Somewhere along the way, athletes seems to have lost their way. The olympics of old were to see who was quicker, stronger and had the best fighting spirit.
Or, to put it another way, whoever got the right genetics by complete luck.
Now the entire sporting arena has been reduced to artifical one-ups-manship, through the use of drugs and soon to be genetic engineering.
In other words, anyone can become good at sport, rather than just those who were born with the right genetics.
See: just crap programs, or repeats. Hardly anything worth investing thousands of pounds into.
There are also TV shows I watch when I'm bored, or nothing else is on, or I'm paging through the channel list and see them, and nothing else is on, or are on every day.
Exactly. Is it worth spending all that time and money just to watch a couple of programs when you're bored? Haven't you heard of things such as hobbies?
It sometimes seems like people here's lives revolve around the telly. The only thing that's worth watching nowadays is the Simpsons and the football.
Sorry to disappoint you, but that's nothing that can't be done with any decent video recorder, or computer with a TV card.
Adn what's all this about it taking 22 minutes? Since when has the Simpsons taken any other length of time? Do you live in some strange universe where it takes 3 hours to view?
We're talking about OSes here, not languages. If you think learning languages is even SLIGHTLY similar to OSes, then you must be severely mentally disabled.
I personally see no problem with prisoners being treated this way. They broke the law, why should my taxes have to pay for their upkeep? Sure they are restricted but they probably have a better life in prison than they do out on the street. And it doesn't matter what reasons they were locked up for. If you don't like the "war on drugs" then vote and change the law-- we can't go around breaking laws just because we don't like them.
Yeah, those evil Afghani women going without veils deserve whatever they get. We can't go around breaking laws just because we don't like them, can we?
ou have around 2000 executables in your/usr/bin directory
And your problem with this is...? Unless you're some idiot who spends his time using his file manager to browse/usr/bin, I don't see how this is anyway a problem.
Generally a program's related files are scattered through out the system.
It's becoming increasingly obvious you know very little about Unix. Files aren't "scattered". They're placed in consistent and logical places:
/etc: Configuration files
/usr/bin: Executable binary
/var: Temporary/dynamically natured files.
/usr/lib: Libraries
etc.
Just making things consistent
How can it be any more consistent?
Here's a sample better solution for the problem (inspired by mac os X packages): give each app its very own directory structure
WHY??? Everything works fine as it is. All this would accomplish is making backing up impossible. At the moment, you can just back up/etc. Using your system, you'd end up having to go through every single directory trying to hunt down config files. To see an example of this, have a look at MS Windows. Each app has its own directory, and finding config files etc is next to impossible.
you no longer need package managers
What on earth have you got against package managers? How else would programs be installed? Each program having its own installer? They do that on Windows, and as a result Windows is a complete mess. Programs get installed all over the place, configurations are scattered all over the place, and as for resolving dependencies, and cleanly uninstalling apps, just forget about it. Just does to show how the lack of a package management system leads to complete chaos.
What happens when the Windows registry gets corrupted? What happens when the kernel gets corrupted? What happens when your startup scripts get completely wiped?
Anything can go wrong, but as long as you're sensible enough not to go fucking about as root, it shouldn't.
Oh great, so when I want to save all my configurations, instead of just being able to backup/etc, I have to go round checking whether each individual file is a configuration file? No thanks.
I don't know about other distros, but Debian has this thing called "package management". It solves this problem, and stops programs installing things wherever they want willy nilly.
Are you out of your fucking tree?
Have to cd to a different directory for every single fucking program? They do that in Windows. Ever tried using Windows? It's a nightmare.
Two words: automatic download and installation.
three words: automatic updating and upgrading of programs.
four words: not requiring each app to have its own directory.
Why would you not want to use a package manager? What is the alternative? Every program throwing its files everywhere willy-nilly? You'd end up with every single program with it's own directory!
It looks like you haven't thought this through very well.
Zealots aside, why is this better? Have you modified any of the source code? Have you contributed? Have you searched through it to make sure there are no back doors that mail out your keystrokes? Or are you karma whoring?
No, but I know that there won't be any backdoors or trojans in there. Can you say the same about closed-source? No, you can't.
- You can disable Mozilla's JS window.open()
A nice feature, true, but what happens when you go to click on a "help" icon and it can't open a new window?
Then enable it for that site only. Can this be done in IE? No. IE is shit.
- Mozilla has tabbled browsing
Which slows down the quick alt+tab everyone uses to switch between browser windows...
Have you ever heard of "Ctrl+tab"?
- Mozilla doesn't redirect you to MSN (or AOL for that matter) and spill your privacy for all to see
Nor does IE, if you configure it correctly.
You mean you actually have to delve into the slow, complex configuration just to stop it automatically sending you to sites you don't want to go to? Wow, I never realised IE was this bad.
- Mozilla has a development team that cares about the end product
More ramblings from a zealot. I'm sure the IE programmers care about IE. They just dont feel the need to sit around and pat each other on the back in public message boards.
In that case, why is IE so bare and featureless compared to Opera, Mozilla, Galeon etc? Why does it provide such a basic, lacking browsing experience? Does it even have tabbed windows?
- Mozilla has site-specific image and cookie management
Internet privacy zones. From your top menu in IE6: tools -> internet options -> privacy -> click the edit button. Yep, it works in IE on a site by site basis.
Unfortuanetly, IE's configation is slow and confusing. It really is the worst browser out there. With Galeon, I can turn off javascript via a single menu. With IE I'd be delving into countless menus and windows, trying to find elusive checkboxes.
When will you idiots realise that IE is literally the worst browser out there? Even Netscape is better.
If a hover car crashes, then it's going down. How is it going to hover when the hover-unit's broken? And what about when it runs out of fuel? With a plane, you can just glide down.
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Jailbait? Nah, she's at least 17-18.
Somewhere along the way, athletes seems to have lost their way. The olympics of old were to see who was quicker, stronger and had the best fighting spirit.
Or, to put it another way, whoever got the right genetics by complete luck.
Now the entire sporting arena has been reduced to artifical one-ups-manship, through the use of drugs and soon to be genetic engineering.
In other words, anyone can become good at sport, rather than just those who were born with the right genetics.
So everyone should only do things that EVERYONE can afford? This sounds more like class-envy than a serious argument against customised genetics.
You sound like a communist: "I can't have it, so no-one else should be able to either."
Monday: Stargate SG-1
Tuesday: 24
Wednesday: Enterprise, The Amazing Race
Thursday: Survivor
Friday: whatever
Saturday: whatever
Sunday: Stargate SG-1 repeats, Simpsons
See: just crap programs, or repeats. Hardly anything worth investing thousands of pounds into.
There are also TV shows I watch when I'm bored, or nothing else is on, or I'm paging through the channel list and see them, and nothing else is on, or are on every day.
Exactly. Is it worth spending all that time and money just to watch a couple of programs when you're bored? Haven't you heard of things such as hobbies?
It sometimes seems like people here's lives revolve around the telly. The only thing that's worth watching nowadays is the Simpsons and the football.
Sorry to disappoint you, but that's nothing that can't be done with any decent video recorder, or computer with a TV card.
Adn what's all this about it taking 22 minutes? Since when has the Simpsons taken any other length of time? Do you live in some strange universe where it takes 3 hours to view?
Isn't that the word Yanks use for football because they've stupidly reserved the world "football" for their childish, dumbed-down version of rugby?
But football is the greatest game in the world!
The Euro would get hammered in a refurendum and you know it.
No, actually. When there was something like this available for Linux, everyone said it was useless then. Nothing had changed.
1) Yes. If you compare the climate now to millions of years ago, there is a vast difference.
2) Wouldn't the gravity just bring back down anything that got knocked off?
Because Americans are ashamed of their nationality.
We're talking about OSes here, not languages. If you think learning languages is even SLIGHTLY similar to OSes, then you must be severely mentally disabled.
I personally see no problem with prisoners being treated this way. They broke the law, why should my taxes have to pay for their upkeep? Sure they are restricted but they probably have a better life in prison than they do out on the street. And it doesn't matter what reasons they were locked up for. If you don't like the "war on drugs" then vote and change the law-- we can't go around breaking laws just because we don't like them.
Yeah, those evil Afghani women going without veils deserve whatever they get. We can't go around breaking laws just because we don't like them, can we?
In other words because of genuine lazyness
Yawn. No, it's a very logical system. It works.
ou have around 2000 executables in your
And your problem with this is...? Unless you're some idiot who spends his time using his file manager to browse
Generally a program's related files are scattered through out the system.
It's becoming increasingly obvious you know very little about Unix. Files aren't "scattered". They're placed in consistent and logical places:
/etc: Configuration files /usr/bin: Executable binary /var: Temporary/dynamically natured files. /usr/lib: Libraries
etc.Just making things consistent
How can it be any more consistent?
Here's a sample better solution for the problem (inspired by mac os X packages): give each app its very own directory structure
WHY??? Everything works fine as it is. All this would accomplish is making backing up impossible. At the moment, you can just back up
you no longer need package managers
What on earth have you got against package managers? How else would programs be installed? Each program having its own installer? They do that on Windows, and as a result Windows is a complete mess. Programs get installed all over the place, configurations are scattered all over the place, and as for resolving dependencies, and cleanly uninstalling apps, just forget about it. Just does to show how the lack of a package management system leads to complete chaos.
What happens when the Windows registry gets corrupted? What happens when the kernel gets corrupted? What happens when your startup scripts get completely wiped?
Anything can go wrong, but as long as you're sensible enough not to go fucking about as root, it shouldn't.
Oh great, so when I want to save all my configurations, instead of just being able to backup /etc, I have to go round checking whether each individual file is a configuration file? No thanks.
I don't know about other distros, but Debian has this thing called "package management". It solves this problem, and stops programs installing things wherever they want willy nilly.
Are you out of your fucking tree?
Have to cd to a different directory for every single fucking program? They do that in Windows. Ever tried using Windows? It's a nightmare.
Two words: automatic download and installation.
three words: automatic updating and upgrading of programs.
four words: not requiring each app to have its own directory.
Why would you not want to use a package manager? What is the alternative? Every program throwing its files everywhere willy-nilly? You'd end up with every single program with it's own directory!
It looks like you haven't thought this through very well.
Can your mother install Windows? No, so fuck off.
Zealots aside, why is this better? Have you modified any of the source code? Have you contributed? Have you searched through it to make sure there are no back doors that mail out your keystrokes? Or are you karma whoring?
No, but I know that there won't be any backdoors or trojans in there. Can you say the same about closed-source? No, you can't.
- You can disable Mozilla's JS window.open()
A nice feature, true, but what happens when you go to click on a "help" icon and it can't open a new window?
Then enable it for that site only. Can this be done in IE? No. IE is shit.
- Mozilla has tabbled browsing
Which slows down the quick alt+tab everyone uses to switch between browser windows...
Have you ever heard of "Ctrl+tab"?
- Mozilla doesn't redirect you to MSN (or AOL for that matter) and spill your privacy for all to see
Nor does IE, if you configure it correctly.
You mean you actually have to delve into the slow, complex configuration just to stop it automatically sending you to sites you don't want to go to? Wow, I never realised IE was this bad.
- Mozilla has a development team that cares about the end product
More ramblings from a zealot. I'm sure the IE programmers care about IE. They just dont feel the need to sit around and pat each other on the back in public message boards.
In that case, why is IE so bare and featureless compared to Opera, Mozilla, Galeon etc? Why does it provide such a basic, lacking browsing experience? Does it even have tabbed windows?
- Mozilla has site-specific image and cookie management
Internet privacy zones. From your top menu in IE6: tools -> internet options -> privacy -> click the edit button. Yep, it works in IE on a site by site basis.
Unfortuanetly, IE's configation is slow and confusing. It really is the worst browser out there. With Galeon, I can turn off javascript via a single menu. With IE I'd be delving into countless menus and windows, trying to find elusive checkboxes.
When will you idiots realise that IE is literally the worst browser out there? Even Netscape is better.
Hey, that's actually quite a good idea!
If a hover car crashes, then it's going down. How is it going to hover when the hover-unit's broken? And what about when it runs out of fuel? With a plane, you can just glide down.
Yeah, everyone have their own Harrier jump-jet. Imagine how much that would cost in fuel alone.