Indeed: the very face of evil. We must incinerate it (with fire), lest the accursed audio codec rise up and slit our throats in the dead of night! Damn Apple and their fashionable products. Damn them!
I feel your tidbit about Thomas Jefferson founding the Democratic party is rather misleading. He founded the Democratic-Republican party, which later disassembled itself into Democrats and Republicans, but his views cannot be easily categorized one way or the other. On the other hand, despite his idealist notions of strict constructionism, he ultimately succumbs to pragmatism.
Look at the Louisiana Purchase, for example. He had no authority to authorize the purchase, but it was too good to pass up, so he went through with it anyway. Besides which, he contributed directly to the cause one of the main influences on the issue of States' Rights: the Civil War. His Virginia Resolution introduced the concepts of nullification and succession in protest of the Alien and Sedition Acts. With the conclusion of the Civil War, states' rights were debased somewhat and the issue died to the point that it was forgotten for decades, leading to the further erosion of states' rights.
This isn't to say I'm a person who disagrees with the concept of having a centralized, federal government. Personally, I see that type of oversight as necessary and more efficient in a lot of ways, but the fact remains that your claims about Jefferson are a bit preposterous.
Interestingly enough, gbrainy is dependent on the mono runtime and all its libraries which seem to take up ~40MB in the alpha. It's not quite 350MB, but it isn't exactly slim either. Granted, fspot and tomboy depend on mono as well. Just something to consider.
Actually, there's a minimal iso image for a net install and you can install a command-line-only system from the alternate install disk. Both use a modified version of the Debian ncurses installer. I've used it both options a few times and found them to be very useful for building a lightweight system from the ground up.
The idea that a decrease in piracy will lead to a decrease in price is incredibly naïve. Even if pirates decided they were going to actually buy games all of the sudden, prices wouldn't change in the slightest. Like it or not, in our economic system, the overwhelming goal is to make money and lots of it. Prices will never go down. The genie is out of the bottle. Publishers have found that they can routinely charge $50 for a brand new game, and they're working their up to $60. Look at Modern Warfare 2. Personally, I find your sentiment manipulative, but you are entitled to your opinion.
I've been taking a look at it and the thing that seems to stand out the most is that it's labeled Live Search. It hasn't adopted the Bing color scheme either. Did these guys not get the memo or something?
Depends. Does the high bidder have a better track record? Do they devote more resources and talent to the project? Lowest bidder implies doing it the cheapest way possible which usually entails cutting a few corners. Now, believe it or not, more money has a way of alleviating these issues. Obviously, the reputation of the bidder is important as well, but then again, it's someone's job to investigate so that the decision is made in an informed manner. Of course, this is strictly academic as the damn thing's about finished anyway.
I don't know about everyone else, but my Kubuntu installation suspends/sleeps perfectly. The Windows 7 RC installation on the other hand... Yeah, yeah; something about anecdotes meaning nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Yet that's an unfair comparison. Windows 2000 was released in 2000 and Windows XP was released in 2001. After just upgrading from '95 or '98 to 2000, what incentive is there to immediately jump ship and take on XP? Even then, most of the hardware capable of running 2000 had no problems with XP. Then, you have this gap of ~5 years to Vista. Everyone is accustomed to XP and none of the old hardware from 2000-2003 runs Vista and the consensus is that it's a disaster. Once again, businesses wait and by the time Windows 7 comes out, many will be running an 8-year-old operating system. You better believe 40% want to upgrade. The refinements and performance of 7 are the icing on the cake.
Pandora stores its data about users in flash "cookies" (Local Shared Objects). If you can find and delete those cookies, you can reset your skips (as well as cause Pandora to forget your username and password; doesn't kick you off though). Unlimited skips! I believe you can delete them here,Âwith this Firefox addon and probably by manually finding and deleting them. (I'm too lazy to determine the directory. It would be just wonderful if someone could clarify.) No telling what happens when/if you are caught.
No, the net installer is what fits on a CD. Most of the software is downloaded from online repositories.
The net installer is a 10MiB iso image that you can download here. It's a twist on the Debian net installer. You choose what to install. The idea is not to waste bandwidth downloading a 700MiB or 4300MiB iso. On the other hand, if you do not have an ethernet connection or your connection is, for some reason or other, unreliable, you can download a LiveCD with the standard packages (I dare say, more than is included in the 2300MiB Win7 iso) or an alternate CD aimed at advanced users or users of lower-end computers. If you're so inclined, you can even download a DVD image with some more obscure packages included. Hell, you can easily make or buy a snapshot of the repositories if that's what floats your boat. Stating that the net installer takes up 700MiB on the disk is quite plainly incorrect, however. Quite ironic given your signature.
Technically, that's grammatically incorrect. A singular object referred to as a plural object, as was mentioned above. The correct way to do so would be to say he or she or his or her. I suppose we could be like the French and assume the male gender. Then again, why assume? This is Slashdot!
Except Ubuntu isn't Debian... Many of the developers for Ubuntu also work for Debian, and Ubuntu is based off of Debian, but the similarities end there. Ignoring the organizational differences, there are still differences in the way upgrades work. Debian testing and unstable both have rolling releases. Debian stable is released with a stable set group of packages (with backported security updates) every year or two. Ubuntu seems to be a compromise between them, releasing on a relatively set schedule relatively often with little changing in between the releases. Saying there is no edge because of Debian is moronic, however. Sid is about as bleeding-edge as you can get. I dare you to run pure Debian Unstable for a month and tell me it's not.
I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but when I saw the thing about b-vitamins, I immediately thought of that "Five-Hour-Energy" crap. 8333% of the daily recommended intake of vitamin b12. Granted, it's not fat-soluble so it all comes out in your urine, but that's still an awful lot for an energy product to be pushing.
That's because of the immense contrast between the two versions. Say you had had to use 4.0 for months and then suddenly switched to 4.1. Big contrast. Say you've used 3.5 for more than a year and suddenly switch to 4.1. Features and stability are still not up to par with the rock-solid 3.5 builds. It's all about perspective I suppose. It is worth mentioning that cbhacking is correct, though. In terms of features and usability, 4.2 is a huge step forward with 4.3 hopefully surpassing it and coming closer to 3.5.
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Indeed: the very face of evil. We must incinerate it (with fire), lest the accursed audio codec rise up and slit our throats in the dead of night! Damn Apple and their fashionable products. Damn them!
I feel your tidbit about Thomas Jefferson founding the Democratic party is rather misleading. He founded the Democratic-Republican party, which later disassembled itself into Democrats and Republicans, but his views cannot be easily categorized one way or the other. On the other hand, despite his idealist notions of strict constructionism, he ultimately succumbs to pragmatism.
Look at the Louisiana Purchase, for example. He had no authority to authorize the purchase, but it was too good to pass up, so he went through with it anyway. Besides which, he contributed directly to the cause one of the main influences on the issue of States' Rights: the Civil War. His Virginia Resolution introduced the concepts of nullification and succession in protest of the Alien and Sedition Acts. With the conclusion of the Civil War, states' rights were debased somewhat and the issue died to the point that it was forgotten for decades, leading to the further erosion of states' rights.
This isn't to say I'm a person who disagrees with the concept of having a centralized, federal government. Personally, I see that type of oversight as necessary and more efficient in a lot of ways, but the fact remains that your claims about Jefferson are a bit preposterous.
Interestingly enough, gbrainy is dependent on the mono runtime and all its libraries which seem to take up ~40MB in the alpha. It's not quite 350MB, but it isn't exactly slim either. Granted, fspot and tomboy depend on mono as well. Just something to consider.
Actually, there's a minimal iso image for a net install and you can install a command-line-only system from the alternate install disk. Both use a modified version of the Debian ncurses installer. I've used it both options a few times and found them to be very useful for building a lightweight system from the ground up.
The idea that a decrease in piracy will lead to a decrease in price is incredibly naïve. Even if pirates decided they were going to actually buy games all of the sudden, prices wouldn't change in the slightest. Like it or not, in our economic system, the overwhelming goal is to make money and lots of it. Prices will never go down. The genie is out of the bottle. Publishers have found that they can routinely charge $50 for a brand new game, and they're working their up to $60. Look at Modern Warfare 2. Personally, I find your sentiment manipulative, but you are entitled to your opinion.
Serves 'em right.
A government is as sensible as the people participating in it. Perhaps living in a democratic republic is an advantageous circumstance?
Remember folks: every time you say, read or think a dirty word, god kills a kitten.
...But not before setting it on fire.
I've been taking a look at it and the thing that seems to stand out the most is that it's labeled Live Search. It hasn't adopted the Bing color scheme either. Did these guys not get the memo or something?
Where do I sign?
You're right. Britney Spears' songs are definitely toxic.
Well, there is the Free Software Foundation. Perhaps you've heard of them?
Depends. Does the high bidder have a better track record? Do they devote more resources and talent to the project? Lowest bidder implies doing it the cheapest way possible which usually entails cutting a few corners. Now, believe it or not, more money has a way of alleviating these issues. Obviously, the reputation of the bidder is important as well, but then again, it's someone's job to investigate so that the decision is made in an informed manner. Of course, this is strictly academic as the damn thing's about finished anyway.
I don't know about everyone else, but my Kubuntu installation suspends/sleeps perfectly. The Windows 7 RC installation on the other hand... Yeah, yeah; something about anecdotes meaning nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Yet that's an unfair comparison. Windows 2000 was released in 2000 and Windows XP was released in 2001. After just upgrading from '95 or '98 to 2000, what incentive is there to immediately jump ship and take on XP? Even then, most of the hardware capable of running 2000 had no problems with XP. Then, you have this gap of ~5 years to Vista. Everyone is accustomed to XP and none of the old hardware from 2000-2003 runs Vista and the consensus is that it's a disaster. Once again, businesses wait and by the time Windows 7 comes out, many will be running an 8-year-old operating system. You better believe 40% want to upgrade. The refinements and performance of 7 are the icing on the cake.
Google gears..
Pandora stores its data about users in flash "cookies" (Local Shared Objects). If you can find and delete those cookies, you can reset your skips (as well as cause Pandora to forget your username and password; doesn't kick you off though). Unlimited skips! I believe you can delete them here,Âwith this Firefox addon and probably by manually finding and deleting them. (I'm too lazy to determine the directory. It would be just wonderful if someone could clarify.) No telling what happens when/if you are caught.
Jest all you want. It's still taxation without representation and making light of the situation won't change that.
I couldn't help but think of this Dilbert cartoon when I read your comment. It certainly rings true...
No, the net installer is what fits on a CD. Most of the software is downloaded from online repositories.
The net installer is a 10MiB iso image that you can download here. It's a twist on the Debian net installer. You choose what to install. The idea is not to waste bandwidth downloading a 700MiB or 4300MiB iso. On the other hand, if you do not have an ethernet connection or your connection is, for some reason or other, unreliable, you can download a LiveCD with the standard packages (I dare say, more than is included in the 2300MiB Win7 iso) or an alternate CD aimed at advanced users or users of lower-end computers. If you're so inclined, you can even download a DVD image with some more obscure packages included. Hell, you can easily make or buy a snapshot of the repositories if that's what floats your boat. Stating that the net installer takes up 700MiB on the disk is quite plainly incorrect, however. Quite ironic given your signature.
Technically, that's grammatically incorrect. A singular object referred to as a plural object, as was mentioned above. The correct way to do so would be to say he or she or his or her. I suppose we could be like the French and assume the male gender. Then again, why assume? This is Slashdot!
Except Ubuntu isn't Debian... Many of the developers for Ubuntu also work for Debian, and Ubuntu is based off of Debian, but the similarities end there. Ignoring the organizational differences, there are still differences in the way upgrades work. Debian testing and unstable both have rolling releases. Debian stable is released with a stable set group of packages (with backported security updates) every year or two. Ubuntu seems to be a compromise between them, releasing on a relatively set schedule relatively often with little changing in between the releases. Saying there is no edge because of Debian is moronic, however. Sid is about as bleeding-edge as you can get. I dare you to run pure Debian Unstable for a month and tell me it's not.
I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but when I saw the thing about b-vitamins, I immediately thought of that "Five-Hour-Energy" crap. 8333% of the daily recommended intake of vitamin b12. Granted, it's not fat-soluble so it all comes out in your urine, but that's still an awful lot for an energy product to be pushing.
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That's because of the immense contrast between the two versions. Say you had had to use 4.0 for months and then suddenly switched to 4.1. Big contrast. Say you've used 3.5 for more than a year and suddenly switch to 4.1. Features and stability are still not up to par with the rock-solid 3.5 builds. It's all about perspective I suppose. It is worth mentioning that cbhacking is correct, though. In terms of features and usability, 4.2 is a huge step forward with 4.3 hopefully surpassing it and coming closer to 3.5.
It seems to indicate Slashdot staff status. I've seen it on other members of the staff as well. It appears to only link to slashdot.org though.