"Honestly, I don't mind because making our trading partners stronger only makes us stronger as well"
So give them money so they can give it back to you when they buy your stuff. I think you need to take a course in basic logic , not to mention economics.
Also - and this might surprise you - there is more to the world than a few dead duck southern european countries. There are 6 billion people elsewhere you can trade with who don't live in GIPS.
... by Gates comments, until he checks apples share price, valuation and performance compared to Microsoft. Then he'll just laugh and go back to practicing his golf swing.
ITYF thanks to your idiotic chancellor that german power companies are starting to build coal fired replacements for those shut down nuclear plants. So much for germany being green eh?
Renewables you say? Would those be the windfarms in the north which are 600km from where most of the energy is needed in the south? And given that the wind doesn't always blow - what other renewables did you have in mind? Solar? Yeah , right, in northern europe... suuure. Hydro? Nope, not enough locations. Tidal/wave? Same problem as wind with power transmission. So what is this great hope you germans have for renewables?
For most statically compiled binaries (assuming you have a.out support enabled)? Probably , though some kernel ABIs have changed.
For dynamic binaries (which is most of them)? Dream on. Sometimes they don't even work between one minor version update of a distro and the next due to library updates.
So no, linux isn't the magic bullet in this regard. To give MS credit , they do do backwards compatability quite well, though how long that'll last now win8 is on the block with Metro apps is anyones guess.
"other than put it behind a firewall and hope for the best."
Sorry , why exactly is it connected to a network anyway? Do you surf the web on it when you're bored? When you're dealing with equipment that expensive you do NOT put it in harms way and that includes connecting it to a network. So you can't download the files from your desk. To bad - use a (virus checked) usb stick.
Seriously , what is it with people wanting to connect every bit of machinary up to a network no matter how inappropriate it is? How long before we hear yet another Power-company-hacked story or similar? And how long after before the lessons are forgotten again? 2 minutes?
"No it isn't. If you upgrade XP it runs slow. Slow Hardware runs slow."
Clearly you've never "upgraded" from XP to Vista where hardware slow under XP switches to glacial mode. Also there is some older hardware that XP supports which Win7 does not.
Don't be a smartass, you know exactly what I mean. And do explain why people who don't use a service should pay just as much for it as people who do in this socialist nirvana you've dreamt up?
"If public transport were run by government off taxes"
Except they're not. No major PT system in the world is run completely off taxes and is free to the end user. They all collect fares in some fashion. And if you think about it , why should people in one part of a country pay via taxes for people in some city hundreds of miles away to ride for free?
This was cracked a number of years ago apparently because it used a simple linear feedback shifter as a random number generator which meant the code were easy to guess. Or something along those lines , I can't fine the article at the moment
LU said they'd be "improving security" and then we heard nothing more about it. Anyone know whats going on these days?
Our Freeview digital broadcast service has "HD" channels, but they're only HD so long as nothing moves, whereupon the picture dissolves into nasty motion blur and thats using H264. Still, the SD channels are even worse - the mpeg2 blocking effects makes some of the more compressed ones unwatchable.
Oh boo hoo. Guess you'll just have to emigrate to some fluffy right-on paradise where citizens skip down the street hand in hand with the local criminals under the guide of "celebrating" diversity.
Btw, nice cut and paste from your student union website. I'm surprised you didn't include a link to a Che Guevara picture just to complete the cliche.
Oh I intend to, if only to wind up lefty tw@ts like you:o) Get your sad mates to mod me down even more - it'll take them about a month to make a difference.
"I frankly dont believe a word of what you say about living in the UK, when you just spout right wing libertarian nut job talking points."
Believe what you like, I don't give a toss. There are plenty of silly naive students on here who seem to think everyone in the UK shares their simpleton left wing views simply because they never mix with anyone outside their young insular little peer groups. It must come as a shock to them when they get a job in the real world and get to hear adult points of view.
"I have two choices. Show off my intelligence by proving you wrong, or just mocking your ignorance. Sometimes it's more fun to mock someone's ignorance. I have knowledge, you don't. You fool."
Do you need a spade to help dig that hole you're in any faster?
An Americanism? Seriously? I rather suspect you're the one who's not a UK citizen unless you've never been further north than watford your entire life and never heard any northerner or scot speak. All you're doing is proving how parochial and out of touch you are which combined with your clucky use of pretentious language puts a big mark alongside "student" on my list of what and how old you are.
So making someone account for what they've done is being a right wing bully is it Mr Liberal Lefty bed wetter? You're probably the sort of deluded hand wringer who would think a mugger is simply a victim of an unfair society and give him a pat on the head and tell him run along now and not to do it again.
I'm a UK citizen and I have little sympathy for him. HIs defence played the old suicide card with a side serving of poor-little-me aspergers sufferer. As if that somehow makes him innocent of his crimes. If thats alls that needed to get someone off going to prison then most prisons would be empty.
This sends a very bad message. And yes, I know I'll get modded down for this by all the self righteous teen keyboard warriors but I have karma to burn to knock yourselves out.
"There are tons, but I don't feel a need to share with lazy people."
If you had any you'd have mentioned them. You're just another known nothing ass who's using the old go-find-out-yourself line as a cover for being a clueless d1ck.
Its not like you need to train on an ereader first before you buy a tablet. They're a fad , nothing more. In 10 years they'll be just another long forgotten footnote in tech history.
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"Honestly, I don't mind because making our trading partners stronger only makes us stronger as well"
So give them money so they can give it back to you when they buy your stuff. I think you need to take a course in basic logic , not to mention economics.
Also - and this might surprise you - there is more to the world than a few dead duck southern european countries. There are 6 billion people elsewhere you can trade with who don't live in GIPS.
"Germany only has over 30GW of installed solar power,"
At night?
I guess you just forget about all the power stations required to supply the base load when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.
... by Gates comments, until he checks apples share price, valuation and performance compared to Microsoft. Then he'll just laugh and go back to practicing his golf swing.
ITYF thanks to your idiotic chancellor that german power companies are starting to build coal fired replacements for those shut down nuclear plants. So much for germany being green eh?
Renewables you say? Would those be the windfarms in the north which are 600km from where most of the energy is needed in the south? And given that the wind doesn't always blow - what other renewables did you have in mind? Solar? Yeah , right, in northern europe... suuure. Hydro? Nope, not enough locations. Tidal/wave? Same problem as wind with power transmission. So what is this great hope you germans have for renewables?
"That's not a dream, it're real life. It's also the way it is done on windows, with each program carting around a bunch of DLLs, by the way."
Good luck getting a modern version of firefox running on linux 1.x with the version of glibc that came with it!
Hint - firefox only comes with its own specific .so's, NOT generic system ones.
"and its backwards compatible to 1991."
For most C source code? Yes
For most statically compiled binaries (assuming you have a.out support enabled)? Probably , though some kernel ABIs have changed.
For dynamic binaries (which is most of them)? Dream on. Sometimes they don't even work between one minor version update of a distro and the next due to library updates.
So no, linux isn't the magic bullet in this regard. To give MS credit , they do do backwards compatability quite well, though how long that'll last now win8 is on the block with Metro apps is anyones guess.
"other than put it behind a firewall and hope for the best."
Sorry , why exactly is it connected to a network anyway? Do you surf the web on it when you're bored? When you're dealing with equipment that expensive you do NOT put it in harms way and that includes connecting it to a network. So you can't download the files from your desk. To bad - use a (virus checked) usb stick.
Seriously , what is it with people wanting to connect every bit of machinary up to a network no matter how inappropriate it is? How long before we hear yet another Power-company-hacked story or similar? And how long after before the lessons are forgotten again? 2 minutes?
"No it isn't. If you upgrade XP it runs slow. Slow Hardware runs slow."
Clearly you've never "upgraded" from XP to Vista where hardware slow under XP switches to glacial mode. Also there is some older hardware that XP supports which Win7 does not.
Don't be a smartass, you know exactly what I mean. And do explain why people who don't use a service should pay just as much for it as people who do in this socialist nirvana you've dreamt up?
"Except there's no rason they can't be."
Sure, if the government has unlimited funds. Most don't. Usually there are more important things to spend money on.
"Are public transport systems only for other people? No."
Huh?
"If public transport were run by government off taxes"
Except they're not. No major PT system in the world is run completely off taxes and is free to the end user. They all collect fares in some fashion. And if you think about it , why should people in one part of a country pay via taxes for people in some city hundreds of miles away to ride for free?
This was cracked a number of years ago apparently because it used a simple linear feedback shifter as a random number generator which meant the code were easy to guess. Or something along those lines , I can't fine the article at the moment
LU said they'd be "improving security" and then we heard nothing more about it. Anyone know whats going on these days?
Our Freeview digital broadcast service has "HD" channels, but they're only HD so long as nothing moves, whereupon the picture dissolves into nasty motion blur and thats using H264. Still, the SD channels are even worse - the mpeg2 blocking effects makes some of the more compressed ones unwatchable.
Oh boo hoo. Guess you'll just have to emigrate to some fluffy right-on paradise where citizens skip down the street hand in hand with the local criminals under the guide of "celebrating" diversity.
Btw, nice cut and paste from your student union website. I'm surprised you didn't include a link to a Che Guevara picture just to complete the cliche.
"Keep right on burning that karma nut job boy"
Oh I intend to, if only to wind up lefty tw@ts like you :o) Get your sad mates to mod me down even more - it'll take them about a month to make a difference.
"I frankly dont believe a word of what you say about living in the UK, when you just spout right wing libertarian nut job talking points."
Believe what you like, I don't give a toss. There are plenty of silly naive students on here who seem to think everyone in the UK shares their simpleton left wing views simply because they never mix with anyone outside their young insular little peer groups. It must come as a shock to them when they get a job in the real world and get to hear adult points of view.
"I have two choices. Show off my intelligence by proving you wrong, or just mocking your ignorance. Sometimes it's more fun to mock someone's ignorance. I have knowledge, you don't. You fool."
Do you need a spade to help dig that hole you're in any faster?
Bullseye.
"Your use of "Pal" (an Americanism)"
An Americanism? Seriously? I rather suspect you're the one who's not a UK citizen unless you've never been further north than watford your entire life and never heard any northerner or scot speak. All you're doing is proving how parochial and out of touch you are which combined with your clucky use of pretentious language puts a big mark alongside "student" on my list of what and how old you are.
Ah , standard defeated liberal retort #5. Imply other person is stupid and/or childish and has no idea of the facts.
Do try to be a bit more original instead of cut and pasting from the usual script.
"I very much doubt you are a UK citizen."
Doubt away all you like pal. Not everyone in the UK is a bed wetting lefty sobbing over a Guardian editorial about criminals human rights.
"That must really make aRSEholes like you mad."
There FTFY.
"fantasies of right-wing bullies"
So making someone account for what they've done is being a right wing bully is it Mr Liberal Lefty bed wetter? You're probably the sort of deluded hand wringer who would think a mugger is simply a victim of an unfair society and give him a pat on the head and tell him run along now and not to do it again.
I'm a UK citizen and I have little sympathy for him. HIs defence played the old suicide card with a side serving of poor-little-me aspergers sufferer. As if that somehow makes him innocent of his crimes. If thats alls that needed to get someone off going to prison then most prisons would be empty.
This sends a very bad message. And yes, I know I'll get modded down for this by all the self righteous teen keyboard warriors but I have karma to burn to knock yourselves out.
"There are tons, but I don't feel a need to share with lazy people."
If you had any you'd have mentioned them. You're just another known nothing ass who's using the old go-find-out-yourself line as a cover for being a clueless d1ck.
Hilarious.
Got any serious C99 features it uses or is your poor attempt at humour all you've got?
Its not like you need to train on an ereader first before you buy a tablet. They're a fad , nothing more. In 10 years they'll be just another long forgotten footnote in tech history.