You know, I hear that argument all the time, and invariably my response is "so what?".
I can selectively download webpages, choosing to omit ads, and whoever says I can't can bite it.
99% of people on the net don't block normal ads (not counting popups here). I don't block most of them, but when I do, I don't feel sorry at all, because the measely traffic I generate is more than subsidized by those who do. The uninformed and apathetic masses piss me off in so many ways, so I might as well use them as ad downloading fodder to support the sites I like to read.
You own content and don't like it? Tough. You have other options. Place it behind a password and charge people to see it, develop a proprietary protocol and require a special viewer to see it, or move to another form of media. TV is fine. I haven't owned a TV in years because I don't feel the meager content on it is worth the annoying ads that are taking up more and more time. You won't have to worry about me watching your content without seeing the ads.
Besides, adblock generally works as a blacklist. You can't "turn ads off" altogether. You block by globbing.
you can't toss the rubble so often because you are inside the thing, and have to do a great effort to send it into the center (where there is no gravty and, probably, a hole)
Some of us americans grew up being trained how to hide under desks in school in case of soviet nuclear attack.
Granted, I wasn't one of them - I'm only 30. But I was raised by the ones who were and around the remaining social and architectural lefovers of that era. Every school I attended in my youth had a fallout shelter, clearly marked, with a black-on-yellow radiation symbol. We were trained on what to do in case of fallout. The constant threat of nuclear war with the soviet union played a part in the psyche of every american who grew up during the cold war.
We're the nation who invented "the button" and grew up under the assumption we were living on borrowed time before it was used. It's part of our culture. We can talk about nukes without hiding under the blanket - we've been talking about them all our lives.
And, despite all this, we've gone sixty years without using nuclear weapons offensively (our military has been responsible for safeguarding Japan since then). They've been a "last option" scenario since then, mostly just as a deterrant from other nations nuking us. I'd hardly consider that "solving all problems".
Solaris 2 (2.7 became 7, 2.8 is 8, etc.) is based on the SunOS 5 kernel - which is SysV based.
However, Solaris 1 (also known as SunOS 4 and below - sun has a thing for changing names and version numbers) had a BSD derived kernel and userspace.
So there's a lot of BSD in Solaris 2 - they'd have been stupid to completely trash all the SunOS 4 code. Solaris 2 still runs a lot of SunOS code fine.
Because one of those countries is large and powerful and already has plenty of them and has used them in the past.
That's what it boils down to. We're big, we can use our influence or threats to keep other people from getting as big or powerful as us.
Nations aren't rational. Quite a bit of the time international politics is indistiguishable from schoolyard fighting. We happen to be the big kid. That's all the justification we need, until the voters decide to make it a large enough issue to make our government step back or the rest of the world gets sick of us and gangs up on us.
"Rights" don't exist for nations, nor do ethics. Everything's in the eye of the beholder - especially the beholder with the most weapons, largest military, and most globally intwined economy.
Yeah, the smiley's part of it. The name was a joke on the old DivX scheme.
I do wonder if that led to slow adoption back when it first came out. I remember I avoided divx stuff because I had it confused with the disk format.
(And the major difference between dvd-style mpeg4 and divx is that divx uses mp3 for audio instead of aac).
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Acceptable losses.
Most astronauts are military, and if they weren't flying around in space, they'd be flying F15's over enemy territory.
Which is more dangerous?
These (for the most part) are people who have sworn to give their lives in service to their country. If they die trying to advance science, is that not more noble than dying trying to take a hill or bomb a building?
It looks the same, but it does things like automatic partitioning and the network setup changed (I think). I didn't see the big menu full of actions that used to be the crux of the old installer, but they might just not have taken that screenshot. It also looks like it doesn't ask you if you want to select package groups to add before presenting them to you, and the manual package selection option is a suboption of that menu.
The initial gui boot screen is different, but that's just eye candy.
The X strike force (the guys who do X for debian) made the decision to stick with xfree for sarge back when the license schism happened. Debian release planning is a long, well-planned process, and changing something as fundamental as the graphical subsystem wasn't something they were willing to do in the middle of a release cycle. The plan was to wait until after sarge to switch over.
X.org is going through major changes in the way it's packaged. Basically, it's one big chunk of program - just like xfree, more or less - and they're moving it over to a more modular system. Because of this, the debian maintainers had decided to wait until the modular tree was released before switching to X.org. It seems that this is taking longer than expected, so according to the FAQ on their site they will be moving over to it soon and modularizing along the way. That's a big relief to me, since I run unstable on my workstation and have been looking forward to X.org for quite some time.
So yeah, the next release should be X.org, but with the changes in supported architectures, hopefully it won't be three years before etch is released.
The GUI after installation is a pretty standard GNOME setup.
There's a bit more GUI during actual setup, but to me it seems pretty similar to the installer woody used, although a lot more streamlined. Most of it is still curses based, which, IMHO, suits debian best anyway. The whole idea that raster GUI install programs are easier to use is bunk - an well designed curses interface is just as effective.
This was actually very informative to people like me who support debian systems and haven't gotten around to evaluating the new setup system. For instance, I was unaware that debian was moving to grub until I saw the screenshots; that tells me I need to get off my ass and learn grub.
They used to use the back section of planes to make ice cream (the cold and vibration from the propeller planes was perfect for it). It was air force tradition for quite some time.
It really just depends on what kind of plane you're talking about. I'm sure there's areas on even modern large-body jets where there's an uninsulated section large enough for a keg.
See here for the newtonian explanation (and why it's wrong) and here for the longer path explanation (and why it's also wrong).
The truth is a lot more complicated, but it's a mixture of the two as well as some other factors presented by neither explanation. Basically, both factors help, but aren't the entire picture.
I haven't looked at the specs, since I don't work much with windows servers anymore, but I'm curious: one of the major advantages with UNIX boxes is that most of the software you work with has some sort of CLI, or at least has hooks that can read data produced from the command line.
Windows, on the other hand, has always been particularly bad about that - most apps don't have any support for that sort of thing. Scripting in the windows world has been fairly pointless. Sure, a lot of sysadmin tasks can be performed using the command line, but limitations in the shell make that a pain in the ass. CMD.exe isnt' anywhere near UNIX shells as far as programmability is concerned, and windows lacks the plethora of command line shell enhancing utilities (i.e. sed, grep, etc.) that makes the UNIX shell environment so useful?
This is talking about using COM and.NET classes - will we finally be able to hook into more applications and actually do useful things at the command line now, or will this mainly benefit programmers who are trained in OO concepts rather than sysadmins?
Word of mouth, or what I used to do - go through on a day when you're not doing anything and randomly click in the keenspace list any comic that has been updated recently. You get a lot of misses, but a few hits.
Word of mouth seems best though - I remember the number of comics I read jumped significantly after I found damonk's (of framed! fame) links page. Too bad he doesn't do it anymore.
Keenspot also sells comic books and has subscription content and services.
The comic books that I've seen (I have a few) are usually just reprinted comics you can see on the 'net though, and don't really fit the format. There's a few that are new material and made for comic books.
The premium service for the first year sucked balls (I didn't renew after that, so I don't know what it's like anymore). I don't know if they ever got the comic viewing code working right, and they still seem to have little premium-only content. Of course, you get a keenspot premium banner instead of the ad banner when you go to the regular comic sites.
They also sell stuff as well, like stuffed animals and t-shirts and such.
Also, you didn't mention, but they run keenspace - free hosting for comic strips that haven't been accepted as part of keenspot. A lot of keenspot comics started out as part of keenspace. Of course, they advertise on there as well.
Similar, in the sense that it has a similar distribution method and profit source.
It's a niche comic, but then again "shortpacked" is mostly funny to people who are/were into 80's toys and collecting, and melonpool is for sci fi fans.
These were all keenspot cartoonists though, and Illiad isn't. The FAQ says they're not taking on more members for a while, and Illiad's been around long enough as an independant that he more than likely has the promotion channels set up they way he likes it. These guys have been under keenspot's wing for quite some time (paul southworth has been there from the beginning), so they're having to start a lot of stuff from scratch.
I watch about two hours a day in the active season
Good for you. Now contrast that with the millions of americans who come home from work and sit in front of that thing all night. It doesn't sound like you "love TV" - more like you find it a decent form of entertainment.
My parents love TV like junkies love crack. My stepmother is very overweight and as long as she stares at that tube she's not losing a pound. My sister's probably going to end up the same way. I would have myself if I wasn't too poor to afford cable when I moved out of the house years ago, and found that I didn't need any TV at all (there's only two stations you can pick up on the antenna here, and one of them is an auction only station).
TV's just like any addiction. It's fine as long as you don't let it control your life. You don't, so congratulations; it's not a problem for you. It does control the lives of a lot of people, and those people could very probably benefit from spending more time in the "real world".
Granted, I'm basing this on an OEM version, although I'm sure they didn't come with plus! - Too many customers called about it and we didn't support it. They did have IE 1.0 there, though - as an executable in the windows directory.
It's fully well possible the retail version didn't come with it, but the machine I was supporting came with windows 95 right when it came out and it had it.
LOTR wasn't set of children's books. The Hobbit, however, was a children's book - note the difference in writing style and subject matter between them. LOTR was supposed to be akin to folklore, as Tolkein often noted that the English had very little folklore of their own.
As far as Star Wars goes, I didn't pay it any mind as a child (never had the toys, saw the movies, etc.) and didn't see it until I was probably 16 or so. I loved 4-6 - as an adult, I thought they were enjoyable, well-made movies and told a good story. Not perfect, but good nonetheless. Episodes 1-3 had crap for dialog and horrible acting - you just can't make up for that.
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You know, I hear that argument all the time, and invariably my response is "so what?".
I can selectively download webpages, choosing to omit ads, and whoever says I can't can bite it.
99% of people on the net don't block normal ads (not counting popups here). I don't block most of them, but when I do, I don't feel sorry at all, because the measely traffic I generate is more than subsidized by those who do. The uninformed and apathetic masses piss me off in so many ways, so I might as well use them as ad downloading fodder to support the sites I like to read.
You own content and don't like it? Tough. You have other options. Place it behind a password and charge people to see it, develop a proprietary protocol and require a special viewer to see it, or move to another form of media. TV is fine. I haven't owned a TV in years because I don't feel the meager content on it is worth the annoying ads that are taking up more and more time. You won't have to worry about me watching your content without seeing the ads.
Besides, adblock generally works as a blacklist. You can't "turn ads off" altogether. You block by globbing.
Yeah, but think of the lag times when you're trying to frag on an earth server...
you can't toss the rubble so often because you are inside the thing, and have to do a great effort to send it into the center (where there is no gravty and, probably, a hole)
That's when the conveyor belts come in.
Some of us americans grew up being trained how to hide under desks in school in case of soviet nuclear attack.
Granted, I wasn't one of them - I'm only 30. But I was raised by the ones who were and around the remaining social and architectural lefovers of that era. Every school I attended in my youth had a fallout shelter, clearly marked, with a black-on-yellow radiation symbol. We were trained on what to do in case of fallout. The constant threat of nuclear war with the soviet union played a part in the psyche of every american who grew up during the cold war.
We're the nation who invented "the button" and grew up under the assumption we were living on borrowed time before it was used. It's part of our culture. We can talk about nukes without hiding under the blanket - we've been talking about them all our lives.
And, despite all this, we've gone sixty years without using nuclear weapons offensively (our military has been responsible for safeguarding Japan since then). They've been a "last option" scenario since then, mostly just as a deterrant from other nations nuking us. I'd hardly consider that "solving all problems".
Not BSD derived.
Depends how you look at it.
Solaris 2 (2.7 became 7, 2.8 is 8, etc.) is based on the SunOS 5 kernel - which is SysV based.
However, Solaris 1 (also known as SunOS 4 and below - sun has a thing for changing names and version numbers) had a BSD derived kernel and userspace.
So there's a lot of BSD in Solaris 2 - they'd have been stupid to completely trash all the SunOS 4 code. Solaris 2 still runs a lot of SunOS code fine.
Because one of those countries is large and powerful and already has plenty of them and has used them in the past.
That's what it boils down to. We're big, we can use our influence or threats to keep other people from getting as big or powerful as us.
Nations aren't rational. Quite a bit of the time international politics is indistiguishable from schoolyard fighting. We happen to be the big kid. That's all the justification we need, until the voters decide to make it a large enough issue to make our government step back or the rest of the world gets sick of us and gangs up on us.
"Rights" don't exist for nations, nor do ethics. Everything's in the eye of the beholder - especially the beholder with the most weapons, largest military, and most globally intwined economy.
It's actually called DivX ;)
Yeah, the smiley's part of it. The name was a joke on the old DivX scheme.
I do wonder if that led to slow adoption back when it first came out. I remember I avoided divx stuff because I had it confused with the disk format.
(And the major difference between dvd-style mpeg4 and divx is that divx uses mp3 for audio instead of aac).
Acceptable losses.
Most astronauts are military, and if they weren't flying around in space, they'd be flying F15's over enemy territory.
Which is more dangerous?
These (for the most part) are people who have sworn to give their lives in service to their country. If they die trying to advance science, is that not more noble than dying trying to take a hill or bomb a building?
Great. What's next Mauve and Fuscha?
Only if human eyes change significantly.
It looks the same, but it does things like automatic partitioning and the network setup changed (I think). I didn't see the big menu full of actions that used to be the crux of the old installer, but they might just not have taken that screenshot. It also looks like it doesn't ask you if you want to select package groups to add before presenting them to you, and the manual package selection option is a suboption of that menu.
The initial gui boot screen is different, but that's just eye candy.
The X strike force (the guys who do X for debian) made the decision to stick with xfree for sarge back when the license schism happened. Debian release planning is a long, well-planned process, and changing something as fundamental as the graphical subsystem wasn't something they were willing to do in the middle of a release cycle. The plan was to wait until after sarge to switch over.
X.org is going through major changes in the way it's packaged. Basically, it's one big chunk of program - just like xfree, more or less - and they're moving it over to a more modular system. Because of this, the debian maintainers had decided to wait until the modular tree was released before switching to X.org. It seems that this is taking longer than expected, so according to the FAQ on their site they will be moving over to it soon and modularizing along the way. That's a big relief to me, since I run unstable on my workstation and have been looking forward to X.org for quite some time.
So yeah, the next release should be X.org, but with the changes in supported architectures, hopefully it won't be three years before etch is released.
The GUI after installation is a pretty standard GNOME setup.
There's a bit more GUI during actual setup, but to me it seems pretty similar to the installer woody used, although a lot more streamlined. Most of it is still curses based, which, IMHO, suits debian best anyway. The whole idea that raster GUI install programs are easier to use is bunk - an well designed curses interface is just as effective.
This was actually very informative to people like me who support debian systems and haven't gotten around to evaluating the new setup system. For instance, I was unaware that debian was moving to grub until I saw the screenshots; that tells me I need to get off my ass and learn grub.
Red beer - it's a mixture of beer and tomato juice (and some people do put salt in it as well).
Good luck finding it outside oklahoma though.
They used to use the back section of planes to make ice cream (the cold and vibration from the propeller planes was perfect for it). It was air force tradition for quite some time.
It really just depends on what kind of plane you're talking about. I'm sure there's areas on even modern large-body jets where there's an uninsulated section large enough for a keg.
You're both wrong.
See here for the newtonian explanation (and why it's wrong) and here for the longer path explanation (and why it's also wrong).
The truth is a lot more complicated, but it's a mixture of the two as well as some other factors presented by neither explanation. Basically, both factors help, but aren't the entire picture.
I haven't looked at the specs, since I don't work much with windows servers anymore, but I'm curious: one of the major advantages with UNIX boxes is that most of the software you work with has some sort of CLI, or at least has hooks that can read data produced from the command line.
.NET classes - will we finally be able to hook into more applications and actually do useful things at the command line now, or will this mainly benefit programmers who are trained in OO concepts rather than sysadmins?
Windows, on the other hand, has always been particularly bad about that - most apps don't have any support for that sort of thing. Scripting in the windows world has been fairly pointless. Sure, a lot of sysadmin tasks can be performed using the command line, but limitations in the shell make that a pain in the ass. CMD.exe isnt' anywhere near UNIX shells as far as programmability is concerned, and windows lacks the plethora of command line shell enhancing utilities (i.e. sed, grep, etc.) that makes the UNIX shell environment so useful?
This is talking about using COM and
Word of mouth, or what I used to do - go through on a day when you're not doing anything and randomly click in the keenspace list any comic that has been updated recently. You get a lot of misses, but a few hits.
Word of mouth seems best though - I remember the number of comics I read jumped significantly after I found damonk's (of framed! fame) links page. Too bad he doesn't do it anymore.
Keenspot also sells comic books and has subscription content and services.
The comic books that I've seen (I have a few) are usually just reprinted comics you can see on the 'net though, and don't really fit the format. There's a few that are new material and made for comic books.
The premium service for the first year sucked balls (I didn't renew after that, so I don't know what it's like anymore). I don't know if they ever got the comic viewing code working right, and they still seem to have little premium-only content. Of course, you get a keenspot premium banner instead of the ad banner when you go to the regular comic sites.
They also sell stuff as well, like stuffed animals and t-shirts and such.
Also, you didn't mention, but they run keenspace - free hosting for comic strips that haven't been accepted as part of keenspot. A lot of keenspot comics started out as part of keenspace. Of course, they advertise on there as well.
Similar, in the sense that it has a similar distribution method and profit source.
It's a niche comic, but then again "shortpacked" is mostly funny to people who are/were into 80's toys and collecting, and melonpool is for sci fi fans.
These were all keenspot cartoonists though, and Illiad isn't. The FAQ says they're not taking on more members for a while, and Illiad's been around long enough as an independant that he more than likely has the promotion channels set up they way he likes it. These guys have been under keenspot's wing for quite some time (paul southworth has been there from the beginning), so they're having to start a lot of stuff from scratch.
No, no, no - there's other people on the planet. Who else would we bomb?
Naw, you have to go to the offices on alpha centauri for that.
I watch about two hours a day in the active season
Good for you. Now contrast that with the millions of americans who come home from work and sit in front of that thing all night. It doesn't sound like you "love TV" - more like you find it a decent form of entertainment.
My parents love TV like junkies love crack. My stepmother is very overweight and as long as she stares at that tube she's not losing a pound. My sister's probably going to end up the same way. I would have myself if I wasn't too poor to afford cable when I moved out of the house years ago, and found that I didn't need any TV at all (there's only two stations you can pick up on the antenna here, and one of them is an auction only station).
TV's just like any addiction. It's fine as long as you don't let it control your life. You don't, so congratulations; it's not a problem for you. It does control the lives of a lot of people, and those people could very probably benefit from spending more time in the "real world".
Hrm, strange.
Granted, I'm basing this on an OEM version, although I'm sure they didn't come with plus! - Too many customers called about it and we didn't support it. They did have IE 1.0 there, though - as an executable in the windows directory.
It's fully well possible the retail version didn't come with it, but the machine I was supporting came with windows 95 right when it came out and it had it.
SR2 and above had 3.x on them, IIRC.
Windows 95 came with IE 1.0. There's no links to it (IIRC) but it's there. The first webpage I ever wrote was written for it on an internal LAN.
The later versions of 95 came with IE 3 (can't remember, SR2 or something? Damn it's been a while).
Of course, those versions of IE weren't integrated, so you could remove them easily.
LOTR wasn't set of children's books. The Hobbit, however, was a children's book - note the difference in writing style and subject matter between them. LOTR was supposed to be akin to folklore, as Tolkein often noted that the English had very little folklore of their own.
As far as Star Wars goes, I didn't pay it any mind as a child (never had the toys, saw the movies, etc.) and didn't see it until I was probably 16 or so. I loved 4-6 - as an adult, I thought they were enjoyable, well-made movies and told a good story. Not perfect, but good nonetheless. Episodes 1-3 had crap for dialog and horrible acting - you just can't make up for that.