This is very true. I wonder if CTRL-C can be interecepted by user-mode programs. It might pay to hit CTRL-C a couple of times before logging in to a Linux box.
Really? They figured out that they need to click on a picture of a deformed foot to get at their programs quicker than those presented with the word "Start" in the same place?
Now they'll just tell me I need to go for a swim. I don't think they'll *ever* get around to fixing this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side.
What outdated ideas, exactly? You mean the right to discipline (not abuse, discipline) our own kids?
My whackjob government is currently trying to push through legislation that would make any use of force into a criminal offence. Pull little Jimmy out of the way of a speeding car or hot stove, or spank him for beating up his little cousin and you're up for child abuse. This is what CPS seem to have a complete lack of ability to discern. Do you have any idea what kind of hell loving parents go through when some nutter abducts their kid (with the blessing of the government) because they locked him in his room for 5 minutes? If they're lucky they might get supervised monthly visits until he leaves school.
How many children die each year from car accidents? Shopping trolleys? Meningitis? Perhaps we'd better keep them in a cotton-wool box until they turn 21. Better yet, let's just give them to the government to raise.
If one can be trained to type using this method, with connections being made between the language center and the part of the brain that controls this, this could lead to some interesting research. I wonder if this process would become automatic, not requiring conscious thought to route language to the new location.
If so, what would we see by putting one of these devices on a trained subject who was asleep? Might one be able to read what text is occuring in their dreams? This could open up a whole new field of research. Of course it might be linked closer to motor neurons, which are mostly disengaged during sleep, making any such study infeasible.
I agree with you in the spirit of what you're trying to say, but do bear in mind that while you undoubtedly survived that era there were a lot who didn't.
I'm often intrigued when my grandfather recalls how many people he knew never saw adulthood. I wonder how their parents looked back on that era in later years?
I'm not saying I'm happy with todays cotton-wool nanny-state policies but there really are two sides to most stories.
I don't know, but I've suspected for some time that my 2 year old has access to some hitherto unencountered energy source. And yes, I have considered connecting him to some kind of generator and retiring.
I think you've nailed it there. That demonstrates why companies like McDonalds focus on the experience rather than the food in their advertising, and it's working.
Except that neither DVD-Audio or SACD gives appreciably better sound quality for an undiscerning ear, whereas the picture from a Blu-Ray disc is instantly recognised as better than the incumbant (DVD) by any Joe Sixpack with more than zero eyes.
I'm guessing you've never actually seen Blu-Ray content displayed on an HD TV yet.
Amen to that. I've been using Flashblock ever since it's been available and it's my #1 addon by far.
In this case though it's not flash content that's causing my problem, since Flashblock has put laid to that. The only other addon I use heavily is Tab Mix Plus, which I still prefer to the FF2.0 session manager.
Or even better, how much memory/CPU a given tab is using. I often have upwards of 120 tabs open in any given session, and any one of them could be causing the 99% processor usage I often see.
So what? Most PC hardware is designed specifically for some Microsoft software (DOS, Windows 95, Windows XP) and has been for the last 20 years. Doesn't stop you accessing that technology with a Linux kernel.
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This is very true. I wonder if CTRL-C can be interecepted by user-mode programs. It might pay to hit CTRL-C a couple of times before logging in to a Linux box.
No, they'll typically start with Minitab or SPSS and eventually move up to R or SAS.
Definitely typecast. I keep expecting him to blurt out "Hoorah!" after each sarcastic witticism.
What happened to season 30 or whatever the current ones are up to? I'm pretty sure season 4 was wrapped up pretty well back in the '60s or whenever.
Really? They figured out that they need to click on a picture of a deformed foot to get at their programs quicker than those presented with the word "Start" in the same place?
That's kind of like saying Lynx is better than Firefox because it *only* displays text from web pages, and does it well.
I'm reminded of Young Einstein walking (waltzing?) into the Australian patent office trying to get a patent for E=MC^2:
"You have to have an invention to patent an invention!"
"But it's all in my head"
"Well what do you wish us to do sir? Patent your head?"
They had the right idea.
Now they'll just tell me I need to go for a swim.
I don't think they'll *ever* get around to fixing this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side.
What outdated ideas, exactly? You mean the right to discipline (not abuse, discipline) our own kids?
My whackjob government is currently trying to push through legislation that would make any use of force into a criminal offence. Pull little Jimmy out of the way of a speeding car or hot stove, or spank him for beating up his little cousin and you're up for child abuse. This is what CPS seem to have a complete lack of ability to discern. Do you have any idea what kind of hell loving parents go through when some nutter abducts their kid (with the blessing of the government) because they locked him in his room for 5 minutes? If they're lucky they might get supervised monthly visits until he leaves school.
How many children die each year from car accidents? Shopping trolleys? Meningitis? Perhaps we'd better keep them in a cotton-wool box until they turn 21. Better yet, let's just give them to the government to raise.
I had thought that 911 staff had been told not to give any advice on compression ratios, through fear of being sued.
Or is that just an urban myth?
If one can be trained to type using this method, with connections being made between the language center and the part of the brain that controls this, this could lead to some interesting research. I wonder if this process would become automatic, not requiring conscious thought to route language to the new location.
If so, what would we see by putting one of these devices on a trained subject who was asleep? Might one be able to read what text is occuring in their dreams? This could open up a whole new field of research. Of course it might be linked closer to motor neurons, which are mostly disengaged during sleep, making any such study infeasible.
I agree with you in the spirit of what you're trying to say, but do bear in mind that while you undoubtedly survived that era there were a lot who didn't.
I'm often intrigued when my grandfather recalls how many people he knew never saw adulthood. I wonder how their parents looked back on that era in later years?
I'm not saying I'm happy with todays cotton-wool nanny-state policies but there really are two sides to most stories.
I'm pretty sure the parent post wasn't trying to be funny. Pretty much the entire rest of the world enjoys better tasting Coke than the US.
The only problem is that you'd have to convince everyone to do it at once. Otherwise the old excuse becomes just too easy:
I can't let junior out on a bike; there's too many damned dangerous SUVs out there on the road.
I don't know, but I've suspected for some time that my 2 year old has access to some hitherto unencountered energy source. And yes, I have considered connecting him to some kind of generator and retiring.
I think you've nailed it there. That demonstrates why companies like McDonalds focus on the experience rather than the food in their advertising, and it's working.
Except that neither DVD-Audio or SACD gives appreciably better sound quality for an undiscerning ear, whereas the picture from a Blu-Ray disc is instantly recognised as better than the incumbant (DVD) by any Joe Sixpack with more than zero eyes.
I'm guessing you've never actually seen Blu-Ray content displayed on an HD TV yet.
Fully testing a distribution on a given piece of hardware probably takes a man-month.
Nah, that's just a myth.
Yes, but you're never going to make that particular group of Linux users happy.
And these days Microsoft will try and sell it to you as a new thing.
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No, you won't.
You'll only start caring once they come after *you*.
Amen to that. I've been using Flashblock ever since it's been available and it's my #1 addon by far.
In this case though it's not flash content that's causing my problem, since Flashblock has put laid to that. The only other addon I use heavily is Tab Mix Plus, which I still prefer to the FF2.0 session manager.
Or even better, how much memory/CPU a given tab is using. I often have upwards of 120 tabs open in any given session, and any one of them could be causing the 99% processor usage I often see.
So what? Most PC hardware is designed specifically for some Microsoft software (DOS, Windows 95, Windows XP) and has been for the last 20 years. Doesn't stop you accessing that technology with a Linux kernel.
You wouldn't tie the dynamo to a wheel; you'd apply it to the brakes.
See regenerative braking.