Who is this "we" you speak of? Or rather, what can you, "Lord Bitman" specifically do to prevent such an action? Nothing. You can, of course, play an activist on slashdot and pretend you are taking a stand by writing a two-line essay that is ill-conceived. Good for you.
It is not your lack of knowledge of history and international affairs that annoys me, it is your insistance on having an opinion even though you don't understand the subject.
SIPPhone is very expensive as voip services go. Check out voiptalk.co.uk or gradwell.net. Don't be put off that they're in the UK, latency is really a non-issue nowadays with the proper codec.
I actually am an owner of a company that used to be a Suse and later on a Novell partner. Something in the past year did not make sense in their strategy (cannot really go into details but let's just say it's not good to know that what really is your best brand becomes in essence a free product really fucking up your marketing in a day - generally speaking partners who pay 1500eur a year for basically marketing and advance strategic info don't appreciate learning of Openexchange being dumped - stupid imo - and Suse becoming free).
KDE really is superior. I have some installations of NLD and I have chosen KDE over Gnome. I really have not regretted this choice. I can see no area in which Gnome is better than KDE other than configuration focus and, to be honest, I quite like KDE's configurability. A locked-down user (ie one who does not have access to the root password) can do whatever the hell they want on their area, configuring it the way they like while all admin stuff are very well protected. Gnome is just bland, no matter how much configuration goes into it.
Technically speaking, KDE is so far ahead it's actually embarassing. NOTHING is happening on Gnome. No long term drive, whereas the KDE people are actually going on to fight Vista with KDE4.
Greeks consider there to be a continuity in Greek culture from proto-historical civilisations on what is currently Greek soil all the way to current era. Since, historically, every single civilisation that conquered Greece was later assimilated by them (Romans would be an excellent example, actually), that would appear to be the correct way of going through things.
Quick install? Errr, no. It took me half an hour to do a one-cd install of Ubuntu, the exact same time I did a dvd install of Mandriva 2006. And Mandriva installed a shitload more software. I like Ubuntu but it's not really "fast to install".
I thought democracy meant one person one vote, of course I might be wrong. Maybe it's one dollar one vote nowadays. So, yes, in that case, yes, the US IS the world's biggest democracy.
You think I give a shit if I "look bad"? Oh my, LET'S THINK OF THE KARMA! If everyone put down those stupid memetic replies,/. would be a better place, but what the fuck, let's just accept/. for what it is, a place for idiots to just repeat the same "jokes".
Feel free to reply with "If you don't like it here, leave", that would indeed be the idiotic comment to top them all.
Why is it that you feel the need to justify an idiotic - slashbotical if you will- comment by unfunilly replying to a comment pointing out that the comment in question was indeed idiotic? Was that the most insightful comment you could muster? If yes, why did you bother?
I mean, I don't want to be rude or anything but what the hell drove you to press "submit" after having written an idiotic comment like that? What is its purpose? Who do you think would find it funny? Do YOU find it funny? I really am not trolling, I just cannot understand the mindset of someone who recycles the same stupid joke again and again.
Eudora was MILES ahead of Outlook Express. They somehow fucked up on marketing (they still do, I think they're not really interested in selling Eudora anymore) and the product stagnated. For a while, Eudora was the standard for emailers in Windows.
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You are an idiot, and I say this with great admiration for your great accomplishment.
Who is this "we" you speak of? Or rather, what can you, "Lord Bitman" specifically do to prevent such an action? Nothing. You can, of course, play an activist on slashdot and pretend you are taking a stand by writing a two-line essay that is ill-conceived. Good for you.
Yes, there is a reason not to encourage humour. It's when it's not funny.
Frankly, after the invasion of Iraq I wish we'd stop doing business with you. Our relationship with the US is nothing to be proud of.
"Macedonians" are Slavs. Nothing to do with Greeks.
It is not your lack of knowledge of history and international affairs that annoys me, it is your insistance on having an opinion even though you don't understand the subject.
How about left?
SIPPhone is very expensive as voip services go. Check out voiptalk.co.uk or gradwell.net. Don't be put off that they're in the UK, latency is really a non-issue nowadays with the proper codec.
KDE really is superior. I have some installations of NLD and I have chosen KDE over Gnome. I really have not regretted this choice. I can see no area in which Gnome is better than KDE other than configuration focus and, to be honest, I quite like KDE's configurability. A locked-down user (ie one who does not have access to the root password) can do whatever the hell they want on their area, configuring it the way they like while all admin stuff are very well protected. Gnome is just bland, no matter how much configuration goes into it.
Technically speaking, KDE is so far ahead it's actually embarassing. NOTHING is happening on Gnome. No long term drive, whereas the KDE people are actually going on to fight Vista with KDE4.
This is an extremely sensible point from a business point of view. This really makes sense.
Greeks consider there to be a continuity in Greek culture from proto-historical civilisations on what is currently Greek soil all the way to current era. Since, historically, every single civilisation that conquered Greece was later assimilated by them (Romans would be an excellent example, actually), that would appear to be the correct way of going through things.
This is not what the Microsoft tool does at all.
Care to point us to where you've seen this before?
Quick install? Errr, no. It took me half an hour to do a one-cd install of Ubuntu, the exact same time I did a dvd install of Mandriva 2006. And Mandriva installed a shitload more software. I like Ubuntu but it's not really "fast to install".
Russia.
Very eloquent. I bow to your powers of persuasion.
I thought democracy meant one person one vote, of course I might be wrong. Maybe it's one dollar one vote nowadays. So, yes, in that case, yes, the US IS the world's biggest democracy.
India is the world's biggest democracy.
They'll be pushing for their interests, just like your government is pushing for yours. The world can self-regulate without the custody of the US.
Feel free to reply with "If you don't like it here, leave", that would indeed be the idiotic comment to top them all.
Why is it that you feel the need to justify an idiotic - slashbotical if you will- comment by unfunilly replying to a comment pointing out that the comment in question was indeed idiotic? Was that the most insightful comment you could muster? If yes, why did you bother?
I mean, I don't want to be rude or anything but what the hell drove you to press "submit" after having written an idiotic comment like that? What is its purpose? Who do you think would find it funny? Do YOU find it funny? I really am not trolling, I just cannot understand the mindset of someone who recycles the same stupid joke again and again.
Eudora was MILES ahead of Outlook Express. They somehow fucked up on marketing (they still do, I think they're not really interested in selling Eudora anymore) and the product stagnated. For a while, Eudora was the standard for emailers in Windows.
In real conversation such delay is nonexistant. I will, however, avoid calling people standing next to me lest my poor brain gets confused.
New movies / music are formulaic: check
Everything out there is crap: check
I can hardly imagine a post more conforming to the slashbot hive mentality. Congratulations for your rather incisive commentary sir!