It is a nice gui/os but damn if I can't get past the fact taht I can only buy my hardware for the OS from one vendor. That's why I'll never buy a mac. I don't like their hardware, because it's proprietary. I would consider buying their OS if (when) then port it for use on intel hardware. Not because I'm married to intel, not at all, just because that's the hardware that is available from multiple competing vendors. And besides that, I think their design team should be taken out back and shot, or splashed with water or something.
Come back and explain this to us once you've finished middle school, son. In the mean time I encourage you to further your scientific studies. Until you know what you're talking about, you are best advised to keep your trap shut.
Salt water is water (h2o) and ionized Sodium Cloride (Na+ and Cl-). The electrolysis of this solution has been discussed enough in this article so I won't go into it again. For details look to the posts that mention the production of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), aka bleach.
This is one area where I disagree with the GPL. Publicly funded research resulting in code should be made available using something like the BSD license with *no restrictions*. The GPL has its place in the world, don't get me wrong, but not everything should necessarily be restricted by this license.
The difference is that you *can* look at the source code. Does it honestly make you feel better installing a Micro$oft binary update?
And, BTW, some of us do go through this code. Not all of it, obviously, but some of it. I've read pretty well the entire linux kernel source. Well, okay, I didn't go through all of the driver sources but the point is, yeah, the code does get read.
What, BTW, is the bloody significance of the number 17. Shouldn't we be waiting for the 25th anniversary or something? At least, for a bunch of geeks, we should have celebrated it last year when it was 0xf years old.
The average FCN doesn't need Office.
Open office is MORE than enough. As soon as the Microsoft apologists get that through their thick bloody heads we will be able to move on and away from this nonsense about office.
About the only issue that I can see for the average home user is the problem with Microsoft's proprietary streaming media formats, and financial software. But if we can avoid using quicken or money with a usable version of gnucash then we're all going to be better off anyway.
I tried this, but found that it was difficult to ensure that L^Husers would leave their machines running. The best approach is to change the user's 'My Documents' folder to point to the samba server which you also use for authentication. Authenticating against a samba server from a Win98 box is fairly straight forward. Setting up a PDC for the Win2k box is a bit more work, but once it's working, you're laughing.
I couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, I rarely take the time to say anything on/. since it's filled with a bunch of know nothing twits. You, sir/madame, have restored my faith in a small part of the/. culture.
Hip hip hooray.
Stallman really should shut his fucking gob about this one.
Right, fine, the digital copies won't last. That's not the bloody point though. If researchers can just download an image of the tablet they don't have to come in contact with the original and perhaps it will help to preserve them that much longer.
Maybe brian was having a bad day. Maybe his wife just left him for an Earthlink customer support rep. Maybe his crack habit was starting to catch up to him. Or perhaps, just maybe, he is just really stupid and didn't understand you.
Just the fact that your comment inspired so little commentary is enough evidence that/. is now populated almost exclusively by wannabe 15 year old snot nosed wankers. There was a time when usenet was cool, and if you could stand up to Geoff Miller you had real cajones. Those days are gone.
Oh shut your fucking cake hole and go start a gaming site for cheap fucking assholes and see how long and how good your goddamn site turns out to be. Fuck what a bunch of simpering fucking idiots this fucking place has turned into. Why do I even bother reading the replies to the articles, because you're all a bunch of fucking wankers.
I got this ALL the time during my stint as a sysadmin at one of the local universities. The goddamn scanning software would always default to BMP as the default format and I'd find people saving 25MB scans of their bloody holiday photos. Nothing would ever be enough to convince these people that JPG or PNG would be a better choice.
And they wondered why *I* was grumpy when the network drives filled up.
Okay, okay, okay. We all know that registration and giving out your goddamn email address turns all of you/.er's off. But, for companies pursuing this type of distribution model,/. is probably the very last place you should ask about this -- unless you're trying to sell software to cheap bastards who expect everything for free but, most of whom, give back abso-fucking-lutely nothing, to keep track of their warez.
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BTW, if you expect users to wait for a login to arrive in their email, then you shouldn't be surprised that many of them don't bother with the download. And, on top of that, you shouldn't be surprised to discover that, of those who do download the software, a good portion will not bother installing it anyway (it's free! I'll download it! Done. Aw fuckit).
As an 'about to give up' shareware programmer I'd say forget about the free downloads. Make 'em pay up front and you'll know that they'll install it. Offer them an MONEY BACK GUARENTEE and have one of 'dem statistical accountancy types figure out how much will actually be reclaimed.
What really burns my ass, as a shareware programmer (who also does open source linux kernel programming BTW), is the fucking attitude of these cheap bastard/. types who send me email, critisize my placement of a button in a dialog box, demand a never ending stream of features and then bitch about the fact that it's shareware. I'd be a fucking millionaire if I had a dollar for every time I heard one of these cheap bastards say, "add this feature and I'll register your software, otherwise forget it". This is why your business model will never work. When I started the business as shareware, I and other shareware programmers, thought we were being altruistic by offering the ability to try before you buy (I started doing this in the late 80's under Windoze 3.1).
Well, good luck, and a big FUCK YOU to all the cheap bastards.
A little late in the process, but MOD ME UP ya bunch of cheap bastards.
You forgot option 3, stop listening to the fucking crap music that they spew on society. Works for me. And if the RIAA or Jack Valenti comes after me I'll soon kick their arses across the pud fucking room. That fuckwit Valenti can suck my cock, an activity I'm sure he misses since he spent the 60's on the end of Johnson's dick.
Not even in the bloody US would they possibly consider an under 18 year old to be a child, would they? Kids must be able to work at McDonalds dishing out death, no? I mean, they kill teens under 18 in the US so certainly they allow them to work, right? Maybe the kid is under 12. That would make the Child Labour issue an issue, okay?
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Lemon entry, my dear Watson, lemon entry!
Salt water is water (h2o) and ionized Sodium Cloride (Na+ and Cl-). The electrolysis of this solution has been discussed enough in this article so I won't go into it again. For details look to the posts that mention the production of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), aka bleach.
There are grey areas.
The tarball now includes the first directory level as linux-2.4.19 instead of linux! Now I don't have to do,
/usr/src/tmp ../linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2 | tar xf - ../linux-2.4.19
:'(
cd
bzcat
mv linux
Two whole commands fewer!
I'm already kind of missing those days.
And yes, Molson, while it originated in Montreal, is piss just like BudMillerCoors except that it has a wee bit more alcohol.
And, BTW, some of us do go through this code. Not all of it, obviously, but some of it. I've read pretty well the entire linux kernel source. Well, okay, I didn't go through all of the driver sources but the point is, yeah, the code does get read.
D'Oh! Monday morning brain fart. I meant 0x10 of course :)
Nothing makes sense.
And I can say that you're posting of that quote from Romans is also quite offensive.
Jesus can bite my arse.
About the only issue that I can see for the average home user is the problem with Microsoft's proprietary streaming media formats, and financial software. But if we can avoid using quicken or money with a usable version of gnucash then we're all going to be better off anyway.
i) BTW, make sure they know that you are happy with the position, except for your current salary. No one will deny you that.
ii) Don't listen to these commies on /.
iii) wear a suit and tie
What a load of horseshit.
Hard
Right. But it's funny that they don't bother mentionning how the 1GHz Itanium 2 will perform against the 2.2GHz P4. Funny that.
They have to go through that process anyway. Whether you buy or rent the modem is irrelevant.
I couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, I rarely take the time to say anything on /. since it's filled with a bunch of know nothing twits. You, sir/madame, have restored my faith in a small part of the /. culture.
Hip hip hooray.
Stallman really should shut his fucking gob about this one.
Get yer grubby hands off my tablets!
Or maybe he was Parisian.
Just the fact that your comment inspired so little commentary is enough evidence that /. is now populated almost exclusively by wannabe 15 year old snot nosed wankers. There was a time when usenet was cool, and if you could stand up to Geoff Miller you had real cajones. Those days are gone.
Mod me to hell, ya little wankstain cocksucker.
And they wondered why *I* was grumpy when the network drives filled up.
Okay, okay, okay. We all know that registration and giving out your goddamn email address turns all of you
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BTW, if you expect users to wait for a login to arrive in their email, then you shouldn't be surprised that many of them don't bother with the download. And, on top of that, you shouldn't be surprised to discover that, of those who do download the software, a good portion will not bother installing it anyway (it's free! I'll download it! Done. Aw fuckit).
As an 'about to give up' shareware programmer I'd say forget about the free downloads. Make 'em pay up front and you'll know that they'll install it. Offer them an MONEY BACK GUARENTEE and have one of 'dem statistical accountancy types figure out how much will actually be reclaimed.
What really burns my ass, as a shareware programmer (who also does open source linux kernel programming BTW), is the fucking attitude of these cheap bastard /. types who send me email, critisize my placement of a button in a dialog box, demand a never ending stream of features and then bitch about the fact that it's shareware. I'd be a fucking millionaire if I had a dollar for every time I heard one of these cheap bastards say, "add this feature and I'll register your software, otherwise forget it". This is why your business model will never work. When I started the business as shareware, I and other shareware programmers, thought we were being altruistic by offering the ability to try before you buy (I started doing this in the late 80's under Windoze 3.1).
Well, good luck, and a big FUCK YOU to all the cheap bastards.
A little late in the process, but MOD ME UP ya bunch of cheap bastards.
ps. Fuck it all, it's all shite.
Gotta go to work.