I mean, I know you were being funny, but I did some digging in to what it actually makes it so difficult to install that the docs are willing to pay ten large.
Our main app currently requires a specific sub-version of 1.4.
It won't work with 1.5. We constantly have to explain this to our customers, who then need to get their own corporate IT involved, all to get the correct JRE installed on a half-dozen user's machines.
Rather than deal with the headache of upgrading and the possibility that we'll have to do this again for 1.6, we're porting everything over to JavaScript and CSS. Because it's easier to write cross-'platform' code that way. Who'd a thunk?
Dude, seriously. They still sell vinyl. And a used LP is likely half the cost of the used CD version.
The primary advantage of vinyl is that it makes the hipster girls all wet when they see your sagging bookshelves crammed with a couple thousand LPs.
The primary disadvantage of vinyl is that you will eventually end up marrying one of those hipster girls, make several moves over a few years, and discover that those very same LPs have a density greater that a neutron star.
Actually, there are 4+ meanings for every sound in Chinese. Depending on your inflection, the word "ma" can mean mother, horse, or hemp, among other things.
One would think that they'd actually have an easier time getting around the filters than their yingyu equivalents.
Quitcherbitchin'. At least it's better than the three hours of Powerpoint that we get for [i]every[/i] class over in IT.
I never thought that OCAS would ever make me pine for McMicken, but these days I find myself getting misty over how engaged even the freshman comp TAs were back when I was getting my BA...
The fonts themselves are the copyrighted work, the look shape and feel of them...
Wrong.
The "look and feel" of a series of squiggles on a page/screen is a typeface, not a "font."
Which is why I could create a font that exactly mimics the look and feel of Comic Sans, call it Comik Sanz, and use it at 48pt in all of my business correspondence.
Ummm... no, they ripped me off by charging more than they should have for a product that I bought.
You poor dear. It must have been pretty scary when those big, bad record companies barged through the door, held a gun to your head, and forced you to buy those CDs.
Same deal for those poor, misguided artists. I mean, the idea of somebody in the music industry driving a faustian bargian is just inconceivable. If some guy in a suit were to offer me a diamond-encrused Hummer full of cocaine and naked women, I wouldn't think he'd expect me to do anything for him at all.
You know, I like the way you think. GM sold me a car that turned out to be a peice of shit. I bet they only paid their workers a few bucks an hour to make it, too. I think I'm gonna swing by the Chevy dealer to help myself to a new set of wheels.
Indeed. He's assuming that GNU/Linux developers, every last one of them, actually give a rats ass what type jelly MS manages to pull out from behind its sweaty, pimpled ballsack. Many people were working on the kernel a long fucking time before anbody in a suit cared about it in the slightest, and they'll continue to work on it if the suits lose interest.
Is it just me, or does Dvorak get dumber and dumber with every passing column? I mean, I'm aware that he occasionally has an interesting idea, but it seems like the only time he gets the front page on Slashdot, it's for writing something profoundly stupid.
It does when the purchase of, say, a used $4k H80 forces you to start taking bids on a new $10k 120A generator/transfer panel and $5k UPS. Not to mention the new AC to suck out some of that 90F heat that's building up behind the racks.
And that's for a couple of RS/6000's wto IO drawers and half a dozen 7133's.
Heh. I'm friends with couple of hard-core anti-establishment types who were all stoked Chipotle when we first got one in our Midwestern backwater.
It was amazing how quickly they modified their personal belief systems to fit their consumer preferences when I told them that it's a subsidiary of McD's.
Is anybody else sick of hearing about the Transcendence of Gadgetry?
I mean, Apple (and the drinkers of its Kool Aid) are probably more guilty of it than anybody else, but I see it all over the place.
I like toys as much as anybody, but that's all they are to me: toys. It's been said over and over again to the point that it's now becoming trite, but these days, you're defined by what you buy. I never really got it until I noticed the market for knitted iPod cozies and lameass journalists who do nothing more than feed the marketing machine.
We live in an age where most of the popular music sucks, the art is derivative, the churches are shills for either the GOP or NAMBLA, and people don't care what kind of horseshit the politicians shove down their throats, so long as they can buy it at Chipotle while dowloading ringtones.
If I ever start waxing obsessive about my Zaurus, please punch me in the face.
Maybe I'm getting old. Or maybe I'm just bitter that I'm currently too broke to afford most of these pleasant diversions. Whatever.
To each his own I suppose. I did not pay premium for my LCD to blur it with ClearType now. I much prefer the jagged but sharp text on an undistorted LCD than the ClearType moire. I think people have to try it out as I believe it may not be to everyone's taste. Peace.
Word.
I run Ubuntu on a crappy ass notebook with a crappy ass, washed out screen, and the only complaint I've got is that I can't get Misc Fixed to work.
Hell, I even prefer it (and the standard Adobe fonts) to the usual Bitstream variants on my big honkin' CRT at work.
Would you mind giving me a brand/model #? And how much you actually paid for it? Is it SD/MMC only? And what do you mean by "small"?
I've got a Zaurus, and I use the SD card for primary storage. Carrying around a little tiny SD adapter would be musch more convenient than carrying the 7-format adapter I currently have.
Thanks.
I've had a few Sierra Nevadas in me, so I can't remember the name of the other place that's not H&RB, but I took my taxes to them last year. I was a part time student, working full time, taking out about $5k in student loans, and grossing ~$25k.
When I ran it myself, I ended up with about $2k in federal refunds. When they did it, it came out to about $2500. Well worth the $125 I paid them.
I got married in March, and my wife has significant medical expenses, so you can bet your sweet ass I'm gonna pay them to do it. Though $250 is the difference between having a ne iRiver and not having a new iRiver, it's also the difference between getting audited and not getting audited.
Just generate hard copy POs? Then a simple php/mysql web-based template/database is probably all you need.
If you need a full-fledged EDI solution, you're kinda SOL. Be prepared to pay through the nose for some VAN to move your data, unless all of your business partners can deal with you using something like Templar (which runs on Linux). You'll also a translator to generate the EDI 850 purchase orders. My shop uses TLE (it runs on AIX; dunno about Linux.)
So yeah, it can quickly become a rather expensive proposition, and a pain in the ass.
Across the river from Kentucky. I regularly pay less than $25.00 for a carton of Camels, and as low as $19.00 with coupons. I got twelve packs for ~ $13.50 the other day.
A carton of one of the 'local' brands (Kentucky's Best, Old Kentucky, etc) can be had for as little as eight bucks.
Living in the asshole of the Midwest has its perks.
I'm *STILL* hacked off about the fact that while all the other builds and platforms got cool cars, the mac users got stuck with a sawed-off station wagon.
Shows how much Mac users know about cool cars. El Caminos are hacked-off Chevelles. Are you telling me you'd take one of these over a 350?
I've been running 9.1 for a couple of weeks now on my 800mhz P3 notebook from KDS. I went ahead and bout the CDs because I'm stuck on dialup at the moment.
I like.
Boot time is a little bit slower than 8.2, but that's probably because I haven't gone through at disabled all the unneeded services yet.
There was an extremely minor irritation with X not recognizing my monitor geometry, so that I got an annoying popup every time KDE started up. Still looked fine. Anyway, I set the physical dimensions in SaX, and now I'm cruising. I didn't bother to figure out whether it's a Suse problem or a KDE problem.
The only MAJOR annoyance is the way GNOME apps look in KDE. Suse has made Liquid the default theme across both desktops, and I hate the way Liquid looks. I much prefer the old GTK default style. Certain widgets still have that oversized, OSX-y 3D look that I find extremely annoying.
Anybody know how to get Gnome apps to use the correct theme when running in KDE?
I've kinda got a feeling that the administration's attitude was, at least somewhat, a product of some of the more recalcitrant desk staff.
You know how there's always some old codger who still bitches about getting rid of the card catalog ten years ago? Well those people also get *jobs* at the library. And since they tend to have worked there for awhile, they're in a better position to influence policy.
And *they* are the ones who get scared/annoyed/confused when they have to show somebody how to sign up for a Hotmail account or clear a printer queue.
I valued the experience and breadth of knowledge of the librarians who had worked there for multiple decades; in-depth knowledge of the physical collection is always going to be a critical part of any serious library. But that experience doesn't automically confer the ability to judge the needs of the community, or the ability to evaluate how technology can be put to use to serve those needs.
Mind you, I'm one of those people who much preferred to work on the old AS/400 system than the new MS SQL/IIS/web-based catalog they're in the middle of implementing now, but that's because I'm in a position to know what sucks and what doesn't.
My wife still works there; otherwise, I'd have made a bigger stink about it on my way out, and maybe contacted some of my pals at the local muckraking indy paper. They were and are in the middle of the worst budget crunch in their history, and are still merrily sinking millions into a halfassed upgrade that won't really improve the quality of the service.
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No shit.
I mean, I know you were being funny, but I did some digging in to what it actually makes it so difficult to install that the docs are willing to pay ten large.
Here's what I came up with.
A basic installation doesn't look like anything tougher than an afternoon's work.
Maybe it's time to pick up a part time job...
Our main app currently requires a specific sub-version of 1.4.
It won't work with 1.5. We constantly have to explain this to our customers, who then need to get their own corporate IT involved, all to get the correct JRE installed on a half-dozen user's machines.
Rather than deal with the headache of upgrading and the possibility that we'll have to do this again for 1.6, we're porting everything over to JavaScript and CSS. Because it's easier to write cross-'platform' code that way. Who'd a thunk?
Dude, seriously. They still sell vinyl. And a used LP is likely half the cost of the used CD version.
The primary advantage of vinyl is that it makes the hipster girls all wet when they see your sagging bookshelves crammed with a couple thousand LPs.
The primary disadvantage of vinyl is that you will eventually end up marrying one of those hipster girls, make several moves over a few years, and discover that those very same LPs have a density greater that a neutron star.
...or even better, "Is the real horse your mother?"
Intermediate Chinese was more than five years ago, so don't flame me if I'm wrong.
It's amazing how much shit you can forget if you don't practice.
Actually, there are 4+ meanings for every sound in Chinese. Depending on your inflection, the word "ma" can mean mother, horse, or hemp, among other things.
One would think that they'd actually have an easier time getting around the filters than their yingyu equivalents.
I never thought that OCAS would ever make me pine for McMicken, but these days I find myself getting misty over how engaged even the freshman comp TAs were back when I was getting my BA...
Wrong.
The "look and feel" of a series of squiggles on a page/screen is a typeface, not a "font."
Which is why I could create a font that exactly mimics the look and feel of Comic Sans, call it Comik Sanz, and use it at 48pt in all of my business correspondence.
Cite.
You poor dear. It must have been pretty scary when those big, bad record companies barged through the door, held a gun to your head, and forced you to buy those CDs.
Same deal for those poor, misguided artists. I mean, the idea of somebody in the music industry driving a faustian bargian is just inconceivable. If some guy in a suit were to offer me a diamond-encrused Hummer full of cocaine and naked women, I wouldn't think he'd expect me to do anything for him at all.
You know, I like the way you think. GM sold me a car that turned out to be a peice of shit. I bet they only paid their workers a few bucks an hour to make it, too. I think I'm gonna swing by the Chevy dealer to help myself to a new set of wheels.
Vive la revolution!
Is it just me, or does Dvorak get dumber and dumber with every passing column? I mean, I'm aware that he occasionally has an interesting idea, but it seems like the only time he gets the front page on Slashdot, it's for writing something profoundly stupid.
And that's for a couple of RS/6000's wto IO drawers and half a dozen 7133's.
Heh. I'm friends with couple of hard-core anti-establishment types who were all stoked Chipotle when we first got one in our Midwestern backwater.
It was amazing how quickly they modified their personal belief systems to fit their consumer preferences when I told them that it's a subsidiary of McD's.
I mean, Apple (and the drinkers of its Kool Aid) are probably more guilty of it than anybody else, but I see it all over the place.
I like toys as much as anybody, but that's all they are to me: toys. It's been said over and over again to the point that it's now becoming trite, but these days, you're defined by what you buy. I never really got it until I noticed the market for knitted iPod cozies and lameass journalists who do nothing more than feed the marketing machine.
We live in an age where most of the popular music sucks, the art is derivative, the churches are shills for either the GOP or NAMBLA, and people don't care what kind of horseshit the politicians shove down their throats, so long as they can buy it at Chipotle while dowloading ringtones.
If I ever start waxing obsessive about my Zaurus, please punch me in the face.
Maybe I'm getting old. Or maybe I'm just bitter that I'm currently too broke to afford most of these pleasant diversions. Whatever.
Word.
I run Ubuntu on a crappy ass notebook with a crappy ass, washed out screen, and the only complaint I've got is that I can't get Misc Fixed to work.
Hell, I even prefer it (and the standard Adobe fonts) to the usual Bitstream variants on my big honkin' CRT at work.
That's awesome. Thanks!
Would you mind giving me a brand/model #? And how much you actually paid for it? Is it SD/MMC only? And what do you mean by "small"? I've got a Zaurus, and I use the SD card for primary storage. Carrying around a little tiny SD adapter would be musch more convenient than carrying the 7-format adapter I currently have. Thanks.
YADitto.
I've had a few Sierra Nevadas in me, so I can't remember the name of the other place that's not H&RB, but I took my taxes to them last year. I was a part time student, working full time, taking out about $5k in student loans, and grossing ~$25k.
When I ran it myself, I ended up with about $2k in federal refunds. When they did it, it came out to about $2500. Well worth the $125 I paid them.
I got married in March, and my wife has significant medical expenses, so you can bet your sweet ass I'm gonna pay them to do it. Though $250 is the difference between having a ne iRiver and not having a new iRiver, it's also the difference between getting audited and not getting audited.
You're half right. It is completely misguided.
If you need a full-fledged EDI solution, you're kinda SOL. Be prepared to pay through the nose for some VAN to move your data, unless all of your business partners can deal with you using something like Templar (which runs on Linux). You'll also a translator to generate the EDI 850 purchase orders. My shop uses TLE (it runs on AIX; dunno about Linux.)
So yeah, it can quickly become a rather expensive proposition, and a pain in the ass.
Across the river from Kentucky. I regularly pay less than $25.00 for a carton of Camels, and as low as $19.00 with coupons. I got twelve packs for ~ $13.50 the other day.
A carton of one of the 'local' brands (Kentucky's Best, Old Kentucky, etc) can be had for as little as eight bucks.
Living in the asshole of the Midwest has its perks.
Yeah, I probably could have written that a little bit better.
Ahem: "I like KDE as a DE, but I tend to prefer the GTK-dependant apps that I use every day to their Qt equivalents..."
Agreed.
I like KDE as a DE, but I tend to prefer the GNOME-dependant apps that I use every day to their KDE equivalents, eg:
- Pan > Knode
- Firefox > Konq
- GIMP > ???
- Nicotime > ???
On the other hand, I prefer Konqueror to Nautilus, which is probably one of the main reasons I stick with KDE as my primary desktop.Shows how much Mac users know about cool cars. El Caminos are hacked-off Chevelles. Are you telling me you'd take one of these over a 350?
I disagree. If you're wearing a red shirt and red pants, then you are Jack White, and you're just annoying.
I like.
Boot time is a little bit slower than 8.2, but that's probably because I haven't gone through at disabled all the unneeded services yet.
There was an extremely minor irritation with X not recognizing my monitor geometry, so that I got an annoying popup every time KDE started up. Still looked fine. Anyway, I set the physical dimensions in SaX, and now I'm cruising. I didn't bother to figure out whether it's a Suse problem or a KDE problem.
The only MAJOR annoyance is the way GNOME apps look in KDE. Suse has made Liquid the default theme across both desktops, and I hate the way Liquid looks. I much prefer the old GTK default style. Certain widgets still have that oversized, OSX-y 3D look that I find extremely annoying.
Anybody know how to get Gnome apps to use the correct theme when running in KDE?
I've kinda got a feeling that the administration's attitude was, at least somewhat, a product of some of the more recalcitrant desk staff.
You know how there's always some old codger who still bitches about getting rid of the card catalog ten years ago? Well those people also get *jobs* at the library. And since they tend to have worked there for awhile, they're in a better position to influence policy.
And *they* are the ones who get scared/annoyed/confused when they have to show somebody how to sign up for a Hotmail account or clear a printer queue.
I valued the experience and breadth of knowledge of the librarians who had worked there for multiple decades; in-depth knowledge of the physical collection is always going to be a critical part of any serious library. But that experience doesn't automically confer the ability to judge the needs of the community, or the ability to evaluate how technology can be put to use to serve those needs.
Mind you, I'm one of those people who much preferred to work on the old AS/400 system than the new MS SQL/IIS/web-based catalog they're in the middle of implementing now, but that's because I'm in a position to know what sucks and what doesn't.
My wife still works there; otherwise, I'd have made a bigger stink about it on my way out, and maybe contacted some of my pals at the local muckraking indy paper. They were and are in the middle of the worst budget crunch in their history, and are still merrily sinking millions into a halfassed upgrade that won't really improve the quality of the service.
First, we fire all the MCSE's....