I used to think that way. Then someone told me they voted for one person over another because he looked better on TV. Nothing to do with what he stands for, how he looks. May the most handsome man win. Now I've come to say "You should vote, but only if you are informed about who and what you are voting for, if not stay home." I'd prefer an informed voter who votes 100% opposite to me, to 20000 voters who vote the way I do because my canidate (that I have researched) looks better.
Actually I recignise a protest vote. In my state anyone can vote in primary elections on who the major parties should send to the main election. I always encourage people to choose the worst canidate for the other party and vote for him.
So don't vote unless you know what you are voting for.
Fortunatly I know of no republic where you only have two choices. (There are some where you get one choice, but we call them dictators) I had 6 choices on the ballot for president in the last US election, and 5 of them were on enough ballots they could potentially win. (Constitution, Democrat, Green, Libratarian, Republican) If none of them are good enough, there was a write in line, and a write in election is winable, though I don't know of it happening byond the local level.
Quit thinking of it as a choice between the two major parties. You alone is not enough to change people's thinking (and the major party might best represent you once in a while) but your vote will get noticed. There is even the arguement that a third party vote is more noticed, because those are the people who care enough to examing the issues, and most importantly encourage others to vote.
Perhaps, but consider the impact of cheating. Before the souce to Quake was released you could still cheat. Every single cheat written after the source was released was valid and work before hand, the source just made it a lot easier to write them. In other words, Quake proves our point: closed source programs are not to be trusted.
China doesn't care about me alone. However if everyone in the US suddenly made the choice to never buy anything made in china they would care. I can't force you to make that choice, and I personally belive that federal law is the wrong place to do it. However I can encourage you to make that choice and tell others.
I often come across people in stores who throw something down muttering China, so you are not alone. Alone you have no effect, but with others you can.
Saddly it isn't feasable to boycot every country with problems that you object to. China happens to be the worst abuser you can affect. So do your share.
The world needs construction laborers, landscapers, burger flippers, etc. They are just not as easy or pay as well as telemarketing.
Which is why I'm working construction even though I have a perfectly good degree in computer science. However in the time I've been there I have seen that almost half the people we have hired have been gone within the first week because they could not handle the work. This isn't a physical ability, genitics work against females, and we have had a few of them make it. Simple lazyness gets a lot. After that, many don't have the smarts to do it. We provide all the training on the job, but if you can't use a straight edge and pencil to put a line on a board after we show you how, we don't have much use for you. If you are slow, that isn't a big deal, you will just see those more productive than you (easy to measure in construction, unlike programing were someone who does half as measureable work can be 10 times as productive) get raises while you sit at the bottom of the ladder.
In short, there are plenty of jobs out there that require no education, (education in the construction field is often a negative because the schools teach the old way) and pay fairly well; but that doesn't mean that you can put anyone in the job.
I used to telecommute once in a while. (not possibel with my current job, anyone hiring a programer so I can get out of physical labor?) I never worked in the nude, because I have a cat. Guys with cats soon learn that you can't walk around the house in the nude.
It is possibal to run some UNIX version with / mounted read only. However when you do that you break anything that needs to write to/. (It is difficult if not impossibal to put/etc on something other than/) If you really care about secruity you might care that / is read only for an extra level of protection.
There are even more reasons to run/usr read only. NFS sharing everything in there is common, and do you really want a program you told at to start for you to run on every machine on the network? What a waste. For that matter (Assuming you set things up so at didn't function that way) do you really want every machine on the network to have access to the information of what another machine will run?
As someone else pointed out,/var is the perfect place for this. A partition defined as a place for things to change often, and unique for each machine. (You can nfs mount email and news which are in/var, but most of the files in/var a specificly different for each machine)
And where are you going to find an air conditioner that will work in the wide open? Say 500 feet up a radio tower? (Where you might need a computer to diagnose equipment up there) Or in a desert only reachable by heavily modified 4 wheel drives (Jeep).
Plenty of locations have equpment that needs maintance, and most of that today requires a computer to get status.
Right, and the last place I worked the secritaries made it a daily task to go in under the user of each confrence room and make sure meetings were properly accepted. Too many people messed up and selected a confrence room, but didn't invite it properly. Saddly, Exchange replaced a unix and windows schedular program that handled confrence rooms better, and nobody screwed it up. (The windows client sucked, but at least there was one)
I don't recall the exact details, but I think it had something to do with inviting a room as a person. A room is a resource, but there is nothing to prevent you from calling it a person.
Every city I've been to has pleny of things to do that you could wonder for 3 months and not see the same thing twice unless you wanted to. Just visiting all the historical sites within driving distance of my midwest town should take you more than 3 months if you spend time to really look them over instead of running through it. (And we consider many things less than 75 years old historical, perhaps the city you visit will be much older)
Check out the zoo - nearly all cities have one, but in some cases the locals don't know it. Check out the theme parks. Check out the city's web page, that should help, and then the page for all the nearby towns.
I found my church was most helpful. Once I got in touch with them, my entire day was planned for me, including people who spoke my language. (In theory I know spanish, but in practice I don't) Picked up to go to church, lunch with a family, a walk in their park. They showed me local stuff I wouldn't have seen. Of course I'm a shy geek so I like having that level of work done so I can be socal without having to go through too much effort. (Don't join a church just for the socal life, but once you find God, time with God's people is worth spending)
Last of all, try walking. I walked a bunch of sidewalks when I had a free saterday and I found a lot of things that were interesting, but I wouldn't have found out about otherwise. Street bands, art shows, an old church open to the public. A cool public clock several turns down a blind alley. Just explore. They say it isn't safe, and you need to be aware, but most places you will be left along if you leave people alone.
It is a vacation in a foriegn country. You can see technology anywhere. Look for people, because the culture is different, and you can't see someone else's culture by bringing them to you home. Don't forget that there are many cultures in America (US, Canada and Mexico), despite what our friends in Europe would tell us. Each state is different in subtile ways, and even within the states. I can tell the difference between someone from St. Paul, MN and Minneapolis, MN even though they border each other. (I doupt you can, I've lived here all my life)
Saddly there isn't enough time to expirence it all. So you will see a few things and miss what is more important. If you have an interest that isn't served back home, study that here, contacting people on the internet (really, be careful of the downside, but if you are interested in some strange hobbie get in touch with those people, and personally visit them to see their personal collection/setup)
You have picked too big an area to see it all. I've known some people to fly to New York and drive to Minnesota because they wanted to see the country before they visited us - they had no idea how long they would drive, and they didn't cross half the country) I'm sure that you have a better grasp of distances than those from Europe, but don't forget to account for it in your planning. Gas is cheap, but it still ads up. You might like driving, but do you really want to spend your entire vacation in a car? Perhaps you should choose some a couple key areas to visit, and see a bunch in those areas, and skip the rest of the continent.
Once you are somewhere, go to the little exibits. A historical farm for example, even though it isn't technology. Some rich person's mansion now on the historical list. (most are not that big) When you see some historical/geographical marker on the side of the road (rarely mark more than half a mile before, and likely not on your tour guide book) stop and read them.
Most importantly: have fun. This is a vacation. Don't worry about seeing everything. Pick a couple "must sees", and leave most of the schedual open for last minute changes. When you like something stay longer, don't like it go elsewhere. You know yourself and your family/friends, so you should have an idea before hand what you will like, but even still, somethings disapoint while others you will love.
Cause it says the same thing in those langauges, that is the definition of translation. Oh, I agree that something is lost in translation, but experts have argued over translation for years. Everytime they come up with an example of something lost in translation it is an alternate meaning they explain that isn't really as good, but it could be read that way, or a different word could be used that means the same thing. Trivial in other words.
If you are studing the bible for an hour every day (not much a challange for someone into it like a priest) you are better off spending your time cross referenceing passages. If you want to study outside of your nateral language bible I suggest you study outside the bible. "Eye of a neddle" is used, translation won't help you understand that they are not refering to a sewing neddle, you need to know what they city gates were called to understand it... And so on.
Mind you I'm not saying that it is a bad thing to study the bible in the languages it is written in. (Though which language is origional is sometimes in question, and you may have trouble finding a copy in that language) We need a few people in every (Christian) religion to study the bible in the written langageto explain to the other priests where the places where translation problems exist. However there is more spiritual benifit from other studies overall, and so it is more important for priests to make sure some of those other studies are covered first, once they are, then language is useful to study too. (My expirence is that God will lead you to where you should study)
Just be careful. I used to live on the 8th floor, and never took the elevators. (not at all once I discoverd a group of students got an unexcused absense for their final exam while they were stuck in an elevator) Then I got good at runing up and down stairs until one day I attempted to skip 5 stairs, missed my landing and ended up with a sprained ankle.
So don't skip more than 4 stairs at once. Better yet don't try to strech how many you can skip, hitting every stair might be too slow when you are in shape, but know your limits. Yes I could run up the entire 8 flights of stairs without problem, I beat the elevator several times.
Back in their early days Ford Moter Company was sued by General moters for making cars. GM came about because someone got a patent on cars, and conviced Mr. Chevy, Mr Buick, Mr. Pontiac, and a few others who made cars that his patent was valid and they were better off partenering with him than getting sued and shut down. Ford said the patent was invalid and fought in court to prove it. (I don't recall the outcome)
I understand the need for compatability, but I would think that Wine would fit the bill just as well and be a lot cheaper. Wine runs a lot of apps "good enough" today. Not perfect like vmware, but good enough. Use WineX or Crossover if you need more, and given the size of their needs they could pay one of them two to finish whatever they need that isn't supported. Not in all cases, of course, there are some things that Wine won't work with for a long time yet.
Comercial software has relase dates for one reason: money. If they don't release it at the right time they don't make money. Release too soon and you get a reputation for bugs. (beta programs help relase earlier, but you still can't do them too soon). Release too late and someone else will beat you in.
However it is more complex. I've worked with projects targeted at telecoms. Back then they had a lab, and nothing was put into production until they bought a bunch of them, and it was in the lab for 3 months while THEY tested it. However you couldn't get something into the lab anytime you were ready. They opened the door for a short time every 3 months. Miss the day where they bring something in, and you wait 6 months before they will make a major order. Release on that day, and they would normally buy in 3 months. Once you were in the lab you could provide bug fixes under the claim "We never saw that in our testing..." so you had to relase a product on their schedual no matter what. If you didn't, someone else did, and 3 months latter they get the order, and unless they screw up baddly you may never even get into the lab.
Open source doesn't care about your scedual, it cares about good. So we have release when it is ready. Thats why freeBSD announced a schedual ship of ONE year, and once the extra year was up released a 5.0 version and called beta quality and recomended you not use it for anytime important. Of course smaller projects are not so good, but then they don't have as many users who care either.
Your points are mostly correct. However I call them details, and still consider WWII part two of WWI, because WWII only makes sense in context with WWI (which makes no sense at all)
By all acounts Russia saw WWII coming, but early on had no ability to fight it. (Remember in WWI russia put something like 3 men on the front line for every gun, not counting all the behind the scenes men) Stalin signed a non-agression pact iwth Germany to gain time to prepare.
France was appearently blinded to the world conditions. Many would consider them blind yet. I've heard stories of why they did so poorly (mostly preparing for a less technially advanced war), but that doesn't excuse them for not doing anything. For that matter France had specifc mutual defense treaties with some of the early countries Germany took, and did nothing to help their allies.
I'm not sure what England was thinking, but at least when they (re)entered the war they were prepared as best they could be.
Germany wasn't the only country that wanted war after WWI, just the most obvious and powerful. Italy was a major part of the Axis powers, and several other countries were with them. And don't forget Japan that wanted war so bad they attacked the US on our own soil.
Spain is the only country of note to not be involved (the swiss are not worth anyone's time to take more for geographical reasons, though they so a good job of encouraging neturality). The reasons for that are worth studing if you want to understand the situation.
WWII and WWI are exactly the same thing, just there was a 10 (more or less) year cease fire. Once you start looking at WWII is a correction for all the things done wrong after WWI things start making more sense. Considering the destruction after WWI, who would have thought that Europe's major powers would be ready and willing for war so soon after.
That is I'm intentionaly confusing them because I find it a lot more convient to think of them as one thing and not seperate wars - which they were not.
I don't think we will get anywhere responding further on most points, so I'm going to drop it. However some points I can't resist making anyway.
Oh is that what you call it? Not joining the war to fight Hitler is considered pacifism, but funding rebels and dictators (e.g. Sadam, Osama) who are anti-Russia is pragmatic.
Like I said, Hitler and the like proved that we won't be left alone. (and if you look at Eurpoe before WWI you will notice that Hitler was a result of the way most of the contenent felt then, he is the most prominate case, but most of Europe was itching for a war. (Even now many Eurpoians think that WWI was a good thing, something most Americans/Canadians don't understand)) So the way the US looks at the world changed to fit the situation, and attempts were made to prevent such things before they became bad. Russia was a real threat, though not nessicarly in the way the mdeia and government portraied them.
Canada has pleny of problems, you are blind if you refuse to recignise them. Solve your problems back home, and leave us alone.
Obviously you don't have that ability. I just got a camera phone, and it is worth it (at $50 and a year contract - but I was planing on not switching providers soon anyway, greater cost might not be)
Now when I see the kid of someone my sister went to school with I can take a picture and show my sister. Every try describing what someone looks like? "He is soo cute, and he looks just like his daddy" - which is nice and all, but even if you know his daddy doesn't really tell you what he looks like. If I sent you a picture of the kid you have a reasonable chance of recignising him if you had to.
Have you ever tried to describe why a wiget won't fit? I know one carpender who spend a hour on the phone describing a problem and the boss describing the fix before the boss gave up and came to do it. One look and the boss said "Oh... I see why that won't work..." A picture is worse much more than a thousand words. Mind you sometimes a picture isn't as good.
Since I don't have video calling I don't know why I would want it. It might be worth it. I suspect that it is one of those things that once you have it you will wonder how you got along without it. Maybe not right away, but 5 years latter you suddenly realize that the gimic that you thought was useless is extreemly useful when applied to a problem you don't even think about now.
Sure I can download movie clips to my PC, but that is at home, as is my TV, and I'm sitting here in the carpool with nothing to do. Sure they make TVs for cars now, and I could get a laptop but neither has useful content, a cell phone connected to either now provides the ability to get useful content anywhere.
Or did you limit yourself to a cell phone sitting alone all the time and not consiuder that it can be connected to other devices. Lets consider that case then: your out on a date in the park and you and the date want to sit down, perhaps a movie, but you don't know what is playing. Getting tiny trailers could help you decide what to see.
The most useful part about 3g cell phones might not even exist yet. Back before telephone you went to visit someone a few miles away without knowing if they were even home. What a waste of time (one horseback) compared to today where you call to be sure they are home and up to visiters.
Oh, I know it costs quit a bit to heat/cool a school, and teachers need to get paid, not to mention lunch and a few staffers. However that doesn't explain what they are doing with the money. The school I graduated from needed a new high school (growing area, the current one didn't have room), so they built an expensive new one of the same size, but room to grow. The extention will cost 30 million for 400 more students, and that is just more classrooms. (They already have gyms, library, lunch room, and so on) Why do they need such an expensive building?
By comparition, the origional high school (been jr high since long before I was born) was built in the 1930s, and isn't really fit to be a school anymore without major work. And the new schools are not proposed to be overbuilt with 3 foot thick walls like that one. Why can't a simple, boring steel building designed to last 50 years work instead. Got to be a lot cheaper.
Really what I'm saying is that if your school didn't have enough money for paper you should have gone to all the parents around you and demanded that the school board resigned for incompetency. Mind you new members might be allowed to stay because those buildings carry dept far into the future and that has to be paid by those far removed from the decision, but any long term members should have seen it coming.
Don't forget the youngsters to computers that don't recall a time when software or hardware came with a full, detailed manuals Normally a set of them that required a reinforced bookshelf to hold the weight of them. And detailed ment a lot of source code and schematics. You had to pay for it of course, but you got what you paid for: good stuff. Well not good in all senses, there were bugs in the software, but in general it was better than software from MS in the '90s. (MS has improved quality or so I hear)
That's not the point. The fact that the constitution has amendments means that it can change. Just because the right to bear arms is a constitutional right doesn't mean we couldn't repeal that right.
Where did anyone state that it wasn't the case. The constitution has always been represented to me as a living document, flexable enough to change as the times needed it, static enough to be useful as a reference (Only the 18th amendment was repealed, and a few things from the main document changed to reflect the times, but overall I think the founders would recignise it today). It (though amendments) gives me rights, such as the right to own guns, that you see no need for. I however see it differently. Like most private gun owners in the US (and likely the world) none of my guns have been used to kill a person.
He has people to write his speeches for him and he still comes off as dumb and ignorant.
Every other poltitions has someone to write speachs for them too. Some are better than others at giving them. Then again I'm better at programing than I am at writing say english, I'm sure that you consider my ignoriant to because I have a difficult time writing, yet most people considerly me smart. (Not brilliant, but smart) I wonder how much of your impression is clouded because you don't stand for the same ideas as he does. That is you say "Bush stands for things I don't stand for so he is an idiot", and then find examples to prove that. Those who like his ideals find examples to prove he is smart. In fact he isn't stupid, (as his grades have shown), but he isn't Einstien. Start looking at hime objectivly, and you will see a good leader of people, one you may disagree with, (and perhaps not the best) but still a good leader.
ou don't think the US is theocratic? Interesting how Pat Robertson is praying for 3 judges to die so that Bush can install replacements who will continue to enforce religious rule.
And you think Pat Robertson speaks for all americans? He has never been elected to any district where I have the ability to vote. He has run for president a few times, but then so has kooks like Ralph naider. (I worded it like that on a guess that you like Naider better than Bush, and perhaps such wording will help you to understand that people don't always agree). As for religion, I belive that Pat Robertson is one of the many preachers who seem to do good work, all the while leading their followers to hell. Some Christians follow him and disagee, some don't follow him and agree. Most don't follow him, and don't care enough to think about it, but would be offended by your claim that he speaks for them.
Susan Sarandon was prevented from speaking at the baseball hall of fame just because she opposed the war. What does baseball have to do with politics?
Everything has to do with politics. You can't get around it. Byond that though, freedom of speach doesn't mean I have to listen. Baseball is a privte orginization (I disagree with their monopoly status BTW) and has the right to exclude anyone they want to. The orginizers either were so offended by her that they personally refused to allow her to comment, At their events; or the orginizers recignized that their target marget was offended enoguh that they just might stop watching baseball if she was allowed, and made the buiseness decision not to allow it. Figgure it either way you want to, the fact is most people in the US were offended by such comments and privately choose to do something to those who made it. The goverment passed no laws, and made no arrest connected with such statements, the people individually (including congressmen - freedom fries) choose to do what they could privately to punish those who made them.
Your statement sound close to an arguement that I should have been forced to buy a Dixie Chicks album because they opposed the way and made statements about it, regaurdless about how I feel about either their music, or their state
You can get the goo off of most keyboards in a normal household dishwasher, so long as your water heater isn't set too high. Just make sure things are dried out properly before you try using them again. This won't sterilize things, but if you do it regularly you can at least make sure there is nothing for the nasties to eat when they do get inside. (Which does not solve all problems, but helps a great deal)
Note that you need to do a full backup before trying this, and I'd try it with some sacrificial systems first. Wouldn't surprize me if harddrives and cdroms don't survive this treatment. See if you can re-oil all the fans. At least find out how long the average machine survives a this. If you find a machine normally last 48 cycles, then plan on once a month washings, and throw them away (recycle) after 4 years. This should help a lot A lot of labor, but I know of system admins who regularly take a keyboard home for washing.
From what I understand about hospital breading sterilzation resistant strains of nasties, I would want you throwing everything out every few years anyway. I'm not an expert, but I would think that you are like most other IT deparments with plenty of obsolete, throw away, machines that you can expiriment with before working with machine you care about. Once you know what works and for how long you can make a plan which includes a few (statistical number of) machines not surviving.
There are something like 18 langugaes officially recignised in India. (I'm not sure to what extent that means) Nobody speaks all of them, though English is the closest. Hindi is one of the more common ones, not dominate by any means.
The Indians I've met (from india) speak English just fine, most as their third language. They have a strange accent, but if you have taken a math course at any university you will have no problems understanding them. Nobody who speaks english as good as they do is allowed to teach math at the university level.
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I used to think that way. Then someone told me they voted for one person over another because he looked better on TV. Nothing to do with what he stands for, how he looks. May the most handsome man win. Now I've come to say "You should vote, but only if you are informed about who and what you are voting for, if not stay home." I'd prefer an informed voter who votes 100% opposite to me, to 20000 voters who vote the way I do because my canidate (that I have researched) looks better.
Actually I recignise a protest vote. In my state anyone can vote in primary elections on who the major parties should send to the main election. I always encourage people to choose the worst canidate for the other party and vote for him.
So don't vote unless you know what you are voting for.
Fortunatly I know of no republic where you only have two choices. (There are some where you get one choice, but we call them dictators) I had 6 choices on the ballot for president in the last US election, and 5 of them were on enough ballots they could potentially win. (Constitution, Democrat, Green, Libratarian, Republican) If none of them are good enough, there was a write in line, and a write in election is winable, though I don't know of it happening byond the local level.
Quit thinking of it as a choice between the two major parties. You alone is not enough to change people's thinking (and the major party might best represent you once in a while) but your vote will get noticed. There is even the arguement that a third party vote is more noticed, because those are the people who care enough to examing the issues, and most importantly encourage others to vote.
Perhaps, but consider the impact of cheating. Before the souce to Quake was released you could still cheat. Every single cheat written after the source was released was valid and work before hand, the source just made it a lot easier to write them. In other words, Quake proves our point: closed source programs are not to be trusted.
China doesn't care about me alone. However if everyone in the US suddenly made the choice to never buy anything made in china they would care. I can't force you to make that choice, and I personally belive that federal law is the wrong place to do it. However I can encourage you to make that choice and tell others.
I often come across people in stores who throw something down muttering China, so you are not alone. Alone you have no effect, but with others you can.
Saddly it isn't feasable to boycot every country with problems that you object to. China happens to be the worst abuser you can affect. So do your share.
The world needs construction laborers, landscapers, burger flippers, etc. They are just not as easy or pay as well as telemarketing.
Which is why I'm working construction even though I have a perfectly good degree in computer science. However in the time I've been there I have seen that almost half the people we have hired have been gone within the first week because they could not handle the work. This isn't a physical ability, genitics work against females, and we have had a few of them make it. Simple lazyness gets a lot. After that, many don't have the smarts to do it. We provide all the training on the job, but if you can't use a straight edge and pencil to put a line on a board after we show you how, we don't have much use for you. If you are slow, that isn't a big deal, you will just see those more productive than you (easy to measure in construction, unlike programing were someone who does half as measureable work can be 10 times as productive) get raises while you sit at the bottom of the ladder.
In short, there are plenty of jobs out there that require no education, (education in the construction field is often a negative because the schools teach the old way) and pay fairly well; but that doesn't mean that you can put anyone in the job.
I used to telecommute once in a while. (not possibel with my current job, anyone hiring a programer so I can get out of physical labor?) I never worked in the nude, because I have a cat. Guys with cats soon learn that you can't walk around the house in the nude.
It is possibal to run some UNIX version with / mounted read only. However when you do that you break anything that needs to write to /. (It is difficult if not impossibal to put /etc on something other than /) If you really care about secruity you might care that / is read only for an extra level of protection.
There are even more reasons to run /usr read only. NFS sharing everything in there is common, and do you really want a program you told at to start for you to run on every machine on the network? What a waste. For that matter (Assuming you set things up so at didn't function that way) do you really want every machine on the network to have access to the information of what another machine will run?
As someone else pointed out, /var is the perfect place for this. A partition defined as a place for things to change often, and unique for each machine. (You can nfs mount email and news which are in /var, but most of the files in /var a specificly different for each machine)
And where are you going to find an air conditioner that will work in the wide open? Say 500 feet up a radio tower? (Where you might need a computer to diagnose equipment up there) Or in a desert only reachable by heavily modified 4 wheel drives (Jeep).
Plenty of locations have equpment that needs maintance, and most of that today requires a computer to get status.
Right, and the last place I worked the secritaries made it a daily task to go in under the user of each confrence room and make sure meetings were properly accepted. Too many people messed up and selected a confrence room, but didn't invite it properly. Saddly, Exchange replaced a unix and windows schedular program that handled confrence rooms better, and nobody screwed it up. (The windows client sucked, but at least there was one)
I don't recall the exact details, but I think it had something to do with inviting a room as a person. A room is a resource, but there is nothing to prevent you from calling it a person.
Every city I've been to has pleny of things to do that you could wonder for 3 months and not see the same thing twice unless you wanted to. Just visiting all the historical sites within driving distance of my midwest town should take you more than 3 months if you spend time to really look them over instead of running through it. (And we consider many things less than 75 years old historical, perhaps the city you visit will be much older)
Check out the zoo - nearly all cities have one, but in some cases the locals don't know it. Check out the theme parks. Check out the city's web page, that should help, and then the page for all the nearby towns.
I found my church was most helpful. Once I got in touch with them, my entire day was planned for me, including people who spoke my language. (In theory I know spanish, but in practice I don't) Picked up to go to church, lunch with a family, a walk in their park. They showed me local stuff I wouldn't have seen. Of course I'm a shy geek so I like having that level of work done so I can be socal without having to go through too much effort. (Don't join a church just for the socal life, but once you find God, time with God's people is worth spending)
Last of all, try walking. I walked a bunch of sidewalks when I had a free saterday and I found a lot of things that were interesting, but I wouldn't have found out about otherwise. Street bands, art shows, an old church open to the public. A cool public clock several turns down a blind alley. Just explore. They say it isn't safe, and you need to be aware, but most places you will be left along if you leave people alone.
It is a vacation in a foriegn country. You can see technology anywhere. Look for people, because the culture is different, and you can't see someone else's culture by bringing them to you home. Don't forget that there are many cultures in America (US, Canada and Mexico), despite what our friends in Europe would tell us. Each state is different in subtile ways, and even within the states. I can tell the difference between someone from St. Paul, MN and Minneapolis, MN even though they border each other. (I doupt you can, I've lived here all my life)
Saddly there isn't enough time to expirence it all. So you will see a few things and miss what is more important. If you have an interest that isn't served back home, study that here, contacting people on the internet (really, be careful of the downside, but if you are interested in some strange hobbie get in touch with those people, and personally visit them to see their personal collection/setup)
You have picked too big an area to see it all. I've known some people to fly to New York and drive to Minnesota because they wanted to see the country before they visited us - they had no idea how long they would drive, and they didn't cross half the country) I'm sure that you have a better grasp of distances than those from Europe, but don't forget to account for it in your planning. Gas is cheap, but it still ads up. You might like driving, but do you really want to spend your entire vacation in a car? Perhaps you should choose some a couple key areas to visit, and see a bunch in those areas, and skip the rest of the continent.
Once you are somewhere, go to the little exibits. A historical farm for example, even though it isn't technology. Some rich person's mansion now on the historical list. (most are not that big) When you see some historical/geographical marker on the side of the road (rarely mark more than half a mile before, and likely not on your tour guide book) stop and read them.
Most importantly: have fun. This is a vacation. Don't worry about seeing everything. Pick a couple "must sees", and leave most of the schedual open for last minute changes. When you like something stay longer, don't like it go elsewhere. You know yourself and your family/friends, so you should have an idea before hand what you will like, but even still, somethings disapoint while others you will love.
Cause it says the same thing in those langauges, that is the definition of translation. Oh, I agree that something is lost in translation, but experts have argued over translation for years. Everytime they come up with an example of something lost in translation it is an alternate meaning they explain that isn't really as good, but it could be read that way, or a different word could be used that means the same thing. Trivial in other words.
If you are studing the bible for an hour every day (not much a challange for someone into it like a priest) you are better off spending your time cross referenceing passages. If you want to study outside of your nateral language bible I suggest you study outside the bible. "Eye of a neddle" is used, translation won't help you understand that they are not refering to a sewing neddle, you need to know what they city gates were called to understand it... And so on.
Mind you I'm not saying that it is a bad thing to study the bible in the languages it is written in. (Though which language is origional is sometimes in question, and you may have trouble finding a copy in that language) We need a few people in every (Christian) religion to study the bible in the written langageto explain to the other priests where the places where translation problems exist. However there is more spiritual benifit from other studies overall, and so it is more important for priests to make sure some of those other studies are covered first, once they are, then language is useful to study too. (My expirence is that God will lead you to where you should study)
Just be careful. I used to live on the 8th floor, and never took the elevators. (not at all once I discoverd a group of students got an unexcused absense for their final exam while they were stuck in an elevator) Then I got good at runing up and down stairs until one day I attempted to skip 5 stairs, missed my landing and ended up with a sprained ankle.
So don't skip more than 4 stairs at once. Better yet don't try to strech how many you can skip, hitting every stair might be too slow when you are in shape, but know your limits. Yes I could run up the entire 8 flights of stairs without problem, I beat the elevator several times.
Back in their early days Ford Moter Company was sued by General moters for making cars. GM came about because someone got a patent on cars, and conviced Mr. Chevy, Mr Buick, Mr. Pontiac, and a few others who made cars that his patent was valid and they were better off partenering with him than getting sued and shut down. Ford said the patent was invalid and fought in court to prove it. (I don't recall the outcome)
I understand the need for compatability, but I would think that Wine would fit the bill just as well and be a lot cheaper. Wine runs a lot of apps "good enough" today. Not perfect like vmware, but good enough. Use WineX or Crossover if you need more, and given the size of their needs they could pay one of them two to finish whatever they need that isn't supported. Not in all cases, of course, there are some things that Wine won't work with for a long time yet.
Comercial software has relase dates for one reason: money. If they don't release it at the right time they don't make money. Release too soon and you get a reputation for bugs. (beta programs help relase earlier, but you still can't do them too soon). Release too late and someone else will beat you in.
However it is more complex. I've worked with projects targeted at telecoms. Back then they had a lab, and nothing was put into production until they bought a bunch of them, and it was in the lab for 3 months while THEY tested it. However you couldn't get something into the lab anytime you were ready. They opened the door for a short time every 3 months. Miss the day where they bring something in, and you wait 6 months before they will make a major order. Release on that day, and they would normally buy in 3 months. Once you were in the lab you could provide bug fixes under the claim "We never saw that in our testing..." so you had to relase a product on their schedual no matter what. If you didn't, someone else did, and 3 months latter they get the order, and unless they screw up baddly you may never even get into the lab.
Open source doesn't care about your scedual, it cares about good. So we have release when it is ready. Thats why freeBSD announced a schedual ship of ONE year, and once the extra year was up released a 5.0 version and called beta quality and recomended you not use it for anytime important. Of course smaller projects are not so good, but then they don't have as many users who care either.
Your points are mostly correct. However I call them details, and still consider WWII part two of WWI, because WWII only makes sense in context with WWI (which makes no sense at all)
By all acounts Russia saw WWII coming, but early on had no ability to fight it. (Remember in WWI russia put something like 3 men on the front line for every gun, not counting all the behind the scenes men) Stalin signed a non-agression pact iwth Germany to gain time to prepare.
France was appearently blinded to the world conditions. Many would consider them blind yet. I've heard stories of why they did so poorly (mostly preparing for a less technially advanced war), but that doesn't excuse them for not doing anything. For that matter France had specifc mutual defense treaties with some of the early countries Germany took, and did nothing to help their allies.
I'm not sure what England was thinking, but at least when they (re)entered the war they were prepared as best they could be.
Germany wasn't the only country that wanted war after WWI, just the most obvious and powerful. Italy was a major part of the Axis powers, and several other countries were with them. And don't forget Japan that wanted war so bad they attacked the US on our own soil.
Spain is the only country of note to not be involved (the swiss are not worth anyone's time to take more for geographical reasons, though they so a good job of encouraging neturality). The reasons for that are worth studing if you want to understand the situation.
WWII and WWI are exactly the same thing, just there was a 10 (more or less) year cease fire. Once you start looking at WWII is a correction for all the things done wrong after WWI things start making more sense. Considering the destruction after WWI, who would have thought that Europe's major powers would be ready and willing for war so soon after.
That is I'm intentionaly confusing them because I find it a lot more convient to think of them as one thing and not seperate wars - which they were not.
I don't think we will get anywhere responding further on most points, so I'm going to drop it. However some points I can't resist making anyway.
Oh is that what you call it? Not joining the war to fight Hitler is considered pacifism, but funding rebels and dictators (e.g. Sadam, Osama) who are anti-Russia is pragmatic.
Like I said, Hitler and the like proved that we won't be left alone. (and if you look at Eurpoe before WWI you will notice that Hitler was a result of the way most of the contenent felt then, he is the most prominate case, but most of Europe was itching for a war. (Even now many Eurpoians think that WWI was a good thing, something most Americans/Canadians don't understand)) So the way the US looks at the world changed to fit the situation, and attempts were made to prevent such things before they became bad. Russia was a real threat, though not nessicarly in the way the mdeia and government portraied them.
Canada has pleny of problems, you are blind if you refuse to recignise them. Solve your problems back home, and leave us alone.
Obviously you don't have that ability. I just got a camera phone, and it is worth it (at $50 and a year contract - but I was planing on not switching providers soon anyway, greater cost might not be)
Now when I see the kid of someone my sister went to school with I can take a picture and show my sister. Every try describing what someone looks like? "He is soo cute, and he looks just like his daddy" - which is nice and all, but even if you know his daddy doesn't really tell you what he looks like. If I sent you a picture of the kid you have a reasonable chance of recignising him if you had to.
Have you ever tried to describe why a wiget won't fit? I know one carpender who spend a hour on the phone describing a problem and the boss describing the fix before the boss gave up and came to do it. One look and the boss said "Oh ... I see why that won't work..." A picture is worse much more than a thousand words. Mind you sometimes a picture isn't as good.
Since I don't have video calling I don't know why I would want it. It might be worth it. I suspect that it is one of those things that once you have it you will wonder how you got along without it. Maybe not right away, but 5 years latter you suddenly realize that the gimic that you thought was useless is extreemly useful when applied to a problem you don't even think about now.
Sure I can download movie clips to my PC, but that is at home, as is my TV, and I'm sitting here in the carpool with nothing to do. Sure they make TVs for cars now, and I could get a laptop but neither has useful content, a cell phone connected to either now provides the ability to get useful content anywhere.
Or did you limit yourself to a cell phone sitting alone all the time and not consiuder that it can be connected to other devices. Lets consider that case then: your out on a date in the park and you and the date want to sit down, perhaps a movie, but you don't know what is playing. Getting tiny trailers could help you decide what to see.
The most useful part about 3g cell phones might not even exist yet. Back before telephone you went to visit someone a few miles away without knowing if they were even home. What a waste of time (one horseback) compared to today where you call to be sure they are home and up to visiters.
Oh, I know it costs quit a bit to heat/cool a school, and teachers need to get paid, not to mention lunch and a few staffers. However that doesn't explain what they are doing with the money. The school I graduated from needed a new high school (growing area, the current one didn't have room), so they built an expensive new one of the same size, but room to grow. The extention will cost 30 million for 400 more students, and that is just more classrooms. (They already have gyms, library, lunch room, and so on) Why do they need such an expensive building?
By comparition, the origional high school (been jr high since long before I was born) was built in the 1930s, and isn't really fit to be a school anymore without major work. And the new schools are not proposed to be overbuilt with 3 foot thick walls like that one. Why can't a simple, boring steel building designed to last 50 years work instead. Got to be a lot cheaper.
Really what I'm saying is that if your school didn't have enough money for paper you should have gone to all the parents around you and demanded that the school board resigned for incompetency. Mind you new members might be allowed to stay because those buildings carry dept far into the future and that has to be paid by those far removed from the decision, but any long term members should have seen it coming.
Don't forget the youngsters to computers that don't recall a time when software or hardware came with a full, detailed manuals Normally a set of them that required a reinforced bookshelf to hold the weight of them. And detailed ment a lot of source code and schematics. You had to pay for it of course, but you got what you paid for: good stuff. Well not good in all senses, there were bugs in the software, but in general it was better than software from MS in the '90s. (MS has improved quality or so I hear)
Where did anyone state that it wasn't the case. The constitution has always been represented to me as a living document, flexable enough to change as the times needed it, static enough to be useful as a reference (Only the 18th amendment was repealed, and a few things from the main document changed to reflect the times, but overall I think the founders would recignise it today). It (though amendments) gives me rights, such as the right to own guns, that you see no need for. I however see it differently. Like most private gun owners in the US (and likely the world) none of my guns have been used to kill a person.
He has people to write his speeches for him and he still comes off as dumb and ignorant.
Every other poltitions has someone to write speachs for them too. Some are better than others at giving them. Then again I'm better at programing than I am at writing say english, I'm sure that you consider my ignoriant to because I have a difficult time writing, yet most people considerly me smart. (Not brilliant, but smart) I wonder how much of your impression is clouded because you don't stand for the same ideas as he does. That is you say "Bush stands for things I don't stand for so he is an idiot", and then find examples to prove that. Those who like his ideals find examples to prove he is smart. In fact he isn't stupid, (as his grades have shown), but he isn't Einstien. Start looking at hime objectivly, and you will see a good leader of people, one you may disagree with, (and perhaps not the best) but still a good leader.
ou don't think the US is theocratic? Interesting how Pat Robertson is praying for 3 judges to die so that Bush can install replacements who will continue to enforce religious rule. And you think Pat Robertson speaks for all americans? He has never been elected to any district where I have the ability to vote. He has run for president a few times, but then so has kooks like Ralph naider. (I worded it like that on a guess that you like Naider better than Bush, and perhaps such wording will help you to understand that people don't always agree). As for religion, I belive that Pat Robertson is one of the many preachers who seem to do good work, all the while leading their followers to hell. Some Christians follow him and disagee, some don't follow him and agree. Most don't follow him, and don't care enough to think about it, but would be offended by your claim that he speaks for them.
Susan Sarandon was prevented from speaking at the baseball hall of fame just because she opposed the war. What does baseball have to do with politics?
Everything has to do with politics. You can't get around it. Byond that though, freedom of speach doesn't mean I have to listen. Baseball is a privte orginization (I disagree with their monopoly status BTW) and has the right to exclude anyone they want to. The orginizers either were so offended by her that they personally refused to allow her to comment, At their events; or the orginizers recignized that their target marget was offended enoguh that they just might stop watching baseball if she was allowed, and made the buiseness decision not to allow it. Figgure it either way you want to, the fact is most people in the US were offended by such comments and privately choose to do something to those who made it. The goverment passed no laws, and made no arrest connected with such statements, the people individually (including congressmen - freedom fries) choose to do what they could privately to punish those who made them.
Your statement sound close to an arguement that I should have been forced to buy a Dixie Chicks album because they opposed the way and made statements about it, regaurdless about how I feel about either their music, or their state
You can get the goo off of most keyboards in a normal household dishwasher, so long as your water heater isn't set too high. Just make sure things are dried out properly before you try using them again. This won't sterilize things, but if you do it regularly you can at least make sure there is nothing for the nasties to eat when they do get inside. (Which does not solve all problems, but helps a great deal)
Note that you need to do a full backup before trying this, and I'd try it with some sacrificial systems first. Wouldn't surprize me if harddrives and cdroms don't survive this treatment. See if you can re-oil all the fans. At least find out how long the average machine survives a this. If you find a machine normally last 48 cycles, then plan on once a month washings, and throw them away (recycle) after 4 years. This should help a lot A lot of labor, but I know of system admins who regularly take a keyboard home for washing.
From what I understand about hospital breading sterilzation resistant strains of nasties, I would want you throwing everything out every few years anyway. I'm not an expert, but I would think that you are like most other IT deparments with plenty of obsolete, throw away, machines that you can expiriment with before working with machine you care about. Once you know what works and for how long you can make a plan which includes a few (statistical number of) machines not surviving.
There are something like 18 langugaes officially recignised in India. (I'm not sure to what extent that means) Nobody speaks all of them, though English is the closest. Hindi is one of the more common ones, not dominate by any means.
The Indians I've met (from india) speak English just fine, most as their third language. They have a strange accent, but if you have taken a math course at any university you will have no problems understanding them. Nobody who speaks english as good as they do is allowed to teach math at the university level.