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helloworld
You will understand that I am both Castor Nageur and helloworld.
I am posting from 2 different usenet interfaces and always forget
this.
Sorry.
I am posting from 2 different usenet interfaces and always forget
this.
Sorry.
That's a pity !
So the only way I have to get around this is to buy an UPS but this
will not protect against system crashes.
I can not disagree.
I am an IT programmer and all our critical process are running on Unix
platforms.
We have some Unix workstations which have been running for 3 years non-
stop (and still running !).
But I prefer the Windows GUI especially the Windows 7 one so you
are right, this is a nice toy.
helloworld said:On 22 ao?t, 21:58, helloworld <[email protected]> wrote:
You will understand that I am both Castor Nageur and helloworld.
I am posting from 2 different usenet interfaces and always forget
this.
Sorry.
helloworld said:You will understand that I am both Castor Nageur and helloworld.
I am posting from 2 different usenet interfaces and always forget
this.
Sorry.
Gaming is also the one area where Linux sucks: Support for new
graphics cards is really bad and takes forever.
John Turco said:Arno wrote:
Being a mature adult and a serious Swiss...why are you still a
gamer, to begin with?
"Castor Nageur"
"Guilbert Stabilo"
"Paul Laurent"
Do you have a "split personality" or something, perhaps?
Arno said:Why "still"?
I gave up TV 8 years ago (became far to infantile and supid for
me) and gaming is my most significant source of entertainment.
Maybe I am just not afraid to admit that.
Arno
Castor said:... and you also forgot "helloworld" ;-)
At the beginning, I was just trying to stay "anonymous" on Internet
but as you can see, I am quite bad at that.
Arno wrote
Oh, I simply jumble gaming and younger PC users,
together. Chess and pinball interested me most,
during my early computing days (mid-to-late 1990's).
Same here, except I'd abandoned both television and magazines, by 1999.
Although, I'm surprised Switzerland's TV programming is as
"infantile" as you describe. I thought such "pop culture" nonsense
is largely limited to English-speaking countries, like mine (U.S.A.)?
Rod said:You're missing out on quite a bit, particularly Ric Burn's magnificent
documentarys.
Niel Ferguson too.
So what do you do instead ?
Fraid not, for the same reason.
Rod Speed wrote
Are such individuals "poms" and/or Aussies (as I suspect), or what?
I obtain the vast majority of my information/entertainment, online.
C'mon, Rod, let's face it: Outside of literature, what have
"Anglo-Saxon" countries accomplished, artistically?
They've never been noted for great music or painting, I fear.
Are such individuals "poms" and/or Aussies (as I suspect), or what?
I obtain the vast majority of my information/entertainment, online.
C'mon, Rod, let's face it: Outside of literature, what have "Anglo-Saxon"
countries accomplished, artistically? They've never been noted for great
music or painting, I fear.
However, science and technology are completely different matters. Those
haughty Germans haven't monopolized either area, despite any delusions
to the contrary.
Rod said:Ferguson is a pom, since moved to the US.
Burn is a yank.
Clearly you havent managed to find either of them.
Oh, just a few useless baubles like Reich, Glass, Purcell, Pollack, the
Beatles etc etc etc.
And you cant just ignore literature either, in spades when Shakespeare
is in there.
You're wrong.
Arno said:You will find that they usually were just a little behind.
For example, Newtons integral Theory was later found to be basically
unusable (except by physicists) and replaced by the one frm Leibnitz.
Which Newton tried to have suppressed.
Rod Speed wrote
Good for him!
I've done all right, I think.
No, I'm meant classical music,
not "Beatles" fluff.
I didn't "ignore" ol' Bill and his ilk, as I'd plainly written, "Outside of literature..."
Ya see, Rod, I give credit where it's due! The "Industrial Revolution"
began in Great Britain (Scotland, specifically) and reached its zenith
in the United States.
The "Johanns-come-latelies" got off to a relatively tardy start, and never quite caught up.
Arno wrote
The Anglo-Saxons >came< from Germany, ironically enough.
Both English and German are members of the "West Germanic" language branch.
Surprisingly, then, German is closer to English, than it
is (for example) to Swedish, which is North Germanic.
Nonetheless, Issac Newton is generally considered to be history's greatest scientist.
The Anglo-Saxons >came< from Germany, ironically enough. Both English and
German are members of the "West Germanic" language branch.
Surprisingly, then, German is closer to English, than it is (for example)
to Swedish, which is North Germanic.
Nonetheless, Issac Newton is generally considered to be history's greatest
scientist.
Rod said:I used to claim that the yanks had never produced a doco worth watching until
his magnificent Civil War series.
We've since seen plenty in the American Experience series worth watching and
the other Burns has more recently done one hell of a series on New York too.
I dont given that you have missed all of those.
Thats what Reich, Glass, Cage, urcell etc etc etc are.
I meant that that 'outside of literature' makes no sense.
Like hell they didnt with the car industry most obviously.
Rod said:A mere child.
A long way behind even on such basic stuff as credit cards etc
even now.
And the Normans didnt.
Thats very arguable indeed.
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