There is no need for all those web browsers. And don't scream CHOICE either, you are only going to be using ONE, so why have 5 installed?
Um, because,while you may be using only one of them, the Distro-makers can not know WHICH one. Therefore.. choice.
And rest assured that there ARE reasons for choosing one, even if many use the same rendering engine.
I, mean some people use Konqueror (KHTML) , others Mozilla (gecko) and all the variations (that make a difference on the Interface and features side) , while still others like to browse without X.
So why whould distro makers remove choice so that you can brag about your "Fedora the exlorer"?
Could it be that having competant, diligent system admistrators is more important than using the "right" server platform?
It could be, but only because you trust the competant administrators to choose the right platform.
Unless you believe that an administrator who is competent can make a patch against a binary IIS, when no official solution exists. (If he could , then he is an uber-hacker. Not an administrator)
This is going to be really wierd/difficult when she grows up telling her that half of her organs come from someone else, a dead somone else. I wouldn't know how I'd react to hearing somthing like that. Wow
Well, i don'tknow how to say this MrWim but you liver, pangreas, left kidney and heart are transplants from another person who is now dead.
In other news, the "fsck" Unix utility has been removed from Unix distributions due to similarity with profane vocabulary. A replacement called JesusLovesYourFilesystem is being developed.
The US has so far attacked completely defenseless countries. If that is a demonstration of superiority then i have to say i am very impressed by the time it took the US to reach Iraq's Bagdad. A devastated country
I have to say that anyone who has such confidence in his countries firepower has not only never been in the army, but has no idea what war is.
I have not excperienced war, but being from Greece, i have heard the telling of amazing war stories from my relatives who WERE in the Nazi occupation of Greece.
If you think that taking on Europe is an easy task then you are out of touch with reality.
I mean, Greece, which is a tiny country defeated the Italian attack and defended the Nazi invasion for 2 months before being defeated. Even then the resistance was heavy. Not to mention that Hitler lost his elite paratroopers (ten thousand higly trained men) in his attempt to conquere Crete , a small island defended mainly by civilians.
Noone can say what the outcome of such a conflict would be, but is is very obvious that it will not be an easy task for either. Saying that it is you are either trolling, or brainwashed by too much Hollywood
The bootable game CD concept is interesting because of the very high Geek Coolness factor.
Apart from that , however, i don't see it as a viable solution because no LiveCD could ever work flawlessly (3D acceleration and all) on EVERY computer.
Plus, games today often span ultiple CDs and are decompressed on the hard-drive. Even if we could fit the game on a CD with on-the-fly decompression, it would probably be very slow in reading data. Not to mention that when storing data was needed (eg save games), it would prove problematic.
Coolness grade A+
Feasibility: F
I don't know what is funnier. The slashdot article returned as a result by MSN, or the Porn site that has the world Xfree86 in it, as returned by Google. http://www.rr.iij4u.or.jp/~exitdc/teen/main.html
And you are right about the Slashdot article being completely different , but it's not the trolls. The only Xfree86 occurence is a link (by slashdot) to the Xfree license story. The boobs,sex etc. is typical Slashdot language:)
So a maker of one encyclopedia can have a copyright over the collection of human knowledge? Boy, i am starting to have some 1984 style ideas where the one and only legal vendor of facts decides what is true and what is not....
As a Greek i can tell you this:
The Greek police is an sanctuary for those who early in life realize they have no future and no skills. They do everything in their power to join the police.
I am amazed that these people manage to avoid shooting themselves with their guns. (good traing i suppose). So trying to understand what motivates them to raid Internet Caffes would be asking too much:)
But seriously, when the system is structured in shuch a way that even a complete idiot has can rise in the chain of command, such things are bound to happen. We Greeks have given up on trying to explain things for the sake of our mental health. Getting into the minds of idiots is a dangerous thing after all.
Actually courts DO have the power to find laws unconstitutional.
I would have to say that this is yet another typical example of Greek stupidity at it's finest. Though my country has some really great laws (well, excepting this one:) ), it is the 'upholding them' part that is problematic.
Most laws exist but are not enforced by the police. Sometimes there are idiotic mix-ups, and beurocratic fuck-ups. I can't say i have understood what is the case here (noone ever does in this country), but from what i read in the papers myself, the law has been rectified but there is a city (Larissa) that the police department there seems to live in it's own world.
While it is true that the church is powerfull in my country, i fail to understand how you associate religion with banning gambling.
This is a purely political decision with no church intervention.
I don't know if you are Greek or have a good knowledge of what happened here but i am confident that church has nothing to do with banning gambling , except saying "we agree".
I mean, even the political parties that support the church get so few votes that are not even in the parliament. So "running the country"? absolutely not!
In fact, regarding the incident of the protests, there were no millions (whenever someone says *millions* it automatically means, i can't count and it seems like millions to me) *maybe* the singatures that the curch collected could have been millions but i HIGHLY doubt it since greece's total population is 10 million and the 'hardcore' religious people who would sign it are actually very few. (though, those who agree are much more).
Oh, and did i mention that it has NOTHING to do with 666 and any other nonsense? It was about the new ID's that would not mention the religion. (as they did when i got mine). Many greeks,unfortunately , believe that they should have their religion written in their ID's. I mean, get your facts straight man! 666!? For goodness sake!
As for the non-existent separation of church and state i have to agree that it is a BIG problem that is not even mentioned here ( in greece) by most people. There IS , however, an explanation.
Greece is populated by a vast majority (something like 98%) by Greeks. The church played a MAJOR role in the greek revolution from the Ottoman occupation, (actually the low ranking priests did. The high priests condemned the revolution) and even the greek flag has the sign of the cross.
Religion is deeply rooted in our folk tradition also, so when you live in a country where a single religion is everywhere, it becomes natural to you that this is the way it is supposed to be. This is obviously wrong but it happens nontheless.
If they wanted to take their revange they would have made it a link. Now, it is just text and most people don't like copy-pasting.
But they mention that "As Mars buffs have pointed out in recent weeks on Web sites like Slashdot.org" , i wonder if they read Slashdot because they like it or just to see why an ungodly amount of refferer logs says: slashdot.org
Slashdot Mirror
Over reaction? If this had been posted on April fools day everyone would be thinking "Can't they come up with something less obvious?"
It just proves that Fools are not found only in April but all year round.
April Fools jokes are not funny compared to reality..
Nobody is forcing you to use Gnome or KDE desktop.
If you want a ligh one use fluxbox or if you uber-cool-unix-hacker ratpoison
Um, because ,while you may be using only one of them, the Distro-makers can not know WHICH one.
Therefore.. choice.
And rest assured that there ARE reasons for choosing one, even if many use the same rendering engine.
I, mean some people use Konqueror (KHTML) , others Mozilla (gecko) and all the variations (that make a difference on the Interface and features side) , while still others like to browse without X.
So why whould distro makers remove choice so that you can brag about your "Fedora the exlorer"?
Yeah i know. But it is a perversity of nature , don't you think?
WTF!? What is this. Is this some reference to a serial, a comic, a movie?
It doesn't make any sense.
It could be, but only because you trust the competant administrators to choose the right platform.
Unless you believe that an administrator who is competent can make a patch against a binary IIS, when no official solution exists. (If he could , then he is an uber-hacker. Not an administrator)
Nah, if Linux "enthusiasts" made it, it would run text-mode Quake on aalib.
Well, i don'tknow how to say this MrWim but you liver, pangreas, left kidney and heart are transplants from another person who is now dead.
In other news, the "fsck" Unix utility has been removed from Unix distributions due to similarity with profane vocabulary. A replacement called JesusLovesYourFilesystem is being developed.
I have to say that anyone who has such confidence in his countries firepower has not only never been in the army, but has no idea what war is.
I have not excperienced war, but being from Greece, i have heard the telling of amazing war stories from my relatives who WERE in the Nazi occupation of Greece.
If you think that taking on Europe is an easy task then you are out of touch with reality.
I mean, Greece, which is a tiny country defeated the Italian attack and defended the Nazi invasion for 2 months before being defeated. Even then the resistance was heavy. Not to mention that Hitler lost his elite paratroopers (ten thousand higly trained men) in his attempt to conquere Crete , a small island defended mainly by civilians.
Noone can say what the outcome of such a conflict would be, but is is very obvious that it will not be an easy task for either. Saying that it is you are either trolling, or brainwashed by too much Hollywood
But apparently, not moderators...
Exactly. :)
I am not a Nerd. I am a "digitician"
OR that you have been reading Slashdot
Why? Couldn't other OS's of the time be pirated? UNIX was copy protected?
The bootable game CD concept is interesting because of the very high Geek Coolness factor.
Apart from that , however, i don't see it as a viable solution because no LiveCD could ever work flawlessly (3D acceleration and all) on EVERY computer.
Plus, games today often span ultiple CDs and are decompressed on the hard-drive. Even if we could fit the game on a CD with on-the-fly decompression, it would probably be very slow in reading data. Not to mention that when storing data was needed (eg save games), it would prove problematic.
Coolness grade A+ Feasibility: F
http://www.rr.iij4u.or.jp/~exitdc/teen/main.html
And you are right about the Slashdot article being completely different , but it's not the trolls. The only Xfree86 occurence is a link (by slashdot) to the Xfree license story. The boobs,sex etc. is typical Slashdot language :)
Actually , the f****d up thing about this is that the first result is Slashdot.
.. oh wait..
So a maker of one encyclopedia can have a copyright over the collection of human knowledge? Boy, i am starting to have some 1984 style ideas where the one and only legal vendor of facts decides what is true and what is not....
Only on slashdot have these been combined in a single sentence.
The Greek police is an sanctuary for those who early in life realize they have no future and no skills. They do everything in their power to join the police.
I am amazed that these people manage to avoid shooting themselves with their guns. (good traing i suppose). So trying to understand what motivates them to raid Internet Caffes would be asking too much
But seriously, when the system is structured in shuch a way that even a complete idiot has can rise in the chain of command, such things are bound to happen.
We Greeks have given up on trying to explain things for the sake of our mental health. Getting into the minds of idiots is a dangerous thing after all.
Actually courts DO have the power to find laws unconstitutional. :) ), it is the 'upholding them' part that is problematic.
I would have to say that this is yet another typical example of Greek stupidity at it's finest. Though my country has some really great laws (well, excepting this one
Most laws exist but are not enforced by the police. Sometimes there are idiotic mix-ups, and beurocratic fuck-ups. I can't say i have understood what is the case here (noone ever does in this country), but from what i read in the papers myself, the law has been rectified but there is a city (Larissa) that the police department there seems to live in it's own world.
This is a purely political decision with no church intervention. ,unfortunately , believe that they should have their religion written in their ID's. I mean, get your facts straight man! 666!? For goodness sake!
I don't know if you are Greek or have a good knowledge of what happened here but i am confident that church has nothing to do with banning gambling , except saying "we agree".
I mean, even the political parties that support the church get so few votes that are not even in the parliament. So "running the country"? absolutely not!
In fact, regarding the incident of the protests, there were no millions (whenever someone says *millions* it automatically means, i can't count and it seems like millions to me) *maybe* the singatures that the curch collected could have been millions but i HIGHLY doubt it since greece's total population is 10 million and the 'hardcore' religious people who would sign it are actually very few. (though, those who agree are much more).
Oh, and did i mention that it has NOTHING to do with 666 and any other nonsense? It was about the new ID's that would not mention the religion. (as they did when i got mine). Many greeks
As for the non-existent separation of church and state i have to agree that it is a BIG problem that is not even mentioned here ( in greece) by most people. There IS , however, an explanation.
Greece is populated by a vast majority (something like 98%) by Greeks. The church played a MAJOR role in the greek revolution from the Ottoman occupation, (actually the low ranking priests did. The high priests condemned the revolution) and even the greek flag has the sign of the cross. Religion is deeply rooted in our folk tradition also, so when you live in a country where a single religion is everywhere, it becomes natural to you that this is the way it is supposed to be. This is obviously wrong but it happens nontheless.
Well, the linux kernel hackers seem to like Klingon in unicode. (Well, at least Peter Anvin) /usr/src/linux/Documentation/unicode.txt
Read the
If they wanted to take their revange they would have made it a link. Now, it is just text and most people don't like copy-pasting.
But they mention that "As Mars buffs have pointed out in recent weeks on Web sites like Slashdot.org" , i wonder if they read Slashdot because they like it or just to see why an ungodly amount of refferer logs says: slashdot.org