I believe it should be closer to about 15 years, rather than the something like 90 odd years that I think it's at right now. I consider laws like the DMCA to be an abomination
Looks to me like you agree pretty much exactly with the pirate party, but you let a name stop you from voting for what you believe in.
Given how much you know about cephs, do you still eat calamari?
Semi-serious ethical question. As a SCUBA diver that's interacted with Octopus on a few occasions, I find I don't really have an appetite for them any more.
Also in my experience with printers and laptops, linux now has much wider hardware support than Win 7, especially if the hardware is more than a year or so old. Further to that you don't have to install hardware drivers, they tend to already be present and 'just work'.
"English cucumbers" (which apparently have no skin - what the hell?)
Likely a way of preparation - For a traditional tea you may take the skin off the cucumber before putting it into the delicate little sandwiches you serve.
Of course, IMHO, this takes away all the taste the (already watery) cucumber has left.
I know it'll get me shouted at but... there is wine.
Compatibility is obviously well under 100%, but you can get a fair number of games working.
This doesn't really take away from the main point because it is a lot of effort and I myself keep windows around for gaming, but it can be made to work if you've a mind to.
7 is at least two orders of magnitude better than the 9x series, and one above 2k and early XP... I'll agree.
But I've still seen it bluescreen. Or redscreen. Sure it may be bad drivers, but the fact they can *still* cause problems is not a good thing.
I keep win 7 around for games but for anything else I get frustrated at the lack of tools and useful software available at the click of a button, something I've got used to with Linux.
Slashdot doesn't allow you to delete anything you post.
That's true. Perhaps in future it will have to add that capability for European users.
It's not thinking before you post, either, if by the age of 30 you aren't embarassed of at least one thing you did a decade earlier then you haven't had any sort of life.
I would be seriously worried if that's the case, 112 is a europe-wide emergency number. If your provider is getting in the way of that service then they need a swift kick up the arse by the authorities.
You can block handsets from the network by IMEI, which helps reduce phone theft as stolen phones are liable to become useless if properly reported. The IMEI is part of the hardware and absolutely is reported to the network just as frequently as any SIM identification.
The same thing happened here yesterday, but I was a Gnome 2 user.
I found the new interface awful. There may well be some good ideas in there, BUT -
I like the task bar and make frequent use of it. Taking it away breaks part of the way I work. I like the notification area and make frequent use of it. Declaring it deprecated and hiding it breaks part of the way I work. I need to use a specific IM client. Giving empathy (not compatible with what I have to use) first class status and relegating all others to the (now hidden and deprecated) status bar is not useful and breaks part of the way I work. I like putting small shortcut icons in my top bar, instead of being forced to leave it blank, breaking part of the way I work.
Maybe I should be looking at changing my 'workflow' at some point. Maybe. But for me the quickest way back to productivity was to ditch gnome entirely and go to XFCE.
This is true. I walked by the OWS thing in manhattan last week. There were placards up that you'd expect - "Wall street stole my retirement" and other protests against wall street, then some about the 1%, and some against capitalism itself. Then there were a bunch of (chinese-looking) people holding signs urging everyone to boycott china, and it went weirder from there.
"and people like me saved our money and rented in overpriced shitholes for years until the bubble burst"
And yet we still lose out as interest rates are tiny and the whole economic system is rejiggered to keep the folks who overstretched in their homes and take our money to pay for it.
Make no mistake, being financially prudent in during the 00s boom was the real dumb move.
You don't have to go that exotic to find clueless pwners...
My home NAS box that I hacked debian on to had really weak passwords at first, and got pwned. The attacker made a ram disk and dumped a shoutcast server binary on to the machine. An x86 binary, on an ARM machine. It appears that they got stumped and gave up at that point.
Actually, a large part of being cool is having the confidence to do your own thing, regardless of external validation, which often then turns up of its own accord.
Of course there are other factors, having the confidence to dress up in a fursuit, for instance, does still not make you cool.
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Looks to me like you agree pretty much exactly with the pirate party, but you let a name stop you from voting for what you believe in.
More fool you.
Given how much you know about cephs, do you still eat calamari?
Semi-serious ethical question. As a SCUBA diver that's interacted with Octopus on a few occasions, I find I don't really have an appetite for them any more.
Not recognizing != bluescreen.
Also in my experience with printers and laptops, linux now has much wider hardware support than Win 7, especially if the hardware is more than a year or so old. Further to that you don't have to install hardware drivers, they tend to already be present and 'just work'.
there was a blern-hitting machine!
Likely a way of preparation - For a traditional tea you may take the skin off the cucumber before putting it into the delicate little sandwiches you serve.
Of course, IMHO, this takes away all the taste the (already watery) cucumber has left.
This excuse has become old.
Other operating systems *on the same hardware* either have better drivers or better driver isolation.
I know it'll get me shouted at but... there is wine.
Compatibility is obviously well under 100%, but you can get a fair number of games working.
This doesn't really take away from the main point because it is a lot of effort and I myself keep windows around for gaming, but it can be made to work if you've a mind to.
Stable?
7 is at least two orders of magnitude better than the 9x series, and one above 2k and early XP... I'll agree.
But I've still seen it bluescreen. Or redscreen. Sure it may be bad drivers, but the fact they can *still* cause problems is not a good thing.
I keep win 7 around for games but for anything else I get frustrated at the lack of tools and useful software available at the click of a button, something I've got used to with Linux.
This sort of bullshit is exactly why Europeans think the US is barking mad.
This sort of move would be flat out illegal, without any question, in most of europe.
That's true. Perhaps in future it will have to add that capability for European users.
It's not thinking before you post, either, if by the age of 30 you aren't embarassed of at least one thing you did a decade earlier then you haven't had any sort of life.
Or we could just let private individuals keep their dignity?
Nah, didn't think so, pointing and jeering is so much more fun.
I would be seriously worried if that's the case, 112 is a europe-wide emergency number. If your provider is getting in the way of that service then they need a swift kick up the arse by the authorities.
Look up IMEI.
You can block handsets from the network by IMEI, which helps reduce phone theft as stolen phones are liable to become useless if properly reported. The IMEI is part of the hardware and absolutely is reported to the network just as frequently as any SIM identification.
The same thing happened here yesterday, but I was a Gnome 2 user.
I found the new interface awful. There may well be some good ideas in there, BUT -
I like the task bar and make frequent use of it. Taking it away breaks part of the way I work.
I like the notification area and make frequent use of it. Declaring it deprecated and hiding it breaks part of the way I work.
I need to use a specific IM client. Giving empathy (not compatible with what I have to use) first class status and relegating all others to the (now hidden and deprecated) status bar is not useful and breaks part of the way I work.
I like putting small shortcut icons in my top bar, instead of being forced to leave it blank, breaking part of the way I work.
Maybe I should be looking at changing my 'workflow' at some point. Maybe. But for me the quickest way back to productivity was to ditch gnome entirely and go to XFCE.
Yeah.... not quite.
There are BSD user-space tools. The kernel is a combination of the BSD kernel, Mach and various other bits.
It's BSD-flavoured, but it's not BSD. Look up Darwin for more info.
Yup, because the whole stock market was a volatile mess before HFT came along, and now that we have this miracle mechanism, nothing EVAR goes wrong.
EVAR.
This is true. I walked by the OWS thing in manhattan last week. There were placards up that you'd expect - "Wall street stole my retirement" and other protests against wall street, then some about the 1%, and some against capitalism itself. Then there were a bunch of (chinese-looking) people holding signs urging everyone to boycott china, and it went weirder from there.
Also it's not really on Wall St any more.
"and people like me saved our money and rented in overpriced shitholes for years until the bubble burst"
And yet we still lose out as interest rates are tiny and the whole economic system is rejiggered to keep the folks who overstretched in their homes and take our money to pay for it.
Make no mistake, being financially prudent in during the 00s boom was the real dumb move.
You don't have to go that exotic to find clueless pwners...
My home NAS box that I hacked debian on to had really weak passwords at first, and got pwned. The attacker made a ram disk and dumped a shoutcast server binary on to the machine. An x86 binary, on an ARM machine. It appears that they got stumped and gave up at that point.
I'm not from the USA, and outside of a few notable exceptions (Canada, Spain) downloading is copyright violation.
Actually, a large part of being cool is having the confidence to do your own thing, regardless of external validation, which often then turns up of its own accord.
Of course there are other factors, having the confidence to dress up in a fursuit, for instance, does still not make you cool.
Then you were always wrong. There have historically been harsher penalties for distribution, but downloading is still a copyright violation.
Not to mention that most people using P2P upload anyway.
No wait, I rolled out the snark early, they have removed it for the Lumia. Which is retarded.
They really are on the path to self destruction.
Uh... I had a front facing camera about 5 years ago on an N70. The N9 also has a front facing camera, so it's pretty likely that the Lumia has one.
Just 'cos the iPhone waited until version 4 last year to add a front camera, doesn't mean the rest of the world went without.
Why not do both?
"I was playing within the rules" is a lame excuse for being an asshole.
As an extreme example - when slavery was legal, was it immoral and wrong to keep slaves? Hell yes, regardless of rules.