XP? 128MBs is needed. That's all. It doesn't have massive system requirements. Sorry to pick you up on that, but I feel bullshit on all sides is still bullshit.
PS I just fired up excel, and it takes 3 seconds to load. And I use office software very rarely, so nothing was pre-loaded (and I clear my precache frequently, so it wasn't in there;)).
Office uses lots of features already present in Windows, so it doesn't need to be running them itself. It can simply use the OS that it's in. If you take office out of Windows, and put it in another OS that doesn't have those features, then it has to bring them to the game itself, hence your perceived higher memory use.
The US has a worse human rights record than most UN member states. Don't kid yourself America is the same America you see in the movies.
The UN is the best thing we have when it comes to a neutral international body every nation can act under, in mulilateral agreements. If you want to scrap that, then ask yourself if you're still the good guys or not.
The UN is not a failure. When the US decides it doesn't need to listen to the rest of the world regarding the rest of the world, it is the US who has failed its very core values.
Take a look at what the US has done to the rest of the world. Read about the democracies the US has directly toppled. See the national policies around the world that have been implemented at the behest of the US government with the threat of force not far behind. Take a look a the arms sales to tyrants that your tax dollars protected. Take a look at sanctions the US has imposed on other countries for purely self-serving reasons. See how many vetoes the US has used in the UN (each vetoe is the US saying "fuck you, we don't care" to the rest of the world). Every single life lost through that list is another reason for the rest of the world to detest what the US has come. Maybe even a few of those directly affected by said actions have or will become terrorists... makes you think, huh?
I'd say most Americans know about the world from Hollywood and Fox, and most other countries know about America from books and media.
I'm not being a dick, but that seems to be the only answer for it. I've talked to many Europeans who have an accurate knowledge of how the US works, what it's done, and what it hasn't done. You'd be surprised at what lots of Europeans read about and see on their TVs. As their media owes nothing to Bush or any US corporate interests, their media doesn't mind saying stuff that would make the average American reach for his flag with a tear in his eye. Again, I'm not being a dick here, but just giving my honest opinion.
The US misappropriated more Iraqi reconstruction funds than the total amount of money involved in the Oil-for-Food scandal, in the first year of the Iraq war. I don't see how the US isn't less for sale than the UN. The US has had many examples of people buying political favours, for many many decades. If the US was a shining beacon of fair-play and democratic procedure, you might have a point.
This article is about getting this service in the UK. I'm perfectly sure EVERYONE on slashdot knows you get thousands of gigabytes a second in Sweden, as any time broadband is mentioned on slashdot, some Swede pops his/her head up and spouts on about how much fibre they have up their ass. I'm not being rude here - I love the idea of a cat5 on the wall and 100/100, but not every nation is the same. Not being partly in the arctic circle probably has something to do with it, but I'm unsure;)
It's straight-up illegal to offer an internet service in the UK, and lie (even slightly) about its performance. Tiscali got in trouble for that, when they called their 128kb/s service "broadband". BT and others called up the ITC (who regulate the UK TV commercials), and Tiscali had to pull its adverts.
And if you think Kidney pie is all we have to offer over here, you and your hormone-drenched beef are very mistaken;)
Try telling that to any car owner, and see what their response is.
The exterior of a product is not a consumable. You shouldn't be expected to have to top it up or change it out like batteries. If it's not fit for its purpose, it's not fit for sale.
But the US has no problem using phosphor-based weapons on civilians, though. Or nuclear weapons.
Please, don't play that "all US troops are great guys who put the rights and lives of every civilian they enounter above their own" bullcrap. There have been too many news reports of the fucked-up things the US military is capable of for that to hold any water. I'm sorry for saying it. I bet you're a good guy an' all, but please, we've seen the US's track record on ethics.
I think people were more disturbed by the police keeping all the evidence they had after all charges were dropped.
Most people are well aware of the difficulties of dealing with terrorism, and the UK is leaps and bounds ahead of it than the US is, so drop your pants and switch on Fox;)
We have a constitution. It's just not written down in one place, so it allows the government and people to act with a certain amount of reasonable flexibility, while still allowing either one to be put in their place if they fuck someone/something over.
Seeing as the US fucked with Iran seriously (read up about the shah), I think they're quite allowed to be a bit upset. Kind of like how the US was pissed off with Britian during the whole 1776 tiff, Iran is still a bit upset about the US and what the US has done directly to them.
Imagine how pissed off America would be if Iran had installed a dictator in Washington? Exactly.
The UN did a fine job in Iraq. The sanctions brought Saddam to his knees, and Saddam's conventional weapons stockpiles were secured, and were monitored. Then the US told the UN to withdraw its weapons inspectors from Iraq well before the invasion. The UN did all they could do, but the US was always going to do what it wanted to do, and not listen to the will of the international community. Iraq, or indeed ANY country, should only be liberated by a multinational force, represented by the UN. That's the only way for armed forces to act without the "who's side are you really on?" questions being raised.
If Saddam stopped letting UN people in his country, why were there UN weapons inspectors in Iraq up to the point the US told them to leave?
The UN isn't cowardly. The UN has procedure. In order for them to maintain their neutrality, they have to ensure they know all the facts. They don't rush in to a region, destabilise it, create a power vacuum, then sit around scratching its ass trying to figure out what to do next, while people are blown up in bungled "security" operations, by a military too shit-scared to bear the responsibility of their actions, and put themselves on the line instead of the people they claim to be protecting.
By your logic, all Christians are evil vicious fanatics, as I can look at Bush and say he represents the true voice of Christianity, as he claims to be a Christian. That, obviously, is complete bullshit.
The UK has been dealing with terrorism (funded by US dollars collected in Boston, mainly) for decades. The only way to stop it is to see what the terrorists are so pissed off about. If it's something bad that we've done, then we need to own up to it and make things right. We can't just sit around and plead our innocence even though there is enough evidence of our guilt to choke a donkey - that's just ridiculous.
Your assertion is - we are always right. We can do what we want without fear of retaliation, and if we encounter retaliation, it's because those attacking us are "mental", and hate us because we're so darn good.
Britain has at least one nuclear sub deployed at any time, and that sub has multiple nuclear missiles, with multiple warheads. US technology, too. You could blow up the UK, and 3 months later, Washington gets a taste.
I'm sure there are many countries with that sort of hardware in active use...
He meant to say "Linux on the desktop is complicated", and it is.
Of course not every incarnation of Linux is complicated - the ones that are not complicated came from companies willing to invest enough cash to get a linux flavour to do what they want. It seems no-one is willing to invest enough cash to get decent drivers on linux, or fix those problems that put it behind windows.
People use IE. Most people use IE, in fact. Coding something that doesn't work in it is great for making a point about standards, but really really shit for making something useful.
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PS I just fired up excel, and it takes 3 seconds to load. And I use office software very rarely, so nothing was pre-loaded (and I clear my precache frequently, so it wasn't in there ;)).
Great! That solved the problem. :) OpenOffice is streamlined again! yay! :)
Office uses lots of features already present in Windows, so it doesn't need to be running them itself. It can simply use the OS that it's in. If you take office out of Windows, and put it in another OS that doesn't have those features, then it has to bring them to the game itself, hence your perceived higher memory use.
That doesn't even make sense :)
It's somehow refreshing yet scary that nazis like Dr. Who... :)
The number of car manufacturers is steadily declining... :)
The UN is the best thing we have when it comes to a neutral international body every nation can act under, in mulilateral agreements. If you want to scrap that, then ask yourself if you're still the good guys or not.
The UN is not a failure. When the US decides it doesn't need to listen to the rest of the world regarding the rest of the world, it is the US who has failed its very core values.
Take a look at what the US has done to the rest of the world. Read about the democracies the US has directly toppled. See the national policies around the world that have been implemented at the behest of the US government with the threat of force not far behind. Take a look a the arms sales to tyrants that your tax dollars protected. Take a look at sanctions the US has imposed on other countries for purely self-serving reasons. See how many vetoes the US has used in the UN (each vetoe is the US saying "fuck you, we don't care" to the rest of the world). Every single life lost through that list is another reason for the rest of the world to detest what the US has come. Maybe even a few of those directly affected by said actions have or will become terrorists... makes you think, huh?
I'm not being a dick, but that seems to be the only answer for it. I've talked to many Europeans who have an accurate knowledge of how the US works, what it's done, and what it hasn't done. You'd be surprised at what lots of Europeans read about and see on their TVs. As their media owes nothing to Bush or any US corporate interests, their media doesn't mind saying stuff that would make the average American reach for his flag with a tear in his eye. Again, I'm not being a dick here, but just giving my honest opinion.
The US misappropriated more Iraqi reconstruction funds than the total amount of money involved in the Oil-for-Food scandal, in the first year of the Iraq war. I don't see how the US isn't less for sale than the UN. The US has had many examples of people buying political favours, for many many decades. If the US was a shining beacon of fair-play and democratic procedure, you might have a point.
Translation: If it comes from peers, it's p2p :)
Where are people like you when someone's harping on about microsoft security issues? :-P
ONLY the super geeky even know what a BeBox is, so they're not confusing the target audience. ;)
This article is about getting this service in the UK. I'm perfectly sure EVERYONE on slashdot knows you get thousands of gigabytes a second in Sweden, as any time broadband is mentioned on slashdot, some Swede pops his/her head up and spouts on about how much fibre they have up their ass. I'm not being rude here - I love the idea of a cat5 on the wall and 100/100, but not every nation is the same. Not being partly in the arctic circle probably has something to do with it, but I'm unsure ;)
And if you think Kidney pie is all we have to offer over here, you and your hormone-drenched beef are very mistaken ;)
The exterior of a product is not a consumable. You shouldn't be expected to have to top it up or change it out like batteries. If it's not fit for its purpose, it's not fit for sale.
Please, don't play that "all US troops are great guys who put the rights and lives of every civilian they enounter above their own" bullcrap. There have been too many news reports of the fucked-up things the US military is capable of for that to hold any water. I'm sorry for saying it. I bet you're a good guy an' all, but please, we've seen the US's track record on ethics.
Most people are well aware of the difficulties of dealing with terrorism, and the UK is leaps and bounds ahead of it than the US is, so drop your pants and switch on Fox ;)
We have a constitution. It's just not written down in one place, so it allows the government and people to act with a certain amount of reasonable flexibility, while still allowing either one to be put in their place if they fuck someone/something over.
Imagine how pissed off America would be if Iran had installed a dictator in Washington? Exactly.
If Saddam stopped letting UN people in his country, why were there UN weapons inspectors in Iraq up to the point the US told them to leave?
The UN isn't cowardly. The UN has procedure. In order for them to maintain their neutrality, they have to ensure they know all the facts. They don't rush in to a region, destabilise it, create a power vacuum, then sit around scratching its ass trying to figure out what to do next, while people are blown up in bungled "security" operations, by a military too shit-scared to bear the responsibility of their actions, and put themselves on the line instead of the people they claim to be protecting.
By your logic, all Christians are evil vicious fanatics, as I can look at Bush and say he represents the true voice of Christianity, as he claims to be a Christian. That, obviously, is complete bullshit.
The UK has been dealing with terrorism (funded by US dollars collected in Boston, mainly) for decades. The only way to stop it is to see what the terrorists are so pissed off about. If it's something bad that we've done, then we need to own up to it and make things right. We can't just sit around and plead our innocence even though there is enough evidence of our guilt to choke a donkey - that's just ridiculous.
Your assertion is - we are always right. We can do what we want without fear of retaliation, and if we encounter retaliation, it's because those attacking us are "mental", and hate us because we're so darn good.
I'm sure there are many countries with that sort of hardware in active use...
Of course not every incarnation of Linux is complicated - the ones that are not complicated came from companies willing to invest enough cash to get a linux flavour to do what they want. It seems no-one is willing to invest enough cash to get decent drivers on linux, or fix those problems that put it behind windows.
People use IE. Most people use IE, in fact. Coding something that doesn't work in it is great for making a point about standards, but really really shit for making something useful.
"proactive".