As long as they don't change anything about their keyboard shortcuts I'll live with the rest of the issues. Firefox has been losing my patience with all of it's bugs, but i'm attached to it's plugins and keyboard shortcuts. Everytime i've tried Opera or Chrome i come right back to Firefox, for those reasons. I hate Opera's keyboard shortcuts and Chrome's tabs-on-top layout.
Apart from the usual recommendations (plenty of RAM, decent graphics card, etc) run your VM from a second hard drive. I've done this successfully to run Adobe CS3 without much issue. Some people might complain that it's not as lightening fast as it is outside of a VM, but those people will always complain about any little thing they can. This is just my experience turning over an office of about 10 workstations to Ubuntu and VMware Workstation.
You have clients who would prefer a crippled solution with no upgrade path to a full blown, cheap, low-powered, atom system?
This thing requires a server to be useful. A custom system built on a low powered processor can be the media center and server at the same time.
I whole heartedly stand behind you on this, my friend. I was just wondering earlier today if it was possible to block that annoying site from my google searches.
I was thinking the same thing. "Please don't shoehorn this crap into the next LTS!" Hopefully they'll just stick it in the intermediate releases, however. I'll give it a spin around the office, but i'm not getting my hopes up for this.
Freedom. Allow them to express their most intimate and private thoughts or fantasies in as graphically realistic art as they are capable.
But it goes both ways. When you're private fantasies are exposed to public eyes and ears, be prepared to deal with the public ridicule and social ostracizing that follows.
No need for laws when the majority can easily impose their morality through peer rejection.
I'm not sure they deserve kudos for this. Looks more like they simply don't want to axe a paying customer. After all, they aren't losing the money from all the downloading.
A whole police office? That's pretty impressive. Here I was, about to comment on how you are a former officer, named Anonymous Coward, in some lame attempt to gain mod points, but you're actually an entire office. I certainly don't want to take on an entire office.
Decatur, aka The Dec, as referred to here in The A, aka Atlanta, is already a first person shooter replete with BFG's, gun-rape, tea bagging, & the like. Stone Mountain, however, is the area with the highest rate of doing chickens per capita.
outlaw PC tech: "Harry Tuttle, PC tech, at your service."
client: "Are you from Central Services?"
tech: "Ha! There are plenty of Private Investigators that would like to get their hands on Harry Tuttle."
client: "Are you telling me that this is illegal?"
tech: "Yes & No.. Officially only Private Investigators are supposed to touch this stuff, but i can't stand the pay. I came in this game for the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out.. Where ever there's trouble, man alone..."
Didn't we the public pay in taxes to have these infrastructures built? When are they going to understand that we'll just keep figuring out ways to not pay for things twice?
The City of Chicago is trying to pass an ordinance this Wednesday
(May 14th, 2008) that could severely damage the live music and
theater scene.
In summary:
The "Event Promoters" ordinance requires any event promoter to have a
license from the city of Chicago and liability insurance of $300,000,
but that's just the start:
* The definition of "event promoter" is so loosely defined it
could apply to a band or singer-songwriter that books their own shows
or a theater company that's in town for a one-week run.
* "Event Promoter" must be licensed and will pay $500 - $2000
depending on expected audience size
* To get the license, applicant must be over 21, get
fingerprinted, submit to a background check, and jump over
several other hurdles .
* This ordinance seems targeted towards smaller venues, since
those with 500+ permanent seats are exempt
* Police must be notified at least 7 days in advance of event.
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some of the problems that I (as a very technically literate Windows user)
Right there! That's the spot. The spot where you lost me.
As long as they don't change anything about their keyboard shortcuts I'll live with the rest of the issues. Firefox has been losing my patience with all of it's bugs, but i'm attached to it's plugins and keyboard shortcuts. Everytime i've tried Opera or Chrome i come right back to Firefox, for those reasons. I hate Opera's keyboard shortcuts and Chrome's tabs-on-top layout.
Is everyone posting dribble on Slashdot a geek? How would you even know?
the iPhone is not, and was never intended to be, a general-purpose computing device
I suppose i would agree, as long as you are using the term "general-purpose computing device" in the most general sense of the word.
everyone is really happy with it
Obviously this isn't the case.
a few geeks who just can't grasp that it's not designed to be a really really small laptop.
You know such geeks who have this strange incapability to grasp this obvious fact? I've never met one.
That's why Apple keep such a tight grasp on what goes on the device, how it's programmed etc., so it doesn't descend into a mess.
Apple is in no way obliged to support any alternative use that i find for the phone i purchased. How does this cast their business into a mess?
Apart from the usual recommendations (plenty of RAM, decent graphics card, etc) run your VM from a second hard drive. I've done this successfully to run Adobe CS3 without much issue. Some people might complain that it's not as lightening fast as it is outside of a VM, but those people will always complain about any little thing they can. This is just my experience turning over an office of about 10 workstations to Ubuntu and VMware Workstation.
You have clients who would prefer a crippled solution with no upgrade path to a full blown, cheap, low-powered, atom system? This thing requires a server to be useful. A custom system built on a low powered processor can be the media center and server at the same time.
Check again.... it's one year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOHW8l7FyH4
I whole heartedly stand behind you on this, my friend. I was just wondering earlier today if it was possible to block that annoying site from my google searches.
I was thinking the same thing. "Please don't shoehorn this crap into the next LTS!" Hopefully they'll just stick it in the intermediate releases, however. I'll give it a spin around the office, but i'm not getting my hopes up for this.
Lluvia de Peces is something i would love to witness. I wonder how "fish & frogs" turned into the saying "raining cats & dogs".
You must be a riot at parties.
If you love something, let it go.
If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it.
There, fixed that for you.
Dave Mustain on the iPhone?
No. American companies want the stuff done on the cheap. Americans want the stuff done right.
Freedom. Allow them to express their most intimate and private thoughts or fantasies in as graphically realistic art as they are capable. But it goes both ways. When you're private fantasies are exposed to public eyes and ears, be prepared to deal with the public ridicule and social ostracizing that follows. No need for laws when the majority can easily impose their morality through peer rejection.
I'm not sure they deserve kudos for this. Looks more like they simply don't want to axe a paying customer. After all, they aren't losing the money from all the downloading.
RIP act, no. 2.... Wait a minute. I get to die twice? Just think what I can get away with!
A whole police office? That's pretty impressive. Here I was, about to comment on how you are a former officer, named Anonymous Coward, in some lame attempt to gain mod points, but you're actually an entire office. I certainly don't want to take on an entire office.
Decatur, aka The Dec, as referred to here in The A, aka Atlanta, is already a first person shooter replete with BFG's, gun-rape, tea bagging, & the like. Stone Mountain, however, is the area with the highest rate of doing chickens per capita.
frightened PC client: "What are you doing?"
outlaw PC tech: "Harry Tuttle, PC tech, at your service."
client: "Are you from Central Services?"
tech: "Ha! There are plenty of Private Investigators that would like to get their hands on Harry Tuttle."
client: "Are you telling me that this is illegal?"
tech: "Yes & No.. Officially only Private Investigators are supposed to touch this stuff, but i can't stand the pay. I came in this game for the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out.. Where ever there's trouble, man alone..."
I can't wait!
Didn't we the public pay in taxes to have these infrastructures built? When are they going to understand that we'll just keep figuring out ways to not pay for things twice?
Arguing with Anonymous again? You guys bit this one..... hook, line, & sinker
Windows for microwaves just enables you watch your food spin.
http://indiemusic.meetup.com/127/boards/thread/4701023
The City of Chicago is trying to pass an ordinance this Wednesday (May 14th, 2008) that could severely damage the live music and theater scene.
In summary:
The "Event Promoters" ordinance requires any event promoter to have a license from the city of Chicago and liability insurance of $300,000, but that's just the start:
* The definition of "event promoter" is so loosely defined it could apply to a band or singer-songwriter that books their own shows or a theater company that's in town for a one-week run.
* "Event Promoter" must be licensed and will pay $500 - $2000 depending on expected audience size
* To get the license, applicant must be over 21, get fingerprinted, submit to a background check, and jump over several other hurdles .
* This ordinance seems targeted towards smaller venues, since those with 500+ permanent seats are exempt
* Police must be notified at least 7 days in advance of event.