if you can say that with a straight face after hiroshima, vietnam and iraq, you only deepen the feeling that american hypocrisy is just about the only thing in the known universe larger than america's imperialist tendency.
We need a clear, unambiguous policy that nukes are absolutely forbidden for every state with no double standards. Only then will anyone take disarmament seriously.
And if a rogue nation chooses not to take it seriously, then what do the others do, having themselves taken it seriously and disposed of their own arsenals? Not having nukes yourself, how do you *force* (after reasoning fails) others not to have them too? This is an anxiety that shall plague even the most benevolent nuclear power (assuming there is actually such a critter), and, i believe, ultimately result in the big powers deciding to retain some nukes after all.
When my daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, and was in the ICU for a week and in the hospital for few more weeks, the last thing on my mind were my cell phone minutes and my plan...
Both me and my wife (family plan) made so many calls that we got a two bills (we did not open our bills for a few months) for over $1,000 each (sorry do not recall the exact figure)
One call to Verizon, quick explanation of what happened, and they wiped out all the excess charges, put me on a larger plan, and gave me a 22% discount on top of (which they still honor, so today I still pay 22% less)
In all other occasions where I had to call for support, billing or technical, or just to ask a quesiont, all issues were resolved quickly and efficiently, and to my complete satisfaction.
okay. but if you are only praising, why do you need to post anonymously?
Frankly, the author is an idiot. He reminded me of a dumbass in high school who's brain was so fried with pot he'd think his ideas were brilliant, while everybody else just did a face-palm at his dumb comment. He even had the Beevus and Butthead laugh: "Huh huh, huh huh huh, huh huh, huh."
at least rtfa before insulting the author. or if you did, then rtfaa, this time at a speed that better suits your understanding.
it's a humorous article. the author doesn't seriously suggest that chihuahua and mastiff are separate species. he's just trying to be funny.
and obviously failing, thanks to the quality of the audience.
I've already given up on Azureus, they did the same thing with Vuze.
Vuze offers the option of reverting to the classic UI. I too was going to ditch it after seeing the flashy interface, but found this just at the last moment.
Perhaps now we can finally get enough momentum to end this Gnome\KDE battle and get KDE to win so we can settle on ONE desktop environment so we can get back to writing 40 different window managers.
Many people on this thread seem to desire Gnome's death. I myself was one of them till KDE4 came out. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to go from 3 to 4 like I went from 1 to 2, or 2 to 3. Maybe I'm in a minority, but I find KDE4 unusable. OpenSuSE 11.1 gives me the option to remain with KDE3, and I have chosen to do that on my desktop box. But for how long? In a version or two, they will not include KDE3 any more, and what option will I have then? On my laptop, I have already shifted to Gnome, because Intrepid doesn't offer any easy way to retain KDE3.
If Gnome dies, I lose the only GUI I find usable at this point. I sure hope it doesn't.
Then add some salt to the wound: Calc doesn't have the ability to convert cases AT ALL. When I reported this oversight, there were many supporters, and many duplicate reports. SEVEN YEARS PASSED and it is still not implemented!
False. I just tried this in Calc (OOo 3), and it certainly has the 'change case' option under the 'Format' tab.
Your other point about it not having 'title case' is, however, true.
(Does this) spell the death-knell of X-based graphics drivers? Does this mean that such drivers will finally be folded into pure kernel modules with no fancy wrappers required? Does that also mean that we can eliminate X as a dependency for playing video games, and using Linux in multimedia or kiosk environments?
Most common grammar/spelling mistakes I see on/. are usually made by those whose style more or less identifies them as Americans. For example, take the off of syndrome. How many non-native speakers have you seen doing that? On the other hand, Americans do that very often.
I think the reason may be that non-native speakers depend more on written material in the learning stage, while native speakers pick it up through osmosis as it were, common mistakes and all.
I am a non-native speaker of English, but I dare say my posts to date on slashdot contain fewer mistakes (perhaps none) than those of most native speakers.
For me, the only downside to SuSE is its slow and memory-inefficient package management system. It gets substantially better with each release, so it might be approaching the speed of apt-get on Ubuntu, but in 10.4, it wasn't quite there yet in performance. In features, however, it's definitely there:-).
I installed 10.3 as soon as they released it in October '07, and I'm getting 11 now, so when was 10.4?
I won't talk about maths, of which I know very little, but about the general level of education.
I live in Calcutta, India. Over the past couple of decades, we have seen a steady decline in the quality of the base-line students who qualify at the secondary and 10+2 levels. I teach English to undergraduates. The kind of student I find in my classes now is definitely poorer in intelligence and ability than I used to when I started nearly a decade ago.
I place the responsibility for this directly on the state government's policy to gradually simplify syllabi and relax qualification criteria at those levels, so that the false rise in pass percentages casts their education policy in a favourable light. Of course this fucks up the state's talent pool, but who cares. They're only interested in retaining political power at any cost. And they've been doing that here in the state of West Bengal remarkably efficiently for an astounding three decades and more.
So can I be exposed to these three molecules in such a way that my immune system makes antibodies for them? Would be nice to be immunized against death.
"Millions wish for immortality who wouldn't know what to do with themselves on a slow Sunday afternoon"
- A quote a read somewhere by someone I don't remember
It is much worse for ISPs with home users, who are not limited by workplace rules against peer-2-peer for popular TV shows or looking at pr0n pages. If you look at the typical pr0n page (it was a tough job, but I did it in the spirit of improving my understanding of the industry;-), there will be between 200 and 300 embedded elements or links to affiliate sites and advertising partners. So every pr0n page view going through NAT takes 200 new external ports, with associated timeouts and state tables. A typical pr0n user (I'm guessing here, you the/. reader can supply your own values), can open a dozen or more pages in tabs in a relatively short period of time, leading to 10s of thousands of entries in the NAT state table. Remember, you have 65,533 maximum entries in the state table for a single external IP, or for a typical saturday night in basement-dweller-land, about 4 machines.
Well i don't know, but I set up this network for a friend of mine that has only one public ip on the gateway, and about 30 NAT-ed machines behind it. It's a popular web surfing shop in Calcutta, and stays filled up most of the time between 9 am and 10 pm. The gateway is a dual core AMD64 6000+ with 2 gigs of RAM running OpenSuSE 10.3. Customers do all sorts of things like IM, youtube, pr0n, MySpace and so forth. The setup has been running for a few months now, and I am yet to see as much as a hiccup. Caveats being it's only a 2MbPS line, and we're running a large transparent proxy cache. Still, it seems a far cry from your '4 machines maximum' calculation. I'm not challenging your formula, not being qualified to do so, but just giving you my personal experience which at least seems to contradict what you said. Care to enlighten?
In other news, Linux v2.6.19.3 was released on February 5, 2007 (6 days after Vista). There have been 75 new kernel releases since then. Source: going to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ and counting ChangeLogs since then.
I'm not sure why this is news.
A poor farmer dies and goes to heaven. the gateman at the pearly gates treats him brusquely and with disdain. The farmer is wondering if he came to the right place, when a loud procession seems to approach from the distance. With much fanfare and great rejoicing, a rich man is being brought in. He is being sung to heaven by angels with harps and with saints in attendance. They take him in in great style, and the farmer is still standing there unnoticed. When everyone has passed, he takes up his bundle again and prepares to leave downwards.
The gateman stops him. "Where do you think you're going? You've got a pass to heaven, now go in there and enjoy it."
The farmer says "What use coming here if the same differences apply as on earth? There I was neglected and rich men were preferred, and it seems heaven is not an exception. I've had enough of heaven, I had better go elsewhere"
The gateman laughs heartily and says "It's not what you think. Actually, poor farmers like you arrive here everyday in droves. A rich man comes only once in a millennium or so. That's why we were celebrating a little."
Perhaps this will make it clearer why a minor Windows kernel update is news, while a minor Linux update is not.
If I were president, I'd just find out how Bush keeps bending the laws and the constitution with impunity, learn the ropes from him, and use those techniques to soon repeal the remaining laws of the land and somehow promote myself to President for Life. Only then would I begin for real. Muahahahahahaha.
Microsoft doesn't directly make money off of these
Why is it that intelligent people who are otherwise fine writers keep using this 'off of' thingy? I'm not a native speaker of English, but AFAIK, it doesn't make sense. Nebu, why not drop the 'of', and simply say 'make money off these' ?
Or is this just one of those things a non-native speaker isn't supposed to grok?
Outlook and Exchange is highly compelling over any other options
*Are* there other options? Off the top of my head, I don't even know of any other enterprise-class fully automated virus retrieval and installation systems.
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if you can say that with a straight face after hiroshima, vietnam and iraq, you only deepen the feeling that american hypocrisy is just about the only thing in the known universe larger than america's imperialist tendency.
And if a rogue nation chooses not to take it seriously, then what do the others do, having themselves taken it seriously and disposed of their own arsenals? Not having nukes yourself, how do you *force* (after reasoning fails) others not to have them too? This is an anxiety that shall plague even the most benevolent nuclear power (assuming there is actually such a critter), and, i believe, ultimately result in the big powers deciding to retain some nukes after all.
okay. but if you are only praising, why do you need to post anonymously?
at least rtfa before insulting the author.
or if you did, then rtfaa, this time at a speed that better suits your understanding.
it's a humorous article.
the author doesn't seriously suggest that chihuahua and mastiff are separate species.
he's just trying to be funny.
and obviously failing, thanks to the quality of the audience.
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Vuze offers the option of reverting to the classic UI. I too was going to ditch it after seeing the flashy interface, but found this just at the last moment.
Many people on this thread seem to desire Gnome's death. I myself was one of them till KDE4 came out. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to go from 3 to 4 like I went from 1 to 2, or 2 to 3. Maybe I'm in a minority, but I find KDE4 unusable. OpenSuSE 11.1 gives me the option to remain with KDE3, and I have chosen to do that on my desktop box. But for how long? In a version or two, they will not include KDE3 any more, and what option will I have then? On my laptop, I have already shifted to Gnome, because Intrepid doesn't offer any easy way to retain KDE3.
If Gnome dies, I lose the only GUI I find usable at this point. I sure hope it doesn't.
- t.
False. I just tried this in Calc (OOo 3), and it certainly has the 'change case' option under the 'Format' tab.
Your other point about it not having 'title case' is, however, true.
No.
Evolution has a goal? I thought it just happened. But of course, I teach English, and you may be a biologist, so what do I know?
Here's hoping people would some day learn to spell Gandhi right :-)
Most common grammar/spelling mistakes I see on /. are usually made by those whose style more or less identifies them as Americans. For example, take the off of syndrome. How many non-native speakers have you seen doing that? On the other hand, Americans do that very often.
I think the reason may be that non-native speakers depend more on written material in the learning stage, while native speakers pick it up through osmosis as it were, common mistakes and all.
I am a non-native speaker of English, but I dare say my posts to date on slashdot contain fewer mistakes (perhaps none) than those of most native speakers.
I installed 10.3 as soon as they released it in October '07, and I'm getting 11 now, so when was 10.4?
I live in Calcutta, India. Over the past couple of decades, we have seen a steady decline in the quality of the base-line students who qualify at the secondary and 10+2 levels. I teach English to undergraduates. The kind of student I find in my classes now is definitely poorer in intelligence and ability than I used to when I started nearly a decade ago.
I place the responsibility for this directly on the state government's policy to gradually simplify syllabi and relax qualification criteria at those levels, so that the false rise in pass percentages casts their education policy in a favourable light. Of course this fucks up the state's talent pool, but who cares. They're only interested in retaining political power at any cost. And they've been doing that here in the state of West Bengal remarkably efficiently for an astounding three decades and more.
Make that two. His mother Indira Gandhi was shot by her own guards in 1984, while she was PM.
Gee, thanks. I'm feeling a lot better now.
Let's send Steve Ballmer.
"Millions wish for immortality who wouldn't know what to do with themselves on a slow Sunday afternoon"
- A quote a read somewhere by someone I don't remember
Well i don't know, but I set up this network for a friend of mine that has only one public ip on the gateway, and about 30 NAT-ed machines behind it. It's a popular web surfing shop in Calcutta, and stays filled up most of the time between 9 am and 10 pm. The gateway is a dual core AMD64 6000+ with 2 gigs of RAM running OpenSuSE 10.3. Customers do all sorts of things like IM, youtube, pr0n, MySpace and so forth. The setup has been running for a few months now, and I am yet to see as much as a hiccup. Caveats being it's only a 2MbPS line, and we're running a large transparent proxy cache. Still, it seems a far cry from your '4 machines maximum' calculation. I'm not challenging your formula, not being qualified to do so, but just giving you my personal experience which at least seems to contradict what you said. Care to enlighten?
your numbers stink.
A poor farmer dies and goes to heaven. the gateman at the pearly gates treats him brusquely and with disdain. The farmer is wondering if he came to the right place, when a loud procession seems to approach from the distance. With much fanfare and great rejoicing, a rich man is being brought in. He is being sung to heaven by angels with harps and with saints in attendance. They take him in in great style, and the farmer is still standing there unnoticed. When everyone has passed, he takes up his bundle again and prepares to leave downwards.
The gateman stops him. "Where do you think you're going? You've got a pass to heaven, now go in there and enjoy it."
The farmer says "What use coming here if the same differences apply as on earth? There I was neglected and rich men were preferred, and it seems heaven is not an exception. I've had enough of heaven, I had better go elsewhere"
The gateman laughs heartily and says "It's not what you think. Actually, poor farmers like you arrive here everyday in droves. A rich man comes only once in a millennium or so. That's why we were celebrating a little."
Perhaps this will make it clearer why a minor Windows kernel update is news, while a minor Linux update is not.If I were president, I'd just find out how Bush keeps bending the laws and the constitution with impunity, learn the ropes from him, and use those techniques to soon repeal the remaining laws of the land and somehow promote myself to President for Life. Only then would I begin for real. Muahahahahahaha.
Why is it that intelligent people who are otherwise fine writers keep using this 'off of' thingy? I'm not a native speaker of English, but AFAIK, it doesn't make sense. Nebu, why not drop the 'of', and simply say 'make money off these' ?
Or is this just one of those things a non-native speaker isn't supposed to grok?