You also seem to think that things like the CS dept of a major university and commercial entities is non existent.
Sorry. I meant to say that you seem to think that things like cooperation between CS depts of major unis and etc... My brain had a small stroke or something
I never said they did. Or that people like GSK didnt do worthwhile things that didnt deserve reward. Im still not really sure what your point was other than to rail against people criticizing capitalism. You also seem to think that things like the CS dept of a major university and commercial entities is non existent. This is all rather beside the point as the post you originally replied to was simply saying he thought it was a bad idea to have a crappy health care system. And then you seemed to leap in suggesting that without big pharm wed all be living in shacks:)
Im not trying to be offensive... its just Ive worked in commercial R&D(in telecommunications) and things are not as simple as govt is bad and inefficent and large corps are good. Also I believe that medical care for a population is very important and should perhaps not be left to the vague politics or corporate concerns(if you think large commercial organisations are nothikng at all like large govt depts then I suspect you have never worked in either).
Well Moses the existence of an historical is on extremely shaky ground(the Egyptians dont seem to recall any of this parting of the red sea business... or indeed recording the enslavement of the jews). As for the ten commandments... is there anything particularly insightful in there? Its all fairly obvious really. I think your better off erecting statues of hammurabi autside the courts(and yes I realise there are images of hammurabi in many legal and govt institutions around the world... including the US house of reps).
As for jesus. The golden rule is hardly unique. And there aint a great deal of historical evidence about him either.
Yes because drug research is only carried out by big pharma. There are no academic research institutions in the world that provide any kind of valuable input.
That's a great theory, but then you get every scientist posting his research to his blog. In scientific circles, the idea of "peer-reviewed" research is very important
Then why can not say a groups of universities get together and develop their own international web journal of all sciences(TM). Im thikning something like slashdot(only much more rigorous on access and content submission). You could have "moderators" who would be like experts in the field the paper is written for. Interested observers who have expertise in a related field etc. You could even have a system where people could be sponsored by other to be experts(Im thinking amateur astronomers who make many contributions to astronomy but may not have a related degree).
Wasnt this kinda thing the reason for the invention of HTML in the first place?
I also think no conversation about the downfall of the Roman Republic can be complete without mentioning my favorite, "beaten to death by the senate for trying to keep things vaguely equitable", brothers : The Gracchi Bros
I agree. I'm not in the academic world but Ive often wondered why universities don't leverage the power of the internet. I could imagine many universities around the world forming a web site for research papers. It could be similar to something like this very site, but the moderators and submitters would have to have their identities verified. Imagine if a scientist could submit a paper and instantly have other scientists commenting, pointing out errors or even linking to others work on the same issue/subject. Wasnt the whole invention of HTML and HTTP at CERN pointed at doing just this?
You could do all sorts of neat stuff with this. Imagine if someone writes a paper and then some else comes along and expands on it. The original author could approve the expansion(if its a good one) and have the authors name added to the papers author list. Someone needs to sort this cause I could waste endless hours on such a site:)
I worked in security and access control systems. Oh and fire control systems. The same for us. We often had idiot middle managment types of our clients wanting to be able to access their hotmail from the main security console... we told them no.
So yes, I admire your sentiments, but anywhere outside of the best places in Japan, I've never seen them in practice. I've never been to the UK, but I presume they have worse problems than the US given all the surveillance cameras they've felt the need to install in recent years.
Ive live in both southern CA and now in North London. In parts on North and East London its not even advisable to leave a bike chained with titanium chains in public. There is a railing near Finsbury Park tube station(my local) where there are large numbers of bike frames that have been stripped and left there... the owner doesnt even bother to take them.
My gf has had two bikes stolen in three years... one was from inside the flat hall where she kept it.
It's quite clear that almost no one would want someone stealing their bandwidth for free if they knew what bandwidth was all about and the consequences, so respect that and don't use it.
If they dont know what bandwidth is then they perhaps should not be setting up their wireless router. I live in north london and all of the wireless customers within range of my flat have either
1. Been set up by the ISP(in this case usually BT)
2. Been set up by someone that vaguely knows what they are doing and have secured(at least a little) their network.
I come from Australia where pretty much everything is metric, but live in the UK and have noticed something odd. UKians use C for low temps and F for high.
I suspect both Spider man 3 and The Bourne Ultimatum will also be available in easily downloadable bittorents that can be converted to any local format you desire:)
Actually Im more of a eclipse guy... Ive just been using netbeans for a private GWT project... I havent used it really in years and Im quite impressed on how much better its got.
Oh and emacs... Ive been using it for years. I can use it over text only interfaces where I usually have a nice ant build process for everything. WOrks a treat for remote working on development machines
Eclipse provides things like Ant, JUnit, JSP, multiple server integration, EclEmma, Subclipse
OK, Im a J2EE developer that uses mainly Eclipse(and emacs) in day to day use. And *all* of the things you just mentioned are available with netBeans(I mean Ant? Old crappy netBEans had Ant support). Ive been using netBeans recently(I used to loath it with a passion years ago) to do some GWT stuff and I found myself pleasently surprised.
OK. Explain Jack Bauer then. I mean he has save the United State like half a dozen times from doom and in his universe no one seems to care or acknowledge the fact. In our universe he have his own late night talk show.
Im not one of those guys but I did used to work in the disk encryption industry in the UK. I wrote(well me and three other programmers) a product that encrypted windows disks and CE based PDAs. One thing to remember is that companies in the UK are subject to the data protection act. That means they are required by law to protect peoples information. That said it isnt that unusal to find companies that have quite caught up or gotten around to encrpyting their sensitive data... but all the companies Ive worked for in the UK(financial services) has had whole disk encryption on office PCs and servers.
My first expose to Collosal Cave was when I was about 10ish... my Dad was a programmer(mainframes... mostly IBM, sperry etc) and I played it on a Sperry mainframe terminal. It may be hard to imagine for someone like yourself that has probably grown up with high resolution, high powered desktop PCs... but playing it for me was eye opening in the extreme. I suspect Im not alone and many other got hooked on development and technology because of interactive stuff like the good old original adventure.
Slashdot Mirror
You also seem to think that things like the CS dept of a major university and commercial entities is non existent.
Sorry. I meant to say that you seem to think that things like cooperation between CS depts of major unis and etc... My brain had a small stroke or something
I never said they did. Or that people like GSK didnt do worthwhile things that didnt deserve reward. Im still not really sure what your point was other than to rail against people criticizing capitalism. You also seem to think that things like the CS dept of a major university and commercial entities is non existent. This is all rather beside the point as the post you originally replied to was simply saying he thought it was a bad idea to have a crappy health care system. And then you seemed to leap in suggesting that without big pharm wed all be living in shacks :)
Im not trying to be offensive... its just Ive worked in commercial R&D(in telecommunications) and things are not as simple as govt is bad and inefficent and large corps are good. Also I believe that medical care for a population is very important and should perhaps not be left to the vague politics or corporate concerns(if you think large commercial organisations are nothikng at all like large govt depts then I suspect you have never worked in either).
Well Moses the existence of an historical is on extremely shaky ground(the Egyptians dont seem to recall any of this parting of the red sea business... or indeed recording the enslavement of the jews). As for the ten commandments... is there anything particularly insightful in there? Its all fairly obvious really. I think your better off erecting statues of hammurabi autside the courts(and yes I realise there are images of hammurabi in many legal and govt institutions around the world... including the US house of reps).
As for jesus. The golden rule is hardly unique. And there aint a great deal of historical evidence about him either.
Are you also suggesting that the FDA no longer test drugs for safety purposes?
Yes because drug research is only carried out by big pharma. There are no academic research institutions in the world that provide any kind of valuable input.
That's a great theory, but then you get every scientist posting his research to his blog. In scientific circles, the idea of "peer-reviewed" research is very important
Then why can not say a groups of universities get together and develop their own international web journal of all sciences(TM). Im thikning something like slashdot(only much more rigorous on access and content submission). You could have "moderators" who would be like experts in the field the paper is written for. Interested observers who have expertise in a related field etc. You could even have a system where people could be sponsored by other to be experts(Im thinking amateur astronomers who make many contributions to astronomy but may not have a related degree).
Wasnt this kinda thing the reason for the invention of HTML in the first place?
Hi! I see you are trying to ram a ill conceived standard through ISO. Would you like me to
1. Bribe a bunch of guys to vote yes for you?
2. Provide a specification thats so incomprehensible the only Word will be able to fully implement it?
3. Make dubious FUD statements about OpenDocument?
Good post.
I also think no conversation about the downfall of the Roman Republic can be complete without mentioning my favorite, "beaten to death by the senate for trying to keep things vaguely equitable", brothers : The Gracchi Bros
I agree. I'm not in the academic world but Ive often wondered why universities don't leverage the power of the internet. I could imagine many universities around the world forming a web site for research papers. It could be similar to something like this very site, but the moderators and submitters would have to have their identities verified. Imagine if a scientist could submit a paper and instantly have other scientists commenting, pointing out errors or even linking to others work on the same issue/subject. Wasnt the whole invention of HTML and HTTP at CERN pointed at doing just this?
:)
You could do all sorts of neat stuff with this. Imagine if someone writes a paper and then some else comes along and expands on it. The original author could approve the expansion(if its a good one) and have the authors name added to the papers author list. Someone needs to sort this cause I could waste endless hours on such a site
I worked in security and access control systems. Oh and fire control systems. The same for us. We often had idiot middle managment types of our clients wanting to be able to access their hotmail from the main security console... we told them no.
So yes, I admire your sentiments, but anywhere outside of the best places in Japan, I've never seen them in practice. I've never been to the UK, but I presume they have worse problems than the US given all the surveillance cameras they've felt the need to install in recent years.
Ive live in both southern CA and now in North London. In parts on North and East London its not even advisable to leave a bike chained with titanium chains in public. There is a railing near Finsbury Park tube station(my local) where there are large numbers of bike frames that have been stripped and left there... the owner doesnt even bother to take them.
My gf has had two bikes stolen in three years... one was from inside the flat hall where she kept it.
It's quite clear that almost no one would want someone stealing their bandwidth for free if they knew what bandwidth was all about and the consequences, so respect that and don't use it.
If they dont know what bandwidth is then they perhaps should not be setting up their wireless router. I live in north london and all of the wireless customers within range of my flat have either
1. Been set up by the ISP(in this case usually BT)
2. Been set up by someone that vaguely knows what they are doing and have secured(at least a little) their network.
I come from Australia where pretty much everything is metric, but live in the UK and have noticed something odd. UKians use C for low temps and F for high.
I suspect both Spider man 3 and The Bourne Ultimatum will also be available in easily downloadable bittorents that can be converted to any local format you desire :)
If I had mod points Id mod you up. Id never seen fora.tv and poking around on it I suspect Ill have hours of fun on it. Thank you very much.
Actually Im more of a eclipse guy... Ive just been using netbeans for a private GWT project... I havent used it really in years and Im quite impressed on how much better its got.
Oh and emacs... Ive been using it for years. I can use it over text only interfaces where I usually have a nice ant build process for everything. WOrks a treat for remote working on development machines
the big one is that they know how it works all the way down to the metal and they can get someone on site in 4 hours who can fix it
:)
I admire your optimism. I was young once
My first degree is in electronics engineering. I had to take courses in metalworking and carpentry. I found them very benifical.
Oh and netBeans seems to have a lot of ruby support these days... tho I havent really used it.
http://www.netbeans.org/products/cplusplus/
a ry/os-ecc/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/libr
Eclipse provides things like Ant, JUnit, JSP, multiple server integration, EclEmma, Subclipse
OK, Im a J2EE developer that uses mainly Eclipse(and emacs) in day to day use. And *all* of the things you just mentioned are available with netBeans(I mean Ant? Old crappy netBEans had Ant support). Ive been using netBeans recently(I used to loath it with a passion years ago) to do some GWT stuff and I found myself pleasently surprised.
Unless the auditor and extortionist are the same person :)
OK. Explain Jack Bauer then. I mean he has save the United State like half a dozen times from doom and in his universe no one seems to care or acknowledge the fact. In our universe he have his own late night talk show.
Im not one of those guys but I did used to work in the disk encryption industry in the UK. I wrote(well me and three other programmers) a product that encrypted windows disks and CE based PDAs. One thing to remember is that companies in the UK are subject to the data protection act. That means they are required by law to protect peoples information. That said it isnt that unusal to find companies that have quite caught up or gotten around to encrpyting their sensitive data... but all the companies Ive worked for in the UK(financial services) has had whole disk encryption on office PCs and servers.
My first expose to Collosal Cave was when I was about 10ish... my Dad was a programmer(mainframes... mostly IBM, sperry etc) and I played it on a Sperry mainframe terminal. It may be hard to imagine for someone like yourself that has probably grown up with high resolution, high powered desktop PCs... but playing it for me was eye opening in the extreme. I suspect Im not alone and many other got hooked on development and technology because of interactive stuff like the good old original adventure.
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