No Vista for me. I've had enough this tricks that Microsoft seems determined to pull on consumers. I've ditched my XP box and replaced it with an iMac. For games, I'll consider getting one of the next-gen consoles (Nintendo's Revolution looks interesting).
Did you know that Vista is an acronym for Viruses, Instability, Spyware, Trojans, Adware - all the 'joys' of PC ownership!
I always add Tia Maria to my coke. It gives it a delicious coffee flavour + alchcol. What more do you need?
(note that I only drink coke at home, not at work. My daytime caffienated beverage of choice is Irn Bru - something that you can probably only get here in the UK)
Be careful. This summer, I bought an iMac for my wife to use. Now my Gentoo box, which previously was switched on 24/7 and had months of continuous uptime is standing alone and unloved in a cold room, switched off almost permanently and I'm wondering whether to purchase a mac mini to replace it.
OS X is so damnned good that I've pretty much abandoned Linux after been devoted to it for many years.
Yes, software updates in 1.5 are vastly improved. It automatically downloads the update and then asks you if you want to use it the next time you start Firefox. I've had no trouble with this on the release candidates.
The one that they went with isn't decent looking. It's an incredibly boring beige box, that looks like a slightly shrunken and sucked-in office PC. I wouldn't want one in my living room.
Java Porter!!!!!!!! Wow! Being a Londoner, I love Porter (a cross between ale and stout, formerly drunk by Covent Garden porters).
I've had an Espresso Stout at beer festivals in Britain, which was amazingly good - 1000 times better than that mass-produced-in-chemical-factories Guinness muck.
He's right, don't bother coming to the UK to look for geeky women. We hardly have any here, and cute geek girls are as rare as hens teeth.
What we do have is a lot of women who like the kind of intelligent, funny TV shows that Joss Whedon creates. That doesn't make them geeks. My partner is certainly not a geek, though she enjoys Sci-Fi shows on TV more than I do.
I like in the UK and can confirm that a lot of females (and not just the 'geek girls', of which there are very few here) seem to like sci-fi. I'm a linux [and now OS X] geek with a non-geek partner. However, it's her who likes sci-fi shows, not me. I did go out and buy Firefly on DVD yesterday, as we both love watching Buffy and Angel.
I feel exactly the same about them. I want a t-shirt saying, "NO, I don't have a fucking clubcard". These days, I tend to avoid shopping at Tesco, except when necessary, as it's such a horrible experience, with crowded stores and long queues. I've mostly switched to shopping at Waitrose, which is far more pleasant or, occasionally, Asda which is even worse.
I know that this is going to degenerate into a licensing argument about his comments on the GPL (which I don't agree with), but please read the whole interview, as ESR talks about a lot of other interesting non-GLP issues too.
I guess that you're American as you have no clue as to what irony actually is.
You've made a good point about the mouse. I've just bought my first Mac and immediately switched the one button mouse for a two button one. OS X is actually designed for two button mice. It's nice to have a BSD machine too, as I first used BSD back in the 80's.
I doubt that it's anywhere near as much as 10% of sites that don't work with Firefox. I use Firefox as my main browser on my work PC and my home Linux, Mac and PC. I very rarely find a site these days that doesn't work properly with Firefox, the Odeon and Jobcentreplus sites mentioned in the article being a couple of the most notable exceptions. I'd put the figure at far less than 1%.
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In fact, the dictionary has two appropriate definitions of co-opt:
To take or assume for one's own use
To neutralize or win over through assimilation
Yes, I agree that every modern OS should ship with a browser. Otherwise it is quite difficult to download Firefox.
I'd also agree that having the browser integrated into the OS == Evil.
So how long until this finds its way into Nethack?
No Vista for me. I've had enough this tricks that Microsoft seems determined to pull on consumers. I've ditched my XP box and replaced it with an iMac. For games, I'll consider getting one of the next-gen consoles (Nintendo's Revolution looks interesting).
Did you know that Vista is an acronym for Viruses, Instability, Spyware, Trojans, Adware - all the 'joys' of PC ownership!
This is yet another example of incorrect punctuation in a Slashdot submission. The title should, of course, read:
Duke Nukem - Forever in Production
I've just switched to Macs after 17 years of PC ownership* (Dos, then Windows, then Linux). Boy, am I feeling smug right at this moment.
* I first typed 'ownershit' by mistake - Thinking about it, this might actually be a more accurate word to describe the joys of being a PC user.
Everybody should get busy and resubmit this story. Let's see if the editors will post it four times.
This being Tesco, every time you make a call, you'll be asked "Do you have a clubcard?"
It's a British show. We mostly don't have cubicles here.
I always add Tia Maria to my coke. It gives it a delicious coffee flavour + alchcol. What more do you need?
(note that I only drink coke at home, not at work. My daytime caffienated beverage of choice is Irn Bru - something that you can probably only get here in the UK)
Be careful. This summer, I bought an iMac for my wife to use. Now my Gentoo box, which previously was switched on 24/7 and had months of continuous uptime is standing alone and unloved in a cold room, switched off almost permanently and I'm wondering whether to purchase a mac mini to replace it.
OS X is so damnned good that I've pretty much abandoned Linux after been devoted to it for many years.
Yes, software updates in 1.5 are vastly improved. It automatically downloads the update and then asks you if you want to use it the next time you start Firefox. I've had no trouble with this on the release candidates.
Microsoft product crashes
Pope is discovered to be a Catholic
Family of bears accused of defecating in forested areas
The rate of at which Slashdot runs stories that appeared on Slashdot first is getting embarrassing too.
Yet Another Dupe
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This is why I let my subscription lapse. I was sick of paying for duplicate articles:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/0
The one that they went with isn't decent looking. It's an incredibly boring beige box, that looks like a slightly shrunken and sucked-in office PC. I wouldn't want one in my living room.
Java Porter!!!!!!!! Wow! Being a Londoner, I love Porter (a cross between ale and stout, formerly drunk by Covent Garden porters).
I've had an Espresso Stout at beer festivals in Britain, which was amazingly good - 1000 times better than that mass-produced-in-chemical-factories Guinness muck.
He's right, don't bother coming to the UK to look for geeky women. We hardly have any here, and cute geek girls are as rare as hens teeth.
What we do have is a lot of women who like the kind of intelligent, funny TV shows that Joss Whedon creates. That doesn't make them geeks. My partner is certainly not a geek, though she enjoys Sci-Fi shows on TV more than I do.
I like in the UK and can confirm that a lot of females (and not just the 'geek girls', of which there are very few here) seem to like sci-fi. I'm a linux [and now OS X] geek with a non-geek partner. However, it's her who likes sci-fi shows, not me. I did go out and buy Firefly on DVD yesterday, as we both love watching Buffy and Angel.
I feel exactly the same about them. I want a t-shirt saying, "NO, I don't have a fucking clubcard". These days, I tend to avoid shopping at Tesco, except when necessary, as it's such a horrible experience, with crowded stores and long queues. I've mostly switched to shopping at Waitrose, which is far more pleasant or, occasionally, Asda which is even worse.
To be honest, if it had been a small flurry of snow, the whole network would probably have shut down.
Don't laugh - it happened a couple of years ago.
I know that this is going to degenerate into a licensing argument about his comments on the GPL (which I don't agree with), but please read the whole interview, as ESR talks about a lot of other interesting non-GLP issues too.
I guess that you're American as you have no clue as to what irony actually is.
You've made a good point about the mouse. I've just bought my first Mac and immediately switched the one button mouse for a two button one. OS X is actually designed for two button mice. It's nice to have a BSD machine too, as I first used BSD back in the 80's.
I doubt that it's anywhere near as much as 10% of sites that don't work with Firefox. I use Firefox as my main browser on my work PC and my home Linux, Mac and PC. I very rarely find a site these days that doesn't work properly with Firefox, the Odeon and Jobcentreplus sites mentioned in the article being a couple of the most notable exceptions. I'd put the figure at far less than 1%.
This is on the BBC website, which can withstand any amount of slashdotting. There's no need to post an unformatted copy of the article here.