic plan by muslim mullahs to acquire a foothold into developed nation status and get nukes.
Yes, you may mod me as a Rant/Flamebait/Offtopic but i did not imagine these. Check the magazines, check the books and better call up any friends in Turkey and ask pointedly whether they can speak against this muslim conservative liberals.
Give one small toe-hold to a muslim party and they will pervert the entire nation to their will and subjugate the majority. Never give any quarter. France and Britain should stop appeasing these people. Law is law, for everyone. I cannot go to Riyadh and pray at a temple or a church. There are none. I cannot ask my wife to wear Jeans and open-neck T-shirts. NOPE. When i enter Saudi Arabia i MUST obey their stupid laws. But when they enter France they expect France to obey Saudi laws like Hijabs, etc. And better yet Britain agrees with them. Wow!
That's why i do the following when corporates with whom i have dealings with ask for my personal info: 1) I do NOT give out my mobile nos to anyone outside of my family. If comcast or or an ISP wants my mobile number, i say my corporate policy prevents me from giving it out. 2) When i close a loan, i make sure to get mny original papers from the bank. If the bank claims it as "bank record" or some other stupid illegal reason, i go to the Ombudsman or courts to get them back. I ask the court that a promissory note is a bill of exchange which must be surrendered in original to the issuer to get paid. In this case the Bank cheated me out of the money by refusing to return the original bill after promising to return it as per law. I ask the court to order the bank to issue me a promissory note in my favor for exact same amount as long as the bank retains mine. Most banks fold. One bank refused and was ordered to repay me the full amount back to me and then claim it from ne after producing the original. 3) I never use my real name anywhere on the internet except at job sites.
The story here is that the government refused to provide funding on the basis that they were already providing funding.
But the same government did NOT refuse to provide funding to MP's and ministers for their various "expenses" on the basis they were already receiving 6-figure incomes...
Of course the British Government would refuse to pay for maintaining a mueseum of The Building That Won The War. They need the money to pay for: 1) Dog shampooing fees 2) Maintaining-a-mistress-fee 3) Swimming-pool renovation fee 4) Limos for Restaurants and waiting charges 5) Movie and Opera tickets and taxi cabs Why would today's MPs be interested in maintaining History when they can pad up their pockets with all these goodies with that money? Britain needs a Michael Moore: one who not only shames the MPs and Ministers of both parties but results in their permanent explusion and conviction for fraud and theft.
I weigh 57 Kgs. I eat like a hungry wolf. If it doesn't contain double-fat or double-cheese i don't eat it. My doctor says i have hyper-metabolism. Which means i can eat and eat and eat, but never be full [or never be fat]. I checked my cholestrol, lipid and all the blood crap that killed my dad 17 years ago. Nope. All under control. Yet, i can eat through one pound of butter (Full fat and none of the Lite crap) in one meal WITHOUT any increase in any of vital monitors. I have checked with doctors in US (Connecticut), Australia (Sydney), and in India. All say the same thing: am one of the 1% of the population whose body metabolises the fat so fast that i gotta eat to remain healthy at 57 Kgs. And no, i DO NOT excercise periodically. Yet i can run one mile without sweating on a hot summer day. I can cycle my way to a mountain top without fainting (and without Gatorade). My wife hates me for this; Every time we go to a restaurant she has to be extra careful in watching calories and fat, while i usually ask for double the amount of butter or cheese or whatever contains trans-fat. I can live on McDonalds Fries exclusively (haven't tried, but have lived on Cheese pizza for some time). Some of beautiful gals at my ex-office, when we went out for lunch, were extremely jealous of me and wondered if my gene is hereditary. Once (two years ago) after watching one more scary documentary about strokes, i cleaned out my refrigerator of all fat. Bought and ate salads, drank tap water only and ate no-fat meals. I lasted for a week before i felt extremely tired, worn out and fell asleep while driving. (that was the only period my wife ate with me together in happiness) Drank Red Bull and other stuff to keep awake, but to no avail. My doctor was aghast when i went to see him: i had lost 3 Kgs in one week and i my red-blood cell count was very low. He scolded my wife for taking me off the fat menu (she got 'extremely' upset that we did not have any "action" for 2 weeks). Once i was back to pigging out on fats, i became OK slowly. And NO, am not lying. Because my CT doctor said: "Girls would kill for having your genes." heh heh heh.
You can't bring a 6-pack to work, you fool. You need something to sustain you at work, and Coca-cola is the only one that is good to drink after a double-cheese burger. Outside of work, there's a great drink in new England: Flying Dog Pale Ale. Amazingly good. Better than Miller/Bud. A helpful waiter once recommended it to me in a New England Cafe...May he live long and prosper.
Sometimes it blows my mind when i try to understand oxymorons. Pure Java = pure platform independent. OS Specific Java = Not Pure Java non-cross-platform java code = propreitary Java code. Before i get angry at you, let me try to explain something here. I have been using Java since 1.0.2 JDK in 1996 and failed to install JDK on Win 16-bit with 32-bit extensions... OS-specific exploits can be written in Java using JNI. JNI alone canm interact with C language (although technically C++ and that code can invoke Assembly, blah blah). Pure Java does not and should not contain any JNI calls. This exploit involves the user downloading a native library and then visiting the website which will invoke this downloaded library (which has to be in CLASSPATH) and the OS in correct version/make for it to work. Under Vista's brutal UAC, this exploit will fail. Under XP it may succeed. Under Mac OS X, well, hell the the OS cannot understand the library in first place so it will not load it. Secondly, the CLASSPATH is different in a Mac, so EVEN if the user downloaded the same onto ~\Libraries it will not work. Its more like blasting the Guns of Navarone or Sinking the Titanic. Yes, it can happen, and it happens only once under extraordinary circumstances and executed by extraordinarily talented people. A Mac user hell-bent on infecting his Mac can get the source code to this JNI library, recompile it under XCode, put it in his \Libraries (if he types the root user password) then visit the page to ghet himself infected. Its much like cutting off your own foot with a rusty chainsaw without anesthetic, place it on a table, hammer a bullet into the foot, rejoin the foot again to the leg with Super Glue and claim you shot yourself in foot. I wonder how people can be so dumb and yet be on slashdot.
For the past 12 hours today, rapidshare.com has not been accessible to me on a random basis. It pings all the time, but the HTTP protocol is not available. So? Iam unable to download my today's quota of HD movies and stuff. Damn you internet.
Thank you. That is what i have been thinking for a long while. I ventured on Apple forums and got flamed to a deep red and i thought i was stupid. Thank you, thank you for confirming my sanity. Tiger was easier on eyes, colorful and snappy. Leopard looks older, sterner and much like my grand dad. (My dad was way cool long before the term, but my grand dad was way sterner).
Governments ALWAYS have only reacted when forced to do so by people: to any crisis. Whether its Katrina or SARS or insurgency in Iraq, the Government does NOT ever take proactive action until its too late or very late. Twitter helps to give a swift kick in the Government's A$s to get it going quickly. Unfortunately, the Government hates Twitter for its visibility. After all billions of tax payers dollars are shovelled out to FEMA and CDC for hogging the limelight. Now, a small kid like Twitter which the government can't control or stifle comes along and steals the thunder. The Government behaves like Monica Geller or FRIENDS fame: "You stole my thunder."
The best constitution was Weimar Constitution. Proportional representation based on total votes won across the country: not regional seats. The House having more power than the president. The political power emanating from People: so the Pirate Party would be welcome with open arms (no, am not talking about Walther PP or the Taser). Damn Hitler, because of him Weimar model became tainted.
Bah... you kids today call that music? In our days music was when it was created by Glenn Miller... ah the Good old days, when the only only thing we needed to worry about was our record being broken or stolen, not RIAA goons or DRM...
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IBM is strong on servers / mainframes. That's their bread and butter. Unfortunately, Websphere Studio Application Developer and Rational Software Architect can't be used to write the daily memos and do mathematical worksheets.
Star Office is closed. Shut down. So forget it.
That's the problem.
That's EXACTLY the problem.
Open Source is owned by none giving it NO respect in corporate sense.
IT departments have been saying this for many years.
To be considered for real, open source must be "adopted" by a corporate entity which has the financial muscle acumen and the willingness to take risks.
This is exactly what our Company Law allows us to do: taking risks without risking our pensions!
Why hasn't anyone created a for-profit corporation which can "adopt" open source and whose charter says it will give back any profits back to the open source community? In a way a shell corporation for all the excellent stuff?
Damn, Red Hat is nowhere near it and all other IT cos are not willing...
Before you all rejoice in hallelujah glory please remember that:
1) MS is a powerful marketing organisation with a single control center. It has millions to spend on lobbying. Instead of one central purchasing order they will go after each state/county and government organisation parallely and independently.
2) To take advantage of this situation the FOSS/Open Source has NO marketing budget or marketing plan except for some backdoor geeks.
3) Lobbyists that MS hires far outmatch the abilities of what FOSS can bring up....
Let's face facts ok?
We have been a good, in fact excellent opening in a battle. The enemy has taken a big kick in its balls and is down for a few moments.
But, we lack the control center and resources of taking advantage of it.
If i were Red Hat or Ubuntu (in a corporate sense), i would be in NZ now talking to the main permanent secretaries and other pukes down there to hammer down an initial PoC for Linux/Open office.
And yes i would offer a central help center staffed by real people who can train the department's IT staff and/or assist them in installing, fixing bugs, training staff, etc all the things Microsoft will do.
And yes, i would sign a one-year contract with them offering them a FREE software with paid support.
But, as FOSS supporter do i have a centralized marketing budget, people, resources to make it happen?
NOOOO.
Its likea Sniper going against an entire armoured division. Yeah it sounds gung-ho, but that does not win a war gentlemen. We need the three C's of marketing. Command, Control and a Corporate willing to take risks and Money.
Once we have that in form of Red Hat or corporate Ubuntu we can talk about a Master Plan on taking down MS...
Until then shut up the vodka bottles. Its too early to celebrate.
Much like high fructose corn syrup.
How come no one filed a class action suit against the Corn growers lobby for "posioning" our children with corn syrup?
If people can file cases for tobacco and Asbestos (it has been proven that asbestos causes cancer in real world) why can't they do for corn syrup?
Coca Cola in India, Singapore Germany and China taste better than in US. Hell even Aussie coca cola (and their LIFT drink) tastes a lot better than in US.
(on a totally unrelated matter aussie beer, the Fosters stuff is badder than horse piss. They make it for export. Try VB if you are in Aus)
I don't where you got your quack information, but it is a half-lie.
Gas station owners hate mixing ethanol with Gasoline. Not only is it difficult, but also troublesome to handle both.
One billing, One payment is what they prefer, not dealing with two or more suppliers.
On the selling side, car owners spread information about which gas station is "reliable" and which is not.
The last thing a Gas Station owner in a small 2-bit town needs is bad publicity because he put short term profits ahead of long-term growth.
Gas station owners are NOT corporates to put short-term profits ahead.
They are humans. They think long term, else they would not be in this dreary business of daily dealing with death and fumes and surly customers wanting cigarettes.
And the last thing they want is standing on the stand in court to face a trial lawyer.
How stupid do you think Gas station owners are?
If its a paradise as you say, why are you posting as an Anonymous Coward?
Let me quote from Economist a few facts:
Almost since it first came to power in 2002, Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) Party has been under attack from Turkey's secular Ataturkist establishment, particularly the generals.
located in http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13446755
The generals and their allies believe that nothing less than the future of Ataturk's secular republic is at stake. Similar rumblings were heard when the now defunct pro-Islamic Welfare party first came to power in 1996. It was ejected a year later in a bloodless "velvet coup" and banned on similar charges to those now levelled at the AKP. But with each intervention the Islamists come back stronger.
Located at http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11745570
Pressed for evidence of creeping Islamisation under the AKP, they point to the growing number of women who wear the headscarf, which is proscribed as a symbol of Islamic militancy in state-run institutions and schools.
The battle for Turkey's soul is being waged most fiercely in the country's schools. Egitim-Sen, a leftist teachers' union, charges that Islam has been permeating textbooks under the AKP. Darwin's theory of evolution is being whittled away and creationism is seeping in. Islamist fraternities, or tarikat, continue to ensnare students by offering free accommodation. The quid pro quo is that they fast and pray, and girls cover their heads.
In other words, the threat of radical Islam in Turkey may have increased thanks to the secularists' attack on the AKP.
Located at http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11541234
Any more comments?
Exactly. Well Said.
The reason Wii became such a monstrous success is because of its simplicity. Its graphics isn't that great.
I took one look at XBox 360 controller and did not buy it because it looked "so alien".
I need a controller that goes with the flow. Like a joystick and one button.
Or two buttons max.
The key to earlier games being so good is because these guys knew human psychology and physiological limitations. Plus add to the constraints of those era.
The human brain can at most do 3-4 tasks parallelly with two hands.
The earlier CPUs can handle only so much on-screen painting. So the designers had to be clever to make use of psychology as much as CPU power.
The iPhone enforces that simplicity today forcing developers to use their brains instead of LoC.
The Wii does the same thing. No wonder EA hates it.
KISS. Its a principle that is universal.
...nationalist nation like Saudi Arabia.
For the past decade, muslim conservatives have slowly wormed themselves into Turkey's prominent positions and have implemented Sharia/Local Muslim laws.
Ataturk's greatest legacy was a fiercely secular nation which was protected by its Army.
The Army was highly secular and any attempts to make the country another muslim dictatorship was resisted with force.
However in the past decade, the wise old men have slowly faded away and as a result the long-suppressed muslim irritator have come to the fore.
They started with small things first:
Hijabs for Girls and Women in College/School. This was resisted by many, but ultimately the conservatives won.
Governmental jobs for non-secular muslim patriots and mullahs only. New vacancies are filled with these bearded monsters.
A weak Parliment exploited by muslim conservatives who support any party as long as they get their way. The other parties too, in their mad hunger for short-term power cede more to muslims.
Add to that the EU refusal to include Turkey as EU country (stupendously idiotic) has fanned the muslims cries of discrimination (they always have this inferiority complex) and led to more nationalism in muslim garb.
Now call up any of your friends in Turkey and ask about the Political situation and they are more likely to reply with details of next-door Tailor.
Fear has slowly permeated the country where phones are tapped.
One in every 10,000 turks is now a spy for the muslim government.(And no i did not make this up. Read Economist magazine, last week's).
The same scenario Hitler used to come to power is being reenacted here.
Only this time its a trio of muslim mullahs who seek to overturn what was Ataturk's Greatest Achievement: Fierce Secularism.
The day will come when Ataturk's birthday will no longer be a Holiday, and his face removed from Halls of Power and Public.
Considering that Turkey is a NATO ally and has nukes stationed by NATO, this is a terrifying thought.
What best way for a mullah to acquire a nuke than to acquire a developed country which has many!
Turkey looks like a strategic plan by muslim mullahs to acquire a foothold into developed nation status and get nukes.
Yes, you may mod me as a Rant/Flamebait/Offtopic but i did not imagine these.
Check the magazines, check the books and better call up any friends in Turkey and ask pointedly whether they can speak against this muslim conservative liberals.
Give one small toe-hold to a muslim party and they will pervert the entire nation to their will and subjugate the majority.
Never give any quarter. France and Britain should stop appeasing these people. Law is law, for everyone. I cannot go to Riyadh and pray at a temple or a church. There are none. I cannot ask my wife to wear Jeans and open-neck T-shirts. NOPE.
When i enter Saudi Arabia i MUST obey their stupid laws.
But when they enter France they expect France to obey Saudi laws like Hijabs, etc.
And better yet Britain agrees with them.
Wow!
Oh yeah?
Try telling it to Cheney and Obama now.
VERY lucky guy! Sigh...
Yeah, after 2 weeks, the fat made me stronger and long lasting.
VERY Lucky...
That's why i do the following when corporates with whom i have dealings with ask for my personal info:
1) I do NOT give out my mobile nos to anyone outside of my family. If comcast or or an ISP wants my mobile number, i say my corporate policy prevents me from giving it out.
2) When i close a loan, i make sure to get mny original papers from the bank. If the bank claims it as "bank record" or some other stupid illegal reason, i go to the Ombudsman or courts to get them back. I ask the court that a promissory note is a bill of exchange which must be surrendered in original to the issuer to get paid. In this case the Bank cheated me out of the money by refusing to return the original bill after promising to return it as per law. I ask the court to order the bank to issue me a promissory note in my favor for exact same amount as long as the bank retains mine. Most banks fold. One bank refused and was ordered to repay me the full amount back to me and then claim it from ne after producing the original.
3) I never use my real name anywhere on the internet except at job sites.
Let the FCC park its endangered carcass across my door, and i shall its untimely demise as self defense.
The story here is that the government refused to provide funding on the basis that they were already providing funding.
But the same government did NOT refuse to provide funding to MP's and ministers for their various "expenses" on the basis they were already receiving 6-figure incomes...
Of course the British Government would refuse to pay for maintaining a mueseum of The Building That Won The War.
They need the money to pay for:
1) Dog shampooing fees
2) Maintaining-a-mistress-fee
3) Swimming-pool renovation fee
4) Limos for Restaurants and waiting charges
5) Movie and Opera tickets and taxi cabs
Why would today's MPs be interested in maintaining History when they can pad up their pockets with all these goodies with that money?
Britain needs a Michael Moore: one who not only shames the MPs and Ministers of both parties but results in their permanent explusion and conviction for fraud and theft.
I weigh 57 Kgs. I eat like a hungry wolf. If it doesn't contain double-fat or double-cheese i don't eat it.
My doctor says i have hyper-metabolism. Which means i can eat and eat and eat, but never be full [or never be fat].
I checked my cholestrol, lipid and all the blood crap that killed my dad 17 years ago. Nope. All under control.
Yet, i can eat through one pound of butter (Full fat and none of the Lite crap) in one meal WITHOUT any increase in any of vital monitors.
I have checked with doctors in US (Connecticut), Australia (Sydney), and in India.
All say the same thing: am one of the 1% of the population whose body metabolises the fat so fast that i gotta eat to remain healthy at 57 Kgs.
And no, i DO NOT excercise periodically. Yet i can run one mile without sweating on a hot summer day. I can cycle my way to a mountain top without fainting (and without Gatorade).
My wife hates me for this; Every time we go to a restaurant she has to be extra careful in watching calories and fat, while i usually ask for double the amount of butter or cheese or whatever contains trans-fat. I can live on McDonalds Fries exclusively (haven't tried, but have lived on Cheese pizza for some time).
Some of beautiful gals at my ex-office, when we went out for lunch, were extremely jealous of me and wondered if my gene is hereditary.
Once (two years ago) after watching one more scary documentary about strokes, i cleaned out my refrigerator of all fat. Bought and ate salads, drank tap water only and ate no-fat meals. I lasted for a week before i felt extremely tired, worn out and fell asleep while driving. (that was the only period my wife ate with me together in happiness)
Drank Red Bull and other stuff to keep awake, but to no avail.
My doctor was aghast when i went to see him: i had lost 3 Kgs in one week and i my red-blood cell count was very low.
He scolded my wife for taking me off the fat menu (she got 'extremely' upset that we did not have any "action" for 2 weeks).
Once i was back to pigging out on fats, i became OK slowly.
And NO, am not lying. Because my CT doctor said: "Girls would kill for having your genes."
heh heh heh.
You can't bring a 6-pack to work, you fool.
You need something to sustain you at work, and Coca-cola is the only one that is good to drink after a double-cheese burger.
Outside of work, there's a great drink in new England: Flying Dog Pale Ale.
Amazingly good. Better than Miller/Bud.
A helpful waiter once recommended it to me in a New England Cafe...May he live long and prosper.
Sometimes it blows my mind when i try to understand oxymorons.
Pure Java = pure platform independent.
OS Specific Java = Not Pure Java
non-cross-platform java code = propreitary Java code.
Before i get angry at you, let me try to explain something here. I have been using Java since 1.0.2 JDK in 1996 and failed to install JDK on Win 16-bit with 32-bit extensions...
OS-specific exploits can be written in Java using JNI. JNI alone canm interact with C language (although technically C++ and that code can invoke Assembly, blah blah).
Pure Java does not and should not contain any JNI calls.
This exploit involves the user downloading a native library and then visiting the website which will invoke this downloaded library (which has to be in CLASSPATH) and the OS in correct version/make for it to work. Under Vista's brutal UAC, this exploit will fail. Under XP it may succeed.
Under Mac OS X, well, hell the the OS cannot understand the library in first place so it will not load it. Secondly, the CLASSPATH is different in a Mac, so EVEN if the user downloaded the same onto ~\Libraries it will not work.
Its more like blasting the Guns of Navarone or Sinking the Titanic. Yes, it can happen, and it happens only once under extraordinary circumstances and executed by extraordinarily talented people.
A Mac user hell-bent on infecting his Mac can get the source code to this JNI library, recompile it under XCode, put it in his \Libraries (if he types the root user password) then visit the page to ghet himself infected.
Its much like cutting off your own foot with a rusty chainsaw without anesthetic, place it on a table, hammer a bullet into the foot, rejoin the foot again to the leg with Super Glue and claim you shot yourself in foot.
I wonder how people can be so dumb and yet be on slashdot.
A better rule: Only a fool would trust slashdot.
For the past 12 hours today, rapidshare.com has not been accessible to me on a random basis.
It pings all the time, but the HTTP protocol is not available.
So?
Iam unable to download my today's quota of HD movies and stuff.
Damn you internet.
Monotony, like monogamy is not in nature's interest.
Thank you.
That is what i have been thinking for a long while.
I ventured on Apple forums and got flamed to a deep red and i thought i was stupid.
Thank you, thank you for confirming my sanity.
Tiger was easier on eyes, colorful and snappy.
Leopard looks older, sterner and much like my grand dad. (My dad was way cool long before the term, but my grand dad was way sterner).
Righhhhht.
And we had FEMA for many more years.
Since you are a genius, explain why exactly was Katrina allowed to happen???
Governments ALWAYS have only reacted when forced to do so by people: to any crisis.
Whether its Katrina or SARS or insurgency in Iraq, the Government does NOT ever take proactive action until its too late or very late.
Twitter helps to give a swift kick in the Government's A$s to get it going quickly.
Unfortunately, the Government hates Twitter for its visibility. After all billions of tax payers dollars are shovelled out to FEMA and CDC for hogging the limelight.
Now, a small kid like Twitter which the government can't control or stifle comes along and steals the thunder.
The Government behaves like Monica Geller or FRIENDS fame: "You stole my thunder."
The best constitution was Weimar Constitution.
Proportional representation based on total votes won across the country: not regional seats.
The House having more power than the president.
The political power emanating from People: so the Pirate Party would be welcome with open arms (no, am not talking about Walther PP or the Taser).
Damn Hitler, because of him Weimar model became tainted.
Bah... you kids today call that music?
In our days music was when it was created by Glenn Miller... ah the Good old days, when the only only thing we needed to worry about was our record being broken or stolen, not RIAA goons or DRM...