But, you probably don't need a watch. Your cel phone, car, coffee pot, desk phone, computer(s), microwave, car and God knows what else all tell time for you.
So why do people still buy watches? Status and adornment. Plus there's that collecting thing. Essentially they're either bought for the jewellry value (hey, is jewellry obsolete?) or for the complicated mechanics inside them - the "movement" as the guts are called.
Some people just find it convienent to look at our wrists for the time rather than digging through our pockets.
I've been with both Bell Mobility and Rogers Wireless and coverage outside of cities, on flat land is extremely good. However, with Bell I've lost calls and had no service within fairly large towns (ones that are claimed to have very good coverage).
I second that, in regards to SuSE's X11 config utility. What I remember most about it is, is the fact that I could *NOT* put my three monitors in the order I liked. It kept trying to put them above and below each other, what the fuck is that? After giving up on that, I copied my old XF86Config-4 file to my SuSE install and all of a sudden X wouldn't boot. Same version of X as my Debian install, but SuSE just bitched.
You are allowed to protect your own property with reasonable force. If someone tries to steal your car, you can perfectly legal pull him out of the car and kick him a few times to keep him down. Shooting the idiot is most obviously going too far.
Here's a case local to me dealing with just this issue: link
Yes it does, at least in Canada. If you witness someone commiting a crime you have the right to detain them with reasonable force until the proper authorities arrive.
Specifically speaking to Debian I see no reason to have a LiveCD installer. With the current XFS install disc I have Debian installed in less than 10 minutes. I don't want to extend that to 15 or 20 to surf the web for 10 minutes (which I can easily do with my other machine anyways, heh). Now for something like Gentoo I always use knoppix to install it (don't like the Gentoo LiveCD much).
I completely agree. The debian installer is the only one that has never failed me. It's simple, fast, and efficient. I can install a debian system in about 10 minutes flat from the standard or XFS boot disk. (That includes the time it takes for me to download the initial packages).
The problem is that it pushes the right sidebar content down WAY too far. If it was a small, square ad -- like the size of the topic icons in the top right I could deal with it. But when they push the poll and old news a page down it gets highly annoying. I dunno how much longer I can read/. like this -- espcially since 90% of the time I refresh I get a vertical ad.
Mmmkay....what about a programmer? Not any old Joe off the street can walk in to a Fortune 100 company and become a programmer. Most of these underpaid coders have been coders for other Fortune 500 companies. When the walk on making $(amount) / year they are doing so brining much experience and wisdom with them.
See? It work's for other jobs too, why is being a CEO considered more difficult than any other job?
Holy crap. Where the hell are you? Over in Southern Ontario the 'normal' theatre here is a Silver City (they drove the cheaper ones out), and it costs $13.50 on a normal night. I can imagine IMAX costing at least $20.
I don't care if we attack Microsoft's monopoly, or takeover the desktop. Since when do I care one bit about 'the average user'? I'm using Linux because it works for me, if Windows works for someone else then let them use it. If you take away the choice, then to me, you're saying that one size fits all, which is completely untrue.
Besides, there's already distros that have 'standardized' certain desktops for their userbase. Most converts I know are happy with that...
I expect politicians -- and everyone to act how they feel, rather than how someone else expects them to act. I'm much more apt to vote for an honest person than a phoney.
The last thing I needed is some lamer in Everquest shouting 'OMFG YOU KILL STEALER'. These games have poor role playing environments as it is, don't make them worse.
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But, you probably don't need a watch. Your cel phone, car, coffee pot, desk phone, computer(s), microwave, car and God knows what else all tell time for you.
So why do people still buy watches? Status and adornment. Plus there's that collecting thing. Essentially they're either bought for the jewellry value (hey, is jewellry obsolete?) or for the complicated mechanics inside them - the "movement" as the guts are called.
Some people just find it convienent to look at our wrists for the time rather than digging through our pockets.
I've been with both Bell Mobility and Rogers Wireless and coverage outside of cities, on flat land is extremely good. However, with Bell I've lost calls and had no service within fairly large towns (ones that are claimed to have very good coverage).
I second that, in regards to SuSE's X11 config utility. What I remember most about it is, is the fact that I could *NOT* put my three monitors in the order I liked. It kept trying to put them above and below each other, what the fuck is that? After giving up on that, I copied my old XF86Config-4 file to my SuSE install and all of a sudden X wouldn't boot. Same version of X as my Debian install, but SuSE just bitched.
You are allowed to protect your own property with reasonable force. If someone tries to steal your car, you can perfectly legal pull him out of the car and kick him a few times to keep him down. Shooting the idiot is most obviously going too far.
Here's a case local to me dealing with just this issue: link
Yes it does, at least in Canada. If you witness someone commiting a crime you have the right to detain them with reasonable force until the proper authorities arrive.
Specifically speaking to Debian I see no reason to have a LiveCD installer. With the current XFS install disc I have Debian installed in less than 10 minutes. I don't want to extend that to 15 or 20 to surf the web for 10 minutes (which I can easily do with my other machine anyways, heh). Now for something like Gentoo I always use knoppix to install it (don't like the Gentoo LiveCD much).
You run your monitor at 90Hz?
Does this mean the Linux kernel will be dropping FAT support? And BSD for that matter?
I completely agree. The debian installer is the only one that has never failed me. It's simple, fast, and efficient. I can install a debian system in about 10 minutes flat from the standard or XFS boot disk. (That includes the time it takes for me to download the initial packages).
Don't fuck with perfection.
Firebird, yes.
The problem is that it pushes the right sidebar content down WAY too far. If it was a small, square ad -- like the size of the topic icons in the top right I could deal with it. But when they push the poll and old news a page down it gets highly annoying. I dunno how much longer I can read /. like this -- espcially since 90% of the time I refresh I get a vertical ad.
That doesn't solve the ugly rendering problem. There will still be an imageholder there, whether the image is loaded or not.
Am I the only one who finds the new vertical ads to be insanely annoying?
Mmmkay....what about a programmer? Not any old Joe off the street can walk in to a Fortune 100 company and become a programmer. Most of these underpaid coders have been coders for other Fortune 500 companies. When the walk on making $(amount) / year they are doing so brining much experience and wisdom with them.
See? It work's for other jobs too, why is being a CEO considered more difficult than any other job?
Interesting. I've never seen these commercials, and I've lived here in Ontario my entire life.
Same. I've lived in Ontario for the 18 years of my life too.
Holy crap. Where the hell are you? Over in Southern Ontario the 'normal' theatre here is a Silver City (they drove the cheaper ones out), and it costs $13.50 on a normal night. I can imagine IMAX costing at least $20.
You don't win friends with salad.
Sure, that approach works when you've got looks I guess, but what about the rest of us?
So Slackware 9.1 RC2 is out, now where the fuck do I download it from?
I don't care if we attack Microsoft's monopoly, or takeover the desktop. Since when do I care one bit about 'the average user'? I'm using Linux because it works for me, if Windows works for someone else then let them use it. If you take away the choice, then to me, you're saying that one size fits all, which is completely untrue.
Besides, there's already distros that have 'standardized' certain desktops for their userbase. Most converts I know are happy with that...
Don't take my desktop away.
I expect politicians -- and everyone to act how they feel, rather than how someone else expects them to act. I'm much more apt to vote for an honest person than a phoney.
...and I already can't get to the page.
The last thing I needed is some lamer in Everquest shouting 'OMFG YOU KILL STEALER'. These games have poor role playing environments as it is, don't make them worse.
Am I the only one who likes to have pasting in one click? Middle click paste is awesome.
Nothing wrong with someone that doesn't like to socialize IRL. If they get their kicks playing Everquest, what right do you have to tell them not to?