Instead of complaining about banks that recommend IE, move to BofA and tell your existing bank why you are moving!
Get yourself a real bank. My bank (Banco de Chile) added support when I complained that I couldn't use Opera under Linux! They called me back and asked wich linux, etc, etc. A day or two later it worked.
Or, for crying out loud, open explorer when going to the bank!
My little brother used to build lego houses... I built lego airplanes with hinged bomb bays, wich I loaded with spend D batteries, and promptly dropped on top of my brother's lego houses:D
And in other news, the Association of Beef Packagers -funded-studies about the health benefits of leftover fat from processing cowmeat have found that eating raw fat is good for your health!
People don't know that there's anything apart from Windows.
If they didn't, they wouldn't buy it.
Their computer had windows preinstalled. I seriously doubt 99.9% of the regular people have seen a Windows CD, or, even less likely, *bought* a windows CD.
I thought that Jar Jar did much better in episode 2, since he only got a few minutes of screen time, and then only as a weak-minded fool who sold out the entire republic.
I think Lucas made Jar Jar do that when he saw the public outrage at Jar Jar. I'm guessing he had dreams of Jar Jar becoming a Jedi and saving Anakin's bacon numerous times during epi2.
These new episodes have something missing really badly. It's hard to define what it is, but it's just not there.
Hard to define? Why yes... it's hard to stay with a single topic... you can't make up your mind if it's the horrible acting or the lame script or the overused CG or that hunk of dog shit called Jar JAr or...
Does porting the kernel not bring all the existing software to the new platform? Does software on the new platform not run on the old one?
Nopes. Porting the kernel will, uh, port the kernel. Note that it doesn't mention Open Source apps. It says just apps... you can run closed source apps on linux. Those apps need to be ported to the PPC arch to use with the PPC linux kernel. Without this, you can't just pop in your x86 binaries on the PPC kernel.
those guys should expect a lawsuit withing the hour, as SCO will claim that they own the patents and intellectual properties on the sun, heat, and the universe.
Darl: "Your honor, the vest is called a SCOttevest. It is a clear indicator that our IP has been incorporated in this vest!"
i mean i really like our dual g4 here in our office, it does an amazing job with final cut pro. okay, so osx is mad stable and easy to use too, im not saying mac is all beauty and no function. it just seems that i can usually get a cheaper, uglier machine to do almost the same job.
She was like, "well, that's how native Spanish speakers speak.
Funny, I've been speaking spanish for the last 25 years, and that's not how people speak. Some do, most don't. Of course, you can't expect everyone to speak properly...
better yet, if you are worried about resale, don't ever buy a fscking computer, be it ppc or x86 or whatnot. Damn things go obsolete at the blink of an eye.
Pah! That is SO old. Get along with the technology:
You can now have Stout128 for only 1/16 million, and for 3/32 million you can have the brand-new spankin' Big-Boned256, our very own 256-bit filesystem with a tendency to overindulge at the dinner table.
For them to say that the guy couldn't get out of the stone because the good wizard (what's his name, again?) did already was pure non-sequitur.
Yeah, the quality does decrease as the series go on... still the best read of this year. Entertaining, good characters, a bit of humor. Seems like the spiral continued, and the next books ("Belgarath the Sorcerer" and "Polgara the Sorceress") are nothing but hack attempts at milking the cow. Other Eddings' work (the tamuli series) has problems with consistency and characters that act the same, although the story
zips right along, and it manages to entertain.
IMHO, the crown of Sci-Fi/Fantasy is the Dune Series. Absolutely incredible, until the ending of the sixth book that leaves you saying "WHAT DA F@#@$%@$%?!?!?". Seems like Frank Herbert died then and his son stepped in to finish. His further work (Brian Herbert's) is pitifuly under the quality of the original series.
It is far from being published in 2003 (first edition in 1982) but the best books I've read this year are David Eddings' "Belgariad" and "Malloreon" series.
Good story, good characters. Nice fantasy setting. Succeeds in not being a LOTR clone. And Eddings keeps it fast. No dragging of feet like Stephen King or Tolkien, both of wich seem to subscribe to the motto of "Why use a paragraph where a page will do?".
It seems to me like Darl finally ran out of decent "outrageous claims" and he couldn't keep the profits coming in... bye bye bonus, darly baby! And say hello to Ramiro(*), your cellmate in your new bars-in-the-windows stone hotel!
(*) Your regular six feet tall, three hundred pound heavy "host" on a proper federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
...that this excellent idea (although I believe it has been bandied about before) will still be shot down by the/. crowd for no reason other than it is from MS?
No, it will be shot down because it has already been done (in Mozilla and Apple's Mail.app, for example, not to mention usenet).
I have no problems with MS software. I have problems with MS claiming this is innovation, when it is playing catch-up. (like pop-up supression and tabbed browsing coming in XP SP2)
gentoo and slackware I don't know their default, but they both ship with the latest KDE...
And the latest gnome too. What does this have to do with your argument?
And what's this about "no redhat desktop"? The distros that target corporate environments (except for SuSE) use Gnome. Wich is where UserLinux wants to fit in.
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Get yourself a real bank. My bank (Banco de Chile) added support when I complained that I couldn't use Opera under Linux! They called me back and asked wich linux, etc, etc. A day or two later it worked.
Or, for crying out loud, open explorer when going to the bank!
Pah, that's a normal autumn/winter around here. And this is a city at 3328' - 7038'. Lots of miles to the south to get colder.
Oh the irony... look at the first three packages:
IBMJava2-JAVACOMM_1_4-1.4.1-4.i586.rpm
IBMJava2-JRE_1_4-1.4.1-5.i586.rpm
IBMJava2-SDK_1_4-1.4.1-5.i586.rpm
A bit further down:
SuSEfirewall2-3.1-50.noarch.rpm
SuSEfirewall2-3.1-90.noarch.rpm
Slashdot: I came for the news, stayed for the merciless finger-pointing when one screws up.
In Chile, the SUV Mitsubishi Pajero is called Mitsubishi Montero.
In Chilean slang, a Pajero is a wanker. Not the kind of image you wanted with your SUV...
Hehe... childhood flashback...
My little brother used to build lego houses... I built lego airplanes with hinged bomb bays, wich I loaded with spend D batteries, and promptly dropped on top of my brother's lego houses :D
And in other news, the Association of Beef Packagers -funded-studies about the health benefits of leftover fat from processing cowmeat have found that eating raw fat is good for your health!
People don't know that there's anything apart from Windows.
If they didn't, they wouldn't buy it.
Their computer had windows preinstalled. I seriously doubt 99.9% of the regular people have seen a Windows CD, or, even less likely, *bought* a windows CD.
I think Lucas made Jar Jar do that when he saw the public outrage at Jar Jar. I'm guessing he had dreams of Jar Jar becoming a Jedi and saving Anakin's bacon numerous times during epi2.
1. Film Episode III with a Beowulf cluster of G5s in Soviet Russia.
2. ?????
3. Include footage of Anakin banging Queen Amidala (for sexually frustrated /. geeks/Star Wars fans.)
You forgot the "covered in hot grits" part
4. PROFIT!
Hard to define? Why yes... it's hard to stay with a single topic... you can't make up your mind if it's the horrible acting or the lame script or the overused CG or that hunk of dog shit called Jar JAr or...
I'll stop there, ran out of air :D
Nopes. Porting the kernel will, uh, port the kernel. Note that it doesn't mention Open Source apps. It says just apps... you can run closed source apps on linux. Those apps need to be ported to the PPC arch to use with the PPC linux kernel. Without this, you can't just pop in your x86 binaries on the PPC kernel.
Yes! A REISERFS partition to store the REISERFS MODULE in!
(happened to me when doing LFS :s)
Give a man fire, he will smoke for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll smoke for the rest of his life.
Darl: "Your honor, the vest is called a SCOttevest. It is a clear indicator that our IP has been incorporated in this vest!"
Judge Scott: "I'm not amused."
(emphasis mine)
Does that make the "good value" more evident?
Funny, I've been speaking spanish for the last 25 years, and that's not how people speak. Some do, most don't. Of course, you can't expect everyone to speak properly...
better yet, if you are worried about resale, don't ever buy a fscking computer, be it ppc or x86 or whatnot. Damn things go obsolete at the blink of an eye.
You can now have Stout128 for only 1/16 million, and for 3/32 million you can have the brand-new spankin' Big-Boned256, our very own 256-bit filesystem with a tendency to overindulge at the dinner table.
Hey, that IS the same SCO. After all, it doesn't get any more "organic" than the freshly dumped shit that SCO faithfully releases to the press.
Yeah, the quality does decrease as the series go on... still the best read of this year. Entertaining, good characters, a bit of humor. Seems like the spiral continued, and the next books ("Belgarath the Sorcerer" and "Polgara the Sorceress") are nothing but hack attempts at milking the cow. Other Eddings' work (the tamuli series) has problems with consistency and characters that act the same, although the story zips right along, and it manages to entertain.
IMHO, the crown of Sci-Fi/Fantasy is the Dune Series. Absolutely incredible, until the ending of the sixth book that leaves you saying "WHAT DA F@#@$%@$%?!?!?". Seems like Frank Herbert died then and his son stepped in to finish. His further work (Brian Herbert's) is pitifuly under the quality of the original series.
Good story, good characters. Nice fantasy setting. Succeeds in not being a LOTR clone. And Eddings keeps it fast. No dragging of feet like Stephen King or Tolkien, both of wich seem to subscribe to the motto of "Why use a paragraph where a page will do?".
(*) Your regular six feet tall, three hundred pound heavy "host" on a proper federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
No, it will be shot down because it has already been done (in Mozilla and Apple's Mail.app, for example, not to mention usenet).
I have no problems with MS software. I have problems with MS claiming this is innovation, when it is playing catch-up. (like pop-up supression and tabbed browsing coming in XP SP2)
And the latest gnome too. What does this have to do with your argument?
And what's this about "no redhat desktop"? The distros that target corporate environments (except for SuSE) use Gnome. Wich is where UserLinux wants to fit in.