Anonymous Cowards people at Slashdot are the biggest liars in the universe, they are also pretty incompetent and get confused by simple questions...
One actual example (specifics removed to protect the innocent):
"So you have any proof of such IT incompetence by them, it's not just jealousy right ?"
"Oh dear no! I am a story teller guy, I dont deal with proof! Proofs are a wikipedia problem..."
and so on...
So the guy who wants the merger to happen as fast as possible claims (threaten ?) that slowing it down cost sun a lot of money and will lead to people getting fired ? That's not exactly unbiased...
I'm not sure about the ESA but it seems kinda tiny when compared to NASA and the Russian space agencies
I wasn't sure about ESA's budget compared to the others either, so I checked it - straight from wikipedia:
NASA: $17.6 billion
ESA: $5.03 billion
RSA: $2.4 billion
You completly missed his point. He's not saying apple is violating patents related to GSM, he's saying that yes, nokia did a lot of patented R&D in the last two decades.
Oh come one now, you're just making things up. You really think we french monkeys paid over the internet "without any kind of encryption whatsoever" until "fairly recently" ? There was one such law during the nineties to limit the level of encryption allowed (I said limit, not forbid) but it was never enforced for obvious reasons. Now there is no such limitation anymore except for companies exporting encryption materials, like pretty much any country has.
As for your comment regarding privacy and personal rights in France (and the retarded thing about what you call our "swat teams") well... Maybe you should inform yourself a bit more; what you read on digg isn't always true.
Sarah Palin (R-AK) addressed the graduating class of commission students at the Wasilla Assembly of God church. During that address, Palin portrayed the Iraq was as a quest decreed by God, and said that U.S. soldiers were carrying out "God's plan"
I'm sure we could find the same kind of thing for every country you listed, these were just the ones I could remember from the top of my head
For a home based, personnal use, less-than-ten-years-old computer this is a non issue - at least with seven x64. It detects pretty much everything by itself, and if not you can use the vista x64 drivers.
Sure you can find hardware with no x64 drivers whatsoever and I'm certain someone is going to reply to tell me how wrong I am because his 5 years old serial port thing which barely made it in 32 bit stop him from upgrading, but for joe user bying a new computer installing windows x64 would be painless*.
I think they will have way more trouble understanding what is that UAC thing is and "what the hell is a standard account anyway".
* actually and to be honest, that wouldn't be entirely painless thanks to the absurd number of softwares who require to install some kind of shell extension yet forget to provide a 64 bit version. But hey at least that's not a driver issue !
Parent never said the 32 bits version of these had problems, he said there weren't any windows 64 bits builds (aka; binaries that are natively 64 bits, not 32 bits run through wow64).
Oh it's much more simpler than that. It's Nicolas Sarkozy trying to be king.
The guy even put this law into emergency procedures without any good reason, to make sure the final vote occurs before the European's one, so that France does not technically pass a law the EU forbids.
In case you're wondering: yes, he's doing the same thing in every aspect of french law he touches.
Looks like they considered stuff like:> and:) as separators for namespace. Seriously.
Also, they don't give any malus for tybe-ability to \ while on most european keyboards it's a lot harder than any other suggested separator. Way to go !
"you don't have a "right" to buy a computer not bundled with Windows XP"
Actually you're wrong, in France this is a right covered by law: two products sold together must be available alone too. You may agree or not with it, but in the end it's law and computer seller have to do it, so when an user go to court he wins.
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Anonymous Cowards people at Slashdot are the biggest liars in the universe, they are also pretty incompetent and get confused by simple questions...
One actual example (specifics removed to protect the innocent):
"So you have any proof of such IT incompetence by them, it's not just jealousy right ?"
"Oh dear no! I am a story teller guy, I dont deal with proof! Proofs are a wikipedia problem..."
and so on...
I don't even see why you bothered responding; poor market share doesn't make a product shitty (see linux on the desktop).
So the guy who wants the merger to happen as fast as possible claims (threaten ?) that slowing it down cost sun a lot of money and will lead to people getting fired ? That's not exactly unbiased ...
I wasn't sure about ESA's budget compared to the others either, so I checked it - straight from wikipedia:
NASA: $17.6 billion
ESA: $5.03 billion
RSA: $2.4 billion
You completly missed his point. He's not saying apple is violating patents related to GSM, he's saying that yes, nokia did a lot of patented R&D in the last two decades.
Oh come one now, you're just making things up. You really think we french monkeys paid over the internet "without any kind of encryption whatsoever" until "fairly recently" ? There was one such law during the nineties to limit the level of encryption allowed (I said limit, not forbid) but it was never enforced for obvious reasons. Now there is no such limitation anymore except for companies exporting encryption materials, like pretty much any country has.
... Maybe you should inform yourself a bit more; what you read on digg isn't always true.
As for your comment regarding privacy and personal rights in France (and the retarded thing about what you call our "swat teams") well
He was obviouslyreferring to the title
ISS Can Now Watch Sea Traffic From Space
Yes, because pirates always follow regulation and install a AIS transmitters in their "large ocean-going craft"
George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq' (another source)
Palin: Iraq is a task 'from God.'
I'm sure we could find the same kind of thing for every country you listed, these were just the ones I could remember from the top of my head
For a home based, personnal use, less-than-ten-years-old computer this is a non issue - at least with seven x64. It detects pretty much everything by itself, and if not you can use the vista x64 drivers. Sure you can find hardware with no x64 drivers whatsoever and I'm certain someone is going to reply to tell me how wrong I am because his 5 years old serial port thing which barely made it in 32 bit stop him from upgrading, but for joe user bying a new computer installing windows x64 would be painless*.
I think they will have way more trouble understanding what is that UAC thing is and "what the hell is a standard account anyway".
* actually and to be honest, that wouldn't be entirely painless thanks to the absurd number of softwares who require to install some kind of shell extension yet forget to provide a 64 bit version. But hey at least that's not a driver issue !
Parent never said the 32 bits version of these had problems, he said there weren't any windows 64 bits builds (aka; binaries that are natively 64 bits, not 32 bits run through wow64).
Low demand and high return rate aren't the same thing
Doesn't take a genius to figure it out ... President Of The United States
Oh it's much more simpler than that. It's Nicolas Sarkozy trying to be king.
The guy even put this law into emergency procedures without any good reason, to make sure the final vote occurs before the European's one, so that France does not technically pass a law the EU forbids.
In case you're wondering: yes, he's doing the same thing in every aspect of french law he touches.
For additionnal fun, read this: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceseparator
Looks like they considered stuff like :> and :) as separators for namespace. Seriously.
Also, they don't give any malus for tybe-ability to \ while on most european keyboards it's a lot harder than any other suggested separator. Way to go !
"you don't have a "right" to buy a computer not bundled with Windows XP"
Actually you're wrong, in France this is a right covered by law: two products sold together must be available alone too. You may agree or not with it, but in the end it's law and computer seller have to do it, so when an user go to court he wins.