Our coffee extratcs more caf, but with less coffee flavour, while they extract flavour with less caffeine..
[citation needed]
Anyway, I *know* that nowadays you can get coffee in the US instead of just tinted water.
Your coffee extracts more caffeine ? Passing a litre of water through a spoonful of coffee that's barely enough for a cup extracts more caffeine ? Well, ok, whatever.
Yes, in the "US oriented chains" over here, if you sound US American, of if you speak English, they might ask you if you want your coffee "US style" or "American style", in which case they'll just dilute it in 4 or 5 times as much water.
Note that here in France, expressos will have about 175% the water they have in Italy. We're too far north.
I remember reading somewhere that 60 cups of coffee would supposedly yield the same level of hallucinations as 1 dose of LSD...
Hmmm, where was that study from ?
60 cups of US coffee are like 3 cups of coffee elsewhere. And while I confess to not having tried LSD, I've already had way more than 3 large cups of real coffee in a day. And nothing much happened.
So unless you give more data I'm not convinced. If it's a European (preferably southern) study, then maybe there's something to it.
(granted, there now are ways to get coffee in the US instead of just warm water with a brown crayon dipped in but us Euro people used to be fairly puzzled over there for quite a while)
Oh come on, people have been using bottles in situations like this for ages and it worked out fine. If he's really starved for bandwidth he can just pop a thumbdrive in each one. I hear they come in 64MB flavour now.
OTOH if he *really* can't stand being offline while out at sea, what he needs isn't a tech solution. What he needs is professional help. That comes in a lab coat.
Or maybe he's just not ready to come out of the basement yet.
Given OOo's track record at bugfixing, I wouldn't call that "useful" for the purposes of a company that wants to choose an office suite.
Not that I'm really familiar with Microsoft's track record in this particular matter but I don't see why it would be particularly better. Their purpose is to add features and not fix bugs as they used to say themselves.
I believe even MULTICS, to take a relatively familiar name (and presumably other 60s or early 70s mainframe systems), had access policies similar to those of Unix back then (if not earlier). All of this is way older than just the recent systems.
This claim is rather odd to anybody remotely familiar with IT. It's like trying to patent a plain keyboard.
Another vaguely similar hack at http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html Backing up your data on paper (and restoring with a scanner). Author claims 500K bytes of uncompressed data per standard page (A4). You can store it as ain image file if you like I think (it's a Windows app so I didn't actually try it)
You din't get any pretty pictures (unless you're very lucky) though.
Yes, and if the management there knew what they were doing they could have used BCC instead of threatening their employees with repercussions for touching the Reply-All button.
And next I expect you're going to try and teach them to edit their quotes and to stop top posting ?
I'm close to giving up on educating users with email, it's pretty hopeless I think.
I get the feeling OLPC is a bunch of well-intentioned, high-level talking heads.
Nonsense ! Version 3.0 was supposed to be : - self-contained in a sub-dermal implant - powered by the Earth's magnetic field (or optionally, mild arm-waving) - driven by a wireless brain-link - able to project HD @ 60Hz through the eyes of the wearer at up to 8 metres in 3D
I haven't found a need to have more than one SD card per device - that is, one in the camera, one in the Wii (to back up the WiiWare), etc.
So you're not an active photographer. Some of us actually do fill up cards fairly fast. Especially when you shoot RAW images (recommended on Pentax).
I ended up using three 8 GB cards on top of the three 2 GB ones I already have for my K10D which is my main camera nowadays. So I no longer have to *always* bring a laptop with me. They are labeled on their reverse side with a white pen and have volume labels as well. And I carry them in a little neoprene pouch that lives in my photo bag.
many of our customers are in a position where revisiting their IT systems and working practices around them will provide massive dividends.
It won't provide any dividends now. It might in the future. It will cost money now.
You may not have got the memo, but most businesses are short of money right now.
So obviously there's a great opportunity in providing free workers to those poor companies ! I'll start kidnapping IT techs as soon as I'm done with the business plan !
What does "more rational" mean? Classical economic theory assumes that someone is rational in that it will buy something at a lesser price if it can, and will attempt to sell the least of something it's got (good, service, labor...) for as much money as it can. That's it. How can you be less rational?
Easy. "Well, if it costs more, it has to be better. Right ? Stands to reason." "I mean it's like that Linuk thing the communists brought from China. If it was any good they wouldn't be giving it away for free."
Economic theory is all well and good and can work in building models. They remain models though that although they resemble the real world are as close to it as astrology is to astronomy. Not to mention that they are very heavily influenced by current political trends instead of being neutral. (and yes, I did major in Economics. and no, my professors weren't overly fond of my saying that either) Luckily I went on to do something else afterwards.
Economics are a very crude tool, especially the classic model because the "information" clause is plainly false. Economical actors *aren't* perfectly informed. Sometimes they aren't informed at all, and most of the time they're mis-informed.
I really wonder if this kind of thing can be legally binding or if it falls in the same category as "you'll give us your firstborn", or for a less extreme but still nonsensical example, "not to be used in any yellow surroundings".
Unless you need the proprietary ATI or nVidia drivers, one reboot at the end of installation and it's done. And, if you do need to download those drivers, that's only one more reboot. Two at most, and you're done.
The only reason you'd ever need a reboot when installing Linux (apart from the obvous one to boot into your freshly installed system) would be if a new kernel had been released since your installation disk image had been issued and you have to upgrade. A kernel upgrade is the *only* case you have to restart a Linux (or pretty much any Unix nowadays for that matter) system (unless you managed to lock it up tight).
Video drivers are merely kernel modules (loaded dynamically, so no reboot) and a X11 server, thus requiring only a restart of the X server. So in layman terms, log out, restart your X display manager (or press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, it will restart by itself), log back in and you're done.
Doesn't get in the way ? As soon as you click in a window it comes to the front and obscures the material you were trying to view.
I suppose that it makes sense to Windows and Mac users but for the rest of us it's seriously irritating. I suppose it can be turned off by editing the Gnome XML configuration file (a staple of the traditional Gnome user friendliness) but it's a major pain in the neither region. As are a number of other defaults picked by the Gnome people who want to make the experience as "Windows-like" as possible for the corporate users.
I just can't wait for the transition to KDE4 to be complete. KDE works *for* me, not against. I don't want a desktop that "doesn't get in the way", I want one that actively makes things easier. KDE does that for me.
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Our coffee extratcs more caf, but with less coffee flavour, while they extract flavour with less caffeine..
[citation needed]
Anyway, I *know* that nowadays you can get coffee in the US instead of just tinted water.
Your coffee extracts more caffeine ? Passing a litre of water through a spoonful of coffee that's barely enough for a cup extracts more caffeine ? Well, ok, whatever.
Yes, in the "US oriented chains" over here, if you sound US American, of if you speak English, they might ask you if you want your coffee "US style" or "American style", in which case they'll just dilute it in 4 or 5 times as much water.
Note that here in France, expressos will have about 175% the water they have in Italy. We're too far north.
I remember reading somewhere that 60 cups of coffee would supposedly yield the same level of hallucinations as 1 dose of LSD...
Hmmm, where was that study from ?
60 cups of US coffee are like 3 cups of coffee elsewhere. And while I confess to not having tried LSD, I've already had way more than 3 large cups of real coffee in a day. And nothing much happened.
So unless you give more data I'm not convinced. If it's a European (preferably southern) study, then maybe there's something to it.
(granted, there now are ways to get coffee in the US instead of just warm water with a brown crayon dipped in but us Euro people used to be fairly puzzled over there for quite a while)
(provided you're not in the fortunate position of having a school bus or similar system)
I'm sure that reality is harsh enough that children have been run over by school buses (despite what those pesky statisticians say).
I teach them the old fashion method. A book and a belt.
So *that*'s what this bible belt thing is about. I never could quite figure out what it was.
You are a credit to parenthood !
* wipes a tear *
So does this mean I've lost contact with reality?
It might. Maybe you should restore a recent save and try again ?
It was really nice, especially if you set it up so that one week you're paid, and the next you get the Friday off.
You've got to be kidding. On top of this they even paid you ? Luxury !
All we got was a handful of gravel every now and then AND WE WUS LUCKY !
It's supposed to be for ed-you-ma-cay-shun. Being online is pretty much a requirement for education these days.
If "education" requires being online, then you're doing it wrong.
Oh come on, people have been using bottles in situations like this for ages and it worked out fine. If he's really starved for bandwidth he can just pop a thumbdrive in each one. I hear they come in 64MB flavour now.
OTOH if he *really* can't stand being offline while out at sea, what he needs isn't a tech solution. What he needs is professional help. That comes in a lab coat.
Or maybe he's just not ready to come out of the basement yet.
Bad idea. Qt apps just don't feel right on the Mac. Case in point: Google Earth.
But then nothing that's cross platform feels right on Mac according to Mac users. What are they to do ?
Given OOo's track record at bugfixing, I wouldn't call that "useful" for the purposes of a company that wants to choose an office suite.
Not that I'm really familiar with Microsoft's track record in this particular matter but I don't see why it would be particularly better. Their purpose is to add features and not fix bugs as they used to say themselves.
Hey, I was an frickin' art major and I know that that magnets have poles.
Yeah ! They have the Blue pole and the Red pole. Everybody knows this !
I believe even MULTICS, to take a relatively familiar name (and presumably other 60s or early 70s mainframe systems), had access policies similar to those of Unix back then (if not earlier). All of this is way older than just the recent systems.
This claim is rather odd to anybody remotely familiar with IT. It's like trying to patent a plain keyboard.
Another vaguely similar hack at
http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html
Backing up your data on paper (and restoring with a scanner). Author claims 500K bytes of uncompressed data per standard page (A4). You can store it as ain image file if you like I think (it's a Windows app so I didn't actually try it)
You din't get any pretty pictures (unless you're very lucky) though.
I hope you reported your problems. At least with OOo bug reports can actually be useful.
Yes, and if the management there knew what they were doing they could have used BCC instead of threatening their employees with repercussions for touching the Reply-All button.
And next I expect you're going to try and teach them to edit their quotes and to stop top posting ?
I'm close to giving up on educating users with email, it's pretty hopeless I think.
TFA mentioned the use of the recall feature that is only supported by Exchange servers and Outlook.
Of course not :
# cd /var/spool/mail
# rm *
see ? It's all been recalled !
I get the feeling OLPC is a bunch of well-intentioned, high-level talking heads.
Nonsense !
Version 3.0 was supposed to be :
- self-contained in a sub-dermal implant
- powered by the Earth's magnetic field (or optionally, mild arm-waving)
- driven by a wireless brain-link
- able to project HD @ 60Hz through the eyes of the wearer at up to 8 metres in 3D
They are visionaries man, visionaries !
I haven't found a need to have more than one SD card per device - that is, one in the camera, one in the Wii (to back up the WiiWare), etc.
So you're not an active photographer. Some of us actually do fill up cards fairly fast. Especially when you shoot RAW images (recommended on Pentax).
I ended up using three 8 GB cards on top of the three 2 GB ones I already have for my K10D which is my main camera nowadays. So I no longer have to *always* bring a laptop with me.
They are labeled on their reverse side with a white pen and have volume labels as well.
And I carry them in a little neoprene pouch that lives in my photo bag.
So children are finally worth something nowadays ?
Hmmmm (rubs hands...)
It won't provide any dividends now. It might in the future. It will cost money now.
You may not have got the memo, but most businesses are short of money right now.
So obviously there's a great opportunity in providing free workers to those poor companies !
I'll start kidnapping IT techs as soon as I'm done with the business plan !
What does "more rational" mean? Classical economic theory assumes that someone is rational in that it will buy something at a lesser price if it can, and will attempt to sell the least of something it's got (good, service, labor ...) for as much money as it can. That's it. How can you be less rational?
Easy.
"Well, if it costs more, it has to be better. Right ? Stands to reason."
"I mean it's like that Linuk thing the communists brought from China. If it was any good they wouldn't be giving it away for free."
Economic theory is all well and good and can work in building models. They remain models though that although they resemble the real world are as close to it as astrology is to astronomy. Not to mention that they are very heavily influenced by current political trends instead of being neutral.
(and yes, I did major in Economics. and no, my professors weren't overly fond of my saying that either)
Luckily I went on to do something else afterwards.
Economics are a very crude tool, especially the classic model because the "information" clause is plainly false. Economical actors *aren't* perfectly informed. Sometimes they aren't informed at all, and most of the time they're mis-informed.
The win7 beta EULA says no benchmarking.
I really wonder if this kind of thing can be legally binding or if it falls in the same category as "you'll give us your firstborn", or for a less extreme but still nonsensical example, "not to be used in any yellow surroundings".
Unless you need the proprietary ATI or nVidia drivers, one reboot at the end of installation and it's done. And, if you do need to download those drivers, that's only one more reboot. Two at most, and you're done.
The only reason you'd ever need a reboot when installing Linux (apart from the obvous one to boot into your freshly installed system) would be if a new kernel had been released since your installation disk image had been issued and you have to upgrade. A kernel upgrade is the *only* case you have to restart a Linux (or pretty much any Unix nowadays for that matter) system (unless you managed to lock it up tight).
Video drivers are merely kernel modules (loaded dynamically, so no reboot) and a X11 server, thus requiring only a restart of the X server. So in layman terms, log out, restart your X display manager (or press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, it will restart by itself), log back in and you're done.
I like Gnome because it doesn't get in the way.
Doesn't get in the way ? As soon as you click in a window it comes to the front and obscures the material you were trying to view.
I suppose that it makes sense to Windows and Mac users but for the rest of us it's seriously irritating. I suppose it can be turned off by editing the Gnome XML configuration file (a staple of the traditional Gnome user friendliness) but it's a major pain in the neither region. As are a number of other defaults picked by the Gnome people who want to make the experience as "Windows-like" as possible for the corporate users.
I just can't wait for the transition to KDE4 to be complete. KDE works *for* me, not against. I don't want a desktop that "doesn't get in the way", I want one that actively makes things easier. KDE does that for me.