It's missing lots of stuff. Integrated calendar, exchange support (can't really blame them for that one), speed, an interface that isn't 10 years old, and oh, innovation!
It's just Netscape Mail with a junk filter.
Oh, 1.0's got message grouping? Big deal. Give me something new! How about just letting me minimize it to the taskbar!!! Is that really that hard to do?
Meijer has a reputation for selling things inadvertently before the "drop" date. I've bought a few CDs there as much as two weeks before they were supposed to go on sale. I have a friend that works at one and I worked at one for a while. I got Madden 2k5 for the PS2 this way, also. I've heard that many stores' cash registers won't allow products to be scanned until the date.
Jamie and Adam both own special effects companies in hollywood, that's why they know so much about remote control police cars and ballistics gel and all that other cool stuff.
How sad is your life when your decision to move to another country is based on your recreation?
That's like saying, "I'm moving to England because Cricket just ain't popular enough here." Besides, running to Canada would be the pussy's way out. You should stay here and fight for your right if you feel it should be a right.
Plus, Canada's not as lenient as you would think. Pot is still illegal up there, too. Dumbass.
Refusal to obey civil laws in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation, characterized by the use of passive resistance or other nonviolent means.
Destroying voting machines is about as violent as standing on a boat and throwing bales of tea into a harbor.
Notice it says civil laws, dumbass. Destroying voting machines would most certainly violate many criminal laws.
the requirements to vote absentee are determined state-by-state, and in Indiana, at least, there is no such requirement. You can vote absentee for any reason you want.
Actually, in many states, it is the employer's responsibility. Plus, when a stated benefit is stated as part of a compensation package, then it is the employer's responsibility to keep that benefit for that employee unless a previous agreement is made.
cable television. that's rich. i haven't had cable television since i left the parents' house.
Then, even if said person can get a college education (there's more to affording college than tuition and books - childcare, having to live off two or more jobs to pay for it all, then trying to find time to study - plus, some people just don't have the intelligence to go to college), if they are over 45, it's going to be next to impossible to find an employer to invest in someone who can only work for another 15-20 years. I know what you're going to say, that's why it's illegal to discriminate based on age. It's very expensive to fight that kind of thing, which is something an unemployed person can't afford.
exactly. i use photoshop at work because a)it's still the best out there, b)it's there, and c)i'd feel bad that my employer paid a lot of money for it and it just sat there. (I know they didn't pay the street price, because it's a large university, so they probably got a good deal)
Actually, I live in a ghetto (Haughville represent!), and have for most of my life (when I was 16, my dad got a good job, but now that i'm on my own, back in the ghetto - for now) and find your statement that people in the ghetto don't trust anyone there to be insulting. Most people in a poor neighborhood know who it is that is bringing the neighborhood down. Usually, at least in the neighborhoods I've lived in, the decent people in that neighborhood trust each other.
However, it is true that no one wants to live in a bad neighborhood, but there's a reason for that: non-residents. It's true. All the elements that make a neighborhood bad are out of that neighborhod's direct control. Namely drug pushers, slumlords, vacant houses, criminals, bad cops (there's a few out there), and unsympathetic people. Most criminals come from a different neighborhood. Drug pushers don't live here, vacant houses and slumlords (guys who won't fix their properties) devalue property, and bad cops perpetuate the ideal that the man doesn't look out for you. When you're black and you get in a dispute with a white store owner, he gets the benefit of the doubt (disclaimer: I'm white, but I've seen this happen).
However, most of the rest of your comment is true.
Ok, how about the woman with two kids whose husband was killed in a car accident? is that a lifestyle choice? that's my neighbor. the little pittance she got from his life insurance paid for the funeral and paid off the car and three months' mortgage. had to sell her house and get a second job. moved to where i am (a shitty area, I'm only here to use the maximum of my money for schooling) and is on TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) and food stamps, and when the TANF runs out, she'll have to try to get AFDC (aid to families with dependent children), which is not as easy as people believe.
people down on their luck aren't always "whores". In fact, if you'll consult the 2000 census, you'll see that the majority of welfare recipients are, contrary to what the Republican liars tell you, white rural families, not inner-city black single mothers who "can't keep their legs together".
Damn you unfeeling bastards and your unfair stereotypes.
But really, how many of Oracle's customers actually need all of Oracle's features to do the job that they're doing?
That's true. But, how many people need all of MS Word's features (or all the features of any large, monolithic program/solution) for their job. The point is, if I need to use the group collaboration features, it's there. If I need to do stored procedures (don't know what that is, not a db guy), it's there. If I need to use the group scheduling features of Outlook, it's there. I don't use Outlook for anything other than checking email at work, but those other features are there if I need them.
That being said, it would be better if developers took the Firefox/Mozilla stance on features. Put the core features in the main product, put all those "it'd be nice if it did this" features in extensions.
I don't think this is as important as you make it out to be. I don't think Linux needs to be able to run these specific apps (MacOS doesn't, and it's still more popular than Linux), but need to provide a program to accomplish the same functions (which it does with all those programs) and not have the steep learning curve on installation and use that many Linux apps have, especially multimedia apps like xine or mplayer or xmms. It took me, a Linux noob, 2 weeks to install xine on Fedora core 1, after going through dependency hell and configuration issues, having to give up every day after an hour or so so I didn't just throw the damned box out the window.
One thing I don't understand is, and won't get Linux over the hump until it's solved is - why do I have to get dependencies from 25 different places? When a Windows app installs, 99 times out of 100, it's already solved my dependencies for me and installs needed DLLs and makes the required configuration changes. Would it be so hard to package dependencies with the package? Most Linux apps already have distro-specific binary packages, why not just add those libraries in there?
I know, because Linux-o-philes say that knowing what's going on in your system is more important than convenience. Not to my mom, not to my sister, and not to me when I need to install this app yesterday. It's nice to be able to look under the hood, so to speak, but true installation packages one the level of Microsoft installer or even NSIS (the open-source installer Winamp uses) is required to play with the big guys.
Oh, and BTW, having to edit text conf files for non-geeky apps like daemons or network monitors is just not acceptable.
That's why I like Gaim. No files to hand configure, and installs easily.
a little from column A, a little from column B. Yes, I know the difference between cosmology and cosmetology, I just didn't realize someone could be so touchy about a lame joke.
However, can be handled now with content-negotiation. If your server supports it (Apache does, don't know about IIS), you can just make 2 different versions of the graphic(example.gif and example.png), then in the HTML, just use src="example" and the browser will display which one it wants to.
In XHTML2, you'll be able to put images in any tag, you could have <p src="image.gif">here is some alternate text</p> and whatever's in the context will be shown if there's a prob with the image.
I don't know about the blowing a whole day. The college I go to (a pretty large 4-year uni) has macs in just about every lab (average about 5 per 20 PCs, with about 40-50 in the library) and i'll use a mac when the PCs are all taken.
Anyway, I saw someone upgrade the library macs to the newest version (panther, i think? not a mac guy) in about 5 hours using some sort of ghosting program. It's obvious, though, that the support people don't really know what they're doing with them, though, because whenever someone goes to tell them about a problem, they just stare at the damn things.
that eventually, with a new bug report/vulnerabilty coming out every week or so, IE would be bug free. I mean, it's been in stable, production mode on 6.0 for what, 4-5 years now?
How many vulnerabilities can one piece of software have?
Because implementing CSS3 right now would be suicide. It's what happened with CSS1. MS implemented it in IE before it was finalized. Then a bunch of things changed, and Microsoft got blamed for the shittty support.
No doubt it's difficult, and Americans do realize that, we just don't really care. We're brainwashed to think that if we don't care, we're not cool or sophisticated. Not true. We just don't care.
No, that's not ironic. That's perfectly sensible. It falls under the "can't yell fire in a crowded theater" principle. It incites violence and riots. It's like standing in front of a crowd and yelling, "hey! let's go kill that guy over there!".
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And yes, of course I meant to the system tray/notification area.
It's missing lots of stuff. Integrated calendar, exchange support (can't really blame them for that one), speed, an interface that isn't 10 years old, and oh, innovation!
It's just Netscape Mail with a junk filter.
Oh, 1.0's got message grouping? Big deal. Give me something new! How about just letting me minimize it to the taskbar!!! Is that really that hard to do?
Meijer has a reputation for selling things inadvertently before the "drop" date. I've bought a few CDs there as much as two weeks before they were supposed to go on sale. I have a friend that works at one and I worked at one for a while. I got Madden 2k5 for the PS2 this way, also. I've heard that many stores' cash registers won't allow products to be scanned until the date.
Jamie and Adam both own special effects companies in hollywood, that's why they know so much about remote control police cars and ballistics gel and all that other cool stuff.
How sad is your life when your decision to move to another country is based on your recreation?
That's like saying, "I'm moving to England because Cricket just ain't popular enough here." Besides, running to Canada would be the pussy's way out. You should stay here and fight for your right if you feel it should be a right.
Plus, Canada's not as lenient as you would think. Pot is still illegal up there, too. Dumbass.
civil disobedience
n.
Refusal to obey civil laws in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation, characterized by the use of passive resistance or other nonviolent means.
Destroying voting machines is about as violent as standing on a boat and throwing bales of tea into a harbor.
Notice it says civil laws, dumbass. Destroying voting machines would most certainly violate many criminal laws.
the requirements to vote absentee are determined state-by-state, and in Indiana, at least, there is no such requirement. You can vote absentee for any reason you want.
Dumbass. Vandalism is not civil disobedience. civil disobedience does not involve hurting others and does not involve destroying property.
You talk big, but you don't know what the hell you're saying. Sounds like our current President.
Actually, in many states, it is the employer's responsibility. Plus, when a stated benefit is stated as part of a compensation package, then it is the employer's responsibility to keep that benefit for that employee unless a previous agreement is made.
cable television. that's rich. i haven't had cable television since i left the parents' house.
Then, even if said person can get a college education (there's more to affording college than tuition and books - childcare, having to live off two or more jobs to pay for it all, then trying to find time to study - plus, some people just don't have the intelligence to go to college), if they are over 45, it's going to be next to impossible to find an employer to invest in someone who can only work for another 15-20 years. I know what you're going to say, that's why it's illegal to discriminate based on age. It's very expensive to fight that kind of thing, which is something an unemployed person can't afford.
exactly. i use photoshop at work because a)it's still the best out there, b)it's there, and c)i'd feel bad that my employer paid a lot of money for it and it just sat there. (I know they didn't pay the street price, because it's a large university, so they probably got a good deal)
Actually, I live in a ghetto (Haughville represent!), and have for most of my life (when I was 16, my dad got a good job, but now that i'm on my own, back in the ghetto - for now) and find your statement that people in the ghetto don't trust anyone there to be insulting. Most people in a poor neighborhood know who it is that is bringing the neighborhood down. Usually, at least in the neighborhoods I've lived in, the decent people in that neighborhood trust each other.
However, it is true that no one wants to live in a bad neighborhood, but there's a reason for that: non-residents. It's true. All the elements that make a neighborhood bad are out of that neighborhod's direct control. Namely drug pushers, slumlords, vacant houses, criminals, bad cops (there's a few out there), and unsympathetic people. Most criminals come from a different neighborhood. Drug pushers don't live here, vacant houses and slumlords (guys who won't fix their properties) devalue property, and bad cops perpetuate the ideal that the man doesn't look out for you. When you're black and you get in a dispute with a white store owner, he gets the benefit of the doubt (disclaimer: I'm white, but I've seen this happen).
However, most of the rest of your comment is true.
Ok, how about the woman with two kids whose husband was killed in a car accident? is that a lifestyle choice? that's my neighbor. the little pittance she got from his life insurance paid for the funeral and paid off the car and three months' mortgage. had to sell her house and get a second job. moved to where i am (a shitty area, I'm only here to use the maximum of my money for schooling) and is on TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) and food stamps, and when the TANF runs out, she'll have to try to get AFDC (aid to families with dependent children), which is not as easy as people believe.
people down on their luck aren't always "whores". In fact, if you'll consult the 2000 census, you'll see that the majority of welfare recipients are, contrary to what the Republican liars tell you, white rural families, not inner-city black single mothers who "can't keep their legs together".
Damn you unfeeling bastards and your unfair stereotypes.
Gimp 2 rules on WinXP. I haven't had a crash yet. It still has that ugly command-line error output, but at least it's stable.
But really, how many of Oracle's customers actually need all of Oracle's features to do the job that they're doing?
That's true. But, how many people need all of MS Word's features (or all the features of any large, monolithic program/solution) for their job. The point is, if I need to use the group collaboration features, it's there. If I need to do stored procedures (don't know what that is, not a db guy), it's there. If I need to use the group scheduling features of Outlook, it's there. I don't use Outlook for anything other than checking email at work, but those other features are there if I need them.
That being said, it would be better if developers took the Firefox/Mozilla stance on features. Put the core features in the main product, put all those "it'd be nice if it did this" features in extensions.
I don't think this is as important as you make it out to be. I don't think Linux needs to be able to run these specific apps (MacOS doesn't, and it's still more popular than Linux), but need to provide a program to accomplish the same functions (which it does with all those programs) and not have the steep learning curve on installation and use that many Linux apps have, especially multimedia apps like xine or mplayer or xmms. It took me, a Linux noob, 2 weeks to install xine on Fedora core 1, after going through dependency hell and configuration issues, having to give up every day after an hour or so so I didn't just throw the damned box out the window.
One thing I don't understand is, and won't get Linux over the hump until it's solved is - why do I have to get dependencies from 25 different places? When a Windows app installs, 99 times out of 100, it's already solved my dependencies for me and installs needed DLLs and makes the required configuration changes. Would it be so hard to package dependencies with the package? Most Linux apps already have distro-specific binary packages, why not just add those libraries in there?
I know, because Linux-o-philes say that knowing what's going on in your system is more important than convenience. Not to my mom, not to my sister, and not to me when I need to install this app yesterday. It's nice to be able to look under the hood, so to speak, but true installation packages one the level of Microsoft installer or even NSIS (the open-source installer Winamp uses) is required to play with the big guys.
Oh, and BTW, having to edit text conf files for non-geeky apps like daemons or network monitors is just not acceptable.
That's why I like Gaim. No files to hand configure, and installs easily.
a little from column A, a little from column B. Yes, I know the difference between cosmology and cosmetology, I just didn't realize someone could be so touchy about a lame joke.
That patent expired what, two years ago?
However, can be handled now with content-negotiation. If your server supports it (Apache does, don't know about IIS), you can just make 2 different versions of the graphic(example.gif and example.png), then in the HTML, just use src="example" and the browser will display which one it wants to.
In XHTML2, you'll be able to put images in any tag, you could have <p src="image.gif">here is some alternate text</p> and whatever's in the context will be shown if there's a prob with the image.
I don't know about the blowing a whole day. The college I go to (a pretty large 4-year uni) has macs in just about every lab (average about 5 per 20 PCs, with about 40-50 in the library) and i'll use a mac when the PCs are all taken.
Anyway, I saw someone upgrade the library macs to the newest version (panther, i think? not a mac guy) in about 5 hours using some sort of ghosting program. It's obvious, though, that the support people don't really know what they're doing with them, though, because whenever someone goes to tell them about a problem, they just stare at the damn things.
Posted AC to protect my fiancé (a cosmology PhD student), the source of most of my info on Hawking...
:o)
Wow, I didn't know they offered doctorates in makeup and hair care!
not to mention that his wife is a crazy bitch that beats him and has locked him out of the house numerous times.
that eventually, with a new bug report/vulnerabilty coming out every week or so, IE would be bug free. I mean, it's been in stable, production mode on 6.0 for what, 4-5 years now?
How many vulnerabilities can one piece of software have?
Because implementing CSS3 right now would be suicide. It's what happened with CSS1. MS implemented it in IE before it was finalized. Then a bunch of things changed, and Microsoft got blamed for the shittty support.
No doubt it's difficult, and Americans do realize that, we just don't really care. We're brainwashed to think that if we don't care, we're not cool or sophisticated. Not true. We just don't care.
No, that's not ironic. That's perfectly sensible. It falls under the "can't yell fire in a crowded theater" principle. It incites violence and riots. It's like standing in front of a crowd and yelling, "hey! let's go kill that guy over there!".