Yeah. I wish that donations made more sense. I used to donate to charities all the time. But the way it works in my area is you drive up to the back of a strip mall in a shady neighborhood, you park your car and unload it and go in, then you fill out the form yourself. They provide no proof or record and don't even sign the form, so it's practically useless. I could write anything. In the past, they signed it and attested that at least you donated those items which felt more official even if legally it meant nothing.
I don't like risk for no reward and sadly nowadays I usually just throw things away if no one in my immediate circle can use it. Granted I don't typically have extremely expensive items like TVs but lots of clothes and other stuff. Small appliances. Etc. And no I won't use Craigslist for the same safety reasons. I have a home gym in my apartment now that I am contemplating putting out by the Dumpster because I don't want people in my house looking at my other stuff.
Maybe I'm being silly but I can't afford to have my place ransacked and there have been too many instances of that in my area.
You put a GUI on a server because not everyone is comfortable with a command line, or are using tools which require a GUI. In my environment, I'm the only Linux guy and if I'm not available and need a Windows Admin to do something, they better have a clicky-clicky or it won't get done. In my environment we also have a third party contractor who supports his point-of-sale software but wants a GUI so he can clicky-clicky through the file system, run a graphical FTP program etc when necessary. He's not willing to install anything other than VNC on his Windows machine.
Yep. We use xfce on server GUIs because it's stable and predictable. No retraining needed. On desktops you can use whatever you want, and you support it yourself. Everyone's happy.
I think now you're getting somewhere. I'm not up to date with current technology but it doesn't seem far-fetched that combining magnetism as a method of confinement with fusion reactions is an evolution in that science. Stepping further, perhaps magnetism could be used as a method of direction of force, or even a method of concentration of force (an additive property rather than just a buffering property).
But what do I know, I'm not a nuclear physicist... perhaps this is all old hat.
I don't answer emails, browse the web, or instant message while watching a video on my computer, so why would I want to do that on a phone? It's one thing to see a small alert and totally another to try and compose a reply.
You will find by focusing on one thing, or a very small number of things, you accomplish more than trying to do a bunch of things at once. We just aren't wired that way, and while you may think you're doing more, the science behind it shows that you're not.
Your particular place isn't selling it, good for them and good for you. Why in the world you need a haircut database is beyond me. Do you really have such complicated hair needs that you can't explain it in two sentences? Or are the hair cutters in your area so inexperienced that they can't look at your head when you walk in and narrow it down to a couple of options based on a projected prior style?
Nonsense. They're almost always selling your data. No one has needed databases for haircuts for thousands of years now. It's an invented need.
I can't even begin to tell you the movies I've searched for on Netflix that just aren't available for streaming now but were available in the past. I've added ones to my instant queue only to see them disappear soon afterward with no warning or notice. Finding movies on the Wii / iPad interface is just awful.
The searching is horrible... although the iPad does show you subgenres you can't for instance filter out all G / PG movies (or vice versa) even on their website. If I want to watch a movie that I can't normally watch because of kids, I shouldn't have to go to a third party site to perform a search. And quit showing me the same crap! If you have thousands and thousands of movies I'd never know because I've already passed over or even rated movies that I don't want to watch again. Leave those in the "play it again" section only. On the Wii / iPad there's no way to see movie viewing history or even to say "I'm not interested" either.
tl;dr: Netflix has a crappy interface, yanks movies from streaming willy-nilly and regularly presents you with movies you don't care about or have already watched. But it's cheap and there aren't any real alternatives I've found. If I had, I would have already switched.
I totally agree. I live in an upscale community. I was talking to a friend about possibly moving here. They looked at the sex offender counts which were some ridiculous number. I had to explain exactly what you said... I used the example that a 17-year-old having sex with another 17-year-old could technically qualify as a sex offender.
As a parent it helps greatly to weed out these people from the true sex offenders so we can make decisions about where to live. With these definitions the results aren't really usable for determining anything, which is the opposite result from the whole point of publishing that information. If the intent was to drown out the real offenders by throwing a bunch of meaningless data points around, they succeeded.
They've been through the extreme -- I hope we don't also have to go through such pain to have such a "quaint" attitude. We could use some of that here now. It's been getting bad for a long time.
She was asked to leave on a prior day and came back. She knew exactly what was going on and is trying to play the poor helpless immigrant card. Maybe she will come back on a future date and get tasered again... if you refuse to leave the premises after the police arrive, the police will likely taser you.
Now whether the tasering was improper is a whole other can of worms. I tend to agree probably not, but that has nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with the local police force.
Anyone who has been using office software as long as I have probably finds the ribbon to be disastrous and wasteful. The OpenOffice interface is exactly what I used for many many years and I have no problems locating menu items or using it.
I have Office 2007 because I occasionally need to tell someone exactly what menu item to use, or provide a screenshot or documentation. I really do not use it the rest of the time. I use OpenOffice / LibreOffice and it works very well for my use cases.
I have felt nearly imprisoned by the poor interface, missing functionality, and lack of anyone else to ask when I can't figure something out.
Wow this sounds like a shill thing to say. I don't know of anyone who feels "imprisoned" by an interface, and who can't figure out how to use Google or RTFM.
If you're going for drama, great, you win. If you're trying to be persuasive using facts, you failed miserably.
If the wifi use is that occasional, why not just turn it off? Seems like just another security hole. Maybe you're using some combo device instead of a separate WAP. Still seems easier to just unplug the WAP when not in use.
All software has deficiencies, and in this case a large portion of it is caused by the need to reverse-engineer Microsoft Office behavior. Without even getting into that topic, and as explained by others, even documents created in one version of Microsoft Office and viewed in another version of Microsoft Office -- even the very next version have problems with word wrapping, frame and picture layout, pair kerning etc.
It's a big mistake to pretend that these issues -- again with different versions of Microsoft products -- don't exist and to pretend that somehow LibreOffice / OpenOffice's inability to precisely mimic individual versions of Microsoft Office is some failure on their part. We would all be much better to have some type of real office document standard so our files appear as originally intended. ODF is superior in this regard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument .
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Wow, that one's nice... many thanks!
I checked just now and the storage engine is definitely in my mysqldump script output. I am using an older version, 5.1.66.
mysqldump --all-databases --no-data=true --routines --lock-tables=0
Output includes a line per table that includes "ENGINE=InnoDB" or whatever storage engine I'm using.
Yeah. I wish that donations made more sense. I used to donate to charities all the time. But the way it works in my area is you drive up to the back of a strip mall in a shady neighborhood, you park your car and unload it and go in, then you fill out the form yourself. They provide no proof or record and don't even sign the form, so it's practically useless. I could write anything. In the past, they signed it and attested that at least you donated those items which felt more official even if legally it meant nothing.
I don't like risk for no reward and sadly nowadays I usually just throw things away if no one in my immediate circle can use it. Granted I don't typically have extremely expensive items like TVs but lots of clothes and other stuff. Small appliances. Etc. And no I won't use Craigslist for the same safety reasons. I have a home gym in my apartment now that I am contemplating putting out by the Dumpster because I don't want people in my house looking at my other stuff.
Maybe I'm being silly but I can't afford to have my place ransacked and there have been too many instances of that in my area.
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You put a GUI on a server because not everyone is comfortable with a command line, or are using tools which require a GUI. In my environment, I'm the only Linux guy and if I'm not available and need a Windows Admin to do something, they better have a clicky-clicky or it won't get done. In my environment we also have a third party contractor who supports his point-of-sale software but wants a GUI so he can clicky-clicky through the file system, run a graphical FTP program etc when necessary. He's not willing to install anything other than VNC on his Windows machine.
Yep. We use xfce on server GUIs because it's stable and predictable. No retraining needed. On desktops you can use whatever you want, and you support it yourself. Everyone's happy.
I'm shocked they removed that option.
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I think now you're getting somewhere. I'm not up to date with current technology but it doesn't seem far-fetched that combining magnetism as a method of confinement with fusion reactions is an evolution in that science. Stepping further, perhaps magnetism could be used as a method of direction of force, or even a method of concentration of force (an additive property rather than just a buffering property).
But what do I know, I'm not a nuclear physicist... perhaps this is all old hat.
I don't answer emails, browse the web, or instant message while watching a video on my computer, so why would I want to do that on a phone? It's one thing to see a small alert and totally another to try and compose a reply.
You will find by focusing on one thing, or a very small number of things, you accomplish more than trying to do a bunch of things at once. We just aren't wired that way, and while you may think you're doing more, the science behind it shows that you're not.
Your particular place isn't selling it, good for them and good for you. Why in the world you need a haircut database is beyond me. Do you really have such complicated hair needs that you can't explain it in two sentences? Or are the hair cutters in your area so inexperienced that they can't look at your head when you walk in and narrow it down to a couple of options based on a projected prior style?
Nonsense. They're almost always selling your data. No one has needed databases for haircuts for thousands of years now. It's an invented need.
Well thought out, SFC. Thanks for posting.
Please mod parent insightful.
I can't even begin to tell you the movies I've searched for on Netflix that just aren't available for streaming now but were available in the past. I've added ones to my instant queue only to see them disappear soon afterward with no warning or notice. Finding movies on the Wii / iPad interface is just awful.
The searching is horrible... although the iPad does show you subgenres you can't for instance filter out all G / PG movies (or vice versa) even on their website. If I want to watch a movie that I can't normally watch because of kids, I shouldn't have to go to a third party site to perform a search. And quit showing me the same crap! If you have thousands and thousands of movies I'd never know because I've already passed over or even rated movies that I don't want to watch again. Leave those in the "play it again" section only. On the Wii / iPad there's no way to see movie viewing history or even to say "I'm not interested" either.
tl;dr: Netflix has a crappy interface, yanks movies from streaming willy-nilly and regularly presents you with movies you don't care about or have already watched. But it's cheap and there aren't any real alternatives I've found. If I had, I would have already switched.
Does he good? Or does he evil? It matters not you say. Watch him anyway you say.
That path, to the dark side it leads. Consider all when making a decision you should.
I totally agree. I live in an upscale community. I was talking to a friend about possibly moving here. They looked at the sex offender counts which were some ridiculous number. I had to explain exactly what you said... I used the example that a 17-year-old having sex with another 17-year-old could technically qualify as a sex offender.
As a parent it helps greatly to weed out these people from the true sex offenders so we can make decisions about where to live. With these definitions the results aren't really usable for determining anything, which is the opposite result from the whole point of publishing that information. If the intent was to drown out the real offenders by throwing a bunch of meaningless data points around, they succeeded.
They've been through the extreme -- I hope we don't also have to go through such pain to have such a "quaint" attitude. We could use some of that here now. It's been getting bad for a long time.
She was asked to leave on a prior day and came back. She knew exactly what was going on and is trying to play the poor helpless immigrant card. Maybe she will come back on a future date and get tasered again... if you refuse to leave the premises after the police arrive, the police will likely taser you.
Now whether the tasering was improper is a whole other can of worms. I tend to agree probably not, but that has nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with the local police force.
Apparently if you're using Google, it is difficult now.
No, he's scheduled to go on a hunting expedition with Dick Cheney.
So long as they remember to wipe, they can pop out all the Zunes they want. Those things are shit.
Awesome... reminds me I need to get another cup : )
Anyone who has been using office software as long as I have probably finds the ribbon to be disastrous and wasteful. The OpenOffice interface is exactly what I used for many many years and I have no problems locating menu items or using it.
I have Office 2007 because I occasionally need to tell someone exactly what menu item to use, or provide a screenshot or documentation. I really do not use it the rest of the time. I use OpenOffice / LibreOffice and it works very well for my use cases.
I have felt nearly imprisoned by the poor interface, missing functionality, and lack of anyone else to ask when I can't figure something out.
Wow this sounds like a shill thing to say. I don't know of anyone who feels "imprisoned" by an interface, and who can't figure out how to use Google or RTFM.
If you're going for drama, great, you win. If you're trying to be persuasive using facts, you failed miserably.
If the wifi use is that occasional, why not just turn it off? Seems like just another security hole. Maybe you're using some combo device instead of a separate WAP. Still seems easier to just unplug the WAP when not in use.
All software has deficiencies, and in this case a large portion of it is caused by the need to reverse-engineer Microsoft Office behavior. Without even getting into that topic, and as explained by others, even documents created in one version of Microsoft Office and viewed in another version of Microsoft Office -- even the very next version have problems with word wrapping, frame and picture layout, pair kerning etc.
It's a big mistake to pretend that these issues -- again with different versions of Microsoft products -- don't exist and to pretend that somehow LibreOffice / OpenOffice's inability to precisely mimic individual versions of Microsoft Office is some failure on their part. We would all be much better to have some type of real office document standard so our files appear as originally intended. ODF is superior in this regard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument .
I greatly prefer the new Chewie.