No it isn't. Microsoft doesn't want anyone using IE 6.
Why don't they force the IE7 upgrade then instead of meekly suggesting it ? Some internal sites might break ? So what, it's a valuable lesson for consultants who build crappy websites.
We can't all be tax-havens. It is only useful to small countries that can exist on the small transfer fees of enormous corporations from other countries.
*And* that are financed by huge subsidies by their rich neighbours so that they can be brought kicking and screaming in the century of the fruitbat. Although the whole tax-haven thing isn't so popular lately.
10) Call from their cell phone - in the car, while driving - to get support for a program that runs on a desktop.
I've had people calling me from home about a problem on their office machine (or vice versa) fairly regularly. Granted this was before cell phones became ubiquitous. They were a bit puzzled when I told them I couldn't help them. Most of the time of course it was fairly difficult helping them when in front of their machines as well because of the usual "something happened" "what happened?" "I don't know" "what do you mean?" "some kind of message" "what did it say?" "I don't know, I closed it" exchanges that everybody loves so (edited for brevity).
As long as you don't own or have possession of the video.
So accessing pedo videos would be legal in the US as long as you only stream them and store them in/dev/null, making sure that there is no cache on your disk ? I'm sure somebody is going to close that loophole in a hurry (assuming it exists).
Cause you've got to think of the, um, how did it go again ? Well, whatever, you have to think of them.
Can't the movie be 'inspired by...' or do what another poster suggested and cop a Blade Runner - where the story and name changed significantly enough that no one expected a faithful translation.
Some anal type at the studio suggested Blade Rimmer at the time but it was quickly discarded.
I'm glad they stuck with the original title (shudder).
However, my understanding is that every track you buy, download or rip to iTunes can be burned to a CD and then imported - DRM free - to any other music player including iTunes and then written again in any number of formats compatible with most any device.
I think I'll just stick to buying CDs and ripping them to my Cowon players (which are supposed to have a better sound anyway), thus skipping a number of useless steps, on top of having to figure out how to get iTunes running in Linux.
Here most people seem to have HP printers, and support for HP devices including the all in ones is actually better on linux than it is on windows or osx... HP publish open source drivers for unix which still run on the latest distributions, whereas many of their older closed source drivers no longer work on current versions of windows or osx (my scanner for instance, only has ppc drivers for osx 10.4)...
But then you don't have the great Windows HP drivers (they are half as large and take twice the memory of the host OS, so they must be great) !
Maybe the lesson here is that every company is capable of producing both shit and gold, and having a run of good/bad luck from the same manufacturer is down to just that, luck.
That about sums it up for me. I now get a dead black chicken and a voodoo doll with each new motherboard, whatever the brand.
In my experience they can all fail in equally spectacular ways. And you never know beforehand because it might come down to some bizarre interaction with some hardware you've already got and some reviewer hasn't. In the end it's sheer luck (although stuff *mostly* works nowadays).
My understanding is that if you have a stamp from Israel in your passport, you cannot enter Dubai.
It's the case in a lot of Middle East and Gulf countries and the reason why nobody ever has his passport stamped when going to Israel, at least if he plans on travelling a bit. It's perfectly understood by the border people then who give the visas on a separate sheet (which you keep in your passport for the duration of your stay).
One thing I do notice about the less savvy users is that they do mostly trust windows update.
On the other hand, what else could they trust ? They have no idea how their computer works, certainly aren't interested in figuring it out, so they trust their vendor. Makes sense.
It's probably safer than they trusting random sources on the Web where they don't have the know how to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Ideally they should have an administrator taking care of this for them. But in the real world we all know this won't happen. Especially with home users.
"Why would anybody need an excuse to not buy a Mac ?"
I have a Mac and don't use it because I don't like it. I've been running Unix for ages and I found the Mac interface painful, Windows like and annoying. My iBook has been used as a paperweight for the last two years. I do not plan to give it another try.
And if KDE is ported to MacOS (which it should be), that's a reason to get a Mac ? You do realize you can get KDE right now on any generic piece of kit ?
Get a Mac if it floats your boat, but if KDE or filesystem support is the kind of thing you're looking for, I really don't have the faintest idea why you should bother locking yourself in that platform.
You Mac people are getting weirder each generation.
However, it will be the compatibility with M$ software that will push Linux mainstream.
Of course, and with pretty much anything else.
It had a big advantage in being able to decipher files (having access to a wealth of open tools) and protocols through a wealth of open libs) that most proprietary systems, most notably Windows are blind and deaf to unless you invest in several compatibility packages.
In the past 10 years that I've been setting up Linux machines for small and middle sized shops, the main point was that they were typically the simplest ones to just drop in (although a BSD would have worked equally well in most cases I guess) with associated simplicity/security/simplified maintenance (at least from my POV). And I haven't had any complaints yet.
Mostly, Linux "just works". And then, it keeps on working. No weird crashes (or I've always tracked them down to faulty hardware), no incomprehensible messages in syslog à la Mac OS, no daemons running that nobody knows about à la Windows.
Nowadays I'm putting it on workstations for "plain" users more and more often. And those who still keep a legacy Windows machine because of some old app to ease the transition (old machines won't have enough RAM to run a virtualizer) actually typically won't run anything else in Windows after just a few weeks. "It's just to crappy" they say.
IMO Linux has a very bright future in the workplace. And once people use it at work, they'll bring it home.
Sorry, but tentacle porn and pedophilia is not mainstream in the US.
It isn't in Japan either, despite the wide-spread myths. Otaku and other porn fetishists are not mainstream and are generally looked at with contempt by the general public.
Right, and next you're going to tell us there isn't a Furry convention in Vegas every other day either... We know your kind, Valdrax (or should I say.. KinkyFurry33 ?)
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Sounds like the usual work plan then.
"So what's the work plan then ?"
"We can't tell you that. Get on it."
"Um, ok"
No it isn't. Microsoft doesn't want anyone using IE 6.
Why don't they force the IE7 upgrade then instead of meekly suggesting it ?
Some internal sites might break ? So what, it's a valuable lesson for consultants who build crappy websites.
We can't all be tax-havens. It is only useful to small countries that can exist on the small transfer fees of enormous corporations from other countries.
*And* that are financed by huge subsidies by their rich neighbours so that they can be brought kicking and screaming in the century of the fruitbat. Although the whole tax-haven thing isn't so popular lately.
10) Call from their cell phone - in the car, while driving - to get support for a program that runs on a desktop.
I've had people calling me from home about a problem on their office machine (or vice versa) fairly regularly. Granted this was before cell phones became ubiquitous.
They were a bit puzzled when I told them I couldn't help them. Most of the time of course it was fairly difficult helping them when in front of their machines as well because of the usual "something happened" "what happened?" "I don't know" "what do you mean?" "some kind of message" "what did it say?" "I don't know, I closed it" exchanges that everybody loves so (edited for brevity).
Actually you can, legally.
As long as you don't own or have possession of the video.
So accessing pedo videos would be legal in the US as long as you only stream them and store them in /dev/null, making sure that there is no cache on your disk ?
I'm sure somebody is going to close that loophole in a hurry (assuming it exists).
Cause you've got to think of the, um, how did it go again ? Well, whatever, you have to think of them.
Can't the movie be 'inspired by...' or do what another poster suggested and cop a Blade Runner - where the story and name changed significantly enough that no one expected a faithful translation.
Some anal type at the studio suggested Blade Rimmer at the time but it was quickly discarded.
I'm glad they stuck with the original title (shudder).
I'm an AC so this might sound sarcastic, but thanks for the spoiler censors there.
Everybody knows that [character] killed [character] anyway.
However, my understanding is that every track you buy, download or rip to iTunes can be burned to a CD and then imported - DRM free - to any other music player including iTunes and then written again in any number of formats compatible with most any device.
I think I'll just stick to buying CDs and ripping them to my Cowon players (which are supposed to have a better sound anyway), thus skipping a number of useless steps, on top of having to figure out how to get iTunes running in Linux.
Here most people seem to have HP printers, and support for HP devices including the all in ones is actually better on linux than it is on windows or osx... HP publish open source drivers for unix which still run on the latest distributions, whereas many of their older closed source drivers no longer work on current versions of windows or osx (my scanner for instance, only has ppc drivers for osx 10.4)...
But then you don't have the great Windows HP drivers (they are half as large and take twice the memory of the host OS, so they must be great) !
Maybe the lesson here is that every company is capable of producing both shit and gold, and having a run of good/bad luck from the same manufacturer is down to just that, luck.
That about sums it up for me. I now get a dead black chicken and a voodoo doll with each new motherboard, whatever the brand.
In my experience they can all fail in equally spectacular ways. And you never know beforehand because it might come down to some bizarre interaction with some hardware you've already got and some reviewer hasn't. In the end it's sheer luck (although stuff *mostly* works nowadays).
My understanding is that if you have a stamp from Israel in your passport, you cannot enter Dubai.
It's the case in a lot of Middle East and Gulf countries and the reason why nobody ever has his passport stamped when going to Israel, at least if he plans on travelling a bit. It's perfectly understood by the border people then who give the visas on a separate sheet (which you keep in your passport for the duration of your stay).
Not especially relevant to the discussion anyway.
Europeans have computers?
Of course we do, they run on steam !
* puts more coal in *
What about if 99.9% of all butter knives are used to kill someone... does that slightly change things?
No, because you cannot download a butter knife.
Um, wait, what was your point again ?
English of course. It's the international language of the internet, and everyone understands it. (Or soon will.)
In that case Chinese probably would make more sense in the long term...
One thing I do notice about the less savvy users is that they do mostly trust windows update.
On the other hand, what else could they trust ?
They have no idea how their computer works, certainly aren't interested in figuring it out, so they trust their vendor. Makes sense.
It's probably safer than they trusting random sources on the Web where they don't have the know how to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Ideally they should have an administrator taking care of this for them. But in the real world we all know this won't happen. Especially with home users.
"Why would anybody need an excuse to not buy a Mac ?"
I have a Mac and don't use it because I don't like it.
I've been running Unix for ages and I found the Mac interface painful, Windows like and annoying. My iBook has been used as a paperweight for the last two years. I do not plan to give it another try.
And if KDE is ported to MacOS (which it should be), that's a reason to get a Mac ? You do realize you can get KDE right now on any generic piece of kit ?
Get a Mac if it floats your boat, but if KDE or filesystem support is the kind of thing you're looking for, I really don't have the faintest idea why you should bother locking yourself in that platform.
You Mac people are getting weirder each generation.
I did my bit a while ago by closing my Facebook account. If you care about Facebook, vote with your, um, mouse !
Support Facebook ! Close your account !
Just one step closer to OS X completely displacing Linux on the high-end geek desktop.
Why yes, now that I know that I can finally read my huge archive of MinixFS data, I'm buying a Mac tomorrow. (rolleyes)
However, it will be the compatibility with M$ software that will push Linux mainstream.
Of course, and with pretty much anything else.
It had a big advantage in being able to decipher files (having access to a wealth of open tools) and protocols through a wealth of open libs) that most proprietary systems, most notably Windows are blind and deaf to unless you invest in several compatibility packages.
In the past 10 years that I've been setting up Linux machines for small and middle sized shops, the main point was that they were typically the simplest ones to just drop in (although a BSD would have worked equally well in most cases I guess) with associated simplicity/security/simplified maintenance (at least from my POV). And I haven't had any complaints yet.
Mostly, Linux "just works". And then, it keeps on working. No weird crashes (or I've always tracked them down to faulty hardware), no incomprehensible messages in syslog à la Mac OS, no daemons running that nobody knows about à la Windows.
Nowadays I'm putting it on workstations for "plain" users more and more often. And those who still keep a legacy Windows machine because of some old app to ease the transition (old machines won't have enough RAM to run a virtualizer) actually typically won't run anything else in Windows after just a few weeks. "It's just to crappy" they say.
IMO Linux has a very bright future in the workplace. And once people use it at work, they'll bring it home.
Sorry, but tentacle porn and pedophilia is not mainstream in the US.
It isn't in Japan either, despite the wide-spread myths. Otaku and other porn fetishists are not mainstream and are generally looked at with contempt by the general public.
Right, and next you're going to tell us there isn't a Furry convention in Vegas every other day either...
We know your kind, Valdrax (or should I say.. KinkyFurry33 ?)
[ / lame joke ]
*jaw drops*
I'm waiting for The Manga Guide to Embedded Assembly Programming though.
This assumes that there is a single "right" direction and many "bad" ones. It doesn't seem to be all that clear cut to me.
"Upgrade to genuine Windows Vista Ultimate for $99 ($60 value)"
Nice to see that HP is really getting the hang of this "marketing" thing.
Windows is not free. Not as in beer. Not as in freedom.
So presumably it would be to get a free OS to run all of that free Windows only software. Like... um...
Firefox, and stuff...
(What do I know I don't run Windows)
From TFA:
Thumbtack works in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but it lacks some features when used in Firefox, Microsoft said.
So the Firefox extension lacks the "Share" or "Publish" ability, right?
Especially when used in Firefox in Linux or MacOS I expect...