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Because Debian gave me everything I needed in 1997 (unix games and what little was ported was plenty for me, if I went to a LAN party, my contribution was mirroring everything onto my server, then dragging the server with me, so people could do last-second patches if they needed in exchange for tube time on other consoles as people took breaks in the yard to have a drink), and almost everything I need today. I'm a gamer, so I need Transgaming's version of Wine and Vice City for me to consider a system complete.
I'm looking forward to support for True Crime now that it's out on PC, as well as Driver 3 when it comes out, though I'm still trying for 100% completion of Vice City between rounds of America's Army, which is a pretty damn good game out on all top three major OS's.
E-Bikes pollute more than what they're replacing
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They're replacing regular bicycles. And regular bicycles run on a good meal, and there's no avoiding the pollution that causes, whether or not you have the bicycle. China needs to get better electric production before trying to replace everybody's legs.
Google, if you decide you actually do want to do instant messaging, please just throw up a jabber server and give people a Google-branded client instead of re-inventing the wheel. I know I'm not alone in wanting wider adoption of Jabber, and Google could go a long way with that step.
Anybody who bothers to read The Oregonian knew this last year when the guy announced the hoax. It even made national television news and he was on Good Morning America. Whoa, this one got past the editors why?
I think spammers and those who respond to spam need to be strapped to a chair and have their head smashed in with a hammer in front of their children. That would be a deterrent. I think I'm going to write my congresscritter...
Yikes...I never realized how out of whack the rest of the country is (compared to Oregon). We don't pay sales tax. I can live in downtown Portland with utilities paid, a view, and a stones throw from about a half-dozen assorted TriMet and Screechcar stands. I don't have to stand in the rain to get gas, self serve is prohibited. And we pay 20 cents less a gallon than Washington, a self-serve state.
Don't count on moving here, though: Oregon's full.
Schools lucky enough to have such teachers should stop griping about projector bulbs and pay some whiny IT guy $5/hr to follow them around and turn off the projector. Whiny IT guys are a dime a dozen.
In what third-world state is $5/hr at or above minimum wage? I can't even remember a minimum wage lower than $6.50/hr. It's $7.10/hr now and I expect it to go to $7.30 or so depending on inflation in January.
here at work, thanks to doofuses who can't remember how to turn off a projector, we can chew through a unit, at $330 per, in 6 months. and i know college professors aren't the only group of clueless projector users out there.
If they can't even work a projector, what makes them think they can teach?
If it werent for the fact I'm so freaking broke right now, I'd go down to Fry's and pick up a Radeon and take my nVidia card down to the 11th and Clay Streetcar Stand and see what kind of improvements the wheels of the Portland Screechcar can do to it.
Why? Because using nVidia's drivers in any OS is a lot like sucking raw shit through a very thin straw. Some revisions simply won't compile. They refuse to release drivers for Linux 2.6. Tech support is nonexistant.
Fuck nVidia, I can't wait for the stock market to ruin them like it ruined @Home.
No kidding! However, I have a feeling the target audience is Californian drivers, and that's a state that doesn't even require you to be in the state legally, have insurance, or a driver's license. We don't need to be giving these idiots any more excuse to drive like retarded 4-year-olds (and I apologize in advance to retards and 4-year-olds for comparing them to Californian scum).
Back when I lived in that big house with a bunch of friends, satellite was dirt cheap. Just kinda sucked if a storm hit right after everybody left for work, or a goose re-aimed the dish...would crap out, and we'd draw straws to see who would go climb for it. Not a fun prospect when icy.
Now I just can't get it where I'm at...I'm downtown, the south side of the building faces a skyscraper, I'm on the north face, the landlord wouldn't allow it anyway, probably some city code, and the resistance to want to hang out of a third-story window with heavy equipment above concrete, a traffic light and a parked car.
In Portland, we have Comcast. Analog cable is known for having a decent, though frustratingly limited selection (and a few that nobody is sure why they included them...like The Golf Channel...Portland has way too many 9 and 18 hole courses, a couple 32s and a 128 hole course...Portlanders spend too much time golfing to watch other people golf...or the TV Guide and any of the home shopping channels...nobody watches those.) and the best signal in town compared to anything else. Their digital cable service has way, way more channels, but you pay a lot for it, and there's only about 5 good ones, each on a separate lineup, each costs something like another $8/ea on top of the digital premium and analog service. The MPEG-2 encoding is really substandard. It's like watching satellite in the ever-present rainstorms here (anybody who lives here can tell you, rain falls nearly horizontal, anything else is just high humidity. The locals do not carry umbrellas: they don't work well in the wind (when it's actually raining), but aren't worth the trouble for the more springlike brief showers.).
On the other hand, if you use a TiVo, and always record on the lowest quality, you're not going to notice too much of a difference with satellite, though bad weather will noticably chop up the signal (wind and wildlife vibrating or reaiming the dish, dense clouds/fog, heavy rain, ice forming on it in cold weather, snow buildup, etc), I remember when times were better and I shared a 4BR/2BA house with a bunch of friends and we could easily afford every channel DirecTV offered, nice clear warm night, open all the doors and windows, and turn on a movie with a signal so clear you would have thought you were on analog cable and lived inside the headend.
Broadband, however...I've had Verizon and Qwest and some time or another for a DSL provider. They both suck so bad that I don't even trust them with my landline anymore, they lost my business to Vonage. Cable is the least of all evils. They'll let you get internet service a-la carte without television if you want (which is how we did it in said big-ass house, plus half of us worked for @Home, so we got 30Mbps/10Mbps for free anyway). The half of us in that house that worked for @Home, both used and loved @Home. I knew, at the time, about as many people who worked for Qwest and one guy who worked for Verizon. All the guys who worked for Qwest really had a hard time even selling their service to their customers, and were @Home customers themselves and loved cable. The guy from Verizon might know where the power button on a computer is if it's got a big, neon sign flashing, pointing at it, and the button itself is illuminated and clearly labelled.
The correct answer should be intuitive by this point. 8:o)
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Well, don't do that, then! 8:o)
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Congratulations, I pre-emptively nominate you for a Darwin award.
And that is exactly why address munging is considered harmful.
...because it sounds like you're looking for Vonage. If you decide to switch, please let me know, I'd like the referral bonux.
I'm looking forward to support for True Crime now that it's out on PC, as well as Driver 3 when it comes out, though I'm still trying for 100% completion of Vice City between rounds of America's Army, which is a pretty damn good game out on all top three major OS's.
They're replacing regular bicycles. And regular bicycles run on a good meal, and there's no avoiding the pollution that causes, whether or not you have the bicycle. China needs to get better electric production before trying to replace everybody's legs.
For the record, I'm looking through a transluscent konsole at a photograph of a brown bear that makes up my desktop background.
Seriously...I've been using it for a while now. It works well. It's bloody simple. Why more people don't use it, I don't know.
Too bad DSL costs twice as much for half the speed, eh?
Was that rhetorical? If not, the answer is "Yes."
Google, if you decide you actually do want to do instant messaging, please just throw up a jabber server and give people a Google-branded client instead of re-inventing the wheel. I know I'm not alone in wanting wider adoption of Jabber, and Google could go a long way with that step.
Is that what they meant by "behavioral marketing platform," something that immediately inspires a Carlinesque rage?
Anybody who bothers to read The Oregonian knew this last year when the guy announced the hoax. It even made national television news and he was on Good Morning America. Whoa, this one got past the editors why?
I think spammers and those who respond to spam need to be strapped to a chair and have their head smashed in with a hammer in front of their children. That would be a deterrent. I think I'm going to write my congresscritter...
Don't count on moving here, though: Oregon's full.
In what third-world state is $5/hr at or above minimum wage? I can't even remember a minimum wage lower than $6.50/hr. It's $7.10/hr now and I expect it to go to $7.30 or so depending on inflation in January.
If they can't even work a projector, what makes them think they can teach?
Any distro. And I haven't seen drivers for 2.6, just some guys who modded the existing ones outside the terms of the license.
Why? Because using nVidia's drivers in any OS is a lot like sucking raw shit through a very thin straw. Some revisions simply won't compile. They refuse to release drivers for Linux 2.6. Tech support is nonexistant.
Fuck nVidia, I can't wait for the stock market to ruin them like it ruined @Home.
That would last roughly as long as it would take to file a nice class action lawsuit and an injunction.
10% unemployment would be improvement for Portlanders, so why not have the workers rights come with it?
No kidding! However, I have a feeling the target audience is Californian drivers, and that's a state that doesn't even require you to be in the state legally, have insurance, or a driver's license. We don't need to be giving these idiots any more excuse to drive like retarded 4-year-olds (and I apologize in advance to retards and 4-year-olds for comparing them to Californian scum).
Back when I lived in that big house with a bunch of friends, satellite was dirt cheap. Just kinda sucked if a storm hit right after everybody left for work, or a goose re-aimed the dish...would crap out, and we'd draw straws to see who would go climb for it. Not a fun prospect when icy. Now I just can't get it where I'm at...I'm downtown, the south side of the building faces a skyscraper, I'm on the north face, the landlord wouldn't allow it anyway, probably some city code, and the resistance to want to hang out of a third-story window with heavy equipment above concrete, a traffic light and a parked car.
On the other hand, if you use a TiVo, and always record on the lowest quality, you're not going to notice too much of a difference with satellite, though bad weather will noticably chop up the signal (wind and wildlife vibrating or reaiming the dish, dense clouds/fog, heavy rain, ice forming on it in cold weather, snow buildup, etc), I remember when times were better and I shared a 4BR/2BA house with a bunch of friends and we could easily afford every channel DirecTV offered, nice clear warm night, open all the doors and windows, and turn on a movie with a signal so clear you would have thought you were on analog cable and lived inside the headend.
Broadband, however...I've had Verizon and Qwest and some time or another for a DSL provider. They both suck so bad that I don't even trust them with my landline anymore, they lost my business to Vonage. Cable is the least of all evils. They'll let you get internet service a-la carte without television if you want (which is how we did it in said big-ass house, plus half of us worked for @Home, so we got 30Mbps/10Mbps for free anyway). The half of us in that house that worked for @Home, both used and loved @Home. I knew, at the time, about as many people who worked for Qwest and one guy who worked for Verizon. All the guys who worked for Qwest really had a hard time even selling their service to their customers, and were @Home customers themselves and loved cable. The guy from Verizon might know where the power button on a computer is if it's got a big, neon sign flashing, pointing at it, and the button itself is illuminated and clearly labelled.
The correct answer should be intuitive by this point. 8:o)