According to this report, the always so useful MS Word change tracking reveals that this report was originally even more enthusiastic about Linux. Obviously this was not in keeping with the officially sponsored Government policy because the claims were toned down before release.
you do know that the majority of the world's population lives in countries with little to no respect for human rights, with dictatorial governments that don't care about the people.
Yeah, but China and the US, being such big countries do skew the results somewhat.
That might be true if you live in a small town that you know like the back of your hand, or if you live in a modern city with streets aligned on a grid and called 1st, 2nd, 3rd..., but if your in one of the older cities in Europe that has grown organically with narrow streets weaving in all directions then you'll really appreciate a navigation system.
Isn't there a nationwide 50 mph / 80 kph speed limit in Japan?
No. If no other speed is posted on motorways you can legally do 65mph/100kph, though like in Europe, there is little enforcement outside urban areas, so traffic flows at about 140km/h where conditions allow.
No, do worry. On tonight's BBC News they interviewed 3 guys in small town Ohio, who all agreed that Kerry had better domestic policies, but seemed to think that "in a time of war" the US would be in danger if they didn't vote for Bush.
The installer is text, granted. dselect is a nightmare for beginners, granted.
There are GNOME and probably KDE front ends for apt, even in stable. The main problem I have with dselect is that many packages don't have a descriptive enough description, so I don't know whether I want it or not.
Meta-packages for one-click selection of a typical desktop, development or server machine á la Mandrake would make life easier for the new user, but I think Debian users want the control. All distributions targeting the same audience would be boring anyway.
Just try writing a decent application in XUL and Javascript. Its better than DHTML and Javascript, but not much. It needs better development tools and a way to avoid Javascript for doing the basic event driven stuff that covers 90% of the use of scripting in these types of applications. Maybe then you'll see more than just the one interface to Amazon written using it.
I'm curious. In what scenario is ActiveX the only answer? What is it exactly that you can't do with a signed applet that you can do with an ActiveX control. And don't try to tell me that its because you don't want to dish out money to Verisign for a signing certificate, because you need one of those to do anything with ActiveX.
You are confused about the USA's standard voltages. You will see it referred to as 110VAC or 120VAC. Some compromise it as 115VAC. RMS is 117.something, but only a perfectionist says that. Ditto for 220VAC and 440VAC standards.
ANSI standards specify 120V nominal with an allowed range of 114V-126V, but in many states 120V is treated as a maximum (to curb energy usage), which is where the 117V average comes from. 110 or 115 is just plain wrong these days, though it may have varied that much between states in the past.
While the UK is lucky in that it always rains (you can afford to make jokes about it!), Australia isn't so. We're effectively a desert continent with green patches around the outside. Water is a very scarce resource here, and right now, most of our major cities have water restrictions on them (can't wash cars, can't water except during restricted hours, can't hose down paved areas).
London's rainfall, at around 600mm/year is about half of what Sydney's is, and the same as Melbourne. Don't be fooled by your preconceived ideas (my preconceptions would have picked Melbourne as rainier than Sydney if I hadn't just looked that up).
So anyway, your comparison I think isn't very good. FAT sucks more than mp3 sucks.
And of course you can immediately notice the difference between FAT12 and JFFS or other file systems used on flash devices, which makes your comparison so much better.
you're trying to turn what I said into saying that Google has a business deal with MS
Usually when the phrase "in bed with" is used, that is exactly what is meant. I don't think the grandparent is the only reader that read your post that way.
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Both you and the summary (though not the article itself, which shows that the creators do actually have a clue) use the word "replace" when I think you mean "complement". There is a place for protocols like this in certain applications (P2P, gaming, video streams etc), as long as they are designed to lose packets rather than swamp the network with retries when conditions get bad enough that they break down. But many applications don't need the extra performance and do need the reliability that comes with TCP.
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It appears that they get better performance than TCP by considering (all - 1) the issues. Basically, their protocol works and performs better than TCP because the pipes have spare capacity. If the pipes were at capacity, their protocol would break down.
TCP has been designed to be robust in all conditions. Protocols like this that rely on "in most cases we can get away with allowing more errors than TCP does" are not going to replace TCP.
Don't worry, plenty of copies of your ever growing canon of work are being kept for eternity already. That is the reason why your works include such titles as "URGENT: Mail Server storage array budget needs increasing!!!"
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According to this report, the always so useful MS Word change tracking reveals that this report was originally even more enthusiastic about Linux. Obviously this was not in keeping with the officially sponsored Government policy because the claims were toned down before release.
What a brilliant idea. Do something that gets you posted to the front page of Slashdot to save bandwidth!
Where can I patent that?
Yeah, but China and the US, being such big countries do skew the results somewhat.
Yeah, the grandparent poster was mistaken. It was Russia and Isreal where Bush has the lead, not Korea and some other country.
That might be true if you live in a small town that you know like the back of your hand, or if you live in a modern city with streets aligned on a grid and called 1st, 2nd, 3rd..., but if your in one of the older cities in Europe that has grown organically with narrow streets weaving in all directions then you'll really appreciate a navigation system.
No. If no other speed is posted on motorways you can legally do 65mph/100kph, though like in Europe, there is little enforcement outside urban areas, so traffic flows at about 140km/h where conditions allow.
No, do worry. On tonight's BBC News they interviewed 3 guys in small town Ohio, who all agreed that Kerry had better domestic policies, but seemed to think that "in a time of war" the US would be in danger if they didn't vote for Bush.
Scary stuff, and I don't mean the terrists.
There are GNOME and probably KDE front ends for apt, even in stable. The main problem I have with dselect is that many packages don't have a descriptive enough description, so I don't know whether I want it or not.
Meta-packages for one-click selection of a typical desktop, development or server machine á la Mandrake would make life easier for the new user, but I think Debian users want the control. All distributions targeting the same audience would be boring anyway.
You can buy Word separately. It just costs more than buying Office (at widely available discount prices) to do so.
Just try writing a decent application in XUL and Javascript. Its better than DHTML and Javascript, but not much. It needs better development tools and a way to avoid Javascript for doing the basic event driven stuff that covers 90% of the use of scripting in these types of applications. Maybe then you'll see more than just the one interface to Amazon written using it.
Perfect for putting these MP3s on. Or these ones, which will suit any non-RIAA approved device.
I'm curious. In what scenario is ActiveX the only answer? What is it exactly that you can't do with a signed applet that you can do with an ActiveX control. And don't try to tell me that its because you don't want to dish out money to Verisign for a signing certificate, because you need one of those to do anything with ActiveX.
ANSI standards specify 120V nominal with an allowed range of 114V-126V, but in many states 120V is treated as a maximum (to curb energy usage), which is where the 117V average comes from. 110 or 115 is just plain wrong these days, though it may have varied that much between states in the past.
Misinformation?
You might be surprised at how little difference there is between Sydney and London there as well.
Sydney: 1200mm rainfall spread over 138 days.
London: 600mm rainfall spread over 145 days.
The key words were: most of our major cities. Your comparison of the desert areas of Australia to major metropolitan areas is what is irrelevant.
No, that's just the Budweiser factory in Mortlake.
London's rainfall, at around 600mm/year is about half of what Sydney's is, and the same as Melbourne. Don't be fooled by your preconceived ideas (my preconceptions would have picked Melbourne as rainier than Sydney if I hadn't just looked that up).
So anyway, your comparison I think isn't very good. FAT sucks more than mp3 sucks. And of course you can immediately notice the difference between FAT12 and JFFS or other file systems used on flash devices, which makes your comparison so much better.
Usually when the phrase "in bed with" is used, that is exactly what is meant. I don't think the grandparent is the only reader that read your post that way.
Both you and the summary (though not the article itself, which shows that the creators do actually have a clue) use the word "replace" when I think you mean "complement". There is a place for protocols like this in certain applications (P2P, gaming, video streams etc), as long as they are designed to lose packets rather than swamp the network with retries when conditions get bad enough that they break down. But many applications don't need the extra performance and do need the reliability that comes with TCP.
It appears that they get better performance than TCP by considering (all - 1) the issues. Basically, their protocol works and performs better than TCP because the pipes have spare capacity. If the pipes were at capacity, their protocol would break down. TCP has been designed to be robust in all conditions. Protocols like this that rely on "in most cases we can get away with allowing more errors than TCP does" are not going to replace TCP.
Don't worry, plenty of copies of your ever growing canon of work are being kept for eternity already. That is the reason why your works include such titles as "URGENT: Mail Server storage array budget needs increasing!!!"
Well, not quite. AMERICALOSES is the second value in the enumeration in the original, so it would return 0x01, not 0x00.
Or you can freely make copies of the Linux golden goose, so Darl can kill his copy, and the rest of us can just keep feeding and caring for ours.