Particularly when they discover Wine. We use Wine as production machinery at work, so we know damn well it's up to enterprise use. Its magical niche is replacing that one bit of old crapware you can't get rid of. And I'm more surprised these days when Windows software doesn't work well under Wine than when it does.
180 million sales! And at least some of those were actually activated and are actually in use!
Microsoft have the precise number of Vista machines in the wild - it's the number hitting the Windows Update servers. But they don't push that number, they push the "licenses shipped" number, which is meaningless in a world with legally allowed XP upgrades.
Ubuntu and FreeBSD work wonderfully here on my PIII 1.2GHz laptop and PII 450MHz household server (with KDE for when I'm desktopping on it). Mac OS X 10.4 works wonderfully on our 400MHz G3, 400MHz G4 and 800MHz G4.
Really - this is all a Microsoft problem, because their software is mediocre.
"I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they have nothing to hide and want me personally to have every detail of their lives and pressing ten-pound notes into my hands for their very own precious pink and blue card," she said, taking another hit of her pipe.
The first biometric cards are being issued this month to foreigners who can be forced into it. They will be issued to young people on a voluntary basis from 2010, per every teenager's dream of having their every movement tracked.
People applying for cards and passports from 2012 will have to provide fingerprints, photographs and a signature, which Ms Smith believes will create a market worth about £200m a year by the "mended windows" theory of economics. "It takes money that was being wasted on food and rent and puts it into circulation for the betterment of the whole economy, particularly our dear friends at EDS Capita Goatse."
The Home Office is talking to retailers and the Post Office about setting up booths to gather biometric data. "We're sure everyone would be happy with having their fingerprints taken at Tesco when they get their shopping."
In her speech, Ms Smith rejected claims handing enrolment over to private firms would compromise security. "We're introducing new certification authorities and so forth, which will mean that masses of data never leaves our offices and the BNP never gets a database of every immigrant in the country or anything like that."
U.S. Solicitor General Gregory G. Goatse said the strict regulation of broadcast TV preserved it as a "safety zone" for families with children. "They'll never hear the foul shit they'd hear on the Internet, on cable or, God fucking perish, the schoolyard."
The Federal Communication Commission imposes heavy fines on broadcasters who broadcast any of "shit," "piss", "fuck," "cunt," "cocksucker," "motherfucker" or "tits," though saying them in sequence functions as a First Amendment "cheat code" and is allowed as artistic expression. Broadcasters can be fined more than $325,000 for a single utterance of the F-word, even some fuckhead blurting it out on a live broadcast.
Chief Justice John G. Lemonparty Jr. and Justice Antonin Stilea dominated Tuesday's argument and strongly supported the FCC.
Stilea said he understood that foul words would be heard at a football or baseball game. "Those assholes ain't fit for polite company. But TV's a different fucking one cup of two girls. TV coarsens the public debate, not like that fucking Internet thing. I'm not persuaded by the argument that people are more accustomed to hearing this shit than they were in the past."
During Tuesday's argument, only Justice Ruth Bader Tubgirl, waving her naked hairy butt at the courtroom, suggested the court delve into the 1st Amendment issues that underlay this dispute. It is "the fucking huge pile of elephant dung in the room," she said. "I can't believe this fucking retarded goddamn bullshit."
No demand so far. The 1.0 Dirac codec is a bit rubbish (it's very conservative in its compression). The current development codec is much better but, of course, not finished. If you had video that was a good case for enabling Dirac upload, that'd be a reason to ask the devs to switch it on.
"If I write a GFDL article on my wiki and then I post it on Wikipedia under the GFDL as well, everything is fine: I can share content between the two articles taking care to properly update the history and follow the GFDL, so I continue to benefit from modifications to the Wikipedia copy of my article."
Are you quite sure of that? So sure you'd bet a lawsuit on it?
BOOTH OF DESPAIR, Ohio, Tuesday - Americans today committed egregious acts of democracy to elect the next failed administration and the next failed Congress.
In a fabulous upset, almost no-one could bring themselves to vote directly for either of the official candidates, instead opting for a write-in vote. Popular write-ins included "the black guy", "the old guy", "McCain from 2000" and "Tina Fey." The seventeen votes for "The Invisible Man" were tallied for Joe Biden. Several tons of Liquid Paper needed to be scraped off voting machines.
The winning candidate turned out to be Noneof Theabove, 46, of Dogshit, Nebraska. Apart from the Presidency, Mr Theabove won 72% of Congressional seats and all Senate seats up for election this year.
Mr Theabove's policies include drinking, shouting abuse at the television and inchoate existential despair. "He completely embodies the national mood," said Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, just before applying for a new job flipping burgers.
A majority of US soldiers in Afghanistan stated the place was "just fine, really" and they were learning to speak Pashto rather than returning. Canada looked south and snickered, though not very much as they still had Stephen Harper to cope with. The Kingdom of Mexico stated its "regret" today that it has had to close its borders to American refugees.
When you have people saying to photographers "We promise the GFDL is only a pretend free license, people can't really use your stuff because no-one, not even the FSF, understands the GFDL"... then they've deeply missed the point of "free content."
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Not with only 1GB memory I won't. (These boxes have 768MB, 1GB and 1GB respectively. OS X's arse is fat, but not as fat as Vista's.)
You're assuming significant numbers of Vista installations are in use in business. This appears not to be the case.
You know, you'd have 100% more credibility if you weren't anon.
Indeed. Arse!
Oh well, this is the sort of thing VirtualBox was made for ;-D
As Mark Shuttleworth said, "I've heard creditable reports of Microsoft offering XP at no cost to OEMs."
Particularly when they discover Wine. We use Wine as production machinery at work, so we know damn well it's up to enterprise use. Its magical niche is replacing that one bit of old crapware you can't get rid of. And I'm more surprised these days when Windows software doesn't work well under Wine than when it does.
180 million sales! And at least some of those were actually activated and are actually in use!
Microsoft have the precise number of Vista machines in the wild - it's the number hitting the Windows Update servers. But they don't push that number, they push the "licenses shipped" number, which is meaningless in a world with legally allowed XP upgrades.
Ubuntu and FreeBSD work wonderfully here on my PIII 1.2GHz laptop and PII 450MHz household server (with KDE for when I'm desktopping on it). Mac OS X 10.4 works wonderfully on our 400MHz G3, 400MHz G4 and 800MHz G4.
Really - this is all a Microsoft problem, because their software is mediocre.
The hard part is when reality keeps outdoing satire. It's why Charlie Brooker stopped writing TV Go Home.
Damn the Daily Mash!
I was thinking "console" as in "command line." So that'd be MUDs, then!
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has hailed spectacular, record-breaking public demand for identity cards and will allow people to pre-register within the next few months.
"I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they have nothing to hide and want me personally to have every detail of their lives and pressing ten-pound notes into my hands for their very own precious pink and blue card," she said, taking another hit of her pipe.
The first biometric cards are being issued this month to foreigners who can be forced into it. They will be issued to young people on a voluntary basis from 2010, per every teenager's dream of having their every movement tracked.
People applying for cards and passports from 2012 will have to provide fingerprints, photographs and a signature, which Ms Smith believes will create a market worth about £200m a year by the "mended windows" theory of economics. "It takes money that was being wasted on food and rent and puts it into circulation for the betterment of the whole economy, particularly our dear friends at EDS Capita Goatse."
The Home Office is talking to retailers and the Post Office about setting up booths to gather biometric data. "We're sure everyone would be happy with having their fingerprints taken at Tesco when they get their shopping."
In her speech, Ms Smith rejected claims handing enrolment over to private firms would compromise security. "We're introducing new certification authorities and so forth, which will mean that masses of data never leaves our offices and the BNP never gets a database of every immigrant in the country or anything like that."
Where do Slashdotters send their $5/10/20 or £5/10/20 then?
Conservative Supreme Court judges want to uphold an FCC crackdown on the use of salty language during daytime and early evening hours.
U.S. Solicitor General Gregory G. Goatse said the strict regulation of broadcast TV preserved it as a "safety zone" for families with children. "They'll never hear the foul shit they'd hear on the Internet, on cable or, God fucking perish, the schoolyard."
The Federal Communication Commission imposes heavy fines on broadcasters who broadcast any of "shit," "piss", "fuck," "cunt," "cocksucker," "motherfucker" or "tits," though saying them in sequence functions as a First Amendment "cheat code" and is allowed as artistic expression. Broadcasters can be fined more than $325,000 for a single utterance of the F-word, even some fuckhead blurting it out on a live broadcast.
Chief Justice John G. Lemonparty Jr. and Justice Antonin Stilea dominated Tuesday's argument and strongly supported the FCC.
Stilea said he understood that foul words would be heard at a football or baseball game. "Those assholes ain't fit for polite company. But TV's a different fucking one cup of two girls. TV coarsens the public debate, not like that fucking Internet thing. I'm not persuaded by the argument that people are more accustomed to hearing this shit than they were in the past."
During Tuesday's argument, only Justice Ruth Bader Tubgirl, waving her naked hairy butt at the courtroom, suggested the court delve into the 1st Amendment issues that underlay this dispute. It is "the fucking huge pile of elephant dung in the room," she said. "I can't believe this fucking retarded goddamn bullshit."
Yeah, Dirac's really heavy on the CPU at present.
No demand so far. The 1.0 Dirac codec is a bit rubbish (it's very conservative in its compression). The current development codec is much better but, of course, not finished. If you had video that was a good case for enabling Dirac upload, that'd be a reason to ask the devs to switch it on.
I thought you were about to say your dad was Andrew Tanenbaum!
"If I write a GFDL article on my wiki and then I post it on Wikipedia under the GFDL as well, everything is fine: I can share content between the two articles taking care to properly update the history and follow the GFDL, so I continue to benefit from modifications to the Wikipedia copy of my article."
Are you quite sure of that? So sure you'd bet a lawsuit on it?
Probably for text, not at all for images, I'd think - there's a metric shitload of CC-by and CC-by-sa on Flickr, for example.
BOOTH OF DESPAIR, Ohio, Tuesday - Americans today committed egregious acts of democracy to elect the next failed administration and the next failed Congress.
In a fabulous upset, almost no-one could bring themselves to vote directly for either of the official candidates, instead opting for a write-in vote. Popular write-ins included "the black guy", "the old guy", "McCain from 2000" and "Tina Fey." The seventeen votes for "The Invisible Man" were tallied for Joe Biden. Several tons of Liquid Paper needed to be scraped off voting machines.
The winning candidate turned out to be Noneof Theabove, 46, of Dogshit, Nebraska. Apart from the Presidency, Mr Theabove won 72% of Congressional seats and all Senate seats up for election this year.
Mr Theabove's policies include drinking, shouting abuse at the television and inchoate existential despair. "He completely embodies the national mood," said Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, just before applying for a new job flipping burgers.
A majority of US soldiers in Afghanistan stated the place was "just fine, really" and they were learning to speak Pashto rather than returning. Canada looked south and snickered, though not very much as they still had Stephen Harper to cope with. The Kingdom of Mexico stated its "regret" today that it has had to close its borders to American refugees.
Commons:File types - this is what is permitted by the WMF MediaWiki installation.
Thank you ;-p
It's the only video format allowed on world #8 site Wikipedia.
I understand RMS threatened to do a GNUpedia unless Nupedia adopted the GFDL. [citation needed, I don't have it to hand]
When you have people saying to photographers "We promise the GFDL is only a pretend free license, people can't really use your stuff because no-one, not even the FSF, understands the GFDL" ... then they've deeply missed the point of "free content."