So how exactly do you suggest they pay their empolyees? A pat on the back and "nice work, Jim" doesn't pay the bills...
Why don't the jerk-off RedHat execs take a lil cut for once in thier life, and sacrifice an SUV or two to pay a few developers to continue working on this?
What do you think they are doing? They have a whole bunch of programmers that they pay full time to improve RedHat. Some of those programmers work on stuff proprietary to RedHat, and some work on Open Source stuff. As a result there's a bunch of people working full-time on Open Source projects that otherwise would not be able to put in that amount of time. How is this a bad thing?
It's a shame they had to use a computer to simulate it. It would have been much more fun to pack 36 barrels into the cellar of a disused house somewhere in the middle nowheere (Like some unused corner of a large estate in the highlands of Scotland, for instance), and blown it up.
I thought it was pretty funny - I couldn't help but think that he'd got fed up with students constantly nagging him to move everything over to Linux - "But it's open source", "We shouldn't be giving money to Micro$haft", "It's much better than Windoze", "Anyone with half a brain will find it really easy to use"...
I think eventually he just flipped and had to vent somewhere...
The problem with this is that you end up having to recompress the music, which results in a drop in quality (Unless you're not compressing, and burning to CD, for example).
Sorry, I don't have a link to the software you're looking for, though:-(
What happens if you just select 'wave' as the recording source in Windows?
The scary thing is, look at how fumbling and incompetent some of the more senior politicians are. If they're that bad, how bad must the ones be that only make it as local council members?
I think that's probably a bit unfair, as the kind of people you need for local councillorship are probably rather different from the kind you need (or should that be the kind you get?) for national government.
I've never been into reading blogs much, and this is the first time I'd seen just how those trackback things work... Damn! talk about uber-cross linking. No wonder google is being hosed by this stuff...
I'm not disputing any of your facts - just that 7000 is not a trivial number of deaths, irrespective of how they were killed and how much blame must fall on their government.
Having said that, if you are defending a city from invasion, you're not going to have much choice but to have a lot of military targets in civillian zones, otherwise you'd just be defending some out-of-town military bases.
7000 is considerably more than were killed at Pearl Harbor, and almost three times as many as were killed in the 11th of September attacks. Sure, there have been bigger wars, but that's still a lot of dead people and a huge number of devastated families.
In the winter, that extra wattage generated by the CPU load will contribute to heating your home. One would hope that your heating system is more efficient than your computer at heating, but you never know.
Conversely, during the summer if you have air conditioning, you'll have to take into account the extra work that your A/C unit has to do to counteract the heating generated by your computer.
Things just seem to work better on Windows. You don't have to go through seven shades of crap just to sync with your palmpilot. You never have to recompile the kernel. Keyboard auto-repeat doesn't suddenly mysteriously stop working (Okay, that one might just be local to my installation). Software is easy to install, none of that 'dependancy hell'. It doesn't do the equivalent of having X crash just because you dared to try and watch a video...
Well, all the big VFX companies are quite used to paying out vast amounts of money for software licenses. When you're paying out in the order of $3000 each for 400 Renderman licenses, $650/license for Photoshop doesn't seem too bad.
I guess though that the few thousand sales you're going to make to the VFX industry ends up not paying for the work you've gotta do to make Linux version...
I seem to remember that one American will consume about 25 times as much resources as citizen of a third-world country, on averege. It certainly doesn't seem out of the question. The number for Europeans is probably almost as much.
So, 200 million extra Americans might consume as much as 5 billion extra Africans, for example.
One of the areas that Linux has gained a lot of ground is the VFX industry. It's a right pain having to have NT/Mac boxes around just for the texture artists - it'd be a lot easier if we could just run Photoshop on Linux natively.
Actually, Busses take these cards as well. I don't know whether the machines they have in busses store that data to upload the main system once they get back to the depot, or whether they just check to see if you've got valid data on your card, or just increment the 'oystercard' count.
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Have you?
Companies don't need money
So how exactly do you suggest they pay their empolyees? A pat on the back and "nice work, Jim" doesn't pay the bills...
Why don't the jerk-off RedHat execs take a lil cut for once in thier life, and sacrifice an SUV or two to pay a few developers to continue working on this?
What do you think they are doing? They have a whole bunch of programmers that they pay full time to improve RedHat. Some of those programmers work on stuff proprietary to RedHat, and some work on Open Source stuff. As a result there's a bunch of people working full-time on Open Source projects that otherwise would not be able to put in that amount of time. How is this a bad thing?
It's a shame they had to use a computer to simulate it. It would have been much more fun to pack 36 barrels into the cellar of a disused house somewhere in the middle nowheere (Like some unused corner of a large estate in the highlands of Scotland, for instance), and blown it up.
That would have been cooooool...
I thought it was pretty funny - I couldn't help but think that he'd got fed up with students constantly nagging him to move everything over to Linux - "But it's open source", "We shouldn't be giving money to Micro$haft", "It's much better than Windoze", "Anyone with half a brain will find it really easy to use"...
I think eventually he just flipped and had to vent somewhere...
The problem with this is that you end up having to recompress the music, which results in a drop in quality (Unless you're not compressing, and burning to CD, for example).
:-(
Sorry, I don't have a link to the software you're looking for, though
What happens if you just select 'wave' as the recording source in Windows?
The scary thing is, look at how fumbling and incompetent some of the more senior politicians are. If they're that bad, how bad must the ones be that only make it as local council members?
I think that's probably a bit unfair, as the kind of people you need for local councillorship are probably rather different from the kind you need (or should that be the kind you get?) for national government.
I've never been into reading blogs much, and this is the first time I'd seen just how those trackback things work... Damn! talk about uber-cross linking. No wonder google is being hosed by this stuff...
> Um, hello? (Score:0, Flamebait)
/. and the poster is simply injecting a few facts into the discussion... BURN HIM!
Er - flamebait?
Well, I suppose this is
Since when was 25mpg reasonably efficient for a car?
1983?
Darn it. Actiontec only sell broadband and adsl modems in the UK.
Curses!
I'm not disputing any of your facts - just that 7000 is not a trivial number of deaths, irrespective of how they were killed and how much blame must fall on their government.
Having said that, if you are defending a city from invasion, you're not going to have much choice but to have a lot of military targets in civillian zones, otherwise you'd just be defending some out-of-town military bases.
7000 is considerably more than were killed at Pearl Harbor, and almost three times as many as were killed in the 11th of September attacks. Sure, there have been bigger wars, but that's still a lot of dead people and a huge number of devastated families.
1628: Failed to complete installation.
Bloody InstallShield.
In the winter, that extra wattage generated by the CPU load will contribute to heating your home. One would hope that your heating system is more efficient than your computer at heating, but you never know.
Conversely, during the summer if you have air conditioning, you'll have to take into account the extra work that your A/C unit has to do to counteract the heating generated by your computer.
Things just seem to work better on Windows. You don't have to go through seven shades of crap just to sync with your palmpilot. You never have to recompile the kernel. Keyboard auto-repeat doesn't suddenly mysteriously stop working (Okay, that one might just be local to my installation). Software is easy to install, none of that 'dependancy hell'. It doesn't do the equivalent of having X crash just because you dared to try and watch a video...
Slashdot the warez site. Great.
Well, all the big VFX companies are quite used to paying out vast amounts of money for software licenses. When you're paying out in the order of $3000 each for 400 Renderman licenses, $650/license for Photoshop doesn't seem too bad.
I guess though that the few thousand sales you're going to make to the VFX industry ends up not paying for the work you've gotta do to make Linux version...
I seem to remember that one American will consume about 25 times as much resources as citizen of a third-world country, on averege. It certainly doesn't seem out of the question. The number for Europeans is probably almost as much.
So, 200 million extra Americans might consume as much as 5 billion extra Africans, for example.
One of the areas that Linux has gained a lot of ground is the VFX industry. It's a right pain having to have NT/Mac boxes around just for the texture artists - it'd be a lot easier if we could just run Photoshop on Linux natively.
Adobe don't seem to be interested though.
I'm curious as to why 70% of moderators consider this a troll. Perhaps they think that 'to Ralsky' is some kind of gay slang or something.
We need to Ralksy on his ass...
My ass was once voted 'Third best ass at Criterion Studios Ltd'
I kid you not.
That's not a review! That is quite literally a cut-and-paste from the Nokia press release!
Here's the original
Here's the copy.
Spot the difference.
If you look, they even include the asterisk from the Press Release, without copying the footnote it links to!
Well, that's certainly an issue, but it's better than nothing.
Alternatively - just take the bus.
Actually, Busses take these cards as well. I don't know whether the machines they have in busses store that data to upload the main system once they get back to the depot, or whether they just check to see if you've got valid data on your card, or just increment the 'oystercard' count.