What I'm talking about is unzip/untar tarball, cd directory, read README & INSTALL, type./configure, make, make install, get errors due to failed dependencies: library missing, header file not found, thisfunction.so MIA.
That happens with every single distro in the world. You're never going to include every library used by every program. Singling out this particularly obvious "point" as some sort of Mandrake flaw is ridiculous and dishonest.
I've gotten this reaction from Mandrivites before. Don't google-eye at me in shock and act like you've never heard of a failed compile before.
Well then don't disenguously refer to some encounter you had with missing libraries as "complete lack of compiler/C library support", that's simply an outright lie. Mandrake includes a several compilers and a wide variety of libraries "out of the box" on the CD/DVDs if you would simply choose to install them.
Anyway, I'm not knocking Mandriva at all.
Of course not, making inflammatory untrue statements isn't a "knock" at all. And of course you followed it up with a backhanded at best "compliment" about the Python install being "old enough".
There is no Linux distro in the world, without both flaws and perfections.
Indeed not, Captain Obvious, but picking a flaw that every distro has and naming it as a singular fault of one in particular just looks like you have an ax to grind.
What irritates *me* about Mandriva is the complete lack of compiler/C library support. Don't even think of getting a source tarball and doing anything meaningful with it if you're running Mandriva.
What are you talking about? Granted I'm running Mandrake 10 and not the absolute latest Mandriva, but I find it hard to believe that they spontaneously dropped support for something they've had since the earliest version I used, 7.something.
Nope, just checked, they haven't. It looks like 2006 beta 1 will use gcc4.
You're not in the market for a printer, and your results can't be replicated by someone else (unless you plan to give out old laserwriters and inkjets). If you were in the market for a printer, a color laser - with a dye sub if you fell into that needs group -would be, by far, your best value.
Then you get a little dye-sub photo printer. They're less than $150, and cost per print is around 40 cents. Obviously less than ideal, but not a big deal for someone with needs like that.
No, not color. Laser has a lower cost per page than inkjets. If you need pictures there's Wal-Mart, as you said, or a dye-sub printer for A4/8.5x11 prints. Inkjet doesn't enter into the equation.
For employment,
Business users are a different matter, paying a ridiculous price per page is worth the tradeoff in some industries/applications.
You're a graphic designer printing out proofs before you send your PDF/eps document to a print shop? You want an inkjet for good color reproduction.
If your livelihood depends on good quality color, you should be buying the best quality you can possibly afford, regardless of the price per print, sure. But then you're not 99% of consumers. You're a business consumer.
Amateur photographer? You want either a good inkjet printer or dye sublimation printer.
You certainly don't want an inket at ALL. You may want a dye-sub if you do a lot of A4/8.5x11, but the cost per page for that is still around $2, so it would be a secondary printer anyway. If you just want standard prints in a hurry you can go to Wal-Mart and get them for 23 cents a print or so. Otherwise you can get prints online from several places for less than 20 cents each (not to mention the constant free ofers they have, though it's not fair to compare those since they could go away any time).
Again, why buy inkjets? So far the only reason you've come up with is designers/publishers to print proofs. Tell me why the home user should be buying inkjets.
Why are you still shopping for inkjet printers at all? Black and white lasers are under a hundred bucks, and even color lasers are under a few hundred bucks now. Then at 3c/page for B&W and 15c/page for color you can't really compare inkjets.
At no point in the article does this claim to be "unique" in any way. Quite the opposite, in fact. It acknowledges that there has been no shortage of these frameworks. The only way in which it's "unique" is that its Python. Basically, it exists simply so that people who know and enjoy Python can stick with it.
Weird. I'm not a football fan, so I shouldn't be surprised, but it's obviously hard to avoid it and I could have sworn they were calling themselves 2005. Ah well, they should name the game after the season, but I'm not sure how they'd correct it at this point.
Why can you buy a 2006 car right now? Why does the 2006 fiscal year start in October 2005? Because years/seasons/whatever that extend across calendar years need to be called something and it's easier to pick (arbitrarily or not) one of the two years and get everyone used to it. The football season runs from Sep 2005 to Jan 2006. Since the Superbowl is in 2006 and the winner will be referred to as the "2006 Champions" it makes sense to refer to the season as the 2006 season. You would logically refer to the game modeling the 2006 season as the "Madden 2006". Not doing so would be misleading.
Most of your sense of taste is in fact from smell.
Only because it usually overwhelms the sense of taste. There is a disease called anosmia, which is the inability to smell. Anosmiacs, however, can still taste though probably not with the same subtlety.
Well, that prompted me to look it up. According to this site, it was available to some extent in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. If you look up Flextech and Sega Channel there's other corroborating information in the form of press releases and the like (such as this. I don't know how UK cable works, if it's divided up into regional franchises like the US or what, but I'm assuming it just wasn't available anywhere near you.
It wasn't something dreamed up by your local cable company. The Sega Channel was created by...Sega, and it was pretty much everywhere in North America (and I think the UK too). It was a cool concept, it actually worked, and it had "exclusive downloadable content" like import-only games way ahead of its time. I seem to recall it being $24.95 here (from the now defunct TCI cable). Unfortunately, it came too late in the life of the Genesis to really catch on.
Well, let's see: the police department, the fire department,
Yeah, let's move mission critical life or death applications off a proven and working system and on to an unlicensed public spectrum using "best effort" consumer hardware.
Now you just cant give the items back as the people who purchased the items would want to be refunded.
So? Buying/selling items for anything other than the in-game currency violates the Rules of Conduct (number 11). They knew that when they bought the items. When you go outside the system, don't expect that system to care if you get burned. You can certainly give the items back to the people who had them taken from them by someone else breaking the rules and who didn't violate any rules themselves.
Yes, but we already have appropriate rating systems in place that are well understood. If.kids was declared to be "G rated" every parent would know what was there and what to expect. I also suspect there's very few people who would consider anything G-rated inappropriate for any child old enough to use a computer without help.
You don't have the freedom of speech to solicit someone to perform an illegal act, and it's not really reasonable to think you should. Keep in mind that soliciting someone to perform an illegal act is very different than simply talking about the act in any other context. You can certainly make a case that gambling should be legalized, but that's a separate issue. It's not in Australia, so you can't go around saying "Come here and gamble!" any more than you can say "Come here and buy heroin!"
Wavebirds lack the vibration feature. Normally I would say "feature", as it isn't usually that useful, but there are some Gamecube games where I wouldn't want to play without it (Mario Party, for example).
Well, I did think about that, but.us is already an existing TLD with existing policies. Better to start fresh with a new TLD rather than shoehorning a subdomain in there. Besides, kids.us already exists with the very same stated goal of being a kid-safe area. It doesn't seem to have caught on.
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That happens with every single distro in the world. You're never going to include every library used by every program. Singling out this particularly obvious "point" as some sort of Mandrake flaw is ridiculous and dishonest.
I've gotten this reaction from Mandrivites before. Don't google-eye at me in shock and act like you've never heard of a failed compile before.
Well then don't disenguously refer to some encounter you had with missing libraries as "complete lack of compiler/C library support", that's simply an outright lie. Mandrake includes a several compilers and a wide variety of libraries "out of the box" on the CD/DVDs if you would simply choose to install them.
Anyway, I'm not knocking Mandriva at all.
Of course not, making inflammatory untrue statements isn't a "knock" at all. And of course you followed it up with a backhanded at best "compliment" about the Python install being "old enough". There is no Linux distro in the world, without both flaws and perfections.
Indeed not, Captain Obvious, but picking a flaw that every distro has and naming it as a singular fault of one in particular just looks like you have an ax to grind.
There was a boxed Civ II expansion whose included scenarios were almost entirely user submitted.
What are you talking about? Granted I'm running Mandrake 10 and not the absolute latest Mandriva, but I find it hard to believe that they spontaneously dropped support for something they've had since the earliest version I used, 7.something.
Nope, just checked, they haven't. It looks like 2006 beta 1 will use gcc4.
Since the first Progress in 1978.
You're not in the market for a printer, and your results can't be replicated by someone else (unless you plan to give out old laserwriters and inkjets). If you were in the market for a printer, a color laser - with a dye sub if you fell into that needs group -would be, by far, your best value.
Then you get a little dye-sub photo printer. They're less than $150, and cost per print is around 40 cents. Obviously less than ideal, but not a big deal for someone with needs like that.
No, not color. Laser has a lower cost per page than inkjets. If you need pictures there's Wal-Mart, as you said, or a dye-sub printer for A4/8.5x11 prints. Inkjet doesn't enter into the equation.
For employment,
Business users are a different matter, paying a ridiculous price per page is worth the tradeoff in some industries/applications.
If your livelihood depends on good quality color, you should be buying the best quality you can possibly afford, regardless of the price per print, sure. But then you're not 99% of consumers. You're a business consumer.
Amateur photographer? You want either a good inkjet printer or dye sublimation printer.
You certainly don't want an inket at ALL. You may want a dye-sub if you do a lot of A4/8.5x11, but the cost per page for that is still around $2, so it would be a secondary printer anyway. If you just want standard prints in a hurry you can go to Wal-Mart and get them for 23 cents a print or so. Otherwise you can get prints online from several places for less than 20 cents each (not to mention the constant free ofers they have, though it's not fair to compare those since they could go away any time).
Again, why buy inkjets? So far the only reason you've come up with is designers/publishers to print proofs. Tell me why the home user should be buying inkjets.
Why are you still shopping for inkjet printers at all? Black and white lasers are under a hundred bucks, and even color lasers are under a few hundred bucks now. Then at 3c/page for B&W and 15c/page for color you can't really compare inkjets.
No, despite balanced budget laws at least 44 states ran a deficit in 2004.
At no point in the article does this claim to be "unique" in any way. Quite the opposite, in fact. It acknowledges that there has been no shortage of these frameworks. The only way in which it's "unique" is that its Python. Basically, it exists simply so that people who know and enjoy Python can stick with it.
Weird. I'm not a football fan, so I shouldn't be surprised, but it's obviously hard to avoid it and I could have sworn they were calling themselves 2005. Ah well, they should name the game after the season, but I'm not sure how they'd correct it at this point.
Why can you buy a 2006 car right now? Why does the 2006 fiscal year start in October 2005? Because years/seasons/whatever that extend across calendar years need to be called something and it's easier to pick (arbitrarily or not) one of the two years and get everyone used to it. The football season runs from Sep 2005 to Jan 2006. Since the Superbowl is in 2006 and the winner will be referred to as the "2006 Champions" it makes sense to refer to the season as the 2006 season. You would logically refer to the game modeling the 2006 season as the "Madden 2006". Not doing so would be misleading.
Only because it usually overwhelms the sense of taste. There is a disease called anosmia, which is the inability to smell. Anosmiacs, however, can still taste though probably not with the same subtlety.
Well, that prompted me to look it up. According to this site, it was available to some extent in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. If you look up Flextech and Sega Channel there's other corroborating information in the form of press releases and the like (such as this. I don't know how UK cable works, if it's divided up into regional franchises like the US or what, but I'm assuming it just wasn't available anywhere near you.
It wasn't something dreamed up by your local cable company. The Sega Channel was created by...Sega, and it was pretty much everywhere in North America (and I think the UK too). It was a cool concept, it actually worked, and it had "exclusive downloadable content" like import-only games way ahead of its time. I seem to recall it being $24.95 here (from the now defunct TCI cable). Unfortunately, it came too late in the life of the Genesis to really catch on.
Yeah, let's move mission critical life or death applications off a proven and working system and on to an unlicensed public spectrum using "best effort" consumer hardware.
It's been back in print for a while now.
How about Groklaw? They have a writeup with pretty much everything there is to know.
So? Buying/selling items for anything other than the in-game currency violates the Rules of Conduct (number 11). They knew that when they bought the items. When you go outside the system, don't expect that system to care if you get burned. You can certainly give the items back to the people who had them taken from them by someone else breaking the rules and who didn't violate any rules themselves.
Sheesh, cut the guy alittle slack.
You don't have the freedom of speech to solicit someone to perform an illegal act, and it's not really reasonable to think you should. Keep in mind that soliciting someone to perform an illegal act is very different than simply talking about the act in any other context. You can certainly make a case that gambling should be legalized, but that's a separate issue. It's not in Australia, so you can't go around saying "Come here and gamble!" any more than you can say "Come here and buy heroin!"
Wavebirds lack the vibration feature. Normally I would say "feature", as it isn't usually that useful, but there are some Gamecube games where I wouldn't want to play without it (Mario Party, for example).
Well, I did think about that, but .us is already an existing TLD with existing policies. Better to start fresh with a new TLD rather than shoehorning a subdomain in there. Besides, kids.us already exists with the very same stated goal of being a kid-safe area. It doesn't seem to have caught on.