If so, does that mean they are responsible for the content of the other 499 magazines + 20000 books in their store?
By the way, did any store ban The New Republic when they published a possibly pedophilic article 17 years ago? Or the National Review when they continued to publish what may be seen as racist articles into this decade? I don't know if they did, just wondering.
I just set up a new computer with Ubuntu 12.04. It comes with the latest Firefox.
I had assumed that an Intel Core processor with HT should be able to handle Firefox, but no: It repeatedly maxes out CPU and Ubuntu greys it out (signaling that it's unresponsive).
After a few days of this, and confirming it wasn't a fluke, but rather Firefox, I installed Chromium.
Of course, I do hope that somebody (not me) will be installing Firefox and clicking on their ads to support Mozilla because I wouldn't want Google to become too powerful, but it's just so hard to keep waiting on Firefox.
You're very correct that there was no argument against AGW, merely observations about the AGW issue, just like the posts that I was responding to.
Some more observations are that AGW is partially being promoted by the nuclear industry, which is supposed to be the "clean, green" answer to prevent global warming.
So you have the ironic situation wherein people who think they're favoring the environment are now promoting a method of electricity generation which is so dangerous to mankind that no plant would ever be built without the government's free grant on nuclear liability.
The President wants a nuclear renaissance, but no bank has touched that with a 10ft pole, even with government loan guarantees.
Wait, did you just say it's going to be several centuries until AGW skeptics are re-educated?
Meaning, there'll still be people to be re-educated? Not all destroyed in a global flame? Was that a Freudian slip? In their heart of hearts, I don't really think AGW proponents really believe in it; it's just a checklist item for "concerned" people to believe in, like Darfur, Tibet, and baby seals.
The fact is, I agree, a few centuries later, climate "scientists" may still be pushing their particular brand of hokum (like polygraphs and other so-called science), like 7th-day Adventists, who, after the Second Coming didn't happen, became a permanent denomination.
Terrorists include those who: -Defend the constitution -Attempt to police the police (taping the police?) -Lone individuals -Non-lone individuals (members of groups) -Rightists -Leftists -Pay in cash -Attempt to hide passwords -Nervous -Take pictures -Stare
This basically just confirms what has been the philosophy of the FBI for a long time (since its founding), including harassment of MLK and the civil rights movement.
First of all, are Sheriff's dept. employees granted the right to speak their opinion on a Sheriff's election without fear of losing their jobs?
One could argue that they either should or shouldn't: Pro would be they should be civil servants not beholden to any one political officeholder or another. Con would be that if the Sheriff were elected on a platform, he would need his own people in there to implement his goal.
Anyway, if Sheriff's employees do have a right to protected free speech in general, it boggles the mind as to how a Facebook like is not speech.
I'm hoping the judge didn't say that a Facebook Like doesn't make use of the vocal chords, and hence, it's not "speech"?
If world domination means economic power commensurate with their population (1 billion +) I fail to understand how you can deny the Chinese people their due.
If, on the other hand, you have nightmares of the Han people imposing race-based slavery on the rest of the peoples of the world, with non-Han toiling in factories and mines while the Chinese "design" stuff in offices, that's quite paranoid and ridiculous. Not to mention the irony in who actually toils in mines and factories today vs. "designing" stuff.
With the old Gnome2 menu, you have Accessories, Office, Games, etc. Click once on the menu, and you have all your apps, categorized.
Even a 4-year old can do it (and they do).
But throwing all your apps in a huge list, and then you have to click "94 more installed", and then you have to click on a a filter name, is much more work.
Not only that, but for some reason, the filter uses a logical OR, so that you can't just easily click on one filter or another to browse apps in various categories. Instead of just moving your mouse around to browse apps, you're having to constantly click. So, basically, you're not going to browse. Meaning that the apps list becomes a no-go zone for most users.
>You're actually suggesting I ditch an nvidia gtx 470... for an intel integrated chip?
Well, he doesn't know what you're using Ubuntu for.
It it's for business, or for web or application development, Intel graphics is fine. For the latest games or if you're doing 3D development work, it probably is not.
For me, autoraise gives me the ability to move between windows without the incessant click-click-click that normally accompanies moving between applications.
The reason for the weird codenames is so that people will able to easily google for help on a specific version. If it were something like "Ubuntu 2012", it might return hits for articles written in 2012 regarding Ubuntu (of whatever version).
Seriously, though, Mark Shuttleworth didn't create Ubuntu all by his lonesome self. Granted he spent a lot of his money, and that should be recognized, but there's no way Ubuntu would be what it is without the unpaid hours put in by countless volunteers.
The reason people put in those unpaid hours was because they were under the (mistaken) impression that Ubuntu is a community distribution.
The reason people react as they do is because of Mark's overturning of that impression.
There's confidence in numbers. When you have a problem, it's likely that somebody on the web has written something about "webcam ABCD on ubuntu".
More and more servers are using Ubuntu these days, making it just easier to use Ubuntu on the desktop. That's the reason, like it or not, I'm experimenting with the latest LTS release.
>>And so does the next generation of Microsoft apps built to go with it (have you seen Visual Studio 2012??)
>What you see in VS11 is not "Metro" by any measure, though. Making everything flat and monochrome does not make it Metro.
Wait, what, they made the buttons in VS11 flat and greyscale? Anybody remember when they went from MS Word for Windows 1.1 to 2.0, and the buttons were 3D (i.e., had a shadow on the sides) and also were in color? That was supposed to be the new hotness.
It was theorized that depth made the buttons look like real buttons, thereby easing people's transition, and letting them know that it's a button. Also the color was supposed to increase the ability for people to figure out what in the world the button was supposed to represent (file, paper clip, doodad, whatever).
And now, in 2012, a M$ program manager who wants to make his mark is trying to say that flat and monochrome is supposed to be an advance?
Going forward, as Chindia rises in income, is this going to become the new norm? With the huge markets in China and India (even as a fraction of their total populations), will they become the global arbiters of taste?
Consider the case of 1920x1200 monitors. They're harder to find than a girl on Slashdot. They've all been replaced by 1920x1080 monitors because of economy of scale issues. So... 15 years down the line, will 350 million people each in China and India dwarf the gadget markets in the US? (Yeah, I know, the mini-countries of Europe. But, again, two countries, two markets, hundreds of millions of people vs 35 markets.)
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If so, does that mean they are responsible for the content of the other 499 magazines + 20000 books in their store?
By the way, did any store ban The New Republic when they published a possibly pedophilic article 17 years ago? Or the National Review when they continued to publish what may be seen as racist articles into this decade? I don't know if they did, just wondering.
I just set up a new computer with Ubuntu 12.04. It comes with the latest Firefox.
I had assumed that an Intel Core processor with HT should be able to handle Firefox, but no: It repeatedly maxes out CPU and Ubuntu greys it out (signaling that it's unresponsive).
After a few days of this, and confirming it wasn't a fluke, but rather Firefox, I installed Chromium.
Of course, I do hope that somebody (not me) will be installing Firefox and clicking on their ads to support Mozilla because I wouldn't want Google to become too powerful, but it's just so hard to keep waiting on Firefox.
Wouldn't it just be easier to offer $10k (or $7.5k) upfront along with an agreement that says "This is a final settlement"?
Would anybody already into the hobby like to comment for someone who is not (yet)?
Reflective vs. refractive?
Brands? The electronic ones?
I just want one which will capture the interest of a 9-10 year old without being too fragile to be accidentally damaged.
It's hard to sort out the sales gimmicks from the real information. Anything near $100 or is that too optimistic?
You're very correct that there was no argument against AGW, merely observations about the AGW issue, just like the posts that I was responding to.
Some more observations are that AGW is partially being promoted by the nuclear industry, which is supposed to be the "clean, green" answer to prevent global warming.
So you have the ironic situation wherein people who think they're favoring the environment are now promoting a method of electricity generation which is so dangerous to mankind that no plant would ever be built without the government's free grant on nuclear liability.
The President wants a nuclear renaissance, but no bank has touched that with a 10ft pole, even with government loan guarantees.
Wait, did you just say it's going to be several centuries until AGW skeptics are re-educated?
Meaning, there'll still be people to be re-educated? Not all destroyed in a global flame? Was that a Freudian slip? In their heart of hearts, I don't really think AGW proponents really believe in it; it's just a checklist item for "concerned" people to believe in, like Darfur, Tibet, and baby seals.
The fact is, I agree, a few centuries later, climate "scientists" may still be pushing their particular brand of hokum (like polygraphs and other so-called science), like 7th-day Adventists, who, after the Second Coming didn't happen, became a permanent denomination.
You seriously haven't heard of that? Assuming you're not a troll:
http://rt.com/news/fbi-terrorists-guide-security-171/
http://www.constitution.org/abus/terror/constitutional_terrorists.htm
http://welfarestate.com/pamphlet/
Terrorists include those who:
-Defend the constitution
-Attempt to police the police (taping the police?)
-Lone individuals
-Non-lone individuals (members of groups)
-Rightists
-Leftists
-Pay in cash
-Attempt to hide passwords
-Nervous
-Take pictures
-Stare
This basically just confirms what has been the philosophy of the FBI for a long time (since its founding), including harassment of MLK and the civil rights movement.
What, you have a 1920x1200 monitor? Get out.
I've been looking all over trying to find one, unsuccessfully. All there is are the 1920x1080 monitors.
First of all, are Sheriff's dept. employees granted the right to speak their opinion on a Sheriff's election without fear of losing their jobs?
One could argue that they either should or shouldn't: Pro would be they should be civil servants not beholden to any one political officeholder or another. Con would be that if the Sheriff were elected on a platform, he would need his own people in there to implement his goal.
Anyway, if Sheriff's employees do have a right to protected free speech in general, it boggles the mind as to how a Facebook like is not speech.
I'm hoping the judge didn't say that a Facebook Like doesn't make use of the vocal chords, and hence, it's not "speech"?
If world domination means economic power commensurate with their population (1 billion +) I fail to understand how you can deny the Chinese people their due.
If, on the other hand, you have nightmares of the Han people imposing race-based slavery on the rest of the peoples of the world, with non-Han toiling in factories and mines while the Chinese "design" stuff in offices, that's quite paranoid and ridiculous. Not to mention the irony in who actually toils in mines and factories today vs. "designing" stuff.
> Is Google ignoring search markup all of a sudden?
Yeah, it is. It's part of a general trend in computing these days toward "do what I mean" instead of "do what I said".
You can get focus follows mouse by installing one of the various Ubuntu tweak apps (I forgot which one it was Ubuntu Tweak, MyUnity, etc.).
Well, that's not quite the same thing.
With the old Gnome2 menu, you have Accessories, Office, Games, etc. Click once on the menu, and you have all your apps, categorized.
Even a 4-year old can do it (and they do).
But throwing all your apps in a huge list, and then you have to click "94 more installed", and then you have to click on a a filter name, is much more work.
Not only that, but for some reason, the filter uses a logical OR, so that you can't just easily click on one filter or another to browse apps in various categories. Instead of just moving your mouse around to browse apps, you're having to constantly click. So, basically, you're not going to browse. Meaning that the apps list becomes a no-go zone for most users.
>You're actually suggesting I ditch an nvidia gtx 470... for an intel integrated chip?
Well, he doesn't know what you're using Ubuntu for.
It it's for business, or for web or application development, Intel graphics is fine. For the latest games or if you're doing 3D development work, it probably is not.
For me, autoraise gives me the ability to move between windows without the incessant click-click-click that normally accompanies moving between applications.
I don't quite know where this discussion started from, but, OK, yeah synaptic is too complicated for the average user.
But, for them, there's Ubuntu Software Center, which, really, is great even for people like me (for discovering new software).
Also, if you need to tell someone to install something, and they're a newbie, just give them the HTTP link for installing. E.g.,:
apt://filezilla
Click here to install Filezilla
The reason for the weird codenames is so that people will able to easily google for help on a specific version. If it were something like "Ubuntu 2012", it might return hits for articles written in 2012 regarding Ubuntu (of whatever version).
Wait, are you saying you can't unmaximize a window after maximizing it?
If you go to the top left corner of the screen, it shows you the window control buttons.
Haha.
Seriously, though, Mark Shuttleworth didn't create Ubuntu all by his lonesome self. Granted he spent a lot of his money, and that should be recognized, but there's no way Ubuntu would be what it is without the unpaid hours put in by countless volunteers.
The reason people put in those unpaid hours was because they were under the (mistaken) impression that Ubuntu is a community distribution.
The reason people react as they do is because of Mark's overturning of that impression.
Well, he probably likes something about it.
There's confidence in numbers. When you have a problem, it's likely that somebody on the web has written something about "webcam ABCD on ubuntu".
More and more servers are using Ubuntu these days, making it just easier to use Ubuntu on the desktop. That's the reason, like it or not, I'm experimenting with the latest LTS release.
Woosh.
>>And so does the next generation of Microsoft apps built to go with it (have you seen Visual Studio 2012??)
>What you see in VS11 is not "Metro" by any measure, though. Making everything flat and monochrome does not make it Metro.
Wait, what, they made the buttons in VS11 flat and greyscale? Anybody remember when they went from MS Word for Windows 1.1 to 2.0, and the buttons were 3D (i.e., had a shadow on the sides) and also were in color? That was supposed to be the new hotness.
It was theorized that depth made the buttons look like real buttons, thereby easing people's transition, and letting them know that it's a button. Also the color was supposed to increase the ability for people to figure out what in the world the button was supposed to represent (file, paper clip, doodad, whatever).
And now, in 2012, a M$ program manager who wants to make his mark is trying to say that flat and monochrome is supposed to be an advance?
Well, if it belongs to Standford, there's the possibility of them licensing it to Bling, right?
Don't the editors read what they post?
We just had an article about billionaires funding a crazy mining scheme a few days ago.
Is this a first? Premiering a phone in India?
Going forward, as Chindia rises in income, is this going to become the new norm? With the huge markets in China and India (even as a fraction of their total populations), will they become the global arbiters of taste?
Consider the case of 1920x1200 monitors. They're harder to find than a girl on Slashdot. They've all been replaced by 1920x1080 monitors because of economy of scale issues. So ... 15 years down the line, will 350 million people each in China and India dwarf the gadget markets in the US? (Yeah, I know, the mini-countries of Europe. But, again, two countries, two markets, hundreds of millions of people vs 35 markets.)
Turning off weird scrollbars is a GUI config option in the Precise Pangolin Live CD I looked at. It's somewhere in Appearance, I think.