He hates *all* video games, and has said so in almost so many words on several occasions. In his world, video games == evil and destroying society and must be brought down. The ends justify any means, however nefarious, and anyone who suggests that maybe video games have some merits is clearly a commie trying to have sex with and/or kill children.
For me it happens mostly in 3D apps (e.g. quake) and when running KDE, but not at other times. After turning renderaccel off it most often unfreezes after a short time instead of remaining locked.
For fun, strace XFree86 while the system is frozen (you'll have to ssh in).
Republicans want less government interference in financial matters, but they want the government to enforce morality and social norms.
Democrats want less government interference in social matters, but they want the government to keep a close regulatory and taxing eye on all financial matters.
Republicans want to spy on you in the bedroom, Democrats in the boardroom.
It's an old, innacurate cliche, but it's true enough.
He did screw up the continuity. The reason Leia was a princess had nothing to do with her birth mother, it had to do with the fact that she was the adopted daughter of the royal family of Alderaan. The fact that she was adopted was a secret to all but the Jedi and her step father and mother. Nobody else had a clue where she came from.
That links shows FF isn't even in stable at all. This sort of makes my point.
You don't get stable. Of course FF isn't in stable, stable is a snapshot of a package set at a particular time. I don't know how RH operates, but once it's stable it's immutable, as far as Debian is concerned. A stable package is stable simply because it sits there and doesn't change. A newer, spiffeir version with slight differences doesn't appear in six months. That's a reliability Ubuntu doesn't offer.
Now me, I run woody, mostly upgraded to sarge, largely replaced by unstable, with a few experimental packages (only two of them my own) thrown in. I am in no way behind the bleeding edge in any area where I want to be on it. The core packages I want to be stable still are, and the fancy stuff I like to play with is wow-crazy-updated.
Only in Debian can I do it like this. Believe me, I've tried.
I actually think the window works a little better as it offers more flexibility with the spell checking - for example, I can choose to use a different directory to look at the offending word if I need to.
A seperate window is unquestionably better and more powerful, but it's also slower. I often mis-type a word and don't bother to backspace and retype it because I know that a simple rightclick, click will fix it just as well.
I'm not sure why you would want to hold on to reams of spam - perhaps the problem here is the way you use email rather than the client itself
This attitude is a major problem I have with GNOME users, developers and advocates. If you don't like the program it's because you are a failure, because your way sucks, because you haven't converted to the One True Way of doing business. What presumption! I keep all of my junk. I like it that way. I have good reasons. I'd rather it be marked unread, since it's new. But I am not welcome in GNOME, because the developers think I shouldn't do that, so I am not allowed to play.
This is correct. However, if you set your email to automatically check every minute, you get your email automatically just 60 seconds after startup. Besides, you've manually intervened to start Evolution up in the first place, so why not take the extra step of clicking "Send/Receive"
When I start Mozilla I get my email right away. It opens, I am prompted for a password, and my email arrives.. Maybe getting it in 60 seconds (or whenever; I have my mail check interval at 15 minutes) would work, but why should I have to wait? It's my computer and my mail and I want it right away on startup. But no, Evolution developers have decided that is not what users should do with email, so I am left with no recourse but to not use Evolution.
And people wonder why the supposedly messy and hard to use KDE is still popular. A system that lets you do it your way is by definition not hard to use.
Evolution is a fine program, with some deficiencies. If the developers would recongize the faults as faults and not try to convince users that they are the problem then we'd all be much better off.
No, it isn't I'll bet 99% of people who downloaded it saw it anyway, many the first day. Some several times. YES it sucked, but it's Star Wars. I downloaded the early copy but didn't watch it until after I got back from the theater opening day. Why? Because I didn't want my opinions to be skewed by a poor quality first time. I then rewatched it, with much pausing and seeking. Then I saw it in theaters again a few days later. The viewing I did at home didn't take the place of an additional theater trip. I rarely see a movie more than twice in a theater. The viewing at home was for more analytical nitpicking, 'cause you can't pause and rewind in the theater. Why should official critics be the only ones who can scrutinize in detail before the official DVD release?
I've found that, in bash, when all of thgose fancy completions are turned on it borks globbing with * wildards. For example, ls/home/collin/.*ash*[tab][tab] gives me a list of matching files, but when I turn all of the nifty bash tab completion features on it no longer gives me anything.
So I tried it, it was crack, but I switched back. I like wildcards.
Are you listening to yourself? Since when has meek obedience to the law been a virtue? Unjust laws *demand* action, and no they *cannot* set whatever penalties they want. They are *we* and we are the government and I for one don't think littering should hold a death penalty. If such a penalty were set, would you shrug and say "Oh, I guess I'll be more careful"? No! You would see that no matter how harmful littering may be, the punishment does not fit the crime. It is unjust. Not submitting to unjust laws is a good chunk of freedom, in my opinion.
By the lady, man, have you no pride? If a policeman demanded sexual favors from your wife would you say nothing? Figures of authority are all wrong until proven otherwise. The customer is always right, the citizen is always right. If everybody agreed one day that speed limits sucked then we could get the laws regardijng such things revoked. We are not sheep to placidly take dictation, no matter how reasonable or unreasonable.
That someone has been theoretically elected by the people is no excuse for unjust actions. Cash kickbacks and supplications by a vocal minority on religious or fear-based grounds as often as not are what dictate votes, not some godlike knowledge of what the majority or ones constituants desires and not rationality. "They" can't be trusted to do what we want, or even to do what they think is moral, because it all seems so reasonable when you have endless meetings between bigwigs who each passionately describes how doom results from any outcome but that which he proposes.
Bad laws get passed all the time. Just because it's a law doesn't mean you ought to follow it. Like standards, laws which don't get followed by the majority eventually stop being enforced and laws which are not enforced eventually cease to exist. It will happen with drugs, one day. It will happen with IP laws or I'll die trying.
It isn't hopeless, you do have a choice. Don't just take it, kick someone in the nuts.
It's not theft any more than it is theft when I breath nearby you. I am not stealing your air, I did not steal your movie. It's copyright infringement, which closer to plagarism than to theft.
LSB is great only if by "Standard" you mean "Take everything every group does and OR them together."
Then there's the things it gets wrong, like/mnt. I like mounted devices under/mnt because it's called mnt. LSB says I must clutter root with/cdrom and/floppy and so on. I'm sure they had good reasons, but I don't like it, it makes no sense, so I wont do it.
Distro makers doubtless feel the same on one or more issues. The whole FHS thing is mostly bogus, since it allows almost anything to be put almost anywhere. And, really.../opt? Why give it a stamp of approval by making it standard instead of squishing it out like the poor hack it is?
Some things are good, such as the object format stuff. Either it's good or I don't know enough to critique it, which I don't. Some of the utilities LSB demands are the wrong way to solve the problem. All of the crap about init scripts and booting is annoying and wrong. The RPM requirement is just stupid.
People don't support LSB because it makes no sense. Roo many rules about all the wrong things. Personally, I'd like to see a new LSB which did not attempt to include everyone but just did what seemed logical. A standards base which actually makes rules fixing things which tend to differ, rather than codifying differences and calling that standard.
If it were me I'd just declare whatever Debian does to be standard and heckle people who deviate. But I do bow to the alter of Debian, and I understand why some would not be comfortable with that.
Yes, the HHGTTG game was deviously trcky, but text adventures often are.
Try playing Bureaucracy some time.
When playing the game you got to act out bits of the books, and you also got to enjoy (or not enjoy) a nice text adventure.
If you don't enjoy difficult text adventures you wont enjoy the game. It was nota game made for fans of the books, something to be played through in a couple of idle hours. It was a game made for fans of text adventures using funny material from funny books.
The ICANN actually does not propose new TLDs, it merely approves them. The approval process runs something like (I am not making this up) "Do you have enough money? Approved!" For example, it takes $50,000 just to be allowed t suggest a domain, and a lot more in kickbacks to get through to final approval.
Not enough non-english domains have had the financial backing to be approved, I guess.
And why is it so important to win? Oh well, I will humor you.
You 'win' the game when you create enough stars to repopulate (so to speak) the sky. In practice this is only about 15.
You 'win' each level by making your katamari big enoigh in the time alotted, or by rolling up enough of a certain type of thing, or by rolling up only a certain type of thing, or only the largest thing of a certain type.
But the fun isn't getting to the end. As the story sequences will clearly show you, the story is not exactly the focal point of the game.
How you actually win Katamary Damashii is by having fun rolling things up, with some added satisfaction if you excel at the activity and unlock new places to play in.
Now go rent it. Then, after the late fees start to get to you, buy it.
I'll say this slowly so that you will unerstand it:
Highlighting. Does. Not. Copy.
Highlighting *SELECTS*. It is JUST like highlighting in Windows or MacOS X, except that in X *IF YOU WANT TO* you can access the selection buffer, an option you don't get on other platforms.
The clipbaord is not the selection buffer. If you want to use the clipboard, do exactly as you would in Windows or on a Mac and ignore the middle mouse button.
If you want EXTRA, ENHANCED functionality, you can choose to access the selection buffer via highlight/middle click. But go ahead, choose not to. Everything will be "normal" with respect to copy/paste functionality.
And if it isn't, congratulations: You've found a broken application. Email the developers.
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Any soundtrack nomination list for games from this last year that fails to include Katamari Damashii is clearly without merit.
He hates *all* video games, and has said so in almost so many words on several occasions. In his world, video games == evil and destroying society and must be brought down. The ends justify any means, however nefarious, and anyone who suggests that maybe video games have some merits is clearly a commie trying to have sex with and/or kill children.
For me it happens mostly in 3D apps (e.g. quake) and when running KDE, but not at other times. After turning renderaccel off it most often unfreezes after a short time instead of remaining locked.
For fun, strace XFree86 while the system is frozen (you'll have to ssh in).
WTF?! I get the same Llama message by grepping mem. What causes that?
and it really just annoys the pig.
You, sir, are my hero.
It works like this:
Republicans want less government interference in financial matters, but they want the government to enforce morality and social norms.
Democrats want less government interference in social matters, but they want the government to keep a close regulatory and taxing eye on all financial matters.
Republicans want to spy on you in the bedroom, Democrats in the boardroom.
It's an old, innacurate cliche, but it's true enough.
He did screw up the continuity. The reason Leia was a princess had nothing to do with her birth mother, it had to do with the fact that she was the adopted daughter of the royal family of Alderaan. The fact that she was adopted was a secret to all but the Jedi and her step father and mother. Nobody else had a clue where she came from.
Still, just to be able to OPEN a PHP file in linux would be a very big step forward.
$ nano index.php
There, that was easy. Why are you having such trouble?
That links shows FF isn't even in stable at all. This sort of makes my point.
You don't get stable. Of course FF isn't in stable, stable is a snapshot of a package set at a particular time. I don't know how RH operates, but once it's stable it's immutable, as far as Debian is concerned. A stable package is stable simply because it sits there and doesn't change. A newer, spiffeir version with slight differences doesn't appear in six months. That's a reliability Ubuntu doesn't offer.
Now me, I run woody, mostly upgraded to sarge, largely replaced by unstable, with a few experimental packages (only two of them my own) thrown in. I am in no way behind the bleeding edge in any area where I want to be on it. The core packages I want to be stable still are, and the fancy stuff I like to play with is wow-crazy-updated.
Only in Debian can I do it like this. Believe me, I've tried.
I actually think the window works a little better as it offers more flexibility with the spell checking - for example, I can choose to use a different directory to look at the offending word if I need to.
A seperate window is unquestionably better and more powerful, but it's also slower. I often mis-type a word and don't bother to backspace and retype it because I know that a simple rightclick, click will fix it just as well.
I'm not sure why you would want to hold on to reams of spam - perhaps the problem here is the way you use email rather than the client itself
This attitude is a major problem I have with GNOME users, developers and advocates. If you don't like the program it's because you are a failure, because your way sucks, because you haven't converted to the One True Way of doing business. What presumption! I keep all of my junk. I like it that way. I have good reasons. I'd rather it be marked unread, since it's new. But I am not welcome in GNOME, because the developers think I shouldn't do that, so I am not allowed to play.
This is correct. However, if you set your email to automatically check every minute, you get your email automatically just 60 seconds after startup. Besides, you've manually intervened to start Evolution up in the first place, so why not take the extra step of clicking "Send/Receive"
When I start Mozilla I get my email right away. It opens, I am prompted for a password, and my email arrives.. Maybe getting it in 60 seconds (or whenever; I have my mail check interval at 15 minutes) would work, but why should I have to wait? It's my computer and my mail and I want it right away on startup. But no, Evolution developers have decided that is not what users should do with email, so I am left with no recourse but to not use Evolution.
And people wonder why the supposedly messy and hard to use KDE is still popular. A system that lets you do it your way is by definition not hard to use.
Evolution is a fine program, with some deficiencies. If the developers would recongize the faults as faults and not try to convince users that they are the problem then we'd all be much better off.
No, it isn't I'll bet 99% of people who downloaded it saw it anyway, many the first day. Some several times. YES it sucked, but it's Star Wars. I downloaded the early copy but didn't watch it until after I got back from the theater opening day. Why? Because I didn't want my opinions to be skewed by a poor quality first time. I then rewatched it, with much pausing and seeking. Then I saw it in theaters again a few days later. The viewing I did at home didn't take the place of an additional theater trip. I rarely see a movie more than twice in a theater. The viewing at home was for more analytical nitpicking, 'cause you can't pause and rewind in the theater. Why should official critics be the only ones who can scrutinize in detail before the official DVD release?
I've found that, in bash, when all of thgose fancy completions are turned on it borks globbing with * wildards. For example, ls /home/collin/.*ash*[tab][tab] gives me a list of matching files, but when I turn all of the nifty bash tab completion features on it no longer gives me anything.
So I tried it, it was crack, but I switched back. I like wildcards.
Are you listening to yourself? Since when has meek obedience to the law been a virtue? Unjust laws *demand* action, and no they *cannot* set whatever penalties they want. They are *we* and we are the government and I for one don't think littering should hold a death penalty. If such a penalty were set, would you shrug and say "Oh, I guess I'll be more careful"? No! You would see that no matter how harmful littering may be, the punishment does not fit the crime. It is unjust. Not submitting to unjust laws is a good chunk of freedom, in my opinion.
By the lady, man, have you no pride? If a policeman demanded sexual favors from your wife would you say nothing? Figures of authority are all wrong until proven otherwise. The customer is always right, the citizen is always right. If everybody agreed one day that speed limits sucked then we could get the laws regardijng such things revoked. We are not sheep to placidly take dictation, no matter how reasonable or unreasonable.
That someone has been theoretically elected by the people is no excuse for unjust actions. Cash kickbacks and supplications by a vocal minority on religious or fear-based grounds as often as not are what dictate votes, not some godlike knowledge of what the majority or ones constituants desires and not rationality. "They" can't be trusted to do what we want, or even to do what they think is moral, because it all seems so reasonable when you have endless meetings between bigwigs who each passionately describes how doom results from any outcome but that which he proposes.
Bad laws get passed all the time. Just because it's a law doesn't mean you ought to follow it. Like standards, laws which don't get followed by the majority eventually stop being enforced and laws which are not enforced eventually cease to exist. It will happen with drugs, one day. It will happen with IP laws or I'll die trying.
It isn't hopeless, you do have a choice. Don't just take it, kick someone in the nuts.
It's not theft any more than it is theft when I breath nearby you. I am not stealing your air, I did not steal your movie. It's copyright infringement, which closer to plagarism than to theft.
See subjet.
/mnt. I like mounted devices under /mnt because it's called mnt. LSB says I must clutter root with /cdrom and /floppy and so on. I'm sure they had good reasons, but I don't like it, it makes no sense, so I wont do it.
/opt? Why give it a stamp of approval by making it standard instead of squishing it out like the poor hack it is?
LSB is great only if by "Standard" you mean "Take everything every group does and OR them together."
Then there's the things it gets wrong, like
Distro makers doubtless feel the same on one or more issues. The whole FHS thing is mostly bogus, since it allows almost anything to be put almost anywhere. And, really...
Some things are good, such as the object format stuff. Either it's good or I don't know enough to critique it, which I don't. Some of the utilities LSB demands are the wrong way to solve the problem. All of the crap about init scripts and booting is annoying and wrong. The RPM requirement is just stupid.
People don't support LSB because it makes no sense. Roo many rules about all the wrong things. Personally, I'd like to see a new LSB which did not attempt to include everyone but just did what seemed logical. A standards base which actually makes rules fixing things which tend to differ, rather than codifying differences and calling that standard.
If it were me I'd just declare whatever Debian does to be standard and heckle people who deviate. But I do bow to the alter of Debian, and I understand why some would not be comfortable with that.
Obviously you are not a fan of text adventures.
Yes, the HHGTTG game was deviously trcky, but text adventures often are.
Try playing Bureaucracy some time.
When playing the game you got to act out bits of the books, and you also got to enjoy (or not enjoy) a nice text adventure.
If you don't enjoy difficult text adventures you wont enjoy the game. It was nota game made for fans of the books, something to be played through in a couple of idle hours. It was a game made for fans of text adventures using funny material from funny books.
RTFA. It's not even a good movie.
Very depressing! Horrifying.
Yes, I am going to see it anyway.
The ICANN actually does not propose new TLDs, it merely approves them. The approval process runs something like (I am not making this up) "Do you have enough money? Approved!" For example, it takes $50,000 just to be allowed t suggest a domain, and a lot more in kickbacks to get through to final approval.
Not enough non-english domains have had the financial backing to be approved, I guess.
And why is it so important to win? Oh well, I will humor you.
You 'win' the game when you create enough stars to repopulate (so to speak) the sky. In practice this is only about 15.
You 'win' each level by making your katamari big enoigh in the time alotted, or by rolling up enough of a certain type of thing, or by rolling up only a certain type of thing, or only the largest thing of a certain type.
But the fun isn't getting to the end. As the story sequences will clearly show you, the story is not exactly the focal point of the game.
How you actually win Katamary Damashii is by having fun rolling things up, with some added satisfaction if you excel at the activity and unlock new places to play in.
Now go rent it. Then, after the late fees start to get to you, buy it.
If you think they need to make it different you clearly have not played the original.
Once you do you will understand. Just adding more things to pick up would guarantee them a follow up buy by the majority of their userbase.
Hell, I'd buy any new Katamari game just for the music.
I'll say this slowly so that you will unerstand it:
Highlighting. Does. Not. Copy.
Highlighting *SELECTS*. It is JUST like highlighting in Windows or MacOS X, except that in X *IF YOU WANT TO* you can access the selection buffer, an option you don't get on other platforms.
The clipbaord is not the selection buffer. If you want to use the clipboard, do exactly as you would in Windows or on a Mac and ignore the middle mouse button.
If you want EXTRA, ENHANCED functionality, you can choose to access the selection buffer via highlight/middle click. But go ahead, choose not to. Everything will be "normal" with respect to copy/paste functionality.
And if it isn't, congratulations: You've found a broken application. Email the developers.
"Theft" may be the wrong word for violating permissions, but the activity is still a "violation" that is inappropriate.
Yes, it is. The correct term is "Copyright infringement," just as the OP stated.
YAML is just as expressive as XML. A YAMLXML conversion library exists which AFAIK causes no information loss.
Want GAIM on a Mac? Get Adium. GAIM libs + navite UI. Everybody I know who uses a Mac uses Adium, not GAIM or Fire or iChat.
It will probabl all live on a Microsoft server and be pay-per-play.