Secondly, as another poster said, American English is the language of the Internet. Didn't you ever notice that the W3C's own recommendations use "color," not "colour?"
Yeah, that's particularly ironic considering that the "father" of the web was a Brit.
Do you also rail against the Italians and Spanish for constantly misspelling Latin words?
They don't speak Latin in Italy or Spain. At least not any more. For a good two thousand odd years. Have you ever had the misfortune of spelling something in French incorrectly? They don't like it, and nor do we.
Okay, perhaps a bit offtopic, but I wonder what Microsoft think about Apple bundling Internet Explorer with OS-X. I know they do because they've got that giant IE logo bang in the centre of the bottom icon bar.
As the topic suggests, OS-X is Linux based. So IE will be essentially running under Linux. This could either mean that 1) Microsoft will throw a hissy fit and confiscate the IE source code from Apple, or 2) We might be seeing Internet Explorer on other flavours of Linux in the not too distant future?
Before anybody asks, I'm not Bill Gates' love child, but I do happen to be an IE fan. So flame me.
Perhaps you should write your website in HTML like all proper websites instead of depending on a tool designed for Mac-using arty farty twats who can't code properly.
Dude, you need to tell this to the people who wrote the article, you might get more clues out of them. There's little point in ranting here about it and asking us to do your digging.
Domain Names - Windows2000.com redirects you to a Windows 2000 product page on the Microsoft site. I'm not sure I'd trust my mission critical apps to a company that can't even afford to give it's flagship OS its own domain name
That really bloody annoys me that does. The author of this article clearly has no idea how domain names should be used by companies. Microsoft are actually doing this right.
It should be http://www.company.com/products/product1/ and not http://www.companyproduct1.com/ that companies like HP often use. It's a stupid waste of domain names, admittedly domain names that the companies would claim they have a right to anyway, but even so.
When will clueless journalists stop trying to make the Internet into something that they want it to be, and not accept it for what it is and has been for a long time.
> Nit: it's not "England" it's "Britain",
> please get it right.
You mean, of course, "United Kingdom", which is short for "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Northern Ireland is not part of Britain.
We've had *11* (yes, ELEVEN) digit phone numbers in the UK for nearly six years now. It really isn't that much of a big deal. I know the US phone system sucks, but I'm sure you can bear to press one or even two extra digits to make a call.
... not to mention the recently released MicrodigitalOmega [picture] (at RISC OS 2000), a truly excellent machine. The death of Acorn was not the death of RISC OS, no sireee.
For god's sake, you people really are stupid aren't you. You believe ANYTHING that Slashdot posts. You'd believe that Eminem has been elected US president if Slashdot reported it.
If you had actually read the god damn article, you would know that it said "the upcoming Windows release known as 'Whistler' will include a range of new security options, including one that will block any software lacking a valid digital signature".
Now, to me, a simple Englishman, the word "option" implies that it is something that I may choose to do if I please, but that is not forced upon me. I am unsure if the word "option" has a different meaning in "American English" (which, incidentally, does not exist).
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Great. Back to IE then. Had their chance, fluffed it.
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Secondly, as another poster said, American English is the language of the Internet. Didn't you ever notice that the W3C's own recommendations use "color," not "colour?"
Yeah, that's particularly ironic considering that the "father" of the web was a Brit.
Does the word "hijack" spring to mind?
Stuii!
Do you also rail against the Italians and Spanish for constantly misspelling Latin words?
They don't speak Latin in Italy or Spain. At least not any more. For a good two thousand odd years. Have you ever had the misfortune of spelling something in French incorrectly? They don't like it, and nor do we.
Stuii!
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
Yes, with an A. Dammit. This bararism of the English language must stop.
Stuii!
Pah, that's nothing. I've got 240 on my bedside table. Ph33r the UK's national grid.
Stuii!
*applause*
Can't argue with that in the slightest.
Stuii! - Windows 2000 on the desktop, Linux on the servers. I bet there's others like me.
As the topic suggests, OS-X is Linux based. So IE will be essentially running under Linux. This could either mean that 1) Microsoft will throw a hissy fit and confiscate the IE source code from Apple, or 2) We might be seeing Internet Explorer on other flavours of Linux in the not too distant future?
Before anybody asks, I'm not Bill Gates' love child, but I do happen to be an IE fan. So flame me.
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Perhaps you should write your website in HTML like all proper websites instead of depending on a tool designed for Mac-using arty farty twats who can't code properly.
Dude, you need to tell this to the people who wrote the article, you might get more clues out of them. There's little point in ranting here about it and asking us to do your digging.
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Domain Names - Windows2000.com redirects you to a Windows 2000 product page on the Microsoft site. I'm not sure I'd trust my mission critical apps to a company that can't even afford to give it's flagship OS its own domain name
That really bloody annoys me that does. The author of this article clearly has no idea how domain names should be used by companies. Microsoft are actually doing this right.
It should be http://www.company.com/products/product1/ and not http://www.companyproduct1.com/ that companies like HP often use. It's a stupid waste of domain names, admittedly domain names that the companies would claim they have a right to anyway, but even so.
When will clueless journalists stop trying to make the Internet into something that they want it to be, and not accept it for what it is and has been for a long time.
Stuii!
> Nit: it's not "England" it's "Britain",
> please get it right.
You mean, of course, "United Kingdom", which is short for "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Northern Ireland is not part of Britain.
xx Stuii!
> And yes I do own a mac, but I think I speak
> for a majority of the macintosh comunity,
> being at 500 mhz for 2 years is kinda shitty.
You need to get a proper computer then don't you. Macs are for girls.
> 859-xxx-xxx
Uh, hate to rain on your parade dude, but that's only 9.
Stuii!
We've had *11* (yes, ELEVEN) digit phone numbers in the UK for nearly six years now. It really isn't that much of a big deal. I know the US phone system sucks, but I'm sure you can bear to press one or even two extra digits to make a call.
Stuii!
> But can you still buy it?
http://www.riscos.com/index1.htm
http://www.riscos.com/risc_os_4/order.pdf
> Or even get hardware to run it on?
http://www.atomwide.co.uk/products/riscpc.htm
http://www.riscstation.co.uk/html/products.html
... not to mention the recently released Microdigital Omega [picture] (at RISC OS 2000), a truly excellent machine. The death of Acorn was not the death of RISC OS, no sireee.
There's even a Slashdot style site for RISC OS at http://www.iconbar.com/
Stuii!
freestyla
> I personally would like to see the Queen go
> - but since she's doing nothing there
> (except taking taxpayers' money)
I think you'll find she doesn't do that anymore. She even pays tax herself. Don't you remember all that in the news some years ago now?
Stuii!
> Click here to win a free 66G tape drive
... buy one.
As opposed to winning a tape drive that isn't free? Why would I want to do that? Surely I can just
> America's where all the software innovation
> comes from. Witness Microsoft
*coff*
You know, the last I heard, Linux was written in Scandinavia. Scandinavia is nowhere near America, it never has been and it never will be.
Engage brain, yanky boy.
For god's sake, you people really are stupid aren't you. You believe ANYTHING that Slashdot posts. You'd believe that Eminem has been elected US president if Slashdot reported it.
If you had actually read the god damn article , you would know that it said "the upcoming Windows release known as 'Whistler' will include a range of new security options, including one that will block any software lacking a valid digital signature".
Now, to me, a simple Englishman, the word "option" implies that it is something that I may choose to do if I please, but that is not forced upon me. I am unsure if the word "option" has a different meaning in "American English" (which, incidentally, does not exist).
Bloody idiots.
The big bang theory is based around an event that happened 400 years ago, that gave birth to the United States.
> Also, U2's new album sucks. Possibly because
> their hearing is damaged from all of the car
> bomb explosions in Dublin
Of course, if you even had one iota of a clue, you would know that Dublin is not and has never been the target of IRA attacks.
But then you're from a country where the president only gets involved in such affairs to score votes with "Irish Americans".
*splutter*
"Are there actual people outside the United States?"
"Best way to extract heads from arses?"
"On combatting stupidity?"
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Great. Back to IE then. Had their chance, fluffed it.
It's called SMS - Small Message System
You didn't spell "Short Message Service" correctly.
xx Stuii!