I've been using firefox for quite a while. I still don't use the search box. I just go to the address bar and type in google.ca, then search that way. I know the other way is much faster, but I'm just so used to the old way, that I haven't bothered to switch. Not to mention that most times when I search, I'm opening a new tab anyway. I love the tab feature because it offers such an advantage over the old system. Every time I watch a co-worker try to figure out which of the IE windows on their taskbar is the one they're looking for (especially bad if they are grouped) I thank the almighty dinosaur for Tabs.
Stop using free webmail. I've had to switch addresses 3 or 4 times because of webmail providers that I started to disagree with, either from dropping service, starting to charge for things that used to be free, or privacy issues such as this one. I instead bought my own domain name, so I never have to change my address again, and i got some cheap hosting. I know the hosting provider could read my mail or turn it over to the authorities, but I can also switch hosting providers pretty easily.
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Can't remember offhand what version of Gnome i'm using at home, but Gnome now has tabs in the console.
Gamecube is nice. One title I recommend is Bomberman Generations. You can get it off e-Bay, although if you don't like e-Bay, you'll be hard pressed to find it anywhere else. I searched for months before finding an online store that only had 1 copy. None of the brick and mortar stores had it.
I find that most of the time with windows (even XP) i'm stuck installing drivers, whereas with linux the driver comes with the OS. Windows XP doesn't ship with scanner drivers, because they expect that you have the CD. Linux on the other hand knows that your scanner vendor doesn't ship drivers for linux, so they include them with the OS.
I would if I could buy a single computer that would do both. Up until now, it wasn't possible to buy a Mac and run windows. The 25% windows I absolutely must have, but the 75% that is Mac could also be done on windows. This is all theoretical though, I personally have no interest in Mac OS.
Because it starts off with the user running Mac OS 50% and windows 50%, then eventually they start using Mac OS more and more, and eventually are only using windows 5% of the time, or not at all. Then they don't buy the next version of windows becasue they see no use for it anymore.
Here's the scenario. I would like to try out Mac OS, and maybe even use it 75% of the time. However, I wouldn't buy a Mac because I would still need to use windows for the other 25%. If it was possible to run both on the same hardware, I could buy a Mac, run MacOS whenever I can, and then boot into windows for the 25% of the time that I need to run windows. Sounds a lot like how I run Linux right now. Although its close to 90% linux, 10% windows. If running Linux meant that I couldn't run windows, I probably never would have tried linux to begin with.
This is the solution. Find what works for you. Everyones body is shaped differently, what works for one person may be painful for another. I find that ergo keyboards cause me tons of pain. I can type on an old fashioned keyboard for 10 hours and not have any problems. I also find that trackballs work better for me. Some people like mice, some people like quill mice, some people like joysticks. Use whatever it is feels most comfortable for you.
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Lots and lots of Advil. Don't you hate those commercials? "My wrists are on fire." Maybe you should treat the problem instead of just masking the pain. If you numb the pain, then how are you supposed to know when there is something wrong. Your wrists hurt because there is something wrong with them.
What makes me look at games is a game that I actually haven't played already. I just beat Chibi-Robo. It's the first game I actually payed full price for and bought on opening week. I'm very happy with my purchase. $60 for 30 hours of entertainment. And I still have probably another 10 hours to play before I beat all the side quests. What made me buy it was the reviews, advertisements, all making me think this was actually a new game, and something that would be interesting. Another game that I found like this was Animal Crossing. Every day for 3 months, And I still wasn't bored with it. You can get this game for $30 now, probably less if it's used. There's a plethora of good games out there, lots of original content. Most of it doesn't get the recognition it deserves though.
You don't realize how nice it is until you have it. Canada has free health care and I thank God that we have it. It's handled at a provincial level, but the feds give money out to the provinces to help them cover the costs. Although the feds are trying to control it more and more, but I won't get into that here. I rarely have to use the system, but know a lot of people who do. Even though people complain about wait times, i'd take the Canadian system over the American system any day. I don't have to worry about paying for healthcare ever, don't have to worry about denied claims, or rising insurance premiums if I get sick, or even worse, denied insurance altogether. I currently don't have insurance for the stuff that isn't covered (eyeglasses, dentist, prescription drugs) and have been looking into the costs of insurance. The rates are pretty high, and there are all kinds of limits on what you can claim. I would hate to see what the going rates are for basic health insurance in the US.
When was this? because I remember specifically having to download MFC42.dll when installing ICQ with windows 98. Are we talking about windows 3.1, because that wasn't really an OS, just an application that ran on DOS. I think Windows XP ships with.Net framework 1.1, but that OS is 4 years old, you can't expect every user to have.Net 2 when it didn't even exist back then. You can't force people to run the update wizard. And if you did, then people would complain that MS was forcing upgrades.
As far as the kernel goes, you are right. However, with windows we are talking about a whole suite of applications included with the OS. None of them are all that complex, and could probably run quite quickly under the.Net platform. I've often wondered how much more secure our computers would be if we ran web browsers, mail clients, and other web facing applications in a sandbox like the JVM, I think.net has some of the same capabilities. I'm sure attacks would still be possible, but at least we wouldn't have to worry about buffer overflows causing problems.
People complaining about the Bully video game, should check out The Bully Movie and other movies by Larry Clark. If you think video games are rough, try watching movies once in a while.
I haven't been following this news too closely, so could someone please tell me if they've found any planets that are the size of earth? not 13 earth masses, but somewhere between 0.5 and 2 earth masses would be nice. I know that life can exist outside of conditions found on the earth, but it would be really cool to find intelligent life like ourselves. I'm not sure what evolution did on other planets, but I'd like to see what kind of muscles developed on organisms that lived on a planet with 13 times the mass of the earth.
Just checked that out, it's pretty cool (just type area 51 into google maps). What's interesting is that the "map" feature shows nothing, and there's actually a really large area that seems "blacked out". On the other hand, the satellite view shows area 51 with pretty good precision.
But with Sony's latest debacle, am I really free to put CDs in the player of my choice? If putting a CD in my computer installs a rootkit in my computer, then i'm not really free to do with that CD as I please.
So in windows it uses threads and unix it uses a separate process. Is there any advantage to running the separate process, or could the just switch the unix implementation to threads, to get even better performance? There must be a reason why the unix version is still starting a new process, which is always more costly than just starting a new thread.
Most national papers are at about the 8th grade reading level, local papers have even a lower level. This is what they aim for. I'm not aware of any papers that are actually targeted at people who are smart.
Interesting, because I find most daily newspapers far more cumbersome than a laptop. they are way too big, and contain a lot of information i'm really not interested in reading. I usually read the daily news on my cellphone. Although I find the screen is a little small, and the web connection a little slow, it's much better than trying to read a newspaper on the bus.
The problem is, is that a lot of the unix software although ported to windows, doesn't run as well on windows. (i think) Apache starts a new process for each request by calling fork(). This works good in Unix where it doesn't take a whole lot of resources ( under a million cycles) to start a new process. However, just starting a process on windows takes 5 million cycles. Meaning unless the implementation of apache on windows, or windows itself is changed, then running apache on windows will always be inferior. I imagine the same problem exists on many other servers that have been ported to windows. It's nice for people to experiment with these tools without switching their OS, but really they should be switching the OS if they want the best experience possible.
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I've been using firefox for quite a while. I still don't use the search box. I just go to the address bar and type in google.ca, then search that way. I know the other way is much faster, but I'm just so used to the old way, that I haven't bothered to switch. Not to mention that most times when I search, I'm opening a new tab anyway. I love the tab feature because it offers such an advantage over the old system. Every time I watch a co-worker try to figure out which of the IE windows on their taskbar is the one they're looking for (especially bad if they are grouped) I thank the almighty dinosaur for Tabs.
Stop using free webmail. I've had to switch addresses 3 or 4 times because of webmail providers that I started to disagree with, either from dropping service, starting to charge for things that used to be free, or privacy issues such as this one. I instead bought my own domain name, so I never have to change my address again, and i got some cheap hosting. I know the hosting provider could read my mail or turn it over to the authorities, but I can also switch hosting providers pretty easily.
Can't remember offhand what version of Gnome i'm using at home, but Gnome now has tabs in the console.
Yeah, they could license it for 99 cents for each song the store wants to sell. What? nobody wants to license it anymore? Not Apple's fault.
Gamecube is nice. One title I recommend is Bomberman Generations. You can get it off e-Bay, although if you don't like e-Bay, you'll be hard pressed to find it anywhere else. I searched for months before finding an online store that only had 1 copy. None of the brick and mortar stores had it.
I find that most of the time with windows (even XP) i'm stuck installing drivers, whereas with linux the driver comes with the OS. Windows XP doesn't ship with scanner drivers, because they expect that you have the CD. Linux on the other hand knows that your scanner vendor doesn't ship drivers for linux, so they include them with the OS.
I would if I could buy a single computer that would do both. Up until now, it wasn't possible to buy a Mac and run windows. The 25% windows I absolutely must have, but the 75% that is Mac could also be done on windows. This is all theoretical though, I personally have no interest in Mac OS.
Because it starts off with the user running Mac OS 50% and windows 50%, then eventually they start using Mac OS more and more, and eventually are only using windows 5% of the time, or not at all. Then they don't buy the next version of windows becasue they see no use for it anymore.
Here's the scenario. I would like to try out Mac OS, and maybe even use it 75% of the time. However, I wouldn't buy a Mac because I would still need to use windows for the other 25%. If it was possible to run both on the same hardware, I could buy a Mac, run MacOS whenever I can, and then boot into windows for the 25% of the time that I need to run windows. Sounds a lot like how I run Linux right now. Although its close to 90% linux, 10% windows. If running Linux meant that I couldn't run windows, I probably never would have tried linux to begin with.
This is the solution. Find what works for you. Everyones body is shaped differently, what works for one person may be painful for another. I find that ergo keyboards cause me tons of pain. I can type on an old fashioned keyboard for 10 hours and not have any problems. I also find that trackballs work better for me. Some people like mice, some people like quill mice, some people like joysticks. Use whatever it is feels most comfortable for you.
Lots and lots of Advil. Don't you hate those commercials? "My wrists are on fire." Maybe you should treat the problem instead of just masking the pain. If you numb the pain, then how are you supposed to know when there is something wrong. Your wrists hurt because there is something wrong with them.
What makes me look at games is a game that I actually haven't played already. I just beat Chibi-Robo. It's the first game I actually payed full price for and bought on opening week. I'm very happy with my purchase. $60 for 30 hours of entertainment. And I still have probably another 10 hours to play before I beat all the side quests. What made me buy it was the reviews, advertisements, all making me think this was actually a new game, and something that would be interesting. Another game that I found like this was Animal Crossing. Every day for 3 months, And I still wasn't bored with it. You can get this game for $30 now, probably less if it's used. There's a plethora of good games out there, lots of original content. Most of it doesn't get the recognition it deserves though.
You don't realize how nice it is until you have it. Canada has free health care and I thank God that we have it. It's handled at a provincial level, but the feds give money out to the provinces to help them cover the costs. Although the feds are trying to control it more and more, but I won't get into that here. I rarely have to use the system, but know a lot of people who do. Even though people complain about wait times, i'd take the Canadian system over the American system any day. I don't have to worry about paying for healthcare ever, don't have to worry about denied claims, or rising insurance premiums if I get sick, or even worse, denied insurance altogether. I currently don't have insurance for the stuff that isn't covered (eyeglasses, dentist, prescription drugs) and have been looking into the costs of insurance. The rates are pretty high, and there are all kinds of limits on what you can claim. I would hate to see what the going rates are for basic health insurance in the US.
When was this? because I remember specifically having to download MFC42.dll when installing ICQ with windows 98. Are we talking about windows 3.1, because that wasn't really an OS, just an application that ran on DOS. I think Windows XP ships with .Net framework 1.1, but that OS is 4 years old, you can't expect every user to have .Net 2 when it didn't even exist back then. You can't force people to run the update wizard. And if you did, then people would complain that MS was forcing upgrades.
As far as the kernel goes, you are right. However, with windows we are talking about a whole suite of applications included with the OS. None of them are all that complex, and could probably run quite quickly under the .Net platform. I've often wondered how much more secure our computers would be if we ran web browsers, mail clients, and other web facing applications in a sandbox like the JVM, I think .net has some of the same capabilities. I'm sure attacks would still be possible, but at least we wouldn't have to worry about buffer overflows causing problems.
People complaining about the Bully video game, should check out The Bully Movie and other movies by Larry Clark. If you think video games are rough, try watching movies once in a while.
I haven't been following this news too closely, so could someone please tell me if they've found any planets that are the size of earth? not 13 earth masses, but somewhere between 0.5 and 2 earth masses would be nice. I know that life can exist outside of conditions found on the earth, but it would be really cool to find intelligent life like ourselves. I'm not sure what evolution did on other planets, but I'd like to see what kind of muscles developed on organisms that lived on a planet with 13 times the mass of the earth.
Just checked that out, it's pretty cool (just type area 51 into google maps). What's interesting is that the "map" feature shows nothing, and there's actually a really large area that seems "blacked out". On the other hand, the satellite view shows area 51 with pretty good precision.
So, is this why my credit card has interest rates around 18%?
Now the important part. What is Sony's profit margin?
But with Sony's latest debacle, am I really free to put CDs in the player of my choice? If putting a CD in my computer installs a rootkit in my computer, then i'm not really free to do with that CD as I please.
So in windows it uses threads and unix it uses a separate process. Is there any advantage to running the separate process, or could the just switch the unix implementation to threads, to get even better performance? There must be a reason why the unix version is still starting a new process, which is always more costly than just starting a new thread.
Most national papers are at about the 8th grade reading level, local papers have even a lower level. This is what they aim for. I'm not aware of any papers that are actually targeted at people who are smart.
Interesting, because I find most daily newspapers far more cumbersome than a laptop. they are way too big, and contain a lot of information i'm really not interested in reading. I usually read the daily news on my cellphone. Although I find the screen is a little small, and the web connection a little slow, it's much better than trying to read a newspaper on the bus.
The problem is, is that a lot of the unix software although ported to windows, doesn't run as well on windows. (i think) Apache starts a new process for each request by calling fork(). This works good in Unix where it doesn't take a whole lot of resources ( under a million cycles) to start a new process. However, just starting a process on windows takes 5 million cycles. Meaning unless the implementation of apache on windows, or windows itself is changed, then running apache on windows will always be inferior. I imagine the same problem exists on many other servers that have been ported to windows. It's nice for people to experiment with these tools without switching their OS, but really they should be switching the OS if they want the best experience possible.