"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." Oh really? Well go live under a dictatorship for a few months and see for yourself how lacking freedom doesn't make you feel safer, the complete opposite, it fills you up with fear. I don't believe the bullshit because I have lived under dictatorships and then under freedom, free societies are the *only* safe societies, don't let them fool you with their bullshit, you will not feel safe without being free.
And this hunk of data will be sifted through with none other than the little language called forth, the standard language of the international astronomical union.
I don't know what you guys are doing, and I'm not an expert, but from what I know so far Java and such languages are good if you have to work with a large number of cheap, mediocre developers. If, on the other hand, you're a small group of competent, experienced professionals then you may as well use a language that's better suited for a small group of competent, experienced professionals that would give you the additional advantages of fast development and more maintainable code. FDA sounds like you're doing something of perhaps medical relevance, maybe interacting with medical devices or such, have you considered a language like forth? Forth has a good niche for such technical uses. I don't know what you need, but my point is that if you're going to make a language switch then at least switch to something that would make a difference, not Java.
Creationists are a peculiarly American institution. You won't find them in Europe; neither the Archbishop in England or the Vatican have a problem with evolution and they won't argue with scientists. Interestingly, not even Middle-Eastern Muslim orthodoxy argues with evolution [see Islamic Attitude to the Theory of Evolution and Creation on Al-Jazeera, which also reported today on the story above about humans and monkey interbreeding http://tinyurl.com/j8362 and Archbishop: stop teaching creationism Williams backs science over Bible http://tinyurl.com/zeq82%5D
Can someone please explain to me this Steve Ballmer event. I've seen it a few times in the past and I still don't understand. The guy looks like he almost had a heart attack. Did someone in PR suggest to him he do this? Was he trying to be hip? Couldn't they have hired Shakira to jump around and do a dance to that latin beat?
Perl, Python, Ruby, and so on. All are Open Source yet not fragmented. Look at TCL, though it lacks a "dictator" like the others above, it still has not fragmented.
The gaming market isn't ridiculously profitable. I think Sony made ~$400m profit from their entire sales of PS2, whereas Microsoft made a considerable loss from their entire sales of DorkBox/FratBox. They were fighting for marketshare at any cost. Nintendo, though coming a distant third place in marketshare and mass mindshare, actually made the most profits, a triple those of Sony. I could be mistaken, but that's what I heard, and I don't care much about this to check the fact.
What the banks do by sending an incomprehensible 6-page legalese to customers that even lawyers can't make sense of so that by default they can sell your details; how friggin' disgusting!
"Right now we have several efficient green energy sources for massproduction - wind power" - at a glance I thought you'd said "mind power". That would've been the ultimate hippy.
Wow what bullshit. How can you be modded insightful?>! For a start, Japan was already an advanced nation before the US "dumped tons of $$ into its reconstruction". Do you really think that attack on Pearl Harbour was done by a third world nation?! Second, "all but a tiny fragment of" india's "ppl" were "already uneducated" before they saw British rule. Don't blame it on the Brits. Blame it on the Indians themselves and their thousands of years of rotten caste system that favours only a tiny fragment of the population to receive education and anything resembling human rights, while the rest toil in shit. And, guess what, a friggin' huge fragment of its population are STILL uneducated, hundreds and hundreds of millions, and the upper castes that fill up the political bodies STILL don't friggin' care much about them! Compare that with China and how well China did on eradicating illiteracy, disease and hunger in its population. Countries that have advanced had a strong ethic of equality and solidarity, for everyone in them; where on Earth have you heard of "untouchables" except in India?! India is the place where if you're toiling in shit and on the verge of starvation you're thought of "it's your karma, you had been been wicked in a past life, you deserve all you get you POS!".
"All this talk of no borders and you can't limit it etc, well guess what, it works both ways." That's bullshit. Americans don't extradite their citizens to the UK. There are countless numbers of IRA people in the US that the UK would want. It just so happens that we in the UK have weak and perhaps corrupt politicians that allow the one-way intimidation of the US administration to fall on individual British citizens. What a big shame. It annoys the heck out of me that some UK politicians it seems care more about their US reputation and future earnings from books and speeches over there than they care about their citizens.
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Typing in vim is okay, but I found waaaay to tedious and distracting, nevermind it being incredibly frustrating and annoying, switching in and out of modes to move about and edit stuff here and there. My editor of choice now is Scite. You can't beat the simplicity of c-x, c-c, or c-v for editing and the cursor keys for moving about. I don't care if vim has 10,000 other features, I use only those ones I mentioned for perhaps 99.9% of everything I do.
So what? It's obviously a figurative statement, meant to demonstrate a point, not make a concrete prediction. You know, it's a sign of mental thickness to take figurative statements literally.
"Only non-Hispanic whites were included in the study to eliminate the influence of racial disparities." What about the UK? Did they only include Whites? The UK is far from an all-white population.
The difference between a 'blogger' and a 'journalist' is the same difference between letting some dude with a kitchen knife circumcise your child on a kitchen table and letting a surgeon do it in an operating theatre of a decent hospital. Big difference, and if you can't see it blame your ignorance.
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"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." Oh really? Well go live under a dictatorship for a few months and see for yourself how lacking freedom doesn't make you feel safer, the complete opposite, it fills you up with fear. I don't believe the bullshit because I have lived under dictatorships and then under freedom, free societies are the *only* safe societies, don't let them fool you with their bullshit, you will not feel safe without being free.
"no astronomer uses forth these days"?? http://forth.gsfc.nasa.gov/
And this hunk of data will be sifted through with none other than the little language called forth, the standard language of the international astronomical union.
"Don't worry, I have mod points! Oh, wait..." Why are you hesitating? He deserves it; I'll mod him up.
I don't know what you guys are doing, and I'm not an expert, but from what I know so far Java and such languages are good if you have to work with a large number of cheap, mediocre developers. If, on the other hand, you're a small group of competent, experienced professionals then you may as well use a language that's better suited for a small group of competent, experienced professionals that would give you the additional advantages of fast development and more maintainable code. FDA sounds like you're doing something of perhaps medical relevance, maybe interacting with medical devices or such, have you considered a language like forth? Forth has a good niche for such technical uses. I don't know what you need, but my point is that if you're going to make a language switch then at least switch to something that would make a difference, not Java.
Creationists are a peculiarly American institution. You won't find them in Europe; neither the Archbishop in England or the Vatican have a problem with evolution and they won't argue with scientists. Interestingly, not even Middle-Eastern Muslim orthodoxy argues with evolution [see Islamic Attitude to the Theory of Evolution and Creation on Al-Jazeera, which also reported today on the story above about humans and monkey interbreeding http://tinyurl.com/j8362 and Archbishop: stop teaching creationism Williams backs science over Bible http://tinyurl.com/zeq82%5D
Can someone please explain to me this Steve Ballmer event. I've seen it a few times in the past and I still don't understand. The guy looks like he almost had a heart attack. Did someone in PR suggest to him he do this? Was he trying to be hip? Couldn't they have hired Shakira to jump around and do a dance to that latin beat?
Perl, Python, Ruby, and so on. All are Open Source yet not fragmented. Look at TCL, though it lacks a "dictator" like the others above, it still has not fragmented.
The gaming market isn't ridiculously profitable. I think Sony made ~$400m profit from their entire sales of PS2, whereas Microsoft made a considerable loss from their entire sales of DorkBox/FratBox. They were fighting for marketshare at any cost. Nintendo, though coming a distant third place in marketshare and mass mindshare, actually made the most profits, a triple those of Sony. I could be mistaken, but that's what I heard, and I don't care much about this to check the fact.
For most passengers I'd rather them chatting on the phone than trying to chat with me.
The "Start" icon in gnome looks like an erect penis. http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/637_or/26.png
What the banks do by sending an incomprehensible 6-page legalese to customers that even lawyers can't make sense of so that by default they can sell your details; how friggin' disgusting!
Two brain tumours in one site could be a "fluke", SEVEN is friggin' not.
Indeed, TP and PS are very, very annoying.
"Right now we have several efficient green energy sources for massproduction - wind power" - at a glance I thought you'd said "mind power". That would've been the ultimate hippy.
Wow what bullshit. How can you be modded insightful?>! For a start, Japan was already an advanced nation before the US "dumped tons of $$ into its reconstruction". Do you really think that attack on Pearl Harbour was done by a third world nation?! Second, "all but a tiny fragment of" india's "ppl" were "already uneducated" before they saw British rule. Don't blame it on the Brits. Blame it on the Indians themselves and their thousands of years of rotten caste system that favours only a tiny fragment of the population to receive education and anything resembling human rights, while the rest toil in shit. And, guess what, a friggin' huge fragment of its population are STILL uneducated, hundreds and hundreds of millions, and the upper castes that fill up the political bodies STILL don't friggin' care much about them! Compare that with China and how well China did on eradicating illiteracy, disease and hunger in its population. Countries that have advanced had a strong ethic of equality and solidarity, for everyone in them; where on Earth have you heard of "untouchables" except in India?! India is the place where if you're toiling in shit and on the verge of starvation you're thought of "it's your karma, you had been been wicked in a past life, you deserve all you get you POS!".
"All this talk of no borders and you can't limit it etc, well guess what, it works both ways." That's bullshit. Americans don't extradite their citizens to the UK. There are countless numbers of IRA people in the US that the UK would want. It just so happens that we in the UK have weak and perhaps corrupt politicians that allow the one-way intimidation of the US administration to fall on individual British citizens. What a big shame. It annoys the heck out of me that some UK politicians it seems care more about their US reputation and future earnings from books and speeches over there than they care about their citizens.
Typing in vim is okay, but I found waaaay to tedious and distracting, nevermind it being incredibly frustrating and annoying, switching in and out of modes to move about and edit stuff here and there. My editor of choice now is Scite. You can't beat the simplicity of c-x, c-c, or c-v for editing and the cursor keys for moving about. I don't care if vim has 10,000 other features, I use only those ones I mentioned for perhaps 99.9% of everything I do.
So what? It's obviously a figurative statement, meant to demonstrate a point, not make a concrete prediction. You know, it's a sign of mental thickness to take figurative statements literally.
"One OS for games, and one OS for everything else"... Indeed, that's exactly why I use Windows and PalmOS.
"Only non-Hispanic whites were included in the study to eliminate the influence of racial disparities." What about the UK? Did they only include Whites? The UK is far from an all-white population.
What? You never heard of the Pubic Broadcasting Service?
I've always wanted a robot with an open source penis.
I'll say it in clear points. 1. firefox is not tied to the OS (as IE is) 2. firefox is not the dominant browser (marketshare).
The difference between a 'blogger' and a 'journalist' is the same difference between letting some dude with a kitchen knife circumcise your child on a kitchen table and letting a surgeon do it in an operating theatre of a decent hospital. Big difference, and if you can't see it blame your ignorance.