There are different kinds of "people coming from windows". My girlfriend wants the computer to STFU and leave her alone to get her work done. She is perfectly happy with Gnome 2.32, which "just works" and doesn't ask her any frakking questions. I couldn't stand it's dull invariability, so my openSUSE sports KDE with 7 plasmoids on the desktop, app menu in top panel (XBar/Bespin), a dock on the left and another panel with various things on the right... She wouldn't stand such a mess:-)
I guess I suffer from the 'OSX envy' too, and therefore I chose the Bespin KDE style, which allows for the application menu in a plasmoid, that is placed in the top panel/bar. I love this feature on Macs and love it on my KDE too, as it saves the desktop space on my small & wide screen (11,6''). That I guess would not be possible without having most of the applications I ever need to use are bundled in. Contrary to what you present, I'm absolutely fine with them. (e.g. I write this comment in Kontact.) There are some downsides, but for me it's well worth it:)
Wow, we apparently inhabit completely different Multiverses. In my case, installing openSUSE on my lenovo laptop was almost as easy as it can only get.
1) download the installer
2) because the machine lacks cd, make a bootable usb pendrive (that was the only tricky part, took about 5 minutes to figure out)
3) insert pendrive, start computer, click OK, OK, OK, OK... restart into the perfectly running system
4) connect to the net with out-of-the-box working wifi and get me aaaaallllllll them softwares (way more comfortable than the application hunt on windows)
5) er, even the webcam worked right away...
Note: I'm no CS graduate, my field is linguistics, if anything at all
So, thank you, paid and nonpaid geniuses, and tame your trolls, OP
Not really. The language, yes. The culture and genetics, no. Culturally as well as genetically we remained in the most part Celtic, despite german (around 0 BC), slavic (around 600 AD) and many more invasions. Proofs: the most prevalent pattern of particular genes causing cystic fibrosis among Czechs matches most closely with Irish, Scots and other Celts; we produce the most beer per capita in the world, followed by Irishmen - on the contrary, Slavs drink vodka and likes.
Journalists ought to learn that science reporting is not like Entertainment or even Politics reporting. It doesn't really matter who said what, but only why they say and how they came to the conclusions. I'm not holding my breath though.
Rather journalist's bosses, I'd say. Curious people usually become journalists, but the bosses... ?
The earliest known tool use was to carve up a tasty critter. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that the natural diet for humans is vegetarian.
It's not so easy to define 'natural' as it seems. We are talking about a 'tool' use here.
For example, some clever crows in Japan use traffic to crack hard nuts. Chimps use 'tools' to kill each other. (Not that killing each other is not natural, but does natural mean OK?)
I am sorry to bother with my vegan propaganda, but when I think about this stuff, more and more interesting ethical questions appear.
For the record, I've already fallen victim to vegan propaganda.
I'd think the existence of canine and incisor teeth in humans would be enough to convince any reasonable person that were are evolved to be omnivorous.
Carefully with those claws of yours, you could scratch your keyboard;-)
Unlike our hunter forebears, people can eat meat every day because of the abstraction of late capitalism. I encourage every meat eater to take the life of the thing they want to eat, at least once in their lives. Look at the beast in the eyes, take its life and then eat parts of its body. A highly valuable dietary - and somehow even spiritual - reality check.
I second that. Factory farming is a proof that technology evolves dramatically faster then mankind.
Yes, I'm really happy to be a vegan.
Ex-act-ly so.
1) Animals communicate through emotions even between different species.
2) The illusion of human superiority is crumbling, hopefully.
3) I was quite afraid of becoming a vegan finally - after some 10 years of vegetarianism. But... it's really easy:-)
I do like to think that the animals that are slaughtered for my food suffer as little as possible, but I am not so naive as to think that they do not feel any fear or suffering. It's part of the price paid for the convenience of eating meat.
Most meat in western rich countries comes from factory farming. You don't want to know, how it looks in there... unless you are prepared to go vegan;-) Please, stop supporting factory farms... every omnivore can do so, I hope.
This is typical of "big science" that involves tons of people like experimental high energy versus "bench science" or "desk science" like everyone else.
... which will finally result into a breach of the critical mass of physicists per square kilometer.
???
Profit!
Well, I am using a wristphone for 2 months now. An old dream turned true, so to say.
It is this chinese thing, sports only GPRS, but was for about 200 Euro, which is quite a standard price for a phone here in Czech republic.
Calling through BT headset is OK, texting letter by letter on the touchscreen through letter recognition was a pain to learn, but now it's quite fine, though slower, and I never wrote no SMS-novels. I had no problem whatsoever with dialling numbers.
The battery holds 1 or 2 days, because it must be small and light, which is why they supply an extra batt, which I carry in my bag.
On the other hand, it takes just a few (like, 3?) hours to recharge each one of them.
No one gives a shit if you stop visiting Slashdot. I quite get your point in this case, but still - this bugger off if you don't like it approach should be used VERY seldom. (If at all..?).
The solution to drunk 'tiny-minded' people beating up innocent passers-by ought not necessarily be active (prosecuting these "idiots engaged in this kind of behaviour") but passive. Legalising ganja for instance.
I just don't believe that talking CCTV is a natural thing. I don't see even drunkness as natural, even though you can argue some animals do deliberately intoxicate themselves. My point is, this whole CCTV thing is solving of a consequence, not the cause. Solving consequences leads to NOT-solving of the causes, which produce more and/or stronger consequences, which are 'solved' more and more harshly...
The reason for this is in the syntax - in english you often say "MM DDth", with an optional "YYYY". And the natural languages, just like natural humans, tend very often to be illogic, hence all the gramatical "exceptions".
Most, even low-end and prepaid, cell phones do have at least lame cameras in my part of Europe, even the post-communist, IMO. And, some U.S. expats I've met here care much less about their phones compared to Europeans. (Not talking about Asia or Japan - now here I'm just guessing.)
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There are different kinds of "people coming from windows". My girlfriend wants the computer to STFU and leave her alone to get her work done. She is perfectly happy with Gnome 2.32, which "just works" and doesn't ask her any frakking questions. I couldn't stand it's dull invariability, so my openSUSE sports KDE with 7 plasmoids on the desktop, app menu in top panel (XBar/Bespin), a dock on the left and another panel with various things on the right... She wouldn't stand such a mess :-)
I guess I suffer from the 'OSX envy' too, and therefore I chose the Bespin KDE style, which allows for the application menu in a plasmoid, that is placed in the top panel/bar. I love this feature on Macs and love it on my KDE too, as it saves the desktop space on my small & wide screen (11,6''). That I guess would not be possible without having most of the applications I ever need to use are bundled in. Contrary to what you present, I'm absolutely fine with them. (e.g. I write this comment in Kontact.) There are some downsides, but for me it's well worth it :)
Wow, we apparently inhabit completely different Multiverses. In my case, installing openSUSE on my lenovo laptop was almost as easy as it can only get.
1) download the installer
2) because the machine lacks cd, make a bootable usb pendrive (that was the only tricky part, took about 5 minutes to figure out)
3) insert pendrive, start computer, click OK, OK, OK, OK... restart into the perfectly running system
4) connect to the net with out-of-the-box working wifi and get me aaaaallllllll them softwares (way more comfortable than the application hunt on windows)
5) er, even the webcam worked right away...
Note: I'm no CS graduate, my field is linguistics, if anything at all
So, thank you, paid and nonpaid geniuses, and tame your trolls, OP
whether the base was, after all, belong to they
FTFY
Not really. The language, yes. The culture and genetics, no. Culturally as well as genetically we remained in the most part Celtic, despite german (around 0 BC), slavic (around 600 AD) and many more invasions. Proofs: the most prevalent pattern of particular genes causing cystic fibrosis among Czechs matches most closely with Irish, Scots and other Celts; we produce the most beer per capita in the world, followed by Irishmen - on the contrary, Slavs drink vodka and likes.
Journalists ought to learn that science reporting is not like Entertainment or even Politics reporting. It doesn't really matter who said what, but only why they say and how they came to the conclusions. I'm not holding my breath though.
Rather journalist's bosses, I'd say. Curious people usually become journalists, but the bosses... ?
The earliest known tool use was to carve up a tasty critter. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that the natural diet for humans is vegetarian.
It's not so easy to define 'natural' as it seems. We are talking about a 'tool' use here.
For example, some clever crows in Japan use traffic to crack hard nuts. Chimps use 'tools' to kill each other. (Not that killing each other is not natural, but does natural mean OK?)
I am sorry to bother with my vegan propaganda, but when I think about this stuff, more and more interesting ethical questions appear.
For the record, I've already fallen victim to vegan propaganda.
I'd think the existence of canine and incisor teeth in humans would be enough to convince any reasonable person that were are evolved to be omnivorous.
Carefully with those claws of yours, you could scratch your keyboard ;-)
Unlike our hunter forebears, people can eat meat every day because of the abstraction of late capitalism. I encourage every meat eater to take the life of the thing they want to eat, at least once in their lives. Look at the beast in the eyes, take its life and then eat parts of its body. A highly valuable dietary - and somehow even spiritual - reality check.
I second that. Factory farming is a proof that technology evolves dramatically faster then mankind.
Yes, I'm really happy to be a vegan.
Yes, it really is abominable. Eating meat means putting innocents to death. But noone cares, because human is "superior", of course.
Ex-act-ly so. :-)
1) Animals communicate through emotions even between different species.
2) The illusion of human superiority is crumbling, hopefully.
3) I was quite afraid of becoming a vegan finally - after some 10 years of vegetarianism. But... it's really easy
I do like to think that the animals that are slaughtered for my food suffer as little as possible, but I am not so naive as to think that they do not feel any fear or suffering. It's part of the price paid for the convenience of eating meat.
Most meat in western rich countries comes from factory farming. You don't want to know, how it looks in there... unless you are prepared to go vegan ;-) Please, stop supporting factory farms... every omnivore can do so, I hope.
This is typical of "big science" that involves tons of people like experimental high energy versus "bench science" or "desk science" like everyone else.
... which will finally result into a breach of the critical mass of physicists per square kilometer.
???
Profit!
I have found a very interesting source of information about the poke-berries.
Geez. This is like people believing the USSR's Pravda back in the Cold War.
Wait, but "Pravda" means "The Truth" in Russian, how could you possibly NOT believe it?
Well, I am using a wristphone for 2 months now. An old dream turned true, so to say.
:)
It is this chinese thing, sports only GPRS, but was for about 200 Euro, which is quite a standard price for a phone here in Czech republic.
Calling through BT headset is OK, texting letter by letter on the touchscreen through letter recognition was a pain to learn, but now it's quite fine, though slower, and I never wrote no SMS-novels. I had no problem whatsoever with dialling numbers.
The battery holds 1 or 2 days, because it must be small and light, which is why they supply an extra batt, which I carry in my bag.
On the other hand, it takes just a few (like, 3?) hours to recharge each one of them.
Long story short, I'm quite happy with it
Link: http://www.alza.cz/fun-beat-cg8100-dual-sim-d125906.htm
Agreed, in my language - czech - there is a plethora of word endings and Google deals with it quite good. Since a few months ago, anyway.
The solution to drunk 'tiny-minded' people beating up innocent passers-by ought not necessarily be active (prosecuting these "idiots engaged in this kind of behaviour") but passive. Legalising ganja for instance.
I just don't believe that talking CCTV is a natural thing. I don't see even drunkness as natural, even though you can argue some animals do deliberately intoxicate themselves. My point is, this whole CCTV thing is solving of a consequence, not the cause. Solving consequences leads to NOT-solving of the causes, which produce more and/or stronger consequences, which are 'solved' more and more harshly...
And guess who benefits only?
Or what about 1 * 1?
0,8125 (+/-0,75)?
Wow.
I never excelled at math.. but if I get this correct, then 4 * 1200 = 4825 (+/-800).
Consider this:
4,5*1250 = 5625
3,5*1150 = 4025
Or maybe it's just I've used that Windows calculator...
The reason for this is in the syntax - in english you often say "MM DDth", with an optional "YYYY". And the natural languages, just like natural humans, tend very often to be illogic, hence all the gramatical "exceptions".
Most, even low-end and prepaid, cell phones do have at least lame cameras in my part of Europe, even the post-communist, IMO. And, some U.S. expats I've met here care much less about their phones compared to Europeans. (Not talking about Asia or Japan - now here I'm just guessing.)
Just how do you want to contact them given they DO know you are just a goddam spammer?