You just don't like it because you feel threatened.
Surely you missed the enormous drops in price of electronic goods, food and even energy (in real terms adjusted to inflation). People in the US never had it so good, yet here in/. US people never tire to complain.
Your lifestyle is wasteful, you don't do anything to curb your excessive apetite for oil (you use too much) and food (you are too fat) and natural resources, but somehow expect that economics for leading such lifestyles will not catch up with you.
If US people would have only access to lowly paid jobs then it would happen what has happened elsewhere: prices of goods will go down. Currently you have one of the highest incomes per capita in the world, you don't notice it, but please pray tell me how many people do you know that die of starvation, do not have access to a place to sleep or are denied basic health services.
To be earning so much money is a competitive disadvantage and there will always be pressure to get the jobs you currently have (offshoring, legal and illegal immigration).
There are many examples of this through recent history, you want the economic equivalent of having your cake (keep salaries artificially high) and eat it (without goods and services climbing as well). That ain't going to happen.
What to do? Regulate the work market, making it easier for other people to go and work in your country and for US people to do the same, thus talented people could compete in an even field play.
You should be looking at the EU in that regard, poorer countries like Spain, Ireland and Portugal are becoming wealthier and what once was thought could become a problem (masses of destituted Spaniards and Greeks invading Germany, France and other wealthy countries) just did not happen.
I don't want more market share. Linux is not an enterprise looking to obatin more market share.
In any case, Linux popularity should increase only if it is helping people to solve specific problems. I want no marketroids bending the facts in order to obtain your fabled market share.
If Linux was crap it would deserve to fall in disuse, to be an OS project does not give any application carte blanche to become popular.
-Do some pilates or yoga. I know, rubish new ageism, but try to do a couple of exercises for begineers and then tell me if youa re on shape or not.
-Exercise. Any exercise will do.
-Don't sit that many hours in front of a computer. Takes brakes often and regularly.
Ultimately any chair that is adjustable will work, even cheap crappy ones.
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The guy should use one of the Iriver music players.
Mine has 40GB of disk space (which is what the guy needs) shows as a hard disk (which works in Linux, Winblows and that other OS I suppose), play many different digital music formats, is an FM radio, voice recorder and allows to record directly from another device (both digital and anlaog input).
The only problem is that is a bit bulky, but ehwn compared to some external disks it becomes a nobrainer when it comes to disk storage on the move.
How do you propose to measure personal hardship? Now that is a novel idea.
And I am sure you have a model that accurately predicts every single imponderable to give the correct result. Don't forget gravitational attractions, solar wind and background radiation.
And sure, your great idea of making a 100m race now a 200m race has all the 200m runners full of joy. OK so lets make the 200m a 400m race. What is your next great idea. Don't tell us! TO make the 400m race an 800m race.
Look, the birht of my strawman above is all your fault, you asked for it and the strawman got it.
Or an expert in Spanish language. Then they would have known that you can't create a blanket version of their software for Spanish speakign countries or would have made the appropriate localizations.
But of course they did not, and the fanboys are excusing their typical lack of profesionalism (specially for a company of their size)...
I went over my Bathead the moment in which Batslashdot became the torchbearer of the holly FLOSS movement after being one of the steamiest corners for gossiping about IT on the Internet.
I swear you not that this sudden change can be blamde on the Penguin. The bastard.
Well yes I do, but that is because I am a native Spanish speaker (the difference is even more complicated than what the article implies, hembra is an accepted term in some countries like Cuba, it is completely unnaceptable in Mexico).
And that is exactly the point. I am not an expert in Spanish language by any means but would raise my eyebrows if being confornted with such lousy terms. If you are a global monopoly that is intending to saturate the world with your rubishware the least you can do is hire one Spanish language erudit (which normally earn paltry salaries) and ask him to check your user interfaces.
That is the bloody point, not is Joe Programmer or even Manager knows any differences. That is why there are experts and ther is no excuse for no using their services.
Most civilized countries nowadays have the infrastructue to stage the sports that form the Olympic games.
It is the IOC with its insane demands (like onerous infrastructure that is not needed at all) who is driving costs up, thus demanding sponsors.
Security is certainly required, but most of the cost is spent in new, normally unnecessary venues, and white elephants that benefit nobody not in security.
Any author worth his salt will use many references to the work of other people.
Copyright gives the wrong illusion that somehow these people come with completely new ideas out of nowhere, specially under the current draconina terms which make copyright almost perpetual.
Unde thes circumstance the only slash back is to promote a systme in which copyright is either completely eliminated or heavily reduced in terms and scope.
The games in Mexico City were part of a cultural event during which a Cultural Olympiad took place. It was also the first time atheletes came all together to the stadium during the closing ceremony. Which was not staged.
Yes, there were politics (the famous Black Panthers incident) but there is no way you can dissociate politics from the games (heck, the old Greeks stopped wars for the duration of the games, you can't get more politic than that).
What has spoiled irredemebly the games is the IOC unrelentelss pursuit of profit. They are trying to steal a human legacy for the personal benefit of the members of the IOC and their cronies.
This will not stop until two groups of people, the spectators and the athletes, send a clear messsage to these basstards by boycotting the games. Unlikely to happen in China the next games, since weknow the Chinese goverment will not let anything get on the way of the "sucessful" staging of the games.
Taiwan is not a recognized country (save by 2 or 3 countries), and pretty much everybody that knows anything about international politics agrees that one day Taiwan will reintegrate with mainland China.
I know, it is MS, it is difficult for them to sick to the law.
But the occupied territories, are exactly that, and should appear as such in any decent map, no matter where it is sold (central Jerusalem or any of the US Bible belt towns where they believe Israel are the chosen people, etc.).
Ditto for Kashmir, part of which is clearly under Indian sovereignity but is disputed by Pakistan.
And as for Taiwan, it is a no brainer, Taiwan is not a recognized country by most nations on Earth, neither by the UN.
Mexican scholarity is around 6 or 7 years lower than in the US.
Canada and the UK have similar level of development.
Look, there are many international competitions out there between students of different countries, the US never does that well, normally the winners are Singaporeans, Chinese and Germans...
Countries like Sweden, Norway or Belgium have far more greater international influence than any of the US states ever will. Just for starters the goverments of the Nordic countries very often are involved in arranging peace agreements between warrying factions all around the world. Why? Because they nations that can act as independent entities internationally. US states can't fro obvious reasons.
Which is why is completely undefensible that US people are so ignorant about geography, history and international current affairs.
Heck, your President, when inteviewed during the election campaign, did not know who Pervez Musharraf was. Ironic that he would become eo important to US foreign policy....
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Period.
If I was a teacher the "my dog ate my laptop" excuse will not cut it.
... if this guy does not want to do the obvious: turn the damned stuff off.
Sometimes you may want to do something stupid, that does not mean other people should aid you in your pursuit of stupidity.
Everybody accepts freedom, except when we disagree with something, in which cause of course we try to curtail freedom.
Ask your close soulmates the neocons, they have given ample example of that.
That you make it appear as a leftist trend just shows your bias and predjudices and a flawed critical thinking.
You just don't like it because you feel threatened.
/. US people never tire to complain.
Surely you missed the enormous drops in price of electronic goods, food and even energy (in real terms adjusted to inflation). People in the US never had it so good, yet here in
Your lifestyle is wasteful, you don't do anything to curb your excessive apetite for oil (you use too much) and food (you are too fat) and natural resources, but somehow expect that economics for leading such lifestyles will not catch up with you.
Absolutely mind numbing to understand.
If US people would have only access to lowly paid jobs then it would happen what has happened elsewhere: prices of goods will go down. Currently you have one of the highest incomes per capita in the world, you don't notice it, but please pray tell me how many people do you know that die of starvation, do not have access to a place to sleep or are denied basic health services.
To be earning so much money is a competitive disadvantage and there will always be pressure to get the jobs you currently have (offshoring, legal and illegal immigration).
There are many examples of this through recent history, you want the economic equivalent of having your cake (keep salaries artificially high) and eat it (without goods and services climbing as well). That ain't going to happen.
What to do? Regulate the work market, making it easier for other people to go and work in your country and for US people to do the same, thus talented people could compete in an even field play.
You should be looking at the EU in that regard, poorer countries like Spain, Ireland and Portugal are becoming wealthier and what once was thought could become a problem (masses of destituted Spaniards and Greeks invading Germany, France and other wealthy countries) just did not happen.
Don't quote as great movies the ones you just remember from the last 2 or 3 years.
You are ignorant of more than one hundred years of cinema.
.... but in essence that is true.
Kuwait was an invention of the british, very adept of pulling such things in many different places.
It is not like MS matters at all in the IT world.
Could the, *grasp*, vote for a different party?
Holly cow, I have dicovered the holly grail of democracy!
I don't want more market share. Linux is not an enterprise looking to obatin more market share.
In any case, Linux popularity should increase only if it is helping people to solve specific problems. I want no marketroids bending the facts in order to obtain your fabled market share.
If Linux was crap it would deserve to fall in disuse, to be an OS project does not give any application carte blanche to become popular.
Did you make a study about it?
When I am forced to use the monstruosity that Word is I frankly prefer to rely on my limited English skills.
Even I can spot how wrong the suggestions of Word are regarding English grammar.
.... if you do nothing to take care of your back.
-Do some pilates or yoga. I know, rubish new ageism, but try to do a couple of exercises for begineers and then tell me if youa re on shape or not.
-Exercise. Any exercise will do.
-Don't sit that many hours in front of a computer. Takes brakes often and regularly.
Ultimately any chair that is adjustable will work, even cheap crappy ones.
The guy should use one of the Iriver music players.
Mine has 40GB of disk space (which is what the guy needs) shows as a hard disk (which works in Linux, Winblows and that other OS I suppose), play many different digital music formats, is an FM radio, voice recorder and allows to record directly from another device (both digital and anlaog input).
The only problem is that is a bit bulky, but ehwn compared to some external disks it becomes a nobrainer when it comes to disk storage on the move.
... race really a better athlete?
Well, yes, the stopwatch says so.
How do you propose to measure personal hardship? Now that is a novel idea.
And I am sure you have a model that accurately predicts every single imponderable to give the correct result. Don't forget gravitational attractions, solar wind and background radiation.
And sure, your great idea of making a 100m race now a 200m race has all the 200m runners full of joy. OK so lets make the 200m a 400m race. What is your next great idea. Don't tell us! TO make the 400m race an 800m race.
Look, the birht of my strawman above is all your fault, you asked for it and the strawman got it.
Or an expert in Spanish language. Then they would have known that you can't create a blanket version of their software for Spanish speakign countries or would have made the appropriate localizations.
But of course they did not, and the fanboys are excusing their typical lack of profesionalism (specially for a company of their size)...
I went over my Bathead the moment in which Batslashdot became the torchbearer of the holly FLOSS movement after being one of the steamiest corners for gossiping about IT on the Internet.
I swear you not that this sudden change can be blamde on the Penguin. The bastard.
Translation: bullshit, get a grip.
"hembra" and "mujer"....
Well yes I do, but that is because I am a native Spanish speaker (the difference is even more complicated than what the article implies, hembra is an accepted term in some countries like Cuba, it is completely unnaceptable in Mexico).
And that is exactly the point. I am not an expert in Spanish language by any means but would raise my eyebrows if being confornted with such lousy terms. If you are a global monopoly that is intending to saturate the world with your rubishware the least you can do is hire one Spanish language erudit (which normally earn paltry salaries) and ask him to check your user interfaces.
That is the bloody point, not is Joe Programmer or even Manager knows any differences. That is why there are experts and ther is no excuse for no using their services.
Most civilized countries nowadays have the infrastructue to stage the sports that form the Olympic games.
It is the IOC with its insane demands (like onerous infrastructure that is not needed at all) who is driving costs up, thus demanding sponsors.
Security is certainly required, but most of the cost is spent in new, normally unnecessary venues, and white elephants that benefit nobody not in security.
Sorry, but it is true.
You can kick, complain, be unhappy about it but Taiwan is not a country recognized internationally.
The IOC may be corrupt, but frankly I don't see why they should take your side in an issue in which international opinion is pretty uniform.
Any author worth his salt will use many references to the work of other people.
Copyright gives the wrong illusion that somehow these people come with completely new ideas out of nowhere, specially under the current draconina terms which make copyright almost perpetual.
Unde thes circumstance the only slash back is to promote a systme in which copyright is either completely eliminated or heavily reduced in terms and scope.
.... because you are too young or too uninformed.
The games in Mexico City were part of a cultural event during which a Cultural Olympiad took place. It was also the first time atheletes came all together to the stadium during the closing ceremony. Which was not staged.
Yes, there were politics (the famous Black Panthers incident) but there is no way you can dissociate politics from the games (heck, the old Greeks stopped wars for the duration of the games, you can't get more politic than that).
What has spoiled irredemebly the games is the IOC unrelentelss pursuit of profit. They are trying to steal a human legacy for the personal benefit of the members of the IOC and their cronies.
This will not stop until two groups of people, the spectators and the athletes, send a clear messsage to these basstards by boycotting the games. Unlikely to happen in China the next games, since weknow the Chinese goverment will not let anything get on the way of the "sucessful" staging of the games.
Taiwan is not a recognized country (save by 2 or 3 countries), and pretty much everybody that knows anything about international politics agrees that one day Taiwan will reintegrate with mainland China.
I know, it is MS, it is difficult for them to sick to the law.
But the occupied territories, are exactly that, and should appear as such in any decent map, no matter where it is sold (central Jerusalem or any of the US Bible belt towns where they believe Israel are the chosen people, etc.).
Ditto for Kashmir, part of which is clearly under Indian sovereignity but is disputed by Pakistan.
And as for Taiwan, it is a no brainer, Taiwan is not a recognized country by most nations on Earth, neither by the UN.
Mexican scholarity is around 6 or 7 years lower than in the US.
Canada and the UK have similar level of development.
Look, there are many international competitions out there between students of different countries, the US never does that well, normally the winners are Singaporeans, Chinese and Germans...
Countries like Sweden, Norway or Belgium have far more greater international influence than any of the US states ever will. Just for starters the goverments of the Nordic countries very often are involved in arranging peace agreements between warrying factions all around the world. Why? Because they nations that can act as independent entities internationally. US states can't fro obvious reasons.
Which is why is completely undefensible that US people are so ignorant about geography, history and international current affairs.
Heck, your President, when inteviewed during the election campaign, did not know who Pervez Musharraf was. Ironic that he would become eo important to US foreign policy....