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As for my comment, I was trying to be funny, but I generally fail at that.
Muscelebound or bloated? I choose musclesbound. Yes, distro are on multiple CDs, so far a working setup of linux with most of the stuff I need only requires the first disk. As seen in my latest clean install of Slackware. Of course I then tend to download from the internet the other stuff I want and don't use the other CDs.
I havn't thought too much about GNU's methods but I know I like many small apps rather than few large ones.
Good luck on your distro, if you ever get to it. One of my former roomates has been saying that for years, but, to my knowledge, he has yet to do so.
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time and a place for large[microsoft] and feature-filled[netscape] software
I guess we all agree that Microsoft software is large in everything from lines of code to its greedy use of memory. But in my mind, I don't see Netscape as feature-filled. MS Word seems to have many more features than the Netscape browser.
On the other hand, as far as features per line of code, Netscape would win hands down over MS. Just a conjecture on my part.
"why someone would build an office on a swamp is a different rant"
And it sank into the swamp.
So I built another, and that sank into the swamp.
I built a third office, that one burned down, and then sank into the swamp.
But the forth one, stayed up. And that's what you'll work in, the strongest office building in the isles.
What make Google so great is the fact that "google" just rolls off the tongue. Say it with me... "goooogle".
Vivisimo is a bit hard to pronounce (and I almost spelled Visio).
[accent=British] "Teoma". That's a tinny word, don't you think?[accent off]
In all seriousness, naming choice is very important as you all know. If you can't remeber the address, you won't go there. And don't say anything about bookmarks. I usually type in the URL of the sites I visit often.
"coke.biz? Don't
you mean coke.biz.com? Argh! I'll just go back to AOL..."
Speaking of AOL lusers, I was just wondering if some of them have for the most part forgotten or ereased from their mind the concept of.com and.net and other TLDs?
You:"Open the web browser and go to Coke's site." AOLer:"That's keyword coke, right?"
Maybe you have experienced this. I have not. Maybe this idea probably isn't new to any of you, but I just thought of it.
"So, please don't say this match is anything like
Deep Blue - Kasparov. Fritz is significantly slower
and stupider"
According to the article, Deep Fritz has previously beaten Deep Blue. Bear in mind I have know no other resources to check this. Where are you getting your information and why do you say Deep Fritz plain sucks?
Just wondering.
I must admit, I looked into this a while ago. I think it looks neat and comfortable. I think I would buy one if I wore sportcoats alot. In that way it wouldn't look so bad, and you wouldn't get side ways glances from cops. But if I were the type that wears sportcoats all this time instead of tee-shirts, I probably wouldn't want to have something so geeky.
But, just to let you know how much of a weirdo I am, I did buy the BurroPak a few years back, just because I thought it was cool. It ended up being a little too bulky under a jacket, so I didn't use it too much. But it is good for holding other items besides a Palm unit. It was quite nice for holding my wallet and a grenade a few times when I played paintball.
"Personally, I'm surprised Thade didn't off himself accidentally"
Yeah, that kinda bugged me. There he is firing shot after shot, bullets ricochet all over the place and not a single entry wound. I was just waiting for the overly used bullet in the forehead, between the eyes.
"No matter how badly MS screws this incident up, no matter how many judgements get made against them, the average
business drone and Joe User will still end up using.NET."
I think there is a difference between the AOL and MS situations. AOL, at the time of the outage, was already a staple of home internet access. For MS,.NET is not yet implemented, people arn't tied to it right now (unless you count those stuck in the upgrade curve). So this recent outage will cause people and businesses to think about it first _before_ getting on the.NET train.
But then again, people will probably still go for.NET just because it is M$.
You know what I hate? Sites that don't allow cryptic passwords. Especially the ones that hold precious data. Just yesterday I went to get a login at banks webpage, but it didn't allow "special characters" (this site also didn't allow a user name less than 6 chars, but that's another story).
And there are those that restrict the number of characters in the password. I figure they don't want you filling up the database with 100 char passwords (not that would), but limiting it to 8... I think that is rediculous.
The March 2001 issue of Cycle World has a nice (though short) article about Jay Leno's Y2K. According to the article, is the first "production" version. His version even has a rear mounted camera with an LCD in the dash. Cool.
Lets pull some nice quotes, shall we...
"geared to go 266 mph"
"noises-scary jet noises-begin to emanate from deep within the bowels of the machine"
"`At idle, it's making 10 horsepower'"
"You have an engine that's meant to lift a 10,000-pound helicopter puching a 460-pound bike"
"4 to 7 mpg"
"...it doesn't destroy the intellectual property..."
When they say it will destroy intellectual property, I think they really mean to say, "It will destroy our ability to charge you for the right to use our intelectual property."
Gahhh, I remember one guy was going around to all the cubes reminding everyone that the day contained the leap second so that they could adjust their clocks.
"Why not release a product that supports Windows, AND Linux, AND MacOS all in one freaking package?"
Actually, this has already been done. Several month ago "Terminus" was on the shelves (unfortunately not many shelves). It supports the three OS's you mentioned off the same CD. One of the main developers on that project is a good friend of mine and I know they put alot of work into it. It is a real shame that it didn't receive a large acceptance. I personnaly think the game is pretty cool.
they included a jog dial on this nice thin form factor. I have a PalmPilot Personnal and would really like to upgrade. I am almost willing to get a Clie. The design is really cool, I think, but I want the thinness of the Palm m505, and I am alittle put off by the memory stick.
Why doesn't Palm or Handspring put in a jog dial?!?!? It makes the device so much more useful in my opinion.
``The maglev train will act as a model to display the high-tech achievements of Shanghai"
I am rather confused. I agree that this would show the world that they are tech minded, but how does it show their high-tech achievements when the train is designed and the train cars built by a German company?
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As for my comment, I was trying to be funny, but I generally fail at that.
Muscelebound or bloated? I choose musclesbound. Yes, distro are on multiple CDs, so far a working setup of linux with most of the stuff I need only requires the first disk. As seen in my latest clean install of Slackware. Of course I then tend to download from the internet the other stuff I want and don't use the other CDs.
I havn't thought too much about GNU's methods but I know I like many small apps rather than few large ones.
Good luck on your distro, if you ever get to it. One of my former roomates has been saying that for years, but, to my knowledge, he has yet to do so.
time and a place for large[microsoft] and feature-filled[netscape] software
I guess we all agree that Microsoft software is large in everything from lines of code to its greedy use of memory. But in my mind, I don't see Netscape as feature-filled. MS Word seems to have many more features than the Netscape browser.
On the other hand, as far as features per line of code, Netscape would win hands down over MS. Just a conjecture on my part.
"So, then, there are two types of people in this world. Those who occasionally empty their desktop trash and those who
don't."
You're forgeting about those who don't have a desktop trash, or those that don't even bother with desktop trash. That make four types.
"US Capital Building. I always wondered why someone didn't so something like that"
I always wondered if the important US buildings are protected by some Phalanx Close-in Weapon Systems.
"why someone would build an office on a swamp is a different rant"
And it sank into the swamp.
So I built another, and that sank into the swamp.
I built a third office, that one burned down, and then sank into the swamp.
But the forth one, stayed up. And that's what you'll work in, the strongest office building in the isles.
(with appologies)
talk about profit margin!
And then there are languages for those who like to type a lot of parentheses (ie Scheme, LISP)
What make Google so great is the fact that "google" just rolls off the tongue. Say it with me ... "goooogle".
Vivisimo is a bit hard to pronounce (and I almost spelled Visio).
[accent=British] "Teoma". That's a tinny word, don't you think?[accent off]
In all seriousness, naming choice is very important as you all know. If you can't remeber the address, you won't go there. And don't say anything about bookmarks. I usually type in the URL of the sites I visit often.
"coke.biz? Don't you mean coke.biz.com? Argh! I'll just go back to AOL..."
Speaking of AOL lusers, I was just wondering if some of them have for the most part forgotten or ereased from their mind the concept of
You:"Open the web browser and go to Coke's site."
AOLer:"That's keyword coke, right?"
Maybe you have experienced this. I have not. Maybe this idea probably isn't new to any of you, but I just thought of it.
"So, please don't say this match is anything like Deep Blue - Kasparov. Fritz is significantly slower and stupider"
According to the article, Deep Fritz has previously beaten Deep Blue. Bear in mind I have know no other resources to check this. Where are you getting your information and why do you say Deep Fritz plain sucks?
Just wondering.
I must admit, I looked into this a while ago. I think it looks neat and comfortable. I think I would buy one if I wore sportcoats alot. In that way it wouldn't look so bad, and you wouldn't get side ways glances from cops. But if I were the type that wears sportcoats all this time instead of tee-shirts, I probably wouldn't want to have something so geeky.
But, just to let you know how much of a weirdo I am, I did buy the BurroPak a few years back, just because I thought it was cool. It ended up being a little too bulky under a jacket, so I didn't use it too much. But it is good for holding other items besides a Palm unit. It was quite nice for holding my wallet and a grenade a few times when I played paintball.
"Personally, I'm surprised Thade didn't off himself accidentally"
Yeah, that kinda bugged me. There he is firing shot after shot, bullets ricochet all over the place and not a single entry wound. I was just waiting for the overly used bullet in the forehead, between the eyes.
"No matter how badly MS screws this incident up, no matter how many judgements get made against them, the average business drone and Joe User will still end up using .NET."
.NET is not yet implemented, people arn't tied to it right now (unless you count those stuck in the upgrade curve). So this recent outage will cause people and businesses to think about it first _before_ getting on the .NET train.
.NET just because it is M$.
I think there is a difference between the AOL and MS situations. AOL, at the time of the outage, was already a staple of home internet access. For MS,
But then again, people will probably still go for
You know what I hate? Sites that don't allow cryptic passwords. Especially the ones that hold precious data. Just yesterday I went to get a login at banks webpage, but it didn't allow "special characters" (this site also didn't allow a user name less than 6 chars, but that's another story).
... I think that is rediculous.
And there are those that restrict the number of characters in the password. I figure they don't want you filling up the database with 100 char passwords (not that would), but limiting it to 8
\end rant
I wonder what percentage of those polled refused to participate out of fear that it would give out too much information.
I probably would have (I fear I may be getting to paranoid).
Not to mention the fact that you could only go 60 miles before having to refuel. Hmmm ... how low of an altitude can those refueling planes cruise at?
Found a link to the story:/ 0301_tonight_show_tribute.xml
http://www.cycleworld.com/xp6/CycleWorld/features
Lets pull some nice quotes, shall we ...
"geared to go 266 mph"
"noises-scary jet noises-begin to emanate from deep within the bowels of the machine"
"`At idle, it's making 10 horsepower'"
"You have an engine that's meant to lift a 10,000-pound helicopter puching a 460-pound bike"
"4 to 7 mpg"
When they say it will destroy intellectual property, I think they really mean to say, "It will destroy our ability to charge you for the right to use our intelectual property."
My $0.25 (stupid inflation)
"Special care would need to be taken to insure deleted files can be burned out, otherwise this is a law enforcement dream"
... or it would be the nightmare for the admins trying to declassify a former top-secret computer.
Thou, I suppose you could just point a flame thrower at the server.
Gahhh, I remember one guy was going around to all the cubes reminding everyone that the day contained the leap second so that they could adjust their clocks.
"Why not release a product that supports Windows, AND Linux, AND MacOS all in one freaking package?"
Actually, this has already been done. Several month ago "Terminus" was on the shelves (unfortunately not many shelves). It supports the three OS's you mentioned off the same CD. One of the main developers on that project is a good friend of mine and I know they put alot of work into it. It is a real shame that it didn't receive a large acceptance. I personnaly think the game is pretty cool.
Check out the official page or the fan site.
they included a jog dial on this nice thin form factor. I have a PalmPilot Personnal and would really like to upgrade. I am almost willing to get a Clie. The design is really cool, I think, but I want the thinness of the Palm m505, and I am alittle put off by the memory stick.
Why doesn't Palm or Handspring put in a jog dial?!?!? It makes the device so much more useful in my opinion.
``The maglev train will act as a model to display the high-tech achievements of Shanghai"
I am rather confused. I agree that this would show the world that they are tech minded, but how does it show their high-tech achievements when the train is designed and the train cars built by a German company?
Check out the picture of the FCC commissioners on the CNN page. Hmm... I wonder why they all have big smiles on their faces?
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