I'm not a Linux expert but have installed Ubuntu Linux on about 10 machines (desktops and laptops) over the past two years. I haven't had to do any "wrestling". They all pretty much "just worked" with the full application suite. Even WiFi just works... and printers... etc. Full install is an hour or so.
In contrast, I have had to re-install Windows on various machines about 5 times in the past year due to viruses, spyware, etc. (two college daughters...) and each time it was a full day marathon of install, patch, drivers, application install, patch, firewall, anti-virus, etc. with many reboots... PITA!
I don't know what you are doing that you need to wrestle Linux but it certainly sounds like you could use some help from "clippy".
So, smokers do have a lower lifetime cost for health care. Couple this with the extra taxes they pay for cigarettes and society does make good money on them.
However, I don't think any public policy person would actually decide that it is good to encourage people to smoke...
I searched the "Help and Support Center" for "Backup" and "back up" and all it gave me was "System Restore", Backing up and restoring licenses, and "managing your computer's performance". (The system restore entry tells me that I should back up my files but doesn't tell me how to do it.)
Full-text search and Microsoft KB results were even more obtuse.
I'd really like to have a backup utility... please tell me where I can find it. Microsoft thinks it's important (but not important enough to actually include a utility to do it.)
Most health care costs occur at the end of life regardless of when that occurs.
Smokers tend to have more illnesses during the course of their lives and more complicated end of life diseases such as emphysema or chronic bronchitis, both of which are a long expensive way to die.
I agree. We never let our kids have TVs in their rooms (even though we had extra TVs in storage). Something very strange about a kid in their room watching TV alone. We have a separate TV room and no TV in kitchen, living room, or dining areas. The kids computer was in a common area where we could help them with it (and monitor its use).
Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska (previously famous for "the bridge to nowhere") is one of our leading idiots (and it really does take a lot to stand out in our current crop of Senators). He was recently featured on the Daily Show comparing the Internets to a bunch of "tubes". He was speaking as a no doubt well paid agent of the poor telecoms industry which needs to be able to extort money from Google, et al in order to pay for new tubes.
If you look at the "before" and "after" photos, you can clearly see that the photographer manipulated it to show more smoke (and did a poor job of "smoke cut and paste"). There was a lot of smoke in the original, so you wonder why he felt he needed to "improve" it.
Reuters says it normally sends all photos to their Singapore office to check for manipulation but this one slipped through. Looks bad but not quite the same level of deception as the hack who put Kerry and Fonda in the same photo during the last election cycle.
It's not easy to get Quicktime without iTunes. It's not on the main download page. You have to go to the second download page and ignore the big download button and the big button for the "Pro" version (only 29.95). There is a very small link (smallest typeface on the page and it doesn't even look like a link) to the Quicktime "standalone" version.
I made the mistake of installing the iTunes Quicktime version and it messed up my machine... very difficult to uninstall... it's a very intrusive program.
I was responding to a post who was whining about being a white male and was genuinely clueless about why white males might be subject to criticism. I'm happy to give individuals the benefit of the doubt but when someone complains about white males as a group getting a bad rap, I'm happy to point out that they have earned their place in history.
Since you seem to have missed most of history (not suprising since you have a "white male" education)...
You may have missed the "slavery" part of history... and the colonialism part... and the "puppet dictator" part... and the "client state" part.
Short history lesson for you:
Slaves came from West Africa. White males got rich. This also destroyed the culture and society in West Africa.
Colonialism. The next chapter of Africa history was colonialism where white males took charge of African countries. This was in some ways easier than taking the slaves to work somewhere else. They could just work the plantations and mines in Africa and white males got the goods.
Next history phase was "puppet dictator". After colonialism got a bad name, white males set up puppet dictators. Same result. White males got the profits. Africa suffered.
Latest phase is "client state". In this, white males give African countries guns to fight their wars for them and steal from their neighbors.
Africa has only had some semblance of democracy for a few decades and still has much interference from white males.... so yes, you do have a lot to be ashamed of...
Thanks for this information. I hadn't thought about the mirror. That would be some tremendous flapping to have the thing going at 30fps. They could probably get around it by using an LCD screen to display the image and just keeping the mirror up.
It really looks like they ended up testing the speed of the readers/writers rather than the cards themselves.
If you look at the speed ratings, they're all over the map. One SD card, SanDisk Ultra II had the slowest writing speed in one of the readers/writers and the fastest in the Canon camera.
It's odd that the SLRs don't take movies.
I have a small Canon PowerShot SD500 "point and shoot" camera. It has 7.1 megapixels and it takes movies at 30fps and 640x480. It will run up to the full capacity of the memory card.
Yes, you are overreacting. Do you know how many automobile gasoline fires there are every day? Also, the newer Lithium and NiMh batteries don't have the toxic problems of older lead and NiCd batteries.
And before everyone jumps on me that you can just mail out a cd/dvd with the source on it after charging handling, yes that's legit, but thats not what the original people were asking, i'm just trying to clear up some of the confusion.
What people were asking was how to comply with the GPL and mailing a disk (where they pay the cost) meets the requirements. You don't have to have the source on line and you don't have to pay for bandwidth. It's nice if Ubuntu wants to help but making the source available shouldn't be a show stopper for anyone who thinks about it for two minutes.
You really need to consider that most software (upwards of 80%) is not developed for sale but is used internally. In these cases, maintainability is much more important the time to first release since these software applications are more likely to undergo continuous feedback and enhancement.
You are assuming that there is no skill or valued added by teachers and that they are all just "baby sitters".
While that may be true for some teachers, I personally have had many good, dedicated teachers who definitely made a difference in my education. I think that anyone who has been to school has had similar experiences.
Teachers unions do have the vested interests of their members at heart but they also have the people who know the most about education. As with all sources, you need to understand their biases and areas of expertise.
Dudes! Please, please, give me a little slack! You guys are really tough.
Both I an another poster spotted this wry humor in TFA at the same time and posted it... I wouldn't have posted this as a dupe if it had been present on the page I was reading. Since I am a slow reader (and poster), my post came in a full 5 minutes after the "original".
And now I am paying the price for my lighthearted attempt at humor. I got modded down TWICE as redundant while the guy who beat me to the post gets modded up +4 Funny!
There is no justice and my karma will suffer irreparable harm.
Worried about Digital Rights Management? So are we. With the iPod Hi-Fi mini we've gone the extra mile. Although the 400k floppy disk drive has been removed we were left with the nagging feeling that someone would figure out how to slip a disk through the slot and copy at least part of a song. Have no fear. Introducing Dr Mesh(TM) a high tensile grill that neatly fits the floppy drive slot preventing even imaginary piracy, yet allowing sound through unimpeded. What about those times when you realize that the song being played may not have been legally acquired? That's why the paper-clip hole remains in place. Once you'd use it to eject a recalcitrant disk, now we've carefully angled the hole so that, with a simple lunge, you can pierce the speaker cone, stopping piracy in it's tracks.
You really should try the 30 second skip. It's much faster and easier than FF (and trying to time your stop just right). Just hit the 30 second skip button 4 or 6 or 8 times (depending on the length of commercials).
To be complete, we should also add the lakh and crore:
A lakh (also spelled lac, lacs, lacks or laksha) is a unit in the Indian numbering system, widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. One lakh is equal to a hundred thousand (105). A hundred lakhs make a crore or ten million.
This system of measurement also introduces separators into numbers in a place that is different from what is common outside India. For example, 3 million (30 lakh) would be written as 30,00,000 instead of 3,000,000.
I had not tried it but I just did enable the Assistive Technology Support in Ubuntu and the screen magnifier does work with OpenOffice. Good to know that as my eyesight gets worse, I can rely on really big print to read the screen.
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In contrast, I have had to re-install Windows on various machines about 5 times in the past year due to viruses, spyware, etc. (two college daughters...) and each time it was a full day marathon of install, patch, drivers, application install, patch, firewall, anti-virus, etc. with many reboots... PITA!
I don't know what you are doing that you need to wrestle Linux but it certainly sounds like you could use some help from "clippy".
So, smokers do have a lower lifetime cost for health care. Couple this with the extra taxes they pay for cigarettes and society does make good money on them.
However, I don't think any public policy person would actually decide that it is good to encourage people to smoke...
Accessories -> System Tools -> ??? no backup!!!
I searched the "Help and Support Center" for "Backup" and "back up" and all it gave me was "System Restore", Backing up and restoring licenses, and "managing your computer's performance". (The system restore entry tells me that I should back up my files but doesn't tell me how to do it.)
Full-text search and Microsoft KB results were even more obtuse.
I'd really like to have a backup utility... please tell me where I can find it. Microsoft thinks it's important (but not important enough to actually include a utility to do it.)
Most health care costs occur at the end of life regardless of when that occurs.
Smokers tend to have more illnesses during the course of their lives and more complicated end of life diseases such as emphysema or chronic bronchitis, both of which are a long expensive way to die.
I agree. We never let our kids have TVs in their rooms (even though we had extra TVs in storage). Something very strange about a kid in their room watching TV alone. We have a separate TV room and no TV in kitchen, living room, or dining areas. The kids computer was in a common area where we could help them with it (and monitor its use).
Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska (previously famous for "the bridge to nowhere") is one of our leading idiots (and it really does take a lot to stand out in our current crop of Senators). He was recently featured on the Daily Show comparing the Internets to a bunch of "tubes". He was speaking as a no doubt well paid agent of the poor telecoms industry which needs to be able to extort money from Google, et al in order to pay for new tubes.
Reuters says it normally sends all photos to their Singapore office to check for manipulation but this one slipped through. Looks bad but not quite the same level of deception as the hack who put Kerry and Fonda in the same photo during the last election cycle.
That "reset" might be to not invent humans next time... they don't seem to fit in well with the rest of the environment.
I made the mistake of installing the iTunes Quicktime version and it messed up my machine... very difficult to uninstall... it's a very intrusive program.
I was responding to a post who was whining about being a white male and was genuinely clueless about why white males might be subject to criticism. I'm happy to give individuals the benefit of the doubt but when someone complains about white males as a group getting a bad rap, I'm happy to point out that they have earned their place in history.
You may have missed the "slavery" part of history... and the colonialism part... and the "puppet dictator" part... and the "client state" part.
Short history lesson for you:
Slaves came from West Africa. White males got rich. This also destroyed the culture and society in West Africa.
Colonialism. The next chapter of Africa history was colonialism where white males took charge of African countries. This was in some ways easier than taking the slaves to work somewhere else. They could just work the plantations and mines in Africa and white males got the goods.
Next history phase was "puppet dictator". After colonialism got a bad name, white males set up puppet dictators. Same result. White males got the profits. Africa suffered.
Latest phase is "client state". In this, white males give African countries guns to fight their wars for them and steal from their neighbors.
Africa has only had some semblance of democracy for a few decades and still has much interference from white males.... so yes, you do have a lot to be ashamed of...
Thanks for this information. I hadn't thought about the mirror. That would be some tremendous flapping to have the thing going at 30fps. They could probably get around it by using an LCD screen to display the image and just keeping the mirror up.
If you look at the speed ratings, they're all over the map. One SD card, SanDisk Ultra II had the slowest writing speed in one of the readers/writers and the fastest in the Canon camera.
It's odd that the SLRs don't take movies. I have a small Canon PowerShot SD500 "point and shoot" camera. It has 7.1 megapixels and it takes movies at 30fps and 640x480. It will run up to the full capacity of the memory card.
Corporate site licenses expire and need to be renewed.
Yes, you are overreacting. Do you know how many automobile gasoline fires there are every day? Also, the newer Lithium and NiMh batteries don't have the toxic problems of older lead and NiCd batteries.
You really need to consider that most software (upwards of 80%) is not developed for sale but is used internally. In these cases, maintainability is much more important the time to first release since these software applications are more likely to undergo continuous feedback and enhancement.
While that may be true for some teachers, I personally have had many good, dedicated teachers who definitely made a difference in my education. I think that anyone who has been to school has had similar experiences.
Teachers unions do have the vested interests of their members at heart but they also have the people who know the most about education. As with all sources, you need to understand their biases and areas of expertise.
Both I an another poster spotted this wry humor in TFA at the same time and posted it... I wouldn't have posted this as a dupe if it had been present on the page I was reading. Since I am a slow reader (and poster), my post came in a full 5 minutes after the "original".
And now I am paying the price for my lighthearted attempt at humor. I got modded down TWICE as redundant while the guy who beat me to the post gets modded up +4 Funny!
There is no justice and my karma will suffer irreparable harm.
It's not there for the slashdot spelling Nazis to check spelling on web sites.
You really should try the 30 second skip. It's much faster and easier than FF (and trying to time your stop just right). Just hit the 30 second skip button 4 or 6 or 8 times (depending on the length of commercials).
I had not tried it but I just did enable the Assistive Technology Support in Ubuntu and the screen magnifier does work with OpenOffice. Good to know that as my eyesight gets worse, I can rely on really big print to read the screen.