I've got a 233MHz 64M toshiba (480 CDT to be exact, with extra ram) , and it's getting a bit slow to run stuff like openoffice, mozilla, etc. Which is kinda important at meetings for the local LUG.
I've been looking at dells (I've heard the plastic casing cracks in the bottom of them), people want me to buy an apple laptop, (no second mouse button), and I dunno about toshibas, com^wHP laptops, IBM ones...
Which laptop should I get? I don't want an ATI card (driver problems, I'm pissed off with ATI), a touchpad would be nice, need to have a floppy (bootable) and a cdrom/dvd drive (bootable).
linux compatability is the most important thing, of course.
In school, someone from queensland told me about all of the different ways schoolkids had figured out how to kill them. I only remembered one:
You need a long piece of fishing line, with hooks on both ends. Both hooks need to meet about 1-1.5m off the ground when you throw the line over a power line (you know what's coming now , don't you?:-))
stick one hook in a toad , throw the other hook over a power line (by a road) and stick that hook in the toad too. You now have a cane toad suspended above the ground.
Now you need a car (a ute , preferably), and a bat. Simply stand on the tray of the ute holding the bat, someone drives up to the toad , and you splatter it with the bat.
Has anyone tried a cane toad in a microwave? I want to know if they explode like gremlins...
>Under what circumstances would the USA nuke Canada?
Terrence and Phillip let rip a farting joke unheard of in known history. An absolute stinker.
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Haven't you been paying attention these last few years?, the hood is welded shut. That's the whole point. We can't fix it without M$ telling us how it works, and they don't want to tell us.
from an economic point of view, releasing a superior "product" (sorry for using that word:-P ) that is a lot cheaper than the default one, _IS_ an attack.
Getting M$ to publish their File formats has to be a part of their punishment. Nothing less will do a thing. But there are other things that can be done to make sure M$ can't maintain a monopoly like they have ever again.
1. No bundling. Force M$ to release an OS with no executable programs with it, except for what is necessary to change configurations, or fix stuff in the base OS that breaks. (registry viewer, notepad, not much else) If you can't install a program on it and have it work, then pull it from the shelves, and M$ pays for it.
Not just that , but disallow bundling of any other M$ programs either. Get rid of office. If people want word AND excel, they can buy (and install) them seperately.
2. Make legal arrangements with OEMs null and void. Make all of them pay the same price for windows, (which is publicly published) And make windows a non-essential purchase when getting a computer. OEMs should be able to put whatever they please on a machine before it is sold (If customers don't like it , don't buy from them)
3. As was mentioned before , institute a hiring freeze for programmers. Also force them to not be allowed to buy other companies.
4. Force new versions of office programs to properly support previous file format versions. If word 2002 can't load and save a file that is understandable by word 2000 , then it's pulled from the shelves, and M$ pays for it.
5. M$ is fudging its books to look better in financial markets. stop it.
6. M$ is forbidden to mention new products that are more 3 months away from manufacture. If the program is not released within 3 months, then do something like not allow its release for a further 6 months, or a big monetary fine.
7. Bugs in M$ products will mean that they are pulled from shelves, M$ pays for them, people who have already bought them can obtain refunds.
Anyway , you get the general idea. Find out all of their behaviour that extends their monopoly, and crush it. Still allow them to make programs though.
This really shits me. I had over a year of being refused for every job that I went for, because of "no experience" , even when they were specifically asking for graduates.
One place had the nerve of asking for graduates , and then asking them how to fix problems with aircraft flight sensors (the company was an airline) in the interview. Yeah , like I'm going to know that...
We deliberately rammed it with a robotic seabird that we make, and forced it to land on one of our airbases.
We are now holding the chips and resistors on board hostage. If you want them back, please issue an apology to the australian people, for spying on them.
Torture of these chip is proceeding well, we are running electric currents through them, and bending their little legs, with amazing results. You obviously don't prepare your components against torture. Some make squeaky little noises, others light up like a chrstmas tree. Bad move uncle sam, baaad...
And just on a side note, isn't it amazing how much money the USA has to spend defending themselves against their previous mistakes?
>MS thinks ONE of the ways to deal with it, is to
>discredit Open Source software
>Umm folks thats just about the only way MS knows
>how to deal with ANYTHING its part of FUD (either
>that or buy it).
There were a few other tactics.
1) Steal (ie stacker).
2) Threaten (compaq , intel , IBM , etc)
3) Change the API (DOS ain't done till lotus won't run)
4) Buy the developers (Borland, but they stopped that. Also Aussie linux user groups. Fat chance:-))
And none of them work against linux. They need to insult linux , or get politicians to make OSS illegal, or convince hardware manufacturers to not assist linux in any way. Even make hardware manufacturers deliberately obfusticate things to make it tough for linux developers to reverse engineer their hardware.
Don't forget that Billy Gates has dropped windows the OS, and gone with.net. 80% (According to a story I read ages ago and forgot about) of M$ developers are working on it. This is all a smokescreen until.net is up and running. All they then need to do is convice PHBs to use it, and then they've won.
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oh piffle.
transporter malfunctions are in the great fscking majority of star trek episodes. That's why it sucks so hard.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/
the parent poster to yours used the internationally accepted SI units. Noahbagels didn't.
as far as measurement is concerned, it IS the only frame of reference. Making mistakes with it causes things like smashing stuff into planets.
I've got a 233MHz 64M toshiba (480 CDT to be exact, with extra ram) , and it's getting a bit slow to run stuff like openoffice, mozilla, etc. Which is kinda important at meetings for the local LUG.
I've been looking at dells (I've heard the plastic casing cracks in the bottom of them), people want me to buy an apple laptop, (no second mouse button), and I dunno about toshibas, com^wHP laptops, IBM ones...
Which laptop should I get? I don't want an ATI card (driver problems, I'm pissed off with ATI), a touchpad would be nice, need to have a floppy (bootable) and a cdrom/dvd drive (bootable).
linux compatability is the most important thing, of course.
then an application restart would have fixed the problem.
yeah. Handspring devices on ebay. My palm (and it's replacement) died in a year. not impressed :-P
In school, someone from queensland told me about all of the different ways schoolkids had figured out how to kill them. I only remembered one:
:-))
You need a long piece of fishing line, with hooks on both ends. Both hooks need to meet about 1-1.5m off the ground when you throw the line over a power line (you know what's coming now , don't you?
stick one hook in a toad , throw the other hook over a power line (by a road) and stick that hook in the toad too. You now have a cane toad suspended above the ground.
Now you need a car (a ute , preferably), and a bat. Simply stand on the tray of the ute holding the bat, someone drives up to the toad , and you splatter it with the bat.
Has anyone tried a cane toad in a microwave? I want to know if they explode like gremlins...
http://www.fileplanet.com/index.asp?section=386&no loop=1
:-P
This is the upgrade patch for the V1.0 files.
The home page for it was http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/babylon/ , but that seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.
FS2 doesn't work under wine or wineX yet
I have a problem with standing next to people who glow in the dark.
our cat(s) back home will climb halfway up the 2m high screen door , and shake the crap out of it.
impossible to ignore.
It is a good thing when you want to slow down. Either vector the thrust, or just turn around.
Otherwise you have to rely on pissweak little rockets to put you into orbit around a big rock. And that's a bastard if you screw it up.
>Under what circumstances would the USA nuke Canada?
Terrence and Phillip let rip a farting joke unheard of in known history. An absolute stinker.
Haven't you been paying attention these last few years?, the hood is welded shut. That's the whole point. We can't fix it without M$ telling us how it works, and they don't want to tell us.
from an economic point of view, releasing a superior "product" (sorry for using that word :-P ) that is a lot cheaper than the default one, _IS_ an attack.
Out of order ?!
Fuck! Even in the future nothing works.
"The Crocodile Hunter" has been playing on tv for a little while now. And they just did his tassie show!. Reminds me of home...
I haven't seen a map of tassie in ages.
Naah, mate, you've got it all wrong.
You'll find out how fast kangaroos can move, and for how long.
And if worst comes to worst, kangaroos can always kick them to death. Or scratch their eyes out.
Getting M$ to publish their File formats has to be a part of their punishment. Nothing less will do a thing. But there are other things that can be done to make sure M$ can't maintain a monopoly like they have ever again.
1. No bundling. Force M$ to release an OS with no executable programs with it, except for what is necessary to change configurations, or fix stuff in the base OS that breaks. (registry viewer, notepad, not much else) If you can't install a program on it and have it work, then pull it from the shelves, and M$ pays for it.
Not just that , but disallow bundling of any other M$ programs either. Get rid of office. If people want word AND excel, they can buy (and install) them seperately.
2. Make legal arrangements with OEMs null and void. Make all of them pay the same price for windows, (which is publicly published) And make windows a non-essential purchase when getting a computer. OEMs should be able to put whatever they please on a machine before it is sold (If customers don't like it , don't buy from them)
3. As was mentioned before , institute a hiring freeze for programmers. Also force them to not be allowed to buy other companies.
4. Force new versions of office programs to properly support previous file format versions. If word 2002 can't load and save a file that is understandable by word 2000 , then it's pulled from the shelves, and M$ pays for it.
5. M$ is fudging its books to look better in financial markets. stop it.
6. M$ is forbidden to mention new products that are more 3 months away from manufacture. If the program is not released within 3 months, then do something like not allow its release for a further 6 months, or a big monetary fine.
7. Bugs in M$ products will mean that they are pulled from shelves, M$ pays for them, people who have already bought them can obtain refunds.
Anyway , you get the general idea. Find out all of their behaviour that extends their monopoly, and crush it. Still allow them to make programs though.
And take their $36b in the bank too.
Maybe we shouldn't confuse the poor yanks and poms with our version of english.
I mean , if they thought we were really going to put something in the "boot", they might think we walk around with no shoes on.
then call it "M$.FUD"
RIP the concept known as "training".
This really shits me. I had over a year of being refused for every job that I went for, because of "no experience" , even when they were specifically asking for graduates.
One place had the nerve of asking for graduates , and then asking them how to fix problems with aircraft flight sensors (the company was an airline) in the interview. Yeah , like I'm going to know that...
Being unemployed was so @*&^% depressing...
For those of you in Victoria, Australia, You can go see Damien Conway talk about some of the things he is doing for perl at the moment.
More details are at http://programmers.luv.asn.au/
We caught a plane of yours spying off our coast.
We deliberately rammed it with a robotic seabird that we make, and forced it to land on one of our airbases.
We are now holding the chips and resistors on board hostage. If you want them back, please issue an apology to the australian people, for spying on them.
Torture of these chip is proceeding well, we are running electric currents through them, and bending their little legs, with amazing results. You obviously don't prepare your components against torture. Some make squeaky little noises, others light up like a chrstmas tree. Bad move uncle sam, baaad...
And just on a side note, isn't it amazing how much money the USA has to spend defending themselves against their previous mistakes?
>MS thinks ONE of the ways to deal with it, is to
:-))
.net. 80% (According to a story I read ages ago and forgot about) of M$ developers are working on it. This is all a smokescreen until .net is up and running. All they then need to do is convice PHBs to use it, and then they've won.
>discredit Open Source software
>Umm folks thats just about the only way MS knows
>how to deal with ANYTHING its part of FUD (either
>that or buy it).
There were a few other tactics.
1) Steal (ie stacker).
2) Threaten (compaq , intel , IBM , etc)
3) Change the API (DOS ain't done till lotus won't run)
4) Buy the developers (Borland, but they stopped that. Also Aussie linux user groups. Fat chance
And none of them work against linux. They need to insult linux , or get politicians to make OSS illegal, or convince hardware manufacturers to not assist linux in any way. Even make hardware manufacturers deliberately obfusticate things to make it tough for linux developers to reverse engineer their hardware.
Don't forget that Billy Gates has dropped windows the OS, and gone with