Well... it's a label describing a particular mode of thought and argumentation. If you aren't one of the ones who thinks and debates in the way Mashiki is describing, then he wasn't talking about you.
Weird... I wanted that feature, and that's exactly why I was installing PulseAudio for a year before Ubuntu picked it up as a standard. PulseAudio makes per-app mixing just work, whereas before Pulse came around I had never seen any OS do that since the BeOS.
Not the only one. Hell, I was setting up pulseaudio by hand for a year or so before it became the standard on Ubuntu, just because it made things work _so_ much better.
However, the reports of it borking things are consistent enough to convince me we might be in a minority.
> I live in Raleigh, NC, and for those who have a jaundiced perspective of the south I would like to say that this region is booming in terms of technology-centric business
You know, maybe it's because I've always lived to the south of you (Atlanta), but I never really applied the negative southern stereotype to North Carolina, not until you amended your constitution just a couple weeks ago.
It will be interesting to see how that decision affects the state in the medium term... stereotypes and reputation like that can have a lot of impact on whether companies choose to set up shop there.
> Put the same equipment in a manned aircraft and it's a snoozer.
Interesting point. I guess on some level, we're hoping that with a manned aircraft, an egregiously and obviously illegal order to target U.S. citizens might be disobeyed or even made public.
> I dunno if we should mandate it on men. Then again, I don't think it should be mandated for women either, at least not without parental consent to opt in.
The problem with that approach is that the anti-vaccination kooks don't just make themselves and each other sick, they incubate diseases that affect everyone.
> It's also why they didn't put Hitler in, as to many people he's just a misunderstood guy who tried to do his best against the forces of Zionist-Communism.
Well, that and he was a Roman Catholic, so it would weaken the point they were trying to make. The superior morality of religion is one of the few arguments that cannot be successfully Godwin'd. =)
It also teaches that if a man rapes a woman, he has committed a property crime against her father and will be forced to marry her as part of her punishment. Are you really sure these are the old books you want to use?
> Discarding the moral teachings that have been handed down over thousands of years is equally ridiculous.
It's not ridiculous; moral philosophy has been advancing since the bronze age, just like science. There's a reason that religions founded in that era endorse slavery, regard women as property, and practice scapegoating, to name just a few items; they are only as moral, could only possibly be as moral, as the men who founded them were. We can do better today.
> as a practicing physician before the Feds got involved he never saw a patient left to die
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, but even so, that can't POSSIBLY be true. I'm only 32 and two people close to me have died because of an inability to afford treatment; one a few years back from melanoma and one just last week from breast cancer.
I suppose it's possible that Ron Paul managed to work as a physician and never notice the poor dying all around him, but is that really the most likely explanation?
> the generally accepted definitions do not preclude the use of hard disks
And THAT, if anything, is what is killing netbooks.
When Asus came out with the EeePC 701, it was something truly different; 9" body (only a 7" display in that first model), SSD only, cheap. It had Linux, but even being the zealot that I am I don't consider that a requirement for a netbook. The 9xx series (full 9" display, same size body) was the pinnacle of netbook evolution from my point of view. (Arguably surpassed by the Asus T91MT, but that one had a crappy GPU which wasn't useful in Linux).
Nowadays, there are "netbooks" up to 12" in size, you almost can't find a 9" anymore, and SSD are uncommon. Basically, the term "netbook" has come to just mean "crappy laptop".
> it is not trivial to take the long road trips into account
It is *kinda* trivial.;) Back when I lived in dorms and then apartments, I kept a minivan because I had to move frequently, and needed the cargo room. Shortly after I bought a home, my van died and I was shopping for a vehicle. A week or so into the process it occurred to me that I no longer required moving capacity, so I was able to buy an ultra-compact and save buckets of money and fuel. Once a year or so if I find a piece of furniture or other large thing I need to move, and I rent a U-Haul truck.
Same logic applies to battery electrics; I make about two trips per year that are out of range of, say, a Nissan Leaf. I've run the numbers and I come out _way, waaaayy_ ahead by commuting with the Leaf and renting a Yaris or a Civic or something twice a year. A lot of communities are starting up car-sharing systems for an even more flexible and lower cost option.
-nod- I realize this is an expression of the spam problem, and therefore the "Your plan won't work for the following reasons" form letter applies. However, without the financial incentive to get their shit through, plus the fact that every target potentially has a different set of filters (as opposed to say, Gmail, where if you can get something through it goes through for everyone) we might not be in worst-case territory here.
At any rate, the least you could say is that it *would* be an arms race, whereas now the non-trolls are completely unarmed.
Suggestion to Slashdot devs... give us regex-based comment filtering. I'm fairly sure any post matching/nigger/ or/GNAA/ or/\ ps0t\ / will never have any further contents I care to miss.
For me the big advantage of Ubuntu over plain Debian (let's face it, Ubuntu is just another branch of Debian) is that it provides exactly the release schedule style that matches my expectations. With Debian, you can basically choose from among the following:
1) Exquisitely release-engineered branch; all packages 100.00% guaranteed to work together, upgrade flawlessly and not have weird dependency cycles that require "apt surgery" to get working. Package versions often months or years old. (stable) 2) Zero day, bleeding edge versions of all packages. Very likely to have large swaths of the dependency graph borked up at any given time. You'll learn the difference between "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade" the first time that a package obsoletes the current version of glib or libstdc++ or something before the new version is uploaded. (sid) 3) Somewhere in between (1) and (2). A bit old, mostly but not completely stable dependency graph (testing).
With Ubuntu, you get a fourth option: Packages on a predictable age range from 0-6 months depending on how close you are to April or October, with almost as well tested a dependency graph as Debian stable. Almost.
For me, that's the option that matches best with my needs. Ubuntu is, for me, the best way to use Debian. =)
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Well... it's a label describing a particular mode of thought and argumentation. If you aren't one of the ones who thinks and debates in the way Mashiki is describing, then he wasn't talking about you.
>> Different mixes and levels for different apps
Weird... I wanted that feature, and that's exactly why I was installing PulseAudio for a year before Ubuntu picked it up as a standard. PulseAudio makes per-app mixing just work, whereas before Pulse came around I had never seen any OS do that since the BeOS.
Not the only one. Hell, I was setting up pulseaudio by hand for a year or so before it became the standard on Ubuntu, just because it made things work _so_ much better.
However, the reports of it borking things are consistent enough to convince me we might be in a minority.
> I live in Raleigh, NC, and for those who have a jaundiced perspective of the south I would like to say that this region is booming in terms of technology-centric business
You know, maybe it's because I've always lived to the south of you (Atlanta), but I never really applied the negative southern stereotype to North Carolina, not until you amended your constitution just a couple weeks ago.
It will be interesting to see how that decision affects the state in the medium term... stereotypes and reputation like that can have a lot of impact on whether companies choose to set up shop there.
This isn't flamebait. Parent is referring, sarcastically, to the common analog of the "blame the victim" argument the grandparent is making.
> Put the same equipment in a manned aircraft and it's a snoozer.
Interesting point. I guess on some level, we're hoping that with a manned aircraft, an egregiously and obviously illegal order to target U.S. citizens might be disobeyed or even made public.
> I dunno if we should mandate it on men. Then again, I don't think it should be mandated for women either, at least not without parental consent to opt in.
The problem with that approach is that the anti-vaccination kooks don't just make themselves and each other sick, they incubate diseases that affect everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_controversy
http://www.skepdic.com/antivaccination.html
As long as we can get Nimoy to do the voice work I'm down.
> It's also why they didn't put Hitler in, as to many people he's just a misunderstood guy who tried to do his best against the forces of Zionist-Communism.
Well, that and he was a Roman Catholic, so it would weaken the point they were trying to make. The superior morality of religion is one of the few arguments that cannot be successfully Godwin'd. =)
It also teaches that if a man rapes a woman, he has committed a property crime against her father and will be forced to marry her as part of her punishment.
Are you really sure these are the old books you want to use?
> Discarding the moral teachings that have been handed down over thousands of years is equally ridiculous.
It's not ridiculous; moral philosophy has been advancing since the bronze age, just like science. There's a reason that religions founded in that era endorse slavery, regard women as property, and practice scapegoating, to name just a few items; they are only as moral, could only possibly be as moral, as the men who founded them were. We can do better today.
> as a practicing physician before the Feds got involved he never saw a patient left to die
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, but even so, that can't POSSIBLY be true. I'm only 32 and two people close to me have died because of an inability to afford treatment; one a few years back from melanoma and one just last week from breast cancer.
I suppose it's possible that Ron Paul managed to work as a physician and never notice the poor dying all around him, but is that really the most likely explanation?
> the generally accepted definitions do not preclude the use of hard disks
And THAT, if anything, is what is killing netbooks.
When Asus came out with the EeePC 701, it was something truly different; 9" body (only a 7" display in that first model), SSD only, cheap. It had Linux, but even being the zealot that I am I don't consider that a requirement for a netbook. The 9xx series (full 9" display, same size body) was the pinnacle of netbook evolution from my point of view. (Arguably surpassed by the Asus T91MT, but that one had a crappy GPU which wasn't useful in Linux).
Nowadays, there are "netbooks" up to 12" in size, you almost can't find a 9" anymore, and SSD are uncommon. Basically, the term "netbook" has come to just mean "crappy laptop".
> it is not trivial to take the long road trips into account
It is *kinda* trivial. ;) Back when I lived in dorms and then apartments, I kept a minivan because I had to move frequently, and needed the cargo room. Shortly after I bought a home, my van died and I was shopping for a vehicle. A week or so into the process it occurred to me that I no longer required moving capacity, so I was able to buy an ultra-compact and save buckets of money and fuel. Once a year or so if I find a piece of furniture or other large thing I need to move, and I rent a U-Haul truck.
Same logic applies to battery electrics; I make about two trips per year that are out of range of, say, a Nissan Leaf. I've run the numbers and I come out _way, waaaayy_ ahead by commuting with the Leaf and renting a Yaris or a Civic or something twice a year. A lot of communities are starting up car-sharing systems for an even more flexible and lower cost option.
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> What I don't understand is why they wouldn't want as much independent coverage of the incident / whatever as possible.
Because they want to have the option to lie about it, obviously.
You assume it hasn't become self-aware and buggered off, Wall-E style.
-nod- I realize this is an expression of the spam problem, and therefore the "Your plan won't work for the following reasons" form letter applies. However, without the financial incentive to get their shit through, plus the fact that every target potentially has a different set of filters (as opposed to say, Gmail, where if you can get something through it goes through for everyone) we might not be in worst-case territory here.
At any rate, the least you could say is that it *would* be an arms race, whereas now the non-trolls are completely unarmed.
Suggestion to Slashdot devs... give us regex-based comment filtering. I'm fairly sure any post matching /nigger/ or /GNAA/ or /\ ps0t\ / will never have any further contents I care to miss.
Urban Dictionary knows.
Well, XP was displacing Win2k, still in my opinion the best offering MS has made to date.
Win7 was displacing Vista.
> Seriously, anybody over thirty could do this in their sleep, if they owned a computer in the late 80s or 90s.
-nod- A quick command to make you seem a bit like a secret agent to anybody still on dialup:
AT M1 L3 S11=30 DT ###-####
For me the big advantage of Ubuntu over plain Debian (let's face it, Ubuntu is just another branch of Debian) is that it provides exactly the release schedule style that matches my expectations. With Debian, you can basically choose from among the following:
1) Exquisitely release-engineered branch; all packages 100.00% guaranteed to work together, upgrade flawlessly and not have weird dependency cycles that require "apt surgery" to get working. Package versions often months or years old. (stable)
2) Zero day, bleeding edge versions of all packages. Very likely to have large swaths of the dependency graph borked up at any given time. You'll learn the difference between "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade" the first time that a package obsoletes the current version of glib or libstdc++ or something before the new version is uploaded. (sid)
3) Somewhere in between (1) and (2). A bit old, mostly but not completely stable dependency graph (testing).
With Ubuntu, you get a fourth option: Packages on a predictable age range from 0-6 months depending on how close you are to April or October, with almost as well tested a dependency graph as Debian stable. Almost.
For me, that's the option that matches best with my needs. Ubuntu is, for me, the best way to use Debian. =)
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