I don't have time to go through all of your list, so I'll just point you to other people's complaints on some of the easy ones - Home Depot, State Farm, P&G: Home Depot StateFarm Proctor&Gamble
Debian is one of the major distributions supported on HP Business Desktops and servers and is used internally as a development platform.
Re:Your dressed casually to the first day of work?
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On my uncle's first day of work at SGI, he dressed up. When he got home he said he was never dressing up for work again. Everyone, coworkers, his boss, other managers, gave him such a hard time, he went out and bought more casual clothes for work.
That's really not a fair question to ask the slashdot audience.
Assuming Natalie has the prerequisite hot grits down her pants, she could use that as a secret weapon. I mean, come on, after all these years with hot grits down her pants, she has to be used to it, but I don't think Kirsten is ready for a shot of steaming, coursely ground corn down her pants.
IIRC, you could d/l Netscape for free if you were associated with an educational institution. I was in high school at the time, so I figured I qualified for the free d/l.
I think that was my first dowload. I knew AOL had to be good for something.
Is there an easy way to find this info? The last time I searched, I tried "company hierarchies", "company trees", and some others, but none of my searches turned up anything useful.
In college, my roommate brought home a sheet of paper that listed the relationships and hierarchies of all the American entertainment giants. That was probably 3 years ago, it might be interesting to compare that to todays.
Where the windows screenies really come from...
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If you check out the FAQ from the dashpc website, the second question is: Does the car run Windows or Linux?
It runs linux. The first generation of it had windows installed. On the other hand, the first generation was a 10.4" LCD screen too.
I'm guessing that's where the screenshots of the Windows desktop come from.
Further down there's also this question, which explains why he made the switch: What plugins do you use with Winamp?
I no longer use Winamp. I use XMMS for linux now. Windows sucks. Period. But you knew that already.
So we get small, authentic, ethnic restaurants owned and operated by hardworking immigrants.... and they get McDonald's, the Gap, and Starbucks. Sounds like a fair trade to me!!
I think part of the reason most Americans don't have a problem with the introduction of other cultures into our own is that we've never really had our own, unique national identity. Ours has always been an amalgam of parts of other cultures. We don't know what it's like for someone to come in and mess around with our culture when we didn't want them to. This may part of the reason we don't understand why other cultures may not want cultural exchange. We've always welcomed cultural exchange, and this affects our view of how other cultures should handle it.
Can other cultures avoid cultural exchange? Not likley, but why not let it happen at a pace they are more willing to accept, rather than ramming down their throats?
I don't think these things can be attributed to PETA. The author of the website claims that the ALF is "part of the PETA organization", but provides no evidence for this.
I also did a search for ALF PETA relationship on Google, and while I couldn't find any evidence that ALF is part of PETA, I did find this quote from this article.
"She [Newkirk] said her group does not fund the ALF but once did. 'In the early '90s, it was a very different group, well-organized, and generated a lot of sympathy. But they dissolved.... Now they're just angry, and act without planning,' she said." (New York Daily News, Dec. 12, 1997).
Newkirk is the head of PETA.
So it appears that Dr. Lee is attributing the work of ALF to PETA, but I'm not so sure that should be the case.
PETA does not, however, condem the actions of ALF, so you can take from that what you will.
I've been thinking about this for sometime. Is there any place on the net that is kind of like an individual-to-country matchmaker? The site would ask you questions and match your opinions with the laws of different countries. I would definitely find something like this useful.
But that's not all he wanted. If all he wanted was to see a high body count, why not go after a better target? Wait until a Sunday afternoon and take the 4 planes into different football stadiums (I'm sure there are even better targets, but I'm having problems thinking of them right now). I'm sure that would have resulted in a much higher body count. Hell, if they would have waited another hour or two, and done the exact same thing, they probably could have had a much higher body count. I think the buildings were definitely part of the plan.
I, too, got frustrated when things I downloaded would complain about unfulfilled dependencies, eventhough I had the Mandrake rpms installed. So much so, that when my linux hard drive filled up, I decided to switch to a new distro. I've wanted to try Debian, and had been interested in Slackware, too, so I figured this would be the best time to try one of those.
After hearing all of the wonderful things about APT on slashdot, I thought I'd give Debian a try. I didn't really expect that they would go through such lengths to get me to install using something other than a downloaded ISO (first there was the network install, then the pseudo-image, and finally the ISO). I mean I have a broadband connection, what better use for it than to download 650 MB ISOs? Long story short, I had some issues with Debian and my network card, and me forgetting the proper parameters, so I was unable to even check out APT. I suppose if I wasn't also interested in trying Slackware, I probably would have tried harder to get Debian to work.
So now it a was Slack's turn. I was a little apprehensive, because of my Debain experience, but I did a full install, and Slackware probed for and found my NIC, so I had no problems at all. When 8.0 first comes up, it's configured with a 2.2.19 kernel, but in about 2 minutes, I was able to reboot into 2.4.5 (which also comes with 8.0). Upgrading to 2.4.10 was a breeze, as well. I quickly upgraded to mozilla9.4, galeon0.12.1 (which is excellent now, IMO), and installed gnucash, and now I'm a happy camper.
If you've been around linux for a while, Slackware is definitely something to check out. I wouldn't suggest it for your first foray into the linux arena, however, unless you like jumping into the deep end of the pool. For first-timers, Mandrake is just too easy to install and use out of the box.
You have it competely backwards...think of all of the room currently being used for agriculture to feed livestock that could be reclaimed if more people did not eat meat.
Some counterarguments to your claim, taken from Beyond Beef:
Seventy percent of all U.S. grain -- and one third of the world's total grain harvest -- is fed to cattle and other livestock.
U.S. livestock -- mostly cattle -- consumes almost twice as much grain as is eaten by the entire American population
If worldwide agricultural production were shifted from livestock feed to food grains for direct human consumption, more than a billion people could be fed -- the precise number which currently suffer from hunger and malnourishment.
Feeding grain to livestock is an extremely wasteful method of producing protein. Feedlot cattle require nine pounds of feed to make one pound of gain. Only 11 percent of the feed goes to produce the beef itself. The rest is burned off as energy in the conversion process, used to maintain normal body functions, absorbed into parts of the cattle that are not eaten -- such as hair or bones -- or excreted.
Energy efficiency isn't normally associated with reasons for becoming a vegan, but it was one of the more influential in convincing me.
Mind if I ask what kind of rowing machine you have? Would you buy that kind again? I've been considering getting one because it was about the only stationary excerise I've been able to put up with. There aren't many gyms that have them, and I don't know anyone who has one in their house. While researching on the net, some of the ones I found looked almost flimsy, so I've been trying to hunt down some recommendations before I go ahead with my purchase.
Sorry for the offtopic question, but I was just thinking about this last night.
How does one get this to work in Linux? I plan to search some on my own, but I didn't want to miss the opportunity to ask someone who may be able to point me in the right direction.
To get Vonnegut's take on the this issue, read "2BR02B" in his new book Bogambo Snuff Box. Actually, this is Vonnegut's take on the issue from before I was born. Bogambo Snuff Box is a collection of short stories by Vonnegut that were published in magazines early on in his career.
But these aren't applicable examples. When was the last time Susie the secretary installed a driver on her Windows machine at work. I would be willing to bet that Susie has no clue what a "driver" is.
Susie wouldn't be installing new software to her machine at work, either, she would expect everything that she needs to be there, and if it's not, she'd call for help to get it installed. Even in Windows, the sys admins would be doing these things, and the users could go along happily without the command-line.
- something called tabbed mode that I haven't played around with yet.
I love browsing in Linux/Unix more than Windows for one reason: the middle mouse button for clicking on links. In case you don't know, the middle button will open a link in a new window, which allows for browsing in a more tree-like fashion, branching off in different directions. I realize you can do this in windows with a right-click and a left-click, but when you know you could do it in one middle-click, it's not the same. It takes too long.
Now, what does this have to do with tabbed mode? Well, with tabbed mode turned on, when you middle click on a link, instead of opening in the link up in a new window, it gets opened up in a new tab in the current window. It works just like a notebook (well like a GtkNotebook, anyway). It's a bit faster than using new windows everytime, and much easier to work with, IMO.
Skipstone actually had this before Galeon and I assume this is where Galeon got the idea from. Tabbed mode is why I was using Skipstone, but now that Galeon has picked it up and added an easier way to close each tab, Galeon is my browser of choice.
Here's a picture of Skipstone in tabbed mode to give you an idea of what it looks like, in case you're curious. The tabs are right above the navigation icons.
This hints to me that there is something wrong with the process itself. I realize that there aren't many other options here, because this is the way that it "has" to be done, but how would the scenario ever change if we keep doing the same way?
What can we do to break this cycle? Wouldn't rocking the boat be constructive, if only to try out new ways of doing things?
I realize this wasn't the point you were trying to make in your reply, but, to me anyway, it definitely raises some questions about the current process.
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Home Depot
State Farm
Proctor & Gamble
I wasn't sure how easy it would be to find info on the other companies, but it was pretty easy... Here's some links for the other companies, just for fun:
Boeing (2)
Morgan Stanley
Fannie Mae
Apparently, Target isn't well-liked, either.
Safeway
Granted, you may not agree with all of these people's opinions, but the complaints are there.
From http://www.hp.com/united-states/linux/about_linux_ hp/partners.html:
Debian is one of the major distributions supported on HP Business Desktops and servers and is used internally as a development platform.
So, I guess, YMMV.
Assuming Natalie has the prerequisite hot grits down her pants, she could use that as a secret weapon. I mean, come on, after all these years with hot grits down her pants, she has to be used to it, but I don't think Kirsten is ready for a shot of steaming, coursely ground corn down her pants.
From the debian FAQ: "unstable is a permanent symbolic link to sid, as sid is always the unstable distribution".
I don't know what testing will be named after woody comes out, but I know it's not going to be sid.
To avoid all this craziness, I just stick to testing, that way I don't have to worry about release names.
Congratulations and best wishes.
I think that was my first dowload. I knew AOL had to be good for something.
In college, my roommate brought home a sheet of paper that listed the relationships and hierarchies of all the American entertainment giants. That was probably 3 years ago, it might be interesting to compare that to todays.
Does the car run Windows or Linux?
It runs linux. The first generation of it had windows installed. On the other hand, the first generation was a 10.4" LCD screen too.
I'm guessing that's where the screenshots of the Windows desktop come from.
Further down there's also this question, which explains why he made the switch:
What plugins do you use with Winamp?
I no longer use Winamp. I use XMMS for linux now. Windows sucks. Period. But you knew that already.
Yes, we did know that already. :)
Anyone save a copy of it or still have it in their cache?
No love from google, either. They don't have a cache for it.
I think part of the reason most Americans don't have a problem with the introduction of other cultures into our own is that we've never really had our own, unique national identity. Ours has always been an amalgam of parts of other cultures. We don't know what it's like for someone to come in and mess around with our culture when we didn't want them to. This may part of the reason we don't understand why other cultures may not want cultural exchange. We've always welcomed cultural exchange, and this affects our view of how other cultures should handle it.
Can other cultures avoid cultural exchange? Not likley, but why not let it happen at a pace they are more willing to accept, rather than ramming down their throats?
Agreed. I can't even say the name "Lindows" without a dumb smirk on my face.
Searching through both websites (http://www.animalliberationfront.com and http://www.peta-online.org), I can find no indication that the ALF is part of PETA.
I also did a search for ALF PETA relationship on Google, and while I couldn't find any evidence that ALF is part of PETA, I did find this quote from this article.
Newkirk is the head of PETA.So it appears that Dr. Lee is attributing the work of ALF to PETA, but I'm not so sure that should be the case.
PETA does not, however, condem the actions of ALF, so you can take from that what you will.
I've been thinking about this for sometime. Is there any place on the net that is kind of like an individual-to-country matchmaker? The site would ask you questions and match your opinions with the laws of different countries. I would definitely find something like this useful.
But that's not all he wanted. If all he wanted was to see a high body count, why not go after a better target? Wait until a Sunday afternoon and take the 4 planes into different football stadiums (I'm sure there are even better targets, but I'm having problems thinking of them right now). I'm sure that would have resulted in a much higher body count. Hell, if they would have waited another hour or two, and done the exact same thing, they probably could have had a much higher body count. I think the buildings were definitely part of the plan.
After hearing all of the wonderful things about APT on slashdot, I thought I'd give Debian a try. I didn't really expect that they would go through such lengths to get me to install using something other than a downloaded ISO (first there was the network install, then the pseudo-image, and finally the ISO). I mean I have a broadband connection, what better use for it than to download 650 MB ISOs? Long story short, I had some issues with Debian and my network card, and me forgetting the proper parameters, so I was unable to even check out APT. I suppose if I wasn't also interested in trying Slackware, I probably would have tried harder to get Debian to work.
So now it a was Slack's turn. I was a little apprehensive, because of my Debain experience, but I did a full install, and Slackware probed for and found my NIC, so I had no problems at all. When 8.0 first comes up, it's configured with a 2.2.19 kernel, but in about 2 minutes, I was able to reboot into 2.4.5 (which also comes with 8.0). Upgrading to 2.4.10 was a breeze, as well. I quickly upgraded to mozilla9.4, galeon0.12.1 (which is excellent now, IMO), and installed gnucash, and now I'm a happy camper.
If you've been around linux for a while, Slackware is definitely something to check out. I wouldn't suggest it for your first foray into the linux arena, however, unless you like jumping into the deep end of the pool. For first-timers, Mandrake is just too easy to install and use out of the box.
You have it competely backwards...think of all of the room currently being used for agriculture to feed livestock that could be reclaimed if more people did not eat meat.
Some counterarguments to your claim, taken from Beyond Beef:
Energy efficiency isn't normally associated with reasons for becoming a vegan, but it was one of the more influential in convincing me.
Thanks for the info.
x = a, y = b
y = xy
x = y/x
y = y/x
so you have:
y = ab
x = y/x = ab/a = b
y = y/x = ab/b = a
I'm sure there's better ways to do it, but this was the first one I thought of.
sorry.
How does one get this to work in Linux? I plan to search some on my own, but I didn't want to miss the opportunity to ask someone who may be able to point me in the right direction.
Thanks.
To get Vonnegut's take on the this issue, read "2BR02B" in his new book Bogambo Snuff Box. Actually, this is Vonnegut's take on the issue from before I was born. Bogambo Snuff Box is a collection of short stories by Vonnegut that were published in magazines early on in his career.
Susie wouldn't be installing new software to her machine at work, either, she would expect everything that she needs to be there, and if it's not, she'd call for help to get it installed. Even in Windows, the sys admins would be doing these things, and the users could go along happily without the command-line.
How about some examples that would affect Susie?
I love browsing in Linux/Unix more than Windows for one reason: the middle mouse button for clicking on links. In case you don't know, the middle button will open a link in a new window, which allows for browsing in a more tree-like fashion, branching off in different directions. I realize you can do this in windows with a right-click and a left-click, but when you know you could do it in one middle-click, it's not the same. It takes too long.
Now, what does this have to do with tabbed mode? Well, with tabbed mode turned on, when you middle click on a link, instead of opening in the link up in a new window, it gets opened up in a new tab in the current window. It works just like a notebook (well like a GtkNotebook, anyway). It's a bit faster than using new windows everytime, and much easier to work with, IMO.
Skipstone actually had this before Galeon and I assume this is where Galeon got the idea from. Tabbed mode is why I was using Skipstone, but now that Galeon has picked it up and added an easier way to close each tab, Galeon is my browser of choice.
Here's a picture of Skipstone in tabbed mode to give you an idea of what it looks like, in case you're curious. The tabs are right above the navigation icons.
What can we do to break this cycle? Wouldn't rocking the boat be constructive, if only to try out new ways of doing things?
I realize this wasn't the point you were trying to make in your reply, but, to me anyway, it definitely raises some questions about the current process.