I think it will still be a while before I'll be able to get a prebuilt system that has exactly what I'm looking for. I've got "prebuilt" systems before with exactly what I wanted, but it is usually just from small retailers, who let you pick anything from their catalog and they will assemble it for you. I was shopping for a computer last year, and couldn't find what I was looking for with any of the major retailers, so I took this route.
There's people who say that global warming is just a result of the fact that temperatures are taken in the cities, and that cities are much hotter than they used to be. Just go downtown, in a large city, and then go 100 miles outside the city, and the temperature in the city will just about always be hotter. I'm not sure how much of a temperature difference can be accounted for like this, but anybody who lives downtown in a major city can tell you its much hotter there then outside the city.
I think they should go back to the things that always made PC games better than console games. That is, allow the players to make their own content, host their own servers, and have more freedom to do what they want within the game. I don't really get why someone would want to pay $12.98 a month to play some game against a bunch of people they don't know. I'd rather just have one of my friends host the server. No idiots on the servers. Also, I loved creating my own content for games like Descent. Make modifying the game easy, and people will modify it. I found Descent 3 almost impossible to create new levels for, and so I created none, but the original descent was dead easy, so I created tons of levels.
Until the rough finish wears out. Most of my keyboards have the keys worn away pretty smooth. I even have a keyboard at home where the bumps on the J and F keys are almost completely gone. You could also lift a print from the screen, or anywhere else on the case also, not just the keyboard.
But nothings really stopping you from compiling the source code on any other distribution either. Simply download the source and compile it. Sure Gentoo does this for everything, but we don't really need this for everything. For the packages that do require it, go ahead and compile, you can do this on any Linux system. And as for things like KDE, most distros that I've used don't have a single "KDE" package. They have about 100 packages (or more, or less, never bothered to count) that you can choose to install or not to install, based on what you want to include on your computer.
This is very true. The people who really need the speed, those running clusters and such, aren't using Gentoo. People who use up all their CPU cycles are probably the only ones who would benefit. Most of the people running gentoo just seem to be home users who think they're seeing a speed increase, but would probably get more work done if they didn't spend so much time compiling and tweaking.
I've been searching for a digital music service, and while i'm only going for ones that offer MP3s, so my choices are limited, I've found that a lot of music services are really bad. They don't have the level of quality that iTunes has, in terms of things actually working the way they are supposed to. They make it a real hassle to just buy/download your music. iTunes makes things really easy. I've ended up going with eMusic, and I find their service very good, but iTunes just seems a little more seamless.
Rightfully so for google news. Is there any way to configure google news only to show links to articles on certain sites? Or to blacklist certain sites? I really hate those "news" sites that put javascript on every seventh word, so that if you hover over the word, it shows a little pop-up div type ad. It's especially annoying because I like to highlight text as I read it, because I find it easier. I wish google would run all the JS in a page, and lower the ranking if it contained too many ads.
What if you need to insert large amounts of HTML into a page? What if you don't have all your HTML that you want to insert laid into a perfect, XML compliant document? I realize that in most cases document.createElement is the better of the 2 methods, but it isn't always possible to not use document.write. There are some instances where it is unavoidable.
Guess you haven't found a need to disable autorun. That requires editing the registry. So do lots of other settings in windows that they don't think you should mess with.
I know you're screwed either way, but isn't it kind of a liability for the company to start renting places to people without jobs? Most places that you rent from, or if you get a loan from the bank, ensure that you have a steady job before renting to you. I don't think it would be a good idea for a company to start charging rent to those who just lost their job. Also, most people would probably want to move out after they found something new, making renting terms very short.
I live in Canada, so I can only bike to work about 7 months out of the year, but when I can, I do. There are people who bike year round, but there's also people who put spikes on their tires and bike on the canal, sorry, that just isn't for me. Anyway, I have to say, that I enjoy biking much more than the bus. I don't have a car, but between my bike and the bus, don't really feel the need for one. It's a great way to stay in shape. Cuts off time on the bus, cuts off time at the gym. More time for my family.
But then you also get those who figure, that since they have the sick days, they might as well use them. If they have 10 sick days, then they are going to use the 10 sick days, whether they're sick or not. Which leads a lot of companies to have a very low number of sick days. People can't get sick days when they need them, because the people who don't need them make it expensive for the entire company. My way of looking at it is, if you're actually sick, please take the day off. If you aren't sick, then take it as a vacation.
Most people are extremely bad about putting away savings, if they took away withholding, there would be a lot of people unable to pay taxes at the end of the year.
Why not have someone make a commercial tax software that is open source? There's nothing to stop something from being both open source, and commercial/private sector. Just ask Redhat or Novell. I'm sure there's enough people out there that a $15 program that you download and run would be able to draw a large enough crowd.
There's a big difference between using openoffice, and altering open office and trying to sell it to someone else as a product. If the developers and management can't understand that, then there are other issues. Of course there are a couple issues with packages like MySQL, where simply calling the API can require you to open source your product, but that's just something the company has be aware of. I don't think dealing with open source licences is any more difficult than dealing with the closed source licenses that Microsoft et al give you with their product.
How about the negative affects of having 7000 distros? I'm not against having having more than 1 distro, but it seems to me like a lot of people put out distros just for the sake of it. How about instead of Kubuntu, we just stuck with Unbuntu, and got someone to maintain some sort of system for installing KDE. Why do we need a new distro. How about instead of KnoppyMyth, MythDora, and probably a few others i'm missing, somebody works on an easier way to install (and setup properly) MythTV on other distros. I would love to run MythTV, but it sucks that the only way to get it working is to use a distro that doesn't let you do anything else.
The limit that MS puts on FAT32 is 32 GB for a drive. The limit is actually much higher, and if you format a drive with Linux or many other disk utilities you can get really big drive. Up to 2 TiB, according to Wikipedia. The max file size is 4GB, but I don't see how this would really affect the maximum of this application, as they could just use multiple files to store the data.
Well then how come MS is touting this as a new technology in Vista? If this was really something that the drive handled then it would work in any OS, including Vista, XP, Linux, 98, etc.
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I think it will still be a while before I'll be able to get a prebuilt system that has exactly what I'm looking for. I've got "prebuilt" systems before with exactly what I wanted, but it is usually just from small retailers, who let you pick anything from their catalog and they will assemble it for you. I was shopping for a computer last year, and couldn't find what I was looking for with any of the major retailers, so I took this route.
There's people who say that global warming is just a result of the fact that temperatures are taken in the cities, and that cities are much hotter than they used to be. Just go downtown, in a large city, and then go 100 miles outside the city, and the temperature in the city will just about always be hotter. I'm not sure how much of a temperature difference can be accounted for like this, but anybody who lives downtown in a major city can tell you its much hotter there then outside the city.
I think they should go back to the things that always made PC games better than console games. That is, allow the players to make their own content, host their own servers, and have more freedom to do what they want within the game. I don't really get why someone would want to pay $12.98 a month to play some game against a bunch of people they don't know. I'd rather just have one of my friends host the server. No idiots on the servers. Also, I loved creating my own content for games like Descent. Make modifying the game easy, and people will modify it. I found Descent 3 almost impossible to create new levels for, and so I created none, but the original descent was dead easy, so I created tons of levels.
Until the rough finish wears out. Most of my keyboards have the keys worn away pretty smooth. I even have a keyboard at home where the bumps on the J and F keys are almost completely gone. You could also lift a print from the screen, or anywhere else on the case also, not just the keyboard.
But what about keyloggers on the computer?
But nothings really stopping you from compiling the source code on any other distribution either. Simply download the source and compile it. Sure Gentoo does this for everything, but we don't really need this for everything. For the packages that do require it, go ahead and compile, you can do this on any Linux system. And as for things like KDE, most distros that I've used don't have a single "KDE" package. They have about 100 packages (or more, or less, never bothered to count) that you can choose to install or not to install, based on what you want to include on your computer.
This is very true. The people who really need the speed, those running clusters and such, aren't using Gentoo. People who use up all their CPU cycles are probably the only ones who would benefit. Most of the people running gentoo just seem to be home users who think they're seeing a speed increase, but would probably get more work done if they didn't spend so much time compiling and tweaking.
I've been searching for a digital music service, and while i'm only going for ones that offer MP3s, so my choices are limited, I've found that a lot of music services are really bad. They don't have the level of quality that iTunes has, in terms of things actually working the way they are supposed to. They make it a real hassle to just buy/download your music. iTunes makes things really easy. I've ended up going with eMusic, and I find their service very good, but iTunes just seems a little more seamless.
Rightfully so for google news. Is there any way to configure google news only to show links to articles on certain sites? Or to blacklist certain sites? I really hate those "news" sites that put javascript on every seventh word, so that if you hover over the word, it shows a little pop-up div type ad. It's especially annoying because I like to highlight text as I read it, because I find it easier. I wish google would run all the JS in a page, and lower the ranking if it contained too many ads.
What if you need to insert large amounts of HTML into a page? What if you don't have all your HTML that you want to insert laid into a perfect, XML compliant document? I realize that in most cases document.createElement is the better of the 2 methods, but it isn't always possible to not use document.write. There are some instances where it is unavoidable.
Guess you haven't found a need to disable autorun. That requires editing the registry. So do lots of other settings in windows that they don't think you should mess with.
I know you're screwed either way, but isn't it kind of a liability for the company to start renting places to people without jobs? Most places that you rent from, or if you get a loan from the bank, ensure that you have a steady job before renting to you. I don't think it would be a good idea for a company to start charging rent to those who just lost their job. Also, most people would probably want to move out after they found something new, making renting terms very short.
I live in Canada, so I can only bike to work about 7 months out of the year, but when I can, I do. There are people who bike year round, but there's also people who put spikes on their tires and bike on the canal, sorry, that just isn't for me. Anyway, I have to say, that I enjoy biking much more than the bus. I don't have a car, but between my bike and the bus, don't really feel the need for one. It's a great way to stay in shape. Cuts off time on the bus, cuts off time at the gym. More time for my family.
The real question is then, is why is SF's transit system so messed up that to go from one end of the city to the other, you can't just buy 1 ticket?
How are you supposed to pay the rent if you get laid off your job?
But then you also get those who figure, that since they have the sick days, they might as well use them. If they have 10 sick days, then they are going to use the 10 sick days, whether they're sick or not. Which leads a lot of companies to have a very low number of sick days. People can't get sick days when they need them, because the people who don't need them make it expensive for the entire company. My way of looking at it is, if you're actually sick, please take the day off. If you aren't sick, then take it as a vacation.
This reminds me of a movie I once saw. Except that it was set in Calgary.
Most people are extremely bad about putting away savings, if they took away withholding, there would be a lot of people unable to pay taxes at the end of the year.
Why not have someone make a commercial tax software that is open source? There's nothing to stop something from being both open source, and commercial/private sector. Just ask Redhat or Novell. I'm sure there's enough people out there that a $15 program that you download and run would be able to draw a large enough crowd.
There's a big difference between using openoffice, and altering open office and trying to sell it to someone else as a product. If the developers and management can't understand that, then there are other issues. Of course there are a couple issues with packages like MySQL, where simply calling the API can require you to open source your product, but that's just something the company has be aware of. I don't think dealing with open source licences is any more difficult than dealing with the closed source licenses that Microsoft et al give you with their product.
Unless it's a tax audit conducted by the IRS, In which case they make sure that they do something about it.
How about the negative affects of having 7000 distros? I'm not against having having more than 1 distro, but it seems to me like a lot of people put out distros just for the sake of it. How about instead of Kubuntu, we just stuck with Unbuntu, and got someone to maintain some sort of system for installing KDE. Why do we need a new distro. How about instead of KnoppyMyth, MythDora, and probably a few others i'm missing, somebody works on an easier way to install (and setup properly) MythTV on other distros. I would love to run MythTV, but it sucks that the only way to get it working is to use a distro that doesn't let you do anything else.
I put 4GB files on my FAT32 formatted hard drive all the time without any problems.
The limit that MS puts on FAT32 is 32 GB for a drive. The limit is actually much higher, and if you format a drive with Linux or many other disk utilities you can get really big drive. Up to 2 TiB, according to Wikipedia. The max file size is 4GB, but I don't see how this would really affect the maximum of this application, as they could just use multiple files to store the data.
Well then how come MS is touting this as a new technology in Vista? If this was really something that the drive handled then it would work in any OS, including Vista, XP, Linux, 98, etc.