Came here to say "so much this". My wife loves Scrabble, Bookworm, Boggle, etc. Just because many (most?) women don't play traditional genres such as FPS, doesn't mean their needs are not being met by the industry.
Look at PopCap games. Since when have they NOT catered to women? Just because it's not pink doesn't mean it doesn't cater to women!
Yep. I remember Karl Auerbach supporting this and doing some testing of BIND to see if it could handle all the TLDs.
Personally, I support the proposal because dot-com is far too generic to have any meaning anymore. People are used to running words together rather than having to have them separated by space, dots, etc. I don't see it as a big deal and I think it's kind of cool.
I think you missed the gist of my comment which is that I tend to treat Debian's repositories like Apple's walled garden. It is much more reliable than J_Random_Executable or even alternative apt repositories. Why bother with the rest if you can get what you need from a reliable, authoritative source?
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P.s., I'm not making an argument about hardware use in general — just that Apple's walled garden is not entirely unique. So long as there is an reliable, authoritative source for software and you latch onto it, voila, you have virtual walled garden.
I don't disagree with you. And yet, users like the walled garden anyway. We'll see if Google makes sufficient progress with their "walled garden by default but you can cut your own legs off if you wish" approach works.
The mindset is the same. Get it in Debian and you don't have to bother your users with adding repositories — sorta like getting your code in the kernel. It's just there, by default, and you slurp down what you want with impunity.
I do use multiple repositories out of necessity. But I do point an upturned eyebrow at Joe's Random Apt Shack. Apple's App Store is similar. It's an authoritative source with vetting, like Debian, and unlike Joe's Random Apt Shack, or worse, JRandom.exe from random website.
Sometimes that's a boatload of trouble (c.f., IBM's OpenAdminTool for Informix). I did end up installing it. But pretty much, if it's some brand new garbage on freshmeat, I can't be bothered until a Debian developer thinks it's worth his/her time to bundle it.
The only issue I have with the Wii Classic controller is that the analog sticks are way too stiff for virtual console games like Ocarina of Time. It makes the carnival arrow game extremely difficult. Of course, with the new Wiittachment, you could just tap directly on the target, eliminating all that fuss with aiming. Heh.
You can start to see the outline of a marketing campaign that will convince people that they really don't need to have anything on their Mac that didn't come from Apple, one way or another.
I feel that way about Debian. It's an exaggeration, to be sure, but the mindset is the same. If I can't manage it with apt, why bother with it?
Sidenote: Ripley and the girl have some drama and Cameron does insert some political/corporate greed. But pretty much every character is expendable except for Ripley which is why I rate it lower.
ESB is a story of survival in the face of a juggernaut. It's the 2nd act in a 3-parter. The Rebel Alliance is in shambles, lots of bad stuff happens, and our protagonists barely escape. We learn about the characters in their distress. Will they survive to win the galaxy?
I like ESB and don't care for Aliens because in ESB, the acting and dramatic elements bring the characters to life. Han and Leia start out cute and end up serious. There's the Luke/Vader dynamic. Aliens is truly a mindless romp apart from a few satirical elements. If the acting and dialog in ESB hadn't worked, it would've been awful. But it does, and the result is outstanding.
I do agree that there is no "real objective" because it is a movie of survival rather than planning a goal and achieving it. But there's nothing wrong with that. ESB is sorta like the part of Cast Away when he's on the island. The first part, Memphis/Russia is in movie 1. The results of his journey are in movie 3. All we have in movie 2 is the island. ESB is that island.
You could be ok with the technology but suspicious of the implementors.
Finesse has been a quality seldom seen here. Here, let me feed a troll: That position is like supporting the death penalty in theory but thinking the criminal justice system is far too primitive to mete it out fairly.
In the end, you have gawker and freerepublic and the moderates are completely drowned out by the mouth foam.
> >I'm still irritated that there is no easy way to put a different picture on different virtual desktops anymore. > Whoa, I never knew you could do this and I have wanted it for 15 years. How did you do this?
Well, it used to work under Enlightenment DR16 (and fvwm before that). I gave up on E awhile back due to the nicer Gnome integration you got with metacity. But, I did recently try out E17. It's OK, though it kept crashing on me, complaining about my startup applications. Couldn't get a good enough bug report to them to narrow it down.
The only way I know how to do multiple images is to have a shell app that changes it for you. Super crappy vs what was possible in E16. There were a lot of requests for it in swordfish and metacity back in the day, but the Gnome guys were dead against it. I understand their logic. It just sucks not to have a viable alternative like Enlightenment anymore.
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Agreed though if you need entropy out of a timestamp near the beginning of the string, reverse it first: ms.ss:mm:hh dd/MM/yyyy
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Ugh, VLB. That thing was a monster. I always felt I was going to destroy a board just trying to get it into the sockets.
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Came here to say "so much this". My wife loves Scrabble, Bookworm, Boggle, etc. Just because many (most?) women don't play traditional genres such as FPS, doesn't mean their needs are not being met by the industry.
Look at PopCap games. Since when have they NOT catered to women? Just because it's not pink doesn't mean it doesn't cater to women!
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Which is funny, because it was supposed to be ".gb". But internationals are very sloppy with GB vs UK usage anyway, so the UK stuck.
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Yep. I remember Karl Auerbach supporting this and doing some testing of BIND to see if it could handle all the TLDs.
Personally, I support the proposal because dot-com is far too generic to have any meaning anymore. People are used to running words together rather than having to have them separated by space, dots, etc. I don't see it as a big deal and I think it's kind of cool.
$0.02USD,
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/living in the dot-info ghetto
I think you missed the gist of my comment which is that I tend to treat Debian's repositories like Apple's walled garden. It is much more reliable than J_Random_Executable or even alternative apt repositories. Why bother with the rest if you can get what you need from a reliable, authoritative source?
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P.s., I'm not making an argument about hardware use in general — just that Apple's walled garden is not entirely unique. So long as there is an reliable, authoritative source for software and you latch onto it, voila, you have virtual walled garden.
I don't disagree with you. And yet, users like the walled garden anyway. We'll see if Google makes sufficient progress with their "walled garden by default but you can cut your own legs off if you wish" approach works.
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The mindset is the same. Get it in Debian and you don't have to bother your users with adding repositories — sorta like getting your code in the kernel. It's just there, by default, and you slurp down what you want with impunity.
I do use multiple repositories out of necessity. But I do point an upturned eyebrow at Joe's Random Apt Shack. Apple's App Store is similar. It's an authoritative source with vetting, like Debian, and unlike Joe's Random Apt Shack, or worse, JRandom.exe from random website.
Thus, "mindset".
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Sometimes that's a boatload of trouble (c.f., IBM's OpenAdminTool for Informix). I did end up installing it. But pretty much, if it's some brand new garbage on freshmeat, I can't be bothered until a Debian developer thinks it's worth his/her time to bundle it.
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The biggest issue with the DS was that it took a long, long time before interesting games became available on the platform.
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Each device will have a different bandwidth limit and your bill will be 10 pages long.
Your bill is only 10pp long? I have 3 lines on AT&T and mine is 58pp long. Glad it's a PDF instead of mail, though.
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The only issue I have with the Wii Classic controller is that the analog sticks are way too stiff for virtual console games like Ocarina of Time. It makes the carnival arrow game extremely difficult. Of course, with the new Wiittachment, you could just tap directly on the target, eliminating all that fuss with aiming. Heh.
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You can start to see the outline of a marketing campaign that will convince people that they really don't need to have anything on their Mac that didn't come from Apple, one way or another.
I feel that way about Debian. It's an exaggeration, to be sure, but the mindset is the same. If I can't manage it with apt, why bother with it?
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Ultimate RTFM from the IO BOFH.
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No kidding. And he's about due for a Wing Commander voiceover...
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I refuse to watch that movie. I just know I'll have another Phantom Menace experience.
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Sidenote: Ripley and the girl have some drama and Cameron does insert some political/corporate greed. But pretty much every character is expendable except for Ripley which is why I rate it lower.
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ESB is a story of survival in the face of a juggernaut. It's the 2nd act in a 3-parter. The Rebel Alliance is in shambles, lots of bad stuff happens, and our protagonists barely escape. We learn about the characters in their distress. Will they survive to win the galaxy?
I like ESB and don't care for Aliens because in ESB, the acting and dramatic elements bring the characters to life. Han and Leia start out cute and end up serious. There's the Luke/Vader dynamic. Aliens is truly a mindless romp apart from a few satirical elements. If the acting and dialog in ESB hadn't worked, it would've been awful. But it does, and the result is outstanding.
I do agree that there is no "real objective" because it is a movie of survival rather than planning a goal and achieving it. But there's nothing wrong with that. ESB is sorta like the part of Cast Away when he's on the island. The first part, Memphis/Russia is in movie 1. The results of his journey are in movie 3. All we have in movie 2 is the island. ESB is that island.
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What, you don't always switch to private browsing mode when viewing full-page PDFs on the internet?
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Insert "In soviet russia" somewhere. And maybe a goatse link (the original rickroll).
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Actual LOL here. Bravo!
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You could be ok with the technology but suspicious of the implementors.
Finesse has been a quality seldom seen here. Here, let me feed a troll: That position is like supporting the death penalty in theory but thinking the criminal justice system is far too primitive to mete it out fairly.
In the end, you have gawker and freerepublic and the moderates are completely drowned out by the mouth foam.
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Hey, leave my Slashdot UID out of the discussion! :)
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I just don't like the KDE look and feel. Nothing personal, just don't like it. <shrugs>
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> >I'm still irritated that there is no easy way to put a different picture on different virtual desktops anymore.
> Whoa, I never knew you could do this and I have wanted it for 15 years. How did you do this?
Well, it used to work under Enlightenment DR16 (and fvwm before that). I gave up on E awhile back due to the nicer Gnome integration you got with metacity. But, I did recently try out E17. It's OK, though it kept crashing on me, complaining about my startup applications. Couldn't get a good enough bug report to them to narrow it down.
The only way I know how to do multiple images is to have a shell app that changes it for you. Super crappy vs what was possible in E16. There were a lot of requests for it in swordfish and metacity back in the day, but the Gnome guys were dead against it. I understand their logic. It just sucks not to have a viable alternative like Enlightenment anymore.
Maybe when I get some time, I'll try E17 again.
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