Wow, which is genuinly super (allegedly) all this on Windows runs, because it cannot carry a third manufacturer Microsoft out owing to its ergaunerten monopoly not too supports itself, you smart Meier. You are like a Junky with its Dealer for it thank you it to the needle to have brought.
HP: On my Slackware Linux runs also EVERYTHING which I need. Of my preferierten Multimedia applications up to Maya 7.
Ubuntu also boasts one of the largest community bases of all the Linux distributions....
Is it just me, or does the word boast just about sum up Ubuntu ?
Ever since it came out, it's been vying for geek-gloat-share almost as much as google.
"Empty vessels make the most noise"
I wouldn't mind, but I found it to be a piece of shite. Not to mention that the same rabid fanboyism that seems to infect Debian users has percolated through to Ubuntu users almost without moderation.
There, I said it, moderation, now do what you must.
Yeah yeah yeah, but by the time you have them in court, it's already too fucking late for the person they killed or maimed, isn't it ?
The whole idea is to prevent the accidents in the first place. Because they are preventable. No one can legislate against acts of God, brake failure or people mis-judging things, but this is 100% in the hands of the people doing it. They can't claim an accident if they weren't paying full attention to the road.
As for idiots and bears, well they're the ones that get eaten, not some innocent bystander, so there is no real similarity there.
BTW, I agree about being criminally responsible, but that doesn't mean you don't at least try to prevent accidents.
Cell phone use is 100% avoidable when driving (or in the cinema, hospital, library where-ever). The damn things have only been around for 15 years or so, what ever did we do without them ?
It's funny that people who would advocate a technical/legal solution to cell phone use in cinemas, seem to be completely laissez-faire about something that will ruin your life, not just a stupid movie !
Yeah right, correlation is not causality and all that !
How about you consider these "facts" ?
a) Not every driving cell phone owner is an asshole, who has to use the damn mobile 24/7. b) Maybe the accident rate hasn't gone up for cell phone users, that's because they cause accidents in their wake, and don't even notice ! c) Not every drunk driver kills a kid (or indeed anyone at all), so by your reasoning it should be ok to drink and drive. After all, the accident rate didn't go down when they banned drink driving either ! d) Not every cell phone owner drives a car, so where do you link ownership and accidents ?
In the UK, for at least a year or so (probably more - my memory is flaky - there was a massive advertisement campaign from the government telling people how it was going to work for MONTHS on end, months before it became "law"), it's been illegal to operate any phone while driving - that means that the ONLY legal way to make/take a phone call in a car is with a hands-free kit that DOES NOT require the driver to push any buttons etc. to dial/recieve a call (i.e. voice activated dialling/answering with a hands-free earpiece / car stereo integration)........
..... However, now it's a specific "rule" that it's an offence to even USE the phone in the car unless you can do so 100% without removing your hands from the full control of the wheel (i.e. without touching the phone or any hands-free component (e.g. buttons, switches, wires, etc.))
It's now illegal to use a hand-held mobile phone when you're driving, even when you're stopped at traffic lights or in a queue of traffic. You may be fined £30. This can be increased to a maximum of £1000 (£2,500 for drivers of lorries, buses and coaches) if the matter goes to court.
This includes making or receiving calls, pictures, text messaging or accessing the Internet. You must pull over to a safe location. Risk using a hand-held mobile phone when driving, and you risk a fine.
and also...
You can also be prosecuted for using a hands-free mobile phone if you fail to have proper control of your vehicle.
Drive carelessly or dangerously when using any phone and the penalties can include disqualification, a large fine, and up to two years imprisonment.
BTW, a "safe location" to make a call does not mean blocking the entrance to a side road, the hard shoulder on any clearway, a bus stop, someones driveway etc etc.
I've seen people parked on motorway sliproads (offramps) talking on the mobile. One day some twat overtook me on the motorway, cut right in front of me, then slammed the brakes on and swerved onto the hard shoulder to answer a call. As I was driving with 17 tons plus at the time, they were lucky not to be a smear on the road !
In short, he thinks small icon advertisements (eg. "drink coke") should be put in the corner of a TV show, and then the TV show should be freely distributed on bittorrent.
That all sounds fine, until you realise that the screen will end up like the "Million Dollar Homepage".
The point is, that those 70's scientists could still be correct.
One of the scenarios for the next ice age is a warming which causes the ice to start melting. Cold fresh water disrupts the ocean currents, which prevents warm water reaching northern latitudes. This allows arctic style weather to prevail over the northern hemisphere, and the ice marches south.
I know this is basically the plot of The Day After Tomorrow, but it was a scientific theory first.
Add that to the fact that we know that ice ages are cyclical, as is the precession in the earths axis, and the variabilty of the suns output.
The climate is changing, it always has been, and it always will be, as long as there's an atmosphere. As previous posters have pointed out, global warming isn't a problem for the planet, just for us humans !
The moral of the story is, build a house on a mountain, near the equator. Seriously, the problem stems from the fact that we are monitoring things so closely these days, to such subtle degrees, that we are over anticipating the outcome. To transition to an ice age could take a couple of hundred years, but the media reports it like it's going to happen next week.
My personal suspicion is that this whole thing is just a sideshow, to distract and spread dissention while whatever is really happening goes forward unopposed. Bread and circuses has become FEAR and tv. Terrorists, global warming/cooling, HN51, AIDS, Illegal Immigration. They're all out to get you.
As long as you don't ass-shag an illegal immigrant from Iran with a chicken in an SUV , you'll be ok !
All these posts whining on about how it's so hard to carry on living after you've been publically humiliated.
Utter f*ckin bullshit !
Did dey hurt his widdle feewings ?
grow up, fer fuks sake !
Firstly, last I heard, humiliation isn't fatal.(or even physically painful) Secondly, how you conduct yourself after being humiliated defines your character.( If he had laughed when taunted, and said, "Yeah, it's me, so what ?" Thirdly, whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
BTW, I used to get beaten up regularly at school, which continued right up until I smacked one of them back. That resulted in a public fight with around 200 kids in a circle watching. I shit myself (not literally) and wasn't going to turn up, but my friends persuaded me to go. Me and the bully wrestled around for a bit and then the park keeper saw us and threatened to call the police, so everybody split.
Result, never bullied again. Not as a result of the fight (if you could call it that), but because I had shown a willingness to stand up and be counted. Suddenly I wasn't the quiet kid anymore, I was a face, and other kids respected it.
This kid just got himself all over the net for christs sake, and he's *complaining*. He should shoot a sequel...
Is anyone here old enough to remember how long it took the government to recognize tobacco as a health risk?
Is anyone here old enough to recognize that *life* is a health risk ?
You can die from eating too much, but no-one bans food !
I just did a quiz to calculate my life expectancy and it came out at 86 years. I'm 40 now, so I'm not even half way there. Yes I smoke, yes I drink, yes I ride a motorcycle, yes I eat red meat, yes I use a mobile phone, no I don't go to the gym (I work hard anyway), and yes I've partaken of various types of illegal substance in my time.
My body mass index is 18.9 (6' 2" / 147 pounds) and I haven't had a day off work sick for over 7 years.
There's been a lot of controversy generated by your absence, not to say *unrest*. So answer me these questions -
1) Where were you last thursday ? You're supposed to be *all-seeing* but did you see that bastard smash my wing mirror ? If you did, why didn't you say something - eh ?
2) The *virgin* Mary - yeah right ! 'nuff said.
3) Who do you fancy for the World Cup ?
4) Why, oh why, oh why, oh why ?
5) If you *did* design the earth intelligently, where are the comments !
6) How long did satan get then ? You took gabriel back after all.
7) Is global warming caused by humans, or is it *your* fault ? (remember correlation is not causation).
8) Do you get to speak to Steve Jobs regularly ? what do you think of OS-X ?
9) Emacs or vi ?
10) Do you get a cut from the google ad impressions on ID sites ?
Any admin worth their salt would have text based logins disabled anyway, and be using SSH keys. The only problem left then is the large error logs created by dictionary attacks, which can be dealt with in other ways.
The time spent retraining faculty and staff alone would outweigh the security benefits, especially when you consider all the specialized software floating around that hasn't been ported (curse you, Department of Education).
It always makes me laugh - retraining people to click things on a screen. It makes me laugh even harder when these people are supposed to be *educators* .
What's wrong with giving people a set of printed manuals and a linux partition and informing them that they will be expected to be up to speed on the new system in $x months ? No-ones asking them to contribute to kernel development !
On the other hand, it was a major problem to work out how to use that brand new piece of software called iTunes wasn't it !</sarcasm>
Where I come from (the past obviously), a tradesman is responsible for his own tools/knowledge. These days it seems to be that no-one has either the time, or the inclination to improve their own skill set.
How in the world did people communicate before email?
How in the world did people communicate before computers ?
How in the world did people communicate before telephones ?
How in the world did people communicate before Morse code?
How in the world did people communicate before paper ?
You know, not everybody in the world has their ass sat in a ferkin office all day ! Some of us actually produce real world products. Stuff that will still be there when the power goes out, like buildings, roads, reservoirs, ships, cars, etc etc. I suggest you get a real world job, get your hands dirty, cut and bruised - just to curb your precious attitude.
I've thought for a long time that what the west could do is actually *supply food* to places where they have famines / poor harvests etc. Ususally these places have something we want / need (or have already taken by force or otherwise). It seems criminally wasteful to pay farmers to "set aside" land, ie. not grow any useful crops on it, just to keep the price artificially high, or to keep faith with an international trade agreement.
If the land is capable of growing high quality food, then that's what should be done. We depend on minerals and oil and various other raw materials, most of which come from the third world.
I've been told that the cost of sending the food would be prohibitive, but I think the cost evens out when we are getting high quality raw materials in return.
We only have one planet, so its resources should be shared properly.
And no, GM food is not the answer.
If the question is "how can the top 3 seed companies maintain a stranglehold on the worlds food supply ?" then GM food is the answer.
If the question is "how do we make sure everybody has enough to eat ?" then the answer is to grow food where it is easy and suitable to do so.
Beyond that I have a debit card and a charge card for purchases, and cash for small private transactions. What would I need checks for?
Well, like you I do most of my banking online, and use my debit card or use an ATM for cash.
But...
When there is still a week to go to payday, and I have no money left in the bank, a chequebook and guarantee card is most useful at the supermarket/petrol station. By the time they've banked the cheque and 3 days processing time has passed, I have money in my account and the cheque clears. Sometimes it takes sainsburys 12 days to clear a cheque (depending on when you use it). I think they only do the banking on fridays, so if you pay by cheque on a monday, it doesn't get banked until friday, then nothing happens until monday, and then 3 full days processing starts from tuesday meaning the money comes out of your account on the friday.
Quite handy;-)
IIRC, a cheque (check) is as good as cash in the US, so you can go to the bank and draw against it immediately. Not so here in the UK. The bank has to get their interest off it first.
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Imagine playing solitaire on that !
Trying to get away with shifting corporate property with a tax liability of $900M out of the country is pornographic.
I've a feeling this story could run, enron, enron.
Fisher Price anyone ?
Sooooo, soft_guy, do you use an iBook ?Ever since it came out, it's been vying for geek-gloat-share almost as much as google.
"Empty vessels make the most noise"
I wouldn't mind, but I found it to be a piece of shite. Not to mention that the same rabid fanboyism that seems to infect Debian users has percolated through to Ubuntu users almost without moderation.
There, I said it, moderation, now do what you must.
I hope she's thinking outside the box.
The whole idea is to prevent the accidents in the first place. Because they are preventable. No one can legislate against acts of God, brake failure or people mis-judging things, but this is 100% in the hands of the people doing it. They can't claim an accident if they weren't paying full attention to the road.
As for idiots and bears, well they're the ones that get eaten, not some innocent bystander, so there is no real similarity there.
BTW, I agree about being criminally responsible, but that doesn't mean you don't at least try to prevent accidents.
Cell phone use is 100% avoidable when driving (or in the cinema, hospital, library where-ever). The damn things have only been around for 15 years or so, what ever did we do without them ?
It's funny that people who would advocate a technical/legal solution to cell phone use in cinemas, seem to be completely laissez-faire about something that will ruin your life, not just a stupid movie !
How about you consider these "facts" ?
a) Not every driving cell phone owner is an asshole, who has to use the damn mobile 24/7.
b) Maybe the accident rate hasn't gone up for cell phone users, that's because they cause accidents in their wake, and don't even notice !
c) Not every drunk driver kills a kid (or indeed anyone at all), so by your reasoning it should be ok to drink and drive. After all, the accident rate didn't go down when they banned drink driving either !
d) Not every cell phone owner drives a car, so where do you link ownership and accidents ?
Informative my a## !
From the UK Department for Transport website ...
and also...BTW, a "safe location" to make a call does not mean blocking the entrance to a side road, the hard shoulder on any clearway, a bus stop, someones driveway etc etc.I've seen people parked on motorway sliproads (offramps) talking on the mobile. One day some twat overtook me on the motorway, cut right in front of me, then slammed the brakes on and swerved onto the hard shoulder to answer a call. As I was driving with 17 tons plus at the time, they were lucky not to be a smear on the road !
Maybe next time eh ?
They don't know when to stop, do they ?
Even if every person due to pay taxes actually paid their taxes, do you really think your taxes would go down ?
Heh, dream on.
I renice 10 Folding@home so that the computer is actually useable when I need it. When I'm out, it can do what it wants !
One of the scenarios for the next ice age is a warming which causes the ice to start melting. Cold fresh water disrupts the ocean currents, which prevents warm water reaching northern latitudes. This allows arctic style weather to prevail over the northern hemisphere, and the ice marches south.
I know this is basically the plot of The Day After Tomorrow, but it was a scientific theory first.
Add that to the fact that we know that ice ages are cyclical, as is the precession in the earths axis, and the variabilty of the suns output.
The climate is changing, it always has been, and it always will be, as long as there's an atmosphere. As previous posters have pointed out, global warming isn't a problem for the planet, just for us humans !
The moral of the story is, build a house on a mountain, near the equator. Seriously, the problem stems from the fact that we are monitoring things so closely these days, to such subtle degrees, that we are over anticipating the outcome. To transition to an ice age could take a couple of hundred years, but the media reports it like it's going to happen next week.
My personal suspicion is that this whole thing is just a sideshow, to distract and spread dissention while whatever is really happening goes forward unopposed. Bread and circuses has become FEAR and tv. Terrorists, global warming/cooling, HN51, AIDS, Illegal Immigration. They're all out to get you.
As long as you don't ass-shag an illegal immigrant from Iran with a chicken in an SUV , you'll be ok !
Utter f*ckin bullshit !
Did dey hurt his widdle feewings ?
grow up, fer fuks sake !
Firstly, last I heard, humiliation isn't fatal.(or even physically painful)
Secondly, how you conduct yourself after being humiliated defines your character.( If he had laughed when taunted, and said, "Yeah, it's me, so what ?"
Thirdly, whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
BTW, I used to get beaten up regularly at school, which continued right up until I smacked one of them back. That resulted in a public fight with around 200 kids in a circle watching. I shit myself (not literally) and wasn't going to turn up, but my friends persuaded me to go. Me and the bully wrestled around for a bit and then the park keeper saw us and threatened to call the police, so everybody split.
Result, never bullied again. Not as a result of the fight (if you could call it that), but because I had shown a willingness to stand up and be counted. Suddenly I wasn't the quiet kid anymore, I was a face, and other kids respected it.
This kid just got himself all over the net for christs sake, and he's *complaining*. He should shoot a sequel ...
You can die from eating too much, but no-one bans food !
I just did a quiz to calculate my life expectancy and it came out at 86 years. I'm 40 now, so I'm not even half way there. Yes I smoke, yes I drink, yes I ride a motorcycle, yes I eat red meat, yes I use a mobile phone, no I don't go to the gym (I work hard anyway), and yes I've partaken of various types of illegal substance in my time.
My body mass index is 18.9 (6' 2" / 147 pounds) and I haven't had a day off work sick for over 7 years.
Tell me about the risks !
Calculate your life expectancy.
... sounds like something by Frank Zappa !
There's been a lot of controversy generated by your absence, not to say *unrest*. So answer me these questions -
Enquiring minds want to know !Any admin worth their salt would have text based logins disabled anyway, and be using SSH keys. The only problem left then is the large error logs created by dictionary attacks, which can be dealt with in other ways.
What's wrong with giving people a set of printed manuals and a linux partition and informing them that they will be expected to be up to speed on the new system in $x months ? No-ones asking them to contribute to kernel development !
On the other hand, it was a major problem to work out how to use that brand new piece of software called iTunes wasn't it !</sarcasm>
Where I come from (the past obviously), a tradesman is responsible for his own tools/knowledge. These days it seems to be that no-one has either the time, or the inclination to improve their own skill set.
Excuses, excuses ...
How in the world did people communicate before telephones ?
How in the world did people communicate before Morse code?
How in the world did people communicate before paper ?
You know, not everybody in the world has their ass sat in a ferkin office all day ! Some of us actually produce real world products. Stuff that will still be there when the power goes out, like buildings, roads, reservoirs, ships, cars, etc etc. I suggest you get a real world job, get your hands dirty, cut and bruised - just to curb your precious attitude.
And don't forget those bodily fluids !
If the land is capable of growing high quality food, then that's what should be done. We depend on minerals and oil and various other raw materials, most of which come from the third world.
I've been told that the cost of sending the food would be prohibitive, but I think the cost evens out when we are getting high quality raw materials in return.
We only have one planet, so its resources should be shared properly.
And no, GM food is not the answer.
If the question is "how can the top 3 seed companies maintain a stranglehold on the worlds food supply ?" then GM food is the answer.
If the question is "how do we make sure everybody has enough to eat ?" then the answer is to grow food where it is easy and suitable to do so.
But ...
When there is still a week to go to payday, and I have no money left in the bank, a chequebook and guarantee card is most useful at the supermarket/petrol station. By the time they've banked the cheque and 3 days processing time has passed, I have money in my account and the cheque clears. Sometimes it takes sainsburys 12 days to clear a cheque (depending on when you use it). I think they only do the banking on fridays, so if you pay by cheque on a monday, it doesn't get banked until friday, then nothing happens until monday, and then 3 full days processing starts from tuesday meaning the money comes out of your account on the friday.
Quite handy ;-)
IIRC, a cheque (check) is as good as cash in the US, so you can go to the bank and draw against it immediately. Not so here in the UK. The bank has to get their interest off it first.
Aren't there laws about that ?