Mod parent up. he brings up a very good point, namely that governments are untouchable to corporations (except through the lobying/bribes of course). It would be funny but not very practical for a group of M$ engineers led by Gates/Balmer to try to stand up to a group of marines armed with machine guns, gunships and tanks.
you have mentioned a very good point here and that is the difference between a data storage format and a presentation format. the problem with your argument is that word format is still NOT really a data storage format either. SGML, TeX (LaTeX), XML, etc are actual data storage format. these formats store conceptual info (like this text is supposed to be emphasized or this is a chapter heading) and then something like an interpretter along with style sheets are used to interpretthe data present and render the data into a presentation format like PDF. That is not the case with word format. Word just contains data like this text is bolded, there are newlines here, this text box goes here. That is exactly what PDF is like, just not as good. so in effect, both word and PDF could have been accepted and the PDF would have been easier to parse through since the PDF standard is openly publisized by Adobe and IMHO very easy to use (PDFs are inherently text files with the occasional binary blob and are neately divided into descrete objects, word format is who knows what). The ideal solution for the rearrangement you have indicated would be something that was designed for it like the aforementioned SGML, TeX, XML etc. In these languages, it is possible to explicitely mark data by what it actually IS and then leave the job of interprettation to outside libraries and programs.
Both PDF and Word are the same thing in a different form: WYSIWYG PRESENTATION formats.
AAAahhhhh. Where is the obligatory mention of LaTeX??? There have recently been some developements in oolatex. very much like pdflatex except that it converts to ODF...
actually, the heisenberg principle is a very precise principle which also points out that the uncertainty(position) + uncertainty(velocity) = planck's constant. Now, FYI the planck constant is somewhere in the region of 6.626 * 10^-34 J * s and these measurements made were not even close to that accurate so I seriously doubt that the planck constant could be causing much trouble here.
how about a monokodachi. since kodachis are smaller, they can achieve faster speeds. thus with a monokidachi, you could defeat a monokatana due to faster speeds. BUT... then of course, I would still destroy you with my safeguard suit and Gravitational Beam emitter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_Beam_Em itter. MUHAHAHAHA.
oh please. lets not disgrace protitutes by comparing them to politicians. while prostitutes do ultimately harm society, they do so one person at a time, have a clear reason, and are known for what they do. Atleast they don't outright lie and follow (in most cases) the contract they make (sex for money). Also, it takes a while for society to be killed by prostitutes (eventually any society with prostitutes/things like that i.e. pornography are going to degenerate into hedonistic messes) but it takes a while. Not so with politicians. Lying and breaking contracts (the ones they made with th voters) is second (my bad, first) nature to them and they knowingly trash society for their own good when they have personally taken the responsibility to advance society even if it requires personal sacrifice. These guys (and girls, lets not discriminate here) are lower than scum. I am still hoping (though I know that it is never going to happen) that someday we will enact capital punishment for currupt politicians. that should go a long way to cleaning up the government.
A lot of people in the US have a strange tendency to believe that the US/Washington controls all tech and power in the world.
What is really going to happen is that US ISPs will curse Washington and we will see a mass exodus of tech companies from the US onece idiocracies like this start happening.
This is the kind of thing that will put the US behind.
oh, your info is a bit outdated. The Indian gov. has gotten even stupider sice you last checked. They are thinking of increasing reservations in universities to 50% and tossing reservations into outsourcing.
they figured that they weren't being stupid enough and thus decided to get stupider. I am still waiting for a law that would mandate death penalty for curruption. I hope it gets enacted someday. While it may leave countries like India without a gov. it would be better than what is going on now.
while I wouldn't call NAT wonderful technology (believe it or not, it IS a hack. It goes against the whole layered approach taken to TCP/IP) you do express some valid points, but then so does the grandparent. You speak from a more practical perspective while the grandparent takes the theoretical approach.
Besides, you run Linux, you should be used to sub-par documentation;)
Funny, I would think that of people who run windows. windows has no defined documentation system. in Linux, we have man and info, 2 of the best documentation viewers there are. Linux rather has too much detailed documentation. The documentation in Linux is by no means sub-par.
it seems like you are a bit confused there. I have never heard of a major RDBMS coded in something other than C or maybe C++/C#. When you refer to app, you are proably reffering to the things which query the DB abd these do not get hammered. If you did write the actual DB backend in something like python, you would probably be screwed, not b/c of errors (those would probably just disapear b/c of things like memory management) but b/c of performance issues.
Its not that I want to bash python, just that claiming a mojor DB is written in something like python and not even java is stupidity at an extreme and means that the person in question needs to get a reality check on what his/her systems are doing. Python is great but definately not for DB backends. There, C is the god and probably will be for a very long time.
actually I don't think it would. it took several years for China's manufacturing base to get built up and the only reason they were able to do this so quickly was because of the government indirectly pushing the issue and the abundance of super cheap labor. If it takes another few years for the manufacturing bases to shift, we would have just accepted the standard by then.
"big kids with dangerous toys"??? please, lets not insult the big kids in this world. Calling politicians "big kids" is like calling a grain of sand a mountain.
jeez, from my perspective, the parent is right. encryptions are algorithms which transforma set of numbers without loosing data. To do this, they use mathematical arelationships. if your give everybody a binary algorithm and all it does is add one, that is clearly a vulnerability. The back door in the algorigthms the chinese proposed is not going to be simple but it may very well be there. I am not saying that WAPL has a back door but the anonymous coward has made a valid point here which deserves consideration. Now your reproductive ability. With that lack of knowledge and arrogance I doubt you would ever manage get anybody of the opposite sex to reproduce with you.
you are probably right on that memory hpg thing. much better would be to use an infinate while loop which really will just ram the M$ servers as hard as possible. Hmm... if I still had windows systems lying around under my control, I may actually do this.
pirates AND non windows users (like me hahahahaha ^H ^H ^H). At this point I would seriously advise switching to Linux ever more strongly. at this point, M$ is blatantly showing its monopoly power with this. if people can't realize now how sticking to microsoft is going to cause them grief, then they are doomed. With things like this, people are giving up control of their computers and letting M$ do as it wishes. that is too much power for one company and too great a loss to be taken. such software should never be used.
I still feel deeply cheated by that company. They came out with a FREKIN AWESOME tech and screwd up in the marketing. They had a VLIW processor. They could have easily doubled the number of pipelines and been the performance king. they were already the power usage king to begin with. Along with specialised hardware support for task switching, syscalls etc. they could have dictated PC architecture and gien me my laptop which runs on battery for 10+ hours b/c the processor is only eating up 10 measley watts compared to its notmal 60-80 right now. BUT, what do they do. They forget appreances. Nobody was amazed be a super power efficient chip with the performance of the lowest power celeron. Normal people didn't even know about it. Buisnesses didn't care b/c transmeta had too little cash (and thus little backing) and gamers (the ones who could hae furnished all that extra money) didn't care b/c of crap performance. So now, we are stuck with slow and inefficient processors based on 30 year old architecture designs.
there isn't but quite a few people get confused by the names given to these goverments (democratic and communistic) failing to realise that in the end both the governments are federal republics (just like the USSR btw)
You know, you are probably right. There are organizations who are focused on getting food, shelter etc. for these people and that these problems are not going to be addressed until education kicks in and also that these laptops if used for their intended purpose will go a long way towards that, but...
you have missed two critical points:
a)The organizations providing food are clearly not able to take care of all the needs since Africa always seems to need more of them (b/c idiots for rulers, war etc. but that is not the point here)
and
b)These people do not know that education will help without being educated in the first case. Sort of like a catch-22. If you are educated, you know its importance but then you are already educated and there is notthing more to be done but learn more. If however, you have no education then education seems like time consuming activity with little if any returns.
combining these 2 points above, we would just start a price war between the africans on ebay and the retailers starting to sell these things here in the US with these laptops.
Now that wasn't hard was it?
I would argue that Linux has too much documentation. For the first time user, they often get intimidated by the amount of information available. proof: the documentation on just emacs in its info pages is over 32,000 lines. Arguing that the lack of documentation is the problem is indicative of
a) Not knowing what you are talking about
b) Being too lazy to look at google of just try something at the terminal
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that is a problem with windows computers. not with linux.
Mod parent up. he brings up a very good point, namely that governments are untouchable to corporations (except through the lobying/bribes of course). It would be funny but not very practical for a group of M$ engineers led by Gates/Balmer to try to stand up to a group of marines armed with machine guns, gunships and tanks.
indeed. LaTeX + Beamer >>>>> M$ powerpoint. especially the whole code reusability really helps wih style sheets.
Both PDF and Word are the same thing in a different form: WYSIWYG PRESENTATION formats.
AAAahhhhh. Where is the obligatory mention of LaTeX??? There have recently been some developements in oolatex. very much like pdflatex except that it converts to ODF...
actually, the heisenberg principle is a very precise principle which also points out that the uncertainty(position) + uncertainty(velocity) = planck's constant. Now, FYI the planck constant is somewhere in the region of 6.626 * 10^-34 J * s and these measurements made were not even close to that accurate so I seriously doubt that the planck constant could be causing much trouble here.
how about a monokodachi. since kodachis are smaller, they can achieve faster speeds. thus with a monokidachi, you could defeat a monokatana due to faster speeds. BUT... then of course, I would still destroy you with my safeguard suit and Gravitational Beam emitter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_Beam_Em itter. MUHAHAHAHA.
oh please. lets not disgrace protitutes by comparing them to politicians. while prostitutes do ultimately harm society, they do so one person at a time, have a clear reason, and are known for what they do. Atleast they don't outright lie and follow (in most cases) the contract they make (sex for money). Also, it takes a while for society to be killed by prostitutes (eventually any society with prostitutes/things like that i.e. pornography are going to degenerate into hedonistic messes) but it takes a while. Not so with politicians. Lying and breaking contracts (the ones they made with th voters) is second (my bad, first) nature to them and they knowingly trash society for their own good when they have personally taken the responsibility to advance society even if it requires personal sacrifice. These guys (and girls, lets not discriminate here) are lower than scum. I am still hoping (though I know that it is never going to happen) that someday we will enact capital punishment for currupt politicians. that should go a long way to cleaning up the government.
A lot of people in the US have a strange tendency to believe that the US/Washington controls all tech and power in the world.
What is really going to happen is that US ISPs will curse Washington and we will see a mass exodus of tech companies from the US onece idiocracies like this start happening.
This is the kind of thing that will put the US behind.
they figured that they weren't being stupid enough and thus decided to get stupider. I am still waiting for a law that would mandate death penalty for curruption. I hope it gets enacted someday. While it may leave countries like India without a gov. it would be better than what is going on now.
while I wouldn't call NAT wonderful technology (believe it or not, it IS a hack. It goes against the whole layered approach taken to TCP/IP) you do express some valid points, but then so does the grandparent. You speak from a more practical perspective while the grandparent takes the theoretical approach.
yes, so elegant that it has inbuilt code encryption to the point where reading it can safely be considered a major acomplishement in of inself.
*enviously looks in general direction of Japan*
I want GigE internet. I have sooooooooo many uses for it (and not pr0n).
Funny, I would think that of people who run windows. windows has no defined documentation system. in Linux, we have man and info, 2 of the best documentation viewers there are. Linux rather has too much detailed documentation. The documentation in Linux is by no means sub-par.
Its not that I want to bash python, just that claiming a mojor DB is written in something like python and not even java is stupidity at an extreme and means that the person in question needs to get a reality check on what his/her systems are doing. Python is great but definately not for DB backends. There, C is the god and probably will be for a very long time.
actually I don't think it would. it took several years for China's manufacturing base to get built up and the only reason they were able to do this so quickly was because of the government indirectly pushing the issue and the abundance of super cheap labor. If it takes another few years for the manufacturing bases to shift, we would have just accepted the standard by then.
"big kids with dangerous toys"??? please, lets not insult the big kids in this world. Calling politicians "big kids" is like calling a grain of sand a mountain.
jeez, from my perspective, the parent is right. encryptions are algorithms which transforma set of numbers without loosing data. To do this, they use mathematical arelationships. if your give everybody a binary algorithm and all it does is add one, that is clearly a vulnerability. The back door in the algorigthms the chinese proposed is not going to be simple but it may very well be there. I am not saying that WAPL has a back door but the anonymous coward has made a valid point here which deserves consideration. Now your reproductive ability. With that lack of knowledge and arrogance I doubt you would ever manage get anybody of the opposite sex to reproduce with you.
you are probably right on that memory hpg thing. much better would be to use an infinate while loop which really will just ram the M$ servers as hard as possible. Hmm... if I still had windows systems lying around under my control, I may actually do this.
pirates AND non windows users (like me hahahahaha ^H ^H ^H). At this point I would seriously advise switching to Linux ever more strongly. at this point, M$ is blatantly showing its monopoly power with this. if people can't realize now how sticking to microsoft is going to cause them grief, then they are doomed. With things like this, people are giving up control of their computers and letting M$ do as it wishes. that is too much power for one company and too great a loss to be taken. such software should never be used.
I still feel deeply cheated by that company. They came out with a FREKIN AWESOME tech and screwd up in the marketing. They had a VLIW processor. They could have easily doubled the number of pipelines and been the performance king. they were already the power usage king to begin with. Along with specialised hardware support for task switching, syscalls etc. they could have dictated PC architecture and gien me my laptop which runs on battery for 10+ hours b/c the processor is only eating up 10 measley watts compared to its notmal 60-80 right now. BUT, what do they do. They forget appreances. Nobody was amazed be a super power efficient chip with the performance of the lowest power celeron. Normal people didn't even know about it. Buisnesses didn't care b/c transmeta had too little cash (and thus little backing) and gamers (the ones who could hae furnished all that extra money) didn't care b/c of crap performance. So now, we are stuck with slow and inefficient processors based on 30 year old architecture designs.
there isn't but quite a few people get confused by the names given to these goverments (democratic and communistic) failing to realise that in the end both the governments are federal republics (just like the USSR btw)
you have missed two critical points:
a)The organizations providing food are clearly not able to take care of all the needs since Africa always seems to need more of them (b/c idiots for rulers, war etc. but that is not the point here)
and
b)These people do not know that education will help without being educated in the first case. Sort of like a catch-22. If you are educated, you know its importance but then you are already educated and there is notthing more to be done but learn more. If however, you have no education then education seems like time consuming activity with little if any returns.
combining these 2 points above, we would just start a price war between the africans on ebay and the retailers starting to sell these things here in the US with these laptops.
for ref: read the first prequel trilogy of Dune.
Lets see, i want information on apache...
man apache
Now that wasn't hard was it? I would argue that Linux has too much documentation. For the first time user, they often get intimidated by the amount of information available. proof: the documentation on just emacs in its info pages is over 32,000 lines. Arguing that the lack of documentation is the problem is indicative of
a) Not knowing what you are talking about
b) Being too lazy to look at google of just try something at the terminal