The whole 2nd amendment issue is mired to double-talk and conflicting laws. Although the Supreme Court has made this ruling, you still can't take guns into hospitals, schools, etc. Obviously the states and Washington DC can make their own restrictions, but how can those laws conflict with the constitution? I believe the US Constitution addresses this issue quite nicely. From Article VI:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
You can work 10x harder, 10x faster, and 10x smarter than the guy next to you, but if you didn't finish high-school/college/university, you won't get the better job. Oh, you'll get the better job if you meet the qualifications, you just won't get paid as much as your coworker who does the same work in the cube next to you who did happen to get a degree.
Hyper-Chicken: As the surveillance camera for the bank what all the judge was a-jawing about, could y'all tell us what you done seen the day of the crime? Camera: Well, let's see. My memory's a little fuzzy, but it went exactly like this:
It projects a picture of Fry and Bender taking the money from Roberto
Hyper-Chicken: Your Honour, I move that I be disbarred for introducing this evidence against my own clients.
Does not DESERVE to take Yahoo!!
They'd just ass-immolate it and run it into the ground, like so much else they've rubbished.
Any other mouthpieces trying to slay Yahoo!'s board for not selling out to mshaft needs to STFU, however big their name. Just STFU and back off. Leave Yahoo! ALONE. Besides, mshaft has too damned big a war chest and they need to be reigned in. PERIOD.
Moreover it seems that as Virtualization might have to still cope with OS-agnosticism, then maybe it's better that Google has Yahoo! than to watch mshaft take hold of Yahoo!, plain and simple. A bit bitter (and bipolar) are we?
So first Yahoo doesn't want MS to buy them out. Next they don't like the fact that Microsoft only want part of the assets(instead of the entire company). Really, what does Yahoo wants? Sounds like to me the CEO of Yahoo doesn't want to sell out to Microsoft, but also doesn't want to be crucified by the board for not selling out to someone. Google seems like an attractive option for him, if that's the case.
Firefox is the best browser out there and it is the only one I will ever allow in my house and I even have the thumb drive version. This is when a 'fanboi' mod would come in handy.
From what I can tell from using the beta, it seems a lot of the reduced memory footpring from Firefox 3 appears to be the result of it using the OS's native GUI widgets, as opposed to widgets supplied by Firefox itself. FF3 is coming along nicely, but still has a few annoyances that need addressing. Hopefully the release version will address those minor annoyances.
I was obviously naive to believe in him in 2000, to believe he was anything more than just another hyper-ambitious Washington scumbag who would sacrifice anything to win. I won't ever make that mistake again. Sadly, this is a trend that 99% of the people running for any sort of powerful office follow. And the 1% of these people that don't pull this shit are either so unpopular that nobody even recognizes their name, or are FUD'ed out of any fair chance by their competitors.
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. Yeah, the engineers totally should have teleported 20 years into the future and brought back wifi and SSD drives for it.
Haha, yea. QoS to the rescue. I got sick of my roommates using up all the bandwidth torrenting it up and I just happened to be running a Linux router/firewall. After some googling and about an hour later, I had a kickass firewall script that implemented QoS to solve that problem once and for all. I'd be happy to share it w/anyone who's interested.
Yeah, but I also value my credit score:). I've actually been pretty happy w/at&t's wireless service since I've been a customer of theirs (5 years or so). Can't say I've ever experienced any outages or other nastiness, unless I was in BFE or something. Never any unexpected surprises on my bill either..granted I try to avoid talking on my phone as much as possible..I worked tech support for about 6 years while I was in school which attributes to my phone loathing.
You're right...what I meant to say is easier said than done when none of the competitors offer anything without a contract without gouging their customers. There's a catch to getting a pay-as-you-go plan..you're paying a premium for this "privilege".
don't like termination fees? don't sign a contract agreeing to pay them if you leave. duh. it's not like you have some inalienable god-given right to a cell phone. hence the contract. Easier said than done when none of the competitors offer anything w/out a contract. In this day in age, going w/out a cellphone simply isn't a choice for most people. I tried to go as long as humanly possible without a cell phone (I absolutely HATE phones), but eventually had to cave in due to social, school, and work-related issues..not to mention with pay-phones disappearing nowadays, it can be a pain in the ass to make a phone call when you're in unfamiliar territory.
Yes, and ASUS also makes complete laptops, which are of much higher quality than the Dell counterparts. Dell may use ASUS components, but Dell is still the one assembling them in their cheap chassis.
With the exception of Firefox, I've never once seen a OSS program that I would compare to its commercial counterpart As someone who uses Linux (Kubuntu) as their primary OS for work and home, I'll have to disagree with you on this. Here are the applications I use at work, and their closed-source counterparts:
Internet Explorer -> Firefox (as you've already mentioned)
Windows Explorer -> Dolphin or Konqueror (depending on whether I want/need tabs or not)
Outlook -> Thunderbird
Notepad -> Kate
Microsoft Office -> Open Office
Windows Live Messenger -> Pidgin
Windows Media Player -> Amarok or K3B (if I need to burn something)
And the list goes on. These are only Microsoft-specific packages. With the exception of Thunderbird lacking key features that Outlook has (features that I don't use anyways...namely PHB toys), all of the aforementioned F/OSS software packages run circles around their Microsoft counterparts. Oh, and I don't even want to start with Outlook's lack of proper IMAP support...
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I what impact this will have on cyber-squatting.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Hyper-Chicken: As the surveillance camera for the bank what all the judge was a-jawing about, could y'all tell us what you done seen the day of the crime?
Camera: Well, let's see. My memory's a little fuzzy, but it went exactly like this:
It projects a picture of Fry and Bender taking the money from Roberto
Hyper-Chicken: Your Honour, I move that I be disbarred for introducing this evidence against my own clients.
Ah..nevermind then.
From what I can tell from using the beta, it seems a lot of the reduced memory footpring from Firefox 3 appears to be the result of it using the OS's native GUI widgets, as opposed to widgets supplied by Firefox itself. FF3 is coming along nicely, but still has a few annoyances that need addressing. Hopefully the release version will address those minor annoyances.
I see those NDAs that LucasArts probably made their employees sign went a long way.
Haha, yea. QoS to the rescue. I got sick of my roommates using up all the bandwidth torrenting it up and I just happened to be running a Linux router/firewall. After some googling and about an hour later, I had a kickass firewall script that implemented QoS to solve that problem once and for all. I'd be happy to share it w/anyone who's interested.
Yeah, but I also value my credit score :). I've actually been pretty happy w/at&t's wireless service since I've been a customer of theirs (5 years or so). Can't say I've ever experienced any outages or other nastiness, unless I was in BFE or something. Never any unexpected surprises on my bill either..granted I try to avoid talking on my phone as much as possible..I worked tech support for about 6 years while I was in school which attributes to my phone loathing.
Hmm, that's actually not too bad. Too bad I'm under a 2 year contract w/at&t :p
You're right...what I meant to say is easier said than done when none of the competitors offer anything without a contract without gouging their customers. There's a catch to getting a pay-as-you-go plan..you're paying a premium for this "privilege".
Yes, and ASUS also makes complete laptops, which are of much higher quality than the Dell counterparts. Dell may use ASUS components, but Dell is still the one assembling them in their cheap chassis.
Please explain to me how a first post is redundant?
Good to see some competition in this market, but I'll pick Asus over Dell any day.
- Internet Explorer -> Firefox (as you've already mentioned)
- Windows Explorer -> Dolphin or Konqueror (depending on whether I want/need tabs or not)
- Outlook -> Thunderbird
- Notepad -> Kate
- Microsoft Office -> Open Office
- Windows Live Messenger -> Pidgin
- Windows Media Player -> Amarok or K3B (if I need to burn something)
And the list goes on. These are only Microsoft-specific packages. With the exception of Thunderbird lacking key features that Outlook has (features that I don't use anyways...namely PHB toys), all of the aforementioned F/OSS software packages run circles around their Microsoft counterparts. Oh, and I don't even want to start with Outlook's lack of proper IMAP support...Somebody mod this man up. I would if I had em..