If Bush told Howard to jump off a cliff he'd do it without a second thought.
I've lost all respect for him, and it's why he's going to lost the next election.
I never paid a lot of attention to her ramblings, but I believe she didn't like the fact that Aborigines could claim special benefits and live quite comfortable on welfare, while 30% of Australians struggled through poverty. Of course she went about it the wrong way and pissed people off; she just didn't know how to play the politics game. Nowadays the work for the dole system eliminates most of the unfairness.
Fiber to the curb? Telstra? Nuhu.
Telstra botched idea of laying cable has left a significant part of Australia unable to even get ADSL despite being close enough to an exchange. If you happen to live in a capital city you MIGHT be able to get cable, but certainly never fibre.
For the Americans, this sums up Australian politics.
Howard (aka "Little John"): Spends his time dry humping Bush's leg. Formed a "once in a lifetime" free trade agreement with the U.S. That gave us absolutely nothing, and put a shitload of aussies out of work. Is extremely vague when asked anything.
Latham: Opposition Leader. Cries like a little girl in parliment when things don't go his way. Breaks taxi driver's arms in his spare time.
Crean(aka "The invisible man"). Did absolutely nothing to try and win our votes. Superseded by Latham. Last seen ignoring people.
Beazly(aka "Big Kim"). Nobody liked him. Lost the last federal Election. Now he's better than any candidate currently running.
Pauline "Please Explain" Hanson: Fraudulently formed a political party and stole half a million dollars of tax payers money, and god knows how much in donations. Got caught. Went to Jail. Still has supporters who claim she was a political prisoner. Her only policy, EVER, was to get rid of speed cameras. Spent an hour on sixty minutes telling us that. Also tried to bring in a new tax system, the design of which she stole from someone else (who, incidently, said it wouldn't work in the real world). Last seen complaining about something.
KDE does include a pretty good media player- Noatun. It also has a great mp3 player- Juk.
I still prefer mplayer and xmms respectively, because I think they are better. even though I have to go to the effort of downloading them.
IMHO, WMP9 is actually quite nice, and is good enough for most users. In windows I use the win32 version of mplayer simple because it's very lean and mean, and all I need is for it to play movies.
Sorry. I own US patent 4,666,423,433,213,413,551,666,342 ("Method of increasing revenue by innovating").
I have forwarded your message to my legal department. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
n.b. I also own US patent 4,666,423,433,213,413,551,666,343 ("Method of increasing revenue by sueing"), but it is completely identical to US patent 4,666,423,433,213,413,551,666,340, owned by the Sco group.
I think it's becoming clear to Microsoft that the swiss cheese known as Windows is a joke in tech circles, and if they don't clean up their image they will start to choke (if they havn't already)
I guess php is a popular language, but it really isn't a good idea for anything more complex than small scripts. It's too difficult to maintain a decent level of abstraction. Java, Zope, and (dare I say it) ASP.NET are much better solutions.
QT is good- but.NET is more than just a widget set. It's an entire class library.
Exactly. Microsoft are between a Rock and a Hard Place (Linux and OSX respectively:p).
As has been shown previously, they can produce some good code when the pressure is on (Who are we kidding- MSIE was a whole lot better than Netscrape Navigator).
Of course once (if?) they squash the competition, they will go back to their old ways.
Im hoping that once.NET takes off, Outlook will only open.NET executables. Since they run in a VM, they can be restricted.
You could configure it so all untrusted code was restricted.
(Try running a.NET exe directly over a windows share if you want to see it in action. If the program tries to access the local filesystem it gets an Exception).
Understandable. But I presume.NET will be (or already is) bundled with all new copies of windows sold, so it won't be an extra download. It will just work.
> "I'm not going to buy a Nvidia graphics card, I refuse to support that company."
Why? Because they have the best commercial linux driver support of any hardware maker I've ever known?
Oh thats right. They don't give away all their trade secrets as well. Gosh. I guess they would be less evil if they had crappy substandard drivers like ATI who removed any serious code so they could open source it for gnuzealots like you- oh wait, no they didn't! ATI just copied nvidia's approach of binary drivers (all the way down the the OS/Product selector thingy).
Hell, they could just not release linux drivers- it wouldn't affect their market share a bit.
I suppose they could release their IP under the GPL. I mean, it certainly worked for 3dfx.
Doom II, C&C (The original), Total Annihilation, and Tribes.
The only games that have ever brought me to total gaming Nirvana.
Tribes probably has a stronger cult following than OSX. I know people who would (literally) kill there own mother over it. It really was one of the most underrated games of its time.
The rover just doesn't have a color camera. Everything on the rover had to be justified, and a color camera would have no real value as they can fake it with the filters.
Just because a word is wrong in latin doesn't make in wrong in english. New words are made up every day and accepted into normal speech. Most of these words don't have latin roots.
More specifically, a word is only a phonetic way of transfering information. if a significant number of people use a word and know what it means, that word has correctly transfered this information, and therefore is correct regardless of whether some anal language nazi thinks so.
I always have and always will say Virii. Most people I know say Virii. Therefore, Virii IS a valid word, even if it is only slang, like Boxen or scr1pt k1dd33.
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If Bush told Howard to jump off a cliff he'd do it without a second thought. I've lost all respect for him, and it's why he's going to lost the next election.
Neither does Linux. At the moment if you need protection your choices are to use a VM (Java,.NET) or a high level scripting language.
I never paid a lot of attention to her ramblings, but I believe she didn't like the fact that Aborigines could claim special benefits and live quite comfortable on welfare, while 30% of Australians struggled through poverty. Of course she went about it the wrong way and pissed people off; she just didn't know how to play the politics game. Nowadays the work for the dole system eliminates most of the unfairness.
Fiber to the curb? Telstra? Nuhu. Telstra botched idea of laying cable has left a significant part of Australia unable to even get ADSL despite being close enough to an exchange. If you happen to live in a capital city you MIGHT be able to get cable, but certainly never fibre.
Nope. America usually gets stuff at least a year before us (Australia), and don't get me started on Japan.
We have legal brothels in Australia too!
For the Americans, this sums up Australian politics.
Howard (aka "Little John"): Spends his time dry humping Bush's leg. Formed a "once in a lifetime" free trade agreement with the U.S. That gave us absolutely nothing, and put a shitload of aussies out of work. Is extremely vague when asked anything.
Latham: Opposition Leader. Cries like a little girl in parliment when things don't go his way. Breaks taxi driver's arms in his spare time.
Crean(aka "The invisible man"). Did absolutely nothing to try and win our votes. Superseded by Latham. Last seen ignoring people.
Beazly(aka "Big Kim"). Nobody liked him. Lost the last federal Election. Now he's better than any candidate currently running.
Pauline "Please Explain" Hanson: Fraudulently formed a political party and stole half a million dollars of tax payers money, and god knows how much in donations. Got caught. Went to Jail. Still has supporters who claim she was a political prisoner. Her only policy, EVER, was to get rid of speed cameras. Spent an hour on sixty minutes telling us that. Also tried to bring in a new tax system, the design of which she stole from someone else (who, incidently, said it wouldn't work in the real world). Last seen complaining about something.
I hardly think a game with a few million dollars of budget is going to think twice about shelling out for a DivX or Bink license.
KDE does include a pretty good media player- Noatun. It also has a great mp3 player- Juk.
I still prefer mplayer and xmms respectively, because I think they are better. even though I have to go to the effort of downloading them.
IMHO, WMP9 is actually quite nice, and is good enough for most users. In windows I use the win32 version of mplayer simple because it's very lean and mean, and all I need is for it to play movies.
Sorry. I own US patent 4,666,423,433,213,413,551,666,342 ("Method of increasing revenue by innovating").
I have forwarded your message to my legal department. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
n.b. I also own US patent 4,666,423,433,213,413,551,666,343 ("Method of increasing revenue by sueing"), but it is completely identical to US patent 4,666,423,433,213,413,551,666,340, owned by the Sco group.
I think it's becoming clear to Microsoft that the swiss cheese known as Windows is a joke in tech circles, and if they don't clean up their image they will start to choke (if they havn't already)
Ugh. php.
.NET is more than just a widget set. It's an entire class library.
I guess php is a popular language, but it really isn't a good idea for anything more complex than small scripts. It's too difficult to maintain a decent level of abstraction. Java, Zope, and (dare I say it) ASP.NET are much better solutions.
QT is good- but
Exactly. Microsoft are between a Rock and a Hard Place (Linux and OSX respectively :p).
As has been shown previously, they can produce some good code when the pressure is on (Who are we kidding- MSIE was a whole lot better than Netscrape Navigator).
Of course once (if?) they squash the competition, they will go back to their old ways.
Im hoping that once .NET takes off, Outlook will only open .NET executables. Since they run in a VM, they can be restricted.
.NET exe directly over a windows share if you want to see it in action. If the program tries to access the local filesystem it gets an Exception).
You could configure it so all untrusted code was restricted.
(Try running a
Understandable. But I presume .NET will be (or already is) bundled with all new copies of windows sold, so it won't be an extra download. It will just work.
First, they decided to postpone Longhorn "Until it's done", rather than releasing a shoddy product early.
Second, they've gone so far as to break application compatibility in order to clean up a number of deeply embedded security holes in Windows.
Personally, I think this is a Very Good Thing(tm). Microsoft may finally be "Getting it"
Obviously never had to use MFC then eh? .NET provides a nice clean set of APIs that aren't retarted.
> "I'm not going to buy a Nvidia graphics card, I refuse to support that company."
Why? Because they have the best commercial linux driver support of any hardware maker I've ever known?
Oh thats right. They don't give away all their trade secrets as well. Gosh. I guess they would be less evil if they had crappy substandard drivers like ATI who removed any serious code so they could open source it for gnuzealots like you- oh wait, no they didn't! ATI just copied nvidia's approach of binary drivers (all the way down the the OS/Product selector thingy).
Hell, they could just not release linux drivers- it wouldn't affect their market share a bit.
I suppose they could release their IP under the GPL. I mean, it certainly worked for 3dfx.
Doom II, C&C (The original), Total Annihilation, and Tribes.
The only games that have ever brought me to total gaming Nirvana.
Tribes probably has a stronger cult following than OSX. I know people who would (literally) kill there own mother over it. It really was one of the most underrated games of its time.
Telstra, the infamous Australian Telco, has Unlimited Uncapped Cable for $69.95 AUD per month.
Of course, you have to trust telstra enough to sign up for a 24 month contract to get that deal.
The rover just doesn't have a color camera. Everything on the rover had to be justified, and a color camera would have no real value as they can fake it with the filters.
/me double checks what language he speaks
"English"
oh. Wow. English != Latin.
Just because a word is wrong in latin doesn't make in wrong in english. New words are made up every day and accepted into normal speech. Most of these words don't have latin roots.
More specifically, a word is only a phonetic way of transfering information. if a significant number of people use a word and know what it means, that word has correctly transfered this information, and therefore is correct regardless of whether some anal language nazi thinks so.
I always have and always will say Virii. Most people I know say Virii. Therefore, Virii IS a valid word, even if it is only slang, like Boxen or scr1pt k1dd33.
Thank you and goodnight.
For the first time in my life, an email virus has actually ended up in my inbox.
:)
*sniff*
Im so happy. Somebody actually has me in their address book.
Yeah. All they needed to do is run scandisk In any software project more complex than "Hello World", you get unreproducable errors.
perl is getting old
the ZODB has you
python and zope own