for the place I worked from 1998 to 2004, you should make the "1999" the year of switching to Win95/98. They worked the DOS command line reasonably well, had the software on MSDOS (greatest part done in Foxpro), though NC was the greatest piece of software ever written etc. When they got Win95 computers they just learned how to go to DOS mode and continued from there. When using email on a SunOs workstation they had access to, they rejected Netscape Mail and used elm.
What persuaded them to move to actually using Win95 was... Patience and Minesweeper, and Excel when their accounting application broke.
Get a life, CmdrTaco, I expected at least you to check the news you post.
Anyway, if Iran were to be under attack or large scale action would be planned against it, I would not be posting here, but I would be jumping up and down in the field in full gear and shouting at my platoon, since any time there is big in our area, and Iran is not terribly far and this would be big trouble indeed, we find out first.
I get the feeling somebody wants really hard that there should be a war between USA and Iran, and that the one who wants it it's not USA. That, or the/. users that post these stories and the admins who approve them had hit their head when they were very young.
I am not an USA citizen. Taking that into consideration, and also the fact that at least 1/5 of the/. users are not USA citizens or native English speakers (judging by the number of spelling mistakes not usually found in texts written by US citizens or native English speakers), would you care to answer to the following questions ?
* Physically secure our borders and coastlines. We must do whatever it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated immigration reform proposals.
How do you propose to do that ? The US have low population density and a extremely long coastline and border. Do you think that would be possible without enforcing 3 to 5 years of mandatory military service for each adult citizen ?
* No welfare for illegal aliens. Americans have welcomed immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules. But taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics, schools, roads, and social services.
I understood that almost all illegal aliens living in US do not benefit from most kinds of welfare, since attempting to do that would attract attention to themselves and cause their arrest and possible expulsion. Is this true, or was I misinformed ?
* H.R. 3305 would allow pilots and specially assigned law enforcement personnel to carry firearms in order to protect airline passengers, possibly preventing future 9/11-style attacks.
To my knowledge, the possession of firearms while flying in a plane is forbidden because of the danger of accidents caused by firearms misfiring, such as decompression. How does Ron Paul plan to prevent those accidents ? How does Ron Paul plan to prevent rogue law enforcement personnel or criminals impersonating them from taking advantage of the firearms they were allowed to take on board ?
This question not related to your post, but I would be grateful if you would answer, since no one really addressed the issue:
Were the US to stop stop, as the campaigner who answered the original questions that started this thread said, subsidizing the defense of foreign states, how would the US be able to influence the foreign policy of those states ? Would not USA become less secure by renouncing the leverage offered by the said subsidies ? Considering also that most of those subsidies are spent on US military equipment and maintenance for equipment purchased previously, wouldn't you lose more, in terms of security, if you renounced this opportunity to have a say in how other countries, which are not always well intentioned or governed, direct their foreign policy ?
that makes Slashdot the equivalent of "Lost": it's a series with mostly unconnected episodes that lead to no conclusion, and still most of the viewers-posters get some strange satisfaction from being part of the crowd watching it.
Parents having no idea what their kids are doing or thinking ? Is that different from what happened to the kids born in the '70s, or to the kids born in 1900 ?
and you missed mine: I claimed only that he would not have been able to have any useful flashes of inspiration, random or not, if he had not spent time learning the science... one cannot have flashes of inspiration about processor design if one has no idea how to design a processor, or what is needed in a processor, in the first place.
Archimedes did hot have a "flash": the poor man had worked for quite some time on a non-destructive method to distinguish between objects made of solid gold and objects only plated with gold before having the "Eureka" moment in the bathtub. Considering that the guy who ordered him to find that method was the "tyrant" of Syracuse (a not very gentle person), we might understand why he started running naked on the street when he finally got the idea. Unfortunately, the story does not tell how many failed flashes he had before, and how much time it took Archimedes from the moment he jumped out of the bathtub until he could go to his patron and perform the test he was required to perform. I guess he failed a lot before that, and tested a lot afterwards.
no, it's not the American weapon manufacturers that are helping third world people kill each other, unless the American weapon manufacturers sell machetes.
Nobody was disconnected: besides the submarine cables, there are land cables and satellite connections, and the copper cables of old, which were used by telecoms.
Sir, you are absolutely right and should be modded up.
Irna.ir is hosted in US, California. Baztab.com is hosted in Texas. Iran Dayly is hosted in California. and so on...
I think if somebody wants to disable the Iranian propaganda machine they would have to cut off from the internet not Iran, but United States. Kind of ironic.
It was never down. Repairs on the cables in the Mediterranean will be done sometimes next week due to very bad weather in the area. I don't know about the other cable, though...
- winter in Northern Hemisphere -> bad weather -> ships not being able to enter poorly designed ports -> ships attempting to anchor outside port in order to prevent drifting and save on the fuel.
- lots of cables in place
- some of the cables end near ports, mostly because there is infrastructure in place
- some of the anchors, while the ships are pushed by winds/currents, break some of the cables.
Dilemma solved. Nobody profits.
To all those folks talking about US submarines cutting cables or US arranging for the cables to be cut in order to do... whatever...: take a deep breath, and maybe drink a glass of water. If you imagine any country depends on it's official communications only on submarine cables, think again. I bet Iran has land cables to Russia, Turkey, Pakistan etc. Egypt talked about "rationing" the use of "internet" because the filesharers were using that particular cable to get whatever they are getting from peers in Europe, and because it's better to blame the p2p-ers than to explain why is there only one cable in place.
Check this out:
PING irna.ir (209.1.163.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 209.1.163.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=297 ms
irna.ir is "The Islamic Republic News Agency". It's up and running fine. Iran is not cut off from the internet. Egypt is not cut off from the internet, and it would be stupid... no, moronic, for US or any European/North American state to arrange this, since Egypt is one of the few states in the Middle East where some resemblance of reason is preserved.
More than strange: supposedly he used accounts that were not his, so even if he made money with them, the gain would not have been credited to him. Since he did not attempt to steal the money, but to make money for the bank and increase his status and get promoted further, this does not make much sense.
How about this: his manager notices that a few times he used accounts that did not belong to him, and since some of the investments the bank made turned sour, gave him the choice of being accused of attempting to steal from the bank and spend the rest of his life in prison, or cooperate and take the blame for the losses of the bank and be charged only with overstepping his bounds, get away with only a fine and drive a cab for the rest of his life ?
The trader had been with the bank for about six years and was a relatively junior employee.
According to Mr Bouton, he was paid less than 100,000, including bonus, a small wage for anyone in investment banking.
"He was trading relatively small positions," Mr Bouton said. "He was at the lower end of the scale."
According to the lawyers of Jerome Kerviel [my translation, the original is in French]:
il a réalisé au profit de la Société Générale des bénéfices considérables, qui s'élevaient au 31 décembre 2007 à près d'un milliard cinq cents millions d'euros
he gained a significant amount of money for Societe Generale, amount that at December 31, 2007 reached almost 1.5 billions Euro and the losses were caused by SG dumping his investments in a very short time and under unfavorable conditions in order to distract the shareholders from blaming the bank for it's other losses.
Galileo picked on the Bible. Not only he said that the Earth is moving, but he wrote a pamphlet where three characters debated the issues and the one defending the point of the view was presented as being kind of ridiculous. Galileo did not resume himself to Astronomy, he ventured to Theology and drew theological conclusions from his work.
Compared to other supposedly more popular OSes, Linux is a pico-kernel (yes, I know size is not what "microkernel" is about). Anyway, with user-space drivers and fuse, doesn't the border between microkernels and monolithic kernels become a little blurred ?
Elections still pending, so you have to wait a bit before making up your mind.
The political assassinations of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, as well as numerous other journalists and political opponents.
Have you got any proof ? Besides articles in BBC News, I mean...
Mass killings, rape, torture, and other atrocities in Chechnya.
... I did not know that Putin was a Chechen separatist... or do you mean that he was in charge during the first conflict in Chechnya ? The last one, which began with the Chechens attacking Dagestan when Putin was not yet in charge, was at least as clean and at least as humane as the wars more "civilized" countries waged during the last century. The Chechen troubles might have started as "freedom fighting", but ended as filibustering, with enterprising Islamists attempting to carve a nice state for themselves from what they supposed to be the corpse of the Soviet Union. Should he let them do it ?
I have the bloody law on Author Rights voted in 2000. No, it's not us. And here they don't come with a "marshal", they bring two policemen and a search warrant if you don't let them do their stuff willingly. No, it's not US.
It's not pop psychology, nor science, it's leftist propaganda.
First, it conflates "conservatism" with "religion" with "extremism" with "violence".
Second, TFA only identifies a particular case of the more general "engineering mindset"/"right-wing extremist mindset" described by Seymour Lipset, which is summarized by the author of TFA at page 50:
Whether American, Canadian or Islamic, and whether due to selection or field
socialisation, a disproportionate share of engineers seems to have a mindset that
inclines them to entertain the quintessential right-wing features of "monism" - 'why
argue when there is one best solution' - and of "simplism" - 'if only people were
rational, remedies would be simple'.
and, at page 49:
"preservatism", is typical only of the right. Unlike left-wing
extremism which aims at broadening the lines of power and privilege, preservatism aims
to restore a lost, often mythical order of privileges and authority, and, in the authors'
view, emerges as a backlash against displacement or status deprivation in a period of
sharp social change.
Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, the authors of TFA, need to update their vocabularies a bit... no need to reinvent the wheel or torture language, since there exists a perfect term expressing the same concept: "palingenesis". Unfortunately for them, it's common for the left, too, since, from Marx to Mao, Communism was only an attempt to restore a state of equality that existed among the first humans and who was corrupted by the apparition of private property. The same concept applies to the liberals of ecologist persuasion, since it seems their main concern is with the restoration of a primitive state of natural "balance" and "purity" that was destroyed by recent human greed. I would say that "palingenesis", or, the way D.G.and S.H. mutilate English, "preservatism", is the most common tool of trade for those attempting to legitimate themselves as redeemers of mankind/nation/class.
Last: the damn' article, which is not fine at all since footnotes, tables and charts do not science make, fails to give us a clue to the number of students for Humanities, Sciences, Law, Engineering etc. that exist in the Islamic world, so we could get a chance to see if the proportion of engineers in the terrorist pool is, or is not representative for the proportion of engineers in the total pool of students. They mention only halfheartedly that they include only a very small sample of "Islamic" terrorists, and fail to take into consideration the many thousands of militants still alive, captured or killed in Iraq and Afghanistan beginning with the war Soviet Union waged in Afghanistan and ending with the present times. They also fail to count the students of the madrassas, which, for what it may count, are the equivalent of our Faculties of Theology, students that make the bulk of the "Islamic" activists.
Reading TFA I can say only one thing: engineers make poor terrorists, since the majority of those that got caught and whose biography can be found in papers were engineers. If anyone would like to start a revolution, better recruit lawyers and liberal arts students:-P
which is then distributed by the guild on basis of need. Quite a fair way to do things, really, and one that the majority of Canadian musicians support wholeheartedly.
I do believe them to support that wholeheartedly, if in Canada being a "musician" means the same as in the rest of the world: 90% of the time "musician" (or "writer", or "artist") means "unemployed" or "minimum wage menial job during the day/night, and infrequent gigs in the spare time".
Unfortunately for them, in a very short time it will happen what happened mostly everywhere these schemes are in place: the administration of the Songwrites Guild will take most of the money, there will be strict exams and large taxes in place for entrance, songwriters and musicians will need heavy certification to get into the Guild etc.... for a funny version of what is not funny at all in reality check "Soul Music" by T. Pratchett... you might say that's fiction and even "fantasy" kind of fiction, but it really does work that way, except there are humans instead of trolls enforcing the Guild rules.
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for the place I worked from 1998 to 2004, you should make the "1999" the year of switching to Win95/98. They worked the DOS command line reasonably well, had the software on MSDOS (greatest part done in Foxpro), though NC was the greatest piece of software ever written etc. When they got Win95 computers they just learned how to go to DOS mode and continued from there. When using email on a SunOs workstation they had access to, they rejected Netscape Mail and used elm.
... Patience and Minesweeper, and Excel when their accounting application broke.
What persuaded them to move to actually using Win95 was
No, Iran is not offline.
/. users that post these stories and the admins who approve them had hit their head when they were very young.
http://english.khamenei.ir/
http://www.president.ir/fa/
very much online ( the sites are hosted in Iran).
Get a life, CmdrTaco, I expected at least you to check the news you post.
Anyway, if Iran were to be under attack or large scale action would be planned against it, I would not be posting here, but I would be jumping up and down in the field in full gear and shouting at my platoon, since any time there is big in our area, and Iran is not terribly far and this would be big trouble indeed, we find out first.
I get the feeling somebody wants really hard that there should be a war between USA and Iran, and that the one who wants it it's not USA. That, or the
now go mod me troll
How do you propose to do that ? The US have low population density and a extremely long coastline and border. Do you think that would be possible without enforcing 3 to 5 years of mandatory military service for each adult citizen ?
* No welfare for illegal aliens. Americans have welcomed immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules. But taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics, schools, roads, and social services.I understood that almost all illegal aliens living in US do not benefit from most kinds of welfare, since attempting to do that would attract attention to themselves and cause their arrest and possible expulsion. Is this true, or was I misinformed ?
* H.R. 3305 would allow pilots and specially assigned law enforcement personnel to carry firearms in order to protect airline passengers, possibly preventing future 9/11-style attacks.To my knowledge, the possession of firearms while flying in a plane is forbidden because of the danger of accidents caused by firearms misfiring, such as decompression. How does Ron Paul plan to prevent those accidents ? How does Ron Paul plan to prevent rogue law enforcement personnel or criminals impersonating them from taking advantage of the firearms they were allowed to take on board ?
This question not related to your post, but I would be grateful if you would answer, since no one really addressed the issue:
Were the US to stop stop, as the campaigner who answered the original questions that started this thread said, subsidizing the defense of foreign states, how would the US be able to influence the foreign policy of those states ? Would not USA become less secure by renouncing the leverage offered by the said subsidies ? Considering also that most of those subsidies are spent on US military equipment and maintenance for equipment purchased previously, wouldn't you lose more, in terms of security, if you renounced this opportunity to have a say in how other countries, which are not always well intentioned or governed, direct their foreign policy ?
that makes Slashdot the equivalent of "Lost": it's a series with mostly unconnected episodes that lead to no conclusion, and still most of the viewers-posters get some strange satisfaction from being part of the crowd watching it. Parents having no idea what their kids are doing or thinking ? Is that different from what happened to the kids born in the '70s, or to the kids born in 1900 ?
and you missed mine: I claimed only that he would not have been able to have any useful flashes of inspiration, random or not, if he had not spent time learning the science ... one cannot have flashes of inspiration about processor design if one has no idea how to design a processor, or what is needed in a processor, in the first place.
Archimedes did hot have a "flash": the poor man had worked for quite some time on a non-destructive method to distinguish between objects made of solid gold and objects only plated with gold before having the "Eureka" moment in the bathtub. Considering that the guy who ordered him to find that method was the "tyrant" of Syracuse (a not very gentle person), we might understand why he started running naked on the street when he finally got the idea. Unfortunately, the story does not tell how many failed flashes he had before, and how much time it took Archimedes from the moment he jumped out of the bathtub until he could go to his patron and perform the test he was required to perform. I guess he failed a lot before that, and tested a lot afterwards.
Should I believe you became a software & hardware designer in a flash of inspiration, too ? Or did it take some good years of hard work to get there ?
dig for khamenei.ir = 208.113.192.17 whois for 208.113.192.17 = dreamhost.com
Indeed ? Then maybe I am using a different version of whois.
no, it's not the American weapon manufacturers that are helping third world people kill each other, unless the American weapon manufacturers sell machetes.
it's not disconnected. Try this : http://www.khamenei.ir/
Nobody was disconnected: besides the submarine cables, there are land cables and satellite connections, and the copper cables of old, which were used by telecoms.
Sir, you are absolutely right and should be modded up.
...
Irna.ir is hosted in US, California.
Baztab.com is hosted in Texas.
Iran Dayly is hosted in California.
and so on
I think if somebody wants to disable the Iranian propaganda machine they would have to cut off from the internet not Iran, but United States. Kind of ironic.
Still:
http://www.khamenei.ir/ is hosted in Iran and is was up yesterday, and still is
http://www.president.ir/fa/ is also hosted in Iran and was up, and still is
It was never down. Repairs on the cables in the Mediterranean will be done sometimes next week due to very bad weather in the area. I don't know about the other cable, though ...
everybody much too busy being Tom Clancy and cutting tinfoil
there is nothing going on ... Iranian sites are available just fine.
Only the data from Egypt is going to be rerouted through US and UK.
How about:
... whatever ...: take a deep breath, and maybe drink a glass of water. If you imagine any country depends on it's official communications only on submarine cables, think again. I bet Iran has land cables to Russia, Turkey, Pakistan etc. Egypt talked about "rationing" the use of "internet" because the filesharers were using that particular cable to get whatever they are getting from peers in Europe, and because it's better to blame the p2p-ers than to explain why is there only one cable in place.
... no, moronic, for US or any European/North American state to arrange this, since Egypt is one of the few states in the Middle East where some resemblance of reason is preserved.
- winter in Northern Hemisphere -> bad weather -> ships not being able to enter poorly designed ports -> ships attempting to anchor outside port in order to prevent drifting and save on the fuel.
- lots of cables in place
- some of the cables end near ports, mostly because there is infrastructure in place
- some of the anchors, while the ships are pushed by winds/currents, break some of the cables.
Dilemma solved. Nobody profits.
To all those folks talking about US submarines cutting cables or US arranging for the cables to be cut in order to do
Check this out:
PING irna.ir (209.1.163.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 209.1.163.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=297 ms
irna.ir is "The Islamic Republic News Agency". It's up and running fine. Iran is not cut off from the internet. Egypt is not cut off from the internet, and it would be stupid
More than strange: supposedly he used accounts that were not his, so even if he made money with them, the gain would not have been credited to him. Since he did not attempt to steal the money, but to make money for the bank and increase his status and get promoted further, this does not make much sense.
How about this: his manager notices that a few times he used accounts that did not belong to him, and since some of the investments the bank made turned sour, gave him the choice of being accused of attempting to steal from the bank and spend the rest of his life in prison, or cooperate and take the blame for the losses of the bank and be charged only with overstepping his bounds, get away with only a fine and drive a cab for the rest of his life ?
According to TO:
The trader had been with the bank for about six years and was a relatively junior employee.According to Mr Bouton, he was paid less than 100,000, including bonus, a small wage for anyone in investment banking.
"He was trading relatively small positions," Mr Bouton said. "He was at the lower end of the scale."
According to the lawyers of Jerome Kerviel [my translation, the original is in French]:
il a réalisé au profit de la Société Générale des bénéfices considérables, qui s'élevaient au 31 décembre 2007 à près d'un milliard cinq cents millions d'euroshe gained a significant amount of money for Societe Generale, amount that at December 31, 2007 reached almost 1.5 billions Euro and the losses were caused by SG dumping his investments in a very short time and under unfavorable conditions in order to distract the shareholders from blaming the bank for it's other losses.
That was said 30 years ago, too. And in 1880s the oil was going to run out in 5 more years.
Galileo picked on the Bible. Not only he said that the Earth is moving, but he wrote a pamphlet where three characters debated the issues and the one defending the point of the view was presented as being kind of ridiculous. Galileo did not resume himself to Astronomy, he ventured to Theology and drew theological conclusions from his work.
Compared to other supposedly more popular OSes, Linux is a pico-kernel (yes, I know size is not what "microkernel" is about). Anyway, with user-space drivers and fuse, doesn't the border between microkernels and monolithic kernels become a little blurred ?
Elections still pending, so you have to wait a bit before making up your mind.
The political assassinations of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, as well as numerous other journalists and political opponents.Have you got any proof ? Besides articles in BBC News, I mean ...
Mass killings, rape, torture, and other atrocities in Chechnya.I have the bloody law on Author Rights voted in 2000. No, it's not us. And here they don't come with a "marshal", they bring two policemen and a search warrant if you don't let them do their stuff willingly. No, it's not US.
BSA wants receipt and proof of purchase with your company's name on it. At least that's what they ask around here.
Soyuz, Progress too
It's not pop psychology, nor science, it's leftist propaganda.
First, it conflates "conservatism" with "religion" with "extremism" with "violence".
Second, TFA only identifies a particular case of the more general "engineering mindset"/"right-wing extremist mindset" described by Seymour Lipset, which is summarized by the author of TFA at page 50:
Whether American, Canadian or Islamic, and whether due to selection or field socialisation, a disproportionate share of engineers seems to have a mindset that inclines them to entertain the quintessential right-wing features of "monism" - 'why argue when there is one best solution' - and of "simplism" - 'if only people were rational, remedies would be simple'.and, at page 49:
"preservatism", is typical only of the right. Unlike left-wing extremism which aims at broadening the lines of power and privilege, preservatism aims to restore a lost, often mythical order of privileges and authority, and, in the authors' view, emerges as a backlash against displacement or status deprivation in a period of sharp social change.Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, the authors of TFA, need to update their vocabularies a bit ... no need to reinvent the wheel or torture language, since there exists a perfect term expressing the same concept: "palingenesis". Unfortunately for them, it's common for the left, too, since, from Marx to Mao, Communism was only an attempt to restore a state of equality that existed among the first humans and who was corrupted by the apparition of private property. The same concept applies to the liberals of ecologist persuasion, since it seems their main concern is with the restoration of a primitive state of natural "balance" and "purity" that was destroyed by recent human greed. I would say that "palingenesis", or, the way D.G.and S.H. mutilate English, "preservatism", is the most common tool of trade for those attempting to legitimate themselves as redeemers of mankind/nation/class.
Last: the damn' article, which is not fine at all since footnotes, tables and charts do not science make, fails to give us a clue to the number of students for Humanities, Sciences, Law, Engineering etc. that exist in the Islamic world, so we could get a chance to see if the proportion of engineers in the terrorist pool is, or is not representative for the proportion of engineers in the total pool of students. They mention only halfheartedly that they include only a very small sample of "Islamic" terrorists, and fail to take into consideration the many thousands of militants still alive, captured or killed in Iraq and Afghanistan beginning with the war Soviet Union waged in Afghanistan and ending with the present times. They also fail to count the students of the madrassas, which, for what it may count, are the equivalent of our Faculties of Theology, students that make the bulk of the "Islamic" activists.
Reading TFA I can say only one thing: engineers make poor terrorists, since the majority of those that got caught and whose biography can be found in papers were engineers. If anyone would like to start a revolution, better recruit lawyers and liberal arts students :-P
I do believe them to support that wholeheartedly, if in Canada being a "musician" means the same as in the rest of the world: 90% of the time "musician" (or "writer", or "artist") means "unemployed" or "minimum wage menial job during the day/night, and infrequent gigs in the spare time".
Unfortunately for them, in a very short time it will happen what happened mostly everywhere these schemes are in place: the administration of the Songwrites Guild will take most of the money, there will be strict exams and large taxes in place for entrance, songwriters and musicians will need heavy certification to get into the Guild etc.... for a funny version of what is not funny at all in reality check "Soul Music" by T. Pratchett ... you might say that's fiction and even "fantasy" kind of fiction, but it really does work that way, except there are humans instead of trolls enforcing the Guild rules.