Dolphin sucks - use the KDE3 file manager if you want something that's not both "dummied down for the masses" and a cpu hog when it tries to create previews of half a gig of high-res images in a directory.
If it's a no-name el-cheapo, it should work fine, since it's probably using a common chip.
And their e-banking which works only in IE
Yeah, right,like there's any online bank left that "only works in IE".
Next thing they will probably ask is whether it will run all their games
... and when you find out that, for most people, "all their games" is stuff they play with on the web, "no problemo..." - because for everything else, we have game consoles.
and whether it plays nice with their brand-new video card
... most people never open up their box (and almost nobody is going to do eyeball surgery on a laptop or netbook), so they're not going to be asking that. They'll take a bootable disto, and see that it works "good enough".
If I really wanted to, I could fit a minimal-but-working Linux system on a floppy disk.
My custom-compiled kernel is 2.6 MB after optimize-for-size. I think you're in the wrong decade.
... and "back in they day, you could buy 2.88 meg floppies (toshiba) - they were even supported by DOS 5.0 if you look into the DEVICEPARAMS structure: dpDevType can be any of the following:
00h 320/360k 5-1/4" floppy
01h 1.2mb 5-1/4" floppy
02h 720k
03h 8 inch single density
04h 8 inch double density
05h hard disk
06h tape drive
07h 1.44 mb floppy
08h read/write optical
09h 2.88 mb floppy
Source: Microsoft MS-DOS Programmer's reference, version 5.0, Microsoft Press, 1991, pgs. 36-37
With 4 of those floppies (yes, you can fix it so it sees more than just A: and B: as floppies), that's more than 11 meg, more than enough for a useful mini bootable device if you really want to go all-floppy.
Try again. The shrinks claimed that it was impossible that peptic ulcers were caused by a bacterial infection. They were wrong. Get over it.
Also, you apparently don't understand how evolution works - "weaken the immune system -- presumably as some sort of evolutionary adaptation to divert energy resources toward getting away from the source of the stress" - you have to be joking. Weakening the immune system doesn't somehow "free up" or "incentivize" the creature to get away from the source of the stress. Weaker immune systems get culled from the gene pool all the time.
Yes it is. What do you think your intestines do? (Pepsin doesn't digest proteins all the way into their constituent amino acids, after all. And your intestinal cells are positively bathed in whatever peptides you just ate, and they're just as easily inflamed as any other epithelial tissue in the body.)
Topologically, the inner surface of your intestines is external to your body (think "the inside of a torus"); also, like your skin, they only allow selective passage of molecules. When you eat peanut butter, you don't end up with massive gobs of peanut butter floating around in your arteries, veins and capillaries.
A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.
Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to steer to the airport.
The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign, and held it in the helicopter's window. The pilot's sign said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters.
People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely.
After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how the "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position in Seatle.
The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building because, similar to their help-lines, they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
Let's take this one step further
Everyone you know and everyone you will ever meet, are neurotic, to one degree or another
Let's not - there's no such thing as a neurosis. Freud was an intellectual fraud, and even the DSM has finally gotten rid of the concept.
Now if you had said "almost everyone has their own personality quirks that might rub others the wrong way", I could go along with that, but perpetuating outmoded (or just plain erroneous) freudian concepts... sorry, it rubs me the wrong way:-)
Even before this latest fuss, I didn't know anyone who believed that flu vaccines were effective, and nobody bothers with them. This whole H1N1 scare, the the bogus stats such as "152 dead in initial outbreak" being revised to just 7, and the exaggeration of the severity (it's really a mild strain), the misuse of the "pandemic" label as a way to extract funding for various agendas, and the senseless news media hype, have pretty much guaranteed that the number of people who will get it will diminish.
If you read the article, you'd know that neither Tamiflu nor Relenza have ever been validated as helping with the flu.
Studies showed that it was people who were more likely to be able to afford the drugs who had better outcomes wrt infection, so it was their general health (better eating, etc) and not Tamiflu.
They want to do the same studies for the flu shot, because the claim of a 50% reduction didn't hold up, and appears to be invented from thin air, same as the "your ulcers are caused by stress" bullshit that was finally disproved a couple of decades ago.
They're not talking about an allergic reaction fro EATING an egg, but about an allergic reaction to the egg that is used as the medium to grow the virus to make the vaccine which is injected in you, including traces of egg protein. You might like peanut butter, or bacon and eggs,or ketchup, but injecting any of them directly into your bloodstream isn't the same as eating them.
It's even simpler - their research showed that people equated "hotter coffee == better coffee", so they could sell crappier coffee for more profit, and people wouldn't notice that it wasn't fresh.
"This coffee tastes like mud!"
"It should. It was fresh ground this morning."
It's no more misleading than Toyota sending someone "advertising" that resembles a stalker...
... and that's the whole point. This thing (overly-aggressive publicity) was in really bad taste, and its' spreading.
I used to believe that the only thing worse than bad publicity was no publicity. Seeing a pop-up that said "Stalking your ex? Why not try something different.." for Yoplait yogourt change dmy mind. The retards are running the zoo, and they definitely have more money than brains.
It's not just about what fits in pockets. I've dropped my motorola flip-phone hundreds of times (a few times it's "exploded" into pieces). I just slide the parts back together, shake it a bit if it doesn't start right away, and it's good to go. Almost 4,800 hours on it, (v635) and I'll miss it when it finally dies, but there are times when I'd like to have the functionality of a smart phone - just that they'll never get it into the same form factor, and it'll always be more breakable.
It's to help against fraud. People used to clone the sim id, and you'd get this huge bill. Now the network makes sure that the IME from the phone matches the IME on record for your sim. They're not trying to screw me over - I can move the sim to any phone I want - I just have to call them and change the info each time. That wold get old very fast.
me@slashdot> slashdot --gamemode
slashgame: YOUR ARE IN A ROOM
slashgame: LOOK NORTH
slashgame: YOU SEE AN ANONYMOUS COWARD
slashgame: HE HAS A KAFKA-GRENADE
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COWARD THROWS THE KAFKA-GRENADE AT YOU
slashgame: CATCH KAFKA-GRENADE
slashgame: YOU CATCH THE KAFKA-GRENADE
slashgame: PULL PIN FROM KAFKA-GRENADE
slashgame: THROW KAFKA-GRENADE AT ANONYMOUS COWARD
slashgame: KAFKA-GRENADE EXPLODES ON ANONYMOUS COWARD
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COWARD TURNS INTO ANONYMOUS COCKROACH
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COCKROACH SCREAMS IN FEAR ABOUT RAID IN COMPUTER
slashgame: MOTHER OF ANONYMOUS COCKROACH SCREAMS FROM OTHER SIDE OF BEDROOM DOOR "ARE YOU WATCHING GAY PORNO AGAIN?"
slashgame: MOM ENTERS BASEMENT BEDROOM
slashgame: MOM SEES ANONYMOUS COCKROACH
slashgame: MOM REMOVES SHOE WITH SOLE OF MATERNAL INSTINCT
slashgame: MOM INSTINCTIVELY CRUSHES ANONYMOUS COCKROACH WITH SOLE OF MATERNAL INSTINCT
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COCKROACH DOES FINAL SWIRLY AROUND THE RIM AS MOM GIVE HIS REMAINS "BURIAL AT SEA"
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COWARD -- 1784 KARMA, WILL RESPAWN A FLOATER IN TIDY-BOWL COMMERCIAL
slashgame: YOU HAVE EARNED 1 BONUS SCROLL OF GUMMY-BEAR
slashgame: EXIT
me@slashdot >
You can't do that any more. The SIM cards are mated to the cell phone IME. This prevents people from cloning your SIM id and making phone calls on your dime with any old phone. It's now SIM+IME, or no call.
No you can't... you can't have 2 phones w/o 2 subscriptions to wireless services. I want to be able to have just ONE subscription, and swap it between 2 phones. Nowadays, the SIM cards are mated to the cell phone IME (to deter cloning SIM ids) so I can't just swap the sim from one phone to another. Otherwise, I'd just buy another cell phone, and swap the card around as needed.
I want to use different phones for different purposes. There's no way an iPhone (or pretty much any smart phone) would survive the physical abuse of 24/7.
They're mated to the phone via the phone's IME - this helps keep people from just "cloning" your sim card nowadays - otherwise, I'd probably do just that.
I agree, they need to call it the afro-american hole to prevent this.
Aw geez, now you've done it... the birthers are going to want to see the original birth certificate, or it didn't happen! They'll rename it the Kenyan hole, and say it's not eligible for funding.
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... oops - mean half a terabyte of hi-res images, not half a gig. My bad :-(
Dolphin sucks - use the KDE3 file manager if you want something that's not both "dummied down for the masses" and a cpu hog when it tries to create previews of half a gig of high-res images in a directory.
If it's a no-name el-cheapo, it should work fine, since it's probably using a common chip.
Source: Microsoft MS-DOS Programmer's reference, version 5.0, Microsoft Press, 1991, pgs. 36-37
With 4 of those floppies (yes, you can fix it so it sees more than just A: and B: as floppies), that's more than 11 meg, more than enough for a useful mini bootable device if you really want to go all-floppy.
Also, you apparently don't understand how evolution works - "weaken the immune system -- presumably as some sort of evolutionary adaptation to divert energy resources toward getting away from the source of the stress" - you have to be joking. Weakening the immune system doesn't somehow "free up" or "incentivize" the creature to get away from the source of the stress. Weaker immune systems get culled from the gene pool all the time.
Topologically, the inner surface of your intestines is external to your body (think "the inside of a torus"); also, like your skin, they only allow selective passage of molecules. When you eat peanut butter, you don't end up with massive gobs of peanut butter floating around in your arteries, veins and capillaries.
Three things:
"How would you like your eggs?"
"Dead".
"Very funny. How would you like your eggs served?"
"On a plate would be a good start."
"No, I mean, how would you like them cooked?"
"On a stove?"
"Do you want them sunny-side up, scrambled, poached, or over easy?"
"Yes. That's certainly better than raw."
"Which one?"
"You mean I have to choose which egg I want cooked? You can't do them both?"
"How do you want your eggs?"
"You can't do them the way I want them."
"We can do them ANY way you want them."
"Okay, then I want them for free."
Helicopter Problem
A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.
Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to steer to the airport.
The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign, and held it in the helicopter's window. The pilot's sign said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters.
People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely.
After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how the "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position in Seatle.
The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building because, similar to their help-lines, they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
Let's not - there's no such thing as a neurosis. Freud was an intellectual fraud, and even the DSM has finally gotten rid of the concept.
Now if you had said "almost everyone has their own personality quirks that might rub others the wrong way", I could go along with that, but perpetuating outmoded (or just plain erroneous) freudian concepts ... sorry, it rubs me the wrong way :-)
Even before this latest fuss, I didn't know anyone who believed that flu vaccines were effective, and nobody bothers with them. This whole H1N1 scare, the the bogus stats such as "152 dead in initial outbreak" being revised to just 7, and the exaggeration of the severity (it's really a mild strain), the misuse of the "pandemic" label as a way to extract funding for various agendas, and the senseless news media hype, have pretty much guaranteed that the number of people who will get it will diminish.
If you read the article, you'd know that neither Tamiflu nor Relenza have ever been validated as helping with the flu.
Studies showed that it was people who were more likely to be able to afford the drugs who had better outcomes wrt infection, so it was their general health (better eating, etc) and not Tamiflu.
They want to do the same studies for the flu shot, because the claim of a 50% reduction didn't hold up, and appears to be invented from thin air, same as the "your ulcers are caused by stress" bullshit that was finally disproved a couple of decades ago.
They're not talking about an allergic reaction fro EATING an egg, but about an allergic reaction to the egg that is used as the medium to grow the virus to make the vaccine which is injected in you, including traces of egg protein. You might like peanut butter, or bacon and eggs,or ketchup, but injecting any of them directly into your bloodstream isn't the same as eating them.
It's even simpler - their research showed that people equated "hotter coffee == better coffee", so they could sell crappier coffee for more profit, and people wouldn't notice that it wasn't fresh.
"This coffee tastes like mud!"
"It should. It was fresh ground this morning."
It's no more misleading than Toyota sending someone "advertising" that resembles a stalker ...
... and that's the whole point. This thing (overly-aggressive publicity) was in really bad taste, and its' spreading.
I used to believe that the only thing worse than bad publicity was no publicity. Seeing a pop-up that said "Stalking your ex? Why not try something different .." for Yoplait yogourt change dmy mind. The retards are running the zoo, and they definitely have more money than brains.
It's not just about what fits in pockets. I've dropped my motorola flip-phone hundreds of times (a few times it's "exploded" into pieces). I just slide the parts back together, shake it a bit if it doesn't start right away, and it's good to go. Almost 4,800 hours on it, (v635) and I'll miss it when it finally dies, but there are times when I'd like to have the functionality of a smart phone - just that they'll never get it into the same form factor, and it'll always be more breakable.
It's to help against fraud. People used to clone the sim id, and you'd get this huge bill. Now the network makes sure that the IME from the phone matches the IME on record for your sim. They're not trying to screw me over - I can move the sim to any phone I want - I just have to call them and change the info each time. That wold get old very fast.
me@slashdot> slashdot --gamemode
slashgame: YOUR ARE IN A ROOM
slashgame: LOOK NORTH
slashgame: YOU SEE AN ANONYMOUS COWARD
slashgame: HE HAS A KAFKA-GRENADE
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COWARD THROWS THE KAFKA-GRENADE AT YOU
slashgame: CATCH KAFKA-GRENADE
slashgame: YOU CATCH THE KAFKA-GRENADE
slashgame: PULL PIN FROM KAFKA-GRENADE
slashgame: THROW KAFKA-GRENADE AT ANONYMOUS COWARD
slashgame: KAFKA-GRENADE EXPLODES ON ANONYMOUS COWARD
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COWARD TURNS INTO ANONYMOUS COCKROACH
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COCKROACH SCREAMS IN FEAR ABOUT RAID IN COMPUTER
slashgame: MOTHER OF ANONYMOUS COCKROACH SCREAMS FROM OTHER SIDE OF BEDROOM DOOR "ARE YOU WATCHING GAY PORNO AGAIN?"
slashgame: MOM ENTERS BASEMENT BEDROOM
slashgame: MOM SEES ANONYMOUS COCKROACH
slashgame: MOM REMOVES SHOE WITH SOLE OF MATERNAL INSTINCT
slashgame: MOM INSTINCTIVELY CRUSHES ANONYMOUS COCKROACH WITH SOLE OF MATERNAL INSTINCT
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COCKROACH DOES FINAL SWIRLY AROUND THE RIM AS MOM GIVE HIS REMAINS "BURIAL AT SEA"
slashgame: ANONYMOUS COWARD -- 1784 KARMA, WILL RESPAWN A FLOATER IN TIDY-BOWL COMMERCIAL
slashgame: YOU HAVE EARNED 1 BONUS SCROLL OF GUMMY-BEAR
slashgame: EXIT
me@slashdot >
Remember how people used to be able to clone your SIM id, then run up bills for $10k? Not any more.
You can't do that any more. The SIM cards are mated to the cell phone IME. This prevents people from cloning your SIM id and making phone calls on your dime with any old phone. It's now SIM+IME, or no call.
I want to use different phones for different purposes. There's no way an iPhone (or pretty much any smart phone) would survive the physical abuse of 24/7.
They're mated to the phone via the phone's IME - this helps keep people from just "cloning" your sim card nowadays - otherwise, I'd probably do just that.
So if we run it in reverse, do we now have a Light Sabre? Or just a way to microwave people at a distance?
Aw geez, now you've done it ... the birthers are going to want to see the original birth certificate, or it didn't happen! They'll rename it the Kenyan hole, and say it's not eligible for funding.
It's just warped, I say! Warped!