That definition is ok but pretty vague. Here's a better one. In 3 words too: "Life is membrane+metabolism+genetics". Meaning it has a way to separate the self from the outside, a way to consume food and a way to reproduce nearly identical.
I'm not sure what you mean, but doing the following brings basically the same results:
$ sudo aptitude show ubuntu-restricted-extras Package: ubuntu-restricted-extras New: yes State: not installed Version: 56 Priority: optional Section: multiverse/metapackages Maintainer: Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 36.9 k Depends: ubuntu-restricted-addons Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer, unrar, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse, libavcodec-extra-53 Conflicts: ubuntu-restricted-extras Description: Commonly used restricted packages for Ubuntu This package depends on some commonly used packages in the Ubuntu multiverse repository.
Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding, support for various other audio formats (GStreamer plugins), Microsoft fonts, Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, LAME (to create compressed audio files), and DVD playback.
$ sudo aptitude show kubuntu-restricted-extras Package: kubuntu-restricted-extras New: yes State: not installed Version: 56 Priority: optional Section: multiverse/metapackages Maintainer: Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 36.9 k Depends: kubuntu-restricted-addons Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse, libavcodec-extra-53, libmp3lame0, unrar, ttf-mscorefonts-installer, lame Conflicts: kubuntu-restricted-extras Description: Commonly used restricted packages for Kubuntu This package depends on some commonly used packages in the Kubuntu multiverse repository.
Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding, Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, DVD playback, and LAME (to create compressed audio files).
The first Kubuntu to feature KDE 4 was a bit clunky, but it improved after that and has been rather flawless lately. Except for the 11.10 dist upgrade which forced kmail2 onto us. And it completely broke existing kmail installs (loss of all messages, loss of all contacts, impossible or very difficult to reimport and fails to work properly when installed from scratch anyway). And I've tried to upgrade 3 different machines with the same failures every time.
That's a valid question. What is the difference between an Ubuntu-integrated KDE (called Kubuntu) and having KDE as a standard optional package. Anything extra ? Anything missing (like regular KDE improvements/bug fixes) ? I've been using Kubuntu for 4 years at home and work and I don't even know.
Your family don't REALLY use their computers I take it.
If by 'using' you mean that they don't run viruses and botnets and norton on them 24/7, then, no I guess they don't. As for browsing / email / scanning / file management / photo edit and a few other things, it works as expected.
See, that's the problem. Any scientist that questions it is immediately deemed unqualified or even unethical simply because they have bothered to question it.
Wrong. Just go to a climate science meeting and you'll see them debate / argue / fight over endlessly about some constant value, whether or not some model is better than the other, etc... They certainly do NOT all agree with each others. But they are qualified to debate the issue at hand atmospheric physics), unless denialists who failed high school maths or work for political 'think' tanks.
Yeah, I use kubuntu and set it up on every family member PC. It combines a standard UI (KDE) which isn't traumatic to ex-Windows users and the power of Ubuntu repositories. So I'm saddened by this news. I hope development keeps on.
Yes, I do find it ironic that the first thing I write this morning as I get out of bed is a comment on an ancient social media website about the addictiveness of social media website. There's probably a lesson to be learned here but I gotta go check facebook and boing and...
Right on the money. Read the various blog entries on the OKCupid dating site, in particular this one with the curve showing exactly what you just said. Their statisticians are really good at extracting meaning from their mass of user stats.
Indeed, India is currently running a big media circus of purchasing over a 130 Rafale fighter planes from France, where all the politicians today are running around like maniacs creaming their pants in delight. It's probably just an way to tell Russia or the US to provide similar planes at a 30% discount. As usual.
As usual reading Neil Stephenson is spot on for the average geek: Interface is about a slightly 'enhanced' presidential candidate that is the _perfect_ shill for big business.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but it's the 1st time I hear of RFID credit card. WTF thought that this would be a good idea ? Is it a US only thing ? If so it means that the US went from (easy to copy) magnetic only credit cards to (easy to copy) RFID cards without the intermediate step of (hard to copy) chip card which are in use everywhere else. I knew that at the begining it was to avoid paying royalties to the french inventor, but come on, the patent has now expired, get on with it !
Yeah, I can't memorize, but organic chemistry was easy--once you learn a few principles, there's very little memorization. Biochem is (mostly) just the opposite.
Woah, maybe you chould teach others about it. I failed organic chemistry completely as I could not figure any sense out of it and all I could do was try to memorize everything. Every molecule was different, with different reactions, which were again different depending on the reactants. Fail.
I would assert that any complex physical skill like dancing, tennis, martial arts, etc. is a learning process, you can not interleave
That may be true for physical activities, but for studies where you actually have to use your brain, interleaving fields is productive. Higher maths is pretty dry and you often don't see the point. Unless you do physics at the same time where you can see those maths applied. And you cannot do the physics alone because then you don't have a good grasp of the maths involved. And doing any science without epistemiology make you miss all the 'why are things this way in this field'. Etc...
So you find it normal to get all worked up when a boob appears for a split second on TV but you object to trying to limit the amount of extreme violence and racism shown to kids. Man you have issues.
New Scientist is possibly the best popular science magazine available. Scientific American is pretty good too, but doesn't have the same coverage because it's monthly, while NS is weekly.
I'll add fuel on the "my country is better than yours" trollfest going on here and use you example. Although I can read english, I prefer the french edition of Scientific American to the original one. The reason is that they add a whole bunch of great articles about scientific cooking, economy [the guy can dismember the 'trickle down' theory in one sentence], theorical computing [the guy who writes the monthly article is a genius at making cutting edge maths seem simple]. So it goes along with the original post.
For instance, the hallucinogenic drugs like LSD were found in mushrooms, and used there, but there was no process for extracting just the drug. Similarly, cocaine was a more refined version of opium,
LSD is a synthetic drug which has nothing to do with 'shrooms. And cocaine is (still) extracted from coca leaves. Heroine comes from opium which comes from poppy. Maybe you should take less drugs and get your facts straight. With 2 errors already on the 1st line, I'm not going to read the rest of your post.
Weddings are for the bridge and groom.
Wedding receptions are for the friends and family.
Well said. Particularly if the parents are the ones paying, THEY get to decide how things go. My father drove home that point when we didn't want anything formal and basically just wanted to invite plenty of friends for a WE of partying...
Have you told firefox not to remember all your downloads indefinately?
I can see the option to clear recent history, and IIRC a max period for retaining the history in old versions, but I cannot find the setting right now. Where is it ?!?
I have the latest 9.0.1 and it behaves exactly as he describes on all my systems (also 8Gb or RAM, different processors). With 100 tabs open I need to kill and restart about every 4 hours or it's not usable.
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That definition is ok but pretty vague. Here's a better one. In 3 words too: "Life is membrane+metabolism+genetics". Meaning it has a way to separate the self from the outside, a way to consume food and a way to reproduce nearly identical.
The first Kubuntu to feature KDE 4 was a bit clunky, but it improved after that and has been rather flawless lately. Except for the 11.10 dist upgrade which forced kmail2 onto us. And it completely broke existing kmail installs (loss of all messages, loss of all contacts, impossible or very difficult to reimport and fails to work properly when installed from scratch anyway). And I've tried to upgrade 3 different machines with the same failures every time.
That's a valid question. What is the difference between an Ubuntu-integrated KDE (called Kubuntu) and having KDE as a standard optional package. Anything extra ? Anything missing (like regular KDE improvements/bug fixes) ? I've been using Kubuntu for 4 years at home and work and I don't even know.
Your family don't REALLY use their computers I take it.
If by 'using' you mean that they don't run viruses and botnets and norton on them 24/7, then, no I guess they don't. As for browsing / email / scanning / file management / photo edit and a few other things, it works as expected.
See, that's the problem. Any scientist that questions it is immediately deemed unqualified or even unethical simply because they have bothered to question it.
Wrong. Just go to a climate science meeting and you'll see them debate / argue / fight over endlessly about some constant value, whether or not some model is better than the other, etc... They certainly do NOT all agree with each others. But they are qualified to debate the issue at hand atmospheric physics), unless denialists who failed high school maths or work for political 'think' tanks.
Yeah, I use kubuntu and set it up on every family member PC. It combines a standard UI (KDE) which isn't traumatic to ex-Windows users and the power of Ubuntu repositories. So I'm saddened by this news. I hope development keeps on.
Yes, I do find it ironic that the first thing I write this morning as I get out of bed is a comment on an ancient social media website about the addictiveness of social media website. There's probably a lesson to be learned here but I gotta go check facebook and boing and...
Right on the money. Read the various blog entries on the OKCupid dating site, in particular this one with the curve showing exactly what you just said. Their statisticians are really good at extracting meaning from their mass of user stats.
These articles will avoid mathematical notation in favor of Perl 5.
I'm not so sure it's an improvement... but thanks, it's an interesting article. I'm parsing it right now.
Hey, I had to use suffer using perl for a year ! Can I get 2$ for a beer too ?
Sorry, I'm not very good at trolling...
Indeed, India is currently running a big media circus of purchasing over a 130 Rafale fighter planes from France, where all the politicians today are running around like maniacs creaming their pants in delight. It's probably just an way to tell Russia or the US to provide similar planes at a 30% discount. As usual.
As usual reading Neil Stephenson is spot on for the average geek: Interface is about a slightly 'enhanced' presidential candidate that is the _perfect_ shill for big business.
You'll see security agencies beginning to see this as a threat when they start carrying sensors capable of detecting infrared lasers.
No, the easy way to defeat those 'intelligent' bullets is to have a bunch of 5$ IR laser pointers pointing at random objects in the garden.
Yeah, that and a way to tell some apps to only use wifi when available and never 3G.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but it's the 1st time I hear of RFID credit card. WTF thought that this would be a good idea ? Is it a US only thing ? If so it means that the US went from (easy to copy) magnetic only credit cards to (easy to copy) RFID cards without the intermediate step of (hard to copy) chip card which are in use everywhere else. I knew that at the begining it was to avoid paying royalties to the french inventor, but come on, the patent has now expired, get on with it !
Yeah, I can't memorize, but organic chemistry was easy--once you learn a few principles, there's very little memorization. Biochem is (mostly) just the opposite.
Woah, maybe you chould teach others about it. I failed organic chemistry completely as I could not figure any sense out of it and all I could do was try to memorize everything. Every molecule was different, with different reactions, which were again different depending on the reactants. Fail.
I would assert that any complex physical skill like dancing, tennis, martial arts, etc. is a learning process, you can not interleave
That may be true for physical activities, but for studies where you actually have to use your brain, interleaving fields is productive. Higher maths is pretty dry and you often don't see the point. Unless you do physics at the same time where you can see those maths applied. And you cannot do the physics alone because then you don't have a good grasp of the maths involved. And doing any science without epistemiology make you miss all the 'why are things this way in this field'. Etc...
So you find it normal to get all worked up when a boob appears for a split second on TV but you object to trying to limit the amount of extreme violence and racism shown to kids. Man you have issues.
New Scientist is possibly the best popular science magazine available. Scientific American is pretty good too, but doesn't have the same coverage because it's monthly, while NS is weekly.
I'll add fuel on the "my country is better than yours" trollfest going on here and use you example. Although I can read english, I prefer the french edition of Scientific American to the original one. The reason is that they add a whole bunch of great articles about scientific cooking, economy [the guy can dismember the 'trickle down' theory in one sentence], theorical computing [the guy who writes the monthly article is a genius at making cutting edge maths seem simple]. So it goes along with the original post.
For instance, the hallucinogenic drugs like LSD were found in mushrooms, and used there, but there was no process for extracting just the drug. Similarly, cocaine was a more refined version of opium,
LSD is a synthetic drug which has nothing to do with 'shrooms. And cocaine is (still) extracted from coca leaves. Heroine comes from opium which comes from poppy. Maybe you should take less drugs and get your facts straight. With 2 errors already on the 1st line, I'm not going to read the rest of your post.
Weddings are for the bridge and groom. Wedding receptions are for the friends and family.
Well said. Particularly if the parents are the ones paying, THEY get to decide how things go. My father drove home that point when we didn't want anything formal and basically just wanted to invite plenty of friends for a WE of partying...
I wonder how many backdoors he still has in place. BTW, why doesn't /. raise money by selling his #1 account ID on eBay ?!?
Have you told firefox not to remember all your downloads indefinately?
I can see the option to clear recent history, and IIRC a max period for retaining the history in old versions, but I cannot find the setting right now. Where is it ?!?
I have the latest 9.0.1 and it behaves exactly as he describes on all my systems (also 8Gb or RAM, different processors). With 100 tabs open I need to kill and restart about every 4 hours or it's not usable.