I can just imagine the Microsoft sponsored splash screen on the Mandrake installer: "Welcome to Mandrake Linux installer! Your life would be much easier if you were currently installing Windows XP Professional!"
What next? Back doors so advertizers can see where we surf?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is already happening rampantly in the Windows world. Ad-Aware is a wonderful program to get rid of that crap, though. I guess we'll soon need a Linux version!
This sounds like a bad idea... It's annoying enough talking listening to people on the phone when I can distract myself by doing other things. Imagine if I cound't read Slashdot while users where telling me their life stories? How tedious would that be?!;-)
Exactly.. I'm Canadian, and I can't get a job in the US without getting a green card and/or work visa (or whatever the requirements are, I've never done it). Why would Americans be surprised that they can't get a job in another country without going through a similar process?
I haven't read the article due to a severe Slashdotting, but it sounds like a troll, I don't imagine anyone would seriously emmigrate to India from the US unless that happens to be their family's background. You could quit programming and become a part time janitor and still have a better standard of living in North America. (no offence to Indians intended)
If she did cheat on the SAT's, it *does* hurt the other kids who didn't cheat, and maybe don't get to go to the good college because the cheaters got better marks...
Thanks for the tip, I haven't tried the Flac encoder. Does Winamp play that format? I've experimented with Ogg and MP3, Ogg sounds brighter than MP3, and I haven't decided which I like better. I think my cheap computer speakers are part of the problem though.
I personally HATE trying to get a full album off kazaa and would rather go buy it
Slightly off topic, but I agree with you on this. Why doesn't anyone share ISO images of audio CD's? You could make the ISO, then gzip it and share that. The recipient would simply unzip it and burn the image. Your sound quality would be perfect, not like MP3, and it's a lot more convenient than searching for the song list then all the songs. I guess the compression wouldn't be anywhere near as good as MP3, though.
I get password rage myself, although it is caused by moronic users who can't remember their passwords. Since they laid off all the fist level support and helpdesk people in my company, now I'm stuck resetting passwords all day. I blame the users for this, but it *will* be nice for IT staff when biometrics replace passwords.
Wow, science fiction from the 30's. It will be an interesting read just to see the perspective of someone in the 30's: By 1950 everyone will be driving flying rocket cars. By 1970 the world will be destroyed by war, by 1990 a new race of ape-people will take over the planet. By 2003 the war against the apes will have been won, and the whole galaxy will be colonized by humans! Cool!
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Yeah, good thing he didn't turn out weird after seeing Alien as a kid!
One word: Aliens.
What we really need is an Emacs live CD, forget Linux! Just boot into Emacs!
I can just imagine the Microsoft sponsored splash screen on the Mandrake installer: "Welcome to Mandrake Linux installer! Your life would be much easier if you were currently installing Windows XP Professional!"
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is already happening rampantly in the Windows world. Ad-Aware is a wonderful program to get rid of that crap, though. I guess we'll soon need a Linux version!
This sounds like a bad idea ... It's annoying enough talking listening to people on the phone when I can distract myself by doing other things. Imagine if I cound't read Slashdot while users where telling me their life stories? How tedious would that be?! ;-)
CTRL-D to bookmark, folks! Woot!
Cool, I use the same mouse as Cowboy Neil!
I haven't read the article due to a severe Slashdotting, but it sounds like a troll, I don't imagine anyone would seriously emmigrate to India from the US unless that happens to be their family's background. You could quit programming and become a part time janitor and still have a better standard of living in North America. (no offence to Indians intended)
Are you the guy behind the "Enlarge your penis" emails? Or just the get rich quick ones...
FYI, there's another story about this over at The Register.
If she did cheat on the SAT's, it *does* hurt the other kids who didn't cheat, and maybe don't get to go to the good college because the cheaters got better marks...
I'm sure the artists have no say in it, it's the record companies that are pulling the strings.
Thanks for the tip, I haven't tried the Flac encoder. Does Winamp play that format? I've experimented with Ogg and MP3, Ogg sounds brighter than MP3, and I haven't decided which I like better. I think my cheap computer speakers are part of the problem though.
You do the crime, you do the time!
Slightly off topic, but I agree with you on this. Why doesn't anyone share ISO images of audio CD's? You could make the ISO, then gzip it and share that. The recipient would simply unzip it and burn the image. Your sound quality would be perfect, not like MP3, and it's a lot more convenient than searching for the song list then all the songs. I guess the compression wouldn't be anywhere near as good as MP3, though.
So what does that make you, then?
No, not even cluebats .. I now actually have to speak to users face to face. Oh the horror! Good thing my resume's up to date.
Nah, I'm not *that* much of a BOFH! Almost, but not quite!
I get password rage myself, although it is caused by moronic users who can't remember their passwords. Since they laid off all the fist level support and helpdesk people in my company, now I'm stuck resetting passwords all day. I blame the users for this, but it *will* be nice for IT staff when biometrics replace passwords.
I can just imagine Joe Sixpack in the computer store:
Joe: I need a computer that can run Kazaa
Salesman: Oh, you want to download music?
Joe: Uh, yeah, music! I want to download.....music!
Which cam is in the womens change room? ;-)
Wow, science fiction from the 30's. It will be an interesting read just to see the perspective of someone in the 30's: By 1950 everyone will be driving flying rocket cars. By 1970 the world will be destroyed by war, by 1990 a new race of ape-people will take over the planet. By 2003 the war against the apes will have been won, and the whole galaxy will be colonized by humans! Cool!
Haha, touche!! :-)
Comon, editors, let's use the proper grammar, at least when talking about schools! To vs Too vs Two.