And only the typical idiots that hate the US because it exists would think that the exact same thing wouldn't happen if the UN or some other body controlled the net. And it would have to be the UN because it makes no more sense for the EU to control the net than the US. And the UN is the most corrupt political body on the planet, as well as the most useless and ineffective.
If the UN controlled the net, Spamhaus would have had zero recourse because 360 would have gone to the WTO complaining Spamhaus was intefering with international trade, and the WTO always sides with the most corrupt side -- they pay more in bribes.
It's not any different than the user leaving Safari open with a window/tab open to the page. Why in the world would you possibly care? Are you just an anti-Apple/-hole?
"Private schools can pick and chose whom they wish to educate, and can cut off poor, misbehaving, lazy, underperforming students at any time."
Except that they don't. Private schools have to actually do a good job or they don't stay open. Public schools can waste millions on their administrators and leave the students without toilet paper for years at a time. Public schools do not have to educate any students at all, and it's becoming rather clear that they don't really try all that hard. Private schools have a far higher percentage of students continue to post-secondary education.
In other words, you intended to say nothing, since that is what that sentence means.
"...and you should know earning it obtained reading..."
That does not mean anything in English. Obtain means to acquire, not require.
Also, trying to use a double-negative is probably not what the other poster was talking about. Good job on sounding like a pretentious asshole, though.
I know it's stereotypically fashionable to be an asshole where MS is concerned, but Windows has actually improved in each generation.
1.x and 2.x were text or low-resolution graphics. They never took off. 3.0 brought the graphical UI and some applications to take advantage of that. 3.1 brought a 32-bit harddrive driver, which improved performance. It also took better advantage of protected mode for memory access. 95 brought pre-emptive multi-tasking and better memory protection. It also brought DirectX and 32-bit hardware drivers across the board. It also came with a TCP/IP stack and brought SMB over TCP. That was a big deal for Windows shops and a big improvement over the netbeui protocol used since DOS 3.3. NT brought a real security model and none of the backwards compatibility hacks for 16-bit mode that was present in 95. Win2k improved the stability of NT. XP brought the stability of NT to home users, and is more compatibile with typical home applications (like games) than 2000 was.
Vista sounds like it's a step backwards, but I haven't seen it myself yet.
I'm sure all the homeless people here in the US are overjoyed to know that they are richer than the middle class in the rest of the world.
Oh wait, they aren't.
How about you stop being an ass just because the Founding Fathers of the US had more forsight than to set up a dictatorship. If the rest of the world would rebel against their dictators and warlords and setup a democracy or republic instead of another dictator, they wouldn't be so god-dammed fu**ing poor.
I went through MS tech support to get WU working on an XP machine, and I saved all the emails in the event that the problem came up again. Send a note to avi.slashdot@mail.ashevin.com and I'll be glad to share them with you.
It's important to the FSF. If free software cannot compete with proprietary, it will never replace it. And the FSF wants proprietary software to be nothing more than a footnote of History.
Who defines the length of the period? All of time after the first terrorist attack has been the period after an attack. I guarantee that you and I don't get to define it, and Mr. "I'm the biggest bully in the world" Bush will gladly do so.
"...the fact that you can only read and edit them with expensive proprietary software (which is also bulky) doesn't help. (I know that there are other PDF programs..."
So the fact that you're wrong and a self-admitted lier doesn't deter you from hating Adobe. Hate Adobe for putting that Russian (I forget the name) through legal hell. Hating them for creating a usable document format that allows for exact-layout formatting on any system, including printers, that one can freely implement, is just beyond stupid. But beyond stupid is where most/.'s seem to live, so I guess you have company down there.
"Antivirus, ad-blocking, spyware monitoring should all be external to the system I think."
Typical/. shit-think. You all gladly, even eagerly, lambast MS for every single Windows-related exploit or bug, but you won't let MS fix it. You even go so far as to approve government intervention to ENSURE MS releases a buggy and insecure product.
You totally missed the point of the GP. He agrees that Linux is at least ok for installation. What he mentioned was configuration. And I partially agree with him. When Windows can do something, configuring it is easy. There's almost always a GUI for it. Even if there's not, there's generally only one way to do it, so any example you pull off the net will work with maybe a little modification.
On Linux, every example for anything is context sensitive. If your issue isn't exactly the same, down to the version and related software, the solution may not work. Due to the huge number of packages for any particular task, configuration of a system may be significantly harder. I think having a choice is better than not, but "better" != "problem free".
"I understand it's quite a bit harder to convince management in a huge mega-corporation."
It's hard to convince them because mega-corps hire competent sysadmins, instead of people like you. Ford has had an active directory forest implemented for over 5 years. To my knowledge, it has never been unavailable. The servers that run it don't go down. I run the corporate load under VMware on my workstation. I don't reboot it unless I have to power down the box. Only patching will force a reboot. No one I know has problems with Windows crashing, and I work in ADS (app development).
If I have learned anything from Slashdot, it is that incompetents prefer Linux.
I don't think you understand the Constitution. Gay marriage would fall under those rights reserved for the States and the People, as this right (marriage) is not mentioned at all in the Constitution. Therefore, it is up to each state to decide whether marriage is to be reserved only for couples that can (on the surface; not dealing with conception problems) procreate or if it should be extended to any 2 random people that claim to like each other.
Besides, the Constitution allows for discriminating on ANY basis. It is Federal law that prohibits certain types.
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U3 devices show as 2 partitions. The U3 system partition will appear as a CD (CDFS on Windows), and the rest of the drive appears as a normal (vfat) partition. You can also get utilities to remove the U3 software and partition, which is what I did.
Umm, dynamically linking doesn't allow you to ignore the GPL. That's why the LGPL exists in the first place; to allow the library to be licensed differently than the software which uses it. A library under the GPL cannot be used dynamically without the software being under the GPL when distributed. The difference is only in your own mind.
"Furthermore, if creationism is an essential part of your religion, then your religion is factually wrong."
That depends on what you believe the story of creation is. There is nothing in the original Hebrew version that contradicts fact. One simply has understand that the story was written such as to be understandable to a huge population existing several thousand years ago (4-5k). It is a Talmudic principle that if the literal translation of a biblical phrase contradicts fact, the phrase was written to be understandable to its original audience. In Judaism, it's not blasphemy to interpret any particular statement of fact such that it is true based on current knowledge.
Take the very first verses in Genesis. They basically say that there was an empty void and then there was light. Talmudic scholars tell us that this light is not the same light we have from the sun and stars, but was different. Based on current knowledge and theory, we can say that the original "light" was really energy. Now you have the Big Bang theory stated in the first 3 verses of Genesis.
Only narrow-minded bigots like you cannot conceive of a method to reconcile biblical accounts with current knowledge.
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And only the typical idiots that hate the US because it exists would think that the exact same thing wouldn't happen if the UN or some other body controlled the net. And it would have to be the UN because it makes no more sense for the EU to control the net than the US. And the UN is the most corrupt political body on the planet, as well as the most useless and ineffective.
If the UN controlled the net, Spamhaus would have had zero recourse because 360 would have gone to the WTO complaining Spamhaus was intefering with international trade, and the WTO always sides with the most corrupt side -- they pay more in bribes.
It's not any different than the user leaving Safari open with a window/tab open to the page. Why in the world would you possibly care? Are you just an anti-Apple /-hole?
"Why not try your idea on our police, ambulance, and military?"
My sister is a paramedic and she doesn't work for the government. You really need a clue, but that's too much to ask of a slash-fuck poster.
"Private schools can pick and chose whom they wish to educate, and can cut off poor, misbehaving, lazy, underperforming students at any time."
Except that they don't. Private schools have to actually do a good job or they don't stay open. Public schools can waste millions on their administrators and leave the students without toilet paper for years at a time. Public schools do not have to educate any students at all, and it's becoming rather clear that they don't really try all that hard. Private schools have a far higher percentage of students continue to post-secondary education.
"It means exactly what I intended it to say..."
In other words, you intended to say nothing, since that is what that sentence means.
"...and you should know earning it obtained reading..."
That does not mean anything in English. Obtain means to acquire, not require.
Also, trying to use a double-negative is probably not what the other poster was talking about. Good job on sounding like a pretentious asshole, though.
I know it's stereotypically fashionable to be an asshole where MS is concerned, but Windows has actually improved in each generation.
1.x and 2.x were text or low-resolution graphics. They never took off.
3.0 brought the graphical UI and some applications to take advantage of that.
3.1 brought a 32-bit harddrive driver, which improved performance. It also took better advantage of protected mode for memory access.
95 brought pre-emptive multi-tasking and better memory protection. It also brought DirectX and 32-bit hardware drivers across the board. It also came with a TCP/IP stack and brought SMB over TCP. That was a big deal for Windows shops and a big improvement over the netbeui protocol used since DOS 3.3.
NT brought a real security model and none of the backwards compatibility hacks for 16-bit mode that was present in 95.
Win2k improved the stability of NT.
XP brought the stability of NT to home users, and is more compatibile with typical home applications (like games) than 2000 was.
Vista sounds like it's a step backwards, but I haven't seen it myself yet.
I'm sure all the homeless people here in the US are overjoyed to know that they are richer than the middle class in the rest of the world.
Oh wait, they aren't.
How about you stop being an ass just because the Founding Fathers of the US had more forsight than to set up a dictatorship. If the rest of the world would rebel against their dictators and warlords and setup a democracy or republic instead of another dictator, they wouldn't be so god-dammed fu**ing poor.
"Because, y'know, usually they put the screen on the *inside* part of the laptop to actually *protect* it."
That's funny. I thought the screen faced that way so you could, you know, see it while using the laptop.
"been a pretty crappy OS ever since they first came out with Win95, and stability/ease of use hasn't gotten much better since."
Translation: I haven't used Windows in 11 years, but since this is slashdot, I'm still perfectly credible as long as I bash Microsoft.
How about you grow up and maybe actually try something before you make baseless and blatantly untrue comments?
I went through MS tech support to get WU working on an XP machine, and I saved all the emails in the event that the problem came up again. Send a note to avi.slashdot@mail.ashevin.com and I'll be glad to share them with you.
It's important to the FSF. If free software cannot compete with proprietary, it will never replace it. And the FSF wants proprietary software to be nothing more than a footnote of History.
Who defines the length of the period? All of time after the first terrorist attack has been the period after an attack. I guarantee that you and I don't get to define it, and Mr. "I'm the biggest bully in the world" Bush will gladly do so.
"...the fact that you can only read and edit them with expensive proprietary software (which is also bulky) doesn't help. (I know that there are other PDF programs..."
/.'s seem to live, so I guess you have company down there.
So the fact that you're wrong and a self-admitted lier doesn't deter you from hating Adobe. Hate Adobe for putting that Russian (I forget the name) through legal hell. Hating them for creating a usable document format that allows for exact-layout formatting on any system, including printers, that one can freely implement, is just beyond stupid. But beyond stupid is where most
"Antivirus, ad-blocking, spyware monitoring should all be external to the system I think."
/. shit-think. You all gladly, even eagerly, lambast MS for every single Windows-related exploit or bug, but you won't let MS fix it. You even go so far as to approve government intervention to ENSURE MS releases a buggy and insecure product.
Typical
"and it it didn't NEED firewalls and other anal systems, you would have a point, but that would be a cold day in hell...."
/. makes his mark. How many Unix/Linux systems do you run on a public network without a firewall?
And another shit
I hope you are profiled by the CIA, pulled off the street with no notice to your relatives, and made to feel at home, CIA "you're a terrorist" style.
Those in power deserve a personal and up-close version of 9/11. Mere jail time is worthless and non at all punishing.
Good old shit /. poster. Almost every OS in common use places hardware drivers in the kernel. Linux, the BSDs, Windows, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, etc.
Stop being a fucked up shit that can't stand the fact that Windows is actually usable to people that aren't you.
You totally missed the point of the GP. He agrees that Linux is at least ok for installation. What he mentioned was configuration. And I partially agree with him. When Windows can do something, configuring it is easy. There's almost always a GUI for it. Even if there's not, there's generally only one way to do it, so any example you pull off the net will work with maybe a little modification.
On Linux, every example for anything is context sensitive. If your issue isn't exactly the same, down to the version and related software, the solution may not work. Due to the huge number of packages for any particular task, configuration of a system may be significantly harder. I think having a choice is better than not, but "better" != "problem free".
"I understand it's quite a bit harder to convince management in a huge mega-corporation."
It's hard to convince them because mega-corps hire competent sysadmins, instead of people like you. Ford has had an active directory forest implemented for over 5 years. To my knowledge, it has never been unavailable. The servers that run it don't go down. I run the corporate load under VMware on my workstation. I don't reboot it unless I have to power down the box. Only patching will force a reboot. No one I know has problems with Windows crashing, and I work in ADS (app development).
If I have learned anything from Slashdot, it is that incompetents prefer Linux.
I don't think you understand the Constitution. Gay marriage would fall under those rights reserved for the States and the People, as this right (marriage) is not mentioned at all in the Constitution. Therefore, it is up to each state to decide whether marriage is to be reserved only for couples that can (on the surface; not dealing with conception problems) procreate or if it should be extended to any 2 random people that claim to like each other.
Besides, the Constitution allows for discriminating on ANY basis. It is Federal law that prohibits certain types.
U3 devices show as 2 partitions. The U3 system partition will appear as a CD (CDFS on Windows), and the rest of the drive appears as a normal (vfat) partition. You can also get utilities to remove the U3 software and partition, which is what I did.
Umm, dynamically linking doesn't allow you to ignore the GPL. That's why the LGPL exists in the first place; to allow the library to be licensed differently than the software which uses it. A library under the GPL cannot be used dynamically without the software being under the GPL when distributed. The difference is only in your own mind.
Ever see the Mazda "Zoom Zoom" ads? The guy who put together that campaign/slogan uses a Mac.
"Furthermore, if creationism is an essential part of your religion, then your religion is factually wrong."
That depends on what you believe the story of creation is. There is nothing in the original Hebrew version that contradicts fact. One simply has understand that the story was written such as to be understandable to a huge population existing several thousand years ago (4-5k). It is a Talmudic principle that if the literal translation of a biblical phrase contradicts fact, the phrase was written to be understandable to its original audience. In Judaism, it's not blasphemy to interpret any particular statement of fact such that it is true based on current knowledge.
Take the very first verses in Genesis. They basically say that there was an empty void and then there was light. Talmudic scholars tell us that this light is not the same light we have from the sun and stars, but was different. Based on current knowledge and theory, we can say that the original "light" was really energy. Now you have the Big Bang theory stated in the first 3 verses of Genesis.
Only narrow-minded bigots like you cannot conceive of a method to reconcile biblical accounts with current knowledge.