Wiki this, Wiki that, I still believe that Everything2 is the better concept, more fun and is suffering from less editorial wrangling. It's also a much more fun place to hang out, has more off beat entries and rewards its users for good content.
Oh yes, did I mention that it also has a "sumbit" button?
So, you poor Wikipedians, finish your sorry library project and create something much more unique.
Alternative candidates have no hope in hell in a country that likes to export its sense of democracy with Black Hawk helicopters and carpet bombs, as the democratic process in the US is unfortunately as corrupt as a borderguard on the Algerian border:
As long as Members of Congress, Senators and Presidents get their main financial contributions from lobbygroups and multinationals (think Bush and the Carlyle Group and the Oilmultis), Democracy in the US just means that you intellectual halfwits vote for the guy with the more commercials.
"Lies and the lying liars who tell them" is not only funny and gives your daughter a solid political foundation, but also portrays the author as a pretty geeky dad, caring well for his children but also up for silly pranks.
It also teaches her a solid mistrust of all things Fox, which should always be encouraged.
Everything2 has been around since 2000, has currently 445301 entries, is editor - and peer reviewed and has much better inter-user communication facilities. There is also a strong sense of community and lacks any editorial wars.
Suse 8.2. and 9.2 detected my ancient Canon Bubblejet instantly and printing via CUPS under OpenOffice, Acrobat Reader and Kwrite has never been anything but a pleasure, using a Athlon 1800XP and a mediocre MSI KT266A Pro 2U Mobo.
It's interesting that the whole crusade was organised by a German IT consultancy, with support from the Goethe-Institut and the GTZ, representatives of a secular state strongly pushing Open Source.
You can't really see a US sponsored team going to Africa without peddling chriatianity and Windows, can you?
For a nice and cheap alternative, why not get a used Palm M500 or M505 with a Palm keyboard (both very reasonable currently on ebay) and you have a perfect Wordprocessor for less than 100 $.
When the NHS is referred to in articles like this they generally mean the hospital system. I doubt most doctors in a NHS hospital even so much as look at a computer.
Wrong. You can normally see them downloading pr*n in the doctor's mess.
Of course, for every American venturing outside God's own country, everything is an adventure. Italians, do they have computers or even refrigerators? Australasia only uses flint and bongos for communication, right?
Best to take a shitload of bogrolls and Dr. Pepper cans with me, because over there they probably only have these aboriginal drinks, like larvae juice.
My advice: leave your electronics at home and discover the world through your eyes and ears, not a lens and a keyboard. Speak to people. Find out why they hate USians.
If you really can't help it, take an old, used Ibook and a compatible digital camera. Store Pics/Sounds/Files on an USB Keychain Ram-Plugin and use that to swap files between your Ibook and internetcafe's computers. You will see that extraUSians have computers too.
I have been using the Gimp on my PC and Mac for a year and certainly don't miss Photoshop anymore. Yes, the handling of files can be a bit awkward on a Mac, but that's really the only bit of criticism I have. On the positive side, you get an impressive community of people eager to help, great online tutorials, a vast library of plugins, and, best of all: It's free.
When was the last time any of the teenage trolls here actually had to shell out money for Photoshop and not just download it from a warez site? If their credit card statement would suddenly sport a 500 pound sterling hole, they would probably think twice about the benefits of the GIMP.
I was initially bitching about OS X, but since 10.1 I would never ever go back to 9. The commandline options, the GUI and the immense possibilities of having almost full compatibility with a huge UNIX backcatalogue are just impressive.
There is NO reason to run Classic anymore, except if you run classic hardware, in which you don't have the choice.
Even though the lot of you are arguing about the ease (or not) of supporting Macs versus PCs, the article triggering the discussion hasn't been mentioned:
It is actually pretty poor, as the author does not give us any insight how his problems were in the end solved (apart from running Virtual PC). Just stating "It worked! I don't know why!" should not be enough to get a slashdot mention.
...is the prospect of a deal between Apple and Amazon.com that was mentioned.
The synergetic effects would be impressive for both companies, as Apple would have their products available on the biggest online retailer on earth and would benefit from amazons itunes link up. Amazon would get exposure to the big - spending Apple users.
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Wiki this, Wiki that, I still believe that Everything2 is the better concept, more fun and is suffering from less editorial wrangling. It's also a much more fun place to hang out, has more off beat entries and rewards its users for good content.
Oh yes, did I mention that it also has a "sumbit" button?
So, you poor Wikipedians, finish your sorry library project and create something much more unique.
Cheers, and happy impeaching of Bush.
You don't. Arthur and Ford are getting picked up by Zaphod and Trillian on their way to Margratea.
This chain of event stays the same at least in the numerous plays and the book.
Wasn't the Heart of Gold supposed to be shaped like a giant sneaker?
This must truly the best piece of geek art I've ever seen.
As long as Members of Congress, Senators and Presidents get their main financial contributions from lobbygroups and multinationals (think Bush and the Carlyle Group and the Oilmultis), Democracy in the US just means that you intellectual halfwits vote for the guy with the more commercials.
It also teaches her a solid mistrust of all things Fox, which should always be encouraged.
A much more enlightened and pleasant place to be.
Oh yes, and we have the EDB.
Suse 8.2. and 9.2 detected my ancient Canon Bubblejet instantly and printing via CUPS under OpenOffice, Acrobat Reader and Kwrite has never been anything but a pleasure, using a Athlon 1800XP and a mediocre MSI KT266A Pro 2U Mobo.
If you have to ask for advice on /. , your company has obviously hired the wrong guy.
You can't really see a US sponsored team going to Africa without peddling chriatianity and Windows, can you?
For a nice and cheap alternative, why not get a used Palm M500 or M505 with a Palm keyboard (both very reasonable currently on ebay) and you have a perfect Wordprocessor for less than 100 $.
Possibly a mistake?
That, my friends, was an intelligent and rather insightful remark, worth a couple of points.
Mod parent up!
Wrong. You can normally see them downloading pr*n in the doctor's mess.
That's why I use OpenBSD .
Doesn't get much safer than that, maybe apart from an Abacus chained to your belt.
Now, why would you do that?
Fecking children having access to dad's computer again. Sigh.
As the chinese would be the next to put a foot on our satellite, a red moon is off then...
Of course, for every American venturing outside God's own country, everything is an adventure. Italians, do they have computers or even refrigerators? Australasia only uses flint and bongos for communication, right?
Best to take a shitload of bogrolls and Dr. Pepper cans with me, because over there they probably only have these aboriginal drinks, like larvae juice.
My advice: leave your electronics at home and discover the world through your eyes and ears, not a lens and a keyboard. Speak to people. Find out why they hate USians.
If you really can't help it, take an old, used Ibook and a compatible digital camera. Store Pics/Sounds/Files on an USB Keychain Ram-Plugin and use that to swap files between your Ibook and internetcafe's computers. You will see that extraUSians have computers too.
Sheesh..
When was the last time any of the teenage trolls here actually had to shell out money for Photoshop and not just download it from a warez site? If their credit card statement would suddenly sport a 500 pound sterling hole, they would probably think twice about the benefits of the GIMP.
Well done, guys.
There is NO reason to run Classic anymore, except if you run classic hardware, in which you don't have the choice.
Dirk P
Even though the lot of you are arguing about the ease (or not) of supporting Macs versus PCs, the article triggering the discussion hasn't been mentioned:
It is actually pretty poor, as the author does not give us any insight how his problems were in the end solved (apart from running Virtual PC). Just stating "It worked! I don't know why!" should not be enough to get a slashdot mention.
Always very well presented and researched, this is probably the best speechbased radio station in the world.
http://bbc.co.uk/radio4
The synergetic effects would be impressive for both companies, as Apple would have their products available on the biggest online retailer on earth and would benefit from amazons itunes link up. Amazon would get exposure to the big - spending Apple users.
Clever..
Sounds more like a storyline from the X-Files.
Bean Bag!