There is only one director I can think of that could properly convey the surreal creepiness of American Gods: David Lynch Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think someone should get those two together...
Pictures can't convey the devastation that is mountaintop removal.
If you've never heard of mountaintop removal or don't see what the big deal is, then please do check out the overlays, but nothing compares to seeing it firsthand.
Any natural destruction: earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane Katrina, pales in comparison. In all these cases, the human community may suffer great losses, structural damage, but these can all be built back in time. In mountaintop removal, the very land itself is utterly destroyed; there is nothing to build back on. The people cannot move back because the ground is unstable for decades to come. Entire ecosystems are buried along with streams and rivers in valley fills. The groundwater for miles around is poisoned with heavy metals and acidic drainage.
Every time I drive past one of these sites I get chills down spine. I am horrified that humans are capable of defiling the earth in such a manner, and all in the name of money...
(Yes, I know XGL is not Gnome specific, but a lot of the "Gnome guys" have been working on it, and the demos show the Compiz window manager working with Gnome.)
Ah, but once we finally have secure electronic voting, it will be much easier to implement instant runoff voting allowing you to vote for a republican, a democrat, AND someone who will lose, in the order of your preference.
Then we may end up with something resembling democracy...
Obviously, if they're right Novell hopes that turn will be toward SUSE Linux.
What seems even more obvious to me is that they would continue to market Novell Desktop Linux as their corporate desktop solution, and eventually relegate SUSE to the status of free, open, community supported desktop for home users and enthusiasts.
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I don't mind waiting so much, if it's a heavy app, but I'm really, really annoyed that applications steal back the focus when they finally appear.
Starting with Gnome 2.10, applications never steal focus. Instead, if an app wants focus, or you started a new program and switched focus to something else, it's icon and name in the window list gently pulsates.
By the time Vist is in full swng, OpelGL on windows can't possibly be as popular if it's performance is drained by the layering.
By the time Vista is in full swing (2010?), no one will care about OpenGL performance on Windows, because they already switched to Linux and/or OS X Intel, both of which happen to have great OpenGL support.
First they came for the Jews and no one protested. Then they came for the Gypsies. Then they came for the Communists and no one protested. Then they came for the Catholics and no one protested. Then they came for me, and there was No One Left to protest. -- Martin Niemoeller
But some of the developers agrere with the security experts, and go off to build a better, more secure browser.
They even built in the concept of extensions, whereby users and developers that want these "features" you mention can add them themselves, possibly compromising their own security, but not that of the entire user community.
First of all, I doubt that OSX, evens if it runs on commodity x86 hardware, will seriously decrease Linux's marketshare. Linux enthusiasts and Free Software advocates are not suddenly going to switch over to a new proprietary OS just because it's available. (Raging anti-Microsoft zealots might though, but that's a segment of the population I think we can do without.)
However, this is a unquie opportunity for the Linux community and Apple to help one another and both gain a big chunk of Microsoft's userbase.
Imagine if Apple started contributing funds and/or developers to the Wine project, basically doing for Wine what they did for Khtml.
Imagine being able to tell someone that, yes, they can switch to Linux/OSX and still run all their Windows programs/games.
Imagine what that would do for the marketshare of both operating systems.
Where's the "-1, Wrong" modifier when you need it?
"The 1.x versions of OO use Blackdown IIRC?"
OpenOffice has always used whatever JVM you have on your system. So if you have Blackdown, then it uses Blackdown, if you have Sun's Java it uses that. And if you use Fedora the Java parts are precompiled using GCJ.
Not being entirely facetious here. I tried Slack once, like before Redhat 4.0 came out. I just find it hard to believe that people today would use a distribution without any kind of package manager...
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There is only one director I can think of that could properly convey the surreal creepiness of American Gods:
David Lynch
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think someone should get those two together...
I guess this means we have to scrap the theory that quarks released by solar flares are messing up the bees six dimensional navigation systems too?
Pictures can't convey the devastation that is mountaintop removal.
If you've never heard of mountaintop removal or don't see what the big deal is, then please do check out the overlays, but nothing compares to seeing it firsthand.
Any natural destruction: earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane Katrina, pales in comparison. In all these cases, the human community may suffer great losses, structural damage, but these can all be built back in time. In mountaintop removal, the very land itself is utterly destroyed; there is nothing to build back on. The people cannot move back because the ground is unstable for decades to come. Entire ecosystems are buried along with streams and rivers in valley fills. The groundwater for miles around is poisoned with heavy metals and acidic drainage.
Every time I drive past one of these sites I get chills down spine. I am horrified that humans are capable of defiling the earth in such a manner, and all in the name of money...
I'm going to have to call you out on the blatant misuse of [sarcasm] tags there.
The code that runs Myspace really is that horrible. It's written in ColdFusion for crying out loud...
What about Organic LED TVs?
If Plamsa is Betamax, and LCD is VHS, is OLED DVD?
you're not a real college student.
Does it dream of electric sheep?
It's flat out wrong. Attempting to disprove a hypothesis is the very basis of the scientific process.
Next week's topic: What in the world happened to the teaching of science in our public schools, and what does it mean for the future of our country?
Best. Analogy. Evar.
XGL and Compiz
(Yes, I know XGL is not Gnome specific, but a lot of the "Gnome guys" have been working on it, and the demos show the Compiz window manager working with Gnome.)
"This means we won't be that far behind Vista.
I think we're pretty late nonetheless."
What parallel universe are you from?
This is available now.
If anything is late, it is Vista.
Ah, but once we finally have secure electronic voting, it will be much easier to implement instant runoff voting allowing you to vote for a republican, a democrat, AND someone who will lose, in the order of your preference.
Then we may end up with something resembling democracy...
What seems even more obvious to me is that they would continue to market Novell Desktop Linux as their corporate desktop solution, and eventually relegate SUSE to the status of free, open, community supported desktop for home users and enthusiasts.
Starting with Gnome 2.10, applications never steal focus. Instead, if an app wants focus, or you started a new program and switched focus to something else, it's icon and name in the window list gently pulsates.
By the time Vist is in full swng, OpelGL on windows can't possibly be as popular if it's performance is drained by the layering.
By the time Vista is in full swing (2010?), no one will care about OpenGL performance on Windows, because they already switched to Linux and/or OS X Intel, both of which happen to have great OpenGL support.
Yeah, though OpenGL on Windows has always been crippled to some extent on Windows.
Who would do such a thing???
Personally, I blame the Department of Redundancy Department.
In Soviet Russia, email uses YOU!
First they came for the Jews and no one protested.
Then they came for the Gypsies.
Then they came for the Communists and no one protested.
Then they came for the Catholics and no one protested.
Then they came for me, and there was No One Left to protest.
-- Martin Niemoeller
But some of the developers agrere with the security experts, and go off to build a better, more secure browser.
They even built in the concept of extensions, whereby users and developers that want these "features" you mention can add them themselves, possibly compromising their own security, but not that of the entire user community.
First of all, I doubt that OSX, evens if it runs on commodity x86 hardware, will seriously decrease Linux's marketshare. Linux enthusiasts and Free Software advocates are not suddenly going to switch over to a new proprietary OS just because it's available. (Raging anti-Microsoft zealots might though, but that's a segment of the population I think we can do without.)
However, this is a unquie opportunity for the Linux community and Apple to help one another and both gain a big chunk of Microsoft's userbase.
Imagine if Apple started contributing funds and/or developers to the Wine project, basically doing for Wine what they did for Khtml.
Imagine being able to tell someone that, yes, they can switch to Linux/OSX and still run all their Windows programs/games.
Imagine what that would do for the marketshare of both operating systems.
Where's the "-1, Wrong" modifier when you need it?
"The 1.x versions of OO use Blackdown IIRC?"
OpenOffice has always used whatever JVM you have on your system. So if you have Blackdown, then it uses Blackdown, if you have Sun's Java it uses that. And if you use Fedora the Java parts are precompiled using GCJ.
Gives a whole new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death".
Not being entirely facetious here. I tried Slack once, like before Redhat 4.0 came out. I just find it hard to believe that people today would use a distribution without any kind of package manager...
Behold, the simple brilliance of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
At least soem people believe in myths.