I know you mean Windows in the XP/Vista/2007 sense, but historically Windows CE/Mobile has run on ARM chips. While current netbook users demand slightly more out of their machine than they'd have had in a PDA five years ago, an up-to-date mobile edition of Windows would run on embedded chips splendidly (or as splendidly as Windows runs).
I think the "8 versions" you mentioned are actually a shortcoming of Windows icons. Many icons for Linux are in vector formats - so long as the icons are rendered correctly they will work for any size. I have not looked into selected/unselected variants of icons, but changes other than highlighting the icon seem gimmicky.
>> Do you know what Dance Pit is an anagram for? Please gather your personal items then turn in your pedant badge and sidearm. True pedants do not end questions with prepositions.
The summary doesn't address the important fact that only idiots base their decisions on the wisdom of 4-1/2 year old children who are more or less trained monkeys at their particular stage of human development.
Children in commercials appeal to normal, sappy people. Normal people would be no more likely to buy a computer running Windows than their retailer of choice is likely to sell a computer running windows in those peoples' budget. Thinking people, a grouping that is at or beyond the fringe of the population of normal people, may look at the computer's specifications or bundled software. Take, for example, a recent car commercial with a football star and a kindergartener try to trick the watcher into purchasing a mid-sized ridiculous vehicle* rather than a smaller ridiculous vehicle. Normal, sappy people will watch the wise-beyond-her-years child to decided which vehicle is the best choice: The child's only reason to purchase the larger ridiculous vehicle is that it's middle seat in the back bench is wider. We're talking about a seat which will go unoccupied a majority of the time mom is driving the large, empty vehicle to and from the grocery store while chatting on her cell phone with other trophy wives about how they see no evidence of a depressed global economy. No worries, the kid has just sold the car to normal people and it is safe to ignore the rest of the commercial. If the watcher tends a little toward that thinking fringe little changes: The football star's only reason to purchase the vehicle is that it is more fuel efficient than the smaller ridiculous vehicle. Because he is a retired professional athlete he is infallible and has no monetary conflict of interest which would lead him to lie to the public. The football player has just sold the car to mostly-normal people and it is safe to ignore the rest of reality.
I love taking the word of money-grubbing retired professional athletes at face value, but this time I checked the facts; his words were an outright lie. The smaller vehicle gets 20(city)/27(highway) miles per gallon of fuel, while the 600lb heavier, 2 foot longer, 3 inch wider, 1 foot taller vehicle gets 17/24. It's not the football star's fault he lied and the child did not. It was the choice of the marketing goons to feed the kid a truth and him a lie to regurgitate.
Entirely offtopic, but have you tried MacPorts? Adding MacPorts lets you use many applications from the Linux F(L)OSS community that would otherwise have you booting Linux on Apple hardware. I've found that running most applications in OS X sucks a lot less power from the battery than running the same applications in Ubuntu. Then again, if you're tethered to a power cord you've no reason to run OS X.
The RIAA loses little to people who use Limewire to download a 128kbps mp3 of a single coyrighted song weeks after its release date. It is possible to utilize private bittorrent trackers to download music in a format that sounds as good the real CD. It would make little sense for the RIAA to target hundreds or thousands of people who downloads a few random, low-quality audio files rather than seeking the few people who download hundreds of perfect-quality albums. Those who pose a real threat to the RIAA already keep their tinfoil hats within arm's reach; many bittorrent users use SSL for browsing private trackers and use protocol encryption for bittorrent transfers. It would ruin the RIAA's attack model if the average customer was sold out and made aware of the copyright pyramid scheme onto which the music industry clings.
Depending on the kind and number of projects (and the depth of the IT department) it may be impractical to have mailing lists for each "group". I am a mechanical engineer at a small consulting firm. My department handles about 40 projects a year and uses the services of a local IT firm roughly once a week. For us it is simplest to "Reply All" to everyone involved internally (usually 3 or 4 people) and externally (usually 2-3 firms with 1 or 2 people per project).
Separating partitions and reinstalling ubuntu is fairly simple. One can boot the live CD, shrink the / partition, create a/home partition, mount both, in a terminal "sudo mv -vr/media/disk/home/*/media/disk1/", and choose manual partitioning when installing to point / and/home to their respective partitions. In my experience even such after-the-fact partitioning is simpler with Linux than migrating user profiles in Windows.
Half of the drivers in your vicinity are above average, half are below, and you must drive with both halves at the same time. Your ability and skill should make you less likely to rear-end another vehicle, but the ability and skill of the driver behind you determine if your vehicle will be rear-ended. Leaving reasonable gaps can give you enough room to avoid simple fender-benders, and the time wasted dealing with a single accident is far greater than a lifetime of saving a moment here and there by changing lanes at high relative speed and low relative wiggle room.
I think, despite the joking nature, your post is relevant to this issue because it emphasizes a part of passing that many have seemingly forgotten. It is important to actually get on the gas and pass rather than creeping along at a few inches per second more than the vehicle next to you. The passed driver will be aware of your position if he sees you approach, pass, and move over rather than merely aware of your presence somewhere in his blind spot. As a corollary to this forced increase in speed, it is often necessary to decrease your speed slightly after passing - an excellent reason to leave a reasonable gap between your vehicle and the vehicle you just passed. For me, a play-by-play is something like this (70 mph speed limit): 1) I am driving 70 mph in the right lane and see a vehicle several seconds ahead going slower, perhaps 67 mph, in the same lane. 2) I signal and move to the left lane, my vehicle still at 70 mph. 3) As I approach the vehicle I will pass, I increase my speed to 75 mph so that I spend minimal time beside the other vehicle. 4) Once I reach a reasonable distance ahead of the now-passed vehicle I signal and move right, still at 75 mph. 5) I decrease my speed to 70 mph again once the entire maneuver is complete.
I believe all of the other posts are omitting steps (3) and (5), possibly replacing them with "3) ???" and "5) Profit!"
I have to travel for work and regularly weave through city traffic rushing to drop rental cars and catch flights. I think of it as a grown-up Frogger much like in the Seinfeld episode and am always cautious around trucks.
The billing/time-tracking software in use at my office looks like it is running in WINE when running in XP. I don't believe its interface or icons have been updated since Windows 3.1. It does not, however run in WINE in reality; poorly-written single-task software is awful stuff.
With the exception of any games and applications tied to the latest/"greatest" DirectX,.NET, etc. Windows 2000 is at least as stable as a workstation as Windows XP; it provides a bulk of the 32-bit NT-esque features with significantly lower minimum hardware requirements.
Would you be like yes? I would imagine you would say or exclaim "YEEEESSS" if a valuable meteorite hit your car regardless of what or whom you may be like. People like you should be held accountable for the downfall of the English language.
What purpose does electronic submission serve? In my experience, the only times I had to submit my writing electronically were those where so much had been written about a topic that a professor/grader required the assistance of a database to detect plagiarism or a lack thereof. I would expect such a database to analyze the text of a document, and such text could be extracted trivially from plain text, rich text, html, word documents, wordperfect documents, openoffice documents, pdf, dvi, etc. without significant effort. If the client/professor/grader was expected to proofread and annotate the document for future editing and resubmission it would be significantly easier to show such annotation in red ink on good old-fashioned tree pulp than to laboriously enter comments into an electronic document.
The target market for MS Word is generally "normal people", who are more or less by definition not editing Word documents with mathematical formulas in them.
Students who have to add simple equations every now and again to Word documents for class use WYSIWYG equation editors; professionals who regularly include complicated mathematical expressions in their writing use either free LaTeX or non-free Maple/Mathematica/what-have-you.
A comparison to Windows 2000 might be better. A VM of Windows 2000 under Linux on my laptop runs faster than XP ran as the only OS. With a majority of the features of Windows XP (Windows 2000 lacks the latest, "greatest" IE and DirectX versions) the disk is small enough to be backed up on a single DVDR.
How about the men who committed suicide supposedly because Judas Priest lyrics? I see no reason to distinguish between cases of foolish people taking their own lives for foolish reasons. Depression is a self-solving problem, and from what I've seen of people on anti-depressant cocktails they really are better off sad than living numb.
Felony petty theft due to priors? If you manged to reach grand theft value in toilet paper you've been with your employer long enough that he or she would not sweat you for a few rolls of toilet paper.
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I know you mean Windows in the XP/Vista/2007 sense, but historically Windows CE/Mobile has run on ARM chips. While current netbook users demand slightly more out of their machine than they'd have had in a PDA five years ago, an up-to-date mobile edition of Windows would run on embedded chips splendidly (or as splendidly as Windows runs).
But... does it run Linux?
I think the "8 versions" you mentioned are actually a shortcoming of Windows icons. Many icons for Linux are in vector formats - so long as the icons are rendered correctly they will work for any size. I have not looked into selected/unselected variants of icons, but changes other than highlighting the icon seem gimmicky.
>> Do you know what Dance Pit is an anagram for?
Please gather your personal items then turn in your pedant badge and sidearm.
True pedants do not end questions with prepositions.
The summary doesn't address the important fact that only idiots base their decisions on the wisdom of 4-1/2 year old children who are more or less trained monkeys at their particular stage of human development.
Children in commercials appeal to normal, sappy people. Normal people would be no more likely to buy a computer running Windows than their retailer of choice is likely to sell a computer running windows in those peoples' budget. Thinking people, a grouping that is at or beyond the fringe of the population of normal people, may look at the computer's specifications or bundled software.
Take, for example, a recent car commercial with a football star and a kindergartener try to trick the watcher into purchasing a mid-sized ridiculous vehicle* rather than a smaller ridiculous vehicle.
Normal, sappy people will watch the wise-beyond-her-years child to decided which vehicle is the best choice:
The child's only reason to purchase the larger ridiculous vehicle is that it's middle seat in the back bench is wider. We're talking about a seat which will go unoccupied a majority of the time mom is driving the large, empty vehicle to and from the grocery store while chatting on her cell phone with other trophy wives about how they see no evidence of a depressed global economy.
No worries, the kid has just sold the car to normal people and it is safe to ignore the rest of the commercial.
If the watcher tends a little toward that thinking fringe little changes:
The football star's only reason to purchase the vehicle is that it is more fuel efficient than the smaller ridiculous vehicle. Because he is a retired professional athlete he is infallible and has no monetary conflict of interest which would lead him to lie to the public.
The football player has just sold the car to mostly-normal people and it is safe to ignore the rest of reality.
I love taking the word of money-grubbing retired professional athletes at face value, but this time I checked the facts; his words were an outright lie. The smaller vehicle gets 20(city)/27(highway) miles per gallon of fuel, while the 600lb heavier, 2 foot longer, 3 inch wider, 1 foot taller vehicle gets 17/24. It's not the football star's fault he lied and the child did not. It was the choice of the marketing goons to feed the kid a truth and him a lie to regurgitate.
*SUV designed for on-road use only
A boy who has not yet outgrown carrying a security blanket is hardly the optimum interface for web browsing.
Entirely offtopic, but have you tried MacPorts? Adding MacPorts lets you use many applications from the Linux F(L)OSS community that would otherwise have you booting Linux on Apple hardware. I've found that running most applications in OS X sucks a lot less power from the battery than running the same applications in Ubuntu. Then again, if you're tethered to a power cord you've no reason to run OS X.
The RIAA loses little to people who use Limewire to download a 128kbps mp3 of a single coyrighted song weeks after its release date. It is possible to utilize private bittorrent trackers to download music in a format that sounds as good the real CD. It would make little sense for the RIAA to target hundreds or thousands of people who downloads a few random, low-quality audio files rather than seeking the few people who download hundreds of perfect-quality albums.
Those who pose a real threat to the RIAA already keep their tinfoil hats within arm's reach; many bittorrent users use SSL for browsing private trackers and use protocol encryption for bittorrent transfers.
It would ruin the RIAA's attack model if the average customer was sold out and made aware of the copyright pyramid scheme onto which the music industry clings.
Depending on the kind and number of projects (and the depth of the IT department) it may be impractical to have mailing lists for each "group". I am a mechanical engineer at a small consulting firm. My department handles about 40 projects a year and uses the services of a local IT firm roughly once a week. For us it is simplest to "Reply All" to everyone involved internally (usually 3 or 4 people) and externally (usually 2-3 firms with 1 or 2 people per project).
Separating partitions and reinstalling ubuntu is fairly simple. One can boot the live CD, shrink the / partition, create a /home partition, mount both, in a terminal "sudo mv -vr /media/disk/home/* /media/disk1/", and choose manual partitioning when installing to point / and /home to their respective partitions. In my experience even such after-the-fact partitioning is simpler with Linux than migrating user profiles in Windows.
Half of the drivers in your vicinity are above average, half are below, and you must drive with both halves at the same time. Your ability and skill should make you less likely to rear-end another vehicle, but the ability and skill of the driver behind you determine if your vehicle will be rear-ended. Leaving reasonable gaps can give you enough room to avoid simple fender-benders, and the time wasted dealing with a single accident is far greater than a lifetime of saving a moment here and there by changing lanes at high relative speed and low relative wiggle room.
I think, despite the joking nature, your post is relevant to this issue because it emphasizes a part of passing that many have seemingly forgotten. It is important to actually get on the gas and pass rather than creeping along at a few inches per second more than the vehicle next to you. The passed driver will be aware of your position if he sees you approach, pass, and move over rather than merely aware of your presence somewhere in his blind spot. As a corollary to this forced increase in speed, it is often necessary to decrease your speed slightly after passing - an excellent reason to leave a reasonable gap between your vehicle and the vehicle you just passed. For me, a play-by-play is something like this (70 mph speed limit):
1) I am driving 70 mph in the right lane and see a vehicle several seconds ahead going slower, perhaps 67 mph, in the same lane.
2) I signal and move to the left lane, my vehicle still at 70 mph.
3) As I approach the vehicle I will pass, I increase my speed to 75 mph so that I spend minimal time beside the other vehicle.
4) Once I reach a reasonable distance ahead of the now-passed vehicle I signal and move right, still at 75 mph.
5) I decrease my speed to 70 mph again once the entire maneuver is complete.
I believe all of the other posts are omitting steps (3) and (5), possibly replacing them with "3) ???" and "5) Profit!"
I have to travel for work and regularly weave through city traffic rushing to drop rental cars and catch flights. I think of it as a grown-up Frogger much like in the Seinfeld episode and am always cautious around trucks.
The billing/time-tracking software in use at my office looks like it is running in WINE when running in XP. I don't believe its interface or icons have been updated since Windows 3.1. It does not, however run in WINE in reality; poorly-written single-task software is awful stuff.
I spat scotch on my laptop when I read your post :-)
With the exception of any games and applications tied to the latest/"greatest" DirectX, .NET, etc. Windows 2000 is at least as stable as a workstation as Windows XP; it provides a bulk of the 32-bit NT-esque features with significantly lower minimum hardware requirements.
Would you be like yes?
I would imagine you would say or exclaim "YEEEESSS" if a valuable meteorite hit your car regardless of what or whom you may be like.
People like you should be held accountable for the downfall of the English language.
What purpose does electronic submission serve? In my experience, the only times I had to submit my writing electronically were those where so much had been written about a topic that a professor/grader required the assistance of a database to detect plagiarism or a lack thereof. I would expect such a database to analyze the text of a document, and such text could be extracted trivially from plain text, rich text, html, word documents, wordperfect documents, openoffice documents, pdf, dvi, etc. without significant effort.
If the client/professor/grader was expected to proofread and annotate the document for future editing and resubmission it would be significantly easier to show such annotation in red ink on good old-fashioned tree pulp than to laboriously enter comments into an electronic document.
The target market for MS Word is generally "normal people", who are more or less by definition not editing Word documents with mathematical formulas in them.
Students who have to add simple equations every now and again to Word documents for class use WYSIWYG equation editors; professionals who regularly include complicated mathematical expressions in their writing use either free LaTeX or non-free Maple/Mathematica/what-have-you.
+1 clever
A comparison to Windows 2000 might be better. A VM of Windows 2000 under Linux on my laptop runs faster than XP ran as the only OS. With a majority of the features of Windows XP (Windows 2000 lacks the latest, "greatest" IE and DirectX versions) the disk is small enough to be backed up on a single DVDR.
How about the men who committed suicide supposedly because Judas Priest lyrics? I see no reason to distinguish between cases of foolish people taking their own lives for foolish reasons. Depression is a self-solving problem, and from what I've seen of people on anti-depressant cocktails they really are better off sad than living numb.
I agree with Adamhavegreyskull. "Must of" and "should of" are incredibly distracting in otherwise good posts.
Spelling mistake: preparation
Cheers,
Ryan
Felony petty theft due to priors? If you manged to reach grand theft value in toilet paper you've been with your employer long enough that he or she would not sweat you for a few rolls of toilet paper.