To form a government a party usually needs the majority in parliament and it gets that from a majority in an election. Since 26% is not a majority I guess you mean that percentage in relation to the number of people who have voting rights rather than to the number of people who actually bothered to vote. What does that say about how serious people in the UK take their rights? Why do you consider those 74% who didn't vote for Labour to be against them? If they were, why didn't they actually vote against them? AFAIR there are more than two parties in the UK so even if you don't like the Tories (sp?) you can still vote for somebody else.
The Linux crowd has a natural dislike for products that don't work well and cost money. We've little issues with paying money for things that work right.
Ok, so how many commercial Linux applications do you own?
Do you use VMware? Have you bought it? Or are you only using the free player or server versions like most Linux-Users do?
Kylix was a feeble attempt on Borland's part, done far, far too late to make any difference in things.
While I cannot comment on Kylix 1 and 2 - I haven't seen them - I would call Kylix 3 a stable and very useful development environment. If Borland hadn't stopped supporting it I would probably still use it or upgraded to the latest version.
Kylix is (was) Delphi and C++ Builder for Linux/i386. There were three versions and I only ever used Kylix 3 with the Delphi personality. That one was fine. Stable, useful, and the price also was right: It only cost me 19 Euros. I can't comment on the C++ personality or Kylix 1 and 2. I guess they must have been pretty awful for Kylix getting such a bad reputation.
1. The fee is for having a device the could receive radio or TV. It doesn't matter whether you actually use it for that. A few exceptions apply, e.g. for shops selling TVs. But not for e.g. universities using a TV set for playing tutorial films, they have to physically rip out the reception units to avoid the fee.
2. If you already pay for radio or TV, you don't pay for your computer
3. The fee is the same as for radio, it was reduced from the much higher one for TV because there were a lot of protests and because they finally had to admit that currently only radio can really be received via the internet
4. A company only pays for one computer (if they don't already pay for TV or radio) per site
5. If you already pay for TV or radio but you use your computer for business, you have to pay for it.
In particular point 5 is a big problem: Small shops and people running a business from home will have to pay an additional fee even though they usually don't use the computer for receiving radio or TV. This is particularly stupid because the state requires businesses to deliver their tax forms electronically, basically forcing them to have an internet connected computer for which they then collect a fee.
(OK, it's not the inland revenue who collects the fee but a separate entity called GEZ, but it's the government that passes these stupid laws.)
OK, true and in fact at some points in history, tapeworm eggs were used as a means to "diet", although I don't know anyone who would really want to be doing that as the negative health effects are significant. They don't call it parasitism for nothing.:-)
I seem to remember reading somewhere that tapeworms also had a positive effect. I think it was by stimulating the immune system so other diseases were defeated. Since nobody has these parasites nowadays, these diseases are now more common.
Of course, since I cannot remember the source, this is mere hearsay....
I don't think downloading all that stuff over the network is a good idea. What happens if the image changes? Do you want to upload it afterwards too?
Have you looked into using VMware Server? It gives you a central place to store and run your VMs and a thin client to connect to them. Your client machines don't need much in terms of cpu power since they only do the input/output.
But even with VMware Server I doubt that this is a good idea at all.
There needs to be a distinction between publicly anonymous and being anonymous to law enforcement.
If there is a way to get at the data, there will be abuse.
Maybe you currently feel safe, because you trust in Democracy and your legal system. But are you sure that this won't change in the future? Nobody would have imagined something like the department of homeland security in the US 6 years ago. Nobody would have thought it possible that so many laws were passed restricting people's rights and freedom in the so called free world until "recently".
So, say in 1999 you wrote something on the internet about islamic freedom fighters' right to defend their religion's values against whoever threatens them and with whatever means necessary. It was meant as a purely theoretical and philosophical article. You posted it using your first definition of anonymity. Of course law enforcement could look behind that anonymity, but that's no problem, because this was nothing illegal. Fast forward to today. Would you still trust law enforcement regarding this post?
Linux doesn't just need to be better than Vista - it needs to be MUCH better to get an average user to switch.
Not even that will get the average user to switch. Linux must offer something to him personally that he wants and doesn't get from Windows. Otherwise, he just doesn't care.
You have INSTANT PORTING (& the fastest language short of straight C or ASM) to Linux via Kylix (Delphi for Linux)...
I wish that were true, but if the porting aspect wasn't considered while writing the Win32 version of the program, porting to Kylix is far from instant. But it is very easy to actually write portable code using Delphi / Kylix if you know what to avoid (ActiveX, hard coded drive names and backslashes, 3rd party components (at least if you don't want to port them to Kylix yourself because there aren't many where a Kylix version is available (shameless plug: dzchart is one of those))
And also Kylix seems to be an abandoned product. Borland apparently wants to include it as an additional compile target in one of the future Delphi versions, but that's about all there is known about future Kylix plans.
I know this was meant to be funny, but actually, I would like to have a computer that I could power by pedalling. Not only would that make me totally independant of power sources but also it would give me some needed exercise. (Of course that means that pedalling while using it must be possible.)
this new (or rather expansion of an existing) law is no problem for most home computer users since they usually already pay TV licence fees and that covers their computer as well.
But from 2007 on this fee will also apply to office computers with internet access, so basically every modern office computer. This is very annoying since to my knowledge rareley anybody uses their computer to connect to the services in question at home, and even less people do it at work.
This "Computer Tax" has been discussed for years and unfortunately the best argument against it - "just don't put any services online, that's not your bloody job, you are responsible for radio and televsion only" - never really caught on.:-(
Seems to me that every piece of modern technology we have was at one point considered scientific fantasy with countless people declaring that it would never work. [...] computers [...]
And they were right, computers never worked and even worse, since they get used in phones and other stuff, even that now doesn't work anymore...
In April the German c't magazine claimed that all recent TUeV stickers on German car number plates contained RFID tags. This fortunately turned out to be the April fool's joke but only a few months later it threatens to become reality.
So: Never joke about things like this, somebody may think it's a good idea....
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To form a government a party usually needs the majority in parliament and it gets that from a majority in an election. Since 26% is not a majority I guess you mean that percentage in relation to the number of people who have voting rights rather than to the number of people who actually bothered to vote. What does that say about how serious people in the UK take their rights? Why do you consider those 74% who didn't vote for Labour to be against them? If they were, why didn't they actually vote against them? AFAIR there are more than two parties in the UK so even if you don't like the Tories (sp?) you can still vote for somebody else.
Kylix is (was) Delphi and C++ Builder for Linux/i386. There were three versions and I only ever used Kylix 3 with the Delphi personality. That one was fine. Stable, useful, and the price also was right: It only cost me 19 Euros. I can't comment on the C++ personality or Kylix 1 and 2. I guess they must have been pretty awful for Kylix getting such a bad reputation.
Please do not insult the Neandertals by comparing them with the Bush administration!
2. If you already pay for radio or TV, you don't pay for your computer
3. The fee is the same as for radio, it was reduced from the much higher one for TV because there were a lot of protests and because they finally had to admit that currently only radio can really be received via the internet
4. A company only pays for one computer (if they don't already pay for TV or radio) per site
5. If you already pay for TV or radio but you use your computer for business, you have to pay for it.
In particular point 5 is a big problem: Small shops and people running a business from home will have to pay an additional fee even though they usually don't use the computer for receiving radio or TV. This is particularly stupid because the state requires businesses to deliver their tax forms electronically, basically forcing them to have an internet connected computer for which they then collect a fee.
(OK, it's not the inland revenue who collects the fee but a separate entity called GEZ, but it's the government that passes these stupid laws.)
Of course, since I cannot remember the source, this is mere hearsay....
twm
I just have to be the smart ass here: The Commodore 64 had a 6510 processor.
Hi,
I don't think downloading all that stuff over the network is a good idea. What happens if the image changes? Do you want to upload it afterwards too?
Have you looked into using VMware Server? It gives you a central place to store and run your VMs and a thin client to connect to them. Your client machines don't need much in terms of cpu power since they only do the input/output.
But even with VMware Server I doubt that this is a good idea at all.
twm
Maybe you currently feel safe, because you trust in Democracy and your legal system. But are you sure that this won't change in the future? Nobody would have imagined something like the department of homeland security in the US 6 years ago. Nobody would have thought it possible that so many laws were passed restricting people's rights and freedom in the so called free world until "recently".
So, say in 1999 you wrote something on the internet about islamic freedom fighters' right to defend their religion's values against whoever threatens them and with whatever means necessary. It was meant as a purely theoretical and philosophical article. You posted it using your first definition of anonymity. Of course law enforcement could look behind that anonymity, but that's no problem, because this was nothing illegal. Fast forward to today. Would you still trust law enforcement regarding this post?
twm
where are my mod points when I need them? ...
Where are my mod points when I need them?
And also Kylix seems to be an abandoned product. Borland apparently wants to include it as an additional compile target in one of the future Delphi versions, but that's about all there is known about future Kylix plans.
I know this was meant to be funny, but actually, I would like to have a computer that I could power by pedalling. Not only would that make me totally independant of power sources but also it would give me some needed exercise. (Of course that means that pedalling while using it must be possible.)
Hi,
there is some sense to that: Cheaper computers mean, that
1. more people can afford to buy computers
2. some percentage of these people will not pirate but actually buy the software
So the net effect is they sell more software.
twm
Hi,
:-(
this new (or rather expansion of an existing) law is no problem for most home computer users since they usually already pay TV licence fees and that covers their computer as well.
But from 2007 on this fee will also apply to office computers with internet access, so basically every modern office computer. This is very annoying since to my knowledge rareley anybody uses their computer to connect to the services in question at home, and even less people do it at work.
This "Computer Tax" has been discussed for years and unfortunately the best argument against it - "just don't put any services online, that's not your bloody job, you are responsible for radio and televsion only" - never really caught on.
twm
In April the German c't magazine claimed that all recent TUeV stickers on German car number plates contained RFID tags. This fortunately turned out to be the April fool's joke but only a few months later it threatens to become reality.
So: Never joke about things like this, somebody may think it's a good idea....