If King had written Jurassic Park, it would had to have taken place in Maine instead of Isla Nubla, the dinosaurs would all be zombies, and Denise Crosby would have been in the movie instead of Laura Dern.
People perjure themselves in federal court all the time, if they think they can get away with it. You only hear about it when they're caught. See, for example, Martha Stewart.
All right, I guess I'll admit I don't get this one. Soviet Russia, yeah; "3. Profit!", yeah; welcoming our new overlords, yeah. "In Japan", no. What's the joke?
The point is that the holy grail is just that: an AIM user sending a Yahoo user a message without having to get a Yahoo account.
As long as IM accounts remain free and easy to obtain, and multi-protocol clients continue to exist, the grail is somewhat less than holy. Yes, it'd be nice to use my AIM account to talk to a friend on Yahoo or MSN. Until then, I just have one of each and use Trillian.
Good point, but one gang of idiots doesn't invalidate the idea. Making the better-regarded name the public face of the company--or at least the Linux arm of the company--could only help at this point.
For me, I'll likely be giving SUSE 9.1 a try within the next couple of weeks, and it doesn't matter one whit that it's actually "Novell-SUSE" or whatever.
They really need to get to the point where people instantly think "Linux company" instead of "failed network company" when they hear the Novell name.
Perhaps Novell should pull a Network Associates or NationsBank move and change their name to SUSE (NetAss bought McAfee, changed combined company's name [recently] to McAfee because nobody knew what "Network Associates" was; NationsBank bought Bank of America, similar aftermath). If Novell wants to be taken seriously as a Linux company, taking the name of their main acquisition would be a good start.
Even more than that- the natural day clock of a human body is not 24 hours. It differs from person to person. Most people are 22-26 hours, and they can fit into a 24 hour day without much trouble. Some are as low as 20 or as high as 28, they experience significant drift and have problems.
+1 Insightful! My body clock would be quite well adapted to a 30-hour day (20 hours on, 10 off). Needless to say this makes working a regular job rather difficult. What's even worse, though, is that during this current period of unemployment, I don't have much incentive (between interviews and the like) to do my usual adjustment routine and so am now awake from 11:00 AM or noon to 4:00 or 5:00 AM.
Melatonin didn't work very well for me. My doctor prescribed Ambien, which didn't help me sleep but did bring back fond memories of my days using hallucinogenic drugs. For awhile I was taking Remeron (an antidepressant, not as strong as Prozac) and the antihistamine effect was knocking me out within 30 minutes of taking it. Unfortunately, the same effect caused me to gain 50 pounds in six months. I've changed to Wellbutrin, which doesn't have the antihistamine effect (and lost the weight) but am back to sleepless nights.
Meanwhile, those wakeful nights are at least a good time to work on my plethora of Web sites.
Ability to (more easily) view patch install history, Admin options for downloading patches for multiple OS's, not-so-obvious new method of showing you exactly what you're installing
Ability to remember that I don't fucking want Windows Messenger even though I hit "Personalize Windows Update" and deselect it every goddamned time?
you are forgetting that windows users are still stuck in the stone age with a single desktop. if they left it open, they would have to deal with minimizing and maximizing, etc.
once microsoft begins this new era of 'innovation', i'm sure it will come around to 'inventing' the multiple desktop concept. sit tight.
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Short of implanting a chip in someone's brain at birth, there is simply no way to know for sure who someone is, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Wait... you mean other people don't have chips in their brains? Why, that friendly man from the government said--just a second, there's somebody at the door.
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It's the same kind of design they put into APCs and tanks -- put the extra armor where you're most likely to get hit, then try and take any hits there. (if you're ever unfortunte enough to have to take out an APC, don't bother shooting at the front, where they have a couple extra inches of armor. Aim at the sides.)
Thus explaining the unfortunate success of Iraqi IEDs ("improvised explosive devices"), i.e. those damned roadside bombs that tend to explode as the vehicles are passing, not when they're approaching.
I checked into registering hogwarts.edu but it turns out you need to be an accredited institution of higher learning or whatever. Just as well, I suppose, as Warner Bros. would have no doubt taken it away from me.
I usually sign up with the adress of people I hate.
That's why I use cander1755@aol.com whenever possible. Yeah, I've used billg@microsoft.com and suchlike, but it's better to direct the crap at a real person who deserves it.
To install any new application in Mac OS X (as I imagine it is in Unix), the admin password must be input. Windows does not have this extra safeguard.
Untrue, if the machine in question is properly setup with user accounts and a separate administrator account. When I am in my user account in XP Pro, I need to run installations as administrator or they won't run. Now, out of the box it is true that the default user has admin privileges. That is a real problem which could be improved in the OS installation routine. Does OS X permit (or require) you to create limited user accounts during the OS installation?
as to WinXp pro. hah. ahahha.
There is no added "stability". there is no added "functionability". they did the same thing with WinXP as they did with WinME; screwed up a decent operating system by adding components that are unstable, un-necessary, and insecure.
So, haven't used it, huh?
I've seen people claim that XP runs faster than win2k. this is possible in one way, and one way only; if the software is optimized for XP.
So, haven't used it, huh?
this has been verified multiple times
By whom? I'm no Windows/Microsoft apologist. I recognize what sucks, what's insecure, what's downright dangerous. There's no reason, though, for blatant untruths and paranoia.
::choke, cough, gasp:: Did you say DOS 4?! Ugh.
DOS 3.3 was very good. 5 was okay. 6.22 was pretty good, although not being able to boot without the goddamned compression driver even if you weren't using it was a pain.
4 was just evil.
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XP Pro is essentially 2K Pro with a cleaner interface (once you turn off all the Luna crap). It's more stable and tends to boot faster on the same hardware than 2K Pro.
\\BRIE has been up for: 10 day(s), 1 hour(s), 5 minute(s), 58 second(s)
So, ten days, not too impressive when compared to six years or whatever. Still, this is a Win XP Pro installation on a new machine, and once I finished applying the numerous updates and patches, the machine just runs solidly. I close the lid (sleep) when I leave or go to bed, wake it up when I need to use it, and it just works.
And yes, it's named after cheese. In my homenet (workgroup name: WENSLEYDALE) we currently have BRIE, GLOUCESTER, and STILTON. I needed some kind of consistent naming scheme, and was tired of Middle Earth.
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If King had written Jurassic Park, it would had to have taken place in Maine instead of Isla Nubla, the dinosaurs would all be zombies, and Denise Crosby would have been in the movie instead of Laura Dern.
Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it's DULL, you twit, it'll hurt more.
All right, I guess I'll admit I don't get this one. Soviet Russia, yeah; "3. Profit!", yeah; welcoming our new overlords, yeah. "In Japan", no. What's the joke?
For me, I'll likely be giving SUSE 9.1 a try within the next couple of weeks, and it doesn't matter one whit that it's actually "Novell-SUSE" or whatever.
(Novell!)
You're damn right!
Who is the vendor that would face Microsoft and SCO?
(Novell!)
Can ya dig it?
Who's the vendor that won't cop out
when there're lawsuits and FUD all about?
(Novell!)
Right on.
You see this Novell is a bad mother--
(shut your mouth!)
But I'm talkin' about Novell!
(then we can dig it)
It's a complicated company
But no one understands it but Ray Noorda
(Novell!)
My body clock would be quite well adapted to a 30-hour day (20 hours on, 10 off). Needless to say this makes working a regular job rather difficult. What's even worse, though, is that during this current period of unemployment, I don't have much incentive (between interviews and the like) to do my usual adjustment routine and so am now awake from 11:00 AM or noon to 4:00 or 5:00 AM.
Melatonin didn't work very well for me. My doctor prescribed Ambien, which didn't help me sleep but did bring back fond memories of my days using hallucinogenic drugs. For awhile I was taking Remeron (an antidepressant, not as strong as Prozac) and the antihistamine effect was knocking me out within 30 minutes of taking it. Unfortunately, the same effect caused me to gain 50 pounds in six months. I've changed to Wellbutrin, which doesn't have the antihistamine effect (and lost the weight) but am back to sleepless nights.
Meanwhile, those wakeful nights are at least a good time to work on my plethora of Web sites.
To whoever modded this "Troll", just curious, did you think I was insulting Bush or Kerry or both?
Answering the parent post's question semi-seriously is not a "troll".
Now that would be a useful upgrade.
Updated: April 23, 2002
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I'm no Windows/Microsoft apologist. I recognize what sucks, what's insecure, what's downright dangerous. There's no reason, though, for blatant untruths and paranoia.
DOS 3.3 was very good. 5 was okay. 6.22 was pretty good, although not being able to boot without the goddamned compression driver even if you weren't using it was a pain.
4 was just evil. XP Pro is essentially 2K Pro with a cleaner interface (once you turn off all the Luna crap). It's more stable and tends to boot faster on the same hardware than 2K Pro.
And yes, it's named after cheese. In my homenet (workgroup name: WENSLEYDALE) we currently have BRIE, GLOUCESTER, and STILTON. I needed some kind of consistent naming scheme, and was tired of Middle Earth.