Am I the only user in the world who almost never feels a need for a script?
No, I agree 100% My basic home user needs are Word processing, DTP & image editing. A scipt is pointless for all of those. My advanced home user needs are install\uninstall programs, computer config & codeing (mostly XHTML and Java) 99.99% can be acomplished via the gui. If somone can tell me the point of command line for these simple tasks I'll be astonished.
When IE crashes on me, it crashes Windws entirely, no BSOD, but the entire OS freezes, I've never had that problem with firefox. If a web site dosn't work in firefox or Opera, I don't use it. Unfortunatly you're right firefox does leak memory, but then so does Windows itself which dosn't help.
If you've never heard the phrase "software engineer", you've just admitted that you've no industrial experience.
Indeed, I'm a student in the final year of a Software engineering degree here in the UK, it's on a par with, and taught in the same style as all the other engineering degrees my university teaches. At the end of the academic year, I'll be able to put BSc (Hons.) after my name (not that I'd be that pretentious)
Add to that a CCTV camera on virtually every street corner (hell I even had one pointing at me inside a taxi the other day), the extention to detention without trial (even to 28 days is longer than most common law countries*) & the hair-brained biometric passport & ID card schemes, so now they know exactly what I do and where I go all the time, and want me to pay for it all. Sounds doubleplusgood to me.
A large proportion here in the UK are too lazy or ignrant to have a revolution (as demonstrated by majority public support for detention without trial), Emigration to Canada, sounds better with every passing week.
Yet another reason for me to want to emigrate from the UK, what with ID cards, and 90 days detention without trial etc.(Thankfully the latter was defeated in parliment). At this rate, with ever more draconian laws I'll be able to claim asylum.
Has th NY Times stopped asking people outside the US to register, becaause the last couple of times I've visited they havn't asked me, besideds, even when they used to, I used BugMeNot
Indeed, Puppy Linux gave my old 128 mb USB pen a newc lease of life, I now have an entirely portable operating system and It means I can still get work done if my uni network goes down (as is frequently the case).
I'm sure running your own OS would be a breach of our 'terms of use' for using the uni computers, but I don't think they thought about it when writing them;)
Really? I've only just started switching from Windows to Linux, I have a dual boot Windows XP Pro\Linux Ubuntu machine, the one and only problem I've had is connecting to the internet via my wireless card. My brother had exactly the same problem on his Windows PC, i.e we can both see the WAN, but can't connect to the internet via the router. He solved his problem before I started installing Ubuntu, so the two arn't related, but Windows is far from perfect, and Linux is far from the disaster you paint it as.
Thanks for that, it's not a product I've seen before, despite searching sourceforge\googleing etc. The problem's in the name: Project. You get millions of results, because there are millions of FOSS projects...
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Being an Englishman myself, I know where it is & is not used, it's now almost exclusively taught in schools; the imperial system is dying out here, out of those that you listed already, stones for body weight is questionable, and pints is only for beer and milk, for most other drinks it's litres.
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Why the incesant need to convert english to metric
You are aware that England uses the metric system over the imperial one now arn't you?
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The ruling classes have always been the most stupid.
How can it be karma whoring?
1. He posted as AC
2. The comment's been modded funny (no karma for funny).
What would the point be? turning www.bbc.co.uk into www.bbc.co.uk.eu (for example) would serve no point execpt to help people with geography.
how many zeros are in that?
lots.
Didn't McDonalds eventually lose the McLibel case?
Am I the only user in the world who almost never feels a need for a script?
No, I agree 100% My basic home user needs are Word processing, DTP & image editing. A scipt is pointless for all of those. My advanced home user needs are install\uninstall programs, computer config & codeing (mostly XHTML and Java) 99.99% can be acomplished via the gui. If somone can tell me the point of command line for these simple tasks I'll be astonished.
I thought "TERRORIST!" was the in word now.
When IE crashes on me, it crashes Windws entirely, no BSOD, but the entire OS freezes, I've never had that problem with firefox. If a web site dosn't work in firefox or Opera, I don't use it.
Unfortunatly you're right firefox does leak memory, but then so does Windows itself which dosn't help.
If you've never heard the phrase "software engineer", you've just admitted that you've no industrial experience.
Indeed, I'm a student in the final year of a Software engineering degree here in the UK, it's on a par with, and taught in the same style as all the other engineering degrees my university teaches. At the end of the academic year, I'll be able to put BSc (Hons.) after my name (not that I'd be that pretentious)
The part thet makes the internet usefull for normal people is the web, if I'm not mistaken, most of that came from CERN; nothing to do with the US.
You make a good point, It's in the EU to so I won't need the Canadian equivilent of a Green card, which is probably a hassle to get.
Nah, that makes "Googles" and dosn't look right, it'll be Goog£e (espicially as th £ sign actually comes from the 'Libera', the Latin word for pound
other European countries
most other Europian countries arn't common law countries, and have entirely different systems.
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Signed already, I'd rather be jailed than get one of those ID cards, It'll be this Labour Goverments poll tax once people realise how much it'll cost.
All they can do is see where your car is
Add to that a CCTV camera on virtually every street corner (hell I even had one pointing at me inside a taxi the other day), the extention to detention without trial (even to 28 days is longer than most common law countries*) & the hair-brained biometric passport & ID card schemes, so now they know exactly what I do and where I go all the time, and want me to pay for it all. Sounds doubleplusgood to me.
*according to the latest private eye.
A large proportion here in the UK are too lazy or ignrant to have a revolution (as demonstrated by majority public support for detention without trial), Emigration to Canada, sounds better with every passing week.
Yet another reason for me to want to emigrate from the UK, what with ID cards, and 90 days detention without trial etc.(Thankfully the latter was defeated in parliment). At this rate, with ever more draconian laws I'll be able to claim asylum.
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Has th NY Times stopped asking people outside the US to register, becaause the last couple of times I've visited they havn't asked me, besideds, even when they used to, I used BugMeNot
Indeed, Puppy Linux gave my old 128 mb USB pen a newc lease of life, I now have an entirely portable operating system and It means I can still get work done if my uni network goes down (as is frequently the case).
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I'm sure running your own OS would be a breach of our 'terms of use' for using the uni computers, but I don't think they thought about it when writing them
Really? I've only just started switching from Windows to Linux, I have a dual boot Windows XP Pro\Linux Ubuntu machine, the one and only problem I've had is connecting to the internet via my wireless card.
My brother had exactly the same problem on his Windows PC, i.e we can both see the WAN, but can't connect to the internet via the router. He solved his problem before I started installing Ubuntu, so the two arn't related, but Windows is far from perfect, and Linux is far from the disaster you paint it as.
The whole thing is sponsered by Microsoft, for those that didn't see it in, here's a direct link to the image in TFA: http://img.timeinc.net/popsci/images/topmiddle.gif
Thanks for that, it's not a product I've seen before, despite searching sourceforge\googleing etc. The problem's in the name: Project. You get millions of results, because there are millions of FOSS projects...
Being an Englishman myself, I know where it is & is not used, it's now almost exclusively taught in schools; the imperial system is dying out here, out of those that you listed already, stones for body weight is questionable, and pints is only for beer and milk, for most other drinks it's litres.
Why the incesant need to convert english to metric
You are aware that England uses the metric system over the imperial one now arn't you?