This could be the start of bloated cell phones I regret to note. Once these phones are manufactured, cell phone companies will "force" us to upgrade. I won't forget the experience I had last week when I visited a cell phone supply shop to replace a battery for my phone. The man there looked at it and immediately asked, "Where did you get this?" I had no answer for him. Then he told me that my olny solution was to buy a "new" phone yet my phone was bought three years ago and had served me well since.
I should inform you that this particular tribe was followed for close to 4 decades by the so called "enlightened and educated folks". These folks were unable to trace a single case of mental illness in all those years. This was within the boundaries of the great USA.
Third world countries beat us in one case...that is..community support. Even with death due to HIV/AIDS, those communities are very very vibrant. If this were the case in the USA for example, psychologists would have a tough job on their hands.
Do you know that the western world has the most cases of mental disorders? All these ADDs, ADHD, ASD, and all those disorders are in America. In Africa, despite all the poverty, mental disorders are unknown. The same is the case with the Chitimacha [Indian] tribe in the USA. This tribe has no known incidence in any mental health disease.
For your information, much of those Africans who live below the poverty line are happy. Life is surely hard but they are not sitting there crying out for a helping hand. They somehow carry on.
That is why most westerners fail to comprehend why such poor people can be happy at all. I know because I lived with them for almost a year. The problem I see with our westernized way of life, is that we are too individualistic and pretend a lot. Our society has been structured in asuch a way that "you are on your own" once you reach 18 years. I have even heard parents demand rent from their childern once these kids reach 18 years of age!
Take an example of a woman who might have a kid. In America, a baby sitter is prohibitively expensive for most folks, that one of the parents has to remain home. In all societies I visited in East Africa, a baby is a blessing and seen as such. Neighbors will freely volunteer time to spend time with the infant for free! Find that in USA!!! And even when things go wrong as they will from time to time, parents are not bent to taking the "culprit" to court like it is in America.
I must say I was suprised too. The images beemed across our televisions protray a false image of these societies. I was amazed to find some Britons who'd decided to retire there. I was taken aback!
Having been to Japan, I found a society that is near perfect...trains on time, organized streets, and very courteous folks. Everyone seemed to be busy with something. This masked what I guess I obviously failed to see.
Then I visited East Africa where I found a priviledged few among a sea of poverty and hopelessness. But what struck me is the ease the Africans took life as. They seemed to be happy, always thinking that the following day would be a better one. They even shared the little they had, something very rare in a major city in the USA for example.
This makes me wonder....What is it that we in the west miss out? Why is it that suicide rates in the so-called first world are significantly higher than those in the third world? Can we still call ourselves developed? I doubt.
Save for Media Player, Firefox and M$ Office2000, I installed nothing else. I have watched my free hardidsk size reduce every time a patch is installed. I guess some of the hotfixes belong to those other pieces of software on my machine.
I hope it's not business as usual; in other wards, small sized patches.
Why?
Because on my Windows 2000 system, the size of the patches 33 in number so far, is bigger than the OS itself! And some quaters say 33 is pretty conservative because M$ puts more than one patch in the so called "hot fix" as seen in the Control Panel. I am already afraid, not to mention a patch that might break other software!
For those interested in the stock market, this is the time to buy RIM shares. No matter what, that share price will increase with this good announcement. I hope it is not vaporware. Once I certify the news, I am buying.
It's good NASA are simply planning at this time. That is to say, no concrete blueprint is in place. I hope they are also cleaning up and removing junk and incopetent personnel withing their ranks. Remember billions have been wasted before at the hands of inept and incopetent managers at NASA. This should not be allowed to happen again. What about out-sourcing these efforts to more efficient companies?
I thank Opera for a darn good job. I find the [Opera] browser very very good. In fact, better than any browser out there. But wonder why it is still not that popular.
As a programmer, I also wonder how they designed the engine to be soooo fast, that even makers of other browsers cannot figure out how to replicate what makes Opera fast, into their browsers. Can anyone enlighten me?
And while they plan all these, our southern border with Mexico remains wide open to even more dangerous folks from all over the world. I will not be suprised if they announce the capture or closing a major terrorist cell after these exercises.
The likes of Osama bin Laden will use crude methods to inflict maximum harm to us, just like they are doing in Iraq with 5 of our GIs already dead in this month alone. They are using a very well known tactic: The IED. And so far nothing in our technologically superior army has an answer to it. Sad indeed. When wil these politicians learn?
..."Million Little Pieces" that he lied about the accounts in his memoirs."...
Just like almost all issues [in America] these days, it is a sad fact that corruption, cronyism, greed and incopetance, even to the very senior administration officials is way to common. That is to say, "it is all about the money."
> A recent bill was sponsored in the Senate to deny Russia's entrance into the WTO
What does belonging to the WTO bring in advantages to a country? China, which until very recently, did not belong to the body, was not doing badly at all. I guess we all know the surpluses it's running with the US. Russia, despite its not-so-good organization, is in a better financial state than the US mainly because of [quality] arms exports and oil revenues.
What does a country get from belonging to the WTO? Could educated folks enlighten a slashdotter?
> Resourceful I.T. security professionals are getting the job done, but their efforts have been hampered by undersized staffs and underfunded budgets that limit choices ranging from what products they buy to the vendors they work with.
Here's why: They are outsourcing all IT jobs to India. In other words, they create the problem because after out sourcing, no new blood is attracted to fill the ranks of the IT colleges.
After creating the problem, they then lament about the problems they face...sheesh!
As a programmer myself, though not that serious, the greatest number of lines of code I have written is 13,671 in a VB application processing costs for chemical analysis in a lab. This makes me wonder...How can one write over 200 million lines of code? How does one debug the beast? Believe me, even 1 million lines of code is a lot of code. How long does this thing take to compile? There are so many questions that just leave me to respect these programmers.
> the reality is that you if you are truly to clean a machine out, you're going to need to use like three - five of these. Each of them captures a certain area, but none are the One Ring or anything.
To me, this suggests that Microsoft does not really know thier product though they would like us to believe otherwise. Remember the phrase "...Microsoft products work best with Microsoft products..." , which was coined [by M$] in the early nineties during the word processor battles?
Just last week M$ representatives were at my place of work trying to sell some stuff to our IT department. The buzz I heard was "it's only M$ that understands M$ products...".
The police will complain once these cars finally become readily available. You see, a criminal could commit a crime in the Texas heat as an example. This criminal then drives a few hundred kilometers north where the temperatiures are cooler and viola, what was a red truck is now purple with stripes! What follows is chaos!
completely forgetting that "we" are all in this world together and that if "we" learn to work with "them" then "all of us" can achieve our goals.
...and in the end we'll all die and leave evrything we struggled to protect here on earth. Like it says in the Bible, "...the love of money is the root of all evil."
...that "Condi", as some call her, is one of the most intelligent black woman in the USA? Some have said she's the most intelligent. Having failed to combine playing the piano that well and doing politics, I am inclined to believe she's really intelligent.
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This could be the start of bloated cell phones I regret to note. Once these phones are manufactured, cell phone companies will "force" us to upgrade. I won't forget the experience I had last week when I visited a cell phone supply shop to replace a battery for my phone. The man there looked at it and immediately asked, "Where did you get this?" I had no answer for him. Then he told me that my olny solution was to buy a "new" phone yet my phone was bought three years ago and had served me well since.
Third world countries beat us in one case...that is..community support. Even with death due to HIV/AIDS, those communities are very very vibrant. If this were the case in the USA for example, psychologists would have a tough job on their hands.
Question to you: WHY?
That is why most westerners fail to comprehend why such poor people can be happy at all. I know because I lived with them for almost a year. The problem I see with our westernized way of life, is that we are too individualistic and pretend a lot. Our society has been structured in asuch a way that "you are on your own" once you reach 18 years. I have even heard parents demand rent from their childern once these kids reach 18 years of age! Take an example of a woman who might have a kid. In America, a baby sitter is prohibitively expensive for most folks, that one of the parents has to remain home. In all societies I visited in East Africa, a baby is a blessing and seen as such. Neighbors will freely volunteer time to spend time with the infant for free! Find that in USA!!! And even when things go wrong as they will from time to time, parents are not bent to taking the "culprit" to court like it is in America.
I must say I was suprised too. The images beemed across our televisions protray a false image of these societies. I was amazed to find some Britons who'd decided to retire there. I was taken aback!
Then I visited East Africa where I found a priviledged few among a sea of poverty and hopelessness. But what struck me is the ease the Africans took life as. They seemed to be happy, always thinking that the following day would be a better one. They even shared the little they had, something very rare in a major city in the USA for example.
This makes me wonder....What is it that we in the west miss out? Why is it that suicide rates in the so-called first world are significantly higher than those in the third world? Can we still call ourselves developed? I doubt.
Where is the world going?
Save for Media Player, Firefox and M$ Office2000, I installed nothing else. I have watched my free hardidsk size reduce every time a patch is installed. I guess some of the hotfixes belong to those other pieces of software on my machine.
Why?
Because on my Windows 2000 system, the size of the patches 33 in number so far, is bigger than the OS itself! And some quaters say 33 is pretty conservative because M$ puts more than one patch in the so called "hot fix" as seen in the Control Panel. I am already afraid, not to mention a patch that might break other software!
For those interested in the stock market, this is the time to buy RIM shares. No matter what, that share price will increase with this good announcement. I hope it is not vaporware. Once I certify the news, I am buying.
It's good NASA are simply planning at this time. That is to say, no concrete blueprint is in place. I hope they are also cleaning up and removing junk and incopetent personnel withing their ranks. Remember billions have been wasted before at the hands of inept and incopetent managers at NASA. This should not be allowed to happen again. What about out-sourcing these efforts to more efficient companies?
As a programmer, I also wonder how they designed the engine to be soooo fast, that even makers of other browsers cannot figure out how to replicate what makes Opera fast, into their browsers. Can anyone enlighten me?
The likes of Osama bin Laden will use crude methods to inflict maximum harm to us, just like they are doing in Iraq with 5 of our GIs already dead in this month alone. They are using a very well known tactic: The IED. And so far nothing in our technologically superior army has an answer to it. Sad indeed. When wil these politicians learn?
Just like almost all issues [in America] these days, it is a sad fact that corruption, cronyism, greed and incopetance, even to the very senior administration officials is way to common. That is to say, "it is all about the money."
What does belonging to the WTO bring in advantages to a country? China, which until very recently, did not belong to the body, was not doing badly at all. I guess we all know the surpluses it's running with the US. Russia, despite its not-so-good organization, is in a better financial state than the US mainly because of [quality] arms exports and oil revenues.
What does a country get from belonging to the WTO? Could educated folks enlighten a slashdotter?
English isn't your first language is it? Any way, the sentence should read "All Your Packages Belong To Us" in correct grammatical English.
Clearly, there is something wrong with that sentence.
Here's why: They are outsourcing all IT jobs to India. In other words, they create the problem because after out sourcing, no new blood is attracted to fill the ranks of the IT colleges.
After creating the problem, they then lament about the problems they face...sheesh!
As a programmer myself, though not that serious, the greatest number of lines of code I have written is 13,671 in a VB application processing costs for chemical analysis in a lab. This makes me wonder...How can one write over 200 million lines of code? How does one debug the beast? Believe me, even 1 million lines of code is a lot of code. How long does this thing take to compile? There are so many questions that just leave me to respect these programmers.
But the question is: Will Linux users use Real's product? Reviews on Real's products here on slashdot have not been that favuorable in the past.
To me, this suggests that Microsoft does not really know thier product though they would like us to believe otherwise. Remember the phrase " ...Microsoft products work best with Microsoft products..." , which was coined [by M$] in the early nineties during the word processor battles?
Just last week M$ representatives were at my place of work trying to sell some stuff to our IT department. The buzz I heard was "it's only M$ that understands M$ products...".
I guess it all about the money, sadly.
The police will complain once these cars finally become readily available. You see, a criminal could commit a crime in the Texas heat as an example. This criminal then drives a few hundred kilometers north where the temperatiures are cooler and viola, what was a red truck is now purple with stripes! What follows is chaos!
Because she is black. Now isn't she black? If you have a problem with that, you are the racist sadly.
By the way, is she married, any kids?
But did you consider biggest?
Disclaimer: English is not my first language.