Though they could also stand a little capital punishment. Maybe decapitation. (And someone please explain to me in some detail what the process is that makes "caput" consistently go to "capit-" in the english forms?)
Well this is sort of true, but you're missing an important factor. Governments want power. How can they get more while retaining the facades of "rule of law" and "the innocent have nothing to fear"? Make everything illegal. If you're an innocent they can't touch you, so the solution is to make sure there are no innocents. Haven't you ever seen on "crime drama" TV where they have no proof that Dirty Suspect Guy killed whoever it is he's supposed to have killed, so they find a mountain of insignificant charges to let them "hold onto" the guy for a while? This is reality. And why do you think we have more and more and more laws, and more regulatory bodies in recent years? It's not because the world is a more complicated place -- we haven't changed so much that the same tenets of decent behavior no longer apply. It's because "free" states around the world are realizing that they can extend their power further and further into your life, keeping the veneer of legitimacy, until they've arrogated so much power that they don't even have to pretend. And that's what you're seeing now, the beginnings of the "we're so powerful, we don't even have to act like good guys anymore" phase.
Zaurus won't run "general windows applications" but it'll run Debian or OpenBSD okay. It's not our fault that MS doesn't bother with non-x86 ports of Windows.
Yeah, I know it is. And it's even considered somewhat acceptable. But it's still an ignorant backformation, and there's no reason to use it when "orient" exists. You don't invent verbs "accusate", "affirmate", "causate", "compilate", "damnate", "deportate", or "exclamate" (to pick a few nonexistent words from the dictionary), why "orientate"?
If you didn't want to do anything too heavy on long-term plot, I'm sure you could find enough space between the end of Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2 to fit a movie's worth of plot. None of the episodes at the end of S1 really established anything important, and there was no real plot carry-over and no established timeframe btween "In the Hands of the Prophets" and the arc started by "The Homecoming". I'm not sure that I'd want to see such a thing done -- in fact, probably not. But I'm just saying, it could:)
Power management generally requires no configuration these days; network printing requires no more configuration than it does on windows unless you're very unlucky. Burning a video DVD is a bit of a PITA (mostly on the encoding end) but then again you have a whole lot of flexibility in the process. You just have to write a script, save it, and tailor it;) Yes, I know that's not for "normal people".
Agreed. I was looking at an industry mag recently, and they printed a poll of cell phone users concerning churn. Basically the questions asked were: Who is your provider, are you considering leaving them in the next few months, and who are you thinking about moving to? Do you know who had the lowest "considering leaving" numbers and the highest "considering moving to" numbers? Verizon. Apparently the average Joes really like their crippled phones and their single-source philosophy.
There are people in the field who practice real, common-sense economics... it's just that it's thoroughly unfashionable and doesn't make for good newspaper headlines, so you don't hear about it.:)
Oh I agree, it would be sweet. And necro81, I'm not saying that it would be impossible either. Just that it would be a necessary part of making this doodling dream come true, and they haven't said anything about it yet. UV laser pens sound a little bit dangerous too;)
This "inkless printing" tech isn't valuable for making a printout you can doodle on, unless they can make a matching "inkless pen". Otherwise you erase the sheet for reuse and the "blank" paper still has your notes on it.
Larry also says that it stands for "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" and wears a shirt that says "Polymorphic Existential Recursive Lambda 6". It doesn't mean that Perl "stands for" those things, merely that the letters of its name can be put into correspondence with the word-first letters of those phrases. This is especially relevant in light of the fact that Perl is not and has never been an acronym. Unless you count P.E.R.L., anyway.
Er? The documentation is in the package, except in the rare case where you have a very large system that's already split up into several packages, and it includes a very large manual as well. Then the manual goes into the foo-doc package, and will be Suggested by the foo package, so aptitude, synaptic, whatever will already show it to you and you're one click/keystroke away from having it.
apt actually is meant to cope with this. You actually have a few more choices than crimperman mentioned.
1) Start with apt-get source. That gives you a source tarball and the debian patches that (among other things) drop in the control files for building with dpkg-buildpackage. If you just need one minor version newer than what's in the repos, you probably have a good chance of being able to patch up and build.
2) checkinstall works reasonably well on Debian. Sure, getting proper dependencies depends on you typing them in, but at least you'll come out with a package that uninstalls properly and satisfies somebody else's dep, which lets you get on with your life. Easy, too.
3) equivs -- like checkinstall but dumber and simpler. You feed it something that looks like a Debian control file, it produces a deb with that control file in it, that you can install. This one doesn't even keep track of files -- if you uninstall or upgrade the package, your files or left around. But it can be used to dummy up dependencies nonetheless.
4) Build your own deb from scratch as suggested by crimperman. Takes a little learning but it's not as hard as it looks.
5) Not actually 5 but a sidenote -- when dealing with Perl modules, installing from CPAN gives you many of the same issues as installing from source. See if dh-make-perl works first. Or CPANPLUS if you can manage it. Or even checkinstall. Saves you from some hell down the road.
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Though they could also stand a little capital punishment. Maybe decapitation. (And someone please explain to me in some detail what the process is that makes "caput" consistently go to "capit-" in the english forms?)
Well this is sort of true, but you're missing an important factor. Governments want power. How can they get more while retaining the facades of "rule of law" and "the innocent have nothing to fear"? Make everything illegal. If you're an innocent they can't touch you, so the solution is to make sure there are no innocents. Haven't you ever seen on "crime drama" TV where they have no proof that Dirty Suspect Guy killed whoever it is he's supposed to have killed, so they find a mountain of insignificant charges to let them "hold onto" the guy for a while? This is reality. And why do you think we have more and more and more laws, and more regulatory bodies in recent years? It's not because the world is a more complicated place -- we haven't changed so much that the same tenets of decent behavior no longer apply. It's because "free" states around the world are realizing that they can extend their power further and further into your life, keeping the veneer of legitimacy, until they've arrogated so much power that they don't even have to pretend. And that's what you're seeing now, the beginnings of the "we're so powerful, we don't even have to act like good guys anymore" phase.
No... MP3 patents are about, you know, patents. Copyrights are not patents. Patents are not copyrights.
Zaurus won't run "general windows applications" but it'll run Debian or OpenBSD okay. It's not our fault that MS doesn't bother with non-x86 ports of Windows.
The summary of the original submission was much more on the mark. So it's not just a dupe, it's a Cheap Plastic Imitation of the Amulet of Slashdot.
Nope. Definitely defective by lack of design.
30 million is what portion of 7 billion, again? Less than half a percent? :)
Yeah, I know it is. And it's even considered somewhat acceptable. But it's still an ignorant backformation, and there's no reason to use it when "orient" exists. You don't invent verbs "accusate", "affirmate", "causate", "compilate", "damnate", "deportate", or "exclamate" (to pick a few nonexistent words from the dictionary), why "orientate"?
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perl -pi.bak -e 's/Randal/BillG/' file file file
This is why these things were invented
No, really. It isn't.
If you didn't want to do anything too heavy on long-term plot, I'm sure you could find enough space between the end of Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2 to fit a movie's worth of plot. None of the episodes at the end of S1 really established anything important, and there was no real plot carry-over and no established timeframe btween "In the Hands of the Prophets" and the arc started by "The Homecoming". I'm not sure that I'd want to see such a thing done -- in fact, probably not. But I'm just saying, it could :)
My arm now hurts from hours of play.
Power management generally requires no configuration these days; network printing requires no more configuration than it does on windows unless you're very unlucky. Burning a video DVD is a bit of a PITA (mostly on the encoding end) but then again you have a whole lot of flexibility in the process. You just have to write a script, save it, and tailor it ;) Yes, I know that's not for "normal people".
Agreed. I was looking at an industry mag recently, and they printed a poll of cell phone users concerning churn. Basically the questions asked were: Who is your provider, are you considering leaving them in the next few months, and who are you thinking about moving to? Do you know who had the lowest "considering leaving" numbers and the highest "considering moving to" numbers? Verizon. Apparently the average Joes really like their crippled phones and their single-source philosophy.
There are people in the field who practice real, common-sense economics... it's just that it's thoroughly unfashionable and doesn't make for good newspaper headlines, so you don't hear about it. :)
You're also missing the annoying UI design and worse performance.
My parents' TV also died at the age of about 20... and it didn't die of natural causes either, I sort of accidentally exploded it.
Oh I agree, it would be sweet. And necro81, I'm not saying that it would be impossible either. Just that it would be a necessary part of making this doodling dream come true, and they haven't said anything about it yet. UV laser pens sound a little bit dangerous too ;)
This "inkless printing" tech isn't valuable for making a printout you can doodle on, unless they can make a matching "inkless pen". Otherwise you erase the sheet for reuse and the "blank" paper still has your notes on it.
Larry also says that it stands for "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" and wears a shirt that says "Polymorphic Existential Recursive Lambda 6". It doesn't mean that Perl "stands for" those things, merely that the letters of its name can be put into correspondence with the word-first letters of those phrases. This is especially relevant in light of the fact that Perl is not and has never been an acronym. Unless you count P.E.R.L., anyway.
It doesn't work with one provider, it works with hundreds, dozens of which are in the US (but only two of which have national scope)
Er? The documentation is in the package, except in the rare case where you have a very large system that's already split up into several packages, and it includes a very large manual as well. Then the manual goes into the foo-doc package, and will be Suggested by the foo package, so aptitude, synaptic, whatever will already show it to you and you're one click/keystroke away from having it.
It's hidden in the bar on the left. I had a hell of a time finding it too :)
And slashdot, PLEASE stop punishing me for being a decent typist.
apt actually is meant to cope with this. You actually have a few more choices than crimperman mentioned.
1) Start with apt-get source. That gives you a source tarball and the debian patches that (among other things) drop in the control files for building with dpkg-buildpackage. If you just need one minor version newer than what's in the repos, you probably have a good chance of being able to patch up and build.
2) checkinstall works reasonably well on Debian. Sure, getting proper dependencies depends on you typing them in, but at least you'll come out with a package that uninstalls properly and satisfies somebody else's dep, which lets you get on with your life. Easy, too.
3) equivs -- like checkinstall but dumber and simpler. You feed it something that looks like a Debian control file, it produces a deb with that control file in it, that you can install. This one doesn't even keep track of files -- if you uninstall or upgrade the package, your files or left around. But it can be used to dummy up dependencies nonetheless.
4) Build your own deb from scratch as suggested by crimperman. Takes a little learning but it's not as hard as it looks.
5) Not actually 5 but a sidenote -- when dealing with Perl modules, installing from CPAN gives you many of the same issues as installing from source. See if dh-make-perl works first. Or CPANPLUS if you can manage it. Or even checkinstall. Saves you from some hell down the road.