Well, yeah, you have to consider that when shopping. It's worked perfectly for my various other HP laser and Canon inkjets, though, so maybe I've just been really lucky so far.
I feel your pain regarding extra functionality, though. I wish there were a standard interface for checking head alignment, cleaning the jets, etc.
Since there's currently no litmus test for what constitutes a committed gay relationship (ie marriage), it seems like a bureaucratic nightmare to distinguish between two same-gender friends and a gay couple. For example, there are a lot of single-family residences that don't allow unrelated inhabitants. How does the apartment manager get to decide whether to allow two guys that show up wanting to rent a unit?
Yeah, I know that's not the best example in the world, but I meant that to demonstrate the millions of ways this could turn into a lawyer-friendly fiasco in record time. If you extend insurance benefits to gay partners (despite their current lack of legal status), do you have to extend it to unmarried straight partners as well? Do gay couples have to file their taxes together, or can they keep the huge tax benefits of filing singly, and if the latter, isn't that discrimination against unmarried straight couples? Do religious groups have to hire gay people even if they are strongly against it? Accept gay volunteers to non-paid positions?
Honestly, either go with gay marriage (or civil unions or some other process of establishing a legal basis in a relationship) or forget these stupid halfway laws that can't possibly be fairly enforced.
"KDE Control Center" -> "Printers" -> "Add Printer/Class" -> "SMB Shared Printer" -> "Scan" to find all of the printers on my office's Windows network -> "Laserjet 4 (default driver)" -> "Print Test Page".
It involves a couple more steps, but they're all laid out in a logical order and I'm prompted with helpful text every step of the way.
Mac, maybe. Windows, definitely not. Why would you want to make it harder, less transparent, and less likely to work correctly from the outset? There are a lot of things Linux could borrow from Windows [1], but this definitely isn't one of them.
Both Gnome and KDE offer very nifty printer configuration apps [...]
Amen to that. I'm partial to the KDEPrint system, and wish that it was half as easy to configure network printers in Windows as it is through the nice KDE GUI.
For those who didn't catch that, let me repeat it: in my experience, it's much easier to configure printers (particular network servers) in KDE than it is in Windows. As far as I'm concerned, this particular problem is well solved.
What clients were people using before they switched to Gmail? Don't get me wrong - I think it's pretty slick for a web application - but it feels pretty "underpowered" to me.
I use Kmail (via Kontact) to access my company's IMAP server and my home IMAP server. It autocompletes addresses from my company's LDAP server. It tells me when the person I just got an email from is online with Jabber or AIM. It supports GPG. When I'm on the road, I can use Squirrelmail to access the same accounts and the same address books.
Gmail is pretty nice for people who don't have their own servers. For people who do, though, is there any compelling reason to switch?
I have a K6-3+/333 laptop with 192MB of RAM. Despite my fears, 2.6 kernels have actually been faster than the 2.4 series, probably because the much-improved IO schedulers that benefit users with giant RAIDs also make a big difference on slow little laptop hard drives. It boots into XFCE and is nicely responsive to everything I ask of it.
As a side note, that's also why I tend to ignore people who complain about "bloat". Those schedulers are a lot more complex than their naive counterparts in 2.4. They add size to the kernel, and not everyone needs them (or realizes that they need them). They also bring wonderful performance boosts, though, so that's a tradeoff I'm perfectly happy to make.
[Disinterested spectator angle]
Of course Adobe's RAW converter isn't as good as Nikon's - Nikon has made it illegal for Adobe to produce one with as high a quality. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of Nikon's programming prowess (although he seemed competent enough in "Hackers").
Too sharp? No. Jumps out of the drawer, crawls across the house, and pulls itself up onto my bed and against my neck before accidentally waking me? I think I'd have to take that into consideration.
in San Francisco [...] A couple of gaurds followed me out the store one day but backed off when asked them under what authority would they be apprehending me.
See, that's the difference between Red and Blue states.
Blue state resident: "Good sir, under what authority would you be apprehending me?"
Red state resident: "Son, did you know this is a right-to-carry state?"
Security system with 5 false positives per day: $50,000.00
Lost income from permanently losing 5 regular customers per day: $80,000.00
Catching a shoplifter: -$8.00
Spending $130,000 plus your reputation to save $8.00: stupid
Sorry, I just can't work a good punchline into that one.
That, my friend... that right there is why I switched to Python. I've written some fairly large systems in Perl and am not a Camel-fearing newbie, but TMTOWTDI (There's An Infinite Number Of Ways To Maliciously Expand Human-Illegible Code) kills kittens, causes bad breath, and can give you athlete's foot.
I could give my five year old daughter a stack of printouts detailing vulnerabilites found by group XYZ, and in a second she can tell you which stack was bigger and might even count them out if she felt inclined to.
My five year old daughter could prioritize them by severity and likelihood of exploit, add in a few of her own, and generate a patch that fixes them on the three most common platforms. What lame school are you sending your kids to?
It also makes particularly conservative people uncomfortable since they don't like the idea that their fourteen year old daughter can legally have sex.
Actually, as much as this particularly conservative parent doesn't want his kids having sex at 14, neither do I want them arrested for it. If I caught them in the act, they'd definitely be in trouble with me. I'm roughly 99% sure I wouldn't want the police involved, though.
A parents group spending their time and effort to try to have age-limits applied on video games? WHERE'S THE PARENTS! Television censored after massive complaints about inappropriate content? WHERE'S THE PARENTS!
I (a parent of three preschool children) see it differently. Instead of "where's [sic] the parents?", I want to scream "here's the parent - me! Go raise your own kid!" Parents have a responsibility to do what they can to rear their own children to the best of their abilities. They don't have a responsibility (or obligation or right) to try to raise mine for me.
Parents can't watch their children 24/7 and create healthy children, especially in the mid teens, and there has to be some reliance upon the behaviour of others in this giant village that we all live in
Some reliance is OK. The levels of reliance we hear about now are completely ridiculous. How can you depend on someone else to protect your kids while they're in your own home? No, you can't always be with them at school, or the mall, or at a sleepover, but you certainly be nearby when they're under the same roof as you are.
It DOES take a village to raise a child, unless you're raising a bush-person.
Actually, I want to raise a bush-person (my parents raised a couple of nixon-people and a reagan-person). If we don't want a gore- or kerry-person, is it OK if we skip the whole village thing?
Maybe if you're using an IDE as a glorified programmer's editor. The line is not so clear with more sophisticated IDEs like KDevelop (or even Visual Studio) that feature automatic code generation. If I design a GUI with one of them, and it writes a substantial portion of the project, then I think you could make the case that IDE code does end up in the finished program.
I'd suspect that most such development environments include a specific disclaimer that allows you to write proprietary code with them. However, I've never thought to look before now so I have no idea whether that's the case.
I don't mind choking every political party out there.
For the record, what party do you most closely identify yourself with? Because I've never ever heard a Republican, Democrat, or Libertarian claim that restricting political speech is a good thing. I'm not saying that none have ever made that inherently ignorant statement, but they certainly haven't made a career of spouting it. Really, though, what group honestly believes that destroying the First Amendment would give us freedom?
Democracy is no longer by and for the people, it's buy and for business and special interest.
Given that business and special interests comprise The People, I guess I don't really see what the problem is.
Why not require the media to provide equal [t]ime and or space?
That's a great idea! I'll be sure to let you make the call to the webmasters at www.democrats.org to inform them that they have to provide "equal time and or space" to the Republican candidate.
Oh, did you mean to say "the media that I am not personally a part of and don't directly care about illegally restricting"? If so, I understand - it's an all too common mistake.
2) No contribution from any individual or organization in aggregate may exceed $100. No campaign for any elected office shall exceed $100,000 more than the salary paid to the elected office.
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4) Monies spent to publically publish information about an issue or campaign shall be considered a contribution to that issue or campaign, and are subject to the limitations in Amendment One.
I'm a Republican. After your law goes into effect, I'm going to get 1,000 of my closest friends to pay $100 each for the hosting of my "Hilary08.com" website. Since the President's salary is about $200,000 last time I checked, and she only gets $300,000 total for her campaign, I just used 1/3 of her warchest. Did I mention that the site will be very poorly done, contain gems like "Vote for Hilary because she doesn't look good in purple", and only be viewable in Netscape 3?
Yeah, I know that $100,000 is rather expensive for a year of webhosting. Did I mention that I coincidentally own that business? Not to worry, though - I plan to use the $100,000 of profit to throw a little party for my 1,000 closest friends as a business expense. Granted, you might be able to get a judge to issue an injunction against me, but I live in a Red State and it might take until sometime in December '08 before you're able to find one that accepts your claims.
I wouldn't ordinarily say this so bluntly, but your idea is stupid and has no redeeming qualities. Never in the history of government has someone managed to write a censorship law that only censors the groups they oppose. The same laws that would neuter the mean, nasty Republicans will also choke the Greens, Libertarians, and Democrats. The real solution to "problematic" speech is always to allow more speech. Always. To believe otherwise is to make your high school civics teacher cry.
they were shunted for not being 'open' enough, and their product denounced inferior to the free alternative (k3b v nero).
I'm sorry. I'll be sure to end my future reviews with
Although it's only available in a Pentium-4 binary and can't be made to run on an AMD or older Intel chip (let alone a Mac or Alpha) since we can't recompile it, and although it compares poorly to the standard Unix-native application we've been using for years, you should run out and buy 10 copies immediately to prove that we're desperate for one-off releases from companies who don't really want to make a dent in this market but want to seem like they are.
Would that be OK, or should I add some baseless praise to prove that we'll settle for anything they can throw our way?
Look, I'm glad Nero gave it a try, and I wish Adobe the best of luck, but their respective products are inferior to many of us in a lot of ways. For example, BitKeeper is supposedly pretty decent, but it clearly wasn't Free enough to be acceptable in practice (ignoring the ideological arguments).
Oracle is doing pretty well on Linux because their product isn't easily replaceable. PDF viewers and CD burners are a dime a dozen, though, and I'm not sure why anyone things we should bend over backwards to thank the creators of the proprietary versions for gracing us with their presence.
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I feel your pain regarding extra functionality, though. I wish there were a standard interface for checking head alignment, cleaning the jets, etc.
Yeah, I know that's not the best example in the world, but I meant that to demonstrate the millions of ways this could turn into a lawyer-friendly fiasco in record time. If you extend insurance benefits to gay partners (despite their current lack of legal status), do you have to extend it to unmarried straight partners as well? Do gay couples have to file their taxes together, or can they keep the huge tax benefits of filing singly, and if the latter, isn't that discrimination against unmarried straight couples? Do religious groups have to hire gay people even if they are strongly against it? Accept gay volunteers to non-paid positions?
Honestly, either go with gay marriage (or civil unions or some other process of establishing a legal basis in a relationship) or forget these stupid halfway laws that can't possibly be fairly enforced.
It involves a couple more steps, but they're all laid out in a logical order and I'm prompted with helpful text every step of the way.
[1] OK, not really, but I was feeling generous.
Amen to that. I'm partial to the KDEPrint system, and wish that it was half as easy to configure network printers in Windows as it is through the nice KDE GUI.
For those who didn't catch that, let me repeat it: in my experience, it's much easier to configure printers (particular network servers) in KDE than it is in Windows. As far as I'm concerned, this particular problem is well solved.
I use Kmail (via Kontact) to access my company's IMAP server and my home IMAP server. It autocompletes addresses from my company's LDAP server. It tells me when the person I just got an email from is online with Jabber or AIM. It supports GPG. When I'm on the road, I can use Squirrelmail to access the same accounts and the same address books.
Gmail is pretty nice for people who don't have their own servers. For people who do, though, is there any compelling reason to switch?
I'd pry my eyeballs out, but I don't want that to be the last image that crossed my retinas.
I have a K6-3+/333 laptop with 192MB of RAM. Despite my fears, 2.6 kernels have actually been faster than the 2.4 series, probably because the much-improved IO schedulers that benefit users with giant RAIDs also make a big difference on slow little laptop hard drives. It boots into XFCE and is nicely responsive to everything I ask of it.
As a side note, that's also why I tend to ignore people who complain about "bloat". Those schedulers are a lot more complex than their naive counterparts in 2.4. They add size to the kernel, and not everyone needs them (or realizes that they need them). They also bring wonderful performance boosts, though, so that's a tradeoff I'm perfectly happy to make.
[Disinterested spectator angle]
Of course Adobe's RAW converter isn't as good as Nikon's - Nikon has made it illegal for Adobe to produce one with as high a quality. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of Nikon's programming prowess (although he seemed competent enough in "Hackers").
Too sharp? No. Jumps out of the drawer, crawls across the house, and pulls itself up onto my bed and against my neck before accidentally waking me? I think I'd have to take that into consideration.
See, that's the difference between Red and Blue states.
Blue state resident: "Good sir, under what authority would you be apprehending me?"
Red state resident: "Son, did you know this is a right-to-carry state?"
Lost income from permanently losing 5 regular customers per day: $80,000.00
Catching a shoplifter: -$8.00
Spending $130,000 plus your reputation to save $8.00: stupid
Sorry, I just can't work a good punchline into that one.
That, my friend... that right there is why I switched to Python. I've written some fairly large systems in Perl and am not a Camel-fearing newbie, but TMTOWTDI (There's An Infinite Number Of Ways To Maliciously Expand Human-Illegible Code) kills kittens, causes bad breath, and can give you athlete's foot.
My five year old daughter could prioritize them by severity and likelihood of exploit, add in a few of her own, and generate a patch that fixes them on the three most common platforms. What lame school are you sending your kids to?
Happy to help!
Actually, as much as this particularly conservative parent doesn't want his kids having sex at 14, neither do I want them arrested for it. If I caught them in the act, they'd definitely be in trouble with me. I'm roughly 99% sure I wouldn't want the police involved, though.
I (a parent of three preschool children) see it differently. Instead of "where's [sic] the parents?", I want to scream "here's the parent - me! Go raise your own kid!" Parents have a responsibility to do what they can to rear their own children to the best of their abilities. They don't have a responsibility (or obligation or right) to try to raise mine for me.
Parents can't watch their children 24/7 and create healthy children, especially in the mid teens, and there has to be some reliance upon the behaviour of others in this giant village that we all live in
Some reliance is OK. The levels of reliance we hear about now are completely ridiculous. How can you depend on someone else to protect your kids while they're in your own home? No, you can't always be with them at school, or the mall, or at a sleepover, but you certainly be nearby when they're under the same roof as you are.
It DOES take a village to raise a child, unless you're raising a bush-person.
Actually, I want to raise a bush-person (my parents raised a couple of nixon-people and a reagan-person). If we don't want a gore- or kerry-person, is it OK if we skip the whole village thing?
Maybe if you're using an IDE as a glorified programmer's editor. The line is not so clear with more sophisticated IDEs like KDevelop (or even Visual Studio) that feature automatic code generation. If I design a GUI with one of them, and it writes a substantial portion of the project, then I think you could make the case that IDE code does end up in the finished program.
I'd suspect that most such development environments include a specific disclaimer that allows you to write proprietary code with them. However, I've never thought to look before now so I have no idea whether that's the case.
For the record, what party do you most closely identify yourself with? Because I've never ever heard a Republican, Democrat, or Libertarian claim that restricting political speech is a good thing. I'm not saying that none have ever made that inherently ignorant statement, but they certainly haven't made a career of spouting it. Really, though, what group honestly believes that destroying the First Amendment would give us freedom?
Democracy is no longer by and for the people, it's buy and for business and special interest.
Given that business and special interests comprise The People, I guess I don't really see what the problem is.
That's a great idea! I'll be sure to let you make the call to the webmasters at www.democrats.org to inform them that they have to provide "equal time and or space" to the Republican candidate.
Oh, did you mean to say "the media that I am not personally a part of and don't directly care about illegally restricting"? If so, I understand - it's an all too common mistake.
I'm a Republican. After your law goes into effect, I'm going to get 1,000 of my closest friends to pay $100 each for the hosting of my "Hilary08.com" website. Since the President's salary is about $200,000 last time I checked, and she only gets $300,000 total for her campaign, I just used 1/3 of her warchest. Did I mention that the site will be very poorly done, contain gems like "Vote for Hilary because she doesn't look good in purple", and only be viewable in Netscape 3?
Yeah, I know that $100,000 is rather expensive for a year of webhosting. Did I mention that I coincidentally own that business? Not to worry, though - I plan to use the $100,000 of profit to throw a little party for my 1,000 closest friends as a business expense. Granted, you might be able to get a judge to issue an injunction against me, but I live in a Red State and it might take until sometime in December '08 before you're able to find one that accepts your claims.
I wouldn't ordinarily say this so bluntly, but your idea is stupid and has no redeeming qualities. Never in the history of government has someone managed to write a censorship law that only censors the groups they oppose. The same laws that would neuter the mean, nasty Republicans will also choke the Greens, Libertarians, and Democrats. The real solution to "problematic" speech is always to allow more speech. Always. To believe otherwise is to make your high school civics teacher cry.
I'm sorry. I'll be sure to end my future reviews with
Would that be OK, or should I add some baseless praise to prove that we'll settle for anything they can throw our way?
Look, I'm glad Nero gave it a try, and I wish Adobe the best of luck, but their respective products are inferior to many of us in a lot of ways. For example, BitKeeper is supposedly pretty decent, but it clearly wasn't Free enough to be acceptable in practice (ignoring the ideological arguments).
Oracle is doing pretty well on Linux because their product isn't easily replaceable. PDF viewers and CD burners are a dime a dozen, though, and I'm not sure why anyone things we should bend over backwards to thank the creators of the proprietary versions for gracing us with their presence.
Seriously, though, if you think that technology can protect your work from the same people you're giving access to it, then you're delusional.
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the information (and for introducing my to ^O).