Eh, I don't know about that. USE flags are somewhat obtuse. I tend to include everything I may use sometime in the future, not just the things I have a use for at the moment. I don't want to sit around and wonder why mplayer won't play some file, then realize I need to recompile it with a new USE flag. I doubt the amount of extra stuff binary distros throw in there matters that much, at least for me.
Yeah, I could, but I like to see what's going to be updated before I do it. Going back to updating daily isn't bad, and I can let it run overnight after I review it.
If you run a lot of desktop software, it takes much longer than a few minutes to update everything for the week.
I usually run emerge -uD world every Saturday, but I'm thinking about doing it every day, since it takes up a large chunk of the day.
Just this week mozilla, mplayer, and kde were updated, and each of those takes a good chunk of time on my machine. Other weeks it's a new kernel revision (which requires compilation and driver updates and such) or some other large package.
Except Sony said in court that there's no reason to have a backup, since they provide replacement CDs.
I'd want to have a backup, even if it was my own negligence that caused the first one to disappear. Unless Sony was going to send me another one for free.
Since Sony said that there's no reason to have a backup, they've taken into account user negligence.
I'm inclined to set up a website that urges people to ask Sony for replacement CDs of their PS2 games (assuming this case is about PS2?).
If they won't provide replacements, they've proven themselves liars in court. If they charge for replacements, they've undone their argument that there's no reason to have a backup.
Right. The media was out to sink him because he energized the Democratic party and generally shook things up and made things more interesting. That must be why he got cover stories in all the major news magazines, endless coverage on TV and in newspapers, and all the mainstream buzz one can handle.
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That doesn't make his post invalid. In your example, "www" is just the domain name. You don't need a hostname to have a valid domain name. See slashdot.org (instead of www.slashdot.org).
Those sites could just as easily be written as www.www.com (host.domain.com).
You have a narrow view of college students. I'm a student right now, and I am pretty broke. But I have a job, and I'm on scholarships, so I'm not that broke. So when I'm going for a road trip or something, I'll drop $10 and pick up a CD (or $5 and get one on half.com).
Not all college students are broke, many are rolling in money. Besides, even broke ones can afford a CD now and then.
Not only that, but as part of the settlement, Microsoft is licensing the Windows Media codecs to Linspire, so they can use the closed-source versions (from MS) in their product for the next few years.
No, they're going to remove the illegal codecs and replace them with legal codecs. Windows Media will still play, at least for the duration of the license.
They claimed Windows compatibility (and poured money into the WINE project) prematurely, when it looked like it may be possible to actually accomplish it. Once it became clear that it wasn't going to happen, they did away with that marketing bullet-point.
Linspire also contributes heavily to a range of OSS projects, such as WINE, GAIM, Mozilla, NVu, Reiser4, etc. Xandros, on the other hand, doesn't (AFAIK).
Not to mention that they managed to do the unthinkable: get Linux into Wal-Mart and other mainstream places. They've gotten the topic a hell of a lot of press, too.
I'd say their distro may even come second to their bolstering of the "you don't have to settle for Windows" crowd.
It doesn't. But there are people out there who would like it to. So they try to make software that the "Joe Average" user will enjoy. It's pretty simple.
My school charges each student an $21 for season football tickets (well below regular price). You hear a lot of grumbling among the students: "I pay this much for school, and I still have to pay for tickets? Do they care about the students at all?"
Yet, if you take the other viewpoint, that (should be) $21 off of tuition, with the choice to pay given to each individual student.
The school would hear far few complaints among the students if they just added the fee to tuition (nobody would notice) and handed out the tickets for free.
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How are they illegal if you made them yourself from the original records?
Eh, I don't know about that. USE flags are somewhat obtuse. I tend to include everything I may use sometime in the future, not just the things I have a use for at the moment. I don't want to sit around and wonder why mplayer won't play some file, then realize I need to recompile it with a new USE flag. I doubt the amount of extra stuff binary distros throw in there matters that much, at least for me.
Yeah, I could, but I like to see what's going to be updated before I do it. Going back to updating daily isn't bad, and I can let it run overnight after I review it.
If you run a lot of desktop software, it takes much longer than a few minutes to update everything for the week.
I usually run emerge -uD world every Saturday, but I'm thinking about doing it every day, since it takes up a large chunk of the day.
Just this week mozilla, mplayer, and kde were updated, and each of those takes a good chunk of time on my machine. Other weeks it's a new kernel revision (which requires compilation and driver updates and such) or some other large package.
Yes, it's HTML implemented in XML. It's an application, like MathML and SVG and DocBook.
Except Sony said in court that there's no reason to have a backup, since they provide replacement CDs.
I'd want to have a backup, even if it was my own negligence that caused the first one to disappear. Unless Sony was going to send me another one for free.
Since Sony said that there's no reason to have a backup, they've taken into account user negligence.
I'm inclined to set up a website that urges people to ask Sony for replacement CDs of their PS2 games (assuming this case is about PS2?).
If they won't provide replacements, they've proven themselves liars in court. If they charge for replacements, they've undone their argument that there's no reason to have a backup.
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They were competing against him. What do you want, everyone to hold hands and sing camp songs?
Right. The media was out to sink him because he energized the Democratic party and generally shook things up and made things more interesting. That must be why he got cover stories in all the major news magazines, endless coverage on TV and in newspapers, and all the mainstream buzz one can handle.
How does that work with a D-Link NAT router?
That doesn't make his post invalid. In your example, "www" is just the domain name. You don't need a hostname to have a valid domain name. See slashdot.org (instead of www.slashdot.org).
Those sites could just as easily be written as www.www.com (host.domain.com).
Because my school doesn't give away laptops?
You have a narrow view of college students. I'm a student right now, and I am pretty broke. But I have a job, and I'm on scholarships, so I'm not that broke. So when I'm going for a road trip or something, I'll drop $10 and pick up a CD (or $5 and get one on half.com).
Not all college students are broke, many are rolling in money. Besides, even broke ones can afford a CD now and then.
illegal as in illegally-used. semantics.
Not only that, but as part of the settlement, Microsoft is licensing the Windows Media codecs to Linspire, so they can use the closed-source versions (from MS) in their product for the next few years.
No, they're going to remove the illegal codecs and replace them with legal codecs. Windows Media will still play, at least for the duration of the license.
They claimed Windows compatibility (and poured money into the WINE project) prematurely, when it looked like it may be possible to actually accomplish it. Once it became clear that it wasn't going to happen, they did away with that marketing bullet-point.
Linspire also contributes heavily to a range of OSS projects, such as WINE, GAIM, Mozilla, NVu, Reiser4, etc. Xandros, on the other hand, doesn't (AFAIK).
Not to mention that they managed to do the unthinkable: get Linux into Wal-Mart and other mainstream places. They've gotten the topic a hell of a lot of press, too.
I'd say their distro may even come second to their bolstering of the "you don't have to settle for Windows" crowd.
Or just go to java.com and click the Download button.
It doesn't. But there are people out there who would like it to. So they try to make software that the "Joe Average" user will enjoy. It's pretty simple.
I don't get this. Wasn't the Sonny Bono act ostensibly to bring the US copyright law in line with the EU?
My school charges each student an $21 for season football tickets (well below regular price). You hear a lot of grumbling among the students: "I pay this much for school, and I still have to pay for tickets? Do they care about the students at all?"
Yet, if you take the other viewpoint, that (should be) $21 off of tuition, with the choice to pay given to each individual student.
The school would hear far few complaints among the students if they just added the fee to tuition (nobody would notice) and handed out the tickets for free.
Ok, I walked around my campus a lot last semester (large state school). I counted 1.
Well, I wouldn't be too sure they're going to drop it next year. Penn State has a contract through 2005.
"you know a billion chinese are taught the moon landings were a fraud"
Source, please?