I gave gutsy a try (this was before hardy was out), and was able to run compiz at full tilt on my gimpy macbook's gma gpu.
The problems I had with the system in comparison to mac were:
no graphical sudo out of the box
no incorporation of a global menubar in gnome, eating massive amounts of valuable vertical real estate and subjecting you to those annoying "palettes" many websites use to try to prevent you viewing source.
terrible opengl performance. I can run vlc and mplayer using opengl out on osx, try this on ubuntu and watch the 3 fps mess you get out : /
I believe that nobody has a perfect understanding... not myself, not the pastor of my church, nobody. That's not the point, as far as I can tell.
Most prophecy in the Bible is written so that it isn't obvious exactly when or how it will be fulfilled, until it has been fulfilled. For instance, the birth of the Messiah (or Christ) did not have a date, and nobody knew that he would be born in a feeding trough. The point is so that God can show the world that He has a plan, and that He has the power to fulfill it after it has been stated (in other words, he knows the future).
The unfulfilled prophecies, including those in the book of Revelation, are similar for us today. We don't know exactly when it will happen, or how. So, nobody has a perfect knowledge of it.
He's God... if He wants you to know a certain amount of the Bible, He can and will give you the insight to make it happen.
(For those who don't believe in God, please... please, spare me the comments on how I am stupid for my beliefs and how anyone living in a modern world who believes in God is insane... those comments are getting quite old, and prove nothing.)
Ah, so god believes in misleading the masses, providing easily misinterpreted information which can and has led societies to ruinous consequences.
Are we sure it's "god" who inspired the bible? or is it some other being known to lie with the aim of causing ruin to humanity?
I've been saying that since the IPO. Yes I bought shares, and yes I dumped them at a good price. The stock kept going up but I do not regret it at all. Ads are *way* overpriced, and when this next bubble bursts Google stock is going to tumble.
I am not a stock analyst so I'm not going to predict where the price will settle, but $477 a share (as of this posting) is WAY WAY WAY overvalued.
I don't think this is the case at all. Other companies, if you equate shares, would have the same price without stock splits.
Of course, morons will probably read posts like this proclaiming gloom and doom, and lose confidence for no reason at all.
The bigger question is, who benefits from this rabid rumor-mongering trying to lower confidence in google's stock?
Who is sueing google right now over youtube in one part of a multi-front SLAPP attack to stop all "unauthorized user participation" in the internet?
You're not quoting me. If you are paraphrasing me, you have taken what I said out of context. Either way, your an idiot. Seems your head is squarely stuck up your and you insist on pushing it further.
Expect no further reply because you have now proved to be a complete moron/troll.
it must be nice to be so conceited your head tops mount everest.
where did the idea come from? It came from common sense.
I live in the sprawling city of ATL, and my experience mirrors about 90% of the population. The "corner store" is an 8 minute drive away.
I drive often, and the distances can be as far as 150 miles round trip. I cannot and will not tolerate a charge period greater than a few minutes.
I don't really care if I can or cannot do it at my own home, electric "service stations" can and should be built for this purpose.
There remains the battery issue. Currently the cutting edge of batteries (in a submission I did not see until after making this post) is a 10 minute charge for a car battery pack.
I find this acceptable, but given it's brand new and under patent the prices will be astronomical and out of reach for your average person.
I mean, why would a greater propensity to roll, a larger passenger cage more prone to buckling, a higher, more exposed profile, and a larger mass which carries more energy (which is then transferred into the passenger and provides more challenge to the structural integrity on impact) be less safe!
and if you would pull your head out of yours, you would notice that I was referring to your quote about "greater mass = greater safety" being a myth. perfectly on topic.
Do continue ranting, frothing, misrepresenting, and falsely accusing. I'm sure you'll make karl rove proud.
You're the only one talking myths here. Please get back on topic. No one is talking about sub-compact ICE-powered vehicles (other than they are safer than the topic at hand), which is what your myth is about. Please re-read my post and you'll find that you've taken a wrong turn.
Alert: political.doublespeak.so has triggered a fatal error.
I've also been hearing that there is no statistically significant connection between CP and molestation. Of course if it really does involve violation of a child, the PRODUCER who actively perpetrated a real crime should be found. of course, that would involve buying the CP to investigate it, and possibly distributing stills of any adults present seeking identification.
As for other "black market" banes of our existence.. there's p2p filesharing (omg the poor record executives!), and cigarettes (damn those people who want to kill theselves and not pay a 70% tax in certain states!), and of course various anonymous whistleblowing.
I don't consider illegal to equal immoral. Governments are increasingly making things illegal with no statistical or moral basis for their claims. They just want control, and our votes are so diluted at this point that a tyranny of the majority exists. Just look at the crusade against the most open part of usenet for an example.
That is, the creation and destruction of credit by banks. Banks lent fractionally on top of gold in exactly the way they do now on top of paper. Whether the currency is based on gold or paper is irrelevant with respect to business cycles, it's the debt based nature of credit and in particular fractional lending practices which are the problem there. Gold on the other hand is naturally scarce and so would restrict inflation whereas paper is not, and does not.
HTH
What a nice quite omission of the rest of the truth..
Business cycles are also caused by: poor investments "paying off" negatively, corporate scandals causing sectors to implode, and reaganite policies destroying consumption by bleeding the middle class dry.
There's a reason that they exclude energy from the consumer price index -- it's because energy prices are extremely volatile.
No, it actually has quite a bit of stability.. in its skyrocketing trend.
It skyrocketed during the gulf war in 1990, and pretty much stayed at that price afterward, and it continues to skyrocket today.
The reason it's excluded from the CPI is to allow politicians to claim the economy is just fine when people are pawning off their furniture to get to work each week.
as lets face it....everything within your eyesight right now reading these words was all delivered or transported some way via a truck (unless you're looking out your window at a tree or something).
my trees were delivered by landscapers on a truck you insensitive clod!
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I don't see how anyone can reasonably conclude scrabulous was out to deceive anyone.
If scrabulous is violating trademarks here for scrabble, then you might as well sue hyundai for violating honda's trademarks.
Theyre both cars, they both have an H as their logo, they have similar models with equivalent numbers of doors.
They've been ranked very closely in initial quality assessments..
on a 13" imac, a huge difference.
I gave gutsy a try (this was before hardy was out), and was able to run compiz at full tilt on my gimpy macbook's gma gpu.
The problems I had with the system in comparison to mac were:
no graphical sudo out of the box
no incorporation of a global menubar in gnome, eating massive amounts of valuable vertical real estate and subjecting you to those annoying "palettes" many websites use to try to prevent you viewing source.
terrible opengl performance. I can run vlc and mplayer using opengl out on osx, try this on ubuntu and watch the 3 fps mess you get out : /
I believe that nobody has a perfect understanding... not myself, not the pastor of my church, nobody. That's not the point, as far as I can tell.
Most prophecy in the Bible is written so that it isn't obvious exactly when or how it will be fulfilled, until it has been fulfilled. For instance, the birth of the Messiah (or Christ) did not have a date, and nobody knew that he would be born in a feeding trough. The point is so that God can show the world that He has a plan, and that He has the power to fulfill it after it has been stated (in other words, he knows the future).
The unfulfilled prophecies, including those in the book of Revelation, are similar for us today. We don't know exactly when it will happen, or how. So, nobody has a perfect knowledge of it.
He's God... if He wants you to know a certain amount of the Bible, He can and will give you the insight to make it happen.
(For those who don't believe in God, please... please, spare me the comments on how I am stupid for my beliefs and how anyone living in a modern world who believes in God is insane... those comments are getting quite old, and prove nothing.)
Ah, so god believes in misleading the masses, providing easily misinterpreted information which can and has led societies to ruinous consequences.
Are we sure it's "god" who inspired the bible? or is it some other being known to lie with the aim of causing ruin to humanity?
I've been saying that since the IPO. Yes I bought shares, and yes I dumped them at a good price. The stock kept going up but I do not regret it at all. Ads are *way* overpriced, and when this next bubble bursts Google stock is going to tumble.
I am not a stock analyst so I'm not going to predict where the price will settle, but $477 a share (as of this posting) is WAY WAY WAY overvalued.
I don't think this is the case at all. Other companies, if you equate shares, would have the same price without stock splits.
Of course, morons will probably read posts like this proclaiming gloom and doom, and lose confidence for no reason at all.
The bigger question is, who benefits from this rabid rumor-mongering trying to lower confidence in google's stock?
Who is sueing google right now over youtube in one part of a multi-front SLAPP attack to stop all "unauthorized user participation" in the internet?
parent needs a mod-up. It's very well thought-out, and I consider it very accurate.
You're not quoting me. If you are paraphrasing me, you have taken what I said out of context. Either way, your an idiot. Seems your head is squarely stuck up your and you insist on pushing it further.
Expect no further reply because you have now proved to be a complete moron/troll.
it must be nice to be so conceited your head tops mount everest.
nice troll title.
where did the idea come from? It came from common sense.
I live in the sprawling city of ATL, and my experience mirrors about 90% of the population. The "corner store" is an 8 minute drive away.
I drive often, and the distances can be as far as 150 miles round trip. I cannot and will not tolerate a charge period greater than a few minutes.
I don't really care if I can or cannot do it at my own home, electric "service stations" can and should be built for this purpose.
There remains the battery issue. Currently the cutting edge of batteries (in a submission I did not see until after making this post) is a 10 minute charge for a car battery pack.
I find this acceptable, but given it's brand new and under patent the prices will be astronomical and out of reach for your average person.
Yeah, it really is garbage
I mean, why would a greater propensity to roll, a larger passenger cage more prone to buckling, a higher, more exposed profile, and a larger mass which carries more energy (which is then transferred into the passenger and provides more challenge to the structural integrity on impact) be less safe!
and if you would pull your head out of yours, you would notice that I was referring to your quote about "greater mass = greater safety" being a myth. perfectly on topic.
Do continue ranting, frothing, misrepresenting, and falsely accusing. I'm sure you'll make karl rove proud.
That is an often quoted myth.
You're the only one talking myths here. Please get back on topic. No one is talking about sub-compact ICE-powered vehicles (other than they are safer than the topic at hand), which is what your myth is about. Please re-read my post and you'll find that you've taken a wrong turn.
Alert: political.doublespeak.so has triggered a fatal error.
it means, if a patent covers something non-obvious, but it's description also applies to many obvious things, then it's invalid.
It's a sort of patent version of the betamax decision. "substantial obvious implementations" trump the few non-obvious ones.
. I can't really imagine a one-wheel-in-the-back covered trike doing anything other than getting stuck with any amount of snow.
It's called computer assisted traction control.
That is an often quoted myth.
The truth is that subcompacts have an equal or greater safety margin than these massive SUV's.
They are the car equivalent of the TSA.. "safety theatre"
The biggest barrier to pure electrics right now is the time it takes to charge a vehicle.
Super Capacitors are supposed to change that by allowing charge times equivalent or less than the time spent at the petrol pump.
Last time I heard about them was early this year as they were seeking to scale them to the industrial level.
That technology is what will make electric cars "feasible"
And drugs are morally objectionable, why?
I've also been hearing that there is no statistically significant connection between CP and molestation. Of course if it really does involve violation of a child, the PRODUCER who actively perpetrated a real crime should be found. of course, that would involve buying the CP to investigate it, and possibly distributing stills of any adults present seeking identification.
As for other "black market" banes of our existence.. there's p2p filesharing (omg the poor record executives!), and cigarettes (damn those people who want to kill theselves and not pay a 70% tax in certain states!), and of course various anonymous whistleblowing.
I don't consider illegal to equal immoral. Governments are increasingly making things illegal with no statistical or moral basis for their claims. They just want control, and our votes are so diluted at this point that a tyranny of the majority exists. Just look at the crusade against the most open part of usenet for an example.
That is, the creation and destruction of credit by banks. Banks lent fractionally on top of gold in exactly the way they do now on top of paper. Whether the currency is based on gold or paper is irrelevant with respect to business cycles, it's the debt based nature of credit and in particular fractional lending practices which are the problem there. Gold on the other hand is naturally scarce and so would restrict inflation whereas paper is not, and does not.
HTH
What a nice quite omission of the rest of the truth..
Business cycles are also caused by: poor investments "paying off" negatively, corporate scandals causing sectors to implode, and reaganite policies destroying consumption by bleeding the middle class dry.
I believe the standard they will use to convict me is the new "active inducement" standard their friends at the MPAA bought.
indeed. TV is "noisy wallpaper" to me.
I grew up in a loud household, and silence is uncomfortable.
I will not, however, wear goofy glasses (especially because i wear prescription eyewear as it is) just so jon stewart pops out at me.
When the article mentions "We'd need air to breathe and protection from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere", it's not referring individual persons.
It's referring to floating a city within an oversized balloon. Since the majority of the atmosphere is CO2 the oxygen would keep it aloft.
There are numerous hurdles with this, the biggest being the "single point of failure" issue with what he envisions.
One person going off his rocker and tossing a standard grenade at this bubble would cause the entire city to crash to the surface and melt.
what about the gas giants..
you're more likely to "bouy" floating cities in the atmospheres of gas giants than you are on venus.
There's a reason that they exclude energy from the consumer price index -- it's because energy prices are extremely volatile.
No, it actually has quite a bit of stability.. in its skyrocketing trend.
It skyrocketed during the gulf war in 1990, and pretty much stayed at that price afterward, and it continues to skyrocket today.
The reason it's excluded from the CPI is to allow politicians to claim the economy is just fine when people are pawning off their furniture to get to work each week.
as lets face it....everything within your eyesight right now reading these words was all delivered or transported some way via a truck (unless you're looking out your window at a tree or something).
my trees were delivered by landscapers on a truck you insensitive clod!
close... I use steam engines, none of that new fangled "gaslight" stuff.
now where is my buggy whip.. i need to go out for some takeout.
this writeup explains it all.
After giving this a good thorough read when it was first published, I "fixed" my mom's box when she called me up by installing linux on it.
She is even happier now than she was before. Notices no difference what-soever.
When friends try to prop you for a windows cd, don't give it to them. Give them a linux install instead.