Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

[Michael Haney]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:52 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 April 2011 13:53, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is no right answer to who was better, Blur or Oasis, the Stones
>> or the Beatles. People's opinions vary. That's fair enough. (Me, I'd
>> say Blur and the Stones, no question, but others differ.)
>
>
> This is in fact false. To resolve a dangling comparative ("better"),
> you need to ask the question: "what's it for?"
>
> What is art for? It's for an audience.
>
> (The answer to "What's the best operating system?" is "What's it for?")
>
> If no art was better or worse than any other, art wouldn't be a thing
> in human experience.
>
> Thus: the fallacy you have tripped over here is to assume that a lack
> of agreed numerical measurement makes comparatives meaningless, which
> is not the case. Fuzzy human subjects are annoying because humans are
> annoying.
>
> Paul Graham has an essay that tries to explain this point to geeks:
> http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html
>
> The term for this sort of thing is "intersubjective", where things are
> a mix of objective and subjective. If you don't understand how this
> applies to art, compare it to languages, which are an excellent
> example people have some understanding of. This is why word meanings
> are not arbitrary - any use of a word has an audience - but not
> entirely fixed - humans can push meanings in communication.
>
> By the way, this also means postmodernism and critical theory aren't
> meaningless either. Rant:
> http://lesswrong.com/lw/4sn/costs_and_benefits_of_scholarship/3qls
>

I've never heard anything from Blur, but I've listened to the Stones
and the Beatles often growing up.  And, my mom was a huge Roger
Wittaker fan also, she played his albums on our 8-track player all day
when I was a kid.

The Beatles sound changed radically in the late 60's.  In fact, it got
strange, especially when they did the Sgt. Pepper album.  Maybe it was
the drugs, LOL.  I think it was called psychedelic rock?

The Stones didn't change a great deal, they were all about rock, not
metal, but rock in its purest form.  I'd put the Stones in the same
category as Bruce Springsteen and Bob Segar.

The guy who does the This Week in Linux podcasts on Youtube recently
did a short piece on 11.04 Beta 1.  He ran it in Vbox and couldn't get
Compiz working.  I've heard of people getting Compiz running in Vbox.
Instead of installing the Vbox extras, you know the integration stuff,
 which come with the software in a mountable image they grab them from
the repos with apt-get instead.  I don't remember the command, but a
quick Google search will likely find it.

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