The only green metal I need is CroMoly Steel for my bicycle. We don't need all that energy. We use so much to do so little: If we worked less we would do more!
We need a paradigm shift but likely this is just going to be another crisis of Capitalism that continues with new branding, just as we greenwashed oil burning cars into coal-electricity burning nuclear cars.
When I read this headline my first thought was this is to complete with Google. Google is planning to release google video for linux when they do a netbook OS or something like that. So many netbooks use linux (even though wondows is making inroads). And people buy netbooks for VOIP - I did. Right now Skype on Linux is clunky. It is doable but it is also a pain. Skype is also almost synonymous with VOIP. Few people know what VOIP is but many know what Skype is. Like Kleenex. But Google could disrupt that gravy train because Gmail is so ubiquiotous and it really isn't far away from having the video chat work from "inside" Gmail - if they did it on Linux too for netbooks they could really usurp that title the way Google Usurped Yahoo's king of the search engine title so long ago.
Just my thoughts. I was pining for the Linux Google Video feature a while ago while I was setting up Skype (and it was a pain) because I thought it might be easier. Also it would be much easier to use with my email addressbook than the few people I have bookmarked in Skype.
But the problems with Skype in Linux are relatively minor: things you can (and we do) hack around. But this is a big obstacle for many non-techy users like my wife who had to wait for me to do it for her. So if they open up Skype (or just symbolically go through the motions and get more geeky hacking) then may;be they can get over the little bugs like figuring out the quirky microphone settings required for skype to work on my netbook well... such that I don't have to hack it my self and people have no reason to desire a Google replacement.
Still it will be tough for Skype because Gmail video can really just blow they away if it is done half well - 1 program instead of two - or 0 (browser doesn't count) obstacle to adoption.
Busting unions means you understand technology? No.
Anyways the point is that Google has a great opportunity now to wipe Rupert Murdoch off the internet. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he was suddenly de-listed -- at his own request. All of a sudden Fox news loses half of it's ad revenue overnight. That would be what I call mass enlightenment.
Actually this is exciting only for the auto industry because it allows them to continue their rape of the earth and bullying and killing us in our public streets all while calling themselves the eco green next new thing. People will buy new cars thinking they are "saving the earth." The reality is that most of the pollution from cars is due to the manufacture of the car and the roads - things which change 0% depending on the fuel in the tank. Solar 100% would be the same issue. A minority of our wasteful consumption is in the actual driving fuel. Just owning a car is destructive. Car fuel use is already quite efficient and it mostly serves to have people thing driving is sustainable and cheap so they buy more cars and drive more and build more roads for us to cross. Even though there are already lots and lots and lots.
As well, we now have quieter cars which will sneak up on and run over pedestrians and wildlife with just as much gore. And we have drivers staring at their fuel consumption gauge rather than watching the road. Seriously, people brag about driving this way now, I've heard it several times.
Famine is not a lack of food. The Green Revolution is modern politics and there is not objective truth yet. We shall see.
Myself, I am highly suspicious of the claims made of the Green Revolution. Forcing self sufficient farmers into monocultural export production isn't decreasing starvation... except if you pretend they don't exists until they are counted in the "Free Market" (Which is how we count)
Surely there are assinine environmentalism policies. But the rap sheet isn't as long nor as undeniable as the long record of assinine "development" initiative.
In any case the only useful simplistic lesson one can draw from this is to always be suspicious of abstraction and hihg-minded idealism applied to people far away. The conclusions you draw environmental vs. development vs. whathaveyou are just a reflection of your assumptions... That is unless you have proof and you don't because this is slashdot, not a serious argument.
Hmm, your right. It does use ttf fonts though. I guess that is why I assumed it was like chrome and picasa... hold on, picasa doesn't use wine or ttf?... it just renders fonts crappy. On my system. I don't know all about this wine stuff that much and it is changing all the time. The 64 bit version of opera looks a lot worse on my home computer than it does now on my netbook i've just installed it on, also I'm sure this is a much newer version... It's actually looking pretty good in gnome. Though I'm not sure I like having the tabs in between the buttons and the menus. I suppose I could move it?
Anyway, I'll play with Opera more now that you forced me to test it to see that it isn't WINE. Good. Maybe I tried a very old version in 2006 using WINE? I can't remember anymore.
Personally I like Kazehakase when FF is getting bogged down.
Interesting, I never really 'got' the software system before.
Frankly I think my system might be a theoretical improvement. What is we could not copyright code? All that we could do was patent it. And the software patents were different, more like the patenting of physical mechanisms and the original intention of patents whereby innovation and sharing of knowledge was encouraged rather than discouraged.
On the other hand that would put the GPL and other copyrights we like in jeopardy.
wait, wouldn't that therefore mean that software patents are like open sourcing your code and only allowing one person to sell it??? Somehow I don't think it works that openly.
check out the book "pills a go go" by jim hogshire. one of the most popular placebos is merely putting a drug into pill form. much more effective that way;) peoples likes pills!
I'm interested in playing with opera more, and chrome. But both of those seem to be built only in WINE? If not, then they sure look that way with Gnome/ubuntu! I'm not usually so worried about superficial looks. But, using a browser is such a primary thing it needs to fit into the desktop and have nice fonts to read since you look at it so much.
Did you do anything special to get Chrome to look decent or are you just more tolerant of this sort of thing than I am? I'm just using default versions from repos on Jaunty. I'm pretty sure my FF (swiftfox actually) came with a default ubuntu skin theme so it looks good.
Any suggestions? I suppose I could look into prettying up the WINE fonts but that all sounds like work to get a browser to play with that won't have plugins I use. But i also get weird flash video issues and I'd love to use your method to get around that. Also you can't simply restart FF and have it save all the tabs in multiple windows, have to kill it from the command line then the crash protection kicks in. Kind of a messy approach imo.
Oh, so you mean all those free CDs, posters, t-shirts, concert tickets, etc. are all illegal? I guess I'll be calling the FBI now. Oh, they're right on it, top of their priority list. I'm never going to hear Britney Spears on commercial radio again, apparently. Wish I had thought of that sooner. Oh yes, I'll call up the advertising standards group and wow, they are prosecuting every instance of lies that say I will "Save" money when they require me to first to *spend.* Oh, Clearchannel has now been shut down for multiple violations. Good thing for that law!
Honesty in advertising and commercial radio... That'll be the day.;-p
I've been trying to record my calls. I've used xvidcap and that works ok for the video but not for the sound so far. If this bug/flaw/virus ever does impact linux I'm sure it will fail about 80% of the time because it's hard to do this on purpose!
Let's just be quiet and encouraging everyone. This could be the best thing since sliced bread. Imagine, disinformation suddenly declines 30% on its own accord. Hold off on the jeering until it is a done deal because you might tip them off!
A keen mind and keen body go hand in hand. Tech work is often exploitive. In reality it is not so dramatically different from any other kind of work that going for such long periods is excusable. Tech workers need to organise themselves. If anything you need MORE breaks in tech work as the physical situation is so limiting.
Don't listen to nonsense about cutting calories. Diets are an industry of lies built on lowering self-image. Same with "working out." We should use our bodies regularly, not just exercise (practice) using them. FAT!SO? by Marilyn Wnad is a great book full of good ideas if you need more deprogramming in that department.
Ride your bike and use that time to clear your head. Increased blood flow helps mental agility. You will realise that you are more valuable than to be exploited in this way. If the company really needs you THAT much then they need you enough to give you decent hours. And if they don't want to give you that they are cruel jerks who you should get as far away from as possible.
I agree. I think there is untapped energy that can be used without resorting to private companies for every software design. There is so much energy from users reporting bugs etc. There is so much development all over the place. What we need is a system to help focus those energies together. To make the bug reporting user feedback less annoying or overwhelming. To make development that meets public goals more satisfying. It's hard but not impossible. It's about managing information so that it gets where it should. Most developers are driven by the idea of people getting satisfaction from their projects. But right now, often the feedback isn't helpful.
Also, getting more newbies into development is a great thing. Still it is too involved for most to make the leap into development. I've tried a few times but I just can't hack it (so far)... but I know that at some point I will get there.
Also, these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day. FOSS is not old. In computers people think too short term still. Over time as technology and everything matures we'll get this right.
Actually I'm thinking more like the Vye S37, a netbook with a optical drive so it is thicker. Who cares if it is 2" thick as long as otherwise it is small and light. Thin just seems impractical and expensive... like "how did they make the HDD that thin?" But I wish the Vye had the battery life of the Asus EEE 1000he. And that it was cheaper to get with a North American keyboard. (the only site that I seem to find are in the UK or Australia)
I totally dislike the Seashell Asus EEE 1008 direction. Thin and less good battery. Who cares if it is stylish now, it will be out of style sooner that way. I wish the EEE 1004DN was a reasonable machine but it seems the launch of that was aborted (and the price is crazy)
thanks, I knew it should be simple but I was having a heck of a time before a party trying to figure it out. It is important for our livingroom when we watch movies because one speaker is closer to people than the other and in order for it to sound reasonable I need to balance them.
I can't seem to find any such thing. My computer/media centre goes into my stereo amp which doesn't have L/R balance. I was hoping for a simple tool to do this in the computer. Couldn't find one. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Audio in Linux is hard. Audio is such a different direction from the original purpose of server. And part of the hardness is all the different systems Pulse, ALSA, OSS etc which many people (like me) can't understand the difference between. X.org is in way better shape than audio.
I don't really understand moment of inertia, though as a cyclist i am very familiar with angular momentum.
My brief reading of the wikipedia articles suggests that something with a rigid dense core would have a lower moment of inertia because all the mass is concentrated in a smaller area. But if Ganymede has a liquid core wouldn't that contradict the moment of inertia finding? It would support the fluid dynamics creating magnetic fields theory. Anyway, this stuff is all beyond me but I'm sure you are right that the moment of inertia is a very relevant factor that gives clues on what might be inside there.
Seems like there will be lots of computer simulations to test out these theories because the systems seem complicated.
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The only green metal I need is CroMoly Steel for my bicycle. We don't need all that energy. We use so much to do so little: If we worked less we would do more!
We need a paradigm shift but likely this is just going to be another crisis of Capitalism that continues with new branding, just as we greenwashed oil burning cars into coal-electricity burning nuclear cars.
nonsense war-apologist semantics
When I read this headline my first thought was this is to complete with Google. Google is planning to release google video for linux when they do a netbook OS or something like that. So many netbooks use linux (even though wondows is making inroads). And people buy netbooks for VOIP - I did. Right now Skype on Linux is clunky. It is doable but it is also a pain. Skype is also almost synonymous with VOIP. Few people know what VOIP is but many know what Skype is. Like Kleenex. But Google could disrupt that gravy train because Gmail is so ubiquiotous and it really isn't far away from having the video chat work from "inside" Gmail - if they did it on Linux too for netbooks they could really usurp that title the way Google Usurped Yahoo's king of the search engine title so long ago.
Just my thoughts. I was pining for the Linux Google Video feature a while ago while I was setting up Skype (and it was a pain) because I thought it might be easier. Also it would be much easier to use with my email addressbook than the few people I have bookmarked in Skype.
But the problems with Skype in Linux are relatively minor: things you can (and we do) hack around. But this is a big obstacle for many non-techy users like my wife who had to wait for me to do it for her. So if they open up Skype (or just symbolically go through the motions and get more geeky hacking) then may;be they can get over the little bugs like figuring out the quirky microphone settings required for skype to work on my netbook well... such that I don't have to hack it my self and people have no reason to desire a Google replacement.
Still it will be tough for Skype because Gmail video can really just blow they away if it is done half well - 1 program instead of two - or 0 (browser doesn't count) obstacle to adoption.
Flash is the real enemy! ...x100
Busting unions means you understand technology? No.
Anyways the point is that Google has a great opportunity now to wipe Rupert Murdoch off the internet. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he was suddenly de-listed -- at his own request. All of a sudden Fox news loses half of it's ad revenue overnight. That would be what I call mass enlightenment.
Isn't the tailpipe output of diesel always much dirtier with more particulates? Like busses?
Actually this is exciting only for the auto industry because it allows them to continue their rape of the earth and bullying and killing us in our public streets all while calling themselves the eco green next new thing. People will buy new cars thinking they are "saving the earth." The reality is that most of the pollution from cars is due to the manufacture of the car and the roads - things which change 0% depending on the fuel in the tank. Solar 100% would be the same issue. A minority of our wasteful consumption is in the actual driving fuel. Just owning a car is destructive. Car fuel use is already quite efficient and it mostly serves to have people thing driving is sustainable and cheap so they buy more cars and drive more and build more roads for us to cross. Even though there are already lots and lots and lots.
As well, we now have quieter cars which will sneak up on and run over pedestrians and wildlife with just as much gore. And we have drivers staring at their fuel consumption gauge rather than watching the road. Seriously, people brag about driving this way now, I've heard it several times.
BS! prove it.
Famine is not a lack of food. The Green Revolution is modern politics and there is not objective truth yet. We shall see.
Myself, I am highly suspicious of the claims made of the Green Revolution. Forcing self sufficient farmers into monocultural export production isn't decreasing starvation... except if you pretend they don't exists until they are counted in the "Free Market" (Which is how we count)
Surely there are assinine environmentalism policies. But the rap sheet isn't as long nor as undeniable as the long record of assinine "development" initiative.
In any case the only useful simplistic lesson one can draw from this is to always be suspicious of abstraction and hihg-minded idealism applied to people far away. The conclusions you draw environmental vs. development vs. whathaveyou are just a reflection of your assumptions... That is unless you have proof and you don't because this is slashdot, not a serious argument.
Hmm, your right. It does use ttf fonts though. I guess that is why I assumed it was like chrome and picasa... hold on, picasa doesn't use wine or ttf?... it just renders fonts crappy. On my system. I don't know all about this wine stuff that much and it is changing all the time. The 64 bit version of opera looks a lot worse on my home computer than it does now on my netbook i've just installed it on, also I'm sure this is a much newer version... It's actually looking pretty good in gnome. Though I'm not sure I like having the tabs in between the buttons and the menus. I suppose I could move it?
Anyway, I'll play with Opera more now that you forced me to test it to see that it isn't WINE. Good. Maybe I tried a very old version in 2006 using WINE? I can't remember anymore.
Personally I like Kazehakase when FF is getting bogged down.
Interesting, I never really 'got' the software system before.
Frankly I think my system might be a theoretical improvement. What is we could not copyright code? All that we could do was patent it. And the software patents were different, more like the patenting of physical mechanisms and the original intention of patents whereby innovation and sharing of knowledge was encouraged rather than discouraged.
On the other hand that would put the GPL and other copyrights we like in jeopardy.
wait, wouldn't that therefore mean that software patents are like open sourcing your code and only allowing one person to sell it??? Somehow I don't think it works that openly.
check out the book "pills a go go" by jim hogshire. one of the most popular placebos is merely putting a drug into pill form. much more effective that way ;) peoples likes pills!
I'm interested in playing with opera more, and chrome. But both of those seem to be built only in WINE? If not, then they sure look that way with Gnome/ubuntu! I'm not usually so worried about superficial looks. But, using a browser is such a primary thing it needs to fit into the desktop and have nice fonts to read since you look at it so much.
Did you do anything special to get Chrome to look decent or are you just more tolerant of this sort of thing than I am? I'm just using default versions from repos on Jaunty. I'm pretty sure my FF (swiftfox actually) came with a default ubuntu skin theme so it looks good.
Any suggestions? I suppose I could look into prettying up the WINE fonts but that all sounds like work to get a browser to play with that won't have plugins I use. But i also get weird flash video issues and I'd love to use your method to get around that. Also you can't simply restart FF and have it save all the tabs in multiple windows, have to kill it from the command line then the crash protection kicks in. Kind of a messy approach imo.
Oh, so you mean all those free CDs, posters, t-shirts, concert tickets, etc. are all illegal? I guess I'll be calling the FBI now. Oh, they're right on it, top of their priority list. I'm never going to hear Britney Spears on commercial radio again, apparently. Wish I had thought of that sooner. Oh yes, I'll call up the advertising standards group and wow, they are prosecuting every instance of lies that say I will "Save" money when they require me to first to *spend.* Oh, Clearchannel has now been shut down for multiple violations. Good thing for that law!
Honesty in advertising and commercial radio... That'll be the day. ;-p
I've been trying to record my calls. I've used xvidcap and that works ok for the video but not for the sound so far. If this bug/flaw/virus ever does impact linux I'm sure it will fail about 80% of the time because it's hard to do this on purpose!
Let's just be quiet and encouraging everyone. This could be the best thing since sliced bread. Imagine, disinformation suddenly declines 30% on its own accord. Hold off on the jeering until it is a done deal because you might tip them off!
...Lemmings!
A keen mind and keen body go hand in hand. Tech work is often exploitive. In reality it is not so dramatically different from any other kind of work that going for such long periods is excusable. Tech workers need to organise themselves. If anything you need MORE breaks in tech work as the physical situation is so limiting.
Don't listen to nonsense about cutting calories. Diets are an industry of lies built on lowering self-image. Same with "working out." We should use our bodies regularly, not just exercise (practice) using them. FAT!SO? by Marilyn Wnad is a great book full of good ideas if you need more deprogramming in that department.
Ride your bike and use that time to clear your head. Increased blood flow helps mental agility. You will realise that you are more valuable than to be exploited in this way. If the company really needs you THAT much then they need you enough to give you decent hours. And if they don't want to give you that they are cruel jerks who you should get as far away from as possible.
I agree. I think there is untapped energy that can be used without resorting to private companies for every software design. There is so much energy from users reporting bugs etc. There is so much development all over the place. What we need is a system to help focus those energies together. To make the bug reporting user feedback less annoying or overwhelming. To make development that meets public goals more satisfying. It's hard but not impossible. It's about managing information so that it gets where it should. Most developers are driven by the idea of people getting satisfaction from their projects. But right now, often the feedback isn't helpful.
Also, getting more newbies into development is a great thing. Still it is too involved for most to make the leap into development. I've tried a few times but I just can't hack it (so far)... but I know that at some point I will get there.
Also, these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day. FOSS is not old. In computers people think too short term still. Over time as technology and everything matures we'll get this right.
well they didn't squash it very well, obviously.
Actually I'm thinking more like the Vye S37, a netbook with a optical drive so it is thicker. Who cares if it is 2" thick as long as otherwise it is small and light. Thin just seems impractical and expensive... like "how did they make the HDD that thin?" But I wish the Vye had the battery life of the Asus EEE 1000he. And that it was cheaper to get with a North American keyboard. (the only site that I seem to find are in the UK or Australia)
I totally dislike the Seashell Asus EEE 1008 direction. Thin and less good battery. Who cares if it is stylish now, it will be out of style sooner that way. I wish the EEE 1004DN was a reasonable machine but it seems the launch of that was aborted (and the price is crazy)
thanks, I knew it should be simple but I was having a heck of a time before a party trying to figure it out. It is important for our livingroom when we watch movies because one speaker is closer to people than the other and in order for it to sound reasonable I need to balance them.
cheers
I can't seem to find any such thing. My computer/media centre goes into my stereo amp which doesn't have L/R balance. I was hoping for a simple tool to do this in the computer. Couldn't find one. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Audio in Linux is hard. Audio is such a different direction from the original purpose of server. And part of the hardness is all the different systems Pulse, ALSA, OSS etc which many people (like me) can't understand the difference between. X.org is in way better shape than audio.
Commercial passenger planes?
Yes, I caught the 2:30 transatlantic flight to Frankfurt aboard a Piper Tomahawk?!
I don't really understand moment of inertia, though as a cyclist i am very familiar with angular momentum.
My brief reading of the wikipedia articles suggests that something with a rigid dense core would have a lower moment of inertia because all the mass is concentrated in a smaller area. But if Ganymede has a liquid core wouldn't that contradict the moment of inertia finding? It would support the fluid dynamics creating magnetic fields theory. Anyway, this stuff is all beyond me but I'm sure you are right that the moment of inertia is a very relevant factor that gives clues on what might be inside there.
Seems like there will be lots of computer simulations to test out these theories because the systems seem complicated.