If you want a change of speed, use XFCE (or LXDE) as desktop and you will notice a serious increase of speed.
I use openSUSE, not known for its light weight. I run XFCE and get very good speeds on it. Obviously I can run XFCE programs as well as KDE and GNOME ones or any other type.
Putting things in memory (like cache for your browser) also helps. If you must absolutely use KDE or GNOME, see at least that you turn off all the "My-First-Desktop" settings.
I feel stupid saying this, but before reading this blurb [...], I never made the connection that radio buttons were from the old push-down / pop-up radio buttons.
This is not stupid. This shows why the article is stupid.
Everybody knows what the radiation icon is, yet it does not look like that in reality. Icons are there to make it clear in one look what it means.
Replacing them will mean that people have two signs/icons to remember and then change them again in 20 years, so there are 3 sets to remember? That will add to the confusion.
And if the U.S. asks a country to take down a ccTLD/server/whatever and the country complies, who should you be bitching at? The U.S. or your own government that is complying with another country's demands?
The U.S.and the government that is complying. It does not even have to be my own.
If they have a Romanian passport, they are Romanian. If they are descendent from people who lived in Romania, then many feel it is OK to call them Romanian.
The first I can agree with. The second not so much. The we all would be Etheopians. Jay Leno is not Italian. He is American.
And don't even get me started on the racial issue. Why must somebody who has 3 grand parents from Sweden (all of them blonde and blue eyed) be called an African American?
I actually know someone personally who does believe in her own future prediction power.
I know a whole industry that believes they can tell the future. How I can be sure? They makes financially obviously unsound decisions like buying/selling their stock, etc. because of some calculations they did based on an algorithm. They actually has to run a special programs for that, because it's the only one which does the calculations they need.
I read this as "Dammed if they do. Damned if they don't.". If they give it away for free, they strangle the competition, because they are selfish bastards.. If they are asking for money, they are selfish bastards.
If this is dying of the monopolistic part of the company, I am all for it.
In Belgium it is already law to have an ID on you. Besides alcohol control and once running a red light (Got a warning, not a ticket for the red light. Got a key chain for the negative alcohol control) I am one of the few people that I know who has been stopped by police at what looked at random.
I gave my papers, they checked them and then gave them back. A day later I saw them doing the same to a guy who was dressed similar like me the day before with a similar build and haircut, so they were clearly looking for somebody specific.
The only downside at this moment is that the law did not caught up yet. So for many contracts we still need to send in a signed paper. No scanning and no faxing. In other countries the same can be done by a mere phone call.
If they would allow the e-ID as a rightful signature, that would help a lot. The technoligy already exists.
I used to work at a company and they decided that each department needed a 50% cut in staff. This was calculated on actual staff, not on people actually being there.
One department should have 4 people. It was 2 people understaffed, so they fired one. Person got a nice handshake to leave. I believe several months (7 or 8) pay.
That person was re-hired after a month. I would not be surprised ig that person was hired with a higher pay then before.
It used to be a joke. It isn't anymore. There are plenty of test-tube individuals walking around. However the effect could only be measured over several (many?) generations.
what does remembering it teach us? I don't see any important lesson in it.
I reminds us why we need money for the military. It reminds us why the police can spy on us. It reminds us why kids can be fondled by strangers. It reminds us why we must shut up.
Please let us not forget why we do this all. Because we have nothing to fear but fear itself and we have learned to be afraid.
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
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If you want a change of speed, use XFCE (or LXDE) as desktop and you will notice a serious increase of speed.
I use openSUSE, not known for its light weight. I run XFCE and get very good speeds on it. Obviously I can run XFCE programs as well as KDE and GNOME ones or any other type.
Putting things in memory (like cache for your browser) also helps.
If you must absolutely use KDE or GNOME, see at least that you turn off all the "My-First-Desktop" settings.
I feel stupid saying this, but before reading this blurb [...], I never made the connection that radio buttons were from the old push-down / pop-up radio buttons.
The U.S.and the government that is complying. It does not even have to be my own.
Should be modded +1 funny.
You must be Catholic.
Alien? I think he was a time-traveler unable to fix his machine and then just made the best of it.
If they have a Romanian passport, they are Romanian.
If they are descendent from people who lived in Romania, then many feel it is OK to call them Romanian.
The first I can agree with. The second not so much. The we all would be Etheopians. Jay Leno is not Italian. He is American.
And don't even get me started on the racial issue. Why must somebody who has 3 grand parents from Sweden (all of them blonde and blue eyed) be called an African American?
I know a whole industry that believes they can tell the future. How I can be sure? They makes financially obviously unsound decisions like buying/selling their stock, etc. because of some calculations they did based on an algorithm.
They actually has to run a special programs for that, because it's the only one which does the calculations they need.
not just for Hollywood anymore.
Please don't make it hard on them. They already loose money on every movie they make.
If police stops me, I ask them for ID. Have done so a few times.
Like in America?
I read this as "Dammed if they do. Damned if they don't.".
If they give it away for free, they strangle the competition, because they are selfish bastards..
If they are asking for money, they are selfish bastards.
If this is dying of the monopolistic part of the company, I am all for it.
This is /. Please do this and film it. If possible in bullet time as well as with a heat sensor camera.
In Belgium this is nothing new. We already have it. I hope they will adapt the Belgian type as it is open source, everybody can write programs and/or get a reader to see what is on it.
And with Open Source I mean Windows, Mac and Linux can read your software.
http://eid.belgium.be/en/ and direct link to the developer stuff:
http://eid.belgium.be/en/developing_eid_applications/eid_software_development_kit/
Want an add-on for Firefox? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/belgium-eid/
In Belgium it is already law to have an ID on you.
Besides alcohol control and once running a red light (Got a warning, not a ticket for the red light. Got a key chain for the negative alcohol control) I am one of the few people that I know who has been stopped by police at what looked at random.
I gave my papers, they checked them and then gave them back. A day later I saw them doing the same to a guy who was dressed similar like me the day before with a similar build and haircut, so they were clearly looking for somebody specific.
The only downside at this moment is that the law did not caught up yet. So for many contracts we still need to send in a signed paper. No scanning and no faxing. In other countries the same can be done by a mere phone call.
If they would allow the e-ID as a rightful signature, that would help a lot. The technoligy already exists.
Oil. Plenty of dead people for that.
Sure, not directly done by companies. They hire governments to do that for them.
The south [...] Evidence gives us cause to make decisions.
Not in the south. Remember evolution?
Also please use the whole name for any abbreviations in the name. Oh, also use the full name if there are abbreviations in the abbreviations.
Now I understand why people are against teaching evolution in school. It would mean we need to talk about Homo Erectus.
Darn, no mod points. +1 funny would it have been.
I used to work at a company and they decided that each department needed a 50% cut in staff. This was calculated on actual staff, not on people actually being there.
One department should have 4 people. It was 2 people understaffed, so they fired one. Person got a nice handshake to leave. I believe several months (7 or 8) pay.
That person was re-hired after a month. I would not be surprised ig that person was hired with a higher pay then before.
No, the world is NOT a better place. Unless you are either Google or Microsoft, that is.
The patent system is still broken.
It used to be a joke. It isn't anymore. There are plenty of test-tube individuals walking around. However the effect could only be measured over several (many?) generations.
Talking about chine and speed : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FynWETakS9U
I reminds us why we need money for the military. It reminds us why the police can spy on us. It reminds us why kids can be fondled by strangers. It reminds us why we must shut up.
Please let us not forget why we do this all. Because we have nothing to fear but fear itself and we have learned to be afraid.
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.