Re:Dapper is good, but it's not there yet.
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Ubuntu 6.06 Reviewed
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· Score: -1, Flamebait
If you want to get mp3 and video codecs quickly and easily, use Easy Ubuntu. That really is simple enough for Grandma!
Some versions of Windows XP now comes without Media Player as standard, so I guess those people have to search on the internet for both a media player and codecs. For people without a clue, the Ubuntu package manager should be a lot easier than telling people "Go to www.google.com, type "VLC media player" in the search bar, go to the first website on the list, then to the download page, download it, double-click on the.exe file you've just downloaded..."
Ubuntu is slightly different, and therefore I agree it's not as useful for people who have already gotten used to the silly way XP does things (ie: rely on people using a third-party search engine to find updates to critical third-party system applications). However, using this approach, everything is in the same place. It's more intuitive and it's much easier to update everything.
Have you ever tried installing XP on a system it did not come pre-installed on? Driver issues are often rampant- on an old laptop I booted into XP and the display was in 2 colours- the display drivers were long discontinued and unavailable anywhere. It kept blue-screening too. Ubuntu came along and my only trouble was the wireless network card.
As said in TFA, this virus is merely a proof of concept. Using the most simplistic expansion of the idea, imagine if it did this, say, every time you ran StarOffice. Fifty times. Every minute.
On a slightly less simplistic expansion, imagine if it downloaded something other than an image. A trojan, perhaps. Another virus that it saved instead of your currently-open document mydocument.doc.exe.
This is 2006, and these guys have seen Nintendo's press attention.
It'll be "Eoo", pronounced "You". Because the internet is all about you.
Then Livejournal will want to get in on the action, and they'll merge and call it "Eoola", pronounced "EULA". Then Sony will sue, claiming theft of brand identity and loss of profits.
I know it's petty, and I know it's grammatically anal, but when you can't spell the name of a country you're occupying, your point is watered-down somewhat.:(
"Mathematics" is the study of numerous mathematical practices. It's like studying "the arts", which does not simply account for fine art, but many other creative disciplines as well.
When the word was first truncated, the "s" remained to indicate that there were still many facets to the subject. The real question is where the word "math" came from. It was probably, in the same way as "colorize", changed for simplicity's sake without much thought.
Actually, the effects of the depletion of the ozone layer and global warming on each other is pretty circular- UVB destroys small phytoplankton in the Antarctic. This contributes to global warming [see HERE], as well as a collapse in the polar and sub-polar oceanic food supply. I also hope you appreciate that global warming helps to slow the repair of the ozone layer by raising the temperature of the stratosphere.
Just because you haven't been taught something, it doesn't mean it's wrong. And yes, the UVB is absorbed no matter *where* it's absorbed, but to be honest I'd rather it were absorbed higher up, and not by the micro-organisms that help to keep our climate stable.
In any case, the ozone disappearing and reappearing *is* cyclical, but most recent science takes it for granted that CFCs and our activities on earth are seriously affecting that pattern.
"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice."
I think I understand now. Those commie bastards in the open-source community are reverse-engineering justice and giving it away for free.
"it seems a little like Post Hoc to say that polar bears' drowning has anything to do with human activity"...
I can't understand why the parent was marked as insightful. To disregard evidence without even considering its implications is not scientific, intelligent or constructive. And it is definately not "insightful". Our actions, whilst maybe not being the sole cause of global warming, are undeniably contributing to it.
1. We are destroying the ozone layer through propagation of airborn chemicals, carbon compounds and CTCs, especially at the polar regions.
+ 2. The ozone layer helps control climate and global temperature, as well as soaking up much of the harmful UV light that causes amongst other things, skin cancer in humans.
+ 3. Your Other Factors.
= 4. More UVB in our atmosphere, faster global warming and unpredicatable climate change.
Please, people who refuse to acknowledge human responsibility are horribly destructive to the drive for "cleaning up human pollution" you seem to care about.
Speech recognition software is getting slightly better all the time using the old wave-analysis method. By looking at a waveform it is generally quite easy to deduce the behaviour of each part of a vocal system - this is (very simply put) how modern mobile phones work, by constructing a physical model and reproducing the sound on the other side with software. Is there really any need to implant electrodes in peoples' throats in order to measure the vibration in their vocal tracts? Moreover, is the result going to be any more accurate?
True, implanting things always means that you don't have to be next to a microphone. But you *do* need to be near the software, and the other person *does* need to be near a speaker. I'm sure the software is very impressive, but the front-end looks like a pointless excuse to follow a cyberpunk dream.
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If you want to get mp3 and video codecs quickly and easily, use Easy Ubuntu. That really is simple enough for Grandma! Some versions of Windows XP now comes without Media Player as standard, so I guess those people have to search on the internet for both a media player and codecs. For people without a clue, the Ubuntu package manager should be a lot easier than telling people "Go to www.google.com, type "VLC media player" in the search bar, go to the first website on the list, then to the download page, download it, double-click on the .exe file you've just downloaded..."
Ubuntu is slightly different, and therefore I agree it's not as useful for people who have already gotten used to the silly way XP does things (ie: rely on people using a third-party search engine to find updates to critical third-party system applications). However, using this approach, everything is in the same place. It's more intuitive and it's much easier to update everything.
Have you ever tried installing XP on a system it did not come pre-installed on? Driver issues are often rampant- on an old laptop I booted into XP and the display was in 2 colours- the display drivers were long discontinued and unavailable anywhere. It kept blue-screening too. Ubuntu came along and my only trouble was the wireless network card.
As said in TFA, this virus is merely a proof of concept. Using the most simplistic expansion of the idea, imagine if it did this, say, every time you ran StarOffice. Fifty times. Every minute. On a slightly less simplistic expansion, imagine if it downloaded something other than an image. A trojan, perhaps. Another virus that it saved instead of your currently-open document mydocument.doc.exe.
This is 2006, and these guys have seen Nintendo's press attention.
It'll be "Eoo", pronounced "You". Because the internet is all about you.
Then Livejournal will want to get in on the action, and they'll merge and call it "Eoola", pronounced "EULA". Then Sony will sue, claiming theft of brand identity and loss of profits.
I know it's petty, and I know it's grammatically anal, but when you can't spell the name of a country you're occupying, your point is watered-down somewhat. :(
"Mathematics" is the study of numerous mathematical practices. It's like studying "the arts", which does not simply account for fine art, but many other creative disciplines as well. When the word was first truncated, the "s" remained to indicate that there were still many facets to the subject. The real question is where the word "math" came from. It was probably, in the same way as "colorize", changed for simplicity's sake without much thought.
If you set your nickname to "never ending", you're bound to get physicists hassling you.
Actually, the effects of the depletion of the ozone layer and global warming on each other is pretty circular- UVB destroys small phytoplankton in the Antarctic. This contributes to global warming [see HERE], as well as a collapse in the polar and sub-polar oceanic food supply. I also hope you appreciate that global warming helps to slow the repair of the ozone layer by raising the temperature of the stratosphere. Just because you haven't been taught something, it doesn't mean it's wrong. And yes, the UVB is absorbed no matter *where* it's absorbed, but to be honest I'd rather it were absorbed higher up, and not by the micro-organisms that help to keep our climate stable. In any case, the ozone disappearing and reappearing *is* cyclical, but most recent science takes it for granted that CFCs and our activities on earth are seriously affecting that pattern.
"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice." I think I understand now. Those commie bastards in the open-source community are reverse-engineering justice and giving it away for free.
"it seems a little like Post Hoc to say that polar bears' drowning has anything to do with human activity"...
I can't understand why the parent was marked as insightful. To disregard evidence without even considering its implications is not scientific, intelligent or constructive. And it is definately not "insightful".
Our actions, whilst maybe not being the sole cause of global warming, are undeniably contributing to it.
1. We are destroying the ozone layer through propagation of airborn chemicals, carbon compounds and CTCs, especially at the polar regions.
+
2. The ozone layer helps control climate and global temperature, as well as soaking up much of the harmful UV light that causes amongst other things, skin cancer in humans.
+
3. Your Other Factors.
=
4. More UVB in our atmosphere, faster global warming and unpredicatable climate change.
Please, people who refuse to acknowledge human responsibility are horribly destructive to the drive for "cleaning up human pollution" you seem to care about.
Speech recognition software is getting slightly better all the time using the old wave-analysis method. By looking at a waveform it is generally quite easy to deduce the behaviour of each part of a vocal system - this is (very simply put) how modern mobile phones work, by constructing a physical model and reproducing the sound on the other side with software. Is there really any need to implant electrodes in peoples' throats in order to measure the vibration in their vocal tracts?
Moreover, is the result going to be any more accurate?
True, implanting things always means that you don't have to be next to a microphone. But you *do* need to be near the software, and the other person *does* need to be near a speaker.
I'm sure the software is very impressive, but the front-end looks like a pointless excuse to follow a cyberpunk dream.