Some of the "independant" brews in America are really good. The stuff you hear of in American ads - Budweiser, Miller - are all pretty terrible. If I have to buy beer at the local store, I usually go for Heinekin.
Quality is usually found in small breweries. If you like ale and are ever in the US, look around for Woodchuck Ale. You certainly won't be disappointed:)
I agree with your position on SUVs- If you're a person that never leaves the warm pavement, you have no business wasting resources on an SUV. However, in a lot of areas of America they are necessary.
I live in Washington state, and I frequent into the mountains and hills where it can be quite treacherous to drive a Saturn or a Honda during fall and winter. There are not many large cities here, and many roads are county roads that are often terrible to drive a small car on during most of the year beause of poor maintenance.
Owning both a small car and a large 4x4 is not cost-effective at all. Fortunately, a 4x4 Subaru car may be an acceptable low-fuel alternative. I'd like to see more small cars available with higher ground clearance and 4x4 capability.
Closed source drivers can shove it. Not everybody that uses an open-source Unix is going to be using Linux, and this is a bit of a disadvantage. Sure, the drivers may work with some "Linux emulation," but who really wants a graphics driver sending and receiving system calls through an emulation layer?
I'm pretty disappointed. Trident cards have always been very cheap, and their 2D performance has always been great. Their cards are GREAT for rolling out lots of low-cost workstations, especially systems running XFree86.
I wrote them a nice letter. I hope someone reads it:(
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Amen to that. I don't even want to know what kind of criminals are being released upon our streets to make room for the otherwise law-abiding citizens that are jailed every year for marijuana-related "crimes."
Just as long as the 486 has local bus video and a resonably fast ethernet card, it should be just fine. It would be nice to have a PCI-based 486 so that you can use PCI based NICs.
..looks pretty damn retarted. I honestly can't tell if Link is supposed to be a boy or a girl in this version of the game, and I'd have to say I'm leaning more towards the girl side. C'mon Nintendo, you can give link a little more substance to that mug!
Just think.. In only a few years Linux will be driving his first car, having his first crush, and graduating from school! He's growing up so fast!
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Did you get mad and yell at the nerdy store clerk? I agree with you that it's pretty rediculous, but did you bitch about it for five minutes straight? That seems to be the only way they even hear your complaint.
Translation: it plans to use its vast financial resources to buy new legislation and even public opinion. Facing that kind of marketing goliath, what can we do to keep up?
The obvious answer is to capture and hold various RIAA and MPAA personnel on ransom. You'd be surprised how fun it can be to use human life as a pawn in negotiations:)
Hey! Twelve year old who's never used a Sun system! Solaris source code is available! Granted you have to pay a license fee to use it, but it's available. What other commercial Unix vendor feels comfortable enough to release their sources (besides Caldera)?
Oh, and have you ever tried running OpenBSD on something as simple as a SPARCstation 20 with dual CPUs? You'll be wasting that extra CPU and your sound as well. At least NetBSD will soon put an end to both of these facts:)
GNU tools have been around for SCO Unix, but the system was not based around them. I don't typically attribute GNU to "stability," but their utils may provide both the functionality and robustness that SCO's outdated tools didn't.
Yes, I too can't understand why Sun turned to SysV after such success with their BSD-based system. I've always wanted to use SunOS myself, but I can't find media for it anywhere.
One of the best alternatives for embedded applications might still be the MicroSPARC and UltraSPARC line of embedded CPUs. The MicroSPARC and MicroSPARC IIep are especially nice for smaller projects that have low price or voltage requirements. The MicroSPARC IIep has most required devices onboard the CPU in a small QFPGA (I forget) package.
Sending an email to a U.S. congressman is a waste of time. They receive so many emails that they hardly read any of them. If you want to have your voice heard, your best bet is to type up or write a letter in freehand and mail it the old fashioned way. You'll have a much larger chance of your words being read.
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Offtopic? This statement is true, especially in the midwest and western states.
Some of the "independant" brews in America are really good. The stuff you hear of in American ads - Budweiser, Miller - are all pretty terrible. If I have to buy beer at the local store, I usually go for Heinekin.
:)
Quality is usually found in small breweries. If you like ale and are ever in the US, look around for Woodchuck Ale. You certainly won't be disappointed
I agree with your position on SUVs- If you're a person that never leaves the warm pavement, you have no business wasting resources on an SUV. However, in a lot of areas of America they are necessary.
I live in Washington state, and I frequent into the mountains and hills where it can be quite treacherous to drive a Saturn or a Honda during fall and winter. There are not many large cities here, and many roads are county roads that are often terrible to drive a small car on during most of the year beause of poor maintenance.
Owning both a small car and a large 4x4 is not cost-effective at all. Fortunately, a 4x4 Subaru car may be an acceptable low-fuel alternative. I'd like to see more small cars available with higher ground clearance and 4x4 capability.
Neither does that "You are stupid" binry shirt from ThinkGeek.
Closed source drivers can shove it. Not everybody that uses an open-source Unix is going to be using Linux, and this is a bit of a disadvantage. Sure, the drivers may work with some "Linux emulation," but who really wants a graphics driver sending and receiving system calls through an emulation layer?
I'm pretty disappointed. Trident cards have always been very cheap, and their 2D performance has always been great. Their cards are GREAT for rolling out lots of low-cost workstations, especially systems running XFree86.
:(
I wrote them a nice letter. I hope someone reads it
But you never seem to have a very visually attractive user interface.
Yeah they're quite common, actually. The computer down the store has a whole bin of 486 PCI/VLB/ISA boards for $5 a peice. Great for firewall boxes.
So you live in South-central LA, do you?
Amen to that. I don't even want to know what kind of criminals are being released upon our streets to make room for the otherwise law-abiding citizens that are jailed every year for marijuana-related "crimes."
Just as long as the 486 has local bus video and a resonably fast ethernet card, it should be just fine. It would be nice to have a PCI-based 486 so that you can use PCI based NICs.
..looks pretty damn retarted. I honestly can't tell if Link is supposed to be a boy or a girl in this version of the game, and I'd have to say I'm leaning more towards the girl side. C'mon Nintendo, you can give link a little more substance to that mug!
Just think.. In only a few years Linux will be driving his first car, having his first crush, and graduating from school! He's growing up so fast!
Did you get mad and yell at the nerdy store clerk? I agree with you that it's pretty rediculous, but did you bitch about it for five minutes straight? That seems to be the only way they even hear your complaint.
Translation: it plans to use its vast financial resources to buy new legislation and even public opinion. Facing that kind of marketing goliath, what can we do to keep up?
The obvious answer is to capture and hold various RIAA and MPAA personnel on ransom. You'd be surprised how fun it can be to use human life as a pawn in negotiations :)
What artists and writers? There are no artists and writers involved in the production of blank CDs.
Hey! Twelve year old who's never used a Sun system! Solaris source code is available! Granted you have to pay a license fee to use it, but it's available. What other commercial Unix vendor feels comfortable enough to release their sources (besides Caldera)?
Oh, and have you ever tried running OpenBSD on something as simple as a SPARCstation 20 with dual CPUs? You'll be wasting that extra CPU and your sound as well. At least NetBSD will soon put an end to both of these facts :)
My Sparc5 is actually faster running Solaris 8 than it is running OpenBSD.
This is something I've never heard of!
Oh, but my dear son, it is not free.
GNU tools have been around for SCO Unix, but the system was not based around them. I don't typically attribute GNU to "stability," but their utils may provide both the functionality and robustness that SCO's outdated tools didn't.
Yes, I too can't understand why Sun turned to SysV after such success with their BSD-based system. I've always wanted to use SunOS myself, but I can't find media for it anywhere.
Yes. Linux NFS is quite humerous. It shouldn't really take this long to perfect the NFS protocol stack.
Oh, and no, I'm not willing to lend time to develop it. I don't know anything about system programming. I just bitch about things.
One of the best alternatives for embedded applications might still be the MicroSPARC and UltraSPARC line of embedded CPUs. The MicroSPARC and MicroSPARC IIep are especially nice for smaller projects that have low price or voltage requirements. The MicroSPARC IIep has most required devices onboard the CPU in a small QFPGA (I forget) package.
Sending an email to a U.S. congressman is a waste of time. They receive so many emails that they hardly read any of them. If you want to have your voice heard, your best bet is to type up or write a letter in freehand and mail it the old fashioned way. You'll have a much larger chance of your words being read.