I've had to work on my own motorcycle from time to time, and my boyfriend kind of refused to help me, knowing that self-sufficiency is better than doing everything for me. However, from time to time, he would call me over with "hey, Japanese hands", because I had the tiny hands to get at/into something that his man hands were just too big to get at.
Whenever I see C++, I cringe. Is there something equivalent to Visual Studio that actually does garbage collection for you and doesn't have a disgustingly horrible syntax which was a complete hack to maintain backwards-compatibility with C? I can think of Java or C#/Mono with Eclipse, which isn't TOO bad I guess. But seriously, fuck C++.
I don't quite see what having a contract or not changes (maybe it's a non-GSM thing?) I have a contract with Three, a UK 3G operator which uses GSM, and I put CyanogenMod on my Android device and I can still use the phone just fine with my contract. Maybe it's still locked into the operator, but it isn't locked into the firmware that was included with the device.
Btrfs also doesn't support ext4's new file creation time tag 'crtime' which is a big turnoff for me. It's about time Unix filesystems started doing something Microsoft was doing years ago.
1) If it took you years and years of hard work, how did you survive financially while you were working on them? 2) Why do you think you should now be able to sit back and live off royalties when many other professionals have to keep going in to work every day to earn more money?
Unfortunately, only one of the two presidential candidates in France supports maintaining nuclear energy as-is (at a time when France is making money exporting energy to other countries like Germany and the UK), and he's probably going to lose. Hollande wants to reduce nuclear to 50% from 80%.
You just listed 2, count 'em 2, shortcomings. Here's a shortcoming of Photoshop: it costs $700 (extended version costs $1000). Those 2 shortcomings of GIMP you mentioned will likely be addressed in the next version. 90% of would-be Photoshop users are probably OK with GIMP's features as it is, now that it has a single window mode.
Man, get over the name thing. I've said to a few people now that "I use GIMP for most graphics editing" (notice the lack of the definite article) and there's no problem. It was the same thing with Git - for a short time it sounded weird to say that I used it but it became commonplace enough that it stopped sounding weird. In that context it's just the name of a software program.
If we can get Integral Fast Reactors being built, then at least fission is a very good way of generating power resulting in very little (short-lived) nuclear waste.
If you want a reliable distro that will survive every other distro, you go with Debian. The developers fight like cats and dogs and it just keeps going on, getting better and better.
The 486 was the king of the heap and man, even that was slow. It took forever to do normal tasks. I remember having my computer print something and wandering off to the kitchen to get a snack while I waited for it to deal with all the work of rasterizing and sending the document to the printer.
That must be because you weren't using W-w-w-Windows, Windows, Windows 386, and your thoughts weren't coming together real quick.
Abortion, no matter how you feel about it, is a thoroughly stressful event both physically and mentally for the woman involved.
Says you. How do you know all women get stressed by it? Maybe some like the better sex one gets without a condom, and are perfectly fine with abortion. In fact, I strongly suspect that is the case. Most of the stress often comes from religious groups who use wield irrational beliefs to try and make women feel guilty about it.
I don't. I want to see plenty of abortion, and I want to see it be quick, cheap, and easy. It should IMHO be considered a perfectly good form of birth control, as long as it's done in the first trimester. I want this because I don't believe a zygote or early foetus has a soul. Can you give me any other good reason(s) why abortion is somehow bad if what you're "killing" is less than when you brush your teeth?
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I've had to work on my own motorcycle from time to time, and my boyfriend kind of refused to help me, knowing that self-sufficiency is better than doing everything for me. However, from time to time, he would call me over with "hey, Japanese hands", because I had the tiny hands to get at/into something that his man hands were just too big to get at.
Couldn't he have just waited until bedtime?
We've been watching the torch being bussed around the country via the BBC's live stream.
Erm, why?
Whenever I see C++, I cringe. Is there something equivalent to Visual Studio that actually does garbage collection for you and doesn't have a disgustingly horrible syntax which was a complete hack to maintain backwards-compatibility with C? I can think of Java or C#/Mono with Eclipse, which isn't TOO bad I guess. But seriously, fuck C++.
... US-style.
I don't quite see what having a contract or not changes (maybe it's a non-GSM thing?) I have a contract with Three, a UK 3G operator which uses GSM, and I put CyanogenMod on my Android device and I can still use the phone just fine with my contract. Maybe it's still locked into the operator, but it isn't locked into the firmware that was included with the device.
We have appallingly restrictive vendor control of OSes instead of free private development AND distribution
Install CyanogenMod on your Android device and enable markets other than Google's. I did. Root access available, too.
Btrfs also doesn't support ext4's new file creation time tag 'crtime' which is a big turnoff for me. It's about time Unix filesystems started doing something Microsoft was doing years ago.
The problem is that you need a real example (that doesn't involve piracy) otherwise you'll be laughed at by your own users.
Sharing 5+ year old songs and movies. IF we had a fucking sane copyright law.
1) If it took you years and years of hard work, how did you survive financially while you were working on them?
2) Why do you think you should now be able to sit back and live off royalties when many other professionals have to keep going in to work every day to earn more money?
Why would I give a flying fuck about a 'marketplace' for my PC's web browser again?
I still don't understand why we have to "Save" documents in today's computer age.
I don't understand why you (and UX 'experts') as so obsessed with removing 'Save'. If some of us like the paradigm, why not just leave it?
Did they shoot him, claim it was self-defense, and ship his remains to Gitmo?
No; when they do that, it's a different kind of story. :-(
Right. Much better in the days when the US was using the sturdy Challenger and Columbia...
It's the Firefox prototype anyway.
Unfortunately, only one of the two presidential candidates in France supports maintaining nuclear energy as-is (at a time when France is making money exporting energy to other countries like Germany and the UK), and he's probably going to lose. Hollande wants to reduce nuclear to 50% from 80%.
The only place with 100% sunshine 100% of the time is in space. Same with the wind.
Last time I checked, there wasn't much gaseous wind in space.
You just listed 2, count 'em 2, shortcomings. Here's a shortcoming of Photoshop: it costs $700 (extended version costs $1000). Those 2 shortcomings of GIMP you mentioned will likely be addressed in the next version. 90% of would-be Photoshop users are probably OK with GIMP's features as it is, now that it has a single window mode.
Man, get over the name thing. I've said to a few people now that "I use GIMP for most graphics editing" (notice the lack of the definite article) and there's no problem. It was the same thing with Git - for a short time it sounded weird to say that I used it but it became commonplace enough that it stopped sounding weird. In that context it's just the name of a software program.
I'm with Be, who used to be an independent ISP but they got bought out by O2.
Fuck. This country sucks.
Fission energy research: +$765 million
If we can get Integral Fast Reactors being built, then at least fission is a very good way of generating power resulting in very little (short-lived) nuclear waste.
If you want a reliable distro that will survive every other distro, you go with Debian. The developers fight like cats and dogs and it just keeps going on, getting better and better.
Except for GNOME3...
There is? All I've ever found is P&T interviews where Penn blowhards and Teller mimes. Do you have a link to a single video of Teller talking?
The 486 was the king of the heap and man, even that was slow. It took forever to do normal tasks. I remember having my computer print something and wandering off to the kitchen to get a snack while I waited for it to deal with all the work of rasterizing and sending the document to the printer.
That must be because you weren't using W-w-w-Windows, Windows, Windows 386, and your thoughts weren't coming together real quick.
Abortion, no matter how you feel about it, is a thoroughly stressful event both physically and mentally for the woman involved.
Says you. How do you know all women get stressed by it? Maybe some like the better sex one gets without a condom, and are perfectly fine with abortion. In fact, I strongly suspect that is the case. Most of the stress often comes from religious groups who use wield irrational beliefs to try and make women feel guilty about it.
Nigh on everybody wants to see less abortion
I don't. I want to see plenty of abortion, and I want to see it be quick, cheap, and easy. It should IMHO be considered a perfectly good form of birth control, as long as it's done in the first trimester. I want this because I don't believe a zygote or early foetus has a soul. Can you give me any other good reason(s) why abortion is somehow bad if what you're "killing" is less than when you brush your teeth?