China has stayed to itself for centuries, wasnt involved in any of the world wars, isnt out taking over the world, but China could do so if they wanted to.
Clearly you have no idea of Chinese history. First of all China was involved in the Korean war after their border was crossed. Necessarily this was the US's fault (more specifically it was MacArthur's fault). And you could argue that they were defending and keeping to themselves. China was also heavily involved in WWII seeing as the Japanese fucking invaded them and all that--or was Poland not involved too? Here is further evidence of both internal and external conflict involving China:
How about the war for control of the country between the Nationalists and the Socialists: http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/repu blican3.html# civilwar http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/republi can.html#n ationalism
Or how about the Republican revolution of 1911: http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/modern3.ht ml#repu blican
Or the Opium conflicts: http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/moder n.html#opium
Or how about defending themselves from a Japanese invasion (pre-world war 2): (sorry, no link handy)
China--if you had any perception of their history--is marked by more conflict than nearly any other nation. In fact--the timeline of China's histroy looks simply like this starting in about 1000 BCE:
If you want more information there's no end to the resources on the web or in print of China's history, and it's actually quite interesting (of course this is comming from an Asian Studies minor;-)).
I have the same exact experience. On linux it's much slower to respond. Windows is snappier than IE and only takes 1 or 2 secs longer (without the quick launch thing) to load.
LILO can do that too asshat. I'll send you my lilo.conf file for debian that does a 640x480 logo and nice colors and stuff if you don't believe me. STFU and stop spreading FUD.
That will make the mouse work. I had the same problem. No configuration is required. As far as network cards go; in the new install flavor of Debian (bf.2 or something like that) I didn't even have to install a module for mine, it just asked me to configure it when I needed to connect to the next and I did. In my experience (7 or 8 Debian installs of various kinds) as long as you know what hardware you have and you look up the info on the net first the install is a sinch.
Try 1000 years ago, when your civilization was destroying priceless works of Greek writing and literature so it could make more copies of one work. (The only reason why some of those works survived, was because the Arabs took care of them.) I have a work by Hite, Neumeier and Schiffer that claims that as late as 1400, China could have dominated Europe had they chosen to continue exploring outward.
Bullshit. During the period of 960 to around 1200 CE China was in the Song dynasty, where the country was effectively split into two parts (Northern Song and Southern Song, because of forced abandonment of the North by the centralized government). Historically China is marked by periods of anarchistic turmoil and decentralization followed by strict central government control. Because of the fact that Chinese dynasties rarely lasted more than 150 years or so theres no way that China EVER could have taken the west. In addition, you're effectively ignoring the reason that China didn't explore further to the west (you know--the big fucking mountains) which would have proven the biggest barrier to any sort of military confrontation possible.
You do realize that every alphabetic system in the world (with the exception of Hangul, depending on where you group it), is a derivative of Greek? So you would judge them for not being cultural descendents of Greece?
What are you talking about? What about Korean? Probably the most advanced written language ever. Or Japanese (hiragana, and katakana--not kanji)? There are more too, look it up (arabic?--not sure about this one).
Chinese ideograms are faster to read than English (for a native reader), are more compact than English, and even in UTF-8, which takes up 1.5 times as much space as EUC-CN for ideograms, it still takes fewer bytes for equivelent content then any other language (based off http://www.unicode.org/WhatIsUnicode.html pages). You have to carry around large tables for English hyphenation; you can break a line of Chinese anywhere. Don't worry about justification, as all characters are the same size. No kerning or no ligatures in Chinese, either. This is not to mention that fact that thousands of years of writing was in ideographs, and a change in the writing system is an extraordinarily hard change for any literate society - ask the Azerbijania whose official script is Latin, but can still only read thier language in Cryllic. There are significant advantages to ideographs, making a switch-over far from cut and dried.
You are oversimplifying the issue ad nauseum. I could make a language where one line represents an entire Shakespearian sonet, however, just because the bits required to display that, or the time required to read it, is shorter than a phonetic writting system doesn't make it more efficient. The effeciency of the learning of the language would be too steep to make it an effective form of communication. I agree with you that it would be impossible for the Chinese to change their written language. Not only would it be impossible, but it would break their whole language. Why? There are some 50 odd dialects of Chinese, all of which are mutually indescernable. HOWEVER, during one of the dynasties (can't remember which, it was a while ago though), the written language was unified in such a way that, although two speakers of different dialects my not understand each-other's spoken word, they could understand the written word. Introducing a phonetic writting system would effectively segregate a large portion of the society from the standard.
I disagree. Debian was also my second dist (comming from Redhat), and if it hadn't been for a friend of mine I never would have gotten it installed. Who would have know that my Linksys Ethernet adapter module would be called ne2k? Not a newbie. Not that I have a bit more knowledge, I'm able to install it much more easily (and recently was suprised at how much better the Debian 3.0 install was than all the 2.4 series).
The point is; the install manual doesn't help that much (especially when you don't have a connection to the net as was my case) for most new users (this is the case with most Linux documentation IMO).
This is total bull. Why do you think that we haven't moved from keyboards that are designed so that they limit your typing speed? I'll tell you, it's for the same reason that "usability" encompases what the user expects the see/happen/do/whatever. When you move the menus to the left, or change the taskbar paradigm you alienate new users who do not necessarily want to have to learn a totally new system. The time that they spend trying to figure out how to open a new document could have been better spent writing that new document.
To me, this looks more like a console replacement than a windows manager. All this tty Ctrl-Alt-F button stuff could be sped up by using this, plus still maintain the power and speed that a command line is known for. Besides, I haven't had cluttered windows since the advent of multiple desktops (the best invention on the Linux Desktop ever).
Bah, screw that, I'll just optical out anything into my Soundblaster Live and then convert it to MP3. I'd like to see them stop that!
OR, even better, everyone should get MD players, that way all you need is a small audiojack (or aforementioned optical out) and you've got a neato little copy that you can put in your pocket.
For the average user though, that doesn't always work. Ever tryed installing something with dependancies? What linux programmers need to do IMO is start packing a full version of the package IE: with the dependancies and everything so that it WILL install on you system AND a lite version, which is basically what they're packing right now.
I would like to see a nice GUI install program on a lot of apps too, especially ones like KOffice, becuase no one should be running that from the command line anyway.
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A search warrant based on what evidence? Judges don't just grant warrants willy-nilly to civil cases.
Real men use bourne, not bash you fucking youngun.
Except NOT. There are only about two stages where there's "middle east: olive skinned" bad guys. Most of them look paramilitary or something.
"Bullshit-Dirty Operating System"? Doesn't that seem a bit redundant?
Don't feel bad for the guy--feel bad for the woman who has to hold 40 kids at once!
China has stayed to itself for centuries, wasnt involved in any of the world wars, isnt out taking over the world, but China could do so if they wanted to.
u blican3.html# civilwari can.html#n ationalism
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;-)).
Clearly you have no idea of Chinese history. First of all China was involved in the Korean war after their border was crossed. Necessarily this was the US's fault (more specifically it was MacArthur's fault). And you could argue that they were defending and keeping to themselves. China was also heavily involved in WWII seeing as the Japanese fucking invaded them and all that--or was Poland not involved too? Here is further evidence of both internal and external conflict involving China:
How about the war for control of the country between the Nationalists and the Socialists:
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/rep
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/republ
Or how about the Republican revolution of 1911:
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/modern3.h
Or the Opium conflicts:
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/mode
Or how about defending themselves from a Japanese invasion (pre-world war 2): (sorry, no link handy)
China--if you had any perception of their history--is marked by more conflict than nearly any other nation. In fact--the timeline of China's histroy looks simply like this starting in about 1000 BCE:
Centralization...
Conflict...
Fracturization.
Repeat...
If you want more information there's no end to the resources on the web or in print of China's history, and it's actually quite interesting (of course this is comming from an Asian Studies minor
Maybe it's so when you see a BSOD it's not such a suprise?
I have the same exact experience. On linux it's much slower to respond. Windows is snappier than IE and only takes 1 or 2 secs longer (without the quick launch thing) to load.
LILO can do that too asshat. I'll send you my lilo.conf file for debian that does a 640x480 logo and nice colors and stuff if you don't believe me. STFU and stop spreading FUD.
apt-get install usbmgr
That will make the mouse work. I had the same problem. No configuration is required. As far as network cards go; in the new install flavor of Debian (bf.2 or something like that) I didn't even have to install a module for mine, it just asked me to configure it when I needed to connect to the next and I did. In my experience (7 or 8 Debian installs of various kinds) as long as you know what hardware you have and you look up the info on the net first the install is a sinch.
That is the ugliest web-design I've ever seen from MS.
He's also suing the Better Business Bureau because they gave him an unsatisfactory rating. I hope Google tears this piece of shit slime a new one.
Try 1000 years ago, when your civilization was destroying priceless works of Greek writing and literature so it could make more copies of one work. (The only reason why some of those works survived, was because the Arabs took care of them.) I have a work by Hite, Neumeier and Schiffer that claims that as late as 1400, China could have dominated Europe had they chosen to continue exploring outward.
Bullshit. During the period of 960 to around 1200 CE China was in the Song dynasty, where the country was effectively split into two parts (Northern Song and Southern Song, because of forced abandonment of the North by the centralized government). Historically China is marked by periods of anarchistic turmoil and decentralization followed by strict central government control. Because of the fact that Chinese dynasties rarely lasted more than 150 years or so theres no way that China EVER could have taken the west. In addition, you're effectively ignoring the reason that China didn't explore further to the west (you know--the big fucking mountains) which would have proven the biggest barrier to any sort of military confrontation possible.
You do realize that every alphabetic system in the world (with the exception of Hangul, depending on where you group it), is a derivative of Greek? So you would judge them for not being cultural descendents of Greece?
What are you talking about? What about Korean? Probably the most advanced written language ever. Or Japanese (hiragana, and katakana--not kanji)? There are more too, look it up (arabic?--not sure about this one).
Chinese ideograms are faster to read than English (for a native reader), are more compact than English, and even in UTF-8, which takes up 1.5 times as much space as EUC-CN for ideograms, it still takes fewer bytes for equivelent content then any other language (based off http://www.unicode.org/WhatIsUnicode.html pages). You have to carry around large tables for English hyphenation; you can break a line of Chinese anywhere. Don't worry about justification, as all characters are the same size. No kerning or no ligatures in Chinese, either. This is not to mention that fact that thousands of years of writing was in ideographs, and a change in the writing system is an extraordinarily hard change for any literate society - ask the Azerbijania whose official script is Latin, but can still only read thier language in Cryllic. There are significant advantages to ideographs, making a switch-over far from cut and dried.
You are oversimplifying the issue ad nauseum. I could make a language where one line represents an entire Shakespearian sonet, however, just because the bits required to display that, or the time required to read it, is shorter than a phonetic writting system doesn't make it more efficient. The effeciency of the learning of the language would be too steep to make it an effective form of communication. I agree with you that it would be impossible for the Chinese to change their written language. Not only would it be impossible, but it would break their whole language. Why? There are some 50 odd dialects of Chinese, all of which are mutually indescernable. HOWEVER, during one of the dynasties (can't remember which, it was a while ago though), the written language was unified in such a way that, although two speakers of different dialects my not understand each-other's spoken word, they could understand the written word. Introducing a phonetic writting system would effectively segregate a large portion of the society from the standard.
Until WW2 that is.
No, Japan got it's Samurai's asses kicked by korea and as such stopped fucking with them.
I disagree. Debian was also my second dist (comming from Redhat), and if it hadn't been for a friend of mine I never would have gotten it installed. Who would have know that my Linksys Ethernet adapter module would be called ne2k? Not a newbie. Not that I have a bit more knowledge, I'm able to install it much more easily (and recently was suprised at how much better the Debian 3.0 install was than all the 2.4 series).
The point is; the install manual doesn't help that much (especially when you don't have a connection to the net as was my case) for most new users (this is the case with most Linux documentation IMO).
Or for that matter: why didn't he ram it into Dooku's ship once he had it suspended. I know that's what I -thought- I saw comming.
This is total bull. Why do you think that we haven't moved from keyboards that are designed so that they limit your typing speed? I'll tell you, it's for the same reason that "usability" encompases what the user expects the see/happen/do/whatever. When you move the menus to the left, or change the taskbar paradigm you alienate new users who do not necessarily want to have to learn a totally new system. The time that they spend trying to figure out how to open a new document could have been better spent writing that new document.
-Sam
This case shouldn't be about what MS will accept. This is a legal procedure; you don't ask a guilty defendant what sentance they think is fair.
-Sam
To me, this looks more like a console replacement than a windows manager. All this tty Ctrl-Alt-F button stuff could be sped up by using this, plus still maintain the power and speed that a command line is known for. Besides, I haven't had cluttered windows since the advent of multiple desktops (the best invention on the Linux Desktop ever).
-Sam
Bah, screw that, I'll just optical out anything into my Soundblaster Live and then convert it to MP3. I'd like to see them stop that!
OR, even better, everyone should get MD players, that way all you need is a small audiojack (or aforementioned optical out) and you've got a neato little copy that you can put in your pocket.
For the average user though, that doesn't always work. Ever tryed installing something with dependancies? What linux programmers need to do IMO is start packing a full version of the package IE: with the dependancies and everything so that it WILL install on you system AND a lite version, which is basically what they're packing right now.
I would like to see a nice GUI install program on a lot of apps too, especially ones like KOffice, becuase no one should be running that from the command line anyway.