No. sometimes, the BIOS makes a mess of the disk order so that GRUB doesn't find the stage_whatever files, and then you just can't boot. Happened to me when I tried installing Ubuntu on a friend's computer, but it was sorted out in the end. The problem comes up when you install from a CD on a different controller than the install disk (IDE then SATA), as the BIOS will redefine disk order when booting from the HDD after install.
You don't need to know what you're talking about to be 'interesting', all you need to do is tell people what they want to believe. Stupidity + slashdot = stupidity in a positive feedback loop.
The people that use that tag almost never know what they're talking about. (And no, dipshits, the fact that there's a strong correlation between not knowing what you're talking about and using that tag does not imply using the tag is caused by it, and neither is it in any way "insightful" to point that out.)
...Or current believers in free market capitalism, for that matter.
Given that we haven't had free market capitalism for some time, people are right to still believe in it - it would have saved us from the current crisis.
A system where corporations socialise the cost of their risk-taking, (but not the profits, of course) is not a free market.
You are, of course, wrong, and also exemplify my point.
There's a lot of coercion in having made a poor decision. It's like those religious cults that gather to wait for the end of the world, and when it doesn't happen, it's just because their faith made God spare us all, which makes their faith even stronger. Or current believers in free market capitalism, for that matter.
Looks like the economy took care of damaging itself even though nothing has been done. For some reason, it seems making a pyramid scheme out of housing is worse for the economy than investing in innovative technologies. Who would have thought?
No, discussion is not better here than most other places. Sure, there are often a few informed people around, but far from always. Most science debates show that the average slashdotter doesn't have the slightest idea about what science is, for example. Most technology discussions show that there are loads of fanboys with mod points, and loads of people with nothing to say who know these fanboys have mod points, and go out to say whatever gives them their +5.
What exactly were you missing? My two major gripes with OpenOffice were poor implementations of comments and tracking changes in Writer, and those are fixed now.
Sure. But those packages aren't nearly as well maintained as those in the actual distribution, and are often even more broken.
Note that I'm not saying Ubuntu is shit and everyone should stop using it, just that I myself hate almost every single aspect of it that deviates from Debian, and thus, for me, Ubuntu isn't isn't any "better" than Debian, it's worse. Some people prefer it, others find it unsatisfactory. Debian is a perfectly fine desktop for those of us who don't need graphical installers and a fucking splash screen, and it does everything Ubuntu does just as well as Ubuntu does.
Security holes aren't the only errors in the world. Yes, of course they fix security errors. Broken applications, on the other hand, which you find hundreds of in all distributions (as most apps are perpetually under development), stay the same. In Sid, there's always at least hope for improvement.
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Why would you wait for a GUI installer? You only install Debian once. You don't want a splash screen, you want to go and get a cup of coffee. Sid is Debian's desktop version, and it's usually more up to date than the latest Ubuntu. When something is broken, it will usually be fixed in a couple of days. If something is broken in Ubuntu, it will continue to be broken for 6 months.
Whenever I've tried Ubuntu, I've had the feeling that whatever "polish" they've added is just more crud brushed under the carpet. Of course, each to their own. Just don't assume that Ubuntu is for everyone.
Invisible War isn't nearly as bad as many people think it is. It's just not nearly as good as the original Deus Ex. Its main problems were that it was painfully slow even on the fastest computers at the time of its release, despite the fact that the graphics weren't that fantastic. It lacked the sense of freedom and exploration you got in Deus Ex, since the areas were very small and had a painfully long load time, and the story wasn't as good. But in the end, it had an OK gameplay experience. Nothing special, but far from Daikatana.
Nice non-sequitur. The links were about establishing whether melting occurs on an abnormal rate. You claim it doesn't, the link establish that it does.
Also, the wikipedia page on Greenland doesn't contradict me in any way.
Dude. The glaciers on Greenland are several thousands of years old. The southern cape of Greenland, the part being inhabited by people from Norway and Iceland, was not covered with ice, and neither has it been since then. It is in fact at about the same latitude as Erik the Red's birthplace in Norway -- south of Iceland, about as far north as Anchorage. Also, the reason for Greenland being called Greenland may have been because of its shallow ("grunn") fjords, as it was also transcribed Gruntland back in those days. The etymology is simply unknown, so your bullshit isn't convincing at all. It's just not based on fact.
So it's the great Greenland cities that cause the ice to melt at a record rate? Land based ice and sea based ice alike.
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Exactly. Which is why I flame these people who see life-changing circumstances in Apple's schemes, and complain about "Windows tax" as if their own idol wasn't the biggest of all offenders. I wish the fanboy idiots could just shut up and leave the discussion to someone else. Especially when what they have to say isn't even remotely true.
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And how, exactly, would this change "the world"? Just because you have your head so far up Steve Jobs's arse that you can see the light doesn't mean the world in any way revolves around Apple's business plans. It's just you.
And re "the microsoft tax on new hardware": it doesn't exist. You can buy MSI Wind without Windows. You can buy whichever component you want without giving a cent to Microsoft. Perhaps you're confusing it with the Apple tax, the extra money you have to pay for an Apple approved version of graphics cards and some sound cards.
My experience is different. Installation wasn't that difficult, with the exception of OpenFirmware (OldWorld), but that's Apple's fault. Drivers were left out and needed a kernel recompile, were marked experimental and you notice they really are. Poor driver support in general, and drivers under development didn't even compile. Same for much of the third party software in pkgsrc. No, it didn't crash often, until I tried to make it usable. But this is ancient hardware, and NetBSD didn't support it in any way properly.
BSD's reputation is based partly on the fact that not many people use it. It's mostly hearsay. The FreeBSD 5.x series is a good example of a not very stable or thoroughly inspected environment, as is NetBSD on some so-called "supported" platforms (I'm talking about Mac-PPC here).
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No. sometimes, the BIOS makes a mess of the disk order so that GRUB doesn't find the stage_whatever files, and then you just can't boot. Happened to me when I tried installing Ubuntu on a friend's computer, but it was sorted out in the end. The problem comes up when you install from a CD on a different controller than the install disk (IDE then SATA), as the BIOS will redefine disk order when booting from the HDD after install.
You don't need to know what you're talking about to be 'interesting', all you need to do is tell people what they want to believe. Stupidity + slashdot = stupidity in a positive feedback loop.
The people that use that tag almost never know what they're talking about. (And no, dipshits, the fact that there's a strong correlation between not knowing what you're talking about and using that tag does not imply using the tag is caused by it, and neither is it in any way "insightful" to point that out.)
...Or current believers in free market capitalism, for that matter.
Given that we haven't had free market capitalism for some time, people are right to still believe in it - it would have saved us from the current crisis.
A system where corporations socialise the cost of their risk-taking, (but not the profits, of course) is not a free market.
You are, of course, wrong, and also exemplify my point.
There's a lot of coercion in having made a poor decision. It's like those religious cults that gather to wait for the end of the world, and when it doesn't happen, it's just because their faith made God spare us all, which makes their faith even stronger. Or current believers in free market capitalism, for that matter.
As a Mac user, you sound like a delusional idiot.
Looks like the economy took care of damaging itself even though nothing has been done. For some reason, it seems making a pyramid scheme out of housing is worse for the economy than investing in innovative technologies. Who would have thought?
That's simply untrue. The moderation system is one of the main reasons for the fanboyism. In science discussions, it's the reason why you have 200 posters trying to be the first to remind everyone that correlation is not causation, and the first dozen or so are always at +5, even when it's blatantly off topic. Oh, and those are the very average slashdotters. They provide clichés they don't understand, and they are +5, insightful.
No, discussion is not better here than most other places. Sure, there are often a few informed people around, but far from always. Most science debates show that the average slashdotter doesn't have the slightest idea about what science is, for example. Most technology discussions show that there are loads of fanboys with mod points, and loads of people with nothing to say who know these fanboys have mod points, and go out to say whatever gives them their +5.
I come here mostly to flame.
Or he described what is actually happening, and what happens happens to be stupid.
What I missed was being able to see the comments were there at all. It's still lacking, but at least it's more useful than annoying now.
No, it's not. Some times, you just have to recognise that some people are full of shit, and fullgandoo is definitely one of them.
What exactly were you missing? My two major gripes with OpenOffice were poor implementations of comments and tracking changes in Writer, and those are fixed now.
Sure. But those packages aren't nearly as well maintained as those in the actual distribution, and are often even more broken.
Note that I'm not saying Ubuntu is shit and everyone should stop using it, just that I myself hate almost every single aspect of it that deviates from Debian, and thus, for me, Ubuntu isn't isn't any "better" than Debian, it's worse. Some people prefer it, others find it unsatisfactory. Debian is a perfectly fine desktop for those of us who don't need graphical installers and a fucking splash screen, and it does everything Ubuntu does just as well as Ubuntu does.
Security holes aren't the only errors in the world. Yes, of course they fix security errors. Broken applications, on the other hand, which you find hundreds of in all distributions (as most apps are perpetually under development), stay the same. In Sid, there's always at least hope for improvement.
Why would you wait for a GUI installer? You only install Debian once. You don't want a splash screen, you want to go and get a cup of coffee. Sid is Debian's desktop version, and it's usually more up to date than the latest Ubuntu. When something is broken, it will usually be fixed in a couple of days. If something is broken in Ubuntu, it will continue to be broken for 6 months.
Whenever I've tried Ubuntu, I've had the feeling that whatever "polish" they've added is just more crud brushed under the carpet. Of course, each to their own. Just don't assume that Ubuntu is for everyone.
Invisible War isn't nearly as bad as many people think it is. It's just not nearly as good as the original Deus Ex. Its main problems were that it was painfully slow even on the fastest computers at the time of its release, despite the fact that the graphics weren't that fantastic. It lacked the sense of freedom and exploration you got in Deus Ex, since the areas were very small and had a painfully long load time, and the story wasn't as good. But in the end, it had an OK gameplay experience. Nothing special, but far from Daikatana.
Nice non-sequitur. The links were about establishing whether melting occurs on an abnormal rate. You claim it doesn't, the link establish that it does.
Also, the wikipedia page on Greenland doesn't contradict me in any way.
Your "real science" is a fucking Youtube video? A "researcher" in the fields of cancer, climate science and oil exploration?
Are you out of your mind?
Dude. The glaciers on Greenland are several thousands of years old. The southern cape of Greenland, the part being inhabited by people from Norway and Iceland, was not covered with ice, and neither has it been since then. It is in fact at about the same latitude as Erik the Red's birthplace in Norway -- south of Iceland, about as far north as Anchorage. Also, the reason for Greenland being called Greenland may have been because of its shallow ("grunn") fjords, as it was also transcribed Gruntland back in those days. The etymology is simply unknown, so your bullshit isn't convincing at all. It's just not based on fact.
But OK, a couple of links:
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So it's the great Greenland cities that cause the ice to melt at a record rate? Land based ice and sea based ice alike.
Exactly. Which is why I flame these people who see life-changing circumstances in Apple's schemes, and complain about "Windows tax" as if their own idol wasn't the biggest of all offenders. I wish the fanboy idiots could just shut up and leave the discussion to someone else. Especially when what they have to say isn't even remotely true.
And how, exactly, would this change "the world"? Just because you have your head so far up Steve Jobs's arse that you can see the light doesn't mean the world in any way revolves around Apple's business plans. It's just you.
And re "the microsoft tax on new hardware": it doesn't exist. You can buy MSI Wind without Windows. You can buy whichever component you want without giving a cent to Microsoft. Perhaps you're confusing it with the Apple tax, the extra money you have to pay for an Apple approved version of graphics cards and some sound cards.
My experience is different. Installation wasn't that difficult, with the exception of OpenFirmware (OldWorld), but that's Apple's fault. Drivers were left out and needed a kernel recompile, were marked experimental and you notice they really are. Poor driver support in general, and drivers under development didn't even compile. Same for much of the third party software in pkgsrc. No, it didn't crash often, until I tried to make it usable. But this is ancient hardware, and NetBSD didn't support it in any way properly.
BSD's reputation is based partly on the fact that not many people use it. It's mostly hearsay. The FreeBSD 5.x series is a good example of a not very stable or thoroughly inspected environment, as is NetBSD on some so-called "supported" platforms (I'm talking about Mac-PPC here).