Mine started instantaneously on a fresh install, but now can take several seconds (!), and nothing's wrong with my SSD. I seem to remember reading about some issue with the awesome bar DB that causes FF to get slower and slower as it goes along...
What are you talking about?
1. Mozilla never developed Netscape.
2. Netscape supported videos through the native operating system - a sensible, sane, fast way to play videos. If only WMP hadn't been such a target for malware, and slow to start up, it would have taken off, too.
Huh? Zune - can you even write apps for that? Kin - you can't write apps for that, it's not a smartphone. Windows 7 mobile - since when do you need Microsoft's involvement to release an app for that? I haven't used windows 7, but previous stuff, like windows CE, was an open platform - not FOSS, but you could do whatever you wanted with what you had. Palm too, btw. That's why this new trend emanating from Apple is so devastatingly bad for freedom. Lay off the RDF.
I still own my foldable keyboard, although I got it wet and haven't gotten around to trying to fix it yet. It was awesome! I keep on wishing I had one for my current Palm TX...
Any application, not just GNOME applications, can use filesystems mounted with GNOME's 'connect to server' feature, for instance. I think it's more desirable to write a FUSE module than a KDE-specific KIOSlave.
You say that, but if you look at the apps on the ground, most, well, don't. For instance, I can mount my network drive using GVFS all I want, but I still can't watch anything on it, since VLC has no clue about it. A nice idea, but it would be preferable if they integrated it into the rest of Linux too.
That said, I use Gnome every day.
I understand your frustration, but you're doing it wrong. If you use the official hardware drivers program in the administration menu, kernel upgrades will not cause this behavior. (This is actually the default behavior on a new install now - it pops up and asks you). And it is supported by Canonical.
Appeal to "reasonable folks" who want to find a "middle ground", check.
Can you push any more buttons from the anti-science and anti-evolution camp? This is simple physics - non-ionizing radiation does not cause damage to DNA, period. There is real research on this. What more do you want?
The next time I hear someone appeal to the average man for authority in politics I'm going to go crazy. If I wanted the idiot down the street making decisions for me I would have asked him myself. I want people who have actually spent some time researching this to give me information, thanks.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you might not have considered some of the impact of the rising temperatures. Since you seem like you're being fairly open-minded about this, and since I agree with some of your conclusions (particularly about technology), I don't mind pointing this out. In a lot of places a few more degrees would be nice. Unfortunately, humans tend to like water. They settle on rivers, floodplains, and low-lying coastal areas. Even more unfortunately, these also tend to be high-density, low-income regions. For instance, the nation of Bangladesh, which has 140 million people generally living in poverty is mostly <10m above sea level. (http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/23.htm). Worse, the entire coastal area is essentially at sea level. A small increase in temperature would cause a small increase in sea levels, which would immediately displace millions of indigent people. Of course, this is only one small country. While not every country will have nearly the same scale of problems, it's clear that the human toll in some areas at least could be severe.
The environmental impact on wildlife is also actually rather interesting. I don't have any links or handy info available, but there have been a number of fascinating studies done on how life is adjusting or not adjusting to these issues. The warming that's happened so far has illuminated some interesting things that we might not have discovered otherwise. We stand to lose a great deal of biodiversity, however, at least in the short term (geologically speaking of course).
So, not all change is bad, man-made change can sometimes be really good...but I don't think that's the case on balance here. YMMV, though. Did you have anything concrete that you'd like to point out to support what you were saying? I would be interested to hear it (and not just as a rhetorical point, either).
I had a similar video issue until I switched to the generic kernel branch. I guess the 386 version doesn't like the nvidia driver. Maybe that will work for you?
I hope you're not implying that Goldman Sachs are a bunch of scammers. They're pretty much the only major financial institution to make it through this crisis without falling for the scams and without needing government money. In fact, they were forced to take it by the government so that people wouldn't single out companies receiving bailout money as being failures, not because it was necessary for Goldman. I'm getting really sick of this meme - if you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk about it.
No, I'm sure that Flash is the bottleneck here. I bet it's really hogging the CPU. For example mplayer/ffdshow decoders play Flash video faster and smoother than Flash. And that's on Windows.
Yes, sure. Flash is the bottleneck. I agree completely. However, that means that it's not the pipes, it's the processor running bloated unoptimized software. So my point stands - the hardware is the bottleneck rather than the internet, even if it's not really the hardware's fault. This is a consistent experience for me. It used to be, downloading was slow but once it got to my computer, it was fast. Now, downloading is fast, but my computer can't take it. This may be because I'm getting the most expensive internet-only cable package offered, but it's a significant reversal from the mid 90's when I got the Internet. The old argument about the pipes being the bottleneck might still be true for a lot of things, but for the home internet user, it's not necessarily true anymore. And for 3D acceleration, I can almost guarantee that more often than not, it will still be the hardware.
Just because society expected teenagers to work in the past doesn't mean that there aren't significant mental (physical brain) changes going on during that timeframe.
And resources contracting back to a "solar economy"? Turn in your geek card - geeks believe in the power of technology to improve lives. There's no reason to expect that that won't continue.
Sorry, but you're wrong. I've been reading on my Palm Vx/TX for *years* and it's certainly not "excrement". Sure, in bright sunlight it can be non-optimal, but I'm never *in* bright sunlight when I want to read...
Seriously - I've read hundreds of books on my Palm - tone down the hyperbole.
I think you're confusing Psychology with something else, or you're just misinformed. There are tons of evidence-based treatments out there now. Or are you just trolling?
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There is nothing about TED doing this on the USGS website. It's a Twitter alert system, nothing more. Or does anyone see something different?
Have you never heard of the Fall of Constantinople? Just because it's in some dumb movie doesn't mean you can attribute the Renaissance to bloodshed.
If you immediately know the candle light is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago...
Mine started instantaneously on a fresh install, but now can take several seconds (!), and nothing's wrong with my SSD. I seem to remember reading about some issue with the awesome bar DB that causes FF to get slower and slower as it goes along...
The MTA museum offers these tours occasionally: http://mta.info/mta/museum/index.html. Keep an eye out for it. You can sleep on my couch if you want.
What are you talking about? 1. Mozilla never developed Netscape. 2. Netscape supported videos through the native operating system - a sensible, sane, fast way to play videos. If only WMP hadn't been such a target for malware, and slow to start up, it would have taken off, too.
Huh? Zune - can you even write apps for that? Kin - you can't write apps for that, it's not a smartphone. Windows 7 mobile - since when do you need Microsoft's involvement to release an app for that? I haven't used windows 7, but previous stuff, like windows CE, was an open platform - not FOSS, but you could do whatever you wanted with what you had. Palm too, btw. That's why this new trend emanating from Apple is so devastatingly bad for freedom. Lay off the RDF.
I still own my foldable keyboard, although I got it wet and haven't gotten around to trying to fix it yet. It was awesome! I keep on wishing I had one for my current Palm TX...
Any application, not just GNOME applications, can use filesystems mounted with GNOME's 'connect to server' feature, for instance. I think it's more desirable to write a FUSE module than a KDE-specific KIOSlave.
You say that, but if you look at the apps on the ground, most, well, don't. For instance, I can mount my network drive using GVFS all I want, but I still can't watch anything on it, since VLC has no clue about it. A nice idea, but it would be preferable if they integrated it into the rest of Linux too. That said, I use Gnome every day.
That is incorrect. The American Civil War was about a century after the Constitution came into effect, minus a couple decades.
I understand your frustration, but you're doing it wrong. If you use the official hardware drivers program in the administration menu, kernel upgrades will not cause this behavior. (This is actually the default behavior on a new install now - it pops up and asks you). And it is supported by Canonical.
Mod parent up. This is actually one of the first posts I've seen on slashdot that's actually gotten the bailouts factually correct.
Two equal camps, check.
Group all "current" scientists together, check.
Appeal to "reasonable folks" who want to find a "middle ground", check.
Can you push any more buttons from the anti-science and anti-evolution camp? This is simple physics - non-ionizing radiation does not cause damage to DNA, period. There is real research on this. What more do you want?
The next time I hear someone appeal to the average man for authority in politics I'm going to go crazy. If I wanted the idiot down the street making decisions for me I would have asked him myself. I want people who have actually spent some time researching this to give me information, thanks.
The environmental impact on wildlife is also actually rather interesting. I don't have any links or handy info available, but there have been a number of fascinating studies done on how life is adjusting or not adjusting to these issues. The warming that's happened so far has illuminated some interesting things that we might not have discovered otherwise. We stand to lose a great deal of biodiversity, however, at least in the short term (geologically speaking of course).
So, not all change is bad, man-made change can sometimes be really good...but I don't think that's the case on balance here. YMMV, though. Did you have anything concrete that you'd like to point out to support what you were saying? I would be interested to hear it (and not just as a rhetorical point, either).
Perhaps because PulseAudio is not just used for playing sound across a network these days? Check Ubuntu.
I had a similar video issue until I switched to the generic kernel branch. I guess the 386 version doesn't like the nvidia driver. Maybe that will work for you?
For something natively supported in Linux, this really isn't something that I'd say is impossible...
What's recent about it?
I hope you're not implying that Goldman Sachs are a bunch of scammers. They're pretty much the only major financial institution to make it through this crisis without falling for the scams and without needing government money. In fact, they were forced to take it by the government so that people wouldn't single out companies receiving bailout money as being failures, not because it was necessary for Goldman. I'm getting really sick of this meme - if you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk about it.
No, I'm sure that Flash is the bottleneck here. I bet it's really hogging the CPU. For example mplayer/ffdshow decoders play Flash video faster and smoother than Flash. And that's on Windows.
Yes, sure. Flash is the bottleneck. I agree completely. However, that means that it's not the pipes, it's the processor running bloated unoptimized software. So my point stands - the hardware is the bottleneck rather than the internet, even if it's not really the hardware's fault. This is a consistent experience for me. It used to be, downloading was slow but once it got to my computer, it was fast. Now, downloading is fast, but my computer can't take it. This may be because I'm getting the most expensive internet-only cable package offered, but it's a significant reversal from the mid 90's when I got the Internet. The old argument about the pipes being the bottleneck might still be true for a lot of things, but for the home internet user, it's not necessarily true anymore. And for 3D acceleration, I can almost guarantee that more often than not, it will still be the hardware.
Just because society expected teenagers to work in the past doesn't mean that there aren't significant mental (physical brain) changes going on during that timeframe.
And resources contracting back to a "solar economy"? Turn in your geek card - geeks believe in the power of technology to improve lives. There's no reason to expect that that won't continue.
My hardware is the bottleneck on the current web. Flash + Linux + P4 = slow. So yes, I believe it.
Sorry, but you're wrong. I've been reading on my Palm Vx/TX for *years* and it's certainly not "excrement". Sure, in bright sunlight it can be non-optimal, but I'm never *in* bright sunlight when I want to read... Seriously - I've read hundreds of books on my Palm - tone down the hyperbole.
I think you're confusing Psychology with something else, or you're just misinformed. There are tons of evidence-based treatments out there now. Or are you just trolling?
Because bashing Republicans (or Democrats for that matter) is more important than our democracy.