Aren't they publically having dfficulties in emerging markets? Still if I was in China or whatever and someone said to me Windows XP or house, food for 10 years and Linux i'd pick the second option...
I know i'm not really being ontopic, but i wanted to express myself in a place more than 1 person would see.
MS aren't evil, Pol Pot and his killing fields were evil. MS aren't bad employers. Working in east asia and being paid 4 cents for 18 hours of making plastic toys means your employer is bad, tho most likely you wont have a choice.
MS is a multinational corporation that treats its employees well and produces software that 95% of people think is good.
I don't understand the argument that a womens brain falls out during childbirth.
My mother is not technical *at all* and she is capabale of and has installed software that firewalls her pc, goes to windowsupdate and patches her pc. Hell she runs firebird and was the one that told me about it.
It's been a while since I adminned any Solaris boxes in anger, but there was stuff on them that was equivalent or better than perfmon, and this was back with 2.7 / 2.8 machines.
Some really old posts I made on Usenet that I thought were dead and gone suddenly showed up on Google, I wasn't happy with them being there so asked Google to remove them and they did very quickly once they could verify I was the original poster.
There's a similar thing with the Thief games, and i assume MGS / Pandora Tomorrow too. The idea is to play through the levels without alerting anyone of your presence or any physical violence whatsoever. Sometimes you just have to kill or disable someone or something, but usually there's a way past with some patience.
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I use my computer for talking crap on message boards and shooting virtual aliens thanks.
Can someone summarise what the parent said? Couldn't be bothered to read it.
Aren't they publically having dfficulties in emerging markets? Still if I was in China or whatever and someone said to me Windows XP or house, food for 10 years and Linux i'd pick the second option...
The NZ stock exchange had any kind of usage on it at all. There's what 3 companies, a bunch of sheep and Lord of the Rings there right?
I'm not trying to slight NZ, but please redo this story when something like NASDAQ switches.
I know i'm not really being ontopic, but i wanted to express myself in a place more than 1 person would see.
MS aren't evil, Pol Pot and his killing fields were evil.
MS aren't bad employers. Working in east asia and being paid 4 cents for 18 hours of making plastic toys means your employer is bad, tho most likely you wont have a choice.
MS is a multinational corporation that treats its employees well and produces software that 95% of people think is good.
There are other jobs available, if you're uncomfortable being paid every month you have plenty of other options.
From my perspective as a married man, and a prospective Father they are a a lot better to work for than many other multinationals.
I for one welcome our new Web Browser overlords.
Not everyone is a thief.
I don't understand the argument that a womens brain falls out during childbirth.
My mother is not technical *at all* and she is capabale of and has installed software that firewalls her pc, goes to windowsupdate and patches her pc. Hell she runs firebird and was the one that told me about it.
wierd, i'm using firefox 0.9.1 or whatever is current on FreeBSD
It's been a while since I adminned any Solaris boxes in anger, but there was stuff on them that was equivalent or better than perfmon, and this was back with 2.7 / 2.8 machines.
So basically it makes Solaris Sysadmins obsolete?
Anyone know of a BSD gig going?
My head explodes when I read marketing speak, what does it do? what is it?
(any answers along the lines of it DTRACES your OS etc will make me come to your mothers house and explode my head all over her prize dinnerware set)
If it doesn't make me say "Oh boy..." in a resigned kind of way it is no Quantum leap.
I have a library full of quirky PS2 games, stuff like Ico and Rez for instance.
Unless you are asking for quirky games that aren't very good?
Some really old posts I made on Usenet that I thought were dead and gone suddenly showed up on Google, I wasn't happy with them being there so asked Google to remove them and they did very quickly once they could verify I was the original poster.
There's a similar thing with the Thief games, and i assume MGS / Pandora Tomorrow too. The idea is to play through the levels without alerting anyone of your presence or any physical violence whatsoever. Sometimes you just have to kill or disable someone or something, but usually there's a way past with some patience.
buy oracle.
had a longer comment but slashdot said it was a bunch of seconds until you can reply and wiped out my post.
American Graffiti is about a hundred times better.
I think the subject line says it all but polish a turd and it's still a turd, albeit a shiny new turd.
cd /usr/ports/blackcoot
make sense_of_humor
make: failed at line 3 - libHumor not found.
...they attach my name in real life to the bits they collect and start selling that information.
it's not an invasion of privacy to collect information on hardware.
I'd love to be in your English class.
In my class all we read was shit like Macbeth, Of Mice and Men, Sense and Sensibility, Lord of the Flies etc...
Oh wait, those aren't shit.
The Cryptonomicon is a fabulous book, in the same vein i'd suggest Foucaults' Pendulum.
A lot of people find both books tedious, but I found them both to be rip roaring adventures with an extra moderation of +insightful
Dr Seuss books are soo targetted at geeks, the good doctor taught me about wordplay and rhyme without reason.