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Originally Posted by Electrolyte
That's ironic zingle, I did the same thing about 2-3 weeks ago and they arrived  |
That's not ironic, that's a coincidence.
Don't mean to be pedantic, but I hate to see people say something's ironic when they clearly have no concept of what irony is. I'm not the only one that feels this way - here's Ed Byrne's take on it...
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Originally Posted by Ed Byrne
No, thereÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šà ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s nothing ironic about being stuck in a traffic jam when youââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢re late for something. Unless youââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢re a town planner. If you were a town planner and you were on your way to a seminar of town planners at which you were giving a talk on how you solved the problem of traffic congestion in your area, couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šà ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t get to it because you were stuck in a traffic jam, thatââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢d be well ironic: †œIâà ¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€ŠÂ¢m sorry Iâ₠™m late, youââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢ll never guess.ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šà ¬Ã‚Â ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬ Å“Rain on your wedding dayââ‚ ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Ââ⠢€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬à Âonly if marrying a weatherman and he set the date. I could go on and I will. A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break, thatââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s inconsiderate office management. A no-smoking sign in a cigarette factoryââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â‚¬ÂÂirony. Itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s not a difficult concept Alanis. Itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s very rare you see a ironic no-smoking sign, although if you ever see one of those that say thank-you for not smoking and you are: fairly ironic.
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this article offers a good explanation on what irony is about.
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Originally Posted by punky
Text based? You can't run Gnome or KDE on it? Or just it isn't included by default?
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Tristan was just referring to the installation, which is kinda reminiscent of a Win 3.11 installation. Once installed (which is really no tricker than any Windows installation) Ubuntu runs Gnome by default. A KDE version exists, and is called Kubuntu (
http://www.kubuntu.org/)