Experiences like that vary from place to place. I've seen areas where Uverse was as shitty as dial-up, and in other areas where it's no question the best service available. Same with Charter, and other cable companies.
I put Tomato (by far the best firmware for a router ever made) on it, and it works like a charm. They can be found pretty easily on eBay and other places for $40 to $70.
I think we've past the tipping point already. At the least, I don't think we can change our habits enough to prevent climate change at this point, so...
I think we need to start planning for the aftermath of all of this, and do as much as we can in preparation for those changes. Unfortunately I don't think we will, and all I can see is a lot of people needlessly suffering for it all.
The update issue is a separate issue from usability. My sister in law has a Droid, which she loves, and she's anything but an enthusiast. The update issue is a problem that needs to be worked out between Google, the handset makers, and the carriers. It's a business relations problem, not a usability problem.
I think location is more important than the company. I've worked for Charter before, and they do a fantastic job in some places, but not so great in others (especially new acquisitions.)
My mom has Charter, and her advertised speed is 8Mbps down and 1Mbps up, but whenever I run tests on her connections, it's consistently about twice that.
I have Time Warner where I live, and I usually get about 80% of of my average speed (15Mbps rated, 12Mbps tested.)
With that in mind, Charter is probably better at maintaining their networks, and upgrading them when they can than other providers.
This is what our tax money in the fucking drug war is doing? Awesome. That's just fucking awesome. Civil war in Mexico is such a fantastic fucking American dream.
The drug lords are scum, but there are better ways for dealing with them, such as using harm reduction principles to lessen the demand for their products, and thus hurting their income.
There will always be people using drugs, whether they should or not. Decriminalizing their use does not imply an endorsement of the behavior. It's still valid to tell someone that cocaine use is a stupid fucking idea, and to tell them what it will do to their health, but arresting them as though they were just common criminals--instead of getting them help--most definitely doesn't help.
Here's what a tool like this needs to be able to do, download the package which is then converted into a package format appropriate for the system (DEB, RPM, TGZ, etc.)
Why has no one done this yet? I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but surely, I'm not the first to think of this.
I know there is 'alien' but it's always seemed a bit hackish to me, and when packages get installed, it's not as if they get installed into the appropriate directories (e.g. if an RPM package installs its contents into/opt and is converted to DEB, it's still going to be installed into/opt instead of/usr.)
my personal favorite is Resident EvilExternal Web Site Icon
Huh, I guess that must be the name of the next RE movie. Sounds interesting though. I wonder if they're going to have a Slashdot zombie. Maybe it will shun the outside, and refuse to leave its mother's basement, and still cry for brains.
Creationists rarely make the distinction, and constantly conflate the two, so why not?
And as far as verifiable, and falsifiable, yes, it's true there is little that is verifiable at this time (the Miller-Urey experiment has most certainly been verified, I can promise, and I did mention it) for abiogenesis, but there are definitely a number of competing hypotheses that are most certainly falsifiable, and there are scientists putting in the necessary work to do just that. The Wikipedia article talks about a number of them, and this episode of Through the Wormhole gives a nice overview of current research.
And honestly, even if there was nothing verifiable or falsifiable at this time, that wouldn't bother me. There are a lot of things about this universe that we don't know, and don't even have any science to describe yet, and that doesn't bother me (except to the extent that I want to find out what is actually happening.) However, just because I don't know doesn't mean that I'm willing to just make stuff up to fill in the gaps.
More like the Samuel L Jackson version of Dawkins (although, I'll admit I'm not nearly as cool as either.) And yes, I'm just letting of some steam here.
What?!
What the fuck?!
Those sections say the "null hypothesis" is that there had to be some intelligent agency behind the appearance of living things. It is up to the scientists proposing a naturalistic explanation to prove their case.
Since motherfucking when? I'll tell you, motherfucking never. How much more fucking evidence must scientists throw before your motherfucking ugly fucking face before you fucking get it?
Sample says the "null hypothesis" is such because the old experiments that attempted to produce "building blocks" of amino acids failed to do so. In addition later experiments that produced other precursor chemicals, such as DNA and RNA, required very specific conditions in a lab, and aren't he said. Necessarily reflective of what the early Earth was like. Therefore, he said, the odds of making life from non-life seem too small for a naturalistic hypothesis to work.
Well, what the fuck do you call this? And very specific lab conditions? Well, guess what motherfucker, the early Earth have very specific conditions that resemble nothing like what we have today, so yes, those conditions have to be specific in the laboratory. This doesn't even touch the fact that the early Earth was a much bigger fucking laboratory than some fucking room at a university.
Sample says it isn't stealth creationism - he says the intelligent agency might just as well be aliens. But he emphasizes that he wants students to learn to think critically, and that unlike the physical sciences, there aren't any experiments you can do to demonstrate evolutionary theory.
Firstly, observational evidence that can be repeatably confirmed is just as valid as repeatable experiments with observation in a laboratory. And this is yet another case of "What the fuck do you call this?":
While studying the genetics of the evening primrose, Oenothera lamarckiana, de Vries (1905) found an unusual variant among his plants. O. lamarckiana has a chromosome number of 2N = 14. The variant had a chromosome number of 2N = 28. He found that he was unable to breed this variant with O. lamarckiana. He named this new species O. gigas.
Do you see what year is in there? 1905! Speciation was observed in nineteen o'fucking five. That's 23 fucking years after Darwin's death. Can't fucking demonstrate evolution in the lab my ass.
Does the idea that there might be knowledge frighten you? Does the idea that one afternoon on Wiki-fucking-pedia might enlighten you frighten you? Does the idea that there might not be a supernatural so blow your Christian noodle that you'd rather stand there in the fog of your inability to Google? Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex Wonderfully unfathomable, NATURAL world? How does it so fail to hold our attention That we have to diminish it with the invention Of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?
(Watch the rest, you won't regret it, promise.)
I get the idea that it's scary to think that this is all we have, but that's not an excuse to just start making things up to make yourself feel comfortable. If we truly want immortality, the only thing that can possibly deliver on that is science. And we can't continue to be held back by people whose only goal is to advance their favorite fairy tales in spite of the consequences. And yes, science can answer question
In spite of all his craziness, RMS and the FSF are right about one thing, Linux is just a kernel. Ubuntu, Red Hat, Suse, etc. could all be built on a different kernel. In fact, just to prove the point, Debian built a port of their OS to a version using the FreeBSD kernel.
So, IMO, anything using the Linux kernel, POSIX-compatible or not, is a Linux OS. Otherwise, you're playing pedantics.
The reviews aren't exactly glowing though. It's cheaper than the iPad at least. Have you heard any news about it though? No? That's because it seems Acer's PR department doesn't seem to know how to do its job. How can it take off if no one knows about it?
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It certainly seems to cause some miscreants to turn Bach around and walk away.
Sponge Bath...I didn't know there was such a fetish.
But I'm certain that for many people, a tablet is going to replace a laptop. A tablet is just that much more portable.
This is considered news for nerds, but not the passing of Christopher Hitchens? Seriously?
I'm glad to see the man go, but I think Hitchens made more of an impact on this community than did Kim Jong-il.
Experiences like that vary from place to place. I've seen areas where Uverse was as shitty as dial-up, and in other areas where it's no question the best service available. Same with Charter, and other cable companies.
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I put Tomato (by far the best firmware for a router ever made) on it, and it works like a charm. They can be found pretty easily on eBay and other places for $40 to $70.
I think we've past the tipping point already. At the least, I don't think we can change our habits enough to prevent climate change at this point, so...
I think we need to start planning for the aftermath of all of this, and do as much as we can in preparation for those changes. Unfortunately I don't think we will, and all I can see is a lot of people needlessly suffering for it all.
If he was employed, he wouldn't have been tempted to sell the information.
The Csharp REPL is really just an example usage of Mono.CSharp to which I should have linked to instead.
Sounds pretty familiar. Oh, yeah, Mono does this already.
The update issue is a separate issue from usability. My sister in law has a Droid, which she loves, and she's anything but an enthusiast. The update issue is a problem that needs to be worked out between Google, the handset makers, and the carriers. It's a business relations problem, not a usability problem.
Yeah, my sister in law loves her Android phone, and she's not exactly a computer person.
I have black friends like Tyson here. We hang out all the time, and talk about the stars.
[uncomfortable smile]
I think location is more important than the company. I've worked for Charter before, and they do a fantastic job in some places, but not so great in others (especially new acquisitions.)
My mom has Charter, and her advertised speed is 8Mbps down and 1Mbps up, but whenever I run tests on her connections, it's consistently about twice that.
I have Time Warner where I live, and I usually get about 80% of of my average speed (15Mbps rated, 12Mbps tested.)
With that in mind, Charter is probably better at maintaining their networks, and upgrading them when they can than other providers.
I recently heard (though not used) about Alice, which sounds interesting for at least introducing programming concepts.
This is what our tax money in the fucking drug war is doing? Awesome. That's just fucking awesome. Civil war in Mexico is such a fantastic fucking American dream.
The drug lords are scum, but there are better ways for dealing with them, such as using harm reduction principles to lessen the demand for their products, and thus hurting their income.
There will always be people using drugs, whether they should or not. Decriminalizing their use does not imply an endorsement of the behavior. It's still valid to tell someone that cocaine use is a stupid fucking idea, and to tell them what it will do to their health, but arresting them as though they were just common criminals--instead of getting them help--most definitely doesn't help.
Here's what a tool like this needs to be able to do, download the package which is then converted into a package format appropriate for the system (DEB, RPM, TGZ, etc.)
Why has no one done this yet? I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but surely, I'm not the first to think of this.
I know there is 'alien' but it's always seemed a bit hackish to me, and when packages get installed, it's not as if they get installed into the appropriate directories (e.g. if an RPM package installs its contents into /opt and is converted to DEB, it's still going to be installed into /opt instead of /usr.)
It can be tied a local time zone because of TIMECUBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FTFA:
my personal favorite is Resident EvilExternal Web Site Icon
Huh, I guess that must be the name of the next RE movie. Sounds interesting though. I wonder if they're going to have a Slashdot zombie. Maybe it will shun the outside, and refuse to leave its mother's basement, and still cry for brains.
Creationists rarely make the distinction, and constantly conflate the two, so why not?
And as far as verifiable, and falsifiable, yes, it's true there is little that is verifiable at this time (the Miller-Urey experiment has most certainly been verified, I can promise, and I did mention it) for abiogenesis, but there are definitely a number of competing hypotheses that are most certainly falsifiable, and there are scientists putting in the necessary work to do just that. The Wikipedia article talks about a number of them, and this episode of Through the Wormhole gives a nice overview of current research.
And honestly, even if there was nothing verifiable or falsifiable at this time, that wouldn't bother me. There are a lot of things about this universe that we don't know, and don't even have any science to describe yet, and that doesn't bother me (except to the extent that I want to find out what is actually happening.) However, just because I don't know doesn't mean that I'm willing to just make stuff up to fill in the gaps.
More like the Samuel L Jackson version of Dawkins (although, I'll admit I'm not nearly as cool as either.) And yes, I'm just letting of some steam here.
What?!
What the fuck?!
Those sections say the "null hypothesis" is that there had to be some intelligent agency behind the appearance of living things. It is up to the scientists proposing a naturalistic explanation to prove their case.
Since motherfucking when? I'll tell you, motherfucking never. How much more fucking evidence must scientists throw before your motherfucking ugly fucking face before you fucking get it?
Sample says the "null hypothesis" is such because the old experiments that attempted to produce "building blocks" of amino acids failed to do so. In addition later experiments that produced other precursor chemicals, such as DNA and RNA, required very specific conditions in a lab, and aren't he said. Necessarily reflective of what the early Earth was like. Therefore, he said, the odds of making life from non-life seem too small for a naturalistic hypothesis to work.
Well, what the fuck do you call this? And very specific lab conditions? Well, guess what motherfucker, the early Earth have very specific conditions that resemble nothing like what we have today, so yes, those conditions have to be specific in the laboratory. This doesn't even touch the fact that the early Earth was a much bigger fucking laboratory than some fucking room at a university.
Sample says it isn't stealth creationism - he says the intelligent agency might just as well be aliens. But he emphasizes that he wants students to learn to think critically, and that unlike the physical sciences, there aren't any experiments you can do to demonstrate evolutionary theory.
Firstly, observational evidence that can be repeatably confirmed is just as valid as repeatable experiments with observation in a laboratory. And this is yet another case of "What the fuck do you call this?":
While studying the genetics of the evening primrose, Oenothera lamarckiana, de Vries (1905) found an unusual variant among his plants. O. lamarckiana has a chromosome number of 2N = 14. The variant had a chromosome number of 2N = 28. He found that he was unable to breed this variant with O. lamarckiana. He named this new species O. gigas.
Do you see what year is in there? 1905! Speciation was observed in nineteen o'fucking five. That's 23 fucking years after Darwin's death. Can't fucking demonstrate evolution in the lab my ass.
To paraphrase:
Does the idea that there might be knowledge frighten you?
Does the idea that one afternoon on Wiki-fucking-pedia might enlighten you frighten you?
Does the idea that there might not be a supernatural so blow your Christian noodle that you'd rather stand there in the fog of your inability to Google?
Isn’t this enough?
Just this world?
Just this beautiful, complex
Wonderfully unfathomable, NATURAL world?
How does it so fail to hold our attention
That we have to diminish it with the invention
Of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?
(Watch the rest, you won't regret it, promise.)
I get the idea that it's scary to think that this is all we have, but that's not an excuse to just start making things up to make yourself feel comfortable. If we truly want immortality, the only thing that can possibly deliver on that is science. And we can't continue to be held back by people whose only goal is to advance their favorite fairy tales in spite of the consequences. And yes, science can answer question
What is Linux?
No, seriously, what is Linux?
In spite of all his craziness, RMS and the FSF are right about one thing, Linux is just a kernel. Ubuntu, Red Hat, Suse, etc. could all be built on a different kernel. In fact, just to prove the point, Debian built a port of their OS to a version using the FreeBSD kernel.
So, IMO, anything using the Linux kernel, POSIX-compatible or not, is a Linux OS. Otherwise, you're playing pedantics.
On top of that, changing just about anything from CCSM causes it to crash, and suddenly there is no Compiz or Unity.
if it wasn't so buggy.
I can't count how many times X has shut down just randomly with Unity.
On top of that, I think some of the concepts behind it are better than Gnome Shell, but I haven't tried Shell in a long time.
No, really at $450 (Acer Iconia A500).
The reviews aren't exactly glowing though. It's cheaper than the iPad at least. Have you heard any news about it though? No? That's because it seems Acer's PR department doesn't seem to know how to do its job. How can it take off if no one knows about it?