I couldn't figure out where the GUI was. All I had looked like a DOS prompt to me. I wiped the drive and tried again. The next day I got to the part of my book that covered X.
The association fallacy would apply if we were criticizing Windows because Deepak Chopra chose to say something good about the operating system of its own accord. In this case MicroSoft paid him to become a spokesman for their product. MicroSoft asking for his endorsement is an endorsement of the man. If a lemon-lime soda asked R. Kelley to endorse their product you would learn something about the values of the soda manufacturer.
It displays a picture of the owner, his or her name, and a phone number to contact if the laptop is found. It'll be the first thing the pawn-shop clerk sees when they turn it on to test it out.
If you think this is nice, more cool stuff can be found at...
The lack of a voiceover is why I sold my directors cut DVD. It was very interesting to see a new take and perspective on the story but too much was missing that I remembered so well. It just isn't Blade Runner if I can't hear Decker say "...but then, I'd rather be a killer than a victim."
It's an issue of entertainment versus reality for me. I love my entertainment dark, twisted, and surprising. My reality can be so unimaginably boring that no one I love dies, needs an intervention, or falls desperately short of money for years and I just don't mind. To spice things up I can turn to my entertainment.
Believable interpersonal evil is one of the most engaging things I experience in the realm of entertainment: Pedro the Lion opens a song with the lyrics
Bloodstains on the carpet Bloodstains on my hands Drag her towards the kitchen so I can hide the evidence
The scene they describe through the song and the reasons for it are specific, personal and seemingly real. The song is utterly gripping. I severly doubt David Bazan endorses murder as a method of keeping secrets, but the song is utterly gripping. A circumstance such as this in real life would be abominable.
Han shooting first is satisfying and right. GWB shooting first makes me ill.
You know, if that SSL certificate traces back to a valid human, then you can arrest him/her for phishing and they've provided all your evidence for you.
I'm just shooting from the hip here, but what if a phisher had the thought "Maybe I could pretend to be someone else. Perhaps I could even present some false credentials to obtain something I wanted."
Nah. Never going to happen. Arrest the guy who's name is on the certificate.
One of my co-workers hates to drive in the rain. Often my first clue that the weather is bad comes when her lunchtime pizza is delivered.
Could $258 be the cost of worldwide backfire?
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But the fact remains, the music industry can't have it both ways. If I pay the "MP3 player/media tax", then I have no moral issue at all with downloading or sharing files. If they want to revoke the levy, then I won't download. Simple as that.
Do you think the RIAA might be shooting themselves in the foot with this one? If the Dutch courts have the same theory you just mentioned I forsee a bunch of copyright ignoring websites suddenly registering with.nl extensions and being hosted from the suddenly thriving tech boomtowns that would spring up to support them. {joke style=cheap}If this happens make sure to share the files to the left side.{/joke}
I got in a bit of a "my job sucks worse than yours" pissing contest with someone who was helping me with a problem at my dayjob a couple of years ago: He had to keep WindowsNT running on some big iron (I really wish my memory was good enough to tell you what kind.) He inherited the hardware from the former decision maker and was running mission-critical windows applications. He claimed that WinNT was the last version that would support mainframes. I'm stuck on dial-up at the moment but anyone who cares can check for themselves.
I think I edged him out as I was supporting a retail establishment running SCO Xenix on a PII. The vibe I get from my contact with that system (pre-lawsuit, post-Microsoft-ruins-unix-and-sells) was "I'm so sorry you want to run 'cat'. This advanced feature can be purchased for the low low price of..."
They could read this discussion and many like it. Us hyped-up nerds seem to be willing to volunteer our opinions without the need of a scantron form or a telephone pollster. Its just a guess but I think if Google wants to know something that people freely post on the web, they feel comforatable, well, you know... searching for it online (there's got to be a shorter phrase that means the same thing!)
But isn't it nice to tackle each new one quicker than the last? And the frustrations of a previous program or even a previous version (w00t! I just printed a calendar in Sunbird and it didn't crash!) can turn into the joy of seeing it fixed.
I'd better wrap this up before I start talking about fuzzy-assed bunnies or something.
I just want to see a definition of "Linux operating system" even if its something variable like "a window manager, a calculator, a web browser, a shell, a kernel etc"
A definition like that is fine for many computers but I'm pretty sure my dedicated ftp server is running an operating system, yet does not have half of the things on your list. If we're talking about an operating system most people will wan't to use on a desktop workstation I'll go along with you even though that leaves CLI fans in the lurch.
I've described my buying habits as "living on the 'nicely healing thank you very much' edge of technology." I never have teh new hottness and I don't miss it. I play games that are two years old or older (I just finshed Serious Sam - dang - older than most I've played but worth my time) and most of the stuff I get is new to me and seems advanced, but I've let a couple of years go by and can appreciate the advances on a time delay for $5 to $20. This is even enough time to let the reviews guide my way.
The last significant hardware upgrade I did was a year ago when I got an ATI Radeon 9600 for $70. The last GPU I'll need for a couple of years. I only play games on one box (and coincidentally only run Windows on one box) so my focus can be on other things elsewhere.
My cheap ass is still on dial-up, but when I set up my hardware firewall from old computer parts a few years ago I spent the whole $45 on a quality external modem that is agnostic to the operating system on the computer. My approach allows me to collect other people's castaways and repurpose them for anyone who needs a box to act as file server, firewall, el cheapo grindingly slow internet-only box or whatever is called for. The knowledge I've gained making these things work is a bonus.
I love it when people try to make a "I'm better than you, I would have never made that bandwidth mistake!" style reply to a post, but can't even spell things correctly. That sure makes you look SMRT!
I kid you not, there was a candidate on the ballot in my disctrict this morning named SMRT. I'd like to buy a vowel please.
What's the difference ? Other than more work for you
I'll admit to being lazy. Changing the user agent back and forth would be too much work for me and as another user was kind enough to point out it wouldn't help me in this case anyhow. My point was that I won't leave it on something other than the truth, misleading the admins who bother to check their logs for UA into thinking fewer folks use Mozilla.
So instead, you contribute to the artifical inflation of IE user stats by using IE to access
the site when you otherwise wouldn't...
I use IE when I have to use IE. Would you seriously suggest that I should not go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com? The software my company requires needs to be kept up. I'm not concerned that MicroSoft sees their own user agent. Who would look to them to provide accurate user statistics? The only thing more foolish might be to ask/. users.
You mean one of the two sites I EVER vist with IE on my work provided Windows box? The only reason I do this is that it will NOT fly if the user agent shows an alternate browser, and I won't contribute to the artificial inflation of IE user stats by falsifying my user agent.
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It is also physically uncomfortable.
You know how it feels like the plane's nose is tipped up the whole time you're flying? It is.
The first time I flew Southwest I didn't realize you had to check in again at the gate for seating priority. Flying backwards blows.
I couldn't figure out where the GUI was. All I had looked like a DOS prompt to me. I wiped the drive and tried again. The next day I got to the part of my book that covered X.
The association fallacy would apply if we were criticizing Windows because Deepak Chopra chose to say something good about the operating system of its own accord. In this case MicroSoft paid him to become a spokesman for their product. MicroSoft asking for his endorsement is an endorsement of the man. If a lemon-lime soda asked R. Kelley to endorse their product you would learn something about the values of the soda manufacturer.
All technocrat really lacks is readers commenting. This may be a plus.
Because they want to sell next year's version?
If you think this is nice, more cool stuff can be found at...
The lack of a voiceover is why I sold my directors cut DVD. It was very interesting to see a new take and perspective on the story but too much was missing that I remembered so well. It just isn't Blade Runner if I can't hear Decker say "...but then, I'd rather be a killer than a victim."
Believable interpersonal evil is one of the most engaging things I experience in the realm of entertainment: Pedro the Lion opens a song with the lyrics
The scene they describe through the song and the reasons for it are specific, personal and seemingly real. The song is utterly gripping. I severly doubt David Bazan endorses murder as a method of keeping secrets, but the song is utterly gripping. A circumstance such as this in real life would be abominable.Han shooting first is satisfying and right. GWB shooting first makes me ill.
I'm just shooting from the hip here, but what if a phisher had the thought "Maybe I could pretend to be someone else. Perhaps I could even present some false credentials to obtain something I wanted."
Nah. Never going to happen. Arrest the guy who's name is on the certificate.
I'm just not worth your time to try marketing to me. Even on legit registration they get my area code followed by 555-1212. I'm listed. Look me up.
Do you think the RIAA might be shooting themselves in the foot with this one? If the Dutch courts have the same theory you just mentioned I forsee a bunch of copyright ignoring websites suddenly registering with .nl extensions and being hosted from the suddenly thriving tech boomtowns that would spring up to support them. {joke style=cheap}If this happens make sure to share the files to the left side.{/joke}
I think I edged him out as I was supporting a retail establishment running SCO Xenix on a PII. The vibe I get from my contact with that system (pre-lawsuit, post-Microsoft-ruins-unix-and-sells) was "I'm so sorry you want to run 'cat'. This advanced feature can be purchased for the low low price of..."
They could read this discussion and many like it. Us hyped-up nerds seem to be willing to volunteer our opinions without the need of a scantron form or a telephone pollster. Its just a guess but I think if Google wants to know something that people freely post on the web, they feel comforatable, well, you know... searching for it online (there's got to be a shorter phrase that means the same thing!)
I'd better wrap this up before I start talking about fuzzy-assed bunnies or something.
We call them pickles.
A definition like that is fine for many computers but I'm pretty sure my dedicated ftp server is running an operating system, yet does not have half of the things on your list. If we're talking about an operating system most people will wan't to use on a desktop workstation I'll go along with you even though that leaves CLI fans in the lurch.
The last significant hardware upgrade I did was a year ago when I got an ATI Radeon 9600 for $70. The last GPU I'll need for a couple of years. I only play games on one box (and coincidentally only run Windows on one box) so my focus can be on other things elsewhere.
My cheap ass is still on dial-up, but when I set up my hardware firewall from old computer parts a few years ago I spent the whole $45 on a quality external modem that is agnostic to the operating system on the computer. My approach allows me to collect other people's castaways and repurpose them for anyone who needs a box to act as file server, firewall, el cheapo grindingly slow internet-only box or whatever is called for. The knowledge I've gained making these things work is a bonus.
I'll admit to being lazy. Changing the user agent back and forth would be too much work for me and as another user was kind enough to point out it wouldn't help me in this case anyhow. My point was that I won't leave it on something other than the truth, misleading the admins who bother to check their logs for UA into thinking fewer folks use Mozilla.
I use IE when I have to use IE. Would you seriously suggest that I should not go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com? The software my company requires needs to be kept up. I'm not concerned that MicroSoft sees their own user agent. Who would look to them to provide accurate user statistics? The only thing more foolish might be to ask /. users.
You mean one of the two sites I EVER vist with IE on my work provided Windows box? The only reason I do this is that it will NOT fly if the user agent shows an alternate browser, and I won't contribute to the artificial inflation of IE user stats by falsifying my user agent.