Mod him down some more, he's still at zero. Troll or stupid? Who knows? But the entire post is wildly wrong in all respects.
Firstly, the machine loaded into the Microsoft boot sequence prior to loading the linux. This is the segment of the operating system which counts down the memory, and configures the A:, C: and D: drives prior to loading the Microsoft windows. Although the machine did not display the familiar windows animation, it was obvious that the linux was freeloading off the back of this prior installation/boot sequence.
For those of you who have never used Linux, this ain't how it works. When you install Linux, whether dual-boot or Linux-only, the MBR (Master Boot Record used by Windows/DOS) is usually replaced by GRUB or LILO. Most Linux installations probably low-level format the entire disk, leaving no trace of Windows, because if we wanted Windows why in the hell would we install Linux?.
There are no A:, B:, or C: drives in Linux.
The aforementioned demonstrator, upon further questioning, even admitted that 'Oh, That part is not the linux', and then went on to confuse the issue with technical jargon.
You are NOT a nerd. Go the FUCK away. Your professor was probably demonstrating a Live CD, not an installation.
A fool and his lamb are worth 2 in the bush.
OK, you gave yourself away. Whether you are as incredibly stupid as your post makes you out to be isn't clear, but the fact that you're trolling is. That trite but mangled "old saying" is proof.
Now - I will admit after some further research, that the linux is not in fact a complete copy of Microsoft Windows. My research indicates that it is in fact a copy of Unix.
Your troll would work much better at the Yahoo news forums, where the denizens are as clueless as you. If you're trying to be funny, you failed miserably.
Now shoo, little boy, the grownups are trying to have a conversation here.
Without a union, the managers and stockholders are the elephants and you are the grass. With a union, you and the management are elephants and the company is the grass.
Other banned books from the past: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn American Heritage Dictionary Catcher in the Rye Fahrenheit 451 From Here to Eternity The Grapes of Wrath
With the exception of the dictionary, all are timeless works of great art. What wikipedia says about Ender's game:
Reception to the book has generally been positive, though some critics have denounced Card's perceived justification of his characters' violent actions.[3][4] It has also become suggested reading for many military organizations, including the United States Marine Corps.[5] Ender's Game won the 1985 Nebula Award for best novel[6] and the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel.
Hey, why did <blockquote></blockquote> stop working?
At any rate, the teacher should be reinstated and the damned administrators should be fired. TFA is still loading and I missed this book (looks like a great one I need to read, too, trip to the library this Saturday). What's supposed to be pornographic about it?
As to the complaining parent, maybe the bitch should just stick to Dr Suess? Oh, she'll probably think Cat in the Hat is porno, too.
No matter how good something is, someone is going to say it's utter shit.
Allah, God, and jehova are all the God of creation, the God of Abraham. I don't have any idea where your "moon god" comes from, is that an obscure pun?
Because our workers HERE are hurting because the work's all being shipped to countries where it's easier to exploit their impoverished workers. How about we try and get good wages and working conditions for EVERYONE? If there's a place where companies can treat their workers like shit and foul the air and water, that's where they're going.
Apple was the first to start that idiocy. If Apple hadn't done it, I don't think Android or MS would have either.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've been goddamned tired of getting ads in shit I PAY FOR ever since the cable channels started having commercials. If you can toggle it off, please stop looking like an iFanBoy and toggle the damned thing off!
I hate getting emails from my daughter. All her mail says "sent from my iPhone" and she's always complaining about how broke she is... Sheesh, kids.
Your hypothetical hypothesis is bullocks, as the Brits say. No jury would award only a year's salary to someone who could no longer work in their profession. As Judge Judy says, "that's redikolus".
However, I think an optician could still work with only one arm, but costing a homeless person an arm is going to cost you millions, let alone a professional. So you might want to stay off that phone when you're driving, and make sure your insurance is current.
the billions of americans who will loose thier jobs for each of these drives that are sold!
Well, I think industry should loose jobs, and lots of them. There are far too many people out of work these days. So yes, loose those jobs NOW! Unemployed people are counting on you to loose those jobs.
That's crazy. No bionic hand is anywhere near as good as the one you grew unless you had a birth defect or ruined the one you had. There's no way anybody will get a bionic hand to have the sense of touch your real one does, at least in this lifetime.
Now, a prosthetic hand that augments the real hand? Sure, I'll take two.
BTW, I'm already a cyborg. There's a device in my left eye that replaces its lens. Want one? Usually gives you 20/20 or better vision (mine's 10/16 in that eye), costs $7k per eye, and they have to stick a needle in your eye to install it. If you have a cataract, insurance will pay for the old style implant that won't focus and you need reading glasses with, and you'll only need about $1k for the new one.
The GGP was referring to various illiteracies and illogicals one hears and even reads daily like "should of". In that respect the poster you responded to was correct. When you say "I could care less" you are saying that you care at least a little bit, but if you couldn't care less you don't care at all.
Those things actually amuse me. What annoys me is when an illiteracy (or perhaps aliteracy) changes the meaning of a sentence, like saying "loose their cash" when "lose" is meant.
Do you mean would PC manufacturers would design in arbitrary limits in their hardware and/or BIOS that would create some kind of "barrier", so that disks that are too big won't work with the system?
My old 400mz machine still plays all the new games, and with a little more memory would play them in XP (assuming I wanted to throw away another hundred dollars on a new OS I don't need). Plus, Becky's laptop is the first whole computer I've bought since I purchased a used IBM XT in 1987; I've built from spare parts since.
I didn't know that older (in this case "older" means about three years) BIOSs couldn't handle drive sizes larger than 30gb. I had run across the same problem years ago while trying to install a huge (for the time) half gigabyte drive in a 386; then, the limit was 512mb. The Seagate I had bought then had come with software to overcome the limitation, and it had worked flawlessly.
I can't say the same about the new Maxtor!
I fought with that thing all weekend; its workarounds wouldn't work around. This on top of a defective installation floppy!
It made Windows freeze at the desktop; then after a Windows reinstall, it was still hosed. Nowhere in the printed documentation was it mentioned, but I finally found a workaround deep inside one of the installation/test programs that involved lying to the BIOS.
Bingo! It booted into Windows with no problem!
But the drive wouldn't work. So I rebooted into DOS and did a high level format; the software was supposed to have done it but didn't.
It booted into Windows and the drive worked!
I rebooted; it still worked. I copied a half dozen gigabytes of data from the laptop to the new hard drive in the old PC, which it read with no problem. I rebooted again.
All the data were garbage (and all your base are belong to us).
I wrote over the garbaged-up data several times and low level formatted the drive one last time, then boxed it up for Becky to return. The new 30gb Western Digital is supposed to get here from JDR Monday afternoon.
seeing the user's guide encourage me to pop the top off and have a look. How different from all the stereo components I had been buying!
Well, stereo manufacturers didn't encorage you do open them, but they didn't discourage you, either. Most were a matter of removing half a dozen phillips screws, lots easire than opening most Dells. The hardest part of fixing a Dell is getting the damned thing open!
And fixing a stereo usually took no more than opening it and spraying all the switches and potentiometers with switch oil.
Old TVs, now, probably shouldn't have been opened by just anybody (despite the fact that early models had tubes that you had to open the TV to replace). There are some deadly currents in CRT TVs, even when they're unplugged; big capacitors store it.
I don't know if I ever owned a stereo I didn't take apart.
Odd that my comment quoting and defending your was modded informative while your original comment was downmodded. I was hoping someone with points would mod yours up, but at least I got your point seen.
I miss the old metamoderation, modding someone "troll" or "flamebait" when you disagreed with them kept you from getting more points. It doesn't seem that way now.
So what you are saying, is you cannot be social and have a purposeful and meaningful life without religion??
No, your life can have purpose and meaning to you, but nothing you ever do in this life will ever matter in the long run. You'll die, your civilization will die, even the universe itself will die eventually.
I doubt seriously you've ever been a union member but I will believe that you've been boss of s union shop. The fact is, you do NOT have to break any laws to get fired; you negotiate with the union to determine what disciplines apply to what offenses, as well as such other contractual necessities such as pay and compensation.
The union just makes sure your employer has cause to fire you and has gone through the necessary steps. Without a union you can be fired just because the boss was fighting with his wife that morning.
The only bad union is one that's in bed with management.
That site was just the first google hit. Yes, it's f'ugly.
So while a bad check may be actionable as a civil matter, it is still not a criminal act unless it meets the rest of the standards I previously outlined.
It is in Illinois. My house was broken into last Aprile and a box of checks stolen. I closed the account, of course, and called the authorities who actually arrested one of them that evening. But the accomplices went on a check cashing spree, and for the last year I've been harrassed by the Sangamon County State's Attorney being threatened with legal action including incarceration. Of course, if it ever got to trial the idiot State's Attorney would be laughed out of the courtroom since none of the checks have my signatures, and all the merchants pressing charges should be arrested for filing false reports, but that won't happen.
Today's Illinois primary and I'm registering as a Republican just so I can vote against the corrrupt, incompetent jackass. I'll probably have to vote against him in the general election as well. But you can go to jail for bad checks, intent to defraud or not.
I don't personally hate MS (I do hate Sony, they vandalized my computer with their goddamned XCP trojan) but MS software annoys the hell out of me, and their apologists annoy me even more. Vista DRM? How about the MS apologists claiming that you have to use a command line in Linux, or have to compile your own programs, or saying that there's no software for it? That kind of crap annoys the hell out of me, and I suspect it isn't ignorance on their part, just flat out lies.
For an example of why MS annoys me, I still haven't gotten around to installing Linux on that notebook yet, so of course I had to reboot the damned thing this week, seeing's how it's Patch Tuesday Week. And I wouldn't even mind the reboot if Windows would come back up in the same state I shut it down, which is why I hibernate rather than shutting off. In Linux, patches don't require reboots unless it's the kernel that's being patched (every year or two maybe), and when you do reboot it comes back up just how you left it on shutdown, all programs and documants that were open when you shut it down reopened. And if you prefer it to be an empty desktop on boot, you have that choice too. When Windows boots I have to enter a password, but the Linux box opens the default user with default password; I only need a password if I want to do something that requires root. You have a choice with that, too. With MS it's the MS way or nothing.
I can see why employees of Stack or some other company MS has screwed might hate them, but that's none of my damned business. Being forced to use Access at work is my business (God but that's a POS DBMS).
I would have taken them, except the best they could offer me was 6mb down and 768 up. I'm stuck with ATT UVerse and their overpriced crap. Speed isn't too bad 24 mb down, 2 mb up, but the jitter is huge
Maybe you're using the wrong desktop or distro, I have 6mb down and 768 up and I'm not getting any jitter at all, even when I'm watching Hulu on one machine while BitTorrent is seeding and uploading fiilles on the other one.
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Mod him down some more, he's still at zero. Troll or stupid? Who knows? But the entire post is wildly wrong in all respects.
Firstly, the machine loaded into the Microsoft boot sequence prior to loading the linux. This is the segment of the operating system which counts down the memory, and configures the A:, C: and D: drives prior to loading the Microsoft windows. Although the machine did not display the familiar windows animation, it was obvious that the linux was freeloading off the back of this prior installation/boot sequence.
For those of you who have never used Linux, this ain't how it works. When you install Linux, whether dual-boot or Linux-only, the MBR (Master Boot Record used by Windows/DOS) is usually replaced by GRUB or LILO. Most Linux installations probably low-level format the entire disk, leaving no trace of Windows, because if we wanted Windows why in the hell would we install Linux?.
There are no A:, B:, or C: drives in Linux.
The aforementioned demonstrator, upon further questioning, even admitted that 'Oh, That part is not the linux', and then went on to confuse the issue with technical jargon.
You are NOT a nerd. Go the FUCK away. Your professor was probably demonstrating a Live CD, not an installation.
A fool and his lamb are worth 2 in the bush.
OK, you gave yourself away. Whether you are as incredibly stupid as your post makes you out to be isn't clear, but the fact that you're trolling is. That trite but mangled "old saying" is proof.
Now - I will admit after some further research, that the linux is not in fact a complete copy of Microsoft Windows. My research indicates that it is in fact a copy of Unix.
Your troll would work much better at the Yahoo news forums, where the denizens are as clueless as you. If you're trying to be funny, you failed miserably.
Now shoo, little boy, the grownups are trying to have a conversation here.
LOL, thanks, I was wondering what you meant. Dew knot truss yore spill chucker!
Without a union, the managers and stockholders are the elephants and you are the grass. With a union, you and the management are elephants and the company is the grass.
Other banned books from the past:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
American Heritage Dictionary
Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
From Here to Eternity
The Grapes of Wrath
With the exception of the dictionary, all are timeless works of great art. What wikipedia says about Ender's game:
Reception to the book has generally been positive, though some critics have denounced Card's perceived justification of his characters' violent actions.[3][4] It has also become suggested reading for many military organizations, including the United States Marine Corps.[5] Ender's Game won the 1985 Nebula Award for best novel[6] and the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel.
Hey, why did <blockquote></blockquote> stop working?
At any rate, the teacher should be reinstated and the damned administrators should be fired. TFA is still loading and I missed this book (looks like a great one I need to read, too, trip to the library this Saturday). What's supposed to be pornographic about it?
As to the complaining parent, maybe the bitch should just stick to Dr Suess? Oh, she'll probably think Cat in the Hat is porno, too.
No matter how good something is, someone is going to say it's utter shit.
Allah, God, and jehova are all the God of creation, the God of Abraham. I don't have any idea where your "moon god" comes from, is that an obscure pun?
Because our workers HERE are hurting because the work's all being shipped to countries where it's easier to exploit their impoverished workers. How about we try and get good wages and working conditions for EVERYONE? If there's a place where companies can treat their workers like shit and foul the air and water, that's where they're going.
Apple was the first to start that idiocy. If Apple hadn't done it, I don't think Android or MS would have either.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've been goddamned tired of getting ads in shit I PAY FOR ever since the cable channels started having commercials. If you can toggle it off, please stop looking like an iFanBoy and toggle the damned thing off!
I hate getting emails from my daughter. All her mail says "sent from my iPhone" and she's always complaining about how broke she is... Sheesh, kids.
Your hypothetical hypothesis is bullocks, as the Brits say. No jury would award only a year's salary to someone who could no longer work in their profession. As Judge Judy says, "that's redikolus".
However, I think an optician could still work with only one arm, but costing a homeless person an arm is going to cost you millions, let alone a professional. So you might want to stay off that phone when you're driving, and make sure your insurance is current.
"I have a terrible pain down all the diodes in my left leg."
the billions of americans who will loose thier jobs for each of these drives that are sold!
Well, I think industry should loose jobs, and lots of them. There are far too many people out of work these days. So yes, loose those jobs NOW! Unemployed people are counting on you to loose those jobs.
Oh, wait, that's not what you meant?
That's crazy. No bionic hand is anywhere near as good as the one you grew unless you had a birth defect or ruined the one you had. There's no way anybody will get a bionic hand to have the sense of touch your real one does, at least in this lifetime.
Now, a prosthetic hand that augments the real hand? Sure, I'll take two.
BTW, I'm already a cyborg. There's a device in my left eye that replaces its lens. Want one? Usually gives you 20/20 or better vision (mine's 10/16 in that eye), costs $7k per eye, and they have to stick a needle in your eye to install it. If you have a cataract, insurance will pay for the old style implant that won't focus and you need reading glasses with, and you'll only need about $1k for the new one.
The GGP was referring to various illiteracies and illogicals one hears and even reads daily like "should of". In that respect the poster you responded to was correct. When you say "I could care less" you are saying that you care at least a little bit, but if you couldn't care less you don't care at all.
Those things actually amuse me. What annoys me is when an illiteracy (or perhaps aliteracy) changes the meaning of a sentence, like saying "loose their cash" when "lose" is meant.
On the contrary, Lasurus and a couple of others respawned. And all the Hindus get to respawn, but ironicaly they don't want to but are forced to.
The rest of us get to quit this crappy, bug-ridden game when it's done.
Do you mean would PC manufacturers would design in arbitrary limits in their hardware and/or BIOS that would create some kind of "barrier", so that disks that are too big won't work with the system?
This rerun from 2002 might interest you. A snippet:
seeing the user's guide encourage me to pop the top off and have a look. How different from all the stereo components I had been buying!
Well, stereo manufacturers didn't encorage you do open them, but they didn't discourage you, either. Most were a matter of removing half a dozen phillips screws, lots easire than opening most Dells. The hardest part of fixing a Dell is getting the damned thing open!
And fixing a stereo usually took no more than opening it and spraying all the switches and potentiometers with switch oil.
Old TVs, now, probably shouldn't have been opened by just anybody (despite the fact that early models had tubes that you had to open the TV to replace). There are some deadly currents in CRT TVs, even when they're unplugged; big capacitors store it.
I don't know if I ever owned a stereo I didn't take apart.
Odd that my comment quoting and defending your was modded informative while your original comment was downmodded. I was hoping someone with points would mod yours up, but at least I got your point seen.
I miss the old metamoderation, modding someone "troll" or "flamebait" when you disagreed with them kept you from getting more points. It doesn't seem that way now.
So what you are saying, is you cannot be social and have a purposeful and meaningful life without religion??
No, your life can have purpose and meaning to you, but nothing you ever do in this life will ever matter in the long run. You'll die, your civilization will die, even the universe itself will die eventually.
Without religion there is no permanence.
I doubt seriously you've ever been a union member but I will believe that you've been boss of s union shop. The fact is, you do NOT have to break any laws to get fired; you negotiate with the union to determine what disciplines apply to what offenses, as well as such other contractual necessities such as pay and compensation.
The union just makes sure your employer has cause to fire you and has gone through the necessary steps. Without a union you can be fired just because the boss was fighting with his wife that morning.
The only bad union is one that's in bed with management.
You have to die from something. Better to live fifty years with a full stomach than seventy years starving.
That site was just the first google hit. Yes, it's f'ugly.
So while a bad check may be actionable as a civil matter, it is still not a criminal act unless it meets the rest of the standards I previously outlined.
It is in Illinois. My house was broken into last Aprile and a box of checks stolen. I closed the account, of course, and called the authorities who actually arrested one of them that evening. But the accomplices went on a check cashing spree, and for the last year I've been harrassed by the Sangamon County State's Attorney being threatened with legal action including incarceration. Of course, if it ever got to trial the idiot State's Attorney would be laughed out of the courtroom since none of the checks have my signatures, and all the merchants pressing charges should be arrested for filing false reports, but that won't happen.
Today's Illinois primary and I'm registering as a Republican just so I can vote against the corrrupt, incompetent jackass. I'll probably have to vote against him in the general election as well. But you can go to jail for bad checks, intent to defraud or not.
He's not a "kid", he's an adult
I don't agree at all, kid. If you're still in school, you're a kid. Hell, if I had sex with a 30 year old woman I'd feel like a pedophile.
Have most of you even read the article?
LOL, you must be new here. Of course not!
I don't personally hate MS (I do hate Sony, they vandalized my computer with their goddamned XCP trojan) but MS software annoys the hell out of me, and their apologists annoy me even more. Vista DRM? How about the MS apologists claiming that you have to use a command line in Linux, or have to compile your own programs, or saying that there's no software for it? That kind of crap annoys the hell out of me, and I suspect it isn't ignorance on their part, just flat out lies.
For an example of why MS annoys me, I still haven't gotten around to installing Linux on that notebook yet, so of course I had to reboot the damned thing this week, seeing's how it's Patch Tuesday Week. And I wouldn't even mind the reboot if Windows would come back up in the same state I shut it down, which is why I hibernate rather than shutting off. In Linux, patches don't require reboots unless it's the kernel that's being patched (every year or two maybe), and when you do reboot it comes back up just how you left it on shutdown, all programs and documants that were open when you shut it down reopened. And if you prefer it to be an empty desktop on boot, you have that choice too. When Windows boots I have to enter a password, but the Linux box opens the default user with default password; I only need a password if I want to do something that requires root. You have a choice with that, too. With MS it's the MS way or nothing.
I can see why employees of Stack or some other company MS has screwed might hate them, but that's none of my damned business. Being forced to use Access at work is my business (God but that's a POS DBMS).
I would have taken them, except the best they could offer me was 6mb down and 768 up. I'm stuck with ATT UVerse and their overpriced crap. Speed isn't too bad 24 mb down, 2 mb up, but the jitter is huge
Maybe you're using the wrong desktop or distro, I have 6mb down and 768 up and I'm not getting any jitter at all, even when I'm watching Hulu on one machine while BitTorrent is seeding and uploading fiilles on the other one.
Blacking out your site for a day could loose customers.
If you're keeping your customers captive then of course you should loose them. Or did you mean that other verb, "lose"?