I blocked the ads in 2142 at the firewall before I even finished installing the game. I'm sorry but you're not advertising in a game I bought, on which you maintain a stranglehold with ranked servers, EA.
Your post made me test OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 in Debian. With only a couple of minutes of testing, I found the following problems:
* I use alt-mouseclick to raise/move windows. After doing this to OOo the focus moves to File menu. No other software has this problem.
* Word completion feature is still enabled by default. It's the most annoying feature I've ever seen in a software. Seeing words suddenly pop up on screen completely distracts you from whatever you were thinking about writing. And why does it have to have its own setup dialog? I was expecting to find it from Options, but oh no. At least this time I found the AutoCorrect menu, last time I gave up and just wrote the document with a text editor and copy&pasted to OOo to add the formatting.
* Autosaving causes the window to flicker, Ctrl-S doesn't. Why? At least there's no more "This document has changed, do you want to save it?" questions. Oh how I hated that dialog when trying to read a document that I had accidentally changed a bit.
* Inserting a table left parts of the table insertion dialog visible to screen, requiring a window resize to refresh it out.
* Whenever a Table mini-window is created (e.g. clicking a cell, or more annoyingly moving a cursor into a cell) the focus is lost.
* Using 60MB of memory (RSS) to display an empty document and 80MB to display a 9 page document seems pretty bloaty.
So I guess it's better than last time I tried, but losing focus all the time would make me curse it if I really had to use it. I've noticed it works better under Windows than Linux. Odd, but that seems to be the case. For what it is, I don't think 60MB RSS is all that much. I think Word is at least as large.
As I said, "pretty damn good, and certainly a suitable replacement". It does have it's minor quirks, but I can put up with those (and they can be fixed) if it means saving myself $400 every few years.
The first X PRIZE competition, the Ansari X PRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight, successfully challenged teams to build private spaceships to open the space frontier. Burt Rutan, financed by Microsoft founder Paul Allen, won the Ansari X PRIZE on Oct. 4th, 2004. As a result, $10 million was awarded to the winner, but more than $100 million was invested in new technologies in pursuit of the prize. Today, Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and others are actively creating a personal spaceflight industry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Prize#Ansari_X_PRIZ E
In short, just because your heart stops beating doesn't mean your cells are going to die anytime soon. Cells are undergoing (committing?) apoptosis when oxygen is reintroduced, after they have been deprived for 5 minutes or so.
If we could prevent apoptosis, we could conceivably restore life to a person who has been dead for hours. I wonder if that could time could be stretched even further under cold temperatures.
I was running 6.06LTS (I think), I allowed the automatic upgrade to feisty to go through. I left work, when I came back in the morning everything was working great. +3:)
I've been using it at work for the past several months, it accomplishes everything I need. I miss Trillian, Gaim is a mediocre substitute IMHO. I've been very impressed with how good the experience has been, I have yet to find myself thinking "Damn, I wish I had my windows box back."
Now, I'm looking forward to UbuntuDupe's post about how Ubuntu sucks because nobody helped with his troubles using Ubuntu, despite his tantrum on the forums.
Why the Roland hate? Many of the stories he submits are valid, interesting stories.
The stories he submits link directly to the article, it's only his submitter link that goes to his blog. I rarely, if ever, look at who submitted the article.
If he somehow profits from submitting articles I'm interested in reading, more power to him.
Como say what? It was designed Mikhail Kalashnikov while he was stuck in the hospital. Sure you can call it state-owned military R&D staff if you want, but it's really not.
I can speak only for myself, but pissing directly on the floor is a rare occurrence; and I'm 6'6" tall. When you've just had sex, yeah it can come out in a somewhat random direction but the angle of deviation is usually not enough to escape the confines of the toilet bowl.
Then there's splashing. Despite many attempts over the years to identify a more ideal entry vector, I have yet to find one which prevents splash. A lightly pressurized fluid being squirted/falling into a vat of water will produce some splash. All possible attempts are made to minimize this splash effect.
I haven't had a chance to watch any of them since the pilot. However, I hear it's spectacular. Anyway, I wish more shows would wrap things up and leave a spectacular series. Lost and Heroes come to mind.
I'd be sad when they're over, but happier overall because it was done right.
First off I hope you don't think I'm just some nutter who just hoping and waiting in earnest with a pallet of ammo under my pillow for the day when revolution comes knocking. I really hope we don't get there, but given the history of the world and the direction in which our country is headed, I don't doubt that day will come eventually.
I think you, along with your sibling post are quite right in believing that many folks in the military would have a serious problem fighting their own countrymen. However, as evidenced by Lt. Ehren Watada's case I don't foresee many dissenters actively rejecting the influence of their superiors. I've occasionally wondered if such an Oppressive Government Regime (OGR) is possible today, given how connected we are today and how readily available communications are. What does concern me though, is that the Nuremberg Defense might actually be a problem with the human condition when you consider studies such as the Milgram Experiment.
Because of how connected we are, I am concerned that the spread of state sponsored propaganda would be extremely easy. Censorship and propaganda in our lives already exists, it's just a matter of noticing it. It may not be forced and readily visible censorship; rather, coerced or orchestrated. Mass media has been largely concentrated in the hands of few, who seem reluctant to bring serious problems to light; eager to placate the masses.
To directly address your points:
1. If you are sufficiently confident in your ability to obtain guns using sticks and boobies, more power to you. I'd rather have the guns ahead of time, personally. To each his own.
2. Not so much training in how to overthrow the government, rather training in how to fight for the government. The two just overlap.
3. Perhaps, but see my reference to the Milgram Experiment above. Think about how ridiculed Lt. Watada has been, the hostile reaction he's sure to have received. The fascification (yeah, I'm inventing a new word) of the country has been and will probably continue to be a long slow process. Much of it done by those with no intention to do so, but rather with the intent of the betterment of the country in mind.
To keep us prepared for revolution is the #1 reason for civilian gun ownership, #2 defense from foreign threat, #3 being self defense.
Is that so? Quoth the wiki, from a cited source:
About 59.1 million adults in the United States personally own a gun. Roughly 93 million adults, or 49% of the adult U.S. population, live in households with guns.[8] There is no national gun register in the USA, so it is impossible to know exactly how many guns are in circulation or who has them, but the FBI estimates there are more than 200 million guns in civilian hands. As for the US military:
Active personnel: 1,426,713 (Ranked 2nd) Reserve personnel: 858,500 (List of countries by size of armed forces) Sounds like the civvies has a veritable shitload more guns, and likely ammo. That's what protects us from the oppressive gub'mint.
Now, as far as more powerful firepower... an overwhelming guerrilla-style force, such as the "militia" of the United States will not go quitely into the night. Instead, it would trounce the US military if needed be. A fact that's vital to living in a free country; and if you ask me we're getting closer and closer to that dreaded day when the people must rise up once again.
I can't speak for Linux or Mac in regard to Eclipse, but I used it for well over a year and I can't recall having any problems with it.
Netbeans, when I started using it was slow as molasses at everything. It seems when the 5.5 branch hit RC1 things got a lot better. Now I've used Netbeans on Windows and Ubuntu (LTS & Feisty) since September and I'm nothing but happy with it.
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I blocked the ads in 2142 at the firewall before I even finished installing the game. I'm sorry but you're not advertising in a game I bought, on which you maintain a stranglehold with ranked servers, EA.
* I use alt-mouseclick to raise/move windows. After doing this to OOo the focus moves to File menu. No other software has this problem.
* Word completion feature is still enabled by default. It's the most annoying feature I've ever seen in a software. Seeing words suddenly pop up on screen completely distracts you from whatever you were thinking about writing. And why does it have to have its own setup dialog? I was expecting to find it from Options, but oh no. At least this time I found the AutoCorrect menu, last time I gave up and just wrote the document with a text editor and copy&pasted to OOo to add the formatting.
* Autosaving causes the window to flicker, Ctrl-S doesn't. Why? At least there's no more "This document has changed, do you want to save it?" questions. Oh how I hated that dialog when trying to read a document that I had accidentally changed a bit.
* Inserting a table left parts of the table insertion dialog visible to screen, requiring a window resize to refresh it out.
* Whenever a Table mini-window is created (e.g. clicking a cell, or more annoyingly moving a cursor into a cell) the focus is lost.
* Using 60MB of memory (RSS) to display an empty document and 80MB to display a 9 page document seems pretty bloaty.
So I guess it's better than last time I tried, but losing focus all the time would make me curse it if I really had to use it. I've noticed it works better under Windows than Linux. Odd, but that seems to be the case. For what it is, I don't think 60MB RSS is all that much. I think Word is at least as large.
As I said, "pretty damn good, and certainly a suitable replacement". It does have it's minor quirks, but I can put up with those (and they can be fixed) if it means saving myself $400 every few years.
Up until OO 2 I was mostly with you. IMHO, the latest versions of OO are pretty damn good, and certainly a suitable replacement.
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In short, just because your heart stops beating doesn't mean your cells are going to die anytime soon. Cells are undergoing (committing?) apoptosis when oxygen is reintroduced, after they have been deprived for 5 minutes or so.
If we could prevent apoptosis, we could conceivably restore life to a person who has been dead for hours. I wonder if that could time could be stretched even further under cold temperatures.
I'd suggest you reread the summary of this article.
I'm not a fan of GPL anyway, give me BSD/Apache/MIT any day.
I was running 6.06LTS (I think), I allowed the automatic upgrade to feisty to go through. I left work, when I came back in the morning everything was working great. +3 :)
Barefoot, in the snow, and up hill in both directions!
NoScript works wonders.
Granted, I'm reading the print version of the story now, but that's just because their site is so cluttered it's hard to read.
I've been using it at work for the past several months, it accomplishes everything I need. I miss Trillian, Gaim is a mediocre substitute IMHO. I've been very impressed with how good the experience has been, I have yet to find myself thinking "Damn, I wish I had my windows box back."
Now, I'm looking forward to UbuntuDupe's post about how Ubuntu sucks because nobody helped with his troubles using Ubuntu, despite his tantrum on the forums.
Holy hot faculty, Batman!
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Funny thing is she'll probably read this
Why the Roland hate? Many of the stories he submits are valid, interesting stories.
The stories he submits link directly to the article, it's only his submitter link that goes to his blog. I rarely, if ever, look at who submitted the article.
If he somehow profits from submitting articles I'm interested in reading, more power to him.
Como say what? It was designed Mikhail Kalashnikov while he was stuck in the hospital. Sure you can call it state-owned military R&D staff if you want, but it's really not.
Sounds to me like it's the company with the patent that's asking for royalties, not Russia itself.
I can speak only for myself, but pissing directly on the floor is a rare occurrence; and I'm 6'6" tall. When you've just had sex, yeah it can come out in a somewhat random direction but the angle of deviation is usually not enough to escape the confines of the toilet bowl.
Then there's splashing. Despite many attempts over the years to identify a more ideal entry vector, I have yet to find one which prevents splash. A lightly pressurized fluid being squirted/falling into a vat of water will produce some splash. All possible attempts are made to minimize this splash effect.
I haven't had a chance to watch any of them since the pilot. However, I hear it's spectacular. Anyway, I wish more shows would wrap things up and leave a spectacular series. Lost and Heroes come to mind.
I'd be sad when they're over, but happier overall because it was done right.
How about keeping vital systems off the interwebs? Jesus H. Christ.
Generally, yep.
First off I hope you don't think I'm just some nutter who just hoping and waiting in earnest with a pallet of ammo under my pillow for the day when revolution comes knocking. I really hope we don't get there, but given the history of the world and the direction in which our country is headed, I don't doubt that day will come eventually.
I think you, along with your sibling post are quite right in believing that many folks in the military would have a serious problem fighting their own countrymen. However, as evidenced by Lt. Ehren Watada's case I don't foresee many dissenters actively rejecting the influence of their superiors. I've occasionally wondered if such an Oppressive Government Regime (OGR) is possible today, given how connected we are today and how readily available communications are. What does concern me though, is that the Nuremberg Defense might actually be a problem with the human condition when you consider studies such as the Milgram Experiment.
Because of how connected we are, I am concerned that the spread of state sponsored propaganda would be extremely easy. Censorship and propaganda in our lives already exists, it's just a matter of noticing it. It may not be forced and readily visible censorship; rather, coerced or orchestrated. Mass media has been largely concentrated in the hands of few, who seem reluctant to bring serious problems to light; eager to placate the masses.
To directly address your points:
1. If you are sufficiently confident in your ability to obtain guns using sticks and boobies, more power to you. I'd rather have the guns ahead of time, personally. To each his own.
2. Not so much training in how to overthrow the government, rather training in how to fight for the government. The two just overlap.
3. Perhaps, but see my reference to the Milgram Experiment above. Think about how ridiculed Lt. Watada has been, the hostile reaction he's sure to have received. The fascification (yeah, I'm inventing a new word) of the country has been and will probably continue to be a long slow process. Much of it done by those with no intention to do so, but rather with the intent of the betterment of the country in mind.
To keep us prepared for revolution is the #1 reason for civilian gun ownership, #2 defense from foreign threat, #3 being self defense.
Reserve personnel: 858,500 (List of countries by size of armed forces) Sounds like the civvies has a veritable shitload more guns, and likely ammo. That's what protects us from the oppressive gub'mint.
Now, as far as more powerful firepower... an overwhelming guerrilla-style force, such as the "militia" of the United States will not go quitely into the night. Instead, it would trounce the US military if needed be. A fact that's vital to living in a free country; and if you ask me we're getting closer and closer to that dreaded day when the people must rise up once again.
What the hell? Doesn't she have anything better to do?
I can't speak for Linux or Mac in regard to Eclipse, but I used it for well over a year and I can't recall having any problems with it.
Netbeans, when I started using it was slow as molasses at everything. It seems when the 5.5 branch hit RC1 things got a lot better. Now I've used Netbeans on Windows and Ubuntu (LTS & Feisty) since September and I'm nothing but happy with it.
What the fuck is wrong with this country? When did an issue like this become something the federal government has jurisdiction over?
Actually, I know our states gave that up a while ago. It's still stupid, along with the bill in the first place.
Oh sweet irony.