I would love to see this. To the best of my knowledge, nobody ever really does performance comparisons between *BSD's and Linux. It should be reasonably easy to put them on an even ground (all the same tools/apps are available for each).
A limit must be placed somewhere. If you lower it to 15, then people like you say "But 13 is only two years away!" Children (18yrs old) don't know enough to make such decisions. Hell, most 18yr olds don't either, but at least they've got more world experience.
The US is pretty fucked up about sex and nudity. It's pretty stupid to tell someone who's old enough to get married, drive a car, and volunteer for military service that they aren't old enough to take off their clothes in front of a camera.
And you think a society that would promote 15yr old's staring in porn flicks is a good thing?
Jesus Christ! I honestly don't know if there is any response to that! You're one sick bastard.
Well, all governments place limits at some point on what is considered 'okay'. Some are just more strict than others. Child-porn is universally 'illegal' for instance.
So in order to stop a wholesale slaughter, we should wait until a 'bloodless' war is possible? One the one hand, inaction will get thousands killed. On the other, action will cause a few hundres of deaths. You're telling me the former is better? It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. May as well go with the one that hurts you the least.
You think radical change in politics happens without blood being spilled? We at least put our own lives on the line as well as those of civilians. The US made all possible attempts to keep civilian casualties to a minimum. That's more than the opposition was offering.
Let me know when wars can be fought where only the 'right people' get hurt.
If you can, then this would mean you can eliminate one of the big disadvantages of XML.
Yes, and add a whole new one. Compression overhead! I agree with the grandparent post. XML is very 'flavor of the month', and very inefficient for use in IM. It's far too redundant.
Interesting. I've never actually met somebody with no sense of nationalism what-so-ever. As far as you are concerned, every job in your nation could be exported to 'cheaper' countries, and you're fine with that? I assume you're willing to move to third world nations with few (if any) labor laws for work if you need to?
Are you truly as naive as you sound? Have you never heard of export and import tarrifs? Do you think every country does not favor internal companies to external companies?
Besides, how are you to pay for those cheap goods when you don't have a job?
I didn't say *all* jobs should be retained within the United States. But you like your slippery slope there...
The United states government (you know, the guys *I* elected to represent *me*) should take *my* needs into mind when vast amounts of out-sourceing starts to occur. Remember the whole 'buy American' campaign in the 80's when the Japanese began to encroach on our economy?
americans just love the idea of free trade and open markets till it hits home and actually affects you, huh?
I gave the impression I was *for* free trade? You seriously misunderstood me then... I want my government to look after *my* interests first. India can go screw for all I care. I vote here, I pay taxes here, etc. It's in my countries best interests that I be gainfully employed.
So when are you going to give me all your stuff? Come now, don't be selfish!
*pure* capitalism isn't a good thing.
*pure* communism isn't a good thing.
*pure* democracy isn't a good thing.
We must use common sense. No single ideology will succeed. The United States Government has a duty to protect the interest of it's own citizens. It does *not* have the duty to ensure that Indians get wealthy. I personally hope some sort of penalties are applied to those companies out-sourcing vast amounts of jobs. Or that large benefits are given to those who refuse to do so. Probably the latter, as I prefer to use the carrot than the stick...
But for the most part Indians need these jobs much worse than we do.
Tough. Yes, you heard me. Tough. I want my job. My company is based in my country, and I say they have an obligation to support their own country first.
One must mix capitalism with a healthy dose of patriotism. It's in the best interest of the United States that jobs stay within the nation.
In any case us western countries have had the lion's share of the distribution of wealth for far too long at the expense of poorer nations. I don't think we have the right to complain if an Indian coder takes our job.
Well, forgive me if I'm not as self depreciating as you are, but I feel as though I have *plenty* of right to bitch about my job going over seas. What's with this hippy 'let the rest of the world succeed while destroying ourselves' attitude? Why must I sacrifice my job for someone from another nation?
And what happens when the temperature drops below 0F? Don't LCD's have a freezing point? Windows get very cold in the winter, especially in northern climates...
"Unix on the other hand, demands that its users master a highly symbolic computing environment based primarily on the motif of arbitrary symbols linearly placed on a command line."
That must be why 'books' never took off. They're just too damn difficult to use! Who wants to spend all that time learning 'grammars' and 'spelling' with arbitrary symbols linearly placed on a page.
I know IHBT, but I'm responding anyway. I believe that the best reason for *both* the CLI and GUI to exist is that they represent the difference between the 'language' and 'visual' parts of the brain (respectively).
With the CLI you are 'telling' the computer what to do. As I would tell you where to go and how to get there. Very effective for many tasks.
With a GUI you are presented with options, and you 'point and click' at them. I show you a map in the real world, and ask you to point at where you want to go.
Some people want to 'drag' a file from one folder to another (these people probably point to objects in a store and grunt to get them). Others would rather 'explain' to the computer what files to move, where, and how.
*nix/*BSD have a nice mixture of both. The CLI was first, but the GUI's are catching up. It would be 'wrong' to forsake one for the other. Even Apple kept the *nix command line for Mac OSX!
Whoever said scientists believe the universe is infinite? AFAIK this isn't as well accepted as you may think. I have *no idea* how it could *not* be infinite myself though.
Wow what an insightful question! I don't think I've seen this type of question on *any* other AMD64 related article! Makes me wonder why nobody's ever thought to ask it before...
I understand your point, but I'm not sure that it would make as bit a difference price-wise as you think. If it's cheaper to have ISA/Serial than it would to put Serial on PCI... Then how expensive is the ISA bus? Also, aren't there sensors and such on the ISA bus too?
I really don't think it's That Big A Deal(TM). *shrug*
I really don't see what's wrong with a serial port. People act like it's "holding them back." It's a very simple interface, easy to code for, and easy to implement. I'd wager a USB port would raise the price of many GPS units. Also, I believe serial is somewhat of a standard on GPS devices (set forth by the NOAA or some such?).
Exactly what hurts you about having a serial port?
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I would love to see this. To the best of my knowledge, nobody ever really does performance comparisons between *BSD's and Linux. It should be reasonably easy to put them on an even ground (all the same tools/apps are available for each).
Man if you have to ask...
A limit must be placed somewhere. If you lower it to 15, then people like you say "But 13 is only two years away!" Children (18yrs old) don't know enough to make such decisions. Hell, most 18yr olds don't either, but at least they've got more world experience.
The US is pretty fucked up about sex and nudity. It's pretty stupid to tell someone who's old enough to get married, drive a car, and volunteer for military service that they aren't old enough to take off their clothes in front of a camera.
And you think a society that would promote 15yr old's staring in porn flicks is a good thing?
Jesus Christ! I honestly don't know if there is any response to that! You're one sick bastard.
Either way, my point is that all societies have *some* form of censorship. There is not such thing as completely 'free' speech.
Well, all governments place limits at some point on what is considered 'okay'. Some are just more strict than others. Child-porn is universally 'illegal' for instance.
So in order to stop a wholesale slaughter, we should wait until a 'bloodless' war is possible? One the one hand, inaction will get thousands killed. On the other, action will cause a few hundres of deaths. You're telling me the former is better? It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. May as well go with the one that hurts you the least.
You think radical change in politics happens without blood being spilled? We at least put our own lives on the line as well as those of civilians. The US made all possible attempts to keep civilian casualties to a minimum. That's more than the opposition was offering.
Let me know when wars can be fought where only the 'right people' get hurt.
If you can, then this would mean you can eliminate one of the big disadvantages of XML.
Yes, and add a whole new one. Compression overhead! I agree with the grandparent post. XML is very 'flavor of the month', and very inefficient for use in IM. It's far too redundant.
And yet us "US'ians" still kill less civilians in Iraq than Saddam did. We should be seen as heros for that fact alone!
Oh no. I have a sense of the meaning of free trade. I just don't like it. :-P
It's not always the answer. It relies on too many assumptions about the global economy. It's good *to an extent*, but not as a complete solution.
Interesting. I've never actually met somebody with no sense of nationalism what-so-ever. As far as you are concerned, every job in your nation could be exported to 'cheaper' countries, and you're fine with that? I assume you're willing to move to third world nations with few (if any) labor laws for work if you need to?
Are you truly as naive as you sound? Have you never heard of export and import tarrifs? Do you think every country does not favor internal companies to external companies?
Besides, how are you to pay for those cheap goods when you don't have a job?
I didn't say *all* jobs should be retained within the United States. But you like your slippery slope there...
The United states government (you know, the guys *I* elected to represent *me*) should take *my* needs into mind when vast amounts of out-sourceing starts to occur. Remember the whole 'buy American' campaign in the 80's when the Japanese began to encroach on our economy?
americans just love the idea of free trade and open markets till it hits home and actually affects you, huh?
I gave the impression I was *for* free trade? You seriously misunderstood me then... I want my government to look after *my* interests first. India can go screw for all I care. I vote here, I pay taxes here, etc. It's in my countries best interests that I be gainfully employed.
I believe that $60/hr is including the cost of benefits, 401k matching, Soc. Sec., etc. Not just the salary.
Spoken like a true conservative - "ME, ME, ME"
So when are you going to give me all your stuff? Come now, don't be selfish!
*pure* capitalism isn't a good thing.
*pure* communism isn't a good thing.
*pure* democracy isn't a good thing.
We must use common sense. No single ideology will succeed. The United States Government has a duty to protect the interest of it's own citizens. It does *not* have the duty to ensure that Indians get wealthy. I personally hope some sort of penalties are applied to those companies out-sourcing vast amounts of jobs. Or that large benefits are given to those who refuse to do so. Probably the latter, as I prefer to use the carrot than the stick...
But for the most part Indians need these jobs much worse than we do.
Tough. Yes, you heard me. Tough. I want my job. My company is based in my country, and I say they have an obligation to support their own country first.
One must mix capitalism with a healthy dose of patriotism. It's in the best interest of the United States that jobs stay within the nation.
In any case us western countries have had the lion's share of the distribution of wealth for far too long at the expense of poorer nations. I don't think we have the right to complain if an Indian coder takes our job.
Well, forgive me if I'm not as self depreciating as you are, but I feel as though I have *plenty* of right to bitch about my job going over seas. What's with this hippy 'let the rest of the world succeed while destroying ourselves' attitude? Why must I sacrifice my job for someone from another nation?
And what happens when the temperature drops below 0F? Don't LCD's have a freezing point? Windows get very cold in the winter, especially in northern climates...
"Unix on the other hand, demands that its users master a highly symbolic computing environment based primarily on the motif of arbitrary symbols linearly placed on a command line."
That must be why 'books' never took off. They're just too damn difficult to use! Who wants to spend all that time learning 'grammars' and 'spelling' with arbitrary symbols linearly placed on a page.
I know IHBT, but I'm responding anyway. I believe that the best reason for *both* the CLI and GUI to exist is that they represent the difference between the 'language' and 'visual' parts of the brain (respectively).
With the CLI you are 'telling' the computer what to do. As I would tell you where to go and how to get there. Very effective for many tasks.
With a GUI you are presented with options, and you 'point and click' at them. I show you a map in the real world, and ask you to point at where you want to go.
Some people want to 'drag' a file from one folder to another (these people probably point to objects in a store and grunt to get them). Others would rather 'explain' to the computer what files to move, where, and how.
*nix/*BSD have a nice mixture of both. The CLI was first, but the GUI's are catching up. It would be 'wrong' to forsake one for the other. Even Apple kept the *nix command line for Mac OSX!
Maybe that's what they've compiled so far, but they know there is more?
Whoever said scientists believe the universe is infinite? AFAIK this isn't as well accepted as you may think. I have *no idea* how it could *not* be infinite myself though.
Wow what an insightful question! I don't think I've seen this type of question on *any* other AMD64 related article! Makes me wonder why nobody's ever thought to ask it before...
I believe, IHBT.
Insightful my ass. This is a *classic* troll everytime a faster CPU comes out.
100Mhz? Who needs it? My 486/66 can run Vi, gcc, and one or two other apps. What else do I need?
I understand your point, but I'm not sure that it would make as bit a difference price-wise as you think. If it's cheaper to have ISA/Serial than it would to put Serial on PCI... Then how expensive is the ISA bus? Also, aren't there sensors and such on the ISA bus too?
I really don't think it's That Big A Deal(TM). *shrug*
I really don't see what's wrong with a serial port. People act like it's "holding them back." It's a very simple interface, easy to code for, and easy to implement. I'd wager a USB port would raise the price of many GPS units. Also, I believe serial is somewhat of a standard on GPS devices (set forth by the NOAA or some such?).
Exactly what hurts you about having a serial port?