Ubuntu is certainly the most popular distro. People seem to do just fine getting Debian running on it though. The situation as far as getting the system fully functional (wifi, sound, etc.) is much improved, and practically everything works just fine at this point. But I'm just reporting based on the word in the forums. There's plenty of detailed info out there.
Yes, in the Aspire One community, this has similarly become a common piece of advice: buy the XP model for its better battery; install Ubuntu.
I bought the Linux version partly for the sake of supporting the Linux product, and partly for the sake of the slightly lower price. But now I'm starting to kick myself, wishing I bought the XP version and installed Linux. It's kind of a Catch-22. The best Linux netbooks available have XP installed on them.
I'm a librarian (on the web/systems end of library work), and at my library, we do have a patron who frequently comes in to use our wifi, and uses his mouse on a thick, crocheted wool doily. Clearly, this is the mouse for him.
I recall when CIBC "upgraded" all its ATMs to Windows some years ago. My first encounter with the new system began with some predictable familiarisation with the new interface. The encounter thereupon somewhat less expectedly continued as an introduction to the boot process, while the machine ate my card and bankbook, which had been in the machine when it crashed. Happily, I had a camera with me:
Modern English is about 750 years old. English is at least 1550 years old. Tradition is to trace the English presence in Britain to the quasi-historical Anglo-Saxon incursions of the mid-5th century, but migration almost certainly preceded military confrontation. The starting point for the English language (and the Old English era) is the introduction of a continuous Anglic presence to Britain. And that linguistic heritage, termed English, begins at least 1550 years ago.
Indeed, the decision that the best available option for box art was going to consist in dressing Guido Henkel up in crazy blue face paint still leaves me at a loss for words. Especially given how much marvelous art was generated in the process of development. What art from within the game wouldn't have been better?
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin (Attributed: Memoirs of Boris Bazhanov)
New Orleans' wireless coverage is similarly quite decent. And free, and anonymous, and fairly successfully blankets the downtown. Having used it on a recent trip down to NO, I'd be delighted to have something similar here in Toronto. This, however - temporarily free, spotty, non-anonymous coverage exclusively over the downtown core (excluding on the periphery even some areas would generally be considered "downtown" here) - isn't exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for in Toronto municipal wireless.
Cells are as little as $20CDN/mo, but $30CDN/mo is more typical (and typical of your mainstream Bell cell).
My question, though, would be: accessing the network on the initial free basis, what's to stop people from simply using the cell numbers of just any other person at all but themselves for the sake of anonymity? Nothing, presumably? And if so, what's the point?
The title of this article appears to be its major problem. This is not an article about People Who Don't Matter. This is an article about People of Whom We Disapprove or People Whose Current Operations Don't Impress Us Much or some such thing. One doesn't need to be justified or qualified to matter, in the grand scheme of things, and the fact that Business 2.0 is unimpressed by these individuals' current endeavours ultimately has no bearing on their importance to the world of business or to society in general. A powerful fool can change the world in a way that matters, whether or not we may think he's a fool.
Lydia Parnes, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection...
Quoth the poster,
they've already fixed all the other problems in the world like... the war in Iraq, FEMA handling the New Orleans relief, stopping Iran from producing nukes, world-hunger, huge corporate scandals, huge governmental scandals
So are we to understand that the Congressional Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection should redefine its mandate as being focused on urban disaster relief, foreign intervention, corporate law and governmental oversight, while abandoning any prior objectives, merely because those stated objectives aren't as grand in scale of moral import as others we can point to if we try?
I'm bloody sick of this sort of argument. The FTC may be despicable at times, but this is not an argument which serves in any way to illustrate that point. The existence of 'bigger fish to fry' in government policy does not imply that all branches, committees and appointees within the system should, ideally, cease to operate or perform their duties the moment an issue of the day completely irrelevant to their role but of greater general import arises.
Why isn't the gaming community "reeling" from the high cost of games?
One reason not to be quite so frustrated in that regard is by virtue of the fact that the price producing commercially successful games has significantly increased over the past few generations, while sales have not proportionally increased. Games cost more because making games costs more per unit these days.
On the other hand, there is no necessity that creating consoles these days should cost more per unit than it did a generation ago. It's certainly possible to make your console atrociously expensive, if that's your goal, but as Nintendo is inclined to demonstrate, it's quite optional.
maybe it hasn't occurred to the KaZaaistanis to actually look for books on what is primarily a music downloading library.
Bingo. Kazaa has no significant ebook trade. The popular P2P network for ebook trading is Edonkey/Emule and by association, Kad. In my use of Emule for ebook downloads, I download a few books a week, and hundreds of people download my texts from me.
Bittorrent is also occasionally good for large collections of texts (e.g., someone will just start up a torrent of 200 selected sci-fi texts), though quite unreliable.
But as far as getting etexts over Edonkey/Emule goes, the only text out of the last three dozen or so which I have searched for via Emule, which text I was not able to find there was a rather exceedingly obscure 1864 novella (Children of the Chapel by Disney Leith with contributions by A. C. Swinburne), which I ultimately was able to get my hands on only via the very large local academic library system (the University of Toronto), in a 1910 printing thereof. That printing has since been scanned and OCRed, and is now available for download via Edonkey and Kad.
Indeed, one is compelled, in comparing modern and pre-modern maps, to suspect that the addition of all that planet that wasn't there before and the decline of seamonster populations have had a substantial influence on the magnetic field of the earth.
I bet they won't play this song on streaming audio I bet you they won't play this new #$%& song It's not that it's #$%& or #$%& controversial Just that the #$%&ing words are awfully strong
You can't say #$%& on streaming audio Or #$%& or #$%& or #$%&, You can't even say I'd like to #$%& you one day Unless you're a doctor with a very large #$%&
So I bet you they won't play this song on streaming audio I bet you they daren't #$%&ing well programme it I bet you their #$%&ing old audio censors Will think it's a load of horse #$%&
I think Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson cut to the heart of the matter in their famous exchange. Namely, when Carlson seemed to attempt to challenge Stewart on the basis of the contention that his comedy show had journalistic standards no better than those of mainstream journalism:
CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?
STEWART: You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?
and
STEWART: If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to... If that's your goal... I wouldn't aim for us. I'd aim for "Seinfeld." That's a very good show.
"I'm trying to find a good open source/free, 3D first/third-person game engines. I can write basic scripts and make basic programs in various programming languages, but when it comes to making 3D worlds I do not have the skill set.
So let me get this straight: you're looking for an engine which allows you to build something you readily admit you are unable to build?
This is rather baffling. It seems like your skillset (scripting, basic coding, no modelling or worldcraft) would strongly recommend itself to modding or storytelling within existing commercial engines where there's a huge base of art, maps, models and media inherently available, which let you do the scripting and writing with little compulsory art design. If you want to do something FPS style, why not Source? If you want to do something RPG style, why not NWN2 when it comes out, or NWN now? As nice as it would be to have an open source alternative, a high quality open source game SDK with all the functionality of the more comprehensive commercial equivalents (with the various fan-made tools which have been created to complement them) simply does not exist.
"Thinking it's reasonable to max out your connection 24x7 is about as reasonable as walking into an all-you-can-eat restaurant with a spade and wheelbarrow. You could hardly complain about being thrown out."
This is a rather good analogy. I intend to steal it. Thank you.
What with the world flooding and all, they'd have a clear enough route to the boat. The tricky part would be getting back down off Mount Ararat. As far as those creatures of the sea go, you just try to explain to the dolphins that you've saved them from the perils of the flooding sea by landing them on top of a mountain in the middle of the desert. See how they like them apples.
Did Slashdot just report on a topic in evolutionary biology without using the phrase "missing link" to describe a theorised stage in development? Isn't there a rule against this or something?
People starving in Africa need an economy regardless of their nutritional well-being, or they will not be able to satisfy their needs regardless. All aid programmes are not mutually exclusive. The existence of starvation in, e.g., Sierra Leone does not imply we should refuse all forms of aid which serve other needs elsewhere in Africa. The existence of tremendous AIDS related needs in Sub-Saharan Africa does not mean that Malaria treatment programmes should be shut down. Aid comes in many forms. This is one of them. Giving a man a fish is crucial element of foreign aid if it keeps him alive, but teaching him to fish should not be considered a mutually exclusive goal.
You know, I had recently myself been looking for a "Workhorse" system to fulfill some fairly persistent if mundane encoding needs, but I shall have to consider the possibility of an OMGPonies!!! alternative in light of this article and the above post.
From a more practical, present day standpoint, one might be inclined to ask how England might apply this theory of "dental care" to its current populace, in order to reap beneficial rewards.
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Ubuntu is certainly the most popular distro. People seem to do just fine getting Debian running on it though. The situation as far as getting the system fully functional (wifi, sound, etc.) is much improved, and practically everything works just fine at this point. But I'm just reporting based on the word in the forums. There's plenty of detailed info out there.
Yes, in the Aspire One community, this has similarly become a common piece of advice: buy the XP model for its better battery; install Ubuntu.
I bought the Linux version partly for the sake of supporting the Linux product, and partly for the sake of the slightly lower price. But now I'm starting to kick myself, wishing I bought the XP version and installed Linux. It's kind of a Catch-22. The best Linux netbooks available have XP installed on them.
Because we all use carpet padded desktops.
I'm a librarian (on the web/systems end of library work), and at my library, we do have a patron who frequently comes in to use our wifi, and uses his mouse on a thick, crocheted wool doily. Clearly, this is the mouse for him.
I recall when CIBC "upgraded" all its ATMs to Windows some years ago. My first encounter with the new system began with some predictable familiarisation with the new interface. The encounter thereupon somewhat less expectedly continued as an introduction to the boot process, while the machine ate my card and bankbook, which had been in the machine when it crashed. Happily, I had a camera with me:
http://askimberley.com/img/cibcatm4.jpg
http://askimberley.com/img/cibcatm1.jpg
http://askimberley.com/img/cibcatm3.jpg
http://askimberley.com/img/cibcatm2.jpg
Don't be so sure.
n cestor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_a
Modern English is about 750 years old. English is at least 1550 years old. Tradition is to trace the English presence in Britain to the quasi-historical Anglo-Saxon incursions of the mid-5th century, but migration almost certainly preceded military confrontation. The starting point for the English language (and the Old English era) is the introduction of a continuous Anglic presence to Britain. And that linguistic heritage, termed English, begins at least 1550 years ago.
Indeed, the decision that the best available option for box art was going to consist in dressing Guido Henkel up in crazy blue face paint still leaves me at a loss for words. Especially given how much marvelous art was generated in the process of development. What art from within the game wouldn't have been better?
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin (Attributed: Memoirs of Boris Bazhanov)
New Orleans' wireless coverage is similarly quite decent. And free, and anonymous, and fairly successfully blankets the downtown. Having used it on a recent trip down to NO, I'd be delighted to have something similar here in Toronto. This, however - temporarily free, spotty, non-anonymous coverage exclusively over the downtown core (excluding on the periphery even some areas would generally be considered "downtown" here) - isn't exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for in Toronto municipal wireless.
Cells are as little as $20CDN/mo, but $30CDN/mo is more typical (and typical of your mainstream Bell cell). My question, though, would be: accessing the network on the initial free basis, what's to stop people from simply using the cell numbers of just any other person at all but themselves for the sake of anonymity? Nothing, presumably? And if so, what's the point?
You'd think the marketing folks could sell the work of these fine engineers using proper engineering terms.
If the unit is 0.1 attoparsecs wide, they need to say it's 0.1 attoparsecs.
If it's half a nanoacre, they need to say it's half a nanoacre.
The title of this article appears to be its major problem. This is not an article about People Who Don't Matter. This is an article about People of Whom We Disapprove or People Whose Current Operations Don't Impress Us Much or some such thing. One doesn't need to be justified or qualified to matter, in the grand scheme of things, and the fact that Business 2.0 is unimpressed by these individuals' current endeavours ultimately has no bearing on their importance to the world of business or to society in general. A powerful fool can change the world in a way that matters, whether or not we may think he's a fool.
Quoth the article,
Lydia Parnes, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection...
Quoth the poster,
they've already fixed all the other problems in the world like... the war in Iraq, FEMA handling the New Orleans relief, stopping Iran from producing nukes, world-hunger, huge corporate scandals, huge governmental scandals
So are we to understand that the Congressional Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection should redefine its mandate as being focused on urban disaster relief, foreign intervention, corporate law and governmental oversight, while abandoning any prior objectives, merely because those stated objectives aren't as grand in scale of moral import as others we can point to if we try?
I'm bloody sick of this sort of argument. The FTC may be despicable at times, but this is not an argument which serves in any way to illustrate that point. The existence of 'bigger fish to fry' in government policy does not imply that all branches, committees and appointees within the system should, ideally, cease to operate or perform their duties the moment an issue of the day completely irrelevant to their role but of greater general import arises.
Why isn't the gaming community "reeling" from the high cost of games?
One reason not to be quite so frustrated in that regard is by virtue of the fact that the price producing commercially successful games has significantly increased over the past few generations, while sales have not proportionally increased. Games cost more because making games costs more per unit these days.
On the other hand, there is no necessity that creating consoles these days should cost more per unit than it did a generation ago. It's certainly possible to make your console atrociously expensive, if that's your goal, but as Nintendo is inclined to demonstrate, it's quite optional.
maybe it hasn't occurred to the KaZaaistanis to actually look for books on what is primarily a music downloading library.
Bingo. Kazaa has no significant ebook trade. The popular P2P network for ebook trading is Edonkey/Emule and by association, Kad. In my use of Emule for ebook downloads, I download a few books a week, and hundreds of people download my texts from me.
Bittorrent is also occasionally good for large collections of texts (e.g., someone will just start up a torrent of 200 selected sci-fi texts), though quite unreliable.
But as far as getting etexts over Edonkey/Emule goes, the only text out of the last three dozen or so which I have searched for via Emule, which text I was not able to find there was a rather exceedingly obscure 1864 novella (Children of the Chapel by Disney Leith with contributions by A. C. Swinburne), which I ultimately was able to get my hands on only via the very large local academic library system (the University of Toronto), in a 1910 printing thereof. That printing has since been scanned and OCRed, and is now available for download via Edonkey and Kad.
Indeed, one is compelled, in comparing modern and pre-modern maps, to suspect that the addition of all that planet that wasn't there before and the decline of seamonster populations have had a substantial influence on the magnetic field of the earth.
I bet they won't play this song on streaming audio
I bet you they won't play this new #$%& song
It's not that it's #$%& or #$%& controversial
Just that the #$%&ing words are awfully strong
You can't say #$%& on streaming audio
Or #$%& or #$%& or #$%&,
You can't even say I'd like to #$%& you one day
Unless you're a doctor with a very large #$%&
So I bet you they won't play this song on streaming audio
I bet you they daren't #$%&ing well programme it
I bet you their #$%&ing old audio censors
Will think it's a load of horse #$%&
I think Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson cut to the heart of the matter in their famous exchange. Namely, when Carlson seemed to attempt to challenge Stewart on the basis of the contention that his comedy show had journalistic standards no better than those of mainstream journalism:
... If that's your goal ... I wouldn't aim for us. I'd aim for "Seinfeld." That's a very good show.
CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?
STEWART: You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?
and
STEWART: If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to
"I'm trying to find a good open source/free, 3D first/third-person game engines. I can write basic scripts and make basic programs in various programming languages, but when it comes to making 3D worlds I do not have the skill set.
So let me get this straight: you're looking for an engine which allows you to build something you readily admit you are unable to build?
This is rather baffling. It seems like your skillset (scripting, basic coding, no modelling or worldcraft) would strongly recommend itself to modding or storytelling within existing commercial engines where there's a huge base of art, maps, models and media inherently available, which let you do the scripting and writing with little compulsory art design. If you want to do something FPS style, why not Source? If you want to do something RPG style, why not NWN2 when it comes out, or NWN now? As nice as it would be to have an open source alternative, a high quality open source game SDK with all the functionality of the more comprehensive commercial equivalents (with the various fan-made tools which have been created to complement them) simply does not exist.
"Thinking it's reasonable to max out your connection 24x7 is about as reasonable as walking into an all-you-can-eat restaurant with a spade and wheelbarrow. You could hardly complain about being thrown out."
This is a rather good analogy. I intend to steal it. Thank you.
What with the world flooding and all, they'd have a clear enough route to the boat. The tricky part would be getting back down off Mount Ararat. As far as those creatures of the sea go, you just try to explain to the dolphins that you've saved them from the perils of the flooding sea by landing them on top of a mountain in the middle of the desert. See how they like them apples.
Did Slashdot just report on a topic in evolutionary biology without using the phrase "missing link" to describe a theorised stage in development? Isn't there a rule against this or something?
People starving in Africa need an economy regardless of their nutritional well-being, or they will not be able to satisfy their needs regardless. All aid programmes are not mutually exclusive. The existence of starvation in, e.g., Sierra Leone does not imply we should refuse all forms of aid which serve other needs elsewhere in Africa. The existence of tremendous AIDS related needs in Sub-Saharan Africa does not mean that Malaria treatment programmes should be shut down. Aid comes in many forms. This is one of them. Giving a man a fish is crucial element of foreign aid if it keeps him alive, but teaching him to fish should not be considered a mutually exclusive goal.
You know, I had recently myself been looking for a "Workhorse" system to fulfill some fairly persistent if mundane encoding needs, but I shall have to consider the possibility of an OMGPonies!!! alternative in light of this article and the above post.
From a more practical, present day standpoint, one might be inclined to ask how England might apply this theory of "dental care" to its current populace, in order to reap beneficial rewards.