Then I read in a local magazine (Veronica magazine here in the Netherlands) about Siemens making a DECT USB adapter so that you can connect your DECT phone to the computer - and I though Wow! that's what I need. Well, €119 for another toy that I'll use like not that often? I don't think so.
American's have to go wearing Canadian stuff in Europe in order to avoid being spit on.
This was reported in the press, so it must be true.
My personal experience, as an anglophone who is often mistaken for an American, and as the (business) partner of an American resident in France, is that I have never seen this kind of behaviour.
I imagine that if you roam the streets shouting "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" you might get a different reaction however.
This Miller seems to have a pretty poor grasp of world events, or even elementary logic.
Chirac complained about GWB interfering in EU/Turkey relations
Miller says:
Chirac lectured Bush: "He (Bush) has nothing to say on this subject. It is as if I were to tell the United States how it should conduct its relations with Mexico."
Erm...No, it isn't quite the same thing, Chirac. The United States is a continent-sized country of 300 million citizens sharing a border with a smaller Republic to the south. Both countries are sovereign states but with highly developed economic and demographic ties. It would be very surprising if either of these countries didn't sometimes comment on the policies of the other. It would be absurd for France to do so.
Completely missing the point, Chirac didn't complain about the US commenting on Mexico or vice versa, he said that he (Chirac) had as little right to interfere in US/Mexican relations as GWB has to "support" Turkeys EU membership application.
Miller then blathers on:
France, on the other hand, is an economically stagnant country of 60 million. Turkey is an emerging democracy of 70 million dynamic and energetic people. France does not share a border with Turkey. Germany is by far Turkey's largest export market, followed by the US. Next comes Britain. France is sixth on the list. If France doesn't much like the look of Turkey, the Turks aren't much looking at France.
Oh, dear. France is "economically stagnant". Turkey is "an emerging democracy". So Turkey should just ignore France, eh?
Of course this is all bollocks. France has a veto on who joins the union, just like all the other member states. Of course Turkey cares what France thinks.
And, unlike the idiot Miller:
Chirac speaks for France, not for Europe, when he resists Turkish EU membership.
Turkey knows that Chirac is in fact one of the EU leaders who are pushing for Turkey's membership. That's why he complained about GWB's wrecking intervention.
Frankly having GWB "support" Turkeys membership application is just about the best way to make sure it is rejected.
Which, given the pronouncements of some of the NeoCon nutters, may have been what GWB's speach was for.
So.. by showing that Caldera (now newSCO) knew Monterey was heading to POWER back before the Monterey project ended
Ok, that would be a valid point.
However please note that Love never mentions Power in the interview. The editor writes:
Project Monterey was a deal between SCO and IBM, with Intel's support, to develop an enterprise Unix that could run on systems based on Intel's IA-32 and IA-64 architectures as well as IBM's POWER4 processor.
But Love only talks about "64 bit platforms".
(Personaly I'm pretty sure that everyone knew that Monterey was going to be on Power as well as Ia64 and x86, but this interview isn't the smoking gun).
McVoy is a business man; true to his heart, he needs to keep the BK user strung out on his code. Hell, I would feel the same sense of outrage that he feels if someone threatened to kill my cash cow. Don't pretend that every one you wouldn't feel the same way if it was *your* revenue stream. To me, anyone who claims an absolute vow of poverty is looking for a monastery to live in. Everyone I know would fight to protect a source of financial income.
I have competition that think like this.
Over the last couple of years they've been forced to sack 66% of their workforce, they've almost never made a profit, they are convinced that it's a jungle out there, it's dog eat dog, you have to kill to live..., all that bollocks.
You win by being good. Forget the competition. Just do the best you can.
If you can't survive the loss of your "cash cow" you're already dead. A buggy whip maker.
The point is that it doesn't make much sense to be looking at compressed files when you're talking about the size of the kernel. It makes even less sense to compare a compressed linux kernel with an uncompressed SunOS kernel.
Lors d'un contrôle, vous avez l'obligation de justifier de votre identité.
So, If the police ask you who you are you are obliged to provide some proof of identity.
La carte d'identité n'est pas obligatoire, vous pouvez justifier de votre identité par tout autre moyen:
passeport ou permis de conduire,
livret de famille, livret militaire, extrait d'acte de naissance avec filiation complète, carte d'électeur ou de sécurité sociale..,
appel à témoignage.
Which could include asking witnesses.
Si vous vous trouvez dans l'impossibilité de justifier de votre identité, ou si les documents produits ne paraissent pas suffisants pour établir votre identité (document sans photo), vous pouvez faire l'objet d'une vérification d'identité.
If they don't believe you they may check,
Vérification d'identité
La police ou la gendarmerie peuvent vous retenir sur place ou dans leurs locaux pour établir votre identité.
Either they hold you in place or they take you back to the station
Vous pouvez être présenté à un officier de police judiciaire.
Vous pouvez présenter de nouveaux papiers, faire appel à des témoignages.
La vérification doit durer au maximum quatre heures entre le début du contrôle d'identité et la fin de la vérification d'identité.
Vous pouvez faire prévenir le procureur de la République, votre famille ou toute personne de votre choix.
Pour un mineur:
le représentant légal (père, mère ou tuteur) doit être averti avant toute vérification, et doit, sauf impossibilité, l'assister,
le procureur de la République doit être averti.
You can ask anyone you want to help, bear witness, bring new papers.
If you're a minor your parents must be informed.
They can't hold you for more than 4 hours.
Ok, so it can be rather annoying, but in practice they just ask you to come to the commisariat the next day. Unless you're a young north african man of course.
Um... I lived in France for several years, and everyone, citizen or foreigner, was required to carry an I.D. at all times. One of my friends was caught without identification, and was required to bring it to the police station the next day.
Exactly. As you say no citizen is required to carry identification, but they may be asked to bring it to the police station the next day.
If everyone was required to carry ID then your friend would have gone to jail, straight to jail, and not passed go.
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Hey, on slashdot there is rampant stupidity of all kinds!
This was reported in the press, so it must be true.
My personal experience, as an anglophone who is often mistaken for an American, and as the (business) partner of an American resident in France, is that I have never seen this kind of behaviour.
I imagine that if you roam the streets shouting "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" you might get a different reaction however.
So, who called you "an American asshole"?
And were they French?
Chirac complained about GWB interfering in EU/Turkey relations
Miller says:
Completely missing the point, Chirac didn't complain about the US commenting on Mexico or vice versa, he said that he (Chirac) had as little right to interfere in US/Mexican relations as GWB has to "support" Turkeys EU membership application.
Miller then blathers on:
Oh, dear. France is "economically stagnant". Turkey is "an emerging democracy". So Turkey should just ignore France, eh?
Of course this is all bollocks. France has a veto on who joins the union, just like all the other member states. Of course Turkey cares what France thinks.
And, unlike the idiot Miller:
Turkey knows that Chirac is in fact one of the EU leaders who are pushing for Turkey's membership. That's why he complained about GWB's wrecking intervention.
Frankly having GWB "support" Turkeys membership application is just about the best way to make sure it is rejected.
Which, given the pronouncements of some of the NeoCon nutters, may have been what GWB's speach was for.
Not believing poor old Colin Powell after he'd been lied to?
That's insulting?
Huh? Don't have to be parsed? How can you read something without parsing it?
Maybe you mean mechanicaly parsed?
Whoops, forgot there was a new film, I meant the one with the "flying wing".
Um, have you read the War of the Worlds? Or even seen the film? Don't you remember what happens in the end?
Ok, that would be a valid point.
However please note that Love never mentions Power in the interview. The editor writes:
But Love only talks about "64 bit platforms".
(Personaly I'm pretty sure that everyone knew that Monterey was going to be on Power as well as Ia64 and x86, but this interview isn't the smoking gun).
Caldera's CEO can demonstrate IBM's intent in a deal between IBM and SCO?
Once again, that's "old" SCO, now Tarantella, not "new" SCO, formerly Caldera.
Ransome Love was not involved in the IBM/SCO deal.
Oh, god, here we go again.
The SCO that threatened Microport is not the SCO that is suing IBM.
Santa Cruz Operation != The SCO Group.
This SCO is Caldera. Caldera who used to sell Linux. Remember them?
Got it?
And why whould anybody care what Caldera's CEO thouht about Project Monterey, a joint project between SCO and IBM?
Monterey was started BEFORE Caldera bought UnixWare from SCO.
So, maybe you could cite a case where they made the wrong decision?
No.
This gets moderated offtopic. Fucking tightarsed slashdot wankers.
I'm so glad I'm banned from moderating 'cos I never have to worry about losing my sense of humour.
There's still somebody in the world that thinks ESR has stature?
The man is the very definition of a shortarse!
I have competition that think like this.
Over the last couple of years they've been forced to sack 66% of their workforce, they've almost never made a profit, they are convinced that it's a jungle out there, it's dog eat dog, you have to kill to live..., all that bollocks.
You win by being good. Forget the competition. Just do the best you can.
If you can't survive the loss of your "cash cow" you're already dead. A buggy whip maker.
Well, duh. Like I didn't know.
The point is that it doesn't make much sense to be looking at compressed files when you're talking about the size of the kernel. It makes even less sense to compare a compressed linux kernel with an uncompressed SunOS kernel.
Just why exactly does vmlinuz end in a "z" again?
For small, British/Italian, values of fast.
If you're a minor your parents must be informed.
They can't hold you for more than 4 hours.
Ok, so it can be rather annoying, but in practice they just ask you to come to the commisariat the next day. Unless you're a young north african man of course.
Exactly. As you say no citizen is required to carry identification, but they may be asked to bring it to the police station the next day.
If everyone was required to carry ID then your friend would have gone to jail, straight to jail, and not passed go.
Um, why would you have 15 dollar coins? Personaly when I carry 15 euros I've usualy got a 10 and a 5.
All my "corporate desktops" are running as a cluster 24/7.
Initialy the idea was just to simplify maintenance, but doing a make -j 128 kernel_image is quite fun.