I live in Brisbane Australia and I bought a new Golf diesel 2011 model, goes like hell, great economy and lower pollution rating etc than any of the petrol locals could produce at the time. Better value for money, better car, easier on the environment... everyone a winner. Given a choice I will never buy a petrol engine again, the diesels are just that much better. At the time I took a bit of interest in the pollution and efficiency side of things and read around and stumbled upon a couple of links about the big polluters.....
http://earthjustice.org/featur...http://www.theguardian.com/env...
There is plenty more info out there, you just have to want to be informed.
Happy reading guys and gals, I hope Santa is good to you all this year.
One of my reasons for moving from Sydney to Brisbane in 1990 was to escape living in a DST regime. I have never heard a good reason for daylight saving ever.
It just fcuking sux. I had 20 years with it and I have now had 24 years or so without it, and No DST wins hands down.
Bill wants you all to love him, that's all.... and vote him a Nobel Peace prize for saving the world. He's been trying for a while now, one wonders how much money he has invested in pursuit of the prize.
Only Microsoft ( and their boosters ) could call this an attack, heavens to betsy! I feel that Google is just helping their big buddy Microsoft fulfill their claim to make the world a better place to live in, after all, every now and then your average behemoth corporation needs a little help. Let's just hope that Google gives them every thing they deserve, payment in full of course, especially after all the help that Microsoft gave Google with that silly little Android thingy and all those little legal things that kept on popping up....... It's only fair that Microsoft gets back what it has generously given to others.
In the present environment I think it would be a goer amongst the geeks and the clued up members of the public, but check first for any violations of usage of the word "pie" or "Pie". The word "apple" should be clear and the word "Apple" could be construed by some lawyers to be free advertising for an American based technology company.
No way, they should REDUCE the cost for the ad infested spyware version and leave the regular version alone! There, fixed it for you.
Customer friendly marketing.
Scum and Trash or is it Trash and Scum Inc. These companies are turd polishers, the internet does not need them. The people that run these companies will take every last vestige of your private life and sell it if they think they can make a buck, please try to put them out of business as soon as possible.... perhaps we could get them an honest job, flipping' burgers maybe.
I feel for the ESL students, good luck and keep plugging away, the other trash bags should just be hung and the corpses left in the town square. These people are criminals! Hang 'em all!
I can see your point, but my personal experience as the 'geek' for two grannies, my two 20 something kids, my 49 yr female cousin and myself is that they take to Ubuntu (8.04,9.04,9.10 and 10.04) like ducks to water if you give them the same attention that you give a newbie windows user. After a week or so they are hooked and love it. People can learn and some are eager to do so, just give them a little help, we all had it when we were 'windowed'. My 62 yr old granny is my best learner so far.
scum or vermin to describe these "wanna be/never were"s.... There ya go, I tried to be nice to these parasites, but my personal integrity got in the way.
for when they announce to shareholders and industry analysts that they have lost about US$1.1 billion chasing after the Google train... just so comforting. In ten years time will M$ be flushing perhaps 5 to 10 Billion shareholder dollars down the toilet annually,still chasing that Google search train ? What kind of idiots invest in a company such as this ? What kind of liars/cheats would recommend such a destructive force ?
Yep, here in Brisbane, Australia I remember well that you could buy a retail copy of XP Pro 32 bit for $A695-00 -- bargain ! At the same time from this same bricks and mortar shop you could buy Windows 2000 Pro for $A699-00 -- more bargains! Of course it was possible to buy an OEM etc yada,yada. That's when I went looking to Linux for my next system which was Fedora Core 3, so that nails the timeline down a bit. The shop is still in business and growing because in general they move with the times and give excellent prices on hardware and they know how to take care of their customers. Not meant to be too much of a plug, just extended details - senior moments and all that!
You can't blame an old bloke for getting enthusiastic at my age, Linux,FOSS and all that,the Munich changeover is a big domino for FOSS to win and from memory years ago it was a big personal kick in the nuts for Stevie Ballmer; good to see him 'take one for the team'. I must admit to observing a bit of rabid commenting all round, it adds colour to a conversation I reckon. Mr Schestowitz is prolific if nothing else but the guy from Limuxwatch is just plain wrong. Where everyone becomes a winner in this type of situation is that companies, like Microsoft as an example, will lift their game to produce better services and choices to their customers and customers will stop feeling like victims. Let their never be boredom, keep arguing, this is/.Thanks for reading.
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Will Win 10, 8.1, 8 and 7 give up all the census data entered by unsuspecting aussies to Microsoft and all their partners and three letter agencies ?
I live in Brisbane Australia and I bought a new Golf diesel 2011 model, goes like hell, great economy and lower pollution rating etc than any of the petrol locals could produce at the time. Better value for money, better car, easier on the environment... everyone a winner. Given a choice I will never buy a petrol engine again, the diesels are just that much better. At the time I took a bit of interest in the pollution and efficiency side of things and read around and stumbled upon a couple of links about the big polluters..... http://earthjustice.org/featur... http://www.theguardian.com/env... There is plenty more info out there, you just have to want to be informed. Happy reading guys and gals, I hope Santa is good to you all this year.
One of my reasons for moving from Sydney to Brisbane in 1990 was to escape living in a DST regime. I have never heard a good reason for daylight saving ever. It just fcuking sux. I had 20 years with it and I have now had 24 years or so without it, and No DST wins hands down.
Don't wear out the IIS servers... http://ars.userfriendly.org/ca...
Perfect summary.
The link you are probably after.... http://xkcd.com/538/
Bill wants you all to love him, that's all.... and vote him a Nobel Peace prize for saving the world. He's been trying for a while now, one wonders how much money he has invested in pursuit of the prize.
Only Microsoft ( and their boosters ) could call this an attack, heavens to betsy! I feel that Google is just helping their big buddy Microsoft fulfill their claim to make the world a better place to live in, after all, every now and then your average behemoth corporation needs a little help. Let's just hope that Google gives them every thing they deserve, payment in full of course, especially after all the help that Microsoft gave Google with that silly little Android thingy and all those little legal things that kept on popping up....... It's only fair that Microsoft gets back what it has generously given to others.
A true geek asks his grandma nicely and she rattles off a couple of terminal commands for you, a cinch really.
In the present environment I think it would be a goer amongst the geeks and the clued up members of the public, but check first for any violations of usage of the word "pie" or "Pie". The word "apple" should be clear and the word "Apple" could be construed by some lawyers to be free advertising for an American based technology company.
Russia might want one, but I need one.
Yes who would want to listen to loud binary files? I like mine a little softer with the treble down a bit.
No way, they should REDUCE the cost for the ad infested spyware version and leave the regular version alone! There, fixed it for you. Customer friendly marketing.
Scum and Trash or is it Trash and Scum Inc. These companies are turd polishers, the internet does not need them. The people that run these companies will take every last vestige of your private life and sell it if they think they can make a buck, please try to put them out of business as soon as possible.... perhaps we could get them an honest job, flipping' burgers maybe.
I feel for the ESL students, good luck and keep plugging away, the other trash bags should just be hung and the corpses left in the town square. These people are criminals! Hang 'em all!
Ubuntu fixes most windows problems
I can see your point, but my personal experience as the 'geek' for two grannies, my two 20 something kids, my 49 yr female cousin and myself is that they take to Ubuntu (8.04,9.04,9.10 and 10.04) like ducks to water if you give them the same attention that you give a newbie windows user. After a week or so they are hooked and love it. People can learn and some are eager to do so, just give them a little help, we all had it when we were 'windowed'. My 62 yr old granny is my best learner so far.
Just say "Microsoft has been replaced", they will nod knowingly... then show them how to use the good stuff.
scum or vermin to describe these "wanna be/never were"s.... There ya go, I tried to be nice to these parasites, but my personal integrity got in the way.
for when they announce to shareholders and industry analysts that they have lost about US$1.1 billion chasing after the Google train ... just so comforting. In ten years time will M$ be flushing perhaps 5 to 10 Billion shareholder dollars down the toilet annually,still chasing that Google search train ? What kind of idiots invest in a company such as this ? What kind of liars/cheats would recommend such a destructive force ?
What a great present! Now I have to get drunk.
I think it is bloody hilarious, but I've been reading /. all day long.
Yep, here in Brisbane, Australia I remember well that you could buy a retail copy of XP Pro 32 bit for $A695-00 -- bargain ! At the same time from this same bricks and mortar shop you could buy Windows 2000 Pro for $A699-00 -- more bargains! Of course it was possible to buy an OEM etc yada,yada. That's when I went looking to Linux for my next system which was Fedora Core 3, so that nails the timeline down a bit. The shop is still in business and growing because in general they move with the times and give excellent prices on hardware and they know how to take care of their customers. Not meant to be too much of a plug, just extended details - senior moments and all that!
No,no,no it's Windows 2000 SP11.
You can't blame an old bloke for getting enthusiastic at my age, Linux,FOSS and all that,the Munich changeover is a big domino for FOSS to win and from memory years ago it was a big personal kick in the nuts for Stevie Ballmer; good to see him 'take one for the team'. I must admit to observing a bit of rabid commenting all round, it adds colour to a conversation I reckon. Mr Schestowitz is prolific if nothing else but the guy from Limuxwatch is just plain wrong. Where everyone becomes a winner in this type of situation is that companies, like Microsoft as an example, will lift their game to produce better services and choices to their customers and customers will stop feeling like victims. Let their never be boredom, keep arguing, this is /.Thanks for reading.