... to encourage everybody and their Governments to pay their full whack of Microsoft Tax.
Teachers could then be paid a living wage. Men might find it worth while becoming elementary school teachers. Elementary schools might be able to expose our children to Science. Americans might just learn that there is a Rest-of-the-World out there. They might even be able to shed the current Bunch-of-Ignorant-Rednecks label. Genuine Participatory Democracy might flourish in the
United States.
OTOH Pigs might fly.
That William Gates fellow should be appointed "Presidential Adviser on Education", IOW what the rest of the World would call a Minister of Education. For the first time ever, I actually agree 100% with what he says. Amazing, utterly amazing!
No trouble at all. First take the original text, computer translate it into German, and then back into English.
Now reorder the phrases in every sentence so that the object phrase starts the sentence, change every sentence which contains the word because so that the word because and the words following it start the sentence. Make sure that every infinitive verb has the adverb between the word to and the verb. Change every occurrence of which to that
Find every word more than 3 syllables long and inject several short filler words more or less at random near the long word. Finally change every double consonant before the letter combinations ed and ing to single occurrances. Change every ise to ize, and arse to ass.
That'll more or less do it.
Now you know - quoting W. S. Churchill - why we are "Divided by our common language".
Ah, but the core of a Pu bomb is not solid Pu, thus the 6.25 kg needed to make the little bang is larger in volume than simplistic calculation might suggest. ( Aw. wtf, that number is so well known by now, even Kim Il-jong and his mates know it:-)
Foreign films with English sub-titles. I'm sure you know the genre he will enjoy. Many English language films have subtitles intended for the hard of hearing. They are useful too.
Introduce him to IRC. That's what got my son 'over the hump'. Nobody gives a toss about speeling and gramer on IRC, so it's non-threatening but you have to be good enough to to make yourself understood. He'll get told soon enough by his peers if he's writing/talking complete gibberish. It might be possible to meld Festival into IRC so that it talks.
Anybody know if that's been done already?
Finally get him to learn a craft so he can support himself without the need for complex written language.
No, no! never ever do keyboard patterns if you actually want your password to be secure. Learn from history and discover that the WWII German ciphers were frequently broken by that sort of silly stupid business.
I have used Unix and latterly Linux for some 17 years.
Recently I bought an IBM ThinkPad laptop with Windows pre-installed. I installed my o/s of choice to dual boot, and set the crystal clock to Universal Time as reequired by it. Out of curiosity more than anything else I booted into Windows (XP-Pro + IBM's extras) and last month had my very first Windows experience ever. (A mass of flashy do-dads and pop-up messages urging me to cope with some trivial task or other every couple of minutes. How anybody gets any real work done with all those seemingly pointless interruptions going on is beyond my comprehension.) Anyway after I had finished evaluating Windows I found to my horror and annoyance that my crystal clock had been altered by some eight hours! This happened surreptitiously and completely without my permission. Are you aware that tampering with other people's computers in this way while they are online is illegal in many juristictions? Why do you risk prosecution and penalty like a gang of common criminals? I'd be interested to know exactly how putting the Microsoft Corporation at risk of prosecution increases the value of your shareholders' stock?
Literally. I have had some really nice meals, and a few visits to McDonalds. Oh yes, I do "do Windows" - with 'fdisk/dev/hda' - works wonders every time. I don't believe in cleaning up other people's poo virtual or otherwise. Linux Lessons for close friends are for another meal, for strangers $100NZ for 3 hours with a 20min sandwich / cuppa break. If they want ongoing support I insist on a dynamic ip address, or the satellite system, and a ssh login. I have only one client who can't read a man page. No more.
In effect they are an auctioneer and a bank.
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PayPal looks like, and provides services, just like a bank.
So in effect it is a bank irrespective of what it claims to be, or not be.
eBay is exactly the same. It is an auction house.
The question then is: Why are these two entities not subject to the legislation which covers their activities?
Does this need a legeslative change? If so it's time for the People to start agitating for it.
While Sir Tim is indeed British, imho it's ironic, nay tragic, that none of his seminal work was done in a British istitution. Shame, shame, shame. I wonder why?
To port the BIOS update facilities for my ThinkPad, so you cannot get rid of Windows if you want to keep up to date. ( I do )
For me this is the barrier to ditching MS Windows completely.
IBM: Please can you make versions of these binaries which run under Linux. Also how about releasing the skunkworks 'Watson Works' and 'E' editor which we all grew to love in the O/S2 olden days?
But a little bird tells me that IBM have created an OpenOffice filter which imports MSWord files absolutely perfectly. Without doubt IBM could set up a server to do the conversion of the.doc files everybody has on their PCs. The same bird tells that they are terrified of releasing the filter, because the full flight of Redmond leagles would come screaming out of their eyrie. One war at a time is sufficient to keep any organization on its toes.
... can be made thus:-
How about this for a simple hash id generation algorithm?
echo 'Christopher Sawtell 21:30 15-Feb-1943 St. Pancras, London, England' | md5sum | cut -f1 -d' '
Which for me gives: 17f11db57259bdbdf45ed234f1b122ed
Alternativly there is the sha1sum which gives a few more digits: ac8379e71974cca81580d29913d806b0e952f593
Now then/.ers. Anybody else get the same hashes?
We want at least a million tests. Don't be shy. This is actually a worth while experiment which doesn't involve totally wrecking some poor sod's web server.
Post your data and hashes if both are _identical_.
Well, I'm a grand-parent and Gentoo GNU/Linux on my ThinkPad R40 does me just fine!
The suggestion that just because one is over 60, one suddenly becomes unable to interface to modern technology is just a total insult!
I have installed Linux on a '486 for a 72 y.o. Granny & she loved WordPerfect on it. Yes, it was a few years ago.
I'd quite like one of those Apple 'Ice-Cream Box' style machines though.
No, make it two, my 30 y.o. daughter could do with one too.
I remember seeing a blue LED, with my own two eyes, in the early 1970s. It was used as a light source to calibrate and stabilise a photomultiplier & amplifier chain used to watch a sodium iodide scintillator crystal.
All I remember about it was that it came from a scientific equipment supplier in the USA and cost a Kings Ransom, many hundreds of Dollari for a single unit. The prof. in question appeared to think that we technicians should bow down and worship this Wonderful Product of Science.
So, how come this particular re-discoveror recons he's worth Umpteen Millions and the court actually gives him $8,200,000?
Slashdot Mirror
OTOH Pigs might fly.
That William Gates fellow should be appointed "Presidential Adviser on Education", IOW what the rest of the World would call a Minister of Education. For the first time ever, I actually agree 100% with what he says. Amazing, utterly amazing!
Now reorder the phrases in every sentence so that the object phrase starts the sentence, change every sentence which contains the word because so that the word because and the words following it start the sentence. Make sure that every infinitive verb has the adverb between the word to and the verb. Change every occurrence of which to that Find every word more than 3 syllables long and inject several short filler words more or less at random near the long word. Finally change every double consonant before the letter combinations ed and ing to single occurrances. Change every ise to ize, and arse to ass.
That'll more or less do it.
Now you know - quoting W. S. Churchill - why we are "Divided by our common language".
They all look simply gorgeous.
But do they work under Linux?
Canon have a name-is-mud reputation
in the Linux world. What's the score?
Ah, but the core of a Pu bomb is not solid Pu, thus the 6.25 kg needed to make the little bang is larger in volume than simplistic calculation might suggest. ( Aw. wtf, that number is so well known by now, even Kim Il-jong and his mates know it :-)
Introduce him to IRC. That's what got my son 'over the hump'. Nobody gives a toss about speeling and gramer on IRC, so it's non-threatening but you have to be good enough to to make yourself understood. He'll get told soon enough by his peers if he's writing/talking complete gibberish. It might be possible to meld Festival into IRC so that it talks.
Anybody know if that's been done already?
Finally get him to learn a craft so he can support himself without the need for complex written language.
No, no! never ever do keyboard patterns if you actually want your password to be secure. Learn from history and discover that the WWII German ciphers were frequently broken by that sort of silly stupid business.
So stop using an expensive simulation of a typewriter and use a real one instead.
I have used Unix and latterly Linux for some 17 years. Recently I bought an IBM ThinkPad laptop with Windows pre-installed. I installed my o/s of choice to dual boot, and set the crystal clock to Universal Time as reequired by it. Out of curiosity more than anything else I booted into Windows (XP-Pro + IBM's extras) and last month had my very first Windows experience ever. (A mass of flashy do-dads and pop-up messages urging me to cope with some trivial task or other every couple of minutes. How anybody gets any real work done with all those seemingly pointless interruptions going on is beyond my comprehension.) Anyway after I had finished evaluating Windows I found to my horror and annoyance that my crystal clock had been altered by some eight hours! This happened surreptitiously and completely without my permission. Are you aware that tampering with other people's computers in this way while they are online is illegal in many juristictions? Why do you risk prosecution and penalty like a gang of common criminals? I'd be interested to know exactly how putting the Microsoft Corporation at risk of prosecution increases the value of your shareholders' stock?
Strange. /. doesn't normally remind us that it's that time of year again!
It's destroyed 2 comps, and a CD player of mine. Horrible, horrible stuff.
When is somebody going to come up with the torrent:// protocol? ( serious question )
Literally. I have had some really nice meals, and a few visits to McDonalds. Oh yes, I do "do Windows" - with 'fdisk /dev/hda' - works wonders every time. I don't believe in cleaning up other people's poo virtual or otherwise. Linux Lessons for close friends are for another meal, for strangers $100NZ for 3 hours with a 20min sandwich / cuppa break. If they want ongoing support I insist on a dynamic ip address, or the satellite system, and a ssh login. I have only one client who can't read a man page. No more.
So in effect it is a bank irrespective of what it claims to be, or not be.
eBay is exactly the same. It is an auction house.
The question then is: Why are these two entities not subject to the legislation which covers their activities?
Does this need a legeslative change? If so it's time for the People to start agitating for it.
Fairly obviously Google would have to check the link really is a 404 before removing it from the index.
Please consider it Google. I would reduce the amount of storage you use.
While Sir Tim is indeed British, imho it's ironic, nay tragic, that none of his seminal work was done in a British istitution. Shame, shame, shame. I wonder why?
Don't go to China unless you can do without your precious freedoms. Only thouroughly anti-social perverts need them.
No, honest, this was told to me by a fairly senior IBM employee, but I feel I must protect his identity.
Anybody know where to look?
For me this is the barrier to ditching MS Windows completely.
IBM: Please can you make versions of these binaries which run under Linux. Also how about releasing the skunkworks 'Watson Works' and 'E' editor which we all grew to love in the O/S2 olden days?
But a little bird tells me that IBM have created an OpenOffice filter which imports MSWord files absolutely perfectly. Without doubt IBM could set up a server to do the conversion of the .doc files everybody has on their PCs. The same bird tells that they are terrified of releasing the filter, because the full flight of Redmond leagles would come screaming out of their eyrie. One war at a time is sufficient to keep any organization on its toes.
... some method of telling the search engine that the link is dead.
All it needs is a tick-box beside each link.
If we all co-operated about it, the quality of searches would be improved considerably for all of us.
Google: Please patent the idea on my behalf, I think & hope it's sufficiently trivial, yet innovative & revolutionary, to impress the USPO.
PS: I mean co-operation, not the tick-box.
... to folks who Xerox books without permission?
echo 'Christopher Sawtell 21:30 15-Feb-1943 St. Pancras, London, England' | md5sum | cut -f1 -d' '
Which for me gives:
17f11db57259bdbdf45ed234f1b122ed
Alternativly there is the sha1sum which gives a few more digits:
ac8379e71974cca81580d29913d806b0e952f593
Now then /.ers. Anybody else get the same hashes?
We want at least a million tests. Don't be shy. This is actually a worth while experiment which doesn't involve totally wrecking some poor sod's web server.
Post your data and hashes if both are _identical_.
Well, I'm a grand-parent and Gentoo GNU/Linux on my ThinkPad R40 does me just fine! The suggestion that just because one is over 60, one suddenly becomes unable to interface to modern technology is just a total insult! I have installed Linux on a '486 for a 72 y.o. Granny & she loved WordPerfect on it. Yes, it was a few years ago. I'd quite like one of those Apple 'Ice-Cream Box' style machines though. No, make it two, my 30 y.o. daughter could do with one too.
I remember seeing a blue LED, with my own two eyes, in the early 1970s. It was used as a light source to calibrate and stabilise a photomultiplier & amplifier chain used to watch a sodium iodide scintillator crystal.
All I remember about it was that it came from a scientific equipment supplier in the USA and cost a Kings Ransom, many hundreds of Dollari for a single unit. The prof. in question appeared to think that we technicians should bow down and worship this Wonderful Product of Science.
So, how come this particular re-discoveror recons he's worth Umpteen Millions and the court actually gives him $8,200,000?