This is how backwards the world has become. It is in kindergarten where we *should* be using the smaller words; adults should use words with more dexterity. There was no ambiguity about his writing. It was adult, professional and insightful.
Bloke, try raising a standard or two of civilisation once in a while; it may just raise the intelligence of those around you.
While I agree with your assessment, I personally had a very good experience with WME, especially compared to 98. That said, I did notice a curious commonality of other WMe machines, that is, they effectively eventuated in your assessment today.
Snarky et al are ancient words used up to the 60s; their resurgence can only make me hope that we are potentially seeing the return to precise use of language. This would be a fantastic event; a reversal of the trend to the dilution of semantics and language in general.
Of course my use of 'et al' is symptomatic of this, as is the common use of acronyms for everything... Ah weel, it was a nice idea while it lasted
Ah the sync should come before the rename. I understood the problem as kde was truncating the old file before the sync. If you have the above system, why wouldn't you copy foo > foo.old, before working on foo.new? At the worst then, user can copy foo.old back to foo; assuming there has been a crash between foo.new rename and sync. I thought this was the standard practice that the apps forgot to do.
Now people do you see how it is supposed to be done? Just changing the positive or negative of a sentence based on your opinion isn't funny, as gp said. However follow tuba dude's example and you will be getting +5 funny every time!
The perfect solution is to move us into self-propelled train carriage modules. The next stage of UltraPRT; linking of modules to a high-speed engine device.
1+1 backup is redundant. 1+2 backups are careful, 1+4 backups paranoid. 1+10 backups are excessive, except where one hopes to promulgate a piece of data/info/lie ah la 'survival of the fittest'.
As you point out, the size of the program was proportional then to the medium... I remember copying 3 - 4 (often more) programs per floppy, and just as that was getting too small CD 'saved' the day.
That said, like you, I break copyright far less (approaching 0) than 'back in the day'. So we have to somewhat old hands who have with the launch and saturation of the net *decreased* the issue that Our Friend at Sony has a problem with.
Now, I know that I am not unusual, and many that I have known to be free horders have similarly decreased their infringements. Once someone manages to wrangle anecdotes until data is actually collected, we may just find that it is mostly a feature of the young that don't care about copyright, legalities and other boring stuff.
Now the fact that the main perpetrators are part of an aging population (in the more affluent , the problem shall solve itself!
huh? he named 2, and 2 unix systems. Plus if it is compatible with bsd, it is probably compatible with everything else. A benefit of BSD licensing. Not that hard.
Outa curiosity, where did you find the hardware that is linux reliable? Everytime I've gone to buy a product for linux (wireless cards for the most part) I have found that particular product isn't available anymore, or the manufacturer has put out a new revision or worse yet it never made it to Australia.
I'm tempted to buy from everythinglinux.com.au but they have some weird setup going on for businesses. AUD160 for a demo? gah
You are right. It isn't fair. But unless you are 10 years old you have to understand by now that people will be irrational.
My mother has no end of trouble with a Windows (XP) machine, only bought at the change over of xp/vista. Mostly her doing but somethings are that the OS isn't configured for the machine. And no, I can't configure it over the phone; I'm a rural, low paid Aussie so remoting in is not effective for me.
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This is how backwards the world has become. It is in kindergarten where we *should* be using the smaller words; adults should use words with more dexterity. There was no ambiguity about his writing. It was adult, professional and insightful.
Bloke, try raising a standard or two of civilisation once in a while; it may just raise the intelligence of those around you.
If you are unsure about these new fangled computers, use Windows. It slows everything down nicely.
Yeah I guess you could of.
I kid, I kid!
You can't do that, ~ is for sarcasm. Try a different symbol; may I suggest "?
While I agree with your assessment, I personally had a very good experience with WME, especially compared to 98. That said, I did notice a curious commonality of other WMe machines, that is, they effectively eventuated in your assessment today.
Murdock sold our news services down the river.
By being .02% of the total resources?
That depends, do we get to bbq the kittens afterwards? I'd ask the same but people taste funny.
Snarky et al are ancient words used up to the 60s; their resurgence can only make me hope that we are potentially seeing the return to precise use of language. This would be a fantastic event; a reversal of the trend to the dilution of semantics and language in general.
Of course my use of 'et al' is symptomatic of this, as is the common use of acronyms for everything... Ah weel, it was a nice idea while it lasted
Ah the sync should come before the rename. I understood the problem as kde was truncating the old file before the sync. If you have the above system, why wouldn't you copy foo > foo.old, before working on foo.new? At the worst then, user can copy foo.old back to foo; assuming there has been a crash between foo.new rename and sync. I thought this was the standard practice that the apps forgot to do.
One can be critical, just not a luddite and wet blanket.
hehee. ya beat me to it.
Now people do you see how it is supposed to be done? Just changing the positive or negative of a sentence based on your opinion isn't funny, as gp said. However follow tuba dude's example and you will be getting +5 funny every time!
err... 'nuff said?
The perfect solution is to move us into self-propelled train carriage modules. The next stage of UltraPRT; linking of modules to a high-speed engine device.
come on, we are talking about IDEs and you go bring in operating systems... play fair.
1+1 backup is redundant. 1+2 backups are careful, 1+4 backups paranoid. 1+10 backups are excessive, except where one hopes to promulgate a piece of data/info/lie ah la 'survival of the fittest'.
As you point out, the size of the program was proportional then to the medium... I remember copying 3 - 4 (often more) programs per floppy, and just as that was getting too small CD 'saved' the day.
That said, like you, I break copyright far less (approaching 0) than 'back in the day'. So we have to somewhat old hands who have with the launch and saturation of the net *decreased* the issue that Our Friend at Sony has a problem with.
Now, I know that I am not unusual, and many that I have known to be free horders have similarly decreased their infringements. Once someone manages to wrangle anecdotes until data is actually collected, we may just find that it is mostly a feature of the young that don't care about copyright, legalities and other boring stuff.
Now the fact that the main perpetrators are part of an aging population (in the more affluent , the problem shall solve itself!
huh? he named 2, and 2 unix systems. Plus if it is compatible with bsd, it is probably compatible with everything else. A benefit of BSD licensing. Not that hard.
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No, that one has been around longer than /.
Not sure here you're right; if you assume the list to be accurate and true, there are a significant number of IT big boys in there...
Of course if you are right, then the list is most likely wrong.
He wasn't complaining, he was sympathising.
Liar!
Outa curiosity, where did you find the hardware that is linux reliable? Everytime I've gone to buy a product for linux (wireless cards for the most part) I have found that particular product isn't available anymore, or the manufacturer has put out a new revision or worse yet it never made it to Australia.
I'm tempted to buy from everythinglinux.com.au but they have some weird setup going on for businesses. AUD160 for a demo? gah
You are right. It isn't fair. But unless you are 10 years old you have to understand by now that people will be irrational.
My mother has no end of trouble with a Windows (XP) machine, only bought at the change over of xp/vista. Mostly her doing but somethings are that the OS isn't configured for the machine. And no, I can't configure it over the phone; I'm a rural, low paid Aussie so remoting in is not effective for me.
Ha! Hardware not working has never stopped me running Linux! er... nvr mind