Could underinflated tires be the culprit? I am not a car mechanic, but I believe overinflating your tires should make you go further with each revolution. Perhaps the car speedometer only numbers number of tire revolutions and so cannot be 100% spot on accurate?
I wish I could mod you up. For the record, I love Ubuntu, but I tend to run only the LTS releases. They are the ones that Canonical and the community put all their effort into for running production systems. I have never had a problem upgrading dapper (6.06 LTS) to Hardy (8.04 LTS), but I have had small problems with some of the intermediate releases.
I had been playing with Karmic-server on VMs for about a month now, but nothing production. Finally I popped a liveCD onto my laptop, played around in Karmic, realized everything worked beautifully, and bit the bullet and a few dist upgrades from Hardy to Karmic. I have not regretted it, but if someone does have problems with the newer possibly less-stable software, they should be sticking with the LTS releases. If you want to push the limit, try new software, you can run the newest release whether or not it's LTS. If you would like to try before you mess with your production system, use the liveCD or make a BACKUP that you know how to restore from. Sheesh....
Sorry to the people who have problems, but I'd have to say my system feels a lot faster now. Boots faster, and compiz with all its 3d effects are a lot smoother with on my builtin intel card than they ever were with previous releases. I am a happy karmic user:)
Meat, as a whole, is incredibly inefficient. The most inefficient is beef...
That is pretty much entirely untrue outside the US, where people seem to think that cows can eat grain.
Are you maintaining that factory farming is unknown outside of the US and that in the rest of the world animals graze? You disagree with the Wikipedia article on Factory Farming: "According to the Worldwatch Institute, 74 percent of the world's poultry, 43 percent of beef, and 68 percent of eggs are produced "[in factory farms]
Factory farming is worldwide and it is growing. If you want to save the planet, eat vegetables. Raise your dog to eat vegetables too. My dog eats potatoes out of my garden and wild blueberries and rasberries
Unless the netbook is successful, but people learn that the instant-on Android OS is unusable, ie an expensive non-feature. The last thing a new platform needs for marketing is a broken deployment,
I do an md5checksum of grub and/boot from a USB key which on me at all times every time I boot my computer.
Seriously, I don't know of any other foolproof way to defend against this. I do know where my encrypted laptop hard drive is most of the time.
Are you talking about the IBM "clit? those things are murder on my hands. My Thinkpad has one I never use it.
Only two mouse buttons.
Enable chordmiddle!
No mouse buttons reachable with your hands on the keyboard.
I'll keep my Thinkpad.
Hey to each their own. I do agree with you on that one, I hate interfaces that make me take my hands off the keyboard. Be a great laptop for running ratpoison though;-)
I've been quite happy with my Lenovo X60 tablet for years. You could probably get a refurbished one now for
However I mostly use it as a laptop. I found it more than completely replaced my old laptop. I mean it has a keyboard and a normal laptop setup, but the screen rotates to cover the keyboard, and they you can do work with the machine as a tablet.
I guess you were talking about the tablet-only computers with no keyboard. In that case, I'd agree with you, but there is a hybrid tablet/laptop option.
I have never heard of anyone commenting the possibility of friendship on hearing of someone not wanting to start a friendship over someone else's ending a different friendship over an operating system. Sorry I wanted to play too!
Yes we have food disparagement laws in the US. Some association for American Beef producers tried to sue the pants off of Howard Lyman because he was trying to raise awareness about mad cow disease.
The thing is, even though he had strong suspicion that current agricultural practices would make people sick, he couldn't *prove* it. In many years he would be vindicated, but at the time he was in danger of losing the case. He got off the hook, because of the choice of language. He used the words, "I believe", which to me seems a very sensible thing to do, and would work in England too.
Instead of saying "chiropractors are a bunch of liars and charlatans" (an unproven claim possible libelous), one can say, "I believe that chiropractors are a bunch of liars and charlatans". The second statement is a statement of ones own opinion. The only who could tell whether or it is true or a lie is the person making the statement. Certainly a safer statement to make for avoiding libel lawsuit.
There is a world of difference between my Lenovo X60 Tablet with WACOM pen and screen and badly abused credit system at Walmart. Seriously, a good tablet will give you pressure sensitivity (detectable by inkscape and GIMP) and allow you to create very nice drawings. There is no way you can make a decent signature on some of those credit card pads even if you took the whole day to do it.
As does Android. I installed wifi-tethering on my HTC G1 through the Android Market:)
Also I have a cool keyboard on the phone (although honestly, I use my laptop to connect to it to do anything fancy)
If you try Ubuntu again, it might be in your best interest to stick with the LTS releases, Dapper, Hardy, etc, not the interim releases. I've done both upgrades from LTS release to LTS release and interim release to something else. When you stay within the LTS releases, everything is well tested and works seamlessly.
Hmm when our coworkers leave we usually get together after work for pizza and beer to see them off. I guess some work environments are less friendly than others.
When, and ONLY when you're ready to test on physical hardware, you can pay Apple just under $100 and get the ability to deploy to hardware and release to the store. But for all your getting started steps, you don't have to spend 1c more than it costs to start with Android.
I'm not sure I understand this. Does the paper that the time Time magazine article and you are citing state that 39.8% of Americans over 12 are lifetime marijuana users? How would anyone even measure something like illegal use among teens? They also say that there was an increase in marijuana use among 16-18 year olds. Frankly, I am not confident that what happens in Portugal is a reflection of what will happen in the USA and Mexico.
I think that drug laws do deter use in some cases. With decriminalization, some people who wouldn't use drugs will try to use them. But don't get me wrong I think this (move towards decriminalization) is a good thing. Efforts focused on treatment and rehabilitation rather than incarceration are a win.
However while this is a slight benefit to drug users ok and taxpayers too, it still enables criminals to profit from illegal drug smuggling resulting in crime, corruption, innocent bystanders getting shot, etc. In order to benefit everyone, legalization is necessary. Only legalization will take the profit out of crime.
I don't know about that. I'm no fan of the drug war, but I think decriminalization will increase the USE of illegal drugs and therefore increase the DEMAND for it. Users will carry less risk so it incentivizes use, increases demand and drives up the PRICE. This makes being a crimelord more profitable.
To me, if you want to lower the street price of drugs and reduce the profits of the drug cartel crimelords, the only way short of legalization would be reduce the taxes on legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol. Lowering alcohol tax promotes alcoholism. Really a strategy of legalization and regulation seems to be the only one that makes sense.
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Yes! It is a great feature :)
Could underinflated tires be the culprit? I am not a car mechanic, but I believe overinflating your tires should make you go further with each revolution. Perhaps the car speedometer only numbers number of tire revolutions and so cannot be 100% spot on accurate?
Browser=True
with
Browser=False
in your /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to disable that. Or "apt-get install xdm"! Cheers
I wish I could mod you up. For the record, I love Ubuntu, but I tend to run only the LTS releases. They are the ones that Canonical and the community put all their effort into for running production systems. I have never had a problem upgrading dapper (6.06 LTS) to Hardy (8.04 LTS), but I have had small problems with some of the intermediate releases.
:)
I had been playing with Karmic-server on VMs for about a month now, but nothing production. Finally I popped a liveCD onto my laptop, played around in Karmic, realized everything worked beautifully, and bit the bullet and a few dist upgrades from Hardy to Karmic. I have not regretted it, but if someone does have problems with the newer possibly less-stable software, they should be sticking with the LTS releases. If you want to push the limit, try new software, you can run the newest release whether or not it's LTS. If you would like to try before you mess with your production system, use the liveCD or make a BACKUP that you know how to restore from. Sheesh....
Sorry to the people who have problems, but I'd have to say my system feels a lot faster now. Boots faster, and compiz with all its 3d effects are a lot smoother with on my builtin intel card than they ever were with previous releases. I am a happy karmic user
and pagers too. I see non-cellphone pagers all the time.
Actually I do see pagers, but they are the exception, not a high selling item. They won't go away completely, but almost...
Meat, as a whole, is incredibly inefficient. The most inefficient is beef...
That is pretty much entirely untrue outside the US, where people seem to think that cows can eat grain.
Are you maintaining that factory farming is unknown outside of the US and that in the rest of the world animals graze? You disagree with the Wikipedia article on Factory Farming: "According to the Worldwatch Institute, 74 percent of the world's poultry, 43 percent of beef, and 68 percent of eggs are produced "[in factory farms]
Factory farming is worldwide and it is growing. If you want to save the planet, eat vegetables. Raise your dog to eat vegetables too. My dog eats potatoes out of my garden and wild blueberries and rasberries
Unless the netbook is successful, but people learn that the instant-on Android OS is unusable, ie an expensive non-feature. The last thing a new platform needs for marketing is a broken deployment,
I do an md5checksum of grub and /boot from a USB key which on me at all times every time I boot my computer.
Seriously, I don't know of any other foolproof way to defend against this. I do know where my encrypted laptop hard drive is most of the time.
I was trying to do that in nethack, but then I died from eating a poisonous zombie orc corpse
I'm vegan you insensitive clod! (seriously look at the handle)
Sorry Israel is not a secular democracy. It still has religious courts, and preferential legal status for certain religions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Israel#Religion_and_citizenship
Further Israel has passed laws that prevent Palestinians who marry Israeli's from living within Israel: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-imposes-racist-marriage-law-588637.html
None of this meets my definition of secular. Genocidal? I would not call the Israeli occupation of Palestine genocide (yet). I would call it apartheid.
No trackpoint mouse.
Are you talking about the IBM "clit? those things are murder on my hands. My Thinkpad has one I never use it.
Only two mouse buttons.
Enable chordmiddle!
No mouse buttons reachable with your hands on the keyboard.
I'll keep my Thinkpad.
Hey to each their own. I do agree with you on that one, I hate interfaces that make me take my hands off the keyboard. Be a great laptop for running ratpoison though ;-)
I've been quite happy with my Lenovo X60 tablet for years. You could probably get a refurbished one now for
However I mostly use it as a laptop. I found it more than completely replaced my old laptop. I mean it has a keyboard and a normal laptop setup, but the screen rotates to cover the keyboard, and they you can do work with the machine as a tablet.
I guess you were talking about the tablet-only computers with no keyboard. In that case, I'd agree with you, but there is a hybrid tablet/laptop option.
I have never heard of anyone commenting the possibility of friendship on hearing of someone not wanting to start a friendship over someone else's ending a different friendship over an operating system. Sorry I wanted to play too!
Yes we have food disparagement laws in the US. Some association for American Beef producers tried to sue the pants off of Howard Lyman because he was trying to raise awareness about mad cow disease.
The thing is, even though he had strong suspicion that current agricultural practices would make people sick, he couldn't *prove* it. In many years he would be vindicated, but at the time he was in danger of losing the case. He got off the hook, because of the choice of language. He used the words, "I believe", which to me seems a very sensible thing to do, and would work in England too.
Instead of saying "chiropractors are a bunch of liars and charlatans" (an unproven claim possible libelous), one can say, "I believe that chiropractors are a bunch of liars and charlatans". The second statement is a statement of ones own opinion. The only who could tell whether or it is true or a lie is the person making the statement. Certainly a safer statement to make for avoiding libel lawsuit.
There is a world of difference between my Lenovo X60 Tablet with WACOM pen and screen and badly abused credit system at Walmart. Seriously, a good tablet will give you pressure sensitivity (detectable by inkscape and GIMP) and allow you to create very nice drawings. There is no way you can make a decent signature on some of those credit card pads even if you took the whole day to do it.
As does Android. I installed wifi-tethering on my HTC G1 through the Android Market :)
Also I have a cool keyboard on the phone (although honestly, I use my laptop to connect to it to do anything fancy)
If you try Ubuntu again, it might be in your best interest to stick with the LTS releases, Dapper, Hardy, etc, not the interim releases. I've done both upgrades from LTS release to LTS release and interim release to something else. When you stay within the LTS releases, everything is well tested and works seamlessly.
Hmm when our coworkers leave we usually get together after work for pizza and beer to see them off. I guess some work environments are less friendly than others.
I'm watching the video on my smartphone, but it's really hard to pay attention and make this post to /. as I'm driving in pretty heavy traffic now.
When, and ONLY when you're ready to test on physical hardware, you can pay Apple just under $100 and get the ability to deploy to hardware and release to the store. But for all your getting started steps, you don't have to spend 1c more than it costs to start with Android.
Except, you need to own a newer Intel-based MAC.
I'm not sure I understand this. Does the paper that the time Time magazine article and you are citing state that 39.8% of Americans over 12 are lifetime marijuana users? How would anyone even measure something like illegal use among teens? They also say that there was an increase in marijuana use among 16-18 year olds. Frankly, I am not confident that what happens in Portugal is a reflection of what will happen in the USA and Mexico.
I think that drug laws do deter use in some cases. With decriminalization, some people who wouldn't use drugs will try to use them. But don't get me wrong I think this (move towards decriminalization) is a good thing. Efforts focused on treatment and rehabilitation rather than incarceration are a win.
However while this is a slight benefit to drug users ok and taxpayers too, it still enables criminals to profit from illegal drug smuggling resulting in crime, corruption, innocent bystanders getting shot, etc. In order to benefit everyone, legalization is necessary. Only legalization will take the profit out of crime.
I don't know about that. I'm no fan of the drug war, but I think decriminalization will increase the USE of illegal drugs and therefore increase the DEMAND for it. Users will carry less risk so it incentivizes use, increases demand and drives up the PRICE. This makes being a crimelord more profitable.
To me, if you want to lower the street price of drugs and reduce the profits of the drug cartel crimelords, the only way short of legalization would be reduce the taxes on legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol. Lowering alcohol tax promotes alcoholism. Really a strategy of legalization and regulation seems to be the only one that makes sense.
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