These are 7 distinct versions of desktop systems. I think you're stretching the line there with Personal and Professional N there. The main problem here is tech service and compatibility problems, so the Ns are pretty well functionally equivalent to their counterparts. The only other version of Windows XP desktop is the Starter Edition. (source at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_xp)
The point is there will be more than double the number of distinct editions in market (serious ones, taking out the N editions). This will be a nightmare for tech support and customer confusion.
Since this stupid story was just inside at the front of the paper today, I might as well transcribe the transcript for you all...
Katrina Nugent Yesterday I put my lunch in the fridge on Level 19 which included a packet of ham, some cheese slices and two slices of bread which was going to be for my lunch today. Over night it has gone missing and as I have no spare money to buy another lunch today, I would appreciate being reimbursed for it.
Melinda Bird Katrina, There are items fitting your exact description in the level 20 fridge. Are you sure you didn't place your lunch in the wrong fridge yesterday?
Katrina Nugent Melinda, probably best you don't reply to all next time, would be annoyed to the lawyers. The kitchen was not doing dinner last night, so obviously someone has helped themselves to my lunch. Really sweet of you to investigate for me!
Melinda Bird Katrina, since I used to be a float and am still on the level 19 email list I couldn't help but receive your rediculous email - lucky me! You use our kitchen all the time for some unknown reason and I saw the items you mentioned in the fridge so naturally thought you may have placed them in the wrong fridge. Thanks I know I'm sweet but I only had your best interests at heart. Now as you would say, "BYE"!
Katrina Nugent I'm not blonde!!!
Melinda Bird Being a brunette doesn't mean you're smart though!
Katrina Nugent I definitely wouldn't trade places with you for "the world"!
Melinda Bird I wouldn't trade places with you for the world...I don't want your figure!
Katrina Nugent Let's not get person (sic) "Miss Can't Keep A Boyfriend". I am in a happy relationship, have a beautiful apartment, brand new car, high pay job...say no more!!
Melinda Bird Oh my God I'm laughing! happy relationship (you have been with so many guys), beautiful apartment (so what), brand new care (me too), high pay job (I earn more)....say plenty more..... I have 5 guys at the moment! haha.
I know. I woke up to read it on the inside of the front page of the paper! I read it thinking "OK so one of them shot the other or something?" I scoff at the fact that it's put up the front of a serious newspaper and then a bit later it's put up on slashdot!
Who the hell cares about a couple of bitchy secretaries having an email fight? Reading it isn't even funny.
The worst thing about this story will be tomorrow when it's posted up on slashdot again. I don't want to hear about this constantly for three days!
And when the first spacecraft blows up because of a miniscule fault in the body caused by lax safety regulations of a cost-cutting private venture what happens then? Not only this, but who will be held responsible? The American government would have obviously approved the safety measures...
As for the second point, I hate to break it to you mate but they are movies. The people in there have never actually worked for Nasa!
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wait I was wrong. I thought you were talking about a clause in the GPL or something that it automatically goes under BSD if there's no development. Wow I never knew that they made that agreement, feel free to mod the above post to oblivion.
All that's happening is that they're waiting a little while for the workers to get comfortable with the office suites first. There's no hesitation about switching to Linux. Munich is a big city folks, you can't just say "We're going to change to Linux . . . wait for it . . . NOW!"
The problem is that they've already done the good and popular comic books. I've only heard of Captain America out of those, and I doubt that that's even going to make it to the cinemas here in Australia. (Sorry mates but America's reputation quite right at the moment to have a superhero named after it)
What on earth are you talking about? All it says is that they might put in a clause saying "if you sue the developers of this software using a software patent then you can't use the software". Since IBM have opened up huge numbers of patents to Open Source I don't think that they're going to sue them anytime soon...
Microsoft has a clause that is similar that says "you can't sue the developers of this software" or something along those lines.
As did BitTorrent for a while before they started to sue BitTorrent users - it takes time for them to shift their focus, but they will. If this isn't the explanation, then what is? Are you claiming that emule is somehow different to Kazaa in the ease with which users can be monitored by the RIAA? If so, please provide some evidence for this.
No, I wasn't claiming anything. You just said something that was wrong and I corrected you.
As for Freenet, slow is a relative term. Slower would perhaps be a better term. Whenever you have proxying come into play then it will always be on average slower than a direct connection network, it's just a fact of life.
That's obviously wrong because the Donkey network has a larger userbase than Kazaa. The inherent reason that anonymous P2P must be slow is because to make it anonymous there's heavy use of proxying, and because of this you are not only downloading the stuff you want, but also relaying unrelated data to other people.
"Let's not leap to conclusions," Kriss said, adding that Microsoft's Internet Explorer complies with HTTP standards so backing OpenDoc would not be a hardship for Microsoft.
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These are 7 distinct versions of desktop systems. I think you're stretching the line there with Personal and Professional N there. The main problem here is tech service and compatibility problems, so the Ns are pretty well functionally equivalent to their counterparts. The only other version of Windows XP desktop is the Starter Edition. (source at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_xp)
The point is there will be more than double the number of distinct editions in market (serious ones, taking out the N editions). This will be a nightmare for tech support and customer confusion.
Isn't it more like saying "My car won't run on Diesel, so I'll use Unleaded instead"?
Stay right away from the video game pianist then!
I'm offended that I haven't been modded "insightful" for that post.
but not too attractive.
Since this stupid story was just inside at the front of the paper today, I might as well transcribe the transcript for you all...
Katrina Nugent
Yesterday I put my lunch in the fridge on Level 19 which included a packet of ham, some cheese slices and two slices of bread which was going to be for my lunch today.
Over night it has gone missing and as I have no spare money to buy another lunch today, I would appreciate being reimbursed for it.
Melinda Bird
Katrina, There are items fitting your exact description in the level 20 fridge. Are you sure you didn't place your lunch in the wrong fridge yesterday?
Katrina Nugent
Melinda, probably best you don't reply to all next time, would be annoyed to the lawyers.
The kitchen was not doing dinner last night, so obviously someone has helped themselves to my lunch. Really sweet of you to investigate for me!
Melinda Bird
Katrina, since I used to be a float and am still on the level 19 email list I couldn't help but receive your rediculous email - lucky me!
You use our kitchen all the time for some unknown reason and I saw the items you mentioned in the fridge so naturally thought you may have placed them in the wrong fridge.
Thanks I know I'm sweet but I only had your best interests at heart. Now as you would say, "BYE"!
Katrina Nugent
I'm not blonde!!!
Melinda Bird
Being a brunette doesn't mean you're smart though!
Katrina Nugent
I definitely wouldn't trade places with you for "the world"!
Melinda Bird
I wouldn't trade places with you for the world...I don't want your figure!
Katrina Nugent
Let's not get person (sic) "Miss Can't Keep A Boyfriend".
I am in a happy relationship, have a beautiful apartment, brand new car, high pay job...say no more!!
Melinda Bird
Oh my God I'm laughing! happy relationship (you have been with so many guys), beautiful apartment (so what), brand new care (me too), high pay job (I earn more)....say plenty more.....
I have 5 guys at the moment!
haha.
I know. I woke up to read it on the inside of the front page of the paper! I read it thinking "OK so one of them shot the other or something?" I scoff at the fact that it's put up the front of a serious newspaper and then a bit later it's put up on slashdot!
Who the hell cares about a couple of bitchy secretaries having an email fight? Reading it isn't even funny.
The worst thing about this story will be tomorrow when it's posted up on slashdot again. I don't want to hear about this constantly for three days!
And when the first spacecraft blows up because of a miniscule fault in the body caused by lax safety regulations of a cost-cutting private venture what happens then? Not only this, but who will be held responsible? The American government would have obviously approved the safety measures...
As for the second point, I hate to break it to you mate but they are movies. The people in there have never actually worked for Nasa!
Yeah, they should definitely put that one in.
Bah, what would he know about the internet?
* allows for simple extraction of hydrogen
I'm sure many scientists will want to see your method of simple extraction of hydrogen, a major barrier for hydrogen fuel systems.
A tip for later (if you're a *nux user that is...):
strider@strider:~$ units
2084 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: 13MJ
You want: kilowatt hours
* 3.6111111
/ 0.27692308
wait I was wrong. I thought you were talking about a clause in the GPL or something that it automatically goes under BSD if there's no development. Wow I never knew that they made that agreement, feel free to mod the above post to oblivion.
Umm no they don't.
All that's happening is that they're waiting a little while for the workers to get comfortable with the office suites first. There's no hesitation about switching to Linux. Munich is a big city folks, you can't just say "We're going to change to Linux . . . wait for it . . . NOW!"
They rolled in a few months ago. Missed the boat a bit there I think.
The problem is that they've already done the good and popular comic books. I've only heard of Captain America out of those, and I doubt that that's even going to make it to the cinemas here in Australia. (Sorry mates but America's reputation quite right at the moment to have a superhero named after it)
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What on earth are you talking about? All it says is that they might put in a clause saying "if you sue the developers of this software using a software patent then you can't use the software". Since IBM have opened up huge numbers of patents to Open Source I don't think that they're going to sue them anytime soon...
Microsoft has a clause that is similar that says "you can't sue the developers of this software" or something along those lines.
It's football or soccer, depending on where you come from. Profile of Kaka. He's brazillian.
As did BitTorrent for a while before they started to sue BitTorrent users - it takes time for them to shift their focus, but they will. If this isn't the explanation, then what is? Are you claiming that emule is somehow different to Kazaa in the ease with which users can be monitored by the RIAA? If so, please provide some evidence for this.
No, I wasn't claiming anything. You just said something that was wrong and I corrected you.
As for Freenet, slow is a relative term. Slower would perhaps be a better term. Whenever you have proxying come into play then it will always be on average slower than a direct connection network, it's just a fact of life.
That's obviously wrong because the Donkey network has a larger userbase than Kazaa. The inherent reason that anonymous P2P must be slow is because to make it anonymous there's heavy use of proxying, and because of this you are not only downloading the stuff you want, but also relaying unrelated data to other people.
it's zipped.
"Let's not leap to conclusions," Kriss said, adding that Microsoft's Internet Explorer complies with HTTP standards so backing OpenDoc would not be a hardship for Microsoft.
He he he ha ha ha HA HA HA!!!