IBM to buy Sun for $7 Billion?

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#61

WW2 was depending on where you life somewhere around 1940-45

1984 the closed thing would be the cold war but I thaught that was disolved for the most part at that time too.

wiki saids:

[quote]Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of perpetuating the regime’s propaganda by falsifying records and political literature. Smith grows disillusioned with his meager existence and so begins a rebellion against the system that leads to his arrest and torture.
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For the ppl who don’t read fiction - I’d suggest following some business intelligence and data warehousing classes, toss in some rfid stuff and google is the least of your worries :slight_smile:

#62

1984 is a very important book by george orwell:

#63

:o
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:o :o :o
* Demonpants is speechless…

They weren’t lying when they said more kids recognized pictures of Ronald McDonald than they did Jesus or historical leaders.

Also, my last post said “Natsee Germany,” but of course got censored. My point there was that what they did to the Jews and most of the European world was very similar to George Orwell’s 1984 - put a frog in a pot and slowly raise the temperature and it won’t jump out…

#64

And it looks like right now we’re heading into “US education is teh fail” territory. Which, having spent far too much time tutoring (I was an SAT and GRE tutor - teaching the ostensibly educated college students on their way to grad school was even more depressing than teaching the high school ones!), is sadly not an assessment I’d be able to disagree with…

I wonder if eventually this thread might even come full circle? Only time will tell…

#65

I just finished watching “Die Welle”, the german movie adaption of “The Wave” by Todd Strasser and the “put a frog in a pot and slowly raise the temperature and it won’t jump out” analogie hit’s the theme on the nail.

#66

It’s not only the us education. The german school system also has some big flaws and instead of fixing it, they make it worse (my opinion).

But it looks like we are switching to the topic germany in ww2 already… I’m curious about what will come next.

#67

The US education system is getting a rehaul in the next couple of years, who knows if it’s for better or worse. In the meantime I’ll take my upper-middleclass programmer salary and use it to get a house in a good school district (when I have kids, anyway).

#68

They weren’t lying when they said more kids recognized pictures of Ronald McDonald than they did Jesus or historical leaders.
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I dont live in U.S. also, who is Ronald McDonald anyways?

#69

He really used to freak me out when I was a kid :slight_smile:

#70

I prefered Turdburglar or whatever his name was.

Cas :slight_smile:

#71

oh like from mcdonalds.

I thought it was some person who jsut so happened to have mcdonald as their last name.

#72

I confused him with the Messiah.

Cas :slight_smile:

#73

It’s a common mistake. I myself have done it once or twice.

#74

He or it started to freak me after I saw this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_X0t3Zscw .

Remember to turn your speakers on high volume.

#75

I am gunna have ot skip that one. :wink:

#76

In fairness, hackboy may have known that 1984 was written in 1948 but not have actually read it.

And it makes sense that more people should recognise pictures of Ronald McD than Jesus. Ronald McD’s characterisation is carefully controlled, so there is effectively one image of him, whereas Jesus doesn’t seem to have posed for many sculptures and so no-one knows what he looked like except in broad terms and every artist’s impression is different.

#77

Especially confusing as every picture of Jesus for the last 1500 years seems to depict him as a white guy with long straight hair and blue eyes when if you look at the demographics of the people that live around Nazareth they’re all quite black :slight_smile:

Cas :slight_smile:

#78

In USA & Europe they think he’s white.
In Africa they think he’s black.

Just like in USA & Europa they think the zebra is a white horse with black stripes.
And in Africa they think the zebra is a black horse with white stripes.

It’s all about perspective.

#79

Yeah, Jesus was an Arab - I wonder if the US religious Right has really though much about that…

#80

wow this is way off topic, i have to say my little bit

interesting facts:

*as much as an german born in south africa, is south african. his perants were jew.
*jesus probably had olive skin (a little from column A, and a little from column B)
*another guy mentioned in the big book is “Simeon called ‘N’” (the n word by friends), as he was noted as being black, therefore its unlikely jesus was.

anyway im guessing noone really cares so… back on topic:

I think IBM is the best suited company to buy java. they have had alot of experience with it. I cant think of any other company with that much money to burn, being a good choice.

Is there any possibility that we will loose rights as developers? or maybe even target audiences?