Remember when Fark and Facebook people beat out Slashdot in that IQ test? I suspect many neck beards are still ruffled over that one. Nothing but posts about 'HAHA WE R SMERT' up until the law of averages kicked in and a million excuses flowed forth until the thread was eventually locked.
I always feel think "wow, this guy's kids must be miserable" when I read all these crazy anti-capitalist/anarchist style posts on
I've gone from six figures to zero and back again. Living on rice and beans and stealing wood for the fireplace is not really as enjoyable as driving my Corvette around or playing games on my i7.
IKEA is trash, tho. It is furnishing designed with 20-25 year olds on a low income and small place in mind. Nothing you would actually stick in a loft or house.
Good luck feeding such a gigantic population without food corporations, fail to mention get a car, build a building, get to space, get electricity, have a TV, internet, get your teeth fixed, medicine, surgery, air conditioning, etc without corporations. If people here really were serious about leaving these things behind, they wouldn't be posting about it on
I went to the trouble of logging in to say this and saw your post. I agree. Windows already allows a side-by-side window dragging that is very useful on a widescreen display and two documents.
The root of the window 'tabbing' issue is already addressed in Win7, too, but with a more visual versions of tabs on the new task bar. hover/click the icon and get a list of windows a particular application has spawned. You can make it look a little different, but the idea has already been done.
Honestly, I think it is time for KDE to do what they did long ago when they copied the Win95 interface. That made Linux feel better for noobs, thus a redesign with Aero in mind would do the same for a newer generation of noobs. I know, it's not fun for the fanbois, but it makes less 'leet' interface that would allow business users to have an easier time adapting.
I agree.
For what it is worth, when I run into someone who just needs to fiddle with photos they took on their fancy new camera; I always recommend the GIMP.
If they say "I want to learn to build a professional looking website and do all my own content creation including mastering video", then I'll suggest Adobe's suites.
It is pretty dumb to stick it in a metal box. That is only 43 notes. You can easily shove that much in a decently broken in wallet or $30 money belt's compartment.
Not that he should have gotten in trouble for such a small amount, just there are smarter ways to transport cash. Having had three suitcases lost by airlines, there is no way in hell I would put even my favorite shirt in a suitcase for the airlines to handle.
Hint; If you are moving american dollars around it is a good idea to rinse and iron them. Too many notes can set off a drug dog due to residues. Plus the ladies will think you are cool when you pull out crisp bills to buy your Starwars action figures.
As a long time user of Photoshop (13 years now?) I will boldy pop into this thread and inform you GIMP is like Photoshop from ~10 years ago minus easily obtained plugins. Going further, the CS4 suite has zero threat of losing market share to open source alternatives in the professional realm.
Blender, on the other hand, is quite useful for modelling in such an environment. It doesn't hold a flame to Maya, but there is much less of a rift than GIMP vs Photoshop.
Agreed. Proliant FTW! Oh wait, HP is a bunch of fuckers too.
Wow, you can copy and paste.
You didn't do a quick google before throwing down money on a used security device? This is similar to picking up a used spam appliance for $100 and demanding a free subscription to updated signatures.
Sorry dude, those signatures aren't written by the signature writing security fairy on top of twinkle toe mountain. People are paid to do it and that money has to come from a stable business model.
Don't like it? Build up something using open source and roll with it, nobody is going to stop you and you should probably work it into a distributable ISO and share with the rest of the world for free. But for the love of god, don't whine about companies who let you know up front what subscription rates are for their appliances. IF YOU DONT LIKE OR NEED IT DON'T FUCKING BUY IT.
Apologies, but sometimes you have to type in caps to remind people everything on the goddamned planet isn't going to be free and served to them on a silver platter.
Perhaps you should crack a window. The air in your mother's basement must be getting high carbon dioxide levels today.
If every OS image being installed was at least the latest "image" from one quarter ago, we definitely would have less problems as time goes by with new systems going online almost fully-patched and old patched systems go offline.
That's not a Microsoft issue. That's the responsibility of companies selling the systems with Windows installed. For instance, if you get a Dell or HP box with a Win7 to XP downgrade installed, you'll get a patched up copy of XP SP3 on your new system. You won't get the first press of XP's gold image from years ago with no service packs or patches.
Geeze ppl.. Where do you come up with this crap?
To quote Star Trek - "It's logic Spock, I thought you'd like that?"
It's logic alright, albeit very flawed.
Oh, I have paid for legit student copies of MS products. But they always come hamstrung with things like a 1 install limit, so if you reformat you're SOL. That's why you have to resort to piracy to be able to use what you actually paid for.
Just so you know, there is no "one install limit" on any Microsoft license. That would be ridiculous. There is a OEM license which is the tightest, allowing activation on a single motherboard, and requires a call to their WGA helpdesk for revalidation if your motherboard "failed" (ie, upgraded your hardware and want to be sneaky and get your system license moved over to the new one). If you are just doing the old Nuke n Pave, well, this doesn't affect any MS license. You'll still have the same hardware, thus will pass activation when the system has finished reinstalling.
But, the big one here.. There are no OEM system-bound licenses under their academic licenses, so I think you are trying to tell a tall tale to FUD Microsoft and fit in with the Linux crowd. Academic, by nature is loose enough to remove a license from one system and install on another since it's intended for lab environments, experimenting, etc.
If this is how you decide which hardware is best for a user, then I feel sorry for the people you build computers for. Microsoft, ATI, Nvidia, Logitech, Intel have all done shitty things but I don't intentionally give my clients sub-par configurations over personal, short-sighted grudges.
The only Nvidia card costing $500 is the GTX295, well at least for the market we are discussing. It's still quicker and slicker than any of ATI's current offerings so why, pray tell, would you be trying to mix it with an ATI at this point? I have one and, well, couldn't imagine any reason to waste RAM/CPU on multiple video drivers.
If you are talking about getting a $500 video card and sticking it on a board with integrated video, well, you've got some priority issues that you'll have to work out on your own.
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