I have Debian on my Thinkpad T61 that I use for my primary machine and the integrated Intel card is not something I'd be playing games on so the default driver is all I really need. I do have an Ubuntu box dual booting WinXP for gaming with my nVidia 8800GT in it but I haven't booted into Ubuntu in a while because the only thing I use that machine for is gaming. I don't participate in the popularity contest on either box though.
Same here. I recently moved from Ubuntu to Debian. I eneded up moving some of the options around (like putting the Application\System menu entries where Ubuntu has them and put the power button next to the clock in the upper right. There are some things Ubuntu does that I do like. I just realized that I still need to figure out what the Pidgin compatible drop down is that 8.10 has on it's upper bar though.
I did it all the wrong way though... I don't suggest that anyone replace the default repositories in Ubuntu 8.10 with Debian Lenny Experimental. The part I love about the Linux mentality in general though is that I just had to wipe all the folders but/home, install Debian and when I booted up the first time, I retained all my settings, email, bookmarks, window colors...
I've always thought it would be a good idea to build up a website that listed a bill summary and allow people to vote themselves on the site and it matched them up with politicians with the similar voting records. It really wouldn't take a long time for people to log in, read a summary and vote and they could even read the full bill if they wanted. If the system was robust enough, you could send people an email with the summary and a link they can click on to vote yes or no. Most people sit down and read through email on a regular basis now and clicking a link in an email to vote wouldn't be too bad I don't think.
The only thing that would concern me is earmarked bills. So, I'd first want to see the ability to earmark removed.
You couldn't really use it for popularity polling since there would be no real good way to enforce sign up of only registered citizens (unless it was government run and required a Social Security number?)
May parents live in an old (1930s?) farm house that used knob and tube wiring in parts of it. They had a leak in the roof one year and the electric bill skyrocketed because the blown in paper insulation got wet and allowed electricity to transfer through it at high resistance. It's amazing the fuse didn't blow or the house didn't burn down actually. The electric bill went from $130 to about $50 a month. My dad re-wired that part of the house after that. Something he probably should have done earlier. He always complained about the energy costs and was trying to track down what was using all the electricity.
I just selected all the files/folders on the root of C except the 2.24 GB (2,411,175,936 bytes) swap, and it came back with 7.60 GB (8,162,037,760 bytes) of size on disk. So, either Explorer is counting the symlinks twice or there is some kind of compression going on.
You cannot. I created a new notepad document, saved it as test.txt and pinned it to the task bar. I then closed it and launched the icon I just pinned and it opened a new empty Notepad.
Yeah, already did that, but with the new Start menu, lack of classic start menu option, and the inability to create quick launch menus really eats into my usage. There are more things I dislike (like the inability to do anything with the back/forward bar in the windows like you used to be able to do when they were toolbars) but since Microsoft must keep changing their OS for some reason, I have to find ways around these things to bring back the usability.
Yes, I found that out when I installed it two days ago before the article was posted. Perhaps you'd like to re-read my post and realize that I wrote "2 days ago," and not "2 hours ago after reading the article."
I just mounted the 32-bit install disk, let it do it's thing and the only thing I've done since then is to change the themes and try to strip out some of the fluff window features. I haven't deleted anything, nor added anything (besides a network and video driver.) I used a dynamic disk file in VirtualBox and it's sitting at 4.9G right now.
I have it running in vBox as well, and I noticed the same as you. That's why I was curious. It seems to require more resources (bigger drive partition 4.7 XP with some smaller apps installed - 4.9 Win7 bare install) and requires 1.5G more RAM.
I loaded it up and spent 2 days trying to make it as usable as Win2K... It's still not quite there. All the config options are buried further in, the interface has gotten in my way (than out of my way) and I can't seem to figure out how to restore the Classic Start Menu (or make the new one function as well.)
There are a lot of people that use Windows for games only (myself included.) I've luckily been able to keep my XP license viable and avoid Vista. With the current "hype" around Windows 7 though, I have a feeling I'll have to figure out how to make it as much like Win2K as I can just to bear with starting it up and not use a tone of resources with window decoration and needless services.
If that were the case, then everything is energy. All energy interacts with other energy and creates what we believe to be matter by deflecting different amounts of energy. A steel plate is "energy" that cooperates in such a way to deflect a grouping of energy called a lead bullet and we are nothing more than energy (and not "space dust".) There would be no matter. By what you are telling me, matter is just a collection of energy that deflects or absorbs other energy. Nothing more than just plain old energy.
In the case of a wooden door, it's a collection of energy that deflects energy that composes a person's skin and reflects certain types of light energy giving it a brown color to our eyes and looking like a solid door. It's there, as a grouping of energy, that we cannot instantly "dissipate" with the tools available simply by touching it. We could sink it in water and let the collision of water energy slowly degrade the bonds in the door and let loose the energy to be re-used somewhere else, but it would still be energy that once formed a door. What makes it re-bond to other wood energy and not iron or steel energy? (I'm talking generalities here...Wood is made from molecules of certain types of known chemicals... are these molecules simply patterned energy and not teeny atomic particles orbiting a nucleus?)
Why can energy not be a particle orbiting another particle creating "energy"? Why could there not be one distinct building block "item" for all this to occur?
** I have used particle as mixed meaning a few terms in here, not on purpose, but because that's the only thing I know to call them.
What's going to happen to this world when GenC# programmers replace the old guard and they don't have the least clue about what is going on inside the computer that makes the magic happen?
It will be rewritten in C# because it's easier for the developer, not because it was needed. Programming is moving to the planned obsolescence route. Code is written once and disposed of.
"Just make it fast, we'll probably replace it in a few years anyway."
As far as systems programming, it's Microsoft's dream. They control the underlying system and everyone plays the garbage in garbage out cycle in their environment. It's good for their business because developers will look to MS for the next big thing and have to buy their next system with MS Software on it in order to work right.
*I use Microsoft because they are currently the big dog profiting, but it could be IBM, Adobe, anyone...
How can you push/propel something if there's nothing to push against? Pretty much everything I read about energy states that it requires a medium to travel in, meaning (to me) that energy is the movement of mass (or chain reaction of mass pushing mass, thus resistance, degradation, et al.) and not an object itself.
That would mean, to me, that outer space is just a collection of tiny particles that have tiny mass and no inherit movement. Kind of like a really light (as in near weightless) soup. Objects traveling through space would push these tiny molecules out of the way momentarily as light travels at such a speed that it never deflects because of it's momentum.
Err, I'm getting off track, but I don't buy that energy and matter are separate entities. I have no proof, scientific study, or experiments I can try to prove it with, but I haven't really sat down to try. I just can't fathom that we are right. I don't know why.
None of them involve adding features for feature's sake and making everyone relearn the most prominent OS on the market by removing those features that people are used to. If MS would have made an "easy button" that turned the interface back to a more sane time without puffy windows and such, then I'd be happy. If they split the kernel/drivers from the interface and let me run the Win2K interface on the Win7 kernel, then I'd be happy. If they let me run the latest games on the Windows I have now instead of force upgrading, then I'd be happy.
More so, if they just included File Explorer from 2K, I'd be happy. Not as happy as bringing back the classic start menu as well, but at least I could sort of get some productive use out of the computer.
I was thinking more so that light has a very tiny mass that we cannot measure at this time. I just don't buy that something has 0 mass. If it did, it would be nothing.
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I have Debian on my Thinkpad T61 that I use for my primary machine and the integrated Intel card is not something I'd be playing games on so the default driver is all I really need. I do have an Ubuntu box dual booting WinXP for gaming with my nVidia 8800GT in it but I haven't booted into Ubuntu in a while because the only thing I use that machine for is gaming. I don't participate in the popularity contest on either box though.
Same here. I recently moved from Ubuntu to Debian. I eneded up moving some of the options around (like putting the Application\System menu entries where Ubuntu has them and put the power button next to the clock in the upper right. There are some things Ubuntu does that I do like. I just realized that I still need to figure out what the Pidgin compatible drop down is that 8.10 has on it's upper bar though.
I did it all the wrong way though... I don't suggest that anyone replace the default repositories in Ubuntu 8.10 with Debian Lenny Experimental. The part I love about the Linux mentality in general though is that I just had to wipe all the folders but /home, install Debian and when I booted up the first time, I retained all my settings, email, bookmarks, window colors...
I've always thought it would be a good idea to build up a website that listed a bill summary and allow people to vote themselves on the site and it matched them up with politicians with the similar voting records. It really wouldn't take a long time for people to log in, read a summary and vote and they could even read the full bill if they wanted. If the system was robust enough, you could send people an email with the summary and a link they can click on to vote yes or no. Most people sit down and read through email on a regular basis now and clicking a link in an email to vote wouldn't be too bad I don't think.
The only thing that would concern me is earmarked bills. So, I'd first want to see the ability to earmark removed.
You couldn't really use it for popularity polling since there would be no real good way to enforce sign up of only registered citizens (unless it was government run and required a Social Security number?)
You are free to roam about the country, you know.. ;)
At least for now... Those darn laws make it hard to control people.
May parents live in an old (1930s?) farm house that used knob and tube wiring in parts of it. They had a leak in the roof one year and the electric bill skyrocketed because the blown in paper insulation got wet and allowed electricity to transfer through it at high resistance. It's amazing the fuse didn't blow or the house didn't burn down actually. The electric bill went from $130 to about $50 a month. My dad re-wired that part of the house after that. Something he probably should have done earlier. He always complained about the energy costs and was trying to track down what was using all the electricity.
...a separate web server for each page request.
They are so extreme that they provide enough computers to server one page of HTML, then they throw it away.
I just selected all the files/folders on the root of C except the 2.24 GB (2,411,175,936 bytes) swap, and it came back with 7.60 GB (8,162,037,760 bytes) of size on disk. So, either Explorer is counting the symlinks twice or there is some kind of compression going on.
You cannot. I created a new notepad document, saved it as test.txt and pinned it to the task bar. I then closed it and launched the icon I just pinned and it opened a new empty Notepad.
Yeah, already did that, but with the new Start menu, lack of classic start menu option, and the inability to create quick launch menus really eats into my usage. There are more things I dislike (like the inability to do anything with the back/forward bar in the windows like you used to be able to do when they were toolbars) but since Microsoft must keep changing their OS for some reason, I have to find ways around these things to bring back the usability.
Yes, I found that out when I installed it two days ago before the article was posted. Perhaps you'd like to re-read my post and realize that I wrote "2 days ago," and not "2 hours ago after reading the article."
I just mounted the 32-bit install disk, let it do it's thing and the only thing I've done since then is to change the themes and try to strip out some of the fluff window features. I haven't deleted anything, nor added anything (besides a network and video driver.) I used a dynamic disk file in VirtualBox and it's sitting at 4.9G right now.
I have it running in vBox as well, and I noticed the same as you. That's why I was curious. It seems to require more resources (bigger drive partition 4.7 XP with some smaller apps installed - 4.9 Win7 bare install) and requires 1.5G more RAM.
I loaded it up and spent 2 days trying to make it as usable as Win2K... It's still not quite there. All the config options are buried further in, the interface has gotten in my way (than out of my way) and I can't seem to figure out how to restore the Classic Start Menu (or make the new one function as well.)
Oh please don't equate that taskbar to Gnome-like. It's really NOTHING like Gnome's bar except that it's square.
I hope 31 isn't old, because I felt the EXACT same way (except the optimism part.)
Runs faster, or feels faster?
There are a lot of people that use Windows for games only (myself included.) I've luckily been able to keep my XP license viable and avoid Vista. With the current "hype" around Windows 7 though, I have a feeling I'll have to figure out how to make it as much like Win2K as I can just to bear with starting it up and not use a tone of resources with window decoration and needless services.
The base install (32-bit) is 4.9G... you'd have very little space left for other apps without stripping it down.
If that were the case, then everything is energy. All energy interacts with other energy and creates what we believe to be matter by deflecting different amounts of energy. A steel plate is "energy" that cooperates in such a way to deflect a grouping of energy called a lead bullet and we are nothing more than energy (and not "space dust".) There would be no matter. By what you are telling me, matter is just a collection of energy that deflects or absorbs other energy. Nothing more than just plain old energy.
In the case of a wooden door, it's a collection of energy that deflects energy that composes a person's skin and reflects certain types of light energy giving it a brown color to our eyes and looking like a solid door. It's there, as a grouping of energy, that we cannot instantly "dissipate" with the tools available simply by touching it. We could sink it in water and let the collision of water energy slowly degrade the bonds in the door and let loose the energy to be re-used somewhere else, but it would still be energy that once formed a door. What makes it re-bond to other wood energy and not iron or steel energy? (I'm talking generalities here...Wood is made from molecules of certain types of known chemicals... are these molecules simply patterned energy and not teeny atomic particles orbiting a nucleus?)
Why can energy not be a particle orbiting another particle creating "energy"? Why could there not be one distinct building block "item" for all this to occur?
** I have used particle as mixed meaning a few terms in here, not on purpose, but because that's the only thing I know to call them.
What's going to happen to this world when GenC# programmers replace the old guard and they don't have the least clue about what is going on inside the computer that makes the magic happen?
It will be rewritten in C# because it's easier for the developer, not because it was needed. Programming is moving to the planned obsolescence route. Code is written once and disposed of.
"Just make it fast, we'll probably replace it in a few years anyway."
As far as systems programming, it's Microsoft's dream. They control the underlying system and everyone plays the garbage in garbage out cycle in their environment. It's good for their business because developers will look to MS for the next big thing and have to buy their next system with MS Software on it in order to work right.
*I use Microsoft because they are currently the big dog profiting, but it could be IBM, Adobe, anyone...
How can you push/propel something if there's nothing to push against? Pretty much everything I read about energy states that it requires a medium to travel in, meaning (to me) that energy is the movement of mass (or chain reaction of mass pushing mass, thus resistance, degradation, et al.) and not an object itself.
That would mean, to me, that outer space is just a collection of tiny particles that have tiny mass and no inherit movement. Kind of like a really light (as in near weightless) soup. Objects traveling through space would push these tiny molecules out of the way momentarily as light travels at such a speed that it never deflects because of it's momentum.
Err, I'm getting off track, but I don't buy that energy and matter are separate entities. I have no proof, scientific study, or experiments I can try to prove it with, but I haven't really sat down to try. I just can't fathom that we are right. I don't know why.
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There's all kinds of ways to please me.
None of them involve adding features for feature's sake and making everyone relearn the most prominent OS on the market by removing those features that people are used to. If MS would have made an "easy button" that turned the interface back to a more sane time without puffy windows and such, then I'd be happy. If they split the kernel/drivers from the interface and let me run the Win2K interface on the Win7 kernel, then I'd be happy. If they let me run the latest games on the Windows I have now instead of force upgrading, then I'd be happy.
More so, if they just included File Explorer from 2K, I'd be happy. Not as happy as bringing back the classic start menu as well, but at least I could sort of get some productive use out of the computer.
I was thinking more so that light has a very tiny mass that we cannot measure at this time. I just don't buy that something has 0 mass. If it did, it would be nothing.
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