Yeah, it is also better to google for some specific "miswritten" names such as Kontact or Konqueror so you get only relevant results. And searching the web for Dolphin actually returns you dolphins:)
IIRC, the electoral college system was made because the president was to be elected by smart people (who could at least read and write). Obviously it is still needed considering Bush's reelection:)
Anyway the system is flawed indeed if a candidate who has most votes can still miss the office.
As for wiretapping and telecom immunity - not surprising at all. I personally find it very disturbing - replace "terrorism" with "imperialism", "democratic ideals" with "communistic ideals", "axis of evil" with "capitalistic West" "NSA" with "KGB" and you'll get the very same propaganda Soviet Union was using. Of course, Guantanamo fades compared to GULAG, but you don't even have to replace "patriotism" and "our troops in Afghanistan".
Did the empire of evil really lost the cold war? Or it were two of them against each other?
Do not forget, that Sweden's constitution states that it is a neutral country. It has been neutral during the cold war too, but only on paper. Intelligence data was shared with US and sometimes obtained for the US.
What military training are you referring to? Everyone knows that gamer's favorite weapon is Quicksave/Quickload. If you find a way to simulate this in real life - you don't need any training at all:)
From TFA: "The match began over a chess board set up on a low table in the middle of a boxing ring." So it starts with chess. A complete bruiser is unlikely to survive this one. Another quote: "Alternatively one of the players can be disqualified for taking too long to make his move in the chess rounds or breaking the boxing rules". If you take too long, you will be disqualified.
There are many reasons - flexibility, speed of resulting binaries, less dependency problems and lase but not least - the new version is out, but I am already running all the latest software versions included in this version. You upgrade regularly and end up with new version when it is out. No need to go through massive upgrading where so much can go wrong.
They did. Read this thread more accurate. A possible solution would be to place digital photo on RFID chip and let face-recognition software compare both faces. But if a kid wants to buy cigarettes, it will buy it. By taking his father's RFID and printing his photo, for example. The cigarette machines are the real problem. Disassemble them, make only a few authorized sellers sell cigarettes anyway and make sure those few do have strict age controls. Problem But tobacco companies' lobby will do anything to prevent it. So will do nicotine-addicted to get another cigarette.
Wine supports XP themes. Here is a good page with links to various themes e.g. plastik(kde-like) Human (Ubuntu) and Clearlooks (GNOME): http://techbycolin.com/?p=131.
I use plastic theme in wine and it works fine. You may also want to replace the default menu font with something like dejavu - you have to replace/create a link for tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf in/usr/share/wine/fonts/
>Here's the problem from a usability standpoint: I want to install a media player. I don't know that I need to install mplayer, xine or totem. (What is a totem and WTF does it have to do with playing media? WTF is a xine anyhow?) THe 'Add/Remove Programs' in Ubuntu addresses some of this, but try installing an app that plays podcasts WITHOUT KNOWING that democracyplayer and VLC play podcasts.
Come on, were you born with the knowledge about podcast player in Windows? To be honest, I have no idea how to play podcast in Windows, but guess what - I'll google if I need to. Besides, no need to google in e.g. Ubuntu - description and rating provided.
>XP's interface is so responsive and simple, and I can get tons of stuff done in a short time. I have yet to use *nix that has a file manager that's at least as good as XP's, and the rest of the interface typically sucks in comparison. What can I say, I love XP.
Parent is a troll, but I'll bite nonetheless. Because interface in linux desktop environments is *the* killer feature compared to XP. XP's filemanager pales compared to say, Dolphin or Thunar. I doesn't even have pathbar and tabs.
As for the rest of interface - here is a list of features totally missing in XP and is included in almost every linux window manager: - Middle-click-buffer (THE killer killer feature IMO) - Multiple desktops - Window shading - Ability to Alt-Move window from any point of the window, not only titlebar. - Same with resize - no need to point the border to resize a window (a bless if you use touchpad) - Program management - install many apps with a single click from a safe and secure repository. - Compiz. Do I need to say more? - Last but not least - flexibility. Some may like XP's interface but there are so few things you are able to change if you don't compared to any given linux distro.
And on top of that, many linux distros have resurrected the absolutely insane concept of Autorun CDs, something Apple was smart enough to abandon back in the dark ages of floppy distribution. Can't agree with that. So far the only autorun options are "Open Folder" or "Play with Kaffeine" in case of DVD or "Burn with K3B" if the disk is writable. There are NO autorun.exe auto-executions. Sure, if you insert a Ubuntu CD in Ubuntu it recognizes that there are packages there and will ask if you want to have the CD added to your repositories. Yet no software will be installed automatically.
True. You have to understand what country Iraq is. Suni, Shiite and Curds - a perfect recipe for a civil war. Too many influential religious leaders fighting for power, too deep the hatred for other groups. Of course, Hussein's regime is a big part of this hatred - he was Suni and his regime was very discriminating towards Shii and Kurd minorities. But keep in mind, who supported him and helped him to power - the very same country which now has invaded Iraq. USA.
The alternatives for Iraq are - continuous occupation i.e. more insurgency, civil war if USA decides to pull their troops away at instant or yet another US-supported dictatorship.
I don't think you can call it a monopoly if all the companies software in your country is pirated. Actually, you can, given the fact that piracy is known Microsoft's tactics to capture vast amounts of market share. They just sit there and watch their share grow without spending a penny. They come later and put pressure on government and commercial organizations to make pay for their products.
Establishing the monopoly by selling the product very cheap and then increasing the prices drastically is called dumping.
Dumping is illegal elsewhere, but Microsoft does exactly the same thing and is able to act as a victim instead of being prosecuted.
Given that Khan's revelations were made in early 2004, does that mean it took the IAEA 1-2 years to brute-force the encryption? One word â" elections. Scare your people bad enough and they elect yet another easy-to-manipulate monkey for the White House.
What about first inteltosh generation? Will one be able to start Snow Leopard on 32-bit intel hardware? If not - fine for me. Cheap Macbooks follow on ebay:)
Of course, in US and W. Europe Microsoft will track down software pirates - people there can afford to buy MS software.
But in developing countries the corporation actually depends on pirates - they help to capture vast amounts of marketshare and user base. And id doesn't cost them a penny to establish a close-to-absolute monopoly in said country. It is called dumping and it is illegal and forbidden. But Microsoft can act as a victim while enjoying all benefits of dumping.
Afterwards MS representatives begin to talk with the government urging them to buy the software. First for government organisations then for schools (them may even give some Starter Edition for free - let the pupils know only one OS so they can eventually buy it later in their career). Commercial organisations follow - police raids searching for counterfeit copies are conducted if needed.
Microsoft uses these tactics all over the world. It all starts with pirates. They do dirty job and are fought afterwards.
Porn industry is very profitable - one of few things that stayed highly profitable during doctom bubble burst. It is the only profitable business on the internet save for google. But then again - people google for porn:)
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Because ntfs-3g works through fuse - filesystem in userspace. It isn't a kernelspace filesystem.
man joke, man!
Yeah, it is also better to google for some specific "miswritten" names such as Kontact or Konqueror so you get only relevant results. And searching the web for Dolphin actually returns you dolphins :)
IIRC, the electoral college system was made because the president was to be elected by smart people (who could at least read and write). Obviously it is still needed considering Bush's reelection :)
Anyway the system is flawed indeed if a candidate who has most votes can still miss the office.
As for wiretapping and telecom immunity - not surprising at all. I personally find it very disturbing - replace "terrorism" with "imperialism", "democratic ideals" with "communistic ideals", "axis of evil" with "capitalistic West" "NSA" with "KGB" and you'll get the very same propaganda Soviet Union was using.
Of course, Guantanamo fades compared to GULAG, but you don't even have to replace "patriotism" and "our troops in Afghanistan".
Did the empire of evil really lost the cold war? Or it were two of them against each other?
Do not forget, that Sweden's constitution states that it is a neutral country. It has been neutral during the cold war too, but only on paper. Intelligence data was shared with US and sometimes obtained for the US.
What military training are you referring to? Everyone knows that gamer's favorite weapon is Quicksave/Quickload. If you find a way to simulate this in real life - you don't need any training at all :)
From TFA: "The match began over a chess board set up on a low table in the middle of a boxing ring." So it starts with chess. A complete bruiser is unlikely to survive this one. Another quote: "Alternatively one of the players can be disqualified for taking too long to make his move in the chess rounds or breaking the boxing rules". If you take too long, you will be disqualified.
There are many reasons - flexibility, speed of resulting binaries, less dependency problems and lase but not least - the new version is out, but I am already running all the latest software versions included in this version. You upgrade regularly and end up with new version when it is out. No need to go through massive upgrading where so much can go wrong.
kde 4.0.5 is in portage tree but is masked unstable. KDE 3.3 isn't there anymore, stable version is 3.5.9.
Same with postgresql: stable is 8.0, but you can install 8.3 if you wish.
Don't know where did you find OpenOffice 2.0 - there are 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 in the portage tree.
And so on, as you say.
No contract, no unlocking or jailbreak needed, lower overall cost, much more flexible.
Last but not least - Freedom.
They did. Read this thread more accurate. A possible solution would be to place digital photo on RFID chip and let face-recognition software compare both faces. But if a kid wants to buy cigarettes, it will buy it. By taking his father's RFID and printing his photo, for example. The cigarette machines are the real problem. Disassemble them, make only a few authorized sellers sell cigarettes anyway and make sure those few do have strict age controls.
Problem But tobacco companies' lobby will do anything to prevent it. So will do nicotine-addicted to get another cigarette.
Wine supports XP themes. Here is a good page with links to various themes e.g. plastik(kde-like) Human (Ubuntu) and Clearlooks (GNOME): http://techbycolin.com/?p=131.
/usr/share/wine/fonts/
I use plastic theme in wine and it works fine. You may also want to replace the default menu font with something like dejavu - you have to replace/create a link for tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf in
>which is just ironic, as only one of the 3 is a window manager.
XFCE is a window manager neither, it is a DE (albeit more minimalistic than the big two). The window manager it is using is xfwm4.
>Here's the problem from a usability standpoint: I want to install a media player. I don't know that I need to install mplayer, xine or totem. (What is a totem and WTF does it have to do with playing media? WTF is a xine anyhow?) THe 'Add/Remove Programs' in Ubuntu addresses some of this, but try installing an app that plays podcasts WITHOUT KNOWING that democracyplayer and VLC play podcasts.
Come on, were you born with the knowledge about podcast player in Windows? To be honest, I have no idea how to play podcast in Windows, but guess what - I'll google if I need to. Besides, no need to google in e.g. Ubuntu - description and rating provided.
>XP's interface is so responsive and simple, and I can get tons of stuff done in a short time. I have yet to use *nix that has a file manager that's at least as good as XP's, and the rest of the interface typically sucks in comparison. What can I say, I love XP.
Parent is a troll, but I'll bite nonetheless. Because interface in linux desktop environments is *the* killer feature compared to XP. XP's filemanager pales compared to say, Dolphin or Thunar. I doesn't even have pathbar and tabs.
As for the rest of interface - here is a list of features totally missing in XP and is included in almost every linux window manager:
- Middle-click-buffer (THE killer killer feature IMO)
- Multiple desktops
- Window shading
- Ability to Alt-Move window from any point of the window, not only titlebar.
- Same with resize - no need to point the border to resize a window (a bless if you use touchpad)
- Program management - install many apps with a single click from a safe and secure repository.
- Compiz. Do I need to say more?
- Last but not least - flexibility. Some may like XP's interface but there are so few things you are able to change if you don't compared to any given linux distro.
Sure, if you insert a Ubuntu CD in Ubuntu it recognizes that there are packages there and will ask if you want to have the CD added to your repositories. Yet no software will be installed automatically.
True. You have to understand what country Iraq is. Suni, Shiite and Curds - a perfect recipe for a civil war. Too many influential religious leaders fighting for power, too deep the hatred for other groups. Of course, Hussein's regime is a big part of this hatred - he was Suni and his regime was very discriminating towards Shii and Kurd minorities. But keep in mind, who supported him and helped him to power - the very same country which now has invaded Iraq. USA.
The alternatives for Iraq are - continuous occupation i.e. more insurgency, civil war if USA decides to pull their troops away at instant or yet another US-supported dictatorship.
Establishing the monopoly by selling the product very cheap and then increasing the prices drastically is called dumping.
Dumping is illegal elsewhere, but Microsoft does exactly the same thing and is able to act as a victim instead of being prosecuted.
Does Napoleon sound familiar? No, I don't mean the cake! Neither do I mean cognac!
What about first inteltosh generation? Will one be able to start Snow Leopard on 32-bit intel hardware? If not - fine for me. Cheap Macbooks follow on ebay :)
Of course, in US and W. Europe Microsoft will track down software pirates - people there can afford to buy MS software.
But in developing countries the corporation actually depends on pirates - they help to capture vast amounts of marketshare and user base. And id doesn't cost them a penny to establish a close-to-absolute monopoly in said country. It is called dumping and it is illegal and forbidden. But Microsoft can act as a victim while enjoying all benefits of dumping.
Afterwards MS representatives begin to talk with the government urging them to buy the software. First for government organisations then for schools (them may even give some Starter Edition for free - let the pupils know only one OS so they can eventually buy it later in their career). Commercial organisations follow - police raids searching for counterfeit copies are conducted if needed.
Microsoft uses these tactics all over the world. It all starts with pirates. They do dirty job and are fought afterwards.
Gnome again... I KNEW the FOSS community has something to do with this!
Porn industry is very profitable - one of few things that stayed highly profitable during doctom bubble burst. It is the only profitable business on the internet save for google. But then again - people google for porn :)
you may still sit on the pilot and deal ultimate damage. Enforced door aren't a problem either if you will be able to gain enough speed.