Last time I checked, Ubuntu is all about the PPAs now. The backports aren't very interesting. Notice that the list is very short, and the only interesting backport I saw in my quick scan was Amarok. I didn't see Pidgin, Banshee, Filezilla, OpenOffice or Netbeans (all of which are out of date in Jaunty's stable repos).
I used Jaunty as the example because Karmic hasn't really had time to get behind.
Not true. They may influence their children to be stupider, but it's not always the case. Examples that come to mind are some of Fred Phelps' children, and that one girl who ran away from the Amish (can't remember her name).
That's not true. Try downloading FCEU (an NES emulator) sometime. It has a scaler called hq that takes crappy NES games and scales them up nicely without just making the pixels bigger. I bet Starcraft would look amazing with it (if it was possible). The main difference I can see is that the hq filter treats everything as vector art instead of photos.
I think the "man" in "man was created in His image" is generally taken to be "mankind", and "in His image" doesn't neccessary mean exactly the same. For example, you could say that Barbie and Ken are "made in our image", but they don't have anything down there.
Of course, it's a moot point, because presumably Jesus had a penis.
The DVD menus are nowhere near as annoying as fast-forwarding and rewinding tapes.. I'll take an extra 10-30 seconds of useless intro over that any day.
Wolfram is a U.S. site, so it makes sense that they'd use dollars. I find it's most useful because you can specify how you want the answer (in this case glaxo share price in british pounds). I do find it strange that they don't detect where you live and base it on that.
temperature in melbourne works just fine. I guess I just never phrase search queries as complete sentences. You'd think Google would be smart enough to try the query without the "what is" though.
I use Wolfram Alpha to help with homework (it doesn't just calculate things, it will walk you through how it did it), but I can't think of any reason I'd want Wolfram Alpha results to show up during a web search. When I have Wolfram Alpha open, I usually have it open for hours, so it's not like mixing this in with other search engine results is helpful.
It not only remembers passwords, but can generate them as well.
Uh.. KeePass can generate passwords too. I'm looking at the site you linked and I'm hardly "blown away":
No worries: Your data never leaves your computer: Your data never leaves your computer with KeePass (unless you use the handy synchronization plugin).
No worries: Strong encryption keeps your data safe: KeePass databases use AES or Twofish encryption, your password manager uses AES.
Thwart keyloggers and phishing criminals: They don't specify how this is done, so I assume it's marketing-speak.
Automatically Save and Fill Website Logins: Yeah, KeePass can do that too.
Automatically Fill Credit Cards While Shopping Online: I assume you could do this with KeePass, but don't you have your credit card in you wallet anyway?
Strong Password Generator: KeePass lets you generate passwords that are complex as you want. The default is long enough to be infeasible to brute-force.
Access Your Data Anywhere: This one is an outright lie. 1Password only runs on Macs. KeePass (or KeePassX) runs on everything.
Fully functional 30-day evaluation. No lock-ins, no lock-outs: KeePass is free.
The only real feature I saw that KeePass doesn't have is browser integration, and I doubt that's worth $40.
Why make them mount a Truecrypt volume and search through text files? KeePass gives you an encrypted searchable password database that's much easier to use: While it's running, click the system tray icon, type in your password and your passwords are listed and searchable. When you're done, minimize it back to the tray and it's locked again.
Yes since the vast majority of our government money goes to infrastructure. It's not like we're blowing it all on the War on Muslims, the War on Drug Users and the War on the Economy..
My point was imagine how much of things people actually want we could get for $680 billion. If you need the government to take people's money by force to pay for something, it's obviously not that important to people.
Chrome Frame is just another plugin for the idiot masses to use that makes our lives easier. The more people who install it, the less I'll have to pay attention to IE's horrible rendering. It doesn't mean I'll actually install Chrome Frame myself.
Or we could just not steal a trillion dollars from U.S. citizens and let them spend it on what they want, and then have jobs that are actually in demand created..
The purpose is to have browsers support this natively without using plugins.
No, the purpose is to let people who know what they're doing not use a plugin. The idiot masses are welcome to keep installing a plugin for everything because they're scared of Firefox.
Yeah like that time Xerox stole the idea of a GUI from Apple, then Microsoft stole the idea of a two button mouse from Apple, and then even stole the idea of a journaled filesystem! And then GNU steals the idea to use Mach as a kernel and BSD steals the idea of using the BSD userland.. Where will it end??
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I just assume that the resources are for my programs, my OS should stay out of the way.
Last time I checked, Ubuntu is all about the PPAs now. The backports aren't very interesting. Notice that the list is very short, and the only interesting backport I saw in my quick scan was Amarok. I didn't see Pidgin, Banshee, Filezilla, OpenOffice or Netbeans (all of which are out of date in Jaunty's stable repos).
I used Jaunty as the example because Karmic hasn't really had time to get behind.
Amish ideas about education, children, women and covering things up by shunning victims are what made me use that example.
stupid people breed stupid people.
Not true. They may influence their children to be stupider, but it's not always the case. Examples that come to mind are some of Fred Phelps' children, and that one girl who ran away from the Amish (can't remember her name).
No, see all you need is 10,000 gallons on mineral oil, a waterproof server room, and a couple rebreathers..
That's not true. Try downloading FCEU (an NES emulator) sometime. It has a scaler called hq that takes crappy NES games and scales them up nicely without just making the pixels bigger. I bet Starcraft would look amazing with it (if it was possible). The main difference I can see is that the hq filter treats everything as vector art instead of photos.
Or just tell them that their new monitor is for work, not for watching TV, and they will fired if they use it as a TV.
I think the "man" in "man was created in His image" is generally taken to be "mankind", and "in His image" doesn't neccessary mean exactly the same. For example, you could say that Barbie and Ken are "made in our image", but they don't have anything down there.
Of course, it's a moot point, because presumably Jesus had a penis.
For some reason I don't think we need an extradition treaty with Afghanistan..
The DVD menus are nowhere near as annoying as fast-forwarding and rewinding tapes.. I'll take an extra 10-30 seconds of useless intro over that any day.
Wolfram is a U.S. site, so it makes sense that they'd use dollars. I find it's most useful because you can specify how you want the answer (in this case glaxo share price in british pounds). I do find it strange that they don't detect where you live and base it on that.
temperature in melbourne works just fine. I guess I just never phrase search queries as complete sentences. You'd think Google would be smart enough to try the query without the "what is" though.
I use Wolfram Alpha to help with homework (it doesn't just calculate things, it will walk you through how it did it), but I can't think of any reason I'd want Wolfram Alpha results to show up during a web search. When I have Wolfram Alpha open, I usually have it open for hours, so it's not like mixing this in with other search engine results is helpful.
I use token ring you insensitive clod! Speaking of which, I wonder if HP brand tokens last longer than the generic brand?
It not only remembers passwords, but can generate them as well.
Uh.. KeePass can generate passwords too. I'm looking at the site you linked and I'm hardly "blown away":
The only real feature I saw that KeePass doesn't have is browser integration, and I doubt that's worth $40.
What, you haven't heard of the iSweater? It's three devices in one: A shirt, a sweater, and a heat retention device!
the GPL, a widely used (including by the Linux kernel) free software license
Good thing they cleared that up. I never would've known what the GPL is without this explanation.
Why make them mount a Truecrypt volume and search through text files? KeePass gives you an encrypted searchable password database that's much easier to use: While it's running, click the system tray icon, type in your password and your passwords are listed and searchable. When you're done, minimize it back to the tray and it's locked again.
The best part of all this is that if it doesn't go through, Oracle could just buy all of Sun except for MySQL, leaving it to die..
Yes since the vast majority of our government money goes to infrastructure. It's not like we're blowing it all on the War on Muslims, the War on Drug Users and the War on the Economy..
My point was imagine how much of things people actually want we could get for $680 billion. If you need the government to take people's money by force to pay for something, it's obviously not that important to people.
Chrome Frame is just another plugin for the idiot masses to use that makes our lives easier. The more people who install it, the less I'll have to pay attention to IE's horrible rendering. It doesn't mean I'll actually install Chrome Frame myself.
Or we could just not steal a trillion dollars from U.S. citizens and let them spend it on what they want, and then have jobs that are actually in demand created..
The purpose is to have browsers support this natively without using plugins.
No, the purpose is to let people who know what they're doing not use a plugin. The idiot masses are welcome to keep installing a plugin for everything because they're scared of Firefox.
Yeah like that time Xerox stole the idea of a GUI from Apple, then Microsoft stole the idea of a two button mouse from Apple, and then even stole the idea of a journaled filesystem! And then GNU steals the idea to use Mach as a kernel and BSD steals the idea of using the BSD userland.. Where will it end??