The language and dependency changes aside, how much do you want to bet there will be problems in every package distro?
After 2 and a half years of getting Compiz sorted in SuSE, RH, Slackware so you have a 50% or better chance of it working out of the box when you install a distro, not having to dig through massive tweaking to get it operating... I'm expecting a step or two backwards in the "installability" department for a while.
If you got an iPhone or a Driod, you can get WiFi-Fo-Fum. Go into your router settings and make sure you're broadcasting your SSID and lock on to it on the smartphone. I've found dead spots in my rowhome (3 stories) where there were just Faraday-like dead spots in my house and one was near my basement PC. Repositioned the antenna and all was back to normal. I also can't walk near the spots when I'm using my mobile or the calls cut off, too.
The latest edition to Pennsylvania's vast natural gas reserves, the Mercellus Shale find, is our only hope in this state to recover from de-investment since the steel industry was obliterated in the 1970s, and the coal industry before that.
Since NatGas prices are now trading at obscenely low levels, I'm hoping for more expansion (and driller taxation) in my state to at least make up somewhat for 30 years of economic decline, and the expectation is that NatGas prices now have nowhere to go but back up after perhaps another 12-20 month plateau until more coal-fired power plants are retired and gas-generated electricity expands.
Home consumption of natural gas in Pennsylvania is starting to expand after years of decline. Most PA electric companies will be allowed to jack up rates starting in 2011, which means any homeowner who moved off gas or oil heat to cheap and ineffecient forced-air electric heating elements to save money will now be royally screwed.
There's a lot of local companies around the Philadelphia area who are making a mint converting newer houses off electric heating back on to Natural Gas and those who are giving up oil heat are picking forced-air gas furnaces instead.
I am soon to buy a new home, and not only does my water heater and my furnace run off gas, but I will be switching my 240V electric clothes dryer (120V powers the motor, 240V goes to the heating element) to a low power 120V electric/gas dryer. Gas clothes dryers also dry your clothes quicker than all-electric models do with a more even application of heat.
The problem wasn't the NYSE. The problem was that when the NYSE decided to execute trading delays, the other markets replied "the computer sez no" and kept on trading at high speed. Because there weren't enough buyers at the time to satisfy all the selling, all the market sellers saw their prices plummet because the computers were programmed to find a buyer no matter what the price, as long as the transaction would clear.
So... what's the problem? If you picked up Accenture at a penny a share you should be fuckin' lucky. I wouldn't shiv that stock off to a homeless man for a nickel.
I still opt to get paper statements from Comcast because I love killing trees and it takes them longer to get my money. But print or online, if they are going to cap usage and nag users about their useage, why not print the bar graph on the top of Page 1 on the PDF version and the print version of the bill?
My electric company does it. My gas company does it. My water utility does it. Comcast is just another utility bill really. Print the stupid usage on the bill and call it a day.
Why do I need to waste 15 minutes of my life figuring out another "tool" on their site when I have better things to do with my time? I read every bill I get and pay them religiously. If I saw that I went crazy with my bandwidth, I'll check my LAN and WLAN to see what's up---maybe someone cracked my wireless key and is doing a drive-by. Maybe I'm downloading way too much porn than I thought I should... who cares?
Seriously, do you have Successories posters in every room in your house?
That sentence still has 40% marketease in it.
Here's the Texas-Bubba version:
"We done come over there with our 'quipment and y'alls fucked it up royally and y'all are goin' through allour files. Jesus H. Christ y'all are so batshit I can't see straight. I ain't made dollar to donuts in this place. I'm gonna call Aunt Ethel to see if we can't move back in with the in-laws over in Taiwan."
Except make a blog post to swell Internet rumors.
That's it.
Call me when there's a FOR LEASE sign hanging off of Google China's office building... printed in Chinese characters with a characiture of a pixelated puppy next to it, of course.
Watching all the Linux and MSFT fanboys taking out their snuff boxes then proceeding straight to 19th century backhanded bitchslaps with gloves.
Spank Apple's silly fanny!
My Wii is a doorstop.
I've been sort-a temped to get a Wii Fit, but I already pay for a $60 gym membership that I use about 3x a week. Kinda defeats the purpose of buying one. Plus the WiiFit is no fun if nobody if you're single and nobody can see you sweat. [Best place to pickup a date short of inter-office dating]
3 years into the Wii the only game I really liked playing was the Wii bowling in WiiSports, which came with the unit.
I also use a really nice DLP HDTV projector for games and movies, and I cannot tell you what a PITA it is to set up that IR bar underneath the projector image in the front side of my living room but yet have the Wii sit in the back of the room where the projector and my amp sits. I have to disconnect everything when I'm done or my dog will trip over all the wires.
Then there's the trouble of standing in the right spot so I can use the Wii without blocking the picture, because the way I swing the controller around I really can't use the thing sitting down.
That could still spell catastrophe if they used commercial paper (bonds) to help ramp up production of the units that were manufactured thus far.
Let's say you're a self-employed box builder. You sell a box configuration that attracts a new company who wants to outfit all their desktops with your new whizbang baby ITX thin client PCs. Company calls you up and wants 500 of these bad boys.
To get all the parts for an order this large, you live on the float. On your credit card. You run up your MasterCard (like a big company does with short term paper). Now you purchase all the parts required to build the units and you'll pay the credit card bill as soon as the invoice from the customer gets paid.
But, as you're assembling the final 20 PCs to get the order ready for shipment, the company calls you to slash their invoice and now they only want 350 computers.
No... quirk of
this first person shooter game is missing?
Romanian babies.
Will Nintendo fire workers as part of a Wiistructuring?
Adding features does not necessarily increase functionality -- it just makes the manuals thicker.
