Comment Re:Count me in (Score 1, Informative) 538
No, the full version of Win95 was Win95. WinNT was an entirely different monster - it just looked kind of the same.
Comment Re:I want to see.. (Score 4, Informative) 107
This has already been demoed by James May on "James May's Big Ideas", some 8-10 months ago...
Comment Re:Good... although (Score 1) 602
You'd certainly need a big washing machine...
The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration 203
christian.einfeldt writes "The Munich decision to move its 14,000 desktops to Free Open Source Software created a big splash back in 2003 as news circulated of the third-largest German city's defection from Microsoft. When it was announced in 2003, the story garnered coverage even in the US, such as an extensive article in USA Today on-line. Currently, about 60% of desktops are using OpenOffice, with the remaining 40% to be completed by the end of 2009. Firefox and Thunderbird are being used in all of the city's desktop machines. Ten percent of desktops are running the LiMux Debian-based distro, and 80% will be running LiMux by 2012 at the latest. Autonomy was generally considered more important than cost savings, although the LiMux initiative is increasing competition in the IT industry in Munich already. The program has succeeded because the city administration has been careful to reach out to all stakeholders, from managers down to simple end users."
Comment Re:Making my point with humor (Score 2, Insightful) 849
Or, programs should be able to lock focus when they are actively being typed into.
Comment Re:Refused? (Score 1) 200
But it still puzzles me that the AU people, which I've always considered as easygoing and enlightened, accept this level of government "protectionism".
Your answer lies in the question. We are easygoing. "The Government wants to do what? RAAAWWRR... meh."
Comment Re:Posting (Score 0, Offtopic) 173
posting to undo accidental mod
This was very careless of you...
Comment Re:The whole thing is silly (Score 1) 567
About the registry. Unix, VMS, Mac OS 8 and 9 and other O/Ss managed application installation and library dependencies just fine for years before Windows attempted it. Don't give the "very young" excuse. They could have borrowed the better ideas instead of inventing a bad one.
So you're saying that the only thing about Windows that hasn't been stolen from elsewhere - the only real innovation Windows has seen in the last 15 years - is a bad thing?
Oh the ironing.
Comment Re:Old stuff (Score 1) 216
Gotta love /. - you do the right thing and undo a wrong downmod, and then lose karma for it as well.
Comment Re:What have the Africans ever done for us? (Score 1) 461
The US is east from here, and way to go trying to ride the coattails of an abstract (read: "more or less imaginary") group for credit.
My point (which you've obviously missed), is that saying "Egypt doesn't count as Africa", or "South Africa doesn't count as Africa" is as valid (and useful) and saying "Caucasians don't count as Americans".
My point (which you've obviously missed), is that saying "Egypt doesn't count as Africa", or "South Africa doesn't count as Africa" is as valid (and useful) and saying "Caucasians don't count as Americans".
Comment Re:Nova Post! (Score 3, Funny) 383
Where was the ka-boom? There was supposed to be a betelgeuse-shattering ka-boom!!
Comment Re:I have already faced my worst nightmare (Score 2, Funny) 293
There's tons of people who are going to be cut off because of this.
This is in the USA - is it really that big a deal if 8 people get cut off?
Comment Re:It often is a loss, and here's why (Score 1) 526
The problem that I have with these estimates is the apparent assumed 100% conversion rate - if you downloaded it, you definitely would have bought it. This assumption is patently false. For example, it wouldn't be particularly uncommon to find a 15 year old with 50 downloaded movies on his/her computer. In Australia, it's about $40 per standard-release DVD. Are you really telling me that, if this 15 year old was unable to download movies, he/she(/it?) would have found $2000 to spend on DVDs?
For me to find industry-wide and case-specific loss estimations of this kind useful in any way whatsoever, the estimator must prove that each movie would have been bought from the shelves or watched at the movies rather than:
For me to find industry-wide and case-specific loss estimations of this kind useful in any way whatsoever, the estimator must prove that each movie would have been bought from the shelves or watched at the movies rather than:
- Bought second-hand
- Watched on TV
- Borrowed from a friend
- Borrowed from a video library (Blockbuster/Civic/Netflix etc)
- ignored completely
- Bought legitimately and either damaged, stolen or lost
How many people do you know that have downloaded a movie, then not had time, or got a bad review from someone, or simply said "meh", and deleted it unwatched? I know a few.
The above counts for music, ebooks and cheap hard-copy pirated movies as well.
The place where the real money is lost is movies that are made available online (by whatever means) before it officially opens in any specific country. You can realistically argue that there is a higher percentage of loss before the movie is released because fewer people are spending money to find out how crap each new release is. And crap or not, fewer people feel the need to see the movie a second time at the cinema.
Of course, the dumbasses could release the movies in a synchronised fashion around the world instead of making use wait up to 6 months after the US release before we get it. That would fix half the problem...
Comment Re:What have the Africans ever done for us? (Score 4, Informative) 461
By this logic we can extrapolate that the USA has never invented more than the Teepee and peace pipe, as the majority of the population are not native.
Egypt is geographically African, and that's enough.
Egypt is geographically African, and that's enough.
the aqueduct
The Nile doesn't count.
Who said anything about the Nile? The Egyptians had sophisticated irrigation systems.
Another thing we can credit to Egyptians, and thus to Africa, is antibiotics:
Antibiotics are compounds produced by bacteria and fungi which are capable of killing, or inhibiting, competing microbial species. This phenomenon has long been known; it may explain why the ancient Egyptians had the practice of applying a poultice of moldy bread to infected wounds.
http://acswebcontent.acs.org/landmarks/landmarks/penicillin/discover.html
Comment Re:Shoot them (Score 1) 368
You're obviously not trying hard enough...
