That's possible, but that doesn't mean that way that the distribution model wouldn't change to accommodate. If you consider the drug trade, you need to have some contacts but they aren't that hard to find. Also, it doesn't seem like that many major drug distributors are caught and prosecuted. They are different situations, but you would have to consider that there would be some similarity between the two.
Suffice it to say that I am neither an elected official nor in a public position of authority. Were that the case I expect that I would be required to produce better justification for my arguments. For the purposes of having a discussion, I hope that you'll excuse me for not having the time to give more concrete evidence, however this seems to be the case for everyone involved.
Which is why I wouldn't really consider those things to be 'short of a gun'.
Those things that you mention are used in different kinds of violence and have their own enforcement. They also don't fit well in the context of the discussion, being crime. Bombs aren't that commonly used in say robbery's (other than in the movies, or maybe ). In the middle-east you could make a case for gun carrying as a defense against suicide bombers, that didn't work so well in england though and that was the police. I also think that you should be hard pressed to find many cases where someone was held up with the threat of being hit by a car. Nor would carrying a gun be much deterrence to a hit-and-run driver.
Question: Where do black market guns come from? A: The manufacturers make them and sell them.
Eventually many of those guns will come into the hands of people who will sell them on the black market. Unfortunatelly, you if reduce the number of domestically manufactured guns another foreign manufacturer will probably pick up the slack. The US does manufacture an aweful lot of guns though, whether it is intentional or not, they are profiting from the misuse of their product.
And where do illegal guns come from? Are you trying to say that they fall from the sky into the hands of criminals? I would be surprised if the majority guns used for crimes weren't legally obtained at some point. Either when they are stolen from people who legally own them and have them stolen, or maybe your friendly gun company who just sell their firearms to people in other countries who promptly smuggle them back into the US, Canada or some other country. If you could keep this from happening, then guns for self protection would probably work a lot better as a deterrent.
My response to both posters is that the same guns that are available to ordinary citizens are also available to criminals. It becomes an arms race situation. I would rather do whatever possible to keep guns out of the possession of both groups, 'right to bear arms' or not. In 2006, exactly how many people are members of a trained militia anyway?
There is still the issue of making sure that everyone is well informed about proper storage, handling, use and care for fire arms, which I highly doubt is the case right now. Also to balance out your argument about crime reduction, there are still the cases of accidental discharge and unintentional shootings. Past the initial deterrence factor, if a case occurs where you are forced to defend yourself with a gun, you also run the risk of harming bystanders and damaging property. Let's face it, there are many people who are desperate enough that nothing will be a deterrent. Numbers aside, there many negative aspects of both solutions.
I don't disagree, there are a whole lot of pieces to the puzzle. All that I am getting at is that it's awfully easy to go on a violent rampage with a gun, and stupid youth isn't the only problem. Just last week I came across and even more tragic story where a divorcee in the US decided to go to a court house and shoot his spouse with an AK-47, along with bystanders and a number of police officers.
One person just can't accomplish that kind of violence with any kind of weapon short of a gun. Did the fact that the police officers were armed and returning fire in any way dissuade this individual as one of the parent poster's suggested? See for yourself if you like. Warning, not work safe and contains an extreme amount of violence: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/158562/cops_vs_ak_47 /
My point is that I don't think that any safety afforded by citizens being able to arm themselves is not worth it if tragedies like this are going to occur.
That isn't bad, even in Canada where we are 100X less gun happy then in the US (I don't think I know any Canadians who own a pistol), there are close to 46 gun murders just in Toronto (100> murders altogether) per year. Law enforcement agencies seem to suggest that much of this is gang related though, I'm not sure how much of a problem that is in England.
I've never come across that fallacy in philosophy class, however, if you mean the "Improper Appeal to Authority" fallacy then it isn't. If the above poster was a movie star or a well known public figure and their comments about the article are being referenced to prove a point (assuming said movie star or public figure isn't an expert programmer), then that would be an improper appeal to authority.
In any case, the insight and experience of long time programmer is valuable. Sure they can be wrong but, they still know their stuff front to back. Likely the GP poster knows very well that you can through as much virtualization as you want at a problem, but no matter what, you're still bound to the limitations of the underlying hardware. Maybe at some point hardware with almost infinite flexibility will exist and I'd be surprised if that happened any time soon.
I believe that the difference would be AMD chips support hypertransport while Intel's don't. The theory is that with the hypertransport bus the communication between processors will be almost as fast as if they were on the same die. If Intel had to use the FSB, then they'd be limited by the available bandwidth.
My question is, how would the comparison stackup once AMD finally releases 65nm chips? Everyone knows that Intel has the best fabs, but I'm curious to see what happens when AMD catches up further in that area.
[Blockquote]Mounted on each socket will be an AMD dual-core processor (not necessarily an AMD Athlon64 X2, according to an AMD representative)(Emphasis Mine), for a total of four cores.[/blockquote]
Actually, we do use eclipse, unfortunately not all plugins are cross platform. Right now we're evaluating Sonic Workbench http://www.sonicsoftware.com/products/sonic_workbe nch/index.ssp/ to do a bunch of XML transformation stuff(yay, sarcasm).
Besides this particular plugin/perspective, I've come across a few others on the eclipse site that have the same issue.
Would that work for using multiple development environments as well? My manager wants us to adopt a Windows only Eclipse IDE and the rest of our shop runs Mandrake. Currently we're stuck moving to different machines or accessing the IDE on our windows server through remote desktop(slow).
Yep, I totally aggree. It's really unfortunate what happens to your work and approach to software development though. For every single new feature that's added you automatically have to start out with your back to the wall, even if it's really worth while. You have to approach things that way because no one wants to have a dead project laid at their feet (even the article implies that this is likely). Sometimes you kind of feel like being a software developer is pretty much signing yourself up to be a punching bag at a boxing club.
Facebook pretty similar to myspace except it is geared more towards student(post-secondary) networking. It's basically the easy target, I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens to myspace (like it is in high schools).
Manage security on inboxes so that say George Smith can also access my mailbox?
I've done this through the 2003 Server Administration tool, so if you have a co-operative admin, you can ask them to grant another user access to your mailbox. I'm not sure that having that ability within the client is such a good idea from a security perspective anyway.
be able to interact with the meeting requests that are sent out and the like.
I get enough of these from my boss and the SS FTA shows an example of a meeting request http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/evoshot1 .png/. I haven't actually tried sending one out myself, but I would be quite surprised if this didn't work.
Interesting point, but that would be pretty much like killing a bug with a jackhammer. When you're wiping out large swaths of the Internet just to get at a small group of people, that's a pretty good indication that you're fighting a loosing battle. I wouldn't necessarily put it past some idiot lawmaker to try that, but I can't see it standing for too long.
I'm not American, so I'm really not familiar with how state and federal laws work. In this case, would it be similar to a person committing a crime in Washington though?
Also, don't get me wrong. As far as I can tell, this law is totally ridiculous and my post was pretty much the only good thing that I could imagine will come of it.
Totally agree, every time I see players have a total hissy fit about cheating I wonder what they heck is wrong with them. Over competativeness in a community in a lot of cases is just as bad as people who make it a point to cause trouble.
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That's possible, but that doesn't mean that way that the distribution model wouldn't change to accommodate. If you consider the drug trade, you need to have some contacts but they aren't that hard to find. Also, it doesn't seem like that many major drug distributors are caught and prosecuted. They are different situations, but you would have to consider that there would be some similarity between the two.
Suffice it to say that I am neither an elected official nor in a public position of authority. Were that the case I expect that I would be required to produce better justification for my arguments. For the purposes of having a discussion, I hope that you'll excuse me for not having the time to give more concrete evidence, however this seems to be the case for everyone involved.
Which is why I wouldn't really consider those things to be 'short of a gun'.
Those things that you mention are used in different kinds of violence and have their own enforcement. They also don't fit well in the context of the discussion, being crime. Bombs aren't that commonly used in say robbery's (other than in the movies, or maybe ). In the middle-east you could make a case for gun carrying as a defense against suicide bombers, that didn't work so well in england though and that was the police. I also think that you should be hard pressed to find many cases where someone was held up with the threat of being hit by a car. Nor would carrying a gun be much deterrence to a hit-and-run driver.
Question: Where do black market guns come from? A: The manufacturers make them and sell them.
Eventually many of those guns will come into the hands of people who will sell them on the black market. Unfortunatelly, you if reduce the number of domestically manufactured guns another foreign manufacturer will probably pick up the slack. The US does manufacture an aweful lot of guns though, whether it is intentional or not, they are profiting from the misuse of their product.
And where do illegal guns come from? Are you trying to say that they fall from the sky into the hands of criminals? I would be surprised if the majority guns used for crimes weren't legally obtained at some point. Either when they are stolen from people who legally own them and have them stolen, or maybe your friendly gun company who just sell their firearms to people in other countries who promptly smuggle them back into the US, Canada or some other country. If you could keep this from happening, then guns for self protection would probably work a lot better as a deterrent.
There is still the issue of making sure that everyone is well informed about proper storage, handling, use and care for fire arms, which I highly doubt is the case right now. Also to balance out your argument about crime reduction, there are still the cases of accidental discharge and unintentional shootings. Past the initial deterrence factor, if a case occurs where you are forced to defend yourself with a gun, you also run the risk of harming bystanders and damaging property. Let's face it, there are many people who are desperate enough that nothing will be a deterrent. Numbers aside, there many negative aspects of both solutions.
One person just can't accomplish that kind of violence with any kind of weapon short of a gun. Did the fact that the police officers were armed and returning fire in any way dissuade this individual as one of the parent poster's suggested? See for yourself if you like.7 /
Warning, not work safe and contains an extreme amount of violence:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/158562/cops_vs_ak_4
My point is that I don't think that any safety afforded by citizens being able to arm themselves is not worth it if tragedies like this are going to occur.
This is why http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/12/26 /toronto-shooting-051226.html
Convince me that this would have occurred if no guns were involved.
That isn't bad, even in Canada where we are 100X less gun happy then in the US (I don't think I know any Canadians who own a pistol), there are close to 46 gun murders just in Toronto (100> murders altogether) per year. Law enforcement agencies seem to suggest that much of this is gang related though, I'm not sure how much of a problem that is in England.
Meh, it's all in the interest of getting the message across, which should be the point IMO.
All reasonalbe points, I'm referring to the 2nd form in the Wikipedia article which you have pointed out.
I believe that the difference would be AMD chips support hypertransport while Intel's don't. The theory is that with the hypertransport bus the communication between processors will be almost as fast as if they were on the same die. If Intel had to use the FSB, then they'd be limited by the available bandwidth.
My question is, how would the comparison stackup once AMD finally releases 65nm chips? Everyone knows that Intel has the best fabs, but I'm curious to see what happens when AMD catches up further in that area.
The article says otherwise.
Which was why in my mind they should have just kept the Ximian name in the first place.
Actually, we do use eclipse, unfortunately not all plugins are cross platform. Right now we're evaluating Sonic Workbench http://www.sonicsoftware.com/products/sonic_workbe nch/index.ssp/ to do a bunch of XML transformation stuff(yay, sarcasm).
Besides this particular plugin/perspective, I've come across a few others on the eclipse site that have the same issue.
Would that work for using multiple development environments as well? My manager wants us to adopt a Windows only Eclipse IDE and the rest of our shop runs Mandrake. Currently we're stuck moving to different machines or accessing the IDE on our windows server through remote desktop(slow).
You probably want GLUI. http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui/ It's a widget toolkit that runs on top of glut.
Yep, I totally aggree. It's really unfortunate what happens to your work and approach to software development though. For every single new feature that's added you automatically have to start out with your back to the wall, even if it's really worth while. You have to approach things that way because no one wants to have a dead project laid at their feet (even the article implies that this is likely). Sometimes you kind of feel like being a software developer is pretty much signing yourself up to be a punching bag at a boxing club.
Facebook pretty similar to myspace except it is geared more towards student(post-secondary) networking. It's basically the easy target, I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens to myspace (like it is in high schools).
Interesting point, but that would be pretty much like killing a bug with a jackhammer. When you're wiping out large swaths of the Internet just to get at a small group of people, that's a pretty good indication that you're fighting a loosing battle. I wouldn't necessarily put it past some idiot lawmaker to try that, but I can't see it standing for too long.
I'm not American, so I'm really not familiar with how state and federal laws work. In this case, would it be similar to a person committing a crime in Washington though?
Also, don't get me wrong. As far as I can tell, this law is totally ridiculous and my post was pretty much the only good thing that I could imagine will come of it.
Totally agree, every time I see players have a total hissy fit about cheating I wonder what they heck is wrong with them. Over competativeness in a community in a lot of cases is just as bad as people who make it a point to cause trouble.