If I were a freshman targetted I would fight, maybe lose, and then declare bankruptcy and leave the RIAA with a nice big fat nothing.
That's fine for you but the RIAA clearly have a spammer mentality.
To see what I mean, look at it from their perspective: if they can win just a single $50,000 judgment, Jive Records can take their cut of the settlement and bankroll production for 10 Britney Spears albums.
A modification of his idea is just to use your extra motherboards as the "wood" and lay them out side by side on anti-static material, sitting on shelves.
Oh yeah, and it handles the horizontal scrolling like nipples on a brass chick cutting glass after the first dip of the new year on a cold frosty january 1st.
Forgive my ignorance, but does that mean you can horizontal scroll with it or not??
You get into the projects in exactly the same way: start off doing some small useful things (docs, janitor work, UI design, whatever) and then sooner or later you'll inevitably find yourself maintaining a driver or whatever. Next thing you're making changes to sub system APIs, and you work from there.
You forgot to mention a couple stages:
The "I have a little clout now so I'm going to use my veto power to nix any idea that doesn't mimic the way I want to do things" stage
The "You guys are all idiots and I'm leaving the project - best of luck, this used to be fun but now it's just a lot of whining and ego-stroking" stage
The "I used to actually write code but now I just bitch about things" stage
Try to convince your local electronics superstore that it is worth their time to travel over to their document archive warehouse and find a copy of your receipt for your $99 DVD player or...
Call an 800 number with your serial number and ask for a warranty service center location.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you nutty BSD fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a BSD box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this BSD box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
Let's assume for a minute that you're an intelligent person and that maybe you believe in Occam's razor.
What is more likely:
FreeBSD is so horrible an operating system that it is only capable of achieving 15 kilobytes/second disk throughput.
You have it configured suboptimally.
Perhaps FreeBSD's kernel configuration tools aren't the easiest to understand, perhaps even they are buggy. But then again only a fanatic few have tried to claim that FreeBSD and its ilk are truly "user-friendly" or at least familiar in the same way Windows is to most.
This is going to sound like a dig, but you might not be competent enough (or, to direct the blame away from you, the software might be too difficult to use for you) to set up a smoothly running FreeBSD box, and there Windows does have an advantage for you, since one can get 80% of an optimal set-up with Windows simply by having the right hardware and drivers.
You asked for an intelligent person's argument, and I can't give you one because you haven't dug deeper than the surface to figure out why your FreeBSD installation might be performing so poorly. This puts you in the category of users who harrass Tier I support personnel at Dell, not those who can entertain intelligent arguments about operating system comparisons.
Every 18 months, someone will develop a new law to compute the rate at which the estimate of the rate at which the number of transistors on semiconductor chips will double will halve.
Perhaps in Terminator 5, Arnold Schwarzenegger will go back in time to a year before Terminator 3's opening weekend and lobby for legislation to ban wireless device use in theaters.
In fact, perhaps this is why he's really running for governor -- because he has seen the future and knows Terminator 4 receipts are going to hurt.
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To see what I mean, look at it from their perspective: if they can win just a single $50,000 judgment, Jive Records can take their cut of the settlement and bankroll production for 10 Britney Spears albums.
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Wouldn't "dramatic" or "tragic" books be a more apt name?
I, for one
That's been my experience, of course it could just be chalked up to my poor judgment of what's garbage.
A modification of his idea is just to use your extra motherboards as the "wood" and lay them out side by side on anti-static material, sitting on shelves.
By "outdated" he likely meant "undemanded".
It's not considered polite to insult open source operating systems and their user interfaces in mixed company.
Morally
Indifferent
Technologists
Try to convince your local electronics superstore that it is worth their time to travel over to their document archive warehouse and find a copy of your receipt for your $99 DVD player or ...
Call an 800 number with your serial number and ask for a warranty service center location.
Stay tuned for my forthcoming article, "The Toll House-SONICblue Conspiracy"
Your critical error was not spending the money on hookers; it was forgetting to get the bank president laid as well.
Could be less of a hassle in situations like yours.
We'll make it again.
- What you're looking to spend
- What features are must-haves
- Whether your laptop will also dock and be your primary home PC
- Do you need wireless connectivity?
- Will you be doing mostly office-type work, development, or games?
There are a lot of variables here.Once we have this information, we can then tell you to go do your own fucking research because this is not a help desk.
- True
- False
- Sorta true
- Sorta false
I don't believe it - is this a case where politics has beaten science in advancing the state of the art?Made me think for a while (I was 6 at the time) about whether that could really happen to me while I was futzing on the computer.
What is more likely:
- FreeBSD is so horrible an operating system that it is only capable of achieving 15 kilobytes/second disk throughput.
- You have it configured suboptimally.
Perhaps FreeBSD's kernel configuration tools aren't the easiest to understand, perhaps even they are buggy. But then again only a fanatic few have tried to claim that FreeBSD and its ilk are truly "user-friendly" or at least familiar in the same way Windows is to most.This is going to sound like a dig, but you might not be competent enough (or, to direct the blame away from you, the software might be too difficult to use for you) to set up a smoothly running FreeBSD box, and there Windows does have an advantage for you, since one can get 80% of an optimal set-up with Windows simply by having the right hardware and drivers.
You asked for an intelligent person's argument, and I can't give you one because you haven't dug deeper than the surface to figure out why your FreeBSD installation might be performing so poorly. This puts you in the category of users who harrass Tier I support personnel at Dell, not those who can entertain intelligent arguments about operating system comparisons.
Every 18 months, someone will develop a new law to compute the rate at which the estimate of the rate at which the number of transistors on semiconductor chips will double will halve.
Rocky Mountain Low?
In fact, perhaps this is why he's really running for governor -- because he has seen the future and knows Terminator 4 receipts are going to hurt.