Hmm, maybe you're right. After some google-ing it appears you can click-and-drag with the middle mouse button to get the 'past link' menu option. You can also browse etc/skel with nautilus in root (with an extension). So you could do all of this with GUI. But you're right, those are extra, and definitely not easily identified, steps.
The idea behind Ubuntu (and desktop linux in general), is that it is a multi-user OS. Multi-user in the sense that the administrator determines what a user can do, and the user can do anything they want within these limits. There is no need for easily accessible multi-user desktop-shortcuts, because each user should be allowed to set up their own desktop the way they want it. You just have to shift the way you think about your desktop environment a little bit.
Those who attacked the US on 9/11, and those who subsequently commit acts of terrorism against Americans are not trying to kill Americans.
So many of the tactics being employed against terrorism are put in place because there is a widespread fear that "They're out to kill us! If we leave them alone, or if we don't actively combat terrorism, more innocent American civilians will die."
This is the wrong mindset, and the wrong problem to focus resources on. The terrorists attacking the US are not out to kill Americans. They do not want to "kill the infidels!". They are opposed to the expansive, capitalist, commercialized society America is and represents. They are opposed to "the Man", as we like to say. Our Man. The westernized Man.
By committing acts of terrorism, the attackers aim to weaken the unity of western society, disrupt our way of life, turn us against our governments, have the internal security of our countries break down to a ridiculous piece of theater, have us live in fear, and have western society in general disrupted as much as possible.
The people attacking the US are smarter than us (they're probably engineers), and are not motivated by the primitive religious craziness that everyone seems to think. "Terrorism" (as this is now the concrete thing we're fighting) is a carefully planned tactic to disrupt western society, and not simply a plan to kill as many Americans as possible.
I find it so very interesting how anti-government Americans (well, all North-Americans, really) are. The government is put in place BY YOU, to protect YOU, and can be changed any time, by, you guessed it: YOU. It's interesting to see support for establishing American-style democracy in Iraq, while those same supporters don't trust their own government. People support the military because they are patriotic and love their country, yet don't trust their own government. Obviously the system doesn't work, and maybe more thought should be given to putting a broken system in place in Iraq.
I assumed the GP was referring to the ability to move sound from between output devices on different computers. In the middle of playing. (Both machines running PulseAudio, of course) This is what makes PulseAudio worth the growing pains that it has been.
Also, PA can route audio output per application, while windows (7) can only choose which output to route all audio to.
I have some vision issues (wear glasses, have had surgery, was born cross-eyed, etc). I can't for the life of me remember the exact medical term, but I don't have depth perception like average folks. When the optometrist does the depth-perception test with the little dots, and one is supposed to pop out at you, I see no popping.
Now, I've watched Avatar (twice - once in non-3D and once in RealD) and thought it was great. I could see the 3D, but it wasn't anything crazy. It really just emphasized the focus point of the camera, and made things appropriately blurry if they were not the thing being focussed on. Trees closer to the camera loooked like they were closer to the camera. But I already knew that, because they're, well, bigger. I guess it added a bit of perspective, but nothing spectacular.
My question, thus, being: Is 3D really THAT great, that we want 3D TVs and camcorders? Or am I missing out on the full AWESOME of 3D becasue of my vision issues?
To me 3D still seems really gimmikey and more of a distraction than an actual addition to a film
TFA makes no mention that the explosives were planted by Slovakian police, only that British police were informed by them. For all we know, the explosives were planted by baggage handlers. I have no idea how thoroughly baggage handlers are screened (both before each shift and before employment) in Slovakia.
100 on the IQ scale for Boskops is 150 on the scale for us.
Not quite, since our IQ scale isn't really standardized. IQ tests differ between demographics, if they are designed properly, to reflect the intelligence of the demographic, since different demographics are intelligent in different ways. This, I guess, highlights how useless IQ really is as a measure of anything. This previous species may have been 3/2 as "intelligent" as we are, but that doesn't tell us anything about their culture/civilization and way of life, and whether or not they fully used their intelligence.
The Linuxologist ran a story covering the video (and accompanying conversion script), mentioned by the OP, a while ago. Apparently there's an entire project for a gnome GUI conversion to make it look like XP.
I think it's pretty useful for convincing family members to make the switch to Ubuntu and cut down on personal Windows-related maintenance time.
I've just started to program, and I'm in the process of learning perl. Form this experience, I'd say it's a good place to start. It removes (from what I can tell) a need to focus on complicated syntax and allows you to learn the basics of loops and stuff before you have to worry about technicalities (like declaring variable types, etc). Mind you, I technically started programming on a TI-83, but hey. I assume if you're looking to teach him, it's becasue he wants to learn. As others have said, there's no point in teaching him to program if he doesn't have the right logic circuits.
That's a really good point, especially since this may well alleviate the technicalities and opposition the OPs boss is expressing. By buying a new feature, the government agency isn't donating, but is buying something (yet at the same time IS donating). Plus you get the extra feature you're after, so it's win-win-win (for the developer, your boss, and your agency)
If you consider this art, chances are you were the kid that always got the cross-section books from the library in elementary school too. Good times indeed...
I think games like this serve to further gaming as an art form, which is something that isn't done nearly enough. Sadly, the common perception of games is that they are for children, and that adults who play them are silly and unwilling to grow up. Sure, casual games are changing this, but only becasue their casual nature makes them easier for 'adults' to accept and enjoy.
Making games serious will allow gaming to advance as an artistic medium. The mundane details, as you put it, allow for introspection, and show that gaming can have much, much deeper meaning than is normally attributed to it. If games continue to be made in such a style, they can have a much greater impact than movies (for example), due to their immersive nature. Imagine watching a provocative and thought-provoking artistic film, and compare the impact that can have to the potential impact of actually making the decisions within the story, if the story were to be told through a game.
I suppose you're right, this game doesn't look fun, but I think it can help to further games as an art form.
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Hmm, maybe you're right. After some google-ing it appears you can click-and-drag with the middle mouse button to get the 'past link' menu option. You can also browse etc/skel with nautilus in root (with an extension). So you could do all of this with GUI. But you're right, those are extra, and definitely not easily identified, steps.
The idea behind Ubuntu (and desktop linux in general), is that it is a multi-user OS. Multi-user in the sense that the administrator determines what a user can do, and the user can do anything they want within these limits. There is no need for easily accessible multi-user desktop-shortcuts, because each user should be allowed to set up their own desktop the way they want it. You just have to shift the way you think about your desktop environment a little bit.
Videos of the robot doing some pretty cool stuff. If I was into robotics, I'd definately want to be playing with one of these!
Those who attacked the US on 9/11, and those who subsequently commit acts of terrorism against Americans are not trying to kill Americans.
So many of the tactics being employed against terrorism are put in place because there is a widespread fear that "They're out to kill us! If we leave them alone, or if we don't actively combat terrorism, more innocent American civilians will die."
This is the wrong mindset, and the wrong problem to focus resources on. The terrorists attacking the US are not out to kill Americans. They do not want to "kill the infidels!". They are opposed to the expansive, capitalist, commercialized society America is and represents. They are opposed to "the Man", as we like to say. Our Man. The westernized Man.
By committing acts of terrorism, the attackers aim to weaken the unity of western society, disrupt our way of life, turn us against our governments, have the internal security of our countries break down to a ridiculous piece of theater, have us live in fear, and have western society in general disrupted as much as possible.
The people attacking the US are smarter than us (they're probably engineers), and are not motivated by the primitive religious craziness that everyone seems to think. "Terrorism" (as this is now the concrete thing we're fighting) is a carefully planned tactic to disrupt western society, and not simply a plan to kill as many Americans as possible.
And they are, quite clearly, making some headway.
I find it so very interesting how anti-government Americans (well, all North-Americans, really) are. The government is put in place BY YOU, to protect YOU, and can be changed any time, by, you guessed it: YOU. It's interesting to see support for establishing American-style democracy in Iraq, while those same supporters don't trust their own government. People support the military because they are patriotic and love their country, yet don't trust their own government. Obviously the system doesn't work, and maybe more thought should be given to putting a broken system in place in Iraq.
Slow news day, I'd guess.
I assumed the GP was referring to the ability to move sound from between output devices on different computers. In the middle of playing. (Both machines running PulseAudio, of course) This is what makes PulseAudio worth the growing pains that it has been.
Also, PA can route audio output per application, while windows (7) can only choose which output to route all audio to.
Careful not to get that in your eye... that shit'll give you herpes
So if you get 'caught', not only do you have to zip up, switch to some innocuous application, but now you also have to rip off and hide 3D glasses?
Unless you watch a different 3D program...
I have some vision issues (wear glasses, have had surgery, was born cross-eyed, etc). I can't for the life of me remember the exact medical term, but I don't have depth perception like average folks. When the optometrist does the depth-perception test with the little dots, and one is supposed to pop out at you, I see no popping.
Now, I've watched Avatar (twice - once in non-3D and once in RealD) and thought it was great. I could see the 3D, but it wasn't anything crazy. It really just emphasized the focus point of the camera, and made things appropriately blurry if they were not the thing being focussed on. Trees closer to the camera loooked like they were closer to the camera. But I already knew that, because they're, well, bigger. I guess it added a bit of perspective, but nothing spectacular.
My question, thus, being: Is 3D really THAT great, that we want 3D TVs and camcorders? Or am I missing out on the full AWESOME of 3D becasue of my vision issues?
To me 3D still seems really gimmikey and more of a distraction than an actual addition to a film
TFA makes no mention that the explosives were planted by Slovakian police, only that British police were informed by them. For all we know, the explosives were planted by baggage handlers. I have no idea how thoroughly baggage handlers are screened (both before each shift and before employment) in Slovakia.
100 on the IQ scale for Boskops is 150 on the scale for us.
Not quite, since our IQ scale isn't really standardized. IQ tests differ between demographics, if they are designed properly, to reflect the intelligence of the demographic, since different demographics are intelligent in different ways. This, I guess, highlights how useless IQ really is as a measure of anything. This previous species may have been 3/2 as "intelligent" as we are, but that doesn't tell us anything about their culture/civilization and way of life, and whether or not they fully used their intelligence.
The Linuxologist ran a story covering the video (and accompanying conversion script), mentioned by the OP, a while ago. Apparently there's an entire project for a gnome GUI conversion to make it look like XP.
I think it's pretty useful for convincing family members to make the switch to Ubuntu and cut down on personal Windows-related maintenance time.
I've just started to program, and I'm in the process of learning perl. Form this experience, I'd say it's a good place to start. It removes (from what I can tell) a need to focus on complicated syntax and allows you to learn the basics of loops and stuff before you have to worry about technicalities (like declaring variable types, etc). Mind you, I technically started programming on a TI-83, but hey. I assume if you're looking to teach him, it's becasue he wants to learn. As others have said, there's no point in teaching him to program if he doesn't have the right logic circuits.
That's a really good point, especially since this may well alleviate the technicalities and opposition the OPs boss is expressing. By buying a new feature, the government agency isn't donating, but is buying something (yet at the same time IS donating). Plus you get the extra feature you're after, so it's win-win-win (for the developer, your boss, and your agency)
Oops
If you consider this art, chances are you were the kid that always got the cross-section books from the library in elementary school too. Good times indeed...
No mention of the publicly available AOL search logs? I thought that was fantasticly funny. Stupid, but funny.
Either way, the world ends in 2012...
I think games like this serve to further gaming as an art form, which is something that isn't done nearly enough. Sadly, the common perception of games is that they are for children, and that adults who play them are silly and unwilling to grow up. Sure, casual games are changing this, but only becasue their casual nature makes them easier for 'adults' to accept and enjoy. Making games serious will allow gaming to advance as an artistic medium. The mundane details, as you put it, allow for introspection, and show that gaming can have much, much deeper meaning than is normally attributed to it. If games continue to be made in such a style, they can have a much greater impact than movies (for example), due to their immersive nature. Imagine watching a provocative and thought-provoking artistic film, and compare the impact that can have to the potential impact of actually making the decisions within the story, if the story were to be told through a game. I suppose you're right, this game doesn't look fun, but I think it can help to further games as an art form.