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The beginning seemed a lot like return of the jedi to me. Neo in a coma, Han frozen in carbonite. Leia negotiating with Jabba, Trinity negotiating with the frenchmen (while he was laughing a corny laugh like old Jabba). Neo meeting with the machine emporer while Morpheus at al fight the machines down on the forest moon of endor.
I'm not sure which is more silly, the ewoks or those APU's, these heavily armed war machines that leave the operator completely exposed.
They do, just that they use Microsoft's standards not the W3C standards. Everyone knows that open standards are like a virus and should be avoided at all costs, right?
In all fairness I think Bush should be reelected because it'll be a terrible burden for any other administration to have to deal with the inherited mess of Bush's making.
Yeah, because the lives of a few thousand of your own soldiers as well as the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis is a small price to pay to avoid having some other politician's career tainted by Bush's legacy.
Vote for Bush: we don't want to make some other politician look bad.
Well I guess my bigest problem with isn't how bad it was, just how good it could have been. Episode I had the best light saber battle of any of the star wars movies. But I have to sit through that kid saying "Yippee" and Jar Jar being, well Jar Jar.
A lot of people didn't like the pod race scene, but I kinda liked it. But I wish I didn't have to suffer through the annoying commentary by that 2-headed alien. "I don't care what universe you're from that's gotta hurt"? Come on. Am I supposed to find that scene funny or am I supposed to be concerned for the yippee kid or what? It's hard to be cool and cheesy-funny at the same time.
I really enjoyed the obi-wan vs. jango fette battle in ep. II but I hated having to sit through the crappy high school play that was the anikan/padme lave story.
Then I watch the orignal movies and see all the cool stuff without all the lameness (well there were ewoks in the last one, I guess). That's the Star wars I've been expecting all these years. It's pretty frustrating when you are expecting something from a movie, and you're only shown a glimpse of what you want before it cuts to something else that's extremely lame.
It's sort of like when you're watching a sports game and the player drops the ball in a key play in the final game. You curse him out don't you? Yeah that player might have been instrumental in getting your team to the finals but he could have been a champ if he just didn't screw up the final play.
People are pissed at George Lucas not just because he dropped the ball, but because he dropped the ball when he was so close to being the champ.
Too transparent... someone inside sees you vote for the "wrong" candidate and a gang outside beats the shit out of you. We have a secret ballot for a reason you know.
I think if you have Microsoft's installer already installed on your system you can run.msi files to install. Maybe Microsoft wants to get away from having every damn thing you download being an exe file?
Yeah suppliers don't have to supply Walmart if they don't want to. If they don't mind losing 50% or more of their sales. Which would mean they're at best gonna have to lay off most of their workforce, and at worst go out of business. yeah great choice.
Walmart is what's called a monopsonistic buyer. Maybe you outta look up that term and find out why its bad. If you're lazy here's one of the first results google returned.
Yup... My mum uses debian linux. If you ever asked her what OS she uses she probably wouldn't know. I installed Gnome, put links to firebird, evolution and abiword on the desktop. Renamed them to "Internet Browser", "Email", and "Word Processor". Then I set up Nautilus to open things with a single-click instead of a double click (she still hasn't mastered that yet).
I was meaning to explain to her the differences between linux and windows, but before I was able to she must've booted to Linux instead of Windows (it was the first option in grub). She was using it before I even explained how it was different.
My history isn't that good, but Hitler and Stalin were never friends. The first group the nazis killed were the communists. Stalin wanted to go to war against Hitler's Germany when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia (yeah I know I spelled it wrong). But the Soviet Union was incapable of taking on Germany alone at that time and needed support from France and Britain. Instead, Britain and France opted for "Peace in Our Time". Whether they were being cowardly in appeasing Hitler, or just buying time to prepare for the inevitable war is open to debate.
After Czechoslovakia, the Soviets knew that they could not count on the support of Britain and France for help. So Stalin made a secret Alliance to split Poland with Hitler, so that Hitler would leave them alone for a while. Hitler's plan was to take out France and Britain and then turn around and attack Stalin. Stalin's plan was to let the British and French occupy Hitler's time for a while so he could prepare for when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.
The Nazis took France in a matter of days, and probably would have taken Britain too if it weren't for the English Channel and Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Germany lost the Battle of Britain, and had no way to attack Britain. They knew the Red Army would soon be strong enough to defeat them, so they attacked first. They were defeated by the Red Army, and lost the war.
Hitler and Stalin were always enemies, and despite what you may have heard WWII was really a war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union was an interesting bit of strategy, but both sides knew it was only temporary.
Hmm... I think the themes are one of the big advatages of gnome over KDE. Yeah with KDE you can get gradient themes with opaque menus in bright rainbow colours, or whatever, but gnome has several usable themes to choose from.
Maybe I'm strange for wanting a desktop environment that cleanly displays the information I need.
Although I do wish the "simple" theme actually had toggle buttons where the checked state was different from the non-checked state. Oh well...
gnome and KDE don't run very well with only 128 MB. Windows 2000 works fine.
But its not the memory problems that bother me really. RAM is cheap.
What gets me is that gnome and KDE don't work well with 800x600 displays. Windows 2000 can work with 640x480 no problem. Try gnome or KDE at 800x600 (forget about 640x480). There are many dialogs that you can't see the buttons on the bottom because they are too big. open Nautilus, its too big for the screen.
All the developers have to do is drop their resolution down and try things out. Its not that hard to test. But I guess its just easier to require the users to purchase new monitors and video cards.
yep. I had some coworkers run up to me and ask me to come to their computer quick because they were giving away free vacations. They were only giving away a limited number and it was steadily counting down the number of free vacations left.
Even after I told them it was just a scam they didn't quite believe me. I showed the javascript in the source where it was obviously just a simple countdown timer. Still didn't really believe me.
A friend of mine told me his father was about to go to amsterdam to meet with some guy concerning some money trapped in Nigeria. Fortunately he talked to his lawyer and the lawyer and my friend eventually talked some sense into him. I dunno if he lost any money or not, as my friend was pretty embarassed about it and didn't really want to talk about it much.
maybe they aren't blacklisting sites, but they have some algorithm that automatically flags certain sites that have certain words that are used a lot on porn sites. X as in XXX, Free as in "click here for free pics" and 86 would probably appear on numbered jpegs at a porn site. And porn sites are generally popular, so something XFree{some other number} won't turn up because its not popular enough. The alogrithm probably has a certain threshold and XFree86 probably exceeded it.
Of course I'd love to hear the conspiracy theories on why MS is banning XFree86, and not any other open source projects.
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I'm not sure which is more silly, the ewoks or those APU's, these heavily armed war machines that leave the operator completely exposed.
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So is the converse true as well? ie. If your news media is completely reliant on corporate funding, would you trust their objectivity?
News media objectivity is a myth, everyone has an agenda to push.
They do, just that they use Microsoft's standards not the W3C standards. Everyone knows that open standards are like a virus and should be avoided at all costs, right?
Yeah, because the lives of a few thousand of your own soldiers as well as the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis is a small price to pay to avoid having some other politician's career tainted by Bush's legacy.
Vote for Bush: we don't want to make some other politician look bad.
But if a god never intereacts with the universe then it doesn't exist. Kinda the converse of I think therefore I am (well, sorta).
So the existence of a god makes life pointless?
Haha... would that be before or after some mysterious ribbon of energy takes him to the future to meet Picard?
A lot of people didn't like the pod race scene, but I kinda liked it. But I wish I didn't have to suffer through the annoying commentary by that 2-headed alien. "I don't care what universe you're from that's gotta hurt"? Come on. Am I supposed to find that scene funny or am I supposed to be concerned for the yippee kid or what? It's hard to be cool and cheesy-funny at the same time.
I really enjoyed the obi-wan vs. jango fette battle in ep. II but I hated having to sit through the crappy high school play that was the anikan/padme lave story.
Then I watch the orignal movies and see all the cool stuff without all the lameness (well there were ewoks in the last one, I guess). That's the Star wars I've been expecting all these years. It's pretty frustrating when you are expecting something from a movie, and you're only shown a glimpse of what you want before it cuts to something else that's extremely lame.
It's sort of like when you're watching a sports game and the player drops the ball in a key play in the final game. You curse him out don't you? Yeah that player might have been instrumental in getting your team to the finals but he could have been a champ if he just didn't screw up the final play.
People are pissed at George Lucas not just because he dropped the ball, but because he dropped the ball when he was so close to being the champ.
Too transparent... someone inside sees you vote for the "wrong" candidate and a gang outside beats the shit out of you. We have a secret ballot for a reason you know.
I think if you have Microsoft's installer already installed on your system you can run .msi files to install. Maybe Microsoft wants to get away from having every damn thing you download being an exe file?
Walmart is what's called a monopsonistic buyer. Maybe you outta look up that term and find out why its bad. If you're lazy here's one of the first results google returned.
Yeah lets fly with NASA... only cost you $800 million dollars and there is a 2% chance you die.
I was meaning to explain to her the differences between linux and windows, but before I was able to she must've booted to Linux instead of Windows (it was the first option in grub). She was using it before I even explained how it was different.
In the nuclear age, having the most powerful military in the world is like being the best boxer in a gunfight.
But... with the GBA and all the cell phones that can play games, maybe these old games could make their owners a little money.
We owe microsoft? Yeah, I'm sure the billions of dollars they've gotten from us isn't payment enough for MS-DOS.
After Czechoslovakia, the Soviets knew that they could not count on the support of Britain and France for help. So Stalin made a secret Alliance to split Poland with Hitler, so that Hitler would leave them alone for a while. Hitler's plan was to take out France and Britain and then turn around and attack Stalin. Stalin's plan was to let the British and French occupy Hitler's time for a while so he could prepare for when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.
The Nazis took France in a matter of days, and probably would have taken Britain too if it weren't for the English Channel and Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Germany lost the Battle of Britain, and had no way to attack Britain. They knew the Red Army would soon be strong enough to defeat them, so they attacked first. They were defeated by the Red Army, and lost the war.
Hitler and Stalin were always enemies, and despite what you may have heard WWII was really a war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union was an interesting bit of strategy, but both sides knew it was only temporary.
Maybe I'm strange for wanting a desktop environment that cleanly displays the information I need.
Although I do wish the "simple" theme actually had toggle buttons where the checked state was different from the non-checked state. Oh well...
But its not the memory problems that bother me really. RAM is cheap.
What gets me is that gnome and KDE don't work well with 800x600 displays. Windows 2000 can work with 640x480 no problem. Try gnome or KDE at 800x600 (forget about 640x480). There are many dialogs that you can't see the buttons on the bottom because they are too big. open Nautilus, its too big for the screen.
All the developers have to do is drop their resolution down and try things out. Its not that hard to test. But I guess its just easier to require the users to purchase new monitors and video cards.
Even after I told them it was just a scam they didn't quite believe me. I showed the javascript in the source where it was obviously just a simple countdown timer. Still didn't really believe me.
A friend of mine told me his father was about to go to amsterdam to meet with some guy concerning some money trapped in Nigeria. Fortunately he talked to his lawyer and the lawyer and my friend eventually talked some sense into him. I dunno if he lost any money or not, as my friend was pretty embarassed about it and didn't really want to talk about it much.
Of course I'd love to hear the conspiracy theories on why MS is banning XFree86, and not any other open source projects.
Dude, that would be the coolest job evar...
Maybe you might want to try actually getting your news from somewhere other than foxnews or CNN.