Think of something funny. Like a bunny with a pancake on its head. Then think of something else that is also funny. Like being a bunny minding its own business, and suddenly having some guy drop a pancake on your head.
It works for me - but then, I'm also known as the office crazy person, so YMMV.
fwiw, you can turn on the command line in the Konqueror window, and it puts a little xterm at the bottom (about eight lines long). The option is in the Window menu, if I recall correctly.
I more or less agree with you, but when passing on work-related instant messages, I've had to add AFAIK and AFAICT. Otherwise, the message would be far too long for the receiving party to read without going crosseyed. The "as far as I can tell" is never the important part of the message anyway, so I have no problem shortening the hell out of it.
What I meant was the graphics in the article are also vector in the actual PDF. As in the JPEGs. I know this because it was mentioned as the reason the PDF was going to be late.
The subscription is something like $10 per month. In addition to the PDFs, you also get to post in the Lounge and Velvet Room (aka the off topic bandwidth hungry forums) in the OpenForum, and have Subscriptor in your Openforum profile, and some other random perks.
Oh, I think the PDFs feature vector graphics, so they'll print far nicer than your ps2pdf PDF will.
I think Ace's Hardware offers something similar, but I can't remember.
Well, it is getting patented. Once the patent process is complete, the scheme will be published because, well, that's the point in getting a patent in the first place.
In theory, your average revenant (I play NERO from time to time) doesn't know a low level guy from a high level guy. They just pick a target and swing 4's. If you have 3 body, you fall down on the first hit.
The dedicated players, who have given way more money to the chapter than you, need to have fun too, and that's typiclly done by giving the players something big to fight.
Also, if LAIRE is anything like NERO, the rule is "don't *killing blow* anybody". Taking that one minute of available healing time away is generally considered a no-no, because once you cross from "bleeding out" to "dead", the cost to make you not dead goes from a level 1 spell to a level 9 spell.
Your biggest problems will come when everyone and their dog wants to install their personal stuff (screensavers, wallpaper, P2P apps, etc...) on their new Linux machines, then get mad when you tell them it won't work.
If you were doing your "anal administrator" job properly, this isn't a problem. You see, the anal NT admin would only allow the end user to use the mouse on their machine. Typing would require an admin password.
So the answer is to become an anal NT admin, then switch everybody to Linux when they are used to not being able to do anything.
Also those of you who have seen the Jedi DVD extras know there is that one deleted scene where the Ewoks capture a storm trooper, starve him and pierce his eardrum with a sharpened stick of bamboo in order to get him to talk about troop movements. Clearly a parallel there.
I don't care if you're kidding or not, I so want to see that scene! Watching teddy bears torturing storm trooopers with pointy sticks would be so worth it.
The guy designing the device is not the one stealing the cars. He's the one selling the device to the people stealing the cars, probably for (pulls percentage out of a random orifice) 20% of whatever the car brings in. I would say that's more lucrative than the average widget design position.
Actually, if its supplementing a widget design position, its even better for the designer dude, right up until Tony breaks his legs.
I'll grant you that the situation is somewhat unique. The car analogy (ban the car, the horse whip makers are all going out of business!) can't be applied here.
However, it's safe to say the VHS argument can. The movie industry makes a metric tonne of money off of video sales every year. In the early 80's, video was heralded as the Death of Hollywood. Hollywood looks rather not-dead to me.
The medium is changing again. People like their music in files. We'd like to purchase it that way too, but the industry won't let us, so we get it for free elsewhere.
I would say a business model that nobody wants to support is a dying one, wouldn't you? Sorta like selling ads on the Internet, really. Nobody wants them, people go out of their way to get bypass the business model, and businesses die because of it. This isn't because people are bad, its because the business model is unrealistic.
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None of these are believable enough for the populace to be fooled.
Except for, funnily enough, this one. The part in italics, anyway. I can believe a story about CPAN adding Java snippets to its library of code. I can even believe CPAN adding Java snippets in a really big way.
Then the editor went and added a cheap troll, thereby ruining the illusion of believability. Speaking of which, the new Flair-run RAW show is premiering this Monday, 9:00 on the New TNN.</ad>
Hey, whe added the new Slashvertisement Comment code to the CVS? *mutters*
InstallShield is now a GUI for the Microsoft Installer, which is most certainly a Microsoft product.
Using Microsoft Installer is a requirement to get the official "designed for Microsoft Windows 2000" sticker on your product, and I assume its the same for XP. Wise also has a front end to the Installer system, IIRC and FWIW.
"The military and the government don't really have too much choice at this point except to start to put pressure on Microsoft and others to improve software security," Erbschloe says.
Let this be the thread for the Free Software zealots to reply saying, "and therein lies the problem with proprietary software".
1) It's hard to keep up to date. Until you can make Flash that updates itself from SQL, it's worthless for any real data.
I can't speak to anything else in your comment, but I can say that Macromedia is working on this. In particular, they are working on integrating their Flash and ColdFusion products so that you can link a Flash movie to an SQL database.
Of course, the integration as it stands now is, well, pretty painful. But I'm keeping my hopes up.:)
He specifically mentions that he's been trained to watch every animation he sees. Besides, if you want to click on a button on the thing that's sliding out of the dock, and its taking far too long to slide out of the dock, I can see frustration building there.
He did mention a job offer, which would push you over 80.
Besides, they knocked the required score back down to 70 this week, because it was deemed 80 was unfair to people who have already applied. Note that you would now be allowed in. They are going to raise it back to 80 at some point in the future.
We may not have the Union Jack on our flag, but the Queen of England is still our head of state, and still has to sign all of our laws (even if by proxy through the Governor General and Lt. Governors).
The funny thing is that increasingly, especially amongst the more expensive cars, it is becoming impossible to do any real work on them yourself. Sure, you can change the oil and other fluids but beyond that many cars are impossible for the average person to do work on.
Sounds like software to me. Of course, in both the case of OSS and cars, I have the choice of getting maintenance done. I even have a choice of shops that will do the maintenance for me. I can shop around, finding the right fit for me.
In the case of closed software, if it breaks, I'm screwed.
This is, of course, more of a corporate concern than a consumer concern, but if you win them at work you can win them at home.
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Think of something funny. Like a bunny with a pancake on its head. Then think of something else that is also funny. Like being a bunny minding its own business, and suddenly having some guy drop a pancake on your head.
It works for me - but then, I'm also known as the office crazy person, so YMMV.
Don't do that, it'll only confuse the Canadians.
I couldn't believe that either.
I have been using Linux on and off for five years now, and the Gentoo install was the first time I've ever encountered a system without vi.
Granted, this was painless:
emerge vi
but it's the principle of the thing, you know? I mean Hell, Macs even come with vi.
fwiw, you can turn on the command line in the Konqueror window, and it puts a little xterm at the bottom (about eight lines long). The option is in the Window menu, if I recall correctly.
But if they're all UNIX, isn't that a little counterproductive?
I more or less agree with you, but when passing on work-related instant messages, I've had to add AFAIK and AFAICT. Otherwise, the message would be far too long for the receiving party to read without going crosseyed. The "as far as I can tell" is never the important part of the message anyway, so I have no problem shortening the hell out of it.
What I meant was the graphics in the article are also vector in the actual PDF. As in the JPEGs. I know this because it was mentioned as the reason the PDF was going to be late.
The subscription is something like $10 per month. In addition to the PDFs, you also get to post in the Lounge and Velvet Room (aka the off topic bandwidth hungry forums) in the OpenForum, and have Subscriptor in your Openforum profile, and some other random perks.
Oh, I think the PDFs feature vector graphics, so they'll print far nicer than your ps2pdf PDF will.
I think Ace's Hardware offers something similar, but I can't remember.
Well, it is getting patented. Once the patent process is complete, the scheme will be published because, well, that's the point in getting a patent in the first place.
Oh, right, Slashdot. Patents evil. Meh.
No fault of the NPC.
In theory, your average revenant (I play NERO from time to time) doesn't know a low level guy from a high level guy. They just pick a target and swing 4's. If you have 3 body, you fall down on the first hit.
The dedicated players, who have given way more money to the chapter than you, need to have fun too, and that's typiclly done by giving the players something big to fight.
Also, if LAIRE is anything like NERO, the rule is "don't *killing blow* anybody". Taking that one minute of available healing time away is generally considered a no-no, because once you cross from "bleeding out" to "dead", the cost to make you not dead goes from a level 1 spell to a level 9 spell.
A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B.
:)
Unless this was written in Flash MX, the data transfer method is complete ass. Massive query string, anyone?
If it is Flash MX, then it's probably some massive hack using Flash MX, ColdFusion MX, JRun, MS SQL Server, and a hampster.
Of course, having the biggest DoS provider on the public Internet hand you your ass doesn't help matters any.
Well, what's the point of adopting an open standard, if your mandated open software can't....wait for it now....open it?
*collective groan*
Your biggest problems will come when everyone and their dog wants to install their personal stuff (screensavers, wallpaper, P2P apps, etc...) on their new Linux machines, then get mad when you tell them it won't work.
If you were doing your "anal administrator" job properly, this isn't a problem. You see, the anal NT admin would only allow the end user to use the mouse on their machine. Typing would require an admin password.
So the answer is to become an anal NT admin, then switch everybody to Linux when they are used to not being able to do anything.
Also those of you who have seen the Jedi DVD extras know there is that one deleted scene where the Ewoks capture a storm trooper, starve him and pierce his eardrum with a sharpened stick of bamboo in order to get him to talk about troop movements. Clearly a parallel there.
I don't care if you're kidding or not, I so want to see that scene! Watching teddy bears torturing storm trooopers with pointy sticks would be so worth it.
The guy designing the device is not the one stealing the cars. He's the one selling the device to the people stealing the cars, probably for (pulls percentage out of a random orifice) 20% of whatever the car brings in. I would say that's more lucrative than the average widget design position.
Actually, if its supplementing a widget design position, its even better for the designer dude, right up until Tony breaks his legs.
I'll grant you that the situation is somewhat unique. The car analogy (ban the car, the horse whip makers are all going out of business!) can't be applied here.
However, it's safe to say the VHS argument can. The movie industry makes a metric tonne of money off of video sales every year. In the early 80's, video was heralded as the Death of Hollywood. Hollywood looks rather not-dead to me.
The medium is changing again. People like their music in files. We'd like to purchase it that way too, but the industry won't let us, so we get it for free elsewhere.
I would say a business model that nobody wants to support is a dying one, wouldn't you? Sorta like selling ads on the Internet, really. Nobody wants them, people go out of their way to get bypass the business model, and businesses die because of it. This isn't because people are bad, its because the business model is unrealistic.
None of these are believable enough for the populace to be fooled.
Except for, funnily enough, this one. The part in italics, anyway. I can believe a story about CPAN adding Java snippets to its library of code. I can even believe CPAN adding Java snippets in a really big way.
Then the editor went and added a cheap troll, thereby ruining the illusion of believability. Speaking of which, the new Flair-run RAW show is premiering this Monday, 9:00 on the New TNN.</ad>
Hey, whe added the new Slashvertisement Comment code to the CVS? *mutters*
InstallShield is now a GUI for the Microsoft Installer, which is most certainly a Microsoft product.
Using Microsoft Installer is a requirement to get the official "designed for Microsoft Windows 2000" sticker on your product, and I assume its the same for XP. Wise also has a front end to the Installer system, IIRC and FWIW.
"The military and the government don't really have too much choice at this point except to start to put pressure on Microsoft and others to improve software security," Erbschloe says.
Let this be the thread for the Free Software zealots to reply saying, "and therein lies the problem with proprietary software".
1) It's hard to keep up to date. Until you can make Flash that updates itself from SQL, it's worthless for any real data.
:)
I can't speak to anything else in your comment, but I can say that Macromedia is working on this. In particular, they are working on integrating their Flash and ColdFusion products so that you can link a Flash movie to an SQL database.
Of course, the integration as it stands now is, well, pretty painful. But I'm keeping my hopes up.
He specifically mentions that he's been trained to watch every animation he sees. Besides, if you want to click on a button on the thing that's sliding out of the dock, and its taking far too long to slide out of the dock, I can see frustration building there.
He did mention a job offer, which would push you over 80.
Besides, they knocked the required score back down to 70 this week, because it was deemed 80 was unfair to people who have already applied. Note that you would now be allowed in. They are going to raise it back to 80 at some point in the future.
Umm, no.
We may not have the Union Jack on our flag, but the Queen of England is still our head of state, and still has to sign all of our laws (even if by proxy through the Governor General and Lt. Governors).
The funny thing is that increasingly, especially amongst the more expensive cars, it is becoming impossible to do any real work on them yourself. Sure, you can change the oil and other fluids but beyond that many cars are impossible for the average person to do work on.
Sounds like software to me. Of course, in both the case of OSS and cars, I have the choice of getting maintenance done. I even have a choice of shops that will do the maintenance for me. I can shop around, finding the right fit for me.
In the case of closed software, if it breaks, I'm screwed.
This is, of course, more of a corporate concern than a consumer concern, but if you win them at work you can win them at home.
I can answer that first question.
:)~
Since you have a beard, you must be the evil one. Therefore, you may indeed find a good version of yourself that is clean shaven.
If this concerns you, just remember that evil always triumphs over good, because good is dumb.