In the USA, we pay higher taxes elsewhere to support the roads, rather than paying high taxes on fuel to support the roads. It's not more subsidized here, it's just taxed differently in the two places. A barrel of oil costs [roughly] the same in either place.
Then again, even if I'm totally wrong, where in the heck do you think the government gets the money for subsidies? That's right - from the taxes the citizens pay. My taxes haven't gone down recently, but the price of gas sure has gone up (mostly due to lack of refinement capacity in this great price-fixing-industry-supporting nation of ours).
Not to mention that lots of Europe is a bike ride / public transportation ride from work, that many parts of Europe have sane health care systems from a price point of view, and that there's enough other differences that directly comparing Europe's and USA's fuel costs alone is effectively pointless...
If your backup MX does recipient validation before accepting the message, those can be greatly reduced. I run my own backup MX off-site (colocation would work for most people), and it verifies the validity of any of the relayed domains (as well as a few big spammer-spoofed senders) before ever accepting the message. Postfix is cool.
This appeared to be a straightforward case, but somehow I can still see the lawyer, holding his pinkie to his mouth and saying "Sure, I can help you prosecute this spammer. For one million dollars!"
Joe User isn't performance tuning a cluster of corporate web servers, either. He's using a desktop system that won't see much if any difference from adjusting most of the stuff in/proc.
I've worked for hours trying to get sound working on Windows machines several times, too. Ubuntu works well most of the time, which is a pretty impressive feat, IMHO.
For the record, I've installed the current stable version (Hoary) on a wide variety of old and modern hardware, and it's worked flawlessly or nearly flawlessly every time (on my old P2-333 laptop, the sound wasn't detected properly, and it took a moment on Google to find out what it was. Also, on a machine with three sound cards, one wasn't automatically set up)...
I've found Ubuntu's unattended setup (which is technically Debian, I guess) to be very nice - nicer than just kickstart on Redhat where I'd have to write post-install scripts to take care of a lot of things. Though, that's less useful to most people, I think.:)
I donwloaded DVD ISOs for the last couple of versions of SuSE, and there were just a few releases where they stopped distributing CD ISOs... I can assure you, I did not pay [SuSE/Novell] for those downloads.:)
They'd install very over-the-top stuff that is only marginally better if at all, and gets in the way as much as it helps. So, basically they'd convert everything over to Gentoo.:)
So, basically this is a new name for the FTP version of SuSE that's always been available for download a few weeks after the retail version hits the stores? Eh, I guess that's nice.
I like SuSE in general - they've always struck me as supporting the community because it's the right thing to do, rather than RedHat's feeling of being semi-forced to give back because it's good marketing and because of the GPL. Just my opinion, of course, but then, I spend days mostly working with RHEL (ugh)...
He's obviously got access to Word, and saving as text in Word at least preserves most of the whitespace-based formatting. IIRC, antiword is mostly useful as a last-ditch effort to read a word doc, a step above piping the doc through "strings".:)
Oh, and I read at +1. Anonymous replies are a waste of my time, because they almost certainly will not result in a discussion. Similarly, I dno't pay attention to people who yell at me as I drive by ("Get off the sidewalk, moron"), because they'll never hear my reply anyway ("the sidewalk doesn't have 8-ft lanes devided by white dashed lines, jackass")
For simplifying documents, I've found HTML::TreeBuilder to be a handy module. Then you just have to write code to simplify HTML (throw away useless tags, merge adjacent tags, etc), rather than worrying about reformatting word docs.
Technically, I'm counting things like TombRaider, Elektra, and X-Men where the womens clothes appear (or, in the case of X-Men and X-Men 2, literally are) painted on. Perhaps I should have said something along the lines of "gratuitous focus on boobies", since nudity meand nipples. A covered nipple, regardless of how much boob is visible (refer to "anythign worn by Lil' Kim here), moves from nudity to mere "suggestive dress".
I've got no problem with it when relevent to the story (or pretty much any time outside of the theater;)), but there's a whole lot more "throw some random boobs in so the young male demographic will watch" recently - where recently is defined as whatever timeframe supports my argument. And I guess that getting uptight about actually telling a story in movies could easily veer off onto a whole separate rant by itself.:)
Well, here's your first "unpleasent experience" story, then. I got a gift subscription to NetFlix. It's paid for, and for one month. I have no desire to pay for the service, but it's interesting enough to try for the month. So, I go to redeem my gift subscription. There is no way to do that, except to give them my credit card information, etc, and agree to their two week trial as well as signing up for one of their plans. So, when my month's up, they'll just start billing me. I can't say up front "I want my service to stop when the gift is used up", and I can't say "my subscription is already paid for, you don't need payment information from me". So, my friend wasted the $30 or whatever it cost, 'cause I'm sure not buying stuff from NetFlix just to claim the gift. What a scam.
BTW, if anyone wants to buy the month cert, I'll sell it for less than face value. At least it looks relatively simple to get a transfer code so someone else can use it...
There's no reason for a properly done car chase to rate anything above PG, though it might be a little intense for G. Skilled drivers running at insane speeds through twistie roads - now that's entertainment. "Gone in 60 Seconds" (the new one), "Fast 'n Furious", etc - those don't have real car chases. Something like Ronin or Bullitt, which don't have nudity, have only mild language by modern standards. I could do without the boobs that find their way into damn near every movie now, though...
Clearly, because it's "ethical" to stay friendly with everyone who mistreats you. Well, in the case where "ethical" is defined as a synonym to "stupid", which coudl well be the case given the trend of equating politcal correctness to ethicality....
Anytime. I'm sure readers of this thread will soon come to agree that pressing both buttons simultaneously but getting the behavior of one does not consistute a test of chording. Of course, those readers are still waiting for the completion of a driver to shoot fire from the LED...
I would have to fire that programmer for clearly not knowing the correct spelling of "program". That's not a typo, that's misspelling the word a whole bunch of times. Lots of time wasted typing extra chars, not to mention documenting the obvious. Argh. This program will never get done. I'd overlook "correct Engligh grammar" though.:)
It also doesn't say where that was tested - whether it was under Windows with TweakUI, which shows which button you're clicking (left, right, both) or by seeing if the context menu comes up. He'd be a bad reviewer if those tests weren't done in a situation where chording was relevent. He might be a bad reviewer...
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"&spell=1" - which one did you misspell? :)
In the USA, we pay higher taxes elsewhere to support the roads, rather than paying high taxes on fuel to support the roads. It's not more subsidized here, it's just taxed differently in the two places. A barrel of oil costs [roughly] the same in either place.
Then again, even if I'm totally wrong, where in the heck do you think the government gets the money for subsidies? That's right - from the taxes the citizens pay. My taxes haven't gone down recently, but the price of gas sure has gone up (mostly due to lack of refinement capacity in this great price-fixing-industry-supporting nation of ours).
Not to mention that lots of Europe is a bike ride / public transportation ride from work, that many parts of Europe have sane health care systems from a price point of view, and that there's enough other differences that directly comparing Europe's and USA's fuel costs alone is effectively pointless...
Who's to say that he's not the one who'll be "fighting crime" with some/all of the millions donated to that cause? :)
Could you be less specific?
"I've looked at possible solutions, but can't find anything."
If your backup MX does recipient validation before accepting the message, those can be greatly reduced. I run my own backup MX off-site (colocation would work for most people), and it verifies the validity of any of the relayed domains (as well as a few big spammer-spoofed senders) before ever accepting the message. Postfix is cool.
This appeared to be a straightforward case, but somehow I can still see the lawyer, holding his pinkie to his mouth and saying "Sure, I can help you prosecute this spammer. For one million dollars!"
Joe User isn't performance tuning a cluster of corporate web servers, either. He's using a desktop system that won't see much if any difference from adjusting most of the stuff in /proc.
I've worked for hours trying to get sound working on Windows machines several times, too. Ubuntu works well most of the time, which is a pretty impressive feat, IMHO.
:)
For the record, I've installed the current stable version (Hoary) on a wide variety of old and modern hardware, and it's worked flawlessly or nearly flawlessly every time (on my old P2-333 laptop, the sound wasn't detected properly, and it took a moment on Google to find out what it was. Also, on a machine with three sound cards, one wasn't automatically set up)...
I've found Ubuntu's unattended setup (which is technically Debian, I guess) to be very nice - nicer than just kickstart on Redhat where I'd have to write post-install scripts to take care of a lot of things. Though, that's less useful to most people, I think.
I donwloaded DVD ISOs for the last couple of versions of SuSE, and there were just a few releases where they stopped distributing CD ISOs... I can assure you, I did not pay [SuSE/Novell] for those downloads. :)
They'd install very over-the-top stuff that is only marginally better if at all, and gets in the way as much as it helps. So, basically they'd convert everything over to Gentoo. :)
So, basically this is a new name for the FTP version of SuSE that's always been available for download a few weeks after the retail version hits the stores? Eh, I guess that's nice.
I like SuSE in general - they've always struck me as supporting the community because it's the right thing to do, rather than RedHat's feeling of being semi-forced to give back because it's good marketing and because of the GPL. Just my opinion, of course, but then, I spend days mostly working with RHEL (ugh)...
He's obviously got access to Word, and saving as text in Word at least preserves most of the whitespace-based formatting. IIRC, antiword is mostly useful as a last-ditch effort to read a word doc, a step above piping the doc through "strings". :)
Oh, and I read at +1. Anonymous replies are a waste of my time, because they almost certainly will not result in a discussion. Similarly, I dno't pay attention to people who yell at me as I drive by ("Get off the sidewalk, moron"), because they'll never hear my reply anyway ("the sidewalk doesn't have 8-ft lanes devided by white dashed lines, jackass")
I hate you and your kind. Yes, hate. :)
For simplifying documents, I've found HTML::TreeBuilder to be a handy module. Then you just have to write code to simplify HTML (throw away useless tags, merge adjacent tags, etc), rather than worrying about reformatting word docs.
Who could've seen this coming? Apparantly not NetFlix...
Technically, I'm counting things like TombRaider, Elektra, and X-Men where the womens clothes appear (or, in the case of X-Men and X-Men 2, literally are) painted on. Perhaps I should have said something along the lines of "gratuitous focus on boobies", since nudity meand nipples. A covered nipple, regardless of how much boob is visible (refer to "anythign worn by Lil' Kim here), moves from nudity to mere "suggestive dress".
;)), but there's a whole lot more "throw some random boobs in so the young male demographic will watch" recently - where recently is defined as whatever timeframe supports my argument. And I guess that getting uptight about actually telling a story in movies could easily veer off onto a whole separate rant by itself. :)
I've got no problem with it when relevent to the story (or pretty much any time outside of the theater
Well, here's your first "unpleasent experience" story, then. I got a gift subscription to NetFlix. It's paid for, and for one month. I have no desire to pay for the service, but it's interesting enough to try for the month. So, I go to redeem my gift subscription. There is no way to do that, except to give them my credit card information, etc, and agree to their two week trial as well as signing up for one of their plans. So, when my month's up, they'll just start billing me. I can't say up front "I want my service to stop when the gift is used up", and I can't say "my subscription is already paid for, you don't need payment information from me". So, my friend wasted the $30 or whatever it cost, 'cause I'm sure not buying stuff from NetFlix just to claim the gift. What a scam.
BTW, if anyone wants to buy the month cert, I'll sell it for less than face value. At least it looks relatively simple to get a transfer code so someone else can use it...
There's no reason for a properly done car chase to rate anything above PG, though it might be a little intense for G. Skilled drivers running at insane speeds through twistie roads - now that's entertainment. "Gone in 60 Seconds" (the new one), "Fast 'n Furious", etc - those don't have real car chases. Something like Ronin or Bullitt, which don't have nudity, have only mild language by modern standards. I could do without the boobs that find their way into damn near every movie now, though...
Clearly, because it's "ethical" to stay friendly with everyone who mistreats you. Well, in the case where "ethical" is defined as a synonym to "stupid", which coudl well be the case given the trend of equating politcal correctness to ethicality....
Oh shit. That puts you on the friend list. Hah.
Anytime. I'm sure readers of this thread will soon come to agree that pressing both buttons simultaneously but getting the behavior of one does not consistute a test of chording. Of course, those readers are still waiting for the completion of a driver to shoot fire from the LED...
I would have to fire that programmer for clearly not knowing the correct spelling of "program". That's not a typo, that's misspelling the word a whole bunch of times. Lots of time wasted typing extra chars, not to mention documenting the obvious. Argh. This program will never get done. I'd overlook "correct Engligh grammar" though. :)
It also doesn't say where that was tested - whether it was under Windows with TweakUI, which shows which button you're clicking (left, right, both) or by seeing if the context menu comes up. He'd be a bad reviewer if those tests weren't done in a situation where chording was relevent. He might be a bad reviewer...