If you want the windows-equivalent situation on linux (namely, no choice and no control), you can just use the default choices for any modern distribution.
What about FFmpeg's libavcodec? In addition to supporting DivX 4/5 (and DivX 3, and others) for both encoding and decoding, it is open, efficient, stable, goes great with MPlayer, and it runs on your ppc hardware.
Are you like this in real life? If you are, I feel sorry for your parents. And for anyone who asks you for tech support, since your claims suggest that you have a talent for breaking things.
This rant got modded up? But it's so -1, Redundant.
> a load of shit products (like xfree86 and everything that sits on top of it)
Sounds like a subjective claim. -1, Flamebait.
> before going back to re-compile ide-scsi emulators into their kernels and re-configuring their bootloaders to ignore/dev/hdc, just to use a simple fucking atapi-cd writer
Modern distributions handle this automagically. -1, Troll.
> I like to compare linux zealots with goths.
-1, Mean:(
> their choices offer them no real advantage in life, and indeed often only prooves to make things harder for themselves.
Adversity breeds strength. Anyway, there are advantages (such as automation/scripting and configurability), they're just not the advantages you want, apparently. -1, Overrated.
All this and yet you love linux? Next time, stick to your story, friend.
Sorry, that's not my concept and isn't how I think of it, and I have no reason to believe that most or even many people think that way (of those who think about it at all). The idea is wrong from the start, so I don't see why I should alter my thinking to match it, either.
It is as if we are discussing telegrams, and you are telling me, in the London office, that you are duopresent "conceptually" in Bombay, on the grounds that you are able to transmit ideas to India over the wire.
I disagree with your all-caps assertion. Even in a filesystem, information does not exist in many places. What you think of as a unit of information which does "exist in multiple places" is really just one such unit seen through some retrieval sleight-of-hand. HFS does have some of the magic, in the form of links (both hard and sym).
Symlinks only allow you to give an object multiple identifiers. I think the win here is supposed to be that replacing (or augmenting) the hierarchy-based infrastructure with an attribute-based one allows the user to create views on the fly, without having to use more than one identifier.
> create a file saving/organizing app that would automatically set up HFS links based on attributes
Sounds just like the subject, only less transparent.
> Why not make a more efficient mechanical generator to convert directly to electricity instead?
Tony Smith came up with a novel answer to this question, but I prefer to think that what Morpheus told Neo was not actually true. In the film, the "human-based energy source" topic never comes up again, so I see no particular reason to believe it. The film doesn't say "human batteries", it only says that Morpheus says "human batteries".
As an alternative, perhaps the AIs are using the humans as biological computers of some sort. See here for another.
> Believe me, even the most diehard Linux supporter knows there are no games or applications.
More precisely, they do exist, but they must be used with reduced expectations - partly because the Linux way of thinking isn't necessarially compatable with monolithic applications, and partly because the work simply hasn't been done yet, e.g., high-profile games are usually made to be sold, and Linux games aren't as profitable.
> Uh, those are all wrappers around apt, hence you are using a single install system instead of having a standard way to record installed packages.
dselect is/not/ a wrapper around apt. Nor aptitude. They, and apt, are wrappers around dpkg. Anyway, dpkg most certainly is a standard way to record installed packages, it's just not the only standard.
> The windows situation is akin to using apt and rpm on the same system, with a single interface kicking off their respective uninstall methods when you uninstall a package installed with one or the other.
rpm and dpkg packages both optionally have installation and uninstallation scripts. Again, each one provides a single interface. They are not the/same/, but nor is the windows installed software facility the same as the rpm or dpkg facilities.
> Of course this requires a single database of installed packages, which again does not exist on linux.
Linux is only a kernel, so package management is naturally beyond its scope. Debian, however, is a complete operating system, and as such does indeed have a single database of installed packages, namely the dpkg database. Red Hat has one too; again, it is not the/same/ as Debian's, but, again, neither is it the same as that of Windows.
Debian, Red Hat, and Windows, three distinct operating systems, naturally have different facilities for package management. The only notable interaction here is that there is some potential for compatability between the linux-based distributions, thanks to alien.
> Hell last time I tried to build the tools to rip a DVD on linux half the packages wouldn't build from the latest "stable" source or from CVS versions.
How long ago was the last time? I've never had a problem building MPlayer from stable releases. Contact me if you'd like assistance.
>... read 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' by Joseph Campbell. There you'll see that B5, LoTR, Star Wars, and indeed almost every epic story ever told are all facets of the one monomyth.
There are other kinds of stories worth telling which are less elitist. In the three which you mentioned, the Hero aspects of the story are imo the most boring parts, specifically because they are so commonplace in epic literature. Yes, there's a certain visceral, instinctual gratification to a retelling of the Hero's Journey, but we wouldn't want to admit that LotR's appeal is of the same sort as pornography.
> This Web site is best viewed using Netscape Communicator version 4
I, for one, find it amazing that someone thinks/anything/ looks best when viewed in NS4. Let alone a news site that implies its own expertise on the subject of web browsers.
If Microsoft started distributing free Debian installation CDs with some percentage of copies of Windows, for whatever reason, a lot of people (read: Linux fans) would associate Microsoft with goodness.
Those of them which were in a clearer state of mind at the time would decide that/the specific action/ which Microsoft took was good.
This story is about a specific action Disney has taken - not Disney in general.
Slashdot Mirror
> Typical slashdot. Just make up some facts to support your case.
t ml
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50518,00.h
Read the second graph. Then, go away.
Just chop out the datetime string, like so.
If you want the windows-equivalent situation on linux (namely, no choice and no control), you can just use the default choices for any modern distribution.
> DivX is in no way open.
What about FFmpeg's libavcodec? In addition to supporting DivX 4/5 (and DivX 3, and others) for both encoding and decoding, it is open, efficient, stable, goes great with MPlayer, and it runs on your ppc hardware.
Bite off their legs first, so you can watch them suffer.
Are you like this in real life? If you are, I feel sorry for your parents. And for anyone who asks you for tech support, since your claims suggest that you have a talent for breaking things.
I think you are the one who looks foolish, whining, cursing, and calling me names over simple problems that are already solved.
But I will be useful and advise you, thusly: hamm is obsolete. Try woody. Or therapy.
Here are some more acronyms which demonstrate the point:
DRI, RAID, LVM, PnP, IPX, SMB, AFS, QoS, JFS, XFS
This rant got modded up? But it's so -1, Redundant.
/dev/hdc, just to use a simple fucking atapi-cd writer
:(
> a load of shit products (like xfree86 and everything that sits on top of it)
Sounds like a subjective claim. -1, Flamebait.
> before going back to re-compile ide-scsi emulators into their kernels and re-configuring their bootloaders to ignore
Modern distributions handle this automagically. -1, Troll.
> I like to compare linux zealots with goths.
-1, Mean
> their choices offer them no real advantage in life, and indeed often only prooves to make things harder for themselves.
Adversity breeds strength. Anyway, there are advantages (such as automation/scripting and configurability), they're just not the advantages you want, apparently. -1, Overrated.
All this and yet you love linux? Next time, stick to your story, friend.
> Sometimes I wish Slashdot had emoticons like other forums, so I could post a nice roll-eye icon. ;b
Sorry, that's not my concept and isn't how I think of it, and I have no reason to believe that most or even many people think that way (of those who think about it at all). The idea is wrong from the start, so I don't see why I should alter my thinking to match it, either.
It is as if we are discussing telegrams, and you are telling me, in the London office, that you are duopresent "conceptually" in Bombay, on the grounds that you are able to transmit ideas to India over the wire.
> INFORMATION CAN EXIST IN MULTIPLE PLACES
I disagree with your all-caps assertion. Even in a filesystem, information does not exist in many places. What you think of as a unit of information which does "exist in multiple places" is really just one such unit seen through some retrieval sleight-of-hand. HFS does have some of the magic, in the form of links (both hard and sym).
> Errr, symlinks anyone,
Symlinks only allow you to give an object multiple identifiers. I think the win here is supposed to be that replacing (or augmenting) the hierarchy-based infrastructure with an attribute-based one allows the user to create views on the fly, without having to use more than one identifier.
> create a file saving/organizing app that would automatically set up HFS links based on attributes
Sounds just like the subject, only less transparent.
> Why not make a more efficient mechanical generator to convert directly to electricity instead?
Tony Smith came up with a novel answer to this question, but I prefer to think that what Morpheus told Neo was not actually true. In the film, the "human-based energy source" topic never comes up again, so I see no particular reason to believe it. The film doesn't say "human batteries", it only says that Morpheus says "human batteries".
As an alternative, perhaps the AIs are using the humans as biological computers of some sort.
See here for another.
> If you consider the entire 3rd Edition rule-set to be lite,
Of course. Real men play GURPS. With all the expansions.
Maybe they'll just decanonize all of DS9. But that would make me cry.
> Believe me, even the most diehard Linux supporter knows there are no games or applications.
More precisely, they do exist, but they must be used with reduced expectations - partly because the Linux way of thinking isn't necessarially compatable with monolithic applications, and partly because the work simply hasn't been done yet, e.g., high-profile games are usually made to be sold, and Linux games aren't as profitable.
You have 365 weeks in a year?? You must get a lot done! :))
> Uh, those are all wrappers around apt, hence you are using a single install system instead of having a standard way to record installed packages.
/not/ a wrapper around apt. Nor aptitude. They, and apt, are wrappers around dpkg. Anyway, dpkg most certainly is a standard way to record installed packages, it's just not the only standard.
/same/, but nor is the windows installed software facility the same as the rpm or dpkg facilities.
/same/ as Debian's, but, again, neither is it the same as that of Windows.
dselect is
> The windows situation is akin to using apt and rpm on the same system, with a single interface kicking off their respective uninstall methods when you uninstall a package installed with one or the other.
rpm and dpkg packages both optionally have installation and uninstallation scripts. Again, each one provides a single interface. They are not the
> Of course this requires a single database of installed packages, which again does not exist on linux.
Linux is only a kernel, so package management is naturally beyond its scope. Debian, however, is a complete operating system, and as such does indeed have a single database of installed packages, namely the dpkg database. Red Hat has one too; again, it is not the
Debian, Red Hat, and Windows, three distinct operating systems, naturally have different facilities for package management. The only notable interaction here is that there is some potential for compatability between the linux-based distributions, thanks to alien.
> Hell last time I tried to build the tools to rip a DVD on linux half the packages wouldn't build from the latest "stable" source or from CVS versions.
How long ago was the last time? I've never had a problem building MPlayer from stable releases. Contact me if you'd like assistance.
> ... read 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' by Joseph Campbell. There you'll see that B5, LoTR, Star Wars, and indeed almost every epic story ever told are all facets of the one monomyth.
There are other kinds of stories worth telling which are less elitist. In the three which you mentioned, the Hero aspects of the story are imo the most boring parts, specifically because they are so commonplace in epic literature. Yes, there's a certain visceral, instinctual gratification to a retelling of the Hero's Journey, but we wouldn't want to admit that LotR's appeal is of the same sort as pornography.
> Babylon 5 is "cheesy television" because it doesn't compare well to Lord of the Rings?
Read OP again. He's suggesting that it takes story elements from LotR, not that it doesn't "compare well" with it.
From their "about" page:
/anything/ looks best when viewed in NS4. Let alone a news site that implies its own expertise on the subject of web browsers.
> This Web site is best viewed using Netscape Communicator version 4
I, for one, find it amazing that someone thinks
If Microsoft started distributing free Debian installation CDs with some percentage of copies of Windows, for whatever reason, a lot of people (read: Linux fans) would associate Microsoft with goodness.
/the specific action/ which Microsoft took was good.
Those of them which were in a clearer state of mind at the time would decide that
This story is about a specific action Disney has taken - not Disney in general.
Ahem. What I meant to say was:
FUD
FUD