In my opinion a desktop that adds takes a noticeable amount of time to load is just not worth it. I don't use Gnome on Ubuntu now and I suspect I won't in the future, The fact that the Unity Shell requires 3d hardware acceleration to be usable does not fill me with an optimism in this regard.
Actually it doesn't seem to matter how old you are, but how long you have been working in the particular field. In pretty well anything it takes 10 years of concentrated practice to reach your peak. That is about the time you would expect someone to do their best work before starting a gradual decline.
The crux here is not brain age but specific experience. If you don't have it you are more likely to ask the dumb questions that lead to novel answers, and if you do have it then you won't.
I went through their policies recently and really couldn't find anything I actually object to. Dropping the voting age to 16 seems to be about their most controversial policy position. And on balance I agree with it.
Also talking about going back in time. The Greens want to cancel Hecs (higher Educations Contribution Scheme) Debts and make Universities Free again.
If you only need 300 then why are printer manufacturers bothering to make printers that go to 1200 and higher?
The answer seems to be because most people can tell the difference between somthing printed at 300dpi and somthing printed at 1200 dpi. therefore the average person can see more then 300dpi
Heck I have a book which was printed using default latex setting (yes its a Prolog book and it really was published using latex) and it is extremely hard to look at. The effect is somewhat like looking at a CRT monitor with too low a refresh rate seriously it gives me the same kind of headache.
I spent ages a while back looking for an 8bit computer kit. Something I could get and assemble myself and mess about with a little. Regretably no such thing exists in this day and age. It would have been a little fun.
Its a standard Limits thing where as the speed of motion approaches zero some of the components of the mathematics can be ignored as they are so close to zero (or 1 , I forget which) that they make no noticeable difference.
At another level the theories are radically different. In Newtonian physics Mass is an intrinsic property that does not vary. every particle has a set mass and that's it.
In Relativistic theory Mass varies with speed (they increase together). Hence you end up with ideas like rest mass (the mass something has if it is standing still).
I believe that this is why only photons can travel at the speed of light (they have a zero rest mass) anything else ends up having infinite mass if accelerated to this speed, which takes infinite energy and is hence impossible.
These two concepts of mass are radically different from each other from a philosophical standpoint. That the maths of one can be derived from the maths of the other is somewhat deceptive.
Actually it has changed. Neither you or I would have much luck getting a model T Ford moving. Yes it has a steering wheel but the entire transmission and breaking system was completely different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T#Transmission_and_drivetrain
note the lack on an accelerator. Your only speed control in the thing was slow and fast!
A school here in Oz made it to the news last year when they tried to ban cartwheels and handstands in the playground. The stated reason was fear of litigation if a child hurt themselves doing a cartwheel.
I'd hate to see what one of those things can do (to the user) if the sensors malfunction. Lets hope that the joints are desgined to not have a larger range of motion then the human wearing them.
Yes granted being from Sydney I don't have much experience of streets being laid out with any through or planning at all. I think their must have been period where suggesting that streets should run parallel to each other was a hanging offence in Sydney.
Other then slowly loosing your ability to walk I don't see what the problem is.
Most parking meters in Sydney work in exactly this fashion. I've actually never seen the old style meter per car system used anywhere.
About the only parking meter system that has annoyed me was a numbered bay system where you have to walk up to the machine and tell it which pay you are in and then pay the fee. And if you accidentally pay for the wrong bay, well then it sucks to be you.
The whole point is that when you lean to touch type you end up learning how to type words mechanically. Instead of the being remembered as a sequence of letters you start remembering it as a sequence of muscle movements.
As I type this I am not looking down at the keyboard. And yet I don't actually consciously remember where the letters are. Well OK. I know querty, and asdf but I can't off the top of my head tell you what the last three letters in the third row of the keyboard are, or where exactly the 'v' is. Yet I am still able to type vision without having to look down.
So yes touch typing is a different kind of memory and I could see how the ability to spell on the keyboard would not transfer to the ability to spell when writing, or trying to explicitly spell words by saying the letters.
Its simple enough. Eventually we will find the biological basis of every opinion you hold. Then we will find how to correct any abnormalities. Once we have done that their will be an end to crime, an end to decent. Oh yes elections won't be necessary either as the clinical records of your last brain scan will clearly indicate who your preferred candidate is. And if you don't like it we will change your mind : )
This is a great breakthrough. This means that we can now wear full face tinfoil hats for even more protection without risking to bump into something anymore. Thanks that tinfoil hats are actually made of aluminum nowadays !;-))
for an estimated 40 femtoseconds. Their is also the whole nearly invisible to extreme ultra violet radiation, which is not exactly in the visible spectrum.
Most of the ten commandments are not enforceable by law though. Murder the theft are crimes. Bearing false witness is only a crime in some circumstances. More to the point it is against the law to enforce some of them, seeing as most western countries have some provisions for freedom of religion).
Laws do get removed and replaced over time. What tends to happen is that breaches of some particular law first start getting minimal sentences. Then cases invoking it start getting dismissed the public prosecutor stops bringing the charges forward.
After a while no one remembers the law and no one heeds it. Eventually someone will notice and it will get repealed. These days there are openly practicing Wiccans in most western countries. Go back far enough and you will find laws prohibiting the practice of witchcraft. It was once a crime but is no longer viewed as a crime.
If I was moved to install windows 7 (which I'm not) I would would be investigating how I could get a European Edition. So That I could install without IE
I believe the problem here is Intel GMA 500 Integrated Graphics. The driver only works with old kernels, add to this that we have an unusual screen resolution and we are done.
For me that puts this one in the strict no go category.
Yes well. the obvious conclusion, If the police find said software on your system then you must be breaking the law. After all honest citizens have no need for software that bypasses the internet filters, seeing as we only filter out things that an honest law abiding citizen would not want to look at
This phenomenon is not resticted to the internet. It happens a lot with consumer products as well. I recall quite a number of times when I've seen some no name music system carry a logo which on a cursory glance looks like a Dolby logo.
Personally I've fallen for this once. Quit a number of years ago I bought my first DVD player. I was with my dad and we got one each. Both of us where positive we had bought a Panasonic. It wasn't until I got it home and showed my wife that she pointed out that the actual brand was Palsonic. the lettering and design on the box where intentionally as close to original as possible. And in this case I fell for it.
I'd never recommend use of google apps for a whole different set of reasons:
Your putting all your data on some one else's server without a contract.
Hence their is no uptime garantee
too many additional points of failure (now if ither google or your internet connection is down you can do nothing)
(from here) all your data ends up hosted in another country. Meaning the host is not bound by the same privacy laws as you are, which could cause you to be technically non compliant.
And why I personally don't use google apps:
Most of the time my laptop is not connected to the internet when I'm using
I run 64 bit Linux, for which there is no Google Gears.
All this recent talk of Google wanting to unseat Windows and yet so many of thier products currently require you to be using Windows in order to get full functionality.
As a parent I don't find this alarming in the slightest. If one of my sons developed an Addiction that I could not help him with I would also seek eternal help. And if the recomended course of action was to send him to such a program Then I would follow it.
One problem with the approach however is that the addict is taken out of their normal environment can lead to a sense of false progress. Often when someone comes back to their old environment, hangs out with friends who practically live online etc, environmental ques will bring back the old behavior.
This is a common thing seen with drug addiction. Its easy for a user to stay clean while they are in jail. But chances are that once they get out they'll go back to using.
Their seem two factors which contribute to the news value of this:
Its in China so it must have sinister ulterior motives (which I don't buy)
As heavy computer users we would all like to pretend that internet addition isn't possible.
Err no, not necessarily they only said they would use a linux kernel and a custom windowing system just big enough to launch Chrome. No mention their of GNU tools at all.
I'm speculating here, but this might just be an OS with no terminal mode (under normal operation) at all. just the browser thanks, and if you need to do system operations, well there's a web page for that just point to localhost://settings or some such. As I recall the Linux kernel does have its own http server module. It doesn't get used normally but it could be.
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In my opinion a desktop that adds takes a noticeable amount of time to load is just not worth it. I don't use Gnome on Ubuntu now and I suspect I won't in the future, The fact that the Unity Shell requires 3d hardware acceleration to be usable does not fill me with an optimism in this regard.
Actually it doesn't seem to matter how old you are, but how long you have been working in the particular field. In pretty well anything it takes 10 years of concentrated practice to reach your peak. That is about the time you would expect someone to do their best work before starting a gradual decline. The crux here is not brain age but specific experience. If you don't have it you are more likely to ask the dumb questions that lead to novel answers, and if you do have it then you won't.
I went through their policies recently and really couldn't find anything I actually object to. Dropping the voting age to 16 seems to be about their most controversial policy position. And on balance I agree with it. Also talking about going back in time. The Greens want to cancel Hecs (higher Educations Contribution Scheme) Debts and make Universities Free again.
If you only need 300 then why are printer manufacturers bothering to make printers that go to 1200 and higher? The answer seems to be because most people can tell the difference between somthing printed at 300dpi and somthing printed at 1200 dpi. therefore the average person can see more then 300dpi Heck I have a book which was printed using default latex setting (yes its a Prolog book and it really was published using latex) and it is extremely hard to look at. The effect is somewhat like looking at a CRT monitor with too low a refresh rate seriously it gives me the same kind of headache.
I spent ages a while back looking for an 8bit computer kit. Something I could get and assemble myself and mess about with a little. Regretably no such thing exists in this day and age. It would have been a little fun.
At another level the theories are radically different. In Newtonian physics Mass is an intrinsic property that does not vary. every particle has a set mass and that's it.
In Relativistic theory Mass varies with speed (they increase together). Hence you end up with ideas like rest mass (the mass something has if it is standing still). I believe that this is why only photons can travel at the speed of light (they have a zero rest mass) anything else ends up having infinite mass if accelerated to this speed, which takes infinite energy and is hence impossible.
These two concepts of mass are radically different from each other from a philosophical standpoint. That the maths of one can be derived from the maths of the other is somewhat deceptive.
Actually it has changed. Neither you or I would have much luck getting a model T Ford moving. Yes it has a steering wheel but the entire transmission and breaking system was completely different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T#Transmission_and_drivetrain note the lack on an accelerator. Your only speed control in the thing was slow and fast!
A school here in Oz made it to the news last year when they tried to ban cartwheels and handstands in the playground. The stated reason was fear of litigation if a child hurt themselves doing a cartwheel.
I'd hate to see what one of those things can do (to the user) if the sensors malfunction. Lets hope that the joints are desgined to not have a larger range of motion then the human wearing them.
Yes granted being from Sydney I don't have much experience of streets being laid out with any through or planning at all. I think their must have been period where suggesting that streets should run parallel to each other was a hanging offence in Sydney.
Other then slowly loosing your ability to walk I don't see what the problem is. Most parking meters in Sydney work in exactly this fashion. I've actually never seen the old style meter per car system used anywhere. About the only parking meter system that has annoyed me was a numbered bay system where you have to walk up to the machine and tell it which pay you are in and then pay the fee. And if you accidentally pay for the wrong bay, well then it sucks to be you.
The whole point is that when you lean to touch type you end up learning how to type words mechanically. Instead of the being remembered as a sequence of letters you start remembering it as a sequence of muscle movements. As I type this I am not looking down at the keyboard. And yet I don't actually consciously remember where the letters are. Well OK. I know querty, and asdf but I can't off the top of my head tell you what the last three letters in the third row of the keyboard are, or where exactly the 'v' is. Yet I am still able to type vision without having to look down. So yes touch typing is a different kind of memory and I could see how the ability to spell on the keyboard would not transfer to the ability to spell when writing, or trying to explicitly spell words by saying the letters.
in Newspeak spelling is perfectly regular. Mistakes are impossible.
Its simple enough. Eventually we will find the biological basis of every opinion you hold. Then we will find how to correct any abnormalities. Once we have done that their will be an end to crime, an end to decent. Oh yes elections won't be necessary either as the clinical records of your last brain scan will clearly indicate who your preferred candidate is. And if you don't like it we will change your mind : )
This is a great breakthrough. This means that we can now wear full face tinfoil hats for even more protection without risking to bump into something anymore. Thanks that tinfoil hats are actually made of aluminum nowadays ! ;-))
for an estimated 40 femtoseconds. Their is also the whole nearly invisible to extreme ultra violet radiation, which is not exactly in the visible spectrum.
Master of Orion yes please, with one proviso. Anyone proposing the inclusion of space lanes will be fed to the Sarlacc.
Yes give us more commander Keen.
Most of the ten commandments are not enforceable by law though. Murder the theft are crimes. Bearing false witness is only a crime in some circumstances. More to the point it is against the law to enforce some of them, seeing as most western countries have some provisions for freedom of religion).
Laws do get removed and replaced over time. What tends to happen is that breaches of some particular law first start getting minimal sentences. Then cases invoking it start getting dismissed the public prosecutor stops bringing the charges forward.
After a while no one remembers the law and no one heeds it. Eventually someone will notice and it will get repealed. These days there are openly practicing Wiccans in most western countries. Go back far enough and you will find laws prohibiting the practice of witchcraft. It was once a crime but is no longer viewed as a crime.
If I was moved to install windows 7 (which I'm not) I would would be investigating how I could get a European Edition. So That I could install without IE
I believe the problem here is Intel GMA 500 Integrated Graphics. The driver only works with old kernels, add to this that we have an unusual screen resolution and we are done. For me that puts this one in the strict no go category.
Yes well. the obvious conclusion, If the police find said software on your system then you must be breaking the law. After all honest citizens have no need for software that bypasses the internet filters, seeing as we only filter out things that an honest law abiding citizen would not want to look at
Personally I've fallen for this once. Quit a number of years ago I bought my first DVD player. I was with my dad and we got one each. Both of us where positive we had bought a Panasonic. It wasn't until I got it home and showed my wife that she pointed out that the actual brand was Palsonic. the lettering and design on the box where intentionally as close to original as possible. And in this case I fell for it.
I'd never recommend use of google apps for a whole different set of reasons:
And why I personally don't use google apps:
All this recent talk of Google wanting to unseat Windows and yet so many of thier products currently require you to be using Windows in order to get full functionality.
One problem with the approach however is that the addict is taken out of their normal environment can lead to a sense of false progress. Often when someone comes back to their old environment, hangs out with friends who practically live online etc, environmental ques will bring back the old behavior.
This is a common thing seen with drug addiction. Its easy for a user to stay clean while they are in jail. But chances are that once they get out they'll go back to using.
Their seem two factors which contribute to the news value of this:
I don't agree with either of the above. Personally I find American Jesus Camps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Camp much more alarming.
That's GNU/Chrome, thanks.
Err no, not necessarily they only said they would use a linux kernel and a custom windowing system just big enough to launch Chrome. No mention their of GNU tools at all.
I'm speculating here, but this might just be an OS with no terminal mode (under normal operation) at all. just the browser thanks, and if you need to do system operations, well there's a web page for that just point to localhost://settings or some such. As I recall the Linux kernel does have its own http server module. It doesn't get used normally but it could be.