Are you kidding? Are you high? At the end of the day, family is all you have. You can lose your house, your car, your shiny new laptop, etc., and you still have your family. They have (believe it or not) skills that you don't and can reciprocate their expertise for yours. For *free*. Why? because they're the ones who care about you. That is, if you haven't alienated them by being a dick and saying no to fixing their computer.
That's the mercenary reason that I figure based on your post would appeal to you.
My reason is simpler: I love my family and would do anything for them.
I haven't heard one good thing about it since it shipped, I had to get a new laptop last week (by the way Best Buy can suck my balls), and the newest version of Windows Solitaire is pretty kick ass.
Not sure what sort of setup/build you're using, but when I first decided to use openoffice for my writing, I tested it out on some Project Gutenberg texts. Neither "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" nor "Dracula" caused it to break a sweat in the initial pasting into my template or editing later on.
So how exactly did he wind up getting a $400 fine, community service, and a diversion sentence out of it?
Easy to determine: if you go to prosecutor's office website and look at the first bullet point of their selected goals you'll see that they're there not to "See justice done" but to "Prosecute violations of State law in District and Circuit Courts within Kent County"
I grew up in a Michigan town about the size of Sparta. You get these fricken cops who have wayyyy too much time on their hands and look for people to nail on technicalities.
No one knew what was happening was a "crime" but the cop dug deeper until he found one.
Jesus Christ, what ever happened to a warning? "Hey, I looked into it, what your doing is illegal, so go in an buy a damn coffee or knock it off." The peace is kept.
What the fuck is wrong with cops? (Though, I suspect that it was also some king shit prosecuting attorney who wants another revenue stream other than speeding tickets.)
If you go to http://ubuntuguide.org/ you can find a replacement for '/etc/apt/sources.list' which contains sources for all the non-free stuffs you'd want.
You can run it in a VM--at least, that's what I did a couple of years ago. Probably doesn't need to be VMWare--I've done some experimentation with XP in a QEMU window, and it worked... okay-ish. If you want to pay a license for VMWare, iirc, they were experimenting with being able to access 3D stuffs, at the time it was pretty unstable.
Last I checked, VMWare has a try-it-before-you-buy-it license, and you can set-up a virtual machine and when the temp license expires, you can use the VMWare Player on it.
Some flash movies that hogged Firefox UI with old player work flawlessy now. Audio is now in sync with video.
What are you running on, I'm on kubuntu, and when I go to a site such as youtube, audio is still out of sync (unlike running the flash player under crossover which runs flawlessly...)
I just went back into my test profile and blew everyting in the directory tree otu and started with a virgin install. A little better, but still no dice. It may sound petty, but the tabs don't match the rest of my setup. The dropdown list buttons (the little down arrow) don't match, and a couple of other little visual glitches.
This may sound like a mole hill, but I plan on moving my wife to kubuntu pretty soon, and these will become mountains when she encounters them--trust me. A tab in the web browser should look like a tab in every other application.
Openoffice does a pretty damn good job (not perfect) integrating with the look and feel, and Firefox should too.
o Web Search Pro doesn't seem to work. o Icons are prettier. o Tab bar doesn't work how I'm used to (an extension to make things Work Right) o I already have session management via an extension. o The new add ons manager is kind of nice. o Scroll wheel no longer works on my tabs. o Visual barfs all over in the theme (I figure those will be cleaned up by release date), in fact, there are all kinds of little inconsistencies with the theme I'm using; tabs don't match everything else, drop down lists, etc. o The red squigglies are kinda nifty.
In all, I don't really see anything that's two point oh, or will make me do a "gotta have it" upgrade (unless, of course some "gotta have it" plugin doesn't work in the old one.
My god, I wish I had mod points. I wouldn't mod the above as funny, but as insightful. Already below I read a post with someone complaining that it isn't "inspirational." Huh?
Personally, I prefer the jankety old one which I know works to a jankety new one which is going to be buggy.
In the long run, though, I really don't care as long as I can still use the tab key to navigate my way through the filesystem.
Just because you reach a certain age does't mean you can start doing stupid things. People don't think, "Oh, wait, he's a senior citizen--I'd better not scam them." In fact, they think the opposite. When more than two people tell you that what you're doing is a baaaaad idea, then chances are you ought to re-think what you're doing. My father--68 and going strong--knows that TANSTAAFL, and this guy should have also.
Don't feel sorry for this man, feel sorry for his wife. This idiot squandered away all of thier money FOR MAGIC BEANS! I'm wondering how many other scams from hucksters he's fallen for over the years. Fool.
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Now, I suppose, when KDE boots up it's going to play that annoying, "bee de do deh, bee de do deh, bee de do doo dah."
Can't wait.
Every time I see "cyber" something, I want to find William Gibson and punch him in the nose.
Are you kidding? Are you high? At the end of the day, family is all you have. You can lose your house, your car, your shiny new laptop, etc., and you still have your family. They have (believe it or not) skills that you don't and can reciprocate their expertise for yours. For *free*. Why? because they're the ones who care about you. That is, if you haven't alienated them by being a dick and saying no to fixing their computer.
That's the mercenary reason that I figure based on your post would appeal to you.
My reason is simpler: I love my family and would do anything for them.
HTH
Okay, let's pretend I'm afraid of vaccinations and didn't get them.
How would that put *you* at risk?
You've been vaccinated, right?
Anyway...
I wouldn't go that far--they use "inverted sugar" which is sugar broken down into ... fructose and glucose. You may as well have a pepsi.
I think you need to have a long, frank talk with your father...
Not sure what sort of setup/build you're using, but when I first decided to use openoffice for my writing, I tested it out on some Project Gutenberg texts. Neither "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" nor "Dracula" caused it to break a sweat in the initial pasting into my template or editing later on.
Don't do it. You'll get an American and no one can figure out what in the hell they're saying.
Another standard is, not to use, commas like they, were going out, of style.
Feh.
... Microsoft start suing the schools for using Linux without paying the proper license fees...
Bah!
Easy to determine: if you go to prosecutor's office website and look at the first bullet point of their selected goals you'll see that they're there not to "See justice done" but to "Prosecute violations of State law in District and Circuit Courts within Kent County"
Stinkers.
I grew up in a Michigan town about the size of Sparta. You get these fricken cops who have wayyyy too much time on their hands and look for people to nail on technicalities.
No one knew what was happening was a "crime" but the cop dug deeper until he found one.
Jesus Christ, what ever happened to a warning? "Hey, I looked into it, what your doing is illegal, so go in an buy a damn coffee or knock it off." The peace is kept.
What the fuck is wrong with cops? (Though, I suspect that it was also some king shit prosecuting attorney who wants another revenue stream other than speeding tickets.)
If you go to http://ubuntuguide.org/ you can find a replacement for '/etc/apt/sources.list' which contains sources for all the non-free stuffs you'd want.
Great resource, I have it bookmarked.
David
You can run it in a VM--at least, that's what I did a couple of years ago. Probably doesn't need to be VMWare--I've done some experimentation with XP in a QEMU window, and it worked ... okay-ish. If you want to pay a license for VMWare, iirc, they were experimenting with being able to access 3D stuffs, at the time it was pretty unstable.
Last I checked, VMWare has a try-it-before-you-buy-it license, and you can set-up a virtual machine and when the temp license expires, you can use the VMWare Player on it.
HTH,
Dave
What are you running on, I'm on kubuntu, and when I go to a site such as youtube, audio is still out of sync (unlike running the flash player under crossover which runs flawlessly...)
David
I just went back into my test profile and blew everyting in the directory tree otu and started with a virgin install. A little better, but still no dice. It may sound petty, but the tabs don't match the rest of my setup. The dropdown list buttons (the little down arrow) don't match, and a couple of other little visual glitches.
This may sound like a mole hill, but I plan on moving my wife to kubuntu pretty soon, and these will become mountains when she encounters them--trust me. A tab in the web browser should look like a tab in every other application.
Openoffice does a pretty damn good job (not perfect) integrating with the look and feel, and Firefox should too.
Dave
Unless I absolutely, positively have to have it, I'll not be installing it on my PC.
* It doesn't respect my themes.
* It's still useless without Tab Mix Plus
I'll pass for now.
o Web Search Pro doesn't seem to work.
o Icons are prettier.
o Tab bar doesn't work how I'm used to (an extension to make things Work Right)
o I already have session management via an extension.
o The new add ons manager is kind of nice.
o Scroll wheel no longer works on my tabs.
o Visual barfs all over in the theme (I figure those will be cleaned up by release date), in fact, there are all kinds of little inconsistencies with the theme I'm using; tabs don't match everything else, drop down lists, etc.
o The red squigglies are kinda nifty.
In all, I don't really see anything that's two point oh, or will make me do a "gotta have it" upgrade (unless, of course some "gotta have it" plugin doesn't work in the old one.
Big shrug.
Silly string.
Because Bush did the math himself.
My god, I wish I had mod points. I wouldn't mod the above as funny, but as insightful. Already below I read a post with someone complaining that it isn't "inspirational." Huh?
Personally, I prefer the jankety old one which I know works to a jankety new one which is going to be buggy.
In the long run, though, I really don't care as long as I can still use the tab key to navigate my way through the filesystem.
Dave
I second this. I bought a One For All a couple of years ago, and it works so good I'm loathe to swap it for one which talks to my DVD player.
Just because you reach a certain age does't mean you can start doing stupid things. People don't think, "Oh, wait, he's a senior citizen--I'd better not scam them." In fact, they think the opposite. When more than two people tell you that what you're doing is a baaaaad idea, then chances are you ought to re-think what you're doing. My father--68 and going strong--knows that TANSTAAFL, and this guy should have also.
Don't feel sorry for this man, feel sorry for his wife. This idiot squandered away all of thier money FOR MAGIC BEANS! I'm wondering how many other scams from hucksters he's fallen for over the years. Fool.
David