I think the question isn't so much "why do it at all?", but "why, since MS is pushing people to do it, don't we push them an alternative way to do it?" MS stuff has an alarming tendency to become ubiquitous no matter how stupid or poorly done it may be. Rather than allow a MS-controlled incarnation take hold, I think the initiative here is to either: a) stem the tide so that it doesn't reach ubiquity, or b) at least have an alternative out there so that the MS way isn't accepted as the "universal" way of doing whatever stupid thing they are trying to do this week.
See, now if we already had registered with them, they could have required authentication.:) Maybe that little bit doesn't work yet.
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You can open RPMs with rpm2cpio and cpio. You can open debs with ar, tar, and gzip. But, comparing.tgz's to.rpm's is like comparing sourdough bread to focaccia bread - they are just different, they serve different purposes althought they are both, in fact, breads. Sure,.tgz and.rpm are both binary package styles, but they differ greatly.
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Debian has an approach to this that I appreciate and think is a good start - debconf. It's not as nice as having a unified file format layout, but it's also not as restrictive and allows people to choose the format that suits them best. For example, Python programs no doubt are more likely to use the format that is understood by its ConfigParser module instead of some other obscure format. If there were unified language support for a common parseable format (SGML/XML anyone? I think it is the closest), then I think it'd be easier to switch to as system described in this Freshmeat article from last February.
So they could combine with Sierra's SWAT series (or, to pick a much better series: Police Quest, though this would lack the Quest part).
Then you have Maxis's SimCity guy playing mayor of a city served by Sierra's SWAT player trying to quell the crime caused by Rockstar's GTA auto thiefs.
And on the weekends they all take the Railroad (Tycoon) to the SimThemePark
It's not just attenuation, that can be countered with amplifiers. I believe modal distortion (or, pulse dispersion) is a bigger problem. You send out a single pulse with a certain pulsewidth, but that output pulsewidth increases with length due to the differing path lengths of the charges.
Just because the implementation of an idea is bad doesn't mean the idea itself is bad.
Besides, I'd hardly say.NET is "about to release" either. They've been talking about it for a while now and we haven't seen much materialize. Seems awfully vaporware-ish.
Did you ever think that maybe the/. guys didn't state that it was a satire up front so as not to ruin it for those who believe it until they get the last line? That'd be my guess.
Because VMWare requires that you actually own a copy of the OS you are going to run on your virtual machine whereas Wine does not require you to have Windows.
It's pretty good, actually. I tested it out. One big problem it had was opening files. My solution (read: workaround) to that was to simply call it at the command line (*gasp* MS products still allow command line options even though they ph34r the command line... look at WinME). Basically I did
1. Nine 5s Reliability - A standard for software and hardware design that ensures 55.555% uptime.
Is it just me, or wouldn't "nine 5s" imply 55.5555555% ?
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Then either you or Slashdot is off by a month, chumley.
Is it so wrong to assume that "happy" == "happy"?
I think the question isn't so much "why do it at all?", but "why, since MS is pushing people to do it, don't we push them an alternative way to do it?" MS stuff has an alarming tendency to become ubiquitous no matter how stupid or poorly done it may be. Rather than allow a MS-controlled incarnation take hold, I think the initiative here is to either: a) stem the tide so that it doesn't reach ubiquity, or b) at least have an alternative out there so that the MS way isn't accepted as the "universal" way of doing whatever stupid thing they are trying to do this week.
See, now if we already had registered with them, they could have required authentication. :) Maybe that little bit doesn't work yet.
You can open RPMs with rpm2cpio and cpio. You can open debs with ar, tar, and gzip. But, comparing .tgz's to .rpm's is like comparing sourdough bread to focaccia bread - they are just different, they serve different purposes althought they are both, in fact, breads. Sure, .tgz and .rpm are both binary package styles, but they differ greatly.
Debian has an approach to this that I appreciate and think is a good start - debconf. It's not as nice as having a unified file format layout, but it's also not as restrictive and allows people to choose the format that suits them best. For example, Python programs no doubt are more likely to use the format that is understood by its ConfigParser module instead of some other obscure format. If there were unified language support for a common parseable format (SGML/XML anyone? I think it is the closest), then I think it'd be easier to switch to as system described in this Freshmeat article from last February.
They've submitted a virus with a security patch before
So they could combine with Sierra's SWAT series (or, to pick a much better series: Police Quest, though this would lack the Quest part).
Then you have Maxis's SimCity guy playing mayor of a city served by Sierra's SWAT player trying to quell the crime caused by Rockstar's GTA auto thiefs.
And on the weekends they all take the Railroad (Tycoon) to the SimThemePark
It's not just attenuation, that can be countered with amplifiers. I believe modal distortion (or, pulse dispersion) is a bigger problem. You send out a single pulse with a certain pulsewidth, but that output pulsewidth increases with length due to the differing path lengths of the charges.
Actually, if you watch the movie, he's supposed to be "The Human Spider". Name snafu.
The existance of things like this for real pools is a myth
Now if only it didn't use the braindead RPM package system that is constantly playing catch-up with Debian's APT
Looks more like canadacomputes.com to me
Just because the implementation of an idea is bad doesn't mean the idea itself is bad. Besides, I'd hardly say .NET is "about to release" either. They've been talking about it for a while now and we haven't seen much materialize. Seems awfully vaporware-ish.
Except, seeing as how Debian plans on developing Debian GNU/BSD and Debian GNU/Win32 ... they wouldn't really want to play both sides now would they?
... why not just sue every computer manufacturer for making these games playable?
Did you ever think that maybe the /. guys didn't state that it was a satire up front so as not to ruin it for those who believe it until they get the last line? That'd be my guess.
Actually Linuxnewbie.org had news of this up on their front page well before this.
Because VMWare requires that you actually own a copy of the OS you are going to run on your virtual machine whereas Wine does not require you to have Windows.
and it ran fairly well for what I did - navigated it a little bit and zoomed in and out and switched things around a little.
At any rate, it didn't crash at nearly the catastrophic rate it had been doing in previous tries.
I'll admit that I just got the latest CVS of Wine yesterday and gave Excel 2000 a shot, though.
So there.
1. Nine 5s Reliability - A standard for software and hardware design that ensures 55.555% uptime.
Is it just me, or wouldn't "nine 5s" imply 55.5555555% ?