I never went to the site but depending on how it worked, the labels could have had a strong argument to take the owner to court in the U.S. They'd probably use the importing the works into the U.S., "targeting" consumers that in the U.S., etc. I'm sure Canada and the U.S. have agreements to enforce judgments over the borders. With that argument, the DEA should routinely raid the Coffee Shops in Amsterdam because, you know, some US tourists actually go there.
Certainly there are flaws, but please point to something better if you are going to make that assertion.
Maybe it doesn't suck but it certainly isn't for everybody. I used my iBook for about a year running Tiger, never liked it much, then replaced it with a generic laptop with KDE. Much better IMO. YMMV.
With no ability to register any shots to your arms, legs, crotch, ass, or headshots... plus only four air bags on front and back, it sounds like it sure can let me feel *exactly* where I'd get hit. *Exactly* isn't really required IMO, but a fairly good indication of direction would be useful. Beyond that a rough indication of the body part (even just up middle low) would be more than enough.
Times new roman is one of the ugliest fonts ever (actually, to be fair comic sans is ugliest) so it is good to know that it is being replaced. But at least ComicSans has its uses. For example you can use it to spot who has absolutely no business composing text on a computer.
I've used ComicSans (well indirectly) quite a lot in my never ending quest to clean up office document crud in the places I've been (Yes I'm a nazi, I don't mind).
Absolutely. I was on the range once when the guy a couple of spots over had the mechanism fail (never did find out if it was dirt or breakage) on his FN and it started firing full auto without his hand anywhere near the trigger. Fortunately he (and/or the sergeant that was on him almost immediately) had the presence of mind to keep it pointed downrange until it emptied. Happened to me as well. Interesting sidenote to know about these is that the ejection of the spent cartridges tends to rotate the weapon if you let it fire on its own. So as the well trained monkey that he was he stood up and announced a "firing incident" while the 200 rounds were happily chugging away. There too it was caught on time.
We had some interesting times when I was in the military with some apparently decerebrated individuals...
This is essentially exactly the same as Windows Vista except instead of removing features as they get close to the deadline, they've started out with all the features already removed. When you don't meet your expectations, lower the expectations. This doesn't make sense, by doing this they just won't have any features to remove when the deadline whooshes by in a few years. That team must be new there.
Are you one of those US people who lives in the fantasy world where the middle east is invading Europe ? You might want to book a ticket on one of those cruises if that's the case, you'll make lots of like minded friends (and I heard psychiatrists weren't allowed on board so everyone is perfectly safe).
Current stats: 85% of Americans self-identify as Christians. (2002)
7% of US adults classify as evangelicals (2004) (see Evangelical category for more information)
38% of US adults classify as born again, but not evangelical. (2004)
37% are self-described Christians but are neither evangelical nor born again
Atheists and agnostics comprise 12% of adults nationwide. (2004)
11% of the US population identify with a faith other than Christianity (2004)
s/Christian/Muslim/g Nuff said... No further comment... For contrast :
Current stats here(.fr) (poll done in 2006-2007, don't have sample size or methodology, poll is done every 3 years apparently for a newspaper dealing with religious tendencies) : 55% catholic christians (1/2 of them declaring to firmly believe in god) 31% no religion 4% muslims 3% protestant christians 1% jewish 6% other or won't say
Most of them never set foot in a temple/church/mosque/whatever or actually have any kind of religious activity.
It's evident that the version of history being taught locally is always a bit tainted. But it's still an attempt at being global from what I've seen. Marketing shouldn't be used in history classes (it used to be called propaganda you know).
I don't see the problem with games not running in Linux either.
I reboot in Windows once or twice a week to play and that's that. Others will go play on their playstation or whatever. Same thing. I've been doing it that way for the last ten years.
I don't really see why having to wait a couple minutes to start the games OS is a problem (oooh, I have to play now now now). And it's not as if you can really do anything else while you play on the machine anyway. So being in a bare system that only has games on it isn't problematic either.
And playing the odd game every now and then certainly wouldn't have been enough to keep me in Windows. I actually work with my machine and while I might be odd in that regard, I find it much easier to do so in Linux/Unix than in Windows (beyond even the matters of trust and lock-in). If Microsoft somehow disabled dual booting tomorrow, I'd quit gaming on my computer and take up origami or whatever (or take more photos).
It depends. Some brain-dead ISPs (PacBell / SBC) use a reverse DNS naming scheme that does not differentiate static versus dynamic. Worse, they use the same address blocks for both dynamic and static. All I can suggest is that you don't use a brain-dead ISP - especially if you want to run a mail server. In most of SBC land, there are DOZENS of good alternatives. I'm not sure what SBC is (not being from the US, Southern Bell something maybe ?), but here my ISP lets me set my reverse DNS to whatever I pick (currently machinename.mydomain.org) which is in sync with the DNS info for that host.
And *none* of the ADSL addresses are in fact dynamic. Whether you're connected 24/7 or not, you always get the same address.
IMO what's brain-dead is the way the RBLs manage this (and/or the way filters misuse the RBLs).
There's no reason any host on the network should be any different from any other.
I pay a tax every time I buy a blank CD. If that doesn't that give me the right to "pirate" my MP3's then what is it for? I wish this silly argument was buried once for all. The Tax on blank CDs is to compensate for the electrons that get stuck on those CDs and can't be reused. Then fresh ones have to be shipped from China at outrageous rates. Especially given the current price of a barrel of oil.
It's not like they grow on trees. So start memorizing tunes, learn to hum and stop wasting particles !
Agreed, but it's worth pointing out that fixed addresses aren't exactly the cat's meow, either.
When I signed up for a DSL account with SBC/ATT, I asked for static addresses and and got my delegation request for tiny/29 netblock processed a few days later. All good, right? With everything setup on my end, I send out a few test messages to my personal ATT email account (hosted by the folks at Yahoo), and it gets the 'YahooFiltered: Bulk' treatment 4 out 5 tries. In my experience, the current blacklists treat anything at the end of a DSL line, static or dynamic as a dynamic address nowadays. I've hosted my email on my domains on a DSL line for ages but I'm now looking at alternate solutions (among which possibly just routing the stuff through my ISP for problematic domains).
Streaming only. Idiots. It'll take about 1.3 minutes after it goes online before people start saving the "stream". Of course not. They thought of that already. See, the catch is that it's forbidden to save the stream.
The obvious is simply missed. Newspapers and other formats for distributing the current events is old by the time it's printed. Get a newspaper if you want yesterday's news. Much of the stuff in papers (or at least the few proper newspapers that are still available here and there) is way beyond the one liners that passes for instant news nowadays. I regularly read newspapers that are days old and never minded their lack of "freshness".
Apart from a few very specific things (maybe stock markets or the weather), freshness has no impact on the interest or validity of news.
TCP/IP overtook OSI as a network model. While OSI is relatively simpler and more clear cut, It only looks that way when you see it on four colour glossy paper. When you poke at X-whatever networks it certainly stops being simple or clear cut. Be thankful history turned out the way it has. Internet networking is quite simple compared to the OSI nest of snakes.
Since the linux version of the 530 is $549, and the Vista Home version (same config) is $479, I would think they'd be trumpeting the Linux version. An extra $70 profit, plus don't have to pay for the Vista license. What a racket... I just looked at the French site (inspiron 6400n) and the Linux machine is 610,46 , the Windows (Home Premium) one is 598,99 . Note that I had to add 512Megs of RAM and to up the disk to 120Gigs on the Linux laptop to make them equivalent as well as upgrade the CPU to the Dual Core T2080 at 1.73GHz.
The Linux machines are cheaper than the Windows ones because there is apparently no equivalent low end machine on the Windows side. When you upgrade them to the exact same specs, suddenly Linux becomes more expensive.
I would like to know as well as I'm considering purchasing one. So did I. But since they only provided a generic (as in not even configured for their hardware) Ubuntu on the crappiest of their laptops, I got a Samsung instead and installed the system myself.
you can do more than just browse them like a file browser as well, KDE can also save to those different protocols, assuming they have write support.just yesterday I needed up upload an email attachment to a website, all I did was put the save location as ftp://path/to/save/ and it saved it there. can't get much easier than that. The whole KDE IO slaves are just so easy to use a caveman could do it! And when you've gotten used to that, you wouldn't believe how complicated every little thing becomes whenever you end up using a desktop environment that's network-blind (MS or Mac).
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Certainly there are flaws, but please point to something better if you are going to make that assertion.
Maybe it doesn't suck but it certainly isn't for everybody.I used my iBook for about a year running Tiger, never liked it much, then replaced it with a generic laptop with KDE. Much better IMO. YMMV.
To poorly paraphrase a line from Scrubs, "this patent is so beautiful that I want to marry it and have little patents with it".
I hope IBM does the right thing and has lots of fun going on a rampage with it.
Beyond that a rough indication of the body part (even just up middle low) would be more than enough.
For example you can use it to spot who has absolutely no business composing text on a computer.
I've used ComicSans (well indirectly) quite a lot in my never ending quest to clean up office document crud in the places I've been (Yes I'm a nazi, I don't mind).
I need a "Use ComicSans and die" tshirt.
Damn kids, can't even whistle a carrier anymore, how are they going to check their email on the road ?
Interesting sidenote to know about these is that the ejection of the spent cartridges tends to rotate the weapon if you let it fire on its own.
So as the well trained monkey that he was he stood up and announced a "firing incident" while the 200 rounds were happily chugging away.
There too it was caught on time.
We had some interesting times when I was in the military with some apparently decerebrated individuals...
That team must be new there.
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/02/france-muslim-anti-evolutionist.html Oooh, a lunatic fringe group sent a handful of copies of a book to some education institutions.
How dare they.
Are you one of those US people who lives in the fantasy world where the middle east is invading Europe ? You might want to book a ticket on one of those cruises if that's the case, you'll make lots of like minded friends (and I heard psychiatrists weren't allowed on board so everyone is perfectly safe).
85% of Americans self-identify as Christians. (2002)
7% of US adults classify as evangelicals (2004) (see Evangelical category for more information)
38% of US adults classify as born again, but not evangelical. (2004)
37% are self-described Christians but are neither evangelical nor born again
Atheists and agnostics comprise 12% of adults nationwide. (2004)
11% of the US population identify with a faith other than Christianity (2004)
s/Christian/Muslim/g
Nuff said... No further comment... For contrast :
Current stats here(.fr) (poll done in 2006-2007, don't have sample size or methodology, poll is done every 3 years apparently for a newspaper dealing with religious tendencies) :
55% catholic christians (1/2 of them declaring to firmly believe in god)
31% no religion
4% muslims
3% protestant christians
1% jewish
6% other or won't say
Most of them never set foot in a temple/church/mosque/whatever or actually have any kind of religious activity.
Needless to say the trend is down.
s/UK/pretty much all of the rest of the world/
It's evident that the version of history being taught locally is always a bit tainted. But it's still an attempt at being global from what I've seen. Marketing shouldn't be used in history classes (it used to be called propaganda you know).
Cool, thanks ! Does it work with the Linux version as well ?
I don't see the problem with games not running in Linux either.
I reboot in Windows once or twice a week to play and that's that. Others will go play on their playstation or whatever. Same thing. I've been doing it that way for the last ten years.
I don't really see why having to wait a couple minutes to start the games OS is a problem (oooh, I have to play now now now). And it's not as if you can really do anything else while you play on the machine anyway. So being in a bare system that only has games on it isn't problematic either.
And playing the odd game every now and then certainly wouldn't have been enough to keep me in Windows. I actually work with my machine and while I might be odd in that regard, I find it much easier to do so in Linux/Unix than in Windows (beyond even the matters of trust and lock-in). If Microsoft somehow disabled dual booting tomorrow, I'd quit gaming on my computer and take up origami or whatever (or take more photos).
And *none* of the ADSL addresses are in fact dynamic. Whether you're connected 24/7 or not, you always get the same address.
IMO what's brain-dead is the way the RBLs manage this (and/or the way filters misuse the RBLs).
There's no reason any host on the network should be any different from any other.
It's not like they grow on trees. So start memorizing tunes, learn to hum and stop wasting particles !
When I signed up for a DSL account with SBC/ATT, I asked for static addresses and and got my delegation request for tiny
I regularly read newspapers that are days old and never minded their lack of "freshness".
Apart from a few very specific things (maybe stock markets or the weather), freshness has no impact on the interest or validity of news.
I'd actually pay to help implement that policy in Paris.
It would make for some great pictures too.
(Disclaimer, I use a bicycle or the metro, sold my last car ages ago, never used it anyway)
When you poke at X-whatever networks it certainly stops being simple or clear cut. Be thankful history turned out the way it has. Internet networking is quite simple compared to the OSI nest of snakes.
Stupid /. can't display Latin-9 chars... mumble... prices above are in Euros.
Anyway I'm glad I quickly dismissed Dell and got a random laptop elsewhere (Samsung Q35) then did my install myself.
The Linux machines are cheaper than the Windows ones because there is apparently no equivalent low end machine on the Windows side. When you upgrade them to the exact same specs, suddenly Linux becomes more expensive.
You should have pointed out the reference for those who aren't familiar with new boolean techniques.
Very shoddy offering IMO.