I don't know about that guy's camera, but Windows wouldn't even find my damn PRINTER!! I had problems with Linux as well, but I did manage to get it working under Mandrake. Of course, when I plugged it into my iBook, it JustWorked (tm).
The Coke/Pepsi stuff sux, but at least they are equal competitors. If Coke had 95% of the market, Pepsi would be dead and we'd all be drinking "New Coke".
The Coke/Pepsi stuff sux, but at least Coke & Pepsi are equal competitors. If Coke had 95% of the market, Pepsi drinkers would be SOL, and Coke would have stayed with the crappy "New Coke" that they made in the 80's.
People who doesn't want to hear it can turn the radio off or they can listen to another channel
The problem, is when someone says the "F" word or flashes a breast on what is supposed to be family time. You can't just "turn it off", because it's already happened, and your 5 year old daugher is asking questions about it. "Freedom of Speech" does not means freedom to pump filth into my living room with no restrictions. If I know that a KKK member is giving a televised speech at 9PM on Channel 66, I could make an informed choice on whether to let my kid see it. If something is thrown at me out of the blue, that informed choice is gone!
What I find most puzzeling about people who blow off energy conservation, is that it's in their own financial interests to do so. Why pay $100 a month on electric bills when you could pay $20? Why pay $40 at the pump when you could pay $20? Do these people like throwing money away?
Probably because there is no perceived benefit to conserving. You MIGHT get your electric bill down to $20 if you don't use ANY AC or electric fans - until the electric company raises its rates because its revenue is dropping. My mom used to try to conserve heating gas in the winter, but she finally decided it was too damn cold, and the bills were going up anyway, no matter how low she tried to turn it.
Where do YOU live? In my area, the grocery stores close after dark. So do the gyms that I know of. The dentist keeps strict "bankers hours", though I suppose he will finish up if his appointments last beyond 5PM. Most phone support shuts down BEFORE anyone else does (I've gotten the answering machine at 3:30PM). I'll grant you that the internet never sleeps, but everyone else sure does!
Years, months, and days are "hard-coded", but weeks, hours, minutes, and seconds are not. AFAIK, there's no reason we couldn't have 10 hours/day, 100 minutes/hour, and 100 seconds/minute. Of course seconds wouldn't be the same length as the seconds we have now (I'm too tired to calculate whether they're longer or shorter).
The problem isn't that Americans won't do the job. The problem is that companies don't want to pay a decent wage. If there is enough demand for mushrooms, the companies will maintain reasonable profits by raising their prices. If not, then that's the way the mushroom crumbles.
That's the problem. I voted Libertarian in 2004, but I'm not comfortable with the stuff I hear from them. I just want someone who will put the brakes on our current ever-growing government.
Not quite. Though he does sell pre-installed Linspire boxes, he also sells a shrink-wrapped Linspire that will install on any generic PC. With the same problems that any other Linux distro has on such hardware.
I interpreted it as "I'm very disappointed that OSX won't run on commodity hardware! But, Linspire does, so all you cheap PC users, buy Linspire right now!!!". Of course, Linspire doesn't WANT OSX on generic hardware. But, they won't mind mentioning it if it DOESN'T.
My mother wouldnt have to do timezonemath every time she tried to figure out when to call me.
She'd still have to figure out your schedule. Under UTC, I'd get home from work at midnight. If I wanted to talk with someone in London, they'd probably be asleep and snoring loudly at that time, while I had 2-3 more hours of daylight. That's true whether we both said it was midnight, or if he said it was midnight and I said it was 6PM.
No, UTC/GMT is actually British, so it's not evil like a French standard would be. But the USA still won't implement it, because the Brits are supposed to follow our standards, not vice-versa.
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I don't know about that guy's camera, but Windows wouldn't even find my damn PRINTER!! I had problems with Linux as well, but I did manage to get it working under Mandrake. Of course, when I plugged it into my iBook, it JustWorked (tm).
The Coke/Pepsi stuff sux, but at least they are equal competitors. If Coke had 95% of the market, Pepsi would be dead and we'd all be drinking "New Coke".
The Coke/Pepsi stuff sux, but at least Coke & Pepsi are equal competitors. If Coke had 95% of the market, Pepsi drinkers would be SOL, and Coke would have stayed with the crappy "New Coke" that they made in the 80's.
Yeah, but my machine ran better after I deleted them.
You're confusing software and hardware. A better analogy would be if we were stuck using x86 chips instead of the superior Alpha. Oops!
Um, have you ever viewed a Disney DVD? Commercial free, my ass!
Not for the people under the rocket!
The problem, is when someone says the "F" word or flashes a breast on what is supposed to be family time. You can't just "turn it off", because it's already happened, and your 5 year old daugher is asking questions about it. "Freedom of Speech" does not means freedom to pump filth into my living room with no restrictions. If I know that a KKK member is giving a televised speech at 9PM on Channel 66, I could make an informed choice on whether to let my kid see it. If something is thrown at me out of the blue, that informed choice is gone!
The bad thing is, some drivers will do that when you're in the RIGHT lane! Or going down a city street!!
Actually, that's the 2nd worst. THE worst is when the company refuses to make a change because they've decided to compete with you.
Um, didn't you get the sequence of events reversed?
Probably because there is no perceived benefit to conserving. You MIGHT get your electric bill down to $20 if you don't use ANY AC or electric fans - until the electric company raises its rates because its revenue is dropping. My mom used to try to conserve heating gas in the winter, but she finally decided it was too damn cold, and the bills were going up anyway, no matter how low she tried to turn it.
Where do YOU live? In my area, the grocery stores close after dark. So do the gyms that I know of. The dentist keeps strict "bankers hours", though I suppose he will finish up if his appointments last beyond 5PM. Most phone support shuts down BEFORE anyone else does (I've gotten the answering machine at 3:30PM). I'll grant you that the internet never sleeps, but everyone else sure does!
It won't affect Windows. It's broken without any DST changes.
Years, months, and days are "hard-coded", but weeks, hours, minutes, and seconds are not. AFAIK, there's no reason we couldn't have 10 hours/day, 100 minutes/hour, and 100 seconds/minute. Of course seconds wouldn't be the same length as the seconds we have now (I'm too tired to calculate whether they're longer or shorter).
What's wrrong with the spellling? It loooks goood to meee!
The problem isn't that Americans won't do the job. The problem is that companies don't want to pay a decent wage. If there is enough demand for mushrooms, the companies will maintain reasonable profits by raising their prices. If not, then that's the way the mushroom crumbles.
That's the problem. I voted Libertarian in 2004, but I'm not comfortable with the stuff I hear from them. I just want someone who will put the brakes on our current ever-growing government.
Not quite. Though he does sell pre-installed Linspire boxes, he also sells a shrink-wrapped Linspire that will install on any generic PC. With the same problems that any other Linux distro has on such hardware.
I interpreted it as "I'm very disappointed that OSX won't run on commodity hardware! But, Linspire does, so all you cheap PC users, buy Linspire right now!!!". Of course, Linspire doesn't WANT OSX on generic hardware. But, they won't mind mentioning it if it DOESN'T.
The hot blonde you see in Microsoft's pics is now 10 years older than her picture!
Nah! If Google had bought Slashdot, they would have renamed it gDot.
She'd still have to figure out your schedule. Under UTC, I'd get home from work at midnight. If I wanted to talk with someone in London, they'd probably be asleep and snoring loudly at that time, while I had 2-3 more hours of daylight. That's true whether we both said it was midnight, or if he said it was midnight and I said it was 6PM.
No, UTC/GMT is actually British, so it's not evil like a French standard would be. But the USA still won't implement it, because the Brits are supposed to follow our standards, not vice-versa.
If it's loud enough to hear, it's an annoyance! If it isn't loud enough to hear, I might miss a legitimate phone call.