I think the ones doing the most abusing of the Royal name are the Saxe-Coburgs themselves. I mean, they even try to get away with it by calling themselves the Windsors and pretending to be Greek or English.
The main problem foreign governments have with Microsoft software is security not economical. Although the cost of say, equiping all of the desktops and servers in the Ministry of Defence with Windows XP is large, it pales into insignificance when compared with the procurement budget.
If you are using software that is running a large part of your goverment infrastructure you want to be clear that no information is leaking out to other governments or foreign corporations. Which in the world of defence spanding (to reuse the example) is often the same thing, more or less.
Nothing to do with anti-american or anti-capitalist sentiments just plain and simple economics and security.
I fail to see how seeing Ms Jacksons nipple or hearing someone say fuck is going to corrupt anyones children. I we all want to censor things that e donlt want our children to see there's not going to be much left on TV anymore. I dread the day when my children catch sight of Barnye the Dinosaur. That is offensive
I, for one, am glad that I and my children don't live in America.
Have you never heard of an off-switch or don't they build then into American TVs so you cant steal from the TV companies by switching off and not watching the progams that occasionally appear between the adverts ?
Based on UK-style profiling it sounds like she might be a terrorist, with a name like that. Or at least someone who could have contributed money to Norad or Sinn Feinn
(The initiative doesn't give the govt. more information, it just helps agencies better share the information they already have.)
I think you are confusing data with information. By organising a fixed amount of data in different ways it's possible to get more information out of it than you could previously.
MySQL is popular among people who don't really understand databases and what they are for. It's generally used by people who see a database as a big bucket for holding all their data. They're not aware of all the work that can be saved by letting a database take care of data integrity, reinforcing data rules etc etc.
Just ask any Oracle DBA who's had to work with java developers who think they need to do everything in the client or in the middleware.
It wasn't enough of a culture shock to stop us bombing the fuck out of each other at the least provocation ever since. So much for "brotherhood of man" "small speck in the universe" "no borders visible from space" stuff that a lot of people were spouting at the time.
Yup I can say "Hamburg". I lived there for ten years. Have you any figures for how many Platt speakers live there ?
I mean proper speakers not just someone who can belt out a couple of verses of "Ick hev een Hamburger veermaster seen". I met very few. All the platt speakers I met in Hamburg came from the countryside. None of them were born in Hamburg.
Low Saxon ? My wife is a german scholar and teacher and she grew up speaking Low German (or Niederdeutsch or Plattduutsch) und "Ick kunn ok een betten platt schnacken" despite the fact that I'm English, who are supposed to be the worst people in Europe at learning foreign languges
My wife always refers to it as low german in English and in German academic texts it is always refered to as "Niederdeutsch". I have never heard of it referred to as Low Saxon
Lower Saxony is one of the states (Laender) of Germany and Low German is spoken in parts of it, particularly in the countryside. Maybe someone from there is the KDE translator and has decided to hijack the name of the language:-)
It's a very interesting language with a long history. It was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League. There is no official orthography for Low German although it is generally spelled phonetically using modern german pronunciation of the letters ( a bit like writing "parlay voo" as a phonetic english spelling of "parlez vous"). It is almost impossible for "normal" or High German speakers to understand someone speaking Low German. Funnily enough, I come from a part of England where the local dialect is strongly influence by scandinavian and germanic (North East England) so that because I could speak High German and the traditional dialect of my region, I had very little problems understanding Low German the first time that I heard it. In fact some words are exactly the same. For example we pronounce water as "watter" and low germans say "vatter". For going we say "gannin" and they say "ga'an".
I think that there are still some pockets of Low German speakers in the USA.
So there you go, a quick introduction to Low German.
You have an amazingly high expectation of the spelling and grammatical ability of someone wwho has college degree, especially an american college degree.
I'm not a US citizen so perhaps you can explain this to me. Is it legal for someone to walk into a shop and say. "If you don't pay me insurance money your business may have some difficulties, if you know what I mean" ?
How does "the free marketplace of ideas" handle this situation? You see, SCO seems to think that this sort of "idea" is a very good one.
I'll tell you what fucking monopoly, pal, the one they've benn convicted of being. Are you so stupid that you can't get that FACT though your dense head.
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I think the ones doing the most abusing of the Royal name are the Saxe-Coburgs themselves. I mean, they even try to get away with it by calling themselves the Windsors and pretending to be Greek or English.
The main problem foreign governments have with Microsoft software is security not economical. Although the cost of say, equiping all of the desktops and servers in the Ministry of Defence with Windows XP is large, it pales into insignificance when compared with the procurement budget.
If you are using software that is running a large part of your goverment infrastructure you want to be clear that no information is leaking out to other governments or foreign corporations. Which in the world of defence spanding (to reuse the example) is often the same thing, more or less.
Nothing to do with anti-american or anti-capitalist sentiments just plain and simple economics and security.
Why do you feel the need to defend your crappy television againts my "foreign" comments ?
You watch the Grammies and expect not to see crap ?
I fail to see how seeing Ms Jacksons nipple or hearing someone say fuck is going to corrupt anyones children. I we all want to censor things that e donlt want our children to see there's not going to be much left on TV anymore. I dread the day when my children catch sight of Barnye the Dinosaur. That is offensive
Fuck off. It's not censoship to pass comment on someone elses speech. Has anybody stopped him/her posting. No censorsip and no nhyprocisry heer pal.
I, for one, am glad that I and my children don't live in America.
Have you never heard of an off-switch or don't they build then into American TVs so you cant steal from the TV companies by switching off and not watching the progams that occasionally appear between the adverts ?
-1 Troll ?
:-)
It's true then you Americans have very little appreciation for sarcasm
Based on UK-style profiling it sounds like she might be a terrorist, with a name like that. Or at least someone who could have contributed money to Norad or Sinn Feinn
Whover modded this as unsightful must be a thick as the person who wrote the comment.
How were Osama bin Laden, a rich (former)Saudi Arabian, or any of the middle class college boys who flew the aircraft tyrannised by the US.
You obviously come from the Michael Moore school of "Never let an in-depth analysis get in the way of a glib slogan".
Glib slogans as solutions to problems is a method perfected by the Nazis.
You and your moderators are about as insightful as a bag full of uninsightful things.
'Hello my name is Linus Torvalds and if I could speak German I would pronouce "SuSe" as "Zoozuh"'
I can speak German and I say "Linus is right"
That should be ...er.... interesting, but I've got more important things to do, like ..um..watching some paint dry.
(The initiative doesn't give the govt. more information, it just helps agencies better share the information they already have.)
I think you are confusing data with information.
By organising a fixed amount of data in different ways it's possible to get more information out of it than you could previously.
MySQL is popular among people who don't really understand databases and what they are for. It's generally used by people who see a database as a big bucket for holding all their data. They're not aware of all the work that can be saved by letting a database take care of data integrity, reinforcing data rules etc etc.
Just ask any Oracle DBA who's had to work with java developers who think they need to do everything in the client or in the middleware.
It wasn't enough of a culture shock to stop us bombing the fuck out of each other at the least provocation ever since. So much for "brotherhood of man" "small speck in the universe" "no borders visible from space" stuff that a lot of people were spouting at the time.
Hey! was there a vote round here to decide on the "Slashdot" position on everything. Why did nobody tell me?
Or is Slashdot really just a big bunch of people with all kinds of different opinions on qll kinds of different things.
Upyerbum AC
Yup I can say "Hamburg". I lived there for ten years. Have you any figures for how many Platt speakers live there ?
I mean proper speakers not just someone who can belt out a couple of verses of "Ick hev een Hamburger veermaster seen". I met very few. All the platt speakers I met in Hamburg came from the countryside. None of them were born in Hamburg.
Low Saxon ?
:-)
My wife is a german scholar and teacher and she grew up speaking Low German (or Niederdeutsch or Plattduutsch) und "Ick kunn ok een betten platt schnacken" despite the fact that I'm English, who are supposed to be the worst people in Europe at learning foreign languges
My wife always refers to it as low german in English and in German academic texts it is always refered to as "Niederdeutsch". I have never heard of it referred to as Low Saxon
Lower Saxony is one of the states (Laender) of Germany and Low German is spoken in parts of it, particularly in the countryside. Maybe someone from there is the KDE translator and has decided to hijack the name of the language
It's a very interesting language with a long history. It was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League. There is no official orthography for Low German although it is generally spelled phonetically using modern german pronunciation of the letters ( a bit like writing "parlay voo" as a phonetic english spelling of "parlez vous"). It is almost impossible for "normal" or High German speakers to understand someone speaking Low German. Funnily enough, I come from a part of England where the local dialect is strongly influence by scandinavian and germanic (North East England) so that because I could speak High German and the traditional dialect of my region, I had very little problems understanding Low German the first time that I heard it. In fact some words are exactly the same. For example we pronounce water as "watter" and low germans say "vatter". For going we say "gannin" and they say "ga'an".
I think that there are still some pockets of Low German speakers in the USA.
So there you go, a quick introduction to Low German.
Keek mol weder een !
But only when spoken by females. When males speak them they just sound like teh swedish chef :-)
" the heavily industrialized, educated and rich portions of western Europe where Low Saxon is spoken "
:-)
Let me guess, you've never been to the parts of Holland and Germany where this is spoken have you ?
Sheep say "Baa" all over the world
You missed the point. The freedom talked about in the GPL is freedom for the software, not for the people who develop it.
"Let's just get off this rock."
...er... another rock ?
Onto what ?
You have an amazingly high expectation of the spelling and grammatical ability of someone wwho has college degree, especially an american college degree.
I'm not a US citizen so perhaps you can explain this to me. Is it legal for someone to walk into a shop and say. "If you don't pay me insurance money your business may have some difficulties, if you know what I mean" ?
How does "the free marketplace of ideas" handle this situation? You see, SCO seems to think that this sort of "idea" is a very good one.
"What freakin' Monopoly?"
I'll tell you what fucking monopoly, pal, the one they've benn convicted of being. Are you so stupid that you can't get that FACT though your dense head.