How will officials in Washington or Brussels react when China's Tencent (with a market capitalization of $42 billion, almost twice that of Yahoo) or Russia's Yandex makes a bid for AOL or Skype?
What will happen once Russian or Chinese firms seek to purchase a stake in companies like Google (a contractor to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency) or Amazon (which caters to nearly 20 U.S. government agencies through its Web hosting services)?
The real problem here is not software, it's money.
What is it about Zaphod Beeblebrox that gets people all tied up in knots? Zaphod is just this guy, you know. He has a name, just like every other guy. That name can be helpful or misleading, just like every other guy. Zaphod is just this guy, you know. Really.
Not to discredit your comment, but I think it sound better this way.
Exactly. Facebook started being popular precisely because it was limited. Now that everybody has it, the "cool kids" will move to something more private (private as in hidden, not necessarily privacy-aware), everybody else will follow, and the cycle will repeat.
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Disconnect from the internet, only way to get 100% success rate
No, there is another way to be sure!
Each user gets a single wooden table with a plastic folder containing a paper file.
Just install KDE 4 and tell them it's Windows 7 Education Edition or something like that.
You can always use windows instead of tabs, and have Oxygen's window grouping. Looks the same, only consistent with the rest of the desktop.
Juilan Assange is an Australia.
Maybe his ego, but definitely not he himself.
How will officials in Washington or Brussels react when China's Tencent (with a market capitalization of $42 billion, almost twice that of Yahoo) or Russia's Yandex makes a bid for AOL or Skype?
What will happen once Russian or Chinese firms seek to purchase a stake in companies like Google (a contractor to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency) or Amazon (which caters to nearly 20 U.S. government agencies through its Web hosting services)?
The real problem here is not software, it's money.
Good grief! Open source becoming mainstream? Have these people not heard of BIND? Apache? Firefox? PHP? Perl?
Yes, they have not.
I have a folder called /usr/share/apps. Windows has %APPDATA% or something like that.
It would make life so much nicer for those who deal in binaries.
Those would be the Sith of the digital age?
What is it about Zaphod Beeblebrox that gets people all tied up in knots? Zaphod is just this guy, you know. He has a name, just like every other guy. That name can be helpful or misleading, just like every other guy. Zaphod is just this guy, you know. Really.
Not to discredit your comment, but I think it sound better this way.
This can quite easily be solved by using a macro.
http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/containers.html#the-foreach-keyword
Exactly. Facebook started being popular precisely because it was limited. Now that everybody has it, the "cool kids" will move to something more private (private as in hidden, not necessarily privacy-aware), everybody else will follow, and the cycle will repeat.
What do you think could bring Facebook down?
Advertising.
http://xkcd.com/326/
If it benefits them, it's not a bug. It's a feature.
Most netbooks don't come with optical drives for you to boot from.
s/CD/USB/g
True, they tried so hard to avoid 1984 they steered right into the other Orwell's book. Diversity and freedom good, conformity and lockdown better.
Oh, yeah, it must be because of the Kool-Aid!
It is.
That's OK, as long as the Second Foundation isn't Windows Presentation Foundation.
the use of Force against another would be a crime.
Every single Jedi is now an enemy of the Republic
The sound you just heard was an executive chair flying through a window of the biggest office in Redmond.
"I'll chkdsking kill that fscking Putin!"
Do you think he writes letters himself? No, he dictates them to his secretaries.
Miranda Warnings
River was a lawyer?
He's just trying to save on transmission speeds. The smaller letters are obviously easier to send than those bigger ones.
America: where people use big cars and small letters.
The oil barons who are ruining the country?
FTFY