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  1. Re:Really? on GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name · · Score: 1

    Your handle is appropriate. If i'm in gnome there shouldn't be any reason i can't change the settings for the KDE apps i'm running. The problem is polluting system-settings with desktop settings. Trivial to have gnome-app-settings and kde-app-settings available in either system setting apps.

  2. Re:Really? on GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name · · Score: 1

    For example if a system contains both the GNOME and the KDE desktop environments it can decide to use gnome-applications.menu as the menu layout in GNOME sessions and kde-applications.menu as the menu layout in KDE sessions. To correctly reflect this, it should set the $XDG_MENU_PREFIX environment variable to "gnome-" respectively "kde-".

    The problem isn't with freedesktop.org. The problem is with KDE. You see, KDE wants to call an application that sets system wide settings for KDE APPLICATIONS 'system settings' when it's really KDE application settings. The post on the mailing list is immature geek-rage.

    Of course, the GNOME system settings includes settings for gnome-specific applications as well. So really, both dev teams just have a simple organization problem and one of the little kids is whining about not wanting to fix theirs because they've been doing it wrong first.

  3. Re:School bus on How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy · · Score: 2
    Walk.

    I routinely walked the 2.5km to grade school or the 5.5 kms to high school, i even walked the 10.8km to cegep. When you're poor and you want an education you do what you have to.

    I did live right in front of the municipal library, but being quebec i exhausted the english section by the time i was about 10. Well, not true, i didn't read all the charlie brown and garfield books they had, never really wasted much time on comics.

    I think the distances of my schools is pretty interesting, and of course, my university is apparently 21.8km away, though by that time i moved to housing right beside university.

  4. Re:Reflexive /. Gates bashing in 3...2... on Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1
    and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake(forget) me?'

    My God! my God! to what sort of persons hast thou left me?

    Ad quid dereliquisti me? "To what hast thou abandoned me?

    Take your pick. Jesus only choose to follow god, it was god's plan though.

  5. Re:Reflexive /. Gates bashing in 3...2... on Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1

    The Bible says that no sinner will enter the kingdom of heaven/God. In order to qualify for that, we would have to be perfect... literally.

    Obviously there is no one that qualifies for that. But that's where Jesus comes in, because he lived out the law of the scriptures and torah *perfectly* to the very period. Every aspect, every trait, every characteristic, every element, every little tiny thing possibly imaginable about his life was lived *perfectly*.

    Except that Jesus didn't follow the law perfectly. If he was without sin, why did he not pick up stones and stone the person as the law demanded?

    The purpose of the Law is to remind of us of our sin, ignorance, arrogance, stubbornness, hate, lust, etcetera. That is the only purpose the Law serves now. It is important to realize that ONLY through Jesus' we are free and perfect (no, not our bodies as they are merely vessels in this world that God has given us to use for His glory, but our spiritual-side) and that we can do and are NOTHING.

    Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father

    Follow the Tao you become the Tao.

  6. Re:These are people who still believe Joseph Smith on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1
    Wasn't it pretty much the custom almost everywhere that marrying age was puberty? Besides, the younger a person is when they conceive the longer the telomeres. Although i don't know anything about the mormons except they're a bit more wacky then usual.

    Why so much vehemence in your arguments?

  7. Re:These are people who still believe Joseph Smith on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1
    The bible never says Jesus is a god, rather it says that everyone on earth are the sons and daughters of God.

    I don't know why i'm responding, because obviously you've been indoctrinated by somebody who has never read the bible and neither have you. The trinity is an invention by the Catholic church which not all churchs agree with.

  8. What no first post? on Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    where's the first post?

  9. Re:Infant EEG Caps 'Very Safe, Comfortable' on IBM Patenting HAL-Like Stuffed Animal Toys · · Score: 1

    Maybe their emphasizing the comfort, after all sounds way more comfortable than when they stuck pushpins in your head.

  10. Re:I dont want to drag anything. on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1
    Right, virtual desktops. Personally never liked those things and don't use them, hence the reason for writing my own :) My view manager has workspaces which are a collection of tasks. Tasks can have different views on different workspaces, e.g. media player only displays scrolling song title/tags on most workspaces but shows albums, lyrics, equalizer, etc... on media workspace which can also be accessed just by clicking/touching a media view on any workspace

    Well, minimize buttons could be added in my framework, but i know i won't do it, i don't even like title bars stealing my real estate. :) I kinda of like alt-tab to switch between workspaces (internet, coding, media, etc...) or just swiping the screen when in tablet mode to flip through them.

  11. Re:I dont want to drag anything. on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1
    Just out of curiousity, do you actually use the minimize icon? Or do you use one of the key-combinations? Remember we're talking about the icons here, you can still hide windows. Second, why do you use minimize?

    Personally, i'm all about choice which is why i'm writing my own window manager that can be customized however anybody want's it, using whatever keystrokes, mouse event, or gesture, which is why i'd be interested in why you use minimize.

  12. Re:I dont want to drag anything. on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1
    Spoken like a true AC, drivel based on nothing.

    What i said has nothing to do with Gnome, but how to use any windowmanager. You do know they are there to actually MANAGE windows right? If you don't know how to set it up so windows start where you want them and in the state you want them, then you're probably a windows user no? Why minimize something (except to look at the pretty graphics) when you can more quickly alt-tab it away? If it's a problem because you have multiple windows occupying the screen, learn how to organize your information into desktops. This is just complaining by people that haven't learned how to use the new abstractions and are caught in windows 3.1 stage.

  13. Re:I dont want to drag anything. on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 0

    we do countless minimize-maximize actions over the course of a normal workday.

    It seems like you do not know how to work your window-manager. I can't even remember the last time i had to use maximise or minimize.

  14. Re:Afro Ingenuity on 35,000 Linux Benchmarks In a Week · · Score: 1
    Yes, but they were happy and spent their time singing and dancing in joy.

    White people needed to build all these things to try and find that elusive happiness and joy.

    Now, which do you think is the smarter people?

  15. Re:So who is he really? on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: 1
    but this won't happen because then we'll get to see what cops do.

    From someone being on the receiving end of their activities and seeing it occur to my coloured friends, take my word they won't ever let this happen.

    P.S. it doesn't matter that the police in my area discriminated using ethnicity and language, there is always something to discriminate upon.

  16. Re:So who is he really? on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: 1
    Ah, so criticizing the real terrorists and pointing out they are terrorists, is now grounds for being a terrorist?

    US'ians sure have their own form of doublespeak.

  17. Re:So who is he really? on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: 1

    So the Catholics were pissed because that was their job?

  18. Re:And the downside here is... on SSDs Cause Crisis For Digital Forensics · · Score: 1

    Certainly hope the app was just a trivial part of her project and not her actual project. Never a good idea to get into a relationship with someone who doesn't do things themselves.

  19. Re:Good. on SSDs Cause Crisis For Digital Forensics · · Score: 1

    Except to people who were trained on an OS that means "deleted should mean move to a trash folder so I can undelete it".

    Which OS are you talking about? Ubuntu? OSX?

  20. Re:Now only if on AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the code. I'd settle for a binary.

  21. Now only if on AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API · · Score: 1

    they would release their internal hardware accelerated build of FFMpeg

  22. Re:Obligatory on Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted · · Score: 1

    This could be explained by somebody that doesn't know anything about cannabis. Cannabis ruderalis is what's common in Latvia, not indica or sativa which are the high thc strains. Usually easy to identify since they're highly hermaphroditic.

  23. Re:Obligatory on Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted · · Score: 1

    Most of the beneficial effects of cannabis come from the cannabinoids and not THC. You aren't going to be able to use that synthetic stuff for any muscular or nervous disorders and forget about using it for glaucoma. Synthetic THC does not have the same medical benefits, performs poorer for the things it can be used for, and has side-effects that cannabis doesn't, and as others have mentionned it can kill, and is physically addictive and causes withdrawal symptoms.

    An interesting side-note about addictions. Most drugs are not physically addictive in their unaltered natural form but become so when you isolate one part. Unsure about opium as can't find any studies done on pure opium and not it's derivatives. Note physical addiction is not the same as mental addiction. Canabis can be mentally addictive but so can food, sex, etc...

    The person who commented that cannabis sativa looks very different from cannabis indica is missing the point that both have high THC strains (pure sativas more in the mountains of the east and mexico, while indica mainly confined to middle east, hot lowlands), while hemp is grown strictly from cannabis sativa.

    The real reason you can't hide hemp amongst marijuana is planting density. Spindly sativas grown for marijuana will spread out and consume up to 25 sqft for one plant. When you plant for fiber densities can reach 100 plants per sqft as you want to reduce any lateral growth and strictly encourage vertical growth as it's the long bast fibers that are used. There's absolutely no way someone can confuse the two.

  24. Re:Obligatory on Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted · · Score: 1

    I don't think the US government cares since it's deforesting other countries.

  25. Re:Sad on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1

    oops, should have added 'what a stupid gringo talking sh!t they don't know anything about as usual' to my last post.