maybe it's cos none of them can read anything but English. I'm not sure if the paranoia about the far east has faded since the Tiger Economies started looking more like pussycats but the probablility is that the economic colonisation would probably come the other way. Which, according to capitalists, is no bad thing as the competition provided by international trade should benefit everyone (trade tarrifs - pah!). It's a shame the model is flawed but that's the subject for a different weblog.
I love this place. Information I didn't even know I wanted. Good to see something counteracting the crappy view that anywhere outside the US, W. Europe or Japan is just a clump of mud huts filled with starving cavemen.
well one suggestion I would make is that your pages would be difficult for people with imperfect vision such as the over 50s.
As you get older your eyes get less sensitive ('cos nature is trying it's best to kill you). Which means black text on a grey background becomes harder and harder to read the older you get.
You young pups thing you know it all (nature's way of keeping you alive:)./. does a crap thing in this dept. too by doing that shitty grey text thing.
You might say that old people don't use the web - but that's simply not true and you'll be old some day and I don't think you'll stop using it.
Walk a mile in other people's shoes sometime. .oO0Oo.
It's scary that you college types can't even spell
html to speach browser
and it's brocken for imbedding math
I usually happily float on by typos (want thier equations) and such but your spelling drove me crazy.
Confucius observed, "If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless
confusion. hence, there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything."
GM grains engineered for high yield (dunno if it does) we already destory more food than we can eat
food prices are kept artificially high to "stablize economies"
GM crops lock farmers into buy seed grain rather than growing their own and also lock them into pesticide / herbicide models
thus raping Africa once more .oO0Oo.
the term is not necessarily an insult
It is because anyone that tries to use a computer to do work (such as wp or accounting) is going to lose - i.e. the software won't work
so it's almost an affectionate term, expressing sympathy in advance for the poor saps who will be frustrated by their terminals and need to call in the wizards because for instance Windows locked up and they had to power cycle their PC.
Incidentally my at work Windows is fskd for this very reason - it came pre-installed on my Packard Bell from PC World (before you say anything it was something over which I had no control). Since day one it would never shut down and I had to just switch it off before it was "safe" to do so. I've lost some file or other 'cos now network neighbourhood doesn't list the SMB shares on our network.
Luckily I've had a few days "spare" to install Mandrake on it - which succeeded with everything but the PB's built in sound. Soundblaster PCI sorted that one out for £20 so I'm happy. .oO0Oo.
maybe they know how good it will be
kill the IPO buy loads of stock
release killer laptop next year
or maybe it's like an oil company and a water powered car
or maybe any other thing but I'd wager that the one thing it has nothing to do with is the technology being poor .oO0Oo.
Slashdot Mirror
In quantum computing theory there would be 0 latency
.oO0Oo.
maybe it's cos none of them can read anything but English. I'm not sure if the paranoia about the far east has faded since the Tiger Economies started looking more like pussycats but the probablility is that the economic colonisation would probably come the other way. Which, according to capitalists, is no bad thing as the competition provided by international trade should benefit everyone (trade tarrifs - pah!). It's a shame the model is flawed but that's the subject for a different weblog.
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thank you my friend
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I love this place. Information I didn't even know I wanted. Good to see something counteracting the crappy view that anywhere outside the US, W. Europe or Japan is just a clump of mud huts filled with starving cavemen.
is that your actual view
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if so it's the normal crappy view of the rest of the world that most westerners have
you can't ban Doom if no-one has a PC!!
and the last time i looked the people Johannesburg (check sp!) weren't naked
i'm laughing so much i can hardly control my bladder
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if you really want control of such things try the win95 powertoys set
n tents/wutoys/w95pwrtoysset/default.asp
.oO0Oo.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/co
which has been around since win95 was released
right click
.oO0Oo.
delete
works for me
win98 se
IE has done this for some time but for non-responding url's
.oO0Oo.
try invalidurl.com and watch the status bar
trying invalidurl.org
trying invalidurl.net
it then does a search
go to the tool menu, internet options, advanced tab, search section
i have search turned off cos it's almost useless
ymmv
well one suggestion I would make is that your pages would be difficult for people with imperfect vision such as the over 50s.
:). /. does a crap thing in this dept. too by doing that shitty grey text thing.
.oO0Oo.
As you get older your eyes get less sensitive ('cos nature is trying it's best to kill you). Which means black text on a grey background becomes harder and harder to read the older you get.
You young pups thing you know it all (nature's way of keeping you alive
You might say that old people don't use the web - but that's simply not true and you'll be old some day and I don't think you'll stop using it.
Walk a mile in other people's shoes sometime.
It's scary that you college types can't even spell
.oO0Oo.
html to speach browser
and it's brocken
for imbedding math
I usually happily float on by typos (want thier equations) and such but your spelling drove me crazy.
Confucius observed, "If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless
confusion. hence, there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything."
4 years, gosh you really are god
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Serial cables are short, so your computer has to be in, or extremely close to your TV room.
.oO0Oo.
serial spec is about 50m how big is your damn house?
GM grains engineered for high yield (dunno if it does)
.oO0Oo.
we already destory more food than we can eat
food prices are kept artificially high to "stablize economies"
GM crops lock farmers into buy seed grain rather than growing their own and also lock them into pesticide / herbicide models
thus raping Africa once more
"lusers" (what an intolerant term)
.oO0Oo.
the term is not necessarily an insult
It is because anyone that tries to use a computer to do work (such as wp or accounting) is going to lose - i.e. the software won't work
so it's almost an affectionate term, expressing sympathy in advance for the poor saps who will be frustrated by their terminals and need to call in the wizards because for instance Windows locked up and they had to power cycle their PC.
Incidentally my at work Windows is fskd for this very reason - it came pre-installed on my Packard Bell from PC World (before you say anything it was something over which I had no control). Since day one it would never shut down and I had to just switch it off before it was "safe" to do so. I've lost some file or other 'cos now network neighbourhood doesn't list the SMB shares on our network.
Luckily I've had a few days "spare" to install Mandrake on it - which succeeded with everything but the PB's built in sound. Soundblaster PCI sorted that one out for £20 so I'm happy.
why not go the whole hog and copy the entire directory tree with all the files the correct size but filled with zero's
.oO0Oo.
I can here your screams in the iron mask now now "but I'm the King of France"
like nearly all products the price you pay is NOTHING to do with the costs of production.
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Go get an economics book and read the chapter on elasticity of demand.
Let's not even begin to talk about DNS,SMTP,HTTP and other internet services
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hmm they're not software
Konquerer
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Xfree
Rich Text Format
maybe they know how good it will be
.oO0Oo.
kill the IPO buy loads of stock
release killer laptop next year
or maybe it's like an oil company and a water powered car
or maybe any other thing but I'd wager that the one thing it has nothing to do with is the technology being poor
interesting
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I considered that not to be the case for an acronym
and besides spelling and grammar are observations of general use not dictatorial rules
I can earn bread, can you earn speach?
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well, yes you can. it's called respect and power.
I am born without food and have no right to any.
All the food produced in my country is sanctioned by the state and I have no free speech.
Frankly I'd rather eat first, then drink free beer
Those who had Macs - could run them (though macs were unsupporte but we fixed them
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so you work in a place where people BUY their own macintoshes and bring them in?
or did they install macOS on their linux peecees
wouldn't that be not participating in the co-option of any slight power you have into the hands of a bunch of lying power hungry cheats?
.oO0Oo.
They're no better than Capone or Idi Amin.
"HELP ME I'M STARVING - THE GOVERNMENT IS STARVING ME"
.oO0Oo.
yeah you're right, that feels good
I think this will affect the microprocessor market as much as the memory market.
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Which would you rather have sat under your desk a dual 2ghz AMD with 2Gb DIMM or a 1.6ghzP4 with 512Mb RAMBUS ?
How about in the server room?