Granted, but if you are A) A military ally B) A political ally C) A major Trading partner, and D) Allowed to buy modern war planes, you'd think you could organise ot so that the aircraft do what you want. At the end of the day military hardware is pretty much a buyers market (if you have the cash). On a side note does anyone know what happened with the promised waiver of the USA's International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) with regards to the UK?
I just read your post (after posting my own) and had a sudden heart stopping moment that I had read Austria as Australia, as a Brit I assume that would be unforgivable, after all everyone knows that those Australians in their leather pants and kiwi accents are totally different from the BBQ obsessed, Cricket incompetent Austrians.
Whoever arranged the procurement of those aircraft in the first place wasn't terribly smart. Who would spend Millions of AU$'s on something that in effect doesn't work, and not just some feature is missing, but the primary use of the thing is impaired, oh and the supplier wont help. As for cracking the codes, when can we expect the Australians to release the cracks? I hate the fact I cant use the F18 I bought on Ebay to shoot down Asia Pacific Rim based Aircraft..
Not to mention DVD's plus young kids don't mix. I tend to rip and transcode the originals, store them and then make them available via NFS to whatever box the kids want to watch them on, the amount I spend on storage (which is minimal anyway with 200Gb Sata Drives at @£25.) is immediately recouped by the fact that the disks are not destroyed within three months. Although I guess that causes issues for some people's business models (By reducing repeat sales) and probably means I'll see more adverts..
Store Clerk: Shall I price this up at $1.99? Store Manager: $1.99 good idea, but all the.99's are owned by Wallmart Store Clerk: what about $1.98? Store Manager: Owned by Texaco... Store Clerk: $2.01? that's an unusual price, no one will have.. Store Manager: BestBuy Store Clerk: 2.02? Store Manager: Circuit City Store Clerk: Fine, what price should I put on it? Store Manager: One and one sixth of a dollar and fourteen halves of a cent. Store Clerk:..... We need a new price label gun.
I was going to say "how long till they put adverts (other than trailers) on to DVD's (there is nothing stopping them after all..) then I realised that children's DVD's are already littered with them (I put a postman pat DVD on for my son a while back, the feature is maybe 60 / 90 Minutes (3x 20 or 30 minute episodes) and there is at least 25 minutes of advertising material at the beginning, some of it totally inappropriate for really young kids (in terms of cartoon violence but still, its a Postman Pat DVD I wouldn't expect *any* violence* cartoon or otherwise) not to mention its is really annoying to have 2x 3 minute adverts for the same thing 5 minutes apart on a single DVD. Thankfully I can skip all of that, but I would hat to be someone who has a regular DVD player that honours whatever non-skip protection is on those Disks.
*Except in "Pat and the Armed Post Office Robbery" where Pat foils a terrorist plot to rob the Post Office and use the proceeds to blow up the viaduct, or in "Pat goes Postal" which should be self explanatory...:)
All the information that most people want is probably on the net somewhere, the problem is that there is also lots of slightly (or massively) inaccurate, out of date or confused information all around it. I don't think that I have ever (other than when searching for specific unusual errors etc..) been unable to find what I wanted on the net, I have repeatedly found however that the info I did find was useless.
At least with books everything is in one place and you can be fairly sure that the content is accurate, most importantly the information is in context so you know whether it is relevant to what you need.
So Gnome lets the user manage how the power related features work? Sounds like power management to me.
I know what you mean and I know the statement could be said to mean either, but if we are talking about a DE I would always assume that we are talking about a power management *interface* rather than anything that is taking direct control of the hardware.
I didn't RTFA, nor do I use Gnome so I could be wrong...
I just thought I would say that the two previous posts are nothing short of artistic, the emotion, tone and energy in each one is perfect, as you read them you can visualise the two people in the discussion, there is apathy, over-confidence, apathy, contempt and a bright spark of intelligence. I shall call these two posts "The Dreamer and the Engineer" Series. I suggest the parent and GP get together and license their use as ornamental wall hangings.
(Strange post I know - but seriously those two posts in quick succession were just perfect.)
Is this purely a windows issue? I don't seem to have start-up issues on Linux, especially on older and underpowered hardware (running Debian in both cases), but then I only have Koffice Gnome-office to compare it to side by side, all three are open and ready to go within 3-8 seconds of launching the application (normally 3-5 seconds, closer to 8 at desktop start-up for obvious reasons.), The only start up annoyance I have is the recovery options.
Apart from medical care presumably as you don't have any real choice whether to buy it or not. Or car insurance (if it is mandatory) for the same reason. Apple can charge whatever they want for their product, it is only over priced if they have no buyers, that's because portable music players, like mobile phones, laptops, game consoles etc.. are luxuries. That theory however breaks down when applied to necessities, especially necessities that are supplied by a monopoly or near monopoly.
Not disagreeing with you really but pointing out that some things have real value (albeit hard to put in currency terms, after all what is a life worth, how much does freedom cost? etc..).
It's currently the best well to tell everyone in a large group about some minor change in the office. No. The best way to communicate a change to an office is clearly to hold a meeting that includes all the stakeholders, all those directly effected by the change and anyone who may at some time be directly or indirectly impacted by the change, Preferably the meeting should be held off site. Email is for inviting people to that meeting (preferably by sending 3 or four emails and an.ical with the date listed.
Funny thing is, Northern Rock would be perfectly solid (they have plenty of assets and their mortgage books are valuable) the only issue is one of *potential* liquidity (they didn't touch the loan from the Bank of England last time I checked). What will kill them is the general panicking of their customers (thanks to the media). Its the first time I have ever seen massive queues of people in the UK withdrawing their life savings!
Anyway Northern Rock will end up being bought (at a massively reduced price) by one of the other banks.
This is not yet another competitor for Microsoft Office or Open Office. (God knows we don't need any more!) We need as many quality "productivity suites"(ugh) as possible, as long as they support sensible formats. The more choice the better, one would hope that more competition, coupled with open source code and open standards can only mean increased innovation and quality.
I do see the issues with diluting the pool of qualified coders working on any given project, but I would say the risk of that are outweighed by the benefits.
The BSD license is good compared to the GPL because you aren't required to assign copyright to the FSF (read the GPL preamble). Having read the GPL preamble (From the preamble to the T&C's (I looked at V2 and V3 as you didn't specify) I fail to see where I am required to assign copyright to the FSF. Could you clarify where you think that statement is, or even better if you can find it, could you post it?
I find that a decent pager will give you most of the benefits without any of the drawbacks, although I should admit that after installing beryl on etch I found its a nice to have if you have the hardware and if you are likely to need to demo Linux to people, you can use the; "its secure, its fast, its robust and its pretty [spin the cube...weeeee]". At the end of the day it comes down to what you want and what makes you more productive, if its productivity you are after you can probably give beryl a miss. What I will say though is that having it on by default may (depending on how they are implementing it) mean that more people end up assuming that Ubuntu is "crap" as it doesn't work on their machine. It was nice having Ubuntu as a quick demo to throw onto a PII with a crappy graphics card and have it just run.
Hmm, so what you are saying is that a badly configured wired solution is more secure than a perfectly configured wireless solution. Well that is fairly obvious. But is a perfectly configured wired solution less secure than a perfectly configured wireless solution? No its not.
If I have decently configured switches / AP's and correctly configured network services (DHCP, Cryto, IDS etc..) then which is more secure? Well the wired solution is. Why? because I am not making my network available for anyone to try and break into, or simply to monitor and carry out analysis against. Not to mention that the wired network will be faster, easier to troubleshoot (generally), generally cheaper (especially for big implementations) and easily managed. Wired networks have their place, as do wireless networks, the only people pushing for wireless everywhere are those with a stake in selling or providing wireless networking, sadly the idea appeals to a fair number of people (its very "high tech"), and 99% of Wireless networks I have stumbled across (pun intended) where not even close to being secure.
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Granted, but if you are A) A military ally B) A political ally C) A major Trading partner, and D) Allowed to buy modern war planes, you'd think you could organise ot so that the aircraft do what you want. At the end of the day military hardware is pretty much a buyers market (if you have the cash). On a side note does anyone know what happened with the promised waiver of the USA's International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) with regards to the UK?
I just read your post (after posting my own) and had a sudden heart stopping moment that I had read Austria as Australia, as a Brit I assume that would be unforgivable, after all everyone knows that those Australians in their leather pants and kiwi accents are totally different from the BBQ obsessed, Cricket incompetent Austrians.
Whoever arranged the procurement of those aircraft in the first place wasn't terribly smart. Who would spend Millions of AU$'s on something that in effect doesn't work, and not just some feature is missing, but the primary use of the thing is impaired, oh and the supplier wont help. As for cracking the codes, when can we expect the Australians to release the cracks? I hate the fact I cant use the F18 I bought on Ebay to shoot down Asia Pacific Rim based Aircraft..
Not to mention DVD's plus young kids don't mix. I tend to rip and transcode the originals, store them and then make them available via NFS to whatever box the kids want to watch them on, the amount I spend on storage (which is minimal anyway with 200Gb Sata Drives at @£25.) is immediately recouped by the fact that the disks are not destroyed within three months. Although I guess that causes issues for some people's business models (By reducing repeat sales) and probably means I'll see more adverts..
Store Clerk: Shall I price this up at $1.99? .99's are owned by Wallmart ..... We need a new price label gun.
Store Manager: $1.99 good idea, but all the
Store Clerk: what about $1.98?
Store Manager: Owned by Texaco...
Store Clerk: $2.01? that's an unusual price, no one will have..
Store Manager: BestBuy
Store Clerk: 2.02?
Store Manager: Circuit City
Store Clerk: Fine, what price should I put on it?
Store Manager: One and one sixth of a dollar and fourteen halves of a cent.
Store Clerk:
I was going to say "how long till they put adverts (other than trailers) on to DVD's (there is nothing stopping them after all..) then I realised that children's DVD's are already littered with them (I put a postman pat DVD on for my son a while back, the feature is maybe 60 / 90 Minutes (3x 20 or 30 minute episodes) and there is at least 25 minutes of advertising material at the beginning, some of it totally inappropriate for really young kids (in terms of cartoon violence but still, its a Postman Pat DVD I wouldn't expect *any* violence* cartoon or otherwise) not to mention its is really annoying to have 2x 3 minute adverts for the same thing 5 minutes apart on a single DVD. Thankfully I can skip all of that, but I would hat to be someone who has a regular DVD player that honours whatever non-skip protection is on those Disks.
:)
*Except in "Pat and the Armed Post Office Robbery" where Pat foils a terrorist plot to rob the Post Office and use the proceeds to blow up the viaduct, or in "Pat goes Postal" which should be self explanatory...
All the information that most people want is probably on the net somewhere, the problem is that there is also lots of slightly (or massively) inaccurate, out of date or confused information all around it. I don't think that I have ever (other than when searching for specific unusual errors etc..) been unable to find what I wanted on the net, I have repeatedly found however that the info I did find was useless.
At least with books everything is in one place and you can be fairly sure that the content is accurate, most importantly the information is in context so you know whether it is relevant to what you need.
I'm on Debian stable. No compiling and my world is... stable. If a little behind the cutting edge...
Gentoo or LFS user?
So Gnome lets the user manage how the power related features work? Sounds like power management to me.
I know what you mean and I know the statement could be said to mean either, but if we are talking about a DE I would always assume that we are talking about a power management *interface* rather than anything that is taking direct control of the hardware.
I didn't RTFA, nor do I use Gnome so I could be wrong...
I just thought I would say that the two previous posts are nothing short of artistic, the emotion, tone and energy in each one is perfect, as you read them you can visualise the two people in the discussion, there is apathy, over-confidence, apathy, contempt and a bright spark of intelligence. I shall call these two posts "The Dreamer and the Engineer" Series. I suggest the parent and GP get together and license their use as ornamental wall hangings.
(Strange post I know - but seriously those two posts in quick succession were just perfect.)
Is this purely a windows issue? I don't seem to have start-up issues on Linux, especially on older and underpowered hardware (running Debian in both cases), but then I only have Koffice Gnome-office to compare it to side by side, all three are open and ready to go within 3-8 seconds of launching the application (normally 3-5 seconds, closer to 8 at desktop start-up for obvious reasons.), The only start up annoyance I have is the recovery options.
Apart from medical care presumably as you don't have any real choice whether to buy it or not. Or car insurance (if it is mandatory) for the same reason. Apple can charge whatever they want for their product, it is only over priced if they have no buyers, that's because portable music players, like mobile phones, laptops, game consoles etc.. are luxuries. That theory however breaks down when applied to necessities, especially necessities that are supplied by a monopoly or near monopoly.
Not disagreeing with you really but pointing out that some things have real value (albeit hard to put in currency terms, after all what is a life worth, how much does freedom cost? etc..).
If so it would also mean that they charged advertisers for them, so they still aren't losing* anything.
:)
*That's the apparently similar to "loosing" in case anyone is confused...
I was going for funny.
So you are saying that this was really "The light from Venus reflected off a cloud of swamp gas?"*
*" Now look right here at this little light."
So to paraphrase, you would like standards compliant spam?
Ahem - This may clear it up for you.
Although the word "universal" may be a bit much.
There is something beautiful about centralised, secure and redundant authentication, especially with SSO. So yeah, I totally agree.
OT
Funny thing is, Northern Rock would be perfectly solid (they have plenty of assets and their mortgage books are valuable) the only issue is one of *potential* liquidity (they didn't touch the loan from the Bank of England last time I checked). What will kill them is the general panicking of their customers (thanks to the media). Its the first time I have ever seen massive queues of people in the UK withdrawing their life savings!
Anyway Northern Rock will end up being bought (at a massively reduced price) by one of the other banks.
I do see the issues with diluting the pool of qualified coders working on any given project, but I would say the risk of that are outweighed by the benefits.
I find that a decent pager will give you most of the benefits without any of the drawbacks, although I should admit that after installing beryl on etch I found its a nice to have if you have the hardware and if you are likely to need to demo Linux to people, you can use the; "its secure, its fast, its robust and its pretty [spin the cube...weeeee]". At the end of the day it comes down to what you want and what makes you more productive, if its productivity you are after you can probably give beryl a miss. What I will say though is that having it on by default may (depending on how they are implementing it) mean that more people end up assuming that Ubuntu is "crap" as it doesn't work on their machine. It was nice having Ubuntu as a quick demo to throw onto a PII with a crappy graphics card and have it just run.
Hmm, so what you are saying is that a badly configured wired solution is more secure than a perfectly configured wireless solution. Well that is fairly obvious. But is a perfectly configured wired solution less secure than a perfectly configured wireless solution? No its not.
If I have decently configured switches / AP's and correctly configured network services (DHCP, Cryto, IDS etc..) then which is more secure? Well the wired solution is. Why? because I am not making my network available for anyone to try and break into, or simply to monitor and carry out analysis against. Not to mention that the wired network will be faster, easier to troubleshoot (generally), generally cheaper (especially for big implementations) and easily managed. Wired networks have their place, as do wireless networks, the only people pushing for wireless everywhere are those with a stake in selling or providing wireless networking, sadly the idea appeals to a fair number of people (its very "high tech"), and 99% of Wireless networks I have stumbled across (pun intended) where not even close to being secure.