After a few days of normal use, I suddenly found myself unable to use the Netflix site with Firefox. Basically anything with a bitmap that you click on, like the tabs for Your Queue, etc., is now messed up. Anyone got a workaround?
Apologies if this were rudely off-topic.
I think gravity is safe. Speaking as a layman, do we really know THAT much about the emissivity of the ordinary matter around us-- on galactic scales? I cannot help but think our theories of the emissivity of objects is not so robust that we have to come up with a new class of matter when this decade's calculations of gravity vs. emission don't add up. Seems like the simpler solution is to refit the emission theories.
Q: And aren't there a whole bunch of reasons why emitted photons won't reach terrestrial eyeballs? What if there were really big objects out there? Wouldn't the centers be practically invisible to us?
I think that happened to me-- the IP ban, when I pointed out there was a flaw in a minor linux distro. The emcee of the IRC channel said, "It's not a bug if you're the only one experiencing the problem." I later found out that it was a known Debian bug, but the developers of this little Debian fork didn't know it.
I remember my college materials science professor telling me that hydrogen atoms can exist in the matrix of palladium metal at a density (naturally, number of hydrogen atoms per cc) higher than can ever be reached with pressure exerted on hydrogen gas.
That reason makes me bet cold fusion could happen.
Does it take its adherence to free software to the point of leaving us in a ghetto where we cannot do the things we could with other distros? Are there drivers for Atheros wifi cards, flash, of ATI displays?
Even the World's Smallest Political quiz is overly simplistic. What if you think wage and price controls are always counterproductive, but have a leftist view that "wage oppression" can and does happen in the free market? What if you're neither in favor of Kyoto nor a global warming denier? What if you are not in favor of restrictions on smoking in restaurants but have not joined in the "libertarian" think-tanks who say passive smoking poses no danger?
The difference is between being evil yourself and seeing the government regulation as often another evil itself.
Back to the original topic, I think that it has to do with what you're smoking, or rather what kind of fumes you're exposed to at work. Geeks that hang out in air-conditioned computer labs, versus say materials science engineers, are not going to have the same suspicion when a neoconservative disses any and all issues of workplace safety.
Suppose your nose-pickin' cousin hears how bad Vista is going to be. Which linux distro would you suggest for the complete newbie?
Catch: he is nose-pickin' dumb and has a computer with an atheros wifi card in it.
How about lawn trimmers? I use my lawn trimmers to make an obvious pattern in the hedge, but one that is not covered by anyone else's patent. Therefore I get to patent the pattern in the hedge. And before anyone else thinks of it, I will also get those too terrified to trim, and patent most random overgrowths from untrimmed hedge.
Several years ago there was a shared PC in a laboratory where I work. I put in an audio CD into the computer, and then invoked Windows Media Player and told it to play the CD.
RealPlayer also was on the machine. It found out I was playing an audio CD, ran itself, and started putting streaming banner ads around its player.
In summary, Windows had provided a free version of an incredibly simple task. RealPlayer turned it into a way not only to generate profit but also to annoy the heck out of the user.
This experience is quintessential in my thoughts about Real.
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Don't confuse an anti-communitarian, statist organization such as the Heartland Institute with actual libertarianism.
I agree it's a disaster, starting with Dolphin. Could it be forked?
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After a few days of normal use, I suddenly found myself unable to use the Netflix site with Firefox. Basically anything with a bitmap that you click on, like the tabs for Your Queue, etc., is now messed up. Anyone got a workaround? Apologies if this were rudely off-topic.
Where's the address to rant?
I think gravity is safe. Speaking as a layman, do we really know THAT much about the emissivity of the ordinary matter around us-- on galactic scales? I cannot help but think our theories of the emissivity of objects is not so robust that we have to come up with a new class of matter when this decade's calculations of gravity vs. emission don't add up. Seems like the simpler solution is to refit the emission theories. Q: And aren't there a whole bunch of reasons why emitted photons won't reach terrestrial eyeballs? What if there were really big objects out there? Wouldn't the centers be practically invisible to us?
I think that happened to me-- the IP ban, when I pointed out there was a flaw in a minor linux distro. The emcee of the IRC channel said, "It's not a bug if you're the only one experiencing the problem." I later found out that it was a known Debian bug, but the developers of this little Debian fork didn't know it.
... and more believable than the Patent Office going against software patents.
In the age of FOSS and GNU, how can one man's misbehavior doom a file format system?
I remember my college materials science professor telling me that hydrogen atoms can exist in the matrix of palladium metal at a density (naturally, number of hydrogen atoms per cc) higher than can ever be reached with pressure exerted on hydrogen gas. That reason makes me bet cold fusion could happen.
This announcement makes OLPC just another computer manufacturer, no longer a charity whose success is championed in my heart.
Does it take its adherence to free software to the point of leaving us in a ghetto where we cannot do the things we could with other distros? Are there drivers for Atheros wifi cards, flash, of ATI displays?
Who knew??!!
Even the World's Smallest Political quiz is overly simplistic. What if you think wage and price controls are always counterproductive, but have a leftist view that "wage oppression" can and does happen in the free market? What if you're neither in favor of Kyoto nor a global warming denier? What if you are not in favor of restrictions on smoking in restaurants but have not joined in the "libertarian" think-tanks who say passive smoking poses no danger? The difference is between being evil yourself and seeing the government regulation as often another evil itself. Back to the original topic, I think that it has to do with what you're smoking, or rather what kind of fumes you're exposed to at work. Geeks that hang out in air-conditioned computer labs, versus say materials science engineers, are not going to have the same suspicion when a neoconservative disses any and all issues of workplace safety.
Three words:
Semiconductor Failure Analysis.
Suppose your nose-pickin' cousin hears how bad Vista is going to be. Which linux distro would you suggest for the complete newbie? Catch: he is nose-pickin' dumb and has a computer with an atheros wifi card in it.
How about lawn trimmers? I use my lawn trimmers to make an obvious pattern in the hedge, but one that is not covered by anyone else's patent. Therefore I get to patent the pattern in the hedge. And before anyone else thinks of it, I will also get those too terrified to trim, and patent most random overgrowths from untrimmed hedge.
Several years ago there was a shared PC in a laboratory where I work. I put in an audio CD into the computer, and then invoked Windows Media Player and told it to play the CD. RealPlayer also was on the machine. It found out I was playing an audio CD, ran itself, and started putting streaming banner ads around its player. In summary, Windows had provided a free version of an incredibly simple task. RealPlayer turned it into a way not only to generate profit but also to annoy the heck out of the user. This experience is quintessential in my thoughts about Real.