Is there nothing or no one who we can beat around with the Slashdot effect?
How about RMS? Keep linking to one of his "It's GNU/Linux and nothing else matters" article from Slashdot every once in a while. Hopefully, he'll push the anti-patents thing with all his might to stop us from linking!
"While I was "flying" down the road yesterday (i.e., 10 mph over the limit),I passed over a bridge only to find a a cop with a radar gun on the other side laying in wait.
The cop pulled me over, walked up to the car, and with that classic patronizing smirk we all know and love, asked, "What's your hurry?"
To which I replied, "I'm late for work."
"Oh yeah," said the cop, "what do you do?"
"I'm a rectum stretcher," I responded.
The cop was stammered, "A what? A rectum stretcher? And just what does a rectum stretcher do?"
"Well," I said, "I start by inserting one finger, then I work my way up to two fingers, then three, then four, then with my whole hand in I work side to side until I can get both hands in, and then I slowly but surely stretch, until it's about 6 foot wide."
"And just what the hell do you do with a 6 foot asshole?"
To which I politely replied, "You give him a radar gun and park him behind a bridge....."
Traffic Ticket: 95.00
Court Costs: 45.00
The Look on that Cop's Face: PRICELESS
Yes but we know now that we'll never get to see 'protected' documents from Outlook users. There won't be an Unix version see.
I'll be doing just what you do. Reply with a polite message saying "Please stop using Outlook. It's got a serious bug that Microsoft has not and will not acknowledge. I cannot read your message.".
The bug being the product itself which is not standards compliant.
Quite right. And then later, they can slowly allow artists to directly deal with Apple thereby getting rid of record companies.
And in a very short while... When contracts die and new artists come up...
Ofcourse, the videos stay but then we need those.
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This is so darn old... I thought Slashdot was bleeding edge! Here is the original forward FYI:
Titled: Do Spellings Matter?
"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon.
Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang"
And if you liked *that* one so much, you might like this one too:
Read the sentence below carefully:
"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness".
This is a sentence where the Nth word is N letters long.
e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long, 8th word is 8 letters long and so on.
And if you like that one too, here is another one you can try to kill your boredom...
While sitting, draw clockwise circles on the ground with your right foot. While doing that, try drawing the number "6" in air with your right hand.
Once they tell us what code it is they're talking about, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to go back into code and find exactly who put it in.
The way they're going with the whole case, it's quite possible.
Aah but that's where it's at. It's a story of great magnitude to us, because we see one story a day about it here.
Most people I know haven't even heard of the damn case. So someone taking 5 minutes off their day would really help, me thinks. I'd have done it if I were there.
1. No, it's not. For hints, look up the Gentoo Portage System, FreeBSD Ports collection, RedHat up2date, Mandrake urpmi, SuSe's yast2. Just a few.
2. Indeed, this is a problem in most distros. But XFree86 4.3 comes with a tool (the name skips me) which you could use on any distro running X 4.3. A Google Search, or reading the manual (since you seem to hate the RTFM term) will help you find it.
3. I am not a junior highschool student. While I do want to help, I'd like to help people who have genuine questions. Not people who are lazy. Try the manuals, try Google, try the groups... If you don't manage to do anything, then ask away - in the right places. You will manage though, just like millions of others have. If not, I guess waiting a couple of years till Linux is REALLY mature enough for the newbies, would do good.
4. Depends on the distro. This indeed is a bit cranky but then I don't see why one needs to really bother with this. See #1.
You must be real slow at typing (first post)!:)
Anyway, what are newbie's doing with distros that want them to configure X? Why don't they start with distro's that already come with autodetection features - Redhat, Mandrake, SuSe, even Knoppix. Why not?
There is nothing wrong with each distro having it's way of organizing files. You only need to see which way of organizing you relate to, and stick to that.
I personally use FreeBSD, nothing beats it. Each way of organizing things has a reason behind why it came. Try finding out why before bitching about it. See what you relate to more and stick to that distro.
The Netscape look and feel absolutely SUCKS. I hoped after their idea of splitting browser and mail that they would finally get more creative. Guess not.
Contrary to popular belief, people who live in rural areas aren't really that dumb. Local leaders usually are, and would think of such an idea as ingenious. It rarely works.
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Obviously, they can't do it so openly!
Here it is: http://www.booble.com
Working hard to make sure he works hard :P
Is there nothing or no one who we can beat around with the Slashdot effect? How about RMS? Keep linking to one of his "It's GNU/Linux and nothing else matters" article from Slashdot every once in a while. Hopefully, he'll push the anti-patents thing with all his might to stop us from linking!
Not to mention, they are unlikely to get ANY further investment...
The "Big brother", Microsoft, will figure some way out for them.
I'm beginning to like the feller's down at USPTO. They're having a ball.
"Oh let them fuckers handle it later. We'll be long dead by then."
The cop pulled me over, walked up to the car, and with that classic patronizing smirk we all know and love, asked, "What's your hurry?"
To which I replied, "I'm late for work."
"Oh yeah," said the cop, "what do you do?"
"I'm a rectum stretcher," I responded.
The cop was stammered, "A what? A rectum stretcher? And just what does a rectum stretcher do?"
"Well," I said, "I start by inserting one finger, then I work my way up to two fingers, then three, then four, then with my whole hand in I work side to side until I can get both hands in, and then I slowly but surely stretch, until it's about 6 foot wide."
"And just what the hell do you do with a 6 foot asshole?"
To which I politely replied, "You give him a radar gun and park him behind a bridge....."
Traffic Ticket: 95.00
Court Costs: 45.00
The Look on that Cop's Face: PRICELESS
Also pronounced turdmark is some parts of the world...
*yawn*
FAQ the FAQin FAQ about the FAQin name change.
Don't sweat it. For all we know, this only bites the Windows users :))
To know there were people who actually bought sex for $2,495 in the 80s!
When one takes the Mac home, said one market watcher, ``It's not a one-night stand. You fall in love with it.''
Not a couple of months... Just about 1 day and 9 hours left now. :)
The next stable release is Evolution 2.0 (on March 3rd, according to their roadmap) and not 1.6.
Bill!! Save us! We actually have weirdos who wade through 9 million hits! Save us, please! 16 is all we need!
Yes but we know now that we'll never get to see 'protected' documents from Outlook users. There won't be an Unix version see.
I'll be doing just what you do. Reply with a polite message saying "Please stop using Outlook. It's got a serious bug that Microsoft has not and will not acknowledge. I cannot read your message.".
The bug being the product itself which is not standards compliant.
Quite right. And then later, they can slowly allow artists to directly deal with Apple thereby getting rid of record companies.
And in a very short while... When contracts die and new artists come up...
Ofcourse, the videos stay but then we need those.
This is so darn old... I thought Slashdot was bleeding edge! Here is the original forward FYI:
Titled: Do Spellings Matter?
"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and
reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon.
Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel
prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang"
And if you liked *that* one so much, you might like this one too:
Read the sentence below carefully:
"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness".
This is a sentence where the Nth word is N letters long.
e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long, 8th word is 8 letters long and so on.
And if you like that one too, here is another one you can try to kill your boredom...
While sitting, draw clockwise circles on the ground with your right foot. While doing that, try drawing the number "6" in air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction.
yes, but what are you to say something like "see other thread" on a place like slashdot?!!
Once they tell us what code it is they're talking about, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to go back into code and find exactly who put it in. The way they're going with the whole case, it's quite possible.
Aah but that's where it's at. It's a story of great magnitude to us, because we see one story a day about it here.
Most people I know haven't even heard of the damn case. So someone taking 5 minutes off their day would really help, me thinks. I'd have done it if I were there.
1. No, it's not. For hints, look up the Gentoo Portage System, FreeBSD Ports collection, RedHat up2date, Mandrake urpmi, SuSe's yast2. Just a few.
2. Indeed, this is a problem in most distros. But XFree86 4.3 comes with a tool (the name skips me) which you could use on any distro running X 4.3. A Google Search, or reading the manual (since you seem to hate the RTFM term) will help you find it.
3. I am not a junior highschool student. While I do want to help, I'd like to help people who have genuine questions. Not people who are lazy. Try the manuals, try Google, try the groups... If you don't manage to do anything, then ask away - in the right places. You will manage though, just like millions of others have. If not, I guess waiting a couple of years till Linux is REALLY mature enough for the newbies, would do good.
4. Depends on the distro. This indeed is a bit cranky but then I don't see why one needs to really bother with this. See #1.
You must be real slow at typing (first post)! :)
Anyway, what are newbie's doing with distros that want them to configure X? Why don't they start with distro's that already come with autodetection features - Redhat, Mandrake, SuSe, even Knoppix. Why not?
There is nothing wrong with each distro having it's way of organizing files. You only need to see which way of organizing you relate to, and stick to that.
I personally use FreeBSD, nothing beats it. Each way of organizing things has a reason behind why it came. Try finding out why before bitching about it. See what you relate to more and stick to that distro.
The Netscape look and feel absolutely SUCKS. I hoped after their idea of splitting browser and mail that they would finally get more creative. Guess not.
Evolution it is.
Hmmm... Here is history in brief:
1947 is when India got it's Independence
1950 is when India became a Republic
1952 is when India's first general elections were conducted. The Congress won, and came to power.
Contrary to popular belief, people who live in rural areas aren't really that dumb. Local leaders usually are, and would think of such an idea as ingenious. It rarely works.