And most of Europe would be speaking German if it hadn't been for the United States.
The may not be speaking German now - but they are sure under the German central-banks power with the Euro.
Germany finally got Europe united - just 50 years late and without the flashy uniforms.
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Hey, it works in Europe. France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, etc., they mostly all work an average of 1500 hours a year (mandatory 35 hours weeks and 5-6 week vacations in most of those countries),
The real clever bit is to work in America, with the worlds best productivity numbers for workers, but live like a lazy German.
I *limit* myself to 6-hour work days and make a shit-load of money in the US. It's so fucking easy to be rich here - the clever bit is that I value my time with family and friends.
I get the best of both worlds - lots of time and lots of wealth.
You can't connect to the network to download SP2 without risking the computer.
Sure you can.
No you can't - in SP1 and below, the firewall gets put in place after the network interface is brought up. In face, the firewall is almost the last thing to initialize during the XP boot process.
Depending on your boot time, there can be few minutes where your computer is vulnerable.
In the US/Canada - generally we get the best hiking gear first* - From water filters, to stoves to tents to GPS equipment. MSR snowshoes alone are worth living here for;). Fuck - we invented GPS, Goretex, half the new climbing equipment and internal-frame packs.
*Except for AT/Randoee equipment - Euorope makes the best stuff.
Another example: Small Airplanes.
We have Lanceair. Europe and Japan have jack shit compared to this . And you can build it yourself. Can't do that in Europe.
Sounds like with a one more update or so, HL2 on Linux will be just fine.
I'm waiting to install it in about 9 months:
1) A good video card will be cheap by then 2) Bugs in the video card drivers that HL2 triggers will be worked out. 3) Bugs in HL2 and Steam will be worked out - load time problems might be fixed. 4) The few bugs remain in WINE will be worked out.
1 though 3 apply to out Windows owing friends as well.
I took the same stratagy in the 90's for all of Origin's Ultima games - if you waited a year or so, you'd have a fast enough computer and all the bugs would be gone.
Expect long lectures about how Western intellectual imperialism is destroying the nascent African software development industry
I'd do it, but I'm too busy memorizing the streaking pattern of Noam Chompskys toilet bowl. You can use the streaks, along with psudo-zen, to predict the past!
If you type 555 5551234 and it keeps it like that. It doesn't reformat to (555)555-1234
It shoudn't fix them*. Many people have plenty of international phone numbers and wouldn't like for them to be formated to the American/Canadian standard.
* perhaps auto formating would be ok if the country in the contact was filled out as US or Canadian
If it's a matter of $$$, there are lots of good freeware email clients out there.
Because the last thing someone wants is to stuff all their email into a proprietary program, with a proprietary message store. And have that program become abandonware.
And I suppose government, the organization which actually holds the keys and makes the decisions, is just the innocent bystander?
Depends. If you live in China, then yes. If you live in the US - blame the electorate that will vote people into office that promise to give them things for "free."
Thankfully - the age of personal entitlement in the US appears to be winding down. Hopefully the age of corporate welfare will end soon as well.
It looks like this system favors large volumes of traffic that flow through a city - the city dweller that is actually living in the city would get blocked by the lave volume of traffic that isn't stopping, and is instead just passing though on a direct route.
So the end result, is that the person who pays for the traffic-signals via taxes gets shafted - and a bunch of out-of-towners begin to use the city as a shortcut.
Great for people who live in the suburbs, but bad for the actual city dweller.
If I should miffed, it's because our small city has wonderfull routes for the yuppies to get to the local Wal-Mart - but those same yuppies won't stop in the core of our city to buy things from the mom-and-pop business that are paying for the nice routes.
ICANN sucks but the UN is a corrupt and filled with pompous idiots. Next thing you know, the Secretary General's son will own your domain name, and you'll have to pay his Swiss lords a monthly fee to use it.
Can you give any examples of similer things happening in the past?
Yes.
The Secertary General's son worked for a Swiss company that was monitoring the Iraq oil-for-food program. The old-for-food program was corrupt, and could be better descriped as an oil-for-palaces program.
ICANN sucks but the UN is a corrupt and filled with pompous idiots. Next thing you know, the Secretary General's son will own your domain name, and you'll have to pay his Swiss lords a monthly fee to use it.
"You get some gin and get some white raisins -- and only white raisins -- and soak them in the gin for two weeks," she said. "Then eat nine of the raisins a day." -Heinz Kerry
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And most of Europe would be speaking German if it hadn't been for the United States.
The may not be speaking German now - but they are sure under the German central-banks power with the Euro.
Germany finally got Europe united - just 50 years late and without the flashy uniforms.
Hey, it works in Europe. France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, etc., they mostly all work an average of 1500 hours a year (mandatory 35 hours weeks and 5-6 week vacations in most of those countries),
The real clever bit is to work in America, with the worlds best productivity numbers for workers, but live like a lazy German.
I *limit* myself to 6-hour work days and make a shit-load of money in the US. It's so fucking easy to be rich here - the clever bit is that I value my time with family and friends.
I get the best of both worlds - lots of time and lots of wealth.
When running on Windows 2000/XP, an IE crash does not "kill part of the user environmen
Not on my XP box - Explorer/IE is responsible for the start bar.
Try this:
Fire up the Task Manager --
Kill the Explorer process.
Notice that your start menu and task bar are gone.
Getting the world to switch calendars will prove to be as hard as getting the USA to switch to metric...
Hey... we're trying... We stopped measuring cocain in grains, we're measure it in grams now!
I still like saying I have a 8 inch dick - having a 42.2 centimeter penis dosen't have quite the same ring to it for th' ladies.
The music industry has put *way* too much effort into DRM protected music
Agreed! There's a fat chance of finding The Counting Crows or REM on this service (or services like them)....
but...maby the next good band may be found here.
Who knows!
You can't connect to the network to download SP2 without risking the computer.
Sure you can.
No you can't - in SP1 and below, the firewall gets put in place after the network interface is brought up. In face, the firewall is almost the last thing to initialize during the XP boot process.
Depending on your boot time, there can be few minutes where your computer is vulnerable.
Enjoy!
What do you mean our enemies? I dont have any enemies
OK.
Just try to give Osama bin Laden a giant bear-hug.
I'm sure he'll hold on tight and hug you back - while he's fucking your corn hole.
I like Wikipediasucks.com so much I downloaded the website... 10,203 times.... and counting!
He did the same thing at HP and/or DEC, and later went on to a nice high executive position at Microsoft. Coincidence? I think not!
After Belluzzo took over the CEO position at SGI - he forced SGI into a "partnership" with Microsoft for two things:
Replace IRIX with a 'special' version of NT 4.0 on the SGI workstations.
Force SGI to drop OpenGL and replace it with Microsoft Ferenheight.
Right then and there, SGI lost most of it's workstation market.
After SGI was gutted - he moved to Microsoft, where he received millions for his efforts.
(Remember this was at the time that OpenGL was clobbering Microsoft's 3D API, and NT was trying to get a foot in the door at the data center)
The alien hand on the War of the Worlds poster has its middle finger on top of Texas.
....we American don't need geography, we just need missile coordinates.
It's a good thing the globe is rotated to show America - otherwise most of us American wouldn't recognize the planet that the alien is grasping.
Just kidding....
...I have a copy of Come on Eileen on my iPod.
...I think I have and .MPEG with the almost the same name.
Agreed...
;). Fuck - we invented GPS, Goretex, half the new climbing equipment and internal-frame packs.
In the US/Canada - generally we get the best hiking gear first* - From water filters, to stoves to tents to GPS equipment. MSR snowshoes alone are worth living here for
*Except for AT/Randoee equipment - Euorope makes the best stuff.
Another example: Small Airplanes.
We have Lanceair. Europe and Japan have jack shit compared to this . And you can build it yourself. Can't do that in Europe.
Sounds like with a one more update or so, HL2 on Linux will be just fine.
I'm waiting to install it in about 9 months:
1) A good video card will be cheap by then
2) Bugs in the video card drivers that HL2 triggers will be worked out.
3) Bugs in HL2 and Steam will be worked out - load time problems might be fixed.
4) The few bugs remain in WINE will be worked out.
1 though 3 apply to out Windows owing friends as well.
I took the same stratagy in the 90's for all of Origin's Ultima games - if you waited a year or so, you'd have a fast enough computer and all the bugs would be gone.
Expect long lectures about how Western intellectual imperialism is destroying the nascent African software development industry
I'd do it, but I'm too busy memorizing the streaking pattern of Noam Chompskys toilet bowl. You can use the streaks, along with psudo-zen, to predict the past!
Ta Ta! I'm off to drive in my Prius.
If you type 555 5551234 and it keeps it like that. It doesn't reformat to (555)555-1234
It shoudn't fix them*. Many people have plenty of international phone numbers and wouldn't like for them to be formated to the American/Canadian standard.
* perhaps auto formating would be ok if the country in the contact was filled out as US or Canadian
Why must you restrict it to Open Source ones?
If it's a matter of $$$, there are lots of good freeware email clients out there.
Because the last thing someone wants is to stuff all their email into a proprietary program, with a proprietary message store. And have that program become abandonware.
And I suppose government, the organization which actually holds the keys and makes the decisions, is just the innocent bystander?
Depends. If you live in China, then yes. If you live in the US - blame the electorate that will vote people into office that promise to give them things for "free."
Thankfully - the age of personal entitlement in the US appears to be winding down. Hopefully the age of corporate welfare will end soon as well.
It looks like this system favors large volumes of traffic that flow through a city - the city dweller that is actually living in the city would get blocked by the lave volume of traffic that isn't stopping, and is instead just passing though on a direct route.
So the end result, is that the person who pays for the traffic-signals via taxes gets shafted - and a bunch of out-of-towners begin to use the city as a shortcut.
Great for people who live in the suburbs, but bad for the actual city dweller.
If I should miffed, it's because our small city has wonderfull routes for the yuppies to get to the local Wal-Mart - but those same yuppies won't stop in the core of our city to buy things from the mom-and-pop business that are paying for the nice routes.
Look up RSnapshot - it's a great front end to make rsync do incremental backups. Highly recomended - it's works on all the *BSD's too!
Speaking of non-strategic underperforming dogs, I wonder when IBM is going to jettison Lotus.
Have you actually used Lotus Notes / Domino recently?
In the two years or so, it's gone from horrably sucky to downright cool.
The time to get rid of Lotus was three years ago, but why switch when now it's good?
No fucking way.
ICANN sucks but the UN is a corrupt and filled with pompous idiots. Next thing you know, the Secretary General's son will own your domain name, and you'll have to pay his Swiss lords a monthly fee to use it.
I'll take the regular idiots at ICANN, thank you.
Can you give any examples of similer things happening in the past?
Yes.
The Secertary General's son worked for a Swiss company that was monitoring the Iraq oil-for-food program. The old-for-food program was corrupt, and could be better descriped as an oil-for-palaces program.
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No fucking way.
ICANN sucks but the UN is a corrupt and filled with pompous idiots. Next thing you know, the Secretary General's son will own your domain name, and you'll have to pay his Swiss lords a monthly fee to use it.
I'll take the regular idiots at ICANN, thank you.
You mean like in Java and C#?
No.
Java doesn't HAVE pointers. No pointers at all. That's the point about Java.
Object Pascal has pointers if you need them.
Not sure 'bout C#, but then again, I don't care
Better than the Democrats cure for arthritis:
"You get some gin and get some white raisins -- and only white raisins -- and soak them in the gin for two weeks," she said. "Then eat nine of the raisins a day." -Heinz Kerry
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Understandably, the ACLU is rather mad about the cure.