Not sure about some of your points, but now that Apple has hijacked CUPS, I have encountered problems with getting network printers to work between Mac and Linux hosts. In many ways, I have belatedly become something of a fan of Macs, but dealing with shared printers on a *nix network is not something Apple does well. Fortunately, I've been able to come up with my own cookbook solutions for this, but it really shouldn't be so hard.
I don't know about Yahoo, but with Gmail and others, you can set up pop or imap in Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.
Yahoo works fine. They used to charge for POP service, but they don't now. Thunderbird is great, but I've recently started using the Apple Mail.app (now that it no longer crashes/burns) to consolidate all of my email accounts without farting around with any of that webmail nonsense, and I prefer it to Tbird on my non-Linux machines.
When I was a student we still corresponded with one another using paper and ink. There was none of this fancy computerized email.
Trouble is, I often think we haven't actually gained that much. I have to shamefacedly admit I can count the number of handwritten letters I've written in the last 10 years on one hand.
I sometimes find it a bit sad that there are now generations of people who have never sent or received a letter, who will never enjoy the anticipation or sensation of sending or opening a physical paper envelope containing its handwritten missive, complete with errata and marginalia. The coffee-stains or tears, the deletions and rephrasings, in a hand which in its own way comunicates more than the bare text.
I guess a lot must partly depend on your actual discipline. Here in Australia, my discipline (molecular biology or biotechnology) tends to favour jumping straight from BSc honours to PhD. Nobody is interested in watching you spend that much time ploughing through secondary research; they want you doing proper original research right now.
However, I'm aware that degrees are "rated" differently according to what country you're in: for instance a Scottish Master's degree is rated here (by Govt overseas qualifications assessment bodies) as equivalent to a Bachelor's degree. Recognition of US degrees varies a lot. So I guess the answer to the OP's question depends on whether or not he plans on staying where he is.
then you get married, and it becomes "not at any price except for purposes of procreation... ...Or so I've heard.
Well, there is another side to that story: my wife and I are in our mid 40s. She was on the pill for most of the 25 years we have been together, and our sex life declined along the lines of the jar-of-beans statistic commonly mentioned.
Since my wife stopped taking the pill (I guess gambling that if an unwanted pregnancy were to happen, there have already been multiple opportunities for such a mishap), the boot is now on the other foot (so to speak), the rampant horny hormones have taken hold, and I'm now the one who has to struggle to keep up.
You young 'uns might think there are worse ways to go than being balled to death, but there are times when I am more then happy just to sit in an armchair reading a novel, thank you very much.
Call it anything else you want, a 17" laptop is not a laptop. I don't, however, object to the 13" format. My old MacBook is small and thin enough to easily carry around under my arm without being too obtrusive, but big enough to do some useful work when I need it to. If I want something I can carry around in my handbag, my phone is adequate to pull up Google Maps or whatever. And I have a big water-cooled heavy-horse Linux box at my desktop for when I need to do the most intensive stuff.
Currently, even terrorism is being viewed as less an act of war and more a crime.
Well, there's some wisdom in that. A significant proportion of the so-called "insurgency" in Iraq and actions of the Taliban in Afghanistan are believed (by US intelligence) to be from plain common-or-garden violent criminals. To treat them as such at least has the merit of being somewhat honest, rather than relying on the bugaboo of "terrorism" to get a knee-jerk response from the rednecks at home.
The previous administration has put a lot of political capital into painting the conflict as a war against Islam (whether they admit it or not), but it doesn't accomplish anything except to get more innocent people killed. Under the laws of their own countries, such criminals face the death penalty for their actions anyway. Branding them as terrorists is meaningless.
If the OP hasn't even started getting sales, now might be an excellent time to accept the offer. He is spared the pain of getting one startup off the ground, and the sale should provide him with useful collateral to pursue some other opportunity if he so chooses.
Anyone who is able to get a venture to the point where people are queuing up to buy it (especially in this economic climate) should have no trouble coming up with an equally interesting idea to pursue.
I Am Not An MBA, but it seems intuitive that knowing when to get out of a business must be a large part of the strategy. To harvest a good offer while having had to put in a relatively small amount of work sounds like a winner to me.
I think I might have mentioned this before, but it's still relevant:
Once upon a time, I used to be a blacksmith, and I've still got my tools. The best way I've found to deal with unwanted HDDs is to heat them up to ~700-800 deg. C in my forge, then wallop the hell out of them with my power-hammer. Hot things, sparks and lots of noise == Fun.;-)
Incidentally, why won't Slashcode implement the standard ° (;) html entity?
If Microsoft's DRM is such a showstopper as far as speed is concerned, why put up with it?
There are alternatives: The Mac options have DRM, but won't slow you down (at least not that I've noticed), and Linux-based apps essentially ignore it (provided you have libdvdcss.so).
Oh, he knows that I know he's a plagiarist, but he doesn't care, and nobody else seems to either. He isn't a close friend, and his work(?) has nothing to do with me, so I let it go.
I don't believe your mod points are as closely tied to metamodding as that. But something has happened with all that dynamic content stuff Slashcode seems to have gone in for. If you set your preferences to go back to the "classic" interface, the metamod prompts appear as they used to.
How do people with an attitude like Drepper's become maintainers of crucial projects?
I have absolutely no evidence to back this up, but perhaps he has a borderline case of Asperger's syndrome or some other form of autism. It's not unknown for such a characteristic to have a worthwhile outlet in the programming world, since obsessive perfectionism is really useful in dealing with low-level code like compilers and filesystems.
But it does make it pretty hard to get along with such individuals.
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Not sure about some of your points, but now that Apple has hijacked CUPS, I have encountered problems with getting network printers to work between Mac and Linux hosts. In many ways, I have belatedly become something of a fan of Macs, but dealing with shared printers on a *nix network is not something Apple does well. Fortunately, I've been able to come up with my own cookbook solutions for this, but it really shouldn't be so hard.
...stuck on plain old leopard
I guess that might be red rags to a bull for someone who only migrated from Tiger for the A2DP support.
It could be worse. They could make it a subscription service for webmasters to participate in this or something like this.
They could, except the whole point of the extension is to say "no" to ads. No means "No, and don't nag me until I say Yes".
Difficult for the Visually impaired?
This has the unfortunate implication of those who are not so great to look at. Perhaps the parent means vision-impaired.
If you don't mind my asking, how long did it take for her libido to come back after she stopped taking the pill?
I don't mind, but I'm not sure. I would guess about 3 months.
I don't know about Yahoo, but with Gmail and others, you can set up pop or imap in Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.
Yahoo works fine. They used to charge for POP service, but they don't now. Thunderbird is great, but I've recently started using the Apple Mail.app (now that it no longer crashes/burns) to consolidate all of my email accounts without farting around with any of that webmail nonsense, and I prefer it to Tbird on my non-Linux machines.
When I was a student we still corresponded with one another using paper and ink. There was none of this fancy computerized email.
Trouble is, I often think we haven't actually gained that much. I have to shamefacedly admit I can count the number of handwritten letters I've written in the last 10 years on one hand.
I sometimes find it a bit sad that there are now generations of people who have never sent or received a letter, who will never enjoy the anticipation or sensation of sending or opening a physical paper envelope containing its handwritten missive, complete with errata and marginalia. The coffee-stains or tears, the deletions and rephrasings, in a hand which in its own way comunicates more than the bare text.
I guess a lot must partly depend on your actual discipline. Here in Australia, my discipline (molecular biology or biotechnology) tends to favour jumping straight from BSc honours to PhD. Nobody is interested in watching you spend that much time ploughing through secondary research; they want you doing proper original research right now.
However, I'm aware that degrees are "rated" differently according to what country you're in: for instance a Scottish Master's degree is rated here (by Govt overseas qualifications assessment bodies) as equivalent to a Bachelor's degree. Recognition of US degrees varies a lot. So I guess the answer to the OP's question depends on whether or not he plans on staying where he is.
What is bad about this is the way MS forces you to upgrade
Stop whining. Microsoft does no such thing. If you don't like their business model, just don't use their products. It's as simple as that.
then you get married, and it becomes "not at any price except for purposes of procreation...
...Or so I've heard.
Well, there is another side to that story: my wife and I are in our mid 40s. She was on the pill for most of the 25 years we have been together, and our sex life declined along the lines of the jar-of-beans statistic commonly mentioned.
Since my wife stopped taking the pill (I guess gambling that if an unwanted pregnancy were to happen, there have already been multiple opportunities for such a mishap), the boot is now on the other foot (so to speak), the rampant horny hormones have taken hold, and I'm now the one who has to struggle to keep up.
You young 'uns might think there are worse ways to go than being balled to death, but there are times when I am more then happy just to sit in an armchair reading a novel, thank you very much.
What's the problem? If it shuts down at predictable intervals, it's a big improvement...
*ducks*
So 17"... way too big :-p
Call it anything else you want, a 17" laptop is not a laptop. I don't, however, object to the 13" format. My old MacBook is small and thin enough to easily carry around under my arm without being too obtrusive, but big enough to do some useful work when I need it to. If I want something I can carry around in my handbag, my phone is adequate to pull up Google Maps or whatever. And I have a big water-cooled heavy-horse Linux box at my desktop for when I need to do the most intensive stuff.
Nothing wrong with the right tool for the job.
Only if you live in a stucco house with no windows or doors. ;-)
Currently, even terrorism is being viewed as less an act of war and more a crime.
Well, there's some wisdom in that. A significant proportion of the so-called "insurgency" in Iraq and actions of the Taliban in Afghanistan are believed (by US intelligence) to be from plain common-or-garden violent criminals. To treat them as such at least has the merit of being somewhat honest, rather than relying on the bugaboo of "terrorism" to get a knee-jerk response from the rednecks at home.
The previous administration has put a lot of political capital into painting the conflict as a war against Islam (whether they admit it or not), but it doesn't accomplish anything except to get more innocent people killed. Under the laws of their own countries, such criminals face the death penalty for their actions anyway. Branding them as terrorists is meaningless.
Do not wait for the future which may not be there.
That has to be the most succinct and insightful comment in this entire thread.
If the OP hasn't even started getting sales, now might be an excellent time to accept the offer. He is spared the pain of getting one startup off the ground, and the sale should provide him with useful collateral to pursue some other opportunity if he so chooses.
Anyone who is able to get a venture to the point where people are queuing up to buy it (especially in this economic climate) should have no trouble coming up with an equally interesting idea to pursue.
I Am Not An MBA, but it seems intuitive that knowing when to get out of a business must be a large part of the strategy. To harvest a good offer while having had to put in a relatively small amount of work sounds like a winner to me.
I'll bet that results in some interesting 'pattern welded' trinkets!
:-)
Unfortunately, the heterogeneous mixture of stuff in those things ends up as an amorphous mixture of very, very thin flakes.
I think I might have mentioned this before, but it's still relevant:
;-)
Once upon a time, I used to be a blacksmith, and I've still got my tools. The best way I've found to deal with unwanted HDDs is to heat them up to ~700-800 deg. C in my forge, then wallop the hell out of them with my power-hammer. Hot things, sparks and lots of noise == Fun.
Incidentally, why won't Slashcode implement the standard ° (;) html entity?
Well, in this case one area of hyperbole is where the OP says "The disk also contained ... blueprints of facilities..."
Now, forgive me if I'm being overly picky, but does anyone here (apart from an old fart like myself) even remember what a blueprint is?
But there are a lot of things that vista does that XP doesn't do that I find useful.
As a matter of interest: such as what?
Not flaming, just curious.
If Microsoft's DRM is such a showstopper as far as speed is concerned, why put up with it?
There are alternatives: The Mac options have DRM, but won't slow you down (at least not that I've noticed), and Linux-based apps essentially ignore it (provided you have libdvdcss.so).
Oh, he knows that I know he's a plagiarist, but he doesn't care, and nobody else seems to either. He isn't a close friend, and his work(?) has nothing to do with me, so I let it go.
On the other hand, it could be great for insomniacs. Much better than counting sheep (electric or otherwise)...
I don't believe your mod points are as closely tied to metamodding as that. But something has happened with all that dynamic content stuff Slashcode seems to have gone in for. If you set your preferences to go back to the "classic" interface, the metamod prompts appear as they used to.
How do people with an attitude like Drepper's become maintainers of crucial projects?
I have absolutely no evidence to back this up, but perhaps he has a borderline case of Asperger's syndrome or some other form of autism. It's not unknown for such a characteristic to have a worthwhile outlet in the programming world, since obsessive perfectionism is really useful in dealing with low-level code like compilers and filesystems.
But it does make it pretty hard to get along with such individuals.