I can't believe this isn't rated as a troll but there I go. The problem I came across was that I couldn't do anything I wanted to. I could see where I wanted to go (I wanted to hit the slopes dammit!) but I completely lacked the skill required to get there. After half a day, I'm ashamed to say I gave up. I was only there for 3 days and i'd wasted some of that precious time getting absolutely nowhere. So I put on my ski's, hit the reds and blacks and had a fantastic 2.5 days. So what you're saying is that you wanted to be able to do something (something that has some resemblance to something else you know) but gave up after half a day because you didn't want to waste your time any more (how somebody can waste their time with learning something new is beyond me). Boo -fucking- hoo Ever imagined that for a newbie that's the same wether it's Windows, Linux or Mac? ...because i'm too ingraned in the Windows way of doing it... Whilst Linux on the desktop might not be totally there, it's biggest problem is not that, but of people like me who don't have the patience to learn how to do the things (that they can do really quickly under Windows) differently. So stay in your fricking windows world. I mean I use Mac and doing things in most linux distros seems a hell of lot easier then doing them on Windows. Sorry for all other slashdotters but I do helpdeskwork and had some shitty windows crap waste the better part of my day.
The response from people at ifpi , our local RIAA is that users shouldn't expect that their CDs work in their car stereo (main problem for the average belgian joe) is because car manufacturers use CD-ROMplayers in their cars and no music CDplayers (please don't flame me, it's their words, not mine). I've searched their site but haven't seen that response listed anywhere, but that's not really strange because their entire piracysection (with subsection for facts, CD-R and internet) are "to be defined" since that section went onto their site months ago.
But on (flemish) TV this is the mantra of the IFPI spokepeople, and with t -my guess is- they're trying to divert the rage of average belgian joe who just bought a CD that doesn't play in his car from the CDproducers to the carmanifacturers (they should have given you a real CDplayer with your car).
Arh, normally I would just say fuck'm , don't buy their crap;
but now I'm pissed at their disinformation and want to see them judged for the smegheads the are.
Maybe they already have a device that blows all the fuses (if you huh? RTFA), so they can destroy all our data
Great security feature I must say, very James Bond,
get caught, press a button and boem all the evidence... gone
So it what way do the people in these and many other countries feel they have benefited from being saved from communism ? The quotes you gave from the same article don't give any support for the claim that these people have benefitted from being saved from communism.
article from the International Herald Tribune : Essentially, the report said, capitalism has been bad news for many countries that have emerged from what was the Soviet Union. Nearly all those countries had highly developed public health systems, it said, and a transportation infrastructure and literacy rates that often surpassed some in Western Europe. Life expectancy rates had been rising under communism, it noted.
Today, those trends have largely been reversed, and the report cites an entire brigade of apocalyptic horsemen besieging the survivors of communism.
your qoute:... but I'll wager the people in these and many other countries feel they have benefited from being saved from communism.
How much?
For example, in the Serbian military conflict... the Americans went out of their way to use precision military technology to destroy only military targets and to avoid hitting civilian targets like hospitals and schools. Sure, that's why the US use so many nuclear enhanced weapons, which have a detrimental efffect on surroundings and people for decades to come.
So what are you saying -- that the EU is worried that if they don't keep up on their weapons research, we're going to sail across the pond and blow them to smithereens?
First of all, why shouldn't some EU citizens or countries be worried, after all, the Dutch could be, since the US already has a law enacted that allows them to invade The Hague and free (sic) US soldiers kept by the ICC for war crimes. Very nice thing to do to an ally (even one that supports the invasion and occupation of Iraq).
Second, the big countries in the EU (France, UK, Germany) don't need the incentive of the US to blow away billions on military research, but the exemple of the US propably makes them spend more. The other countries are being constantly reminded by the US that they should be spending more money on military research and development, albeit it that they're being reminded even more that they could also spend it on US military products.
True story: I work as an IT assistant for an European ad agency, with some American coworkers. One of them came to me not long ago, because his Kazaa didn't work any more. After I explained that the networkguy blocked that traffic and asked him if he had the rights to that music,
he had the same response:" but I paid for it" (meaning, of course, Kazaa). This is not a dumbass, and you can tell me, how should someone who only uses the internet as a place for entertainment know the difference between subscribtionbased music services and Kazaa? It comes down to the same thing for them: you pay, you get access to music.
Some games are filled with Trappist monks who barely utter a word to each other, aside from the odd grunt or heavy breathing when the microphone is too close to someone's mouth
: ) Some people have turned trash talking into an art form, almost all of which cannot be repeated here
seems like a few slashdotters have an Xbox
Educational spending on computers is at a historical low in Belgium, and I figure most other contries too since the dot.com.bubble.burst. No way there's an iMac in a classroom of a small school. Not even an eMac. And as we all now : elementary schools pave the path to highschools. What kids liearn at age 10, is what they want at age 15.
They're many iMacs in the classrooms of small schools, even in Belgium. In the Southern part of the country, iMacs are everywhere and still today Apple is looking for ways to get more iMacs (original G3 ones) into them schools.
For those of you who understand French (yes, I realize that's a long shot) you can read for yourselves:
http://www.apple.com/befr/education/schools/cybers chools/
But wouldn't there be a problem with only two birds to go with a million potatos's?
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Apple already had those ideas, it even had a little bit of the technology needed to bring it to the "normal" computeruser of that day (you have to admit that's a bit different than the PARC setting).
Raskin, the father of the mac spend some time at PARC years before and already knew a lot of those things.
Despite being a macfanatic, I too thought the ripped it all from PARC, untill I read in Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane by Michael S. Malone, which has a rather detailed chapter about that period. (2 posts, 2 plugs for the same book, Malone, where are my royalties;) )
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Xerox did pursue legal action against Apple, for one. This and lots of other stuff about Apple, but also about the origins and evolution of Silicon Vally, and thus also PARC, Apple, Intel,... I read in Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane by Michael S. Malone. (No link to Amazon, because they're (temporarily) out of it.) Contrary to the title it's certainly not only about Apple and gave me more info about tthe information revolution than anything I read before.
I'm I the only one who like to grab texts
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you can read about tabs all you want, but I'll think i'll switch back to IE or Navigator if can't grab text with Safari soon.
Don't you gusy do that? I mean drag en drop, that's what it's all about, no? It looks to me that Apple isn't as focused any more on the ease of use (issues with dock, changing the shortcuts from 10.1 to Jaguar). Don't get me wrong, I love X but Apple needs more consistency.
In some parts of Flanders (they speak Dutch over there), its called "frog", well not actually frog but kicker or kikker, where the second is a the dutch for...frog. In the Netherlands is some whatr more boring called tafelvoetbal which as you can guess by now due to your fastgrowning knowledge of Dutch is just like you'd called tablesoccer.
Belgium is a far more democratic country than Iraq, elections aren't faked in Belgium. If you think that some issues aren't fully adressed by the government, do it yourself, speak out, why is it that your mail doesn't state any issue?
We don't have a left government, we don't even have a leftwing government, it's politically in the center, but liberal for the US readers. Youre just making up excuses to vote on Vlaams Blok next year and not feel to guilty if they turn Flanders/Belgium in a oneparty state, much like...Iraq.
Read it from an independant source.
Preface of the 2002 Amnesty international report on human rights in Iraq: "Scores of people, including possible prisoners of conscience and armed forces officers suspected of planning to overthrow the government, were executed. Scores of suspected anti-government opponents, including people suspected of having contacts with opposition groups in exile, were arrested. The fate and whereabouts of most of those arrested, including those detained in previous years, remained unknown. Several people were given lengthy prison terms after grossly unfair trials before special courts. Torture and ill-treatment of political prisoners and detainees were systematic. The two Kurdish political parties controlling Iraqi Kurdistan detained prisoners of conscience, and armed political groups were reportedly responsible for abductions and killings" (http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/mde/iraq!Op en)
Now, you anonymous coward, the preface of the one on Belgium: "There were new allegations that criminal suspects were ill-treated by law enforcement officers and that asylum-seekers were ill-treated during forcible deportation operations. By the end of 2001 no one had been brought to justice in connection with the death in 1998 of an asylum-seeker who was asphyxiated after gendarmes pressed a cushion over her face during forcible deportation. There was concern that the treatment of detained child asylum-seekers, who included unaccompanied minors, was not in line with international standards on the treatment of children. There was also concern that new administrative measures introduced to accelerate asylum procedures had eroded access to fair and impartial refugee determination procedures. The level of prison overcrowding, together with understaffing, prompted strikes by prison guards. Four Rwandese nationals were convicted in Belgium of war crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994. A parliamentary inquiry concluded that members of the Belgian government and other Belgian participants were ''morally responsible'' for the circumstances leading to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, seven months after he became the first democratically elected prime minister of the newly independent African state of Congo, but found no evidence that they had ordered his ''physical elimination''." (http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/eur/belgium !Open)
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why not have a few more Xserves, I mean they already have the infrastructure for that much heat/power/room, so why don't they supersize the Big Mac?
I can't believe this isn't rated as a troll but there I go.
...because i'm too ingraned in the Windows way of doing it... Whilst Linux on the desktop might not be totally there, it's biggest problem is not that, but of people like me who don't have the patience to learn how to do the things (that they can do really quickly under Windows) differently.
The problem I came across was that I couldn't do anything I wanted to. I could see where I wanted to go (I wanted to hit the slopes dammit!) but I completely lacked the skill required to get there. After half a day, I'm ashamed to say I gave up. I was only there for 3 days and i'd wasted some of that precious time getting absolutely nowhere. So I put on my ski's, hit the reds and blacks and had a fantastic 2.5 days.
So what you're saying is that you wanted to be able to do something (something that has some resemblance to something else you know) but gave up after half a day because you didn't want to waste your time any more (how somebody can waste their time with learning something new is beyond me).
Boo -fucking- hoo
Ever imagined that for a newbie that's the same wether it's Windows, Linux or Mac?
So stay in your fricking windows world. I mean I use Mac and doing things in most linux distros seems a hell of lot easier then doing them on Windows.
Sorry for all other slashdotters but I do helpdeskwork and had some shitty windows crap waste the better part of my day.
The response from people at ifpi , our local RIAA is that users shouldn't expect that their CDs work in their car stereo (main problem for the average belgian joe) is because car manufacturers use CD-ROMplayers in their cars and no music CDplayers (please don't flame me, it's their words, not mine).
I've searched their site but haven't seen that response listed anywhere, but that's not really strange because their entire piracysection (with subsection for facts, CD-R and internet) are "to be defined" since that section went onto their site months ago.
But on (flemish) TV this is the mantra of the IFPI spokepeople, and with t -my guess is- they're trying to divert the rage of average belgian joe who just bought a CD that doesn't play in his car from the CDproducers to the carmanifacturers (they should have given you a real CDplayer with your car).
Arh, normally I would just say fuck'm , don't buy their crap; but now I'm pissed at their disinformation and want to see them judged for the smegheads the are.
Maybe they already have a device that blows all the fuses (if you huh? RTFA), so they can destroy all our data
Great security feature I must say, very James Bond, get caught, press a button and boem all the evidence... gone
let's see, Sherlock, iTunes, IPhoto albums,...
So it what way do the people in these and many other countries feel they have benefited from being saved from communism ?
The quotes you gave from the same article don't give any support for the claim that these people have benefitted from being saved from communism.
article from the International Herald Tribune :
Essentially, the report said, capitalism has been bad news for many countries that have emerged from what was the Soviet Union. Nearly all those countries had highly developed public health systems, it said, and a transportation infrastructure and literacy rates that often surpassed some in Western Europe. Life expectancy rates had been rising under communism, it noted.
Today, those trends have largely been reversed, and the report cites an entire brigade of apocalyptic horsemen besieging the survivors of communism.
your qoute:... but I'll wager the people in these and many other countries feel they have benefited from being saved from communism.
How much?
For example, in the Serbian military conflict ... the Americans went out of their way to use precision military technology to destroy only military targets and to avoid hitting civilian targets like hospitals and schools.
Sure, that's why the US use so many nuclear enhanced weapons, which have a detrimental efffect on surroundings and people for decades to come.
So what are you saying -- that the EU is worried that if they don't keep up on their weapons research, we're going to sail across the pond and blow them to smithereens?
First of all, why shouldn't some EU citizens or countries be worried, after all, the Dutch could be, since the US already has a law enacted that allows them to invade The Hague and free (sic) US soldiers kept by the ICC for war crimes. Very nice thing to do to an ally (even one that supports the invasion and occupation of Iraq).
Second, the big countries in the EU (France, UK, Germany) don't need the incentive of the US to blow away billions on military research, but the exemple of the US propably makes them spend more. The other countries are being constantly reminded by the US that they should be spending more money on military research and development, albeit it that they're being reminded even more that they could also spend it on US military products.
True story: I work as an IT assistant for an European ad agency, with some American coworkers. One of them came to me not long ago, because his Kazaa didn't work any more. After I explained that the networkguy blocked that traffic and asked him if he had the rights to that music, he had the same response:" but I paid for it" (meaning, of course, Kazaa). This is not a dumbass, and you can tell me, how should someone who only uses the internet as a place for entertainment know the difference between subscribtionbased music services and Kazaa? It comes down to the same thing for them: you pay, you get access to music.
It's even on google news now. With 666 other links...
Maybe not, CNN said that 10 nuclear plants shut down because they had no where to go with their power
CNN just reported that the FBI is looking into that.
Some games are filled with Trappist monks who barely utter a word to each other, aside from the odd grunt or heavy breathing when the microphone is too close to someone's mouth
: )
Some people have turned trash talking into an art form, almost all of which cannot be repeated here
seems like a few slashdotters have an Xbox
Educational spending on computers is at a historical low in Belgium, and I figure most other contries too since the dot.com.bubble.burst. No way there's an iMac in a classroom of a small school. Not even an eMac. And as we all now : elementary schools pave the path to highschools. What kids liearn at age 10, is what they want at age 15.s chools/
They're many iMacs in the classrooms of small schools, even in Belgium. In the Southern part of the country, iMacs are everywhere and still today Apple is looking for ways to get more iMacs (original G3 ones) into them schools. For those of you who understand French (yes, I realize that's a long shot) you can read for yourselves: http://www.apple.com/befr/education/schools/cyber
Even worse, we share a border with the Germans and the French too, which is IMHO a bit worse then the Dutch.
Damn, I was going to wear that. I'll just have to wear my other uniform then ;-)
But wouldn't there be a problem with only two birds to go with a million potatos's?
Apple already had those ideas, it even had a little bit of the technology needed to bring it to the "normal" computeruser of that day (you have to admit that's a bit different than the PARC setting). Raskin, the father of the mac spend some time at PARC years before and already knew a lot of those things. Despite being a macfanatic, I too thought the ripped it all from PARC, untill I read in Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane by Michael S. Malone, which has a rather detailed chapter about that period. (2 posts, 2 plugs for the same book, Malone, where are my royalties ;) )
Xerox did pursue legal action against Apple, for one. This and lots of other stuff about Apple, but also about the origins and evolution of Silicon Vally, and thus also PARC, Apple, Intel, ... I read in Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane by Michael S. Malone. (No link to Amazon, because they're (temporarily) out of it.) Contrary to the title it's certainly not only about Apple and gave me more info about tthe information revolution than anything I read before.
you can read about tabs all you want, but I'll think i'll switch back to IE or Navigator if can't grab text with Safari soon. Don't you gusy do that? I mean drag en drop, that's what it's all about, no? It looks to me that Apple isn't as focused any more on the ease of use (issues with dock, changing the shortcuts from 10.1 to Jaguar). Don't get me wrong, I love X but Apple needs more consistency.
Probably it was just 240 lines before Marketing got it's hands on it ;)
In some parts of Flanders (they speak Dutch over there), its called "frog", well not actually frog but kicker or kikker, where the second is a the dutch for ...frog. In the Netherlands is some whatr more boring called tafelvoetbal which as you can guess by now due to your fastgrowning knowledge of Dutch is just like you'd called tablesoccer.
What OS where they using in the USSR anyway? I know it's a bit off topic, but I wondered about that last week and maybe one of you guys might know.
Belgium is a far more democratic country than Iraq, elections aren't faked in Belgium. If you think that some issues aren't fully adressed by the government, do it yourself, speak out, why is it that your mail doesn't state any issue? We don't have a left government, we don't even have a leftwing government, it's politically in the center, but liberal for the US readers. Youre just making up excuses to vote on Vlaams Blok next year and not feel to guilty if they turn Flanders/Belgium in a oneparty state, much like ...Iraq.
Read it from an independant source.
Preface of the 2002 Amnesty international report on human rights in Iraq: "Scores of people, including possible prisoners of conscience and armed forces officers suspected of planning to overthrow the government, were executed. Scores of suspected anti-government opponents, including people suspected of having contacts with opposition groups in exile, were arrested. The fate and whereabouts of most of those arrested, including those detained in previous years, remained unknown. Several people were given lengthy prison terms after grossly unfair trials before special courts. Torture and ill-treatment of political prisoners and detainees were systematic. The two Kurdish political parties controlling Iraqi Kurdistan detained prisoners of conscience, and armed political groups were reportedly responsible for abductions and killings" (http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/mde/iraq!Op en)
Now, you anonymous coward, the preface of the one on Belgium: "There were new allegations that criminal suspects were ill-treated by law enforcement officers and that asylum-seekers were ill-treated during forcible deportation operations. By the end of 2001 no one had been brought to justice in connection with the death in 1998 of an asylum-seeker who was asphyxiated after gendarmes pressed a cushion over her face during forcible deportation. There was concern that the treatment of detained child asylum-seekers, who included unaccompanied minors, was not in line with international standards on the treatment of children. There was also concern that new administrative measures introduced to accelerate asylum procedures had eroded access to fair and impartial refugee determination procedures. The level of prison overcrowding, together with understaffing, prompted strikes by prison guards. Four Rwandese nationals were convicted in Belgium of war crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994. A parliamentary inquiry concluded that members of the Belgian government and other Belgian participants were ''morally responsible'' for the circumstances leading to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, seven months after he became the first democratically elected prime minister of the newly independent African state of Congo, but found no evidence that they had ordered his ''physical elimination''." (http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/eur/belgium !Open)
See any difference?