Are you sure about that? It's hard to believe that old DVD players would support MPEG-4 discs, and why would studios sell a product that people can't use?
{nodnod} Lots of that kind of thick-headed luser around here, even the occasional semi driver. 90+% of them Don't Get It when I off-on my headlights at them, even at dusk or in the middle of a rainstorm.
If only mounting a machine-gun turret in my car's roof was legal.
An alternate explanation is that with the LI-veto, a president can grief a congressweasel he doesn't like--vetoing whatever bits of a bill that the 'weasel sponsored, and so on.
I, for one, don't want Fuckwad to have any more power than he's already illegally grabbed.
2) Questions end with "?". You know, that funny-looking character just to the left of your right-hand shift key. You have to hold down shift to get it.
3) Sentences must be ended with one (and only one) of the following punctuation: "." (period) "?" (question mark), or "!" (exclamation point). End a declaration with a period. End a question with a question mark. End a sentence meant to convey excitement with an exclamation point.
4) Sentences must begin with capital letters. Use your shift key again. The only exception I'm aware of is with the name of a Unix command, e.g. "ls will list the files in the current directory.". That's a very unofficial exception.
Stop that. $ stands for dollars, so sticking "dollars" on the end of that is redundant. Say either "$4 billion" or "4 billion dollars", or even "4 billion USD".
I've been configuring computers to use the crap OEM wireless config utilities, only because MS's util is even worse. In particular, MS's tool doesn't show a list of all the WAPs in range; instead, it will just pick one for you.
I wish I didn't have to do this, especially on newer Dell Latitudes. With those (can't remember if these particular ones have Dell or Intel wireless) a big popup comes up every couple fscking minutes alerting you that there's a WAP nearby, wouldn't you like to connect? Now, you can turn off the onboard wireless with a physical switch, but that's different from how everyone else does it, so lusers must be Edjumicated. At least I don't deal with PhDs, heh.
ROTFL. That's the second time this has happened in a couple months.
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If you try Ubuntu, make sure to grab and install EasyUbuntu. It installs all the proprietary/nonfree codecs like MP3 and DVD, plus stuff like Java and Flash. Ubuntu is also very good at detecting your monitor, so you shouldn't have to worry about setting X modes. Further, nVidia and ATI drivers are included in the base install and are kept synced with the installed kernel, so (to coin a phrase) It Just Works. I can't say if its mouse-detection routines work better -- mine is just a 3-button w/scroll, but that was detected immediately & works fine. Synaptic is a pretty good package manager, but I can't compare it to yum since I haven't used it.
Have you tried KDE? It has a more Windows-y interface than Gnome, which IMO is closer to Mac OS X. There's an Ubuntu distro called Kubuntu that uses KDE instead of Gnome, and EasyUbuntu works with it as well.
You're assuming that he's doing nothing else with his CPU. He could be running CPU-intensive stuff at the same time. It's impossible to tell from the description, though.
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Are you sure about that? It's hard to believe that old DVD players would support MPEG-4 discs, and why would studios sell a product that people can't use?
Some homeless wouldn't want to be preached at. I'm not saying that happens at all churches.
Can you give a link to that?
{nodnod} Lots of that kind of thick-headed luser around here, even the occasional semi driver. 90+% of them Don't Get It when I off-on my headlights at them, even at dusk or in the middle of a rainstorm.
If only mounting a machine-gun turret in my car's roof was legal.
The FCC is part of the executive branch. Your point stands, however.
My guess is that they'd sneak it in as regulating interstate commerce, like they've done so many other things.
An alternate explanation is that with the LI-veto, a president can grief a congressweasel he doesn't like--vetoing whatever bits of a bill that the 'weasel sponsored, and so on.
I, for one, don't want Fuckwad to have any more power than he's already illegally grabbed.
Money is not speech. You are perfectly able to speak out without money.
{laugh} I'd forgotten which book that was from, but still remember how the anthem was butchered. :-)
1) No.
2) Questions end with "?". You know, that funny-looking character just to the left of your right-hand shift key. You have to hold down shift to get it.
3) Sentences must be ended with one (and only one) of the following punctuation: "." (period) "?" (question mark), or "!" (exclamation point). End a declaration with a period. End a question with a question mark. End a sentence meant to convey excitement with an exclamation point.
4) Sentences must begin with capital letters. Use your shift key again. The only exception I'm aware of is with the name of a Unix command, e.g. "ls will list the files in the current directory.". That's a very unofficial exception.
5) Yes, I would like fries with that.
Painstakingly.
Typos.
Insert "and" just before "came".
Indeed.
1) That's disappearing.
2) It-apostrophe-s is a contraction for "it is". "Its", on the other hand, is possessive. Counterintuitive, but that's English for you.
So to recap, you should have written "disappearing up its own asshole.". Have a nice day.
Yes, but I'm whingeing that this isn't Your Rights Online.
Why is this YRO? Wiki isn't a government organization. If they don't like what Joe Random does, they can't kick the door down & send him to the gulag.
Besides, it seems like sound policy.
Stop that. $ stands for dollars, so sticking "dollars" on the end of that is redundant. Say either "$4 billion" or "4 billion dollars", or even "4 billion USD".
(I'm a university IT tech.)
I've been configuring computers to use the crap OEM wireless config utilities, only because MS's util is even worse. In particular, MS's tool doesn't show a list of all the WAPs in range; instead, it will just pick one for you.
I wish I didn't have to do this, especially on newer Dell Latitudes. With those (can't remember if these particular ones have Dell or Intel wireless) a big popup comes up every couple fscking minutes alerting you that there's a WAP nearby, wouldn't you like to connect? Now, you can turn off the onboard wireless with a physical switch, but that's different from how everyone else does it, so lusers must be Edjumicated. At least I don't deal with PhDs, heh.
Look at installing imwheel. It advertises support for extra mouse buttons.
ROTFL. That's the second time this has happened in a couple months.
If you try Ubuntu, make sure to grab and install EasyUbuntu. It installs all the proprietary/nonfree codecs like MP3 and DVD, plus stuff like Java and Flash. Ubuntu is also very good at detecting your monitor, so you shouldn't have to worry about setting X modes. Further, nVidia and ATI drivers are included in the base install and are kept synced with the installed kernel, so (to coin a phrase) It Just Works. I can't say if its mouse-detection routines work better -- mine is just a 3-button w/scroll, but that was detected immediately & works fine. Synaptic is a pretty good package manager, but I can't compare it to yum since I haven't used it.
Have you tried KDE? It has a more Windows-y interface than Gnome, which IMO is closer to Mac OS X. There's an Ubuntu distro called Kubuntu that uses KDE instead of Gnome, and EasyUbuntu works with it as well.
I almost got a Bingo on that blurb. FFS, /. is supposedly for /nerds/, not suits and marketdroids.
I think Scuttlemonkey is trolling.
Stereotyping is so much easier than thinking, isn't it?
You're assuming that he's doing nothing else with his CPU. He could be running CPU-intensive stuff at the same time. It's impossible to tell from the description, though.
You have been trolled. You have lost. Have a nice day.
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