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Main Entry: ecosystem
Pronunciation: \-sis-tm\
Function: noun
Date: 1935
: the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
I understood "ecosystem" in this context is not about the computer system but about the different programs, libraries and their developers. So the term would be quite applicable.
Sound (ALSA) dropping out randomly and continually
Yup, I feel your pain. Right now ALSA is working with PulseAudio - after much monkeying around with sinks and mixers and modules (foot bone connected to the hip bone), which produced lots of variously ill advice in forums, turns out it was a bug in alsa-plugins, and it's fixed in the Lucid package. Now I can run FlightGear and hear my engine loop;)
Gnome being hard-welded to the rest of the system
Is switching supposed to be straightforward? I've heard stories, but still it seems daunting.
Then there's the horrid mess that is upstart
Is it? From my user perspective, I wouldn't have noticed the change I hadn't read about it somewhere. I just read a bit about it, and this kinda gave me the willies:
Note that the job file format is not stable yet, so if you upgrade upstart later, you may need to fix existing files.
There's the usual Debian tendency to change absolutely everything they can, purely for the hell of it
Maybe the omelette+eggs saying applies to OS'es too. Are other distros this daring/merry?
even basic things like setting up an fstab for the most part doesn't work
WFM
I honestly felt that the overall design was seriously less transparent than Windows
If you mean GNOME, yes. s/regedt32/gconftool/g.
Are people really so superficial, that a nice shiny Gnome theme (for the first few minutes before the system dies, at least) is the only thing that is considered important?
Perhaps this is what the stereotypical home user can understand and appreciate. Remember what you heard in casual chats when Vista came out - all was about the new start menu, the Aero flippy thing, window chrome and maybe UAC; I remember trying to read some longarticles detailing the new stuff beneath the shiny stuff but I couldn't really finish them.
I'm sure this applies to the casual Linux user too (someone who only opens a terminal to run specific commands). Let them be I say, and we who dwell in black screens will look at other news outlets for what's changed under the makeup.
Now, the spotlight on "social applications" is downright silly;)
It's called "putting it in a nutshell". The meaning is preserved, but you can get it much faster thanks to simpler language and a well-known historical reference.
Wang: Americans, I have a message for you! Your power infrastructure is vulnerable! LOUD SHOT. Wang grabs his chest and drops dead.
U.S. Military: And this is how we deal with threats.
I don't like "globo" much. Now, what does it have to do with what I posted or the OP? This is about a rumour (actually two) posted by some Anonymous Coward (yup, just like you) in a forum. The mods took their time to take it down and meanwhile some bozo printed it and gave it to Hugo, so he would have something more to gab about.
Yup, Venezuelans are quite aware of how some media uses wording to make news sound scarier, and they sort of compensate for that when they read the headlines; they will usually ask "but, what did 'the guy' actually say?".
Now, what does this have to do with the post above it?
Most Venezuelans aren't too fond of Fox News either. Try Amnesty International (not much useful information - you have to dig a bit) and Reporters Without Borders instead. The part about compulsory broadcasting his half-day-long speeches is priceless.
Chavez's "calls" and "requests" are pretty much orders to whom it main concern, usually the Supreme Court and/or Congress (the latter mostly sympathetic to him after the opposition boycotted the last elections, allegedly for concerns over "legitimating a fraud").
The rumor was posted anonymously in well-known forum Noticiero Digital, which is intermittently moderated, if at all. Local TV news station Globovisión (strongly critical of Chávez's government, and a frequent target of regulatory action) quotes Chávez (in Spanish):
The internet cannot be a free thing, each country has its rules. Regulation and laws. All these pages have an administrator. We must act. We're going to request support from the Attorney General.
This is not acceptable, that they broadcast whatever they want, poisoning the minds of many people
Noticiero Digital (listen, this is very grave): "Breaking news; Diosdado Cabello murdered" [...] Someone has to be responsible here because these pages cannot be free for what you to want to say. There are laws here and they must be obeyed.
This is precisely what happened to Venezuelan opposition. They cried wolf from at first signs of his intentions, and it didn't happen right away. That cost them a LOT of credibility, and the metaphorical frog did nothing as it felt the water warming up around it.
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Yeah, they know well how that ends up
If a joke is told and no one gets it, does it WHOOSH?
our MU-METAL HATS!
It's the same neighbour, Raphaela Monribot.
Yeah, mine's at least 160cm x 160cm x 220cm ;)
Dithering may produce letters with jagged edges, especially at moderate resolutions - try it.
4 ) In order to optimise the legibility of the printed text, we have set an Ecoprint range. Only text up to a particular point size – generally 11 points - is printed in the Ecofont font. Larger text is printed in the normal font.
ecosystem
Main Entry: ecosystem
Pronunciation: \-sis-tm\
Function: noun
Date: 1935
: the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
I understood "ecosystem" in this context is not about the computer system but about the different programs, libraries and their developers. So the term would be quite applicable.
This reminded me of their work on a full-windshield HUD using ultraviolet lasers (say that three times). Perhaps they're betting a substantial part of the (bailed) farm on R&D. Why? Patents? Morphing into a tech company? Stay tuned!
Sound (ALSA) dropping out randomly and continually
Yup, I feel your pain. Right now ALSA is working with PulseAudio - after much monkeying around with sinks and mixers and modules (foot bone connected to the hip bone), which produced lots of variously ill advice in forums, turns out it was a bug in alsa-plugins, and it's fixed in the Lucid package. Now I can run FlightGear and hear my engine loop ;)
Gnome being hard-welded to the rest of the system
Is switching supposed to be straightforward? I've heard stories, but still it seems daunting.
Then there's the horrid mess that is upstart
Is it? From my user perspective, I wouldn't have noticed the change I hadn't read about it somewhere. I just read a bit about it, and this kinda gave me the willies:
Note that the job file format is not stable yet, so if you upgrade upstart later, you may need to fix existing files.
There's the usual Debian tendency to change absolutely everything they can, purely for the hell of it
Maybe the omelette+eggs saying applies to OS'es too. Are other distros this daring/merry?
even basic things like setting up an fstab for the most part doesn't work
WFM
I honestly felt that the overall design was seriously less transparent than Windows
If you mean GNOME, yes. s/regedt32/gconftool/g.
Are people really so superficial, that a nice shiny Gnome theme (for the first few minutes before the system dies, at least) is the only thing that is considered important?
Perhaps this is what the stereotypical home user can understand and appreciate. Remember what you heard in casual chats when Vista came out - all was about the new start menu, the Aero flippy thing, window chrome and maybe UAC; I remember trying to read some long articles detailing the new stuff beneath the shiny stuff but I couldn't really finish them.
I'm sure this applies to the casual Linux user too (someone who only opens a terminal to run specific commands). Let them be I say, and we who dwell in black screens will look at other news outlets for what's changed under the makeup.
Now, the spotlight on "social applications" is downright silly ;)
Ditto.
Even if some freak solar storm blew out all of the GPS satellites, pilots aren't going to suddenly find themselves completely lost
I just hope they keep practicing their regular navigation/IFR from time to time, or they might get completely lost or at least partially blind.
Where are my bloody mod points? Good posts by ACs are lost this way.
It's called "putting it in a nutshell". The meaning is preserved, but you can get it much faster thanks to simpler language and a well-known historical reference.
Excellent simplification - colloquial language, no sense lost. Thanks, RAH :)
Wang: Americans, I have a message for you! Your power infrastructure is vulnerable!
LOUD SHOT. Wang grabs his chest and drops dead.
U.S. Military: And this is how we deal with threats.
(you can mod me down now)
I don't like "globo" much. Now, what does it have to do with what I posted or the OP? This is about a rumour (actually two) posted by some Anonymous Coward (yup, just like you) in a forum. The mods took their time to take it down and meanwhile some bozo printed it and gave it to Hugo, so he would have something more to gab about.
Yup, Venezuelans are quite aware of how some media uses wording to make news sound scarier, and they sort of compensate for that when they read the headlines; they will usually ask "but, what did 'the guy' actually say?".
Now, what does this have to do with the post above it?
Most Venezuelans aren't too fond of Fox News either. Try Amnesty International (not much useful information - you have to dig a bit) and Reporters Without Borders instead. The part about compulsory broadcasting his half-day-long speeches is priceless.
Chavez's "calls" and "requests" are pretty much orders to whom it main concern, usually the Supreme Court and/or Congress (the latter mostly sympathetic to him after the opposition boycotted the last elections, allegedly for concerns over "legitimating a fraud").
A dictatorship is [...] Hugo Chavez.
Is Columbia's president, Uribe, a dictator?
And here I thought Texas would be the first to proclaim independence ...
The internet cannot be a free thing, each country has its rules. Regulation and laws. All these pages have an administrator. We must act. We're going to request support from the Attorney General.
This is not acceptable, that they broadcast whatever they want, poisoning the minds of many people
Noticiero Digital (listen, this is very grave): "Breaking news; Diosdado Cabello murdered" [...] Someone has to be responsible here because these pages cannot be free for what you to want to say. There are laws here and they must be obeyed.
Link to original video: Dailymotion - Chávez pide actuar contra ND (in Spanish).
I'm surprised it took him this long.
This is precisely what happened to Venezuelan opposition. They cried wolf from at first signs of his intentions, and it didn't happen right away. That cost them a LOT of credibility, and the metaphorical frog did nothing as it felt the water warming up around it.
People from different cultures have different priorities.
But trolling is universal.