I was driving down the freeway with all the other traffic doing about 70MPH when I noticed this blond in the car next to me putting on her makeup in the rear view mirror. She started creeping into my lane, and upset me so much I dropped my cell phone into my coffee, which got my donuts all wet and soggy.
I go for a bicycle ride every morning and have noticed that in about 1 of 4 cars, the driver is either not looking at the road while dialing, talking or just finishing a call. If I have to cross traffic, I make sure the driver sees and acknowledges my presence. If they are on a cell phone, even at a stop sign, they are either oblivious to my presence or the invisibility cloak is working.
I LOVE dirty sock coffee using fresh Colombian supremo beans smuggled directly from Colombia. Grind the beans in an antique coffee mill picked up at a garage sale.
But then again, don't take my advice, just look at my/. ID.
That is far too many... the 40M was some lower number like 35.6M rounded up. When I SWAG, I use numbers like 38,742,666.5873 Vistas sold in 99.762 days. Far more accurate.
Have you ever optimized/compiled your kernel? (Does a bear spit in the woods?). All Dell has to do is optimize the kernel and drivers for each specific model. I used to do this, but after going to Fedora, it has become a pain to tweak things for maximum performance just the way I like it, then have a new must have kernel or release and have to start all over again. I would think that Dell would ship with the very best performing optimization, quick bootup Ubuntu.
But, I have switched to Linux. I still have to boot into Windows to download and apply the patches... if I remember to. Otherwise I just keep getting my daily Linux enhancements via yum and forget about Windows.
As my weather radio keeps reminding me when there is a thunderstorm alert: "... and stay away from windows".
($you make now) - ($retired) = ($how much you make). If negative, duh.
Retirement does have its downside. You can no longer look forward to the weekend, vacations, or holidays. No more rush hour traffic jams, unless you are really in to that. No deadline stress to keep your heart pumping.
Get up in the morning with nothing that has to be done, then go to bed at night knowing that you got almost half of it done. Total freedom to do what you want.
I think of the "-" as a "vil". Substitute "vil" for "-" (dash character, not the minus sign) for anything with an "e" in front of it. Example: e-mail (spam), e-commerce (scams), e-phone (telemarketeers), e-trade (pump and dump), e-ad... e-tc.
In the begining there were punch cards. Everything was done with hard-copy in some form or another. IBM became the second largest publisher in the world, second only to the U.S. Government.
Skipping ahead a few decades, pre-internet, there was PROFS. At first, only management used it. Anyone know where the 'F-keys' came from? The 327x terminals had a row of 'PF-keys', or as the pointy haired managers knew them as 'ProFs-keys'. Some people thought managers had PROFS pedals under their desk so they would not have to use the rest of the keyboard.
Forward a few more centuries in internet time, and the 327x terminal was replaced with the PC and a 327x emulator card. Then IBM bought Lotus. Lotus notes replaced PROFS. Token-ring replaced 327x coax, But the PC required Windows to collaborate with Lotus Notes. The perfect solution, for people that do not deserve a computer, to get them to use one in the corporate/office environment.
I welcome anything that can unlock the business world from Microsoft and get the Linux camel nose into the tent. This is a start. Evolution in progress. Just not there yet.
Not qualified: voting feelings instead of concience.
Voting is a DUTY. Just like any other social responsibilities, like jury duty, paying your taxes, giving and donating to worthy causes.
If you do not vote due to some lame excuse, you are not doing your duty. There is more on a ballot than just candidates. Vote for some of the other issues that are on the ballot, and leave the personalities blank if you want. That will also send a message. 1000 people voted: 999 against the tax increase for tea, 1 for it. Nobody voted for either candidate for dog catcher.
I am over 60, retired, and living in Florida. Been using networks from before the internet and have voted since I was 21. When you go to a polling place and vote, you get this neat little sticker that says "I voted, have you".
I am all for electronic voting as long as it is NOT networked, paper trail for audit, open source, on a machine that is a one trick pony. A voting machine does not have to cost thousands of dollars.
Still the biggest problem is people that are not qualified, uninformed, clueless to vote actually voting.
Slashdot Mirror
From the header... "PRB microsite". When I see "PRB" I think PRoBlem. Maybe this is just a subtle way to get back to PROBLEM/BUG from ISSUE newspeak.
Or was this just another /. effect? I fired up my windows virtual machine in VMWare under Linux (of course) after seeing the article on /..org.
I go for a bicycle ride every morning and have noticed that in about 1 of 4 cars, the driver is either not looking at the road while dialing, talking or just finishing a call. If I have to cross traffic, I make sure the driver sees and acknowledges my presence. If they are on a cell phone, even at a stop sign, they are either oblivious to my presence or the invisibility cloak is working.
Can you be a little more specific? I went to Google maps and got 69,352 hits. Seems to me that it is everywhere, not just Eastern Europe.
But then again, don't take my advice, just look at my /. ID.
That is far too many... the 40M was some lower number like 35.6M rounded up. When I SWAG, I use numbers like 38,742,666.5873 Vistas sold in 99.762 days. Far more accurate.
Have you ever optimized/compiled your kernel? (Does a bear spit in the woods?). All Dell has to do is optimize the kernel and drivers for each specific model. I used to do this, but after going to Fedora, it has become a pain to tweak things for maximum performance just the way I like it, then have a new must have kernel or release and have to start all over again. I would think that Dell would ship with the very best performing optimization, quick bootup Ubuntu.
As my weather radio keeps reminding me when there is a thunderstorm alert: "... and stay away from windows".
Retirement does have its downside. You can no longer look forward to the weekend, vacations, or holidays. No more rush hour traffic jams, unless you are really in to that. No deadline stress to keep your heart pumping.
Get up in the morning with nothing that has to be done, then go to bed at night knowing that you got almost half of it done. Total freedom to do what you want.
If they are spare, and they are used, are they really spare cycles? The CPU cycles you do not use today are gone forever.
I think of the "-" as a "vil". Substitute "vil" for "-" (dash character, not the minus sign) for anything with an "e" in front of it. Example: e-mail (spam), e-commerce (scams), e-phone (telemarketeers), e-trade (pump and dump), e-ad... e-tc.
It does not install on my Linux either.
000010011111100100010001000000101001110101110100 1110001101011011 11011000010000010101011011000101011000110101011010 00100011000000
The pump and dump spam filters are working just fine.
Duct taping fingers is the only way... when they file a gag order for slashdot dot dot?
Missing 532 and 523. Maybe that is the real number?
Skipping ahead a few decades, pre-internet, there was PROFS. At first, only management used it. Anyone know where the 'F-keys' came from? The 327x terminals had a row of 'PF-keys', or as the pointy haired managers knew them as 'ProFs-keys'. Some people thought managers had PROFS pedals under their desk so they would not have to use the rest of the keyboard.
Forward a few more centuries in internet time, and the 327x terminal was replaced with the PC and a 327x emulator card. Then IBM bought Lotus. Lotus notes replaced PROFS. Token-ring replaced 327x coax, But the PC required Windows to collaborate with Lotus Notes. The perfect solution, for people that do not deserve a computer, to get them to use one in the corporate/office environment.
I welcome anything that can unlock the business world from Microsoft and get the Linux camel nose into the tent. This is a start. Evolution in progress. Just not there yet.
Voting is a DUTY. Just like any other social responsibilities, like jury duty, paying your taxes, giving and donating to worthy causes.
If you do not vote due to some lame excuse, you are not doing your duty. There is more on a ballot than just candidates. Vote for some of the other issues that are on the ballot, and leave the personalities blank if you want. That will also send a message. 1000 people voted: 999 against the tax increase for tea, 1 for it. Nobody voted for either candidate for dog catcher.
Due to a batch of BAD C0FFEE, the sig is nybles instead of bytes. Odd, isn't it?
I am all for electronic voting as long as it is NOT networked, paper trail for audit, open source, on a machine that is a one trick pony. A voting machine does not have to cost thousands of dollars.
Still the biggest problem is people that are not qualified, uninformed, clueless to vote actually voting.
Remember to vote early and vote often.
OLPC is not done until Windows won't run.
Missing option: Slashdot Poll
Is that an IE on Vista only page?
Oh, wait, connection just timed out. Never mind, must be their Windows server /.'ed.
I agree... I also do not plan to be around for the Y10K bug, which will come up before this.
He can't update IE... his copy of windows fails the genuine windows test. He would be using SCO, but he does not want to eat where he shits.