Queries. Querie's would be like saying "Query the Cat's Paw has claws". Do you have spell check turned off in Firefox or something? Typically I'm not a huge grammar Nazi but you're using the plural form of Cat's (Cats) instead of possessive in your user name, too (probably due to user name punctuation restriction).
My rationale for switching is that a) apple hardware is more expensive (yes i am aware of the pros/cons of apple hardware's increased cost; do a google for "hadlock macrumors" or "hadlock mac slashdot") and b) i futz ("poweruser") with the system so much i end up downloading a lot of hacks/workarounds that i can get the same effect using linux and modifying things with the same amount of effort. Plus I don't have to pay the apple tax.
I'm not ditching apple completely, i have my old powerbook i use to sync my ipod with itunes and my music collection, for adium and a couple other things, but until the other hinge on the display breaks, i see no need for a second mac. When that day comes i may just buy an Eee 901 and a g4 ibook. Ubuntu's gotten good enough that I consider it a first class OS, even if it does have PS3-like market share at the moment.
I used POSIX as my term of choice since there's a lot of closed source software that runs on proprietary UNIXes as well as linux and figured it would save me from being flamed. I guess I failed in that respect.
Firefox is barely hanging on with 10-12% web browser marketshare, and it's avalible on all computers past and present, including those with windows. Apple hovers between 3-7%. I'm reasonably sure that linux is less than 1% of the desktop market. I can't really see Linux eating into Windows' share, more like eating into Apple's. I'm getting ready to switch from apple to linux as soon as they fix the voicechat bug in wine for TF2. There are already lots of developers for posix compliant OSes. Really you only need a market of 10,000 to start attracting developers.
Oh sure, it's like making use of inflammable liquids. For example, you could just inflammable liquid around a burning house and put out all the flames with the inflammable liquid.
Last time I checked Laserjet IIs have been supported since linux's conception. They go for less than $100 and often have the eithernet adapter added already. That printer will probably outlive your children. Dropped mine from 5' up on it's corner onto concrete and still runs like a champ.
I've had really good luck with intel brand motherboards. Other than futzing about with an eithernet driver on a 7.x version of ubuntu (works in most recent version), intel has pretty good driver support, and the boards exceedingly rarely fail. Price/features are competitive with other name brand boards like Asus.
I know that in large parts of Dallas you can get fiber to the door. Most all of Plano and Richardson have it available. Large portions of other suburbs of Dallas have it as well - probably closing in on 2 million people alone. Major urban centers are a little harder to do, as evidenced by King County in the 1990's; they found it very hard to run a continuous fiber optic link across certian highways. Suburbs are much easier, not as difficult as concrete, and you only have to run the fiber to the terminal box on the outside of the building. I can't even imagine what's involved to hook a major condo or major office building in downtown to a grid like that.
Seeing as how we're STILL having trouble getting DSL into the sticks (like West Texas), I'd imagine fiber will take a while. My cousins are expecting DSL to reach the end of the (long) road they're on in about 3 more years.
By whom? I mean yeah DARPA probably laid the original lines, but there was a huge boom of laying (and leasing) - privately - dark fiber all through the 1990's. I'm just curious. Or are you referring to the giant blocks of IP addresses?
Congratulations on adding absolutely nothing to the conversation! Including all of your previously searchable posts. Jesus. Go kill yourself now.
Idea: Instead of telling people why they're wrong and leaving it at that, continue on with what you think should be done instead, and what brought you to that conclusion. You'll note you have zero replies to the comments you made - that's because they're not worth reading. Rather than being a jackass to everyone, you might consider constructive critisism. Registering an account on slashdot and then just thread-shitting does nobody any good except to stroke your "i'm awesome and you're completely WRONG-cock". This is the second of this type of reply I've gotten to a highly rated comment in the last month - what is it with you people?
My friend won a 9800 pro before they even came out (yeah he was THAT GUY at quakecon). He's got it pushing a 1080p hdtv now as part of his media box (though it doesn't support HDCP since it wasn't even invented yet). Those are amazing cards considering the life you were able to wring out of them (5+ years)
Well you know that global warming is caused by spent nuclear power waste seeping into the ground water, don't you? All aspects of modern living are eeeeeevil and will haunt us to the end of our days.
... So says a 4 day old slashdot article. Next week we're going to have an article on how the sinking of the titanic influenced thermal currents in the atlantic, reducing El Nino's effect in the pacific, thus causing plants to flower before bees have come completely out of hibernation, leading to starvation.
Clearly, since this is the most recent theory, all previous theories are deeply flawed.
I'm impressed by the phenomenal amount of shit everyone's throwing on boeing for this. This is completely par for the course, especially if you ever lived in washington state. About half the state has been employed by Boeing at some point in the past, and then laid off due to random Boeing-ness such as this. Think of it this way: have you ever seen a goverment contractor complete anything on time? Have you ever seen road construction finished in a timely manner? Boeing is a contractor for the government (millitary) and considering the number of airline bailouts the government has done in the past, you could almost consider boeing a government subcontractor for the civilian side as well.
Yes but in reach for whom? Cell phones were avalible in 1985 but 19 year old community college dropout pot head who worked at the local pizza place couldn't afford a new one on his wages. Hell the head of the average household couldn't even afford one. I don't know what your definition of Ubiquitous is, but that's mine. Right now boob jobs are around 3-5 grand, more simple surgery like a guy's tubes snipped is still close to a grand. Hell, non medical surgery like dental work runs $780 and up for crowns, etc. The most a "pothead" can really afford in terms of luxuries is $300 or so. I guess if you flew to the carribian to get the surgery done - oh wait airfare costs $300 alone. There's a lower limit to biological implants and people near the poverty level are not positioned to get them.
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Queries. Querie's would be like saying "Query the Cat's Paw has claws". Do you have spell check turned off in Firefox or something? Typically I'm not a huge grammar Nazi but you're using the plural form of Cat's (Cats) instead of possessive in your user name, too (probably due to user name punctuation restriction).
Fantastic. Now I'm going to start transposing these :(
My rationale for switching is that a) apple hardware is more expensive (yes i am aware of the pros/cons of apple hardware's increased cost; do a google for "hadlock macrumors" or "hadlock mac slashdot") and b) i futz ("poweruser") with the system so much i end up downloading a lot of hacks/workarounds that i can get the same effect using linux and modifying things with the same amount of effort. Plus I don't have to pay the apple tax.
I'm not ditching apple completely, i have my old powerbook i use to sync my ipod with itunes and my music collection, for adium and a couple other things, but until the other hinge on the display breaks, i see no need for a second mac. When that day comes i may just buy an Eee 901 and a g4 ibook. Ubuntu's gotten good enough that I consider it a first class OS, even if it does have PS3-like market share at the moment.
I used POSIX as my term of choice since there's a lot of closed source software that runs on proprietary UNIXes as well as linux and figured it would save me from being flamed. I guess I failed in that respect.
Firefox is barely hanging on with 10-12% web browser marketshare, and it's avalible on all computers past and present, including those with windows. Apple hovers between 3-7%. I'm reasonably sure that linux is less than 1% of the desktop market. I can't really see Linux eating into Windows' share, more like eating into Apple's. I'm getting ready to switch from apple to linux as soon as they fix the voicechat bug in wine for TF2. There are already lots of developers for posix compliant OSes. Really you only need a market of 10,000 to start attracting developers.
the was no tuition at the University of California where I attended
I always wondered how my dad, a son of a carpenter, managed to afford to attend Berkley.
Dont forget the americanium 135 in the smoke detector.
Oh sure, it's like making use of inflammable liquids. For example, you could just inflammable liquid around a burning house and put out all the flames with the inflammable liquid.
Dons flame suit
+9, ingenious
Last time I checked Laserjet IIs have been supported since linux's conception. They go for less than $100 and often have the eithernet adapter added already. That printer will probably outlive your children. Dropped mine from 5' up on it's corner onto concrete and still runs like a champ.
I've had really good luck with intel brand motherboards. Other than futzing about with an eithernet driver on a 7.x version of ubuntu (works in most recent version), intel has pretty good driver support, and the boards exceedingly rarely fail. Price/features are competitive with other name brand boards like Asus.
If this were a fark thread, you'd have started a cascade of *facepalm* macros just now.
You, sir, have seen too many Seinfield episodes.
In many states you can be sued for improperly providing CPR. In fact, it happens quite a lot.
I wonder how many library of congresses worth of people use Ubuntu? How many football fields the CDs Ubuntu has sent out could they cover?
Freezing point of (salty!) saltwater is 0*F. It's easier to make a scale when you have three constants instead of just two :)
I've been using OSX since oct 2000; I have yet to experience a screwup due to an OS software upgrade. I'm sure many other people feel the same way...
I know that in large parts of Dallas you can get fiber to the door. Most all of Plano and Richardson have it available. Large portions of other suburbs of Dallas have it as well - probably closing in on 2 million people alone. Major urban centers are a little harder to do, as evidenced by King County in the 1990's; they found it very hard to run a continuous fiber optic link across certian highways. Suburbs are much easier, not as difficult as concrete, and you only have to run the fiber to the terminal box on the outside of the building. I can't even imagine what's involved to hook a major condo or major office building in downtown to a grid like that.
Seeing as how we're STILL having trouble getting DSL into the sticks (like West Texas), I'd imagine fiber will take a while. My cousins are expecting DSL to reach the end of the (long) road they're on in about 3 more years.
By whom? I mean yeah DARPA probably laid the original lines, but there was a huge boom of laying (and leasing) - privately - dark fiber all through the 1990's. I'm just curious. Or are you referring to the giant blocks of IP addresses?
Congratulations on adding absolutely nothing to the conversation! Including all of your previously searchable posts. Jesus. Go kill yourself now.
Idea: Instead of telling people why they're wrong and leaving it at that, continue on with what you think should be done instead, and what brought you to that conclusion. You'll note you have zero replies to the comments you made - that's because they're not worth reading. Rather than being a jackass to everyone, you might consider constructive critisism. Registering an account on slashdot and then just thread-shitting does nobody any good except to stroke your "i'm awesome and you're completely WRONG-cock". This is the second of this type of reply I've gotten to a highly rated comment in the last month - what is it with you people?
My friend won a 9800 pro before they even came out (yeah he was THAT GUY at quakecon). He's got it pushing a 1080p hdtv now as part of his media box (though it doesn't support HDCP since it wasn't even invented yet). Those are amazing cards considering the life you were able to wring out of them (5+ years)
Well you know that global warming is caused by spent nuclear power waste seeping into the ground water, don't you? All aspects of modern living are eeeeeevil and will haunt us to the end of our days.
... So says a 4 day old slashdot article. Next week we're going to have an article on how the sinking of the titanic influenced thermal currents in the atlantic, reducing El Nino's effect in the pacific, thus causing plants to flower before bees have come completely out of hibernation, leading to starvation.
Clearly, since this is the most recent theory, all previous theories are deeply flawed.
smithers: RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
I'm impressed by the phenomenal amount of shit everyone's throwing on boeing for this. This is completely par for the course, especially if you ever lived in washington state. About half the state has been employed by Boeing at some point in the past, and then laid off due to random Boeing-ness such as this. Think of it this way: have you ever seen a goverment contractor complete anything on time? Have you ever seen road construction finished in a timely manner? Boeing is a contractor for the government (millitary) and considering the number of airline bailouts the government has done in the past, you could almost consider boeing a government subcontractor for the civilian side as well.
all we need is a camera and an LED projecting an image of a keyboard onto a flat surface to emulate a keyboard.
Do a google search for "laser keyboard". I dare you. Or Ebay. I double dare you. Did you even read my post? Nub.
Yes but in reach for whom? Cell phones were avalible in 1985 but 19 year old community college dropout pot head who worked at the local pizza place couldn't afford a new one on his wages. Hell the head of the average household couldn't even afford one. I don't know what your definition of Ubiquitous is, but that's mine. Right now boob jobs are around 3-5 grand, more simple surgery like a guy's tubes snipped is still close to a grand. Hell, non medical surgery like dental work runs $780 and up for crowns, etc. The most a "pothead" can really afford in terms of luxuries is $300 or so. I guess if you flew to the carribian to get the surgery done - oh wait airfare costs $300 alone. There's a lower limit to biological implants and people near the poverty level are not positioned to get them.