"When I want to do _______, it better work on the first try."
This is exactly why I'm finally going to make the switch from Windows to Linux. I've been wanting to for years, and comfortably use Linux/Unix at work and on my bluehost-hosted web server. But I was afraid it would take hours and hours to learn how to sysadmin.
Now I realize it takes hours and hours for every little thing I want to do on my Windows machine. The only reason I'll keep one windows machine is for taxes and such which only release for Windows.
It's really been unbelievable the constant disappointments I've been having for months, every single time I try something new (or old, for that matter), it doesn't work. Even Firefox (on Windows) has a weird bug that I couldn't get rid of by uninstalling 1.5 and installing 2.0. The home page keeps getting.html stripped off it, resulting in a 404. I wanted to give up on computers altogether, but first I'm buying a new system and going Linux.
Now that I think of it - that's really one major obstacle in getting people to switch. I konw there's dual-boot, but that would seem risky to many. If not for the cost of buying a new system, get them using Linux on a second system on the side until they're comforable with it and eventually they realize they don't want to use their Windows system anymore, and have gobs of time to figure out how to get the data they need off it.
That's right. They had an election. Bush did not receive the most votes (neither outright, nor by electoral college). There were many different fraud issues with the counting of the ballots. The first (erroneous) count did indicate that Bush received the most votes by electoral college. Each recount corrected the actual vote count, correctly adjusting it to be less and less in Bush's favour. This process was arbitrarily halted by the Republican-controlled Supreme Court, just before it was "corrected enough" to display the true vote count. They DECLARED Bush the winner. He did not win the election. He won the declaration.
He won the second election, I'll give you that - but he never should have been there to run in it, after his loss in 2000.
The story was first brought to light by Slashdot on Saturday. Um...what did Slashdot have to do with it? It looks like this fellow started complaining on Friday: http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21 Obi-Wan: "The article that I'm looking for should be right..." (points at screen) "here."
Librarian: "If an article is not on Slashdot, then it does not exist." (Turns abruptly and walks away) Obi-Wan: (waves hand) "These aren't the nerds you're looking for"
Therefore, you could turn a $100 bill into a $1 by punching holes,
And thus convince a Blind person to hand over their modded $100 for a chocolate bar and expect no change! Good work...
(actually it was the grandparent poster who had it wrong - depending on whether the blind person is giving or receiving the money in the transaction, and trying not to get screwed).
I still had to vote for the 5 1/4 one - it's the funniest one that is actually tech-support-related... and I think I myself once almost stuck it in that little space beneath the drive door when I was changing disks in a hurry.
Not that I didn't enjoy thinking of a girl wanting help "getting these out" and the one who thinks about handling "17 inches":)
As a Canadian exposed to lots of American TV and culture, I can tell you I notice that it's always US-city, US-state, but Toronto, Canada, and Foreign-city,Foreign-country.
Watch when they introduce the golfers at the Masters, tomorrow. It will be "Tiger Woods from Windermere, Florida" and "Mike Weir from... Canada!"
RIM isn't even based in the US anyhow. They're based in Waterloo, Canada, IIRC. And we don't seem to have as broken a patent system as the US does.
I don't see how ours can be any less broken. In my last 11 years of co-op and full-time high tech employment, I've always heard that a Canadian company simply applies for the US patents first, gets them (of course), and then applies for the Canadian patents, showing that they already have the US ones as evidence of patent-worthiness and ownership of the invention.
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...and it has the Internet...
Really? How does it fit it all in there? Servers and routers and DNS too?
Just joking, of course, but for someon who seems clearly above a "basic" level this is the kind of mistake that only our parents or grandparents should be making.
I agree with parent's being modded funnier than parent's parent, but just to nitpick parent for a minute...
The word "now" in the OP implies a shifting of thought from past tense to present tense. So assuming the first part of the sentence should refer to the past, maybe "features we were used to" would be better grammar than "features we are used to", and "we're" probably isn't a valid contraction for "we were".
Examples included the ability to retract unread messages (45%) and a way to track the forwarding of their own email (43%).
But how many of those people would knowingly want those things to be able to be unknowlingly done to them as e-mail recipients ?
Sure, I'd like the ability to do those 2 things regardless of whether my recipients want it or know about it - but there's no way I'd use an e-mail client that would allow people to do it to me, so I wouldn't be so silly as to say that I want those as general e-mail features.
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SOYLENT WHITE IS (15%) PEO-PLE! IT'S (15%) PEEEEEEEOPLLLLLLLLE!
This is exactly why I'm finally going to make the switch from Windows to Linux. I've been wanting to for years, and comfortably use Linux/Unix at work and on my bluehost-hosted web server. But I was afraid it would take hours and hours to learn how to sysadmin.
Now I realize it takes hours and hours for every little thing I want to do on my Windows machine. The only reason I'll keep one windows machine is for taxes and such which only release for Windows.
It's really been unbelievable the constant disappointments I've been having for months, every single time I try something new (or old, for that matter), it doesn't work. Even Firefox (on Windows) has a weird bug that I couldn't get rid of by uninstalling 1.5 and installing 2.0. The home page keeps getting .html stripped off it, resulting in a 404. I wanted to give up on computers altogether, but first I'm buying a new system and going Linux.
Now that I think of it - that's really one major obstacle in getting people to switch. I konw there's dual-boot, but that would seem risky to many. If not for the cost of buying a new system, get them using Linux on a second system on the side until they're comforable with it and eventually they realize they don't want to use their Windows system anymore, and have gobs of time to figure out how to get the data they need off it.
That's right. They had an election. Bush did not receive the most votes (neither outright, nor by electoral college). There were many different fraud issues with the counting of the ballots. The first (erroneous) count did indicate that Bush received the most votes by electoral college. Each recount corrected the actual vote count, correctly adjusting it to be less and less in Bush's favour. This process was arbitrarily halted by the Republican-controlled Supreme Court, just before it was "corrected enough" to display the true vote count. They DECLARED Bush the winner. He did not win the election. He won the declaration. He won the second election, I'll give you that - but he never should have been there to run in it, after his loss in 2000.
And thus convince a Blind person to hand over their modded $100 for a chocolate bar and expect no change! Good work...
(actually it was the grandparent poster who had it wrong - depending on whether the blind person is giving or receiving the money in the transaction, and trying not to get screwed).
Why do you think AMD just bought (Canadian company) ATI?
AFAIK, Ketchup and Dill Pickle chips are only sold in Canada, not the U.S.
Exactly. I couldn't wait to see what some Doctor did that helped him make the Guiness Book...
Commander Tom!!! Is that you? :)
(I think from a Buffalo station we used to get in the Toronto area - best Sunday morning cartoons).
Why is it against regulations now?
Don't forget to gently wave your hand, and say it with an Alec Guinness accent
I still had to vote for the 5 1/4 one - it's the funniest one that is actually tech-support-related... and I think I myself once almost stuck it in that little space beneath the drive door when I was changing disks in a hurry. Not that I didn't enjoy thinking of a girl wanting help "getting these out" and the one who thinks about handling "17 inches" :)
Anyone else do a double-take after skimming the subject line? :)
As a Canadian exposed to lots of American TV and culture, I can tell you I notice that it's always US-city, US-state, but Toronto, Canada, and Foreign-city,Foreign-country.
Watch when they introduce the golfers at the Masters, tomorrow. It will be "Tiger Woods from Windermere, Florida" and "Mike Weir from... Canada!"
I don't see how ours can be any less broken. In my last 11 years of co-op and full-time high tech employment, I've always heard that a Canadian company simply applies for the US patents first, gets them (of course), and then applies for the Canadian patents, showing that they already have the US ones as evidence of patent-worthiness and ownership of the invention.
For a minute I thought that was a Haiku. :)
People think the sounds of dial-up modems and fax machines can give you a headache...
look a bit like a
young Bill Gates?
Really? How does it fit it all in there? Servers and routers and DNS too?
Just joking, of course, but for someon who seems clearly above a "basic" level this is the kind of mistake that only our parents or grandparents should be making.
I agree with parent's being modded funnier than parent's parent, but just to nitpick parent for a minute...
The word "now" in the OP implies a shifting of thought from past tense to present tense. So assuming the first part of the sentence should refer to the past, maybe "features we were used to" would be better grammar than "features we are used to", and "we're" probably isn't a valid contraction for "we were".
So he/she may have a point :)
Added benefit: Your resume won't go through the shredder anymore! :)
me too
Examples included the ability to retract unread messages (45%) and a way to track the forwarding of their own email (43%).
But how many of those people would knowingly want those things to be able to be unknowlingly done to them as e-mail recipients ?
Sure, I'd like the ability to do those 2 things regardless of whether my recipients want it or know about it - but there's no way I'd use an e-mail client that would allow people to do it to me, so I wouldn't be so silly as to say that I want those as general e-mail features.
Don't you mean: "To coldly go..."
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(It's ok - I'm Canadian, and it'sgonna be 27 degrees (C) in Toronto tomorrow. (80.6 F)
our new yummy buttermilk-flavoured overlords!
Oh yeah... the Christmas lights guy...
So how do we know those are REAL hash browns!? Maybe you pre-cooked them and then placed them on the grill for the photos...
Here's some bedtime reading for Alek.
The easiest way to help /.ers get "mono" would be to start by helping us get "girlfriends".