> if a 7/24 aerial reconnaissance of Black's Beach California posted on the Internet, Live; Now that! Would be a > fine use of the president's, "Going It, Alone."
You don't know me from Adam, but trust me on this, unless you're into creepy dudes with an exhibition fetish who shave off all of their pubic hair, Black's Beach is not for you...
I wonder if you've used a version of Solaris newer than, what, 2.5? 2.6? Gzip has shipped with Solaris since version 7 (2.7), Sun has Netscape packages on its website, and they provide builds of Mozilla on Mozilla's downloads page. Solaris 9 ships with both Netscape and a number of Gnu/OSS utilies (e.g. - tar, grep, bzip2....) And, if you can't find something you need in the default install, you could follow the link on Sun's site to www.sunfreeware.com. Or, and I know this one is difficult, you could just install a package from the CD of OSS software that Sun provides.
there are commercial games being written in Blitz Basic and Python+SDL+Pygame, plus a huge number of games in recent years, even on consoles, include interpreted scripting languages Fascinating. Could you name a few?
A thread doesn't have a message queue until a window is created on that thread. True, all windows created on a particular thread share a single message queue, but, strictly speaking, the message queue is not an intrinsic feature of a Win32 thread.
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But I may be wrong about the government being able to compete with the private sector. I'm no lawyer. Still though, it would be an interesting experiment and source of income for militaries who need the money.
Yah, albeit a scary experiment for the rest of us, if the government in question was willing to part with any of its more gruesome munitions (I'm thinkin' Russia, here . . . or, for that matter, the States, who 'deal' in military aid on a pretty hefty scale, which I guess you could argue would be a form of barter. Not like they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, or anything.)
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Of course the government is not a corporation. And the NSA, a subset of the government is not a corporation either. But still, they need money to operate. Sooner or later, the great and glorious George Bubba Bush JR is going to wake up and realise that he can't spent all the tax money on defence. But the NSA will become used to his extra funding and will not let go of their level of money easily. Therefore, being the forward-thinking body that they are, they could embrace a new form of funding where they appeal to the general industry's desperate need for secure web technologies and make some money from their work.
Well, first off, I'm not sure that it's even legal for a government agency to conduct so much as a bake-sale, as this would place them in competition with the private sector, while still retaining the advantages of being a public sector (government) organization. I don't know this for sure, however, so I might of just pulled that out of my ass. Anyway, I think the point is rendered moot when you consider the fact that a) the NSA employs more mathematicians than any other organization on earth, and b) the NSA also purchases more computer hardware than any other organization on earth. In other words, they manage to attract and retain a large body of presumably well-salaried people despite all of the hassles involved in working in that sort of paranoiac security environment, and they blow something equivalent to the GNP of a small dictatorship on toys each year. I don't think their hurting for cash, or ever will. . .
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I've read that little book, and it's complete nonsense. The central premise is that the worth of a particular philosophy or theory is derived, not from the merits of the idea itself, but from the character of its creator (i.e. - the author's opinion of him.) So, communist social theory is suspect because Marx was an indolent foreigner who pulled his statistics out of his ass and spent too much time on the couch, not because it was a vast, _vast_ oversimplification. Same goes for existentialism, which is nonsense to the author because Sartre was too free with his money and his women, and got so wrapped up in his work that he would forget to bathe. And let's not even talk about the homosexuals, like Keynes. All in all, a bad waste of time.
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> if a 7/24 aerial reconnaissance of Black's Beach California posted on the Internet, Live; Now that! Would be a
> fine use of the president's, "Going It, Alone."
You don't know me from Adam, but trust me on this, unless you're into creepy dudes with an exhibition fetish who shave off all of their pubic hair, Black's Beach is not for you...
I wonder if you've used a version of Solaris newer than, what, 2.5? 2.6? Gzip has shipped with Solaris since version 7 (2.7), Sun has Netscape packages on its website, and they provide builds of Mozilla on Mozilla's downloads page. Solaris 9 ships with both Netscape and a number of Gnu/OSS utilies (e.g. - tar, grep, bzip2....) And, if you can't find something you need in the default install, you could follow the link on Sun's site to www.sunfreeware.com. Or, and I know this one is difficult, you could just install a package from the CD of OSS software that Sun provides.
there are commercial games being written in Blitz Basic and Python+SDL+Pygame, plus a huge number of games in recent years, even on consoles, include interpreted scripting languages
Fascinating. Could you name a few?
A thread doesn't have a message queue until a window is created on that thread. True, all windows created on a particular thread share a single message queue, but, strictly speaking, the message queue is not an intrinsic feature of a Win32 thread.
But I may be wrong about the government being able to compete with the private sector. I'm no lawyer. Still though, it would be an interesting experiment and source of income for militaries who need the money.
Yah, albeit a scary experiment for the rest of us, if the government in question was willing to part with any of its more gruesome munitions (I'm thinkin' Russia, here . . . or, for that matter, the States, who 'deal' in military aid on a pretty hefty scale, which I guess you could argue would be a form of barter. Not like they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, or anything.)
Of course the government is not a corporation. And the NSA, a subset of the government is not a corporation either. But still, they need money to operate. Sooner or later, the great and glorious George Bubba Bush JR is going to wake up and realise that he can't spent all the tax money on defence. But the NSA will become used to his extra funding and will not let go of their level of money easily. Therefore, being the forward-thinking body that they are, they could embrace a new form of funding where they appeal to the general industry's desperate need for secure web technologies and make some money from their work.
Well, first off, I'm not sure that it's even legal for a government agency to conduct so much as a bake-sale, as this would place them in competition with the private sector, while still retaining the advantages of being a public sector (government) organization. I don't know this for sure, however, so I might of just pulled that out of my ass. Anyway, I think the point is rendered moot when you consider the fact that a) the NSA employs more mathematicians than any other organization on earth, and b) the NSA also purchases more computer hardware than any other organization on earth. In other words, they manage to attract and retain a large body of presumably well-salaried people despite all of the hassles involved in working in that sort of paranoiac security environment, and they blow something equivalent to the GNP of a small dictatorship on toys each year. I don't think their hurting for cash, or ever will. . .
I've read that little book, and it's complete nonsense. The central premise is that the worth of a particular philosophy or theory is derived, not from the merits of the idea itself, but from the character of its creator (i.e. - the author's opinion of him.) So, communist social theory is suspect because Marx was an indolent foreigner who pulled his statistics out of his ass and spent too much time on the couch, not because it was a vast, _vast_ oversimplification. Same goes for existentialism, which is nonsense to the author because Sartre was too free with his money and his women, and got so wrapped up in his work that he would forget to bathe. And let's not even talk about the homosexuals, like Keynes. All in all, a bad waste of time.