For any country to complain about not having "equal access" to the Internet should basically shut up until they put in the money that the US put in initially. (Disregard the billions put into the infrastructure since then)
Okay, just let me get this straight. You want us all to pour massive amounts of money into the Internet before we can have "equal access", but we have to "disregard" the billions put into the infrastructure already? What, does that not count or something? Will it count from now? I hope someone is keeping tabs, we wouldn't want the US to be out-invested or anything now would we.
1) I find them a pain in the arse, therefore they're a subjective "benefit"
2) Isn't that the same as 1) ?
3) Subjective
4) Very subjective
5) You haven't used many Windows terminal emulators have you
My point: Everything's subjective. Some think Windows is "ugly". I personally like it.
I've always used Windows NT based OSs on the desktop and Slackware Linux on the server.
People seem to think they have to choose between the two operating systems. I used them both at the same time. They both have advantages and disadvantages. Windows is a well rounded, stable workstation OS, Linux is a stable, powerful server OS.
In reverse, I would consider them both to be useless. Why sacrifice one set of advantages? Use them both!
What you say is absolutely correct of course. At least it would be if the music companies were actually as concerned for the artists as they make out and have you believe.
I think peoples' knee-jerk reactions against paying for music is not to do with the artists, because most sane people realise that artists should be compensated for what they do, but because people aren't stupid and they know that the music companies/RIAA whatever are suggesting these schemes mainly to benefit themselves and their greedy profit margins.
People have no qualms about giving money to artists, it's giving money to asshole record companies who really don't deserve it, that's the knee-jerker.
> I would think, that customers with all-fiber
> connections could just be wired directly into
> the Internet...or is this assumption a fallacy?
Yes, you could get "wired directly into the Internet", and then perhaps "hack the net", or "bypass the security system", or perhaps even control a large theme park using your UNIX SYSTEM.
I have a Celeron 333 Compaq box next to my stereo setup. It has a TNT2 graphics card with TV out, which goes into my widescreen telly. It's controled from the other side of the room using a radio mouse (keyboard is hardly ever needed, MP3s are downloaded by other computers on the network and playlists are created in the same way) and it gets all the music off a central server elsewhere in my apartment. It works really well, the Geiss visualizations for Winamp look sweet on a 28" widescreen:)
It also doubles up as a WebTV box, for when I really can't be bothered to move to another room to use a real computer.
Are we to hail this as the start of a new beautiful friendship between Slashdot and El Reg? Will we see an end to the bitchy backstabbing on both sides (but that was blatently started by Slashdot, The Reg being a better quality and funnier news site and all that)?
That's just the whole thing with Mozilla though isn't it. "How close to IE is it?", "nearly as good as IE!", "I hate IE but it's a good browser, someone write me one that does exactly what IE does".
That's wrong. Mozilla needs to SURPASS Internet Explorer to be taken seriously. Like the Dyson commercials, if you really want something that does what IE does, then bloody get IE and stop whining.
xx Stuii!
Best browser in the world ... ONE day
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> Someday this may very well be the best
> browser in the world
Yeah. And then Microsoft will release IE7 and we'll be back to square one. You really think that Microsoft won't? They're not going to throw their hands in the air over this you know.
I really don't get this. Why do people still persist with IIS? Isn't four (five?) years of bug after bug after bug, security exploit after security exploit not enough to convince people that it's a bad product?
Why, despite this consistent track record of failure, do people still set up IIS servers?
It beggars belief. And it's boring now. IIS Bug Of The Week it's become, and yet people still don't learn.
That didn't take into account my BST settings - it produced a time an hour earlier than the original command. That time wouldn't have been valid this morning nor would it be valid in September.
> I wholeheartedly agree that many people talk
> on cell phones today for the wrong reasons
> (status and image)
That may have been true 10 years, even 5 years ago, but in the UK at least 60% of people (ranging from children to pensioners) have mobile phones and they are certainly not a status symbol any more. In fact, depending on how you use it (SMS monkeys), you're actually despised for being a pain in the arse.
This system is irrelevant, it will bring no benefit or change to the speed of cars on the UK's roads.
The current state of the UK's transport system means that the roads are unable to cope with the current volume of traffic. Nobody goes more than 50mph, even on the motorways, and every car journey you make involves at least several queues in traffic of some sort.
This is particularly acute in London and the south eastern area of England where I live. I wish it was actually possible to exceed the speed limit, I really do. There's nothing more ironic than sitting on the M25 (London orbital motorway) in 5mph traffic whilst a variable-speed gantry up overhead reads "(40)". I wish!
And don't even get me started on public transport. Despite car journeys being long and horrifically expensive, they are still many times more preferable than braving the rail network.
You'd think in a country with such a dense population it would be the easiest thing in the world to implement a decent, cheap transport system. But noooooooooooooo. And now they want to enforce this bag of shit onto us. The peasants will revolt and not accept any cake!
I live in a large town 30 minutes west of London, which has this giant sign outside the town hall which reads "Welcome to Slough - An Anti-Nuclear Town".
I find it a bit strange therefore that they situated the town hall quite some distance away from the huge great ugly coal burner on the industrial estate, which visibly pumps out thousands of tonnes of waste into the atmosphere each week.
Freaks. Having said that, the UK's attitude to nuclear power appears to be a lot more sensible than the US's, even to the extent that we take other countries' waste for processing, which is not something that I necessarily agree with.
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Whoops - that was a typo - I meant to say £0.54 / liter
It's still luxury :)
Stuii!
No thanks! And I ain't paying no .054 pounds/liter for gas, either!
£0.054 a litre? Luxury! Currently we're on £0.780. Where on earth did you find petrol at that price?
Stuii!
For any country to complain about not having "equal access" to the Internet should basically shut up until they put in the money that the US put in initially. (Disregard the billions put into the infrastructure since then)
Okay, just let me get this straight. You want us all to pour massive amounts of money into the Internet before we can have "equal access", but we have to "disregard" the billions put into the infrastructure already? What, does that not count or something? Will it count from now? I hope someone is keeping tabs, we wouldn't want the US to be out-invested or anything now would we.
xx Stuii!
$17? Luxury! Come to the UK and pay $23. Then you'll really have something to complain about.
Stuii!
I think you'll find that Service Packs are free. At least they are for Windows products.
xx Stuii!
You worry me sometimes. Remind me never to provide you with a jay cloth if asked.
xx Stuii!
12 kilos? Are you _sure_ about that?
xx Stuii!
It might help us off-worlders if you actually made at least one reference to the subject to which the term "pitching" is applicable.
Is it that lame game that's like Rounders?
xx Stuii!
1) Virtual desktops
2) Multiple workspaces
3) Decent window manager: icewm.
4) Looks great, unlike Windows' ugliness.
5) Decent terminal emulators
1) I find them a pain in the arse, therefore they're a subjective "benefit"
2) Isn't that the same as 1) ?
3) Subjective
4) Very subjective
5) You haven't used many Windows terminal emulators have you
My point: Everything's subjective. Some think Windows is "ugly". I personally like it.
Xx Stuii!
I've always used Windows NT based OSs on the desktop and Slackware Linux on the server.
People seem to think they have to choose between the two operating systems. I used them both at the same time. They both have advantages and disadvantages. Windows is a well rounded, stable workstation OS, Linux is a stable, powerful server OS.
In reverse, I would consider them both to be useless. Why sacrifice one set of advantages? Use them both!
xx Stuii!
What you say is absolutely correct of course. At least it would be if the music companies were actually as concerned for the artists as they make out and have you believe.
I think peoples' knee-jerk reactions against paying for music is not to do with the artists, because most sane people realise that artists should be compensated for what they do, but because people aren't stupid and they know that the music companies/RIAA whatever are suggesting these schemes mainly to benefit themselves and their greedy profit margins.
People have no qualms about giving money to artists, it's giving money to asshole record companies who really don't deserve it, that's the knee-jerker.
xx Stuii!
> I would think, that customers with all-fiber
> connections could just be wired directly into
> the Internet...or is this assumption a fallacy?
Yes, you could get "wired directly into the Internet", and then perhaps "hack the net", or "bypass the security system", or perhaps even control a large theme park using your UNIX SYSTEM.
xx Stuii!
I have a Celeron 333 Compaq box next to my stereo setup. It has a TNT2 graphics card with TV out, which goes into my widescreen telly. It's controled from the other side of the room using a radio mouse (keyboard is hardly ever needed, MP3s are downloaded by other computers on the network and playlists are created in the same way) and it gets all the music off a central server elsewhere in my apartment. It works really well, the Geiss visualizations for Winamp look sweet on a 28" widescreen :)
It also doubles up as a WebTV box, for when I really can't be bothered to move to another room to use a real computer.
xx Stuii!
Are we to hail this as the start of a new beautiful friendship between Slashdot and El Reg? Will we see an end to the bitchy backstabbing on both sides (but that was blatently started by Slashdot, The Reg being a better quality and funnier news site and all that)?
One can dream I suppose.
xxx Stuii!
> It renders much like IE
That's just the whole thing with Mozilla though isn't it. "How close to IE is it?", "nearly as good as IE!", "I hate IE but it's a good browser, someone write me one that does exactly what IE does".
That's wrong. Mozilla needs to SURPASS Internet Explorer to be taken seriously. Like the Dyson commercials, if you really want something that does what IE does, then bloody get IE and stop whining.
xx Stuii!
> Someday this may very well be the best
> browser in the world
Yeah. And then Microsoft will release IE7 and we'll be back to square one. You really think that Microsoft won't? They're not going to throw their hands in the air over this you know.
xx Stuii!
I really don't get this. Why do people still persist with IIS? Isn't four (five?) years of bug after bug after bug, security exploit after security exploit not enough to convince people that it's a bad product?
Why, despite this consistent track record of failure, do people still set up IIS servers?
It beggars belief. And it's boring now. IIS Bug Of The Week it's become, and yet people still don't learn.
xx Stuii!
And 1234567890 will happen on Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 2009. Something to look forward to :)
xx Stuii!
That didn't take into account my BST settings - it produced a time an hour earlier than the original command. That time wouldn't have been valid this morning nor would it be valid in September.
*shrug*
xx Stuii!
Why do you have small children in your house. Are they yours? You speak like they're not. Let's worry.
Posted on March 30th - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18002.html.
You really need to publish some original news, and make more of an effort to cover up your blatent plaigerism.
Posted on March 18th
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/18/153820 2&mode=thread
Nothing like a bit of internal communication, huh.
> I wholeheartedly agree that many people talk
> on cell phones today for the wrong reasons
> (status and image)
That may have been true 10 years, even 5 years ago, but in the UK at least 60% of people (ranging from children to pensioners) have mobile phones and they are certainly not a status symbol any more. In fact, depending on how you use it (SMS monkeys), you're actually despised for being a pain in the arse.
xx Stuii!
This system is irrelevant, it will bring no benefit or change to the speed of cars on the UK's roads.
The current state of the UK's transport system means that the roads are unable to cope with the current volume of traffic. Nobody goes more than 50mph, even on the motorways, and every car journey you make involves at least several queues in traffic of some sort.
This is particularly acute in London and the south eastern area of England where I live. I wish it was actually possible to exceed the speed limit, I really do. There's nothing more ironic than sitting on the M25 (London orbital motorway) in 5mph traffic whilst a variable-speed gantry up overhead reads "(40)". I wish!
And don't even get me started on public transport. Despite car journeys being long and horrifically expensive, they are still many times more preferable than braving the rail network.
You'd think in a country with such a dense population it would be the easiest thing in the world to implement a decent, cheap transport system. But noooooooooooooo. And now they want to enforce this bag of shit onto us. The peasants will revolt and not accept any cake!
Stuii!
I live in a large town 30 minutes west of London, which has this giant sign outside the town hall which reads "Welcome to Slough - An Anti-Nuclear Town".
I find it a bit strange therefore that they situated the town hall quite some distance away from the huge great ugly coal burner on the industrial estate, which visibly pumps out thousands of tonnes of waste into the atmosphere each week.
Freaks. Having said that, the UK's attitude to nuclear power appears to be a lot more sensible than the US's, even to the extent that we take other countries' waste for processing, which is not something that I necessarily agree with.
Stuii!