Corel Wordperfect 8 for Linux was so horribly bad, I actually quit using it and moved over to StarOffice 5 instead. I'd rather use a bloated, buggy, fugly interface than a piece of software that is so confusingly laid out, and so very non-conformant to the OS it's running.
Blech. It's no wonder that when M$ bought out Corel it didn't affect the Linux community one iota.
I won't disagree with you since I don't have an MBA in English, but I would like to know why dictionary.com's first definition of the word "bring" in both the Princeton University and American Heritage dictionaries appears to agree with my usage of the word, and, if you wouldn't mind, how I have used it incorrectly, or how I have interpreted the definition incorrectly. This way, in the future, I'll be able to avoid misuse of the word.
Thanks!:-)
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>When will we see a working "cachedot"?
About 3 years ago. Yeah, I was here then. Yeah, it didn't cache any of the links. Yeah, it was called cachedot.slashdot.org. Oh, and yeah, it got taken down because it wasn't a very useful idea.:-)
Sorry, I forgot to mention I was only talking about items designed for non-private, unauthorized (by the originator/owner of equipment originating the signal) receiving/transmitting equipment.
Yeah, but when I forget I simply avoid using the words.
>Can you fix your car every time something goes wrong, or do you take it into a mechanic?
Yeah, but when he says "your tires would last longer if you didn't brake so hard" I take his advice.
>Do you know how to ballroom dance?
Nope.
The moral of my story is that if you don't know how to do something with something that is either not yours, or is quite expensive, you have three choices:
- Don't try.
- Learn how to before you try.
- Bring it to someone who can.
The other moral is that when someone who is clearly knowledgeable about something gives you advice you _follow_ it. Especially when it's their personal responsibility to keep that something working.
Last moral: If your job depends on you properly operating a device, you damn well should memorize 100% of its basic functions (in the case of a VP, how to operate a GUI environment, or in the case of a delivery man, how to drive a car).
But hey, maybe I have done something to annoy someone at some point. Ok, I _know_ I have.:-)
>If it were possible to support an entire ISP over these links, then Ma Bell would already be doing it, instead of selling them off at a loss.
If only that were true, ISDN would be totally dead.
Ma Bell doesn't care about efficiency. They ran over 500 pairs of copper to my area from a CO 15 km away, and now they'll run another 1000 with a new subdivision opening up. Yup, that's _far_ cheaper than running a small remote CO in my area (and no, space sure isn't a priority and is not expensive in my area).
I guess in the long run it'll save them money since they can't offer money-losing DSL in my area to the 75% (my estimate) of customers here than want it (95% of my area subscribes to satellite service, so I'm extrapolating here).
For an area with only 500 houses, I still regularly see Bell trucks in my area, and every one of my neighbours has called in complaints about dead lines more than once.
>I'm just guessing, but likely the FCC says you can't broadcast, but you can own the hardware.
If only. I'm sitting in Canada with an el-cheapo Radio Shack scanner than won't pick up cell phones as it happens to be an American model, and ownership of anything that can receive these frequencies is illegal. I don't doubt anything that can broadcast on them is illegal to own too. Bummer.
Now remember: Listening to idiots in the city broadcast their personal information in the clear -- BAD. Using a radar detector so you can break the speed limit -- GOOD.:-)
>the code only needs to be checked when the programs are first loaded, not all the time
In that case I'm not worried about it at all.
Just get a generic authentication program made, add it as a bumper to the program, and call the area of the program that actually starts running real code.
>If it's remotely drinkable, it's not hot enough to char your skin and put you in a hospital. If it's not, they shouldn't be selling it as food.
Agreed, and since no other customers (AFAIK) complained of 3nd degree burns to their lips, mouth, and throat due to that coffee, I think she used the coffee improperly.
That's the neat thing about skin, though. All coffee, of any reasonable temperature, can cause 3rd degree burns. Its all in how long it stays in contact with your skin. People who aren't stupid know not to gulp a mouthful of coffee and keep swishing it around their mouth for 10 minutes. Coffee is intended to be sipped in small amounts that cool quickly enough in your mouth to not cause burns.
And there we have the problem. Coffee is not intended to cool on people's private parts, and therfore, unless the majority of customers that day sued for a burnt mouth, she is still an idiot.
Per minute (as I mentioned) it is free to use phones in Canada for virtually all local calls (which are the strong majority of calls made).
I stayed dialed into another computer 24/7 for over a year and all I paid was the (provincewide standard) approx $20 CDN per month line rental fee. Not a bad deal, if you ask me.:-)
>Assuming a miracle signal. And that you or your neighbor won't restart, disconnect the lan, or run around in lead signal-blocking pants for five consecutive days.
rsync it from the beginning, or just hope nothing major happens for 5 days.
Yup. And Linux is following the 5-year MS-DOS virus curve just fine. It took a while for _really_ destructive viruses to be created for MS-DOS -- but, of course, I believe there are already destructive Linux viruses.
>I bet you wish they still manufactured lawn darts
Yep. I had them as a kid and they were lots of fun. Of course, I wasn't an idiot, and had I been my parents wouldn't allow me to play with them. Not to mention they followed the "accompany with appropriate parental supervision" adivice on the box.
>baby toys composed entirely of small plastic parts.
That's a little silly, don't you think? A 6 year old is pretty safe with most things when a parent is watching. Babies (in general) aren't particularly safe with anything.
>dude, she had to have a skin graft around her vagina
Bummer for her. I know a certain someone who had to have their privates sewn back ON after improper use of a knife (or was it scissors)? This doesn't mean the company making the "weapon" is at fault for someone else's blatant misuse of the product.
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Corel Wordperfect 8 for Linux was so horribly bad, I actually quit using it and moved over to StarOffice 5 instead. I'd rather use a bloated, buggy, fugly interface than a piece of software that is so confusingly laid out, and so very non-conformant to the OS it's running.
Blech. It's no wonder that when M$ bought out Corel it didn't affect the Linux community one iota.
Heh... want to talk about credit card fraud?
The place I work at (which I'm not going to disclose right now) asked us for:
- Rent receipts
- My financial breakdown
- Cost of schooling
- Credit Card receipts
on our job application, so that I can "prove" I need the job badly enough (it's a student job, partly paid for by gov't wages).
How's that for fraudulent? I'd sue, but I don't think I'd win (the place I'm working for is pretty damn big). Ho hum.
Needless to say, they're not getting the receipts until the talk to me personally. Hasn't been a problem yet.
>Any competitive event that cannot be undertaken whilst smoking.
;-)
You should check out a bowling alley in a city that doesn't ban smoking, then.
I've seen clouds in the sky less dense than the ones in bowling alleys.
>Don't lie about how easy it is to install and configure the OSS equivalents.
:-)
Of all things, this is where open office, as open source software shines, though.
The installer is extremely fast, intuitive, and easy to use by anyone. Plus, it even shows you the amount of time left to complete the install.
Not to mention the actual networkability of open office and just how easy that is to setup and use.
Why not "play up" something if it is true, and not the lie you incorrectly suggest it is.
And someone, fix the spacebar on this machine, please!
I won't disagree with you since I don't have an MBA in English, but I would like to know why dictionary.com's first definition of the word "bring" in both the Princeton University and American Heritage dictionaries appears to agree with my usage of the word, and, if you wouldn't mind, how I have used it incorrectly, or how I have interpreted the definition incorrectly. This way, in the future, I'll be able to avoid misuse of the word.
:-)
Thanks!
>When will we see a working "cachedot"?
:-)
About 3 years ago. Yeah, I was here then. Yeah, it didn't cache any of the links. Yeah, it was called cachedot.slashdot.org. Oh, and yeah, it got taken down because it wasn't a very useful idea.
>Get it?
;)
Sort of... now. I guess I'm just not feeling that funny today...
Thanks for making me feel stupid.
Sorry, I forgot to mention I was only talking about items designed for non-private, unauthorized (by the originator/owner of equipment originating the signal) receiving/transmitting equipment.
Interesting shot, but wake me up when I can see Licoln sitting in his chair on the penny in a picture like that...
>Do you know the correct usage for its vs. it's?
:-)
Yeah, but when I forget I simply avoid using the words.
>Can you fix your car every time something goes wrong, or do you take it into a mechanic?
Yeah, but when he says "your tires would last longer if you didn't brake so hard" I take his advice.
>Do you know how to ballroom dance?
Nope.
The moral of my story is that if you don't know how to do something with something that is either not yours, or is quite expensive, you have three choices:
- Don't try.
- Learn how to before you try.
- Bring it to someone who can.
The other moral is that when someone who is clearly knowledgeable about something gives you advice you _follow_ it. Especially when it's their personal responsibility to keep that something working.
Last moral: If your job depends on you properly operating a device, you damn well should memorize 100% of its basic functions (in the case of a VP, how to operate a GUI environment, or in the case of a delivery man, how to drive a car).
But hey, maybe I have done something to annoy someone at some point. Ok, I _know_ I have.
There isn't if slashdot offered a caching proxy (configured only to surf desginated links, of course).
But IANAL, so perhaps all the big ISPs on earth are continually breaking the law and should be hung for their crimes.
>That's probably because AMD processors are preferred by 12 of 10 idiot overclocker kids.
Eat any good math books lately?
>If it were possible to support an entire ISP over these links, then Ma Bell would already be doing it, instead of selling them off at a loss.
If only that were true, ISDN would be totally dead.
Ma Bell doesn't care about efficiency. They ran over 500 pairs of copper to my area from a CO 15 km away, and now they'll run another 1000 with a new subdivision opening up. Yup, that's _far_ cheaper than running a small remote CO in my area (and no, space sure isn't a priority and is not expensive in my area).
I guess in the long run it'll save them money since they can't offer money-losing DSL in my area to the 75% (my estimate) of customers here than want it (95% of my area subscribes to satellite service, so I'm extrapolating here).
For an area with only 500 houses, I still regularly see Bell trucks in my area, and every one of my neighbours has called in complaints about dead lines more than once.
Oh well, sorry to burst your bubble.
>I'm just guessing, but likely the FCC says you can't broadcast, but you can own the hardware.
:-)
If only. I'm sitting in Canada with an el-cheapo Radio Shack scanner than won't pick up cell phones as it happens to be an American model, and ownership of anything that can receive these frequencies is illegal. I don't doubt anything that can broadcast on them is illegal to own too. Bummer.
Now remember: Listening to idiots in the city broadcast their personal information in the clear -- BAD. Using a radar detector so you can break the speed limit -- GOOD.
What is a sport then?
Before you answer, consider that most think of Darts, Bowling, Mini-Golf, and Billiards as sports, even if they aren't major ones.
DVI (or whatever the pop digital interface is today) might have that problem...
:)
VGA (arguably the most popular monitor connection standard), however, doesn't. The wonders of analog media continue.
>the code only needs to be checked when the programs are first loaded, not all the time
In that case I'm not worried about it at all.
Just get a generic authentication program made, add it as a bumper to the program, and call the area of the program that actually starts running real code.
Somehow I doubt its that unprotected, though.
Sorry, I can't find the link, but with the right equipment (all consumer available) you can easy link up to any wireless network up to 40 km away.
With your sheilding they might have to be just 1 or 2 km away, which still leaves them completely hidden, and your network totally open.
>If it's remotely drinkable, it's not hot enough to char your skin and put you in a hospital. If it's not, they shouldn't be selling it as food.
Agreed, and since no other customers (AFAIK) complained of 3nd degree burns to their lips, mouth, and throat due to that coffee, I think she used the coffee improperly.
That's the neat thing about skin, though. All coffee, of any reasonable temperature, can cause 3rd degree burns. Its all in how long it stays in contact with your skin. People who aren't stupid know not to gulp a mouthful of coffee and keep swishing it around their mouth for 10 minutes. Coffee is intended to be sipped in small amounts that cool quickly enough in your mouth to not cause burns.
And there we have the problem. Coffee is not intended to cool on people's private parts, and therfore, unless the majority of customers that day sued for a burnt mouth, she is still an idiot.
Per minute (as I mentioned) it is free to use phones in Canada for virtually all local calls (which are the strong majority of calls made).
:-)
I stayed dialed into another computer 24/7 for over a year and all I paid was the (provincewide standard) approx $20 CDN per month line rental fee. Not a bad deal, if you ask me.
>Assuming a miracle signal. And that you or your neighbor won't restart, disconnect the lan, or run around in lead signal-blocking pants for five consecutive days.
rsync it from the beginning, or just hope nothing major happens for 5 days.
>Because better infrastructure = lower prices.
Canada is a clear demonstration that this isn't true, sorry.
Cost to use a phone/internet on a 30 km line per minute in Canada -- $0.
Cost to use a 500 ft. phone line per minute in most of Europe (I'm guessing Sweden too) -- much more than $0.
The prices for internet generally follow prices for phone lines...
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>Linux is more than 10 years old.
Yup. And Linux is following the 5-year MS-DOS virus curve just fine. It took a while for _really_ destructive viruses to be created for MS-DOS -- but, of course, I believe there are already destructive Linux viruses.
>I bet you wish they still manufactured lawn darts
Yep. I had them as a kid and they were lots of fun. Of course, I wasn't an idiot, and had I been my parents wouldn't allow me to play with them. Not to mention they followed the "accompany with appropriate parental supervision" adivice on the box.
>baby toys composed entirely of small plastic parts.
That's a little silly, don't you think? A 6 year old is pretty safe with most things when a parent is watching. Babies (in general) aren't particularly safe with anything.
>dude, she had to have a skin graft around her vagina
Bummer for her. I know a certain someone who had to have their privates sewn back ON after improper use of a knife (or was it scissors)? This doesn't mean the company making the "weapon" is at fault for someone else's blatant misuse of the product.