Oh, and who would run the package distribution servers? Microsoft?
You obviously don't run the development version of WINE on Debian or Ubuntu.
Standard procedure is to add apt repositories from www.lamaresh.net or wine.budgetdedicated.com, and version 1.1.25 there overrides 1.0.1 in the official repositories.
The truth is that Linux distributions need package repositories because otherwise it would be impossible to find and install software for the hundreds of different kinds of environments. Windows? Download an.MSI. Apple? Download an.APP. Linux distribution X? Better hope it's in the repo (and up-to-date) or good luck finding something a normal user can install via point and click.
We could do that with.DEB and.RPM. We just don't need to. If program X needs libraries Y and Z, and the already installed program W also depends on library Y, it is wasteful of disk space, bandwidth, and time to re-download and reinstall Y. Since we use the repositories so much, it makes since to take advantage of the coordination that is possible.
Of course, this is all beside the point since package management has absolutely nothing to do with allowing software to be updated without requiring administrator/root intervention. But hey, who cares what the point was if ignoring it means an opportunity for (poor) Windows bashing.
You lamented that "it might be nice if there was a way for applications to hook into a global OS framework that allows them to check for and apply updates". Thingymebob was pointing out that the repositories and package management are exactly what you asked for.
I suspect being a park ranger in a tiger preserve is one of those jobs that requires more than just a week of on the job training to do.
Particularly since it offers several ways to fuck up and die if you aren't careful and knowledgeable about the risks.
I would be surprised of their current employees got much more than few weeks of apprenticeship.
Never mind that you have to pay the rangers enough that the poachers can't bribe them easily, so it's not a situation where you can throw legions of underpaid unskilled workers at the problem and expect it to go away.
Offer midsized rewards for blowing the whistle on other rangers that take bribes. Now the poachers have to bribe virtually every ranger they may encounter. Could get expensive if you have a legion of rangers.
I agree with nomadic. There is no mention at all in the article what the Feds did to catch these people. A guy (Jung Kwak) who sells cheap satellite receiver boxes offered a cracker $250,000 and Kwak got busted for it.
My phone gets no reception at work, so I turn it off. I turn it on again when I leave, and I usually need to use it at that time. It's frustrating that it takes longer to boot my phone than to actually make the phone call.
It makes perfect sense to put wind farms where the *gasp* wind is.
Sure, but if the wind is so far away that a huge portion of power is lost in transmission, you may want to look for more local sources of power (wind or otherwise).
...I'll try to make an unorthodox argument there, anyway.
IMHO, both GPL-like and BSD-like licenses protect the freedom equally. The question is, whose freedom it is. Roughly speaking, GPL protects the freedoms of users by restricting the coders, while BSD protects the freedom of the coders, which might result in restricting the rights of the users...
That viewpoint has been repeated ad nauseam in virtually every GPL-vs-BSD discussion I've seen.
Swine flu is a serious thread to people who are already chronically ill. If you are seriously ill, you are likely bed ridden and pumped with cortizone, steroids and other drugs.
At one point I lost 10 pounds after being hospitalized for a week or two.
For figuring out if someone is obese? Yes, it's a poor indicator.
But we're not trying to determine whether one is obese. We're trying to find a pattern for "Who is most likely to get horribly sick from swine flu". Apparently, BMI is a reasonably good predictor of this.
Though I agree that there will likely be a better correlation with those that have high % body fat than high BMI.
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Only uneducated folk make them sound similar.
Oh wow.
I can't believe nobody has yet pointed out that 'door hinge' sounds a lot like 'orange'
Oh, and who would run the package distribution servers? Microsoft?
You obviously don't run the development version of WINE on Debian or Ubuntu.
Standard procedure is to add apt repositories from www.lamaresh.net or wine.budgetdedicated.com, and version 1.1.25 there overrides 1.0.1 in the official repositories.
The truth is that Linux distributions need package repositories because otherwise it would be impossible to find and install software for the hundreds of different kinds of environments. Windows? Download an .MSI. Apple? Download an .APP. Linux distribution X? Better hope it's in the repo (and up-to-date) or good luck finding something a normal user can install via point and click.
We could do that with .DEB and .RPM. We just don't need to. If program X needs libraries Y and Z, and the already installed program W also depends on library Y, it is wasteful of disk space, bandwidth, and time to re-download and reinstall Y. Since we use the repositories so much, it makes since to take advantage of the coordination that is possible.
Of course, this is all beside the point since package management has absolutely nothing to do with allowing software to be updated without requiring administrator/root intervention. But hey, who cares what the point was if ignoring it means an opportunity for (poor) Windows bashing.
You lamented that "it might be nice if there was a way for applications to hook into a global OS framework that allows them to check for and apply updates". Thingymebob was pointing out that the repositories and package management are exactly what you asked for.
I suspect being a park ranger in a tiger preserve is one of those jobs that requires more than just a week of on the job training to do.
Particularly since it offers several ways to fuck up and die if you aren't careful and knowledgeable about the risks.
I would be surprised of their current employees got much more than few weeks of apprenticeship.
Never mind that you have to pay the rangers enough that the poachers can't bribe them easily, so it's not a situation where you can throw legions of underpaid unskilled workers at the problem and expect it to go away.
Offer midsized rewards for blowing the whistle on other rangers that take bribes. Now the poachers have to bribe virtually every ranger they may encounter. Could get expensive if you have a legion of rangers.
Keeping captive tigers in vast numbers in private hands seems wrong.
I see nothing wrong with any number of tigers being in private hands. It's the captive/non-captive ratio that bothers me.
Umm, many of us use rsync like mad on binaries such as ISO images or repository trees full of RPMs which are full of compressed data.
Neither of which are edited much by the end user, in my experience. What good is a diff algorithm on a file that hasn't changed?
I agree with nomadic. There is no mention at all in the article what the Feds did to catch these people. A guy (Jung Kwak) who sells cheap satellite receiver boxes offered a cracker $250,000 and Kwak got busted for it.
Nah, for the last one he was rendered catatonic. He saw goatse.
Here. Though the latency and bandwidth suck.
My phone gets no reception at work, so I turn it off. I turn it on again when I leave, and I usually need to use it at that time. It's frustrating that it takes longer to boot my phone than to actually make the phone call.
If the beams are even slightly out you could be frying people rather than generating electricity.
You have obviously missed the dozens of other microwave-satellite /. discussions if you still have that concern.
It makes perfect sense to put wind farms where the *gasp* wind is.
Sure, but if the wind is so far away that a huge portion of power is lost in transmission, you may want to look for more local sources of power (wind or otherwise).
So code for Firefox (or just be standards compliant). Works on Win2k and Vista (and 7 and Linux and OS X and BSD...), unlike any IE versions.
He never claimed that IEs 7 & 8 weren't horrible.
So?
There are many ways to accomplish this using the same printing presses. Changing the paper and/or the ink, for instance.
...I'll try to make an unorthodox argument there, anyway.
IMHO, both GPL-like and BSD-like licenses protect the freedom equally. The question is, whose freedom it is. Roughly speaking, GPL protects the freedoms of users by restricting the coders, while BSD protects the freedom of the coders, which might result in restricting the rights of the users...
That viewpoint has been repeated ad nauseam in virtually every GPL-vs-BSD discussion I've seen.
Brasero to extract ISOs, VlC to play (and you don't even have to mount the image!)
CowboyNeal?
Swine flu is a serious thread to people who are already chronically ill. If you are seriously ill, you are likely bed ridden and pumped with cortizone, steroids and other drugs.
At one point I lost 10 pounds after being hospitalized for a week or two.
For figuring out if someone is obese? Yes, it's a poor indicator.
But we're not trying to determine whether one is obese. We're trying to find a pattern for "Who is most likely to get horribly sick from swine flu". Apparently, BMI is a reasonably good predictor of this.
Though I agree that there will likely be a better correlation with those that have high % body fat than high BMI.
Title would be much clearer if the g was dropped from 'Photog'.
I doubt many other people could, either. If you are trying to code your way out of a paper sack, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
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If Google's having trouble getting internet access, I wonder how Yahoo's holding up...
That little comment box on the left side? Grab a bar and drag it up.