Buenos Aires had coverage in the whole subway (it's called "Subte" over here) network for the last 5 years, they have upgraded to GSM last year, the cell equipment underground is provided by Nokia.
Excuse my bad english, is not my native tongue. Trust me i'm no M$ apologizer, i hate them as much as all./ers do. Linux sabotages itself, i've worked on a project to sell linux preinstalled on cheap boxes sold in my country, we wasted 3 months trying to develop a distro with a decent GUI. I never been so frustrated by the lack of common sense in the GNOME/KDE/Xfree communities, from problems like being unable to add a goddamn item to a gnome menu to the total confusion created by the mostly useless options in KDE , how is possible that linux users cannot fu**ing change the resolution color depth and refresh rate in realtime? Do a simple test, install XP and Gnome/KDE on the same machine, guess what, XP (i regret to say this and hope that someday this changes) is faster , i mean WAAAAY faster, everything is smoother everything works. Why can't this be done in Linux? I tend to blame X and it's ancient Client/Server architecture, i think that smething must be done to get rid of it or at least make it a modern technology with perhaps direct access to the hardware instead of the kludge of apis and interfaces required (kde/gnome/qt/gtk/ice/X/DRM/etc.etc) today. why can't the very capable OSS community come out with a solution like Apple Quartz did. I don't know much programming as to help or start any project, but i gladly donate to such a project. So it's not definitely M$ fault, Stop blaming M$ or others for all the shortcomings of Linux GUI development and rethink the whole idea.
Yes, the Game Industry Bullshit Index has gone straight to the top, i don't know if it's me reaching 30 years or eveyone feels the same, but i haven't seen an innovative video game concept for the last 2 years, every new game that they promote hard (FarCry, Doom3 etc etc) they are seem to be made to sell you ultra expensive 31337 H4x0R cutting edge (insert your favourite video card and/or CPU hardware maker here) hardware needed to play it. In fact like someone said in this thread all those cool effects can be made on 32bit CPU's, the game industry each day seems to follow the Film Industry paces, crappy gameplay with spectacular video effects, WHO F*CK want's it ??
GTA is an example of this, does anyone here remember the GTA1/2 Saga? I bet that those games were in fact innovative at the release moment? now take GTA3/San Andreas, it seems more and more bloated gameplay is a disaster, nice visual effects, but where is the innovation ? Oh, for sure you can go f*ck some chicks, good for the nerds to train themselves!.
Electronics Arts is the prime example of what should not be done in this game industry of today, more and more they adopt Micro$oft bullying tactics, f*ck gameplay, f*ck the people, pay the game and shut up.
This guy is a complete pain in the ass, he thinks of himself as he is the master-of-all-wisdoms-in-the-pc-biz, i remember almost puking 10 years ago while reading his columns in PC Magazine back in '94.
He's a petulant and a badass, i highly bet he badly needs some viagra or cialis (HEY VIAGRA SPAMMERS!! SEND HIM SOME MAIL!!).
All around the article you can see that the guy doesn't has the slightiest idea of what linux is or how it works.
If Microsoft actually produced an MS-Linux that was the standard Linux attached to the driver layer of Windows, giving users full Plug and Play (PnP) support of all their peripherals
I'm no linux kernel h4x0r but i suspect that'd require a mayor kernel rewrite with considerable R&D investment. INVESTMENT THAT M$ WOULD BETTER SPEND IMPROVING THE KLUDGE THAT WINDOZE IS.
Enough Said, Don't click that link put that guy out of the foodchain ( or at least make him go down some stairs so someone can feed on him) !
Who cares about the voice thing ?? How many of the readers will care to actually speak to their browser, imagine a office full of people all talking to their browsers.. that's simply stupid. I think that Opera people should care most about fixing things in it's browser instead of adding features that nobody (95%) will use. Like M2, it simply sucks with IMAP, i was using it till i tried Thunderbird, did the switch about 5 minutes of starting it up for the first time. The opera forums are full with complaints, why don't Opera listen to them, i'd do so before my userbase flies right into the open (and free) arms of Firefox.
EA already did this , i'm not sure but they hold the license to use FIFA and some euro league teams and players, the game was superb till the France 98 cup edition, after that there is no innovation except changing the key layout (drives me crazy makes me uninstall the game after 5 minutes of playing them) adding fancy graphics that need lotsa CPU and GPU horsepower and lame background music. The games was effectively killed and i guess that a quick research will find that the userbase (if such a thing exist for a game) it's going down the drain, people don't but new versions and stay playing old ones that are better indeed. You can smell this on online gaming forums where there used to be a lot of expectation before FIFA XXXX releases. Now nobody cares what the hell the release dates is because the game is known to be a load of crap. Perhaps the only game that still survives EA policies is Need For Speed the latest version being a huge improvement over the old ones. My advice to all fellow players respecting to EA games, don't buy the games before trying them in advance. don't waste your hard earned money on teh MS of the gaming industry.
I always had the suspicion that virus writers worked together with antivirus firms, gee,, there won't be any need of antivirus if there were no viruses. I'm tempted to say that people inside Kaspersky are of the black hat kind.
Well, never been a Intel Fan before, i don't like the bullying tactics applied to OEM distributors ala Micro$oft style, for me lower Intel share translates into higher quality and lower prices for the end user, and most important "freedom of choicee", so the next time joe user goes shopping for a new Worm/Spyware host because the old one is too slow, he will see more AMD and less Intel Inside.
By the way, the disco ball may be useful for the next wave of laidoff intella employees who will dance to the rythm of "the pink slip blues", sorry for all of them, really sorry. $hitty corporate america has to keep the skyhigh CEO salaries somehow.!
What a twisted point of view you have!
"It's worth noting that I've never borked a windows box installing a service pack, all the way back to win 95"
Yeah, you can bork it in 1000000 different ways,
In linux you at least get to recover it without reinstalling the OS, and if you didn't RTFM before the emerge -uD world don't blame the OS, blame yourself, of course, you won't blame Windoze when the latest spyware takes over your browser, is not MS fault..
yeah, sure
Hey, X is not slow ??
Have you compared the 2d performance of the "gnome/kde/whatever wm you choose" vs windows, have you tried dragging a window on the screen, that's simply unnaceptable, scrolling text is a pain, in windows you get fast 2d rates even with the crappiest on board video, about the dangerous kludge, have you ever seen a windows system crash because a graphic driver error... i bet no, ask around i bet that the vast majority of linux users will give up the risk of stability in exchange for superior performance..
IMHO, XFree is what prevents Linux from becoming mainstream on the desktop, i mean, X is a kludge, slow, and prone to problems when used at a desktop , the kde/gnome/whatever people should seriously consider getting rid of X as the underlying layer and instead promote/invent/code a different layer that gets rid of the client/server features of X and focus on acceleration by using direct hardware access, like M$ did when moved the graphic driver into kernel space and WinNT graphic performance skyrocketed.
Just to avoid getting flamed as a M$ lover, i administer a 50 server farm 95% of them running Gentoo Linux, and i hate Windoze , but i can't replace it on my desktop yet, it's simply not ready, surely GNOME/KDE looks gorgeous in comparation of WinXP, but the sad truth is that it's slow as hell.
Yeah, pretty old indeed, looks like the data for Argentina it's outdated, that $3/hour rate is at least 3 years old, now you can get online for as low as U$S 0.25/hour. The author (UN??) should doublecheck his sources..
First post, i hope i don't get flamed with '..you are a nazi,antisemitic, jew hater..' bullsh!t. I'm simply open minded and accept all posibilities offered and try to make my own point of view, I'm posting two links that will be of interest to anyone researching in How the A-Bomb was made and tend not to swallow the "official" history or at least want to have all possibilities before forming an opinion on the subject.
This page is in Spanish (use google translate) http://www.3dshort.com/nazibomb2/ It' s a review for a book called WUNDERWAFFEN "...a definitive approach to the nazi atom bomb history, done thanks to recently desclassified russian, Japanesse, east-german and american documents. They (the nazis) had the bomb in 1943, and both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were captured in Norway by the allies in May, 1945. Stalins soviet Union suffered also a "distance nuclear test" in last February, then the russian dictator was forced to create the "1908s Tunguska Meteorite Fake", occluding the facts...at last, this book is a rational explanation for many pseudo-esoteric, UFO legends done in the last 60 years..." from the books prologue. It speaks for itself, adding to this short excerpt, you will find that **aparently** the nazis could have nuked NYC. For more reading about the theme you can get http://www.3dshort.com/nazibomb2/CRITICALMASS .txt It's a book from Carter Hydrick, former COMPAQ executive, written in 1998 where basically says that Project Manhattan was stuck until they caught a runaway nazi sub carrying enriched uranium and detonators needed for the plutonium bomb. After reading it, and given the current state of the world, it make me think seriously how much our govts hide and distort from the real facts.
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Buenos Aires had coverage in the whole subway (it's called "Subte" over here) network for the last 5 years, they have upgraded to GSM last year, the cell equipment underground is provided by Nokia.
I wonder how this storm my affect the twin rovers on mars ?
Has anyone heard about this issue ?
Excuse my bad english, is not my native tongue. ./ers do.
Trust me i'm no M$ apologizer, i hate them as much as all
Linux sabotages itself, i've worked on a project to sell linux preinstalled on cheap boxes sold in my country, we wasted 3 months trying to develop a distro with a decent GUI. I never been so frustrated by the lack of common sense in the GNOME/KDE/Xfree communities, from problems like being unable to add a goddamn item to a gnome menu to the total confusion created by the mostly useless options in KDE , how is possible that linux users cannot fu**ing change the resolution color depth and refresh rate in realtime? Do a simple test, install XP and Gnome/KDE on the same machine, guess what, XP (i regret to say this and hope that someday this changes) is faster , i mean WAAAAY faster, everything is smoother everything works. Why can't this be done in Linux? I tend to blame X and it's ancient Client/Server architecture, i think that smething must be done to get rid of it or at least make it a modern technology with perhaps direct access to the hardware instead of the kludge of apis and interfaces required (kde/gnome/qt/gtk/ice/X/DRM/etc.etc) today. why can't the very capable OSS community come out with a solution like Apple Quartz did. I don't know much programming as to help or start any project, but i gladly donate to such a project.
So it's not definitely M$ fault, Stop blaming M$ or others for all the shortcomings of Linux GUI development and rethink the whole idea.
Yes, the Game Industry Bullshit Index has gone straight to the top, i don't know if it's me reaching 30 years or eveyone feels the same, but i haven't seen an innovative video game concept for the last 2 years, every new game that they promote hard (FarCry, Doom3 etc etc) they are seem to be made to sell you ultra expensive 31337 H4x0R cutting edge (insert your favourite video card and/or CPU hardware maker here) hardware needed to play it. In fact like someone said in this thread all those cool effects can be made on 32bit CPU's, the game industry each day seems to follow the Film Industry paces, crappy gameplay with spectacular video effects, WHO F*CK want's it ?? GTA is an example of this, does anyone here remember the GTA1/2 Saga? I bet that those games were in fact innovative at the release moment? now take GTA3/San Andreas, it seems more and more bloated gameplay is a disaster, nice visual effects, but where is the innovation ? Oh, for sure you can go f*ck some chicks, good for the nerds to train themselves!. Electronics Arts is the prime example of what should not be done in this game industry of today, more and more they adopt Micro$oft bullying tactics, f*ck gameplay, f*ck the people, pay the game and shut up.
Who cares about the voice thing ?? How many of the readers will care to actually speak to their browser, imagine a office full of people all talking to their browsers.. that's simply stupid.
I think that Opera people should care most about fixing things in it's browser instead of adding features that nobody (95%) will use.
Like M2, it simply sucks with IMAP, i was using it till i tried Thunderbird, did the switch about 5 minutes of starting it up for the first time.
The opera forums are full with complaints, why don't Opera listen to them, i'd do so before my userbase flies right into the open (and free) arms of Firefox.
EA already did this , i'm not sure but they hold the license to use FIFA and some euro league teams and players, the game was superb till the France 98 cup edition, after that there is no innovation except changing the key layout (drives me crazy makes me uninstall the game after 5 minutes of playing them) adding fancy graphics that need lotsa CPU and GPU horsepower and lame background music.
The games was effectively killed and i guess that a quick research will find that the userbase (if such a thing exist for a game) it's going down the drain, people don't but new versions and stay playing old ones that are better indeed.
You can smell this on online gaming forums where there used to be a lot of expectation before FIFA XXXX releases. Now nobody cares what the hell the release dates is because the game is known to be a load of crap.
Perhaps the only game that still survives EA policies is Need For Speed the latest version being a huge improvement over the old ones.
My advice to all fellow players respecting to EA games, don't buy the games before trying them in advance. don't waste your hard earned money on teh MS of the gaming industry.
This is not a flamebait or a troll.
I always had the suspicion that
virus writers worked together with antivirus firms, gee,, there won't be any need of antivirus if there were no viruses. I'm tempted to say that people inside Kaspersky are of the black hat kind.
Well, never been a Intel Fan before, i don't like the bullying tactics applied to OEM distributors ala Micro$oft style, for me lower Intel share translates into higher quality and lower prices for the end user, and most important "freedom of choicee", so the next time joe user goes shopping for a new Worm/Spyware host because the old one is too slow, he will see more AMD and less Intel Inside. By the way, the disco ball may be useful for the next wave of laidoff intella employees who will dance to the rythm of "the pink slip blues", sorry for all of them, really sorry. $hitty corporate america has to keep the skyhigh CEO salaries somehow.!
What a twisted point of view you have! "It's worth noting that I've never borked a windows box installing a service pack, all the way back to win 95" Yeah, you can bork it in 1000000 different ways, In linux you at least get to recover it without reinstalling the OS, and if you didn't RTFM before the emerge -uD world don't blame the OS, blame yourself, of course, you won't blame Windoze when the latest spyware takes over your browser, is not MS fault.. yeah, sure
Hey, X is not slow ?? Have you compared the 2d performance of the "gnome/kde/whatever wm you choose" vs windows, have you tried dragging a window on the screen, that's simply unnaceptable, scrolling text is a pain, in windows you get fast 2d rates even with the crappiest on board video, about the dangerous kludge, have you ever seen a windows system crash because a graphic driver error... i bet no, ask around i bet that the vast majority of linux users will give up the risk of stability in exchange for superior performance..
IMHO, XFree is what prevents Linux from becoming mainstream on the desktop, i mean, X is a kludge, slow, and prone to problems when used at a desktop , the kde/gnome/whatever people should seriously consider getting rid of X as the underlying layer and instead promote/invent/code a different layer that gets rid of the client/server features of X and focus on acceleration by using direct hardware access, like M$ did when moved the graphic driver into kernel space and WinNT graphic performance skyrocketed. Just to avoid getting flamed as a M$ lover, i administer a 50 server farm 95% of them running Gentoo Linux, and i hate Windoze , but i can't replace it on my desktop yet, it's simply not ready, surely GNOME/KDE looks gorgeous in comparation of WinXP, but the sad truth is that it's slow as hell.
Yeah, pretty old indeed, looks like the data for Argentina it's outdated, that $3/hour rate is at least 3 years old, now you can get online for as low as U$S 0.25/hour. The author (UN??) should doublecheck his sources..
First post, i hope i don't get flamed with '..you are a nazi,antisemitic, jew hater..' bullsh!t. I'm simply open minded and accept all posibilities offered and try to make my own point of view,
' s a review for a book called WUNDERWAFFENS .txt
I'm posting two links that will be of interest to anyone researching in How the A-Bomb was made and tend not to swallow the "official" history or at least want to have all possibilities before forming an opinion on the subject.
This page is in Spanish (use google translate)
http://www.3dshort.com/nazibomb2/
It
"...a definitive approach to the nazi atom bomb history, done thanks to recently desclassified russian, Japanesse, east-german and american documents. They (the nazis) had the bomb in 1943, and both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were captured in Norway by the allies in May, 1945. Stalins soviet Union suffered also a "distance nuclear test" in last February, then the russian dictator was forced to create the "1908s Tunguska Meteorite Fake", occluding the facts...at last, this book is a rational explanation for many pseudo-esoteric, UFO legends done in the last 60 years..." from the books prologue.
It speaks for itself, adding to this short excerpt, you will find that **aparently** the nazis could have nuked NYC.
For more reading about the theme you can get
http://www.3dshort.com/nazibomb2/CRITICALMAS
It's a book from Carter Hydrick, former COMPAQ executive, written in 1998 where basically says that Project Manhattan was stuck until they caught a runaway nazi sub carrying enriched uranium and detonators needed for the plutonium bomb.
After reading it, and given the current state of the world, it make me think seriously how much our govts hide and distort from the real facts.
Greets!