How about adding "favorite netmasks", where you can (manually) give extra priority to some netmasks that you know are near you (by looking at the country flags in bittorrent, random guessing, or by downloading lists off the intertubes).
Wouldn't that solve 99% of your problem?
I used to love XP.
For me, Windows 7 is a god-send. I haven't used Vista, but i love Windows 7 and would definitely pay good money for this.
My wife's from a Eastern European country. You sound a bit like they did back in the '80s when a single bottle of Coca-Cola was a godsend, and people would definitely pay good money for it on the black market.
Out here in the free world we drink what we want, when we want, and it doesn't have to cost that much...
But the price of a computer at the time was maybe $2-3000. So you could get the OS for less than 5% of the total cost of the computer, and even NT would never go over 20%
It's safe to say that advances in Windows have been a lot slower than advances in hardware, so it's hard to justify the pricing.
This example seems to block based on the access permissions of the source file, not the user. That ain't right in any sense of the word, and sounds like a fuck-up to me...
And if things are being done in a way that annoys the majority of the users it's hard to proclaim that they're being done right. You can follow all the rules and still be a total jerk.
It's a British rag, so the gallons they refer to in the article are imperial gallons. In US terms, it gets 50mpg, not 60.
Actually the official numbers are 25 km/l, which is 58.8 mpg(US).
The real-world numbers are thought to be closer to 20-21 km/l, or 47-49.4 mpg(US), but that's a different story.
Is it such an accomplishment to be able to drive 100 meters in India without having some sort of collision?
The License issuing officials will ask you to drive a "8" shaped or "S" shaped track without making mistakes. It's not in traffic, and it's not hard if you've ever spent 30 minutes on a motorbike.
The driving exam is a joke here. If you correctly answer 6 out of 10 multiple choice questions (mostly "guess the taffic sign" ones) you get a learners licence.
Questions about traffic signs? whats wrong with that? what else do you want them to ask? Algebra? Management theory? Remember, its only for the "learners" license.
There's a bunch of other things drivers should know. Comparethese to the Indian one, and then tell me if it's a joke or not. 1 wrong answer out 15 in the first half of my exam (Europe) could be enough to fail.
1 month later you get the full licence, provided that you can drive 100m without incident.
The License issuing officials will ask you to drive a "8" shaped or "S" shaped track without making mistakes. Thats not easy for most beginners, and i think there are similar tests in other countries as well.
I neglected to mention that the 100m are inside a figure-8 track, for dramatic reasons. In Europe/US you must drive around in traffic for a full hour with the examiner, which is considerably harder.
On the other hand the Tata Nano seems to be a scaled-up rickshaw rather than a scaled-down car.
Scaled up rickshaw? what was that supposed to mean? A rickshaw doesn't even have an engine!
Autorickshaw, not a bicycle one. Take a 6 Seater Autorickshaw, add the fourth weel, doors and car seats and you have a clunky Tata Nano. Same engine/luggage configuration, same tiny wheels, same-same.
The driving exam is a joke here. If you correctly answer 6 out of 10 multiple choice questions (mostly "guess the taffic sign" ones) you get a learners licence. Curiously, 9 out of 36 failed that in my class.
1 month later you get the full licence, provided that you can drive 100m without incident.
The traffic here is very chaotic already, but it's mostly motorbikes and 3-wheelers. Add more cars to the mix and you're asking for trouble. On the other hand the Tata Nano seems to be a scaled-up rickshaw rather than a scaled-down car.
TFA is 4 months old, and the price is way off. The base price is 100.000 rupees, or about $2000/£1350. You can still get 2 high-end scooters for that price, not one for £1700 like the article says.
It's pretty easy to run MacOS 9 on an OSX mac. The classic environment does just that.
I've used it to run anything from Quark Xpress and Photoshop to Lode runner (b/w graphics, written in 1984 on the first mac).
Of course it doesn't work on the shiny new Intel macs since that's a different architecture, but you probably knew that since you're trolling.
If you weren't: How many architecture changes has windows had since 1984?
The EC is demanding that Microsoft "redesign" its OS to allow equal competition of browsers on the desktop. This is sort of like the FTC ordering GM to allow a free choice of stereos in its cars, rather than ship cars with only its (former) in-house brand of Delco.
No - it's like ordering GM not to weld their stereos to essential parts of the car in a way that the engine dies if it is ever removed.
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My bathroom has the internal volume of a refrigerator, you insensitive clod!
If she's Icelands first lady, how did Icelanders procreate before she came along?
Ladies don't procreate all that much. Sluts do...
Ouch... how do you even do that? The exhaust pipe?
Rule 34: If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.
As claimed by an admin in the forums a similar feature (manually marking some peers/IP ranges as local) is on the todo, but it's been pushed back repeatedly.
How about adding "favorite netmasks", where you can (manually) give extra priority to some netmasks that you know are near you (by looking at the country flags in bittorrent, random guessing, or by downloading lists off the intertubes). Wouldn't that solve 99% of your problem?
USA doesn't kill people...
Right, first declare them enemy combatants.
Or at the very least, afterwards...
What's your point?
Microsoft takes previous work and copies it.
There is a subtle but important difference.
I'll explain it to you right after I finish imagining a Beowulf cluster of them...
The arabs have been building them for centuries...
So it keeps you skinny AND young?
Where can I find this miracle drug that you speak of?
I used to love XP. For me, Windows 7 is a god-send. I haven't used Vista, but i love Windows 7 and would definitely pay good money for this.
My wife's from a Eastern European country. You sound a bit like they did back in the '80s when a single bottle of Coca-Cola was a godsend, and people would definitely pay good money for it on the black market.
Out here in the free world we drink what we want, when we want, and it doesn't have to cost that much...
But the price of a computer at the time was maybe $2-3000. So you could get the OS for less than 5% of the total cost of the computer, and even NT would never go over 20%
It's safe to say that advances in Windows have been a lot slower than advances in hardware, so it's hard to justify the pricing.
This example seems to block based on the access permissions of the source file, not the user. That ain't right in any sense of the word, and sounds like a fuck-up to me...
And if things are being done in a way that annoys the majority of the users it's hard to proclaim that they're being done right. You can follow all the rules and still be a total jerk.
I have prior art, I was born with a magic wand!
That's wand with a D, not G...
alias SU="sudo su"
works wonders, and you can append any command line options you would append to the normal su.
Just think of it as shouting on the command line.
That depends on how you define "longer":
1 - (3 / 4) -> 25% shorter
4 / 3 - 1 -> 33% longer
Fixed that for you. So if you define longer as shorter, he's right
I'm born on the fourth of July.
And my mexican neightbour's birthday is Cinco de Mayo (Fifth of May).
Starting to see a pattern here?
It's a British rag, so the gallons they refer to in the article are imperial gallons. In US terms, it gets 50mpg, not 60.
Actually the official numbers are 25 km/l, which is 58.8 mpg(US).
The real-world numbers are thought to be closer to 20-21 km/l, or 47-49.4 mpg(US), but that's a different story.
Is it such an accomplishment to be able to drive 100 meters in India without having some sort of collision?
The License issuing officials will ask you to drive a "8" shaped or "S" shaped track without making mistakes. It's not in traffic, and it's not hard if you've ever spent 30 minutes on a motorbike.
The driving exam is a joke here. If you correctly answer 6 out of 10 multiple choice questions (mostly "guess the taffic sign" ones) you get a learners licence.
Questions about traffic signs? whats wrong with that? what else do you want them to ask? Algebra? Management theory? Remember, its only for the "learners" license.
There's a bunch of other things drivers should know. Compare these to the Indian one, and then tell me if it's a joke or not. 1 wrong answer out 15 in the first half of my exam (Europe) could be enough to fail.
1 month later you get the full licence, provided that you can drive 100m without incident.
The License issuing officials will ask you to drive a "8" shaped or "S" shaped track without making mistakes. Thats not easy for most beginners, and i think there are similar tests in other countries as well.
I neglected to mention that the 100m are inside a figure-8 track, for dramatic reasons. In Europe/US you must drive around in traffic for a full hour with the examiner, which is considerably harder.
On the other hand the Tata Nano seems to be a scaled-up rickshaw rather than a scaled-down car.
Scaled up rickshaw? what was that supposed to mean? A rickshaw doesn't even have an engine!
Autorickshaw, not a bicycle one. Take a 6 Seater Autorickshaw, add the fourth weel, doors and car seats and you have a clunky Tata Nano. Same engine/luggage configuration, same tiny wheels, same-same.
The driving exam is a joke here. If you correctly answer 6 out of 10 multiple choice questions (mostly "guess the taffic sign" ones) you get a learners licence. Curiously, 9 out of 36 failed that in my class. 1 month later you get the full licence, provided that you can drive 100m without incident.
The traffic here is very chaotic already, but it's mostly motorbikes and 3-wheelers. Add more cars to the mix and you're asking for trouble. On the other hand the Tata Nano seems to be a scaled-up rickshaw rather than a scaled-down car.
TFA is 4 months old, and the price is way off. The base price is 100.000 rupees, or about $2000/£1350. You can still get 2 high-end scooters for that price, not one for £1700 like the article says.
In Europe it's hard to find petrol below 95 (equivalent to 90-91 US) octane. 98 is the standard in many places.
92 is lower than 95.
Of course it doesn't work on the shiny new Intel macs since that's a different architecture, but you probably knew that since you're trolling.
If you weren't: How many architecture changes has windows had since 1984?
The EC is demanding that Microsoft "redesign" its OS to allow equal competition of browsers on the desktop. This is sort of like the FTC ordering GM to allow a free choice of stereos in its cars, rather than ship cars with only its (former) in-house brand of Delco.
No - it's like ordering GM not to weld their stereos to essential parts of the car in a way that the engine dies if it is ever removed.
Clearly your mom's Thinkpad wasn't running OSX.
Suggesting that OSX might freeze up is just ludicrous.