Proffitt is a financially motivated troll, raking up the mud to get page hits. Please stop posting his blog posts, they don't help improve our lives or our software.
man this post has been up for 10 minutes already without some/.er correcting you on the correct use of the "question begs to be asked".... you guys are slipping.
we once had 1,500' of fiber optic cable stolen by some really dull copper thieves... I guess they had a rather amusing trip to the scrap metal yard but, I'd wished they'd have dumped it back on the side of the road somewhere as due to our fubared funding situation at the time it was years before that system was operational again (until the gear was completely obsolete and had to be entirely replaced anyway).
the word you are looking for is "founders" not "flounders"
(dict.org) From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Founder \Found"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foundered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Foundering.] [OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F.
s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to
establish.]
1. (Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
[1913 Webster]
2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
[1913 Webster]
For which his horse fear['e] gan to turn,
And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
methane is a more potent ghg, but only really sticks around in the upper atm for 25 to 125 years before it breaks down to co2+h2o. co2 sticks around until the next epoch of mass vegetation. cumulatively (if you integrate it wrt dt), co2 is still much worse, and methane is just delayed co2.
and yes, it is typically too diffuse to economically mine. but people are certainly willing to try.
the melting pt is around 4C, if the oceans at 1000m get up to that we hit the ghg positive feedback loop doomsday scenario.
fun times.
in this case I wonder if volcanic activity might be warming the earth below a patch.
it is much more than just a meaningless filler word, it's a social grace -- or sign of insecurity.
the Canadian "eh?" at the end of a sentence is the same. translated to "isn't it so?" it takes the harshness out of an otherwise assertive statement of fact.
You don't want a cup of coffee, now. You want something like a cup of coffee, if that isn't too much trouble, please.
Step 1) Buy the land super-cheap. Step 2) Campaign to get rid of the public amenity next door. Step 3) Depressed land value rebounds. Step 4)... Profit! (and everyone else suffers)
I'd also suggest to read Henry Hazlitt's classic Economics in One Lesson. If nothing else it is a rather entertaining read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson His main point is that you have to consider the whole picture, not just your own widget factory.
to move things out of the Other menu, go to/usr/share/applications/. the.desktop files there control both desktop icons and menu entry. edit the Categories= line in those files to put them into a new or different part of the menu. you can put your custom.desktop files in/usr/local/share/applications/ to keep things clean and upgrade-proof. Apparently your apps end up in the Other menu as there are not enough
for new menu groups, copy and edit a.directory file in/usr/share/desktop-directories/. e.g./usr/share/desktop-directories/xfce-other.directory
the Name= in there should match a category from the Categories= line from the.desktop files. Apparently your apps end up in the Other menu as there are not enough.menu files supplied matching the common.desktop Categories in use by those apps.
you might also want to make a new xml master menu in/etc/xdg/menus/
see the documentation available at freedesktop.org for more, but the best way to learn is to just poke around your system to find stuff.
> but this summary just does it - it makes so much "no sense" that > i have no fucking idea what is it about and i'm just going to skip > the topic.
which is real a shame, because what is happening is nasty, evil, theft (in the correct IP usage of the term) from a long established volunteer community by newly arrived greedy corporate. Or just take a moment to listen to the linked 2 minute mp3?
"Koha" is a Maori word meaning gift (often in a quid quo pro sense). Note that Wikipedia lists it as a custom. It is a truly wonderful name for a GPL'd project for the public good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_(custom)
The project was founded by a small country town library in 1999 when the Y2K bug was taking out their existing solution and they couldn't afford to buy another one. Since then it has grown to be a large and wonderful FOSS success story. Until last year, when an associated company that held the domain name and provided commercial support got bought out by a big corporate bully, who took ownership of the DNS and domain name, taken over the home page, obfuscated links to and existence of the community (which has had to rush out and register http://koha-community.org/ instead of their original koha dot org site), and now are trying to block the community from being able to use their own name, on their own turf. It seems that Liblime has grabbed the trademark already in the US; the original koha-community.org group after they got over their shock was able to get in first in the EU, but not Liblime (a US company) has moved in to grab it in the community's home country of New Zealand.
PTFS/Liblime's actions here are truly despicable, and if I were a customer I'd have to wonder if they are willing to screw over the people who built up the project from nothing, what is stopping them from screwing me over too?
and help out their non-existent legal fund with a small donation: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FQ6JH3L48LV5Y (your dollar goes far here; they are a registered legal non-profit, paypal's freezing of funds typically happens to unregistered projects who are basically ignoring tax laws, so they should be safe from that)
> Not everyone, believe it or not, is able to produce useful English marketing text.
yeah, but it makes you question their overall commitment to quality, and the level of frustration you might face if you need to interact with them for support one day.
my old rule of thumb was: buy a no-name product from a known-good-name company, or buy a known-good-name product from a no-name company. No-name product from a no-name company is just asking for trouble, and a Good-name product from a Good-name company is fine if you don't mind paying more than you probably had to.
> Look, honestly, what are you going to do about it? Complaining > doesn't matter. The TSA will be here forever, and, as much as we > hate to admit it, there is nothing that can be done about it.
not with that attitude.
or, for our paranoid friends in the audience: that's exactly what they want you to think.
After all, in this situation all the gamers did was offer up CPU time towards solving the protein folding problem for this specific enzyme. They didn't even look at anything, really.
Your understanding of it is rather mistaken, please download the game and try it for yourself.
FoldIt is not a distributed number crunching @Home variant where a screensaver uses your CPU cycles to help with a massive parallel calculation because the upstream researchers can't afford a personal super computer.
FoldIt is an interactive 3D puzzle game (like what Bill the Cat's version of a Rubic's Cube would be like) where many human brains attack a problem, not their computers. The scientists already have super computers but they aren't much help in this class of problem, where human reasoning really shines.
According to TFA, the gamers are named as co-authors on the write-up in a highly prestigious journal, which is very nice kudos indeed.
> And shame on us for trying to rationalize a double standard.
there's nothing inherently wrong with double standards as long as you don't exclude inseparable externalities. (in which case there never really was a true double standard in the first place)
when people throw shoes at Pres. Bush, it's funny.
when people throw shoes at Stephen Hawking it's not.
the trotting out of stereotyped remarks is a clear indicator of one who is either too weak or too stupid to come up with thoughts and judgments of their own.
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Proffitt is a financially motivated troll, raking up the mud to get page hits. Please stop posting his blog posts, they don't help improve our lives or our software.
thank you
I think that the grammar police should have their own theme music.
or maybe just cue the minor key.
(due props to "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka")
you forgot to include Enlightenment & Fluxbox, and if you are into that sort of thing instead of using the command line, the ROX-filer.
> You say that like it's a bad thing!
to all readers that think the author is MS bashing for MS bashing's sake (or an appeal to the /. groupthink), read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
man this post has been up for 10 minutes already without some /.er correcting you on the correct use of the "question begs to be asked" .... you guys are slipping.
we once had 1,500' of fiber optic cable stolen by some really dull copper thieves ... I guess they had a rather amusing trip to the scrap metal yard but, I'd wished they'd have dumped it back on the side of the road somewhere as due to our fubared funding situation at the time it was years before that system was operational again (until the gear was completely obsolete and had to be entirely replaced anyway).
/. nitpick:
the word you are looking for is "founders" not "flounders"
(dict.org)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Founder \Found"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foundered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Foundering.] [OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F.
s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to
establish.]
1. (Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
[1913 Webster]
2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
[1913 Webster]
For which his horse fear['e] gan to turn,
And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
methane is a more potent ghg, but only really sticks around in the upper atm for 25 to 125 years before it breaks down to co2+h2o. co2 sticks around until the next epoch of mass vegetation.
cumulatively (if you integrate it wrt dt), co2 is still much worse, and methane is just delayed co2.
and yes, it is typically too diffuse to economically mine. but people are certainly willing to try.
the melting pt is around 4C, if the oceans at 1000m get up to that we hit the ghg positive feedback loop doomsday scenario.
fun times.
in this case I wonder if volcanic activity might be warming the earth below a patch.
it is much more than just a meaningless filler word, it's a social grace -- or sign of insecurity.
the Canadian "eh?" at the end of a sentence is the same.
translated to "isn't it so?" it takes the harshness out of an otherwise assertive statement of fact.
You don't want a cup of coffee, now. You want something like a cup of coffee, if that isn't too much trouble, please.
It's a well tested and fine old scam.
Step 1) Buy the land super-cheap. ... Profit! (and everyone else suffers)
Step 2) Campaign to get rid of the public amenity next door.
Step 3) Depressed land value rebounds.
Step 4)
aka version 1.0 of the new design leaves much room for refinement but they couldn't wait any longer to ship it. News at 11.
No, it creates jobs. Just elsewhere.
Read up on the Broken window fallacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I'd also suggest to read Henry Hazlitt's classic Economics in One Lesson. If nothing else it is a rather entertaining read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson
His main point is that you have to consider the whole picture, not just your own widget factory.
to move things out of the Other menu, go to /usr/share/applications/. .desktop files there control both desktop icons and menu entry. .desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications/ to keep things clean and upgrade-proof. Apparently your apps end up in the Other menu as there are not enough
the
edit the Categories= line in those files to put them into a new or different part of the menu. you can put your custom
for new menu groups, copy and edit a .directory file in /usr/share/desktop-directories/. /usr/share/desktop-directories/xfce-other.directory
e.g.
the Name= in there should match a category from the Categories= line from the .desktop files. Apparently your apps end up in the Other menu as there are not enough .menu files supplied matching the common .desktop Categories in use by those apps.
you might also want to make a new xml master menu in /etc/xdg/menus/
see the documentation available at freedesktop.org for more, but the best way to learn is to just poke around your system to find stuff.
> but this summary just does it - it makes so much "no sense" that
> i have no fucking idea what is it about and i'm just going to skip
> the topic.
which is real a shame, because what is happening is nasty, evil, theft (in the correct IP usage of the term) from a long established volunteer community by newly arrived greedy corporate. Or just take a moment to listen to the linked 2 minute mp3?
here is the real project's "about" page: http://koha-community.org/about/
"Koha" is a Maori word meaning gift (often in a quid quo pro sense). Note that Wikipedia lists it as a custom. It is a truly wonderful name for a GPL'd project for the public good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_(custom)
read the mailing list plea from the librarian here:
http://lists.nzoss.org.nz/pipermail/openchat/2011-November/008940.html
a blog post:
http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/14545
and the thread that follows.
http://lists.nzoss.org.nz/pipermail/openchat/2011-November/thread.html#8943
favourite quote from the ensuing thread:
listen to more audio from NZ public radio than what's in the /. submission here:
(Scroll down to the Ogg @ 9:44 am)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon
The project was founded by a small country town library in 1999 when the Y2K bug was taking out their existing solution and they couldn't afford to buy another one. Since then it has grown to be a large and wonderful FOSS success story. Until last year, when an associated company that held the domain name and provided commercial support got bought out by a big corporate bully, who took ownership of the DNS and domain name, taken over the home page, obfuscated links to and existence of the community (which has had to rush out and register http://koha-community.org/ instead of their original koha dot org site), and now are trying to block the community from being able to use their own name, on their own turf. It seems that Liblime has grabbed the trademark already in the US; the original koha-community.org group after they got over their shock was able to get in first in the EU, but not Liblime (a US company) has moved in to grab it in the community's home country of New Zealand.
PTFS/Liblime's actions here are truly despicable, and if I were a customer I'd have to wonder if they are willing to screw over the people who built up the project from nothing, what is stopping them from screwing me over too?
Please visit the Koha-community.org site, read the plea: http://koha-community.org/plea-horowhenua-library-trust/
and help out their non-existent legal fund with a small donation:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FQ6JH3L48LV5Y
(your dollar goes far here; they are a registered legal non-profit, paypal's freezing of funds typically happens to unregistered projects who are basically ignoring tax laws, so they should be safe from that)
written article here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/91830/lawyer-labels-overseas-trademark-of-'koha'-offensive
> Not everyone, believe it or not, is able to produce useful English marketing text.
yeah, but it makes you question their overall commitment to quality, and the level of frustration you might face if you need to interact with them for support one day.
my old rule of thumb was: buy a no-name product from a known-good-name company, or buy a known-good-name product from a no-name company. No-name product from a no-name company is just asking for trouble, and a Good-name product from a Good-name company is fine if you don't mind paying more than you probably had to.
linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd-64bit-rc.iso 10-Nov-2011 09:16 1.0G:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/?C=M;O=D
thank goodness for xubuntu and lubuntu! kubuntu too... the linux-for-OS-refugees world still has some shining lights.
> Look, honestly, what are you going to do about it? Complaining
> doesn't matter. The TSA will be here forever, and, as much as we
> hate to admit it, there is nothing that can be done about it.
not with that attitude.
or, for our paranoid friends in the audience:
that's exactly what they want you to think.
viva la GPL!
> Switching between the two destroys muscle- and spatial- memory.
dial with your left hand, use the keyboard numpad with your right hand. and don't let one hand know what the other is doing. problem solved?
YBMV (your brain may vary)
Your understanding of it is rather mistaken, please download the game and try it for yourself.
FoldIt is not a distributed number crunching @Home variant where a screensaver uses your CPU cycles to help with a massive parallel calculation because the upstream researchers can't afford a personal super computer.
FoldIt is an interactive 3D puzzle game (like what Bill the Cat's version of a Rubic's Cube would be like) where many human brains attack a problem, not their computers. The scientists already have super computers but they aren't much help in this class of problem, where human reasoning really shines.
According to TFA, the gamers are named as co-authors on the write-up in a highly prestigious journal, which is very nice kudos indeed.
apt-get install sgt-puzzles
> And shame on us for trying to rationalize a double standard.
there's nothing inherently wrong with double standards as long as you don't exclude inseparable externalities. (in which case there never really was a true double standard in the first place)
when people throw shoes at Pres. Bush, it's funny.
when people throw shoes at Stephen Hawking it's not.
the trotting out of stereotyped remarks is a clear indicator of one who is either too weak or too stupid to come up with thoughts and judgments of their own.
Here you go-
Linux Kernel 2.6 - Linus.Torvalds - Commits: 10034
http://www.ohloh.net/p/linux/contributors
10034 > 10000.
pre2.6: more.