I work at Home Depot and our whole computer system is a POS. It takes me 2 seconds to type in a 6-digit sku number, then it takes the computer 5 seconds to display all 6 digits, then it takes another 25-40 seconds to display the relevant information. When I gotta look up 10 or so skus, it takes a good 5 minutes - most of it waiting for the computer.
Most of what is done on the Home Depot computers is run an old dos program on Windows 2k in a command prompt/terminal window. It is teh sux.
But to answer your question, no, Windows is not embedded in any of our products. So don't get upset when your new pink toilet seat doesn't run MS Word.
It will probby work nice with my htpc. My current logitech cordless only goes about 6ft so I have to use a USB extension cable and run the damn receiver to my couch.. It's either that or getting off my fat ass - and that's not gonna happen.
It said the same thing.. and when I opened it, it continued to say "...cash this check for $127.50 and download Windows XP Professional Edition for Free as our part of upholding the MS trial settlement."
It's all about law.. Their real intentions are to rid the roads of the nasty violent pot smokers that forget to pick up their brothers from soccer practice and let their kid sisters drown in the pool.
But, to enact a rolling urine sample is too much of a change for right now.. So, they are requiring these drunk gizmos first.
1. ban cell phone driving 2. drunk gizmos 3. pee in cup in car 4. ???
As a confused linux n00b who always gets insulted when trying to learn linux, I don't understand why offpath3's post isn't one of the most important here.
Why can't Mandrake just take an older verson of XFree86 (before the license change) and add whatever the hell they want and call it XFree87 Mandrake-style?
I mean.. just tell that dumbass at XFree86 'Hey dude, we'll take your source from here. K, thx.'
I suggest we collectively innovate proprietarily a new number (but don't call it a number) to come after 5. We shall eventually accidentally release this new 'code' and sue everyone that uses a similar idea.
Also, if our new code has been previously invented, we shall still obtain a patent for it anyway.
I love your Star Trek Adventures idea - It's the same thing I've been suggesting for years now. It's an easy way to get everyone and their mother onto a star trek set also and avoid the whole "Pay some dumbfack $1million an episode."
Enterprise does have some dumb moments, but I don't see how it could possibly have lived up to the expectations. It's an awesome show. Sci-fi today is mostly crap. I mean.. some of us were even dumbed down enough by today's mindless crap to think the Matrix was cool.
But, I like the whole Star Trek universe.. and anything remotely similiar is copying it and anything too different is alien to me. It took me a long-ass time (though mostly fun) to 'get to know' the Star Trek universe and understand things better. The more you understand, the more you seem to know why things are handled the way they are. Enterprise seems to be judged too often by people that saw maybe 1 episode of TNG and 2 of DS9 and decided that they were infinitely better.
It also really annoys me that Cox Communications won't include UPN in their lineup. I have to download episodes or watch them the next day in the afternoon on CBS. Perhaps Enterprise is actually more successful than UPN thinks. I mean, Enterprise is downloaded a hell of a lot more than Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond. People don't usually download shows they don't like.
BTW, look at Family Guy.. Fox's dumb monkeys didn't realize how successful it was until the overwhelming DVD sales.
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When I finally turned 18 and headed off to college, I was flooded with credit card offers. I took to reading the fine print to pick the very best ones. There were offers that advertised 'NO ANNUAL FEES' and in the fine print, it would say something to the effect of 'by stating no annual fees we make no promise of the future.' On two of the cards I used to have, I was slapped with random $20 charges - one was called an annual fee and the other was called an 'account maintenence fee'. I called it in and they took them off.
Also, I had cellphone service with Sprint for a week. They promised me 14 days to try the service and get my money back if I didn't like it. Well, I found a better deal with Tmobile (fuck me up the ass) and decided to cancel Sprint. To make a long story short, there were about $260 in random fees from 'disconnection fee', 'early termination fee', etc. I had to spend nearly 3 hours on the phone insisting that each one be removed per their contract that states 14 days free to try out the service. I bet most people that do that end up paying the lower fees just to avoid the $200 early termination fee.
Now.. Tmobile.. that's really a company I would like to sue. They've managed to fuck up my bill every other month (call in and they fix it after an hour of arguing). I get dropped calls more than 1/2 the time. I seldom get a decent signal (in a STRONG signal location advertised by Tmobile). They charged my brother for nights used when his contract was supposed to be for nights and weekends. Since he didn't pay it, it was sent to collections. Tmobile is horrible.. they don't negotiate; they treat their customers like terrorists. Anyone else want to 'class action' against Tmobile? I'm sick of their random fees and lack of usable service.
Sorry about my rambling.. I hate Tmobile so much. I can't wait to walk off with my number at the end of the contract to a better carrier.
"the youth of today truly do not know what a good sound system is"
You didn't even have decent enough media to accurately reproduce sound.. And, if somehow a vinyl is as good as a CD, the equipment the bands had to play with and record on is completely inferior to what we have today. The only thing good previously is vacuum tube amplifiers - which is still an opinion of some that it sounds better than todays' amplifiers.
That is why you don't hear crystal clear recordings of the Beatles or Grateful Dead until after it's REMASTERED.
But yea, I'll agree that todays' stuff sucks compared to what it can be. Audio quality of everything in general is crap. I can't understand how anyone can listen to a beautiful DVD movie or newly recorded CD on audiophile speakers and then not hear the noise produced by their car stereos, headphones, boomboxes, and computer speakers...
Just, back in your day, you had ONE system to play it on and you couldn't walk around with it in your back pocket.
I personally would rather have a huge horde of bandwidth available for any possible use. People shouldn't blame Kazaa for using too much bandwidth; instead, they should upgrade their networks.
I go to UF. The dorm room connections were never that great. Three years ago, with only Napster on the network, it was damn slow. UF is blaming these file sharers for a slow network when they really oughta be checking their bandwidth availability. I live off campus and use a cable modem - it's about 3x as fast as the UF network.
If UF spent some money to upgrade the bandwidth, then the file sharing wouldn't matter. It's a sad thing to see my college give up on the liberties of the students and surrender to an invisible threat of liability - something Universities were traditionally immune from...
BTW, the entire premise of the Internet is being fucked right now. Corporations will run the net completely. If they had their way, the Internet would have limited download and zero upload. There is no reason to sell uber download with shitty upload unless you're trying to limit the participation of the end user. Perhaps now UF will limit upload speeds of the students too. Hell, we might as well pay a portion of our taxes directly to the RIAA/MPAA and all the other corporations forcing the Internet under their tight control.
So, since your entire school couldn't cope with 2 T1 lines, Kazaa should be banned? How about limit everyone on your gimped network to text file sharing? Eliminate everything but text and maybe you could get your entire school under a 56kbps line. You blame file sharers when your school was too cheap to pay for some real bandwidth.
Since when can any sort of logic be applied to five main companies controlling 99% of music media?
Since when should any sort of technology appreciate in value?
If the RIAA could, they would charge everyone in the US royalties for owning radios, computers, cd players, etc. Then, they would charge us royalties per media that we buy regardless of our intentions. Then, they would charge the radio stations, webcasters, and other providers a royalty for playing their crap. Then, they would charge everyone subscriptions to download crippled music that can only be played four times. Then, they would enact a new law that does not allow anyone without their permission record any form of music. Then, they would make books illegal. Then, they would gouge out our eyes so that we could only listen to their music as entertainment.
As far as I'm concerned, I pay a royalty when I buy blank music cds - so anything I put on them is already paid for. They can't charge me twice for their music. So what if I decide to put all 74min of good music that came out in the past 3 years on one cd? I paid the royalty for it.
I just wish there were more piracy rings like that one and I wish music piracy was more rampant. Phase out the big media companies and start requiring talent to build you up.
I could care less about the big pockets of a corporation that puts 'Enact new laws.' as part of their strategy. I love capitalism. This, however, is not capitalism; it is extortion of every person that has ever decided to like a band.
You are a total idiot or fucking broadband provider.
I am FORCED to use COX Communications for my service provider. I have NO OTHER OPTION unless I want to declare my home a business. Also, for Cable I am forced once again to use Cox.
They offer no other increases in bandwidth in my area. They even block channels I pay for during the UF Gator games so they can offer the Gator games on pay per view.
If I steal some bandwidth from them, it's not the jurisdiction of the god damn fucking FBI to enforce it.
Otherwise I should be able to call the FBI in to seize Cox' equipment when they block channels and sell them to me twice during the Gator games. Hrm. I think I'll just call the FBI right now... What is it again? 1-800-.. I forget.
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Heh.. I don't care if it's completely wrong. I cut up a pen and tried it... and promptly lost it because I wasn't watching where it would go.
Then, I cut up another pen and watched it fly. Now I have a new toy. Neato.
Contrary to the common claims, linux for me has been just as unstable as Windows.
I have a computer at my parents' house - my dad now uses it which runs Redhat 7.2 just perfect.
But, I've been trying to get Mandrake 9.0 or Redhat 7.3 to work on my laptop - and they do. But, the ACPI is not implemented so my laptop eventually overheats and shuts off. The newest ACPI patches do not seem to work for me either. (If anyone has experience with ACPI on a Toshiba 3000-S304, send me an email or something if you'd like to help)
Also, linux has no general GUI. Yea, you staunch linux supporters will say the common lingo such as:
"Never trust a GUI." "GUI's are for those that don't know computers." "GUI's are whatever you want them to be."
But, that defeats the purpose. The nice thing about Windows is that (once I get it running stable) I can use any program - no matter how complicated - since it uses a standard GUI. I opened up Photoshop for the first time years ago and figured out how to edit a picture in about 15 minutes. Every new program I open in Windows... click, click, click and I know it generally.
In linux, you have to learn every little command. It is just plain not intuitive. Like, who would guess netconf or urpmi or chmod or any of the other random linux commands?
Also, linux NEVER seems to work right 'out of the box'. It took me forever to get Ogle working - seems I had to rename a few devices.
Also, my Mandrake installation somehow corrupted itself on my laptop. I made absolutely no changes other than using Kate for java programming and now it won't complete the boot process.
Yea, I have had terrible times with windows also - but at least windows is intuitive. The linux programmers need to get off their damn high horses and realize that an intuitive GUI is how you get real people to adopt it.
Another problem is the years of experience people have with Windows. No matter how much faster linux is, people generally know how to do things faster on Windows. All I can say is linux needs to be easier to use. Screw security when I can't figure out how to get a battery icon on my taskbar. (One that actually communicates with my laptop.)
Until linux works EASIER, it will be on my secondary computer as a secondary boot option. Right now, pirated XP is the most convenient option for me. (I own two licenses - but the pirated version allows me not to have to call the Fuxors at Microsoft.)
Yea, if you think I'm pissed at linux, I am. Every time I go for help on it, I get the typical "RTFM, man {command}, or run {insert random combination of characters}" like I shoul've known it automatically.
Linux people - make a damn common interface. Why the hell does every program have to look completely different?
I'm using a white led Logitech USB optical right now...
I read this article a few hours ago and bought a 2600mcd 3.7V blue LED and a 1100mcd 3.6V white LED from Radio Shack.
I first tried the blue LED - but it wasn't bright enough when the mouse went dim to start the pointer (after it sits a while)... It would work, however, if I clicked once to make it bright.
Then, even though the white LED was rated dimmer, I tried it. Sure enough, it was slightly dimmer. However, it works perfect. It seems just as responsive - and it looks awesome with the logitech mouse which has a smoky transparent bottom..
So, a white LED works fine.. In my case, a dim 1100 mcd.
I thought that too... Until I used a solder-removal braid.
If you use a solder-removal braid, it will take off ALL the solder left on the pin. If that happens, it will be hell to get something soldered back on without the existing solder there because it won't stick to the board. (even with tons of flux)
But, if that happens, there's an easy fix. Just trace the connects back to the origin and solder wires there to the led connection.
That's what my mouse has...;)
Though I messed up two others and plan on fixing them - I'll do that tomorrow.
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After trying repeatedly to begin migration from Windows to Linux, I've come to realize that one may not do this easily - even if he is very computer literate and has been using computers Mac/Windows/Dos for years.
Installing linux is usually easy enough, but configuring it to have a standardized look and feel is nearly impossible. Getting familiar with linux requires learning commands that are NOT intuitive - such as chmod, urpmi, etc. It also requires countless hours of reading man pages or tutorials which often do not adequately explain what the user is trying to do.
Also, each program, whether graphical or command line, has its own unique interface that doesn't closely resemble its peers.
Linux (as in most users) seem to pride themselves in Linux' counter-intuitive interface where one cannot merely learn it by exploring (pun). I believe linux contributors need to realize the importance of a good UI and the importance of learning by intuition.
Is there any progress being made to ensure the future growth of linux by standardizing commands across distributions, standardizing GUIs, standardizing installations, etc.. so that a person experienced with Windows or Mac can have an easier time migrating? and how have you contributed to that progress?
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I work at Home Depot and our whole computer system is a POS. It takes me 2 seconds to type in a 6-digit sku number, then it takes the computer 5 seconds to display all 6 digits, then it takes another 25-40 seconds to display the relevant information. When I gotta look up 10 or so skus, it takes a good 5 minutes - most of it waiting for the computer.
Most of what is done on the Home Depot computers is run an old dos program on Windows 2k in a command prompt/terminal window. It is teh sux.
But to answer your question, no, Windows is not embedded in any of our products. So don't get upset when your new pink toilet seat doesn't run MS Word.
Ack! Big brother is in our games now! I, for one, don't want Budweiser to know that I'm drinking their beer on Linux.
Great.. why don't we make it so Windows can tell when you flick it off..
It will probby work nice with my htpc. My current logitech cordless only goes about 6ft so I have to use a USB extension cable and run the damn receiver to my couch.. It's either that or getting off my fat ass - and that's not gonna happen.
I got one too..
It said the same thing.. and when I opened it, it continued to say "...cash this check for $127.50 and download Windows XP Professional Edition for Free as our part of upholding the MS trial settlement."
It's all about law.. Their real intentions are to rid the roads of the nasty violent pot smokers that forget to pick up their brothers from soccer practice and let their kid sisters drown in the pool.
But, to enact a rolling urine sample is too much of a change for right now.. So, they are requiring these drunk gizmos first.
1. ban cell phone driving
2. drunk gizmos
3. pee in cup in car
4. ???
As a confused linux n00b who always gets insulted when trying to learn linux, I don't understand why offpath3's post isn't one of the most important here.
Why can't Mandrake just take an older verson of XFree86 (before the license change) and add whatever the hell they want and call it XFree87 Mandrake-style?
I mean.. just tell that dumbass at XFree86 'Hey dude, we'll take your source from here. K, thx.'
I suggest we collectively innovate proprietarily a new number (but don't call it a number) to come after 5. We shall eventually accidentally release this new 'code' and sue everyone that uses a similar idea.
Also, if our new code has been previously invented, we shall still obtain a patent for it anyway.
I love your Star Trek Adventures idea - It's the same thing I've been suggesting for years now. It's an easy way to get everyone and their mother onto a star trek set also and avoid the whole "Pay some dumbfack $1million an episode."
Enterprise does have some dumb moments, but I don't see how it could possibly have lived up to the expectations. It's an awesome show. Sci-fi today is mostly crap. I mean.. some of us were even dumbed down enough by today's mindless crap to think the Matrix was cool.
But, I like the whole Star Trek universe.. and anything remotely similiar is copying it and anything too different is alien to me. It took me a long-ass time (though mostly fun) to 'get to know' the Star Trek universe and understand things better. The more you understand, the more you seem to know why things are handled the way they are. Enterprise seems to be judged too often by people that saw maybe 1 episode of TNG and 2 of DS9 and decided that they were infinitely better.
It also really annoys me that Cox Communications won't include UPN in their lineup. I have to download episodes or watch them the next day in the afternoon on CBS. Perhaps Enterprise is actually more successful than UPN thinks. I mean, Enterprise is downloaded a hell of a lot more than Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond. People don't usually download shows they don't like.
BTW, look at Family Guy.. Fox's dumb monkeys didn't realize how successful it was until the overwhelming DVD sales.
When I finally turned 18 and headed off to college, I was flooded with credit card offers. I took to reading the fine print to pick the very best ones. There were offers that advertised 'NO ANNUAL FEES' and in the fine print, it would say something to the effect of 'by stating no annual fees we make no promise of the future.' On two of the cards I used to have, I was slapped with random $20 charges - one was called an annual fee and the other was called an 'account maintenence fee'. I called it in and they took them off.
Also, I had cellphone service with Sprint for a week. They promised me 14 days to try the service and get my money back if I didn't like it. Well, I found a better deal with Tmobile (fuck me up the ass) and decided to cancel Sprint. To make a long story short, there were about $260 in random fees from 'disconnection fee', 'early termination fee', etc. I had to spend nearly 3 hours on the phone insisting that each one be removed per their contract that states 14 days free to try out the service. I bet most people that do that end up paying the lower fees just to avoid the $200 early termination fee.
Now.. Tmobile.. that's really a company I would like to sue. They've managed to fuck up my bill every other month (call in and they fix it after an hour of arguing). I get dropped calls more than 1/2 the time. I seldom get a decent signal (in a STRONG signal location advertised by Tmobile). They charged my brother for nights used when his contract was supposed to be for nights and weekends. Since he didn't pay it, it was sent to collections. Tmobile is horrible.. they don't negotiate; they treat their customers like terrorists. Anyone else want to 'class action' against Tmobile? I'm sick of their random fees and lack of usable service.
Sorry about my rambling.. I hate Tmobile so much. I can't wait to walk off with my number at the end of the contract to a better carrier.
Who says music HAS to be a product?
"the youth of today truly do not know what a good sound system is"
You didn't even have decent enough media to accurately reproduce sound.. And, if somehow a vinyl is as good as a CD, the equipment the bands had to play with and record on is completely inferior to what we have today. The only thing good previously is vacuum tube amplifiers - which is still an opinion of some that it sounds better than todays' amplifiers.
That is why you don't hear crystal clear recordings of the Beatles or Grateful Dead until after it's REMASTERED.
But yea, I'll agree that todays' stuff sucks compared to what it can be. Audio quality of everything in general is crap. I can't understand how anyone can listen to a beautiful DVD movie or newly recorded CD on audiophile speakers and then not hear the noise produced by their car stereos, headphones, boomboxes, and computer speakers...
Just, back in your day, you had ONE system to play it on and you couldn't walk around with it in your back pocket.
I personally would rather have a huge horde of bandwidth available for any possible use. People shouldn't blame Kazaa for using too much bandwidth; instead, they should upgrade their networks.
I go to UF. The dorm room connections were never that great. Three years ago, with only Napster on the network, it was damn slow. UF is blaming these file sharers for a slow network when they really oughta be checking their bandwidth availability. I live off campus and use a cable modem - it's about 3x as fast as the UF network.
If UF spent some money to upgrade the bandwidth, then the file sharing wouldn't matter. It's a sad thing to see my college give up on the liberties of the students and surrender to an invisible threat of liability - something Universities were traditionally immune from...
BTW, the entire premise of the Internet is being fucked right now. Corporations will run the net completely. If they had their way, the Internet would have limited download and zero upload. There is no reason to sell uber download with shitty upload unless you're trying to limit the participation of the end user. Perhaps now UF will limit upload speeds of the students too. Hell, we might as well pay a portion of our taxes directly to the RIAA/MPAA and all the other corporations forcing the Internet under their tight control.
So, since your entire school couldn't cope with 2 T1 lines, Kazaa should be banned? How about limit everyone on your gimped network to text file sharing? Eliminate everything but text and maybe you could get your entire school under a 56kbps line. You blame file sharers when your school was too cheap to pay for some real bandwidth.
Since when can any sort of logic be applied to five main companies controlling 99% of music media?
Since when should any sort of technology appreciate in value?
If the RIAA could, they would charge everyone in the US royalties for owning radios, computers, cd players, etc. Then, they would charge us royalties per media that we buy regardless of our intentions. Then, they would charge the radio stations, webcasters, and other providers a royalty for playing their crap. Then, they would charge everyone subscriptions to download crippled music that can only be played four times. Then, they would enact a new law that does not allow anyone without their permission record any form of music. Then, they would make books illegal. Then, they would gouge out our eyes so that we could only listen to their music as entertainment.
As far as I'm concerned, I pay a royalty when I buy blank music cds - so anything I put on them is already paid for. They can't charge me twice for their music. So what if I decide to put all 74min of good music that came out in the past 3 years on one cd? I paid the royalty for it.
I just wish there were more piracy rings like that one and I wish music piracy was more rampant. Phase out the big media companies and start requiring talent to build you up.
I could care less about the big pockets of a corporation that puts 'Enact new laws.' as part of their strategy. I love capitalism. This, however, is not capitalism; it is extortion of every person that has ever decided to like a band.
You are a total idiot or fucking broadband provider.
I am FORCED to use COX Communications for my service provider. I have NO OTHER OPTION unless I want to declare my home a business. Also, for Cable I am forced once again to use Cox.
They offer no other increases in bandwidth in my area. They even block channels I pay for during the UF Gator games so they can offer the Gator games on pay per view.
If I steal some bandwidth from them, it's not the jurisdiction of the god damn fucking FBI to enforce it.
Otherwise I should be able to call the FBI in to seize Cox' equipment when they block channels and sell them to me twice during the Gator games. Hrm. I think I'll just call the FBI right now... What is it again? 1-800-.. I forget.
Heh.. I don't care if it's completely wrong. I cut up a pen and tried it... and promptly lost it because I wasn't watching where it would go.
Then, I cut up another pen and watched it fly. Now I have a new toy. Neato.
Contrary to the common claims, linux for me has been just as unstable as Windows.
I have a computer at my parents' house - my dad now uses it which runs Redhat 7.2 just perfect.
But, I've been trying to get Mandrake 9.0 or Redhat 7.3 to work on my laptop - and they do. But, the ACPI is not implemented so my laptop eventually overheats and shuts off. The newest ACPI patches do not seem to work for me either. (If anyone has experience with ACPI on a Toshiba 3000-S304, send me an email or something if you'd like to help)
Also, linux has no general GUI. Yea, you staunch linux supporters will say the common lingo such as:
"Never trust a GUI."
"GUI's are for those that don't know computers."
"GUI's are whatever you want them to be."
But, that defeats the purpose. The nice thing about Windows is that (once I get it running stable) I can use any program - no matter how complicated - since it uses a standard GUI. I opened up Photoshop for the first time years ago and figured out how to edit a picture in about 15 minutes. Every new program I open in Windows... click, click, click and I know it generally.
In linux, you have to learn every little command. It is just plain not intuitive. Like, who would guess netconf or urpmi or chmod or any of the other random linux commands?
Also, linux NEVER seems to work right 'out of the box'. It took me forever to get Ogle working - seems I had to rename a few devices.
Also, my Mandrake installation somehow corrupted itself on my laptop. I made absolutely no changes other than using Kate for java programming and now it won't complete the boot process.
Yea, I have had terrible times with windows also - but at least windows is intuitive. The linux programmers need to get off their damn high horses and realize that an intuitive GUI is how you get real people to adopt it.
Another problem is the years of experience people have with Windows. No matter how much faster linux is, people generally know how to do things faster on Windows. All I can say is linux needs to be easier to use. Screw security when I can't figure out how to get a battery icon on my taskbar. (One that actually communicates with my laptop.)
Until linux works EASIER, it will be on my secondary computer as a secondary boot option. Right now, pirated XP is the most convenient option for me. (I own two licenses - but the pirated version allows me not to have to call the Fuxors at Microsoft.)
Yea, if you think I'm pissed at linux, I am. Every time I go for help on it, I get the typical "RTFM, man {command}, or run {insert random combination of characters}" like I shoul've known it automatically.
Linux people - make a damn common interface. Why the hell does every program have to look completely different?
I'm using a white led Logitech USB optical right now...
I read this article a few hours ago and bought a 2600mcd 3.7V blue LED and a 1100mcd 3.6V white LED from Radio Shack.
I first tried the blue LED - but it wasn't bright enough when the mouse went dim to start the pointer (after it sits a while)... It would work, however, if I clicked once to make it bright.
Then, even though the white LED was rated dimmer, I tried it. Sure enough, it was slightly dimmer. However, it works perfect. It seems just as responsive - and it looks awesome with the logitech mouse which has a smoky transparent bottom..
So, a white LED works fine.. In my case, a dim 1100 mcd.
I thought that too... Until I used a solder-removal braid.
;)
If you use a solder-removal braid, it will take off ALL the solder left on the pin. If that happens, it will be hell to get something soldered back on without the existing solder there because it won't stick to the board. (even with tons of flux)
But, if that happens, there's an easy fix. Just trace the connects back to the origin and solder wires there to the led connection.
That's what my mouse has...
Though I messed up two others and plan on fixing them - I'll do that tomorrow.
I just got a 0. He looked quite comfortable.
1 bar, 304.34 degrees, -90.00 pitch
I got a 14...
Force: 1 bar, 288.30, -84.56, torso
Basically, it looked like he slowly sat down than decided to take a nap. I replayed it 5 or so times and it's still hilarious.
Next time I fall down stairs, it's gonna be 1 bar, 288.30 degrees, -84.56 pitch, and it'll be due to a force on my torso.
so speed=acceleration?
After trying repeatedly to begin migration from Windows to Linux, I've come to realize that one may not do this easily - even if he is very computer literate and has been using computers Mac/Windows/Dos for years.
Installing linux is usually easy enough, but configuring it to have a standardized look and feel is nearly impossible. Getting familiar with linux requires learning commands that are NOT intuitive - such as chmod, urpmi, etc. It also requires countless hours of reading man pages or tutorials which often do not adequately explain what the user is trying to do.
Also, each program, whether graphical or command line, has its own unique interface that doesn't closely resemble its peers.
Linux (as in most users) seem to pride themselves in Linux' counter-intuitive interface where one cannot merely learn it by exploring (pun). I believe linux contributors need to realize the importance of a good UI and the importance of learning by intuition.
Is there any progress being made to ensure the future growth of linux by standardizing commands across distributions, standardizing GUIs, standardizing installations, etc.. so that a person experienced with Windows or Mac can have an easier time migrating? and how have you contributed to that progress?
Wow.. damn good first post. I totally agree with you. I can't believe how idiotic people get about 'piracy'..
What used to be fair use is ALL piracy now! That's a right we're giving up, people!
I have never once read a post where every single person absolutely agreed. There's like 1000 posts that all agree.
However, if there is disagreement, forgive me for not noticing anything below the -10 threshold.
Someone here that lives near Nokia should write warchalk symbols outside of their corporate offices.