And there are two sides to the real war. This is one example of a war game (there are many I hear).
Her problem is that she doesn't get that there's another side in real life, too. Many Afghan soldiers, not unlike her son (just from another country) are killed by our (American) troops on their own land. The difference here is opinion of who's the "good guy" and who's the "bad guy".
Let me make it clear that I am not favoring either of the two sides.
What are video games? In this case, is it not an attempted approximation of real life war? Why should this woman, mother of an American soldier, be any less outraged and hurt by the fact that there are American soldiers in the video game? Is it simply because it's almost the default to play the Americans in these kinds of games?
We need to wake up as a human race, from this slumber we call individuality. We'll save a lot of lives that way.
I made this video a while back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weOpxELqn-c - I've done a lot of research on binaural beats. They are used to calm the mind and promote a lower brain operating frequency that is akin to relaxation or meditation. Some people say it's a placebo effect, others use it to promote a state of calm in their minds as they try to rid themselves of the daily thought process (many, many thoughts coming in and out of your head very quickly, which is associated with high brain frequencies). Trying to demonize BBs would be like trying to demonize meditation...which I'm sure isn't too far off.
I guess the fear surrounding what people don't understand will never go away. I suggest a split in civilization - let the smarties burrow deep into the soil and the dummies can fry up at the surface.
Sorry for the strange comment, I'm high on binaural beats.:p
"Mozilla has not posted detailed release notes yet, but there seem to be no major changes from Firefox 3.7a6-pre, with the exception that the browser is running more smoothly and with fewer crashes."
I love software that doesn't swap UIs every major release!
A useful OS needs to do *MANY* things well. And the UI must be at least not hell to work with, not everyone does everything in a terminal and uses Pine to read their mail... Window GUIs exist because many people prefer them, they should elegant and well designed.
Agreed. That, however, has nothing to do with the fact that each release has steered the entire distribution in a completely different direction.
8.04's focus was stability. 9.04's focus was netbooks. 9.10's focus was cloud computing. 10.04's focus was pretty themes (and apparently dyslexia). 10.10's focus is now tablets.
Am I the only one that thinks that a Linux distro should stick with focusing on doing one thing very well? Seems all of these half-baked ideas are just late-night bong-induced dreams that get left at the wayside 6 months later. You just end up getting a bunch of "won't fix" bugs in LP because "the focus is now release+1"./me grows weary of this runaround...
Am I the only one here that thinks this is a bit invasive? I mean sure, I don't like billboards anyway - I think they are a distraction. Of course, you can choose not to look at them (for the most part). It would be, IMHO, a bit like a billboard that shouted "HEY! LOOK AT ME!" at high volumes to everyone. Will advertisers not stop until they've saturated all 6 senses without our consent?
If it is held up in a court of law that both parties must consent to being recorded, then I say all in-car police cameras must be ripped out and destroyed. I don't think I ever remember a police officer asking me if it's ok for his in-cab camera to record me as he pulls me over.
The more I hear about this kind of stuff, I shake my head and ask "why?"... This stuff is getting so out of hand. I mean, come on. It's food. Grow it naturally and it will take care of you, like it does every other species on the planet. We don't have to work-around this low-fat, tastes-just-as-good-as stuff. Eat more fruit and veg. Grow your own or buy from a LOCAL (and no, I don't mean the Safeway down the street) if you're scared of where you're getting it from. You can't go wrong with food that's grown organically - we've been surviving on it for a looooooooong time before we started screwing with it. And guess what? Since we STARTED screwing with it, we got more unhealthy. Wonder why...
I guess you forgot that Ubuntu was the one that spearheaded the whole LTSP-5 development and integration into the distro.. Ubuntu has, for a while, been the easiest distro to install LTSP on (after Edubuntu started the whole thing). But now, things are different, and other distros have caught up.
+1 (if I had the modpoints)! It seems that Canonical is definitely favoruing eye candy and new features in spite of under-the-hood brokenness. It's really sad to see *any* distribution of Linux become like Windows. Really sad.:( Of course, there is always Debian to fall back on:)
Sorry, I'm just an ex-Ubuntu fanboi. 10.04 changes, again, Ubuntu's focus on the desktop. I need more stability than whiz-bang features that aren't-so-mature-yet. I use Ubuntu for LTSP networks for many people, and cleaning up all of this "Ubuntu One / Social Networking / ever-changing-logout-shutdown dialog / notification panel / network-damager / blah blah blah" type of newly pushed feature stuff each and every release is tiring. I 3 Debian stable+backports for mission-critical LTSP desktops! They don't change but the upstream code. They don't try to re-brand and cuztomize every aspect. Don't get me wrong, I still think Ubuntu is great for a single-user desktop. Just not servers of any kind. It just seems to me that the more a distro changes from upstream (in most cases), the more has the potential to break. I applaud the Ubuntu community (which I am still a part of) for pushing for such change and making it such an attractive alternative to Windows, but to me, personally, I think Debian is probably my best fit.
Doug Mahugh has responded to Brown's post, promising that Microsoft will support OOXML 'no later than the initial release of Office 15.'
When Microsoft follows through with a promise like this, I can't help but lol. How can one of the most rich and powerful software companies in the world not have the resources to do something like this HERE and NOW?
I smell fish - and it's not coming from Ballmer's underwear, for once.
I think the fact is that Gnome has *always* had buttons on the right, despite any other desktop environments/window managers/operating systems. And Ubuntu has always standardized on Gnome. Why screw with it?? You're just upsetting users.
As Mark Shuttleworth has already said, Ubuntu and Canonical are not democracies.
I'm so sick of this "Oh, Marky-mark said they're not a democracy" stuff. Seriously. Don't you think that people know that? What's important is that Ubuntu is open source. Now I'm not trying to say that every open source project should stick true to non-open source license practices, but it kind of goes hand in hand in most situations, and I feel that the community has grown accustomed to the general morals and ethics that most projects and developers follow. I know, I'm probably going to get flamed and modded down to hell and back, but it just feels to me that Canonical has been pushing things in Ubuntu that the community at large doesn't agree with.
Examples? Mmmk.
- Use 'sudo' instead of 'su' - PulseAudio (I do agree that this was a good idea but it was premature imho) - Firefox 3.0 Beta5 in 8.04 LTS (Beta software in an LTS??) - Ditch Sun Java in favor of IcedTea, Sun version not even in the repos - Window utility (min/max/close) buttons on left corner in 10.04 - Gnome panel applets such as indicator/indicator session tied to volume control..?? - Not including Gimp in default install anymore to "make room for Ubuntu features and content" (Uhm..Gimp takes 5MB) - Change Google search to Yahoo (I'm not arguing WHY they did this btw)
And after all of these, I have always felt the Ubuntu release cycle was horrible. Even after an LTS version is released, the devs I've talked to no longer discuss it much, but start putting all effort toward the next release cycle. LTS gets no real love or attention for those who need stability and consistency.
I wonder how the Ubuntu community will hold up after Shuttleworth is out of cash.
Is it really the software makers' responsibility to make sure users only upload non-copyrighted material? Do you have any idea how much manpower that requires? Just ask Youtube. The USER is the one who 'pulls the trigger', not the indexing software maker.
Oh, and please reference where their user guides explicitly said they indexed copyrighted/illegal material.
So they are invalid because it points out for all to see the huge whole in your argument? Besides, anyone who has been to Newzbin can clearly see that there is a huge bias towards indexing copyrighted material. Or do you actually have proof to the contrary?
1) No, they are invalid because the indexing services are UNBIASED. Stop trying to spin the argument. I'm being factual here, I'm not trying to persuade.
2) "...anyone who has been to Newzbin can clearly see that..." This is the same bullshit wordage I hear on the news. Again, I'm not trying to persuade your opinion of what content actually IS on Newzbin. I'm arguing that it isn't Newzbin's fault. They are an indexing service. It is the users themselves who upload the copyrighted material. The users are responsible for the law breaking. Not the medium.
--- If this was actually enforceable, why not go after TDK, Maxell and Sony for selling 100-CD/DVD-R spindles? I mean, seriously, who really uses 100 CDs/DVDs for anything BUT copying RIAA music and MPAA movies?
All of these responses are invalid. This has to do with the fact that Usenet indexing services are agnostic to the content being indexed (I.E. They are not biased toward copyrighted material vs. non-copyrighted material).
Just because it's a movie doesn't mean the MPAA owns it. Did the help guides specifically say they help you find MPAA owned/copyrighted movies, or just movies in general? I'd hate to think the whole world has forgotten that a "movie" itself is an art form, not just an MPAA dropping subject to fees and copyrights.
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Wow, what a feature! Oh wait. Hold on, DOJ is on the phone.
And there are two sides to the real war. This is one example of a war game (there are many I hear).
Her problem is that she doesn't get that there's another side in real life, too. Many Afghan soldiers, not unlike her son (just from another country) are killed by our (American) troops on their own land. The difference here is opinion of who's the "good guy" and who's the "bad guy".
Let me make it clear that I am not favoring either of the two sides.
What are video games? In this case, is it not an attempted approximation of real life war? Why should this woman, mother of an American soldier, be any less outraged and hurt by the fact that there are American soldiers in the video game? Is it simply because it's almost the default to play the Americans in these kinds of games?
We need to wake up as a human race, from this slumber we call individuality. We'll save a lot of lives that way.
I made this video a while back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weOpxELqn-c - I've done a lot of research on binaural beats. They are used to calm the mind and promote a lower brain operating frequency that is akin to relaxation or meditation. Some people say it's a placebo effect, others use it to promote a state of calm in their minds as they try to rid themselves of the daily thought process (many, many thoughts coming in and out of your head very quickly, which is associated with high brain frequencies). Trying to demonize BBs would be like trying to demonize meditation...which I'm sure isn't too far off.
I guess the fear surrounding what people don't understand will never go away. I suggest a split in civilization - let the smarties burrow deep into the soil and the dummies can fry up at the surface.
Sorry for the strange comment, I'm high on binaural beats. :p
"Mozilla has not posted detailed release notes yet, but there seem to be no major changes from Firefox 3.7a6-pre, with the exception that the browser is running more smoothly and with fewer crashes."
I love software that doesn't swap UIs every major release!
How do you know it's the best?
THANK YOU.
...if Artist A gives away their work for free, it is inherently undermining Artist B who is trying to sell an equivalent work.
There's no such thing as an "equivalent work" with art.
And *that* is the problem with the industry - they don't see it that way.
A useful OS needs to do *MANY* things well. And the UI must be at least not hell to work with, not everyone does everything in a terminal and uses Pine to read their mail... Window GUIs exist because many people prefer them, they should elegant and well designed.
Agreed. That, however, has nothing to do with the fact that each release has steered the entire distribution in a completely different direction.
8.04's focus was stability.
9.04's focus was netbooks.
9.10's focus was cloud computing.
10.04's focus was pretty themes (and apparently dyslexia).
10.10's focus is now tablets.
Am I the only one that thinks that a Linux distro should stick with focusing on doing one thing very well? Seems all of these half-baked ideas are just late-night bong-induced dreams that get left at the wayside 6 months later. You just end up getting a bunch of "won't fix" bugs in LP because "the focus is now release+1". /me grows weary of this runaround...
Am I the only one here that thinks this is a bit invasive? I mean sure, I don't like billboards anyway - I think they are a distraction. Of course, you can choose not to look at them (for the most part). It would be, IMHO, a bit like a billboard that shouted "HEY! LOOK AT ME!" at high volumes to everyone. Will advertisers not stop until they've saturated all 6 senses without our consent?
2 girls one cup? 1 girl, 12 cups? 12 monitors, 2 girls, a USB hub and a can of whipped cream?
I need to stop smoking so much pot.
If it is held up in a court of law that both parties must consent to being recorded, then I say all in-car police cameras must be ripped out and destroyed. I don't think I ever remember a police officer asking me if it's ok for his in-cab camera to record me as he pulls me over.
The more I hear about this kind of stuff, I shake my head and ask "why?" ... This stuff is getting so out of hand. I mean, come on. It's food. Grow it naturally and it will take care of you, like it does every other species on the planet. We don't have to work-around this low-fat, tastes-just-as-good-as stuff. Eat more fruit and veg. Grow your own or buy from a LOCAL (and no, I don't mean the Safeway down the street) if you're scared of where you're getting it from. You can't go wrong with food that's grown organically - we've been surviving on it for a looooooooong time before we started screwing with it. And guess what? Since we STARTED screwing with it, we got more unhealthy. Wonder why...
I guess you forgot that Ubuntu was the one that spearheaded the whole LTSP-5 development and integration into the distro.. Ubuntu has, for a while, been the easiest distro to install LTSP on (after Edubuntu started the whole thing). But now, things are different, and other distros have caught up.
+1 (if I had the modpoints)! It seems that Canonical is definitely favoruing eye candy and new features in spite of under-the-hood brokenness. It's really sad to see *any* distribution of Linux become like Windows. Really sad. :( Of course, there is always Debian to fall back on :)
Sorry, I'm just an ex-Ubuntu fanboi. 10.04 changes, again, Ubuntu's focus on the desktop. I need more stability than whiz-bang features that aren't-so-mature-yet. I use Ubuntu for LTSP networks for many people, and cleaning up all of this "Ubuntu One / Social Networking / ever-changing-logout-shutdown dialog / notification panel / network-damager / blah blah blah" type of newly pushed feature stuff each and every release is tiring. I 3 Debian stable+backports for mission-critical LTSP desktops! They don't change but the upstream code. They don't try to re-brand and cuztomize every aspect. Don't get me wrong, I still think Ubuntu is great for a single-user desktop. Just not servers of any kind. It just seems to me that the more a distro changes from upstream (in most cases), the more has the potential to break. I applaud the Ubuntu community (which I am still a part of) for pushing for such change and making it such an attractive alternative to Windows, but to me, personally, I think Debian is probably my best fit.
Doug Mahugh has responded to Brown's post, promising that Microsoft will support OOXML 'no later than the initial release of Office 15.'
When Microsoft follows through with a promise like this, I can't help but lol. How can one of the most rich and powerful software companies in the world not have the resources to do something like this HERE and NOW?
I smell fish - and it's not coming from Ballmer's underwear, for once.
I think the fact is that Gnome has *always* had buttons on the right, despite any other desktop environments/window managers/operating systems. And Ubuntu has always standardized on Gnome. Why screw with it?? You're just upsetting users.
As Mark Shuttleworth has already said, Ubuntu and Canonical are not democracies.
I'm so sick of this "Oh, Marky-mark said they're not a democracy" stuff. Seriously. Don't you think that people know that? What's important is that Ubuntu is open source. Now I'm not trying to say that every open source project should stick true to non-open source license practices, but it kind of goes hand in hand in most situations, and I feel that the community has grown accustomed to the general morals and ethics that most projects and developers follow. I know, I'm probably going to get flamed and modded down to hell and back, but it just feels to me that Canonical has been pushing things in Ubuntu that the community at large doesn't agree with.
Examples? Mmmk.
- Use 'sudo' instead of 'su'
- PulseAudio (I do agree that this was a good idea but it was premature imho)
- Firefox 3.0 Beta5 in 8.04 LTS (Beta software in an LTS??)
- Ditch Sun Java in favor of IcedTea, Sun version not even in the repos
- Window utility (min/max/close) buttons on left corner in 10.04
- Gnome panel applets such as indicator/indicator session tied to volume control..??
- Not including Gimp in default install anymore to "make room for Ubuntu features and content" (Uhm..Gimp takes 5MB)
- Change Google search to Yahoo (I'm not arguing WHY they did this btw)
And after all of these, I have always felt the Ubuntu release cycle was horrible. Even after an LTS version is released, the devs I've talked to no longer discuss it much, but start putting all effort toward the next release cycle. LTS gets no real love or attention for those who need stability and consistency.
I wonder how the Ubuntu community will hold up after Shuttleworth is out of cash.
Eh, it's easy none the less ;)
Ubuntu: Debian unstable + Shuttleworth's "pick of the day" apps and themes
My god, Ubuntu has become Windows! ;)
Is it really the software makers' responsibility to make sure users only upload non-copyrighted material? Do you have any idea how much manpower that requires? Just ask Youtube. The USER is the one who 'pulls the trigger', not the indexing software maker.
Oh, and please reference where their user guides explicitly said they indexed copyrighted/illegal material.
So they are invalid because it points out for all to see the huge whole in your argument? Besides, anyone who has been to Newzbin can clearly see that there is a huge bias towards indexing copyrighted material. Or do you actually have proof to the contrary?
1) No, they are invalid because the indexing services are UNBIASED. Stop trying to spin the argument. I'm being factual here, I'm not trying to persuade.
2) "...anyone who has been to Newzbin can clearly see that..." This is the same bullshit wordage I hear on the news. Again, I'm not trying to persuade your opinion of what content actually IS on Newzbin. I'm arguing that it isn't Newzbin's fault. They are an indexing service. It is the users themselves who upload the copyrighted material. The users are responsible for the law breaking. Not the medium.
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If this was actually enforceable, why not go after TDK, Maxell and Sony for selling 100-CD/DVD-R spindles? I mean, seriously, who really uses 100 CDs/DVDs for anything BUT copying RIAA music and MPAA movies?
Right? Right??
All of these responses are invalid. This has to do with the fact that Usenet indexing services are agnostic to the content being indexed (I.E. They are not biased toward copyrighted material vs. non-copyrighted material).
Just because it's a movie doesn't mean the MPAA owns it. Did the help guides specifically say they help you find MPAA owned/copyrighted movies, or just movies in general? I'd hate to think the whole world has forgotten that a "movie" itself is an art form, not just an MPAA dropping subject to fees and copyrights.
Well, I am SURE glad I'm using Linux^H^H^H^H^HWindows^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMac^H^H^Hshit.