>Evidently, kids (who are the primary consumers of music) tend to tune out things they know are ads.
Actually, I think pretty much all of us that have grown up with pervasive advertising have an internal trip switch these days. It's a sad fact, but the way to keep sane in the modern (urban) environment is to selectively ignore most of the world around you.
Advertisers look for ever more invasive ways to get our attention, and then wonder why advertising has less and less effect. it's because we hate you and have learned to ignore you to the extent we don't even realise you're there half the time.
You don't think for a second that the Democrats in the US are either anything like a real left wing party, or actually going to change anything, do you?
Strange that no other distro suffered from it though.
I could hear my laptop clicking away quite horribly before I applied a manual fix, whether it was an ubuntu bug or not, it was a problem for laptop owners running Ubuntu.
I had a separate home partition so I can share data between windows (using ext2fsd) and linux. I didn't even think about it when I made the move to reinstall but was pleasantly surprised to see everything (settings included) still there.
The attraction of SWBF is to have a big fight. It's not a pure-blooded FPS, it's a fun few minutes of blasting frantically. And whilst the campaign aspect is fun, it's just as fun to have a few drinks, stick a few arena's on random and go for it.
Republic Commando was an FPS with an engaging storyline. Different headspace.
I don't use mine for much more. I have Debian on a couple of (ARM) servers and ran Ubuntu on my laptop for a while, until X started bombing out when it was in nVidia mode and attached to its dock. Tried all the available driver versions, including brand new betas, no joy, gave up. Went back to Debian and it "just worked".
I probably couldn't actually put my finger on what's different between them, in general, as user of debian testing.
"GNOME is installed on 85% of Ubuntu installations and 50% of Debian installations, and has been used recently by 78% of Ubuntu users and 55% of Debian users."
Does this mean that they track per user rather than per box?
I'd also be interested in architectures, does Ubuntu support anywhere near the same range?
I'm a bit of a die-hard debian user because for me it works well and doesn't try to hide settings and operations like ubuntu sometimes does. This is one of the things that put me off windows and I don't like it replicated on Linux in the name of ease of use. I also realise this puts me firmly in the "geek that likes to tinker" category.
Hey, that's not a geek toy, the Openmoko Freerunner is a geek toy. That can run android and/or debian too.
Plus, what's even better is that the kernel's still a work in progress and the phone systems barely work! How geeky is that? You get to explain to friends and family that their call is echoing or you can't pick up because you have teh linux!/worst 270 GBP I ever spent...
So have we got to the stage yet where we can just have our unmanned vehicles fight their unmanned vehicles over an empty patch of ocean and declare a winner?
No, thought not, but I'm sure that's where we're headed./mark elf...//I hope someone gets the references
And conveniently enough, other people find folks with that attitude on life strangely attractive. It breeds an inner confidence rather than the usual reek of desperation.
I don't know. In my university it would have been resented. Sure, there were probably 4 or 5 guys out of 90 that needed help, that were the stereotypical geeks that lived in the lab and should have washed more. The rest of us were fine though, thanks. It would have been a colossal waste of time and effort.
Are there really places where the majority of CS undergrads need this?
(Side note - outside of the us it's not that commmon to *have* to study a "humanity" course with your engineering or science degree)
It seems to me to be a very grey area. All you would need to do is get yourself (or a test VM) infected and hooked up to Storm and then inject the "change server" message into your own drone machine. Then everything else is autonomous - the other drones ask your drone for instructions and then voluntarily download a cleaner.....
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>Evidently, kids (who are the primary consumers of music) tend to tune out things they know are ads.
Actually, I think pretty much all of us that have grown up with pervasive advertising have an internal trip switch these days. It's a sad fact, but the way to keep sane in the modern (urban) environment is to selectively ignore most of the world around you.
Advertisers look for ever more invasive ways to get our attention, and then wonder why advertising has less and less effect. it's because we hate you and have learned to ignore you to the extent we don't even realise you're there half the time.
That's why you need TimeCop.
Damn you!
I've never noticed that before and I can't un-know it!
Don't forget Tommy Flowers.
Turing may have been the codebreaker and visionary, but Flowers designed and built Colossus.
Jaguar do this sort of thing too. The cars have a "limp home" mode that runs on half or a third of the cylinders at any one time.
That's because people are idiots.
You don't think for a second that the Democrats in the US are either anything like a real left wing party, or actually going to change anything, do you?
Wait,
are you telling me the the ISPs don't use services like spamhaus?
I think there could be a similar service for botnet control points.
Strange that no other distro suffered from it though.
I could hear my laptop clicking away quite horribly before I applied a manual fix, whether it was an ubuntu bug or not, it was a problem for laptop owners running Ubuntu.
apt-get install xserver-xorg-nvidia
There, done!
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I had a separate home partition so I can share data between windows (using ext2fsd) and linux. I didn't even think about it when I made the move to reinstall but was pleasantly surprised to see everything (settings included) still there.
Saved a lot of work!
Very different games, IMHO.
The attraction of SWBF is to have a big fight. It's not a pure-blooded FPS, it's a fun few minutes of blasting frantically. And whilst the campaign aspect is fun, it's just as fun to have a few drinks, stick a few arena's on random and go for it.
Republic Commando was an FPS with an engaging storyline. Different headspace.
I don't use mine for much more. I have Debian on a couple of (ARM) servers and ran Ubuntu on my laptop for a while, until X started bombing out when it was in nVidia mode and attached to its dock. Tried all the available driver versions, including brand new betas, no joy, gave up. Went back to Debian and it "just worked".
I probably couldn't actually put my finger on what's different between them, in general, as user of debian testing.
Debian *does* just work, for me, because I can see what's going on.
Ubuntu has hidden more stuff so that when it doesn't work it's hard to figure out. For me, a professional Software Engineer with a penchant for *nix.
I'm not missing any functionality either.
Actually it probably means that Deb users are not as interested in their graphics, less likely to be running a machine that's desktop oriented etc.
I know I have two debian boxes with no screens at all, so GFX drivers are just not useful.
"GNOME is installed on 85% of Ubuntu installations and 50% of Debian installations, and has been used recently by 78% of Ubuntu users and 55% of Debian users."
Does this mean that they track per user rather than per box?
I'd also be interested in architectures, does Ubuntu support anywhere near the same range?
I'm a bit of a die-hard debian user because for me it works well and doesn't try to hide settings and operations like ubuntu sometimes does. This is one of the things that put me off windows and I don't like it replicated on Linux in the name of ease of use. I also realise this puts me firmly in the "geek that likes to tinker" category.
Hey, that's not a geek toy, the Openmoko Freerunner is a geek toy. That can run android and/or debian too.
Plus, what's even better is that the kernel's still a work in progress and the phone systems barely work! How geeky is that? You get to explain to friends and family that their call is echoing or you can't pick up because you have teh linux! /worst 270 GBP I ever spent...
Do you even need AI if you can do low-latency remote control?
So have we got to the stage yet where we can just have our unmanned vehicles fight their unmanned vehicles over an empty patch of ocean and declare a winner?
No, thought not, but I'm sure that's where we're headed. /mark elf... //I hope someone gets the references
Yes, that's the point. They would be forced to simplify laws and make less of them.
There's no need for that many bills, surely?
Sorry but WHAT THE FUCK?
Since when is voicing my opinion based on the (scant) presented facts a troll?
I'm not even disagreeing with the parent post!
WTF?
Sounds to me like he had parents that suffocated him and tried to stifle any sort of privacy or development as an individual.
Not that I'm condoning his actions, but if he was essentially being denied any free will or "personhood" I can imagine the frustration.
And conveniently enough, other people find folks with that attitude on life strangely attractive. It breeds an inner confidence rather than the usual reek of desperation.
"Where was this course when I went to college."
I don't know. In my university it would have been resented. Sure, there were probably 4 or 5 guys out of 90 that needed help, that were the stereotypical geeks that lived in the lab and should have washed more. The rest of us were fine though, thanks. It would have been a colossal waste of time and effort.
Are there really places where the majority of CS undergrads need this?
(Side note - outside of the us it's not that commmon to *have* to study a "humanity" course with your engineering or science degree)
It seems to me to be a very grey area. All you would need to do is get yourself (or a test VM) infected and hooked up to Storm and then inject the "change server" message into your own drone machine. Then everything else is autonomous - the other drones ask your drone for instructions and then voluntarily download a cleaner.....