Shawshank's redemption. But that was probably because the book was a somewhat short story so it was easy to fit everything that was in the book into a 2 hour movie.
Which is why most conversions are crap, there's just too much in the book to put in the movie.
Ubuntu also has those non-free repositories. But only non-free that's still legal and free as in beer. To get stuff like mp3 playing/encoding and dvd playing you have to go to some other repository or compile it yourself.
So RMS likes that a user has to make a real effort to get non-free stuff, and that they'll be aware what they're doing.
On Gentoo I installed non-free stuff frequently with no idea of their liscensing issues.
but they don't come with the mini. i think. maybe this is their way to stop pushing them without admitting defeat. maybe i'm reading to much into it. anyway, i have a 3 button + scrollwheel on my mac as can anyone.
okay, that sounds usefull and acceptable. The way it's stated in the article though... sounded like an actual thinking brain. Writers for a subject known to be controversial should be more clear
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
Usually i'm all for scientists doing what they want and all, but I hope this isn't true. What the hell? Why would there ever be a use for mice with human brains? Even if there were one. Jeez, that's gotta be the sickest thing in biology I've ever heard of.
yes, it does suck to have to justify all resarch and make it sound like it's going to be usefull/profitable in the near term. In my group we have to make our resarch sound like an essential step on the road to a quantum computer, but to us it's just research.
But that's different than having to worry about whether your research infringes on a patent. I think what the parent post meant was that biologists and scientists in general don't want to keep their research closed and patented in order to make money themselves (Funny how the patent pushers go on about needing patents to provide incentive and progression when scientists know that science has to be open to flourish). I guess a tough situation could arise when your funding agency or university is insisting that you get a patent when you know it will be a hindrince to your field.
So maybe there should be a law. Absolutely no patents in general blue sky research. And if that lowers funding and slows down resarch, well it won't slow it down as much as this patent problem could.
Only in some sick bizzaro world can I imagine having to stop my research because it infinged on a patent, but it actually happened to a professor at my uni. He does geological resarch and was using a method of determining the density of earth at very low depths. He uses it for basic 'what is the earth made of and what's it doing' type research, but apparently some company that prospects for oil had a very vague patent on the general method and is now trying to stop him from doing his research.
What a hateful thing
So I agree with you that big money and even big corporations sometimes have to be involved. I just wish patents weren't.
I have tried it and it is more like you say. click the application you want and it downloads a folder to your home directory. I don't know if the executable was actually in there. Must have been. But what I clicked on to run the program wasn't actally the binary.
It's pretty neat and for the most part worked. Sometimes (rarely) it asked me for permission to put something onto my system outside of the application's folder.
So I think it's great, and something like this will probably be the future of application installers for those who prefer it. I guess most of us are satisfied with the package management that our distro came with. Besides, obviously things like libraries can't be installed like this. But for end product applications, this thing seems great. Now they need to get it to support more distros. It seems they started with the KDE based Debian distros and will spread out to other Debian derivatives from there.
Actually Steve should and probably does worry about what his customers think. You on the other hand should not take criticism of a commercial product that you have no investment in so personally. But I'm glad my opinions don't keep you up at night. That would be scary.
I'm not irked at Apple. I'm irked at all the sheep that're going to buy the marketing hype and make this thing a success when it brings nothing new to the market. But I shouldn't be. After all, no money out of my pocket.
I will be irritated however when someone sees my player and asks me why in the world I didn't get a Shuffle.
yes, I admit, most of the time I use my mp3 player like this too. And I can understand how some people might not care if it doesn't have an lcd. But at least once a day it's essential for me to look at the lcd when I want to hear a specific album or song.
I'm also kind of irked about how this is suddenly a 'feature'. My first cd mp3 player had this 'feature'. It sucked. It's hard navigating through over 200 songs with no display. Many other flash players have had small or no lcds but were considered to be shit because of it. One of the main complaints about Sony and Creative's flash players are their small lcds. But now that Apple has one with no lcd, it's an innovative design feature.
This sucks. Apple is supposed to be an innovator. There are tens of mp3 players this small, most with screens. What does this thing have over all the other cheapo flash players? Maybe if it was voice activated or something.
Yeah, that thing is pretty sweet. And it's about time. Maybe they saw all the slashdot posts bitching about all the low end macs being all in ones. I'm about 5 times more likely to buy this than their imacs.
But that ishuffle thing? blechhh. I'm sure it will do well 'cause of the fanatics, but I think it's just silly. Around 15 albums worth of music and no navigation? Anyone who wants a gumstick sized mp3 player should see the iaudio U2
you could do interesting things like downgrade packages to previous versions
is there an easy way to do this in Debian? I've seen some instructions, but they were all much more complicated than Gentoo's way which is a one liner.
I'm not asking this to argue, I use Debian now and really want to know. Sometimes I want to try something in experimental, but am pretty sure I'll want to go back
sonoluminescence has not been proven to actually be fusion. It's just a lot of light and some heat in water that's been compressed by sound. much more interesting than that though.
And they claim that this process that isn't fully understood yet will get break even fusion in 5 years? Doubt it seriously.
any astronomers know what to expect to see when two black holes collide? we have pictures of stars colliding or ripping each other apart. we have ones of whole galaxies colliding. but what about black holes?
Most people I know who use YDL use it on pre-G3 hardware that OS X doesn't support.
unfortunately, even ydl seems to be giving up on oldworld (anything beige) macs. so now if a mac can't handle osx, it will probably have a hard time with ydl 4.0 as well.
from their site:
Yellow Dog Linux no longer officially supports OldWorld ROM computers
(pre USB G3; ie: beige G3 desktops and towers). While this does not mean
this version of Yellow Dog Linux does not function with these systems, the
requred BootX bootloader (www.penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/) must be
installed.
this bootloader thing in itself isn't so bad, but i bet there's other problems too.
and it's not just that i'm sick of hearing about it everywhere, i'm sick of thinking about it. it's taking up way to much of my brain space and i can't get it out.
i bet the anxiety levels of the general populace is way up. we all seem to be acting like jerks to anyone who has a slightly different political persuasion.
i hope to god that the whole thing will be settled tomorrow night so we can get back to normalcy.
underneath they are about the same since they're both based on debian.
mepis' default desktop is kde, but you can install something else as you like, just like you would for ubuntu if you don't like gnome.
mepis has gui administrative utilities for things like net connections, users, data and time etc. much like the gnome system tools that come with gnome 2.8. i guess though if you use ubuntu and decide to go with kde instead of gnome you might not have these features anymore. if you go with mepis and switch to a different desktop evironment, you'll still have mepis' tools.
the main difference i would think is the packages that are available, and how compatible they are with debian's sources. i've only played around with mepis a little, and don't know the full story, though i think they keep their own repositories. on this subject, i'm a little more comfortable with ubuntu 'cause of all the debian people they have.
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Shawshank's redemption. But that was probably because the book was a somewhat short story so it was easy to fit everything that was in the book into a 2 hour movie.
Which is why most conversions are crap, there's just too much in the book to put in the movie.
most papers that eventually get accepted to real journals go through here first.
Ubuntu also has those non-free repositories. But only non-free that's still legal and free as in beer. To get stuff like mp3 playing/encoding and dvd playing you have to go to some other repository or compile it yourself.
So RMS likes that a user has to make a real effort to get non-free stuff, and that they'll be aware what they're doing.
On Gentoo I installed non-free stuff frequently with no idea of their liscensing issues.
but they don't come with the mini. i think. maybe this is their way to stop pushing them without admitting defeat. maybe i'm reading to much into it. anyway, i have a 3 button + scrollwheel on my mac as can anyone.
okay, that sounds usefull and acceptable. The way it's stated in the article though... sounded like an actual thinking brain. Writers for a subject known to be controversial should be more clear
from tfa:
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
Usually i'm all for scientists doing what they want and all, but I hope this isn't true. What the hell? Why would there ever be a use for mice with human brains? Even if there were one. Jeez, that's gotta be the sickest thing in biology I've ever heard of.
We get mad when Microsoft pays slashdot to put up an ad, yet apple gets their advertisement (and a discussion forum about it) for free.
Not entirely fair, I know, since MS was spreading FUD about Linux, but still....
yes, it does suck to have to justify all resarch and make it sound like it's going to be usefull/profitable in the near term. In my group we have to make our resarch sound like an essential step on the road to a quantum computer, but to us it's just research.
But that's different than having to worry about whether your research infringes on a patent. I think what the parent post meant was that biologists and scientists in general don't want to keep their research closed and patented in order to make money themselves (Funny how the patent pushers go on about needing patents to provide incentive and progression when scientists know that science has to be open to flourish). I guess a tough situation could arise when your funding agency or university is insisting that you get a patent when you know it will be a hindrince to your field.
So maybe there should be a law. Absolutely no patents in general blue sky research. And if that lowers funding and slows down resarch, well it won't slow it down as much as this patent problem could.
Only in some sick bizzaro world can I imagine having to stop my research because it infinged on a patent, but it actually happened to a professor at my uni. He does geological resarch and was using a method of determining the density of earth at very low depths. He uses it for basic 'what is the earth made of and what's it doing' type research, but apparently some company that prospects for oil had a very vague patent on the general method and is now trying to stop him from doing his research.
What a hateful thing
So I agree with you that big money and even big corporations sometimes have to be involved. I just wish patents weren't.
I have tried it and it is more like you say. click the application you want and it downloads a folder to your home directory. I don't know if the executable was actually in there. Must have been. But what I clicked on to run the program wasn't actally the binary.
It's pretty neat and for the most part worked. Sometimes (rarely) it asked me for permission to put something onto my system outside of the application's folder.
So I think it's great, and something like this will probably be the future of application installers for those who prefer it. I guess most of us are satisfied with the package management that our distro came with. Besides, obviously things like libraries can't be installed like this. But for end product applications, this thing seems great. Now they need to get it to support more distros. It seems they started with the KDE based Debian distros and will spread out to other Debian derivatives from there.
a propietary OS and software preinstalled for online banking, spam filtering, virus detection and online storage
Bank account numbers and personal information going through a new, closed operating system targeted towards old people?
Who's going to scam them out of their money first, the usual scammers or the company itself? Or both working together?
Actually Steve should and probably does worry about what his customers think. You on the other hand should not take criticism of a commercial product that you have no investment in so personally. But I'm glad my opinions don't keep you up at night. That would be scary.
I'm not irked at Apple. I'm irked at all the sheep that're going to buy the marketing hype and make this thing a success when it brings nothing new to the market. But I shouldn't be. After all, no money out of my pocket.
I will be irritated however when someone sees my player and asks me why in the world I didn't get a Shuffle.
yes, I admit, most of the time I use my mp3 player like this too. And I can understand how some people might not care if it doesn't have an lcd. But at least once a day it's essential for me to look at the lcd when I want to hear a specific album or song.
I'm also kind of irked about how this is suddenly a 'feature'. My first cd mp3 player had this 'feature'. It sucked. It's hard navigating through over 200 songs with no display. Many other flash players have had small or no lcds but were considered to be shit because of it. One of the main complaints about Sony and Creative's flash players are their small lcds. But now that Apple has one with no lcd, it's an innovative design feature.
Driving while blindfolded is technically navigating too. So I should have said it has no useful navigation.
This sucks. Apple is supposed to be an innovator. There are tens of mp3 players this small, most with screens. What does this thing have over all the other cheapo flash players? Maybe if it was voice activated or something.
Nay I say
Yeah, that thing is pretty sweet. And it's about time. Maybe they saw all the slashdot posts bitching about all the low end macs being all in ones. I'm about 5 times more likely to buy this than their imacs.
But that ishuffle thing? blechhh. I'm sure it will do well 'cause of the fanatics, but I think it's just silly. Around 15 albums worth of music and no navigation? Anyone who wants a gumstick sized mp3 player should see the iaudio U2
you could do interesting things like downgrade packages to previous versions
is there an easy way to do this in Debian? I've seen some instructions, but they were all much more complicated than Gentoo's way which is a one liner.
I'm not asking this to argue, I use Debian now and really want to know. Sometimes I want to try something in experimental, but am pretty sure I'll want to go back
I have a friend who often refers to Hawking as a dick, and will honestly try to explain why he thinks the guy is a dick.
bush's bunker busters
missle defense shield
sonoluminescence has not been proven to actually be fusion. It's just a lot of light and some heat in water that's been compressed by sound. much more interesting than that though.
And they claim that this process that isn't fully understood yet will get break even fusion in 5 years? Doubt it seriously.
how the hell are we supposed to slashdot a site if the article has 15+ links in it?
any astronomers know what to expect to see when two black holes collide? we have pictures of stars colliding or ripping each other apart. we have ones of whole galaxies colliding. but what about black holes?
Most people I know who use YDL use it on pre-G3 hardware that OS X doesn't support.
unfortunately, even ydl seems to be giving up on oldworld (anything beige) macs. so now if a mac can't handle osx, it will probably have a hard time with ydl 4.0 as well.
from their site:
Yellow Dog Linux no longer officially supports OldWorld ROM computers (pre USB G3; ie: beige G3 desktops and towers). While this does not mean this version of Yellow Dog Linux does not function with these systems, the requred BootX bootloader (www.penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/) must be installed.
this bootloader thing in itself isn't so bad, but i bet there's other problems too.
and it's not just that i'm sick of hearing about it everywhere, i'm sick of thinking about it. it's taking up way to much of my brain space and i can't get it out.
i bet the anxiety levels of the general populace is way up. we all seem to be acting like jerks to anyone who has a slightly different political persuasion.
i hope to god that the whole thing will be settled tomorrow night so we can get back to normalcy.
underneath they are about the same since they're both based on debian.
mepis' default desktop is kde, but you can install something else as you like, just like you would for ubuntu if you don't like gnome.
mepis has gui administrative utilities for things like net connections, users, data and time etc. much like the gnome system tools that come with gnome 2.8. i guess though if you use ubuntu and decide to go with kde instead of gnome you might not have these features anymore. if you go with mepis and switch to a different desktop evironment, you'll still have mepis' tools.
the main difference i would think is the packages that are available, and how compatible they are with debian's sources. i've only played around with mepis a little, and don't know the full story, though i think they keep their own repositories. on this subject, i'm a little more comfortable with ubuntu 'cause of all the debian people they have.