"Clinton HID terrorism to further HIS." And so did Reagan and Carter. Whats your point? Both the Democrats and the Republicans have been making things worse. Both by provoking situations that cause terrorism and by trying to push it under the carpet. It doesn't help much when you try to push the blame on one group when BOTH of them are responsible. Thats like getting busted for weed and giving the excuse that everyone else was smoking crack.
Clinton didn't do anything when Janet Reno decided to send tanks into a religous compound (I'm assuming thats what you meant in your reference to Clinton's actions). That doesn't have any bearing on the current administration squashing our rights. Or are you trying to say that its ok if this president tries to squash our freedom because the last one was doing it too? Why make the argument parisan, when both parties are guilty?
The only party with the guts? You have to be kidding. Not one single democratic senator has called for impeachment. Not one. Only one has called for a vote of censure, and he didn't even get any support from his party. The democrats are about as gutless as they can possibly be. They keep saying that the President's acts are illegal but, refuse to call for impeachment. This means that they are committing libel and don't really agree the actions are illegal or they are too spineless to just call for a hearing. Guts would be calling for an impeachment hearing even if you don't think you'll win.
People seem to act as if terrorists didn't exist before 9/11. Lets face it, having freedom in society inherently increases the risk of living in that society. The freedom one enjoys also makes things easier for those who wish to cause them harm.
It all comes to how one rates their freedom with safety. Some agree with the president (and the previous one) and his administration, that safety is more important than freedom. Others, myself included, argue that freedom is more important than safety.
Whats more amazing though is that while there is talk of trying to stop terrorists, the actions are completely bogus. Since the Oklahoma City bombing, its has become no harder to rent a U-Haul. In many states all you need to purchase dynamite is permission from the fire dept. You can buy fertilizer by the ton even if you don't own a farm. The average Walmart sells everything needed to build a bomb.
Lets also remember that our military and government officials know that there is no way at all to stop a determined attack. This is the country that invented and perfected guerilla warefare. The Amry Special Forces goes to other countries to teach the locals how to conduct guerilla warfare. We know better than anybody else that you can't really stop it.
Israel has some of the best security forces on the planet. They have road blocks and check points all over the place. Even they can not stop attacks within their borders.
So, the only option left is to suck it up, learn to defend your self, accept that we live in a dangerous world, and THINK. The world is a lot less dangerous than it used to be. We aren't under the constant threat of global annihilation like we used to be. Crime is down, living standards are up. Lets all work to keep things improving and to help other to improve their lives as well.
Just think, if a compact car could get 100mpg, then we could use the technology to build a Super Hummer that would get 15 instead of 5mpg. And of course people would buy it. The ol, my SUV is bigger than your SUV game would keep on playing out.
Walmart sells blackpowder at great prices, in every store I've been in, its right on the shelf, not locked up like the shotguns.
In their swimming pool supplies you can find large quantities of sodium hypochlorite (cheap) and hydrochloric acid (usually labeled muriatic acid).
On the cleaning supplies aisle, you can find sodium hydroxide.
In the automotive section, you can find sulphic acid (bottle for the motorcycle batteries), and ether (starter fluid).
Saltpeter can usually be found in the spice section, or in the luchmeat;-) the list can go on and on.
Walmart is "literally" the terrorist super-center. I don't understand your comment about these things being so hard to find. It seems they are harder to avoid.
You need to actually go visit the places you criticize and talk to the people there.
3 cents/hour wage? Could you point out the country where that happens? Chinese prison laborers pays more than that.
You are correct that with free trade we aren't competing on an even playing field. India is producing a lot more engineers than we are. China is producing an order of magnitude more engineers than we are. Is a guy living in a hut with a dirt floor going to work for less than an American in the suburbs? Damn skippy he is. But keep in mind, what's sub-poverty to you can be a major increase in life style for someone else. And last I looked, this is the only country on the planet where the biggest health problem for people living in poverty is obesity.
Look what's happened in the US. Many auto companies are opening factories places like Tennessee and Georgia because they don't want to pay Detroit wages. If you live in Illinois, its despicable they would close factories near you to take advantage of cheap labor in the south. However, to the folks in the South they are happy to have a "high paying" job. Even with the lower labor costs, these companies are still heading for bankruptcy.
I have a couple of different techniques for judging the job market.
There's the inverse fast foot indicator: if I get really sucky service at a restaurant, the job market is good. When restaurant service is great, the job market sucks.
Then there's the pimp index: Number and frequency of calls from recruiters
And finally, the swag factor: When my employer feels the need to increase swag, I know the job market is getting better.
"If Java had a fast, totally cross-platform and bug-free GUI toolkit, with full accessibility support for the visually impaired"
Hmmm, and where is the alternative? It appears that none of these things exist
totally cross-platform
bug-free GUI toolkit
full accessibility support for the visually impaired
According to that comment, we shouldn't be building any applications.
I use it at work (the full version), I'm am completely not impressed. In my last job we used Eudora, it was a much better email client than outlook for Windows. Outlook is dreadfully slow, doesn't perform well with large amounts of email, and hangs constantly. If you want to bash email on Linux, there are many better email clients for windows than outlook to use as an example. Bringing up outlook may give people a reason to switch.
To me this is kind of funny. The apps that the most people want are ones that I never use. On linux I already have IBM WSAD, Eclipse, and the standard dev tools. I've got Firefox (which I would use on windows if I used it) I've got Evolution (there is no good Windows equivalent of this) I've got GAIM so I can use all my IM's in one app I'm not a graphics person, and I'm really surprised that there are that many of them (so much for photoshop). I don't really do design (so much for autocad) and I'm really surprised there are enough people paying that much money to rank the proggram that high in the survey (unless there are that many pirated versions). As for HTML, the text editor in WSAD or MyEclipse is excellent (everybody knows WYSIWYG editors are evil).
If these are the most desired apps for Linux, then I am very surprised that there aren't more people moving toward it. Seems the apps used 90% of the time by 90% of the population are Web/IM/email. Then again, for typical usage, the OS is really unimportant. Good Web/IM/email apps are available for just about every OS, and I'd bet most consumers probably don't care.
"If you told the average user that they could use their computer from anywhere in the world through a web browser..."
You just described VNC:)
Most VNC servers also serve a webpage with a VNC client applet. I think the only thing people behind firewalls and NATs need is a public server that can proxy the VNC traffic. And make the vnc server actively connect to it just in case it happens to be behind a firewall (oh wait, I do that with SSH). Use any OS for a desktop, and access from any OS, woohoo.
Seriously though, it seems the objective of this technology already exists. The only "real" difference is that with the AJAX web desktop, you move the "desktop" away from your desktop.
A few years ago, I had a Comcast sales guy show up at my door trying to convince me to switch my (Qwest) DSL to their their cable. I told him that I ran both mail and web servers from home and that I would only go with the service if this was permitted. At the time there were stories about port blockage, etc.. He made a phone call, I talked to a tech to say what I was doing, and it all went ok with no probs. I ran my home server with them for about 2-3 years without incident until I moved. I don't know what the current state of things are, that was my experience with a home server.
1. Knowledge or information based on real occurrences: an account based on fact; a blur of fact and fancy.
2.
1. Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed: Genetic engineering is now a fact. That Chaucer was a real person is an undisputed fact.
2. A real occurrence; an event: had to prove the facts of the case.
3. Something believed to be true or real: a document laced with mistaken facts.
3. A thing that has been done, especially a crime: an accessory before the fact.
4. Law. The aspect of a case at law comprising events determined by evidence: The jury made a finding of fact.
If shutting down the atlantic thermohaline circulation ("conveyor belt") causes Greenland to cool. And, studies show it is slowing down. Then why isn't the ice *increasing* in Greenland?
From the wording in the article, it seems it could just be the way this is being reported. These items seem to be collected by the reporter and not the idea of the scientist being interviewed.
I hope someone can explain this a little better for me.
These two things from the article don't seem to add up:
"sea level could rise nearly 20 feet in the course of a couple of centuries"
"Greenland's current net ice loss is equivalent to an annual 0.008 inch sea level rise"
This suggests that it takes 30,000 years to get a 20ft rise in sea level (from Greenland's loss). To do 20ft in 1000 years would require the Antartic ice loss to be 29x's as great as Greenland's. Looking at a globe, it just doesn't look like there is that much ice in Antartica. Can someone explain this a little better?
To be honest, I don't have a position yet in this debate. Mostly, because I (personally) haven't analyzed enough evidence for either side. I accept as obvious our *potential* to change things on a global scale. I also consider dumping crap in the air and water a *bad* idea. My problem is when I see both sides of the debate throwing out crazy numbers, I tend to just become more skeptical.
I was making a joke but, you are right. In many many cases, the terminals are better, more responsive, and users tend to be more productive.
An interesting story on the subject: I had an interview with Bank of America a bit over a year ago (to convert these very apps to J2EE). One question in the interview was how would I explain the benefits of a J2EE app over a dumb terminal/mainframe. hmmm.... besides employing more developers, you can replace a $100 terminal with a $1500 PC plus another $3-5K for a software load that won't be used; increased vulnerability to spyware/virii; increased support expenses; lost productivity to web surfing; lower productivity due to mouse usage; slower, less responsive UI; greater CPU/memory demands on the server; oh yea, lower training cost for users.
Actually, I gave the standard answer of analize what they are *really* trying to do, and then spit out all the *right things to say*. I got the offer, and declined it. They gave pink slips to that whole dept 3 months later.
some implementations (though not reference impls) are: XHTML1.0 - Mozilla Firefox - Safari supports it but doesn't advertise in the accepts header - IE7 but it won't support the mime type "application/xml+xhtml" XHTML1.1 - Mozilla Firefox 1.5 - Opera XHMTL2.0 - X-Smiles
I don't notice any browsers mentioning support for HTML5. Could you share some information about the current support for HTML5, I think it would be interesting to play with. XHTML support is growing. Which is better? time will tell.
Ahh, but you can make it work in IE. See, use this (http://www.xsmiles.org/) as an applet. Then the web browser applet inside of your web browser can show you XHTML docuemnts...
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"Clinton HID terrorism to further HIS."
And so did Reagan and Carter. Whats your point?
Both the Democrats and the Republicans have been making things worse. Both by provoking situations that cause terrorism and by trying to push it under the carpet.
It doesn't help much when you try to push the blame on one group when BOTH of them are responsible.
Thats like getting busted for weed and giving the excuse that everyone else was smoking crack.
Clinton didn't do anything when Janet Reno decided to send tanks into a religous compound (I'm assuming thats what you meant in your reference to Clinton's actions). That doesn't have any bearing on the current administration squashing our rights.
Or are you trying to say that its ok if this president tries to squash our freedom because the last one was doing it too?
Why make the argument parisan, when both parties are guilty?
The only party with the guts?
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You have to be kidding. Not one single democratic senator has called for impeachment. Not one. Only one has called for a vote of censure, and he didn't even get any support from his party.
The democrats are about as gutless as they can possibly be. They keep saying that the President's acts are illegal but, refuse to call for impeachment. This means that they are committing libel and don't really agree the actions are illegal or they are too spineless to just call for a hearing. Guts would be calling for an impeachment hearing even if you don't think you'll win.
The solution is to vote neither democrat or republican, both of these parties suck.
Pick a different party:
http://www.vote-smart.org/resource_political_reso
Guess its a good thing the ban on assault rifles has expired.
Just imagine what another Janet Reno could do with the new powers bestowed upon the executive branch.
Excellent summary.
People seem to act as if terrorists didn't exist before 9/11.
Lets face it, having freedom in society inherently increases the risk of living in that society. The freedom one enjoys also makes things easier for those who wish to cause them harm.
It all comes to how one rates their freedom with safety. Some agree with the president (and the previous one) and his administration, that safety is more important than freedom. Others, myself included, argue that freedom is more important than safety.
Whats more amazing though is that while there is talk of trying to stop terrorists, the actions are completely bogus. Since the Oklahoma City bombing, its has become no harder to rent a U-Haul. In many states all you need to purchase dynamite is permission from the fire dept. You can buy fertilizer by the ton even if you don't own a farm. The average Walmart sells everything needed to build a bomb.
Lets also remember that our military and government officials know that there is no way at all to stop a determined attack. This is the country that invented and perfected guerilla warefare. The Amry Special Forces goes to other countries to teach the locals how to conduct guerilla warfare. We know better than anybody else that you can't really stop it.
Israel has some of the best security forces on the planet. They have road blocks and check points all over the place. Even they can not stop attacks within their borders.
So, the only option left is to suck it up, learn to defend your self, accept that we live in a dangerous world, and THINK. The world is a lot less dangerous than it used to be. We aren't under the constant threat of global annihilation like we used to be. Crime is down, living standards are up. Lets all work to keep things improving and to help other to improve their lives as well.
You mean the guys who started the civil war, by attacking and killing soldiers of the United States Army, are still upset about losing the war?
Because those details are a strongly guarded secreta tionn m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroglycerin#Prepar
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Nitroglyceri
And of course the government tries to keep this information
http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9704a/04wtc97.ht
a secret so nobody can figure out how to make it.
Sorry to give you a hard time there. Its just that your comment was funny.
Just think, if a compact car could get 100mpg, then we could use the technology to build a Super Hummer that would get 15 instead of 5mpg.
And of course people would buy it.
The ol, my SUV is bigger than your SUV game would keep on playing out.
Walmart sells blackpowder at great prices, in every store I've been in, its right on the shelf, not locked up like the shotguns. ;-)
In their swimming pool supplies you can find large quantities of sodium hypochlorite (cheap) and hydrochloric acid (usually labeled muriatic acid).
On the cleaning supplies aisle, you can find sodium hydroxide.
In the automotive section, you can find sulphic acid (bottle for the motorcycle batteries), and ether (starter fluid).
Saltpeter can usually be found in the spice section, or in the luchmeat
the list can go on and on.
Walmart is "literally" the terrorist super-center.
I don't understand your comment about these things being so hard to find. It seems they are harder to avoid.
Dude, you need to travel more.
You need to actually go visit the places you criticize and talk to the people there.
3 cents/hour wage? Could you point out the country where that happens? Chinese prison laborers pays more than that.
You are correct that with free trade we aren't competing on an even playing field. India is producing a lot more engineers than we are. China is producing an order of magnitude more engineers than we are.
Is a guy living in a hut with a dirt floor going to work for less than an American in the suburbs? Damn skippy he is.
But keep in mind, what's sub-poverty to you can be a major increase in life style for someone else. And last I looked, this is the only country on the planet where the biggest health problem for people living in poverty is obesity.
Look what's happened in the US. Many auto companies are opening factories places like Tennessee and Georgia because they don't want to pay Detroit wages. If you live in Illinois, its despicable they would close factories near you to take advantage of cheap labor in the south. However, to the folks in the South they are happy to have a "high paying" job. Even with the lower labor costs, these companies are still heading for bankruptcy.
I have a couple of different techniques for judging the job market.
There's the inverse fast foot indicator:
if I get really sucky service at a restaurant, the job market is good. When restaurant service is great, the job market sucks.
Then there's the pimp index:
Number and frequency of calls from recruiters
And finally, the swag factor:
When my employer feels the need to increase swag, I know the job market is getting better.
YMMV
I thought OSX was supposed to be "uncrashable".
"If Java had a fast, totally cross-platform and bug-free GUI toolkit, with full accessibility support for the visually impaired"
Hmmm, and where is the alternative?
It appears that none of these things exist
totally cross-platform
bug-free GUI toolkit
full accessibility support for the visually impaired
According to that comment, we shouldn't be building any applications.
I use it at work (the full version), I'm am completely not impressed.
In my last job we used Eudora, it was a much better email client than outlook for Windows. Outlook is dreadfully slow, doesn't perform well with large amounts of email, and hangs constantly. If you want to bash email on Linux, there are many better email clients for windows than outlook to use as an example. Bringing up outlook may give people a reason to switch.
To me this is kind of funny.
The apps that the most people want are ones that I never use.
On linux I already have IBM WSAD, Eclipse, and the standard dev tools.
I've got Firefox (which I would use on windows if I used it)
I've got Evolution (there is no good Windows equivalent of this)
I've got GAIM so I can use all my IM's in one app
I'm not a graphics person, and I'm really surprised that there are that many of them (so much for photoshop). I don't really do design (so much for autocad) and I'm really surprised there are enough people paying that much money to rank the proggram that high in the survey (unless there are that many pirated versions). As for HTML, the text editor in WSAD or MyEclipse is excellent (everybody knows WYSIWYG editors are evil).
If these are the most desired apps for Linux, then I am very surprised that there aren't more people moving toward it. Seems the apps used 90% of the time by 90% of the population are Web/IM/email. Then again, for typical usage, the OS is really unimportant. Good Web/IM/email apps are available for just about every OS, and I'd bet most consumers probably don't care.
"If you told the average user that they could use their computer from anywhere in the world through a web browser..."
:)
You just described VNC
Most VNC servers also serve a webpage with a VNC client applet. I think the only thing people behind firewalls and NATs need is a public server that can proxy the VNC traffic. And make the vnc server actively connect to it just in case it happens to be behind a firewall (oh wait, I do that with SSH). Use any OS for a desktop, and access from any OS, woohoo.
Seriously though, it seems the objective of this technology already exists. The only "real" difference is that with the AJAX web desktop, you move the "desktop" away from your desktop.
A few years ago, I had a Comcast sales guy show up at my door trying to convince me to switch my (Qwest) DSL to their their cable.
I told him that I ran both mail and web servers from home and that I would only go with the service if this was permitted. At the time there were stories about port blockage, etc..
He made a phone call, I talked to a tech to say what I was doing, and it all went ok with no probs. I ran my home server with them for about 2-3 years without incident until I moved.
I don't know what the current state of things are, that was my experience with a home server.
"governments can potentially access at their free will?"
Seems like in the current (sad) state of affairs they can do this ehether on your desktop or a remote server. Whats the difference?
"Whoever gave him that job should be fired along with him."
I expect there are a lot of folks who feel that way (wasn't this guy a political appointee?).
From: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fact
fact
n.
1. Knowledge or information based on real occurrences: an account based on fact; a blur of fact and fancy.
2.
1. Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed: Genetic engineering is now a fact. That Chaucer was a real person is an undisputed fact.
2. A real occurrence; an event: had to prove the facts of the case.
3. Something believed to be true or real: a document laced with mistaken facts.
3. A thing that has been done, especially a crime: an accessory before the fact.
4. Law. The aspect of a case at law comprising events determined by evidence: The jury made a finding of fact.
Further reading just brings up more questions.
If shutting down the atlantic thermohaline circulation ("conveyor belt") causes Greenland to cool. And, studies show it is slowing down. Then why isn't the ice *increasing* in Greenland?
From the wording in the article, it seems it could just be the way this is being reported. These items seem to be collected by the reporter and not the idea of the scientist being interviewed.
?
I hope someone can explain this a little better for me.
These two things from the article don't seem to add up:
"sea level could rise nearly 20 feet in the course of a couple of centuries"
"Greenland's current net ice loss is equivalent to an annual 0.008 inch sea level rise"
This suggests that it takes 30,000 years to get a 20ft rise in sea level (from Greenland's loss).
To do 20ft in 1000 years would require the Antartic ice loss to be 29x's as great as Greenland's. Looking at a globe, it just doesn't look like there is that much ice in Antartica.
Can someone explain this a little better?
To be honest, I don't have a position yet in this debate. Mostly, because I (personally) haven't analyzed enough evidence for either side. I accept as obvious our *potential* to change things on a global scale. I also consider dumping crap in the air and water a *bad* idea.
My problem is when I see both sides of the debate throwing out crazy numbers, I tend to just become more skeptical.
I was making a joke but, you are right. In many many cases, the terminals are better, more responsive, and users tend to be more productive.
An interesting story on the subject:
I had an interview with Bank of America a bit over a year ago (to convert these very apps to J2EE).
One question in the interview was how would I explain the benefits of a J2EE app over a dumb terminal/mainframe.
hmmm.... besides employing more developers, you can replace a $100 terminal with a $1500 PC plus another $3-5K for a software load that won't be used; increased vulnerability to spyware/virii; increased support expenses; lost productivity to web surfing; lower productivity due to mouse usage; slower, less responsive UI; greater CPU/memory demands on the server; oh yea, lower training cost for users.
Actually, I gave the standard answer of analize what they are *really* trying to do, and then spit out all the *right things to say*. I got the offer, and declined it. They gave pink slips to that whole dept 3 months later.
some implementations (though not reference impls) are:
f or_Developers
XHTML1.0
- Mozilla Firefox
- Safari supports it but doesn't advertise in the accepts header
- IE7 but it won't support the mime type "application/xml+xhtml"
XHTML1.1
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5
- Opera
XHMTL2.0
- X-Smiles
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_1.5_
http://opera.com/features/
http://www.xsmiles.org/features_xhtml2.html
I don't notice any browsers mentioning support for HTML5. Could you share some information about the current support for HTML5, I think it would be interesting to play with.
XHTML support is growing. Which is better? time will tell.
Ahh, but you can make it work in IE.
See, use this (http://www.xsmiles.org/) as an applet. Then the web browser applet inside of your web browser can show you XHTML docuemnts...
what?
why are your laughing?