Pikhq apt-get install abiword
Now, that wasn't too hard, now was it?
No, it wasn't, IF you're already familiar with apt-get and IF you know the name of the application you want to install.
Go ask 10 people on the street to name a word processor or office suite, and 8 will reply with "Word" or "Office", one will stare blankly at you, and the other will ask for spare change.
Unless you live in a college town or one with a high saturation of tech-savvy people, not ONE will say "oh yeah, abiword!"
While I'd like to think that Ken Lay will get his day in a pod with Adebisi, I guess we'll have to settle for knowing that violence and rapes DO happen even in minimum security federal prisons.
You realize that things like this are like "M$" and "Windoze", right?
They're only funny to the people that agree wtih you. To people you're trying to reach with your words, they make you look like a childish name-calling troll.
You also realize that if the sky really had fallen as much as the "Bush is Hitler" crowds like to say, you'd be getting marched out of your house this very evening, right?
>I'm not saying that women are better drivers, or >have fewer accidents total - they just seem to >be more able to avoid the serious just-totalled- >three-$40,000-cars-and-paralyzed- ten -people >kind of accidents.
You're looking at the wrong things here.
Women typically cause less accidents not because they're better drivers, but because they DRIVE less.
Do a little unscientific research: look at the cars around you on the road next time you're driving somewhere.
Of the vehicles with a man and a woman in them, see which of them is driving.
I ASSURE you, the man will be driving a LOT more often.
>Anybody here ever brought one of these things into a cube farm?
At IBM in the early 90's I worked in a cube farm (Austin campus, building 42), where my primary machine was a PS/2 mod 80 with an 8514 display.
It had a model M keyboard attached to it, and I used to regularly get people stopping by my desk to see what the hell was going on (I was typing around 130wpm at the time, I'm down to 110 or so now). Nobody ever complained about the noise so much as treated me as some sort of curiosity (I guess I was the fastest on the first floor at the time or something, I know there were people upstairs that were faster).
I've tried to keep a model M on my home machine since, and have usually managed to do so... though once I had to settle for a "compact" model. Same buckling-spring design, but with more of a laptop-style layout.
The file is too big for email but will fit on a floppy?
What kinda crap email service are they using?
>It is there, it is convenient, and it is >universal.
I haven't had a floppy drive in my main desktop for over three years. I had one for my Thinkpad, took it out of the plastic wrap it came in exactly once, to make a Mandrake install floppy.
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> Clicking on the "You dont have flash - click here
>for the text version" pops up a TMBG guy telling me
>"Get flash you hippie"
In today's computing environment, if you can't show Flash, odds are you can't play MP3s reliably.
They aren't cutting a single person out of their _target_ demographic.
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Pikhq
apt-get install abiword
Now, that wasn't too hard, now was it?
No, it wasn't, IF you're already familiar with apt-get and IF you know the name of the application you want to install.
Go ask 10 people on the street to name a word processor or office suite, and 8 will reply with "Word" or "Office", one will stare blankly at you, and the other will ask for spare change.
Unless you live in a college town or one with a high saturation of tech-savvy people, not ONE will say "oh yeah, abiword!"
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While I'd like to think that Ken Lay will get his day in a pod with Adebisi, I guess we'll have to settle for knowing that violence and rapes DO happen even in minimum security federal prisons.
Thanks for the subscription!
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While I won't usually cite USA Today as a source, the myth of the "Club Fed" prisons is just that: a myth.
They're certainly not as dank or dangerous as a maximum security state prison, but they're not country clubs, either.
USA Today article, RE: Martha Stewart and what she faces in prison
Similar article from Globe and Mail
Article from Australia's The Age regarding white collar criminals in the US
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>(or we may have no more Truffula Trees, for
>example).
But thneeds are what everyone, everyone, EVERYONE needs.
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(unless)
>Fuhrer Bush
You realize that things like this are like "M$" and "Windoze", right?
They're only funny to the people that agree wtih you. To people you're trying to reach with your words, they make you look like a childish name-calling troll.
You also realize that if the sky really had fallen as much as the "Bush is Hitler" crowds like to say, you'd be getting marched out of your house this very evening, right?
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">So don't be surprised if in Texas, Bush barely cracks 50% in the 2004 election. ...which is all he needs to take the entire state."
Whoops. Forgot to drop a CR in there. All text starting with "...which is all he needs" is mine, not to be confused with the quoted poster's.
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>So don't be surprised if in Texas, Bush barely cracks 50% in the 2004 election. ...which is all he needs to take the entire state.
51% is the same as 100% when it comes to deciding who gets those electoral votes.
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>All of those hot and sexy Stews!!
Uh... flown lately?
>Hilary Rosen could have sat a K-Mart with pirated (arrrr...) copies of House Party III
Maybe with copies of the soundtrack...
Hilary is RIAA.
Jack Valenti is MPAA.
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Sure, it's considered unsportmanlike to shoot someone with the ";)
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>I'm not saying that women are better drivers, or- ten -people
>have fewer accidents total - they just seem to
>be more able to avoid the serious just-totalled-
>three-$40,000-cars-and-paralyzed
>kind of accidents.
You're looking at the wrong things here.
Women typically cause less accidents not because they're better drivers, but because they DRIVE less.
Do a little unscientific research: look at the cars around you on the road next time you're driving somewhere.
Of the vehicles with a man and a woman in them, see which of them is driving.
I ASSURE you, the man will be driving a LOT more often.
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It's also total crap.
>You would think the next version of a nifty
>video card would be like, "Radeon 9800"
You MIGHT think so, but since "Radeon 9700" is the *chip*, not the *card*, I guess ATI sees it differently.
Otherwise, what's to stop someone from selling a tweaked version of a GeForce 4 Ti4600 and calling it a GeForce 4 Ti5200? Or a GeForce 5?
>OCsystem Super Hyper Mega Ultra Happy Enhanced
>Radeon 9700 Expert Pro Level IVc SE XP 2.0
>Edition
But yeah, I like that. NOW how much would you pay? Don't answer yet, because you also get... eh, nevermind, I ran outta steam.
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>The first game to bring hand animation,
>laserdisks, and alternative paths together in a
>single game.
Historically significant isn't the same thing well-respected.
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>the cd-rw is much slower than floppy.
Huh?
3.5" high density floppies transfer at about 500 kilobits per second.
Even a 1X CD-RW is transferring at 150 kiloBYTES per second.
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That looks like it should have ended with "NO CARRIER".
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>I think we need to replace the shuttle system. It's 30 year old technology.
The first B-52 flew in 1954. They are expected to remain in service until at least 2045.
The first C-130 was delivered to the US Air Force in 1956, and they're still in production.
The USS Nimitz began construction in 1968.
There is nothing wrong with 30 year old technology.
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Most of my hits are actually coming from .edu machines.
nd.edu, rpi.edu, psu.edu, syr.edu, ohiou.edu, albany.edu... and from the hostnames, they don't sound like student machines, but real servers.
Sigh.
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>Anybody here ever brought one of these things into a cube farm?
At IBM in the early 90's I worked in a cube farm (Austin campus, building 42), where my primary machine was a PS/2 mod 80 with an 8514 display.
It had a model M keyboard attached to it, and I used to regularly get people stopping by my desk to see what the hell was going on (I was typing around 130wpm at the time, I'm down to 110 or so now). Nobody ever complained about the noise so much as treated me as some sort of curiosity (I guess I was the fastest on the first floor at the time or something, I know there were people upstairs that were faster).
I've tried to keep a model M on my home machine since, and have usually managed to do so... though once I had to settle for a "compact" model. Same buckling-spring design, but with more of a laptop-style layout.
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>Would the water taste like apple when you first
>send a picture of an apple accross it ?
Knowing what makes up most of the images on the net, I'm not sure I'd want to taste it.
In fact, I'm pretty sure the water would need to be changed FREQUENTLY.
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Sure, but at least on Fark we ended up turning it into a boobies discussion by drooling over Jennifer Connely in The Rocketeer.
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>I'm still waiting for my Macintosh to grow.
Ch-ch-ch-CHIA MAC!
>Portland doesn't get a lot of sunlight.
I hear from my friends in Portland that growlights and hydroponic irrigation systems are plentiful.
Y'all must be able to score the BEST tomatoes...
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I was thinking one of the players from Cyberball, the old arcade robot football game...
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>Oh, wait, the file is too big for email.
The file is too big for email but will fit on a floppy?
What kinda crap email service are they using?
>It is there, it is convenient, and it is
>universal.
I haven't had a floppy drive in my main desktop for over three years. I had one for my Thinkpad, took it out of the plastic wrap it came in exactly once, to make a Mandrake install floppy.
If it's not on CD or net, I don't need it.
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