???? Clinton isn't running for anything and the Vice President has pretty limited decision making athority.
GGP posted about voters going to the Republicans because Clinton didn't get the Democrat nomination. Presumably a large chunk of those voters are doing so to get a woman into the white house by any means, even if it means voting for one completely opposed to the values of their original candidate.
Assuming GOP victory, and taking into account McCain's age and medical history, a lot of people don't expect Palin to remain VP for long.
For anyone who's wondering (and this may vary depending on whose numbers you use: half the human genome, uncompressed, would be about 2(10^-5) Libraries of Congress.
We're just joking around here, but I think C) on your list is a perfectly valid concern, one that perhaps should have been further emphasised in your OP.
I guess the upshot of all this is that Facebook is just like the other sites you use in that you have full control over how A) as always, and most of the time you have right of refusal regarding B) (e.g. untagging yourself from photos, deleting wall posts you don't want public, blocking applications from publishing to your news feed). If there's anything you don't want your friends, your boss, the government or PepsiCo to find out, you can still keep it offline or at least locked down. No one's even forcing you to use your real name, entering your first name and surname as 'Klaymen' and 'D-K' will pass their filters and all your friends will still know it's you. Not so good for finding old classmates but that's obviously not your primary goal.
FWIW, most if not all complaints I've heard firsthand about Facebook's functionality have come from people who hadn't made any attempt to familiarise themselves with the privacy settings page, which is easy to navigate to and highly customisable. You're obviously a smart guy, I doubt you'll have any trouble.
Awesome advice, thanks! I'm keeping an eye on the card, but it was dirt cheap and has yet to get above 32C just doing desktop stuff.
I'm totally happy to use KDE - I tried it out with Kubuntu 7.10 and loved it but stability issues killed it for me. I was going to wait another point release or two of KDE4 before I try it again, but now's as good a time as any to experiment.
But the real issue is that you should have researched Linux compatibility of your hardware BEFORE buying!
You're absolutely right. Ubuntu had previously played nice with every piece of hardware I ever threw at it since Warty came out, with the sole exceptions of a winmodem that came with my first PC and a $5 webcam I ordered online whilst drunk last year (when the cam arrived, the receipt showed that I'd populated the comments/instructions field on the checkout page with "credit card + drunkdrunkdrunk = wheee!"). I guess I'd started getting complacent.
Amen, I want Linux on the high end too. So I went and built myself something reasonably high-end: ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe mobo, Intel Q6600, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 512MB 9800GT graphics card...so it's not the absolute shizzle but it's the best machine I've ever owned. Put it all together, and have spent the week since discovering just how shocking support is for P45 chipset motherboards still - primarily the ASUS P5xx boards apparently, but MSI and others seem to have serious issues too.
So far, the best result I've gotten is to successfully boot an Ubuntu 8.04.1 LiveCD (which will only happen with AHCI enabled, otherwise nothing) and run the installation. After that, nothing, can't even get GRUB to load. 8.10 with latest kernel apparently might do the job when it's released, but as of now (Alpha 5) it won't load at all.
So maybe I'm straying slightly offtopic but I've got karma to burn and here's as good a place as any to ask: what distro should I be trying for newish, high-endish hardware support? openSUSE? Gentoo? PC-BSD? Just wait for Intrepid's final release? I went from XP to Ubuntu about four years ago and haven't ever had occasion to try any of the others but I'm open to suggestions...
Does 'meta-joke' refer more accurately to a joke about jokes, as in your example, or a joke that generates other joke, like the Irish knock-knock joke (hint: you start), or one that sort of does both?
"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." -- Bill Bailey
Is it seriously that easy for a starving, out-of-shape, sunlight-deprived slashdotter to catch the pigeons in your neighbourhood? They must be retarded!
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???? Clinton isn't running for anything and the Vice President has pretty limited decision making athority.
GGP posted about voters going to the Republicans because Clinton didn't get the Democrat nomination. Presumably a large chunk of those voters are doing so to get a woman into the white house by any means, even if it means voting for one completely opposed to the values of their original candidate.
Assuming GOP victory, and taking into account McCain's age and medical history, a lot of people don't expect Palin to remain VP for long.
For anyone who's wondering (and this may vary depending on whose numbers you use: half the human genome, uncompressed, would be about 2(10^-5) Libraries of Congress.
We're just joking around here, but I think C) on your list is a perfectly valid concern, one that perhaps should have been further emphasised in your OP.
I guess the upshot of all this is that Facebook is just like the other sites you use in that you have full control over how A) as always, and most of the time you have right of refusal regarding B) (e.g. untagging yourself from photos, deleting wall posts you don't want public, blocking applications from publishing to your news feed). If there's anything you don't want your friends, your boss, the government or PepsiCo to find out, you can still keep it offline or at least locked down. No one's even forcing you to use your real name, entering your first name and surname as 'Klaymen' and 'D-K' will pass their filters and all your friends will still know it's you. Not so good for finding old classmates but that's obviously not your primary goal.
FWIW, most if not all complaints I've heard firsthand about Facebook's functionality have come from people who hadn't made any attempt to familiarise themselves with the privacy settings page, which is easy to navigate to and highly customisable. You're obviously a smart guy, I doubt you'll have any trouble.
80's music seems appropriate for a 34y/o, but I wonder if it distracts him when he's concentrating on a board game or working on his 2004 VW Golf in his Copenhagen, Denmark, garage.
No, that's because no one deserves to be a Zero-G Jizz-Mopper.
So what you're asking is the velocity at which it gets swallowed? (For the purposes of the question we'll assume it's unladen)
We can take care of the other 5% by inviting them to a party, apparently.
Tell Chairman Mao I love him very much, he knoooowowowwws...
Awesome advice, thanks! I'm keeping an eye on the card, but it was dirt cheap and has yet to get above 32C just doing desktop stuff.
I'm totally happy to use KDE - I tried it out with Kubuntu 7.10 and loved it but stability issues killed it for me. I was going to wait another point release or two of KDE4 before I try it again, but now's as good a time as any to experiment.
I love the Ubuntu Forums, but of course I tend to look on there after something starts causing problems more often than before.
I'll give OpenSUSE a shot tonight, and have a crack at Mandriva if that doesn't work...
But the real issue is that you should have researched Linux compatibility of your hardware BEFORE buying!
You're absolutely right. Ubuntu had previously played nice with every piece of hardware I ever threw at it since Warty came out, with the sole exceptions of a winmodem that came with my first PC and a $5 webcam I ordered online whilst drunk last year (when the cam arrived, the receipt showed that I'd populated the comments/instructions field on the checkout page with "credit card + drunkdrunkdrunk = wheee!"). I guess I'd started getting complacent.
You can't defeat CATS that easily. You need to take off every 'ZIG'!!
From what I understand of Debian, I'd hazard a guess that the lack of updates is because it worked perfectly a year ago =p
Amen, I want Linux on the high end too. So I went and built myself something reasonably high-end: ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe mobo, Intel Q6600, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 512MB 9800GT graphics card...so it's not the absolute shizzle but it's the best machine I've ever owned. Put it all together, and have spent the week since discovering just how shocking support is for P45 chipset motherboards still - primarily the ASUS P5xx boards apparently, but MSI and others seem to have serious issues too.
So far, the best result I've gotten is to successfully boot an Ubuntu 8.04.1 LiveCD (which will only happen with AHCI enabled, otherwise nothing) and run the installation. After that, nothing, can't even get GRUB to load. 8.10 with latest kernel apparently might do the job when it's released, but as of now (Alpha 5) it won't load at all.
So maybe I'm straying slightly offtopic but I've got karma to burn and here's as good a place as any to ask: what distro should I be trying for newish, high-endish hardware support? openSUSE? Gentoo? PC-BSD? Just wait for Intrepid's final release? I went from XP to Ubuntu about four years ago and haven't ever had occasion to try any of the others but I'm open to suggestions...
Does 'meta-joke' refer more accurately to a joke about jokes, as in your example, or a joke that generates other joke, like the Irish knock-knock joke (hint: you start), or one that sort of does both?
"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability."
-- Bill Bailey
It's a pretty famous example of the value of both commas and capitalisation, I figured I could add one and leave off the other for equivalent effect.
Did you mean my uncle Jack? Because I once helped my uncle Jack off a horse.
What, Canadian? Yeah, we knew that already, eh?
Turgid Tarsier
Best thing I've read today, thank you!
No, it's what one of the Batman villains does in the bathroom. Also referred to as 'spouting a one-liner.'
"Science is good when it teaches you how to turn a million ungrateful foreigners into glass."
- GTA IV
I know this is /. and we're not really meant to be experts on the subject, but I'm pretty sure beating up your date is doing it wrong.
Making a poultry stuffing etc.
Is it seriously that easy for a starving, out-of-shape, sunlight-deprived slashdotter to catch the pigeons in your neighbourhood? They must be retarded!
I assumed you meant 'prescribe,' which, while an odd choice in that context, would make sense. Mostly I just wanted to use the Princess Bride quote.