we should be sure of two things. one, is it friendly? and two, are they willing to share in their probably vast knowledge? if the first is no, then it would have been better to not have found life in the first place. if the second question is no, then we need to prove that we are not as violent as we really are. if the second one is yes, then we should take great care not to turn on them.
This attitude comes straight out of reading too much science fiction. Whether it's 'friendly' or not paints wayyy to simplistic of a picture. I would say that it would be more important to ask "How do they regard intelligent life and how do they interact with it, amongst themselves and between other species?"
Furthermore, for the second question, how willing would you be to share your knowledge with someone you just met off the street 5 mintues ago? Some information, you might share such as the location of your favorite [insert food-type] restauraunt. Other information, like, say, your secret plans for world domination, you wouldn't be so likely to share.
Guess what? If you are stupid, you will not get rich.
Uh, Steve Ballmer is a multi-billionaire. Rich? Yes. Stupid? Hell, yes. Ballmer road Bill Gates' shirttails all the way up for fame and fortune; he would have never gotten rich if it weren't Gates' shrewd business sense. Gates was the brains, Ballmer was always the brawn.
Yeah. A jet, on a Trans-Atlantic flight, has any empty fuel tanks at takeoff. Uh huh. Did I mention that I live in Florida and that I have some swamp land to sell you?
Ask any airline pilot with Trans-Atlantic experience if there would be any empty fuel tanks on a Trans-Atlantic flight from NYC. Go on, really. I'll wait. I already know what the answer will be.
The end user? Show them something flashy and keep dropping the price. Get it out there into the market at all costs. Do it while you've still got the influence to pull it off.
Perhaps. I've had similar thoughts as well. In the end, though, if this were really the case, they'd still have the do one final thing: they'd need to eliminate FOSS. From what I've seen, although I've seen some push out of Microsoft against FOSS, I've also seen some government embracing of FOSS, and even Microsoft showing some willingness to work with FOSS (though, take that with a grain of salt -- all those itsatrap tags aren't entirely off the mark)
Most people pronounce the first one aid-uh (After Ada Lovelace, for whom the language is named), the second one I don't really know...I'd guess "Hass-kuhl" (schwa sound for the 'e') or "haz-kel' with 'e' as in bet)
The last one is no-vel, with long o as in coat and 'short' e as in bet) Anyone pronouncing it like 'novel' deserves to be shot.
Because it violates a fundamental IT principle: always keep your backup media separate from your reader. With a 500GB HDD, your reader and your media are the same thing.
Keeping media and reader separate helps to protect against total catastrophe.
Uh, no. The reason I know this is because we don't make a damn thing here anymore. What's that? Ford Taurus? No, that shit's assembled in America with parts made in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Japan.
"Essentially?" What makes them more platonic than Christian, if the two groups share values? Wouldn't the test be which of the two groups' mutually exclusive values they hold, in which case they were decidedly Christian?
You don't know anything about the early history of your own religion, do you?
Look, here's what happened. It's all in your Bible, with some details provided both Christian and secular historians.
Jesus was born around 1 A.D., right? Maybe Jesus was born even earlier, because some surviving scriptures talk about Herod's temple and such.
But anyway, even supposing 1 A.D., Jesus died when he was about 35 or so. So 33-36 A.D., say.
Okay. Here's the thing. The Gospels weren't written until least 80-85 A.D. And then, many years after that, comes Paul's letters.
There were few non-Jewish Christians prior to Paul's arrival on the scene. In fact, it was Paul's letters that were meant to convert the Gentiles. (This is evident by reading Paul's Epistles (Epistle is just a fancy word for 'letter'). What non-Jewish Christians there were first converted to Judaism before studying Christianity.
Okay, long-story short? Christian values didn't come from Judaic values, they came from pre-Christian pagan values. Paul himself was a Gentile and lived in Greece during the time he wrote his letters. So the influence of Greek and Roman culture on the early Gentile branch of Christianity is huge.
No, the U.S. government gave a line of credit to J.P. Morgan Chase and essentially ordered them to bail them out -- IOW, paying off Bear Stearns' creditors.
as is Washington's supposed insistence that the U.S. is a specifically Christian nation
I never heard anything about Washington saying that, and, specifically, The Treaty of Tripoli, a preliminary version of which Washington himself signed shortly before leaving office, says:
As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries
Given that Washington was almost certainly a Deist, I doubt very, very much that Washington ever insisted that the U.S. is a specifically Christian nation. Anyone saying that Washington did say that is certainly full of shite and probably has an obvious political agenda.
Well, I'm sure Judge Baer could sue the living fsck out of me if he wanted to.
However, he'd still have to prove damages. And, on top of that, even if he could prove actual damages, I'm basically worth almost nothing. I own very little of value, since I don't own a home, I earn somewhat meager salary, and I have a HUGE student loan debt to pay off. Which, at the rate I'm paying it off now, won't be paid off for another 30 years. I'm what you lawyers would call 'uncollectable'.
In my experience, NFS just plain blows. Maybe it's just me, but it's really bad with situations such as people coming in and out of networks (laptops). Not to mention that the caching (maybe just a client issue?) is pathetic, making high-lag situations entirely unusable.
Most of your complaints go away with RFC-compliant NFSv4. Essentially, all transactions are Kerberized. It uses GSSAPI for authentication of each transaction and allows for file sharing semantics that are extremely similar to what you get with SMB. Meaning that ACLs are supported and ID spoofing is no longer a problem.
The main problems with NFSv4 I've seen so far is that there seems to be very buggy implementations in Linux kernels prior to 2.6.23. And since NFSv4 is still very young and has not seen widespread deployment in enterprise environments, I'm guessing that there are a lot more bugs yet to be overturned. OTOH, you could probably say the same for SMB2.
Caching is entirely a client issue. While the NFS client in the Linux kernel sucks, it certainly sucks less than the one in Solaris 8 or 9 and a lot less than the one in HP-UX 10.x and 11.x.
The usermode Linux NFS client seems to have better caching, but performance still sucks.
Not that SMB1 is a whole lot better in the performance department, though. That's another reason why I'm interested in SMB2.
Huh? The concept of this eternal battle between 'absolute good' vs. 'absolute evil', which existed in Judaism well before the 1st century CE, which I think is the 'dualistic' point of view you mention in your last sentence, comes straight out of Zorastrianism.
Furthermore, Judaism didn't become monotheistic until after the development of Zorastrianism. The Hebrews, beginning before the history beginning in Genesis and the rest of the Torah, were a polytheistic culture, but once they encountered outside influences from Zorastrianism, they started to become more monotheistic with the ideas of absolute good vs. absolute evil.
This concept of 'good vs. evil', BTW, does not exist in Eastern philosophies. The best description of Eastern philosophical ideas about what we in the West call 'good' and 'evil' is most correctly described by the Yin-Yang.
they have their own values and own replacement values over the traditional Judeo-Christian values that built the modern world.
Really? Think so, huh?
In the East, Judeo-Christianity has never had much of an influence on society. The strongest moral and ethical influences in the East come from various forms Buddhism and Hinduism, along with Shinto and other Eastern philosophies.
In the West, most of what some might call "Christian values" or "Christian ethics" actually have their roots in Greco-Roman pagan thought. St. Augustine, Sir Thomas More, and many other shapers of modern 'Christian values' were all essentially platonists (or more precisely, neoplatonists) In fact, one could argue that there is really no such thing as 'Judeo-Christian values' and that even many of the moralistic concepts of Judaism came straight out of another conetmporary religion, Zorastrianism.
If he did a good job finding or uncovering stuff, why wouldn't they want to hire him after its over?
Okay, let's change the circumstances and see if you still think so nonchalantly about this.
Your [insert loved one here] gets accused of fraud by [insert evil corporation here]. They seize your [loved one]'s possessions and spead viscious lies all over the media and the internet about your [loved one]. Right after the investigation is over and your [loved one] is absolved in court (but maybe not in the court of public opinion), one of the investigating officers goes to work for [evil corporation].
Two different stories, with possible scandalous implications, both involving Time-Warner companies in one day? Where are the FBI RICO investigators when you need them?
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Furthermore, for the second question, how willing would you be to share your knowledge with someone you just met off the street 5 mintues ago? Some information, you might share such as the location of your favorite [insert food-type] restauraunt. Other information, like, say, your secret plans for world domination, you wouldn't be so likely to share.
All I have to say is that it's a good thing Microsoft isn't running the 2008 Presidential Election!
Pffft. Try ISO is dying. And Netcraft doesn't even need to confirm it.
Ask any airline pilot with Trans-Atlantic experience if there would be any empty fuel tanks on a Trans-Atlantic flight from NYC. Go on, really. I'll wait. I already know what the answer will be.
Most people pronounce the first one aid-uh (After Ada Lovelace, for whom the language is named), the second one I don't really know...I'd guess "Hass-kuhl" (schwa sound for the 'e') or "haz-kel' with 'e' as in bet)
The last one is no-vel, with long o as in coat and 'short' e as in bet) Anyone pronouncing it like 'novel' deserves to be shot.
Oh, sheesh. So melodramatic. Hasn't anybody around here heard of forking?
Keeping media and reader separate helps to protect against total catastrophe.
www.insovietrussadomainsue.su!
Well, I for one welcome our new "In Soviet Russia" joke posting Yakhov Smirnoff clone overlords!
Yeah, they even managed to get buyers for both of them!
Look, here's what happened. It's all in your Bible, with some details provided both Christian and secular historians.
Jesus was born around 1 A.D., right? Maybe Jesus was born even earlier, because some surviving scriptures talk about Herod's temple and such.
But anyway, even supposing 1 A.D., Jesus died when he was about 35 or so. So 33-36 A.D., say.
Okay. Here's the thing. The Gospels weren't written until least 80-85 A.D. And then, many years after that, comes Paul's letters.
There were few non-Jewish Christians prior to Paul's arrival on the scene. In fact, it was Paul's letters that were meant to convert the Gentiles. (This is evident by reading Paul's Epistles (Epistle is just a fancy word for 'letter'). What non-Jewish Christians there were first converted to Judaism before studying Christianity.
Okay, long-story short? Christian values didn't come from Judaic values, they came from pre-Christian pagan values. Paul himself was a Gentile and lived in Greece during the time he wrote his letters. So the influence of Greek and Roman culture on the early Gentile branch of Christianity is huge.
No, the U.S. government gave a line of credit to J.P. Morgan Chase and essentially ordered them to bail them out -- IOW, paying off Bear Stearns' creditors.
Given that Washington was almost certainly a Deist, I doubt very, very much that Washington ever insisted that the U.S. is a specifically Christian nation. Anyone saying that Washington did say that is certainly full of shite and probably has an obvious political agenda.
Well, I'm sure Judge Baer could sue the living fsck out of me if he wanted to.
However, he'd still have to prove damages. And, on top of that, even if he could prove actual damages, I'm basically worth almost nothing. I own very little of value, since I don't own a home, I earn somewhat meager salary, and I have a HUGE student loan debt to pay off. Which, at the rate I'm paying it off now, won't be paid off for another 30 years. I'm what you lawyers would call 'uncollectable'.
Yeah, he's right.
But it's still the FBI who investigates.
w00t! Could you guys please post a link to the audio Volker mention on the Samba mirrors in news section for me when its ready? Pretty please?
The main problems with NFSv4 I've seen so far is that there seems to be very buggy implementations in Linux kernels prior to 2.6.23. And since NFSv4 is still very young and has not seen widespread deployment in enterprise environments, I'm guessing that there are a lot more bugs yet to be overturned. OTOH, you could probably say the same for SMB2.
Caching is entirely a client issue. While the NFS client in the Linux kernel sucks, it certainly sucks less than the one in Solaris 8 or 9 and a lot less than the one in HP-UX 10.x and 11.x.
The usermode Linux NFS client seems to have better caching, but performance still sucks.
Not that SMB1 is a whole lot better in the performance department, though. That's another reason why I'm interested in SMB2.
Huh? The concept of this eternal battle between 'absolute good' vs. 'absolute evil', which existed in Judaism well before the 1st century CE, which I think is the 'dualistic' point of view you mention in your last sentence, comes straight out of Zorastrianism.
Furthermore, Judaism didn't become monotheistic until after the development of Zorastrianism. The Hebrews, beginning before the history beginning in Genesis and the rest of the Torah, were a polytheistic culture, but once they encountered outside influences from Zorastrianism, they started to become more monotheistic with the ideas of absolute good vs. absolute evil.
This concept of 'good vs. evil', BTW, does not exist in Eastern philosophies. The best description of Eastern philosophical ideas about what we in the West call 'good' and 'evil' is most correctly described by the Yin-Yang.
In the East, Judeo-Christianity has never had much of an influence on society. The strongest moral and ethical influences in the East come from various forms Buddhism and Hinduism, along with Shinto and other Eastern philosophies.
In the West, most of what some might call "Christian values" or "Christian ethics" actually have their roots in Greco-Roman pagan thought. St. Augustine, Sir Thomas More, and many other shapers of modern 'Christian values' were all essentially platonists (or more precisely, neoplatonists) In fact, one could argue that there is really no such thing as 'Judeo-Christian values' and that even many of the moralistic concepts of Judaism came straight out of another conetmporary religion, Zorastrianism.
Oh, well, mod me off topic.
Your [insert loved one here] gets accused of fraud by [insert evil corporation here]. They seize your [loved one]'s possessions and spead viscious lies all over the media and the internet about your [loved one]. Right after the investigation is over and your [loved one] is absolved in court (but maybe not in the court of public opinion), one of the investigating officers goes to work for [evil corporation].
Different story? Not really.
Two different stories, with possible scandalous implications, both involving Time-Warner companies in one day? Where are the FBI RICO investigators when you need them?