Sorry, I didn't mean to say you are wrong. Of course you aren't (except leaving out possible post-upgrad tasks:) but it was a perfect opportunity to spread the knowledge about this new facility a bit more.
Nooo! Please, people, stop recommending this, at least when there is reason to suspect newbies in the vicinity:)
The better way to upgrade is to use the update manager from the System > Administration menu. Once Dapper is released, it will know about it, and offer Breezy users the option to upgrade. As long as Dapper is not yet officially released, you need to run it with the -d switch from the command line to make it upgrade to Dapper: gksudo update-manager -d
Ubuntu has invested quite a bit to make the upgrade patch as smooth as possibly, without requiring users to edit sources.list and such. And there are other problems besides editing sources.list: not every change on the system can be expressed in package dependencies. Sometimes changes have to be made that are too dangerous to attempt automatically during the upgrade, and require manual intervention. E.g., the wiki page for the Breezy upgrade listed several things a user must do (see "Post-Upgrade")
All these things are taken care of now by update-manager
So a few scientists and philosophers thought, "why not", pocketed a few thousand grand, sat at a fake panel discussion about this idiotic question, produced the well-known (to everyone except Disney's brain-dead customers) answer after a few hours (no, this is the US, 30 mins max.), and this sorry spectacle gets reported on/. as an actual story? This is a new low point.
Sorry, I must be stoned. Trying again without the mess:
I think you are confusing the directions in which the definition of species works. Yes, a posteriori you define that a group of otherwise possibly quite similar animals or plants belong to different species when they can't produce fertile offspring (not "mate", you can very well mate with, well, a lot), because the missing gene exchange leads to increasingly big differences.
However not being able to produce fertile offspring is not the only mechanism that can lead to the separation of species in the first place. Suppose a mutation happens in a population, which makes part A of the population prefer other areas to live than part B. This can create two separate populations, which could produce fertile offspring if they mated, but don't meet and therefore don't mate (hehe). Keep this up for a few hundred thousand years, and you end up with two separate species.
I think you are confusing the directions in which the definition of species works. Yes, a posteriori you define that a group of otherwise possibly quite similar animals or plants belong to different species when they can't produce fertile offspring (not "mate", you can very well mate with, well, a lot), because the missing gene exchange leads to increasingly big differences.
However not being able to produce fertile offspring is not the only one that can lead to the separation of species in the first place. Suppose the a mutation happens in a population which makes part A of the population prefer other areas to live in part B. This can create two separate populations that could produce fertile offspring if they met, but don't meet and therefore don't mate (hehe). Keep this up for a few hundred thousand years, and you end up with two separate species.
Dunno about flawlessly - I mean, the 55 also lets you do most of the things you expect, even when using XP's built-in PTP. However, the extra sheet lists, as mentioned, lots of exceptions. I guess you can be lucky and never actually hit one, but it's still very annoying to even have to think about it. It's mostly stuff like, "you can't delete photos bigger than x", and "you can't copy photos with this or that property off the camera", etc.
Or rather - partly true. I don't know whether they have specs/docs, but I assume they do - incomplete ones. But yes, at least in Word 2, the file was essentially a memory dump, and later doc "formats" at least fill large parts of the file with binary dumps straight from memory.
The compatibility issues of course arise when you have a completely different memory layout in a later version, and basically need to replicate the one from the previous version (bug for bug) to load older files. It's insane.
Me neither. My mom bought the Ixus 55 recently, and it is a mess. To get the full functionality even in XP, you need to install their stupid application (how convenient to carry the install CD everywhere you might need to copy photos off the camera). And in addition to the manual describing the application, you get a 2 page A4 sheet exlaining in highly confusing terms what does not work in XP and OSX when using these OSs' builtin PTP support. How user-friendly.
Since you have the same crap: did you figure out how to reduce the size of the movies it creates? I set it to 640x480, and the resulting 2 min. avi was 380 MB. WTF?
That's because we won the war. If we had lost, we would have been portrayed as the bad guys, just as the German soldiers were portrayed as the bad guys, without a thought for why they executed their actions.
I appreciate your trying to keep an open mind, but in this case, the Germans were the bad guys (and I am Austrian). And their subjective reasons for their actions don't matter at all.
If the Iraqis had won the Iraq war, we would have been portrayed as invading infedels. But we're not.
Maybe on Fox News. In the rest of the world, you are. Well not infidels, but invading scum nevertheless.
I don't think the particular details of how something developed can be by themselves justification to keep the practice forever. Besides being amazingly cruel, I can't understand why people would want to eat all the stress hormones and whatnot that are sure to be in this stuff.
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Well, go complain to ATi then.
Sorry, I didn't mean to say you are wrong. Of course you aren't (except leaving out possible post-upgrad tasks :) but it was a perfect opportunity to spread the knowledge about this new facility a bit more.
"upgrade patch" -> upgrade path
Nooo! Please, people, stop recommending this, at least when there is reason to suspect newbies in the vicinity :)
The better way to upgrade is to use the update manager from the System > Administration menu. Once Dapper is released, it will know about it, and offer Breezy users the option to upgrade. As long as Dapper is not yet officially released, you need to run it with the -d switch from the command line to make it upgrade to Dapper: gksudo update-manager -d
Ubuntu has invested quite a bit to make the upgrade patch as smooth as possibly, without requiring users to edit sources.list and such. And there are other problems besides editing sources.list: not every change on the system can be expressed in package dependencies. Sometimes changes have to be made that are too dangerous to attempt automatically during the upgrade, and require manual intervention. E.g., the wiki page for the Breezy upgrade listed several things a user must do (see "Post-Upgrade")
All these things are taken care of now by update-manager
It's currently only #3, vote for it!. Peregrine deserves #1 though.
Or a few grand even.
So a few scientists and philosophers thought, "why not", pocketed a few thousand grand, sat at a fake panel discussion about this idiotic question, produced the well-known (to everyone except Disney's brain-dead customers) answer after a few hours (no, this is the US, 30 mins max.), and this sorry spectacle gets reported on /. as an actual story? This is a new low point.
Sorry, I must be stoned. Trying again without the mess:
I think you are confusing the directions in which the definition of species works. Yes, a posteriori you define that a group of otherwise possibly quite similar animals or plants belong to different species when they can't produce fertile offspring (not "mate", you can very well mate with, well, a lot), because the missing gene exchange leads to increasingly big differences.
However not being able to produce fertile offspring is not the only mechanism that can lead to the separation of species in the first place.
Suppose a mutation happens in a population, which makes part A of the population prefer other areas to live than part B. This can create two separate populations, which could produce fertile offspring if they mated, but don't meet and therefore don't mate (hehe). Keep this up for a few hundred thousand years, and you end up with two separate species.
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I think you are confusing the directions in which the definition of species works. Yes, a posteriori you define that a group of otherwise possibly quite similar animals or plants belong to different species when they can't produce fertile offspring (not "mate", you can very well mate with, well, a lot), because the missing gene exchange leads to increasingly big differences.
However not being able to produce fertile offspring is not the only one that can lead to the separation of species in the first place.
Suppose the a mutation happens in a population which makes part A of the population prefer other areas to live in part B. This can create two separate populations that could produce fertile offspring if they met, but don't meet and therefore don't mate (hehe). Keep this up for a few hundred thousand years, and you end up with two separate species.
I did read it, and I guessed, but I just wasn't so sure :)
Dunno about flawlessly - I mean, the 55 also lets you do most of the things you expect, even when using XP's built-in PTP. However, the extra sheet lists, as mentioned, lots of exceptions. I guess you can be lucky and never actually hit one, but it's still very annoying to even have to think about it. It's mostly stuff like, "you can't delete photos bigger than x", and "you can't copy photos with this or that property off the camera", etc.
Or rather - partly true. I don't know whether they have specs/docs, but I assume they do - incomplete ones. But yes, at least in Word 2, the file was essentially a memory dump, and later doc "formats" at least fill large parts of the file with binary dumps straight from memory.
The compatibility issues of course arise when you have a completely different memory layout in a later version, and basically need to replicate the one from the previous version (bug for bug) to load older files. It's insane.
It's true
when CSV has been invented
You realize that Excel, Calc, et al. implement a bit more functionality than creating tables, right?
I agree regarding "works as well as the windows version", but remember, it's not even beta yet.
I'm not sure why they do.
Me neither. My mom bought the Ixus 55 recently, and it is a mess. To get the full functionality even in XP, you need to install their stupid application (how convenient to carry the install CD everywhere you might need to copy photos off the camera).
And in addition to the manual describing the application, you get a 2 page A4 sheet exlaining in highly confusing terms what does not work in XP and OSX when using these OSs' builtin PTP support. How user-friendly.
Since you have the same crap: did you figure out how to reduce the size of the movies it creates? I set it to 640x480, and the resulting 2 min. avi was 380 MB. WTF?
I say, make ALL porn sites reside in the .xxx domain
Who gets to say what is porn? The morality police?
it would also be legitimate to burn copies of the game to CD and sell them for $5 each on E-bay
No, because this violates copyright law, and is not in the EULA.
The Debian package repositories ;)
That's because we won the war. If we had lost, we would have been portrayed as the bad guys, just as the German soldiers were portrayed as the bad guys, without a thought for why they executed their actions.
I appreciate your trying to keep an open mind, but in this case, the Germans were the bad guys (and I am Austrian). And their subjective reasons for their actions don't matter at all.
If the Iraqis had won the Iraq war, we would have been portrayed as invading infedels. But we're not.
Maybe on Fox News. In the rest of the world, you are. Well not infidels, but invading scum nevertheless.
Most people don't care if they can give away their OS
The people who actually create free software, do.
I was still talking about the original topic, foie gras
I don't think the particular details of how something developed can be by themselves justification to keep the practice forever. Besides being amazingly cruel, I can't understand why people would want to eat all the stress hormones and whatnot that are sure to be in this stuff.
Amazing, indeed. Also sounds very healthy.
I know that for all practical purposes every western "democracy" is just a two-party system
This is completely wrong, and I don't even have to give links.