"Shouldn't be a problem that 1 out of 4 liars will get away and 1 in 10 innocents will be incorrectly nailed."
Irony too suble for non-techies, so just imagine:
In Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, a medium sized european airport, there are 450.000 annual flights in and out. Say each plain carries about 250 passengers. An even 1m passengers in/out a year.
In Amsterdam alone we are going to point to 300 misidentified Lyars per DAY.
What do we do with them? Slap em on the wrist? Make em write "I shall not lie" 1000 times?
"Until the EU can get the Euro some value, the Brits are much better off using Sterling for a few more years"
What nonsense.
Currency fluctuates, its a representive of some sorts of the current state of economic power of the currency region.
Europa is about unity and fairness and solidarity between europeans, as we understand such things help our economy.
The temporal fluctuation (being upward even) does not mean "Brits are better off". It may very well mean that the pound will de-valuate rather rapidly now, since they didnt join. Still no biggie. Theyll join sooner rather than later, as the Brits start to understand: you can keep the UK out of Europe, but you cannot keep the Euro out of the UK. 70% os spending on Downing Street London is done by non-english europeans.
Most stores on Downing street, all gas stations in Britain WILL be accepting Euro's
The point is, the euro is working on a common economy.
You cannot reap its benefits, while leaving its caveats, its not only not possible, its anti-social to try. That is not smart.
The whole point of locking our currencies is TO GET RID of currency flux.
For the export of brit goods to europe f.e., a high pound is BAD; now brit goods are expensive!
(Oh I almost forgot, social =! communism in Europe, it means ehm, being social and solidair)
Gr/Dread
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Zietgeist zeitgeist, I'd call you stupid, but that insults stupid people.
There might be something fishy, then again, there might not.
Have you considered that perhaps these replies were received by email at comments@lindows.com, and posted later by lindows? (as instructed in his why lindows paper)
Have you contacted lindows to investigate?
To me it seems your yelling fire, at the first sign of a little smoke.
Anyways, the forum does NOT accept replies from my newly created account, perhaps they are revising the system.
20 years ago, I was a drop out of a dutch teachers academy. Basically back than there were no mid-level CompSci schools in holland. It was University or down in the dirt witht the electronics boys.
I was neither interested in the Zen Of Computing as taught in Uni's, nor interested in the art of making a perfect metal rectangle with no tools other than a little metal scraper (one of the first assignment in Electronics)
I was interested in Software, and how they can help Humans work better. That has been my hobby ever since the first pong machines.
Hacking spectrum games, writing PacMan in Spectrum BASIC that stuff.
After two years of dabbling in all sorts of odd jobs, the "Arbeids Buro" (labour office) had programs for people without a permanent job for two years, in a very broad spectrum of educations.
These progams were basically steam courses, in my example, system engeneering and software support. But they had loads of others.
Nowadays unemployement in The Netherlnds is dealt with a personal involvement of the officer in charge of your unemplyement benefit.
To, of course, make sure you Mr. UnEmployed get back to work asap, and stop draining public money.
As a help, they STILL offer to pay for just about any training or education there is availeble. Just To Get You Employed Again.
This has worked remarkably well for me, and suspect does so for many others.
Im happy as a well payed sysadmin nowadays, mostly "growl" -windows- but increasing the support for nix based systems. I love my job! I make good money too!
These incentives are excellent to put slightly de-railed people back on track. And as such save the community lots of $$
""Their whole "we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music" argument is nonsense; it doesn't benefit them'.""
Devils argument: By reducing theft, they can lower prices, leading to happier real customers.
There are two responses governments give after such a claim by the enemy:
1. Given the fact that such plains exist, which we do not admit or comment on, and the fact that they fly over enemy terriroty, which we do not confirm or comment on, such plains would not get shot over that territory, besides we have them all accounted for. If we had them.
2. No comment.
The US said: no comment. Which probably means there are dozens of such planes, 3d modelling Afghanistan right now, but one or two less then they started out with.
I have seen these before made by logitech at an assurence firm. People there knew about RSI claims;-)
It is in essence a frozen in one position joystick, with a regular mouseball below.
It was used by an employee to relieve stress from the wrist joint as it required movement of the _arm_ joints (elbow and/or shoulder) to move the whole thing.
He claimed it did not slow him down, or was less precise then regular mouses, although I would not want to play Counterstrike with it. I do believe his claims for less wrist pain.
- Cockpit doors can already be locked (not sure if they are in flight)
- Hi-jackers probably wont knock.
- They didnt need bullets probably: knifes and cardboard cutters accordint to the CNN reporter on the plane.
- Shotguns, yeah right. Could help, could also be captured by terrorist.
The idea should maybe be this:
No path to/from the cockpit to passengers AT ALL.
It should just not be possible to get there from the passengers site. Feed the pilots with small service elevators.
"...I would suggest that this economy is no longer the kind of economy that will support an employee dictating "my way or the highway"."
I have to object to the (probably mainly Americentric) notion of a quality workspace, yes I do define two-way communication in my workplace as a "quality" parameter, to be a pure factor of the economic tides.
You are saying that during labour shortage, labour rules and during labour surplus, management rules. While I can see that it will impact it somewhat, (salary mostly, not strategic influence) it most definatly is not the one and only factor.
How about coutry/company culture, governement and plain bussiness tactics? To me it seems just as silly to let your company be run by screaming labour monkeys when there is some shortage, as it is to let it run blindly by management without labour input.
How about changing the world for the better? How about just trying to communicate BOTH WAYS first? "I hold the hammer, so I will hit your head today" is really not a good relationship.
IMHO working for a US (culture) company, compared to working for a Dutch (culture) company is/was very different in the 80's, 90's, and 00's it still is.
A whole lot different then the difference between shortage/surplus in my job-market.
"However, whatever you do, DON'T QUIT. The market is sh** right now. "
Keep working at a place you do not like because the market is shit, is stupid.
I am 35, I have seen the rise and fall of the 80's low and the 90's high, changed jobs in both decades, NEVER found a problem getting a job.
If you want to work, you will find work.
Gr/Dread
(you did not mortgage that super-condo, to the limit of your earnings now did you?)
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For the longest time ISP have been doing stuff like this. Blocking port 80 is standard practice on just about all cable, and most DSL providers aiming the home user market.
Quite oftenly I think this is done purely to offer "commercial" rate connection (at like triple the pricetag) where the ports ARE NOT blocked.
Now the devil is always in the details: if the ISP offers the lowgrade homeuser targetted connection as something like this "Unlimited Internet access for a fixed fee!" as they often do, they are misleading you the average Joe Consumer.
Now the smallprint terms and conditions ussually explain something like : Running servers is not allowed. Using more then one machine to connect is not allowed. If you cross some vague "fair use" magical number of MB you might get an extra invoice.
Thats grounds to sue on two accounts IMHO :
1. Its not "unlimited"
2. Its not "internet"
1, Its not unlimited, they limit HOW, HOWMUCH and even WHAT (by not allowing "servers" (can someone define "server"?)
2. Its not internet, as *I* define "Internet as a 2-way *interactive* medium. meaning running say a two-way vido conference, where *I* act as a host for incoming request should be posssible. Always. Running a quake server, same deal.
While I do not condone the useage of the word pussy, to describe a frenchman, poster has a point(although its different then what he thinks);
Why is this US based website, so goddamn USCENTRIC? Well Ill be darned.., TWO distro's in Europe?? One is in money probs? Well certainly one distro is enough! Let them merge! They probably both are eurobabble localized anyways!
It seems much more rationale from codebase POV to merge Mandrake and RedHat or.. or.. SuSe and Slackware.. or or RedHat and Suse...
Anyways, mergers are never a solution to afloat a sinking ship again (not to say that SuSe is sinking.. Its just not a way to SAVE a sinking ship)
Aint it cool? According to the article, Humans are actually coded OO style:-)
"For example, 60% of "zinc finger" genes (whose protein-products help to regulate the expression of other genes), are located on chromosome 19. It looks as though they have evolved by repeated duplication from a single "grandmother" gene, followed by specialisation to do slightly different jobs. Protein-kinase genes, whose products are involved in intracellular signalling, are similarly concentrated on chromosome 1. The researchers tripled the number of protein-kinase genes known from this chromosome. They also found hints that genes whose protein-products work together in a cell have sometimes ended up as neighbours on a chromosome. That might simplify the co-ordination of their expression."
> Ah, the requiste whining about how America ain't that great, we did it first in england, you really didn't save the french from germany two times in the first half of the century, blah, blah, blah....
Oh? SO we should still bend over and let us be fscked, because some ancient American Warmonger decided it was cool to kick the butt of Japan?
You DO remember Pearl Harbor do you? There is an excellent "lets twist history a bit HOLLYWOOD flic" about that now, you should view that. You did not get in the war for Europes sake, do not claim so.
Yes, US presence in the Allies helped ending the 2nd WW but there is really no telling what would have happened if Nippon did not bomb PH now is there? Should we thank Japan?
>Incidentally, it's the Fourth of July. If you don't recall, it's 225 years ago today that we told you (the British anyway) to bugger off.
Hey, more power to you, now YOU bugger off.
> Oh yeah, why do you folks bitch every time a quasi-historical movie comes out that doesn't kiss European ass? If you don't like American studios making movies that portray the Good ole USA in a very positive light, then why don't you create your own movies that are worth distributing world wide? Can't compete with Hollywood on their terms? Thats really sad.
Have you ever realized that perhaps, oh I dunno, the fact that Europe has 20 odd LANGUAGES, and thus 20 odd MARKETS for MOVIES has some effect on that?
> Sure, there are a few foreign movies wich win well deserved acclaim here in the states (Trainspotting, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)But for the most part, your film industry can't hold a candle to Hollywood, in terms of raw popularity.
AH! Ever heared of *Bollywood*? They release more and for a bigger "raw sale" they Hollywood. Too bad you apparently do not speak Hindi. The world is quite some bigger then Europe and the US you know.
> Great Britain had their time at the top of the world food chain, and pissed and stomped their way accross the world, claiming every spit of land you beat the Spainards to for the Crown. Remember "The sun never sets on the British Empire?"
Yes, we remember, actually Im Dutch, we fought the British quite harsh on that claim. Both Britain, and Holland got sorta modernized you know, we actually understand now that Slavery and Colonies are bad. Talking about "slavery", and "minorites" in the states. Wasnt there some internal fuss about in the US? Civil War ring a bell? Looking at all the racial conflics in the states, I have to conclude that about half of your country is still confused over this.
> Well, now it's our turn to be leader of the pack, and if you don't like the privileges that come with that -like painting things in a pro US light, and not giving a rats ass what you Europeans think about it- well, too bad.
Well, you may WANT to be the leader of Pack. You may actually think you Deserve to be the leader of the Pack. You actually may think you already are, so is THIS why the US got voted out of many a UN comittee lately? Is THIS why the merger between Honeywell and GE was stopped BY THE EC. That does not fit.
This kind of phrasing actually used to be coined by our 2nd WW Neighbours. But guess what? Europe does not agree. We will lead our own pack thankyouverymuch.
> I know the US ain't perfect, and we like to color history to benefit ourselves
And you think thats a "good thing"?
(seriously, do you honestly believe the scholars in your country don't?)
Seriously, I do. We do not ban Evolution Theory from schools for example.
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Why, do you think, Philips sold _Phonogram_ couple o years ago?
/Dread
There would be no reason I can think of holding you back to write one.
/Dread
Gr
"Shouldn't be a problem that 1 out of 4 liars will get away and 1 in 10 innocents will be incorrectly nailed."
/Dread
Irony too suble for non-techies, so just imagine:
In Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, a medium sized european airport, there are 450.000 annual flights in and out. Say each plain carries about 250 passengers. An even 1m passengers in/out a year.
In Amsterdam alone we are going to point to 300 misidentified Lyars per DAY.
What do we do with them? Slap em on the wrist? Make em write "I shall not lie" 1000 times?
Gr
"Until the EU can get the Euro some value, the Brits are much better off using Sterling for a few more years"
/Dread
What nonsense.
Currency fluctuates, its a representive of some sorts of the current state of economic power of the currency region.
Europa is about unity and fairness and solidarity between europeans, as we understand such things help our economy.
The temporal fluctuation (being upward even) does not mean "Brits are better off". It may very well mean that the pound will de-valuate rather rapidly now, since they didnt join. Still no biggie. Theyll join sooner rather than later, as the Brits start to understand: you can keep the UK out of Europe, but you cannot keep the Euro out of the UK. 70% os spending on Downing Street London is done by non-english europeans.
Most stores on Downing street, all gas stations in Britain WILL be accepting Euro's
The point is, the euro is working on a common economy.
You cannot reap its benefits, while leaving its caveats, its not only not possible, its anti-social to try. That is not smart.
The whole point of locking our currencies is TO GET RID of currency flux.
For the export of brit goods to europe f.e., a high pound is BAD; now brit goods are expensive!
(Oh I almost forgot, social =! communism in Europe, it means ehm, being social and solidair)
Gr
Zietgeist zeitgeist, I'd call you stupid, but that insults stupid people.
/Dread
Gr
Seems with X-windows out there, L-windows would be a viable alt.
/Dread
There might be something fishy, then again, there might not.
/Dread
Have you considered that perhaps these replies were received by email at comments@lindows.com, and posted later by lindows? (as instructed in his why lindows paper)
Have you contacted lindows to investigate?
To me it seems your yelling fire, at the first sign of a little smoke.
Anyways, the forum does NOT accept replies from my newly created account, perhaps they are revising the system.
Gr
"Microsoft does it's best (or worst) to provide something. But, heck, it's FREE. IE costs us nothing. "
/Dread
Not true. I reply here, cus all the child posts drift off the real issue.
The issue is MS DOES NOT allow (enforced in the IE licence) to run IE on anything but Windows
(TM)
You therefore PAY for IE when you BUY Windows.
It certainly is not free, not in any way shape or form.
Basically it means Windows is overpriced, if I dont use IE, I still PAY for it.
Im not sure (IANAL), but in Holland some forms of coupled-sales are actually illegal.
GR
Why isnt the parent poster ,modded down as the horrible anti-european troll he is?
/Dread
Gr
20 years ago, I was a drop out of a dutch teachers academy. Basically back than there were no mid-level CompSci schools in holland. It was University or down in the dirt witht the electronics boys.
I was neither interested in the Zen Of Computing as taught in Uni's, nor interested in the art of making a perfect metal rectangle with no tools other than a little metal scraper (one of the first assignment in Electronics)
I was interested in Software, and how they can help Humans work better. That has been my hobby ever since the first pong machines.
Hacking spectrum games, writing PacMan in Spectrum BASIC that stuff.
After two years of dabbling in all sorts of odd jobs, the "Arbeids Buro" (labour office) had programs for people without a permanent job for two years, in a very broad spectrum of educations.
These progams were basically steam courses, in my example, system engeneering and software support. But they had loads of others.
Nowadays unemployement in The Netherlnds is dealt with a personal involvement of the officer in charge of your unemplyement benefit.
To, of course, make sure you Mr. UnEmployed get back to work asap, and stop draining public money.
As a help, they STILL offer to pay for just about any training or education there is availeble. Just To Get You Employed Again.
This has worked remarkably well for me, and suspect does so for many others.
Im happy as a well payed sysadmin nowadays, mostly "growl" -windows- but increasing the support for nix based systems. I love my job! I make good money too!
These incentives are excellent to put slightly de-railed people back on track. And as such save the community lots of $$
Gr Richard
""Their whole "we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music" argument is nonsense; it doesn't benefit them'.""
/Dread
Devils argument: By reducing theft, they can lower prices, leading to happier real customers.
Gr
There are two responses governments give after such a claim by the enemy:
/Dread
1. Given the fact that such plains exist, which we do not admit or comment on, and the fact that they fly over enemy terriroty, which we do not confirm or comment on, such plains would not get shot over that territory, besides we have them all accounted for. If we had them.
2. No comment.
The US said: no comment. Which probably means there are dozens of such planes, 3d modelling Afghanistan right now, but one or two less then they started out with.
Gr
Insightfull my rightious Dutch ass...
Moron moderators,
Ok: "This isn't censorship, it's good taste"
I have a question: WHOES taste?
certainly not mine.
Gr Richard
I have seen these before made by logitech at an assurence firm. People there knew about RSI claims ;-)
/Dread
It is in essence a frozen in one position joystick, with a regular mouseball below.
It was used by an employee to relieve stress from the wrist joint as it required movement of the _arm_ joints (elbow and/or shoulder) to move the whole thing.
He claimed it did not slow him down, or was less precise then regular mouses, although I would not want to play Counterstrike with it. I do believe his claims for less wrist pain.
fwiw
Reg
Nice ideas, but they wont work:
/Dread
- Cockpit doors can already be locked (not sure if they are in flight)
- Hi-jackers probably wont knock.
- They didnt need bullets probably: knifes and cardboard cutters accordint to the CNN reporter on the plane.
- Shotguns, yeah right. Could help, could also be captured by terrorist.
The idea should maybe be this:
No path to/from the cockpit to passengers AT ALL.
It should just not be possible to get there from the passengers site. Feed the pilots with small service elevators.
Gr
"...I would suggest that this economy is no longer the kind of economy that will support an employee dictating "my way or the highway"."
/Dread
I have to object to the (probably mainly Americentric) notion of a quality workspace, yes I do define two-way communication in my workplace as a "quality" parameter, to be a pure factor of the economic tides.
You are saying that during labour shortage, labour rules and during labour surplus, management rules. While I can see that it will impact it somewhat, (salary mostly, not strategic influence) it most definatly is not the one and only factor.
How about coutry/company culture, governement and plain bussiness tactics? To me it seems just as silly to let your company be run by screaming labour monkeys when there is some shortage, as it is to let it run blindly by management without labour input.
How about changing the world for the better? How about just trying to communicate BOTH WAYS first? "I hold the hammer, so I will hit your head today" is really not a good relationship.
IMHO working for a US (culture) company, compared to working for a Dutch (culture) company is/was very different in the 80's, 90's, and 00's it still is.
A whole lot different then the difference between shortage/surplus in my job-market.
Gr
"However, whatever you do, DON'T QUIT. The market is sh** right now. "
/Dread
Keep working at a place you do not like because the market is shit, is stupid.
I am 35, I have seen the rise and fall of the 80's low and the 90's high, changed jobs in both decades, NEVER found a problem getting a job.
If you want to work, you will find work.
Gr
(you did not mortgage that super-condo, to the limit of your earnings now did you?)
For the longest time ISP have been doing stuff like this. Blocking port 80 is standard practice on just about all cable, and most DSL providers aiming the home user market.
/Dread
Quite oftenly I think this is done purely to offer "commercial" rate connection (at like triple the pricetag) where the ports ARE NOT blocked.
Now the devil is always in the details: if the ISP offers the lowgrade homeuser targetted connection as something like this "Unlimited Internet access for a fixed fee!" as they often do, they are misleading you the average Joe Consumer.
Now the smallprint terms and conditions ussually explain something like : Running servers is not allowed. Using more then one machine to connect is not allowed. If you cross some vague "fair use" magical number of MB you might get an extra invoice.
Thats grounds to sue on two accounts IMHO :
1. Its not "unlimited"
2. Its not "internet"
1, Its not unlimited, they limit HOW, HOWMUCH and even WHAT (by not allowing "servers" (can someone define "server"?)
2. Its not internet, as *I* define "Internet as a 2-way *interactive* medium. meaning running say a two-way vido conference, where *I* act as a host for incoming request should be posssible. Always. Running a quake server, same deal.
Sue. GDDMMT Gr
My take is: the poster ment FREE browsers.
/Dread
Gr
The whole hoopla about gcc 2.96 was never about bugs.
/Dread
It was about releasing it too early AGAINST the wishes of the maintainers.
Gr
While I do not condone the useage of the word pussy, to describe a frenchman, poster has a point(although its different then what he thinks);
Why is this US based website, so goddamn USCENTRIC? Well Ill be darned.., TWO distro's in Europe?? One is in money probs? Well certainly one distro is enough! Let them merge! They probably both are eurobabble localized anyways!
It seems much more rationale from codebase POV to merge Mandrake and RedHat or.. or.. SuSe and Slackware.. or or RedHat and Suse...
Anyways, mergers are never a solution to afloat a sinking ship again (not to say that SuSe is sinking.. Its just not a way to SAVE a sinking ship)
Greetz Richard
"Unless you outright duplicate the copyright-protected work, there is no infringement."
/Dread
Hmmm maybe, but I would advise the Wince and SAMBA programmers to stay out anyway.
Gr
Monopoly leads to !security & !stability
/Dread
Reg
Aint it cool? According to the article, Humans are actually coded OO style :-)
"For example, 60% of "zinc finger" genes (whose protein-products help to regulate the expression of other genes), are located on chromosome 19. It looks as though they have evolved by repeated duplication from a single "grandmother" gene, followed by specialisation to do slightly different jobs. Protein-kinase genes, whose products are involved in intracellular signalling, are similarly concentrated on chromosome 1. The researchers tripled the number of protein-kinase genes known from this chromosome. They also found hints that genes whose protein-products work together in a cell have sometimes ended up as neighbours on a chromosome. That might simplify the co-ordination of their expression."
> Ah, the requiste whining about how America ain't that great, we did it first in england, you really didn't save the french from germany two times in the first half of the century, blah, blah, blah....
/Dread (prides to Love/Hate the US)
Oh? SO we should still bend over and let us be fscked, because some ancient American Warmonger decided it was cool to kick the butt of Japan?
You DO remember Pearl Harbor do you? There is an excellent "lets twist history a bit HOLLYWOOD flic" about that now, you should view that. You did not get in the war for Europes sake, do not claim so.
Yes, US presence in the Allies helped ending the 2nd WW but there is really no telling what would have happened if Nippon did not bomb PH now is there? Should we thank Japan?
>Incidentally, it's the Fourth of July. If you don't recall, it's 225 years ago today that we told you (the British anyway) to bugger off.
Hey, more power to you, now YOU bugger off.
> Oh yeah, why do you folks bitch every time a quasi-historical movie comes out that doesn't kiss European ass? If you don't like American studios making movies that portray the Good ole USA in a very positive light, then why don't you create your own movies that are worth distributing world wide? Can't compete with Hollywood on their terms? Thats really sad.
Have you ever realized that perhaps, oh I dunno, the fact that Europe has 20 odd LANGUAGES, and thus 20 odd MARKETS for MOVIES has some effect on that?
> Sure, there are a few foreign movies wich win well deserved acclaim here in the states (Trainspotting, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)But for the most part, your film industry can't hold a candle to Hollywood, in terms of raw popularity.
AH! Ever heared of *Bollywood*? They release more and for a bigger "raw sale" they Hollywood. Too bad you apparently do not speak Hindi. The world is quite some bigger then Europe and the US you know.
> Great Britain had their time at the top of the world food chain, and pissed and stomped their way accross the world, claiming every spit of land you beat the Spainards to for the Crown. Remember "The sun never sets on the British Empire?"
Yes, we remember, actually Im Dutch, we fought the British quite harsh on that claim. Both Britain, and Holland got sorta modernized you know, we actually understand now that Slavery and Colonies are bad. Talking about "slavery", and "minorites" in the states. Wasnt there some internal fuss about in the US? Civil War ring a bell? Looking at all the racial conflics in the states, I have to conclude that about half of your country is still confused over this.
> Well, now it's our turn to be leader of the pack, and if you don't like the privileges that come with that -like painting things in a pro US light, and not giving a rats ass what you Europeans think about it- well, too bad.
Well, you may WANT to be the leader of Pack. You may actually think you Deserve to be the leader of the Pack. You actually may think you already are, so is THIS why the US got voted out of many a UN comittee lately? Is THIS why the merger between Honeywell and GE was stopped BY THE EC. That does not fit.
This kind of phrasing actually used to be coined by our 2nd WW Neighbours. But guess what? Europe does not agree. We will lead our own pack thankyouverymuch.
> I know the US ain't perfect, and we like to color history to benefit ourselves
And you think thats a "good thing"?
(seriously, do you honestly believe the scholars in your country don't?)
Seriously, I do. We do not ban Evolution Theory from schools for example.
Greetings