They're surely milking the tits off the goat with this one. And I bet loads of suckers will still shell their cash out for another GTA3 that's almost exactly the same as the last two editions.
I'm a high school physics teacher stuck in a school where not only is Windows rampant, but the sysadmin isn't interested in alternatives. I want to present a case where my students could use Linux boxes instead of Windows for the purpose of showing them there are alternatives.
Are you serious? What does this have to do with physics?
And why replace working Windows computers with non-working Linux ones for the purpose of showing alternatives?
You people are crazy. At least the aforementioned sysadmin is seeing some sense.
An interesting innovation. That reminds me of these two tramps walking down the street who spot a large amount of partially digested food puked out the night before.
The first tramp kneels down and starts tucking in to it. After a while he turns round to the second tramp who is just standing there and asks "what's the matter? Aren't you hungry?"
The second tramp just smiles and says "nah, I'll wait a while."
So anyway the first tramp eats it all up. They walk along and sure enough, the first tramp pukes it all up everywhere.
"Ah! Just what I was waiting for," exclaims the second tramp, "a hot meal!"
With the amount of time and money you'll spend getting someone to write these drivers for you, you may as well slap down a few hundred dollars for Windows XP and use that.
It's about time they got round to doing something about it. Hopefully they will open up their source code to Windows 98 so we don't need to use WINE any more!
Well, you presented that spelling correction in a rather annoying and patronising manner. But I was wondering why it looked wrong when I typed it, so thanks for correcting me. I can now masturbate with the proud knowledge that I know how to spell the word, too.
When do you stop wishing she will come back and go out and get laid?
I found that not masterbating at all for a few weeks helped me to get the incentive to get laid. That way, you're directing your sexual attention to real life girls rather than photos on your monitor, in a magazine or in your imagination.
Also: try to get laid a few times, then look for companionship again. Once you're confident enough with the sexual side of things you can concentrate on the more important things such as long-term partnership.
(As for licenses, I agree with you. People only need to read them if they're going to do something that might land them in court.)
If you need indexed tables and performance is critical then why not use this instead of mySQL? I mean, for the limited SQL syntax that is actually available in mySQL, you may as well not bother using it.
Seriously, most SQL databases have moved on past the stage mySQL is at. The features you're asking for are standard in almost every other SQL-based product available.
I mean, it's like trying to use a calculator without an 'x^y' button. Sure, the calculator might be smaller and faster but do you really want to be hitting '*' hundreds of times when you could do '^' once?
You really are living in database technology yesterbidecade. Relational database software has moved on a lot since then - why not take advantage of it?
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Oh, didn't notice that. Thanks for the correction. In that case I take it all back, yo.
They're surely milking the tits off the goat with this one. And I bet loads of suckers will still shell their cash out for another GTA3 that's almost exactly the same as the last two editions.
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.. I'll still get most of my music with SoulSeek, Kazaa, WinMX and Overnet, and buy the rest from second hand CD shops.
Anyone with me on this?
... DAT tapes or lots of CDs. Wait a while until one standard becomes most prevelant.
DVD as a consumer writable storage medium isn't viable as yet in terms of interoperability and long term retainment.
Are you serious? What does this have to do with physics?
And why replace working Windows computers with non-working Linux ones for the purpose of showing alternatives?
You people are crazy. At least the aforementioned sysadmin is seeing some sense.
An interesting innovation. That reminds me of these two tramps walking down the street who spot a large amount of partially digested food puked out the night before.
The first tramp kneels down and starts tucking in to it. After a while he turns round to the second tramp who is just standing there and asks "what's the matter? Aren't you hungry?"
The second tramp just smiles and says "nah, I'll wait a while."
So anyway the first tramp eats it all up. They walk along and sure enough, the first tramp pukes it all up everywhere.
"Ah! Just what I was waiting for," exclaims the second tramp, "a hot meal!"
Maybe this would help?
That seems fair enough. Who would want it running on Linux anyway?
Let's talk about other people's conversations!
- Recognition of USB hard drive
- Booting from said hard drive
It is the BIOS that needs this because it is the last code to be run before booting into an OS.With the amount of time and money you'll spend getting someone to write these drivers for you, you may as well slap down a few hundred dollars for Windows XP and use that.
Has anyone used it? Is it any good?
It looks a bit unfinished to me, but the modularisation ideas are pretty neat.
- Nothing but an OS, no browser or media player.
If they do that, they should also demand that Lunixes ship only with the kernel - no netscape or xmms, or anything.It's about time they got round to doing something about it. Hopefully they will open up their source code to Windows 98 so we don't need to use WINE any more!
Pascal compilers are rarer than C compilers.
You might find this interesting. Search the page for 'PBX', it brings up some possibly useful links.
No, I'm sorry -- it seems I misjudged your tone.
This really is excellent news for Linux and Open Source software. Bravo!
Well, you presented that spelling correction in a rather annoying and patronising manner. But I was wondering why it looked wrong when I typed it, so thanks for correcting me. I can now masturbate with the proud knowledge that I know how to spell the word, too.
- When do you stop wishing she will come back and go out and get laid?
I found that not masterbating at all for a few weeks helped me to get the incentive to get laid. That way, you're directing your sexual attention to real life girls rather than photos on your monitor, in a magazine or in your imagination.Also: try to get laid a few times, then look for companionship again. Once you're confident enough with the sexual side of things you can concentrate on the more important things such as long-term partnership.
(As for licenses, I agree with you. People only need to read them if they're going to do something that might land them in court.)
Thanks for your explanation; I was thinking in terms of storing logged lab data.
(My post was a troll/joke anyway -- I've worked in too many places that actually do use Excel to record important data in this manner.)
Who wants to bet that chronicle.com is going to be added very very soon ..?
If you need indexed tables and performance is critical then why not use this instead of mySQL? I mean, for the limited SQL syntax that is actually available in mySQL, you may as well not bother using it.
You're trusting your sale and accounting data with mySQL? You brave, brave man ..
Seriously, most SQL databases have moved on past the stage mySQL is at. The features you're asking for are standard in almost every other SQL-based product available.
I mean, it's like trying to use a calculator without an 'x^y' button. Sure, the calculator might be smaller and faster but do you really want to be hitting '*' hundreds of times when you could do '^' once?
You really are living in database technology yesterbidecade. Relational database software has moved on a lot since then - why not take advantage of it?