It doesn't matter what your account settings are, treat everything you post to facebook as public. It's worse than email, and you want to be careful of what you send in those as well.
That said, anyone who is really interested in Linux would not be satisfied with the simplified versions that come with netbooks.
That's true of the Aspire One anyway. The graphical environment that came with mine was a joke compared to even xfce. Prior to that I figured claims about people exchanging Linux netbooks on mass for XP were exaggerated, but on seeing it I had to wonder. If my only choice was that or XP, even I'd want XP, and I'm a registered fanatical Micro$oft basher. Fortunately it wasn't difficult to put xubuntu on it.
If nothing else they deserve an award for not plastering advertisements on their site.
I've been known to donate to the odd project, esp one's I use every day (if you use vim a lot, do the command:help iccf and follow the directions), but I don't donate to wikipedia. Why? Because they don't need my money. They think they do, but they don't. They could sell small unobtrusive text ads below the fold on the left margin and make more than enough to keep running. That would be a lot less offensive than the big beggar banners they regularly put at the top of pages.
Yeah, Canada, where you can't even just switch doctors if the one you've got keeps failing to do his job. I'm not particularly against a semi-state funded healthcare system, but looking at the Canadian healthcare system I can completely understand why US citizens are so afraid of socialized healthcare.
You've obviously never actually "looked" at the Canadian health care system, or you couldn't post such crap. You're just repeating right wing propaganda.
The Canadian system isn't perfect, and there are real improvements which could be made to it. But apparently it's good enough that right wingers have to make up bullshit in order to sufficiently discredit it.
Now excuse me, I have to attend a euthanasia board meeting to determine whether its time to terminate grandma.
I rip cd's and encode at about 320 (quality 9) oggs. Most songs don't need that level of quality, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference from one encoded lower. But there are a few where a higher bitrate really is required. And I'm not going to experiment with each song individually to find what's optimum for it. So -q 9 for everything.
I've found kde on ubuntu to be totally usable, though I install ubuntu first, then install kde desktop. I had a bad experience similar to what you describe installing kubuntu directly. I don't know if they've fixed it, sounds like not from your description, but I want both gnome and kde apps anyway, so might as well start by installing ubuntu.
Does that mean they get the lightest sentence, and everyone get's a "get of jail free card" to kill the one person they hate most?
If it only takes a couple of years before we're sure the murderer understands that killing isn't an option for dealing with people, even hated people, then they get out after a couple of years. Otherwise, no. Most of us don't kill people, even we those we hate, not out of fear of punishment, but because we already understand on a fundamental level that that would be wrong.
The legal system is largely about punishment. It's not appropriate to punish a being for behaving according to its nature. From the perspective of punishment, they were way too hard on this poor agressively predisposed person.
Personally, I'd like to see us collectively dismiss the idea of punishment as a throwback to a darker time of stocks and gibbets, and focus solely on rehabilitation and protection of the public.
The only reason to put someone away is that they're a demonstrated danger, and then there must be a sincere attempt at rehabilitation. When they're no longer a danger, they can be released, whether that's after two years or never if they're totally unrehabilitatable.
It's questionable whether a publicly traded company like Panasonic could do it, unless they argued that the good will generated by a massive at cost project is of sufficient benefit to share holders to justify it. Part of the power of OLPC, potentially, is that it doesn't have to generate a profit.
Of course, the downside to that is that they can more easily do stupid things, like not take a profit where its available by exploiting demand in the first world and marketing it there as well, instead doing some weird buy two get one thing.
Guess what: afterwards, everything worked! One of those very rare positive surprises in the IT world!
I upgraded directly from 8.04 to 9.04 with no problems. I was amazed as well, as I've never seen a perfect upgrade from one version to another in any Linux distribution. There has always been some glitch or gotcha that was easier to fix with a clean install and restoration of stuff from backup. It has been an act of purist optimism to even try, but one finally rewarded with the upgrade to 9.04. I'm going to try upgrading to 9.10 that way, though I'll wait a couple of days for the rush to be over.
I know a fellow who has had a little netbook running as a server for about a year. I told him he was crazy, since those things weren't designed for 24/7 use, but so far he's proving me wrong. Will it survive for the 4 years you're looking for? Ask me in three more years. I find it amazing that it has done as well as it has so far.
And sometime before rock and roll, swing destroyed our moral framework.
It's the fault of the church. The original corrupting influence was theatre, and the church knew this, but none the less allowed plays providing they were on religious themes, but before you know it you've got Shakespeare writing about all kinds of crazy secular shit, and eventually theatres allowed in the city, and the final nail in the coffin of morality, allowing female roles to be played by actually female actors. Everything after that in the collapse of morality is postscript.
The argument is for a longer school year, and not necessarily more hours in school. Think about that for a minute, especially on how it affects knowledge retention.
You want knowledge retention? Simple. Do away with final exams at end of semester. Replace them with prerequisite exams at the beginning of semester. Consequences are the same, if you don't pass, you take the prerequisite course over, but you can't just let all that knowledge evaporate off your brain after the final.
Can't their be a law against this proposed. I think a few dead pedestrians is worth the loss of the noise pollution.
It would improve the gene pool. Those smart enough to look before they cross would live to breed. It's a temporary problem, so it would be best if states weren't too quick to legislate.
When I tried it all I got was a picture of a laptop, and to the right the words "the more ways bad this quiz to assess". I'm thinking, 'Yoda, lay off the sauce'. Or maybe it just doesn't work with firefox on linux.
And a bit circular. He has a definition of placebo which doesn't allow for it getting better. Therefore, if it appears placebos are getting better, that must be wrong, since by definition, they can't.
Good points, but the primary reason for boycotting Sony in all its forms (at least the conspicuous ones) is personal. It has to do with being congruent with one's own values. If a lot of people do it and it has some effect, great, but even if it doesn't, be true to your own espoused values, or else admit that they're just espoused and not actual.
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It doesn't matter what your account settings are, treat everything you post to facebook as public. It's worse than email, and you want to be careful of what you send in those as well.
Even under the Obama administration the message to foreigners still seems to be stay away or risk getting beaten and generally abused.
That said, anyone who is really interested in Linux would not be satisfied with the simplified versions that come with netbooks.
That's true of the Aspire One anyway. The graphical environment that came with mine was a joke compared to even xfce. Prior to that I figured claims about people exchanging Linux netbooks on mass for XP were exaggerated, but on seeing it I had to wonder. If my only choice was that or XP, even I'd want XP, and I'm a registered fanatical Micro$oft basher. Fortunately it wasn't difficult to put xubuntu on it.
If nothing else they deserve an award for not plastering advertisements on their site.
I've been known to donate to the odd project, esp one's I use every day (if you use vim a lot, do the command :help iccf and follow the directions), but I don't donate to wikipedia. Why? Because they don't need my money. They think they do, but they don't. They could sell small unobtrusive text ads below the fold on the left margin and make more than enough to keep running. That would be a lot less offensive than the big beggar banners they regularly put at the top of pages.
Yeah, Canada, where you can't even just switch doctors if the one you've got keeps failing to do his job. I'm not particularly against a semi-state funded healthcare system, but looking at the Canadian healthcare system I can completely understand why US citizens are so afraid of socialized healthcare.
You've obviously never actually "looked" at the Canadian health care system, or you couldn't post such crap. You're just repeating right wing propaganda.
The Canadian system isn't perfect, and there are real improvements which could be made to it. But apparently it's good enough that right wingers have to make up bullshit in order to sufficiently discredit it.
Now excuse me, I have to attend a euthanasia board meeting to determine whether its time to terminate grandma.
Photoshop is a lot more intuitive than Gimp is. I always feel like I have to jump through hoops to do the same thing in Gimp as I do in Photoshop.
Holy crap, if that isn't a clear example of intuitive being defined as 'what you're used to' I don't know what is.
Dogs love us. Hamsters universally run away. But when simulating a cat...you activelly get to know how to deal with an artificial mind that hates you.
The hate might be justified. There's a reason they know so much about cat brains.
I rip cd's and encode at about 320 (quality 9) oggs. Most songs don't need that level of quality, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference from one encoded lower. But there are a few where a higher bitrate really is required. And I'm not going to experiment with each song individually to find what's optimum for it. So -q 9 for everything.
And as an added bonus, it'll accidentally take out all those pesky military satellites that don't officially exist!
Or at least those of the other side.
I've found kde on ubuntu to be totally usable, though I install ubuntu first, then install kde desktop. I had a bad experience similar to what you describe installing kubuntu directly. I don't know if they've fixed it, sounds like not from your description, but I want both gnome and kde apps anyway, so might as well start by installing ubuntu.
Does that mean they get the lightest sentence, and everyone get's a "get of jail free card" to kill the one person they hate most?
If it only takes a couple of years before we're sure the murderer understands that killing isn't an option for dealing with people, even hated people, then they get out after a couple of years. Otherwise, no. Most of us don't kill people, even we those we hate, not out of fear of punishment, but because we already understand on a fundamental level that that would be wrong.
The legal system is largely about punishment. It's not appropriate to punish a being for behaving according to its nature. From the perspective of punishment, they were way too hard on this poor agressively predisposed person.
Personally, I'd like to see us collectively dismiss the idea of punishment as a throwback to a darker time of stocks and gibbets, and focus solely on rehabilitation and protection of the public.
The only reason to put someone away is that they're a demonstrated danger, and then there must be a sincere attempt at rehabilitation. When they're no longer a danger, they can be released, whether that's after two years or never if they're totally unrehabilitatable.
It's questionable whether a publicly traded company like Panasonic could do it, unless they argued that the good will generated by a massive at cost project is of sufficient benefit to share holders to justify it. Part of the power of OLPC, potentially, is that it doesn't have to generate a profit.
Of course, the downside to that is that they can more easily do stupid things, like not take a profit where its available by exploiting demand in the first world and marketing it there as well, instead doing some weird buy two get one thing.
Guess what: afterwards, everything worked! One of those very rare positive surprises in the IT world!
I upgraded directly from 8.04 to 9.04 with no problems. I was amazed as well, as I've never seen a perfect upgrade from one version to another in any Linux distribution. There has always been some glitch or gotcha that was easier to fix with a clean install and restoration of stuff from backup. It has been an act of purist optimism to even try, but one finally rewarded with the upgrade to 9.04. I'm going to try upgrading to 9.10 that way, though I'll wait a couple of days for the rush to be over.
Shit, you mean I do need a retirement plan after all?
I know a fellow who has had a little netbook running as a server for about a year. I told him he was crazy, since those things weren't designed for 24/7 use, but so far he's proving me wrong. Will it survive for the 4 years you're looking for? Ask me in three more years. I find it amazing that it has done as well as it has so far.
Mac owners tend to have a lot of money.
Yep. It could probably be used as a metric of how well a country is doing -- what percentage of their population own macs?
And sometime before rock and roll, swing destroyed our moral framework.
It's the fault of the church. The original corrupting influence was theatre, and the church knew this, but none the less allowed plays providing they were on religious themes, but before you know it you've got Shakespeare writing about all kinds of crazy secular shit, and eventually theatres allowed in the city, and the final nail in the coffin of morality, allowing female roles to be played by actually female actors. Everything after that in the collapse of morality is postscript.
The argument is for a longer school year, and not necessarily more hours in school. Think about that for a minute, especially on how it affects knowledge retention.
You want knowledge retention? Simple. Do away with final exams at end of semester. Replace them with prerequisite exams at the beginning of semester. Consequences are the same, if you don't pass, you take the prerequisite course over, but you can't just let all that knowledge evaporate off your brain after the final.
Why not make it mandatory to label surgically altered models also? I want to know the boobies I look at are all natural.
And whether or not the person in the picture is sucking in their gut. There's something that probably goes back to the origin of photography.
*NIX is just everything UNIX without using the term UNIX because it is a registered trademark, one which not everything *NIX is entitled to use.
Can't their be a law against this proposed. I think a few dead pedestrians is worth the loss of the noise pollution.
It would improve the gene pool. Those smart enough to look before they cross would live to breed. It's a temporary problem, so it would be best if states weren't too quick to legislate.
When I tried it all I got was a picture of a laptop, and to the right the words "the more ways bad this quiz to assess". I'm thinking, 'Yoda, lay off the sauce'. Or maybe it just doesn't work with firefox on linux.
And a bit circular. He has a definition of placebo which doesn't allow for it getting better. Therefore, if it appears placebos are getting better, that must be wrong, since by definition, they can't.
Good points, but the primary reason for boycotting Sony in all its forms (at least the conspicuous ones) is personal. It has to do with being congruent with one's own values. If a lot of people do it and it has some effect, great, but even if it doesn't, be true to your own espoused values, or else admit that they're just espoused and not actual.