A politician is a politician because he has two skills, one is his ability to use convincing rhetoric and the other is putting that rhetoric to the defence of the powerful, no matter they be the military, industry or some other interest group.
No, they don't defend the powerful with words. At least, Saddam didn't die of their words after he offered to sell oil for EUR too, instead of USD only.
But keep in mind that everyone looking even remotely like a political activist was weeded out during Stalin's purges, and that memory was still very fresh in minds of the people during the whole Hungarian affair.
Not quite. The Russian people had no expectation of democracy, and a deeply ingrained fear and respect for authority. Before the communist revolution, they had czarism, the most absolute form of monarchy. Even today, Putin's regime tends to gravitate towards that.
USSR did fall eventually precisely because of the reasons you describe, but it took time.
No. The USSR fell eventually because the planned economy did not take the people into account. Just an example: you have a factory that makes locks, and you measure the output by weight, What do the people do? They make big fucking locks. Considering that there was no market for locks to warrant a whole factory, you can imagine how much good that did to the economy. Rinse and repeat for every area of production, and you wonder how this system lasted as long as it did.
It didn't. It was supported by a shadow economy of comparable size: the people recreated a whole quasi-capitalist system of favors, illegally of course. If you worked at a washing mashine factory, you "brought home" parts on a regular basis, and used those to fix washing mashines for a living. Sometimes you even used the tools at your workplace. The system worked because absolutely everyone was doing it.
I don't really think any of you "westerners" can truly understand this mentality without experiencing it, just like I'm having trouble understanding your obsession with contracts and paperwork.
P.S. Tax evasion is still a Hungarian national sport.
P.P.S.
Towards the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency, and continued strongly through the subsequent presidency of Ronald Reagan, the United States rejected disarmament and tried to restart the arms race through the production of new weapons and anti-weapons systems. The central part of this strategy was the Strategic Defense Initiative, a space based anti-ballistic missile system derided as "Star Wars" by its critics. During the second part of 1980s, the Soviet economy was teetering towards collapse and was unable to match American arms spending.
I think this history of litigation and the international scene of respect for software rights had a lot more to do with it than him being Soviet.
As a Hungarian, I think if we knew he was a Russian, we'd spread it even faster across the globe. (Note this is 1985, before the fall of the Iron Curtain. We didn't like those guys.)
The real truth in most of these companies, if you scratch the surface, is that they have a mountain of HTML code for internal custom applications which assumed all the flaws in IE6, and they don't have a budget, nor a plan, for updating those apps.
Oh definitely. That happens when they're on a real tight deadline, and they have to get everything working, and they cut corners knowing full well that it's going to be a nightmare to upgrade, but they have no choice but hope they won't be the ones who have to do it.
And they scrub their names off everything real carefully, because they know the next guy to touch that codebase is going to hunt them down with a chainsaw.
Oh, and I should point out another untimely mark of IE6: we've all made this hilariously fugly hacks to make crap work in IE6 at some point and those relics of the last millennium are still out there. Which means that browsers still have to support the old rendering ways of IE6.
Or maybe we can just ignore that crap, start designing according to standards, and get this fucking mess finally cleaned up.
In the old days, if you pissed off those with IE6, you lost 90% of your viewers. Now it's totally different. Even IE8 respects standards now.
Let's write off IE6 as obsolete and force those users to upgrade.
Then dont play it. Dont watch the trailors, dont read the reviews. And definatly dont re-play the originals. It's the only way to prevent the nostalgia from being tainted.
The problem is, what we remember as a game will return as a product of the entertainment industry.
Didn't we have post running several months ago, bitching about how Crytek was going under because of all the piracy? Didn't they claim that because of the "evil pirates" there would be no sequel? Maybe I am confused, my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
Turns out they don't actually lose money every time someone copies their game, and they still get money every time someone buys it.
Shark unemployment figures, widely considered a key indicator of the viability of the global economy, recently dropped to a mere 1% following this announcement.
Efficiency also means less full-time people are needed for the same amount of work.
I used to use Altavista back when the URL was altavista.digital.com and back in the day it was great.
Back then, the net was a bit easier on search engines, don't you think? I'd love to see how long that engine would last against today's spammers and SEO practices.
Japanese auto manufacturers are giant consumers of rare earth metals, presumably to make batteries for their hybrids, and so Japan is competing for a larger supply to consume.
Japan is a puny island with a huge industry. They're competing for resources. This isn't news since 1930.
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PowerOff, Sleep and WakeUp are pretty much standard keys.
This is the standard.
A politician is a politician because he has two skills, one is his ability to use convincing rhetoric and the other is putting that rhetoric to the defence of the powerful, no matter they be the military, industry or some other interest group.
No, they don't defend the powerful with words. At least, Saddam didn't die of their words after he offered to sell oil for EUR too, instead of USD only.
Of course if the programmer wasn't an idiot they would just convert the field to all caps but sometimes people have to live with old software.
Not to mention every fucking string implementation I've seen has toupper()/tolower().
But keep in mind that everyone looking even remotely like a political activist was weeded out during Stalin's purges, and that memory was still very fresh in minds of the people during the whole Hungarian affair.
Not quite. The Russian people had no expectation of democracy, and a deeply ingrained fear and respect for authority. Before the communist revolution, they had czarism, the most absolute form of monarchy. Even today, Putin's regime tends to gravitate towards that.
USSR did fall eventually precisely because of the reasons you describe, but it took time.
No. The USSR fell eventually because the planned economy did not take the people into account. Just an example: you have a factory that makes locks, and you measure the output by weight, What do the people do? They make big fucking locks. Considering that there was no market for locks to warrant a whole factory, you can imagine how much good that did to the economy. Rinse and repeat for every area of production, and you wonder how this system lasted as long as it did.
It didn't. It was supported by a shadow economy of comparable size: the people recreated a whole quasi-capitalist system of favors, illegally of course. If you worked at a washing mashine factory, you "brought home" parts on a regular basis, and used those to fix washing mashines for a living. Sometimes you even used the tools at your workplace. The system worked because absolutely everyone was doing it.
I don't really think any of you "westerners" can truly understand this mentality without experiencing it, just like I'm having trouble understanding your obsession with contracts and paperwork.
P.S. Tax evasion is still a Hungarian national sport.
P.P.S.
Towards the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency, and continued strongly through the subsequent presidency of Ronald Reagan, the United States rejected disarmament and tried to restart the arms race through the production of new weapons and anti-weapons systems. The central part of this strategy was the Strategic Defense Initiative, a space based anti-ballistic missile system derided as "Star Wars" by its critics. During the second part of 1980s, the Soviet economy was teetering towards collapse and was unable to match American arms spending.
You can also disable those keys in software, which I did straight away.
Both X and XP/Vista can do that with any keyboard.
Wow, you disapproved of the Soviet regime so you were prepared to punish those innocents suffering under it? You sound like a real jerk.
We were the innocents suffering under it, moron.
I think this history of litigation and the international scene of respect for software rights had a lot more to do with it than him being Soviet.
As a Hungarian, I think if we knew he was a Russian, we'd spread it even faster across the globe. (Note this is 1985, before the fall of the Iron Curtain. We didn't like those guys.)
The real truth in most of these companies, if you scratch the surface, is that they have a mountain of HTML code for internal custom applications which assumed all the flaws in IE6, and they don't have a budget, nor a plan, for updating those apps.
Oh definitely. That happens when they're on a real tight deadline, and they have to get everything working, and they cut corners knowing full well that it's going to be a nightmare to upgrade, but they have no choice but hope they won't be the ones who have to do it.
And they scrub their names off everything real carefully, because they know the next guy to touch that codebase is going to hunt them down with a chainsaw.
If the drive cannot be mounted/connected (like if the drive electronics are fried) this program won't help you.
Umm, duh? Anyone thinking otherwise should not be here.
Oh, and the recovery process took about 10 hours for a 600 Gb partition. It was worth every second. Shame they don't make those for Linux.
The excuse: "I can download a web browser for free, but I can't install it because I'm not in the Administrators group."
The answer remains: fuck ye!
Oh, and I should point out another untimely mark of IE6: we've all made this hilariously fugly hacks to make crap work in IE6 at some point and those relics of the last millennium are still out there. Which means that browsers still have to support the old rendering ways of IE6.
Or maybe we can just ignore that crap, start designing according to standards, and get this fucking mess finally cleaned up.
In the old days, if you pissed off those with IE6, you lost 90% of your viewers. Now it's totally different. Even IE8 respects standards now.
Let's write off IE6 as obsolete and force those users to upgrade.
Then dont play it. Dont watch the trailors, dont read the reviews. And definatly dont re-play the originals. It's the only way to prevent the nostalgia from being tainted.
The problem is, what we remember as a game will return as a product of the entertainment industry.
LucasArts. *shudder*
Didn't we have post running several months ago, bitching about how Crytek was going under because of all the piracy? Didn't they claim that because of the "evil pirates" there would be no sequel? Maybe I am confused, my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
Turns out they don't actually lose money every time someone copies their game, and they still get money every time someone buys it.
Everything old is new again. Around and around we go...
No kidding. "Full-Body Controller-less Gaming" has already been invented. It's called "sport".
Eyeballs == data == better targeting of ads == higher profits on ad sales.
Umm. Eyeballs == more viewers for the ads == profit. Applications that report back == better targeting.
Think spammers emailing everyone vs. spammers with spyware.
Shark unemployment figures, widely considered a key indicator of the viability of the global economy, recently dropped to a mere 1% following this announcement.
Efficiency also means less full-time people are needed for the same amount of work.
I used to use Altavista back when the URL was altavista.digital.com and back in the day it was great.
Back then, the net was a bit easier on search engines, don't you think? I'd love to see how long that engine would last against today's spammers and SEO practices.
Apples and oranges, I know.
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Are we suggesting making contributions manditory in order to get free software?
That's not free as in speech, and not free as in beer. And don't get me started on measuring contributions.
Britain definitely does not have a Ministry of Defense and we also don't have a TV License either.
What do you have, then? Ministry of Peace?
they wouldn't meet Wikipedia's notability standards.
That says more about Wikipedia than it does about the official site.
Geography isn't always the best power indicator. Japan may be small, but they have a great deal of control in the world economy.
We are talking about Japan, after all. You know, the ones who already invaded China once, and the ones who needed nuclear bombs to surrender.
Japanese auto manufacturers are giant consumers of rare earth metals, presumably to make batteries for their hybrids, and so Japan is competing for a larger supply to consume.
Japan is a puny island with a huge industry. They're competing for resources. This isn't news since 1930.
i don't even own a cellphone
I do: a £10 Nokia. The features it has? Phone calls and text messages. And I can type a message on it much faster than anyone on an iPhone.
You can't force them to support other browsers, hell, they could only support internet explorer if they wanted to.
Your choices:
Internet Explorer 8 (Recommended)
AOL Explorer
Lynx