However, most people are not hooked on alcohol as quickly as they are with crack and meth.
The same argument applies to marijuana. I dont think anyone is advocating the legalization of crack or meth. Marijuana, however, is relativly harmless. You cant die from an overdose. People dont stop eating and sleeping for days or weeks to use it, etc. Cigarettes are as dangerous as marijuana, but those are legal. Alcohol causes more of a social problem than marijuana does but that is also legal. Nobody ever gets into a fight or decides to smash a car window when theyre smoking pot. If alcohol was illegal and marijuana was legal, you probably wouldnt need any bouncers at the bars. Youd just need more couches and a very large snack bar. Crack and meth are a totally different story.
Yeah and the new away message system is the worst i've ever seen. What the hell were they thinking? What is the deal with the two dropdown boxes at the bottom? And now you have to go all the way into a separate window in order to use your saved messages? Someone please tell me that i've hugely overlooked something!
While it does look like a nice device for chatting I cannot see it doing much more. The idea of taking notes on something that small is impossible for most classes where you are moving pretty fast.
I dont know about taking notes, but I'd like to see one of these running CoursePro. I think this device would be perfect for something like that.
I think Supermount is controversial (for whatever reason), it's certainly not something distributions have rushed to adopt.
I can't see why. I love it. I was so sick of having to unmount my cdrom before I could eject it. And even the other solution posted, you have to wait for it to actually unmount before it will eject. Supermount seems to just work. It works great for USB drives too. I wrote a small script that watches the proc file system for a USB drive to appear. When it does, it opens konqueror at the mounted location. The effect is that when I plug in my USB stick konqueror opens a few seconds later and displays the files on it. No mounting, no browsing. It's simple and it works.
I also wish I could unmount a CDROM by pressing the eject button.
Get the supermount kernel patch. It allows you to mount removable drives once and then still remove the media while it is mounted. There are a few distros that come with it. I use Yoper, but I heard that Mandrake and a few others have it.
Shouldn't these engineers be concentrating on building a miniature Stirling engine instead? The processor itself could provide most of the heat for the engine. Also, this would make the whole system a lot more efficient. Instead of generating more wasted energy in the form of heat, the heat from the processor would be recovered and turned into more electricity.
My advice is don't even wait for 1.0. Firefox is leaps and bounds beyone IE already, and it is very stable as well. Now if we can just conivince web developers to stop writing hacks and write standards compliant web code, things will actually look proper in other browsers and IE will either be forced to fix it or perish.
I use Firefox for everything except there are some sites that I simply can not because the web code is so hacked that real standards compliant browsers don't work on them!
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However, most people are not hooked on alcohol as quickly as they are with crack and meth.
The same argument applies to marijuana. I dont think anyone is advocating the legalization of crack or meth. Marijuana, however, is relativly harmless. You cant die from an overdose. People dont stop eating and sleeping for days or weeks to use it, etc. Cigarettes are as dangerous as marijuana, but those are legal. Alcohol causes more of a social problem than marijuana does but that is also legal. Nobody ever gets into a fight or decides to smash a car window when theyre smoking pot. If alcohol was illegal and marijuana was legal, you probably wouldnt need any bouncers at the bars. Youd just need more couches and a very large snack bar. Crack and meth are a totally different story.
Yeah and the new away message system is the worst i've ever seen. What the hell were they thinking? What is the deal with the two dropdown boxes at the bottom? And now you have to go all the way into a separate window in order to use your saved messages? Someone please tell me that i've hugely overlooked something!
While it does look like a nice device for chatting I cannot see it doing much more. The idea of taking notes on something that small is impossible for most classes where you are moving pretty fast.
I dont know about taking notes, but I'd like to see one of these running CoursePro. I think this device would be perfect for something like that.
I think Supermount is controversial (for whatever reason), it's certainly not something distributions have rushed to adopt.
I can't see why. I love it. I was so sick of having to unmount my cdrom before I could eject it. And even the other solution posted, you have to wait for it to actually unmount before it will eject. Supermount seems to just work. It works great for USB drives too. I wrote a small script that watches the proc file system for a USB drive to appear. When it does, it opens konqueror at the mounted location. The effect is that when I plug in my USB stick konqueror opens a few seconds later and displays the files on it. No mounting, no browsing. It's simple and it works.
I also wish I could unmount a CDROM by pressing the eject button.
Get the supermount kernel patch. It allows you to mount removable drives once and then still remove the media while it is mounted. There are a few distros that come with it. I use Yoper, but I heard that Mandrake and a few others have it.
Shouldn't these engineers be concentrating on building a miniature Stirling engine instead? The processor itself could provide most of the heat for the engine. Also, this would make the whole system a lot more efficient. Instead of generating more wasted energy in the form of heat, the heat from the processor would be recovered and turned into more electricity.
My advice is don't even wait for 1.0. Firefox is leaps and bounds beyone IE already, and it is very stable as well. Now if we can just conivince web developers to stop writing hacks and write standards compliant web code, things will actually look proper in other browsers and IE will either be forced to fix it or perish.
I use Firefox for everything except there are some sites that I simply can not because the web code is so hacked that real standards compliant browsers don't work on them!