I'm guessing the problem with the printer was that they bought a new one, 'cause that's the only one that really makes sense to me. In that case, "It just works" means that they can install the printer themselves by "just hooking it up."
I don't know of any linux distribution where printer configuration is that simple. Further, although the gui configurator is fairly easy to use, I've never had a printer that was actually on the list of supported ones. (although I've usually been able to find a similar enough one by searching the web)
Even further, when there is a real problem, they aren't the ones that deal with it. you are. So they've never actually been affected by them.
If you were smarter you'd try to co-opt McCarthy rather than use his name as an epithet to discredit your opponents.
Wouldn't you like to be associated with a man who held strong to his convictions despite pressure from all sides to desist and paid the ultimate price of a short term and having his very name reviled for decades to come? A man who also happened to be right: there were Communists* in the State Department.
*and not the shrill, "let's all live together" little-c communists either. The "let's betray America to her enemies" big-C kind.
The key to the "throw the virgins into the volcano" trick seems pretty clear to me. It's a cheap ploy by the local volcano appeasment committee to convince the winsome wenches to prove their vacant virginity through deleterious deeds.
Obviously this leeds to some pretty lame pick-up/reject lines. "If it were a choice between you and the volcano, I pick the volcano..." Although I wonder how many would really risk it...
Um.. because biodiesel is carbon neutral. If your solution to "CO2 is causing climate change" is, "Shut down industry and transportation," you can just leave the conversation right now. No one wants to hear about how great it will be when there's 5.8 billion fewer people in the world and everyone that's left lives like the Pennsylvania dutch.
The rest of us will get on with finding usable solutions to the problems we face. Gasoline happens to be a quite ideal energy storage mechanism for applications where weight, size, stability and reliability are important.
The recovery partitions typically come with a method for producing a reinstall CD for just that very problem. Obviously, you need to generate the CD before anything happens though. Scummily, they don't exactly go out of their way to let you know about this feature. It's in the manual, but not exactly in large print under a sticker demanding you run it before anything else.
So.. what you're saying is that eBay should institute a conditional bid option: where you specify a chain of auctions and your max bid for each and only activate the next bid if you fail to win the previous auction.
The problem with ZPG'ers is that they propose that since ZPG must happen eventually, that "we" should therefore start now. But since "they" aren't interested in ZPG, "they" will continue to reproduce at the "unsustainable" rate until for their very survival "they" begin to elbow "us" out. This continues until "we" are eliminated and "they" have everything. Then "they" continue until they reach the natural rate.
So you see, the only solution is laissez faire. It will happen whether you choose it or not. "Sustainable" is not sustainable.
Better cameras already do this, by taking a picture with the shutter closed. You can sometimes select between taking a "dark frame" for every picture and taking a single "dark frame" to apply to all subsequent frames. Best to read the manual for your particular model to see if you have these features.
Not to mention guns. Having a sidearm only increases the risk that the officer will use it against suspects or in self-defense rather than talking things out with people who are really just misunderstood. Nope, police and military troops should only have a good, sturdy pair of fuzzy mittens. And the threat of a 50 megaton nuclear bomb*.
*as long as the threat is not backed up with an actual nuclear bomb and the will to use one is known to be nonexistent.
Well the good news is that development is starting to be rethought in a very serious way. Many people are sick of/not impressed by the homogeneous golf course dormitories. Upscale communities are now being built around a "New Urban" concept which has closer together residences interspersed with shops and services. It's either a scaled down small town or a scaled up vacation resort depending on how you think about it.
The irony is that it's the same snobs who brought us sprawling gated communities that are pushing the move to more walkable residential areas.
Yes, she cleverly conflated the two issues. Or cavalierly, depending on how you look at it. Why did she mention it's not actually her laptop only to completely ignore that line of thought for most of the rest of the article.
An issue, not considered apparently by the executive director of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society in her decidedly non-nuanced, one-liner mention of United States v. Ziegler is whether the laptop provided by her employer is a perk (like a 401k, health plan, etc.) or a tool.
If it's part of her compensation, then she should expect its security. But she should also pay the proper tax on that compensation. Similar debate has surrounded the nature of corporate jets and company cars as well. If it's a tool to do her job, then she has no rights to assert except her employer's by proxy.
Which is interesting because it seems to me that the entire TSA is basically unconstitutional. This is, I assume, one of the reasons the task was originally left to the airlines to perform: What would be a violation of the fourth amendment for the government to do is perfectly reasonable when stipulated as a condition of sale for a private entity.
Is that the one where they had an entire encyclopedia encoded onto a bar of fixed length by scoring it at a precise position such that by dividing the two lengths, the rational binary number contained all of the bits of the encyclopedia?
If it doesn't use a magnetic field to propel the projectile, it's not a rail gun. It sounds like you built some kind of electric spud cannon. Which is still pretty cool. Depending on the toxicity of copper vapor.
Either that or you did build a rail gun, with copper-clad penny sabot projectiles, and there is a pile of copper foil somewhere in or near your garage to this day.
Yes, that's plenty easy if you're just going to stay with whatever's in the repositories. But suppose you want a more obscure program? There might not be a package available for your distro. Or maybe you want a feature that's on the latest build of a program that's in the repository but hasn't been updated for a while.
In that case, the only thing to do is compile from source and/or install the binaries from, more than likely, a tar file. This is not easy for a casual user, especially with the different schemes used by the various distros. I think LSB was supposed to ameliorate this somewhat, but I haven't seen any real progress from the home-user point of view.
On a windows box, obscure programs are installed the same way as every other program: click the.exe file in explorer. It'll either install or it can just be run from anywhere anyway.
Gaah why to all the metric pushers insist on using a mass unit for describing weight? Metric has a perfectly good force unit, the Newton. There was no need to repeat Galileo's greatest folly and invent the kilograms-weight unit.
They are convenient, but they're not as convenient as they should be. One of their chief features is also a drawback: they're tiny.
The best solution, which does not exist in any form, would be that all you have to do is hold the new phone next to the old phone and press a button. The technology's all in place (in phones even) for that already: bluetooth, public key encryption, uh.. buttons...
And the critical data shouldn't be just on the phone anyway. You should be able to access and edit a copy of the phone's phonebook through a web interface, which would get sync'd with the phone every so often. Then you wouldn't have such a hassle entering in everybody's info again every time you accidentally wash one. Heck, with mobile bandwidth the way it is, you should be able to access the phone's everything via the web. Interface cable? why?
Frankly, what surprises me is that no one has come in and undercut the phone companies byzantine pricing schemes by offering all that, on a phone/data-link (i mean it's already a data-link, all you'd need is a USB connector and the right drivers to turn it into a proper one) with unlimited calling for a low price. Sort of like a wireless vonage... I guess we'll see if it happens after the FCC clears out some frequencies for sale.
The "glimpses" won't be whole songs. They'll be highlights, like a movie trailer. Designed to get you into the stadium. Artists and promoters will WANT it to stay out there.
Casual fans of Timberlake will buy the CD and not pay any particular attention to his concert schedule. They might buy tickets, but they won't put any effort into knowing his schedule. The CD is enough for them. They aren't specifically avoiding the concert they're just not aware it might be in town. If they can't get a CD, they might pay more attention to the concert schedule. Just like you or I might go to the movie theater when a film comes out rather than wait for the disk.
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I'm guessing the problem with the printer was that they bought a new one, 'cause that's the only one that really makes sense to me. In that case, "It just works" means that they can install the printer themselves by "just hooking it up."
I don't know of any linux distribution where printer configuration is that simple. Further, although the gui configurator is fairly easy to use, I've never had a printer that was actually on the list of supported ones. (although I've usually been able to find a similar enough one by searching the web)
Even further, when there is a real problem, they aren't the ones that deal with it. you are. So they've never actually been affected by them.
They're very pretty, but they have a terrible, terrible flaw. Listen to these guys' explanation.
If you were smarter you'd try to co-opt McCarthy rather than use his name as an epithet to discredit your opponents.
Wouldn't you like to be associated with a man who held strong to his convictions despite pressure from all sides to desist and paid the ultimate price of a short term and having his very name reviled for decades to come? A man who also happened to be right: there were Communists* in the State Department.
*and not the shrill, "let's all live together" little-c communists either. The "let's betray America to her enemies" big-C kind.
The key to the "throw the virgins into the volcano" trick seems pretty clear to me. It's a cheap ploy by the local volcano appeasment committee to convince the winsome wenches to prove their vacant virginity through deleterious deeds.
Obviously this leeds to some pretty lame pick-up/reject lines. "If it were a choice between you and the volcano, I pick the volcano..." Although I wonder how many would really risk it...
Um.. because biodiesel is carbon neutral. If your solution to "CO2 is causing climate change" is, "Shut down industry and transportation," you can just leave the conversation right now. No one wants to hear about how great it will be when there's 5.8 billion fewer people in the world and everyone that's left lives like the Pennsylvania dutch.
The rest of us will get on with finding usable solutions to the problems we face. Gasoline happens to be a quite ideal energy storage mechanism for applications where weight, size, stability and reliability are important.
The recovery partitions typically come with a method for producing a reinstall CD for just that very problem. Obviously, you need to generate the CD before anything happens though. Scummily, they don't exactly go out of their way to let you know about this feature. It's in the manual, but not exactly in large print under a sticker demanding you run it before anything else.
So.. what you're saying is that eBay should institute a conditional bid option: where you specify a chain of auctions and your max bid for each and only activate the next bid if you fail to win the previous auction.
The problem with ZPG'ers is that they propose that since ZPG must happen eventually, that "we" should therefore start now. But since "they" aren't interested in ZPG, "they" will continue to reproduce at the "unsustainable" rate until for their very survival "they" begin to elbow "us" out. This continues until "we" are eliminated and "they" have everything. Then "they" continue until they reach the natural rate.
So you see, the only solution is laissez faire. It will happen whether you choose it or not. "Sustainable" is not sustainable.
Better cameras already do this, by taking a picture with the shutter closed. You can sometimes select between taking a "dark frame" for every picture and taking a single "dark frame" to apply to all subsequent frames. Best to read the manual for your particular model to see if you have these features.
And of course, they'll call it the WiiII.
Not to mention guns. Having a sidearm only increases the risk that the officer will use it against suspects or in self-defense rather than talking things out with people who are really just misunderstood. Nope, police and military troops should only have a good, sturdy pair of fuzzy mittens. And the threat of a 50 megaton nuclear bomb*.
*as long as the threat is not backed up with an actual nuclear bomb and the will to use one is known to be nonexistent.
Well the good news is that development is starting to be rethought in a very serious way. Many people are sick of/not impressed by the homogeneous golf course dormitories. Upscale communities are now being built around a "New Urban" concept which has closer together residences interspersed with shops and services. It's either a scaled down small town or a scaled up vacation resort depending on how you think about it.
The irony is that it's the same snobs who brought us sprawling gated communities that are pushing the move to more walkable residential areas.
The odometer only had 3 digits. Why didn't they just run it forward till it turned over?
Surely I wasn't the only one who was bothered by this.
Yes, she cleverly conflated the two issues. Or cavalierly, depending on how you look at it. Why did she mention it's not actually her laptop only to completely ignore that line of thought for most of the rest of the article.
An issue, not considered apparently by the executive director of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society in her decidedly non-nuanced, one-liner mention of United States v. Ziegler is whether the laptop provided by her employer is a perk (like a 401k, health plan, etc.) or a tool.
If it's part of her compensation, then she should expect its security. But she should also pay the proper tax on that compensation. Similar debate has surrounded the nature of corporate jets and company cars as well. If it's a tool to do her job, then she has no rights to assert except her employer's by proxy.
Which is interesting because it seems to me that the entire TSA is basically unconstitutional. This is, I assume, one of the reasons the task was originally left to the airlines to perform: What would be a violation of the fourth amendment for the government to do is perfectly reasonable when stipulated as a condition of sale for a private entity.
Is that the one where they had an entire encyclopedia encoded onto a bar of fixed length by scoring it at a precise position such that by dividing the two lengths, the rational binary number contained all of the bits of the encyclopedia?
If it doesn't use a magnetic field to propel the projectile, it's not a rail gun. It sounds like you built some kind of electric spud cannon. Which is still pretty cool. Depending on the toxicity of copper vapor.
Either that or you did build a rail gun, with copper-clad penny sabot projectiles, and there is a pile of copper foil somewhere in or near your garage to this day.
Maybe. Has Bush even vetoed anything his entire two terms?
It's goes by a standard organic chemistry nomenclature:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkane
No one is so desperate for entertainment that they'd stoop to downloading "Nacho Libre" illegally.
So.. you knew about the danger and it didn't occur to you to pop 'em an email letting the station know about it?
Yes, that's plenty easy if you're just going to stay with whatever's in the repositories. But suppose you want a more obscure program? There might not be a package available for your distro. Or maybe you want a feature that's on the latest build of a program that's in the repository but hasn't been updated for a while.
.exe file in explorer. It'll either install or it can just be run from anywhere anyway.
In that case, the only thing to do is compile from source and/or install the binaries from, more than likely, a tar file. This is not easy for a casual user, especially with the different schemes used by the various distros. I think LSB was supposed to ameliorate this somewhat, but I haven't seen any real progress from the home-user point of view.
On a windows box, obscure programs are installed the same way as every other program: click the
Gaah why to all the metric pushers insist on using a mass unit for describing weight? Metric has a perfectly good force unit, the Newton. There was no need to repeat Galileo's greatest folly and invent the kilograms-weight unit.
They are convenient, but they're not as convenient as they should be. One of their chief features is also a drawback: they're tiny.
The best solution, which does not exist in any form, would be that all you have to do is hold the new phone next to the old phone and press a button. The technology's all in place (in phones even) for that already: bluetooth, public key encryption, uh.. buttons...
And the critical data shouldn't be just on the phone anyway. You should be able to access and edit a copy of the phone's phonebook through a web interface, which would get sync'd with the phone every so often. Then you wouldn't have such a hassle entering in everybody's info again every time you accidentally wash one. Heck, with mobile bandwidth the way it is, you should be able to access the phone's everything via the web. Interface cable? why?
Frankly, what surprises me is that no one has come in and undercut the phone companies byzantine pricing schemes by offering all that, on a phone/data-link (i mean it's already a data-link, all you'd need is a USB connector and the right drivers to turn it into a proper one) with unlimited calling for a low price. Sort of like a wireless vonage... I guess we'll see if it happens after the FCC clears out some frequencies for sale.
The "glimpses" won't be whole songs. They'll be highlights, like a movie trailer. Designed to get you into the stadium. Artists and promoters will WANT it to stay out there.
Casual fans of Timberlake will buy the CD and not pay any particular attention to his concert schedule. They might buy tickets, but they won't put any effort into knowing his schedule. The CD is enough for them. They aren't specifically avoiding the concert they're just not aware it might be in town. If they can't get a CD, they might pay more attention to the concert schedule. Just like you or I might go to the movie theater when a film comes out rather than wait for the disk.