Yeah. I just wonder what they'll be doing with the next RHEL since last I heard it was supposed to be based on Fedora 18. From the sounds of things, they'd better either keep parts from Fedora 17 or get scrambling to fix the clusterfuck they've created in Fedora 18, test the hell out of it, and then put that in RHEL instead...
Slowing down typing was, in fact, one possible method of preventing the typebars from colliding. The other was, of course, laying the keys out in such a way that the ones most commonly struck back-to-back are as far away from each other as possible. Wouldn't it actually be faster to hit two keys that are nearby (ie. H and U) in quick succession than if those keys were, for example, the QWERTY layout's Q and N keys? I think so. Back when QWERTY was invented, there was no such thing as touch typing... hunt and pecking with a couple of fingers was the most people could do. That doesn't mean there were no talented people who could type fast, though.
I finally found out about alternate layouts late last year and learned the whole point of the Dvorak keyboard, and sometime in early December I decided to make the switch myself. The first two to three weeks were hell (3-5 WPM on the first week FTW!), but it got much better and more fun after that. Even before I got out of my state of total confusion, it was already feeling so much better typing that I decided right there I no longer care about my QWERTY ability. Now, I'm just getting my muscle memory back up to speed, and getting there slowly... but still, it feels like a dream typing on Dvorak even at about 75% of my previous average speed.
I have a Gateway machine from 2001. I'm pretty sure it has an Intel motherboard, and it was running rock-solid until I decided to give it a break a year or two ago. Bad idea; it ran flawlessly up to that point, but about a year with no power seemed to to cause all kinds of things to go wrong with it. And ironically, the motherboard is not one of the parts to go. That thing has been rock-solid, along with its 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor. Its original hard drive has only begun to show signs of damage a few years ago.
If you take out the relations to technology, you'd find that probably more than half of the lawsuits in this country's corrupt "justice" system are eerily similar. I'm surprised this is now finally coming to light, and the fact that it took the death of a somewhat high-profile person just to flip some light switches in the minds of people who otherwise, it would seem, didn't even care up until that point. Now, the question is, will anything finally be done to attempt to put an end to some of this bullshit--or is there just going to be a new story every other week about someone else being mistreated by the U.S. government, with no real progress made?
Don't worry, this same thing exists in proprietary/commercial software, where you are not only paying just for the privilege to even use the software, but you have to hope that their vision doesn't stray too far from you consider appropriate. See Windows 8: If someone slams it and the Metro interface, or even just changes to the way the traditional desktop itself functions, you can guarantee there will be people around to bitch because you're using your right to free speech to criticize a product... that you have to pay an arm and a leg for in the first place!
Fuck them. If someone or something deserves a reality check in the form of a good slamming, then that's exactly what they should get.
The last thing this country gives a fuck about is its own citizens' health. Time and time again, it's been proven that there are much, much more important things to worry about... like putting people in jail for every reason imaginable, and increasing its own power over its citizens through elimination of our freedoms and rights.
I think the only "punishment" that should be done is a police officer taking the "criminal" to the store and forcing them to buy whatever album they downloaded. If they downloaded Britney Spears, then embarrassment may obviously be a part of the punishment. Once bought, the person should be forced to open it so they can't just take it back for a full refund, and the receipt should be confiscated.
Simple, and amusing. Why insist upon millions of dollars worth of damage when you could just fuck with them instead, creating no permanent record and not destroying lives? And used CDs, which already had their share transferred to the rights holders, should be valid too--they're perfectly legal too!
Of course... it is much more fun to use the full extent of the law possible to nail them into the ground, fuck their lives, as long as they get their 12 bucks from the latest shitty pop album...
Hmmm... actually, you have a point... and that DNA/RNA likely gets passed onto any offspring. The only problem is, viruses mutate and evolve, which causes older immune resistance to be virtually useless against newer strains of the virus... so in that case, the little bastards are just bloating our offspring's DNA for no reason!
At least what happened 3,000 years ago happened naturally, not with some clone engineered in labs. I just do not see mankind doing nature's job better than nature itself. Science is great, but at times people take it too far.
Not all people are dumbasses, and some actually prefer to make sure that what they end up blowing their money is not complete garbage. Is that a crime?
That's why you spend the next few weeks downloading porn, followed by the next few months uploading it all to Mega and freeing the space in your hard drive, and then... you'll have to download it *again* from Mega just to be able to watch it.
Well... all it takes is one person to sneeze in a public place, the virus gets transferred to another person, and then they can easily transfer that to everyone who lives in the house. All it takes is one trip to the store at the wrong time... so while you can go without getting the flu often at all, I doubt you could go an entire lifetime without it. It's almost impossible; how would someone do such requirements as go to school and work, as well as the necessary grocery shopping? I rarely ever get the flu myself, and when I do get it it's often somewhat mild. But a few times I did get some really damn nasty ones.
I more often get a cold, or at least something mild that more closely resembles a cold, but even then--as someone else mentioned--they are both similar. The "symptoms" are not caused by the virus itself, but by your body's reaction; an attempt to eliminate the invader. People with less reactive immune systems may not even know they caught anything at all, or mistake the weak symptoms for a cold. And people with a strong immune system are less likely to get infected in the first place, even if they are exposed to a virus.
I would still trust cannabis, coca, salvia divinorum, opium poppy, psilocybin mushrooms and countless plants and other things with natural drug properties that humanity itself has evolved with, tried and tested over the millennia, before I would trust in the crap mankind has created in labs, with only decades at the most of highly limited testing (a few centuries in some cases).
If it wasn't for nature, science wouldn't exist. Science is our attempt to understand nature, and I'm sorry, but for many things, I absolutely do not trust mankind's knowledge (or maybe somewhat more accurate, lack of it). Chemicals (both the "completeness" of our understanding of how they work within the body and our tendency to create brand new ones synthetically) and animal cloning are two things I have always been against--and trust me, I'm more into science than anyone I know.
I have been fascinated science, especially astronomy, since I was younger. And yes, even in astronomy I believe that there are boundaries that we should not cross even when it comes to things like space travel that some people are so hell-bent on. But just because I believe in science (ie. studying nature), doesn't mean I can't trust man's ability to genetically engineer organisms and do completely unnatural things that--simply put--can have very bad consequences. Things that cannot be predicted.
"Turns out that a rational analysis of GM foods shows that they could be good for both our health *and* the environment." Oh, sure they can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technology Just wait for that to start being sold to farmers to be used "in the wild" and watch that malicious gene spread through the air and by insects to every other plant in the species like wildfire. Like... a fucking virus.
In reality, you're not very likely to run across too many natural chemicals with a negative effect on plant and animal life, the entire environment even, as you will in the local Wal-Mart with products like Round-Up. Synthetic can be alright when we're talking things like fertilizers--otherwise natural chemicals that have been extensively studied and simply recreated in labs in mass quantities. I'm not against that. What I'm against is chemicals that some guy pulled out of his artificial ass in a lab, that simply do not occur in nature.
We can study nature all we want... but when we try to become nature, that's when I believe we have a problem.
I wish I had to just worry about keeping the humidity level down. I have a dehumidifier that I use in the summer to keep it around 35-40%. If it didn't get so hot, I'd just let it creep up to 55 or so percent humidity (it seems to stop not too much higher anyway), but 88 at 50% humidity feels like complete shit; no number of fans will really correct that. A humidifier would be useful for whenever the furnace is on, but I have to question how well they will work... they mostly have tiny "tanks" that look like they wouldn't even hold enough water to make a pot of tea, and I'd be surprised if they could humidify even one closed room for a full 24 hours. And then most of them are the trash type that don't even use pure heat to properly evaporate the water (like a stove), so they would most likely end up putting a mineral deposit layer on everything near it.
I've been trying to figure out a way around this for a while now.
I'm not a scientist, and I've conducted no fancy experiments... but based on what I already knew, I just kind of assumed that humidity was a key factor. Considering, you know, it goes straight to shit in the winter, once the furnace starts coming on constantly. I get nosebleeds as the humidity lowers, and again closer to spring sometimes (though around spring it could just be the reintroduction of pollen). It's a pathetic 16% humidity in here right now, which is so damn low it even makes 70 feel relatively chilly. And it could be even lower--I've never even seen it go below 16%, so it's possible that's just the lowest it will read. As far as temperature goes, that doesn't really change much throughout the year... 70-74 when the furnace regulates it, and up to 95 or so in the summer, with the occasional slightly higher temperature.
Of course, it doesn't help the fact that people tend to be inside more often when it's cold out. Well... actually that does help... the viruses. Perfect survival conditions, and lots of people around sneezing to spread them. It's like a flu paradise. Those damn viruses should be thanking us, but all we get is infections.
You must have a lot of faith in mankind's artificial fucking with nature to even consider that the genes produced in a clone of a species that has been extinct for thousands of years will be beneficial. Assuming there's not genetic damage in the first place (I wouldn't bet on it).
I tend to trust in nature over synthetic crap made in labs, which is why I would trust in morphine over the latest patented man-made drug of the week, or naturally-grown, non-tampered-with plants over genetically modified. This humanoid thing they want to create fits firmly in this group.
Bad how? That this unnatural "experiment" could find its way out of labs, end up fucking (or fucked by) humans, and then unknown genes be introduced into the human gene pool? That the government will declare that this experiment is close enough to being a "human" that it should get all of our rights too, and not consider it a scientific research project--and allow such insanity to happen? Nah... how could anything possibly go wrong?
Sounds like the same concept of MATE and Cinnamon, with the main differences being:
--GNOME Shell is the atrocity most people think of when they think GNOME 3. For the most part, it *is* the official GNOME 3. --MATE really is just GNOME 2--GTK+2 and all. Creaky and old, not exactly modern, but with a few programs renamed to avoid conflicts with the official GNOME versions and to allow it to exist on a machine with GNOME 3. --Cinnamon is a GNOME 2 clone written in GTK+3 on top of GNOME 3, requiring all the extra crap GNOME 3-proper does; for example, 3D hardware acceleration. --Consort sounds like yet another environment based on GNOME 3/GTK+3, but being based on the deprecated "fallback mode" it will bring a GNOME 2-like experience without the need for 3D hardware acceleration.
Beyond that, I honestly have no clue which one is better, they're all relatively new and probably under heavy development. I'm not sure if MATE or Cinnamon have made it to the point where they are free of annoying bugs (in other words, usable), but last time I tried them they definitely had some problems. But they're all probably much better than the crap that the GNOME Project officially provides.
Once they've all stabilized and have become good to use, I would assume that your hardware (3D acceleration or not) and your desire for nice integration of the latest GTK+3 programs will become some of the most obvious differences. I'm not sure if MATE will eventually port the desktop to GTK+3 or not... if they do, assuming all of them survive, that will likely make the choice even more difficult.
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Yeah. I just wonder what they'll be doing with the next RHEL since last I heard it was supposed to be based on Fedora 18. From the sounds of things, they'd better either keep parts from Fedora 17 or get scrambling to fix the clusterfuck they've created in Fedora 18, test the hell out of it, and then put that in RHEL instead...
Slowing down typing was, in fact, one possible method of preventing the typebars from colliding. The other was, of course, laying the keys out in such a way that the ones most commonly struck back-to-back are as far away from each other as possible. Wouldn't it actually be faster to hit two keys that are nearby (ie. H and U) in quick succession than if those keys were, for example, the QWERTY layout's Q and N keys? I think so. Back when QWERTY was invented, there was no such thing as touch typing... hunt and pecking with a couple of fingers was the most people could do. That doesn't mean there were no talented people who could type fast, though.
I finally found out about alternate layouts late last year and learned the whole point of the Dvorak keyboard, and sometime in early December I decided to make the switch myself. The first two to three weeks were hell (3-5 WPM on the first week FTW!), but it got much better and more fun after that. Even before I got out of my state of total confusion, it was already feeling so much better typing that I decided right there I no longer care about my QWERTY ability. Now, I'm just getting my muscle memory back up to speed, and getting there slowly... but still, it feels like a dream typing on Dvorak even at about 75% of my previous average speed.
I have a Gateway machine from 2001. I'm pretty sure it has an Intel motherboard, and it was running rock-solid until I decided to give it a break a year or two ago. Bad idea; it ran flawlessly up to that point, but about a year with no power seemed to to cause all kinds of things to go wrong with it. And ironically, the motherboard is not one of the parts to go. That thing has been rock-solid, along with its 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor. Its original hard drive has only begun to show signs of damage a few years ago.
If you take out the relations to technology, you'd find that probably more than half of the lawsuits in this country's corrupt "justice" system are eerily similar. I'm surprised this is now finally coming to light, and the fact that it took the death of a somewhat high-profile person just to flip some light switches in the minds of people who otherwise, it would seem, didn't even care up until that point. Now, the question is, will anything finally be done to attempt to put an end to some of this bullshit--or is there just going to be a new story every other week about someone else being mistreated by the U.S. government, with no real progress made?
That is, if Canonical didn't already shoot themselves and their distro in the foot in every way possible.
Don't worry, this same thing exists in proprietary/commercial software, where you are not only paying just for the privilege to even use the software, but you have to hope that their vision doesn't stray too far from you consider appropriate. See Windows 8: If someone slams it and the Metro interface, or even just changes to the way the traditional desktop itself functions, you can guarantee there will be people around to bitch because you're using your right to free speech to criticize a product... that you have to pay an arm and a leg for in the first place!
Fuck them. If someone or something deserves a reality check in the form of a good slamming, then that's exactly what they should get.
The last thing this country gives a fuck about is its own citizens' health. Time and time again, it's been proven that there are much, much more important things to worry about... like putting people in jail for every reason imaginable, and increasing its own power over its citizens through elimination of our freedoms and rights.
Depends. A quarter? No.
A Coin from Super Mario Bros.? Maybe...
I think the only "punishment" that should be done is a police officer taking the "criminal" to the store and forcing them to buy whatever album they downloaded. If they downloaded Britney Spears, then embarrassment may obviously be a part of the punishment. Once bought, the person should be forced to open it so they can't just take it back for a full refund, and the receipt should be confiscated.
Simple, and amusing. Why insist upon millions of dollars worth of damage when you could just fuck with them instead, creating no permanent record and not destroying lives? And used CDs, which already had their share transferred to the rights holders, should be valid too--they're perfectly legal too!
Of course... it is much more fun to use the full extent of the law possible to nail them into the ground, fuck their lives, as long as they get their 12 bucks from the latest shitty pop album...
Hmmm... actually, you have a point... and that DNA/RNA likely gets passed onto any offspring. The only problem is, viruses mutate and evolve, which causes older immune resistance to be virtually useless against newer strains of the virus... so in that case, the little bastards are just bloating our offspring's DNA for no reason!
At least what happened 3,000 years ago happened naturally, not with some clone engineered in labs. I just do not see mankind doing nature's job better than nature itself. Science is great, but at times people take it too far.
Not all people are dumbasses, and some actually prefer to make sure that what they end up blowing their money is not complete garbage. Is that a crime?
I don't know about that... I have a natural gas heater and, as I said, the humidity plummets when it runs a lot.
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Just find a game that you think she would be interested in too. May I suggest Custer's Revenge?
Actually, it is simple. Just ask her if she wants to play with your joystick.
That's why you spend the next few weeks downloading porn, followed by the next few months uploading it all to Mega and freeing the space in your hard drive, and then... you'll have to download it *again* from Mega just to be able to watch it.
Well... all it takes is one person to sneeze in a public place, the virus gets transferred to another person, and then they can easily transfer that to everyone who lives in the house. All it takes is one trip to the store at the wrong time... so while you can go without getting the flu often at all, I doubt you could go an entire lifetime without it. It's almost impossible; how would someone do such requirements as go to school and work, as well as the necessary grocery shopping? I rarely ever get the flu myself, and when I do get it it's often somewhat mild. But a few times I did get some really damn nasty ones.
I more often get a cold, or at least something mild that more closely resembles a cold, but even then--as someone else mentioned--they are both similar. The "symptoms" are not caused by the virus itself, but by your body's reaction; an attempt to eliminate the invader. People with less reactive immune systems may not even know they caught anything at all, or mistake the weak symptoms for a cold. And people with a strong immune system are less likely to get infected in the first place, even if they are exposed to a virus.
I would still trust cannabis, coca, salvia divinorum, opium poppy, psilocybin mushrooms and countless plants and other things with natural drug properties that humanity itself has evolved with, tried and tested over the millennia, before I would trust in the crap mankind has created in labs, with only decades at the most of highly limited testing (a few centuries in some cases).
If it wasn't for nature, science wouldn't exist. Science is our attempt to understand nature, and I'm sorry, but for many things, I absolutely do not trust mankind's knowledge (or maybe somewhat more accurate, lack of it). Chemicals (both the "completeness" of our understanding of how they work within the body and our tendency to create brand new ones synthetically) and animal cloning are two things I have always been against--and trust me, I'm more into science than anyone I know.
I have been fascinated science, especially astronomy, since I was younger. And yes, even in astronomy I believe that there are boundaries that we should not cross even when it comes to things like space travel that some people are so hell-bent on. But just because I believe in science (ie. studying nature), doesn't mean I can't trust man's ability to genetically engineer organisms and do completely unnatural things that--simply put--can have very bad consequences. Things that cannot be predicted.
"Turns out that a rational analysis of GM foods shows that they could be good for both our health *and* the environment."
Oh, sure they can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technology
Just wait for that to start being sold to farmers to be used "in the wild" and watch that malicious gene spread through the air and by insects to every other plant in the species like wildfire. Like... a fucking virus.
In reality, you're not very likely to run across too many natural chemicals with a negative effect on plant and animal life, the entire environment even, as you will in the local Wal-Mart with products like Round-Up. Synthetic can be alright when we're talking things like fertilizers--otherwise natural chemicals that have been extensively studied and simply recreated in labs in mass quantities. I'm not against that. What I'm against is chemicals that some guy pulled out of his artificial ass in a lab, that simply do not occur in nature.
We can study nature all we want... but when we try to become nature, that's when I believe we have a problem.
I wish I had to just worry about keeping the humidity level down. I have a dehumidifier that I use in the summer to keep it around 35-40%. If it didn't get so hot, I'd just let it creep up to 55 or so percent humidity (it seems to stop not too much higher anyway), but 88 at 50% humidity feels like complete shit; no number of fans will really correct that. A humidifier would be useful for whenever the furnace is on, but I have to question how well they will work... they mostly have tiny "tanks" that look like they wouldn't even hold enough water to make a pot of tea, and I'd be surprised if they could humidify even one closed room for a full 24 hours. And then most of them are the trash type that don't even use pure heat to properly evaporate the water (like a stove), so they would most likely end up putting a mineral deposit layer on everything near it.
I've been trying to figure out a way around this for a while now.
I'm not a scientist, and I've conducted no fancy experiments... but based on what I already knew, I just kind of assumed that humidity was a key factor. Considering, you know, it goes straight to shit in the winter, once the furnace starts coming on constantly. I get nosebleeds as the humidity lowers, and again closer to spring sometimes (though around spring it could just be the reintroduction of pollen). It's a pathetic 16% humidity in here right now, which is so damn low it even makes 70 feel relatively chilly. And it could be even lower--I've never even seen it go below 16%, so it's possible that's just the lowest it will read. As far as temperature goes, that doesn't really change much throughout the year... 70-74 when the furnace regulates it, and up to 95 or so in the summer, with the occasional slightly higher temperature.
Of course, it doesn't help the fact that people tend to be inside more often when it's cold out. Well... actually that does help... the viruses. Perfect survival conditions, and lots of people around sneezing to spread them. It's like a flu paradise. Those damn viruses should be thanking us, but all we get is infections.
You must have a lot of faith in mankind's artificial fucking with nature to even consider that the genes produced in a clone of a species that has been extinct for thousands of years will be beneficial. Assuming there's not genetic damage in the first place (I wouldn't bet on it).
I tend to trust in nature over synthetic crap made in labs, which is why I would trust in morphine over the latest patented man-made drug of the week, or naturally-grown, non-tampered-with plants over genetically modified. This humanoid thing they want to create fits firmly in this group.
They do it with non-human animals all the time.
Bad how? That this unnatural "experiment" could find its way out of labs, end up fucking (or fucked by) humans, and then unknown genes be introduced into the human gene pool? That the government will declare that this experiment is close enough to being a "human" that it should get all of our rights too, and not consider it a scientific research project--and allow such insanity to happen? Nah... how could anything possibly go wrong?
Sounds like the same concept of MATE and Cinnamon, with the main differences being:
--GNOME Shell is the atrocity most people think of when they think GNOME 3. For the most part, it *is* the official GNOME 3.
--MATE really is just GNOME 2--GTK+2 and all. Creaky and old, not exactly modern, but with a few programs renamed to avoid conflicts with the official GNOME versions and to allow it to exist on a machine with GNOME 3.
--Cinnamon is a GNOME 2 clone written in GTK+3 on top of GNOME 3, requiring all the extra crap GNOME 3-proper does; for example, 3D hardware acceleration.
--Consort sounds like yet another environment based on GNOME 3/GTK+3, but being based on the deprecated "fallback mode" it will bring a GNOME 2-like experience without the need for 3D hardware acceleration.
Beyond that, I honestly have no clue which one is better, they're all relatively new and probably under heavy development. I'm not sure if MATE or Cinnamon have made it to the point where they are free of annoying bugs (in other words, usable), but last time I tried them they definitely had some problems. But they're all probably much better than the crap that the GNOME Project officially provides.
Once they've all stabilized and have become good to use, I would assume that your hardware (3D acceleration or not) and your desire for nice integration of the latest GTK+3 programs will become some of the most obvious differences. I'm not sure if MATE will eventually port the desktop to GTK+3 or not... if they do, assuming all of them survive, that will likely make the choice even more difficult.