MEP == Member of the European Parliment,;) ((joke))what does US stand for hehe((/joke)). Seriously though i do appoligise i normaly try to avoid using unexplained acronyms
I must also urge any other people in the EU to also write to their local MEP about this issue. They do listen if we should loudly enough. Oh and please point out the Lies Mr Medina is spouting to them , FUD propigates through ignorance , Whilst i am synical at heart I do belive some of the MEP may have the brains to realise they do not want to cripple local industrys. The MS decision on the windows media player free Windows version shows us that the EU does at times have the brains to strike against abusive monopolys and has yet become totaly polouted by bribes(or as they call it lobbying).
Yet;) , Esperanto would be a great international language , however i do think it would be better just to clean up english a little.Alas i do realish this is a total pipe dream and will never hapen
but i shall try;) , i am also a suporter of metric time,i like lost causes.
. my main argument really is fro a two language system , one a purely logical comunications language and an arts native language , i think we are all able to learn two languages atleast and this would allow us to communicate internationaly whilst keeping a highly fluid language for song and poetry
I would argue strongly for cleaning up the language , Not just the Grammar but also the Spelling . I Have for a long time found both to be illogical, As many people who have read any of my posts will testify(hello to my trolls who help point out my mistakes) I am a poor speller , My grammar also leaves alot to be desierd . Though i speak three languages , since i learnt German,I have made very very few mistakes when i write in the language either grammaticaly or otherwise. Which leads me to think that perhaps it is not just me. Anicdotaly a freind of the familys son is also dyslexic and in school he has no problems , however he is currently doing rather poorly in written english though his spoken english is excelent.
Ps : please stop using the fake sig and promoting the spam pyramid scheme.I have you on my enemy list because of this even though i find you do make rather good posts . this is propagating spam and makes you apear no better than mass mailers or even just a few notches above a malware dialer writter.
Im an OSS dyslexic/disphraxic and i use Ispell ( on documents , one of these days i will add the browser extension;) ) , I do find it is rather good , Though never shall it beat my proof reader who catches my regular mistakes,the ones in which I spell things into other words , grammar checkers never get them. Google however seems to have one of the best spell checking systems i have ever found , on the rare occasion ispell does'nt know a word then i can ussualy get the spelling in about 5 ticks on Google .
Well they are fairly well suported with cedega already , I was just playing HL2 the other day on my laptop (running ubuntu). I would rather see more games makers using OpenGL for games , however this is a nice step forward in getting the current and previous crop that are not working under cedega , also it is nice to have alternates
I prefer the to rely on the my earnings and stock portfolio rather than my spelling to judge my business Acumen. However if you invest based on spelling then fair game to you old boy . Let us see who is more sucesfull though
will this troll ever die , please mod it down agai
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hahaha , seriously this troll is so old , Ok i realise you are probably a new member of some trolling group , but you wont rise up the unholy order. What is amazing me most is the fact the someone has moded this up. People this is a trol and a very old one that has been posted a great deal.
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The My freelance gig in front of a Mac trolls appear in virtually every discussion about Apple Computer. The troll claims to have witnessed <the latest Apple hardware> taking 20 minutes to copy a 17 MB file from one folder to another and proceeds to question all Apple users as to their platform choice. It is a straight forward copy-and-paste from a weblog entry (http://www.kottke.org/98/11/my-mac-sucks) by Jason Kottke. It has also led to some very inspired and amusing parodies.
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It's not perfect, and it's woefully inadequate for some tasks that involve managing thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of files
I agree on the other points , however i dont feel this is the point of a program such as finder , finder in this role is more of a browser.I Have always used the Terminal((or terminal emulator) ( on Unix systems)) for file work on this scale.
Wait for the linux version then it will seem worse. Seriously though. I dont own a copy of photoshop at home , however at an old job we had a few copys and its quite resonbly priced for the market its aimed at and its an invaluable tool and very very well designed . I must repeat that this is not aimed at the home users, Which (to awnser the other query of the piracy)is probably why Adobe are quite lax in stamping down on p2p networks compared to other companys . However i do know a company which i will give no further details of , who were busted for using illicet copys of photoshop , and trust me adobe slamed down hard upon them
Hee , Several places offer nice unix admisitration certificates , and we all should have atleast one to prove our worth to the PHBs;) , The problem comes in when you have about 50 diffrent certs for each flavour of unix. The most important certs should build up the core skills requierd to administer a generic unix server( or anything really )the others should basicaly be taught as small moduals , when you know how to properly administer one system then switching to another is not hard , ofcourse making the PHBs see that is nei on impossible. I hope the BSD course works like this as otherwise we have to sit through hours of writting perl scripts and using CSH along with the usefull things like the BSD filesystem , and how BSD handels devices etc(/etc boomtish).
The scary part is alot of companys do reguire a stupid bit of paper to say "Blah can do blah".'Whilst it wont help you against someone with name recognition,where it may help is in letting the company choose you over say johnathn Doe , Plus never forget that this can be a good starting point for people new to the industry or letting some windows admins in a small firm get the certs and persuade the boss to switch over
share1 Audio pronunciation of "shared" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (shâr) n.
1. A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group.
2. An equitable portion: do one's share of the work.
3. Any of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a corporation or company is divided.
v. shared, sharing, shares v. tr.
1. To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion.
2. To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns.
3. To relate (a secret or experience, for example) to another or others.
4. To accord a share in (something) to another or others: shared her chocolate bar with a friend.................
Don't microsoft mean Displayed Source initiative, as your not allowed to use all of it , Yes some is under OSI aproved licenses, though some of it effectivly puts your anatomy in a vice if you want to work on certain projects in the future.
True enough for larger projects , however i was more thinking the far smaller scale research projects such as product development and small scale materials research , projects with budgets well under 1,000,000 for these types of endevours. (other post gave me a good laugh , lets keep it quiet incase any mods notice it though)
Heehee i do apoligise about the Virgins in space joke but Ive been on a Mel Brooks marathon past couple of days and since its easter holidays here that has been backed up with liquer.
It would be grand to let space tourism become as easy as air travel , however let us hope off bat we get this right and dont let it become the nightmare that airports are in this day and age. Im a sci-fi geek and i really cant wait till the day we can get our own Space ships , kind of brings out the kid in me ( and the legos to design one*cough*).
Ah its a nice day when this comes closer to reality for those of us who forget to exercise because we were sitting writting shell scripts
I can strongly imagine that a major beneficiary of said services will be the Universitys and privately funded research projects. Once this has properly taken off (bad pun) with regular orbit or sub orbital flights, the benefits of having cheap reqular orbital research opertunitys is grand for smaller projects who could not afford to pay for time on one of the NASA missions or simmilar. This could herald in a new era in more than just rich recreation , if this is as sucesful as i can only imagine it will be , then im sure we will now begin to progress at a far greater rate in these areas.
ps: this joke just writes itself here on slashdot "virgins in space "
That was quickly followed by Sir Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Airlines, taking the wraps off Virgin Galactic. He plans to fly patrons into suborbital space within the next two or three years aboard a fleet of five passenger spaceships now under design by Scaled Composites. In licensing SpaceShipOne's technology, Branson wants to build the world's first private spaceship to go into commercial operating service.
((joke))If it were a person i would say it makes you a kerb crawler;)((/joke)) on the other hand peer presure and the cool factor always work for some people. in the bussines world , it makes your rather profitable and its a dammed good idea to the majority, aslong as you do not basdardise it and alienate the previous members which can have an avalanch effect .
Yahoo needs to do both if it is to compete effectivly , invoatition is an important part of this . However they also need to stay competitive by staying up with the current features of competitors.
PS: please dont use fake sigs , it is rather annoying for those of us who have turned them off to avoid advertisments in signatures , well atleast it isnt the ipod pyramid scheme
"turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes" Im sorry but you can not really call Yahoo a has been , it may not be the #1 anymore , and i wouldnt use it as its pages are too busy , but a has been ? The site has a massive turnover , and it still one of the most popular sites for many reasons , Mail , messenger , Geocities and searching etc.
Viva Cuban... This is wonderfull news , We need more people of his financial stature to help take on the errosions of our libertys.Still sad that you need this kind of cash to defend our rights against bussiness in the USA though. Land of the free as in $
Just a small look at how political comment in journalism is handeld in the ukraine , It does not sound as bad over there yet , but the fact they consider control of any form over matters such as this is worrying .
http://www.ukrweekly.com.nyud.net:8090/Archive/200 2/410220.shtml
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On September 23, on the eve of a major anti-presidential rally in Kyiv, opposition leaders occupied the UT-1 television headquarters in a futile attempt to present their position to Ukrainian viewers. Official media outlets subsequently portrayed this desperate effort by the opposition to gain an opportunity to speak freely as "political extremism" and a "criminal action by political outsiders."<BR><BR>
On October 1 journalists of the independent news agency UNIAN accused its new executive director, Vasyl Yurychko, of censoring their work and refusing to run any reports that could be construed as unfavorably portraying President Leonid Kuchma. The conflict was settled when Mr. Yurychko and the disobedient journalists signed a declaration in which the supervisor promised not to interfere with their work.<BR><BR>
On October 3 the journalists' growing resistance to the official media policy resulted in a "Manifesto of Ukrainian Journalists Against Political Censorship" [see text on page 3]. The manifesto, which is open for signing by any journalist in Ukraine, was prepared by some 60 representatives of various media outlets.<BR><BR>
The signatories of the manifesto say they "welcome the tendency whereby, under circumstances of the growing political censorship in Ukraine, journalists are switching from individual protests to collective actions of solidarity." The manifesto declares the readiness of Ukrainian journalists to organize a countrywide strike and to stand for the rights of colleagues who were fired from their jobs for political reasons.<BR><BR>
The significance of this document can hardly be overestimated. For the first time in Ukraine's modern history the vicious circle of narrow corporate interests of journalists belonging to different media groups has been broken.
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MEP == Member of the European Parliment, ;) ((joke))what does US stand for hehe((/joke)).
Seriously though i do appoligise i normaly try to avoid using unexplained acronyms
I must also urge any other people in the EU to also write to their local MEP about this issue. They do listen if we should loudly enough. . .
Oh and please point out the Lies Mr Medina is spouting to them , FUD propigates through ignorance , Whilst i am synical at heart I do belive some of the MEP may have the brains to realise they do not want to cripple local industrys
The MS decision on the windows media player free Windows version shows us that the EU does at times have the brains to strike against abusive monopolys and has yet become totaly polouted by bribes(or as they call it lobbying)
Windows RMS has a very nice ring to it in a GNU kind of way
I do admit it was offtopic , but i couldnt just sit there and let a blatent troll get moded up .Missinformation can be dangerous
Yet ;) , Esperanto would be a great international language , however i do think it would be better just to clean up english a little .Alas i do realish this is a total pipe dream and will never hapen
but i shall try ;) , i am also a suporter of metric time ,i like lost causes .
. my main argument really is fro a two language system , one a purely logical comunications language and an arts native language , i think we are all able to learn two languages atleast and this would allow us to communicate internationaly whilst keeping a highly fluid language for song and poetry
I would argue strongly for cleaning up the language , Not just the Grammar but also the Spelling . I Have for a long time found both to be illogical, As many people who have read any of my posts will testify(hello to my trolls who help point out my mistakes) I am a poor speller , My grammar also leaves alot to be desierd . Though i speak three languages , since i learnt German ,I have made very very few mistakes when i write in the language either grammaticaly or otherwise . . .
.I have you on my enemy list because of this even though i find you do make rather good posts . this is propagating spam and makes you apear no better than mass mailers or even just a few notches above a malware dialer writter.
Which leads me to think that perhaps it is not just me
Anicdotaly a freind of the familys son is also dyslexic and in school he has no problems , however he is currently doing rather poorly in written english though his spoken english is excelent
Ps : please stop using the fake sig and promoting the spam pyramid scheme
Im an OSS dyslexic/disphraxic and i use Ispell ( on documents , one of these days i will add the browser extension ;) ) , I do find it is rather good , Though never shall it beat my proof reader who catches my regular mistakes ,the ones in which I spell things into other words , grammar checkers never get them. Google however seems to have one of the best spell checking systems i have ever found , on the rare occasion ispell does'nt know a word then i can ussualy get the spelling in about 5 ticks on Google .
Well they are fairly well suported with cedega already , I was just playing HL2 the other day on my laptop (running ubuntu). I would rather see more games makers using OpenGL for games , however this is a nice step forward in getting the current and previous crop that are not working under cedega , also it is nice to have alternates
KSH is my shell of choice , that or BASH . Though i have used KSH for far longer so i tend to install it on everything i can.
I prefer the to rely on the my earnings and stock portfolio rather than my spelling to judge my business Acumen. However if you invest based on spelling then fair game to you old boy . Let us see who is more sucesfull though
What is amazing me most is the fact the someone has moded this up
People this is a trol and a very old one that has been posted a great deal.
from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_troll
Wait for the linux version then it will seem worse . . ,
Seriously though
I dont own a copy of photoshop at home , however at an old job we had a few copys and its quite resonbly priced for the market its aimed at and its an invaluable tool and very very well designed . I must repeat that this is not aimed at the home users
Which (to awnser the other query of the piracy)is probably why Adobe are quite lax in stamping down on p2p networks compared to other companys . However i do know a company which i will give no further details of , who were busted for using illicet copys of photoshop , and trust me adobe slamed down hard upon them
Hee , Several places offer nice unix admisitration certificates , and we all should have atleast one to prove our worth to the PHBs ;) , The problem comes in when you have about 50 diffrent certs for each flavour of unix .
The most important certs should build up the core skills requierd to administer a generic unix server( or anything really )the others should basicaly be taught as small moduals , when you know how to properly administer one system then switching to another is not hard , ofcourse making the PHBs see that is nei on impossible.
I hope the BSD course works like this as otherwise we have to sit through hours of writting perl scripts and using CSH along with the usefull things like the BSD filesystem , and how BSD handels devices etc(/etc boomtish).
The scary part is alot of companys do reguire a stupid bit of paper to say "Blah can do blah".'Whilst it wont help you against someone with name recognition ,where it may help is in letting the company choose you over say johnathn Doe , Plus never forget that this can be a good starting point for people new to the industry or letting some windows admins in a small firm get the certs and persuade the boss to switch over
share1 Audio pronunciation of "shared" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (shâr)
................
n.
1. A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group.
2. An equitable portion: do one's share of the work.
3. Any of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a corporation or company is divided.
v. shared, sharing, shares
v. tr.
1. To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion.
2. To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns.
3. To relate (a secret or experience, for example) to another or others.
4. To accord a share in (something) to another or others: shared her chocolate bar with a friend.
Don't microsoft mean Displayed Source initiative, as your not allowed to use all of it , Yes some is under OSI aproved licenses, though some of it effectivly puts your anatomy in a vice if you want to work on certain projects in the future.
True enough for larger projects , however i was more thinking the far smaller scale research projects such as product development and small scale materials research , projects with budgets well under 1,000,000 for these types of endevours.
(other post gave me a good laugh , lets keep it quiet incase any mods notice it though)
Heehee i do apoligise about the Virgins in space joke but Ive been on a Mel Brooks marathon past couple of days and since its easter holidays here that has been backed up with liquer .
It would be grand to let space tourism become as easy as air travel , however let us hope off bat we get this right and dont let it become the nightmare that airports are in this day and age.
Im a sci-fi geek and i really cant wait till the day we can get our own Space ships , kind of brings out the kid in me ( and the legos to design one*cough*).
Ah its a nice day when this comes closer to reality for those of us who forget to exercise because we were sitting writting shell scripts
Once this has properly taken off (bad pun) with regular orbit or sub orbital flights, the benefits of having cheap reqular orbital research opertunitys is grand for smaller projects who could not afford to pay for time on one of the NASA missions or simmilar.
This could herald in a new era in more than just rich recreation , if this is as sucesful as i can only imagine it will be , then im sure we will now begin to progress at a far greater rate in these areas.
ps: this joke just writes itself here on slashdot "virgins in space "
((joke))If it were a person i would say it makes you a kerb crawler ;)((/joke)) on the other hand peer presure and the cool factor always work for some people. in the bussines world , it makes your rather profitable and its a dammed good idea to the majority, aslong as you do not basdardise it and alienate the previous members which can have an avalanch effect .
Yahoo needs to do both if it is to compete effectivly , invoatition is an important part of this . However they also need to stay competitive by staying up with the current features of competitors.
PS: please dont use fake sigs , it is rather annoying for those of us who have turned them off to avoid advertisments in signatures , well atleast it isnt the ipod pyramid scheme
"turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes"
Im sorry but you can not really call Yahoo a has been , it may not be the #1 anymore , and i wouldnt use it as its pages are too busy , but a has been ?
The site has a massive turnover , and it still one of the most popular sites for many reasons , Mail , messenger , Geocities and searching etc.
Viva Cuban ... .Still sad that you need this kind of cash to defend our rights against bussiness in the USA though.
This is wonderfull news , We need more people of his financial stature to help take on the errosions of our libertys
Land of the free as in $
http://www.ukrweekly.com.nyud.net:8090/Archive/20