...last winter when it was icy here, we drove up Interstate 84 to Multnomah Falls, where there is a giant empty parking lot at night on the freeway median. One of the people we brought with us was a drunk, sleeping roommate. We put said drunk roommate in the driver's seat, buckled him him in and took the keys out. We got the truck spinning pretty quick and two of us jumped back in and started screaming. Drunk roommate wakes up and thinks he was driving drunk and fell asleep driving on an icy road right up to the moment the steering locks up from being turned off. Truck spun about 5 times total before coming to a stop without hitting anything. My arm had a big bruise on it from being hit about 20 times by drunk roommate in return for pranking him so bad...
I was wrong; now the vending machine industry wanted them to make the new coin exactly the same size and weight as the Susan B. to maintain "compatibility"! How stupid can they get? Now nobody uses the new one either.
You've never taken the MAX in Portland. I'll warn you right now, if you're smart, you won't put a $20 in the machine and buy anything worth less than a pair of 5-ticket strips, those things will only spit out $16.75 (maximum change the machine is stupidly designed to allow, which *will* shortchange you significantly if you pay for a single or double fare with a $20), and give coins exclusively as change (comprised largely of Sacajawea dollars if you use a $10 or $20 for anything). The ticket machines will take any denomination of US currency up to $20 (including the $2 as I disocovered trying on a whim), and all US coins that will fit in the slot save for pennies.
Because of sales tax for any items consumed in Washington is imposed on Oregonians (which are otherwise sales tax exempt with Oregon ID), many people living along the Washington border in Oregon use $2s as a substitute $1 in Washington to make up for the fact that our dollar is worth 6.5% less in Washington.
Post offices and automatic grocery checkouts frequently give Sacajawea or Anthony dollars instead of $1 bills.
Need to park your car in downtown? The parking permit machines take Visa, Mastercard, American Express and all US coins that will fit in the slot except pennies. But do they take cash? No.
The $1 bill is thoroughly obsolete in modern society, it's time to join Canada in the third millennium and ditch the paper $1 and bring back the $2.
You simply can't point to one individual in a company and use him/her to conclude that the company's message is conservative or liberal. No, not even the owner or the CEO.
So it's just a coincidence CNN only tells the conservative side of the story, avoids anything left of center, opting to fill it in with live music and soft-news bullshit, right?
Umm, PBS is neutral (they piss off hardcore progressives as badly as hardcore conservatives), CNN is conservative (ted turner owns it, he's conservative, there's no reason for them to cover anything that isn't far right of the middle). And Washington Post is cheap, effective toilet paper and not a real journal of review. Go read the Portland Tribune.
I mean, after all, the Daemon is holding a pitchfork. Maybe he's about to go pitch some hay into a pile out in the field. The Penguin is just sitting there watching his ass get fatter.
As a collorary, do you feel flattered or annoyed that some OSS desktops seem to be trying to emulate the Windows 'look', down to the themes and widgets?
For the same reasons that many OSS desktop environments also tend to have MacOS 9 or MacOS X themes. It reduces culture shock for new users while still allowing them access to the features of the desktop environment. The Windows UI is of itself a hammed up CDE environment, an early example of MS playing catchup with the Unix world.
Do you feel that they actually impove on the Windows GUI with things like virtual desktops, or are they just a poor copy of the original?
Mu. It's a different approach entirely. I would say it's an improvement over the Windows UI, as KDE is almost countlessly more featureful for the user due to significant design differences of the underlying OS that KDE runs on, down to the countless proglets and options and optional components that can be used (or unused or even uninstalled) to add features or slim down the system to exactly what the user needs and wants.
To put it in terms that the world you're obviously living in can understand: If MacOS's window system is white and Window's is black, OSS gives you not only the gray in the middle but the color your world doesn't have.
Google is bravely doing fantastic thing with client-side programming...something many websites have given up on because of cross-browser incompatibility. My money is definitely on Google being very aggressive with Mozilla/XUL based on this work. That's going to be good times!
Vendor lock-in is a Bad Thing. Did you learn nothing from the Microsoft Dynasty, which is starting to wind down as we speak thanks to vendor lock-in?
A wise man once said: If Debian spent less time encouraging politics and more time developing, packaging and testing, Debian stable would have more up2date software versions.
Therefor, your wise man is an utter moron who hasn't the faintest clue about Software in the Public Interest's ambition. Debian is the largest software distribution out there, on 13 architectures and three kernels. It takes a long time to port and test all that.
If you don't know how to do that I would *seriously* reconsider your idea of replacing a piece of hardware that you trust with your LIFE.
I put more trust in my CB radio than my speedometer. The CB radio tells me when there's traffic suddenly slamming to a stop on the freeway ahead, I've yet to find a speedometer that'll do anything more than tell me how fast I'm going to hit whatever's stationary ahead of me.
Heh, destroyer of small-town America indeed...I'm pretty sure the Eisenhower Interstate Freeway System has had a far greater negative impact on small town America than WalMart ever could. Example: Wood Village, Oregon. Formerly a tourist town. Now a skidmark on I-84. Troutdale, Oregon: Formerly an inland fishing town, now a truck stop on I-84. Gresham, Oregon: There's a historical marker on the shoulder of I-84-Bicycle at milepost 13 marking where the westbound lanes of I-84 were built over a pioneer cemetary. Portland, Oregon: Banfield Creek used to exist before they filled it in with a freeway (if you ever wondered why I-84 takes such a strange route through Portland, now you know; it used to be wetland).
Then there's hydroelectric power. For example: Bonneville, Oregon used to exist before Bonneville Dam was built immediately downstream. North Bonneville, Washington still exists (and the name makes even less sense to most people than North Bend (which is halfway across the state southwest of Bend)).
The fact I switched to Debian Linux in 1997, barely computer literate, and never having heard of Linux before puts your skills in grave question. If you've been doing this for 20+ years, what's your hangup? The only thing that can explain it AFAICT is the Californian Complex. Californians tend to move to other states (usually Oregon or Washington) and expect Oregonians and Washingtonians to be as fucked up, ignorant and tasteless as they are, and bitch loudly every time they encounter that this is not the case.
Windows users are guilty of the same complex. They go to other operating systems and expect it to be just as cumbersome, difficult, insecure and fragile as where they came from, and bitch loudly when it's not.
Get over yourself, Californian!
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...last winter when it was icy here, we drove up Interstate 84 to Multnomah Falls, where there is a giant empty parking lot at night on the freeway median. One of the people we brought with us was a drunk, sleeping roommate. We put said drunk roommate in the driver's seat, buckled him him in and took the keys out. We got the truck spinning pretty quick and two of us jumped back in and started screaming. Drunk roommate wakes up and thinks he was driving drunk and fell asleep driving on an icy road right up to the moment the steering locks up from being turned off. Truck spun about 5 times total before coming to a stop without hitting anything. My arm had a big bruise on it from being hit about 20 times by drunk roommate in return for pranking him so bad...
I was wrong; now the vending machine industry wanted them to make the new coin exactly the same size and weight as the Susan B. to maintain "compatibility"! How stupid can they get? Now nobody uses the new one either.
You've never taken the MAX in Portland. I'll warn you right now, if you're smart, you won't put a $20 in the machine and buy anything worth less than a pair of 5-ticket strips, those things will only spit out $16.75 (maximum change the machine is stupidly designed to allow, which *will* shortchange you significantly if you pay for a single or double fare with a $20), and give coins exclusively as change (comprised largely of Sacajawea dollars if you use a $10 or $20 for anything). The ticket machines will take any denomination of US currency up to $20 (including the $2 as I disocovered trying on a whim), and all US coins that will fit in the slot save for pennies.
Because of sales tax for any items consumed in Washington is imposed on Oregonians (which are otherwise sales tax exempt with Oregon ID), many people living along the Washington border in Oregon use $2s as a substitute $1 in Washington to make up for the fact that our dollar is worth 6.5% less in Washington.
Post offices and automatic grocery checkouts frequently give Sacajawea or Anthony dollars instead of $1 bills.
Need to park your car in downtown? The parking permit machines take Visa, Mastercard, American Express and all US coins that will fit in the slot except pennies. But do they take cash? No.
The $1 bill is thoroughly obsolete in modern society, it's time to join Canada in the third millennium and ditch the paper $1 and bring back the $2.
What exactly is the "shitload" to "metric shitload" ratio anyway? I know I'm an ignorant American, but I'm at least trying to learn...
Less gravity == less drag == better fuel economy. I thought it was obvious...
If no other reason than fuel economy, yes. Our problem isn't lack of oil supply, it's too much gravitational interference!
SCO thought ESR would just let it fly to use the FUD entry of the Jargon file to further their claims back in 2003. SCO: See also Bzzt! Wrong.
- Write the drivers yourself and GPL them
- Actively maintain the drivers
Good luck!...who backs themselves into the VB hole in the first place? You hack like a woman! /austin powers
If that's the case, you're doing something wrong.
I used to work in sales. I needed Outlook like I needed a bad rash. We dumped it for Mozilla Thunderbird.
You should have gone with the AIDS joke instead...it hasn't been 22.3 years since HST died yet.
Though the Business Software Alliance picked their name to backronym nicely over the Not Evil original BSA.
So it's just a coincidence CNN only tells the conservative side of the story, avoids anything left of center, opting to fill it in with live music and soft-news bullshit, right?
Umm, PBS is neutral (they piss off hardcore progressives as badly as hardcore conservatives), CNN is conservative (ted turner owns it, he's conservative, there's no reason for them to cover anything that isn't far right of the middle). And Washington Post is cheap, effective toilet paper and not a real journal of review. Go read the Portland Tribune.
I mean, after all, the Daemon is holding a pitchfork. Maybe he's about to go pitch some hay into a pile out in the field. The Penguin is just sitting there watching his ass get fatter.
KWrite is the intuitive answer...
For the same reasons that many OSS desktop environments also tend to have MacOS 9 or MacOS X themes. It reduces culture shock for new users while still allowing them access to the features of the desktop environment. The Windows UI is of itself a hammed up CDE environment, an early example of MS playing catchup with the Unix world.
Do you feel that they actually impove on the Windows GUI with things like virtual desktops, or are they just a poor copy of the original?
Mu. It's a different approach entirely. I would say it's an improvement over the Windows UI, as KDE is almost countlessly more featureful for the user due to significant design differences of the underlying OS that KDE runs on, down to the countless proglets and options and optional components that can be used (or unused or even uninstalled) to add features or slim down the system to exactly what the user needs and wants.
To put it in terms that the world you're obviously living in can understand: If MacOS's window system is white and Window's is black, OSS gives you not only the gray in the middle but the color your world doesn't have.
Vendor lock-in is a Bad Thing. Did you learn nothing from the Microsoft Dynasty, which is starting to wind down as we speak thanks to vendor lock-in?
Therefor, your wise man is an utter moron who hasn't the faintest clue about Software in the Public Interest's ambition. Debian is the largest software distribution out there, on 13 architectures and three kernels. It takes a long time to port and test all that.
I put more trust in my CB radio than my speedometer. The CB radio tells me when there's traffic suddenly slamming to a stop on the freeway ahead, I've yet to find a speedometer that'll do anything more than tell me how fast I'm going to hit whatever's stationary ahead of me.
Cram it, asshole. I got laid off from a local OEM because they couldn't afford to pay both Microsoft and myself and a coworker.
Heh, destroyer of small-town America indeed...I'm pretty sure the Eisenhower Interstate Freeway System has had a far greater negative impact on small town America than WalMart ever could. Example: Wood Village, Oregon. Formerly a tourist town. Now a skidmark on I-84. Troutdale, Oregon: Formerly an inland fishing town, now a truck stop on I-84. Gresham, Oregon: There's a historical marker on the shoulder of I-84-Bicycle at milepost 13 marking where the westbound lanes of I-84 were built over a pioneer cemetary. Portland, Oregon: Banfield Creek used to exist before they filled it in with a freeway (if you ever wondered why I-84 takes such a strange route through Portland, now you know; it used to be wetland). Then there's hydroelectric power. For example: Bonneville, Oregon used to exist before Bonneville Dam was built immediately downstream. North Bonneville, Washington still exists (and the name makes even less sense to most people than North Bend (which is halfway across the state southwest of Bend)).
The fact I switched to Debian Linux in 1997, barely computer literate, and never having heard of Linux before puts your skills in grave question. If you've been doing this for 20+ years, what's your hangup? The only thing that can explain it AFAICT is the Californian Complex. Californians tend to move to other states (usually Oregon or Washington) and expect Oregonians and Washingtonians to be as fucked up, ignorant and tasteless as they are, and bitch loudly every time they encounter that this is not the case. Windows users are guilty of the same complex. They go to other operating systems and expect it to be just as cumbersome, difficult, insecure and fragile as where they came from, and bitch loudly when it's not. Get over yourself, Californian!
Bzzt! Wrong! Show me a sealed X terminal keyboard sold for on the cheap...
After they shafted my Scout troop in the late 1990s, please tell me the Beaverton Livejournal staff is getting shitcanned