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LindowsOS Softens Microsoft-Compatibility Claim
jukal writes: "As seen originally at newsforge: On Friday we reported the appearance of Microtel PCs with LindowsOS pre-installed at Walmart.com. Then, Walmart.com and Lindows were claiming that LindowsOS 'delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs.' Today, that last phrase has gone missing and there is no more talk of running any programs designed for Windows, let alone Microsoft products"
but I'm no rat.
I guess they dont even read the submissions anymore. That messed up html sticks out.
Interesting place to dump your emotional angst. A slashdot forum on LindowsOS.
I'll respond with something I've learned over the years:
1) There isn't a woman alive that isn't bipolar.
2) There isn't a woman alive that isn't a masicist. (Hence their attraction to the "Woman get me a beer" gene)
3) Teenagers don't know what they want.
4) Women don't know what they want. (In life or otherwise)
5) Teenage women are (#3 ^ #4)
6) True love exists -- at the bottom of a liquor bottle
lol....just my impressions.
The best piece of advice I ever heard:
"Women are non linear"
DOS
Linux
BeOS
Lindows
OS X
OS 9 (classic)
Darwin
OS X and VPC, solves all of your puny OS problems on the best hardware!
I want 2D games back.
Sheese. Yep. Been there done that. Got a few scars to prove it.
Still, I gotta say, quite sincerely that you shouldn't give up--because the nice guys do get the girls. It just takes a while for the girls to grow up and realize that they'd rather have a nice guy that treats them well instead of the aforementioned Boys of Questionable Worth.
I've said and observed these things that you're saying years ago. I've warned many of the young women in my life about the dangers of the types of "men" they were suddenly attracted to. They wouldn't see the truth and didn't value my opinion enough to heed the warnings. They got hurt...some got pregnant, or maybe an STD. Sometimes they got used very thoroughly and left in the dumpster.
Here's the best advice I can give you on your rant. It's free to you, but I paid rather dearly for it: Never compromise your standards for another person. If you want to be treated well by the girl your dating, then insist on it or dump her. If she gets hurt, so be it. Maybe she'll learn form the pain and not treat the next guy like crap. Don't change being who you are just to get laid. And when some lusty wench tosses you off the deep end and sprays your heart and soul all over the pavement, get up and get a broom because its your mess to clean up. Nobody else is going to put you back together.
The pain will fade and the scars will remain, but in all of that, if you are intelligent, then you will learn wisdom.
Yep. Life is pain. As long as it hurts you know your still alive.
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Dude, at least your girlfriend left you for another GUY.
Me? I'm trying to help MY ex-girlfriend get a date with someone named "Melissa". Not saying that watching girl/girl porno with the woman I used to sleep with isn't fun, but given the choice I'd rather share her bed.
Anyway, you're right. Geeks should have girlfriends. It gets our hopes up.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
Well said.
Yes, shortcuts, and symbolic links, are ways of SIMULATING what i'm talking about within the constraints of a traditional file system. I really bumped into the file system problem because I do a lot of music production and have a huge (4 - 5 gig) loop library of license-free, legitimate samples I wanted to be able to share. The sequencing program I use is file system sensitive, it expects to find the file (and not a shortcut) in the same place it was last time. It can find it if it's not, but it's a pain. So I didn't want to move my library. At the same time, I didn't want to allow general access to that particular folder to the outside world, it has a lot of stuff I didn't want to share. I usually just copy any file I want to share and stick it in a special 'Shared' folder that actually is a share and that I point all file sharing programs towards, but that seemed ridiculous for 4 to 5 gigs and would have taken most of my empty space on the drive. And again the actual files would need to be there.
Anyway, then all the file sharing programs I actually liked (sorry open source zealots, but Gnutella just does NOT scale) started folding so I just gave up on the proposition. But it would have been really convenient in this case to allow the same file to really seem to be accessible in two locations.