They didn't mention any of those countries. Doesn't seem very good to me....
I have noticed that similar nations tend to move the same way (sounds obvious), All the Baathist systems are dying in the ME.
Even in the west, all the democratic nations are facing strange "historic" electoral results. The US, Britain, Sweden, Australia and many other democratic countries have all had the equivalent of a 'hung parliament' and in the case of Sweden (were a 'hung parliament' is the norm) an outright swing to the right.
Whatever you say about Steve Jobs, you will have to admit that he had a good index finger. He could simply point at things and they would get done.
Only founder CEOs have that ability and never as powerfully as Jobs had it. His word was 'the word'.
Steve Jobs was Apples savior, he was resurrected to save them. Tim Cook is an Apple Employee, I bet there are plenty of people who think of him as a peer - who may start to feel they have the ability to assert themselves more. To many cooks spoil the kitchen.
If Apple isn't careful it could lose it's focus. With the nature of Apple's products, it won't take long for any competitor to take advantage of a lack of direction.
There may soon be plenty of infighting over at Cupertino. We can all see what's happening at Microsoft now that Gates is gone.
How do they explain the price difference?
It should be cheaper here anyhow, our dollar is worth more than the US and we are geographically closer to the Chinese factories.
My Facebook wall has degenerated into a massive list of page likes. Hardy anyone posts content anymore.
I wonder who makes those "Like if you remember XYZ" and "The awkward moment when..." pages and why.
I originally used my Facebook as intended, i listed my music, books and movies and even filled in a typical "About Me" but I've removed all that now because no one looks at it (Some even treat it with philistine suspicion) and I've reached a point where i only check facebook out of a morbid voyeuristic curiosity.
On the other hand I've taken a personal interest in the Middle-East "uprising" and i'm surprised at how much facebook has become a household word. I know people in the ME who have a rudimentary understanding of English and no household internet who have an active FB account
How much money are we looking at here? The banshee website say in 6 months they raised $3,077.00 through Amazon. http://banshee.fm/about/revenue/
The average Linux user doesn't pay for digital music.
If canonical is begrudging GNOME a few thousand dollars, i'd say they have some serious sustainability issues. If canonical wanted to hire a single dev it would definitely cost them more than than any Amazon store revenues.
Having never used google docs for any real work, can someone tell me how well Google docs handles MS formats especially. docx and.doc ?
I'd assume it would have to be near perfect otherwise it would suffer from the same problems facing Openoffice/Libreoffice...unless i'm not fully understanding the concept of google docs...
professional porn producers put in extra effort with things like lighting, camera quality/angles, timing and the physical attributes of the 'models'
sites like xvideo and the like largely consist of amateurs filming themselves in a darkened room with the camera shaking all over the pace.
The professional porn producers should utilise those kind of free sites and offer "teasers". Some of the indie one are doing just that.....
If any government is facing a threat it will do anything it needs to protect itself, regardless of laws. Having or not having a law will not make the slightest difference in the face of a real emergency.
Well according to the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor, a good chunck of betelgeuse was wiped out during the great collapsing hrung diasater of Gal./Sid./ Year 03758.
Whenever i want a light desktop i almost always go with a combination of IceWM, pcmanfm for desktop icons and the lxde apps.
I don't need any GUI configuration tool and iceWM has well documented conf files. It's familiar enough that someone who has only ever used windows can navigate enough and lite enough for me to ignore it in favour of a command line.
It is _impossible_ to find a minesweeper game that expands the tiles as you make the window bigger for xp...except kmines
On another note, One KDE App i would really like to see ported to windows is quanta plus. I found a port called quanta gold but somehow they charge for it despite quanta plus being GPL.
It shows how much the world has changed when you start to feel pity for MS
yeah yeah they're still huge and all that...but it's easy to argue that they are bewildered and in decline. They haven't had a _real_ success is about a decade. Win7 is doing well but not 'off the charts' and they seem as surprised as anyone at the consumer interest the Kinect in generating.
Security Essentials has made it easier for me to convince a lot of people to stop paying for Norton AV because the MS brand eases their mind (the bitter irony).
It's not that i have a qualm with paying for software, it's just that i don't think Norton does a better job than any of the free AV options.
This man is nothing but a fool. Why can't he see that no one _wants_ the filter and that it is simply useless. He has said himself that the "tech savvy" can easily get around what they are proposing. What does "tech savvy" mean to him? - it's all relative.
Does he honestly think that an undesirable is going to be deterred by a filter that can be worked around? The same man goes around and threatens to filter google because it's videos are RC - it' nothing short of surreal.
Every possible form of protest has been exercised and they still persist. What else can we do? What ever happened to the idea that laws should reflect the values of the community? The vast majority of AU is apposed to this. Who exactly are they trying to please with this filter? The 'religious nut' demographic can not be that big.
If this goes ahead we're going to have is an extra government layer to get through to use the internet and we all know how good the government is with technology. We can expect delays and failures that no one will take responsibility for.
If people want a filter they should buy one, the government can even subsidise it if they want - it'll be more effective anyway (not to mention cheaper). I don't want my tax dollars being spent on censorship policies like this.
It's ironic that the same government that can be so forward thinking with things like the NBN (regardless of how wasteful you think it is) can be so incompetently backward with it's filtering plan.
I'm sensing that this is increasingly a matter of ego for him and that is very dangerous.
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They didn't mention any of those countries. Doesn't seem very good to me....
I have noticed that similar nations tend to move the same way (sounds obvious), All the Baathist systems are dying in the ME.
Even in the west, all the democratic nations are facing strange "historic" electoral results. The US, Britain, Sweden, Australia and many other democratic countries have all had the equivalent of a 'hung parliament' and in the case of Sweden (were a 'hung parliament' is the norm) an outright swing to the right.
Whatever you say about Steve Jobs, you will have to admit that he had a good index finger. He could simply point at things and they would get done.
Only founder CEOs have that ability and never as powerfully as Jobs had it. His word was 'the word'.
Steve Jobs was Apples savior, he was resurrected to save them. Tim Cook is an Apple Employee, I bet there are plenty of people who think of him as a peer - who may start to feel they have the ability to assert themselves more. To many cooks spoil the kitchen.
If Apple isn't careful it could lose it's focus. With the nature of Apple's products, it won't take long for any competitor to take advantage of a lack of direction.
There may soon be plenty of infighting over at Cupertino. We can all see what's happening at Microsoft now that Gates is gone.
How do they explain the price difference? It should be cheaper here anyhow, our dollar is worth more than the US and we are geographically closer to the Chinese factories.
We already have something similar - it's that online centrelink stuff.
The only difference is that we'll all get email addresses - which will in all likelyhood contracted out to gmail/outlook.com.
I wonder what the email domain will be...
Why the hell is Conroy still pushing for this? He has a face saving excuse to drop it with the hostile parliament so why doesn't he just drop it?
It seems like he's taking it _way_ to personally. It's as if he wants to filter the net just to spite everyone.
What's the bet this is just going to be DNS filtering?
My Facebook wall has degenerated into a massive list of page likes. Hardy anyone posts content anymore.
I wonder who makes those "Like if you remember XYZ" and "The awkward moment when..." pages and why.
I originally used my Facebook as intended, i listed my music, books and movies and even filled in a typical "About Me" but I've removed all that now because no one looks at it (Some even treat it with philistine suspicion) and I've reached a point where i only check facebook out of a morbid voyeuristic curiosity.
On the other hand I've taken a personal interest in the Middle-East "uprising" and i'm surprised at how much facebook has become a household word. I know people in the ME who have a rudimentary understanding of English and no household internet who have an active FB account
How much money are we looking at here? The banshee website say in 6 months they raised $3,077.00 through Amazon. http://banshee.fm/about/revenue/
The average Linux user doesn't pay for digital music.
If canonical is begrudging GNOME a few thousand dollars, i'd say they have some serious sustainability issues. If canonical wanted to hire a single dev it would definitely cost them more than than any Amazon store revenues.
Having never used google docs for any real work, can someone tell me how well Google docs handles MS formats especially. docx and .doc ?
I'd assume it would have to be near perfect otherwise it would suffer from the same problems facing Openoffice/Libreoffice...unless i'm not fully understanding the concept of google docs...
professional porn producers put in extra effort with things like lighting, camera quality/angles, timing and the physical attributes of the 'models'
sites like xvideo and the like largely consist of amateurs filming themselves in a darkened room with the camera shaking all over the pace.
The professional porn producers should utilise those kind of free sites and offer "teasers". Some of the indie one are doing just that.....
Egypt got around the internet blackout with dial-up BBS's and the likes of UUCP
If any government is facing a threat it will do anything it needs to protect itself, regardless of laws. Having or not having a law will not make the slightest difference in the face of a real emergency.
Judging by my CPU temp, i don't doubt it.....
I wonder if they were thinking tablets with this new design? All the navigation and buttons are bigger.
Although the nested comments are probably too small to expand comfortably with your fingers...
Well according to the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor, a good chunck of betelgeuse was wiped out during the great collapsing hrung diasater of Gal./Sid./ Year 03758.
She'll be right, mate!!
That's not a shark! This is a shark!!
What are ya, some kind of sheila pomey bum burglar?
Whenever i want a light desktop i almost always go with a combination of IceWM, pcmanfm for desktop icons and the lxde apps.
I don't need any GUI configuration tool and iceWM has well documented conf files.
It's familiar enough that someone who has only ever used windows can navigate enough and lite enough for me to ignore it in favour of a command line.
kde4-win !!! i see why the called it that now!!
The only reason i install kde-4win is Kmines.
It is _impossible_ to find a minesweeper game that expands the tiles as you make the window bigger for xp...except kmines
On another note, One KDE App i would really like to see ported to windows is quanta plus. I found a port called quanta gold but somehow they charge for it despite quanta plus being GPL.
It shows how much the world has changed when you start to feel pity for MS
yeah yeah they're still huge and all that...but it's easy to argue that they are bewildered and in decline. They haven't had a _real_ success is about a decade. Win7 is doing well but not 'off the charts' and they seem as surprised as anyone at the consumer interest the Kinect in generating.
I personally run avast on my windows computers.
Security Essentials has made it easier for me to convince a lot of people to stop paying for Norton AV because the MS brand eases their mind (the bitter irony).
It's not that i have a qualm with paying for software, it's just that i don't think Norton does a better job than any of the free AV options.
Only the devils tool could explain the harm IE has caused the world..
The ads on the infoworld article are simply intolerable.
I find the one that "folds" the top right corner the page extremely nauseating.
Everytime i disable adblock......
Be careful what you wish for or you might get it!
This man is nothing but a fool. Why can't he see that no one _wants_ the filter and that it is simply useless. He has said himself that the "tech savvy" can easily get around what they are proposing. What does "tech savvy" mean to him? - it's all relative.
Does he honestly think that an undesirable is going to be deterred by a filter that can be worked around? The same man goes around and threatens to filter google because it's videos are RC - it' nothing short of surreal.
Every possible form of protest has been exercised and they still persist. What else can we do? What ever happened to the idea that laws should reflect the values of the community? The vast majority of AU is apposed to this. Who exactly are they trying to please with this filter? The 'religious nut' demographic can not be that big.
If this goes ahead we're going to have is an extra government layer to get through to use the internet and we all know how good the government is with technology. We can expect delays and failures that no one will take responsibility for.
If people want a filter they should buy one, the government can even subsidise it if they want - it'll be more effective anyway (not to mention cheaper). I don't want my tax dollars being spent on censorship policies like this.
It's ironic that the same government that can be so forward thinking with things like the NBN (regardless of how wasteful you think it is) can be so incompetently backward with it's filtering plan.
I'm sensing that this is increasingly a matter of ego for him and that is very dangerous.
Very true. Also Ubuntu has raised the bar for other desktop distros in regards to "user friendliness".