not just the simple ones either. Google is the first thing my PhD (astrophysics) supervisor tries for info.
I use Firefox so with the integrated Google searching it's often quicker to just type a company name into Google than to guess whether it's.com or.co or hyphenated etc. I don't think MS can compete with this, they just have too much bloat. you can't get any simpler than Google, but there are millions of ways MS can screw it up, so statistically speaking their failure is practically guaranteed.
I don't understand how your bomb example is supposed to work since bomb isn't an explicit word and I was talking about explicit words. whatever your intentions are, you shouldn't be saying "fuck" to children.
if you just walk up to someone at an airport and say you work with bombs, that's the same "asking for trouble" attitude as shouting fire in the theatre.
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what part of "well regulated" don't you understand?
since have words ever been free? speaking your opinion is free, but using certain words has always been potentially a crime. for example sexual harrassment, or are you fine with adults freely expressing their sexual desires to kids?
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what part of "well regulated" don't you understand?
if you can just go into bios and get personal info, then all the OS password security is bypassed.
on the other hand, if the bios needs a password to access this info, then what's the fucking point as it's just another hassle.
fuck off Phoenix. now that DRM's becoming desirable by people with expensive lawyers you think you can have a piece of the pie too, but you're shit and your "innovations" are pieces of MS-style insecure boatware crap.
I would imagine if they don't pay then in the eyes of the EU they are a criminal organisation with no right to trade, and any company trying to sell MS stuff would also be punished.
they're breaking the law, so think of them just like the mafia (though not the same specific laws involved). would it make sense for the EU to allow the mafia to trade in the EU just because they have no EU HQ?
I'm really happy about this. I've been waiting for 9.1 for ages (didn't bother with 9.0). IMO SuSE is by far the best distribution so I've never minded paying for the boxes.
the Casimir effect is based on the uncertainty principle, which doesn't violate conservation of energy - it just gives the universe an overdraft in case it's been spending a bit too much.
the beauty of Perl is that it's very flexible. of course you *can* write massively obsfuscated code, but that's like saying linux is crap because the admin can fuck everything up with rm -rf.
if you want, you could write Perl code that reads just like English (with the exception of regular expressions, but they're so powerful it's worth it).
I started using Crossover recently. since it has the options to "simulate" reboots instead of the real Windows ones, and it can download and apply patches directly from setup rather than having to go through Office Update, I reckon it's better on linux than Windows.
but Acrobat Reader sucks on Windows too, especially the latest one (6) which takes twice as long to load (cf 5), offers no improvments, adds some new buttons to make the interface more cluttered, and displays a list of 100 patents while loading to piss me off.
plus I hate programs that force useless things on me. is there a way to make the "My eBooks" directory fuck off?
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not just the simple ones either. Google is the first thing my PhD (astrophysics) supervisor tries for info.
.com or .co or hyphenated etc. I don't think MS can compete with this, they just have too much bloat. you can't get any simpler than Google, but there are millions of ways MS can screw it up, so statistically speaking their failure is practically guaranteed.
I use Firefox so with the integrated Google searching it's often quicker to just type a company name into Google than to guess whether it's
er, spam IS illegal, as are associated crimes of fraud, hacking etc. plus I suspect the online pill-sellers probably break health and safety laws.
I don't care about lack of censorship.
I'd love Google to start "punishing" sites:
Your page has text almost the same colour as the background? -1000 points for you! (or whatever's large enough to push them to the bottom).
something to stop all this BS that's only there to fool people.
plus, official sites should almost always be at the top, If it isn't then whoever's at the top is probably scamming.
yeah, you're right. let's just give up.
I don't understand how your bomb example is supposed to work since bomb isn't an explicit word and I was talking about explicit words. whatever your intentions are, you shouldn't be saying "fuck" to children.
if you just walk up to someone at an airport and say you work with bombs, that's the same "asking for trouble" attitude as shouting fire in the theatre.
--
what part of "well regulated" don't you understand?
since have words ever been free? speaking your opinion is free, but using certain words has always been potentially a crime. for example sexual harrassment, or are you fine with adults freely expressing their sexual desires to kids?
--
what part of "well regulated" don't you understand?
that's actually true, not just a joke.
if you can just go into bios and get personal info, then all the OS password security is bypassed.
on the other hand, if the bios needs a password to access this info, then what's the fucking point as it's just another hassle.
fuck off Phoenix. now that DRM's becoming desirable by people with expensive lawyers you think you can have a piece of the pie too, but you're shit and your "innovations" are pieces of MS-style insecure boatware crap.
yeah, they got that. it's called Mandrake Move or something.
AFAIK no. YOU only updates installed packages, and doesn't do things like new KDE version (although KDE etc. are on the suse website)
I would imagine if they don't pay then in the eyes of the EU they are a criminal organisation with no right to trade, and any company trying to sell MS stuff would also be punished.
they're breaking the law, so think of them just like the mafia (though not the same specific laws involved). would it make sense for the EU to allow the mafia to trade in the EU just because they have no EU HQ?
pull out of the EU, are you insane!?
that'd be like cutting a leg off so you can steal individual shoes from stores instead of paying for a pair.
bah! I've been with SuSE since 6.4 :-)
I'm really happy about this. I've been waiting for 9.1 for ages (didn't bother with 9.0). IMO SuSE is by far the best distribution so I've never minded paying for the boxes.
you suck.
ever heard of a thing called shock?
even a non-fatal hit totally messes up your senses e.g. when Agent Smith shoots Neo the phone ringing goes quiet.
btw, most bullets travel much faster than sound.
using a bit of RIAA maths:
anyone buying a book from PG2 would have paid in donation to PG the equivalent of approx. 12 times the PG2 cost.
you mean the way Windows XP is cheaper than previous versions since it has activation codes?
the Casimir effect is based on the uncertainty principle, which doesn't violate conservation of energy - it just gives the universe an overdraft in case it's been spending a bit too much.
er, RTFSummary
why would they sue for 3 and not 1 and 2, especially since RoboCop 3 was crap anyway.
I WAS talking about Office 2000, and I installed it on my new laptop 2 days ago...
guess what, you're WRONG dickhead.
"grab a copy", oh yes I mean it's only a couple of hundred quid isn't it - why not grab two!?
you have to reboot Windows to install Office. In fact, if you install all the programs (Office 2000 Premium) you have to reboot THREE times.
the beauty of Perl is that it's very flexible. of course you *can* write massively obsfuscated code, but that's like saying linux is crap because the admin can fuck everything up with rm -rf.
if you want, you could write Perl code that reads just like English (with the exception of regular expressions, but they're so powerful it's worth it).
I started using Crossover recently. since it has the options to "simulate" reboots instead of the real Windows ones, and it can download and apply patches directly from setup rather than having to go through Office Update, I reckon it's better on linux than Windows.
but Acrobat Reader sucks on Windows too, especially the latest one (6) which takes twice as long to load (cf 5), offers no improvments, adds some new buttons to make the interface more cluttered, and displays a list of 100 patents while loading to piss me off.
plus I hate programs that force useless things on me. is there a way to make the "My eBooks" directory fuck off?
lots of lame jokes about Perl code being incomprehensible despite the fact it can be the most readable.
If you need help working out the kick drum for a song then you have other problems.
>If this doesn't apply to Free Non-Comercial software, that will be an amazing incentive for people to start using, or at least looking at, GNU.
er, did you RTFA? this is kind of the WHOLE freaking POINT.