Only American LIBERALS use the terms "offensive," "abusive," etc. Get your politics straight, jerkball.
Hey, according to *Dutch* standards, even American liberals are very conservative.
Thank you for exactly pointing out what I meant: there are other viewpoints in the world than the American ones, but it seems hard for some Americans to accept that this mere possibility even exists..
"In the ongoing and contentious debate over new Top Level Domains, one flamewar-provoking issue has been whether certain names ought to be reserved as second (or higher) level domains within new TLDs because there's something inherently (or at least potentially) abusive to their use"
Abusive? To American standards? To Muslim standards? To Buddhist standards? Does this mean the entire world has to compy with a view of what is abusive that is typically American?
It is bad enough already that the com/net/org domains fall under American jurisdiction, now we have to comply with American conservatism too...
When will everybody start to realize that the Internet is more International that the United States?
I have to agree with this, my girlfriend and I tried to sit in bed and watch the Matrix on her computer last week and it wasn't a very pleasant experience
Try lying down when you go to bed with your girlfriend for a better experience! (no matter what screen you use):-)
>First, i don't like the idea of banning neither religions, free speech or programs made by people / companies that has a certain belief in general, you are right, but Scientology is a "relogion" that states that it's beliefs are more important than the law. For this reason, the German government has decided that it is not possible to do government work and be a member of the "church" at the same time.
Whether Scientology is a church at all is a different discussion. Im some countries they have been declared a criminal organisation in court verdicts.
Scientology is definetly not something to laugh. My ISP has been in court with them since 1995 and the battle continues... See this page for a list of what happened until now.
They still continue to call themselves a religion. Critics say the reason for that is only tax. The Scientology movement is considered a criminal organisation in several Europe countries, and in Germany members are not allowed to do any work for the state...
This sounds a lot like all the things people said the last time: "Wait until feature X is ready in Linux".
Face it: The current version of Linux is tested against the current version of NT. Reading the article, it seems that enough people were there to tune everything on the Linux side, so just believe it: NT is better in some things than Linux. And surely, we can think of other circumstances where Linux or another OS is better than NT.
You mention only that the catalugue is in Acces... You could use MySQL for it, but I would never trust any financial data to a database server that does not support elementary database operations like transactions, or the ability to have an transaction log on a separate physical device... I personally like Sybase (11.0.3.3 is free to use in deployment on Linux), but Oracle or the other big names have also proven themselves in years of use..
On my previous project, I named my SQL servers after Greek Gods. After starting with the names ZEUS and APOLLO, I even managed to convice some of my users that my naming convention was "the names of the dogs of Higgins in the TV series Magnum P.I":-)
The two things that definitely convinced me te use FreeBSD are the ports collection and cvsup. The ports enable you to install 2000 different utilities with a single "make install". cvsup allows you to keep up with all security patches with a 5 line script that is cronned every week. But after using it for some time (after being a Linux user), the total consistency of the system is another good argument (although this is not a specific FreeBSD argument...)
It *IS* fast enough. The first version of this software was beta tested on a 2000 people party last year by an experienced DJ. (it now is a lot better than that version) No one in the audience heard the difference. The only noticable difference was that the DJ entered the building carrying only 2 vinyl records instead of his usual 4 heavy boxes:-)
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Only American LIBERALS use the terms "offensive," "abusive," etc. Get your politics straight, jerkball.
Hey, according to *Dutch* standards, even American liberals are very conservative.
Thank you for exactly pointing out what I meant: there are other viewpoints in the world than the American ones, but it seems hard for some Americans to accept that this mere possibility even exists..
"In the ongoing and contentious debate over new Top Level Domains, one flamewar-provoking issue has been whether certain names ought to be reserved as second (or higher) level domains within new TLDs because there's something inherently (or at least potentially) abusive to their use"
Abusive? To American standards? To Muslim standards? To Buddhist standards? Does this mean the entire world has to compy with a view of what is abusive that is typically American?
It is bad enough already that the com/net/org domains fall under American jurisdiction, now we have to comply with American conservatism too...
When will everybody start to realize that the Internet is more International that the United States?
Caffeine and Alcohol are addictive hard drugs too. So what else is new?
FreeBSD has softupdates.
because I cannot find any newsgroups with the word sex in it... :-)
I'm sure that someony in the slashdot community must have the power to make this a news item on other sources but the web (newspapers, TV...)
The only way to precent censorship like this is to expose them to the general public. When their product receives bad publicity, they will stop.
I have to agree with this, my girlfriend and I tried to sit in bed and watch the Matrix on her computer last week and it wasn't a very pleasant experience
:-)
Try lying down when you go to bed with your girlfriend for a better experience! (no matter what screen you use)
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>First, i don't like the idea of banning neither religions, free speech or programs made by people / companies that has a certain belief
in general, you are right, but Scientology is a "relogion" that states that it's beliefs are more important than the law. For this reason, the German government has decided that it is not possible to do government work and be a member of the "church" at the same time.
Whether Scientology is a church at all is a different discussion. Im some countries they have been declared a criminal organisation in court verdicts.
Scientology is definetly not something to laugh. My ISP has been in court with them since 1995 and the battle continues...
See this page for a list of what happened until now.
They still continue to call themselves a religion. Critics say the reason for that is only tax. The Scientology movement is considered a criminal organisation in several Europe countries, and in Germany members are not allowed to do any work for the state...
This sounds a lot like all the things people said the last time: "Wait until feature X is ready in Linux".
Face it: The current version of Linux is tested against the current version of NT. Reading the article, it seems that enough people were there to tune everything on the Linux side, so just believe it: NT is better in some things than Linux. And surely, we can think of other circumstances where Linux or another OS is better than NT.
Linux is not the answer to every question.
You mention only that the catalugue is in Acces... You could use MySQL for it, but I would never trust any financial data to a database server that does not support elementary database operations like transactions, or the ability to have an transaction log on a separate physical device...
I personally like Sybase (11.0.3.3 is free to use in deployment on Linux), but Oracle or the other big names have also proven themselves in years of use..
On my previous project, I named my SQL servers after Greek Gods. After starting with the names ZEUS and APOLLO, I even managed to convice some of my users that my naming convention was "the names of the dogs of Higgins in the TV series Magnum P.I" :-)
The two things that definitely convinced me te use FreeBSD are the ports collection and cvsup.
The ports enable you to install 2000 different utilities with a single "make install".
cvsup allows you to keep up with all security patches with a 5 line script that is cronned every week.
But after using it for some time (after being a Linux user), the total consistency of the system is another good argument (although this is not a specific FreeBSD argument...)
Are you opting for a Royal Linux distro or a Royal Slashdot? :-)
Is it just me who starts to see signs of the "Holy OS wars" between the different Linux distributions?
Well, 10GB/s - 10% downtime avarages to 9GB/s. I'll settle for that! :-)
It *IS* fast enough. The first version of this software was beta tested on a 2000 people party last year by an experienced DJ. (it now is a lot better than that version) :-)
No one in the audience heard the difference. The only noticable difference was that the DJ entered the building carrying only 2 vinyl records instead of his usual 4 heavy boxes