Qwerty and dvorak are nice, bu do not forget the French tried to be difficult again and chose AZERTY. Works actually better, because of many accents used. Example: éèà And then I probably forget other advantages for french speaking persons.
Here in Belgium the layout is also AZERTY, mostly because in the beginning of the existance of Belgium the french speaking part was more powerful and occupied the high spots in society and the government. The dutch speaking part now also uses the AZERTY layout. But in the Netherlands they use QWERTY again.
PS. Doing computer sciences at the university of Antwerp, for programming most keyboard here are QWERTY, and a lot of important signs are placed ideally for prgramming...
All languages combined together form all possible sounds humans can make with their voice. As a baby you only learn those specific subtle sounds your parents/environnement gives to you. Later on it's very hard or even impossible to regain the power to pronounce sounds not found in your native language.
This is why it's funny to hear people speak in (for example) english when they are french. Or our good friend Arnold of course.
Me, living in Belgium and natively speaking dutch, learned to speak french at the age of 10 at school. These are regular public schools. The trick is too learn new/other languages as soon as possible to get the soundings right. (The government is even considering lowering the age to 6 or so...)
It's not certain what amount of research findings they keep in their closet when the data doesn't come out goed enough (or even completely negative for them)...
Linux is free and certainly has everything a small business might need in the way of productivity apps. So how can Windows compete with that in places where it is not the dominant player and limited resources and nationalism come into play?
I find it strange that a lot of people keep on thinking that everybody instinctively wil go the OSS/linux path. No offence, but those people normally never are that tech-savvy to jump into the deeper guts of the system to get things working. I would think they put up a M$ server/desktop and throw the necessary apps on it and they're happy.
I expect that it's all about the apps people need, and the stuff they have gotten comfortable with. If they're serious with being productive enough and trying not to lose time, they'll stay Microsoft.
"We felt by adjusting the schedule for the products, we could better meet our customers' volume requirements and their high expectations." Translation = "full of bugs that cant be fixed in time"
Or also: ...we would first like to get rid of all those CPU's we've made too much of (at _crazy_ prices!) before we want to bring up new models and make the rest cheaper...
Everybody allways talks about it's impossible to get the spammers themselves, so that their servers are 'shut up'. But everybody also knows those servers are in some freaky places where regulation means (allmost) nothing. That's just too bad for all the poor people who get spammed.
But why doesn't the juristiction follow the line to the compagnies themselves instead of their spammers? If company X is found by following the links on their mail, can't we get those companies sued? I don't think many will copntinue if they're all hanged.
But yeah, I know there are a lot of companies who are also located in those freaky places selling the most legal stuff, but still...
How many companies are there located in the US?
(As a sidenote, how many European companies do spamming? It seems to me that only American compananies do this kinda stuff, 'cept our beloved Nigerian poor bankers who deserve our help with their finances.)
I think there should be a system where all business PC's get linux instead of windows, and all home PC's continue to use windows. Surely all the business software would then be available for linux.
That way the businesses have all the good things of linux but the Joe sixpacks in the world could still use the stuff they know best. Most important, virus/worm writers still focus on windows for there unbreakable security and the fact that most average users don't care about security anyway. Virusses can spread better through home PC's than (secured) corporate networks anyway.
That way, everybody's happy! (I know I sure am...)
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After installing Windows XP again, some of my friends found out the hard way their encrypted data would be lost forever.
What a pity...
I ask myself, why do you want to encrypt something on a desktop anyway? Keeping the rest of the family away of stuff not for their eyes perhaps?
Qwerty and dvorak are nice, bu do not forget the French tried to be difficult again and chose AZERTY. Works actually better, because of many accents used. Example: éèà
i cs/keyboards/qwerty.jsp/
And then I probably forget other advantages for french speaking persons.
Here in Belgium the layout is also AZERTY, mostly because in the beginning of the existance of Belgium the french speaking part was more powerful and occupied the high spots in society and the government. The dutch speaking part now also uses the AZERTY layout. But in the Netherlands they use QWERTY again.
And even Germany seems to use QWERTZ, the Y and Z are switched. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/top
Long live standardisation!
PS. Doing computer sciences at the university of Antwerp, for programming most keyboard here are QWERTY, and a lot of important signs are placed ideally for prgramming...
MPAA:
fase 1: Sue random servers acting as trackers
fase 2: ???
fase 3: profit (returns) !
All languages combined together form all possible sounds humans can make with their voice. As a baby you only learn those specific subtle sounds your parents/environnement gives to you. Later on it's very hard or even impossible to regain the power to pronounce sounds not found in your native language.
This is why it's funny to hear people speak in (for example) english when they are french. Or our good friend Arnold of course.
Me, living in Belgium and natively speaking dutch, learned to speak french at the age of 10 at school. These are regular public schools. The trick is too learn new/other languages as soon as possible to get the soundings right. (The government is even considering lowering the age to 6 or so...)
It's not certain what amount of research findings they keep in their closet when the data doesn't come out goed enough (or even completely negative for them)...
Can somebody please benchmark these new kind of virusses?
I for one would love to see some real-life performance improvements from this baby. Finally 64 bit gets used for its real goal!
(Imagine a beowulf of Athlon 64's/Opterons/... being hit with this new speedmonster...)
Linux is free and certainly has everything a small business might need in the way of productivity apps. So how can Windows compete with that in places where it is not the dominant player and limited resources and nationalism come into play?
I find it strange that a lot of people keep on thinking that everybody instinctively wil go the OSS/linux path. No offence, but those people normally never are that tech-savvy to jump into the deeper guts of the system to get things working. I would think they put up a M$ server/desktop and throw the necessary apps on it and they're happy.
I expect that it's all about the apps people need, and the stuff they have gotten comfortable with. If they're serious with being productive enough and trying not to lose time, they'll stay Microsoft.
Just my 2 cents...
"We felt by adjusting the schedule for the products, we could better meet our customers' volume requirements and their high expectations."
Translation = "full of bugs that cant be fixed in time"
Or also:
...we would first like to get rid of all those CPU's we've made too much of (at _crazy_ prices!) before we want to bring up new models and make the rest cheaper...
Another man who speaks the awfull truth...
It's time we all put our superior software and ideologically correct ways of doing things to rest.
(We don't want them to find out we have been joking all along, do we?)
Too bad I run linux, I would really like some of those!
I guess it was never meant to be...
Everybody allways talks about it's impossible to get the spammers themselves, so that their servers are 'shut up'. But everybody also knows those servers are in some freaky places where regulation means (allmost) nothing. That's just too bad for all the poor people who get spammed.
But why doesn't the juristiction follow the line to the compagnies themselves instead of their spammers? If company X is found by following the links on their mail, can't we get those companies sued? I don't think many will copntinue if they're all hanged.
But yeah, I know there are a lot of companies who are also located in those freaky places selling the most legal stuff, but still...
How many companies are there located in the US?
(As a sidenote, how many European companies do spamming? It seems to me that only American compananies do this kinda stuff, 'cept our beloved Nigerian poor bankers who deserve our help with their finances.)
> FP?!?!
No idiot, third post.
Get some speed, next time around...
I think there should be a system where all business PC's get linux instead of windows, and all home PC's continue to use windows. Surely all the business software would then be available for linux.
That way the businesses have all the good things of linux but the Joe sixpacks in the world could still use the stuff they know best. Most important, virus/worm writers still focus on windows for there unbreakable security and the fact that most average users don't care about security anyway. Virusses can spread better through home PC's than (secured) corporate networks anyway.
That way, everybody's happy! (I know I sure am...)
By chicks, do you mean the children of tux and his (yet to be discovered) mystery girlfriend? I allways thought tux was up to something...
Doesn't matter, all kernels are affected. (2.4+ anyway)