And as a non-profit org/community, Mozilla still doesn't have that level of recognition.
The US is probably the only country in the world where in order to make something really popular, you have to charge money for it, not give it away for free.
You're referring to Tchernobyl, aren't you? There are no such reactors operating in Western Europe and those in post-communist countries are being upgraded to meet modern standards. The Tchernobyl catastrophe was caused by terrible negligence on the part of the reactor crew. Besides, the Western Europe is overracting even with Tchernobyl. Most probably more people are dying because of illnesses caused by car exhaust and industrial pollution then died because of Chernobyl. And a large part of Tchernobyl deaths would have been avoided if the USSR didn't try, in a totally criminal and inhuman way, to cover up the scandal initially (they didn't evacuate people) and after that send soldiers to clean up without any substantial protection (they were cleaning up the debris with hand-held spades).
With the advent of pellet fuel technology, the security will dramatically increase. We have a good, clean technology (nuclear power) and we're still smoking coal. It's drastically stupid. Whenever I hear such argumenting against nuclear power, I smell some 'Green' politicians counting votes and Greenpeace activists trying to get more funding.
I think that somebody's trying to make fools of people. On the mentioned page one of the very first sentences reads: Colossal Storage Corporation has exclusive licenses to dominant patents the first patents issued in any field that details the discovery of something totally new.
Further in the text we have link to (supposedly) two patents they (supposedly) own, which turns out to be a patent search.
On the company webpage they have a link to the 3 page "whitepaper". Try reading through it. The writer jas just thrown some solid state physics jargon into it to make it look like a physicist's work. It's totally absurd. The author mentions molecule dissociation (which means breaking molecules apart) and then happily trot on to describing how those (dissociated) molecules switch some "binary positions" in the crystal!. The use of terminology is absurd, the author writes about "perovskite molecules". A perovskite is a type of crystal. You can have perovskite crystals, but not molecules.
Some time ago a French physicist Alan Sokal published a pseudo-philosophical books which made a parody of post-modernist intellectuals who liked to use physics as an argument knowing nothing about it. Looks like they came back for revenge.
My mother (she's a teacher) had a similar situation: a guy entered her class and wanted to promote some English courses, or books. He said he got the permission from the headmaster, but my mother threw him out anyway.
Most popular cards are supported by Linux. Perhaps there is a person who'd want to write the drivers to your card, but doesn't have the card or the technical specifications? Writing device drivers for Linux should be done by the manufacturers, if they don' want to do this, they should at least release specs for the card. Maybe your manufacturer didn't do it.
You've got one point, though. There is a lot of redundant OSS projects, like "one more vi clone". Who needs this?
I don't want to argue with you, since you apparently see things in my comment which I didn't write. I don't want to say that state ownership is the cure for every disease, I just want to point out, that in Europe the best-preserved forest happens to be state-owned and governed by the central government. Draw you own conclusions.
When you say you want those forests to stay public, you're saying that you're willing to throw them in the kitty at the electoral poker game every few years. Some of us care more about forests than that.
Since Europe enjoyed private land ownership centuries before the USA, it is instructing to take a look at the history of forests in Europe. The forests which are best-preserved in Europe are those which were kings' hunting grounds, closed for other people. Nowadays, the only natural forest (that is, which still looks like forests that were in Europe 1000 years ago) is located at the Poland-Byelaruss boundary, and it is state-owned and run (in Poland, but I think that in Byelaruss too) by a state agency (in Poland it is simply a National Park). All local authorities on the spot gripe with desire to take the forest in their hands and extract extra cach from it, by allowing people to build houses as close to it as possible, and cutting down trees in it. I have no doubt that if this forest was privatised, it would change into a well tended, no doubt, 'wood factory' which is common in Europe. And one of the most precious natural treasures of Europe would be lost forever.
It's not that simple. Any company that bids for the contract will want a contract for years, since it invests a lot of money. It is possible to privatize public services, but it must be done cautiously and with close public scrutiny.
I find this absurd. The spectrum is just a number, a wavelength, for God's sake. It was not made by anybody, it was discovered by scientists who were acting for the benefit of science, not for their own personal profit, and yet people want to make profit from it. It's like somebody wants to have property rights to sun rays, or oxygen particles in the air we breathe.
But back to hating, the Africans hate the Europeans. Visit Mozembique - if you are Portugeuse, there are places you just do not visit. Visit French Guiana, where France threw its undesirable prisoners for years. If you're French, you do not leave the resort if you're wise (or at least take an escort with plenty of protection). Do you think the Czech like Germans? Go visit the village of Lidice which the Germans wiped off the map in order to show who was boss. Ask any Pole or Balkan nation native how much they love Russians. You want to know hate? Just ask.
Surely, you are not implying that Czechs and Poles are less European than Germans or Russians?
Most of the world has a right to hate Brits, Germans, French and Spainiards for the continued nightmare that lingers from their colonialism. They envy the US, but HATE Europeans.
Yup, especially in South America. What was the saying? "So far from home, so close to the USA".
Alas it is this reason the Europeans wish to remind us all how much Americans are disliked internationally. It allows them to feel superior for a fleeting moment and pretend their colonial tyranny never existed. But then they go and hate Jews or oppress Muslims and the hatred returns.
You sound as if there was no anti-semitism and anti-islamism in the US. I'm still waiting to see if America is capable of electing somebody else than a white gentile male for president, since you're supposedly better than Europe. This for one.
Second, among nations who are generally critical of the US are Scandinavians, who never had any colonies (except for Grenland) and generally minded their own business throughout the history (well, except for the Swedes maybe).
Third, and most important -- please stick it into your head that vast majority of people in Europe criticizing the USA have nothing against America as a nation. Most of us like Americans, but many are deeply critical of Bush and his administration. Many are grateful to America for its help during both world wars (Poles have a special reason, because of Woodrow Wilson's support of Polish independence; we have Wilson Square in Warsaw) and for the Mashall Plan (Poles did not get a chance to be grateful for that, but that was USSR's doing). Please remember the amount of sympathy America got from Europe after 9/11. The sympathy was followed by the offer of help in the Afghanistan, which the USA declined.
And please don't accuse Europeans en-masse of hating Jews and oppressing Muslims. Again, one should not confuse criticism towards Isreal as a state (which, the criticism, I think is often somewhat unjust) with having some prejudice against Jews. I know people who loath anti-semitism and yet can't stand Ariel Sharon. Hell, some Israelis can't stand him. And as for oppressing Muslims... we wouldn't criticize Sharon in Israel and Bush in Iraq if we went along the "good Muslim is a dead Muslim" line, would we? Many Muslims do great carreers in Europe, in many countries large Muslim populations (much larger than in the USA) thrive. Poland has a small population of Muslims who have been living here for centuries and fought for Poland in all the wars. The fact that there are large Muslim populations in Germany and France explains also, partially, why these countries did not want to get involved in Iraq -- they simply didn't want their streets to explode (I mean protests, not bombs).
With regards to colonialism: it was a bad thing, yes, but there are failure stories and success stories. I doubt if India would now be a successful democracy if it weren't a British colony before that. And the word 'tyranny' is a big one. Europeans often didn't interfere in a lot of things in their colonies. America had its own colonies, too. What's the current status of Puerto Rico, anyway?
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This would be true if and only if the recent war left health care and public services in Iraq intact or working at comparable level of efficiency as before the war (they weren't savages in that area, you know), however this is clearly not the case.
Personally, I think it's a really serious case of something closely akin to Undergraduate Political Extremism Syndrome: Some people don't know who they are, or why they're breathing, or why they matter. They feel like their lives are more meaningful, interesting, and significant if they're engaged in a millenial life-and-death struggle for the soul of humanity and the future of Planet Earth, toe-to-toe with Absolute Evil in the form of, you know, Starbucks or people who wear leather shoes or whatever. Or communism, or capitalism, or the Jews. Whoever's handy.
Very true. When I was an undergraduate, I was very liberal (in the European sense of the word): free market, free trade, free speach, as little state as possible. Now I am allergic towards anybody who supports his opinion on some topic with ideology of any kind. I tends to consider each case independently, not just apply the Grand Ideology to it. The pity is, I knew some people who went into politics, much older than me, and they were completely ideological.
This is a great way for certain companies to undermine open software. User installs a program which has "GPL" written on it and gets adware running on his computer. What will the user do? he'll blame the Open Source! Add to it some articles in popular PC press about 'how you get spyware with Open Source products'.
Last I heard, the US military was out of Saudi entirely. And al Qaeda is still killing civilians there.
Didn't know. In fact, you've just proved the point which I made in the previous posts in this thread: terrorists don't have a clear logical reason (I'm not implying that governments do, either) for doing what they do. In my opinion, it's just like Monty Python's "I fart in your general direction!". I don't think it really matters that much for Al-Kaeda, whether they kill Saudis or Iraqis. Sure, some nationalities are better targets (the prime prize being probably US citizens or Jews), some or worse, but I think that after somebody killed or helped to kill so many people, it's a habit. You either like it or not. Reminds me what I read about Nazi or Soviet tormentors. They liked it. Terrorists like it. Otherwise, they wouldn't stay in business, would they?
Hello? Bin Laden objects to non-Muslims being permitted to set foot in Saudi. They're not defending their homeland from foreign military adventurers; they're persecuting foreigners, like the KKK.
This, too, is some news to me. Did he object to even foreign Muslims visiting Mecca, really?
Basques, by the way, still do not have full autonomy.
If they want to separate from Spain, they're brain damaged. Who would give them fat paychecks of regional aid?
I guess ultimately it'll all end up using biometrics and people will be hacking off fingers instead of hacking into systems...
Biometric devices measure temperature of the finger. And there are probably many more other characteristics which can tell a live person's finger from a hacked-off one.
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And as a non-profit org/community, Mozilla still doesn't have that level of recognition.
The US is probably the only country in the world where in order to make something really popular, you have to charge money for it, not give it away for free.
You're referring to Tchernobyl, aren't you? There are no such reactors operating in Western Europe and those in post-communist countries are being upgraded to meet modern standards. The Tchernobyl catastrophe was caused by terrible negligence on the part of the reactor crew. Besides, the Western Europe is overracting even with Tchernobyl. Most probably more people are dying because of illnesses caused by car exhaust and industrial pollution then died because of Chernobyl. And a large part of Tchernobyl deaths would have been avoided if the USSR didn't try, in a totally criminal and inhuman way, to cover up the scandal initially (they didn't evacuate people) and after that send soldiers to clean up without any substantial protection (they were cleaning up the debris with hand-held spades).
With the advent of pellet fuel technology, the security will dramatically increase. We have a good, clean technology (nuclear power) and we're still smoking coal. It's drastically stupid. Whenever I hear such argumenting against nuclear power, I smell some 'Green' politicians counting votes and Greenpeace activists trying to get more funding.
Now all those documents which were blurred by ink blots have a chance to be deciphered.
I think that somebody's trying to make fools of people. On the mentioned page one of the very first sentences reads:
Colossal Storage Corporation has exclusive licenses to dominant patents the first patents issued in any field that details the discovery of something totally new.
Further in the text we have link to (supposedly) two patents they (supposedly) own, which turns out to be a patent search.
On the company webpage they have a link to the 3 page "whitepaper". Try reading through it. The writer jas just thrown some solid state physics jargon into it to make it look like a physicist's work. It's totally absurd. The author mentions molecule dissociation (which means breaking molecules apart) and then happily trot on to describing how those (dissociated) molecules switch some "binary positions" in the crystal!. The use of terminology is absurd, the author writes about "perovskite molecules". A perovskite is a type of crystal. You can have perovskite crystals, but not molecules.
Some time ago a French physicist Alan Sokal published a pseudo-philosophical books which made a parody of post-modernist intellectuals who liked to use physics as an argument knowing nothing about it. Looks like they came back for revenge.
Don't we have the redundancy on CDs now?
My mother (she's a teacher) had a similar situation: a guy entered her class and wanted to promote some English courses, or books. He said he got the permission from the headmaster, but my mother threw him out anyway.
Most popular cards are supported by Linux. Perhaps there is a person who'd want to write the drivers to your card, but doesn't have the card or the technical specifications? Writing device drivers for Linux should be done by the manufacturers, if they don' want to do this, they should at least release specs for the card. Maybe your manufacturer didn't do it.
You've got one point, though. There is a lot of redundant OSS projects, like "one more vi clone". Who needs this?
I don't want to argue with you, since you apparently see things in my comment which I didn't write. I don't want to say that state ownership is the cure for every disease, I just want to point out, that in Europe the best-preserved forest happens to be state-owned and governed by the central government. Draw you own conclusions.
When you say you want those forests to stay public, you're saying that you're willing to throw them in the kitty at the electoral poker game every few years. Some of us care more about forests than that.
Since Europe enjoyed private land ownership centuries before the USA, it is instructing to take a look at the history of forests in Europe. The forests which are best-preserved in Europe are those which were kings' hunting grounds, closed for other people. Nowadays, the only natural forest (that is, which still looks like forests that were in Europe 1000 years ago) is located at the Poland-Byelaruss boundary, and it is state-owned and run (in Poland, but I think that in Byelaruss too) by a state agency (in Poland it is simply a National Park). All local authorities on the spot gripe with desire to take the forest in their hands and extract extra cach from it, by allowing people to build houses as close to it as possible, and cutting down trees in it. I have no doubt that if this forest was privatised, it would change into a well tended, no doubt, 'wood factory' which is common in Europe. And one of the most precious natural treasures of Europe would be lost forever.
It's not that simple. Any company that bids for the contract will want a contract for years, since it invests a lot of money. It is possible to privatize public services, but it must be done cautiously and with close public scrutiny.
I find this absurd. The spectrum is just a number, a wavelength, for God's sake. It was not made by anybody, it was discovered by scientists who were acting for the benefit of science, not for their own personal profit, and yet people want to make profit from it. It's like somebody wants to have property rights to sun rays, or oxygen particles in the air we breathe.
But back to hating, the Africans hate the Europeans. Visit Mozembique - if you are Portugeuse, there are places you just do not visit. Visit French Guiana, where France threw its undesirable prisoners for years. If you're French, you do not leave the resort if you're wise (or at least take an escort with plenty of protection). Do you think the Czech like Germans? Go visit the village of Lidice which the Germans wiped off the map in order to show who was boss. Ask any Pole or Balkan nation native how much they love Russians. You want to know hate? Just ask.
Surely, you are not implying that Czechs and Poles are less European than Germans or Russians?
Most of the world has a right to hate Brits, Germans, French and Spainiards for the continued nightmare that lingers from their colonialism. They envy the US, but HATE Europeans.
Yup, especially in South America. What was the saying? "So far from home, so close to the USA".
Alas it is this reason the Europeans wish to remind us all how much Americans are disliked internationally. It allows them to feel superior for a fleeting moment and pretend their colonial tyranny never existed. But then they go and hate Jews or oppress Muslims and the hatred returns.
You sound as if there was no anti-semitism and anti-islamism in the US. I'm still waiting to see if America is capable of electing somebody else than a white gentile male for president, since you're supposedly better than Europe. This for one.
Second, among nations who are generally critical of the US are Scandinavians, who never had any colonies (except for Grenland) and generally minded their own business throughout the history (well, except for the Swedes maybe).
Third, and most important -- please stick it into your head that vast majority of people in Europe criticizing the USA have nothing against America as a nation. Most of us like Americans, but many are deeply critical of Bush and his administration. Many are grateful to America for its help during both world wars (Poles have a special reason, because of Woodrow Wilson's support of Polish independence; we have Wilson Square in Warsaw) and for the Mashall Plan (Poles did not get a chance to be grateful for that, but that was USSR's doing). Please remember the amount of sympathy America got from Europe after 9/11. The sympathy was followed by the offer of help in the Afghanistan, which the USA declined.
And please don't accuse Europeans en-masse of hating Jews and oppressing Muslims. Again, one should not confuse criticism towards Isreal as a state (which, the criticism, I think is often somewhat unjust) with having some prejudice against Jews. I know people who loath anti-semitism and yet can't stand Ariel Sharon. Hell, some Israelis can't stand him. And as for oppressing Muslims... we wouldn't criticize Sharon in Israel and Bush in Iraq if we went along the "good Muslim is a dead Muslim" line, would we? Many Muslims do great carreers in Europe, in many countries large Muslim populations (much larger than in the USA) thrive. Poland has a small population of Muslims who have been living here for centuries and fought for Poland in all the wars. The fact that there are large Muslim populations in Germany and France explains also, partially, why these countries did not want to get involved in Iraq -- they simply didn't want their streets to explode (I mean protests, not bombs).
With regards to colonialism: it was a bad thing, yes, but there are failure stories and success stories. I doubt if India would now be a successful democracy if it weren't a British colony before that. And the word 'tyranny' is a big one. Europeans often didn't interfere in a lot of things in their colonies. America had its own colonies, too. What's the current status of Puerto Rico, anyway?
This would be true if and only if the recent war left health care and public services in Iraq intact or working at comparable level of efficiency as before the war (they weren't savages in that area, you know), however this is clearly not the case.
Personally, I think it's a really serious case of something closely akin to Undergraduate Political Extremism Syndrome: Some people don't know who they are, or why they're breathing, or why they matter. They feel like their lives are more meaningful, interesting, and significant if they're engaged in a millenial life-and-death struggle for the soul of humanity and the future of Planet Earth, toe-to-toe with Absolute Evil in the form of, you know, Starbucks or people who wear leather shoes or whatever. Or communism, or capitalism, or the Jews. Whoever's handy.
Very true. When I was an undergraduate, I was very liberal (in the European sense of the word): free market, free trade, free speach, as little state as possible. Now I am allergic towards anybody who supports his opinion on some topic with ideology of any kind. I tends to consider each case independently, not just apply the Grand Ideology to it. The pity is, I knew some people who went into politics, much older than me, and they were completely ideological.
If [Basque separatists] want to separate from Spain, they're brain damaged. Who would give them fat paychecks of regional aid?
The EU, perhaps? Heh heh.
Nope. If they leave Spain, they leave the EU.
This is a great way for certain companies to undermine open software. User installs a program which has "GPL" written on it and gets adware running on his computer. What will the user do? he'll blame the Open Source! Add to it some articles in popular PC press about 'how you get spyware with Open Source products'.
It looks as if many people did what you asked. Can't connect to the website.
Last I heard, the US military was out of Saudi entirely. And al Qaeda is still killing civilians there.
Didn't know. In fact, you've just proved the point which I made in the previous posts in this thread: terrorists don't have a clear logical reason (I'm not implying that governments do, either) for doing what they do. In my opinion, it's just like Monty Python's "I fart in your general direction!". I don't think it really matters that much for Al-Kaeda, whether they kill Saudis or Iraqis. Sure, some nationalities are better targets (the prime prize being probably US citizens or Jews), some or worse, but I think that after somebody killed or helped to kill so many people, it's a habit. You either like it or not. Reminds me what I read about Nazi or Soviet tormentors. They liked it. Terrorists like it. Otherwise, they wouldn't stay in business, would they?
Hello? Bin Laden objects to non-Muslims being permitted to set foot in Saudi. They're not defending their homeland from foreign military adventurers; they're persecuting foreigners, like the KKK.
This, too, is some news to me. Did he object to even foreign Muslims visiting Mecca, really?
Basques, by the way, still do not have full autonomy.
If they want to separate from Spain, they're brain damaged. Who would give them fat paychecks of regional aid?
I'm batting for my wife and she's prettier then any of those "chicks".
Poland had no allies in 1939. At least no allies in 'active' mode.
If these pathetic wimps turn you on, you must be starving.
Take VAX for example. It's a rock solid platform...
Probably Munich will miss the 'rock stability' of its previous platform too...
I guess ultimately it'll all end up using biometrics and people will be hacking off fingers instead of hacking into systems...
Biometric devices measure temperature of the finger. And there are probably many more other characteristics which can tell a live person's finger from a hacked-off one.
You're wasting good entropy on such trifles. Thanks goodness it's a renewable resource.
Which means they store the passwords in clear text somewhere. Great idea.