And how do you learn how to install them? Is knowledge of how to install programs supposed to magically transfer itself into your brain? No. One of the best ways to learn is by experimenting and asking questions when necessary.
In other words, asking questions does *not* make you an idiot. Asking the same questions repeatedly without learning from the answers (provided you were given good, helpful answers) does.
I'll admit that I hadn't even thought about IE for Mac, since it's no longer developed and such, but it doesn't really change my point. IE for Windows and Mac have (had) completely different development teams, and when somebody buys a copy of Windows, they're still paying for IE for Windows.
I usually flip off the screen for the duration, but that's just me.
The stupidest one I've seen was just the other day. They had a stuntman talking about how much piracy hurts him.....yeah. As if he gets a cent from the movie after it's finished.
Gandalf was the Maiar Olorin. The Valaquenta, the second chapter of The Silmarillion, says this about Olorin:
Wisest of the Maiar was Olorin. He too dwelt in Lorien, but his ways took him often to the house of Nienna, and of her he learned pity and patience.
Of Melian much is told in the Quenta Silmarillion. But of Olorin that tale does not speak; for though he loved the Elves, he alked among them unseen, or in form as one of them, and they did not know whence came the fair visions or the prompting of wisdom that he put into their harts. In later days he was the friend of all the Children of Iluvatar, and took pity on their sorrows; and those who listened to him awoke from despair and put away the imaginations of darkness.
This doesn't exactly peg Gandalf as Olorin, though a connection seems likely, as Gandalf is mentioned many times as having much pity upon others. However, in The Two Towers, Gandalf mentions once having the name Olorin. Finally, in one of Tolkien's letters that were later published (I can't remember if that one was in the collection compiled by Humphrey Carpenter or not) he explicitly states that the two were one and the same.
(Hmm... from the preview it seems that accented characters are converted to the "normal" versions and entities don't work. Poop.)
Grandparent mentioned the 9x family, which most certainly *does* have poor performance. Resources were allocated horribly, and performance usually degraded to the point where a reboot was necessary at least once a day. (Apart from all the crashes.)
Case in point: I had 128 megs of ram in my box when I upgraded from 98SE to XP. While XP may have started up slightly slower (I can't honestly recall) I was able to have more applications open without the system going all crazy with GDI errors and all that fun stuff.
Dell doesn't even *allow* you to opt-out of Windows, at least on the customize system page. Needless to say, I will never ever buy a Dell. I only even visited their site to show someone how ridiculously high their prices were on a system comparable to what was available at a local computer shop.
Debian's adherence to a strict Free Software-only attitude is the most likely reason.
From the article it appears that Perens will break from the Free-only for some things, giving 3D drivers as an example. This is good, because Debian's idealism doesn't pull in regular users. UnitedLinux must be pragmatic about all its choices, and give users the most of what they want, whatever the license.
There is for Mozilla and Firebird, but since Galeon is non-XUL, it won't work. I don't know what if any API Galeon provides for adding toolbars of any kind. Ditto for Epiphany.
Sauron is not all-powerful, even with the Ring. He has just spent a good amount of time flinging about entire armies, as well as countless other evil acts of extreme power that we didn't get to see. What's wrong with the idea that he just got worn out?
I didn't think there was anything inherently wrong with the music scene; I don't think Jabba was intended to be that "dark," even when I watched the original version. He's just your average gangster, in slug form. He doesn't kill out of bloodlust, but to protect his business, and for amusement.
As far as the Greedo edit goes, I think it was a silly edit, but not a travesty, sort of like the edit they did on the Death Star explosion. After all, Han was still an asshole for pretty much the entire first film.
That's on the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe board (which I'm planning on picking up this weekend, actually) and possibly others, but not necessarily all nForce boards, even otherASUSboards.
In my case even if I don't get one with the dual ethernet, I've still got my PCI card that I can use to get the drivers, but is still not as good a solution as full open-source drivers in the distro.
And think how SLOW winamp 3 (or WMP 7 and above) is, when the only feature added since 2.91 was funny shaped windows?
You seem to know nothing about Winamp3. WA3 is to WA2 as Mozilla is to Netscape 4.x, just minus the open-source bit. The only reason 3 sucked so badly was because AOL made them release it far too early, kind of like Netscape 6. 3 was a complete rewrite of the UI to be component-based and portable. It's still being worked on, though it's been put on the back burner for the moment.
Now, Winamp5 (on beta 2 at the moment) is closer to just Winamp2 with funny shaped windows, except that there have also been numerous improvements, such as some level of Unicode support.
"Linux Mandrake 8.0 Standard" and "Red Hat Linux 7.1 Std"
Erm...
The page seems to be a MSN-ified version of ZDNet/CNet's (it *says* ZDNet on the page, but the product pages look more like they were from CNet) extremely outdated Linux content.
The 8-arrowed symbol on the shield here. Michael Moorcock used this as the symbol of the forces of Chaos in his Champion Eternal series. There's a lot of really weird parallel universe and time travel stuff in there, but I enjoyed it anyway. What I read of it at least. I'm still not quite sure how many books there are and in what order he thinks they should be read. It... keeps changing.
I've seen a few anarchists wear the Chaos arrow, but they mostly have the circle-A.
Seriously. There've been so many times when nerds have asserted that, "This'll be the case to prove the GPL! Yeah!" and they never come to fruition.
True, but has there ever been a case on this large a scale, where a large part of the plaintiff's case involved attacking the GPL directly? I think the issue had previously just been skirted around. SCO seems to be forcing the issue, so a ruling will have to be made on the legality of the GPL.
I don't see *how* it could legally become public domain without the consent of the copyright owner. I'm fairly certain it would simply become unlicensed (i.e. *nobody* but the owner has permission to do anything with it) until the owner released it under another license. The license is separate from the copyright.
Agreed. This modified version is even better. I've kept it as my VS since I discovered it. Every time I try to use another, I always end up going back to it.
It could use a few more color schemes, granted, but I'm also a sucker for blue, so I'm fine with the Ergonomic. After all, it's not the theme authoring community's fault that the VS system generally sucks compared to KDE's styling system, and can't create entirely new color schemes on the fly.
Interestingly enough, I don't really like the Quartz window decoration in KDE at all. Instead, I'm hooked on Plastik. Go figure.
In your searches, did you actually click the link to look at the book text? If you did, you would be prompted to sign in or create an account, which requires your credit card number. You don't need an account to just look at the results list, but that doesn't get you anywhere.
First of all, forgive me for my lack of knowledge of System development, as I never really had the misfortune opportunity to use it very much.
Second, how does comparing the huge-scale development of an OS to a desktop environment which started out extremely small-scale tell you anything about how much open source sucks or doesn't suck?
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And how do you learn how to install them? Is knowledge of how to install programs supposed to magically transfer itself into your brain? No. One of the best ways to learn is by experimenting and asking questions when necessary.
In other words, asking questions does *not* make you an idiot. Asking the same questions repeatedly without learning from the answers (provided you were given good, helpful answers) does.
I'll admit that I hadn't even thought about IE for Mac, since it's no longer developed and such, but it doesn't really change my point. IE for Windows and Mac have (had) completely different development teams, and when somebody buys a copy of Windows, they're still paying for IE for Windows.
I usually flip off the screen for the duration, but that's just me.
....yeah. As if he gets a cent from the movie after it's finished.
The stupidest one I've seen was just the other day. They had a stuntman talking about how much piracy hurts him.
IE requires Windows. Sure, you're downloading it for "free" but you already paid for part of its development when you bought your copy.
This doesn't exactly peg Gandalf as Olorin, though a connection seems likely, as Gandalf is mentioned many times as having much pity upon others. However, in The Two Towers, Gandalf mentions once having the name Olorin. Finally, in one of Tolkien's letters that were later published (I can't remember if that one was in the collection compiled by Humphrey Carpenter or not) he explicitly states that the two were one and the same.
(Hmm... from the preview it seems that accented characters are converted to the "normal" versions and entities don't work. Poop.)
Grandparent mentioned the 9x family, which most certainly *does* have poor performance. Resources were allocated horribly, and performance usually degraded to the point where a reboot was necessary at least once a day. (Apart from all the crashes.)
Case in point: I had 128 megs of ram in my box when I upgraded from 98SE to XP. While XP may have started up slightly slower (I can't honestly recall) I was able to have more applications open without the system going all crazy with GDI errors and all that fun stuff.
Dell doesn't even *allow* you to opt-out of Windows, at least on the customize system page. Needless to say, I will never ever buy a Dell. I only even visited their site to show someone how ridiculously high their prices were on a system comparable to what was available at a local computer shop.
Debian's adherence to a strict Free Software-only attitude is the most likely reason.
From the article it appears that Perens will break from the Free-only for some things, giving 3D drivers as an example. This is good, because Debian's idealism doesn't pull in regular users. UnitedLinux must be pragmatic about all its choices, and give users the most of what they want, whatever the license.
There is for Mozilla and Firebird, but since Galeon is non-XUL, it won't work. I don't know what if any API Galeon provides for adding toolbars of any kind. Ditto for Epiphany.
Sauron is not all-powerful, even with the Ring. He has just spent a good amount of time flinging about entire armies, as well as countless other evil acts of extreme power that we didn't get to see. What's wrong with the idea that he just got worn out?
I didn't think there was anything inherently wrong with the music scene; I don't think Jabba was intended to be that "dark," even when I watched the original version. He's just your average gangster, in slug form. He doesn't kill out of bloodlust, but to protect his business, and for amusement.
As far as the Greedo edit goes, I think it was a silly edit, but not a travesty, sort of like the edit they did on the Death Star explosion. After all, Han was still an asshole for pretty much the entire first film.
But yes, most of the other edits were just good.
That's on the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe board (which I'm planning on picking up this weekend, actually) and possibly others, but not necessarily all nForce boards, even other ASUS boards.
In my case even if I don't get one with the dual ethernet, I've still got my PCI card that I can use to get the drivers, but is still not as good a solution as full open-source drivers in the distro.
And think how SLOW winamp 3 (or WMP 7 and above) is, when the only feature added since 2.91 was funny shaped windows?
You seem to know nothing about Winamp3. WA3 is to WA2 as Mozilla is to Netscape 4.x, just minus the open-source bit. The only reason 3 sucked so badly was because AOL made them release it far too early, kind of like Netscape 6. 3 was a complete rewrite of the UI to be component-based and portable. It's still being worked on, though it's been put on the back burner for the moment.
Now, Winamp5 (on beta 2 at the moment) is closer to just Winamp2 with funny shaped windows, except that there have also been numerous improvements, such as some level of Unicode support.
"Linux Mandrake 8.0 Standard" and "Red Hat Linux 7.1 Std"
Erm...
The page seems to be a MSN-ified version of ZDNet/CNet's (it *says* ZDNet on the page, but the product pages look more like they were from CNet) extremely outdated Linux content.
The 8-arrowed symbol on the shield here. Michael Moorcock used this as the symbol of the forces of Chaos in his Champion Eternal series. There's a lot of really weird parallel universe and time travel stuff in there, but I enjoyed it anyway. What I read of it at least. I'm still not quite sure how many books there are and in what order he thinks they should be read. It... keeps changing.
I've seen a few anarchists wear the Chaos arrow, but they mostly have the circle-A.
Seriously. There've been so many times when nerds have asserted that, "This'll be the case to prove the GPL! Yeah!" and they never come to fruition.
True, but has there ever been a case on this large a scale, where a large part of the plaintiff's case involved attacking the GPL directly? I think the issue had previously just been skirted around. SCO seems to be forcing the issue, so a ruling will have to be made on the legality of the GPL.
I don't see *how* it could legally become public domain without the consent of the copyright owner. I'm fairly certain it would simply become unlicensed (i.e. *nobody* but the owner has permission to do anything with it) until the owner released it under another license. The license is separate from the copyright.
Well, they also appear to have scaled down the hideously large titlebar a bit, but otherwise, yeah.
Ironically, they re-lose the space saved and more in all their other "useful UI additions" (read: excessively large taskbar and IE toolbar)
Agreed. This modified version is even better. I've kept it as my VS since I discovered it. Every time I try to use another, I always end up going back to it.
It could use a few more color schemes, granted, but I'm also a sucker for blue, so I'm fine with the Ergonomic. After all, it's not the theme authoring community's fault that the VS system generally sucks compared to KDE's styling system, and can't create entirely new color schemes on the fly.
Interestingly enough, I don't really like the Quartz window decoration in KDE at all. Instead, I'm hooked on Plastik. Go figure.
In your searches, did you actually click the link to look at the book text? If you did, you would be prompted to sign in or create an account, which requires your credit card number. You don't need an account to just look at the results list, but that doesn't get you anywhere.
Flamebait is the art of deliberately posting something inflamatory.
Seems more like trolling to me. Flamebait is just something that will quite probably incite flaming.
Er... pardon my posting while distracted, thus failing to insert appropriate marks of sarcasm around "opportunity."
First of all, forgive me for my lack of knowledge of System development, as I never really had the misfortune opportunity to use it very much.
Second, how does comparing the huge-scale development of an OS to a desktop environment which started out extremely small-scale tell you anything about how much open source sucks or doesn't suck?
Yeah, because *everybody* knows that you judge application development by version numbers.
But MS still takes the cake with 366,000 pages.
Though I guess most of that could be attributed to them having more time to spread their evil.