> That's two too many, as far as the target audience is concerned.
And to add some more fun the article says: > If yours doesn't, you will need to compile a new kernel and enable iptables,
> which is beyond the scope of this article (and probably beyond the abilities of most parents).
Has Linux reached a whole new "target audience" or did my brain melt when I became a parent?
They also realize that P2P is very expensive for ISPs because it actually makes the "unlimited use" part of their customers' contracts a true statement.
Yes, but at the same time, ISPs get a lot of new broadband-customers because of P2P.
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I used you alternative A for one really annoying company, but the just continued calling. Until I really flamed them. After that, they never called back. So, when everything else fails, I go for the asshole-strategy.
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... when Linux outperforms Windows where it counts - when it does what they have come to expect a PC to do: when it installs without much hassle, when their hardware works immediately
Perhaps this is a little reminder that not every user should use Linux? Linux is fun for us that enjoys the hassle. But for all the people who just want to use the computer, the alternatives are:
1. Buy a computer with linux preinstalled
2. Find someone who can make everything work
3. Or use windows
the authorities have to go and arrest... people just to "try out the ideas in court"!
More accurate:
The authorities does not say they want to "try out the ideas in court". It is the reporter and Jon Bing (a "cyber-philospher") who are talking about it.
I receive far too many documents in M$ Word format for work, and there is no choice but to use Word on Windows if I want to see it as the sender intended.
Perhaps the best strategy is to sendt the document back to the sender, telling them to save it in the file format of your choice.
Another (more discrete) strategy to get of the "M$-Office-format-race" is to save document in an older M$-Office format. At least, this way you do not force the receiver of your documents to upgrade.
Guess your comment is more wrong than the article. If you want to see something else than "cool artist renditions" there is a small picture at this page:
showing the proto-type KNM Skjold on the Potomac-river. (The article is in norwegian, saying that in January the building of six sister-ships of the Skjold-class will be started).
check out the Bellona foundation's page [bellona.no] : their Northern Fleet page is superbly detailed and they have tons of technical details about Russia's subs and surface ships.
Now I understand why the Russians want to put the russian Bellona-co-worker Nikitin in prison!
What do you want with a computer with a
tiny display and low performance ?
Every day I throw away a pile of old papers and magazines. Even though it gets recycled I find it a waste. So, when the handhelds get cheap enough, I will by one to read from it. (you can not bring a laptop everywhere)
I suppose these thing have the same right to exist like nosehair cutters, electrical earwax removers etc.
Eehmmm. Actually I got an electrical nosehair cutter. Perhaps that explains everything.;-)
Surely, there are more reasons to mistrust the multinational corporations who advance globalization than I could possibly list here.
Give me one reason! If you trust a corporation when it is "national", why not trust it when it gets "multinational"? Sureley you can find a lot of reason to mistrust companies, but it is bullshit to mistrust a company just beacause it is located in serveral countries.
And the new global electronic economy -- can transfer vast sums of capital from one part of the world to another in seconds, quickly stabilizing or de-stabilizing economies, as has happened recently in Asia.
You can not blaim Globalisierung when a country has to deal with the reality. It was rotten politics that led to the Asian-krisis.
Primitive cultures like the one running Afghanistan...
This is an example of an Anti-Globalisation-thought. A very positiv element of Globalisation is that you no longer can look at other culture as primitive.
Given all the lawsuits (DeCSS, the censorware ones, etc.) and all the laws (UCITA, DMCA) that are essentially impacting the net right now, do you see it being the end of the net as we know it?
The net is impacting the world. These lawsuits and laws are just a pathetic conter-reaction.
The net has been changing since it was created, and that is why I like it. The net as we know it (do we really know it in the same way?) will continue. But the net got enough room for everyone, to let them define the net, just as they want to. Whether they are into Business, Censorship or BDSM.
This whole www.waveamerica.com IS a remake of the movie "The Wave". Just added with some flavour of the new millennium.
What scares me, is that Jon Katz and most of this endless/.-discussion do not realise it! And that is just the same as what happend in the movie, just the other way round.
This means, that we are so eager to fight against the censorship (and, yes, of course, we shall), that we are not capable to see the difference between truth and bullshit.
BTW: Please note that JonKatz compares it with "from Nazism to fascism to Communism". He does not mention the anti-communist-witch-hunt in the US in the 50s.
Good point. Star Office is a great app. Unfortunately is it awfull slow on my low-end computer (as compared to ms-office 95)
> Besides, does M$ have the patience or the know how to create the different distros of office, > or are they going to distribute the source code out for the applications ?
Most likely will MS distribute it through their normal channels, and not through "our" distros.
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And to add some more fun the article says:
> If yours doesn't, you will need to compile a new kernel and enable iptables,
> which is beyond the scope of this article (and probably beyond the abilities of most parents).
Has Linux reached a whole new "target audience" or did my brain melt when I became a parent?
> Younger and younger participants.
Perhaps you got older?
> (is there a jury in this case?)
No. There is a judge and two "co-judges" (people without juridical education, randomly selected). In an appeal-case there will be a jury.
> over 95% employees have been with the
> company for the past 5 years
That is impressive
> So who exactly are the great hordes who are out
> there demanding that this new, wonderful product
> be released? Do they even exist?
Good question.
Someone in a production environment propably need a stable release. The rest of us use don't.
Does it excist any statistic about this?
They also realize that P2P is very expensive for ISPs because it actually makes the "unlimited use" part of their customers' contracts a true statement.
Yes, but at the same time, ISPs get a lot of new broadband-customers because of P2P.
I used you alternative A for one really annoying company, but the just continued calling. Until I really flamed them. After that, they never called back. So, when everything else fails, I go for the asshole-strategy.
Perhaps this is a little reminder that not every user should use Linux? Linux is fun for us that enjoys the hassle. But for all the people who just want to use the computer, the alternatives are:
2. Find someone who can make everything work
3. Or use windows
>> Formatting/tables/graphics/highlighting?
> Use PDF. Or HTML.
Has you ever wanted to do anything with a PDF-file, except from reading it?
And with HTML you will often end up with a lot of different files instead of a singel word-file.
Perhaps an open-word-standard is the solution?
the authorities have to go and arrest ... people just to "try out the ideas in court"!
More accurate:
The authorities does not say they want to "try out the ideas in court". It is the reporter and Jon Bing (a "cyber-philospher") who are talking about it.
Business involves compromises, and one of these is that you deal with the shit that paying customers dump on you
:-)
Agree. But it is not only paying customers who dump you shit. And hopefully you do not have to compromise with everybody everytime?
I can tell you that telling your customers to f**k off until they fix their requirements
What a luck I am not working with sales.
I receive far too many documents in M$ Word format for work, and there is no choice but to use Word on Windows if I want to see it as the sender intended.
Perhaps the best strategy is to sendt the document back to the sender, telling them to save it in the file format of your choice.
Another (more discrete) strategy to get of the "M$-Office-format-race" is to save document in an older M$-Office format. At least, this way you do not force the receiver of your documents to upgrade.
Now, if sql-ledger guys wanted to do payroll, they'd need to track law changes across all 50 states.
:-)
May I remind you that this forum is not only for USA? To track law changes in every state and every country might be even a bit more difficult.
the penalties are severe and "your honour/officer, my linux software made a mistake" does not cut it.
Guess this is a general difference when you need some "business" software.
Guess your comment is more wrong than the article. If you want to see something else than "cool artist renditions" there is a small picture at this page:
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http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/regional/mandal/
showing the proto-type KNM Skjold on the Potomac-river. (The article is in norwegian, saying that in January the building of six sister-ships of the Skjold-class will be started).
check out the Bellona foundation's page [bellona.no] : their Northern Fleet page is superbly detailed and they have tons of technical details about Russia's subs and surface ships.
Now I understand why the Russians want to put the russian Bellona-co-worker Nikitin in prison!
What do you want with a computer with a tiny display and low performance ?
;-)
Every day I throw away a pile of old papers and magazines. Even though it gets recycled I find it a waste. So, when the handhelds get cheap enough, I will by one to read from it. (you can not bring a laptop everywhere)
I suppose these thing have the same right to exist like nosehair cutters, electrical earwax removers etc.
Eehmmm. Actually I got an electrical nosehair cutter. Perhaps that explains everything.
Surely, there are more reasons to mistrust the multinational corporations who advance globalization than I could possibly list here.
Give me one reason! If you trust a corporation when it is "national", why not trust it when it gets "multinational"? Sureley you can find a lot of reason to mistrust companies, but it is bullshit to mistrust a company just beacause it is located in serveral countries.
And the new global electronic economy -- can transfer vast sums of capital from one part of the world to another in seconds, quickly stabilizing or de-stabilizing economies, as has happened recently in Asia.
You can not blaim Globalisierung when a country has to deal with the reality. It was rotten politics that led to the Asian-krisis.
Primitive cultures like the one running Afghanistan...
This is an example of an Anti-Globalisation-thought. A very positiv element of Globalisation is that you no longer can look at other culture as primitive.
The net is impacting the world. These lawsuits and laws are just a pathetic conter-reaction.
The net has been changing since it was created, and that is why I like it. The net as we know it (do we really know it in the same way?) will continue. But the net got enough room for everyone, to let them define the net, just as they want to. Whether they are into Business, Censorship or BDSM.
What scares me, is that Jon Katz and most of this endless /.-discussion do not realise it! And that is just the same as what happend in the movie, just the other way round.
This means, that we are so eager to fight against the censorship (and, yes, of course, we shall), that we are not capable to see the difference between truth and bullshit.
BTW: Please note that JonKatz compares it with "from Nazism to fascism to Communism". He does not mention the anti-communist-witch-hunt in the US in the 50s.
BTW2: Blame Canada.
P-1 is a fictional program created to penetrate a remote computer, get resources for an attack, but avoid detection
Yup, that would explain everything. My computer is constantly getting slower.
Good point. Star Office is a great app. Unfortunately is it awfull slow on my low-end computer (as compared to ms-office 95)
> Besides, does M$ have the patience or the know how to create the different distros of office,
> or are they going to distribute the source code out for the applications ?
Most likely will MS distribute it through their normal channels, and not through "our" distros.