I thought we already had MVC with JSP/servlet/EJB. How does Struts change this? From what I can tell it's some sort of framework that handles form data validation. That's always rather tedious, so if Struts saves time it's a good deal.
it wouldn't be used AGAINST taxes, it would be kept in ADDITION to taxes.
Mod that up. It's totally true. When government has the idea that tax cuts are a government expenditure, it's pretty obvious that the citizens' best interests are not really in mind.
I want to know who gets the $11k? I am the one being annoyed by the phone calls, but how much should I bet the government is the one that will get the windfall? The story's not clear on who files the claim.
Am I just cynical? (Yes, I've had some bad experiences with lawsuits recently, so that could explain it.)
Lindows
Meet the Lindows
You're the modern Wal-Mart family
Prices
Are bottom rock
You're making Linux history
Let's force
Microsoft to retreat
This cheap
PC is so 31337!
When you're
Using Lindows
You can play all your Windows games
It still looks the same
You drive Bill Gates insane!
I have to use WinNT at work. The application I support has a Solaris server (yay!) but requires WinNT clients (boo!) so here I am. It's not going to change any time soon, either, unfortunately. I'm sure my situation is not unique.
At home I use a Mac primarily, and dabble with Linux and NetBSD to learn what I can. If Linux is an option some day, I'd like to be ready. So far I've determined that I like bash for my shell and Blackbox for my desktop. I'm upgrading the Mac to X.2 soon.
My wife still uses Win98 on her home PC because nothing she does (Word, web, email) requires anything more. (She bought it before we were married.) I did set her to dual-boot to Mandrake the last time I had to rebuilt her machine, though I overwrote the boot sector and haven't fixed that yet. I have weaned her from several other MS products though.
The American Way is to work your ass off to pull yourself up by your boot straps, and then when you make it, do your best to help out your fellow man. The American way should not be to tax the hard- working to prop-up to support the irresponsible.
I like that line! I may have to copy that down for future use.
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I think it was also ADT who said something to the effect, "This nation will stand until its leaders realize the people can be bribed with their own money." I had the quote on my website, but alas, the host took it down last week.
Exactly. What we need is an Amendment (or whatever it would take) to ensure that all amendments/riders to bills be germane and relevant to the intent and scope of the original bill.
The problem is not that the President doesn't have enough power. The problem is that the Congress is getting carried away. Fix the problem at the source.
In the US, we
do have laws that explicitly state what we can do... like the Bill of Rights. It's a form of self-limitation in which the government prevents itself from passing future bad laws.
Let me take a stab at rephrasing this.
In the US, we have laws that explicitly limit what the state can do... like the Bill of Rights. It's a form of self-limitation in which the people prevent the government from passing future bad laws.
Then you should be able to dumpster dive for Pentiums now, right? Let me know where I can find Mac hardware of similar vintage for that little and I might be interested.
I recently installed NetBSD on a Mac SE/30 (16 MHz 68030) with 8 MB RAM. From the bit of tinkering I've done, it runs pretty well. It's also a pretty svelte installation.
Energy use, in particular, should be very much more expensive in order to cut our consumption. Our energy excesses are damaging the environment of the planet and have set the scene for the dangers current security situation. [...] I believe energy use is our primary ethical issue.
I completely disagree. Our primary ethical issue, IMO, is how we treat each other. The earth is here for mankind's benefit; mankind is not here for the earth's benefit. Without us, all these "resources" would be just useless hunks of nothing. It's human ingenuity that comes up with uses for them and makes them valuable.
As long as we're improving the quality of life for mankind, bully for us. Keep using energy, keep making things better. I don't think we should discourage achievement of a higher quality of life. We do need to plan for the future, but I don't think we need to take measures as extreme as some advocate, like eliminating cars and letting 90% of the earth surface go to wilderness.
So when's Opera going to port to my platform? My SE/30 is just dying to run Opera on it's black and white 512x342 screen. I bet the ad banners won't even fit.
I already plan to vote when I get home today. Unfortunately, most of my choices are members of the Duopoly. So no matter which I vote for, it's a vote for the status quo.
Looking back six months, I wish I would have filed to run for state Sec'y of State as a third party. It would have been a good platform to advocate some election (not campaign) reform, had I been elected. For a relatively obscure office like this I think people would have more seriously considered a third party, especially since it makes sense that a non-major-party person would likely be more neutral in voting disputes between the two major parties. Hindsight is 20/20.
I agree that much of the electorate is grossly uninformed about the issues, but I don't think they're such sheep (yet) that they'll blindly vote for whomever has the best/most advertising.
Alternatively, you may only know about 3 candidates and think one of them is the worst possible person. Then you're rank him dead last, and the candidates you don't know anything about rather randomly in the middle. Or you may think all 3 are bad (rank them low), and any of the guys you don't know about stand a good chance of being better (rank them high).
At least ranking systems offer this flexibility, while still allowing the "trained chickens" to mark only their first choice, as you said.
This is a perfect example why we need Condorcet (pairwise) voting. Inevitably the press (and everybody else) breaks it down to a head-to-head argument ("Who would you have voted for if your choice, X, hadn't been in the race?") to demonstrate the election was "spoiled" by X. So why not implement a system that accounts for this to begin with?
I've sometimes thought that a compromise between the two methods would be good. People like districted results in the EC, they like to see their region "blue" or "red" on the CNN map. But there are two EC votes that don't correspond to districts. I propose these two be used to lean the State's results toward the proportional result.
Let's use my MN as an example, because it has 10 EC votes and is easier for the math. Let's say the Republicans get 52% in every district: 8 EC votes for them. But the Democrats get 35% of the total and the Libertarians 10%. That's two other parties that got enough (10%) of the total to warrant an EC vote, so they each get one. If there were more than two qualifying parties, the highest two get the votes. If there is only one qualifying party and it gets enough for both (20% in this case) then it does get both, else it goes to the majority winner.
Basically, use those extra two votes to nudge the State returns as close to proportional as possible, while simultaneously representing as many qualifying parties as possible. The way I've expressed the "rules" here is not very formal and I apologize for that. After all it's just an idea.
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I thought we already had MVC with JSP/servlet/EJB. How does Struts change this? From what I can tell it's some sort of framework that handles form data validation. That's always rather tedious, so if Struts saves time it's a good deal.
Saw this earlier today. Probably based on the same news feed, but what the hey. Here you go.
Thank some of the Mac testing team for pushing for that, and the Mac development team for getting it done. We had it in Mac Opera 5.
I'll have to give 7b2 a try. I grabbed 7b1, but haven't used it much.
(Hey, what happened to Slashcode? I used to be able to enter character entities.)
Do you have a link to the Apple ][ running HTTP?
Mod that up. It's totally true. When government has the idea that tax cuts are a government expenditure, it's pretty obvious that the citizens' best interests are not really in mind.
I want to know who gets the $11k? I am the one being annoyed by the phone calls, but how much should I bet the government is the one that will get the windfall? The story's not clear on who files the claim.
Am I just cynical? (Yes, I've had some bad experiences with lawsuits recently, so that could explain it.)
With apologies to Hanna-Barbera...
Lindows
Meet the Lindows
You're the modern Wal-Mart family
Prices
Are bottom rock
You're making Linux history
Let's force
Microsoft to retreat
This cheap
PC is so 31337!
When you're
Using Lindows
You can play all your Windows games
It still looks the same
You drive Bill Gates insane!
I have to use WinNT at work. The application I support has a Solaris server (yay!) but requires WinNT clients (boo!) so here I am. It's not going to change any time soon, either, unfortunately. I'm sure my situation is not unique.
At home I use a Mac primarily, and dabble with Linux and NetBSD to learn what I can. If Linux is an option some day, I'd like to be ready. So far I've determined that I like bash for my shell and Blackbox for my desktop. I'm upgrading the Mac to X.2 soon.
My wife still uses Win98 on her home PC because nothing she does (Word, web, email) requires anything more. (She bought it before we were married.) I did set her to dual-boot to Mandrake the last time I had to rebuilt her machine, though I overwrote the boot sector and haven't fixed that yet. I have weaned her from several other MS products though.
I like that line! I may have to copy that down for future use.
I think it was also ADT who said something to the effect, "This nation will stand until its leaders realize the people can be bribed with their own money." I had the quote on my website, but alas, the host took it down last week.
Exactly. What we need is an Amendment (or whatever it would take) to ensure that all amendments/riders to bills be germane and relevant to the intent and scope of the original bill.
The problem is not that the President doesn't have enough power. The problem is that the Congress is getting carried away. Fix the problem at the source.
What destruction of the American working class? They 80's was a great time for the middle class.
Let me take a stab at rephrasing this.
In the US, we have laws that explicitly limit what the state can do... like the Bill of Rights. It's a form of self-limitation in which the people prevent the government from passing future bad laws.
Then you should be able to dumpster dive for Pentiums now, right? Let me know where I can find Mac hardware of similar vintage for that little and I might be interested.
I recently installed NetBSD on a Mac SE/30 (16 MHz 68030) with 8 MB RAM. From the bit of tinkering I've done, it runs pretty well. It's also a pretty svelte installation.
I completely disagree. Our primary ethical issue, IMO, is how we treat each other. The earth is here for mankind's benefit; mankind is not here for the earth's benefit. Without us, all these "resources" would be just useless hunks of nothing. It's human ingenuity that comes up with uses for them and makes them valuable.
As long as we're improving the quality of life for mankind, bully for us. Keep using energy, keep making things better. I don't think we should discourage achievement of a higher quality of life. We do need to plan for the future, but I don't think we need to take measures as extreme as some advocate, like eliminating cars and letting 90% of the earth surface go to wilderness.
So when's Opera going to port to my platform? My SE/30 is just dying to run Opera on it's black and white 512x342 screen. I bet the ad banners won't even fit.
OK, I'm only kidding. Partially. *grin*
Their deal with Macromedia should help, too.
Oh, OK in that sense I agree. Not all useful data is just text, and I'm glad someone realized that and put it into practice.
First, yup. Pre-fetch FAQ.
Second, XHTML 2.0 is being developed, which will radically change things. Make your suggestions known now.
Finally, I believe that's what SVG is for. Mozilla has some support for SVG, but it's not enabled in regular builds, IIRC.
Andreesen adding the IMG tag was a big mistake, and a very bad implementation of embedding media. The OBJECT tag is what we should have had all along.
I already plan to vote when I get home today. Unfortunately, most of my choices are members of the Duopoly. So no matter which I vote for, it's a vote for the status quo.
Looking back six months, I wish I would have filed to run for state Sec'y of State as a third party. It would have been a good platform to advocate some election (not campaign) reform, had I been elected. For a relatively obscure office like this I think people would have more seriously considered a third party, especially since it makes sense that a non-major-party person would likely be more neutral in voting disputes between the two major parties. Hindsight is 20/20.
I agree that much of the electorate is grossly uninformed about the issues, but I don't think they're such sheep (yet) that they'll blindly vote for whomever has the best/most advertising.
Alternatively, you may only know about 3 candidates and think one of them is the worst possible person. Then you're rank him dead last, and the candidates you don't know anything about rather randomly in the middle. Or you may think all 3 are bad (rank them low), and any of the guys you don't know about stand a good chance of being better (rank them high).
At least ranking systems offer this flexibility, while still allowing the "trained chickens" to mark only their first choice, as you said.
This is a perfect example why we need Condorcet (pairwise) voting. Inevitably the press (and everybody else) breaks it down to a head-to-head argument ("Who would you have voted for if your choice, X, hadn't been in the race?") to demonstrate the election was "spoiled" by X. So why not implement a system that accounts for this to begin with?
I've sometimes thought that a compromise between the two methods would be good. People like districted results in the EC, they like to see their region "blue" or "red" on the CNN map. But there are two EC votes that don't correspond to districts. I propose these two be used to lean the State's results toward the proportional result.
Let's use my MN as an example, because it has 10 EC votes and is easier for the math. Let's say the Republicans get 52% in every district: 8 EC votes for them. But the Democrats get 35% of the total and the Libertarians 10%. That's two other parties that got enough (10%) of the total to warrant an EC vote, so they each get one. If there were more than two qualifying parties, the highest two get the votes. If there is only one qualifying party and it gets enough for both (20% in this case) then it does get both, else it goes to the majority winner.
Basically, use those extra two votes to nudge the State returns as close to proportional as possible, while simultaneously representing as many qualifying parties as possible. The way I've expressed the "rules" here is not very formal and I apologize for that. After all it's just an idea.