Posts by Lars 4259 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2007
Some English seem to have fallen in love with Trump and are determined to have the speaker of the house thrown out because he doesn't like Trump to speak in the house. The vote on this could be quite revealing regarding the balance between decency and imaginary relief from responsibility.
"Commonly users want Windows because of it's significant performance advantages for gaming, IO, etc.".
That's probably true as those games are made for Windows. But if the Windows kernel was in any way better/faster than the Linux kernel you would find a lot of Windows among the top500 supercomputers but you don't and as I remember the last stock exchange there was running Windows had to go to Linux because more speed was needed. Don't get mixed up with the word "micro" kernel, Linus discarded that idea because it makes the kernel slower with all that internal "pushing stuff around". For some reason "micro" sounds more modern but that is all there is to it.
That would be Windows with a Linux kernel. I think Torvalds was asked about it more than 15 years ago and said something like - "Yes, that would be nice". There is nothing preventing MS to do it. But then if they did it the same way as Windows is done, mixing the kernel with the GUI they would have to fork the Linux kernel too.
I cannot see much sense in that. And if they did a GUI on top of the kernel then it would become a competitor to Gnome and KDE and all the rest. The question is, is there anything in the Win 10 GUI that is so superior that it's worth it. Then again why not, they have all the channels to sell it and charge for it as before. Perhaps they should have done it 15 years ago and the amount of landfill Windows would be smaller.
" the legal challenge itself will still go ahead and determine whether the President has overstepped his authority.".
Yes indeed, Tricky Dick claimed that "when the president does it, it's legal". You find that interview on YouTube. And the rest is history as they say.
Göran Persson, a former PM of Sweden, has revealed a daydream he had. The dear old pappy (DOPY) was elected without much support from the GOP on the Hill and now he is fully dependent of them. Sooner or later, and rather sooner than later, they will kindly walk him back to his golden tower where he will feel much better again and more at home, twitting to his hearts delight..
One can always hope
As for companies assisting the Leader. A few generations ago, in Germany, such things happened and one can of course argue about that too.
Your comment is: "None of my Linux system have a GUI, command line only.".
What do you mean by that. In *nix you always have a command line and if you need a GUI then choose one.
There are many to choose from, like KDE, Gnome and many more, all for free, just check your Linux distro.
From the link:
"Up till now there is one technical thing that unites all developers: None of them is using Windows as operating system. Some are using Mac OSX, Solaris, etc, but most run some Linux distribution. "
"just let me pay in $, regardless of location.#.
Could well happen, that's the easy way out and how companies deal with odd and unstable currency like with African countries. Some of the American companies mentioned in this article did that and were duly up voted by some commentards. With some luck I will eventually be able to be charged in $ and not in this problematic Euro, the lack of sovereignty seems to be the problem I have.
Life is complicated, I have met Americans who claim they have had price hikes although they pay in $ and in the USA. And then there are people who complain and complain about no wage hikes in years, and when I ask them why - "are you going to work harder", I manage to make them speechless. To be honest, such a good feeling.
As for Adobe, look, both "up or down."
"As part of doing business globally, Adobe monitors currency exchange rates in order to make adjustments to our pricing up or down as needed.".
May's speech must have impressed them, all those promises, all that uppidy up.
"UK welfare standards being higher". Lets hope that will be true after Brexit too. This article is not totally sure about it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/27/brexit-disastrous-britains-farm-animals-eu-laws-cruel
"Brexit would be disastrous for Britain’s farm animals"
"EU laws currently protect British animals from cruel farming practices. With these removed their lives would be incalculably worse"
"If post-Brexit business lobbyists call for the relaxation of rules that protect farm animals, the Tories may well listen."
Many ifs but better look out.
Long and interesting story behind that one word (as always).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene
And looking for Manchester we find:
"One of the very first patents pertaining to the production of graphene was filed in October 2002 and granted in 2006 (US Pat. 7071258).[37] Titled, "Nano-scaled Graphene Plates," this patent detailed one of the very first large scale graphene production processes. Two years later, in 2004 Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov at The University of Manchester extracted single-atom-thick crystallites from bulk graphite......"
Well done Manchester for attracting then two foreigners.
Andre Geim
"Andre Geim was born to Konstantin Alekseyevich Geim and Nina Nikolayevna Bayer in Sochi on 21 October 1958. Both his parents were engineers of German origin.[30][31] In 1965, the family moved to Nalchik,[32] where he studied at a high school.[32] After graduation, he applied to the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute .............".
Kostya Novoselov
Konstantin Novoselov was born in Nizhny Tagil, Soviet Union, in 1974.[14] He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a MSc degree in 1997,[1] and was awarded a PhD from the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 2004..........".
Lets hope he has overestimated the stupidity of the American people, he has after all overestimated his own intelligence huugly. Came to think of it have you ever met or heard of even one intelligent person boosting about how intelligent they are (apart from Idi Amin). My advice would be to challenge his physical fitness and get him out running.
"Anything to be in power and now clutching at straws."
Very true and very normal and in any country. In politics it's always domestic politics first and always about the next election. She will now act and speak to Brits the way she believes will win her the next election in 2020. It would perhaps be easier for her if the election came earlier. So what does she actually believe in, does she believe in all that "open for business" and "free trade world power". Do you. As it is today she has to speak nice to the Brexiters while not forgetting the rest of the country either as It's all about the next election, and she has to watch out for the backstabbers too.
"Trumps policy on immigration may well be poorly implemented and targeted but it is not as complete break with the past as some seem to be claiming." True, but Mexico paying for the Huuge wall is where the man child reveals himself, and he has already made a fool of himself.
Now Doctor, don't drop your syntax.
"So what sort of head of state would you prefer? The sort of product of the sort of process we've see in the US?"
If you want to compare "head of state" in the USA and the UK it's about the president and the prime minister, Trump and May. And you know it very well and I believe most Americans know it too.
Kings and Queens in Europe have no power and are on the whole accepted, it's about tradition and while there is a certain cost to it, there is also some on the plus side. You could, in a way, compare the Queen to the Eiffel tower in Paris. Our friends in Paris won't chop it down because of the costs as they know there are very similar "somethings" on the plus side.
Suppose some kid started to piss on your shoos or pulled his trousers and farted towards you, would your first reaction be to hit him over the head, perhaps, but as an adult you would probably pull your feet away and start looking for his parents for help, as the adult you are. Many of us, I would guess, have had some bastard kid behind us kicking our seat in the back in an airplane. Murder comes to mind but again we are looking for help from parents or what ever there is as an alternative.
The day Trump started the name calling, Bush this, Rubio that, they should have understood that now they have to go with the "kindergarten rules" and should have started to laugh and name calling him all together, and that would have been easy and so entertaining. But they did not because they were adults.
As adults we also know that kids lie at times, - did you wash your hands, did you read your homework, did you smoke and so forth. At times they lie, and we let it be. What kids would never understand is if we days later brought up that question again, They sort of live for the day and they assume lies from yesterday are forgotten. The problem Trump has with the press is that they keep, bastards, referring to what he happened to say days ago. Trumps mental development stopped around the age of thirteen, women are objects to show up and shitting in a golden potty makes him feel important.
Poor May, I cannot blame her, open for business (never knew the UK was not), burning bridges getting global and all of that. But still the "stunning victory*" and the invitation to the meet the Queen, quit frankly, a bit like toys for a dog.
Dear Americans, that guy ended up in the wrong house.
The petition at 1.4 million and counting.
* I would not have gone for the "surprising victory" either but what about election.
@ Tom-1. Don't be stupid. the American people never choose to become a "oligarchy" and as for being gullible you Brits are quite good at that too. Let's instead keep the feet of our politicians to the fire and pay attention to what they are up to, where ever they live.
Here some fun for the weekend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM8iWOOLlls
@AC "OEC stats (MIT) accurately put exports to US at $51 Billion (US) - a fraction of EU exports".
The "a fraction of EU exports" doesn't compute at all as you can see from this: (and the reality)
Perhaps you could share with us your numbers.
Exports UK ($436.2 billion (2015 est.)): US 14.6%, Germany 10.1%, Switzerland 7%, China 6%, France 5.9%, Netherlands 5.8%, Ireland 5.5% (2015)
Just the four "biggest" EU export countries make up 27.3% against 14.6 for the US.
As for imports.
Imports UK ($627.7 billion (2015 est.)):Germany 14.8%, China 9.8%, US 9.2%, Netherlands 7.5%, France 5.8%, Belgium 5% (2015)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uk.html
@Potemkine, Why so confused, happy you asked. There is no difference between Nazis and Fascists, nor is there any difference between the far right or the far left. A fascist regime is a fascist regime regardless of being supported by the west or the east. As for Jews and Arabs and why not Mexicans, no difference there either, when you understand it's all about being "those others", somebody to blame. The west is only to the west if you are east of the west and should you be west of the west then the west is to the east. And PS, Hail, Heil, no difference there either, if I got you right, right!.
@ Triggerfish
One of the reasons, perhaps the biggest, to this divide in both the USA and the UK is the two party system. It's always about us or them, in most European countries the governments are coalition governments more or less around the centre and it's less bloody. The "normal" reaction to this among Brits tends to be that the British system (like the British weather) is superior because it's British, and will probably never change. But in the USA I think it could, and I think it should change. As has been pointed out on this thread the Americans now had to choose between two very unpopular candidates, and the whole campaign was exceptionally dirty.
And yes I know there was that "Aleppo" guy and the green woman, but it's also quite clear that those two parties will always keep any competitors at bay because they can, and because, for some damned reason, they have been handed the right to write the rules too. But perhaps by braking them up it could be possible. And the Americans have shown that they can form grass root movements.
@Big John. You do know that most of the world is not part of the US government, and I wouldn't call China all that "Democrat" either..
"As of December 2016, 194 UNFCCC members have signed the treaty, 127 of which have ratified it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement
I would suggest for you a less stressful approach to all that "'climate change' (previously Global Warming)" stuff and go for clean air good, dirty air bad, clean water good, dirty water bad. Not a bad approach at all, and much to my liking.
@eldakka. yes thanks, i have that feeling too, this doesn't, of course, prove that the doctor I referred to did not pull that trick too. One of the funny things you learn if you travel the world a bit is how often you will be told about "we have this joke (in this country)" and you realize you have been told the same story in other countries too. The racist stories seem to live for ever. I remember one I was told about the Russians in a East European country and next year the same shit about the "Bantu" in South Africa. I am totally convinced that "joke" was told about the Jews too at some time (and now about the Arabs) like also about the black in the USA. That kind of shit will probably never die.
And if you listen and laugh at comedians in different countries you find that they copy each others jokes quite often, and why not. Some of the jokes we tell were probably "invented" pro the stone age. Then again lots of funny jokes are language related and mean nothing in any other language.
But I must admit I am pissed off with the rhetoric related to both the election in the USA and most of all related to Brexit.
I seriously am, and I have started to question my understanding and appreciation of the whole country, and yes I know it's not the Brits I know but all those others. I have to stop here and turn to a more positive topic like this:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2584278/top-eu-officials-trying-to-steal-city-trade-as-punishment-for-brexit-says-london-stock-exchange-chief/
What the fuck next. Boeing admits Airbus stole successfully during 2016. Airbus disturbed by Boeing's thiefs in Iran. CEO meets selsmen - now thiefs, how much did you steal last week.
And that's nothing compared to what has been delivered. Never in my life time have I heard/read as much rubbish as now from the UK.
That comment reminds me of a story about an old teacher/surgeon who told his new students about how they have to learn not only about the human body but also about the "bodily fluids" and stuff like that. In front of his pupils he then dropped his trousers, turned his arse towards them, bent over and stuck his index finger into his arse.
He then turned around and put his finger into his mouth and liked it clean with a "stone" face, not that amused about it. Then he thoroughly cleaned his hands and mouth and pulled up his trousers. And then he asked his students to do the same, and they did, probably not that amused either.
After a short pause, he continued, before you wash yourself I would like to point out that if you want to succeed in this profession you have to learn to pay attention.... you did notice that I put the index finger on my right hand into my arse while I liked the index finger on my left hand.
If you have heard this before it's just one of those stories or you live in the same town as I. And what the hell was this article about.
@Trevor Pott and any American who read ElReg. I would claim that most Europeans understand that we did not face the same situation as the American voters. We did not have to choose either Trump or Hillary. I don't like Trump simply because I consider him unfit to become President in any country and as for Hillary I still wake up, in the night, soaked in cold sweat to her giggling and f*ing laughter, but I was not forced to choose either. I will have to hope for the best but I admit I have this uneasy feeling as parents have when they give the car keys to their kid for the first time. I needed less than three months to totally wreck my fathers car, luckily with less than two weeks in hospital.
Join them, the result, we shall see. MS was the first to understand that Linux was a contender, and for real, and reacted accordingly. I would claim that both Gates and Ballmer took it "personally". I doubt Nadella has any such personal problems regarding Linux. Linux has become just too big to kill by FUD or by ignoring it. I have no problems with that, business is business. Personally I try to stay away from anything Microsoft because I can, and I don't trust the quality of their software, I have been able to stay clear of Apple too (since Apple II+) not so much for the software or the hardware but because I don't like the company nor am I prepared to pay that "icon" -extra, a used Apple laptop with Linux one day, perhaps. In a way it's funny how Gates should, perhaps, have shut up regarding Linux and used the IBM strategy with worked like this - "Pinux.. Finux..what.. never heard of that", or "Linux.. yes we love them and we have tried to help them ..... but,, no.. just between us... we are afraid they will not survive*". But IBM was the first big company who invested in Linux and certainly the only company who had an international Linux campaign in the television ever. Could be you could find it on YouTube. Smart move by IBM to embrace Linux. Steve Jobs wanted to employ Linus Torvalds but demanded he would lay off Linux, and he did not. Much could have gone very differently, and had I not been so damned modest you would write about Larx to day. (PS. I have never told my wife about this).
Some will remember the "back stabbing" in Yes Prime Minister.
What else is there to say, quoting the text.
"Ultimately it is governments which are responsible for the rules, regulations and policies that
govern our economies and shape our societies. Governments can, if they choose, use their
power and policy tools to have a huge impact on reducing inequality in a country, and work in
the interests of those towards the bottom of the economic distribution and of society more
broadly. Or they can stand back and let the gap between the rich and the poor grow,
exacerbating the inequality crisis."
"when the established GSM handset vendors ganged up on Microsoft to create Symbian.".
Why do I have this feeling it was Microsoft who "ganged" up (Gates and Ballmer*) on GSM handset vendors. To quote our beloved and "often" reliable Wiki: "With no major competition in the smartphone OS then (Palm OS and Windows Mobile were comparatively small players), Symbian reached as high as 67% of the global smartphone market share in 2006". Microsoft was a latecomer like Apple in handsets.
* Interesting word, "a. A pack of wolves or wild dogs. b. A herd, especially of buffalo or elk". Oh well.
Why this topic, when the Sterling goes down something else goes up, good for some and not good for others. I live in a country who got fed up with the ten-yearly devaluation and joined the Euro hoping for a less easy and more intelligent solution to dealing with the reality. Could it be, that after all, the UK has had to wake up to the reality of a country who, living in the past, and totally unaware of how fast the country has gone towards a "I wash your feet, and you cut my hair" economy. If so, welcome to the reality, dear Brits, the silver lining of Brexit perhaps.
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