I don't. I mean, I understand playing sports; that's fun, but I don't get sports fandom. It's one thing to cheer for a friend or family that's playing a game but to be emotionally involved with a bunch of rich guys playing a game with a ball is just weird.
I'm from Pittsburgh, I don't know how it is in other big cities but it's perfectly normal for a stranger to strike up a conversation with you by asking what you thought of the Steeler game. They look at me like I have two heads when I tell them that I hate football.
Guys at work will actually have their emotional states affected by the outcome of the previous week's Steeler game. Some employers will allow people to break the dress code so that they can wear the team's colors on the days of "important" games.
About 10 years ago, something like 30% of the local residents voted in favor of increasing the sales tax so that they could build a new stadium for the local sports teams.
But, WE'RE the ones who are disconnected from reality...
The Asperger's Syndrome kind of coder (and I'm one, so I can make fun of myself if I want to) which finds more joy in coding something cool instead of going out and flirting with a girl
People want to sit down at their PC and be able to watch their movies, listen to their music and play their games without trawling websites for 2 hours, reading manuals.
A well designed distro will allow the first two of those things. It's going to be a long time before the last one becomes a reality.
Incidentally, the term "language police" is quite offensive to francophones such as myself
Are their agents of any law enforcement agency that enforce the laws requiring the use of French? If so, do these agents have the power to impose punishments upon those who do not conform to the law? If so, what's wrong with calling them "language police"?
On the other hand, though, if this is a small tribe and they only teach the language to other tribe members, and Microsoft intends to make a profit off using this language, then maybe it is some sort of "human rights" issue.
I'm usually quick to join any group bashing of Microsoft, but this one strikes me as more than a bit stupid. By making their software available in more languages, Microsoft is performing a service. They can choose not to buy it if they don't want it. It's not like native speakers of other languages will be lining up to purchase Office in some obscure language like this.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house.
The question presupposes too many things. Namely that muslims are either praying or plotting terror 24/7 and that no athiest ever plans to hurt anyone else.
Muslims, especially arabs, have become what black people were in the time period between reconstruction and the 1960s. The scapegoat for every one of society's ills and a panic button that people with an agenda know that they can push.
Today we have sneak and peek warrants because idiots are afraid that "Da Moose-lims" are going to blow things up. Do you know how people succeeded in getting cocaine criminalized? By scaring the white masses by crafting the idea of big black bucks who were out of their mind on the drug rampaging and raping white women.
Maybe a muslim president would succeed in severing our ubmilical relationship with Israel.
We're a country who has had one Catholic President and one Quaker. Arguably we've had pagans, if you count the deists. But their particular brand of deism was not too far from standard Christianity.
I predict that we'll have a Jewish president before an athiest.
At present I do not have any plans to continue or discontinue writing patches for Pine or Alpine (if it ever comes out!), since I am preparing for the birth of my second daugther (December 1st) and am swamped with work.
They cannot break legacy code but Apple gambled and did it, and I think it succeeded. Subjectively I know more and more people who ditch their Windows machines for Macs or even Linux.
Apple didn't have as big of a catalog of software to abandon.
I bet a lot of the Linux crowd would jump ship quickly if they could play DVDs, mp3's, run Photoshop and Office on it, while still having their command prompt, the network stack and ext3/XFS etc.
I just played a DVD from Kubuntu's live incarnation yesterday. I have been running MP3s on Mandrake and RedHat for at least 7 years. Photoshop is still a huge hurdle. Office alternatives (especially for home users) have been plentiful for years.
What is this click-to-call feature? How does it work?
Google is testing a new feature that lets you speak directly over the phone, for free, to businesses you find on Google search results pages. When this feature is available for a business, you'll see a green phone icon in their advertisement or a call link next to their contact information.
Here's how it works: Click the phone icon or call link, and you'll be invited to enter your own phone number into a special field. When you do so and then click Connect for free, Google will call your number almost immediately. Pick up, and you'll hear ringing on the other end as Google connects you to the business you selected. When they answer, you simply talk normally as you would with any other call.
This isn't for prank calls. It's only use is to keep businesses from using their caller-id to amass a list of telephone numbers. They could arguably claim that the "do not call list" doesn't apply because they'd be returning calls to people who have called them.
It can help businesses too. If you're too small of an operation to afford a toll free number, you can have your customers call you for free and place orders from you.
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I don't. I mean, I understand playing sports; that's fun, but I don't get sports fandom. It's one thing to cheer for a friend or family that's playing a game but to be emotionally involved with a bunch of rich guys playing a game with a ball is just weird.
I'm from Pittsburgh, I don't know how it is in other big cities but it's perfectly normal for a stranger to strike up a conversation with you by asking what you thought of the Steeler game. They look at me like I have two heads when I tell them that I hate football.
Guys at work will actually have their emotional states affected by the outcome of the previous week's Steeler game. Some employers will allow people to break the dress code so that they can wear the team's colors on the days of "important" games.
About 10 years ago, something like 30% of the local residents voted in favor of increasing the sales tax so that they could build a new stadium for the local sports teams.
But, WE'RE the ones who are disconnected from reality...
LK
The Asperger's Syndrome kind of coder (and I'm one, so I can make fun of myself if I want to) which finds more joy in coding something cool instead of going out and flirting with a girl
Then this must not be a genetic condition.
LK
People want to sit down at their PC and be able to watch their movies, listen to their music and play their games without trawling websites for 2 hours, reading manuals.
A well designed distro will allow the first two of those things. It's going to be a long time before the last one becomes a reality.
LK
Incidentally, the term "language police" is quite offensive to francophones such as myself
Are their agents of any law enforcement agency that enforce the laws requiring the use of French? If so, do these agents have the power to impose punishments upon those who do not conform to the law? If so, what's wrong with calling them "language police"?
LK
Does Microsoft pay the government of France a licensinge fee for producing a French language version of their products?
LK
On the other hand, though, if this is a small tribe and they only teach the language to other tribe members, and Microsoft intends to make a profit off using this language, then maybe it is some sort of "human rights" issue.
I'm usually quick to join any group bashing of Microsoft, but this one strikes me as more than a bit stupid. By making their software available in more languages, Microsoft is performing a service. They can choose not to buy it if they don't want it. It's not like native speakers of other languages will be lining up to purchase Office in some obscure language like this.
LK
How funny is it that in a discussion about burning laptops, your post got modded "Flamebait"?
LK
A rather elitist and patronizing view of the elderly.
I love my grandfather, but I cringe whenever he makes a new technology purchase.
It took me a week to teach him how to use his DVR.
LK
Nothing short of a complimentary blowjob from Melinda Gates will make me even consider buying Office 2007.
LK
Meh, deuterium isn't actually that complex. One Proton and one Neutron.
Don't forget the electron.
LK
Let's call it driver magic. If your OS sees a video device and the underlying APIs can access that device, does it really matter where it's located?
LK
Or maybe they could creat a set of multimedia extensions.
They could call it MMX.
LK
es, we call those people "ignorant"... or possibly "bigoted".
In high school, I date a girl and one day I asked her "Are you a Christian?" She responded "No, I'm a Catholic."
LK
They do this even when they aren't on drugs.
Vist a night club some time, the vast majority of it is completely consentual.
LK
The question presupposes too many things. Namely that muslims are either praying or plotting terror 24/7 and that no athiest ever plans to hurt anyone else.
Muslims, especially arabs, have become what black people were in the time period between reconstruction and the 1960s. The scapegoat for every one of society's ills and a panic button that people with an agenda know that they can push.
Today we have sneak and peek warrants because idiots are afraid that "Da Moose-lims" are going to blow things up. Do you know how people succeeded in getting cocaine criminalized? By scaring the white masses by crafting the idea of big black bucks who were out of their mind on the drug rampaging and raping white women.
Maybe a muslim president would succeed in severing our ubmilical relationship with Israel.
LK
We're a country who has had one Catholic President and one Quaker. Arguably we've had pagans, if you count the deists. But their particular brand of deism was not too far from standard Christianity.
I predict that we'll have a Jewish president before an athiest.
LK
What about the "French" or the "Dutch" or the "Chinese" or the "Japanese"?
We don't call people from the Peoples Reupblic of China prians.
Francians, Netherlandians, Chinaians and Japanians sound just as idiotic as usians.
LK
If he just bought a PS3 he should be able to give 500 subscriptions away and still have a profit.
LK
Second, while they did lock out new logins, it should be pointed out that any user who was currently online was not kicked off
It's now misleading to use standard english? Locking out " new logins" carries the connotation that only new login attempts would be affected.
LK
I wish I was a subscriber.
Do you have $5.00?
LK
I know that you're only semi-serious, but it's an excellent point.
The counter-point would be that here in the well armed US of A, we have the DMCA.
LK
RTFA. It's the third sentence on the page
LK
I'm not familiar with the requirements for Sourceforge projects, but is there any reason why this project couldn't be hosted on Sourceforge?
LK
They cannot break legacy code but Apple gambled and did it, and I think it succeeded. Subjectively I know more and more people who ditch their Windows machines for Macs or even Linux.
Apple didn't have as big of a catalog of software to abandon.
I bet a lot of the Linux crowd would jump ship quickly if they could play DVDs, mp3's, run Photoshop and Office on it, while still having their command prompt, the network stack and ext3/XFS etc.
I just played a DVD from Kubuntu's live incarnation yesterday. I have been running MP3s on Mandrake and RedHat for at least 7 years. Photoshop is still a huge hurdle. Office alternatives (especially for home users) have been plentiful for years.
LK
Google is testing a new feature that lets you speak directly over the phone, for free, to businesses you find on Google search results pages. When this feature is available for a business, you'll see a green phone icon in their advertisement or a call link next to their contact information.
Here's how it works: Click the phone icon or call link, and you'll be invited to enter your own phone number into a special field. When you do so and then click Connect for free, Google will call your number almost immediately. Pick up, and you'll hear ringing on the other end as Google connects you to the business you selected. When they answer, you simply talk normally as you would with any other call.
This isn't for prank calls. It's only use is to keep businesses from using their caller-id to amass a list of telephone numbers. They could arguably claim that the "do not call list" doesn't apply because they'd be returning calls to people who have called them.
It can help businesses too. If you're too small of an operation to afford a toll free number, you can have your customers call you for free and place orders from you.
There's no down-side to this.
LK