You missed the fact that by considering the site offensive to them, Preda have demonstrated that they believe themselves to be trolls. While I presume the US legal system does not actually include being a troll" as a crime, I would expect a jury to consider it to be incitement.
Please can we get Shuttleworth fined several billion Euros for not allowing us to choose our UI when we install?
I have just had someone bring his netbook to me because he was using gnome-shell, and he (or his kids or cat) had accidentally clicked the button that changes the UI back to Unity, and was unable to use the machine.
The administrator needs to be able to totally de-install Unity Kde and Xfce can sit there, and if accidentally started, do no harm. Unity renders the machine unusable by the unsuspecting.
I just had three weeks of British Telecom's "If your broadband isn't working, visit our website"!
I did explain to staff at various levels that
a) this was rubbing salt in the wound, and
b) it showed a complete failure to understand what bradband is
Ultimately one of their staff explained that if the problem with my broadband was technical, they could fix it in 24 hours, but since the problem was actually due to their (mis) management, there was no way to give an estimated time to fix!
When I was a kid they had some RFID commercials that suggested at one point you would be able to just walk out with groceries and have you CC billed, where is that?
A lot of us resented being double and triple billed.
I speak RP English, and they appear to recognise my "yes" and "no" with about 50% success rate, and, AFAICR, I have never ever had any other word recognised. I guess IVR systems require you to have an American accent. I can't imagine the 50% of Londoners for whom Engiish is a second language fare very well!
I have no idea what the CEO is like, but from the first time I saw one of their promotions, I thought this is a really bad concept, and I would not invest a bean in it.
Loser Pays applies to virtually the entire rest of the galaxy, and, while not perfect, it is way better than the Loonie Tunes US approach. Here in the UK, it applies to both criminal and civil law in 100% of cases, unless the judge decides the loser was partly to blame - eg deliberately made himself look guilty to attract a law suit.
or you install Cyanogenmod. You do realise it is unlocking tat is illegal, not jail-breaking!
Cyanogenmod IS Android. Crapware IS the carrier's doing.
You could of course, do a fresh install of Windows over the one that came with the kit - however, on most hardware, you can install something else than Windows. Apparently LG have noticed, as well as some users.
We have been trying to educate "everyone" since the second world war (ie about 1945). For a very limited value of "we".
the old style of teaching derives from Victorian England's need for bureaucrats
No.. British education was originally designed (by ancient Greeks) to create politicians. This was copied by people wanting to teach people who wanted to know stuff (preferably what the Bible says), or possibly wanting have a life style more like the politicians. It is only in the last 10 years that teaching in Britain has even pretended it has anything to do with employment, and it has never even been slightly good at that.
How old is that? Games consoles were around in the 1970's - that is 40 years ago!
The issue here is "Jaded oldies who find the average game no more exciting than writing PHP" (which is just like the BASIC they grew up with, apart from the client-server concept and the internet). They dont think today's console games are a heap better than Leisure Suit Larry, but find playing "Tiger Woods Golf 2009" to unlock the secret girlfriends is good exercise compared to writing PHP.
How many times do I have to tell you lot: the world is truely craving for a game in which you write PHP by throwning cow-pats at the screen with the Wiimote - lets face it, given the quality of most PHP code, it looks like it was done that way already!
From the perspective of anyone outside the US, Bitcoin is a safer bet than the USD, although the risk is of a somewhat different nature: Bitcoins can go up or down. The USD only goes down, and there is no obvious reason why the rate of decline should not accelerate rapidly. (Ask around in a few African countries if military threats can prevent currency decline - many have tried the tactic, and none have seen it work!)
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You missed the fact that by considering the site offensive to them, Preda have demonstrated that they believe themselves to be trolls. While I presume the US legal system does not actually include being a troll" as a crime, I would expect a jury to consider it to be incitement.
Are you sugggesting the infringing adrress is 0.0.0.0/32 ?
I have just had someone bring his netbook to me because he was using gnome-shell, and he (or his kids or cat) had accidentally clicked the button that changes the UI back to Unity, and was unable to use the machine.
The administrator needs to be able to totally de-install Unity Kde and Xfce can sit there, and if accidentally started, do no harm. Unity renders the machine unusable by the unsuspecting.
The dead ones are less argumentative!
I did explain to staff at various levels that
a) this was rubbing salt in the wound, and
b) it showed a complete failure to understand what bradband is
Ultimately one of their staff explained that if the problem with my broadband was technical, they could fix it in 24 hours, but since the problem was actually due to their (mis) management, there was no way to give an estimated time to fix!
A lot of us resented being double and triple billed.
I speak RP English, and they appear to recognise my "yes" and "no" with about 50% success rate, and, AFAICR, I have never ever had any other word recognised. I guess IVR systems require you to have an American accent. I can't imagine the 50% of Londoners for whom Engiish is a second language fare very well!
What do you think happened at area 51?
I have no idea what the CEO is like, but from the first time I saw one of their promotions, I thought this is a really bad concept, and I would not invest a bean in it.
Loser Pays applies to virtually the entire rest of the galaxy, and, while not perfect, it is way better than the Loonie Tunes US approach. Here in the UK, it applies to both criminal and civil law in 100% of cases, unless the judge decides the loser was partly to blame - eg deliberately made himself look guilty to attract a law suit.
Cyanogenmod IS Android. Crapware IS the carrier's doing.
You could of course, do a fresh install of Windows over the one that came with the kit - however, on most hardware, you can install something else than Windows. Apparently LG have noticed, as well as some users.
the old style of teaching derives from Victorian England's need for bureaucrats No .. British education was originally designed (by ancient Greeks) to create politicians. This was copied by people wanting to teach people who wanted to know stuff (preferably what the Bible says), or possibly wanting have a life style more like the politicians. It is only in the last 10 years that teaching in Britain has even pretended it has anything to do with employment, and it has never even been slightly good at that.
How do you write "My Hovercraft is full of eels" in DNA? and can you compile it from C++?
I am actively working on a system that will harness misplaced apostophies to mine Bitcoin! You might want to visit my kickstarter page
Damn, I need more coffee!
Nintendo has done some marketing? Pictures or it didn't happen!
How old is that? Games consoles were around in the 1970's - that is 40 years ago!
The issue here is "Jaded oldies who find the average game no more exciting than writing PHP" (which is just like the BASIC they grew up with, apart from the client-server concept and the internet). They dont think today's console games are a heap better than Leisure Suit Larry, but find playing "Tiger Woods Golf 2009" to unlock the secret girlfriends is good exercise compared to writing PHP.
How many times do I have to tell you lot: the world is truely craving for a game in which you write PHP by throwning cow-pats at the screen with the Wiimote - lets face it, given the quality of most PHP code, it looks like it was done that way already!
AHA - now you understand how most of the world feels about USD, and why they would prefer to use BTC.
AFAICT Bitcoin IS legal tender in France. Most of us don't live in the USA.
From the perspective of anyone outside the US, Bitcoin is a safer bet than the USD, although the risk is of a somewhat different nature: Bitcoins can go up or down. The USD only goes down, and there is no obvious reason why the rate of decline should not accelerate rapidly. (Ask around in a few African countries if military threats can prevent currency decline - many have tried the tactic, and none have seen it work!)
So all is revealed: renewing the certificates was your job!
And they still nearly went bust.
When the entire IT department is incapacitated by incoming chair damage, it might not help. Every janitor is the required email target.
Where is your planet? and how can I visit it?
Ghost Busters!