The cs_degree package is dependent on the college package. In some configurations, the party_alcohol package is required, which can often conflict with the cs_degree package. You'll have to check your configuration to make sure that these two don't conflict or that the college package doesn't depend on the party_alcohol package. Hopefully the cs_degree and party_alchohol packages don't conflict, as I highly recommend the latter if one decides to install the former.
I don't object to much of what you're saying, but you don't address the issue of corporate-types legalizing only those parts of the internet that they feel can be legal.
It's the issue of corporate censorship that bothers me the most. Copyright this, trademark that, and no one, not even fans, should infringe them. Take for example, "Is that a Star Trek fansite? They either have to pay us (Paramount) the licensing fees to keep it up, or take the entire thing down." As a opposed to, "Cool, another fansite that may perhaps bring us more viewers!"
If commercialization brought much of the latter, I'd support their efforts quite a bit, however, they aren't yet. Hopefully, one of them will wake up to that.
You probably don't need preempt patch
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The preempt patch is mainly for embedded devices. This is definitely not something for production level machines. Most applications that don't target embedded devices aren't ready for preemption. To use the preempt patch is to introduce instability.
They're being left out because they haven't been extensively tested yet. That's the point of stable. You work on what you have, don't add new features (see my first point), and make sure that all the bugs are out.
There's a good reason why BSD folks are upset by all this Linux hype. It's a Bad Thing(TM) for there to be a monopoly. There needs to be some sort of healthy competition for evolution to work. There can't be all GNU compilers, or else we won't have a good perspective of what's good or bad in a compiler.
KHTML will allow for some healthy competition to Gecko. Ideas like pop-up control, cookie control, etc. (although, I'm not sure that these are specific to the KHTML component) were first on Konqueror/KHTML before any other browser (and Microsoft says that OSS doesn't innovate.) Now Mozilla/Gecko have these feature as well (well, I'm pretty sure it has the pop-up control.) We need the balance of other HTML renderers to bring in new ideas like these so that evolution can work its magic.
Is Nintendo Sony's next victim? All Sony has to do is come out with a portable PS1 that can compete with the AGB in terms of battery life, and they're set. Sony will then be able to have a complete monopoly on the console market then.
602,000? That's a pretty dismal sales estimate. If I were Nintendo, I'd start thinking about what games I'd be making for the PS2.
This sentence I can buy. Nine times out of ten when a Windows box fails a simple reboot is all it takes to fix the problem. My Linux boxes fail far less often but when they do it's more likely to be something fairly serious.
This is why properly written start up scripts are so important. They should be written so that if something does go awry, you can just reboot and forget about it. People seem to forget to setup their startup scripts because of the illusion that their box will never fail or at least rarely fail.
Why is it that so many people see this sting as a Bad Thing(TM)? This is actually a Good Thing(TM). Free/Open Source software benefit greatly when proprietary software is difficult to obtain.
Here's the train of thought: A user knows about both Windows and Linux, but only knows how to use Windows and doesn't really want to sit down to learn Linux, no matter how much his friends say it's easy to use. If the user could not pirate Windows, but instead had to pay some exhorbitant price for it, that will make Linux a much more attractive option and the user may actually start listening to his/her friends about Linux.
I think that software should compete based on their merits and the price of software is a merit of the software.
Microsoft developing their Office suite for Linux is a bad thing as it may tempt Microsoft to develop their own distribution of Linux. If they did that, then everyone would be using Linux, and considering that Microsoft probably would put about as much effort into Linux as they do into Windows (i.e. not enough), everyone will start saying "Linux sucks because it crashes a lot," even though it's really only Microsoft's distribution of Linux that crashes a lot. Not only that, but people will also be saying, "Linux sucks because there are so many viruses for it," even though it's just Microsoft's distribution that, on default install, has everything from telnet to netbios (smb) open and the default user after install is root and all other users would have root access to the system as well.
Not only that, but Microsoft would probably eventually abandon their Linux distribution, go back to Windows, and say to everyone, "See, Linux does suck, and we proved it to you," and everyone will be like, "Ohhhh, we see, you were right all along!"
I can't believe you, you go on talking about how the GameCube is soo much better than the XBox, and yet, you still manage to spell wicked wrong. Notice that there's a 'c' that your missing. Sheesh, some people.
Theres a new water racing game for the PS2 which has the most realistic water i've ever seen, photorealistic and definately better than wave race
Why are you attributing physics to the PS2? The PS2 has no hardware or software native to it to deal with physics. That's something left up to the programmer on all systems. So really, the developer for that water racing game you're talking about has a better grip on physics than the developer for Wave Race, obviously. It's not the system that produces the effects for the physics.
This is old, but still catches them off guard
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(I assume you have a roommate or something in which other, non-computer-literate person(s) are around your computer while you are not.)
Do this, install Festival on your machine. Later, ssh in, and have it start saying stuff from 2001. This works even better if you have a microphone and recording an IceCast stream so you can have a conversation.
Let me ask you something, who do you think is in charge of the moral/ethical upbringing of a child? Whoever that/those person(s) may be, do you not think that it is that/those person(s) right to show the child his/her/their point of view on things, like art?
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The cs_degree package is dependent on the college package. In some configurations, the party_alcohol package is required, which can often conflict with the cs_degree package. You'll have to check your configuration to make sure that these two don't conflict or that the college package doesn't depend on the party_alcohol package. Hopefully the cs_degree and party_alchohol packages don't conflict, as I highly recommend the latter if one decides to install the former.
I don't object to much of what you're saying, but you don't address the issue of corporate-types legalizing only those parts of the internet that they feel can be legal.
It's the issue of corporate censorship that bothers me the most. Copyright this, trademark that, and no one, not even fans, should infringe them. Take for example, "Is that a Star Trek fansite? They either have to pay us (Paramount) the licensing fees to keep it up, or take the entire thing down." As a opposed to, "Cool, another fansite that may perhaps bring us more viewers!"
If commercialization brought much of the latter, I'd support their efforts quite a bit, however, they aren't yet. Hopefully, one of them will wake up to that.
I want to see a Beo--...err, wait, never mind...
The preempt patch is mainly for embedded devices. This is definitely not something for production level machines. Most applications that don't target embedded devices aren't ready for preemption. To use the preempt patch is to introduce instability.
They're being left out because they haven't been extensively tested yet. That's the point of stable. You work on what you have, don't add new features (see my first point), and make sure that all the bugs are out.
Perhaps, but is it worse than not releasing it at all?
Hmm, yum, looks tasty...
There's a good reason why BSD folks are upset by all this Linux hype. It's a Bad Thing(TM) for there to be a monopoly. There needs to be some sort of healthy competition for evolution to work. There can't be all GNU compilers, or else we won't have a good perspective of what's good or bad in a compiler.
KHTML will allow for some healthy competition to Gecko. Ideas like pop-up control, cookie control, etc. (although, I'm not sure that these are specific to the KHTML component) were first on Konqueror/KHTML before any other browser (and Microsoft says that OSS doesn't innovate.) Now Mozilla/Gecko have these feature as well (well, I'm pretty sure it has the pop-up control.) We need the balance of other HTML renderers to bring in new ideas like these so that evolution can work its magic.
It'd be considered a charitable contribution. How would that be considered illegal?
I think he was speaking within the constraints of, if you were given only a choice betwixt Windows and Linux, what would you choose?
Is Nintendo Sony's next victim? All Sony has to do is come out with a portable PS1 that can compete with the AGB in terms of battery life, and they're set. Sony will then be able to have a complete monopoly on the console market then.
602,000? That's a pretty dismal sales estimate. If I were Nintendo, I'd start thinking about what games I'd be making for the PS2.
Isn't it sad seeing how low the grammar on /. has become? Well, actually, it's always been at a low point.
This is why properly written start up scripts are so important. They should be written so that if something does go awry, you can just reboot and forget about it. People seem to forget to setup their startup scripts because of the illusion that their box will never fail or at least rarely fail.
Why is it that so many people see this sting as a Bad Thing(TM)? This is actually a Good Thing(TM). Free/Open Source software benefit greatly when proprietary software is difficult to obtain.
Here's the train of thought: A user knows about both Windows and Linux, but only knows how to use Windows and doesn't really want to sit down to learn Linux, no matter how much his friends say it's easy to use. If the user could not pirate Windows, but instead had to pay some exhorbitant price for it, that will make Linux a much more attractive option and the user may actually start listening to his/her friends about Linux.
I think that software should compete based on their merits and the price of software is a merit of the software.
Perhaps, but it does allow them to say that they are at least consistant.
Of course! You don't want people jerking off during their lunch breaks at work, now do you?
Microsoft developing their Office suite for Linux is a bad thing as it may tempt Microsoft to develop their own distribution of Linux. If they did that, then everyone would be using Linux, and considering that Microsoft probably would put about as much effort into Linux as they do into Windows (i.e. not enough), everyone will start saying "Linux sucks because it crashes a lot," even though it's really only Microsoft's distribution of Linux that crashes a lot. Not only that, but people will also be saying, "Linux sucks because there are so many viruses for it," even though it's just Microsoft's distribution that, on default install, has everything from telnet to netbios (smb) open and the default user after install is root and all other users would have root access to the system as well.
Not only that, but Microsoft would probably eventually abandon their Linux distribution, go back to Windows, and say to everyone, "See, Linux does suck, and we proved it to you," and everyone will be like, "Ohhhh, we see, you were right all along!"
I can't believe you, you go on talking about how the GameCube is soo much better than the XBox, and yet, you still manage to spell wicked wrong. Notice that there's a 'c' that your missing. Sheesh, some people.
Uhh, yeah, it's pretty open source, in spite of what you may believe. Whoever modded this up obviously did about as much research as the poster.
Yeah, but it was such crap.
Let me sum it up for you:
The movie's better!
No, the miniseries!
No, the movie!
I like swords.
Is it as fun as the original? That's going to be one of my biggest reasons for getting the GC. The other might be Pikmin.
Why are you attributing physics to the PS2? The PS2 has no hardware or software native to it to deal with physics. That's something left up to the programmer on all systems. So really, the developer for that water racing game you're talking about has a better grip on physics than the developer for Wave Race, obviously. It's not the system that produces the effects for the physics.
(I assume you have a roommate or something in which other, non-computer-literate person(s) are around your computer while you are not.)
Do this, install Festival on your machine. Later, ssh in, and have it start saying stuff from 2001. This works even better if you have a microphone and recording an IceCast stream so you can have a conversation.
Let me ask you something, who do you think is in charge of the moral/ethical upbringing of a child? Whoever that/those person(s) may be, do you not think that it is that/those person(s) right to show the child his/her/their point of view on things, like art?