Many of the same people who could possibly be swayed by this probably haven't heard of OpenOffice.org anyway. This is free publicity.
I can't imagine anyone seriously basing their purchasing decisions off of such a document, although I'm sure someone here has an acquaintance who can disappoint my small amount of faith in humanity.
I believe that our status as a "high-tech" country caused this lack of change in TV technology. High-tech doesn't just apply to what we have in theory or in labs, it has to do with what the common person actually owns.
We have a huge installed base of TVs. Practically everyone has one or three. This is an immense amount of inertia to overcome, and it isn't conducive to rapid or frequent changes in basic technology.
Y'know, that same thought has occurred to me before. I don't watch much TV, and I find myself buying/borrowing/renting DVD sets of the few shows that I actually watch. Turns out a great number of them either air(ed) on Fox or are Fox properties. They greenlight stuff that I like! It just burns me up that they preempt these shows to death and subsequently cancel them after they give them a chance.
Perhaps the right hand doesn't agree with the left.
I originally used them not solely for their cheapness but for the dual DDR and SDR RAM slots. My company tends to be stingy about upgrading its computers and it was a lot easier to sell migrating the boxes piece by piece to the 21st century than it would be installing whole new boxes.
About the power supplies, we have had some instability on occasion with those, but, like you said, they were cheap PSs. Typically the supplies in question were the ones already installed in the boxes. The only PSs I ever install on purpose are good Antec 350W models and we haven't had a lick of trouble on any of those machines with the ECS boards.
For what it's worth, I've had nothing but good results out of my ECS K7S5As and K(7?)VTA3s. I've put in about 30 of them in my workplace to great effect.
They've been great, no-frills low-cost boards that have given good stability.
I had this problem as well. I couldn't authenticate with my company's Microsoft Proxy server.
Go to Sourceforge (or it might be Freshmeat; one of the two, but I'm in a hurry) and search for NTLM. NTLM is the authentication scheme used by this proxy. There should be a listing for some sort of NTLM proxy server there.
Download this proxy, set it up appropriately (it's simple; read the directions) and point your browser to go through your local proxy. The proxy will do the authentication for you.
It's written in Python, so you'll haveta have that installed. Other than that it is no-hassle and can be useful for other programs (Winamp mebbe?) that you might want to grant access through a passworded firewall.
Perhaps they should also shut down the phone lines to prevent people from dialing up to the internet at all. That would block "questionable sites" for a large portion of the state.
I hate kiddie porn as much as the next person, but imposing censorship over what an internet provider can deliver (only at the request of the user, keep in mind,) is a terrible thing in my view.
If this stands, it will open the door for many similar situations to arise.
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Now, for the question: Given this approach to learning Perl (just for a general working knowledge, maybe light usage,) is it really worth spending a lot of my time learning Perl now, or should I wait for the big Perl 6 revision?
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Many of the same people who could possibly be swayed by this probably haven't heard of OpenOffice.org anyway. This is free publicity.
I can't imagine anyone seriously basing their purchasing decisions off of such a document, although I'm sure someone here has an acquaintance who can disappoint my small amount of faith in humanity.
I believe that our status as a "high-tech" country caused this lack of change in TV technology. High-tech doesn't just apply to what we have in theory or in labs, it has to do with what the common person actually owns.
We have a huge installed base of TVs. Practically everyone has one or three. This is an immense amount of inertia to overcome, and it isn't conducive to rapid or frequent changes in basic technology.
Eh, it's good enough for government work ;)
Just started watching some Farscape in the last couple of days. No kidding - it's a great show, and shouldn't have been cancelled.
Incidentally, I believe it aired on the SciFi channel. I, too, am viewing on DVDs.
Y'know, that same thought has occurred to me before. I don't watch much TV, and I find myself buying/borrowing/renting DVD sets of the few shows that I actually watch. Turns out a great number of them either air(ed) on Fox or are Fox properties. They greenlight stuff that I like! It just burns me up that they preempt these shows to death and subsequently cancel them after they give them a chance.
Perhaps the right hand doesn't agree with the left.
They're really naming it Serenity to avoid being prematurely cut off during production. This would surely have happened had the name started with 'F'.
Firefly - cancelled
Family Guy - cancelled
Futurama - cancelled
Someone ought to cancel Fox.
I believe that that's 90 nm.
I thought that the K6 series was compatible with all the Intel "686" stuff.
Not that that answers why either the section or the files are mislabeled.
This doesn't necessarily imply ignorance. What better way of validating that he was the "culprit" than having him show his actions?
This isn't to say that most public school computer people aren't morons, though.
24 / 7 nerditude is either enough to make me want to dance or enough to make baby Jesus want to cry.
Maybe both.
I originally used them not solely for their cheapness but for the dual DDR and SDR RAM slots. My company tends to be stingy about upgrading its computers and it was a lot easier to sell migrating the boxes piece by piece to the 21st century than it would be installing whole new boxes.
About the power supplies, we have had some instability on occasion with those, but, like you said, they were cheap PSs. Typically the supplies in question were the ones already installed in the boxes. The only PSs I ever install on purpose are good Antec 350W models and we haven't had a lick of trouble on any of those machines with the ECS boards.
For what it's worth, I've had nothing but good results out of my ECS K7S5As and K(7?)VTA3s. I've put in about 30 of them in my workplace to great effect.
They've been great, no-frills low-cost boards that have given good stability.
That's beautiful. I wish I had mod points today.
This news forces me to reconsider how appropriate I believe the title Neverwinter Nights is.
Perhaps Eventuallywinter Nights, Finallywinter Nights, or Tookadamnlongtimewinter Nights.
Cobra.lalalalalalalalalala!
This I command!
Folks sitting around giving off gas tend to give me less hope of finding intelligent life.
Then again, I hail from Tennessee, so I see a lot of this sort of thing. Bring on the Martian trailerparks!
PPC Confirmed for Apple -> New Mac Confirmed for KoopaTroopa
from the like-evil-dead-two dept.
Does this mean that they just give up and some point and try to be shitty?
:)
in SOVIET RUSSIA, joke doesn't get YOU!
Our Moon may be small absolutely, but it was my understanding that it was HUGE for a moon of a planet Earth's size. It is, what, 1/6 of Earth's mass?
:)
Imagine a moon 1/6 of Jupiter's mass
The matter in a black hole should be condensed down to a point. The event horizon is what would be many times as large as our solar system.
:)
Such an event horizon would take a whole lot of matter
In Linux 2.4, a ...
Dude, get with the times. Linux 8.0 was just released!
(kidding)
I had this problem as well. I couldn't authenticate with my company's Microsoft Proxy server.
Go to Sourceforge (or it might be Freshmeat; one of the two, but I'm in a hurry) and search for NTLM. NTLM is the authentication scheme used by this proxy. There should be a listing for some sort of NTLM proxy server there.
Download this proxy, set it up appropriately (it's simple; read the directions) and point your browser to go through your local proxy. The proxy will do the authentication for you.
It's written in Python, so you'll haveta have that installed. Other than that it is no-hassle and can be useful for other programs (Winamp mebbe?) that you might want to grant access through a passworded firewall.
Hope this helps.
Perhaps they should also shut down the phone lines to prevent people from dialing up to the internet at all. That would block "questionable sites" for a large portion of the state.
I hate kiddie porn as much as the next person, but imposing censorship over what an internet provider can deliver (only at the request of the user, keep in mind,) is a terrible thing in my view.
If this stands, it will open the door for many similar situations to arise.
I'm a CS student who's recently become very interested in Perl along with other languages. However, I don't really have too much everyday (or even occasional) need to actually USE much Perl. I am big into learning as much as I can about it for its own sake.
:)
Now, for the question: Given this approach to learning Perl (just for a general working knowledge, maybe light usage,) is it really worth spending a lot of my time learning Perl now, or should I wait for the big Perl 6 revision?
Thanks