George Bush and the new imperialism != the US. I live in the US and happen to believe that his tyrannical worthlessness and the anti-intellectualism that he stands for does not speak for me. Just because some people speculate about the possibility of the leaders of our country being complete and total liars and fuckwits doesn't make them un-american.
So why do you go suck Matt Drudge's dick, jackass.
I was helping a friend build a system for the first time, about 4-5 years ago. He had heard from another friend that a RAM heatsink would greatly improve performance. It might've, had he not stripped off one of the tiny resistors on the RAM in putting on the heatsink. Needless to say, he stuck it in the slot, fired it up, and it immediately caught on fire. He powered the system down and ran out of the room, flaming chip in hand.
I couldn't stop laughing for nearly an hour, though replacement motherboard and RAM wasn't so funny later.
All the companies Pepsi used to directly own (KFC, Taco Bell, etc.) are now under an umbrella corporation called YUM. Search for it. Interesting name, and business practice.
Why does every UNIX article/interview/water cooler discussion have to turn into a fanboi flame war, with people flaming about how OSX is UNIX, and how MacOS already has all the needs of the desktop, etc, etc, ad inifinitum. As much as I love operating systems and product evangelists, the discussions are here are really starting to get out of hand.
What would be nice to have people talk about would be the feasibility of the prediction that is being made, in reference to principles that are desired by the average computer user. Not how a current operating system already has all of these things, and thus should be considered the obvious future choice.
Someone already pointed out that the most technologically sound examples don't neccesarily make it in the industry, and this is illustrated time and again.
Let's start talking about stuff that actually matters, or perhaps::Gasp!:: even start doing it.
To this I must heartily admit and agree. At one point, I was weeks and months catching up to the music and movies that I downloaded. I used to download about 200-250 songs a day, and about 4-5 movies a night. Obviously, I had a little time on my hands, but I couldn't nearly keep up with the influx of media information in time to watch and listen to everything.
Putting my playlist on random always held up a pleasant surprise, with new songs that I hadn't heard before, though. And I set up a distribution server on the school network for my collection of DivX's, so a lot of other people got to benefit from that.
If someone could explain that awful drive and addiction that comes from media hoarding, I would be grateful in releasing my demons.
As a Java/C++ developer by heart, and used to Perl in a UNIX environment for scripting purposes, my exposure to ColdFusion as a primary web application programming language has been bittersweet.
I've had to resort to writing my own Java tools to accomplish tasks that ColdFusion should've been able to do multiple times, and torn my hair out over programming errors that seem logical, only to find that it's a simple typecasting problem.
Not having used JSP in a production environment, I am curious how it would compare to a ColdFusion programming interface. The tags and html familiarity make it simple for non-programmers to catch on, and the power of the server to reach in and generate content is also very nice at times. The code can get hairy, and non-logical in certain circumstances, though. Annd....it's not open source, either.
Altogether, those are just about the three strikes I need to use PHP or JSP in the future.
You have got to be joking me. This statue is indeed there to welcome the "huddled masses yearning to be free" but it is not there to welcome the 25 million illegal aliens that enter this country every year. Immigrants fleeing to this land of liberty is one thing, and everyone has an opportunity here. But you cannot claim that our attempts to keep those who refuse to register, refuse to become citizens, to learn our language, to become part of our culture, out of this country, is defying the fundamental liberties of this country.
There's already a project out there with a graphical installer for Gentoo...Vidalinux. I've not had much exposure to it, but i've heard good things. They ported the anaconda installer and stuck in it there.
I wonder how this graphical installer for Gentoo will compare.
I can't even imagine explaining the obvious redundancy of that comment. Of course, open source fanatics hate Microsoft, the evil and vile bastion of everything that open source is not. Small wonder that anyone loving the freedom that is open source would plug anything but, especially a product with enough steam and user happiness as a Mac.
I would personally love to get a Mac, but they are super-expensive compared to what i can get an x86 one for. Especially since i'd probably just run Linux on it anyway...
Since DeepBlue was meant to soley process chess moves, maybe Putin will commission a machine to solely analyze Kasparov's organizational skills. I mean, c'mon, the last IBM special design machine beat his ass...why not another one?
Yet another example of man vs. machine. Maybe they should design one that a 17 year old girl can't beat up, though.
From my experience in helping to administrate a school of 1200 machines while in high school, I nearly weep for the thought of a Linux solution to the high school lab scenario. All the clueless teachers and pseudo-intellectual students wouldn't be endlessly screwing up the machines, and little punk hackers like i was would finally leave the boxes un-rooted. A win for the admins and less headache for everyone involved, should a good solution be reached.
Man, i never would've guessed that those AC Adapters would be fire hazards. They only get hot enough to nearly burn you while in use, but I wouldn't have guessed fire hazard. (sarcasm)
3 Concurrent programs? I don't even think you can successfully update your system on Windows without running more than 3 programs.
On a side note, laughing my ass off about why anyone would choose this sideshow over better, more robust, and free products. They'll probably lower the price down to $50, which is $50 too much.
Please, let this soap opera end for the love of God. If i wanted to see bad acting and finger pointing on a daily basis, I'd stay home from work and watch Guiding Light or Days of our Lives.
When will these dickless wonders get the information that their M$ backing is gone, and nobody wants them around anymore. Fuck off, SCO.
Tired of windows? too snooty to try out linux and hang with the nerds? Well, have we got a product for you!
New! Mac OS X, twice as expensive as the competition, twice as un-customizable, and twice the user-handholding you've come to expect from those delightful tech support lines.
Looking to develop some cauliflower-phone-ear while waiting for your dual G5's to finish opening Notepad? well, then step right up kiddies, cause do we have a show for you! Complete with shiny buttons, blue cases, and single-button mice that linux l00sers only wish they could have.
(warning: do not attempt to suck Mac OS X's dick. This may cause sleep apnea, and acute damage to your septum)
WTF? this guy not only makes music, but has a website? sounds like somebody didn't get the attention they wanted and now they're throwing a fit.
We need to take the rattle of this overlooked bastard's hand and cram it up his ass.
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No, the shitty bands are the ones on MTV, with their shitty music videos being crammed down the throats of millions of sheep listeners every day on TRL.
The non-shitty bands are the ones out there without sucking dick and actually playing instruments. Until this changes, I know for certain I won't be buying any music.
The last CD I bought was in the summer of 2000. 4 years and 10000 downloads later, I've never been happier.
I'm not quite sure how this is, but our collective websites run on our server generate around 2 million hits per month, and i would have to say that about 97-98% of them use IE.
I've had the worst time being the only Linux guy in the office, and my cries have not completely fallen on deaf ears, as 2 of my co-workers have installed Firefox recently. But when i can talk to someone for less than 5 minutes about the pros and cons of Mozilla and open source browsing vs. IE, most of them nearly start sobbing with all their troubles.
People daily complain to me about the bot problems or spyware issues that they have. I was sympathetic and helpful for a time. But now I wanly smile and say "mozilla.org/firefox" and walk away. Those super-cool guys with browser problems can kiss my ass until they start listening to me, and the rest of the world.
2 Win 3.1 installs
3 Different Win98 boxes
2 Win2k installations
3 Different XP installs
Probably 10-15 generated key installs in xp (for friends, co-workers, etc.)
All in all, 20-25 unique windows installations per 1 user.
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George Bush and the new imperialism != the US. I live in the US and happen to believe that his tyrannical worthlessness and the anti-intellectualism that he stands for does not speak for me. Just because some people speculate about the possibility of the leaders of our country being complete and total liars and fuckwits doesn't make them un-american.
So why do you go suck Matt Drudge's dick, jackass.
I was helping a friend build a system for the first time, about 4-5 years ago. He had heard from another friend that a RAM heatsink would greatly improve performance. It might've, had he not stripped off one of the tiny resistors on the RAM in putting on the heatsink. Needless to say, he stuck it in the slot, fired it up, and it immediately caught on fire. He powered the system down and ran out of the room, flaming chip in hand.
I couldn't stop laughing for nearly an hour, though replacement motherboard and RAM wasn't so funny later.
All the companies Pepsi used to directly own (KFC, Taco Bell, etc.) are now under an umbrella corporation called YUM. Search for it. Interesting name, and business practice.
Why does every UNIX article/interview/water cooler discussion have to turn into a fanboi flame war, with people flaming about how OSX is UNIX, and how MacOS already has all the needs of the desktop, etc, etc, ad inifinitum. As much as I love operating systems and product evangelists, the discussions are here are really starting to get out of hand.
::Gasp!:: even start doing it.
What would be nice to have people talk about would be the feasibility of the prediction that is being made, in reference to principles that are desired by the average computer user. Not how a current operating system already has all of these things, and thus should be considered the obvious future choice.
Someone already pointed out that the most technologically sound examples don't neccesarily make it in the industry, and this is illustrated time and again.
Let's start talking about stuff that actually matters, or perhaps
To this I must heartily admit and agree. At one point, I was weeks and months catching up to the music and movies that I downloaded. I used to download about 200-250 songs a day, and about 4-5 movies a night. Obviously, I had a little time on my hands, but I couldn't nearly keep up with the influx of media information in time to watch and listen to everything.
Putting my playlist on random always held up a pleasant surprise, with new songs that I hadn't heard before, though. And I set up a distribution server on the school network for my collection of DivX's, so a lot of other people got to benefit from that.
If someone could explain that awful drive and addiction that comes from media hoarding, I would be grateful in releasing my demons.
As a Java/C++ developer by heart, and used to Perl in a UNIX environment for scripting purposes, my exposure to ColdFusion as a primary web application programming language has been bittersweet.
I've had to resort to writing my own Java tools to accomplish tasks that ColdFusion should've been able to do multiple times, and torn my hair out over programming errors that seem logical, only to find that it's a simple typecasting problem.
Not having used JSP in a production environment, I am curious how it would compare to a ColdFusion programming interface. The tags and html familiarity make it simple for non-programmers to catch on, and the power of the server to reach in and generate content is also very nice at times. The code can get hairy, and non-logical in certain circumstances, though. Annd....it's not open source, either.
Altogether, those are just about the three strikes I need to use PHP or JSP in the future.
You have got to be joking me. This statue is indeed there to welcome the "huddled masses yearning to be free" but it is not there to welcome the 25 million illegal aliens that enter this country every year. Immigrants fleeing to this land of liberty is one thing, and everyone has an opportunity here. But you cannot claim that our attempts to keep those who refuse to register, refuse to become citizens, to learn our language, to become part of our culture, out of this country, is defying the fundamental liberties of this country.
There's already a project out there with a graphical installer for Gentoo...Vidalinux. I've not had much exposure to it, but i've heard good things. They ported the anaconda installer and stuck in it there.
I wonder how this graphical installer for Gentoo will compare.
I can't even imagine explaining the obvious redundancy of that comment. Of course, open source fanatics hate Microsoft, the evil and vile bastion of everything that open source is not. Small wonder that anyone loving the freedom that is open source would plug anything but, especially a product with enough steam and user happiness as a Mac.
I would personally love to get a Mac, but they are super-expensive compared to what i can get an x86 one for. Especially since i'd probably just run Linux on it anyway...
I believe that feature of OSX has to due with the meta-information tags present in the system, not the information being searched at the kernel level.
Think a Google Desktop Search, based upon tags loaded at installation/implementation.
Since DeepBlue was meant to soley process chess moves, maybe Putin will commission a machine to solely analyze Kasparov's organizational skills. I mean, c'mon, the last IBM special design machine beat his ass...why not another one?
Yet another example of man vs. machine. Maybe they should design one that a 17 year old girl can't beat up, though.
From my experience in helping to administrate a school of 1200 machines while in high school, I nearly weep for the thought of a Linux solution to the high school lab scenario. All the clueless teachers and pseudo-intellectual students wouldn't be endlessly screwing up the machines, and little punk hackers like i was would finally leave the boxes un-rooted. A win for the admins and less headache for everyone involved, should a good solution be reached.
Next you thing you know, MS will be suing Google for IP rights to their cache. That, or buying the cache from them for $50k and then sucking to IBM.
Man, i never would've guessed that those AC Adapters would be fire hazards. They only get hot enough to nearly burn you while in use, but I wouldn't have guessed fire hazard. (sarcasm)
Who are the stupid fuckers who have to make everything technology into a fashion statement?
This is like the case modding phase that started a few years ago. All of the sudden, tools invaded every LAN party i used to go to.
I think that if I saw someone walking down the street with their Pen Drive around their neck, it'd be hard to not beat their ass.
Why did they move from Unix to Windows in the first place? And why should a bug from Win95 crash a migrated Win2K?
How sad that such a sprawling metropolis of commerce and travel can be brought to its knees by the magic that is Windows.
Color me suprised.
a Linux cluster of Cray's?
3 Concurrent programs? I don't even think you can successfully update your system on Windows without running more than 3 programs.
On a side note, laughing my ass off about why anyone would choose this sideshow over better, more robust, and free products. They'll probably lower the price down to $50, which is $50 too much.
Please, let this soap opera end for the love of God. If i wanted to see bad acting and finger pointing on a daily basis, I'd stay home from work and watch Guiding Light or Days of our Lives.
When will these dickless wonders get the information that their M$ backing is gone, and nobody wants them around anymore. Fuck off, SCO.
Tired of windows? too snooty to try out linux and hang with the nerds? Well, have we got a product for you!
New! Mac OS X, twice as expensive as the competition, twice as un-customizable, and twice the user-handholding you've come to expect from those delightful tech support lines.
Looking to develop some cauliflower-phone-ear while waiting for your dual G5's to finish opening Notepad? well, then step right up kiddies, cause do we have a show for you! Complete with shiny buttons, blue cases, and single-button mice that linux l00sers only wish they could have.
(warning: do not attempt to suck Mac OS X's dick. This may cause sleep apnea, and acute damage to your septum)
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WTF? this guy not only makes music, but has a website? sounds like somebody didn't get the attention they wanted and now they're throwing a fit.
We need to take the rattle of this overlooked bastard's hand and cram it up his ass.
No, the shitty bands are the ones on MTV, with their shitty music videos being crammed down the throats of millions of sheep listeners every day on TRL.
The non-shitty bands are the ones out there without sucking dick and actually playing instruments. Until this changes, I know for certain I won't be buying any music.
The last CD I bought was in the summer of 2000. 4 years and 10000 downloads later, I've never been happier.
I don't think that even the world's reigning lunatic/chess champion would be enough to rid Counter-Strike of cheats.
There aren't any wall-hacks in chess, unless Jews have thought up a way.
I'm not quite sure how this is, but our collective websites run on our server generate around 2 million hits per month, and i would have to say that about 97-98% of them use IE.
I've had the worst time being the only Linux guy in the office, and my cries have not completely fallen on deaf ears, as 2 of my co-workers have installed Firefox recently. But when i can talk to someone for less than 5 minutes about the pros and cons of Mozilla and open source browsing vs. IE, most of them nearly start sobbing with all their troubles.
People daily complain to me about the bot problems or spyware issues that they have. I was sympathetic and helpful for a time. But now I wanly smile and say "mozilla.org/firefox" and walk away. Those super-cool guys with browser problems can kiss my ass until they start listening to me, and the rest of the world.
2 Win 3.1 installs 3 Different Win98 boxes 2 Win2k installations 3 Different XP installs Probably 10-15 generated key installs in xp (for friends, co-workers, etc.) All in all, 20-25 unique windows installations per 1 user.