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Not to knock your choice or anything, but as a user I absolutely hate anything developed with wxWidgets when ported to Windows. Perhaps it was just the particular apps that were using it incorrectly, and maybe tons of others use it correctly and I never notice they used it, but (at least where I noticed it) it always felt annoying and somehow wrong. Just not quite behaving as an app should on Windows.
Sorry, but random mass extinctions caused by extraordinary events and seperated by millions of years are plainly not part of "the cyclical nature of life".
Look, if he doesn't want people to think he was bought he should turn down the donations from people he has supposedly spent his whole political career opposing.
Personally I think the whole idea of corporations or organizations donating in any way to politicians is wholly corrupt. It should be a criminal offense for doner and recipient.
The only people who should be allowed to donate to political candidates are registered individual voters, and those only of a very limited amount of money or a somewhat less limited amount of time and expertise.
And how do they get their message across without millions in advertising? Did they ever think that if they couldn't get it across without all that advertising, then maybe it wasn't worth getting across? Anyway, with everyone in the same boat, less money is needed.
The page rank algorithm is worthless in your hands. If it was worth something you'd make a business out of it. Why should you be allowed to prevent people from independantly coming up with the algorithm and using it? Google is just more efficient than you. Welcome to the free market. Is the profit motive not enough for you?
Most tech startups only exist to sell solutions to large tech companies, so this is an important issue.
That might as well say: Most patent exploitation companies exist to exploit patents, so this is an important issue.
The existance of people making money off of something is not a reason to keep a situation in existance if there are other reasons for abandoning it.
This won't necessarily work for you, but I've sometimes found that if some files can't be read from the CD-R media itself, that making an ISO of it on your hard drive, and mounting that using Daemon tools or something allows the individual files to be read correctly. I have recovered data from 2 old CD-Rs this way.
The job of government procurements is not supposed to be to provide an equal opportunity pork barrel for businesses. It's to get the best deal (all things considered) for the taxpayer. That by necessity involves picking winners and losers.
And as for open source, frankly the government has very little business paying for software that it can't turn over to the taxpayers or other government departments.
Pre-install only solves the HW problem up to the point where I plug in the new peripheral I just bought and discover it comes with a windows and mac install cd. Go to any PC store and count how many devices have a Linux (any version, never mind all versions) install CD. You'll be lucky if you find a single one. Windows doesn' support most hardware out of the box. They have a selected set of key devices that were available at the time that particular revision of Windows shipped. Everything else, and everthing new requires a driver and suppoting application software direct from the manufacturer. The Linux people have done an amazing job getting a lot of HW to work, but really the numbers are not on their side.
The same reason that people keep watching soap operas. It's not becasue they necessarily enjoy them, it's because having seen part of the story of these characters, they have an emotional need to know the rest of it. George Lucas is an exploiter of that need more than he is a great film maker.
What's interesting about the Japanese manufacturers use of Linux is that it uses Linux to completely eliminate the users freedom to run whatever software they want, and use their phones in the way they want. Japanese phones are locked up tighter than something very tight indeed, with no installing or using anything you didn't pay for. It's ironic given Linux uses the Free Software GPL even if the project itself is more "Open Source" than "Free Software".
Is there any kind of (free) virtual machine software to allow you to just boot an ISO in your existing OS (windows), or even just reboot the PC using the ISO on the filesystem i.e. no need to keep the existing OS, just use the HD instead of CD? I've downloaded plenty of ISOs of live CDs to try out, but burning a CD is just a waste (particularly for that Hurd live CD. sheesh).
Actually plenty of people in Japan were kicking up a fuss in the last few years about the health (breathing mostly I think) problems caused fine particle pollution from diesel cars on motorways built close to the areas that they live.
In Japan cyclists ride on the pavement, though not exclusively. Speaking as a pedestrian, it's not that big a deal really once you get over the initial surprise. (anyone alleging that it only works here because of the supposed Japanese courtiousness gets a slap)
I am not sure the exact rules, though as elsewhere it appears to follow the universal ignoring by cyclists of traffic lights at junctions and pedestrian crossings.
The people who say linux is easier are looking at it from a sysadmin perspective, the people who say Windows is easier are looking from a "dumb user" downloading junk off the web perspective. The fact is however, that for desktop acceptance, the "dumb user" scenario is more important than the sysadmin one, and that is something the people implementing linux by and large don't get (or don't like or care about if they get it).
Why bother. Firefox has been crashing on all versions fairly regularly for me up to and including version 1.6 (haven't downloaded 1.7 yet). I'm not saying it's not a good browser, I use it all the time, but you don't need an exploit to crash it. Or do you?..... (cue paranoid conspiracy theory)
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Not to knock your choice or anything, but as a user I absolutely hate anything developed with wxWidgets when ported to Windows. Perhaps it was just the particular apps that were using it incorrectly, and maybe tons of others use it correctly and I never notice they used it, but (at least where I noticed it) it always felt annoying and somehow wrong. Just not quite behaving as an app should on Windows.
Sorry, but random mass extinctions caused by extraordinary events and seperated by millions of years are plainly not part of "the cyclical nature of life".
You know that is a joke, but it's also true, and not just in the USA. When did Liberal Democracy end? I missed the announcement.
Remind me, how many countries USA have a military presence in nowadays?
Look, if he doesn't want people to think he was bought he should turn down the donations from people he has supposedly spent his whole political career opposing.
Personally I think the whole idea of corporations or organizations donating in any way to politicians is wholly corrupt. It should be a criminal offense for doner and recipient.
The only people who should be allowed to donate to political candidates are registered individual voters, and those only of a very limited amount of money or a somewhat less limited amount of time and expertise.
And how do they get their message across without millions in advertising? Did they ever think that if they couldn't get it across without all that advertising, then maybe it wasn't worth getting across? Anyway, with everyone in the same boat, less money is needed.
Interesting, but all the same please remind me never to buy a keyboard from you.
That might as well say: Most patent exploitation companies exist to exploit patents, so this is an important issue.
The existance of people making money off of something is not a reason to keep a situation in existance if there are other reasons for abandoning it.
Why the smiley? They ARE a right wing party. Have been for 10 years or however long.
This won't necessarily work for you, but I've sometimes found that if some files can't be read from the CD-R media itself, that making an ISO of it on your hard drive, and mounting that using Daemon tools or something allows the individual files to be read correctly. I have recovered data from 2 old CD-Rs this way.
The job of government procurements is not supposed to be to provide an equal opportunity pork barrel for businesses. It's to get the best deal (all things considered) for the taxpayer. That by necessity involves picking winners and losers.
And as for open source, frankly the government has very little business paying for software that it can't turn over to the taxpayers or other government departments.
Pre-install only solves the HW problem up to the point where I plug in the new peripheral I just bought and discover it comes with a windows and mac install cd. Go to any PC store and count how many devices have a Linux (any version, never mind all versions) install CD. You'll be lucky if you find a single one. Windows doesn' support most hardware out of the box. They have a selected set of key devices that were available at the time that particular revision of Windows shipped. Everything else, and everthing new requires a driver and suppoting application software direct from the manufacturer. The Linux people have done an amazing job getting a lot of HW to work, but really the numbers are not on their side.
The same reason that people keep watching soap operas. It's not becasue they necessarily enjoy them, it's because having seen part of the story of these characters, they have an emotional need to know the rest of it. George Lucas is an exploiter of that need more than he is a great film maker.
"Tools->Share workbook" in Excel. I'm sure some of the other parts of the office suite have similar features, though I haven't really used them.
What's interesting about the Japanese manufacturers use of Linux is that it uses Linux to completely eliminate the users freedom to run whatever software they want, and use their phones in the way they want. Japanese phones are locked up tighter than something very tight indeed, with no installing or using anything you didn't pay for. It's ironic given Linux uses the Free Software GPL even if the project itself is more "Open Source" than "Free Software".
sometimes I catch a cold that keeps me out of work for a day or two.
Thanks, I'll give Qemu a look into. It seems like it might work
For just mounting ISO and other format images in windows I use something called daemon tools which is quite good.
Is there any kind of (free) virtual machine software to allow you to just boot an ISO in your existing OS (windows), or even just reboot the PC using the ISO on the filesystem i.e. no need to keep the existing OS, just use the HD instead of CD? I've downloaded plenty of ISOs of live CDs to try out, but burning a CD is just a waste (particularly for that Hurd live CD. sheesh).
Actually plenty of people in Japan were kicking up a fuss in the last few years about the health (breathing mostly I think) problems caused fine particle pollution from diesel cars on motorways built close to the areas that they live.
Ah California, home of the movie industry.
In Japan cyclists ride on the pavement, though not exclusively. Speaking as a pedestrian, it's not that big a deal really once you get over the initial surprise. (anyone alleging that it only works here because of the supposed Japanese courtiousness gets a slap)
I am not sure the exact rules, though as elsewhere it appears to follow the universal ignoring by cyclists of traffic lights at junctions and pedestrian crossings.
Well, true up to a point, but there is nothing like a concrete target to focus the mind.
The people who say linux is easier are looking at it from a sysadmin perspective, the people who say Windows is easier are looking from a "dumb user" downloading junk off the web perspective. The fact is however, that for desktop acceptance, the "dumb user" scenario is more important than the sysadmin one, and that is something the people implementing linux by and large don't get (or don't like or care about if they get it).
Why bother. Firefox has been crashing on all versions fairly regularly for me up to and including version 1.6 (haven't downloaded 1.7 yet). I'm not saying it's not a good browser, I use it all the time, but you don't need an exploit to crash it. Or do you?..... (cue paranoid conspiracy theory)
2007 it is then.
Note that you still got an "insightful" moderation rather than a "funny" one.