It looks interesting, but the UI is all wrong. The UI for a package manager should be a search engine. I type the name of the package I want, and the package manager coughs up a list of packages matching that, with descriptions. I pick one from the list and it automagically installs everything, dependencies et all. I do not need or want to see huge trees with dependencies or which package format that thing was on. It is irrelevant.
It's the software apps that matter. I just want to be able to add new apps by name, remove existing apps, update existing apps. Simple as that.
People are generally lazy. This is why you seldom see people trying to reinvent GCC or glibc. Why? Because they work (TM). Even with all the shells you can install, most people just use bash on Linux.
When people are trying to reinvent something, like the zillion packaging systems around here, it means one simple thing. The technology is flawed or incomplete and has not evolved to meet all requirements yet. Several people make competing systems, each fixing one broken aspect, then there is cross-polination of ideas. This will go on, until something that works (TM) shows up. Then development of that component will cease and people will move on. Until it becomes a problem again.
Until a couple of years ago most packaging systems had several problems, including:
Did not automagically install dependencies. Did not fetch automagically from the network. Cryptic user interface.
I think most of these have been addressed already, but the fact is none of the existing systems does everything well. When they do, distros will naturally flow around the best install system.
I agree 100%. Standards enable interoperability, which is the real gold, but do not preclude compatible extensions, or new functionality. Just like the web, you should be able to write your apps and clients any way you want, and it should all play nicely and be easily accessible by anyone.
Nearly everyone uses autoconf and automake. But they suck, so people keep trying to reinvent them. I do not blame them. How are we supposed to evolve if everything remains static? If autoconf and automake were that good, less people would be trying to reinvent them.
If everything was consolidated, we would still be using CDE and Motif on XFree86. Or worse, Xaw.
Yeah. What people fail to realize is consolidation is usually an euphemism for monopolization, technological stagnation and, of course, profit increases for shareholders. The customers be screwed.
The ultimate consolidated economy was the Soviet Union. Is this what people want?
Much of medicine is pseudoscientific. Until computers get more powerful and we can model pieces of the body, I suspect it will always be so. But it sure beats his alternative: being a member of a religious cult which turns people into zombies while, ahem, relieving them of their cash by paying for theology classes.
I personally like this historical tidbit about people trying to implement draconians laws:
The next ruler, King Huiwen, ordered the execution of Shang Yang and his family, on grounds of rebellion. Shang Yang went into hiding and tried to stay at a hotel. Ironically, the hotel owner refused because it was against Shang Yang's laws to admit a guest without proper identification. Shang Yang is said to have been executed by being fastened to four chariots and pulled apart. Despite his death, King Huiwen kept the reforms enacted by Shang Yang.
Life can be pretty amusing. However it is also proof that laws, even bad ones, tend to stick around once put in place and are hard to remove.
People with diabetes have a higher glucose content in the blood. When they test diabetes in the blood or urine, that is what they are testing for. The more diabetes the sweeter the urine will be I guess. But I somewhat doubt it will cancel out the taste of salt.
No. HD-DVD uses higher frequency, lower amplitude lasers as well to make for higher density. The difference is someone else is pushing it. It is like DVD-R vs DVD+R all over again.
The Chinese are pretty much at the Mercury stage in their space progream, they can barely get one or 2 people in orbit.
I disagree. Shenzhou is arguably more evolved than a latest model Soyuz. The USA are also going back to capsules as on the Gemini and Apollo days according to Project Constellation. The major technological gap the Chinese have is in the area of propulsion. So far they have based their rockets on dual-use technology originally meant for ICBMs much like the USA used Titans for Gemini.
AMD just raised its prices recently on its top processors. Go search MSNBC or google news for the article. AMD doesn't care about giving you a price break and weakening Intel won't help you out there.
Sure, they are a corporation and they want profits. The problem is, AMD tried lowering prices to gain share and it led them to nowhere fast. Intel is forcing AMD into a corner, by making abusive deals with OEMs.
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RedHat has probably been spending a bundle on Open Source Java for over a year now. The first results can be seen in Fedora Core 4.
The only thing the LGPL prevents is obnoxious non-sharing behaviour.
Linux is a de-facto standard. Solaris and *cough* SCO Unix have support for running Linux binaries for example.
It's the software apps that matter. I just want to be able to add new apps by name, remove existing apps, update existing apps. Simple as that.
When people are trying to reinvent something, like the zillion packaging systems around here, it means one simple thing. The technology is flawed or incomplete and has not evolved to meet all requirements yet. Several people make competing systems, each fixing one broken aspect, then there is cross-polination of ideas. This will go on, until something that works (TM) shows up. Then development of that component will cease and people will move on. Until it becomes a problem again.
Until a couple of years ago most packaging systems had several problems, including:
Did not automagically install dependencies. Did not fetch automagically from the network. Cryptic user interface.
I think most of these have been addressed already, but the fact is none of the existing systems does everything well. When they do, distros will naturally flow around the best install system.
Dang. You broke my corporate newspeak bullshit meter.
I agree 100%. Standards enable interoperability, which is the real gold, but do not preclude compatible extensions, or new functionality. Just like the web, you should be able to write your apps and clients any way you want, and it should all play nicely and be easily accessible by anyone.
If everything was consolidated, we would still be using CDE and Motif on XFree86. Or worse, Xaw.
The ultimate consolidated economy was the Soviet Union. Is this what people want?
Much of medicine is pseudoscientific. Until computers get more powerful and we can model pieces of the body, I suspect it will always be so. But it sure beats his alternative: being a member of a religious cult which turns people into zombies while, ahem, relieving them of their cash by paying for theology classes.
The next ruler, King Huiwen, ordered the execution of Shang Yang and his family, on grounds of rebellion. Shang Yang went into hiding and tried to stay at a hotel. Ironically, the hotel owner refused because it was against Shang Yang's laws to admit a guest without proper identification. Shang Yang is said to have been executed by being fastened to four chariots and pulled apart. Despite his death, King Huiwen kept the reforms enacted by Shang Yang.
Life can be pretty amusing. However it is also proof that laws, even bad ones, tend to stick around once put in place and are hard to remove.
So was VHS.
People with diabetes have a higher glucose content in the blood. When they test diabetes in the blood or urine, that is what they are testing for. The more diabetes the sweeter the urine will be I guess. But I somewhat doubt it will cancel out the taste of salt.
Gotta get some coffee...
No. HD-DVD uses higher frequency, lower amplitude lasers as well to make for higher density. The difference is someone else is pushing it. It is like DVD-R vs DVD+R all over again.
Hydrocarbons are *not* limited. Biodiesel is a hydrocarbon. Petroleum is limited.
Yeah, technological development has stopped. Which is why I am posting this on my wireless laptop. Hmmm...
You mean a tether. Yeah it should work, but momentum wheels and thrusters are usually used on satellites and I suspect would be used here as well.
I disagree. Shenzhou is arguably more evolved than a latest model Soyuz. The USA are also going back to capsules as on the Gemini and Apollo days according to Project Constellation. The major technological gap the Chinese have is in the area of propulsion. So far they have based their rockets on dual-use technology originally meant for ICBMs much like the USA used Titans for Gemini.
However, the Chinese have already managed to make a cryogenic upper stage and are designing a new launch vehicle family.
Their program moves at a snails pace, but they expect to orbit a space station next decade.
You are supposed to test the flags to see if a feature (e.g. SSE) is present. Intel on the other hand tests if the processor vendor is... Intel.
Sure, they are a corporation and they want profits. The problem is, AMD tried lowering prices to gain share and it led them to nowhere fast. Intel is forcing AMD into a corner, by making abusive deals with OEMs.
Even giving one million CPUs for free to HP did not get them a toehold in the business desktop segment.
Of those in the list, I can recommend: Yes Minister; I, Claudius; Blackadder.
This will eventually be iTunes's downfall. To me, it is just the new Betamax. It is cool and hip *now*, but competitive markets always win.
What about the neutrons? They do use D-T on them.
Can you manufacture any products using the patents you filed without infringing on someone else's patents?