Why Why Why Why, do people keep spreading this one button FUD crap??
modernish Macbook pros and (I dare say macbooks as well) allow you to right click by placing two fingers on the pad and clicking.
I looked around in the Women and Men section, and I didn't see one normal looking person. Check out Molly for instance.
Forget Molly - April can fake in my space anytime she wants!!
except that she is NOT a typical 10-year old girl - her grandad has just created a feckin Jurassic Park!! He is an eccentric billionaire and CEO of IN-GEN (taken from IMDB). I suspect he just might have a few UNIX servers at work, or he could easily get a couple installed at his favorite grand daughters house even, if she asked him nicely.
On the other side, why is it that the cursor move keys are HJKL when the touchtyping home keys are JKL; that is something that has always give me problems,
The reason vi use the hjkl combo - is that it was first created on a terminal that did not have any cursor keys and these 4 keys were used instead to move around the screen.
they shouldn't but by God they do! everyday and in their millions. Joe and Jane could not give two wet farts for secuity protocols and they never will!
I'm perfectly serious here. I'm not clueless or an idiot; I probably know more about computers than most people here. I've used Macs and various Linices extensively, and I consider myself skilled with both. But I still use Windows for my primary computer, because I just happen to find it a pleasanter environment. I can get stuff done faster in Windows. It does what I want, the way I want to do it. That's why.
Does anyone else object to the word pleasanter? I much prefer the proper Queens English version of 'More Pleasant'
**Gets ready for the stream of abuse that is sure to come**
Also, many large companies have licenses that allow for home use of MS Office suite... on the Mac this will add another $100 to the cost.
MS do make a mac version of Office you know and AFAIK it can still be used at home like the windows one if your company has a select agreement (or whatever vol discount name it is called nowadays).
or I might want to use my time more productively and do some work/play some games/spend time with my wife rather than waste another nanosecond reading that two USERS have moved to linux.
gee whiz, golly gosh - who gives a flying feck? I couldn't care less if Bill used OSX and Steve used Windows. I'll use whatever OS I happen to favour regardless of two 'so-called' famous mac nerds!
You've just been lucky mate, we have over 600 Dell Latititudes here at work (after being a pure Compaq/HP shop) and the failure rate of some part of the Dell is WAAAY higher than the HP's ever were. I would say approx 5 times as many laptops have a faulty part when compared with the HP's, our on-site hardware guy has never worked harder.
I know we are meant to be talking about MBPs but I just wanted to illustrate that Dell's are completly inferior to most other manufacturers out there a fact born out by other PC magazine studies each year as well. Let's face it, Dell are a commodity PC manufacturer they sell em cheap and ship em out in large volumes - quality is always going to suffer in this business model.
From the Greek Post above: My biggest question is if I can use my checkout funds to pay for stuff. I live in Greece, so I can't withdraw PayPal funds (cheaply, anyway), but I can use it to pay for my hosting/online shopping. If I can't do this with Google Checkout, it's all but useless to me.
I've yet to find a web site which lists spots you can go to find free bicycles to ride.
here's one: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/programmes/cost8/ca se/transport/buga.html
not trying to argue just pointing out that there are free bike schemes around the world, this is by no means the only one either:)
yes, too many, too often - patching windows is a little bit like playing russian roulette with the server in the place of your head!
and don't anyone give me that 'you should test first, before applying any patch' garbage, come and give me another administrator for free plus a big ass server to run all the virtual images we would need to test all the different configs on and then I'll test!
Sorry Taskforce that is not how it is in the UK, at least not now.
I had a prob with my 5G Ipod, dodgy screen - not damaged externally but busted from the inside - big artifacting lines all over it.
I logged the prob on the Monday, a nice UPS man came round on the Tuesday and I had a new Pod on the Thursday!! All gratis and I didn't even have a receipt as I got it from a referal scheme!
Now that is what I call service, I have never had such good service from any computer company, nor any other company for that matter.
Would this fueling peculiarity be a too small inlet hole for the pump by any chance? My BMW had it too, I had to hold the pump down at an angle to stop the airlock mechanism shutting it off every 10 seconds! the one bad thing about that car. That, and the fact no one lets you out at junctions because they think you are the stereotypical crap BMW driver!
I know they are pandering to the masses, but I guess it would be nice if we got "news for nerds" without anti-MS/pro-Linux stories and spins on stories whenever possible.
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Why Why Why Why, do people keep spreading this one button FUD crap??
modernish Macbook pros and (I dare say macbooks as well) allow you to right click by placing two fingers on the pad and clicking.
now everyone shut up about one button mice!
Hey! don't Diss Easter Bunny Adventure! it has a killer twist at the end that I never saw coming!!!!!
RTFS - it's 75 Australian dollars!
People take their shoes off on planes because they saw Die Hard and are making 'fists wit ya toes'!!
Mod Parent up! I wish I had some myself, this is one of the most lucid, intelligent, reasoned postings I have EVER seen on /.
Bravo sir, I salute you.
I looked around in the Women and Men section, and I didn't see one normal looking person. Check out Molly for instance.
Forget Molly - April can fake in my space anytime she wants!!
except that she is NOT a typical 10-year old girl - her grandad has just created a feckin Jurassic Park!! He is an eccentric billionaire and CEO of IN-GEN (taken from IMDB). I suspect he just might have a few UNIX servers at work, or he could easily get a couple installed at his favorite grand daughters house even, if she asked him nicely.
On the other side, why is it that the cursor move keys are HJKL when the touchtyping home keys are JKL; that is something that has always give me problems,
The reason vi use the hjkl combo - is that it was first created on a terminal that did not have any cursor keys and these 4 keys were used instead to move around the screen.
they shouldn't but by God they do! everyday and in their millions. Joe and Jane could not give two wet farts for secuity protocols and they never will!
how about your brain for starters? No one on the planet knows how it works fully!
Did you not know that Guy Cocker is the new Pyseudonym for Daredevil! :)
I'm perfectly serious here. I'm not clueless or an idiot; I probably know more about computers than most people here. I've used Macs and various Linices extensively, and I consider myself skilled with both. But I still use Windows for my primary computer, because I just happen to find it a pleasanter environment. I can get stuff done faster in Windows. It does what I want, the way I want to do it. That's why.
Does anyone else object to the word pleasanter? I much prefer the proper Queens English version of 'More Pleasant'
**Gets ready for the stream of abuse that is sure to come**
Also, many large companies have licenses that allow for home use of MS Office suite... on the Mac this will add another $100 to the cost.
MS do make a mac version of Office you know and AFAIK it can still be used at home like the windows one if your company has a select agreement (or whatever vol discount name it is called nowadays).
or I might want to use my time more productively and do some work/play some games/spend time with my wife rather than waste another nanosecond reading that two USERS have moved to linux.
gee whiz, golly gosh - who gives a flying feck? I couldn't care less if Bill used OSX and Steve used Windows. I'll use whatever OS I happen to favour regardless of two 'so-called' famous mac nerds!
You've just been lucky mate, we have over 600 Dell Latititudes here at work (after being a pure Compaq/HP shop) and the failure rate of some part of the Dell is WAAAY higher than the HP's ever were. I would say approx 5 times as many laptops have a faulty part when compared with the HP's, our on-site hardware guy has never worked harder.
I know we are meant to be talking about MBPs but I just wanted to illustrate that Dell's are completly inferior to most other manufacturers out there a fact born out by other PC magazine studies each year as well. Let's face it, Dell are a commodity PC manufacturer they sell em cheap and ship em out in large volumes - quality is always going to suffer in this business model.
as if we would believe that the 'Police are good' speech from.... The PENGUIN!!!! :)
No need.
From the Greek Post above:
My biggest question is if I can use my checkout funds to pay for stuff. I live in Greece, so I can't withdraw PayPal funds (cheaply, anyway), but I can use it to pay for my hosting/online shopping. If I can't do this with Google Checkout, it's all but useless to me.
maybe he should pay for your reading lessons!
I've yet to find a web site which lists spots you can go to find free bicycles to ride.a se/transport/buga.html :)
here's one:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/programmes/cost8/c
not trying to argue just pointing out that there are free bike schemes around the world, this is by no means the only one either
yes, too many, too often - patching windows is a little bit like playing russian roulette with the server in the place of your head!
and don't anyone give me that 'you should test first, before applying any patch' garbage, come and give me another administrator for free plus a big ass server to run all the virtual images we would need to test all the different configs on and then I'll test!
Gosh, I have plenty of MP3, AVI, MPEG, WMV, Gif, Zip graphic and video files ... that aren't porn, illegal music & warez.
/. ID on your way out.
Excuse me Sir, we've had some complaints from the other clientele, could you hand in your
http://www.bombich.com/software/index.html
cheers
G
Sorry Taskforce that is not how it is in the UK, at least not now.
I had a prob with my 5G Ipod, dodgy screen - not damaged externally but busted from the inside - big artifacting lines all over it.
I logged the prob on the Monday, a nice UPS man came round on the Tuesday and I had a new Pod on the Thursday!! All gratis and I didn't even have a receipt as I got it from a referal scheme!
Now that is what I call service, I have never had such good service from any computer company, nor any other company for that matter.
cheers
G
Would this fueling peculiarity be a too small inlet hole for the pump by any chance?
My BMW had it too, I had to hold the pump down at an angle to stop the airlock mechanism shutting it off every 10 seconds! the one bad thing about that car. That, and the fact no one lets you out at junctions because they think you are the stereotypical crap BMW driver!
I know they are pandering to the masses, but I guess it would be nice if we got "news for nerds" without anti-MS/pro-Linux stories and spins on stories whenever possible.
Your new here aren't you!
sorry couldn't resist.