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I’ll wait and see if they manage to get embedded system debugging to work properly. What I’ve seen in the past has been a pain in the you-know-what in that regard, showing clearly that their main focus was PCs.
I’ll wait and see if they manage to get embedded system debugging to work properly. What I’ve seen in the past has been a pain in the you-know-what in that regard, showing clearly that their main focus was PCs.
When my heart stopped beating in the middle of the night.
Luckily, the human body has mechanisms to force start a heart again. Not funny, though, 0/10, don’t recommend.
Well, the question for me back then was printing wide, so the selection was quite limited from the start. And laser was completely out of the equation, as anything printing wider than 21cm was industrial (size of a bus and price of a house) back then.
Don’t worry, I consider lasers, too.
It will probably be either a Brother Inkbenefit or an Epson Ecotank model.
A Canon printer. Not just a simple one, but a big (wide) one with real ink tanks, about 20 years ago.
Under Linux, I could only access basic printing services with that, and this only by using a default driver not made by Canon that happened to work. So I contacted Canon to get a proper user manual to create a proper device driver for this (something I could have done without problems), and basically got the answer that they would not support this, as “open source is theft of intellectual property”. They also had some very choice words about Linux in general.
I assumed I just got an asshole on the phone, so when I attended Cebit a short time later (back then the biggest trade fair in Europe for things like that), I went to the Canon booth, explained my issue, and basically got the same reply. So I sold the Canon printer and bought an HP one. At least HP supported Linux and supplied working drivers. Sadly, they have really gone down the drain since that, so the next printer will be a different brand again…
Well, I was not that far off. ‘Spamford’ Wallace founded “Cyber Promotions” on 1997. While there have been unsolicided emails even way before that, they had not been an issue: Whoever did them got a clue-by-four from the network community and that’s it. SPAM started to be a problem with ‘Spamford’ Wallace.
OK, you got me there. For me, EMail-SPAM is still a new thing, because I still remember the time before.
SPAM. Not the food variety, but the other. Inventend by a lawyer.
I draw the line right behind them. Where the real search results start.
Dr. Google MD at its best.
I seem to remember that frequently wiping ones nose is a sign of regular cocaine consumption.
Went to a party at friends. A girl I was hoping to get more than friends with was there, too, and she was in a good and even flirty mood.
Then she left to pick someone up at the train station. Came back with a wet towel kind of guy and introduced them to everybody as her fiancée.
Everyone was shocked, not only me. She was the kind of girl who could have had anyone, and she dragged in that.
Actually, it is not “the world”. Only certain parts and groups of it. The US is quite anti-intellectual, especially where the GOP is in power, as they draw their clientele from people who think less for themselves. So, naturally, they discourage intellectual advance wherever they can - Crippling public schools and libraries, making university unaffordable, etc.
Still overly complicated, especially for American minds who have been trimmed for decades to rate anything scientific as work of the devil…
Any form of political corruption should be severly punished.
Any political office should have a limit of two terms.
While Ranked Pairs sound good in theory, how would you actually sell this method to normal people? Transparency is one of the basic requirements for the acceptability of a vote, and this method will be beyond maybe 70-80% of the American public, if not more.
The question here is “What Counts as Socialism?” Because for most Americans, a functioning society already counts as Socialism. No need to be afraid that your kid gets shot in school? Non-ruinous healthcare for everyone? No need to work at 80 just to survive and pay your rent? Workers rights?
For many Americans this is Socialism or Communism (the same people could not be pressed to tell the difference between those terms).
Because I have to use this shitshow of a software at work because some companies use “license managers” that don’t work under Wine.