I kind of like mail-in rebates. I've never NOT gotten a rebate back--maybe I'm a master form-filler--and it always seems like a getting money in the mail when I get the rebate back.
I guess that sounds kind of stupid. But I likes it.
Yeah, I found a packagebuild for it on the Arch Linux messageboard yesterday, too. A client of mine needed it because he's typesetting an academic music book with lilypond and LaTeX
I just think it's absurd that a scientific institution will censor science in the interest of not insulting anti-scientific people. It's like the NAACP not holding events because they don't want to offend the KKK. Creationists don't get worried about offending people who believe in evolution.
I mean, there ARE opposing viewpoints. Creationists don't hold back. It's been the same way politically with right vs. left. The left pulls all their punches because they want to please everyone, and all that happens is they end up looking like weasely liars.
The destinction I think you might be missing about a community is that it's as big as it is. So it IS a standard, within the US. The metric system is a standard as well. If, on a global scale, the United States were to enforce lbs/mi, then you might argue against it.
It's definitely not the World Wide standard. Microsoft, I'm sure, has internal coding standards, and I'm sure.NET follows standards. But.NET is not "a standard" on the World Wide Web.
Catch my drift?
Oh, and "the US government, the US population, and US corporations" is not easily analogous to "Microsoft, the company." Maybe you should pick a better footing from which to snipe, home-bot.
Even though it sounds a little tinfoil-hattish, the fact that a non-standards compliant web browser dominates the market might have a whole heck of a lot to do with all those web pages that don't follow standards, and rather choose to be compatible with IE.
Wn Mexico la corrupcion y falta de recursos endemicos deberian forzar a toda la gente con conciencia a implementar soluciones basadas en software gratuito y libre.
No se desanime, la idea es la correcta, echele ganas y haga caso de los comentarios constructivos.
Ahem... In Mexico corruption and a lack of endemic resources should force everyone with a concience to implement solutions based on free and open software.
Don't get discouraged. It's the right idea, give it your all and pay heed to constructive comments.
I really think it's funny how quick people are to utterly debase another viewpoint if they feel threatened. That goes for both sides, but especially anyone in a traditionally stable situation, such as a proponent of hard libraries.
Did anybody see the Back in Black on last night's Daily Show? It was a really funny dissertation on how FOX has regular FOX with all the horrible, immoral programs, and FOX news, where they get upset about them.
To paraphrase: "I hope the fine upstanding people at FOX really stick it to the morally bankrupt people at FOX!"
I would agree. The best tool is to swindle relatively resourceful a non-geek into being your guinea pig, install Linux for them, teach them a couple things, and leave until they call you.
It might be interesting to show people a dual-boot system with Windows XP, so when they complain about Linux loading slowly, they can eat it. Especially P3s with 256MB RAM.
I would use Ubuntu. Based on Debian, and easy to use out of the box. I have an unsettled grudge with them, but they're the most viable option I've used. I haven't used Libranet. I would avoid RPMs.
Gnome is great with its desktop and ability to automount drives, extensive plugins and easy themeability.
XFCE4 is very lightweight and well-integrated. If not, a well-configured ROX environment running on a WM that integrates well (like PekWM, Openbox) would be sufficient.
Openoffice is bulky, but it's parallel to MS Office. I would use it.
Firefox. Maybe there are lighter weight browsers, I just like firefox. Java VM and Flash install are all but required for modern browsing.
Evolution is a snazzy mail-client, but I think it might be better to go a lighter weight route. Thunderbird is great.
I actually think if you told people you had the desire to kill people, and requested help, you'd be more likely to get it than if you requested help for your problem with sexuality and children.
I only think it's no big deal because it doesn't weigh me down. What weighed me down was the guilt. I'm not talking about removing all punishment for breaking societal moors, but we seem to not care about the children once they've been molested. Child molesters tend to be molested children, and we're neglecting to take care of the future of our society before they turn into criminals.
If you tell a child that he's been fucked up for the rest of his life, he will be fucked up for the rest of his life. The power of suggestion is stronger than you think.
And stop assuming things. It makes you sound crazy.
First off, it's odd that the parent here wasn't modded just a wee bit flame-bait.
Here it goes: The problem with society's views on child pornography and child sexual abuse truly do little to stop it. Sure, you can catch someone who has abused a child, but that doesn't make that child's life any better.
As an experiment, tell your girlfriend or wife (or mother or friend or boss), "I have a serious problem, and I need help. Although I have never touched a minor, I desire sex with them." Would that result in any more than goodbye girlfriend, goodbye wife, goodbye job, goodbye friendship?
There is such an air of shame surrounding it. There is always a desire to return to traumatic experiences and relive them so that you can work through them. This is why people tend to get into relationships that mirror their parents' relationship.
What causes the most damage to abused children is the shame and blame society places on them. Not the act. I was abused as a child and in my teenage years I conciously took it upon myself to work through my shame and guilt and self-hatred by having sex with an older male (I'm a straight male. I welcome the sh*tstorm.:-)). And you know what? I figured out that it's not that big a freaking deal after all.
If people were allowed to talk about these traumatic experiences, they'd be less inclined to repeat the mistakes of their abuser(s) in the hopes of gaining some respite.
Um... Isn't it bizarre that you can just up and sue someone for offering a product that you don't have to buy? It's also not a case of an exploding television set, it's information.
Wow! And how about that war in Iraq? Did that not warp our collective little mind? I wonder if I could get out of paying child support because I only had sex because society expected me to, which is of course Fox's fault for showing the Simple Life, which is endorsing the despicable behaviour of Paris Hilton, as seen in her sex tape. It's an interesting enough sex tape, I'll tell you. It probably didn't hurt that daddy bought her a really nice camera.
I charge $50 per hour. Sometimes I give discounts, but if I charged less, it would never work. You will always be cornered into doing work for people off the clock.
Plus, I'm very worth it. I am the best home user computer tech I've met. That's not to say there aren't better people out there, but I just have a good grasp on people's home usage dilemmas.
I would tell them after the first couple of calls that phone support costs money too. You don't have to charge if they're an excellent client, but you can't be giving your time away for no reciprocation.
I also really tell people sometimes that I can't fix their computer if they're using AOL/McAffee/Norton Antivirus. I tell them that I'll get it working, but it will only break again. Tell your people that they need to get a real broadband connection, and have that be that.
Overcharging is impossible for an optional service. You can say something like, "I'll charge you x dollars per phone minute or xx per hour on site. Sorry, I'm very busy."
For spyware protection I do:
Firefox, made default browser (I install Flash and Java, which takes care of most complaints about Firefox)
Spywareblaster, everything enabled
Spybot, Immunize, enable advanced tools and add Spybot's hosts list to the hosts file
Ad-Aware
IESpyAds, I add the main list and the adult website list to the registry
Did anyone else notice the choice of screenshot? The prominent news items in the view:
Gates Promises Interoperable Software Spoofing Flaw Found in Non-IE Browsers MSN Counters iTunes With Free Songs And a featured story about Microsoft Genuine Advantage Program
Slashdot Mirror
Really, read that whole "split the difference" part.
(1,000,000 + 10) / 2 = 500,005
So his math isn't really off at all, considering that he hasn't cashed the check they already sent him.
Wow! That was just like reading that story about the FBI cracking the wireless network, only boring!
Wow!
When does the fun start?
I kind of like mail-in rebates. I've never NOT gotten a rebate back--maybe I'm a master form-filler--and it always seems like a getting money in the mail when I get the rebate back.
I guess that sounds kind of stupid. But I likes it.
WOW!
Where are the pictures?
NEAT!
*gets back to work*
Yeah, I found a packagebuild for it on the Arch Linux messageboard yesterday, too. A client of mine needed it because he's typesetting an academic music book with lilypond and LaTeX
I just think it's absurd that a scientific institution will censor science in the interest of not insulting anti-scientific people. It's like the NAACP not holding events because they don't want to offend the KKK. Creationists don't get worried about offending people who believe in evolution.
I mean, there ARE opposing viewpoints. Creationists don't hold back. It's been the same way politically with right vs. left. The left pulls all their punches because they want to please everyone, and all that happens is they end up looking like weasely liars.
The destinction I think you might be missing about a community is that it's as big as it is. So it IS a standard, within the US. The metric system is a standard as well. If, on a global scale, the United States were to enforce lbs/mi, then you might argue against it.
.NET follows standards. But .NET is not "a standard" on the World Wide Web.
It's definitely not the World Wide standard. Microsoft, I'm sure, has internal coding standards, and I'm sure
Catch my drift?
Oh, and "the US government, the US population, and US corporations" is not easily analogous to "Microsoft, the company." Maybe you should pick a better footing from which to snipe, home-bot.
I think it can definitely be defined as "a non-proprietary agreement among the members of a field"
...you might be a standard
...you might be a standard
...you might be a standard
...you might be a standard
...you might be a standard
:)
The whole non-proprietary thing rules Microsoft out of claiming that almost anything they do is a standard. To put it another way:
If people don't have to pay to use you...
If you are agreed upon by the majority of members of a community...
If you aren't controlled and owned by a single entity...
If you aren't used as a tool to squash competition...
If you don't by design benefit only one party in the community, against the will of others...
Capiche?
Even though it sounds a little tinfoil-hattish, the fact that a non-standards compliant web browser dominates the market might have a whole heck of a lot to do with all those web pages that don't follow standards, and rather choose to be compatible with IE.
I think the number of people who care about IE are just under 90% of the browser market, and anyone who might fix their computer (another 6-7%).
So maybe a few people.
(sarcasm)
We can recolorize all the black actors in all the movies! Will Smith was always a tad too swarthy to for me...
Alas, we've reached Mr. Jackson a tad too late.
(/sarcasm)
DVD-WOM
ha!
Wn Mexico la corrupcion y falta de recursos endemicos deberian forzar a toda la gente con conciencia a implementar soluciones basadas en software gratuito y libre.
No se desanime, la idea es la correcta, echele ganas y haga caso de los comentarios constructivos.
Ahem...
In Mexico corruption and a lack of endemic resources should force everyone with a concience to implement solutions based on free and open software.
Don't get discouraged. It's the right idea, give it your all and pay heed to constructive comments.
(para aquellos que no hablan espanol)
Ea, ea! Animo!
I really think it's funny how quick people are to utterly debase another viewpoint if they feel threatened. That goes for both sides, but especially anyone in a traditionally stable situation, such as a proponent of hard libraries.
Did anybody see the Back in Black on last night's Daily Show? It was a really funny dissertation on how FOX has regular FOX with all the horrible, immoral programs, and FOX news, where they get upset about them.
To paraphrase:
"I hope the fine upstanding people at FOX really stick it to the morally bankrupt people at FOX!"
I would agree. The best tool is to swindle relatively resourceful a non-geek into being your guinea pig, install Linux for them, teach them a couple things, and leave until they call you.
Then you'll know.
It might be interesting to show people a dual-boot system with Windows XP, so when they complain about Linux loading slowly, they can eat it. Especially P3s with 256MB RAM.
I would use Ubuntu. Based on Debian, and easy to use out of the box. I have an unsettled grudge with them, but they're the most viable option I've used. I haven't used Libranet. I would avoid RPMs.
Gnome is great with its desktop and ability to automount drives, extensive plugins and easy themeability.
XFCE4 is very lightweight and well-integrated. If not, a well-configured ROX environment running on a WM that integrates well (like PekWM, Openbox) would be sufficient.
Openoffice is bulky, but it's parallel to MS Office. I would use it.
Firefox. Maybe there are lighter weight browsers, I just like firefox. Java VM and Flash install are all but required for modern browsing.
Evolution is a snazzy mail-client, but I think it might be better to go a lighter weight route. Thunderbird is great.
The GIMP
Inkscape
I actually think if you told people you had the desire to kill people, and requested help, you'd be more likely to get it than if you requested help for your problem with sexuality and children.
I only think it's no big deal because it doesn't weigh me down. What weighed me down was the guilt. I'm not talking about removing all punishment for breaking societal moors, but we seem to not care about the children once they've been molested. Child molesters tend to be molested children, and we're neglecting to take care of the future of our society before they turn into criminals.
If you tell a child that he's been fucked up for the rest of his life, he will be fucked up for the rest of his life. The power of suggestion is stronger than you think.
And stop assuming things. It makes you sound crazy.
First off, it's odd that the parent here wasn't modded just a wee bit flame-bait.
:-)). And you know what? I figured out that it's not that big a freaking deal after all.
Here it goes:
The problem with society's views on child pornography and child sexual abuse truly do little to stop it. Sure, you can catch someone who has abused a child, but that doesn't make that child's life any better.
As an experiment, tell your girlfriend or wife (or mother or friend or boss), "I have a serious problem, and I need help. Although I have never touched a minor, I desire sex with them." Would that result in any more than goodbye girlfriend, goodbye wife, goodbye job, goodbye friendship?
There is such an air of shame surrounding it. There is always a desire to return to traumatic experiences and relive them so that you can work through them. This is why people tend to get into relationships that mirror their parents' relationship.
What causes the most damage to abused children is the shame and blame society places on them. Not the act. I was abused as a child and in my teenage years I conciously took it upon myself to work through my shame and guilt and self-hatred by having sex with an older male (I'm a straight male. I welcome the sh*tstorm.
If people were allowed to talk about these traumatic experiences, they'd be less inclined to repeat the mistakes of their abuser(s) in the hopes of gaining some respite.
So I might conclude: YOUR opinion doesn't count.
Um... Isn't it bizarre that you can just up and sue someone for offering a product that you don't have to buy? It's also not a case of an exploding television set, it's information.
Wow! And how about that war in Iraq? Did that not warp our collective little mind? I wonder if I could get out of paying child support because I only had sex because society expected me to, which is of course Fox's fault for showing the Simple Life, which is endorsing the despicable behaviour of Paris Hilton, as seen in her sex tape. It's an interesting enough sex tape, I'll tell you. It probably didn't hurt that daddy bought her a really nice camera.
Anyway, Paris Hilton made me kill my mother.
Try posting something remotely conservative on either site and you'll see what I mean.
YO MAMA!
I just whip out the can of technical information as to why they are responsible for using Windows and not a superior operating system. :-)
I charge $50 per hour. Sometimes I give discounts, but if I charged less, it would never work. You will always be cornered into doing work for people off the clock.
Plus, I'm very worth it. I am the best home user computer tech I've met. That's not to say there aren't better people out there, but I just have a good grasp on people's home usage dilemmas.
Also, 50 dollars is really reasonable. Really.
I would tell them after the first couple of calls that phone support costs money too. You don't have to charge if they're an excellent client, but you can't be giving your time away for no reciprocation.
I also really tell people sometimes that I can't fix their computer if they're using AOL/McAffee/Norton Antivirus. I tell them that I'll get it working, but it will only break again. Tell your people that they need to get a real broadband connection, and have that be that.
Overcharging is impossible for an optional service. You can say something like, "I'll charge you x dollars per phone minute or xx per hour on site. Sorry, I'm very busy."
For spyware protection I do:
Firefox, made default browser
(I install Flash and Java, which takes care of most complaints about Firefox)
Spywareblaster, everything enabled
Spybot, Immunize, enable advanced tools and add Spybot's hosts list to the hosts file
Ad-Aware
IESpyAds, I add the main list and the adult website list to the registry
If they're really bad, Microsoft Antispyware.
Did anyone else notice the choice of screenshot? The prominent news items in the view:
Gates Promises Interoperable Software
Spoofing Flaw Found in Non-IE Browsers
MSN Counters iTunes With Free Songs
And a featured story about Microsoft Genuine Advantage Program
I know the market is Microsoft-heavy, but wow.