This knee-jerk reaction is incorrect. Generally speaking, correlation is not causation because the two correlated items might share a cause. In this case, one of them is the presence of a gene. What causes a gene to be present? All I can think of is "another gene" (that is, this might happen to be on the same chromosome as something that *actually* causes the repeated mistakes), in which case it's still the same story: this behavior is caused by a gene.
The change is that you don't have to opt out of individual instances of the program's activity. Rather, you can opt out completely with one check-box.
Facebook's M.O. is to create features that reduce your privacy and to enable them automatically. This means that for users to preserve the status quo, they have to play whack-a-mole as new features come out.
Is 14 an exact number? I only see 12 listed at www.koffice.org. Personally, I find the number of apps in Koffice more embarrassing that impressive, but if a lot more of them are mature in 2.x than they were in 1.x, that will really make it less embarrassing.
Really? When I made the post, I *thought* it was possible, because I had successfully added a second taskbar to my kicker panel, and it listed six windows while the original one (which only showed the windows from current workspace) showed four. Right now I'm repeating the experiment, and I'm unable to get them to use different configurations. Change one, and the other changes too, consistent with the fact that the taskbar configurator is the same as "kcontrol > Desktop > Taskbar". Is it possible through the gui, or do I maybe have to edit some text config files?
Thanks for taking an interest. Lanken (my Freenode nick)
I love KDE, but Koffice 1.x is kind of a steaming pile. Like, not even close to being able to compete with OpenOffice or Abiword+Gnumeric. (If I were to elaborate, I'd talk about the responsiveness of mouse actions in Kword, the cluttered look of the grid in a *blank* Kspread spreadsheet, and the horrible text rendering in both programs. The presentation/slideshow program is wretched too, for similar reasons. Krita is tolerable, but I far prefer GIMP).
I don't know how much will have changed in Koffice 2.0. An alpha release came out a week and a half ago. Maybe I'll test it out in a VM or something.
It's really nice to have one taskbar with apps from the current workspace, and another taskbar with apps from all workspaces. You can do this with kicker and also with gnome-panel. I run both kicker AND gnome-panel, for no good reason, really (there used to be a reason, and now it's inertia), and a few things break. One is that apps tend to spontaneously fire off those flashing look-at-me alerts if you tab around a lot.
The acronym ID still represents "identification" (or "identify," etc). I'm concerned that using an acronym for intelligent design might give it more credibility, which is NOT what we want.
You sound like such a douchebag. I can understand deciding not to intervene, not to save her from herself, but how could you take delight in the prospect of her impending "failure"?
You had better mean "novel" in the sense of "new." If you mean in the sense of "a novel," then for a stronger analogy, you should say "finding a scrap of paper with a poem on it."
(sorry for nitpicking the analogy. Other than that, I can't contribute to the discussion.)
You're not talking about entrapment, you're talking about the concept that "fruit of a tainted tree" (i.e. evidence obtained illegally by police) is inadmissible in court.
Entrapment is when police lie to you and convince(or encourage, or entice, or coerce) you to commit (or into committing) a crime, such as when undercover detectives
The Eee PC doesn't have a high-resolution e-paper screen. Some people might be able to read for hours and hours on a laptop, but others find that they get eyestrain from the light and from the crappiness of fonts at 120 dpi.
Also, the Eee PC won't get anything close to the battery life of this thing (think about taking it on a plane or in a car) and it will be hard to curl up with. I've read comic books in bed on my laptop, and it's pretty awkward.
(That said, I'd really love for the thing to be able to run an ssh client. With whatever low-bandwidth wireless offering they're including, it would be a really sweet little terminal.)
Do your best to kill the idea that a laptop is a replacement for a reader with e-paper. E-paper provides two huge advantages: resolution and battery life. These *do* matter to some people.
That should be &c, not &tc. The "et" means "and," which is why an ampersand sometimes appears instead of "et".
I'd ignore the error, but your careful use of punctuation suggests that you care about traditional orthography, and would rather be aware of having mis-learned this one bit.
You'll catch more flies with honey, man. There's a place for vinegar, and this isn't it.
The outdated logo reflects Slashdot's history. If they changed the icons too often, it would be distracting and hurt continuity. You'll probably be modded down for trolling or baiting flames, and you deserve it.
Of course, sometimes you can enjoy things more in the long run if you accept having less fun in the short term. "Delayed gratification." With this corollary, Lennon's sentiment is a good. Without it, the quote could be seen as justifying a couch-potato lifestyle.
I tunneled out over SSH to post this. It might just be the HTTP proxy here where I teach, but I doubt that my employer would bother blocking slashdot.
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Princeton's tuition is just a tax on the wealthy students, and not a very heavy one. The expenditure per student is on the order of $70,000, so even the wealthy students who pay full tuition are getting their education at a discount.
For middle-class to upper-middle-class students, the financial aid is very generous. My sister and I went there and paid something like $12,000 a year, for the two of us, and our parents' households (father and mother are divorced) have a total annual income of around $200,000.
There are a few cases in which the financial aid grants aren't very good, such as when the family is sending significant amounts of money overseas (to support ailing grandparents in another country, for instance), but in general Princeton is only expensive if you're rich. Princeton is *not* gouging its students.
It might be presented abrasively and it might be a little hard to swallow, but the parent is right. GP's optimism is unfounded, about the quality of books written by authors no longer beholden to the publishing establishment. There will be brilliant stuff, to be sure, but there will be mountains of crap, too.
I'm concerned about what will happen when authors don't have to commit to a text. That is, I'm wonder if we'd see _Great American Novel_ v1.0, v1.01, etc.
To the parent: maybe some credible reviewers will be able to point us to the good stuff. If you just read the best blogs and sit on a good forum to get youtube links, you can reach a pretty high level of quality.
Check out N, from Metanet, for an illustration of what made Super Mario good. You can take an existing game, improve the physics simulation, and get a much more compelling experience. Improving the AI can also be huge.
Depends how you define "bad." They don't yield nicely to each other (mostly), and they drive fast and break traffic laws, but on the whole I think that the people who are driving here are very competent, unlike in the states, where everyone drives, including idiots.
I've been living in China for two months and I haven't seen any car accidents (being cleaned up, even). I don't think it's such a big deal here...maybe people are better drivers? Most of the population doesn't drive, though. If there's a difference, that's probably why.
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This is a reasonable answer to a question that the summary raised for me.
This knee-jerk reaction is incorrect. Generally speaking, correlation is not causation because the two correlated items might share a cause. In this case, one of them is the presence of a gene. What causes a gene to be present? All I can think of is "another gene" (that is, this might happen to be on the same chromosome as something that *actually* causes the repeated mistakes), in which case it's still the same story: this behavior is caused by a gene.
It is still opt-out. It is not opt-in.
The change is that you don't have to opt out of individual instances of the program's activity. Rather, you can opt out completely with one check-box.
Facebook's M.O. is to create features that reduce your privacy and to enable them automatically. This means that for users to preserve the status quo, they have to play whack-a-mole as new features come out.
That's good to hear.
Is 14 an exact number? I only see 12 listed at www.koffice.org. Personally, I find the number of apps in Koffice more embarrassing that impressive, but if a lot more of them are mature in 2.x than they were in 1.x, that will really make it less embarrassing.
Really? When I made the post, I *thought* it was possible, because I had successfully added a second taskbar to my kicker panel, and it listed six windows while the original one (which only showed the windows from current workspace) showed four. Right now I'm repeating the experiment, and I'm unable to get them to use different configurations. Change one, and the other changes too, consistent with the fact that the taskbar configurator is the same as "kcontrol > Desktop > Taskbar". Is it possible through the gui, or do I maybe have to edit some text config files?
Thanks for taking an interest.
Lanken (my Freenode nick)
I love KDE, but Koffice 1.x is kind of a steaming pile. Like, not even close to being able to compete with OpenOffice or Abiword+Gnumeric. (If I were to elaborate, I'd talk about the responsiveness of mouse actions in Kword, the cluttered look of the grid in a *blank* Kspread spreadsheet, and the horrible text rendering in both programs. The presentation/slideshow program is wretched too, for similar reasons. Krita is tolerable, but I far prefer GIMP).
I don't know how much will have changed in Koffice 2.0. An alpha release came out a week and a half ago. Maybe I'll test it out in a VM or something.
It's really nice to have one taskbar with apps from the current workspace, and another taskbar with apps from all workspaces. You can do this with kicker and also with gnome-panel. I run both kicker AND gnome-panel, for no good reason, really (there used to be a reason, and now it's inertia), and a few things break. One is that apps tend to spontaneously fire off those flashing look-at-me alerts if you tab around a lot.
The acronym ID still represents "identification" (or "identify," etc). I'm concerned that using an acronym for intelligent design might give it more credibility, which is NOT what we want.
You had better mean "novel" in the sense of "new." If you mean in the sense of "a novel," then for a stronger analogy, you should say "finding a scrap of paper with a poem on it." (sorry for nitpicking the analogy. Other than that, I can't contribute to the discussion.)
You're not talking about entrapment, you're talking about the concept that "fruit of a tainted tree" (i.e. evidence obtained illegally by police) is inadmissible in court. Entrapment is when police lie to you and convince(or encourage, or entice, or coerce) you to commit (or into committing) a crime, such as when undercover detectives
The Eee PC doesn't have a high-resolution e-paper screen. Some people might be able to read for hours and hours on a laptop, but others find that they get eyestrain from the light and from the crappiness of fonts at 120 dpi. Also, the Eee PC won't get anything close to the battery life of this thing (think about taking it on a plane or in a car) and it will be hard to curl up with. I've read comic books in bed on my laptop, and it's pretty awkward. (That said, I'd really love for the thing to be able to run an ssh client. With whatever low-bandwidth wireless offering they're including, it would be a really sweet little terminal.) Do your best to kill the idea that a laptop is a replacement for a reader with e-paper. E-paper provides two huge advantages: resolution and battery life. These *do* matter to some people.
That should be &c, not &tc. The "et" means "and," which is why an ampersand sometimes appears instead of "et".
I'd ignore the error, but your careful use of punctuation suggests that you care about traditional orthography, and would rather be aware of having mis-learned this one bit.
(and if it was a typo, disregard this)
You'll catch more flies with honey, man. There's a place for vinegar, and this isn't it.
The outdated logo reflects Slashdot's history. If they changed the icons too often, it would be distracting and hurt continuity. You'll probably be modded down for trolling or baiting flames, and you deserve it.
Of course, sometimes you can enjoy things more in the long run if you accept having less fun in the short term. "Delayed gratification." With this corollary, Lennon's sentiment is a good. Without it, the quote could be seen as justifying a couch-potato lifestyle.
...I wonder what bit of network crappiness caused that.
I tunneled out over SSH to post this. It might just be the HTTP proxy here where I teach, but I doubt that my employer would bother blocking slashdot.
Princeton's tuition is just a tax on the wealthy students, and not a very heavy one. The expenditure per student is on the order of $70,000, so even the wealthy students who pay full tuition are getting their education at a discount.
For middle-class to upper-middle-class students, the financial aid is very generous. My sister and I went there and paid something like $12,000 a year, for the two of us, and our parents' households (father and mother are divorced) have a total annual income of around $200,000.
There are a few cases in which the financial aid grants aren't very good, such as when the family is sending significant amounts of money overseas (to support ailing grandparents in another country, for instance), but in general Princeton is only expensive if you're rich. Princeton is *not* gouging its students.
It might be presented abrasively and it might be a little hard to swallow, but the parent is right. GP's optimism is unfounded, about the quality of books written by authors no longer beholden to the publishing establishment. There will be brilliant stuff, to be sure, but there will be mountains of crap, too. I'm concerned about what will happen when authors don't have to commit to a text. That is, I'm wonder if we'd see _Great American Novel_ v1.0, v1.01, etc. To the parent: maybe some credible reviewers will be able to point us to the good stuff. If you just read the best blogs and sit on a good forum to get youtube links, you can reach a pretty high level of quality.
This is a 3.5 inch drive.
Check out N, from Metanet, for an illustration of what made Super Mario good. You can take an existing game, improve the physics simulation, and get a much more compelling experience. Improving the AI can also be huge.
I think my roommate's Wii had an ATI logo on it.
Depends how you define "bad." They don't yield nicely to each other (mostly), and they drive fast and break traffic laws, but on the whole I think that the people who are driving here are very competent, unlike in the states, where everyone drives, including idiots.
I've been living in China for two months and I haven't seen any car accidents (being cleaned up, even). I don't think it's such a big deal here...maybe people are better drivers? Most of the population doesn't drive, though. If there's a difference, that's probably why.
"Fear" is a pretty general word. I think you could probably get most people to agree that "irrational, instinctive terror" is a kind of fear.