I might as well just build my computer case from a 1997 Honda Civic hatchback with an 8-inch exhaust, 2-foot wing spoiler, blue turn signals and green neons under the car.
What is wrong with people who buy this crap? It's so gaudy. Oh my god, LEDs! That's so cool!
Case modders have the attention spans of 3-year-olds who hit every button in the elevator.
The prevailing "hip" model "everyone" has changes at least once a year, after which you'll only see older folk walking around with them, fumbling to get to grips with having to push the green button for it to actually dial the number you just entered..
I'm not so sure on that. For at least a year and a half, everyone I know (Suffolk County, NY) iwth a cell phone has owned a Motorola i90c. If they break it? They buy another i90c. I haven't seen another cell phone in weeks.
Because turning off his car while it's travelling at 95 MPH is going to do something other than flipping the car off a highway embankment.
And even so, this could possibly work in Europe -- but what about the US, where the government had an unprotected, unpassworded page for registering.mil domains? Don't you think there's a bit of a potential for abuse here? If you want to talk about cyberterrorism becoming a reality, what if a 15-year-old Saudi Arabian can shut down the cars of every man and woman in America, bringing them to a dead halt? I think I'll pass. Billions on defense, or an iota of common sense? I'll pick the latter, thanks.
I don't see what this could possibly accomplish that a tax on gasoline couldn't, and without all this useless, expensive and potentially invasive technology to boot.
That's bullshit. You judge people based upon their looks just as much as everyone else does. You probably, like most of us, will not form a complete opinion of someone based upon their style of dress and their general demeanor (i.e. posture), however I assure you that, waiting at the Flatbush Ave. train station in Brooklyn at 3:30 in the morning, you will be much more comfortable waiting for the train with a sixty-something white-haired man in a business suit than a mid-twenties black or Hispanic man wearing oversized jeans, a blue and white bandana and size 17 Timberland boots. This, I assure you, carries over to the courtroom very frequently.
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Windows XP is sooo yesterday. I want to see an AMD64 version of Debian, then I'll be happy.
For my MP3s, I use RhythmBox. My real complaint with this software is that it uses ludicrous amounts of memory (60+ MB!) when dealing with collections of MP3s my size (5,500+). It's slow for this reason, but I'm onl a 500 MHz Pentium III, in all fairness. It does a nice job of emulating the functionality of iTunes while adding a few neat features of its own. They all get organized by artist/album/genre, et cetera. It has a faster equivalent for KDE but its name escapes me at the moment.
Xine/Totem have been able to handle every DivX/XviD-AVI, every QuickTime and every RealPlayer file that I've thrown at it. My only complaint is being unable to play encrypted DVDs, since I can't seem to get the d4d/d5d plugins working.
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I agree. I tried Linux on the desktop last summer, but just wasn't able to stick with it because it didn't do what I needed. I'm currently typing this on Debian 3.0R1/Gnome 2.2 (I've made this my primary computer) and I'm amazed by the lack of things that I can't do on it. gFTP, Gimp 1.3, Evolution, Gaim, Totem/xine, RhythmBox, AbiWord, Gnumeric, XChat 2.0, and Anjuta have entirely eliminated any need for Windows. Hell, it's even got an RDP client so I can connect to my Windows 2000 servers at work. The only complaint I still have is with Gnome's system-level configuration tools compared to KDE's excellent control panel -- however, I hear these are on the way.
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I also submitted them to rfc-ignorant.org already.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345 342968/qid=1063600514/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-791891 7-0126314?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Thanks for reminding me, I need my "AMD Racing" bumper sticker printed up.
I might as well just build my computer case from a 1997 Honda Civic hatchback with an 8-inch exhaust, 2-foot wing spoiler, blue turn signals and green neons under the car.
What is wrong with people who buy this crap? It's so gaudy. Oh my god, LEDs! That's so cool!
Case modders have the attention spans of 3-year-olds who hit every button in the elevator.
VW-SLUTS.COM
Dirty sluts will bend over backwards for you in a New Beetle! (Of course, they have to, or they can't possibly fit.)
Funny, my Debian installation runs consumer Unix apps just fine.
Because turning off his car while it's travelling at 95 MPH is going to do something other than flipping the car off a highway embankment.
.mil domains? Don't you think there's a bit of a potential for abuse here? If you want to talk about cyberterrorism becoming a reality, what if a 15-year-old Saudi Arabian can shut down the cars of every man and woman in America, bringing them to a dead halt? I think I'll pass. Billions on defense, or an iota of common sense? I'll pick the latter, thanks.
And even so, this could possibly work in Europe -- but what about the US, where the government had an unprotected, unpassworded page for registering
I don't see what this could possibly accomplish that a tax on gasoline couldn't, and without all this useless, expensive and potentially invasive technology to boot.
Gnomes don't hunt, they eat forest berries and mushrooms and shit. What kind of carnivorous axe-wielding murdergnomes did you grow up with as a kid?
Just link to shared Mozilla libraries and it's as old as you want it to be.
Hilary Rosen stepped down months ago. Where have you been?
I prefer the corn flavor.
I haven't received one popup since I started using an old version of Opera years ago.
Like, morons choose to post something like:
1. Give consumers choice
2. Discreetly install spyware on computer
3. Profit!
I am really sick of seeing these. Oh, and "I, for one, welcome our new spyware ovrlords" really isn't funny either.
That's bullshit. You judge people based upon their looks just as much as everyone else does. You probably, like most of us, will not form a complete opinion of someone based upon their style of dress and their general demeanor (i.e. posture), however I assure you that, waiting at the Flatbush Ave. train station in Brooklyn at 3:30 in the morning, you will be much more comfortable waiting for the train with a sixty-something white-haired man in a business suit than a mid-twenties black or Hispanic man wearing oversized jeans, a blue and white bandana and size 17 Timberland boots. This, I assure you, carries over to the courtroom very frequently.
Windows XP is sooo yesterday. I want to see an AMD64 version of Debian, then I'll be happy.
What, exactly, is keeping you from mounting different filesystems at once?
I would imagine that a zookeeper at a particularly large zoo, or perhaps safari, would weigh one hundred elephants.
For my MP3s, I use RhythmBox. My real complaint with this software is that it uses ludicrous amounts of memory (60+ MB!) when dealing with collections of MP3s my size (5,500+). It's slow for this reason, but I'm onl a 500 MHz Pentium III, in all fairness. It does a nice job of emulating the functionality of iTunes while adding a few neat features of its own. They all get organized by artist/album/genre, et cetera. It has a faster equivalent for KDE but its name escapes me at the moment.
Xine/Totem have been able to handle every DivX/XviD-AVI, every QuickTime and every RealPlayer file that I've thrown at it. My only complaint is being unable to play encrypted DVDs, since I can't seem to get the d4d/d5d plugins working.
I agree. I tried Linux on the desktop last summer, but just wasn't able to stick with it because it didn't do what I needed. I'm currently typing this on Debian 3.0R1/Gnome 2.2 (I've made this my primary computer) and I'm amazed by the lack of things that I can't do on it. gFTP, Gimp 1.3, Evolution, Gaim, Totem/xine, RhythmBox, AbiWord, Gnumeric, XChat 2.0, and Anjuta have entirely eliminated any need for Windows. Hell, it's even got an RDP client so I can connect to my Windows 2000 servers at work. The only complaint I still have is with Gnome's system-level configuration tools compared to KDE's excellent control panel -- however, I hear these are on the way.
You can always use this one in the meantime.
It protects the rights of terrorists.
You misspelled "terrists."
It all goes back to the old saying that if someone has physical access to yuor machine, you're already fucked.
They are. It's slated for inclusion in 2.4, if I recall correctly.