They used New Jersey drivers licenses. They old ones were a joke compared to other states. New Jersey recognized the problem and now we have digital licenses. I don't think RFID will help curve fake identification when people are have money and jihad backing them on their mission to kill people.
You also have to wonder why this is front page news? This is a business sale. Do we jump up when Sony sells a collection of 10,000 Playstation 2's to Walmart?
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That's a very good point. However, if they are targetting to companies as well as home users, companies may be less inclined to take this route. It sounds more "legitimate" to buy one of these than to have your IT guy ripping apart an xbox. But for home users, it may be a better solution to use an XBOX.
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I don't know. I see what you're saying, but to be this pissed off at it means you've thought about the problem and have done nothing to fix it.
I try to watch movies that I like. I rarely go to theaters because it's a waste of money. I rarely by CDs because as an entire album they're a waste of money. I try to enjoy the television shows, music, and movies that interest me.
Who cares if half of my generation is being brainwashed by MTV or Miramax? That's their problem, not mine to worry about.
I've always had these discussions with people about how our culture is turning to a pile of shit because corporations found it's so easy to tell us what to like instead of us deciding. However, that doesn't mean I have to follow the same rules.
Um, I'm not sure how you deal with your friends, but if I charged them to do something as simple as run adaware and spybot SD a few times I wouldn't gain their respect.
Getting respect from "people" and your friends are two different things. Friends should never ask for money for services.
But the agreements are so vague that it gives them the "right" to install whatever software they want. Claria can install one program and that program can install five more. But it all goes back to the original agreement that makes it all legal and thus not enforceable by this law.
These companies like Claria (Gator) will just hire lawyers to make sure the agreement you click yes to will protect them from any legal action. I would love to see these companies put out of business, but the bottom line is people agree to installing this software. It sucks for me to remove it from my friends' computers, but that's just the way it is. No matter how much I convince them not to install free windows software or use firefox, they won't change their habits any time soon.
Yeah and there are studies showing that caffeine and alcohol are a dangerous mix. Caffeine is a stimulant while alcohol is a depressant. When mixed, they don't even each other out, but depending on the person, the effects of one are magnified.
I'm wondering if there are going to be health problems with the masses of idiots who drink this crap. Then again, anyone drinking something from this company should deserves to get sick.
Do you remember Tickle Me Elmo? The Berlin Wall? There are so many people who would want a little space junk that they market would take years to dry up. I just don't know if the costs to transport it back to space would be worth it.
Mandrake always was a little out of date with desktop environments. Version 10 shipped with KDE 3.2 and it took forever to get an update to even KDE 3.2.1. But I've run KDE 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, and now 3.3. There isn't much different between each of them so I couldn't say it's much of a big deal.
Yeah I've read about that theory people have. It probably makes sense since it's cheaper to produce fewer different GPUs. Car manufacturers do a similar tactic by throttling their engines at high speeds. My toyota corolla will go above the speed limit of 112 mph, but it's limited.
I think it's enough energy to drive a pickup truck with an elephant in the truck bed across a football field 1 million times. Or is it from New York to San Fransisco 1 million times. Damn, I need by Calculations for Dummies book.
As said a million times here, Linux is a kernel, XFree86 is an implementation of the X11 standard. Linus would love to see binary drivers to go.
NVIDIA's example: It's NVIDIA that's releasing the closed source drivers. The kernel does ship with an open nvidia driver called "nv." You can use it, but you won't get 3D acceleration. NVIDIA doesn't release their code for several reasons. One is industry secrets they want to keep intact. The other could be licenses from other companies they're not allowed to release. Either way, NVIDIA is pretty good to the community.
if you didn't intend this to be flamebait, then why claim it takes thirty minutes to open OO.org? I just opened it on my 1.8 P4 with 512 mb of ram. It's running version 1.1.2 gentoo and so it was compiled from scratch, but that makes little difference. It took maybe 4-5 seconds to open, I wasn't counting. Yeah, I can open office XP in less time running crossover, but I'd prefer not to unless I have to. What exactly do you mean by "They load in a decent amount of time and have very few bugs that infringe on the way that I choose to use them." I can only assume that means you opened a few.doc files and they didn't look as they do in Word. That's the only problem I've ever had in OO.org.
Open Office hasn't been around for as long as Word Perfect and Office, but by now they should know how a good interface should look. However, I liked Office XP's look much better than Office 2003. Open Office for it's price, zilch, is pretty good in my mind. I try to use it on linux as my primary word processor. Occasionally I'll get a document that looks bad and I'll open up Office XP using Crossover Office and print it. As a student, I'm usually just using a word processor to write lab reports and a spreadsheet program to make the graphs for the documents. Open Office is fine for me when I'm creating docs from scratch, but I always save them to the.doc format for compatibility.
Microsoft will need to keep changing their.doc format to prevent Open Office from improving compatibility to the point where no one needs Office. Open Office needs to find people who have a good understanding of how a good interface should look work.
Microsoft has already mastered word processing and they're developing ways for people to collaborate. That's probably the way of the future in office suites. Open Office is still playing catch up.
Yup, just like those "But why leave the beautiful Windows XP for Linux" every time a new gentoo release comes out. I guess it's just something we'll just have to deal with.
I guess I meant to say "bad press" I was referring to the hoards of people screaming and yelling about this was that is negatively affecting Bush's campaign.
Thank you. I agree completely. My blood pressure has gone up and my karma has gone down every time I try to respond to these liberal view points here. I want the old slashdot where we knew who was good and who was evil and we could all have a good time flaming them.
No, if you believe something is true and you say it, you're "wrong." If you know something is not true and you say it is, that's "lying." Why does everyone say he lied when they're referring to instances when he had fautly intelligence? If he knew beforehand that Iraq had no stock piles, why would they go to war? Why would they actually want this bad situation? It doesn't make any sense.
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They used New Jersey drivers licenses. They old ones were a joke compared to other states. New Jersey recognized the problem and now we have digital licenses. I don't think RFID will help curve fake identification when people are have money and jihad backing them on their mission to kill people.
(o)(o) ...Na, it's just not the same.
You also have to wonder why this is front page news? This is a business sale. Do we jump up when Sony sells a collection of 10,000 Playstation 2's to Walmart?
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That's a very good point. However, if they are targetting to companies as well as home users, companies may be less inclined to take this route. It sounds more "legitimate" to buy one of these than to have your IT guy ripping apart an xbox. But for home users, it may be a better solution to use an XBOX.
I don't know. I see what you're saying, but to be this pissed off at it means you've thought about the problem and have done nothing to fix it.
I try to watch movies that I like. I rarely go to theaters because it's a waste of money. I rarely by CDs because as an entire album they're a waste of money. I try to enjoy the television shows, music, and movies that interest me.
Who cares if half of my generation is being brainwashed by MTV or Miramax? That's their problem, not mine to worry about.
I've always had these discussions with people about how our culture is turning to a pile of shit because corporations found it's so easy to tell us what to like instead of us deciding. However, that doesn't mean I have to follow the same rules.
Um, I'm not sure how you deal with your friends, but if I charged them to do something as simple as run adaware and spybot SD a few times I wouldn't gain their respect.
Getting respect from "people" and your friends are two different things. Friends should never ask for money for services.
RTFM!!!!!
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But the agreements are so vague that it gives them the "right" to install whatever software they want. Claria can install one program and that program can install five more. But it all goes back to the original agreement that makes it all legal and thus not enforceable by this law.
These companies like Claria (Gator) will just hire lawyers to make sure the agreement you click yes to will protect them from any legal action. I would love to see these companies put out of business, but the bottom line is people agree to installing this software. It sucks for me to remove it from my friends' computers, but that's just the way it is. No matter how much I convince them not to install free windows software or use firefox, they won't change their habits any time soon.
Still, it's a step in the "right direction."
Yeah and there are studies showing that caffeine and alcohol are a dangerous mix. Caffeine is a stimulant while alcohol is a depressant. When mixed, they don't even each other out, but depending on the person, the effects of one are magnified.
I'm wondering if there are going to be health problems with the masses of idiots who drink this crap. Then again, anyone drinking something from this company should deserves to get sick.
Do you remember Tickle Me Elmo? The Berlin Wall? There are so many people who would want a little space junk that they market would take years to dry up. I just don't know if the costs to transport it back to space would be worth it.
I'm sure that makes a lot of sense to other people, but I'll be taking a cab for a little while I think.
Mandrake always was a little out of date with desktop environments. Version 10 shipped with KDE 3.2 and it took forever to get an update to even KDE 3.2.1. But I've run KDE 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, and now 3.3. There isn't much different between each of them so I couldn't say it's much of a big deal.
He'll just use someone else's hand.
Yeah I've read about that theory people have. It probably makes sense since it's cheaper to produce fewer different GPUs. Car manufacturers do a similar tactic by throttling their engines at high speeds. My toyota corolla will go above the speed limit of 112 mph, but it's limited.
I think it's enough energy to drive a pickup truck with an elephant in the truck bed across a football field 1 million times. Or is it from New York to San Fransisco 1 million times. Damn, I need by Calculations for Dummies book.
As said a million times here, Linux is a kernel, XFree86 is an implementation of the X11 standard. Linus would love to see binary drivers to go.
NVIDIA's example: It's NVIDIA that's releasing the closed source drivers. The kernel does ship with an open nvidia driver called "nv." You can use it, but you won't get 3D acceleration. NVIDIA doesn't release their code for several reasons. One is industry secrets they want to keep intact. The other could be licenses from other companies they're not allowed to release. Either way, NVIDIA is pretty good to the community.
if you didn't intend this to be flamebait, then why claim it takes thirty minutes to open OO.org? I just opened it on my 1.8 P4 with 512 mb of ram. It's running version 1.1.2 gentoo and so it was compiled from scratch, but that makes little difference. It took maybe 4-5 seconds to open, I wasn't counting. Yeah, I can open office XP in less time running crossover, but I'd prefer not to unless I have to. What exactly do you mean by "They load in a decent amount of time and have very few bugs that infringe on the way that I choose to use them." I can only assume that means you opened a few .doc files and they didn't look as they do in Word. That's the only problem I've ever had in OO.org.
Open Office hasn't been around for as long as Word Perfect and Office, but by now they should know how a good interface should look. However, I liked Office XP's look much better than Office 2003. Open Office for it's price, zilch, is pretty good in my mind. I try to use it on linux as my primary word processor. Occasionally I'll get a document that looks bad and I'll open up Office XP using Crossover Office and print it. As a student, I'm usually just using a word processor to write lab reports and a spreadsheet program to make the graphs for the documents. Open Office is fine for me when I'm creating docs from scratch, but I always save them to the .doc format for compatibility.
.doc format to prevent Open Office from improving compatibility to the point where no one needs Office. Open Office needs to find people who have a good understanding of how a good interface should look work.
Microsoft will need to keep changing their
Microsoft has already mastered word processing and they're developing ways for people to collaborate. That's probably the way of the future in office suites. Open Office is still playing catch up.
Yup, just like those "But why leave the beautiful Windows XP for Linux" every time a new gentoo release comes out. I guess it's just something we'll just have to deal with.
I guess I meant to say "bad press" I was referring to the hoards of people screaming and yelling about this was that is negatively affecting Bush's campaign.
Thank you. I agree completely. My blood pressure has gone up and my karma has gone down every time I try to respond to these liberal view points here. I want the old slashdot where we knew who was good and who was evil and we could all have a good time flaming them.
No, if you believe something is true and you say it, you're "wrong." If you know something is not true and you say it is, that's "lying." Why does everyone say he lied when they're referring to instances when he had fautly intelligence? If he knew beforehand that Iraq had no stock piles, why would they go to war? Why would they actually want this bad situation? It doesn't make any sense.