There is a perplexing amount of GNOME hate in the top comments. I'm a very happy user. I've been using Linux almost exclusively in all capacities since about 1999 and have sampled and/or used a lot of desktop environments. GNOME is the best, IMHO.
If its what you like, it's all you need. Too many slashdot users seem to think that something they don't like must suck.
Don't whinge about Gnome 3 and its applications, just use MATE
Exactly. I don't like Gnome, and I found this incredibly simple trick to avoid it. You won't believe what happens next!
I use Ubuntu Mate. Works a trick. If I didn't use Mate, I'd use Mint. Seems weird about people crying about an interface thy don't like, then there are so many alternatives, a few of them exemplary.
To tell the truth, I think that the "Universe is a simulation" is just the latest creationist effort. In a simulation, dinosaurs can be put in the ground just for fun, bioogical relations are just that way because the great simulator in the sky wants them that way, and the apparent age of the universe, speed of light, and radioactivity are all 100 percent arbitrary.
So if the universe is a simulation, there is no reason why the Abrahamic God didn't create it in October 4004 b.c.e. as determined by Usher so it is now science, and must be taught in the nation's classrooms. The Bible is now the scientific description of a scientific simulation program.
Solved everything and did the final endrun around those supreme court athiests. Howbow dah?
It isn't even a theory though, as there isn't anything to support it.
There is no conclusive proof, but there is plenty of evidence that the universe is a simulation. In many ways, the universe appears to be designed to be easy to simulate. If you were designing a universe simulation, what would you do?
1. Due to limited computational resources, the simulated universe would be granular or "quantum".
2. To limit computation, reality would be held in a fuzzy probabilistic "superposition" state until it is actually observed, similar to how a GPU running OpenGL will skip the generation of hidden polygons.
3. The maximum speed of information transfer would be finite, to limit the propagation of changes through the universe.
All of these are actually true in our universe, ergo, we are very likely a simulation.
I have it even better using the same logic. God made us - let's say the Abrahamic God. We are here, which is completey consistent with God making us, therefore - proven that God made us.
God's running the simulation, and that's all anyone needs to know.
It all depends one's ability to give up and stop thinking, because if we live in a simulation, there is no point in studying anything, because at any moment, the great simulator in the sky can turn off the computer, and make a different simulation.
Is it me, or does it seem like those who argument so adamantly against the concept of a supreme being are perfectly happy to entertain the idea that we are part of a stimulation?
it's simply a cool-sounding idea with absolutely no experimental evidence at all.
Unless the simulation has major bugs, the simulated entities will never be able to prove that they are, in fact, simulated, unless the entity running the simulation allows it.
Exactly - no evidence.
And as such, it's religion. The simulation might have been caused by the Desert God, her multiple offshoots Christianity, Judaism, or Islam, Buddha, Dagon, or any of the thousands of other Gods man has created.
Which is another interesting philosophical inanity. If man creates God in his own image, and our existence is a simulation, did man there create his own universe in a simulation?
The problem comes when a theory such as this is "abused" as it were to justify a whole bunch of metaphysical claptrap.
It isn't even a theory though, as there isn't anything to support it. Even if in some incredibly unlikely circumstance that we are able to prove we are in a simulation, maybe the entity that made up the simulation we are in is likewise in a simulation.
It's the old who created the creator problem, and just like the creator business, the simulation business is in the realm of religion. Everone can have thier own religion, and thy are all right because that's what they believe.
To describe it as simply such is a bit dismissive. It is a provocative speculation that can spur interest, thought, and motivation to devise new experiments. I agree, it can be of some use.
The problem of course, is the speculation might be that whoever stated this simulation has structured it in such a way that the poop people in the simulation might never be able to find out if they are in a simulation.
And thus ends the discussion. We can't determine it. Or maybe we can, but maybe not - probably not, maybe the great simulator kills everyone who gets close to understanding. Maybe not. Opinions trump facts. Maybe, maybe not.
For some strange reason, the string theorists are also behind this sort of malarky, wanting to not have to subject their "theory" to critical thinking or the scientific method. It's the sort of thing that ends up with you coming to the conclusion - "It's how it is because that's how it is."
In the end - sure, something for some folks to talk about. Philosophers, perhaps some religious folk. But also in the end, it's the mental equivalent of "Can God make a burrito so hot he can't stand it?"
Its because we always verify information from people 'are they lying or wrong'. But totally trust the computer. It has no motive to lie.
I can see you're not using Windows 10.
Well played sir. Funny and coming out of left field.
The humorless reactionaries in here will take your +5 funny comment and turn you into a troll. I just wanted to acknowledge that some of us still have a sense of humor.
Exactly. They really had to research that the parts of the brain that handle navigation aren't active when we aren't navigating?!? That's part of the reason we use a GPS in the first place... so we don't have to think about it. (the key reason being, we don't have a clue where the hell we're going.)
Bad research too. Road sign technology with arrows telling you which way to turn has done away with the need for compasses and astrolabes too. It isn't electronics, but it is a method of making travelling much easier. So is GPS guidance.
I really don't buy this study. Because it isn't terribly definitive. In order to come up with a real conclusion, you would need people who have good mental mapping abilities, because a fair subset of the population has no ability, or a cockeyed one (think of the people who when giving you directions, use things like "Go a ways past the tree that was struck by lightning in 1985, or was it 1990 - then there's a lime green car at Bills house - I think it's a white - no maybe light blue house".
Then another important issue is the reality check. GPS isn't infallable, yet people act like it is. Regardless, I can and do drive halfway across the country and use GPS a lot. I can still return or head back without the GPS. If this study were remotely true, I would not be able to do that now.
This is the reality of augmented biology, just like the testosterone producing organs shrink when taking IV steroids, the navigation parts of the brain will shrink if all you do is rely on SatNav to find your way.
I dunno. Mental direction mapping is not something that is universal. While I can play the old "Which direction does the sun rise on in our new house?" game with my wife, and while otherwise brilliant, she falls for it - I can use a GPS for directions once, and if I need to go that way again, I don't even need to turn the device on. If it made people worse, I wouldn't be able to navigate myself any more.
This study is deeply flawed. Their test subjects need to start out with a good sense of direction, and need to understand that a GPS navigation system always needs a reality check. Otherwise, it's a dead lock that the results will be what they concluded.
Or covering their faces -makes them pretty much pointless.
Personally I hide all my cameras quite well so they're not noticeable. I've caught some copulation in my side yard, no breakins however.
Yep, he asked the Russians to hack a server that had not only been offline for over a year, but was also already wiped (with a cloth?) at that point.
Jumpin' spaghetti monsters! Do you even reality?
You you ceratainly do not. Exactly what kind of world is it you you support an adversary of the US to commit espionage? Personally, I consider that high treason, as well as anyone who supports an adversary committing espionage.
Dread_Ed, i you are an American, you are a traitor. If not, you'r the US's enemy.
So much is being done to attract people to the region that it is making it unbearable for those of us who have always been here.
That's called survival for the city. Its also the normal reaction that many people have as they age. I have a childhood memory of going to Forbes Field with my father and uncle to watch the Pirates play. Some time in the 1960's Must have been the last year before it was torn down. I remember the burgh was about as grim a place as I could imagine. Shuttered steel mills. Dreary run down houses, and there was that big black skyscraper that looked like something that the devil would live in (Cathedral of Learning) Black from the soot. It's returned to the original color now. Fortunately, that Pittsburgh is long gone.
My reply is that if I wanted to live in those cities, I'd move there. I live in Pittsburgh and I like it
And you ought to, because it's a darn nice place. It can't stay frozen in time. In Pittsburgh they reinvented themselves - otherwise it would have become a Pennsylvania version of Detroit.
HB2 has done quite a bit of damage to commerce in NC, no matter how loud the idiots in Raleigh want to scream that it hasn't. The guys in Asheville have been hit the worst but I see it here as well.
So anyhow, have the good people of North Carolina hired their peen and vagygy inspectors yet?
All of their moral idiocy aside, the rank stupidity of people who think such a thing is enforceable tells the rest of the world that it will be really hard to find anyone competent, or that they're spending all their time thinking about peens and vagygy's, and conflating places to take a dump with sex. Damn - they're dumb perverts.
Low cost housing, many distinct old ethnic neighborhoods and restaurants, good school districts. Rails-to-trails have created many wonderful biking walking trails. Will feel all the four seasons. Only negatives are the narrow single laned roads. Very pictureque and beautiful, as long as you don't have to go anywhere in a hurry, it is great.
It's an amazing place. The old smokey city is long gone, and in it's place a jewel was forged.
My favorite way to come into the burgh is through the Fort Pitt Tunnel. You enter the tunnelfrom the south, with nothing but trees and a mountainside. Then when you exit - its like the Wizard of Oz, a city sprung up suddenly from nowhere, all scrubbed clean and pretty. In recent years they took to painting all of the bridges yellow - sounds odd, but looks cool, and yellow and black are the city's colors.
And if you run out of things to do there, it's your fault.
rent is not a realistic expectation of property value, its only a realistic expectation of how much a fool will spend to not assume the slightest responsibility
I dunno, its all tradeoffs. I made out pretty well in one respect - bought my place in the mid-90's paid it off in 15 years, and now have no mortgage. But most people don't work that way. Most takt a whole 30 years to pay it off, or even more when they extract and extend through re-fi's.
Because the responsibility you avoid is all of the maintenance. When you need a new roof or have a plumbing problem or the furnace or AC needs fixed or replaced you don't get to call the super, you get to call someone who fixes things for a profit, and pay for it yourself. Or of course you can do it yourself, using up your time.
The idea that buying is always better than renting is how we get ourselves into housing bubbles and overpriced housing. And for many, a financial mess.
Unfortunately my water heater uses my house's pipes as an antenna. I tried putting up Faraday cage wallpaper (even on the ceiling!), but am unsure what to do about the windows.
Aluminum screens, compatriot! As long as the mesh is small enough, you can block the insidious radio frequencies of those who would steal your vital bodily fluids.
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There is a perplexing amount of GNOME hate in the top comments. I'm a very happy user. I've been using Linux almost exclusively in all capacities since about 1999 and have sampled and/or used a lot of desktop environments. GNOME is the best, IMHO.
If its what you like, it's all you need. Too many slashdot users seem to think that something they don't like must suck.
Seriously, why is this a thing?
So someone held a gun to your head and forced you to use it? Go to distrowatch, and get one of the distros that doesn't cause you to blow your stack
Seems odd that some people can get so upset about other people choosing not to have their code on their system, let alone run it.
Kinda have that the wrong way around Cowboy. You can't make a thread about Linux without systemd trolling.
Don't whinge about Gnome 3 and its applications, just use MATE
Exactly. I don't like Gnome, and I found this incredibly simple trick to avoid it. You won't believe what happens next!
I use Ubuntu Mate. Works a trick. If I didn't use Mate, I'd use Mint. Seems weird about people crying about an interface thy don't like, then there are so many alternatives, a few of them exemplary.
Or this is just another god of the gaps argument.
It is exactly that. Only the faithful are calling God the entity running the simulator.
Maybe a ploy to end science funding because what's the point anymore?
And this, sir, is why you really need to consider taking a course in formal logic and maybe learn about logical fallacies.
Minor point - logic does not mean correct. It merely means logical. I agree with ya otherwise.
Umm no and here's the rebuttal: http://backreaction.blogspot.c...
To tell the truth, I think that the "Universe is a simulation" is just the latest creationist effort. In a simulation, dinosaurs can be put in the ground just for fun, bioogical relations are just that way because the great simulator in the sky wants them that way, and the apparent age of the universe, speed of light, and radioactivity are all 100 percent arbitrary.
So if the universe is a simulation, there is no reason why the Abrahamic God didn't create it in October 4004 b.c.e. as determined by Usher so it is now science, and must be taught in the nation's classrooms. The Bible is now the scientific description of a scientific simulation program.
Solved everything and did the final endrun around those supreme court athiests. Howbow dah?
It isn't even a theory though, as there isn't anything to support it.
There is no conclusive proof, but there is plenty of evidence that the universe is a simulation. In many ways, the universe appears to be designed to be easy to simulate. If you were designing a universe simulation, what would you do?
1. Due to limited computational resources, the simulated universe would be granular or "quantum". 2. To limit computation, reality would be held in a fuzzy probabilistic "superposition" state until it is actually observed, similar to how a GPU running OpenGL will skip the generation of hidden polygons. 3. The maximum speed of information transfer would be finite, to limit the propagation of changes through the universe.
All of these are actually true in our universe, ergo, we are very likely a simulation.
I have it even better using the same logic. God made us - let's say the Abrahamic God. We are here, which is completey consistent with God making us, therefore - proven that God made us.
God's running the simulation, and that's all anyone needs to know. It all depends one's ability to give up and stop thinking, because if we live in a simulation, there is no point in studying anything, because at any moment, the great simulator in the sky can turn off the computer, and make a different simulation.
Is it me, or does it seem like those who argument so adamantly against the concept of a supreme being are perfectly happy to entertain the idea that we are part of a stimulation?
It's you.
it's simply a cool-sounding idea with absolutely no experimental evidence at all.
Unless the simulation has major bugs, the simulated entities will never be able to prove that they are, in fact, simulated, unless the entity running the simulation allows it.
Exactly - no evidence.
And as such, it's religion. The simulation might have been caused by the Desert God, her multiple offshoots Christianity, Judaism, or Islam, Buddha, Dagon, or any of the thousands of other Gods man has created.
Which is another interesting philosophical inanity. If man creates God in his own image, and our existence is a simulation, did man there create his own universe in a simulation?
The problem comes when a theory such as this is "abused" as it were to justify a whole bunch of metaphysical claptrap.
It isn't even a theory though, as there isn't anything to support it. Even if in some incredibly unlikely circumstance that we are able to prove we are in a simulation, maybe the entity that made up the simulation we are in is likewise in a simulation.
It's the old who created the creator problem, and just like the creator business, the simulation business is in the realm of religion. Everone can have thier own religion, and thy are all right because that's what they believe.
No thanks.
To describe it as simply such is a bit dismissive. It is a provocative speculation that can spur interest, thought, and motivation to devise new experiments. I agree, it can be of some use.
The problem of course, is the speculation might be that whoever stated this simulation has structured it in such a way that the poop people in the simulation might never be able to find out if they are in a simulation.
And thus ends the discussion. We can't determine it. Or maybe we can, but maybe not - probably not, maybe the great simulator kills everyone who gets close to understanding. Maybe not. Opinions trump facts. Maybe, maybe not.
For some strange reason, the string theorists are also behind this sort of malarky, wanting to not have to subject their "theory" to critical thinking or the scientific method. It's the sort of thing that ends up with you coming to the conclusion - "It's how it is because that's how it is."
In the end - sure, something for some folks to talk about. Philosophers, perhaps some religious folk. But also in the end, it's the mental equivalent of "Can God make a burrito so hot he can't stand it?"
Its because we always verify information from people 'are they lying or wrong'. But totally trust the computer. It has no motive to lie.
I can see you're not using Windows 10.
Well played sir. Funny and coming out of left field.
The humorless reactionaries in here will take your +5 funny comment and turn you into a troll. I just wanted to acknowledge that some of us still have a sense of humor.
Exactly. They really had to research that the parts of the brain that handle navigation aren't active when we aren't navigating?!? That's part of the reason we use a GPS in the first place... so we don't have to think about it. (the key reason being, we don't have a clue where the hell we're going.)
Bad research too. Road sign technology with arrows telling you which way to turn has done away with the need for compasses and astrolabes too. It isn't electronics, but it is a method of making travelling much easier. So is GPS guidance.
I really don't buy this study. Because it isn't terribly definitive. In order to come up with a real conclusion, you would need people who have good mental mapping abilities, because a fair subset of the population has no ability, or a cockeyed one (think of the people who when giving you directions, use things like "Go a ways past the tree that was struck by lightning in 1985, or was it 1990 - then there's a lime green car at Bills house - I think it's a white - no maybe light blue house".
Then another important issue is the reality check. GPS isn't infallable, yet people act like it is. Regardless, I can and do drive halfway across the country and use GPS a lot. I can still return or head back without the GPS. If this study were remotely true, I would not be able to do that now.
This is the reality of augmented biology, just like the testosterone producing organs shrink when taking IV steroids, the navigation parts of the brain will shrink if all you do is rely on SatNav to find your way.
I dunno. Mental direction mapping is not something that is universal. While I can play the old "Which direction does the sun rise on in our new house?" game with my wife, and while otherwise brilliant, she falls for it - I can use a GPS for directions once, and if I need to go that way again, I don't even need to turn the device on. If it made people worse, I wouldn't be able to navigate myself any more.
This study is deeply flawed. Their test subjects need to start out with a good sense of direction, and need to understand that a GPS navigation system always needs a reality check. Otherwise, it's a dead lock that the results will be what they concluded.
Or covering their faces -makes them pretty much pointless. Personally I hide all my cameras quite well so they're not noticeable. I've caught some copulation in my side yard, no breakins however.
Damn racoons anyhow!
Maybe they just figured out how to get rid of a bunch of employees without having to pay severances or unemployment.
I'm seeing a fine big bonus here.
Sorry I can't uprate you.
Just stand by for his reply to me. Oughta be entertaining.
Yep, he asked the Russians to hack a server that had not only been offline for over a year, but was also already wiped (with a cloth?) at that point.
Jumpin' spaghetti monsters! Do you even reality?
You you ceratainly do not. Exactly what kind of world is it you you support an adversary of the US to commit espionage? Personally, I consider that high treason, as well as anyone who supports an adversary committing espionage.
Dread_Ed, i you are an American, you are a traitor. If not, you'r the US's enemy.
Are you positive?
Why? the article summary is mostly, negative.
What? I thought it was goodenough.
So much is being done to attract people to the region that it is making it unbearable for those of us who have always been here.
That's called survival for the city. Its also the normal reaction that many people have as they age. I have a childhood memory of going to Forbes Field with my father and uncle to watch the Pirates play. Some time in the 1960's Must have been the last year before it was torn down. I remember the burgh was about as grim a place as I could imagine. Shuttered steel mills. Dreary run down houses, and there was that big black skyscraper that looked like something that the devil would live in (Cathedral of Learning) Black from the soot. It's returned to the original color now. Fortunately, that Pittsburgh is long gone.
My reply is that if I wanted to live in those cities, I'd move there. I live in Pittsburgh and I like it
And you ought to, because it's a darn nice place. It can't stay frozen in time. In Pittsburgh they reinvented themselves - otherwise it would have become a Pennsylvania version of Detroit.
GO Pens.
HB2 has done quite a bit of damage to commerce in NC, no matter how loud the idiots in Raleigh want to scream that it hasn't. The guys in Asheville have been hit the worst but I see it here as well.
So anyhow, have the good people of North Carolina hired their peen and vagygy inspectors yet?
All of their moral idiocy aside, the rank stupidity of people who think such a thing is enforceable tells the rest of the world that it will be really hard to find anyone competent, or that they're spending all their time thinking about peens and vagygy's, and conflating places to take a dump with sex. Damn - they're dumb perverts.
Low cost housing, many distinct old ethnic neighborhoods and restaurants, good school districts. Rails-to-trails have created many wonderful biking walking trails. Will feel all the four seasons. Only negatives are the narrow single laned roads. Very pictureque and beautiful, as long as you don't have to go anywhere in a hurry, it is great.
It's an amazing place. The old smokey city is long gone, and in it's place a jewel was forged.
My favorite way to come into the burgh is through the Fort Pitt Tunnel. You enter the tunnelfrom the south, with nothing but trees and a mountainside. Then when you exit - its like the Wizard of Oz, a city sprung up suddenly from nowhere, all scrubbed clean and pretty. In recent years they took to painting all of the bridges yellow - sounds odd, but looks cool, and yellow and black are the city's colors.
And if you run out of things to do there, it's your fault.
rent is not a realistic expectation of property value, its only a realistic expectation of how much a fool will spend to not assume the slightest responsibility
I dunno, its all tradeoffs. I made out pretty well in one respect - bought my place in the mid-90's paid it off in 15 years, and now have no mortgage. But most people don't work that way. Most takt a whole 30 years to pay it off, or even more when they extract and extend through re-fi's.
Because the responsibility you avoid is all of the maintenance. When you need a new roof or have a plumbing problem or the furnace or AC needs fixed or replaced you don't get to call the super, you get to call someone who fixes things for a profit, and pay for it yourself. Or of course you can do it yourself, using up your time.
The idea that buying is always better than renting is how we get ourselves into housing bubbles and overpriced housing. And for many, a financial mess.
Unfortunately my water heater uses my house's pipes as an antenna. I tried putting up Faraday cage wallpaper (even on the ceiling!), but am unsure what to do about the windows.
Aluminum screens, compatriot! As long as the mesh is small enough, you can block the insidious radio frequencies of those who would steal your vital bodily fluids.