Mepis is really just a modified Ubuntu these days so can be updated fine from the Ubuntu repos. In the past you had to pick one of the Debian repos and then you'd get problems with updating.
I was in the same boat until I realized that I never actually used the information that I put in quicken. So why bother? If you must, use MoneyDance and do your taxes online at http://www.turbotax.com/.
I disagree, strongly. Files are a benefit of some good implementation decisions when stripping Multics down to produce UNIX. What programmers want to be able to do is manipulate data and store it persistently. What files let you to do is take your data structures and write them out as sequences of bytes and read them back in.
One OS that solved this nicely was UNIX. If you wanted to manipulate persistently stored data you opened a "file" that contained data. So if you wanted to, say, set up an appointment with someone for lunch, you could find the person in the address book "file" and then create an entry in the databook "file" recording the appointment, which would immediately appear in all other apps that dealt with appointments (because app's accessed the same files, and were notified of changes so that they could update). So your data was not trapped in a particular application's proprietary format, and users weren't forced to learn the artificial concept of a "soup" but instead could think about "my appointments" or "my address book".
If you haven't tried it, don't knock it. As a developer, and as a user, it was wonderful -- much more straightforward than "soups" and "sandwiches".
If they lose this argument, then they lose their case against IBM because they have distributed their own distro under the GPL. If they win the argument (which they won't), they have committed mass copyright violation by distributing their own distro:)
I see a big problem with Infinium's business model. Their console runs on Windows XP. They are therefore dependent on Microsoft while trying to compete with them in a market Microsoft desperately wants. There's a formula for failure if I've ever seen one. If they have any success at all, MS will lay the smack down on them. I'm sure the venture capitalists must have raised that issue. I wonder how Infinium managed to talk them out of 25 million.
In other words, some guys sat in a room and decided that people probably wanted to buy ten copies of software, but only five were sold, so the piracy rate must therefore be 50%
I agree. The only concern I have over freshrpms.net is that it is solely maintained by Matthias. He does a great job but I'd feel better if I had access to a repository maintained by a Debian-like community. That's why I think Fedora may be the future. It's still immature so I'm sticking with freshrpms for now.
The price of most albums is $9.99, unless there are fewer than 10 tracks. In that case, the total for the album is adjusted down. The remaining case is for "double CDs" which typically cost 2*$9.99
I don't know where you're getting your CDs, but all the ones I see go for around $18.00. And these aren't popular or "double CDs", either. They include my recent purchases of Richard Thompson and Stevie Ray Vaughan at Tower Records. Each have about 10 songs on them.
I find it amazing that people complain about the lack of jobs and then turn around and do work that they should be charging for and give it away for gratis.
Bullshit. Most programmers work on custom in-house software. The only programmers who might lose their jobs are the ones working on operating systems, office software, web servers, and other common utilities that OSS is displacing.
Hooey. The installation process is ridiculous. It doesn't need to be that hard. If they modelled their portage after FreeBSD ports, they could model their installer after FreeBSD's too. Or any of the other free Linux installers. That's the only thing keeping me from installing it. I do plan on giving it a go soon, though.
One of the nice things with Qt is, if you need to do some basic task, Qt makes it trivial. Reading a file line by line is an example I was confronted to just today: using the MFC's idea of files, it's tedious at best -- gotta do the nitty gritty job manually. Wasted time. Using Qt, it's, well, trivial [trolltech.com].
Is there something lacking in std::string::getline()?
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When I posted something similar, I got modded troll and have had bad karma ever since. Mods, how about some love? http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=55255&cid=5395938
I was in the same boat until I realized that I never actually used the information that I put in quicken. So why bother? If you must, use MoneyDance and do your taxes online at http://www.turbotax.com/.
LOL. Thanks for the funny.
If you can't describe an emulator without using the word emulate, then you don't know what it means.
Except for the problem of it breaking when you upgrade it.
I disagree, strongly. Files are a benefit of some good implementation decisions when stripping Multics down to produce UNIX. What programmers want to be able to do is manipulate data and store it persistently. What files let you to do is take your data structures and write them out as sequences of bytes and read them back in.
One OS that solved this nicely was UNIX. If you wanted to manipulate persistently stored data you opened a "file" that contained data. So if you wanted to, say, set up an appointment with someone for lunch, you could find the person in the address book "file" and then create an entry in the databook "file" recording the appointment, which would immediately appear in all other apps that dealt with appointments (because app's accessed the same files, and were notified of changes so that they could update). So your data was not trapped in a particular application's proprietary format, and users weren't forced to learn the artificial concept of a "soup" but instead could think about "my appointments" or "my address book".
If you haven't tried it, don't knock it. As a developer, and as a user, it was wonderful -- much more straightforward than "soups" and "sandwiches".
If they lose this argument, then they lose their case against IBM because they have distributed their own distro under the GPL. If they win the argument (which they won't), they have committed mass copyright violation by distributing their own distro :)
My worst Linux annoyance? Attitudes like yours.
I see a big problem with Infinium's business model. Their console runs on Windows XP. They are therefore dependent on Microsoft while trying to compete with them in a market Microsoft desperately wants. There's a formula for failure if I've ever seen one. If they have any success at all, MS will lay the smack down on them. I'm sure the venture capitalists must have raised that issue. I wonder how Infinium managed to talk them out of 25 million.
In other words, some guys sat in a room and decided that people probably wanted to buy ten copies of software, but only five were sold, so the piracy rate must therefore be 50%
Aye, nice math, matey.
I agree. The only concern I have over freshrpms.net is that it is solely maintained by Matthias. He does a great job but I'd feel better if I had access to a repository maintained by a Debian-like community. That's why I think Fedora may be the future. It's still immature so I'm sticking with freshrpms for now.
Oops, nevermind. I see you were talking about the price at iTunes. No wonder I have bad karma :(
The price of most albums is $9.99, unless there are fewer than 10 tracks. In that case, the total for the album is adjusted down. The remaining case is for "double CDs" which typically cost 2*$9.99
I don't know where you're getting your CDs, but all the ones I see go for around $18.00. And these aren't popular or "double CDs", either. They include my recent purchases of Richard Thompson and Stevie Ray Vaughan at Tower Records. Each have about 10 songs on them.
The fact that Linux can be forked off into a gazillion distro's, freely and willingly, is a *GOOD THING*.
The fact that it CAN is a good thing. The fact that it IS isn't.
I find it amazing that people complain about the lack of jobs and then turn around and do work that they should be charging for and give it away for gratis.
Bullshit. Most programmers work on custom in-house software. The only programmers who might lose their jobs are the ones working on operating systems, office software, web servers, and other common utilities that OSS is displacing.
Hooey. The installation process is ridiculous. It doesn't need to be that hard. If they modelled their portage after FreeBSD ports, they could model their installer after FreeBSD's too. Or any of the other free Linux installers. That's the only thing keeping me from installing it. I do plan on giving it a go soon, though.
I'd like to see a Grand Theft Auto game set in 1930's Chicago. That'd be so awesome -- the mob, the depression, prohibition
Not to mention the Tommy guns! Yeah, Tommy guns...
Hardware owns you!
Is there something lacking in std::string::getline()?
What could be easier than this:
If Linux is going to take hold, SOMEONE has to make money with it.
Companies will make money by using Linux, not from selling it.
Why didn't you try Qt?
I can tell you without even seeing it. It happens in the opening scene before the credits.
From here, of course