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and it would solve global warming too!
stick with me for a moment... you send all of our trash into the sun. we make a lot of trash, every bit you send into the sun causes our orbit to get a bit bigger.. we'll need the green house gasses just so we don't all die a horrible cold death. yea! Oil!
Lilo & Stitch was an awesome movie. Ice Age was good. I haven't seen the others, but I'd probably vote for Spirited Away, if I had a vote. Still, don't knock Lilo and Stitch, that movie was very good.
Now, after making my handwriting unreadable to anyone/anything but a Graffiti capable palm, the next generation devices won't be able to read what I write either. keyboards from here out, I guess.
Oh no now my will BSOD! BSOD's are actually getting to be less of a problem.
But they still happen fairly frequently. Just yesterday on an XP box, I got a blue screen from plugging in a Firewire HD. On the other hand, I have been using OS X heavily since September of 2000 and have had one kernel panic (when running the beta), and experienced a hard crash maybe twice (post beta), and one of them was my fault with bad code. Or for more of a portable OS, look at Palm OS. It is small, fast, reliable and I have never seen it crash.
Yeah, I agree with you that they are still a problem, I work on a help desk supporting winXP, and they still have BSOD (mainly from our Colorado Springs office, which makes me want to blame it on Cosmic rays.. anywhoo) but comparing OSX stability to XP stability isn't exactly a fair game. OSX know EXACTLY what hardware it's going to be running on. XP has quite a large cross section of computers and components that it's got to support.
for the record, I use XP at work, Gentoo(desktop) and Redhat(servers) at home (with the occasional boot into win2k at lan parties), and OSX when I go drool on a friend's mac.
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One of the things that suprised me, not having attended a US college, about Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the attitude exhibited to the students by the lecturers, dissmissive or even downright hostile. At first I thought it was just the fact that it was fictional but what suprised me even more was talking to friends who had attended, and were still attending, US colleges and being told that that was normal and expected.
yeah, I can't count the number of times I've had professors try and open up alternative demensions to summon demons to torment me and my friends, and I'm paying these people's salaries!
I also had a the top bunk, and would fall off quite often, so I would pile clothes on the floor to lesson the impact. it got to the point that I'd fall off the bed and wake up laughing, as opposed to crying, because I was so over joyed at the soft(er) landing.
depends who you ask. if you can get the source code, and do with it what you want, most people would call it "free as in freedom" (libre). if you get the product for nothing, but don't have the right to hack at it, or make your own version of it, due to the EULA, it's "free as in beer" or gratis.
what's wrong with buying socks online? it's not like you'll need to try them on before decide they are what you want. socks a probably one of the best cothing items to buy online. not that I've ever ordered socks online, but I'm not opposed:) --
what video card do you have? I'd check your drives on the linux side. I have a dual boot box with an Nvidia Geforce 2, and quake runs at a higher framerate in linux then in my win2k partition. (using the NVdriver module from Nvidia, not the open drivers) --
you might not be able to burn through it, but you could sure make a bunch of people who haven't hacked their X-boxes calling up MS complaining about how they can't use the X-box-live features, and demanding to know why. --
well, they're getting better. they probably would get better faster if there wasn't a better (but not open) alternative, but they are making headway. --
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yes, but they don't appear on the political round-table discussion shows yelling "Frost Pist!"
Yes, grease always helps when taking from behind.
uh. nevermind.
your tactical officer gets tired of standing all day long.
TWAIN, the scanner interface used in windows..
Technology Without An Interesting Name.
worth a chuckle.
stick with me for a moment... you send all of our trash into the sun. we make a lot of trash, every bit you send into the sun causes our orbit to get a bit bigger.. we'll need the green house gasses just so we don't all die a horrible cold death. yea! Oil!
sssh! don't give the open darwin guys any ideas!
Lilo & Stitch was an awesome movie. Ice Age was good. I haven't seen the others, but I'd probably vote for Spirited Away, if I had a vote. Still, don't knock Lilo and Stitch, that movie was very good.
mmmmmaughughguhguh.. ball of fish...mmmmaughguhgmmmm..delicous ball of fish..mmmm
Now, after making my handwriting unreadable to anyone/anything but a Graffiti capable palm, the next generation devices won't be able to read what I write either. keyboards from here out, I guess.
Oh no now my will BSOD! BSOD's are actually getting to be less of a problem.
But they still happen fairly frequently. Just yesterday on an XP box, I got a blue screen from plugging in a Firewire HD. On the other hand, I have been using OS X heavily since September of 2000 and have had one kernel panic (when running the beta), and experienced a hard crash maybe twice (post beta), and one of them was my fault with bad code. Or for more of a portable OS, look at Palm OS. It is small, fast, reliable and I have never seen it crash.
Yeah, I agree with you that they are still a problem, I work on a help desk supporting winXP, and they still have BSOD (mainly from our Colorado Springs office, which makes me want to blame it on Cosmic rays.. anywhoo) but comparing OSX stability to XP stability isn't exactly a fair game. OSX know EXACTLY what hardware it's going to be running on. XP has quite a large cross section of computers and components that it's got to support.
for the record, I use XP at work, Gentoo(desktop) and Redhat(servers) at home (with the occasional boot into win2k at lan parties), and OSX when I go drool on a friend's mac.
One of the things that suprised me, not having attended a US college, about Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the attitude exhibited to the students by the lecturers, dissmissive or even downright hostile. At first I thought it was just the fact that it was fictional but what suprised me even more was talking to friends who had attended, and were still attending, US colleges and being told that that was normal and expected.
yeah, I can't count the number of times I've had professors try and open up alternative demensions to summon demons to torment me and my friends, and I'm paying these people's salaries!
uh.
I also had a the top bunk, and would fall off quite often, so I would pile clothes on the floor to lesson the impact. it got to the point that I'd fall off the bed and wake up laughing, as opposed to crying, because I was so over joyed at the soft(er) landing.
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Proposal Accepted.
insert loud slurping noise here
the terrorists have already won.
depends who you ask. if you can get the source code, and do with it what you want, most people would call it "free as in freedom" (libre). if you get the product for nothing, but don't have the right to hack at it, or make your own version of it, due to the EULA, it's "free as in beer" or gratis.
..A new book from the GNU Press called Freee Software, Free Society collects several of his essays...
is that freee as in beeer, or freee as in--
ok, sorry, had to do it
what's wrong with buying socks online? it's not like you'll need to try them on before decide they are what you want. socks a probably one of the best cothing items to buy online. not that I've ever ordered socks online, but I'm not opposed :)
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what video card do you have? I'd check your drives on the linux side. I have a dual boot box with an Nvidia Geforce 2, and quake runs at a higher framerate in linux then in my win2k partition. (using the NVdriver module from Nvidia, not the open drivers)
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Hey now. that's quite a leap of logic you made there. and stop turning into a pink elephant.
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I wish it was a better picture. I look so grumpy.
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you might not be able to burn through it, but you could sure make a bunch of people who haven't hacked their X-boxes calling up MS complaining about how they can't use the X-box-live features, and demanding to know why.
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that's cause you don't have any hills. If I wouldn't get cable, I'd have 4 channels, most with horrible reception.
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well, they're getting better. they probably would get better faster if there wasn't a better (but not open) alternative, but they are making headway.
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dang this thing is long, can I just click Next already?
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