Actually, I just bit the bullet and did my taxes using Mozilla 1.2.1 on GNU/Linux. It worked, except for the last step (print tax forms, which isn't required to finish) which requires an Acrobat plugin. No biggee-- I'll just do it next time I'm at a Windows computer.
I've used their web service for the past 3 years. I've always had to hunt down a Windows PC to use it with IE because I was too chicken to risk it on a Linux browser. Does Turbo Tax for the web work under Mozilla?
Actually, I'm amazed that they're still in business because their competitors, Best Buy, Fry's, etc... have more humane return policies. Plus, I've found the prices at CompUSA higher than the other places (at least for the stuff I purchase). Maybe it's the extended warranties keeping them in business?
Hey, that's a cool idea: any parent could just send their 16 year old child to the store with cash to buy any software the parent needs. The child installs the software and clicks thru all the lame agreements. Instant freedom:)
Actually I went to Borders the other day and bought a manual for my car, for $30. It was one of those well-known series of books on general maintenence and repair, and there are books for essentially all modern cars.. I heard that I could get a very detailed manual from the dealer for like $200. But, alas, I can't buy the code for WIndows XP for a reasonable price. Your analogy is flawed.
Actually, I heard that they reported the count correctly at first, but then adjusted the number to 421 after realizing that many of the computers were running Athlon XP's.
...thousands more Americans and tens of thousands more Asians dead
Just to put things in perspective, I believe the death toll was somewhere around 2 million Vietnamese, and about 50,000 U.S. soldiers.
Solaris was not good
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When there is background music, it lacks the classical majesty of 2001 and is actually a bit annoying.
Classical majesty? Wow, we think differently. Because of this movie, 2001, I can't stand to listen to that Blue Danube waltz anymore. Playing the same thing, over and over again, and then playing a different section of the same piece, over and over again. I felt like I couldn't breath when watching it.
Anyway, Solaris was a bad movie. The story was really, really, cool, but the movie was not good. Not at all. The sequences where we stared at Natasha McElhone were too long and too frequent-- it seemed they were more space fillers (in a short movie?) than an attempt at displaying George Clooney's memories of her. The guy playing the spaced-out California surfer dude was funny, but that was the high point of the movie for me. I haven't read the book, but I KNOW it gives a really interesting story that the movie Solaris doesn't know how to explain. You can say the movie was good if you're afraid that some "intellectual" can better explain its virtues, but the truth is, it sucked. Don't be afraid to say it. It sucked.
O.k., I'd really like to see some free Salon content w/o having to pay. I don't mind the click through at all. So how is this done? Anybody got a link? I only see a link for "Salon Premium" which still talks about paying money.
Let's imagine for a second that all of the major studios and music companies went out of business tomorrow. What would happen? Would the, as many dreamers imagine, "good music" suddenly flourish as the combined masses of society realize that they really want to hear Jimmy and Garage Monkeys?
No, "good music" would suddenly flourish because it won't be as easy to saturate the market with crap.
No, the channels of the P2P networks will be DEAD, because as it is right now an OVERWHELMING majority of songs and movies being traded are the works of...tada...the RIAA/MIAA.
Nonsense. What you're essentially saying is that music will disappear with the RIAA/MIAA. You may not be aware of this, but music existed thousands of years prior to the existence of the RIAA/MIAA, in countries outside of the USA, even.
Re:The Before and after shots look backwards
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Maybe there should be three picture? The one without and aliases (#930, helvetica and tahoma look sloppy), the fuzzy blurry one with antialiasing (#929) and one more. 929 still looks pretty fuzzy on my LCD screen.
I usually mail them a small but heavy metal object in the postage paid envelope, to hopefully increase the postage they have to pay. Don't know if it works.
Probably the simplest layman's explanation I can think of: if something feels like it is the 3-sphere, then it is the 3-sphere.
By "feels like" I mean that it has certain properties which strongly suggest that it is the real thing.
I would agree with this, if such changes were made across the board, including, and especially, all government-funded medical research. And since there will naturally be strong opposition to this, I have no choice but to strongly oppose banning the GPL.
Re:Or you could just...
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But, umm, where does Gentoo fit in this picture:)
Re:Viable Alternative?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Try this:
Let me tell you: Internet Explorer 5.5 runs beautifully in Xandros. I've used Crossover to install Explorer on Mandrake and SuSE, with only partial success. But everything about Explorer is right this time: the fonts, the javascript, the layouts, the speed -- everything.
Unless you think the reviewer is lying, this may indicate that this particular distribution did it right with the MS compatibility. This is a big deal, if you like to use the MS stuff.
When Bob did this, Google decided to lower the value of his site.
Not only that, Google "lowered the value" of other sites which used the overloaded meta tags and other lame trickery. I guess every unscrupulous dweeb should sue them now? Dude, that's what Google has been doing from day one. That's why they're the best. If Google didn't combat trickery, Google would just be any old lame search engine.
Maybe you could try rsync -e ssh. I've never tried it, but maybe it would just download the diff, which would just be the remainder of the file in this case. Just a random thought, which may not work:)
That's more than 500 patents every day. And since getting a patent nowadays is as simple as applying, the numbers are probably rising. Damn. 500 a day. There's no way this system will ever get reformed.
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Actually, I just bit the bullet and did my taxes using Mozilla 1.2.1 on GNU/Linux. It worked, except for the last step (print tax forms, which isn't required to finish) which requires an Acrobat plugin. No biggee-- I'll just do it next time I'm at a Windows computer.
I've used their web service for the past 3 years. I've always had to hunt down a Windows PC to use it with IE because I was too chicken to risk it on a Linux browser. Does Turbo Tax for the web work under Mozilla?
Truly amazed no one said this until now :)
Actually, I'm amazed that they're still in business because their competitors, Best Buy, Fry's, etc... have more humane return policies. Plus, I've found the prices at CompUSA higher than the other places (at least for the stuff I purchase). Maybe it's the extended warranties keeping them in business?
Hey, that's a cool idea: any parent could just send their 16 year old child to the store with cash to buy any software the parent needs. The child installs the software and clicks thru all the lame agreements. Instant freedom :)
Actually I went to Borders the other day and bought a manual for my car, for $30. It was one of those well-known series of books on general maintenence and repair, and there are books for essentially all modern cars.. I heard that I could get a very detailed manual from the dealer for like $200. But, alas, I can't buy the code for WIndows XP for a reasonable price. Your analogy is flawed.
Is it ok to covet the card but not the membership? :)
So what's wrong with the FSF? Did RMS say something that hurt your feelings? No need to put flamebait in the main post.
Actually, I heard that they reported the count correctly at first, but then adjusted the number to 421 after realizing that many of the computers were running Athlon XP's.
One exists, and is surprisingly very good.
http://www.scirus.com/
Just to put things in perspective, I believe the death toll was somewhere around 2 million Vietnamese, and about 50,000 U.S. soldiers.
When there is background music, it lacks the classical majesty of 2001 and is actually a bit annoying.
Classical majesty? Wow, we think differently. Because of this movie, 2001, I can't stand to listen to that Blue Danube waltz anymore. Playing the same thing, over and over again, and then playing a different section of the same piece, over and over again. I felt like I couldn't breath when watching it.
Anyway, Solaris was a bad movie. The story was really, really, cool, but the movie was not good. Not at all. The sequences where we stared at Natasha McElhone were too long and too frequent-- it seemed they were more space fillers (in a short movie?) than an attempt at displaying George Clooney's memories of her. The guy playing the spaced-out California surfer dude was funny, but that was the high point of the movie for me. I haven't read the book, but I KNOW it gives a really interesting story that the movie Solaris doesn't know how to explain. You can say the movie was good if you're afraid that some "intellectual" can better explain its virtues, but the truth is, it sucked. Don't be afraid to say it. It sucked.
O.k., I'd really like to see some free Salon content w/o having to pay. I don't mind the click through at all. So how is this done? Anybody got a link? I only see a link for "Salon Premium" which still talks about paying money.
Let's imagine for a second that all of the major studios and music companies went out of business tomorrow. What would happen? Would the, as many dreamers imagine, "good music" suddenly flourish as the combined masses of society realize that they really want to hear Jimmy and Garage Monkeys?
No, "good music" would suddenly flourish because it won't be as easy to saturate the market with crap.
No, the channels of the P2P networks will be DEAD, because as it is right now an OVERWHELMING majority of songs and movies being traded are the works of...tada...the RIAA/MIAA.
Nonsense. What you're essentially saying is that music will disappear with the RIAA/MIAA. You may not be aware of this, but music existed thousands of years prior to the existence of the RIAA/MIAA, in countries outside of the USA, even.
Maybe there should be three picture? The one without and aliases (#930, helvetica and tahoma look sloppy), the fuzzy blurry one with antialiasing (#929) and one more. 929 still looks pretty fuzzy on my LCD screen.
I usually mail them a small but heavy metal object in the postage paid envelope, to hopefully increase the postage they have to pay. Don't know if it works.
Probably the simplest layman's explanation I can think of: if something feels like it is the 3-sphere, then it is the 3-sphere.
By "feels like" I mean that it has certain properties which strongly suggest that it is the real thing.
I would agree with this, if such changes were made across the board, including, and especially, all government-funded medical research. And since there will naturally be strong opposition to this, I have no choice but to strongly oppose banning the GPL.
But, umm, where does Gentoo fit in this picture :)
Try this:
Let me tell you: Internet Explorer 5.5 runs beautifully in Xandros. I've used Crossover to install Explorer on Mandrake and SuSE, with only partial success. But everything about Explorer is right this time: the fonts, the javascript, the layouts, the speed -- everything.
Unless you think the reviewer is lying, this may indicate that this particular distribution did it right with the MS compatibility. This is a big deal, if you like to use the MS stuff.
With a phrase like "If You Can't Find It Here
When Bob did this, Google decided to lower the value of his site.
Not only that, Google "lowered the value" of other sites which used the overloaded meta tags and other lame trickery. I guess every unscrupulous dweeb should sue them now? Dude, that's what Google has been doing from day one. That's why they're the best. If Google didn't combat trickery, Google would just be any old lame search engine.
why spend $6b to replace them?
The first billion is for the hardware. The remaining 5 billion is for MS licensing.
Very Insightful
Maybe you could try rsync -e ssh. I've never tried it, but maybe it would just download the diff, which would just be the remainder of the file in this case. Just a random thought, which may not work :)
The office granted 187,882 patents in 2001
That's more than 500 patents every day. And since getting a patent nowadays is as simple as applying, the numbers are probably rising. Damn. 500 a day. There's no way this system will ever get reformed.