I just switched to Mint from Ubuntu to get away from Unity. I had been a loyal Ubuntu user since 6.06. I hope Gnome 3 isn't forced on Mint users, or that it doesn't suck like Unity. If so, next is Xubuntu.
I can't believe we haven't come up with a better system than the piston engine invented 100's of years ago. When I first learned of the rotary engine long ago, I hoped it would be better, but I guess not.
I recently upgraded all my comps to 7. I find I do like the XP start menu better. It would have been easy to keep that style and add a search line. I also dual boot into Ubuntu and really dislike the move to Unity (I am trying HARD to like it). I would much rather have the "start menu" that Gnome uses. I don't want to type what I am looking for, I want to click 2 or 3 times, and have it in about 2 seconds. Some of the time I can't remember the name of what I am looking for, but I know where it is in the tree of the start menu, or what the icon looks like.
I'll give unity a little more time, but I miss Gnome. When Ubuntu goes to Unity exclusively and Win 8 is out, not sure what I'll do.
I have to disagree as well. My favorite game of all time, Oblivion, is partially that because it basically never ends. I had 300+ hours into a character that I lost when my PS3 died. I am now starting a new one (as is the rest of my family) after seeing the Skyrim promo. I am having just as much fun this time around.
I also liked Fallout 3, but was disappointed when I finished the main quest and it ended at about 80-100 hours of game play. I have been thinking about starting it again and not finishing the main quest till everything else is done, but it doesn't have quite the draw Oblivion does.
Anyway, the answer isn't necessarily shorter, it is less dull/dragging.
but, becuase oblivion was SO epic i'm willing to go back and play it again in anticipation of the new release - skyrim.
That is funny, exact thing happening in my family. I finished the main quest with nearly 300 hours of game play about 3-4 years ago. After watching the Skyrim promo, we are all playing Oblivion again, we have it for the PS3, so we are all fighting over game time. Really is a great game.
Ubuntu is/is becoming fairly popular. I have been using it since 6.06 and I love it. I am starting to wonder if Slashdot isn't just about bashing whoever is the big kid on the block at the moment. As essentially a Linux fan-boy forum, shouldn't we be happy when a Linux distro is doing well?
A few post mentioned that it is hard to get 11.04 to run Gnome instead of Unity. Up to not that long ago EVERYTHING you did in Linux was difficult, requiring fairly extensive knowledge of the command line. And you want to complain because it takes about 1 minute, once, to change the default gui?
I hope I live long enough to see them get a probe through the ice into the water of either Europa or Titan. It would be SO cool to see some form of alien life living there. At 44, I figure they better get moving, I got about 40 years...
That sounds a lot like something you should have considered before you decided to have kids.
When I had kids, 15-20 years ago, insurance was cheap and employers covered my whole family at very little or no charge to me. I think you missed a great deal of the point. The skyrocketing cost of health care.
Fred, you are all over the place. My point is I only have access to health care currently if I want to go through bankruptcy. Now I should sell my house that I have worked 25 years to get.
The cost for health care in the U.S. is out of control. Other countries (Canada, Australia, etc) in the world look at us and can't believe we don't have health care for all of our citizens. Canadians pay about $50 a month, with no co-pay or deductible. But you would probably say, that people in all other countries have no idea what they are talking about. It is us (the U.S.) that have it wrong.
A good friend of mine had to have a hernia operation while on vacation in Panama. He got excellent care and it cost him $.25 (yes 25 cents).
The right wing idea that conservatives in the U.S. (a unique group with no kin in the rest of the world) have it right and the rest of the U.S. and the world have no idea how to live or run a country is so egocentric it isn't even funny.
And yet if you have a serious medical issue you can walk into an emergency room and won't be turned away. Try that in Mexico.
Yes I know, that is what I am reduced to. When I get the 5 or 6 figure bill I will have no way of paying, I will most likely have to file for bankruptcy. Maybe I could convince the hospital I am an illegal alien, and not have to worry at all...
Now I am a contributor to the already out of control health insurance prices, and I have to live with that.
Oddly, even the poorest US citizen has access to food, shelter, and far better health care than you do.
Really?
I make an ok amount, a little over $40k a year. I have a Wife and 2 kids. My wife is a teacher (got her degree in 08), and between the two of us, we weren't doing to badly. She graduated magna cum laude, but after getting laid off due to the economy, she can't find a job anywhere. There are so many teachers out of work subbing, she can only get about 1-3 days a week, making just enough to cover her student loan payments and gas to drive to work.
I get medical through my job (already the least expensive my company can find), my wife and kids had been getting it through hers, that just ran out. To add my wife and kids to my medical is between $900-$1000/month. That is nearly 1/2 of my net take home per month. There is NO WAY I can afford that, so as of right now, my wife and kids have no insurance.
I don't know what dream land you live in. There are a LOT of people worse off than I have it, and things are really bad right now for a lot of us.
Water carries its own risks. It is an incompressible fluid and quite dense and you can't breathe it when unconscious, so hitting it in, say, a belly-flopper will just cause you to pop. Hitting water that is foamy on top (so that the water contains a lot of air bubbles that can act as a shock absorber) is better than hitting still water. Hitting water that has any sort of "splash" underway on the surface is good, as it might let you get a foot into the water on your way down and start to push the water sideways out of the way in some sort of turbulent flow instead of having to just push it all aside in front of you. The usual prescription for survival here is to fall splayed until quite close, then go straight up vertical, feet first, toes pointed (streamline), arms over head, and clench that sphincter for the 100 mph enema! You'll probably break your legs on the impact, but the rest of the shock will be transmitted up your spine, which is actually quite strong, and if your head is at the right angle your spine may not be jammed up into your brain or your head may not whip down so hard that it snaps your neck. In that case, if you aren't knocked out and don't mind dog paddling with possibly splintered leg bones and broken ankles, hey, you might survive long enough for a nearby boat to get you out.
I have though about this some. If you were wearing a standard t-shirt, and assuming it doesn't rip. If you took it off and held it above your head at the bottom on both sides, it might inflate like a tiny parachute. It probably wouldn't slow you down much, but it would help you keep yourself pointed feet first down and might slow you just a bit.
I'm sure somebody could come up with a combination of ballistics gel like substance with bone-like skeleton that would simulate the sheer and tension of your body spinning at high speeds.
I assumed there is a member "list", so to speak, but that probably isn't the case at all. I guess anyone that knows what to do and how to do it and has participated in one of "their" causes would be a member.
Yes, but at least it is called "String theory". The name itself tells you it is a theory. I would be more acceptable of religion if it called itself "God Theory".
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I loved Ubuntu, been using it since 6.06, but I dislike Unity a lot. Just switched to Mint and am happy again.
Less needed day by day....
I just switched to Mint from Ubuntu to get away from Unity. I had been a loyal Ubuntu user since 6.06. I hope Gnome 3 isn't forced on Mint users, or that it doesn't suck like Unity. If so, next is Xubuntu.
I can't believe we haven't come up with a better system than the piston engine invented 100's of years ago. When I first learned of the rotary engine long ago, I hoped it would be better, but I guess not.
I recently upgraded all my comps to 7. I find I do like the XP start menu better. It would have been easy to keep that style and add a search line. I also dual boot into Ubuntu and really dislike the move to Unity (I am trying HARD to like it). I would much rather have the "start menu" that Gnome uses. I don't want to type what I am looking for, I want to click 2 or 3 times, and have it in about 2 seconds. Some of the time I can't remember the name of what I am looking for, but I know where it is in the tree of the start menu, or what the icon looks like. I'll give unity a little more time, but I miss Gnome. When Ubuntu goes to Unity exclusively and Win 8 is out, not sure what I'll do.
I have to disagree as well. My favorite game of all time, Oblivion, is partially that because it basically never ends. I had 300+ hours into a character that I lost when my PS3 died. I am now starting a new one (as is the rest of my family) after seeing the Skyrim promo. I am having just as much fun this time around.
I also liked Fallout 3, but was disappointed when I finished the main quest and it ended at about 80-100 hours of game play. I have been thinking about starting it again and not finishing the main quest till everything else is done, but it doesn't have quite the draw Oblivion does. Anyway, the answer isn't necessarily shorter, it is less dull/dragging.
but, becuase oblivion was SO epic i'm willing to go back and play it again in anticipation of the new release - skyrim.
That is funny, exact thing happening in my family. I finished the main quest with nearly 300 hours of game play about 3-4 years ago. After watching the Skyrim promo, we are all playing Oblivion again, we have it for the PS3, so we are all fighting over game time. Really is a great game.
There's a completely new radical default interface coming...
Unity?
Thanks, but I do that already (in 7 and Ubuntu). Idle is probably more in the 26-32 range for 7 but still about 10 deg hotter than Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is/is becoming fairly popular. I have been using it since 6.06 and I love it. I am starting to wonder if Slashdot isn't just about bashing whoever is the big kid on the block at the moment. As essentially a Linux fan-boy forum, shouldn't we be happy when a Linux distro is doing well?
A few post mentioned that it is hard to get 11.04 to run Gnome instead of Unity. Up to not that long ago EVERYTHING you did in Linux was difficult, requiring fairly extensive knowledge of the command line. And you want to complain because it takes about 1 minute, once, to change the default gui?
Sorry, I don't get it.
I hope I live long enough to see them get a probe through the ice into the water of either Europa or Titan. It would be SO cool to see some form of alien life living there. At 44, I figure they better get moving, I got about 40 years...
That sounds a lot like something you should have considered before you decided to have kids.
When I had kids, 15-20 years ago, insurance was cheap and employers covered my whole family at very little or no charge to me. I think you missed a great deal of the point. The skyrocketing cost of health care.
Fred, you are all over the place. My point is I only have access to health care currently if I want to go through bankruptcy. Now I should sell my house that I have worked 25 years to get.
The cost for health care in the U.S. is out of control. Other countries (Canada, Australia, etc) in the world look at us and can't believe we don't have health care for all of our citizens. Canadians pay about $50 a month, with no co-pay or deductible. But you would probably say, that people in all other countries have no idea what they are talking about. It is us (the U.S.) that have it wrong.
A good friend of mine had to have a hernia operation while on vacation in Panama. He got excellent care and it cost him $.25 (yes 25 cents).
The right wing idea that conservatives in the U.S. (a unique group with no kin in the rest of the world) have it right and the rest of the U.S. and the world have no idea how to live or run a country is so egocentric it isn't even funny.
And yet if you have a serious medical issue you can walk into an emergency room and won't be turned away. Try that in Mexico.
Yes I know, that is what I am reduced to. When I get the 5 or 6 figure bill I will have no way of paying, I will most likely have to file for bankruptcy. Maybe I could convince the hospital I am an illegal alien, and not have to worry at all...
Now I am a contributor to the already out of control health insurance prices, and I have to live with that.
Oh, and FYI: "Public health care is provided to all Mexican citizens as guaranteed via Article 4 of the Constitution"
Oddly, even the poorest US citizen has access to food, shelter, and far better health care than you do.
Really?
I make an ok amount, a little over $40k a year. I have a Wife and 2 kids. My wife is a teacher (got her degree in 08), and between the two of us, we weren't doing to badly. She graduated magna cum laude, but after getting laid off due to the economy, she can't find a job anywhere. There are so many teachers out of work subbing, she can only get about 1-3 days a week, making just enough to cover her student loan payments and gas to drive to work.
I get medical through my job (already the least expensive my company can find), my wife and kids had been getting it through hers, that just ran out. To add my wife and kids to my medical is between $900-$1000/month. That is nearly 1/2 of my net take home per month. There is NO WAY I can afford that, so as of right now, my wife and kids have no insurance.
I don't know what dream land you live in. There are a LOT of people worse off than I have it, and things are really bad right now for a lot of us.
at a bar we buy our beer in pints.
Isn't that a constant just about everywhere? Don't think I have ever heard of someone ordering a 1/2 liter of beer...
X not intended to be a factual statement.
Water carries its own risks. It is an incompressible fluid and quite dense and you can't breathe it when unconscious, so hitting it in, say, a belly-flopper will just cause you to pop. Hitting water that is foamy on top (so that the water contains a lot of air bubbles that can act as a shock absorber) is better than hitting still water. Hitting water that has any sort of "splash" underway on the surface is good, as it might let you get a foot into the water on your way down and start to push the water sideways out of the way in some sort of turbulent flow instead of having to just push it all aside in front of you. The usual prescription for survival here is to fall splayed until quite close, then go straight up vertical, feet first, toes pointed (streamline), arms over head, and clench that sphincter for the 100 mph enema! You'll probably break your legs on the impact, but the rest of the shock will be transmitted up your spine, which is actually quite strong, and if your head is at the right angle your spine may not be jammed up into your brain or your head may not whip down so hard that it snaps your neck. In that case, if you aren't knocked out and don't mind dog paddling with possibly splintered leg bones and broken ankles, hey, you might survive long enough for a nearby boat to get you out.
I have though about this some. If you were wearing a standard t-shirt, and assuming it doesn't rip. If you took it off and held it above your head at the bottom on both sides, it might inflate like a tiny parachute. It probably wouldn't slow you down much, but it would help you keep yourself pointed feet first down and might slow you just a bit.
I'm sure somebody could come up with a combination of ballistics gel like substance with bone-like skeleton that would simulate the sheer and tension of your body spinning at high speeds.
Now who could we get to do that.........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVNlG5cZyQ (at time 1:12+)
I wonder how you define "member of Anonymous".
I assumed there is a member "list", so to speak, but that probably isn't the case at all. I guess anyone that knows what to do and how to do it and has participated in one of "their" causes would be a member.
Ah, Anonymous. Self-righteous destructive fucktards of the world unite! "We'll piss in your pool to save you!"
And that was the last we ever heard of MightyMartian.....
I have wondered how many members of Anonymous are Slashdotters?
Yes, but at least it is called "String theory". The name itself tells you it is a theory. I would be more acceptable of religion if it called itself "God Theory".
Ya, but does it run Linux?
But I wan't my Aurora!