Funny is already not rewarded with karma. That helps drive away karma-whoring funny comments from the top of the page. That should be enough for general consumption. If you want it to be different, just change your preferences not to give points to funny comments.
I haven't used Eclipse in a few years, but I'm willing to give it another shot. Tell me, though, does it have the features (either natively or via a plugin) of the ReSharper Visual Studio plugin? I've been using ReSharper for awhile and it is so useful (the ability to quickly find a specific class by name is especially helpful) I can't believe how long I lived without it.
Well, when changing back from Eclipse to VS (luckily, this project won't last forever, though), ReSharper was the only thing that gave me some comfort.
For me, ReSharper was a way of bringing just a little bit of Eclipse to VS. Shortcuts are different, but very easy to learn, and follow a logic.
Plus, somehow Eclipse works more naturally at following references/inheritance. Refactoring is unbelievably solid, too. Incremental search works exactly how it should, file searches are very fast.
For anything professional, I think Eclipse is the way to go. I have been trying NetBeans in order to be able to work with less experienced people not willing/able to learn Eclipse in an adequate timeframe. The combination of both seems very promising to me for diverse teams.
Still waiting for a Visual Studio-killer on Linux...
As a developer who has worked both in Eclipse and Visual Studio, I'll ask: are you insane?
Visual Studio was great!! Up to a low 200x it was the best IDE ever. Then, Eclipse grew up. For professional stuff, Eclipse is several times better, works better for groups of developers, testing, building and stuff. For small standalone forms through web projects, it might be easier to use Netbeans. Since last year, it became a great alternative. If Java is not you cup of tea (!), Eclipse also has good support for C and PHP. I don't think the developer software is what is missing.
Alright. Your statement holds. If the examples you portray were socialist, then saving a broken company would also be. But all your examples are bad examples of socialism, because lots of different kinds of government share that way of doing things.
Giving lots of power to a corporation and then not holding it responsible for its actions is not socialist. A socialist would nationalize the company when it's still working ok.
I fail to see an example where a socialist country cretes artificial scarcity. In my opinion, socialism was about taking advantadge of present abundance. Scarcity is a bad thing for socialism, it is one of the main issues why some socialist governments failed. "Intellectual property" is about creating scarcity where there is none. I don't see your point. I only see a list of bad things the "IP" cartels do, mixed with what some socialism friendly regimes did at some point in time.
Regardless of the amount for the food, tip should be minimum the price of a gallon of gas unless you live within a mile of the restaurant, in which case 10% will do.
You are nuts. Why should the restaurant externalize their delivery costs at your cost? Tips are about rewarding good service. _I_ believe everyone should be paid for their work, what they and their employer agree that is fair. If the guy needs the tips to pay the bills, he is getting exploited.
I don't really understand that part of capitalism.
If free market is supposed to regulate everything, why shouldn't it buy laws and police? Any interventionism is supposed to harm the good effects expected from free market.
In my personal opinion, capitalism, if it gives enough freedom to the corporations, can only lead to this kind of situation, because money tends to lump together, and everything can be bought by money. Adding 2 + 2, _everything_ can be bought by money, including laws and police, even against previous laws. You just need a large enough amount of money. In _my_ opinion, the only way to prevent that is to sacrifice corporations freedom to ensure the freedom of the individuals.
Aside from that, I don't get why people in the US call "Socialist" anything they dislike regarding politics, either. Socialism does not like corporations, period. For a socialist, state monopolies are good, cooperatives are good, and not much else.
Please elaborate why you think the "intellectual property" concept is compatible with socialism.
I don't think it does, because it grants private monopolies, with the word "private" being the key. Private is not a good word in socialism, collective or state managed, good, private, bad.
LED backlights are not used for single pixels right now. What you are talking about would not be that efficient, if you take into account the processing power needed to achieve such task. Anyhow, it would need something like OLED, and LCD backlighted by OLED seems overkill. Why not just use OLED, which has even better efficiency than LED backlighted LCDs?
And what do you suggest for those of us who like to use our computers unplugged? To buy an extra battery? Do the math again, please. And no warranty. And you would be ripping off your friend, also, because laptops older than 2 years don't have good Linux driver support. He could get a better deal on ebay
Yes, that happens to me. DirecTV made me go back to only receiving 500 channels at the box. That is a drawback, from the 10000 channels I had when I used coaxial.
TV is esp. the best scenario for wireless distribution. You have very few transmitters, and loads of receivers, no conflict resolution. It's so good, that they only keep using cable because of its limited access, better for control and billing.
And I don't understand what you mean by "going backwards". I really like typing this from the bed, in a rented apartment. When I'm at work, I have an ethernet cable, but I never bother to plug it. It's just easier, and good enough for most use case scenarios. Not all of us are into video editing.
Some times, convenience is more desirable than throughput. Decreasing some metric in some cases, like bandwidth, doesn't mean going backwards, if it involves other changes. Trains can travel faster than cars, but lots of people like the convenience of choosing their destination. I don't think it's going backwards. There is no single line forward.
I was going to mod you down (-1, Naive), but I realized you actually are insightful. It's insightful to see there are still people thinking like you. I am from another South American country. The US (if that is what you mean as "America", awful term to use esp. if you are South American) are not at a disadvantage. The US has imposed globalization, by economic and military means. It is not at a disadvantage, if their are playing a game which rules they wrote. They had the opportunity not to play, letting others live their own lives.
I also read a lot of DC comics when I was a kid, but I outgrew them. There is not Justice League. Just because we watch their TV, it doesn't mean they are the good guys, and their enemies are bad.
I, like you, don't like governments spying on people, but I don't like it when the US does it, either. You seem to dislike that countries are ruled by fundamentalist leaders, but that is a concern with the US too. And it's the same case, a fundamentalist nut that says he can speak to Alah/God/Yaveh, but ruling for their personal benefit.
American values are no longer something to be saved, they are over. Their constitution is beautiful, but everything went downhill afterwards, it does not even apply anymore. They even say it doesn't apply for people who are not citizens!! And the rotting didn't come from the outside. The US are the propaganda kings. They won the propaganda wars mostly everywhere, so whatever is wrong woith values right now is because of _their_ strategy, not that of "the enemy".
China is the one facing an uneven fight. And they are losing, luckily.
A nag screen is not only bad because it is a nag screen. It's bad, because it steals precious user time for unimportant issues. The thing is that running unsupported software is an important decision for the user, even if they don't know that.
When they downloaded Firefox 2 it was supported. Now that this is going to change, it makes sense that they are informed, in time to do something about it.
Ah, and the Mozilla foundation is not a software vendor, it's a foundation. When they start vending software, you get to call them software vendors.
Just because they are going to put a nag screen advising users, it doesn't mean what the "software vendors" you talk about are any less worse. Your reasoning is flawed.
There an easier solution. Why don't they use electromagnetic radiation to power calculators? just a little glass plate, let's call it electromagnetic cell, no, "light cell", that's easier, we'll just paint them black to absorbe visible light. They would even work outside, in the sun.. oh, wait!
In 1920 the patent expired. Maybe it wasn't done before, because it couldn't be done practically.
About being "extremely late", that is funny. Going to the moon in 1969 instead of 1900 was also extremely late, Julius Verne had already thought of that.
It doesn't matter. Energy is also about availability. People might have enough wood to burn, but not money for wiring the village. Burning wood they could make some cells, and get some electricity to charge their cellphones and flashlights. Energy economy is not that important in this context.
Well, if you are feeling disgusting enough, you could marry your own sister, and end up with no in-laws at all, for extra points. (And yes, I _can_ think of more disgusting alternatives)
No, of course you shouldn't be recompiling drivers, only your distro should, and does. In your case, it's probably not a driver issue, but being a victim of the new auto-configurable Xorg. I forgot that. Xorg has been an Achiles heel for the platform, stagnating for several years. The good news is that this is supposed to be the only time it gets worse before getting better, because they seem to have found a good way to manage configuration. This case is a major rearchitecture of the graphics subsystem architecture, and there were some victims. You are one of them. About having a hard time with support, if you are still interested, I have just a suggestion. Opinion in a support forum is something that can leave you alone, if it's not very very very informed opinion. Nerds are odd creatures to deal with, but they like being helpful when they don't see you as a menace or a waste of time. That includes saying stuff like "Windows works better in my machine". Remember you are getting other people to help you, at least try not to mess with they hypersensitive egos. Or buy support from Canonical, whatever you feel more comfortable with.
Both your issues seem to be related exclusively to Xorg configuration.
If you are still interested, this thread seems to deal with your computer, and your config: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=563736 . In the last pages they start talking about Ubuntu 8.04, and their stylus. Good luck.
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I happen to like it the way it is.
Funny is already not rewarded with karma. That helps drive away karma-whoring funny comments from the top of the page. That should be enough for general consumption. If you want it to be different, just change your preferences not to give points to funny comments.
I haven't used Eclipse in a few years, but I'm willing to give it another shot. Tell me, though, does it have the features (either natively or via a plugin) of the ReSharper Visual Studio plugin? I've been using ReSharper for awhile and it is so useful (the ability to quickly find a specific class by name is especially helpful) I can't believe how long I lived without it.
Well, when changing back from Eclipse to VS (luckily, this project won't last forever, though), ReSharper was the only thing that gave me some comfort.
For me, ReSharper was a way of bringing just a little bit of Eclipse to VS.
Shortcuts are different, but very easy to learn, and follow a logic.
Plus, somehow Eclipse works more naturally at following references/inheritance. Refactoring is unbelievably solid, too. Incremental search works exactly how it should, file searches are very fast.
For anything professional, I think Eclipse is the way to go. I have been trying NetBeans in order to be able to work with less experienced people not willing/able to learn Eclipse in an adequate timeframe. The combination of both seems very promising to me for diverse teams.
Still waiting for a Visual Studio-killer on Linux...
As a developer who has worked both in Eclipse and Visual Studio, I'll ask: are you insane?
Visual Studio was great!!
Up to a low 200x it was the best IDE ever.
Then, Eclipse grew up.
For professional stuff, Eclipse is several times better, works better for groups of developers, testing, building and stuff.
For small standalone forms through web projects, it might be easier to use Netbeans. Since last year, it became a great alternative.
If Java is not you cup of tea (!), Eclipse also has good support for C and PHP.
I don't think the developer software is what is missing.
Alright. Your statement holds. If the examples you portray were socialist, then saving a broken company would also be. But all your examples are bad examples of socialism, because lots of different kinds of government share that way of doing things.
Giving lots of power to a corporation and then not holding it responsible for its actions is not socialist. A socialist would nationalize the company when it's still working ok.
I fail to see an example where a socialist country cretes artificial scarcity.
In my opinion, socialism was about taking advantadge of present abundance. Scarcity is a bad thing for socialism, it is one of the main issues why some socialist governments failed.
"Intellectual property" is about creating scarcity where there is none. I don't see your point.
I only see a list of bad things the "IP" cartels do, mixed with what some socialism friendly regimes did at some point in time.
Regardless of the amount for the food, tip should be minimum the price of a gallon of gas unless you live within a mile of the restaurant, in which case 10% will do.
You are nuts.
Why should the restaurant externalize their delivery costs at your cost?
Tips are about rewarding good service. _I_ believe everyone should be paid for their work, what they and their employer agree that is fair.
If the guy needs the tips to pay the bills, he is getting exploited.
I don't really understand that part of capitalism.
If free market is supposed to regulate everything, why shouldn't it buy laws and police?
Any interventionism is supposed to harm the good effects expected from free market.
In my personal opinion, capitalism, if it gives enough freedom to the corporations, can only lead to this kind of situation, because money tends to lump together, and everything can be bought by money. Adding 2 + 2, _everything_ can be bought by money, including laws and police, even against previous laws. You just need a large enough amount of money. In _my_ opinion, the only way to prevent that is to sacrifice corporations freedom to ensure the freedom of the individuals.
Aside from that, I don't get why people in the US call "Socialist" anything they dislike regarding politics, either.
Socialism does not like corporations, period.
For a socialist, state monopolies are good, cooperatives are good, and not much else.
Please elaborate why you think the "intellectual property" concept is compatible with socialism.
I don't think it does, because it grants private monopolies, with the word "private" being the key. Private is not a good word in socialism, collective or state managed, good, private, bad.
Anyhow, would you explain so I learn something?
LED backlights are not used for single pixels right now.
What you are talking about would not be that efficient, if you take into account the processing power needed to achieve such task.
Anyhow, it would need something like OLED, and LCD backlighted by OLED seems overkill. Why not just use OLED, which has even better efficiency than LED backlighted LCDs?
Well, I think "mercury free" was irrelevant to the battery life issue, but it's relevant for backlights.
Usual backlights do have mercury in them, the LED ones are mercury free, like saying "light" SSD, "fast" discrete graphics, or "low power" Atom CPU.
Should be gnash, because Adobe didn't release a MIPS binary.
This multiplatform thing might prove once again the convenience of free software.
And what do you suggest for those of us who like to use our computers unplugged? To buy an extra battery? Do the math again, please.
And no warranty.
And you would be ripping off your friend, also, because laptops older than 2 years don't have good Linux driver support. He could get a better deal on ebay
Yes, that happens to me. DirecTV made me go back to only receiving 500 channels at the box.
That is a drawback, from the 10000 channels I had when I used coaxial.
TV is esp. the best scenario for wireless distribution. You have very few transmitters, and loads of receivers, no conflict resolution. It's so good, that they only keep using cable because of its limited access, better for control and billing.
And I don't understand what you mean by "going backwards". I really like typing this from the bed, in a rented apartment. When I'm at work, I have an ethernet cable, but I never bother to plug it. It's just easier, and good enough for most use case scenarios. Not all of us are into video editing.
Some times, convenience is more desirable than throughput.
Decreasing some metric in some cases, like bandwidth, doesn't mean going backwards, if it involves other changes.
Trains can travel faster than cars, but lots of people like the convenience of choosing their destination. I don't think it's going backwards. There is no single line forward.
I was going to mod you down (-1, Naive), but I realized you actually are insightful.
It's insightful to see there are still people thinking like you.
I am from another South American country.
The US (if that is what you mean as "America", awful term to use esp. if you are South American) are not at a disadvantage.
The US has imposed globalization, by economic and military means. It is not at a disadvantage, if their are playing a game which rules they wrote. They had the opportunity not to play, letting others live their own lives.
I also read a lot of DC comics when I was a kid, but I outgrew them. There is not Justice League.
Just because we watch their TV, it doesn't mean they are the good guys, and their enemies are bad.
I, like you, don't like governments spying on people, but I don't like it when the US does it, either. You seem to dislike that countries are ruled by fundamentalist leaders, but that is a concern with the US too. And it's the same case, a fundamentalist nut that says he can speak to Alah/God/Yaveh, but ruling for their personal benefit.
American values are no longer something to be saved, they are over. Their constitution is beautiful, but everything went downhill afterwards, it does not even apply anymore. They even say it doesn't apply for people who are not citizens!! And the rotting didn't come from the outside. The US are the propaganda kings. They won the propaganda wars mostly everywhere, so whatever is wrong woith values right now is because of _their_ strategy, not that of "the enemy".
China is the one facing an uneven fight. And they are losing, luckily.
Hmmmm.
The thread is about sex in zero gravity.
To be on topic, it's supposed to be NSFW, duh.
And you can tell from the URL that it's a video.
Met Lord Vader, you have not yet.
Farc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC) make you pay in order not to get kidnapped.
It's more efficient that way.
Your post should star the permanent World Lameness Expo!
4) But will it run Natalie Portman's vibrator?
Everyone knows that Natalie Portman's vibrator runs on midiclorians!
A nag screen is not only bad because it is a nag screen. It's bad, because it steals precious user time for unimportant issues.
The thing is that running unsupported software is an important decision for the user, even if they don't know that.
When they downloaded Firefox 2 it was supported. Now that this is going to change, it makes sense that they are informed, in time to do something about it.
Ah, and the Mozilla foundation is not a software vendor, it's a foundation. When they start vending software, you get to call them software vendors.
Just because they are going to put a nag screen advising users, it doesn't mean what the "software vendors" you talk about are any less worse. Your reasoning is flawed.
There an easier solution. Why don't they use electromagnetic radiation to power calculators? just a little glass plate, let's call it electromagnetic cell, no, "light cell", that's easier, we'll just paint them black to absorbe visible light.
They would even work outside, in the sun.. oh, wait!
In 1920 the patent expired.
Maybe it wasn't done before, because it couldn't be done practically.
About being "extremely late", that is funny. Going to the moon in 1969 instead of 1900 was also extremely late, Julius Verne had already thought of that.
It doesn't matter.
Energy is also about availability.
People might have enough wood to burn, but not money for wiring the village. Burning wood they could make some cells, and get some electricity to charge their cellphones and flashlights. Energy economy is not that important in this context.
Well, if you are feeling disgusting enough, you could marry your own sister, and end up with no in-laws at all, for extra points.
(And yes, I _can_ think of more disgusting alternatives)
No, of course you shouldn't be recompiling drivers, only your distro should, and does.
In your case, it's probably not a driver issue, but being a victim of the new auto-configurable Xorg.
I forgot that. Xorg has been an Achiles heel for the platform, stagnating for several years. The good news is that this is supposed to be the only time it gets worse before getting better, because they seem to have found a good way to manage configuration.
This case is a major rearchitecture of the graphics subsystem architecture, and there were some victims. You are one of them.
About having a hard time with support, if you are still interested, I have just a suggestion.
Opinion in a support forum is something that can leave you alone, if it's not very very very informed opinion. Nerds are odd creatures to deal with, but they like being helpful when they don't see you as a menace or a waste of time. That includes saying stuff like "Windows works better in my machine". Remember you are getting other people to help you, at least try not to mess with they hypersensitive egos. Or buy support from Canonical, whatever you feel more comfortable with.
Both your issues seem to be related exclusively to Xorg configuration.
If you are still interested, this thread seems to deal with your computer, and your config: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=563736 . In the last pages they start talking about Ubuntu 8.04, and their stylus. Good luck.
Cool. I like doing the same on Facebook. And in RL.