Everything I have read of the Polish soldiers speaks well of them. I think that the Polish contribution is admirable, and valuable. We are fortunate to have Poland as an ally.
Thank you. I only wish our soldiers were used for a better cause than this useless and nonsensical war.
Browsers and e-mail programs should not be able to get hold of root/Admin access.
This is where MS is the biggest culprit (albeit not the only one).
No. This is where people running their mail agents with Administrator privileges on Windows XP are the culprits. How come we all know we should run pine as root to read our mail, but we happily run Outlook as root?
You're right about Afghanistan --- countries which did not want to touch the Iraq war with a ten-foot pole sent their soldiers there. However, the apparently impressive list of American allies in Iraq is a mirage. The USA sent over 100,000 troops to Iraq, UK around 30,000. These are only two major players, the rest are just symbolic contingents. Countries like Czech Republic or Dominican Republic sent only hundreds or even tens of soldiers. By the way, Philippines are withdrawing, and Ukraine will likely withdraw its troops if (hopefully) Viktor Yuschenko wins todays elections. The country which Bush touts as an important ally --- Poland --- happens to be my country and I know from local news how dependent (except for a small spec-ops unit called 'Grom' ('Thunder'), trained by the USA and well-respected in the professional circles) Polish soldiers are on American support when it comes to any real fighting.
Another thought: if the USA has so many allies in Iraq, why is it covering almost all expenses by itself?
And if Kerry disagreed with the president, he would be what, jailed or executed? You could expect at least this kind of guts (to openly denounce wrong policies) from the guy who wants to be the president.
Irrelevant. Regardless of who would have been sitting in the White House, Bin Laden could have pulled this kind of stuff only once.
Anyway, many people I know (here, in Poland) think that attacking Afghanistan was correct for Bush. Incorrent was that he didn't finish the job there and took out Iraq, which did not increase the security of the USA or anybody else by an inch.
A bit offtopic, but: TCC fills the gap left by GCC. The latter was developed as a portable compiler capable of compiling many languages (GCC stands for Gnu Compiler Collection): that means, they had to sacrifice efficiency for the sake of portability. It was good, because it made GNU software more popular. However, there are many poor souls out there who have an x86 and would like to run as efficient code as possible under Linux, without buying some proprietary compiler. Thus, a C compiler written exclusively for x86 architecture (or even especially for AMD CPU's, since Intel gives its ICC compiler for free) would be a Good Thing . TCC is a step in the right direction.
It is definitely clunky when compared to Dasher, but better than MS Equation Editor etc.
I will be first to cheer anybody who invents a worse way of typing math than MS Equation Editor. Being better than that is not an achievement at all. Can't they simply learn TeX for their math?
Case in point, Fallujah. He should have told the people there that they have 24 hours to get out, and they will be paid for damages, and then carpet bombed the whole area, mosque included.
Another thing i've noticed: companies with Novell's attitude refer to us as customers (which denotes free choice, CUSTOMER satisfaction, etc. all positive), and other *cough* M$ *cough* companies trying to shove it down our throats refer to us as "consumers"
The idea of putting all contents of Library of Congress (or any other BIG library) sound good at first glance, but its practical realization may prove to be very difficult. Those "rare books" you were referring to may well be books from the XVIIth, XVIIIth or XIXth century. While not printed on the trashy acid paper from the XXth century, they are nevertheless fragile. Scanning them may be impossible, due to the mechanical or chemical (to scan something, you shed bright light on it --- some manuscripts are viewed only by special light, sometimes by... moonlight, because normal light may be damaging to them) damage it may cause. Or very, very impossible and expensive.
Slashdot Mirror
ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/1.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/ P MS/
ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/R
http://www.pld-linux.org/ (web page not working at the moment as they have some problems, but distro is very active).
Everything I have read of the Polish soldiers speaks well of them. I think that the Polish contribution is admirable, and valuable. We are fortunate to have Poland as an ally.
Thank you. I only wish our soldiers were used for a better cause than this useless and nonsensical war.
How come we all know we should run pine as root to read our mail
s/should/shouldn't
Browsers and e-mail programs should not be able to get hold of root/Admin access. This is where MS is the biggest culprit (albeit not the only one).
No. This is where people running their mail agents with Administrator privileges on Windows XP are the culprits. How come we all know we should run pine as root to read our mail, but we happily run Outlook as root?
Most of the world is built with nuts and bolts, and yet it does not make them a large issue in politics.
You're right about Afghanistan --- countries which did not want to touch the Iraq war with a ten-foot pole sent their soldiers there. However, the apparently impressive list of American allies in Iraq is a mirage. The USA sent over 100,000 troops to Iraq, UK around 30,000. These are only two major players, the rest are just symbolic contingents. Countries like Czech Republic or Dominican Republic sent only hundreds or even tens of soldiers. By the way, Philippines are withdrawing, and Ukraine will likely withdraw its troops if (hopefully) Viktor Yuschenko wins todays elections. The country which Bush touts as an important ally --- Poland --- happens to be my country and I know from local news how dependent (except for a small spec-ops unit called 'Grom' ('Thunder'), trained by the USA and well-respected in the professional circles) Polish soldiers are on American support when it comes to any real fighting.
Another thought: if the USA has so many allies in Iraq, why is it covering almost all expenses by itself?
And if Kerry disagreed with the president, he would be what, jailed or executed? You could expect at least this kind of guts (to openly denounce wrong policies) from the guy who wants to be the president.
Irrelevant. Regardless of who would have been sitting in the White House, Bin Laden could have pulled this kind of stuff only once.
Anyway, many people I know (here, in Poland) think that attacking Afghanistan was correct for Bush. Incorrent was that he didn't finish the job there and took out Iraq, which did not increase the security of the USA or anybody else by an inch.
A bit offtopic, but: TCC fills the gap left by GCC. The latter was developed as a portable compiler capable of compiling many languages (GCC stands for Gnu Compiler Collection): that means, they had to sacrifice efficiency for the sake of portability. It was good, because it made GNU software more popular. However, there are many poor souls out there who have an x86 and would like to run as efficient code as possible under Linux, without buying some proprietary compiler. Thus, a C compiler written exclusively for x86 architecture (or even especially for AMD CPU's, since Intel gives its ICC compiler for free) would be a Good Thing . TCC is a step in the right direction.
Yeah, but that means adding some tens of MBs (kernel source, packed) to the bundle.
We don't practice carpet bombings anymore, due to civillian losses.
Or try xemacs with auctex and reftex packages. I would never type math equation that fast in a "point and click" environment.
Dasher is an input method, not a typesetting engine.
It is definitely clunky when compared to Dasher, but better than MS Equation Editor etc.
I will be first to cheer anybody who invents a worse way of typing math than MS Equation Editor. Being better than that is not an achievement at all. Can't they simply learn TeX for their math?
Case in point, Fallujah. He should have told the people there that they have 24 hours to get out, and they will be paid for damages, and then carpet bombed the whole area, mosque included.
This is 2004, not 1944.
So now we know. It's all because of these damn foreigners. Honestly, you can't accept the fact that Americans can write buggy software too, do you?
That'll be tough. The "Distros" can't even decide on what files to put in what directories [...]
There is a standard on that.
No health care system is good for everyone. Live with that.
This is one case where the lack of goto's is harmful.
No. Goto has already happened (code is a goto statement). break, which is missing, is a return statement.
Kernighan and Ritchie, "The C Language"
http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/
And what happens when we run out of methane? Do we replace cattle with sheep here in america?
Cattle produces enormous amounts of methane.
Another thing i've noticed: companies with Novell's attitude refer to us as customers (which denotes free choice, CUSTOMER satisfaction, etc. all positive), and other *cough* M$ *cough* companies trying to shove it down our throats refer to us as "consumers"
h l=pl&btnG=Szukaj+z+Google&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr =&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_d t=i&as_sitesearch=microsoft.com (199.000 hits)n sumer+site%3Amicrosoft.com&btnG=Szukaj&lr= (35,100 hits).
Really? Let me see: http://www.google.pl/search?as_q=customer&num=10&
http://www.google.pl/search?hl=pl&as_qdr=all&q=co
The idea of putting all contents of Library of Congress (or any other BIG library) sound good at first glance, but its practical realization may prove to be very difficult. Those "rare books" you were referring to may well be books from the XVIIth, XVIIIth or XIXth century. While not printed on the trashy acid paper from the XXth century, they are nevertheless fragile. Scanning them may be impossible, due to the mechanical or chemical (to scan something, you shed bright light on it --- some manuscripts are viewed only by special light, sometimes by... moonlight, because normal light may be damaging to them) damage it may cause. Or very, very impossible and expensive.
Of course they are not meant to get caught before placing them
;-)
The journalists didn't get caught, they only run a juicy article on it afterwards