Wrist pain is more commonly called 'RSI' in the UK, short for 'Repetitive Strain Injury'. It's basically an injury you get from stuff other than just typing: tennis elbow is related to RSI, for instance.
It's all down to posture at the end of the day. I keep thinking about getting one of those posture braces?! They're good for your back and all (I'm well over 6 foot!), but you don't half look a nancy wearing one.. although, health comes before looks I suppose. Anyone got any links to Alexander Technique?!!!
I don't remember Darwin as some Victorian Terminator;))
(Charlie fetchs BFG from back of horse-drawn carriage, adopts bad Austrian Arnie accent) "Okay yu ass-hol, if yor so fit den survive zis!" Heh, nice image. . .
Also, how was the credit card company to know he was going to gamble it?? If it were me, I would just ring the company and say "I'd like a credit extension please". They would then say yes or no. Once you get credit, it's yours to do with as you will. Anything else is just sour grapes.
We have names for people like this in England. "Apeth". (Yorkshire) "Twat". (Midlands)
May as well. . . there's been proof of this sort of thing for years. People in the UK may remember when the MoD sold their tower? They had this tower in West England. Nobody ever knew what it did, except for the fact that (coincidentally) it was on an exact line between BT's and Eirann Telecoms' (? spelling) towers in England & ireland. Not only was it *precisely* located on that line, all the marks inside the building were precisely aligned also. This is well known, it was so well known it even got on local news. Nothing official about it though...
"LinuxOne, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a Software License Agreement with SRINET, Inc., a leading software distributor in Japan. The Agreement grants SRINET a non-exclusive right to use, sell, reproduce and distribute the Japanese and Chinese versions of "LinuxOne OS", LinuxOne's premier software product, in Japan and China."
Gee, they gave them a license to distribute a *GPLed* product. Heck, that was nice of them...
..although Dr Chiou, the CEO stated, "LinuxOne prefers to offer an open source, secure option for workstations and servers known for its performance, stability, and security characteristics to the user community." (same URL as above, but press2.html).
Have Mandrake said anything about this yet, given that they are supposed to have a "strategic partnership" with these people??
Surely one good aspect of viewable, if not necessarily open-source code, would be that a WineCE project would be very quickly done: I suspect white-rooming a WinCE compatibility layer for Palm et al would be pretty easy given the source. This fact alone might make MS not do this - WinCE apps would then be portable to other platforms (Palm), but not vice-versa. Which plaform would you choose? I think making the source even viewable would completely kill of WinCE within about two months. . .
I think this would make an interesting case study however - it'll be good to see how SCSL (is that the correct anacrym?) fares in terms of acceptance compared to the GPL. Right now, people don't really know whether or not major business will accept GPL en masse - it's highly debatable. Unfortuanately, there's no amazing OSS alternative to SO, but it would be interesting to see what the actual take-up of this software is.
I still fail to see how anyone could make Gates squirm:( I really think the only thing that could make him squirm would be his own paranoia; everything else is pretty much inconsequential in his world I'm sure. He can always rely on his Harry Enfield-esque retorts (if you don't know Harry Enfield, he's basically a British comedian, his defining moment was in the eighties at the height of the Thatcher/Regan era, when his top character was called 'Loadsamoney' and went around proclaiming the fact that he did indeed have loadsamoney.)
What nasty questions can you ask? What is really going to irk Bill? To be honest, I don't think he really has any area that would bother him in the same way as a politician . . i.e., "So Bill, I'm told linux could destroy Windows and take your company down with it. What do you think about that?" Bill spouts some marketdroid rubbish, etc., but the truth would be "Well, I've made my millions, so I don't really care anymore". You can't crack someone like that, he's footloose and fancy-free.
> He's bloody good at his interviews though - > even if a bit doggedly persistant.
All hail the quality of Radio 4's today programme. Although, I have to say, if I were to pick anyone to interview The Bill it wouldn't be Jeremy, it would be "BBC Rottweiler John Humphries" (as the tabloid press in this country is want to call him).
On another, slightly more off-topic note, does anyone remember the time when one of the Universities kept getting questions wrong, 5 points deducted and were playing for ages with a negative score? Damn that Jeremy whooped on they asses.;)
[Dong] Do, do do do do do do do... It's Universally Challenged, with your host Jeeeeeeeeeeeremy Pax-mannnnnnnn.
(Jeremy) And here's your starter for ten. In the 'development lifecycle' of software, what comes after marketing?
(silence)
(Jeremy) Oh really now, come on.
[Bzzt! Gates, Harvard drop-out]
(Bill) Testing?
(Jeremy, pulling face) No, no, no, no, really now.
.... etc
(For those over the pond, Jeremy Paxman is also a gameshow host for 'University Challenge'. He asks ridiculously hard questions, and then harries the contestants and ridicules them when they (inevitably) get one wrong. 'Don't be silly' is a typical response, as is 'Of course it isn't', and 'No, no, no, no, no, no [shaking head]'.)
And the stuff about him asking a polititian (Michael Howard, then Home Secretary I think) the same question 13 times - he later admitted it was the director's fault. "Fill, Jeremy, fill!" he was shouting down the earpiece. Jeremy couldn't think of anything else to ask him, but was relieved when he realised he wasn't getting a straight answer and could keep asking the same question.
Hmmm...... Star Division online (.com) advises that "The dornload area is currently under construction. Please be patient. It is expected to re-opens the area on wednesday this week.".
It's a good job they put the news about 5.1 on the front page of their site tho', or nobody would know about it;P.
I've been running SETI@home for a while - I've never had problems with it hogging the processor. Have the people who've had problems tried fiddling the nice setting?
I'd like to see someone come up with come sort of concoction, taking the best bits from both. I like the free style of the BSD licence; I don't like the way the source can be 'forked' into a closed software solution. I like the GPL in that it disallows closed forking, but I don't like the idea that someone could take some piece of software an author has been working on, fork it, and make it more or less their own.
I would like to see an 'Author's Licence', where the freedoms of both the author and user of software are taken into account. People must be able to have access to source code to be able to make changes, etc., but people shouldn't be allowed to fork code maliciously. I think the distribution of software should be absolutely free (both senses of the word), but redistribution should be limited to patches/etc., which extends the original program. The author of the software must be supported primarily. Now, this also causes problems (software no longer under development, for example), but I myself would much rather release software under an 'author' system. I believe the most important people are the authors and the users of their software - clingers, forkers and thieves need not apply;)
I think this sort of thing is great, as long as we keep our eyes on the ball - I want to see linux as inclusive as possible. If COL2.2 brings more people to the linux fold, that's great. Let's hope it doesn't push people away, because I've heard some nasty things about it being said, but I don't think that will happen. I think we're just expanding the global linux family, which can only be good. Surely the future is a linux for everybody?
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Wrist pain is more commonly called 'RSI' in the UK, short for 'Repetitive Strain Injury'. It's basically an injury you get from stuff other than just typing: tennis elbow is related to RSI, for instance.
It's all down to posture at the end of the day. I keep thinking about getting one of those posture braces?! They're good for your back and all (I'm well over 6 foot!), but you don't half look a nancy wearing one.. although, health comes before looks I suppose. Anyone got any links to Alexander Technique?!!!
I don't remember Darwin as some Victorian Terminator ;))
(Charlie fetchs BFG from back of horse-drawn carriage, adopts bad Austrian Arnie accent)
"Okay yu ass-hol, if yor so fit den survive zis!"
Heh, nice image. . .
Also, how was the credit card company to know he was going to gamble it?? If it were me, I would just ring the company and say "I'd like a credit extension please". They would then say yes or no. Once you get credit, it's yours to do with as you will. Anything else is just sour grapes.
We have names for people like this in England. "Apeth". (Yorkshire) "Twat". (Midlands)
You know, with the Universe and karma and all being how it is, you're in for one hell of an eternity ;))
Alex.
No, it's okay - we have Ireland in the way ;))
May as well. . . there's been proof of this sort of thing for years. People in the UK may remember when the MoD sold their tower? They had this tower in West England. Nobody ever knew what it did, except for the fact that (coincidentally) it was on an exact line between BT's and Eirann Telecoms' (? spelling) towers in England & ireland. Not only was it *precisely* located on that line, all the marks inside the building were precisely aligned also. This is well known, it was so well known it even got on local news. Nothing official about it though...
Bruce, check this out (from http://www.linuxone.net/news/press/p ress5.html):
"LinuxOne, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a Software License Agreement with SRINET, Inc., a leading software distributor in Japan. The Agreement grants SRINET a non-exclusive right to use, sell, reproduce and distribute the Japanese and Chinese versions of "LinuxOne OS", LinuxOne's premier software product, in Japan and China."
Gee, they gave them a license to distribute a *GPLed* product. Heck, that was nice of them...
..although Dr Chiou, the CEO stated,
"LinuxOne prefers to offer an open source, secure option for workstations and servers known for its performance, stability, and security characteristics to the user community."
(same URL as above, but press2.html).
Have Mandrake said anything about this yet, given that they are supposed to have a "strategic partnership" with these people??
(Wallace is round at his mate Speilbo's)
MMmmmmmmmmm, cracking cheese, Steven.
Surely one good aspect of viewable, if not necessarily open-source code, would be that a WineCE project would be very quickly done: I suspect white-rooming a WinCE compatibility layer for Palm et al would be pretty easy given the source. This fact alone might make MS not do this - WinCE apps would then be portable to other platforms (Palm), but not vice-versa. Which plaform would you choose? I think making the source even viewable would completely kill of WinCE within about two months. . .
I think this would make an interesting case study however - it'll be good to see how SCSL (is that the correct anacrym?) fares in terms of acceptance compared to the GPL. Right now, people don't really know whether or not major business will accept GPL en masse - it's highly debatable. Unfortuanately, there's no amazing OSS alternative to SO, but it would be interesting to see what the actual take-up of this software is.
I still fail to see how anyone could make Gates squirm :( I really think the only thing that could make him squirm would be his own paranoia; everything else is pretty much inconsequential in his world I'm sure. He can always rely on his Harry Enfield-esque retorts (if you don't know Harry Enfield, he's basically a British comedian, his defining moment was in the eighties at the height of the Thatcher/Regan era, when his top character was called 'Loadsamoney' and went around proclaiming the fact that he did indeed have loadsamoney.)
What nasty questions can you ask? What is really going to irk Bill? To be honest, I don't think he really has any area that would bother him in the same way as a politician . . i.e., "So Bill, I'm told linux could destroy Windows and take your company down with it. What do you think about that?" Bill spouts some marketdroid rubbish, etc., but the truth would be "Well, I've made my millions, so I don't really care anymore". You can't crack someone like that, he's footloose and fancy-free.
> He's bloody good at his interviews though -
;)
> even if a bit doggedly persistant.
All hail the quality of Radio 4's today programme. Although, I have to say, if I were to pick anyone to interview The Bill it wouldn't be Jeremy, it would be "BBC Rottweiler John Humphries" (as the tabloid press in this country is want to call him).
On another, slightly more off-topic note, does anyone remember the time when one of the Universities kept getting questions wrong, 5 points deducted and were playing for ages with a negative score? Damn that Jeremy whooped on they asses.
This is how it should go...
[Dong] Do, do do do do do do do...
It's Universally Challenged, with your host Jeeeeeeeeeeeremy Pax-mannnnnnnn.
(Jeremy) And here's your starter for ten. In the 'development lifecycle' of software, what comes after marketing?
(silence)
(Jeremy) Oh really now, come on.
[Bzzt! Gates, Harvard drop-out]
(Bill) Testing?
(Jeremy, pulling face) No, no, no, no, really now.
.... etc
(For those over the pond, Jeremy Paxman is also a gameshow host for 'University Challenge'. He asks ridiculously hard questions, and then harries the contestants and ridicules them when they (inevitably) get one wrong. 'Don't be silly' is a typical response, as is 'Of course it isn't', and 'No, no, no, no, no, no [shaking head]'.)
And the stuff about him asking a polititian (Michael Howard, then Home Secretary I think) the same question 13 times - he later admitted it was the director's fault. "Fill, Jeremy, fill!" he was shouting down the earpiece. Jeremy couldn't think of anything else to ask him, but was relieved when he realised he wasn't getting a straight answer and could keep asking the same question.
How awful.
Hmmm...... Star Division online (.com) advises that "The dornload area is currently under construction. Please be patient. It is expected to re-opens the area on wednesday this week.".
;P.
It's a good job they put the news about 5.1 on the front page of their site tho', or nobody would know about it
I've been running SETI@home for a while - I've never had problems with it hogging the processor. Have the people who've had problems tried fiddling the nice setting?
I'd like to see someone come up with come sort of concoction, taking the best bits from both. I like the free style of the BSD licence; I don't like the way the source can be 'forked' into a closed software solution. I like the GPL in that it disallows closed forking, but I don't like the idea that someone could take some piece of software an author has been working on, fork it, and make it more or less their own.
;)
I would like to see an 'Author's Licence', where the freedoms of both the author and user of software are taken into account. People must be able to have access to source code to be able to make changes, etc., but people shouldn't be allowed to fork code maliciously. I think the distribution of software should be absolutely free (both senses of the word), but redistribution should be limited to patches/etc., which extends the original program. The author of the software must be supported primarily. Now, this also causes problems (software no longer under development, for example), but I myself would much rather release software under an 'author' system. I believe the most important people are the authors and the users of their software - clingers, forkers and thieves need not apply
I think this sort of thing is great, as long as we keep our eyes on the ball - I want to see linux as inclusive as possible. If COL2.2 brings more people to the linux fold, that's great. Let's hope it doesn't push people away, because I've heard some nasty things about it being said, but I don't think that will happen. I think we're just expanding the global linux family, which can only be good. Surely the future is a linux for everybody?