And if we could fine the GPS company every time a cop fines a truck and we'd see just how easy it is for them to update their software and how quick they can accomplish it.
Children are unsophisticated, shallow and come without much realistic life experience against which they can make sane judgements about the world. They are immersed in shiny, exciting advertising information and force fed ridiculous expectations about pretty much everything constantly from waking to sleep.
The nastiness doesn't lie in the sulking kid...it's in the mire of shit they are conditioned not to even notice by unscrupulous and venal marketroids and a deeply skewed and distorted media.
A quick scan on wikipedia and it looks like mitochondria are just symbiotic cells inside another cell and are basically made of the same stuff as you me and every other living thing including their own DNA. I'm simplifying horrendously here but I don't think you can assume life has evolved more than once because of mitochondria.
This seems like a pertinent time to mention Freecycle. From the site:
It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.
I spent the last 5 years working with a narcolept. Her narcolepsy was largely controlled by drugs and when things were busy and active in the office she had no problem but when it was hot and still and quiet she would often just drift off. She had enough of a handle on it so that she could slump safely at her desk instead of falling off her chair if she went right over but often she would just sit with eye lids closing and head nodding. If you've ever fallen asleep at work (and I have) you'll know this feeling...it's the same feeling you get when it's time to pull off the motorway and avoid causing a pileup.
Anyway, the look on peoples faces (customers - contractors - whoever) when they saw this happening was priceless. Meetings were particularly fun. Meetings have to be one of the dullest events ever contrived by man and 9 times out of 10 she would end up slumped over the desk. If ever there were outsiders at the meeting you could see them struggling with the cognitive dissonance of seeing her asleep, seeing that we could all see and were doing nothing about it. They would look around the room, eyes wide, desperately trying to say something or find support for their horror but struck dumb by our apparent indifference. In 5 years only one person actually spoke up in-meeting and that was only because she took it as really offensive behaviour. (Must be that British reserve).
There was a study on rhesus monkeys that basically found that they like looking at high status monkeys. The study was a bit subtler than my summery suggests but...Here it is:abcnews.
I also remember a while back a study that found there are health benefits to men that look at pretty women or something - can't find the study. I imagine both hold true for both sexes. Seems to me that it's more about status than looks. I bet that most people will perceive higher status people(or monkeys) as prettier/more desirable. Take a look at Nicole Kidman. I wouldn't; even if she begged me; if I didn't already know she was famous. As it is I'd want the lights out.
I also bet that the pretty and more desirable are perceived as higher status too.
I also imagine these tropes to hold true for any social animals, even quite simple creatures like antelope and LUG members. *ducks*
The more I think about it....well I wouldn't touch her with yours...
No. I've tried 4 defraggers; some mentioned in this thread; but it seems (after a bit of googling) that there are some system files that will just not be moved by defraggers. Unless it's a permissions thing I have no idea why this should be. My hard drive is beautifully defragged and compacted though, much better than windows can achieve on it's own; and that is an end in it self.
Next I'm going to try taking a ghost of the disk, format and partition in two and ghost back windows on one of the partitions. Then I'll see if Ubuntu can do it's stuff.
Interesting...I never thought of it that way. I'm a kindergarten teacher and there are times when the pesky little blighters act like the kid at the rally and well...like you said...a tase would certainly make my job easier.
Even putting two partitions on a drive doesn't seem safe enough to me. All my user data is on a separate drive along with the swap. This is all backed up on a portable drive as and when I have time. I do this in case of HD failure and if (when)windows does go down then I just ghost the backup from the second drive. Time lost = 30 mins or there abouts.
Oh yes...I wasn't blaming Linux for anything...Sheesh! You guys are so sensitive.
Thanks. I've tried a defrag using windows and Auslogics Disk Defrag (which someone else mentioned somewhere around here) and noticed that data was still all over the drive; nice and unfragmented but still in the way. I'll try your suggestion now....
Thanks for the idea of defragmenting...should have spotted that one but didn't.
My post wasn't meant to be a rant or bitch, just a recounting of my story that seemed relevant to me given the previous post so just for the record...
I didn't suggest windows should be able to resize my partition or allow me to dual boot. I wasn't comparing the two. I didn't trash Linux, throw it's parentage into doubt or call it gay. I said It didn't do what I wanted it to do. I didn't suggest it is not ready for the desktop I don't have have a pet OS, just the one I'm trying to get away from. I said nothing about how easy or not windows is to install and therefore made no straw men arguments. What? I have to be "genuine" and "willing"? I'm trying to dual boot my system not join Alcoholics Anonymous. I wasn't after any sympathy. I also wasn't after your scorn.
Looks like you read far too much into my post. Next time try it with your preconception filter turned to 'off' dude, seriously.
Just what I decided to try, a nice dual boot so I can get used to linux and still stay in my comfort zone with xp. Could I get Ubuntu to repartition the 40gb drive xp was on? No. It wanted to repartition the 300gb drive that in my system temporarily or wipe the 40gb and install on that. I disconnected the 300gb drive thinking it might be an oddity but Ubuntu would not split the 40gb drive for dual boot, just wanted to wipe it even though only about 10gb is used and the swap partition is on another drive. There is the option to do it manually but if I'd have wanted to mess around learning shit like that I wouldn't be trying to dual boot in the first place. Ubuntu fell at the first hurdle for me. So much for how much I keep hearing that it's easier than windows to install. Clearly not proof against an idiot like me.
My experience of GP's and doctors as a species is that they tend to arrogance, self aggrandisement and passive aggressive communication patterns. (Not all and not all the time but in general and in the majority.) Now I generally trust my doctors to be much better at their jobs than I am, but there are times when I know for a fact that I have been fed bs, fobbed off and talked down to. I can quite understand why many think that doctors are somehow all unsympathetic, anti-human conspirators. I do not hold this belief myself (rather I believe they are wankers) but can fully appreciate the phenomena.
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And if we could fine the GPS company every time a cop fines a truck and we'd see just how easy it is for them to update their software and how quick they can accomplish it.
The nastiness doesn't lie in the sulking kid...it's in the mire of shit they are conditioned not to even notice by unscrupulous and venal marketroids and a deeply skewed and distorted media.
You seem to be confusing faith and doubt. You seem to be taking a lot of things on doubt.
This is /.. There is only one thing needed to solve the problem many around here need solving; a sonic shower.
A quick scan on wikipedia and it looks like mitochondria are just symbiotic cells inside another cell and are basically made of the same stuff as you me and every other living thing including their own DNA. I'm simplifying horrendously here but I don't think you can assume life has evolved more than once because of mitochondria.
Get real. All the problems you list are caused by violence in video games...oh...and Sesame Street.
From the site: It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.
Well I don't know many of them personally but a quick head count comes out about......oooh....750,000 or so.
What's that in Libraries of Congress?
Both my sister and me are asthmatic; she became a farmer...I wasn't that stupid!
Actually I think you'll find that a Celine Dion CD is a death sentance.
I spent the last 5 years working with a narcolept. Her narcolepsy was largely controlled by drugs and when things were busy and active in the office she had no problem but when it was hot and still and quiet she would often just drift off. She had enough of a handle on it so that she could slump safely at her desk instead of falling off her chair if she went right over but often she would just sit with eye lids closing and head nodding. If you've ever fallen asleep at work (and I have) you'll know this feeling...it's the same feeling you get when it's time to pull off the motorway and avoid causing a pileup.
Anyway, the look on peoples faces (customers - contractors - whoever) when they saw this happening was priceless. Meetings were particularly fun. Meetings have to be one of the dullest events ever contrived by man and 9 times out of 10 she would end up slumped over the desk. If ever there were outsiders at the meeting you could see them struggling with the cognitive dissonance of seeing her asleep, seeing that we could all see and were doing nothing about it. They would look around the room, eyes wide, desperately trying to say something or find support for their horror but struck dumb by our apparent indifference. In 5 years only one person actually spoke up in-meeting and that was only because she took it as really offensive behaviour. (Must be that British reserve).
Ahhh....fun with narcolepsy.
There was a study on rhesus monkeys that basically found that they like looking at high status monkeys. The study was a bit subtler than my summery suggests but...Here it is:abcnews.
I also remember a while back a study that found there are health benefits to men that look at pretty women or something - can't find the study. I imagine both hold true for both sexes. Seems to me that it's more about status than looks. I bet that most people will perceive higher status people(or monkeys) as prettier/more desirable. Take a look at Nicole Kidman. I wouldn't; even if she begged me; if I didn't already know she was famous. As it is I'd want the lights out.
I also bet that the pretty and more desirable are perceived as higher status too.
I also imagine these tropes to hold true for any social animals, even quite simple creatures like antelope and LUG members. *ducks*
The more I think about it....well I wouldn't touch her with yours...
I already have my pagefile on a separate drive. The files that wont be moved are mostly in the Windows folder and Documents and Settings.
At last! A car analogy I can understand!
No. I've tried 4 defraggers; some mentioned in this thread; but it seems (after a bit of googling) that there are some system files that will just not be moved by defraggers.
Unless it's a permissions thing I have no idea why this should be. My hard drive is beautifully defragged and compacted though, much better than windows can achieve on it's own; and that is an end in it self.
Next I'm going to try taking a ghost of the disk, format and partition in two and ghost back windows on one of the partitions. Then I'll see if Ubuntu can do it's stuff.
Thanks for taking an interest.
You were lucky.
Interesting...I never thought of it that way. I'm a kindergarten teacher and there are times when the pesky little blighters act like the kid at the rally and well...like you said...a tase would certainly make my job easier.
Oh yes...I wasn't blaming Linux for anything...Sheesh! You guys are so sensitive.
Backups made!
Thanks, downloading Auslogics Disk Defrag now.
My post wasn't meant to be a rant or bitch, just a recounting of my story that seemed relevant to me given the previous post so just for the record...
I didn't suggest windows should be able to resize my partition or allow me to dual boot. I wasn't comparing the two.
I didn't trash Linux, throw it's parentage into doubt or call it gay. I said It didn't do what I wanted it to do.
I didn't suggest it is not ready for the desktop
I don't have have a pet OS, just the one I'm trying to get away from.
I said nothing about how easy or not windows is to install and therefore made no straw men arguments.
What? I have to be "genuine" and "willing"? I'm trying to dual boot my system not join Alcoholics Anonymous.
I wasn't after any sympathy. I also wasn't after your scorn.
Looks like you read far too much into my post. Next time try it with your preconception filter turned to 'off' dude, seriously.
Right, I'm off for a bit of defragging...
Just what I decided to try, a nice dual boot so I can get used to linux and still stay in my comfort zone with xp. Could I get Ubuntu to repartition the 40gb drive xp was on? No. It wanted to repartition the 300gb drive that in my system temporarily or wipe the 40gb and install on that. I disconnected the 300gb drive thinking it might be an oddity but Ubuntu would not split the 40gb drive for dual boot, just wanted to wipe it even though only about 10gb is used and the swap partition is on another drive. There is the option to do it manually but if I'd have wanted to mess around learning shit like that I wouldn't be trying to dual boot in the first place. Ubuntu fell at the first hurdle for me. So much for how much I keep hearing that it's easier than windows to install. Clearly not proof against an idiot like me.
My experience of GP's and doctors as a species is that they tend to arrogance, self aggrandisement and passive aggressive communication patterns. (Not all and not all the time but in general and in the majority.)
Now I generally trust my doctors to be much better at their jobs than I am, but there are times when I know for a fact that I have been fed bs, fobbed off and talked down to. I can quite understand why many think that doctors are somehow all unsympathetic, anti-human conspirators. I do not hold this belief myself (rather I believe they are wankers) but can fully appreciate the phenomena.
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