That said, this is more of a hobby, and using legal strongarming to shut them down is in poor taste. You might as well sue the friday night cover bands at the local watering holes.
The way things are going, that will soon happen as well.
I know I'm feeding the troll here, but how does typing "sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new" in Linux suck worse than having to track down your outdated install CD and/or download and install the drivers from the website? In the first case, it's much easier (no fumbling with CDs) and in the second it's pretty much the same, minus having to open a browser and search for a download link. In fact, with apt-get there's no mouse clicks at all, unlike the InstallShield wizard used in Windows driver installs.
As for wireless, the last two Ubuntu-based distros I threw at a wireless laptop worked out-of-the-box with no driver installation period. Do that with a WinXP CD. Onboard drivers? I can honestly say that in the past five years I've yet to run across an onboard component that needed a separate driver installed; it's all in the kernel and/or default packages on nearly all Linux distros. I've never messed around with hdtv, so I have no comment in that area.
Bottom line, Linux has supported more hardware from the default install than any other OS for quite some time now. If you're a long-time resident of Slashdot then you already knew that and are a very poor troll.
It actually displays whatever buttons would make sense in the given context.
While my PalmOS Treo does have a more or less "full" keyboard of physical keys along with the usual send/end/cursor/app keys, it also has a touch screen and it does display context specific buttons within a call. For example, when I'm on a call I have buttons on the screen to send the call to speakerphone or headset, and if another call comes in I get buttons to switch, join or end my current call. Personally I like having the best of both worlds; I have a full keyboard that took all of three text messages to get used to, and I have a smartly designed touch-screen phone app.
I was a bit excited about the iPhone when it was first demonstrated but since I got the Treo I'm very happy. I don't think I would have been as satisfied with the iPhone, but that's just me. I'm positive there are folks out there who will find the iPhone to be the best phone for them for a long time to come though.
Sounds like the First Offender Act. He's charged with a felony, but since he's never gotten in trouble before he gets the slap-on-the-wrist punishment and, once his sentencing is completed, nothing shows up on a criminal background check for most jobs. However, if he ever applies for a local, state or federal job it WILL show up. First Offender status is only hidden for personal and non-government employment background checks. Any government jobs, even contracted jobs, WILL see this felony on his record.
Have you no reading comprehension at all? Palm devices are not going away; Palm OS as we know it now, is. It is, however, being replaced with a Linux-based, fully backward-compatible OS to run on the same (and, in the future, better) hardware.
Does it really take too much of your mental capacity to extrapolate that his request might be related to the previous poster's comments about hive minds and such?
PS: It amuses me when people like you display such a blatant lack of imagination and intelligence.
Our local law enforcement has taken to calling them "OHS", or "Office of Homeland Security" to avoid such confusions. I'm not sure if it's a statewide or nationwide thing though; probably just us.
Well the last straw with Ubuntu, for me, had nothing to do with FOSS or Novell or any of that. The fact that Breezy ran perfectly fine on a one-year-old Sempron 64 system (my main box) but Edgy won't even boot, not even from the install CD, makes me wonder about their quality control and this push to release every six months. Ubuntu has always rubbed me the wrong way when it came to presentation and the pseudo-commercial feel of the project, but I switched to it from years of Slackware because I am lazy at heart. I like not having to compile obscure libraries for obscure programs that I only really needed to use once or twice.
Now that Edgy is out and barfs all over my box, I'm done. I've happily switched over to Debian Etch; it installs and upgrades without a hitch, there's no brown theme in sight, and personally I don't care if my web browser does or doesn't have a foxy logo in the future. At some point I may slide back into Slackware, perhaps when Pat makes the 2.6 kernel the default, but for now pure Debian strikes that wonderful balance between Ubuntu's ease of use and Slack's stability and compatibility.
Strangely, they didn't for me. In my mind, I still remember Gandalf, Frodo and especially Aragorn as they were described by Tolkien when I think back to reading the books as a child. Even when watching the movies, I tend to replace the actors' faces with my own creations in my mind's eye.
Although I will say that John Rhys-Davies makes for a very convincing generic Tolkien dwarf. Gimli was actually enjoyable to watch in the movie, compared to the others.
It IS a lot of work to balance a budget in a spreadsheet. The majority of my free time is downtime at my day job, and since we have Excel I take advantage of the time and keep up with my budget and forecasting in a password-protected/zipped-password-protected file (I've learned not to trust our IT guys regarding personal files). It took me several hours to set up and tweak the file, but since I'm not allowed to even use a thumb drive to run an open-source java app, it was worth it. I will eventually try out GnuCash on my Zenwalk installation at home, and if I like it I'll throw my Excel file on a floppy (our only allowed method of transferring files off the workstation) and find a way to integrate it into GnuCash.
Not really. If you actually listen to his music, you'll notice that he always changes little things here and there, beyond the obvious lyrical changes. Also, he uses his own instruments, amps, synths etc. which creates a distinct "feel" that is different enough from the original to be easily distinguished by mere humans. A perfect example is the song "Germs" which is musically based off of NiN's "Terrible Lie" with other NiN-style phrasings thrown in, although it is officially an original Weird Al song. The songs sound different enough to the average person, yet similar enough to easily see the influence.
Honestly, what hardcore WoW gamer is going to be bothered to play an offline card game based on WoW? Picture this: You are sitting in your local cybercafe or public library, deck in hand, and some guy walks in wearing a "For the Horde!" t-shirt. You say "Dude! Let's play the WoW card game!!" He smiles condescendingly, shakes his head and says "Dude..." while he pulls out his laptop and fires up WoW, logs in and proceeds to raid Naxx with his guild.
9. Amphetamines/Meth -- See #1 (doing crime to no one else).
The problem with this one is that to manufacture meth, you do some pretty dangerous chemistry in your house. If you have kids or other loved ones in the house, just breathing the fumes can cause great harm to them. There's always the possibility that the lab will explode at any time, taking out your house as well as the houses on either side of you in most cases.
I can understand wanting softer drugs like marijuana to be legal and I have nothing against that, but meth is simply too dangerous all the way around.
Or are you just on the Dell-bashing and/or Apple-loving bandwagon(s)?
I believe he is employing what is commonly referred to as sarcasm. This unique form of humor seems to be lost on many netizens, especially those on certain tech forums.
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Indeed! Let the Scouring of the Shire begin! Down with the Big Folk!
That said, this is more of a hobby, and using legal strongarming to shut them down is in poor taste. You might as well sue the friday night cover bands at the local watering holes.
The way things are going, that will soon happen as well.
I know I'm feeding the troll here, but how does typing "sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new" in Linux suck worse than having to track down your outdated install CD and/or download and install the drivers from the website? In the first case, it's much easier (no fumbling with CDs) and in the second it's pretty much the same, minus having to open a browser and search for a download link. In fact, with apt-get there's no mouse clicks at all, unlike the InstallShield wizard used in Windows driver installs.
As for wireless, the last two Ubuntu-based distros I threw at a wireless laptop worked out-of-the-box with no driver installation period. Do that with a WinXP CD. Onboard drivers? I can honestly say that in the past five years I've yet to run across an onboard component that needed a separate driver installed; it's all in the kernel and/or default packages on nearly all Linux distros. I've never messed around with hdtv, so I have no comment in that area.
Bottom line, Linux has supported more hardware from the default install than any other OS for quite some time now. If you're a long-time resident of Slashdot then you already knew that and are a very poor troll.
Dude, it's Slashdot. You can say motherfucking if you want.
It actually displays whatever buttons would make sense in the given context.
While my PalmOS Treo does have a more or less "full" keyboard of physical keys along with the usual send/end/cursor/app keys, it also has a touch screen and it does display context specific buttons within a call. For example, when I'm on a call I have buttons on the screen to send the call to speakerphone or headset, and if another call comes in I get buttons to switch, join or end my current call. Personally I like having the best of both worlds; I have a full keyboard that took all of three text messages to get used to, and I have a smartly designed touch-screen phone app.
I was a bit excited about the iPhone when it was first demonstrated but since I got the Treo I'm very happy. I don't think I would have been as satisfied with the iPhone, but that's just me. I'm positive there are folks out there who will find the iPhone to be the best phone for them for a long time to come though.
Remind me to never smile at and say hello to a woman in your presence. You might chop off my dick for such an atrocity.
Sounds like the First Offender Act. He's charged with a felony, but since he's never gotten in trouble before he gets the slap-on-the-wrist punishment and, once his sentencing is completed, nothing shows up on a criminal background check for most jobs. However, if he ever applies for a local, state or federal job it WILL show up. First Offender status is only hidden for personal and non-government employment background checks. Any government jobs, even contracted jobs, WILL see this felony on his record.
Have you no reading comprehension at all? Palm devices are not going away; Palm OS as we know it now, is. It is, however, being replaced with a Linux-based, fully backward-compatible OS to run on the same (and, in the future, better) hardware.
Or were you intentionally trolling?
More seriously, this kind of bull is the sort of thing religious evangelists and spammers do.
Dude, just don't watch the anime. It's not like he's forcing you to do it at gunpoint. Besides, you'll get over it.
There is a little freeware program called "LEDOff" that addresses this specific issue. It's made just for the Treo 6xx Palm-based phones.
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http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=soft
Does it really take too much of your mental capacity to extrapolate that his request might be related to the previous poster's comments about hive minds and such?
PS: It amuses me when people like you display such a blatant lack of imagination and intelligence.
Our local law enforcement has taken to calling them "OHS", or "Office of Homeland Security" to avoid such confusions. I'm not sure if it's a statewide or nationwide thing though; probably just us.
Kids these days...My first video game was Yar's Revenge on my brand-new Atari 2600 woodgrain box...and I was five years old!
(Now I'm just waiting for some old fart to come along and spew forth about how, back in HIS day, yadda yadda yadda.)
Well the last straw with Ubuntu, for me, had nothing to do with FOSS or Novell or any of that. The fact that Breezy ran perfectly fine on a one-year-old Sempron 64 system (my main box) but Edgy won't even boot, not even from the install CD, makes me wonder about their quality control and this push to release every six months. Ubuntu has always rubbed me the wrong way when it came to presentation and the pseudo-commercial feel of the project, but I switched to it from years of Slackware because I am lazy at heart. I like not having to compile obscure libraries for obscure programs that I only really needed to use once or twice.
Now that Edgy is out and barfs all over my box, I'm done. I've happily switched over to Debian Etch; it installs and upgrades without a hitch, there's no brown theme in sight, and personally I don't care if my web browser does or doesn't have a foxy logo in the future. At some point I may slide back into Slackware, perhaps when Pat makes the 2.6 kernel the default, but for now pure Debian strikes that wonderful balance between Ubuntu's ease of use and Slack's stability and compatibility.
Actually Gates is:
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n #List_of_champions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_billionaires
You're right about The Schwartz though. The strongest man according to the "World's Strongest Man" competition is Phil Pfister:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Strongest_Ma
Strangely, they didn't for me. In my mind, I still remember Gandalf, Frodo and especially Aragorn as they were described by Tolkien when I think back to reading the books as a child. Even when watching the movies, I tend to replace the actors' faces with my own creations in my mind's eye.
Although I will say that John Rhys-Davies makes for a very convincing generic Tolkien dwarf. Gimli was actually enjoyable to watch in the movie, compared to the others.
99+% of the people in this world are decent folk
You don't get out much, do you?
It IS a lot of work to balance a budget in a spreadsheet. The majority of my free time is downtime at my day job, and since we have Excel I take advantage of the time and keep up with my budget and forecasting in a password-protected/zipped-password-protected file (I've learned not to trust our IT guys regarding personal files). It took me several hours to set up and tweak the file, but since I'm not allowed to even use a thumb drive to run an open-source java app, it was worth it. I will eventually try out GnuCash on my Zenwalk installation at home, and if I like it I'll throw my Excel file on a floppy (our only allowed method of transferring files off the workstation) and find a way to integrate it into GnuCash.
Not really. If you actually listen to his music, you'll notice that he always changes little things here and there, beyond the obvious lyrical changes. Also, he uses his own instruments, amps, synths etc. which creates a distinct "feel" that is different enough from the original to be easily distinguished by mere humans. A perfect example is the song "Germs" which is musically based off of NiN's "Terrible Lie" with other NiN-style phrasings thrown in, although it is officially an original Weird Al song. The songs sound different enough to the average person, yet similar enough to easily see the influence.
Dude, you were wrong, he corrected you, and in a lot nicer way than most would have on /. Take a pill or something.
Honestly, what hardcore WoW gamer is going to be bothered to play an offline card game based on WoW? Picture this: You are sitting in your local cybercafe or public library, deck in hand, and some guy walks in wearing a "For the Horde!" t-shirt. You say "Dude! Let's play the WoW card game!!" He smiles condescendingly, shakes his head and says "Dude..." while he pulls out his laptop and fires up WoW, logs in and proceeds to raid Naxx with his guild.
9. Amphetamines/Meth -- See #1 (doing crime to no one else).
The problem with this one is that to manufacture meth, you do some pretty dangerous chemistry in your house. If you have kids or other loved ones in the house, just breathing the fumes can cause great harm to them. There's always the possibility that the lab will explode at any time, taking out your house as well as the houses on either side of you in most cases.
I can understand wanting softer drugs like marijuana to be legal and I have nothing against that, but meth is simply too dangerous all the way around.
Inconceivable!
Or are you just on the Dell-bashing and/or Apple-loving bandwagon(s)?
I believe he is employing what is commonly referred to as sarcasm. This unique form of humor seems to be lost on many netizens, especially those on certain tech forums.
This is civil court, not criminal court. District Attorneys don't care.