"There are some specific goals that we need to meet in Jaunty. One of them is boot time. We want Ubuntu to boot as fast as possible - both in the standard case, and especially when it is being tailored to a specific device. The Jackalope is known for being so fast that it's extremely hard to catch, and breeds only when lightning flashes. Let's see if we can make booting or resuming Ubuntu blindingly quick."
I'll be in India until this thing blows over (by mid-year I would think). India has real issues with child slave trade and terrorist attacks, but at least they have the real Internet (as slow as it is).
why does fspot take so long to render each picture when viewed normally (ie. not as a thumbnail). is there a way to fix this? I have tried using it multiple times but always fall back to eog because this annoys me so much.
Dude I have been playing Alpha Centauri 1.0 via wine this evening on wine-0.9.59, the Ubuntu Hardy repo version. In winecfg I set windows version to XP and in the Audio tab I ticked ALSA and set DirectSound Hardware Acceleration to Emulation.
The thing is, the economies are growing in the other countries, so sooner or later the jobs will come back to the Western World, as it is simply more efficient to have your workers close to you.
For example, a good Indian programmer costs about a quarter to a third of a good Australian programmer. The Indian economy is growing at a rate of 10% per annum. So at some point in the future it will no longer make sense to send everything overseas.
Not to mention the massively increased project failure rate.
Perth was actually founded by free men as well, but due to factors such as the harsh climate and distance between Perth and Albany, the settlers requested convict labour from England, leading to the Swan River Colony (as it was called) becoming a penal colony 20 years after its foundation.
3. often used to describe something stupid or unfortunate. originating from homophobia. quite preferable among many teenage males in order to buff up their "masculinity"
and
3. "Man, these seats are gay. I can't even see what's going on!"
seriously, type wiki then your term in the address bar in firefox 2 and it goes to the wikipedia article via google feeling lucky - 99 times out of 100 (possible more - its never failed for me)
through primary school, high school, university and 5 or 6 jobs ive put together a network of around 200 people. often enough ill head out to a gig on the weekend and find out beforehand a few facebookers i know are going and ill go out of the way to have a beer or two with them while im out.
definitely worth keeping in touch with people outside your core group of friends, even if its just to build up business opportunities. each to their own though i suppose.
Ive been involved in setting up a programming shop in Hyderabad over the last 6 months and we have discovered it really comes down to your HR processes when trying to get good experienced people. We setup some rather difficult tests - these are the first point of contact for a job candidate. We have about 5 PCs dedicated to these tests and have people constantly streaming through the door.
Its quite funny watching people with allegedly 4 years of programming experience sneak out the door when they know theyve been caught in the act.
From about 200 people that have sat our tests we have hired about 5. So you need to employ extra HR executives to line up interviews etc. Also the tests need to run themselves.
My point is, the labor market in India is huge, there are a lot of good people here, you just need to wade through the so-so people to get to them.
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*ding* this is the correct answer.
Although I think they would have to change their tune, and allow people copyright over their own designs. IANAL of course.
Sony should just pull a Youtube and say they are a carrier for this content, and will pull down content based on DMCA claims.
The other thing is, how many real commercial games are simply copies of other games with slightly different graphics anyway?
Jaunty Jackalope FWIW.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-September/000481.html
"There are some specific goals that we need to meet in Jaunty. One of
them is boot time. We want Ubuntu to boot as fast as possible - both in
the standard case, and especially when it is being tailored to a
specific device. The Jackalope is known for being so fast that it's
extremely hard to catch, and breeds only when lightning flashes. Let's
see if we can make booting or resuming Ubuntu blindingly quick."
I'll be in India until this thing blows over (by mid-year I would think). India has real issues with child slave trade and terrorist attacks, but at least they have the real Internet (as slow as it is).
Maybe we can get some bullshit filters with our cp filters?
if you're techy enough to use IRC, surely you can work out the gnarly gnames.
as someone who helps out on ubuntu forums from time to time, that idea scares the crap out of me.
why does fspot take so long to render each picture when viewed normally (ie. not as a thumbnail). is there a way to fix this? I have tried using it multiple times but always fall back to eog because this annoys me so much.
i think there is a difference between geek culture and Internet culture.
Mark brings the idea up in this post.
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146
For the extended discussion..
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/150
Dude I have been playing Alpha Centauri 1.0 via wine this evening on wine-0.9.59, the Ubuntu Hardy repo version. In winecfg I set windows version to XP and in the Audio tab I ticked ALSA and set DirectSound Hardware Acceleration to Emulation.
Maybe that will help?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/205990
does the fix in this bug reports description help your usplash issue?
The thing is, the economies are growing in the other countries, so sooner or later the jobs will come back to the Western World, as it is simply more efficient to have your workers close to you.
For example, a good Indian programmer costs about a quarter to a third of a good Australian programmer. The Indian economy is growing at a rate of 10% per annum. So at some point in the future it will no longer make sense to send everything overseas.
Not to mention the massively increased project failure rate.
Perth was actually founded by free men as well, but due to factors such as the harsh climate and distance between Perth and Albany, the settlers requested convict labour from England, leading to the Swan River Colony (as it was called) becoming a penal colony 20 years after its foundation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Western_Australia#British_settlements
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gay
Specifically:
3. often used to describe something stupid or unfortunate. originating from homophobia. quite preferable among many teenage males in order to buff up their "masculinity"
and
3. "Man, these seats are gay. I can't even see what's going on!"
Welcome to the Internet!
if you are making millions, rent an office and hire some reporters. no sympathy here.
seriously, type wiki then your term in the address bar in firefox 2 and it goes to the wikipedia article via google feeling lucky - 99 times out of 100 (possible more - its never failed for me)
through primary school, high school, university and 5 or 6 jobs ive put together a network of around 200 people. often enough ill head out to a gig on the weekend and find out beforehand a few facebookers i know are going and ill go out of the way to have a beer or two with them while im out.
definitely worth keeping in touch with people outside your core group of friends, even if its just to build up business opportunities. each to their own though i suppose.
And now that people arent hooked up to the tv every night theres a heap more spare time floating around to do other things, such as making tv shows.
I can imagine that it might be a good thing.
Ive been involved in setting up a programming shop in Hyderabad over the last 6 months and we have discovered it really comes down to your HR processes when trying to get good experienced people. We setup some rather difficult tests - these are the first point of contact for a job candidate. We have about 5 PCs dedicated to these tests and have people constantly streaming through the door.
Its quite funny watching people with allegedly 4 years of programming experience sneak out the door when they know theyve been caught in the act.
From about 200 people that have sat our tests we have hired about 5. So you need to employ extra HR executives to line up interviews etc. Also the tests need to run themselves.
My point is, the labor market in India is huge, there are a lot of good people here, you just need to wade through the so-so people to get to them.
i'll keep that in mind for when i move there next month. :/
That one looks hot compared to this one. How's the blank spot top center, right in the 2nd hottest eyeball spot on the page. Sheesh.
IIRC the ubuntu repository is taken from a snapshot of unstable debian. Thus ubuntu gets cutting-edge code.
I may be wrong though.
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