> I have to say that Adobe Flash is horrible on Linux, it uses far more CPU time and its not as smooth either.Flash is no worse on Linux than any other platform. This includes Windows despite all of the nonsense about howthe new versions of Flash allegedly are better at supporting things like PureVideo. I was trying this out formyself just last night and was sorely disappointed by all of the hype that led me to believe that Windows woulddo better in this regard.It does not use far more CPU and it is not any less smooth.Linux is also far less likely to completely freeze as Flash is having it's usual problems.Yes, I decided to go back to playing Hulu in Linux because doing so in Windows 7 was becoming painful and annoying.
Well, so to sum up: * You tried the tailored Operating System to your Hardware.* You tried Ubuntu* Ubuntu was worse, than the tailored Operating System to your Hardware. If your Hardware has errors, or some specific quirks, which may not be detected by an overblown Debian fork (which however wasn't in the summary of tried Operating Systems - only the tailored Operating System to your Hardware was) you blame Ubuntu for not being userfriendly, as response to a post describing he was glad, that Ubuntu tried to f
See poster above, apparently the Canadian gov. isn't stopping peer reviewed publication, just gov. scientists pimping their asses to the popular media. In a way, there's a certain logic to that; why should a scientist get media coverage (with enough points it can be turned into real money) on the government dime. On the other hand, there should be wider dissemination for scientific results even if the public is in general too uneducated or distracted to care.
Correct - and for people who have trouble understanding how university professors work for something other than industry (financial compensation) or the government (financial or political compensation), the other professors work for academic prestige. Which, of course, can be directly correlated to future money, but there ARE a few who publish solely for academic reasons.
The current "jackpot jury" system is sot irrevocably broken it's not even remotely funny.The jury isn't qualified to evaluate the data presented and inevitably comes to ridiculous conclusions. All malpractice/medical injury claims should be decided by a committee of practicing doctors to decide if there was actually malpractice.
If you are giving someone a physical item in exchange for money such that you no longer have access to that item then to me that is a sale. Are they saying you can't even give the software away to someone else now?Non-transferable licences suck. It's all in the name of maximising profits and not allowing people to recoup their loses if they made a mistake (and bought some software they didn't like or use).
If this is "really the big news we have been waiting for all along," then we can officially proclaim this as a Slow News Week!.
Who didn't expect Firefox 4 to beat IE9 and narrow the performance gap to Safari, Opera, Chrome? Wake me up when Firefox 4 blows them all out of the water!
I'm a pretty moral guy, but i do pirate dvd's (and cd's for the same reasons) every now & then, for several reasons:
1) I already have the dvd but it got damaged
2) It's no longer available
3) They refuse to sell it in my country (or i have to wait 6 months before the European release, **** that)
4) I'm not sure if it's worth any money yet
Basicly, if the dvd is any good, and the price is good, then i'll buy it, sadly, i haven't had to buy many dvd's these days, most of what comes out is crap.
Is this
"instead of about $3 every 6-12 months on batteries?"
citation needed: why do the rechargeable batteries require replacing every 6-12 months? After being charged 180-360 times (full charge each day) they can't hold a charge anymore?
Modern NiMH rechargeable batteries like Sanyo Eneloop retain 85% of full capacity even after a year in storage and can charge up to 1,000 times without experiencing any memory effect while only costing $2.50 a battery. I wouldn't mind replacing the batteries every 3 years
Those are definitely a few niche products.I know people who design medical devices and one of my friends was working on self-powered devices for his PhD project. They definitely have a set of potential uses.Still, they're not "the future" and shouldn't be over-hyped.
Thrusting is right. ( Though I usually refer to 3-D as "throwing **** at your face")You can spot a commercial for almost every 3-D movie right away, even watching in 2D with no foreknowledge. You'll see spears, birds, balls anything that moves rapidly moving towards you, stopping just short of hitting the screen.As with B&W movies, or even silent films, that survive and entertain today, it's about the content, not the technology. New features can possibly enhance the experience, but a crap show is a crap show, regardless if it's in HD, surround sound and 3-D.
OK, so I'm not PopeRatzo, but frankly I'm tempted by your offer. You think the US is so great? It has many great things going for it certainly, but seriously it has many really grave problems that remain unaddressed. Same goes for Brazil. Or every other country. I'm in a situation at present that sees my future for the next couple of years, of being a few dollars away from living on the street. It is only thanks to friends, family and a great employer that I'm getting by. I am immigrant living in the US. Le
I have an example for you. A company I used to work for in Vancouver, Washington outsourced entry level data entry to a couple of different companies in India. The cost was about 80% of what it cost us to have it down by employees here in the US. Except the quality was so variable (occasionally very good, but usually a high percentage of errors, varying from 20% to 100% (you wouldn't believe the sort of errors I found sometimes) and we demanded an error rate of less than 1% from our own employees (and could
I imagine that the kernel is upgraded without ever actually stopping. Kexec actually switches the CPU from long or protected mode back down to real mode and then invokes your new kernel. It's a particularly neat trick for acquiring or manipulating any BIOS based x86 system with a Linux kernel prior to invoking NTLDR or the Windows Boot Manager. A fellow named John Stumpo wrote a Windows driver called WinKexec for doing a Kexec from Windows. I compiled it but never did get it to work. Something about the
The language seems a little strange, but the article implies that they were using the DSM-IV as quoted in Wikipedia as a source.The DSM, for those who don't know, is basically the official manual of mental problems. Every clinician should have one. Here's the Wikipedia article on it. The DSM is exactly where you should go to prove mental problems, as that is unimpeachably A if not The source.Not going directly to the DSM, but rather citing a wikipedia article about what the DSM says, is just sloppy. It
I had some professors tell me that Encyclopedic citations were ok so long as they were reputable sources and they aren't your sole source. Any time I had to do a background or historical piece in a paper I found encyclopedias to be useful as a way of citing a reputable summary. If you're piecing information together to make a new or novel argument then encyclopedias wouldn't really help, but in some cases they might be useful.But citing wikipedia? dumb. Just dumb.
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> I have to say that Adobe Flash is horrible on Linux, it uses far more CPU time and its not as smooth either.Flash is no worse on Linux than any other platform. This includes Windows despite all of the nonsense about howthe new versions of Flash allegedly are better at supporting things like PureVideo. I was trying this out formyself just last night and was sorely disappointed by all of the hype that led me to believe that Windows woulddo better in this regard.It does not use far more CPU and it is not any less smooth.Linux is also far less likely to completely freeze as Flash is having it's usual problems.Yes, I decided to go back to playing Hulu in Linux because doing so in Windows 7 was becoming painful and annoying.
Well, so to sum up: * You tried the tailored Operating System to your Hardware.* You tried Ubuntu* Ubuntu was worse, than the tailored Operating System to your Hardware. If your Hardware has errors, or some specific quirks, which may not be detected by an overblown Debian fork (which however wasn't in the summary of tried Operating Systems - only the tailored Operating System to your Hardware was) you blame Ubuntu for not being userfriendly, as response to a post describing he was glad, that Ubuntu tried to f
See poster above, apparently the Canadian gov. isn't stopping peer reviewed publication, just gov. scientists pimping their asses to the popular media. In a way, there's a certain logic to that; why should a scientist get media coverage (with enough points it can be turned into real money) on the government dime. On the other hand, there should be wider dissemination for scientific results even if the public is in general too uneducated or distracted to care.
Correct - and for people who have trouble understanding how university professors work for something other than industry (financial compensation) or the government (financial or political compensation), the other professors work for academic prestige. Which, of course, can be directly correlated to future money, but there ARE a few who publish solely for academic reasons.
The current "jackpot jury" system is sot irrevocably broken it's not even remotely funny.The jury isn't qualified to evaluate the data presented and inevitably comes to ridiculous conclusions. All malpractice/medical injury claims should be decided by a committee of practicing doctors to decide if there was actually malpractice.
If you are giving someone a physical item in exchange for money such that you no longer have access to that item then to me that is a sale. Are they saying you can't even give the software away to someone else now?Non-transferable licences suck. It's all in the name of maximising profits and not allowing people to recoup their loses if they made a mistake (and bought some software they didn't like or use).
Sure but that's a huge amount of what PayPal is used for. They don't forbid you using it to pay an individual that you had a private transaction with.
If this is "really the big news we have been waiting for all along," then we can officially proclaim this as a Slow News Week!. Who didn't expect Firefox 4 to beat IE9 and narrow the performance gap to Safari, Opera, Chrome? Wake me up when Firefox 4 blows them all out of the water!
I'm a pretty moral guy, but i do pirate dvd's (and cd's for the same reasons) every now & then, for several reasons: 1) I already have the dvd but it got damaged 2) It's no longer available 3) They refuse to sell it in my country (or i have to wait 6 months before the European release, **** that) 4) I'm not sure if it's worth any money yet Basicly, if the dvd is any good, and the price is good, then i'll buy it, sadly, i haven't had to buy many dvd's these days, most of what comes out is crap. Is this
Sorry but it makes more sense to have rules based on the behavior of the other 999.
"instead of about $3 every 6-12 months on batteries?" citation needed: why do the rechargeable batteries require replacing every 6-12 months? After being charged 180-360 times (full charge each day) they can't hold a charge anymore? Modern NiMH rechargeable batteries like Sanyo Eneloop retain 85% of full capacity even after a year in storage and can charge up to 1,000 times without experiencing any memory effect while only costing $2.50 a battery. I wouldn't mind replacing the batteries every 3 years
Those are definitely a few niche products.I know people who design medical devices and one of my friends was working on self-powered devices for his PhD project. They definitely have a set of potential uses.Still, they're not "the future" and shouldn't be over-hyped.
Thrusting is right. ( Though I usually refer to 3-D as "throwing **** at your face")You can spot a commercial for almost every 3-D movie right away, even watching in 2D with no foreknowledge. You'll see spears, birds, balls anything that moves rapidly moving towards you, stopping just short of hitting the screen.As with B&W movies, or even silent films, that survive and entertain today, it's about the content, not the technology. New features can possibly enhance the experience, but a crap show is a crap show, regardless if it's in HD, surround sound and 3-D.
FWIW. I knew who Singh was before this case came up.
OK, so I'm not PopeRatzo, but frankly I'm tempted by your offer. You think the US is so great? It has many great things going for it certainly, but seriously it has many really grave problems that remain unaddressed. Same goes for Brazil. Or every other country. I'm in a situation at present that sees my future for the next couple of years, of being a few dollars away from living on the street. It is only thanks to friends, family and a great employer that I'm getting by. I am immigrant living in the US. Le
c-c-c-combo breaker !
I have an example for you. A company I used to work for in Vancouver, Washington outsourced entry level data entry to a couple of different companies in India. The cost was about 80% of what it cost us to have it down by employees here in the US. Except the quality was so variable (occasionally very good, but usually a high percentage of errors, varying from 20% to 100% (you wouldn't believe the sort of errors I found sometimes) and we demanded an error rate of less than 1% from our own employees (and could
I imagine that the kernel is upgraded without ever actually stopping. Kexec actually switches the CPU from long or protected mode back down to real mode and then invokes your new kernel. It's a particularly neat trick for acquiring or manipulating any BIOS based x86 system with a Linux kernel prior to invoking NTLDR or the Windows Boot Manager. A fellow named John Stumpo wrote a Windows driver called WinKexec for doing a Kexec from Windows. I compiled it but never did get it to work. Something about the
Linux user = more brains than moneyMac user = more money than brainsWindows user = ...?
The language seems a little strange, but the article implies that they were using the DSM-IV as quoted in Wikipedia as a source.The DSM, for those who don't know, is basically the official manual of mental problems. Every clinician should have one. Here's the Wikipedia article on it. The DSM is exactly where you should go to prove mental problems, as that is unimpeachably A if not The source.Not going directly to the DSM, but rather citing a wikipedia article about what the DSM says, is just sloppy. It
I had some professors tell me that Encyclopedic citations were ok so long as they were reputable sources and they aren't your sole source. Any time I had to do a background or historical piece in a paper I found encyclopedias to be useful as a way of citing a reputable summary. If you're piecing information together to make a new or novel argument then encyclopedias wouldn't really help, but in some cases they might be useful.But citing wikipedia? dumb. Just dumb.