I'd buy him a gift with every penny he earned me as a shareholder since that day.
So basicaly you are willing to part with all the profit you made. Worse, you are willing to have the same amount of money, which is less due to inflation. Why?
A few years ago I thought that it wouldn't be possible that there would be a passage through the arctic.
I would say we make a HUGE difference on the climate change in the short period that matters to US. We are realeasing millions of years of sun-energy in a few years and that can't be a good thing.
How do you "know what you're looking for" without searching the web exactly?
OK, I have bought a Windows PC with almost no software on it. I am looking for a program where I can draw flowcharts. (Visio) Also I am looking for the name of the email program (Outlook Express).
If I am not aware of how this program is called I would also need to search for it first.
Yeah, because all the Windows programs have clear names. Outlook where it used to be Mail and then Internet Mail. Powerpoint? What power and point to where? Excel? In what? Visio?
I also have problem when I want to buy a car. Instead of AmericanBuild4x4, they call it a Hummer. And wtf is a Ford? Something with such a name will clearly never make it inton the big market.
You are blinded by their marketing and think that because of the names they became household products, yet it is because of marketing.
The fact that they have gotten a lot of money from MS so that MS can give away SUSE is realy nice and except for all the emotional reactions to it, I am still waiting for the negative things that were going to happen what people were promising. Instead I see no change, except the fact that Novell got a bunch of dollars for SLES licences.
And being closed to FOSS is something I disagree with if you compare it to Novell. Novell is not closer to FOSS. They are standing in it and are part off it.
Perhaps it was true for Novell a few years ago. It certainly isn't at this moment.
bins full of the hinge pieces, light bulb looking things, and space man helmets
To me those are alreasy specialized things. I just had the standard blocks with 12, 6, 4, 2 and 1 knob and most where the standard. The most specialised things I has were wheels.
Fun to build a car or a plane. At least I thought it looked like a car or a plane. Imagination does a lot. (Hey, I thought a stick was a sword and 3 seconds later it became a gun.)
I hope you are not working in an office or have a job where you need to visit any office.
Just to bring you up to speed. They give you a card, so you can swipe open doors, like server rooms. Instead of people getting a key, they are given cards, so they can track where you are ALL THE TIME.
And when you visit a company, you need to enter your name at the reception and you get a badge, so everybody can identify you are a visitor. Next to that in many offices, a person from the office needs to be with you at all times. Talk about control.
And tracking people can be done without those devices as well. I have been followed by some people when I was in Sweden. They were from some security police or whatever and I am still pissed of that they did not send me the pictures they took. They did it so unbiously obvious that I know they wanted me to know that I was being followed.
So as much as you say that RFID chips might be a technical solution to a social problem, NOT having RFID chips is also a technical solution to a social problem. Forbidding RFID is throwing the baby away with the bathwater.
There are tons of places where RFID chips would be a great idea.
Oh and almost everybody already walks around with not just an RFID chip, which is passive, but with a thing that sends out where they are all the time: the cell phone. And on a private scale, you can catch bluetooth and see where they are.
and encrypted restore CDs that will bring a laptop back up
Please give the key to these files, or we will confiscate your PC. The problem is encryption doesn't work. The moment you do not give them the key, you will be put on the 'no-fly' list faster then you can blink.
I have tried it. Don't try it with hot apple pie. Indeed completely different result. Oh, you were talking about trying it on Google. Sorry, no experience there.
I would say the most important part is pre-installation. Now Linux has to compete with pre-installed systems. Imagine how easy it would be for the end-user to go to the store and buy it.
This would put the burden of testing the hardware and provide drivers on the people making the PC. They will the buy only hardware that they can support, which will lead to drivers being written for them, otherwise they won't sell them.
This will mean more people with Linux, which will mean gaming companies will write the game in Linux as well.
Remember how Windows became as big as it became? Pre-installation!
So? Gay is not a German word and the market is clearly for Germany.
When I was about 8 I realized that different languages exist and that sometimes words in one language mean something different in another and sometimes even in the same language, but in other parts of the country/world. (truck, billion,...)
And yes, I spoke more then one language at that age.
Now start laughing like a little boy about this magazine sold in every newspaper stand in Belgium. (hihi is says pee)
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In Belgium at least 1 provider (Telenet) blocks everything below port 1024 for standard customers.
So basicaly you are willing to part with all the profit you made. Worse, you are willing to have the same amount of money, which is less due to inflation. Why?
So he had a grip on him already in February 1976. Interesting.
A few years ago I thought that it wouldn't be possible that there would be a passage through the arctic.
I would say we make a HUGE difference on the climate change in the short period that matters to US. We are realeasing millions of years of sun-energy in a few years and that can't be a good thing.
Not anymore. They moved to Diemen.
I can see it now: J. Random Asshat doing a reboot and thus killing his enguine and powersteering.
Also I am looking for the name of the email program (Outlook Express).
If I am not aware of how this program is called I would also need to search for it first.
Compare it with something like http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/opensuse-gnome.jpg where you have the explanation of what the tool does and the fact that most is either pre-installed or very easily to be found in one location.
Yeah, because all the Windows programs have clear names. Outlook where it used to be Mail and then Internet Mail.
Powerpoint? What power and point to where? Excel? In what? Visio?
I also have problem when I want to buy a car. Instead of AmericanBuild4x4, they call it a Hummer. And wtf is a Ford? Something with such a name will clearly never make it inton the big market.
You are blinded by their marketing and think that because of the names they became household products, yet it is because of marketing.
... yet. They are working on it.
Installing MPlayer under 11 (10.3 will also work if you look it up) is done with one click install: http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_110/e208863ffe1f342b2a9eed35603427dcac9fa27c
http://en.opensuse.org/One_Click_Install for more info
They have bought SuSE and have opend up not only YaST but the whole process. You can even make your own openSUSE based distribution where they activaly helped solving on how to do this in several ways.
They are working on how to open source other things as well. However that is not as easy as they would like.
The fact that they have gotten a lot of money from MS so that MS can give away SUSE is realy nice and except for all the emotional reactions to it, I am still waiting for the negative things that were going to happen what people were promising. Instead I see no change, except the fact that Novell got a bunch of dollars for SLES licences.
And being closed to FOSS is something I disagree with if you compare it to Novell. Novell is not closer to FOSS. They are standing in it and are part off it.
Perhaps it was true for Novell a few years ago. It certainly isn't at this moment.
http://en.opensuse.org/Novell_Supported_Projects for a list
Fun to build a car or a plane. At least I thought it looked like a car or a plane. Imagination does a lot. (Hey, I thought a stick was a sword and 3 seconds later it became a gun.)
Idiots they are. Why go for the OR/OR option if an AND/AND option would the better way to go.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tarifa+windmills&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
HTH, HAND
I hope you are not working in an office or have a job where you need to visit any office.
Just to bring you up to speed. They give you a card, so you can swipe open doors, like server rooms. Instead of people getting a key, they are given cards, so they can track where you are ALL THE TIME.
And when you visit a company, you need to enter your name at the reception and you get a badge, so everybody can identify you are a visitor. Next to that in many offices, a person from the office needs to be with you at all times. Talk about control.
And tracking people can be done without those devices as well. I have been followed by some people when I was in Sweden. They were from some security police or whatever and I am still pissed of that they did not send me the pictures they took. They did it so unbiously obvious that I know they wanted me to know that I was being followed.
So as much as you say that RFID chips might be a technical solution to a social problem, NOT having RFID chips is also a technical solution to a social problem. Forbidding RFID is throwing the baby away with the bathwater.
There are tons of places where RFID chips would be a great idea.
Oh and almost everybody already walks around with not just an RFID chip, which is passive, but with a thing that sends out where they are all the time: the cell phone. And on a private scale, you can catch bluetooth and see where they are.
I have tried it. Don't try it with hot apple pie. Indeed completely different result.
Oh, you were talking about trying it on Google. Sorry, no experience there.
On openSUSE it works. One click install and all.
I would say the most important part is pre-installation.
Now Linux has to compete with pre-installed systems. Imagine how easy it would be for the end-user to go to the store and buy it.
This would put the burden of testing the hardware and provide drivers on the people making the PC. They will the buy only hardware that they can support, which will lead to drivers being written for them, otherwise they won't sell them.
This will mean more people with Linux, which will mean gaming companies will write the game in Linux as well.
Remember how Windows became as big as it became? Pre-installation!
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So? Gay is not a German word and the market is clearly for Germany.
When I was about 8 I realized that different languages exist and that sometimes words in one language mean something different in another and sometimes even in the same language, but in other parts of the country/world. (truck, billion, ...)
And yes, I spoke more then one language at that age.
Now start laughing like a little boy about this magazine sold in every newspaper stand in Belgium. (hihi is says pee)
Hey, you can sat fuck on tv in some countries. OK, sometimes only after 21:00.
The other 6 words are also often allowed. In many countries after 21:00 nudity is even allowed and I have seen it before 21:00 when it was a preview.
So apart from the very funny man, we will not miss his insight, because many people outside the USofA don't need it.
That said, many will still be interested, so thanks for the links.
Reminds me of this short joke:
A seal walks into a club ...