The "Pew Research Center" canvassed the membership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS publishes the Science journal which has a distinctly liberal bias.
Note carefully: I'm not saying that's a bad thing. However, it means that the sample is biased. I'm actually surprised that as many as 6% of respondents identified themselves as Republicans.
What has politics/liberality got to do with Science (journal). It's a peer reviewed scientific journal, its sole goal is to publish research papers from a broad range of disciplines in science.
While some people find some topics in science (global warming, evolution, othodox medicine, etc.) to be controversial or even incorrect/false, scientific journals publish scientific results not political discussions.
Today, a century and a quarter after its founding, Science continues to publish the very best in scientific research, news, and opinion. Whether you're concerned with AIDS, SARS, genomic medicine, Mars, or global warming, or just want to keep abreast of where the scientific world is and where it's going, you will find something worthwhile in Science.
You should both consider using Privoxy. It's web filter proxy that can be as agressive/forgiving as you like.
I got rid of AdBlock a few months ago, I find Privoxy to be a lot more configurable, and since it's a proxy, it works with all my browsers. It might not be for everyone, but I find it very convenient, and firefox loads pages noticably faster now too.
For linux users, there's a quick guide on the Arch Forums on how to set it up for Midori (and actually any browser). It's a little Arch-centric, since Arch uses the BSD init system, and config file arrangement, but it's pretty straight forward, and there are plenty of guides on the official privoxy site too.
Karma whoring, but the first amazon review was ridiculous:
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.
I was disappointed. I consider myself an audiophile - I regularly spend over $1000 on cables to get the ultimate sound. I keep my music-listening room in a Faraday cage to prevent any interference that could alter my music-listening experience. Sending any signal down ordinary copper can degrade the signal considerably. While ordinary listeners might not notice, to somebody with even a rudimentary knowledge of sound, the artifacts are glaring. Denon should have used silver wiring (hermetically sealed inside the rubber sheath to prevent any tarnishing, of course), which has a significantly higher conductivity than copper. Furthermore, Denon needs to treat the wires they use in the cable with a polarity inductor to ensure minimal phase variance.
Needless to say, I returned the cable and wrote an angry letter to the so-called engineers at Denon.
approach to humor. Your "OMGPonies!" will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular post, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Your post was simply unfunny.
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate websites would not bother stealing it from you
(X) Monkeys simply can't aim that well.
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) Slashdot will attempt to use this as an unfunny meme
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
(X) Linus Torvalds did not even chuckle
(X) The police will tour again
(X) Requires the attention span of a gnat
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation of God in Heaven
(X) The meme is tired and worn out and I'm just as likely to get a -1 troll as a +5 funny.
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people in general
(X) Outlook
(X) Asshats
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown funny
(X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses
(X) unfunny jokes do nothing to solve the problem
(X) Temporary/one-line jokes are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government thinking your lame
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but that is simply unfunny.
(X) Once you go OMGPonies! you can never go back.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
(X) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
(X) What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
The idea that one can't study or learn anything from the study of Creationism is just as closed minded and retrogressive as the area of study itself. There are Masters-level degrees awarded for all sorts of fields that most of us would dismiss as poppycock.
You make a fair point about being open-minded. I have no problem with theology institutes awarding higher degrees in theology, however I do have a problem with an anti-scientific, and purely theological subject being awarded a Masters in Science.
One of the main reasons the idea of a netbook has been ruined for me is the boot time.
I really don't get this mentality. My first gen Asus 701 took all of 30 seconds to fully boot. I've since put UbuntuEee on it an it now takes about 40 seconds. IS your life that full that you just can't wait less than a minute?
Netbooks aren't meant to be whipped out for quick searches. They're meant to be an ultra portable that surfs, does email, word processing and other work. Pretty much what you would use a back breaking laptop for.
I agree with you, most gnu/linux netbooks boot pretty fast (fast enough for quick searches for me anyway). My Samsung NC10 boots in 17 seconds with Arch, and that's with the stock kernel (grub to X using bootchart, ~22 including bios).
Gentoo is actually a distro I recommend sometimes to people who are interested in installing Linux on their computer for the first time, and it's not because I'm some MS shrill who is trying to scare people away from Linux.;-)
But if you have someone who has used Linux on someone else's computer or a school computer or something so that they are not scared of the command line and are have become pretty sure this is something that they'll actually be using rather than just installing because they want to try it and think they might like it, and they are willing to put in a little bit of effort, Gentoo is a really good choice. (That's a lot of 'if's, but Gentoo isn't exactly your typical newbie distro.)
I'm a big Gentoo fan (well, to the extent I'm a fan of any OS, which is not very much), because I think it is a solid distribution, but the main selling point for someone who can and is willing to deal with it is that in my experience, the documentation has just been outstanding. It's been a bit since I have really done any adminning of my own Linux box so this may be out of date, but I would do searches for Linux problems without specifying I was running Gentoo, and it seemed that half the time I would hit something on the Gentoo site anyway.
I won't diss Gentoo, but I prefer Arch. Don't flame me, I know what I am going to say is wrong, but I think of Arch as a binary Gentoo. It's fast, lean, bleeding edge, and on a rolling release like Gentoo, but without all time waiting for it to compile. I tried Gentoo for a while, but I got tired of the compile time, and I find Arch more user friendly since so much can be controlled with a few config files in etc, and they have a really nice source repo (AUR) with compile/installer scripts.
Just because Havok costs money don't make the mistake on it being the best.
There are numerous physics engines out there that are much better which are open source.
Can you give examples please? I know of a few like ODE, which has been used in commercial games [wikipedia cite], and Tokamak Physics whose demos I've played with.
Perhaps someone like you who has experience/knowledge in this area can give some better examples than those, or even why you think they are better.
The optimistic view would be that Vista is more like Windows ME, which would make Windows 7 more like XP. If that's the case, maybe Windows 7 will actually be fairly stable and we can try to pretend Vista never happened, sort of like how we try to forget Windows ME.
Win ME is not nearly half as disastrous as most people will tell you, provided that you configure it correctly. Most of the out-of-the-box default settings glitchy at best and system crashing at worst, though going menu by menu and rearranging everything manually will fix most of its glaring problems (notably the RAM management and ballooning system restore folder). I've had Win ME installed on a system at home since 2001 and it's been running as close as it will get to flawlessly. When I mention how it will leap through hoops of fire if I ask it nicely, however, people always seem to recoil in fear and reach for their bible and holy water...
I never had any problems either, don't ask me why I installed it (a cheap Lebanese copy) but ran perfect on my old PII. It didn't crash any more than win95 did on that pc.
That's not Ubuntu's job, it's Gnome's. Try KDE if you want more configuration tools.
Why were you modded troll? You are right, if you want a ridiculous(-ly good) amount of GUI config options use KDE. However, I'm lazy and used to Gnome, so I stick with either Gnome/Openbox, or LXDE, which also uses Openbox.
HOPEfully, Shuttleworth recognizes that this is *not* new and can make it play nice with KDE instead of having his guys create a completely different standard.
In the article, Shuttleworth says they're working with KDE.
What? you actually RTF? I thought people stopped doing that here around 2004?
Fluxbox is really nice, have you tried LXDE? It has the speed of Fluxbox (it uses Openbox as its wm), and is still pretty since it uses GTK 2. I have it running on Arch on my netbook (NC10).
Slashdot Mirror
Error $DEITY undefined.
I'm atheist you insensitive clod.
I thought atheists defined $DEITY as localhost.
Nah, that's just the solipsists
The "Pew Research Center" canvassed the membership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS publishes the Science journal which has a distinctly liberal bias.
Note carefully: I'm not saying that's a bad thing. However, it means that the sample is biased. I'm actually surprised that as many as 6% of respondents identified themselves as Republicans.
What has politics/liberality got to do with Science (journal). It's a peer reviewed scientific journal, its sole goal is to publish research papers from a broad range of disciplines in science.
While some people find some topics in science (global warming, evolution, othodox medicine, etc.) to be controversial or even incorrect/false, scientific journals publish scientific results not political discussions.
To quote from their site:
Today, a century and a quarter after its founding, Science continues to publish the very best in scientific research, news, and opinion. Whether you're concerned with AIDS, SARS, genomic medicine, Mars, or global warming, or just want to keep abreast of where the scientific world is and where it's going, you will find something worthwhile in Science.
tequila really burns when it comes out your nose.
so do ham and cheese sandwiches :(
You should both consider using Privoxy. It's web filter proxy that can be as agressive/forgiving as you like.
I got rid of AdBlock a few months ago, I find Privoxy to be a lot more configurable, and since it's a proxy, it works with all my browsers. It might not be for everyone, but I find it very convenient, and firefox loads pages noticably faster now too.
For linux users, there's a quick guide on the Arch Forums on how to set it up for Midori (and actually any browser). It's a little Arch-centric, since Arch uses the BSD init system, and config file arrangement, but it's pretty straight forward, and there are plenty of guides on the official privoxy site too.
Corporations wildly mis-underestimated how the internet would take off.
Who are you? Dubya?.
Well, there's always the test
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews. I was disappointed. I consider myself an audiophile - I regularly spend over $1000 on cables to get the ultimate sound. I keep my music-listening room in a Faraday cage to prevent any interference that could alter my music-listening experience. Sending any signal down ordinary copper can degrade the signal considerably. While ordinary listeners might not notice, to somebody with even a rudimentary knowledge of sound, the artifacts are glaring. Denon should have used silver wiring (hermetically sealed inside the rubber sheath to prevent any tarnishing, of course), which has a significantly higher conductivity than copper. Furthermore, Denon needs to treat the wires they use in the cable with a polarity inductor to ensure minimal phase variance.
Needless to say, I returned the cable and wrote an angry letter to the so-called engineers at Denon.
aaaah!
I'm too drunk to read that properly
Your post advocates a
(X) moronic ( ) Totalitarian (X) consumer-driven (X) Charles Brosonish ( ) Governmental
approach to humor. Your "OMGPonies!" will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular post, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Your post was simply unfunny. (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate websites would not bother stealing it from you (X) Monkeys simply can't aim that well. ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (X) Slashdot will attempt to use this as an unfunny meme (X) Users of email will not put up with it (X) Linus Torvalds did not even chuckle (X) The police will tour again (X) Requires the attention span of a gnat (X) Requires immediate total cooperation of God in Heaven (X) The meme is tired and worn out and I'm just as likely to get a -1 troll as a +5 funny.
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Asshats (X) Asshats (X) Asshats (X) Asshats (X) Asshats (X) Technically illiterate politicians (X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people in general (X) Outlook (X) Asshats
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown funny (X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses (X) unfunny jokes do nothing to solve the problem (X) Temporary/one-line jokes are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government thinking your lame (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but that is simply unfunny. (X) Once you go OMGPonies! you can never go back. (X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. (X) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down! (X) What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
That's a response worthy of Robert A. Heinlein, as was mentioned here a while ago.
The idea that one can't study or learn anything from the study of Creationism is just as closed minded and retrogressive as the area of study itself. There are Masters-level degrees awarded for all sorts of fields that most of us would dismiss as poppycock.
You make a fair point about being open-minded. I have no problem with theology institutes awarding higher degrees in theology, however I do have a problem with an anti-scientific, and purely theological subject being awarded a Masters in Science.
*shudder* I think what you've gone off is the deep end.
elbow deep?
*ducks*
I really don't get this mentality. My first gen Asus 701 took all of 30 seconds to fully boot. I've since put UbuntuEee on it an it now takes about 40 seconds. IS your life that full that you just can't wait less than a minute?
Netbooks aren't meant to be whipped out for quick searches. They're meant to be an ultra portable that surfs, does email, word processing and other work. Pretty much what you would use a back breaking laptop for.
I agree with you, most gnu/linux netbooks boot pretty fast (fast enough for quick searches for me anyway). My Samsung NC10 boots in 17 seconds with Arch, and that's with the stock kernel (grub to X using bootchart, ~22 including bios).
Hell some of the early popes had mistresses.
Hell, if you believe some of the now discredited early histories, there was even a woman pope, Pope Joan.
Gentoo is actually a distro I recommend sometimes to people who are interested in installing Linux on their computer for the first time, and it's not because I'm some MS shrill who is trying to scare people away from Linux. ;-)
But if you have someone who has used Linux on someone else's computer or a school computer or something so that they are not scared of the command line and are have become pretty sure this is something that they'll actually be using rather than just installing because they want to try it and think they might like it, and they are willing to put in a little bit of effort, Gentoo is a really good choice. (That's a lot of 'if's, but Gentoo isn't exactly your typical newbie distro.)
I'm a big Gentoo fan (well, to the extent I'm a fan of any OS, which is not very much), because I think it is a solid distribution, but the main selling point for someone who can and is willing to deal with it is that in my experience, the documentation has just been outstanding. It's been a bit since I have really done any adminning of my own Linux box so this may be out of date, but I would do searches for Linux problems without specifying I was running Gentoo, and it seemed that half the time I would hit something on the Gentoo site anyway.
I won't diss Gentoo, but I prefer Arch. Don't flame me, I know what I am going to say is wrong, but I think of Arch as a binary Gentoo. It's fast, lean, bleeding edge, and on a rolling release like Gentoo, but without all time waiting for it to compile. I tried Gentoo for a while, but I got tired of the compile time, and I find Arch more user friendly since so much can be controlled with a few config files in etc, and they have a really nice source repo (AUR) with compile/installer scripts.
Solution: don't read youtube comments, they rot your brain.
indeed, or here too
i searched for "site:google.com -google" and got "Britney spears big tits" as the 5th match.
If only I was that lucky, I got
IMPLANTATION BLEEDING.HEAVY IMPLANTATION BLEEDING|IMPLANTATION ...
Recent site activity. IMSS - EDUCOMSA IMSS|IMSS. edited by Quentin Arroyo. IMPROVE MEMORY MNEMONICS HIPPOCAMPUS|IMPROVE MEMORY. edited by Quentin Arroyo ...
http://sites.google.com/site/imogensextapeufidlk/implantation-bleeding-heavy-implantation-bleeding-implantation-bleeding
Nasty.....
*Shudder*
Just because Havok costs money don't make the mistake on it being the best.
There are numerous physics engines out there that are much better which are open source.
Can you give examples please? I know of a few like ODE, which has been used in commercial games [wikipedia cite], and Tokamak Physics whose demos I've played with.
Perhaps someone like you who has experience/knowledge in this area can give some better examples than those, or even why you think they are better.
I wouldn't know!
But if you aren't playing with your toys, you have to share with the other children.
If they really want to keep RIM from having their castoff engineers, just keep paying their salaries.
Nah, they just don't like it when their engineers get rimmed.
You never go ass to mouth.
Happy Christmas to you too, I hope all you slashdotters are having a good one.
You sir deserve +1 Hilariously Drunk
In the article, Shuttleworth says they're working with KDE.
What? you actually RTF? I thought people stopped doing that here around 2004?
Back in 2005, they posted an article that we're supposed to start reading the articles again. Didn't you read it?
No I was too busy not reading articles on digg to read articles on slashdot.
There was me thinking digg would be the new slashdot, silly me.
The optimistic view would be that Vista is more like Windows ME, which would make Windows 7 more like XP. If that's the case, maybe Windows 7 will actually be fairly stable and we can try to pretend Vista never happened, sort of like how we try to forget Windows ME.
Win ME is not nearly half as disastrous as most people will tell you, provided that you configure it correctly. Most of the out-of-the-box default settings glitchy at best and system crashing at worst, though going menu by menu and rearranging everything manually will fix most of its glaring problems (notably the RAM management and ballooning system restore folder). I've had Win ME installed on a system at home since 2001 and it's been running as close as it will get to flawlessly. When I mention how it will leap through hoops of fire if I ask it nicely, however, people always seem to recoil in fear and reach for their bible and holy water...
I never had any problems either, don't ask me why I installed it (a cheap Lebanese copy) but ran perfect on my old PII. It didn't crash any more than win95 did on that pc.
That's not Ubuntu's job, it's Gnome's. Try KDE if you want more configuration tools.
Why were you modded troll? You are right, if you want a ridiculous(-ly good) amount of GUI config options use KDE. However, I'm lazy and used to Gnome, so I stick with either Gnome/Openbox, or LXDE, which also uses Openbox.
HOPEfully, Shuttleworth recognizes that this is *not* new and can make it play nice with KDE instead of having his guys create a completely different standard.
In the article, Shuttleworth says they're working with KDE.
What? you actually RTF? I thought people stopped doing that here around 2004?
A bright shaft of light is going to sneak through the hole in the field and melt the Golden Gate Bridge. Just you wait.
It's the attack of the killer pigeons I'm worried about. Everybody should get out of urban areas and stock up on shotgun shells now, just in case.
Eeep, I don't know whether you should be modded funny or insightful.
Fluxbox is really nice, have you tried LXDE? It has the speed of Fluxbox (it uses Openbox as its wm), and is still pretty since it uses GTK 2. I have it running on Arch on my netbook (NC10).