Well, a bit more like you have to buy the shelves and vegetable drawers, the door, and water/ice dispenser from the manufacture, maybe the compressor too. And not too many people are running torrent trackers on their kitchen appliances. But like you can visit any site with an iPad, you can put any food in the fridge..
It's about what you expect for your money. Apple wants to be the Hugo Boss of computers.. more power to 'em...
I can see it now --
If all refrigerators were made by OS companies . ..
Didn't VHS win out over Betamax partly because the porn industry adopted VHS after they were "discouraged" from Betamax by Sony. Seems this "urban legend" has never been firmly validated or refuted, but it's persistence might server as a warning to Jobs. I doubt the I-Phone or I-Pad will stem the tide of porn providers, however, as those folks will just become more clever.
For about ten minutes before customers realized that they could still get porn using Safari and that iTunes gladly lets them transfer their porn videos to the iPhone.
Tell Jobs so he can have those apps block that porn. Bad porn!
Ok, here's a car analogy since/. loves car analogies: "Well, I was at this bar and found these car keys, so I drove the car around and tried to find the owner. After a few weeks I couldn't, so I sold the car."
Better car analogy: I found these car keys for a Lamborghini, so I looked under the hood and admired the car before I called the dude and returned his keys to his awesome car. Hope he gives me a ride as a reward . ..
I want Linux to be more popular so more games will be made for Linux.
I'm not following the logic there.
Linux will NEVER become popular enough to justify the assumed multi-platform development expense for the big game houses when MS keeps pushing DirectX and providing nifty tools for that. Maybe if Microsoft did a UNIX port of DirectX... wait, no.
If MS failed in the market, Apple would rush in as the mass consumer replacement OS and offer all kinds of locked-in-to-Apple stuff. Linux would get the shaft.
So to be so pessimistic, but as much as I love Linux, it will never be a mainstream desktop OS for the masses as long as MS and Apple live.
Hence, no major games for Linux. Use WINE, Crossover or Cedega or get a console.
Thanks, it's nothing I couldn't show a fella. Learnt a lot from my colleagues and from the O'Reilly 'Unix Power Tools' book. The Advanced Bash Shell-scripting Guide is pretty good (but chaotic) too.
Wow. Great attitude. I hope Mr. Just-Error-Out reads your posts.
As I said before, I already provided a solution: error out when encountering broken filenames like this. A two-line test is all that's needed. There is absolutely no good reason to have a space in a filename.
That bon mot is little help when you have to deal with filenames that contain spaces.
Enabling bad practices only allows these practices to continue, just like enabling freeloaders by giving them what they want will only cause them to continue freeloading instead of getting a job.
The "fsck 'em -- just error out" and " Go away -- you're stupid" mindset is part of what gives UNIX a bad name in general. UNIX is not free of horrible programming practices; no OS is. And there have been some awkward choices in the past 40 years.
Until all that stuff is fixed, you might want to STFU unless you want to grab the source code and fix it. And if you wrote it . . .
Not all package managers handle dependencies as well as others. An app like this should include a script to check for them and provide some useful, non-cryptic error messages if necessary.
But it's sad that a specific Linux distro is a dependency. That means that the developers took some shortcuts and didn't write distro-agnostic scripts. Lazy.
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Well, a bit more like you have to buy the shelves and vegetable drawers, the door, and water/ice dispenser from the manufacture, maybe the compressor too. And not too many people are running torrent trackers on their kitchen appliances. But like you can visit any site with an iPad, you can put any food in the fridge..
It's about what you expect for your money. Apple wants to be the Hugo Boss of computers.. more power to 'em...
I can see it now --
If all refrigerators were made by OS companies . . .
It's like people are complaining because their refrigerator can't fly them to the moon and back
Yours can't? Bummer, dude.
But proprietary and restricted is OK as long as it's all Apple goodness, you insensitive clod.
Oh, and don't anybody complain about this matter. It shows a lack of coolness on your part.
"Non-smokers can purchase an Android." -- Steve Jobs
Pedo-Pope thinks the Internet is bad? Meh.
We have BoobQuakes to worry about.
They had a lame-ass news server that didn't carry a lot of the binary groups or alt. groups and had crappy retention of the others.
Verizon doesn't even offer NNTP.
Ubuntu stakes a lot on releasing in April and October. All their releases are year.04 (April release) and year.10 (October release).
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. " -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Didn't VHS win out over Betamax partly because the porn industry adopted VHS after they were "discouraged" from Betamax by Sony. Seems this "urban legend" has never been firmly validated or refuted, but it's persistence might server as a warning to Jobs. I doubt the I-Phone or I-Pad will stem the tide of porn providers, however, as those folks will just become more clever.
For about ten minutes before customers realized that they could still get porn using Safari and that iTunes gladly lets them transfer their porn videos to the iPhone.
Tell Jobs so he can have those apps block that porn. Bad porn!
So now the accepted pronunciation for "Escapist" is "asshat".
Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's a good idea.
I doubt that ridiculing the woman was the point.
The point was most likely that the committee has such a low hurdle for witnesses when they support the pre-determined decision.
It ridicules the ethics of the committee, and justifiably so.
And if the committee had any morals, they would follow up and see that the woman has the opportunity for treatment.
Finally, a virus scanner that correctly identifies Windows as the virus.
This has been discussed many times, and I regret to inform you that your argument does not hold water.
And yet it might pass water. Or at least pass water on the argument.
I've gotten to like the mouse for my PS3. The FPSs play much more enjoyably for me now, but more potential for button customization would be nice.
what it already looks like: shitty web pages.
You know, I find that completely over-the-top.
If the story is accurate, then what's the point of exposing the poor sod's name?
What purpose does that serve?
I don't get it. This just seems like nonsense to me.
Agreed. It only serves to validate the pretense that it was not a deliberate, publicity-whoring leak.
I see what you've done there.
Ok, here's a car analogy since /. loves car analogies: "Well, I was at this bar and found these car keys, so I drove the car around and tried to find the owner. After a few weeks I couldn't, so I sold the car."
Better car analogy: .
I found these car keys for a Lamborghini, so I looked under the hood and admired the car before I called the dude and returned his keys to his awesome car. Hope he gives me a ride as a reward . .
I like the Apple stories because they inform me of technology I can either live without or obtain elsewhere cheaper. It's the app for that.
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I want Linux to be more popular so more games will be made for Linux.
I'm not following the logic there.
Linux will NEVER become popular enough to justify the assumed multi-platform development expense for the big game houses when MS keeps pushing DirectX and providing nifty tools for that. Maybe if Microsoft did a UNIX port of DirectX ... wait, no.
If MS failed in the market, Apple would rush in as the mass consumer replacement OS and offer all kinds of locked-in-to-Apple stuff. Linux would get the shaft.
So to be so pessimistic, but as much as I love Linux, it will never be a mainstream desktop OS for the masses as long as MS and Apple live.
Hence, no major games for Linux. Use WINE, Crossover or Cedega or get a console.
Thanks, it's nothing I couldn't show a fella. Learnt a lot from my colleagues and from the O'Reilly 'Unix Power Tools' book. The Advanced Bash Shell-scripting Guide is pretty good (but chaotic) too.
Wow. Great attitude. I hope Mr. Just-Error-Out reads your posts.
As I said before, I already provided a solution: error out when encountering broken filenames like this. A two-line test is all that's needed. There is absolutely no good reason to have a space in a filename.
That bon mot is little help when you have to deal with filenames that contain spaces.
Enabling bad practices only allows these practices to continue, just like enabling freeloaders by giving them what they want will only cause them to continue freeloading instead of getting a job.
The "fsck 'em -- just error out" and " Go away -- you're stupid" mindset is part of what gives UNIX a bad name in general. UNIX is not free of horrible programming practices; no OS is. And there have been some awkward choices in the past 40 years.
Until all that stuff is fixed, you might want to STFU unless you want to grab the source code and fix it. And if you wrote it . . .
Remember the "Wonder Woman - Invisible Man - Superman Encounter"?
I'll pass on the cloak in any event, thanks.
This has been fixed with the 1.4 update, not sure why it's news.
It's news because it was in a 1.x version and it's a basic coding fuckup they were slow and careless not to have fixed before now.
Who knows what else they have yet to fix?
That's why it's news.
Not all package managers handle dependencies as well as others. An app like this should include a script to check for them and provide some useful, non-cryptic error messages if necessary.
But it's sad that a specific Linux distro is a dependency. That means that the developers took some shortcuts and didn't write distro-agnostic scripts. Lazy.