Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:42:46PM -0700, Paul Beard wrote: > > On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 08:03AM, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: > >> You will then > >> have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". > > > >Why must we insist on confusin

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Beard
On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 08:03AM, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: >> You will then >> have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". > >Why must we insist on confusing non-English patrons? > >OBE means 'out of body experience', and is comple

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: > > You will then > > have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". > > Why must we insist on confusing non-English patrons? > > OBE means 'out of body experience', and is completely different from the > current topic. Well, for some people

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:10, Peter Rosa wrote: > sorry for the stupid question, which should not be here, > but sometimes you use phrase "OUT-OF-THE-BOX". > It can be also found on FBSD web-pages. I'm not from > english-speaking country and I really do not know what > does it mean. > Can you explai

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: > You will then > have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". Why must we insist on confusing non-English patrons? OBE means 'out of body experience', and is completely different from the current topic. -- Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread george donnelly
[Mykroft Holmes IV wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8/1/03 6:56 AM] > Out of The Box means 'Like New', and unmodified. It's the condition the > item being referred to would be in when it was rem,oved from it's box. in the software world it often means that something just works, ie you install it and

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
Out of The Box means 'Like New', and unmodified. It's the condition the item being referred to would be in when it was rem,oved from it's box. Adam Peter Rosa wrote: Hello everybody, sorry for the stupid question, which should not be here, but sometimes you use phrase "OUT-OF-THE-BOX". It can

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread W. D.
At 02:10 8/1/2003, Peter Rosa, wrote: >Hello everybody, > >sorry for the stupid question, which should not be here, >but sometimes you use phrase "OUT-OF-THE-BOX". >It can be also found on FBSD web-pages. I'm not from >english-speaking country and I really do not know what >does it mean. >Can you e

What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Rosa
Hello everybody, sorry for the stupid question, which should not be here, but sometimes you use phrase "OUT-OF-THE-BOX". It can be also found on FBSD web-pages. I'm not from english-speaking country and I really do not know what does it mean. Can you explain, please ? Thanks and regards. Peter R