wangii

about the Dalai Lama, and to be fair on the man, he does appear to bring to the world a general message of peace, although in my eyes the message does not necessarily require explicitly brought upon by anybody. What I feel really, after some extensive research about his public talks (i paid more attention to his talks irrelevant to china-tibet issue), is that he is not quite the person that he is so often cracked up to be - he certainly doesn't have the political and moral integrity of another Martin Luther King. He's no Ghandi either. two examples: In September 2003, the Dalai Lama said that the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan may have been justified to win a larger peace, but that it was too soon to judge whether the Iraq war was warranted. "I think history will tell," he said in an interview with The Associated Press, just after he met with President Bush. "In principle, I always believe nonviolence is the right thing, and nonviolent method is in the long run more effective," he said, but some wars, including the Korean War and World War II, helped "protect the rest of civilization, democracy." He said he saw a similar result in Afghanistan - "perhaps some kind of liberation." (source http://hawaii.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/3720_comment.php) A year later, in November 2004, he visited Stanford University where he addressed (for a price of course - tickets didn't come cheaply) a large audience on the subject, which the Stanford Review reported on as follows: "On the subject of the Iraq war, the Dalai Lama presented a relatively consequentialist view. 'It is still too early to say whether it is right or wrong. I think another few years, then we’ll see, then history will show whether this war was really justified, because it brought a good result. So, up until now, I think difficult to say. At least the motivation, to bring democracy, freedom, and that goal is right, a right goal.'" (see http://www.stanfordreview.org/Archive/Volume_XXXV/Issue_5/News/news2.shtml)

since he is highly revered, i don't see the point of "try".

does he make mistakes? if his job is to enlightenment the rest of world, he ought to be more righteous than any human being. then, how to defend his politician like behaviors? for me, he is either god like missionary or a politician has his own agenda, there is no middle way at this point.

(off topic) it's also interesting to see how UK, a religious country in law turns more and more secular, while US, founded with secular ideas got such a "God appointed" president!

ok. Let me contribute a new argument. (And I don't want to argue on anything else) Is Dalai Lama really the re-incarnated Tulkus, sort of god? (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama) Don't get me wrong, I'm not willing to start a religious war. However, as a political figure, he deserves a careful examination on his personal identity. Furthermore, this question is important because: 1) he is the de facto political leader of the Tibet-In-Exile Gov, and his authority is largely based on his holy position.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso) if he is a god, it is simply pointless to against him by any means. 2) he changed his political attitude towards chinese gov. couple times, including a short period of honeymoon with chinese communist party leaders, ("I had the opportunity to meet and develop a personal friendship with many senior leaders, including Chairman Mao himself. " see his recent An Appeal to the Chinese People), and withdraws of his middle way suggestions twice after his famous speech. it's acceptable as a political figure but not a god or an honest monk. (it's hard to google out the reference on this one, maybe you can contribute! ) 3) he had a close relationship with Aum Shinrikyo, the group gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out a Sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subways. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara) if he is a god or religious figure, did he make mistakes on Shoko Asahara? To avoid any debates on references, I use only wikipedia. Let me know if you have more neutral information resources.

We used them last week from Sheffield to Manchester - professional & hard-working. They did a fantastic job for us. Dead nice guys, quick and cheap! Very good service, and no breakages! I give them an all round thumbs up!

Can you please send the photo of futon to [email protected]? Thank you very much.

It's lucky to work in a text-book environment. No competitors, no deadline, no increasing requirements, it's not real world. My point is, we must learn how to survive through XP ways.

Absolutely, any arguments about lanaguage always end with design. But we all know the fact. 80%+ project started without clear project descriptions, and 80%+ clients change their ideas every 10 mins. Is our job to complain? About design. Yes, design is very important. Just because of this, we should decrease the importance of it. If a software can only be done by good design, all the programmers will be simple silly people-ware. Don't you think it's a great sorrow? I feel that too many design needed in java programming. Too many layers have been seperated, and, they all run on that weak JVM! If a language guarantee fast prototype, simplifing the design, lower the requrements of programmer, why don't we use it? Java is beautiful, php is simple. In this planet, simple beat beautiful. I'm writing the CV

I've worked on both php and java over 5 years. As a programming language, java is one of the most beautiful languages i know (I know 12+). Php is one of the ugly. But my point is, php beats java/jsp in web project. 1, when you work for a project that's still in prototype, using java is the worst choice. Every little changes of business logic will drive you rewrite tons of java files. Forget MVC lie, this model only works for project that already has a clear idea. 2, has anybody here tried monitoring the memory usage when running java server? I've tried. belive me, it's nightmare. Tomcat, resin, weblogic... all eat over 200 M when running. Sometimes, you do even know what the memory is used for. 3,You have to carefully choose the jdk(IBM?Sun?Blackdown? notice, different jdk performs different in different OS), web server(tomcat?resin?weblogic?... I've suffered all the memory leaking bugs of those servers), db connection layer (jdbc? jdo? ejb? hibernate? The more convenience you code, the low effective when it runs.), representance layer (struts? jface? template engine? ) , cache system.( too many cache system avaliable on net) Java techonolgy allows developpers to develop solutions based on a long components chain, you make mistakes in one ring, you lose all. 4, Can you trust your team memebers? 2 years ago, one of our team member forgot to close the db connection after use it. he cost us 2 days go through all his codes to close one by one. mistakes in java are SIN, not just mistake. 5, When you want to speedup the application by jni, another nightmare is coming! I will never work on web project in java, unless all the team members are top guys. When you use php, things goes easy! You don't even have to know interface oriented thinking when you use it! Anyone want a php/python programmer?