X Windows is shit. It's a regurgitated, diarrhea-inspired copycat of what others had already achieved. That's the problem with you Unix zealots. You're fucking ignorant and stupid to everything else OUTSIDE of Unix to the point you believe that every computer related invasion began with Unix. Newsflash, pathetic little fanboy bitch, they didn't.
If you experience this feeling more frequently than occasionally, you may want to look for professional help
Google missed an opportunity here. They should have programmed it to respond with something like "something almost but not completely unlike a hamburger" or gone with kickback money from McD's and said something like "a pale imitation of McDonald's quarter pounder" or even "hamburger royale".
That's fine, but it's different to "can't do it" and not different to what I described for Mint from the beginning.
Supported or not, upgrades are not always problem free even in systems that offer a supported path like Ubuntu, which is why Mint and Elementary don't in the first place.
Whenever you upgrade you should know what you are doing, but thanks to the dependency system it would be immediately obvious whether all dependencies are fulfilled, and you should get at prompt for each changed configuration file - regardless of whether upgrades are officially supported or not.
Thanks, but this is the same as I said about Mint: "even though they offered no GUI app for upgrading you could always do it with apt-get full-upgrade and at worst some manual dpkg usage just like any Debian-based system".
And in the mean time I also googled and confirmed that it can be done the same as any Debian system: change the distribution in sources list; apt-get update; apt-get full-upgrade. The danger is just that if they do not test it, the dependencies may be a bit bumpy. This is what dpkg is for. You will want a second machine nearby for the worst case.
Not a fan of Mint here, but even though they offered no GUI app for upgrading you could always do it with apt-get full-upgrade and at worst some manual dpkg usage just like any Debian-based system
Yeah but they are choosing a far worse projection. That is the issue please don't tell me you're friends with sonic
The Gall-Peters may not be the best choice, and Peters's own campaigning may have been annoying at the time, but it absolutely isn't worse than a Mercator, which is a really, really poor choice.
You can preserve angles. Technically this is called a conformal projection, with the Mercator Projection being the best known example, though to depict the poles usually stereographic projection is used. Besides chartering the right course, the advantage is that outlines and shapes (at least locally) looks right.
You can instead opt to preserve area (instead of angles). But it is a mathematical fact that you cannot do both.
Correct, but as in a Mercator the shapes only locally look right, it is a poor choice for a world map when we are interested in political and geographical aspects.
If you are teaching children stuff about geography and you are using a single projection, you are either a bad teacher or you have an agenda. You should use globe for accuracy or multiple projections depending on what you need to be accurate at the time.
This is not about the teaching about projections, but about replacing the one map that hangs on the classroom wall. And from TFA: "Teachers put contrasting maps of the world side by side and let the students study them."
Maybe educate yourself before ranting about imaginary things
If it is more accurate in the aspects you are interested in at the expense of being less accurate in the aspects you are not interested in, then it is more accurate in practical terms. Jeez.
So...the UN is telling us that the way to increase happiness in your country is to make it whiter and less diverse, then? Was the lead author a guy named Adolf, perhaps?
They chose a distortion that is better suited to their needs. The school is not trying to sail across the Atlantic. Choosing the best suited projection for your needs is an entirely logical thing to do.
All flat maps will be distorted. The PC dweebs don't teach that 'maps are distorted' they replace the maps with new ones distorted to overemphasise other parts.
This is a non-issue raised by an idiot who is very bad at geography.
1. Poll people on the street. Only a tiny minority even among the educated will know about map distortion.
2. All maps will be distorted, so you need to pick the projection that works best for your needs. The Mercator projection is a good choice when you need to sail across the Atlantic. It is however among the worst choices you could make for teaching people about our earth in a geographical or political sense, for which it has been used. Choosing a better suited projection is the most logical thing one can do.
When I get a flu, almost always it's my right nostril that gets clogged. Left nostril rarely clogs. What could be the cause? I tend to sleep on my right side. Oh well, I can live with that. As long as my nose doesn't start whistling.
I had what seems the same condition, also associated with chronic sinusitis due to resulting reduced ventilation of nose and sinuses. Most likely you have a deviated septum and/or an enlarged turbinate (nasal concha) on the clogged side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The enlarged turbinate usually goes hand in hand with the deviated septum because the turbinate tends to grow into the room provided by the deviation, resulting in poor air passage on this side.
People with this condition tend to sleep ion the side with the enlarged turbinate because this tends to alleviate the breathing problems.
You should see an ENT doctor and discuss an operation for septum deviation and measures to fix the turbinate. This may be combined with FESS (Functional endoscopic sinus surgery) to fix associated problems in the sinuses at the same time. I just had the surgery done 2 weeks ago: 1. Septum deviation fixed 2. Lateralisation of both turbinates (see further down) 3. Somnoplasty of the right turbinate (see further down) 4. Infundibulotomy of the ethmoidal infundibulum, i.e., a size increase of the the opening between nasal cavity and sinus maxillaris, to help with ejection of mucus from the sinus. (In humans, the opening is suboptimally placed on the top of the sinus maxillaris due to upright walk. It also tends to grow closed as a result of chronic sinusitis). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am super happy with the results. Until a few years ago this surgery (and the subsequently required tamponade for hemostasis) could be quite bad, but with modern endoscopic surgery and modern hemostatic techniques (e.g., Doyle splint or Doyle combo splint) it is not a biggie at all.
Note that turbinate reduction (conchotomy) was overdone in the past, leading to severe issues like Empty Nose Syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... DO NOT let anyone do a complete removal (turbinectomy) - no good ENT would do this nowadays, if someone wants to, they are quacks. The same goes for turbinate sectioning (i.e., cutting off smaller parts of the turbinate). This also is a bloody hack job which does not lead to sustained improvement as the turbinate will regrow over a few years.
Good options are: 1. Lateralization of the inferior (lower) turbinates. The turbinate is separated from the underlying bone, moved laterally, and reattached. This increases the air passage without inflicting any wounds on the turbinate (apart from the minor surgery wounds which heal quickly) 2. If lateralisation is not sufficient because the turbinate is already too large, additional somnoplasty (bipolar radiofrequency ablation) is an option. Lower layers of the turbinate are destroyed by heat, and the subsequent contracting of the scar leads to size decrease.
This is suicide. I need to be watching the same thing as friends or people in online forums, or how am I going to discuss things with them? And the less I can discuss, the less I am immersed. Stupid idea.
Why does every German word seem to have double the number of letters that it really needs? It has to be terribly inefficient, this from a society that is extremely efficient in most things.
That would be because you have no idea about German. Yes, German sentences tend to be a bit longer than English ones, but you can't measure efficiency this way. Also Federal Criminal Police Office in TFS is longer than Bundeskriminalamt
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X Windows is shit. It's a regurgitated, diarrhea-inspired copycat of what others had already achieved. That's the problem with you Unix zealots. You're fucking ignorant and stupid to everything else OUTSIDE of Unix to the point you believe that every computer related invasion began with Unix. Newsflash, pathetic little fanboy bitch, they didn't.
If you experience this feeling more frequently than occasionally, you may want to look for professional help
X Windows is the only way to get a desktop on a computer? Since when?
Maybe read the article? He is saying there was no concept of a desktop in the window managers available for X
I didn't know Macs and Amigas used X Windows, on Slashdot I learn something new every day
I don't think ice on the ground is the problem, but falling snow
Only one specific subdomain was declared illegal, lots of others and the indymedia domain itself are unaffectec
Google missed an opportunity here. They should have programmed it to respond with something like "something almost but not completely unlike a hamburger" or gone with kickback money from McD's and said something like "a pale imitation of McDonald's quarter pounder" or even "hamburger royale".
Google was just quoting Wikipedia and it was swiftly edited:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...
That's fine, but it's different to "can't do it" and not different to what I described for Mint from the beginning.
Supported or not, upgrades are not always problem free even in systems that offer a supported path like Ubuntu, which is why Mint and Elementary don't in the first place.
Whenever you upgrade you should know what you are doing, but thanks to the dependency system it would be immediately obvious whether all dependencies are fulfilled, and you should get at prompt for each changed configuration file - regardless of whether upgrades are officially supported or not.
Thanks, but this is the same as I said about Mint: "even though they offered no GUI app for upgrading you could always do it with apt-get full-upgrade and at worst some manual dpkg usage just like any Debian-based system".
And in the mean time I also googled and confirmed that it can be done the same as any Debian system: change the distribution in sources list; apt-get update; apt-get full-upgrade. The danger is just that if they do not test it, the dependencies may be a bit bumpy. This is what dpkg is for. You will want a second machine nearby for the worst case.
Humans, not humanity. "If a group of wolves say inflict a few deaths on humans" it IS disastrous for said humans
Why can't you?
Not a fan of Mint here, but even though they offered no GUI app for upgrading you could always do it with apt-get full-upgrade and at worst some manual dpkg usage just like any Debian-based system
Yeah but they are choosing a far worse projection. That is the issue please don't tell me you're friends with sonic
The Gall-Peters may not be the best choice, and Peters's own campaigning may have been annoying at the time, but it absolutely isn't worse than a Mercator, which is a really, really poor choice.
What about sonic???
You can preserve angles. Technically this is called a conformal projection, with the Mercator Projection being the best known example, though to depict the poles usually stereographic projection is used. Besides chartering the right course, the advantage is that outlines and shapes (at least locally) looks right.
You can instead opt to preserve area (instead of angles). But it is a mathematical fact that you cannot do both.
Correct, but as in a Mercator the shapes only locally look right, it is a poor choice for a world map when we are interested in political and geographical aspects.
If you are teaching children stuff about geography and you are using a single projection, you are either a bad teacher or you have an agenda.
You should use globe for accuracy or multiple projections depending on what you need to be accurate at the time.
This is not about the teaching about projections, but about replacing the one map that hangs on the classroom wall. And from TFA: "Teachers put contrasting maps of the world side by side and let the students study them."
Maybe educate yourself before ranting about imaginary things
Get help
If it is more accurate in the aspects you are interested in at the expense of being less accurate in the aspects you are not interested in, then it is more accurate in practical terms. Jeez.
The Mercator projection shows neither landmass shapes nor landmass sizes correctly
They are getting a more accurate depiction of the world in the aspects that matter to them (i.e., not nautics)
So...the UN is telling us that the way to increase happiness in your country is to make it whiter and less diverse, then? Was the lead author a guy named Adolf, perhaps?
Actually, ethnic diversity has increased considerably in Norway in recent years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They chose a distortion that is better suited to their needs. The school is not trying to sail across the Atlantic. Choosing the best suited projection for your needs is an entirely logical thing to do.
All flat maps will be distorted. The PC dweebs don't teach that 'maps are distorted' they replace the maps with new ones distorted to overemphasise other parts.
This is a non-issue raised by an idiot who is very bad at geography.
1. Poll people on the street. Only a tiny minority even among the educated will know about map distortion.
2. All maps will be distorted, so you need to pick the projection that works best for your needs. The Mercator projection is a good choice when you need to sail across the Atlantic. It is however among the worst choices you could make for teaching people about our earth in a geographical or political sense, for which it has been used. Choosing a better suited projection is the most logical thing one can do.
When I get a flu, almost always it's my right nostril that gets clogged. Left nostril rarely clogs. What could be the cause? I tend to sleep on my right side.
Oh well, I can live with that. As long as my nose doesn't start whistling.
I had what seems the same condition, also associated with chronic sinusitis due to resulting reduced ventilation of nose and sinuses. Most likely you have a deviated septum and/or an enlarged turbinate (nasal concha) on the clogged side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The enlarged turbinate usually goes hand in hand with the deviated septum because the turbinate tends to grow into the room provided by the deviation, resulting in poor air passage on this side.
People with this condition tend to sleep ion the side with the enlarged turbinate because this tends to alleviate the breathing problems.
You should see an ENT doctor and discuss an operation for septum deviation and measures to fix the turbinate. This may be combined with FESS (Functional endoscopic sinus surgery) to fix associated problems in the sinuses at the same time. I just had the surgery done 2 weeks ago:
1. Septum deviation fixed
2. Lateralisation of both turbinates (see further down)
3. Somnoplasty of the right turbinate (see further down)
4. Infundibulotomy of the ethmoidal infundibulum, i.e., a size increase of the the opening between nasal cavity and sinus maxillaris, to help with ejection of mucus from the sinus. (In humans, the opening is suboptimally placed on the top of the sinus maxillaris due to upright walk. It also tends to grow closed as a result of chronic sinusitis). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am super happy with the results. Until a few years ago this surgery (and the subsequently required tamponade for hemostasis) could be quite bad, but with modern endoscopic surgery and modern hemostatic techniques (e.g., Doyle splint or Doyle combo splint) it is not a biggie at all.
Note that turbinate reduction (conchotomy) was overdone in the past, leading to severe issues like Empty Nose Syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
DO NOT let anyone do a complete removal (turbinectomy) - no good ENT would do this nowadays, if someone wants to, they are quacks.
The same goes for turbinate sectioning (i.e., cutting off smaller parts of the turbinate). This also is a bloody hack job which does not lead to sustained improvement as the turbinate will regrow over a few years.
Good options are:
1. Lateralization of the inferior (lower) turbinates. The turbinate is separated from the underlying bone, moved laterally, and reattached. This increases the air passage without inflicting any wounds on the turbinate (apart from the minor surgery wounds which heal quickly)
2. If lateralisation is not sufficient because the turbinate is already too large, additional somnoplasty (bipolar radiofrequency ablation) is an option. Lower layers of the turbinate are destroyed by heat, and the subsequent contracting of the scar leads to size decrease.
Then leave us alone with your shortcomings. Sheesh
This is suicide. I need to be watching the same thing as friends or people in online forums, or how am I going to discuss things with them? And the less I can discuss, the less I am immersed. Stupid idea.
Why does every German word seem to have double the number of letters that it really needs? It has to be terribly inefficient, this from a society that is extremely efficient in most things.
That would be because you have no idea about German. Yes, German sentences tend to be a bit longer than English ones, but you can't measure efficiency this way. Also Federal Criminal Police Office in TFS is longer than Bundeskriminalamt