Really, while dealing with a clean cut GUI is great, it's still a great idea to deal with the command line on occasion. You will get a fuller understanding of everything from the Linux kernel to Computer Science in general.
Obviously, you shouldn't have to use the command line exclusively, in fact, you shouldn't have to use it most of the time, but playing with the command line every once in a while, alongside a little bit of frustration, will be worth your time.
Further, you might run into little pitfalls every once in a while that have no GUI solution. If you do not at least partially familiarize yourself with the command line you will not be able to solve it.
Also, when I get bored, if you look at my history, you will see chunks that take the form: cd *folder name* ls cat *file name* ad nauseum. I'm more knowledgable because of it.
So, bottom line, don't pick a distro because everything is graphical, and don't work with a distro avoiding the command line at all costs, it will only hurt your GUI experience and hurt your Linux experience in general.
"Accidental"? This kind of stuff happened many times throughout history. Conquering civ's tried to erase the history of the conquered by destroying it's traces and replacing history to begin with the conquerors.
It wasn't about burning books, it was about destroying inferior history.
As for the library they should have had an offsite backup.
The Romans ruled every piece of the World the "backup" would have been located. So no, a backup wouldn't have mattered. It's like storing Windows backups on another Windows box. They're both going to get wiped sooner or later.
They've taken a fairly decent approach to implementing wireless. While it is by no means campus wide, they've started by offering partial wireless to a specific building, and then full wireless access to the building. The best part is the buldings they started with are the ones comp. sci. students like myself and engineers frequent while it seems like the arts students are going to be last. I laugh at them while they're learning in class and I'm surfing the net. (oh wait, arts students don't learn anything anyways...)
I suppose it's all part of the ultimate goal of developing a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer
I don't see why we always have to link to the NY Times. There are many others with the same story. (Google often links to NY Times articles too without requiring registration)
Don't forget to decrease the brightness and contrast of your display. I found this can add an extra half an hour or so to your battery life.
And, as was hinted at by others, take off anything that will cause your processor to do more work than you need. This means removing big GUI's, and use basic software (like anything but Gnome and KDE, Firefox instead of Mozilla Suite, Mutt instead of Evolution, etc.)
Ok, if this is directed at me, I feel compelled to rebuttle. I did read the article. What I stated still holds true even after your post. Nima analyzed the photos and decided that the craft did land as expected and thus something else caused the spacecraft to malfunction. It was belived that it crashed on impact and that is the reason it didn't work. Therefore, they were able to find no unexpected damage. (ie. lack thereof).
The images are available (linked in the Slashdot article) and after viewing them, I was shocked they were able to determine this kind of detail.
Further, there is nothing "conspiracy theoretical" (Yeah, I made that word up), about my post. I simply stated that since NIMA's main order of business is to watch things on Earth, they must be able to determine quite a bit about what happens here on land if they can determine that information from those Martian photos.
Haitian groups are not satisfied and want the option to return the uneditted game for the editted one.
This is why there's a problem. Nobody cares but the Haitians. Nobody in their right mind will have puchased a known offensive game and return it for a less offensive one. This is part of the game's appeal.
There's been a lot of speculation on media like this lately. We devoloped a rating system for a reason and it seems people are ignoring them. This game is rated mature because it is offensive, and it is violent. People are still stupid enough to think that those who play these games will be inclined to go on killing sprees. If they would just adhere the rating system, we would find that only 18 year olds and older would be playing the game. If you have enough money to even buy the game and(/or) the console/computer to go with it, you obviously have enough intelligence to distinguish the difference between a video game and real life. It's time everybody started to practice some rationality.
This doesn't just include video games. Movies and Television shows are subject to the same irrational scrutiny.
Slashdot Mirror
:) That's awesome. I never thought of it that way.
I'm going to kill my guidance councillor for this one!
Really, while dealing with a clean cut GUI is great, it's still a great idea to deal with the command line on occasion. You will get a fuller understanding of everything from the Linux kernel to Computer Science in general.
Obviously, you shouldn't have to use the command line exclusively, in fact, you shouldn't have to use it most of the time, but playing with the command line every once in a while, alongside a little bit of frustration, will be worth your time.
Further, you might run into little pitfalls every once in a while that have no GUI solution. If you do not at least partially familiarize yourself with the command line you will not be able to solve it.
Also, when I get bored, if you look at my history, you will see chunks that take the form:
cd *folder name*
ls
cat *file name*
ad nauseum.
I'm more knowledgable because of it.
So, bottom line, don't pick a distro because everything is graphical, and don't work with a distro avoiding the command line at all costs, it will only hurt your GUI experience and hurt your Linux experience in general.
"Accidental"?
This kind of stuff happened many times throughout history. Conquering civ's tried to erase the history of the conquered by destroying it's traces and replacing history to begin with the conquerors.
It wasn't about burning books, it was about destroying inferior history.
As for the library they should have had an offsite backup.
The Romans ruled every piece of the World the "backup" would have been located. So no, a backup wouldn't have mattered. It's like storing Windows backups on another Windows box. They're both going to get wiped sooner or later.
they just had to smash through the big Roman numeral 10 on the floor.
:)
Troy had the same problem. Took us centuries to find it too. There's a lot of ancient mysteries yet to be rediscovered.
flash is the wrong tool for the web, but I smell a flame war starting with this one...
On Slashdot? Not bloody likely. Here, watch this: Microsoft sucks!
What's there to tour in a section of Siberia desolated by a nuclear explosion?
kinda like this?
If you are a shitty programmer you'll end up making less
What kind of sense is that? More like, if you're a shitty programmer, you'll end up without a job.
They've taken a fairly decent approach to implementing wireless. While it is by no means campus wide, they've started by offering partial wireless to a specific building, and then full wireless access to the building. The best part is the buldings they started with are the ones comp. sci. students like myself and engineers frequent while it seems like the arts students are going to be last. I laugh at them while they're learning in class and I'm surfing the net. (oh wait, arts students don't learn anything anyways...)
"Genetically Modified Grass" - Does this mean I can get super high?
I suppose it's all part of the ultimate goal of developing a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer
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*Phew* Mine still works.
I don't see why we always have to link to the NY Times. There are many others with the same story. (Google often links to NY Times articles too without requiring registration)
But I suppose the games can.
He calls for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, he should call for an amendment to ban SCO.
Or... cue the shock and awe campaign.
No, they had "Implied Oral Consent" :)
Don't forget to decrease the brightness and contrast of your display. I found this can add an extra half an hour or so to your battery life.
And, as was hinted at by others, take off anything that will cause your processor to do more work than you need. This means removing big GUI's, and use basic software (like anything but Gnome and KDE, Firefox instead of Mozilla Suite, Mutt instead of Evolution, etc.)
Kind of defeats the purpose of a wiki doesn't it?
I was at a loss for the little while I spent with it as to what exactly put it above Gnome in terms of ease of use.
I on the other hand, have been searching for the opposite.
Ok, if this is directed at me, I feel compelled to rebuttle. I did read the article. What I stated still holds true even after your post. Nima analyzed the photos and decided that the craft did land as expected and thus something else caused the spacecraft to malfunction. It was belived that it crashed on impact and that is the reason it didn't work. Therefore, they were able to find no unexpected damage. (ie. lack thereof).
The images are available (linked in the Slashdot article) and after viewing them, I was shocked they were able to determine this kind of detail.
Further, there is nothing "conspiracy theoretical" (Yeah, I made that word up), about my post. I simply stated that since NIMA's main order of business is to watch things on Earth, they must be able to determine quite a bit about what happens here on land if they can determine that information from those Martian photos.
Yeah, They're even blocking Slashdot! Kind of ironic.
If NIMA can discern wreckage (or lack thereof) on a small space craft on Mars based on those photos, I wonder what they can see here on earth.
Haitian groups are not satisfied and want the option to return the uneditted game for the editted one.
This is why there's a problem. Nobody cares but the Haitians. Nobody in their right mind will have puchased a known offensive game and return it for a less offensive one. This is part of the game's appeal.
There's been a lot of speculation on media like this lately. We devoloped a rating system for a reason and it seems people are ignoring them. This game is rated mature because it is offensive, and it is violent. People are still stupid enough to think that those who play these games will be inclined to go on killing sprees. If they would just adhere the rating system, we would find that only 18 year olds and older would be playing the game. If you have enough money to even buy the game and(/or) the console/computer to go with it, you obviously have enough intelligence to distinguish the difference between a video game and real life. It's time everybody started to practice some rationality.
This doesn't just include video games. Movies and Television shows are subject to the same irrational scrutiny.