Unknown could mean that someone has a user agent string switcher, and is just fucking around with it. I know a friend of mine that set his to "biffins" just to see what it did. It might also be text mode browsers, such as lynx (which, I think we all agree, needs SVG support;) )
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't cell phone towers just meant to receive data, and transition it to a land line? If so, there is no more cell phone data at that precise point than there is anywhere else where cell phones are being used. Cell signals aren't magically drawn to that point, are they? And, although I really don't know, I'd doubt that cell phones can broadcast in any given direction.
I think this is a discrepancy between metric and imperial, where the Calorie is a different unit of measurement. I'm not sure on this though, so don't hold me to it.
Same with Switzerland. From what I've heard from family, the trains there run *on time*. If the train schedule says the train arrives in 5 minutes, that is precisely when it will arrive. End of story. People from places like this must wonder when going abroad. Perhaps this is another reason why trains are more popular in these places: it's much harder to guarantee the punctuality of an airplane.
I am a gentoo user. I have done several text-based installs (duh), and gentoo is currently my desktop of choice. I do this not for speed, but for control of my system, and excellent package management. I also switched to gentoo to get more hands-on with linux. I can say now, that I don't really like the text install. It taught me a lot, but after doing one or two, the novelty wears off, and it allows for many careless errors. This development also means that many new users will be much more attracted to gentoo. If they began offering a comprehensive mirror of the most common, say, 2000 packages, it would easily be one of the best distributions. (yes, sometimes building from source is annoying, but portage and USE flags still rock).
I have World of Warcraft installed, and I play it like a fiend (i.e. most of the time I'm at home, and it is the one thing I will wake up early for). Despite this, I'm getting a +90% average in Grade 10 (well, I take physics (96%) at the 20 level, same for math (98%)), and I'm training to be a pilot, in which I'm about to go solo. If your kid is stupid, it means your kid is stupid, not that he/she is playing too many computer games. Stop trying to come up with excuses to make yourself feel better. Teach your kid how to handle multiple activities at once. I am handling World of Warcraft, High School, Freeciv 2, and pilot training, and manage to do well in all four. It's not so hard...
Why are you people in such a hurry to watch a movie that you can't let it do its thing for 10 minutes, without going on a rant about how you'll never buy any new DVD releases. You don't have to watch them. You can do something else. The whining around here is too much to bear.
You do know that the Earth is round, right? They can just go north from Russia to reach the north pole, at which time they can go south into North America.
The CAR (Canadian Air Regulation, I'm assuming an equivilent US law) that says, "no person shall take off from, or attempt to take off from, or land, or attempt to land, from any part of a built-up area or city unless it is an airport or military aerodrome". I have no problem with flying cars, assuming that licensing is done to the current private pilot standards. This is hard, and would make flight unavailable to much of the public, but doing anything less would be a recipe for disaster.
Ah yes... in Canada we have class F airspace, which can either be advisory (like parachuting, training, aerobatics, etc...) or restricted (low airspace above prisons, military areas). We also have an ADIZ around the entire top of the country, in case those Russians attack us!
Because, you know, they might not be weak-minded, easy targets for recruiters. They might have some other prospects given by their countries robust economy. For most of the Army recruits (i.e. the ground soldiers), the Army is really the only option. I know a guy who's joining the army/air force just to get a pilot's license, which is, in a way, related (I'm paying for mine myself). The point being that the Bush government has artfully engineered an economic climate that is condusive to heavy recruitment. Conspiracy? Wouldn't put it past him, but I'm trying to maintain a shred of credibility, so I'll say it's just a coincidence. But it's still interesting.
I don't harbour any illusions as to being the best country (I'm actually Canadian), but if the Arab world wants respect, it has to step up and join the modern world. I don't have a problem with Islam, in fact I think it is better than most Christian offshoots. The problem comes when it starts to make people do things like crash planes into buildings, and construct car bombs. It's not that these things are great ideas on their own; trust me. I don't want to get into a debate over whether Islam tells people to do these things, because quite obviously the governments of Iran, Afghanistan, and questionably Saudi Arabia, along with Al-Qaida, thought that Allah wanted them to do this. The point I'm trying to make is that, it is mostly by the grace of the Western world, that we even deal with backward places such as Saudi Arabia, and their zealotry is setting them back.
Because rm -rf./bin is too close to rm -rf/bin. You may laugh, but I did this once on a (thank god) non-critical computer. Humans make mistakes, and if I had done that as a user, I wouldn't have had to do a complete reinstall.
Quite true. I am an avid gentoo user (although I'm not a rabid fanboy), and I'm friends with a slackware user. He's just convinced that slackware is the best, whereas I say that, while I like gentoo, ubuntu and debian would probably be better if having complete from-the-ground-up control isn't important to you. However, he maintains that Slackware can be installed in 20 minutes, and that magical pixies will set everything up and make your Pentium II run at 5 GHz.
Could they not just use the targeted lights (I don't think they are lasers) that are used, at least in Canada (and probably US) for air traffic control in the event of a comm radio failure? Having looked right at one (from a plane, practicing approaches with comm failure), I can guarantee that it won't make a difference. The problem with any system is, if the pilot is not expecting to see something, it has to be rather large. There is a lot of area to monitor for traffic and whatnot, and even as I'm about to embark upon my first solo flight, I'm still not great at picking up traffic the first time I look.
There is restricted airspace everywhere, and usually a violation thereof means a serious consequence. My flight school had to modify all its flightplans into Medicine Hat, Alberta (I live in Calgary) because some genius forgot to check his chart for the military restricted zone. My point in this long rambling post is that, if you know there is restricted airspace nearby, try really really hard to stay the fuck away from it. If you don't know you're flying near restricted airspace, then you fucked up during the planning stage.
Of why a lot of people think the Arab world is screwed up. We'll give you your religion, if you don't blow shit up because of it, but abducting children to use as camel jockies is just bizzare. Building a robot... well, cool... but bizzare.
Hear hear! I'm in an advanced program, and I still find it easy (for the record, I'm a Canadian Grade 10 student). More frightening than that is, by the end of the second month of Spanish (85 minutes of Spanish every day), we still haven't learned even present tense conjugation. It's so boring that I'm probably gonna take a course over the summer and challenge the diploma exam next year. Our education system *is* really shitty, and no one with half a brain should be afraid to admit it.
Your analogy is correct, but remember that most of the early (-100 and -200) 737s, and almost all 747-100s are out of service now, and the 747-200 is well on its way. Now, some of the old Russian planes are still in service for much longer (such as the Aerogaviota An-24 I flew on in Cuba), so what does that say about their reliability?;)
I'll admit that, but people who know more than me have come up with plenty of reasons that autopackage is a bad idea. The rest of my arguments are still valid.
Appfolders, like in OS X, for the very simple method. This causes overlap in dependencies, but it will always work. This is the easiest system to deal with, IMO. There can be a simple tar-ball, or self-extracting archive.
Next, there's distro-based package systems like apt and portage. These work very well, as dependency control is automatic, and it is made to work with your distro specifically.
The third option, which is used by (I think, but am not sure) Loki Installer, and such programs, is to install the binaries, but leave you on your own to deal with dependencies. As long as you make sure the dependencies are easy to obtain, this is one of the best options for those without apt or a similar system. You could even, with GPL software, create your own installer for any dependancies, should you choose.
Why not Autopackage? Because it seems like a format that is, at best, a poor substitute for a package system like apt. The simplest solution, considering how much disk space is available on modern machines, is the folder concept like OS X. Very simple, and incredibly easy to remove programs.
A lot of people here are saying that "omg it's taco's penis". Let me explain something to these people: for something to have a mass (even if it is exceptionally small) it is first required that it exists. Since this has not been proven satisfactorily, I will say that it is probably taco's brain, which is obviously present (because he keeps posting stories), however very very small.
on the functionality rather than the interface. The only reason I keep Photoshop around is because no linux program supports DXT3 format, or BMP with alpha channel. The interface is fine for my (and many other's) needs. The functionality, on the other hand, still needs some work.
I completely agree. Communism remain flawed, to various degrees, only in practice. Not every instance is as brutal as another. Communist governments, as far as I can remember, have been the only countries to defeat the US militarily since 1812, when Canada burned down the White House. Whether this is indicative of anything important, I don't know.
But, back to some sort of point, I completely agree that the idea of Communism is a good one, that has been horribly stigmatized by the media, whereas it is the iconic Soviet/Stalinist implementation of Communism that most people object to.
Well, since you brought it up: Pol Pot only called himself a communist, and most self-described communists and communist states distance themselves from him. The proletariat is hardly helped by mass murder. This is the same with North Korea, for the most part. Also, although Lenin did some not nice things, he was probably one of the closest adherants to Marxism to ever gain power. People, I've found, have a weird habit of ascribing the traits of his successors to Lenin. Stalin, although brutal and bloodthirsty, did quite a bit to turn Russia into a superpower. Some could argue that many of his moves were necessary to keep Russia from becoming nothing more than a very large wheat producer. I also notice that you did not mention Castro, who, despite some shortcomings, has done amazing things for Cuba (well, we could get into the debate of "Cuba wouldn't need so much help if they weren't embargoed, and the embargo wouldn't be there if Castro didn't come to power").
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Unknown could mean that someone has a user agent string switcher, and is just fucking around with it. I know a friend of mine that set his to "biffins" just to see what it did. It might also be text mode browsers, such as lynx (which, I think we all agree, needs SVG support ;) )
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't cell phone towers just meant to receive data, and transition it to a land line? If so, there is no more cell phone data at that precise point than there is anywhere else where cell phones are being used. Cell signals aren't magically drawn to that point, are they? And, although I really don't know, I'd doubt that cell phones can broadcast in any given direction.
I think this is a discrepancy between metric and imperial, where the Calorie is a different unit of measurement. I'm not sure on this though, so don't hold me to it.
Same with Switzerland. From what I've heard from family, the trains there run *on time*. If the train schedule says the train arrives in 5 minutes, that is precisely when it will arrive. End of story. People from places like this must wonder when going abroad. Perhaps this is another reason why trains are more popular in these places: it's much harder to guarantee the punctuality of an airplane.
I am a gentoo user. I have done several text-based installs (duh), and gentoo is currently my desktop of choice. I do this not for speed, but for control of my system, and excellent package management. I also switched to gentoo to get more hands-on with linux. I can say now, that I don't really like the text install. It taught me a lot, but after doing one or two, the novelty wears off, and it allows for many careless errors. This development also means that many new users will be much more attracted to gentoo. If they began offering a comprehensive mirror of the most common, say, 2000 packages, it would easily be one of the best distributions. (yes, sometimes building from source is annoying, but portage and USE flags still rock).
I have World of Warcraft installed, and I play it like a fiend (i.e. most of the time I'm at home, and it is the one thing I will wake up early for). Despite this, I'm getting a +90% average in Grade 10 (well, I take physics (96%) at the 20 level, same for math (98%)), and I'm training to be a pilot, in which I'm about to go solo. If your kid is stupid, it means your kid is stupid, not that he/she is playing too many computer games. Stop trying to come up with excuses to make yourself feel better. Teach your kid how to handle multiple activities at once. I am handling World of Warcraft, High School, Freeciv 2, and pilot training, and manage to do well in all four. It's not so hard...
Why are you people in such a hurry to watch a movie that you can't let it do its thing for 10 minutes, without going on a rant about how you'll never buy any new DVD releases. You don't have to watch them. You can do something else. The whining around here is too much to bear.
You do know that the Earth is round, right? They can just go north from Russia to reach the north pole, at which time they can go south into North America.
The CAR (Canadian Air Regulation, I'm assuming an equivilent US law) that says, "no person shall take off from, or attempt to take off from, or land, or attempt to land, from any part of a built-up area or city unless it is an airport or military aerodrome". I have no problem with flying cars, assuming that licensing is done to the current private pilot standards. This is hard, and would make flight unavailable to much of the public, but doing anything less would be a recipe for disaster.
Ah yes... in Canada we have class F airspace, which can either be advisory (like parachuting, training, aerobatics, etc...) or restricted (low airspace above prisons, military areas). We also have an ADIZ around the entire top of the country, in case those Russians attack us!
Because, you know, they might not be weak-minded, easy targets for recruiters. They might have some other prospects given by their countries robust economy. For most of the Army recruits (i.e. the ground soldiers), the Army is really the only option. I know a guy who's joining the army/air force just to get a pilot's license, which is, in a way, related (I'm paying for mine myself). The point being that the Bush government has artfully engineered an economic climate that is condusive to heavy recruitment. Conspiracy? Wouldn't put it past him, but I'm trying to maintain a shred of credibility, so I'll say it's just a coincidence. But it's still interesting.
I don't harbour any illusions as to being the best country (I'm actually Canadian), but if the Arab world wants respect, it has to step up and join the modern world. I don't have a problem with Islam, in fact I think it is better than most Christian offshoots. The problem comes when it starts to make people do things like crash planes into buildings, and construct car bombs. It's not that these things are great ideas on their own; trust me. I don't want to get into a debate over whether Islam tells people to do these things, because quite obviously the governments of Iran, Afghanistan, and questionably Saudi Arabia, along with Al-Qaida, thought that Allah wanted them to do this. The point I'm trying to make is that, it is mostly by the grace of the Western world, that we even deal with backward places such as Saudi Arabia, and their zealotry is setting them back.
Because rm -rf ./bin is too close to rm -rf /bin. You may laugh, but I did this once on a (thank god) non-critical computer. Humans make mistakes, and if I had done that as a user, I wouldn't have had to do a complete reinstall.
Quite true. I am an avid gentoo user (although I'm not a rabid fanboy), and I'm friends with a slackware user. He's just convinced that slackware is the best, whereas I say that, while I like gentoo, ubuntu and debian would probably be better if having complete from-the-ground-up control isn't important to you. However, he maintains that Slackware can be installed in 20 minutes, and that magical pixies will set everything up and make your Pentium II run at 5 GHz.
There is restricted airspace everywhere, and usually a violation thereof means a serious consequence. My flight school had to modify all its flightplans into Medicine Hat, Alberta (I live in Calgary) because some genius forgot to check his chart for the military restricted zone. My point in this long rambling post is that, if you know there is restricted airspace nearby, try really really hard to stay the fuck away from it. If you don't know you're flying near restricted airspace, then you fucked up during the planning stage.
Of why a lot of people think the Arab world is screwed up. We'll give you your religion, if you don't blow shit up because of it, but abducting children to use as camel jockies is just bizzare. Building a robot... well, cool... but bizzare.
Hear hear! I'm in an advanced program, and I still find it easy (for the record, I'm a Canadian Grade 10 student). More frightening than that is, by the end of the second month of Spanish (85 minutes of Spanish every day), we still haven't learned even present tense conjugation. It's so boring that I'm probably gonna take a course over the summer and challenge the diploma exam next year. Our education system *is* really shitty, and no one with half a brain should be afraid to admit it.
Your analogy is correct, but remember that most of the early (-100 and -200) 737s, and almost all 747-100s are out of service now, and the 747-200 is well on its way. Now, some of the old Russian planes are still in service for much longer (such as the Aerogaviota An-24 I flew on in Cuba), so what does that say about their reliability? ;)
I'll admit that, but people who know more than me have come up with plenty of reasons that autopackage is a bad idea. The rest of my arguments are still valid.
Next, there's distro-based package systems like apt and portage. These work very well, as dependency control is automatic, and it is made to work with your distro specifically.
The third option, which is used by (I think, but am not sure) Loki Installer, and such programs, is to install the binaries, but leave you on your own to deal with dependencies. As long as you make sure the dependencies are easy to obtain, this is one of the best options for those without apt or a similar system. You could even, with GPL software, create your own installer for any dependancies, should you choose.
Why not Autopackage? Because it seems like a format that is, at best, a poor substitute for a package system like apt. The simplest solution, considering how much disk space is available on modern machines, is the folder concept like OS X. Very simple, and incredibly easy to remove programs.
A lot of people here are saying that "omg it's taco's penis". Let me explain something to these people: for something to have a mass (even if it is exceptionally small) it is first required that it exists. Since this has not been proven satisfactorily, I will say that it is probably taco's brain, which is obviously present (because he keeps posting stories), however very very small.
Gentoo not with overzealousness? Are you insane? I'm a gentoo user, and I think a lot of users to way too overzealous...
on the functionality rather than the interface. The only reason I keep Photoshop around is because no linux program supports DXT3 format, or BMP with alpha channel. The interface is fine for my (and many other's) needs. The functionality, on the other hand, still needs some work.
But, back to some sort of point, I completely agree that the idea of Communism is a good one, that has been horribly stigmatized by the media, whereas it is the iconic Soviet/Stalinist implementation of Communism that most people object to.
Well, since you brought it up: Pol Pot only called himself a communist, and most self-described communists and communist states distance themselves from him. The proletariat is hardly helped by mass murder. This is the same with North Korea, for the most part. Also, although Lenin did some not nice things, he was probably one of the closest adherants to Marxism to ever gain power. People, I've found, have a weird habit of ascribing the traits of his successors to Lenin. Stalin, although brutal and bloodthirsty, did quite a bit to turn Russia into a superpower. Some could argue that many of his moves were necessary to keep Russia from becoming nothing more than a very large wheat producer. I also notice that you did not mention Castro, who, despite some shortcomings, has done amazing things for Cuba (well, we could get into the debate of "Cuba wouldn't need so much help if they weren't embargoed, and the embargo wouldn't be there if Castro didn't come to power").