I don't have the time, but given how few of them are from fields that are directly relevant to the climate issue, it would be interesting to actually look at how much the remaining few have published on the issue...
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Are you telling me - in all seriousness - that Unity doesn't work with a multi-head setup? How the hell can they put it as default, then?
Good thing I only run 11.10 on my laptop for now (where I switched to XFCE), so I guess I'll switch to XFCE even before upgrading my desktop, or look into E17, so thank you for the heads-up.
At Aarhus University, Denmark, most student-accessible machines run Linux anyway, and our tech staff prefer that we do as well, as most of us actually do:-)
Typical for/., I could just have checked - it's still here, but still without excercises. It does remind me, though, of someone I have bought some hardware from, from time to time. He is a long time Mac user (i.e. before OSX), as his eyesight is bordering on complete blindness, and where the older Mac OS' (as OSX, I imagine) and for some time now also Linux has built-in tools for extreme screen magnification, the Windows versions of the day would only let you select higher contrast colour schemes, unless you shelled out DKK 5,000.- (approx. $1,000,-) for a commercial solution. I imagine that the Wins are somewhat up to speed nowadays, but the habit of buying things that should be built in appears to die hard...
Wouldn't that penalize those of us to take great efforts to keep calm and explain the details of the emergency instead of screaming "HELP! HELP!!! HELP!!!!!" into the microphone?
Very much the same argument as The Archon V2.0 just gave above, but posted anyway, to signify that I concur and feel sorry for people that I might try to call an ambulance for in the future...
Yeah, I should have mentioned that I did get your points, and the one you are making here, again, about not being able to be an expert or even "literate" in every field is an important one.
I just picked on your choice for the two reasons that I wanted to promote myself, and because of my assumption that most people would be culinarily literate enough to at least hard-boil an egg by following a recipe for it, and equating that with a very simple, even if cli-based, task, going on to speculate on the fear of it being the main obstacle.
Only now do I realize, that my expectations might actually be set to high in both regards:-P
I, personally, have had a few recent new users almost give up, when the power died and NTFS screwed up the Wubi system image file during the necessary recovery. Guess where the blame was laid...
They were, to their fault, trying to install some Adobe-thing, in order to run their favourite Twitter client, instead of going with something in the repositories. Would have been nice if they had taken a few minutes to find an alternative instead, since they later do go on about alternatives to other typical Win-apps...
Being a Linux geek type, I'd look at cooking first, my guess would be you can't even put together a simple meal, much less bake yourself a loaf of bread, something that would be required to be considered "literate" at food preparation.
Now, there's a deeply entrenched stereotype for you. Living alone, I don't do much cooking (or, hence, eating), but when I can ass myself into it, I do make a rather nice chicken in white wine of my own, or *find and follow a recipe* (!)
I'd agree that the normal user shouldn't normally see a cli interface, but failing to be able to copy and paste a few commands into one, with amble description of the process, progress and expected results, I'd take on your comparison, and say that's equivalent to looking in your Home Eq book, looking at the pot, the faucet, the stove, the eggs and then order out.
Granted, people as a whole have been cooking for a longer time than they have been using computers, but I will say that it's the fear, more than the required intellect, that's the problem. It still is a problem, though:-(
I do happen to know for a fact, that if you posses a device capable of receiving radio here in Denmark - you are required to pay a rather steep license fee to DR (Danmarks Radio - Danish Radio), the official public radio and TV of Denmark. It is increasingly difficult to avoid paying license, since now, even an internet connection faster than 384kB/s make you eligible (for internet radio and TV). However, I have dodged it so far, by uninstalling the relevant codecs as well as using an old mobile phone without net, and confirmed with the bureau that it voids my eligibility. Seems these kinds of shenanigans would just make my life a bit harder if applied to other devices, since I assume manufacturers would likely push these devices to the overseas markets as well...
He developed a highly efficient library for arbitrary precision floating-point number calculations, capable of having a desktop machine best a supercomputer. Now go change your signature to "For lack of a better question...";-)
I'm sorry if I appear dumb, though I suspect I might in the following, but I guess it would be due to the difference of cultures...
Here goes, however: True, some people might not be in need of this protection, but that, however, does not invalidate it's existence (at least to my mind), as long as "some people" aren't a full 100% of the work force...
Secondly, under employment regulations here in Denmark, and unstable job simply isn't "the only way around", since it's illegal in the first place. How is a bad job situation better than the same job, but with better protection, from the POV of the employee?
Finally, we also have an unemployment system, so it seems to me that you are promoting a system of a lesser degree of respect for the employee over one that matches every opportunity for said employee and adds job security, barring direct violation of the job contract (the content of which is subject to regulation limiting the employer's power), and thus, I fail to grasp your point...
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I don't have the time, but given how few of them are from fields that are directly relevant to the climate issue, it would be interesting to actually look at how much the remaining few have published on the issue...
Are you telling me - in all seriousness - that Unity doesn't work with a multi-head setup? How the hell can they put it as default, then?
Good thing I only run 11.10 on my laptop for now (where I switched to XFCE), so I guess I'll switch to XFCE even before upgrading my desktop, or look into E17, so thank you for the heads-up.
At Aarhus University, Denmark, most student-accessible machines run Linux anyway, and our tech staff prefer that we do as well, as most of us actually do :-)
Typical for /., I could just have checked - it's still here, but still without excercises.
It does remind me, though, of someone I have bought some hardware from, from time to time. He is a long time Mac user (i.e. before OSX), as his eyesight is bordering on complete blindness, and where the older Mac OS' (as OSX, I imagine) and for some time now also Linux has built-in tools for extreme screen magnification, the Windows versions of the day would only let you select higher contrast colour schemes, unless you shelled out DKK 5,000.- (approx. $1,000,-) for a commercial solution.
I imagine that the Wins are somewhat up to speed nowadays, but the habit of buying things that should be built in appears to die hard...
...a built in, ready to activate, feature of GNOME?
Wouldn't that penalize those of us to take great efforts to keep calm and explain the details of the emergency instead of screaming "HELP! HELP!!! HELP!!!!!" into the microphone?
Very much the same argument as The Archon V2.0 just gave above, but posted anyway, to signify that I concur and feel sorry for people that I might try to call an ambulance for in the future...
Which part of this isn't blindingly obvious to anyone having taken even cursory introductions to History of the Sciences? *sigh*
Ouch :-S
Yeah, I should have mentioned that I did get your points, and the one you are making here, again, about not being able to be an expert or even "literate" in every field is an important one.
I just picked on your choice for the two reasons that I wanted to promote myself, and because of my assumption that most people would be culinarily literate enough to at least hard-boil an egg by following a recipe for it, and equating that with a very simple, even if cli-based, task, going on to speculate on the fear of it being the main obstacle.
Only now do I realize, that my expectations might actually be set to high in both regards :-P
I, personally, have had a few recent new users almost give up, when the power died and NTFS screwed up the Wubi system image file during the necessary recovery. Guess where the blame was laid...
Has options for placement where *you* want to kid yourself into being a normal user by having them?
See above, but negate the booleans ;-)
Good for you. Now move along :-P
And in the opposite corner: How much support would they have regularly need, had they been stuck with windows :-P
They were, to their fault, trying to install some Adobe-thing, in order to run their favourite Twitter client, instead of going with something in the repositories. Would have been nice if they had taken a few minutes to find an alternative instead, since they later do go on about alternatives to other typical Win-apps...
Being a Linux geek type, I'd look at cooking first, my guess would be you can't even put together a simple meal, much less bake yourself a loaf of bread, something that would be required to be considered "literate" at food preparation.
Now, there's a deeply entrenched stereotype for you. Living alone, I don't do much cooking (or, hence, eating), but when I can ass myself into it, I do make a rather nice chicken in white wine of my own, or *find and follow a recipe* (!)
I'd agree that the normal user shouldn't normally see a cli interface, but failing to be able to copy and paste a few commands into one, with amble description of the process, progress and expected results, I'd take on your comparison, and say that's equivalent to looking in your Home Eq book, looking at the pot, the faucet, the stove, the eggs and then order out.
Granted, people as a whole have been cooking for a longer time than they have been using computers, but I will say that it's the fear, more than the required intellect, that's the problem. It still is a problem, though :-(
GNU/Hurd?
Most probably because they understand PostScript natively...
I do happen to know for a fact, that if you posses a device capable of receiving radio here in Denmark - you are required to pay a rather steep license fee to DR (Danmarks Radio - Danish Radio), the official public radio and TV of Denmark. It is increasingly difficult to avoid paying license, since now, even an internet connection faster than 384kB/s make you eligible (for internet radio and TV). However, I have dodged it so far, by uninstalling the relevant codecs as well as using an old mobile phone without net, and confirmed with the bureau that it voids my eligibility. Seems these kinds of shenanigans would just make my life a bit harder if applied to other devices, since I assume manufacturers would likely push these devices to the overseas markets as well...
Thank you ever so much :-(
For all that really matters in this world at this time, mod the parent of this comment up, and the grandparent way down to troll!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYw2ewoO6c4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYw2ewoO6c4&feature=fvst
Not likely, since it's believed to be the ancestor of modern cows, so my guess would be "even tastier" :-)
Aurochs, the "ochs"-part meaning "ox" and the "aur" being a nomer for something like "original" or "ancestral"...
Read... The... Fine... (wait for it) Article!
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He developed a highly efficient library for arbitrary precision floating-point number calculations, capable of having a desktop machine best a supercomputer. Now go change your signature to "For lack of a better question..." ;-)
I'm sorry if I appear dumb, though I suspect I might in the following, but I guess it would be due to the difference of cultures...
Here goes, however: True, some people might not be in need of this protection, but that, however, does not invalidate it's existence (at least to my mind), as long as "some people" aren't a full 100% of the work force...
Secondly, under employment regulations here in Denmark, and unstable job simply isn't "the only way around", since it's illegal in the first place. How is a bad job situation better than the same job, but with better protection, from the POV of the employee?
Finally, we also have an unemployment system, so it seems to me that you are promoting a system of a lesser degree of respect for the employee over one that matches every opportunity for said employee and adds job security, barring direct violation of the job contract (the content of which is subject to regulation limiting the employer's power), and thus, I fail to grasp your point...