Troll? Normally I don't have much patience with MS-bashing Linux Zealots, but in this case the man is right. ME is vile. Beyond words. Seriously. It even makes Gentoo look easy to get working well, primarily because ME refuses to work well at all.
Actually depending on your point of view, he could be totally correct with RAID Array, since RAID is the technology. Another example is ASP Page. This expands to Active Server Pages Page, where Active Server Pages is the technology. Thus, RAID Array should be perfectly fine.
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Sockets? You had actual sockets? What I would have given for a socket, we had to drop spanners across the bus bars!
If anybody goes "Spanners? You had spanners?" then I'm gonna lynch them.
Actually, I had to explicity tell windows to treat me as a user with permission to install, never mind administrate. This from a totally default XPSP2 build.
But this even happens with desktop PCs, admittedly without the huge risk to human life. No matter what the dialog box, people will click 'OK' or 'Yes'. People don't realise systems give feedback for a reason, and unless you know for a fact the system has got it wrong then you act upon it.
In an ideal world, I would be expecting the plane's computer to be reporting things like this to Air Traffic Control so they can start considering emergency paths even before pilots radio in a problem.
True, but it doesn't really bother me. I'm not the one hiding behind internet anonimity, and without a real name and real information there's not really much the assholes can do.
In the UK TV series Robot Wars (some of you may have seen), every robot had to have a kill swich which simply cut power. It had to be accessible to any crew member within 10 seconds of reaching the robot, without putting your hand in the way of any wheels or weaponry.
Thank god I didn't have to post a new one halfway down the page with the same idea. You should have posted with a real name, although the Pro-Linux Zealots may have beaten you a bit.
Personally, I don't give a damn what I use as long as it's cost effective and works. Works being the key object here.
Now, the vast majority of OSS projects I come across are badly documented, and interoperable with most things providing you install and configure some bizzare abstraction layer.
Microsoft has more than its fair share of interop problems, but the vast majority of OSS isn't too hot on it either, even between things which are supposed to be essentially the same (configs from one Linux distro cause another to fall over, etc).
In fact, the best set of interop I've ever seen comes from the nice people at Apple.
It is possible to do something similar with Windows, namely integrate updates with the install image which can then be used to patch systems. I can't remember the exact name they give it, but I've done it in the past to get a fully patched XPSP1 install CD.
Whilst I'm sure your belief that a single US pilot won the Battle of Britain, and that the US was the only country involved in D-Day Landings, is immensely strong I suggest you look at some history texbooks and realise that although the US was a big help, you only became involved once the events became a threat (Pearl Harbour, and absolutely abysmal film).
I also recommend that you realise a large part of Hitler's rise to power was caused by mismanagement of resources in the US, ultimately leading to the depression and the calling in of debts from Germany given as part of the Treaty of Versailles. This then led to a major political issue, which the US did try vaguely to defuse before leaving Germany to slip into its own depression, ultimately leading to World War 2.
The EU does not equal Europe. EU is basically a bad attempt at centralised government, Europe is a continent.
Just because the 'morals' of Europe do not match the 'morals' of the US doesn't mean we don't have them. The US's attempt at 'morals' seems to be whatever you get force fed, and obviously those 'niggers' with no morals are after you, along with the 'pakis' who all carry bombs under their shirts. The US must have morals, the foreigners don't!
America is the world's only super-power? Really? Have you checked? I seem to recall this super-power is being given the run-around by a load of Iraqi insurgents. And wasn't there that thing where the 'untouchable' America was taken down a peg or few? What was it, September 11? It could well have been.
And to a final point, your morals do come from Europe. No, really. Take a look through history. If you do a lot of extrapolation and say that the US is highly religious (you all seem to think so, since you have a wide range of things saying God has blessed the country) then why not read a Bible for once in your life, and see that those morals originated from the Middle East. Where the US is currently in the process of looking for terrorists in any country with an "I" in the name. Clearly something's gone wrong, someone's lost touch with reality. The rest of the world thinks it's the US.
Grow up and realise that your precious states aren't the only people with civilisation, history, or morals.
If I had mod points you'd be falling into the karma pit by now.
In Europe I think you'll find we have equal if not more morals than in the states. Right vs wrong is taken just as seriously.
On the other hand, we realise that things like Janet Jackson exposing her breast is technically known as a "cock-up", and don't scream, have fits, bitch about what happens to the children, then sue everyone in sight for loss of earnings due to trauma.
Your thousands of years of Western civilisation are mostly European in origin, remember that. America is not the origin of all things in the world, though it seems to be the end of a lot of them.
My dad's previous car had microswitches on the steering wheel itself to do things like turn the radio on/off, rewind, tune up/down, etc so that the driver wasn't distracted by looking at the radio.
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There must be a joke about being able to fix it by configuring bash in here somewhere...
Oh for a mod point or 5, this is the most intelligent thing I've read in the whole story.
The depressing bit is, that all made sense to me :(
Troll? Normally I don't have much patience with MS-bashing Linux Zealots, but in this case the man is right. ME is vile. Beyond words. Seriously. It even makes Gentoo look easy to get working well, primarily because ME refuses to work well at all.
I have seen the alpha (it's sat on the shelf opposit me), and I agree with you.
You mean there's still some dilithium out there? I thought I used it all in my cold-fusion generator (which may well be required to run Longhorn)
Actually depending on your point of view, he could be totally correct with RAID Array, since RAID is the technology. Another example is ASP Page. This expands to Active Server Pages Page, where Active Server Pages is the technology. Thus, RAID Array should be perfectly fine.
Sockets? You had actual sockets? What I would have given for a socket, we had to drop spanners across the bus bars!
If anybody goes "Spanners? You had spanners?" then I'm gonna lynch them.
Actually, I had to explicity tell windows to treat me as a user with permission to install, never mind administrate. This from a totally default XPSP2 build.
Sorry, I've got to do this.
*Coughs*
*Stands on chair, applauds and cheers dAzED1*
That was a putting down of a grammar nazi like I have never seen before, excellent and I hope to see more!
I never knew you were a poet!
Unless I'm mistaken it's still possible to open anonymous Swiss bank accounts, depending on where you go.
But this even happens with desktop PCs, admittedly without the huge risk to human life. No matter what the dialog box, people will click 'OK' or 'Yes'. People don't realise systems give feedback for a reason, and unless you know for a fact the system has got it wrong then you act upon it.
In an ideal world, I would be expecting the plane's computer to be reporting things like this to Air Traffic Control so they can start considering emergency paths even before pilots radio in a problem.
When hard drives were 5GB? Don't you mean 5MB, like back in the real good old days when you could run everything in 20kb?
True, but it doesn't really bother me. I'm not the one hiding behind internet anonimity, and without a real name and real information there's not really much the assholes can do.
It constantly amazes me that people neglect this.
In the UK TV series Robot Wars (some of you may have seen), every robot had to have a kill swich which simply cut power. It had to be accessible to any crew member within 10 seconds of reaching the robot, without putting your hand in the way of any wheels or weaponry.
All robots should have one regardless of purpose.
Thank god I didn't have to post a new one halfway down the page with the same idea. You should have posted with a real name, although the Pro-Linux Zealots may have beaten you a bit.
Personally, I don't give a damn what I use as long as it's cost effective and works. Works being the key object here.
Now, the vast majority of OSS projects I come across are badly documented, and interoperable with most things providing you install and configure some bizzare abstraction layer.
Microsoft has more than its fair share of interop problems, but the vast majority of OSS isn't too hot on it either, even between things which are supposed to be essentially the same (configs from one Linux distro cause another to fall over, etc).
In fact, the best set of interop I've ever seen comes from the nice people at Apple.
It is possible to do something similar with Windows, namely integrate updates with the install image which can then be used to patch systems. I can't remember the exact name they give it, but I've done it in the past to get a fully patched XPSP1 install CD.
Wow, an AC posting Hollywood History.
Whilst I'm sure your belief that a single US pilot won the Battle of Britain, and that the US was the only country involved in D-Day Landings, is immensely strong I suggest you look at some history texbooks and realise that although the US was a big help, you only became involved once the events became a threat (Pearl Harbour, and absolutely abysmal film).
I also recommend that you realise a large part of Hitler's rise to power was caused by mismanagement of resources in the US, ultimately leading to the depression and the calling in of debts from Germany given as part of the Treaty of Versailles. This then led to a major political issue, which the US did try vaguely to defuse before leaving Germany to slip into its own depression, ultimately leading to World War 2.
The EU does not equal Europe. EU is basically a bad attempt at centralised government, Europe is a continent.
Just because the 'morals' of Europe do not match the 'morals' of the US doesn't mean we don't have them. The US's attempt at 'morals' seems to be whatever you get force fed, and obviously those 'niggers' with no morals are after you, along with the 'pakis' who all carry bombs under their shirts. The US must have morals, the foreigners don't!
America is the world's only super-power? Really? Have you checked? I seem to recall this super-power is being given the run-around by a load of Iraqi insurgents. And wasn't there that thing where the 'untouchable' America was taken down a peg or few? What was it, September 11? It could well have been.
And to a final point, your morals do come from Europe. No, really. Take a look through history. If you do a lot of extrapolation and say that the US is highly religious (you all seem to think so, since you have a wide range of things saying God has blessed the country) then why not read a Bible for once in your life, and see that those morals originated from the Middle East. Where the US is currently in the process of looking for terrorists in any country with an "I" in the name. Clearly something's gone wrong, someone's lost touch with reality. The rest of the world thinks it's the US.
Grow up and realise that your precious states aren't the only people with civilisation, history, or morals.
If I had mod points you'd be falling into the karma pit by now.
In Europe I think you'll find we have equal if not more morals than in the states. Right vs wrong is taken just as seriously.
On the other hand, we realise that things like Janet Jackson exposing her breast is technically known as a "cock-up", and don't scream, have fits, bitch about what happens to the children, then sue everyone in sight for loss of earnings due to trauma.
Your thousands of years of Western civilisation are mostly European in origin, remember that. America is not the origin of all things in the world, though it seems to be the end of a lot of them.
That was worryingly insightful
But only if there's no point stating it explicitly as a URL (location), as is the case with most addresses.
Doubt mods will spot it, but insightful!
/. through a W3C validator and it has a heart attack.
It's all well and good bitching about other sites, but run
My dad's previous car had microswitches on the steering wheel itself to do things like turn the radio on/off, rewind, tune up/down, etc so that the driver wasn't distracted by looking at the radio.
I think they should be standard fittings.