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Google for windows shared source. First result is this page, which seems to suggest that, while you need to be a certain type of entity to qualify, at least this type of entity can be bought outright by having 1500 Windows licenses.

Or something like that; point is, they're not going to refuse the Chinese government just because they're the Chinese government; in fact, they have a program specifically for governments, as well.

More information can be found here.

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

"Every source I checked out seemed to indicate that slavery was the #1 reason."

Of course they did, except that would mean you didn't check Wikipedia, or you're a liar.

By the way, you're using "state's rights" like it's a list of rights, like the Bill of Rights, whereas the Confederacy applied the term differently.

So, in this case your ignorance and inability to parse language correctly makes you look like a fucking idiot.

Again.

"Could you please provide a link to the supreme court ruling"

There you go.

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

In case you're wondering, I'm not your fucking momma, do your own god damned research instead of expecting it handed to you. You'll learn more than just what I think, which is a point to many of you link whoring slashtards forget.

Just fucking Google it

Here you go.

Also easy enough to answer your own questions with a little research. Now I'm having a hard time deciding whether you're hopelessly lazy, or just trolling.

I'd tell you to just F*(&'n Google it!

Oh, how I love playing the "Guess what the Hell this acronym stands for, because the poster just arrogantly assumed that everyone knew it" game!

This site will tell you.

Try here

5,840,000 results != "practically nowhere"

The documentary has also been debunked by several experts and cross-edited participants, Just fucking google it for more and more accurate information, or just follow this link .

It's amazing that your post now is +4 Insightful, -1 Troll is more appropriate IMO.

Sure, here you go. Bonus points for learning to use the internet someday...

I didn't say it was hard, i said it was a nuisance. If is wasn't a nuisance, why were there so many slashdot articles on it ?

Just fucking google it ;)

Chinese is a complex language to write. It doesn't use an alphabet (like most western languages). It doesn't even use syllables (like, for example, 2 of the Japanese writing system), it uses logographs : in an over-simplified way, we can say they use 1 symbol for every different word/idea/etc.
This makes thousands of different symbols (According to wikipedia : a little less than 50k variants in the Kangxi dictionary).

This ISN'T something you can put on a regular occidental 107 keys keyboard.

Therefor you have several solutions :

- Custom keyboards :
Use special keyboards where the most frequently couple of thousand of symbols are present.
Not very practical (symbols harder to find compared to looking for a letter on a 107 keyboard). Wikipedia has a picture.

- By shape of characters :
Either by handwriting recognition, or by decomposing charachters (the different strokes) and putting them on a regular keyboard layout.

- By sound of words :
Either by using something like Zhuyin which is system that was invented to help teaching chinese. It has 31 symbols, 1 for each consonant or vowel in chinese. As such, it can be used for other purposes, like putting it on a keyboard : the person type the sound and the software guess the corresponding word/logogram.
Or an alternative method is the Pinyin : it uses latin letters to write the sound. (And thus is interesting for computers on which latin keyboards are widespread).

The mapping of sound to logographs isn't completely straightforward, for example Chinese is a tonal language, but some system don't require the writer to specify tones using marks. Some software work is required. And this software isn't infallible.

Google released such a software. User can phonetically type Chinese on any occidental keyboard using (tone-less) pinyin, and the software tries to convert it to actual Chinese characters.
This software produce the same correct results as another popular one. (Hopefully. If the google soft didn't give the correct results, there would be problems. I wouldn't be a functional pinyin input system).
Sometime, the software hesitates and give a choice of possibilities. Most of the time, the same as the concurrent (Possibly explained by the fact that both softwares have to process the same user input, using the same pronunciation system that isn't unambiguous).
But, sometime the Google soft is plain wrong, and produces the same errors as the concurrent. And THIS is suspicious, because maybe some part of the software uses piece from the concurrent (part of the algorithm ? statistical data ?)

The company is suing googles on the grounds that if both softwares behave the same down to the bugs, maybe some part could have been illegally copied.

Meanwhile, adepts of Google Seppuku rejoiced world wide a cheap and easy to find software that could also be used to produce random chinese caracter to be subsequently imported into Google as Kanji.

1) Look at GP podt (GGP to me)
2) link to directions (second link on page)

They have places where you can find information about products now. They're called wikipedia, Consumer Reports, and trade mags. Or you could www.justfuckinggoogleit.com

Nope. It was a result from the Google calculator, so you might.

Can someone explain what the actual scandal was?

Jesus H. Christ with a crutch in a sidecar on a pogo stick. The very first hit on a google search for "eve online scandal" (no quotes) tells you all about it.

Can you please explain why you're here? This is news for nerds, and a nerd would know how to use google.

Part of the point is that these days, if the person asking a question like this does absolutely no research via a search engine, then they're really wasting everyone's time, and all they deserve is a link to www.justfuckinggoogleit.com. If you want to ask the question more seriously, then you look around for what you can find, and post a question that indicates that you've done some minimal amount of research before throwing yourself on the mercy of a random group of strangers.

There are possibly more productive solutions to your problem than anonymous ranting on slashdot.

WTF is an EMO kid? Jesus, can people stop inventing these crazy three letter words?

Maybe This will help

The FSF foundation is: "reviewing Novell Inc.'s right to sell new versions of Linux operating system software".

XFCE / Thunar

..could have saved her life. Someone point the other contestants to this link before they start killing themselves too.

That's great, until you realize that ebooks hardly cost less than physical books. I'll admit that there's quite a few free ebooks, but the majority of them are 'literary classics' that a child couldn't read if it wanted to and college-level textbooks that a child couldn't read if it wanted to.

fucking google it

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query =the+world+is+google's+bitch :)

www.justfuckinggoogleit.com

The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization was a book by Thomas Freidman.

Sure, here's the link you're looking for.

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

There's a world of difference between writing a modern graphics card display driver and writing a little utility to poke a couple of bytes into a card.

And another world of difference between poking a couple of bytes into an older graphics card (that had all of its video modes available to be read) and poking a couple of bytes into a newer graphics card that hides its capabilities.

Oh yeah?

From the summary:

However, coming out in June of 2005 from the NVIDIA camp was CoolBits support for their alternative operating system drivers."

Followup: From PC Mechanic, by way of google:

More and more, gamers, performance addicts, and adventurous computer enthusiasts are getting deeper and deeper into tweaking and overclocking their computers. To facilitate this process, and unlock a plethora of additional features related to the performance of your nVidia GeForce Video Card(s), Coolbits answers the call.

In other words, there's a world of difference between what you believe, and what is true. nVidia explicitly makes available the tweaking/overclocking functionality since last year even on linux, and since before that on Windows.

This site attracts such lazy fuckers...

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query =india%20beggar%20amputation

You got any sources to back-up your blanket assertions that tin is inferior?

It is widely accepted in the Engineering community that the recent ban of lead in solders for use in electronics in Europe is not only erroneous, but will actually lead to a worsening situation on the environment with the replacements being in general use from July '06 having a GREATER environmental impact.

My source? - The US Environmental protection agency. The EPA report on Solders in Electronics: A Life-Cycle Assessment (472 pages) published August 2005 has some very interesting data. It shows that the replacements for "leaded" solder generally referred to as "SAC alloy" has a higher impact than tin lead solder in a number of areas such as:

Non-renewable resource use
Energy use
Global warming
Ozone depletion
Water Quality

The only way you could require a source on anything he said is if you've been living in a hole for the last 5 years. Here's where you can find your source though.

Show me a link to anything that indicates they ever sued freedb or anyone associated with the development of freedb

and charged in its lawsuit that Roxio's use of FreeDB violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Well, covers "associated with" at least. Looks like Musicbrainz got threatened with one as well. Suing all your customers makes it hard to develop an application, but it's easier to use completely bogus lawsuit to scare away all of another group's customers than to use a bogus suit on the developer itself.

Personally, I think CDDB/GraceNote needs to go to hell and die for giving us a high-collision hash index and this genre bullshit, and freedb should jump in after them for keeping the clusterfuck alive. That said, the number of utterly broken media players, encoders, and rippers out there are staggering, so maybe FreeDB thought maintaining backwards compatibility with all of that shit was more important than forcing everyone to ditch win("UTF? WTF!")amp, L0Lfr33Ripp3rz, and mp3 encoders that write ID3vYouMeanTheresAStandard?!? tags. Not to mention the colossal number of misclassified, misspelled, and otherwise entirely incorrect cddb entries that FreeDB would have had to start over on, so I can kind of see what they were thinking when they decided that cddb was a great idea that should be perpetuated.

Here you go.

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query =norc+recount+florida

Just Google it:

site:wikipedia.org [SEARCH WORDS HERE]

I think they figure developers are smart enough to use search

Just Google it

Its not all that difficult...

I think you meant to link him to this page: Friendly search for 'explorer+view+source+notepad+change'....

Sometimes it's more appropriate to direct them here.

is right here

HTH

IMHO, the ability to learn on the fly is a much more valuable skill than memorizing materal to pass tests.

> You're practicing stupidism if you think that making up a word ending in -ism makes something bad or somehow wrong :-) Though you do
> get double irony points if you complain about the use of 'stupidism' in that context.

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

What a fuckwit...

You can find them here.

(Damn slashdot spoiling all the fun. Ok, fine. Lyrics.)

Just use Windows' defrag utility. Start > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter.

If that is no use, then try Diskeeper (Commercial software). If you're a cheapskate at heart, then use Diskeeper Lite. You'll find it here.

Tell us what the fuck "IronPython is! (shouting removed due to lameness filter)

I've been using Linux 3 years or so now, and I've yet to have or witness this supposedly commonplace "noobs are dumb" experience.

Of course, I also generally know how to at minimum perform a basic Google search and look at documentation to make sure someone hasn't -already answered- my question. 99% of the time, I find someone in fact has. Those remaining 1% are the tough ones, but I've found community support ready and willing on those. It saves your time and theirs when you come in saying "I found this on google, I tried it but am still having the same problem, I've also already tried a few other things that seemed like they might work, like..."

I generally have the same philosophy when being asked for help. If you've got a genuinely tough problem it's obvious you tried to solve on your own, I'll spend hours helping you if need be-whether the problem is with Windows, Linux, or your car. If I ask what you found on Google and you give me a blank stare, you'll probably get referred to a website I've always found helpful to resolve such questions, located here. I don't mind helping, I do mind having my time wasted.

As to those from whom you hear "Linux is hard!" in a high-pitched whine? Stay away from my operating system. Buy your Dell and call them to ask them what end of the cable to plug in to make the Interwebs work. If Linux were ever made into a form that -does- appeal to such a person I'll go use something else. I suppose it would work alright if the front end were made "easier" while everything remains just as powerful and flexible, but that's a -very- difficult trick to pull off.

Does that mean I hate Windows? Not really, though I wish those who work on it would at least bother to secure it properly. It's certain the users won't. Windows is much like a $40 toolset from Sears containing a hammer, a few screwdrivers, and a ratchet set. It'll do a few things, it won't do them great, but it'll do adequately for occasional light work. Linux is a professional's garage containing tools from chain saws to backhoes. Those tools are powerful and capable of doing far more jobs, and far more effectively, but can and should only be operated by those who have learned to do so properly. There's a place for both in the world.

That being said, my tech-illiterate mother-in-law used one of my old Linux systems for e-mail and Web surfing while hers was broken, for months on end, and I doubt she ever even -did- notice it wasn't Windows. Certainly I was never asked for help, I pointed her to the web browser and away she went. Did she install and configure it? Absolutely not! But she'd not have the first clue how to install and configure Windows either. I believe a lot of people lose sight of that-true, Joe Sixpack would be lost installing Linux, but he'd be lost installing Windows too.

justfuckingsayit

Lazy ass.