This is bullshit. Acrobat 7 is fast at all times, when plugins are removed (and even not too shabby with plugins enabled). It is not at all resident in memory (on Linux, at least). It is fast the first time, and the second time, and every other time you use it after a reboot.
Version 5? Are you kidding me? The glyph quality for most fonts is terrible, leading me to print most of the PDFs I had to read while using AR5. I _seriously_ doubt it's any faster than 7, as well. At least on my computer, 7 is faster than 5 is faster than 6.
I *have* had someone tell me before that if you word for word translate English to Norwegian it would be grammatically correct.
That's a lie. Your sentence, for instance, would translate to Jeg har hatt noen fortelle meg før at hvis du ord for ord oversette engelsk til norsk det ville være grammatisk korrekt. A correct translation would be Noen har fortalt meg tidligere at hvis du oversetter engelsk til norsk ord for ord ville det bli korrekt.
There are quite a lot of grammatic differences. Most of them are positional. The sentence part "det ville være" (it would be) needs to be written "ville det være", for instance. The first would roughly translate back to "that would be". The construction "to have someone [verb] me" is also far from directly translateable.
[English] is the only Germanic language, as far as I know, that uses non-Germanic words and concepts for core legal vocabulary (law, violation, [...]
Nope. The Nordic languages have lov(Norwegian/Danish) and lag (Swedish). I also believe this word is very old in Nordic languages. Violation reminds me a lot of vold (Norwegian) which means "violence", but also in a rather metaphoric sense: volde skade means inflict harm, and forvolde means cause (in a legal context).
The other words, though, seems to match latin equivalents better.
Coffee is a naturally grown product, thus does not have bad influence on your body,
I didn't know there actually is people who believe that! I always thought it was a joke.
Mr. Cash202... Not everything which is naturally grown, is good for you. Most narcotic substances, for instance, are naturally grown. Alcohol, too. And formic acid (HCOOH). And amanita muscarita (also known as toadstool). Fat, my friend, is also grown naturally, but shouldn't be considered a very good diet.
Your body doesn't know whether a substance is natural or chemical. All chemical substances are natural as well - they're only made natural in a laboratory. They aren't supernatural. Your body is not tuned to eat every substance "out there".
Well, chocolate is good for your health. However, cocoa fat is probably not. It's an extremely hazardous kind of vegetable fat, which is really bad for your heart. Sugar is probably not what you need either. But very, very black chocolate (>80 %) is actually very healthy.
Why you need the wafer bars is beyond me. They're high-carb, non-protein, non-fiber, cheap-ass pieces of mostly air. They don't contribute much to a healthy diet.
And making chocolate a cornerstone of a diet is not a good idea. You're going to need vitamines, proteins. minerals and some other kind of fat for a healthy diet.
Probably because I can't think of any artist that likes to give away his/her music for free.
Norwegian top-of-the-charts hip-hop band Gatas Parlament allows downloads from their homepage. Yet, they've sold all copies they made of their album "Bootlegs, B-sider & Bestiser".
Some of the other albums aren't made available for downloading until a few months (five or six) after the album release.
So, there you have it. A band, popular, selling records, and allowing people to download their music for free.
Yeah, because all socialists are pacifists, and the communists didn't fight during WW2. Jeez. If it's one thing socialism can't be named, it's pacifist.
OTOH, Orwell's argument is moot if no (expansionist) fascist state exists. I can't understand why you think this quote is relevant at all. The terrorists aren't exactly trying to lure is into pacifism - they want a religious war of civilizations (quote Osama Bin Laden). As long as enough people stick to the peace ideal, that won't happen. Therefore, pacifism is a good ideal for today's western countries. In other times, with other threats, things could be otherwise.
Well, the whole point of having a state is to allow it to use force. If everyone started arresting people they had found guilty of stuff they believed should be illegal, things would start to get crazy. But we allow the government to use violence/force, under the terms given by law, which we (the people) indirectly control.
Slightly OT: In theory, this can lead to allowing capital punishment (in some primitive countries;-) or even full genocides (nazi Germany was generally elected and lawful in their actions). That's why there is a need for human rights and other international laws. The states are quite simply not stable enough. An international bill of privacy rights would, in these times, be great.
Uhm... I repeatedly get compliments on my Linux desktop having better font rendering than Windows. And it's just a vanilla Ubuntu install with font packages like msttcorefonts.
But what good is an open source recipe when it is written in Shakespear-ish measurements like "lbs", "gallons", "sachet", "F" and "pint"? This kind of anglosaxican prejudice is exactly the problem with open source!
Ah, you should come to Norway. Here, the networks are regulated (to get a frequency), and they aren't allowed more than 5 or 6 minutes per hour, and never commercials in the middle of shows. It's nice. And, of course, we have the national network, with real quality tv without ads (though you pay through your license, if the license controllers can find you).
Uhm. RPM is an acronym for RedHat Package Manager. The RedHat Package Manager does dependency checking, but the last version I tried did it in a much poorer fashion than comparable package managers like apt and yum. The.rpm files do not do dependency checking. They don't do anything at all, because they are not programs.
I find it very appealing. Have your computer just like it is for 6 months, then get a "freshening up", and then have it like that for another 6 months. No trouble in between. The firefox issue is annoying, though, and I think they won't do things like that again.
Bullshit. All the technically sweet linux distributions out there which use apt are more or less resting on debian's shoulders. If you watch the security changelogs - or the regular changelogs - of ubuntu packages, you'll see that nine out of ten get made by debian, adapted to ubuntu and thrown to the ubuntu servers. Some are just renamed to "-ubuntu" and passed on. And a very few are actually maintained by ubuntu themselves.
We can't move on. Much of the linux community depends on a well-functioning debian organization. They are lacking man-power to keep their security updates as fast as the multi-employee-distributions. That doesn't mean they're technically behind, and that we have something better to move to. Although the commercial distros would love that.
How do you do that? An open and extensible standard, which different apllications can add whatever feature they make into, and it should still render correctly anywhere? This is obviously impossible, without making the entire rendering logic part of the standard, and anticipating every possible future expansion while making that logic.
While it certainly failed your expectations, I prefer a standard which actually can be used before we have analyzed every extension to a word processor in existence.
Well, Poland's maybe small, but they have quite a lot of people. They are 38 million people on 312.685 km2, while we are just 4.5 million Norwegians on 385,199 km2. On the other hand, we have quite a lot of unhabitable land.
By the way, Poland isn't that small. They are the sixth largest nation in Europe, if we're counting heads.
Doh. Napoleon made it (or ordered it to be made). He had won some battle (I believe it might be at Austerlitz), and celebrated with building the world's largest arch of triumph.
The kings who came after Napoleon in 1814 tried to stall the project, but the last king (Louis-Philippe) finished the arch. They also rearranged the center of Paris almost entirely to make the streets look like a star, converging at "place de l'Etoile".
Others who came after them built even more roads to make a total of twelve arms for the star. If any houses were in the way, they smashed them down. Effective.
So, three dropdowns is a usability feature? Then I don't want usability. It takes four or five times as long to pick three numbers from dropdowns than to write them in a textfield.
Doing input checking as you type, or at least when you're finished and move on, is better. Then you'll only be hassled when you do wrong.
At some point (and what point that is is debatable) there comes a time where if you do not fight, you allow innocent civilians to be slaughtered by an enemy who will torture and rape and abuse, just because the enemy has the ability to do so
So war is right because there always exists someone who is the aggressor? That's just saying everyone should defend themselves instead of being killed. Wow, that position is just so controversial.
The interesting question is whether the aggressor could be right at any time. I think not. The Bush administration seem to think otherwise. This is the question worth debating, not whether a country should defend itself or not.
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Could I suggest a USB stick with Firefox for windows binaries, configured to run with the profile directory on the stick; bash for windows and putty.exe? It would fit on a 32MB stick, depending on what your few utilities are. It would run a minimal GUI, Windows' is kinda minimal until Vista hits gold.
This is bullshit. Acrobat 7 is fast at all times, when plugins are removed (and even not too shabby with plugins enabled). It is not at all resident in memory (on Linux, at least). It is fast the first time, and the second time, and every other time you use it after a reboot.
Version 5? Are you kidding me? The glyph quality for most fonts is terrible, leading me to print most of the PDFs I had to read while using AR5. I _seriously_ doubt it's any faster than 7, as well. At least on my computer, 7 is faster than 5 is faster than 6.
That's a lie. Your sentence, for instance, would translate to Jeg har hatt noen fortelle meg før at hvis du ord for ord oversette engelsk til norsk det ville være grammatisk korrekt. A correct translation would be Noen har fortalt meg tidligere at hvis du oversetter engelsk til norsk ord for ord ville det bli korrekt.
There are quite a lot of grammatic differences. Most of them are positional. The sentence part "det ville være" (it would be) needs to be written "ville det være", for instance. The first would roughly translate back to "that would be". The construction "to have someone [verb] me" is also far from directly translateable.
Nope. The Nordic languages have lov(Norwegian/Danish) and lag (Swedish). I also believe this word is very old in Nordic languages. Violation reminds me a lot of vold (Norwegian) which means "violence", but also in a rather metaphoric sense: volde skade means inflict harm, and forvolde means cause (in a legal context).
The other words, though, seems to match latin equivalents better.
Heck, my paid for ISP account had 10MB back before GMail.
I didn't know there actually is people who believe that! I always thought it was a joke.
Mr. Cash202... Not everything which is naturally grown, is good for you. Most narcotic substances, for instance, are naturally grown. Alcohol, too. And formic acid (HCOOH). And amanita muscarita (also known as toadstool). Fat, my friend, is also grown naturally, but shouldn't be considered a very good diet.
Your body doesn't know whether a substance is natural or chemical. All chemical substances are natural as well - they're only made natural in a laboratory. They aren't supernatural. Your body is not tuned to eat every substance "out there".
Well, chocolate is good for your health. However, cocoa fat is probably not. It's an extremely hazardous kind of vegetable fat, which is really bad for your heart. Sugar is probably not what you need either. But very, very black chocolate (>80 %) is actually very healthy.
Why you need the wafer bars is beyond me. They're high-carb, non-protein, non-fiber, cheap-ass pieces of mostly air. They don't contribute much to a healthy diet.
And making chocolate a cornerstone of a diet is not a good idea. You're going to need vitamines, proteins. minerals and some other kind of fat for a healthy diet.
Probably because I can't think of any artist that likes to give away his/her music for free.
Norwegian top-of-the-charts hip-hop band Gatas Parlament allows downloads from their homepage. Yet, they've sold all copies they made of their album "Bootlegs, B-sider & Bestiser".
Some of the other albums aren't made available for downloading until a few months (five or six) after the album release.
So, there you have it. A band, popular, selling records, and allowing people to download their music for free.
Yeah, because all socialists are pacifists, and the communists didn't fight during WW2. Jeez. If it's one thing socialism can't be named, it's pacifist.
OTOH, Orwell's argument is moot if no (expansionist) fascist state exists. I can't understand why you think this quote is relevant at all. The terrorists aren't exactly trying to lure is into pacifism - they want a religious war of civilizations (quote Osama Bin Laden). As long as enough people stick to the peace ideal, that won't happen. Therefore, pacifism is a good ideal for today's western countries. In other times, with other threats, things could be otherwise.
Well, the whole point of having a state is to allow it to use force. If everyone started arresting people they had found guilty of stuff they believed should be illegal, things would start to get crazy. But we allow the government to use violence/force, under the terms given by law, which we (the people) indirectly control.
Slightly OT: In theory, this can lead to allowing capital punishment (in some primitive countries ;-) or even full genocides (nazi Germany was generally elected and lawful in their actions). That's why there is a need for human rights and other international laws. The states are quite simply not stable enough. An international bill of privacy rights would, in these times, be great.
Uhm... I repeatedly get compliments on my Linux desktop having better font rendering than Windows. And it's just a vanilla Ubuntu install with font packages like msttcorefonts.
But what good is an open source recipe when it is written in Shakespear-ish measurements like "lbs", "gallons", "sachet", "F" and "pint"? This kind of anglosaxican prejudice is exactly the problem with open source!
Uhm, that's not Apache's fault. It's your browser's.
Ah, you should come to Norway. Here, the networks are regulated (to get a frequency), and they aren't allowed more than 5 or 6 minutes per hour, and never commercials in the middle of shows. It's nice. And, of course, we have the national network, with real quality tv without ads (though you pay through your license, if the license controllers can find you).
Uhm. RPM is an acronym for RedHat Package Manager. The RedHat Package Manager does dependency checking, but the last version I tried did it in a much poorer fashion than comparable package managers like apt and yum. The .rpm files do not do dependency checking. They don't do anything at all, because they are not programs.
I find it very appealing. Have your computer just like it is for 6 months, then get a "freshening up", and then have it like that for another 6 months. No trouble in between. The firefox issue is annoying, though, and I think they won't do things like that again.
Bullshit. All the technically sweet linux distributions out there which use apt are more or less resting on debian's shoulders. If you watch the security changelogs - or the regular changelogs - of ubuntu packages, you'll see that nine out of ten get made by debian, adapted to ubuntu and thrown to the ubuntu servers. Some are just renamed to "-ubuntu" and passed on. And a very few are actually maintained by ubuntu themselves.
We can't move on. Much of the linux community depends on a well-functioning debian organization. They are lacking man-power to keep their security updates as fast as the multi-employee-distributions. That doesn't mean they're technically behind, and that we have something better to move to. Although the commercial distros would love that.
How do you do that? An open and extensible standard, which different apllications can add whatever feature they make into, and it should still render correctly anywhere? This is obviously impossible, without making the entire rendering logic part of the standard, and anticipating every possible future expansion while making that logic.
While it certainly failed your expectations, I prefer a standard which actually can be used before we have analyzed every extension to a word processor in existence.
Well, Poland's maybe small, but they have quite a lot of people. They are 38 million people on 312.685 km2, while we are just 4.5 million Norwegians on 385,199 km2. On the other hand, we have quite a lot of unhabitable land.
By the way, Poland isn't that small. They are the sixth largest nation in Europe, if we're counting heads.
a small, seemingly inconsequential Scandinavian country,
Hey! You said I'm inconsequential, you insensitive clod! Fortunately for you, I am Norwegian and don't know what it means.
Doh. Napoleon made it (or ordered it to be made). He had won some battle (I believe it might be at Austerlitz), and celebrated with building the world's largest arch of triumph.
The kings who came after Napoleon in 1814 tried to stall the project, but the last king (Louis-Philippe) finished the arch. They also rearranged the center of Paris almost entirely to make the streets look like a star, converging at "place de l'Etoile".
Others who came after them built even more roads to make a total of twelve arms for the star. If any houses were in the way, they smashed them down. Effective.
So, three dropdowns is a usability feature? Then I don't want usability. It takes four or five times as long to pick three numbers from dropdowns than to write them in a textfield.
Doing input checking as you type, or at least when you're finished and move on, is better. Then you'll only be hassled when you do wrong.
So war is right because there always exists someone who is the aggressor? That's just saying everyone should defend themselves instead of being killed. Wow, that position is just so controversial.
The interesting question is whether the aggressor could be right at any time. I think not. The Bush administration seem to think otherwise. This is the question worth debating, not whether a country should defend itself or not.
I think you forgot price in your comparison.
wget, then.