>Sorry, the guts of the internet came from the US. That's why we run the thing. And ve invented ze automobile. So for all ze road networks around ze world, no matter who payed for them, the administrative übersight should be wiz ze german government, jawohl!
>You can claim the other industrialized nations are more advanced than the US after the two most destructive wars in history have been fought in the US and primarily by the US.
In case this includes WWII, here are some numbers about military deaths: Soviet Union: more than 10 million Germany: 5.5 million China: 4 million Japan: 2 million USA: 400,000
In Europe, WW II was not primarily fought by the US. And if I were Russian, I would probably be a bit disappointed every time I hear an American say it.
In case somebody wonders what the miraculous "new feature" is: the cited article says "mash it with a new feature in OpenOffice 2.0, the Open Document Format (ODF)" wow. I somehow expected more.
Just installed VirtualBox (VB) on my not-so-up-to-date Athlon XP 2800+ (1GB RAM, ATA HDs, NVIDIA 6600 GT) running Ubuntu 6.10 as the host OS. Created a Windows Vista Ultimate VM and gave it 512MB RAM (VB only recommends 256MB?) and 20GB HD space. Only Problem: had to run the VM managament UI as root when starting the VM to avoid some access privilege problem with the VB kernel module (I did not RTFM, so...). Vista install went schmoothly, only the internet connection was not auto-detected.
Vista Performance Index ratings (with no other Linux apps running, Vista screen resolution 1024x768): CPU: 3.4 RAM: 3.5 Graphics: 1.0 Graphics (Games): 1.0 Primary HD: 5.9 Overall: 1.0 (minimum of the above)
No surprise, the NVIDIA 6600 GT is not mapped to the VM hardware, hence the low grahics and overall ratings (If they could fix THAT...). The resource monitor gauge miniapp in the Vista sidebar says that 55% RAM is used with no apps started. Maybe i shouldnt have installed Ultimate. I can push the CPU load gauge far into the red just by frantically moving the mouse around:), but subjectively the whole thing is still somehow useable.
hope it helps, r.
P.S.: No idea what Vista performance ratings my box would get in a regular (non-virtual) Vista install, anybody got data?
> and even much of Europe seems hostile to me.
It's not that bad over here (Germany). People just dont like what the Bush government does. Those who dont differentiate between the US government and some regular guy from the US are the usual percentage of fools you will find anywhere. Just disprove some anti-US cliches by being a nice guy and you will actually be LIKED:)
bye, r.
> For all the backbiting and discord between the US and its long standing European friends, your analysis sounds very familiar.
I think the real front lines are not between the two continents, but between the the people who want us to believe they are (among them many "weaselly politicians") and the rest of us. This school shooting discussion is a good example: most people here just seem to use their brains and come to similar conclusions, no matter where they live.
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>Sorry, the guts of the internet came from the US. That's why we run the thing.
And ve invented ze automobile. So for all ze road networks around ze world, no matter who payed for them, the administrative übersight should be wiz ze german government, jawohl!
Get the logic? No? Neither do I...
bye, r.
>You can claim the other industrialized nations are more advanced than the US after the two most destructive wars in history have been fought in the US and primarily by the US.
In case this includes WWII, here are some numbers about military deaths:
Soviet Union: more than 10 million
Germany: 5.5 million
China: 4 million
Japan: 2 million
USA: 400,000
In Europe, WW II was not primarily fought by the US. And if I were Russian, I would probably be a bit disappointed every time I hear an American say it.
bye, r.
In case somebody wonders what the miraculous "new feature" is: the cited article says
"mash it with a new feature in OpenOffice 2.0, the Open Document Format (ODF)"
wow. I somehow expected more.
r.
Just installed VirtualBox (VB) on my not-so-up-to-date Athlon XP 2800+ (1GB RAM, ATA HDs, NVIDIA 6600 GT) running Ubuntu 6.10 as the host OS. Created a Windows Vista Ultimate VM and gave it 512MB RAM (VB only recommends 256MB?) and 20GB HD space. Only Problem: had to run the VM managament UI as root when starting the VM to avoid some access privilege problem with the VB kernel module (I did not RTFM, so...). Vista install went schmoothly, only the internet connection was not auto-detected.
:), but subjectively the whole thing is still somehow useable.
Vista Performance Index ratings (with no other Linux apps running, Vista screen resolution 1024x768):
CPU: 3.4
RAM: 3.5
Graphics: 1.0
Graphics (Games): 1.0
Primary HD: 5.9
Overall: 1.0 (minimum of the above)
No surprise, the NVIDIA 6600 GT is not mapped to the VM hardware, hence the low grahics and overall ratings (If they could fix THAT...). The resource monitor gauge miniapp in the Vista sidebar says that 55% RAM is used with no apps started. Maybe i shouldnt have installed Ultimate. I can push the CPU load gauge far into the red just by frantically moving the mouse around
hope it helps,
r.
P.S.: No idea what Vista performance ratings my box would get in a regular (non-virtual) Vista install, anybody got data?
> and sometimes a hammer.
for the big ones, eh?
> and even much of Europe seems hostile to me. It's not that bad over here (Germany). People just dont like what the Bush government does. Those who dont differentiate between the US government and some regular guy from the US are the usual percentage of fools you will find anywhere. Just disprove some anti-US cliches by being a nice guy and you will actually be LIKED :)
bye, r.
> For all the backbiting and discord between the US and its long standing European friends, your analysis sounds very familiar.
I think the real front lines are not between the two continents, but between the the people who want us to believe they are (among them many "weaselly politicians") and the rest of us. This school shooting discussion is a good example: most people here just seem to use their brains and come to similar conclusions, no matter where they live.
bye, r.