Why, it's almost like.NET is designed as a trojan horse to get people to build supposedly multi-platform applications which actually depend on WIN32 APIs!
f there were ever legal action over an email (say, for example, that you described something important in the email, and the person used it elsewhere), the fact that you have a disclaimer makes it _stronger_ evidence in the court
And the fact that the disclaimer appeared on every single e-mail, even those for which it was patently inappropriate, would make it much _weaker_ evidence. I mean, why should I have paid attention to the disclaimer that one time, when I was clearly expected to ignore it hundreds of other times?
I've often wondered what American football would look like if you removed everything except the actual football. Anyone tried it with the Superbowl? Maybe it would be interesting.
The BlackBerry does not meet my personal needs for a portable computing device.
I want a screen that's as close to paperback book size as possible, and either no built-in keyboard or a fold-over clamshell design with a good size built-in keyboard. Also, it has to connect to OS X and Linux, and not require purchase of Microsoft software. 802.11b and Bluetooth are also big pluses.
I don't want a PDA phone because I want a PDA screen that would result in a phone that's way too large. I just don't get the whole PDA phone thing, in fact. I want my phone to be smaller and my PDA screen to be bigger--fairly basic incompatibility with PDA phones and BlackBerry devices there.
what that means is that the opinion of the silent majority is being moved toward "angry mob" status, which, I believe will lead to the downfall of the Spam Kings.
Yeah, those lousy spam kings, filling my inbox with their... ooh! a cheap way to make my penis larger! Where's my credit card?
I dumped Netscape because IE supported web standards better than Netscape.
If Mozilla went back down the proprietary hacks route, I'd dump it again. And if Microsoft produced a browser with better support for open standards, I'd probably use it, albeit reluctantly.
Yes, spatial Nautilus is a poor choice of reasons to criticize GNOME, when there are so many other shitty GNOME misfeatures you could choose, like basic font handling and atrocious "help" for instance...
RPM has been broken for years. It will regularly corrupt its own databases and then hang when trying to install packages, and its own rebuild options will hang too. The problem surfaced in RedHat 6, it's still there in Broken in FC1. Some releases are better than others; when I was running RedHat 7 it would crap on itself weekly, whereas FC1 mostly works in my experience.
RedHat knew about the problem well before RH7 and RH8, but have continued to make major releases with broken RPM anyway. Their answer is that the user should just drop to the command line, kill the hung processes, blow away the RPM databases and rebuild them.
Try explaining that to a newbie who just wants to install a piece of software he's downloaded.
Me, I got sick of going through the kill; rm -rf; rebuild process what seemed like practically every time I installed or upgraded something, so I moved my servers to Gentoo.
I think in many ways the Bay of Pigs invasion was a bigger screwup on JFK's part, as it almost resulted in nuclear war. If the Bay of Pigs hadn't been cocked up so monumentally, the Russians would likely have followed their standing orders for in the event of an invasion, and launched missiles against the USA.
Really, being shot was the best thing for JFK's reputation. If he'd stayed alive, his reputation would have been torn apart once the facts got out.
Well, they have a "fuck off" web site that insulted my decision to use a browser they don't approve of, and they only offer Windows software. So, I say good riddance.
Damn right. The 8xxx series were the last decent phones Nokia made. I gave up and switched to a Sony Ericsson t68i, because I needed triple band and the Nokia 8890 was way too expensive.
To make things worse, even today they still only have one small normal phone with Bluetooth, according to their web site. It's a camera phone, but at least it doesn't have swiveling keyboards, circular keyboards, or a big 80s style shape like all their other Bluetooth phones.
No wonder they're seeing a huge drop in sales. It just staggers me that the CEO can't see what the problem is.
Bizarre, I had no problems getting my M10000 system working... except sound, which just needed the 2.6 kernel to be released with working ALSA. No driver issues at all.
I don't have time to read the e-mail filtered by my spam filters, so you'd rather false positives just vanished into a black hole and the sender never found out?
Forget the power stations--what about the pylons? It's a bit rich to complain about wind farms when the countryside is already covered in metal pylons. I can't help wondering if there isn't some way to replace each pylon with a windmill...
The wind farm I've stood next to wasn't noisy at all. Couldn't hear it for the Minnesota wind, in fact.
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Why, it's almost like .NET is designed as a trojan horse to get people to build supposedly multi-platform applications which actually depend on WIN32 APIs!
And the fact that the disclaimer appeared on every single e-mail, even those for which it was patently inappropriate, would make it much _weaker_ evidence. I mean, why should I have paid attention to the disclaimer that one time, when I was clearly expected to ignore it hundreds of other times?
I get 600 spams a month blocked by MAPS and ORBS. That's for what.
What's Photoshop's market share on Linux? I've not seen any figures.
Indeed. WTF is Cairo other than Windows 95?
I've often wondered what American football would look like if you removed everything except the actual football. Anyone tried it with the Superbowl? Maybe it would be interesting.
Then again, probably not.
In which case, he could wear earbuds underneath the phone headset.
The BlackBerry does not meet my personal needs for a portable computing device.
I want a screen that's as close to paperback book size as possible, and either no built-in keyboard or a fold-over clamshell design with a good size built-in keyboard. Also, it has to connect to OS X and Linux, and not require purchase of Microsoft software. 802.11b and Bluetooth are also big pluses.
I don't want a PDA phone because I want a PDA screen that would result in a phone that's way too large. I just don't get the whole PDA phone thing, in fact. I want my phone to be smaller and my PDA screen to be bigger--fairly basic incompatibility with PDA phones and BlackBerry devices there.
Well, if they hadn't removed the Bluetooth from the TH-55, I'd have bought one. *sigh*
Now I have to wait for Palm to come up with something comparable.
Yeah, those lousy spam kings, filling my inbox with their... ooh! a cheap way to make my penis larger! Where's my credit card?
Same reason people kept developing GNOME even after the licensing issues with Qt and KDE were resolved. Ego.
I dumped Netscape because IE supported web standards better than Netscape.
If Mozilla went back down the proprietary hacks route, I'd dump it again. And if Microsoft produced a browser with better support for open standards, I'd probably use it, albeit reluctantly.
Yes, spatial Nautilus is a poor choice of reasons to criticize GNOME, when there are so many other shitty GNOME misfeatures you could choose, like basic font handling and atrocious "help" for instance...
This is nothing new for RedHat.
RPM has been broken for years. It will regularly corrupt its own databases and then hang when trying to install packages, and its own rebuild options will hang too. The problem surfaced in RedHat 6, it's still there in Broken in FC1. Some releases are better than others; when I was running RedHat 7 it would crap on itself weekly, whereas FC1 mostly works in my experience.
RedHat knew about the problem well before RH7 and RH8, but have continued to make major releases with broken RPM anyway. Their answer is that the user should just drop to the command line, kill the hung processes, blow away the RPM databases and rebuild them.
Try explaining that to a newbie who just wants to install a piece of software he's downloaded.
Me, I got sick of going through the kill; rm -rf; rebuild process what seemed like practically every time I installed or upgraded something, so I moved my servers to Gentoo.
Well, if NIST don't want random people using their stratum-1 servers, they shouldn't be inviting and instructing the entire world to use their stratum-1 servers, should they?
If you haven't already, you should write that up for RISKS Digest.
I think in many ways the Bay of Pigs invasion was a bigger screwup on JFK's part, as it almost resulted in nuclear war. If the Bay of Pigs hadn't been cocked up so monumentally, the Russians would likely have followed their standing orders for in the event of an invasion, and launched missiles against the USA.
Really, being shot was the best thing for JFK's reputation. If he'd stayed alive, his reputation would have been torn apart once the facts got out.
Well, they have a "fuck off" web site that insulted my decision to use a browser they don't approve of, and they only offer Windows software. So, I say good riddance.
Damn right. The 8xxx series were the last decent phones Nokia made. I gave up and switched to a Sony Ericsson t68i, because I needed triple band and the Nokia 8890 was way too expensive.
I don't know what Nokia's industrial designers have been smoking recently. Stupid circular keypads, stupid slanting keypads, eight symbols on every button, an even dumber circular keypad, keys designed so you can't tell where to push, and what the hell is that? I don't want to make a statement, I want to make phone calls.
To make things worse, even today they still only have one small normal phone with Bluetooth, according to their web site. It's a camera phone, but at least it doesn't have swiveling keyboards, circular keyboards, or a big 80s style shape like all their other Bluetooth phones.
No wonder they're seeing a huge drop in sales. It just staggers me that the CEO can't see what the problem is.
Yes, let's hear it for ignoramii.
Bizarre, I had no problems getting my M10000 system working... except sound, which just needed the 2.6 kernel to be released with working ALSA. No driver issues at all.
I was wondering why he mentioned C++, actually.
I work for IBM. I run Linux on my desktop as my only operating system. I also run Linux on my development servers.
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There are tens of thousands of IBMers running Linux desktops. However, you don't just migrate 300,000 people to Linux overnight. It's not yet suitable for everyone. So for now, the goals are more modest. See http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/un
What's the alternative?
I don't have time to read the e-mail filtered by my spam filters, so you'd rather false positives just vanished into a black hole and the sender never found out?
Forget the power stations--what about the pylons? It's a bit rich to complain about wind farms when the countryside is already covered in metal pylons. I can't help wondering if there isn't some way to replace each pylon with a windmill...
The wind farm I've stood next to wasn't noisy at all. Couldn't hear it for the Minnesota wind, in fact.