Until they, like 100% or at least a majority of policeman agree that they don't want to be pawns of ultra-racist opportunist Harry Hanslinger and start lobbying for the repeal of Marijuana Prohibition, then in fact they are nothing more than pawns of Harry Anslinger and all other racists out there. Until I have a choice of buying a 12 pack of liquid poison or a freaking doobie at the convienience store, every policeman and every FDA member is nothing more than a self-service racist hypocrite. Look up Harry Anslinger if you think I'd being a little harsh. Billions of dollars wasted, millions of Americans imprisoned, and it's neccessary for me to be an ass on internet message boards about this? Is it not obvious? Alcohol has always been and always will be a more destructive drug than marijuana. You can justify all you want but the fact that you can drink yourself to death, yet smoke yourself asleep and yet the beer is legal, but pot is not and demonified. Thank you Harry Anslinger for creating this situation you self serving anti-American racist pig. And thank you every policeman too scared to speak up against the situation Harry Ansligner, you self-serving racist opportunist. How is that paycheck? Like being a racist pig? Yay!
Well for one thing Microsoft may have had the capability, but
do you really believe they didn't intend to bury it, like they did
a million other "embrace and extinguish" examples? Sounds really
fair to Adobe, including their standard along with their.doc format
which most people would save to given a choice. To be fair I don't
see why Adobe wouldn't have welcomed the opportunity to have their
format in the #1 word processing program, but only thing I can
think of is that perhaps Microsoft wasn't paying them royalties for
use in their commercial program. Don't get me wrong I don't see
Google not making money in some way by making this program, but
then again I can't see you going to Wal-mart and buying it, or
it being Google's #2 money maker. Who knows. There are a few other
great programs in Linux that save to.pdf as well, you may as well
ask why isn't Adobe suing them as well.
Am I the only one who is sick and utterly tired of stupid cop shows where the cops are all suave and have an attitude and go around like they are some hot shit or something. Theres like a million shows like that. Is that really what people want to watch? Police officers with an attitude pulling stuff out of their butt? In real life every police officer that doesn't stand up and denounce marijuana prohibition is just a tool of Harry Anslinger any ways, nothing more than a racist scumbag raping our country for a paycheck. Do they really deserve an attitude like on all the hot cop shows? Screw TV, those shows are retarded.
Marijuana Prohibition has been a reality for over 70 years. It has caused trillions of US$ to go down the shitter, and caused millions of American citizens loss of liberty and freedom. Just so that some racist policeman needed job security. And now the origins of Marijuana Prohibition is lost to history, and if you try to inform someone of the actual reasons for the beginning of Marijuana Prohibition you are branded a racist yourself or blown off, because the story is pretty unbelievable. Racist Police, you need to stand up and distance yourself from Marijuana Prohibition. I realize that you yourself may or may not be racist jackasses, but evertime you speak out against pot or your representatives lie to congress about marijuana, you are nothing more than a racist pig like Harry Anslinger.
Hey man, but the thing is Microsoft didn't come up with anything new. Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server has that trick down for Japanese...am pretty darn sure someone out there has it down for English:) Just type in a Japanese verb in the "Search for Verbs in the Dictionary" link, and then choose the [V] on the word you want conjugated. There are also some other nifty choices, is Microsoft going to patent those next?:) Here is the University of Virginia mirror: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/wwwjdic/ To be honest with you, there are literally dozens of extraordinarily useful and free Japanese language resources on the internet (in English, even).
I would disagree that conjugation is completely unnecessary for language, because obviously so many people have learned how to do it effortlessly in so many languages... But I love your example, If conjugation be necessary, then this sentence are completely not understanding to anyone. It fun being for trying to speaking like that making yourself sound moron being:) I shall returning!! Sleep into to going hopeful becoming great day yourself towards become please!:)
I know, I know! You revealed your Achilles Heel to me (your English degree) that's all:) Thought I'd write a long-winded rambling incoherant post just to get on your nerves:)
Sounds like fun to have a degree in English:) Only problem is, with most for-the-most-part anonymous communication like on the internet, or with store clerks, with random people on the street, random written fiction, or with fictional radio or television content...imperfect English IS correct English. Going into an internet forum like this and correcting people's mistakes may be a viable form of entertainment to people like you who have spent a lot of their life studying the English language, but it comes across as arrogant or ignorant in all practicality. For someone who has grown up with the English language, or even for someone who is trying to learn the language, broken English is a fact of life, and the inability to understand or comprehend it is pretty much equivalent to being stupid, which is sortof what you come across as when you try to correct and lambast people for their language errors. 95% of speakers can understand what they meant, why not you with your super duper English degree, lol:) Just being somewhat facetious, of course you understand...just pointing out that it seems funny that through arrogantly pointing out other's mistakes where in fact you didn't need to point them out for most people's comprehension, you are being rather redundant and uppity, unless you are actually getting paid to fix their mistakes. I understand you are doing it as a favor, or even for your own personal entertainment or gratification..but it's not neccessary, English will continue to be a dominant language without your help:)
This isn't a job application or a newspaper article!!! Being able to spell correctly and compose logical, grammatically-correct English is a great ability, but it has it's time and place! Don't EVAN try to critique my English, I guarantee to you it is valid (in some weird dimension) (or of course you are really bored or are need practice grading papers or something lol):):p
Sorry about that, I quit smoking last week and the extra oxygen to my brain is making the world seem a little bit surreal at this point:)
Ah, actually 10 years ago I wasn't a big Macintosh fan either. The fact is, this is 2006 and Apple and Microsoft are flip sides of the same rancid coin:P PC vs Mac is sortof like "my stinky left hairy ball" vs "my stinky right hairy ball", lol. Sorry. I guess Microsoft stealing from BSD and Apple stealing from BSD = "stinky dripping barnicles hanging from my stinky hairy balls". UG STOP IT I AM KILLING ME.
And if you review my posting history (don't recommend it) you'd see that I'm the jerk who usually goes off on dorks for giving us sematics lessons or on people who think a little spelling mistake is worth commenting on and calling people stupid etc., lol. Sure, it annoys me when people use "Hacker" instead of "Cracker", but not enough to call them out on it. Besides, how did you derive that from what I had posted. Just because I find sarcastic commercials targeted to annoying and tedious people using one annoying and tedious operating system trying to turn them into annoying and tedious people using another super-duper annoying and tedious commercial operating system....well I find those commercials annoying and tedious. Um, it's just my opinion man, you don't have to extrapolate that I'm a grammar nazi retard from that:)
3) People who write "seems to stupid to actually be real" shouldn't throw stupid.
You mean opposed to people who are not only too stupid to understand what he meant but thought it isn't stupid to try to prove how smart you are by calling them stupid for writing what you are too stupid to understand in the first place. Stupid:)
Also thank you for your instructions....will make good use of that. You see like I said in my first post I'm a gentoo person, Gentoo has just been so perfect for how I use a computer that I've never bothered to learn another system (other than like SuSE, or Redhat, and even with those only enough to know that they weren't exactly what I was looking for). With Gentoo I end up with a system I really like, even if it takes a few months of dicking around with and finally getting it how I like. I'm not used to these super already-compiled package distros, even though they totally make a lot of sense. I guess I'm the sort of guy that needs to dick around with software for awhile to really be good at it, and that being the case, picking a distro (that I'd heard great things about) and sitting down with him to install (and try to learn) wasn't such a great idea. But thanks for your comment, you guy's insights will help a lot in the next time we try this!!:)
Ah I think you are right on with most everything you posted. Not the best move to make the best impression, advocasy-wise, for sure. But I'm pretty sure I didn't get a nice list of mirrors to use (was using some gnome-program, and something like that seems a little out of place for that philosophy). I guess I just started at the wrong place, in using the right program to update the software. Considering you are the second Debian advocate to reply to my stupid-assed comment, I'm going to re-relegate Debian up to "want to try" list. Thank you for your insight:)
BTW the installer did freeze, and who knows it may have been flaky hardware. I'm pretty sure it was a Dell or a Compaq or one of those pre-made computer factories' computers. Anyways ya my boss isn't the most computer literate guy, but he's not a dumbass, and is acquainted with the whole reinstalling windows all the time because Windows pretty much sucks. I'll use your wisdom the next time we try another Linux distro:) Also the other guy who commented on my other post gave me great insight into the right way to update Debian.... Think you guys helped me a lot...thank you very much:)
O.K. Thanks for answering all my questions. You know what, I'll stick to gentoo...sorry for posting my observation and admitting to you that I was a dumbass!
For me and my boss, the installer of Debian was not a problem. He was sick of Windows and I had heard great things about Debian, so like a month ago we downloaded Debian and installed it. The installer froze up twice, but we didn't give up. Turns out neither he (complete linux newbie) nor I (complete Debian newbie) had the patience to learn how to update the system. I guess I'm an idiot, but gentoo (which I've used for 3 or 4 years) seems much more intuitive to me. Anyways we spend like 6 hours getting a few programs installed, then a couple days later he informed me that another coworker reinstalled windows for him.
Anyways he is willing to try Linux again so hopefully Kubunto will be more not-debian-addict friendly:) Not saying there is anything wrong with Debian, just that while I wouldn't by any means consider myself to be a linux newbie, Debian was just weird to me. (To be fair any distro other than Gentoo doesn't make much sense to me but Debian was even weirder than most. I guess I was just way unlucky in looking for help files to make it's package system clear to me....biggest issue was finding the right server...huh? In gentoo there are shell files to update that on it's own and then there are tons of fallbacks..)
I apologize, I'm sure I'd love Debian too if I spent a lil time learning.... but to me Gentoo is so easy and so perfect:) Hopefully me and the boss will have more luck with Kubuntu:)
It is ironic, your exact example. 3 years ago my parents and I moved into our farmhouse, which was built by our ancestors at the very beginning of the last century. Was a huge square house, with lots of bedrooms, which housed all the brothers and we have a lot of pride in it:) I've moved out, not only because I was sick of the taunting here on Slashdot for living with folks, but also because of the daily 30 mile commute...was wearing out my new car, fast. Was an awesome house to live in:)
Anyways, we needed wireless support for everyone's computers (me, Dad, sister, brother). I drove to Wichita (90 minutes away) and picked up adaptors for everyone and a Netgear router. Anyways for some reason I didn't buy Netgear cards, and as it worked out, the network connection worked for everyone but me, because that particular chipset was owned by 3M and they had made like a weird satan-worshiping commitment to never support linux.
So I had to drive back to Wichita and pick up a Netgear wireless adapter, which worked like a charm in linux. Even had the opportunity to run into a d-link representative at best-buy and I was like, "Hey man, I'm having to make an extra 3 hour drive just to replace my d-link card with a netgear card because your chipset in no way supports linux". To which he was like, hahaha, too bad soo bad, you lose. I was like dude, I'm spending 3 hours of my day to replace your crappy card because it won't work on my computer, see this money? I have money and am buying your competitor's card. To which he stopped laughing (thank goodness).
Anyways, the ironic thing is that for me, Netgear did me right, while for you Netgear obviously is a problem. Sorry to hear that their USB adaptors aren't as good...really didn't consider one of those to be honest with you, though.
Who knows, maybe any gooblelygooble speak would work:) As much as I like computers, sometimes these systems leave a little to be desired in terms of being helpful!
As an aside, ever tried calling the government immigration hotline? I speak English natively (my typing errors notwithstanding:) )...yet that number threw me for some major loops when I was trying to find out some information for a friend. I have absolutely no clue how someone for whom English was a second language could have success without talking to a real person, and even then...I got bounced around to other useless numbers and ended up throwing up my hands and recommending that they just call their own embassy.
Alrighty, I think we are on the same page here. It kinda slipped by me that they had found out the information in the first place, illegally. Kinda compounds the icky incurred after the cops tell them to "just go ahead with what you are doing and let us know what you find out, so we don't have to do our jobs ourselves." Script kiddies are annoying enough....without the cops rewarding them for their childish behavior. I guess the only way to make this legit would be to hire the "hacker" into the police force, but still require them to get a warrant before they did any searching on anyone's computer.
Try mplayerplugin with firefox. The ads ran just fine, here:)
But (voluntarily) I couldn't finish all 3. What is up with this Mac vs PC thing? Isn't a Mac just a glorified "PC" with a "better" commercial OS but running less software? Not to diss Mac, but isn't this like the pot calling the kettle black? And what is up with calling Windows computers "PC"s. Uh, so...your Mac isn't a personal computer, it is some weird shared hallucination you get after spending a lot more money on "PC" hardware and getting a "better" commercial OS? Wouldn't Apple be better off sneering at "Windows" instead of "PC"s? I understand, I understand, theres tons more Windows users to convert than anything else but Apple would have to pry my gentoo linux installation and apps out of my cold, not-"PC"-using hands:)
I'll get modded down cause I'm not saying nice things about either Mac or PC, but exactly what strange universe is this that we are living in?:)
So how is this different from someone saying "I saw so and so" and ask the cops to come check it out. I think what people are having a problem with is the cops telling such an individual to "OK JUST keep checking it out and let us know what you find out." No, the cops should check it out if they suspect a law is being broken, getting a warrant from a judge if needed. Asking an unknown or unaffiliated individual to do so is not only awkward, but stupid.
They have some value, as long as they envisioned the reason you are calling. For any other reason, just start saying "real person", "real person", "real person" and if there are any real people it will dump you in there. Whats the point of telling a computer your social security number when all you want to do is ask a question about billing about some option you may be interested in, but need more information on, but weren't directed to in the first 1 or 2 layers of the "phone interface". Just make a lot of noise and get a real person, if they have 24-hour staffing. And if they dump you into a bunch of foreigners who keep telling you that your equipment is stolen for no reason other than to get you off the phone, don't get mad. That's just something you can use in the future if they try to peddle you any complete bullcrap. "Uh, you are pretty lucky I didn't call the local police or the feds when you guys authoritively told me that my legally bought equipment was stolen". Duh.
Uh, ya. Even Weird Al's parodies are usually better-produced than the originals. Weird Al is easily one of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century. Isn't Albuquerque an original as well? Everyone owes it to themselves to see Al in concert, at least once. He is the real deal. He did Star Wars songs during the encore, one of which seemed be be him and his two co-musicians seemingly ad-libbing nonsense, but it was all synchronized, rocking out with their accordians!! Genius!!!!
As long as we are using bad car analogies, maybe Excel is like a $150,000 Porsche bought with drug money, and Gnumeric is a $900 Pontaic Sunbird bought using the money earned by a teenager over the summer vacation. Sure, the Sunbird is a piece of crap, but it gets the kid to school and to work, and it teaches him responsibility and self-reliance. However, that Porsche is helping the Terroists Win!!!:)
The first guy had the right to his opinion, man. Maybe it's best because it doesn't force you to run super vulnerable buggy OS, or maybe it's best because it doesn't cost a arm and a leg and you have to sell your soul to MS, that is if your key actually works. Maybe it's best if you don't have an ego the size of Manhatten and you don't have to have all the super duper bells and whistles just so you can get into pissing contests on Slashdot about how you are Super Duper Microsoft fanboy.
Hiya. I guess it's a dead thread but it still lets us reply, I know after awhile they cut that off. Also, I don't know how much you are benefiting from this discussion, but I at least am learning some things from you, so thanks for taking the time for such a great response!
I had to see for myself, and just got back from the local Gamespot. I knew your assertion that only 15% of games was hard to believe...but now I have to admit to you that I was similarly off base by stating 80%. I'd have to say that Japanese games probably made up for like 50% of the games. I hadn't realized that companies like Atari, Sierra, Activision, etc. had regained so much of the market.
I actually own an X-Box and concur with you that it has a pretty good interface.
As far as Microsoft goes, I know that theres all these great games and all, but name the games that come out for Linux. In my opinion, the great ones. Unreal Tournament, any id software game, etc. Being as that is my favorite genre of computer gaming, I'm as happy as a shell with the situation. I was looking at the western games at gamespot, and frankly, they for the most part didn't interest me. I know I know, I'm a fanboy. I pretty much have to admit that you know what you are talking about!:)
I guess I'm just getting old and out of the loop, but video games are a subject close to my heart. I spent a large portion of my 20's playing on a MUD, over the internet.. Is why I first brought up the PS vs N64 analogy to compare them to X-Box 360 vs. PS3 in terms of storage space. I didn't buy either one of them till a couple years ago.
I do feel your statistics regarding the # of consoles vs. population, while fascinating, do not mean much. First off, you lump PC gamers in with console gamers. In my example, I mentioned a particular console, the Nintendo DS. Roughly 1 in 5 of Japanese own one. Computers are pretty much a given in the USA anymore, of course they are going to say ya I play computer games sometimes, no discertion between that and console in your example. Your example of EU is pretty pathetic compared to Japan, 25% of the population owns a console...whereas in Japan 1 in 5 people own a particular console. I still stand fully on my statement that "Video Games=Japan"....not saying that western games aren't a huge force but for a single country to have such a huge influence on video games...that it isn't possible to just disregard them.
Microsoft has proven time and time again that they are a ruthless company that will use any means to permeate whichever market they choose to. Even with something as irrelevant as a web browser, they used that to further concrete their dominance on the OS market. To be honest with you, in a way I find it offensive that they are trying to squirm their slimy tendrils into the video gaming market. However, it's good for the consumer because we have choices, and prices drop and games get better when there is competition. It's pretty sad though that Microsoft is the only American company that can stand up to the Evil Japanese Game Companies, and I guess I feel a little pride that there is at least one company, even if it is Microsoft. However, it's a love/hate relationship.
Thanks for your time and to opening up my eyes a little bit. I'm glad that you've created such a great relationship with Microsoft and that it works for you!
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Until they, like 100% or at least a majority of policeman agree that they don't want to be pawns of ultra-racist opportunist Harry Hanslinger and start lobbying for the repeal of Marijuana Prohibition, then in fact they are nothing more than pawns of Harry Anslinger and all other racists out there. Until I have a choice of buying a 12 pack of liquid poison or a freaking doobie at the convienience store, every policeman and every FDA member is nothing more than a self-service racist hypocrite. Look up Harry Anslinger if you think I'd being a little harsh. Billions of dollars wasted, millions of Americans imprisoned, and it's neccessary for me to be an ass on internet message boards about this? Is it not obvious? Alcohol has always been and always will be a more destructive drug than marijuana. You can justify all you want but the fact that you can drink yourself to death, yet smoke yourself asleep and yet the beer is legal, but pot is not and demonified. Thank you Harry Anslinger for creating this situation you self serving anti-American racist pig. And thank you every policeman too scared to speak up against the situation Harry Ansligner, you self-serving racist opportunist. How is that paycheck? Like being a racist pig? Yay!
Well for one thing Microsoft may have had the capability, but do you really believe they didn't intend to bury it, like they did a million other "embrace and extinguish" examples? Sounds really fair to Adobe, including their standard along with their .doc format
which most people would save to given a choice. To be fair I don't
see why Adobe wouldn't have welcomed the opportunity to have their
format in the #1 word processing program, but only thing I can
think of is that perhaps Microsoft wasn't paying them royalties for
use in their commercial program. Don't get me wrong I don't see
Google not making money in some way by making this program, but
then again I can't see you going to Wal-mart and buying it, or
it being Google's #2 money maker. Who knows. There are a few other
great programs in Linux that save to .pdf as well, you may as well
ask why isn't Adobe suing them as well.
Am I the only one who is sick and utterly tired of stupid cop shows where the cops are all suave and have an attitude and go around like they are some hot shit or something. Theres like a million shows like that. Is that really what people want to watch? Police officers with an attitude pulling stuff out of their butt? In real life every police officer that doesn't stand up and denounce marijuana prohibition is just a tool of Harry Anslinger any ways, nothing more than a racist scumbag raping our country for a paycheck. Do they really deserve an attitude like on all the hot cop shows? Screw TV, those shows are retarded.
Marijuana Prohibition has been a reality for over 70 years. It has caused trillions of US$ to go down the shitter, and caused millions of American citizens loss of liberty and freedom. Just so that some racist policeman needed job security. And now the origins of Marijuana Prohibition is lost to history, and if you try to inform someone of the actual reasons for the beginning of Marijuana Prohibition you are branded a racist yourself or blown off, because the story is pretty unbelievable. Racist Police, you need to stand up and distance yourself from Marijuana Prohibition. I realize that you yourself may or may not be racist jackasses, but evertime you speak out against pot or your representatives lie to congress about marijuana, you are nothing more than a racist pig like Harry Anslinger.
Hey man, but the thing is Microsoft didn't come up with anything new. Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server has that trick down for Japanese...am pretty darn sure someone out there has it down for English :) Just type in a Japanese verb in the "Search for Verbs in the Dictionary" link, and then choose the [V] on the word you want conjugated. There are also some other nifty choices, is Microsoft going to patent those next? :) Here is the University of Virginia mirror: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/wwwjdic/ To be honest with you, there are literally dozens of extraordinarily useful and free Japanese language resources on the internet (in English, even).
:) I shall returning!! Sleep into to going hopeful becoming great day yourself towards become please! :)
I would disagree that conjugation is completely unnecessary for language, because obviously so many people have learned how to do it effortlessly in so many languages... But I love your example, If conjugation be necessary, then this sentence are completely not understanding to anyone. It fun being for trying to speaking like that making yourself sound moron being
I know, I know! You revealed your Achilles Heel to me (your English degree) that's all :) Thought I'd write a long-winded rambling incoherant post just to get on your nerves :)
Sounds like fun to have a degree in English :) Only problem is, with most for-the-most-part anonymous communication like on the internet, or with store clerks, with random people on the street, random written fiction, or with fictional radio or television content...imperfect English IS correct English. Going into an internet forum like this and correcting people's mistakes may be a viable form of entertainment to people like you who have spent a lot of their life studying the English language, but it comes across as arrogant or ignorant in all practicality. For someone who has grown up with the English language, or even for someone who is trying to learn the language, broken English is a fact of life, and the inability to understand or comprehend it is pretty much equivalent to being stupid, which is sortof what you come across as when you try to correct and lambast people for their language errors. 95% of speakers can understand what they meant, why not you with your super duper English degree, lol :) Just being somewhat facetious, of course you understand...just pointing out that it seems funny that through arrogantly pointing out other's mistakes where in fact you didn't need to point them out for most people's comprehension, you are being rather redundant and uppity, unless you are actually getting paid to fix their mistakes. I understand you are doing it as a favor, or even for your own personal entertainment or gratification..but it's not neccessary, English will continue to be a dominant language without your help :)
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This isn't a job application or a newspaper article!!! Being able to spell correctly and compose logical, grammatically-correct English is a great ability, but it has it's time and place! Don't EVAN try to critique my English, I guarantee to you it is valid (in some weird dimension) (or of course you are really bored or are need practice grading papers or something lol)
Sorry about that, I quit smoking last week and the extra oxygen to my brain is making the world seem a little bit surreal at this point
Ah, actually 10 years ago I wasn't a big Macintosh fan either. The fact is, this is 2006 and Apple and Microsoft are flip sides of the same rancid coin :P PC vs Mac is sortof like "my stinky left hairy ball" vs "my stinky right hairy ball", lol. Sorry. I guess Microsoft stealing from BSD and Apple stealing from BSD = "stinky dripping barnicles hanging from my stinky hairy balls". UG STOP IT I AM KILLING ME.
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And if you review my posting history (don't recommend it) you'd see that I'm the jerk who usually goes off on dorks for giving us sematics lessons or on people who think a little spelling mistake is worth commenting on and calling people stupid etc., lol. Sure, it annoys me when people use "Hacker" instead of "Cracker", but not enough to call them out on it. Besides, how did you derive that from what I had posted. Just because I find sarcastic commercials targeted to annoying and tedious people using one annoying and tedious operating system trying to turn them into annoying and tedious people using another super-duper annoying and tedious commercial operating system....well I find those commercials annoying and tedious. Um, it's just my opinion man, you don't have to extrapolate that I'm a grammar nazi retard from that
3) People who write "seems to stupid to actually be real" shouldn't throw stupid.
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You mean opposed to people who are not only too stupid to understand what he meant but thought it isn't stupid to try to prove how smart you are by calling them stupid for writing what you are too stupid to understand in the first place. Stupid
Also thank you for your instructions....will make good use of that. You see like I said in my first post I'm a gentoo person, Gentoo has just been so perfect for how I use a computer that I've never bothered to learn another system (other than like SuSE, or Redhat, and even with those only enough to know that they weren't exactly what I was looking for). With Gentoo I end up with a system I really like, even if it takes a few months of dicking around with and finally getting it how I like. I'm not used to these super already-compiled package distros, even though they totally make a lot of sense. I guess I'm the sort of guy that needs to dick around with software for awhile to really be good at it, and that being the case, picking a distro (that I'd heard great things about) and sitting down with him to install (and try to learn) wasn't such a great idea. But thanks for your comment, you guy's insights will help a lot in the next time we try this!! :)
Ah I think you are right on with most everything you posted. Not the best move to make the best impression, advocasy-wise, for sure. But I'm pretty sure I didn't get a nice list of mirrors to use (was using some gnome-program, and something like that seems a little out of place for that philosophy). I guess I just started at the wrong place, in using the right program to update the software. Considering you are the second Debian advocate to reply to my stupid-assed comment, I'm going to re-relegate Debian up to "want to try" list. Thank you for your insight :)
BTW the installer did freeze, and who knows it may have been flaky hardware. I'm pretty sure it was a Dell or a Compaq or one of those pre-made computer factories' computers. Anyways ya my boss isn't the most computer literate guy, but he's not a dumbass, and is acquainted with the whole reinstalling windows all the time because Windows pretty much sucks. I'll use your wisdom the next time we try another Linux distro :) Also the other guy who commented on my other post gave me great insight into the right way to update Debian.... Think you guys helped me a lot...thank you very much :)
O.K. Thanks for answering all my questions. You know what, I'll stick to gentoo...sorry for posting my observation and admitting to you that I was a dumbass!
For me and my boss, the installer of Debian was not a problem. He was sick of Windows and I had heard great things about Debian, so like a month ago we downloaded Debian and installed it. The installer froze up twice, but we didn't give up. Turns out neither he (complete linux newbie) nor I (complete Debian newbie) had the patience to learn how to update the system. I guess I'm an idiot, but gentoo (which I've used for 3 or 4 years) seems much more intuitive to me. Anyways we spend like 6 hours getting a few programs installed, then a couple days later he informed me that another coworker reinstalled windows for him.
:) Not saying there is anything wrong with Debian, just that while I wouldn't by any means consider myself to be a linux newbie, Debian was just weird to me. (To be fair any distro other than Gentoo doesn't make much sense to me but Debian was even weirder than most. I guess I was just way unlucky in looking for help files to make it's package system clear to me....biggest issue was finding the right server...huh? In gentoo there are shell files to update that on it's own and then there are tons of fallbacks..)
:) Hopefully me and the boss will have more luck with Kubuntu :)
Anyways he is willing to try Linux again so hopefully Kubunto will be more not-debian-addict friendly
I apologize, I'm sure I'd love Debian too if I spent a lil time learning.... but to me Gentoo is so easy and so perfect
It is ironic, your exact example. 3 years ago my parents and I moved into our farmhouse, which was built by our ancestors at the very beginning of the last century. Was a huge square house, with lots of bedrooms, which housed all the brothers and we have a lot of pride in it :) I've moved out, not only because I was sick of the taunting here on Slashdot for living with folks, but also because of the daily 30 mile commute...was wearing out my new car, fast. Was an awesome house to live in :)
Anyways, we needed wireless support for everyone's computers (me, Dad, sister, brother). I drove to Wichita (90 minutes away) and picked up adaptors for everyone and a Netgear router. Anyways for some reason I didn't buy Netgear cards, and as it worked out, the network connection worked for everyone but me, because that particular chipset was owned by 3M and they had made like a weird satan-worshiping commitment to never support linux.
So I had to drive back to Wichita and pick up a Netgear wireless adapter, which worked like a charm in linux. Even had the opportunity to run into a d-link representative at best-buy and I was like, "Hey man, I'm having to make an extra 3 hour drive just to replace my d-link card with a netgear card because your chipset in no way supports linux". To which he was like, hahaha, too bad soo bad, you lose. I was like dude, I'm spending 3 hours of my day to replace your crappy card because it won't work on my computer, see this money? I have money and am buying your competitor's card. To which he stopped laughing (thank goodness).
Anyways, the ironic thing is that for me, Netgear did me right, while for you Netgear obviously is a problem. Sorry to hear that their USB adaptors aren't as good...really didn't consider one of those to be honest with you, though.
Who knows, maybe any gooblelygooble speak would work :) As much as I like computers, sometimes these systems leave a little to be desired in terms of being helpful!
:) )...yet that number threw me for some major loops when I was trying to find out some information for a friend. I have absolutely no clue how someone for whom English was a second language could have success without talking to a real person, and even then...I got bounced around to other useless numbers and ended up throwing up my hands and recommending that they just call their own embassy.
As an aside, ever tried calling the government immigration hotline? I speak English natively (my typing errors notwithstanding
Alrighty, I think we are on the same page here. It kinda slipped by me that they had found out the information in the first place, illegally. Kinda compounds the icky incurred after the cops tell them to "just go ahead with what you are doing and let us know what you find out, so we don't have to do our jobs ourselves." Script kiddies are annoying enough....without the cops rewarding them for their childish behavior. I guess the only way to make this legit would be to hire the "hacker" into the police force, but still require them to get a warrant before they did any searching on anyone's computer.
Heya Troll, just thought I'd let you know that the videos run just fine on a properly configured linux box :)
Try mplayerplugin with firefox. The ads ran just fine, here :)
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But (voluntarily) I couldn't finish all 3. What is up with this Mac vs PC thing? Isn't a Mac just a glorified "PC" with a "better" commercial OS but running less software? Not to diss Mac, but isn't this like the pot calling the kettle black? And what is up with calling Windows computers "PC"s. Uh, so...your Mac isn't a personal computer, it is some weird shared hallucination you get after spending a lot more money on "PC" hardware and getting a "better" commercial OS? Wouldn't Apple be better off sneering at "Windows" instead of "PC"s? I understand, I understand, theres tons more Windows users to convert than anything else but Apple would have to pry my gentoo linux installation and apps out of my cold, not-"PC"-using hands
I'll get modded down cause I'm not saying nice things about either Mac or PC, but exactly what strange universe is this that we are living in?
So how is this different from someone saying "I saw so and so" and ask the cops to come check it out. I think what people are having a problem with is the cops telling such an individual to "OK JUST keep checking it out and let us know what you find out." No, the cops should check it out if they suspect a law is being broken, getting a warrant from a judge if needed. Asking an unknown or unaffiliated individual to do so is not only awkward, but stupid.
They have some value, as long as they envisioned the reason you are calling. For any other reason, just start saying "real person", "real person", "real person" and if there are any real people it will dump you in there. Whats the point of telling a computer your social security number when all you want to do is ask a question about billing about some option you may be interested in, but need more information on, but weren't directed to in the first 1 or 2 layers of the "phone interface". Just make a lot of noise and get a real person, if they have 24-hour staffing. And if they dump you into a bunch of foreigners who keep telling you that your equipment is stolen for no reason other than to get you off the phone, don't get mad. That's just something you can use in the future if they try to peddle you any complete bullcrap. "Uh, you are pretty lucky I didn't call the local police or the feds when you guys authoritively told me that my legally bought equipment was stolen". Duh.
Uh, ya. Even Weird Al's parodies are usually better-produced than the originals. Weird Al is easily one of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century. Isn't Albuquerque an original as well? Everyone owes it to themselves to see Al in concert, at least once. He is the real deal. He did Star Wars songs during the encore, one of which seemed be be him and his two co-musicians seemingly ad-libbing nonsense, but it was all synchronized, rocking out with their accordians!! Genius!!!!
As long as we are using bad car analogies, maybe Excel is like a $150,000 Porsche bought with drug money, and Gnumeric is a $900 Pontaic Sunbird bought using the money earned by a teenager over the summer vacation. Sure, the Sunbird is a piece of crap, but it gets the kid to school and to work, and it teaches him responsibility and self-reliance. However, that Porsche is helping the Terroists Win!!! :)
The first guy had the right to his opinion, man. Maybe it's best because it doesn't force you to run super vulnerable buggy OS, or maybe it's best because it doesn't cost a arm and a leg and you have to sell your soul to MS, that is if your key actually works. Maybe it's best if you don't have an ego the size of Manhatten and you don't have to have all the super duper bells and whistles just so you can get into pissing contests on Slashdot about how you are Super Duper Microsoft fanboy.
Come on, lay off him a little!
Hiya. I guess it's a dead thread but it still lets us reply, I know after awhile they cut that off. Also, I don't know how much you are benefiting from this discussion, but I at least am learning some things from you, so thanks for taking the time for such a great response! :)
I had to see for myself, and just got back from the local Gamespot. I knew your assertion that only 15% of games was hard to believe...but now I have to admit to you that I was similarly off base by stating 80%. I'd have to say that Japanese games probably made up for like 50% of the games. I hadn't realized that companies like Atari, Sierra, Activision, etc. had regained so much of the market.
I actually own an X-Box and concur with you that it has a pretty good interface.
As far as Microsoft goes, I know that theres all these great games and all, but name the games that come out for Linux. In my opinion, the great ones. Unreal Tournament, any id software game, etc. Being as that is my favorite genre of computer gaming, I'm as happy as a shell with the situation. I was looking at the western games at gamespot, and frankly, they for the most part didn't interest me. I know I know, I'm a fanboy. I pretty much have to admit that you know what you are talking about!
I guess I'm just getting old and out of the loop, but video games are a subject close to my heart. I spent a large portion of my 20's playing on a MUD, over the internet.. Is why I first brought up the PS vs N64 analogy to compare them to X-Box 360 vs. PS3 in terms of storage space. I didn't buy either one of them till a couple years ago.
I do feel your statistics regarding the # of consoles vs. population, while fascinating, do not mean much. First off, you lump PC gamers in with console gamers. In my example, I mentioned a particular console, the Nintendo DS. Roughly 1 in 5 of Japanese own one. Computers are pretty much a given in the USA anymore, of course they are going to say ya I play computer games sometimes, no discertion between that and console in your example. Your example of EU is pretty pathetic compared to Japan, 25% of the population owns a console...whereas in Japan 1 in 5 people own a particular console. I still stand fully on my statement that "Video Games=Japan"....not saying that western games aren't a huge force but for a single country to have such a huge influence on video games...that it isn't possible to just disregard them.
Microsoft has proven time and time again that they are a ruthless company that will use any means to permeate whichever market they choose to. Even with something as irrelevant as a web browser, they used that to further concrete their dominance on the OS market. To be honest with you, in a way I find it offensive that they are trying to squirm their slimy tendrils into the video gaming market. However, it's good for the consumer because we have choices, and prices drop and games get better when there is competition. It's pretty sad though that Microsoft is the only American company that can stand up to the Evil Japanese Game Companies, and I guess I feel a little pride that there is at least one company, even if it is Microsoft. However, it's a love/hate relationship.
Thanks for your time and to opening up my eyes a little bit. I'm glad that you've created such a great relationship with Microsoft and that it works for you!
Yep! Just like this case: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/opinion/15tues4. html?ex=1313294400&en=687375003b802612&ei=5090&par tner=rssuserland&emc=rss
I totally agree with you that the judges like to legislate from the bench!!
This case of Tivo vs. Echostar is an example of the legal system working, I agree that you were a troll by throwing in your Rush Limbaugh talking point in this forum :)