my baby's got two hands my baby's got two feet my baby's got a forehead and all the chicken you can eat my baby's got two elbows my baby sure has a nose my baby she's got ten toes and my baby's got a couple of those you guys coming to the klan rally tonight? my baby drives a truck my baby sure is good luck my baby has a pet duck and my baby is a heck of a... friend yeah that's right somebody kicked my dog mavis and i'm gonna find out just who the hell it was i'm all messed up on cough syrup right now so just like never mind
It's probably not a simple matter to design a portable, secure, language-independent runtime environment. Since Microsoft has already done all of that work, why not just use it?
If you graduated HS in 98 that makes you 22 or so? No way is that too old to go to college. Hell, as the only freshman old enough to buy beer you'd probably be the most popular guy in the dorm.
Actually it's quite easy using the "open" command:
open/Applications/iTunes.app
would start iTunes for example. Another nice use for "open" is that you can give a file as the argument, and it will start your preferred handler for that file type and display it. So if you said "open file.pdf" it would show you the file in Acrobat. Much handier sometimes than mousing over to a Finder window.
I thought there was a rule that every analogy used on Slashdot had to involve a car. You know, "hood welded shut", "need to know how it works to drive it", that sort of thing. Maybe there should be a "Insipid Analogy" moderation category?
I can't believe you left out "She's the Sheriff" and "Hello, Larry"! Don't you have any taste? Or maybe these paragons of broadcasting were before your time? Learn some history!
Vulnerable teenage boys, and WSJ op-ed writers, and Federal Reserve chairmen, the list goes on. Can you imagine, there are actually grown men who believe in that Objectivist crap? They want to remake the world, in all its complexity, to fit their simple-minded theories. It's like they are perpetually two years old.
Plenty of non-geeks know what totalitarianism is, and they also know damned well that it has nothing to do with Microsoft. On the other hand, if by "geek lingo" you are referring to Slashdot-style over-the-top hyperbole then I guess I agree with you.
Fine, there is a second source like I said. All of the items that you list are proprietary, though. You think you can download AMD's or nVidia's verilog codes?
I still don't get it. An Intel box still has proprietary CPU and chipset, hell just about everything in it is proprietary. Do you really mean to say that you only buy parts with a second supplier available? Otherwise I don't see how a PC motherboard is much different than a Mac one from an "freedom" point of view.
Hmmm, so I guess the labels really do provide valuable services to the musicians after all. Perhaps they should be compensated? Nah, they're big companies, therefore evil, Evil, EVIL!
The reason that science is relatively open is that most of the research is publicly funded. Therefore, the results should be available to everyone, since everybody helped support it through tax dollars. For privately funded research such as in the pharmaceutical industry I doubt there is such full disclosure, at least not until after the patents have gone through.
It's nice that you two have found each other. I can just see the "how we met" letter to Dear Abby: "We were just reading Slashdot when we both bit on one of the oldest trolls in the book. Everyone else was smart enough to just ignore it except for us." Aww...
Of course your Slackware box is secure, as a home PC I wouldn't imagine it would be running any services whatsoever. Securing such a box is like falling off a log if you know how to edit a text file and hit shift-3 a few times.
I ssh to remote machines and tunnel the X display back to my iBook almost every single day. The port of XFree has been around for a long time, and there is a special window manager called OroborOSX that makes the X windows behave (almost) exactly like Aqua windows. This isn't required, though, you can use any other window manager of your choosing. I was even able to compile a version of ssh that includes Kerberos authentication since some of the machines I use require it. Your criticisms are way off base here.
Your criticism of RAM usage, however, is pretty much on the mark. When I had 192M things were okay but a little laggy sometimes. Since I upgraded to 576M I haven't had any problems. C'mon, RAM is cheap, just plop some in and enjoy life again.:-)
As anecdotal evidence I offer myself. I really wanted to run OS X, so I bought an iBook. If OS X had been available for Intel I'm sure I would have bought a cheaper and faster x86 lowball nightmare. I would have regretted it later that I didn't go for the solid little iBook, but I can be pretty stupid over a few hundred dollars and I'm sure I'm not alone in this regard.:-)
Which is why Apple will always be a marginal player, with marginal finances, selling to a fan club.
Yeah, so what? Apple is a very successful company, why would they mess with their formula? And I would hardly call Apple's finances marginal, they're doing at least as well as any of the PC manufacturers.
These cans are meant to concentrate the signal unidirectionally. If you put one on your dish it might amplify the signal, but only if it were aimed very precisely at the satellite. It would probably be tough to get things aligned properly, but I don't know since I've never tried it.
I'm a vegetarian, but I never talk about it other than when going out to eat with other people. Then I just tell them I don't really want to go to a rib joint or whatever. I don't get into any evangelism since I don't really care what other people eat.
Wait a minute, now here I am talking about being a vegetarian. Damn you, you were right! We really can't shut up about it!:-)
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... friend
my baby's got two hands
my baby's got two feet
my baby's got a forehead and all the chicken you can eat
my baby's got two elbows
my baby sure has a nose
my baby she's got ten toes and my baby's got a couple of those
you guys coming to the klan rally tonight?
my baby drives a truck
my baby sure is good luck
my baby has a pet duck and my baby is a heck of a
yeah that's right somebody kicked my dog mavis and i'm gonna find out just who the hell it was
i'm all messed up on cough syrup right now so just like never mind
Go into your preferences and select the "Crippling Bombshells" category.
It's probably not a simple matter to design a portable, secure, language-independent runtime environment. Since Microsoft has already done all of that work, why not just use it?
If you graduated HS in 98 that makes you 22 or so? No way is that too old to go to college. Hell, as the only freshman old enough to buy beer you'd probably be the most popular guy in the dorm.
Actually it's quite easy using the "open" command:
/Applications/iTunes.app
open
would start iTunes for example. Another nice use for "open" is that you can give a file as the argument, and it will start your preferred handler for that file type and display it. So if you said "open file.pdf" it would show you the file in Acrobat. Much handier sometimes than mousing over to a Finder window.
I thought there was a rule that every analogy used on Slashdot had to involve a car. You know, "hood welded shut", "need to know how it works to drive it", that sort of thing. Maybe there should be a "Insipid Analogy" moderation category?
Why not rebut what was actually said instead of putting words into his mouth? Battling strawmen is intellectually dishonest.
I can't believe you left out "She's the Sheriff" and "Hello, Larry"! Don't you have any taste? Or maybe these paragons of broadcasting were before your time? Learn some history!
Vulnerable teenage boys, and WSJ op-ed writers, and Federal Reserve chairmen, the list goes on. Can you imagine, there are actually grown men who believe in that Objectivist crap? They want to remake the world, in all its complexity, to fit their simple-minded theories. It's like they are perpetually two years old.
Plenty of non-geeks know what totalitarianism is, and they also know damned well that it has nothing to do with Microsoft. On the other hand, if by "geek lingo" you are referring to Slashdot-style over-the-top hyperbole then I guess I agree with you.
Fine, there is a second source like I said. All of the items that you list are proprietary, though. You think you can download AMD's or nVidia's verilog codes?
Only for text. What if you want to copy a chart from Gnumeric into Kword? Does that work? (not rhetorical, I really don't know)
I still don't get it. An Intel box still has proprietary CPU and chipset, hell just about everything in it is proprietary. Do you really mean to say that you only buy parts with a second supplier available? Otherwise I don't see how a PC motherboard is much different than a Mac one from an "freedom" point of view.
Hmmm, so I guess the labels really do provide valuable services to the musicians after all. Perhaps they should be compensated? Nah, they're big companies, therefore evil, Evil, EVIL!
The reason that science is relatively open is that most of the research is publicly funded. Therefore, the results should be available to everyone, since everybody helped support it through tax dollars. For privately funded research such as in the pharmaceutical industry I doubt there is such full disclosure, at least not until after the patents have gone through.
It's nice that you two have found each other. I can just see the "how we met" letter to Dear Abby: "We were just reading Slashdot when we both bit on one of the oldest trolls in the book. Everyone else was smart enough to just ignore it except for us." Aww...
I've already turned 5 of them.
Are you a pimp? Taking advantage of those poor girls, you should be ashamed!
What if they block all the pages that list free shell accounts?
Je voix que tu as un Webb's Wonder aujourdhui.
(apologies for undoubtedly horrendous spelling)
Of course your Slackware box is secure, as a home PC I wouldn't imagine it would be running any services whatsoever. Securing such a box is like falling off a log if you know how to edit a text file and hit shift-3 a few times.
I ssh to remote machines and tunnel the X display back to my iBook almost every single day. The port of XFree has been around for a long time, and there is a special window manager called OroborOSX that makes the X windows behave (almost) exactly like Aqua windows. This isn't required, though, you can use any other window manager of your choosing. I was even able to compile a version of ssh that includes Kerberos authentication since some of the machines I use require it. Your criticisms are way off base here.
:-)
Your criticism of RAM usage, however, is pretty much on the mark. When I had 192M things were okay but a little laggy sometimes. Since I upgraded to 576M I haven't had any problems. C'mon, RAM is cheap, just plop some in and enjoy life again.
As anecdotal evidence I offer myself. I really wanted to run OS X, so I bought an iBook. If OS X had been available for Intel I'm sure I would have bought a cheaper and faster x86 lowball nightmare. I would have regretted it later that I didn't go for the solid little iBook, but I can be pretty stupid over a few hundred dollars and I'm sure I'm not alone in this regard. :-)
Which is why Apple will always be a marginal player, with marginal finances, selling to a fan club.
Yeah, so what? Apple is a very successful company, why would they mess with their formula? And I would hardly call Apple's finances marginal, they're doing at least as well as any of the PC manufacturers.
These cans are meant to concentrate the signal unidirectionally. If you put one on your dish it might amplify the signal, but only if it were aimed very precisely at the satellite. It would probably be tough to get things aligned properly, but I don't know since I've never tried it.
I'm a vegetarian, but I never talk about it other than when going out to eat with other people. Then I just tell them I don't really want to go to a rib joint or whatever. I don't get into any evangelism since I don't really care what other people eat.
:-)
Wait a minute, now here I am talking about being a vegetarian. Damn you, you were right! We really can't shut up about it!