Also, saying that anybody who's interested in Ubuntu would already know about the LTS beta is nonsensical.
It's a good thing I never said that, then, because I wholly agree with you. I don't expect my sister to get all excited about the next Ubuntu, for example; she's non-technical and started using Ubuntu on her netbook because I was using the netbook first while I was trying to replace my laptop (I threw UNR on there when we got it because I like Ubuntu, and she loves the UNR interface:-D ). I, however, am definitely interested in beta-testing the new Ubuntu, and I knew about this back on Friday, when it came out (for those who aren't following Ubuntu development, beta-1 was delayed by a day for whatever reason).
If you reread my post, you'll see that I never make reference to the whole population of Ubuntu users. I only talk about the subset that likes beta-testing Ubuntu.
Ubuntu enters beta every six months. It's news for those of us who like beta-testing Ubuntu.
I disagree, based on the current amount of time for which the beta has been out. Those of us who like beta-testing Ubuntu should have known this, oh, 4 or 5 days ago, when it happened.
For those of us who like beta-testing Ubuntu, this is olds, not news.
Yeah, but Safari is made by Apple, Chrome is made by Google, they use the same rendering engine, and so if I need to swear loyalty to one of those companies, I'd rather it be Google than Apple.
If these things are still meant to correct vision and if they fit me*, I would totally consider switching from glasses to these contacts. I'm a bit farsighted (I can still mostly read without my glasses, but it causes me a headache to try to do so), and I like my glasses because I don't feel like I'm going to poke out my eye whenever I want to see properly (I have never worn contacts, so please don't yell at me for believing what I see on TV). But, given the right interesting applications, I'd totally go for these contacts. For example, the possibility of real-time IRL speech captioning mentioned in TFA sounds really awesome!:D
* Part of my eye problem is an astigmatism. I'm sure we've all heard how well-engineered contacts have to be to fit that sort of problem.
I don't think you should have told me that. Now that I know you travelled back in time, I now know right where to find some TARDIS coral. Once I have my TARDIS, I will travel slightly further back in time, and hide a piece of TARDIS coral in some place such that only I will know where it is. Please think about this very carefully, if you're confused. It's not a paradox; it's just happening slightly out-of-order from my point of view.
brb, off to super-secret hiding place to find some TARDIS coral. Thanks for your help!:-D
I'm pretty sure a Jedi would remove his hood when asked to after entering a building, specifically one run by the local government. All the Jedi characters I remember were pretty polite.
I think you're right. In fact, I'm pretty sure the Jedi removed their hoods when dealing with other people in general (not necessarily needing to be asked to do so), much like how a man doffs his hat as a sign of respect.
That settles it. This man must be a Sith Lord if he would forget such basic manners.
When are you going to get tired of paying to be screwed?
I don't think we can get an estimate on that. Given The Oldest Profession, and given that I'm fairly certain that prostitutes still exist in some parts of the world, I'd say we've been happy to pay to be screwed for a very long time, with no data ever suggesting that we'd grow tired of it.
I can't move around with one of these jetpacks. According to TFA:
The pilot must also weigh between 140-240 lbs.
It'll take a bigger person than me. I'm currently just under 140 lbs. Maybe with the safety gear, I might just be able to use it, but just regular clothes don't do it.
Also, I encounter people who weigh less than me on a regular basis. This mode of travel is currently inaccessible to some (probably) significant portion of the population for reasons that aren't financial. Come to think of it, with American stereotypes being what they are, there's probably a significant portion of people too large for this thing, too.
And I'm 20 years old. I just happen to be one of those skinny nerds with the fast metabolism
That's very nice and all, but how is it incomplete? In the last link in TFS, the comment is introduced in a less-than-friendly manner. They call it "Ubisoft's 'please believe us' statement".
So, um...what's the pirated version missing, other than a snowball's chance in hell of enforcing the DRM?
Oh, wow, I didn't notice that the first time I went over the images.
Also, I saw this image, and I was briefly confused when I saw that oblique image of the screen. For a minute, I thought there was a picture of a Mac with this wallpaper for some reason.
I hope I don't boot up the liveCD to find a dock replacing the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Ubuntu (or I guess GNOME) should be creating its own look, not ripping off of Microsoft and Apple.
Just because everyone on here hates microsoft doesn't mean they don't make decent software.
Agreed. In my mind, the fact that the security breach of the week tends to allow root-privileged execution of arbitrary code means that they don't make decent software.
I mean, you have to jump through some pretty fiery logic hoops to come up with a good reason that a green plus would shrink a window.
In my (limited) OS X experience, that would probably be because the window was already at its larger size, so all the green light could do was shrink it down to its smaller size.
I do agree that the UI is poorly-designed. This may be a petty complaint on my part, but if I click the red X, I expect the application to stop. Maybe that's Windows/GNOME/KDE conditioning, but that's the way it is. If I have no windows open for a given application, I do not expect that application to be considered to be "running".
I'm worried for how able Mozilla is to compete against the threat coming from Google and Chrome at the moment. Their core browser is falling behind on speed and stability and I think they'll find it hard to catch up given the size/age/complexity of the Firefox codebase compared to Chrome. Google had the opportunity to start from scratch with the knowledge of all the browser vulnerabilities in the last decade and have a much better architecture for security and stability. It's almost unfeasible for Mozilla to refactor firefox to match.
I'm not too worried about convergence or competition between Firefox and Chromium. The way I see it, someone can only switch from Firefox if they either (a) don't use add-ons, (b) can part with the add-ons that they do use, or (c) can find equivalent add-ons in Chromium's library. So, Firefox is going to be for those who need the all-in-one browser that will make a sandwich for you while a javascript/flash-ridden page loads (provided you install the add-on), and Chromium* is going to be for people who just need to browse the web. Each one will get its market share, and my guess is that in the long run (that is, as time t approaches infinity), it will probably stabilize.
* We can further divide Chromium's users into users of Chrome (those who have sold their souls to Google or just don't care enough to avoid the spyware components) and users of Iron (the geeks who know what's in Chrome and think they're doing their parts to keep Google out).
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Great post. But please, can we stop using effect as a verb?
No. We only need to effect such a change such that people stop using the verb "to effect" incorrectly.
There's a website for that, y'know:
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
Also, saying that anybody who's interested in Ubuntu would already know about the LTS beta is nonsensical.
It's a good thing I never said that, then, because I wholly agree with you. I don't expect my sister to get all excited about the next Ubuntu, for example; she's non-technical and started using Ubuntu on her netbook because I was using the netbook first while I was trying to replace my laptop (I threw UNR on there when we got it because I like Ubuntu, and she loves the UNR interface :-D ). I, however, am definitely interested in beta-testing the new Ubuntu, and I knew about this back on Friday, when it came out (for those who aren't following Ubuntu development, beta-1 was delayed by a day for whatever reason).
If you reread my post, you'll see that I never make reference to the whole population of Ubuntu users. I only talk about the subset that likes beta-testing Ubuntu.
Ubuntu enters beta every six months. It's news for those of us who like beta-testing Ubuntu.
I disagree, based on the current amount of time for which the beta has been out. Those of us who like beta-testing Ubuntu should have known this, oh, 4 or 5 days ago, when it happened.
For those of us who like beta-testing Ubuntu, this is olds, not news.
Yeah, but Safari is made by Apple, Chrome is made by Google, they use the same rendering engine, and so if I need to swear loyalty to one of those companies, I'd rather it be Google than Apple.
"The people called 'Shalshdottes' they go the house"?
Mark Shuttleworth wants to de-clutter the right so as to add nifty new stuff on the right in the future.
That would be Muphry's law.
For details on Muphry's law, click on the above hyperlink. For more fun laws, click on the below hyperlink.
More fun here.
This makes it to the front page of Slashdot so that you can summarize it with a car analogy.
Or maybe it's a trick and you're supposed to summarize it with a computer analogy. Could go either way.
If these things are still meant to correct vision and if they fit me*, I would totally consider switching from glasses to these contacts. I'm a bit farsighted (I can still mostly read without my glasses, but it causes me a headache to try to do so), and I like my glasses because I don't feel like I'm going to poke out my eye whenever I want to see properly (I have never worn contacts, so please don't yell at me for believing what I see on TV). But, given the right interesting applications, I'd totally go for these contacts. For example, the possibility of real-time IRL speech captioning mentioned in TFA sounds really awesome! :D
* Part of my eye problem is an astigmatism. I'm sure we've all heard how well-engineered contacts have to be to fit that sort of problem.
I don't think you should have told me that. Now that I know you travelled back in time, I now know right where to find some TARDIS coral. Once I have my TARDIS, I will travel slightly further back in time, and hide a piece of TARDIS coral in some place such that only I will know where it is. Please think about this very carefully, if you're confused. It's not a paradox; it's just happening slightly out-of-order from my point of view.
brb, off to super-secret hiding place to find some TARDIS coral. Thanks for your help! :-D
Actually, my first thought was that if I can regenerate, then all I'm missing is a TARDIS.
brb, off to find some TARDIS coral so I can grow my own TARDIS.
I'm pretty sure a Jedi would remove his hood when asked to after entering a building, specifically one run by the local government. All the Jedi characters I remember were pretty polite.
I think you're right. In fact, I'm pretty sure the Jedi removed their hoods when dealing with other people in general (not necessarily needing to be asked to do so), much like how a man doffs his hat as a sign of respect.
That settles it. This man must be a Sith Lord if he would forget such basic manners.
Ooh, sounds like there's an interesting story in that one. I didn't realize that Slashdot idolized a Python.
And I feel really bad for having to look up who the man is. I should know who they are. Well, at least I know now that Slashdot idolizes Idle.
The half with the lyrics is. The second half is why God invented Guitar Hero.
When are you going to get tired of paying to be screwed?
I don't think we can get an estimate on that. Given The Oldest Profession, and given that I'm fairly certain that prostitutes still exist in some parts of the world, I'd say we've been happy to pay to be screwed for a very long time, with no data ever suggesting that we'd grow tired of it.
It's in the repositories, like everything else.
I can't move around with one of these jetpacks. According to TFA:
The pilot must also weigh between 140-240 lbs.
It'll take a bigger person than me. I'm currently just under 140 lbs. Maybe with the safety gear, I might just be able to use it, but just regular clothes don't do it.
Also, I encounter people who weigh less than me on a regular basis. This mode of travel is currently inaccessible to some (probably) significant portion of the population for reasons that aren't financial. Come to think of it, with American stereotypes being what they are, there's probably a significant portion of people too large for this thing, too.
And I'm 20 years old. I just happen to be one of those skinny nerds with the fast metabolism
That's very nice and all, but how is it incomplete? In the last link in TFS, the comment is introduced in a less-than-friendly manner. They call it "Ubisoft's 'please believe us' statement".
So, um...what's the pirated version missing, other than a snowball's chance in hell of enforcing the DRM?
What use do these "iPhone" devices have anymore, anyway?
Well...I'm pretty sure they're still phones.... I bet they can still make phone calls. Maybe even send text messages, too!
I hope, anyway....
I do not own an iPhone, nor do I ever plan to own one, but...yeah...I'd hope anything with "phone" in the name would be able to contact other phones.
Oh, wow, I didn't notice that the first time I went over the images.
Also, I saw this image, and I was briefly confused when I saw that oblique image of the screen. For a minute, I thought there was a picture of a Mac with this wallpaper for some reason.
I hope I don't boot up the liveCD to find a dock replacing the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Ubuntu (or I guess GNOME) should be creating its own look, not ripping off of Microsoft and Apple.
Just because everyone on here hates microsoft doesn't mean they don't make decent software.
Agreed. In my mind, the fact that the security breach of the week tends to allow root-privileged execution of arbitrary code means that they don't make decent software.
I mean, you have to jump through some pretty fiery logic hoops to come up with a good reason that a green plus would shrink a window.
In my (limited) OS X experience, that would probably be because the window was already at its larger size, so all the green light could do was shrink it down to its smaller size.
I do agree that the UI is poorly-designed. This may be a petty complaint on my part, but if I click the red X, I expect the application to stop. Maybe that's Windows/GNOME/KDE conditioning, but that's the way it is. If I have no windows open for a given application, I do not expect that application to be considered to be "running".
I'm worried for how able Mozilla is to compete against the threat coming from Google and Chrome at the moment. Their core browser is falling behind on speed and stability and I think they'll find it hard to catch up given the size/age/complexity of the Firefox codebase compared to Chrome. Google had the opportunity to start from scratch with the knowledge of all the browser vulnerabilities in the last decade and have a much better architecture for security and stability. It's almost unfeasible for Mozilla to refactor firefox to match.
I'm not too worried about convergence or competition between Firefox and Chromium. The way I see it, someone can only switch from Firefox if they either (a) don't use add-ons, (b) can part with the add-ons that they do use, or (c) can find equivalent add-ons in Chromium's library. So, Firefox is going to be for those who need the all-in-one browser that will make a sandwich for you while a javascript/flash-ridden page loads (provided you install the add-on), and Chromium* is going to be for people who just need to browse the web. Each one will get its market share, and my guess is that in the long run (that is, as time t approaches infinity), it will probably stabilize.
* We can further divide Chromium's users into users of Chrome (those who have sold their souls to Google or just don't care enough to avoid the spyware components) and users of Iron (the geeks who know what's in Chrome and think they're doing their parts to keep Google out).
reasonsToMoveToCanada++;
Shoot...should have stored that var in a larger datatype. Or at least, I should have unsigned it. >_<