Don't bother, I bought a Seiko Kinetic for my son about 3 years ago (it cost £150 then), earlier this year the winding mechanism broke (through wear and tear). They wanted £70 to repair it. I said fuck off. A seiko watch with a battery can last up to 10 years - a much better buy
Too broad brush - in the UK a lot (if not most) measurments are metric, we buy petrol in litres, most goods (not beer) are sold in metric units. My children don't want to know about imperial measures, it's only REALLY old farts (and Daily Mail and Sun readers) who want to keep lbs and ozs.
Road distances though are still measured in miles.
Wrong (in my opinion) - when (if) major corporations start deploying linux on the desktop, people will want linux rather than Microcrap windows (they would want the same system as they use at work). People who don't use computers at work would fairly rapidly follow the lead of their friends who do.
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"Colonists from Earth, using a mix of mental powers and high technology, have long ago subjugated the native inhabitants --"
From what I can remember, ALL the human inhabitants were descended from the spaceship crew
The planets original inhabitants were the demons (in the form of "fire elementals")
Correct me if I'm wrong, it's 30 years since I read the book
This also has to be true of major corporations,
especially foreign ones
This line of reasoning should be used with all potential Linux users.
This also has to be true of major corporations,
especially foreign ones
This line of reasoning should be used with all potential Linux users.
I remember discussing this with two programmer friends in a pub in The Strand in 1981.
The originator of the idea proposed bouncing radio waves or a laser beam off the moon - giving about a 4 second latency.
After much discussion (and beer) we agreed that optical fibre wound onto a drum would be more reliable.
So if Jim Murray or Kirk Whelan are still alive out there, get in touch!
George
"Unix, Unix"
is that a "Citizen Kane" reference? (rosebud, rosebud)
..probably just a glimpse of some naked source code, you can get as much of that as you want on the web.
rgmoore 4 - stonehand 3 (in my opinion)
"IP is simply necessary in order to secure future innovation"
Isn't this the sort of argument Microsoft uses?
don't you mean "will do a great..."
or should that be "shall do a great...."?
what do I know?
Bastard - I was going to say that
I read Ken Thompson's article a fair while ago, it certainly frightened me.
You're certainly right at least as far as the compiler is concerned.
A seriously rich company requiring real security would have to write it's own basic compiler (and then compile the appropriate compiler source).
I noticed that too. Maybe he is just trying to frighten Microsoft, they used to love the number 3. (Threes a charm?)
I think freenet will succeed for 2 reasons:
1. No single point of failure
2. Encryption
International banks will love this. When it gets beyond version 1.0, they will start using it.
Don't bother, I bought a Seiko Kinetic for my son about 3 years ago (it cost £150 then), earlier this year the winding mechanism broke (through wear and tear). They wanted £70 to repair it. I said fuck off. A seiko watch with a battery can last up to 10 years - a much better buy
Sorry, I disagree, have some more wasted space
Too broad brush - in the UK a lot (if not most) measurments are metric, we buy petrol in litres, most goods (not beer) are sold in metric units. My children don't want to know about imperial measures, it's only REALLY old farts (and Daily Mail and Sun readers) who want to keep lbs and ozs. Road distances though are still measured in miles.
Wrong (in my opinion) - when (if) major corporations start deploying linux on the desktop, people will want linux rather than Microcrap windows (they would want the same system as they use at work). People who don't use computers at work would fairly rapidly follow the lead of their friends who do.
They ensured their immortality with the track "Minimum Wage"
Shouldn't that be Beowoof cluster?
I have to disagree on one point, when recently installing SUSE 7.0, my son's comment was "God, this is easier than windows 98"
Yes, Dilbert said it all