That's like saying "This is the best, most solid car there is, as long as you don't kick the tires". Because once Caldera (I refer to 2.2 here; I sure as hell wasn't going to pay for their bugfix 2.3 release) was installed, if you wanted to reconfigure something, you were pretty screwed.
It shipped with an incompatible version of RPM, and had no development libraries, so upgrading something (like its glitchy version of X) involved compiling it from scratch, including its huge tree of dependencies. Changing other settings was done through the "Caldera Open Administration System", a linuxconf workalike except for the fact that it didn't work. It would often exit quietly without successfully changing any settings.
When talking about the "ease of installation" of a distro, it's not just the original installation that matters. It should be easy to keep installing packages, and to upgrade the system without buying a new boxed release.
It's amazing I kept using Linux after Caldera. They were a crappy distro even before they were a crappy business.
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I rather doubt that white to win (or even white to force a draw) has been proven for chess. But it is possible to come up with such a proof without going through every possible game.
Consider "double chess", where every player gets to make two moves per turn. You can prove that white can force a draw in this game with the following proof:
If White cannot force a draw, that means there is a strategy by which Black can win. In that case, as his first move, White should move a knight out and then back. The board is in the same position, but now it's Black's turn, so White can now use the same strategy Black was going to use to win.
Since it is impossible for both players to have a winning strategy, both players have to keep making these no-op moves, and after the third one the game is a draw. Which White forced.
Maybe the poster claiming white to win has been proven heard this proof, and thought it was about ordinary chess.
I used to do SpamAssassin's job manually like that too, but the false positive rate got far too high. You never realize what you might catch.
For example, with that TO or CC restriction, you could never get on a mailing list. Heck, someone with "trivia" in their e-mail address may even send you something important one day.
A large number of stores won't take the CDs back (accept for an exchange of the exact same cd).
You probably mean "except".
I'm only pointing this out because putting the wrong word there gave your sentence the opposite meaning - it implies that it would be satisfactory for stores to accept a returned CD and exchange it for a copy of the same CD, and that they don't even do that.
And if these programs are really as bad as he says they are, he has every right to make the complaints.
Skins are just kind of dumb. Skins that break the functionality of the interface are an actual bug. And error windows that make your computer entirely unusable are rather sad.
"doesn't want to install the required libs" - This is a bit of a special case when the required libs are GNOME 2. Hell, if I had known that the transition to GNOME 2 would rape my desktop, I wouldn't have done it either. I recently made the transition on Debian, and I had to restore my settings from scratch a few times.
xine could have used a standard file browser instead of making up their own and calling it "MRL Browser" which you get to by clicking on a button labeled "://". How does this not merit the word "fucktard"? (This is so amusingly dumb that I wanted to try installing it myself - but Debian actually refuses to install xine; only gnome-xine, with a reasonably standard interface, is available. Good choice there. I suppose any Debian maintainer who was asked to support xine simply convulsed in a fit of laughter.)
Perhaps this isn't a review of video on Linux. Perhaps it's a review of the way that important programs tend to be written by people who want to say "My interface is l33ter than yours!", wasting the time of the rest of the community who has to clean up their mess.
See, that's the thing. Nobody would want a CD with just two songs on it, because we're accustomed to being able to listen to more music without switching the media.
Such as on the computer, where you never have to switch the media.
Music downloading is the replacement for singles, and that's why they're fools for not getting in on it (at least not without their service being noticeably worse than filesharing).
Probably the biggest thing stopping them is that they fear variety. The few attempts they've made to sell music online have involved high-profile bands that they want to promote; meanwhile, I'm getting my fix of Cruxshadows, Yoko Kanno (hence the.sig - it's one of her signature nonsense lyrics), and Philip Glass.
I suppose it might be a fact if I could parse what you said at all. Which company? How do those mixed-up clauses at the end relate to it? Who's killing who burning what, and what the hell does any of this have to do with BSD? This is a really good reason for you to learn the proper use of a comma.
(Hint: what you did after "not flaimbate" isn't it.)
If my purpose was just to be a grammar pedant, I would criticize things like "there quite happy" - but my point is that I'm actually curious what you're trying to say.
Of course, this certainly puts Caldera and SCO on the community's shit list. Caldera can no longer consider itself a Linux distro any more than LinuxOne could.
SCO is also responsible for UnitedLinux, though. Now, I always thought that was a dumb idea anyway, but other Linux companies went along with it. I hope the legitimate distributions like SuSE pull out of UnitedLinux as soon as possible.
So, I have my own domain, and I'd like to do that too, but I can't find any documentation on how to do it using a mail server like exim. Could you tell me how you did it?
I don't believe that Caldera has ever done anything significantly favorable toward Linux.
They jumped on the bandwagon with the "1. Sell Linux / 3. PROFIT!" mentality, and since then they've made these "contributions": a broken version of RPM; a configuration system that didn't work; a non-downloadable upgrade to their flawed 2.2 distro; per-seat licensing; and, of course, buying a proprietary Unix vendor.
Their CEO tries hard to sound like a good guy, but he doesn't get it.
It looks like now they've discovered that the community has no respect for them, so they've decided to turn against the community instead. But they're doing it under the SCO name so that we might not realize it's our old buddy Caldera betraying us.
"DRM Enabled" is exactly the kind of terminology they would want. After all, DRM is a good thing! It protects you from viruses and stuff... somehow... right? That's what they want the public to believe.
I imagine that the reason nobody else made the connection is that it is really strained.
Plus, even if someone else were to equate walking to ants, there are many other references that could be made, like perhaps the Langdon's Ant cellular automaton, or Aunt Hillary the anthill from Godel, Escher, Bach.
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That's quite an amusing factoid. Amusing how often it's repeated by people who haven't stopped to think that it makes no sense, that is.
"Kong" means "Ape", like in "King Kong". They chose "Donkey" because it was listed in a bad translation dictionary as an adjective meaning "stupid".
That's like saying "This is the best, most solid car there is, as long as you don't kick the tires". Because once Caldera (I refer to 2.2 here; I sure as hell wasn't going to pay for their bugfix 2.3 release) was installed, if you wanted to reconfigure something, you were pretty screwed.
It shipped with an incompatible version of RPM, and had no development libraries, so upgrading something (like its glitchy version of X) involved compiling it from scratch, including its huge tree of dependencies. Changing other settings was done through the "Caldera Open Administration System", a linuxconf workalike except for the fact that it didn't work. It would often exit quietly without successfully changing any settings.
When talking about the "ease of installation" of a distro, it's not just the original installation that matters. It should be easy to keep installing packages, and to upgrade the system without buying a new boxed release.
It's amazing I kept using Linux after Caldera. They were a crappy distro even before they were a crappy business.
The article summary is made of sentences quoted exactly from the article, strung together as if they were logically connected, even though they're from different paragraphs talking about different things.
I have to conclude that this submission came from Microsoft Word's "AutoSummarize".
I suppose you've never heard people laugh at the useless joke that VRML was.
I rather doubt that white to win (or even white to force a draw) has been proven for chess. But it is possible to come up with such a proof without going through every possible game.
Consider "double chess", where every player gets to make two moves per turn. You can prove that white can force a draw in this game with the following proof:
If White cannot force a draw, that means there is a strategy by which Black can win. In that case, as his first move, White should move a knight out and then back. The board is in the same position, but now it's Black's turn, so White can now use the same strategy Black was going to use to win.
Since it is impossible for both players to have a winning strategy, both players have to keep making these no-op moves, and after the third one the game is a draw. Which White forced.
Maybe the poster claiming white to win has been proven heard this proof, and thought it was about ordinary chess.
Gee, that's useful. If the students don't know trig, they're fucked long before they get to this course.
It sounds like you're referring to the Windows game, not the early text adventure. That thing was the most horrible game I've ever played.
Um... 20 mm is bigger than a centimeter. It's two of them, in fact.
Shall I point out that the SI (what is most frequently meant by "metric") uses Kelvin and not Celsius?
Uh, didn't you read the rest of his comment where he said exactly that?
I used to do SpamAssassin's job manually like that too, but the false positive rate got far too high. You never realize what you might catch.
For example, with that TO or CC restriction, you could never get on a mailing list. Heck, someone with "trivia" in their e-mail address may even send you something important one day.
Recording companies make the music, but it is retailers who know their customers.
Wow, is this writer a corporate shill or what? He says everything from the perspective that the recording companies like.
I find that $14.21 figure amusing, too - it's probably part of RIAA logic. "It costs us $1.50 to produce a CD, but that's the equivalent of $14.21!"
Recording companies don't make the music. Artists do.
A large number of stores won't take the CDs back (accept for an exchange of the exact same cd).
You probably mean "except".
I'm only pointing this out because putting the wrong word there gave your sentence the opposite meaning - it implies that it would be satisfactory for stores to accept a returned CD and exchange it for a copy of the same CD, and that they don't even do that.
And if these programs are really as bad as he says they are, he has every right to make the complaints.
Skins are just kind of dumb. Skins that break the functionality of the interface are an actual bug. And error windows that make your computer entirely unusable are rather sad.
"doesn't want to install the required libs" - This is a bit of a special case when the required libs are GNOME 2. Hell, if I had known that the transition to GNOME 2 would rape my desktop, I wouldn't have done it either. I recently made the transition on Debian, and I had to restore my settings from scratch a few times.
xine could have used a standard file browser instead of making up their own and calling it "MRL Browser" which you get to by clicking on a button labeled "://". How does this not merit the word "fucktard"? (This is so amusingly dumb that I wanted to try installing it myself - but Debian actually refuses to install xine; only gnome-xine, with a reasonably standard interface, is available. Good choice there. I suppose any Debian maintainer who was asked to support xine simply convulsed in a fit of laughter.)
Perhaps this isn't a review of video on Linux. Perhaps it's a review of the way that important programs tend to be written by people who want to say "My interface is l33ter than yours!", wasting the time of the rest of the community who has to clean up their mess.
See, that's the thing. Nobody would want a CD with just two songs on it, because we're accustomed to being able to listen to more music without switching the media.
.sig - it's one of her signature nonsense lyrics), and Philip Glass.
Such as on the computer, where you never have to switch the media.
Music downloading is the replacement for singles, and that's why they're fools for not getting in on it (at least not without their service being noticeably worse than filesharing).
Probably the biggest thing stopping them is that they fear variety. The few attempts they've made to sell music online have involved high-profile bands that they want to promote; meanwhile, I'm getting my fix of Cruxshadows, Yoko Kanno (hence the
I suppose it might be a fact if I could parse what you said at all. Which company? How do those mixed-up clauses at the end relate to it? Who's killing who burning what, and what the hell does any of this have to do with BSD? This is a really good reason for you to learn the proper use of a comma.
(Hint: what you did after "not flaimbate" isn't it.)
If my purpose was just to be a grammar pedant, I would criticize things like "there quite happy" - but my point is that I'm actually curious what you're trying to say.
Of course, this certainly puts Caldera and SCO on the community's shit list. Caldera can no longer consider itself a Linux distro any more than LinuxOne could.
SCO is also responsible for UnitedLinux, though. Now, I always thought that was a dumb idea anyway, but other Linux companies went along with it. I hope the legitimate distributions like SuSE pull out of UnitedLinux as soon as possible.
So, I have my own domain, and I'd like to do that too, but I can't find any documentation on how to do it using a mail server like exim. Could you tell me how you did it?
Okay, I can understand the verbal tic that causes people to arbitrarily insert the word "like" when talking. But why the hell would you type that way?
I bought Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 as my first distro.
It's amazing that I kept using Linux - that thing was a royal piece of crap.
As I said in the other article: Caldera is just realizing that the community has no respect for them, so now they're turning against it.
I don't believe that Caldera has ever done anything significantly favorable toward Linux.
They jumped on the bandwagon with the "1. Sell Linux / 3. PROFIT!" mentality, and since then they've made these "contributions": a broken version of RPM; a configuration system that didn't work; a non-downloadable upgrade to their flawed 2.2 distro; per-seat licensing; and, of course, buying a proprietary Unix vendor.
Their CEO tries hard to sound like a good guy, but he doesn't get it.
It looks like now they've discovered that the community has no respect for them, so they've decided to turn against the community instead. But they're doing it under the SCO name so that we might not realize it's our old buddy Caldera betraying us.
Considering that that's about the 50th time you've said exactly the same thing, wouldn't it be easier just to cut and paste?
I mean, it's not like you're actually responding to the points made by the parent poster. You just drag out your army of straw men again and again.
"DRM Enabled" is exactly the kind of terminology they would want. After all, DRM is a good thing! It protects you from viruses and stuff... somehow... right? That's what they want the public to believe.
A more accurate label would be "Disabled by DRM".
Um.
I imagine that the reason nobody else made the connection is that it is really strained.
Plus, even if someone else were to equate walking to ants, there are many other references that could be made, like perhaps the Langdon's Ant cellular automaton, or Aunt Hillary the anthill from Godel, Escher, Bach.
"Insightful"? Some moderator must have had a very happy New Year...