But then again, how many guys know their wife's monthly schedule?
This works both ways. When she's near the end of her cycle, I'm near the end of my rope! Of course, women in general tend care less about everything near the end of their cycle, not just personal grooming. Does the phrase "Oh, to hell with it all, where's the Haagen Das?" ring any bells?
Well son the big difference is that all your friends will be playing games and posting nude videos of themselves and you'll be loading kernels and learning the intricacies of Sokoban but hey, no viruses in Pine!
Microsoft marketing revealed! Peer pressure! And the new slogan for the Vista rollout will be...
Our business model of course allows you to keep using Office 2003 - the software doesn't really expire
Well, that's awfully damned gracious of your business model, to grant us permission to continue using software that we paid for. Does your business model allow me wipe your bloatware off of my hard drive and install the OS of my choice? No? Oh, that's too bad. Well, try again next decade. Thanks for stopping by.
Your "business model" is a hold-over from the stone age, and does not have the authority to "allow" or "disallow" me to do anything. Any company/industry that forgets that deserves the fate they get from it.
Unfortunately, this is the exact setup in the HBO Special where they proved Diebold machines can be hacked...
The same documentary also showed that the likelihood of a full by-hand recount is very low due to election officials hand-picking the "random" recount precincts.
when you vote you're given a ticket with a number, anyone can go online and see how everyone voted
This scheme would give you the option of revealing your ticket number to someone else, who can then verify your vote, which can lead to vote selling (which is a bad thing). ThreeBallot tried to address that, but it has it's own security issues, plus a ton of complexity which could cause even more confusion.
Paper ballots that can be hand counted are looking better all the time.
those who are out to teach instead of to get rich.
Just so you know, I read this the way you wrote it, and agree with the premise at least. People who teach in the public schools are teaching because they love to teach. Period. Paragraph. Page. They are obviously not in it for the money because there is no money there to be had.
Unfortunately, the divide between what teachers can make teaching and what they can make doing practically anything else has gotten way out of hand. Many who want to teach are forced to get a "real job" instead, just make ends meet.
Does Slackware have the same commitment to timely security patches, easy upgrades, and stable version numbers (no breaking configuration files) that Debian does?
Check out slackware-10.2/patches/ChangeLog.txt at your favorite mirror for timeliness of recent patch releases. Not exactly sure what you mean by "stable version numbers", but the main ChangeLog.txt files are available going back several releases, which will show the history of every package version number. Package upgrades can be done through slapt-get and upgradepkg.
I partition my drive with a big / and reasonable/home. This way I can wipe and reinstall / periodically without losing saved data, documents, desktop settings, email, etc. It's about time for one of those again.
Check out the tutorial. It shows how to convert an existing app (in this case an animation player)into a KPart, then shows that KPart embedded in Konquerer, complete with menu options and toolbar buttons, without changing any Konqueror code. Now, Konqueror is highly KPart aware, and will use any components that it possibly can. Whether or not this will work with $RANDOM_KDE_APP will depend partly on the app itself, and how hard it tries to find components, and partly on the KPart and how hard it tries to publish its available functionality. But the framework is there, and it works today.
How it is installed will depend mostly on your distro and package manager. Each KPart is responsible for defining its own user interface (menu items, toolbar buttins, etc.) and publishing that interface to container apps via a.desktop file, so how a KPart is used will depend on what specific KPart you are talking about.
Also, it seems that Kopete already has a translator plugin, that is accessible from the Tools menu.
The Developer docs discuss this in great detail. From the linked page:
The main idea behind components is reusability. Often, an application wants to use a functionality that another application provides. Of course, the way to do that is simply to create a shared library that both applications use. But without a standard framework for this, it means both applications are very much coupled to the library's API and will need to be changed if the applications decide to use another library instead. Furthermore, integrating the shared functionality has to be done manually by every application.
A framework for components enables an application to use a component it never heard of - and wasn't specifically adapted for - because both the application and the component comply to the framework and know what to expect from each other. An existing component can be replaced with a new implementation of the same functionality, without changing a single line of code in the application, because the interface remains the same.
The framework presented here concerns elaborate graphical components, such as an image viewer, a text editor, a mail composer, and so on. Simpler graphical components are usually widgets; I refine this distinction in the next section. Nongraphical components, such as a parser or a string manipulation class, are usually libraries with a specific Application Programming Interface (API).
Similar frameworks for graphical components exist for a different environment, such as IBM and Apple's OpenDoc, Microsoft's OLE, Gnome's Bonobo, and KDE's previous OpenParts.
So KParts-aware means able to use components in general, without knowledge of a specific component, such as a German-English translator.
When you said:
If other OS's would just adopt a similar system, or better yet adopt a standard for all of them, we could remove so much duplication of effort and users would get to choose the best of breed for anything they wanted.
I still want to know why mechanical voting machines were phased out.
Don't we all.
There are at least two "legitimate" shortcomings that the electronic machines improve upon, but those are fairly superficial, and you get deep into conspiracy territory after that.
One is speed. (We) Americans are so lazy, that they want their election results the night of, and any voting system that takes too long to count and prevents them from getting a clear winner right away is clearly flawed and needs to be replaced. Note the that furor about the Florida recounts in 2000 was not so much about accuracy or the will of the people so much as just getting on with it, already.
The other is complexity. The real problem in Florida was not that old people couldn't figure out how to work the punch cards, it was that poll workers forgot (or were too lazy) to empty the "catch drawers" on the voting machines. If poll workers are not office-equipment-savvy enough to empty a hole puncher when its full, how is a more complicated technology going to help?
But the real bottom line is money. Diebold (et al) latched onto the business model of:
1. Find a fake problem and blow it out of proportion. 2. Cobble together a half-baked solution to said problem. 3. Lobby congress to create a market for your solution. 4. Profit!
In all fairness, the Election Systems Division of Diebold is a company the Diebold acquired, rather than a portion of Diebold proper. But the fact remains that this whole ill-advised movement toward electronic voting is being pushed by the entities that stand to make money from it.
It's a broad, scattergun approach, and I can't help but think that one could do a far better job with a large database and some social networking software.
At that point, they lump it in with all the other things which cause problems even though they don't have a full technical understanding of what they are.
So to summarize...
Q: Why won't my audio file play? A: Because they want you to pay for it again.
I took a peek at the new Rootkit Revealer. README.TXT dated 22 Feb 2005, 825 bytes is replaced with EULA.TXT dated 18 July 2006 at 10:22AM and 19,974 bytes. Content changes are similar to the others posted.
I actually found a D-Link NIC at Best Buy that said right on the box that it supported Linux (worked like a charm too). So I paid my $14.95 plus tax and walked out the door with it. I shudder to think what would have happened if I had tried to ask someone about it.
As far as they're concerned, they're using their God given brain to study how God does His thing.
A biology professor I once met was fond of saying that if you study biology in long enough, you will find not only that God exists, but He has a sense of humor.
When Microsoft says "Beta", they really, really mean "Rough-Cut Alpha"...
And when they say "1.0" they mean "Beta". Win95 didn't really settle down until OSR2 which wasn't until August of 1996, a year and change after the initial release.
There's no excuse to split an article like this up.
In these situations, look for the "Print This Article" or "Printer-Friendly" or whatever. You'll get the whole article on one page, sometimes in a new window, maybe with an ad or maybe none at all. Usually the printable page has minimal formatting, so it will wrap to your window width, and if you're lucky (gasp) on a single screen.
Also the Adblock extension for Firefox r00lz. Check out Filterset.G from http://www.pierceive.com/ to go with it.
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I'm surprised nobody has bothered to use wxWidgets to clone Delphi.
Check out Lazarus. Not exactly a "clone", but very close and much more cross platform.Adblock + Filterset.G r00lz.
"Microsoft. All your friends are doing it."
Your "business model" is a hold-over from the stone age, and does not have the authority to "allow" or "disallow" me to do anything. Any company/industry that forgets that deserves the fate they get from it.
Paper ballots that can be hand counted are looking better all the time.
Unfortunately, the divide between what teachers can make teaching and what they can make doing practically anything else has gotten way out of hand. Many who want to teach are forced to get a "real job" instead, just make ends meet.
She's Dunn.
It never gets old, does it?
Check out slackware-10.2/patches/ChangeLog.txt at your favorite mirror for timeliness of recent patch releases. Not exactly sure what you mean by "stable version numbers", but the main ChangeLog.txt files are available going back several releases, which will show the history of every package version number. Package upgrades can be done through slapt-get and upgradepkg.
I partition my drive with a big / and reasonable
Check out the tutorial. It shows how to convert an existing app (in this case an animation player)into a KPart, then shows that KPart embedded in Konquerer, complete with menu options and toolbar buttons, without changing any Konqueror code. Now, Konqueror is highly KPart aware, and will use any components that it possibly can. Whether or not this will work with $RANDOM_KDE_APP will depend partly on the app itself, and how hard it tries to find components, and partly on the KPart and how hard it tries to publish its available functionality. But the framework is there, and it works today.
How it is installed will depend mostly on your distro and package manager. Each KPart is responsible for defining its own user interface (menu items, toolbar buttins, etc.) and publishing that interface to container apps via a .desktop file, so how a KPart is used will depend on what specific KPart you are talking about.
Also, it seems that Kopete already has a translator plugin, that is accessible from the Tools menu.
So KParts-aware means able to use components in general, without knowledge of a specific component, such as a German-English translator.
When you said: KParts is exactly what you described.
There are at least two "legitimate" shortcomings that the electronic machines improve upon, but those are fairly superficial, and you get deep into conspiracy territory after that.
One is speed. (We) Americans are so lazy, that they want their election results the night of, and any voting system that takes too long to count and prevents them from getting a clear winner right away is clearly flawed and needs to be replaced. Note the that furor about the Florida recounts in 2000 was not so much about accuracy or the will of the people so much as just getting on with it, already.
The other is complexity. The real problem in Florida was not that old people couldn't figure out how to work the punch cards, it was that poll workers forgot (or were too lazy) to empty the "catch drawers" on the voting machines. If poll workers are not office-equipment-savvy enough to empty a hole puncher when its full, how is a more complicated technology going to help?
But the real bottom line is money. Diebold (et al) latched onto the business model of:
1. Find a fake problem and blow it out of proportion.
2. Cobble together a half-baked solution to said problem.
3. Lobby congress to create a market for your solution.
4. Profit!
In all fairness, the Election Systems Division of Diebold is a company the Diebold acquired, rather than a portion of Diebold proper. But the fact remains that this whole ill-advised movement toward electronic voting is being pushed by the entities that stand to make money from it.
Q: Why won't my audio file play?
A: Because they want you to pay for it again.
I took a peek at the new Rootkit Revealer. README.TXT dated 22 Feb 2005, 825 bytes is replaced with EULA.TXT dated 18 July 2006 at 10:22AM and 19,974 bytes. Content changes are similar to the others posted.
you have the a.o.l.s usenet newsgroup and more importantly :D
the ##slackware channel on freenode
Don't forget the wiki!
As far as they're concerned, they're using their God given brain to study how God does His thing.
A biology professor I once met was fond of saying that if you study biology in long enough, you will find not only that God exists, but He has a sense of humor.
When Microsoft says "Beta", they really, really mean "Rough-Cut Alpha"...
And when they say "1.0" they mean "Beta". Win95 didn't really settle down until OSR2 which wasn't until August of 1996, a year and change after the initial release.
There's no excuse to split an article like this up.
In these situations, look for the "Print This Article" or "Printer-Friendly" or whatever. You'll get the whole article on one page, sometimes in a new window, maybe with an ad or maybe none at all. Usually the printable page has minimal formatting, so it will wrap to your window width, and if you're lucky (gasp) on a single screen.
Also the Adblock extension for Firefox r00lz. Check out Filterset.G from http://www.pierceive.com/ to go with it.