Yeah...this is *really* the way to go. Show them that you care enough to take the time to send them your voice from home.
For crying out loud people, leave you homes and SHOW them how many people care. I mean, thanks and all for the information but for us to be as effective as we can be, we need to have our bodies right there in their offices telling them why this is a bad thing. Enlighten the poor guy and never forget parlimentary procedure loop holes if it works to your advantage.
Does anyone find it weird that they're using Gutenburg in a phrase related to sound, not sight? Gutenburg helped end the need for everything to be said...
I agree with you completely here. The whole KDE vs Gnome "war" seems a little silly to me. Personally I just think it's a matter of tastes. At first I started out using only KDE, but then I started using gnome. I simply just preferred gnome more but never really thought about why. However, in the end, I settled for ximian gnome, which is near perfect for me. Sure, there are some issues I have with it, but that's preference and I can't whine all that much until I learn to program into it myself and make my own changes. For example, file associations: a lot of my files are unassociated with any programs automatically. That's a pain for me, being used to windows for the years and years I've used it before. What would be nice would be a windows-like file association type thing where you just have to pick the program from a menu, not have to go scouring through files and files to find the damned program. (Normally I just fire up whatever program via commandline without having a clue as to where it is and then open it, but that's a hassle). Funny thing is that I think KDE does have something like that so maybe it wouldn't be so hard to implement something like that on gnome. Being a fairly new user, if anyone can lead me in the right direction I'd be more than welcome.
Actually I think it's because the cellphones were trying to access towers on the ground directly while the wi-fi may be linking to some sort of bridge on the plane and then to the towers or satellites. That branch off might be a factor.
Nothing of value? One of the best racing games I've ever played (and I still fiend for because it's terribly hard to find on arcade) is hyperdrive. It's kinda like starfoxish racing but better than you'd expect. And the controls for it are awesome. Personally I loved that control to death and I wish more games would style their's like that. And since it's just racing, I don't really see it necessarily anymore violent then beating a ball to death with two paddles...:p
"The stuff reacts with practically every metal to form Oxygen (great for burning fuel)."
So would that mean that you'd have to have this stuff only come into contact with say...plastic tubing instead of metal pipe? How durable would something like this be?
At first I was thinking regular hydrogen peroxide, but then I was like "wait...this is the geek place, they wouldn't call it just "peroxide". If it's not x-peroxide, then it's just peroxide which is O2 which just happens to be freely available in the air as a gas. Yeah, I'm a bit confused as well.
I never had a problem with that sort of thing. My isp already allows only one ip address per (cable) line. I got around this by buying another nic card and just used internet connection sharing to get the other computers going through a nice fancy chance of servers/clients. Not sure if this thing they're talking about hits around this or not though.
I'm definitely going to have to agree with the most of you guys here in this thread. I switched to Linux-Mandrake for a brief time because I was running Windows 98 SE for a while and I just began to get hammered by blue screens. I made the choice because a friend of mine suggested I'd try it considering that if anything, I could have fun trying to learn something new. Hah! Anywho, I burned the iso's and went at it. Ran into the first problem right away. My stupid ass didn't download all of the iso's. Who would have known that an OS would take up that much space? If you've ever been to the distro's download sites, you'll see how I could have made this error if you're not used to doing it. After some tinkering, I figured out that I could install absolutely nothing except for the main stuff I'd need and the desktops interface things. Luckily this worked. I was able to download and burn the other two iso's and I went on my way giving the damned thing a full install because frankly, I didn't know what I would or would not need (ok, I did leave out the billions of language support files). So I was rolling, so I thought but I wanted to play a game. Hrm...where's the drive? So I hunt around clicking left and right and I find out that I can mount it from the desktop. Neat feature but for some reason you have to unmount it just to open the drive. Go figure. So I try running the cd and I find out that linux doesn't like exe files. Understandable, I'll give it that. But that didn't solve my problem yet. So I found out about wine and tried to give it a shot. But what's this? How do I install the bastard? RPMs and some other format. So I checked out and read that RPMs were from RedHat which wasn't my distro so I got the other version. Woops, wrong choice. Guess you can't install binaries, heh. So I was like "Hell, might as well try the RPMs." And I did, regular clicking didn't like to work so I right clicked and looked for something to run this badboy. I find it and run it, but yet another problem. Apparently wine came installed with my distro. I about died laughing because of the time wasted so far. So I had to find out where the hell this thing was. It's definitely a pain going to root/usr/ this and that and whatever. Seems like everything has its own 6 folder directory that's similar to going through a maze. "Why couldn't they just have a "Program Files" type thing like windows did" I asked myself. Knowing my luck it does have something like that and of course someone might say "read the man pages" but damn...that's a pain in the ass, I'm sorry. I'm a typical guy who tends to build things without a manual. Probably not the best thing in the world but come on, things should be easier than this to find. So I find wine and I'm trying to figure out how it works. Says I gotta type in some commands. Boy did I feel like some 1337 H4x0r in that command console. *cough* It told me that I had to make a config file but didn't tell me how. So I searched the web and found a config file I could download but I had to set things so it'd match with my system. That was quite a nightmare on its own for a guy who's never done that before. In the end I gave it up and dual partitioned my harddrive, went out, bought the win2k pro upgrade and now linux is collecting dust at the moment. The only thing that made it more bearable before I switched was Ximian Gnome. Nice interface, nice features, fairly easy to use and red carpet was a plus. Let's not forget the easy install. It was a dream. However I still couldn't play my damned game (which is tribes btw). Funny thing is, as much as people preach about stability, I've been running 2k solid ever since I bought it. Only reboots are due to power outages or cranky parents so I generally get as much uptime as I need on it, which is the same as linux. Compared to linux, win2k was far better for me. Yeah linux was stable and fast (but a horribly long boot time), but windows could do more of what I wanted it to do. If I wanted to play a game, I could. If I wanted to view a webpage that had java/flash/whatever I could use windows. For some reason I had a problem with browsers supporting various things as well. And I'm a fairly skilled user when it comes to windows. I'm not some computer illiterate who couldn't use dos or couldn't live without a mouse. And most users are confused by the concept just changing their screensaver (yeah and exaggeration but still). And they want the huge user base that windows has? Hah. Make it easier and maybe we'll consider switching. Most people don't care about configurablitly to power of infinity. They just want the damned machine to do what they want it to do and with ease.
So does that mean that now that it's mainstream the kiddies will think it's uncool and will stop doing it?;)
I never understand why these people tend to be so destructive of the net. We should be fighting "da man" or something. Not each other.
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My palms have enough purpose as it is... Patty cake you sickos, not that, I swear.
Yeah...this is *really* the way to go. Show them that you care enough to take the time to send them your voice from home. For crying out loud people, leave you homes and SHOW them how many people care. I mean, thanks and all for the information but for us to be as effective as we can be, we need to have our bodies right there in their offices telling them why this is a bad thing. Enlighten the poor guy and never forget parlimentary procedure loop holes if it works to your advantage.
Does anyone find it weird that they're using Gutenburg in a phrase related to sound, not sight? Gutenburg helped end the need for everything to be said...
I really wish I cared,only...I just dont give a google.
I agree with you completely here. The whole KDE vs Gnome "war" seems a little silly to me. Personally I just think it's a matter of tastes. At first I started out using only KDE, but then I started using gnome. I simply just preferred gnome more but never really thought about why. However, in the end, I settled for ximian gnome, which is near perfect for me. Sure, there are some issues I have with it, but that's preference and I can't whine all that much until I learn to program into it myself and make my own changes. For example, file associations: a lot of my files are unassociated with any programs automatically. That's a pain for me, being used to windows for the years and years I've used it before. What would be nice would be a windows-like file association type thing where you just have to pick the program from a menu, not have to go scouring through files and files to find the damned program. (Normally I just fire up whatever program via commandline without having a clue as to where it is and then open it, but that's a hassle). Funny thing is that I think KDE does have something like that so maybe it wouldn't be so hard to implement something like that on gnome. Being a fairly new user, if anyone can lead me in the right direction I'd be more than welcome.
Well according to the random quote at the bottom of slashdot "Your own mileage may vary."
Actually I think it's because the cellphones were trying to access towers on the ground directly while the wi-fi may be linking to some sort of bridge on the plane and then to the towers or satellites. That branch off might be a factor.
I've definitely gotta see their game server! Their page server didn't even drop to its knees due to the slashdot effect.
Agreed. I think I'd have to bow down to a woman like that but then again, she might be the type to kick my ass for it...
Who isn't into role playing? See, there was this one time when I was a nurse...oh wait...
Just to add: Those stats are for d&d/masquerade type stuff, not necessarily related to the actual game (but more than likely based from it).
Where can I find this new fake fire stuff?
Nothing of value? One of the best racing games I've ever played (and I still fiend for because it's terribly hard to find on arcade) is hyperdrive. It's kinda like starfoxish racing but better than you'd expect. And the controls for it are awesome. Personally I loved that control to death and I wish more games would style their's like that. And since it's just racing, I don't really see it necessarily anymore violent then beating a ball to death with two paddles... :p
"The stuff reacts with practically every metal to form Oxygen (great for burning fuel)." So would that mean that you'd have to have this stuff only come into contact with say...plastic tubing instead of metal pipe? How durable would something like this be?
At first I was thinking regular hydrogen peroxide, but then I was like "wait...this is the geek place, they wouldn't call it just "peroxide". If it's not x-peroxide, then it's just peroxide which is O2 which just happens to be freely available in the air as a gas. Yeah, I'm a bit confused as well.
...as long as it doesn't turn out to be anything like my dot com business.
I never had a problem with that sort of thing. My isp already allows only one ip address per (cable) line. I got around this by buying another nic card and just used internet connection sharing to get the other computers going through a nice fancy chance of servers/clients. Not sure if this thing they're talking about hits around this or not though.
I'm definitely going to have to agree with the most of you guys here in this thread. I switched to Linux-Mandrake for a brief time because I was running Windows 98 SE for a while and I just began to get hammered by blue screens. I made the choice because a friend of mine suggested I'd try it considering that if anything, I could have fun trying to learn something new. Hah! Anywho, I burned the iso's and went at it. Ran into the first problem right away. My stupid ass didn't download all of the iso's. Who would have known that an OS would take up that much space? If you've ever been to the distro's download sites, you'll see how I could have made this error if you're not used to doing it. After some tinkering, I figured out that I could install absolutely nothing except for the main stuff I'd need and the desktops interface things. Luckily this worked. I was able to download and burn the other two iso's and I went on my way giving the damned thing a full install because frankly, I didn't know what I would or would not need (ok, I did leave out the billions of language support files). So I was rolling, so I thought but I wanted to play a game. Hrm...where's the drive? So I hunt around clicking left and right and I find out that I can mount it from the desktop. Neat feature but for some reason you have to unmount it just to open the drive. Go figure. So I try running the cd and I find out that linux doesn't like exe files. Understandable, I'll give it that. But that didn't solve my problem yet. So I found out about wine and tried to give it a shot. But what's this? How do I install the bastard? RPMs and some other format. So I checked out and read that RPMs were from RedHat which wasn't my distro so I got the other version. Woops, wrong choice. Guess you can't install binaries, heh. So I was like "Hell, might as well try the RPMs." And I did, regular clicking didn't like to work so I right clicked and looked for something to run this badboy. I find it and run it, but yet another problem. Apparently wine came installed with my distro. I about died laughing because of the time wasted so far. So I had to find out where the hell this thing was. It's definitely a pain going to root/usr/ this and that and whatever. Seems like everything has its own 6 folder directory that's similar to going through a maze. "Why couldn't they just have a "Program Files" type thing like windows did" I asked myself. Knowing my luck it does have something like that and of course someone might say "read the man pages" but damn...that's a pain in the ass, I'm sorry. I'm a typical guy who tends to build things without a manual. Probably not the best thing in the world but come on, things should be easier than this to find. So I find wine and I'm trying to figure out how it works. Says I gotta type in some commands. Boy did I feel like some 1337 H4x0r in that command console. *cough* It told me that I had to make a config file but didn't tell me how. So I searched the web and found a config file I could download but I had to set things so it'd match with my system. That was quite a nightmare on its own for a guy who's never done that before. In the end I gave it up and dual partitioned my harddrive, went out, bought the win2k pro upgrade and now linux is collecting dust at the moment. The only thing that made it more bearable before I switched was Ximian Gnome. Nice interface, nice features, fairly easy to use and red carpet was a plus. Let's not forget the easy install. It was a dream. However I still couldn't play my damned game (which is tribes btw). Funny thing is, as much as people preach about stability, I've been running 2k solid ever since I bought it. Only reboots are due to power outages or cranky parents so I generally get as much uptime as I need on it, which is the same as linux. Compared to linux, win2k was far better for me. Yeah linux was stable and fast (but a horribly long boot time), but windows could do more of what I wanted it to do. If I wanted to play a game, I could. If I wanted to view a webpage that had java/flash/whatever I could use windows. For some reason I had a problem with browsers supporting various things as well. And I'm a fairly skilled user when it comes to windows. I'm not some computer illiterate who couldn't use dos or couldn't live without a mouse. And most users are confused by the concept just changing their screensaver (yeah and exaggeration but still). And they want the huge user base that windows has? Hah. Make it easier and maybe we'll consider switching. Most people don't care about configurablitly to power of infinity. They just want the damned machine to do what they want it to do and with ease.
When pogs become the next big thing. Duh.
REAL mice have four legs and a tail.
Well well... I'll admit, I do feel like a jackass right now. Guess ya learn something new everyday :p
Who the hell still uses 32mb DRAM anyway?!
So does that mean that now that it's mainstream the kiddies will think it's uncool and will stop doing it? ;)
I never understand why these people tend to be so destructive of the net. We should be fighting "da man" or something. Not each other.
Gotta love dem nice mouses. I just loooove meeses to pieces (old cartoon show, if you've seen it, you'd know) :p
You mean like the human race? *cough*