Instead of pay $4k, go to a Siberian Forest Cat breeder and buy a kitten from them. This breed is claimed to be hypoallergenic because they contain low levels of Fel d1, meaning that if (like me) you are allergic to cats then you should have a fair chance of not being allergic to these. Note that all of the evidence so far is anecdotal, so you should give a visit to test your reaction to this breed first.
I run gentoo on AMD64 which has 32-bit compatibility modules which allow running 32-bit apps without the need to chroot. Gentoo's portage also provides 32-bit binary versions of Firefox, Flash player and OpenOffice, amongst others. All works perfectly. Surely other distros do the same?
The best thing they could do imo for all parties concerned is use plain text ads, they aren't intrusive enough to annoy hardly anyone and therefore probably won't be blocked.
Actually, I've seen several sites that use text ads placed directly inside a news story; usually between the introduction and main story. The effect is that you read the intro and begin reading the first line of the ad, then have to break your concentration to skip the rest of the ad and find the actual story. Now THAT really does piss me off!
"The law Microsoft broke was in using their dominance of one market (operating systems for desktop computers)... combined with the aforementioned reluctance to support interoperability with competing products, is unfair competition..."
Microsoft went beyond simply being reluctant to support interoperability. Since Windows 3.0 they actively broke the (published) API hooks used by competitors in other markets (office suites, browsers,media players, etc). For example, they deliberately broke the API used by WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 to make those products appear unstable and forcing their developers to waste time and resources to work around MS's buggy API - eventually pushing them out of the market. In the meantime they used unpublished API hooks in MS Word, Excel, etc. giving the appearance of a more stable product. Additionally, MS software was sold at much lower prices, or often bundled with new computers (under illegal OEM contracts), which meant competitors where forced out of the market. Once the competition was gone, the price of MS Office rocketed to the extortionate level of today and it is no longer bundled with most systems (quickly replaced by MS Works - oxymoron). None of that even mentions the outright theft of other companies technologies (Stac anyone?).
The early Windows versions of Word and Excel were good products, with genuine advantages over their rivals.
The primary advantage that MS Word and Excel had over the competition (WordPerfect and Lotus 123) was that MS owned the underlying platform and deliberately broke the published API used by the competition, whilst MS products used unpublished API hooks which made its own products appear more stable. This practice has continued throughout the 1990's and into the current century. This abuse of the desktop monopoloy is illegal, and the EU commission remedy is meant to correct it.
Though IBM have a counter-claim covering that one, it would make a perfect class-action suit against SCO, representing the copyright of thousands of developers.
After that, Windows Update worked fine downloading the 66 patches that I needed to bring Windows 98 up-to-date.
And presumably a reboot after each of those patches was installed? Well, that is the case with Windows 2000 and XP. Just another reason I don't use Microsoft software.
In the UK we've got The Terrorism Act (ie. an act of terrorism against the people), is our equivalent.
This means that my significant other, who is not a UK or EU (or US) citizen, can be thrown in prison without charge, kept indefinately and eventually released, WITHOUT EVER being told what it was all about. Since the British government always does what its Washington,DC. masters always tells it, then I could very easily be directly affected by our own PATRIOT ACT.
I think it would be cool if say, every box and/or CD of the official SuSE Linux distro had the royal arms stamped on it, surrounded by the phrase "By Appointment to her Majesty the Queen".
I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but this doesn't mean that the study was purposely biased.
Since the study has not actually been published yet, there is no way to determine any bias. Of course, claiming that a proprietary OS, with a long and current history of extremely serious, disruptive security problems is more secure than an open source OS without such disruptive vulnerabilities. does tend to taint most peoples' opinions about a report's bias.
Who cares. Scam or not. It's just a way of harvesting more email addresses to add to endless spam lists. Just go there and feed it fake email data to taint their lists.
Although you have a good point, government funding for space programmes has generally benefited the nation financially. The Apollo project is a case in point. Much of the infrastructure and administration for Apollo (NASA HQ, technology contracts, etc) was set up in some of the poorest states of the US with the intention of kick-starting the economy there. Although, still relatively poor, they are better off for it. The technology spin-offs from the space programme has made billions of dollars for US companies, and in turn the US government, hence the long-term effect of the programme paying for itself in extra revenue through corporate and other taxes.
I personally want to see private industry funding and managing its own (alongside NASA's) space programme for a different financial reason: lower cost. Private initiatives can do the job for about one-tenth of what it would cost most governments. This should not be an excuse for cutting government space budgets but should actually be one to increase it because industry will not necessarily invest in all risky long-term ventures, but they will generate lots of tax dollars in exploiting them. The government should help out with the initial R&D.
On the subject of whether we go to the Moon, or Mars, according to Robert Zubrin in A case for Mars, it works out more cost effective to go to Mars, especially if your intention is to settle on the planet and have a series of rolling missions. Zubrin also covers the costs of such missions and how to do them with minimum risk to human health and maximum gains for science.
Does this mean that some day we will pay to subscribe to certain "quality" DNS services?
If you register a domain name under a TLD under the ICAAN scheme (com,net.org,name,biz,etc), then you are aleady paying for a "quality" DNS service. The truth is that ICAAN run a cartel for companies like verisign to make money in an artificial economy. If ICAAN was truely about providing a service to all Internet users, rather than a few greedy corporations, then it would include alternative TLDs, such as those operated independently through opennic. But of course those alternatives won't pay the ICAAN extortion fees.
In my humble experience, Linux support of legacy hardware is much better than Windows. Often donated (and 2nd hand) hardware tends to come without any drivers whatsoever. 9/10 times Linux will support it without me having to seek out additional drivers, whilst most of the others can be found after a brief seach on google. For Windows you'd have to search (eg. driverguide) for the drivers first, check they are the right ones for your machine and then install them (whilst praying they will work). And, of course there is always those that Windows drivers can not be found for either.
The short answer is that, unlike 2 years ago, Linux now has better hardware support out of the box than Windows.
"Once upon a time that was true. However the Human Rights Act changed the ground rules and we now do. On the other hand a simple Act of Parliment can take it away again in an instance."
And if our dear Overlord... erm Home Secretary, has his way, then the government will have the right to suspend any law they choose, including the Human Rights Act. So it will only require an 'Act of the Home Secretary' to suspend freedom of speech.
Red Hat doesn't produce every version of Linux and cannot control other distros. MS does, and has, produced every single version of MS Office and is solely responsibile for incompatabilities between versions.
Which films are good enough to enjoy unaided chemically?
I think Dark Star could be a hit here. Well actually the guys that made it must have been so chemically aided themselves that the audience didn't need to be. Having said that it is even funnier once you are stoned/high/whateversyourthing.
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Try a Siberian forest cat. Can I have my $4k now please ;-)
Instead of pay $4k, go to a Siberian Forest Cat breeder and buy a kitten from them. This breed is claimed to be hypoallergenic because they contain low levels of Fel d1, meaning that if (like me) you are allergic to cats then you should have a fair chance of not being allergic to these. Note that all of the evidence so far is anecdotal, so you should give a visit to test your reaction to this breed first.
Sphynx cats are not hypoallergenic AFAIK. They're just furless ugly critters. Actually you wanna try a siberian forest cat.
Strange. I see no ads... oh, of course, I've got ad block turned on... silly me!
I run gentoo on AMD64 which has 32-bit compatibility modules which allow running 32-bit apps without the need to chroot. Gentoo's portage also provides 32-bit binary versions of Firefox, Flash player and OpenOffice, amongst others. All works perfectly. Surely other distros do the same?
London Underground is the official corporate name. The Tube is the common name - slang and semi-official ... see www.thetube.com
Actually, I've seen several sites that use text ads placed directly inside a news story; usually between the introduction and main story. The effect is that you read the intro and begin reading the first line of the ad, then have to break your concentration to skip the rest of the ad and find the actual story. Now THAT really does piss me off!
Microsoft went beyond simply being reluctant to support interoperability. Since Windows 3.0 they actively broke the (published) API hooks used by competitors in other markets (office suites, browsers,media players, etc). For example, they deliberately broke the API used by WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 to make those products appear unstable and forcing their developers to waste time and resources to work around MS's buggy API - eventually pushing them out of the market. In the meantime they used unpublished API hooks in MS Word, Excel, etc. giving the appearance of a more stable product. Additionally, MS software was sold at much lower prices, or often bundled with new computers (under illegal OEM contracts), which meant competitors where forced out of the market. Once the competition was gone, the price of MS Office rocketed to the extortionate level of today and it is no longer bundled with most systems (quickly replaced by MS Works - oxymoron). None of that even mentions the outright theft of other companies technologies (Stac anyone?).
The primary advantage that MS Word and Excel had over the competition (WordPerfect and Lotus 123) was that MS owned the underlying platform and deliberately broke the published API used by the competition, whilst MS products used unpublished API hooks which made its own products appear more stable. This practice has continued throughout the 1990's and into the current century. This abuse of the desktop monopoloy is illegal, and the EU commission remedy is meant to correct it.
Though IBM have a counter-claim covering that one, it would make a perfect class-action suit against SCO, representing the copyright of thousands of developers.
It's a process? Excellent, I'll get a junk patent on it then!
And presumably a reboot after each of those patches was installed? Well, that is the case with Windows 2000 and XP. Just another reason I don't use Microsoft software.
In the UK we've got The Terrorism Act (ie. an act of terrorism against the people), is our equivalent.
This means that my significant other, who is not a UK or EU (or US) citizen, can be thrown in prison without charge, kept indefinately and eventually released, WITHOUT EVER being told what it was all about. Since the British government always does what its Washington,DC. masters always tells it, then I could very easily be directly affected by our own PATRIOT ACT.
Almost. It was actually the Oil Ministry. Gotta protect the most important part of the invasion plan.
Now there's a campaign idea!
Since the study has not actually been published yet, there is no way to determine any bias. Of course, claiming that a proprietary OS, with a long and current history of extremely serious, disruptive security problems is more secure than an open source OS without such disruptive vulnerabilities. does tend to taint most peoples' opinions about a report's bias.
Who cares. Scam or not. It's just a way of harvesting more email addresses to add to endless spam lists. Just go there and feed it fake email data to taint their lists.
They work longer hours to avoid the 'rush hour' (which lasts from 6am to 8pm).
Unfortunately, I am still wearing the t-shirt.
I personally want to see private industry funding and managing its own (alongside NASA's) space programme for a different financial reason: lower cost. Private initiatives can do the job for about one-tenth of what it would cost most governments. This should not be an excuse for cutting government space budgets but should actually be one to increase it because industry will not necessarily invest in all risky long-term ventures, but they will generate lots of tax dollars in exploiting them. The government should help out with the initial R&D.
On the subject of whether we go to the Moon, or Mars, according to Robert Zubrin in A case for Mars, it works out more cost effective to go to Mars, especially if your intention is to settle on the planet and have a series of rolling missions. Zubrin also covers the costs of such missions and how to do them with minimum risk to human health and maximum gains for science.
If you register a domain name under a TLD under the ICAAN scheme (com,net.org,name,biz,etc), then you are aleady paying for a "quality" DNS service. The truth is that ICAAN run a cartel for companies like verisign to make money in an artificial economy. If ICAAN was truely about providing a service to all Internet users, rather than a few greedy corporations, then it would include alternative TLDs, such as those operated independently through opennic. But of course those alternatives won't pay the ICAAN extortion fees.
Cool. Then I can set mine to tell them 9600 baud :-)
The short answer is that, unlike 2 years ago, Linux now has better hardware support out of the box than Windows.
And if our dear Overlord... erm Home Secretary, has his way, then the government will have the right to suspend any law they choose, including the Human Rights Act. So it will only require an 'Act of the Home Secretary' to suspend freedom of speech.
See BBC News here, here, and here
I for one welcome our new Overlord, erm Home Secretary
Red Hat doesn't produce every version of Linux and cannot control other distros. MS does, and has, produced every single version of MS Office and is solely responsibile for incompatabilities between versions.
Which films are good enough to enjoy unaided chemically?
I think Dark Star could be a hit here. Well actually the guys that made it must have been so chemically aided themselves that the audience didn't need to be. Having said that it is even funnier once you are stoned/high/whateversyourthing.