I installed Fedora with Cinnamon on an older machine last night. I've found two features that don't seem to work, but beyond that, it's quite manageable. I tried for about a year to get used to gnome 3, but couldn't do it.
Wouldn't that fail in the case of a very desirable object? Let's take the gross case of the wheel, and suppose that ugg-ugg the caveman were able to live for millenia, or lived in a millenia-old society that allowed the inheritance of your renewable patents.
What incentive does ugg-ugg have to build something new, beyond new riches. All he has to do is continue to charge more for his wheel. Mind you, this is not the dude who invented a wheel that fits on a specific vehicle, this is "The Wheel."
I don't see that he would have any incentive to allow this in the public domain, as the increasing cost of registration will simply be passed on to the customer.
In their 2005 report, New Mexico, a generally blue state, had the highest ratio: 2.03. I don't think that a state's politics are really the best datum to correlate this ratio to. That the correlation exists is probably coincident to some other unaccounted factor.
Thanks for the link, by the way. The data was fun to play with, even if only for a few minutes. (I spent some time looking for that other factor that I alluded to.)
I don't agree with tmosley's bald first sentence, but I will suggest that there isn't much graduation in our response. We go from sabre-rattling to invasion at the drop of a hat. Hell's bells, we're making shit up for an excuse to go to war.
I agree with your general sentiment, but hate being painted the same color as "our religious wingnuts."
A couple of points to correct:
. ..most people would consider progressive as to be a joke.
Pardon if we don't just follow the herd. While I hate on republicans, I'm happy to hate on knee-jerk progressives as well.
. ..George Bush, Sarah Palin, and Run Paul all reinforce that. You're a country who figures the rich should stay rich, and the poor should go fuck themselves.
Not Quite. We just believe that people, not governments, are the best source of help for the poor. Ron Paul probably doesn't belong in that particular list with Sarah Palin and George Bush, by the way.
It's not just Europeans -- most of the world is tired of putting up with how your country behaves . . . it's that they're tired of putting up with your shit.
Please don't confuse the country and the government. In many respects, the government has an "inertia" that makes it very hard to change. Further, many citizens here, are also getting tired of the government.
Besides, if you hate us so much, you can probably do something about it.
To the UK, Germany, Japan, Korea, et al: Would you please boot our soldiers out? My (unborn) grandchildren will be paying for their presence today, and I resent passing debts on to my grandkids. Our military convinces (waterboards?) whatever politicians we send to Washington, that we can't close bases abroad. WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP.
To Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Russia, et al: Please reject our foreign aid. No good can come of it. We don't actually have the money to give to you, and when creditors cut us off, you'll also be, quite suddenly cut off. Besides, you end up dependent on our grain or money (or weapons) without the infrastructure to make your own. Please, do us all a good turn.
. ..a supposed 40/5 Mbit line, though I rarely see anything more than 20/2. My bill is also $50/month, with a good portion of that going to taxes already.
hehe. I see folks on Slashdot talk about the price they're paying for broadband and smile. I pay $60/month for 12/1, and at that, I have very good service for the area I live in. I expect to by a house in the next few months, and will pay $80/month for 768/512 wireless service if I do move.
My first reaction was the same as yours. I 'm pretty darn impressed. I'm also perversely pleased to see that fishing with dynamite isn't just for my cousins. Fishing with dynamite: the equal opportunity dipshit thing to do. (The article, of course didn't explicitly say so, but I can't figure any other way that fishing and dynamite would go together. Can anybody offer enlightenment?)
I suppose that it's long past time that I installed Debian. I've fought through Gentoo army of config files, gone through RPM hell with Red Hat and Mandrake, hacked at the jungle thicket of Fedora and swam in the cool waters of Arch. I've tried two Debian-based distributions, but never install Debian. Does it offer any real advantage over Arch?
They do contribute to common bits, such as Cups. After a lot of yelling, they contributed webkit improvements to khtml. They also released a caldav server under the apache license.
Not quite. The arresting officer needs probable cause to think that you were driving the car while intoxicated. It's generally much easier if you're in the driver's seat.
It would seem that I may have been in error, if it's not obvious. I assumed that you meant the evening as the time for your rum and coke, rather than the exam. I thought, surely, that nobody would drink before an exam, but I just realized that you may have been taking a C exam or some such. Sorry if my assumption was a bad one.
Well, I don't know what they're worried about. Apparently, the church's office of special affairs feels that
people [are] start[ing] to spread false datum.
What's one small little bit of information, compared to the bullshit spewed by Hubbard. I read on some anti-scientology site a while back that Hubbard suggested that inventing a religion would be a better way to make money than writing fiction.
Isn't it usual that if the government forces people to BUY something for whatever reason (eg: you have to goto drivers school to get a drivers license), then the thing they are buying will suddenly sky rocket in price?
Not always. I reckon that auto insurance is cheaper than it would be without the mandate to buy it. I expect that this mandate won't reduce costs, though. Health care costs in the US have been rising for years, and because the ACA limits insurance companies to 15% profit, they have an incentive to see health care costs rise, so that their total profit can rise. I'm not saying that it will happen, but the incentive is there.
What are HMOs?
Health Maintenance Organization. Wikipedia describes them better than I can.
3. Why are Americans so convinced that amoral profit seeking corporations have their best interests at heart, and not an elected government whose power is given to them by the people?
Not all are convinced of any such thing. (Companies, like I, will maximize benefit to themselves.) Unfortunately, too many disagree and now I'll be coerced into buying more health care than I want or need.
huh. Do location and lifestyle define intelligence? These factors may influence, but they are not deciding factors.
. ..And being a software or silicon center doesn't necessarily constitute a collection of brainpower. Madison, for example, is a major biotech center. . ..and your notion of "rednecks" being intellectually inferior surprises me, too. I probably, by your definition, qualify as a redneck: I drive a pickup, own several guns, live well out of town, collect firewood to heat my home during the winter, bla, bla, bla.
I lived in Beverly Hills for a (very long) decade, and the apparently institutional disdain that exists on the west side of Los Angeles for dwellers of less urban locales shocked me when I first moved there. Then I visited a few other places and found that several cities have the same disdain for those with a more rural lifestyle. These cities that you so casually dismiss aren't that different from wherever you live. There's a similar variety of losers, idiots, geniuses and winners.
Anchorage, by the way, has an unusual concentration of engineers, as well as a sizable university. There are also a hell of a lot of people there who stay indoors during the winter.
I'm not much interested in video games, but there's definite truth in what you say. Adoption of internet services was very high here, after Mr. Gore invented it.
There's a strong shift in activities between winter and summer, though some of us still insist on getting outdoors even when the weather turns cold. (I'm fortunate, in that I live 1/2 mile from a cross-country ski area.)
I'll defer, as you've clearly given it more thought than I'm willing to do. I did enjoy reading the setting that you've proposed, and you'll have to let me read your story, should you write it.
. ..but a brown dwarf would have no (or little) emissions in the visible spectrum. Perhaps something besides terrestrial life could find it habitable, but I don't think we would be able to live there.
You also discount the potential for exotic photosynthetic life around the brown dwarves.
I only discount the possibility that such a planet would be sufficiently earth-like to be habitable to you and me, or even to the spruce trees outside my window. I chose to limit my comment because the topic of both the summary and the article is earth-like worlds. As you did, I can visualize some sort of life there, I just can't see ours living there.
I'm not an astrophysicists, but wouldn't the spectral emissions of a white dwarf be a little rough on terrestrial-like life? Again, I think that it would be exotic, rather than "earth-like."
In the context of red dwarfs, it's about distance. Gravity falls off with the square of the distance from the source. So, as the distance increases, the influence of the primary would fall off, thereby reducing the tidal heating. I suppose that it could heat a planet orbiting a brown dwarf, but a brown dwarf would have no (or little) emissions in the visible spectrum. Perhaps something besides terrestrial life could find it habitable, but I don't think we would be able to live there.
I don't really have much to add to the conversation. I'm just happy to see somebody call it the hypothesis that it is, rather than the theory that it isn't.
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I installed Fedora with Cinnamon on an older machine last night. I've found two features that don't seem to work, but beyond that, it's quite manageable. I tried for about a year to get used to gnome 3, but couldn't do it.
Wouldn't that fail in the case of a very desirable object? Let's take the gross case of the wheel, and suppose that ugg-ugg the caveman were able to live for millenia, or lived in a millenia-old society that allowed the inheritance of your renewable patents. What incentive does ugg-ugg have to build something new, beyond new riches. All he has to do is continue to charge more for his wheel. Mind you, this is not the dude who invented a wheel that fits on a specific vehicle, this is "The Wheel." I don't see that he would have any incentive to allow this in the public domain, as the increasing cost of registration will simply be passed on to the customer.
Blame our (great)grandparents. Had they not ratified the 16th amendment, that particular imbalance would be much more difficult.
You should probably take a look at the 2005 version of the report that fed the post you linked to. (They are also looking to update the report, but apparently don't have the funding for it.) North Dakota's numbers changed pretty sharply from one year to the next.
In their 2005 report, New Mexico, a generally blue state, had the highest ratio: 2.03. I don't think that a state's politics are really the best datum to correlate this ratio to. That the correlation exists is probably coincident to some other unaccounted factor.
Thanks for the link, by the way. The data was fun to play with, even if only for a few minutes. (I spent some time looking for that other factor that I alluded to.)
I don't agree with tmosley's bald first sentence, but I will suggest that there isn't much graduation in our response. We go from sabre-rattling to invasion at the drop of a hat. Hell's bells, we're making shit up for an excuse to go to war.
I agree with your general sentiment, but hate being painted the same color as "our religious wingnuts."
A couple of points to correct:
. . .most people would consider progressive as to be a joke.
Pardon if we don't just follow the herd. While I hate on republicans, I'm happy to hate on knee-jerk progressives as well.
. . .George Bush, Sarah Palin, and Run Paul all reinforce that. You're a country who figures the rich should stay rich, and the poor should go fuck themselves.
Not Quite. We just believe that people, not governments, are the best source of help for the poor. Ron Paul probably doesn't belong in that particular list with Sarah Palin and George Bush, by the way.
It's not just Europeans -- most of the world is tired of putting up with how your country behaves . . . it's that they're tired of putting up with your shit.
Please don't confuse the country and the government. In many respects, the government has an "inertia" that makes it very hard to change. Further, many citizens here, are also getting tired of the government.
Besides, if you hate us so much, you can probably do something about it.
To the UK, Germany, Japan, Korea, et al: Would you please boot our soldiers out? My (unborn) grandchildren will be paying for their presence today, and I resent passing debts on to my grandkids. Our military convinces (waterboards?) whatever politicians we send to Washington, that we can't close bases abroad. WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP.
To Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Russia, et al: Please reject our foreign aid. No good can come of it. We don't actually have the money to give to you, and when creditors cut us off, you'll also be, quite suddenly cut off. Besides, you end up dependent on our grain or money (or weapons) without the infrastructure to make your own. Please, do us all a good turn.
. . .a supposed 40/5 Mbit line, though I rarely see anything more than 20/2. My bill is also $50/month, with a good portion of that going to taxes already.
hehe. I see folks on Slashdot talk about the price they're paying for broadband and smile. I pay $60/month for 12/1, and at that, I have very good service for the area I live in. I expect to by a house in the next few months, and will pay $80/month for 768/512 wireless service if I do move.
My first reaction was the same as yours. I 'm pretty darn impressed. I'm also perversely pleased to see that fishing with dynamite isn't just for my cousins. Fishing with dynamite: the equal opportunity dipshit thing to do. (The article, of course didn't explicitly say so, but I can't figure any other way that fishing and dynamite would go together. Can anybody offer enlightenment?)
I suppose that it's long past time that I installed Debian. I've fought through Gentoo army of config files, gone through RPM hell with Red Hat and Mandrake, hacked at the jungle thicket of Fedora and swam in the cool waters of Arch. I've tried two Debian-based distributions, but never install Debian. Does it offer any real advantage over Arch?
They do contribute to common bits, such as Cups. After a lot of yelling, they contributed webkit improvements to khtml. They also released a caldav server under the apache license.
I felt. . .as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror. . .
Not quite. The arresting officer needs probable cause to think that you were driving the car while intoxicated. It's generally much easier if you're in the driver's seat.
It would seem that I may have been in error, if it's not obvious. I assumed that you meant the evening as the time for your rum and coke, rather than the exam. I thought, surely, that nobody would drink before an exam, but I just realized that you may have been taking a C exam or some such. Sorry if my assumption was a bad one.
Well, I don't know what they're worried about. Apparently, the church's office of special affairs feels that
people [are] start[ing] to spread false datum.
What's one small little bit of information, compared to the bullshit spewed by Hubbard. I read on some anti-scientology site a while back that Hubbard suggested that inventing a religion would be a better way to make money than writing fiction.
. . .what where we. . .
. . .in anticipation of a final exam this evening.
. . .bad for English!
I really hope that after two drinks, that this evening's final exam isn't in English. :-)
Isn't it usual that if the government forces people to BUY something for whatever reason (eg: you have to goto drivers school to get a drivers license), then the thing they are buying will suddenly sky rocket in price?
Not always. I reckon that auto insurance is cheaper than it would be without the mandate to buy it. I expect that this mandate won't reduce costs, though. Health care costs in the US have been rising for years, and because the ACA limits insurance companies to 15% profit, they have an incentive to see health care costs rise, so that their total profit can rise. I'm not saying that it will happen, but the incentive is there.
What are HMOs?
Health Maintenance Organization. Wikipedia describes them better than I can.
3. Why are Americans so convinced that amoral profit seeking corporations have their best interests at heart, and not an elected government whose power is given to them by the people?
Not all are convinced of any such thing. (Companies, like I, will maximize benefit to themselves.) Unfortunately, too many disagree and now I'll be coerced into buying more health care than I want or need.
Wow. The judge said the officer assaulted several people, and it's being investigated as a non-criminal act.
huh. Do location and lifestyle define intelligence? These factors may influence, but they are not deciding factors.
. . .And being a software or silicon center doesn't necessarily constitute a collection of brainpower. Madison, for example, is a major biotech center. . . .and your notion of "rednecks" being intellectually inferior surprises me, too. I probably, by your definition, qualify as a redneck: I drive a pickup, own several guns, live well out of town, collect firewood to heat my home during the winter, bla, bla, bla.
I lived in Beverly Hills for a (very long) decade, and the apparently institutional disdain that exists on the west side of Los Angeles for dwellers of less urban locales shocked me when I first moved there. Then I visited a few other places and found that several cities have the same disdain for those with a more rural lifestyle. These cities that you so casually dismiss aren't that different from wherever you live. There's a similar variety of losers, idiots, geniuses and winners.
Anchorage, by the way, has an unusual concentration of engineers, as well as a sizable university. There are also a hell of a lot of people there who stay indoors during the winter.
I'm not much interested in video games, but there's definite truth in what you say. Adoption of internet services was very high here, after Mr. Gore invented it.
There's a strong shift in activities between winter and summer, though some of us still insist on getting outdoors even when the weather turns cold. (I'm fortunate, in that I live 1/2 mile from a cross-country ski area.)
I'll defer, as you've clearly given it more thought than I'm willing to do. I did enjoy reading the setting that you've proposed, and you'll have to let me read your story, should you write it.
. . .but a brown dwarf would have no (or little) emissions in the visible spectrum. Perhaps something besides terrestrial life could find it habitable, but I don't think we would be able to live there.
You also discount the potential for exotic photosynthetic life around the brown dwarves.
I only discount the possibility that such a planet would be sufficiently earth-like to be habitable to you and me, or even to the spruce trees outside my window. I chose to limit my comment because the topic of both the summary and the article is earth-like worlds. As you did, I can visualize some sort of life there, I just can't see ours living there.
I'm not an astrophysicists, but wouldn't the spectral emissions of a white dwarf be a little rough on terrestrial-like life? Again, I think that it would be exotic, rather than "earth-like."
In the context of red dwarfs, it's about distance. Gravity falls off with the square of the distance from the source. So, as the distance increases, the influence of the primary would fall off, thereby reducing the tidal heating. I suppose that it could heat a planet orbiting a brown dwarf, but a brown dwarf would have no (or little) emissions in the visible spectrum. Perhaps something besides terrestrial life could find it habitable, but I don't think we would be able to live there.
If the ROI is too high, you can always just burn the extra green.
I don't really have much to add to the conversation. I'm just happy to see somebody call it the hypothesis that it is, rather than the theory that it isn't.
Wait! Wouldn't this would be a "hole-of-no-color?"
. . .though still proprietary
Nope. The Linux Dropbox client in licensed under the GPL. Zmanda, rsync.net, jungledisk and spideroak are other services that also work with linux.