Often when I talk about my travels to America to my Australian friends they always tell me how stupid Americans are, and how uninformed they are about world events, and how they don't care about anything but what happens within their own country.
Point to Zaire on this map.... Go on you smug fuck, you have 10 seconds.
If you couldn't point to Zaire on that map, your an idiot.
If you did point to Zaire on that map your an idiot too.
Zaire became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997, and I hope you didn't point to the Republic of the Congo, because thats a completely different country.
Wheres all this going?
Since 1998 up to three million people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
So whilst you've been sitting back on a smug platform of loving and caring for the world unlike those terrible Americans it turns out three million people have died and you don't even know where. (End paraphrase)
What the hell are you talking about? Winamp? Have you seen any recient incarnation of Winamp?
Heres a little run down, Winamp is absolutly loaded with bloat. Winamp 2.9 was the about last good version of the program and I don't even like using that because it plays videos for some reason. Every version after takes just as long as Windows Media Player to run and has annoying and ultimatly useless features such as CD burning, CD ripping, video playback, Internet Radio and TV.
Winamp was good at one thing, playing MP3s now days its going the way of real player and just including random things. Who actually uses winamp for playing videos? Probably a lot of people due to the fact winamp likes to do a real player and associate itself with every media format under the sun.
Lets face it Winamp is turning into Realplayer. Shame on you Winamp.
I work in the manufacturing industry and I can tell you right now that a lot of expensive programs designed for CNC work and the like are protected by some very advanced dongles.
Dongles serve as very good protecton on software that may only have 2000 customers worldwide. If implemented correctly they can throughly protect a peice of software from most in house programmers.
That said the wider the distribution of the software the more likely it will be cracked. I believe whilst dongles are a more powerful security measure they only work when the distribution of the software is low.
No it is not. There is no Microsoft Word for Linux, Open Office comes close and I love it to death but its just not ready yet.
There is no god damned Access for Linux either. Heres a newsflash a lot of companies have database frontends that rely on Access, it may not be the best solution but it is the current system and to change it would cost thousands of dollars.
Like it or Loathe it Visual Basic is used throughout many companies. Please correct me if I am wrong but do any Linux office products work with Visual Basic?
These are just a few of the many examples why you couldn't just switch to Linux like that. Those are just the software factors too, forget user training, the cost of changing hardware that isn't supported to Linux etc.
What about thousands of pissed off users because they can't figure out why the hell the start button looks different or why text on the screen doesn't behave as expected.
I'm not trolling, I like Linux I think it is great for the home and for a hobby but its just not ready for the mainstream. Perhaps in a few years, but not today.
Yes actualy it does. You see 9 out of 10 "Your computer is not optimised" ads are popups. Therefore Mozilla does a lot for it.
There are however more issues then this. For example firefox's cache is stored in the wrong directory in your user profile so if you have the standard 50 meg cache and log onto another computer you have to wait whilst it copies across.
How do we know it was the police anyway, if they were supposedly undercover? If they were, and someone photographed them, the undercover police shouldn't have had identifying marks.
Yes but unfortunately this was the photo in question.
I have a pentium 2 400mhz laptop with a dead screen, keyboard, battery and the mouse is flakey. My main hard disk failed ages ago and I now have it sitting beside my TV running geexbox booting off a 100mb hard disk. My powersupply died too, so I've soldered an old CB Radio supply into the laptop.
Could I watch movies on my computer? Yes, but I wouldn't have a nice couch to sit on and a large screen. I'm keeping that baby on life support for years to come.
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I think you would be hard pressed to find a remote exploit for DOS.
Or BASIC for that matter.
Even worse they mistyped the second attempt.
Lo (Crash) Lomg
It doesn't look a day over 34 thats for sure.
They stole an entire facility? I'm not even mad, I'm impressed. wow.
Why would you want to go to titan? I heard it stinks.
(To paraphrase John Sarfan)
Often when I talk about my travels to America to my Australian friends they always tell me how stupid Americans are, and how uninformed they are about world events, and how they don't care about anything but what happens within their own country.
Point to Zaire on this map.... Go on you smug fuck, you have 10 seconds.
If you couldn't point to Zaire on that map, your an idiot.
If you did point to Zaire on that map your an idiot too.
Zaire became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997, and I hope you didn't point to the Republic of the Congo, because thats a completely different country.
Wheres all this going?
Since 1998 up to three million people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
So whilst you've been sitting back on a smug platform of loving and caring for the world unlike those terrible Americans it turns out three million people have died and you don't even know where.
(End paraphrase)
Laugh, its funny.
Would it not just be possible to sample the original works? Thereby cutting out the middleman?
That equation is in base 1 you fool!
What the hell are you talking about? Winamp? Have you seen any recient incarnation of Winamp?
Heres a little run down, Winamp is absolutly loaded with bloat. Winamp 2.9 was the about last good version of the program and I don't even like using that because it plays videos for some reason. Every version after takes just as long as Windows Media Player to run and has annoying and ultimatly useless features such as CD burning, CD ripping, video playback, Internet Radio and TV.
Winamp was good at one thing, playing MP3s now days its going the way of real player and just including random things. Who actually uses winamp for playing videos? Probably a lot of people due to the fact winamp likes to do a real player and associate itself with every media format under the sun.
Lets face it Winamp is turning into Realplayer. Shame on you Winamp.
I work in the manufacturing industry and I can tell you right now that a lot of expensive programs designed for CNC work and the like are protected by some very advanced dongles.
Dongles serve as very good protecton on software that may only have 2000 customers worldwide. If implemented correctly they can throughly protect a peice of software from most in house programmers.
That said the wider the distribution of the software the more likely it will be cracked. I believe whilst dongles are a more powerful security measure they only work when the distribution of the software is low.
Well lets not forget Fred Wang.
Or were clicked on too many times.
What was that flying over your head?
No it is not. There is no Microsoft Word for Linux, Open Office comes close and I love it to death but its just not ready yet.
There is no god damned Access for Linux either. Heres a newsflash a lot of companies have database frontends that rely on Access, it may not be the best solution but it is the current system and to change it would cost thousands of dollars.
Like it or Loathe it Visual Basic is used throughout many companies. Please correct me if I am wrong but do any Linux office products work with Visual Basic?
These are just a few of the many examples why you couldn't just switch to Linux like that. Those are just the software factors too, forget user training, the cost of changing hardware that isn't supported to Linux etc.
What about thousands of pissed off users because they can't figure out why the hell the start button looks different or why text on the screen doesn't behave as expected.
I'm not trolling, I like Linux I think it is great for the home and for a hobby but its just not ready for the mainstream. Perhaps in a few years, but not today.
Yes actualy it does. You see 9 out of 10 "Your computer is not optimised" ads are popups. Therefore Mozilla does a lot for it.
There are however more issues then this. For example firefox's cache is stored in the wrong directory in your user profile so if you have the standard 50 meg cache and log onto another computer you have to wait whilst it copies across.
So buy a chip, they are dirt cheap and you can get great solderless ones.
No but you can play on the free version
That may work wherever the hell you live but where I live I have to pay through the teeth to call somone on a mobile.
Well it was part of my job description, it paid really well and it was quite easy. The trick is not to be a mopper but rather a high powered hoser.
Just get a presure washer and spray away, then that stuff don't streak.
Yes, its almost as if the IT Manager's Journal has stories that may be for nerds, perhaps it even includes "stuff that matters".
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The same sense that makes a person think the Windows XP default theme looks great?
Pure distilled "Fisher Price" syndrome
Yes but unfortunately this was the photo in question.
Yes there have been numerious cases of prostitutes in South Africa being imune to the disease.
I have a pentium 2 400mhz laptop with a dead screen, keyboard, battery and the mouse is flakey. My main hard disk failed ages ago and I now have it sitting beside my TV running geexbox booting off a 100mb hard disk.
My powersupply died too, so I've soldered an old CB Radio supply into the laptop.
Could I watch movies on my computer? Yes, but I wouldn't have a nice couch to sit on and a large screen. I'm keeping that baby on life support for years to come.
Also this proves why you don't buy compaq crap.