Just because energy is being focused in one area does not mean that all other areas are being ignored.
In fact, as we all know, neither Iraq nor Africa are being ignored.
I always hate these types of arguments. They rely on the assumption that any person, government, or whatever else can only do one thing at a time and that all energy and monies are poured into that one thing.
In truth, however, this particular issue is one of importance to many Americans, and therefore it seems appropriate that the government would take it up.
Could someone post a link to the place where we can submit a comment (I mean, other than Slashdot. I don't think the government takes official notice of Slashdot comments).
IE and FF do not pass the Acid2 Test. (It's hard to say which one failed worse--all I know is there were body parts and blood spatter everywhere. I don't know whether more blood equates with failing worse)
That's a nice banner ad in your screen shot. I remember those.
I'm not sure I understand what "ad" you're talking about. (not only does Opera have built in a feature similar to adblock, you can even use Adblock's list of blocked addresses. However, Opera doesn't come with this list by default. But then again--FF doesn't come with Adblock at all by default)
Taking cues from the other posters, I tried "battling" the same searches they did but adding quotation marks around the phrases. (I did them all in "googlefight" because it required less typing)
"study finding xp more secure than vista" -- 0 results "study finding vista more secure than xp" -- 0 results
"vista more secure than xp" -- 1820 results (note I changed "then" to "than." It's amazing what differences correct spelling can make) "xp more secure than vista" -- 2 results
Then I wondered how these results jived with a real google search:
"study finding xp more secure than vista" -- 0 results "study finding vista more secure than xp" -- 0 results
"vista more secure than xp" -- 1690 results "xp more secure than vista" -- 2 results
But here's what I really found interesting (I searched again using "than" and "then":
"vista more secure than xp" -- 1690 results "vista more secure then xp" -- 3 results
"xp more secure than vista" -- 2 results "xp more secure then vista" -- 131 results!
Seems excessive to me. Do snail mail scammers get this much time?
I get junk mail from credit card companies all the time. Many times they put the junk in envelopes that look official--turns out it's just some trash trying to get me to shell out money unwisely. Doesn't seem all that different from spam to me.
Also--the opt-out thing for credit card invites (turns out you can ask them to stop) didn't work 100%. It slowed them down considerably, but I still get stuff from credit card companies. And then there are insurance companies, and grocery stores...
I personally have a 3 and a half year old Dell D400 laptop with the Intell 855GM integrated graphics card. It runs Beryl just fine. I've switched to Compiz for the latest rendition of Ubuntu and that works fine too.
I'm sure the card can't handly anywhere near whatmost nVidia cards can, but the Intel card definitely handles the basic eyecandy without problems.
Just a note--"rape charges are rapidly increasing" implies that the police actually are pursuing the rapists. An unpursued rapist does not get charged. Charges are filed after the rapist is pursued. Accordingly, this would mean that the police are just doing more--they're both increasing their work on rapes and on nerds. (in all fairness it could mean that there are more charges because there are more rapes. The article isn't clear as to how the increased rate of rape charges compares to the rate of rapes) I was just noting that more rape charges definitely does not imply the police got lazy and decided to go after nerds instead of rapists--that was just your misunderstanding of what it means for rape charges to increase.
I heard Ubuntu was planning to upgrade to Ext4 for Feisty, and then it fell through, and instead they were planning on Ext4 to be available as a patch approximately the same time Feisty was released. Is Ext3cow the change that Ubuntu was planning to impliment? (I realize Ext4 is different from Ext3cow, but I'm wondering if Ubuntu's getting this as an automatic update)
"Preppy school kids"? How about (underpaid) professors, and students at random; he said he has a thing against "rich kids," but he didn't pick out anyone in particular like the Columbine killings were. In fact, VT is a state school, with relatively affordable tuition (Cho was a full time student, and his parents are far from wealthy), and the chances that the deceased were "preppy school kids" is unlikely.
Your comparison to Iraq is silly, has nothing to do with the parent, and looks like something some heartless flock with a purely political mindset would say.
Last; I find it amazing you called the parent a "troller" given your disgusting comment.
I totally agree--this would only work in real business if the internet was always available everywhere. It's not. And networks will probably just never be that reliable.
It's like the Windows Live Email application (whatever it's called). It's a standalone application but requires a web connection to work (it actually downloads your emails, but authenticates via the internet when you logon--assuming this hasn't changed post beta--so if you don't have the internet, you can't sign on, and can't look at your emails you've downloaded). Since I can't look at my stuff except when hooked up to the internet on that program, I won't use that crappy application.
My understanding was that everyone knew customers wanted music without DRM...ummm you'd have to be completely stupid to think customers would want it, considering it provides them absolutely no value--I think the bigger deal was that the copyright owners wanted DRM, and the assumption was that the desires of the copyright owners overrode the desires of the customer from a moneymaking perspective.
That's a good point; however, I still think the chances of this happening are such a great amount smaller than the chances of it happening from one father--because the number of people having sex with multiple partners within a matter of a few hours is far far smaller than the number of people having sex with just one partner. Combine that with the fact that even if a person did have sex with multiple partners, and two sperm did fertilize one egg, there's a good chance both sperm will come from the same male. Given these things making the chances of dual insemination by multiple partners lower than the chances of multiple insemination from a single partner, I would have to say its real world chances of happening are approximately zilch (given also that this is the first recorded instance of this happening with one partner).
1) The article contains no language implying that the egg was fertilized by sperm from two different males. That was your own misinterpretation. The reason, by the way, that it would be impossible for two different fathers to fetilize the same egg in a human is due to the same factors making it unlikely for it to happen with one father--the egg only lets in one sperm at a time. The sperm would have to reach the egg at the same time. Only a porn star could receive sperm from two different males in a small enough period of time to make your idea happen. If this is this rare with one father, then consider it essentially impossible with two fathers.
2) you say that multiple insemination is rare, but "known to happen."
Allow me to refer you to the article:
a previously unreported way for twins to come about
it's extremely unlikely that we'll ever see another case
Prior to this report, multiple insemination of a human egg was only thought to be theoretically possible--it wasn't "known to happen." That is why this story is notable. Female cats and dogs, on the other hand, are known to be able to commonly give birth to a single litter containing offspring from several males, because no similar cortical reaction occurs upon insemination.
I thought I would note why this doesn't happen all the time in humans (in some mammals it is common for an egg to be able to be penetrated by more than one sperm).
According to my anatomy textbook, after the spem digests its way through the zona pellucida:
The plasma membranes of the sperm and oocyte then fuse, and the sperm nucleus is engulfed by the oocyte's cytoplasm. This fusion induces the cortical reaction, wherin granules in the oocyte secrete enzymes into the extracellular space beneath the zona pellucida. These enzymes destroy the sperm receptors on the zona pellucida, preventing any other sperm from binding to and entering the egg.
That's very interesting--is there a way to "turn on" the benefits of Upstart in 6.10? I haven't seen anything in the Forums.
As for it not being listed in the release notes, I'm hoping that maybe they just thought it was too obvious to note; or maybe the newer release notes are just an addition to the earlier releases (so, Herd 2 would mention the stuff that was not in Herd 1).
I say this because I also notice the Beta release notes don't say what version of the kernel is in use for Fiesty, whereas Herd 1 said.19 was being used, with plans to use.20, along with ext4(?!).
When I went out to take advantage of the article's suggestions, I found that, according to this thread in the Ubuntu Forums that Ubuntu 6.10 already uses Upstart.
I did used the "profile" command in my bootup once, after reading about it in another article recently. So I guess my Ubuntu is booting about as fast as it can (unless I have useless processes starting up. I'm still trying to figure that out--I'm a noobie).
I don't know about most of these things, Opera, however, is my browser of choice, and I found that Automatix installs it very easily.
This does bring up another usability issue, however--new Ubuntu users usually end up needing to add repositories (well, everyone needs to add repositories usually; it's just that new users do as well, and it's more complicated for them).
My wife attends a small school in Virginia called Southern Virginia University, where she is currently taking her second class from "Professor Card" (American Fiction; the first class was something about writing short stories).
My wife has told me that he has mentioned in class once or twice his problems with turning Ender's Game into a movie--the movie companies won't do it his way. He actually graduated in theater, and seems to have some idea of how this whole "directing" thing works--he recently directed an adaption of the Taming of the Shrew at SVU, which was probably the best play done at the school in a long time (and it isn't often at SVU that you hear a director tell a person during an audition, "I'll call you if I need a lesbian lover.").
So, anyway, he has supposedly been in talks more seriously recently about making an Ender's Game movie, but, I think it'll be a while. My wife tells me that OSC finally found a producer that will let him write the script and choose the actors, and he has been working on that. She doesn't follow all that stuff too closely--neither she nor I are fans of Ender's Game (i.e. she mentioned that he knows who he wants to play Ender, but doesn't remember the actor's name).
I'm quite new to Linux, but decided to try out Ubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy). I dual boot, and have been for about a year now because I have to use Windows mainly, for school.
I found the ubuntu forums to be very helpful, and I also found the ubuntu guide (www.ubuntuguide.org) to be extremely helpful for the basic things that a new user would run into.
As noted in these comments, you will need to get to know the console (command line) more so than needed in Windows. However, I have now found that I prefer it for many things. The other thing you'll need to get used to is not having root user privileges for everything you do, meaning if you want to do something not mundane (and sometimes even mundane things), you'll need to give yourself root privileges for that action (which in ubuntu is most easily done by typing "sudo" in the console before your command).
I feel like I've become real familiar with how everything works by trying to add fancy things to the user interface (like a rotating cube desktop). Working on those fancy things, which is sometimes difficult (but easier now than it used to be) gave me the understanding I need such that doing all the basic stuff is now absolutely no problem. The forums and Ubuntu guide got me there.
I will note, though, it is not like windows. It can't be--you just can't have it be as secure as Ubuntu and as easy to use as Windows (I'm sure that's why Windows is so hole-ridden; it was all in the name of useability). On the other hand, Linux really is a lot easier to use than it used to be, has good support, and can do things Windows can't (I really think my rotating cube desktop is awesome).
Here's how I view it--these big corporations with lots of IP and money to spend traditionally have fought hard over seemingly small IP issues. It's much like a game it seems, with one company choosing to infringe a little bit on another company's IP knowing ahead of time how it's going to argue in court, and then the court irons things out. There are tons of example of this, and the reason is because it adds up to millions of dollars. And it really is much like a game to these companies--"let's see what I can get away with."
The problem is that the RIAA is now playing the game against regular people who don't have wads of cash to throw at this. They aren't playing the game fair.
I think this is why the RIAA is easily comparable to a bully--they aren't picking on someone their own size.
Totally agreed; I think much greater weight should be given to the amount of time it takes for a company to fix severe problems than the amount of time it takes for the company to fix the lesser problems.
I didn't read the article too thoroughly, but I didn't see any note of the average amount of time it took the companies to fix the severe problems (of course, it's tough to "average" the Mac's one severe problem...and Red Hat's isn't far behind). I think this would be very useful data.
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Just because energy is being focused in one area does not mean that all other areas are being ignored.
In fact, as we all know, neither Iraq nor Africa are being ignored.
I always hate these types of arguments. They rely on the assumption that any person, government, or whatever else can only do one thing at a time and that all energy and monies are poured into that one thing.
In truth, however, this particular issue is one of importance to many Americans, and therefore it seems appropriate that the government would take it up.
Could someone post a link to the place where we can submit a comment (I mean, other than Slashdot. I don't think the government takes official notice of Slashdot comments).
IE and FF do not pass the Acid2 Test. (It's hard to say which one failed worse--all I know is there were body parts and blood spatter everywhere. I don't know whether more blood equates with failing worse)
Opera, Konquerer, and Safari pass.
I'm not sure I understand what "ad" you're talking about. (not only does Opera have built in a feature similar to adblock, you can even use Adblock's list of blocked addresses. However, Opera doesn't come with this list by default. But then again--FF doesn't come with Adblock at all by default)
Taking cues from the other posters, I tried "battling" the same searches they did but adding quotation marks around the phrases. (I did them all in "googlefight" because it required less typing)
"study finding xp more secure than vista" -- 0 results
"study finding vista more secure than xp" -- 0 results
"vista more secure than xp" -- 1820 results (note I changed "then" to "than." It's amazing what differences correct spelling can make)
"xp more secure than vista" -- 2 results
Then I wondered how these results jived with a real google search:
"study finding xp more secure than vista" -- 0 results
"study finding vista more secure than xp" -- 0 results
"vista more secure than xp" -- 1690 results
"xp more secure than vista" -- 2 results
But here's what I really found interesting (I searched again using "than" and "then":
"vista more secure than xp" -- 1690 results
"vista more secure then xp" -- 3 results
"xp more secure than vista" -- 2 results
"xp more secure then vista" -- 131 results!
Seems excessive to me. Do snail mail scammers get this much time?
I get junk mail from credit card companies all the time. Many times they put the junk in envelopes that look official--turns out it's just some trash trying to get me to shell out money unwisely. Doesn't seem all that different from spam to me.
Also--the opt-out thing for credit card invites (turns out you can ask them to stop) didn't work 100%. It slowed them down considerably, but I still get stuff from credit card companies. And then there are insurance companies, and grocery stores...
I personally have a 3 and a half year old Dell D400 laptop with the Intell 855GM integrated graphics card. It runs Beryl just fine. I've switched to Compiz for the latest rendition of Ubuntu and that works fine too.
I'm sure the card can't handly anywhere near whatmost nVidia cards can, but the Intel card definitely handles the basic eyecandy without problems.
Just a note--"rape charges are rapidly increasing" implies that the police actually are pursuing the rapists. An unpursued rapist does not get charged. Charges are filed after the rapist is pursued. Accordingly, this would mean that the police are just doing more--they're both increasing their work on rapes and on nerds. (in all fairness it could mean that there are more charges because there are more rapes. The article isn't clear as to how the increased rate of rape charges compares to the rate of rapes) I was just noting that more rape charges definitely does not imply the police got lazy and decided to go after nerds instead of rapists--that was just your misunderstanding of what it means for rape charges to increase.
I heard Ubuntu was planning to upgrade to Ext4 for Feisty, and then it fell through, and instead they were planning on Ext4 to be available as a patch approximately the same time Feisty was released. Is Ext3cow the change that Ubuntu was planning to impliment? (I realize Ext4 is different from Ext3cow, but I'm wondering if Ubuntu's getting this as an automatic update)
Wow...a gamer much?
"Preppy school kids"? How about (underpaid) professors, and students at random; he said he has a thing against "rich kids," but he didn't pick out anyone in particular like the Columbine killings were. In fact, VT is a state school, with relatively affordable tuition (Cho was a full time student, and his parents are far from wealthy), and the chances that the deceased were "preppy school kids" is unlikely.
Your comparison to Iraq is silly, has nothing to do with the parent, and looks like something some heartless flock with a purely political mindset would say.
Last; I find it amazing you called the parent a "troller" given your disgusting comment.
What's wrong with using the update manager?
It used to be that the apt method was:
"apt-get dist-upgrade" or something close to that. That method doesn't seem to be recommended for this upgrade.
I totally agree--this would only work in real business if the internet was always available everywhere. It's not. And networks will probably just never be that reliable.
It's like the Windows Live Email application (whatever it's called). It's a standalone application but requires a web connection to work (it actually downloads your emails, but authenticates via the internet when you logon--assuming this hasn't changed post beta--so if you don't have the internet, you can't sign on, and can't look at your emails you've downloaded). Since I can't look at my stuff except when hooked up to the internet on that program, I won't use that crappy application.
My understanding was that everyone knew customers wanted music without DRM...ummm you'd have to be completely stupid to think customers would want it, considering it provides them absolutely no value--I think the bigger deal was that the copyright owners wanted DRM, and the assumption was that the desires of the copyright owners overrode the desires of the customer from a moneymaking perspective.
Offtopic? This is definitely on topic. Where'd my mod points go?
That's a good point; however, I still think the chances of this happening are such a great amount smaller than the chances of it happening from one father--because the number of people having sex with multiple partners within a matter of a few hours is far far smaller than the number of people having sex with just one partner. Combine that with the fact that even if a person did have sex with multiple partners, and two sperm did fertilize one egg, there's a good chance both sperm will come from the same male. Given these things making the chances of dual insemination by multiple partners lower than the chances of multiple insemination from a single partner, I would have to say its real world chances of happening are approximately zilch (given also that this is the first recorded instance of this happening with one partner).
1) The article contains no language implying that the egg was fertilized by sperm from two different males. That was your own misinterpretation. The reason, by the way, that it would be impossible for two different fathers to fetilize the same egg in a human is due to the same factors making it unlikely for it to happen with one father--the egg only lets in one sperm at a time. The sperm would have to reach the egg at the same time. Only a porn star could receive sperm from two different males in a small enough period of time to make your idea happen. If this is this rare with one father, then consider it essentially impossible with two fathers.
2) you say that multiple insemination is rare, but "known to happen."
Allow me to refer you to the article:
Prior to this report, multiple insemination of a human egg was only thought to be theoretically possible--it wasn't "known to happen." That is why this story is notable. Female cats and dogs, on the other hand, are known to be able to commonly give birth to a single litter containing offspring from several males, because no similar cortical reaction occurs upon insemination.
According to my anatomy textbook, after the spem digests its way through the zona pellucida:
A search on youtube for 'boot' and 'ssd' resulted in this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb1w3_KySG8
and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBhj56gIUuA
Perhaps that's what you're looking for.
That's very interesting--is there a way to "turn on" the benefits of Upstart in 6.10? I haven't seen anything in the Forums.
.19 was being used, with plans to use .20, along with ext4(?!).
As for it not being listed in the release notes, I'm hoping that maybe they just thought it was too obvious to note; or maybe the newer release notes are just an addition to the earlier releases (so, Herd 2 would mention the stuff that was not in Herd 1).
I say this because I also notice the Beta release notes don't say what version of the kernel is in use for Fiesty, whereas Herd 1 said
When I went out to take advantage of the article's suggestions, I found that, according to this thread in the Ubuntu Forums that Ubuntu 6.10 already uses Upstart.
I did used the "profile" command in my bootup once, after reading about it in another article recently. So I guess my Ubuntu is booting about as fast as it can (unless I have useless processes starting up. I'm still trying to figure that out--I'm a noobie).
I don't know about most of these things, Opera, however, is my browser of choice, and I found that Automatix installs it very easily.
This does bring up another usability issue, however--new Ubuntu users usually end up needing to add repositories (well, everyone needs to add repositories usually; it's just that new users do as well, and it's more complicated for them).
good point.
My wife attends a small school in Virginia called Southern Virginia University, where she is currently taking her second class from "Professor Card" (American Fiction; the first class was something about writing short stories).
My wife has told me that he has mentioned in class once or twice his problems with turning Ender's Game into a movie--the movie companies won't do it his way. He actually graduated in theater, and seems to have some idea of how this whole "directing" thing works--he recently directed an adaption of the Taming of the Shrew at SVU, which was probably the best play done at the school in a long time (and it isn't often at SVU that you hear a director tell a person during an audition, "I'll call you if I need a lesbian lover.").
So, anyway, he has supposedly been in talks more seriously recently about making an Ender's Game movie, but, I think it'll be a while. My wife tells me that OSC finally found a producer that will let him write the script and choose the actors, and he has been working on that. She doesn't follow all that stuff too closely--neither she nor I are fans of Ender's Game (i.e. she mentioned that he knows who he wants to play Ender, but doesn't remember the actor's name).
I'm quite new to Linux, but decided to try out Ubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy). I dual boot, and have been for about a year now because I have to use Windows mainly, for school.
I found the ubuntu forums to be very helpful, and I also found the ubuntu guide (www.ubuntuguide.org) to be extremely helpful for the basic things that a new user would run into.
As noted in these comments, you will need to get to know the console (command line) more so than needed in Windows. However, I have now found that I prefer it for many things. The other thing you'll need to get used to is not having root user privileges for everything you do, meaning if you want to do something not mundane (and sometimes even mundane things), you'll need to give yourself root privileges for that action (which in ubuntu is most easily done by typing "sudo" in the console before your command).
I feel like I've become real familiar with how everything works by trying to add fancy things to the user interface (like a rotating cube desktop). Working on those fancy things, which is sometimes difficult (but easier now than it used to be) gave me the understanding I need such that doing all the basic stuff is now absolutely no problem. The forums and Ubuntu guide got me there.
I will note, though, it is not like windows. It can't be--you just can't have it be as secure as Ubuntu and as easy to use as Windows (I'm sure that's why Windows is so hole-ridden; it was all in the name of useability). On the other hand, Linux really is a lot easier to use than it used to be, has good support, and can do things Windows can't (I really think my rotating cube desktop is awesome).
Here's how I view it--these big corporations with lots of IP and money to spend traditionally have fought hard over seemingly small IP issues. It's much like a game it seems, with one company choosing to infringe a little bit on another company's IP knowing ahead of time how it's going to argue in court, and then the court irons things out. There are tons of example of this, and the reason is because it adds up to millions of dollars. And it really is much like a game to these companies--"let's see what I can get away with."
The problem is that the RIAA is now playing the game against regular people who don't have wads of cash to throw at this. They aren't playing the game fair.
I think this is why the RIAA is easily comparable to a bully--they aren't picking on someone their own size.
Totally agreed; I think much greater weight should be given to the amount of time it takes for a company to fix severe problems than the amount of time it takes for the company to fix the lesser problems.
I didn't read the article too thoroughly, but I didn't see any note of the average amount of time it took the companies to fix the severe problems (of course, it's tough to "average" the Mac's one severe problem...and Red Hat's isn't far behind). I think this would be very useful data.