I was taking the second level calculus exam my freshman year of college. It was 7pm. Three hour test.
The TA handed out the exam, seeing it for the first time along with the twenty of us. Not one single question was anything close to what we had studied. It seemed as if the entire test was composed of weird special cases of the concepts we were learning(i.e. if you didn't know the "trick," it was going to take forever!)
After five minutes the TA got up and said "You guys probably forgot this by now" and wrote a formula up on the board. Then another. Then another. I'll never for get this part: He got up and announced:
"I'm thirsty. If you need me, I'll be at [name of coffee shop]!...Until they close."
and then he left.
We all sort of looked at each other and then started to talk over the questions. Don't remember what I got, but we handed our tests to him at midnight...at the coffee shop.
I'm pretty sure that the TA, who was a really nice guy--excited about math and all--felt bad for not preparing us for the asshole professor's final exam. We all thanked him.
I should be able to call Dell or HP and say I want a laptop that runs Linux out of the box right?
I don't think that the economies of scale are there in Dell's and HP's business yet to sell Linux items at no cost premium. When they offer no support there will be no reason for non-tech people to buy those laptops. The cost of a Windows licence is probably less than the costs involved in selling linux on all their hardware.
Don't want support? Just want Redhat on your Dell? Well, most of us can do that already.
I imagine that it is time for a small time vendor to start making 100% Linux compatible laptops and if they survive and make money then great
How come no one ever mentions Emperor Linux? They've been putting Linux on laptops for a while and supporting it.
Unfortunatly a Taxi driver took the PC with him and managed to boot the machine and found an enormous ammount of very confidentinial information on the HDD.
When you throw something in the garbage, it's still yours. It's not free for the taking.
The taxi driver stole the computer and the "Dutch TV Crime Fighter" bought stolen property. That's criminal.
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The TA handed out the exam, seeing it for the first time along with the twenty of us. Not one single question was anything close to what we had studied. It seemed as if the entire test was composed of weird special cases of the concepts we were learning(i.e. if you didn't know the "trick," it was going to take forever!)
After five minutes the TA got up and said "You guys probably forgot this by now" and wrote a formula up on the board. Then another. Then another. I'll never for get this part: He got up and announced:
and then he left.We all sort of looked at each other and then started to talk over the questions. Don't remember what I got, but we handed our tests to him at midnight...at the coffee shop.
I'm pretty sure that the TA, who was a really nice guy--excited about math and all--felt bad for not preparing us for the asshole professor's final exam. We all thanked him.
I don't think anybody got an A, though.
I use Adblock for Firefox.
Now I don't see graphical ads in yahoo mail.
I don't think that the economies of scale are there in Dell's and HP's business yet to sell Linux items at no cost premium. When they offer no support there will be no reason for non-tech people to buy those laptops. The cost of a Windows licence is probably less than the costs involved in selling linux on all their hardware.
Don't want support? Just want Redhat on your Dell? Well, most of us can do that already.
How come no one ever mentions Emperor Linux? They've been putting Linux on laptops for a while and supporting it.
Find your Polish Roots
There you go.
I donated some cash to this project, and, as I recall, was supposed to get an email the morning the ad came out.
Nothing in my inbox. I'm sitting here at at 11pm searching through my spam folder and finding nothing. Anybody get the email?
Oh, well. At least there're all those pdf's out there.
When you throw something in the garbage, it's still yours. It's not free for the taking.
The taxi driver stole the computer and the "Dutch TV Crime Fighter" bought stolen property. That's criminal.
I think this is great. Not only can you take along your preferred operating system, but your files, too.
Maybe my hardware is old, but can most boxes boot off USB these days?
Try out this article from Reason Magazine in July.
Ten Truths About Trade
It goes into the concepts more than the numbers. Could make it easier to explain to others.
So you want to download their player and be able to do everything possible? They should give it to you for free?
How do they make money then?
Don't want them to make money? Don't buy anything.
Quit bein' fuckin' pissed off that no one will give you want you want for free. Write the damned thing yourself.
I mean, what board do you think you're on, anyway?
So I don't know any Java at all--but I can do "view source" on sitefinder.verisign.com/index.html and there's a lot of JavaScript mumbo jumbo there.
What's it doing exactly?
I also predict that 11,741 seperate pieces of Mir will impact the Earth.
(Anything to get past the lameness filter!)