That's not the reason it's in debt, but the incredible spending that they are doing, i.e. the Iraq war among others. The budget deficit was gone until Bush screwed it all up again. And it was under Reagan where the massive debt piled up.
I'm sure the country would be fine if someone kicked those asshole politicians in the head and they actually spent the money wisely, instead of on projects to enrich their friends.
Incredible... I remember back when the net was young, before all the commercialism, and to think the amount of money these guys made simply collecting and selling domain names.
I guess part of it is they probably were making a decent amount of money from the ad revenue as well.
Sure wish I thought of it:-( Not claiming that I could have done the same thing, but lots of things you think about, I never would have thought would have been so popular... like free web-mail - but that was before everyone and their grandmother had net access.
Interestingly, claim 48 describes a user interface that responds to a user's request to "delete" his search history by rendering it "undisplayable" to him, but still leaving it accessible for other uses
We had that "feature" several years ago in a product we developed at a prior employer. Heck, Windows trashcan almost does the same thing, although I guess the user can still see his data after he deletes it.
The full name is
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
belive it or not. Amazing how they go and name it PATRIOT, implying anyone who is against that law must be against the country and unpatriotic. Of course, that's what they want. I imagine to many people who don't have any idea what the law is about (unfortunately that's quite a few) would just hear the name and think, "Oh, that must be a good thing" or "Senator X voted *against* the Patriot Act? He must be a communist!"
Yes, you are correct. I should have phrased it differently. What I ment was those who stand to gain the most if software patents come to be. Or that those who want patents seem to be much more actively pursuing them then those who are against them. Those against them don't stand to get a huge amount of licensing income if patents do not come to be, but those who will get that license income really are pushing patents.
But I could be wrong and that's just my impression.
I said it in the last Slashdot story about EU patents. And now it seems to be happening, again. These corporations will never give up. Sooner or later, the side with no profit motive gets tired and grows week, and the other side wins. The pro-patent people will just keep trying and trying and sooner or later get their way, I'm afraid.
These politicians are constantly pressured by the corporations, and that's all they hear. They are told its "good for business and the economy" and then they announce they support "A broad software agenda to increase jobs in the EU" and most people who know nothing about software patents think their government is doing a great job, instead of just selling out.
It really is time for a revolution...
Amen! I have been crying. Sometimes I even run into people who are ignornat of the history and think EJBs invented the whole idea of distributed objects. It drives me crazy. We had a project at work built with C++/CORBA. It was pretty mature and worked really well. There was another project built on EJBs and we were suppose to get the two products talking. At the first meeting, they had a whole slideshow showing why we should rewrite our stuff with EJBs, showing all the advantages and how you could have remote objects and other things "not possible in C++". We were laughing until we realized there are MANY people who believe that. After we explained to them that their EJBs are more or less CORBA, they looked at us funny and I don't think they really believed us. They figured since they had just discovered distributed objects, it must be new and we were some crazy people who did not understand the power of EJBs...
It's a shame. CORBA is really useful and I think very easy to work with. Granted, there are a few things to learn if you're using the C++ mapping, but if you take the time, it's actually pretty straightforward and consistent.
It seems whenever something is at the point where it is mature and works well, it is thrown out and some new thing is invented to replace it - and they end up re-inventing the wheel many times - usually with less then spectacular results.
Well, this is good news. It was certainly frustrating in the past dealing only with autoresponders. It will be good to be able to actually speak with someone, which is becoming more and more a problem with all these web-based businesses.
This is correct. And, if you get sushi that smells "fishy" you probably should not eat it. Sushi should obviously always be served fresh, and fresh fish does not have that "fishy" smell.
It's called "sashimi" when there is *NO* rice. i.e. just slices of raw fish. Sushi is either nigiri or maki. Nigiri is peices of (usually) fish on top of balls of rice. Maki are what the "rolls". In both cases, the rice is seasoned with vinegar and sugar. See http://www.rain.org/~hutch/rice.html for sushi rice info.
Lutefisk is actually pretty good. I never liked it the first few years I lived in Norway, but now I look forward to it. It also depends where I get it - Stortorvet Gjestiveri is good I think, but other places I've had tried didn't taste as good.
Of course, you need enough of the bacon fat poured on top to make it taste good:-)
I hope you're right. It still boggles my mind that such a thing (Amazon One-Click) could be patented in the first place. And I hope somehow software patents are stopped in the US, although I have a hard time imaging that any time soon.
Maybe I'm just too cynical, but sooner or later , they will get their way and software patents will come. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely against them. But they will never rest until they get them passed, and even if the opposition is strong now, sooner or later, someone will come into office who will work to pass the patents and then retire to a nice comfy spot on the board of some tech companies.
I routinely buy books from Amazon and have them shipped to Norway. Then the shipping can be expensive. If I pay for express delivery (about 3 to 5 days), it can be about $40 for a typical 3 or 4 book order (average software book, i.e. O'Reilly, etc). Otherwise, regular shipping isn't that much cheaper and takes up to two weeks.
Now, if they only offered this for international, I'd sign up in a second!
It is nice to be able to do this, but it begs the question - how far should this go? At what point is a browser app indistinguishable from a normal app? Or maybe that's the point?
Better be careful, Hollywood always says "$200million at the box office" but when you examine the books, the movies end up breaking even, or even loosing money. The studios charge for things like rent of the camera, etc., which, of course, was rented from themselves. There was a big story about this a while ago but I forget where I read it.
This should be illegal. How can they enforce this? Between all the crazy stuff going on lately I really start to wonder what is happening to our rights.
And the worst thing is when I talk to some of my friends. They don't see anything wrong and have responses like "Hey, well, I don't care because as long as Bush keeps me safe, I am happy".
When the dollar rises above the Euro? What kind of crack are they smoking? Thats not going to happen - at least for a LONG time.
How can they say that?
This is even worse then it seems. The actual power usage (from intel.com) is at 5mWA/ms, compared with the target of 3mWA. Thats a full 2 milliwatt amps over their target, and much higher then AMD!
And it's great to see most of the major bloggers software makers are supporting this. Now, how long until everybody upgrades? That's the real question, and whoever can come up with a solution to that will really solve the problem.
My company recently purchased a TopCom WiFi card here in Norway. It did not work initially with the embedded OS we are developing with, so I contacted them and was told if I wanted they would send me the specs so we could write a driver. However, we ended up going with a different card that was already supported to save time.
So, get a TopCom card and code away!
Well, it's about time we can all admit this openly. We have all seen it - much more male then female in the comp sci classes, math, physics, etc. I am *NOT* saying women cant do these things, I am sure there are incredibly talented women in these fields. However, for whatever reason, they are male dominated. I have yet to meet a "great" female programmer, although I am sure some exist.
There is nothing wrong with this, women are better then men are certain things. John Stossel once had a TV special explaining this basically saying that "C'mon, its OK to admit we are different. We are! And we complement each other". I mean, do you want a little girl carrying a 200 lbs fire house when your house is burning? Who got the job because of female quotas?
Give me a break and sign me up for some harvard classes!
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I'm sure the country would be fine if someone kicked those asshole politicians in the head and they actually spent the money wisely, instead of on projects to enrich their friends.
I guess part of it is they probably were making a decent amount of money from the ad revenue as well.
Sure wish I thought of it :-( Not claiming that I could have done the same thing, but lots of things you think about, I never would have thought would have been so popular... like free web-mail - but that was before everyone and their grandmother had net access.
Interestingly, claim 48 describes a user interface that responds to a user's request to "delete" his search history by rendering it "undisplayable" to him, but still leaving it accessible for other uses
We had that "feature" several years ago in a product we developed at a prior employer. Heck, Windows trashcan almost does the same thing, although I guess the user can still see his data after he deletes it.
The full name is
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
belive it or not. Amazing how they go and name it PATRIOT, implying anyone who is against that law must be against the country and unpatriotic. Of course, that's what they want. I imagine to many people who don't have any idea what the law is about (unfortunately that's quite a few) would just hear the name and think, "Oh, that must be a good thing" or "Senator X voted *against* the Patriot Act? He must be a communist!"
Yes, you are correct. I should have phrased it differently. What I ment was those who stand to gain the most if software patents come to be. Or that those who want patents seem to be much more actively pursuing them then those who are against them. Those against them don't stand to get a huge amount of licensing income if patents do not come to be, but those who will get that license income really are pushing patents. But I could be wrong and that's just my impression.
I said it in the last Slashdot story about EU patents. And now it seems to be happening, again. These corporations will never give up. Sooner or later, the side with no profit motive gets tired and grows week, and the other side wins. The pro-patent people will just keep trying and trying and sooner or later get their way, I'm afraid.
These politicians are constantly pressured by the corporations, and that's all they hear. They are told its "good for business and the economy" and then they announce they support "A broad software agenda to increase jobs in the EU" and most people who know nothing about software patents think their government is doing a great job, instead of just selling out.
It really is time for a revolution...
Amen! I have been crying. Sometimes I even run into people who are ignornat of the history and think EJBs invented the whole idea of distributed objects. It drives me crazy. We had a project at work built with C++/CORBA. It was pretty mature and worked really well. There was another project built on EJBs and we were suppose to get the two products talking. At the first meeting, they had a whole slideshow showing why we should rewrite our stuff with EJBs, showing all the advantages and how you could have remote objects and other things "not possible in C++". We were laughing until we realized there are MANY people who believe that. After we explained to them that their EJBs are more or less CORBA, they looked at us funny and I don't think they really believed us. They figured since they had just discovered distributed objects, it must be new and we were some crazy people who did not understand the power of EJBs...
It's a shame. CORBA is really useful and I think very easy to work with. Granted, there are a few things to learn if you're using the C++ mapping, but if you take the time, it's actually pretty straightforward and consistent.
It seems whenever something is at the point where it is mature and works well, it is thrown out and some new thing is invented to replace it - and they end up re-inventing the wheel many times - usually with less then spectacular results.
Well, this is good news. It was certainly frustrating in the past dealing only with autoresponders. It will be good to be able to actually speak with someone, which is becoming more and more a problem with all these web-based businesses.
This is correct. And, if you get sushi that smells "fishy" you probably should not eat it. Sushi should obviously always be served fresh, and fresh fish does not have that "fishy" smell.
It's called "sashimi" when there is *NO* rice. i.e. just slices of raw fish. Sushi is either nigiri or maki. Nigiri is peices of (usually) fish on top of balls of rice. Maki are what the "rolls". In both cases, the rice is seasoned with vinegar and sugar. See http://www.rain.org/~hutch/rice.html for sushi rice info.
Lutefisk is actually pretty good. I never liked it the first few years I lived in Norway, but now I look forward to it. It also depends where I get it - Stortorvet Gjestiveri is good I think, but other places I've had tried didn't taste as good. Of course, you need enough of the bacon fat poured on top to make it taste good :-)
I hope you're right. It still boggles my mind that such a thing (Amazon One-Click) could be patented in the first place. And I hope somehow software patents are stopped in the US, although I have a hard time imaging that any time soon.
Maybe I'm just too cynical, but sooner or later , they will get their way and software patents will come. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely against them. But they will never rest until they get them passed, and even if the opposition is strong now, sooner or later, someone will come into office who will work to pass the patents and then retire to a nice comfy spot on the board of some tech companies.
I routinely buy books from Amazon and have them shipped to Norway. Then the shipping can be expensive. If I pay for express delivery (about 3 to 5 days), it can be about $40 for a typical 3 or 4 book order (average software book, i.e. O'Reilly, etc). Otherwise, regular shipping isn't that much cheaper and takes up to two weeks.
Now, if they only offered this for international, I'd sign up in a second!
It is nice to be able to do this, but it begs the question - how far should this go? At what point is a browser app indistinguishable from a normal app? Or maybe that's the point?
Better be careful, Hollywood always says "$200million at the box office" but when you examine the books, the movies end up breaking even, or even loosing money. The studios charge for things like rent of the camera, etc., which, of course, was rented from themselves. There was a big story about this a while ago but I forget where I read it.
This should be illegal. How can they enforce this? Between all the crazy stuff going on lately I really start to wonder what is happening to our rights.
And the worst thing is when I talk to some of my friends. They don't see anything wrong and have responses like "Hey, well, I don't care because as long as Bush keeps me safe, I am happy".
When the dollar rises above the Euro? What kind of crack are they smoking? Thats not going to happen - at least for a LONG time. How can they say that?
Sorry about that, you are correct. My mistake.
This is even worse then it seems. The actual power usage (from intel.com) is at 5mWA/ms, compared with the target of 3mWA. Thats a full 2 milliwatt amps over their target, and much higher then AMD!
And it's great to see most of the major bloggers software makers are supporting this. Now, how long until everybody upgrades? That's the real question, and whoever can come up with a solution to that will really solve the problem.
That's what *I* want to know!
My company recently purchased a TopCom WiFi card here in Norway. It did not work initially with the embedded OS we are developing with, so I contacted them and was told if I wanted they would send me the specs so we could write a driver. However, we ended up going with a different card that was already supported to save time. So, get a TopCom card and code away!
The big question is whether they will be permited to distribute the crack they make. I would be very interested in obtaining German library crack.
I fail to see how this is related to the Da Vinci Code in anyway, and even more confused as to why it is on slashdot?
Well, it's about time we can all admit this openly. We have all seen it - much more male then female in the comp sci classes, math, physics, etc. I am *NOT* saying women cant do these things, I am sure there are incredibly talented women in these fields. However, for whatever reason, they are male dominated. I have yet to meet a "great" female programmer, although I am sure some exist. There is nothing wrong with this, women are better then men are certain things. John Stossel once had a TV special explaining this basically saying that "C'mon, its OK to admit we are different. We are! And we complement each other". I mean, do you want a little girl carrying a 200 lbs fire house when your house is burning? Who got the job because of female quotas? Give me a break and sign me up for some harvard classes!