First time I tried linux other than through telnet I used WinLinux, wasn't a hassle at all. Didn't have a computer that I could risk fucking up the windows install on, although knoppix wasn't available then and setting up a dual boot wasn't so easy. Either way, I haven't seen a microsoft bootscreen for almost a year.
Flamebait? that wazs the first thought in my head too. If I was in charge of hiring someone to program my healthcare system I'd make damn sure that they have enough expertise to choose a freaking language. How can you trust them to deliver solid mission critical apps if they are going to depend on a savage hoarde of wild geeks to tell them how to do it? Sorry dudes, don't take this the wrong way, but as most of us already know, the days when you could learn html and some scripting, set up a job interview and list your demands, then get hired are long gone. People found out that using frontpage isn't that hard. This has nothing to do with those coding gurus who really know their shit, are creative enough to design complex solutions, and dream in fortran. Guys that can bust out inovative, commercial quality apps still posses a valuble, uncommom skill, and none of them need help from slashdot to pick a language. Wish ya the best of luck with it though, I really do hope I'm wrong.
Good idea, Ok ummm, Archos sucks because they're from that smelly, terrorist loving, mime inventing, "hey let's go overthrow the king so we can commit mass murder and replace him with an insane bloodthirsty though quite brilliant self crowned emperor!" crapland of a place called France.
Buy an iPod instead. It's not an mp3 player, it's a freedom player!
The iPod was a better inovation anyway because when it hit the market they included DRM so you don't have to worry about accidentally listening to music on an unpatriotic device, or worry about becoming a digital terrorist by mistake by using p2p. OK fine... the scroll wheel is nice too.
I had my 2GB archos for a few years and loved it. It did poop out recently, (possibly just the bateries, haven't got around to it yet) but I got 4 great years out of it and it took plenty of nasty beatings unscathed.
It's a little bulky, especialy compared to a mini, but not enough to ever have been a probblem. Considering I got it two years before anyone ever heard of an ipod, ran for at least 10 hours off every charge, worked flawlessly as a plug'n play usb hard drive, needed only explorer to add files and setup the directory tree, and it still fit into my pocket, I can't complain.
It was kind of funny how for two years nobody knew what the hell it was, and didn't seem to interested when I was like "dude, it's the size of a walkman and has my whole fucking collection on it!" Then after the ipod came out everyone and their grandmas are geting them and talking about them like they cure cancer.
Only gripes are that browsing large directories was a bit tedious and that it comes with replacement bateries and directions, but to change them you need a special screwdriver and one of the screws has a warranty seat on it.
There's one in Cincinati that revolves like that. Its perceptible but unless you really try to stare outside for a minute its not really noticeable at first. I thought the coolest part was the separation between the core and the rotating outside. If you jump back and forth over the line while you walk and stuff it will start to mess with you, and you can actually look how fast its going. Ok, maybe thats not that cool but it kept me amused till the food arived at least. (They have badass omletes)
"You say that you want a study with "a much larger number of employees", yet you suggest 10.000 as an example? And what's with the floating point number?
I would prefer a study with 10,000 employees.
Geez, man. Get a grip!"
The comma should go inside the quotes I belive. Also, did you know that pigs have corkscrew shaped penises.
If your gonna tell god he's dumb you should at least do it in a relevant post. He was asking why anyone would want alot of bandwidth, and you just gotta burst out with your herecies. Also, if your going to call anyone dumb you better have a good reason. One guy is to dumb to think of uses for bandwidth and you go and insult the allmighty, don't you think thats just a tad bit ignorant.
The uses for bandwidth on a phone are pretty damn obvious though; looking at stock quotes!, porn, checking the weather, porn, checking movie times!. Attach a camera and send live high quality video streams (of porn mostly) directly to your pc for storage, and you could also use it to share particle colision data from CERN and process it during idle time!
"And what about us Linux users? A platform independent plug-in would be nicest. I only use IE for Windows Update and online virus scans through trendmicro.com, that's all, and that's not going to change."
Personaly, one of my favourite aspects about linux is that all those little "easter eggs" are dependant on windows to the point where its a non issue. Not to mention whatever nasty little "easter eggs" Mr. Gates and the boys back at Redmond felt like throwing in there. (Come on, what are the chances that hidden within the windows code there is not a single mind-bogginly illegal bit of code? ok, now what are the chances that it's got more bugs than the American Embassy in Moscow?)
I don't mind easter eggs really though, but only as long as they are open source. Then there could be virtual easter egg hunts! (I'm thinking like 1 week, $10 entry fee, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd split it 70%/20%/10% maybe?)
If you really wanted to you could probobaly get to them with WINE though.
Only because mensa/the world is dominated by right handers. Right handed people measure inteligence in how fast you can answer a question correctly, lefties on if you know why it's correct; at least it seems that way to me. I don't know though, trying to understand righties is almost as pointless as trying to understand women. Can't really explain what I mean but all ya'll real lefties know what I'm talkin about.
I know American Indians have the highest % of lefties in the world at almost a third, too bad they really didn't (don't?) have much for a written language though.
"I have also come to the conclusion that an awful lot of people really do not know how to spell or have a basic understanding of grammar. I guess further evidence that our public education system is failing miserably."
I'd say it's mostly due to spellcheck. You don't spend as much effort to learn correct spelling when your so used to it being auutomagically corrected. Personally my grammar sucks as, mostly due to the fact that I don't really care as long as the point gets accros. If It's for something "official" or something I'll take more care, do a spellcheck and use big words and stuff. I always thought it was kind of weird how people see the english language as set in stone as if it says in the bibble that it is forbidden to end a sentance in a preposition, use double negatives, etc.
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First time I tried linux other than through telnet I used WinLinux, wasn't a hassle at all. Didn't have a computer that I could risk fucking up the windows install on, although knoppix wasn't available then and setting up a dual boot wasn't so easy. Either way, I haven't seen a microsoft bootscreen for almost a year.
Flamebait? that wazs the first thought in my head too. If I was in charge of hiring someone to program my healthcare system I'd make damn sure that they have enough expertise to choose a freaking language. How can you trust them to deliver solid mission critical apps if they are going to depend on a savage hoarde of wild geeks to tell them how to do it? Sorry dudes, don't take this the wrong way, but as most of us already know, the days when you could learn html and some scripting, set up a job interview and list your demands, then get hired are long gone. People found out that using frontpage isn't that hard. This has nothing to do with those coding gurus who really know their shit, are creative enough to design complex solutions, and dream in fortran. Guys that can bust out inovative, commercial quality apps still posses a valuble, uncommom skill, and none of them need help from slashdot to pick a language. Wish ya the best of luck with it though, I really do hope I'm wrong.
Buy an iPod instead. It's not an mp3 player, it's a freedom player!
The iPod was a better inovation anyway because when it hit the market they included DRM so you don't have to worry about accidentally listening to music on an unpatriotic device, or worry about becoming a digital terrorist by mistake by using p2p. OK fine... the scroll wheel is nice too.
New ultra small Ipod killer offers over 25 hours of midi playback!
It's a little bulky, especialy compared to a mini, but not enough to ever have been a probblem. Considering I got it two years before anyone ever heard of an ipod, ran for at least 10 hours off every charge, worked flawlessly as a plug'n play usb hard drive, needed only explorer to add files and setup the directory tree, and it still fit into my pocket, I can't complain.
It was kind of funny how for two years nobody knew what the hell it was, and didn't seem to interested when I was like "dude, it's the size of a walkman and has my whole fucking collection on it!" Then after the ipod came out everyone and their grandmas are geting them and talking about them like they cure cancer.
Only gripes are that browsing large directories was a bit tedious and that it comes with replacement bateries and directions, but to change them you need a special screwdriver and one of the screws has a warranty seat on it.
Silence!!, I am your chinpokomaster!
lol lol lol!
Soon it actally might be illegal if patent laws don't change.
Please stick to the format sir.
No, that's just how it's spelled in über 1337.
There's one in Cincinati that revolves like that. Its perceptible but unless you really try to stare outside for a minute its not really noticeable at first. I thought the coolest part was the separation between the core and the rotating outside. If you jump back and forth over the line while you walk and stuff it will start to mess with you, and you can actually look how fast its going. Ok, maybe thats not that cool but it kept me amused till the food arived at least. (They have badass omletes)
That means 19 Americans spent last months phone bill $ on a 12-pack.
Knib High football rules!
On my brothers XP box I spent 2 hourse trying to INSTALL notepad, I istill have no idea why it wasnt there
In this household we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Am I ever gonna bang ms. september? Miss Cleo said I would last week but I think the bitch lied to me.
AOL/Timewarner sucks!
Probably.
The comma should go inside the quotes I belive. Also, did you know that pigs have corkscrew shaped penises.
so close, yet so far
If your gonna tell god he's dumb you should at least do it in a relevant post. He was asking why anyone would want alot of bandwidth, and you just gotta burst out with your herecies. Also, if your going to call anyone dumb you better have a good reason. One guy is to dumb to think of uses for bandwidth and you go and insult the allmighty, don't you think thats just a tad bit ignorant.
The uses for bandwidth on a phone are pretty damn obvious though; looking at stock quotes!, porn, checking the weather, porn, checking movie times!. Attach a camera and send live high quality video streams (of porn mostly) directly to your pc for storage, and you could also use it to share particle colision data from CERN and process it during idle time!
Personaly, one of my favourite aspects about linux is that all those little "easter eggs" are dependant on windows to the point where its a non issue. Not to mention whatever nasty little "easter eggs" Mr. Gates and the boys back at Redmond felt like throwing in there. (Come on, what are the chances that hidden within the windows code there is not a single mind-bogginly illegal bit of code? ok, now what are the chances that it's got more bugs than the American Embassy in Moscow?)
I don't mind easter eggs really though, but only as long as they are open source. Then there could be virtual easter egg hunts! (I'm thinking like 1 week, $10 entry fee, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd split it 70%/20%/10% maybe?)
If you really wanted to you could probobaly get to them with WINE though.
Only because mensa/the world is dominated by right handers. Right handed people measure inteligence in how fast you can answer a question correctly, lefties on if you know why it's correct; at least it seems that way to me. I don't know though, trying to understand righties is almost as pointless as trying to understand women. Can't really explain what I mean but all ya'll real lefties know what I'm talkin about.
I know American Indians have the highest % of lefties in the world at almost a third, too bad they really didn't (don't?) have much for a written language though.
I'd say it's mostly due to spellcheck. You don't spend as much effort to learn correct spelling when your so used to it being auutomagically corrected. Personally my grammar sucks as, mostly due to the fact that I don't really care as long as the point gets accros. If It's for something "official" or something I'll take more care, do a spellcheck and use big words and stuff. I always thought it was kind of weird how people see the english language as set in stone as if it says in the bibble that it is forbidden to end a sentance in a preposition, use double negatives, etc.