No, irregardless is a perfectly legitimate choice. From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
I wonder whether in your over-eager need to consult the web, you managed to discover the meaning of dialectical, or what any of the il, in, ir, or im prefixes mean? Here's a hint: you don't need to know any Latin to know that insensitiveless clod doesn't mean what you think it means.
You grammar Nazis are...
Ignoring the obvious bias on the part of someone who opts for inflammatory terms, how is making use of a tortured (dialectical, if you prefer) double-negative construct (in place of a perfectly ordinary word like "regardless") evolutionary? Seems to me if you're trying to be helpful, justifying a poor and obviously confusing choice of words ain't it.
Then again, if knowledge and self-improvement isn't for you, and deference is out of the question, drink your Gatorade and leave the rest of us alone.
MacOS X on PCs is like Linux on microwaves: it's very cool, and a neat experiment, but I think for most folks, it's not very appealing.
I disagree.
You're making an unjustified assumption that everyone who buys a Mac buys it because of Apple hardware per se, and not because of OS X. If the hardware is fully supported, then the hardware is fully supported. Period. Mixing in other issues won't change that fact. And while I'll agree that Apple's hardware is top-notch, it bears pointing out that so is lots of other hardware, hardware whose design doesn't include clear Lexan or otherwise adorned with logos of common fruits.
If the idea of running OS X is blasphemous, so be it. Most of us have no interest in joining a church, and do just fine in a less than perfect world. When I bought my Thinkpad, I didn't ask IBM's blessing to install FreeBSD, nor did I ask for support. I just paid my money and walked away happy.
I can see this turning/degenerating into a "why doesn't Apple just license MacOS X for PCs?!" discussion awful quick.
How is that degenerating? The issue has been fair game and perfectly relevent since Apple went the Intel route. And if you put aside all the handwavy issues of user experience, inferences related to Steve Job's personality and preferences, similarly personal notions of whether or not Apple is a "hardware" company, or arm-chair analysis of present and past business strategies, it's an issue that's still unresolved.
Put another way, the only facts here are the absence of them.
If you even have a "confidential handbook", you're a cult, not a religion...or maybe a good old fashioned pyramid scheme.
That may be true for those with a preference for a limited, postmodern or otherwise politically-correct interpretation of religeon (or rituals in general), but it's hardly the case. The Wiki article on Initiation would be a good starting point.
As a trivial or at least understandable example, take adulthood. No one associates the terms "confidential" or "handbook" with the concept, but the rites of initation associated with achieving adulthood take on countless forms, even today; circumcision, graduation, reaching the age of puberty, or ordinary hazing are just a few examples. If those rites aren't deliberately kept secret, they're not discussed openly or casually. Similarly, what's associated with adulthood isn't something that's discussed with those who haven't gone through the rite of passage or otherwise achieved it, i.e. sex and marriage are off-topic for the youngsters.
That's not to say the Mormon Church isn't based on nutty ideas, but only that there's a perfectly reasonable if not an age-old justification for their wanting to keep secrets secret. Would you want your underwear (magic, or otherwise) to be on someone else's Facebook page?
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Improved performance, especially scrolling in large windows
Not sure what value of large you're using, but FWIW, my own opinion is that any terminal application that has a problem scrolling is a non-starter for anything non-trivial.
Backups aren't always possible. Say, collecting data, if you back up 1/day you still lose data. That can sometimes be worth the $2k. Until you remember the existence of mirroring.
And mirrored data that is accidently rm -rf, wrongly changed, or on drives that all fail, is worth how much?
Some sort of RAID is always a good idea, but that's a different subject. Put another way, backups are always possible. Or better yet, mirroring is not a substitute for backups.
Of course, often that also meant some kind of medical treatment afterwards, usually including some nasty shots of penicillin, but that was a small price to pay for the vast spread of one's genetic material.
We've come a long a way, haven't we?
Today, if soldier returns home carrying a virus, his wife probably won't know, or at least will hesitate before asking "Honey, what were you doing with your thumb drive while in Iraq?" and demanding that he sleep on the couch.
I think this is meant to address "real" piracy, and not some guy in his basement downloading torrents.
From the ordinance (note the use of the terms "improperly labelled" and "sell"):
The revisions would expand the definition of nuisance property to also properties that are used to manufacture and sell recordings and audiovisual works are improperly labeled, as prohibited by California Penal Code Section 653w.
The revisions would expand the definition of nuisance property to also include properties that are used to manufacture and sell recordings and audiovisual works that are improperly labeled, as prohibited by California Penal Code Section 653w.
Then again, maybe my reading of it is incorrect. That's not to say laws don't have a funny way of being interpreted and reinterpreted, or used opportunistically by law enforcement. Worst case scenario? Instead of having your car impounded when you find yourself driving down Sunset Boulevard late one Saturday evening looking for blackjack and hookers and meeting up with an undercover officer, you get your car impounded for what's playing on your iPod.
For places with no aviation authorities, yeah, they'll probably see their share of car-planes landing/falling in interesting places because some moron...
Maybe someone familiar with the safety statistics for single engine planes can chime in, but here in California it's not at all uncommon to read about planes crashing into people's homes and backyards.
I know this isn't going to be a popular opinion here, but two of the big downsides of open source software to me are the lack of documentation and the lack of quality control.
I'll refrain from asking what you mean by quality control, but documentation? Seriously? Outside of OSS, you'd be hard pressed (with a few exceptions) to find anything that has any meaningful documentation. And if you're looking for hand-holding HowTo's or FAQs, well, the web is littered with them.
Windows, for example, offers little more than beginner-oriented help files and a collection of goofy wizards. If I'm looking for documentation, my choices are subscribe to MSDN/Technet, spend my time trawling the Microsoft site, use the trial-and-error approach to "guess" what's happening or how things work, or dick around with Google. By comparison, a typical Ubuntu system probably has more than a typical user would ever want or need. If you use FreeBSD, the Handbook covers all topics, and the manpages document everything in its entirety. If you need more than that, well, the code is readily available and the tools are at your disposable to find what you need in seconds.
The reason why the expression RTFM is never heard in the Windows world is that there generally is no manual to read. That, and the fact that the eleventy million mailing lists dedicated to OSS don't exist, precluding anyone from using the expression.
xmodmap might be the preferred solution as it allows you to test your configuration without restarting X. Also useful if you're a vim user and choose to remap ESC for a long editing session.
In MS Windows, try caps-as-ctrl.reg. You will need to reboot after installing.
A reboot? Say it ain't true! Seriously, thanks for that. There's a remapper utility provided in the Resource Kits that I regularly drag out, but it didn't occur to me after all these years a simple.reg file would suffice.
The press release can be read in its entirety on the official Sam Brownback site.
Seems a fair enough position for a politician to take, given that he sits on one or more subcomittees that are involved with international/human rights types of issues.
On the other hand, he is a Republican.
And he's from Kansas.
If you're not prepared to fill in your own joke, the Wikipedia article on him should give you some ideas.
people will choose the software they feel suits their needs best. shockingly it's not always going to be linux.
For your benefit and others who similarly haven't read the article or missed its point entirely, the case study cited in the article involves the city of Upssala that has two networks, one a 150-server Windows network, and the second a 100-server Windows network with some Linux and Netware thrown in. Virus outbreaks and a need for increased control were cited as motivating factors for a change.
The case study goes on about how TrueSec and the city participated in the Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program in order to get Windows Server 2008 pre-release version early. They made a test network, they purchased new hardware, they made a pilot deployment in January 2008 in the city administration network and things are looking ok so far.
So, what do we learn? Firstly, the existing platform was far more of a Windows environment than a Linux one. The Windows-exclusive network was insecure. A third-party company who maintained the network - and who were a Microsoft partner - recommended new features in Windows Server 2008 that would help. So far, the Windows-exclusive network has been partially upgraded.
Hang on? Where's the Linux aspect? Why is this on Microsoft's site? Weren't we promised we'd be told why customers are choosing Windows Server 2008 over Linux?
Oh yeah, there was a single reference hidden away. "If you go with Linux, you can never be sure of what kind of support you're going to get" a server technician said. "Maybe the product is free, but you still have to put in the staff hours to basically support the product yourself."
If there's a "suit one's needs" aspect to any of this, it certainly isn't in the article.
Nothing personal, mate, but I really do wish people would reconsider referring to a corporation, in a general discussion, by its stock exchange ticker symbol.
What is this? News for Financial Market Junkies?
I believe the company's legal name is Microsoft Corporation. That would be "Microsoft" for those inclined to save a few keystrokes, "microsoft" or "ms" for those preferring speed over clarity and reader comprehension, or variations on "Micro$oft" for those inclined to sophomoric humour. Hell, even The Evil Whose Name Shall Not be Spoken would work. But using an indirect reference when a direct one would be more meaningful.. well, do I need to spell it out?
If you make your living trading securities one might be inclined to overlook it as a professional gaffe, but until I read something along the lines of MSFT wanted YHOO but were afraid of GOOG and threats from NOVL and RHT., the absence of consistency leaves me wondering WTF the context of the discussion is, and WTF the writer is really trying to say. If anything.
Energy conservation isn't about saving the planet - the planet doesn't care. It's about saving humans. We'll all die out and the planet will quite happily go on without us.
Actually, that's a common enough mistake for most people as to be forgivable. In the West, we have this notion that we're born "into this world" with an implicit assumption we're separate from (and possibly, above) it all.
Asking people to view themselves as being "of this world" would allow people to see "the environment" as "our environment", but that would demand a profound philosophical or religeous shift which ain't gonna happen without a few wars being fought. Working backwards from the selfish "it's all about protecting us" approach is probably least objectionable and most practical (at least in the short term) as it can change behaviour. The irony, of course, is that you may end up with a different religeon anyway, as the "I'm a steward" construct, like a typical male ego under assault from a perceptive woman, breaks miserably.
In the meantime, I like to use the old George Carlin line about planet + styrofoam - humans = a perfectly balanced state of affairs.
I don't foresee ASIMO replacing human conductors permanently, but I suspect that any performance he conducted of modern works would sound better than those by conductors trained like Bernstein or Karajan, who tried to make the music fit their own universal style instead of following the wishes of the composer.
Assuming, of course, the composer hasn't been dead for a few hundred years, isn't well known or understood, or the instruments used at the time are still available in the same form.
That said, I agree that the idea of replacing the human element has its limitations, but I guess what's most notable about the article is that the idea isn't as dismissable as it once was. I used to have a prejudiced view of anything electronic when it came to music (at least music that wasn't pop oriented). Real music had to be interpreted and played live, and each performance was, by definition, unique. That point of view mostly evaporated after I sat through a performance of a Disklavier, essentially a modern-day version of a player piano. This press release might give everyone an idea as to what I'm talking about.
Luckily, at least for me, my own tastes tend toward solo pieces performed on stringed instruments. A machine may be able to conduct, or play a piano, but a cello or guitar, for example, would be beyond a machine's abilities. At least that's what I hope is and remains the case.
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No, irregardless is a perfectly legitimate choice. From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
...
I wonder whether in your over-eager need to consult the web, you managed to discover the meaning of dialectical, or what any of the il, in, ir, or im prefixes mean? Here's a hint: you don't need to know any Latin to know that insensitiveless clod doesn't mean what you think it means.
You grammar Nazis are
Ignoring the obvious bias on the part of someone who opts for inflammatory terms, how is making use of a tortured (dialectical, if you prefer) double-negative construct (in place of a perfectly ordinary word like "regardless") evolutionary? Seems to me if you're trying to be helpful, justifying a poor and obviously confusing choice of words ain't it.
Then again, if knowledge and self-improvement isn't for you, and deference is out of the question, drink your Gatorade and leave the rest of us alone.
MacOS X on PCs is like Linux on microwaves: it's very cool, and a neat experiment, but I think for most folks, it's not very appealing.
I disagree.
You're making an unjustified assumption that everyone who buys a Mac buys it because of Apple hardware per se, and not because of OS X. If the hardware is fully supported, then the hardware is fully supported. Period. Mixing in other issues won't change that fact. And while I'll agree that Apple's hardware is top-notch, it bears pointing out that so is lots of other hardware, hardware whose design doesn't include clear Lexan or otherwise adorned with logos of common fruits.
If the idea of running OS X is blasphemous, so be it. Most of us have no interest in joining a church, and do just fine in a less than perfect world. When I bought my Thinkpad, I didn't ask IBM's blessing to install FreeBSD, nor did I ask for support. I just paid my money and walked away happy.
I can see this turning/degenerating into a "why doesn't Apple just license MacOS X for PCs?!" discussion awful quick.
How is that degenerating? The issue has been fair game and perfectly relevent since Apple went the Intel route. And if you put aside all the handwavy issues of user experience, inferences related to Steve Job's personality and preferences, similarly personal notions of whether or not Apple is a "hardware" company, or arm-chair analysis of present and past business strategies, it's an issue that's still unresolved.
Put another way, the only facts here are the absence of them.
Irregardless of that ...
Aaargh.
The choices are regardless or irrespective. Pick one.
If you even have a "confidential handbook", you're a cult, not a religion...or maybe a good old fashioned pyramid scheme.
That may be true for those with a preference for a limited, postmodern or otherwise politically-correct interpretation of religeon (or rituals in general), but it's hardly the case. The Wiki article on Initiation would be a good starting point.
As a trivial or at least understandable example, take adulthood. No one associates the terms "confidential" or "handbook" with the concept, but the rites of initation associated with achieving adulthood take on countless forms, even today; circumcision, graduation, reaching the age of puberty, or ordinary hazing are just a few examples. If those rites aren't deliberately kept secret, they're not discussed openly or casually. Similarly, what's associated with adulthood isn't something that's discussed with those who haven't gone through the rite of passage or otherwise achieved it, i.e. sex and marriage are off-topic for the youngsters.
That's not to say the Mormon Church isn't based on nutty ideas, but only that there's a perfectly reasonable if not an age-old justification for their wanting to keep secrets secret. Would you want your underwear (magic, or otherwise) to be on someone else's Facebook page?
Apparently, the 4-year wait isn't a problem.
Sales Of Office For Mac Highest In Nearly 20 Years
The above, I think, is a story in itself.
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I found the Outside "user experience" to be far too buggy.
Works fine here. I just think it's overrated.
Not sure whether it's safe, though.
In other words, when it even attempts to answer a question that isn't already in Wikipedia as a phrase, I'll be impressed.
I asked it for the meaning of life.
Instead of "42", or a humorous "404 Not Found.", I got a list of Monty Python links.
Maybe I asked the wrong question?
Improved performance, especially scrolling in large windows
Not sure what value of large you're using, but FWIW, my own opinion is that any terminal application that has a problem scrolling is a non-starter for anything non-trivial.
They must be going for the Gnome look...
The day is still young, but that gets my vote for Quote of the Day.
Backups aren't always possible. Say, collecting data, if you back up 1/day you still lose data. That can sometimes be worth the $2k. Until you remember the existence of mirroring.
And mirrored data that is accidently rm -rf, wrongly changed, or on drives that all fail, is worth how much?
Some sort of RAID is always a good idea, but that's a different subject. Put another way, backups are always possible. Or better yet, mirroring is not a substitute for backups.
2. Immerse the drive in a ziplock bag of minute-rice, with the data/power connectors sticking up.
So what do I do with the rice when the data is recovered from the failed drive?
Of course, often that also meant some kind of medical treatment afterwards, usually including some nasty shots of penicillin, but that was a small price to pay for the vast spread of one's genetic material.
We've come a long a way, haven't we?
Today, if soldier returns home carrying a virus, his wife probably won't know, or at least will hesitate before asking "Honey, what were you doing with your thumb drive while in Iraq?" and demanding that he sleep on the couch.
From the ordinance (note the use of the terms "improperly labelled" and "sell"):
Then again, maybe my reading of it is incorrect. That's not to say laws don't have a funny way of being interpreted and reinterpreted, or used opportunistically by law enforcement. Worst case scenario? Instead of having your car impounded when you find yourself driving down Sunset Boulevard late one Saturday evening looking for blackjack and hookers and meeting up with an undercover officer, you get your car impounded for what's playing on your iPod.
For places with no aviation authorities, yeah, they'll probably see their share of car-planes landing/falling in interesting places because some moron ...
Maybe someone familiar with the safety statistics for single engine planes can chime in, but here in California it's not at all uncommon to read about planes crashing into people's homes and backyards.
250Gb isn't that bad at all.
Indeed. 250GB should be good enough for anyone.
I know this isn't going to be a popular opinion here, but two of the big downsides of open source software to me are the lack of documentation and the lack of quality control.
I'll refrain from asking what you mean by quality control, but documentation? Seriously? Outside of OSS, you'd be hard pressed (with a few exceptions) to find anything that has any meaningful documentation. And if you're looking for hand-holding HowTo's or FAQs, well, the web is littered with them.
Windows, for example, offers little more than beginner-oriented help files and a collection of goofy wizards. If I'm looking for documentation, my choices are subscribe to MSDN/Technet, spend my time trawling the Microsoft site, use the trial-and-error approach to "guess" what's happening or how things work, or dick around with Google. By comparison, a typical Ubuntu system probably has more than a typical user would ever want or need. If you use FreeBSD, the Handbook covers all topics, and the manpages document everything in its entirety. If you need more than that, well, the code is readily available and the tools are at your disposable to find what you need in seconds.
The reason why the expression RTFM is never heard in the Windows world is that there generally is no manual to read. That, and the fact that the eleventy million mailing lists dedicated to OSS don't exist, precluding anyone from using the expression.
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n XWindows, try this in xorg.conf:
.reg file would suffice.
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
xmodmap might be the preferred solution as it allows you to test your configuration without restarting X. Also useful if you're a vim user and choose to remap ESC for a long editing session.
In MS Windows, try caps-as-ctrl.reg. You will need to reboot after installing.
A reboot? Say it ain't true! Seriously, thanks for that. There's a remapper utility provided in the Resource Kits that I regularly drag out, but it didn't occur to me after all these years a simple
For AOL users?
The press release can be read in its entirety on the official Sam Brownback site.
Seems a fair enough position for a politician to take, given that he sits on one or more subcomittees that are involved with international/human rights types of issues.
On the other hand, he is a Republican.
And he's from Kansas.
If you're not prepared to fill in your own joke, the Wikipedia article on him should give you some ideas.
For your benefit and others who similarly haven't read the article or missed its point entirely, the case study cited in the article involves the city of Upssala that has two networks, one a 150-server Windows network, and the second a 100-server Windows network with some Linux and Netware thrown in. Virus outbreaks and a need for increased control were cited as motivating factors for a change.
If there's a "suit one's needs" aspect to any of this, it certainly isn't in the article.
Actually I believe that MSFT wanted yahoo ...
.. well, do I need to spell it out?
Nothing personal, mate, but I really do wish people would reconsider referring to a corporation, in a general discussion, by its stock exchange ticker symbol.
What is this? News for Financial Market Junkies?
I believe the company's legal name is Microsoft Corporation. That would be "Microsoft" for those inclined to save a few keystrokes, "microsoft" or "ms" for those preferring speed over clarity and reader comprehension, or variations on "Micro$oft" for those inclined to sophomoric humour. Hell, even The Evil Whose Name Shall Not be Spoken would work. But using an indirect reference when a direct one would be more meaningful
If you make your living trading securities one might be inclined to overlook it as a professional gaffe, but until I read something along the lines of MSFT wanted YHOO but were afraid of GOOG and threats from NOVL and RHT., the absence of consistency leaves me wondering WTF the context of the discussion is, and WTF the writer is really trying to say. If anything.
Energy conservation isn't about saving the planet - the planet doesn't care. It's about saving humans. We'll all die out and the planet will quite happily go on without us.
Actually, that's a common enough mistake for most people as to be forgivable. In the West, we have this notion that we're born "into this world" with an implicit assumption we're separate from (and possibly, above) it all.
Asking people to view themselves as being "of this world" would allow people to see "the environment" as "our environment", but that would demand a profound philosophical or religeous shift which ain't gonna happen without a few wars being fought. Working backwards from the selfish "it's all about protecting us" approach is probably least objectionable and most practical (at least in the short term) as it can change behaviour. The irony, of course, is that you may end up with a different religeon anyway, as the "I'm a steward" construct, like a typical male ego under assault from a perceptive woman, breaks miserably.
In the meantime, I like to use the old George Carlin line about planet + styrofoam - humans = a perfectly balanced state of affairs.
I don't foresee ASIMO replacing human conductors permanently, but I suspect that any performance he conducted of modern works would sound better than those by conductors trained like Bernstein or Karajan, who tried to make the music fit their own universal style instead of following the wishes of the composer.
Assuming, of course, the composer hasn't been dead for a few hundred years, isn't well known or understood, or the instruments used at the time are still available in the same form.
That said, I agree that the idea of replacing the human element has its limitations, but I guess what's most notable about the article is that the idea isn't as dismissable as it once was. I used to have a prejudiced view of anything electronic when it came to music (at least music that wasn't pop oriented). Real music had to be interpreted and played live, and each performance was, by definition, unique. That point of view mostly evaporated after I sat through a performance of a Disklavier, essentially a modern-day version of a player piano. This press release might give everyone an idea as to what I'm talking about.
Luckily, at least for me, my own tastes tend toward solo pieces performed on stringed instruments. A machine may be able to conduct, or play a piano, but a cello or guitar, for example, would be beyond a machine's abilities. At least that's what I hope is and remains the case.