I had to call FedEx a while ago. It's an IVR, but if you look around on there website there is a little thing you can print out that has the number shortcuts for all the voice options. I think either 9 or 0 is indeed "representative."
Just tried this, I had Firefox and Outlook 2003 open at the same time, I clicked a link in an e-mail in outlook, and it opened in a new tab in Firefox (as set by me) instantly. There just isn't a good replacement for Outlook on Windows yet... and my lil' old laptop can't run linux (my desktop can:) ).
(writer from the states)
I'm not sure if there's anything like this in U.S. law, but if this really works in the U.K., I suddenly find myself liking the UK's Legal system....
Sure doesn't sound like he does.... evolution doesn't explain where the first life came from, just what happened from there. As mentioned a few days ago, even the Vatican believes that evolution and christianity are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps you do not understand the concept of ID.
Not a right, eh? Shall we have separate restaurants for smokers and non-smokers, separate parks too? Hmmm, well those kids start young so we better have separate schools too, gotta protect the "right to smoke."
As I understand it, we care more about the second-hand smoke. If a "safer" cigarrete could be made to get rid of these, we wouldn't have a problem (except for health costs of smokers, but we can charge tobacco companies for that). In fact, if we didn't have second-hand smoke, I personally would have no problem in letting the smokers kill themselves any way they want. Alcholics too, not that I have anything against drinking.
Which is why the people writing the software and the people selling the support are usually not the same. Also, selling software that you need a lot of support for will just encourage people to switch to someone else.
Hmmm, CERN, you mean the European Organization for Nuclear Research? Funny what a little google can do, ain't it? Besides, Tim was born in London, and graduated from Oxford... at best he might be a naturalised citizen.
OpenDocument is conceptually similar to Word Documents or the docs produced by most office suites. Postscript is basically output-only, Word documents and OO.org documents are editable. The OpenDocument is standardized and XML based (MS Office 12 will work primarily in XML format, but that format is not a standard).
I thought I told you to stop with this nonsense. I'm a Windows user (on my laptop anyways, which is my primary system). This is just annoying, and no one listens to someone who just posts the same shit over and over anyway. No one is forcing you to use linux, you can ignore it completely if you like.
I have my filter set at -1 (I'd like to read all the posts, sometimes a parent is modded lower than a child which makes it hard to read). Is there any way for me to filter this guy specifically so I don't have to read this again.
Would you please quit it with this nonsense? Whether what you're saying is right or wrong, spamming it on slashdot is just annoying, like all other spam.
Ummm, maybe that is correct with very large drives but I have formatted a 40 GB (37.2 GB formatted) drive several times as FAT32/Windows XP Pro and it worked fine with linux.
There's plenty of water on Mars, frozen underground and in the icecaps, meanwhile trying to move water to Mars would be slow (you can't pipe it, unless you can find a way to build a pipe through the sun, so you would have to use ships). There's also plenty of CO2 (which last time I checked is another essential ingredient of oour atmosphere) in the icecaps as well. What we need is to warm the planet up enough to melt those ice caps, the less stuff we have to move to mars the better, then we need a good understanding of what organisms were involved when this planet was being transformed from "ball of magma" to livable. Many of those organisms still live somewhere on earth they tend to the ones that live in extreme environments like the the bottom of the ocean or the change from freshwater to saltwater in certain bodies of water.
Even after it was open sourced they could buy a separate license for commercial development that would allow them to develop their software without releasing the source code. Plenty of companies do that, e.g. saxonica.
Telephone and e-mail are different, we pay for those services but we do not have control over other people using the specific services we pay for. There is an oppurtunity cost involved in receiving and e-mail or phone call, therefore it costs money to receive these things (assuming you pay for e-mail, and there are some (including me) that do).
On the other hand, we can control the use of TV and radio services. If I turn on the TV (thus using power and costing me money), I decided to turn it on and chose to use that electricity and watch whatever my default channel is.
I didn't choose for a spammer to use up space in my mailbox; I didn't choose for a telemarketer to take up time on my phone when I could have been making a call.
The reason I don't use linux is because every distro comes with a messy userland full of random assorted crap from various sources
While I disagree with you on the GNU part (I think the GNU utilities work great, though I don't know what's so great about info). I agree that most of the linux distros have a lot of crap on top of what could be a good UNIX type system, in fact it seems some of linux's best utilities are stolen right from BSD. Could someone please tell me why we need bloated software like GNOME/KDE? Seriously folks, it should be an offense to compile something like that on any *NIX. Don't get me wrong, GNOME makes good software, but what ever happened to single purpose tools that you could connect together to do whatever you want? Yes I know this is mainly for the console, but the same should apply to GUIs, I don't need a FTP/SMB/NFS client built into my file manager, I want them separate with drag-and-drop so that my file manager doesn't crash when I have a slow FTP connection (happened about a million times so far, then I switched to blackbox/rox-filer).
Yes, that was a rant.
Seems I should have read a little deeper, FairTax apparently uses rebates to create a progressive system. It still seems like the tax would become regressive at higher incomes, simply because those with higher incomes tend not to spend as much of their money. Also, FairTax would require the family to report all spending, apart from privacy concerns, that's a lot receipts to send in and verify.
Just a little something I remember from Economics class, the sales tax is a regressive tax. This essentially means that (as I believe one other person said). The poor pay a higher percentage of their income than the rich. If anything, we should start reducing the number of deductions to simplify the system, then increase taxes for the rich (so that we can replace the deductions with a simple drop in taxes for lower income families), and (if possible) find a way to reduce sales tax.
Not true, my 62 year-old grandfather (Win ME) and my ~85 year-old great-grandmother (Win XP) both use computers that I set up for them every day, they have gotten neither spyware nor viruses, and I make a housecall every month or two to make sure nothing is wrong, and nothing ever is.
The fact is that computers are not beyond people's understanding, it's that people who use computers are lulled into this idea of "listen to the computer geek and windows, it's smarter than you." Computer users must realise that YOU ARE SMARTER THAN YOUR COMPUTER and IT DOES WHAT YOU TELL IT TO DO, if it doesn't, you have a problem. If you get a pop-up promising to remove all the spyware from your computer, don't trust it. Anyone can put anything on the internet, it's that simple. If you trust the people who make a site, you can probably trust the site, but not it's ads.
Finally, parents need to lay down the law when it domes to kids on the computer. My advice is to put them on a restricted account with no install rights (get help from your local geek on this), the kids can use AIM Express and you'll save yourself from having to call Dell once a month to remove whatever $%#! the kids managed to put on the computer.
There's a GNU project at DotGNU that has already created a runtime that supports a large portion of Windows Forms, yet nobody seems to know about it. Why?
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I had to call FedEx a while ago. It's an IVR, but if you look around on there website there is a little thing you can print out that has the number shortcuts for all the voice options. I think either 9 or 0 is indeed "representative."
Just tried this, I had Firefox and Outlook 2003 open at the same time, I clicked a link in an e-mail in outlook, and it opened in a new tab in Firefox (as set by me) instantly. There just isn't a good replacement for Outlook on Windows yet... and my lil' old laptop can't run linux (my desktop can :) ).
(writer from the states) I'm not sure if there's anything like this in U.S. law, but if this really works in the U.K., I suddenly find myself liking the UK's Legal system....
He let things grow and evolve.
Sure doesn't sound like he does.... evolution doesn't explain where the first life came from, just what happened from there. As mentioned a few days ago, even the Vatican believes that evolution and christianity are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps you do not understand the concept of ID.
In the UK, biscuit means something else. I'm not sure what they call our biscuits.....
Not a right, eh? Shall we have separate restaurants for smokers and non-smokers, separate parks too? Hmmm, well those kids start young so we better have separate schools too, gotta protect the "right to smoke."
As I understand it, we care more about the second-hand smoke. If a "safer" cigarrete could be made to get rid of these, we wouldn't have a problem (except for health costs of smokers, but we can charge tobacco companies for that). In fact, if we didn't have second-hand smoke, I personally would have no problem in letting the smokers kill themselves any way they want. Alcholics too, not that I have anything against drinking.
Which is why the people writing the software and the people selling the support are usually not the same. Also, selling software that you need a lot of support for will just encourage people to switch to someone else.
Hmmm, CERN, you mean the European Organization for Nuclear Research? Funny what a little google can do, ain't it? Besides, Tim was born in London, and graduated from Oxford... at best he might be a naturalised citizen.
OpenDocument is conceptually similar to Word Documents or the docs produced by most office suites. Postscript is basically output-only, Word documents and OO.org documents are editable. The OpenDocument is standardized and XML based (MS Office 12 will work primarily in XML format, but that format is not a standard).
I thought I told you to stop with this nonsense. I'm a Windows user (on my laptop anyways, which is my primary system). This is just annoying, and no one listens to someone who just posts the same shit over and over anyway. No one is forcing you to use linux, you can ignore it completely if you like.
I have my filter set at -1 (I'd like to read all the posts, sometimes a parent is modded lower than a child which makes it hard to read). Is there any way for me to filter this guy specifically so I don't have to read this again.
Would you please quit it with this nonsense? Whether what you're saying is right or wrong, spamming it on slashdot is just annoying, like all other spam.
Ummm, maybe that is correct with very large drives but I have formatted a 40 GB (37.2 GB formatted) drive several times as FAT32/Windows XP Pro and it worked fine with linux.
There's plenty of water on Mars, frozen underground and in the icecaps, meanwhile trying to move water to Mars would be slow (you can't pipe it, unless you can find a way to build a pipe through the sun, so you would have to use ships). There's also plenty of CO2 (which last time I checked is another essential ingredient of oour atmosphere) in the icecaps as well. What we need is to warm the planet up enough to melt those ice caps, the less stuff we have to move to mars the better, then we need a good understanding of what organisms were involved when this planet was being transformed from "ball of magma" to livable. Many of those organisms still live somewhere on earth they tend to the ones that live in extreme environments like the the bottom of the ocean or the change from freshwater to saltwater in certain bodies of water.
Even after it was open sourced they could buy a separate license for commercial development that would allow them to develop their software without releasing the source code. Plenty of companies do that, e.g. saxonica.
Telephone and e-mail are different, we pay for those services but we do not have control over other people using the specific services we pay for. There is an oppurtunity cost involved in receiving and e-mail or phone call, therefore it costs money to receive these things (assuming you pay for e-mail, and there are some (including me) that do).
On the other hand, we can control the use of TV and radio services. If I turn on the TV (thus using power and costing me money), I decided to turn it on and chose to use that electricity and watch whatever my default channel is.
I didn't choose for a spammer to use up space in my mailbox; I didn't choose for a telemarketer to take up time on my phone when I could have been making a call.
There's another rant...
Most programs are licensed under the GPL v2 or later. So long as those future versions of the license are released by the FSF.
The reason I don't use linux is because every distro comes with a messy userland full of random assorted crap from various sources While I disagree with you on the GNU part (I think the GNU utilities work great, though I don't know what's so great about info). I agree that most of the linux distros have a lot of crap on top of what could be a good UNIX type system, in fact it seems some of linux's best utilities are stolen right from BSD. Could someone please tell me why we need bloated software like GNOME/KDE? Seriously folks, it should be an offense to compile something like that on any *NIX. Don't get me wrong, GNOME makes good software, but what ever happened to single purpose tools that you could connect together to do whatever you want? Yes I know this is mainly for the console, but the same should apply to GUIs, I don't need a FTP/SMB/NFS client built into my file manager, I want them separate with drag-and-drop so that my file manager doesn't crash when I have a slow FTP connection (happened about a million times so far, then I switched to blackbox/rox-filer). Yes, that was a rant.
Seems I should have read a little deeper, FairTax apparently uses rebates to create a progressive system. It still seems like the tax would become regressive at higher incomes, simply because those with higher incomes tend not to spend as much of their money. Also, FairTax would require the family to report all spending, apart from privacy concerns, that's a lot receipts to send in and verify.
Just a little something I remember from Economics class, the sales tax is a regressive tax. This essentially means that (as I believe one other person said). The poor pay a higher percentage of their income than the rich. If anything, we should start reducing the number of deductions to simplify the system, then increase taxes for the rich (so that we can replace the deductions with a simple drop in taxes for lower income families), and (if possible) find a way to reduce sales tax.
Not true, my 62 year-old grandfather (Win ME) and my ~85 year-old great-grandmother (Win XP) both use computers that I set up for them every day, they have gotten neither spyware nor viruses, and I make a housecall every month or two to make sure nothing is wrong, and nothing ever is.
The fact is that computers are not beyond people's understanding, it's that people who use computers are lulled into this idea of "listen to the computer geek and windows, it's smarter than you." Computer users must realise that YOU ARE SMARTER THAN YOUR COMPUTER and IT DOES WHAT YOU TELL IT TO DO, if it doesn't, you have a problem. If you get a pop-up promising to remove all the spyware from your computer, don't trust it. Anyone can put anything on the internet, it's that simple. If you trust the people who make a site, you can probably trust the site, but not it's ads.
Finally, parents need to lay down the law when it domes to kids on the computer. My advice is to put them on a restricted account with no install rights (get help from your local geek on this), the kids can use AIM Express and you'll save yourself from having to call Dell once a month to remove whatever $%#! the kids managed to put on the computer.
There's a GNU project at DotGNU that has already created a runtime that supports a large portion of Windows Forms, yet nobody seems to know about it. Why?
I installed shockwave on mozilla. After 1 hour I had already installed a blocker for it so I don't see all the flash ads.