except it relies on lazy web-admin Joe123 to create said trivia questions.
Anything which takes more than five minutes to set up will fail for most people. Such is the way of the world today.
no one, NO ONE, who has ever ruled, was also loved You're wrong on that. Many great rulers have been loved by the public. They're just simply not loved by everyone, nor are they loved forever. Gaius Julius Caesar is a famous example - The crowd loved him enough to willingly let him become their ruler. This, however, also ended up with him being murdered, and his son Augustus became the first emperor of Rome.
However, I can agree that there's no powerful person that isn't hated by someone. It could be out of jealousy, it could be out of fear for losing their own power, but power will always make some people hate you. 'Nuff said.
Actually the sites where you need Flash just to use it are quite a few. I've even visited a few *government* sites that required Flash 9 back in the days when Linux still was stuck on Flash 7. My banking site recently pushed an upgrade, and uses Flash. The fact that there are no decent 64-bit versions makes things even worse, since it crashes half the time using ndiswrapper, and Gnash just makes me gnash my teeth because it still sucks for my needs.
No, the grand parent is right in this. As much as I hate to admit it, unless a miracle occurs, Microsoft will have the last laugh on this. In five years quite a few - Not every site, but quite a few - websites will require XAML and/or Silverlight. Enough to make it a pain in the neck to surf the web without said technologies. At that point Microsoft will have the world by the balls (again).
Sad but true.:(
Acutally, Linux has as much problems as Windows, they're just not the same problems.
Most of the time when I hear "Linux sucks because of x", x happens to be a common problem which is approached differently in Linux than it is in Windows, and thus, the person in question is doing what worked for him in Windows but fails in Linux, when he should've just done it the Linux way. Case in point; you going out on the web and trying to download the ATi drivers manually, when you can just pull them from the apt repository in Ubuntu. That's the way you do it in Ubuntu - You look in Synaptic first, and the web second.
Is Linux flawless? Not by any means. But it *is* different from Windows, with another type of culture, with another type of mindset, and with a community who loves to tinker with it. It has many strengths, and quite a few weaknesses, but above all, *it isn't windows*. And if you want to use it, you'd better start treating it as such. As for which is better... You're free to decide that. But don't tell me Linux sucks just because it's different from what you're used to.
Actually, the reason Linux use packages is simpler than that; dynamic linking. Linux has all these wonderful libraries like GTK2, QT, PyGame, Cuda, SDL... In the windows world these gets included with the app, which means any 5MB app will have around 15 MB of libraries accompanying it. If one has 100 apps installed, that's 1.5 GB of wasted space. In the Linux world, these are the domain of the package repository - one libfile per app. It helps keep the harddisk space to a minimum, and puts all those lib files in one convenient place to boot. It also has the nice advantage of the lib already being loaded when an application starts.
Also, thanks to the dynamic linking, you just have to update the library, not the application itself, whenever something needs updating. The reason why it seems like the app has to be recompiled, is because often both lib *and* app gets updated at the same time. And of course, there's also the distro upgrades, when basicly every new package gets recompiled... But that's only natural, since it is, after all, a dist-upgrade.
Command line woes nonwithstanding, the grandparent was pointing out that most things the great-grandparent pointed out were a case of things not being the way he's used to, rather than being a flaw of the OS itself.
Linux isn't windows, nor will it ever be windows. At best it might be a somewhat similar Windows Clone, but it will remain Linux. If you want an Open Source Windows, check out ReactOS. Nuff said.
But politely asking (once) if there is any possibility of a Linux version is definitely helping. It means you show that there's interest for a Linux port.
In the case of NWN2 Atari were just plain dumb IMO. IIRC, according to a poll done on the original NWN webpage, 60% used the Linux version. 60%. Now, I'm not exactly an economics professor, but when more than half of your active userbase use the Linux port, doesn't it then stand to reason that you should put some resources on that? But, nooooo. Instead they make their customers pissed at them, for no good reason. Thus I've heard many take a stance of "I will not buy NWN2", which means bad PR for the game. Notice that I blame Atari for this; The Bioware developers were more than willing to develop a Linux port, if Atari OKed it.
I mean, it's not exactly rocket science, and most users seems to be content with an unsupported binary blob...
Not to burst your bubble or anything, but there's a simple solution to this; When you do not want to be disturbed, set "Do Not Disturb" and make sure you mean it. Most people then think "Oh, I shouldn't expect an answer right away, if it's important I'll call him/her", and thus it's ok to ignore the message. If they do not follow these rules, make sure that they know "DND is DND". If they still refuse to follow these rules despite this... Well, the ignore button was there for a reason.
Also, you might want to consider different accounts, one for work and one for personal use.
Well, it's just that my impression has been that large Open Source projects suffer from lots of drama and politics. Just look at the recent Con Kolivas in the Linux Kernel development list. If things are as you say though, then that's great. I'm just stating how my impression is, might be completely off target, who knows?:)
Well, IMO one of the most useful parts about colgroups is that you can left/right/center-align numbers/images/whatever on them. Yet, Firefox won't let me do that even with CSS. Neither will Opera. That's a cryin' shame in my opinion, since it wouldn't be *that* much extra work. Instead I must rely on JavaScript to produce a similar effect.
Who for a brief moment thought "Wait, they've developed a satellite with internet access that orbits the earth at insanely high speeds?" or something similar?
Sleep-depraved mind FTW.:p
While a wireless modem gives you an unparallelled degree of freedom, download speeds are still lacking. So, while it's a great compliment to regular technology it's not yet ready for prime.
Blessing, because... Well, you can make sure you get a distro tailored to your needs.
Curse, because there's a thousand different choices and each and every one of them has a valid excuse for being around. That's why I usually reccommend Ubuntu to less computer savy people, and Gentoo for the geeks. Both are great entry-point distros IMO. But, sane defaults are definitely a good thing.
And, let's not forget much of the newer comics today are distributed in digital form. Just look at MegaTokyo, Penny Arcade, User Friendly, XKCD... The list goes on and on.
Yes, you *might* have to pay for this. Just like you *might* have to pay for any other service.
Look at it this way; there are web hotels out there that charge nothing when you put up a site with them, but will display ads on your page. These hotels usually have very limited options. And then there are web hotels that costs money, and lets you put up a small phpBB forum or somesuch. Finally, there are the dedicated server options, for those who really needs it.
OpenID is basicly the same thing; if you want to trust your account to a crappy provider, then that's your decision, but the more reputable, won't-go-down-even-if-world-is-destroyed OpenID providers might still decide to charge for it. Simple as that.
Well, most XMPP-servers support offline messaging, and you don't have to see someones presence to send someone a message - Only to see their presence details. Though some clients won't allow you to send a message to an unknown contact.
Actually... Yes you can. There's this newfangled thing called the <data> element. But, it got pushed into a XEP like two months ago, so client support is rather limited, and it's only good for 8k for now...:(
If people starts using this much however, I can't see why the XMPP server wouldn't be able to store the file temporarily and then push it once the user is online. But, I think this is better for an xmpp/http hybrid.
See? See? The bad guy (Microsoft) kidnaps the princess (Yahoo!) and The valiant knight (Google) comes to the rescue! And there was much epic battling. Then the princess stabbed both in the back. The end.
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except it relies on lazy web-admin Joe123 to create said trivia questions. Anything which takes more than five minutes to set up will fail for most people. Such is the way of the world today.
Actually the sites where you need Flash just to use it are quite a few. I've even visited a few *government* sites that required Flash 9 back in the days when Linux still was stuck on Flash 7. My banking site recently pushed an upgrade, and uses Flash. The fact that there are no decent 64-bit versions makes things even worse, since it crashes half the time using ndiswrapper, and Gnash just makes me gnash my teeth because it still sucks for my needs. No, the grand parent is right in this. As much as I hate to admit it, unless a miracle occurs, Microsoft will have the last laugh on this. In five years quite a few - Not every site, but quite a few - websites will require XAML and/or Silverlight. Enough to make it a pain in the neck to surf the web without said technologies. At that point Microsoft will have the world by the balls (again). Sad but true. :(
Acutally, Linux has as much problems as Windows, they're just not the same problems.
Most of the time when I hear "Linux sucks because of x", x happens to be a common problem which is approached differently in Linux than it is in Windows, and thus, the person in question is doing what worked for him in Windows but fails in Linux, when he should've just done it the Linux way. Case in point; you going out on the web and trying to download the ATi drivers manually, when you can just pull them from the apt repository in Ubuntu. That's the way you do it in Ubuntu - You look in Synaptic first, and the web second.
Is Linux flawless? Not by any means. But it *is* different from Windows, with another type of culture, with another type of mindset, and with a community who loves to tinker with it. It has many strengths, and quite a few weaknesses, but above all, *it isn't windows*. And if you want to use it, you'd better start treating it as such. As for which is better... You're free to decide that. But don't tell me Linux sucks just because it's different from what you're used to.
Actually, the reason Linux use packages is simpler than that; dynamic linking. Linux has all these wonderful libraries like GTK2, QT, PyGame, Cuda, SDL... In the windows world these gets included with the app, which means any 5MB app will have around 15 MB of libraries accompanying it. If one has 100 apps installed, that's 1.5 GB of wasted space. In the Linux world, these are the domain of the package repository - one libfile per app. It helps keep the harddisk space to a minimum, and puts all those lib files in one convenient place to boot. It also has the nice advantage of the lib already being loaded when an application starts.
Also, thanks to the dynamic linking, you just have to update the library, not the application itself, whenever something needs updating. The reason why it seems like the app has to be recompiled, is because often both lib *and* app gets updated at the same time. And of course, there's also the distro upgrades, when basicly every new package gets recompiled... But that's only natural, since it is, after all, a dist-upgrade.
Command line woes nonwithstanding, the grandparent was pointing out that most things the great-grandparent pointed out were a case of things not being the way he's used to, rather than being a flaw of the OS itself.
Linux isn't windows, nor will it ever be windows. At best it might be a somewhat similar Windows Clone, but it will remain Linux. If you want an Open Source Windows, check out ReactOS. Nuff said.
But... That'd mean that the EU can provide support for Iraq and basicly have it as a back yard, bringing in cheap prices on oil.
But politely asking (once) if there is any possibility of a Linux version is definitely helping. It means you show that there's interest for a Linux port.
In the case of NWN2 Atari were just plain dumb IMO. IIRC, according to a poll done on the original NWN webpage, 60% used the Linux version. 60%. Now, I'm not exactly an economics professor, but when more than half of your active userbase use the Linux port, doesn't it then stand to reason that you should put some resources on that? But, nooooo. Instead they make their customers pissed at them, for no good reason. Thus I've heard many take a stance of "I will not buy NWN2", which means bad PR for the game. Notice that I blame Atari for this; The Bioware developers were more than willing to develop a Linux port, if Atari OKed it.
I mean, it's not exactly rocket science, and most users seems to be content with an unsupported binary blob...
Not to burst your bubble or anything, but there's a simple solution to this; When you do not want to be disturbed, set "Do Not Disturb" and make sure you mean it. Most people then think "Oh, I shouldn't expect an answer right away, if it's important I'll call him/her", and thus it's ok to ignore the message. If they do not follow these rules, make sure that they know "DND is DND". If they still refuse to follow these rules despite this... Well, the ignore button was there for a reason. Also, you might want to consider different accounts, one for work and one for personal use.
Well, it's just that my impression has been that large Open Source projects suffer from lots of drama and politics. Just look at the recent Con Kolivas in the Linux Kernel development list. If things are as you say though, then that's great. I'm just stating how my impression is, might be completely off target, who knows? :)
Aha, I see. That explains quite a bit. Thanks for the answer. :)
"Also, if you submit a patch to fix a bug, you shouldn't have to maintain it. Generally, ones bugs are fixed they remain fixed."
I believe the parent was referring to when the patch isn't accepted into mainstream for some reason or other.
Well, IMO one of the most useful parts about colgroups is that you can left/right/center-align numbers/images/whatever on them. Yet, Firefox won't let me do that even with CSS. Neither will Opera. That's a cryin' shame in my opinion, since it wouldn't be *that* much extra work. Instead I must rely on JavaScript to produce a similar effect.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, consider this example: http://paste.cplusplus.se/paste.php?id=7860
What you're describing already exists. Check out the XMPP (Jabber) protocol/network.
No, what he's saying is that your nice, $20/month broadband connection will suddenly increase to $50 a month.
Who for a brief moment thought "Wait, they've developed a satellite with internet access that orbits the earth at insanely high speeds?" or something similar? Sleep-depraved mind FTW. :p
While a wireless modem gives you an unparallelled degree of freedom, download speeds are still lacking. So, while it's a great compliment to regular technology it's not yet ready for prime.
It's a blessing and a curse.
Blessing, because... Well, you can make sure you get a distro tailored to your needs.
Curse, because there's a thousand different choices and each and every one of them has a valid excuse for being around. That's why I usually reccommend Ubuntu to less computer savy people, and Gentoo for the geeks. Both are great entry-point distros IMO. But, sane defaults are definitely a good thing.
Ok, I stand corrected then. Thanks, didn't know that. :)
Actually, ext2/3 fragments but they're designed in a way that it doesn't matter. At all.
And, let's not forget much of the newer comics today are distributed in digital form. Just look at MegaTokyo, Penny Arcade, User Friendly, XKCD... The list goes on and on.
Yes, you *might* have to pay for this. Just like you *might* have to pay for any other service.
Look at it this way; there are web hotels out there that charge nothing when you put up a site with them, but will display ads on your page. These hotels usually have very limited options. And then there are web hotels that costs money, and lets you put up a small phpBB forum or somesuch. Finally, there are the dedicated server options, for those who really needs it.
OpenID is basicly the same thing; if you want to trust your account to a crappy provider, then that's your decision, but the more reputable, won't-go-down-even-if-world-is-destroyed OpenID providers might still decide to charge for it. Simple as that.
Well, most XMPP-servers support offline messaging, and you don't have to see someones presence to send someone a message - Only to see their presence details. Though some clients won't allow you to send a message to an unknown contact.
Actually... Yes you can. There's this newfangled thing called the <data> element. But, it got pushed into a XEP like two months ago, so client support is rather limited, and it's only good for 8k for now... :(
If people starts using this much however, I can't see why the XMPP server wouldn't be able to store the file temporarily and then push it once the user is online. But, I think this is better for an xmpp/http hybrid.
See? See? The bad guy (Microsoft) kidnaps the princess (Yahoo!) and The valiant knight (Google) comes to the rescue! And there was much epic battling. Then the princess stabbed both in the back. The end.