It's kind of creepy to talk about yourself in the third person, you know?
But anyway, most reasonable people can tell the difference between some rude screw-up sending an email to a few dozen people too many, and someone using (or paying someone to use) dedicated mass-mail software to send millions upon millions of emails with forged headers through botnets.
You were well aware of these connotations attached to the word 'spam'. This was all about point three on your list.
Seems everyone has their own version of the end of the world, and so many seem to think it's happening right now. As if nobody before in history ever thought that.
With Phanfare, you are paying to publish and archive your video. Not only do you retain the rights to your content, but we claim no right to distribute, remarket, or otherwise make money on your content
Wow! What an incredibly innovative publishing model! Wait, I'd better make sure I have this right:
I pay them
They provide a service in return
AMAZING! It's almost like a paid photobucket account, or say, a normal hosting service, but look! It's got flash, a free trial, a mix of over and undersized fonts, and lots of glaring colours, so it's obviously Web 2.0 and therefore a new idea entirely!
Only? Since when was it expected that any bloggers were journalists? The only blog I know of that even comes close to journalism is Slashdot, and we all know how that turned out...
Personally, I've always just seen it as a way to share my random shit with the rest of the world. And judging by all the other blogs I've ever read, I'm not alone in that.
kmenu's behaviour might have changed since 3.4.2, the version that shipped with slackware 10.2.
My file manager launches and displays a complete directory listing in under two seconds. This is on a 2Ghz machine with 1 GB RAM and an SATA hard drive.
Far too long (hint: in Windows, it's nearly instant even on this 600MHz machine).
Something is wrong with your setup. There is nothing wrong with KDE.
Every time I say something bad about Linux, someone does this "Your computer/distro must suck because Linux/KDE/whatever is perfect" routine. This has happened ever since I started with Linux, through a few different computers and dozens of distros. That attitude is one of the few really annoying things about 'the Linux world'.
I've just spent a year in a student flat, where the entire complex was tied down to one shitty ISP, absolutely no choices. Imagine a clause in the contract between the property owners and the ISP, stating that connection sharing is not to be allowed. In those circumstances, it would be a case of the two providers ganging up and shafting their customer.
Bear that possibility in mind when deciding whether or not this is a bad precedent.
What are the worst time-wasters you've encountered?
When I go to click on something in kmenu, if I miss it, I can't just move the cursor down and depress the mouse button on the program I actually wanted. All that happens is that kmenu disappears, and no app is launched.
Oh, and the file manager takes about five seconds to launch on my machine. That's a pretty big time waster.
Personally, I don't see the need in talking about not using MySpace. I'm always seeing all these people whinging about how they don't use MySpace and how stupid it is, and I'm like "What are you talking about? I don't understand!"
I just find it to be a complete and utter waste of my time, sitting on some website boasting about how little I like a website. But what I don't understand is how this can be, when so many of my friends are jumping right on the bandwagon and hating on MySpace 24/7. Anyone know what the big deal is with not liking MySpace?
A very revealing choice of words. Extrapolating from this metaphor:
Your computer is your soul
Proprietary software is the devil
Open Source is jesus
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What? My webserver? As in, the one owned by the company who provide my hosting? Are you suggesting that I root their datacentre and reconfigure my account on the sly? Are you suggesting that they advertise themselves as providing mod_perl while leaving it completely unconfigured?
PHP has worked out of the box on both hosts I've used, and on every version of the XAMPP package I've installed. Even on the vanilla Slackware Apache setup, all I have to do is uncomment the PHP line in/etc/apache/httpd.conf.
As far as I'm concerned, PHP does work automagically. Which was my point: ease of use is important.
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if the average person can only find cheap PHP hosting, that's what they are going to use.
Well, my host runs mod_perl, and my local server runs mod_perl. I'd gladly learn to use Perl, if only I could figure out how to run a Perl script. With PHP, I simply suffix a file with.php, and any code between PHP tags will be executed. Apparently, it's not this simple with mod_perl.
With bash, all I have to do is put #!/usr/bin/perl at the start of the file. But no matter what I try, I can't get Apache to execute any Perl code. The result? I continue to use PHP.
So I'd say availability is pretty important, but ease of use matters too.
You think the words 'head' and 'body' have sexual overtones? Wow! There really is no accounting for taste. Wait, no, weirdos: there's no accounting for weirdos. That sounds a lot more accurate.
What a thoroughly shitty idea. The only thing you can conclude from your "data" is that extroverted people express their stupidity more clearly, whereas introverted people, being introverted and all, don't give themselves away as readily.
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No, he really was thinking of India
It's kind of creepy to talk about yourself in the third person, you know?
But anyway, most reasonable people can tell the difference between some rude screw-up sending an email to a few dozen people too many, and someone using (or paying someone to use) dedicated mass-mail software to send millions upon millions of emails with forged headers through botnets.
You were well aware of these connotations attached to the word 'spam'. This was all about point three on your list.
6. Some elephant tried to hitch a ride on my e-penis gravy train, but was quickly dispatched with a kick in the balls.
By the looks of things, only 116 actual mails were sent. In fact... the whole thing is actually just a big chain of fuckups.
When will someone step up and be the hero in this story?
Seems everyone has their own version of the end of the world, and so many seem to think it's happening right now. As if nobody before in history ever thought that.
Wow! What an incredibly innovative publishing model! Wait, I'd better make sure I have this right:
AMAZING! It's almost like a paid photobucket account, or say, a normal hosting service, but look! It's got flash, a free trial, a mix of over and undersized fonts, and lots of glaring colours, so it's obviously Web 2.0 and therefore a new idea entirely!
Only? Since when was it expected that any bloggers were journalists? The only blog I know of that even comes close to journalism is Slashdot, and we all know how that turned out...
Personally, I've always just seen it as a way to share my random shit with the rest of the world. And judging by all the other blogs I've ever read, I'm not alone in that.
These figures are absolutely not a surprise.
Thank you. Before this, it was taking several seconds to load (old laptop). Now, I count it at about one.
Far too long (hint: in Windows, it's nearly instant even on this 600MHz machine).
Every time I say something bad about Linux, someone does this "Your computer/distro must suck because Linux/KDE/whatever is perfect" routine. This has happened ever since I started with Linux, through a few different computers and dozens of distros. That attitude is one of the few really annoying things about 'the Linux world'.
I've just spent a year in a student flat, where the entire complex was tied down to one shitty ISP, absolutely no choices. Imagine a clause in the contract between the property owners and the ISP, stating that connection sharing is not to be allowed. In those circumstances, it would be a case of the two providers ganging up and shafting their customer.
Bear that possibility in mind when deciding whether or not this is a bad precedent.
When I go to click on something in kmenu, if I miss it, I can't just move the cursor down and depress the mouse button on the program I actually wanted. All that happens is that kmenu disappears, and no app is launched.
Oh, and the file manager takes about five seconds to launch on my machine. That's a pretty big time waster.
Yeah! What kind of retard uses a question to solicit information in this day and age?
Consider the possibility that the 'eco' in ecosystem is short for economy.
Personally, I don't see the need in talking about not using MySpace. I'm always seeing all these people whinging about how they don't use MySpace and how stupid it is, and I'm like "What are you talking about? I don't understand!"
I just find it to be a complete and utter waste of my time, sitting on some website boasting about how little I like a website. But what I don't understand is how this can be, when so many of my friends are jumping right on the bandwagon and hating on MySpace 24/7. Anyone know what the big deal is with not liking MySpace?
In other words, you're done trying to convince me that Perl is just as easy to use as PHP.
What? My webserver? As in, the one owned by the company who provide my hosting? Are you suggesting that I root their datacentre and reconfigure my account on the sly? Are you suggesting that they advertise themselves as providing mod_perl while leaving it completely unconfigured?
PHP has worked out of the box on both hosts I've used, and on every version of the XAMPP package I've installed. Even on the vanilla Slackware Apache setup, all I have to do is uncomment the PHP line in /etc/apache/httpd.conf.
As far as I'm concerned, PHP does work automagically. Which was my point: ease of use is important.
Well, my host runs mod_perl, and my local server runs mod_perl. I'd gladly learn to use Perl, if only I could figure out how to run a Perl script. With PHP, I simply suffix a file with .php, and any code between PHP tags will be executed. Apparently, it's not this simple with mod_perl.
With bash, all I have to do is put #!/usr/bin/perl at the start of the file. But no matter what I try, I can't get Apache to execute any Perl code. The result? I continue to use PHP.
So I'd say availability is pretty important, but ease of use matters too.
You think the words 'head' and 'body' have sexual overtones? Wow! There really is no accounting for taste. Wait, no, weirdos: there's no accounting for weirdos. That sounds a lot more accurate.
We're very, very sorry.
What a thoroughly shitty idea. The only thing you can conclude from your "data" is that extroverted people express their stupidity more clearly, whereas introverted people, being introverted and all, don't give themselves away as readily.