So, I'm curious - what happens when you upgrade one of your big system libraries this way? Does the ports system automatically recompile any affected apps, or re-fetch them, or what? Not that I'm saying Debian necessarily handles this any better (I wouldn't know). Heck, at least with a packaging system, you know what the dependencies are for various apps. If everything's built from source, do you even know which apps were built against which library versions?
That installs the updates, but it doesn't consider for you whether those updates will break other software or services that you have installed. Dealing with those issues can turn out to be as much of a headache as tracking down the patches was in the first place.
Not to mention the question of whether, since Microsoft's own servers seem to get infected by the worm o' the day fairly frequently, do you really want to update your machine from theirs? I mean, sure, you have no real choice in the matter, but still...
It is a valid expression. It is not a valid sentence. That is the important distinction. No more pedantry from me, I promise.:)
Personally, I prefer complete sentences, and don't find fragments to be a "good way to communicate". The large majority of writing online would benefit from more complete sentences and attention to grammar. YMMV.
Hahahahaha no. IIRC, the FCC charter specifically forbids it to act to encourage competition, etc. It has a number of regulatory powers, but encouraging openness is not one of them.
Of course, I'm thinking that I saw this on/. somewhere, so perhaps the truth of this is not quite certain.
I imagine that next time, potential terrorists will have to be prepared to kill essentially all passengers on the plane in order to accomplish their goals. Cell phones or no, most people aren't going to sit still for another hijacking after this.
Actually, yes it would. If Microsoft had received their fair share of the blame for their security problems over the last few years, then fewer people would be using Microsoft software, and nimda might not have occurred. So while in the short term affixing the blame isn't a high-priority activity, in the long term it's almost indispensable.
Distribution of binaries made from GPL'd source still requires a notice of source availability to be distributed with those binaries. It doesn't matter whether you've made further changes to the GPL'd code or not; just redistributing vanilla glibc binaries requires you to at least make the offer to provide the source code at the price of the medium it's offered on. You don't have to distribute the source code unless someone asks for it, though.
I said "immediately intuitive" to try to encapsulate the questions raised in the usability study, which mostly seemed to be about how the icons weren't very, well, iconic of their function. I'm not a usability expert by any means, so I wouldn't know the technical term for "it works once you understand how it's labeled". It's more of a learning curve than anything - you can learn that "moon and stars" == "logout" just as easy as you can learn to click "Start" in order to shut down your computer, or drag disk drives into the trash to eject them (just for instance). Many of the solutions in the study were suggested just because users are used to them, not because they're necessarily more ergonomic to use. I'll admit that there were things that Windows and Mac OS got right; I'm just not sure that this is enough to counterbalance the things that Gnome got right.
I don't know of any particularly rigorous usability comparisons between the various desktop platforms, although I imagine there are a bunch of vanilla server TCO comparisons out there somewhere. I've never really seen the usability of a platform figured into a TCO dollar figure; I too would be interested in such a link.
I don't think those examples necessarily apply - you aren't testifying against yourself if the government takes your fingerprints or your blood sample. And breathalyzer tests can be refused; you just lose your license because that's the agreement you made in order to get a driver's license. I still say those are different circumstances than requiring you to state your secret passphrase if you know that doing so will result in more evidence being used against you.
IANAL, though, so even though I'm impassioned, I'm most likely wrong and/or legally inadmissible:)
Oh my God - the government's going to start using the postercomment compression filter!:) Hopefully they get a better implementation than/. has, at least...
Random text added for the purposes of U.S.C. I-31-B.297, all Hail the Party!
Of course, the penalty for obstruction of justice may still be more palatable than the penalty for whatever the government is accusing you of. Not to mention the 5th Amendment problems with forced key turnover.
The GNOME Usability study proved that Gnome is not immediately intuitive; it did not prove that it is necessarily less intuitive than Windows or MacOS. To prove that, you would have to find complete computer illiterates, set them down in front of all three OSes, and see which OS is harder to use.
People find Gnome hard to use if they're used to Windows. I find Windows incredibly frustrating to use because I'm used to Gnome. Both statements can be true at once without implying a usability relation between the two.
"I admire the courage of Barbara Lee," says Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who spent the 1960s in the front lines of
the civil rights movement. "She demonstrated raw courage to stand up and vote the way she did. She stood alone
-- one against 420. Several other members wanted to be there also but at the same time, like me, they didn't
want to be seen as soft on terrorism."
...But then, he caved like the popularity-whore that he, and the rest of Congress, is. Nice to hear you admit that you have no backbone, Mr. Lewis, too bad I won't get the chance to vote against you. But at least you can admit that you were stampeded; most other representatives will take the rest of their lives to figure that out.
The answer to dependency problems is not to download everything at once just so you're sure you've got all the dependencies. For one thing, you probably don't want to replace certain packages on your system without warning or you may break more than you fix by doing so. Not to mention the extra bandwidth you'll chew up, although I agree that *that* is indeed the Windows way.
The right way to handle dependency problems is to have smart installers that can detect and arrange for the download of missed dependencies on an as-needed basis, querying you for permission if necessary. Debian already does this. So, if you want to install something and use it, use Debian.
I agree that Mandrake updates are a pain; that's why my next desktop will be running Debian.
No "Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty, either, although I see that "Free Fallin'" is out. All of these songs seem to have been picked by people who never actually sat through them. Then again, that doesn't really surprise me for network radio executives:)
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So, I'm curious - what happens when you upgrade one of your big system libraries this way? Does the ports system automatically recompile any affected apps, or re-fetch them, or what? Not that I'm saying Debian necessarily handles this any better (I wouldn't know). Heck, at least with a packaging system, you know what the dependencies are for various apps. If everything's built from source, do you even know which apps were built against which library versions?
That installs the updates, but it doesn't consider for you whether those updates will break other software or services that you have installed. Dealing with those issues can turn out to be as much of a headache as tracking down the patches was in the first place.
Not to mention the question of whether, since Microsoft's own servers seem to get infected by the worm o' the day fairly frequently, do you really want to update your machine from theirs? I mean, sure, you have no real choice in the matter, but still...
It is a valid expression. It is not a valid sentence. That is the important distinction. No more pedantry from me, I promise. :)
Personally, I prefer complete sentences, and don't find fragments to be a "good way to communicate". The large majority of writing online would benefit from more complete sentences and attention to grammar. YMMV.
It's not a valid sentence, it's a pair of phrases in search of a sentence. Sentences need verbs.
Hahahahaha no. IIRC, the FCC charter specifically forbids it to act to encourage competition, etc. It has a number of regulatory powers, but encouraging openness is not one of them.
Of course, I'm thinking that I saw this on /. somewhere, so perhaps the truth of this is not quite certain.
I imagine that next time, potential terrorists will have to be prepared to kill essentially all passengers on the plane in order to accomplish their goals. Cell phones or no, most people aren't going to sit still for another hijacking after this.
Actually, yes it would. If Microsoft had received their fair share of the blame for their security problems over the last few years, then fewer people would be using Microsoft software, and nimda might not have occurred. So while in the short term affixing the blame isn't a high-priority activity, in the long term it's almost indispensable.
The name has a very "1984" feel to it - I was expecting the next sentence to be about the establishment of the "Ministry of Truth".
I've heard that lately they use a computer program to come up with some of these ideas.
For once, Gartner agrees with your average /.er.
Distribution of binaries made from GPL'd source still requires a notice of source availability to be distributed with those binaries. It doesn't matter whether you've made further changes to the GPL'd code or not; just redistributing vanilla glibc binaries requires you to at least make the offer to provide the source code at the price of the medium it's offered on. You don't have to distribute the source code unless someone asks for it, though.
I said "immediately intuitive" to try to encapsulate the questions raised in the usability study, which mostly seemed to be about how the icons weren't very, well, iconic of their function. I'm not a usability expert by any means, so I wouldn't know the technical term for "it works once you understand how it's labeled". It's more of a learning curve than anything - you can learn that "moon and stars" == "logout" just as easy as you can learn to click "Start" in order to shut down your computer, or drag disk drives into the trash to eject them (just for instance). Many of the solutions in the study were suggested just because users are used to them, not because they're necessarily more ergonomic to use. I'll admit that there were things that Windows and Mac OS got right; I'm just not sure that this is enough to counterbalance the things that Gnome got right.
I don't know of any particularly rigorous usability comparisons between the various desktop platforms, although I imagine there are a bunch of vanilla server TCO comparisons out there somewhere. I've never really seen the usability of a platform figured into a TCO dollar figure; I too would be interested in such a link.
I don't think those examples necessarily apply - you aren't testifying against yourself if the government takes your fingerprints or your blood sample. And breathalyzer tests can be refused; you just lose your license because that's the agreement you made in order to get a driver's license. I still say those are different circumstances than requiring you to state your secret passphrase if you know that doing so will result in more evidence being used against you.
IANAL, though, so even though I'm impassioned, I'm most likely wrong and/or legally inadmissible :)
Oh my God - the government's going to start using the postercomment compression filter! :) Hopefully they get a better implementation than /. has, at least...
Random text added for the purposes of U.S.C. I-31-B.297, all Hail the Party!
Of course, the penalty for obstruction of justice may still be more palatable than the penalty for whatever the government is accusing you of. Not to mention the 5th Amendment problems with forced key turnover.
The GNOME Usability study proved that Gnome is not immediately intuitive; it did not prove that it is necessarily less intuitive than Windows or MacOS. To prove that, you would have to find complete computer illiterates, set them down in front of all three OSes, and see which OS is harder to use.
People find Gnome hard to use if they're used to Windows. I find Windows incredibly frustrating to use because I'm used to Gnome. Both statements can be true at once without implying a usability relation between the two.
Do not taunt "My Happy Services".
Yes, because their liability concerns have been their overriding business principle so far...
Nope, they want it all, they're just now discovering that there's a chance they won't get it.
...But then, he caved like the popularity-whore that he, and the rest of Congress, is. Nice to hear you admit that you have no backbone, Mr. Lewis, too bad I won't get the chance to vote against you. But at least you can admit that you were stampeded; most other representatives will take the rest of their lives to figure that out.
Thomas Jefferson, I believe.
Actually, that's an urban legend.
Extra text to beat the @#$! postercomment compression filter. Taco, learn to code, OK?
The answer to dependency problems is not to download everything at once just so you're sure you've got all the dependencies. For one thing, you probably don't want to replace certain packages on your system without warning or you may break more than you fix by doing so. Not to mention the extra bandwidth you'll chew up, although I agree that *that* is indeed the Windows way.
The right way to handle dependency problems is to have smart installers that can detect and arrange for the download of missed dependencies on an as-needed basis, querying you for permission if necessary. Debian already does this. So, if you want to install something and use it, use Debian.
I agree that Mandrake updates are a pain; that's why my next desktop will be running Debian.
That's "index.htm", if we're really talking about how the average person views the web, you know :)
Well, I'll be damned. Thanks for the info. Google only helps once I know I'm wrong :)
No "Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty, either, although I see that "Free Fallin'" is out. All of these songs seem to have been picked by people who never actually sat through them. Then again, that doesn't really surprise me for network radio executives :)