I'm reminded of a driver bug in one Linux distro release that utterly trashed laptop hard drives by...hell, I don't remember, maybe parking and unparking the heads way too often (do they even still do that anymore?).
It was Ubuntu, and it was not so simple to blame them as you remember it to be. Effectively they just did not overrule the drives' own settings for the parking frequency. Turns out that there are buggy drives that get it wrong.
While I'm inclined to agree with most of what you wrote, I've seen many studies over the years that showed that clothing and such had no effect on your chance of being raped. Which would appear to be because rape is not about sex but about power.
Thanks, but not the same thing. A block heater heats the motor block, but those parking heaters I am talking about also heat the inside of the car to a certain degree (enough to make de-icing of the windows not required or at least much easier).
It's not about the version numbers but the development model. Basically, "do we add some features in the stable branch and make frequent releases, or do all new features go only into a dev branch that gets stabilized and released only rarely?"
The solution to this is a parking heater in the car, not remote-starting the car to let it idle. E.g., the heaters by Webasto (http://www.webasto.co.uk/am/en/am_automobile_3177.html). Such heaters have been available for ages and can be controlled by timer, dedicated remotes, or texting from the mobile phone. They are pretty common over here and the German Wikipedia page is extensive (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standheizung), but I could not find a similar page on the English Wikipedia (searching for "parking heater", the English term used by Webasto). Dunno if the term is incorrect or for some reason devices like this are rare in the US.
I knew someone would point this out. Obviously we will never know who thought it first, but Duchamp was as the very least the first to express the thought in a way that allowed it to enter the artistic discourse and have an effect.
I didn't mean to argue about the relevance of skill, I guess what I meant was "before you dismiss his work on the grounds of perceived insufficient technical skill, have a look here". Sorry if I didn't make this clear.
That reflects more on you than Duchamp:p Seriously, he's considered on the the great artists, possibly the most influential, of the 20th century and well worth looking into (also if you are not into art, but into chess). Anyone who still clings to the largely irrelevant requirement of technical skill may want to look at his Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 to be satisfied.
Research in the forces of the art market has become a legitimate and important occupation of art since Duchamp's time. It's amazing that many people still don't get this, just look at this/. discussion.
It won't appear in the main distribution until the new distro release 10.04 (current Codename Lucid Lynx). Possibly someone will stick it into the backports repository (which you would have to enable) or into a PPA (likewise).
If you can't wait, install into/usr/local from mozilla.com (use checkinstall to create a basic deb package so that the package manager knows about it).
F1 uses V8 because its insane regulatory body (FIA) mandated 2.4 liter V8s, restricted to 18,000 RPM, for cost saving reasons. Or are you going to tell me that RPM-restriction is good for performance too - after all, F1 uses it.
If engine designs were open to competition, F1 teams would choose other configurations. F1 has never had completely open engine rules, so it makes little sense to discuss what the teams would run if they could freely choose: certainly something insanely expensive and insanely powerful. Taking real-life regulations into account, teams preferred V10s when required to use normally-aspirated 3.5-liter engines. If forced aspiration was allowed, everyone would probably run 1.5-liter, 4-cylinder turbos or something like that, like in the 80ies when such engines reached 1000 PS in race trim and 1400 in qualifying trim.
When WWII came around and Hitler and Mussolini invaded almost every country in Europe, he left little Switzerland alone because of this.
The Nazis left Switzerland alone because it was their bank.
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can someone please tell me why a simple graphics editor takes 190Mb disk space?
I suppose that the Windows package includes the entire gtk+ toolkit and various support libraries, too. The Debian package of Inkscape is just 20 MB because Debian has the libs in separate packages (which are often already installed for other purposes, such as GNOME, anyway). Here's the dependency list: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/inkscape.
Did you have to agree to a license before you could use any of these items? NO.
Are you serious? Maybe you should read the GPL before passing public judgment on it.
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
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I'm reminded of a driver bug in one Linux distro release that utterly trashed laptop hard drives by...hell, I don't remember, maybe parking and unparking the heads way too often (do they even still do that anymore?).
It was Ubuntu, and it was not so simple to blame them as you remember it to be. Effectively they just did not overrule the drives' own settings for the parking frequency. Turns out that there are buggy drives that get it wrong.
Don't wear such provocative clothing
While I'm inclined to agree with most of what you wrote, I've seen many studies over the years that showed that clothing and such had no effect on your chance of being raped. Which would appear to be because rape is not about sex but about power.
The only people who could love this idea are liberal gun grabbers who are afraid somebody might get hurt with a gun.
And we all know how utterly stupid it is to expect something like this. I mean, when was the last time in the US someone got hurt with a gun?!
DVD yes, CD (the default install media and the one you can get for free by Ship-it), no.
Here's all the details: http://www.parkingheater.co.uk/products/parking-heater.html
Thanks, but not the same thing. A block heater heats the motor block, but those parking heaters I am talking about also heat the inside of the car to a certain degree (enough to make de-icing of the windows not required or at least much easier).
It's not about the version numbers but the development model. Basically, "do we add some features in the stable branch and make frequent releases, or do all new features go only into a dev branch that gets stabilized and released only rarely?"
The solution to this is a parking heater in the car, not remote-starting the car to let it idle. E.g., the heaters by Webasto (http://www.webasto.co.uk/am/en/am_automobile_3177.html). Such heaters have been available for ages and can be controlled by timer, dedicated remotes, or texting from the mobile phone. They are pretty common over here and the German Wikipedia page is extensive (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standheizung), but I could not find a similar page on the English Wikipedia (searching for "parking heater", the English term used by Webasto). Dunno if the term is incorrect or for some reason devices like this are rare in the US.
I knew someone would point this out. Obviously we will never know who thought it first, but Duchamp was as the very least the first to express the thought in a way that allowed it to enter the artistic discourse and have an effect.
I didn't address Zappa but the poster. Zappa being Zappa he surely knew about Duchamp.
I didn't mean to argue about the relevance of skill, I guess what I meant was "before you dismiss his work on the grounds of perceived insufficient technical skill, have a look here". Sorry if I didn't make this clear.
+1 if I hadn't posted yet.
That reflects more on you than Duchamp :p
Seriously, he's considered on the the great artists, possibly the most influential, of the 20th century and well worth looking into (also if you are not into art, but into chess).
Anyone who still clings to the largely irrelevant requirement of technical skill may want to look at his Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 to be satisfied.
Research in the forces of the art market has become a legitimate and important occupation of art since Duchamp's time. It's amazing that many people still don't get this, just look at this /. discussion.
Frank Zappa had a good point. He claimed that the only thing art required was a frame .
With all due respect to Zappa, it's Marcel Duchamp who understood this first, around 1913.
How can I upgrade on Ubuntu?
It won't appear in the main distribution until the new distro release 10.04 (current Codename Lucid Lynx). Possibly someone will stick it into the backports repository (which you would have to enable) or into a PPA (likewise).
If you can't wait, install into /usr/local from mozilla.com (use checkinstall to create a basic deb package so that the package manager knows about it).
Apple already came up with this. (I still won't cough up the $$$ for a MacBook, but...)
OS X needs you to log out to actually switch GPUs.
I understand that government regulations are notorious for screwing up anything they touch so I am sure emission standards have increased complexity
Really bad example for the supposed bad influence of regulations.
F1 uses V8 because its insane regulatory body (FIA) mandated 2.4 liter V8s, restricted to 18,000 RPM, for cost saving reasons. Or are you going to tell me that RPM-restriction is good for performance too - after all, F1 uses it.
If engine designs were open to competition, F1 teams would choose other configurations. F1 has never had completely open engine rules, so it makes little sense to discuss what the teams would run if they could freely choose: certainly something insanely expensive and insanely powerful. Taking real-life regulations into account, teams preferred V10s when required to use normally-aspirated 3.5-liter engines. If forced aspiration was allowed, everyone would probably run 1.5-liter, 4-cylinder turbos or something like that, like in the 80ies when such engines reached 1000 PS in race trim and 1400 in qualifying trim.
1. You're just being cute, but I'm still going to say it: if you had followed the LTS release cycles closely, you'd know it never was like that.
2. Read the Lucid release planning. Nice summary here: http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/11/lucid-lynx-this-is-plan.html and you may also be interested in this http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1916 and this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
When WWII came around and Hitler and Mussolini invaded almost every country in Europe, he left little Switzerland alone because of this.
The Nazis left Switzerland alone because it was their bank.
can someone please tell me why a simple graphics editor takes 190Mb disk space?
I suppose that the Windows package includes the entire gtk+ toolkit and various support libraries, too. The Debian package of Inkscape is just 20 MB because Debian has the libs in separate packages (which are often already installed for other purposes, such as GNOME, anyway). Here's the dependency list: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/inkscape.
Given that Indians rarely speak French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Finnish, and so on, the answer is that no, usually they don't.
Did you have to agree to a license before you could use any of these items? NO.
Are you serious? Maybe you should read the GPL before passing public judgment on it.
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
-- GPLv2
Men want to be objectified too!
Don't anthropomorphize men.