I really liked Memento and I think it is underappreciated in the geek community. I don't know if there is a movie that has done this previously, but it was pretty cool how he recursively programmed himself to kill Teddy. Pretty short stack, but he made good use of it:)
He may be a tool, but not for the reason you stated. Blix only said that he never found any. He never outright said that Saddam didn't have any.
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I don't think the war is necessary, but since it has began I hope it will end quickly and without too many lives lost (on any side).
I certainly hope they get Sadam with one of these strikes and spare the Iraki people the pain of having to deal with the war.
I find it very interesting how all the news channels are tripping over themselves trying to get every detail they can, as soon as they can. I can't decide whether it is so that they can get the story out or if they just want to be the top dogs (the equivalent of "first post"). I also can't keep myself from watching the news. It is in a way adictive. I abhor war, yet I am overcome with anticipation. The news media and the administration have really done a good job in getting people interested. Whether you are for or against the war, they have your attention.
enough of a rant for now...
You're looking at it the wrong way. Any thing in your mac is not garbage, but everything outside is. So if you want to get your floppy out, you through it out into the real world with the rest of the garbage...erm something like that...
I bought their 7.2 version at Best Buy. I thought it was pretty easy to install and use. Then I started having problems with packages. It would get to the point where I would install, uninstall a package, or even refresh the list of installed packages, and the rpm database would get corrupted. Being a newb, I didn't know how to recover from this other than a reinstall (the menus were screwed up, the installed packages went missing, etc.). I installed the updates and even got their updated CD in the mail (after badgering them for a couple of weeks -- which I shouldn't have had to do since they promissed it to registered users -- they sent me a used copy with visible wear). Even after all the updates, I still got a corrupted rpm database. After this third time, I gave up on Mandrake for good. Even though I haven't touched Mandrake for a few years, I still get occasional spam from them. Serves me right for registering.
Maybe they have gotten better, maybe it's just my experience, but these are my reasons for not using Mandrake.
They won't go out of their way to avoid it, they will fork over their cash because as far as they are concerned, it isn't a big deal.
Ah, but you're wrong. Who do you think those millions of !"in-the-know" ask for computer advice and support? How susceptible are they to the advice of those who are more technologically-minded? I bet you if a good deal of people got the word out that Palladium (or whatever the hell it's called now) is bad deal, then DELL might find itself selling fewer system running Palladium.
I know I wouldn't advise anyone to buy such a system, much less buy one myself. Would you?
It's because of the bullshit phrase known as Return on Investment (ROI). Somehow software companies (along with the computer magazine writers) have convinced every manager that upgrading will actually save them money. How would they do this? Why by providing a better user experience. See if we add 100 new functions and make the interface candy colored, they will save some keystrokes and find the interface so intuitive that their increased performance will more than make up for the price of the upgrade.
Skinner: Defying orders, eh? Well, I see you Scotsmen are thrifty with courage, too. Willie: Okay, Skinner, that's the last time you'll slap your Willie around. I quit!
Skinner: You did it, Nibbles. Now, chew through my ball sack.
Unfortunately, when you aren't making money on your browser, what's your incentive to compete?
Which browser are you talking about here? It couldn't be IE because Microsoft is betting the company (their words) on.NET, and I think IE will be just a tad instrumental in the success of.NET.
Likewise, I don't think anyone could doubt the incentive of Mozilla developers to make thir product better (just look at the results). Same thing for Konqueror.
Apple is on the same boat as Microsoft in a way. They want integrated apps that do no rely on the mercy of Microsoft so that they can sell their hardware. Hence, they are developping their own browser based on KHTML.
As far as I see all the major browsers are being competitive and providing the features deemed important to their goals (i.e. Microsoft doesn't gain anything by blocking popups in IE -- on the contrary it wants companies to use and sanction IE when they see that they can shove their crap on us more easily).
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I was just reading the stats on CNN and the shuttle was built in 1978 (first flew in 1981). I wonder if it even had some escape pod (or something similar). It's about time they took some money away from jet fighters that kill people and spend it for some safer, new shuttles to save people.
Then they expect a month of bugfixing to make up for over 100 months of bugmaking.
No they don't. That's what the next version is for. How do you expect them to make money if you have a relatively perfect (from the consumer viewpoint -- tons of features already + secure) OS.
OpenBSD is pretty successful for its stated goal -- security -- likewise Microsoft is even more successful for its own purpose. No use in comparing until you have an OS that truly does both (sorry OS X is not there). I would venture and say that Windows is closer to being secure than OpenBSD is to being useful to the general public.
Actually this is pretty easy if your keyboard is configured properly in X. You need to have it set to using a pc104 keyboard instead of the standard pc101. After that, mapping the key in the KDE shortcuts menu works beautifully.
It's still messed up. You have to use the Winkey + something (instead of just Winkey) to bring up the menu of applications, and even then it opens up on the location of the cursor (not on top of the K). This is from 3.0.1, I don't know if they've changed more recently.
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I really liked Memento and I think it is underappreciated in the geek community. I don't know if there is a movie that has done this previously, but it was pretty cool how he recursively programmed himself to kill Teddy. Pretty short stack, but he made good use of it :)
Take a look at the number of replies on this story and then see if the "Stuff that matters" part is satisfied.
I don't think the war is necessary, but since it has began I hope it will end quickly and without too many lives lost (on any side).
I certainly hope they get Sadam with one of these strikes and spare the Iraki people the pain of having to deal with the war.
I find it very interesting how all the news channels are tripping over themselves trying to get every detail they can, as soon as they can. I can't decide whether it is so that they can get the story out or if they just want to be the top dogs (the equivalent of "first post"). I also can't keep myself from watching the news. It is in a way adictive. I abhor war, yet I am overcome with anticipation. The news media and the administration have really done a good job in getting people interested. Whether you are for or against the war, they have your attention. enough of a rant for now...
Hasn't about:config been there for a while?
Your computer comes with users???
You're looking at it the wrong way. Any thing in your mac is not garbage, but everything outside is. So if you want to get your floppy out, you through it out into the real world with the rest of the garbage...erm something like that...
Microsoft has been doing this for ages
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Here's my experience...
I bought their 7.2 version at Best Buy. I thought it was pretty easy to install and use. Then I started having problems with packages. It would get to the point where I would install, uninstall a package, or even refresh the list of installed packages, and the rpm database would get corrupted. Being a newb, I didn't know how to recover from this other than a reinstall (the menus were screwed up, the installed packages went missing, etc.). I installed the updates and even got their updated CD in the mail (after badgering them for a couple of weeks -- which I shouldn't have had to do since they promissed it to registered users -- they sent me a used copy with visible wear). Even after all the updates, I still got a corrupted rpm database. After this third time, I gave up on Mandrake for good. Even though I haven't touched Mandrake for a few years, I still get occasional spam from them. Serves me right for registering.
Maybe they have gotten better, maybe it's just my experience, but these are my reasons for not using Mandrake.
From PC Magazine, February 14, 2003
I know I wouldn't advise anyone to buy such a system, much less buy one myself. Would you?
Here is the actual interview
It's because of the bullshit phrase known as Return on Investment (ROI). Somehow software companies (along with the computer magazine writers) have convinced every manager that upgrading will actually save them money. How would they do this? Why by providing a better user experience. See if we add 100 new functions and make the interface candy colored, they will save some keystrokes and find the interface so intuitive that their increased performance will more than make up for the price of the upgrade.
Yes, but what we didn't tell them is that their power consumption increased one hundred-fold...mauhahahaha
I was just reading the stats on CNN and the shuttle was built in 1978 (first flew in 1981). I wonder if it even had some escape pod (or something similar). It's about time they took some money away from jet fighters that kill people and spend it for some safer, new shuttles to save people.
No they don't. That's what the next version is for. How do you expect them to make money if you have a relatively perfect (from the consumer viewpoint -- tons of features already + secure) OS.
OpenBSD is pretty successful for its stated goal -- security -- likewise Microsoft is even more successful for its own purpose. No use in comparing until you have an OS that truly does both (sorry OS X is not there). I would venture and say that Windows is closer to being secure than OpenBSD is to being useful to the general public.
*cue deep, addicted-cow voice*
T-O-M-A-C-C-O
I cut off its head (er), don't you know that's how immortals die.
There can be only one.
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