About 4 years ago, a US visitor here (UK) was shocked to see that nearly everyone had mobile phones,
even the kids and the poor people.
But my favourite story is from about 12 years ago, and a US visitor was again amazed that we had microwave ovens too:)
The US is so big and there is so much variety, they can afford to be a bit more insular than the rest of us I guess:)
If end users have to mess with their classpath its the developers fault not Java's. If that's your main point which you've thought about then you may want to try learn a bit more about it..
If a song is good enough to still earn money after 50 years, the copyright holder is probably richer than his wildest dreams. After-all plenty of one-hit wonders out there, where the artist got screwed over in the contract.
Yeah, how many girlfriends have you had that like you to pull out at the last minute and come on their face, cause thats what they ALL do in porn (except cream-pies), so that must be normal
Deep down we probably all want to goose the secretary and jump on her bones, but society teaches us to balance that with pretending to be interested in her character. Over exposure to porn with impressionable young minds makes this difficult balancing act even harder...
The problem I found with Beagle is that it added loads of weird extended attributes to my file system.
When I happened to copy a file (that had been indexed by Beagle) from one FS to another, it would copy the contents and then give a weird "Operation not supported" error, and result in the final exit value of the command (mv,cp etc) being non-zero.
Details here
Or here if you want to cut the pre-amble
I was actually warming to desktop searching inside PDF's and emails in one go, but this made me beat a hasty retreat back into my corner...
A lot of meetings are a complete waste of time, especially ones that are regularly scheduled.
I would agree with this, except for one occasion I remember we were on a very tight schedule for the final delivery of a project. The project manager introduced something we called 'Daily Prayers'.
Every morning we had a meeting *strictly time limited to 15 minutes MAX* to raise any issues and track
progress. Often it just required confirmation that you are indeed still working on the bit you said you would be. It certainly helped us deliver on time, and we actually 'enjoyed' the meetings, they reminded be of the short playbook rehearsal & big hand shake a sports team might to before the game begins..
Oh, wait, you aren't citizens, but subjects. Your rights are privileges granted by the monarch, and so can be revoked at the pleasure of the government.
So you want to annihilate office, and then built an open-source utopia out of the ashes? Doesn't seem too practical to me. Maybe a better option would be to outcompete office, and let people switch of their own free choice. That's what worked for Firefox, which is basically the only OSS app that many ordinary people use.
1. Firefox did not succeed on being IE compatible. There are open standards for HTML etc. Firefox succeeded mainly by having better features than IE6. However Office is feature rich. It is a good product, and had to beat on features. The only real problem with MS office IS the "format lockin" , so the only real way to get away from it is to move away from that format to Open Document Standards. Just like how the Web is based on open standards. Trying to compete against office on features and retain MS Office compatibility is a no win situation for everyone except Microsoft and people that dont mind paying for office just because of vendor lock in and a few esoteric features.
FTA:"There are virtually no products Microsoft produces today that have not either taken technology from research, come directly out of research, or been built using the tools and technologies we've created in research," he says.
You only have to look at Internet Explorer's User Agent String. No.. wait..
The standard for a patent should not be whether or not effort went into coming up with a solution. The standard for a patent should be whether or not any other human being would have ever come up with that solution withen the length of the patent. Patents are a government granted monopoly and should not be granted on a daily basis!
It is interesting to note, a lot of inventions in the past were often invented in parallel by scientists working independently often in different countries using the same 'body of knowledge' and the patent bit, has literally been a 'first to the post' race. In essense progress has mostly been taking the next obvious step, (obvious to someone slaving away in that particular field of expertise)
Broadcom users on Linux should really be using the bcm43xx kernel module by now.
They want to , but bcm43xx is still unstable in long term use for some chips. It will work happily for a few hours, or even days and then something bad happens (ranging from dropped connections to panics). A lot of people have blacklisted this driver and gone back to Ndiswrapper , (eg new installs of Mandriva 2007, Ubuntu 6.06).
I personally had the bcm43xx drivers cause system instability with two very different machines and different broadcom chipsets. Going back to ndis made things stable again.
But Kudos to the bcm43xx developers, I hope they get this
cracked. although in the future, I'll make more of an effort to steer clear of Broadcom, both because of their lack of co-operation in supporting Linux AND this recent news.
That's exactly what I worry about with them. Leaving it logged in like they do leaves it open to exploits
Makes no difference wether they are one for 20 minutes, 2 hours, or 2 days. 'Duration' is not a security technique. Unprotecteded Windows machines get owned in 20 minutes. Protected ones dont get owned at at (without the end user helping).
Buy them a NAT router.
Which is why you need to use an encypting file system.
I keep all my good shit in a OpenOffice Writer document with a strong password. That way I can move it around, between
OS's, email it etc. No need to encrypt everything..
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About 4 years ago, a US visitor here (UK) was shocked to see that nearly everyone had mobile phones, even the kids and the poor people. But my favourite story is from about 12 years ago, and a US visitor was again amazed that we had microwave ovens too :)
The US is so big and there is so much variety, they can afford to be a bit more insular than the rest of us I guess :)
Theme Tune has to be Busta Rhymes - Turn It Up/Fire It Up.
If end users have to mess with their classpath its the developers fault not Java's. If that's your main point which you've thought about then you may want to try learn a bit more about it..
If a song is good enough to still earn money after 50 years, the copyright holder is probably richer than his wildest dreams. After-all plenty of one-hit wonders out there, where the artist got screwed over in the contract.
I bet she was fugly..
Yeah, how many girlfriends have you had that like you to pull out at the last minute and come on their face, cause thats what they ALL do in porn (except cream-pies), so that must be normal
Sex and sexuality != Porn on websites
Deep down we probably all want to goose the secretary and jump on her bones, but society teaches us to balance that with pretending to be interested in her character. Over exposure to porn with impressionable young minds makes this difficult balancing act even harder...
aria2 -s 5 big.arse.file
that made me think how few UK "big ass" porn titles there are. It's right but it just doesn't look right.
And new signups can still use '@gmail.com' as their domain. They just cant use gmail.co.uk ?
The problem I found with Beagle is that it added loads of weird extended attributes to my file system. When I happened to copy a file (that had been indexed by Beagle) from one FS to another, it would copy the contents and then give a weird "Operation not supported" error, and result in the final exit value of the command (mv,cp etc) being non-zero. Details here Or here if you want to cut the pre-amble I was actually warming to desktop searching inside PDF's and emails in one go, but this made me beat a hasty retreat back into my corner...
Don't you remember those pubescent boners that refused to go away? Those were the days!
I would agree with this, except for one occasion I remember we were on a very tight schedule for the final delivery of a project. The project manager introduced something we called 'Daily Prayers'. Every morning we had a meeting *strictly time limited to 15 minutes MAX* to raise any issues and track progress. Often it just required confirmation that you are indeed still working on the bit you said you would be. It certainly helped us deliver on time, and we actually 'enjoyed' the meetings, they reminded be of the short playbook rehearsal & big hand shake a sports team might to before the game begins..
Nice try
In other news, Slashdot User Id is not strictly proportional to IQ
It is interesting to note, a lot of inventions in the past were often invented in parallel by scientists working independently often in different countries using the same 'body of knowledge' and the patent bit, has literally been a 'first to the post' race. In essense progress has mostly been taking the next obvious step, (obvious to someone slaving away in that particular field of expertise)
I personally had the bcm43xx drivers cause system instability with two very different machines and different broadcom chipsets. Going back to ndis made things stable again.
But Kudos to the bcm43xx developers, I hope they get this cracked. although in the future, I'll make more of an effort to steer clear of Broadcom, both because of their lack of co-operation in supporting Linux AND this recent news.
Broadcom can join Canon on my shit list.
Join the coldest most calories restricted people.. the Cadaver Society. Oh wait.