Whilst living in Australia for a while, I noticed something peculiar (and my father picked up on it unfortunately and will not be swayed back no matter what I say): Some people, especially older people with little computer-savvy, but even quite knowledgeable computer people, will call a desktop computer a CPU. The actually call the box with the motherboard, cpu et al a CPU. I suppose it's not too silly... central processing unit, and it's the bit where everything happens... but still. Most odd.
Wrong way, buddy. Kg to pounds, approximately double it, not halve it. About 80 pounds... still not hugely impressive though. Still, you could mount weapons on it or sth... hehehe... sweeeet....
Ach... Mercury. Yeah I used it for a while, because it supports so many of the advanced features of MSN Plus! enabled MSN Messenger client (big display pics, custom emoticons etc). But (because it is Java based? I don't know) it chews up massive amounts of system resources and is quite slow and unresponsive. Plus, (and this is definitely because it is Java based because I saw it on their forums), it can't do things like flash the taskbar button for a window when you receive a new message when the window is not focused, because apparently this is not something you can do via Java under GNOME or KDE. I will have to investigate this Kopete thing... atm I am using Gaim, but it doesn't support several of the nicer features of standard MSN client.
Is there any particular reason why we use 256 bit keys, why not use these 2048 bit keys, or larger? What's the problem with doing this - it's not as though we're talking about shifting gigabytes of key here, its only 2048 bits. Or is there more chance of it being intercepted or something?
OK. Well what about all the P2P networks that are getting shut down because they may be used to committ IP violations, despite not being expressly created for such a reason?
OK. First of all, who says it took MS 100.000 lines of code? It took the WINE guys that, who are working under very different circumstances and may have had to write large workarounds for all kinds of reasons
Secondly, how is it the fault of InstallShield that their code requires such an expensive API? All they have is, they come to the problem to write an installer, and the API is there, already implemented. How do they know how expensive it is? Why should they care? It's already there, they might as well use it.
I don't know about iTMS, but iTunes is certainly `just that good'. Being somebody who is not too keen on bloat, I used to use Winamp 2.x for ages... but after you collect 5000+ mp3's, something like iTunes is great for organising them. Maybe it's an Apple thing in general (from what I hear on slashdot that is, hehe... I don't have a Mac or iPod myself...), but the user-interface is just fantastic. The smart playlists... being able to choose the columns to sort your music by (e.g., composer)... it's just teh shit! Yeah yeah fanboi i know... I'm sure somebody will tell me that their software is better for whatever reason but I like it. 90% market share? Yeah that wouldn't surprise me.
OMG! Scuse the AOLism, but I think I've read that book... it's about a guy who builds acqueducts, right? And the water dries up and he has to find the reason for it... do you remember the title of the book? I've forgotten it and I want to read the book again...
I doubt that. Big companies don't write things like PDF reading and editing support in a few days. I suspect this feature has been under way for quite some time.
Nonsense. I'm talking about WinXP here (as you presumably are), and yes, it's true that merely right-clicking the drive and changing the auto-play settings from there won't fix it entirely - but there is a simple fix. Simply download Microsoft's "Powertoys for WinXP" (sort of an unofficial, unsupported collection of utilities made by Microsoft engineers). Within Powertoys there's a nifty little programme called TweakUI (there have been stand-alone versions of this released in the past for other versions of Windows). TweakUI will let you turn off autoplay completely on whatever drives you choose simply by unchecking a checkbox. I do it eveyrtime I reinstall Windows.
It's a basic biological fact, as far past theory as Newton's Laws. (We're also slowly approaching the time when we should call Relativity a law. It's not there yet, but it will be eventually.)
Man. Did you even read the above post? He said, theories don't graduate into laws... they are completely different things. Please actually RTFP before replying.
Hahahah... my old IPT teacher (a subject for general computing stuff in highschool) was called Bill Window - the funny thing was he was a hardcore Mac zealot.
I call bullshit. I'm using a gmail address on MSN, no problems, and my cousin uses his school email address (sth like onehunga.edu.nz). Never a problem.
hahah I think you meant 'crankcases' not crackcases. Although it would be interesting to hermetically seal an unlubricated crackcase (tinfoil-hat-type for Americans)...
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Whilst living in Australia for a while, I noticed something peculiar (and my father picked up on it unfortunately and will not be swayed back no matter what I say): Some people, especially older people with little computer-savvy, but even quite knowledgeable computer people, will call a desktop computer a CPU. The actually call the box with the motherboard, cpu et al a CPU. I suppose it's not too silly... central processing unit, and it's the bit where everything happens... but still. Most odd.
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Heheheh. Emacs. So bloated you might as well use Office anyway ^_^.
No seriously. Use vi.
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Thank-you very fucking much. I just snorted coffee through my nose.
*LMAO's*
Wrong way, buddy. Kg to pounds, approximately double it, not halve it. About 80 pounds... still not hugely impressive though. Still, you could mount weapons on it or sth... hehehe... sweeeet....
Hey. Different story. Different aspect. Not a dupe.
Ach... Mercury. Yeah I used it for a while, because it supports so many of the advanced features of MSN Plus! enabled MSN Messenger client (big display pics, custom emoticons etc). But (because it is Java based? I don't know) it chews up massive amounts of system resources and is quite slow and unresponsive. Plus, (and this is definitely because it is Java based because I saw it on their forums), it can't do things like flash the taskbar button for a window when you receive a new message when the window is not focused, because apparently this is not something you can do via Java under GNOME or KDE. I will have to investigate this Kopete thing... atm I am using Gaim, but it doesn't support several of the nicer features of standard MSN client.
Is there any particular reason why we use 256 bit keys, why not use these 2048 bit keys, or larger? What's the problem with doing this - it's not as though we're talking about shifting gigabytes of key here, its only 2048 bits. Or is there more chance of it being intercepted or something?
OK. Well what about all the P2P networks that are getting shut down because they may be used to committ IP violations, despite not being expressly created for such a reason?
Secondly, how is it the fault of InstallShield that their code requires such an expensive API? All they have is, they come to the problem to write an installer, and the API is there, already implemented. How do they know how expensive it is? Why should they care? It's already there, they might as well use it.
111k? Do you mean 111MB? 111k sounds more like Lynx heheheh...
I don't know about iTMS, but iTunes is certainly `just that good'. Being somebody who is not too keen on bloat, I used to use Winamp 2.x for ages... but after you collect 5000+ mp3's, something like iTunes is great for organising them. Maybe it's an Apple thing in general (from what I hear on slashdot that is, hehe... I don't have a Mac or iPod myself...), but the user-interface is just fantastic. The smart playlists... being able to choose the columns to sort your music by (e.g., composer)... it's just teh shit! Yeah yeah fanboi i know... I'm sure somebody will tell me that their software is better for whatever reason but I like it. 90% market share? Yeah that wouldn't surprise me.
OMG! Scuse the AOLism, but I think I've read that book... it's about a guy who builds acqueducts, right? And the water dries up and he has to find the reason for it... do you remember the title of the book? I've forgotten it and I want to read the book again...
Since when has google been a protocol?
I doubt that. Big companies don't write things like PDF reading and editing support in a few days. I suspect this feature has been under way for quite some time.
Nonsense. I'm talking about WinXP here (as you presumably are), and yes, it's true that merely right-clicking the drive and changing the auto-play settings from there won't fix it entirely - but there is a simple fix. Simply download Microsoft's "Powertoys for WinXP" (sort of an unofficial, unsupported collection of utilities made by Microsoft engineers). Within Powertoys there's a nifty little programme called TweakUI (there have been stand-alone versions of this released in the past for other versions of Windows). TweakUI will let you turn off autoplay completely on whatever drives you choose simply by unchecking a checkbox. I do it eveyrtime I reinstall Windows.
What's a rheostat? Is it like a potentiometer?
Man. Did you even read the above post? He said, theories don't graduate into laws... they are completely different things. Please actually RTFP before replying.
's every line just in case your browser forgets to wrap text in html at the end of each line...
In Soviet Russia, thermodynamics text dumber than you! *looks shamefaced*
Hahahah... my old IPT teacher (a subject for general computing stuff in highschool) was called Bill Window - the funny thing was he was a hardcore Mac zealot.
I call bullshit. I'm using a gmail address on MSN, no problems, and my cousin uses his school email address (sth like onehunga.edu.nz). Never a problem.
Wasn't there a FA the other day about how that quote was a load of crap? And besides, wasn't it ``Dos ain't done til Lotus won't run''?
hahah I think you meant 'crankcases' not crackcases. Although it would be interesting to hermetically seal an unlubricated crackcase (tinfoil-hat-type for Americans)...
I thought it was one of those weird OSS acronyms like GNU == GNU is Not Unix. Which it is, right?
Your use of the word 'kext' is making me frighteningly dizzy. I keep thinking it's some kind of KDE text editor...