Where is Amazon.... It's a global company Where are their affiliates... global Where are their customers... global
They already pay taxes on what they buy to re-sell they already pay company taxes etc... they have no physical presence in NY so what are they paying taxes to NY for? what do they get back... nothing?
I have seen targeted ads - Unfortunately I am not a demographic, I am a person, so the majority do not apply to me...
I would prefer no ads, If I have to have them then I would prefer ads the do not apply to me so I can ignore them, if they appear to apply to me then they look tempting (but turn out to be useless 99.9% of the time so annoy me even more!)
NT/2000/XP has always been a multiuser operating system - True (But many people do not use them as such...)
You shouldn't need to be an Admin to install a web browser, word processor etc. for yourself, and NT does not require you to be an admin, BUT almost all installers DO require you to be an admin because they are written badly (i.e. they always install for everyone and never just for you)
The culture of windows programs is one of a single user system where you always install for all users and are an admin, The Program Files folder is a protected folder for programs for use by all users,but almost all programs install there by default and so are installing for all users....
Vista is [forcibly] getting rid of this culture... and so eventually we will will end up with a culture similar to that which *nix systems have had for years...
...But how many people are using AJAX and how many people are writing Javascript
I use AJAX frameworks but don't program in JavaScript, I program in other languages that use AJAX frameworks that are programmed in JavaScript and DHTML etc...
Tolkien did say what happened in the 60 year period between The Hobbit and LOTR.... Nothing...
Bilbo lived quietly in the shire and adopted Frodo... and that's about it...outside the shire Sauron and the ringwraiths re-emerged and did very little (because they were weak)
So either a very dull movie or "make it up" then...
Because of the exposure on slashdot today, we experienced an unexpected number of users. The service is temporarily down. We will be back online later. For more information about the project, go to the project Website or contact Prof. James Wang at jwang at ist.psu.edu .
Meal of mostly meat once a week (after a successful hunt) Meal of some meat twice a week (leftovers) All bulked out with a range of vegetables/nuts etc...
Note this is NOT a vegetarian diet but does contain much less meat than any normal westerner eats...
Plants can sense damage and react to it...Fungi can react to damage, some Algae react to damage... all good definitions of sensing pain... perhaps you better stop eating..?
Monsanto will love this..... Meat free meat that they can charge more for, then lobby the government to ban all real meat..... then sue anyone who produces a competitor
The difference is that in Linux the browser runs as you and so can only affect your own files... (Which you have backed up?) On Windows the browser runs as an elevated user and so can affect much more...
If however it can run arbitary x86 code directly all bets are off and operating system security is basically non-existent except at the hardware level....
From the list of torrents downloaded please subtract
Linux Distributions Other 'free' Software Non-Copyright Music Non-Copyright Movies Creative Commons Content
You still have a very large number of downloads...but then how many of these people would have bought the content they downloaded?
The industry always complains that they have lost $x million in sales but they do not allow for the fact that the vast majority of the downloaders would never buy what they downloaded?
On a Mac the hardware is either made for the Mac or it does not work? But If it is made for the Mac is (usually) work first time easily...
On Linux most hardware works unless it is cutting edge (which also may not work on Vista, or XP) or is from a manufacturer who will not open their API or provide a binary driver (slowly getting less common)
Unfortunately Windows based PDAs and Smartphones are in this category..
Its the old problem with hardware manufacturers they don't do drivers for Linux because not enough people ask for it, but not enough people ask for it because they don't do drivers for Linux....
Macs have the advantage that they only work with limited hardware (and work very well) but this is well known and so not (usually) seen as a problem
Has your children's teacher ever been arrested for being involved in a protest against the government...
Note you won't be told *what* they were arrested for they just won't be teaching anymore...
So if you want to be a teacher don't protest..If you want to work for the government don't protest..... If you want to work for a large company don't protest.........
1.) Explain why their pda will no longer sync with their calendar, mail client, or transfer files
It won't sync on my MAC or On Vista.... but seems to work fine with Linux? 2.) Explain why they can't just plugin more than two monitors and just get it to display without editing config files
Why are you a non-technical user using more than two monitors? This is a technical problem even on Windows? 3.) Explain why they can't use that one application they NEED for work that only runs on windows.
Try explaining why they can't run the app they need that only works on a Mac or Only on an AS/400 etc... 4.) Explain why they can't play [latest high end game]
Because it is an XBOX 360/PS3 game that's why... 5.) Explain why [latest high end hardware] doesn't work in linux at all.
It does not work on Vista/Mac etc either...? 6.) Explain why their cheap no name printer doesn't work with linux out of the box.
And it works on Windows? Probably not....? 7.) Explain why the pptp linux client is such a pain in the ass to use.
Why are you using this... ? Don't you have broadband...?
Most of these seem to be trying to say why is it not Windows... the answer is because it is not Windows but it is much more compatible with Windows than Windows is with anything else including earlier versions of itself...?
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately sarcasm does not come across well in plain text ....
No it doesn't ...
...you know you have a problem but do not know the scale of it ...
10 Million copies shipped
3 People say they have no problems
That's nice
2 People say they have problems
We have at least two unhappy cutomers
The two that complain are the tip of the iceberg
But they won't they will send me 10 pages of "targetted" ads instead ....
But who's taxes?
... global ... global
... they have no physical presence in NY so what are they paying taxes to NY for? what do they get back ... nothing?
Where is Amazon.... It's a global company
Where are their affiliates
Where are their customers
They already pay taxes on what they buy to re-sell they already pay company taxes etc
SCO Unix was different from The SCO we know and hate
....
...
Santa Cruz Operation produced a Unix that was fairly popular and stable - sold it's assets to Caldera who renamed themselves SCO and started suing
Xenix was bought by Santa Cruz Operations and folded into SCO Unix before they sold it to Caldera
The Rotting heap was Sco Unix as sold by The SCO Group
My Myspace profile has nothing about me! even the name is not mine ... the only thing people could work out from it is my taste in music
... unless the adverts are for music I might like they will be ignored....
I don't use it for "social networking" I use it to find new bands
I have seen targeted ads - Unfortunately I am not a demographic, I am a person, so the majority do not apply to me ...
I would prefer no ads, If I have to have them then I would prefer ads the do not apply to me so I can ignore them, if they appear to apply to me then they look tempting (but turn out to be useless 99.9% of the time so annoy me even more!)
NT/2000/XP has always been a multiuser operating system - True (But many people do not use them as such ...)
,but almost all programs install there by default and so are installing for all users ....
... and so eventually we will will end up with a culture similar to that which *nix systems have had for years ...
You shouldn't need to be an Admin to install a web browser, word processor etc. for yourself, and NT does not require you to be an admin, BUT almost all installers DO require you to be an admin because they are written badly (i.e. they always install for everyone and never just for you)
The culture of windows programs is one of a single user system where you always install for all users and are an admin, The Program Files folder is a protected folder for programs for use by all users
Vista is [forcibly] getting rid of this culture
...But how many people are using AJAX and how many people are writing Javascript
...
I use AJAX frameworks but don't program in JavaScript, I program in other languages that use AJAX frameworks that are programmed in JavaScript and DHTML etc
Tolkien did say what happened in the 60 year period between The Hobbit and LOTR .... Nothing ...
... and that's about it ...outside the shire Sauron and the ringwraiths re-emerged and did very little (because they were weak)
...
Bilbo lived quietly in the shire and adopted Frodo
So either a very dull movie or "make it up" then
So you have CAPTCHA on you signup screen and immediately cannot have any customers that ...
...!
Are Blind
Are colour blind
Have limited vision
Do not speak English
Do not know Western Culture
That's a LOT of people
The politest Slashdotted notice ....
SERVICE DOWN TEMPORARILY
Because of the exposure on slashdot today, we experienced an unexpected number of users. The service is temporarily down. We will be back online later. For more information about the project, go to the project Website or contact Prof. James Wang at jwang at ist.psu.edu .
-- Thanks, the IMAGINATION team.
April 23, 2008
Libraries obsolete ?
....
The best place for free internet access is my Local Library
Would in vitro meat be grown in the cities .... no!
.. probably not!
...?
Would in vitro meat be energy efficient and not produce greenhouse gases
So this is a bit of a non-argument
This is the hunter gatherer diet
...
Meal of mostly meat once a week (after a successful hunt)
Meal of some meat twice a week (leftovers)
All bulked out with a range of vegetables/nuts etc...
Note this is NOT a vegetarian diet but does contain much less meat than any normal westerner eats
Why a central nervous system ...?
...Fungi can react to damage, some Algae react to damage... all good definitions of sensing pain ... perhaps you better stop eating ..?
Plants can sense damage and react to it
Monsanto will love this ... .. Meat free meat that they can charge more for, then lobby the government to ban all real meat ... .. then sue anyone who produces a competitor
Sounds like standard practice at Monsanto
We are Omnivores so we have
Incisors for cutting/stripping
Canines for ripping/shredding
Molars for chewing
Dogs have larger canines and less molars since they are carnivores
Sheep have no canines and more molars since they are plant eaters
Red M&M's use Cochineal (red colouring) which is made from Crushed Insects, but only in Europe....
The difference is that in Linux the browser runs as you and so can only affect your own files ... (Which you have backed up?) On Windows the browser runs as an elevated user and so can affect much more ...
....
If however it can run arbitary x86 code directly all bets are off and operating system security is basically non-existent except at the hardware level
From the list of torrents downloaded please subtract
...but then how many of these people would have bought the content they downloaded?
Linux Distributions
Other 'free' Software
Non-Copyright Music
Non-Copyright Movies
Creative Commons Content
You still have a very large number of downloads
The industry always complains that they have lost $x million in sales but they do not allow for the fact that the vast majority of the downloaders would never buy what they downloaded?
The point with hardware is :
...
....
On a Mac the hardware is either made for the Mac or it does not work? But If it is made for the Mac is (usually) work first time easily
On Linux most hardware works unless it is cutting edge (which also may not work on Vista, or XP) or is from a manufacturer who will not open their API or provide a binary driver (slowly getting less common)
Unfortunately Windows based PDAs and Smartphones are in this category..
Its the old problem with hardware manufacturers they don't do drivers for Linux because not enough people ask for it, but not enough people ask for it because they don't do drivers for Linux
Macs have the advantage that they only work with limited hardware (and work very well) but this is well known and so not (usually) seen as a problem
So a terrorist who is US citizen, has a US passport, getting a an internal flight inside the USA, who's DNA is on file, will not hijack the plane?
....
Oh well that's ok then
Has your children's teacher ever been arrested for being involved in a protest against the government ...
...
..If you want to work for the government don't protest .. ... If you want to work for a large company don't protest.. .......
Note you won't be told *what* they were arrested for they just won't be teaching anymore
So if you want to be a teacher don't protest
1.) Explain why their pda will no longer sync with their calendar, mail client, or transfer files .... but seems to work fine with Linux? ... ... ...? ....? ... ? Don't you have broadband ...?
... the answer is because it is not Windows but it is much more compatible with Windows than Windows is with anything else including earlier versions of itself ...?
It won't sync on my MAC or On Vista
2.) Explain why they can't just plugin more than two monitors and just get it to display without editing config files
Why are you a non-technical user using more than two monitors? This is a technical problem even on Windows?
3.) Explain why they can't use that one application they NEED for work that only runs on windows.
Try explaining why they can't run the app they need that only works on a Mac or Only on an AS/400 etc
4.) Explain why they can't play [latest high end game]
Because it is an XBOX 360/PS3 game that's why
5.) Explain why [latest high end hardware] doesn't work in linux at all.
It does not work on Vista/Mac etc either
6.) Explain why their cheap no name printer doesn't work with linux out of the box.
And it works on Windows? Probably not
7.) Explain why the pptp linux client is such a pain in the ass to use.
Why are you using this
Most of these seem to be trying to say why is it not Windows