I'd have to say that I quite agree with his philosophy.
Generally speaking, unless the game is extremely compelling and fun to me, I will not touch any game that requires an unreasonable number of keys on the keyboard to play. This is one of the reasons I did not get into Tribes, or played any of the Mechwarrior games. Deus Ex is one of the rare and few exceptions to my rule, because you can mostly play it like a standard FPS, with only infrequent adjustments to other things like inventory and augs.
To that end, the simpler the controls, the better. I've never for any reason whatsoever used the lean left/right keys in any game but AA:O, and similarly options like prone or roll or whatever in other recent FPSes.
Jedi Knight 2 had a great balance of control. You didn't have to learn new keys or combinations for specific, weird, and esoteric moves (this is another reason I don't like fighting games much... it's all about arbitrary combinations), Jedi Knight 2 has fairly logical motions with the movement/direction keys to direct the lightsaber.
The issue is that RedHat chooses to package only Apache2.
I like how Debian does things: a set of packages are provided for Apache 1.3.x, and another set of packages are provided for Apache 2.0.x. They cannot be installed at the same time, but at least there are people working on maintaining both.
How will Microsoft be able to take on Google? Google is currently every geek's favored search engine, and has wide popularity among everyone else as well. For what reasons?
Near-perfect search accuracy
Uncluttered page design
Very few ads, totally non-intrusive
What does Microsoft think it has going to counter that sort of incredible power?
Company X then has an employee post an anonymous article to Slashdot ( First use of annoying new low in EU! Take a look _here_[annoyingly large file, hosted on my server]).
That's alright, nobody on slashdot actually reads the linked articles anyway.
Really. I'm in Illinois at the moment, and the software is listing a substantial amount of people in California, not to mention at least one from Denmark or so.
They're by no stretch of the imagination anywhere near me... except perhaps in astronomical scale.
Most e-mail servers already perform certain checks (including DNS) on the header information in an e-mail. Checking the MX record of the domain in question would just be an extra step.
Many if not most ISPs have very odd setups for e-mail for load-balancing purposes where outgoing e-mail does not go through the same SMTP server that incoming mail heads into. I wonder how that will affect this system?
This new mechanism will help eliminate forged e-mail from-fields though, and allow for easier message filtering.
Testing is far behind because of the way Debian is set up.
Stable has been tested up and down and left and right, release-critical bugs must be totally eliminated, etc. The very nature of the requirements mean that stable release are relatively far and few inbetween. Once a stable release has been created, the packages that release contain are not updated except when patching bugs and security fixes. However, a stable release does provide a stable point for 3rd party packagers to create packages for.
Unstable, of course, is the up-to-the-moment bleeding-edge packages, as official packagers turn them in so to speak. This is usually very current, except for special circumstances like the cpp 2.9x to cpp 3.x transition, for which you really should be blaming the gcc people, not Debian. But since the transition is now pretty much over, Unstable is back on track with the fast updates.
Testing, however, is the middle ground. Nobody builds packages for testing, because testing is where packages from Unstable filter down to, unless blocked by breakage that would otherwise have been solved in Unstable, but for which packages have not yet filtered down into Testing. This includes security fixes: they go into either stable, or unstable... not testing. Most people should use either Stable or Unstable. Testing is not a good place to be.
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Perhaps too much of a bit of wishful thinking there?
Generally speaking, unless the game is extremely compelling and fun to me, I will not touch any game that requires an unreasonable number of keys on the keyboard to play. This is one of the reasons I did not get into Tribes, or played any of the Mechwarrior games. Deus Ex is one of the rare and few exceptions to my rule, because you can mostly play it like a standard FPS, with only infrequent adjustments to other things like inventory and augs.
To that end, the simpler the controls, the better. I've never for any reason whatsoever used the lean left/right keys in any game but AA:O, and similarly options like prone or roll or whatever in other recent FPSes.
Jedi Knight 2 had a great balance of control. You didn't have to learn new keys or combinations for specific, weird, and esoteric moves (this is another reason I don't like fighting games much ... it's all about arbitrary combinations), Jedi Knight 2 has fairly logical motions with the movement/direction keys to direct the lightsaber.
The most common answer will be "what the hell are you talking about?"
That sounds like an awful stab in the back for Debian for the level of devotion and dedication the project has always shown for Free Software ideals.
I thought all the SCO news lately WAS the humor?
But yes, Microsoft has a connection on WU the size of Niagara Falls.
I like how Debian does things: a set of packages are provided for Apache 1.3.x, and another set of packages are provided for Apache 2.0.x. They cannot be installed at the same time, but at least there are people working on maintaining both.
Thus negating the entire purpose of having a binary distro ...
It is the Pit of Carkoon!
The Sarlacc is the creature at the bottom of the pit.
What kind of non-Star Wars geek are you anyway?
What does Microsoft think it has going to counter that sort of incredible power?
They're by no stretch of the imagination anywhere near me... except perhaps in astronomical scale.
Sounds like adoption rates will be high and this plan will take off like a rocket.
Most e-mail servers already perform certain checks (including DNS) on the header information in an e-mail. Checking the MX record of the domain in question would just be an extra step.
This new mechanism will help eliminate forged e-mail from-fields though, and allow for easier message filtering.
Stable has been tested up and down and left and right, release-critical bugs must be totally eliminated, etc. The very nature of the requirements mean that stable release are relatively far and few inbetween. Once a stable release has been created, the packages that release contain are not updated except when patching bugs and security fixes. However, a stable release does provide a stable point for 3rd party packagers to create packages for.
Unstable, of course, is the up-to-the-moment bleeding-edge packages, as official packagers turn them in so to speak. This is usually very current, except for special circumstances like the cpp 2.9x to cpp 3.x transition, for which you really should be blaming the gcc people, not Debian. But since the transition is now pretty much over, Unstable is back on track with the fast updates.
Testing, however, is the middle ground. Nobody builds packages for testing, because testing is where packages from Unstable filter down to, unless blocked by breakage that would otherwise have been solved in Unstable, but for which packages have not yet filtered down into Testing. This includes security fixes: they go into either stable, or unstable ... not testing. Most people should use either Stable or Unstable. Testing is not a good place to be.
Thereby driving up page hits and ad views.
I think I'm on to something here.
Can't even explain this one away by blaming the submitter of the story, eh, editors? I mean, seeing as you wrote it all. :)
Hope that helps.
So, a diamond CPU fails it.
No reason not to look for life on Europa NOW is there? I mean, any such doom for the planetary system would probably be a few million years off?
I can see how it is confusing, though, sorry. :)