If you two don't stop fighting, I'm going to stop this space station and put you both out on the orbital path.
I'm ringing flight control - I've got the phone in my hand. Look I'm dialing the number. My fingers are pushing the buttons. Don't make me come back there!
Right, that's it I'm turning this thing around and we're going straight back to earth.
If the television license inspector comes to the door demanding payment, is 'Sorry, I'm using Linux' now a reasonable excuse.
It's an absolute disgrace that license fees have to be paid by everyone and then this kind discrimination occurs.
I am outraged - and the fact that I live in Ireland and don't pay a license fee for the BBC that I've been leeching off for the past 30 years has nothing to do with it.
I've used ubuntuguide.org since Breezy and always found it amazing. Then I found that Automatix did all the bits I needed without all that awful 'reading' stuff. Plugins for firefox and multimedia codecs etc etc were always a bitch.
As an aside - RealPlayer is still a PITA to install. Tried it last night - couldn't get it to work without installing real player from bin version, the mplayer-plugin, copying the URL, running realplayer from the commandline and pasting the location. That need to get it's shit sorted. (And no I didn't install helix).
If I was asked what things annoyed me most about Feisty (Offtopic?!), I would have said two things: Printers and all that stuff you needed Automatix for. Everything else was pretty much fine.
Along comes Gutsy and... Printers, wow! - doesn't get easier, and Automatix? I've been using Gutsy for about 2 months now and I still haven't downloaded Automatix (Sorry guys, great tool - but don't need it anymore)
Gutsy brings Ubuntu to a level where it can really stand up against the likes of Windows (even coming out better in a lot of surveys than Vista). Compiz is incredible - and anyone I know with Windows stands open-mouthed when they see it.
Heron really needs to up the level way beyond what it is at now, and become the Windows Slayer. I have no idea how they would do that though.
Yes and no. I've been running the beta for about 3 weeks now.
When I installed it, it found the hardware no problem, but it just wouldn't pick up the wireless network.
I had to work on it for a while but eventually I found that if you turn on the wireless with the little button on the keyboard, it works. (Slaps forehead).
So yes it works, but no it's not completely muppet proof. As the man says - try out the LiveCD.
But wow! Does Compiz rock or what - make sure you install the compiz manager dealy, hours of fun there. And no problem finding my printer either. Mega thumbs up.
If you scaled up the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the combined levels of horror WWI, WWII and the Holocaust, with nearly 100,000 dead or wounded - and most importantly on your own front door, with your family murdered in front of you or your daughters and wife raped and abused. And then to had the strength of character to turn it around within just 10 years, rebuild and forge a future together, then you might feel a little different about banning certain groups or themes.
I have never heard, nor do I expect to hear of a game called, for example, 'Slave Owner' or 'Trade Towers Bombing Run' (please don't tell me they exist). You are lucky that everyone else has the sensitivity not to make light of the horrors of your past - let alone criticize you for asking that to be respected at the very least in your own country.
I hate to be a Grammar Nazi, but... (nah! I love it).
1. 'Importation', as a word, has been around for centuries. 2. 'Import' has two (or even three) meanings which are completely valid in the sentence you have provided - while the original sentence, with 'Importation' contains no such ambiguity. 3. The first two clauses of the sentence are, rightly or wrongly, written in the passive tense - therefore it is necessary, for consistency, to maintain the same sense in the final clause - hence 'be ceased'.
While I really want to be 100% behind what you are saying, it appears that the statistics are not from their access logs (I couldn't find any mention of that in the article - which does warrent a 'fuck softpedia').
which they say gathers data from 40,000 urls. I would prefer to be wrong on this - so feel free to set me straight.
They don't say what those urls are - and they use their own judgement as to the breakdown - so statistically and scientifically, it might as well be coming from Softpedia.
Yet more evidence demonstrating that Market Share stats are complete bollox - as everyone who knows that Linux has 60% market share will tell you.
It needs to act like Word in one particular case. It must load Word documents and format them exactly like Word, and when it saves them there must be no way of telling whether it was done in Word or OpenOffice.
The purist will of course say, "OpenOffice shouldn't be defined by Word" - and in fairyland that's a very reasonable stance.
Word is the #1 word processing package (in terms of numbers) - like it or not (personally I don't). One of the distribution channels for OpenOffice must be by sneaking in as a faster replacement for Word - but it can't do that if someone sends me a document, I edit it and send it back to them, and they tell me that all the tables are screwed up or whatever, even though it looked fine for me on OO.
I did that but now the collection company won't take my bins. I rang the company up and they said 'We don't have the facilities for Hazardous Waste'. What a load of crap?!
Also, the bin contacted the WGA servers (when they were up) and now Microsoft is taking me to court.
And to top it all, the hinge broke on the bin. Who's gonna pay for that?
A: I don't even see the code. All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead. B: I can too you idiot - take those stupid goggles off. You're embarassing me.
What an interesting idea. Look at the history of the world using modern standards and morals. I see where you're coming from.
We can then ignore completely the fact the Muslim expansion into southern Europe was in response to the weakened states existing after the fall of the Roman empire. We can also ignore the fact the the Roman empire was originally formed through the enslavement, rape and slaughter of millions.
Of course, the Romans only filled in the after the Macedonians were done - and they just sorted out the remnants of the Persians.
We can ignore the fact that at the same time that the Ottoman Empire was rising, the Goths and Visigoths were marching around northern Europe doing exactly the same thing. They kicked the living crap out of the original British - probably the most peace-loving people in all of history. Then the Normans came into the picture and introduced a whole other level of abuse - and of course, it wasn't a problem when they marched off on their crusades to expand the Christian empire. Followed not long after by Spanish Empire - and their predations on the Americas - and then the British Empire - now there's a nasty bunch of bastards. Sorry, I can't include them - they were delivering Christianity to the unenlightened - so they murdered, pillaged and enslaved in a good cause.
Blah blah blah...
History is never as simple as you suggest unless you want to use it to justify your own bigotry.
You seem to be pretty hip to what the young people are saying these days - so I'll ask my stupid question of you:
What's the big deal?
I don't want see this pile of shite adopted any more than anyone else, but given that various government agencies are making reasonably independent and informed decisions about which standard to use, and that those same agencies seem to be all coming under a requirement to justify their use of commercial applications - which should be quite tricky with OOXML - OOXML seems to have a 'weaker sibling' future to it.
XSL will allow relatively painless migration between ODT and OOXML - and in these circumstances, where there are no real outside constraints, a survival of the fittest situation should result. And we both know which one that is.
As anyone working with governments will have to toe the same line, and so on and so forth, the spread to the business world should be reasonably limited - and while PHBs will insist on Word, the underlying storage, certainly in backup should be ODT. Half of those idiots will accept it also long as it has '.doc' on the end.
Also, in the past whenever Microsoft has come across a problem in a standard their automatic response has been to 'adapt' the standard - I would suggest that this is because they lack the skill to actually work with it, and so choose the easier option (for them). Once OOXML is set in stone, with this lack of ability in mind, they will suffer the most - and they will adapt the standard once again. Thereby rendering it useless.
The whole 'No, with comments' situation just says to me this rubbish will be back anyway with some minor adjustments and then we will have 'Yes, with comments' without the corrupt practices (although they are shocking in the extreme - and I hope that the words 'Abuse of a Dominant Position' are seen more often by Microsoft executives).
[I expect the first line of any response to be 'You stupid boy...']
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I'll have two of them to go.
If you two don't stop fighting, I'm going to stop this space station and put you both out on the orbital path.
I'm ringing flight control - I've got the phone in my hand. Look I'm dialing the number. My fingers are pushing the buttons. Don't make me come back there!
Right, that's it I'm turning this thing around and we're going straight back to earth.
Airstrip One Prevails.
Nigerian education officials are said to be delighted with the new 'Free Laptops'.
If the television license inspector comes to the door demanding payment, is 'Sorry, I'm using Linux' now a reasonable excuse.
It's an absolute disgrace that license fees have to be paid by everyone and then this kind discrimination occurs.
I am outraged - and the fact that I live in Ireland and don't pay a license fee for the BBC that I've been leeching off for the past 30 years has nothing to do with it.
Some things were just.... simpler with Automatix.
I've used ubuntuguide.org since Breezy and always found it amazing. Then I found that Automatix did all the bits I needed without all that awful 'reading' stuff. Plugins for firefox and multimedia codecs etc etc were always a bitch.
As an aside - RealPlayer is still a PITA to install. Tried it last night - couldn't get it to work without installing real player from bin version, the mplayer-plugin, copying the URL, running realplayer from the commandline and pasting the location. That need to get it's shit sorted. (And no I didn't install helix).
If I was asked what things annoyed me most about Feisty (Offtopic?!), I would have said two things: Printers and all that stuff you needed Automatix for. Everything else was pretty much fine.
Along comes Gutsy and... Printers, wow! - doesn't get easier, and Automatix? I've been using Gutsy for about 2 months now and I still haven't downloaded Automatix (Sorry guys, great tool - but don't need it anymore)
Gutsy brings Ubuntu to a level where it can really stand up against the likes of Windows (even coming out better in a lot of surveys than Vista). Compiz is incredible - and anyone I know with Windows stands open-mouthed when they see it.
Heron really needs to up the level way beyond what it is at now, and become the Windows Slayer. I have no idea how they would do that though.
They're leaving the last one for Microsoft.
for (int i=1; i<rfc.length(); i++) {
patent("rfc" + i);
}
profit();
Yes and no. I've been running the beta for about 3 weeks now.
When I installed it, it found the hardware no problem, but it just wouldn't pick up the wireless network.
I had to work on it for a while but eventually I found that if you turn on the wireless with the little button on the keyboard, it works. (Slaps forehead).
So yes it works, but no it's not completely muppet proof. As the man says - try out the LiveCD.
But wow! Does Compiz rock or what - make sure you install the compiz manager dealy, hours of fun there. And no problem finding my printer either. Mega thumbs up.
Slashdot - The You My Bitch Years.
If you scaled up the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the combined levels of horror WWI, WWII and the Holocaust, with nearly 100,000 dead or wounded - and most importantly on your own front door, with your family murdered in front of you or your daughters and wife raped and abused. And then to had the strength of character to turn it around within just 10 years, rebuild and forge a future together, then you might feel a little different about banning certain groups or themes.
I have never heard, nor do I expect to hear of a game called, for example, 'Slave Owner' or 'Trade Towers Bombing Run' (please don't tell me they exist). You are lucky that everyone else has the sensitivity not to make light of the horrors of your past - let alone criticize you for asking that to be respected at the very least in your own country.
They seem to: Balance Sheet
Wait, sorry - my mistake, that's a different company, totally unrelated to this one.
I hate to be a Grammar Nazi, but... (nah! I love it).
1. 'Importation', as a word, has been around for centuries.
2. 'Import' has two (or even three) meanings which are completely valid in the sentence you have provided - while the original sentence, with 'Importation' contains no such ambiguity.
3. The first two clauses of the sentence are, rightly or wrongly, written in the passive tense - therefore it is necessary, for consistency, to maintain the same sense in the final clause - hence 'be ceased'.
Wreck their heads and their servers:
1) Set your signature to "Al Qaeda Terrorist Bomb Pakistan"
2) Attach bad porn 8192-bit encrypted to all your e-mails
To: eric.schmidt@msn.com
Re: Reading user's gmail
Eric,
Sounds like a great idea.
S.
While I really want to be 100% behind what you are saying, it appears that the statistics are not from their access logs (I couldn't find any mention of that in the article - which does warrent a 'fuck softpedia').
The statistics appear to be from here: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2
which they say gathers data from 40,000 urls. I would prefer to be wrong on this - so feel free to set me straight.
They don't say what those urls are - and they use their own judgement as to the breakdown - so statistically and scientifically, it might as well be coming from Softpedia.
Yet more evidence demonstrating that Market Share stats are complete bollox - as everyone who knows that Linux has 60% market share will tell you.
Jeez! He looks just like Richard from the Bay Area Audiophile Society (BAAS).
Now that's spooky.
That's no moon... it's a space sta....
Oh wait, it is a moon.
It needs to act like Word in one particular case. It must load Word documents and format them exactly like Word, and when it saves them there must be no way of telling whether it was done in Word or OpenOffice.
The purist will of course say, "OpenOffice shouldn't be defined by Word" - and in fairyland that's a very reasonable stance.
Word is the #1 word processing package (in terms of numbers) - like it or not (personally I don't). One of the distribution channels for OpenOffice must be by sneaking in as a faster replacement for Word - but it can't do that if someone sends me a document, I edit it and send it back to them, and they tell me that all the tables are screwed up or whatever, even though it looked fine for me on OO.
Outside of that, it should do its own thing.
I did that but now the collection company won't take my bins. I rang the company up and they said 'We don't have the facilities for Hazardous Waste'. What a load of crap?!
Also, the bin contacted the WGA servers (when they were up) and now Microsoft is taking me to court.
And to top it all, the hinge broke on the bin. Who's gonna pay for that?
A: I don't even see the code. All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.
B: I can too you idiot - take those stupid goggles off. You're embarassing me.
To paraphrase a common /. paradigm:
1. Identify social inequality
2. ??
3. Social inequality resolved
What an interesting idea. Look at the history of the world using modern standards and morals. I see where you're coming from.
We can then ignore completely the fact the Muslim expansion into southern Europe was in response to the weakened states existing after the fall of the Roman empire. We can also ignore the fact the the Roman empire was originally formed through the enslavement, rape and slaughter of millions.
Of course, the Romans only filled in the after the Macedonians were done - and they just sorted out the remnants of the Persians.
We can ignore the fact that at the same time that the Ottoman Empire was rising, the Goths and Visigoths were marching around northern Europe doing exactly the same thing. They kicked the living crap out of the original British - probably the most peace-loving people in all of history. Then the Normans came into the picture and introduced a whole other level of abuse - and of course, it wasn't a problem when they marched off on their crusades to expand the Christian empire. Followed not long after by Spanish Empire - and their predations on the Americas - and then the British Empire - now there's a nasty bunch of bastards. Sorry, I can't include them - they were delivering Christianity to the unenlightened - so they murdered, pillaged and enslaved in a good cause.
Blah blah blah...
History is never as simple as you suggest unless you want to use it to justify your own bigotry.
You seem to be pretty hip to what the young people are saying these days - so I'll ask my stupid question of you:
What's the big deal?
I don't want see this pile of shite adopted any more than anyone else, but given that various government agencies are making reasonably independent and informed decisions about which standard to use, and that those same agencies seem to be all coming under a requirement to justify their use of commercial applications - which should be quite tricky with OOXML - OOXML seems to have a 'weaker sibling' future to it.
XSL will allow relatively painless migration between ODT and OOXML - and in these circumstances, where there are no real outside constraints, a survival of the fittest situation should result. And we both know which one that is.
As anyone working with governments will have to toe the same line, and so on and so forth, the spread to the business world should be reasonably limited - and while PHBs will insist on Word, the underlying storage, certainly in backup should be ODT. Half of those idiots will accept it also long as it has '.doc' on the end.
Also, in the past whenever Microsoft has come across a problem in a standard their automatic response has been to 'adapt' the standard - I would suggest that this is because they lack the skill to actually work with it, and so choose the easier option (for them). Once OOXML is set in stone, with this lack of ability in mind, they will suffer the most - and they will adapt the standard once again. Thereby rendering it useless.
The whole 'No, with comments' situation just says to me this rubbish will be back anyway with some minor adjustments and then we will have 'Yes, with comments' without the corrupt practices (although they are shocking in the extreme - and I hope that the words 'Abuse of a Dominant Position' are seen more often by Microsoft executives).
[I expect the first line of any response to be 'You stupid boy...']