Actually I'm running KDE for the last year, since I noticed that Alt+Tab works substantially faster and it generally feels faster than the new versions of Ubuntu with Unity/Gnome 3.
Speaking of numeral systems, at the time when fish came out of the water there were several competing species of amphibians, some with 5 fingers, some with 4 fingers, even some with 8 fingers. Eventually, the 5-fingered species 'won' the competition and it became the ancestor of all terrestrial vertebrates. That's why all of them, from frogs to lizards to humans have 5 digits. Makes you wonder what would have happened if the 4 fingered species had won. With 4 fingers we would have developed the octal numeral system. It would have been pretty convenient, a computer byte would then be the natural base of our numeral system.
I actually was agreeing with you. That's why I said I doubt their pain has any meaning. To elaborate, if a computer has a thermal sensor that detects that its CPU is going to melt, and it tries to shutdown the system, does this count as pain? In the same way, perhaps an insects nervous system is so simple that it feeling pain is not much different than that.
Well, a plant doesn't have a nervous system so it can't feel pain. Insects have a nervous system so they probably feel pain, but then, their nervous system is so simple I doubt their pain has any meaning.
Microsoft's biggest challenge would be to convince people that Windows 7 is somehow not good enough anymore and they can't just use their current computer until its harddrive gives out. How many years until there's software that won't run on Windows 7? Or XP for that matter.
It seems those kinds of viruses are going against the trends, which is using social engineering nowadays, and not very sophisticated software. For example, the oh-so-dangerous Chinese hackers mostly use tactics which boil down to sending emails asking you in clever ways to execute the attached exe or to enter your username and password on their website that looks like your legitimate one.
It's refreshing to see a virus which targets, you know, the actual computer instead of the user.
How would they expect to compete against those providers who do offer unlimited internet? People would just abandon them and move to those who offer unlimited internet. Isn't that how unlimited internet started in the first place?
Not to mention that, on Linux, flash is completely borked with Chrome - it causes graphical artefacts across all workspaces. Some youtube videos don't play, sound doesn't work in some videos.
Well, I'm using Chrome on Linux as well, and it basically works as well as on Windows, no artefacts or anything.
The Chinese have been exposed to agricultural foods the longest of any contiguous culture.
Shouldn't the people in the Fertile Crescent (modern day Iraq and around it I think) be the ones with the longest exposure, considering they were the first to discover agriculture?
> Sure, but Linux doesn't have LinuxExploder 6 that you can't uninstall if you don't like it.
I never understood what's the fuss about with uninstalling IE. Removing the desktop icon and installing Chrome is enough to prevent most people from ever using it.
That's a classic case of the 'Better safe than sorry' principle. They're just being prudent. Why take on risks when you can avoid it? It's really the same thing as an employer refusing to hire someone with a criminal record.
Yes, eventually I figured it was pulseaudio too, so I switch mplayer and VLC to ALSA now. But I haven't figured out how to make Chrome not use pulseaudio so I can watch Youtube videos whistle-free.
I need a Windows partition to be able to use HDMI to play movies on my TV. On Linux there's a loud whistling noise every 10 seconds, and I can't get smooth playback of 1080p videos even though I have core i3. On Windows 1080p videos play flawlessly and audio is OK.
China is not a free society, so the "free market" is inoperable.
Yes, and the USA is a free society. Also it has a better standard of living. That makes the free market pretty operable, or the USA should have a worse standard of living, not better.
Not only CEOs can believe in the free market. I'm an employee myself. I just don't get that attitude towards wages, that someone out there is obliged to offer you wages that *you* think are reasonable.
"Hey, why isn't someone offering me $10000/mo to work 7 hours a day, those evil capitalist bastards!"
Foxconn employees have the option to quit. They choose not to quit. End of story.
This can be used in a much more mundane way - a website can check if you have Adblock installed, and it can refuse to display its content to you then unless you uninstall it.
I'm sceptical of how much damage 'cyberwar' can really do sustainably. I suspect it would be a bit like Pearl Harbor - you make enormous damage the first day with a surprise attack, but it goes downhill from there.
I mean, I'm sure that the first day a lot of computers will go offline, and even factories will stop, etc. But what happens after a month when those computers have their OS reinstalled - with Linux or a commercial UNIX, or even, zOS if need be, and the data you've deleted has been restored from backup CDs, and everywhere there are billboards on the road proclaiming that whomever isn't updating their computer is giving Hitler a drive. Would it be as easy to go on inflicting damage then?
Good plan but network cards are produced in America and Taiwan, not in China. They are then shipped to Foxconn's factories where they are assembled by low paid workers who have neither the equipment nor the skill to change the circuitry of an already finished chip.
Let's get this straight: CPUs are made by Intel and AMD in America. Motherboards and NCs are mostly made in Taiwan. Harddrives are made in America (Western Digital) and South Korea (Samsung).
Your laptop is made in China but nothing inside it is.
Urgent bulletin. A new study has found that people having extended stays inside hospitals have a much higher mortality rate than people who don't. Avoid hospitals at all costs.
I always search them through Google anyway. I use Chrome, and I have added a custom search engine 'javascript:void(location.href='https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s+site:'+location.hostname)'. So when I want to search a site, I just go to the address bar, type 'site', and press Tab, and voila! I've got a 'custom' search engine for every site.
Actually I use that for smaller websites, for Wikipedia I just add 'wiki' to the search query. If I want to find a movie in imdb I type it's name and the imdb link is usually the first one anyway. If it's not I just add 'imdb'. I use only Youtube's internal search more than Google, because Google gives only 2-3 results with thumbnails from Youtube unless I add 'youtube', and 'youtube' is 7 symbols, so it's too much typing. The reason I use the internal search is because with Chrome's omni bar I can type 'you', press tab and type my query directly, which is less keystrokes than adding youtube to the google search query. I never search by going first to youtube's home page and then typing my query.
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I'm a bit confused. Can the ITU in some technical manner remotely change how the Internet works inside the USA and Europe without our cooperation?
Actually I'm running KDE for the last year, since I noticed that Alt+Tab works substantially faster and it generally feels faster than the new versions of Ubuntu with Unity/Gnome 3.
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Am I the only one who needed to read that 4 times before I got the meaning correctly?
Speaking of numeral systems, at the time when fish came out of the water there were several competing species of amphibians, some with 5 fingers, some with 4 fingers, even some with 8 fingers. Eventually, the 5-fingered species 'won' the competition and it became the ancestor of all terrestrial vertebrates. That's why all of them, from frogs to lizards to humans have 5 digits. Makes you wonder what would have happened if the 4 fingered species had won. With 4 fingers we would have developed the octal numeral system. It would have been pretty convenient, a computer byte would then be the natural base of our numeral system.
I actually was agreeing with you. That's why I said I doubt their pain has any meaning. To elaborate, if a computer has a thermal sensor that detects that its CPU is going to melt, and it tries to shutdown the system, does this count as pain? In the same way, perhaps an insects nervous system is so simple that it feeling pain is not much different than that.
Well, a plant doesn't have a nervous system so it can't feel pain. Insects have a nervous system so they probably feel pain, but then, their nervous system is so simple I doubt their pain has any meaning.
Microsoft's biggest challenge would be to convince people that Windows 7 is somehow not good enough anymore and they can't just use their current computer until its harddrive gives out. How many years until there's software that won't run on Windows 7? Or XP for that matter.
It seems those kinds of viruses are going against the trends, which is using social engineering nowadays, and not very sophisticated software. For example, the oh-so-dangerous Chinese hackers mostly use tactics which boil down to sending emails asking you in clever ways to execute the attached exe or to enter your username and password on their website that looks like your legitimate one.
It's refreshing to see a virus which targets, you know, the actual computer instead of the user.
How would they expect to compete against those providers who do offer unlimited internet? People would just abandon them and move to those who offer unlimited internet. Isn't that how unlimited internet started in the first place?
Not to mention that, on Linux, flash is completely borked with Chrome - it causes graphical artefacts across all workspaces. Some youtube videos don't play, sound doesn't work in some videos.
Well, I'm using Chrome on Linux as well, and it basically works as well as on Windows, no artefacts or anything.
The Chinese have been exposed to agricultural foods the longest of any contiguous culture.
Shouldn't the people in the Fertile Crescent (modern day Iraq and around it I think) be the ones with the longest exposure, considering they were the first to discover agriculture?
> Sure, but Linux doesn't have LinuxExploder 6 that you can't uninstall if you don't like it.
I never understood what's the fuss about with uninstalling IE. Removing the desktop icon and installing Chrome is enough to prevent most people from ever using it.
> there were so few small dinosaur species that the group was almost obliterated, with only the birds surviving
Yes, but why didn't those few non-bird species survive? Or did they mean that birds were the only small dinosaur species?
Same here. I have an old PC with Radeon 9200, and there are no Win7 compatible drivers for that. Works fine with XP, though.
That's a classic case of the 'Better safe than sorry' principle. They're just being prudent. Why take on risks when you can avoid it? It's really the same thing as an employer refusing to hire someone with a criminal record.
Yes, eventually I figured it was pulseaudio too, so I switch mplayer and VLC to ALSA now. But I haven't figured out how to make Chrome not use pulseaudio so I can watch Youtube videos whistle-free.
I need a Windows partition to be able to use HDMI to play movies on my TV. On Linux there's a loud whistling noise every 10 seconds, and I can't get smooth playback of 1080p videos even though I have core i3. On Windows 1080p videos play flawlessly and audio is OK.
Not only CEOs can believe in the free market.
China is not a free society, so the "free market" is inoperable.
Yes, and the USA is a free society. Also it has a better standard of living. That makes the free market pretty operable, or the USA should have a worse standard of living, not better.
Not only CEOs can believe in the free market. I'm an employee myself. I just don't get that attitude towards wages, that someone out there is obliged to offer you wages that *you* think are reasonable.
"Hey, why isn't someone offering me $10000/mo to work 7 hours a day, those evil capitalist bastards!"
Foxconn employees have the option to quit. They choose not to quit. End of story.
If Foxconn employees aren't happy with the wages and the working conditions I'm sure they know where the door is.
This can be used in a much more mundane way - a website can check if you have Adblock installed, and it can refuse to display its content to you then unless you uninstall it.
I'm sceptical of how much damage 'cyberwar' can really do sustainably. I suspect it would be a bit like Pearl Harbor - you make enormous damage the first day with a surprise attack, but it goes downhill from there.
I mean, I'm sure that the first day a lot of computers will go offline, and even factories will stop, etc. But what happens after a month when those computers have their OS reinstalled - with Linux or a commercial UNIX, or even, zOS if need be, and the data you've deleted has been restored from backup CDs, and everywhere there are billboards on the road proclaiming that whomever isn't updating their computer is giving Hitler a drive. Would it be as easy to go on inflicting damage then?
Good plan but network cards are produced in America and Taiwan, not in China. They are then shipped to Foxconn's factories where they are assembled by low paid workers who have neither the equipment nor the skill to change the circuitry of an already finished chip.
Let's get this straight:
CPUs are made by Intel and AMD in America.
Motherboards and NCs are mostly made in Taiwan.
Harddrives are made in America (Western Digital) and South Korea (Samsung).
Your laptop is made in China but nothing inside it is.
Urgent bulletin. A new study has found that people having extended stays inside hospitals have a much higher mortality rate than people who don't. Avoid hospitals at all costs.
I always search them through Google anyway. I use Chrome, and I have added a custom search engine 'javascript:void(location.href='https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s+site:'+location.hostname)'. So when I want to search a site, I just go to the address bar, type 'site', and press Tab, and voila! I've got a 'custom' search engine for every site.
Actually I use that for smaller websites, for Wikipedia I just add 'wiki' to the search query. If I want to find a movie in imdb I type it's name and the imdb link is usually the first one anyway. If it's not I just add 'imdb'. I use only Youtube's internal search more than Google, because Google gives only 2-3 results with thumbnails from Youtube unless I add 'youtube', and 'youtube' is 7 symbols, so it's too much typing. The reason I use the internal search is because with Chrome's omni bar I can type 'you', press tab and type my query directly, which is less keystrokes than adding youtube to the google search query. I never search by going first to youtube's home page and then typing my query.