While I do realize you are just a troll, I feel compelled to argue against your statements.
I use OpenOffice.org on my Debian Linux (Sarge) box at home, and find it quite capable at replacing Microsoft Office. Hell, I even run OOo on my Mac (OS X 10.3) off of the Linux box through the network (X does have some good qualities after all!), and the speed is still more than acceptable for me.
By the way, my Debian Linux box is a 1.7GHz Celeron with 512 MB of RAM.
I also run OOo on my Slackware 10.0 notebook. This system is a 466 Celeron with 256 MB of RAM, and again OOo is more than up to the task.
Actually, I'm running Debian testing (Sarge) on my workstation, and it's been running fine for quite a while now. I'm currently running Slackware 10 on my notebook, and it is also running fine.
Well, don't just feel sorrow for what he has now, feel joy in what he has accomplished in his life!
And that dialog is one of my favorite "Scotty-ism's". My next favorite is the one in the movies (I forget which one) where Scotty is walking through the ship muttering something like "I know this ship like the back of my hand", and then he walks into a head-knocker and knocks himself out.
I don't normally respond to AC's, but you do present a valid point. I am quite familiar with PHP, but at this stage in my development career, I'm not doing very much web development. Maninly desktop and client-server.
Besides, where I work, the web apps are developed in ASP:-(
If I needed to use PHP for web development, I wouldn't have a problem with learning it or using it. Until then, I am quite set on the languages front.
I use Java on all four of my main platforms: OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. I tend to use it for projects that are larger than I would feel comfortable doing in Perl. An added benefit is they are cross-platform, just like Perl.
I started using Java in 1997 on Windows, and it followed me when I expanded into different operating systems.
I really like C, and use it for some work-related and recreational programming, but when the "rubber meets the road" and I need to get something done within a short time frame, I turn to Perl and Java. Perl, mostly for data parsing jobs, and Java for the more "permanent" programs, especially for graphical network clients.
I've been using Java JRE's since 1.02, and they have really grown in power and speed over the years. I have no problems using Swing apps on my 800 MHz iMac or my 1.7 GHz Celeron Linux system. They even run very well on my 533 MHz Celeron running Windows 2000. While they may not have the raw speed of a native app written in C or C++ (especially graphical apps), the performance I get is more than adequate for the job being performed.
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- The public Internet didn't/won't kill ham radio. Every ham thinks the hobby has gone downhill since the "good old days" when they started. What will kill ham radio is when the Japanese stop making ham rigs. Radio Shack struck the first blow.
Even that won't kill Amateur Radio. Yes, it will put a severe crimp in it, especially for those that like "plug & play" radio, but there will always be groups world-wide that continue on with older gear, or small home brew radio equipment.
I agree with you on your first statement. I always try-out the latest KDE and Gnome desktops, say "Wow, nice desktop" to myself, then promptly install the latest XFce and get the most out of my system.
As far as your second statement goes, I like choice. Choice is good. Without choice, we'd all be running Windows XX instead of our favorite OS (whichever that may be). The same goes for the desktop. There are more than enough resources out there to support two major destop systems and a whole lot of window managers.
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I never learned Joe, but I may give it a try (can we say "apt-get install joe"?). My reasoning behind learning VI (and VIM) was that VI was the only editor on the HP-9000 system I first started working in Unix on.
I bought Red Hat 5.1 and installed it on a home computer to help me learn VI (and other Unix commands), and it just stuck.
To me, VI is the best choice, because it IS ubiquitous. I didn't have the option of installing Joe or Emacs on the HP, and the administrator wouldn't even hear the argument.
I've been using VI (and VIM) for almost six years now, and I use it on all my platforms, including Windows and Max OS X. To me, VI is very easy to use simply because I did spend a lot of time learning it. And yes, once you learn VI, it is powerful AND easy.
Dead wrong. Under "Communism" (very loosely defined), Soviet Russia and China have both brought literacy, crime control, and medical care to about 2 billion people. Under "Socialist Democracy" European nations, India, and Canada have brought the same to another billion people. With the collapse of Soviet Russia, the Eastern Bloc nations have had serious increases in infant mortality and crime, and losses in medical care and crime control.
You forgot to add: control over what their citizens can read, talk about and/or do. Oh, and if you wanted to speak-out about what your government is doing, don't forget the nice people that take you away in the middle of the night, never to be seen or heard from again, or the tanks that roll up to disperse your demonstration.
Before you start knocking the US, you really need to tak a closer look at what Communism really means. At least in this country we get a chance to change our elected representatives every few years, even if they are all liars and crooks.
The F-14A holds 16,400 lbs of fuel internal, no drop tanks. In the older jets, with the Pratt & Whitney TF-30 engines running at zone-5 afterburner (full AB), it could suck the internal tanks dry in 8 minutes.
He's absolutely right. In military aircraft, especially Navy aircraft, everything is measured in pounds. When I was in the Navy, I worked on the F-14A Tomcat. That plane would hold 16,400 lbs of fuel without the drop tanks, over 20,000 with drop tanks. Add that to the dry weight of over 48,000 lbs, and you've got one HEAVY airplane!
I've seen them take the catapult stroke at over 72,000 lbs.
I bought a Shuttle SS51G about this time last year. 1.7 GHz Celeron, 512 MB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. I originally stuck Mandrake on there, then after a month, moved to Debian (testing). I've been running Debian on there since, and I must say it is a very nice fit.
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What can a person do? The right thing is to complain to the right person and risk the retiliation that might happen. Band together, if everyone complains, they can't fire you all right?
No, they will just out-source all of your jobs to India, then make you train your own replacements so you can get your severence package.
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While I do realize you are just a troll, I feel compelled to argue against your statements.
I use OpenOffice.org on my Debian Linux (Sarge) box at home, and find it quite capable at replacing Microsoft Office. Hell, I even run OOo on my Mac (OS X 10.3) off of the Linux box through the network (X does have some good qualities after all!), and the speed is still more than acceptable for me.
By the way, my Debian Linux box is a 1.7GHz Celeron with 512 MB of RAM.
I also run OOo on my Slackware 10.0 notebook. This system is a 466 Celeron with 256 MB of RAM, and again OOo is more than up to the task.
Rotates passwords every 45 days, and it must be at least 6 characters, have both upper and lower case letters and either numbers or punctuation marks.
Its a real pain in the ass, but I understand why they do it.
Actually, I'm running Debian testing (Sarge) on my workstation, and it's been running fine for quite a while now. I'm currently running Slackware 10 on my notebook, and it is also running fine.
Debian and Slackware are two great Linux distros!
Well, don't just feel sorrow for what he has now, feel joy in what he has accomplished in his life!
And that dialog is one of my favorite "Scotty-ism's". My next favorite is the one in the movies (I forget which one) where Scotty is walking through the ship muttering something like "I know this ship like the back of my hand", and then he walks into a head-knocker and knocks himself out.
Backup?
What is this backup thing of which you speak?
I don't normally respond to AC's, but you do present a valid point. I am quite familiar with PHP, but at this stage in my development career, I'm not doing very much web development. Maninly desktop and client-server.
:-(
Besides, where I work, the web apps are developed in ASP
If I needed to use PHP for web development, I wouldn't have a problem with learning it or using it. Until then, I am quite set on the languages front.
I use Java on all four of my main platforms: OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. I tend to use it for projects that are larger than I would feel comfortable doing in Perl. An added benefit is they are cross-platform, just like Perl.
I started using Java in 1997 on Windows, and it followed me when I expanded into different operating systems.
I really like C, and use it for some work-related and recreational programming, but when the "rubber meets the road" and I need to get something done within a short time frame, I turn to Perl and Java. Perl, mostly for data parsing jobs, and Java for the more "permanent" programs, especially for graphical network clients.
I've been using Java JRE's since 1.02, and they have really grown in power and speed over the years. I have no problems using Swing apps on my 800 MHz iMac or my 1.7 GHz Celeron Linux system. They even run very well on my 533 MHz Celeron running Windows 2000. While they may not have the raw speed of a native app written in C or C++ (especially graphical apps), the performance I get is more than adequate for the job being performed.
- The public Internet didn't/won't kill ham radio. Every ham thinks the hobby has gone downhill since the "good old days" when they started. What will kill ham radio is when the Japanese stop making ham rigs. Radio Shack struck the first blow.
Even that won't kill Amateur Radio. Yes, it will put a severe crimp in it, especially for those that like "plug & play" radio, but there will always be groups world-wide that continue on with older gear, or small home brew radio equipment.
Heh, Lynx works just fine on my P-120 w/ 40 MB of RAM! ;-)
Are you kidding? He's trying to sell a book
Give it six months, it will be on the $1.99 rack at Barnes & Noble. I'll buy a couple of them then to use for emergency toilet paper.
He got about 17 dB signal improvement for about US $5 in materials.
I will finally get a good connection from the living room!
I agree with you on your first statement. I always try-out the latest KDE and Gnome desktops, say "Wow, nice desktop" to myself, then promptly install the latest XFce and get the most out of my system.
As far as your second statement goes, I like choice. Choice is good. Without choice, we'd all be running Windows XX instead of our favorite OS (whichever that may be). The same goes for the desktop. There are more than enough resources out there to support two major destop systems and a whole lot of window managers.
I never learned Joe, but I may give it a try (can we say "apt-get install joe"?). My reasoning behind learning VI (and VIM) was that VI was the only editor on the HP-9000 system I first started working in Unix on.
I bought Red Hat 5.1 and installed it on a home computer to help me learn VI (and other Unix commands), and it just stuck.
To me, VI is the best choice, because it IS ubiquitous. I didn't have the option of installing Joe or Emacs on the HP, and the administrator wouldn't even hear the argument.
I've been using VI (and VIM) for almost six years now, and I use it on all my platforms, including Windows and Max OS X. To me, VI is very easy to use simply because I did spend a lot of time learning it. And yes, once you learn VI, it is powerful AND easy.
If they raise the price, I won't purchase any more songs. I find the $0.99 to be acceptable, but any more would not be so.
I have purchased quite a few songs up until now, but I am not afraid to "vote with my wallet" and just stop buying.
If it helps narrow this down any, I bought my P-II 350 in July 1998.
I can get one of these for my Toyota Corolla? Man, that sure would cut my commute time down!
Dead wrong. Under "Communism" (very loosely defined), Soviet Russia and China have both brought literacy, crime control, and medical care to about 2 billion people. Under "Socialist Democracy" European nations, India, and Canada have brought the same to another billion people. With the collapse of Soviet Russia, the Eastern Bloc nations have had serious increases in infant mortality and crime, and losses in medical care and crime control.
You forgot to add: control over what their citizens can read, talk about and/or do. Oh, and if you wanted to speak-out about what your government is doing, don't forget the nice people that take you away in the middle of the night, never to be seen or heard from again, or the tanks that roll up to disperse your demonstration.
Before you start knocking the US, you really need to tak a closer look at what Communism really means. At least in this country we get a chance to change our elected representatives every few years, even if they are all liars and crooks.
I am considering refusing to take work calls or text messages on my personal cell phone, and even quitting in protest of the new policy.
Yeah man, go ahead and quit! That will show them!
Uh, where do you work again?
Once again:
The F-14A holds 16,400 lbs of fuel internal, no drop tanks. In the older jets, with the Pratt & Whitney TF-30 engines running at zone-5 afterburner (full AB), it could suck the internal tanks dry in 8 minutes.
He's absolutely right. In military aircraft, especially Navy aircraft, everything is measured in pounds. When I was in the Navy, I worked on the F-14A Tomcat. That plane would hold 16,400 lbs of fuel without the drop tanks, over 20,000 with drop tanks. Add that to the dry weight of over 48,000 lbs, and you've got one HEAVY airplane!
I've seen them take the catapult stroke at over 72,000 lbs.
non-con=Non-Commissioned Officer, if IIRC
Actually, that's noncom Noncoms Guide, more commonly refered to as NCO.
I bought a Shuttle SS51G about this time last year. 1.7 GHz Celeron, 512 MB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. I originally stuck Mandrake on there, then after a month, moved to Debian (testing). I've been running Debian on there since, and I must say it is a very nice fit.
Which only goes to prove the old adage:
"One rotten apple spoils the entire bunch".
What can a person do? The right thing is to complain to the right person and risk the retiliation that might happen. Band together, if everyone complains, they can't fire you all right?
No, they will just out-source all of your jobs to India, then make you train your own replacements so you can get your severence package.
Obviously those folks taking polls haven't been to MY house!