And on every f***g airport or whatever, -all- the screens (where they play CNN and stuff) have the wrong ratio. Drives me nuts. In a few years there will be no way to convince people they are too fat, after all everyone on TV looks like this.
1. The fact that he gave me definition doesn't change the fact that it depends on it 2. The quotes don't make it clear to me at all, he still said that most efficient could be considered best 3. If I had a nickel for each time someone misapplied Godwin's law, yadayada. It's not intended to prevent every reference to Nazism
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Actually no, I have been using Ubuntu for about 5 months now, and I did go through the same thing when I first started but since it was so long ago I had forgotten about it
This statement does not parse. You've been using it for 5 months, setup was hell, but when you recommended it to your friend you couldn't remember? Doesn't make sense.
The point of the post was that Linux is not simple enough to be used by the general population.
No, there was no point. -Ubuntu- might be not simple enough for those general users that need multimedia. If you tell your friend to use Ubuntu if you know that it does not support the features he needs, you are crazy. Other distros like Xandros or Linspire support multimedia out of the box, you recommended to use the wrong thing. If he expects to play, Linux probably wouldn't be his choice at all, or did you also forget that most games are Windows-only? At least you should have told him about Cedega.
One would thing that by default it would be able to play MP3 or even install a Video player (I prefer VLC on both Linux and Windows) player that actually plays most videos by default. No, you are expected to search online for the answer.
I have no idea how you got the idea it would do all these things. It is well known around here that media formats are often patent encumbered, and you probably didn't pay anything for Ubuntu, so how could you expect proprietary media support? Anyway, the info is available on the website, although I agree that it should be more prominent.
You "got a friend to try it out", i.e. you were the active party, and didn't check his requirements first, or explained things to him? Quite stupid, I must say.
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The FSF recommends that a GPL'ed program incudes this language
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
and virtually every software I know does so in the README.
Thanks for the tip. Kuhn has been on my reading list forever, but I never seem to get around to it:( Although not concerned with natural but with human science, I'd also recommend the works of Michel Foucault on philosophy on science, mainly Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things.
"Blind chance" doesn't preclude self-organization or emergent behavior. Random processes can be biased yet still random; the uniform distribution is only one probability distribution of infinitely many.
Right, thanks for the clarification. I was looking in the direction of the naive proponents of blind chance who believe it's only a rolling of dice.
Nobody from the ID camp has proposed a testable hypothesis, i.e., one that can be falsified by experiment, and it is highly unlikely that such a hypothesis can be found at all. Until this state of affairs, ID is by definition outside the realm of science.
I guess I have to partly agree here. The certainty with which many people seem to repeat the party line that it's all blind chance makes me very uneasy. This is unscientific because it does ignore certain problems with this hypothesis, and it ignores very interesting research data that seem to hint at self-organization and emergent behavior being at work. I encourage everybody who's interested to look into the work of Austrian biologist Rupert Riedl.
However, to say that "both sides are equally irrational" about evolution is a stretch. The intelligent design persons are completely outside of the realm of science. Completely.
We can have a rational discussion because all parties argue rationally. If one party started to explain the difference in theory and observation of galaxy rotation with "Duh, God did it", then the rational discussion would quickly end.
In addition to this move towards standardization, we are also going to make some changes to our licensing approach. I've definitely heard the concern from folks over the past few months around the licenses. We want to make this issue much simpler as well as address the core concern, which was that some folks thought we might somehow sue people for using the formats. Obviously we don't want anyone to have that concern, so in order to clear up any other uncertainties related to how and where you can use our formats, we are moving away from our royalty free license, and instead we are going to provide a very simple and general statement that we make an irrevocable commitment not to sue. I'm not a lawyer, but from what I can see, this "covenant not to sue" looks like it should clear the way for GPL development which was a concern for some folks.
No, at least that's not what Brian Jones says (btw. there's more info on the Ecma thing too there). A while ago he wrote that MS will make updates available back to (IIRC) Office 97 to enable these versions to rw the new formats.
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I guess I would, sounds like a security test.
Actually, mostly German
I always stay at the Omni Berkshire Place, it's directly across the street from the office. Their TVs are crappy though :)
I take it you have never heard of spam?
And on every f***g airport or whatever, -all- the screens (where they play CNN and stuff) have the wrong ratio. Drives me nuts. In a few years there will be no way to convince people they are too fat, after all everyone on TV looks like this.
1. The fact that he gave me definition doesn't change the fact that it depends on it
2. The quotes don't make it clear to me at all, he still said that most efficient could be considered best
3. If I had a nickel for each time someone misapplied Godwin's law, yadayada. It's not intended to prevent every reference to Nazism
Depnends on your definition of "best". If Nazi Germany was a good society in your view, then yeah. I'll take the less efficient one, thanks
most of the people that can afford an Xbox 360 probably have some kind of air conditioning in their house/appartment
You need to get out (of the US) more.
Actually no, I have been using Ubuntu for about 5 months now, and I did go through the same thing when I first started but since it was so long ago I had forgotten about it
This statement does not parse. You've been using it for 5 months, setup was hell, but when you recommended it to your friend you couldn't remember? Doesn't make sense.
The point of the post was that Linux is not simple enough to be used by the general population.
No, there was no point. -Ubuntu- might be not simple enough for those general users that need multimedia. If you tell your friend to use Ubuntu if you know that it does not support the features he needs, you are crazy. Other distros like Xandros or Linspire support multimedia out of the box, you recommended to use the wrong thing.
If he expects to play, Linux probably wouldn't be his choice at all, or did you also forget that most games are Windows-only? At least you should have told him about Cedega.
One would thing that by default it would be able to play MP3 or even install a Video player (I prefer VLC on both Linux and Windows) player that actually plays most videos by default.
No, you are expected to search online for the answer.
I have no idea how you got the idea it would do all these things. It is well known around here that media formats are often patent encumbered, and you probably didn't pay anything for Ubuntu, so how could you expect proprietary media support?
Anyway, the info is available on the website, although I agree that it should be more prominent.
You "got a friend to try it out", i.e. you were the active party, and didn't check his requirements first, or explained things to him? Quite stupid, I must say.
The FSF recommends that a GPL'ed program incudes this language and virtually every software I know does so in the README.
Thanks for the tip. Kuhn has been on my reading list forever, but I never seem to get around to it :( Although not concerned with natural but with human science, I'd also recommend the works of Michel Foucault on philosophy on science, mainly Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things.
Good point, and DM has indeed kind of a voodoo feel to me (IANA Astrophysicist). A try for an answer can be found here
"Blind chance" doesn't preclude self-organization or emergent behavior. Random processes can be biased yet still random; the uniform distribution is only one probability distribution of infinitely many.
Right, thanks for the clarification. I was looking in the direction of the naive proponents of blind chance who believe it's only a rolling of dice.
Nobody from the ID camp has proposed a testable hypothesis, i.e., one that can be falsified by experiment, and it is highly unlikely that such a hypothesis can be found at all. Until this state of affairs, ID is by definition outside the realm of science.
I guess I have to partly agree here. The certainty with which many people seem to repeat the party line that it's all blind chance makes me very uneasy. This is unscientific because it does ignore certain problems with this hypothesis, and it ignores very interesting research data that seem to hint at self-organization and emergent behavior being at work. I encourage everybody who's interested to look into the work of Austrian biologist Rupert Riedl.
However, to say that "both sides are equally irrational" about evolution is a stretch. The intelligent design persons are completely outside of the realm of science. Completely.
You can't heat water up quickly enough with conventional resistance-based electric elements, as it would require huge amount of electricity
Were I lived (the real world) many people had on-demand heating with conventional gear in the seventies, and still do.
We can have a rational discussion because all parties argue rationally. If one party started to explain the difference in theory and observation of galaxy rotation with "Duh, God did it", then the rational discussion would quickly end.
No, at least that's not what Brian Jones says (btw. there's more info on the Ecma thing too there). A while ago he wrote that MS will make updates available back to (IIRC) Office 97 to enable these versions to rw the new formats.
You are correct, and I guess that is indeed stupid. I can't really comment though: haven't played Halo and didn't have an EDGE subscription that year.
Plug because I love it: if you want good video game reporting and criticism. read EDGE (the print version) and be happy. Really.
C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office it is
c:/windows/tmp
Try C:\Documents and Settings\\Applications\Microsoft Office\Temp (or similar, I always forget.) E.g., MS Graph dumps loads of temp files there