One of the reasons MSOffice loads so quickly is that it adds a "quick launch" app to Windows Startup. Part of the code loads every time you boot (adding to boot time and sucking up system resources) so that Office can load quicker. Nice, if you're constantly using Office, opening, editing, saving and closing. Not so nice if you only use it once or twice a week, and you're wondering why your computer takes so long to boot. Of course, the installer doesn't mention it's doing this unless you do a custom install and decide not to load that module. Take out Quick Load, and I'll bet the load time for Office is just about the same as for OpenOffice.
You might not consider an ugly truth defamatory, but dictionary.com doesn't agree. If it injures your reputation, it's defamatory, even if (especially if) it's true. And, alas, in some parts of the world, that's more important than the truth. If you find it hard to live with, I suggest that you stay well away from places that think that way.
In principle, at least, it could happen in Britain if the truth were considered sufficiently defamatory. Unlike in America, the truth is not an absolute defense there against libel and if you can persuade a judge that you were defamed you can win a libel suit even if what was published was the plain, unembellished truth. If, let's say, you had photographic evidence of a politician cheating on his wife and put them up on the web, he could sue and the judge would probably end up ordering them taken down. I doubt that anybody would go this far, but there's nothing in their law to prevent it.
I want to know who these judges are that keep granting absurd injunctions. Is it really enough to just ask to take down any site you want?
Whoever this judge is probably subscribes to the same school of thought as that judge in Kentucky who ordered a batch of domain names transferred to the state.
I wonder if a certain amount of this new-found courage is coming from the subtle tides of a nation changing direction?
You may well be right. The universities may have realized that with the new Administration they now have freedom, as defined by Janis Joplin: Nothing left to lose.
Of course, Fomalhault "b" is only a temporary designation; if smaller planets are detected closer to the star, then one of those would become "b" I imagine.
Maybe not. It might be easier to name them in the order of discovery. If nothing else, that eliminates any possible confusion down the road.
I know that this will not be the last broken promise - however I still think as presidents go he will be very good.
So you prefer voting for a candidate who can't wait to start breaking promises instead of one who at least tried to keep his word. Well, that's what we now have for President. I hope you don't regret it later.
Once Obama saw he could make more money through donations he promptly did an about face and broke the promise.
The question isn't why he broke his promise; we all know that. The question is, how can you trust him when he can't be bothered to wait until after the election to start breaking his campaign promises?
what happened to their completely re-written file system ?
Back in the old days, when the motto was still "Embrace and Extend," instead of today's NIH and "We've always done it That Way," they wouldn't have had to re-write the file system. Instead, they would have "borrowed" ext3, or Reiserfs and given it a New! Shiny! Microsoft! name. And it would have been better than what they have now.
I used to hate the long boot time every morning too. Then, I saw the light, abandoned The Dark Side and installed Linux. Now, I wake up, go over to my computer and it's ready for me with no delay because I don't have to reboot it every day. The only time I reboot is for a kernel update, or if the power drops.
I was thinking roughly the same thing, but I would have suggested having the user delete kernel32.dll, then reboot "to make sure your changes take effect."
Realistically though, how could a change in operating system really affect the speed of video encoding, unless the process scheduler is absolutely abysmal (which I'd think it wouldn't be by this point).
One of the factors affecting the speed is disk access, both for read and for write. If part of the new system is a disk IO system that's better adapted to the newer hardware, this might speed things up.
Does anybody else remember when the greatest thing in Windows was After Dark, with it's screensaver of flying toasters? what we really need now is a repeat of that, but with chairs instead.
Earthlink Network started blocking outbound Port 25 about ten years ago, and AFAIK still does. If you're an Earthlink customer, either you use their SMTP servers or you don't use Port 25. I don't know how much good it does anymore, but at the time, it helped keep down the amount of spam coming out of them because having to use their servers makes it much easier to trace back and prove. Now, of course, they probably just use 587 to reach some foreign server that's set up to relay for them.
Obama could (and likely would) simply deny knowledge of my donation and my influence is lost.
Just because a politician publicly denies any knowledge of a donation doesn't mean he or she doesn't know exactly where it came from and what quid pro quo is expected in return. If this was done with BO's knowledge and consent, you can bet that he'll deny knowing about it and that he'll give the donors exactly what they paid for.
the Obama campaign refuses to make public its list of contributors.
If a Republican had done that, there'd be calls for impeachment. Of course, BO is a Democrat, and will have both houses of Congress on his side, so that's not going to happen. Mind you, I don't think it should, but even if there were proof that he'd violated the Campaign Financing laws he'd skate because he has his party marching in lock-step behind him.
These days, it seems like conservatives are so desperate for dirt that they'll latch onto anything, even if it's completely artificial.
And you think that liberals weren't so desperate to explain why they lost two elections in a row to Bush that they didn't make up all kinds of absurd conspiracies (Such as trying to blame the butterfly ballots on his brother instead of the Democrats who designed and approved them.) to make it look like they were cheated? Face it, Democrat fanboi, the shoe's on the other foot now, and you're going to be spending a lot of your time justifying BO's dishonesty. Among other things, how can you believe him after he reneged on his promise to accept public funding? The only reason BO was able to outspend John McCain is because unlike BO, McCain kept his promise.
first, England rounded up all of it's religious fanatics, and sent them to the American colonies
Not quite. Most of England's religious fanatics left of their own free will because they didn't want to be subjected to the obnoxious presence of people who didn't worship the same way they did. Most Americans either don't know it or try to forget it, but almost all of New England was founded on the basis of religious intolerance. Rhode Island was the first colony to offer true freedom of religion.
You do understand, don't you, that the reason the nVidia drivers aren't in the Ubuntu (or Fedora) repos are that they're not OSS? Ubuntu will quite happily download and install them if needed, but they'll also make sure you know they're third-party and not supported by Ubuntu. For Fedora, you need to add a third-party repo (livna) after which installing the drivers and keeping them current is simplicity itself. I don't know about other distros, but I'd presume it's similar for all of them, with the probable exception of Gentoo.
There's something important that the summary ignored. (surprise, surprise) If you RTFA, you'll learn that the tank is filled with "toxic ammonia coolant." That means that the contents are very good at absorbing heat; else they'd be no good as a coolant. And, we all know that reentry generates lots and lots of heat. I wonder if anybody at NASA knows how much pressure that tank can hold and how likely it is to burst long before it reaches the ground.
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One of the reasons MSOffice loads so quickly is that it adds a "quick launch" app to Windows Startup. Part of the code loads every time you boot (adding to boot time and sucking up system resources) so that Office can load quicker. Nice, if you're constantly using Office, opening, editing, saving and closing. Not so nice if you only use it once or twice a week, and you're wondering why your computer takes so long to boot. Of course, the installer doesn't mention it's doing this unless you do a custom install and decide not to load that module. Take out Quick Load, and I'll bet the load time for Office is just about the same as for OpenOffice.
You might not consider an ugly truth defamatory, but dictionary.com doesn't agree. If it injures your reputation, it's defamatory, even if (especially if) it's true. And, alas, in some parts of the world, that's more important than the truth. If you find it hard to live with, I suggest that you stay well away from places that think that way.
In principle, at least, it could happen in Britain if the truth were considered sufficiently defamatory. Unlike in America, the truth is not an absolute defense there against libel and if you can persuade a judge that you were defamed you can win a libel suit even if what was published was the plain, unembellished truth. If, let's say, you had photographic evidence of a politician cheating on his wife and put them up on the web, he could sue and the judge would probably end up ordering them taken down. I doubt that anybody would go this far, but there's nothing in their law to prevent it.
Whoever this judge is probably subscribes to the same school of thought as that judge in Kentucky who ordered a batch of domain names transferred to the state.
You may well be right. The universities may have realized that with the new Administration they now have freedom, as defined by Janis Joplin: Nothing left to lose.
Maybe not. It might be easier to name them in the order of discovery. If nothing else, that eliminates any possible confusion down the road.
So you prefer voting for a candidate who can't wait to start breaking promises instead of one who at least tried to keep his word. Well, that's what we now have for President. I hope you don't regret it later.
The question isn't why he broke his promise; we all know that. The question is, how can you trust him when he can't be bothered to wait until after the election to start breaking his campaign promises?
Tell that to all of the people who voted BO into office. I'm sure they'll be glad to know about it.
Back in the old days, when the motto was still "Embrace and Extend," instead of today's NIH and "We've always done it That Way," they wouldn't have had to re-write the file system. Instead, they would have "borrowed" ext3, or Reiserfs and given it a New! Shiny! Microsoft! name. And it would have been better than what they have now.
I used to hate the long boot time every morning too. Then, I saw the light, abandoned The Dark Side and installed Linux. Now, I wake up, go over to my computer and it's ready for me with no delay because I don't have to reboot it every day. The only time I reboot is for a kernel update, or if the power drops.
I am not a number! I am a free man!
I was thinking roughly the same thing, but I would have suggested having the user delete kernel32.dll, then reboot "to make sure your changes take effect."
One of the factors affecting the speed is disk access, both for read and for write. If part of the new system is a disk IO system that's better adapted to the newer hardware, this might speed things up.
Does anybody else remember when the greatest thing in Windows was After Dark, with it's screensaver of flying toasters? what we really need now is a repeat of that, but with chairs instead.
Earthlink Network started blocking outbound Port 25 about ten years ago, and AFAIK still does. If you're an Earthlink customer, either you use their SMTP servers or you don't use Port 25. I don't know how much good it does anymore, but at the time, it helped keep down the amount of spam coming out of them because having to use their servers makes it much easier to trace back and prove. Now, of course, they probably just use 587 to reach some foreign server that's set up to relay for them.
Just because a politician publicly denies any knowledge of a donation doesn't mean he or she doesn't know exactly where it came from and what quid pro quo is expected in return. If this was done with BO's knowledge and consent, you can bet that he'll deny knowing about it and that he'll give the donors exactly what they paid for.
If a Republican had done that, there'd be calls for impeachment. Of course, BO is a Democrat, and will have both houses of Congress on his side, so that's not going to happen. Mind you, I don't think it should, but even if there were proof that he'd violated the Campaign Financing laws he'd skate because he has his party marching in lock-step behind him.
And you think that liberals weren't so desperate to explain why they lost two elections in a row to Bush that they didn't make up all kinds of absurd conspiracies (Such as trying to blame the butterfly ballots on his brother instead of the Democrats who designed and approved them.) to make it look like they were cheated? Face it, Democrat fanboi, the shoe's on the other foot now, and you're going to be spending a lot of your time justifying BO's dishonesty. Among other things, how can you believe him after he reneged on his promise to accept public funding? The only reason BO was able to outspend John McCain is because unlike BO, McCain kept his promise.
Not quite. Most of England's religious fanatics left of their own free will because they didn't want to be subjected to the obnoxious presence of people who didn't worship the same way they did. Most Americans either don't know it or try to forget it, but almost all of New England was founded on the basis of religious intolerance. Rhode Island was the first colony to offer true freedom of religion.
I always thought the whole point of Gentoo was that you compiled everything yourself from source. You mean they're willing to accept binary blobs?
Here in America, you screw up Slashdot memes. In Soviet Russia, Slashdot memes screw you up.
You do understand, don't you, that the reason the nVidia drivers aren't in the Ubuntu (or Fedora) repos are that they're not OSS? Ubuntu will quite happily download and install them if needed, but they'll also make sure you know they're third-party and not supported by Ubuntu. For Fedora, you need to add a third-party repo (livna) after which installing the drivers and keeping them current is simplicity itself. I don't know about other distros, but I'd presume it's similar for all of them, with the probable exception of Gentoo.
Kids today. They don't even understand any more that gamma rays only have an effect on man-in-the-moon marigolds.
There's something important that the summary ignored. (surprise, surprise) If you RTFA, you'll learn that the tank is filled with "toxic ammonia coolant." That means that the contents are very good at absorbing heat; else they'd be no good as a coolant. And, we all know that reentry generates lots and lots of heat. I wonder if anybody at NASA knows how much pressure that tank can hold and how likely it is to burst long before it reaches the ground.