Tell me again why all the distro's are still compiled to run on a 386? How many 386's have enough memory to run the GUI?
We are talking desktop's here, not email servers.
The Linux community is a little clueless when it comes to what the majoity of computer users want. If Apple (I know I know) can do it in 4 or 5 years, why can't RedHat do it?
Depends on where you live. In Arizona, specifically southern parts, it is very dusty. Overheating iMacs were heard of. My old apartment, in CT, had dust-bunnies from hell (yes i cleaned), and they always managed to clog up fans and heat sinks too (those with and without fans).
IMO, I would feel better, if I were to buy one, if it had a slow, quiet fan.
Considering that the hdd prices have dropped much more than the iPod prices have dropped, I would not be surprised at all to find out that the biggest earner of profits is the iPod.
I am up to 32,132 hours. Without the help of a lab or mahines at work. Currently running on my g/f iMac (slooooooow) and her mom's Duron (take that Igor, I switched it again). I think I had it on 3 or 4 machines for a month or two, but that has been quite a while ago. Most of the data is available here, with pretty pics here.
was growing up, I lived in Denver CO. Honeywell was very big there in the '80s. It was widely known that they (Honeywell) could not be trusted for much, aside from sending bills. This is not a surprise (BD problems).
How is this technology and programming that they are doing supposedly doing new? Is this not the stuff of any underground base? How many underground installations are there in this country with a similar setup? Was Honeywell involved? If not, who?
How is a hyperlink interpreted as"communications equipment"?
Equipment implies something physical (radio, satellite phone etc). A hyperlink is not physical. That would be the same as saying AT&T should stop providing telephone service because they are providing "communications equipment" to "terrorists" the world over.
And since when does UCSD get to usurp the authority of the FBI?
How is it that the most legitimate source is ridiculous? Ads in the paper are by companies truly looking for someone to hire, not just thinking about maybe hiring someone, as alot of online job sites end up listing. Not to mention that the number of people that reply to newspaper ads is ever shrinking, making your chances of an interview very high.
Of course, if you go into an interview with the same attitude problem you display here, it could be a long wait indeed.
Now is not the time for being picky or elitist. If a company is in business right now, and has been for a few years, they might be stable enough to make it through this drought right now.
Bite the bullet, take a job that is not perfect, and spend your leisure time away from work looking for the "perfect job."
Chances are, there are many people that are in your immediate area that are immensely more qualified than you are, and realising that this is the time to eat some crow.
Also, check out the headhunters in your area. Avoid the newer ones that do most of their stuff online too. The crusty 60 year old guys who've been doing this for 20 or 30 years have the best networks imaginable. Use them to your advantage, they don't get paid until you get a job, and the money usually comes out of your new employers pocket.
It is just a screwed with install of RedHat, minus some important libraries. Takes forever to start the machine, and it is not nearly as configurable of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, or any number of other "smaller" GUI's.
You hit upon my favorite thing; the average user does not install software. They go to the store, buy a new computer, take it home, plug it in, call tech support twice because "foo doesn't work", and then use it. They don't do "Windows Update", the don't install "Critical Updates", they don't look for an alternative web/email/office program(s). They use what they are given, and usually not very effectively.
This past Friday, a co-worker (40 yr old mother of 2) asked me, "should I install this 'critical update' thing?" I asked her, "does something 'critical' sound important enough to do?" She said, "when you put it that way, yes. Bu normally, I just ignore it."
That is the mentality of probably 90% of the people that own a computer. The treat it like a microwave; plug it in and use it. All the hub-bub about "internet appliances" just made it worse. "I have internet, so my computer must be an appliance..."
As to the NYT and "general thought" - mutually exclusive.
Uh... maybe he/she is like me, a total and complete non-programmer type. the only reasons i have ever used source is to 'optimize ofr my system', or because there was no other choice.
i am one of those people looking for a desktop alternative to windows. i don't program. i don't read code. i don't know how. i don't want to, i just want it to work.
not everyone who uses open source programs or operating systems should be checking/fixing code. that would mean that there is a relatively small, stagnant (ie not growing) population of users. this is not what we want, right?
4 - fibre optic camera is small enough to fit in/through the cracks, maybe reach the other side?
5 - there is another sensor for seeing 'thru' the stone that is blocking the pathway, range is 3 ft thru concrete, maybe 2 or 3 times that through stone of the pyramid structure.
6 - the stone is of the nice variety only found in the chambers of the interior of the pyramid
Actually, it was more to the tune of 39 million dollars.
The single biggest problem; every voting district is run by a different person. The districts with the largest populations have the biggest problems... coincidence?
Governor Bush did not deny "his help" as you so wonderfully state... in fact, he is spitting nails over this latest debacle.
I used to spend US $100 for a 4 or 5 music CD's at a single time. Granted, this was once every month or two.
Now, I spend the same amount of money (USD 100) for 3 to 5 DVD's.
In a comparison of content, just in minutes of 'enertainment', you get an average of 1 hour per CD (4 to 5 hr total, on average) vs. 2 hours plus per DVD (6 to 10 hrs total, on average).
In the age of the internet, I crave 'entertainment' that is video based much more than I did 5 or 10 years ago. I no longer listen to the radio for hours on end, nor do I watch network TV for hours. I go to the internet to pick and choose my content, for news, music, chat, email, or whatever. Instead of TV and radio, I pick and choose my content with CD's or DVD's. As I explained before, I tend to focus on the video now instead of the audio.
I still watch TV, I still listen to the radio, in the car, sometimes. With my limited time, I choose the most beneficial 'entertainment' per my ocnceptions of price, as well as time.
IE and Netscape (Mozilla) and all are the ones who define the 'standards.'
Example: Just as Ford defines what a Taurus or a Focus is and does, so does MS as to what IE is and does.
The internet is a celebration of individuality. Everyone has their own 'way' of doing things. For this reason alone, a 'standard' is a hard thing to get implemented.
Police, in a news briefing Monday, insisted the surveillance system poses no threat to ordinary, law-abiding citizens, with Deputy Chief Gregory Mullen adding, ``We may not ever make an arrest with the system.''
that is too easy. buy an R1, and big chunk of land in a semi-hilly region, build a F1 spec race course, and ride ride ride. then, when i get bored, promote as many races as possible, of all types (car, truck, bike, go-cart, tank, snowmobile, lawnmower etc), on that very track.
with most of the other posts here. This is a colossal waste of time/money/intellect.
IKEA, quite possibly the masters of all flat pack furniture, give nice concise directions with all of their furniture. The kicker is.... the directions are in picture form only. Very little, besides component parts needed, is actually spelled out.
If it is so easy to do that they need no written explanation, why do we need a audible one?
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Tell me again why all the distro's are still compiled to run on a 386? How many 386's have enough memory to run the GUI?
We are talking desktop's here, not email servers.
The Linux community is a little clueless when it comes to what the majoity of computer users want. If Apple (I know I know) can do it in 4 or 5 years, why can't RedHat do it?
"It just works."
sounds like a good questionnaire for doing a online install of a web suite...
Depends on where you live. In Arizona, specifically southern parts, it is very dusty. Overheating iMacs were heard of. My old apartment, in CT, had dust-bunnies from hell (yes i cleaned), and they always managed to clog up fans and heat sinks too (those with and without fans).
IMO, I would feel better, if I were to buy one, if it had a slow, quiet fan.
Considering that the hdd prices have dropped much more than the iPod prices have dropped, I would not be surprised at all to find out that the biggest earner of profits is the iPod.
I am up to 32,132 hours. Without the help of a lab or mahines at work. Currently running on my g/f iMac (slooooooow) and her mom's Duron (take that Igor, I switched it again). I think I had it on 3 or 4 machines for a month or two, but that has been quite a while ago. Most of the data is available here, with pretty pics here.
even better is when the kickin' bits in the trailer end up not making it into the movie.
was growing up, I lived in Denver CO. Honeywell was very big there in the '80s. It was widely known that they (Honeywell) could not be trusted for much, aside from sending bills. This is not a surprise (BD problems).
How is this technology and programming that they are doing supposedly doing new? Is this not the stuff of any underground base? How many underground installations are there in this country with a similar setup? Was Honeywell involved? If not, who?
Too late now of course...
How is a hyperlink interpreted as"communications equipment"?
Equipment implies something physical (radio, satellite phone etc). A hyperlink is not physical. That would be the same as saying AT&T should stop providing telephone service because they are providing "communications equipment" to "terrorists" the world over.
And since when does UCSD get to usurp the authority of the FBI?
How is it that the most legitimate source is ridiculous? Ads in the paper are by companies truly looking for someone to hire, not just thinking about maybe hiring someone, as alot of online job sites end up listing. Not to mention that the number of people that reply to newspaper ads is ever shrinking, making your chances of an interview very high.
Of course, if you go into an interview with the same attitude problem you display here, it could be a long wait indeed.
Now is not the time for being picky or elitist. If a company is in business right now, and has been for a few years, they might be stable enough to make it through this drought right now.
Bite the bullet, take a job that is not perfect, and spend your leisure time away from work looking for the "perfect job."
Chances are, there are many people that are in your immediate area that are immensely more qualified than you are, and realising that this is the time to eat some crow.
Also, check out the headhunters in your area. Avoid the newer ones that do most of their stuff online too. The crusty 60 year old guys who've been doing this for 20 or 30 years have the best networks imaginable. Use them to your advantage, they don't get paid until you get a job, and the money usually comes out of your new employers pocket.
It is just a screwed with install of RedHat, minus some important libraries. Takes forever to start the machine, and it is not nearly as configurable of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, or any number of other "smaller" GUI's.
Another one (free no-less) is from Power on Software. Can get it for OS X (soon a 10.2 update) and older 8.6+ users.
"constitutional rights" don't cover viewing/owning/partaking in child pornography.
You hit upon my favorite thing; the average user does not install software. They go to the store, buy a new computer, take it home, plug it in, call tech support twice because "foo doesn't work", and then use it. They don't do "Windows Update", the don't install "Critical Updates", they don't look for an alternative web/email/office program(s). They use what they are given, and usually not very effectively.
This past Friday, a co-worker (40 yr old mother of 2) asked me, "should I install this 'critical update' thing?" I asked her, "does something 'critical' sound important enough to do?" She said, "when you put it that way, yes. Bu normally, I just ignore it."
That is the mentality of probably 90% of the people that own a computer. The treat it like a microwave; plug it in and use it. All the hub-bub about "internet appliances" just made it worse. "I have internet, so my computer must be an appliance..."
As to the NYT and "general thought" - mutually exclusive.
Uh... maybe he/she is like me, a total and complete non-programmer type. the only reasons i have ever used source is to 'optimize ofr my system', or because there was no other choice.
i am one of those people looking for a desktop alternative to windows. i don't program. i don't read code. i don't know how. i don't want to, i just want it to work.
not everyone who uses open source programs or operating systems should be checking/fixing code. that would mean that there is a relatively small, stagnant (ie not growing) population of users. this is not what we want, right?
1 - about 10 years ago
2 - copper, not iron
3 - handles (loop), not spikes
4 - fibre optic camera is small enough to fit in/through the cracks, maybe reach the other side?
5 - there is another sensor for seeing 'thru' the stone that is blocking the pathway, range is 3 ft thru concrete, maybe 2 or 3 times that through stone of the pyramid structure.
6 - the stone is of the nice variety only found in the chambers of the interior of the pyramid
Unanswered questions lead to more investigation.
No offense taken.
Actually, it was more to the tune of 39 million dollars.
The single biggest problem; every voting district is run by a different person. The districts with the largest populations have the biggest problems... coincidence?
Governor Bush did not deny "his help" as you so wonderfully state... in fact, he is spitting nails over this latest debacle.
In the end, there is no excuse.
I used to spend US $100 for a 4 or 5 music CD's at a single time. Granted, this was once every month or two.
Now, I spend the same amount of money (USD 100) for 3 to 5 DVD's.
In a comparison of content, just in minutes of 'enertainment', you get an average of 1 hour per CD (4 to 5 hr total, on average) vs. 2 hours plus per DVD (6 to 10 hrs total, on average).
In the age of the internet, I crave 'entertainment' that is video based much more than I did 5 or 10 years ago. I no longer listen to the radio for hours on end, nor do I watch network TV for hours. I go to the internet to pick and choose my content, for news, music, chat, email, or whatever. Instead of TV and radio, I pick and choose my content with CD's or DVD's. As I explained before, I tend to focus on the video now instead of the audio.
I still watch TV, I still listen to the radio, in the car, sometimes. With my limited time, I choose the most beneficial 'entertainment' per my ocnceptions of price, as well as time.
IE and Netscape (Mozilla) and all are the ones who define the 'standards.'
Example: Just as Ford defines what a Taurus or a Focus is and does, so does MS as to what IE is and does.
The internet is a celebration of individuality. Everyone has their own 'way' of doing things. For this reason alone, a 'standard' is a hard thing to get implemented.
that is too easy. buy an R1, and big chunk of land in a semi-hilly region, build a F1 spec race course, and ride ride ride. then, when i get bored, promote as many races as possible, of all types (car, truck, bike, go-cart, tank, snowmobile, lawnmower etc), on that very track.
likelihood: zero
*sigh*
Here is what I want...
Here is some hope for you.
with most of the other posts here. This is a colossal waste of time/money/intellect.
IKEA, quite possibly the masters of all flat pack furniture, give nice concise directions with all of their furniture. The kicker is.... the directions are in picture form only. Very little, besides component parts needed, is actually spelled out.
If it is so easy to do that they need no written explanation, why do we need a audible one?
As some else suggested, an older HP calculator. Found here. So far, no bids!
All people are now banned from flights, as the security crews are not able to tell the difference between terrorists and regular passengers.
This is how the slide starts....