And you must be American, filled with myths about the Europeans being this way or the other.
I have some news for you. Europe has a huge population, violently pro-US (UK et al), neutral, slightly anti-US (France). Same thing with the feelings towards the Israeli/Palestine conflict, with a tendency to be critical of brutality, which can be found on both sides, but sanctioned among the Israeli and frowned upon by the Joe Palestinian.
Since you don't read newspapers, even Bush and Blair condemn Israel's violence and humiliation tactics. What does your comment make you? Both uneducated AND unaware of your favourite president's view on the issue.
That is a silly essay, full of lies and assumes a certain way of thinking not found in countries that doesn't use a dead king's body parts as measurements, sorry.
Instead we use exponents of 10 as the number
And why the F do you want to bring up the example of dividing a meter into three parts as an example? My guess is because a yard is three feet, how convenient.
Well how about this, split a yard in 4 parts and using two decimals state its exact length in inches. Or to make it easier for you, since we use exponents of 10 in all modern civilisations, I let you divide a yard in 10 parts. How many inches is that?
If you by tradition are used to some other system than the decimal, like the sumerian 12 (i think) and Aztec 60, I apologise for my lack of respect (:
"...coffee at 185 degrees"
"holding the coffee cup between my legs while I removed the plastic lid"
"...jury awards me $2.9 million"
"...working as intended."
Thanks for proving my point.
Besides, if you have kids that splash boiling water on you, you have more serious problems than the temperature of a product that is supposed to be enjoyedand served... hot.
And by the way, measure the temperature of grilled food being served to you next time. Now would you imagine placing a steak (way hotter than a cup of coffee) between your legs while you remove the bone or cut it? Perhaps they need to start placing or stamping steaks with "Food may be hot" to avoid getting sued?
Nice try.
You work for McDonalds, boil water, wearing a Ronald mcDonald clown suit. I (a young man) pour the boiling water on myself at home. I get laughed out of court.
and
You work for McDonalds, boil water, wearing a Ronald mcDonald clown suit. I (now an elderly lady) pour boiling water on myself in a car a few miles away from a McDonalds restaurant. I sue and get awarded $160k.
On a more serious note, "product liability" taken to ridiculous extremes, with the similarly ridiculous disclaimers on every imaginable product and services is nothing but ammunition in a world where litigation is a business model more profitable than innovation and production.
I assume you are from the UK?
Well, you measure your weight in stones, and I won't even get into where that comes from... but it is pretty close to the origin of the inch. (:
- I decide to boil water and pour it on my lap. I go to court, suing the maker of the teapot: I would get laughed out of the court.
- You come to my house, boil water and _you_ pour it on my lap, I would sue you and get damages.
- You come to my house, boil water, and _I_ pour it on my lap. I go to court, suing you for boiling that water: I would get laughed out of court.
Change of scenario... Instead of me (a man), assume I am an elderly woman. Instead of my house, assume this takes place in a car. You (still) work at McDonalds.
212F is the temperature where water boils 32F where it freezes. Originally 100F was supposed to be the rectal temperature of a person, but it is closer to 98 and 99.
The system is based on the two highly logical numbers 212 and 32, because 32 was the number of toes that some english king had.
That same king had a feverish aunt, and that aunt gave inspiration to the definition of other measures. 100F was the rectal temperature of that aunt. A yard was the distance two of her paces moved her feet, that coincidentally were a third of the length of those two paces, hence the measure of the foot. When the king's mathematicians noticed a foot was almost exactly twelve times the length of the king's penis, they were certain this was a sign from God - a full circle from the king's penis and his aunt's rectum had been discovered!
They presented the findings, which formed the basis of the scales and measures used in UK and US still. Lately heretics denying the greatness of God have been using other blasphemical measures, a sure sign the terrorists have already won.
Idiot. No Iraqis flew into any buildings. It was Saudi-Arabians, which are allies with the US.
Al Quaida got support, training and materiel from USA for its purposes, which later backfired with stunning effect. More correctly, Al Quaida in its present form did not get support, but other related organisations did.
Same thing with Iraq - USA, France and other western european contres supported Iraq because they were fighting Iran. Backire!
The talibans in Afghanistan got support, because they happened to be fighting the russians. Backfired!
Basically it is a bad idea to pump money and weapons to organisations and countries that happen to be your enemy's enemy, because 10 years later they will turn against you. Weapons in the hands of idiots is always a bad thing, which means about 100% of the world's population.
Hot air: Since "SCO is pleased with the way the licensing program is moving along" they do not have to send the bills to the companies using Linux.
My guess: They are afraid to do so, since the first time someone refuses to pay up and claims this is fraud, or at the very least not valid, those who have paid would join up in a class act. There are also some US federal laws that make it illegal to send bills that are a fraud. SCO has probably judged they would 1: lose, 2: get bad press, stopping the rise in their share prices. Besides, they are probably rather happy with the money they are getting from Sun and Microsoft - the two companies that are benefitting the most from the SCO FUD program.
Seems Motorola is showing the way, along with HP and IBM - All of these big companies that I had some antipathy against before are now showing some courage... Guess they are large enough to ignore Microsoft or try alternatives, while the smaller ones are ending up in either the Symbian or Microsoft camps.
I hesitated whether I should respond to your trollish reply...
Linux on the desktop is, alas, not the "standard" and applications are usually not as well polished and working as well as they do in Windows. Mind you, the "polish" is of course to hide the junk behind. But as long as Windows doesn't suck immensely, which it doesn't it will do for me. I play a lot of games and they are primarily available for Windows, especially with the large effort put into the drivers.
I also wait for the day that Microsoft fails with, for example, Longhorn, people finally feel that a change has to happen and that they don't want to be controlled and have crap forced down their throats.
I want Linux (or MacOS, BSD, whatever) to be ready for that time, and I feel X is one of the things that need updating or replacing. Compare it with Apple's Quartz, with its responsiveness and how attractive Aqua etc can be run on it. Even Window is more responsive and faster than X, so clearly somethign has to be done, don't you agree?
My prediction was simply that something better than today's Linux/Gnu/X/Gnome/KDE will take over, but not yet.
If you see this as anti-open source or linux, I think you are more rabid than the usual people who snap at people who try to give a realistic view on how Open Source will take over. It won't happen overnight, I am afraid.
All Linux distros despite version and any tweaking refused to let me connect to my ISP, that uses a very easy script and log in sequence and also simple user and pass authentication.
Now I have had broadband for 3 years and I can finally reach the net.
All distros refused to recognise my laptop's sound card. On my desktop computer Mandrake 9.2 finally managed to work, with mediocre sound quality and totally screwed up volume settings and after some heavy tweaking.
Now my laptop is stolen and I gave up my tries to use Linux on my desktop, after 5 years of trying. I use Windows 2000, get good sound quality, apps that work, stability etc etc.
But I will never use Win2k as a server, that is where Linux and BSDs excel. With the way big business is now destroying Linux' possibilities (RH and KDE as well as the latest statement from RH for example) to expand to the desktops I predict Linux will not gain any mentionable share in the desktop market in the enxt 10 years. I think that MS balancing between acceptable and unacceptable user tracking and SW bloating will give enough momentum for a desktop alternative to emerge in around 10 years. This may, or may not, be a Linux or BSD (including Mac) derivative. But X has to be dumped and replaced before this can happen.
[i originally posted this reply in the wrong thread, doh]
All Linux distros despite version and any tweaking refused to let me connect to my ISP, that uses a very easy script and log in sequence and also simple user and pass authentication.
Now I have had broadband for 3 years and I can finally reach the net.
All distros refused to recognise my laptop's sound card. On my desktop computer Mandrake 9.2 finally managed to work, with mediocre sound quality and totally screwed up volume settings and after some heavy tweaking.
Now my laptop is stolen and I gave up my tries to use Linux on my desktop, after 5 years of trying. I use Windows 2000, get good sound quality, apps that work, stability etc etc.
But I will never use Win2k as a server, that is where Linux and BSDs excel. With the way big business is now destroying Linux' possibilities (RH and KDE as well as the latest statement from RH for example) to expand to the desktops I predict Linux will not gain any mentionable share in the desktop market in the enxt 10 years. I think that MS balancing between acceptable and unacceptable user tracking and SW bloating will give enough momentum for a desktop alternative to emerge in around 10 years. This may, or may not, be a Linux or BSD (including Mac) derivative. But X has to be dumped and replaced before this can happen.
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You insensitive clod.
Seriously, I feel that BSD is getting more support and press coverage compared to a year or two back.
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On my Linux server's console keyboard I have replaced the Windows keys with pushpins with the pin pointing up, ready to pierce the unsuspecting Windows users' fingers.
On my Windows computers I use it a lot, though - I am not a fanatic (:
Hint: It does more than raise the Start menu.
Sure there is.
Unless you see the file with explorer, with the default settings (hide registered dos extensions) AND you have registered.EEE as a known file type.
My guess is that this story has changed its exact form when passing between people, and that it restarts the service. I think few servers would restart in the short time where her two ring signal wait would make a difference.
Welcome to the real world; sometimes workarounds are necessary, when you are working funded by someone elses money - not in your parents' basement.
I feel dirty too, it's like men tapping the one power, in the Wheel if Time books.
Then again, the taint on my soul washes away, while AOL's communications bill for uploading the trailer 7583758785 times is for ever.
if they had read slashdot, they would have done all of these mistakes:
- They didn't find out if they can run Linux, not BSD, since it is dying. Or maybe they ran Linux, but the SCO license fees were too steep? Or maybe they didnt add the debian sources and do an apt-get to get updated packages to get good protection against worms and viruses?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these non-patched government servers!...which is kind of an utopia since the monopolistic evil Microsoft would stop that from happening anyway.
Perhaps their plan is simply to:
1. Run unpatched Windows servers for the visa approval system
2. Capture the visa thirsting masses
3. ?????
4. Profit!
Ah well, in soviet russia people get their visas on the black market - eliminating the problem with broken computer systems... and who needs computers anyway when a TiVO is much better??
Not that we care, we live outside USA, you insensitive clods! This post is a dupe anyway...
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And you must be American, filled with myths about the Europeans being this way or the other.
I have some news for you. Europe has a huge population, violently pro-US (UK et al), neutral, slightly anti-US (France). Same thing with the feelings towards the Israeli/Palestine conflict, with a tendency to be critical of brutality, which can be found on both sides, but sanctioned among the Israeli and frowned upon by the Joe Palestinian.
Since you don't read newspapers, even Bush and Blair condemn Israel's violence and humiliation tactics. What does your comment make you? Both uneducated AND unaware of your favourite president's view on the issue.
You got a point there, but I still like using exponents of 10.
That is a silly essay, full of lies and assumes a certain way of thinking not found in countries that doesn't use a dead king's body parts as measurements, sorry. Instead we use exponents of 10 as the number And why the F do you want to bring up the example of dividing a meter into three parts as an example? My guess is because a yard is three feet, how convenient. Well how about this, split a yard in 4 parts and using two decimals state its exact length in inches. Or to make it easier for you, since we use exponents of 10 in all modern civilisations, I let you divide a yard in 10 parts. How many inches is that? If you by tradition are used to some other system than the decimal, like the sumerian 12 (i think) and Aztec 60, I apologise for my lack of respect (:
"...coffee at 185 degrees" "holding the coffee cup between my legs while I removed the plastic lid" "...jury awards me $2.9 million" "...working as intended." Thanks for proving my point. Besides, if you have kids that splash boiling water on you, you have more serious problems than the temperature of a product that is supposed to be enjoyedand served... hot. And by the way, measure the temperature of grilled food being served to you next time. Now would you imagine placing a steak (way hotter than a cup of coffee) between your legs while you remove the bone or cut it? Perhaps they need to start placing or stamping steaks with "Food may be hot" to avoid getting sued? Nice try.
Ok, I make it easier for you.
You work for McDonalds, boil water, wearing a Ronald mcDonald clown suit.
I (a young man) pour the boiling water on myself at home.
I get laughed out of court.
and
You work for McDonalds, boil water, wearing a Ronald mcDonald clown suit.
I (now an elderly lady) pour boiling water on myself in a car a few miles away from a McDonalds restaurant.
I sue and get awarded $160k.
On a more serious note, "product liability" taken to ridiculous extremes, with the similarly ridiculous disclaimers on every imaginable product and services is nothing but ammunition in a world where litigation is a business model more profitable than innovation and production.
That is exactly why - Intel could have shown off the computer, built with Itanics as well as tripled sales rates och the cpu for this month.
I assume you are from the UK? Well, you measure your weight in stones, and I won't even get into where that comes from... but it is pretty close to the origin of the inch. (:
- I decide to boil water and pour it on my lap.
I go to court, suing the maker of the teapot: I would get laughed out of the court.
- You come to my house, boil water and _you_ pour it on my lap, I would sue you and get damages.
- You come to my house, boil water, and _I_ pour it on my lap.
I go to court, suing you for boiling that water: I would get laughed out of court.
Change of scenario...
Instead of me (a man), assume I am an elderly woman.
Instead of my house, assume this takes place in a car.
You (still) work at McDonalds.
You boil water, I pour it on my lap.
???
Profit
Yes, that's F, which is defined like this:
212F is the temperature where water boils
32F where it freezes.
Originally 100F was supposed to be the rectal temperature of a person, but it is closer to 98 and 99.
The system is based on the two highly logical numbers 212 and 32, because 32 was the number of toes that some english king had.
That same king had a feverish aunt, and that aunt gave inspiration to the definition of other measures. 100F was the rectal temperature of that aunt. A yard was the distance two of her paces moved her feet, that coincidentally were a third of the length of those two paces, hence the measure of the foot. When the king's mathematicians noticed a foot was almost exactly twelve times the length of the king's penis, they were certain this was a sign from God - a full circle from the king's penis and his aunt's rectum had been discovered!
They presented the findings, which formed the basis of the scales and measures used in UK and US still. Lately heretics denying the greatness of God have been using other blasphemical measures, a sure sign the terrorists have already won.
Idiot. No Iraqis flew into any buildings. It was Saudi-Arabians, which are allies with the US. Al Quaida got support, training and materiel from USA for its purposes, which later backfired with stunning effect. More correctly, Al Quaida in its present form did not get support, but other related organisations did. Same thing with Iraq - USA, France and other western european contres supported Iraq because they were fighting Iran. Backire! The talibans in Afghanistan got support, because they happened to be fighting the russians. Backfired! Basically it is a bad idea to pump money and weapons to organisations and countries that happen to be your enemy's enemy, because 10 years later they will turn against you. Weapons in the hands of idiots is always a bad thing, which means about 100% of the world's population.
Hot air: Since "SCO is pleased with the way the licensing program is moving along" they do not have to send the bills to the companies using Linux.
My guess: They are afraid to do so, since the first time someone refuses to pay up and claims this is fraud, or at the very least not valid, those who have paid would join up in a class act. There are also some US federal laws that make it illegal to send bills that are a fraud. SCO has probably judged they would 1: lose, 2: get bad press, stopping the rise in their share prices. Besides, they are probably rather happy with the money they are getting from Sun and Microsoft - the two companies that are benefitting the most from the SCO FUD program.
Seems Motorola is showing the way, along with HP and IBM - All of these big companies that I had some antipathy against before are now showing some courage... Guess they are large enough to ignore Microsoft or try alternatives, while the smaller ones are ending up in either the Symbian or Microsoft camps.
I hesitated whether I should respond to your trollish reply... Linux on the desktop is, alas, not the "standard" and applications are usually not as well polished and working as well as they do in Windows. Mind you, the "polish" is of course to hide the junk behind. But as long as Windows doesn't suck immensely, which it doesn't it will do for me. I play a lot of games and they are primarily available for Windows, especially with the large effort put into the drivers. I also wait for the day that Microsoft fails with, for example, Longhorn, people finally feel that a change has to happen and that they don't want to be controlled and have crap forced down their throats. I want Linux (or MacOS, BSD, whatever) to be ready for that time, and I feel X is one of the things that need updating or replacing. Compare it with Apple's Quartz, with its responsiveness and how attractive Aqua etc can be run on it. Even Window is more responsive and faster than X, so clearly somethign has to be done, don't you agree? My prediction was simply that something better than today's Linux/Gnu/X/Gnome/KDE will take over, but not yet. If you see this as anti-open source or linux, I think you are more rabid than the usual people who snap at people who try to give a realistic view on how Open Source will take over. It won't happen overnight, I am afraid.
All Linux distros despite version and any tweaking refused to let me connect to my ISP, that uses a very easy script and log in sequence and also simple user and pass authentication. Now I have had broadband for 3 years and I can finally reach the net. All distros refused to recognise my laptop's sound card. On my desktop computer Mandrake 9.2 finally managed to work, with mediocre sound quality and totally screwed up volume settings and after some heavy tweaking. Now my laptop is stolen and I gave up my tries to use Linux on my desktop, after 5 years of trying. I use Windows 2000, get good sound quality, apps that work, stability etc etc. But I will never use Win2k as a server, that is where Linux and BSDs excel. With the way big business is now destroying Linux' possibilities (RH and KDE as well as the latest statement from RH for example) to expand to the desktops I predict Linux will not gain any mentionable share in the desktop market in the enxt 10 years. I think that MS balancing between acceptable and unacceptable user tracking and SW bloating will give enough momentum for a desktop alternative to emerge in around 10 years. This may, or may not, be a Linux or BSD (including Mac) derivative. But X has to be dumped and replaced before this can happen. [i originally posted this reply in the wrong thread, doh]
All Linux distros despite version and any tweaking refused to let me connect to my ISP, that uses a very easy script and log in sequence and also simple user and pass authentication. Now I have had broadband for 3 years and I can finally reach the net. All distros refused to recognise my laptop's sound card. On my desktop computer Mandrake 9.2 finally managed to work, with mediocre sound quality and totally screwed up volume settings and after some heavy tweaking. Now my laptop is stolen and I gave up my tries to use Linux on my desktop, after 5 years of trying. I use Windows 2000, get good sound quality, apps that work, stability etc etc. But I will never use Win2k as a server, that is where Linux and BSDs excel. With the way big business is now destroying Linux' possibilities (RH and KDE as well as the latest statement from RH for example) to expand to the desktops I predict Linux will not gain any mentionable share in the desktop market in the enxt 10 years. I think that MS balancing between acceptable and unacceptable user tracking and SW bloating will give enough momentum for a desktop alternative to emerge in around 10 years. This may, or may not, be a Linux or BSD (including Mac) derivative. But X has to be dumped and replaced before this can happen.
You insensitive clod. Seriously, I feel that BSD is getting more support and press coverage compared to a year or two back.
...does it run Linux?
But it is still a good joke, you insensitive clod!
In Soviet Russia workers spit on Slashdotters!
On my Linux server's console keyboard I have replaced the Windows keys with pushpins with the pin pointing up, ready to pierce the unsuspecting Windows users' fingers. On my Windows computers I use it a lot, though - I am not a fanatic (: Hint: It does more than raise the Start menu.
Sure there is. Unless you see the file with explorer, with the default settings (hide registered dos extensions) AND you have registered .EEE as a known file type.
My guess is that this story has changed its exact form when passing between people, and that it restarts the service. I think few servers would restart in the short time where her two ring signal wait would make a difference. Welcome to the real world; sometimes workarounds are necessary, when you are working funded by someone elses money - not in your parents' basement.
Does teh dvorak keyboard acceRerate your typing, just as teh qwerty keyboard makes me spell teh word "teh" as "teh"
I feel dirty too, it's like men tapping the one power, in the Wheel if Time books. Then again, the taint on my soul washes away, while AOL's communications bill for uploading the trailer 7583758785 times is for ever.
if they had read slashdot, they would have done all of these mistakes: - They didn't find out if they can run Linux, not BSD, since it is dying. Or maybe they ran Linux, but the SCO license fees were too steep? Or maybe they didnt add the debian sources and do an apt-get to get updated packages to get good protection against worms and viruses? Imagine a beowulf cluster of these non-patched government servers! ...which is kind of an utopia since the monopolistic evil Microsoft would stop that from happening anyway.
Perhaps their plan is simply to:
1. Run unpatched Windows servers for the visa approval system
2. Capture the visa thirsting masses
3. ?????
4. Profit!
Ah well, in soviet russia people get their visas on the black market - eliminating the problem with broken computer systems... and who needs computers anyway when a TiVO is much better??
Not that we care, we live outside USA, you insensitive clods! This post is a dupe anyway...
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