I don't think that actually answers the OPs question. Xinerama or XRandR allow you to set up dual head (which the OP presumably already knows about - he talks about having "one big desktop," which is what Xinerama and XRandR give you), but virtual desktops are handled by the window manager, not by Xinerama or XRandR. A Xinerama or XRandR aware window manager could do what the OP wants, giving separate virtual desktops on each monitor, but simply using Xinerama or XRandR won't get that effect unless you use a specific window manager which offers that option.
No, it doesn't. Windows doesn't have virtual desktops at all, so the set-up the OP wants (separate virtual desktops on each display) is completely impossible.
It doesn't imply DRM at all. As YouTube has already made a significant investment into streaming video, I expect this will be a streaming service, too. Hulu and Amazon, among others, already offer streaming films, with the studios permission, using no more DRM than the obfuscation of using flash. I don't see why the situation would be any different for YouTube.
I don't see why they'd need DRM. If it's a streaming service, there's no (easy) way to make a copy of the video to be watched after the 48-hour rental window anyway. Amazon uses straightforward flash streaming for it's Video On Demand service, as does Hulu, with no fancy Windows-only DRM, so I assume the studios would be happy with a similar setup for Youtube.
At least this time his "invention" is a clone of a fairly useful idea, the PDF, rather than being a clone of a deeply moronic idea like the singularity.
Um, how about most towns in the US? A "corporation" is simply a body established under a charter from the government. If the government provides services by chartering a particular body to provide them, it's perfectly sensible for tax money to go to a corporation.
The Modern Language Association of America recommends American punctuation, rather than British punctuation? Not really a shock, there. The Oxford Style Manual, on the other hand, recommends the placement described by the parent, and Chicago mentions this "British Style," which it says is "also used in other English-speaking countries."
Even if it were true that "codex" was the plural of "codec," "codex compression" doesn't make any sense. If you mean compression of more than one codec, you should write "codec compression," in the same way that an orchard containing more than one apple is an apple orchard, not an apples orchard.
You can hardly blame people for not understanding you when you use your own made-up words, and you use them with meanings that can't possibly, as a grammatical matter, have.
I guess you could add a salt yourself, at least of your email provider works like gmail, and allows you to supply a meaningless string after a +. If the first part of your email address is guessable from your username, you could do something like:
You're misunderstanding the point of Planet Gnome. It's not for distributing information about GNOME, as David Schlesinger points out in the discussion, Planet Gnome is "for getting a window into the lives of other folks in the community, just as it says, and many of those lives involve working with both free and proprietary software." If you don't want to read about what former GNOME devs bought at the grocery store, you shouldn't be reading Planet Gnome.
Of course, if you need to configure X, you want a text file to store the configuration. But I took it that the posts upthread were pointing out that, most of the time, X can configure itself these days, so you don't need any configuration file at all, text or otherwise.
One thing is crystal clear: these guys are biased in a way that is completely antithetical to true scientific research.
No, they're biased in precisely the way scientists should be biased - they've studied the data, drawn conclusions based on this data, and they're passionately arguing for these conclusions in the public sphere. Science isn't some kind of abstract, isolated ratiocination, it's a collective process carried out by a huge number of diverse individual human beings, and the CRU scientists are playing precisely the role they should in this process.
Everyone getting along and realizing race doesn't matter at all will perpetuate racism forever.
But race does matter, so you can't "realize" that it doesn't matter, any more than you can "realize" that the moon is made of cheese - all you can do is pretend. If you act like race doesn't matter, you can't recognize the existence of racism, and so you can't do anything to overcome racism.
Christ, what a stupid article. The author assumes that the reason people play games is to gain a sense of achievement - but that isn't, or isn't the only, reason to play a game. I play games to experience something, to gain through interaction a set of experiences constructed by the game's designers, in the same way I watch films to gain a visual experience constructed by the director, or listen to music to gain an aural experience constructed by the performers. The point of a game is not to "win," any more than that is the point of watching a film.
The upshot of the author's focus on achievement is that he, somewhat mystifyingly, seems to think that the morally superior way to enjoy games is to compulsively repeat the same set of actions until one has fulfilled some arbitrary criteria, gained a certain number of points, or found a certain number of widgets. The author, in other words, has confused "play" with "work". If what he wants is a sense of achievement, why doesn't he go outside and break rocks?
Isn't it just as racist that some insults are ok towards whites and off-limits towards blacks?
No, obviously not. Likening Michelle Obama to a monkey is insulting her because she is black, and is therefore racist. Likening Bush to a monkey is not insulting him because he is white, and so is not racist.
If you see the need to take either side, you discriminate people by race.
This is, of course, bullshit. Being aware that people are assigned to different races, and treated differently because of this, is not racism, it's the first step in getting rid of racism. Pretending race doesn't exist, on the other hand, is just a way of pretending that racism doesn't exist, and so will inevitably perpetuate it.
if we want to reach REAL equality between all races, this also means we mustn't go nuts about an insult to a person from one race while not caring about the same insult to a person from another race (remember the bush/chimpanzee pictures?)
Quite right. I find this distinguishing between "apples" and "oranges" to be horrendously offensive.
Not really. For 35 pounds, which is the price of 5 albums on itunes, you can get a 7GB package, with which you can download significantly more than 5 albums worth of MP3s, or even FLAC. 35 pounds is the price of about 3 DVDs - again, 7GB lets you download a lot more more than three films in decent quality Xvid.
It's not cost effective to download complete blue-ray rips over mobile broadband right now; but downloading files over pay-as-you go broadband is not a particularly silly idea.
after I explained my accent is Australian not American.
Did anyone mistake you for an American? I would be surprised if many British people couldn't tell the difference between an Australian and American accent.
Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Jimmie Page -- just to name a few popular people who deserve to actually be called musicians -- are markedly different than the slutty little panty flashers and boys in girls pants that get pimped by the recording studios
So there are no songwriters, instrumentalists, or producers involved in any of Britney Spears's records? They just somehow appear from the ether through the evil powers of the record companies?
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With the one large desktop when you maximize a window it fills both monitors
No it doesn't. Most window managers have handled multihead the way you saw Windows 7 does for some years now (five or six, I think).
I don't think that actually answers the OPs question. Xinerama or XRandR allow you to set up dual head (which the OP presumably already knows about - he talks about having "one big desktop," which is what Xinerama and XRandR give you), but virtual desktops are handled by the window manager, not by Xinerama or XRandR. A Xinerama or XRandR aware window manager could do what the OP wants, giving separate virtual desktops on each monitor, but simply using Xinerama or XRandR won't get that effect unless you use a specific window manager which offers that option.
No, it doesn't. Windows doesn't have virtual desktops at all, so the set-up the OP wants (separate virtual desktops on each display) is completely impossible.
It doesn't imply DRM at all. As YouTube has already made a significant investment into streaming video, I expect this will be a streaming service, too. Hulu and Amazon, among others, already offer streaming films, with the studios permission, using no more DRM than the obfuscation of using flash. I don't see why the situation would be any different for YouTube.
I don't see why they'd need DRM. If it's a streaming service, there's no (easy) way to make a copy of the video to be watched after the 48-hour rental window anyway. Amazon uses straightforward flash streaming for it's Video On Demand service, as does Hulu, with no fancy Windows-only DRM, so I assume the studios would be happy with a similar setup for Youtube.
Disk space - but the limitation only applies to executables and libraries - the 2GB of data that Google Earth comes with could go on the SD card.
So where exactly are the high-school kids spending their real life? Some kind of non-18+ world?
At least this time his "invention" is a clone of a fairly useful idea, the PDF, rather than being a clone of a deeply moronic idea like the singularity.
The biggest challenge today with electronic texts is that page build needs to be fast. PDF does not perform well
I'm really not sure what you're talking about. Moving from one page to the next in a PDF takes no perceptible time at all.
Um, how about most towns in the US? A "corporation" is simply a body established under a charter from the government. If the government provides services by chartering a particular body to provide them, it's perfectly sensible for tax money to go to a corporation.
The Modern Language Association of America recommends American punctuation, rather than British punctuation? Not really a shock, there. The Oxford Style Manual, on the other hand, recommends the placement described by the parent, and Chicago mentions this "British Style," which it says is "also used in other English-speaking countries."
Even if it were true that "codex" was the plural of "codec," "codex compression" doesn't make any sense. If you mean compression of more than one codec, you should write "codec compression," in the same way that an orchard containing more than one apple is an apple orchard, not an apples orchard.
You can hardly blame people for not understanding you when you use your own made-up words, and you use them with meanings that can't possibly, as a grammatical matter, have.
I guess you could add a salt yourself, at least of your email provider works like gmail, and allows you to supply a meaningless string after a +. If the first part of your email address is guessable from your username, you could do something like:
homburg+randomsalt@gmail.com
You're misunderstanding the point of Planet Gnome. It's not for distributing information about GNOME, as David Schlesinger points out in the discussion, Planet Gnome is "for getting a window into the lives of other folks in the community, just as it says, and many of those lives involve working with both free and proprietary software." If you don't want to read about what former GNOME devs bought at the grocery store, you shouldn't be reading Planet Gnome.
Of course, if you need to configure X, you want a text file to store the configuration. But I took it that the posts upthread were pointing out that, most of the time, X can configure itself these days, so you don't need any configuration file at all, text or otherwise.
One thing is crystal clear: these guys are biased in a way that is completely antithetical to true scientific research.
No, they're biased in precisely the way scientists should be biased - they've studied the data, drawn conclusions based on this data, and they're passionately arguing for these conclusions in the public sphere. Science isn't some kind of abstract, isolated ratiocination, it's a collective process carried out by a huge number of diverse individual human beings, and the CRU scientists are playing precisely the role they should in this process.
No, I'm saying that "comparing someone to a monkey" is not the same insult when it's directed at black, as opposed to white, people.
Everyone getting along and realizing race doesn't matter at all will perpetuate racism forever.
But race does matter, so you can't "realize" that it doesn't matter, any more than you can "realize" that the moon is made of cheese - all you can do is pretend. If you act like race doesn't matter, you can't recognize the existence of racism, and so you can't do anything to overcome racism.
Christ, what a stupid article. The author assumes that the reason people play games is to gain a sense of achievement - but that isn't, or isn't the only, reason to play a game. I play games to experience something, to gain through interaction a set of experiences constructed by the game's designers, in the same way I watch films to gain a visual experience constructed by the director, or listen to music to gain an aural experience constructed by the performers. The point of a game is not to "win," any more than that is the point of watching a film.
The upshot of the author's focus on achievement is that he, somewhat mystifyingly, seems to think that the morally superior way to enjoy games is to compulsively repeat the same set of actions until one has fulfilled some arbitrary criteria, gained a certain number of points, or found a certain number of widgets. The author, in other words, has confused "play" with "work". If what he wants is a sense of achievement, why doesn't he go outside and break rocks?
Isn't it just as racist that some insults are ok towards whites and off-limits towards blacks?
No, obviously not. Likening Michelle Obama to a monkey is insulting her because she is black, and is therefore racist. Likening Bush to a monkey is not insulting him because he is white, and so is not racist.
If you see the need to take either side, you discriminate people by race.
This is, of course, bullshit. Being aware that people are assigned to different races, and treated differently because of this, is not racism, it's the first step in getting rid of racism. Pretending race doesn't exist, on the other hand, is just a way of pretending that racism doesn't exist, and so will inevitably perpetuate it.
if we want to reach REAL equality between all races, this also means we mustn't go nuts about an insult to a person from one race while not caring about the same insult to a person from another race (remember the bush/chimpanzee pictures?)
Quite right. I find this distinguishing between "apples" and "oranges" to be horrendously offensive.
Not really. For 35 pounds, which is the price of 5 albums on itunes, you can get a 7GB package, with which you can download significantly more than 5 albums worth of MP3s, or even FLAC. 35 pounds is the price of about 3 DVDs - again, 7GB lets you download a lot more more than three films in decent quality Xvid.
It's not cost effective to download complete blue-ray rips over mobile broadband right now; but downloading files over pay-as-you go broadband is not a particularly silly idea.
after I explained my accent is Australian not American.
Did anyone mistake you for an American? I would be surprised if many British people couldn't tell the difference between an Australian and American accent.
Remember, though, he's coming from the US. The Tube is like some sci-fi utopia compared to public transport in most of the US.
Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Jimmie Page -- just to name a few popular people who deserve to actually be called musicians -- are markedly different than the slutty little panty flashers and boys in girls pants that get pimped by the recording studios
So there are no songwriters, instrumentalists, or producers involved in any of Britney Spears's records? They just somehow appear from the ether through the evil powers of the record companies?