When the new megaplex next to my town opened up, the first movie I saw there debuted a Nike commercial that looked sort of Matrix-esque. At first I took it for a preview. When I saw that it was a commercial, I left, bitched long enough, and got my money back.
Since, I try to plan things so that I show up just about when the movie was set to start, and long enough after the initial release where I can get a good seat anytime. The exceptions I have made were for the Lord of The Rings and Star Wars.
Sneak it in? In theatres I make it a big production to show I don't give a flying rat's ass about their high-cost confectionaries, and just walk in eating my Skittles and gargling Pop Rocks with my Coca Cola Classic.
Nah, what I like are the second-run theatres where I can score a beer, some decent nachos, and put my feet up on the table in front of me, while smoking a cigar...
Well, thanks to Democratic Massachusetts, the last bit is no more, but I'm still havin' a blast.
Bottles. To them, breastfeeding is disgusting, and the mommies want to get back to the bottle (the Jim Beam kind) ASAP. Thought I've got one friend who's baby girl won't latch on for some reason... I'm sure if you try long and hard enough, the kid will, simply because it'll starve otherwise...
That whole E.T. in a corn field scene terrorized me for nearly 10 years. So bad, every single night I went to bed I had to check under the bed to make sure that skinny bastard with weird eyes and the crazy neck wasn't sleeping under it waiting to eat me alive.
I can remember every single moment of that terrifying moving when I first saw it in the theatre when I was 5 or 6. I haven't watched it since...
On the other hand, seeing Aliens a few years later, which was by far a scarier film, did absolutely nothing to me, and is now my favorite film of all time.
but in this case, since the original company was already producing something, isn't the second company with the "legal" trademark purchasing a mark with already existing dilution? It seems (on the surface) to be a non-issue from the aspect of having to defend oneself against a trademark suit on a trademark you created (without permission).
What it definitey does not get you is any sort of trademark protection, so you *COULD* end up competing against yourself.
Only Win32 is a first class citizen on NT, for all their bluster about their subsystem compatibility. It took Interix to make a decent, USABLE Posix environment, and Microsoft's recent purchase of Interix would indicate that they are definitely trying to counter the Linux threat by providing a better Posix environment than cygwin.
Funny how it seems they're pulling the same thing that IBM did with Win-OS/2. Wonder if it'll work any better for them?
At some point, file compatibility has to take a backseat to features and polish. Trying to keep up with Microsoft's ever changing file formats is detrimental, when we should be making our software more robust, easier to use, prettier even.
I'd love it if word supported Open Office formats. As it is, I stick to open/semi-open formats like PDF and RTF. Even then I get screwed because everyone has a different implementation...
There has to be a better way than letting mkinitrd overwrite your/boot/initrd file... One of my first tasks on new Linux installs is creating directories to store the default kernel/rootdisk so that tools don't trash it. Burned myself with kernel-uml and kernel-xen one time too many.
First off, the majority of Clipboard functionality was implemented as DDE, not COM. COM is NOT a fundamental component of the OS, but an API, like, oh hey, Gnome/bonobo is. Almost none of the things you mentioned benefit in any great way from COM, except OLE which it sits upon. Most of the things you mentioned are the benefit of a rich and expansive MFC library, and not COM.
Linux should not support COM. It definitely needs something similar to it, but we should definitely learn from the experience of 15 years, and make something better. Bonobo could be it. I don't know enough to comment, yet.
not necessarily true. I had a virgin machine I built specifically for lan parties. Put all the latest patches on it (XP SP1 at the time), ad-aware, spybot S&D, winpatrol and a few other things like NoPopIE, and firefox, and I was the only person out of 20 who didn't end up getting infected. It could have also been that I placed a Linksys router between me and the LAN network.
Why then someone doesn't write a general LGPL wrapper API, similar to what NVidia does? NVidia doesn't seem to have a problem making this work, why should anyone else?
Yes, but upon reaching orbit, they SPECIFICALLY photographed the ET as it floated away from them. They have pictures (ON ORBIT) of the missing foam in the PAL ramp shot by handheld camera by an astronaut. I've seen them.
Xfree/Xorg has some serious issues with KVM's. In a datacenter where you are running X consoles, this is a problem. I'm surprised I don't hear more traffic about the problem. The mouse (consistently) and video (sometimes) get fubared, but if you switch to a new (CTRL-ALT-F8) virtual console and switch back, everything resets properly.
It's getting annoying enough both at work, and my home office that I'm considering become an X developer simply to fix the problems.
I'll use a perfect example: IBM T40 series laptops.
NOTHING on this machine is supported by XP, Sound, Video, Network.
Yet Knoppix 3.7 and 3.9 both boot without issue. So at least I can image the damn machines.:-)
WAMP sucks. If you want to use anything out of the box, like ODBC support, good luck. I'm converting a number of OSS projects from mysql to odbc (simply because I hate running MySQL *AND* Postgres, and I *MUST* run postgres). No packaged versions of PHP4 come with functional ODBC support (at least for me). And building from source with cygwin has proven to be a most difficult endeavour.
So how'd I solve it? I installed VMWare 4.5 workstation, and installed Fedora Core 2 and went back to LAMP. Problem solved, I can use the Windows Postgres/Mysql servers as testbeds for performance sake, and all the web/source control on Linux.
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But there is NO profit if it costs you $1605 to service those 200 seats. Therein lies the rub. :-/
OMFG even the SOUNDTRACK to Schindlers List brings me and few people I know to tears.
That movie was disturbing.
When the new megaplex next to my town opened up, the first movie I saw there debuted a Nike commercial that looked sort of Matrix-esque. At first I took it for a preview. When I saw that it was a commercial, I left, bitched long enough, and got my money back.
Since, I try to plan things so that I show up just about when the movie was set to start, and long enough after the initial release where I can get a good seat anytime. The exceptions I have made were for the Lord of The Rings and Star Wars.
So for the most part, no commercials for me.
Woe be it unto me and you, Good Sir, that I doth not possess the mighty mod point.
Sneak it in? In theatres I make it a big production to show I don't give a flying rat's ass about their high-cost confectionaries, and just walk in eating my Skittles and gargling Pop Rocks with my Coca Cola Classic.
Nah, what I like are the second-run theatres where I can score a beer, some decent nachos, and put my feet up on the table in front of me, while smoking a cigar...
Well, thanks to Democratic Massachusetts, the last bit is no more, but I'm still havin' a blast.
Bottles. To them, breastfeeding is disgusting, and the mommies want to get back to the bottle (the Jim Beam kind) ASAP. Thought I've got one friend who's baby girl won't latch on for some reason... I'm sure if you try long and hard enough, the kid will, simply because it'll starve otherwise...
That whole E.T. in a corn field scene terrorized me for nearly 10 years. So bad, every single night I went to bed I had to check under the bed to make sure that skinny bastard with weird eyes and the crazy neck wasn't sleeping under it waiting to eat me alive.
I can remember every single moment of that terrifying moving when I first saw it in the theatre when I was 5 or 6. I haven't watched it since...
On the other hand, seeing Aliens a few years later, which was by far a scarier film, did absolutely nothing to me, and is now my favorite film of all time.
C.H.U.D was a little freaky tho...
Just off the top of my head:
* Strike Targets
* Wartime ship location
* OPFOR intelligence
* Nuclear propulsion control/information
* 4CI for operational control and nuclear weapon authorization.
The way I understand it is that KFC wanted to reduce the profligate use of the word "Fried" in their name so as to improve brand image.
but in this case, since the original company was already producing something, isn't the second company with the "legal" trademark purchasing a mark with already existing dilution? It seems (on the surface) to be a non-issue from the aspect of having to defend oneself against a trademark suit on a trademark you created (without permission).
What it definitey does not get you is any sort of trademark protection, so you *COULD* end up competing against yourself.
Only Win32 is a first class citizen on NT, for all their bluster about their subsystem compatibility. It took Interix to make a decent, USABLE Posix environment, and Microsoft's recent purchase of Interix would indicate that they are definitely trying to counter the Linux threat by providing a better Posix environment than cygwin.
Funny how it seems they're pulling the same thing that IBM did with Win-OS/2. Wonder if it'll work any better for them?
NVidia ships a proprietary binary driver, and requires you to build a special translation kernel module that knows how to speak "NVbindriv-ese".
In general binary drivers are bad, I agree with this... but I'll take NVidia over nothing anyday.
At some point, file compatibility has to take a backseat to features and polish. Trying to keep up with Microsoft's ever changing file formats is detrimental, when we should be making our software more robust, easier to use, prettier even.
I'd love it if word supported Open Office formats. As it is, I stick to open/semi-open formats like PDF and RTF. Even then I get screwed because everyone has a different implementation...
There has to be a better way than letting mkinitrd overwrite your /boot/initrd file... One of my first tasks on new Linux installs is creating directories to store the default kernel/rootdisk so that tools don't trash it. Burned myself with kernel-uml and kernel-xen one time too many.
No job control. That's always been my biggest pet peeve with cygwin.
First off, the majority of Clipboard functionality was implemented as DDE, not COM. COM is NOT a fundamental component of the OS, but an API, like, oh hey, Gnome/bonobo is. Almost none of the things you mentioned benefit in any great way from COM, except OLE which it sits upon. Most of the things you mentioned are the benefit of a rich and expansive MFC library, and not COM.
Linux should not support COM. It definitely needs something similar to it, but we should definitely learn from the experience of 15 years, and make something better. Bonobo could be it. I don't know enough to comment, yet.
not necessarily true. I had a virgin machine I built specifically for lan parties. Put all the latest patches on it (XP SP1 at the time), ad-aware, spybot S&D, winpatrol and a few other things like NoPopIE, and firefox, and I was the only person out of 20 who didn't end up getting infected. It could have also been that I placed a Linksys router between me and the LAN network.
:-D
I may be brave, but I'm not stupid.
OMFG do we have to have this thread EVERY time we mention OS/2, ATM and machine in the same article?
Ugh.
Why then someone doesn't write a general LGPL wrapper API, similar to what NVidia does? NVidia doesn't seem to have a problem making this work, why should anyone else?
I hate to break it to you, but Firefox leaks on Windows too.
Yes, but upon reaching orbit, they SPECIFICALLY photographed the ET as it floated away from them. They have pictures (ON ORBIT) of the missing foam in the PAL ramp shot by handheld camera by an astronaut. I've seen them.
a /external_tank_images.html>
:-P
<URL:http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/multimedi
Can *YOU* find where the piece of missing foam came from?
He meant after ET separation prior to or just after orbital insertion.
Holliston, MA already has it (Verizon.net FIOS). Funny too, as it's a little podunk suburb that's pretty spread out...
Xfree/Xorg has some serious issues with KVM's. In a datacenter where you are running X consoles, this is a problem. I'm surprised I don't hear more traffic about the problem. The mouse (consistently) and video (sometimes) get fubared, but if you switch to a new (CTRL-ALT-F8) virtual console and switch back, everything resets properly.
It's getting annoying enough both at work, and my home office that I'm considering become an X developer simply to fix the problems.
I'll use a perfect example: IBM T40 series laptops.
:-)
NOTHING on this machine is supported by XP, Sound, Video, Network.
Yet Knoppix 3.7 and 3.9 both boot without issue. So at least I can image the damn machines.
WAMP sucks. If you want to use anything out of the box, like ODBC support, good luck. I'm converting a number of OSS projects from mysql to odbc (simply because I hate running MySQL *AND* Postgres, and I *MUST* run postgres). No packaged versions of PHP4 come with functional ODBC support (at least for me). And building from source with cygwin has proven to be a most difficult endeavour.
So how'd I solve it? I installed VMWare 4.5 workstation, and installed Fedora Core 2 and went back to LAMP. Problem solved, I can use the Windows Postgres/Mysql servers as testbeds for performance sake, and all the web/source control on Linux.
All on my PIII-600 laptop running Windows 2000.
All praise the mighty VMware gods.