No way he could have graduated with such a weak memory, so I've basically been wondering what happened to him. He still has his wits and he's just faking the idiocy? Or was is some kind of mental disease from excessive mental gymnastics and brown nosing?
Brain damage due to lack of oxygen as a result of having his head shoved up Bush's ass is my hypothesis...
"The hole is almost perfectly circular, over 1,000 feet across and 400 feet deep. It was formed as a limestone cave system during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower. As the ocean began to rise again the caves flooded, and the roof collapsed."
At least some of the complaints I've heard about "firefox bloat" have turned out, on closer examination, to be due to memory leaks in the Flash plugin.
And that's a disadvantage of plugins: they're complex bits of code that run in the same memory space as firefox and have the ability to screw it up arbitrarily badly, but that aren't part of the main code base, so aren't usually reviewable or fixable by Firefox developers.
Anyway, what piece of functionality would you identify as a candidate for moving into an optional add-on, and what do you expect that would save?
Plugins != add-ons/extensions
Things that could be moved into an add-on: spellcheck, clear private data, rss feed features, phishing checker...
You misunderstood. The 2.0 branch has been in development for 2 years, but Gaim itself has existed for quite a few years more. ..
I know. I'm sticking with the >=2.0 is Pidgin and 2.0 is Gaim.
Either way, my statement is still valid. According to the review, the latest release of Pidgin/Gaim is comparable to a commercial equivalent that's 3 years old. With Trillian Astra supposedly nearing beta, I don't see that as the endorsement the author apparently meant it to be.
This, from the Ars Technica article, just blew me away...
. ..Pidgin 2.0 is capable of competing with commercial instant messaging applications like Trillian Pro.
Pidgin had been in development for 2 years and it's still merely "capable" of competing with Trillian, which experienced it's most recent major release 3 years ago?
No you didn't have to wait till the next release of ubuntu, they offered the package in the backports repository. ..
No, they didn't...
"FINAL FINAL FINAL UPDATE:
A backport will not be done for Firefox 1.5 because of compatibility issues with introducing a new browser, both to the rest of the Ubuntu Breezy platform and to users with heavily customized Firefox setups." -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=96595
The Ubuntu package manager takes care of finding the program you want, getting it and installing it.
Sure. If you're not trying to install anything that was just released in the past few months.
I mean, Christ... Back when Firfox 1.5 was released, you had to wait for the next major release of Ubuntu, because it was "too much work" to integrate a package of the new Fx release with the then-current version of Ubuntu.
I still don't know how long it took for GnuCash2 to make it into the repository, because I uninstalled Ubuntu before it happened.
Now, you have 5 differant processor sockets, 8 differant chipsets, 3 differant memories all in multiple speeds, differant power supply sockets, PCIx, PCI, and AGP, etc... Plus, it is harder to tell which parts are the fastest or best value now that everyone says their chip all their chips are equivallent to 4 GHz. The chance of being able to upgrade to current equipment is much less than it used to be. Replacing a processor now almost always means memory, power supply, motherboard, and heat sink.
This is going to sound a like a troll, but it's not. I'm genuinely confused about this:
Why is this situation (multiple choices) "bad" for hardware, but the same situation is "good" for Linux?
I have received no support from communities like Slashdot, or the EFF because of my typical conservative political affiliation.
I think it has more to do with a lack of "Big Evil Corporation vs. Little Guy" angle. Unless I misread, you're dealing with "merely" an eBay drop-off center and not eBay themselves...
Now, onto the crux of the argument: Buildings do not fall naturally onto their own footprints.
But what you can't explain is the lack of tell-tale signs that accompany a controlled demolition: rapid and successive flashes and explosions. None of these were reported on that day. Yes, some people heard what sounded like an explosion here or there, but this isn't Hollywood, kid. You can't bring a building with one or two well-placed explosives (especially ones that no one can see).
I can explain felled lightpoles (marines with powertools), how do you explain the implosions?
Overly simplistic, much like the mind it came from no doubt. You fail to take into account the hundreds of people traveling on the highway that morning, not to mention the hundreds of others that came soon afterwards. Why did they see nothing like you describe?
You've also ignored the generator which I pointed out. Weak.
The lease holder gave the OK to "pull it". I didn't know you could do that. Can just any building be "pulled", just like that?
"Pull it" is not a term for explosive demolition. No where, no how, no matter how many times the conspiracy theorists say it is (none of them are demolitions experts). The owner of Controlled Demolitions, Inc. has written a short paper about WTC7 (don't have a link at the moment, getting ready to leave for the holiday).
"Pull it" means to literally pull the building over with cables or the like. You don't do that to a 47 story building.
The third WTC building on 911 collapsed without ANYTHING touching it. It just collapsed straight down as if it had been demolished. They even abandoned it first. It was UNDAMAGED until it collapsed.
The jet fuel of an airliner doesn't burn hot enough to melt the structural steel that was used in the WTC buildings. Yet they found molten steel in the wreckage.
Absolute idiocy. The steel certainly doesn't have to melt before it fails. And what does the alleged molten metal actually prove? Explosives don't melt steel, and they certainly aren't capable of keeping that steel molten weeks after they've been detonated.
Thermite/thermate doesn't fit the alleged phenomenon either, unless you're suggesting that there was so much of the stuff at the site that it was burning for weeks in order to keep the metal in a liquefied state. (We've all seen videos of thermite at work. The metal resolidifies within a minute after the thermite is expended.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7842741 50 9736411725&q=wtc+3 That was not an airplane strike, it was demolition.
It clearly shows the eastern mechanical penthouse collapsing into the building a full 5 seconds before the western penthouse collapses, followed immediately by the rest of the building. Not nearly as clean as you'd like people to believe by showing them only one video of the collapse.
On the other hand, if they present a clear description of what Vista does and does not do, it seems to me they are only providing people with the information they need to make an informed choice.
John Sullivan:
Obviously MS Windows is already proprietary and very restrictive, and well worth rejecting.
I know this [hopefully] isn't part of their campaign, but they don't seem to off to a very good start, in my opinion...
So I wouldn't judge Firefox because of the 2.0. Better wait for 3.0.
Ugh! I'm a fan of Firefox, but that line pisses me off. Arbitrarily declaring which stable, public releases of a piece of software shouldn't matter is absolutely asinine.
And before that you claim it was merely a PR stunt. What the fuck, man? How did that get modded Interesting and Informative? Seriously. Microsoft gets absolutely blasted for less than what you just implied the Mozilla Foundation did with Firefox 2.
The Mozilla Foundation judged it to be worthy of a public release. It was put out there for all people to evaluate. For the first time ever I saw Firefox in my local newspaper (comparing Fx2 to IE7).
You can't seriously claim that the browser shouldn't be judged based on this release.
There are Goblins in the Mines of Moria as well, which is a LoTR event.
He's talking about the orcs/goblins that jump the group while they're spending a night in the Misty Mountains. In The Hobbit, they're called goblins. In LOTR, they're referred to as orcs.
And if you had the slightest idea about how that works, you would know that people are routinely prevented from even getting into the terminal due to no-fly lists. All of this is done electronically long before anyone even gets on board.
So what you're saying is that this actually does nothing new?
Can you even attempt to explain to us what this actually does, or do you just blindly label it fascism out ignorance and attack anyone who disagrees with your worldview?
Most folks who giveup on Linux haven't given it a fair chance.
It's tough to give something a fair chance at 640x480, on an X800 GTO, with an LCD monitor whose native resolution is 1280x1024. That was my wonderful installation experience with Ubuntu 6.06. Even as I was fumbling my way around Ubuntu and the ATI website I could tell GNOME wasn't nearly as responsive as my fairly well-maintained XP install.
I could watch windows as small as a JavaScript warning draw over the course of a half-second. Top and left window decoration, bottom and left window decoration, then the window itself. Now, a half-second doesn't sound like much, but it is perceptibly annoying.
After following one of the dozen or so tutorials for installing video drivers on Ubuntu alone, the less-responsive-than-XP problem remained. Not to mention the dread of knowing that, when the inevitable kernel updates come, I'll have to dig up the tutorial again so I can redo the handful of steps needed to recompile the module. I could always create a simple script to handle that for me, but that would require choking down the screaming dissonance between "Linux is ready for the desktop" and "rebuild the driver module every kernel upgrade".
I even installed XGL+Beryl to see if off-loading the desktop to the video card would improve the situation. I just ended up with some nice eye candy to go with Ubuntu's poor responsiveness.
I'm no newb. I've had on-and-off experience with Linux over the past 5+ years and I'm mostly responsible for maintaining the FreeBSD (yes, Unix, I know) server for my company's websites. I, for one, feel that I've given Linux (Ubuntu at least, which is supposed to be the flagship distro for "everyone") more than fair chance...
*Nix is great for servers, but, as far it's come on the desktop, it's still got a looong way to go in my opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
Stephen Colbert has a decent bit on this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-200478575 9717366066.
AT&T: The T-1000 of corporations...
Close Trillian, open "C:\Program Files\Trillian\plugins" and rename "av.dll" to something else.
"The hole is almost perfectly circular, over 1,000 feet across and 400 feet deep. It was formed as a limestone cave system during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower. As the ocean began to rise again the caves flooded, and the roof collapsed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Hole
Things that could be moved into an add-on: spellcheck, clear private data, rss feed features, phishing checker...
Either way, my statement is still valid. According to the review, the latest release of Pidgin/Gaim is comparable to a commercial equivalent that's 3 years old. With Trillian Astra supposedly nearing beta, I don't see that as the endorsement the author apparently meant it to be.
...or "what no one else wants to do"?
"FINAL FINAL FINAL UPDATE:
A backport will not be done for Firefox 1.5 because of compatibility issues with introducing a new browser, both to the rest of the Ubuntu Breezy platform and to users with heavily customized Firefox setups." -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=96595
I mean, Christ... Back when Firfox 1.5 was released, you had to wait for the next major release of Ubuntu, because it was "too much work" to integrate a package of the new Fx release with the then-current version of Ubuntu.
I still don't know how long it took for GnuCash2 to make it into the repository, because I uninstalled Ubuntu before it happened.
Synaptic/Apt isn't all roses.
Umm... Check your results.
Why is this situation (multiple choices) "bad" for hardware, but the same situation is "good" for Linux?
But what you can't explain is the lack of tell-tale signs that accompany a controlled demolition: rapid and successive flashes and explosions. None of these were reported on that day. Yes, some people heard what sounded like an explosion here or there, but this isn't Hollywood, kid. You can't bring a building with one or two well-placed explosives (especially ones that no one can see).
Overly simplistic, much like the mind it came from no doubt. You fail to take into account the hundreds of people traveling on the highway that morning, not to mention the hundreds of others that came soon afterwards. Why did they see nothing like you describe?
You've also ignored the generator which I pointed out. Weak.
"Pull it" is not a term for explosive demolition. No where, no how, no matter how many times the conspiracy theorists say it is (none of them are demolitions experts). The owner of Controlled Demolitions, Inc. has written a short paper about WTC7 (don't have a link at the moment, getting ready to leave for the holiday).
"Pull it" means to literally pull the building over with cables or the like. You don't do that to a 47 story building.
Read this closely: http://911myths.com/html/wtc7_pulled.html
http://www.kolumbus.fi/av.caesar/wtc/wtc7_2.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3990/wtc7roof7
It well known by people on the ground that WTC7 was going to collapse.
Here's some accounts from firefighters on the scene that day. They describe the severe structural damage, large fires, and the potential for collapse.
Wrong.
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e207/Mercury2/p
Beyond that, you still have to explain the downed street lights along the highway, and the damage generator.
You should watch this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YVDdjLQkUV8
Absolute idiocy. The steel certainly doesn't have to melt before it fails. And what does the alleged molten metal actually prove? Explosives don't melt steel, and they certainly aren't capable of keeping that steel molten weeks after they've been detonated.
Thermite/thermate doesn't fit the alleged phenomenon either, unless you're suggesting that there was so much of the stuff at the site that it was burning for weeks in order to keep the metal in a liquefied state. (We've all seen videos of thermite at work. The metal resolidifies within a minute after the thermite is expended.)
Here's a better video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dWemhf8fZ2w
It clearly shows the eastern mechanical penthouse collapsing into the building a full 5 seconds before the western penthouse collapses, followed immediately by the rest of the building. Not nearly as clean as you'd like people to believe by showing them only one video of the collapse.
Stop fooling yourself, please.
FFS!
And before that you claim it was merely a PR stunt. What the fuck, man? How did that get modded Interesting and Informative? Seriously. Microsoft gets absolutely blasted for less than what you just implied the Mozilla Foundation did with Firefox 2.
The Mozilla Foundation judged it to be worthy of a public release. It was put out there for all people to evaluate. For the first time ever I saw Firefox in my local newspaper (comparing Fx2 to IE7).
You can't seriously claim that the browser shouldn't be judged based on this release.
Live Free or Diebold.
Can you even attempt to explain to us what this actually does, or do you just blindly label it fascism out ignorance and attack anyone who disagrees with your worldview?
I could watch windows as small as a JavaScript warning draw over the course of a half-second. Top and left window decoration, bottom and left window decoration, then the window itself. Now, a half-second doesn't sound like much, but it is perceptibly annoying.
After following one of the dozen or so tutorials for installing video drivers on Ubuntu alone, the less-responsive-than-XP problem remained. Not to mention the dread of knowing that, when the inevitable kernel updates come, I'll have to dig up the tutorial again so I can redo the handful of steps needed to recompile the module. I could always create a simple script to handle that for me, but that would require choking down the screaming dissonance between "Linux is ready for the desktop" and "rebuild the driver module every kernel upgrade".
I even installed XGL+Beryl to see if off-loading the desktop to the video card would improve the situation. I just ended up with some nice eye candy to go with Ubuntu's poor responsiveness.
I'm no newb. I've had on-and-off experience with Linux over the past 5+ years and I'm mostly responsible for maintaining the FreeBSD (yes, Unix, I know) server for my company's websites. I, for one, feel that I've given Linux (Ubuntu at least, which is supposed to be the flagship distro for "everyone") more than fair chance...
*Nix is great for servers, but, as far it's come on the desktop, it's still got a looong way to go in my opinion.