Years ago, when I was a Hippy(TM), we did a survey: We asked a load of drivers "would you pay 50p to get rid of the car in front of you?". over 90% said "Yes".
This is the problem - Everyone will pay the road usage charge, because they have no choice.
It won't reduce the traffic one Iota - it will ruin the economy, which will eventually reduce the traffic a bit.
The only cure for London traffic is to make operating one-man busses a crime against humanity, punishable by 50 years hard labour.And even that would only have a minor effect.
if you really don't like the whole GNU/Linux thing, then use just linux and forget about the whole argument. See how far you can get.
Try using BSD without GNU for that matter.
Thats not the whole story though. There are zillions of versions of tar/grep/*sh/etc around. I have written quite a few myself in the past. We are all happier using the gnu ones, not cos their better but because standards are a good thing, and Gnu stuff is already ported.
Gnu HAS made a major contribution to computing, but the reality is that the only important Gnu contribution is gcc, and gcc is infested with RMS rants. Sure there are zillions of other Unix utilities, but there is no real NEED for most of them, as there are plenty of public domain alternatives. This cannot be said for gcc.
RMS/GNU have made a contribution, and are entitiled to credit, but RMS is over stating his case, and alienating the people that matter.
For that money, you could easily hire the country's top 1,000 IT consultants for 3 years to develop a UKBSD, with all the apps the govt would ever need.
Currently, 333 of those IT professionals are probably unemployed anyway, so you would be saving their dole money.
And thats from the SAVINGS, after 3 years, you'd never pay B Gates another dime.
Clearly its FAR TOO MUCH.In fact, there is NO QUESTION AT ALL, that the government are guilty of gross neglect of duty paying MS for its appalling crap when we could have British Appalling Crap (TM).
They aren't. Apart from anything else, they dont meet the requirements to be patentable outside the USA You may want to consider moving to a more civilised country with greater freedom eg practically anywhere
In Europe, contractual clauses that are immoral are also illegal. This should include clauses prohibiting reverse engineering.
Most engineers and programmers learned their trade by reverse engineering. Thus preventing reverse engineering is preventing learning. The (European) treaty of human rights gives everyone the right to learn - and hence to reverse engineer file formats (IANAL - but the computer I am using belongs to a lawyer;-).
America is the problem here - especially for Americans.
Advanced? Only retards would accept the price terms.
We have it here in the UK. At 10p per message, (ie per turn) its cheaper to buy a dedicated games machine than play a single game. Unless you are paying your phone bills with stolen credit cards, it makes no sense at all.
Its that way because BSD was there more than 10 years before DOS could boot, and decided being compatible with itself was more important than tracking Windows whimsey.
There is also the need to operate on hardware that can't run Windows, and does not support DOS partitioning.
Don't know about FireWire, but I'd be surprised if its not there on the OS that is the basis of MacOS X. OTOH, I have no FireWire kit, and don't see any reason why I should in the forseable future.
If I wanted OpenBSD, I would install OpenBSD. I Don't, I want FreeBSD. I want it NOW - so I have installed 4.5. I still runs fine. No problems there. Maybe, if I get round to it, I'll install 5.6 another day. What's the problem.
Then again, Windows 95 still runs as good as it ever did (I take that back - windows95 DOES NOT run as well as it used to, it crashes even more often than it used to on my dual boot machine that runs FreeBSD without crashing at all). And Upgrading Win95 requires spending money. With FreeBSD, you get to upgrade for nothing.
The Nigerian ISPs are fighting this most effectively by offering maximum download speeds of 55 baud, and contention ratios of 9000:1 for modems.
Nitel (The national Telco) is assisting by ensuring that only one call in 10 connects to anything at all, and its normally the wrong number.This probably explains why most of these scams no longer originate from Nigeria.
Perhaps if ISPs and Telcos in other countries followed their example, there would be a massive decrease in spam.
Yeah, well imagine a beowulf cluster of hackers "improving" it for you!
or even the local main dealers. Most of them seem have problems changing a bulb, and charge an arm and a leg for it. My neighbor was charged $60 to change the WATER in his BMW! Imagine the charge to change an RJ45 connector because dirt got in!
Its this senario that leeds me to drive an old diesel of the kind that does not need electricity to run, let alone computing.
Usually the postal worker has to spend some few hours before the drive to sort the mail of the route and usually another half hour later in the day to sort the mail on route. Three hours to presort mail is an impasse.
What kind of third world country do you live in?
Here in Europe, the mail is sorted by machine before being packed for the postman to deliver in the order he walks the route. That is why we have postcodes (Like zip codes, but with letters in, and in geographic order).
Since the licence fee is compulsory for anyone who owns a tuner capable of accessing bands 1, 3, 4 or 5, over 90% of the population (and a lot more than pay income tax) the choice not to pay is pretty limited. Its just another carefully worded extortion racket.
As for the BBC is non-commercial the how come it spends so much time promoting its own products and services? Non commercial in the same sense as non-honest.
Thats not the point - the BBC is a PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTER - this scam was paid for out of MY LICENCE FEE Someone here has to go to the slammer for a long time for bribery and corruption.
Because if the company is not sinking like a lead brick, it is expanding, and its very hard to get new licences for Win95 and Office97. Even if you do, your new computers and peripherals will not be supported.
No need for anything so high tech - try a crossbow or 0.22 air rifle. Easier to hide, cheaper to buy, and less of a give-away of cought. (Oh I forgot, its the USA, where people have ack-ack guns in their gardens!)
In case you havn't noticed, the Internet causes brain damage, leading people to believe that the way to customer loyalty is by slapping your customers round the face with a wet fish.
Why doesn't George WWW send a cruise misslie round to visit some of these people? It would really help America's image.
I will pay them $20, or even $30, but NOT UNTIL THERE'S A NATIVE FreeBSD version, and it renders the web sites properly. I have to keep using Konq because Opera cant handle loads of sites.
Try Silicon.com if you want an example that fails. And yes, I HAVE told them.
I own seven computers, none of which has a sound card.
However, my son has a laptop on my network, and probably spends most of his waking life downloading MP3s from bands who would never get a recording contract, at least not in the USA.
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This is the problem - Everyone will pay the road usage charge, because they have no choice.
It won't reduce the traffic one Iota - it will ruin the economy, which will eventually reduce the traffic a bit.
The only cure for London traffic is to make operating one-man busses a crime against humanity, punishable by 50 years hard labour.And even that would only have a minor effect.
Try using BSD without GNU for that matter.
Thats not the whole story though. There are zillions of versions of tar/grep/*sh/etc around. I have written quite a few myself in the past. We are all happier using the gnu ones, not cos their better but because standards are a good thing, and Gnu stuff is already ported.
Gnu HAS made a major contribution to computing, but the reality is that the only important Gnu contribution is gcc, and gcc is infested with RMS rants. Sure there are zillions of other Unix utilities, but there is no real NEED for most of them, as there are plenty of public domain alternatives. This cannot be said for gcc. RMS/GNU have made a contribution, and are entitiled to credit, but RMS is over stating his case, and alienating the people that matter.
Currently, 333 of those IT professionals are probably unemployed anyway, so you would be saving their dole money.
And thats from the SAVINGS, after 3 years, you'd never pay B Gates another dime.
Clearly its FAR TOO MUCH.In fact, there is NO QUESTION AT ALL, that the government are guilty of gross neglect of duty paying MS for its appalling crap when we could have British Appalling Crap (TM).
Why waste money on an inferior product? Why lose money because of that investmenet? YOu might want to look up "payola" in your dictionary.
They aren't. Apart from anything else, they dont meet the requirements to be patentable outside the USA You may want to consider moving to a more civilised country with greater freedom eg practically anywhere
In Europe, contractual clauses that are immoral are also illegal. This should include clauses prohibiting reverse engineering.
Most engineers and programmers learned their trade by reverse engineering. Thus preventing reverse engineering is preventing learning. The (European) treaty of human rights gives everyone the right to learn - and hence to reverse engineer file formats (IANAL - but the computer I am using belongs to a lawyer ;-).
America is the problem here - especially for Americans.
We have it here in the UK. At 10p per message, (ie per turn) its cheaper to buy a dedicated games machine than play a single game. Unless you are paying your phone bills with stolen credit cards, it makes no sense at all.
There is also the need to operate on hardware that can't run Windows, and does not support DOS partitioning.
Don't know about FireWire, but I'd be surprised if its not there on the OS that is the basis of MacOS X. OTOH, I have no FireWire kit, and don't see any reason why I should in the forseable future.
Then again, Windows 95 still runs as good as it ever did (I take that back - windows95 DOES NOT run as well as it used to, it crashes even more often than it used to on my dual boot machine that runs FreeBSD without crashing at all). And Upgrading Win95 requires spending money. With FreeBSD, you get to upgrade for nothing.
Nitel (The national Telco) is assisting by ensuring that only one call in 10 connects to anything at all, and its normally the wrong number.This probably explains why most of these scams no longer originate from Nigeria.
Perhaps if ISPs and Telcos in other countries followed their example, there would be a massive decrease in spam.
I tried it, and after a couple of weeks, I went to NetBSD. Much better in every way.Except for SMP.
Penguins want to be free
or even the local main dealers. Most of them seem have problems changing a bulb, and charge an arm and a leg for it. My neighbor was charged $60 to change the WATER in his BMW! Imagine the charge to change an RJ45 connector because dirt got in! Its this senario that leeds me to drive an old diesel of the kind that does not need electricity to run, let alone computing.
What kind of third world country do you live in?
Here in Europe, the mail is sorted by machine before being packed for the postman to deliver in the order he walks the route. That is why we have postcodes (Like zip codes, but with letters in, and in geographic order).
Since the licence fee is compulsory for anyone who owns a tuner capable of accessing bands 1, 3, 4 or 5, over 90% of the population (and a lot more than pay income tax) the choice not to pay is pretty limited. Its just another carefully worded extortion racket.
As for the BBC is non-commercial the how come it spends so much time promoting its own products and services? Non commercial in the same sense as non-honest.
Thats not the point - the BBC is a PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTER - this scam was paid for out of MY LICENCE FEE Someone here has to go to the slammer for a long time for bribery and corruption.
The only people who live lavish lifestyles are gangsta rap artists, dope dealers and armed robbers.
Cool ... the dope dealers want to go out into space ... perhaps we can sell them one-way tickets?
Maybe they figured most users would not be selling their souls for an OS?
Because if the company is not sinking like a lead brick, it is expanding, and its very hard to get new licences for Win95 and Office97. Even if you do, your new computers and peripherals will not be supported.
May not stop anybody fighting, but it sure fills pockets with big bucks.
No need for anything so high tech - try a crossbow or 0.22 air rifle. Easier to hide, cheaper to buy, and less of a give-away of cought. (Oh I forgot, its the USA, where people have ack-ack guns in their gardens!)
Why doesn't George WWW send a cruise misslie round to visit some of these people? It would really help America's image.
Try Silicon.com if you want an example that fails. And yes, I HAVE told them.
However, my son has a laptop on my network, and probably spends most of his waking life downloading MP3s from bands who would never get a recording contract, at least not in the USA.
Do I get to pay?