So they're going to say that Linux will really grow in countries like China and India, where street vendors hawk a variety of Microsoft bootlegs for less than $0.50?
I'd like to say that the TI89 wins this competition hands down.
Forget the symbolic algebra and calculus. It can play F-Zero and ExciteBike!!! How else could I have made it through high school if it weren't for my trusty (and quite sturdy) TI-89?
Patents and copyrights don't last forever. Wouldn't any claim be useless because it's is (and probably always has been) in the public domain? A language spoken by 400,000 people for hundreds of years could hardly have any claim to IP, if laws in Chile are anything close to US copyright laws. While these indigenous claims may not be based on copyright or patent, they idea that a few tribal leaders can control how it's used is absurd.
Even if Microsoft botches the translation (and they probably won't), it won't have any negative effect. Microsoft probably won't change how 400,000 (probably not technologically savvy) people speak their language, and if they do, well, languages evolve.
OBVIOUSLY, the solution is simple. Debian needs to quit changing Firefox. Then, the people around me don't have to make the huge logical jump from "Firefox" with the Fox and globe icon to "Firefox" with the globe icon. You're expecting too much out of non-Slashdot readers. Seriously. You can't expect normal people to be able to locate a browser on their first try. You all have to be considerate of others.
Sigh... I only can wish that you were our sysadmin...
I cut my teeth on MS-DOS back in the times of Win3.1. In elementary school, I was trying out programming. By middle school, our school district got carts upon carts of wireless laptops for classroom use. Naturally, my hacker instinct kicked in, and I enjoyed just messing around with the network. Back then, the school filter could be bypassed by unsetting the proxy setting. I was even responsible for a little "net send * hello" test, which kind of freaked the teachers out. Needless to say, I really enjoyed this stuff.
I was even considering a career in IT or consulting (don't discourage me yet). I figure, I could get career experience right here in my own school, and do some work for the good folks in IT. Nope. "We're not taking chances with students. We've already had people try to hack into our network [not working for them BTW]." I was even ready to share my exploits with them (for free nonetheless, not the $5 I would charge a student) if I could work for them. It's not like I was asking for administrator passwords, I would've been content with wiring APs in classrooms. Sadly, they just got an technology award from the NSBA, and some of the administration has been seen with Ferrari laptops, but they still don't see the huge gaping holes in security that I do.
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to keep taking advantage of their flaws for my own personal benefit.
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I would be scratching my head too if I had to port some drivers to this new-fangled Vista thingy.
Obviously, these nVidia card owners can't write any better drivers themselves, so they decided to speed things up with a class action lawsuit.
So they're going to say that Linux will really grow in countries like China and India, where street vendors hawk a variety of Microsoft bootlegs for less than $0.50?
I'm not seeing the appeal.
Jeez, of course AMD's right. Take a look:
Population of Barcelona: 1,673,075
Population of Clovertown: 5601 (or less)
Barcelona is vastly superior.
I'd like to say that the TI89 wins this competition hands down.
Forget the symbolic algebra and calculus. It can play F-Zero and ExciteBike!!! How else could I have made it through high school if it weren't for my trusty (and quite sturdy) TI-89?
It's because the cowardly French were the first to adopt it.
I believe that in the US, only devices that broadcast over a certain range are regulated and need licenses. Was it different in the UK?
Patents and copyrights don't last forever. Wouldn't any claim be useless because it's is (and probably always has been) in the public domain? A language spoken by 400,000 people for hundreds of years could hardly have any claim to IP, if laws in Chile are anything close to US copyright laws. While these indigenous claims may not be based on copyright or patent, they idea that a few tribal leaders can control how it's used is absurd.
Even if Microsoft botches the translation (and they probably won't), it won't have any negative effect. Microsoft probably won't change how 400,000 (probably not technologically savvy) people speak their language, and if they do, well, languages evolve.
I could almost stereotype Microsoft...
Just goes to show that productivity is inversely related to the number of toolbars installed on any given browser.
Soon I'll be able to ditch my DSL. I bet I could torrent so fast with a teleporter instead some copper wire.
OBVIOUSLY, the solution is simple. Debian needs to quit changing Firefox. Then, the people around me don't have to make the huge logical jump from "Firefox" with the Fox and globe icon to "Firefox" with the globe icon. You're expecting too much out of non-Slashdot readers. Seriously. You can't expect normal people to be able to locate a browser on their first try. You all have to be considerate of others.
Sigh... I only can wish that you were our sysadmin... I cut my teeth on MS-DOS back in the times of Win3.1. In elementary school, I was trying out programming. By middle school, our school district got carts upon carts of wireless laptops for classroom use. Naturally, my hacker instinct kicked in, and I enjoyed just messing around with the network. Back then, the school filter could be bypassed by unsetting the proxy setting. I was even responsible for a little "net send * hello" test, which kind of freaked the teachers out. Needless to say, I really enjoyed this stuff. I was even considering a career in IT or consulting (don't discourage me yet). I figure, I could get career experience right here in my own school, and do some work for the good folks in IT. Nope. "We're not taking chances with students. We've already had people try to hack into our network [not working for them BTW]." I was even ready to share my exploits with them (for free nonetheless, not the $5 I would charge a student) if I could work for them. It's not like I was asking for administrator passwords, I would've been content with wiring APs in classrooms. Sadly, they just got an technology award from the NSBA, and some of the administration has been seen with Ferrari laptops, but they still don't see the huge gaping holes in security that I do. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to keep taking advantage of their flaws for my own personal benefit.