As a person in your target audiance, I have mixed feelings about Debian as your basis.
Let's examine the issue from all sides. Pros and cons.
Strictly as a community, I agree with you that Debian is superior to Fedora's RH corporation-centric community.
Strictly as a product, Fedora posesses a suprior installer and a smoother looking distro. Cross toolkit themes are essential
Strictly as a package manager, I agree with you that Debian is superior to Fedora.
So two out of three isn't bad.
But we're neglecting Gentoo.
Gentoo's got Debian beat in all three. With Gentoo, you have top notch community support. It's just as open a community as Debian and the Gentoo devs are a pretty nice bunch of guys besides. With Gentoo, you have a package manager with the stability of Debian and far more packages available. Source based distro historically always = more packages because there is too much competition between binary distros. There is simply no standard Linux binary package. As a result, source based distros like Gentoo update their repos sooner because it doesn't require as much work. Source is source. App makers do that much for you.;) Finally, you can easily setup Red Hat's BlueCurve cross toolkit theme in Gentoo with a few emerges.
I like Debian. I used Debian for a long time. But its installer is sub par, something you're hoping to change methinks, and its package manager is sub par. Apt-get is simply too slow to update and is missing too much stuff to be viable. So if you're committed to Debian, and by all means don't let me stop you, please find a way to make apt-get better than portage. It really does need it. The day apt becomes as up to date as portage and isn't missing tons of software will be the day I switch back to Debian in the form of UserLinux or otherwise.
Whatever. I tend to sway Democratic and I still think this guy is an idiot. If Kerry loses the election, he loses the fucking election. Peroid. None of this "we're gonna appoint him anyway" crap.
Granted, that's kinda how Bush got in office. But two wrongs don't make a right. The electoral college is ridiculous. Popular vote should always determine who's president.
I will never understand the wide acceptance of Star Trek and Star Wars bashing on this site. I don't think Voyager or Enterprise is up to par with DS9 and I don't think the Star Wars prequels are up to par with the original trilogy. But I still think it's damn good quality entertainment.
You people set your standards too high. A truly great movie or TV show only comes around once in a long while. Killing Star Trek and Star Wars in its current form will not raise the overall quality level of the franchises. It will only sadden the people who actually enjoy them in their current forms as well as the old, like me.
So if you don't like it, don't fucking watch it. Go take your high standards and wait around for the next great movie or TV series. Don't worry, I'll be right there with you enjoying it just as much when it comes. But don't hold your breath.
The problem with the movie is that it's information overload. The point Moore was attempting to make was that Bush led the American people into a war with Iraq under false pretenses. Those pretenses being that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq directly supported the terrorists who attacked America.
The fact of the matter is that Iraq was impotent of any such weapons, which all U.S. intelligence confirmed, and that Iraq had nothing to do with the said terrorists. These two points obviously lead to an ulterior motive on Bush's part. This is where Moore's movie starts to suck. Moore went in great detail explaining just what he thought Bush's motives were. This is where all the speculative criticism comes in. I postulate to Moore: WHO CARES?!
I really don't give a shit what Bush's business relationships are like or why he tricked America into war. The facts are clear. Bush grossly abused his power to misled hundreds of millions of people. That's all I, or anyone needs to hear. Get him out of office. Now.
The real reason you're so worked up about this is because you are only trying to justify your own person preference and wrote the whole article with nothing but that goal, and now you're upset because someone sees right through it.
How the hell would you know what the "real reason" was for his writing of that article? Little presumptuous aren't you?
I did learn a few things from your post(s) and article though. I learned that I not only know more about what actually works well in the real world than you do, and that I am most certainly politer and more well-adjusted than you, who are nothing but a troll dressing himself up in expert's clothing and trotting out the same stale article often enough that I recognized it on sight.
*plonk*
(You've probably heard that sound a lot before, but if not, get someone to explain it to you.)
Do you not see the blatant hypocrisy of the quoted text here? It's not even out of context! First you accuse him of trolling, then you do so yourself. It's hard to make a convincing argument when your messages are composed of so much elitist flaming and reactionary trolling.
Is having the menu bar in the window better because it's my personal preference? Yes, absolutely. It makes it better for me, and that is the only thing that matters on my computer. No other thing and no other person matters on my computer.
After my previous two statements, you might be surprised when I tell you that I agree with you. But not entirely. I am a recent Mac switcher and I too struggled with the Menu Bar.
Let's look at the important facts here.
Advantages of the centralized menu bar: 1. Menu is always in the same place. 2. Can be accessed by flying your mouse at the top of the screen. Very fast and easy to learn.
Disadvantages of the centralized menu bar: 1. Only can see one menu bar at a time. 2. Two clicks required instead of one to access the menu of an app uncovered but unfocused.
Advantages of the decentralized menu bar: 1. Multiple menu bars seen at any given time. 2. Only one click is required to access the menu of an app uncovered but unfocused. This click serves to focus the window and access it's menu all at once.
Disadvantages of the decentralized menu bar: 1. Unless used a certain way (aka training the user), tends to be statistically slower. This is generally not a good thing. 2. Facilitates more cluttered window interfaces.
And some final notes, KDE's menubar is not desirable because GTK apps don't integrate to it, as OmniVector said. In Mac, this very same thing happens with X11 apps. Luckily, very few apps use X11. Pray OpenOffice and and Gimp get native ports some day.
I conclude that a well trained user will find decentralized menu system more efficient and generally better. But I also conlcude that a new user will find the Mac system much more usable.
Example: Being a well trained Windows/Linux user myself, I often find the menu bar in Mac hindering my efficiency. I tend arrange my windows in such a way that nothing overlaps (especially since I use dual monitors) so that any menu bar on the window can be accessed from one click. This works well in Windows/Linux, but not in Mac. Mac's interface tends to assume you don't move Windows around a lot, or don't have a lot of monitor real estate. As such, expose and the menu bar system compliment each other nicely. It's a far more intuitive system, but difficult for a person such as you or I to start over with it after so many years doing the opposite.
So, please, stop flaming him. You're making yourself look like an ass. Yes, it is personal preference, but yes Mac's is also a better system. You just have to unlearn Windows GUI philosophy to appreciate it. I'm still in the process of doing that.
It is perfectly possible to buy GBA games and make ROMs yourself. Emulation does not always mean piracy. If Nintendo wants to cut down on piracy w/emulators, they should sell the ROMs themselves.
On the surface yes. But look at from this perspective. By making the console cheaper they make emulation less appealing. The more sales of the console, the more sales of games, regardless of game price. Once you sell'm the console, they'll buy your games.
I wouldn't be surprised if the drop in price also had something to do with an attempt to combat piracy of GBA roms due to widespread GBA emulation.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge console emulation enthusiast and I've even pirated my fair share of ROMs. (Made a few of my own as well.) But the GBA is not a state of the art console. It's just another single threaded SNES except modern technology allows us to make it portable.
Modern emu programmers didn't have to deal with the enormous complexities involved in emulating N64 or Gamecube in writing a GBA emu, so a perfect emulation is achievable exponentially sooner.
So since GBA achieves high compatibility relatively early on the scene, new commercial games work in the emulator out of the box. If modern commercial games work in the emu out of the box, what point is there in buying the console?
Some people would respond with, "Portability, stupid!" But many people don't buy a GBA because it's portable but because it's the only platform with the games they want to play. (There are a number of excellent games for the GBA.)
I imagine this rapid early success of the GBA emu scene cuts into Nintendo's profits more subtantially than ever before.
Moron. Use journal entries for Slashdot_FS, not comments. Journal entries can be read and written to at will and don't suffer from the lameness filter. You get unlimited read/write filesystem!:)
You're wasting your time talking about what people should and shouldn't do with GMail. Until Google makes it impossible to do or devises negative consequences for doing it, it's fair game.
Right. So why exactly does Gentoo's portagre tree consistently have more up to date software with less problems? I used Debian for an entire year before I got tired of missing packages, outdated packages, and broken packages. What good is a binary distro when none of the binaries work?
Blow me. Not a single person I know knew about Winamp2's ability to do that. We all welcomed Winamp5 with open arms for that ability. Did it occur to you that Nullsoft might just have made a dumb choice regarding where to put that option? Stupid anonymous flamers.
Copyright infringement != stealing. Somehow I doubt going to a music store and walking out with several albums is going to land you in as much debt as an RIAA lawsuit. The law is being exploited by a company whose business model is failing. It's the same damn thing as what SCO is doing to Linux.
My ISP operates behind a router. All people who use the ISP do not have a public IP. A few months ago, my ISP got a call from the RIAA about their IP sharing "large amounts of music" using bit torrent. My ISP did a bandwidth usage test on all their private interal IPs to find out who was uploading the most data w/bit torrent.
Now I'm not entirely innocent, but at the time I was seeding Knoppix 3.4 and I was uploading the most data. My Windows machine was off; my Linux machine was out of commission. All I had online was my iBook and it didn't have any music on it whatsoever, much less libraries of thousands of pirated songs. All I was doing was seeding Knoppix.
Despite this, my ISP accused me of illegal usage of bit torrent and my service was cut. I would have been sued if I had not proven that my activity was 100% legal. My service was later restored.
I imagine you could use Cygwin to compile X and then compile XMMS. Winamp skins are compatible with XMMS but XMMS doesn't use IE.. or any browser.. for anything. That would eliminate the security risk.
Of course unchecking "modern skin support" in Winamp would remove the security risk as well.
Winamp5 added one very important feature that Winamp2 didn't have (that XMMS has had for years); the ability to reformat the playlist display away from Artist - Song Name to whatever you want. (In my case Artist - Album - Track - Song Name)
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Let's examine the issue from all sides. Pros and cons.
- Strictly as a community, I agree with you that Debian is superior to Fedora's RH corporation-centric community.
- Strictly as a product, Fedora posesses a suprior installer and a smoother looking distro. Cross toolkit themes are essential
- Strictly as a package manager, I agree with you that Debian is superior to Fedora.
So two out of three isn't bad.But we're neglecting Gentoo.
Gentoo's got Debian beat in all three. With Gentoo, you have top notch community support. It's just as open a community as Debian and the Gentoo devs are a pretty nice bunch of guys besides. With Gentoo, you have a package manager with the stability of Debian and far more packages available. Source based distro historically always = more packages because there is too much competition between binary distros. There is simply no standard Linux binary package. As a result, source based distros like Gentoo update their repos sooner because it doesn't require as much work. Source is source. App makers do that much for you.
I like Debian. I used Debian for a long time. But its installer is sub par, something you're hoping to change methinks, and its package manager is sub par. Apt-get is simply too slow to update and is missing too much stuff to be viable. So if you're committed to Debian, and by all means don't let me stop you, please find a way to make apt-get better than portage. It really does need it. The day apt becomes as up to date as portage and isn't missing tons of software will be the day I switch back to Debian in the form of UserLinux or otherwise.
Heheh, it is kind of funny how we both disagree with him for opposite reasons. ;)
Whatever. I tend to sway Democratic and I still think this guy is an idiot. If Kerry loses the election, he loses the fucking election. Peroid. None of this "we're gonna appoint him anyway" crap.
Granted, that's kinda how Bush got in office. But two wrongs don't make a right. The electoral college is ridiculous. Popular vote should always determine who's president.
I will never understand the wide acceptance of Star Trek and Star Wars bashing on this site. I don't think Voyager or Enterprise is up to par with DS9 and I don't think the Star Wars prequels are up to par with the original trilogy. But I still think it's damn good quality entertainment.
You people set your standards too high. A truly great movie or TV show only comes around once in a long while. Killing Star Trek and Star Wars in its current form will not raise the overall quality level of the franchises. It will only sadden the people who actually enjoy them in their current forms as well as the old, like me.
So if you don't like it, don't fucking watch it. Go take your high standards and wait around for the next great movie or TV series. Don't worry, I'll be right there with you enjoying it just as much when it comes. But don't hold your breath.
The problem with the movie is that it's information overload. The point Moore was attempting to make was that Bush led the American people into a war with Iraq under false pretenses. Those pretenses being that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq directly supported the terrorists who attacked America.
The fact of the matter is that Iraq was impotent of any such weapons, which all U.S. intelligence confirmed, and that Iraq had nothing to do with the said terrorists. These two points obviously lead to an ulterior motive on Bush's part. This is where Moore's movie starts to suck. Moore went in great detail explaining just what he thought Bush's motives were. This is where all the speculative criticism comes in. I postulate to Moore: WHO CARES?!
I really don't give a shit what Bush's business relationships are like or why he tricked America into war. The facts are clear. Bush grossly abused his power to misled hundreds of millions of people. That's all I, or anyone needs to hear. Get him out of office. Now.
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http://home.comcast.net/~amsilveira/screenshots/0
http://www.rpi.edu/~penwan/ss-20040829.png
http://home.pacbell.net/elomire/screenshot.png
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http://members.arstechnica.com/x/treatment/Screen
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-glxgears
http://www.arslinux.com/~jorge/screenshots/xorg.p
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-transvid
Let's look at the important facts here.
Advantages of the centralized menu bar:
1. Menu is always in the same place.
2. Can be accessed by flying your mouse at the top of the screen. Very fast and easy to learn.
Disadvantages of the centralized menu bar:
1. Only can see one menu bar at a time.
2. Two clicks required instead of one to access the menu of an app uncovered but unfocused.
Advantages of the decentralized menu bar:
1. Multiple menu bars seen at any given time.
2. Only one click is required to access the menu of an app uncovered but unfocused. This click serves to focus the window and access it's menu all at once.
Disadvantages of the decentralized menu bar:
1. Unless used a certain way (aka training the user), tends to be statistically slower. This is generally not a good thing.
2. Facilitates more cluttered window interfaces.
And some final notes, KDE's menubar is not desirable because GTK apps don't integrate to it, as OmniVector said. In Mac, this very same thing happens with X11 apps. Luckily, very few apps use X11. Pray OpenOffice and and Gimp get native ports some day.
I conclude that a well trained user will find decentralized menu system more efficient and generally better. But I also conlcude that a new user will find the Mac system much more usable.
Example: Being a well trained Windows/Linux user myself, I often find the menu bar in Mac hindering my efficiency. I tend arrange my windows in such a way that nothing overlaps (especially since I use dual monitors) so that any menu bar on the window can be accessed from one click. This works well in Windows/Linux, but not in Mac. Mac's interface tends to assume you don't move Windows around a lot, or don't have a lot of monitor real estate. As such, expose and the menu bar system compliment each other nicely. It's a far more intuitive system, but difficult for a person such as you or I to start over with it after so many years doing the opposite.
So, please, stop flaming him. You're making yourself look like an ass. Yes, it is personal preference, but yes Mac's is also a better system. You just have to unlearn Windows GUI philosophy to appreciate it. I'm still in the process of doing that.
What if someone decided to share 80gb of pirated music on Kazaa with it? Hard to track someone down in a city-wide Wireless network...
It is perfectly possible to buy GBA games and make ROMs yourself. Emulation does not always mean piracy. If Nintendo wants to cut down on piracy w/emulators, they should sell the ROMs themselves.
On the surface yes. But look at from this perspective. By making the console cheaper they make emulation less appealing. The more sales of the console, the more sales of games, regardless of game price. Once you sell'm the console, they'll buy your games.
I wouldn't be surprised if the drop in price also had something to do with an attempt to combat piracy of GBA roms due to widespread GBA emulation.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge console emulation enthusiast and I've even pirated my fair share of ROMs. (Made a few of my own as well.) But the GBA is not a state of the art console. It's just another single threaded SNES except modern technology allows us to make it portable.
Modern emu programmers didn't have to deal with the enormous complexities involved in emulating N64 or Gamecube in writing a GBA emu, so a perfect emulation is achievable exponentially sooner.
So since GBA achieves high compatibility relatively early on the scene, new commercial games work in the emulator out of the box. If modern commercial games work in the emu out of the box, what point is there in buying the console?
Some people would respond with, "Portability, stupid!" But many people don't buy a GBA because it's portable but because it's the only platform with the games they want to play. (There are a number of excellent games for the GBA.)
I imagine this rapid early success of the GBA emu scene cuts into Nintendo's profits more subtantially than ever before.
Wrong. Look it up on dictionary.com. The plural of octopus is octopuses or octopi. Notably, it is also not octopussy.
Moron. :)
Use journal entries for Slashdot_FS, not comments. Journal entries can be read and written to at will and don't suffer from the lameness filter. You get unlimited read/write filesystem!
You're wasting your time talking about what people should and shouldn't do with GMail. Until Google makes it impossible to do or devises negative consequences for doing it, it's fair game.
Right. So why exactly does Gentoo's portagre tree consistently have more up to date software with less problems? I used Debian for an entire year before I got tired of missing packages, outdated packages, and broken packages. What good is a binary distro when none of the binaries work?
Going from one extreme to the other != a headline correction.
*cough* source distros like Gentoo don't have these issues *cough*
Blow me. Not a single person I know knew about Winamp2's ability to do that. We all welcomed Winamp5 with open arms for that ability. Did it occur to you that Nullsoft might just have made a dumb choice regarding where to put that option? Stupid anonymous flamers.
Copyright infringement != stealing. Somehow I doubt going to a music store and walking out with several albums is going to land you in as much debt as an RIAA lawsuit. The law is being exploited by a company whose business model is failing. It's the same damn thing as what SCO is doing to Linux.
Bit Torrent IS NOT SAFE.
Take this story.
My ISP operates behind a router. All people who use the ISP do not have a public IP. A few months ago, my ISP got a call from the RIAA about their IP sharing "large amounts of music" using bit torrent. My ISP did a bandwidth usage test on all their private interal IPs to find out who was uploading the most data w/bit torrent.
Now I'm not entirely innocent, but at the time I was seeding Knoppix 3.4 and I was uploading the most data. My Windows machine was off; my Linux machine was out of commission. All I had online was my iBook and it didn't have any music on it whatsoever, much less libraries of thousands of pirated songs. All I was doing was seeding Knoppix.
Despite this, my ISP accused me of illegal usage of bit torrent and my service was cut. I would have been sued if I had not proven that my activity was 100% legal. My service was later restored.
Good fuckin lord. Way to hide it on me.
I tried literally for years to find a way to do that in Winamp2 unsuccessfully. Nullsoft would get a -4 on a scale of 1 to 10 in option menu design.
I imagine you could use Cygwin to compile X and then compile XMMS. Winamp skins are compatible with XMMS but XMMS doesn't use IE.. or any browser.. for anything. That would eliminate the security risk.
Of course unchecking "modern skin support" in Winamp would remove the security risk as well.
They integrate a shitty web browser. No programmer in their right mind would make use of this "available system service".
Winamp5 added one very important feature that Winamp2 didn't have (that XMMS has had for years); the ability to reformat the playlist display away from Artist - Song Name to whatever you want. (In my case Artist - Album - Track - Song Name)
AFAIK XMMS doesn't run in Windows at all.