Me: Gnome shell designers, put the fucking Open/Save buttons back at the bottom of the dialog where god intended them to go.
God: yeah, what up wit dat?
Fuck me.
Oh yeah, windoze suck.
And my pages load and execute blinding fast even with this purported memory/performance hog.
A lot of FUD being displayed here, but let's be honest, this is slashdot.
I recently dumped my cell phone provider becaues they wouldn't disable my voicemail, that used to be disabled until they "upgraded" my service. Voice mail wouldn't be so bad with a web interface, but I could only get messages through that annoying phone interface. I've always viewed voicemail as one technological step past fax machines. Disclosure: 64 year old computer professional
Really, I never once considered what was going on in hollywood when I started playing with computers in the late 70s, nor did any of my friends. The women I did know who got into it got into it for the same reason they got into chess and maths and DnD and all other geek activities.
In the 80s we didn't even bother with passwords, okay maybe by the late 80s. And every machine on the network had an IP that was directly on teh internets. As for this article, it's yet another example of how stupid people, even the intelligent, are when it comes to passwords. Who the fsck writes down a dizzying array of passwords? I know about 5 passwords off by heart at any given time, and use a password manager and an encrypted database to hold all of my passwords. Of course, without 2-factor auth those lists of passwords are seriously dangerous and that, dear humans, is where the danger lies. If anyone manages to crack my passowrd manager or my encrypted database, I'm fscked. Okay, let's hear what the folks have to say about this age old problem.
Remember when Microsoft first demoed the surface concept, all those years ago? Man did they ever drop the ball under that Balmer guy. I haven't willingly bought a microsoft product for 13 years now, and even then it was grudgingly. Nothing will change that these days.
Just work, as my last Win2k install? Which, in fact, didn't just work at all. In fact it was a horrible experience. The pcmcia wireless nic wasn't suppored, nor was the audio, nor was the video. I had to jump through some pretty big hoops to get the goddamn thing installed.
And you don't have to reboot your machine 400,000 times when you upgrade packages, once for the kernel and you're done.
My favourite scene from the first season of The Office is Gareth in the sidecar of the motorcycle heading off after being picked up by the swingers. The expression on his face is priceless. Absolutely the funniest show on Tele in my books. And since my sister bought me the DVD at xmas I've watched the first series twice and each time it gets funnier. Kind of like repeated viewings of Fawlty Towers.
Bush is such a fscking wankstain, makes me bloody insane. I propose shipping Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rice, the lot, to mars. The world would be a much better place without those fucks.
Switch to tea as a form of patch. That way you still get the caffeine, but you can use it to break the habit of drinking coffee. If you're not in the habit of drinking tea it should be easier to get off it after a week or so, if you really want to eliminate caffeine altogether.
Re:What about ads you can only see here?
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You want annoying? How about those ridiculous ads for prescription drugs, whose purpose is unknown at the time of the viewing. "Ask your doctor about Xanthanaxamum". And the idiot sitting in his pickup truck (can't see the gun rack) nods his head and thinks, "yeah, I gotta ask ole doc Carson about Xanthanaxamum". What the fuck is Xanthanaxamum!! Idiocy.
Hands down the best piece of literature that I read this year was Vernon God Little by DBC (Dirty But Clean) Pierre. And it recently won the Booker prize so I wasn't alone in my opinion of this book. Highly recommended.
I can't remember seeing any films, other than LoTR's, that really intrigued me this year past. There were lots that I saw, but none that really stand out. It's possible that I just don't remember anymore though, because that is becoming a constant state of affairs.
Chicago. Hands down. Okay, it came out in 2002, but I didn't see it until 2003. I can't believe that this piece of crap won oscars. Renee Zellweger was an embarrassment. Zeta-Jones should stick to making babies. No surprise that Richard Gere didn't fit into the genre. The only one who delivered an inspired musical rendition was John C Reily, for whom my opinion has been raised greatly.
They did, it was called Omega Man, and starred that idiot gun nut... leader of the rest of the gun nuts. Wasn't nearly as good as 28 Days Later, but at the time it was fun, and Charleton Heston wasn't, on the surface, a heartless fucking bastard.
Break your contract. Then call your lawyer and sue the fsckers. They shouldn't be able to collect a fee from your for service that does not work, number one. Document as best you can all instances of unavailable service. And number two, they shouldn't be able to collect a fee for breaking the contract. That's just criminal.
Mind you, by the time it got to litigation they may very well be out of business.
Perhaps a slashdot initiated class action suit is the way to go, of course, IANAL, but it would be a pretty powerful voice if all slashdotters in the same position got together and paid off some high priced lawyers to sink cingular.
I am not an accountant but their revenue claims from year to year seem a little dubious to me.
Revenue was $20,055,000 for the third quarter of fiscal year 2003, and $15,384,000 for the third quarter of fiscal year 2002,
representing an increase of $4,671,000, or 30 percent.
From 20M to 15M looks like a decrease to me unless you're travelling backward in time.
This increase was attributable to $7,280,000 in licensing revenue, which was the second consecutive quarter we generated revenue from our SCOsource licensing initiative, offset by a decline in product revenue of $1,835,000 and a decline in services revenue of $774,000.
Then they try to pull it off again,
Revenue was $54,964,000 for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2003, and $48,773,000 for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2002, representing an
increase of $6,191,000, or 13 percent. This increase was attributable to $15,530,000 in licensing revenue, offset by a decline in product revenue of $7,135,000 and a decline in services revenue of $2,204,000.
How the fsck do they interpret a decrease in revenue for 3 quarters from 55M to 49M as an increase of 13%. Maybe they're talking about an increase in decreasing revenue.
$ alias what alias what='lynx -head -dump' $ what http://www.globeandmail.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:55:52 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a Resin/2.1.0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html
My accountant friends' agree thta this is a very nice program. They agree because I'd tried several times to figure out the double entry system, but kept hitting my head against the wall, I mean, IANACA, or IANACPA, ya know, so I had to call in the experts to show me the way.
I agree that a double entry system is far superiour, from an accounting perspective, than the cash accounting system used by M$ Money and Quicken (neither of which I would ever consider using if not just for security reasons.) But for this program to be successful, a very good interface for setting up one's accounts is a must. My point is, even if you cannot code, you can still contribute to the project. Come up with a nice method for adding accounts, and entering transactions so that they are automatically updated in both entries (please excuse my butchering of your profession if my desciption is off). And let the coders know your thoughts.
I'd love to use GNUCash, but I just gave up on setting the beast up, so I'm back to just downloading my accounts to text files and putting them into spreadsheets.
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Me: Gnome shell designers, put the fucking Open/Save buttons back at the bottom of the dialog where god intended them to go. God: yeah, what up wit dat? Fuck me. Oh yeah, windoze suck.
I'm looking forward to a world where there are more open devices like the One Plus One. Which is on sale for 300 bucks for the 64GB version this week.
And my pages load and execute blinding fast even with this purported memory/performance hog. A lot of FUD being displayed here, but let's be honest, this is slashdot.
Hopefully they'll dump unity and go back to gnome shell as the default. Unity is completely unnecessary bit of technological desktop hubris.
max password of 6 alphanumeric password, no special characters allowed. Fucking lunacy, and I remind them of it at least a couple of times per year.
I recently dumped my cell phone provider becaues they wouldn't disable my voicemail, that used to be disabled until they "upgraded" my service. Voice mail wouldn't be so bad with a web interface, but I could only get messages through that annoying phone interface. I've always viewed voicemail as one technological step past fax machines. Disclosure: 64 year old computer professional
I believe they are planning to offer iTunes gift cards in lieu of settlement.
Really, I never once considered what was going on in hollywood when I started playing with computers in the late 70s, nor did any of my friends. The women I did know who got into it got into it for the same reason they got into chess and maths and DnD and all other geek activities.
In the 80s we didn't even bother with passwords, okay maybe by the late 80s. And every machine on the network had an IP that was directly on teh internets. As for this article, it's yet another example of how stupid people, even the intelligent, are when it comes to passwords. Who the fsck writes down a dizzying array of passwords? I know about 5 passwords off by heart at any given time, and use a password manager and an encrypted database to hold all of my passwords. Of course, without 2-factor auth those lists of passwords are seriously dangerous and that, dear humans, is where the danger lies. If anyone manages to crack my passowrd manager or my encrypted database, I'm fscked. Okay, let's hear what the folks have to say about this age old problem.
MDRMDRMDRMDRMDR pour les francais
could have been worse, it could have been javascript
Remember when Microsoft first demoed the surface concept, all those years ago? Man did they ever drop the ball under that Balmer guy. I haven't willingly bought a microsoft product for 13 years now, and even then it was grudgingly. Nothing will change that these days.
And you don't have to reboot your machine 400,000 times when you upgrade packages, once for the kernel and you're done.
My favourite scene from the first season of The Office is Gareth in the sidecar of the motorcycle heading off after being picked up by the swingers. The expression on his face is priceless. Absolutely the funniest show on Tele in my books. And since my sister bought me the DVD at xmas I've watched the first series twice and each time it gets funnier. Kind of like repeated viewings of Fawlty Towers.
Bush is such a fscking wankstain, makes me bloody insane. I propose shipping Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rice, the lot, to mars. The world would be a much better place without those fucks.
You want annoying? How about those ridiculous ads for prescription drugs, whose purpose is unknown at the time of the viewing. "Ask your doctor about Xanthanaxamum". And the idiot sitting in his pickup truck (can't see the gun rack) nods his head and thinks, "yeah, I gotta ask ole doc Carson about Xanthanaxamum". What the fuck is Xanthanaxamum!! Idiocy.
I can't remember seeing any films, other than LoTR's, that really intrigued me this year past. There were lots that I saw, but none that really stand out. It's possible that I just don't remember anymore though, because that is becoming a constant state of affairs.
Chicago. Hands down. Okay, it came out in 2002, but I didn't see it until 2003. I can't believe that this piece of crap won oscars. Renee Zellweger was an embarrassment. Zeta-Jones should stick to making babies. No surprise that Richard Gere didn't fit into the genre. The only one who delivered an inspired musical rendition was John C Reily, for whom my opinion has been raised greatly.
They did, it was called Omega Man, and starred that idiot gun nut ... leader of the rest of the gun nuts. Wasn't nearly as good as 28 Days Later, but at the time it was fun, and Charleton Heston wasn't, on the surface, a heartless fucking bastard.
Besides, if you're going to blame musicians, you should at least pick Lars and go with that.
Fuck Metallica.
Motorhead is better anyway.
Mind you, by the time it got to litigation they may very well be out of business.
Perhaps a slashdot initiated class action suit is the way to go, of course, IANAL, but it would be a pretty powerful voice if all slashdotters in the same position got together and paid off some high priced lawyers to sink cingular.
From 20M to 15M looks like a decrease to me unless you're travelling backward in time.
Then they try to pull it off again,
How the fsck do they interpret a decrease in revenue for 3 quarters from 55M to 49M as an increase of 13%. Maybe they're talking about an increase in decreasing revenue.
$ alias what
alias what='lynx -head -dump'
$ what http://www.globeandmail.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:55:52 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a Resin/2.1.0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
So obviously they are entirely anti-linux.
I agree that a double entry system is far superiour, from an accounting perspective, than the cash accounting system used by M$ Money and Quicken (neither of which I would ever consider using if not just for security reasons.) But for this program to be successful, a very good interface for setting up one's accounts is a must. My point is, even if you cannot code, you can still contribute to the project. Come up with a nice method for adding accounts, and entering transactions so that they are automatically updated in both entries (please excuse my butchering of your profession if my desciption is off). And let the coders know your thoughts.
I'd love to use GNUCash, but I just gave up on setting the beast up, so I'm back to just downloading my accounts to text files and putting them into spreadsheets.