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I can speak in English, French, and Spanish.
I saw RMS at my alma mater for a speech in French, and I am sorry to have to say that, although his command of the French language is good, it is not good enough for the complexity of the subjects that he talks about. His speech was useless.
What's wrong with clicking the link and having the PDF launch in the viewer of your choice?
The lack of a good, light, simple (and ideally open source) PDF Viewer on Windows.
Personally, I would prefer Mozilla to put the same effort in creating a cross-platform, open source PDF Viewer, which I could also use to view PDF file not downloaded via a browser.
the original iPhone 2G, which I have, is definitely not supported by iOS5, or even iOS4 for that matter. What are they smoking?
I can't help but think this is intentionally skewed for Apple...
Read the chart again : your iPhone is the first one listed, and the chart shows that it supported the most recent OS during its first three years of existence. iOS4 and iOS5 came after that.
The simple fact that you use today a phone which was released more than four years ago is a sign of its quality. I also has the same model, which my wife still uses every day.
Even that it way too much. My first HP DeskJet 20 years ago had a driver that fit on an 1.44 MB floppy disk. Explain me why a driver must be bigger than 10 MB...
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. If your wife DID have a serious lung disease, you WOULD have sued the hospital for not doing enough tests, and the hospital WOULD have been legally culpable. Freaking weaboos.
A typical American reaction : a medical problem turned into a legal one.
You wanna have a better health system ? Train more doctors and less lawyers.
Some treatments are simply more available in certain countries.
No, I'm not defending America's approach to healthcare, but I've seen the same bloody argument used from the other side for all the America-bound medical tourism from rich Canadians and Euros, and in the end it means absolutely nothing. Rich people travel a lot. Rich people min/max their medicine.
1) Please show us data regarding foreigners coming to the USA for health treatment....
2) Think one second about how a sick (and rich) person would feel at the time of immigration if he/she was refused entry to the USA because of illness
3) If you are really really really rich, you don't come to the USA to see the best doctor in the world, you pay him to come.
You have not proven at all that a 'system' is better then 'industry'
This was not my goal. Numerous sources have already shown that the US spend a bit more than Europe on healthcare (in % of GDP, see e.g. here), but have poorer results in life expectancy (see e.g.here). And don't tell me about correlation and causality...
North Korea also has a 'system' and I'm willing to be it does not produce results comparable to US 'industry'.
In the hierarchy of needs, food comes before healthcare...
Although European countries have very different systems, they rather each have a health system whereas the US have a health industry. It shouldn't be surprising that one has better medical results and the other one better financial results...
Tonight, I will want to watch a movie on netflix. So will my wife. So will my daughter. And they won't be the same movie.
If it really happens every night, I am sorry for your family.
It not, then you can download instead of stream, or you can rent a DVD or Blue-Ray, or you can watch live TV.
I offer you a challenge then: Force yourself to use the ribbon interface until you become comfortable with it, then try and go back. After doing this tell me whether you still think the ribbon is a bad idea.
At first I hated it. After two years of ribbon usage, I only dislike it very much.
Dagens Medicin, a news site for local and regional administrations, quotes Thomsen explaining that most of the hospital workers, doctors and nurses, will have little trouble using Libre Office. "Most of them do not need the advanced features of these suites."
More important than thatt, 20 years from now they'll be able to open the documents they create today.
And even more important : for users of Microsoft Office 2003, Libre Office's GUI is more familiar than Microsoft Office 2007/2010 and its infamous ribbon.
I am stuck with Hughesnet, due to living in the boonies. They impose a 425 megabyte limit on my downloads even at the $100 a month plan. The only time it is unlimited is between 2am-7am, which I'm betting isn't enough time to grab an entire OSX distribution. Just getting XCode and the iOS SDK became a race against time once the file hit the 4gb range.
I guess I can stay up until 2, then set an alarm for 7 to pause the Mac App Store download until 2 am the next morning. But still, I'd really like to just pay a few extra bucks and have them ship me a DVD. It doesn't even have to come in a fancy box.
Just wait mid-July, sure there will be a torrent somewhere that you can download during a few nights.
They will make a fortune selling power to all those countries "phasing out" nuclear power with no plan to replace it but the underpants gnomes.
In the meantime, Switzerland is also spending a billion to enhance hydroelectric dams (see here, only in French or German, sorry), so that we can buy their base electricity at a cheap price at night, and sell it a premium (up to 10 times) during peak hours.
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I can speak in English, French, and Spanish.
I saw RMS at my alma mater for a speech in French, and I am sorry to have to say that, although his command of the French language is good, it is not good enough for the complexity of the subjects that he talks about. His speech was useless.
What's wrong with clicking the link and having the PDF launch in the viewer of your choice?
The lack of a good, light, simple (and ideally open source) PDF Viewer on Windows.
Personally, I would prefer Mozilla to put the same effort in creating a cross-platform, open source PDF Viewer, which I could also use to view PDF file not downloaded via a browser.
the original iPhone 2G, which I have, is definitely not supported by iOS5, or even iOS4 for that matter. What are they smoking?
I can't help but think this is intentionally skewed for Apple...
Read the chart again : your iPhone is the first one listed, and the chart shows that it supported the most recent OS during its first three years of existence. iOS4 and iOS5 came after that.
The simple fact that you use today a phone which was released more than four years ago is a sign of its quality. I also has the same model, which my wife still uses every day.
Why is it that unlike desktops and laptops, mobiles are locked down so tight
Because the operator and the manufacturer both expect you to change your mobile each 2 years, getting a new OS at the same time.
160MB driver? No, the driver is only 40MB
Even that it way too much. My first HP DeskJet 20 years ago had a driver that fit on an 1.44 MB floppy disk. Explain me why a driver must be bigger than 10 MB...
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. If your wife DID have a serious lung disease, you WOULD have sued the hospital for not doing enough tests, and the hospital WOULD have been legally culpable. Freaking weaboos.
A typical American reaction : a medical problem turned into a legal one.
You wanna have a better health system ? Train more doctors and less lawyers.
You cannot quantify health. In fact you have a hard time even defining health
Then tell the World Health Organization to stop trying to do it
No you have the most expensive health care system on earth. Per capita, Cuba has the best health care system on earth.
Using this (strange) metrics, the best system on earth would be to spend zero on health care...
So what's the point of this?
Some treatments are simply more available in certain countries.
No, I'm not defending America's approach to healthcare, but I've seen the same bloody argument used from the other side for all the America-bound medical tourism from rich Canadians and Euros, and in the end it means absolutely nothing. Rich people travel a lot. Rich people min/max their medicine.
1) Please show us data regarding foreigners coming to the USA for health treatment....
2) Think one second about how a sick (and rich) person would feel at the time of immigration if he/she was refused entry to the USA because of illness
3) If you are really really really rich, you don't come to the USA to see the best doctor in the world, you pay him to come.
You have not proven at all that a 'system' is better then 'industry'
This was not my goal. Numerous sources have already shown that the US spend a bit more than Europe on healthcare (in % of GDP, see e.g. here), but have poorer results in life expectancy (see e.g.here). And don't tell me about correlation and causality...
North Korea also has a 'system' and I'm willing to be it does not produce results comparable to US 'industry'.
In the hierarchy of needs, food comes before healthcare...
Although European countries have very different systems, they rather each have a health system whereas the US have a health industry. It shouldn't be surprising that one has better medical results and the other one better financial results...
Maybe Americans should learn that there are two Koreas, and that they are very different countries in terms of human rights....
Tonight, I will want to watch a movie on netflix. So will my wife. So will my daughter. And they won't be the same movie.
If it really happens every night, I am sorry for your family.
It not, then you can download instead of stream, or you can rent a DVD or Blue-Ray, or you can watch live TV.
Hard figures: I'm reckoning on electricity prices of around 30 Cents/kWh in 5 years or so.
Which means that photovoltaic electricity will finally be cost-competitive. Great !
Maybe it's just me, but does it seem like a bug tracker shouldn't require a book to use?
To use it not, but to configure it certainly.
I offer you a challenge then: Force yourself to use the ribbon interface until you become comfortable with it, then try and go back. After doing this tell me whether you still think the ribbon is a bad idea.
At first I hated it. After two years of ribbon usage, I only dislike it very much.
Dagens Medicin, a news site for local and regional administrations, quotes Thomsen explaining that most of the hospital workers, doctors and nurses, will have little trouble using Libre Office. "Most of them do not need the advanced features of these suites."
More important than thatt, 20 years from now they'll be able to open the documents they create today.
And even more important : for users of Microsoft Office 2003, Libre Office's GUI is more familiar than Microsoft Office 2007/2010 and its infamous ribbon.
The whole concept of browser is wrong. Browsers are a good solution for serving static documents
A Slashdot page is not a static document (anymore), and a browser is a good tool to serve it.
There is a big tradeoff here, with downsides both ways.
No, you got it wrong : people hare are not arguing about the frequency of FireFox releases, just on their numbering.
For example, have they finally reverted "tabs on top"?
I hated it at first also. But give it a try. And watch the video here if you want to know why it is better.
There is no "clean" power
Thermal solar panels on your rooftop to pre-heat water. Please give me any downside...
I am stuck with Hughesnet, due to living in the boonies. They impose a 425 megabyte limit on my downloads even at the $100 a month plan. The only time it is unlimited is between 2am-7am, which I'm betting isn't enough time to grab an entire OSX distribution. Just getting XCode and the iOS SDK became a race against time once the file hit the 4gb range. I guess I can stay up until 2, then set an alarm for 7 to pause the Mac App Store download until 2 am the next morning. But still, I'd really like to just pay a few extra bucks and have them ship me a DVD. It doesn't even have to come in a fancy box.
Just wait mid-July, sure there will be a torrent somewhere that you can download during a few nights.
They have NOT gone the "digital distribution and locked down DRM and online activation" route.
Not YET ?
They will make a fortune selling power to all those countries "phasing out" nuclear power with no plan to replace it but the underpants gnomes.
In the meantime, Switzerland is also spending a billion to enhance hydroelectric dams (see here, only in French or German, sorry), so that we can buy their base electricity at a cheap price at night, and sell it a premium (up to 10 times) during peak hours.
Guess who will make a fortune ?
Guess who will look stupid in 20 years ?
"Confusing" language often means open to interpretation (ie, ambiguous).
If it is really ambigous, you might try to use this as a weapon.