The parent poster is jokingly referring to Fermat's Last Theorem which states that xn + yn = zn has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. He then wrote, "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain."
Fortunately we live in a society where we can figure this stuff out for ourselves. In 1995 Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor proved Fermat's Last Theorem and published their proof in the Annals of Mathematics.
Just wait a few centuries. Someone will discover your truly marvelous demonstration on their own, they will!
I wonder if someone might write a program or plugins for existing mail programs to adapt on this approach? Every time you mark a mail as junk, it sends it back to your mail server to be treated as if it were bounced. This way anything you mark as junk gets bounced back to the spammer as if your mail server was down. Have the cake and eat it too?
ATM suprnova is illegitimate, yes. But despite this it is a clear demonstration of the business model of the future for popular media.
Radio when it first came out gave the masses the ability to listen to music for free and is a profitable venue.
TV when it first came out gave the masses the ability to watch video programs and even movies for free and is a highly profitable venue.
Internet distribution of media is the next logical step. But TPTB refuse to embrace it.
You know what? Fuck that. I'm not waiting for them. Many thousands of others think the way I do and that number is steadily growing. When their fun little game of suing people for copyright infringement involves them needing to sue millions upon millions of Americans, I think they just might get the point.
Some time ago the company that made the game Subspace went out of business. Third party servers were established and the game was distributed on the net and widely cracked. But eventually a new client (Continuum) was written and distributed for free to dodge the copyright bullet.
Business and software is a nasty, nasty combination.
It's like people saying Macs are the bestest most awesomest systems ever, but that they're also cheaper than x86 alternatives. It doesn't work both ways.
Actually it does. Mac is cheaper in the long run because the added money you invest in it pays off later because you find your machine lasts longer than an x86 alternative.
That said, I agree with you. The notion that Gentoo's pathetically manual install should stay that way as some sort of right of passage to gain quality support and maintain an intelligent community is pretentious, arrogant, elitist, and the sheer embodiment of what's wrong with the Linux community IMHO.
I've done the abhorred Gentoo install. I ran Gentoo for an entire year. Eventually I got tired of micromanaging shit and switched to binary distros. To me Gentoo is incomplete. A work in progress. Portage is an intelligently designed package manager, but not everybody gives a shit about customizing and optimizing everything. Frankly, Gentoo needs easy installation and stock binary support.
I hear all this crap from Gentoo portage sourceDistro++ fans about how there's no way to compile binaries for every CFLAG combination in existence, but who gives a fuck? Did it occur to you guys that people who are interested in binaries couldn't give a flying fuck about CFLAGs, optimizing, and customizing?
Gentoo was my first real dive into Linux. I mastered the install, participated in the forums, fell in love with the community, then learned to hate everything about it. For all Gentoo's greatness, there's a stain of elitism holding it back. The Linux distro that takes over the world (knock on wood) won't be geared toward a niche. At present, Gentoo is. Hopefully 2005.0 will be an important step toward changing that. Maybe I'll drop Debian back for Gentoo again someday.
In this case it is. Your reasons are nothing but excuses. The simple fact of the matter is hundreds of thousands of people get their work done every day using FOSS. If it were so unacceptable, people wouldn't use it in such abundance. It's mindsets like yours in the big picture that slow its progress so.
Ugh. THAT's what Longhorn's gonna look like when it's released? I thought he was running some shitty script kiddy skin. Boy and I thought Luna was unbeatably bad...
Notice how he's running Outlook instead of Thunderbird? AIM instead of GAIM? He might as well drop FF back for IE right now so he can be a pure MS fanboy.
Portage is overly complex. Customizing packages for a specific system is overrated. In the long run Debian has the best approach. Portage has too much added complexity. RPM is too poorly designed. If Redhat cut their losses and stopped suffering from not invented here syndrome for just five seconds to realize the Debian packaging format is better, there's be so much less disunity.
I mention Gentoo fading because if Linux were to become more unified via Redhat and Debian agreeing on a single binary packaging format, it would be at the expense of shunning niches like Gentoo.
Eek. That's a great way to end up with a borked Debian, especially in unstable.
Why do you feel the need upgrade your softwar every.thirty.minutes? Does that fresh new zlib have that much to freakin offer?
I only do dist-upgrades when I know that something important I have is out of date. Like an app I use all the time. This ends up being once every week or so. Every thirty minutes? Jesus! You waste a lot of their bandwidth! Shame on you!
Gentoo is a fading niche and a fad. Ubuntu is distro of the month now. And soon it too will fade.
People like to talk about how Linux is so fragmented, but in reality only Debian and Redhat actually matter (along with 100% compatible derivatives... Ubuntu, this is NOT you). If the two of them got together and agreed on a single fucking binary package format there'd be no more Linux binary inconsistency problems.
You'd be able to download your software from a repository or go to a website and download it like Windows exe installers. Best of both worlds. All that's stopping that from happening is the Redhat vs. Debian wars. Both sides of the development circle are heavily bigoted, believe their way is better, and refuse to work together.
If Redhat and Debian, the two most important distros, quit competing and started working together, Linux would be a lot more ubiquitous.
I don't know any 'normal' person who has adopted it.
I know several. Even my parents made the switch painlessly. It's simple really. If you're not addicted to Windows games (or other proprietary Windows software) there's nothing to lose and so much to gain.
KDE has the option to use a spatial type taskbar known as the KasBar which is in many ways similar to Mac's dock.
KDE can be made very similar to Mac with enough tweaking. Far moreso than GNOME. I like to think of KDE as wad of clay to be moded and GNOME as a usable Windows out of the box.
Well consider my schedule. I'm a college student and generally only have to bet at class a max of 3 hours a day. I get paid to babysit a computer lab, which generally means me with my laptop sitting in there doing whatever I please. I tended to watch a minimum of 3 episodes per day (on days when I only had time to watch during work) and a max of around 10 on weekends or on light weekdays. The average was probably somewhere around 6 a day, close to your figures.
One thing I always found interesting was how Enterprise is consistently regarded as a failure even though it gets more viewers than Stargate which is considered a success. I guess Star Trek is held up to a higher standard or something.
That said, I just started watching Stargate a month ago. I blasted through seasons 1 through 7 in that time and I'm just about to start with S1 Atlantis and S8 SG1. I've thoroughly enjoyed the series.
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That's essentially what it will be in Longhorn.
Yeah, typo. Better be. That's barely enough for two songs...
Upgrading PHP on mac systems is a little difficult. It isn't as easy as apt-get upgrade or emerge sync.
Fortunately, I have nothing to worry about as my forum software albeit still alpha experimental work, does not have this vulnerability.
Margins be damned.
The parent poster is jokingly referring to Fermat's Last Theorem which states that xn + yn = zn has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. He then wrote, "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain."
Fortunately we live in a society where we can figure this stuff out for ourselves. In 1995 Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor proved Fermat's Last Theorem and published their proof in the Annals of Mathematics.
Just wait a few centuries. Someone will discover your truly marvelous demonstration on their own, they will!
LOL Mod parent up! I've never been flamed so brilliantly in my life...
I wonder if someone might write a program or plugins for existing mail programs to adapt on this approach? Every time you mark a mail as junk, it sends it back to your mail server to be treated as if it were bounced. This way anything you mark as junk gets bounced back to the spammer as if your mail server was down. Have the cake and eat it too?
What? That shit's not fiction?
Sorry, I won't let this one slip by.
ATM suprnova is illegitimate, yes. But despite this it is a clear demonstration of the business model of the future for popular media.
Radio when it first came out gave the masses the ability to listen to music for free and is a profitable venue.
TV when it first came out gave the masses the ability to watch video programs and even movies for free and is a highly profitable venue.
Internet distribution of media is the next logical step. But TPTB refuse to embrace it.
You know what? Fuck that. I'm not waiting for them. Many thousands of others think the way I do and that number is steadily growing. When their fun little game of suing people for copyright infringement involves them needing to sue millions upon millions of Americans, I think they just might get the point.
*Downloads today's TV shows*
Indeed.
Some time ago the company that made the game Subspace went out of business. Third party servers were established and the game was distributed on the net and widely cracked. But eventually a new client (Continuum) was written and distributed for free to dodge the copyright bullet.
Business and software is a nasty, nasty combination.
That said, I agree with you. The notion that Gentoo's pathetically manual install should stay that way as some sort of right of passage to gain quality support and maintain an intelligent community is pretentious, arrogant, elitist, and the sheer embodiment of what's wrong with the Linux community IMHO.
I've done the abhorred Gentoo install. I ran Gentoo for an entire year. Eventually I got tired of micromanaging shit and switched to binary distros. To me Gentoo is incomplete. A work in progress. Portage is an intelligently designed package manager, but not everybody gives a shit about customizing and optimizing everything. Frankly, Gentoo needs easy installation and stock binary support.
I hear all this crap from Gentoo portage sourceDistro++ fans about how there's no way to compile binaries for every CFLAG combination in existence, but who gives a fuck? Did it occur to you guys that people who are interested in binaries couldn't give a flying fuck about CFLAGs, optimizing, and customizing?
Gentoo was my first real dive into Linux. I mastered the install, participated in the forums, fell in love with the community, then learned to hate everything about it. For all Gentoo's greatness, there's a stain of elitism holding it back. The Linux distro that takes over the world (knock on wood) won't be geared toward a niche. At present, Gentoo is. Hopefully 2005.0 will be an important step toward changing that. Maybe I'll drop Debian back for Gentoo again someday.
In this case it is. Your reasons are nothing but excuses. The simple fact of the matter is hundreds of thousands of people get their work done every day using FOSS. If it were so unacceptable, people wouldn't use it in such abundance. It's mindsets like yours in the big picture that slow its progress so.
Ugh. THAT's what Longhorn's gonna look like when it's released? I thought he was running some shitty script kiddy skin. Boy and I thought Luna was unbeatably bad...
Notice how he's running Outlook instead of Thunderbird? AIM instead of GAIM? He might as well drop FF back for IE right now so he can be a pure MS fanboy.
This is just what we need... The next time they go to dial the Stargate, they'll get the blue screen of death!
The update process is insecure.
This Linux book is 1337!
Portage is overly complex. Customizing packages for a specific system is overrated. In the long run Debian has the best approach. Portage has too much added complexity. RPM is too poorly designed. If Redhat cut their losses and stopped suffering from not invented here syndrome for just five seconds to realize the Debian packaging format is better, there's be so much less disunity.
I mention Gentoo fading because if Linux were to become more unified via Redhat and Debian agreeing on a single binary packaging format, it would be at the expense of shunning niches like Gentoo.
Eek. That's a great way to end up with a borked Debian, especially in unstable.
Why do you feel the need upgrade your softwar every.thirty.minutes? Does that fresh new zlib have that much to freakin offer?
I only do dist-upgrades when I know that something important I have is out of date. Like an app I use all the time. This ends up being once every week or so. Every thirty minutes? Jesus! You waste a lot of their bandwidth! Shame on you!
Gentoo is a fading niche and a fad. Ubuntu is distro of the month now. And soon it too will fade.
People like to talk about how Linux is so fragmented, but in reality only Debian and Redhat actually matter (along with 100% compatible derivatives... Ubuntu, this is NOT you). If the two of them got together and agreed on a single fucking binary package format there'd be no more Linux binary inconsistency problems.
You'd be able to download your software from a repository or go to a website and download it like Windows exe installers. Best of both worlds. All that's stopping that from happening is the Redhat vs. Debian wars. Both sides of the development circle are heavily bigoted, believe their way is better, and refuse to work together.
If Redhat and Debian, the two most important distros, quit competing and started working together, Linux would be a lot more ubiquitous.
That's two places. ;)
KDE has the option to use a spatial type taskbar known as the KasBar which is in many ways similar to Mac's dock.
KDE can be made very similar to Mac with enough tweaking. Far moreso than GNOME. I like to think of KDE as wad of clay to be moded and GNOME as a usable Windows out of the box.
Where are them damn sarcophagi when you need them...
Well consider my schedule. I'm a college student and generally only have to bet at class a max of 3 hours a day. I get paid to babysit a computer lab, which generally means me with my laptop sitting in there doing whatever I please. I tended to watch a minimum of 3 episodes per day (on days when I only had time to watch during work) and a max of around 10 on weekends or on light weekdays. The average was probably somewhere around 6 a day, close to your figures.
Jaffa cree!
One thing I always found interesting was how Enterprise is consistently regarded as a failure even though it gets more viewers than Stargate which is considered a success. I guess Star Trek is held up to a higher standard or something.
That said, I just started watching Stargate a month ago. I blasted through seasons 1 through 7 in that time and I'm just about to start with S1 Atlantis and S8 SG1. I've thoroughly enjoyed the series.