Hi. I have a crate of records next to me and a turntable next to printer. Vinyl's better than a bunch of 1's and 0's. Quality of music is the only time you'll hear (see) me bash binary.
Because its QuickBooks POS and it's easier on the bookkeeper to have them integrating with each other. He also couldn't scan barcodes and do inventory quickly with the old one. The other staff don't know how to use the old one either. They go "damn! that's like all 1992! here Stanley, uh, you ring 'em up." The rest of the staff don't usually ring things up though, just him. If they do, it's a work order because everyone else is a technician. This is a *little* store.
No, he can use a mouse. He's confused by the fact that he has to use it to run an application. He has always used Keynotes, which is a DOS frontend. Everything is done with the F keys. He is confused by having to actually navigate through little drop-down menus on the program. It's like if you only know how to ctrl+c and don't get that "right-click>copy" works.
I work in a computer store. My boss (OWNER of a COMPUTER STORE) can't work the new POS program (QuickBooks). I walked in my first day and started using it just fine. He's confused by the lack of DOS and lack of F9 to move through sections and F3 to save blah blah blah stuff. Now, it's all point-and-click, and he's royally confused. If a tech can't figure out how to use a new app, what makes you think a Joe & Jo Average are any better?
Over 1/5 of traffic to my site is from Safari. The rest is Mozilla/Firefox. Less than one percent even use IE, from what I recall. That was a few months ago. The site's down now until "further notice" (or when I get unlazy enough to make a new layout.
The American Heritage Dictionary lists "one who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff" before "one who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file" in the definition for "hacker."
Metro card machines take up to $20 bills. (change "metro" to BART if you're in SF, T in Boston or Pittsburgh, "the tubes" in London, etc)
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Yet I know quite a few gamers who refuse to switch to Vista because with all that Aero Glass crappola, it'll be too weighted down to let them play their games at a proper speed without hardware upgrades out the wazoo.
That's why in Pittsburgh, we call them MAC Machines. You ever see the ones that say MAC on the top (if you're from NY, NJ, or PA, probably)?That's "Money Access Center" so adding "machine" to the end works just fine.
In some Arab countries they get around the no prostitution laws by using the really easy divorce stuff. You can get married and get divorced with very little paperwork. Marry the girl, have sex, divorce her the next day, and pay her "alimony" (aka "money for her services")
Regarding WW2/Holocaust: it was a Christian (Hitler) targetting the Jews for their religion. It was backed by the Catholic Church (why Rome was never bombed and the Churches all survived). You completely ignored the part about abortion bans, criminalization of homosexuality, et al.
Islam has NOT always had control and theocratic responsibility in the Middle East. Remember the Crusades? I'm pretty sure that was Christians attacking a bunch of people for not being their religion. How about the rest of the Middle Ages? Christians ruled every country in Europe. How about the Salem Witch Trials? More Christians! The Church has done a lot of shitty things, but we told it to fuck off and let the government handle it. The Middle East is now going through the same phase that Europe went through from 1000-1600 and that America went through from 1600-1700. It's their turn, and it'll pass.
I believe he was referring to Leviticus. It's full of absurd things that Christians don't really have to follow given the end of the first Covenant (Jews follow them though). The one thing that Christians like to pull out of it is Lev 18:22, the one used to justify hating gay people. He's saying if they're going to claim Leviticus is valid, they better be following the rest of it. His example was a joke, but it does say no shrimp or poly/cotton blends.
No, in theocracies it regulates political life and legal matters. A Muslim in the US cannot use his or her religion to force laws, just as a Christian or a Buddhist can't. In a theocracy, there is a State Religion. If Islam is the State Religion, then of course it rules political life. If Christianity was the US's State Religion (if it isn't already), it would rule too. Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Jersey would not have same-sex civil unions/marriages, abortion would be illegal nationwide, and adultery would be a crime punishable with jail time (almost every college student would be arrested for this one). I would put forth that if you are a proper Christian, it too regulates your day to day life. You're not supposed to ignore God until you need something. You're supposed to make Him a part of your day to day life and follow His rules at all times. That is what a proper Christian does, and it is what proper Muslims do. Not all Muslims practice complete submission (though that is the meaning of Islam) to Allah ("God" directly translated to Arabic), just like not all Christians think of God constantly.
Hey, I'll have a degree in both either way. The only way International Affairs could go away would be if the world was all one big company. My translation skills will be useful as long as A) the entire US doesn't become fluent in Japanese, Spanish, and Russian B) the rest of the world doesn't become fluent in English.
UGH! The "quiet keys" are SO ANNOYING!!!! You press down at a normal pressure, and it only goes halfway. It doesn't press. If you press down extra hard to make it go all the way, it goes double. Those are terrible. That's all the Dells at school and in the library have. I hate them so much. Wireless keyboards tend to have them too. Please, give me a good ol' HP or EMachines keyboard. Those things don't feel funny.
People don't make major choices about their broad vocations simply on money.
The hell they don't.
I decided to major in Japanese and International Affairs instead of CS because of the pay. I have since switched it so that CS is a second major with Japanese being a minor, but I still have IA for my main major. I'm not even going to try to work in CS because it pays so little. CS will stay a hobby. I want a gov. job in IA.
Maybe your dad just doesn't know how to use a computer. Yeah, the drivers aren't in there already on Windows. Okay, put in the cd, install it. Plug in the camera, and you're done. That's how it's always worked for me on Windows. It's not that hard. Actually, I didn't even need any drivers for my camera for my parents' computers. It just shows up as a USB card reader, same as it does on Linux.
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Hi. I have a crate of records next to me and a turntable next to printer. Vinyl's better than a bunch of 1's and 0's. Quality of music is the only time you'll hear (see) me bash binary.
Because its QuickBooks POS and it's easier on the bookkeeper to have them integrating with each other. He also couldn't scan barcodes and do inventory quickly with the old one. The other staff don't know how to use the old one either. They go "damn! that's like all 1992! here Stanley, uh, you ring 'em up." The rest of the staff don't usually ring things up though, just him. If they do, it's a work order because everyone else is a technician. This is a *little* store.
Okay smartass, the visitors were mostly using Windows XP, a few Windows 2000, same amount of Mac users as Safari, and I don't own a damn Mac.
No, he can use a mouse. He's confused by the fact that he has to use it to run an application. He has always used Keynotes, which is a DOS frontend. Everything is done with the F keys. He is confused by having to actually navigate through little drop-down menus on the program. It's like if you only know how to ctrl+c and don't get that "right-click>copy" works.
I work in a computer store. My boss (OWNER of a COMPUTER STORE) can't work the new POS program (QuickBooks). I walked in my first day and started using it just fine. He's confused by the lack of DOS and lack of F9 to move through sections and F3 to save blah blah blah stuff. Now, it's all point-and-click, and he's royally confused. If a tech can't figure out how to use a new app, what makes you think a Joe & Jo Average are any better?
Over 1/5 of traffic to my site is from Safari. The rest is Mozilla/Firefox. Less than one percent even use IE, from what I recall. That was a few months ago. The site's down now until "further notice" (or when I get unlazy enough to make a new layout.
There's a lot of Linux games at www.garagegames.com but yeah, I know you're right. Good seeing at least a few companies paying attention though.
UT2007 has Windows 95,98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista (anything I missed?) and Linux on the same disk.
I'm definitely faster on Linux now. I was rather happy to find cygwin on the school's Windows boxes.
hahah that was just a point of reference for what the heck a "metro" is to us in DC. I think they take a 20-pound bill there though ;-)
The American Heritage Dictionary lists "one who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff" before "one who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file" in the definition for "hacker."
Metro card machines take up to $20 bills. (change "metro" to BART if you're in SF, T in Boston or Pittsburgh, "the tubes" in London, etc)
Yet I know quite a few gamers who refuse to switch to Vista because with all that Aero Glass crappola, it'll be too weighted down to let them play their games at a proper speed without hardware upgrades out the wazoo.
That's why in Pittsburgh, we call them MAC Machines. You ever see the ones that say MAC on the top (if you're from NY, NJ, or PA, probably)?That's "Money Access Center" so adding "machine" to the end works just fine.
One of my friends wants to make STFURMS Linux and make it a Linux/BSD hybrid thing.
that would probably work actually. as soon as the guys are afraid of the women, they have to play nice.
In some Arab countries they get around the no prostitution laws by using the really easy divorce stuff. You can get married and get divorced with very little paperwork. Marry the girl, have sex, divorce her the next day, and pay her "alimony" (aka "money for her services")
Regarding WW2/Holocaust: it was a Christian (Hitler) targetting the Jews for their religion. It was backed by the Catholic Church (why Rome was never bombed and the Churches all survived). You completely ignored the part about abortion bans, criminalization of homosexuality, et al.
Islam has NOT always had control and theocratic responsibility in the Middle East. Remember the Crusades? I'm pretty sure that was Christians attacking a bunch of people for not being their religion. How about the rest of the Middle Ages? Christians ruled every country in Europe. How about the Salem Witch Trials? More Christians! The Church has done a lot of shitty things, but we told it to fuck off and let the government handle it. The Middle East is now going through the same phase that Europe went through from 1000-1600 and that America went through from 1600-1700. It's their turn, and it'll pass.
I believe he was referring to Leviticus. It's full of absurd things that Christians don't really have to follow given the end of the first Covenant (Jews follow them though). The one thing that Christians like to pull out of it is Lev 18:22, the one used to justify hating gay people. He's saying if they're going to claim Leviticus is valid, they better be following the rest of it. His example was a joke, but it does say no shrimp or poly/cotton blends.
No, in theocracies it regulates political life and legal matters. A Muslim in the US cannot use his or her religion to force laws, just as a Christian or a Buddhist can't. In a theocracy, there is a State Religion. If Islam is the State Religion, then of course it rules political life. If Christianity was the US's State Religion (if it isn't already), it would rule too. Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Jersey would not have same-sex civil unions/marriages, abortion would be illegal nationwide, and adultery would be a crime punishable with jail time (almost every college student would be arrested for this one). I would put forth that if you are a proper Christian, it too regulates your day to day life. You're not supposed to ignore God until you need something. You're supposed to make Him a part of your day to day life and follow His rules at all times. That is what a proper Christian does, and it is what proper Muslims do. Not all Muslims practice complete submission (though that is the meaning of Islam) to Allah ("God" directly translated to Arabic), just like not all Christians think of God constantly.
Hey, I'll have a degree in both either way. The only way International Affairs could go away would be if the world was all one big company. My translation skills will be useful as long as A) the entire US doesn't become fluent in Japanese, Spanish, and Russian B) the rest of the world doesn't become fluent in English.
There's a Firefox extension. It's called Addictive Typing Lessons, but it doesn't actually give lessons.
UGH! The "quiet keys" are SO ANNOYING!!!! You press down at a normal pressure, and it only goes halfway. It doesn't press. If you press down extra hard to make it go all the way, it goes double. Those are terrible. That's all the Dells at school and in the library have. I hate them so much. Wireless keyboards tend to have them too. Please, give me a good ol' HP or EMachines keyboard. Those things don't feel funny.
Well, you'd have to read the little "instruction manual" (usually 5 illustrations), but I think most of the time, you put the driver disk in first.
Maybe your dad just doesn't know how to use a computer. Yeah, the drivers aren't in there already on Windows. Okay, put in the cd, install it. Plug in the camera, and you're done. That's how it's always worked for me on Windows. It's not that hard. Actually, I didn't even need any drivers for my camera for my parents' computers. It just shows up as a USB card reader, same as it does on Linux.