After LiveJournal defaulted on payment for Christmas wreathes their corporate HQ on Greenbrier Parkway in Beaverton, OR that they purchased through my Scout troop's fundraiser back in the late 1990s, I hope the takeover is quick, and everybody currently with LiveJournal finds themselves without jobs quite quickly. Go takeover!
I wouldn't rule out Walmart.com machines. WalMart *does* sell Linux games, and at least the one at the corner of US-30 Bypass and US-30 in Wood Village, Oregon is even happy to point out the Linux games for you.
Cedega basically has, however, it's a reverse-engineered version of it. Direct3D is Microsoft's proprietary spec designed with nobody else in mind. So the question isn't "Why can't someone port Direct3D to Linux?" but rather, "Why do game developers insist on coding for the only platform with vendor lock-in?"
I don't think so. There are a lot simpler carrots and sticks available, in order of decreasing importance to the average teenage girl:
Not just girls, these are pretty gender neutral.
1) Telephone privs - no cell phone for you
Fine, I'll just go put on my raincoat, hop on my bike and ride to one of this city's many phone booths with a closing door when I need the phone. They stay warm year round, are sheltered and have a light. (I have done this, and I had friends that stashed a 25-pound portable computer they got out of the classifieds for $20 and an acoustic coupler and knew the location of the closest phone booths with doors and electrical outlets).
2) Grounding - no hanging out at the mall for you
Eh, Lloyd Center is the world's fifth largest mall and there's still only three hours worth of interesting stuff over there, and it only changes once every three months save for the overpriced Regal Cinema. Fortunately, we never had the Valley Girl phenomenon, so the mall is still the refuge of the old and the bored save for the Christmas season.
3) Allowance - no buying the latest MTV-hyped fad product for you
Please. This is Oregon. The first state to pass the Bottle Bill and a progressive enough croud that public trashcans are usually sorted with the trash in the bin and the refundable bottles and cans on or around the trash can (even when there is no refundable can bin on the side of the trash bin!). If I want cash bad enough and can't get a job, I'll raid 10 or 12 bus stops on a major route.
4) Television privs - no watching MTV-hyped commercials-as-content for you
No big loss there.
5) Driving privs - no freedom to move about for you
Like traffic moves in this city. Yeah, bicycles aren't allowed to pass on the right when there isn't a shoulder or open lane, and it's illegal to ride on the sidewalks. No big deal: I've already got a biannually updated, regional-government published map of the region, complete and already annoted for nasty intersections, best routes with fewest cars, which streets have bicycle lanes, and which street and highways are closed to motor vehicles entirely. We already have open-and-safe-for-bicycle shoulders on the freeways, and where the freeways are closed to bikes, the state insists on building a bypass route closed to motor vehicles paralelling the motor route. Want to take my lights so I can't ride at night? Fine, I'll stick to the routes I know have streetlamps and lots of cops. You're paying the ticket for no lights after dark.
6) Food - no bulemia practice for you
Eh, bulemia's not my thing, and my father's cooking sucks enough that I sustained myself on what I could scrape by on California's shitty 2.5 cent per can refund rate six weeks out of the summer for four years when I had to go to LA to see the bastard. See above about collecting cans, but multiply the number of bus stops by about 5, and add more hobos and the hazards of digging through LA garbage because Californians don't sort out the recyclables reflexively like they should.
Long story short, anybody to do as well as I did Scouting is going to be innovative and handy enough to it themselves.
Why not just make the bloody switch already? I can do everything on my Linux box as my roommates do on their Windows boxes (and we are all gamers, transgaming goes a long way but native ports are more likely to get my money), but I haven't had to reinstall.
There's finally a good browser based on Gecko (Firefox) and they've basically abandoned the Netscape browser. But AOL is just dealing with the reality of who their user base is and what they expect (the trailing edge of the Internet revolution, if you will - these people think IE is great, and will think a better IE is even better).
But isn't AOL a major participant in the Mozilla project?
Depends on the state. When travelling in Oregon, there are no hard speed limits. The "LIMIT" part off the sign wasn't just a cost saving measure on the part of ODOT, it's just a posted speed. It mostly exists to advise drivers what the safe speed under normal conditions is (in western Oregon, it's typically tuned to poor visibility on wet pavement in the rain, the kind of weather that you're expected to have lights on 24/7 for). If you're exceeding the posted speed and you're passing most of traffic in the rain or any traffic on ice, you're going to have a hard time explaining why you don't deserve a speeding ticket to the judge.
If you're doing 75 and everybody else is doing 70, and the posted speed is 60 and it's a totally dry day with good visibility, the state trooper or county sheriff in his air conditioned cruiser is going to sip his soda, sit on the shoulder, and wait to radar the idiot doing 90 or a large vehicle tailgating a smaller one (exception: You'll probably get a ticket for going faster than 10 under the limit if you can't move to the next lane (or failing to move to the next lane when you can) when passing a police car, wrecker, ambulance, guy changing his tire on the shoulder, or similar situation where it's likely to have someone on the freeway under the Oregon Safe Distance Law.
No kidding. Maybe even do the growing trend among tech companies in the central California region to fire all employees, offer no relocation, and re-open shop in the Portland, Oregon area. Oregonians need jobs more than California needs anything.
The ash is starting to settle in Wood Village, there's a fine layer on the cars here now. The USGS is also saying on NWCN that the odds of further, more severe volcanic activity is 100% at this point.
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Only 2.5 years? Longer than that! Heck, hop the border into Canada and prepare yourself for more Yankee jokes at your expense than you knew existed.
As of the time of this writing, Firefox has 48% of the share on my site, and Konqueror's also way up there. Granted, I had to reset the stats last week, but the numbers are in roughly the same proportions for a sample lasting from April to a couple weeks ago when my domain got stolen...
RPMs know where to install themselves, and what permissions to set.
When did that start? RPMs always install themselves in weird, unworkable places with dependencies against files that don't exist...sorry, I'll take dpkg any day.
Businessweek has a story about flying cars and how they could be an actual viable thing in less than 10 years.
Oh, really? What states have stopped honoring Californian driver's licenses to make such a thing safe? Californians can't drive in two dimensions, they don't need a third, particularly near me.
A better question would be, "What laptop has the least expensive replacement battery?" I'm faced with a trip up the Pan-American Highway to Vancouver to pick up some affordable replacements for my Dell Inspiron 3000, since the existing battery has been a paperweight for a couple weeks now.
Anybody have any idea how incredibly hard it is to find a good outside location in the shade with both a Personal Telco node and a working electrical outlet? I have no idea how Pioneer Square hosts so many events when out of two dozen outlets I found, only one works, and it's located on the roof of the TriMet bunker on the side of the podium that overlooks the square, which also happens to double as a public restroom for the Californian rejects who end up homeless here.
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It's nice that it comes with Knoppix, but I seriously question introducing new users to RPM distros. Knoppix is dpkg-based, which means you can readily migrate it to Debian without much hassle. Given that Debian just works and RPM distros send you through dependency hell on a badly fragmented format, it seems like the intuitive choice would have been to show new users how to get started with Knoppix immediately and migrate that over to Debian.
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After LiveJournal defaulted on payment for Christmas wreathes their corporate HQ on Greenbrier Parkway in Beaverton, OR that they purchased through my Scout troop's fundraiser back in the late 1990s, I hope the takeover is quick, and everybody currently with LiveJournal finds themselves without jobs quite quickly. Go takeover!
Heheh, you and I both went to NRST and you know it. 8:o)
Yo, Harris...it's Johnson, I went to high school with you. Email me....
Show me a store that allows returns of software to begin with and you might have a valid argument.
So all you need is your own video card. That's like $60 extra. Big deal.
I wouldn't rule out Walmart.com machines. WalMart *does* sell Linux games, and at least the one at the corner of US-30 Bypass and US-30 in Wood Village, Oregon is even happy to point out the Linux games for you.
Cedega basically has, however, it's a reverse-engineered version of it. Direct3D is Microsoft's proprietary spec designed with nobody else in mind. So the question isn't "Why can't someone port Direct3D to Linux?" but rather, "Why do game developers insist on coding for the only platform with vendor lock-in?"
Eleven. One to unscrew the light bulb and put a new one in, and ten to keep away all those Californians wishing to share the experience.
No shit. I really wish most of those bastards would spend lots of money and then remember to leave when they're done visiting.
Not just girls, these are pretty gender neutral.
1) Telephone privs - no cell phone for you
Fine, I'll just go put on my raincoat, hop on my bike and ride to one of this city's many phone booths with a closing door when I need the phone. They stay warm year round, are sheltered and have a light. (I have done this, and I had friends that stashed a 25-pound portable computer they got out of the classifieds for $20 and an acoustic coupler and knew the location of the closest phone booths with doors and electrical outlets).
2) Grounding - no hanging out at the mall for you
Eh, Lloyd Center is the world's fifth largest mall and there's still only three hours worth of interesting stuff over there, and it only changes once every three months save for the overpriced Regal Cinema. Fortunately, we never had the Valley Girl phenomenon, so the mall is still the refuge of the old and the bored save for the Christmas season.
3) Allowance - no buying the latest MTV-hyped fad product for you
Please. This is Oregon. The first state to pass the Bottle Bill and a progressive enough croud that public trashcans are usually sorted with the trash in the bin and the refundable bottles and cans on or around the trash can (even when there is no refundable can bin on the side of the trash bin!). If I want cash bad enough and can't get a job, I'll raid 10 or 12 bus stops on a major route.
4) Television privs - no watching MTV-hyped commercials-as-content for you
No big loss there.
5) Driving privs - no freedom to move about for you
Like traffic moves in this city. Yeah, bicycles aren't allowed to pass on the right when there isn't a shoulder or open lane, and it's illegal to ride on the sidewalks. No big deal: I've already got a biannually updated, regional-government published map of the region, complete and already annoted for nasty intersections, best routes with fewest cars, which streets have bicycle lanes, and which street and highways are closed to motor vehicles entirely. We already have open-and-safe-for-bicycle shoulders on the freeways, and where the freeways are closed to bikes, the state insists on building a bypass route closed to motor vehicles paralelling the motor route. Want to take my lights so I can't ride at night? Fine, I'll stick to the routes I know have streetlamps and lots of cops. You're paying the ticket for no lights after dark.
6) Food - no bulemia practice for you
Eh, bulemia's not my thing, and my father's cooking sucks enough that I sustained myself on what I could scrape by on California's shitty 2.5 cent per can refund rate six weeks out of the summer for four years when I had to go to LA to see the bastard. See above about collecting cans, but multiply the number of bus stops by about 5, and add more hobos and the hazards of digging through LA garbage because Californians don't sort out the recyclables reflexively like they should.
Long story short, anybody to do as well as I did Scouting is going to be innovative and handy enough to it themselves.
Just for the record, address munging and fake addresses are not the answer. Reporting spam is.
You mean other than not owning Linux and having no case, right? Cause that didn't stop SCO before...
Why not just make the bloody switch already? I can do everything on my Linux box as my roommates do on their Windows boxes (and we are all gamers, transgaming goes a long way but native ports are more likely to get my money), but I haven't had to reinstall.
Obligatory chickenshit, winbigot response follows...
...as long as I can pick up the phone and call Western Union.
But isn't AOL a major participant in the Mozilla project?
Depends on the state. When travelling in Oregon, there are no hard speed limits. The "LIMIT" part off the sign wasn't just a cost saving measure on the part of ODOT, it's just a posted speed. It mostly exists to advise drivers what the safe speed under normal conditions is (in western Oregon, it's typically tuned to poor visibility on wet pavement in the rain, the kind of weather that you're expected to have lights on 24/7 for). If you're exceeding the posted speed and you're passing most of traffic in the rain or any traffic on ice, you're going to have a hard time explaining why you don't deserve a speeding ticket to the judge. If you're doing 75 and everybody else is doing 70, and the posted speed is 60 and it's a totally dry day with good visibility, the state trooper or county sheriff in his air conditioned cruiser is going to sip his soda, sit on the shoulder, and wait to radar the idiot doing 90 or a large vehicle tailgating a smaller one (exception: You'll probably get a ticket for going faster than 10 under the limit if you can't move to the next lane (or failing to move to the next lane when you can) when passing a police car, wrecker, ambulance, guy changing his tire on the shoulder, or similar situation where it's likely to have someone on the freeway under the Oregon Safe Distance Law.
No kidding. Maybe even do the growing trend among tech companies in the central California region to fire all employees, offer no relocation, and re-open shop in the Portland, Oregon area. Oregonians need jobs more than California needs anything.
The ash is starting to settle in Wood Village, there's a fine layer on the cars here now. The USGS is also saying on NWCN that the odds of further, more severe volcanic activity is 100% at this point.
Only 2.5 years? Longer than that! Heck, hop the border into Canada and prepare yourself for more Yankee jokes at your expense than you knew existed.
As of the time of this writing, Firefox has 48% of the share on my site, and Konqueror's also way up there. Granted, I had to reset the stats last week, but the numbers are in roughly the same proportions for a sample lasting from April to a couple weeks ago when my domain got stolen...
Like thrown into a mysql (or whatever) database, which would allow for different frontends right there.
When did that start? RPMs always install themselves in weird, unworkable places with dependencies against files that don't exist...sorry, I'll take dpkg any day.
Oh, really? What states have stopped honoring Californian driver's licenses to make such a thing safe? Californians can't drive in two dimensions, they don't need a third, particularly near me.
Do dogs piss on brick walls?
Anybody have any idea how incredibly hard it is to find a good outside location in the shade with both a Personal Telco node and a working electrical outlet? I have no idea how Pioneer Square hosts so many events when out of two dozen outlets I found, only one works, and it's located on the roof of the TriMet bunker on the side of the podium that overlooks the square, which also happens to double as a public restroom for the Californian rejects who end up homeless here.
It's nice that it comes with Knoppix, but I seriously question introducing new users to RPM distros. Knoppix is dpkg-based, which means you can readily migrate it to Debian without much hassle. Given that Debian just works and RPM distros send you through dependency hell on a badly fragmented format, it seems like the intuitive choice would have been to show new users how to get started with Knoppix immediately and migrate that over to Debian.