Sorry, but you haven't fixed anything. Flashy cuby 3Dy desktop thingies are fun and novel, but they don't compare with the usability increase of w7 taskbar. There are no usability innovations in compiz, just flashy eye candy which doesn't let you work any faster anyway.
my wife needs windows live messenger to communicate with her parents which live 10,000km away. That's the only thing holding us back, crap video conference interoperability in Linux.
Because when they buy Quicken, or Farcry 2, or Nero, or whatever average people such as "plumber joe" buys off the shelves in their local store that their friends have recommend, and try to install it on their "KDE computer" then it won't work and they'll get frustrated and want the same computer their friends have.
more like group A reports to manager, manager tells assistant manager to analyse the data and write up a report, then the manager takes this report and hands it to his manager... and so on.
We believe that discussions in Slashdot are like discussions in real life- you can't change what you say, you only can attempt to clarify by saying more
I mean to say "your", not "you're". In normal speach this wouldn't be a problem, but then again Slashdot discussions are NOT like discussions in real life.
just use you're university's journal database subscription to download the latest papers. If you don't need to know this information then you probably don't even know that you don't need to know it and you will pay 25gees for an entertaining multi-day theatrical performance.
Let me refrase it for the punctuation police... I though you could date only organic matter, based on carbon 14. If you're not the punctuation police, then it means you don't know how carbon dating works.
Want me to worry about the LHC? Tell me when a cosmic ray collision has turned the Sun into a black hole or strange matter or new Big Bang or whatever your LHC disaster scenario is.
There was one just over 13 and a half billion years ago.
the movie's underlying question of "What truly makes someone a human?"
The one biggest flaw in the movie was the robot wanting to die to be classified closer to a living organism. Humans want to live forever (at least the smart and happy ones do), and just because my toaster breaks doesn't mean that it is one step closer to being a human. Many movies have taken on this theme, which is just pure crap.
What about warsow? You get a very innovative "wall-jumping" ability, and strong/weak ammo to prevent spamming (where you start with strong ammo, and when you use it up you get weak ammo).
I used to work, back in the day, at a physics research group and they used to run simulations on dec alphas with a CDE and Motif interface. It is the look with the pink/orange window borders and square widgets which makes a system look "hard core" to me:) Other flashy window managers look cool for home use, but I get into the zone quicker with the good ol' CDE/Motif.
Bumming around wikipedia i tried to pull some equations on how long a 1kg black hole would last, and came up with t = 3.21 * 10^-26 seconds. If it was travelling at the speed of light, it would travel 9.6 * 10^-18 metres, so it wouldn't even make it across the width of a nucleus.
I've obviously done something wrong, because physicists say they can last from seconds to an hour.
If you throw a tennis ball, with a cross-sectional area smaller than a human, into a crowd of humans, there's pretty good chance one will get hit. And if that ball can pass through the human, then there are others that will be hit too.
Wouldn't a gravitational black whole that can last minutes without any additional mass, just free-fall to the centre of the earth collecting matter on the way as it expands, leaving an empty tunnel behind that perhaps gets filled due to the immense pressures the lower you get?
Then as it reaches the centre of the earth, it shoots past with velocity proportional to the square of the potential energy of all the matter it has so far consumed?
Will it not just oscillate back and forth this way until it consumes the entire earth. If it does slow down to reach the centre of the earth, it will eat up all the juicy insides which cannot support themselves, leading to an empty earth with a thin crust which would crumble like a vacumed coke can?
So sure, turn the moon, the planets, hell even the sun (and live of geothermal energy) into a black hole, but not the centre of the earth.
waiting for someone who knows about physics to dispell this myth...
I wonder if the latest news items about the "kids" making $40k in two days for iFart and $100k in a couple of months for iSteam isn't just Apple propaganda so that devs fork out for macs.
Data outliers exist on both sides of the argument, and should not be used as counter-evidence.
As for not blaming the gun... the gun allows one to quickly and easily produce an emotional response with tragic consequences. In a utopia where everyone is intelligent and in control of their emotions, sure, guns for everyone, but we're not there yet... an idiot with a gun is more dangerous than an idiot without a gun.
Areas with widespread legal firearms ownership tend to have less crime than areas with severe gun restrictions.
Firearm crimes are more prominent in areas with easy access to guns, legally or illegally. It is very easy (psychologically by dissociation and physically) to cause a lot of dammage by moving a few muscles in your finger, much harder if you have to swing with your whole hand or arm feeling the texture and resistence in your victim's body.
About a third of murders don't involve firearms. Areas with widespread legal firearms ownership tend to have less crime than areas with severe gun restrictions. Finally, if someone is that nuts, operating an axe, shovel, hatchet or any number of other hand tools is no great obstacle.
Lizzie Borden was just a chick, but did a "hatchet job" quite smartly (and beat the rap too).
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makes you wonder how they failed to realease an official client that performs better than under WINE.
Sorry, but you haven't fixed anything. Flashy cuby 3Dy desktop thingies are fun and novel, but they don't compare with the usability increase of w7 taskbar. There are no usability innovations in compiz, just flashy eye candy which doesn't let you work any faster anyway.
my wife needs windows live messenger to communicate with her parents which live 10,000km away. That's the only thing holding us back, crap video conference interoperability in Linux.
Have you seen Windows 7? The taskbar innovation kills anything from Linux and OSX. Now they just have to switch to Unix like Apple did and they win.
Because when they buy Quicken, or Farcry 2, or Nero, or whatever average people such as "plumber joe" buys off the shelves in their local store that their friends have recommend, and try to install it on their "KDE computer" then it won't work and they'll get frustrated and want the same computer their friends have.
more like group A reports to manager, manager tells assistant manager to analyse the data and write up a report, then the manager takes this report and hands it to his manager... and so on.
So you added the infinite loop patch and it passed your tests?
sigh....
We believe that discussions in Slashdot are like discussions in real life- you can't change what you say, you only can attempt to clarify by saying more
I mean to say "your", not "you're". In normal speach this wouldn't be a problem, but then again Slashdot discussions are NOT like discussions in real life.
just use you're university's journal database subscription to download the latest papers. If you don't need to know this information then you probably don't even know that you don't need to know it and you will pay 25gees for an entertaining multi-day theatrical performance.
They've already announced it.
Let me refrase it for the punctuation police...
I though you could date only organic matter, based on carbon 14.
If you're not the punctuation police, then it means you don't know how carbon dating works.
I thought you could date only organic matter based on carbon 14.
Want me to worry about the LHC? Tell me when a cosmic ray collision has turned the Sun into a black hole or strange matter or new Big Bang or whatever your LHC disaster scenario is.
There was one just over 13 and a half billion years ago.
the movie's underlying question of "What truly makes someone a human?"
The one biggest flaw in the movie was the robot wanting to die to be classified closer to a living organism. Humans want to live forever (at least the smart and happy ones do), and just because my toaster breaks doesn't mean that it is one step closer to being a human. Many movies have taken on this theme, which is just pure crap.
What about warsow? You get a very innovative "wall-jumping" ability, and strong/weak ammo to prevent spamming (where you start with strong ammo, and when you use it up you get weak ammo).
I used to work, back in the day, at a physics research group and they used to run simulations on dec alphas with a CDE and Motif interface. It is the look with the pink/orange window borders and square widgets which makes a system look "hard core" to me :) Other flashy window managers look cool for home use, but I get into the zone quicker with the good ol' CDE/Motif.
Bumming around wikipedia i tried to pull some equations on how long a 1kg black hole would last, and came up with t = 3.21 * 10^-26 seconds. If it was travelling at the speed of light, it would travel 9.6 * 10^-18 metres, so it wouldn't even make it across the width of a nucleus.
I've obviously done something wrong, because physicists say they can last from seconds to an hour.
If you throw a tennis ball, with a cross-sectional area smaller than a human, into a crowd of humans, there's pretty good chance one will get hit. And if that ball can pass through the human, then there are others that will be hit too.
Wouldn't a gravitational black whole that can last minutes without any additional mass, just free-fall to the centre of the earth collecting matter on the way as it expands, leaving an empty tunnel behind that perhaps gets filled due to the immense pressures the lower you get?
Then as it reaches the centre of the earth, it shoots past with velocity proportional to the square of the potential energy of all the matter it has so far consumed?
Will it not just oscillate back and forth this way until it consumes the entire earth. If it does slow down to reach the centre of the earth, it will eat up all the juicy insides which cannot support themselves, leading to an empty earth with a thin crust which would crumble like a vacumed coke can?
So sure, turn the moon, the planets, hell even the sun (and live of geothermal energy) into a black hole, but not the centre of the earth.
waiting for someone who knows about physics to dispell this myth...
But nevertheless, if you use your competitor's product to do your sales presentation, it doesn't look very good.
Oh, it looks damn good... to me...
I wonder if the latest news items about the "kids" making $40k in two days for iFart and $100k in a couple of months for iSteam isn't just Apple propaganda so that devs fork out for macs.
It also is yet another customization of said laptop that discourages others from using it without supervision.
So that they don't stumble upon your tranny porn collection?
Data outliers exist on both sides of the argument, and should not be used as counter-evidence.
As for not blaming the gun... the gun allows one to quickly and easily produce an emotional response with tragic consequences. In a utopia where everyone is intelligent and in control of their emotions, sure, guns for everyone, but we're not there yet... an idiot with a gun is more dangerous than an idiot without a gun.
Areas with widespread legal firearms ownership tend to have less crime than areas with severe gun restrictions.
Firearm crimes are more prominent in areas with easy access to guns, legally or illegally. It is very easy (psychologically by dissociation and physically) to cause a lot of dammage by moving a few muscles in your finger, much harder if you have to swing with your whole hand or arm feeling the texture and resistence in your victim's body.
About a third of murders don't involve firearms. Areas with widespread legal firearms ownership tend to have less crime than areas with severe gun restrictions. Finally, if someone is that nuts, operating an axe, shovel, hatchet or any number of other hand tools is no great obstacle.
Lizzie Borden was just a chick, but did a "hatchet job" quite smartly (and beat the rap too).
errr...