Servers and Precisions are bought by people who actually know what they are doing. Dimensions and Optiplexen are bought by Joe-Sixpacks and Pointy-haired-bosses, who would need an unimaginabe amount of hand holding to run Linux. Helpdesk scipts, even if read over the phone from India, wouldn't cut it.
...I tried to figure things out and really understand them at a deeper level. To me, being alive meant thinking, meant using my brain.... They don't notice that kind of confidence. And even if they did they wouldn't care about it.
Yours is neither the kind of confidence/intelligence that can show them a good time, nor the kind of confidence/intelligence that would make you a nurturing father. Optomism is important in both cases.
Zipping into an archive??? On Windows, enable "View Hidden Files" and you can browse, explore, and copy the music folders at you leisure. It's how I copy music from home to work.
I prefer a nice cup of really hot tea. Yes, leaves soaked in water. I find true randomness in the splash patterns left behind when I throw a cup of "something almost, but not quite entirely, unlike tea" at the nutrimatic drink dispenser.
Any true Star Wars fan-boy thinks ESB was the best Star Wars film... I was in highschool by the time ESB came out. Although I really liked it, I remember that the popular reaction of the time was disapointment. Reviews were so-so. Everyone wanted it to be as fun and as exciting as the first movie. It wasn't. I had many aquaintances who didn't like ESB. <br>When I saw RotJ, I realized that GL had really sold out and made the kiddie movie people had wanted in ESB. <br> GL is very swayed by public opinion. Why else was Jar-Jar so quiet in AotC?
Actually Consumer Reports is very different from most "review-only consumer magazines". CR is non profit and accepts no advertising. It is excruciatingly fair, and objective. They do not accepts sample products to review. They purchase their products at retail (They often buy several samples of the same product in different parts of the US).
Most review magazines are just fan-boy pimps for the industries they cover. Even Major newspapers (Washington Post) will not print a strongly critical car review for of loosing advertising. CR does not operate like that.
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After building 2 or 3 machines real geeks find the process tedious and boring. They'd rather be inventing something new (in software) than inserting tab A into Slot B. (or maybe doing a different kind of inserting);)
Your criticisms are not of the accuracy of the measurements, but of there precision. When measuring dates in the 400,000 year range, an error of +/- 10,000 years may or may not be signifigant.
The bottom 10% are automatically fired without a second chance.
Man, if I worked at Cisco, I'd be sure to hire idiots. It's the only way to ensure that I'll never be in the bottom 10%!! (Yes, I know that doesn't make complete sense, but you do weird things to keep from being voted off the island!)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children." --President Eisenhauer from April 16, 1953.
"There is nothing that can better deserve our patronage than science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness." --George Washington, address to congress, January 8, 1790
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" -- Ronald Reagan, campaign speech, 1980
I don't have a good quote from G.W. Bush yet, but he regularly censors governent science reports
If cars were more like computers (Yeah, we all know that old joke), air bags would be pretty much interchangable across manufacturers, as would be headlights, and transmissions. Just we can spec out a computer with our choice of processor, video card, and speakers, we should be able to do the same with cars. Tires already work that way, why can't more auto parts??
Once people start seeing Linux on their phones, their PDAs....
People will not Linux, they will only see their phones and PDAs. The lLinux inside will be invisible to the user.
In there offices, they will see a data-entry terminal so customized and locked down that, if it is identifiable as Linux, it will turn them off.
I really, really, truely, honestly hate to be a party pooper, but I gotta wonder where the U.S.A. will get the money to pay for this. Pres. Bush is already bankrupting the nation by living off of credit from over seas lenders. When one is as far in debt as the U.S.A. is, creditors get REALLY picky when you ask for more money, even if it is to pay for something really COOL. I'm all for going to the moon and beyond, but only if we are willing pay for it up front.
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Servers and Precisions are bought by people who actually know what they are doing. Dimensions and Optiplexen are bought by Joe-Sixpacks and Pointy-haired-bosses, who would need an unimaginabe amount of hand holding to run Linux. Helpdesk scipts, even if read over the phone from India, wouldn't cut it.
...I tried to figure things out and really understand them at a deeper level. To me, being alive meant thinking, meant using my brain....
They don't notice that kind of confidence. And even if they did they wouldn't care about it.
Yours is neither the kind of confidence/intelligence that can show them a good time, nor the kind of confidence/intelligence that would make you a nurturing father. Optomism is important in both cases.
Audio books on tape are much better than Audio books on CD for the same reason.
Zipping into an archive???
On Windows, enable "View Hidden Files" and you can browse, explore, and copy the music folders at you leisure. It's how I copy music from home to work.
So are you enjoying your job with the Yahoo! marketing department?
P.S.
"192k WMA is like 384k MP3" -- WTF????
I prefer a nice cup of really hot tea.
Yes, leaves soaked in water. I find true randomness in the splash patterns left behind when I throw a cup of "something almost, but not quite entirely, unlike tea" at the nutrimatic drink dispenser.
Any true Star Wars fan-boy thinks ESB was the best Star Wars film...
I was in highschool by the time ESB came out. Although I really liked it, I remember that the popular reaction of the time was disapointment. Reviews were so-so. Everyone wanted it to be as fun and as exciting as the first movie. It wasn't. I had many aquaintances who didn't like ESB. <br>When I saw RotJ, I realized that GL had really sold out and made the kiddie movie people had wanted in ESB. <br> GL is very swayed by public opinion. Why else was Jar-Jar so quiet in AotC?
Man, I wish I could mod this as a +1 troll.
Beacuse on some days some trolls are good!
Actually Consumer Reports is very different from most "review-only consumer magazines". CR is non profit and accepts no advertising. It is excruciatingly fair, and objective. They do not accepts sample products to review. They purchase their products at retail (They often buy several samples of the same product in different parts of the US).
Most review magazines are just fan-boy pimps for the industries they cover. Even Major newspapers (Washington Post) will not print a strongly critical car review for of loosing advertising. CR does not operate like that.
After building 2 or 3 machines real geeks find the process tedious and boring. They'd rather be inventing something new (in software) than inserting tab A into Slot B. (or maybe doing a different kind of inserting) ;)
"""Failed to connect to ServletExec.
Group = default
Address = 127.0.0.1:9999
The error number is -1"""
Seems more like a criticism of java servlets to me.
Your criticisms are not of the accuracy of the measurements, but of there precision. When measuring dates in the 400,000 year range, an error of +/- 10,000 years may or may not be signifigant.
I'd just copy the database, or print out a report.
Sounds like he did them a favour. I recommend he send them a bill for his time. At least $200 each.
And offer to "help" them again if they forget to pay the bill?
The bottom 10% are automatically fired without a second chance.
Man, if I worked at Cisco, I'd be sure to hire idiots. It's the only way to ensure that I'll never be in the bottom 10%!!
(Yes, I know that doesn't make complete sense, but you do weird things to keep from being voted off the island!)
There are two cataigories of these tools. One is aimed at developers porting software, and the others is aimed at SysAdmins tranfering services.
I've yet to see a tool to help USERS move to Windows.
Time to quote some respected presidents....
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children."
--President Eisenhauer from April 16, 1953.
"There is nothing that can better deserve our patronage than science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
--George Washington, address to congress, January 8, 1790
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
-- Ronald Reagan, campaign speech, 1980
I don't have a good quote from G.W. Bush yet, but he regularly censors governent science reports
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If cars were more like computers (Yeah, we all know that old joke), air bags would be pretty much interchangable across manufacturers, as would be headlights, and transmissions. Just we can spec out a computer with our choice of processor, video card, and speakers, we should be able to do the same with cars. Tires already work that way, why can't more auto parts??
You can't even "quit" RealPlayer without being assaulted with pop-up ads begging you to buy the so-called "Gold" version.
Unlike QuickTime which begs you to but the so-called "Pro" version when you start it up.
Being under stress also increases your heart rate, but no one says stress is good for you.
Once people start seeing Linux on their phones, their PDAs....
People will not
Linux, they will only see their phones and PDAs. The lLinux inside will be invisible to the user.
In there offices, they will see a data-entry terminal so customized and locked down that, if it is identifiable as Linux, it will turn them off.
Reminds me of the song that goes:
"Once I built a railroad.
Now that railroad's done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?"
I really, really, truely, honestly hate to be a party pooper, but I gotta wonder where the U.S.A. will get the money to pay for this. Pres. Bush is already bankrupting the nation by living off of credit from over seas lenders.
When one is as far in debt as the U.S.A. is, creditors get REALLY picky when you ask for more money, even if it is to pay for something really COOL.
I'm all for going to the moon and beyond, but only if we are willing pay for it up front.
Cygwin has /bin/yes which produces an endless stream of "y<CR><LF>" which should compress pretty well also.