Been there once, very interesting place. Friendly people and travelling is really easy due to the excellent mass transportation systems. I dunno why Amtrak and friends even bother anymore:(
actually, they're working on making the trains run better according to schedule.
nowadays you can even get a refund if a train is delayed too long:) ---
So let me get this straight the mightiest country in the world The United States of America is lame?
yes it is.
all this talk about how much freedom you're supposed have when in fact it's not that free at all.
things like softdrugs and prostitution are illegal, you'll probably say that it's not good for you to use softdrugs or not moral to go to a hooker, but at least I made that decision for myself instead of that the government made it for me. I have the freedom to choose and set my own standards, you don't. ---
maybe you or the cops you do realize it's illegal right?
No it's not, I can go out and buy some right now, walk over to the police building and offer some to one of the officers, he'll probably smile at me and refuse the offer.
just because it's illegal in your lame-ass country doesn't mean it's illegal everywhere ---
[quote]I hack my machines regularly. Video cards and occasionally motherboards move on a 6-month to 1-year basis. I also reformat my partition every 3 months for Windows, every 6 months for Linux. Does this mean I'll have to be constantly calling in to get new keys? That's just ridiculous[/quote]
You'd better get yourself extra phone line + phone (program the MS number under speeddial #1) ---
Sheesh, get a real stereo, and stop listening to 'music' on those little tinny PC speakers.
Who says I have tiny little PC speakers ?
I know lot's of people who have a PC + amplifier + speakers but without the CD player or tuner. they just use their PC to listen to CD's, MP3's and streaming audio (much better then FM music imho) ---
I would like to pay for Linux (actually, I have bought some SuSE distro's in the past) but stuff like this is too difficult, how am I going to pay, credit card ? I don't have one. ---
The point is that smokers are the people creating the problem, and they think the whole world should adapt to them.
offcourse you have the right to smoke, but you don't have the right to put nicotine in my lungs, smoke in you own home where no one is bothered by it. ---
Too bad there is no such thing as a god and the bible is just a fairy tale (although a very violent and disturbing one that shouldn't be read to children)
lots of people don't believe in a god, don't try to force your ideas on them. ---
As long as people's telecom companies don't feel that they need a broadband connection
No, everybody can get Cable/DSL, if it isn't available in your area, move to a place where it is available.
if you don't upgrade your computer, you can't play the newest games, too bad for you, life ain't fair.
Bandwidth is just another upgrade. ---
Read the discworld novels. when it's "a million-to-one chance, but it might just work" it will allways work, 999,999 to 1 or 1,000,001 to one don't it has to be exactly a million to one:) ---
[quote]degrade performance when video or other graphical data is processed through a PCI bus[/quote]
why just video ?
I don't think the PCI bus can detect the kind of data is transporting so it must affect other things as well. ---
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I completely agree with you, The US isn't a free country if you can't even decide for yourself if you want to poison your body.
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This proxy approach is a really smart but simple idea, now the idea is out, how long will it take for a UNIX proxy is written ?
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Probably Holland.
yepBeen there once, very interesting place. Friendly people and travelling is really easy due to the excellent mass transportation systems. I dunno why Amtrak and friends even bother anymore :(
actually, they're working on making the trains run better according to schedule.nowadays you can even get a refund if a train is delayed too long
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So let me get this straight the mightiest country in the world The United States of America is lame?
yes it is. all this talk about how much freedom you're supposed have when in fact it's not that free at all.things like softdrugs and prostitution are illegal, you'll probably say that it's not good for you to use softdrugs or not moral to go to a hooker, but at least I made that decision for myself instead of that the government made it for me.
I have the freedom to choose and set my own standards, you don't.
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maybe you or the cops you do realize it's illegal right?
No it's not, I can go out and buy some right now, walk over to the police building and offer some to one of the officers, he'll probably smile at me and refuse the offer.
just because it's illegal in your lame-ass country doesn't mean it's illegal everywhere
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No, the idea is that they can determine when it has to self-destruct, windows destructs your PC at random times.
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[quote]I hack my machines regularly. Video cards and occasionally motherboards move on a 6-month to 1-year basis. I also reformat my partition every 3 months for Windows, every 6 months for Linux. Does this mean I'll have to be constantly calling in to get new keys? That's just ridiculous[/quote]
You'd better get yourself extra phone line + phone (program the MS number under speeddial #1)
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"You can make it fool proof, but you can't make it damn fool proof"
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Does squant look like octarine (the color of magic) ?
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Sheesh, get a real stereo, and stop listening to 'music' on those little tinny PC speakers.
Who says I have tiny little PC speakers ? I know lot's of people who have a PC + amplifier + speakers but without the CD player or tuner. they just use their PC to listen to CD's, MP3's and streaming audio (much better then FM music imho)
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I would like to pay for Linux (actually, I have bought some SuSE distro's in the past) but stuff like this is too difficult, how am I going to pay, credit card ? I don't have one.
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There are some big distro's that ship with KDE as default e.g. SuSE (very popular in europe) and Mandrake
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set you 14" to a resolution 5000x5000 your font size to 300 and even 160x600 banners won't be that big :)
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The point is that smokers are the people creating the problem, and they think the whole world should adapt to them.
offcourse you have the right to smoke, but you don't have the right to put nicotine in my lungs, smoke in you own home where no one is bothered by it.
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Why shouldn't smokers have the same rights as anybody else?
they do, just put out your cigaret and you can visit all the non-smoking areas you want
why should smokers have more rights then non-smokers ?
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Too bad there is no such thing as a god and the bible is just a fairy tale (although a very violent and disturbing one that shouldn't be read to children)
lots of people don't believe in a god, don't try to force your ideas on them.
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The post above mine said it wasn't possible for him to switch to RoadRunner, I just said it is possible.
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Only people that have TimeWarner cable can get roadrunner.
so move to an area that has TimeWarner cable.
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Don't you mean???
As long as people's telecom companies don't feel that they need a broadband connection
No, everybody can get Cable/DSL, if it isn't available in your area, move to a place where it is available.
if you don't upgrade your computer, you can't play the newest games, too bad for you, life ain't fair.
Bandwidth is just another upgrade.
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Read the discworld novels. when it's "a million-to-one chance, but it might just work" it will allways work, 999,999 to 1 or 1,000,001 to one don't it has to be exactly a million to one :)
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And now let's include all files in subdirectories too. with complete relative pathnames from the directory you've started from, sorted by alphabet.
find | sort > dirlist.txt
how are you going to do that in you nice looking gui ?
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Select * from /dev/hda1 where filetype="mp3" AND artist="moby" and bpm>120
:)
that would be SO cool
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Why not use real, it can run on windows AND linux.
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Linux powered but you need windows media player to see the video.
.. so all linux hackers live in the US ?
"All American" hmm
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[quote]degrade performance when video or other graphical data is processed through a PCI bus[/quote]
why just video ?
I don't think the PCI bus can detect the kind of data is transporting so it must affect other things as well.
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