Ubuntu's repository servers time and time again get kicked in the balls on release day. You will wait two days minimum to get the upgrade done. PLUS there are some pretty nasty bugs which cause all sorts of havoc once they get officially released. I have never had a dist-upgrade go clean and always had to reinstall. Please resist the urge to jump at the brand new and shiny. Wait until Monday or Tuesday. And back up your sources.list, samba, bookmarks and newsfeeds.
That being said, I generally like Kubuntu's Karmic Koala. I've been running it since Beta 1 and while not mind blowing, it's pretty good. It's a 'stay the course' release.
I wonder about people who use aliases on facebook (we KNOW they exist but aren't "allowed" in the facebook TOS) I have had two friends die in the past six months (One from cancer, another in a fire) who both used aliases. How does one go about having these people memorialized/removed from facebook if no obituary or news article exists using the alias? Granted there would be some obvious signs - facebook groups in memory of, memories on the walls, a stoppage to facebook updates etc. - but if the rule is hard and fast you're toast.
I RTFA and think it's geeky cool just for the robots, but I wonder about how to apply this to real life. How could we use the algorithms to improve our router firewall, or kernel scheduling, or even better dynamic playlists on our favorite music players? Could we have our coffee makers figure out when we would ACTUALLY like our coffee being brewed?
Agreed. XKCD's webpage today is both an epic fail and an epic pass.
Personally, I will raise a glass to Geocities today. It was my first personal webpage back in 1996 when I only had the Unix lab on the 5th floor of the U of Manitoba's Engineering building. Looking back the net was the wild west and Geocities was a boomtown then. Everyone had come into town and set up shop. There was some good pages, some bad pages and some truly awful pages but it was a low barrier to entry and allowed pretty much everyone to sort this new world out.
Now if this version is 30% faster on my Kubuntu box AND AND AND has the List function that Excel 2003 has (instead of the g*****n f***ing POS filter function), I will officially never return to MS Office.
It seems that every time an "improved" interface to your computer is invented, they get more complicated whilst simultaneously looking simpler.
I disagree. KDE4's start menu (Kicker as I recall) is fairly complex and certainly doesn't look simpler. Although once I got used to it (vs KDE3's Win2K style) I prefered it because I found it intuitive.
In the end, this is a concept GUI. Designers/Programmers/People will pick it over, take and expand the ideas the find interesting/good, discard the disinteresting/bad ones, and evolve them. We are long past revolutions on GUIs - it's pure evolution now.
I actually use Yahoo. Seriously. It is my main messenger and I get the vast majority of my sports news from it and in fact like a number of their journalists/bloggers. I am actually very pleased with Yahoo opening up their stuff. Their compatability with 3rd party messengers SUCKS and having some more stuff that works with KDE's social desktop would be A-OK with me.
As I recall and gleen from both Debian & FreeBSD, Debian will always redistribute it's changes to the community. However, this is a construct of GPL also. BSD does not require redistribution of the source code, only that copyrights are still in the binary & source code IF they are redistributed. That's why OSX can be based off BSD and not release the sourcecode. Long story short, the BSD licence is neither more nor less.
Off Topic side question: Is OSX's GUI GNOME? And if so, how does Apple get away with not release the source?
Who says webOS won't get ported a la Rockbox? And after all, Linux will run on almost anything. I can see where eventually phones will become just like desktops and laptops - pick yer OS.
Will a bill such as this endanger publishing companies in the same way Internet journalism endangers traditional journalism?
Short Answer: Yes.
Long Answer: Yes, but some bright spark will come along, figure out a way to make a metric shit-tonne of money from it and blaze the path for other companies to follow. It's how capitalism is supposed to work.
Indeed, ever notice how such a big deal is made over "civilian" casualties, but soldiers, they almost don't even count. Oh well, 10k soldiers died, but HOLY MOLY! You killed a CIVILIAN!!!
I think I'd make just as bad a soldier as you.
Am I the only one who heard Lewis Black saying this?
Even if the odometer was broken the 250 (Don't call it a 3.9 liter - it was NEVER called a 3.9 liter. Nobody calls a 426 Hemi a 6.6 liter) was good to easily double that. The inline sixes of that era (Especially Chrysler's slant six) while not high on the horsepower* they ran forever. You had to pretty much run them out of oil while redlining to truly kill them.
* The inline sixes were actually good performers on the continents. Australia had a '72 Hemi 6 barrel inline 6 which was the fastest production car on the continent for something like 30 years.
I second listening to the podcast. It's a wonderful piece of storytelling and the stainless steel set this guy had blew my mind. Granted he was bipolar, but what he did was exceptional.
I want to see the movie because of the podcast. It's that good.
Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media constantly running stories about all the latest infections? Salmonella, E-coli, hanta virus, bird flu, and Americans will panic easily so everybody's running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths.
In prisons, before they give you lethal injection, they swab your arm with ALCOHOL. Wouldn't want some guy to go to hell AND be sick.Fear of germs, why these fuckin' pussies. You can't even get a decent hamburger anymore they cook the shit out of everything now 'cause everyone's afraid of FOOD POISONING! Hey, wheres you sense of adventure? Take a fuckin' chance will you? Hey you know how many people die of food poisoning in this country? Nine thousand, thats all, its a minor risk.
Take a fuckin' chance bunch of goddamn pussies.Besides, what d'ya think you have an immune system for? It's for killing germs! But it needs practice, it needs germs to practice on. So if you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along, you're not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit?! I'll tell you what your gonna do... you're gonna get sick. You're gonna die and your gonna deserve it because you're fucking weak and you got a fuckin' weak immune system!
Let me tell you a true story about immunization ok. When I was a little boy in New York city in the nineteen-forties, we swam in the Hudson river. And it was filled with raw sewage! OK? We swam in raw sewage, you know, to cool off. And at that time the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw shit!
So personally I never take any precautions against germs. I don't shy away from people who sneeze and cough. I don't wipe off the telephone, I don't cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor I pick it up and eat it!Even if I'm at side walk cafe! IN CALCUTTA! THE POOR SECTION! ON NEW YEARS MORNING DURING A SOCCER RIOT! And you know something? In spite of all the so called "risky behavior ".... I never get infections. I don't get em. I don't get colds, I don't get flu, I don't get headaches, I don't get upset stomach, And you know why? Cause I got a good strong immune system! And it gets a lot of practice!
My immune system is equipped with the biological equivalent of fully automatic military assault rifles, with night vision and laser scopes. And we have recently acquired phosphorous grenades, cluster bombs and anti personnel fragmentation mines.
So, when my white blood cells are on patrol reconnoitering my blood stream seeking out strangers and other undesirables, and if they see any, ANY, suspicious looking germs of any kind, THEY DON'T. FUCK. AROUND. They whip out the weapons, they wax the motherfucker and deposit the unlucky fellow directly into my colon! Into my colon. There's no nonsense! There's no miranda warning, there's none of that three strikes and your out bullshit. First defense, BAM! Into the colon you go!
Now about the best we have is Mythbusters, which certainly piques curiosity, although it has to resort to explosions and skipping most of the steps in the scientific method to make it palatable. They even have a "warning" for science content, which is a bad sign (tongue-in-cheek or not). Maybe we could get back to that, but it seems the prevailing momentum is toward smaller tidbits and shallower topics.
I think you are mistaken on the scientic method issue. Granted, Mythbusters does do a lot of bangs and whatnot (which I admit to finding cool), but usually they do it after exhausting the possibility that the myth is confirmed or plausible. The format they use in my mind is the essence of the scientic method:
1) Hypothesis = Myth is true.
2) Experimentation = Test if myth could happen in real life
3) Evaluation and improvement = If testing fails, re-evaluate how it could happen/how to improve the test method and do more experiments
4) Conclusion = Confirmed, Plausible, or Busted
I read somewhere that teaching is 1/4 knowledge and 3/4 theatrics. If you can hook people into having a thirst for knowledge, science will be OK.
How do they define 'fearful' as it relates to infants? My 1 month old son can barely make out my face never mind something 'fearful'.
Designers *COULD* but how many females like scary movies and how many men do not? I think putting more money into gameplay & plot would be better spent!
Slashdot Mirror
from a long time *buntu user (Edgy Eft):
Don't download it yet!
Ubuntu's repository servers time and time again get kicked in the balls on release day. You will wait two days minimum to get the upgrade done. PLUS there are some pretty nasty bugs which cause all sorts of havoc once they get officially released. I have never had a dist-upgrade go clean and always had to reinstall. Please resist the urge to jump at the brand new and shiny. Wait until Monday or Tuesday. And back up your sources.list, samba, bookmarks and newsfeeds.
That being said, I generally like Kubuntu's Karmic Koala. I've been running it since Beta 1 and while not mind blowing, it's pretty good. It's a 'stay the course' release.
I wonder about people who use aliases on facebook (we KNOW they exist but aren't "allowed" in the facebook TOS) I have had two friends die in the past six months (One from cancer, another in a fire) who both used aliases. How does one go about having these people memorialized/removed from facebook if no obituary or news article exists using the alias? Granted there would be some obvious signs - facebook groups in memory of, memories on the walls, a stoppage to facebook updates etc. - but if the rule is hard and fast you're toast.
Seriously, that link is brutal and quite unreadable.
Although could we have Bucket run through slashdot?
I RTFA and think it's geeky cool just for the robots, but I wonder about how to apply this to real life. How could we use the algorithms to improve our router firewall, or kernel scheduling, or even better dynamic playlists on our favorite music players? Could we have our coffee makers figure out when we would ACTUALLY like our coffee being brewed?
Agreed. XKCD's webpage today is both an epic fail and an epic pass.
Personally, I will raise a glass to Geocities today. It was my first personal webpage back in 1996 when I only had the Unix lab on the 5th floor of the U of Manitoba's Engineering building. Looking back the net was the wild west and Geocities was a boomtown then. Everyone had come into town and set up shop. There was some good pages, some bad pages and some truly awful pages but it was a low barrier to entry and allowed pretty much everyone to sort this new world out.
My percents go up to 400 you insensitive clod!
OK, mixing Spinal Tap and Slashdot memes = Epic Fail.
Now if this version is 30% faster on my Kubuntu box AND AND AND has the List function that Excel 2003 has (instead of the g*****n f***ing POS filter function), I will officially never return to MS Office.
It seems that every time an "improved" interface to your computer is invented, they get more complicated whilst simultaneously looking simpler.
I disagree. KDE4's start menu (Kicker as I recall) is fairly complex and certainly doesn't look simpler. Although once I got used to it (vs KDE3's Win2K style) I prefered it because I found it intuitive. In the end, this is a concept GUI. Designers/Programmers/People will pick it over, take and expand the ideas the find interesting/good, discard the disinteresting/bad ones, and evolve them. We are long past revolutions on GUIs - it's pure evolution now.
I actually use Yahoo. Seriously. It is my main messenger and I get the vast majority of my sports news from it and in fact like a number of their journalists/bloggers. I am actually very pleased with Yahoo opening up their stuff. Their compatability with 3rd party messengers SUCKS and having some more stuff that works with KDE's social desktop would be A-OK with me.
1) Open Source?
2) Could the algorithm be used to find existing images similar to the one you just drew?
3) When is a demo of this thing available?
Didn't Search Engine cover something similar happening in China? Yes, yes they did. And it didn't work out too well for people as I recall.
As I recall and gleen from both Debian & FreeBSD, Debian will always redistribute it's changes to the community. However, this is a construct of GPL also. BSD does not require redistribution of the source code, only that copyrights are still in the binary & source code IF they are redistributed. That's why OSX can be based off BSD and not release the sourcecode. Long story short, the BSD licence is neither more nor less.
Off Topic side question: Is OSX's GUI GNOME? And if so, how does Apple get away with not release the source?
If I had mod points my friend.
Who says webOS won't get ported a la Rockbox? And after all, Linux will run on almost anything. I can see where eventually phones will become just like desktops and laptops - pick yer OS.
Western society (not just the U.S.) is fucked when you SUE someone to cover your ass.
Will a bill such as this endanger publishing companies in the same way Internet journalism endangers traditional journalism?
Short Answer: Yes.
Long Answer: Yes, but some bright spark will come along, figure out a way to make a metric shit-tonne of money from it and blaze the path for other companies to follow. It's how capitalism is supposed to work.
Although I applaud the BootMii people and their work, sadly I cannot try it out on my Wii.My wife would kill me.
Indeed, ever notice how such a big deal is made over "civilian" casualties, but soldiers, they almost don't even count. Oh well, 10k soldiers died, but HOLY MOLY! You killed a CIVILIAN!!!
I think I'd make just as bad a soldier as you.
Am I the only one who heard Lewis Black saying this?
Even if the odometer was broken the 250 (Don't call it a 3.9 liter - it was NEVER called a 3.9 liter. Nobody calls a 426 Hemi a 6.6 liter) was good to easily double that. The inline sixes of that era (Especially Chrysler's slant six) while not high on the horsepower* they ran forever. You had to pretty much run them out of oil while redlining to truly kill them.
* The inline sixes were actually good performers on the continents. Australia had a '72 Hemi 6 barrel inline 6 which was the fastest production car on the continent for something like 30 years.
I second listening to the podcast. It's a wonderful piece of storytelling and the stainless steel set this guy had blew my mind. Granted he was bipolar, but what he did was exceptional.
I want to see the movie because of the podcast. It's that good.
From 'You Are All Diseased':
... you're gonna get sick. You're gonna die and your gonna deserve it because you're fucking weak and you got a fuckin' weak immune system!
Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media constantly running stories about all the latest infections? Salmonella, E-coli, hanta virus, bird flu, and Americans will panic easily so everybody's running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths.
In prisons, before they give you lethal injection, they swab your arm with ALCOHOL. Wouldn't want some guy to go to hell AND be sick.Fear of germs, why these fuckin' pussies. You can't even get a decent hamburger anymore they cook the shit out of everything now 'cause everyone's afraid of FOOD POISONING! Hey, wheres you sense of adventure? Take a fuckin' chance will you? Hey you know how many people die of food poisoning in this country? Nine thousand, thats all, its a minor risk.
Take a fuckin' chance bunch of goddamn pussies.Besides, what d'ya think you have an immune system for? It's for killing germs! But it needs practice, it needs germs to practice on. So if you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along, you're not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit?! I'll tell you what your gonna do
Let me tell you a true story about immunization ok. When I was a little boy in New York city in the nineteen-forties, we swam in the Hudson river. And it was filled with raw sewage! OK? We swam in raw sewage, you know, to cool off. And at that time the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw shit!
So personally I never take any precautions against germs. I don't shy away from people who sneeze and cough. I don't wipe off the telephone, I don't cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor I pick it up and eat it!Even if I'm at side walk cafe! IN CALCUTTA! THE POOR SECTION! ON NEW YEARS MORNING DURING A SOCCER RIOT! And you know something? In spite of all the so called "risky behavior ".... I never get infections. I don't get em. I don't get colds, I don't get flu, I don't get headaches, I don't get upset stomach, And you know why? Cause I got a good strong immune system! And it gets a lot of practice!
My immune system is equipped with the biological equivalent of fully automatic military assault rifles, with night vision and laser scopes. And we have recently acquired phosphorous grenades, cluster bombs and anti personnel fragmentation mines.
So, when my white blood cells are on patrol reconnoitering my blood stream seeking out strangers and other undesirables, and if they see any, ANY, suspicious looking germs of any kind, THEY DON'T. FUCK. AROUND. They whip out the weapons, they wax the motherfucker and deposit the unlucky fellow directly into my colon! Into my colon. There's no nonsense! There's no miranda warning, there's none of that three strikes and your out bullshit. First defense, BAM! Into the colon you go!
I don't think anyone who watches the show thinks it's high-end multi-million dollar research. Or if they do they should have their head examined.
From TFA:
Now about the best we have is Mythbusters, which certainly piques curiosity, although it has to resort to explosions and skipping most of the steps in the scientific method to make it palatable. They even have a "warning" for science content, which is a bad sign (tongue-in-cheek or not). Maybe we could get back to that, but it seems the prevailing momentum is toward smaller tidbits and shallower topics.
I think you are mistaken on the scientic method issue. Granted, Mythbusters does do a lot of bangs and whatnot (which I admit to finding cool), but usually they do it after exhausting the possibility that the myth is confirmed or plausible. The format they use in my mind is the essence of the scientic method:
1) Hypothesis = Myth is true.
2) Experimentation = Test if myth could happen in real life
3) Evaluation and improvement = If testing fails, re-evaluate how it could happen/how to improve the test method and do more experiments
4) Conclusion = Confirmed, Plausible, or Busted
I read somewhere that teaching is 1/4 knowledge and 3/4 theatrics. If you can hook people into having a thirst for knowledge, science will be OK.
How do they define 'fearful' as it relates to infants? My 1 month old son can barely make out my face never mind something 'fearful'.
Designers *COULD* but how many females like scary movies and how many men do not? I think putting more money into gameplay & plot would be better spent!
to not make a comment about drinking and driving....
Seriously, I like it, although spilling beer is a sin, isn't it?