His reasons for wanting pot legalized are largely self-serving - he claims to smoke ( or have smoked ) a lot of it. But, in addition, there's the issue about tobacco and alcohol being legal, but not marijuana - it doesn't make sense.
A lot of folks have been pissed off by Bill Maher calling America a stupid country - and a lot of the same folks have spent the last few weeks proving him right. Sadly, too many of them are in the government.
I've been told by a Yugoslavian friend that ordinary Russian chocolate ranks with what we North Americans would consider gourmet. Another friend says the same about Polish chocolate
I've been using and recommending VLC for years but recently tried to open a training AVI that, while it would play, would freeze up the machine and take nearly 5 minutes to load. Windows Media Player also had lots of trouble with it and all the alternative players would freeze, crash or spit errors.
Strangely, tools that claim to be able to fix AVIs couldn't find anything wrong. Then, 2 weeks ago, I came across XULplayer and tried opening the file with it - it hangs for about a minute but then plays normally. Very strange.
But, I must say I've not seen a more ghastly interface in a long time.
because someone snatched them while he wasn't looking. All but one of the big players got on board and that one has the second lowest market share. So, why not set both in the standard and, if Apple doesn't want to support it fully then they don't have to. It won't be the first time a standard was selectively supported by a major vendor. POSIX,anyone? Various SQL revisions? Fortran? Any frickin' number of standards?
Too funny. Your rant gets modded to 5, Insightful and mine telling you to calm down get an Offtopic!!
Guess you've got some similarly whiny friends. Dude, people have been bitching about Slashdot layout for the 10 years I've been visiting and every year they bitch louder.
This is what Slashdot is: (mostly) intereting stories, opinionated posters and wonky web design.
Why don't you post and Ask Slashdot and maybe someone will have some useful suggestions or the site admins might take notice. I wouldn't bet on it but hey, what have you got to lose?
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Or, you could decide that the gray bars are not worth getting all worked up over and chill the fuck out. Try it - works for me; no code required.
Congratulations on finding a link to ( presumably) support your theory. Unfortunately, since your mind was already made up, you didn't feel the need to READ the linked article.
Let me give you the short story - several factors are blamed for the drop in video game sales.
But, ahem, *cough*
P2P / ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING IS NOT, ( i know, highly illogical to your penetrating insight ), I REPEAT, NOT ONE OF THOSE REASONS.
This has been a public service message from your friendly neighbourhood article reader.
Dear DMBFCKAC, you really don't get it or are trolling as you clearly ignore the fact that, given the existence of a repository, which can exist in many forms, including a CD or local directory, you can update just about any software from the package installer on most mainstream distros.
The Windows installer system is so fucking lame that, 14 years after the Win '95 "Start Me Up" campaign, endusers still have to babysit Add / Remove Programs, if they want to uninstall software as they can't pick more than one program at a time.
Most Linux packages have allowed the user the ability to select multiple packages for both install and removal and I've done a session where nearly 2 GB total, with over 100 packages were added, removed or upgraded with no issues.
Nuclear power? Pragmatic? Unnecessary waste? Stop kidding yourself. Nuclear plants has the highest startup costs of any of the energy solutions and, while I read about designs that can be over 90% efficient, there are NO PLANS to build any such reactors in the near ( 10 years ) future.
So, until the perfect plant comes online, what do you do with all that toxic waste?
By the way, that's a nice word - ecomentalists but the truth is, they have long been the people
who are willing to ACT - not just flap gums and stick to the status quo.
Admittedly some of them are clueless and backward but you get that in any large, disparate group.
Remember that this came around because the industrialists, those saviors of civilization, refused for a long time to clean up their crap or, in some cases, safely store it, all in the names of cost, convenience and profit.
Let's face facts - if there is a backlash against industry, they should be proud because they worked so hard to earn it.
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His reasons for wanting pot legalized are largely self-serving - he claims to smoke ( or have smoked ) a lot of it. But, in addition, there's the issue about tobacco and alcohol being legal, but not marijuana - it doesn't make sense.
A lot of folks have been pissed off by Bill Maher calling America a stupid country - and a lot of the same folks have spent the last few
weeks proving him right. Sadly, too many of them are in the government.
It's not really the first time, but it may be the first time they've put in an official filing. Here's a article from 5 years ago:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/35697.html?wlc=1249446360
But, I think you're absolutely right that this is a ploy. And, they can play the marketing and political game like no other IT company.
Thank you. I knew that I'd heard this about the spleen many years ago.
I've been told by a Yugoslavian friend that ordinary Russian chocolate ranks with what we North Americans would consider gourmet.
Another friend says the same about Polish chocolate
Yellow Smarties have same health qualities as red Smarties..
Put down the Smarties, pick up the M&Ms and eat the blue ones: http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2009/07/why-migraines-could-leave-you-blue-in-the-face.html
Please re-read your own post and then rethink your opening sentence.
Guess you'd make a good judge, with that reasoning
Releasing under the GPL v3 would satisfy most of the "fanboys", which would be a hell of a lot
less effort than the ridiculous extremes you've stated
Active Desktop was part of or released with IE4, probably in mid-97. Too bad it sucked system resources so hard and was so unstable
I've been using and recommending VLC for years but recently tried to open a training AVI that, while it would play, would freeze up the machine and take
nearly 5 minutes to load. Windows Media Player also had lots of trouble with it and all the alternative players would freeze, crash or spit errors.
Strangely, tools that claim to be able to fix AVIs couldn't find anything wrong. Then, 2 weeks ago, I came across XULplayer and tried opening the file
with it - it hangs for about a minute but then plays normally. Very strange.
But, I must say I've not seen a more ghastly interface in a long time.
because someone snatched them while he wasn't looking. All but one of the big players got on board and that one has the second lowest market share.
So, why not set both in the standard and, if Apple doesn't want to support it fully then they don't have to.
It won't be the first time a standard was selectively supported by a major vendor.
POSIX,anyone? Various SQL revisions? Fortran? Any frickin' number of standards?
I didn't catch the second one , PAL7800 because I had Down Them All masking only on archives and the link didn't have the ZIP extension.
Thanks.
Should end in SPHINX.zip not Sphinx.zip. Beware the 404
As a video-addicted teen, so many years ago, with too much time on his hands, I never imagined I would ever be able
to get my hands on this
It's not theft unless the uploader has somehow removed all instances of the file / song
from all media in the world.
It's copyright infringement. And, the proper term is assholes not ass holes.
Too funny. Your rant gets modded to 5, Insightful
and mine telling you to calm down get an Offtopic!!
Guess you've got some similarly whiny friends.
Dude, people have been bitching about Slashdot layout for the 10 years I've been visiting and every year they bitch louder.
This is what Slashdot is: (mostly) intereting stories, opinionated posters and wonky web design.
Why don't you post and Ask Slashdot and maybe someone will have some useful suggestions or the site admins might take notice. I wouldn't bet on it but hey, what have you got to lose?
Or, you could decide that the gray bars are not worth getting all worked up over and chill the fuck out.
Try it - works for me; no code required.
Sad to say but the more invisible the IT department is, the harder it is for them to get funding for new projects.
That's the most insightful post yet in this thread. Unfortunately, it's not true where SUNW is concerned.
Congratulations on finding a link to ( presumably) support your theory. Unfortunately, since your mind
was already made up, you didn't feel the need to READ the linked article.
Let me give you the short story - several factors are blamed for the drop in video game sales.
But, ahem, *cough*
P2P / ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING IS NOT, ( i know, highly illogical to your penetrating insight ), I REPEAT,
NOT ONE OF THOSE REASONS.
This has been a public service message from your friendly neighbourhood article reader.
Dear DMBFCKAC, you really don't get it or are trolling as you clearly ignore the fact that, given the existence of a repository, which can exist in
many forms, including a CD or local directory, you can update just about any software from the package installer on most mainstream distros.
The Windows installer system is so fucking lame that, 14 years after the Win '95 "Start Me Up" campaign, endusers still have to babysit Add / Remove
Programs, if they want to uninstall software as they can't pick more than one program at a time.
Most Linux packages have allowed the user the ability to select multiple packages for both install and removal and I've done a session where nearly
2 GB total, with over 100 packages were added, removed or upgraded with no issues.
You mean aside from EZ Recovery Professional? I worked with a sysadmin back in 2002 who said he paid $500 for
an Enterprise license.
Ontrack sells a whole range of file repair / recovery tools directly:
http://buyonline.ontrack.com/ecom/catalog.asp
Isn't that what they thought about depleted uranium? I think there are some Gulf War vets who'd disagree about exposure not causing cancer
Nuclear power? Pragmatic? Unnecessary waste? Stop kidding yourself. Nuclear plants has the highest startup costs of any of the energy solutions and, while I read about designs that can be over 90% efficient, there are NO PLANS to build any such reactors in the near ( 10 years ) future. So, until the perfect plant comes online, what do you do with all that toxic waste? By the way, that's a nice word - ecomentalists but the truth is, they have long been the people who are willing to ACT - not just flap gums and stick to the status quo. Admittedly some of them are clueless and backward but you get that in any large, disparate group. Remember that this came around because the industrialists, those saviors of civilization, refused for a long time to clean up their crap or, in some cases, safely store it, all in the names of cost, convenience and profit. Let's face facts - if there is a backlash against industry, they should be proud because they worked so hard to earn it.