Lenovo is a company and companies want to make profits.
However small Linux sales were, if they stop Linux sales, they will lose business. If they made a profit on Linux sales, they even lose profit by cutting their Linux offer. They will also lose investments they made.
Companies generally don't want to lose business or profit.
So, why did they do it?
MS offered them a deal. Since IBM is a big player, this deal will have cost MS some money.
So I think this proves MS is at least scared enough of Linux to buy off the possible competition.
I got it as a present when I subscribed to a magazine (European WIRED rip-off). This present was the only reason I took the subscription! Thoso watches were hard to get in BElgium:-)
Synchronizing by holding the watch up to the screen, was the best. Nobody believed me until they saw it. It was Sci-Fi tech at its best. Very creative engineering. They guy who came up with this deserves a statue.
Mine broke after water exposure, but I still keep it around. Good memories.
IRC, Japanese don't like old cars because there is a TAX on old cars. You pay higher taxes on cars that are older than 3 years. So they export used cars by boatloads. That's why it's easy to pick up a young second hand (Japanese) car in the nearby countries. In New Zealand for example. (not so much in Australia. Since they have their own car industry, there is a high import tax on all cars)
I suppose the Japanese government does this to stimulate consumption and fire up the economy
Everybody laughs at me voor using Corel products! I'm so happy I'm not the only one using them.
I diched CorelDraw this year (for indesign) because the files are indeed a bit messy. I still use it from to time though.
But I use PhotoPaint everyday. I find it very intuitive and fast. It's an underrated software title. I'd like to switch to The Gimp, but I can't bring myself to learn it.
I was even worried for an instant when it was supposedly formatting my hard d^i^c^kz^z^z^^z^z^f^^ s^d^f^zêf^zê^f^sd^f s^df ^sd^f ^sd^f^s^df^s s^df ^sd^f^s^df^s^df^^s^sd^f^sd^f^^sd^f ^^sdf^^sd^f
I loved that VR-studio. The design was very clean and there was nu clutter to distract your eyes from the news. The studio seemed very big (all in VR offcourse) which made it look very prestegious. This virtual space also allowed dramatic camera-movements. The one thing I hate about most "modern" studio"s is the abundant use of plasma-sceens. These things are NEVER aligned properly with the rest of the design. I hate it. It's just more distracting clutter. Especially when they do live-interventions on these things. The picture is horrible and they have to use a far-fetched angle to get everything in the shot. All these problems dissapear if you use a VR screen. No clutter, great picture-quality and you can place them whereever you want.
And I'm not even a Brit.
I live in Belgium. That's a small country, so networks have small budgets and crappy news-studio's.
I used to look up to the BBC-news studio, but now they have regressed to Belgian (or CNN?) standards:-) I truly don't understand why. They were ahead of their time.
I disagree with you on the "apocalyptic remix of the Greenwich Time Signal" though. I rather like that theme.
Where I live, the language of preference is stored on the server.
All ATM's in Belgium can work in 4 langauges, but I never had to choose a language at an ATM. So I suppose the bank knows i want to be served in Dutch.
When a foreigner uses an ATM in Belgium, he gets to choose a language. (And when I go abroad, I get to choose a language too)
I'm guessing they have a product in the pipeline that will be called "HULA-HOOP".
Seriously. They are not selling HULA, they are selling NetMail. They don't want mangager-type-people to LIKE the free HULA. They want managers to BUY Netmail.
I had this problem too (changing line-width), so i stopped using lines. Only shapes.
For example: if you want to draw a red square with red outlines, you draw a red square WITHOUT outlines, then you draw a slightly bigger black square, and you arrange it behind de red square.
Not one Belgian I know, trusts the government. We have been ruled by so many different countries during the last 500 years that we've grown to not trust the government. That's why *everybody* in Belgium evades paying taxes. It's a sports. So "Wholeheartedly embrace" seems a bit strong. The only reason Belgians want this card is because they think there will be less buraucracy. Yhe less they have to do with the government, the better. Rest assured, from the moment the government tries to use this eID is a tool to *control* us, public disobedience will render this card useless. This has happened countless of times before with stupid taxes, etc.
What is happening in Belgium, with its accelerating destruction of Western values and Western society
Belgium is a tiny country. It's in the middle of Europe. OFFCOURSE there are a lot of foreigners. Being a host to foreigners and speaking different languages is our (only) STRENGTH.
foreign-born population (including those with Belgian citizenship) now exceeds the native-born population
We have been ruled by dozens of other countries throughout history (France, Spain, The Netherlands, Austria-Hungaria,...). Belgium has ALWAYS been a melting pot of different cultures.
So please enlighten me, what do you mean by "native Belgians"? There ARE no native Belgians! The country Belgium isn't even 200 years old yet! It was *created* by England as a barrier between France and Germany!
Now, these people may be coming from other cultures than before, but so what? Similar migrations happend in the past and it only strengthened us.
We're not "degrading our values" or whatever. we're evolving.
I'm a bit shocked that comments like the parent get modded up so easily on slashdot.
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There are about 4 milion French speaking Belgians.
That is a small market, these newspapers don't earn any money (worth mentionning) from their website's anyway.
The website are a service to existing newspaper customers.
If these customers can use google as an archive, the service becomes useless.
So, according to your logic, all SPAM is legit as long as you can opt-out afterwards???
That's a dangerous attitude.
This makes me think...
Lenovo is a company and companies want to make profits.
However small Linux sales were, if they stop Linux sales, they will lose business. If they made a profit on Linux sales, they even lose profit by cutting their Linux offer. They will also lose investments they made.
Companies generally don't want to lose business or profit.
So, why did they do it?
MS offered them a deal. Since IBM is a big player, this deal will have cost MS some money.
So I think this proves MS is at least scared enough of Linux to buy off the possible competition.
That was the best watch I EVER had.
:-)
I got it as a present when I subscribed to a magazine (European WIRED rip-off). This present was the only reason I took the subscription! Thoso watches were hard to get in BElgium
Synchronizing by holding the watch up to the screen, was the best. Nobody believed me until they saw it. It was Sci-Fi tech at its best. Very creative engineering. They guy who came up with this deserves a statue.
Mine broke after water exposure, but I still keep it around. Good memories.
IRC, Japanese don't like old cars because there is a TAX on old cars. You pay higher taxes on cars that are older than 3 years. So they export used cars by boatloads. That's why it's easy to pick up a young second hand (Japanese) car in the nearby countries. In New Zealand for example. (not so much in Australia. Since they have their own car industry, there is a high import tax on all cars)
I suppose the Japanese government does this to stimulate consumption and fire up the economy
I dind't surf the internet from more than one computer back in 1999! I didn't need the service!
I feel your pain.
Kind regards
John Doe
I would be very interested to know wheter this change has a big effect on the slashdot bandwith usage.
Everybody laughs at me voor using Corel products! I'm so happy I'm not the only one using them.
I diched CorelDraw this year (for indesign) because the files are indeed a bit messy. I still use it from to time though.
But I use PhotoPaint everyday. I find it very intuitive and fast. It's an underrated software title. I'd like to switch to The Gimp, but I can't bring myself to learn it.
haha, downloaded and tried it.
It still works on my XP machine!
I was even worried for an instant when it was supposedly formatting my hard d^i^c^kz^z^z^^z^z^f^^ s^d^f^zêf^zê^f^sd^f s^df ^sd^f ^sd^f^s^df^s s^df ^sd^f^s^df^s^df^^s^sd^f^sd^f^^sd^f ^^sdf^^sd^f
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I loved that VR-studio. The design was very clean and there was nu clutter to distract your eyes from the news. The studio seemed very big (all in VR offcourse) which made it look very prestegious. This virtual space also allowed dramatic camera-movements.
:-) I truly don't understand why. They were ahead of their time.
The one thing I hate about most "modern" studio"s is the abundant use of plasma-sceens. These things are NEVER aligned properly with the rest of the design. I hate it. It's just more distracting clutter. Especially when they do live-interventions on these things. The picture is horrible and they have to use a far-fetched angle to get everything in the shot. All these problems dissapear if you use a VR screen. No clutter, great picture-quality and you can place them whereever you want.
And I'm not even a Brit.
I live in Belgium. That's a small country, so networks have small budgets and crappy news-studio's.
I used to look up to the BBC-news studio, but now they have regressed to Belgian (or CNN?) standards
I disagree with you on the "apocalyptic remix of the Greenwich Time Signal" though. I rather like that theme.
AMD hasn't got the best rep. in delivering big vulumes on time.
That's why Dell still prefers Intel.
I can't remember the quote!
please, refresh my memory.
So why not use SpamAsaasin or something similar on the results? Bogus sites are very similar to spam in look and feel.
It could be a feature that you can choose to turn off.
If you want real interresting content: turn it on.
If you're looking for porn an on-line store: turn it off.
That's actually a very good idea! Thanks.
Don't get me wrong, I love and use firefox, but you won't get it installed on an old PI-233 with 32MB RAM.
Internet Explorer DOES install and work on that configuration.
Where I live, the language of preference is stored on the server.
All ATM's in Belgium can work in 4 langauges, but I never had to choose a language at an ATM. So I suppose the bank knows i want to be served in Dutch.
When a foreigner uses an ATM in Belgium, he gets to choose a language. (And when I go abroad, I get to choose a language too)
This reminded me of this guys:
http://www.vinylvideo.com/
Was that a hoax or does it really work?
I'm guessing they have a product in the pipeline that will be called "HULA-HOOP".
Seriously. They are not selling HULA, they are selling NetMail. They don't want mangager-type-people to LIKE the free HULA. They want managers to BUY Netmail.
The HULA-name is only targetted at us communists.
do a search for big files (>1gig) on your disk that are not audio/video files.
I had this problem too (changing line-width), so i stopped using lines. Only shapes.
For example: if you want to draw a red square with red outlines, you draw a red square WITHOUT outlines, then you draw a slightly bigger black square, and you arrange it behind de red square.
Works for me.
KLAUS: Try not to boot any live CD's on your way to the parking lot!
Mod the parent down please! thank you.
...). Belgium has ALWAYS been a melting pot of different cultures.
Hence, Belgians wholeheartedly embrace the eID
Not one Belgian I know, trusts the government. We have been ruled by so many different countries during the last 500 years that we've grown to not trust the government. That's why *everybody* in Belgium evades paying taxes. It's a sports.
So "Wholeheartedly embrace" seems a bit strong. The only reason Belgians want this card is because they think there will be less buraucracy. Yhe less they have to do with the government, the better. Rest assured, from the moment the government tries to use this eID is a tool to *control* us, public disobedience will render this card useless. This has happened countless of times before with stupid taxes, etc.
What is happening in Belgium, with its accelerating destruction of Western values and Western society
Belgium is a tiny country. It's in the middle of Europe. OFFCOURSE there are a lot of foreigners. Being a host to foreigners and speaking different languages is our (only) STRENGTH.
foreign-born population (including those with Belgian citizenship) now exceeds the native-born population
We have been ruled by dozens of other countries throughout history (France, Spain, The Netherlands, Austria-Hungaria,
So please enlighten me, what do you mean by "native Belgians"? There ARE no native Belgians! The country Belgium isn't even 200 years old yet! It was *created* by England as a barrier between France and Germany!
Now, these people may be coming from other cultures than before, but so what? Similar migrations happend in the past and it only strengthened us.
We're not "degrading our values" or whatever. we're evolving.
I'm a bit shocked that comments like the parent get modded up so easily on slashdot.
Only professionals in the advertising bussines were questionned?!