Well, each has his own opinions, sure. And I enjoy my holidays just as the next guy. But when Mother Theresa comes in, and some dude tells her to take it easy -- that just gives me a bad taste in my mouth.
If anything, the Linux kernel changes too much. It ought to settle down into a tight little kernel that's changed only for rare bug fixes.
I don't understand what you mean by "changing too much". Why does it bother you that the Linux kernel changes? And why do you think that the changes take place deep in the core, and not in drivers, which can safely be ignored?
I admin a few Linux machines, and one of them runs the same kernel for over two years. I regularly get upgrades from my distribution, which I review and then decide to ignore. The stability of these machines is dear to me, thus I don't upgrade the kernel unless there's a security risk.
At the moment, a lot of people are nothing more than doing glorified data entry, and making the occasional judgement call. You really enjoy this when you go to your bank, or dentist, or whatever. You go and sit at their desk, they ask your name and start to enter your visit into the PC, while you wait. Then you state your business, which they again enter while you wait some more. Then they'll give a solution, or send you to someone else, or something, and ask you to wait while they again enter it into the PC.
This whole business could be done by computer, just listening in to the conversation and keeping a record of what's going on. But the technology isn't there, yet.
Other women heard him talking and asked "is that a guy in here?" She responded, "Yeah, he doesn't realize he's in the 'ladies'
I have never understood the obsession of separating sexes in the bathroom. What possible reason could there be? Except maybe a few swinging dicks if the ladies did their best to look over the separators between urinals.
According to the specs, the battery should last an entire trans-atlantic flight [...] I've been disappointed so many times that I've given up on laptops altogether.
Why not bring an extra battery if it's important for you?
They pay damages to cover the copies already out there, and have to stop selling new copies that infringe.
It's still weird, though.
There is a period until the infringement can be fixed. These infringing new copies could be included in the settlement, which is only a temporary situation. Instead they actually pull Office from their online store, which I think is strange. There is more going on.
There are only so many lastname.tld kicking around, and if you have a common name you're screwed.
You can be creative and look professional at the same time. Suppose you're named Michael Johnson, which is as common as they get. And you're born in 1977. You could register johnson1977.com or somesuch.
Anyway, I agree that your own TLD could mean too much fuss. There is a middleground here.
However, this being a small business (where people tend to worry a bit less about form and procedure), the rejection letter included the following line:
"PS. I prefer Pepsi myself"
Talking about worrying less about form and procedure.
When in college, I got a job offer which looked a lot like spam, including sentences like "an offer you can't refuse". Being the spontaneous type, I replied with a courteous: "Quit your spam, you ****sucking dope-snivelling ass*******".
I received a courteous reply back, saying it concerned a genuine job offer which ended with a "PS: we've got a big black man waiting for you in a dark closet".
Having a funny e-mail address is not a big deal, but still it is a stupid thing. Suppose you know someone with his own business and he has very cheap/strange-looking business cards, as if printed on a cheap home inkjet. It doesn't really matter in this day and age, but still -- it looks stupid.
So if you have good qualifications, why in heaven's name would you have an e-mail address like blonde1223@hotmail.com?
Also, if you're an IT professional, you should know that it's really easy to get your own domain and link it through to a Google Apps account. I like it when people have a firstname@lastname.tld account.
Safari is on youtube and firefox has 0 windows open, but it still is managing to consume 600MB of RAM while Safari and Chromium aren't even in the top 10
Amen. I think the memory consumption of FireFox is hard to control.
In Chrome, the amount of memory used is equal to the number of tabs opened. Thus it is very easy to go easy on your system: just don't open lots of tabs.
The article mentions "The standard is for delivering up to 5 watts of power, which covers most smaller devices. "
This sounds like a pretty low limit to me. My iPhone charger delivers 5 watts and it takes hours before it's charged. Now imagine you buy one of those matts and your family or colleagues throw their phones on the matt as well. At the end of the day, they might not even be charged!
I never understood why this hasn't been implemented on laptops with integrated webcams. More than three years ago, one guy used the Sudden Movement Sensor in his Apple MacBook to create a SmackBook. He'd slap the MacBook on the keyboard to undo, go back etc. Later he implemented a less violent version using the integrated webcam. Check out this video on YouTube where he waves his left hand (at 0:27 in the movie) to go to another desktop.
I'm now copyrighting NEXUS TWO, NEXUS THREE and NEXUS FOUR by using these in my post.
You idiot. Google of course sticks to the One True Versioning Scheme: the Naked Gun versioning scheme. The next version will be the: Google Nexus 2 1/2 Google Nexus 33 1/3
No. They have some really cute sales "ass"ociates near the movies isle.
Friend of mine would accidentally drop whatever is in his hands, totally accidentally in front of said cute sales associate. He claimed "a different perspective often enabled him to better understand anatomic details."
Personally I preferred when phones were just phones.
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident negRO_slim does not own a negRO_slim, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than use a smartphone," negRO_slim told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV displaying an iPhone ad. "I don't even own one."
According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of negRO_slim's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, negRO_slim steers the conversation toward smartphones whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.
"A few days ago, [store manager] Annette [Haig] was saying her new contacts were bothering her," Elkins said. "The second she said that, I knew negRO_slim would pounce. He was like, 'I didn't know you had contacts, Annette. Are your eyes bad? That a shame. I'm really lucky to have almost perfect vision. I'm guessing it's because I don't peer into a smartphone all day. In fact, I don't even own one."
According to Elkins, "smartbrick" is Green's favorite derogatory term for smartphone.
"He uses that one a lot," she said. "But he's got other ones, too, like 'dumb-phone and 'mobile phonebooth.'"
Elkins said negRO_slim always makes sure to read the copies of "Smartphone & Pocket PC" lying around the shop's break room, "just so he can point out all the models and apps he's never heard of."
A politician's conversations, when they are being done in his role as a representative of the public, should be a matter of public record anyway, surely?
This would be an excellent idea.Politicians' phones would be set to broadcast, for all to receive. And at certain hours of the day, their mobile phones will limit themselves and use a private channel for communications. We could dub these hours Warranted Hours Of Risk-free Egress, W.H.O.R.E. for short.
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Well, each has his own opinions, sure. And I enjoy my holidays just as the next guy. But when Mother Theresa comes in, and some dude tells her to take it easy -- that just gives me a bad taste in my mouth.
Keep your money for yourself, and go somewhere NICE for a tan.
That's just a great idea. Someone steps into the light, says he wants to do something good and you react like this.
On the D&D scale, are you chaotic evil or neutral evil?
If anything, the Linux kernel changes too much. It ought to settle down into a tight little kernel that's changed only for rare bug fixes.
I don't understand what you mean by "changing too much". Why does it bother you that the Linux kernel changes? And why do you think that the changes take place deep in the core, and not in drivers, which can safely be ignored?
I admin a few Linux machines, and one of them runs the same kernel for over two years. I regularly get upgrades from my distribution, which I review and then decide to ignore. The stability of these machines is dear to me, thus I don't upgrade the kernel unless there's a security risk.
You're not backing up your complaints.
At the moment, a lot of people are nothing more than doing glorified data entry, and making the occasional judgement call. You really enjoy this when you go to your bank, or dentist, or whatever. You go and sit at their desk, they ask your name and start to enter your visit into the PC, while you wait. Then you state your business, which they again enter while you wait some more. Then they'll give a solution, or send you to someone else, or something, and ask you to wait while they again enter it into the PC.
This whole business could be done by computer, just listening in to the conversation and keeping a record of what's going on. But the technology isn't there, yet.
Your subject:
I'll stay in my sofa
In your sofa? Is that an Americanism/Anglicism or do we now have LOLCATs posting on slashdot?
Include plenty of Klingon conversation. Key: kkjkjGHIUgibilh is Blimey! in Klingon. So is jGHLiubhjbiu78HVji67.
I hate that kind of sexual activity! It is disgusting!
Other women heard him talking and asked "is that a guy in here?" She responded, "Yeah, he doesn't realize he's in the 'ladies'
I have never understood the obsession of separating sexes in the bathroom. What possible reason could there be? Except maybe a few swinging dicks if the ladies did their best to look over the separators between urinals.
According to the specs, the battery should last an entire trans-atlantic flight [...] I've been disappointed so many times that I've given up on laptops altogether.
Why not bring an extra battery if it's important for you?
They pay damages to cover the copies already out there, and have to stop selling new copies that infringe.
It's still weird, though.
There is a period until the infringement can be fixed. These infringing new copies could be included in the settlement, which is only a temporary situation. Instead they actually pull Office from their online store, which I think is strange. There is more going on.
There are only so many lastname.tld kicking around, and if you have a common name you're screwed.
You can be creative and look professional at the same time. Suppose you're named Michael Johnson, which is as common as they get. And you're born in 1977. You could register johnson1977.com or somesuch.
Anyway, I agree that your own TLD could mean too much fuss. There is a middleground here.
but xXxXx_BuBbLe_PrInCeSs_1987_xXxXx@ is going to find its way to my trash folder very, very quickly.
"Bubble Princess" born in 1987? That can only be an FBI agent.
However, this being a small business (where people tend to worry a bit less about form and procedure), the rejection letter included the following line:
"PS. I prefer Pepsi myself"
Talking about worrying less about form and procedure.
When in college, I got a job offer which looked a lot like spam, including sentences like "an offer you can't refuse". Being the spontaneous type, I replied with a courteous: "Quit your spam, you ****sucking dope-snivelling ass*******".
I received a courteous reply back, saying it concerned a genuine job offer which ended with a "PS: we've got a big black man waiting for you in a dark closet".
something embarrassing before that @aol.com bit, like p4rtyg1rl69 or phillygansta92
TOTALLY EMBARRASING. Thus, I'd immediately 1) delete the mail from phillygangsta92 and 2) forward p4rtyg1rl69 to my personal e-mail account.
Having a funny e-mail address is not a big deal, but still it is a stupid thing. Suppose you know someone with his own business and he has very cheap/strange-looking business cards, as if printed on a cheap home inkjet. It doesn't really matter in this day and age, but still -- it looks stupid.
So if you have good qualifications, why in heaven's name would you have an e-mail address like blonde1223@hotmail.com?
Also, if you're an IT professional, you should know that it's really easy to get your own domain and link it through to a Google Apps account. I like it when people have a firstname@lastname.tld account.
Safari is on youtube and firefox has 0 windows open, but it still is managing to consume 600MB of RAM while Safari and Chromium aren't even in the top 10
Amen. I think the memory consumption of FireFox is hard to control.
In Chrome, the amount of memory used is equal to the number of tabs opened. Thus it is very easy to go easy on your system: just don't open lots of tabs.
You have an evil mind.
Are you some kind of evil driod?
The article mentions "The standard is for delivering up to 5 watts of power, which covers most smaller devices. "
This sounds like a pretty low limit to me. My iPhone charger delivers 5 watts and it takes hours before it's charged. Now imagine you buy one of those matts and your family or colleagues throw their phones on the matt as well. At the end of the day, they might not even be charged!
The economic background is interesting. [...] But the expenses of putting up a payment solution and handling support is high.
Actually this is not really uncommon. In industries like telecom, the transaction costs have been higher than the product costs for a very long time.
Genius.
I never understood why this hasn't been implemented on laptops with integrated webcams. More than three years ago, one guy used the Sudden Movement Sensor in his Apple MacBook to create a SmackBook. He'd slap the MacBook on the keyboard to undo, go back etc. Later he implemented a less violent version using the integrated webcam. Check out this video on YouTube where he waves his left hand (at 0:27 in the movie) to go to another desktop.
I love it, but have not seen it implemented yet.
Like that thing that kept turning my google safe search off.
"That thing" is called your wife.
I'm now copyrighting NEXUS TWO, NEXUS THREE and NEXUS FOUR by using these in my post.
You idiot. Google of course sticks to the One True Versioning Scheme: the Naked Gun versioning scheme. The next version will be the:
Google Nexus 2 1/2
Google Nexus 33 1/3
No. They have some really cute sales "ass"ociates near the movies isle.
Friend of mine would accidentally drop whatever is in his hands, totally accidentally in front of said cute sales associate. He claimed "a different perspective often enabled him to better understand anatomic details."
Personally I preferred when phones were just phones.
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident negRO_slim does not own a negRO_slim, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than use a smartphone," negRO_slim told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV displaying an iPhone ad. "I don't even own one."
According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of negRO_slim's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, negRO_slim steers the conversation toward smartphones whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.
"A few days ago, [store manager] Annette [Haig] was saying her new contacts were bothering her," Elkins said. "The second she said that, I knew negRO_slim would pounce. He was like, 'I didn't know you had contacts, Annette. Are your eyes bad? That a shame. I'm really lucky to have almost perfect vision. I'm guessing it's because I don't peer into a smartphone all day. In fact, I don't even own one."
According to Elkins, "smartbrick" is Green's favorite derogatory term for smartphone.
"He uses that one a lot," she said. "But he's got other ones, too, like 'dumb-phone and 'mobile phonebooth.'"
Elkins said negRO_slim always makes sure to read the copies of "Smartphone & Pocket PC" lying around the shop's break room, "just so he can point out all the models and apps he's never heard of."
A politician's conversations, when they are being done in his role as a representative of the public, should be a matter of public record anyway, surely?
This would be an excellent idea.Politicians' phones would be set to broadcast, for all to receive. And at certain hours of the day, their mobile phones will limit themselves and use a private channel for communications. We could dub these hours Warranted Hours Of Risk-free Egress, W.H.O.R.E. for short.