How was this Microsoft's fuckup?
The extended support termination deadline was published more-or-less a full decade in advance. The onus was on you to work around that fact- it's hardly as though you've been pressed for time.
They had their cards on the table from the start. If their solution wasn't right (or indeed, as is the case now, safe) for you in the long term, the mistake's on your part for not having chosen a more sustainable solution.
Microsoft's supported XP for thirteen years now. They've more than fulfilled their support responsibilities.
In order to lure the best people into becoming doctors, you need to pay them well and allow them to charge market rates for their services, and having a socialized system doesn't allow for that.
Really? Do you have any idea how much British Doctors are paid?
Nay, 'twasn't. The Half-Life engine is a heavily modified version of the original QuakeWorld engine, with a couple of changes from the Q2 engine implemented to buff it up.
The saddest thing about this sorry situation is that the all-but-inevitable winners of the next election, the Conservatives, aren't at all likely to be any better than New Labour in that respect- barring a once-in-a-century Liberal Democrat election victory, we're in for at least another five years of British Conservatism's nauseatingly public-spirited new incarnation.
What good is Democracy when there are no significant alternatives?
These devices are only used to disperse gangs which have already accumulated and who are causing trouble.
They are not emitting this sound on a constant basis, and are just fired for very short periods of time as required.
I live in the UK, and can honestly say that that's just not the case in many places.
The branch of McDonalds in my local city (Derby) keeps that ghastly noise on nigh-on constantly. In fact, I've never noticed it turned off- don't give me that condescending "It's not meant to be used like that!" rubbish- the fact remains that it is.
Not all teenagers are the thugs you appear to be describing- I'd say that it's unfair to punish the majority in response to the actions of a few idiots. And the sound is insanely annoying.
We should send all Burma's diplomats packing as they have no respect for human life.
And cut off your main means of communication and negotiation with the Burmese?
Diplomats exist solely to allow communication between states- cutting them out would mean that the U.K.'d effectively thumb their nose at the Junta so empathetically that they'd refuse to talk full stop. It's better to have some communication than none whatsoever.
virtual Richard M. Stallman
The vrms program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian-based system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed.
Note that vrms is not limited to Debian systems only (which means that it also works with Debian-derived distributions such as Ubuntu). It is also not limited to Linux-based systems.
Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text from the public writings of RMS and others that explain why use of each of the installed non-free packages might cause moral issues for some in the Free Software community. This functionality is not yet included.
Who needs their sub-par Non-Free heresies when we have a Virtual Richard M. Stallman on our side?
My only gripe with Windows Live Hotmail's Firefox support is that it automatically kicks you down to the slower, less flashy "classic" view if you access it from a Linux client- if you spoof your User Agent string to make it appear that you're using Firefox on Windows, the full AJAX interface works perfectly.
Blatant OS Discrimination from Microsoft. But then, what else is new?
Your assumption that Nuclear Weapons will cease to be scary has one rather fatal flaw:
One nuke! New York City go bye bye!
No matter how deadly the weapons of the future may get, the fact that a single nuke can wipe a million people off the map in a matter of seconds will never become any less scary.
I can't even begin to express how angry your comment makes me.
I am the end product of this "keep the kids locked up playing zelda" mentality. I can honesstly tell you that there is no better way to completely destroy a child's happiness than to lock them away from the world at large in a hermetically sealed bubble with a screen and a few toys.
Games will never be a substitute for real life. I was lucky- my parents realised what was going wrong whilst there was still time. For a kid who's effectively trapped into such a hellish situation, I have nothing but pity.
I cant understand why people do those kind of "cryptic" writing like fsck
And yet you still wonder why Linux has not crushed Microsoft like a bug?
With a utility like that in the mainstream, you'd have the Mothers Against Maddox crowd out in force.
Riots on the street! Economic collapse!
All because of the unfortunate fact that Linux users spend too long paying attention to little Johnny.
On the subject of Video Chat, have you tried Kopete?
http://kopete.kde.org/
It's a Qt app, which is slightly annoying if you use GNOME- you have to manually change the default browser in KControl if you want to set it to use, say, Epiphany or Fire/Swiftfox.
It *does* include full support for MSN video chat, though. It's a fantastically capable messenger. It has the same marmite menu-bloat that you get with all KDE applications, but it's worth spending 20 minutes or so setting it up.
Of course, it's nowhere near as advanced as something like MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger. But that's to be expected.
(Oh yay. I dare to praise WLM on Slashdot. How long before the anti-"bloat" trolls roll in? Some of us *like* that stuff.:P)
If it wasn't for the MAD (Mutually assured Destruction) scenario, the NATO and Warsaw Pact alliances would no doubt have gone to war with eachother. If we'd let our egos rule our actions, the world's ecosystems would be smoking husks by now.
I forsee similar circumstances in the coming century. In this case, the threat will not be so much the spectre of Nuclear Armageddon- more likely it will be the spectre of the Earth's systems that we depend upon being so irrecoverably wrecked that we will not be able to survive at the levels we have grown accustomed to throughout the past hundred years in developed countries.
Once the emerging superpowers enter the same boat as the current industrialised powers, one can only hope that mutual cooperation will be the outcome of any negotiations.
Since the scenario of global cooperation would rely upon the detrimental results of Climate Change being seen to be potentially more dangerous than more "traditional" conflicts, this effectively leaves the Earth's fate reliant on a coin tossed between the Arabs and the Jews.
Basically, if Iran nukes Israel and starts World War 3, our chance of stopping Civilisation's slide into anarchy slips through our fingers. We need to *stop* the conflicts and get down to the business of saving the lives of everybody- whether they are Jewish, Arabic, Hindu, American, British, Caucasian, Chinese, or disciples of the flying spaghetti monster.
Interesting tactic. By making it the default search engine on the most popular web browser on the internet, they finally have a chance to pose a reasonable challenge to Google, rather than remaining a laughing stock.
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How was this Microsoft's fuckup? The extended support termination deadline was published more-or-less a full decade in advance. The onus was on you to work around that fact- it's hardly as though you've been pressed for time. They had their cards on the table from the start. If their solution wasn't right (or indeed, as is the case now, safe) for you in the long term, the mistake's on your part for not having chosen a more sustainable solution. Microsoft's supported XP for thirteen years now. They've more than fulfilled their support responsibilities.
In order to lure the best people into becoming doctors, you need to pay them well and allow them to charge market rates for their services, and having a socialized system doesn't allow for that.
Really? Do you have any idea how much British Doctors are paid?
Have a gander at their pay levels on the NHS Website.
They're extremely well paid, by British standards. Heck- better qualified doctors get well into six figures per annum.
For those who aren't aware of it, this was composed using Scott Pakin's Automatic Complaint Letter Generator.
Nay, 'twasn't.
The Half-Life engine is a heavily modified version of the original QuakeWorld engine, with a couple of changes from the Q2 engine implemented to buff it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsrc
The saddest thing about this sorry situation is that the all-but-inevitable winners of the next election, the Conservatives, aren't at all likely to be any better than New Labour in that respect- barring a once-in-a-century Liberal Democrat election victory, we're in for at least another five years of British Conservatism's nauseatingly public-spirited new incarnation.
What good is Democracy when there are no significant alternatives?
These devices are only used to disperse gangs which have already accumulated and who are causing trouble.
They are not emitting this sound on a constant basis, and are just fired for very short periods of time as required.
I live in the UK, and can honestly say that that's just not the case in many places. The branch of McDonalds in my local city (Derby) keeps that ghastly noise on nigh-on constantly. In fact, I've never noticed it turned off- don't give me that condescending "It's not meant to be used like that!" rubbish- the fact remains that it is.
Not all teenagers are the thugs you appear to be describing- I'd say that it's unfair to punish the majority in response to the actions of a few idiots. And the sound is insanely annoying.
And cut off your main means of communication and negotiation with the Burmese?
Diplomats exist solely to allow communication between states- cutting them out would mean that the U.K.'d effectively thumb their nose at the Junta so empathetically that they'd refuse to talk full stop. It's better to have some communication than none whatsoever.
Once again, the FLOSS community gets there first!
Who needs their sub-par Non-Free heresies when we have a Virtual Richard M. Stallman on our side?
My only gripe with Windows Live Hotmail's Firefox support is that it automatically kicks you down to the slower, less flashy "classic" view if you access it from a Linux client- if you spoof your User Agent string to make it appear that you're using Firefox on Windows, the full AJAX interface works perfectly.
Blatant OS Discrimination from Microsoft. But then, what else is new?
Your assumption that Nuclear Weapons will cease to be scary has one rather fatal flaw:
One nuke! New York City go bye bye!
No matter how deadly the weapons of the future may get, the fact that a single nuke can wipe a million people off the map in a matter of seconds will never become any less scary.
...Microsoft Bob?
I can't even begin to express how angry your comment makes me.
I am the end product of this "keep the kids locked up playing zelda" mentality. I can honesstly tell you that there is no better way to completely destroy a child's happiness than to lock them away from the world at large in a hermetically sealed bubble with a screen and a few toys.
Games will never be a substitute for real life. I was lucky- my parents realised what was going wrong whilst there was still time. For a kid who's effectively trapped into such a hellish situation, I have nothing but pity.
Mr Pullman has a serious point.
I'm placing my bets on Duke Nukem Forever beating it to release.
Or even better- as a launch title for Infinium Labs' Vista-powered Phantom console!
Since when has the current administration cared about the Constitution?
Or, for a comparitively cutting edge experience, give Xenix a try!
Perhaps it's simply because Male Avatars are invariably hulking tanks who haven't shaven in a month?
I've yet to see a single male avatar who doesn't look dreadful.
Apologies- I didn't think about the homophobic aspect.
It's just that Lemonparty is particularly *bad* porn.
Parent is gay porn. I advise you don't look at it unless you're a fan of Lemonparty.
In which case, visit your local psychiatrist.
I cant understand why people do those kind of "cryptic" writing like fsck
And yet you still wonder why Linux has not crushed Microsoft like a bug? With a utility like that in the mainstream, you'd have the Mothers Against Maddox crowd out in force. Riots on the street! Economic collapse! All because of the unfortunate fact that Linux users spend too long paying attention to little Johnny.
It's so obvious! Freedom's dying proportionally to BSD!
Does this make the US Government Linux?
On the subject of Video Chat, have you tried Kopete? http://kopete.kde.org/ It's a Qt app, which is slightly annoying if you use GNOME- you have to manually change the default browser in KControl if you want to set it to use, say, Epiphany or Fire/Swiftfox. It *does* include full support for MSN video chat, though. It's a fantastically capable messenger. It has the same marmite menu-bloat that you get with all KDE applications, but it's worth spending 20 minutes or so setting it up. Of course, it's nowhere near as advanced as something like MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger. But that's to be expected. (Oh yay. I dare to praise WLM on Slashdot. How long before the anti-"bloat" trolls roll in? Some of us *like* that stuff. :P)
*robot collapses in pile of rusty flakes*
Just like the Cold War.
If it wasn't for the MAD (Mutually assured Destruction) scenario, the NATO and Warsaw Pact alliances would no doubt have gone to war with eachother. If we'd let our egos rule our actions, the world's ecosystems would be smoking husks by now.
I forsee similar circumstances in the coming century. In this case, the threat will not be so much the spectre of Nuclear Armageddon- more likely it will be the spectre of the Earth's systems that we depend upon being so irrecoverably wrecked that we will not be able to survive at the levels we have grown accustomed to throughout the past hundred years in developed countries.
Once the emerging superpowers enter the same boat as the current industrialised powers, one can only hope that mutual cooperation will be the outcome of any negotiations.
Since the scenario of global cooperation would rely upon the detrimental results of Climate Change being seen to be potentially more dangerous than more "traditional" conflicts, this effectively leaves the Earth's fate reliant on a coin tossed between the Arabs and the Jews.
Basically, if Iran nukes Israel and starts World War 3, our chance of stopping Civilisation's slide into anarchy slips through our fingers. We need to *stop* the conflicts and get down to the business of saving the lives of everybody- whether they are Jewish, Arabic, Hindu, American, British, Caucasian, Chinese, or disciples of the flying spaghetti monster.
Notice the "MSN Search" in the top right box?
Interesting tactic. By making it the default search engine on the most popular web browser on the internet, they finally have a chance to pose a reasonable challenge to Google, rather than remaining a laughing stock.
I'd say that it manages quite adequetly on its own.