>> But I think it's important to appreciate that Suse has not made it impossible for you to use those YOU repositories for extra (and here's the clincher) UNSUPPORTED software.
They haven't made it impossible. There's just nothing there for it.
>> I like Gentoo as much as anyone, but it doesn't make sense to compare Gentoo w/Portage to Suse w/YAST when Gentoo doesn't offer support contracts.
Sure it does. Nobody's saying SUSE needs to support everything under the sun. But it's important for some people to have easy access to certain software, even if it is unsupported.
I'm not saying I'm mad that it's not there by default. I'm saying that it's frustrating that there isn't even good community support filling that gap.
You can't ignore community support when talking about a distro. I appreciate SUSE as a ready-to-go business desktop solution. But I don't like the fact that it's LIMITED to that due to the lack of external community support.
Red Hat fosters community support through Fedora. Where's SUSE's efforts?
I love SUSE for many great features, but I don't use it as my regular Linux OS. The main reason for this is that there is simply TOO much software that is NOT available through YAST/YOU. It seems that a lot of people use apt4rpm along with it, and track down a ton of 3rd party repositories, some of unknown origin (to me at least) and questionable veracity. Maybe I'm weird, but I hate being pointed to a repository with a domain name that I don't recognize, with no apparent ties to the distro project itself... just sorta *there*. Who's doing it? Why should I trust their packages?
I guess that's one reason I like Debian and Gentoo. If I need it, they've got it, and not in some package ghetto somewhere.
Plus, I think YAST is so handy, but useless in that I have to go to apt4rpm for so much software. It takes away one of the advantages to SUSE.
If I could access all the software I needed through YAST, and could do so with either repository efforts with ties to SUSE, or at least well-defined community project repositories (ie. not just an unlabeled "dump" site), then I could go back to sweet SUSE.
Maybe it's there, and I haven't looked close enough. Then call me an idiot and point me in the right direction.
>> You say "the PPV one is a little more disconcerting"; however, why should the private financial problems of a cable channel not bother you as much as the private financial problems of a football team?
Because the cable provider of the PPV movies is NOT the content creator. The football team IS the content creator.
Green Bay is not a valid case for the entire league. Like Jacksonville, Green Bay is a SMALL MARKET league, and lives off of shared revenue.
I should expand it to say "ticket sales AND stadium concessions", because the latter is part of the "going to the game" deal too, and accounts for a lot.
>> Maybe so, but does blacking out the TV actually increase ticket sales? Our city is doing the experiment, and as far as I can tell (they're not releasing numbers as far as I've heard) bringing the blackout back doesn't seem to be upping attendance.
You should've copied my entire quote, because that's exactly why I said: "Although I may argue against the effectiveness of blackouts...", and went on to describe what the INTENTION was, and that the INTENTION was not nefarious, but a valid concern.
It's very debatable whether blackouts actually help or not. But they're not an attempt to squeeze the consumer unreasonably. They're an attempt to keep butts in the seats. The NFL, above all other sports, is almost "better" on TV than live for many people (as a "student of the game", so to speak, I like being able to see live what can't fit into the TV picture... but for the average fan, the TV broadcast makes the game easier to follow).
The NFL one is a non-issue. Blackout rules apply. Although I may argue against the effectiveness of blackouts, their intention is valid: prevent TV coverage from pillaging ticket sales, and ultimately hurting/killing the league. TV contracts are lucrative, but ticket sales are the lifeblood.
The PPV one is a little more disconcerting. Don't really like the idea. Not that I ever get PPV movies, but I don't like auto-deletion like that.
But let's be real: does anyone think TiVo WANTS to do any of this?? This is TiVo making small concessions to help hold back the onslaught.
Problem is that "your daddy got you there" is a fact-less claim that can nevertheless be fallen back on time and time and time again.
Admitting that it might have played even a *minor* role would only reinforce the argument.
Of course, isn't it always "who you know"? How is it any different from getting an extra glance because you're a friend or friend-of-a-friend of the appointer?
>> In short, Bush picked all of them (Powell was simply retained; the others were newly appointed - all but Adelstein in 2001, with Adelstein being in 2002), and he *had* to have at least 2 Democrats on there - so naturally, he picked Democrats with a strong interest in opposing regulation of media mergers and with strong opposition to "indecency". Clinton *had* to pick some Republicans, and hence, Powell.
So why does the equal-but-opposite situation count against the Republicans both times?
As a progressive male, I agree that this has to STOP!
I understand your plight, sisters. I can't play Counterstrike without getting called a "fag". They also call me a "pussy". To be equated with female genitalia! How demeaning!
Oh, but it gets worse. It goes way beyond male/female, and into slavery. Your game's character asked who your master is. My game's players insist that they ARE my master, or that they "0wn" me. As someone who knows someone who is of a descendency that was slaved at some point in history, it offends me to my very core.
But it's not all from players. It's company sponsored too. One company advertised a game whose lead guy insisted I would be made "his bitch".
Sister, stand strong. We won't tolerate this kind of treatment!
>> We need Linux to be free of OS lock-in and to get out from under Microsoft. We don't really NEED a free and open video board, when there's competition in the market and the vendors follow what standards exist.
You haven't tried to run ATI cards in 3D games under Linux, have you?
There are plenty of 3D games with Linux support I'd love to play, but I am at the mercy of terrible ATI drivers.
If nVidia were to let their drivers for non-MS platforms slide, then there wouldn't be any good options.
so it's a press announcement for a pre-order... but can you honestly say something is a pre-order when you don't even know when you can order it for real?
am i missing something or is there a significance to accepting orders when you don't know when you'll finish? aspyr isn't some small, semi-scamish operation... no one doubted that this isn't a vapor. why don't they let people pre-order when they get the release date set?
Because the interest in Sims 2 is at a high point RIGHT NOW.
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Because if there's one style setting that's totally under-represented in online RPGs, it's fantasy!
Indeed. Personally, I'm into Open Source for the chicks.
They haven't made it impossible. There's just nothing there for it.
>> I like Gentoo as much as anyone, but it doesn't make sense to compare Gentoo w/Portage to Suse w/YAST when Gentoo doesn't offer support contracts.
Sure it does. Nobody's saying SUSE needs to support everything under the sun. But it's important for some people to have easy access to certain software, even if it is unsupported.
I'm not saying I'm mad that it's not there by default. I'm saying that it's frustrating that there isn't even good community support filling that gap.
You can't ignore community support when talking about a distro. I appreciate SUSE as a ready-to-go business desktop solution. But I don't like the fact that it's LIMITED to that due to the lack of external community support.
Red Hat fosters community support through Fedora. Where's SUSE's efforts?
I guess that's one reason I like Debian and Gentoo. If I need it, they've got it, and not in some package ghetto somewhere.
Plus, I think YAST is so handy, but useless in that I have to go to apt4rpm for so much software. It takes away one of the advantages to SUSE.
If I could access all the software I needed through YAST, and could do so with either repository efforts with ties to SUSE, or at least well-defined community project repositories (ie. not just an unlabeled "dump" site), then I could go back to sweet SUSE.
Maybe it's there, and I haven't looked close enough. Then call me an idiot and point me in the right direction.
Please bring the girls.
Who knew the first documented incident of time travel would circle around an Ed Wood film?
Because the cable provider of the PPV movies is NOT the content creator. The football team IS the content creator.
Not a difficult distinction to make.
I should expand it to say "ticket sales AND stadium concessions", because the latter is part of the "going to the game" deal too, and accounts for a lot.
You should've copied my entire quote, because that's exactly why I said: "Although I may argue against the effectiveness of blackouts...", and went on to describe what the INTENTION was, and that the INTENTION was not nefarious, but a valid concern.
It's very debatable whether blackouts actually help or not. But they're not an attempt to squeeze the consumer unreasonably. They're an attempt to keep butts in the seats. The NFL, above all other sports, is almost "better" on TV than live for many people (as a "student of the game", so to speak, I like being able to see live what can't fit into the TV picture... but for the average fan, the TV broadcast makes the game easier to follow).
The PPV one is a little more disconcerting. Don't really like the idea. Not that I ever get PPV movies, but I don't like auto-deletion like that.
But let's be real: does anyone think TiVo WANTS to do any of this?? This is TiVo making small concessions to help hold back the onslaught.
Admitting that it might have played even a *minor* role would only reinforce the argument.
Of course, isn't it always "who you know"? How is it any different from getting an extra glance because you're a friend or friend-of-a-friend of the appointer?
So why does the equal-but-opposite situation count against the Republicans both times?
So you may begin sending me porn now!
This may come as a shock - but videogames aren't just for the kiddies.
The PSP is very clearly an "adult's" game system. The kids can keep their Game Boys.
Get everything you wanted out of life, and get it now. Get on good terms with your deity. End's coming real fast, folks.
Yes, but they love "Srashdot!"
I understand your plight, sisters. I can't play Counterstrike without getting called a "fag". They also call me a "pussy". To be equated with female genitalia! How demeaning!
Oh, but it gets worse. It goes way beyond male/female, and into slavery. Your game's character asked who your master is. My game's players insist that they ARE my master, or that they "0wn" me. As someone who knows someone who is of a descendency that was slaved at some point in history, it offends me to my very core.
But it's not all from players. It's company sponsored too. One company advertised a game whose lead guy insisted I would be made "his bitch".
Sister, stand strong. We won't tolerate this kind of treatment!
You haven't tried to run ATI cards in 3D games under Linux, have you?
There are plenty of 3D games with Linux support I'd love to play, but I am at the mercy of terrible ATI drivers.
If nVidia were to let their drivers for non-MS platforms slide, then there wouldn't be any good options.
Well they haven't gotten you off Slashdot yet.
When you look at the Xfire front page and see the top 10 most popular online games people are playing, 7 are available on the Mac platform.
While 7 != 10, 7 most certainly != "lol omfg n00b Mac has no gaymezz!"
Because the interest in Sims 2 is at a high point RIGHT NOW.
If John Kerry were purple, then I would stop being on the fence and definitely vote for him.
*puts down the gun*
Thank you. You probably just saved my life.
>> A wise man learns from others mistakes.
A drunk man pays alimony for his mistakes.
Did you lose your apostrophes back in undergrad?