I hate to be the one to bring reality into this little discussion, but for HP to dump Windows and start selling Linux (or any other OS) instead is really, really stupid.
Not dump it, just offer the option, like they used to.
My Acer netbook comes in Linux and Windows flavors and runs like a charm
PeterÂs name was Simon. He was nicknamed Peter by Jesus and the rest of the gang, and at the end Jesus asked him to be the founding rock of the Church.
But considering that Simon was a rough, tough, bad tempered fisherman who was also not the sharpest tool in the shed (read his passages in the gospels, its all there), I think he was named "rock" as a joke.
...the monkey-horde development technique, which is get a bunch of third-world programmers in a room and churn out very lackluster code, and then keep redeveloping it until it works "good enough"
Your comment comes across as incredibly insulting.
There are lots of great programmers all over the world, developing countries included, just like there are even more mediocre programmers all over the world, develped countries included.
Now, this is not to say that I disagree with the idea that putting a lot of second-rate coders in a room and get them to compete in terms of number of lines of code produced is the reason why some modern software is so bad...
It's sort of like Home Depot and Grainger. Ever wonder why seemingly the same DeWalt drill costs twice as much at Grainger than it does at Home Depot?
Home Depot sells mostly to non-professionals, so they demand that DeWalt cut costs to meet a price point. Thus the drill gets sleeve bearings and plastic gears, and a weak motor. The Grainger version gets ball bearings, metal gears, and a motor that will break wrists. It also costs $200 more.
If I make a piece of software it is my responsibility to clearly state the minimum hardware requirements for it.
We need to know if MS colluded itself with hardware manufacturers in order to place a "Vista Ready" sticker on computers that plainly would not be able to run it.
I was once confronted by a woman in the Metro who claimed I was trying to grope her.
Everybody in the (very full) car looked at me like I was some kind of leper... until I calmly replied:
"You flatter yourself ma'm! I am a happily married man!"
I lifted my hand (which was nowhere near her) and showed her my wedding ring.
The woman purpled with rage as everybody snickered, and she left the car on the next station. Now I wonder if that wasn't the first time it happened to her...
Someone who would be described as a "Center-left politician, with some liberal tendencies" in Europe or Latin America would be immediately branded an "Extremist, Dangerous Left-Wing Wacko" in the US.
That's because the US only has a Conservative Party and an Even-More-Conservative Party.
I always bitch when I see grown adults dedicating weeks of their time developing skills in inane games of pretend. Particularly when they start trying to show off how "awesome" they are at it like they're looking for a cookie. It's disgusting.
Well, don't bother coming to our kickass game of Dungeons and Dragons, then...
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Who needs a senate seat when you've got legs??
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/11/16-22/palin-poolside.jpg
I hate to be the one to bring reality into this little discussion, but for HP to dump Windows and start selling Linux (or any other OS) instead is really, really stupid.
Not dump it, just offer the option, like they used to.
My Acer netbook comes in Linux and Windows flavors and runs like a charm
Both seem good qualifications to me [ducks]
PeterÂs name was Simon. He was nicknamed Peter by Jesus and the rest of the gang, and at the end Jesus asked him to be the founding rock of the Church.
But considering that Simon was a rough, tough, bad tempered fisherman who was also not the sharpest tool in the shed (read his passages in the gospels, its all there), I think he was named "rock" as a joke.
Too late.
Everybody who sees my new Acer Aspire One falls in love with it, especially after hearing its price.
I think Acer will sell quite a few of these babies during the holiday season in Mexico
(the Asus EEEPC is not available here)
...the monkey-horde development technique, which is get a bunch of third-world programmers in a room and churn out very lackluster code, and then keep redeveloping it until it works "good enough"
Your comment comes across as incredibly insulting.
There are lots of great programmers all over the world, developing countries included, just like there are even more mediocre programmers all over the world, develped countries included.
Now, this is not to say that I disagree with the idea that putting a lot of second-rate coders in a room and get them to compete in terms of number of lines of code produced is the reason why some modern software is so bad...
It's sort of like Home Depot and Grainger. Ever wonder why seemingly the same DeWalt drill costs twice as much at Grainger than it does at Home Depot?
Home Depot sells mostly to non-professionals, so they demand that DeWalt cut costs to meet a price point. Thus the drill gets sleeve bearings and plastic gears, and a weak motor. The Grainger version gets ball bearings, metal gears, and a motor that will break wrists. It also costs $200 more.
...but then it's not the same drill, is it?
Sorry, no.
If I make a piece of software it is my responsibility to clearly state the minimum hardware requirements for it.
We need to know if MS colluded itself with hardware manufacturers in order to place a "Vista Ready" sticker on computers that plainly would not be able to run it.
Please stop, you are embarrasing the rest of us theists...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away.
Or maybe you just failed your disbelief saving throw...
I was once confronted by a woman in the Metro who claimed I was trying to grope her.
Everybody in the (very full) car looked at me like I was some kind of leper... until I calmly replied:
"You flatter yourself ma'm! I am a happily married man!"
I lifted my hand (which was nowhere near her) and showed her my wedding ring.
The woman purpled with rage as everybody snickered, and she left the car on the next station. Now I wonder if that wasn't the first time it happened to her...
When I was young and a jerk, I used to open the door to Jehova's witnesses in the nude.
...what would be the printed size of a 261 megapixels image, using current printers?
The mind boggles
Maybe it's time to merge .deb and .rpm and apt and yum, and finally do away with this mostly ridiculous difference.
Sigh... everytime this is suggested a holy war breaks out...
Look up "Estadounidense" in Google.
The word did catch up in the rest of the continent.
Demand for movies comes from the public, and they're not applying political parables to these things.
Untrue. Demand for movies comes from studio promotion. It is rare that a movie entirely flops, even when its braineating bad.
There is no cow level
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Someone who would be described as a "Center-left politician, with some liberal tendencies" in Europe or Latin America would be immediately branded an "Extremist, Dangerous Left-Wing Wacko" in the US.
That's because the US only has a Conservative Party and an Even-More-Conservative Party.
[/OnlyHalfKidding]
False
http://www.stablecommunities.org/node/472
http://www.stallman.org/saint.html
I'm pretty sure that the jury will find it hard to believe in your innocence if you refuse to provide the passphrase.
If there's enough circumstantial evidence, that refusal alone could be enough to tip their decision.
Their Angle-Saxon savages?
Get with the times, nowadays multiclassing is a simple feat tree
And I believe you get the robe and wizard hat with the first feat...
I always bitch when I see grown adults dedicating weeks of their time developing skills in inane games of pretend. Particularly when they start trying to show off how "awesome" they are at it like they're looking for a cookie. It's disgusting.
Well, don't bother coming to our kickass game of Dungeons and Dragons, then...
Dang, I miss Freakazoid!