Only those cities/sites which have EXISTING infrastructure to handle the oplympics should even bid. ie: Lake Placid NY. If it requires the building of one building, your disqualified. Why?
Look at all the places that build olympic venues and that don't use them for much of any thing else years, decades later.
Even better, pick two places and have the olympics in those two places, and quit wasting $/£/ etc. to build these facilities in new places, and use it for something else.
I vote that the winter games be held in Munich and summer in Sydney
As for the border control, did it have an effect, probably if the committee was comprised mostly of non US citizens.
As for the effectiveness of such controls... well the harder you squeeze the..... (you can look up the rest) its just like everything else being down at airports for "security" NOT the SOLUTION!
>Wow, remind me never to apply to your company. You're obviously an asshole.
Thanks for the promotion!
Plain and simple I've spent 2 years of wasted effort and $$$ on a.net/asp crapfest that was completely coded from the ground up in PHP, ECMAScript, Java on Linux using MySQL in a matter of 2 months for a whole lot less $. Is far more reliable and faster.
Thats great, then they should abandon the crap and move to Python, C/C++, PHP, Java etc. full time....
My experience is that any one with.net/asp/c# experience and background will just gum up the works and want to go running back to mother ms!
I am the Head Nerd, Geek and Asshole in charge of all things IT and we don't do win on servers and won't do it on desktops either shortly.
Those with win experience need not apply at my company. Those with strong Linux, Unix, Solaris, BSD, AIX,HP-UX, VAX/VMS, php, Java, C/C++, Apache, and MySQL skills should apply.
Again, thanks for the promotion, I'll be watching the pay increase in the check next month!
Corporate Mantra here, and I get to set it is: NO MS! PERIOD! NO C#, NO.NET, NO ASP, NO IIS, NO mssql, NO ms server, NO silverblight, NO mono, NO NO NO MS!
You can't go wrong with Java, MySQL, PHP, Linux, OpenOffice....!
I specifically have banned and sent all the.net crap companies who come calling packing..... we don't.net...
Your resume with any mention of.net et al will be in the file 13 bin so fast it will never have touched the desk.
This just another reason why I don't like or use firecrap or thrunderturd. Don't like them... never cared for them since their netcrap days.... don't now.
I use only Konqueror for web browser and file manager... works great.
Any site which fails to work properly in Konqi... I don't visit ever again.
I test and develop in Konqi... Works in Konqi. DONE... Don't care if it breaks or borq's fireturd or exploder.. Works great where I am sitting on my Konqueror browser... You need to update to Linux and and KDE V3.5.10 and you won't have that problem....
Same applies to icesleasel and companions....
Now I know my choice was correct.
And for the "Its OK, their making money from it, and its just their lack of up front disclosure....." NO its not OK to make money in this manner regardless of how upfront they might have been.
Not only was vista not a choice, win 7 is not one that will be deployed by this year or next year.....
XP will be used until we move 100% to Linux.
This will be about 8 months to 1 year depending on development of other software, but ms is out at my company.
No more virus No more overpriced lock in No more $3,000 for software that exists for $0 No more loss of performance due to security software No more headaches from the virii du jour
I have disable idiotic plamsaoid and returned to the NORMAL desktop interface.
I have disabled the $!^$!%!^% dolphin and Konqi is now the file manager.... How the ^&%#^&@!%$!@^& I am supposed to see the other drives etc. in my system!????!!!!?
Please don't tell me its under places! ITS IS NOT &*!^#&*@!^#&*!^ THERE!
The ONLY WAY to get Konqi to show these is to access them at least once via that !^&!$%!^&% dolphin and then they show via mount.
I should be able to: media:/ in Konqi and see my drives!
So how do you do this ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Remember dolphin is out I hate it! Konqi is my browser and file manager, period.
Until the main Ubununtu drops gnome and its ms fan boi miguel to the curb I will continue to look for and use alternatives that are KDE based, and no thats not the disaster that is kubunutu... I use Linux Mint KDE Version Elyssa (they've since drank the KDE4 koolaid, so I am looking for a replacement).
Also you need to drop the mono/moonlight crap from the distro too.
From a strictly geo-physical planetary physics point of point the UK & Ireland may be on the European shelf, but when you move to the REAL WORLD of business, government, people etc..
The UK & Ireland are NOT part of Europe, be they EU members or not. The EU is not a government that replaces the member countries government (much to some of the EU politicos chargrin!).
If you tell me your going to Europe then your going to Germany, Portugal, Italy, Holland, Austria...... if your going to London then your not going to Europe.
Your analogy of Hawaii not being a apart of the US then, is not correct. Hawaii is a Pacific Island chain, not even on the same continental shelf. Same for Pert Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa etc... These are part of the US as either states, commonwealths, procreates or what not, but are not geo-physically related as the UK/Ireland is to the European shelf.
I don't think that most persons of the UK or Ireland consider them selves part of Europe, hence the UK kept the British Pound. Had they felt they were a part of Europe they would have gone to the Euro.
Same would probably hold true to the Scandinavian countires...most in those countries and elsewhere don't consider them to be in Europe. They would be in Scandinavia. Maybe those educated and living in the sphere of Europe (Germany, Austira, Holland, Italy, etc.) are educated to consider the UK/Ireland as European, the reverse does not hold, and in the US most don't consider UK/Ireland in Europe. I think, education/background, plays a lot into this. So going further east where you put Poland, Czech, Romania etc..??? Lets throw more of a money wrench in Turkey? I wouldn't consider Turkey European (regardless of EU membership), its definitely in the Middle East classification.
The terms Europe, Middle East, Scandinavia etc. are terms that have different meanings in different areas, and are not rigidly defined.
You don't have to even travel across the Atlantic to get the french snobbery..... just go north a little....... Q U E B E C.
All the anecdotal evidence you need right there and in North America.
Why does a language the is CLEARLY a MINORITY outside Quebec carry so much weight that you can't even work for the Canadian government with out being a french speaker!?! That's discriminatory policy regardless of what county, planet, or universe your in. Setup frenchie lines and office for the MINORITY frenchies. Better yet, just let them separate already!
Now lets look at the BS language policy and language police/gestapo to support these laws and policies..... I don't think that the france or quebec frenchie culture is in danger of massive collapse from the English speaking or any other language speaking country or society. Now if there is ANY language and culture that deserves protection and special status it would be the various Innouit and other native languages of the Indian tribes of the area, and that goes for quebec, the rest of Canada, the US, Australia, and other country.
I can tell you from personal experience travel to Montreal or Quebec City and open your mouth and speak English, your toast. Even remotely look like your American and your toast... They won't help you in a store, hotel, restaraunant, etc...
As for the intolerance there are only two languages that I am flat out intolerant of in any form:
french spanish
I've done my penance in a french speaking area of Canada, and put up with the crap in the US of having spanish crap all over the place.
You have a better chance of me learning Mandarin Chinese before I would refresh my french.
And the frenchies in frogland don't need to worry as this American has ZERO NONE NADDA interest in travel to, thru, or over france for any reason. Matter of fact I would go out of my way to avoid there and spain altogether. I would go back to Germany or Italy or England, but not france. So mission successful in thats one less American going to visit frogland.
Why? ? The whole topic of this with regards to french, along with their BS political crap....which brings up.... the only and ONLY REASON the frenchies helped out in the Revolutionary War is:
1) $$$$$ 2) Britain was the enemy, had it been some other country, there probably would have been no assistance $$$ or otherwise.
frenchies are like tree huggers they want to live in their own little fantasy land, so I say let them.
>The real question to me is when will they stop screwing around with Boxee users?
Till Boxee and any other device or software works with out them intentionally breaking it, I am boycotting hulu and will continue to do so till they get their heads out of the posteriors.
I can DL nvidia, ATI, VMWare etc all for free and its all closed source. Fine with me.
I can't DL any of the stuff for Kodak as they won't release an API, interface specs, or the driver they have developed.
Linux desktop users do NOT care open or closed source, they want free software to DL and install. They want free drivers to DL and install and use the device(s) they purchased at Newegg or other place with out a hassle.
I am long time user of KDE, and don't consider anything else up to par.
KDE 4.x should be forked off of the mainline KDE to WMvistawannabecrap.
If KDE wants to rewrite KDE in Qt 4 fine, go right ahead.
BUT....
Don't change my desktop by default to some lame mode that I don't want or use, and if I want widgets or other stuff then SuperKaramba and Conky will do just fine thank you.
4.0 should never have been released as anything other than a ALPHA, 4.2.1 might be about the 3rd beta if you stretch it.
I'll be keeping my 3.5.10 KDE till every thing shrivels and dies off for it and then I guess I will just have to live with an outdated, unsupported KDE as 4.x is not useable.
VMWare works, but isn't free. These are the considerations to balance. Good Luck!
VMWare Server, ESXi and Player don't get any cheaper, than $0.00. Thats pretty free in my book.
Get VMWare, create VM, ONCE, zap after it becomes a computer hazmat zone.
Yep, being doing this for years. This is why only I have 800/877 numbers that I give out.
ANI trumps ICLID, and if you have the right 800/877 provider then you get the ANI as ICLID.
You call me I get your number, *67 all you want, I am getting an ANI.
The only way to defeat this is to cause an ANI failure which several "hacks" have been published on 2600 etc.. on how to do this to not pass your number to an 800#.
One plus to VOIP with the various free 800# routes on Voxalot etc.. they get some number in MI or some other number not even in my area. So no problem to call 800#
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As far as the olympic bid goes..... no loss.
Only those cities/sites which have EXISTING infrastructure to handle the oplympics should even bid. ie: Lake Placid NY. If it requires the building of one building, your disqualified. Why?
Look at all the places that build olympic venues and that don't use them for much of any thing else years, decades later.
Even better, pick two places and have the olympics in those two places, and quit wasting $/£/ etc. to build these facilities in new places, and use it for something else.
I vote that the winter games be held in Munich and summer in Sydney
As for the border control, did it have an effect, probably if the committee was comprised mostly of non US citizens.
As for the effectiveness of such controls... well the harder you squeeze the..... (you can look up the rest) its just like everything else being down at airports for "security" NOT the SOLUTION!
>Wow, remind me never to apply to your company. You're obviously an asshole.
Thanks for the promotion!
Plain and simple I've spent 2 years of wasted effort and $$$ on a .net/asp crapfest that was completely coded from the ground up in PHP, ECMAScript, Java on Linux using MySQL in a matter of 2 months for a whole lot less $. Is far more reliable and faster.
Thats great, then they should abandon the crap and move to Python, C/C++, PHP, Java etc. full time....
My experience is that any one with .net/asp/c# experience and background will just gum up the works and want to go running back to mother ms!
I am the Head Nerd, Geek and Asshole in charge of all things IT and we don't do win on servers and won't do it on desktops either shortly.
Those with win experience need not apply at my company. Those with strong Linux, Unix, Solaris, BSD, AIX,HP-UX, VAX/VMS, php, Java, C/C++, Apache, and MySQL skills should apply.
Again, thanks for the promotion, I'll be watching the pay increase in the check next month!
> "You can't go wrong with .Net C# or Java".
NO you CAN go WRONG with C#!
Corporate Mantra here, and I get to set it is: NO MS! PERIOD! NO C#, NO .NET, NO ASP, NO IIS, NO mssql, NO ms server, NO silverblight, NO mono, NO NO NO MS!
You can't go wrong with Java, MySQL, PHP, Linux, OpenOffice....!
I specifically have banned and sent all the .net crap companies who come calling packing..... we don't .net...
Your resume with any mention of .net et al will be in the file 13 bin so fast it will never have touched the desk.
This just another reason why I don't like or use firecrap or thrunderturd. Don't like them... never cared for them since their netcrap days.... don't now.
I use only Konqueror for web browser and file manager... works great.
Any site which fails to work properly in Konqi... I don't visit ever again.
I test and develop in Konqi... Works in Konqi. DONE... Don't care if it breaks or borq's fireturd or exploder.. Works great where I am sitting on my Konqueror browser... You need to update to Linux and and KDE V3.5.10 and you won't have that problem....
Same applies to icesleasel and companions....
Now I know my choice was correct.
And for the "Its OK, their making money from it, and its just their lack of up front disclosure....." NO its not OK to make money in this manner regardless of how upfront they might have been.
This is winslease move, plain and simple.
I use KMail, and ONLY KMail.
I do not want HaTeMaiL in my email
Images -> ATTACHMENT
Pretty text in fonts and colors >/dev/null
I hope all that junk can be disabled,as I don't want it active.
Not only was vista not a choice, win 7 is not one that will be deployed by this year or next year.....
XP will be used until we move 100% to Linux.
This will be about 8 months to 1 year depending on development of other software, but ms is out at my company.
No more virus
No more overpriced lock in
No more $3,000 for software that exists for $0
No more loss of performance due to security software
No more headaches from the virii du jour
goodbye ms, and good riddance.
OK..... heres my first problem.
I have disable idiotic plamsaoid and returned to the NORMAL desktop interface.
I have disabled the $!^$!%!^% dolphin and Konqi is now the file manager.... How the ^&%#^&@!%$!@^& I am supposed to see the other drives etc. in my system!????!!!!?
Please don't tell me its under places! ITS IS NOT &*!^#&*@!^#&*!^ THERE!
The ONLY WAY to get Konqi to show these is to access them at least once via that !^&!$%!^&% dolphin and then they show via mount.
I should be able to: media:/ in Konqi and see my drives!
So how do you do this ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Remember dolphin is out I hate it! Konqi is my browser and file manager, period.
Until the main Ubununtu drops gnome and its ms fan boi miguel to the curb I will continue to look for and use alternatives that are KDE based, and no thats not the disaster that is kubunutu... I use Linux Mint KDE Version Elyssa (they've since drank the KDE4 koolaid, so I am looking for a replacement).
Also you need to drop the mono/moonlight crap from the distro too.
Only portions of C# crud are ISO standards. The .netrash and other items are not, thus are infestations that need to be banned from linux.
ripening process for a CRapple ..... its not ripe till its red....
Just let them run till they turn red... Then they will be good to go.....
cue crapple fanbois....4...3...2....1.
From a strictly geo-physical planetary physics point of point the UK & Ireland may be on the European shelf, but when you move to the REAL WORLD of business, government, people etc..
The UK & Ireland are NOT part of Europe, be they EU members or not. The EU is not a government that replaces the member countries government (much to some of the EU politicos chargrin!).
If you tell me your going to Europe then your going to Germany, Portugal, Italy, Holland, Austria...... if your going to London then your not going to Europe.
Your analogy of Hawaii not being a apart of the US then, is not correct. Hawaii is a Pacific Island chain, not even on the same continental shelf. Same for Pert Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa etc... These are part of the US as either states, commonwealths, procreates or what not, but are not geo-physically related as the UK/Ireland is to the European shelf.
I don't think that most persons of the UK or Ireland consider them selves part of Europe, hence the UK kept the British Pound. Had they felt they were a part of Europe they would have gone to the Euro.
Same would probably hold true to the Scandinavian countires...most in those countries and elsewhere don't consider them to be in Europe. They would be in Scandinavia. Maybe those educated and living in the sphere of Europe (Germany, Austira, Holland, Italy, etc.) are educated to consider the UK/Ireland as European, the reverse does not hold, and in the US most don't consider UK/Ireland in Europe. I think, education/background, plays a lot into this. So going further east where you put Poland, Czech, Romania etc..??? Lets throw more of a money wrench in Turkey? I wouldn't consider Turkey European (regardless of EU membership), its definitely in the Middle East classification.
The terms Europe, Middle East, Scandinavia etc. are terms that have different meanings in different areas, and are not rigidly defined.
You don't have to even travel across the Atlantic to get the french snobbery..... just go north a little....... Q U E B E C.
All the anecdotal evidence you need right there and in North America.
Why does a language the is CLEARLY a MINORITY outside Quebec carry so much weight that you can't even work for the Canadian government with out being a french speaker!?! That's discriminatory policy regardless of what county, planet, or universe your in. Setup frenchie lines and office for the MINORITY frenchies. Better yet, just let them separate already!
Now lets look at the BS language policy and language police/gestapo to support these laws and policies..... I don't think that the france or quebec frenchie culture is in danger of massive collapse from the English speaking or any other language speaking country or society. Now if there is ANY language and culture that deserves protection and special status it would be the various Innouit and other native languages of the Indian tribes of the area, and that goes for quebec, the rest of Canada, the US, Australia, and other country.
I can tell you from personal experience travel to Montreal or Quebec City and open your mouth and speak English, your toast. Even remotely look like your American and your toast... They won't help you in a store, hotel, restaraunant, etc...
As for the intolerance there are only two languages that I am flat out intolerant of in any form:
french
spanish
I've done my penance in a french speaking area of Canada, and put up with the crap in the US of having spanish crap all over the place.
You have a better chance of me learning Mandarin Chinese before I would refresh my french.
And the frenchies in frogland don't need to worry as this American has ZERO NONE NADDA interest in travel to, thru, or over france for any reason. Matter of fact I would go out of my way to avoid there and spain altogether. I would go back to Germany or Italy or England, but not france. So mission successful in thats one less American going to visit frogland.
Why? ? The whole topic of this with regards to french, along with their BS political crap....which brings up.... the only and ONLY REASON the frenchies helped out in the Revolutionary War is:
1) $$$$$
2) Britain was the enemy, had it been some other country, there probably would have been no assistance $$$ or otherwise.
frenchies are like tree huggers they want to live in their own little fantasy land, so I say let them.
Change will occur 1/20/2013... A change is going to come....... and I can't wait.
>The real question to me is when will they stop screwing around with Boxee users?
Till Boxee and any other device or software works with out them intentionally breaking it, I am boycotting hulu and will continue to do so till they get their heads out of the posteriors.
At least they are releasing drivers, versus some companies like Kodak and the ESP printers.
They have macrud OSX support and have developed basic drivers for Linux but refuse to release them
http://johnmanard.pluggedin.kodak.com/default.asp?item=2191668 - Driver and shows and example of output.
http://susantousi.pluggedin.kodak.com/default.asp?item=473852
Free means - no cost, period.
I can DL nvidia, ATI, VMWare etc all for free and its all closed source. Fine with me.
I can't DL any of the stuff for Kodak as they won't release an API, interface specs, or the driver they have developed.
Linux desktop users do NOT care open or closed source, they want free software to DL and install. They want free drivers to DL and install and use the device(s) they purchased at Newegg or other place with out a hassle.
Yes, links please.
>Am I the only one that feels this way?
NOPE! Pretty much summed up how I feel.
I am long time user of KDE, and don't consider anything else up to par.
KDE 4.x should be forked off of the mainline KDE to WMvistawannabecrap.
If KDE wants to rewrite KDE in Qt 4 fine, go right ahead.
BUT....
Don't change my desktop by default to some lame mode that I don't want or use, and if I want widgets or other stuff then SuperKaramba and Conky will do just fine thank you.
4.0 should never have been released as anything other than a ALPHA, 4.2.1 might be about the 3rd beta if you stretch it.
I'll be keeping my 3.5.10 KDE till every thing shrivels and dies off for it and then I guess I will just have to live with an outdated, unsupported KDE as 4.x is not useable.
it is still only supported on one alleged OS.
This is not news... who cares.....
Go away IE and take MS with you!
VMWare works, but isn't free. These are the considerations to balance. Good Luck!
VMWare Server, ESXi and Player don't get any cheaper, than $0.00. Thats pretty free in my book. Get VMWare, create VM, ONCE, zap after it becomes a computer hazmat zone.
>. I may be in the minority here, but I don't want Windows to die.
I want them to die die die die die! Healthy competition between Linux Distros, Solaris, and BSD is all we need.
winslobber can die.
instead of the winviros? Hmmm...some how I don't see this happening....
Would you like to install an alternate browser? YES!
Please Select?
Konqueror,YES
Your choice requires the install process to restart and install Linux with KDE V3.5.10, is that your choice? YES! ! ! !
No, I am not interested in KDE 4.x port to winviros, I can't stand KDE 4.x.
I only see this benefiting one browser which I don't care,for and strangely enough doesn't want to be bundled. Hmmm...
Your comment is EXACTLY why I do not use my online name and my real name. I don't provide info to prospective employers on my personal sites etc..
x-archive: no
Thats the first thing I do on any NNTP client.
You want to verify my resume, pick up the PHONE and CALL the employers and references. PERIOD.
I think your right on the mark.... do NOT use any social networking sites.
They are nothing but a leak of personal data and on line stalking tools.
Yep, being doing this for years. This is why only I have 800/877 numbers that I give out.
ANI trumps ICLID, and if you have the right 800/877 provider then you get the ANI as ICLID.
You call me I get your number, *67 all you want, I am getting an ANI.
The only way to defeat this is to cause an ANI failure which several "hacks" have been published on 2600 etc.. on how to do this to not pass your number to an 800#.
One plus to VOIP with the various free 800# routes on Voxalot etc.. they get some number in MI or some other number not even in my area. So no problem to call 800#
This is old news.
>Thanks to virtualisation you can run Windows and boot up Linux in a virtual machine when you need to.
Thanks to virtualization you can run Linux and boot up winslobber in a virtual machine when you need to.
Fixed that for you.