I call bullshit on this one. Nobody 'casually runs Windows at home for years'. It's a constant war against worms, virii, security patches, instability, etc. Try a modern, up to date linux distro, there are heaps and they do pretty well with hardware these days.
Hell, the latest install of Mandrake is alot better than Winxp for many reasons. The first is that dvd and burning software actually comes with it. You don't have to scan alt.binaries.dvd to get a warezed version of anything. The second is that driver support (for the most part) is mature and it has drivers for damn near anything. It's a nice change of pace.
I always thought the engineer was the guy who built, or helped to design and build, the photocopier itself. You get a tech out to troubleshoot it and fix it, per the engineer's troubleshooting docs.
For that matter, most cars do as well. The first cars to employ disc brakes used them up front and kept crappy drum brakes in the rear as a backup. Even on all-wheel-disc cars, almost every single one of them have the brake booster set up with a clear bias to the front wheels. It's usually 60/40 or higher.
Anything that's stopping will shift weight to the front, so front brakes count.
I'll second that. I have a Pioneer dvd-r drive that reads at 4x and burns at 2x (maybe 1x, not sure). I've never made a single coaster with it. I buy only Fuji media which isn't too expensive, $45 for a 25 pack.
Anyone who's turning out coasters on a regular basis has: A. bad hardware, B. bad software or C. bad media. Again, I've never made a coaster yet and have been burning with this drive for nearly 8 months already.
Actually these folks try to play it all off as a legitimate business because the smart people they hire don't need to know what goes on behind the scenes. They just work there. And if the cops/fbi/cia/whoever comes in to shut it down, the squares can always claim plausible deniability. The less you know, the better.
Also you have to consider how many of the 700 burned had severe burns. They might have gotten 699 calls from people that burned their tongue sipping it. Yeah, 180 degrees fahrenheit is crazy hot, but then again, you should know that it's hot. You shouldn't be prying the lid off in a moving vehicle with it nestled firmly between your thighs.
I agree, however, that Mickey D's was liable for this. I don't agree, however, that stupidity should be rewarded.
I'm right there with you. I started off with Redhat 5.1 from a gigantic tome of a book that included it in the back. In the beginning I was only looking for a stable replacement for windows 95/98, but it lead me down a different path altogether.
Mind you, I've never been a stranger to alternatives. I grew up on trs80's, apple IIs and a commie 64 at home, then progressed to the Amiga 500, 600, then was using Macs at work with OS7.x. So basically I've been pretty comfortable with any machine since the dawn of home computing. I liked the feel of being close to the metal with alot of cli usage. I don't really feel like I'm computing unless I have a terminal window open at all times. Guess I'm just old fashioned.
Anyway, I found Mandrake after toying with Redhat for awhile. Boy have things changed since then. Back then there weren't shit for drivers, everything was a pain in the ass, from formatting to installing to software updates, and things rarely worked the way you expected them to. Now we have supermount, hardware support that beats windows XP out of the box, and lots of excellent software (like mplayer) that does a better job than any other OS, anywhere. Linux has really grown up.
I imagine I'll be sending mandrake a few bucks for 9.2, or join the club and download the iso's. I've gotten lots of good use out of 9.1 on my desktop and a few web/mail servers, so I can't deny them a few dollars to continue developing an excellent and 100% free distro.
Thank you, thank you. Evidently one person in the whole of slashdot, without moderator points, got the joke.
I guess I need to remember to put a:) or;) after comments like that one. Personally I would've modded me to Troll rather than Flamebait if I didn't get the joke.
Yeah, and I actually hope the people that released the damn thumbnail-sized, crap quality vcd set of Old School get some jail time. Thanks for wasting my leech time, bastards.
Well, after all, that's what the Gameboy Advance is. They could've made it a hell of alot better than they did, but it's really no better than a super nintendo. Actually the SNES is probably more powerful. Having 10 characters knocked out on screen while playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance will make the little bastard wheeze and puff.
So it's not like Nintendo has never rebadged old technology to reinforce their bottom line.
Unfortunately Enlightenment is a has-been or a permanent will-be. Development is so slow and on again/off again that E17 will probably be usable in 2006. As much as I like E16, I just can't hope for E17.
So to paraphrase, I'd hope that KDE and Gnome would work on a standard composition manager.
'For industrial strength linux applications, there's Linux. For everything else, there's VMWare.' Vmware, bridging the gap between you and your company's proprietary apps.
Why the hell are those registers running fsck at all? They should be using Reiser, XFS, EXT3 or anything else and have mods to prevent filesystem errors.
If one company could broker a deal with lots of shipping companies just to glean realtime GPS data, they'd be able to cheaply keep everything up to date. Traffic? Check. Construction? Check. Accident? Check. If you're tracking multiple tractor-trailers via GPS and they all hit a bottleneck on a major highway, that's easy to see. Same goes for postal trucks, UPS, public transport like buses, etc.
When computers get sophisticated enough to do accurate voice-to-text conversion you can also surf CB networks and get realtime info for that as well. The truckers out there on the road are mostly connected and have their own little CB networks. They know where cops are, where accidents are, routes to get around traffic, etc.
Actually, yeah, it is like this in general. You don't have some dude walking a pace at a time tapping on a palm. That's for a different kind of mapping altogether.
Mapquest and it's ilk try to provide DRIVING directions. How useful would walking directions, step by step be for Mapquest? Not very.
In addition, I have a few friends that actually did this job before. They drove around in Mississippi and Louisiana, mapping and recording data all over the place. They hit alot of casinos and made some decent cash on the side. One of them apparently came up with a reliable algorithm for roulette and the other one made out pretty well on Blackjack. Anyway, most of the time the mappers are driving around with about 10K in electronics onboard and upload their data nightly from cheap hotels.
I call bullshit on this one. It doesn't take 15 people to run a South American radio station, especially back in the 40's-50's. Chances are there were some knuckleheads that started the fire that caught themselves on fire, ran screaming into the building and caught the building on fire.
I can see it already. Just like all the Ricers with a Type R logo on their Civic DX, you're gonna have Lifers with no hacking skills with these shirts on.
Dreamweaver is great software. I beta tested it wayyy back when win2k was new although I was running win98 at the time. It's too bad Macromedia has never taken linux seriously, other than to crank out a flash plugin once a year. At least in the 2 most recent versions of Dreamweaver they've included a semblance of php support.
You'll know that Linux has conquered all when the Macromedia apps are ported over.
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I call bullshit on this one. Nobody 'casually runs Windows at home for years'. It's a constant war against worms, virii, security patches, instability, etc. Try a modern, up to date linux distro, there are heaps and they do pretty well with hardware these days.
Hell, the latest install of Mandrake is alot better than Winxp for many reasons. The first is that dvd and burning software actually comes with it. You don't have to scan alt.binaries.dvd to get a warezed version of anything. The second is that driver support (for the most part) is mature and it has drivers for damn near anything. It's a nice change of pace.
I always thought the engineer was the guy who built, or helped to design and build, the photocopier itself. You get a tech out to troubleshoot it and fix it, per the engineer's troubleshooting docs.
He already mentioned that, dude. "...and I am not a large guy"
RTFC.
For that matter, most cars do as well. The first cars to employ disc brakes used them up front and kept crappy drum brakes in the rear as a backup. Even on all-wheel-disc cars, almost every single one of them have the brake booster set up with a clear bias to the front wheels. It's usually 60/40 or higher.
Anything that's stopping will shift weight to the front, so front brakes count.
If you're in rush hour on a unicycle only capable of 35mph speeds, you *deserve* to get 0wn3d.
Ok to answer your questions.
1. In the future.
2. In the future (didn't you see Planet of the Apes? There were only FOUR FREAKIN' MOVIES on this subject.)
3. In the future.
4. In the future.
So there you have it, all of these things will take place, you guessed it!, in the future.
I'll second that. I have a Pioneer dvd-r drive that reads at 4x and burns at 2x (maybe 1x, not sure). I've never made a single coaster with it. I buy only Fuji media which isn't too expensive, $45 for a 25 pack.
Anyone who's turning out coasters on a regular basis has: A. bad hardware, B. bad software or C. bad media. Again, I've never made a coaster yet and have been burning with this drive for nearly 8 months already.
Actually these folks try to play it all off as a legitimate business because the smart people they hire don't need to know what goes on behind the scenes. They just work there. And if the cops/fbi/cia/whoever comes in to shut it down, the squares can always claim plausible deniability. The less you know, the better.
Also you have to consider how many of the 700 burned had severe burns. They might have gotten 699 calls from people that burned their tongue sipping it. Yeah, 180 degrees fahrenheit is crazy hot, but then again, you should know that it's hot. You shouldn't be prying the lid off in a moving vehicle with it nestled firmly between your thighs.
I agree, however, that Mickey D's was liable for this. I don't agree, however, that stupidity should be rewarded.
That's a nice book you have. My step 4 is Zerg Rush followed by Game Over at 5.
I'm right there with you. I started off with Redhat 5.1 from a gigantic tome of a book that included it in the back. In the beginning I was only looking for a stable replacement for windows 95/98, but it lead me down a different path altogether.
Mind you, I've never been a stranger to alternatives. I grew up on trs80's, apple IIs and a commie 64 at home, then progressed to the Amiga 500, 600, then was using Macs at work with OS7.x. So basically I've been pretty comfortable with any machine since the dawn of home computing. I liked the feel of being close to the metal with alot of cli usage. I don't really feel like I'm computing unless I have a terminal window open at all times. Guess I'm just old fashioned.
Anyway, I found Mandrake after toying with Redhat for awhile. Boy have things changed since then. Back then there weren't shit for drivers, everything was a pain in the ass, from formatting to installing to software updates, and things rarely worked the way you expected them to. Now we have supermount, hardware support that beats windows XP out of the box, and lots of excellent software (like mplayer) that does a better job than any other OS, anywhere. Linux has really grown up.
I imagine I'll be sending mandrake a few bucks for 9.2, or join the club and download the iso's. I've gotten lots of good use out of 9.1 on my desktop and a few web/mail servers, so I can't deny them a few dollars to continue developing an excellent and 100% free distro.
Thank you, thank you. Evidently one person in the whole of slashdot, without moderator points, got the joke.
:) or ;) after comments like that one. Personally I would've modded me to Troll rather than Flamebait if I didn't get the joke.
I guess I need to remember to put a
Yeah, the original gameboy was total crap. That smeary calculator screen sucked, it ate batteries like crazy, and it was too expensive.
That doesn't mean it didn't do well, but hey, it's another opinion.
Yeah, and I actually hope the people that released the damn thumbnail-sized, crap quality vcd set of Old School get some jail time. Thanks for wasting my leech time, bastards.
Well, after all, that's what the Gameboy Advance is. They could've made it a hell of alot better than they did, but it's really no better than a super nintendo. Actually the SNES is probably more powerful. Having 10 characters knocked out on screen while playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance will make the little bastard wheeze and puff.
So it's not like Nintendo has never rebadged old technology to reinforce their bottom line.
Unfortunately Enlightenment is a has-been or a permanent will-be. Development is so slow and on again/off again that E17 will probably be usable in 2006. As much as I like E16, I just can't hope for E17.
So to paraphrase, I'd hope that KDE and Gnome would work on a standard composition manager.
In the same vein as the Visa adverts..
'For industrial strength linux applications, there's Linux. For everything else, there's VMWare.' Vmware, bridging the gap between you and your company's proprietary apps.
Ok now VMWare, pay up.
Why the hell are those registers running fsck at all? They should be using Reiser, XFS, EXT3 or anything else and have mods to prevent filesystem errors.
Can you say 'readonly root'?
If one company could broker a deal with lots of shipping companies just to glean realtime GPS data, they'd be able to cheaply keep everything up to date. Traffic? Check. Construction? Check. Accident? Check. If you're tracking multiple tractor-trailers via GPS and they all hit a bottleneck on a major highway, that's easy to see. Same goes for postal trucks, UPS, public transport like buses, etc.
When computers get sophisticated enough to do accurate voice-to-text conversion you can also surf CB networks and get realtime info for that as well. The truckers out there on the road are mostly connected and have their own little CB networks. They know where cops are, where accidents are, routes to get around traffic, etc.
Actually, yeah, it is like this in general. You don't have some dude walking a pace at a time tapping on a palm. That's for a different kind of mapping altogether.
Mapquest and it's ilk try to provide DRIVING directions. How useful would walking directions, step by step be for Mapquest? Not very.
In addition, I have a few friends that actually did this job before. They drove around in Mississippi and Louisiana, mapping and recording data all over the place. They hit alot of casinos and made some decent cash on the side. One of them apparently came up with a reliable algorithm for roulette and the other one made out pretty well on Blackjack. Anyway, most of the time the mappers are driving around with about 10K in electronics onboard and upload their data nightly from cheap hotels.
I call bullshit on this one. It doesn't take 15 people to run a South American radio station, especially back in the 40's-50's. Chances are there were some knuckleheads that started the fire that caught themselves on fire, ran screaming into the building and caught the building on fire.
I can see it already. Just like all the Ricers with a Type R logo on their Civic DX, you're gonna have Lifers with no hacking skills with these shirts on.
Defcon 2k4 is gonna be full of Lifers.
the tendency for people to use the built-in "themes", which were generally rather gaudy, and always immediately obvious when they're used
Two words: Comic Sans.
Dreamweaver is great software. I beta tested it wayyy back when win2k was new although I was running win98 at the time. It's too bad Macromedia has never taken linux seriously, other than to crank out a flash plugin once a year. At least in the 2 most recent versions of Dreamweaver they've included a semblance of php support.
You'll know that Linux has conquered all when the Macromedia apps are ported over.
I can relate to number 3 from the known issues on that page. "throbber ugly and inactive". Yeah, mine is too. It's not a bug, it's a feature.