Well maybe you should stick with 2.6.16? You don't necessarily have to upgrade everytime a new kernel comes out. Also I believe you report kernel bugs to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/. To report a bug all you need to do is list your hardware config, kernel config, dmesg and basic outline of your problem.
If you look closely, you'll see that Gentoo has not actually done anything for about two years now. Even an attempt to change the color of the website failed after over a year of work.
I have been using Gentoo for quite awhile and I don't have any gripes. Someone has to be doing something (maintaining packages) or I wouldn't have to emerge --sync and emerge -uD world every few days. But I guess if you consider changing the website color as doing something you could be right.
As long as they tack on an amendment that the information retained can only be used in child pornography cases*. But of course that would go against their true motive, spying on ordinary Americans.
*You say "What about terrorism?" well add another line that includes "threats of imminent terrorist acts". Of course the Republicans would cry foul, declare that such a line is too vague and doesn't give the agents in the field the right tools to fight terrorism. Which means "anyone could be a terrorist so we must spy on everyone".
Hey I don't know how to break this to you... but lonelygirl15 isn't real. Yeah, yeah I know I couldn't believe it either... I mean YouTube.... YouTube!? *sigh*
Before that I used a combination of a slackware base install and then I would compile X/gnome myself. That's right I would compile each gnome package by hand in the right order. I liked to be bleeding edge and submit bug reports, follow the mailing lists etc. It was a hobby. Of course doing this made maintenance extremely difficult. When Gentoo came out with its portage system, things got so much easier.
Anyway when Gentoo first started the majority of its users were power Linux users and developers. They know Linux already pretty well and understand how everything links together. So when Gentoo fails at something the average Gentoo user could track it down pretty well. But over time Gentoo become trendy and people got the crazy idea that actually compiling your own packages made your system a lot faster. That's the birth of the Gentoo racer stereotype.
But Gentoo overall is for power users, developers and hobbyists. If you never wrote your own bash script, edited an xorg.conf file, wrote your own Makefile, don't know what CVS is, Gentoo probably isn't for you. Try some other distro like SUSE or Ubuntu. And then some time later you do learn the in and outs of a Linux system, come over to Gentoo, you will never be happier.
There should be a term that classifies your line of thinking, perhaps "apathetic determinism".
Most importantly, I put blind faith in the idea that what goes around comes around....but I'm not arrogant enough to think I know how the universe works...
Isn't that position a contradiction? There has to be some level of arrogance to believe something without question.
If not, hey, at least I didn't waste my whole life on this Earth stressed out about something I can't do anything about. Sometimes, the blue pill isn't all that bad.
Why do anything then? Why have a family? Why don't you just kill yourself now? The thing is you don't actually believe this. But you convince yourself that you do for the sake of convenience. And the very fact this got modded insightful is no wonder why the world is in such a state.
George W. Bush was born in Connecticut and went to college in Massachusetts (Yale and Harvard). The whole North vs. South or West-East Coast vs. Mid-West is all cooked up by the political party machines to make you afraid of their opponent. In reality the majority of America is pretty close on a lot of issues. The only really divisive issues are abortion and gay-rights which are of course inflated to appear more important than they really are. Not to say these issues aren't important but they aren't more important than say education and self-defense.
American politics has become based on fear. Not so much the policies because in the end politicians will only use fear to manipulate the public in order to get (re)elected. But after they get elected they go back to the normal business of corruption and cronyism. In the end it's our fault, we let it happen resulting from our own ignorance and apathy.
Yes but actively policing content does indicate that one is not inducing copyright infringement. Indeed a failure to properly police is not by implication an inducement of copyright infringement. However to actively police and remove content is by implication not an inducement of copyright infringement.
The difference being Napster was unable/unwilling to remove copyrighted content. YouTube is more than able and more than willing to remove copyrighted content. The Grokster case set a nice precedent in that a company must at least try to comply with copyright law. Not only that the vast majority of media companies have embraced YouTube, Capitol Records for example has uploaded their own music videos.
Give me a break. When you get to the point where you are trying to care about what people think about you in a war you are losing. War is for one thing only--the destruction of your enemy.
There is a difference between a war and an occupation. If in an occupation for every insurgent you kill you create 3 more you will never keep the country*. That is why in an occupation "winning the hearts and minds" is more important than military victory.
*There is another option that have been proven throughout history to be the most effective way to keep an occupied territory when facing a fierce insurgency. Genocide.
I'm not doing anything illegal but I'm sure my employer would look differently at me for knowing despite having an obligation to not do that. It's all about impressions and what you know about someone. You can't forget something like that. That's why people keep those things to themselves.
Isn't that the real issue at hand though? That people can be discriminated against over their sexual preferences. If such a state of affairs didn't exist the whole premise of this guy's prank would be moot. Look at the other end of the spectrum, Gay people can not openly join the military and can not get married. Really what happened here is no different except in the degree of discrimination.
We live in a society that encourages people to live beyond their means. Our entire economy is driven by debt. Even our government piles up debt which future generations will have to pay off. In the end the only people who benefit are those at the top, the same people who run credit checks on their employees.
The Grokster case sets a precedent in that if a service does not take action to remove copyrighted material it can be held liable. YouTube does remove copyrighted material when asked and also does things to hamper copyright infringement (limits videos to 10 minutes).
Sure there is plenty of copyrighted material but YouTube has never denied a request to remove such material. Also the majority of copyrighted content comes in clip form, like a 3 minute clip of a television show. It's not far fetched to imagine that such content comes under fair use. Does a corporation really want to press YouTube into litigation for something that might be legal anyway?
I'm not sure if such a legal argument is tenable and as I'm not a lawyer I'm not going to attempt one. But the overall scheme is that sharing clips of copyrighted work without profiting from its sale should be considered fair use. The majority of television networks understand that the sharing of clips amongst Internet sites in the long run benefits them. It promotes their show and their network. That is why there isn't much of an uproar about copyrighted content on youtube. Of course entire works should be barred.
The categorical difference is that the aether was created to fit into a model, 'all waves were known to travel through a medium'. Dark matter was created out of a need to explain empirical evidence. There is no real model for Dark matter and we don't know why it exists. Some say that the Standard Model could explain dark matter but we really don't know.
WIMPs are just one possible candidate for cold non-baryonic dark matter. WIMPs could be wrong. Like you said it could be something where we have to change the way we view the universe.
You mean aether. The big difference between the luminiferous aether and dark matter is that there was never any evidence of the aether however there is lots of evidence for dark matter, albeit indirect.
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That's not really true, considering the nvidia open source drivers do not even support 3d acceleration. The ati open source drivers are alot further along but only support older cards.
If you have a newer card or a nvidia card, the only option is XGL/compiz which has the same effects (and more) than the new Metacity. If you still want to use Metacity you will have to wait until Nvidia/ATI releases their drivers with texture from pixmap support which could be 6 months to a year from now. XGL has tfp already built into its server which allows one to use accelerated 3d effects even if their driver does not support it.
Also I should note that one could use compiz with AIGLX (not sure if you can right out of the box or requires a patch).
No it doesn't. First off the status quo of a non-verifiable method of counting votes already allows widespread voter fraud. Remember 2000? In the case of buying votes, the absentee ballot allows one to prove to others how one voted.
At least with this system the voter herself can verify how her vote was assigned. Some checks could be put in place that the only person that can check the list must have a receipt assigned to them and a valid ID. Maybe even biometrics. Also copying the list by those who are not mandated by the government is strictly forbidden.
Sure there are flaws but the benefits seriously outweigh them especially in the current system where the things you mention already happen.
Also to claim such a system removes the secret ballot is just playing semantics. The current system is secrecy through obfuscation. A new system would be secrecy through encryption.
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Well maybe you should stick with 2.6.16? You don't necessarily have to upgrade everytime a new kernel comes out. Also I believe you report kernel bugs to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/. To report a bug all you need to do is list your hardware config, kernel config, dmesg and basic outline of your problem.
If you look closely, you'll see that Gentoo has not actually done anything for about two years now. Even an attempt to change the color of the website failed after over a year of work.
I have been using Gentoo for quite awhile and I don't have any gripes. Someone has to be doing something (maintaining packages) or I wouldn't have to emerge --sync and emerge -uD world every few days. But I guess if you consider changing the website color as doing something you could be right.
As long as they tack on an amendment that the information retained can only be used in child pornography cases*. But of course that would go against their true motive, spying on ordinary Americans.
*You say "What about terrorism?" well add another line that includes "threats of imminent terrorist acts". Of course the Republicans would cry foul, declare that such a line is too vague and doesn't give the agents in the field the right tools to fight terrorism. Which means "anyone could be a terrorist so we must spy on everyone".
Hey I don't know how to break this to you... but lonelygirl15 isn't real. Yeah, yeah I know I couldn't believe it either... I mean YouTube.... YouTube!? *sigh*
Before that I used a combination of a slackware base install and then I would compile X/gnome myself. That's right I would compile each gnome package by hand in the right order. I liked to be bleeding edge and submit bug reports, follow the mailing lists etc. It was a hobby. Of course doing this made maintenance extremely difficult. When Gentoo came out with its portage system, things got so much easier.
Anyway when Gentoo first started the majority of its users were power Linux users and developers. They know Linux already pretty well and understand how everything links together. So when Gentoo fails at something the average Gentoo user could track it down pretty well. But over time Gentoo become trendy and people got the crazy idea that actually compiling your own packages made your system a lot faster. That's the birth of the Gentoo racer stereotype.
But Gentoo overall is for power users, developers and hobbyists. If you never wrote your own bash script, edited an xorg.conf file, wrote your own Makefile, don't know what CVS is, Gentoo probably isn't for you. Try some other distro like SUSE or Ubuntu. And then some time later you do learn the in and outs of a Linux system, come over to Gentoo, you will never be happier.
There should be a term that classifies your line of thinking, perhaps "apathetic determinism".
...but I'm not arrogant enough to think I know how the universe works...
Most importantly, I put blind faith in the idea that what goes around comes around.
Isn't that position a contradiction? There has to be some level of arrogance to believe something without question.
If not, hey, at least I didn't waste my whole life on this Earth stressed out about something I can't do anything about. Sometimes, the blue pill isn't all that bad.
Why do anything then? Why have a family? Why don't you just kill yourself now? The thing is you don't actually believe this. But you convince yourself that you do for the sake of convenience. And the very fact this got modded insightful is no wonder why the world is in such a state.
George W. Bush was born in Connecticut and went to college in Massachusetts (Yale and Harvard). The whole North vs. South or West-East Coast vs. Mid-West is all cooked up by the political party machines to make you afraid of their opponent. In reality the majority of America is pretty close on a lot of issues. The only really divisive issues are abortion and gay-rights which are of course inflated to appear more important than they really are. Not to say these issues aren't important but they aren't more important than say education and self-defense.
American politics has become based on fear. Not so much the policies because in the end politicians will only use fear to manipulate the public in order to get (re)elected. But after they get elected they go back to the normal business of corruption and cronyism. In the end it's our fault, we let it happen resulting from our own ignorance and apathy.
Is the new Enlightenment out?
Yes but actively policing content does indicate that one is not inducing copyright infringement. Indeed a failure to properly police is not by implication an inducement of copyright infringement. However to actively police and remove content is by implication not an inducement of copyright infringement.
The difference being Napster was unable/unwilling to remove copyrighted content. YouTube is more than able and more than willing to remove copyrighted content. The Grokster case set a nice precedent in that a company must at least try to comply with copyright law. Not only that the vast majority of media companies have embraced YouTube, Capitol Records for example has uploaded their own music videos.
Give me a break. When you get to the point where you are trying to care about what people think about you in a war you are losing. War is for one thing only--the destruction of your enemy.
There is a difference between a war and an occupation. If in an occupation for every insurgent you kill you create 3 more you will never keep the country*. That is why in an occupation "winning the hearts and minds" is more important than military victory.
*There is another option that have been proven throughout history to be the most effective way to keep an occupied territory when facing a fierce insurgency. Genocide.
You mean like Saudi Arabia?
I'm not doing anything illegal but I'm sure my employer would look differently at me for knowing despite having an obligation to not do that. It's all about impressions and what you know about someone. You can't forget something like that. That's why people keep those things to themselves.
Isn't that the real issue at hand though? That people can be discriminated against over their sexual preferences. If such a state of affairs didn't exist the whole premise of this guy's prank would be moot. Look at the other end of the spectrum, Gay people can not openly join the military and can not get married. Really what happened here is no different except in the degree of discrimination.
Using copyright to apply DRM to media: Bad
Using copyright to sue someone who tricked you into posing nude: Good
*Looks at url bar* Yeah that's about right.
We live in a society that encourages people to live beyond their means. Our entire economy is driven by debt. Even our government piles up debt which future generations will have to pay off. In the end the only people who benefit are those at the top, the same people who run credit checks on their employees.
At least it wasn't like getting Quake 3 to run under Linux.
The Grokster case sets a precedent in that if a service does not take action to remove copyrighted material it can be held liable. YouTube does remove copyrighted material when asked and also does things to hamper copyright infringement (limits videos to 10 minutes).
Sure there is plenty of copyrighted material but YouTube has never denied a request to remove such material. Also the majority of copyrighted content comes in clip form, like a 3 minute clip of a television show. It's not far fetched to imagine that such content comes under fair use. Does a corporation really want to press YouTube into litigation for something that might be legal anyway?
I'm not sure if such a legal argument is tenable and as I'm not a lawyer I'm not going to attempt one. But the overall scheme is that sharing clips of copyrighted work without profiting from its sale should be considered fair use. The majority of television networks understand that the sharing of clips amongst Internet sites in the long run benefits them. It promotes their show and their network. That is why there isn't much of an uproar about copyrighted content on youtube. Of course entire works should be barred.
The categorical difference is that the aether was created to fit into a model, 'all waves were known to travel through a medium'. Dark matter was created out of a need to explain empirical evidence. There is no real model for Dark matter and we don't know why it exists. Some say that the Standard Model could explain dark matter but we really don't know.
WIMPs are just one possible candidate for cold non-baryonic dark matter. WIMPs could be wrong. Like you said it could be something where we have to change the way we view the universe.
You mean aether. The big difference between the luminiferous aether and dark matter is that there was never any evidence of the aether however there is lots of evidence for dark matter, albeit indirect.
That's not really true, considering the nvidia open source drivers do not even support 3d acceleration. The ati open source drivers are alot further along but only support older cards.
If you have a newer card or a nvidia card, the only option is XGL/compiz which has the same effects (and more) than the new Metacity. If you still want to use Metacity you will have to wait until Nvidia/ATI releases their drivers with texture from pixmap support which could be 6 months to a year from now. XGL has tfp already built into its server which allows one to use accelerated 3d effects even if their driver does not support it.
Also I should note that one could use compiz with AIGLX (not sure if you can right out of the box or requires a patch).
wow great way to be a condescending asshole, perhaps you are running for office?
No it doesn't. First off the status quo of a non-verifiable method of counting votes already allows widespread voter fraud. Remember 2000? In the case of buying votes, the absentee ballot allows one to prove to others how one voted.
At least with this system the voter herself can verify how her vote was assigned. Some checks could be put in place that the only person that can check the list must have a receipt assigned to them and a valid ID. Maybe even biometrics. Also copying the list by those who are not mandated by the government is strictly forbidden.
Sure there are flaws but the benefits seriously outweigh them especially in the current system where the things you mention already happen.
Also to claim such a system removes the secret ballot is just playing semantics. The current system is secrecy through obfuscation. A new system would be secrecy through encryption.
Oh wait I think you meant we have a greater relationship with Israel because we view the Israelis as "white people". You might be right about that.
I'm unaware of anyone neutral claiming Israel "lost" the current conflict.
Israel reservists then again they probably aren't neutral.
Israelis but they aren't really neutral either.