Actually most of the world's oil (like 50%) is in Saudi-Arabia, that's why it still get's away with being a despotic monarcy. Because everyone, the USA foremost wants to be friends with the saudi royal family. This in turn creates many unhappy saudi have-not's, ready to do terrible deeds to fight those who keep the saudi royal family in power. I mean the 9-11 terrorists here.
The USA only has some sizable reserves in alaska, most other oil fields have almost been sucked dry, like texas. A clear sign when a field is almost exhausted is that these "nodding machines" (I don't know the english name) to get out oil, these is no pressure in the field anymore. This is the case in al great american oil fields, because they were developed a long time ago.
totals for the USA and others on http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/table81.html or google some
>The only explanation I can find for the >perception gap is that, while most people in the >Rhineland were light skinned, most in the Congo >basin are dark skinned. > >Seriously, a full scale war has been fought, and >tyranny won, and the west doesn't give a f?ck.
Although you have a point I can not fully agree with you. I have no first hand experience on any African country, but a lot of Africans seem very racist/tribalist to me, and many have fought wars to get rid of White people. I think that part of the problem is that in most cases they prefer to mess up themselves, than be helped by former colonial powers. This results in a tendency to only want money, not advice or any other kind of help. I think that if GB would drop a couple of paratroupers, and try to chase Mugabe out of Zimbabwe, the entire country including the opposition would turn against this type of intervention. It didn't work in Somalia either. I don't know how to solve the big problems of Africa, I do think Europe/USA have a responsibility there.
this is OT but, Did you ever check Pegasus Mail www.pmail.com It's not as glossy as Outlook and needs a little getting used to, but it really does everything I want.
Most people are not capable of understanding statistics, and will just believe it, because it is statistics. I believe it's called numerical analphabetism (if you understand what I mean).
Most people don't understand that to have realiable statistical information, you have a lot of things to do right, and even then there will be a margin of error left.
If you ask 2 people and one of them agrees, that does not mean 50% of all people agree. Statistics is a science of *large* numbers, only then does it have any possible validity. Most people do not understand that. (the/. readers might be statistically different, but then they are hardly a representation of the general populous.)
I disagree with you here. When learning to code it can be an advantage to only have a text editor (Emacs, Joe, notpad) and a commandline compiler.
Only when you start on complex projects, GUI design, and the use of a lot of different libs packages/etc is when the Borland IDE really shines. I wrote a complete e-mail client in C++ Builder like this:
The rest including the documentation/etc. SMTP object was already there and I did this in about 20 min. including reading the help of the SMTP component on how to use it's methods/properties.
I think it was a real nice example of where the Borland procucts realy shine.
If you use Java, I think the way to go is Borland J Builder, that was at least what was used at my unversity CS classes, on Linux of course, but that was more a security issue with all those CS students around. When I started everying was Emacs, HP-UX and HP pascal, they migrated later. The Object Pascal/Delphi/C++ line of their products is more geared towards industrial/commercial applications where java is often considered 1) new (as in not around when much of the existing code was written) 2) Easy to crack/ get around features to prevent you from using it without buying it. (obfuscation in the code is harder) 3) slow. 4) Less easy to distribute, as it needs (the right version of) a VM.
some of these disadvantages might not be real, but it's what at least makes my boss stay in a C/C++ environment.
I completely agree with you, in the company we have a Turbo C -> Borland C++ -> C++ Builder legacy of millions of code. We have been waiting for this. This allows us to port our software to Linux. As we supply software that should run without a hitch for months/years this is really an option for us.
We use a lot of 3rd party objects, most of which have been ported to Kylix/CLX, but a lot of our own code is using STL, and other C++ specific tools, so we were realy waiting for the Object Pascal/ C++ solution.
C++ Builder 6 ships with STLPort A complete and up-to-date STL implementation. http://www.stlport.org/
Before that (C++ Builder 3&4 1996/98) they used RogueWeave STL implementation. Maybe C++Builder 1 didn't have the support. Are you sure you are not confused with Borland C++ for Windows? (this is the succesor of TurboC, the predecessor of the C++ Builder)
I work in a company that has been using this since C++ Builder 3. We have been waiting for any easy way to port our codebase (in C++ Builder 3/4/5) to Linux. This is now here!
C++ Builder 6 is fully ANSI/ISO C and C++ compliant. The do have compiler extentions like __fastcall and __property to allow interoperatibility with Object Pascal. This is an advantage. because it allows you to inherit from objects made in Object Pascal, even if you do not have the source.
I think one of the strong points of both Ender novell's is the emphasis on how much damage
prejudice against other people/races/species
can do.
They are both a heroic epic and a
moral/ethics story. And that all combined in a believable SF package, I realy liked them for that.
I would go see an Ender movie.
I hope it doesn't get ruined by being produced in Holywood.
I'm from europe, and the thing that always astonishes me in American TV-productions/movies, is that they either mostly white or mostly black.
Is this how the USA works? Is it really this separated? OR is this just moviebosses "targeting"
a specific audience?
The only mixed films that come to my mind are
those with Will Smith.
just my 0.02
I only have experience with my CASIO PocketPC PDA, so I don't know about other OS's, but the main thing I find lacking in WinCE 3.0 is a good left-handed writing support, I would just like to have the scrollbars on the left and the top, not right and bottom. etc.
P.S. Why not a Palm? because it can not contain my HUGE Magic database (23 MB). I have the complete MTG spoilers in it, I can search them, sort them, look up how many of a card I posses. The Color, USB host, and MP3 apability are just a bonus. The M$ "software" it's biggest drawback.
I don't know about Norway, but the USA is one of the few countries with which the Netherlands do not have an extradiction treaty. This is for 2 reasons (AFAIK): 1) People could get killed by capital punishment in the USA. Killing people is illegal in the Netherlands, therefore the Dutch state can not cooperate if the chance would exist that this would happen. 2) The USA do not want this to be bi-lateral. The USA wants the Netherlands to always extradite people if requested, without that the USA will return the service. (the USA is esp. touchy about US militairy personel)
Therefore all requests for extradiction are revieved in a dutch court on a case by case basis, esp. concerning reason nr. 1.
RTL might not be the best example, because a lot of the RTL stations are actually only Luxembourg based because of tax reasons, Luxembourg is not their base and/or market. Here in the Netherlands we have RTL (German), RTL 4 and RTL5 (Dutch), But at least RTL 4&5 have only a mailbox in Luxembourg, the actual studio's etc. are located in the Netherlands.
For the rest I think being able to watch a lot of local stations from neighbouring countries, and different regions within the same country is an advantage. In Europe it even helps you practice listening skills in different languages.
>As it is, we haven't seriously dented the >resources of our planet, just dug around a >little at the choice bits on the surface.
I can not agree with you on this.
You should check out the research started by King Hubbert. A summary is given on (after a short google search):
http://www.oilcrisis.com/hubbert/
His basic point is that for most resources it takes more energy to mine/produce them, as the
energy we can produce with them.
I think his predictions are rather scary, as they still hold after 50 years.
I could elaborate a lot, but I invite you to check this out for yourself.
You wrote:
>There is no X in the Greek alphabet. -snip- Could >someone please describe what a khai looks like?
The Greek Alphabet:
http://www.december.com/html/spec/greek.html
If you tke the capital letters for Chi and Ro
you get XP, which also stands for Christ
"Christos" in Greek (Chi ro iota sigma tau omicon sigma)
ChiRo indeed resembles Cairo somewhat.
What's your point, first it doesn't need to be 2000 years old, altough it can, but most armies have regiments that are hundreds of years old.
If they also still wear old uniforms and wave swords, they mostly have a cerimonial function,
like the english Royal Guard.
Hey maybe i'm a nice market even on windoze, but I don't like all the 3D stuff, just give me simcity,
C&C or civ.
I bought CIV:CTP for Linux it actually was one of my first legit peices of software. Because Linux has so much stuff for free i can afford to have everything legal. (software budget aprox $100-200/year)
I still use some specific software that's only for windoze, but for most things linux is just fine.
And with Civ:CTP they solved compatibility beautifully: they just put in a suse 6.2 disc, i only allrady had that... It was the only distro to support my videocard at the time.
My next legit buy for linux (appart from suse)
is going to be the Wordperfect Suite. I've been using WP8 for linux to try it out. I had WP7 for Win. Then i'll be almost completely turned to linux. But i'd still love titles like simcity 3000
on linux. And those don't need those last % in driver 3D performance.
I'm perfectly happy with Civ:CTP.
Because when Win3 came along MS brought the suite with it (and sold it with it), It took WP a lot of time before they had a WP for Win.
Still i think WP is far superior to Word when it comes to abilities. Just look at the equation editor... (or a dozen or so other things Word just can't do (properly)) It hasn't changed it's file format since WP6.0 for DOS (1994) and is still way ahead in abilities and posibilities. Presentations is decent, Quatro sucks.
I've used both profesionally (well sort of as a student) for writing complex scientific documents, and Word just isn't up to the task. In science most people AFAIK use either WP or LateX when it comes to the real work. (PhD thesis for example)
I still like it that my dad on his old 286 (w/WP6.0 for DOS) can read the documents i create in WP8 for linux:)
As i see it MS (almost) killed WP by using its OS advantage. My ideal office suite would be: Wp8+Excel+Presentaions+Pmail (for Linux:)
When i was a newbie Linux user (err, i still am i think) i had almost no hassle installing linux (SuSE) on my system. And i had brand new cheapo crappy odd hardware. (like SiS video card, crystal sound card and stuff.) X/KDE was running with sound within 2 hours.
Only took me a couple of hours to figure out how to operate my Miro TV card. (xawTV, mainly to discover "modules" and recompile my kernel, but i had a GOOD SuSE book:)
Intel architecture (or AMD/SiS/whatever) is no problem. And Linux definately is a lot cheaper as buying Windows+apps. (i use KDE&WP8+StarOffice spreadsheet at home now) I had a fully functioning system within a 3 weeks, even while using the other OS if i had to do any real work in the mean time. (and for some games... (DirectX))
I agree, the Front National scares the h*** out of me. Here in the Netherlands we have some racists to, but luckilly not enough to even give them one seat in parlement. I hope it stays that way. I don't have experience with Quebecois, but some french i've met can be quite chauvinistic/ francocentric/whatever.
Now back to the subject:
The site looks to me like some sick humor (like calling all asian sites chineese) Its intent is obviously humorous at second glance. But still i think they shouldn't look so much like Yahoo! At first you do think you're at a Yahoo! site.
Adriaan Renting
P.S. I read/speak/write Dutch/English/German/French reasonably well, and to a lesser extent Sweedish, Italian and Spanish. Does that make me septolingual ?
I agree, but a solution should be a true solution, not hiding the problem with some extra shell. That's the M$ way. And i don't know if this is for KDE to do, more for linux distro's themselves.
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Actually most of the world's oil (like 50%) is in Saudi-Arabia, that's why it still get's away with being a despotic monarcy. Because everyone, the USA foremost wants to be friends with the saudi royal family.
or google some
This in turn creates many unhappy saudi have-not's, ready to do terrible deeds to fight those who keep the saudi royal family in power. I mean the 9-11 terrorists here.
The USA only has some sizable reserves in alaska, most other oil fields have almost been sucked dry, like texas. A clear sign when a field is almost exhausted is that these "nodding machines"
(I don't know the english name) to get out oil, these is no pressure in the field anymore.
This is the case in al great american oil fields,
because they were developed a long time ago.
totals for the USA and others on
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/table81.html
have fun!
>The only explanation I can find for the >perception gap is that, while most people in the >Rhineland were light skinned, most in the Congo >basin are dark skinned.
>
>Seriously, a full scale war has been fought, and >tyranny won, and the west doesn't give a f?ck.
Although you have a point I can not fully agree with you. I have no first hand experience on any African country, but a lot of Africans seem very racist/tribalist to me, and many have fought wars to get rid of White people. I think that part of the problem is that in most cases they prefer to mess up themselves, than be helped by former colonial powers.
This results in a tendency to only want money, not advice or any other kind of help.
I think that if GB would drop a couple of paratroupers, and try to chase Mugabe out of Zimbabwe, the entire country including the opposition would turn against this type of intervention.
It didn't work in Somalia either.
I don't know how to solve the big problems of Africa, I do think Europe/USA have a responsibility there.
just my 2 cents.
For clarity: I am not in any way connected to
this program, I only have been using it since 1994 with complete satisfation.
this is OT but,
Did you ever check Pegasus Mail www.pmail.com
It's not as glossy as Outlook and needs a little getting used to, but it really does everything I want.
just my 2 cents.
Most people are not capable of understanding statistics, and will just believe it, because it is statistics. I believe it's called numerical analphabetism (if you understand what I mean).
/. readers might be statistically different, but then they are hardly a representation of the general populous.)
Most people don't understand that to have realiable statistical information, you have a lot of things to do right, and even then there will be a margin of error left.
If you ask 2 people and one of them agrees, that does not mean 50% of all people agree. Statistics is a science of *large* numbers, only then does it have any possible validity. Most people do not understand that. (the
Adriaan Renting.
I disagree with you here.
;
When learning to code it can be an advantage to only have a text editor (Emacs, Joe, notpad) and
a commandline compiler.
Only when you start on complex projects, GUI design, and the use of a lot of different libs packages/etc is when the Borland IDE really shines.
I wrote a complete e-mail client in C++ Builder like this:
void __fastcall TMainForm::SendButtonClick(TObject *Sender)
{
SMTP->PostMessageA->FromAddress = FromEdit->Text;
SMTP->PostMessageA->ToAddress->Add(ToEdit->Text );
SMTP->PostMessageA->Body->Clear();
SMTP->PostMessageA->Body->AddStrings(Memo->Lines)
SMTP->PostMessageA->Subject = SubjectEdit->Text;
SMTP->Host = HostEdit->Text;
SMTP->Connect();
SMTP->SendMail();
SMTP->Disconnect();
}
The rest including the documentation/etc. SMTP object was already there and I did this in about 20 min. including reading the help of the SMTP component on how to use it's methods/properties.
I think it was a real nice example of where the Borland procucts realy shine.
Adriaan Renting.
If you use Java, I think the way to go is Borland J Builder, that was at least what was used at my unversity CS classes, on Linux of course, but that was more a security issue with all those CS students around. When I started everying was Emacs, HP-UX and HP pascal, they migrated later.
The Object Pascal/Delphi/C++ line of their products is more geared towards industrial/commercial applications where java is often considered
1) new (as in not around when much of the existing code was written)
2) Easy to crack/ get around features to prevent you from using it without buying it.
(obfuscation in the code is harder)
3) slow.
4) Less easy to distribute, as it needs (the right version of) a VM.
some of these disadvantages might not be real, but it's what at least makes my boss stay in a C/C++ environment.
Adriaan Renting.
I completely agree with you, in the company we have a Turbo C -> Borland C++ -> C++ Builder
legacy of millions of code.
We have been waiting for this. This allows us to port our software to Linux. As we supply software that should run without a hitch for months/years this is really an option for us.
We use a lot of 3rd party objects, most of which have been ported to Kylix/CLX, but a lot of our own code is using STL, and other C++ specific tools, so we were realy waiting for the Object Pascal/ C++ solution.
Adriaan Renting.
C++ Builder 6 ships with STLPort
A complete and up-to-date STL implementation.
http://www.stlport.org/
Before that (C++ Builder 3&4 1996/98) they used RogueWeave STL implementation. Maybe C++Builder 1 didn't have the support. Are you sure you are not confused with Borland C++ for Windows?
(this is the succesor of TurboC, the predecessor
of the C++ Builder)
I work in a company that has been using this since C++ Builder 3. We have been waiting for any easy way to port our codebase (in C++ Builder 3/4/5) to Linux. This is now here!
C++ Builder 6 is fully ANSI/ISO C and C++ compliant. The do have compiler extentions like
__fastcall and __property to allow interoperatibility with Object Pascal. This is an advantage. because it allows you to inherit from objects made in Object Pascal, even if you do not have the source.
Adriaan Renting.
I think one of the strong points of both Ender novell's is the emphasis on how much damage prejudice against other people/races/species can do. They are both a heroic epic and a moral/ethics story. And that all combined in a believable SF package, I realy liked them for that. I would go see an Ender movie. I hope it doesn't get ruined by being produced in Holywood. I'm from europe, and the thing that always astonishes me in American TV-productions/movies, is that they either mostly white or mostly black. Is this how the USA works? Is it really this separated? OR is this just moviebosses "targeting" a specific audience? The only mixed films that come to my mind are those with Will Smith. just my 0.02
I only have experience with my CASIO PocketPC
PDA, so I don't know about other OS's, but the main thing I find lacking in WinCE 3.0 is a good left-handed writing support, I would just like to have the scrollbars on the left and the top, not right and bottom. etc.
P.S. Why not a Palm? because it can not contain my HUGE Magic database (23 MB). I have the complete MTG spoilers in it, I can search them, sort them, look up how many of a card I posses.
The Color, USB host, and MP3 apability are just a bonus. The M$ "software" it's biggest drawback.
Somehow I never had an Intel CPU.
NEC V20
AMD 286-16
AMD 386 DX-40
Cyrix 486DX4-100
Cyrix/IBM P166+
AMD K6-2 300
AMD Duron 700
AMD Thunderbird 1.4
Each of these has always outperformed the equally expensive Intel solution.
I don't know about Norway, but the USA is one of the few countries with which the Netherlands do not have an extradiction treaty.
This is for 2 reasons (AFAIK):
1) People could get killed by capital punishment
in the USA. Killing people is illegal in the Netherlands, therefore the Dutch state can not cooperate if the chance would exist that this would happen.
2) The USA do not want this to be bi-lateral. The USA wants the Netherlands to always extradite people if requested, without that the USA will return the service. (the USA is esp. touchy about US militairy personel)
Therefore all requests for extradiction are revieved in a dutch court on a case by case basis,
esp. concerning reason nr. 1.
Adriaan.
RTL might not be the best example, because a lot of the RTL stations are actually only Luxembourg based because of tax reasons, Luxembourg is not their base and/or market. Here in the Netherlands we have RTL (German), RTL 4 and RTL5 (Dutch),
But at least RTL 4&5 have only a mailbox in Luxembourg, the actual studio's etc. are located in the Netherlands.
For the rest I think being able to watch a lot of local stations from neighbouring countries, and different regions within the same country is an advantage.
In Europe it even helps you practice listening skills in different languages.
Adriaan
Auch!
you deleted the files and started from scratch?
>All you get is /one/ try: after that, you've got >quadrillions of flies resistant to that >technique...
No living organism is resistant to radiation or can become so, unless they develop lead skins.
>As it is, we haven't seriously dented the >resources of our planet, just dug around a >little at the choice bits on the surface.
I can not agree with you on this.
You should check out the research started by King Hubbert. A summary is given on (after a short google search):
http://www.oilcrisis.com/hubbert/
His basic point is that for most resources it takes more energy to mine/produce them, as the
energy we can produce with them.
I think his predictions are rather scary, as they still hold after 50 years.
I could elaborate a lot, but I invite you to check this out for yourself.
2) Use POV Ray to render Lord of the Rings for the cinema
:)
How would using a slow renderer take up more hard drive space?
Oh I can do that
[4096x2048, AA 0.3]
Width=4096
Height=2048
Antialias=On
Antialias_Threshold=0.3
Initial_Frame = 1
Final_Frame = 540000
(3Hrs@50fps)
Or something like that, would use 13.5 TB.
You wrote:
>There is no X in the Greek alphabet. -snip- Could >someone please describe what a khai looks like?
The Greek Alphabet:
http://www.december.com/html/spec/greek.html
If you tke the capital letters for Chi and Ro
you get XP, which also stands for Christ
"Christos" in Greek (Chi ro iota sigma tau omicon sigma)
ChiRo indeed resembles Cairo somewhat.
hope that helps.
And?
What's your point, first it doesn't need to be 2000 years old, altough it can, but most armies have regiments that are hundreds of years old.
If they also still wear old uniforms and wave swords, they mostly have a cerimonial function,
like the english Royal Guard.
Hey maybe i'm a nice market even on windoze, but I don't like all the 3D stuff, just give me simcity,
C&C or civ.
I bought CIV:CTP for Linux it actually was one of my first legit peices of software. Because Linux has so much stuff for free i can afford to have everything legal. (software budget aprox $100-200/year)
I still use some specific software that's only for windoze, but for most things linux is just fine.
And with Civ:CTP they solved compatibility beautifully: they just put in a suse 6.2 disc, i only allrady had that... It was the only distro to support my videocard at the time.
My next legit buy for linux (appart from suse)
is going to be the Wordperfect Suite. I've been using WP8 for linux to try it out. I had WP7 for Win. Then i'll be almost completely turned to linux. But i'd still love titles like simcity 3000
on linux. And those don't need those last % in driver 3D performance.
I'm perfectly happy with Civ:CTP.
bye
Anyone remember why WP lost?
:)
:)
Because when Win3 came along MS brought the
suite with it (and sold it with it), It took WP a lot of time before they had a WP for Win.
Still i think WP is far superior to Word when
it comes to abilities.
Just look at the equation editor...
(or a dozen or so other things Word just can't
do (properly))
It hasn't changed it's file format since
WP6.0 for DOS (1994) and is still way
ahead in abilities and posibilities.
Presentations is decent, Quatro sucks.
I've used both profesionally (well sort of as a student) for writing complex scientific documents, and Word just isn't up to the task. In science most people AFAIK use either WP or LateX when it comes to the real work. (PhD thesis for example)
I still like it that my dad on his old 286 (w/WP6.0 for DOS) can read the documents i create in WP8 for linux
As i see it MS (almost) killed WP by using its OS advantage.
My ideal office suite would be:
Wp8+Excel+Presentaions+Pmail (for Linux
Greetings,
Adriaan Renting.
When i was a newbie Linux user (err, i still
:)
... (DirectX))
am i think) i had almost no hassle installing
linux (SuSE) on my system.
And i had brand new cheapo crappy odd hardware.
(like SiS video card, crystal sound card and stuff.) X/KDE was running with sound within 2 hours.
Only took me a couple of hours to
figure out how to operate my Miro TV card.
(xawTV, mainly to discover "modules" and recompile my kernel, but i had a GOOD SuSE book
Intel architecture (or AMD/SiS/whatever) is
no problem. And Linux definately is a lot cheaper as buying Windows+apps.
(i use KDE&WP8+StarOffice spreadsheet at home now)
I had a fully functioning system within a 3 weeks,
even while using the other OS if i had to do
any real work in the mean time. (and for some games
Adriaan Renting
I agree, the Front National scares the h*** out
of me. Here in the Netherlands we have some
racists to, but luckilly not enough to even
give them one seat in parlement.
I hope it stays that way.
I don't have experience with Quebecois, but
some french i've met can be quite chauvinistic/
francocentric/whatever.
Now back to the subject:
The site looks to me like some sick humor
(like calling all asian sites chineese)
Its intent is obviously humorous at second glance.
But still i think they shouldn't look so
much like Yahoo!
At first you do think you're at a Yahoo! site.
Adriaan Renting
P.S. I read/speak/write Dutch/English/German/French
reasonably well, and to a lesser extent
Sweedish, Italian and Spanish.
Does that make me septolingual ?
I agree, but a solution should be a true solution,
not hiding the problem with some extra shell.
That's the M$ way.
And i don't know if this is for KDE to do,
more for linux distro's themselves.
Adriaan Renting