"Unstable" (IMHO) has always been 'more' stable and newer than any Ubuntu release.... By time stuff makes it into Stable, it's that STABLE
So if I switch from Ubuntu to Debian I could run Unstable to get something more stable? Or run Squeeze and wait for it to become stable, or Sid which would be stable, but will be frozen and could become quite unstable once I break it with newer packages. Testing would be unstable, but more stable than a new ubuntu release, which becomes stable over time, and as long as you stay with an LTS will be updated quite some time. Except when software you use goes to new versions, ubuntu LTS tends to have dependency problems and then it would be more stable to mix debian stable with unstable or even go with unstable and add the cutting edge you need from testing. Adding software from testing would make the traditionally stable debian-unstable quite unstable. But maybe less unstable than staying with ubuntu LTS and adding an untested ppa. Which could make your whole system unstable, and makes you wish you went with unstable to begin with so at least you would have a stable system.
Except it is unconstitutional for a state to tax or regulate interstate commerce. Imagine if California could put a tariff on Florida Orange juice coming into the state to protect California growers?
You could have a small coil implanted around an even smaller tube that contains a magnet which can move up and down through the coil. (I should get a patent for that.)
Now all you have to do is to shake the patient to recharge
When preserving food by heating it, it makes a difference whether the bacteria are active or dormant. You kill them much more effectively, if you catch them feeding. If you do other preserving steps (like unfavorable pH or osmotic conditions) too early, bacteria go dormant and survive the heat much better.
The good ol' "let's mock the victim here for not being as smart as me" routine.
No. If I mocked everyone not being as smart as me, I wouldn't get anything else done. I only mock for "not being as smart as me but thinking to be way smarter than me".
Hmm... odd, most reports about contacts have been from some hillbillies high on moonshine.
That's because the aliens are visitors from an advanced libertarian society of tea-partiers.
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.... does it have any new operator?:-P
Of course. Not every possible key combination has been used yet.
With previous versions of perl, a cat could walk over the keyboard and accidentally create valid perl code.
Now a cat walking over the keyboard will for sure create valid perl code.
These custom built tracking devices cost a lot of money.
If you find one under your car, you should be ashamed of wasting tax payer money like that (and also for forcing a federal agent to get down there and make his suit pants dirty.)
Just get a new car with OnStar, and I guarantee you you won't find another tracking device in your car's bumper.
There are a couple. The problem is, even the few that are available for windows, osx, and linux aren't any better than skype.
If you want to do a conference call, you have to run your own server, or find and pay someone. In Skype, you just pay them and don't have to worry about any technical details or voip lingo.
Likely. But, a single outbreak will neither confirm nor disprove any influence of climate change on tornado activity. - But that's also true for all these anecdotal examples of really warm summers and past bad weather the head-in-the-sand climate change deniers will come up with.
Increasing temperature and higher humidity will make existing storms (hurricanes and tornadoes) more violent.
The insurance industry knows that prognosis already. But for real good statistics we'll have to wait another 20 years. Even then, some idiots will deny it, like they deny current climate data.
Unfortunately, the way it works in the US is that if the industry gets caught unprepared for a crisis, they convince the public that science is wrong. That buys the industry enough time to restructure their resources.
There have been tons of droid commercials. People know android as a phone OS.
-Obviously you want something faster and better on your tablet than on your phone.
Maybe one should brand one as Android CE and one as Android XL (same source of course..)
I wonder.
The ad-industry certainly targets younger people.
The 30+ might have more income, but maybe not "disposable income" (mortgage, college loans, kids,..). The 17 yo who lives at home might be the easier target.
Facebook has been adopted by the audience that is slow to adopt and slow to move away as well, which is older people.... Facebook created a niche and I think will occupy it for the foreseeable future.
True. Really, really old people (30+) give stability to your platform.
But it is the irresponsible and naive young that drive the ad-revenue.
God, is there an internet rule that states that for any reasonably technical topic that there will be an xkcd comic for it? =)
There is now...
Necessarily there will also be a xkcd about this
And since it will be a xkcd about the law that there is a xkcd for everything technical/geeky it will be self-referential. Which will make it even more geekier, if that's even possible with xkcd.
But I admit it doesn't matter whether you call it centimeter or inch or measure the distance by the eyebrow length of the great communicator Ronald Reagan.
Call it the freedom fighting anti-communist inch of the greatest empire on earth, if you wish. And make it twice as long as every other country's unit.
Doesn't really matter.
What matters, is the fucked up unit system within the imperial system.
Let's say you want to convert 1/8 inch rainfall to gallons per square yard? Yes, doable, sure. In the metric system however it's just counting zeros and shifting a decimal point.
A meter has 100 centimeter, so a square meter has a 100x100 square centimeter, or 10000. Easy, just count zeros. Liters in a cubic meter? Easy.
Kilograms per square centimeter to tons per square meter? Easy, just counting zeros.
But square inch to square feet? Square miles? floz to gallon?
And if that isn't bad enough, add all the competing units used in the US. Air pressure is a different unit when the air is in the atmosphere or in the tire. For energy, there are different units depending on whether it is an air conditioner, a furnace, a car, what company I get the energy from, and whether the second Friday after Lincoln's birthday falls on a full moon.
The difference to the metric system is not, that inch and cm are different. The beauty of the metric system is that you have a consistent system. And that's why scientific calculations are usually done in metric and the result is then transfered back to imperial, so the US public won't get worried that the French took over, communists gained control of the class room, or that their politicians betrayed the greatest conceivable nation on earth.
That's kind of what I was thinking. The reason for moving away from Oracle was because it cannot be trusted. They asked for the name and did not get it so they moved on. Now Oracle says "we're sorry, here you can have the name!"
No, they were not even saying that. As someone clever (me, of course) pointed out before, they only announced to turn over OpenOffice to the "community". That community doesn't have to be the OpenDoc Foundation, it could be anything Oracle can come up with. It could even be a fake, divisive new foundation under their control, practically splitting the community.
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There are other operating systems beyond Windows and OS X. Linux is one of many with a miniscule desktop market share. FreeBSD is another contender
There are other countries besides the US and Canada. France is one of many minuscule countries. Monaco is another one.
"Unstable" (IMHO) has always been 'more' stable and newer than any Ubuntu release. ... By time stuff makes it into Stable, it's that STABLE
So if I switch from Ubuntu to Debian I could run Unstable to get something more stable? Or run Squeeze and wait for it to become stable, or Sid which would be stable, but will be frozen and could become quite unstable once I break it with newer packages. Testing would be unstable, but more stable than a new ubuntu release, which becomes stable over time, and as long as you stay with an LTS will be updated quite some time. Except when software you use goes to new versions, ubuntu LTS tends to have dependency problems and then it would be more stable to mix debian stable with unstable or even go with unstable and add the cutting edge you need from testing. Adding software from testing would make the traditionally stable debian-unstable quite unstable. But maybe less unstable than staying with ubuntu LTS and adding an untested ppa. Which could make your whole system unstable, and makes you wish you went with unstable to begin with so at least you would have a stable system.
Right?
Except it is unconstitutional for a state to tax or regulate interstate commerce. Imagine if California could put a tariff on Florida Orange juice coming into the state to protect California growers?
No, but they can put the normal sales tax on it.
You could have a small coil implanted around an even smaller tube that contains a magnet which can move up and down through the coil. (I should get a patent for that.)
Now all you have to do is to shake the patient to recharge
When preserving food by heating it, it makes a difference whether the bacteria are active or dormant. You kill them much more effectively, if you catch them feeding. If you do other preserving steps (like unfavorable pH or osmotic conditions) too early, bacteria go dormant and survive the heat much better.
The good ol' "let's mock the victim here for not being as smart as me" routine.
No. If I mocked everyone not being as smart as me, I wouldn't get anything else done.
I only mock for "not being as smart as me but thinking to be way smarter than me".
Hmm... odd, most reports about contacts have been from some hillbillies high on moonshine.
That's because the aliens are visitors from an advanced libertarian society of tea-partiers.
.... does it have any new operator? :-P
Of course. Not every possible key combination has been used yet.
With previous versions of perl, a cat could walk over the keyboard and accidentally create valid perl code.
Now a cat walking over the keyboard will for sure create valid perl code.
the use of unmanned aerial vehicles
Didn't Amelia Earhart have an aircraft decades ago that could fly both manned or unmanned?
These custom built tracking devices cost a lot of money.
If you find one under your car, you should be ashamed of wasting tax payer money like that (and also for forcing a federal agent to get down there and make his suit pants dirty.)
Just get a new car with OnStar, and I guarantee you you won't find another tracking device in your car's bumper.
Not sure, I would trust a program called KeepAss.
Mod parent post up...
Don't tell me what to do!
Oh crap. -Where did the mod-boxes go?
There are a couple. The problem is, even the few that are available for windows, osx, and linux aren't any better than skype.
If you want to do a conference call, you have to run your own server, or find and pay someone.
In Skype, you just pay them and don't have to worry about any technical details or voip lingo.
..and change Skype to Spyme.
Sometimes in a thunderstorm you see lightning, but it can take several seconds till you hear thunder.
Pretty bad design, imho.
They're the most disgustingly horrific dog to have ever been successfully bred this side of Lovecraft's fecund imagination.
No, that would be the cross between an American and a Poodle, the Yankee Doodle.
Likely. But, a single outbreak will neither confirm nor disprove any influence of climate change on tornado activity. - But that's also true for all these anecdotal examples of really warm summers and past bad weather the head-in-the-sand climate change deniers will come up with.
Increasing temperature and higher humidity will make existing storms (hurricanes and tornadoes) more violent. The insurance industry knows that prognosis already. But for real good statistics we'll have to wait another 20 years. Even then, some idiots will deny it, like they deny current climate data.
Unfortunately, the way it works in the US is that if the industry gets caught unprepared for a crisis, they convince the public that science is wrong. That buys the industry enough time to restructure their resources.
There have been tons of droid commercials. People know android as a phone OS.
-Obviously you want something faster and better on your tablet than on your phone.
Maybe one should brand one as Android CE and one as Android XL (same source of course..)
No. You call it the "if you like our towels, take one"-policy and bill it to the credit card.
-Or you tell your guest: "We have this a special offer this week only, for only $1 you can upgrade to a brand new towel."
more disposable income
I wonder.
The ad-industry certainly targets younger people.
The 30+ might have more income, but maybe not "disposable income" (mortgage, college loans, kids, ..). The 17 yo who lives at home might be the easier target.
Facebook has been adopted by the audience that is slow to adopt and slow to move away as well, which is older people. ... Facebook created a niche and I think will occupy it for the foreseeable future.
True. Really, really old people (30+) give stability to your platform.
But it is the irresponsible and naive young that drive the ad-revenue.
There's also various cities that have passed regulations about grey-water, that then means you can't clean your car in the driveway anymore.
Are you serious? That's the most moronic thing I've ever heard..
There are places were the rainwater collection system drains directly into the lake.
God, is there an internet rule that states that for any reasonably technical topic that there will be an xkcd comic for it? =)
There is now...
Necessarily there will also be a xkcd about this
And since it will be a xkcd about the law that there is a xkcd for everything technical/geeky it will be self-referential. Which will make it even more geekier, if that's even possible with xkcd.
But I admit it doesn't matter whether you call it centimeter or inch or measure the distance by the eyebrow length of the great communicator Ronald Reagan.
Call it the freedom fighting anti-communist inch of the greatest empire on earth, if you wish. And make it twice as long as every other country's unit.
Doesn't really matter.
What matters, is the fucked up unit system within the imperial system.
Let's say you want to convert 1/8 inch rainfall to gallons per square yard? Yes, doable, sure. In the metric system however it's just counting zeros and shifting a decimal point.
A meter has 100 centimeter, so a square meter has a 100x100 square centimeter, or 10000. Easy, just count zeros. Liters in a cubic meter? Easy. Kilograms per square centimeter to tons per square meter? Easy, just counting zeros.
But square inch to square feet? Square miles? floz to gallon?
And if that isn't bad enough, add all the competing units used in the US. Air pressure is a different unit when the air is in the atmosphere or in the tire. For energy, there are different units depending on whether it is an air conditioner, a furnace, a car, what company I get the energy from, and whether the second Friday after Lincoln's birthday falls on a full moon.
The difference to the metric system is not, that inch and cm are different. The beauty of the metric system is that you have a consistent system. And that's why scientific calculations are usually done in metric and the result is then transfered back to imperial, so the US public won't get worried that the French took over, communists gained control of the class room, or that their politicians betrayed the greatest conceivable nation on earth.
That's kind of what I was thinking. The reason for moving away from Oracle was because it cannot be trusted. They asked for the name and did not get it so they moved on. Now Oracle says "we're sorry, here you can have the name!"
No, they were not even saying that. As someone clever (me, of course) pointed out before, they only announced to turn over OpenOffice to the "community". That community doesn't have to be the OpenDoc Foundation, it could be anything Oracle can come up with. It could even be a fake, divisive new foundation under their control, practically splitting the community.