Middle of the night??? You do understand that bitcoin trades 24/7 across 24 different time zones and that the world stretches beyond your backyard, right?
On the contrary. Everybody keeps shouting bubble, bubble, tulips, tulips. Ponzi, pyramid, ponzi, pyramid. Fraud, fraud, fraud!!!
You've been doing it for years!
then try Linux Mint - it seems to be the most popular and the highest rated among new users. But if you don't mind reading a bit before making a decision, then maybe this link will help (includes screenshots): http://distrowatch.com/dwres.p... Have fun!
Living in the era of the borderless world wide web, I really hate to remind some Slashdot readers that there are many many places on earth where it is NOT feiday night right now.
They've been doing it already. They started about two or three weeks ago when, as an Amazon affiliate, I was given an opportunity to create Amazon ads and to place them on my website. So far so good - the CPM is decent (just over a $1) and even though it hasn't been able to beat AdSense, it is still much better than most other networks I've tried in the past. The fill rate hangs around 30% at the moment. It looks promising.
I came to the same conclusion long before there was a "scientific" research on the subject (take it from somebody who grew up in Eastern Europe!). Yes, we are cheats - and that's a fact. We have been bombarded with so much lies during the long communist years (the kind that everybody knew were lies) and in the end everybody excepted lies as a fact of life. And once the system changed, our thinking did not. We were still lying to each other and cheating each other. Even today, some 25 years since the fall of communism, I am much happier doing business with western Europeans than with the old communist block. It's said, but that's how things are. It will take a few generations before things change, I think...
Well, you needed that perspective, because most of you guys have absolutely no idea... OK, maybe 20% of the Americans (my estimate, and it's increasing to tell the truth, albeit slowly) who frequent Slashot get it, but man, once you get outside of that geoprofile... it becomes really really sad. Yes, yes, America is still the greatest country on earth to live and conduct business in, for sure, who can ever doubt it. You either keep on living your American dream or you take a look what the rest of world is like. Your choice.
Go to Fiji. When you get off the plane you'll also see very big guys, but instead of searching you they'll play you a welcome song on their ukuleles. You'll have to pay me a lot of money before I'd holiday in the USA when there are countries like Fiji...
Any country that welcomes you to its shores by photographing you and taking your finger prints, then forces you to either go through a "naked" scanner or lets big guys touch your genitals, is absolutely off the list of any freedom loving individual.
The first netbook, the 7" Eee PC, came with Linux only but it still became a massive hit. In other words, it doesn't look that the presence of an "inferior" and little-known operating system on this machine was a major turn-off.
But we can speculate and argue all we can, but in the end, it's all just that - speculation. Only if every single store sold *all* their nebooks with both Windows and Linux options, without giving preference and exposure to either, could we conclude that one or the other wins. As it is, in the absence of any fair competition, the 96% figure is completely meaningless.
For me the real issue is that Windows XP runs better on my netbook than linux.
Lucky you! You have a choice of a gazillion different makes and models, all pre-installed with your favourite operating system. Unfortunately, I am not so lucky. I prefer Linux on my netbook (or more precisely - I prefer not to pay for an OS which I won't use), but I don't have a choice. It's either a netbook with Windows or no netbook.
I don't think it's particularly easy to get illegal software in any computer store in Taiwan, but even if I am wrong and it is, I doubt that it's the reason for the *sudden* unavailability of Linux netbooks. Remember that in the beginning, the Eee PC came with Linux only and even the second generation of Eee PCs and the first Aspire Ones came with a choice between the two OSs (even in Taiwan). But something happened about 6 - 8 months ago when all of a sudden Linux netbooks simply disappeared from the shelves. At about the same time, the "it's better with Windows" and "we recommend Windows for everyday computing" slogans started appearing around the stores and on manufacturer's promotional materials. Coincidence? You be the judge...
Last week I walked into no fewer than 20 different computer stores here in Taiwan (the home of ASUS, Acer, MSI, etc), big and small, in order to buy a Linux netbook. But despite the fact that some of them displayed as many as 20 different brands and models, I found exactly 0 (zero!) netbooks shipping with Linux. Zero, nada, nothing! It just doesn't exist any more.
So yes, I believe Microsoft and its 96% figure. While people had choice between Linux and Windows, the figure was very different, but since the consumers are no longer offered a Linux option, even 96% seems low. The situation with netbooks is now exactly the same as with laptops - it's 2009 and it's still impossible to buy one without Windows pre-installed!
I always have to laugh when I read news about EU suing Microsoft for bundling a browser or a media player with Windows, but fails to see the real issue - Microsoft's complete stronghold over hardware manufacturers. ASUS, Acer, MSI, Dell, HP - they all "recommend Windows for everyday computing" on their web sites. Out of their free will, no doubt...
Believe it or not, the developer of Ubuntu Christian Edition has an official permission from Canonical to use the word Ubuntu in the name of their product. I have a copy of the email granting the permission.
This one sentence made your entire post utterly infantile. You don't like an entire nation??? Has every single person out of 60 million Frenchmen done something nasty to you so that you dislike them all?
Sorry for being off-topic, but I'll just never be able to understand how a rational, intelligent and Linux-using human being can make such statements of hatred on a public blog, which proudly displays his/her nickname and web site. Crazy...
I completely agree. If somebody offered me a choice between a free holiday in Iraq and a free holiday in the USA, I'd have hard time to decide which one I should choose. It's really sad, because I've many "cyberfriends" in the US whom I'd like to meet some day, but there is just no way I am going to subject myself to these ridiculous procedures.
And it's not just the entry to the US. Even traveling on an US airline is painful nowadays - I noticed last time I was at the Taipei airport how the passengers on a US-bound flight had to arrive much earlier than those on other flights, how they had to stand in a long long queue, how they had to remove their shoes, how they.... So last month when my wife booked a flight from Taipei to Tokyo on an United Airlines flight, I canceled it as soon as I learned about it. Instead, I paid $50 more to get a ticket with a non-US airline.
USA is no doubt a very beautiful country which I'd love to visit. Unfortunately, with the way things are going over there, I doubt I'll ever will.
I live in Taiwan, but I haven't noticed even the slightest disruption in Internet service (Hinet) whatsoever - either in terms of speed or connectivity to the outside world. Am I just lucky or has Taiwan escaped the "standstill" reported in other places in the region?
No. It means that on DistroWatch, the KANOTIX page has been viewed more often than the Red Hat page over the last 6 months. Nothing more and nothing less.
PHLAK is more popular than SuSe?
I am not sure where you got this one from. As of today, SUSE is at number 5, while PHLAK is at number 53.
Who the hell reads those pages at all?
I don't know. I only know that in June 2005 DistroWatch served 7.15 million pages (excluding mirrors), which makes it over 238,000 pages per day. So somebody _is_ reading...
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Yes, Azerbaijan switched from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet in 2001.
Come on, guys, 11th out of 200+ countries and territories is fantastic. Enjoy it while it lasts!
Middle of the night??? You do understand that bitcoin trades 24/7 across 24 different time zones and that the world stretches beyond your backyard, right?
On the contrary. Everybody keeps shouting bubble, bubble, tulips, tulips. Ponzi, pyramid, ponzi, pyramid. Fraud, fraud, fraud!!! You've been doing it for years!
then try Linux Mint - it seems to be the most popular and the highest rated among new users. But if you don't mind reading a bit before making a decision, then maybe this link will help (includes screenshots): http://distrowatch.com/dwres.p... Have fun!
It's about making good movies. Which Hollywood has been incapable of for decades. I stopped watching Hollywood movies in 2006. I'd had enough.
Living in the era of the borderless world wide web, I really hate to remind some Slashdot readers that there are many many places on earth where it is NOT feiday night right now.
They've been doing it already. They started about two or three weeks ago when, as an Amazon affiliate, I was given an opportunity to create Amazon ads and to place them on my website. So far so good - the CPM is decent (just over a $1) and even though it hasn't been able to beat AdSense, it is still much better than most other networks I've tried in the past. The fill rate hangs around 30% at the moment. It looks promising.
Sorry, I meant "accepted" instead of excepted and "sad" instead of said. I must be drunk...
I came to the same conclusion long before there was a "scientific" research on the subject (take it from somebody who grew up in Eastern Europe!). Yes, we are cheats - and that's a fact. We have been bombarded with so much lies during the long communist years (the kind that everybody knew were lies) and in the end everybody excepted lies as a fact of life. And once the system changed, our thinking did not. We were still lying to each other and cheating each other. Even today, some 25 years since the fall of communism, I am much happier doing business with western Europeans than with the old communist block. It's said, but that's how things are. It will take a few generations before things change, I think...
Well, you needed that perspective, because most of you guys have absolutely no idea... OK, maybe 20% of the Americans (my estimate, and it's increasing to tell the truth, albeit slowly) who frequent Slashot get it, but man, once you get outside of that geoprofile... it becomes really really sad. Yes, yes, America is still the greatest country on earth to live and conduct business in, for sure, who can ever doubt it. You either keep on living your American dream or you take a look what the rest of world is like. Your choice.
Go to Fiji. When you get off the plane you'll also see very big guys, but instead of searching you they'll play you a welcome song on their ukuleles. You'll have to pay me a lot of money before I'd holiday in the USA when there are countries like Fiji...
Any country that welcomes you to its shores by photographing you and taking your finger prints, then forces you to either go through a "naked" scanner or lets big guys touch your genitals, is absolutely off the list of any freedom loving individual.
Says who? The same people who display "we recommend Windows for everyday computing" on every single page of their web sites?
The first netbook, the 7" Eee PC, came with Linux only but it still became a massive hit. In other words, it doesn't look that the presence of an "inferior" and little-known operating system on this machine was a major turn-off.
But we can speculate and argue all we can, but in the end, it's all just that - speculation. Only if every single store sold *all* their nebooks with both Windows and Linux options, without giving preference and exposure to either, could we conclude that one or the other wins. As it is, in the absence of any fair competition, the 96% figure is completely meaningless.
For me the real issue is that Windows XP runs better on my netbook than linux.
Lucky you! You have a choice of a gazillion different makes and models, all pre-installed with your favourite operating system. Unfortunately, I am not so lucky. I prefer Linux on my netbook (or more precisely - I prefer not to pay for an OS which I won't use), but I don't have a choice. It's either a netbook with Windows or no netbook.
I don't think it's particularly easy to get illegal software in any computer store in Taiwan, but even if I am wrong and it is, I doubt that it's the reason for the *sudden* unavailability of Linux netbooks. Remember that in the beginning, the Eee PC came with Linux only and even the second generation of Eee PCs and the first Aspire Ones came with a choice between the two OSs (even in Taiwan). But something happened about 6 - 8 months ago when all of a sudden Linux netbooks simply disappeared from the shelves. At about the same time, the "it's better with Windows" and "we recommend Windows for everyday computing" slogans started appearing around the stores and on manufacturer's promotional materials. Coincidence? You be the judge...
Last week I walked into no fewer than 20 different computer stores here in Taiwan (the home of ASUS, Acer, MSI, etc), big and small, in order to buy a Linux netbook. But despite the fact that some of them displayed as many as 20 different brands and models, I found exactly 0 (zero!) netbooks shipping with Linux. Zero, nada, nothing! It just doesn't exist any more.
So yes, I believe Microsoft and its 96% figure. While people had choice between Linux and Windows, the figure was very different, but since the consumers are no longer offered a Linux option, even 96% seems low. The situation with netbooks is now exactly the same as with laptops - it's 2009 and it's still impossible to buy one without Windows pre-installed!
I always have to laugh when I read news about EU suing Microsoft for bundling a browser or a media player with Windows, but fails to see the real issue - Microsoft's complete stronghold over hardware manufacturers. ASUS, Acer, MSI, Dell, HP - they all "recommend Windows for everyday computing" on their web sites. Out of their free will, no doubt...
Believe it or not, the developer of Ubuntu Christian Edition has an official permission from Canonical to use the word Ubuntu in the name of their product. I have a copy of the email granting the permission.
NO, I don't like the French either.
This one sentence made your entire post utterly infantile. You don't like an entire nation??? Has every single person out of 60 million Frenchmen done something nasty to you so that you dislike them all?
Sorry for being off-topic, but I'll just never be able to understand how a rational, intelligent and Linux-using human being can make such statements of hatred on a public blog, which proudly displays his/her nickname and web site. Crazy...
I completely agree. If somebody offered me a choice between a free holiday in Iraq and a free holiday in the USA, I'd have hard time to decide which one I should choose. It's really sad, because I've many "cyberfriends" in the US whom I'd like to meet some day, but there is just no way I am going to subject myself to these ridiculous procedures.
And it's not just the entry to the US. Even traveling on an US airline is painful nowadays - I noticed last time I was at the Taipei airport how the passengers on a US-bound flight had to arrive much earlier than those on other flights, how they had to stand in a long long queue, how they had to remove their shoes, how they.... So last month when my wife booked a flight from Taipei to Tokyo on an United Airlines flight, I canceled it as soon as I learned about it. Instead, I paid $50 more to get a ticket with a non-US airline.
USA is no doubt a very beautiful country which I'd love to visit. Unfortunately, with the way things are going over there, I doubt I'll ever will.
I live in Taiwan, but I haven't noticed even the slightest disruption in Internet service (Hinet) whatsoever - either in terms of speed or connectivity to the outside world. Am I just lucky or has Taiwan escaped the "standstill" reported in other places in the region?
What? Has Switzerland also switched to euros?
The ROC controlled Taiwan and China starting in 1912 Not quite correct. Between 1895 and 1945 Taiwan was, in fact, part of by Japan.
KANOTIX is more popular than Red Hat?
No. It means that on DistroWatch, the KANOTIX page has been viewed more often than the Red Hat page over the last 6 months. Nothing more and nothing less.
PHLAK is more popular than SuSe?
I am not sure where you got this one from. As of today, SUSE is at number 5, while PHLAK is at number 53.
Who the hell reads those pages at all?
I don't know. I only know that in June 2005 DistroWatch served 7.15 million pages (excluding mirrors), which makes it over 238,000 pages per day. So somebody _is_ reading...