I can see how it might work if you only need one desktop and don't have any weird monitor configuration. Unity was sucky on my two monitor system with the secondary on the left, rotated 90 degrees. I couldn't figure out how to move the bar and its interaction with the Gnome panel was odd. I just gave up because I was busy and didn't have time to screw with it.
It's hard to make everyone happy. I'm still irritated that there is no easy way to put a different picture on different virtual desktops anymore. I use 5 because I hate minimizing and unminimizing. It's easier to just hit Alt+F5 and get my email desktop, Alt+F3, browser desktop, Alt+F1, terminal desktop, etc.
So, while I am accustomed to certain ways, if Unity had made more sense to me in the first 10 minutes I might've given it more of a shot. As it is, it was vastly different from my usual workflow and I went back to Classic.
Well, you gotta support the errata on any CPU. IIRC, you could only use Intel with FreeBSD for quite a long time. I always supposed this was due to not having the microcode/errata support for the AMD/Cyrix.
I was still a newbie at computers during the Cyrix incident and had no contact with anyone with knowledge to fix it or tell me what was wrong. The Internet has solved that one, nicely.
(I'd go look up the FreeBSD thing but Googling on this tiny phone is no fun)
Argh! Flashback to the days when a lot machines *couldn't* get basic support under Linux working without patching an tweaking.
No kidding. I would have started using Linux in 1996 when I first heard about it fresh out of high school. But I was poor and couldn't afford Intel so I had purchased a Cyrix chip. Little did I know that Linux was Intel-only back then. I was so mad that Slackware kept segfaulting for no apparent reason during the installation process. I finally gave up and ran Windows 95 on the box. A year or two later, I read on some teal geek site that non-Intel processors were now supported and my desktop OS was forever changed.
Yeah, and annoying as heck when you're in a cubicle farm with a hundred other people yelling the same crap into their computers. This is why I seriously doubt voice computing ever coming into mainstream use unless it conjures us all individual offices at the same time (yeah, right...).
It might get rid of medical transcriptionists, though. -l
I think it's more likely you'll just tell the computer "write me a program that does X, Y, and Z". The computer will look on the Internet for code snippets and put garbage together until it works. If it sucks, you can optimize it or let the genetic algorithm run longer, but for many programs, it'll be Good Enough[tm].
Long way off, for sure, but Watson leads the way... -l
It might if it's getting the channel's feed in the background. It is annoying though. They really ought to consider a "just the listings, I don't want to see the channel at the same time" option. That would be a TON faster.
Ha! That gives me an idea: an introvert holiday. One day a year, introverts nag their coworkers with minute trivia from their favorite hobbies.
"So, I was assembling raw images from Hubble using Photoshop. You have to use these filters for each one and combine them into layers. No, hear me out, this is great. This plug-in requires... but then I had to recompile the drivers... registry settings... HKLM/... and that's how I discovered my first asteroid, though it's more of a large rock, really."
"Let me tell you about how I recycle aluminum to make shafts for various tools in my garage."
"Last week, I was tracking down this data corruption bug in XFS that only manifests in Power PC systems."
No kidding. Though I have to say, with the crappy connections I've been getting at home and at work, I've started to take seriously the idea of having a gsm-to-internet gateway (femtocell) in my home. The AT&T MicroCell pricing is terrible, though. I understand paying for the box, but they should not be billing against your minutes for using the thing. At minimum, they should not bill you nearly as much.
No kidding. Just drop those things off at the used media store and use them to fund a Netflix account for awhile. They don't always have everything (Fear of a Black Hat, Akira, and some others), but for most people, they've got you covered.
They mailed in the receipt, the UPC from the box, and the required form and expect an 8 - 10 week turnaround on the $30 check. There is an optional Visa gift card option, but it reduces the total value to $22, so they opted for the check.
1) If you could globally reduce the amount of sugar in treats, you'd reduce the caloric intake.
2) Fatty liver deposits are different from general fat deposits. The article is specifically addressing fatty liver deposits.
3) Requiring glucose instead of fructose sweetening for prepackaged treats would go a long way. I would argue it would go further because people who wanted "the good stuff" would have to buy from a baker or make stuff themselves and once you start cooking, you're more likely to start thinking more about what you're eating.
$0.02USD, -l
P.s., I'm the skinny nerd type, but I've been gaining some weight in my thirties. Having a sugar-addicted wife does not help at all. If it were up to me, we'd have treats once a month, because it's hard to refuse when it's right in front of you (like cigarettes, though I don't smoke).
I can see how some games would be awesome on a pad and others would be beyond horrible (twitchy FPS). If nothing else, it could make that evil arrow/slingshot minigame in Ocarina of Time easy as pie... My Wii classic controller is way too underutilized to be loose enough to do well at that game.
Thanks, I was going to mention that. It is cool to have included citations be actually drawn from the original documents and not inside a frame. I also like that it would be easier to integrate with email (webmail, anyway). You could forget about privacy, though, because you would be tracked by every transclusion in every email and website. And Astley/goatse would still be a problem. I suppose you could have a "Load Transclusions" button that would obey a blacklist/whitelist feature (and firewalling, of course).
As mentioned elsewhere, this would be a great way to distribute trojans and viruses. Just visit some popular Internet forums and include your overflow/injection/whatever code inline. Boom, instant spreading, and they don't even have to specifically click your site.
It happened to me last weekend. A woman posing as "Linda Wilson" called AT&T to cancel our phone service. She had enough info to get the rep to believe she could cancel the account. She hung up in the middle of the call when asked to verify the address on the account and the rep tried calling all the numbers on the account to reach her. (The rep didn't ask for any info so he wasn't phishing me. A call to 611 confirmed what he said.)
I don't know if it's Epsilon or the fact that we applied for a couple of credit cards recently or just a random breach. But, phishing/social engineering happen all the time.
For safe measure, we changed our account info and put a fraud alert on our credit reports.
I think the kid's original point — lost in the article by the clueless writer — is that enough time hasn't passed for stars to have created all of it. In that case, you'd have to get it from the big bang and he thinks that's impossible.
Prima facie, it seems a reasonable approach for an argument but without a Real Paper[tm] it's just angels on the head of a pin.
Having said that, I agree with you that he is probably reinventing the wheel here and perhaps a few lectures and some reading could help him get a little further along in finding avenues for original research.
The state of journalism these days. Don't they ever check facts anymore? The History Channel is the bible/alien abduction channel, not the documentary channel.
Indeed. The only thing I would like more is some threshold settings that work for me. I only want to read 30 or so comments per article, but threaded for handiness. Usually, I just pick a points level that corresponds to that value. I'd rather that be done for me.
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I can see how it might work if you only need one desktop and don't have any weird monitor configuration. Unity was sucky on my two monitor system with the secondary on the left, rotated 90 degrees. I couldn't figure out how to move the bar and its interaction with the Gnome panel was odd. I just gave up because I was busy and didn't have time to screw with it.
It's hard to make everyone happy. I'm still irritated that there is no easy way to put a different picture on different virtual desktops anymore. I use 5 because I hate minimizing and unminimizing. It's easier to just hit Alt+F5 and get my email desktop, Alt+F3, browser desktop, Alt+F1, terminal desktop, etc.
So, while I am accustomed to certain ways, if Unity had made more sense to me in the first 10 minutes I might've given it more of a shot. As it is, it was vastly different from my usual workflow and I went back to Classic.
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Well, you gotta support the errata on any CPU. IIRC, you could only use Intel with FreeBSD for quite a long time. I always supposed this was due to not having the microcode/errata support for the AMD/Cyrix.
I was still a newbie at computers during the Cyrix incident and had no contact with anyone with knowledge to fix it or tell me what was wrong. The Internet has solved that one, nicely.
(I'd go look up the FreeBSD thing but Googling on this tiny phone is no fun)
-l
Argh! Flashback to the days when a lot machines *couldn't* get basic support under Linux working without patching an tweaking.
No kidding. I would have started using Linux in 1996 when I first heard about it fresh out of high school. But I was poor and couldn't afford Intel so I had purchased a Cyrix chip. Little did I know that Linux was Intel-only back then. I was so mad that Slackware kept segfaulting for no apparent reason during the installation process. I finally gave up and ran Windows 95 on the box. A year or two later, I read on some teal geek site that non-Intel processors were now supported and my desktop OS was forever changed.
-l
Yeah, and annoying as heck when you're in a cubicle farm with a hundred other people yelling the same crap into their computers. This is why I seriously doubt voice computing ever coming into mainstream use unless it conjures us all individual offices at the same time (yeah, right...).
It might get rid of medical transcriptionists, though.
-l
I think it's more likely you'll just tell the computer "write me a program that does X, Y, and Z". The computer will look on the Internet for code snippets and put garbage together until it works. If it sucks, you can optimize it or let the genetic algorithm run longer, but for many programs, it'll be Good Enough[tm].
Long way off, for sure, but Watson leads the way...
-l
It might if it's getting the channel's feed in the background. It is annoying though. They really ought to consider a "just the listings, I don't want to see the channel at the same time" option. That would be a TON faster.
-l
Ha! That gives me an idea: an introvert holiday. One day a year, introverts nag their coworkers with minute trivia from their favorite hobbies.
"So, I was assembling raw images from Hubble using Photoshop. You have to use these filters for each one and combine them into layers. No, hear me out, this is great. This plug-in requires... but then I had to recompile the drivers... registry settings... HKLM/... and that's how I discovered my first asteroid, though it's more of a large rock, really."
"Let me tell you about how I recycle aluminum to make shafts for various tools in my garage."
"Last week, I was tracking down this data corruption bug in XFS that only manifests in Power PC systems."
-l
No kidding. Though I have to say, with the crappy connections I've been getting at home and at work, I've started to take seriously the idea of having a gsm-to-internet gateway (femtocell) in my home. The AT&T MicroCell pricing is terrible, though. I understand paying for the box, but they should not be billing against your minutes for using the thing. At minimum, they should not bill you nearly as much.
-l
No kidding. Just drop those things off at the used media store and use them to fund a Netflix account for awhile. They don't always have everything (Fear of a Black Hat, Akira, and some others), but for most people, they've got you covered.
-l
They mailed in the receipt, the UPC from the box, and the required form and expect an 8 - 10 week turnaround on the $30 check. There is an optional Visa gift card option, but it reduces the total value to $22, so they opted for the check.
-l
1) If you could globally reduce the amount of sugar in treats, you'd reduce the caloric intake.
2) Fatty liver deposits are different from general fat deposits. The article is specifically addressing fatty liver deposits.
3) Requiring glucose instead of fructose sweetening for prepackaged treats would go a long way. I would argue it would go further because people who wanted "the good stuff" would have to buy from a baker or make stuff themselves and once you start cooking, you're more likely to start thinking more about what you're eating.
$0.02USD,
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P.s., I'm the skinny nerd type, but I've been gaining some weight in my thirties. Having a sugar-addicted wife does not help at all. If it were up to me, we'd have treats once a month, because it's hard to refuse when it's right in front of you (like cigarettes, though I don't smoke).
Heh, no kidding. Every time I see it in dselect (shut up, I'm old), I think "What's lib reoffice, oh wait, that's libre office".
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I can see how some games would be awesome on a pad and others would be beyond horrible (twitchy FPS). If nothing else, it could make that evil arrow/slingshot minigame in Ocarina of Time easy as pie... My Wii classic controller is way too underutilized to be loose enough to do well at that game.
-l
Yeah, and if they can make Ocarina of Time for N64 not crap all over itself on my Nintendo-branded SD card, then I'll be happy.
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/bitter
//not really
///gave up and made room on the console, but it's still irritating as crap.
Thanks, I was going to mention that. It is cool to have included citations be actually drawn from the original documents and not inside a frame. I also like that it would be easier to integrate with email (webmail, anyway). You could forget about privacy, though, because you would be tracked by every transclusion in every email and website. And Astley/goatse would still be a problem. I suppose you could have a "Load Transclusions" button that would obey a blacklist/whitelist feature (and firewalling, of course).
As mentioned elsewhere, this would be a great way to distribute trojans and viruses. Just visit some popular Internet forums and include your overflow/injection/whatever code inline. Boom, instant spreading, and they don't even have to specifically click your site.
[insert bears repeating pic here]
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Thanks, I came to say something similar to your first paragraph which is arguably the most important reason as far as politicians care.
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It happened to me last weekend. A woman posing as "Linda Wilson" called AT&T to cancel our phone service. She had enough info to get the rep to believe she could cancel the account. She hung up in the middle of the call when asked to verify the address on the account and the rep tried calling all the numbers on the account to reach her. (The rep didn't ask for any info so he wasn't phishing me. A call to 611 confirmed what he said.)
I don't know if it's Epsilon or the fact that we applied for a couple of credit cards recently or just a random breach. But, phishing/social engineering happen all the time.
For safe measure, we changed our account info and put a fraud alert on our credit reports.
-l
The lack of caps
It's also the best thing about "Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl".
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I think the kid's original point — lost in the article by the clueless writer — is that enough time hasn't passed for stars to have created all of it. In that case, you'd have to get it from the big bang and he thinks that's impossible.
Prima facie, it seems a reasonable approach for an argument but without a Real Paper[tm] it's just angels on the head of a pin.
Having said that, I agree with you that he is probably reinventing the wheel here and perhaps a few lectures and some reading could help him get a little further along in finding avenues for original research.
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There's probably some gold in there somewhere. "Alien Thrift Fashions" and "Fix That House, Alien Abductor!"
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c = (e/m)^.5
I like to use fractional powers to mess with kids.
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I just hope this big bang debunking thing doesn't turn into a conspiracy theory thing that drives him into insanity (like Bobby Fischer).
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He watches documentaries on the History Channel.
The state of journalism these days. Don't they ever check facts anymore? The History Channel is the bible/alien abduction channel, not the documentary channel.
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/Yeah, yeah, sarcasm.
I had considered that but given how far you were from the quote on the second line, I didn't think you meant it.
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Indeed. The only thing I would like more is some threshold settings that work for me. I only want to read 30 or so comments per article, but threaded for handiness. Usually, I just pick a points level that corresponds to that value. I'd rather that be done for me.
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