Warming would cause expansion of any liquid which will cause it to be less vicious, not more. That said, I don't know if the maximum possible molarity of water would increase with a raise in temperature, which could make sea water hold more salt and therefore make it more dense.
Finally, contrary to what the parent post says, there's no relation on the energy a hurricane can have and the increase in mass, although there is one with the increase in temperature. (I know E=mc^2, but no mass to energy, or viceversa, convrsion happens in a hurricane)
""A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
-- American Heritage Dictionary
Even though there are no clear definition of Fascism there is definititly clear that corporatism - the merging of big business and the state - are part of Fascism.
Well no. As you can see from your definition fascism IS a system of gvernment that excercises a dictatorship of the extreme right.. that's fascism. The other stuff is just stuff TYPICAL in fascist contries, but the same word typical states it as not necessary. So, that means we could have a fascist country without corporatism and, therefore, it is not an integral part of fascism, although it is TYPICALLY brought along with the movement.
On the other hand, I have been reading people stating that the world is shifting towards fascism, but in reality left wing parties are winning elections all throughout Latin America and Europe, which has always had a good amount of socialism in many countries. Maybe the only big countries where a that can be seen as remarkably right wing are the US and Russia, but that can be easily equalled with China, UK and France.
Being from Mexico and having resided all my life here, I find many comments on 3er world countries somewhat exagerated or lacking facts. I thank you for your "third world citizens are not stupids you know" and although I know Mexico isn't that bad economically when compared to other Latin American or African countries, I would like to comment a little bit about living in a 'third world' country.
We are not working hard all day in 80 hr shifts just to have some beans on the table. That is not happening in any rural or urban area. We do like to learn and aren't very much interested in having someone 'save' us from any hard time we are having. Times aren't that hard here, and you should know that 'third world countries' are just countries that are not as developed as others, but that doesn't mean they are fucked up. Of course an average mexican recevies 5,000 dls a year of salary, and a poor mexican family lives in a shared unfinished house, with not many clothes and drink 40 oz all day. But they eat, have a roo, clothes, and even beer money, that's a very long way from 'striving to find something to eat'. The government here has done hard work on medical services and we have a life expectancy of 76 yrs, which talks kinda' well about our health. We have a very rich culture and large companies from Mexico are known wordwide. Heck, the world's fourth richest person is a mexican! And he has made all his money in telecom companies here and all over Latin America! Telecom!! In Latin America!!! 4th richest!! You see, our technology systems are not as bad as some people may think when they say 'third world countries'.
since the mac came out, and even before, apple has been using revenue from hardware sales to support os development. if millions of home users stampede to emachines discount boxes for their os x platform then, apple's real source of revenue will dissappear.
Apple should not be stated any more as a mere hardware company, that might have been true in the 90's or before that, but now it has been constantly shifting to consumer products and services. The iPod (with all its iXXXX add-ons) is meaning more each time to Apple's sales, and has been crucial in the new Apple hype, much more than OSX and BSD. Also iTunes Stores, and Apple Stores have been incresingly important to them.
On the other hand, Apple integrates hardware but does not develop it, then they add a cool software and a slick design, which they do develop and which are the important part of their PC business model. It seems to me, that on the mac side, Apple is much more about software.
She reported that SCO's claims seemed justified. She told me: "It appeared to be a direct cut and paste right down to the developers' notes."
I do notes before programming anytime (doodles might be a more accurate word), and will write down flowcharts and algorithms for anything bigger than a script. But I do all of them in some piece of paper with a pencil, and paste it in front of me when I'm programming. WTF are "developer's notes", and how would SCO get the hold of the notes of some programmer who worked on Unix 20 years ago in a small office cubicle, or the ones of another one who worked on Linux in some dorm room 10 years ago?
Would "developer's notes" mean, by any chance, the same thing as source code for this woman?
I must say it is really an important difference, for the notes are more personal and, if they are similar, then the posibility of copyright infringement is way bigger than if the source code is similar. Specially when you are talking about POSIX compliant systems (same interfaces) that follow standard algorithms.
In most european countries according to my vague knowledge, the legal age to start having sex varies between 14-16.
The mere existence of a "legal age to start having sex" is something bad. Don't get me wrong, I'm not into free love and would never cheat on my girlfriend.
But I do think people are free to do as they please, at least in this matter.
BTW, 16 is still a more or less high age, you'd be amazed about what a 15 year old kid knows. And if that kid decides to have sex with her 16 and a half years old boyfriend, I don't think there's any reason for the boyfriend going to jail except some angry parents who want to think their daughter is more naive than what she really is.
I have read on some places now and then that Google runs a modified version of Linux and a modified version of Apache. It had some differences, I just remember a 64Kb disk cluster size, I think.
It still amazes me how many "The hottest girls", "Grow two inches now!" kind of mails are there still being spammed. I suppose people still open them, otherwise they wouldn't be spammed. I thought everyone would be tired of them by now. Maybe granma doesn't know it's spam, mybe she doesn't know it's ilegal, but I'm sure she should be tired of them and just think, "Nah, it's just one of those strange mails again."
How the hell am I supposed to express Dijkstra's algorithm, or Lamport's concurrent programming algorithm in natural language? I can express them in mathematics and logic, which is also nearer to how a comptuer works. I think an interpreter that understands and translates mathematical symbols to computer languages, or computer languages that are more similar to them will be more useful than higher level languages.
Anyway, isn't that what's fun to code? Hell, I prefer understanding graphs and routing algorithms than making the cashier's system anytime.
I don't doubt it's not useful for some systems, but it doesn't sound like fun, ergo, I'm not interested.
In addition to helping programmers visualize their program better, I think it also promotes writing concise (and therefore) requirements and descriptions. Metafor doesn't handle run-on sentences (or bad English) that well
Does this mean there's going to be less software programming offshoring to 3rd world countries?
No. These are not "processors" of any sort. It is a new way to modulate signal between CMOS and optical at high frequency and small scale. It may provide faster bus speeds, assuming the reality matches the funding hype.
I suppose then that putting them as the data bus to memory would be the best first thing to do. Imagine being able to read memory at register reading speed, that would be great even if you keep your same Pentium IV processor.
I usually don't like to get into this things, but this time I will.
Throughout humanity, there is a basic standard of right and wrong.We may disagree on some of the smaller points of it, but the general principles are there. Don't steal, don't murder, don't lie, etc. Evil is something that breaks one of these basic rules.
You talk about it as if it's universal and has been understood by all cultures, maybe even thinking of it as part of human nature. What about adultery (not all cultures banned it, and I hope your wife wanting to have sex with me is not a small point for you)? What about white lies? What about death sentence, is the American governmeent evil? What about war? What about not mixing with black people, is every white person from before the 20th century evil?
In general MS and Google are neither evil because neither of them are breaking these basic laws of humanity.
So, if we don't break a couple of rules then we are good, just like the ten commandments, How convinient!, but I hope in my hearth the human beings are much more complex than that. Now, there's also your interpretation of every one of those rules (which cause most of the christian religious separation BTW).
"Don't murder", murder what, only human beings? If so, don't murder any human being? What if I assist on the process but I didn't pull the plug? What if I decided to kill my baby instead of your wife (who is now pregnant, hehe =) )?, that's certainly murder. Am I expected to keep my mother alive for 5 years even if she has no life, cannot speak or move, and, after I have no money left, take a second mortage, sell my cars, and stop my kids from going to school to keep my mother quasi-alive another year (because if I don't, then I'm an evil person)?
"Don't steal". Is a revolution, where you take some land away from another country, stealing? Is an unwanted popup taking space which wasn't authorized stealing?
Human begins are much more complex and what you talk about are social rules (not laws of humanity!) that would help people live well in a certain type of society where those rules apply. You can change those rules and we'll have another society where human beings are still alive, eventhough it's better or worse.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Last time I changed a diper I got peed; my kid brother cannot solve certain equiations and he cannot program a computer; I'm sure as hell many slashdotters can't fight efficiently.
Is the problem my brother is young, What do you make of a Down Sindrome person? Can the program a computer? will they ever can?
Any way, I'm very good with computers, and I think in that specific area I can serve my society. Hail my queen ant!
The only piece of information that someone has is your IP address, and it's there for routing purposes and, even though you could find out from where is thata dude connecting that's all you can know. Anyway, IP packets are still part of your undergroud internet, so there's no extra anonymity there.
Besides that, you can have a truly anonymous internet if you don't permit any cookie, and don't have any user account. the anonymity will also be lost in your internet if you add a certain type of registration.
So, what are you promoting here? Because I have seen this post on other slashdot sites. Is this just a downgraded internet?
that the impact of denying access to techniques and logarithms effectively shuts out competition and fair use not only for the life of a product but well beyond
I didn't know that I could stop competition by using logarithms.
I'm not that interested in the script kiddies that write the software and create the botnets. I want them stopped, of course, but I'm more interested in the people behind the operation that pay them and benefit from it. Bust the kiddies, the backers will find new ones, bust the backers, it's a done deal.
Are you suggesting that there is more than the script kiddies launching the DDOSs, that there is actually a whole organization behind them supporting what they do? A real mafia? If so, who could these people be? The security companies? Terrorism? The competition of the company being attacked?
Perhaps the Linux community should get together and make a serious effort at a unified "desktop" launch. Personally, I think it'd go a long way towards getting more people off XP and involved in Open Source, all these fractured distros aren't really helping
I use linux because it's a damn good system with which I have a lot of fun. Some people may use it because it is more secure, because they want to restrict user priviledges, because they love open source, or any other reason. Some people do projects to imporive linux because they want to add an extra feuture that would make it a better system. But it is pretty damn sad when anybody does anything just to get MS users or to attack MS.
We have a great system, we enjoy it, it is great. I don't care of converting any Windows user. I like my Linux, I appreciate every effort anybody does to improve it, but Linux can stand by itself as a system which is a good one, and has nothing to do with MS. It's just about making a good system we like, not to fuck anybody else.
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Warming would cause expansion of any liquid which will cause it to be less vicious, not more. That said, I don't know if the maximum possible molarity of water would increase with a raise in temperature, which could make sea water hold more salt and therefore make it more dense.
Finally, contrary to what the parent post says, there's no relation on the energy a hurricane can have and the increase in mass, although there is one with the increase in temperature. (I know E=mc^2, but no mass to energy, or viceversa, convrsion happens in a hurricane)
""A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." -- American Heritage Dictionary
Even though there are no clear definition of Fascism there is definititly clear that corporatism - the merging of big business and the state - are part of Fascism.
Well no. As you can see from your definition fascism IS a system of gvernment that excercises a dictatorship of the extreme right.. that's fascism. The other stuff is just stuff TYPICAL in fascist contries, but the same word typical states it as not necessary. So, that means we could have a fascist country without corporatism and, therefore, it is not an integral part of fascism, although it is TYPICALLY brought along with the movement.
On the other hand, I have been reading people stating that the world is shifting towards fascism, but in reality left wing parties are winning elections all throughout Latin America and Europe, which has always had a good amount of socialism in many countries. Maybe the only big countries where a that can be seen as remarkably right wing are the US and Russia, but that can be easily equalled with China, UK and France.
Being from Mexico and having resided all my life here, I find many comments on 3er world countries somewhat exagerated or lacking facts. I thank you for your "third world citizens are not stupids you know" and although I know Mexico isn't that bad economically when compared to other Latin American or African countries, I would like to comment a little bit about living in a 'third world' country.
We are not working hard all day in 80 hr shifts just to have some beans on the table. That is not happening in any rural or urban area. We do like to learn and aren't very much interested in having someone 'save' us from any hard time we are having. Times aren't that hard here, and you should know that 'third world countries' are just countries that are not as developed as others, but that doesn't mean they are fucked up. Of course an average mexican recevies 5,000 dls a year of salary, and a poor mexican family lives in a shared unfinished house, with not many clothes and drink 40 oz all day. But they eat, have a roo, clothes, and even beer money, that's a very long way from 'striving to find something to eat'. The government here has done hard work on medical services and we have a life expectancy of 76 yrs, which talks kinda' well about our health. We have a very rich culture and large companies from Mexico are known wordwide. Heck, the world's fourth richest person is a mexican! And he has made all his money in telecom companies here and all over Latin America! Telecom!! In Latin America!!! 4th richest!! You see, our technology systems are not as bad as some people may think when they say 'third world countries'.
More technology? we invented de color TV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television)!!
*** I talked about technology and medical because I feel that's what people think is lacking the most in thrid world countries.
apple is a hardware company.
since the mac came out, and even before, apple has been using revenue from hardware sales to support os development. if millions of home users stampede to emachines discount boxes for their os x platform then, apple's real source of revenue will dissappear.
Apple should not be stated any more as a mere hardware company, that might have been true in the 90's or before that, but now it has been constantly shifting to consumer products and services. The iPod (with all its iXXXX add-ons) is meaning more each time to Apple's sales, and has been crucial in the new Apple hype, much more than OSX and BSD. Also iTunes Stores, and Apple Stores have been incresingly important to them.
On the other hand, Apple integrates hardware but does not develop it, then they add a cool software and a slick design, which they do develop and which are the important part of their PC business model. It seems to me, that on the mac side, Apple is much more about software.
She reported that SCO's claims seemed justified. She told me: "It appeared to be a direct cut and paste right down to the developers' notes."
I do notes before programming anytime (doodles might be a more accurate word), and will write down flowcharts and algorithms for anything bigger than a script. But I do all of them in some piece of paper with a pencil, and paste it in front of me when I'm programming. WTF are "developer's notes", and how would SCO get the hold of the notes of some programmer who worked on Unix 20 years ago in a small office cubicle, or the ones of another one who worked on Linux in some dorm room 10 years ago?
Would "developer's notes" mean, by any chance, the same thing as source code for this woman?
I must say it is really an important difference, for the notes are more personal and, if they are similar, then the posibility of copyright infringement is way bigger than if the source code is similar. Specially when you are talking about POSIX compliant systems (same interfaces) that follow standard algorithms.
In most european countries according to my vague knowledge, the legal age to start having sex varies between 14-16.
The mere existence of a "legal age to start having sex" is something bad. Don't get me wrong, I'm not into free love and would never cheat on my girlfriend.
But I do think people are free to do as they please, at least in this matter.
BTW, 16 is still a more or less high age, you'd be amazed about what a 15 year old kid knows. And if that kid decides to have sex with her 16 and a half years old boyfriend, I don't think there's any reason for the boyfriend going to jail except some angry parents who want to think their daughter is more naive than what she really is.
I have read on some places now and then that Google runs a modified version of Linux and a modified version of Apache. It had some differences, I just remember a 64Kb disk cluster size, I think.
http://www.internetweek.com/lead/lead060100.htm
Then you can either
a) Learn how to protect yourself.
b) Stop using the internet.
c) Shut the fuck up and stop complaining.
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It still amazes me how many "The hottest girls", "Grow two inches now!" kind of mails are there still being spammed. I suppose people still open them, otherwise they wouldn't be spammed. I thought everyone would be tired of them by now. Maybe granma doesn't know it's spam, mybe she doesn't know it's ilegal, but I'm sure she should be tired of them and just think, "Nah, it's just one of those strange mails again."
How the hell am I supposed to express Dijkstra's algorithm, or Lamport's concurrent programming algorithm in natural language? I can express them in mathematics and logic, which is also nearer to how a comptuer works. I think an interpreter that understands and translates mathematical symbols to computer languages, or computer languages that are more similar to them will be more useful than higher level languages.
Anyway, isn't that what's fun to code? Hell, I prefer understanding graphs and routing algorithms than making the cashier's system anytime.
I don't doubt it's not useful for some systems, but it doesn't sound like fun, ergo, I'm not interested.
In addition to helping programmers visualize their program better, I think it also promotes writing concise (and therefore) requirements and descriptions. Metafor doesn't handle run-on sentences (or bad English) that well
Does this mean there's going to be less software programming offshoring to 3rd world countries?
No. These are not "processors" of any sort. It is a new way to modulate signal between CMOS and optical at high frequency and small scale. It may provide faster bus speeds, assuming the reality matches the funding hype.
I suppose then that putting them as the data bus to memory would be the best first thing to do. Imagine being able to read memory at register reading speed, that would be great even if you keep your same Pentium IV processor.
The mailman can just spam-mail the dogs.
What educational software packages are available for Linux?
Linux per se is the best education I ever had. =)
I usually don't like to get into this things, but this time I will.
Throughout humanity, there is a basic standard of right and wrong.We may disagree on some of the smaller points of it, but the general principles are there. Don't steal, don't murder, don't lie, etc. Evil is something that breaks one of these basic rules.
You talk about it as if it's universal and has been understood by all cultures, maybe even thinking of it as part of human nature. What about adultery (not all cultures banned it, and I hope your wife wanting to have sex with me is not a small point for you)? What about white lies? What about death sentence, is the American governmeent evil? What about war? What about not mixing with black people, is every white person from before the 20th century evil?
In general MS and Google are neither evil because neither of them are breaking these basic laws of humanity.
So, if we don't break a couple of rules then we are good, just like the ten commandments, How convinient!, but I hope in my hearth the human beings are much more complex than that. Now, there's also your interpretation of every one of those rules (which cause most of the christian religious separation BTW).
"Don't murder", murder what, only human beings? If so, don't murder any human being? What if I assist on the process but I didn't pull the plug? What if I decided to kill my baby instead of your wife (who is now pregnant, hehe =) )?, that's certainly murder. Am I expected to keep my mother alive for 5 years even if she has no life, cannot speak or move, and, after I have no money left, take a second mortage, sell my cars, and stop my kids from going to school to keep my mother quasi-alive another year (because if I don't, then I'm an evil person)?
"Don't steal". Is a revolution, where you take some land away from another country, stealing? Is an unwanted popup taking space which wasn't authorized stealing?
Human begins are much more complex and what you talk about are social rules (not laws of humanity!) that would help people live well in a certain type of society where those rules apply. You can change those rules and we'll have another society where human beings are still alive, eventhough it's better or worse.
Kent right?
There any other famous Clark?
set high standards for your projects man!
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Last time I changed a diper I got peed; my kid brother cannot solve certain equiations and he cannot program a computer; I'm sure as hell many slashdotters can't fight efficiently.
Is the problem my brother is young, What do you make of a Down Sindrome person? Can the program a computer? will they ever can?
Any way, I'm very good with computers, and I think in that specific area I can serve my society. Hail my queen ant!
Microsoft has already patented some .Net implementation methods,
I would really like to know.
The hardest part of porting to LINUX will be refactoring all of the GUI stuff.
.NET, they can also become very useful when porting.
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Haven't you heard of it, I think it might help you in your problem.
Any way, if you are making GUIs in Linux, it's the best way to go.
On the other hand, why isn't everyone talking about mono &
Isn't our regular internet anonymous enough?
The only piece of information that someone has is your IP address, and it's there for routing purposes and, even though you could find out from where is thata dude connecting that's all you can know. Anyway, IP packets are still part of your undergroud internet, so there's no extra anonymity there.
Besides that, you can have a truly anonymous internet if you don't permit any cookie, and don't have any user account. the anonymity will also be lost in your internet if you add a certain type of registration.
So, what are you promoting here? Because I have seen this post on other slashdot sites. Is this just a downgraded internet?
that the impact of denying access to techniques and logarithms effectively shuts out competition and fair use not only for the life of a product but well beyond
I didn't know that I could stop competition by using logarithms.
I'm not that interested in the script kiddies that write the software and create the botnets. I want them stopped, of course, but I'm more interested in the people behind the operation that pay them and benefit from it. Bust the kiddies, the backers will find new ones, bust the backers, it's a done deal.
Are you suggesting that there is more than the script kiddies launching the DDOSs, that there is actually a whole organization behind them supporting what they do? A real mafia?
If so, who could these people be? The security companies? Terrorism? The competition of the company being attacked?
I use linux because it's a damn good system with which I have a lot of fun. Some people may use it because it is more secure, because they want to restrict user priviledges, because they love open source, or any other reason. Some people do projects to imporive linux because they want to add an extra feuture that would make it a better system. But it is pretty damn sad when anybody does anything just to get MS users or to attack MS.
We have a great system, we enjoy it, it is great. I don't care of converting any Windows user. I like my Linux, I appreciate every effort anybody does to improve it, but Linux can stand by itself as a system which is a good one, and has nothing to do with MS. It's just about making a good system we like, not to fuck anybody else.
I wonder how many FLOPS can their server do?
I just love that almost nobody thinks about A9 when you speak about search engines, even though it has been there for more time than MSN.
Does anybody really uses it when you are searching for something?