actually I've found that in terms of windows, win2k was the most stable and most usable of them all. All the benefits of NTs stability plus more driver support without the bloat that migrated from 98 to XP.
if you're up to spending ~40 bucks codeweavers crossover office supports itms very very well, works quite nicely on my debian box.
If you're not willing to spend but want to get rid of windows, a comnination of rhythmbox/juk for playback, gtkpod for feeding your ipod, and pymusique for buying from itms store might be what you're looking for.
hmmm, didnt know that. As I said, it was a few yrs ago now. In that case I humbly submit I'm wrong for the current state of the market, though there prolly are other carriers that provide such a service (too lazy to search right now).
moreover, on higher end dev systems, the usb ports were not usable. In other words, if you wre running an NT box pre win2k, there were no usb drivers for you. I have an old compaq armada 1750 (one hell of a dev machine in its day) with 1 usb 1.1 port. Until I updated the machine to 2k (and then later to SuSE linux) that usb port just collected dust since there was no way to use it.
thats so patently false it makes my eyes hurt. For a time, from when I was in 8th grade, to when I was a junior in HS, I had a prepaid cell phone, and yes I live in the states. It was with AT&T and worked perfectly fine. Basically, every time I made a call it would say at the end "you have x minutes remaining" and I could always have AT&T add more. It was good because it actually cost me less than a service, ie I didnt use my phone that much so the time I did use was cheaper than monthly service, and the phone was my fathers old startac.
later I transfered the num to a normal plan (still with AT&T, now cingular).
Amen to that, it was a very sad day for scifi/fantasy (and writing in general) when he died.
I always get excited when I find stuff by him in a used bookstore or a friends shelf that I havent read before, becuase with very very few exceptions, Zelazny's stuff is excelent and re-readable to the extreme (I've gone through3 copies of Lord of Light for example). He's my favorite author by far.
One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol: "He is... a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation" (Harry F. Waters).
I think this is the meaning they intended, while making a joke with the "i" thing like apple uses. It's unfortunate that it makes Jobs seem like a con artist if you read it worng, but I doubt it was the intention.
unpopped kernels ranged from 4 percent in premium brands to 47 percent in the cheaper ones.
I swear I read that as "unpopped kernels ranged from 4 percent in Pentium brands.... I was sitting here, trying to figure out why intel was making operating systems and what an unpopped kernel was....
actaully, interestingly we have an over-abundance of females, not males.
You know, at the local state prison we have lots of "gay" couples. Trick is, you release them into their natural habitat they ungay themselves rather quickly
that has more to with with domination and sexual frustration than gay tendancy for the most part. It very little to do with normal homosexuality.
I was using it in response to this quote from the grandparent:
It is also your choice to speak without a lisp and keep your sexual preference to yourself, just like the heteros do
I know I didnt present empirical evidence and in fact mentioned that this was the women I know. Yes you're right, they are a group of not so typical women for the most part.
however, do you have any empirical evidence to back up what you said, or are you just talking out of your ass?
As for hospital visits, it is simple to say you are visiting a close friend in the hospital.
If you're straight there are laws protecting you from getting fired for running out the door and to the hospital if your SO is in a medical emergency. This isnt true if you're gay. What about gauranteed domestic partner benefits? right now its mandatory for busneses to give them to straight employees but voluntary for gay ones.
I'll also point out that under current laws, gays don't necessarily have gauranteed visitition right in hospitals.
It would not be employer discrimination if they had a blanket policy that you were not to visit close friends hetero/homo boy/girlfriends in the hospital.
true, but most employers don't have said blanket policy.
my dogs hump eachother all the time, isn't that natural?
At the aquarium where I work we have a gay domestic couple of penguins. They live together, have hatched an egg given to them together. It's really cool.
if girl + girl is good, guy + guy can be good too.
I have a helluva lot of female friends who think so anyway. Girl-on-girl is hot to many guys, but a lot of girls (that I know at least) are just as turned on by guy-on-guy as guys are by girl-on-girl.
quite a lot when they are also a huge employer that in general stresses a very open, diverse workplace. As TFA points out, M$ offers domestic partner benefits to homosexual couples for example.
I know we on/. love to demonize M$, but for the most part, in terms of open, equal-op employment M$ is very much a leader. Seeing that a single minister's threat is enough to make them back down from one of their signature stances regarding gay rights (and one that is demonstrated in their work enviroment and stressed when they hire people) is rather disapointing
as a combination debian/fedora/suse user (and a dabbler in other distros) I can tell you that, indeed, yast is unrivaled in config ability and usability. It's simple, easy to use, provides a central place to configure everything, and integrates incredibly well inot the distro
While I prefer debian as my main desktop (for other reasons), a number of my other machines run suse and it is comparitively so much easier to configure them that it's incredible.
on a related note, I heard that suse open-sourced yast a little bit ago, anyone know about the progress in porting it/parts of it to other distros?
actually, the difference between credit and debit is far more significant than what you mentioned, and therefore I'm guessing you've never had a debit card.
debit cards are tied to your checking account and make a direct withdrawal from the account when used, there is no line of credit involved (though sometimes you can use a debit card as a credit card). The limit on the card is a combination of a limit you set up with the bank, the banks overdraw rules, and the amount of money in your checking account.
A credit card uses a line of credit, depending on the type either limited by your credit history, assets, or a combination of the two. You then have to pay back the amount spent, either in interest inflated payments or in a quik lump sum to avoid the interest.
try man sudo and come back, you dont need to drop in root in order to execute root priveleged apps, assuming sudo is setup correctly.
in a graphical enviroment there's gksu (su/sudo front end) and one for kde which I cant recall, not to mention others. you don't need the admin password or any command line experiance in order to use them if, again, they've been set-up properly (though I know of no distros that do that out of the box, it prolly wouldnt be hard to implement since this is basically what OSX does...)
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actually I've found that in terms of windows, win2k was the most stable and most usable of them all. All the benefits of NTs stability plus more driver support without the bloat that migrated from 98 to XP.
if you're up to spending ~40 bucks codeweavers crossover office supports itms very very well, works quite nicely on my debian box.
If you're not willing to spend but want to get rid of windows, a comnination of rhythmbox/juk for playback, gtkpod for feeding your ipod, and pymusique for buying from itms store might be what you're looking for.
still relative to what may I ask? :-P
I officially dub this one of the best responses EVAR :-P. My female coworkers here at the lab are all dying of amusement.
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if what you're saying is true, why does the book seem to paint jobs in a positive light as the summary suggests...
hmmm, didnt know that. As I said, it was a few yrs ago now. In that case I humbly submit I'm wrong for the current state of the market, though there prolly are other carriers that provide such a service (too lazy to search right now).
moreover, on higher end dev systems, the usb ports were not usable. In other words, if you wre running an NT box pre win2k, there were no usb drivers for you. I have an old compaq armada 1750 (one hell of a dev machine in its day) with 1 usb 1.1 port. Until I updated the machine to 2k (and then later to SuSE linux) that usb port just collected dust since there was no way to use it.
thats so patently false it makes my eyes hurt. For a time, from when I was in 8th grade, to when I was a junior in HS, I had a prepaid cell phone, and yes I live in the states. It was with AT&T and worked perfectly fine. Basically, every time I made a call it would say at the end "you have x minutes remaining" and I could always have AT&T add more. It was good because it actually cost me less than a service, ie I didnt use my phone that much so the time I did use was cheaper than monthly service, and the phone was my fathers old startac.
later I transfered the num to a normal plan (still with AT&T, now cingular).
thank you and uni bandwidth. getting 640KB/sec down. yay!
Amen to that, it was a very sad day for scifi/fantasy (and writing in general) when he died.
I always get excited when I find stuff by him in a used bookstore or a friends shelf that I havent read before, becuase with very very few exceptions, Zelazny's stuff is excelent and re-readable to the extreme (I've gone through3 copies of Lord of Light for example). He's my favorite author by far.
from dictionary.com, 3rd def on icon:
One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol: "He is... a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation" (Harry F. Waters).
I think this is the meaning they intended, while making a joke with the "i" thing like apple uses. It's unfortunate that it makes Jobs seem like a con artist if you read it worng, but I doubt it was the intention.
it would be ironic if you were modded flamebait :-P.
unpopped kernels ranged from 4 percent in premium brands to 47 percent in the cheaper ones.
I swear I read that as "unpopped kernels ranged from 4 percent in Pentium brands.... I was sitting here, trying to figure out why intel was making operating systems and what an unpopped kernel was....
actaully, interestingly we have an over-abundance of females, not males.
You know, at the local state prison we have lots of "gay" couples. Trick is, you release them into their natural habitat they ungay themselves rather quickly
that has more to with with domination and sexual frustration than gay tendancy for the most part. It very little to do with normal homosexuality.
::sigh::
I was using it in response to this quote from the grandparent:
It is also your choice to speak without a lisp and keep your sexual preference to yourself, just like the heteros do
I know I didnt present empirical evidence and in fact mentioned that this was the women I know. Yes you're right, they are a group of not so typical women for the most part.
however, do you have any empirical evidence to back up what you said, or are you just talking out of your ass?
As for hospital visits, it is simple to say you are visiting a close friend in the hospital.
If you're straight there are laws protecting you from getting fired for running out the door and to the hospital if your SO is in a medical emergency. This isnt true if you're gay. What about gauranteed domestic partner benefits? right now its mandatory for busneses to give them to straight employees but voluntary for gay ones.
I'll also point out that under current laws, gays don't necessarily have gauranteed visitition right in hospitals.
It would not be employer discrimination if they had a blanket policy that you were not to visit close friends hetero/homo boy/girlfriends in the hospital.
true, but most employers don't have said blanket policy.
my dogs hump eachother all the time, isn't that natural?
At the aquarium where I work we have a gay domestic couple of penguins. They live together, have hatched an egg given to them together. It's really cool.
if girl + girl is good, guy + guy can be good too.
I have a helluva lot of female friends who think so anyway. Girl-on-girl is hot to many guys, but a lot of girls (that I know at least) are just as turned on by guy-on-guy as guys are by girl-on-girl.
What about being able to talk about your significant other in the workplace, just like the heteros do?
what about if your significant other is in the hospital and you need the day off to visit him/her, just like the heteros do?
What if your co-workers make fun of you for having a picture of your partner on your desk, just like the heteros do?
I could go on, but I hope you get the point.
quite a lot when they are also a huge employer that in general stresses a very open, diverse workplace. As TFA points out, M$ offers domestic partner benefits to homosexual couples for example.
/. love to demonize M$, but for the most part, in terms of open, equal-op employment M$ is very much a leader. Seeing that a single minister's threat is enough to make them back down from one of their signature stances regarding gay rights (and one that is demonstrated in their work enviroment and stressed when they hire people) is rather disapointing
I know we on
as a combination debian/fedora/suse user (and a dabbler in other distros) I can tell you that, indeed, yast is unrivaled in config ability and usability. It's simple, easy to use, provides a central place to configure everything, and integrates incredibly well inot the distro
While I prefer debian as my main desktop (for other reasons), a number of my other machines run suse and it is comparitively so much easier to configure them that it's incredible.
on a related note, I heard that suse open-sourced yast a little bit ago, anyone know about the progress in porting it/parts of it to other distros?
actually, the difference between credit and debit is far more significant than what you mentioned, and therefore I'm guessing you've never had a debit card.
debit cards are tied to your checking account and make a direct withdrawal from the account when used, there is no line of credit involved (though sometimes you can use a debit card as a credit card). The limit on the card is a combination of a limit you set up with the bank, the banks overdraw rules, and the amount of money in your checking account.
A credit card uses a line of credit, depending on the type either limited by your credit history, assets, or a combination of the two. You then have to pay back the amount spent, either in interest inflated payments or in a quik lump sum to avoid the interest.
you mean like all those guys who develope on osx and turn off aqua to use wmaker, oh wait......
woops, as someone pointed out in a later post, ubuntu sets this up out-of-box. I had forgotten that, so yeah, I'll add that in.
try man sudo and come back, you dont need to drop in root in order to execute root priveleged apps, assuming sudo is setup correctly.
in a graphical enviroment there's gksu (su/sudo front end) and one for kde which I cant recall, not to mention others. you don't need the admin password or any command line experiance in order to use them if, again, they've been set-up properly (though I know of no distros that do that out of the box, it prolly wouldnt be hard to implement since this is basically what OSX does...)