Could you please give an example article name and a past revision that is more balanced than the current? Not asking for citations here, I just want to judge the situation myself and also have an example I could give to others when the topic comes up.
Though I continue to be confused about this idiom (in my defense I'm not a native, OTOH I am an English linguist;) ). The definition at the top of the linked page says beg the question, to assume the truth of the very point raised in a question, while a later definition+example (American Heritage 2005) goes To assume what has still to be proved: “To say that we should help the region's democratic movement begs the question of whether it really is democratic.”. Isn't that an example of the colloquialism, since the point raised in the question is whether or not we should help, while the assumption is that the movement is democratic? The dress shopping example in AH Dictionary of Idioms 1997 seems to make more sense.
Other websites have dumb, half-friendly URLs, where they add the backend technology inside the URL, such as "http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/" (what's with the "index.cfm" in the URL?). If they fix that problem, all the links pointing to the current URL will break. If they ever change technology, it's also going to break the links from other websites.
I know, but I AFAIK Flashblock is implemented as an extension. As a wrapper plugin, the browser would have no need to know of the real Flash plugin itself, and there would be no way around Flashblock.
Shouldn't this be relatively easy to implement as a wrapper plugin? Instead of having an extension that blocks flash, have a plugin that handles flash. On initial load, it doesn't run the real Flash plugin, displaying a message instead. When clicked, Flash is executed and the plugin interface acts as a pass-through.
Every modern sound card gives you stereo sound for 3 or 4 rooms; you can buy 5.1 USB sound cards for a couple dozen bucks. You can remote control the computer, as well. You can use a simple RF remote to control the volumes, depending on how customizable it is per-room; it would also let you skip forward etc. Or if you're running Linux, you can use Remuco on your cell phone to control everything either via Wifi or Bluetooth. Remuco is particularly cool because on supported player applications, it displays your music libraries, much like the Sonos, I guess. Extending it is pretty easy, well.
It's a nice hack to do over a weekend. Running all those cables is probably a bitch, though. You could use audio-enabled (e.g. Apple) wireless APs as output devices and use a Linux/Remuco/Pulseaudio stack to stream to them.
Yeah, I know. But that only addresses those times when you want to compile stuff which is available in the repos. That is, you can't do apt-get build-dep X for a package you manually downloaded.
Unless it's not available in the repos in which case it Just Won't Work. I'm in this situation all the time, both with software which simply isn't in the repository, and with software that's available but outdated.
1) If someone has set up a repository for this software, that's great, and it happens more and more often since it's fairly painless to set up a PPA on Launchpad; it's still not a one step solution anymore, though.
2) Or you download a deb, which usually (by design?) is for a single architecture and run it through GDebi. Which is pretty painless, too, if it works.
3) Or it's one of the few precompiled blobs that you set +x and they just seem to work as if by magic, but I bet that was a pain to create and is even more of a pain to keep updated or maybe uninstalled.
4) Source distribution. You better hope you've got all those dependency -dev packages installed. Could you hook up apt into the building process and auto-install dependency source packages when they're needed?
So don't use the stuff you don't like. Not sure if you can still use grub1 on a new install, but certainly nobody is forcing you to use ext4. As a second measuring stick, the upcoming Fedora 12 doesn't include grub2, either (it's targeted for F13). I upgraded and kept grub1 as well as my ext3 partitions.
While it's easier and cleaner to do so with home on its own partition, you can re-install Ubuntu over an existing install without data loss. If you're going for a clean-ish install, I think you can just delete everything except for the home directory and install. Either way, chose to manually set up the partitioning and be sure you don't format anything.
When I bought the new card, you needed the closed-source (I think) AMD driver to use compositing. Worked on and off, mostly off, over several months. Intel would have been fine, too, but I dual-boot once or twice a month for gaming, so on-board graphics are a no-go.
As a non-old fashioned user who wants to use a compositing window manager, I switched from my ATI card to Nvidia purely to be able to get to use the excellent Nvidia blob. Maybe it's better these days, but getting the ATI driver to work was an endless PITA.
Sure. I use Opera Mini all the time, and I use a Java app to get information about public transit. I'd use the net for maps, but Nokia was nice enough to offer maps of various parts of the world as a free download, so I've got Germany and the neighboring countries offline on the memory card.
I also used my phone for reading, but I prepared the files on my desktop before transferring them.
That said, the Nokia S60 UI still needs a lot of work.
There were any number of phones with wifi two years ago. Obviously those weren't the usual budget devices you saw every day, though none of them were nearly as expensive as the iPhone. The big rush of phones was around the time that Apple released their phone. My current and my previous Nokia phone both have wifi, both of them were less than 250 EUR without a contract.
I guess not. But I still really like the idea of a sort of self-sufficient device. Particularly if you're replacing an existing self-sufficient device with it.
I'd rather have a solar charger integrated into some of my devices. I have plenty of free space on the back side of most of them, and it's more efficient to charge a device's battery directly, instead of charging an intermediary battery pack. Besides, having a device that is self-contained like this is just elegant. This is all disregarding that first paragraph non-sequitur and the third paragraph ad-hominem -- who gives a damn what you think people who buy this are like?
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Could you please give an example article name and a past revision that is more balanced than the current? Not asking for citations here, I just want to judge the situation myself and also have an example I could give to others when the topic comes up.
My rm preserves root.
Okay.
From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/beg+the+question (at the very bottom).
Though I continue to be confused about this idiom (in my defense I'm not a native, OTOH I am an English linguist ;) ). The definition at the top of the linked page says beg the question, to assume the truth of the very point raised in a question, while a later definition+example (American Heritage 2005) goes To assume what has still to be proved: “To say that we should help the region's democratic movement begs the question of whether it really is democratic.”. Isn't that an example of the colloquialism, since the point raised in the question is whether or not we should help, while the assumption is that the movement is democratic? The dress shopping example in AH Dictionary of Idioms 1997 seems to make more sense.
$ echo 1>test
$ ls -hl test
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1 2009-11-20 05:23 test
$ du -h test
4.0K test
Other websites have dumb, half-friendly URLs, where they add the backend technology inside the URL, such as "http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/" (what's with the "index.cfm" in the URL?). If they fix that problem, all the links pointing to the current URL will break. If they ever change technology, it's also going to break the links from other websites.
Did you try? In fact http://www.logitech.com/mice_pointers/ transparently redirects to the other page. OTOH, bizarrely, http://www.logitech.com/keyboards/ doesn't work.
Hmm... I guess not.
I know, but I AFAIK Flashblock is implemented as an extension. As a wrapper plugin, the browser would have no need to know of the real Flash plugin itself, and there would be no way around Flashblock.
This does sound like a good fix for the issue, though I'm sure it'll break a lot of sites.
Shouldn't this be relatively easy to implement as a wrapper plugin? Instead of having an extension that blocks flash, have a plugin that handles flash. On initial load, it doesn't run the real Flash plugin, displaying a message instead. When clicked, Flash is executed and the plugin interface acts as a pass-through.
Every modern sound card gives you stereo sound for 3 or 4 rooms; you can buy 5.1 USB sound cards for a couple dozen bucks. You can remote control the computer, as well. You can use a simple RF remote to control the volumes, depending on how customizable it is per-room; it would also let you skip forward etc. Or if you're running Linux, you can use Remuco on your cell phone to control everything either via Wifi or Bluetooth. Remuco is particularly cool because on supported player applications, it displays your music libraries, much like the Sonos, I guess. Extending it is pretty easy, well.
It's a nice hack to do over a weekend. Running all those cables is probably a bitch, though. You could use audio-enabled (e.g. Apple) wireless APs as output devices and use a Linux/Remuco/Pulseaudio stack to stream to them.
Yeah, I know. But that only addresses those times when you want to compile stuff which is available in the repos. That is, you can't do apt-get build-dep X for a package you manually downloaded.
Yes, that would be my number three. I was just pointing out that pulling stuff from a repo doesn't always just work.
How is that in any way less strange?!
Unless it's not available in the repos in which case it Just Won't Work. I'm in this situation all the time, both with software which simply isn't in the repository, and with software that's available but outdated.
1) If someone has set up a repository for this software, that's great, and it happens more and more often since it's fairly painless to set up a PPA on Launchpad; it's still not a one step solution anymore, though.
2) Or you download a deb, which usually (by design?) is for a single architecture and run it through GDebi. Which is pretty painless, too, if it works.
3) Or it's one of the few precompiled blobs that you set +x and they just seem to work as if by magic, but I bet that was a pain to create and is even more of a pain to keep updated or maybe uninstalled.
4) Source distribution. You better hope you've got all those dependency -dev packages installed. Could you hook up apt into the building process and auto-install dependency source packages when they're needed?
So don't use the stuff you don't like. Not sure if you can still use grub1 on a new install, but certainly nobody is forcing you to use ext4. As a second measuring stick, the upcoming Fedora 12 doesn't include grub2, either (it's targeted for F13). I upgraded and kept grub1 as well as my ext3 partitions.
While it's easier and cleaner to do so with home on its own partition, you can re-install Ubuntu over an existing install without data loss. If you're going for a clean-ish install, I think you can just delete everything except for the home directory and install. Either way, chose to manually set up the partitioning and be sure you don't format anything.
Flashfire - yes! A large memory write buffer, because life just isn't interesting enough without it.
The alternative is not going to the other side of the country or the other side of the ocean on every whim.
It might not be "official", but I think the mainstream European system of law is usually referred to as "civil law".
When I bought the new card, you needed the closed-source (I think) AMD driver to use compositing. Worked on and off, mostly off, over several months. Intel would have been fine, too, but I dual-boot once or twice a month for gaming, so on-board graphics are a no-go.
As a non-old fashioned user who wants to use a compositing window manager, I switched from my ATI card to Nvidia purely to be able to get to use the excellent Nvidia blob. Maybe it's better these days, but getting the ATI driver to work was an endless PITA.
Sure. I use Opera Mini all the time, and I use a Java app to get information about public transit. I'd use the net for maps, but Nokia was nice enough to offer maps of various parts of the world as a free download, so I've got Germany and the neighboring countries offline on the memory card.
I also used my phone for reading, but I prepared the files on my desktop before transferring them.
That said, the Nokia S60 UI still needs a lot of work.
There were any number of phones with wifi two years ago. Obviously those weren't the usual budget devices you saw every day, though none of them were nearly as expensive as the iPhone. The big rush of phones was around the time that Apple released their phone. My current and my previous Nokia phone both have wifi, both of them were less than 250 EUR without a contract.
I guess not. But I still really like the idea of a sort of self-sufficient device. Particularly if you're replacing an existing self-sufficient device with it.
I'd rather have a solar charger integrated into some of my devices. I have plenty of free space on the back side of most of them, and it's more efficient to charge a device's battery directly, instead of charging an intermediary battery pack. Besides, having a device that is self-contained like this is just elegant. This is all disregarding that first paragraph non-sequitur and the third paragraph ad-hominem -- who gives a damn what you think people who buy this are like?