I imagine that if your big boss man has never heard of SAP, better start looking for another company. SAP produce ERP software (Enterprise Resource Planning). This kind of software manages just about every aspect of a business, including billing, orders, inventory, salaries, etc etc... In short, almost every company worth anything uses it (I believe the count was something like 97 out of Fortune 100) and installation costs run up to tens of millions of your favourite currency. SAP also happens to be one of the biggest software companies in the world.
You can use their software with another database (usually Oracle or DB2) running on a separate server, which many businesses do, in order to consolidate all their database tasks together. You can also use SAP-DB, SAP's own SQL database with decades of testing behind it. It just happens that SAP AG released it under the GPL about a year or so ago. Don't underestimate it.
MPlayer cvs is capable of playing RM files by using the original codec nowadays (check www.mplayerhq.hu), which is good news because you don't have to launch that uglyness anymore to watch Real files.
Not anymore, as most things are autodetected. On debian, for example, you type fakeroot debian/rules binary and in a short while you have a.deb, optimised for your machine. And since the whole thing is GPL'ed and the cpu is detected on runtime, there are even packages springing up all over the place. Give it a try.
As a matter of fact, KDE does have Mono bindings already. It's based on their new infrastructure which dynamically generates bindings for different languages (such as C# and Java, for example). Search the dot for more information.
As for the relationship between GNOME and Mono, Miguel did express his wish that future versions of GNOME be based on Mono. He has since explained his position on the GNOME mailing lists.
Seriously though, many of these trolls are simply a result of ignorance of facts which are easily verified on the net. The average Slashdot discussion contains so much misinformation it's appalling. Support GNOME, support KDE, and stop wasting everyone's time with holy wars.
I think the author of the article has hit it on the proverbial head though, they don't make them like they used to. I got my first PC about 12 years ago, some cheap clone. The keyboard that came with it was not IBM's, but it looks like a spitting image of the one on the top of the first photo of the article. It's a loud bastard, but the thing is still working.
I've seen many a keyboard break apart, but that sucker simply refuses to die. Sure, it's a bit on the loud side, especially during those long nights, but the typing feel is excellent and it is still as good as new (I used to throw it against the wall when I got angry at Tetris;-)).
As for the more recent keyboards, I'm quite happy with my standard Toshiba keyboard. It's one of the membrane thingies, but still has enough resistance to give me a nice typing feel.
Both 'disallowed' goals were scored after the game had been stopped and the defense had stopped playing. As such, they were not goals to start with. Sure, some bad calls against Spain, but I think the conspiracy theorists are blowing the thing up a bit too much.
Mueller's combined score is from two world cups, 1970 and 1974. The record you are referring to was Just Fontaine's 13 goals in 1958 which is unlikely to get broken anytime soon.
Agreed that England disappointed in that match, especially in the second half, but there were only two good chances in the whole game (and three goals) so you can't really call it anything but a struggle.
No, I am not forgetting Galatasaray (or Fenerbahce or Besiktas), but we were talking about the World cup, right?
As for "not to mention", you misunderstood, but this is not a grammar discussion and your argument is a strawman because I never even hinted at being racist. You don't know me and you don't know attitudes of people like me.
Turkey have played an outstanding World Cup and have kicked the reigning world champions' arses twice. How do you want me to say it so you don't get offended?
My point was that Brazil are not by far the best team in the world, and I stand by it.
I said that they had large problems playing with Turkey twice. The first game should have been a tie anyway. The fact that you have an inferiority complex to cure doesn't make me a racist. Congratulations to Turkey for excellent games and you go get a brain.
During a penalty, the goalkeeper is not allowed to leave the goal line until the ball is struck. The goal is 7.32 metres wide, leaving about 3 metres either side of the goalkeeper, while the penalty spot is 11 metres away from the goal line. It is impossible for any human being to watch the ball fly, then jump to stop it, as the speed of the ball can go over 100 km/h.
The only chance a goalkeeper has is to try to read the player's movements and guess which side of the goal he will shoot at. Even with shots coming from 20+ metres, the goalkeeper sometimes can't get to the right place in time.
During a penalty, the player is at such a clear advantage that only luck or nerves can stop a goal -- and that's the main reason people miss penalties -- they get too nervous and shoot poorly.
BTW, the best world cup goalscorer of all time is still Gerd Mueller from Germany, with 14. If Ronaldo repeats his performance in the next world cup, he could beat that one too.
Brazil hasn't played against any of the top 10 ranked teams in this worldcup (with the exception of Germany in the final). And they struggled against England (ranked 11, I believe) and Belgium, not to mention Turkey (twice). They were only convincing against China and Costa Rica.
What makes you say they are by far the best team in the world? Despite the undeniable talent of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and even Rivaldo (whose talents extend to acting), the team itself is the worst Brazil's had in decades.
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I can't believe this got modded up to +3. Kahn had a great game, he made only one mistake the whole evening, his first of the tournament. Give the guy a break.
Germans had more shots, were aggressive, had the most posession, and were even better one-on-one. Every champion needs a good portion of luck, and Brazil has had it today. There was none of the Brazillian wizardry in this World cup, they were one of the great disappointments for me as they played unimaginatively and got through most of their games through luck and ref help.
As for Gerald Asamoah, he's a bloody striker, of course he was late marking Ronaldo, he was sent in to score a goal.
Exploiting someone who doesn't really have a choice does not constitute choice. While it doesn't matter for McDonalds and similar examples, which are more likely to be blamed on global stupidity than corporate influence, it certainly does for sweatshop workers.
You can ask a starving person to give you a blowjob for food, but you can't convince me that it's his 'choice' and that you're helping him do what he really wants. It's exploitation, pure and simple. If you're giving 13 year old children to work like slaves in inhuman conditions or starve, it's not choice, it's exploitation.
No, Mr. Soros is a ferocious advocate of open markets. Big difference.
Actually, he seems to be a supporter of both. In many eastern-european countries, there are institutes called 'Open Society', funded solely by Soros, who give scholarships to students and support independent thinking. These institutes have been instrumental in combatting the nationalism and fascism arising in many of these countries. In fact, the most independent, socially conscious media has often been saved from bankruptcy by investments from Soros in such environments.
Who is 'they'? It sounds like you assume that there is a 'they' (that is, non-Americans), who all somehow have this viewpoint which is self-contradicting, instead of realising that there are people who are against interventionism and people who are for it. There you fall into the same trap as the anti-american posters who talk about Americans as if they were some clones who all think the same.
The story is not that people are selective about America 'sticking its nose in their business', but that most people believe (and rightly so) that if you are going to be a superpower in a globalised world, have military bases in 60-something countries, and almost single-handedly influence the governments in dozens of countries, you also have some responsibility. It's not that you should or should not take your nose out of their business, but that if you do, then be consistent about it everywhere.
Case in point -- the Hague tribunal. Everybody has to send their war criminals to the international war crimes tribunal, only America is magically freed of this responsibility. If you are going to bomb countries and impose sanctions over it, wouldn't it be fair if you also practiced what you preach? I am talking about the US government here, not the typical American, of course.
I tell you what, go to http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ in KDE/Konqueror 2.2.2 and Mozilla 0.9.9. Which renders the site correctly?
That's not fair, is it? Konqueror 2.2.2 is based on very old codebase, Mozilla 0.9.9 is spanking new. I don't feel like going through all those tests, but I thought Mozilla didn't implement full CSS2 spec either? Could be wrong on that. And I never said Mozilla was bad, just that its performance on linux is rather underwhelming.
As for stability, do you have any evidence the MTBF of Konqueror is any better than Mozilla's?
You can't pass personal experiences as facts. Fact is that Mozilla is a good browser for Windows. But my personal experience from 0.9.8 from Woody is that it crashes on some pages, locks up and is sloooooow to high heaven. And it doesn't do font AA.
Konqueror, while more unstable than I'm used to currently, performs very well for most tasks and crashes rarely (the bad part is that when it crashes, you have to go around killing separate kdeinit processes). And it's fast and very standards-compliant. So, while it isn't the perfect browser (tm), neither is Mozilla. Really, no need to go dissing it.
Mozilla mail is nice, but by the time it reacts to a click and draws a menu, I'm finished reading, composing and sending mail with kmail. I've yet to find a feature I need in kmail that isn't there.
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There is a DB like that for the edonkey network, at ShareReactor.
Or you could support the GPL fork, called Quanta Plus, which also seems to be coming along nicely.
Watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail sometimes, you'll get it ;-)
I imagine that if your big boss man has never heard of SAP, better start looking for another company. SAP produce ERP software (Enterprise Resource Planning). This kind of software manages just about every aspect of a business, including billing, orders, inventory, salaries, etc etc... In short, almost every company worth anything uses it (I believe the count was something like 97 out of Fortune 100) and installation costs run up to tens of millions of your favourite currency. SAP also happens to be one of the biggest software companies in the world.
You can use their software with another database (usually Oracle or DB2) running on a separate server, which many businesses do, in order to consolidate all their database tasks together. You can also use SAP-DB, SAP's own SQL database with decades of testing behind it. It just happens that SAP AG released it under the GPL about a year or so ago. Don't underestimate it.
MPlayer cvs is capable of playing RM files by using the original codec nowadays (check www.mplayerhq.hu), which is good news because you don't have to launch that uglyness anymore to watch Real files.
I remember reading that Cleese and Palin had to sit down and try to remember the lines before that one.
Not anymore, as most things are autodetected. On debian, for example, you type fakeroot debian/rules binary and in a short while you have a .deb, optimised for your machine. And since the whole thing is GPL'ed and the cpu is detected on runtime, there are even packages springing up all over the place. Give it a try.
As a matter of fact, KDE does have Mono bindings already. It's based on their new infrastructure which dynamically generates bindings for different languages (such as C# and Java, for example). Search the dot for more information.
As for the relationship between GNOME and Mono, Miguel did express his wish that future versions of GNOME be based on Mono. He has since explained his position on the GNOME mailing lists.
Seriously though, many of these trolls are simply a result of ignorance of facts which are easily verified on the net. The average Slashdot discussion contains so much misinformation it's appalling. Support GNOME, support KDE, and stop wasting everyone's time with holy wars.
I think the author of the article has hit it on the proverbial head though, they don't make them like they used to. I got my first PC about 12 years ago, some cheap clone. The keyboard that came with it was not IBM's, but it looks like a spitting image of the one on the top of the first photo of the article. It's a loud bastard, but the thing is still working.
;-)).
I've seen many a keyboard break apart, but that sucker simply refuses to die. Sure, it's a bit on the loud side, especially during those long nights, but the typing feel is excellent and it is still as good as new (I used to throw it against the wall when I got angry at Tetris
As for the more recent keyboards, I'm quite happy with my standard Toshiba keyboard. It's one of the membrane thingies, but still has enough resistance to give me a nice typing feel.
Both 'disallowed' goals were scored after the game had been stopped and the defense had stopped playing. As such, they were not goals to start with. Sure, some bad calls against Spain, but I think the conspiracy theorists are blowing the thing up a bit too much.
Mueller's combined score is from two world cups, 1970 and 1974. The record you are referring to was Just Fontaine's 13 goals in 1958 which is unlikely to get broken anytime soon.
Agreed that England disappointed in that match, especially in the second half, but there were only two good chances in the whole game (and three goals) so you can't really call it anything but a struggle.
No, I am not forgetting Galatasaray (or Fenerbahce or Besiktas), but we were talking about the World cup, right?
As for "not to mention", you misunderstood, but this is not a grammar discussion and your argument is a strawman because I never even hinted at being racist. You don't know me and you don't know attitudes of people like me.
Turkey have played an outstanding World Cup and have kicked the reigning world champions' arses twice. How do you want me to say it so you don't get offended?
My point was that Brazil are not by far the best team in the world, and I stand by it.
I said that they had large problems playing with Turkey twice. The first game should have been a tie anyway. The fact that you have an inferiority complex to cure doesn't make me a racist. Congratulations to Turkey for excellent games and you go get a brain.
And to make it even worse, he bet a fortune on Korea beating Germany in the semis, which the Koreans then lost, so he hates Ahn again ;-)
During a penalty, the goalkeeper is not allowed to leave the goal line until the ball is struck.
The goal is 7.32 metres wide, leaving about 3 metres either side of the goalkeeper, while the penalty spot is 11 metres away from the goal line. It is impossible for any human being to watch the ball fly, then jump to stop it, as the speed of the ball can go over 100 km/h.
The only chance a goalkeeper has is to try to read the player's movements and guess which side of the goal he will shoot at. Even with shots coming from 20+ metres, the goalkeeper sometimes can't get to the right place in time.
During a penalty, the player is at such a clear advantage that only luck or nerves can stop a goal -- and that's the main reason people miss penalties -- they get too nervous and shoot poorly.
BTW, the best world cup goalscorer of all time is still Gerd Mueller from Germany, with 14. If Ronaldo repeats his performance in the next world cup, he could beat that one too.
Brazil hasn't played against any of the top 10 ranked teams in this worldcup (with the exception of Germany in the final). And they struggled against England (ranked 11, I believe) and Belgium, not to mention Turkey (twice). They were only convincing against China and Costa Rica.
What makes you say they are by far the best team in the world? Despite the undeniable talent of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and even Rivaldo (whose talents extend to acting), the team itself is the worst Brazil's had in decades.
I can't believe this got modded up to +3. Kahn had a great game, he made only one mistake the whole evening, his first of the tournament. Give the guy a break.
Germans had more shots, were aggressive, had the most posession, and were even better one-on-one. Every champion needs a good portion of luck, and Brazil has had it today. There was none of the Brazillian wizardry in this World cup, they were one of the great disappointments for me as they played unimaginatively and got through most of their games through luck and ref help.
As for Gerald Asamoah, he's a bloody striker, of course he was late marking Ronaldo, he was sent in to score a goal.
Exploiting someone who doesn't really have a choice does not constitute choice. While it doesn't matter for McDonalds and similar examples, which are more likely to be blamed on global stupidity than corporate influence, it certainly does for sweatshop workers.
You can ask a starving person to give you a blowjob for food, but you can't convince me that it's his 'choice' and that you're helping him do what he really wants. It's exploitation, pure and simple. If you're giving 13 year old children to work like slaves in inhuman conditions or starve, it's not choice, it's exploitation.
I mostly agree, just a point:
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> A ferocious advocate of open societies
No, Mr. Soros is a ferocious advocate of open markets. Big difference.
Actually, he seems to be a supporter of both. In many eastern-european countries, there are institutes called 'Open Society', funded solely by Soros, who give scholarships to students and support independent thinking. These institutes have been instrumental in combatting the nationalism and fascism arising in many of these countries. In fact, the most independent, socially conscious media has often been saved from bankruptcy by investments from Soros in such environments.
Who is 'they'? It sounds like you assume that there is a 'they' (that is, non-Americans), who all somehow have this viewpoint which is self-contradicting, instead of realising that there are people who are against interventionism and people who are for it. There you fall into the same trap as the anti-american posters who talk about Americans as if they were some clones who all think the same.
The story is not that people are selective about America 'sticking its nose in their business', but that most people believe (and rightly so) that if you are going to be a superpower in a globalised world, have military bases in 60-something countries, and almost single-handedly influence the governments in dozens of countries, you also have some responsibility. It's not that you should or should not take your nose out of their business, but that if you do, then be consistent about it everywhere.
Case in point -- the Hague tribunal. Everybody has to send their war criminals to the international war crimes tribunal, only America is magically freed of this responsibility. If you are going to bomb countries and impose sanctions over it, wouldn't it be fair if you also practiced what you preach? I am talking about the US government here, not the typical American, of course.
I'm not passing personal experience as facts.
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Many do, I wasn't targetting you specifically.
I tell you what, go to http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ in KDE/Konqueror 2.2.2 and Mozilla 0.9.9. Which renders the site correctly?
That's not fair, is it? Konqueror 2.2.2 is based on very old codebase, Mozilla 0.9.9 is spanking new. I don't feel like going through all those tests, but I thought Mozilla didn't implement full CSS2 spec either? Could be wrong on that. And I never said Mozilla was bad, just that its performance on linux is rather underwhelming.
As for stability, do you have any evidence the MTBF of Konqueror is any better than Mozilla's?
Of course not! I'm quoting personal experience
Yeah, like Debian.
You can't pass personal experiences as facts. Fact is that Mozilla is a good browser for Windows. But my personal experience from 0.9.8 from Woody is that it crashes on some pages, locks up and is sloooooow to high heaven. And it doesn't do font AA.
Konqueror, while more unstable than I'm used to currently, performs very well for most tasks and crashes rarely (the bad part is that when it crashes, you have to go around killing separate kdeinit processes). And it's fast and very standards-compliant. So, while it isn't the perfect browser (tm), neither is Mozilla. Really, no need to go dissing it.
Mozilla mail is nice, but by the time it reacts to a click and draws a menu, I'm finished reading, composing and sending mail with kmail. I've yet to find a feature I need in kmail that isn't there.