Allowing any user to install things is a Bad Thing, and even a properly locked-down Windows box won't allow this these days.
You forget that (provided that/home isn't mounted noexec) a user could install an app in his home directory, perhaps in ~/bin, ~/etc, ~/lib, ~/share and so on. And that's what a package system should do when a user tries to install an app as himself--or at least provide an option.
I've had similar experiences with both SSH and sudo. Never mind that 'ssh host' is easier than 'telnet host,' especially with keys set up. Never mind that scp is light-years more pleasant than ftp. Never mind that sftp does ftp's job, better. Never mind that sudo is an absolutely brilliant solution to the problem of Unix's weak support for roles (I love Unix, but let's be honest--it's not the end-all, be-all of OS design). Never mind that I, as a Unix admin, do all of my work with ssh & sudo; somehow the Oracle DBAs and the developers need telnet and need the root password (or, in one memorable instance, a UID of 0!).
I don't like compiling via vim itself because I need to keep the error messages visible while I'm working through the code fixing whatever error gave the compiler a fit
Take a look at emacs: M-x compile will compile the file. It will continue compiling past errors, and while it compiles you can jump to errors with C-`. You can split a frame into multiple windows with C-x 2 and C-x 3, to get the behaviour you write about above. It's very nice.
And after time the keybindings are nicer too--you get used to C-a to go to the beginning of a line and C-e to go to the end. Oh, and the language major modes are excellent.
And there's a shell mode, and an SQL interface to most databases, and an email/news client, and a web browser, and an IRC client, and an IM client, and...
And thus the need for free software--while it may not be worth Macromedia's time to recompile for PPC, or ARM, or whatever, it's certainly worth the time of a user of one of those platforms to recompile therefor.
The whole "would you not have allowed X to be born" argument against abortion is somewhat of a fallacy: there's no way to tell in advance precisely what will become of a person in their lives, so if you want to create "geniuses", by the argument, you should spend your entire life having more children.
You haven't demonstrated a fallacy--you've demonstrated an argument for having lots of children.
The blanket ban, driven by religious motives primarily (like the whole religious crusade against science in the middle and dark ages [earth is flat, world created in 7 days etc etc]) makes it very, very difficult to carry out stem cell research alongside other federally funded projects.
And those damn pesky religious nuts are holding us back from other forms of experimentation on humans, too. Damnit, we need to test drugs out on prisoners--it for the children!
And of course science in the mediaeval period was kept alive by the Church, but why inject facts into one's bigotry?
At some point Ireland may have to examine her ethics...
Considering that the Irish revolted against their king in the middle of a war, and then later on were neutral in favour of the Axis in WWII, I sincerely doubt that they'll ever examine their ethics...
And I say this as someone whose great-grandmother was a Conway and many of whose relatives secretly believe that the English genetically engineered potato blight.
A hilt is meant to protect you from your enemy's blade as it slides along your blade.
Not really--its function is more to protect your knuckles from the enemy's shield. On many swords the hilt wouldn't actually be able to stand up to much punishment from a blade.
Well, trusted links are very cool and all--but the major problem with them is that it makes it impossible to just download-and-go (as mentioned in TFA). How would you propose to attract new users given such a scheme?
Granted that gmail works--but it offers email. What does Freenet offer to enough people to make running an invitation-only darknet possible?
Freenet is interesting, but what does it offer Joe Average User? There's some political stuff, a lot of copyright violations, a good deal of pornography and that's about it--and all with extraordinarily poor performance. How do y'all plan to attract enough users for there to be an actual free net?
No--we just came up with a new standard. Base-10 is foolish for computer units (it's also foolish for other units, but that's another story). There's no ambiguity, since computer units are always base-2.
There was never any ambiguity: everyone in computers knew that kilo- indicated 1,024x, giga- 1,024x1,024 and so on. The fact that users of French units have such small brains that they cannot imagine one word having multiple meanings has no bearing on the rest of us, who can.
you can't get outside corporate sponsorship for core projects (eclipse) by using the lgpl. with geronimo, any company will be able to donate some serious cash to its development and then make money off packaging, selling, and supporting the product.
Possibly. But if a company does improve Geronimo and sell its version, it has fewer incentives to release those improvements: if it did, other companies could release their own improvements and the first company would have no access thereto. Whereas with the LGPL they would. The GPL and LGPL are very much corporation-friendly, from a certain perspective: they mean that one can release one's code with the assurance that one will be able to use any improvements others build thereon.
Ummm...the South Park film was rated R, and only just barely managed to miss getting NC-17. I remember this clearly, because I was called in to act the part of the 'guardian' to get my brother's best friend's girlfriend's kid brother (*whew!*) into the film (I was > 21 at the time, and so qualified for the role). There were cops (real cops!) there checking IDs.
That said, I'm very much not proud of getting a 13 year old into that movie. Sometimes those ratings are what they are for a reason, as I learnt that day. Hell, I'm not proud of seeing it myself.
Thy may have been the more informal form in older English. However, it has only survived because of religious zealots grovelling before their god, using the form as an honorific.
No, it's actually used in addressing God specifically because it's informal, to indicate that our God is not some distant and remote sort but rather one Who loves us personally.
But a lot of people prefer the idea of a remote god, and because of them we nowadays tend to think that 'thou' is formal.
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Yould should heed your .sig: that it can be done doesn't mean it should!
Seconded. And with stuff like beamer (a presentation creator, e.g. to replace PowerPoint), LaTeX gets better and better. I use it to publish out-of-copyright books using POD.
You have? I'm a professional Unix sysadmin and have been using Linux for nearly seven years now, and these are the crashes I've seen:
I've never seen another crash. Perhaps you meant an application failure, not an OS issue?
You forget that (provided that /home isn't mounted noexec) a user could install an app in his home directory, perhaps in ~/bin, ~/etc, ~/lib, ~/share and so on. And that's what a package system should do when a user tries to install an app as himself--or at least provide an option.
Not true--you actually can, but only one email client that I know of supports it (gnus--of course).
Bah!
Take a look at emacs: M-x compile will compile the file. It will continue compiling past errors, and while it compiles you can jump to errors with C-`. You can split a frame into multiple windows with C-x 2 and C-x 3, to get the behaviour you write about above. It's very nice.
And after time the keybindings are nicer too--you get used to C-a to go to the beginning of a line and C-e to go to the end. Oh, and the language major modes are excellent.
And there's a shell mode, and an SQL interface to most databases, and an email/news client, and a web browser, and an IRC client, and an IM client, and...
I open emacs and live the rest of my day therein!
And thus the need for free software--while it may not be worth Macromedia's time to recompile for PPC, or ARM, or whatever, it's certainly worth the time of a user of one of those platforms to recompile therefor.
You haven't demonstrated a fallacy--you've demonstrated an argument for having lots of children.
Given that it simmered slowly for approx. a decade, I'd say that we still qualify for 'slow to anger.'
Now, Afghanistan was almost immediately after 11 September, but even that was the culmination of attacks dating back to the 90s.
And those damn pesky religious nuts are holding us back from other forms of experimentation on humans, too. Damnit, we need to test drugs out on prisoners--it for the children!
And of course science in the mediaeval period was kept alive by the Church, but why inject facts into one's bigotry?
Considering that the Irish revolted against their king in the middle of a war, and then later on were neutral in favour of the Axis in WWII, I sincerely doubt that they'll ever examine their ethics...
And I say this as someone whose great-grandmother was a Conway and many of whose relatives secretly believe that the English genetically engineered potato blight.
Not really--its function is more to protect your knuckles from the enemy's shield. On many swords the hilt wouldn't actually be able to stand up to much punishment from a blade.
Granted that gmail works--but it offers email. What does Freenet offer to enough people to make running an invitation-only darknet possible?
Freenet is interesting, but what does it offer Joe Average User? There's some political stuff, a lot of copyright violations, a good deal of pornography and that's about it--and all with extraordinarily poor performance. How do y'all plan to attract enough users for there to be an actual free net?
Or Madras -> Chennai, which annoys the Tamils and Telugus I work with to no end...
No--we just came up with a new standard. Base-10 is foolish for computer units (it's also foolish for other units, but that's another story). There's no ambiguity, since computer units are always base-2.
There was never any ambiguity: everyone in computers knew that kilo- indicated 1,024x, giga- 1,024x1,024 and so on. The fact that users of French units have such small brains that they cannot imagine one word having multiple meanings has no bearing on the rest of us, who can.
The English name for Mumbai is, of course, Bombay. Just like the English name for Muenchen is Munich and the French name for London is Londres.
Possibly. But if a company does improve Geronimo and sell its version, it has fewer incentives to release those improvements: if it did, other companies could release their own improvements and the first company would have no access thereto. Whereas with the LGPL they would. The GPL and LGPL are very much corporation-friendly, from a certain perspective: they mean that one can release one's code with the assurance that one will be able to use any improvements others build thereon.
That said, I'm very much not proud of getting a 13 year old into that movie. Sometimes those ratings are what they are for a reason, as I learnt that day. Hell, I'm not proud of seeing it myself.
Mormonism != Christianity, not by any stretch of the imagination.
He's not a Christian; he's a Mormon. There's a big difference.
No, it's actually used in addressing God specifically because it's informal, to indicate that our God is not some distant and remote sort but rather one Who loves us personally.
But a lot of people prefer the idea of a remote god, and because of them we nowadays tend to think that 'thou' is formal.
On another subject, anyone laying odds of Firefly returning to the small screen of the film does well?
That's possibly the funniest thing I've read in a long, long, long time. Bravo!