The title search has really helped me a few times as well. I don't use that very often, but when I do I'm really happy it's there. In particular for pages under the same domain it's pretty helpful to be able to just toss that in there instead of bothering with their similar urls.
Weird, I was sure you were on windowws when you mentioned the speed. I'm using it on ubuntu as well, and the speed increases have been impressive. And I've never noticed any problems with gmail in at least two months. Are you getting it from an ubuntu repository or the mozilla servers? If the former, might be worth trying the vanilla version from mozilla, without the ubuntu compilation options. It might be worth filing some bug reports as well if it's seen there. I've not seen any of the problems you mention, aside from the menu differences.
Afraid I have to agree about the languages as well. It's an interesting study for its own sake, but most of the benefits are overblown. The majority kids in the US pick up are so similar to English that the benefit of "thinking in another linguistic context" fade, and the utility is usually fairly limited in real world situations for most people. The only reason I still think second languages should be a mandatory subject is that learning a third language that someone might actually need one day will be far easier if they had the concept of more than one language choices set in their mind at a young age.
I think far more important is a particular persons genes. Some people are just lucky enough to have a particular genetic trait that's going to give them an advantage over 99.9% of the population. Isn't allowing someone with, say, a gene giving better oxygen delivery just as unfair to everyone else as a prosthetic leg?
Western countries tend to care about their own particular strain of representative democracy. It might seem a nitpicking distinction, but there's a huge gap among much of the hundreds of different variations of democracy out there.
Because Americans can go anywhere they want in the world, and don't have to worry about what culture based American laws they might break while away? You have far more freedoms than someone in China, that's a given. But your own post shows why uprisings because of this take so long. The vast majority of the people raised in any culture will find the restrictions they grew up with to be both common sense and second nature.
If you can't afford it, it sounds harsh, but it's not my job to help you exercise your right to be healthy, just to not actively violate it.
That doesn't just sound harsh, that is harsh. I'm seriously taken aback by it, and wondering if I just might be misunderstanding what you wrote. Have you actually been around sick or dying people and had your first concern as whose responsibility it is to help them? Not, "Oh shit! You're screaming, how can I help?" Even chimps usually show more empathy and compassion than that, and they're assholes as a general rule.
But there's times when I think some people just don't deserve the benefits of modern healthcare. It's just amazing how common a situation it is for people to have a deadly illness and simply stop taking their medication. It's pretty rare for them to even know the actual name of the drug, or anything about how it works. I almost died when I was just a kid, and even at that age I learned the hell out of the drugs I was on. And I certainly learned to check my watch, or at least just set an alarm. I wouldn't have cut myself any slack for not doing so at 11, and I wouldn't for any adult not suffering from a mental disorder.
They were handed pretty close to the percentage they wanted from soon after the strike started. The big question was how much more they could get, and what other wage increases they could manage in the process.
I'd hoped the same thing. Listening to the writers was a good reminder that most of them couldn't survive in a model which didn't have their stuff automatically piped into someone's living room. I still hope those who have aspirations above writing "cavemen" do strike out on their own a bit more, and take a good look at experimenting with where they can push their talent. But this whole thing was a big, depressing, sign to me that it's not going to happen as a whole for a hell of a long time.
You have a point about the others, but your country allowing one drug doesn't really make up for their eagerness to ruin the lives of people who use others.
That's pretty amazing. You guys must be one of the earliest people to ever meet in that way. Not too many decades in the future, I can't imagine how odd that's going to be in some respects. It'd be like someone today talking about being one of the first people to move their relationship along by using an automobile to go on a date.
I'd agree that it's what a distro is now. But I think a lot of us are still a bit trapped in the past as far as our expectations. I remember when all the desktop managers were pretty full of missing features, and every distro would construct their own unique programs to compensate and fix them. Now, it's pretty much just whether a distro uses rpm or dpkg and the size of their repositories that distinguishes it.
Apologies if you're already aware of this partial solution, but figured it was just far enough out there to be worth mentioning. As long as you have kde3 still installed, its kicker should run fine in kde4. Just remove the plasma panel, and everything feels fairly normal. Even the effects for kwin minimization seems to run fine with it.
He's 80. I'll grant the possibility that he might have enough background in the science to form an educated opinion. But going by the general level of understanding in biotechnology in eighty year olds, I'm a bit skeptical.
I actually had the same thought as well. I'm really not all that disconnected, and only heard about it a week or two before it hit theaters. It came as both a bit of a shock, and confirmation that I'm doing something right, that I didn't know what it was until that point.
Thanks for that. I was trying to find exactly what was up with the disabled download feature, and the couple people who asked on the official forum seemed to only be getting bitchy fanboy replies instead of concrete information.
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The title search has really helped me a few times as well. I don't use that very often, but when I do I'm really happy it's there. In particular for pages under the same domain it's pretty helpful to be able to just toss that in there instead of bothering with their similar urls.
Weird, I was sure you were on windowws when you mentioned the speed. I'm using it on ubuntu as well, and the speed increases have been impressive. And I've never noticed any problems with gmail in at least two months. Are you getting it from an ubuntu repository or the mozilla servers? If the former, might be worth trying the vanilla version from mozilla, without the ubuntu compilation options. It might be worth filing some bug reports as well if it's seen there. I've not seen any of the problems you mention, aside from the menu differences.
I quite agree. I hated it for the first seven days or so of testing. Now I get annoyed when using browsers that use the old method.
Jokes about Bush and Clinton, AOL, Netscape, war in Iraq. Everything's come full circle.
He might be on to something. Those toys that dance by volume seem to be one of the more popular, and annoying, things in the gifting world.
Afraid I have to agree about the languages as well. It's an interesting study for its own sake, but most of the benefits are overblown. The majority kids in the US pick up are so similar to English that the benefit of "thinking in another linguistic context" fade, and the utility is usually fairly limited in real world situations for most people. The only reason I still think second languages should be a mandatory subject is that learning a third language that someone might actually need one day will be far easier if they had the concept of more than one language choices set in their mind at a young age.
I think far more important is a particular persons genes. Some people are just lucky enough to have a particular genetic trait that's going to give them an advantage over 99.9% of the population. Isn't allowing someone with, say, a gene giving better oxygen delivery just as unfair to everyone else as a prosthetic leg?
Like a few weeks back when they told the guy with the prosthetic limb that he could not compete
Olympics is fer humans, not no filthy cyborgs with them space germs!
Western countries tend to care about their own particular strain of representative democracy. It might seem a nitpicking distinction, but there's a huge gap among much of the hundreds of different variations of democracy out there.
Because Americans can go anywhere they want in the world, and don't have to worry about what culture based American laws they might break while away? You have far more freedoms than someone in China, that's a given. But your own post shows why uprisings because of this take so long. The vast majority of the people raised in any culture will find the restrictions they grew up with to be both common sense and second nature.
OMG!!! PONIES!!! Speaking of that, I noted that google docs actually looks a bit like the OMG PONIES theme from slashdot of years past.
If you can't afford it, it sounds harsh, but it's not my job to help you exercise your right to be healthy, just to not actively violate it.
That doesn't just sound harsh, that is harsh. I'm seriously taken aback by it, and wondering if I just might be misunderstanding what you wrote. Have you actually been around sick or dying people and had your first concern as whose responsibility it is to help them? Not, "Oh shit! You're screaming, how can I help?" Even chimps usually show more empathy and compassion than that, and they're assholes as a general rule.
But there's times when I think some people just don't deserve the benefits of modern healthcare. It's just amazing how common a situation it is for people to have a deadly illness and simply stop taking their medication. It's pretty rare for them to even know the actual name of the drug, or anything about how it works. I almost died when I was just a kid, and even at that age I learned the hell out of the drugs I was on. And I certainly learned to check my watch, or at least just set an alarm. I wouldn't have cut myself any slack for not doing so at 11, and I wouldn't for any adult not suffering from a mental disorder.
They were handed pretty close to the percentage they wanted from soon after the strike started. The big question was how much more they could get, and what other wage increases they could manage in the process.
I'd hoped the same thing. Listening to the writers was a good reminder that most of them couldn't survive in a model which didn't have their stuff automatically piped into someone's living room. I still hope those who have aspirations above writing "cavemen" do strike out on their own a bit more, and take a good look at experimenting with where they can push their talent. But this whole thing was a big, depressing, sign to me that it's not going to happen as a whole for a hell of a long time.
for drinking alcohol
You have a point about the others, but your country allowing one drug doesn't really make up for their eagerness to ruin the lives of people who use others.
That's pretty amazing. You guys must be one of the earliest people to ever meet in that way. Not too many decades in the future, I can't imagine how odd that's going to be in some respects. It'd be like someone today talking about being one of the first people to move their relationship along by using an automobile to go on a date.
I've often wondered why in media, a "parallel universe" is often assumed to be similar our own.
The extent of most science reporters education in science doesn't extend very far beyond star trek and sliders.
I'd agree that it's what a distro is now. But I think a lot of us are still a bit trapped in the past as far as our expectations. I remember when all the desktop managers were pretty full of missing features, and every distro would construct their own unique programs to compensate and fix them. Now, it's pretty much just whether a distro uses rpm or dpkg and the size of their repositories that distinguishes it.
And it's even faster to write applications in python than java. Something that can be done fairly painlessly on windows mobile, but not android.
Apologies if you're already aware of this partial solution, but figured it was just far enough out there to be worth mentioning. As long as you have kde3 still installed, its kicker should run fine in kde4. Just remove the plasma panel, and everything feels fairly normal. Even the effects for kwin minimization seems to run fine with it.
He's 80. I'll grant the possibility that he might have enough background in the science to form an educated opinion. But going by the general level of understanding in biotechnology in eighty year olds, I'm a bit skeptical.
I actually had the same thought as well. I'm really not all that disconnected, and only heard about it a week or two before it hit theaters. It came as both a bit of a shock, and confirmation that I'm doing something right, that I didn't know what it was until that point.
Thanks for that. I was trying to find exactly what was up with the disabled download feature, and the couple people who asked on the official forum seemed to only be getting bitchy fanboy replies instead of concrete information.
Engineers seem to be at the top of groups 'most' often afflicted with bad pun syndrome, so I wouldn't put it past them.