Even at the office, my laptop is tethered to my desk all day, and it's something of a pain to undock it, reset all the open network sessions, and fire up the VPN just to take it into a meeting.
Or you could just buy a $300 netbook to use in that capacity.
Or a $500 laptop.
My mother doesn't do content creation.
Mine does. Methinks your mother should get with the times.
- Myst - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (in this case, playing the game on the second easiest difficulty level through to the ascent to transcendence) - Pharaoh, Cleopatra, or Caesar (Impression's Games) - Heavy Rain - Jedi Knight : Dark Forces II - The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind
If he beats any two of these games and maintains that they are not art, I'll leave him alone.
Really, it's amazing Blackboard is still around with two full-featured FOSS competitors in existence. I guess it's just testament to the power of lock-in.
The volcano is roughly 100 times as green if we're talking about CO2 emissions, and 10 times as green if we're talking about SO2. Of course, that's assuming that given Pv = the pollution output from this volcano over two years Pvt = total pollution output by volcanoes. Pe = European airplane pollution Pht = total human-sourced pollution
Pe / Pht == Pv / Pvt
And there are some gaping flaws in that logic, but the point is volcanoes are fairly inconsequential as drivers of pollution.
A moderate amount of alcohol causes no significant problems.
A moderate amount of LSD can cause psychosis.
The difference is in volume. Eating a nutmeg will kill you, that doesn't mean that it's a problem to put a small quantity of nutmeg on your food.
Alcohol also has a variety of industrial and household uses, including as a disinfectant and flavoring (like nutmeg.) LSD is only useful as a recreational drug, and possibly for psychotherapy (though there are more targeted drugs that achieve the same effect with fewer side effects.)
The fact is the Republican and Democratic candidates are consensus candidates. While there are those who would vastly prefer Nader or Barr or McKinney or whoever, there are many more who would be terrified of that possibility. Consensus is as it is.
That said, we should move to approval voting or instant runoff.
Actually, if you look at it purely in monetary terms, spam is probably a bigger problem in the United States than terrorism. Obviously, spam rarely kills anyone, but in terms of murder, terrorism is not as significant a driver of tragedy in America as the US government would like you to think.
Well, Apple gets away with charging an absurd markup for basically no reason, you would think they could get away with ensuring good wages for all their suppliers employees.
Yes. They're not testing it in space though. They're testing it in one of the labs on the ISS.
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Why exactly? GTK apps run fine on Windows and Mac. Anyone who says that Ubuntu/Fedora/Red Hat/Debian's Gnome installations are anything other than beautiful hasn't updated their machine in the past 4 years. Win XP is a joke compared to them. Personally, I prefer them to OS X.
What Linux is missing is people developing their apps for Linux, not a common desktop environment.
What exactly are you talking about? This is a test model, it sounds like they're just looking to test it in zero-G before they put any money into building one that can handle a vacuum.
The fact is, to do that NASA's budget needs to be doubled. I'm kind of with Obama on his current position, which seems to me to be that if we're not going to fund NASA to fulfill its mandate, let's not budget as if it was possible with the amount of money NASA has. We have to kill the projects that don't have a chance of succeeding without additional funds (like human spaceflight.)
Oh, I've been around, and I don't really mind the pointless shit (you can just ignore it after all) but this is all stuff that's worth discussing... in separate threads.
I expect it will be a lot like when Bertolt Brecht fled the United States for the USSR. As a socialist, he had naturally run afoul of the House Un-American Activities committee.
Now what's curious is that in Soviet Russia, only one style of theatre was allowed - Soviet Realism, which was very straight-laced simple stuff, and of course always portrayed the Communists in a good light. But the interesting thing is that not only did Brecht get away with a very heightened and unrealistic style (his trademark "Epic Theatre") but he was able to make plays overtly critical of the regime. His blacklisting by the Americans gave him essentially unassailable credentials as a communist visionary.
This gives me an idea. Can we re-brand the net neutrality debate? People don't have a fucking clue what net neutrality means. But if we make it about telecoms double-billing, that's a whole different game.
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Wait, they released 10.04 already? I thought we were talking about a testing version. That people were profiling.
Just like every other consumer device.
Including the iPad and Apple's various other products.
Or you could just buy a $300 netbook to use in that capacity.
Or a $500 laptop.
Mine does. Methinks your mother should get with the times.
I would challenge Mr. Ebert to try his hand at:
- Myst
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (in this case, playing the game on the second easiest difficulty level through to the ascent to transcendence)
- Pharaoh, Cleopatra, or Caesar (Impression's Games)
- Heavy Rain
- Jedi Knight : Dark Forces II
- The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind
If he beats any two of these games and maintains that they are not art, I'll leave him alone.
My impression is that this says more about Blackboard's security than anything else.
Time to switch to one of the FOSS (and in many ways superior) alternatives:
Moodle and Sakai
Really, it's amazing Blackboard is still around with two full-featured FOSS competitors in existence. I guess it's just testament to the power of lock-in.
I was comparing the volcano to European airplane pollution, not all European pollution.
My point was that the volcanoes are "more green" because they create less of the non-green SO2 compound.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/questions/question/2008/
The volcano is roughly 100 times as green if we're talking about CO2 emissions, and 10 times as green if we're talking about SO2. Of course, that's assuming that given
Pv = the pollution output from this volcano over two years
Pvt = total pollution output by volcanoes.
Pe = European airplane pollution
Pht = total human-sourced pollution
Pe / Pht == Pv / Pvt
And there are some gaping flaws in that logic, but the point is volcanoes are fairly inconsequential as drivers of pollution.
A moderate amount of alcohol causes no significant problems.
A moderate amount of LSD can cause psychosis.
The difference is in volume. Eating a nutmeg will kill you, that doesn't mean that it's a problem to put a small quantity of nutmeg on your food.
Alcohol also has a variety of industrial and household uses, including as a disinfectant and flavoring (like nutmeg.) LSD is only useful as a recreational drug, and possibly for psychotherapy (though there are more targeted drugs that achieve the same effect with fewer side effects.)
The fact is the Republican and Democratic candidates are consensus candidates. While there are those who would vastly prefer Nader or Barr or McKinney or whoever, there are many more who would be terrified of that possibility. Consensus is as it is.
That said, we should move to approval voting or instant runoff.
What would make it a lot simpler is if we cut out the middlemen and let the government create a single, accessible, easy to use tax entry web form.
Government IOUs are called money. If the government is handing out something other than money in place of money, your money is worthless anyway.
In aggregate, that lost time will likely cause at least one death. So they're roughly on par, though it obviously depends on motive and circumstances.
Actually, if you look at it purely in monetary terms, spam is probably a bigger problem in the United States than terrorism. Obviously, spam rarely kills anyone, but in terms of murder, terrorism is not as significant a driver of tragedy in America as the US government would like you to think.
Well, Apple gets away with charging an absurd markup for basically no reason, you would think they could get away with ensuring good wages for all their suppliers employees.
Ethical is paying a fair wage to your employees, and budgeting so that your suppliers can do the same.
Yes. They're not testing it in space though. They're testing it in one of the labs on the ISS.
Why exactly? GTK apps run fine on Windows and Mac. Anyone who says that Ubuntu/Fedora/Red Hat/Debian's Gnome installations are anything other than beautiful hasn't updated their machine in the past 4 years. Win XP is a joke compared to them. Personally, I prefer them to OS X.
What Linux is missing is people developing their apps for Linux, not a common desktop environment.
What exactly are you talking about? This is a test model, it sounds like they're just looking to test it in zero-G before they put any money into building one that can handle a vacuum.
The fact is, to do that NASA's budget needs to be doubled. I'm kind of with Obama on his current position, which seems to me to be that if we're not going to fund NASA to fulfill its mandate, let's not budget as if it was possible with the amount of money NASA has. We have to kill the projects that don't have a chance of succeeding without additional funds (like human spaceflight.)
Oh, I've been around, and I don't really mind the pointless shit (you can just ignore it after all) but this is all stuff that's worth discussing... in separate threads.
We've started churning out pointless stories all day and then cramming four actual news posts into a single thread?
I expect it will be a lot like when Bertolt Brecht fled the United States for the USSR. As a socialist, he had naturally run afoul of the House Un-American Activities committee.
Now what's curious is that in Soviet Russia, only one style of theatre was allowed - Soviet Realism, which was very straight-laced simple stuff, and of course always portrayed the Communists in a good light. But the interesting thing is that not only did Brecht get away with a very heightened and unrealistic style (his trademark "Epic Theatre") but he was able to make plays overtly critical of the regime. His blacklisting by the Americans gave him essentially unassailable credentials as a communist visionary.
EA has just been getting large enough that no amount of incompetence can stop them from occasionally producing a good game.
This gives me an idea. Can we re-brand the net neutrality debate? People don't have a fucking clue what net neutrality means. But if we make it about telecoms double-billing, that's a whole different game.