We are running out of fossil fuels, therefore the global warming will become slower, if not nonexistant. Sorry, no apocalypse brought about by them there capitalists...
However, one has to be a zealous Bushist, in order to consider industrialization and increase in temperature happening at the same time to be a coincidence.
IANAL,
MS is free to compell the user to do whatever is written in EULA, as long as those deeds are not illegal as such.
Courts help enforcing the EULA, they can't chalenge it's fairness nor allow users to do stuff forbidden in the user-licence agreement.
If you don't like the licence, don't use the software.
Of course some customer-rights activists may seek to enforce the change of the EULA, but I am yet to notice something like that taking place, feel free to enlighten me on the subject, though...
" to go out with my friends, I love animals, especially horses (I love to ride them) and dogs and butterflies. I like flowers and spring and I like to roller-skate."
Heh, people usually write such things in their profiles when they try to come out as chix... Come on! Butterflies and flowers? Those are the first two words that come to mind when trying to ironize female interests...
31st December is New Year's eve, which in fact is the time when people in Russia give each other presents.
X-mas is more of a religious thing there, like easter...
But when does it say that Gollum was a hobbit?
It does, but not explicitly. In the book, iirc, someone,
(maybe Gandalf) said something along the lines of "Smeagol
was a creature not much unlike the Hobbits".
It might have mentioned somewhere else too. I hate not to
present
hard evidence, but I don't have the book available, and I
can't be
bothered to warez it:)
Master and Margarita,
seemed to be both funny and interesting to me, I was born in USSR(Latvia) though.
As for Westerners not getting it: Finnish acquintance of mine
who read it liked it
very much too, which proves that one doesn't have to
be born in Soviet Union/live there
to enjoy it.
Meanwhile our dedicated CmdrTaco seems to be often booting into Windows for games and DVDs and DivXs and so on.
Erm, games, maybe. Not movies, though.
Unless you wanna watch stuff that uses Sorensen and crap like that...
Actually DVDs and DivX play faster in Linux (using Xine) then in Win98 (when I still had it) on my machine
Torvalds IS Swedish name, but anyway, most of the Finnish "Swedes" consider themselves to be Finns, who happen to have Swedish as a mother-tongue, I know couple of people who are that way, at least (so sorry if I am deducing wrong:)
Microsoft is free to bundle whatever they want with any of their products, as long as the customer is informed about it. And if someone doesn't like XP they can use something else anyway, gone are the days when Microsoft was an absolute monopoly in consumer/corporate OS business.
And whatever harms AOL is good by default anyway:)
Here in Finland, and elsewhere in EU gas costs 1.2$/liter.
I guess if gas was more expensive in US it would be easier for you people to sign the Kyoto agreement:)
Win9x is flaky, so is 3.1.
I however disagree about NT being "unstable", at least with all the latest SPs.
I am running NT at work and the system has NEVER crashed on me, but it's a Compaq and it's M$ certified. When however you are starting to mix tons of hardware you are bound to get even the stablest of OS's to crash.
And one thing that no OS can be protected against are video-driver crashes. Since the video driver is accessing h/w directly, when it goes down it takes the entire OS with it. So the user is left at the mercy of the driver coders. I've had many lock-ups in Linux, caused by my nVidia drivers, they are stable now, but that wasnt a case even 5 months ago. Also another example: Aureal Vortex soundcards on a par with VIA chipsets are known to cause occasional lockups in Linux.
Mandrake 7.2 was buggy as hell.(imo)
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I know this is off topic, but...
Some examples of the subj.: X crashed every 15 mins with error 11, GTK menus didn't accept input from mouse's left button, ESD wouldn't work.
That of course was my personal experience, but still...
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However, one has to be a zealous Bushist, in order to consider industrialization and increase in temperature happening at the same time to be a coincidence.
MS is free to compell the user to do whatever is written in EULA, as long as those deeds are not illegal as such.
Courts help enforcing the EULA, they can't chalenge it's fairness nor allow users to do stuff forbidden in the user-licence agreement.
If you don't like the licence, don't use the software.
Of course some customer-rights activists may seek to enforce the change of the EULA, but I am yet to notice something like that taking place, feel free to enlighten me on the subject, though...
How about BusinessWeek trying to sell more copies of the magazine by publishing interesting articles about important issues?
Heh, people usually write such things in their profiles when they try to come out as chix... Come on! Butterflies and flowers? Those are the first two words that come to mind when trying to ironize female interests...
31st December is New Year's eve, which in fact is the time when people in Russia give each other presents.
X-mas is more of a religious thing there, like easter...
But when does it say that Gollum was a hobbit?
It does, but not explicitly. In the book, iirc, someone, (maybe Gandalf) said something along the lines of "Smeagol was a creature not much unlike the Hobbits".
It might have mentioned somewhere else too. I hate not to present hard evidence, but I don't have the book available, and I can't be bothered to warez it:)
Well, duh, it's X-mas eve, and at the time of your posting it's past 10 PM in Germany, so noone is there, hence the lights are off.
Then again, I wish they did.
Erm, what's your point, Titanic was a crap movie and deserved not being among the best movies...
As for Westerners not getting it: Finnish acquintance of mine who read it liked it very much too, which proves that one doesn't have to be born in Soviet Union/live there to enjoy it.
Erm, games, maybe. Not movies, though.
Unless you wanna watch stuff that uses Sorensen and crap like that...
Actually DVDs and DivX play faster in Linux (using Xine) then in Win98 (when I still had it) on my machine
This pretty much makes it clear.
But then again most other people probably care more about food, waging wars and stuff like that...
Wasn't that what happened during the 80's?
Where was this from?
Microsoft will publish 'em games.
As the old saying goes: "There is no such thing as bad publicity".
And M$ is getting plenty.
Torvalds IS Swedish name, but anyway, most of the Finnish "Swedes" consider themselves to be Finns, who happen to have Swedish as a mother-tongue, I know couple of people who are that way, at least (so sorry if I am deducing wrong:)
I will rephrase Arthur C. Clarke on space-elevators:
OpenSource will really kick off when everybody will stop laughing.
P.S FYI, being a ludite is not "IN":P
Microsoft is free to bundle whatever they want with any of their products, as long as the customer is informed about it. And if someone doesn't like XP they can use something else anyway, gone are the days when Microsoft was an absolute monopoly in consumer/corporate OS business.
And whatever harms AOL is good by default anyway:)
Here in Finland, and elsewhere in EU gas costs 1.2$ /liter.
I guess if gas was more expensive in US it would be easier for you people to sign the Kyoto agreement:)
CDRs cost around $1 here, in Finland, I've never seen a CD-R selling cheaper than 80 cents.
Win9x is flaky, so is 3.1. I however disagree about NT being "unstable", at least with all the latest SPs. I am running NT at work and the system has NEVER crashed on me, but it's a Compaq and it's M$ certified. When however you are starting to mix tons of hardware you are bound to get even the stablest of OS's to crash. And one thing that no OS can be protected against are video-driver crashes. Since the video driver is accessing h/w directly, when it goes down it takes the entire OS with it. So the user is left at the mercy of the driver coders. I've had many lock-ups in Linux, caused by my nVidia drivers, they are stable now, but that wasnt a case even 5 months ago. Also another example: Aureal Vortex soundcards on a par with VIA chipsets are known to cause occasional lockups in Linux.
I know this is off topic, but... Some examples of the subj.: X crashed every 15 mins with error 11, GTK menus didn't accept input from mouse's left button, ESD wouldn't work. That of course was my personal experience, but still...