Once upon a time, Frog was taking a look at Toad's garden. Toad had separate plots out marked "carrots" "tomatoes" and "peppers". He also had one plot marked "weeds", which was unkempt and full of weeds.
"Toad," asked Frog, "why the hell do you have a separate plot for weeds?!"
"Well, Frog, it's so that they stay in that plot and don't go in any of the others."
Both condemn it. Stop kidding yourself; 99% of all politicians are filthy corrupt bastards who want nothing more than to screw you over.
The other 1% get shot.
Besides, it's the exact same design as the XBox pad, only with buttons in different positions. It even has analog triggers. (Yeah, I know the PS2's buttons are technically analog...)
Two months from now it will be a non-issue anyway. Yeah, they made some bad decisions about integrating FF 1.0 really deep, but once Dapper is out, it will be upgraded.
Okay, so it defaults to the top. It's the easiest goddamn thing in the world to move. Hell, the bars (technical name: gnome-panel) is the only thing keeping me using GNOME at this point, as I really don't like the direction the rest of the project is going in (look at the travesty that is gnome-screensaver). But the panels are awesome. You can drag them to the bottom, top, sides, or middle, you can stack them, you can put whatever you want on them whereever you want, you can make them take up less than the entire edge of the screen. It's the one thing keeping GNOME above KDE, in my opinion.
It's an attempt to prevent a derivative with features that seem like a good idea but will really cripple the network, like KaZaA Lite and it's "keep searching forever, even if the supernode goes down" feature, back in the day.
That quote, combined with your sig, is so true. I worked in a government agency (on the IT help desk) and the employees were completely braindead with their computers.
I believe the X games (or at least X2: The Threat and X3: Reunion, not so sure about the first one but it wasn't that good anyway) had support for multiple monitors, and you could actually have it show different views on different monitors. Not sure, though, as I've only got the one monitor.
Valve has promised that if they go broke and need to shut down Steam, they will release a "final patch" for their games that removes the Steam requirement.
Then again, they never signed anything or anything like that, it's not in the EULA, and if they went broke, the'd have no money to develop such a patch. So who knows?
(And Valve is no longer tied to Vivendi. Vivendi/Sierra never had any ties to Steam in the first place, which is why the lawsuits happened.)
Worse, it only uses the Qt toolkit, so users of Gnome and XFCE have to either turn elsewhere or deal with it looking crappy. Since I don't use KDE, I use Quod Libet, instead. It's a bit like Rhythmbox, except good.
Because Elliot Spitzer has ambition to higher office (where he'll certainly get my vote), whereas other states' attorneys general are content with sitting on their asses?
Just the same, I think the default for PGP is 24 passes, with a maximum of 32. And why not, if you've got the time on your hands? It never hurts to be on the safe side.
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What 3D graphics card are you using? The nVidia one that requires closed-source drivers, or the ATi one that requires closed-source drivers?
When has that ever stopped a Congressman from being a jackass and making a fool out of the nation?
I just tried it with my Dell disk. It worked just fucking fine. Granted, this disc is about ten months old now. Still, it's post-SP2.
They use PAL instead of NTSC for standard def TVs. HTDV all uses the same standard. Isn't that great?
Dunno about you, but for me (and most others) it's the logo of my distribution.
Once upon a time, Frog was taking a look at Toad's garden. Toad had separate plots out marked "carrots" "tomatoes" and "peppers". He also had one plot marked "weeds", which was unkempt and full of weeds. "Toad," asked Frog, "why the hell do you have a separate plot for weeds?!" "Well, Frog, it's so that they stay in that plot and don't go in any of the others."
Ooh, interesting. I should remember that one.
Isn't hydro "renewable"? I mean, it's not like it runs out.
You can run Konqueror on Windows. Haven't you ever heard of cygwin?
Both condemn it. Stop kidding yourself; 99% of all politicians are filthy corrupt bastards who want nothing more than to screw you over. The other 1% get shot.
We'd see better drivers for our hardware. That's about the only thing that comes to mind, but it's a biggie.
The Gamecube controller is not built for FPSs,
Somebody forgot to tell that to Metroid Prime.
Besides, it's the exact same design as the XBox pad, only with buttons in different positions. It even has analog triggers. (Yeah, I know the PS2's buttons are technically analog...)
Two months from now it will be a non-issue anyway. Yeah, they made some bad decisions about integrating FF 1.0 really deep, but once Dapper is out, it will be upgraded.
Okay, so it defaults to the top. It's the easiest goddamn thing in the world to move. Hell, the bars (technical name: gnome-panel) is the only thing keeping me using GNOME at this point, as I really don't like the direction the rest of the project is going in (look at the travesty that is gnome-screensaver). But the panels are awesome. You can drag them to the bottom, top, sides, or middle, you can stack them, you can put whatever you want on them whereever you want, you can make them take up less than the entire edge of the screen. It's the one thing keeping GNOME above KDE, in my opinion.
I'm aware of abiword (that covers Word, what about Excel?)
Gnumeric.
Note that it requires GTK+ to be installed, but if you already have the GIMP or Gaim or whatever, you should already have that.
Then buy a fucking GameCube or something. It worked for me.
It's an attempt to prevent a derivative with features that seem like a good idea but will really cripple the network, like KaZaA Lite and it's "keep searching forever, even if the supernode goes down" feature, back in the day.
That quote, combined with your sig, is so true. I worked in a government agency (on the IT help desk) and the employees were completely braindead with their computers.
I believe the X games (or at least X2: The Threat and X3: Reunion, not so sure about the first one but it wasn't that good anyway) had support for multiple monitors, and you could actually have it show different views on different monitors. Not sure, though, as I've only got the one monitor.
(Also, X3 uses Starforce, so be warned!)
Valve has promised that if they go broke and need to shut down Steam, they will release a "final patch" for their games that removes the Steam requirement. Then again, they never signed anything or anything like that, it's not in the EULA, and if they went broke, the'd have no money to develop such a patch. So who knows? (And Valve is no longer tied to Vivendi. Vivendi/Sierra never had any ties to Steam in the first place, which is why the lawsuits happened.)
Worse, it only uses the Qt toolkit, so users of Gnome and XFCE have to either turn elsewhere or deal with it looking crappy. Since I don't use KDE, I use Quod Libet, instead. It's a bit like Rhythmbox, except good.
So the solution is for everyone to use emacs?
Sounds fine to me.
Because Elliot Spitzer has ambition to higher office (where he'll certainly get my vote), whereas other states' attorneys general are content with sitting on their asses?
Just a theory.
You say this as if you were joking.
Just the same, I think the default for PGP is 24 passes, with a maximum of 32. And why not, if you've got the time on your hands? It never hurts to be on the safe side.