I hate to brake it to you, but the command line is not forever. In the beginning was the command line. Who knows what we'll be using fifteen years from now?
In fact, most people see both voice recognition and IPv6 as two emerging technologies.. So I imagine 15 years from now we'll be saying things like:
"Computer. Route Foxtrot Echo Delta Charlie:Bravo Alpha Eight Niner:Four Five Seven Zero: Six One Three Two: Foxtrot Echo Delta Juliet: Beta Alpha Seven Niner: Seven Six Four Five: Three Zero Two Seven to Foxtrot Echo Delta Charlie.....
> The price, almost absolutely the price....it is just to expensive to keep up with windows releases for a college student.
A full-featured academic version of XP Pro only costs $80 or so. And many people complain that Microsoft's releases are too infrequent (cf. Longhorn delays).
Face it guys, you can't have it both ways. Either Microsoft makes major releases (98, 2000, XP, Longhorn) too infrequently, or too frequently (forced upgrades)... but not both!
No, willing buyers is not what they are lacking. The only way to reduce their loss would be to buy games and subscribe to xbox live. I don't know about the rest of you, but that is not the reason I would consider buying an Xbox:)
> One minute Microsoft is the biggest, evilest monster that ever was, the next, everyone's a fanboy for the Xbox. What's up with that?
1) You need to rethink your definition of "everyone."
2) It's not like MS makes money on the Xbox1; by some accounts they are actually selling them at a loss. The real money is made by selling games and Xbox live. So even if you think MS is evil, buying an xbox and modding it to something else is not really supporting them.
Yes, but remember the DirectTV lawsuits? I'm thinking some similar DMCA charges could be brought against anyone trying to use a mod-chip or "little doo-dad" to remove broadcast flags.
> When will we stop calling them cell phones and call them something else? Seems more and more the phone features aren't the main selling points.
Customer: "I need a camera with optical zoom that has a TV tuner, a virtual karaoke machine, and dog bark translater. Oh yeah, and it would also be cool if it could send and receive phone calls on cellular networks and have SMS capabilities...."
Um, no. Sure, the non-phone features are useful selling points for marketing, but the reason the customer is buying the device in the first place is to fucking send and receive calls.
There is no reason to change the "cell phone" name.
Holy fucking goats, I could scarecely believe my eyes when I saw a NYT article load w/o a login from a direct/. link. This is the best thing to happen since, um, sliced bread...
Now the $64,000 question is: Did CowboyNeal add the partner=GOOGLE, or was it the submiter, ScaredSilly?
Pretty Nice if you ask me. I hate openning PDF links by accident. Sometimes in google I accidentally click them before I realize they are going to be opened by some stupid browser plugin or (more often than not) Adobe's bloated Reader.
If, as you so eloquently stated, robots can run until basically forever until something breaks or they run out of juice, Why do think they will "provide science more than we could ever have hoped for" ?
Aw come on, there are a million workarounds. For starters, you could try:
1) Put warez 800mb program into RAR/bz 2) Split RAR/bz into ~50 9.9MB files 4) TAR the files 5) UUencode or BinHex the files 6) Mail to your Gmail account from your ISP account, or upload directly to Gmail if possible. 7) Log into Gmail and forward the mail to 1000 of your buddies! 8) Profit!!!!
Look, we even know what the step before Profit is! So this scheme is completely foolproof, rite?
If you're able to make technical decisions based on technical reasons, rather than mass-market fads....is your company hiring?:)
Well I am the one-man IT department for a business with 70 employees, so perhaps I am somewhat privileged in that I report directly to the owners. They tell me what they need their systems to do and proceed to make all IT decisions based on the facts I present.
I acknowledge that management decisions are very different elsewhere, but x86 is much more than just a fad. It's not like you'll find xeon servers being deployed simply because some PHB was intrigued by those P4 commercials.
True, just because "everyone's doing it" does't mean it is right. Even a child knows that.
However, it does not necessarily mean that the lemmings cannot think for themselves. What it means is you should try and determine why everyone else is doing it and whether those reasons affect you.
Personally I have concluded that x86 is the best solution for 99.9% of all applications, excluding embedded stuff.
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> The old theme, Qute, is now available from Arvid Axelsson's site.
, paste the link into the "Remote URL" box on the right, and click Install.
Yep, just right click this link: http://www.quadrone.org/graphics/Qute/Qute.jar and select "Copy Link Location".
Then go to http://www.texturizer.net/firefox/themes/#install
Ahh... sanity restored.
I hate to brake it to you, but the command line is not forever. In the beginning was the command line. Who knows what we'll be using fifteen years from now?
:)
In fact, most people see both voice recognition and IPv6 as two emerging technologies.. So I imagine 15 years from now we'll be saying things like:
"Computer. Route Foxtrot Echo Delta Charlie:Bravo Alpha Eight Niner:Four Five Seven Zero: Six One Three Two: Foxtrot Echo Delta Juliet: Beta Alpha Seven Niner: Seven Six Four Five: Three Zero Two Seven to Foxtrot Echo Delta Charlie.....
Ok I'll stop now
> The price, almost absolutely the price....it is just to expensive to keep up with windows releases for a college student.
A full-featured academic version of XP Pro only costs $80 or so. And many people complain that Microsoft's releases are too infrequent (cf. Longhorn delays).
Face it guys, you can't have it both ways. Either Microsoft makes major releases (98, 2000, XP, Longhorn) too infrequently, or too frequently (forced upgrades)... but not both!
> Well, you are reducing their loss...
:)
No, willing buyers is not what they are lacking. The only way to reduce their loss would be to buy games and subscribe to xbox live. I don't know about the rest of you, but that is not the reason I would consider buying an Xbox
> One minute Microsoft is the biggest, evilest monster that ever was, the next, everyone's a fanboy for the Xbox. What's up with that?
1) You need to rethink your definition of "everyone."
2) It's not like MS makes money on the Xbox1; by some accounts they are actually selling them at a loss. The real money is made by selling games and Xbox live. So even if you think MS is evil, buying an xbox and modding it to something else is not really supporting them.
Sorry but I doubt the Worst.Movie.Ever. averages a 6.5/10 from almost 4500 votes.
Yes, but remember the DirectTV lawsuits? I'm thinking some similar DMCA charges could be brought against anyone trying to use a mod-chip or "little doo-dad" to remove broadcast flags.
> When will we stop calling them cell phones and call them something else? Seems more and more the phone features aren't the main selling points.
Customer: "I need a camera with optical zoom that has a TV tuner, a virtual karaoke machine, and dog bark translater. Oh yeah, and it would also be cool if it could send and receive phone calls on cellular networks and have SMS capabilities...."
Um, no. Sure, the non-phone features are useful selling points for marketing, but the reason the customer is buying the device in the first place is to fucking send and receive calls.
There is no reason to change the "cell phone" name.
> Interesting statistic, but you didn't cite the source. Where did this figure come from?
:)
Four days ago from a completely unreliable source
It's dual core, not dual processors.
> Add in an on par word processor, powerpoint tool [...]
OOo isn't an exact clone, but it is "good enough" for most users in my estimation
> [...] and outlook-esque client and you'll win a lot of new clients.
Yes, that is what we really need, an OSS Outlook alternative. Especially one that can interoperate with Exchange Server.
And don't say Ximian Connecter, or whatever it's called. We need something free and perferably integrated with OOo itself.
Holy fucking goats, I could scarecely believe my eyes when I saw a NYT article load w/o a login from a direct /. link. This is the best thing to happen since, um, sliced bread...
Now the $64,000 question is: Did CowboyNeal add the partner=GOOGLE, or was it the submiter, ScaredSilly?
Here's an example of a search that turned up a PDF link. It is very clearly labled PDF on a red background:
& q= %22preston+alexander%22+-%22victoria+ashley%22
http://www.gigablast.com/search?k3v=898090&s=10
Pretty Nice if you ask me. I hate openning PDF links by accident. Sometimes in google I accidentally click them before I realize they are going to be opened by some stupid browser plugin or (more often than not) Adobe's bloated Reader.
nyaaah nyaah dumb Martians picked the wrong planet
;)
Now if only my lucky streak had continued for parents...
I would like to see some Apple fans respond intelligently to the parent's point:
"So much for apple being different than other large companies..."
Use words, not mod points.
If, as you so eloquently stated, robots can run until basically forever until something breaks or they run out of juice, Why do think they will "provide science more than we could ever have hoped for" ?
Those checks will be easy to get around once people encounter them.
A shell script could vary the attachment length between 7 and 10 mb, for instance.
Aw come on, there are a million workarounds. For starters, you could try:
1) Put warez 800mb program into RAR/bz
2) Split RAR/bz into ~50 9.9MB files
4) TAR the files
5) UUencode or BinHex the files
6) Mail to your Gmail account from your ISP account, or upload directly to Gmail if possible.
7) Log into Gmail and forward the mail to 1000 of your buddies!
8) Profit!!!!
Look, we even know what the step before Profit is! So this scheme is completely foolproof, rite?
If you're able to make technical decisions based on technical reasons, rather than mass-market fads....is your company hiring? :)
Well I am the one-man IT department for a business with 70 employees, so perhaps I am somewhat privileged in that I report directly to the owners. They tell me what they need their systems to do and proceed to make all IT decisions based on the facts I present.
I acknowledge that management decisions are very different elsewhere, but x86 is much more than just a fad. It's not like you'll find xeon servers being deployed simply because some PHB was intrigued by those P4 commercials.
True, just because "everyone's doing it" does't mean it is right. Even a child knows that.
However, it does not necessarily mean that the lemmings cannot think for themselves. What it means is you should try and determine why everyone else is doing it and whether those reasons affect you.
Personally I have concluded that x86 is the best solution for 99.9% of all applications, excluding embedded stuff.
> The big question is, will all this stuff, half of which I will never use, slow down my computer?
No, if anything it will be arguably faster than traditional north/south-bridge pairs.
Yeah mine was trite, just poking fun...
But the open source award is certainly ironic, which is why I joked about it being perverse.
Yes I was. My link is funny, yours is perverse ;)
You forgot Microsoft ;)
key word: attempting ;)