"Coporate whores are saying that sharing is bad. Is that what you say to your two year old when he refuses to share his toys?" -- I think each child is required to have a valid license for each toy they wish to play with.
Posts by Miek
1574 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009
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Media groups propose anti-piracy 'code of practice' for UK search
Met Office cuts off Linux users with new weather widgets
Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov
@YTXT
Trolling FAIL
"Crucially, this exploratory study was not a clinical trial or an examination of the effect psilocybin has on people with depression. Therefore, it is not possible to say from this research whether psilocybin could have benefits for people with depression. Also, importantly, the possible harms of using this drug, either in the short or long term have not been studied here.”
Can't wait for the clinical trials to start so we can see ... oh wait, the underlying point is that the Government isn't listening and is unlikely to /*allow*/ such a trial, hence the theme of the comments.
Another point is that the excerpt of your rant that I have highlighted seems to say "Nah nah, you've not really proved anything in your experiments" whereas any tenuous link to alcohol possibly being good for you or trials on mice* that show how damaging cannabis is to humans and such is accepted and proffered by the government as if it were an absolute truth. I will hunt down examples if you require it.
* I know that some mammals have immune systems and other life systems that give a good indication of what effects may occur in humans and that as they have vastly shorter life spans; it is easier to get an impression of what long term effects may be.
"Those who call for legalisation are often those who want their little habit legalising so they don't have to feel so bad about it." -- Not entirely, it's more about the ignorant people who believe that Drugs=Bad and therefore Drug Users = Criminals. I would contend that this amounts to persecution although it is not illegal to persecute someone for doing something that is considered illegal or holding a belief that is considered illegal.
"Just because that's the way it is doesn't make it right?".
The fact that the Home Office and other MPs will not discuss this issue in an adult manner, won't listen to arguments other than their own, ignores scientific recommendations and evidence; indicates an alternative agenda. The politicians keep saying that they don't want to "send a message" that drug use is acceptable, instead they are perfectly happy to fire-fight the black markets and cartels in order to maintain this policy.
DWP's Work Programme IT already broken at launch
Quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III set for April launch
Scalextric restarts space race with Star Wars craft
HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI
This idea is the most ridiculous thing that Ubuntu has come up with yet. Will be moving on from the disgrace Ubuntu has become.
There are so many problems with this approach, ultimately, my question is "What's wrong with using menus?" It seems to work quite well.
Was looking at Mint linux, but they seem geared up towards Gnome3 and KDE4; might have to look a bit harder.
Windows 8 hardware rules 'derail user-friendly Linux'
Alistair, I would recommend Cedega for running games under Linux. It worked rather well, but I eventually bought a console for dedicated gaming and watching blu-rays. I rarely boot into XP anymore and when I do it takes an age before it stop making popping sounds a display irritating pop ups in the notification area.
To be fair Bob, I don't give a flying F... about market share; I just want to use Linux and that's what this story is really about; locking 'Open Source Advocates' out of the hardware that they purchase.
B.T.W not all Linux users are Kidddies, unlike the Windows Wizard Jockeys out there. Anyone can click "Next, Next, Next, Finish".
Of course I read your post and noted the models you mentioned, you simply seem to have missed the joke. I probably should have used the Troll icon to make things a little clearer for you.
"There's also the point, which will no doubt strike many here as risible but which is of considerable force nonetheless, that not everyone has the luxury of buying whichever machine is at the top of this month's list of acceptable hothouses in which Linux can be made to thrive" -- I quite agree, although, do you just buy any 'ol piece of junk just because it is cheap? Do you read reviews?
" I'd never have bought an HP laptop in the first place, except that it was the only thing I could afford at the time." -- HP laptops are usually more expensive than say an Asus or Acer, which usually play rather well with Ubuntu and are reasonable budget laptops.
Hmmm, which icon should I use?
Windows Phone to overtake iOS in 2015
Google to join Wednesday's anti-SOPA protest
McDonald's punters offered sex in exchange for Chicken McNuggets
Japanese boffins fear virus nicked spacecraft blueprints
Virgin Media takes itself in hand after punter-package tickle whoopsie
For me, customer services simply cannot help. My 50Mb service degrades to roughly under 30Kbps downstream and 3-5Mb upstream. Every time I call, they insist on sending an engineer and each time the engineer places an attenuator on the line, which fixes the problem for about a week then it starts failing again.
There are currently three -6DB attenuators in-line on my cable, apparently I am "too close" to my green box; which I feel is absolute bollocks.
I end up spending more money on phone calls to customer services which the £10 or £15 refund barely covers.
Murdoch slams White House over SOPA in Twitter row
Bomb threat lobbed at Finnish anti-piracy squad
Billions of potentially populated planets in the galaxy
Davos report: Cyber-attack risk to global stability is real
Virgin Media to push out nimble new broadband speeds
"The smokin' hot broadband speeds were enough to prompt praise from UK prime minister David Cameron"
He obviously is not a Virgin Media subscriber.
"As long as you avoid the throttling your achievable speed is actually very, very close to the maximum speed of the connection you are paying for" -- actually, I am getting roughly half of what I am paying for and there is no throttling going on other than their "traffic shaping" which is NOT "network throttling" according to VM.
Opera's new store beams HTML5 apps into tellies
Ubuntu Linux shop reveals 'TV for human beings'
Sony: PS3 sales ahead of target
Google promises 0.001 of revenue to free the slaves
Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS
"Can't believe how many are so anti MSm purely for the sake of it."
Simply not true, many of here will have very good reasons for their contempt of $MS
"The comments here merely expose the anti ms brigade for what they are. At least have the nerve to try a product before you slate it."
I personally had a go with the on-line windows phone 7 trial () and was suitably un-impressed. It was more the fact that I spent 5-10 minutes clearing up all the coffee on my screen, phone and desk after giving winphoney a whirl ;)
Speaking of the RPC marvel ... if you want to prevent the RPC service from working properly simply change your hostname once you have completed the OOBE (Out of box experience) and it completely drats it ;) Just an FYI.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884564 (Problem not confined to disk management but all RPC functionality)