Actually, Romulan redshirts (or their low-rank equivalent) wore shiny helmets in the TOS timeline. If hand-to-hand combat happens, the humans won't necessarily see any of the distinguishing features (like Vulcan-like pointy ears, for example:))
On the other hand, Star Trek X pissed on the Romulan canon so badly that I have given up any hope of the proud race of Romulans ever being represented in their full TOS-era glory again.
I believe that they will turn Romulans into some kind of Al-Qaeda terrorist organisation which kills civilisations for fun, hey that brings in money these days:-(
As a musician, it is hard not to copy, not to realize that I have just dreged up a Led Zepplin riff from the back of my mind. Often, it is impossible not to copy to some degree. There are only so many ways to play 'something in D minor that sounds scary'.
In fact, Paul McCartney was convinced that 'Yesterday' was a ripoff of something else. It turns out that it wasn't, but how can you ever be sure?
I think there is a difference between feeling outrage (which basically every Muslim I know does) and being put under the spotlight and forced to apologise for being a Muslim, which some people seem to advocate. The second is nothing but a form of racist discrimination which holds a whole culture directly responsible for the actions of a few.
It's good that you feel outrage over the Iraqi prisoner mess. But I don't hold you personally responsible for it. Some people, on the other hand, seem to hold every Muslim responsible whenever some idiot does something. They don't consider that there are well over a billion Muslims out there who aren't terrorists and don't intend to become one either.
When the 2.0 GHz G5s first came out, there were some benchmarks (done by Apple, admittedly) that showed them beating the 3.0 GHz Pentiums. I'd assume that the new 2.5 GHz G5s are competitive with the latest Athlons/P4s. The G5s are a lot more efficient than G4s and the Pentium4s are much LESS efficient than PentiumIII.
Sure it's not trivial, but it can certainly be done. Look at NUMA, XFS and JFS for example. They were all taken from enterprise-level systems and bolted onto Linux, with great success.
Windows simply annoy me. 5 minutes in front of a Windows computer and I start perspirating. I realise that not everybody shares this sentiment, and that many consider it user friendly, but for me it simply isn't. And I've used every version since 3.0 (started on DOS 3.3). I've just noticed that, ever since I switched to Linux, I enjoy using my computer much more than before.
Linux can sometimes be painful, but it's always fun, and logical thinking can get you to a solution most of the time. Using Windows feels like a chore. It feels like trying to run with one eye closed and both your legs in casts.
Because hey got on the IBM bandwagon back when even IBM had no idea how large the PC phenomenon would become. From then on, it was the success of the PC that drove them forward. All MS has done since is to sit on their monopoly and thwart competition.
Actually, the Java Desktop is a Linux distro running GNOME. That's the only GPL part there is (and it has no connection to Java other than coming with a Java VM).
The real question is: Why would somebody who is confused about select-to-copy be using an Xlib-based program in the first place? I mean, if you are teaching a confused Windows convert to use Xfig, then you have other problems besides cut/paste:P
A lot of your concerns have to do with using antiquated software. There are a gazillion of terminal emulators beside xterm and many modern apps for just about any purpose.
I don't know what you're using now, but try installing a modern distro (or using something like knoppix) with the latest KDE or GNOME and use some modern apps (like konsole). CTRL-C works, you can choose your look and feel (works across all apps as long as you stick to your desktop environment) and set up the behaviour exactly the way you want it.
You seem to insist on using archaic programs (some of it even closed source) and see it as a linux/X problem that they are stuck in the 80s. If xterm doesn't function properly for you, use something that does. Basically, you are your own problem.
Yes, there is a solution. It's called KDE and has implemented what you wanted since KDE 3.0. If you don't like the old X way of copy/paste, then don't use it. Use a modern desktop environment, they all provide copy/paste functionality you are used to.
Err, why should he complain to all these people when all of them work correctly on this issue? In either KDE or GNOME, CTRL-C and CTRL-V work as expected and do not interfere with the mouse selection. So if you want to CTRL-C and CTRL-V your urls, there's nothing stopping you (NO, the mouse selection will not interfere with CTRL-V because they use different buffers). The whole topic is an uninformed troll.
Not so easy. Highlight-middle-click only works for text, but people nowadays cut and paste a lot more than text. The primary buffer used for text is nice, but it's not a solution for everything.
The solution for everything is the clipboard buffer which is used by KDE/GNOME/any sane application. This is used for copying everything (including text) and usually uses the CTRL-C/CTRL-V combination. This way you have your highlight-and-paste action for quick things and the manual copy/paste for everything else. The only reason they interfere with each other (cause they shouldn't) is buggy apps. With recent desktop environments it shouldn't be an issue at all.
Thousands of tonnes of good food -- meat, fruits, vegetables, wheat products -- get thrown out of large supermarket chains EVERY DAY. Much of this food comes from underdeveloped countries -- the same countries which are starving -- only to end up in western countries' rubbish. WalMart and friends can pay much more for food than a starving population, even if they end up throwing that food away.
With all due respect to sir Occam, the solution which appears to be the simplest is not always the simplest, simply because there is so much we don't know. Especially about black holes, missing matter, unified field theory and such fundamental questions.
I mean, a proton was such a lovely, simple thing, before they went ahead and turned it into a gazzilion complicated nonsensical sub-particles:-)
Actually, it's not such a ridiculous statement. I remember reading in a popular science book (can't remember if it was "Brief History of Time" or "In Search of the Big Bang") that some scientists are speculating about the existence of ultra-small black holes to 'solve' the problem of missing matter. Such "mini black holes" would not be a product of stars collapsing.
Unfortunately, I cannot remember more, just that Hawking himself considered it a possibility. He pondered about using them in place of power plants:-)
I don't think you can take a guy who spent most of his life surrounded by other Monty Python characters (and drew THOSE animations) as representative of anything, really.
120-odd million dollars worth of tickets disagree with you.
And 200-odd million dollars worth of tickets bought to go and see "American pie 7: More sex and penis jokes (and some old favorites)" guarantee that it's one of the most subtle and quality movies out there:-)
This is the television which reported that the Bosnian muslims shot grenades at themselves during the Sarajevo market massacre, just so they could blame the Serbian military. They also reported that Croatians were shooting down Dubrovnik walls with heavy artillery (UNESCO protected heritage site) just so they could blame the Serbian military. This is the same TV stations which constantly referred to Madeleine Albright as a "fat vampire witch", and had similar objective nicknames for all the NATO personalities.
You should know better than to accept their reports as evidence without a rather large grain of salt. I am not denying that NATO did indeed hit some civilian objects during their raids (Chinese embassy springs to mind), but Milosevic-era TV is well known for making things up.
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Actually, Romulan redshirts (or their low-rank equivalent) wore shiny helmets in the TOS timeline. If hand-to-hand combat happens, the humans won't necessarily see any of the distinguishing features (like Vulcan-like pointy ears, for example :))
:-(
On the other hand, Star Trek X pissed on the Romulan canon so badly that I have given up any hope of the proud race of Romulans ever being represented in their full TOS-era glory again.
I believe that they will turn Romulans into some kind of Al-Qaeda terrorist organisation which kills civilisations for fun, hey that brings in money these days
As a musician, it is hard not to copy, not to realize that I have just dreged up a Led Zepplin riff from the back of my mind. Often, it is impossible not to copy to some degree. There are only so many ways to play 'something in D minor that sounds scary'.
In fact, Paul McCartney was convinced that 'Yesterday' was a ripoff of something else. It turns out that it wasn't, but how can you ever be sure?
I think there is a difference between feeling outrage (which basically every Muslim I know does) and being put under the spotlight and forced to apologise for being a Muslim, which some people seem to advocate. The second is nothing but a form of racist discrimination which holds a whole culture directly responsible for the actions of a few.
It's good that you feel outrage over the Iraqi prisoner mess. But I don't hold you personally responsible for it. Some people, on the other hand, seem to hold every Muslim responsible whenever some idiot does something. They don't consider that there are well over a billion Muslims out there who aren't terrorists and don't intend to become one either.
When the 2.0 GHz G5s first came out, there were some benchmarks (done by Apple, admittedly) that showed them beating the 3.0 GHz Pentiums. I'd assume that the new 2.5 GHz G5s are competitive with the latest Athlons/P4s. The G5s are a lot more efficient than G4s and the Pentium4s are much LESS efficient than PentiumIII.
Sure it's not trivial, but it can certainly be done. Look at NUMA, XFS and JFS for example. They were all taken from enterprise-level systems and bolted onto Linux, with great success.
+5, Insightful!
Windows simply annoy me. 5 minutes in front of a Windows computer and I start perspirating. I realise that not everybody shares this sentiment, and that many consider it user friendly, but for me it simply isn't. And I've used every version since 3.0 (started on DOS 3.3). I've just noticed that, ever since I switched to Linux, I enjoy using my computer much more than before.
Linux can sometimes be painful, but it's always fun, and logical thinking can get you to a solution most of the time. Using Windows feels like a chore. It feels like trying to run with one eye closed and both your legs in casts.
They do. I use nvidia drivers myself and haven't had any glitches at all yet after switching.
As for what they will support, nobody knows that for sure, but I'm guessing that they'll stick with what the majority is using (i.e. X.org)
Because hey got on the IBM bandwagon back when even IBM had no idea how large the PC phenomenon would become. From then on, it was the success of the PC that drove them forward. All MS has done since is to sit on their monopoly and thwart competition.
Simply test all messages against a regular dictionary and flag anything with too high a percentage of misspellings as probable spam.
:-)
Now run the same test on an average Slashdot page. Any conclusions?
Actually, the Java Desktop is a Linux distro running GNOME. That's the only GPL part there is (and it has no connection to Java other than coming with a Java VM).
The real question is: Why would somebody who is confused about select-to-copy be using an Xlib-based program in the first place? I mean, if you are teaching a confused Windows convert to use Xfig, then you have other problems besides cut/paste :P
KGhostView. KPDF might work for PS as well, never tried.
A lot of your concerns have to do with using antiquated software. There are a gazillion of terminal emulators beside xterm and many modern apps for just about any purpose.
I don't know what you're using now, but try installing a modern distro (or using something like knoppix) with the latest KDE or GNOME and use some modern apps (like konsole). CTRL-C works, you can choose your look and feel (works across all apps as long as you stick to your desktop environment) and set up the behaviour exactly the way you want it.
You seem to insist on using archaic programs (some of it even closed source) and see it as a linux/X problem that they are stuck in the 80s. If xterm doesn't function properly for you, use something that does. Basically, you are your own problem.
Yes, there is a solution. It's called KDE and has implemented what you wanted since KDE 3.0. If you don't like the old X way of copy/paste, then don't use it. Use a modern desktop environment, they all provide copy/paste functionality you are used to.
Err, why should he complain to all these people when all of them work correctly on this issue? In either KDE or GNOME, CTRL-C and CTRL-V work as expected and do not interfere with the mouse selection. So if you want to CTRL-C and CTRL-V your urls, there's nothing stopping you (NO, the mouse selection will not interfere with CTRL-V because they use different buffers). The whole topic is an uninformed troll.
Not so easy. Highlight-middle-click only works for text, but people nowadays cut and paste a lot more than text. The primary buffer used for text is nice, but it's not a solution for everything.
The solution for everything is the clipboard buffer which is used by KDE/GNOME/any sane application. This is used for copying everything (including text) and usually uses the CTRL-C/CTRL-V combination. This way you have your highlight-and-paste action for quick things and the manual copy/paste for everything else. The only reason they interfere with each other (cause they shouldn't) is buggy apps. With recent desktop environments it shouldn't be an issue at all.
Mod parent up!
Thousands of tonnes of good food -- meat, fruits, vegetables, wheat products -- get thrown out of large supermarket chains EVERY DAY. Much of this food comes from underdeveloped countries -- the same countries which are starving -- only to end up in western countries' rubbish. WalMart and friends can pay much more for food than a starving population, even if they end up throwing that food away.
The singular form of 'alumni' is alumnus.
With all due respect to sir Occam, the solution which appears to be the simplest is not always the simplest, simply because there is so much we don't know. Especially about black holes, missing matter, unified field theory and such fundamental questions.
:-)
I mean, a proton was such a lovely, simple thing, before they went ahead and turned it into a gazzilion complicated nonsensical sub-particles
Man, this has all the makings of a Gary Larson cartoon!
Actually, it's not such a ridiculous statement. I remember reading in a popular science book (can't remember if it was "Brief History of Time" or "In Search of the Big Bang") that some scientists are speculating about the existence of ultra-small black holes to 'solve' the problem of missing matter. Such "mini black holes" would not be a product of stars collapsing.
:-)
Unfortunately, I cannot remember more, just that Hawking himself considered it a possibility. He pondered about using them in place of power plants
I don't think you can take a guy who spent most of his life surrounded by other Monty Python characters (and drew THOSE animations) as representative of anything, really.
Not really. The PDA itself is free, the $699 are for the SCO Linux license.
120-odd million dollars worth of tickets disagree with you.
:-)
And 200-odd million dollars worth of tickets bought to go and see "American pie 7: More sex and penis jokes (and some old favorites)" guarantee that it's one of the most subtle and quality movies out there
This is the television which reported that the Bosnian muslims shot grenades at themselves during the Sarajevo market massacre, just so they could blame the Serbian military. They also reported that Croatians were shooting down Dubrovnik walls with heavy artillery (UNESCO protected heritage site) just so they could blame the Serbian military. This is the same TV stations which constantly referred to Madeleine Albright as a "fat vampire witch", and had similar objective nicknames for all the NATO personalities.
You should know better than to accept their reports as evidence without a rather large grain of salt. I am not denying that NATO did indeed hit some civilian objects during their raids (Chinese embassy springs to mind), but Milosevic-era TV is well known for making things up.