You're right, but granny still doesn't think broadband is worth the extra cost. She's willing to wait a few minutes to see the pictures of the grandkids
I hope she has tech-savvy kids, because I've seen people send 5-Meg photos directly copied from their camera. That's gotta hurt, if it doesn't bounce on the recipients inbox. For grannies here, DSL is still an advantage, simply because they'd pay per minute for dial-up. Downloading those pictures then comes down expensive too...
Ah, I guess I'd have to switch to my ISPs DNS server in order to find out if it makes a difference. I run my own DNS server since ages and never saw a need to switch back. (Yeah, a full power one, not merely a forward cache DNS)
Is this a US phenomenon? My Internet seems to be pretty much as fast as always and I don't do filesharing. The reason Granny waits for her webpages is because she still uses dial-up and webpages have become increasingly dial-up unfriendly.
And(*) "becuase" most people can't even spell, indicating that their thoughts don't go further than what's for dinner in the evening and if their favourite character in a soap opera gets laid.
(*) I know that starting a sentence with "and" is bad form, but I was just completing the parent post.
What does it matter that they're no longer going to breaking a law they never paid any attention to in the first place?
The difference is that before they could have been reprimanded because they didn't follow the law. The keyword here is "could". Now, they have "carte blanche". There is no more law to protect you. Before you had at least a small chance.
My history teacher pointed those out in 1997 and he wasn't thinking of the USA back then. I thought: come on, it can't be that easy! However, seeing what happens in the USA, I humbly have to retract that opinion.
Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy: 9/11 Terrorists, enemy combatants and unspoken Islam
Create a gulag: Two words... Guantanamo Bay
Develop a thug caste: Not yet, I think so at least.
Set up an internal surveillance system: See article
Harass citizens' groups: Again, see article and peaceful oriented groups have already been infiltrated. Okay, my source is Roger Moore so a grain of salt the size of Canada is needed.
Engage in arbitrary detention and release: This goes along with Guantanamo. However, non-fly lists are in those lines....
Target key individuals: Is most certainly happening....
Control the press: Conglomerates do this... Don't even bother. Real historic dictatorships couldn't do this as well as capitalistic US.
Dissent equals treason: If you're not with us, you're against us.... I have to say no more.
Suspend the rule of law: Habeas corpus is gone, more laws have followed and more will follow.
They do? I've got FF2 at home and I'm running Limited User. It has never ever asked me to update to anything. Perhaps I just disabled the thing, because I want to be in control? I disable all automatic updates, it's my computer, I decide.
For kick 'n giggles I'll activate it on my wifes computer. As for now, I'm typing this on an Asus EEE PC 701 with the basic operating system. That one is still FF2.... version 2.0.0.11, which is oddly enough the firefox version also runing on my wifes XP machine.
The nag is most certainly not going to appear if the user is a Limited User under XP. So, any competent admin will not have to disable a nag screen. Automatic Update for Firefox doesn't work as a Limited User, and rightfully so.
Don't think so: the original CD was Audio only and the computer format only came out as an afterthought. Original Audio CDs have a spiral form track which is not very useful for data.
One writable CD for $1? Heck, man I remember when CD-R burners (and only CD-R) were SCSI only and a single 650Meg CD costed 6€ (Well, back in my own currency then...)
Actually, I think you misunderstand. I speak and write five languages, and all of them quite well. The problem is mainly that one tends to mix them up when you do not find a word in a certain language. "externalities" was a translation of the French "externalités" which exactly means what I wanted to say. Being a polyglot isn't always as easy as one might think.
That's the main problem with knowing a language well, but not perfectly. It's not the first time, won't be the last. I just felt, dumb because I didn't find the right terms.
Now excuse me that English is not my mother tongue.... I still have no idea how to say what I want to say. "Looks" perhaps, but that's not exactly what I want to say....
My wife asked her gynecologist about this very issue. Her gynecologist said that when pregnant, you only need to eat about the caloric equivalent of an apple more per day. That's not exactly much....
Well said! We should know better than to judge people on externalities... Especially slashdotters, who aren't really in the hollywood "sexy" category either.
And yet, for me vi is immensely more usable than Notepad, GEdit and the like. Sure, I learnt it over time, but it is so extremely efficient. It wouldn't be the first time that I type:wq to end a Notepad session.
Nothing is quite as intelligent as using your food supply to haul Chinese made goods around the country
You use gas powered trucks?!? (Not even in the US those exist AFAIK!) Wrong crop.... For biodiesel one can use Rapeseed, for example... Which is not human food but food for livestock.
(Yes, yes, I know: farmers will stop growing food for humans if food for biodiesel is more profitable.)
Plus, nostalgia? Because I can? The same reason I tried Linux before it even hit version 1?
Good reasons... I just thought you meant in a professional setting because you mentioned MSDN. I don't know many individuals that have a MSDN subscription. Actually, I only know companies who have.
Absolutely... A kernel panic would cause a "D"... Except that a BSOD on both WinXP and Win2000 are not that hard to cause. On OS X I could cause a kernel panic using Samba in the 10.1 days. On Linux, the last kernel panic I saw was when I tried to install RedHat 3.x on a PPro which it didn't support. That was a long time ago. On OpenBSD for example, I had kernel panics on my SMP machine when SMP was experimental for OpenBSD.
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I hope she has tech-savvy kids, because I've seen people send 5-Meg photos directly copied from their camera. That's gotta hurt, if it doesn't bounce on the recipients inbox. For grannies here, DSL is still an advantage, simply because they'd pay per minute for dial-up. Downloading those pictures then comes down expensive too...
Ah, I guess I'd have to switch to my ISPs DNS server in order to find out if it makes a difference. I run my own DNS server since ages and never saw a need to switch back. (Yeah, a full power one, not merely a forward cache DNS)
Is this a US phenomenon? My Internet seems to be pretty much as fast as always and I don't do filesharing. The reason Granny waits for her webpages is because she still uses dial-up and webpages have become increasingly dial-up unfriendly.
For the third time, I know I made a mistake.... Stop it already!
And(*) "becuase" most people can't even spell, indicating that their thoughts don't go further than what's for dinner in the evening and if their favourite character in a soap opera gets laid.
(*) I know that starting a sentence with "and" is bad form, but I was just completing the parent post.
Already pointed out the reason to another commenter... Yes, I feel stupid... Happy now?
Fuck... That's what happens if you watch Moonraker on DVD... I meant Michael Moore. Sorry about that!
The difference is that before they could have been reprimanded because they didn't follow the law. The keyword here is "could". Now, they have "carte blanche". There is no more law to protect you. Before you had at least a small chance.
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
My history teacher pointed those out in 1997 and he wasn't thinking of the USA back then. I thought: come on, it can't be that easy! However, seeing what happens in the USA, I humbly have to retract that opinion.
They do? I've got FF2 at home and I'm running Limited User. It has never ever asked me to update to anything. Perhaps I just disabled the thing, because I want to be in control? I disable all automatic updates, it's my computer, I decide.
For kick 'n giggles I'll activate it on my wifes computer. As for now, I'm typing this on an Asus EEE PC 701 with the basic operating system. That one is still FF2.... version 2.0.0.11, which is oddly enough the firefox version also runing on my wifes XP machine.
The nag is most certainly not going to appear if the user is a Limited User under XP. So, any competent admin will not have to disable a nag screen. Automatic Update for Firefox doesn't work as a Limited User, and rightfully so.
Don't think so: the original CD was Audio only and the computer format only came out as an afterthought. Original Audio CDs have a spiral form track which is not very useful for data.
One writable CD for $1? Heck, man I remember when CD-R burners (and only CD-R) were SCSI only and a single 650Meg CD costed 6€ (Well, back in my own currency then...)
Now get off my lawn!
Actually, I think you misunderstand. I speak and write five languages, and all of them quite well. The problem is mainly that one tends to mix them up when you do not find a word in a certain language. "externalities" was a translation of the French "externalités" which exactly means what I wanted to say. Being a polyglot isn't always as easy as one might think.
That's the main problem with knowing a language well, but not perfectly. It's not the first time, won't be the last. I just felt, dumb because I didn't find the right terms.
Now excuse me that English is not my mother tongue.... I still have no idea how to say what I want to say. "Looks" perhaps, but that's not exactly what I want to say....
My wife asked her gynecologist about this very issue. Her gynecologist said that when pregnant, you only need to eat about the caloric equivalent of an apple more per day. That's not exactly much....
Well said! We should know better than to judge people on externalities... Especially slashdotters, who aren't really in the hollywood "sexy" category either.
And yet, for me vi is immensely more usable than Notepad, GEdit and the like. Sure, I learnt it over time, but it is so extremely efficient. It wouldn't be the first time that I type :wq to end a Notepad session.
Just a silly question: if they have a working replica, why don't they know what the original does?
You use gas powered trucks?!? (Not even in the US those exist AFAIK!) Wrong crop.... For biodiesel one can use Rapeseed, for example... Which is not human food but food for livestock.
(Yes, yes, I know: farmers will stop growing food for humans if food for biodiesel is more profitable.)
Good reasons... I just thought you meant in a professional setting because you mentioned MSDN. I don't know many individuals that have a MSDN subscription. Actually, I only know companies who have.
I hope you didn't see a BSOD and that your daughter is fine.
Absolutely... A kernel panic would cause a "D"... Except that a BSOD on both WinXP and Win2000 are not that hard to cause. On OS X I could cause a kernel panic using Samba in the 10.1 days. On Linux, the last kernel panic I saw was when I tried to install RedHat 3.x on a PPro which it didn't support. That was a long time ago. On OpenBSD for example, I had kernel panics on my SMP machine when SMP was experimental for OpenBSD.
Have you seen computers at schools? Frankly? There are reasons why schools use products like Deepfreeze.