OR, a specifically-non-retarded distro. One that allows easy resolution of such annoyances. Package systems should only automatize the process that you would do yourself - if I want mp3 decoder, I'll download it. And I want it automatically done so long as there is one legal source of said decoder on the Internet.
I've been explaining to people how Wikipedia is not inaccurate, as any controversial topic shows a history of changes, often replete with links that can serve as additional help in understanding the topic and how it's seen in different cultures, among people belonging to different fractions and so on - but apparently asking an encyclopedia user to read the content that is not a single version of the article "published" at the moment it's read is a big, big problem.
Gentoo has jpg as a USE flag for Krita (I always check them out and always do USE="-arts" for KDE apps). I don't know about Fedora, though... Maybe it's time for a distro change?
Why would anyone steal the elections by miscalibrating the touchscreen? It shows, it produces news reports, it's messy. The elections can be stolen, it's been demonstrated pretty convincingly, without anyone registering anything. Oh, and this.
Don't knock it, I've been a loyal customer of the Bank of Ameriuca for three days. They've given me life insurance dirt cheap, some very fine investment tips (a hot new web 2.0 company guaranteed to soar like an eagle in a week!) and offered free hosting for some homemade porn I've made. Also, I seem to have scored an elephant desktop friend which knows about free screensavers. It was about time banks realized that they have to offer more diverse services for our money.
Not using Google because of the principle of it seems very extreme and very impractical to me. Also, it actually seems to run against everything I've heard about free markets. If you want to be idealistic, why not just force the per-session cookie so you don't leave them a trail?
Certainly, people have wussed out significantly between 6.06 and 6.10 releases of Ubuntu - the problems with upgrading that many report must be due to lower testosterone!
...tough luck. This time it is not a function unrelated to the OS that Microsoft is bullying the competition out of, but security of the OS itself. Security companies were spawned by MS' mistakes and they simply failed to grow healthy diverse business offering value other than compensating for MS' mistakes. Nobody is investing in them, some are histerically dabbling in spyware (or so I seem to remember reading somewhere sometime) and are generally about to crash and burn.
(Of course, this sidesteps discussion of whether IQ tests measure anything significant at all.)
Well, finding the black and white pattern that best finishes the picture might not seem relevant to one's functioning, but it's correlated with things like solving problems and getting money. I don't understand the hate for these instruments - they're useful for prediction, they passed both the test of capitalism and of science. Not one of them measures the worth of a person and not one of them measures cognitive capabilities perfectly (and also what they measure might be "insignificant" to you), but you can't deny the real benefits that many derive from them.
That does not make me want a Mac. I have a Pentium M in my notebook which can throttle 8 states - it works as a 600 MHz processor whenever more is not needed (powernowd does it) and the fans are NOT switched on at all until it's been running at full power for thirty-odd seconds. It was trivial to set up (emerge one service, add it to local.start).
Having 63 celsius when idle and constantly running the fans are both unacceptable to me.
How is searching for something misuse of the search engine? I'd say that the Internet was misused by those who made the information public in the first place.
Environmentalists:
-> CO2 will cause mass extinctions
Now, this is reading it very unscientifically. Just how did you produce "will"?
Everybody else
-> There is not sufficient evidence to really change our policy (this btw, is unfortunately very true)
-> Therefore CO2 does not cause problems (this conclusion may be true, but the honest answer is : we don't know)
The GPL is basically a legal system hack to ensure that the corporations don't take everything. It exists precisely because such things as copyright laws and software patents have been made evil.
I can agree that finding errors and not fixing them is not nice; however, Wikipedia would be useless if everyone needed to check every single entry they consulted against other sources. I'm usually reading the entries on Wikipedia I'm not an expert on.
But the grandparent is a troll. It might be true he can't tell us how many articles he has found that are completely full of crap, but that doesn't tell us anything about the quality of Wikipedia.
real Mac user: someone true to who they are, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world.
No, real Mac users are consumers who choose the less popular corporate package. Real rebels who think differently are hacking away at GNU code; they don't start fashion trends, grow beards and don't bathe.
That would be better, if music distribution was not run by a cartel, repeatedly convicted of abusing their control of the market. I'd love to see everyone become enlightened and move to all DRM-free indy music, but realistically, the market will not properly counter a monopoly or cartel and the legal system and legislature are corrupt and easily bribed.
Lucky for me then that the big bad cartel is producing shit that's not worth owning anyway.
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I've already seen it in the Japanese "The man who stole the sun" (1979).
You need a specifically-non-US distro.
OR, a specifically-non-retarded distro. One that allows easy resolution of such annoyances. Package systems should only automatize the process that you would do yourself - if I want mp3 decoder, I'll download it. And I want it automatically done so long as there is one legal source of said decoder on the Internet.
I've been explaining to people how Wikipedia is not inaccurate, as any controversial topic shows a history of changes, often replete with links that can serve as additional help in understanding the topic and how it's seen in different cultures, among people belonging to different fractions and so on - but apparently asking an encyclopedia user to read the content that is not a single version of the article "published" at the moment it's read is a big, big problem.
Gentoo has jpg as a USE flag for Krita (I always check them out and always do USE="-arts" for KDE apps). I don't know about Fedora, though... Maybe it's time for a distro change?
Why would anyone steal the elections by miscalibrating the touchscreen? It shows, it produces news reports, it's messy. The elections can be stolen, it's been demonstrated pretty convincingly, without anyone registering anything. Oh, and this.
Don't knock it, I've been a loyal customer of the Bank of Ameriuca for three days. They've given me life insurance dirt cheap, some very fine investment tips (a hot new web 2.0 company guaranteed to soar like an eagle in a week!) and offered free hosting for some homemade porn I've made. Also, I seem to have scored an elephant desktop friend which knows about free screensavers. It was about time banks realized that they have to offer more diverse services for our money.
Not using Google because of the principle of it seems very extreme and very impractical to me. Also, it actually seems to run against everything I've heard about free markets. If you want to be idealistic, why not just force the per-session cookie so you don't leave them a trail?
Certainly, people have wussed out significantly between 6.06 and 6.10 releases of Ubuntu - the problems with upgrading that many report must be due to lower testosterone!
...tough luck. This time it is not a function unrelated to the OS that Microsoft is bullying the competition out of, but security of the OS itself. Security companies were spawned by MS' mistakes and they simply failed to grow healthy diverse business offering value other than compensating for MS' mistakes. Nobody is investing in them, some are histerically dabbling in spyware (or so I seem to remember reading somewhere sometime) and are generally about to crash and burn.
(Of course, this sidesteps discussion of whether IQ tests measure anything significant at all.)
Well, finding the black and white pattern that best finishes the picture might not seem relevant to one's functioning, but it's correlated with things like solving problems and getting money. I don't understand the hate for these instruments - they're useful for prediction, they passed both the test of capitalism and of science. Not one of them measures the worth of a person and not one of them measures cognitive capabilities perfectly (and also what they measure might be "insignificant" to you), but you can't deny the real benefits that many derive from them.
Nice domain, would've been really cool during the browser wars.
That does not make me want a Mac. I have a Pentium M in my notebook which can throttle 8 states - it works as a 600 MHz processor whenever more is not needed (powernowd does it) and the fans are NOT switched on at all until it's been running at full power for thirty-odd seconds. It was trivial to set up (emerge one service, add it to local.start).
Having 63 celsius when idle and constantly running the fans are both unacceptable to me.
One of the best anti-stress games I have is Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. All the colors and lights are quite soothing to me.
On a PC with a fine graphics cars, this is same, only better.
Since I've started using Linux exclusively, it has changed somewhat:
1. Multiple instances of Doom with the doomsday engine
2. Crack-attack
3. Mutant Storm
4. Nethack:)
5. Grid Wars 2
How is searching for something misuse of the search engine? I'd say that the Internet was misused by those who made the information public in the first place.
Environmentalists :
r ous_global_warming t ent/index.html
-> CO2 will cause mass extinctions
Now, this is reading it very unscientifically. Just how did you produce "will"?
Everybody else
-> There is not sufficient evidence to really change our policy (this btw, is unfortunately very true)
-> Therefore CO2 does not cause problems (this conclusion may be true, but the honest answer is : we don't know)
Read up on CO2 and global warming. The projections for the future are not 100% certain, but there IS enough evidence that it's harmful to change policy and it DOES cause problems. Try reading at least the MOST obvious and easily accessible sources before you get all insightful on us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#Dange
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/con
Time to start cloning those babies and burying them.
The GPL is basically a legal system hack to ensure that the corporations don't take everything. It exists precisely because such things as copyright laws and software patents have been made evil.
The comment numbers were confusing Slashdot's users and will be replaced by glass panes.
This might be a good opportunity to mention the documentary America: from Freedom to Fascism. I found it very relevant to this topic.
I can agree that finding errors and not fixing them is not nice; however, Wikipedia would be useless if everyone needed to check every single entry they consulted against other sources. I'm usually reading the entries on Wikipedia I'm not an expert on.
But the grandparent is a troll. It might be true he can't tell us how many articles he has found that are completely full of crap, but that doesn't tell us anything about the quality of Wikipedia.
Best comment I've read in a long time.
real Mac user: someone true to who they are, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world.
No, real Mac users are consumers who choose the less popular corporate package. Real rebels who think differently are hacking away at GNU code; they don't start fashion trends, grow beards and don't bathe.
That would be better, if music distribution was not run by a cartel, repeatedly convicted of abusing their control of the market. I'd love to see everyone become enlightened and move to all DRM-free indy music, but realistically, the market will not properly counter a monopoly or cartel and the legal system and legislature are corrupt and easily bribed.
Lucky for me then that the big bad cartel is producing shit that's not worth owning anyway.
Otherwise, anyone in ... say Russia for example, can crack your computer and search for child pornography ... and credit card numbers.
Also, they also can plant the pornography themselves, once they root the user's box.