Did they ever check that these sites are actually Linux accessible?
Outside of elderly intranets built for IE6 and a dwindling number of banking sites, there seems to be very few major sites that don't work in Linux. I know I haven't met one in ages. It must be 1 ½ year at least since I last submitted a broken web site with Firefox.
The first one is to hand you a towel to dry your hands with, and receive a tip for doing so.
The very concept of tipping someone for picking up a towel has always baffled me. But then I never understood the purpose of the guy who was there to point out the bathroom in your hotel room either (ooh, so *that's* what a bathroom looks like !). Both services are worthless.
So you're saying that my 5 € (subsidised) phone sucks because it focuses on making phone calls and remembering phone numbers ? I'll let you know that it also gives the time and doubles as an alarm clock. So there.
Works fine for me.
I'm not interested in it doing anything more. I don't want email on the road. Email is asynchronous. That's the point. I pride myself in being able to stay offline for *hours* at the time.
I'm already annoyed enough with the phone on the road. I'm actually even quite annoyed by the widespread expectation that when you're at home, you're supposed to answer the phone even if you're doing something else. Now you're supposed to answer the phone all the time. Now you're going to have to answer email, IMs and whatnot all the time as well.
Hell, the main reason they have the stupid speed zones, it just for revenue generation. The best way to drive is to drive in a manner that is safe for the road conditions presented to you.
And we all know how good the average driver is at assessing those...
Anywhere with a large enough population density. The US people's problem is that their country is mostly empty.
If they lived in reasonable cities where services could be easily centralised, this would work. But post-ww2, the big thing was the suburbs, going by car everywhere, spreading the population all over the place... And it doesn't even start to take the truly rural population into account.
So now they cannot pull cable to every home (not to mention that of course the telcos certainly don't want to be in competition against one another). So no broadband for them (except in select areas).
A shareware OS hmm... it has been a few years but what about TSX32. http://www.sandh.com/os.htm ? It was distributed in the shareware channels back in the early nineties. It was crippled until you purchased a license if I recall correctly. I believe that would make it prior art.
I know of at least one mainframe maker that did the same with its OSs back in the days (20-30 years ago). The OS was "upgraded" by adding a card in the machine which didn't really do much, but in fact a software switch was toggled. I'm fairly confident that there were others with similar gimmicks. It's very close to what MS does with its various declinations of systems that are deliberately crippled.
At times talking to the military is a bit like talking to religious extremists. You get more insightful replies from a brick. Goes with the job I suppose. There's probably a manual that covers this "Field Brick Impersonation Manual Ref US89469 Mark 3" or something.
But this presents a problem: I personally don't want to play a game where I'm torturing people, or killing civilians, but I also don't want to play a game that is supposed to be a realistic account of war where morality and right and wrong slide into a gray area.
On the other hand, were it done right it would make for a very interesting game (the grey area I mean, the torture bit wouldn't add anything). However I'm afraid it would be extremely difficult to pull off successfully. Few films managed it and with games where the player has to feel at least a degree of freedom it would probably be even more difficult.
But I'd be interested to see a studio tackle the subject of morality in war. A few games have tried to add moral choices (like that underwater ruined city thing where you could save or "harvest" the little girls) but it never worked very well so far.
Presumably we'll never see it, but it would still be interesting.
In the CoD series, it would have been interesting to have the characters meet one another. Play Cpl X from UK and then meet him while playing soldier Y from DE. Will you care enough about your former avatar to spare it ? Or will you just fire ? That's a moral choice that would have been easy to implement.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but even non-US auto makers do not offer many vehicles with diesel engines in the US. No car made for Europe would pass the Air Quality tests that the US has. Volks Wagon offers three diesels total and the rest of their cars have shitty mileage. Seriously, 21mpg/31mpg on most of their gasoline cars? The diesels get 30/41. (How does that compare to the EU counterparts?
No idea really. Cars are rated in amount of litres per 100km around here. However I remember reading that the diesels tend to emit less stuff than regular cars lately due to the particle filters and assorted gadgetry that has been added to them. At least the ones we have here. It's also possible the diesel fuel is different on both sides of the pond.
Sounds more like US auto makers not being able to manufacture a decent diesel engine (after reading the article you linked to). No wonder they're dying.
But the poster clearly stated that he would rather the increase be because of taxes, something that the government does, rather then natural market forces.
"Natural" (hah) market forces would rather have everybody pay a premium for gas *and* have poor health so they could sell them expensive treatment later on.
I was more or less in favor of HADOPI (not the police side of it but the fact that it was a way to punish minor offences without going the full trial / fine even prison stuff).
The main problem of this law wasn't the concept which in my eyes was more or less ok as well, but the fact that it didn't involve the judiciary system at all. Therefore the "punishment" was dealt without process of law (for reasons of efficiency I presume). This bit is also what made the EU reject it.
I believe there is some sort of office to be set up to deal with complaints and balance the whole thing. I'm not sure if that will work.
It's sad to see lenovo showing the middle finger to Linux after IBM era Thinkpads were highly compatible with Linux. Bad Lenovo Bad! You can think Win7 will be the shit because touch and all that stuff but you really have to ditch Linux?
It doesn't necessarily mean the new machines will be incompatible. After all very few of the other makers seem to make any effort to support any of the Unix systems, yet they usually run them fine.
So I wouldn't really worry about that.
The only drawback is that it will no longer be an officially supported system. Assuming it ever really was, apart from the very few systems that shipped with it.
Sure, technology progresses. But until it progresses to the point where you can put a 22" display into a 10" box, i.e. until we invent lossless hardware compression, the problem remains that it's kinda unwieldy to haul such a screen around.
Aren't people working on foldable/rollable screens these days ?
We could have large screen in small devices in the coming years.
Linux has printer drivers for most printers built in. Adding a printer is simpler than in Windows, where it searches for drivers, asks for CDs, and then often still doesn't work.
It doesn't work because the (usually) HP software has eaten up 3 gigs of RAM. Add more RAM and it will work.
Printers should come with a driver CD and a memory stick for the PC.
People will always be able to rip DVDs. It doesn't matter if the law allows the circumvention or not, it's a cracked technology.
However, if the law DOES allow it, that opens the door for legitimate businesses to manufacture and sell tools to make it easy for educators to copy clips. That's one of the reasons why it's so important that it be legal.
And there's the, admittedly, side issue of the minority users who still theoretically cannot watch DVDs because of the structure of the market. Of course even if I did get a great DVD player with my Linux distribution of choice, I'd probably still go with a native hacked player because the dvdnav lib skips a few "mandatory" bits like forced displays (no you cannot skip forward or to the menu from here) and so on.
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Did they ever check that these sites are actually Linux accessible?
Outside of elderly intranets built for IE6 and a dwindling number of banking sites, there seems to be very few major sites that don't work in Linux. I know I haven't met one in ages.
It must be 1 ½ year at least since I last submitted a broken web site with Firefox.
The first one is to hand you a towel to dry your hands with, and receive a tip for doing so.
The very concept of tipping someone for picking up a towel has always baffled me. But then I never understood the purpose of the guy who was there to point out the bathroom in your hotel room either (ooh, so *that's* what a bathroom looks like !). Both services are worthless.
Ok, lets see phones that don't suck.
[ list of fancy gadgets omitted ]
So you're saying that my 5 € (subsidised) phone sucks because it focuses on making phone calls and remembering phone numbers ? I'll let you know that it also gives the time and doubles as an alarm clock. So there.
Works fine for me.
I'm not interested in it doing anything more. I don't want email on the road. Email is asynchronous. That's the point. I pride myself in being able to stay offline for *hours* at the time.
I'm already annoyed enough with the phone on the road. I'm actually even quite annoyed by the widespread expectation that when you're at home, you're supposed to answer the phone even if you're doing something else. Now you're supposed to answer the phone all the time. Now you're going to have to answer email, IMs and whatnot all the time as well.
Well count me out.
My method was more platform independant. ;) If possibly a bit more wasteful, both in soda and hardware...
I like the Sparkle solution... Works quite well.
Pouring soft drink in your machine every now and then and starting afresh ?
Isn't it a bit expensive in the long run ?
Hell, the main reason they have the stupid speed zones, it just for revenue generation. The best way to drive is to drive in a manner that is safe for the road conditions presented to you.
And we all know how good the average driver is at assessing those...
Japan, but the model would work anywhere.
Anywhere with a large enough population density. The US people's problem is that their country is mostly empty.
If they lived in reasonable cities where services could be easily centralised, this would work. But post-ww2, the big thing was the suburbs, going by car everywhere, spreading the population all over the place...
And it doesn't even start to take the truly rural population into account.
So now they cannot pull cable to every home (not to mention that of course the telcos certainly don't want to be in competition against one another). So no broadband for them (except in select areas).
Some parts of the country don't even have 2 options.
What, no avian carriers ?
A shareware OS hmm... it has been a few years but what about TSX32. http://www.sandh.com/os.htm ? It was distributed in the shareware channels back in the early nineties. It was crippled until you purchased a license if I recall correctly. I believe that would make it prior art.
I know of at least one mainframe maker that did the same with its OSs back in the days (20-30 years ago). The OS was "upgraded" by adding a card in the machine which didn't really do much, but in fact a software switch was toggled.
I'm fairly confident that there were others with similar gimmicks. It's very close to what MS does with its various declinations of systems that are deliberately crippled.
At times talking to the military is a bit like talking to religious extremists. You get more insightful replies from a brick. Goes with the job I suppose. There's probably a manual that covers this "Field Brick Impersonation Manual Ref US89469 Mark 3" or something.
http://aa3.americasarmy.com/ - AA3 is the most authentic military game ever.
Maybe you want to try ArmA which has a *much* wider scope then.
Well for one thing, there won't be many jokes.
There's always, um.. ..."
"My dog has no nose !
Eh, ok, I see what you mean. Never mind.
But this presents a problem: I personally don't want to play a game where I'm torturing people, or killing civilians, but I also don't want to play a game that is supposed to be a realistic account of war where morality and right and wrong slide into a gray area.
On the other hand, were it done right it would make for a very interesting game (the grey area I mean, the torture bit wouldn't add anything).
However I'm afraid it would be extremely difficult to pull off successfully. Few films managed it and with games where the player has to feel at least a degree of freedom it would probably be even more difficult.
But I'd be interested to see a studio tackle the subject of morality in war. A few games have tried to add moral choices (like that underwater ruined city thing where you could save or "harvest" the little girls) but it never worked very well so far.
Presumably we'll never see it, but it would still be interesting.
In the CoD series, it would have been interesting to have the characters meet one another. Play Cpl X from UK and then meet him while playing soldier Y from DE. Will you care enough about your former avatar to spare it ? Or will you just fire ? That's a moral choice that would have been easy to implement.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but even non-US auto makers do not offer many vehicles with diesel engines in the US. No car made for Europe would pass the Air Quality tests that the US has. Volks Wagon offers three diesels total and the rest of their cars have shitty mileage. Seriously, 21mpg/31mpg on most of their gasoline cars? The diesels get 30/41. (How does that compare to the EU counterparts?
No idea really. Cars are rated in amount of litres per 100km around here. However I remember reading that the diesels tend to emit less stuff than regular cars lately due to the particle filters and assorted gadgetry that has been added to them. At least the ones we have here. It's also possible the diesel fuel is different on both sides of the pond.
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And judging from the title they don't even seem to know WHO does the investigation. Sloppy journalism as well.
But why more hybrid cars don't use diesel powerplants instead of gasoline, I don't know.
Environmental Air Quality Laws.
Sounds more like US auto makers not being able to manufacture a decent diesel engine (after reading the article you linked to). No wonder they're dying.
But the poster clearly stated that he would rather the increase be because of taxes, something that the government does, rather then natural market forces.
"Natural" (hah) market forces would rather have everybody pay a premium for gas *and* have poor health so they could sell them expensive treatment later on.
oh, you imagine a law...how nice.
So what ? It seems that some of the police do it all the time.
I was more or less in favor of HADOPI (not the police side of it but the fact that it was a way to punish minor offences without going the full trial / fine even prison stuff).
The main problem of this law wasn't the concept which in my eyes was more or less ok as well, but the fact that it didn't involve the judiciary system at all.
Therefore the "punishment" was dealt without process of law (for reasons of efficiency I presume). This bit is also what made the EU reject it.
I believe there is some sort of office to be set up to deal with complaints and balance the whole thing. I'm not sure if that will work.
EU law says if you have an EU citizenship, your ID is fully functional as a passsport throughout the EU.
No it doesn't. And the UK isn't part of the Schengen Agreement.
How far can you go without a passport?
Get a boat and you can go all around the world...
No borders on the oceans.
It's sad to see lenovo showing the middle finger to Linux after IBM era Thinkpads were highly compatible with Linux. Bad Lenovo Bad! You can think Win7 will be the shit because touch and all that stuff but you really have to ditch Linux?
It doesn't necessarily mean the new machines will be incompatible. After all very few of the other makers seem to make any effort to support any of the Unix systems, yet they usually run them fine.
So I wouldn't really worry about that.
The only drawback is that it will no longer be an officially supported system. Assuming it ever really was, apart from the very few systems that shipped with it.
Sure, technology progresses. But until it progresses to the point where you can put a 22" display into a 10" box, i.e. until we invent lossless hardware compression, the problem remains that it's kinda unwieldy to haul such a screen around.
Aren't people working on foldable/rollable screens these days ?
We could have large screen in small devices in the coming years.
Linux has printer drivers for most printers built in. Adding a printer is simpler than in Windows, where it searches for drivers, asks for CDs, and then often still doesn't work.
It doesn't work because the (usually) HP software has eaten up 3 gigs of RAM. Add more RAM and it will work.
Printers should come with a driver CD and a memory stick for the PC.
People will always be able to rip DVDs. It doesn't matter if the law allows the circumvention or not, it's a cracked technology.
However, if the law DOES allow it, that opens the door for legitimate businesses to manufacture and sell tools to make it easy for educators to copy clips. That's one of the reasons why it's so important that it be legal.
And there's the, admittedly, side issue of the minority users who still theoretically cannot watch DVDs because of the structure of the market.
Of course even if I did get a great DVD player with my Linux distribution of choice, I'd probably still go with a native hacked player because the dvdnav lib skips a few "mandatory" bits like forced displays (no you cannot skip forward or to the menu from here) and so on.