DistroWatch list is about what people are checking out. It's not about what they're using. DistroWatch has even complained about it in their weekly, "Granted, the DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking doesn't mean all that much and we have been saying this for years". http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070827 Ubuntu, Debian, and PCLinuxOS are the top Linux distros used by people when they're browsing DistroWatch. Windows XP is the most common OS used by people when they're browsing DistroWatch.
The only time I browse Distrowatch or Slashdot is at work on an XP machine.
If a person is born in Africa then becomes a US citizen, they're African-American. If a person is born in America and stays a US citizen, they're American.
Heritage is all screwed up. How many generations have to be born in America before you consider it part of your heritage?
I figured the install would have options of package choice.
Standard - installs the default choices of distro Task based - This could be setup like Dell where each task would have the recommended program selected and you could unselect or choose another choice offered by that distro. Expert - list of packages available by that distro
I'm perfectly happy with the way I do things, but I am able to quickly download packages that I want and this is not the case for everyone.
Multiple countries and banking regulations make this hard to follow.
Without actually getting money, you could use the bots to order things on the internet and get them shipped to a large apt building or your 90 year old neighbor who can't get up to answer the door.
When I worked for a mail-order sports store, there were zipcodes that they wouldn't deliver to because of fraud.
Maybe you should just read short stories. You could ask people who have similar tastes if there are any books they like. If I'm looking at books by authors I don't know, I grab a chair at the bookstore and read a couple of pages, maybe even a chapter. You should have a good feel by then.
Books vs movies - books are usually better because they have a better way to handle internal dialogue and the characters are never played by bad actors who could act their way out of a wet paper bag, at least in my mind that is.
Writer's strike and Mid-season break tv-wise - watched some foreign tv like Spooks (British), J-Pod and The Border (Canadian), City Homicide (Australian), watched some shows that have been on a couple of years that I haven't watched before. If you like cop shows you can get previous seasons of The Shield or The Wire on DVD. A lot of HBO and Showtime series are on DVD if you don't get those channels. Gave a shot to one or two new shows that I just didn't have time for this season.
Step three: You downloaded or bought the wrong CD. Many PCs from the Windows 98 era had 128 MB of RAM, but the Kubuntu live CD needs about twice that. Instead, you will need the alternate installer CD. But by this time, you might as well use Xubuntu instead.
I wanted to try out a distro (opensuse 10, I think) on a 300MHz PII, 128MB. I downloaded it and burnt it. Minimum requirements was 400MHz. Luckily, I had broadband so it wasn't so bad.
On my other machines, I usually just install Debian base(just cli) then use apt to get everything else. Why don't all distros have you select the packages that you want installed. I hate when Windows installs useless programs, and I hate when Linux does it too.
6. A set of standard royalties for a common class of work (say, songs) should be decided, and made available to anyone who cares to pay the standard rate.
I see problems with this. First, a multi-platinum artist would get paid the same for a limited number of plays as some artist that never went gold. OK, maybe you think that's a good idea. The second part takes away control from the artist. Their song could be used to promote Nazism (everyone hates Nazis) and legally they have no recourse. You could sabotage other artists by using their songs to promote unpopular ideas or ideas that the artist is opposed to.
I'd try a camcorder and set it up to show the records on the screen at a rate that would allow the video to still be read by an OCR program. I'm unsure whether digital or analog would be better for this.
If you could capture 30 fps and 1 record a frame, that's 10800 records an hour. That's under 93 hours. Depending on your workplace, you could split that into short periods, lunch hours, night time, weekends, or just constantly.
The only reason the usage of that phrase ever changed is because large numbers of ignorant people started using it incorrectly, and now we're left without an unambiguous, concise way of accusing someone of assuming what they are pretending to prove.
Someone is singular. They is plural. Only ignorant people use singular they.
I'm a Time Warner customer and I have enjoyed their service. If this is legit, at least, it sounds like the right direction for it, though I'm not happy about it.
1. Defined limits, overlimit fees, and prices for tiered service 2. Monitor software to show customers where they're at
I'm curious about the monitor software. Will it have options to shutdown internet access based on time frames and activity? This would be useful for people that want to budget their internet usage. Also it could useful if the computer is infected.
David talking about it back in 2002. "On a more technical from I began using voice-activated software when I broke my wrist very badly about two years ago. I've found that it tends to increase the rate at which I can write while I'm actually working, but that it's more fatigue-sensitive than a keyboard. You can push your fingers further than you can push your voice when fatigue begins to blur your pronunciation and confuse the voice recognition feature of your software.
I don't think it's had a major impact on my writing style, but it does affect how I compose sentences. What I mean by that is that because the software prefers complete phrases, in order to let it extrapolate from context when it's trying to decide what word to use for an ambiguous pronunciation, I have to decide how I want a sentence to be shaped before I begin talking to a much greater extent than I had to do before I began typing." http://sfcrowsnest.co.uk/features/arc/2002/nz5718.php
The announced final price for the XO Laptop is $188.
If the same inflation figure is used, the $75 will rise to $141.
I was thinking the same thing.
One option is to take the XO Laptop and see what could be sacrificed to reduce cost. Drop the camera, the microphone, 1 speaker. Simplify the case design to reduce cost (no pivot, integrate antenna, less curves, drop the two-tone color scheme). Little things to drop $47. I do wonder how much company sponsorship in a much-hyped project reduced the cost of the OLPC though or if it increased it due to company pressure for certain design changes.
No, I didn't and don't want polyphonic ringtones. I want loud MIDI-like ringtones that cut through crowd noise, music I'm listening to, and other sounds. I don't want to hear a catchy chorus of a song for a ringtone, just as I don't want "clever" quotes from popular tv shows for my computer sounds.
As for the projector, I'm not sure how an 8-10 lumens projector will look. I have my doubts, but I'll take a look when they reach market.
I don't mind most sponsored links, but some companies like Target seem to be default for things they don't carry. I also get annoyed with the link sites and the shopper sites.
First, US money does not have a pyramid or sphinx on it. Seriously, take a look.
Second, the law "does not forbid local or international artists from profiting from drawings and other reproductions of pharaonic and Egyptian monuments from all eras -- as long as they don't make exact copies."
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I must be a real man because I use punch cards everyday at work (to scribble notes on, we've got boxes of these things from the old days).
DistroWatch list is about what people are checking out. It's not about what they're using. DistroWatch has even complained about it in their weekly, "Granted, the DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking doesn't mean all that much and we have been saying this for years".
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070827
Ubuntu, Debian, and PCLinuxOS are the top Linux distros used by people when they're browsing DistroWatch.
Windows XP is the most common OS used by people when they're browsing DistroWatch.
The only time I browse Distrowatch or Slashdot is at work on an XP machine.
Anyone have the webserver stats handy for
It's Canada. They pay for national healthcare whether or not they go to the hospital and use it.
If a person is born in Africa then becomes a US citizen, they're African-American.
If a person is born in America and stays a US citizen, they're American.
Heritage is all screwed up. How many generations have to be born in America before you consider it part of your heritage?
I figured the install would have options of package choice.
Standard - installs the default choices of distro
Task based - This could be setup like Dell where each task would have the recommended program selected and you could unselect or choose another choice offered by that distro.
Expert - list of packages available by that distro
I'm perfectly happy with the way I do things, but I am able to quickly download packages that I want and this is not the case for everyone.
Multiple countries and banking regulations make this hard to follow.
Without actually getting money, you could use the bots to order things on the internet and get them shipped to a large apt building or your 90 year old neighbor who can't get up to answer the door.
When I worked for a mail-order sports store, there were zipcodes that they wouldn't deliver to because of fraud.
Maybe you should just read short stories. You could ask people who have similar tastes if there are any books they like. If I'm looking at books by authors I don't know, I grab a chair at the bookstore and read a couple of pages, maybe even a chapter. You should have a good feel by then.
Books vs movies - books are usually better because they have a better way to handle internal dialogue and the characters are never played by bad actors who could act their way out of a wet paper bag, at least in my mind that is.
Writer's strike and Mid-season break tv-wise - watched some foreign tv like Spooks (British), J-Pod and The Border (Canadian), City Homicide (Australian), watched some shows that have been on a couple of years that I haven't watched before. If you like cop shows you can get previous seasons of The Shield or The Wire on DVD. A lot of HBO and Showtime series are on DVD if you don't get those channels. Gave a shot to one or two new shows that I just didn't have time for this season.
I wanted to try out a distro (opensuse 10, I think) on a 300MHz PII, 128MB. I downloaded it and burnt it. Minimum requirements was 400MHz. Luckily, I had broadband so it wasn't so bad.
On my other machines, I usually just install Debian base(just cli) then use apt to get everything else. Why don't all distros have you select the packages that you want installed. I hate when Windows installs useless programs, and I hate when Linux does it too.
I see problems with this. First, a multi-platinum artist would get paid the same for a limited number of plays as some artist that never went gold. OK, maybe you think that's a good idea. The second part takes away control from the artist. Their song could be used to promote Nazism (everyone hates Nazis) and legally they have no recourse. You could sabotage other artists by using their songs to promote unpopular ideas or ideas that the artist is opposed to.
How big are these records?
I'd try a camcorder and set it up to show the records on the screen at a rate that would allow the video to still be read by an OCR program. I'm unsure whether digital or analog would be better for this.
If you could capture 30 fps and 1 record a frame, that's 10800 records an hour. That's under 93 hours. Depending on your workplace, you could split that into short periods, lunch hours, night time, weekends, or just constantly.
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Either I'm heptachromat or it's a joke.
Are you saying transparent materials are dark? I don't think that's correct.
Someone is singular. They is plural. Only ignorant people use singular they.
It varies from state to state, but in a lot of areas you pay 10% to the court or a bail bondsmen. Financing is sometimes available by both too.
How about #0000000?
False, you'd still have 5% of the users using 50% of the bandwidth unless you limit the bandwidth they can use.
Give me the bandwidth to stream HDTV and I'll do it.
I'm a Time Warner customer and I have enjoyed their service. If this is legit, at least, it sounds like the right direction for it, though I'm not happy about it.
1. Defined limits, overlimit fees, and prices for tiered service
2. Monitor software to show customers where they're at
I'm curious about the monitor software. Will it have options to shutdown internet access based on time frames and activity? This would be useful for people that want to budget their internet usage. Also it could useful if the computer is infected.
David Weber http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=DWeber uses voice recognition software for writing novels.
David talking about it back in 2002.
"On a more technical from I began using voice-activated software when I broke my wrist very badly about two years ago. I've found that it tends to increase the rate at which I can write while I'm actually working, but that it's more fatigue-sensitive than a keyboard. You can push your fingers further than you can push your voice when fatigue begins to blur your pronunciation and confuse the voice recognition feature of your software.
I don't think it's had a major impact on my writing style, but it does affect how I compose sentences. What I mean by that is that because the software prefers complete phrases, in order to let it extrapolate from context when it's trying to decide what word to use for an ambiguous pronunciation, I have to decide how I want a sentence to be shaped before I begin talking to a much greater extent than I had to do before I began typing."
http://sfcrowsnest.co.uk/features/arc/2002/nz5718.php
It's not that interesting.
Pick a start date.
Pick a number.
Countdown that time then look for a major event that happened near that time.
If it was something that happened at that exact second that wasn't caused by humans like an earthquake then that would be interesting.
I was thinking the same thing.
One option is to take the XO Laptop and see what could be sacrificed to reduce cost. Drop the camera, the microphone, 1 speaker. Simplify the case design to reduce cost (no pivot, integrate antenna, less curves, drop the two-tone color scheme). Little things to drop $47. I do wonder how much company sponsorship in a much-hyped project reduced the cost of the OLPC though or if it increased it due to company pressure for certain design changes.
That probably has more to do with the thief than the target.
No, I didn't and don't want polyphonic ringtones. I want loud MIDI-like ringtones that cut through crowd noise, music I'm listening to, and other sounds. I don't want to hear a catchy chorus of a song for a ringtone, just as I don't want "clever" quotes from popular tv shows for my computer sounds.
As for the projector, I'm not sure how an 8-10 lumens projector will look. I have my doubts, but I'll take a look when they reach market.
Why do you need a device with the range of 20ft? How about range of 2 inches and place the reader 20ft down the line?
I don't mind most sponsored links, but some companies like Target seem to be default for things they don't carry. I also get annoyed with the link sites and the shopper sites.
First, US money does not have a pyramid or sphinx on it. Seriously, take a look.
Second, the law "does not forbid local or international artists from profiting from drawings and other reproductions of pharaonic and Egyptian monuments from all eras -- as long as they don't make exact copies."