"Assurances, huh? Ever think for a minute that maybe North Korea has no reason to believe anything the Bush administration says? Maybe if Bush builds up some goodwill and trust then the North would be willing to resume negotiations. You don't negotiate with someone you think is lying to you."
Strange. Replace words to read the following:
Assurances, huh? Ever think for a minute that maybe the United States has no reason to believe anything Saddam Hussein says? Maybe if Iraq builds up some goodwill and trust then the USA would be willing to resume negotiations. You don't negotiate with someone you think is lying to you.
Look, these problems with foreign countries cannot be solved by force of arms. We need to take every opportunity to reach out within reason. Giving aid to millions of innocents struck by a natural disaster is the definition of humanity.
"Health economy, outsourcing, poverty, education" are nearly trivial at this point for people struggling for survival. I hope no one takes this attitude with you should you, God forbid, ever be in a similar situation.
Actually, with all due respect, when the "cause" becomes more important than then improvement of the human condition, perhaps priorities need to be re-examined.
As long as this is worthwhile, for the public good, I have spare cycles, and I have Windows boxes, I will be helping out this effort.
For the things that Linux does exceedingly well (proxy/firewall/Samba/router) I use it exclusively. For the things it doesn't do so well (finance, games) I toy with it when the mood strikes me.
Although, my Mandrake subscription is paid up. So whenever I can switch, should the desire arise, I am ready.
I think you have just defined the open source experience for most of us.
I personally am running Fedora on my proxy/firewall/web server at home and have Mandrake loaded up as a secondary OS on my main machine. The primary OS is, sadly, windows XP. Although I have OpenOffice and every possible application and utility replacement running under XP, there are just some things I cannot replace. Financial management software is a perfect example (and no, GNUCash is not acceptable).
Once there is no reason for me to have XP loaded I may or may not switch to Linux for my main OS. But right now, I am running every open source app I can get my hands on. In short, good for open source no matter how you cut it.
With SOE also supporting EQ2, I don't know that it necessarily matters. In my opinion, they should just abandon the trainwreck that is SWG and throw more resources at EQ2. Perhaps even an SWG2: Return of the Content.
This report is a red herring. Although the percentages are higher in those countries, the actual number of installations in the US is higher.
After all, assume households of 4 people:
Population Households Canada 32M 8M Korea 48M 12M Taiwan 22M 6M USA 300M 75M
If the US penetration is 20%, then 15M households in the US have broadband. Almost 70% of the number of households in all three countries. They would need to be collectively at 70% of penetration to be over the US. Oh, and by the way, the US has 60 million to go wheras those three are at saturation.
Not the most scientific extrapolation, but I don't think I'm too far off.
Also, it's interesting to note that the person disappointed is "head of the Information Technology Association of America, a leading industry trade group in Washington." Need I say more?
Unfortunately, its the WalMart zombies (their target audience btw) who can resist the siren call of "shiny things" that are really to blame. Are there enough "slashbots" to really make a difference anyway?
As for me, screw Half-Life 2. I would have been excited about this 2 years ago. Now? Eh...
Oops, that's what I get for going to a static website for currency exchange info. 3.25 is still pretty good if the cost of living locally is not off the scale.
Tough little country, Poland. Survived the Nazis and the Communists both in the same century(along with Czechoslovakia, Hungary, et al.). Guess you guys know what dictatorship is really about. Maybe if they change the Visa rules, some more of you folks can come over and have a word with our congressmen. They seem to need a talking to.
Screw Canada. If the Poles support relaxed copyrights with a sensible time duration, I am moving there. Sounds like at least one government has its head on its shoulders.
3.98:1 exchange for Polish zloty to the dollar, 200 miles from Munich, 700 from Amsterdam, and I hear they have cheap broadband internet access. Sounds good to me.
Hell. I don't have a software engineering degree, I need references to write batch files, and bash totally confounds me sometimes. All that having been said even I can understand the damn thing.
And your last sentence is exactly why Kerry lost. Republicans generaly realize that voting is only half of your responsibility as an American. The other half is trying to put aside your differences and making an attempt to work with the person in power.
I for one cannot see Democrats as a rule doing that. And we now have 4 more years to prove that point.
if only Dell would start offering systems with AMD CPUs installed I would consider them. Not that I'm an AMD zealot (well maybe) but I hate being locked into a "solution". Choice is key.
So can we start adding little kill Icons to the/. menu bar for everytime we kill a server? Make it specific to the OS of the box that was flamed. Like fighter pilots used to do on the sides of their fighters.
5 out of 8 "not voting" for Kerry while all the others voted for every measure? And those include education, agriculture, and strengthening local government.
Also a no vote for strengthening Social Security but a yes vote for preventing drilling in the arctic refuge.
Is this meant to be biased or is this really his voting record? If it is accurate, I guarantee who I'm not voting for.
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"Assurances, huh? Ever think for a minute that maybe North Korea has no reason to believe anything the Bush administration says? Maybe if Bush builds up some goodwill and trust then the North would be willing to resume negotiations. You don't negotiate with someone you think is lying to you."
Strange. Replace words to read the following:
Assurances, huh? Ever think for a minute that maybe the United States has no reason to believe anything Saddam Hussein says? Maybe if Iraq builds up some goodwill and trust then the USA would be willing to resume negotiations. You don't negotiate with someone you think is lying to you.
Just an observation.
Look, these problems with foreign countries cannot be solved by force of arms. We need to take every opportunity to reach out within reason. Giving aid to millions of innocents struck by a natural disaster is the definition of humanity.
"Health economy, outsourcing, poverty, education" are nearly trivial at this point for people struggling for survival. I hope no one takes this attitude with you should you, God forbid, ever be in a similar situation.
Actually, with all due respect, when the "cause" becomes more important than then improvement of the human condition, perhaps priorities need to be re-examined.
As long as this is worthwhile, for the public good, I have spare cycles, and I have Windows boxes, I will be helping out this effort.
Heh, there goes my #1 ranking on the /. team.
I think you mean Samuel Adams not Samuel Jackson.
Although I like Sam Jackson as an actor, I don't think I would classify him as "Mmm-mmm".
heh, that clarifies my clarification.
For the things that Linux does exceedingly well (proxy/firewall/Samba/router) I use it exclusively. For the things it doesn't do so well (finance, games) I toy with it when the mood strikes me.
Although, my Mandrake subscription is paid up. So whenever I can switch, should the desire arise, I am ready.
I think you have just defined the open source experience for most of us.
I personally am running Fedora on my proxy/firewall/web server at home and have Mandrake loaded up as a secondary OS on my main machine. The primary OS is, sadly, windows XP. Although I have OpenOffice and every possible application and utility replacement running under XP, there are just some things I cannot replace. Financial management software is a perfect example (and no, GNUCash is not acceptable).
Once there is no reason for me to have XP loaded I may or may not switch to Linux for my main OS. But right now, I am running every open source app I can get my hands on. In short, good for open source no matter how you cut it.
Actually I like this answer. Now if someone opposed this research on "religious grounds", you can use the Bible as a source of precedent.
Fight fire with fire I say.
With SOE also supporting EQ2, I don't know that it necessarily matters. In my opinion, they should just abandon the trainwreck that is SWG and throw more resources at EQ2. Perhaps even an SWG2: Return of the Content.
Dear Voter,
See? We told you recounts would have no affect on the results. Move along.
Sincerely,
D. Ashcroft
This report is a red herring. Although the percentages are higher in those countries, the actual number of installations in the US is higher.
After all, assume households of 4 people:
Population Households
Canada 32M 8M
Korea 48M 12M
Taiwan 22M 6M
USA 300M 75M
If the US penetration is 20%, then 15M households in the US have broadband. Almost 70% of the number of households in all three countries. They would need to be collectively at 70% of penetration to be over the US. Oh, and by the way, the US has 60 million to go wheras those three are at saturation.
Not the most scientific extrapolation, but I don't think I'm too far off.
Also, it's interesting to note that the person disappointed is "head of the Information Technology Association of America, a leading industry trade group in Washington." Need I say more?
Unfortunately, its the WalMart zombies (their target audience btw) who can resist the siren call of "shiny things" that are really to blame. Are there enough "slashbots" to really make a difference anyway?
As for me, screw Half-Life 2. I would have been excited about this 2 years ago. Now? Eh...
Oops, that's what I get for going to a static website for currency exchange info. 3.25 is still pretty good if the cost of living locally is not off the scale.
Tough little country, Poland. Survived the Nazis and the Communists both in the same century(along with Czechoslovakia, Hungary, et al.). Guess you guys know what dictatorship is really about. Maybe if they change the Visa rules, some more of you folks can come over and have a word with our congressmen. They seem to need a talking to.
Screw Canada. If the Poles support relaxed copyrights with a sensible time duration, I am moving there. Sounds like at least one government has its head on its shoulders.
3.98:1 exchange for Polish zloty to the dollar, 200 miles from Munich, 700 from Amsterdam, and I hear they have cheap broadband internet access. Sounds good to me.
Hell. I don't have a software engineering degree, I need references to write batch files, and bash totally confounds me sometimes. All that having been said even I can understand the damn thing.
Already there. Buying my third one today.
It's scarier if your tinfoil hat has come loose.
And your last sentence is exactly why Kerry lost. Republicans generaly realize that voting is only half of your responsibility as an American. The other half is trying to put aside your differences and making an attempt to work with the person in power.
I for one cannot see Democrats as a rule doing that. And we now have 4 more years to prove that point.
Oops, my bad. That's what I get for trying to watch 3 webpages, 2 TV channels and read /. at the same time.
Belay that last.
Seeing as CNN has already given West Virgina to Bush and Slate gives it to Kerry with a comfortable margin, I wouldn't hold this as gospel yet.
if only Dell would start offering systems with AMD CPUs installed I would consider them. Not that I'm an AMD zealot (well maybe) but I hate being locked into a "solution". Choice is key.
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
So can we start adding little kill Icons to the /. menu bar for everytime we kill a server? Make it specific to the OS of the box that was flamed. Like fighter pilots used to do on the sides of their fighters.
You know, clippy, tux, a fedora, Darl.
"Cannot connect to database"
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Guess that's what you get for asking to stress test a server from
5 out of 8 "not voting" for Kerry while all the others voted for every measure? And those include education, agriculture, and strengthening local government.
Also a no vote for strengthening Social Security but a yes vote for preventing drilling in the arctic refuge.
Is this meant to be biased or is this really his voting record? If it is accurate, I guarantee who I'm not voting for.