Do the media and government lie? Of course they do, I'm no fool. However that does not mean that they lie about EVERYTHING, and it does not mean this wasn't just an airplane. The camera operator tracked the object for ten entire minutes. If it's a missile, it's the slowest moving missile, ever.
Once again, leave it up to Comedy Central's fake news show to get the facts right, while all of the other cable "news" outlets ran with sensationalism.
Because the 24/7 news cycle on the cable "news" stations has convinced a lot of you that answers always come instantly, between commercial breaks. In the real world it actually takes time to confirm the facts on the ground...
Good thing they aren't replacing it NOW... They're talking a long term strategy here, and if you RTFA he says this won't happen for maybe 4 years or so.
So then use a distro well suited for what you want to use it for. Why try to impose X on the majority of Ubuntu users who will never use the network capabilities and don't really care about them?
After they turned the series into a christian parable, I totally lost interest. What is it with science fiction shows these days? They almost all come down to a finale that just says "god did it".
And yet this dying brand will continue to have the most used OS in the world, and will continue to dominate the living room with Xbox 360. It must suck to be part of a company in decline.
Ok, now run Arch/KDE on a 2.2 Mhz processor with 1gb of RAM, and a geforce 6600, and tell me if 720p video playback works in VLC. Now try it under Gnome.
It shouldn't but it does. I'm running Arch Linux and using the latest version of VLC, with the XVideo output (XCB), and 720p movies will play under Gnome, but not KDE4.5. I'm not the only one that reports poor performance.
This is how I run Gnome. I use Avant Window Navigator for my panel, conky for any system monitoring, Compiz/Emerald for window management.
Gnome really shines in Nautilus ATM, where it can mount samba shares on the fly, and you can actually watch streaming movies over the network. In KDE 4.5 I couldn't even get that to work on a consistent basis. So basically I use Gnome to handle the back-end on everything, and rely on other things for eye candy. The result is a highly customized system with pretty solid performance for the hardware I run it on.
I just hope Gnome Shell isn't the disaster that KDE4 has been.
I really *want* to like KDE, but every time I try it, it is always broken. Take 4.5 for example. They finally have the desktop to a pretty stable level, and then for some reason decided to rewrite Kwin from the ground up, and caused a severe performance regression. It's not as noticeable on new hardware, but on an older machine it means not being able to play 720p HD movies without major performance issues. The same machine runs 720p just fine under Gnome.
After using KDE4.5 for a week, I uninstalled it and went back to Gnome. It might be plain looking, but it works. I really hope that Gnome Shell doesn't carry a lot of this sort of baggage.
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When it comes to Fox News (I use news very lightly there), EVERYTHING is a conspiracy by Obama.
Good point.
Well said! I hope every single person participating in this thread, especially the conspiracy theorists, reads this and think about it.
Do the media and government lie? Of course they do, I'm no fool. However that does not mean that they lie about EVERYTHING, and it does not mean this wasn't just an airplane. The camera operator tracked the object for ten entire minutes. If it's a missile, it's the slowest moving missile, ever.
Sorry that makes too much sense, and appears like you thought about it for more than two seconds.
Mod this up...
You're an expert on "contrails"?
Once again, leave it up to Comedy Central's fake news show to get the facts right, while all of the other cable "news" outlets ran with sensationalism.
"I don't care who said it was a plane flight"
The battle cry of the uninformed conspiracy theorist...
Because some people value their credibility, perhaps?
Because the 24/7 news cycle on the cable "news" stations has convinced a lot of you that answers always come instantly, between commercial breaks. In the real world it actually takes time to confirm the facts on the ground...
I've always been curious about the inner workings of a console emulator, and this was very informative.
It just depends on who is working on it. Apple replaced X is less time than 4 years.
Good thing they aren't replacing it NOW... They're talking a long term strategy here, and if you RTFA he says this won't happen for maybe 4 years or so.
So then use a distro well suited for what you want to use it for. Why try to impose X on the majority of Ubuntu users who will never use the network capabilities and don't really care about them?
It's time to retire the dinosaur. X was designed in the late 70's. I KNOW we could do better with something designed around modern technology.
Direct X 10 and 11.
After they turned the series into a christian parable, I totally lost interest. What is it with science fiction shows these days? They almost all come down to a finale that just says "god did it".
And yet this dying brand will continue to have the most used OS in the world, and will continue to dominate the living room with Xbox 360. It must suck to be part of a company in decline.
Ok, now run Arch/KDE on a 2.2 Mhz processor with 1gb of RAM, and a geforce 6600, and tell me if 720p video playback works in VLC. Now try it under Gnome.
It shouldn't but it does. I'm running Arch Linux and using the latest version of VLC, with the XVideo output (XCB), and 720p movies will play under Gnome, but not KDE4.5. I'm not the only one that reports poor performance.
This is how I run Gnome. I use Avant Window Navigator for my panel, conky for any system monitoring, Compiz/Emerald for window management.
Gnome really shines in Nautilus ATM, where it can mount samba shares on the fly, and you can actually watch streaming movies over the network. In KDE 4.5 I couldn't even get that to work on a consistent basis. So basically I use Gnome to handle the back-end on everything, and rely on other things for eye candy. The result is a highly customized system with pretty solid performance for the hardware I run it on.
I just hope Gnome Shell isn't the disaster that KDE4 has been.
I really *want* to like KDE, but every time I try it, it is always broken. Take 4.5 for example. They finally have the desktop to a pretty stable level, and then for some reason decided to rewrite Kwin from the ground up, and caused a severe performance regression. It's not as noticeable on new hardware, but on an older machine it means not being able to play 720p HD movies without major performance issues. The same machine runs 720p just fine under Gnome.
After using KDE4.5 for a week, I uninstalled it and went back to Gnome. It might be plain looking, but it works. I really hope that Gnome Shell doesn't carry a lot of this sort of baggage.
No, for most it's much more fun to have blind fanboy wars over which browser renders a page faster, in milliseconds...
Flamebait? On what planet?