Well, there's an activity I know makes you loose lots of calories while still being really enjoyable, it's simply to have sex with your SO (or anybody else's SO for that matter).
The only trouble I see is that geeks don't get laid often, and practising Virtual Valerie won't help you get any better.
Even if you are reading several mailinglists you don't easily get over 1 GB of mail. Even my 2-3 year Bugtraq archive is just ~130 MB in size.
Lucky man ! So you don't have a whole population of parasits at work, spending most of their time forwarding (and even designing for the brightest ones) unfunny powerpoint documents to their whole addressbook ?
Or perhaps you are The True Geek and have no friends. I feel your pain buddy.
The United States is supposed to be the leader of the free world, the country the rest of the world looks to for morality.
At least in this part of Europe, the United States are seen like a coutry where money and corporatism take the lead, far more than morality. Moreover, war exactions (e.g. in Vietnam) and dubious alliances aren't exactely forgotten. So yes, USA is a big great country, an economical leader, but it's not really seen as an example to follow. Not here.
Yeah, kill all your good bacteria friends, throw the bleached water in the environment, and kill more good bacteria/animals/whatever friends. Way to go man !
Nope, the preferences don't allow gaim to stop popping up the current chat window and stealing the focus. And when the DSL line disconnects/reconnects, that's a festival of windows just to tell gaim lost and found again the network. Pathetic.
That's nice, I hope they'll take GnomeMeeting's UI as an example. Gaim'UI sucks big time : it has tons of windows opening for no reason, taking the focus (and the keyboard input) from what you were previously doing. Way too much intrusive if you ask me.
So, in other words, they can play their old Amiga games on it... if they can convince the makers to come out of retirement and port them.
No they can't. Even if they had access to source, all games were written in assembly and directly hit the hardware (the famous blitter and copper), most of them didn't even use the filesystem and had a custom trackloader on-disk.
Even if the AmigaOS was quite good, directly programming the Amiga hardware was a joy and was really the preferred way of coding. Aaah, those were the days...
After pulling a no-show with nearly 100 participants planned (most of whom are in a position to make purchasing decisions), we are certainly going to be taking any claims regarding customer service with a sizable grain of salt.
That's not his fault. The scheduling features in Evolution 1.5 are still a but buggy sometimes, maybe he'll show up next week...
I want the original music !!!
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There was *one* thing I was reaally missing in the first film: the music. Before entering the cinema, I thought I'll hear some kind of remixed spiderman music (like in MI2), but I was very disappointed. Music is really part of my memories about the cartoon (yeah, I know, you couldn't hear it in the comics. Whatever).
Before we get this important feature Linux cannot make serious inroads in the corporate desktop market.
I can't remember how many times random assholes have said this sentence (and have been modded +5 Insightful). Please understand this: Linux is currently making it to the corparate desktop, wether or not it supports your pet feature.
If anything, Linux is worse. Linus has stated numerous times he makes no effort whatsoever to retain binary compatibility even between minor point releases of the kernel.
You're just lying. Linus said he doesn't care about kernel drivers binary compatibility (i.e. NVidia). The kernel developpers do every effort to keep userspace compatibility though, I even remember some performance enhancements have been withdrawn because they were slightly incompatible with some obscure application (e.g. running child first right after fork).
Of course, the other path is that the PC is removed from the entertainment picture and consoles take over that role completely (woe be that day).
There's no obligation for the game development to fit into the OSS model. Games can continue to be proprietary if they simply intall and run fairly under Linux.
As most of you know, it's been done already for ages, using pigeons instead of motorbikes. The IP-over-Pigeons technology even has itw own RFC, which of course predates the implementation. Talk about a mature technology !
The gist is this: the X designers were faced with the choice of whether selecting text would copy it to a buffer or would merely mark it as selected. All window systems which were designed with a human user in mind would have found it a no-brainer -- copy the text to an internal buffer, since that's what the user intuitively expects.
Does Windows count as a system designed with a human user in mind ? Well, the OLE clipboard (used by all MSOffice components) is exactely like that: content is just marked, and negociated at paste time between applications. Only when the app "owning the selection" exits, it copies its content into the legacy clipboard in a degraded format.
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The only trouble I see is that geeks don't get laid often, and practising Virtual Valerie won't help you get any better.
Lucky man ! So you don't have a whole population of parasits at work, spending most of their time forwarding (and even designing for the brightest ones) unfunny powerpoint documents to their whole addressbook ?
Or perhaps you are The True Geek and have no friends. I feel your pain buddy.
This single utopic sentence should have told you it's only unrealistic babble.
What if they're less archaic than us and got rid of religion centuries ago ? Then we'll let them where they are and claim they simply don't exist.
Yeah, that was the "fourth solution" : aliens are a bit less archaic than us and got rid of religions eons ago.
At least in this part of Europe, the United States are seen like a coutry where money and corporatism take the lead, far more than morality. Moreover, war exactions (e.g. in Vietnam) and dubious alliances aren't exactely forgotten. So yes, USA is a big great country, an economical leader, but it's not really seen as an example to follow. Not here.
Yeah, kill all your good bacteria friends, throw the bleached water in the environment, and kill more good bacteria/animals/whatever friends. Way to go man !
Well, I'm sure that with such a quantity you could deal a bit and pay only $1000000 or something like that.
Could some sensitive clod convert these to American Units please ? What does 15km and 154000 watts mean in miles and libraries of congress ?
Otherwise Gaim is great.
That's nice, I hope they'll take GnomeMeeting's UI as an example. Gaim'UI sucks big time : it has tons of windows opening for no reason, taking the focus (and the keyboard input) from what you were previously doing. Way too much intrusive if you ask me.
Now *that*'s what I call a karma whore !
No they can't. Even if they had access to source, all games were written in assembly and directly hit the hardware (the famous blitter and copper), most of them didn't even use the filesystem and had a custom trackloader on-disk. Even if the AmigaOS was quite good, directly programming the Amiga hardware was a joy and was really the preferred way of coding. Aaah, those were the days ...
That's not his fault. The scheduling features in Evolution 1.5 are still a but buggy sometimes, maybe he'll show up next week ...
There was *one* thing I was reaally missing in the first film: the music. Before entering the cinema, I thought I'll hear some kind of remixed spiderman music (like in MI2), but I was very disappointed. Music is really part of my memories about the cartoon (yeah, I know, you couldn't hear it in the comics. Whatever).
Well, running a GPL firmware has advantages. Archos users who do that benefit from more features, more stability than with the original firmware.
Of those. That's not a "Linux Beowulf cluster", that's a "Beowulf cluster of those".
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I can't remember how many times random assholes have said this sentence (and have been modded +5 Insightful). Please understand this: Linux is currently making it to the corparate desktop, wether or not it supports your pet feature.
Oh my ! That's the Soviet Russia signature of the week for /. !
You're just lying. Linus said he doesn't care about kernel drivers binary compatibility (i.e. NVidia). The kernel developpers do every effort to keep userspace compatibility though, I even remember some performance enhancements have been withdrawn because they were slightly incompatible with some obscure application (e.g. running child first right after fork).
+5 Funny ? Should have been modded Insightful IHMO. Giving its 5mn of fame to someone without any social skill is a great, great present !
There's no obligation for the game development to fit into the OSS model. Games can continue to be proprietary if they simply intall and run fairly under Linux.
As most of you know, it's been done already for ages, using pigeons instead of motorbikes. The IP-over-Pigeons technology even has itw own RFC, which of course predates the implementation. Talk about a mature technology !
Does Windows count as a system designed with a human user in mind ? Well, the OLE clipboard (used by all MSOffice components) is exactely like that: content is just marked, and negociated at paste time between applications. Only when the app "owning the selection" exits, it copies its content into the legacy clipboard in a degraded format.
What ? No beer ?