Strange because my Saitek Cybork Gold USB joystick works just fine. There are hardly any games I use it with anymore, but that is because I don't play flight sims, and there hasn't been any good space combat games lately.
I used I think DVD Author, or maybe QDVD, something like that and it worked fine. Acidrip works great to rip DVDs.
How much time do you spend setting up a new computer that is preinstalled with Windows? You will need to spend sometime setting up any new install. To change some stupid Windows defaults, you need to change regkeys sometimes. In Mandriva, with its better GUI tools, one can do most every configuration through point and click if one wants.
The thing is, once you have it setup, it just works. The only time I need to reinstall is when a hard drive needs to be replaced.
You might want to check out some web comics. Digger is great. If Alan Dean Foster and Terry Pratchett were to write a comic, Digger would be the result. If you want you can get Vol 1 in paper form.
The parent is not a troll, though our education systems problems are a bit more complex.
One, we need to pay teachers more. Everyone deserves a decent salary, and the guardians of the future deserve one doubly so.
Two, we need more teachers. Stuffing thirty kids into a classroom with a single teacher means the teacher can not give any individualised attention and much of her (or his) time is spent on discipline. Should be about 12 per teacher in grades under 3, 18 for 4-6, and 25 for everything afterwards.
Three, We need to maintain variety, reading, writing , and arithmatic are fine; but we also need art, history, science, music, gym, recess and probably others. Attention span is at most 20 minutes. Change things up and kids will pay attention more and learn more.
Four, parents need to get more involved and support thier kid's teachers. When the teacher says that li'l Johnny is not doing his work, don't make excuses and don't blame the teacher.
It is not a generic commodity because it is so damn cheap. There are plenty of homebrew recipes for making play dough that work just as well and are even edible, though the salt concetration is a bit high.
Most plastics are non-toxic, you still shouldn't eat them, though it won't kill you if ingest a small amount. Playdoh does have a small amount of kerosene in it.
What low barriers? Where the hell are the Linux computers at local retailers? Let's not even get started on BeOS. In the court finding of fact, MS is indeed a monopoly. A monopoly does not require 100% of the market, just a vast majority.
And if you are a convicted felon then you are a convicted felon. This is how reputations work. Our past will haunt us.
It is not hating MS to say they are a convicted monopolist. It is repeating a fact of law. Apparently a lot of MS apologists would like to gloss over this fact of law so people need to keep repeating it so that we collectively do not forget history.
Well, of course, but it is one area where VOIP can easily beat the Bells. Have the customer setup public private keys, which could be as simple as create the private key during install and upload the public key to VOIP main server and with enough CPU power, the encryption decryption should be seamless.
Email is a best effort much like USPS. You could always try certified post, certified courier, singing telegram, or just hand deliver it yourself, but none of those garauntee that your message will get to its intended recipient.
The biggest flaw with current email is SPAM. The solution to fixing SPAM is not primarily a technical one. Mostly, it is a social, legal and economic one. A primarily legal means poses to many limitations on my freedoms; I have too little faith to expect social constraints to fix the SPAM problem; and most economic solutions are not viable as well. Come up with a solution to SPAM and the issues with email just disappearing go away.
Microsoft was found guilty of abusing a monopoly. If you want to quibble about term, well... you know what you can do with yourself. It does not change the fact that Microsoft was found guilty and the decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court. There are restrictions on Microsoft that are not in place with a regular company. Microsoft must do things that Google does not have to do. (And the "must" is a legal "must" for you quibblers out there.)
That is curious, as I will enter in tracking numbers into google because it means fewer clicks rather than putting them into fedex.com or wherever. It stil takes two clicks though, so if the searchbar for fedex takes only one, then it would be quicker yet.
I am a little bit surprised that Mandrake/Mandriva was not mentioned, but then it would disprove the point that Ubuntu/Canonical started this whole community thing.
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In Portuguese, but in Spanish that would be "nueva".
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Of course nova in Spanish means Novate in English. Not exactly a common term, for those to lazy to check in a dictionary, it means to replace with something new, usually in reference to obligations.
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Maybe Intel should have gone with something like Pentasm or Pentation, so it would be seen a succesor to the Pentiums.
Fiasco, there is a name to inspire trust. Is the whole OS called "Disaster"?
Strange because my Saitek Cybork Gold USB joystick works just fine. There are hardly any games I use it with anymore, but that is because I don't play flight sims, and there hasn't been any good space combat games lately.
I used I think DVD Author, or maybe QDVD, something like that and it worked fine. Acidrip works great to rip DVDs.
How much time do you spend setting up a new computer that is preinstalled with Windows? You will need to spend sometime setting up any new install. To change some stupid Windows defaults, you need to change regkeys sometimes. In Mandriva, with its better GUI tools, one can do most every configuration through point and click if one wants.
The thing is, once you have it setup, it just works. The only time I need to reinstall is when a hard drive needs to be replaced.
You might want to check out some web comics. Digger is great. If Alan Dean Foster and Terry Pratchett were to write a comic, Digger would be the result. If you want you can get Vol 1 in paper form.
Which then will kill the site. Anytime you have to provide a credit card, I never go any further, nor am I alone on this.
Of course until something is declared unconstituitional by the Supremes (who currently seem to be corporate whores), it is law.
The parent is not a troll, though our education systems problems are a bit more complex.
One, we need to pay teachers more. Everyone deserves a decent salary, and the guardians of the future deserve one doubly so.
Two, we need more teachers. Stuffing thirty kids into a classroom with a single teacher means the teacher can not give any individualised attention and much of her (or his) time is spent on discipline. Should be about 12 per teacher in grades under 3, 18 for 4-6, and 25 for everything afterwards.
Three, We need to maintain variety, reading, writing , and arithmatic are fine; but we also need art, history, science, music, gym, recess and probably others. Attention span is at most 20 minutes. Change things up and kids will pay attention more and learn more.
Four, parents need to get more involved and support thier kid's teachers. When the teacher says that li'l Johnny is not doing his work, don't make excuses and don't blame the teacher.
It is not a generic commodity because it is so damn cheap. There are plenty of homebrew recipes for making play dough that work just as well and are even edible, though the salt concetration is a bit high.
Most plastics are non-toxic, you still shouldn't eat them, though it won't kill you if ingest a small amount. Playdoh does have a small amount of kerosene in it.
It is a gallon of kerosene to 500 pounds of flour and 500 pounds of water. It is not a great idea to eat playdoh but not really harmful.
500 pounds of Flour, 500 pounds of water, 100 pounds of salt, and about a gallon of kerosene.
In home recipes they use vegetable oil instead. It comes out about the same but is edible instead of just non-toxic.
What low barriers? Where the hell are the Linux computers at local retailers? Let's not even get started on BeOS. In the court finding of fact, MS is indeed a monopoly. A monopoly does not require 100% of the market, just a vast majority.
And if you are a convicted felon then you are a convicted felon. This is how reputations work. Our past will haunt us.
It is not hating MS to say they are a convicted monopolist. It is repeating a fact of law. Apparently a lot of MS apologists would like to gloss over this fact of law so people need to keep repeating it so that we collectively do not forget history.
The Google toolbar has been preinstalled on Sony computers for 2 or more years.
Well, of course, but it is one area where VOIP can easily beat the Bells. Have the customer setup public private keys, which could be as simple as create the private key during install and upload the public key to VOIP main server and with enough CPU power, the encryption decryption should be seamless.
They used to be worse when McD's use animal lard to fry.
Drop the language barrier and the difference between France and Germany culturally, is about the same as between New England and the South in the US.
Email is a best effort much like USPS. You could always try certified post, certified courier, singing telegram, or just hand deliver it yourself, but none of those garauntee that your message will get to its intended recipient.
The biggest flaw with current email is SPAM. The solution to fixing SPAM is not primarily a technical one. Mostly, it is a social, legal and economic one. A primarily legal means poses to many limitations on my freedoms; I have too little faith to expect social constraints to fix the SPAM problem; and most economic solutions are not viable as well. Come up with a solution to SPAM and the issues with email just disappearing go away.
The security thing is easy, use GPG/PGP.
Microsoft was found guilty of abusing a monopoly. If you want to quibble about term, well... you know what you can do with yourself. It does not change the fact that Microsoft was found guilty and the decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court. There are restrictions on Microsoft that are not in place with a regular company. Microsoft must do things that Google does not have to do. (And the "must" is a legal "must" for you quibblers out there.)
That is curious, as I will enter in tracking numbers into google because it means fewer clicks rather than putting them into fedex.com or wherever. It stil takes two clicks though, so if the searchbar for fedex takes only one, then it would be quicker yet.
Definately a troll here.
Has Microsoft been found guilty of illegaly abusing a monopoly? Yes.
Do rules change for monopolies of regular companies? Yes.
Do rules further change for illegal monopolies? Yes.
Since Microsoft has been ruled an illegal monopoly, the rules they must adhere to are more strict than they are for regular companies.
I am a little bit surprised that Mandrake/Mandriva was not mentioned, but then it would disprove the point that Ubuntu/Canonical started this whole community thing.
In Portuguese, but in Spanish that would be "nueva".
Of course nova in Spanish means Novate in English. Not exactly a common term, for those to lazy to check in a dictionary, it means to replace with something new, usually in reference to obligations.