Very true. However: Science basics tell you something about equilibriums. You want to make a wager how many per cent it takes to tip that balance? (Hint: we're getting really close)
You want peace or piece in the bedroom, don't switch your wife's OS.
I installed Ubuntu on my girlfriend's laptop a year ago, when the computer was brand new. It is set up as a dual boot. She has yet to start XP, whereas I have started it twice. (Think of the size of the security updates... Shudder...) I asked her some weeks ago if she had ever used XP on her own computer. She replied: "Why would I need to do that?"
I might add, she loves the look of Ubuntu (just needed to move the Gnome panel to the bottom). Some Compiz Fusion magic, OOo and Firefox, and she hasn't looked back.
Only an idiot would argue that the world was better off after Rome collapsed. Things got a hell of a lot worse, real fast.
For kicks, try replacing "Rome" with "Iraq" in that sentence. In the near nightmar-ish future, replace it with "Iran".
Since you obviously know so much about this topic, would you care to list some references to this claim? (Pure interest)
Anyway, what changed was that a lot of nations were no longer occupied. They were "free". This is what the US doctrine is at the moment: making others "free". Bush: "You can't talk me out of freedom being a good thing". Nobody is, they're just questioning the prize, i.e. how many will be alive and free.
I don't think America will fall at all. I think the US will, and that's not the same;-)
PS: To the anonymous sod who checked my background so he could make a point of which country I happen to live in: I'm a US citizen. Attacking Norway is no skin of my nose anyway, in Norway you're not flogged by Rubert's clones for critizising your own country.
America after World War Two was magnanimous; we had freed a billion people, almost completely for free (the Brits had a lend-lease thing going on) then we started pumping in millions for all the cities we'd just blown up: we realize, at the state level, that we need the other nations...but we don't need to conquer the other nations.
America has never said it wants to attack, change the government and own another nation; we don't want more territory- we just want wars there to stop. It's maddening when we take part in a distant war (think Bosnia) where we bombed the Christians and worked for the Muslims, and then come home. But we're not about expansion-for-expansion's sake, many/most of the UN members cannot make such a claim.
This kind of attitude is the reason why the US is getting highly unpopular in more democratic states (yes, the US is not the greatest democracy in the world, not by a longshot). If you look at all great (and by "great", I mean "big") civilizations, this kind of thought is also the major reason they didn't stay that way. They were so certain that they were the best, that someone else crushed them to pieces.
Myspace set the standards on what a social site is supposed to be
Um...No. Myspace has set the standard in bad layout and webdesign.
The majority of pages look like a five year old ramblings, sporting a broken arm in a cast, that were signed by each and every person within 10 ft of a magic marker.
Shudder...
Besides, stopping people from skipping through the video doesn't really correlate with "viewers want to be in control of how, when and where they consume their favorite entertainment"
BTW: To all those people proposing new and funny names: The last word is supposed to be an animal, the first one being an adjective. I'm assuming you still find your alternatives hilarious, but trust the long time users on ubuntuforums.org: It gets really old, really fast.
All right. It's not an app, it's not an emulator. Trouble is, I don't think I use many compatibility layers other than Wine.
Actually, I was imprecise. There looks to have been some progress on this (I update Wine every two weeks through apt), and things like ie6 dowsn't raise the temperature much. Installing stuff through Wine though, raises the temperature from ~50 to ~65 degrees.
I'd like to see they fix the fact that Wine remains the only app that manages to raise my computers CPU-temperature 15 degrees C. Now, that would be newsworthy. Or maybe that's a fature?
Wine releases every 14 days, see http://winehq.org/ Are we now going to see these kinds of news on/. every time there's a trivial update? I can think of a couple of apps and releases that are a little more important...
Point is, WE made antibiotics that let those nasty bacterias evolve into immune organisms (for now). How's that for intelligence? We design our own executioners... -Ketil
Re: how we know how old the world is:
Well, actually there has been some pretty convincing calculations as to how old the earth is. By real scientists, not creationists.
The problem with religion (and IMO especially Chistianity), is that there is this book. And the believers say "well, this should not be taken literally, and this, and this, and this," and so on. Now, where do you decide to stop. To me they're reaching the point where they might as well throw out the Bible itself. Any historic documents with that many flaws shouldn't serve as anyone's meaning-of-life. I have viewed myself as a very religious guy myself, but at the end of the day, the arguments need to be slightly convincing to *me*.
- Ketil
So, most people judge a composers work by how the the sheets look on a site that's unrelated to the composer?
In a related thread, The Beatles are no longer popular due to a huge amount of bad versions of Yesterday in primary schools.
I'm officially wiser than 2 minutes ago.
Wasn't the title of one of the reports presented to Dubya prior to 9-11 "Terrorists plan an attack on American soil with commercial airliners" or something like that?
Don't have to be a sci-fi writer to interpret that... So, "reading and complying with warnings" might be a place to start.
And for those that think terrorism is an Islamic problem: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518, 476599,00.html (500 Terror Attacks in EU in 2006 - But Only 1 by Islamists)
Didn't the Renault team use SUSE Linux for all their computing needs? And they did (still do?) really well. Now, seeing the Linux logo in F1 would be cool. That's real motorsports for you. (And I don't give a cr** about cars anyway.)
- K
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Great logic. A stable system can't be pushed either way if enough momentum is applied?
Very true. However: Science basics tell you something about equilibriums. You want to make a wager how many per cent it takes to tip that balance? (Hint: we're getting really close)
I installed Ubuntu on my girlfriend's laptop a year ago, when the computer was brand new. It is set up as a dual boot. She has yet to start XP, whereas I have started it twice. (Think of the size of the security updates... Shudder...) I asked her some weeks ago if she had ever used XP on her own computer. She replied: "Why would I need to do that?"
I might add, she loves the look of Ubuntu (just needed to move the Gnome panel to the bottom). Some Compiz Fusion magic, OOo and Firefox, and she hasn't looked back.
-- As OT as it gets
Since you obviously know so much about this topic, would you care to list some references to this claim? (Pure interest)
Anyway, what changed was that a lot of nations were no longer occupied. They were "free". This is what the US doctrine is at the moment: making others "free". Bush: "You can't talk me out of freedom being a good thing". Nobody is, they're just questioning the prize, i.e. how many will be alive and free.
I don't think America will fall at all. I think the US will, and that's not the same
PS: To the anonymous sod who checked my background so he could make a point of which country I happen to live in: I'm a US citizen. Attacking Norway is no skin of my nose anyway, in Norway you're not flogged by Rubert's clones for critizising your own country.
Um...No. Myspace has set the standard in bad layout and webdesign.
The majority of pages look like a five year old ramblings, sporting a broken arm in a cast, that were signed by each and every person within 10 ft of a magic marker.
Shudder...
Maybe like put putting it on Miro? http://www.getmiro.com/
Besides, stopping people from skipping through the video doesn't really correlate with "viewers want to be in control of how, when and where they consume their favorite entertainment"
--Ketil
Friends don't let friends use Automatix, or Vista.
Yeah, because Ubuntu (the number one Linux-distro) is just like just another OSS project...
BTW: To all those people proposing new and funny names: The last word is supposed to be an animal, the first one being an adjective. I'm assuming you still find your alternatives hilarious, but trust the long time users on ubuntuforums.org: It gets really old, really fast.
And, by saying this, you're telling me that it is:
NOT NOT an emulator?
Or: NOT NOT an app?
Wine Is Not an Emulator was sort of my point... It is valuable to READ what you're replying to beforehand, no?
All right. It's not an app, it's not an emulator. Trouble is, I don't think I use many compatibility layers other than Wine.
Actually, I was imprecise. There looks to have been some progress on this (I update Wine every two weeks through apt), and things like ie6 dowsn't raise the temperature much. Installing stuff through Wine though, raises the temperature from ~50 to ~65 degrees.
I'd like to see they fix the fact that Wine remains the only app that manages to raise my computers CPU-temperature 15 degrees C. Now, that would be newsworthy. Or maybe that's a fature?
Wine releases every 14 days, see http://winehq.org/ Are we now going to see these kinds of news on /. every time there's a trivial update? I can think of a couple of apps and releases that are a little more important...
Point is, WE made antibiotics that let those nasty bacterias evolve into immune organisms (for now). How's that for intelligence? We design our own executioners... -Ketil
Re: how we know how old the world is: Well, actually there has been some pretty convincing calculations as to how old the earth is. By real scientists, not creationists. The problem with religion (and IMO especially Chistianity), is that there is this book. And the believers say "well, this should not be taken literally, and this, and this, and this," and so on. Now, where do you decide to stop. To me they're reaching the point where they might as well throw out the Bible itself. Any historic documents with that many flaws shouldn't serve as anyone's meaning-of-life. I have viewed myself as a very religious guy myself, but at the end of the day, the arguments need to be slightly convincing to *me*. - Ketil
So, most people judge a composers work by how the the sheets look on a site that's unrelated to the composer? In a related thread, The Beatles are no longer popular due to a huge amount of bad versions of Yesterday in primary schools. I'm officially wiser than 2 minutes ago.
Wasn't the title of one of the reports presented to Dubya prior to 9-11 "Terrorists plan an attack on American soil with commercial airliners" or something like that? Don't have to be a sci-fi writer to interpret that... So, "reading and complying with warnings" might be a place to start. And for those that think terrorism is an Islamic problem: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518, 476599,00.html (500 Terror Attacks in EU in 2006 - But Only 1 by Islamists)
Maybe they moved to Vista? :)
Didn't the Renault team use SUSE Linux for all their computing needs? And they did (still do?) really well. Now, seeing the Linux logo in F1 would be cool. That's real motorsports for you. (And I don't give a cr** about cars anyway.) - K
So "international copyright treaties" are now a part of the declaration of human rights? A sad, sad day that will be...