Re:Is ....eescu a Hungarian name?
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ReactOS Revealed
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You remember wrongly.
Last names ending in -escu are typically Romanian.
As in, for instance, Nicolae Ceausescu.
Also, Hungarian is not a Slavic language (it's Finno-Ugric) and is in no way at all related to Bulgarian. Romanian is a Romance language, therefore related to French and Italian etc.
Then again, it doesn't look like they're big enough to be on MS's radar.
Here's one from Going Postal:
Miss Dearheart: "The Grand Trunk Company kills people, Mr. Lipwig. In all kinds of ways. You must be getting on Reacher Gilt's nerves." Moist von Lipwig: "Oh, come on! I'm barely a wasp at their picnic!" Miss Dearheart: "And what do people do to wasps, do you think?"
The black/grey market rarely has the white beat on so many fronts at once. Usually, in order to get the cheap price, you need to compromise on quality or convenience (need to go to sketchy part of town / flea market, etc.), so that it's only a certain segment of consumers (usually, those who place a low value on their time) who get the pirated version.
I'm not certain where you live, though based on your attitude I will surmise you live somewhere in the developed world.
There are places in the world where the price of software is quite disproportionate - for instance, here in Croatia Photoshop costs about two or three monthly salaries IIRC. And even in the richer parts of the world, there is quite a lot of software which costs a great deal of money, and is still relatively easy to find in the gray/black market.
If the price of the software runs up to several hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and the probability of you getting caught is slim, buying from a pirate is putting a rather high value on your time - it doesn't take more than a few hours, and the savings are vast.
But then, what do I know... from where I stand, capitalism seems to be based on the principle of getting something for nothing as much and as often as you can.
If you're only carrying personal stuff, I'd concur.
If you're carrying sensitive stuff you're doing business with, for example, you may have backups stored somewhere in a safe.
Though I guess a mostly empty drive with an operating system, some pics of your family and several desktop icons, with the rest of the drive encrypted, would be a more plausible way to ensure plausible deniability.
I can't help but darkly suspect that this is mostly about a major newspaper trying to declare, "You still need us". And I think that we do, neither blogs (opinion) nor Wikipedia (rumor) replace news from organizations that have an interest in being first (or at least timely) and in being correct.
Yet even they make the same mistakes, from time to time...
I think I'll just sit and wait and watch how this whole media situation develops... who knows what it'll all look like in 10 years' time...
Re:I can't feel any responsiveness improvements.
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Gnome 2.18 Released
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The gnome apps can be irritating too
And some of the Gnome apps, like deskbar and dictionary applet, are the main reason I'm still using Gnome.
Well, that and the fact it looks better (and Gnome themes are much nicer than KDE ones).
Actually, if E17 could swallow the dictionary applet, I think I'd never look back...
I wouldn't call it intelligence as much as high specialization.
And it is quite evident in any human activity - system engineers who can identify a problem within a second of taking a glance at some printout come to mind...
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, great.
Now try explaining that the GPL isn't viral...
Sheesh.
Actually, Google promised to one-up on that offer two years ago...
So now we wait.
After this, why should I bother?
Well, I'm about to get a bit of spare cash which will finally get me my firstest laptop.
Of course, I'm looking into those that don't come with Windows preinstalled; no point in buying something I'm not even considering to use.
This has just ruled out HP. Damned if I have to reload FreeDOS if anything goes wrong...
So this leaves IBM/Lenovo, for I cannot find a single Toshiba without Windows preinstalled.
My work here is done...
Now, sorry for being blunt (i.e. trolling), but military equipment is expensive.
Suckers who volunteer to fight in wars are a dime a dozen.
I mean, nobody pays people to reproduce, but they do it anyway, eh? The more you kill, the more will spawn.
(Why, yes, I am a mizanthrope.)
... and then you give it a fancy name like Gryffon.
Actually, the correct answer would've been "buy the Vespa business and keep them both".
From a business perspective, I cannot see the harm in starting to sell those as well... you know what they say about monocultures...
I run 2.0.0.3 and it works for me.
Made the very link in the previous post with it to test it.
BBCode might be of assistance here...
You remember wrongly.
Last names ending in -escu are typically Romanian.
As in, for instance, Nicolae Ceausescu.
Also, Hungarian is not a Slavic language (it's Finno-Ugric) and is in no way at all related to Bulgarian. Romanian is a Romance language, therefore related to French and Italian etc.
Here's one from Going Postal:
Care to reconsider your position?
I'd have thought that opening the thing up and burning the plates (with acid, for instance) would pretty much get the job done.
I'm not certain where you live, though based on your attitude I will surmise you live somewhere in the developed world.
There are places in the world where the price of software is quite disproportionate - for instance, here in Croatia Photoshop costs about two or three monthly salaries IIRC. And even in the richer parts of the world, there is quite a lot of software which costs a great deal of money, and is still relatively easy to find in the gray/black market.
If the price of the software runs up to several hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and the probability of you getting caught is slim, buying from a pirate is putting a rather high value on your time - it doesn't take more than a few hours, and the savings are vast.
But then, what do I know... from where I stand, capitalism seems to be based on the principle of getting something for nothing as much and as often as you can.
If you're only carrying personal stuff, I'd concur.
If you're carrying sensitive stuff you're doing business with, for example, you may have backups stored somewhere in a safe.
Though I guess a mostly empty drive with an operating system, some pics of your family and several desktop icons, with the rest of the drive encrypted, would be a more plausible way to ensure plausible deniability.
I'm so playing with it as soon as I get a laptop.
So how long until they start forcing you to (re)format the "empty" drive?
That's a tough one to notice, eh? Ads in Chinese... "I don't understand this shit, maybe it's free pr0n!"
Adware is adware, rootkits are rootkits... I don't care what language they're in - English, Chinese, Swahili or even Basic.
They're annoying all the same.
What, you're so keen on death of BSD announced in every newspaper?
Yet even they make the same mistakes, from time to time...
I think I'll just sit and wait and watch how this whole media situation develops... who knows what it'll all look like in 10 years' time...
And some of the Gnome apps, like deskbar and dictionary applet, are the main reason I'm still using Gnome.
Well, that and the fact it looks better (and Gnome themes are much nicer than KDE ones).
Actually, if E17 could swallow the dictionary applet, I think I'd never look back...
So a baby seal walks into a club...
Oh, worry not; it will.
The question is: how long will it take Gentoo to compile? A second? Two?
I think Constitution is his only strong stat... all the others seem to be dump stats...
(burn, karma, burn ;) )
I wouldn't call it intelligence as much as high specialization.
And it is quite evident in any human activity - system engineers who can identify a problem within a second of taking a glance at some printout come to mind...