The difference is a single graffiti artist doesn't disrupt large portions of the economy. When I see the problems caused by people like this at my own and other companies, it makes me very unsympathetic to their plight when caught. (Although let's not hang him before the trial.)
Thanks! I had looked at and played with those settings to get listview as default, but didn't experiment enough. It seemed a little weird picking 25% for the listview and 50% for icon view, but that looks much better now on my display.
This Sun desktop has the same problem with icons that I'm seeing with Red Hat 9. They're huge! The icons and the text are quite large and clunky looking. Same with whatever file manager it is that I'm using out of the box. The icons in list mode are so big and you don't see that many items at a time.
Now before you flame me as a moron who doesn't know how to tweak/a/b/c.conf, let me confess: I don't know much about Linux. I've been using Windows for years and am pretty well versed in it, but for a long time I've wanted to switch to Linux, for the freedom, stability, power, what have you. So I'm trying again.
But I can see for myself that the Windows interface does look pretty good and is fairly easy to use. I think the hard-core Linux users miss something when they dismiss everything in Windows. There's good stuff there. I'm willing to dig to figure out how to do stuff in Linux, but I think I'm atypical of Windows users in general.
I shouldn't even post this because I'll probably get flamed in to oblivian, but I'm hoping someone will reply with an answer about how to fix the godawful icons on the desktop:-)
Very interesting comment. I don't have anything of value to add to it (being merely made out of meat), but I wanted to publicly voice my appreciation of your contribution. (Say, are you a robot?)
Interesting, but I just want to consider one point: "This arrangement also fails to anchor the retina securely to the inside of the eye, so that retinal detachment sometimes occurs (e.g., in boxers)."
I like that. We should also point out that our skin is not ideal, as it can't turn away bullets.
But in this case the US is a single market. A HUGE single market, where it's much more practical to work through the legal/logistical/etc issues discussed in other posts.
I think the argument is that people who drive without seatbelts suffer more injuries and increase medical costs for all, in which case it becomes everyone's problem and not just the person who chooses not to wear a seatbelt.
On a side note, the problem with these darn kids today is they just aren't as impressed with what you can do. Back in the day, a happy birthday animation writting in BASIC wowed the entire class.
You got that right. I remember how proud I was back in 1982 when my dad showed me how to "hack" in to Oregon Trail running in BASIC on the school's Commodore PET computer. We'd change the text prompts to use all kinds of hilarious (to a 12-year-old) foul language.
Ah, yes, and then there was the poking of colored blocks on to the family television set with the VIC 20...
People are always talking about how much a company will be hurting if/when they leave, but in reality, life goes on. Companies go on. Some of the people left behind may suffer a little more for a while, but then equilibrium sets in again. At least in larger companies.
So much simpler, but a pain everytime some stupid app askes me which name I'd like to save something as under My Documents.
I agree that it's annoying how Microsoft wants to organize things. You can use TweakUI to set a different folder to use for "My Documents." Often you can use the "start in" field in the shortcut that starts an application to get it started in the right place. This works great with Visual Basic so that it actually goes to where I store my vb code when I open or save.
Sure, so you _crack_ into your IM settings so it shows you as being there when you're on your three hour lunch. Ok, what happens when someone IMs you? You really look good when you don't reply for an hour or more.
I didn't mind the ending to Snow Crash. A lot of times if I enjoy a book I can forgive it if the ending isn't just so or satisfying on every level. You spend so many hours and days with the book that the ending becomes a small part. (Different from a movie where you spend two hours and the ending can really overshadow the rest.)
Crypto was a blast all the way through.
With Diamond Age it wasn't just the very end for me - it was the whole second half that just seemed to fall off the beam.
Quicksilver looks great. I like history of all kinds and seeing how Stephenson writes about the 1700s will be fun.
Me too! How about Randy's tale of the gold in the jungle?
And while I agree with many that Snow Crash didn't end the best, and I thought the second part of Diamond Age was poor, I loved all of Crypto and thought it ended just fine, so I can't wait for Quicksilver. This is one of the few books that I've felt like I have to have right away.
nothing is more satisfying than... "Nice new BMW dave... when you getting a boat? oh too bad, well you can borrow one of mine anytime... come out and sail on my lake.. I gotta go It's time for brakes on my Pontiac..."
All you're saying here is that you have different consumer vices than some people. I don't much care about what kind of car I drive either, but I also don't want to own a boat. So should I say you're idiotic for having one because I don't share you're interest?
Yep, but I keep thinking about what Neal Stephenson wrote in "Snow Crash," something about Adam Smith's invisible hand spreading everything out to a depth that a Pakistani brick-layer would consider to be prosperity. It might not be fair that we have more than most other people in the world, but it certainly is nice.
I've never had a big problem with rebates. I have had a few that were late, but I use my Palm Pilot to keep track of them without spending too much time thinking about the whole process. I had to call a few times to get some rebates from Kiplinger for TaxCut a couple of years ago, but they made good in the end.
To me it has always been very easy to follow the instructions and get them mailed in right away. Best Buy makes the process very easy by giving you an extra rebate receipt so you don't have to make a copy of the original (or give up the original). I've probably mailed in between 10 and 20 rebates in the past 10 years and for the stuff I've bought it's been a very simple exercise in following instructions.
But my last Best Buy rebate on a Maxtor hard drive has me rethinking my rebate strategy. I read the fine print and it basically said you give them permission to spam your information all over creation. I don't know if that's worth a few bucks to me.
Hmm... Well, I'm not sure if I'd say that _most_ are unpaid. Actually, maybe I shouldn't say anything since I'm going on totally subjective opinions based on a few articles I've read. I just get the idea that there are a lot of unpaid internships.
I'm pretty sure Chandler Bing isn't getting paid for his advertising internship.
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RTFA: They think they can get the price down to 1.2 times as they ramp up.
I agree that a "web based" search engine would be the best kind.
You live in a small, narrow world.
Eeyu! Look anal? I can see being anal, or sounding anal, but I'd hate to look anal!
The difference is a single graffiti artist doesn't disrupt large portions of the economy. When I see the problems caused by people like this at my own and other companies, it makes me very unsympathetic to their plight when caught. (Although let's not hang him before the trial.)
Thanks! I had looked at and played with those settings to get listview as default, but didn't experiment enough. It seemed a little weird picking 25% for the listview and 50% for icon view, but that looks much better now on my display.
This Sun desktop has the same problem with icons that I'm seeing with Red Hat 9. They're huge! The icons and the text are quite large and clunky looking. Same with whatever file manager it is that I'm using out of the box. The icons in list mode are so big and you don't see that many items at a time.
/a/b/c.conf, let me confess: I don't know much about Linux. I've been using Windows for years and am pretty well versed in it, but for a long time I've wanted to switch to Linux, for the freedom, stability, power, what have you. So I'm trying again.
:-)
Now before you flame me as a moron who doesn't know how to tweak
But I can see for myself that the Windows interface does look pretty good and is fairly easy to use. I think the hard-core Linux users miss something when they dismiss everything in Windows. There's good stuff there. I'm willing to dig to figure out how to do stuff in Linux, but I think I'm atypical of Windows users in general.
I shouldn't even post this because I'll probably get flamed in to oblivian, but I'm hoping someone will reply with an answer about how to fix the godawful icons on the desktop
Very interesting comment. I don't have anything of value to add to it (being merely made out of meat), but I wanted to publicly voice my appreciation of your contribution. (Say, are you a robot?)
But is it true that people had much better teeth before we started eating all the sweet stuff?
Interesting, but I just want to consider one point: "This arrangement also fails to anchor the retina securely to the inside of the eye, so that retinal detachment sometimes occurs (e.g., in boxers)."
I like that. We should also point out that our skin is not ideal, as it can't turn away bullets.
But in this case the US is a single market. A HUGE single market, where it's much more practical to work through the legal/logistical/etc issues discussed in other posts.
I think the argument is that people who drive without seatbelts suffer more injuries and increase medical costs for all, in which case it becomes everyone's problem and not just the person who chooses not to wear a seatbelt.
Why don't you pour hot modchips down your pants.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting and plausible. It just shows what a bunch of idiots we are collectively.
On a side note, the problem with these darn kids today is they just aren't as impressed with what you can do. Back in the day, a happy birthday animation writting in BASIC wowed the entire class.
You got that right. I remember how proud I was back in 1982 when my dad showed me how to "hack" in to Oregon Trail running in BASIC on the school's Commodore PET computer. We'd change the text prompts to use all kinds of hilarious (to a 12-year-old) foul language.
Ah, yes, and then there was the poking of colored blocks on to the family television set with the VIC 20...
People are always talking about how much a company will be hurting if/when they leave, but in reality, life goes on. Companies go on. Some of the people left behind may suffer a little more for a while, but then equilibrium sets in again. At least in larger companies.
So much simpler, but a pain everytime some stupid app askes me which name I'd like to save something as under My Documents.
I agree that it's annoying how Microsoft wants to organize things. You can use TweakUI to set a different folder to use for "My Documents." Often you can use the "start in" field in the shortcut that starts an application to get it started in the right place. This works great with Visual Basic so that it actually goes to where I store my vb code when I open or save.
Sure, so you _crack_ into your IM settings so it shows you as being there when you're on your three hour lunch. Ok, what happens when someone IMs you? You really look good when you don't reply for an hour or more.
Good point.
I didn't mind the ending to Snow Crash. A lot of times if I enjoy a book I can forgive it if the ending isn't just so or satisfying on every level. You spend so many hours and days with the book that the ending becomes a small part. (Different from a movie where you spend two hours and the ending can really overshadow the rest.)
Crypto was a blast all the way through.
With Diamond Age it wasn't just the very end for me - it was the whole second half that just seemed to fall off the beam.
Quicksilver looks great. I like history of all kinds and seeing how Stephenson writes about the 1700s will be fun.
Me too! How about Randy's tale of the gold in the jungle?
And while I agree with many that Snow Crash didn't end the best, and I thought the second part of Diamond Age was poor, I loved all of Crypto and thought it ended just fine, so I can't wait for Quicksilver. This is one of the few books that I've felt like I have to have right away.
nothing is more satisfying than... "Nice new BMW dave... when you getting a boat? oh too bad, well you can borrow one of mine anytime... come out and sail on my lake.. I gotta go It's time for brakes on my Pontiac..."
All you're saying here is that you have different consumer vices than some people. I don't much care about what kind of car I drive either, but I also don't want to own a boat. So should I say you're idiotic for having one because I don't share you're interest?
Wow, thanks for the sweeping generalizations. I'm sure glad you have it all figured out when so many of us are such idiots.
Yep, but I keep thinking about what Neal Stephenson wrote in "Snow Crash," something about Adam Smith's invisible hand spreading everything out to a depth that a Pakistani brick-layer would consider to be prosperity. It might not be fair that we have more than most other people in the world, but it certainly is nice.
I've never had a big problem with rebates. I have had a few that were late, but I use my Palm Pilot to keep track of them without spending too much time thinking about the whole process. I had to call a few times to get some rebates from Kiplinger for TaxCut a couple of years ago, but they made good in the end.
To me it has always been very easy to follow the instructions and get them mailed in right away. Best Buy makes the process very easy by giving you an extra rebate receipt so you don't have to make a copy of the original (or give up the original). I've probably mailed in between 10 and 20 rebates in the past 10 years and for the stuff I've bought it's been a very simple exercise in following instructions.
But my last Best Buy rebate on a Maxtor hard drive has me rethinking my rebate strategy. I read the fine print and it basically said you give them permission to spam your information all over creation. I don't know if that's worth a few bucks to me.
Hmm... Well, I'm not sure if I'd say that _most_ are unpaid. Actually, maybe I shouldn't say anything since I'm going on totally subjective opinions based on a few articles I've read. I just get the idea that there are a lot of unpaid internships.
I'm pretty sure Chandler Bing isn't getting paid for his advertising internship.