If Fedora chooses to include it in the future, I'll give it a try. Until then, however, I think I'll stick to the evil I know (yum), rather than playing musical package managers.
Behold the brave new world of online product activation.
Sure, you may find yourself increasingly inconvenienced, but rest assured: the company who sold you the product that doesn't work has ensured that your problems don't cut into their profits. Problems caused by their attempts to protect their profits. Attempts that surely have already been invalidated by those who bother to look around for alternatives. Alternatives that the company percieves as a threat to their profits...
Kennesaw county in Georgia (near Atlanta) requires every household to own a firearm and ammunition for that firearm. Their crime rate since the law was enacted in 1982 has fallen greatly.
It sure has. It dropped 89%! How amazing! Of course, when the estimated number of firearm-related crimes was a whopping 5 the year before the ordinance passed, the fact that it's still about 5 with 4x the people seems a little less amazing. Their crime rate was so low to begin with, that it could be virtually eliminated entirely by simply having a few dozen trouble makers move. Shit, a Wal-Mart opening up nearby could almost eliminate gun-crime by giving jobs to (the approx. 50 or so) potential felons. Or, it could triple it by giving the local meth-head a place to sell his junk from.
And keep in mind, I wasn't counting bodies with that number above. That number was the number of Part I index crimes (violent crime plus Burglary, Larceny, Auto Theft and Arson) committed with a gun.
It's a useless statistic based on a faulty premise in the first place. If I lost a hundred pounds in a year while eating a whole pie everyday for breakfast, but I was full of tapeworms, it would seem really dumb to declare the "whole pie diet" a success, don't you think?
I spent months following wickedly obscure and time consuming instructions for compiling apps for Mandrake before I discovered the magic of the MCC gui for URPMI, then another couple months finding reliable mirrors.
Me too, except that I discovered the magic of spending 5 minutes looking for answers on Google about Mandrake's package-management and thusly set-up urpmi, got all the programs I wanted, and so on in a matter of hours.
I'm afraid I don't follow you here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to click "save as draft" in order for it to work? With my suggestion, you click "send." It's not really all that different.
The individual air particles don't matter, it's the beam that is ionizing the particles in its path that make for a conduit the electricity can travel along. No amount of wind is going to bother it, or carry the electricity away, any more than wind would blow a normal beam of light out of the way.
It's hypocritical to have no problems with regulating a "corporation" and to scream when someone suggests regulating the individual.
Only if you feel that corporations should be treated the same way people are. I don't. That was easy.
Oh, and for clarity's sake, we're really talking about businesses and companies, not the specific (and inexoriably linked to government) entity of corporations. Businesses are not people, and don't act like them. They don't vote, they don't get married, they are not born...they're different than a human being. Honestly, I don't know why I have to explain this - by your own reasoning, you might as well be saying that a lamp should be given freedom from government regulation.
Since a business is different than a person, the government treats them differently. That's why (besides the painfully obvious apples/oranges comparison) the argument that getting upset when the government intrudes on the privacy of the individual and supporting the increased taxation of a business that outsources is, as they say, "fucking retarded.
To recap:
1) people and businesses aren't the same thing
2) Neither is the USA PATRIOT act and increased taxes on companies that outsource
3) You're either a liar or an idiot for saying so.
Corporations are not people, so they shouldn't get the same protections as people in this country under the law. The USA PATRIOT act is bad because it infringes on an individual's rights. Corporations don't have the same rights as people.
That's not really the point though, since privacy protection has absolutely nothing to do with taxes and regulation of business practices. There is no "someone else's" freedom being trotted on, because corporations are neither "someone" nor are they free from government oversight.
Your alarmist bit at the end of your comment where you liken taxing companies that outsource to taxing companies that look at you funny is cute, but completely baseless. Corporations in this country have no right to do as they please; they have to answer to the will and law of this nation. Taking a page from your slippery slope argument, I propose that if you think corporations should be free from meddling by the government, then they should be free from meddling by the police, the IRS, and any pesky human rights advocates that might have a problem with what they do to citizens who buy their products and their employees. They should be able to sell anything they want to whomever they please: explosives to children, advanced weapon systems to terrorists, mislabeled poison as baby food, etc.
In the real world, rights and priveleges are carefully ensured and protected by laws and taxes and regulations.
If by "meet the requirements" you mean "run absolutely everything at the highest possible settings," then I suppose you have a point.
People are always trotting out this "you must buy a new video card every 20 minutes or you can't play any games" line - it's b.s. I use the integrated GeForce4 that came on my shuttle's mobo and I can play plenty of games, and they look mighty fine at that.
Give me a break. Look out! Cancer Rays! Don't believe everything your militia/new-age healing circle intercepts from lemurian broadcasts to the Illuminati.
"--A lot of exposure to it is usually damaging to children's mental development. Most sex crime offenders and violent criminals have been influenced by long exposure to pornography."
No doubt this is evidenced by catcthing the SEXUAL DEVIANT and finding SEXUALLY-DEVIANT pornography around the house. I submit to you that people who are criminal sexual deviants are influenced by long exposure to being crazy, and there's not a sex-crime around that wasn't more or less spelled-out in the Bible and works that pre-date even it, leading one to believe that perhaps these deviances were around long before Hugh Hefner was. Counting up the porno magazines after you catch the Knoxville Buggerer and listening to what part of society he blames his crimes on does little to convince me that it was the magazines that "made him do it."
Now, if you have a reliable, comprehensive study that shows pornography can lead to criminal conduct, I'm all ears. I have a feeling you don't though.
We must have forgotten that the physically handicapped are incapable of having any sense of humor. On behalf of the physically-able, I apologize for our lack of sensitivity to our go-tard bretheren.
Gee, do you suppose that maybe what makes a media player successful is its ability to...oh, I don't know...play different types of media?
Huh, maybe that's why successful open source media players rely on closed-source standards (which happen to be popular standards) for some of their success.
so far, I count 3 posts of yours saying the same thing, and I'm only looking at shit with a score of 3 and above. Each time, you appear to be unaware of the fact that the turbolinux announcement happened today, and the Valenti interview happened 20 days ago. Please, stop. It's really asinine.
Besides, Winstein's point was that it was illegal to watch DVDs on Linux, even when no legal alternative is available. He's not so much begging for a legal DVD player for Linux, he's lamenting that it's illegal to watch movies on Linux, when it's legal on other OSs, simply because nobody is offering a DVD player program.
Actually, there is indeed an old lady who's purse was stolen that you can choose to help in the new Spiderman game, among other "side quests." Not exactly COH material, but it's not just start of level to boss fight either.
You're certainly not the only one doing it, but I have to say that I am really getting tired of the "Gamecube is for kiddies" rhetoric that gets rolled-out each and every time Nintendo is brought up. When I play RE, or Eternal Darkness, or MGS - Twin Snakes, etc; I see all the blood, gore, and so-on you would expect from a "mature" game.
And before anyone goes on about how Nintendo's first-party games are for kids, let's analyze that for a sec. What do you want Nintendo to do - Grand Theft Mario? Most 1st party Nintendo games are based off of classic licenses. There's no machine guns or zombies in the Kirby games, and adding them just to get some blood-spray in the game is retarded.
Metroid is a violent game: But since the targets are all animals and Space Pirates, I guess it isn't "mature enough."
It's easy to take a jab at Nintendo for it's "cutesy" games, but how do you expect them to treat licenses that started out as "cutesy" in the first place? I don't know about you, but I think turning Mario into a mafia hitman isn't worth the meager sales that curse words and exploding brains might get them.
I just don't buy that at all. Look, since Linux pre-installed is currently pretty rare, and the distros that are pre-installed are the easiest ones to use (Mandrake, Lindows, etc.), then your "which distro?" dilemma is a false one. Anyone who decides to install Linux on their own is going to do some research first. That, or they're already confident enough in their computer skills to feel like they can handle whatever problems may arise.
And like I said: For those that do look, there are a few distros that are extremely easy to use and maintain.
As for grandma not being able to find where to change the resolution - If grams can even comprehend that it's the resolution she wants to change, then she's not so helpless and lost as you make her out to be.
I have a tenant downstairs. She asked me to come down and show her how to save her word file to a floppy. You think she's gonna be changing her resolution any time soon? She was using windows, why couldn't she figure out how to do it herself? Why isn't Windows simple enough for her to understand? The reason why the "windows way" is the "easy way" has a lot to do with prior knowledge and instruction and not as much to do with some kind of inherent design to the OS as you seem to be claiming.
Counting clicks is a silly way to determine ease of use anyway: It takes at least a highlight and 2 clicks to copy a piece of text with just the mouse, but you can just highlight it and hit ctrl+c to do it too. But ctrl+c only works if you know about it. ten dialogue boxes that clearly explain what's going on is easier than 2 that make no sense, even if it is more steps.
Assuming someone actually NEEDS to resize their screen more than once or twice in the machine's lifetime (in Linux anyway, I know Windows has gotten people into the habit of it) there are several distros that make it - and much, much more complicated tasks - easy to find and easy to use.
Libranet comes to mind. Hell, I can change the resolution, recompile my kernel, update my all my software, and install truetype fonts from the SAME MENU. And none of the above tasks require a genius IQ or the ability to do anything but read and click a button.
People liked WordPerfect 5.1 too. Shit, people liked typewriters and filing cabinets. Ask Corel how WP is doing these days. Ask Lotus about their spreadsheet. "their software" gets abandoned with a quickness just as soon as somebody offers more for less as long as it is just as simple to use (or easier) than what they have.
Dude, it's called a calculator. Try one sometime. Just do all of the vehicle design rules and such in their neanderthal units of measurment, then convert cf - m3. how tough is that? Shit, they even have nice "round" approximations for the various metric equivilents in the basic book to satisfy people just like you.
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If Fedora chooses to include it in the future, I'll give it a try. Until then, however, I think I'll stick to the evil I know (yum), rather than playing musical package managers.
Behold the brave new world of online product activation.
Sure, you may find yourself increasingly inconvenienced, but rest assured: the company who sold you the product that doesn't work has ensured that your problems don't cut into their profits. Problems caused by their attempts to protect their profits. Attempts that surely have already been invalidated by those who bother to look around for alternatives. Alternatives that the company percieves as a threat to their profits...
Quiet, you! :)
How about "imcreaturating" or "imthingy-ating?"
Kennesaw county in Georgia (near Atlanta) requires every household to own a firearm and ammunition for that firearm. Their crime rate since the law was enacted in 1982 has fallen greatly.
It sure has. It dropped 89%! How amazing! Of course, when the estimated number of firearm-related crimes was a whopping 5 the year before the ordinance passed, the fact that it's still about 5 with 4x the people seems a little less amazing. Their crime rate was so low to begin with, that it could be virtually eliminated entirely by simply having a few dozen trouble makers move. Shit, a Wal-Mart opening up nearby could almost eliminate gun-crime by giving jobs to (the approx. 50 or so) potential felons. Or, it could triple it by giving the local meth-head a place to sell his junk from.
And keep in mind, I wasn't counting bodies with that number above. That number was the number of Part I index crimes (violent crime plus Burglary, Larceny, Auto Theft and Arson) committed with a gun.
It's a useless statistic based on a faulty premise in the first place. If I lost a hundred pounds in a year while eating a whole pie everyday for breakfast, but I was full of tapeworms, it would seem really dumb to declare the "whole pie diet" a success, don't you think?
I spent months following wickedly obscure and time consuming instructions for compiling apps for Mandrake before I discovered the magic of the MCC gui for URPMI, then another couple months finding reliable mirrors.
Me too, except that I discovered the magic of spending 5 minutes looking for answers on Google about Mandrake's package-management and thusly set-up urpmi, got all the programs I wanted, and so on in a matter of hours.
I'm afraid I don't follow you here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to click "save as draft" in order for it to work? With my suggestion, you click "send." It's not really all that different.
just send the email to yourself.
You're looking at this technology the wrong way.
The individual air particles don't matter, it's the beam that is ionizing the particles in its path that make for a conduit the electricity can travel along. No amount of wind is going to bother it, or carry the electricity away, any more than wind would blow a normal beam of light out of the way.
It's hypocritical to have no problems with regulating a "corporation" and to scream when someone suggests regulating the individual.
Only if you feel that corporations should be treated the same way people are. I don't. That was easy.
Oh, and for clarity's sake, we're really talking about businesses and companies, not the specific (and inexoriably linked to government) entity of corporations. Businesses are not people, and don't act like them. They don't vote, they don't get married, they are not born...they're different than a human being. Honestly, I don't know why I have to explain this - by your own reasoning, you might as well be saying that a lamp should be given freedom from government regulation.
Since a business is different than a person, the government treats them differently. That's why (besides the painfully obvious apples/oranges comparison) the argument that getting upset when the government intrudes on the privacy of the individual and supporting the increased taxation of a business that outsources is, as they say, "fucking retarded.
To recap:
1) people and businesses aren't the same thing
2) Neither is the USA PATRIOT act and increased taxes on companies that outsource
3) You're either a liar or an idiot for saying so.
Corporations are not people, so they shouldn't get the same protections as people in this country under the law. The USA PATRIOT act is bad because it infringes on an individual's rights. Corporations don't have the same rights as people.
That's not really the point though, since privacy protection has absolutely nothing to do with taxes and regulation of business practices. There is no "someone else's" freedom being trotted on, because corporations are neither "someone" nor are they free from government oversight.
Your alarmist bit at the end of your comment where you liken taxing companies that outsource to taxing companies that look at you funny is cute, but completely baseless. Corporations in this country have no right to do as they please; they have to answer to the will and law of this nation. Taking a page from your slippery slope argument, I propose that if you think corporations should be free from meddling by the government, then they should be free from meddling by the police, the IRS, and any pesky human rights advocates that might have a problem with what they do to citizens who buy their products and their employees. They should be able to sell anything they want to whomever they please: explosives to children, advanced weapon systems to terrorists, mislabeled poison as baby food, etc.
In the real world, rights and priveleges are carefully ensured and protected by laws and taxes and regulations.
If by "meet the requirements" you mean "run absolutely everything at the highest possible settings," then I suppose you have a point.
People are always trotting out this "you must buy a new video card every 20 minutes or you can't play any games" line - it's b.s. I use the integrated GeForce4 that came on my shuttle's mobo and I can play plenty of games, and they look mighty fine at that.
Give me a break. Look out! Cancer Rays! Don't believe everything your militia/new-age healing circle intercepts from lemurian broadcasts to the Illuminati.
"--A lot of exposure to it is usually damaging to children's mental development. Most sex crime offenders and violent criminals have been influenced by long exposure to pornography."
No doubt this is evidenced by catcthing the SEXUAL DEVIANT and finding SEXUALLY-DEVIANT pornography around the house. I submit to you that people who are criminal sexual deviants are influenced by long exposure to being crazy, and there's not a sex-crime around that wasn't more or less spelled-out in the Bible and works that pre-date even it, leading one to believe that perhaps these deviances were around long before Hugh Hefner was. Counting up the porno magazines after you catch the Knoxville Buggerer and listening to what part of society he blames his crimes on does little to convince me that it was the magazines that "made him do it."
Now, if you have a reliable, comprehensive study that shows pornography can lead to criminal conduct, I'm all ears. I have a feeling you don't though.
We must have forgotten that the physically handicapped are incapable of having any sense of humor. On behalf of the physically-able, I apologize for our lack of sensitivity to our go-tard bretheren.
Oops.
Gee, do you suppose that maybe what makes a media player successful is its ability to...oh, I don't know...play different types of media?
Huh, maybe that's why successful open source media players rely on closed-source standards (which happen to be popular standards) for some of their success.
so far, I count 3 posts of yours saying the same thing, and I'm only looking at shit with a score of 3 and above. Each time, you appear to be unaware of the fact that the turbolinux announcement happened today, and the Valenti interview happened 20 days ago. Please, stop. It's really asinine.
Besides, Winstein's point was that it was illegal to watch DVDs on Linux, even when no legal alternative is available. He's not so much begging for a legal DVD player for Linux, he's lamenting that it's illegal to watch movies on Linux, when it's legal on other OSs, simply because nobody is offering a DVD player program.
Actually, there is indeed an old lady who's purse was stolen that you can choose to help in the new Spiderman game, among other "side quests." Not exactly COH material, but it's not just start of level to boss fight either.
You're certainly not the only one doing it, but I have to say that I am really getting tired of the "Gamecube is for kiddies" rhetoric that gets rolled-out each and every time Nintendo is brought up. When I play RE, or Eternal Darkness, or MGS - Twin Snakes, etc; I see all the blood, gore, and so-on you would expect from a "mature" game.
And before anyone goes on about how Nintendo's first-party games are for kids, let's analyze that for a sec. What do you want Nintendo to do - Grand Theft Mario? Most 1st party Nintendo games are based off of classic licenses. There's no machine guns or zombies in the Kirby games, and adding them just to get some blood-spray in the game is retarded.
Metroid is a violent game: But since the targets are all animals and Space Pirates, I guess it isn't "mature enough."
It's easy to take a jab at Nintendo for it's "cutesy" games, but how do you expect them to treat licenses that started out as "cutesy" in the first place? I don't know about you, but I think turning Mario into a mafia hitman isn't worth the meager sales that curse words and exploding brains might get them.
I just don't buy that at all. Look, since Linux pre-installed is currently pretty rare, and the distros that are pre-installed are the easiest ones to use (Mandrake, Lindows, etc.), then your "which distro?" dilemma is a false one. Anyone who decides to install Linux on their own is going to do some research first. That, or they're already confident enough in their computer skills to feel like they can handle whatever problems may arise.
And like I said: For those that do look, there are a few distros that are extremely easy to use and maintain.
As for grandma not being able to find where to change the resolution - If grams can even comprehend that it's the resolution she wants to change, then she's not so helpless and lost as you make her out to be.
I have a tenant downstairs. She asked me to come down and show her how to save her word file to a floppy. You think she's gonna be changing her resolution any time soon? She was using windows, why couldn't she figure out how to do it herself? Why isn't Windows simple enough for her to understand? The reason why the "windows way" is the "easy way" has a lot to do with prior knowledge and instruction and not as much to do with some kind of inherent design to the OS as you seem to be claiming.
Counting clicks is a silly way to determine ease of use anyway: It takes at least a highlight and 2 clicks to copy a piece of text with just the mouse, but you can just highlight it and hit ctrl+c to do it too. But ctrl+c only works if you know about it. ten dialogue boxes that clearly explain what's going on is easier than 2 that make no sense, even if it is more steps.
*cough*hundreds of dollars*cough*
Oh mercy - 4 more clicks!
Assuming someone actually NEEDS to resize their screen more than once or twice in the machine's lifetime (in Linux anyway, I know Windows has gotten people into the habit of it) there are several distros that make it - and much, much more complicated tasks - easy to find and easy to use.
Libranet comes to mind. Hell, I can change the resolution, recompile my kernel, update my all my software, and install truetype fonts from the SAME MENU. And none of the above tasks require a genius IQ or the ability to do anything but read and click a button.
People liked WordPerfect 5.1 too. Shit, people liked typewriters and filing cabinets. Ask Corel how WP is doing these days. Ask Lotus about their spreadsheet. "their software" gets abandoned with a quickness just as soon as somebody offers more for less as long as it is just as simple to use (or easier) than what they have.
Play and beat Metroid: Zero Mission. If that doesn't cure your addiction, the original Metroid becomes playable after you beat Zero.
Dude, it's called a calculator. Try one sometime. Just do all of the vehicle design rules and such in their neanderthal units of measurment, then convert cf - m3. how tough is that? Shit, they even have nice "round" approximations for the various metric equivilents in the basic book to satisfy people just like you.