Noscript is the reason I only have 3 websites listed, I'm guessing. It's amazing the amount of flash I find that I'm "missing", when I use some chump's computer. There really is a lot of garbage on a lot of websites.
A) Linked to from the main CNN page, and B) Has its highlights shown on the main CNN page.
I'm generally a pretty skeptical person, but if you trust CNN, (not that I personally do) then the iReport stuff comes off as pretty trustworthy. It's mixed in with the rest of the news stories there.
My switch to XUbuntu was due to just such a blunder - the custom ASUS crap ran into a circular dependency in something (perl? python?) which caused the updater to stop working when I tried to fix it using ever more extreme methods. I don't miss it, but had I been incompetent, it would have been a return.
Provided you have the proper releases to take images of the students. To not risks arrest/lawsuits, and an immediate escort out of the building. Yes, I wish I was totally exaggerating, but I'm not. Most places have some serious policies on the books for taking images of students.
That was one of the first things I turned off. It seems that compiz grays out the window when they're unresponsive. They're unresponsive because some scripts are using 100% of the processor power. I'm wondering how the recent updates to the JS engine will help this problem.
That would make sense, as it's pegging the processor to grind the scripts out. And yes, I am running compiz on this thing. Thanks for the pointer. Doesn't exactly solve the problem, but I guess I know what it is now.
As a followup, it does seem to gray out when the processor is pegged, trying to run either 1 big script or a bunch of smaller ones. CNN is a big culprit there. I use noscript, but lots of sites require a script to display the content. If anyone knows how to fix this, again I'd love to hear it.
Actually, the graying out of firefox isn't related to swap. On my EEE 4gb it happens as well. I have 1gb of ram, and put in a 4gb SD card which holds my tmp, swap, and var directories. I have 160mb of ram free, and the swap isn't being touched.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think firefox grays out when trying to crunch big script(s) - it might be pegging the processor, but I don't know for sure. I've been meaning to track down the issue, but have been too lazy to so far. If anyone knows the cause/fix, I'd love to hear it.
But that's hard. And scary. Why not just build a machine at home, so we can be morally superior and not have to deal with those smelly, impoverished people. No need to be reminded of our part in causing pollution due to a global economy, and our desire for cheap food and goods from countries which lack the environmental standards we have. Build these machines, and we get the best of both worlds: Cheap bananas, and the feeling that we're better than the countries that do massive ecological damage in order to provide us with those cheap bananas.
Damn...I just finished replying to a poster above you that using off-peak Nuclear power would probably be financially viable due to the cost per-ton of carbon emissions with a carbon tax or credit. You two-up that, perhaps without realizing it.
First, you point out that they can use the excess energy, which would almost be free. However, a big issue with wind power is that gusts cause spikes in the output, which is usually either dumped or the turbines are braked because you can't just dump those spikes into the grid. Depending on how this works, you could dump those spikes to the carbon capture system. I'm guessing that it's not as finicky about its power requirements as our grid is, although I could well be wrong.
With a carbon tax up to an order of magnitude higher than that, there's plenty of room for leeway even if your real-world efficiencies aren't as high. I'd agree that on paper, it almost looks lucrative.
I'll concede a bit on those two points - the Scion is not a particularly nice vehicle, but it's also near the bottom of the Toyota market. And while the Explorer is definitely better than a Scion, it costs $10k more, and for the same price ($27k US/18k Euros) a good number of European cars, while not as large, will be of vastly better quality.
Quite simply, in the US we pay for Big, not Good. Take the Expedition - for the price of the Expedition you can get a fair number of Audi models - I'm pretty sure that the Audi wins on quality. And if you actually tow something in your Expedition with the family on board on any sort of regular basis, you're one of the like 1% of people actually making use of the size. The rest just paid for Big rather than good, just for the sake of having something big.
We are not obsessed with either good cars or well maintained cars. Just big cars. (And trucks.)
All my co-workers with their big SUVs, vans, and trucks complain about how much it costs to run them. Yet for the same money, they could have purchased a pretty sweet, high-quality car. And it would cost a ton less to maintain and drive.
Yet big is what we as a nation want, not good. Just about every Ford I've ever ridden or driven has been a pretty shitty vehicle. Yet they are all pretty decent sized. And that's what sells.
And to top it off, I get snide comments about my little Toyota from the big-vehicle, complaining about gas prices people. Why? Because it's not big. I metaphorically laugh all the way to the bank, as it initially cost 1/2 to 1/3 the price of their vehicle, is of equal or greater quality, and costs 1/4 to 1/2 as much to maintain and drive.
But I'm nowhere near a majority around here - probably only 10-20% of the population thinks the same way.
Has MS ever done something like this on an upgrade to their software? No? Then why do you think they'd do it this time? Do you not remember the lead-up to about every version of their software, EVER? It's a shitton of talk, lots of marketing speak, tons of backpeddling, and then finally a sub-par product with tons of issues.
I don't mean to be rude, but why are you such a dumbass? It doesn't matter what anyone writes, what any of the press releases say, or what any of the screenshots seem to show. What matters is what comes out on release day. And I'll put a hundred bucks on the next version simply being yet more crap. Because I remember history. Do you?
Then get a server OS. Me personally, I like a desktop that comes with most of the shit I'll need out of the box.
The most irritating thing in the world is a fresh windows box - it doesn't do a god damn thing but pick up viruses and trojans on first boot. And it takes about three days to get it to a functional state. It's almost as bad as gentoo, except that there you at least start pretty secure. And by secure I mean "not able to boot for the fist week or two".
EA lost me years ago. Their DRM was stupid six or seven years ago. I've been on a boycott for a very long time now. I was excited about spore. Once I heard it was EA publishing it, it was off my purchase list.
Which means that ala the last many years, that non-sale will be attributed to piracy. Even though I won't even pirate EA's shit.
I'm generally a FPS guy, and while I can tolerate a RTS, I'm not a major fan. That being said, Sins is a ton of fun. The soundtrack alone is one of the best bits of "background noise" that I've seen in a long time.
But the very, VERY best reason to play Sins is that the game has the BEST controls of ANY game I've ever played. Play it, and see how controls are supposed to be set up. It is truly amazing, and a fantastic breath of fresh air.
Spot on. If it happens on school grounds or during a school sponsored event, then the principal has an entire handbook filled with policy and ramifications to pick from. If it doesn't, it's a matter for the police/courts.
Trying to make a school punishment for a non-school action is a very slippery slope.
It makes perfect sense to me: The people downloading 1gb a month in web pages are paying $50/gb for their internet connection. The people downloading 250gb per month are paying $0.20/gb for their internet connection, AND stressing the network.
Best to kick those people out, and recruit a few more $50/gb people.
And with that extra space are required extra eyes to watch over it. I spent three years on another wiki, watching over a large number of articles. As the number grew too large, some dropped off my watchlist. After a year of that, I began to see the entropy creeping into all those off my list.
A wiki is truly a garden. You can have a small beautiful one, or you can have a massive, weed infested one. It all comes down to the number and quality of your gardeners. And as long as anyone who wants can plant, you're screwed.
And that's why I've given up on the true wiki style, and only work on small, locked down ones.
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Noscript is the reason I only have 3 websites listed, I'm guessing. It's amazing the amount of flash I find that I'm "missing", when I use some chump's computer. There really is a lot of garbage on a lot of websites.
for Workgroups? How about Windows 7.11 for slurpees?
Um.....meat?
Grammar Critique:
"back then" - "than" is a comparative word - "then" refers to a time.
Because "happened" refers to an event in the past, grammatically, it should be:
"Think of what would have happened if Linux had waited for Hurd instead.
Other than that, it's pretty good. I could nit-pick more, but the rest is pretty understandable, which is good enough for me.
You miss the fact that iReport.com is:
A) Linked to from the main CNN page, and
B) Has its highlights shown on the main CNN page.
I'm generally a pretty skeptical person, but if you trust CNN, (not that I personally do) then the iReport stuff comes off as pretty trustworthy. It's mixed in with the rest of the news stories there.
My switch to XUbuntu was due to just such a blunder - the custom ASUS crap ran into a circular dependency in something (perl? python?) which caused the updater to stop working when I tried to fix it using ever more extreme methods. I don't miss it, but had I been incompetent, it would have been a return.
Provided you have the proper releases to take images of the students. To not risks arrest/lawsuits, and an immediate escort out of the building. Yes, I wish I was totally exaggerating, but I'm not. Most places have some serious policies on the books for taking images of students.
Building on that, how about a string telephone to demonstrate aspects of networking?
That was one of the first things I turned off. It seems that compiz grays out the window when they're unresponsive. They're unresponsive because some scripts are using 100% of the processor power. I'm wondering how the recent updates to the JS engine will help this problem.
That would make sense, as it's pegging the processor to grind the scripts out. And yes, I am running compiz on this thing. Thanks for the pointer. Doesn't exactly solve the problem, but I guess I know what it is now.
As a followup, it does seem to gray out when the processor is pegged, trying to run either 1 big script or a bunch of smaller ones. CNN is a big culprit there. I use noscript, but lots of sites require a script to display the content. If anyone knows how to fix this, again I'd love to hear it.
Actually, the graying out of firefox isn't related to swap. On my EEE 4gb it happens as well. I have 1gb of ram, and put in a 4gb SD card which holds my tmp, swap, and var directories. I have 160mb of ram free, and the swap isn't being touched.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think firefox grays out when trying to crunch big script(s) - it might be pegging the processor, but I don't know for sure. I've been meaning to track down the issue, but have been too lazy to so far. If anyone knows the cause/fix, I'd love to hear it.
But that's hard. And scary. Why not just build a machine at home, so we can be morally superior and not have to deal with those smelly, impoverished people. No need to be reminded of our part in causing pollution due to a global economy, and our desire for cheap food and goods from countries which lack the environmental standards we have. Build these machines, and we get the best of both worlds: Cheap bananas, and the feeling that we're better than the countries that do massive ecological damage in order to provide us with those cheap bananas.
Damn...I just finished replying to a poster above you that using off-peak Nuclear power would probably be financially viable due to the cost per-ton of carbon emissions with a carbon tax or credit. You two-up that, perhaps without realizing it.
First, you point out that they can use the excess energy, which would almost be free. However, a big issue with wind power is that gusts cause spikes in the output, which is usually either dumped or the turbines are braked because you can't just dump those spikes into the grid. Depending on how this works, you could dump those spikes to the carbon capture system. I'm guessing that it's not as finicky about its power requirements as our grid is, although I could well be wrong.
With a carbon tax up to an order of magnitude higher than that, there's plenty of room for leeway even if your real-world efficiencies aren't as high. I'd agree that on paper, it almost looks lucrative.
I'll concede a bit on those two points - the Scion is not a particularly nice vehicle, but it's also near the bottom of the Toyota market. And while the Explorer is definitely better than a Scion, it costs $10k more, and for the same price ($27k US/18k Euros) a good number of European cars, while not as large, will be of vastly better quality.
Quite simply, in the US we pay for Big, not Good. Take the Expedition - for the price of the Expedition you can get a fair number of Audi models - I'm pretty sure that the Audi wins on quality. And if you actually tow something in your Expedition with the family on board on any sort of regular basis, you're one of the like 1% of people actually making use of the size. The rest just paid for Big rather than good, just for the sake of having something big.
We are not obsessed with either good cars or well maintained cars. Just big cars. (And trucks.)
All my co-workers with their big SUVs, vans, and trucks complain about how much it costs to run them. Yet for the same money, they could have purchased a pretty sweet, high-quality car. And it would cost a ton less to maintain and drive.
Yet big is what we as a nation want, not good. Just about every Ford I've ever ridden or driven has been a pretty shitty vehicle. Yet they are all pretty decent sized. And that's what sells.
And to top it off, I get snide comments about my little Toyota from the big-vehicle, complaining about gas prices people. Why? Because it's not big. I metaphorically laugh all the way to the bank, as it initially cost 1/2 to 1/3 the price of their vehicle, is of equal or greater quality, and costs 1/4 to 1/2 as much to maintain and drive.
But I'm nowhere near a majority around here - probably only 10-20% of the population thinks the same way.
Has MS ever done something like this on an upgrade to their software? No? Then why do you think they'd do it this time? Do you not remember the lead-up to about every version of their software, EVER? It's a shitton of talk, lots of marketing speak, tons of backpeddling, and then finally a sub-par product with tons of issues.
I don't mean to be rude, but why are you such a dumbass? It doesn't matter what anyone writes, what any of the press releases say, or what any of the screenshots seem to show. What matters is what comes out on release day. And I'll put a hundred bucks on the next version simply being yet more crap. Because I remember history. Do you?
FTP? SCP? Package Manager with various browser options?
Oh, wait. You were replying as a windows user. My bad. I forgot that in windows land you ONLY use a browser to interact with the internet.
Then get a server OS. Me personally, I like a desktop that comes with most of the shit I'll need out of the box.
The most irritating thing in the world is a fresh windows box - it doesn't do a god damn thing but pick up viruses and trojans on first boot. And it takes about three days to get it to a functional state. It's almost as bad as gentoo, except that there you at least start pretty secure. And by secure I mean "not able to boot for the fist week or two".
EA lost me years ago. Their DRM was stupid six or seven years ago. I've been on a boycott for a very long time now. I was excited about spore. Once I heard it was EA publishing it, it was off my purchase list.
Which means that ala the last many years, that non-sale will be attributed to piracy. Even though I won't even pirate EA's shit.
I'm generally a FPS guy, and while I can tolerate a RTS, I'm not a major fan. That being said, Sins is a ton of fun. The soundtrack alone is one of the best bits of "background noise" that I've seen in a long time.
But the very, VERY best reason to play Sins is that the game has the BEST controls of ANY game I've ever played. Play it, and see how controls are supposed to be set up. It is truly amazing, and a fantastic breath of fresh air.
Spot on. If it happens on school grounds or during a school sponsored event, then the principal has an entire handbook filled with policy and ramifications to pick from. If it doesn't, it's a matter for the police/courts.
Trying to make a school punishment for a non-school action is a very slippery slope.
It makes perfect sense to me: The people downloading 1gb a month in web pages are paying $50/gb for their internet connection. The people downloading 250gb per month are paying $0.20/gb for their internet connection, AND stressing the network.
Best to kick those people out, and recruit a few more $50/gb people.
And with that extra space are required extra eyes to watch over it. I spent three years on another wiki, watching over a large number of articles. As the number grew too large, some dropped off my watchlist. After a year of that, I began to see the entropy creeping into all those off my list.
A wiki is truly a garden. You can have a small beautiful one, or you can have a massive, weed infested one. It all comes down to the number and quality of your gardeners. And as long as anyone who wants can plant, you're screwed.
And that's why I've given up on the true wiki style, and only work on small, locked down ones.