The attribution to Marie Antoinette, according to the first few sites I googled, is incorrect, but neglecting that, this is not what I have always understood the quote to mean.
The original quote was ""Qu'ils mangent de la brioche". Brioche, according to wikipedia, is "a light but rich French bread made with a yeast dough and eggs, milk, butter and sugar."
The quote refers to a huge disconnect between the ruler and his or her subjects. The original utterer (if there was one) didn't understand that people were starving because they had no bread. He/she assumed that they, like her, had a choice between bread and 'cake', and if they ran out of one, they could simply munch on the other for a while.
The article is so riddled with technical inaccuracies that it's not even worth reading. Please, can we have a little more discrimination on the part of the editors?
I routinely hear comments like this from people who have never admined a box outside of their own bedroom. No, Debian is not the best desktop OS. Its strengths lie in security (despite the recent lapse for which there is a very *specific* reason), ease of administration, and stability. (not 'it never crashes' stability, but 'upgrades to stable revisions of software are pretty much guaranteed not to break stuff' stability, as opposed to other distros that have no problem, for example, changing the major version of libc in a point release.)
slashdot isn't a religion, it's a news site. Go out side and get some fresh air.
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That question doesn't make sense. When liquid reaches its boiling point, it turns into a gas. It doesn't rapidly increase in temperature. It stays at the boiling point until all of the liquid has turned into gas. After that, the temperature of the gas can start increasing again.
Burning is oxidation (a chemical reaction) and has little to do with boiling (transition from the liquid to gas state of matter)
You are one of a group of ever-dwindling sun loyalists. The fact is that they have been putting out crap for the past 7 years and counting on people like you to lap it up.
This business model is running out of time. McNealy has to go or Sun will die a slow and painful death.
It doesn't really matter who they charge. If they charge the manufacturer, the manufacturer will just pass along the cost to the consumer anyway. Then, they avoid having every store in the state collecting and remitting extra fees. Charging the manufacturer directly is the more efficient option.
You are living in a dream world dude. Nobody gives a shit about some good-vs-evil battle of DVD's. All they care about is that they get their movies on time. If Netflix service gets worse again (as it did twice, for several months at a time, while I was using the service) then their customers will start leaving them again.
what the fuck are you talking about? I rent movies from Blockbuster and Hollywood video all the time including unrated directors cuts and NC-17 movies and I have never seen a movie that was edited for content.
I don't even think that Blockbuster could possibly have the infrastructure to do massive reproduction of edited films, or why they would even want to. Maybe this goes on in buttfuck alabama but not in any civilized part of the country.
"It's worth remembering that the great artists you mention all required wealthy patrons. So let's be clear - if you eliminate copyright laws, you require a system of patronage of individual artists by the wealthy, or support by the state/taxpayers. You think you don't like a world with proprietary sotwere? What about a world where all the most talented artists were on the payroll of the very wealthy? Do you think you would have anything resembling free expression in the arts?"
Are you fucking kidding me? What do you think record labels/production studios are? At least in the old days, the "patrons" who supported composers, playwrights, etc. had good taste, today it's all about how good looking the "artist" is and how well they're hyped.
--Adam
Non-free is only a couple of hundred megs. Remember, non-free doesn't contain every single non-free piece of software out there, just the ones that someone (A Debian developer) felt were important enough to package.
Also, not everything in non-free is a product of some greedy corporation. There are lots of things in non-free that are only breaking one point of the Debian Free Software Guidelines (and some are barely even doing that.) For example, software with full source code available, but only for non-commercial use.
The other main reason not to remove non-free is that lots of packages in contrib depend on things in non-free. If Debian were to remove non-free, then that would break lots of things in contrib.
All in all, this isn't the right time for this proposal, it should really be held off until there are acceptable replacements for the packages that people consider important.
1) BIND 8 is not the only DNS server being used across the internet today. 2) Your post is totally irrelevant -- zone transfers between master and slave servers have nothing to do with the discussion at hand. My point is this -- The term "propagate" is clearly an inappropriate term for describing the way DNS functions. It implies automation where there is none. DNS caches only fetch records when they are asked to.
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The attribution to Marie Antoinette, according to the first few sites I googled, is incorrect, but neglecting that, this is not what I have always understood the quote to mean.
The original quote was ""Qu'ils mangent de la brioche". Brioche, according to wikipedia, is "a light but rich French bread made with a yeast dough and eggs, milk, butter and sugar."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brioche)
The quote refers to a huge disconnect between the ruler and his or her subjects. The original utterer (if there was one) didn't understand that people were starving because they had no bread. He/she assumed that they, like her, had a choice between bread and 'cake', and if they ran out of one, they could simply munch on the other for a while.
Google is most certainly providing at least _some_ of the content via the Google cache.
The article is so riddled with technical inaccuracies that it's not even worth reading. Please, can we have a little more discrimination on the part of the editors?
The SuperPan is not magical! It WILL burn you!
how is this 'freeing up' money if the citizens are paying for it with their property taxes?
Big deal.. You could replace the word "Microsoft" in the parent post with 99% of all software companies and it would still be correct.
I routinely hear comments like this from people who have never admined a box outside of their own bedroom. No, Debian is not the best desktop OS. Its strengths lie in security (despite the recent lapse for which there is a very *specific* reason), ease of administration, and stability. (not 'it never crashes' stability, but 'upgrades to stable revisions of software are pretty much guaranteed not to break stuff' stability, as opposed to other distros that have no problem, for example, changing the major version of libc in a point release.)
slashdot isn't a religion, it's a news site. Go out side and get some fresh air.
That question doesn't make sense. When liquid reaches its boiling point, it turns into a gas. It doesn't rapidly increase in temperature. It stays at the boiling point until all of the liquid has turned into gas. After that, the temperature of the gas can start increasing again.
Burning is oxidation (a chemical reaction) and has little to do with boiling (transition from the liquid to gas state of matter)
Seriously, sun has been pretending to support the open source movement for years now. Wake me up when they really do something for us.
You are one of a group of ever-dwindling sun loyalists. The fact is that they have been putting out crap for the past 7 years and counting on people like you to lap it up.
This business model is running out of time. McNealy has to go or Sun will die a slow and painful death.
"RAID, if anything, will increase your latency."
Sorry, but you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Please stop posting here until you get a clue.
shut up
Is this what is passing for news on Slashdot nowadays? An intel mobo and power supply inside a case made by apple? Big fucking deal.
It doesn't really matter who they charge. If they charge the manufacturer, the manufacturer will just pass along the cost to the consumer anyway. Then, they avoid having every store in the state collecting and remitting extra fees. Charging the manufacturer directly is the more efficient option.
You are living in a dream world dude. Nobody gives a shit about some good-vs-evil battle of DVD's. All they care about is that they get their movies on time. If Netflix service gets worse again (as it did twice, for several months at a time, while I was using the service) then their customers will start leaving them again.
what the fuck are you talking about? I rent movies from Blockbuster and Hollywood video all the time including unrated directors cuts and NC-17 movies and I have never seen a movie that was edited for content.
I don't even think that Blockbuster could possibly have the infrastructure to do massive reproduction of edited films, or why they would even want to. Maybe this goes on in buttfuck alabama but not in any civilized part of the country.
Hey, if the company isn't treating them fairly, they always have the choice to swim for it.
I had heard before that he was very interested in that kind of stuff.
Now, all we need is integration of this technology into the RealDoll!
"It's worth remembering that the great artists you mention all required wealthy patrons. So let's be clear - if you eliminate copyright laws, you require a system of patronage of individual artists by the wealthy, or support by the state/taxpayers. You think you don't like a world with proprietary sotwere? What about a world where all the most talented artists were on the payroll of the very wealthy? Do you think you would have anything resembling free expression in the arts?" Are you fucking kidding me? What do you think record labels/production studios are? At least in the old days, the "patrons" who supported composers, playwrights, etc. had good taste, today it's all about how good looking the "artist" is and how well they're hyped. --Adam
I hereby declare that BOFH day is the last Saturday in July of every year. Activities for BOFH day should include:
Non-free is only a couple of hundred megs. Remember, non-free doesn't contain every single non-free piece of software out there, just the ones that someone (A Debian developer) felt were important enough to package.
Also, not everything in non-free is a product of some greedy corporation. There are lots of things in non-free that are only breaking one point of the Debian Free Software Guidelines (and some are barely even doing that.) For example, software with full source code available, but only for non-commercial use.
The other main reason not to remove non-free is that lots of packages in contrib depend on things in non-free. If Debian were to remove non-free, then that would break lots of things in contrib.
All in all, this isn't the right time for this proposal, it should really be held off until there are acceptable replacements for the packages that people consider important.
--Adam
According to most recent polls, Debian is either the most popular or second most popular Linux distro.
1) BIND 8 is not the only DNS server being used across the internet today. 2) Your post is totally irrelevant -- zone transfers between master and slave servers have nothing to do with the discussion at hand. My point is this -- The term "propagate" is clearly an inappropriate term for describing the way DNS functions. It implies automation where there is none. DNS caches only fetch records when they are asked to.