Canadian search on homosexuality even gives the children's books. Does amazon have shareholders? They shouldn't be too glad with amazon trying to scare off the huge market of US gays who buy online. Religious nut-jobs shouldn't be on the internet anyway, as the internet is made by the devil, so one wonders which market amazon US is trying to cater with their new policy.
Happened in the Netherlands, bol.com became the largest online bookstore, because amazon just couldn't be bothered to cater the Dutch market. Though we have our share of religious fundamentalists in the Netherlands, I don't think amazon will ever make it to the Dutch market successfully with their current attitude. That said, the german version of amazon shows normal books on homosexuality just fine in their first result page, so maybe it's just an US thing.
sms has a reason of existence, it's network overhead is minimal, allowing the use of sms even in overloaded situations, or in places with low network coverage. For the rest I agree with you as in why the hell we have to pay the ridiculous amounts of money for this service.
I also wonder where grandparent has been hiding the last few months/years. We all have seen how much fun and profit the deregulation of the banking market has brought us.
Exactly! I was very happy with my 7 inch xandros asus eee, and I wanted a 9 inch version. But with linux, it was only available with slow SSD and a lower screen resolution. Really, why that. I ended up buying the german Dell with linux, though it was only available with 1 gb RAM and 8 GB SSD. In the US, the linux mini 9 can be configured with all options, up to 64 GB SSD if I remember well. I upgraded the RAM to 2GB afterwards, and mounted a 16 GB SD-card via fstab, but still I feel deliberately obstructed to buy the machine that I want.
German superior court recently kicked voting machines out. As long as a machine's trail can not be completely followed by outsiders, using the machine will be unconstitutional. In practice, this will probably make sure electronic voting is out of the question entirely. Hurray for common sense, hope someone up there in the higher courts will soon stop the idiotic blocking of wikipedia and wikileaks by the german police.
Really, try buying a linux netbook in the average computer store, there is none. At least in Germany you can get them at the smaller specialized computer stores. Also, the models you can get with linux are often not the ones with the best outfit, low RAM, slow SSD, etc. The reason behind this is, if you ask me, a matter of economics. Linux was convenient to get netbook pioneer Asus in the position to get the better deal out of Microsoft. E.g., not having to buy Vista. They will pull it out of the closet again when Windows has their netbook-optimized windows 7 ready (as if!).
I myself am at my second factory-preinstalled linux-based netbook (first Asus, now Dell), and my experiences are nothing but positive, The specially created interface on the asus was practical, the one on the Dell is fantastic and even stylish. I wouldn't want to have to navigate the miniature start menu of XP on my netbook. But then again I was already ready for Linux anyway. Let's see if Android will get new Linux users into the mobile devices market.
The difference between obama and bush is that they are paid by different members of the same industry. The first change the US needs is to make corporate spending to political parties illegal.
This would not be the act of a terrorist. A terrorist act has the goal to as efficiently bring fear in the largest part of the population. Your scheme would only bring fear to the workers of the local fibre maintenance company, and only inconvenience to the rest of the population. Seriously, what happened to just putting bombs near crowds? The idea is to instill fear into the public that at no place in their daily life they are safe.
True, cutting fiber at different parts in town would bring chaos, but why would you use a plan that requires such meticulous planning (and therefore a bigger chance to fail) when you could do it with easier means, just bomb one or two medium sized electricity outlets and along with the electricity network most communication systems will go down.
The stuff you describe would better fit a psychopath, but why would a psychopath purposely endanger the lifes of glass fiber technicians, unless of course they had a traumatic experience with one of them in their youth.
Indeed, what good is an answer to a question when it actually brings you something.
I have many times googled for technical questions where the first result in google was a forum post with the only answer: "why don't you google it". This is partly the fault of google, obviously it ranks the pages incorrectly, but it is also the fault of the person who apparently took the energy to answer, but left it completely useless. Really, if you're helping a newby with a question, give at least just a few better keywords then the ones in the original question. The internet will thank you.
I have the Flash 10 player on my pre-installed dell ubuntu. That said, updating flash is a pain in the ass. On my Suse work pc it was working fine until it got automatically updated together with some video codecs. Since then I have it end up as a white square every now and then, leaving stuck npviewer.bin processes behind.
I think I see the reason. In Taiwan it's probably easy to get illegal installs of XP + all software when buying in small local shops- I know it happens in Russia. So the market for really free software is probably quite low. In Germany however, it is different. It is more difficult to sell computers with illegal stuff on it, and there is a substantially large group of pricky nerds that are in favor of linux for ideological reasons (and nationalist pride, suse started here). So at least in the small shops you can get linux netbooks, or notebooks with no OS preinstalled. And then there is Dell, where I bought my linux netbook via the german website.
Indeed, you can never cramp a comfortable screen size (say, starting 9 to 10 inch) in a device with the comfortable size of a cellphone. Still, I have nothing against my desktop PC and my phone having exactly the same OS. Not just the same type, really the same OS. It would make life terribly easy, syncing calendar data, music, etc.
I'm almost there, I currently have only one PC, a dell-ubuntu mini 9. It is connected at home to my 20 inch CRT and an external dvd drive to watch movies (planning to add a beamer). I have no need for more computing power! My only internet connection is a prepaid UMTS stick (no contract). I considered using the netbook also as a phone with some bluetooth headset, but the 3 hour battery life is not really helping. Also, I'd always have to carry around a relatively bulky 1 kg of electronics. Fits only in the baggiest of pants.
My plan: In a year or so, I'll get the android. I already played with the android SDK and emulator on the netbook, and it's pretty neat to create programs with that, but I would be even neater if the netbook could run the programs natively and have the same touchscreen interface. Only disadvantage to an android netbook would be the lower availability of packages compared to ubuntu etc. Also, the availability of packages might be artificially limited from google's side, I'm unclear on how much lock-in there is.
So, we are all like you and all stop filesharing. It's not like the surveillance will stop all of a sudden, enough alternative reasons to extend the surveillance will come up. Current german minister wanting to censor child porn websites, etc.
It's a bit naive to think that these regulations are related to the actual behavior of the population, there just needs to be an excuse that sounds reasonable enough to most of the population to accept it.
The server/client system can be very efficient, but it only works if you have never failing connections between the two, and no significant lag. Shouldn't be a problem if you have DSL, but gets more difficult if you also use wlan or umts. One should do benchmarks to measure the downtime of thin clients (downtime due to network issues) vs pcs (downtime due to software, compatibility issues, etc.)
I like the idea of a cigarette break, even though I don't smoke. It's pretty social. Parents tell you when you go to school not to give in to peer pressure and hang out with the cool smoking kids during break, but the older I get, the less I think that that kind of advice makes sense. Only by the time I was halfway university, I started figuring out how to enjoy life a bit, instead of just studying. Missed a part there! Hang around with the cool smoking kids! Drink beer! Try weed! Have sex before marriage!
I agree with the guy who agrees with the girl who agrees with the guy who doesn't seem to agree with the other guy who disagrees with the original guy.
You needn't be a jerk. What you should do, however, is e.g. never be offended if your girl says something offensive, but instead make a smart remark about it. It's intellectually challenging, but the reward is fantastic, you'll be a better person as a whole, and will enjoy it. Also, even if you make a stupid choice some time, don't doubt about going on or making a choice. Even when your girl seems annoyed, it will get worse when you stay insecure. Learned this in my relationship over the years, and it keeps getting better (albeit slowly).
Siy years ago, I had some really random errors under windows, just halting at times, running fine at other times. I then installed openbsd and all was fine.... until I tried to edit large pictures with the gimp. Tried to reproduce the error, and it consistently halted when reserving large amounts of memory in the gimp. Came to the idea to try memtest, and indeed some parts of the memory were corrupt. Nasty thing is that also the backup cds I burned while the crappy ram was built in were useless because of that:(
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Canadian search on homosexuality even gives the children's books. Does amazon have shareholders? They shouldn't be too glad with amazon trying to scare off the huge market of US gays who buy online. Religious nut-jobs shouldn't be on the internet anyway, as the internet is made by the devil, so one wonders which market amazon US is trying to cater with their new policy.
Happened in the Netherlands, bol.com became the largest online bookstore, because amazon just couldn't be bothered to cater the Dutch market. Though we have our share of religious fundamentalists in the Netherlands, I don't think amazon will ever make it to the Dutch market successfully with their current attitude. That said, the german version of amazon shows normal books on homosexuality just fine in their first result page, so maybe it's just an US thing.
sms has a reason of existence, it's network overhead is minimal, allowing the use of sms even in overloaded situations, or in places with low network coverage. For the rest I agree with you as in why the hell we have to pay the ridiculous amounts of money for this service.
I also wonder where grandparent has been hiding the last few months/years. We all have seen how much fun and profit the deregulation of the banking market has brought us.
Exactly! I was very happy with my 7 inch xandros asus eee, and I wanted a 9 inch version. But with linux, it was only available with slow SSD and a lower screen resolution. Really, why that. I ended up buying the german Dell with linux, though it was only available with 1 gb RAM and 8 GB SSD. In the US, the linux mini 9 can be configured with all options, up to 64 GB SSD if I remember well. I upgraded the RAM to 2GB afterwards, and mounted a 16 GB SD-card via fstab, but still I feel deliberately obstructed to buy the machine that I want.
German superior court recently kicked voting machines out. As long as a machine's trail can not be completely followed by outsiders, using the machine will be unconstitutional. In practice, this will probably make sure electronic voting is out of the question entirely. Hurray for common sense, hope someone up there in the higher courts will soon stop the idiotic blocking of wikipedia and wikileaks by the german police.
I myself am at my second factory-preinstalled linux-based netbook (first Asus, now Dell), and my experiences are nothing but positive, The specially created interface on the asus was practical, the one on the Dell is fantastic and even stylish. I wouldn't want to have to navigate the miniature start menu of XP on my netbook. But then again I was already ready for Linux anyway. Let's see if Android will get new Linux users into the mobile devices market.
The correct terminology of the phenomenon you describe is: WOOOOOSH!
The difference between obama and bush is that they are paid by different members of the same industry. The first change the US needs is to make corporate spending to political parties illegal.
It seems to me that you are unable to distinguish between the makers of the movie and the pirate bay,
True, cutting fiber at different parts in town would bring chaos, but why would you use a plan that requires such meticulous planning (and therefore a bigger chance to fail) when you could do it with easier means, just bomb one or two medium sized electricity outlets and along with the electricity network most communication systems will go down.
The stuff you describe would better fit a psychopath, but why would a psychopath purposely endanger the lifes of glass fiber technicians, unless of course they had a traumatic experience with one of them in their youth.
I have many times googled for technical questions where the first result in google was a forum post with the only answer: "why don't you google it". This is partly the fault of google, obviously it ranks the pages incorrectly, but it is also the fault of the person who apparently took the energy to answer, but left it completely useless. Really, if you're helping a newby with a question, give at least just a few better keywords then the ones in the original question. The internet will thank you.
I have the Flash 10 player on my pre-installed dell ubuntu. That said, updating flash is a pain in the ass. On my Suse work pc it was working fine until it got automatically updated together with some video codecs. Since then I have it end up as a white square every now and then, leaving stuck npviewer.bin processes behind.
alles Lüge ;) Here in Germany I can download David Hasselhoff songs just fine, no need to worry!
addendum: you can enforce "support" from the local populace by threatening to kill them if they don't support.
I think I see the reason. In Taiwan it's probably easy to get illegal installs of XP + all software when buying in small local shops- I know it happens in Russia. So the market for really free software is probably quite low. In Germany however, it is different. It is more difficult to sell computers with illegal stuff on it, and there is a substantially large group of pricky nerds that are in favor of linux for ideological reasons (and nationalist pride, suse started here). So at least in the small shops you can get linux netbooks, or notebooks with no OS preinstalled. And then there is Dell, where I bought my linux netbook via the german website.
I'm almost there, I currently have only one PC, a dell-ubuntu mini 9. It is connected at home to my 20 inch CRT and an external dvd drive to watch movies (planning to add a beamer). I have no need for more computing power! My only internet connection is a prepaid UMTS stick (no contract). I considered using the netbook also as a phone with some bluetooth headset, but the 3 hour battery life is not really helping. Also, I'd always have to carry around a relatively bulky 1 kg of electronics. Fits only in the baggiest of pants.
My plan: In a year or so, I'll get the android. I already played with the android SDK and emulator on the netbook, and it's pretty neat to create programs with that, but I would be even neater if the netbook could run the programs natively and have the same touchscreen interface. Only disadvantage to an android netbook would be the lower availability of packages compared to ubuntu etc. Also, the availability of packages might be artificially limited from google's side, I'm unclear on how much lock-in there is.
It's a bit naive to think that these regulations are related to the actual behavior of the population, there just needs to be an excuse that sounds reasonable enough to most of the population to accept it.
The server/client system can be very efficient, but it only works if you have never failing connections between the two, and no significant lag. Shouldn't be a problem if you have DSL, but gets more difficult if you also use wlan or umts. One should do benchmarks to measure the downtime of thin clients (downtime due to network issues) vs pcs (downtime due to software, compatibility issues, etc.)
But, what if your natural language is finnish?
I like the idea of a cigarette break, even though I don't smoke. It's pretty social. Parents tell you when you go to school not to give in to peer pressure and hang out with the cool smoking kids during break, but the older I get, the less I think that that kind of advice makes sense. Only by the time I was halfway university, I started figuring out how to enjoy life a bit, instead of just studying. Missed a part there! Hang around with the cool smoking kids! Drink beer! Try weed! Have sex before marriage!
You needn't be a jerk. What you should do, however, is e.g. never be offended if your girl says something offensive, but instead make a smart remark about it. It's intellectually challenging, but the reward is fantastic, you'll be a better person as a whole, and will enjoy it. Also, even if you make a stupid choice some time, don't doubt about going on or making a choice. Even when your girl seems annoyed, it will get worse when you stay insecure. Learned this in my relationship over the years, and it keeps getting better (albeit slowly).
Siy years ago, I had some really random errors under windows, just halting at times, running fine at other times. I then installed openbsd and all was fine.... until I tried to edit large pictures with the gimp. Tried to reproduce the error, and it consistently halted when reserving large amounts of memory in the gimp. Came to the idea to try memtest, and indeed some parts of the memory were corrupt. Nasty thing is that also the backup cds I burned while the crappy ram was built in were useless because of that :(
That's why there were "Turbo" buttons, ironically only used to slow the PC down.
and what do we do with all those old greek vases. Or some of the books of anais nin? Are we doing the 1950s all over again, or what?