Ah, the "Screens and Graphics" tool. It works OK if you have just one monitor. If you have multiple monitors, this thing is sure to give you crashtacular results. The Ubuntu forums are full of dual-head crash questions for 7.10 that have never been answered.
In modern war, the entire economy is used to produce the tanks, ships, and guns the soldiers use. There are no innocents.
This is the reason the major bombing targets in WWII were factories (and the "innocent" people manning them), not troops.
This same justification is used by Al Queda for attacking New York. Our entire economy, including the old grannies working as Wal-Mart greeters, produces the wealth Israel uses to buy the tanks and soldiers used for maintaining control of contested territories.
I wish it weren't true, but there really are no innocents in modern warfare.
I think the idea behind having really huge numbers of nukes is that even if an adversary destroys the majority of your nuke sites in a first strike, your response will still obliterate them.
Alternatively, it could be justified by the idea that a adversary with a 90% effective missile defense system would still be obliterated in the case of a nuclear conflict.
One more justification is to feed the congressional-military-industrial complex.
Lastly, we have no idea how many nukes it takes to kill the aliens, if they come. The more the better.
"lifeforce?" "lifestream?" Are you just making up words? Of COURSE we could survive outside this planet, given sufficient technology. All we theoretically need to survive is neutrons, protons, electrons, and energy. With that those four things and enough knowledge, we could build anything we need.
The GP is right. We aren't there yet, but we will be if we don't kill ourselves first. The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one can not eternally live in a cradle.
The analogies about nuclear explosions "raping" the Earth are quite stupid and misinformed. There is a lot of life at the sites of former nuclear explosions. Think with your head, not with your emotions.
"Reckon" is a common word in Appalachia. If you think saying "I reckon" sounds too unsophisticated, you can always opt for the more refined "I figger."
I watch television on my computer. It's just a PC hooked up to a DLP projector and a quality speaker system. It cost a LOT less than buying a traditional TV home theater system cost, and I have total control over it, not just the control the cable company wants me to have.
I watch ABC and NBC episodes using their HD web players, I play games on it, I have my entire DVD library on a RAID--just click to watch, no searching for disks. The next setup is to get some voice control app, so I just have to name the movie and it starts playing.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this. College students want to click and watch on demand, not channel surf. And they want to be able to upload their digital videos so their friends can instantly watch them on their own TVs. We are the next big market, and the networks know it.
It took special skill to set all this up, but sooner or later, you can bet that the BestBuys of the world will sell and install all-in-one systems like mine.
Huh? LVM doesn't provide redundancy. RAID, whether hardware or software, provides redundancy. If the controller fries or a disk fails, you can still get the data.
You're saying an outsourced IT company might violate contract and criminal law by selling data, but it is impossible for "in house" staff to do the same?
If you could dump Microsoft Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and other systems, and switch everything to an online office suite, such as Google Apps, would you need as much staff as you have today?
Unless the answer above was "yes," then you can't, in good faith, call this all BS.
Many organizations have people who work full time maintaining spam filtering tools. Online offices do this for you for free. You can't possible answer "yes," can you?
This is more a sign to buy BBY. If they can keep charging money for NOTHING, despite years of complaints from the minority who understands the industry, they have a pretty good business going on.
I doubt you really know what "sell short" means, though.
Only a fool keeps his data, music or otherwise, on a plastic disk of any sort. Your data belongs on a RAID. That NEVER degrades EVER, and with offsite backups, it will survive even the destruction of your house.
Vinyl and CDs are for suckers.
P.S. Anecdotes are worthless. You fail at science.
I'm feeling somewhat kicked in the sac. Yes, I'm fully aware that newer cards come out every few months, but it seems a little bit of a slap in the face when something comes out cheaper, arguably faster, and more manageable Welcome to the computer industry!
The GTS was to get money from early adopters, and remains on the market to squeeze money out of people who make purchasing decisions based on emotional ("I have the best!") rather than financial considerations. Everyone other serious game will henceforth buy the GT.
What does the M stand for in your 100Mb internet connection? What does it stand for in your 700MB CD? Your four Mp digital camera? A 10MW generator?
Now, doesn't it strike you as fundamentally stupid that it differs? Doing stupid things just because they are tradition is really one of humanities more unfortunate flaws.
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Ah, the "Screens and Graphics" tool. It works OK if you have just one monitor. If you have multiple monitors, this thing is sure to give you crashtacular results. The Ubuntu forums are full of dual-head crash questions for 7.10 that have never been answered.
You have been warned.
I bet no woman has ever gone down on you more than once.
Was she asking for it by wearing a skimpy outfit?
Kasparov is running against Putin.
You have obviously never played EVE.
In modern war, the entire economy is used to produce the tanks, ships, and guns the soldiers use. There are no innocents.
This is the reason the major bombing targets in WWII were factories (and the "innocent" people manning them), not troops.
This same justification is used by Al Queda for attacking New York. Our entire economy, including the old grannies working as Wal-Mart greeters, produces the wealth Israel uses to buy the tanks and soldiers used for maintaining control of contested territories.
I wish it weren't true, but there really are no innocents in modern warfare.
I think the idea behind having really huge numbers of nukes is that even if an adversary destroys the majority of your nuke sites in a first strike, your response will still obliterate them.
Alternatively, it could be justified by the idea that a adversary with a 90% effective missile defense system would still be obliterated in the case of a nuclear conflict.
One more justification is to feed the congressional-military-industrial complex.
Lastly, we have no idea how many nukes it takes to kill the aliens, if they come. The more the better.
"lifeforce?" "lifestream?" Are you just making up words? Of COURSE we could survive outside this planet, given sufficient technology. All we theoretically need to survive is neutrons, protons, electrons, and energy. With that those four things and enough knowledge, we could build anything we need.
The GP is right. We aren't there yet, but we will be if we don't kill ourselves first. The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one can not eternally live in a cradle.
The analogies about nuclear explosions "raping" the Earth are quite stupid and misinformed. There is a lot of life at the sites of former nuclear explosions. Think with your head, not with your emotions.
"Reckon" is a common word in Appalachia. If you think saying "I reckon" sounds too unsophisticated, you can always opt for the more refined "I figger."
I watch television on my computer. It's just a PC hooked up to a DLP projector and a quality speaker system. It cost a LOT less than buying a traditional TV home theater system cost, and I have total control over it, not just the control the cable company wants me to have.
I watch ABC and NBC episodes using their HD web players, I play games on it, I have my entire DVD library on a RAID--just click to watch, no searching for disks. The next setup is to get some voice control app, so I just have to name the movie and it starts playing.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this. College students want to click and watch on demand, not channel surf. And they want to be able to upload their digital videos so their friends can instantly watch them on their own TVs. We are the next big market, and the networks know it.
It took special skill to set all this up, but sooner or later, you can bet that the BestBuys of the world will sell and install all-in-one systems like mine.
A programmer who doesn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who doesn't build his own lightsaber.
Try again, "cthul." Wow, putting things in quotes makes me feel better about myself. You have things all figured out, little nooblet.
Huh? LVM doesn't provide redundancy. RAID, whether hardware or software, provides redundancy. If the controller fries or a disk fails, you can still get the data.
You're saying an outsourced IT company might violate contract and criminal law by selling data, but it is impossible for "in house" staff to do the same?
If you could dump Microsoft Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and other systems, and switch everything to an online office suite, such as Google Apps, would you need as much staff as you have today?
Unless the answer above was "yes," then you can't, in good faith, call this all BS.
Many organizations have people who work full time maintaining spam filtering tools. Online offices do this for you for free. You can't possible answer "yes," can you?
It costs $3k per GB if you go with IBM. That's what we did, and now disk space is more expensive than gold-plated hookers around here.
Really? You think that's have business works?
This is more a sign to buy BBY. If they can keep charging money for NOTHING, despite years of complaints from the minority who understands the industry, they have a pretty good business going on.
I doubt you really know what "sell short" means, though.
Only a fool keeps his data, music or otherwise, on a plastic disk of any sort. Your data belongs on a RAID. That NEVER degrades EVER, and with offsite backups, it will survive even the destruction of your house.
Vinyl and CDs are for suckers.
P.S. Anecdotes are worthless. You fail at science.
I'm feeling somewhat kicked in the sac. Yes, I'm fully aware that newer cards come out every few months, but it seems a little bit of a slap in the face when something comes out cheaper, arguably faster, and more manageable Welcome to the computer industry!
The GTS was to get money from early adopters, and remains on the market to squeeze money out of people who make purchasing decisions based on emotional ("I have the best!") rather than financial considerations. Everyone other serious game will henceforth buy the GT.
There is no reason for them to differ other than tradition. That is a stupid reason to do anything.
What does the M stand for in your 100Mb internet connection? What does it stand for in your 700MB CD? Your four Mp digital camera? A 10MW generator?
Now, doesn't it strike you as fundamentally stupid that it differs? Doing stupid things just because they are tradition is really one of humanities more unfortunate flaws.