Really for the average mug, W98 & Office 97 are fine.
& using quartedeck or ghost image software you never have to worry about re-installing when things W98 starts to clog up. You just reload the fresh install & apps image.
Consequently we haven't needed to upgrade in 3 years & have not spent a cent on new software since 98.
I wonder haow the US would react if the Russians tricked some American's to fly to Russia, then prosecuted then for breaking Russian laws, while they were residing in the US.
This is as bad as the US putting warrents out on Burmese, Mexican & Columbian drug lords who have never been to the US, so have never been under US juristiction.
Whatever happened to the concept of national juristictions.
Actually I was browsing on a recently released BeOS file sharing utility & noticed that there appeared to be leaked OpenGL drivers avaliable. I say leaked as I don't think the OpenGL rewrite is officially avaliable yet.
plus Unix style directory structure & BASH terminal, & all apps are automatically SMP compatible, all the way up to 8 way SMP systems, with max efficiency to. Plus you can set it up to automatically mount all Drives on the desktop (HDD Partitions, zip drives, LS120 superfloppies, CDROMS, etc), just via the rightclick contextual menu.
I've heard reports that those 4 way SMP Genesis PPC Maclones, upgraded with 4 G3/G4 upgrade cards, absolutelly fly using BeOS (BeOS will unofficially work with G3/G4 CPUs, however no one has written BeOS chipset drivers for Apples's G3/G4 chipsets).
It has a great installer app to that will partition/format & install a complete clone of your BeOS installation on a fresh partition or HDD in about 5 mins flat, well it seems that quick anyway.
There are good apps to, including a Napster client, a winamp clone, the Opera web browser, news readers, FTP, officestuff & FANTASTIC AUDIO MIXING APPS.
Oh, the FS is CDDA compatible so you can play audio CDs straight off the directory without needing one of those silly little cables running from your CDROM to your soundcard.
The simplefact is that the Principality of Sealand is quite legal under common law.
Under common law one fight against ones own nation (or to use English parlence, the crown) without it being treason if one is fight for a prince.
Also Sealand was claimed the day before the UK extendend its sea frontier from the traditional 12 mile.
Consequently some bright chappy went & called himself a prince & claim a WW11 era fortication thats 13 miles off the Themes Esturie, the day before the UK sea claim extensions.
But it also means he has no protection from the laws, twice he had to reppeal attacks from helicoptpers, as others also want sealand too.
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You seem to be mixing up socialism & stalinism.
All the nations of western Europe are socialist democracies, yet by many factors are actually free-er than the US.
You have to remember the US has:-
- the highest incarceration rates in the world
- the highest policing rates in the world
- the highest rate of police shootings in the world.
- the most extreme forfeiture & conspiracy laws in the world (where all that is needed is the uncorrobarated testimony of a paid snitch, bit like stalinist Russia in that regard)
- the highest military expenditure rates in the world (spending at least 10 times more than the country that comes next in that regard)
- & as a percentage of GNP, spends at least 3 times more on military expenditure than any other OECD nation 7 miltary spending per capita is at about the same rate.
Actually the fastest growing industry in the US is the building of jails - did you know that if imprisonment rates keep increasing in the US as they have over the last 10 years then by the year 2030 every single American will either be incarcerated or empoloyed in a jail.
Actually once hours worked per year are factored in (GDP per person, per hour worked) the US has lower figures that Western Europe, Australia & New Zealand.
Remember in Europe & Oz etc most people have a 35 or 38 hour week. Plus they get at least one or 2 flex days off a month, & more than double the public holidays & sick days too. Plus for example here in Oz we all get 4 weeks paid annual leave (with leave loading of 17.5% which means one can add a week of sickies to our annual leave with any financial penalty, plus shift workers get an extra week plus every day worked on a public holiday one gets triple time & another day tacked onto the paid anual leave) & every 5 years with the same employer one gets either 2 months or 3 months paid long service leave (it depends whether one is on a state or federal 'award'). & in most of Western Europe people get 6 weeks paid anual leave.
The simple fact is that Americans have the worse working conditions in the western world
Also all us Europeans & Aussies also get virtually free cradle to grave healthcare & education.
Japan (& Sth Korea) have a command economy that pretends to be capitalist. Even the big business cartels (7 control 95% of Japan's private economy) don't compete with each other. For example both NEC & Nissan belong to the same cartel (I think they are called Kuyetzu or something like that), consequently Nissan only use NEC computers & NEC only use Nissan cars.
Really the whole economy is controlled by the bureaucrats of the industry ministry. For example they were the ones who literally ordered Japan's corporate would to get into electronics 40 years ago.
& the systems works too. Just compare how Japan has developed from being a bombed out wreck 50 years ago to the economic powerhouse today (compared with how much the US has improved over the last 50 years).
Sure there's been a bit of a recession in Japan in the 90's but that's relatively just a blip compared with how they were at the end of the war.
Lets compare the state of Japan 50 years ago compare with the state its in now & compare that with the US over the last 50 years.
Sure things have slowed over the last decade, but overall the rate of improvement over the last 50 years (compared with the US over the last 50 years) shows the Japanese system works better (by at least a multiple of 10), especially when one takes into account that the US has a half a continent of resources to fall back on when the Nips have next to no natural resources (except for themselves).
Plus look at the difference. The Japanese, being a command economy with an appearance of being a market economy actually produces stuff (whereas the US is becoming a nation of lawyers, accountants, waiters, cosmetic surgeons & advertising nounces) & actually makes long term decisions (whereas in the US all that matters is the balance sheet till the next stock meeting or November election - so you have all these businesses & govt depts liquidating their assests & leasing them back to make their books look better & so that some accounts manager can look like he's doing a better job so he can get a goods bonus) & does stuff in the long term.
So we have the Japanese spending 10 years to build a complete manmade Island in the sea, link by high speed railway, because it was the best in the long term, as far as having a new international airport is concerned.
In the US they would have just added an extra runway or too (which would have pissed off more local residents underneath flightpaths) & built a new freeway to the airport (even though that just attracts more road users & would have also ended up gridlocked in 2 years, forcing the powers to be to build a new freeway again & then we'd end up with a new LA with hundreds of gridlocked freeways going everywhere, & no where.).
Why is it such a huge percentage of American christians believe in creationism?
I've yet to met a 'christian' in Australia, or the UK, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter that doesn't believe in evolution. Although (from what I've heard) there are a couple of those creation science nutters in Queensland , but that's to be expected.
Here in Oz we even had the Cardinal in Melbourne sending an American preist back home to the US, because he started going on about that 'creation science nonsense' & the Cardinal wanted none of that in his diosies.
What is it about American 'Christians' that such a high percentage beleive in creationism compared with people who consider themselves cristian in other Western countries?
Mind you the average Aussie who considers himself/herself christian is pretty nominal - they just happen to have been born Catholic or Anglican & don't really think about it much.
Anyway why do creationists have to invent some new 'science' out of it. Can't that just accept it as part of their faith & leave it at that. If Americans school start having to teach Judaic/Christian creationism, that would of course mean they ought to teach Hindu creationism, Jainist creationism, Nordic teutonic pagan creationism, Gallo-Roman creationism, & Celtic creationism too, etc, etc, etc. Afterall we can't descriminate in favour of one or 2 religions in particullar.
Mind you it would leave little time to teach anything of real vocational value.
Why is it such a huge percentage of American christians believe in creationism?
I've yet to met a 'christian' in Australia, or the UK, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter that doesn't believe in evolution. Although (from what I've heard) there are a couple of those creation science nutters in Queensland , but that's to be expected.
Here in Oz we even had the Cardinal in Melbourne sending an American preist back home to the US, because he started going on about that 'creation science nonsense' & the Cardinal wanted none of that in his diosies.
What is it about American 'Christians' that such a high percentage beleive in creationism compared with people who consider themselves cristian in other Western countries?
Mind you the average Aussie who considers himself/herself christian is pretty nominal - they just happen to have been born Catholic or Anglican & don't really think about it much.
Anyway why do creationists have to invent some new 'science' out of it. Can't that just accept it as part of their faith & leave it at that. If Americans school start having to teach Judaic/Christian creationism, that would of course mean they ought to teach Hindu creationism, Jainist creationism, Nordic teutonic pagan creationism, Gallo-Roman creationism, & Celtic creationism too, etc, etc, etc. Afterall we can't descriminate in favour of one or 2 religions in particullar.
Mind you it would leave little time to teach anything of real vocational value.
The simple fact is the vast majority of the poor in the 4rd world were better off in the days when they were living in agrarian barter economies than they are now.
Just compare the lifestyle of someone living in a Javanese kampung in 1920's Netherlands East Indies, with the lifestyle of a contemporary Javanese sweatshop worker.
Or we could compare the lifestyles of the average Ghanian (I think it was Ghana, well it was one of those West African countries) back in the agrarian barter days, before the World Bank conned them into bulldozing all the local Fruit n' Vegetable crops & replace them with cash crops such as coffee. Now the country is in huge debt & everyone else is in debt to, & for what? For lower living standards & life expectancies.
Or we could just compare the difference in lifestyles between the average Englshman of the Middle-ages (say the 12th Century) & that of the average working class English man of I ndustrial revolution Britian (right up to the Victorian era). The Englidsman from the Middle Ages had a diet at least 60% bigger in calaries & lived on average 20 years longer but worked heaps less to (on average there was arround one feast day a week, too).
The simple fact is that economic development does not mean that people are better off, but it does mean that the environment is worse off.
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It means bigger payloads as less fuel will be needed. That's all this is about.
Really for the average mug, W98 & Office 97 are fine. & using quartedeck or ghost image software you never have to worry about re-installing when things W98 starts to clog up. You just reload the fresh install & apps image. Consequently we haven't needed to upgrade in 3 years & have not spent a cent on new software since 98.
Why anyone doesn't use them is beyond me.
well for personal use. Anyway how are Sun to know if you're doing 'work' on your computer, anyway ?
OS/2 is still big in the financial world.
AUX is apple's old server OS from a few years ago.
Even MS has a nix if you go back far enough - ever heard of Xenix.
I wonder haow the US would react if the Russians tricked some American's to fly to Russia, then prosecuted then for breaking Russian laws, while they were residing in the US. This is as bad as the US putting warrents out on Burmese, Mexican & Columbian drug lords who have never been to the US, so have never been under US juristiction. Whatever happened to the concept of national juristictions.
Actually I was browsing on a recently released BeOS file sharing utility & noticed that there appeared to be leaked OpenGL drivers avaliable. I say leaked as I don't think the OpenGL rewrite is officially avaliable yet.
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Maybe you just need to learn what you're doing.
plus Unix style directory structure & BASH terminal, & all apps are automatically SMP compatible, all the way up to 8 way SMP systems, with max efficiency to. Plus you can set it up to automatically mount all Drives on the desktop (HDD Partitions, zip drives, LS120 superfloppies, CDROMS, etc), just via the rightclick contextual menu. I've heard reports that those 4 way SMP Genesis PPC Maclones, upgraded with 4 G3/G4 upgrade cards, absolutelly fly using BeOS (BeOS will unofficially work with G3/G4 CPUs, however no one has written BeOS chipset drivers for Apples's G3/G4 chipsets). It has a great installer app to that will partition/format & install a complete clone of your BeOS installation on a fresh partition or HDD in about 5 mins flat, well it seems that quick anyway. There are good apps to, including a Napster client, a winamp clone, the Opera web browser, news readers, FTP, officestuff & FANTASTIC AUDIO MIXING APPS. Oh, the FS is CDDA compatible so you can play audio CDs straight off the directory without needing one of those silly little cables running from your CDROM to your soundcard.
Well if there are any trees growing locally in dried up creek beds, & they all start to die off, your question's been answered.
Or should I say QNX.
The simplefact is that the Principality of Sealand is quite legal under common law.
Under common law one fight against ones own nation (or to use English parlence, the crown) without it being treason if one is fight for a prince.
Also Sealand was claimed the day before the UK extendend its sea frontier from the traditional 12 mile.
Consequently some bright chappy went & called himself a prince & claim a WW11 era fortication thats 13 miles off the Themes Esturie, the day before the UK sea claim extensions.
But it also means he has no protection from the laws, twice he had to reppeal attacks from helicoptpers, as others also want sealand too.
You seem to be mixing up socialism & stalinism.
All the nations of western Europe are socialist democracies, yet by many factors are actually free-er than the US.
You have to remember the US has:-
- the highest incarceration rates in the world
- the highest policing rates in the world
- the highest rate of police shootings in the world.
- the most extreme forfeiture & conspiracy laws in the world (where all that is needed is the uncorrobarated testimony of a paid snitch, bit like stalinist Russia in that regard)
- the highest military expenditure rates in the world (spending at least 10 times more than the country that comes next in that regard)
- & as a percentage of GNP, spends at least 3 times more on military expenditure than any other OECD nation 7 miltary spending per capita is at about the same rate.
Actually the fastest growing industry in the US is the building of jails - did you know that if imprisonment rates keep increasing in the US as they have over the last 10 years then by the year 2030 every single American will either be incarcerated or empoloyed in a jail.
Actually once hours worked per year are factored in (GDP per person, per hour worked) the US has lower figures that Western Europe, Australia & New Zealand.
Remember in Europe & Oz etc most people have a 35 or 38 hour week. Plus they get at least one or 2 flex days off a month, & more than double the public holidays & sick days too. Plus for example here in Oz we all get 4 weeks paid annual leave (with leave loading of 17.5% which means one can add a week of sickies to our annual leave with any financial penalty, plus shift workers get an extra week plus every day worked on a public holiday one gets triple time & another day tacked onto the paid anual leave) & every 5 years with the same employer one gets either 2 months or 3 months paid long service leave (it depends whether one is on a state or federal 'award'). & in most of Western Europe people get 6 weeks paid anual leave.
The simple fact is that Americans have the worse working conditions in the western world
Also all us Europeans & Aussies also get virtually free cradle to grave healthcare & education.
1 Pound Sterling use to be the same as one pound of sterling silver, hence its name.
Japan (& Sth Korea) have a command economy that pretends to be capitalist. Even the big business cartels (7 control 95% of Japan's private economy) don't compete with each other. For example both NEC & Nissan belong to the same cartel (I think they are called Kuyetzu or something like that), consequently Nissan only use NEC computers & NEC only use Nissan cars. Really the whole economy is controlled by the bureaucrats of the industry ministry. For example they were the ones who literally ordered Japan's corporate would to get into electronics 40 years ago. & the systems works too. Just compare how Japan has developed from being a bombed out wreck 50 years ago to the economic powerhouse today (compared with how much the US has improved over the last 50 years). Sure there's been a bit of a recession in Japan in the 90's but that's relatively just a blip compared with how they were at the end of the war.
Lets compare the state of Japan 50 years ago compare with the state its in now & compare that with the US over the last 50 years.
Sure things have slowed over the last decade, but overall the rate of improvement over the last 50 years (compared with the US over the last 50 years) shows the Japanese system works better (by at least a multiple of 10), especially when one takes into account that the US has a half a continent of resources to fall back on when the Nips have next to no natural resources (except for themselves).
Plus look at the difference. The Japanese, being a command economy with an appearance of being a market economy actually produces stuff (whereas the US is becoming a nation of lawyers, accountants, waiters, cosmetic surgeons & advertising nounces) & actually makes long term decisions (whereas in the US all that matters is the balance sheet till the next stock meeting or November election - so you have all these businesses & govt depts liquidating their assests & leasing them back to make their books look better & so that some accounts manager can look like he's doing a better job so he can get a goods bonus) & does stuff in the long term.
So we have the Japanese spending 10 years to build a complete manmade Island in the sea, link by high speed railway, because it was the best in the long term, as far as having a new international airport is concerned.
In the US they would have just added an extra runway or too (which would have pissed off more local residents underneath flightpaths) & built a new freeway to the airport (even though that just attracts more road users & would have also ended up gridlocked in 2 years, forcing the powers to be to build a new freeway again & then we'd end up with a new LA with hundreds of gridlocked freeways going everywhere, & no where.).
These bloody evolutionary throwbacks, posting on Slashdot...I don't know.......
Why is it such a huge percentage of American christians believe in creationism?
I've yet to met a 'christian' in Australia, or the UK, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter that doesn't believe in evolution. Although (from what I've heard) there are a couple of those creation science nutters in Queensland , but that's to be expected.
Here in Oz we even had the Cardinal in Melbourne sending an American preist back home to the US, because he started going on about that 'creation science nonsense' & the Cardinal wanted none of that in his diosies.
What is it about American 'Christians' that such a high percentage beleive in creationism compared with people who consider themselves cristian in other Western countries?
Mind you the average Aussie who considers himself/herself christian is pretty nominal - they just happen to have been born Catholic or Anglican & don't really think about it much.
Anyway why do creationists have to invent some new 'science' out of it. Can't that just accept it as part of their faith & leave it at that. If Americans school start having to teach Judaic/Christian creationism, that would of course mean they ought to teach Hindu creationism, Jainist creationism, Nordic teutonic pagan creationism, Gallo-Roman creationism, & Celtic creationism too, etc, etc, etc. Afterall we can't descriminate in favour of one or 2 religions in particullar.
Mind you it would leave little time to teach anything of real vocational value.
Why is it such a huge percentage of American christians believe in creationism? I've yet to met a 'christian' in Australia, or the UK, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter that doesn't believe in evolution. Although (from what I've heard) there are a couple of those creation science nutters in Queensland , but that's to be expected. Here in Oz we even had the Cardinal in Melbourne sending an American preist back home to the US, because he started going on about that 'creation science nonsense' & the Cardinal wanted none of that in his diosies. What is it about American 'Christians' that such a high percentage beleive in creationism compared with people who consider themselves cristian in other Western countries? Mind you the average Aussie who considers himself/herself christian is pretty nominal - they just happen to have been born Catholic or Anglican & don't really think about it much. Anyway why do creationists have to invent some new 'science' out of it. Can't that just accept it as part of their faith & leave it at that. If Americans school start having to teach Judaic/Christian creationism, that would of course mean they ought to teach Hindu creationism, Jainist creationism, Nordic teutonic pagan creationism, Gallo-Roman creationism, & Celtic creationism too, etc, etc, etc. Afterall we can't descriminate in favour of one or 2 religions in particullar. Mind you it would leave little time to teach anything of real vocational value.
Haven't you heard of needle & thread.
The simple fact is the vast majority of the poor in the 4rd world were better off in the days when they were living in agrarian barter economies than they are now. Just compare the lifestyle of someone living in a Javanese kampung in 1920's Netherlands East Indies, with the lifestyle of a contemporary Javanese sweatshop worker. Or we could compare the lifestyles of the average Ghanian (I think it was Ghana, well it was one of those West African countries) back in the agrarian barter days, before the World Bank conned them into bulldozing all the local Fruit n' Vegetable crops & replace them with cash crops such as coffee. Now the country is in huge debt & everyone else is in debt to, & for what? For lower living standards & life expectancies. Or we could just compare the difference in lifestyles between the average Englshman of the Middle-ages (say the 12th Century) & that of the average working class English man of I ndustrial revolution Britian (right up to the Victorian era). The Englidsman from the Middle Ages had a diet at least 60% bigger in calaries & lived on average 20 years longer but worked heaps less to (on average there was arround one feast day a week, too). The simple fact is that economic development does not mean that people are better off, but it does mean that the environment is worse off.
or more Yet there have been plenty of innovations before then.