Oh yeah, and KDE has none of these problems that people are reporting with GNOME. Snappy performance on a Pentium II Mobile 400MHz.
I'm not trying to troll or be contrary, but I can't tell if you're trying to imply whether or not GNOME is slow, or if these two comments are unrelated.
If it's the prior, I really don't know what you mean; running GNOME 2.8 (and 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6, when I was using them) on my Celeron 1.5 laptop is perfectly snappy. This wouldn't normally be notable, but when I unplug the AC adapter, it throttles down to 500MHz--and I never notice the difference. I can realistically say that I can tell no difference between GNOME on a 500MHz system and a 1.5GHz system; it's fast, responsive, and feels light regardless.
If it's the latter, which problems are you referring to? I hadn't heard of any.
Ever worked in a corporate environment? I can give you plenty of reasons. Application support. Vendor-provided machines. Testing of new Operating Systems. Cost of rolling out upgrades for every machine, when the current OS works fine. Unexpected hiccups in the migration. Any of these sound familiar?
Unfortunately, you forgot to realize that your vote was taken in New York, and that Kerry was going to win New York no matter what. Jesus Christ could have walked through the streets healing the sick and feeding the poor, asking for votes, and Kerry still would have won New York.
Of course, this works for Georgia, too. Jesus could have campaigned in the streets, and George W. Bush still would have carried Georgia. Georgia was going to go Bush no matter what.
So your vote didn't really count, thanks to the winner-take-all nature of most states' electoral votes. It's just an illusion.
IRV is *not* the best fix, as it introduces possibilities for a candidate having a better chance at winning by receiving fewer votes. However, the Condorcet Method is very similar and is far more airtight than IRV.
I wasn't being hostile to Debian at all. I *use* Debian on all of my systems, to the virtual exclusion of all other operating systems. I have no problem with Debian's decision to use the underscore as a field separator for package names; something had to be chosen to do it, and the underscore was probably the best choice. The dash also has significance in Debian's package naming standards, which also prohibited that from being selected
I'm guessing you misunderstood my statement. I was merely correcting the above poster for his assumpion that Debian chose the name AMD64 for political reasons rather than very well documented and difficult-to-overcome technical and architectural reasons.
A nice and confusing name apparently only chosen because the debian developers don't like intel for what they did (namely copying the amd64 and forgetting to mention that fact in their press releases).
Well, that and having to rearchitecture and rewrite virtually all of their package management software. But your theory is good, too. Don't let the truth get in your way there, bucko.
The problem I see is that when government gets into things like this, there is always controversy. Now that the government is providing wireless to the people, isn't it their responsibility to prevent children from seeing bad things? Up go the content filters. And it's their responsibility to protect us from viruses. Expensive site licenses are bought for antivirus programs, and the cost goes up. Now a paedophile was caught using the network to lure children. They'd better start monitoring all traffic. Well, there's a fee for it, but obviously the poor can't pay for it. It's government's role to provide services to them that they can't afford themselves. So waive the fee for the poor, and just pay for the extra burden through taxes.
You may think these things won't happen, but they will: simply because government is involved. And even worse, since government can undercut any competition, nobody else atttempts to provide service in the area. You're stuck with them or noone. Remember about government schools in Georgia, which recently became forced to teach creationism next to evolution. Look at airports, which are now massive hotbeds for corruption and government cronyism. It doesn't work, guys. Don't be seduced by the low or absent costs of the initial estimate. It will go over budget by an insane factor, moral and ethical questions will be raised, and in the end we'll all be stuck with a service that is expensive, too entrenched to be repealed, with tons of restrictions, and no alternate choices.
my suggestion? find another same model printer that does this, then DUPLICATE PRECISELY these yellow dots in your final image... two sets, should--- well, supply reasonable doubt at least...
Yeah, reasonable doubt will be an abslute breeze when you have not one, but two printer serial numbers pointing towards you as the culprit. Isn't this a bit like swapping your license plate with one from an older car of yours, in order to rob a convenience store?
They all seem to be based on scenarios where the people you're trying to shoot can shoot back.
That's so unfair:(
On a more serious note, the Katyn massacre was indeed horrible. The Polish suffered greatly during World War II--not least of which was the utter levelling of Warsaw with dynamite, block by block. Nasty stuff.
However in virtually all of the cases, the picture is fuzzy to begin with. As in, it's a crappy security camera where you can barely tell whether or not the object is a person or a car.
This isn't even the worst of it. I've seen them colorize a black and white photo, to determine a person's eye color. What the fuck?
My personal favorite was when Jack was trying to fill out a crossword puzzle; I believe it was in the most recent season. He's talking to Daniel and asks for help.
Jack: I need a seven letter word. Up, Down, Charm...
Daniel: 'Strange'.
Jack: Yeah. Well, thanks anyway.
Daniel: No, Jack, the word you're looking for is
(Jack hangs up the phone)
It's a pretty damn creative joke, you have to admit; took some thought to come up with that one, and it was hilarious to anyone who caught it.
The advantage of a smartcard is that you *can't* just copy the contents of the smartcard and replay it; most good ones use asymmetric encryption, and the private key is inaccessible. You need to actually *have* the card in order to access the services, which eliminates the threat of a password being sniffed (think SSH public-key authentication).
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Moderators on Slashdot make no sense. There's no way they could be replaced with shell scripts...
Of course it can be automated. We just need to automate users first. Possibly with a small shell script.
Oh yeah, and KDE has none of these problems that people are reporting with GNOME. Snappy performance on a Pentium II Mobile 400MHz.
I'm not trying to troll or be contrary, but I can't tell if you're trying to imply whether or not GNOME is slow, or if these two comments are unrelated.
If it's the prior, I really don't know what you mean; running GNOME 2.8 (and 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6, when I was using them) on my Celeron 1.5 laptop is perfectly snappy. This wouldn't normally be notable, but when I unplug the AC adapter, it throttles down to 500MHz--and I never notice the difference. I can realistically say that I can tell no difference between GNOME on a 500MHz system and a 1.5GHz system; it's fast, responsive, and feels light regardless.
If it's the latter, which problems are you referring to? I hadn't heard of any.
FedEx was actually a marginally reasonable guess. I would assume that a very large percentage of their business comes during Christmas.
The same people who would vote for Bush and Kerry?
Ever worked in a corporate environment? I can give you plenty of reasons. Application support. Vendor-provided machines. Testing of new Operating Systems. Cost of rolling out upgrades for every machine, when the current OS works fine. Unexpected hiccups in the migration. Any of these sound familiar?
Unfortunately, you forgot to realize that your vote was taken in New York, and that Kerry was going to win New York no matter what. Jesus Christ could have walked through the streets healing the sick and feeding the poor, asking for votes, and Kerry still would have won New York.
Of course, this works for Georgia, too. Jesus could have campaigned in the streets, and George W. Bush still would have carried Georgia. Georgia was going to go Bush no matter what.
So your vote didn't really count, thanks to the winner-take-all nature of most states' electoral votes. It's just an illusion.
IRV is *not* the best fix, as it introduces possibilities for a candidate having a better chance at winning by receiving fewer votes. However, the Condorcet Method is very similar and is far more airtight than IRV.
I wasn't being hostile to Debian at all. I *use* Debian on all of my systems, to the virtual exclusion of all other operating systems. I have no problem with Debian's decision to use the underscore as a field separator for package names; something had to be chosen to do it, and the underscore was probably the best choice. The dash also has significance in Debian's package naming standards, which also prohibited that from being selected
I'm guessing you misunderstood my statement. I was merely correcting the above poster for his assumpion that Debian chose the name AMD64 for political reasons rather than very well documented and difficult-to-overcome technical and architectural reasons.
A nice and confusing name apparently only chosen because the debian developers don't like intel for what they did (namely copying the amd64 and forgetting to mention that fact in their press releases).
Well, that and having to rearchitecture and rewrite virtually all of their package management software. But your theory is good, too. Don't let the truth get in your way there, bucko.
The problem I see is that when government gets into things like this, there is always controversy. Now that the government is providing wireless to the people, isn't it their responsibility to prevent children from seeing bad things? Up go the content filters. And it's their responsibility to protect us from viruses. Expensive site licenses are bought for antivirus programs, and the cost goes up. Now a paedophile was caught using the network to lure children. They'd better start monitoring all traffic. Well, there's a fee for it, but obviously the poor can't pay for it. It's government's role to provide services to them that they can't afford themselves. So waive the fee for the poor, and just pay for the extra burden through taxes.
You may think these things won't happen, but they will: simply because government is involved. And even worse, since government can undercut any competition, nobody else atttempts to provide service in the area. You're stuck with them or noone. Remember about government schools in Georgia, which recently became forced to teach creationism next to evolution. Look at airports, which are now massive hotbeds for corruption and government cronyism. It doesn't work, guys. Don't be seduced by the low or absent costs of the initial estimate. It will go over budget by an insane factor, moral and ethical questions will be raised, and in the end we'll all be stuck with a service that is expensive, too entrenched to be repealed, with tons of restrictions, and no alternate choices.
It's just aps and routers.
And lots of maintenance and no-bid contracts and little support and government content blocking and an increasing tax bill.
my suggestion? find another same model printer that does this, then DUPLICATE PRECISELY these yellow dots in your final image... two sets, should--- well, supply reasonable doubt at least...
Yeah, reasonable doubt will be an abslute breeze when you have not one, but two printer serial numbers pointing towards you as the culprit. Isn't this a bit like swapping your license plate with one from an older car of yours, in order to rob a convenience store?
I hate to say it, but I think they may be lying. It's 7:30PM here already, and there evidently hasn't been a single download since your post.
It looks liked you dropped the washing machine into the basket, which raised the ramp. Now drive your airboat over the ramp...
They all seem to be based on scenarios where the people you're trying to shoot can shoot back.
That's so unfair :(
On a more serious note, the Katyn massacre was indeed horrible. The Polish suffered greatly during World War II--not least of which was the utter levelling of Warsaw with dynamite, block by block. Nasty stuff.
The rest of the world doesn't need the US, especially now since its government is becoming more and more arrogant and stupid.
This is a non-sequitur, just so you know.
Even at minimum wage the wages for the amount of time spent downloading a stupid DivX is more than the price of a pristine DVD of the same title.
Perhaps you haven't realized this, but computers can be left on while you pursue other activities.
However in virtually all of the cases, the picture is fuzzy to begin with. As in, it's a crappy security camera where you can barely tell whether or not the object is a person or a car.
This isn't even the worst of it. I've seen them colorize a black and white photo, to determine a person's eye color. What the fuck?
No, no, no, no, no. You don't even need to bother writing the code; just go for the patent. Preferably several of them, at that.
My personal favorite was when Jack was trying to fill out a crossword puzzle; I believe it was in the most recent season. He's talking to Daniel and asks for help.
Jack: I need a seven letter word. Up, Down, Charm...
Daniel: 'Strange'.
Jack: Yeah. Well, thanks anyway.
Daniel: No, Jack, the word you're looking for is
(Jack hangs up the phone)
It's a pretty damn creative joke, you have to admit; took some thought to come up with that one, and it was hilarious to anyone who caught it.
The frequency of the bug occurring appears to be quite random. I know I personally have it happen roughly 25% of the time.
I don't see how this fits into the Republican ideal of smaller government.
You're confusing the terms "Republican" and "conservative". No, really--the Republican Party abandoned a conservative agenda a long time ago.
How long do you think until it gets Slashdotted?
Who modded this insightful?
The advantage of a smartcard is that you *can't* just copy the contents of the smartcard and replay it; most good ones use asymmetric encryption, and the private key is inaccessible. You need to actually *have* the card in order to access the services, which eliminates the threat of a password being sniffed (think SSH public-key authentication).