I've got many memories of evenings spent with Windows 3.11, although I spent far more time in DOS back then. Later on, I spent a few few years with Linux (starting with Mandrake) as my primary desktop OS, and wound up with Mac OS X for the last few years.
I'll still raise a toast to over a decade of Debian or FreeBSD on the server side for anything I care about.
Well I had dos 5 originally (with dosshell), then at some point windows 3.1 and 3.11 on a dos 6.22 background, then of course windows 95, installed on about 50 floppies.
Moved exclusively to debian in summer 2000, and them to ubuntu in 2006. I have a mac laptop too which I use for testing programs (that I write on the linux machine), and I have a small windows fanless machine for the same reason.
So my main machine has moved from a 286 mainly running railroad tycoon and qbasic, to a thinkpad running mainly firefox and vim. 13 years of linux, 8 years of dos/windows.
Ditto to this. If critics were to equally discredit every group based on the worst behaviour of members of that group then every reputable research organisation would be destroyed.
The issue here isn't the people in the group, but the actual beliefs that define the group.
The defining belief of Christian Science involves avoiding modern medicine in favour of healing through prayer. This is a belief that kills people.
As a responsible and humane person I believe it's my duty to criticize them.
As someone worried about growing population, I don't see a problem. Survival of the fittest.
no in the US you would line up wait 45 minutes to have your colon inspected by an under-qualified walmart employee, then get on the train, someone would fart, you'd all jump thinking its terrorists and the train would be unloaded and station shutdown for 3-4 months while a full investigation was launched into the 'biological weapons' used in the attack. Then you would invade some 3rd world country thats rich in resources illegally detain hundreds or even thousands of them making sure to thuroughly humiliate them publicly and then after 5-10 years declare victory and assuring people that the biological weapons used will no longer pose a threat to america. inevitably outlawing public flatulence as some form of treason
That's what it's going to take to get liberty back on top of the pile again.
No, you and your gun nut whackos will be taken out and the 99% that don't give a flying fsck will carry on as normal.
To use the ammo box successfully, you need a good portion of the country behind you. Get the administration to cancel American Idle and you'll have a chance
no that was the nid a fictional department made for civilian over site of military secrets
Fictional. Right.
You do realise Stargate chronicled the real life actions of the US Air Force, they leaked enough of the program to create the film, then tv show, to act as plausable deniability.
They then leaked the fact they leaked it and they came up with Wormhole Extreme.
I was one of those luddites, however I was recently away for 3 weeks, and burnt through the 3 books I took quickly. As I had an ipad mini, I downloaded the kindle app and bought a couple more books to give it a go.
Now I'm not so sure.
Aside from the problem on not being able to read on the plane during take off, approach and landing (about 30 minutes a flight, 120 flights a year, that's 60 hours of reading time lost), they're very convienient
I'm still buying dead trees out of principle, but when I read these types of books I'm happy to read an ebook too, but I treat it more like a library.
Somewhere it helps to be ahead of the curve and not chronically behind it. Listening is good, yes, but who was Apple listening to when they created the iPhone?.
They should have listened to slashdot when they started with the iPod. If it had had wifi and more space than a nomad it wouldn't have even so lame, and they wouldn't have gone bust.
Well in my experience in Europe, and even at check points in less salubrious places, you would never be searched for a traffic incident. I guess America is just a more violent place than Russia, Pakistan, Gaza and Afghanistan.
My father-in-law recently went on a police "ride-a-long" (we live in Virginia Beach, VA). He said that in between responding to domestic disturbance calls, the majority of the time was spent driving around scanning license plates. Prior to that, he didn't even know the police had the capability, much less the desire to track innocent folks. One particular incident occured that night when they pulled up to a vehicle that came up stolen. The cop pulled the guy over, handcuffed him and put him in the back seat. The guy was upset, and for good reason, which would only become clear some minutes later. He was the owner of the car which had previously been reported as stolen, but had not been cleared in the database after it was returned to him.
The problem here isn't the police pulling over the reported stolen car, it's their assumption of guilt. Handcuffing someone before you even talk to them? This just doesn't seem to happen in the UK. When I was young I was pulled over several times, once on the motorway, I'd been doing 87 (speed limit was 70), and I was talking on a mobile.
They pulled me over, walked up to the car, asked me to get out of the vehicle on the passenger side and come back to to their car, where they gave me a ticket (not a speeding one, but one for the mobile)
Another time I was pulled over with a bald tire. They let me park the car first, then again asked me politely to join them while they wrote me a ticket.
There's something in the american psyche that causes the police to be adversarial.
But lately I rely more upon public transport, while sacrificing some of my convenient spare time, it is cheaper AND quite reliable here in (Western) Europe to use public transport, at least for a single person, who doesn't need to buy food for a whole family.
Well I get the train when I travel 200 miles to London, as it's far faster (3 hours door-to-door) than driving (4 hours door-to-carpark, then another half hour to the office). I read on the trip too. I don't have enough convenient spare time to waste driving all the way (I do drive the first 15 miles to the station)
Americans often use public transport too, it's called a plane.
oh a serious note, progress is always good. it's really too bad transgamming killed cedega but didnt release any DX code. i really liked cedega and yes, paid the subscription fee for it.
Excellent, there have been very few games I've played in the last 13 years. My "current" CD collection includes Unreal Tournament and Klingon Honor Guard. Not that I've played them for years of course.
I do play occasional things I my ithingy, usually ticket to ride.
Some music groups have switched to Pay What You Want for a digital copy (mp3 download) of their album.
I bet they will have much more money than with any other distribution model.
For example, Psygnosis band started with this model, along with other merch and bonuses for those who want extra.
Even if I'm not a big fan, I paid a whooping 8€ for their album, digital copy, because I was happy to have it DRM free, and to be trusted by the band which feels confident that their listeners will pay a fair price.
All this money goes to the band, this is at least three times what they could get with physical sales.
Presumably if it brings in ~$125k in ad revenue per year, it'd be "worth" about 4 times that, or $500k. I personally think that even with that much yearly ad revenue I would not spend that kind of money on such a site.
So you would turn down an investment that gave 25% returns when bonds are paying 2%? Free advice: you might want to get some professional help to manage your 401k.
$125k revenue != $125k profit $125k revenue for FY2012/13 != $125k revenue for FY2013/14
Been using this one for almost a year, with no issues. Plenty of bells and whistles for the home business/power user.
Absolutely, no brainer for a mikrotik. I find the 951-2n fine for home though - I have 4 of them, lacking any cables between rooms means I use 5ghz on the backbone, and have a single 2.4ghz network for wireless.
Was this a Dreamliner that had fixes for the previous problems applied burning, or was this a case of an airline cheaping out and not installing a strongly recommended/required fix?
No, it's a racist ignorant twat
In fact this was the first plane that returned to the skies after the grounding, if this is battery related, then Boeing may as well shut up shop.
is the biggest piece of crap I have ever encountered. If you have a lazy eye and are tired, that scanner won't be worth shit. It probably also won't work if you are coming down with something. The iris tends to change over time. Ignoring how stupid and fascist it is, iris scans have been shown to be horribly inaccurate. I use the fingerprint reader to enter the US but I never bother trying the iris scanner to enter Canada anymore and just use the regular customs line.
I've had an operation to correct my eye turn a bit but if I am tired, I am going to have trouble co-ordinating my eye positions.
I often use iris at heathrow, it has never fail to recognise me on the first attempt, I've used it about 50 times over the last 3 years.
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The US will just contract out the spying to a third party (or country, ally). No harm no foul. Money talks.
Yes, the US will contract out it's Euro spying to Germany.
Meanwhile Germany will contract out it's America spying to the US.
Job done.
Maybe add the official Parliamentary web site.
You really think people will notice?
I've got many memories of evenings spent with Windows 3.11, although I spent far more time in DOS back then. Later on, I spent a few few years with Linux (starting with Mandrake) as my primary desktop OS, and wound up with Mac OS X for the last few years.
I'll still raise a toast to over a decade of Debian or FreeBSD on the server side for anything I care about.
Well I had dos 5 originally (with dosshell), then at some point windows 3.1 and 3.11 on a dos 6.22 background, then of course windows 95, installed on about 50 floppies.
Moved exclusively to debian in summer 2000, and them to ubuntu in 2006. I have a mac laptop too which I use for testing programs (that I write on the linux machine), and I have a small windows fanless machine for the same reason.
So my main machine has moved from a 286 mainly running railroad tycoon and qbasic, to a thinkpad running mainly firefox and vim. 13 years of linux, 8 years of dos/windows.
Like "Democratic People's Republic of ___________"
America?
Ditto to this.
If critics were to equally discredit every group based on the worst behaviour of members of that group then every reputable research organisation would be destroyed.
The issue here isn't the people in the group, but the actual beliefs that define the group.
The defining belief of Christian Science involves avoiding modern medicine in favour of healing through prayer. This is a belief that kills people.
As a responsible and humane person I believe it's my duty to criticize them.
As someone worried about growing population, I don't see a problem. Survival of the fittest.
I can't wait to see how James Bond gets around this one.
He'll ride a motorbike rather than take the subway.
"Welcome to rush hour on the Tube. Not something you'd know much about."
no in the US you would line up wait 45 minutes to have your colon inspected by an under-qualified walmart employee, then get on the train, someone would fart, you'd all jump thinking its terrorists and the train would be unloaded and station shutdown for 3-4 months while a full investigation was launched into the 'biological weapons' used in the attack. Then you would invade some 3rd world country thats rich in resources illegally detain hundreds or even thousands of them making sure to thuroughly humiliate them publicly and then after 5-10 years declare victory and assuring people that the biological weapons used will no longer pose a threat to america. inevitably outlawing public flatulence as some form of treason
Score +1 Depressing but true
Slahdot mobile has broken again. No way to copy text on an iPhone, no quote button
To answer your points. Much of mpscows subway has 4g (and aircon) underground. The bbc did a live broadcast with a live-u a couple of months ago.
Your main point though, People do not wrap their phones in tinfoil.
You forgot
*ammo box revolt
That's what it's going to take to get liberty back on top of the pile again.
No, you and your gun nut whackos will be taken out and the 99% that don't give a flying fsck will carry on as normal.
To use the ammo box successfully, you need a good portion of the country behind you. Get the administration to cancel American Idle and you'll have a chance
no that was the nid a fictional department made for civilian over site of military secrets
Fictional. Right.
You do realise Stargate chronicled the real life actions of the US Air Force, they leaked enough of the program to create the film, then tv show, to act as plausable deniability.
They then leaked the fact they leaked it and they came up with Wormhole Extreme.
In real life, the powers that be want the guy muzzled.
If the UK they use the courts to block the publication of the paper
In the US they use the CIA to murder the author
I was one of those luddites, however I was recently away for 3 weeks, and burnt through the 3 books I took quickly. As I had an ipad mini, I downloaded the kindle app and bought a couple more books to give it a go.
Now I'm not so sure.
Aside from the problem on not being able to read on the plane during take off, approach and landing (about 30 minutes a flight, 120 flights a year, that's 60 hours of reading time lost), they're very convienient
I'm still buying dead trees out of principle, but when I read these types of books I'm happy to read an ebook too, but I treat it more like a library.
Somewhere it helps to be ahead of the curve and not chronically behind it. Listening is good, yes, but who was Apple listening to when they created the iPhone?.
They should have listened to slashdot when they started with the iPod. If it had had wifi and more space than a nomad it wouldn't have even so lame, and they wouldn't have gone bust.
Well in my experience in Europe, and even at check points in less salubrious places, you would never be searched for a traffic incident. I guess America is just a more violent place than Russia, Pakistan, Gaza and Afghanistan.
Snowden isn't old enough to be president.
True, belief in things like the american dream and constitution needs to be drummed out by 20 years of media brainwashing first.
My father-in-law recently went on a police "ride-a-long" (we live in Virginia Beach, VA). He said that in between responding to domestic disturbance calls, the majority of the time was spent driving around scanning license plates. Prior to that, he didn't even know the police had the capability, much less the desire to track innocent folks. One particular incident occured that night when they pulled up to a vehicle that came up stolen. The cop pulled the guy over, handcuffed him and put him in the back seat. The guy was upset, and for good reason, which would only become clear some minutes later. He was the owner of the car which had previously been reported as stolen, but had not been cleared in the database after it was returned to him.
The problem here isn't the police pulling over the reported stolen car, it's their assumption of guilt. Handcuffing someone before you even talk to them? This just doesn't seem to happen in the UK. When I was young I was pulled over several times, once on the motorway, I'd been doing 87 (speed limit was 70), and I was talking on a mobile.
They pulled me over, walked up to the car, asked me to get out of the vehicle on the passenger side and come back to to their car, where they gave me a ticket (not a speeding one, but one for the mobile)
Another time I was pulled over with a bald tire. They let me park the car first, then again asked me politely to join them while they wrote me a ticket.
There's something in the american psyche that causes the police to be adversarial.
But lately I rely more upon public transport, while sacrificing some of my convenient spare time, it is cheaper AND quite reliable here in (Western) Europe to use public transport, at least for a single person, who doesn't need to buy food for a whole family.
Well I get the train when I travel 200 miles to London, as it's far faster (3 hours door-to-door) than driving (4 hours door-to-carpark, then another half hour to the office). I read on the trip too. I don't have enough convenient spare time to waste driving all the way (I do drive the first 15 miles to the station)
Americans often use public transport too, it's called a plane.
finally i can play those new games that came out... three to 11 years ago.
oh a serious note, progress is always good. it's really too bad transgamming killed cedega but didnt release any DX code. i really liked cedega and yes, paid the subscription fee for it.
Excellent, there have been very few games I've played in the last 13 years. My "current" CD collection includes Unreal Tournament and Klingon Honor Guard. Not that I've played them for years of course.
I do play occasional things I my ithingy, usually ticket to ride.
Some music groups have switched to Pay What You Want for a digital copy (mp3 download) of their album.
I bet they will have much more money than with any other distribution model.
For example, Psygnosis band started with this model, along with other merch and bonuses for those who want extra.
Even if I'm not a big fan, I paid a whooping 8€ for their album, digital copy, because I was happy to have it DRM free, and to be trusted by the band which feels confident that their listeners will pay a fair price.
All this money goes to the band, this is at least three times what they could get with physical sales.
I'm fairly sure Thom Yorke knows all about pay what you want, and How much he's likely to make
Presumably if it brings in ~$125k in ad revenue per year, it'd be "worth" about 4 times that, or $500k. I personally think that even with that much yearly ad revenue I would not spend that kind of money on such a site.
So you would turn down an investment that gave 25% returns when bonds are paying 2%? Free advice: you might want to get some professional help to manage your 401k.
$125k revenue != $125k profit
$125k revenue for FY2012/13 != $125k revenue for FY2013/14
http://routerboard.com/RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN
Been using this one for almost a year, with no issues. Plenty of bells and whistles for the home business/power user.
Absolutely, no brainer for a mikrotik. I find the 951-2n fine for home though - I have 4 of them, lacking any cables between rooms means I use 5ghz on the backbone, and have a single 2.4ghz network for wireless.
Thank you, we needed some input from a typewriter owner.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/11/1337236/russian-federal-guard-service-upgrades-to-electric-typewriters
It stops the NSA from tracking him.
That's a good question.
Was this a Dreamliner that had fixes for the previous problems applied burning, or was this a case of an airline cheaping out and not installing a strongly recommended/required fix?
No, it's a racist ignorant twat
In fact this was the first plane that returned to the skies after the grounding, if this is battery related, then Boeing may as well shut up shop.
[Citation needed]
'nuff said.
I don't see any tigers around, do you?
is the biggest piece of crap I have ever encountered. If you have a lazy eye and are tired, that scanner won't be worth shit. It probably also won't work if you are coming down with something. The iris tends to change over time. Ignoring how stupid and fascist it is, iris scans have been shown to be horribly inaccurate. I use the fingerprint reader to enter the US but I never bother trying the iris scanner to enter Canada anymore and just use the regular customs line.
I've had an operation to correct my eye turn a bit but if I am tired, I am going to have trouble co-ordinating my eye positions.
I often use iris at heathrow, it has never fail to recognise me on the first attempt, I've used it about 50 times over the last 3 years.