According to various tests on recent distributions (use your Google-fu to find them, it's not difficult), the memory use of KDE is not great, but not nearly as bad as Gnome 3 or Unity. However, it would seem that xfce or LXDE would be better choices for low memory devices.
In general memory required for Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 goes: Ubuntu (unity) > Kubuntu (KDE) > Xubuntu (xfce) > Lubuntu (LXDE). Similarly, memory required for the different desktop environments on Fedora 17 is: Gnome 3 > KDE > xfce > LXDE. That's without the akonadi stuff which was affecting the KDE example you linked to.
I bought a pair of WD 3TB drives just before the flood. They cost me about euro 125 each, and the cheapest price hereabouts today is almost euro 140. Note that these prices are not exactly comparable to the US prices, due to currency exchange and high VAT.
Christmas Island (of goatse.cx fame) is 100% for Romney. Is this significant? Should I be breathless with anticipation? Or should I prepare to keep my eyes tightly shut in fear of seeing... him again?
The Northern Marianas are also 100% for Romney [gasp]! Mind you, it's only one voter each for both of these polities. The only other place with a majority for Romney right now is Lithuania, where 3 voters out of 5 plumped for him. Anywhere else with more than 2 votes is for Obama, often heavily and with several at 100% (he got all 32 votes from Austria, for instance).
Of course, the numbers are pretty low everywhere, as would be expected for a site like that.
Why unfortunately? You wind up paying less because the mileage is always overstated.
Unfortunately, because in my case the official economy figures are worse than the actual economy of the car. As a result, I pay more in the annual carbon tax on the car than I would if the correct figure was used. Note that the carbon tax on the car does not depend on how far it was driven; it's just a tax grab. Any properly devised carbon tax should be on the fuel only, but that would reduce the tax income as people migrate to more economical cars. One result is that cars with Diesel engines (which are far more economical than Otto engines) are taxed much more heavily in a way which does not depend on fuel use or distance traveled.
My VW Passat 2.0i 16v (1991) once managed 56mpg on one long run and always beat 45mpg when it was officially meant to do no more than 42mpg
My 2003 Mercedes C200 diesel wagon gets 51½mpg in mixed driving in summer (with a lot of highway in the mix, it gets better than 60mpg). In winter, the economy drops to about 45mpg. The "official" rating for the car according to the carbon tax people is 43½mpg. Oh, these are also Imperial gallons.
Official mileage figures are unreliable, live with it.
Unfortunately, we pay a vehicle carbon tax which is assessed on these "official" figures, whether accurate or not.
My 7 year old laptop had a 1920x1200 resolution and when I bought a new one a few months ago I had to look all over just to find one that had a 1920x1080 resolution.
We share the same gripe. This was posted from my 8½ year old laptop, which also has WUXGA (1920x1200) resolution. I'm holding out on replacing it until I can get something with more pixels. Shortscreen FHD (1920x1080) is a step downwards, while I want to go upwards in pixels. Luckily, Xubuntu 12.04 runs fine on this old hardware.
As usual, the Slashdot opinions on patents leave something to be desired. From column 4 of the specification, the "information sources" (as used in claim 1 et seq.) are clearly defined to encompass remote sources of information, including web sites, email messages, audio and video streams and so forth accessed via the internet. A lot of the prior art deals with purely local sources of information.
So the question really boils down to how novel and inventive this step is - the dynamic presentation in tiles of remotely accessed information, which is not necessarily accessed on the same schedule. One can argue that the steps are not non-obvious and are not particularly inventive. A court will decide (possibly requiring several iterations, depending how stupid/opinionated the jury foreman is).
I expect there will be well-paid work for a few lawyers before the question is settled.
I will warn you to keep the arrogant attitudes at home though, pricks are frowned upon here and it's a very big place.. easy to get lost if you get my meaning.
Message received loud and clear: you're insane. Duly noted.
Probably not insane; just another arrogant prick in SV. No doubt accustomed to being frowned upon for bad attitude and regularly getting lost.
I am shocked, indeed I am doubly shocked. Firstly by the revelation that the blessed RIAA would inadvertently indulge in such underhand behavior, and secondly that the always-pure politicians and incorruptible bureaucrats would accidentally succumb to those shenanigans (and the associated funds, junkets, hookers, and other tempting perquisites, with blackmail as the alternative).
Parking lots are normally plowed to be clear of snow. If the space was not plowed than how would the car park there to charge anyway?
Just go to Ontario, or Maine, or Finland, or Sweden. There's lots of snow in winter, and parking lots (although plowed quite often) are rarely free of it. Cars drive on snow and can drive on quite a depth of packed snow or a few inches of unpacked snow. In fact, driving on snow is not at all difficult, especially with proper winter tires or even just with all-season radials, and nor is parking on snow.
Your post does not make a lot of sense when you think about it.
Actually, your response indicates that you have much to learn about driving in cold climates. Perhaps you should actually experience a colder climate, instead of just theorizing about it.
OK, so it can double as a garage heater in winter. However, in the snowier parts of the country (i.e. NOT Vancouver and its suburbs), this will not be appreciated for outdoor use - lots of meltwater turning into smooth ice...
You're seriously asking if one should dig up shit about one's friends or not, as if that was a valid question?
Are you insane?
Perhaps they meant "friends" (of the Facebook variety) rather than friends (real ones that you meet in real life).
If anyone I care about had any online-only "friends", I'd probably consider it wise if they Googled such "friends" and still kept them in the dark about private items. On the other hand, I'd consider it curious if anyone were to Google their real friends.
As TFS and TFA said, we're wired to have a relatively small group of friends whom we know quite well (and who know us in return) through regular exchanges in real life. All others are merely acquaintances (like members of a neighboring tribe whom we hear about but rarely encounter), even if deceptively labeled as "friends" by network or workplace. The friend word is really being abused nowadays.
I seriously considered the One X, but the lack of removable battery and storage put me off and i got the Galaxy S3 instead. It's a shame, because i'm sure the One X is a better phone in many ways.
I went through exactly the same thought processes, and came to the same conclusion. The HTC One X with 32GB was about the same price as the Samsung Galaxy S3 with 16GB (the small price difference was not an issue). The HTC was rated as having a display at least as good as the Galaxy, but the HTC Sense interface was a minor put-off. The killer in my decision making was that the HTC has no SDHC card slot and is lumbered with an unreplaceable battery, while the Samsung has both SDHC and a replaceable battery. I bought the Samsung and a 32GB card, which together cost more than the HTC.
The other dumb thing HTC did was discontinue phones with keyboards. My daughter has a Desire Z, and probably won't replace it for a long time because there is nothing on the market to compete with it. If any phone were available with a good display and a keyboard, I'd probably have bought one, even if its price were higher than the Galaxy S3.
If anyone from HTC is reading this, they have a few things to take home and beat into whatever remains from their marketing department: (i) expandable storage is life or death for a phone, (ii) a replaceable battery is very very attractive, (iii) physical keyboards get customer loyalty.
s/lutefisks/lipeäkalaa
It was in Finland, not Norway...
Whatever you call it, lipeäkala or lutefisk is merely nasty: fish turned into mucus. No worse than mämmi, and utterly nowhere nearly as disgusting as surströmming (a win for Sweden over both Norway and Finland)...
This is known long ago... this is also an adaptation because dolphins breathing is not a reflex, so half the brain has to be always awake to remember breathing.
In fact, here's a 2009 article in National Geographic on the exact same topic from 2009. It was not the first, either.
It only works with AOL mail, gmail, Yahoo mail, and some ecloud stuff. Even if it worked with other email providers, it would just provide another way to screw up mail-gathering. I'll stick with what I have, thanks.
Did they even ask Eben Moglen's opinion on presenting an interview with him using the non-free flash player?
And I concur with mfwitten - please provide a downloadable link, even if it's to the accursed ooyala.com...
The last letter in the Swedish alphabet is Å, so I'm waiting for Ubuntu "Å Å"
which can be stretched to mean "on stream" (OK, it's quite a stretch), and is pronounced roughly "oh, oh" in a sort-of orgasmic way.
Even if Microsoft discovered the cure for cancer and released it for free,/. would still find a way to put an evil spin on it.
Those bastards would be damaging the US medical industry! Think of the drop in demand for medical facilities and staff, and all the expensive drugs which would not be needed...
[More realistically, Microsoft would either capitalize on such an innovation, or be sued by its many shareholders for failing to do so.]
Maybe the father is some kind of religious loony^Wzealot or similar. In which case, he should get ready to exuberantly congratulate his spawn for coming last in chemistry, with the words that "the last shall be first" or some such nonsense.
Get a rat in a corner, you don't know what it is going to do.
And if you're a cat, you really really want the rat to try something. The rat will die in a while anyway, when it runs out of energy or the cat tires of "playing" with it. The cat will be unharmed, and won't even exert itself too much while having fun.
I had a pet cat when a kid. We lived beside a large railway embankment which had lots of rats - big ones, but not as big as the cat. She would be sitting beside a line of three to six dead rats on the lawn almost every morning (after we learned to fully close the windows so she could not bring them into the house to be proudly shown to us). Several times, I saw her "playing" with surprisingly large rats corralled into a corner of the garden, and killing them with a neat bite to the neck only when they were too exhausted even to attempt escape. After a couple of years, there were no rats left anywhere near our house.
There is a privacy setting so you can't be added to groups without your permission which undercuts the claim that they were 'sophisticated users'. To be fair I think Facebook set this to false by default when they added the feature.
And you have to be a Facebook user to apply that setting. And then you must repeatedly find and re-apply it when Facebook rearranges its privacy settings and resets them to default (usually undesirable) values. Even a brief period with the setting the wrong way could be disastrous, if the tagging (and consequent promulgation of the tagging) occur during that time.
Those of us who are not Facebook users can apparently be added/tagged/whatever entirely without permission. For all I know, I've been named and tagged in all sorts of photos/groups in malicious ways. That's a nasty problem for some folks, which will likely remain unresolved until it is regulated in some way. By avoiding and actively denying decent self-regulation, Facebook is almost demanding that its actions be limited by legislation. I have no idea what happens to tags or suchlike applied to Facebook users who subsequently renounce/cancel their Facebook accounts. Potentially yet another divisive issue.
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According to various tests on recent distributions (use your Google-fu to find them, it's not difficult), the memory use of KDE is not great, but not nearly as bad as Gnome 3 or Unity. However, it would seem that xfce or LXDE would be better choices for low memory devices.
In general memory required for Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 goes: Ubuntu (unity) > Kubuntu (KDE) > Xubuntu (xfce) > Lubuntu (LXDE). Similarly, memory required for the different desktop environments on Fedora 17 is: Gnome 3 > KDE > xfce > LXDE. That's without the akonadi stuff which was affecting the KDE example you linked to.
I bought a pair of WD 3TB drives just before the flood. They cost me about euro 125 each, and the cheapest price hereabouts today is almost euro 140. Note that these prices are not exactly comparable to the US prices, due to currency exchange and high VAT.
Christmas Island (of goatse.cx fame) is 100% for Romney. Is this significant? Should I be breathless with anticipation? Or should I prepare to keep my eyes tightly shut in fear of seeing... him again?
The Northern Marianas are also 100% for Romney [gasp]! Mind you, it's only one voter each for both of these polities. The only other place with a majority for Romney right now is Lithuania, where 3 voters out of 5 plumped for him. Anywhere else with more than 2 votes is for Obama, often heavily and with several at 100% (he got all 32 votes from Austria, for instance).
Of course, the numbers are pretty low everywhere, as would be expected for a site like that.
Why unfortunately? You wind up paying less because the mileage is always overstated.
Unfortunately, because in my case the official economy figures are worse than the actual economy of the car. As a result, I pay more in the annual carbon tax on the car than I would if the correct figure was used. Note that the carbon tax on the car does not depend on how far it was driven; it's just a tax grab. Any properly devised carbon tax should be on the fuel only, but that would reduce the tax income as people migrate to more economical cars. One result is that cars with Diesel engines (which are far more economical than Otto engines) are taxed much more heavily in a way which does not depend on fuel use or distance traveled.
My VW Passat 2.0i 16v (1991) once managed 56mpg on one long run and always beat 45mpg when it was officially meant to do no more than 42mpg
My 2003 Mercedes C200 diesel wagon gets 51½mpg in mixed driving in summer (with a lot of highway in the mix, it gets better than 60mpg). In winter, the economy drops to about 45mpg. The "official" rating for the car according to the carbon tax people is 43½mpg. Oh, these are also Imperial gallons.
Official mileage figures are unreliable, live with it.
Unfortunately, we pay a vehicle carbon tax which is assessed on these "official" figures, whether accurate or not.
My 7 year old laptop had a 1920x1200 resolution and when I bought a new one a few months ago I had to look all over just to find one that had a 1920x1080 resolution.
We share the same gripe. This was posted from my 8½ year old laptop, which also has WUXGA (1920x1200) resolution. I'm holding out on replacing it until I can get something with more pixels. Shortscreen FHD (1920x1080) is a step downwards, while I want to go upwards in pixels. Luckily, Xubuntu 12.04 runs fine on this old hardware.
As usual, the Slashdot opinions on patents leave something to be desired. From column 4 of the specification, the "information sources" (as used in claim 1 et seq.) are clearly defined to encompass remote sources of information, including web sites, email messages, audio and video streams and so forth accessed via the internet. A lot of the prior art deals with purely local sources of information.
So the question really boils down to how novel and inventive this step is - the dynamic presentation in tiles of remotely accessed information, which is not necessarily accessed on the same schedule. One can argue that the steps are not non-obvious and are not particularly inventive. A court will decide (possibly requiring several iterations, depending how stupid/opinionated the jury foreman is).
I expect there will be well-paid work for a few lawyers before the question is settled.
I will warn you to keep the arrogant attitudes at home though, pricks are frowned upon here and it's a very big place.. easy to get lost if you get my meaning.
Message received loud and clear: you're insane. Duly noted.
Probably not insane; just another arrogant prick in SV. No doubt accustomed to being frowned upon for bad attitude and regularly getting lost.
I am shocked, indeed I am doubly shocked. Firstly by the revelation that the blessed RIAA would inadvertently indulge in such underhand behavior, and secondly that the always-pure politicians and incorruptible bureaucrats would accidentally succumb to those shenanigans (and the associated funds, junkets, hookers, and other tempting perquisites, with blackmail as the alternative).
Parking lots are normally plowed to be clear of snow. If the space was not plowed than how would the car park there to charge anyway?
Just go to Ontario, or Maine, or Finland, or Sweden. There's lots of snow in winter, and parking lots (although plowed quite often) are rarely free of it. Cars drive on snow and can drive on quite a depth of packed snow or a few inches of unpacked snow. In fact, driving on snow is not at all difficult, especially with proper winter tires or even just with all-season radials, and nor is parking on snow.
Your post does not make a lot of sense when you think about it.
Actually, your response indicates that you have much to learn about driving in cold climates. Perhaps you should actually experience a colder climate, instead of just theorizing about it.
OK, so it can double as a garage heater in winter. However, in the snowier parts of the country (i.e. NOT Vancouver and its suburbs), this will not be appreciated for outdoor use - lots of meltwater turning into smooth ice...
You're seriously asking if one should dig up shit about one's friends or not, as if that was a valid question?
Are you insane?
Perhaps they meant "friends" (of the Facebook variety) rather than friends (real ones that you meet in real life).
If anyone I care about had any online-only "friends", I'd probably consider it wise if they Googled such "friends" and still kept them in the dark about private items. On the other hand, I'd consider it curious if anyone were to Google their real friends.
As TFS and TFA said, we're wired to have a relatively small group of friends whom we know quite well (and who know us in return) through regular exchanges in real life. All others are merely acquaintances (like members of a neighboring tribe whom we hear about but rarely encounter), even if deceptively labeled as "friends" by network or workplace. The friend word is really being abused nowadays.
... in an almost unheard of, truly remarkable feat of neck-breaking speed...
Maybe these people should become slashdot editors; it would speed things up a little...
Oh, wait... whose necks did they break?
I seriously considered the One X, but the lack of removable battery and storage put me off and i got the Galaxy S3 instead. It's a shame, because i'm sure the One X is a better phone in many ways.
I went through exactly the same thought processes, and came to the same conclusion. The HTC One X with 32GB was about the same price as the Samsung Galaxy S3 with 16GB (the small price difference was not an issue). The HTC was rated as having a display at least as good as the Galaxy, but the HTC Sense interface was a minor put-off. The killer in my decision making was that the HTC has no SDHC card slot and is lumbered with an unreplaceable battery, while the Samsung has both SDHC and a replaceable battery. I bought the Samsung and a 32GB card, which together cost more than the HTC.
The other dumb thing HTC did was discontinue phones with keyboards. My daughter has a Desire Z, and probably won't replace it for a long time because there is nothing on the market to compete with it. If any phone were available with a good display and a keyboard, I'd probably have bought one, even if its price were higher than the Galaxy S3.
If anyone from HTC is reading this, they have a few things to take home and beat into whatever remains from their marketing department: (i) expandable storage is life or death for a phone, (ii) a replaceable battery is very very attractive, (iii) physical keyboards get customer loyalty.
Tell their stinkin' signals to get off your lawn!
Lawn, hell! They've gotten into his house...
Hang them from the yardarm by their lutefisks.
s/lutefisks/lipeäkalaa
It was in Finland, not Norway...
Whatever you call it, lipeäkala or lutefisk is merely nasty: fish turned into mucus. No worse than mämmi, and utterly nowhere nearly as disgusting as surströmming (a win for Sweden over both Norway and Finland)...
So tell us again, what does Eben Moglen think about non-free software like Flash?
This is known long ago... this is also an adaptation because dolphins breathing is not a reflex, so half the brain has to be always awake to remember breathing.
In fact, here's a 2009 article in National Geographic on the exact same topic from 2009. It was not the first, either.
It only works with AOL mail, gmail, Yahoo mail, and some ecloud stuff. Even if it worked with other email providers, it would just provide another way to screw up mail-gathering. I'll stick with what I have, thanks.
Did they even ask Eben Moglen's opinion on presenting an interview with him using the non-free flash player?
And I concur with mfwitten - please provide a downloadable link, even if it's to the accursed ooyala.com...
The last letter in the Swedish alphabet is Å, so I'm waiting for Ubuntu "Å Å"
which can be stretched to mean "on stream" (OK, it's quite a stretch), and is pronounced roughly "oh, oh" in a sort-of orgasmic way.
Even if Microsoft discovered the cure for cancer and released it for free, /. would still find a way to put an evil spin on it.
Those bastards would be damaging the US medical industry! Think of the drop in demand for medical facilities and staff, and all the expensive drugs which would not be needed...
[More realistically, Microsoft would either capitalize on such an innovation, or be sued by its many shareholders for failing to do so.]
Maybe the father is some kind of religious loony^Wzealot or similar. In which case, he should get ready to exuberantly congratulate his spawn for coming last in chemistry, with the words that "the last shall be first" or some such nonsense.
Get a rat in a corner, you don't know what it is going to do.
And if you're a cat, you really really want the rat to try something. The rat will die in a while anyway, when it runs out of energy or the cat tires of "playing" with it. The cat will be unharmed, and won't even exert itself too much while having fun.
I had a pet cat when a kid. We lived beside a large railway embankment which had lots of rats - big ones, but not as big as the cat. She would be sitting beside a line of three to six dead rats on the lawn almost every morning (after we learned to fully close the windows so she could not bring them into the house to be proudly shown to us). Several times, I saw her "playing" with surprisingly large rats corralled into a corner of the garden, and killing them with a neat bite to the neck only when they were too exhausted even to attempt escape. After a couple of years, there were no rats left anywhere near our house.
There is a privacy setting so you can't be added to groups without your permission which undercuts the claim that they were 'sophisticated users'. To be fair I think Facebook set this to false by default when they added the feature.
And you have to be a Facebook user to apply that setting. And then you must repeatedly find and re-apply it when Facebook rearranges its privacy settings and resets them to default (usually undesirable) values. Even a brief period with the setting the wrong way could be disastrous, if the tagging (and consequent promulgation of the tagging) occur during that time.
Those of us who are not Facebook users can apparently be added/tagged/whatever entirely without permission. For all I know, I've been named and tagged in all sorts of photos/groups in malicious ways. That's a nasty problem for some folks, which will likely remain unresolved until it is regulated in some way. By avoiding and actively denying decent self-regulation, Facebook is almost demanding that its actions be limited by legislation. I have no idea what happens to tags or suchlike applied to Facebook users who subsequently renounce/cancel their Facebook accounts. Potentially yet another divisive issue.