Yeah, but how many people had computers back then? My parents got an 8086 so that my mother could write her Ph.D. thesis back in 1985. It took them a week of trying to get DOS installed before they took it to a computer-saavy friend who installed it in an hour.
And as for Word, yeah, I'd like to see an open format too, but right now Word reigns supreme; if Linux wants an Office suite that can compete, it has to read the competitor's file format well (like Word did with WordPerfect back in the day).
Most people can't install an operating system period. I use Linux exclusively at home, and my girlfriend has had no trouble adapting (she uses it mostly to check her e-mail, and plays a bunch of the KDE games). If "ready for the desktop" for most users means word processing, internet access, and so forth, Linux is almost there - it just needs to be able to read Word documents properly (and OpenOffice comes close).
Are you kidding? gnu.org is useable. It's standards-compliant. For Christ's sake, this is what the web should be! Get those two down, and then add the sugar!
True, but how many people keep abreast of these things? How many people will go out and buy an HDTV on the assumption that it'll work the same as other TV-type things they have experience with?
I was banned from the computers for six months in the sixth grade for writing some really obscene stuff on the tombstones. It's not that they caught me at the time. Rather, they got a bit upset when the grade three class came in and their eyes popped out of their heads.
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You'd better not be talking shit about Eowyn-babe, or I'll fucking cut you.
Yeah, but how many people had computers back then? My parents got an 8086 so that my mother could write her Ph.D. thesis back in 1985. It took them a week of trying to get DOS installed before they took it to a computer-saavy friend who installed it in an hour.
And as for Word, yeah, I'd like to see an open format too, but right now Word reigns supreme; if Linux wants an Office suite that can compete, it has to read the competitor's file format well (like Word did with WordPerfect back in the day).
Most people can't install an operating system period. I use Linux exclusively at home, and my girlfriend has had no trouble adapting (she uses it mostly to check her e-mail, and plays a bunch of the KDE games). If "ready for the desktop" for most users means word processing, internet access, and so forth, Linux is almost there - it just needs to be able to read Word documents properly (and OpenOffice comes close).
?- call(pot, property(kettle, black)).
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Are you kidding? gnu.org is useable. It's standards-compliant. For Christ's sake, this is what the web should be! Get those two down, and then add the sugar!
True, but how many people keep abreast of these things? How many people will go out and buy an HDTV on the assumption that it'll work the same as other TV-type things they have experience with?
Very.
Beautiful!
I was banned from the computers for six months in the sixth grade for writing some really obscene stuff on the tombstones. It's not that they caught me at the time. Rather, they got a bit upset when the grade three class came in and their eyes popped out of their heads.
Yo.
I would, but their inability to take baths makes it hard.
Nope. "It's" is short for "it is". "Its" indicates possessive. That's an exception to the usual rule regarding apostrophes.
When did America become this country of limp wristed wussies
Probably at about the same time Dr. Elders was fired as surgeon general for her comments on masturbation.
I think we have strayed from the teachings of Devo:
When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something's going wrong
You must whip it
now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good
When a good time turns around
You must whip it
You will never live it down
Unless you whip it
No one gets their way
Until they whip it
I say whip it
Whip it good
Damn it, as soon as I post that, I find the instance I was looking for.
From your original posting: but it's most practical application
That's the "it's" that should be "its".
I misparsed your first sentence; apologies. You're right; it's "it's". :)
That's "its", and "grammar".
Let's not forget softwood lumber tariffs, which have cost the Canadian lumber industry thousands of jobs.
Lines are 1-D, planes are 2-D. Thanks for playing!
Man, that's seriously clever. I'd mod you up, but I choose not to moderate. :)
YHBT.
Really? I'm getting $15k CDN which covers my tuition, books, living expenses, and gives me a bit of money to spare. My undergrad average? 80.02%.
What kind of overloading? Operators? No. Function signatures? No. Something else? Probably not.
From td's profile:
Yes, I'm the one that did Duff's Device.
You're right - they are bombshells!
Your dad didn't fuck your mom? ;)