I'm sorry, but exactly why is apt better than RPM? I've been hearing this argument for years and have, yet, to hear a convincing against RPM that doesn't involve elitist propaganda.
As you don't seem to know the difference between apt and dpkg, it's no wonder that you don't have a clue as to how *dpkg* compares to rpm. You're shouting against elitist propaganda, yet you failed to even look the slightliest into the subject yourself...
Two people hunched over each side of the keyboard.
'Every' heard of joypads?
I play all emulators with a ps2 controller plugged in with a usb adapter. While i have no idea for Soul Caliber on dreamcast, all variants of Street Fighter II and the entire Mortal Kombat franchise feel as good under mame as they are on arcade.
people who compare XNA to game engines like Ogre are missing the point. XNA is not a game engine, it's more of a development tool/platform. It does come with lots of library code, but it's not a full-fledged game engine.
Before saying people are missing the point, it might be better to do a bit of research on your subject a bit, as Ogre is *not* a full-fledged game engine. Ogre deals with graphics, that is all. No sound, no physics, no networking, only a reduced input management layer to make the engine demos easier to code. Who's missing the point?
2) It is precisely the smarter, more intelligent people who have a propensity to become virtuality addicts.
If by smarter, more intelligent people, you mean the ones able to express themselves in advanced ways like "OMFG!!! we been raiding firemaw & we got PURE PWND!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG LOL LOL ROFLZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", then i'm glad to be a dork.
Like all of the other large rollouts that get announced to great fanfare and then get abandoned to even greater press releases, white papers and case studies, Microsoft will go in and make em an offer they won't refuse.
That's how i would feel about such an announcement in general. But it's now a couple years in France that the police switched to Open Office, and more recently, the tax office underwent the transition. There might be more administrations, but i don't know about them, having no insiders. The parliament switch looks like a continuation, not some brand new announcement. The french state has *already* started to switch to an open solution.
Unless you are a fps addict (read that a first-person-shooter or frames-per-second to taste) the games are probably better too.
Or a simulation games addict (flight sims, sub sims, etc), or a reflexion/strategy games addict (civ-style games, wargames). Could we please be done once and for all with this tired "games are better on consoles anyway" argument? It is true for some games, with sports games usually a good example, but consoles do *not* fit the bill for everything.
I'd take exception regarding the Orcs. Sure, they're originally inherited from Tolkien, but never did Tolkien describe them as green-skinned half-comical brutes. Maybe D&D introduced the green skin, but i don't have my 1st edition rulebook in the office, and i'm pretty sure there's nothing about the comic relief they provide in the Warhammer World. GW's take on the orcs is pretty unique.
For that matter, while the original Warcraft orcs were nowadays accepted 'classic fantasy orcs', since Warcraft 2, they're a direct GW rip-off.
If the problem was to simply ship Firefox 'as-is', then yes, it would be possible to proceed like this. But moving to non-free still wouldn't allow the maintainers to patch and support Firefox without the official approval process with Mozilla. Especially previous Firefox versions included in the debian stable branch which Mozilla doesn't want to support anymore.
Previously, removing the proprietary art was enough for Mozilla, who even provided a compilation flag for that. Now they decided that the name shouldn't be used for these versions. Future debian versions will then probably be compiled with flags to remove proprietary artwork and a different name. Unless IceWeasel changes from compilation-time name change to divergent fork, I can't really see anything wrong from either side.
I question the motives of open source developers who use the GPL because it affords them plaudits for the authorship of their code.
I suspect you're targeting a minority. I use the GPL, but i couldn't give a s**t about the plaudits. As a lot of people, I use the GPL simply because i'm too selfish to do otherwise. I want my work to be useful to me, and to my 'community'. I make my code available, i want all its derived works to be available on the same terms, so that they may profit me or said community. The BSD license doesn't work for me, as it wouldn't bring me this guarantee.
That said, i have nothing against anyone using BSD style licenses, and fully agree with you that it didn't 'fail' protecting the contributions of people that made the code. It's usually misinformed GPL users that lament that failure. BSD licenses are designed specifically to allow software like OSX to make use of it. It was used exactly as the authors of reused code planned. Nothing wrong here.
Yet, the only time i needed to upgrade the BIOS of a dell box to get linux on it, freedos was unable to do it, the upgrade executable thankfully crashing before doing anything too nasty. Had to hunt MS-DOS 6.22 for that one...
An elevator with the Mac UI would have just one button "THERE".
"THERE" being randomly determined on the Elevator Shuffle, the only affordable one for trendy but short in cash companies.
The symbols counting didn't work. I remember triying it and failing. The only "count" that worked included the counting of almost all the holes on the parchment, but that was very far-fetched, and i could only achieve that one *after* having found what the correct number was. I always knew that strange count was not the real way.
Right, now let's get this book out of its box, muahaha...
I don't think anything compared to Steve Jackson's Sorcery [iconbooks.co.uk] series. Lots of detail, lots of depth and if you didn't beat the seven serpents in book three then the villain in book four knew you were coming! Ah, happiness!
Ah yeah. And it was a 4 volumes quest, which made it easy to have all the books and *complete* the quest. I still don't know how to find the correct number in the hint message on the time serpent though. Always had to cheat that one as it's not one you're allowed to avoid...
Not for IGP Radeons. The 9100 IGP integrated on the motherboard of my Shuttle box only gets 2d acceleration with ATI's drivers.
Thank the goddess for Xorg and DRI.
Nowhere in the parent post does the author states that he demands all software to be released as open source. He says that the Picasa release is nice, but that it isn't open source, a point that wasn't touched in the announcement.
Surprisingly, you'll find that software licenses do matter for some people. Obviously, you don't agree, and can't resist tagging these concerns as a 'whine'. How should we classify your rant?
Now if you nerds would go wash and actually meet ordinary people occasionally you'd know that not being computer-savvy in no way makes you stupid. [...] Lose weight, get some dress sense, wash every day and take some lessons in social skills for god sake.
And maybe if you followed your own preaching, you'd take some lessons in social skills and avoid labelling computer-savvy people as fat, dirty, badly-dressed single men. Grand mastery of social skills indeed, talk about holier-than-thou attitude...
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In fact, it's quite hard to find DOS games that don't run on DOSBox.
Give a try at Archon Ultra...
Ha! Rex Nebular pwns Roger Wilco.
I'm sorry, but exactly why is apt better than RPM? I've been hearing this argument for years and have, yet, to hear a convincing against RPM that doesn't involve elitist propaganda.
As you don't seem to know the difference between apt and dpkg, it's no wonder that you don't have a clue as to how *dpkg* compares to rpm. You're shouting against elitist propaganda, yet you failed to even look the slightliest into the subject yourself...
Two people hunched over each side of the keyboard.
'Every' heard of joypads?
I play all emulators with a ps2 controller plugged in with a usb adapter. While i have no idea for Soul Caliber on dreamcast, all variants of Street Fighter II and the entire Mortal Kombat franchise feel as good under mame as they are on arcade.
people who compare XNA to game engines like Ogre are missing the point. XNA is not a game engine, it's more of a development tool/platform. It does come with lots of library code, but it's not a full-fledged game engine.
Before saying people are missing the point, it might be better to do a bit of research on your subject a bit, as Ogre is *not* a full-fledged game engine. Ogre deals with graphics, that is all. No sound, no physics, no networking, only a reduced input management layer to make the engine demos easier to code. Who's missing the point?
Google did it a long time ago
Ah, but it didn't count then. It's MICROSOFT doing it now. So that's in-nuv-a-shun, see?
2) It is precisely the smarter, more intelligent people who have a propensity to become virtuality addicts.
If by smarter, more intelligent people, you mean the ones able to express themselves in advanced ways like "OMFG!!! we been raiding firemaw & we got PURE PWND!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG LOL LOL ROFLZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", then i'm glad to be a dork.
Like all of the other large rollouts that get announced to great fanfare and then get abandoned to even greater press releases, white papers and case studies, Microsoft will go in and make em an offer they won't refuse.
That's how i would feel about such an announcement in general. But it's now a couple years in France that the police switched to Open Office, and more recently, the tax office underwent the transition. There might be more administrations, but i don't know about them, having no insiders. The parliament switch looks like a continuation, not some brand new announcement. The french state has *already* started to switch to an open solution.
Seems it was worth it though... FTA:
At this point, some of the major commercial businesses which needed the documents have exited the market.
Unless you are a fps addict (read that a first-person-shooter or frames-per-second to taste) the games are probably better too.
Or a simulation games addict (flight sims, sub sims, etc), or a reflexion/strategy games addict (civ-style games, wargames). Could we please be done once and for all with this tired "games are better on consoles anyway" argument? It is true for some games, with sports games usually a good example, but consoles do *not* fit the bill for everything.
I'd take exception regarding the Orcs. Sure, they're originally inherited from Tolkien, but never did Tolkien describe them as green-skinned half-comical brutes. Maybe D&D introduced the green skin, but i don't have my 1st edition rulebook in the office, and i'm pretty sure there's nothing about the comic relief they provide in the Warhammer World. GW's take on the orcs is pretty unique.
For that matter, while the original Warcraft orcs were nowadays accepted 'classic fantasy orcs', since Warcraft 2, they're a direct GW rip-off.
If the problem was to simply ship Firefox 'as-is', then yes, it would be possible to proceed like this. But moving to non-free still wouldn't allow the maintainers to patch and support Firefox without the official approval process with Mozilla. Especially previous Firefox versions included in the debian stable branch which Mozilla doesn't want to support anymore.
Previously, removing the proprietary art was enough for Mozilla, who even provided a compilation flag for that. Now they decided that the name shouldn't be used for these versions. Future debian versions will then probably be compiled with flags to remove proprietary artwork and a different name. Unless IceWeasel changes from compilation-time name change to divergent fork, I can't really see anything wrong from either side.
Frankly, it's sad to see how the more extreme Linux zealots are using the BSDs as a scapegoat for all of Linux's shortcommings.
Maybe the sad thing is that you'd expect the more extreme zealots to act in a reasonable fashion.
Or that such a comment was modded insightful...
I question the motives of open source developers who use the GPL because it affords them plaudits for the authorship of their code.
I suspect you're targeting a minority. I use the GPL, but i couldn't give a s**t about the plaudits. As a lot of people, I use the GPL simply because i'm too selfish to do otherwise. I want my work to be useful to me, and to my 'community'. I make my code available, i want all its derived works to be available on the same terms, so that they may profit me or said community. The BSD license doesn't work for me, as it wouldn't bring me this guarantee.
That said, i have nothing against anyone using BSD style licenses, and fully agree with you that it didn't 'fail' protecting the contributions of people that made the code. It's usually misinformed GPL users that lament that failure. BSD licenses are designed specifically to allow software like OSX to make use of it. It was used exactly as the authors of reused code planned. Nothing wrong here.
Champions have been a major feature of Warhammer Fantasy Battle long before the Warcraft authors played Dune 2...
Yet, the only time i needed to upgrade the BIOS of a dell box to get linux on it, freedos was unable to do it, the upgrade executable thankfully crashing before doing anything too nasty. Had to hunt MS-DOS 6.22 for that one...
An elevator with the Mac UI would have just one button "THERE". "THERE" being randomly determined on the Elevator Shuffle, the only affordable one for trendy but short in cash companies.
Well, that's two of us relieved then. :D
The symbols counting didn't work. I remember triying it and failing. The only "count" that worked included the counting of almost all the holes on the parchment, but that was very far-fetched, and i could only achieve that one *after* having found what the correct number was. I always knew that strange count was not the real way.
Right, now let's get this book out of its box, muahaha...
I don't think anything compared to Steve Jackson's Sorcery [iconbooks.co.uk] series. Lots of detail, lots of depth and if you didn't beat the seven serpents in book three then the villain in book four knew you were coming! Ah, happiness!
Ah yeah. And it was a 4 volumes quest, which made it easy to have all the books and *complete* the quest. I still don't know how to find the correct number in the hint message on the time serpent though. Always had to cheat that one as it's not one you're allowed to avoid...
I don't think i could say it better. Too bad i'm out of points.
Not for IGP Radeons. The 9100 IGP integrated on the motherboard of my Shuttle box only gets 2d acceleration with ATI's drivers. Thank the goddess for Xorg and DRI.
Typical "my-opinion-counts-more-than-yours" whine.
Nowhere in the parent post does the author states that he demands all software to be released as open source. He says that the Picasa release is nice, but that it isn't open source, a point that wasn't touched in the announcement.
Surprisingly, you'll find that software licenses do matter for some people. Obviously, you don't agree, and can't resist tagging these concerns as a 'whine'. How should we classify your rant?
Ubuntu appears to be considering using the SMART package manager in future releases.
But isn't SMART simply a package dependencies manager, comparable to apt/yum? If so, that still means dpkg underneath.
Now if you nerds would go wash and actually meet ordinary people occasionally you'd know that not being computer-savvy in no way makes you stupid. [...] Lose weight, get some dress sense, wash every day and take some lessons in social skills for god sake.
And maybe if you followed your own preaching, you'd take some lessons in social skills and avoid labelling computer-savvy people as fat, dirty, badly-dressed single men. Grand mastery of social skills indeed, talk about holier-than-thou attitude...
So did i, it's not a lot, but it's still a small individual support. I never ran OpenBSD, but i'll eternally grateful for OpenSSH.