When I switched from Windows to Linux, I found that my Lexmark X5250 combination scanner/inkjet printer wouldn't work any more. So I handed it down to my girlfriend and brought my trusty old HP 4L laser printer back into action.
I inherited it about four years ago, and I haven't had to replace the toner cartridge in all that time. That works out quite cheap per page, I can tell you.
"EVERY (and I mean every) night teenage girls go out to bars and they end so drunk walking on the streets without shoes, some without some clothes (not that they go out with much clothes) and shouting... I can tell you I have seen more civilized behaviour on many third world countries..."
Please don't get the impression that Britons are happy about this either. These teenage girls represent a small but highly vocal minority, and measures are being put into place to cut down on this sort of thing (restrictions on special offers on alcoholic drinks, supposed increases in the power which policemen can wield).
I'm not saying that these measures will necessarily work, but it's evident that the nation isn't just standing idly by and enjoying watching these delicious little tarts parading their flesh on the high street.
Plus, all those post-communist Eastern European countries are where it's at these days - they are the trendies. The UK etc are the equivalent of grumpy old men whining about thruppeny bits.
His name is Terry Wogan, and he's practically worshipped in the UK. He's one of the old-school presenters, from back when entertainment was wholesome and jolly good fun, and music wasn't just a bunch of kids making a noise.
I have Firefox set up to always ask me before accepting cookies. Whenever Google tries so set a cookie, I choose the "allow for session" option. This means that when I close Firefox, all Google cookies are deleted.
Okay, this means that I need to re-login to GMail each time I open the browser, but that only really happens once a day anyway.
The market for real life is coming to an end! Your life is just a variation on my life! Why would anyone want to go through that? Sure, it's photorealistic, but *where's the originality?*
"Trying to censor the web, or suing people left, right and centre will just lead to negative publicity"
I would have expected this to be true as well. But for some reason it doesn't seem to be working out like that. By now, the record industry should be public enemy number one.
I personally think that the ISPA should respond with "It's not our fault if your business model is failing. Sort yourselves out."
In the short term, this much is true. In the long run, China and India would gain a monopoly, get greedy, raise their prices, and the balance would swing back to the West.
The only company that wouldn't survive this, as far as I can see, would be Microsoft, as they wouldn't be willing to acknowledge the threat and accordingly cut THEIR prices to compete.
...Microsoft have filed a patent number 234,234,234 for "illuminating things by means of shining lights on them, whilst somebody looks at an XML file in the next office."
"I'd cheerfully pay my taxes provided I can tick boxes for what I want them to go on."
It's a great theory, but unfortunately it would make sod-all difference. Even if we assigned people to ensure that the money was being spent in the right ways, they'd just be susceptible to sweeping a few minor indiscretions under the carpet as well. The whole reason that we are in this position is that from your monthly income tax payment, too much of it is getting scooped up by middle men, or the people who have figured out how to exploit the system.
On a similar note, I've often remarked that I'd much rather vote for particular motions than for a political party. But then, once we've gone that far, why do we need politicians at all?
I recall having a problem with FlashBlock. If memory serves, it doesn't work with JavaScript turned off. Having JavaScript turned off is one of my anti-advert measures, so there's a bit of a conflict of interests here.
I just don't have the flash plugin for Firefox anymore.
Last weekend, I attempted to switch from Windows to Linux for the second time (the first time was a few years back, when I gave up because Mandrake it wouldn't detect my modem or soundcard).
Though I was impressed with the progress, I've again decided to stick to Windows, for two major reasons:
1. I have a Lexmark X5250 printer/scanner unit which won't work in Linux.
2. I have converted all my CDs to MP3s and stored them on a large second hard drive (NTFS). Though I can mount this as read-only under Linux, I can't update it.
There are a number of minor niggles too, but these two are the major ones. I/could/ buy a new printer, yes. I/could/ buy a third hard drive, format it with a Linux-friendly filesystem and copy everything across. I/could/ continue to dual-boot, choosing my OS on the basis of which tasks I am going to want to carry out today.
But none of these options are really what I was looking for right now, especially not the third one, which fails to address the problem entirely.
I am sure that 6 months after Longhorn is released, Microsoft will announce that they will no longer support XP. I expect that at this point I will probably attempt to switch to Linux again, and perhaps I'll get lucky the third time.
Is this some sort of density-related thing? Are they whipping the spam more, so that it is fluffy? This surely means that there is a lower percentage of real meat in the product?
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When I switched from Windows to Linux, I found that my Lexmark X5250 combination scanner/inkjet printer wouldn't work any more. So I handed it down to my girlfriend and brought my trusty old HP 4L laser printer back into action.
I inherited it about four years ago, and I haven't had to replace the toner cartridge in all that time. That works out quite cheap per page, I can tell you.
"EVERY (and I mean every) night teenage girls go out to bars and they end so drunk walking on the streets without shoes, some without some clothes (not that they go out with much clothes) and shouting ... I can tell you I have seen more civilized behaviour on many third world countries..."
Please don't get the impression that Britons are happy about this either. These teenage girls represent a small but highly vocal minority, and measures are being put into place to cut down on this sort of thing (restrictions on special offers on alcoholic drinks, supposed increases in the power which policemen can wield).
I'm not saying that these measures will necessarily work, but it's evident that the nation isn't just standing idly by and enjoying watching these delicious little tarts parading their flesh on the high street.
Ahem.
And, of course, supporting the war on Iraq.
Plus, all those post-communist Eastern European countries are where it's at these days - they are the trendies. The UK etc are the equivalent of grumpy old men whining about thruppeny bits.
His name is Terry Wogan, and he's practically worshipped in the UK. He's one of the old-school presenters, from back when entertainment was wholesome and jolly good fun, and music wasn't just a bunch of kids making a noise.
I have Firefox set up to always ask me before accepting cookies. Whenever Google tries so set a cookie, I choose the "allow for session" option. This means that when I close Firefox, all Google cookies are deleted.
Okay, this means that I need to re-login to GMail each time I open the browser, but that only really happens once a day anyway.
This might solve your problem.
"They're fuckin' con men for pete's sake and lame conmen at that."
Hey, don't bring me into this.
"For example, you can set "Home" to open multiple websites in a single click."
Just like in Firefox, you mean?
"Does it run Linux? I'm sure someone will find a way, and it might even improve the system!"
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of two of these babies.
Eventually they'll be so common that they'll be pretty much worthless!
Viva la fight against capitalism!
The market for real life is coming to an end! Your life is just a variation on my life! Why would anyone want to go through that? Sure, it's photorealistic, but *where's the originality?*
"Trying to censor the web, or suing people left, right and centre will just lead to negative publicity"
I would have expected this to be true as well. But for some reason it doesn't seem to be working out like that. By now, the record industry should be public enemy number one.
I personally think that the ISPA should respond with "It's not our fault if your business model is failing. Sort yourselves out."
In the short term, this much is true. In the long run, China and India would gain a monopoly, get greedy, raise their prices, and the balance would swing back to the West.
The only company that wouldn't survive this, as far as I can see, would be Microsoft, as they wouldn't be willing to acknowledge the threat and accordingly cut THEIR prices to compete.
Shame.
I'm a fool.
I've got JavaScript turned off, and it is still increasing.
So their JavaScript must be server-side. How curious.
Sounds like Debian stable to me.
I expect that the parent commenter had some mod points.
Anyway, everything I post gets modded as troll or offtopic by somebody. I think I'm being followed.
"However, not every one of them is inhabited."
With you so far.
"Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds."
Does not necessarily follow from the preceding statement.
...Microsoft have filed a patent number 234,234,234 for "illuminating things by means of shining lights on them, whilst somebody looks at an XML file in the next office."
That would be a great idea, if it wasn't the OP's credit card being used to pay the hosting fees.
"I'd cheerfully pay my taxes provided I can tick boxes for what I want them to go on."
It's a great theory, but unfortunately it would make sod-all difference. Even if we assigned people to ensure that the money was being spent in the right ways, they'd just be susceptible to sweeping a few minor indiscretions under the carpet as well. The whole reason that we are in this position is that from your monthly income tax payment, too much of it is getting scooped up by middle men, or the people who have figured out how to exploit the system.
On a similar note, I've often remarked that I'd much rather vote for particular motions than for a political party. But then, once we've gone that far, why do we need politicians at all?
"they must updated their comics 5 times a week"
I swear, someone is putting nonsensical grammar into every single article, just to see how we squirm and ped.
Once multi-core chips start getting into home computers, the game developers will have a good justification for writing thread-awesome programs.
So I guess the answer to the question is, "pretty soon."
I recall having a problem with FlashBlock. If memory serves, it doesn't work with JavaScript turned off. Having JavaScript turned off is one of my anti-advert measures, so there's a bit of a conflict of interests here.
I just don't have the flash plugin for Firefox anymore.
It's not that simple.
/could/ buy a new printer, yes. I /could/ buy a third hard drive, format it with a Linux-friendly filesystem and copy everything across. I /could/ continue to dual-boot, choosing my OS on the basis of which tasks I am going to want to carry out today.
Last weekend, I attempted to switch from Windows to Linux for the second time (the first time was a few years back, when I gave up because Mandrake it wouldn't detect my modem or soundcard).
Though I was impressed with the progress, I've again decided to stick to Windows, for two major reasons:
1. I have a Lexmark X5250 printer/scanner unit which won't work in Linux.
2. I have converted all my CDs to MP3s and stored them on a large second hard drive (NTFS). Though I can mount this as read-only under Linux, I can't update it.
There are a number of minor niggles too, but these two are the major ones. I
But none of these options are really what I was looking for right now, especially not the third one, which fails to address the problem entirely.
I am sure that 6 months after Longhorn is released, Microsoft will announce that they will no longer support XP. I expect that at this point I will probably attempt to switch to Linux again, and perhaps I'll get lucky the third time.
Is this some sort of density-related thing? Are they whipping the spam more, so that it is fluffy? This surely means that there is a lower percentage of real meat in the product?
Shame on... shame on you.