Opera.com is fine. People.opera.com is the site that's slashdotted, but it doesn't have that much of an impact... the browser is still downloaded from opera.com.
Right now there is basically only three app add/remove standarts - deb, rpm, tar.gz, deb being the best...
What makes deb the greatest of the three? There's no real difference between debs and RPMS, imho.
What you're probably thinking of is how (most) debs are distributed. Right now, apt far outpaces RedHat's distribution method (though Mandrake's urpm is nearly up to par with apt).
The alternatives which do not use a lot of GNU tools will not, and should not, be called GNU/Linux. But systems running the Linux kernel with lots of GNU software are running GNU/Linux.
Well, one could argue that something like Everquest (or pot, or masturbation, et. al.) that's considered a "mental addiction" gives great pleasure. This pleasure is caused by the release of endorphins in the brain (which is actually what nicotone does too; it increases endorphin release).
So really, I don't consider there to be any difference between traditional addictions like nicotine and less conventional ones like Everquest (which btw, I DON'T play)
I didn't necessarily base my figures time-wise, as much as event-wise (but 10% is still grossly too high, in any case)
Example: you see them argue, say, a motion to dismiss (event 1). What you don't see is the preparation of these arguments (event 2). So, you really only see 50% of the motion to dismiss process (well, there are actually more events in motions, but for simplicity's sake...)
Besides, I said "not even 10%", meaning that it's not at or above 10%. I didn't say "a little under 10%".
(And, how did you get 27 minutes for the police investigation, and 17 minutes for the court segment? AFAIK, they are split evenly (i.e. the police part is done at:30 and the court part is done at the end of the show... usually), so it'd be more like 22 minutes for both)
I wasn't necessarily talking about this appeal, I was responding to whereiswaldo's question of, "...[ H]ow [can] a company or individual with money can drag out a lawsuit for years?" (hey, can't you tell I'd be a top-notch journalist?)
Cases are usually dragged out because, suprisingly, lawyers have a lot of work to do. What you see on "Law & Order" isn't even 10% of what actually happens during a case. Arguments have to be prepared, witnesses have to be interviewed, re-interviewed, and re-re-interviewed. Tons of paperwork have to be completed. Jurors have to be selected. This is all *before* the trial itself starts.
The actual trial can take weeks (especially in a major one like this). There is usually a huge amount of evidence to be presented and dozens of witnesses have to be interviewed.
Not to mention, there are some lawyers who have to handle two of these cases at once.
So there is a reason lawyers have such slimy personalities. It probably comes from the immense amount of stress they are under.
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Well, duh! That's because Linux is only used by hippie, communist Thieves(tm) who steal profits from Good Companies like Microsoft.
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How long until Microsoft gets companies to buy into that philosophy? The cynic in me says it won't be long...
A howitzer would be a supremely effective way to remove an ant pile.
Yes, while also destroying the surrounding houseand anyone inside it. Grandparent's point was that the filtering software is far too broad in blocking "offensive" websites.
I have no problems with people liking or using OGG, it's just that there is absolutely zero reason for me to switch.
Oh, imagine the new Apple commercials:
I was ripping my songs in MP3, and in the middle of the song, it was like, "beep beep beep beep," and my song was ruined, and I had to rip it again, and it wasn't as good, because it was at a lower bitrate.
Originally, GAIM supported only AIM (and that was its original intent, iirc). Now they've added support (thru plug-ins) for your and your grandmother's chat protocol, but the name stays for historical reasons. Plus if you pronounce it like "game" it sounds sort of cool;)
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No, if it was a slow posting day, they would have accepted the "messiertom Takes over the World" story I submitted.
Yes, this is without a doubt true. But here's just a short list of the GNU programs that are at the core of just about every Linux distro:
bash - Shell. Very important.
gcc - probably the most used compiler for C in GNU/Linux systems
binutils - ok, really a group of programs - but almost everything you find in/bin
etc etc etc...
Without the GNU tools... most likely Linus and the kernel hackers would have had to make these tools themselves. Not necessarily an impossible task, but a large one indeed.
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Fine. If there have been no X users since 1996, why did they wait six years to stop supporting X for Minix?
since it was basically a 'search and replace 'Redhat' with 'Mandrake' and compile for i586'
This is the single most annoying and incorrect misconception about Mandrake. Yes, at one point it had a lot of RedHat stuff in it, but now it is very independent.
Mandrake enriched RedHat by adding nice configuration tools, urpmi, and a very nice installer. Mandrake is also still better than RedHat at the desktop level (imho, but RedHat is taking very nice steps to improve Linux on the desktop, despite what some KDE zealots proclaim).
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Opera.com is fine. People.opera.com is the site that's slashdotted, but it doesn't have that much of an impact... the browser is still downloaded from opera.com.
Nice attempt at a troll, though.
Right now there is basically only three app add/remove standarts - deb, rpm, tar.gz, deb being the best ...
What makes deb the greatest of the three? There's no real difference between debs and RPMS, imho.
What you're probably thinking of is how (most) debs are distributed. Right now, apt far outpaces RedHat's distribution method (though Mandrake's urpm is nearly up to par with apt).
The alternatives which do not use a lot of GNU tools will not, and should not, be called GNU/Linux. But systems running the Linux kernel with lots of GNU software are running GNU/Linux.
Who in their right mind would take off their shorts and put the shorts on the mainframe? The idea is that you can warm your butt up by sitting on it.
Well, one could argue that something like Everquest (or pot, or masturbation, et. al.) that's considered a "mental addiction" gives great pleasure. This pleasure is caused by the release of endorphins in the brain (which is actually what nicotone does too; it increases endorphin release).
So really, I don't consider there to be any difference between traditional addictions like nicotine and less conventional ones like Everquest (which btw, I DON'T play)
I didn't necessarily base my figures time-wise, as much as event-wise (but 10% is still grossly too high, in any case)
:30 and the court part is done at the end of the show... usually), so it'd be more like 22 minutes for both)
Example: you see them argue, say, a motion to dismiss (event 1). What you don't see is the preparation of these arguments (event 2). So, you really only see 50% of the motion to dismiss process (well, there are actually more events in motions, but for simplicity's sake...)
Besides, I said "not even 10%", meaning that it's not at or above 10%. I didn't say "a little under 10%".
(And, how did you get 27 minutes for the police investigation, and 17 minutes for the court segment? AFAIK, they are split evenly (i.e. the police part is done at
Yeah, I know there won't be a trial.
I wasn't necessarily talking about this appeal, I was responding to whereiswaldo's question of, "...[ H]ow [can] a company or individual with money can drag out a lawsuit for years?" (hey, can't you tell I'd be a top-notch journalist?)
IANAL, but...
Cases are usually dragged out because, suprisingly, lawyers have a lot of work to do. What you see on "Law & Order" isn't even 10% of what actually happens during a case. Arguments have to be prepared, witnesses have to be interviewed, re-interviewed, and re-re-interviewed. Tons of paperwork have to be completed. Jurors have to be selected. This is all *before* the trial itself starts.
The actual trial can take weeks (especially in a major one like this). There is usually a huge amount of evidence to be presented and dozens of witnesses have to be interviewed.
Not to mention, there are some lawyers who have to handle two of these cases at once.
So there is a reason lawyers have such slimy personalities. It probably comes from the immense amount of stress they are under.
Who writes home about their handwriting? Really...
<sarcasm>
Well, duh! That's because Linux is only used by hippie, communist Thieves(tm) who steal profits from Good Companies like Microsoft.
</sarcasm>
How long until Microsoft gets companies to buy into that philosophy? The cynic in me says it won't be long...
Yes, but it's a nice coincidence that most /.'ers with low ID #s are cool :)
I have no problems with people liking or using OGG, it's just that there is absolutely zero reason for me to switch.
Oh, imagine the new Apple commercials:
Originally, GAIM supported only AIM (and that was its original intent, iirc). Now they've added support (thru plug-ins) for your and your grandmother's chat protocol, but the name stays for historical reasons. Plus if you pronounce it like "game" it sounds sort of cool ;)
No, if it was a slow posting day, they would have accepted the "messiertom Takes over the World" story I submitted.
Ever seen "Canadian Bacon" ?
;)
'Nuff said.
No, I think it'd just adequately short out the circuits on your mobo...
No, what you ought to give him is:
<input TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="op" VALUE="Preview">Yes, this is without a doubt true. But here's just a short list of the GNU programs that are at the core of just about every Linux distro:
- bash - Shell. Very important.
- gcc - probably the most used compiler for C in GNU/Linux systems
- binutils - ok, really a group of programs - but almost everything you find in
/bin
- etc etc etc...
Without the GNU tools... most likely Linus and the kernel hackers would have had to make these tools themselves. Not necessarily an impossible task, but a large one indeed.Fine. If there have been no X users since 1996, why did they wait six years to stop supporting X for Minix?
With GNU/Hurd development pace picking up, we will soon see if microkernel systems will work for a UN*X-like OS.
No.
The name "GNU/Linux" is derived from the fact that almost all Linux distros make good use of the GNU tools. Minix makes no use of them.
If there have been no minix users since 1996, why did they wait six years to drop support?
What Microsoft really needs to develop is a way to safeguard sites from the /. effect!
*points to horribly slow gotdotnet server*
Blockquoteth the poster:
This is the single most annoying and incorrect misconception about Mandrake. Yes, at one point it had a lot of RedHat stuff in it, but now it is very independent.
Mandrake enriched RedHat by adding nice configuration tools, urpmi, and a very nice installer. Mandrake is also still better than RedHat at the desktop level (imho, but RedHat is taking very nice steps to improve Linux on the desktop, despite what some KDE zealots proclaim).