7) In Gnome that would be Cheese, but it depends on the drivers. Most webcams are based on the USB Video class or on GSPCA, and both of those types are supported on recent kernels. I haven't used it much (I don't have a webcam myself), but it looks OK.
Except there is a bit of stagnation around the specifications. For example, no standard suspend and hibernate icon names since 2 years. This is rather annoying, but I hope they will add them soon.
Vitriolic comments - check GPL/BSD flamewar - check Bashing Linux - check Bashing RMS - check Adoration of ZFS - check Hardware support discussion - check
I think we have all bases covered by now. Is BSD becoming the new Apple?
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It could be so much more powerful, and unrestricted by RMS to what software and code to use to improve itself.
Are you a troll? Ubuntu contains many BSD-licensed projects in its repositories, including OpenSSH and PostgreSQL. Additionally, GPL does not affect use, it only affects distribution. When it comes to being more powerful, I think that being able to run on a system (drivers) is more important than philosophical differences.
And what those could be? If there is no copyright transfer involved and you are not doing this during your paid work hours, I don't see what could be wrong, because you still retain the copyright and can release the code under a different license if you wish so.
The only doomsday scenario I can think of is where the developer transfers copyright to another project for something he did for work, and then the project sues the developer's company for using "their" code without complying with the GPL. Regardless of this, you have no right to contribute even to a BSD project without permission if the code you wrote formally belongs to your company.
Why are the TFA comments so retarded? People mention Chernobyl which had about as much in common with this technology as an 18-wheeler and stilts (both can be used as means of transportation), and TMI where nobody was harmed. When will this idiocy stop? I'm just tired at this point. I admit that there are some arguments against nuclear power, but Chernobyl and TMI accidents are definitely not them.
The last sentence is also annoying. "If only it wasn't nuclear" - and what should it be? Magic eternal candle? Sex energy? Hamster wheels? It's time to get real.
if people would spend more time finding out how to spare earth's resources instead of new ways to waste them
Die already, you won't waste the Earth's resources any more, and even become a resource yourself (for the plants).
we would all be happier except the capitalists
Give up your clothes, home, car, food, heating, consumer electronics and cold medication and then say it again. Nobody forces you to partake in this thing we call civilization, you can always relocate to a remote forest.
maybe we wouldn't need such huge general power requirements if we focused more on ways to better save power and to better recycle waste heat.
There are things that must use lots of energy because of the way the universe works, for instance heating, iron processing and industrial chemistry. Energy-saving technologies can skim at most a few percent from the total energy consumption, and all they will do is decrease the price a bit so that more energy will be used for other things.
Conventional PWR containment vessel should sustain a direct airplane hit, so it wouldn't be totally unreasonable that this thinner vessels can sustain explosives. Especially if they are not in a shaped charge or bores. Shaped charges are rather difficult to make, and there is no time for boring during an attack, so the terrorists are unlikely to use them. Additionally, how do you do use even normal explosives if this reactor is buried several meters under the ground? You use a shovel, or dig a tunnel from a nearby house like in class B bank heist movies? I think the whole terrorist threat is very exaggerated.
Some modern nuclear reactors can also use thorium, which is much more abundant than uranium, and virtually untapped. The reserves of uranium are large.
I think the "peak uranium" people are forgetting that after the Chernobyl disaster there were practically no new reactors built in several countries, so the uranium miners had to compete against high grade uranium from decommisioned nuclear warheads, and mining and discovery efforts had to be reduced accordingly. This is why we are after "peak uranium", but this is not a supply-driven economy like oil, it is a demand-driven economy because of the limited and restricted use of uranium.
Isn't the point to replace the grid? And the battery isn't environmentally neutral. Actually it may be several times more harmful than a nuclear reactor.
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E: Could not open lock file/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
I remember the Logitech mouse drivers let you use the scroll wheel WITHOUT having to click to focus on the window to scroll.
X11 does that without any additional software... Additionally, you don't need a 10MB+ resident process just to have working horizontal scroll (Logitech does this at least on XP).
Only abstract man very often disregards physical reality for abstract beliefs and these faulty beliefs often contributes to knowledge distortion not inline with physical reality and survival.
What you want to say is that religion is an evolutionary disadvantage. So how did it even arose if it adversely affects survival?
I think that evolution activists have this inherent problem of having to acknowledge that religion is a natural part of humanity (since they believe it was "evolved") and is an evolutionary advantage, while at the same pretending it's something artificially forced upon people in order to be able to criticize it.
Off the top of my head, I'd say the best way to tap a fiber optics line would be to cut it once, move to another location, cut it again, and install the monitoring equipment at the second location before the first cut is patched.
Ehm, do you know that undersea cables are never repaired, because it would be several times more expensive than laying a new one?
As I understand it, copyright in UK is now AUTHOR'S LIFE + 50 years. They'll extend it to AUTHOR'S LIFE + 70 years. What does this have to do with aging musicians? I don't think a person dead for the last 70 years needs money, unless we're really talking about welfare payments for children of famous artists.
By the way, this entire "author's life" thing in copyright is downright idiotic - to determine whether a given work is copyrighted or not I have to find out when did the authors die, and this information isn't easily accessible. It would be much easier if it was e.g. simple 50 years from publication - this information is usually contained in the work itself.
Eee runs Linpus Linux, which is utter shit. Nothing can prevent people from creating distros which are useless, but then again, nobody is forced to use them. I don't know why they didn't use a decent distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora and instead opted to torture people with this abomination. It looks like they wanted to show people that Linux netbooks are not in demand through preinstalling an extremely crappy version of Linux that would scare off just about anybody.
For me changing the titlebar font size is only a few clicks: System->Preferences->Appearance, Font tab, pick another font size. Changing the window theme is roughly the same amount of "work". The user-friendly features are there already, you just have to cooperate with a packaging team that doesn't suck.
You have two good illustration programs -- Inkscape and Xara. Inkscape isn't too bad and it's gotten lots better, but is still missing key features like automatic drop shadows. Xara is okayish, but uses a non-standard file format, is limited in some ways and is pretty unstable.
Inkscape does support nearly-automatic drop shadows if you define a custom filter in the Filters dialog (the smart way, and I admit that the filters dialog is rather complicated right now), or alternatively you can duplicate your object, convert everything to paths, union them, and apply blur (the stupid way). I don't think drop shadows are a "key feature", because this is a very small part of what people want to with vector graphics - much more important are vinyl cutter output and true CMYK handling.
When it comes to Xara, it's far behind Inkscape - the first time I tried to use it it crashed on me, and there are many quirks that are really annoying (e.g. rotation center is a property of the selector tool, not of the object!)
Have I missed something? The point is that the only reason this is on Slashdot is because they decided to exert pressure on the authors. If they left it alone, this extension would fade into obscurity, but now thousands of people are going to use it, probably even lowering their sales. That's almost a definition of "shooting oneself in the foot".
Obviously, Amazon still believes the failed doctrine of "action is better than inaction".
Renewable suorces are cost effective and running wind or solar farms is certainly profitable, but the question is whether they can supply all the needed power. For Hawaii it seems like a very good solution, provided there will be some safeguards against windless cloudy days. For larger countries, especially flat ones far away from the equator, renewables aren't very effective (except perhaps geothermal and hydro, but the first isn't available everywhere, and the second isn't really environmentally friendly).
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7) In Gnome that would be Cheese, but it depends on the drivers. Most webcams are based on the USB Video class or on GSPCA, and both of those types are supported on recent kernels. I haven't used it much (I don't have a webcam myself), but it looks OK.
Except there is a bit of stagnation around the specifications. For example, no standard suspend and hibernate icon names since 2 years. This is rather annoying, but I hope they will add them soon.
Vitriolic comments - check
GPL/BSD flamewar - check
Bashing Linux - check
Bashing RMS - check
Adoration of ZFS - check
Hardware support discussion - check
I think we have all bases covered by now.
Is BSD becoming the new Apple?
It could be so much more powerful, and unrestricted by RMS to what software and code to use to improve itself.
Are you a troll? Ubuntu contains many BSD-licensed projects in its repositories, including OpenSSH and PostgreSQL. Additionally, GPL does not affect use, it only affects distribution. When it comes to being more powerful, I think that being able to run on a system (drivers) is more important than philosophical differences.
And what those could be? If there is no copyright transfer involved and you are not doing this during your paid work hours, I don't see what could be wrong, because you still retain the copyright and can release the code under a different license if you wish so.
The only doomsday scenario I can think of is where the developer transfers copyright to another project for something he did for work, and then the project sues the developer's company for using "their" code without complying with the GPL. Regardless of this, you have no right to contribute even to a BSD project without permission if the code you wrote formally belongs to your company.
Why are the TFA comments so retarded? People mention Chernobyl which had about as much in common with this technology as an 18-wheeler and stilts (both can be used as means of transportation), and TMI where nobody was harmed. When will this idiocy stop? I'm just tired at this point. I admit that there are some arguments against nuclear power, but Chernobyl and TMI accidents are definitely not them.
The last sentence is also annoying. "If only it wasn't nuclear" - and what should it be? Magic eternal candle? Sex energy? Hamster wheels? It's time to get real.
if people would spend more time finding out how to spare earth's resources instead of new ways to waste them
Die already, you won't waste the Earth's resources any more, and even become a resource yourself (for the plants).
we would all be happier except the capitalists
Give up your clothes, home, car, food, heating, consumer electronics and cold medication and then say it again. Nobody forces you to partake in this thing we call civilization, you can always relocate to a remote forest.
maybe we wouldn't need such huge general power requirements if we focused more on ways to better save power and to better recycle waste heat.
There are things that must use lots of energy because of the way the universe works, for instance heating, iron processing and industrial chemistry. Energy-saving technologies can skim at most a few percent from the total energy consumption, and all they will do is decrease the price a bit so that more energy will be used for other things.
Sadly, the worlds uranium supply is limited.
On the other hand, thorium supply is much larger, and almost untapped. It just requires work to commercialize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle
Conventional PWR containment vessel should sustain a direct airplane hit, so it wouldn't be totally unreasonable that this thinner vessels can sustain explosives. Especially if they are not in a shaped charge or bores. Shaped charges are rather difficult to make, and there is no time for boring during an attack, so the terrorists are unlikely to use them. Additionally, how do you do use even normal explosives if this reactor is buried several meters under the ground? You use a shovel, or dig a tunnel from a nearby house like in class B bank heist movies? I think the whole terrorist threat is very exaggerated.
Some modern nuclear reactors can also use thorium, which is much more abundant than uranium, and virtually untapped. The reserves of uranium are large.
I think the "peak uranium" people are forgetting that after the Chernobyl disaster there were practically no new reactors built in several countries, so the uranium miners had to compete against high grade uranium from decommisioned nuclear warheads, and mining and discovery efforts had to be reduced accordingly. This is why we are after "peak uranium", but this is not a supply-driven economy like oil, it is a demand-driven economy because of the limited and restricted use of uranium.
Isn't the point to replace the grid? And the battery isn't environmentally neutral. Actually it may be several times more harmful than a nuclear reactor.
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
You fail as well.
Option 1:
sudo apt-get install firefox
Option 2 (for novices)
gksu synaptic
Option 3 (for grannies)
gksu gnome-app-install
This is driver code, so yes, the standard library is in all probability not available! (shocking)
I remember the Logitech mouse drivers let you use the scroll wheel WITHOUT having to click to focus on the window to scroll.
X11 does that without any additional software... Additionally, you don't need a 10MB+ resident process just to have working horizontal scroll (Logitech does this at least on XP).
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Brains are expensive things to maintain. If an organism can survive and replicate without one, then it's not worth the cost.
In reality, larger brain leads to lower chance of replication. I believe this is called The Slashdot Paradox.
Only abstract man very often disregards physical reality for abstract beliefs and these faulty beliefs often contributes to knowledge distortion not inline with physical reality and survival.
What you want to say is that religion is an evolutionary disadvantage. So how did it even arose if it adversely affects survival?
I think that evolution activists have this inherent problem of having to acknowledge that religion is a natural part of humanity (since they believe it was "evolved") and is an evolutionary advantage, while at the same pretending it's something artificially forced upon people in order to be able to criticize it.
Off the top of my head, I'd say the best way to tap a fiber optics line would be to cut it once, move to another location, cut it again, and install the monitoring equipment at the second location before the first cut is patched.
Ehm, do you know that undersea cables are never repaired, because it would be several times more expensive than laying a new one?
As I understand it, copyright in UK is now AUTHOR'S LIFE + 50 years. They'll extend it to AUTHOR'S LIFE + 70 years. What does this have to do with aging musicians? I don't think a person dead for the last 70 years needs money, unless we're really talking about welfare payments for children of famous artists.
By the way, this entire "author's life" thing in copyright is downright idiotic - to determine whether a given work is copyrighted or not I have to find out when did the authors die, and this information isn't easily accessible. It would be much easier if it was e.g. simple 50 years from publication - this information is usually contained in the work itself.
Eee runs Linpus Linux, which is utter shit. Nothing can prevent people from creating distros which are useless, but then again, nobody is forced to use them. I don't know why they didn't use a decent distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora and instead opted to torture people with this abomination. It looks like they wanted to show people that Linux netbooks are not in demand through preinstalling an extremely crappy version of Linux that would scare off just about anybody.
For me changing the titlebar font size is only a few clicks: System->Preferences->Appearance, Font tab, pick another font size. Changing the window theme is roughly the same amount of "work". The user-friendly features are there already, you just have to cooperate with a packaging team that doesn't suck.
Disclaimer: I've worked a bit on Inkscape.
You have two good illustration programs -- Inkscape and Xara. Inkscape isn't too bad and it's gotten lots better, but is still missing key features like automatic drop shadows. Xara is okayish, but uses a non-standard file format, is limited in some ways and is pretty unstable.
Inkscape does support nearly-automatic drop shadows if you define a custom filter in the Filters dialog (the smart way, and I admit that the filters dialog is rather complicated right now), or alternatively you can duplicate your object, convert everything to paths, union them, and apply blur (the stupid way). I don't think drop shadows are a "key feature", because this is a very small part of what people want to with vector graphics - much more important are vinyl cutter output and true CMYK handling.
When it comes to Xara, it's far behind Inkscape - the first time I tried to use it it crashed on me, and there are many quirks that are really annoying (e.g. rotation center is a property of the selector tool, not of the object!)
Have I missed something? The point is that the only reason this is on Slashdot is because they decided to exert pressure on the authors. If they left it alone, this extension would fade into obscurity, but now thousands of people are going to use it, probably even lowering their sales. That's almost a definition of "shooting oneself in the foot".
Obviously, Amazon still believes the failed doctrine of "action is better than inaction".
Try LogMeIn or GoToMyPC
Pick the latter because the first is a PC=Windows troll for now. GoToMyPC even has some Linux support, though it's not as good as for Windows.
"a" may not be a word, for some meanings of "word" - it doesn't convey information, but is only a grammatical boilerplate.
Renewable suorces are cost effective and running wind or solar farms is certainly profitable, but the question is whether they can supply all the needed power. For Hawaii it seems like a very good solution, provided there will be some safeguards against windless cloudy days. For larger countries, especially flat ones far away from the equator, renewables aren't very effective (except perhaps geothermal and hydro, but the first isn't available everywhere, and the second isn't really environmentally friendly).