"I do know they can smell assembly line romance from a mile away"
Too true, but I dare you to do nothing on the conveyor belt that is valentines day.
Soon it may well be, roses, chocolate, dinner AND a song.
Sorry, but no matter how experienced you are you do not seem to have used an rpm based distro for a few years, or understand package managers.
rpm is analogous to dpkg yum is analogous to apt
yum and apt are front ends to rpm and dpkg respectively that handle dependency resolution. Both do a good job at it.
apt only seems to be "sublime" because Debian and Ubuntu (and their communities) keep a much tighter reign on the repositories.
Maybe because debs are more tedious to create than rpms?
Definitely because of the philosophy and/or the way that Debian/Ubuntu repositories are structured. This allows deb based distros to include potential IP problem areas like MP3, Acrobat Reader, Skype etc through multiverse/non-free etc so deb distro users do not have to go to third-party repositories or even repositories from completely different distros like a lot of RPM distro users seem to do.
Pretty much any deb based "distro" other than Debian or Ubuntu is not really a separate distro, more an installer which installs a different set of packages from the same repositories as their parent distro e.g. Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu etc.
A lot of RPM distros OTOH and in general rebuild and repackage and therefore have different file locations and dependencies etc.
This is why there is an rpm hell, but no dpkg hell.
However, I suspect it was the fact that one of the subs actually sank a ship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano ) that really drove the point home.
Syndicated advertisements existed long before Google
Syndicated news existed long before Google
Search engines existed before Google
Web mail of various kinds existed long before Google
Online versions of desktop applications existed before Google had them, albeit in a more simple form (limited by the technology at the time) e.g. yahoo calendar, yahoo notepad etc - The concept was there though.
Deja news was bought by google and turned into google groups
Online photos had existed long before google acquired picasa
They bought google earth and online maps existed long before
In summary,Google seems to copy or acquire and occasionally improve rather than innovate.
They are very good at marketing though, much like MS really:
Google were very lucky with viral marketing early on.
MS was lucky with IBM and DOS.
Google, to their credit have not lost focus on their bread and butter - search.
MS have never lost their focus on OSes and Office Applications
MS were heros until they got too big.
Hmmm...
Note: I am not against Google, but like any business, they would rip anyone off if they could get away with its so I never really understand this worshiping of businesses some geeks like to engage in.
As a vegetarian of various degrees over 18 years, I would as well. If I survived a plane crash into the Andes, frozen dead people would probably look very tasty to me too - after a while anyway. However, I have yet to have been in a situation resembling that and therefore have no need, or desire, to eat dead things that moved themselves around.
My survival always comes first, except maybe over close family and less likely close friends. However, my comfort does not. Realistically, in the western world, unless someone has a medical condition the downside of not eating meat is comfort alone, in one way or another.
Not being smug at all (and I am not, most people are genuinely surprised when they discover I am vegetarian), but...
A vegetarian requires only 1/20th of the land space of a meat eater to feed themselves.
5Kg of beef requires the same amount of water to raise as the average family uses in a year.
"When was the last time you saw a baboon using money? "
Wrong example, perhaps. Richard Dawkins, in The Ancestors Tale, discusses primates having a kind of proto-trade (my words not his). Individual primates who share excess food build up goodwill and/or trust with other members of their troop so that when they are in need the others share their excess food with them. Conversely, stingy fuckers get as much as they give, nowt.
What is money other than a form of itemised goodwill and trust?
However, this still kicks the arse of the nature-is-naturally-selfish-so-it-is-ok-to-be-a-vi rtual-sociopath-Jeffrey-Skilling-misunderstanding- The-Selfish-Gene school of capitalism as the indiviuals who share/cooperate are more likely to survive.
"Release early and often" does NOT mean "release crap and let everyone be your alpha testers." Alpha testing is YOUR job, developers!
Mate... fuck off back to windows. Really. It is an OSS developers job to do WTF they feel like doing. Before you start whining along the lines of "mummy, sob, mummy, sob an elitist linux person hurt my feelings", you bring nothing, yes nothing to the OSS community except whining, so it really would be no loss if you, yes you, went back to windows. I would actually be grateful if all the sycophantic moaning do nowt "linux users" went back to windows and left the community at it - and by it, I mean contributing something back.
I'm also sick of apps that have a "help" button that goes to a page that says "you're on your own."
What have you done about it? Aside from going "wah, wah, linux developers are lazy and so mean to me". Seriously, what have you done? Learn a bit of programming or write some help for the applications you know something about? No, just whine and f%c*in' moan
He is the attorney general, not governor general, elected like any other member of parliament.
He is an arsehole, not for the incorrect reasons you have given, but because he is a borderline fascist.
"And why people voted to keep us under a monach I will never know."
Perhaps because they were confused like you? More probably they realised that having as many checks and balances as possible is a good thing for normal people.
Off the top of my head, so I may have got some of the terminology wrong (I'm no stinkin' geneticist)...
Richard Dawkins, in The Ancestor's Tale, compares DNA to a well used but not very full hard disk with individual genes being analogous to sectors. Many of the genes are unused junk, analogous to deleted files which have not been overwritten.
So, we may well share 87.654% of our DNA with broccoli and baboons, but only a tiny fraction of that is actually being used. What makes us closer to great apes is the fact that we share many active genes.
Why is anyone driving to purchase "a gallon of milk and a half dozen bananas"?
(not directed at parent, just society in general).
I guess I am lucky to not live in a suburban nightmare and have two convenience stores and a village type shopping center with two supermarkets (one which is outstanding for fresh produce and deli stuff) within walkable^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hscurrying distance and one of the biggest shopping malls in the south pacific within cycling distance.
("walkable" changed to "scurrying" due to captcha being "scurried").
"I was arrested without charge in a mix up last year"
Not only that, but when you emigrate you will more than likely have to produce a police report on any country you have lived in for more than X months over the past Y years to the country you are emigrating to.
That report will come back showing that you were "Not convicted" of something.
I am so pleased I became Australian a couple of years ago.
Or, just perhaps, if terrorist know that control of the plane will be taken over by a remote operator and that there is nothing they can do about it they will not even bother to attempt to hijack it in the first place.
I mean they keep finding all these species that have been supposedly extinct for 20-50 million years...
And they keep finding new species as well. Does creationism solve this problem?
Frankly, the math on Evolution doesn't stack up. Even giving 200 billion years of time you don't get from the simplest life to the most complex.
How long would it take if you need more than 200 billion years?
Let alone the fact that the simplest life has a DNA which is a very specific instruction set.
According to Richard Dawkins in The Ancestor's Tale, DNA is mostly junk. He compares it to a well used but not very full hard drive i.e. lots of data on there which is left from deletes but not used by the system.
Also isn't one of the major foundations of evolution that life cannot de-evolve? It always goes from lower to higher?
Sort of, although you are slightly confused - I would suggest reading Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins. What is meant by his concept is that, for example, if a species has a type of eye which is not very good at colour vision, but another species has a eye with great colour vision but which evolved seperately, the first species cannot de-evolve its eyes and re-evolve it's eyes to have great colour vision in the same way as the second species. It's eyes might be able to evolve better colour vision, but more than likely in a different way to the first species - this is called convergent evolution.
"Australia defends its sovereign rights by entering into those treaties that it finds useful to it."
As an Australian, I strongly disagee. Australia is entered into those treaties that enable it's current leader to press his lips near to the anus of the current leader of the US in the hopes that he can play with the big boys and be in there gang.
But... I have just moved from Ubuntu to Xubuntu, with Beryl (using nvidia, not XGL). In windows speak: I have aero-like graphics
Memory usage seems to hover ~250Mb (running no GUI apps) to ~350Mb (certainly < 400mb) running mplayer, firefox, audacious, abiword, gnumeric, Soft Squeeze etc at the same time. Windows speak: Can play pretty much any media I get, use IM, browse the web, write word and excel docs etc...
I have 1Gb of RAM and 1Gb of swap (which never gets touched).
Genuine question, what functionality would I gain by going to vista and quadrupling my ram?
Since when has having electrical light been "natural"?
Speaking from experience, you get used to them. We swapped to CFL a couple of years ago when there was a big promotion and we got them for ~cost. The light seemed a bit wierd for a ~month (but the literature that came with the bulbs said this would be the case), but now we do not even notice.
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"I do know they can smell assembly line romance from a mile away" Too true, but I dare you to do nothing on the conveyor belt that is valentines day. Soon it may well be, roses, chocolate, dinner AND a song.
"We were not designed to eat all of this sugar" We did not evolve to eat all of this sugar.
Sorry, but no matter how experienced you are you do not seem to have used an rpm based distro for a few years, or understand package managers.
rpm is analogous to dpkg
yum is analogous to apt
yum and apt are front ends to rpm and dpkg respectively that handle dependency resolution. Both do a good job at it.
apt only seems to be "sublime" because Debian and Ubuntu (and their communities) keep a much tighter reign on the repositories.
Maybe because debs are more tedious to create than rpms?
Definitely because of the philosophy and/or the way that Debian/Ubuntu repositories are structured. This allows deb based distros to include potential IP problem areas like MP3, Acrobat Reader, Skype etc through multiverse/non-free etc so deb distro users do not have to go to third-party repositories or even repositories from completely different distros like a lot of RPM distro users seem to do.
Pretty much any deb based "distro" other than Debian or Ubuntu is not really a separate distro, more an installer which installs a different set of packages from the same repositories as their parent distro e.g. Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu etc.
A lot of RPM distros OTOH and in general rebuild and repackage and therefore have different file locations and dependencies etc.
This is why there is an rpm hell, but no dpkg hell.
However, I suspect it was the fact that one of the subs actually sank a ship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano ) that really drove the point home.
Thus proving the George W Bush is as bad as a Nazi!
Ohh shit! Bugga!
How are Google innovating?
Syndicated advertisements existed long before Google
Syndicated news existed long before Google
Search engines existed before Google
Web mail of various kinds existed long before Google
Online versions of desktop applications existed before Google had them, albeit in a more simple form (limited by the technology at the time) e.g. yahoo calendar, yahoo notepad etc - The concept was there though.
Deja news was bought by google and turned into google groups
Online photos had existed long before google acquired picasa
They bought google earth and online maps existed long before
In summary,Google seems to copy or acquire and occasionally improve rather than innovate.
They are very good at marketing though, much like MS really:
Google were very lucky with viral marketing early on.
MS was lucky with IBM and DOS.
Google, to their credit have not lost focus on their bread and butter - search.
MS have never lost their focus on OSes and Office Applications
MS were heros until they got too big.
Hmmm...
Note: I am not against Google, but like any business, they would rip anyone off if they could get away with its so I never really understand this worshiping of businesses some geeks like to engage in.
Surely you jest. They do that in the US Congress as well don't they?
Snore. That argument...
As a vegetarian of various degrees over 18 years, I would as well. If I survived a plane crash into the Andes, frozen dead people would probably look very tasty to me too - after a while anyway. However, I have yet to have been in a situation resembling that and therefore have no need, or desire, to eat dead things that moved themselves around.
My survival always comes first, except maybe over close family and less likely close friends. However, my comfort does not. Realistically, in the western world, unless someone has a medical condition the downside of not eating meat is comfort alone, in one way or another.
Not being smug at all (and I am not, most people are genuinely surprised when they discover I am vegetarian), but...
A vegetarian requires only 1/20th of the land space of a meat eater to feed themselves.
5Kg of beef requires the same amount of water to raise as the average family uses in a year.
Food, pun intentional, for thought?
"How do you explain the different languages and religions? A single nation wouldn't be so diverse."
Ahem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea
"...over 850 indigenous languages..."
"...a population of just under 6 million..."
"When was the last time you saw a baboon using money? " Wrong example, perhaps. Richard Dawkins, in The Ancestors Tale, discusses primates having a kind of proto-trade (my words not his). Individual primates who share excess food build up goodwill and/or trust with other members of their troop so that when they are in need the others share their excess food with them. Conversely, stingy fuckers get as much as they give, nowt. What is money other than a form of itemised goodwill and trust? However, this still kicks the arse of the nature-is-naturally-selfish-so-it-is-ok-to-be-a-vi rtual-sociopath-Jeffrey-Skilling-misunderstanding- The-Selfish-Gene school of capitalism as the indiviuals who share/cooperate are more likely to survive.
My turn for a rant...
"Release early and often" does NOT mean "release crap and let everyone be your alpha testers." Alpha testing is YOUR job, developers!
Mate... fuck off back to windows. Really. It is an OSS developers job to do WTF they feel like doing. Before you start whining along the lines of "mummy, sob, mummy, sob an elitist linux person hurt my feelings", you bring nothing, yes nothing to the OSS community except whining, so it really would be no loss if you, yes you, went back to windows. I would actually be grateful if all the sycophantic moaning do nowt "linux users" went back to windows and left the community at it - and by it, I mean contributing something back.
I'm also sick of apps that have a "help" button that goes to a page that says "you're on your own."
What have you done about it? Aside from going "wah, wah, linux developers are lazy and so mean to me". Seriously, what have you done? Learn a bit of programming or write some help for the applications you know something about? No, just whine and f%c*in' moan
Ahhhh, that feels better.
WTF?
He is the attorney general, not governor general, elected like any other member of parliament.
He is an arsehole, not for the incorrect reasons you have given, but because he is a borderline fascist.
"And why people voted to keep us under a monach I will never know."
Perhaps because they were confused like you? More probably they realised that having as many checks and balances as possible is a good thing for normal people.
Pidgin is the name of "the language" and also a term referring to (some?) creole type languages in general.
In PNG pidgin is called "Tok Pisin" or normally just "pisin". In English "Pidgin".
In PNG you would say "Yu save tok pisin?", (with tok being more or less optional) meaning, in English, "Do you understand pidgin?"
Bislama and Tok Pisin are at least as similar as English and American English.
Off the top of my head, so I may have got some of the terminology wrong (I'm no stinkin' geneticist)...
Richard Dawkins, in The Ancestor's Tale, compares DNA to a well used but not very full hard disk with individual genes being analogous to sectors. Many of the genes are unused junk, analogous to deleted files which have not been overwritten.
So, we may well share 87.654% of our DNA with broccoli and baboons, but only a tiny fraction of that is actually being used. What makes us closer to great apes is the fact that we share many active genes.
CAPTCHA: Circus... hmmm
And here enters another problem...
Why is anyone driving to purchase "a gallon of milk and a half dozen bananas"?
(not directed at parent, just society in general).
I guess I am lucky to not live in a suburban nightmare and have two convenience stores and a village type shopping center with two supermarkets (one which is outstanding for fresh produce and deli stuff) within walkable^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hscurrying distance and one of the biggest shopping malls in the south pacific within cycling distance.
("walkable" changed to "scurrying" due to captcha being "scurried").
Maybe he is under a contractual obligation not to comment (or at least limit his comments) on his contractual obligations?
"I was arrested without charge in a mix up last year"
Not only that, but when you emigrate you will more than likely have to produce a police report on any country you have lived in for more than X months over the past Y years to the country you are emigrating to.
That report will come back showing that you were "Not convicted" of something.
I am so pleased I became Australian a couple of years ago.
Or, just perhaps, if terrorist know that control of the plane will be taken over by a remote operator and that there is nothing they can do about it they will not even bother to attempt to hijack it in the first place.
Just a thought.
"bunch of dirty hippies."
Actually, I think you will find the the correct term is "Long haired smellies".
I mean they keep finding all these species that have been supposedly extinct for 20-50 million years...
And they keep finding new species as well. Does creationism solve this problem?
Frankly, the math on Evolution doesn't stack up. Even giving 200 billion years of time you don't get from the simplest life to the most complex.
How long would it take if you need more than 200 billion years?
Let alone the fact that the simplest life has a DNA which is a very specific instruction set.
According to Richard Dawkins in The Ancestor's Tale, DNA is mostly junk. He compares it to a well used but not very full hard drive i.e. lots of data on there which is left from deletes but not used by the system.
Also isn't one of the major foundations of evolution that life cannot de-evolve? It always goes from lower to higher?
Sort of, although you are slightly confused - I would suggest reading Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins. What is meant by his concept is that, for example, if a species has a type of eye which is not very good at colour vision, but another species has a eye with great colour vision but which evolved seperately, the first species cannot de-evolve its eyes and re-evolve it's eyes to have great colour vision in the same way as the second species. It's eyes might be able to evolve better colour vision, but more than likely in a different way to the first species - this is called convergent evolution.
Is this the gas that was sold to them by the west/us we are talking about?
"Australia defends its sovereign rights by entering into those treaties that it finds useful to it."
As an Australian, I strongly disagee. Australia is entered into those treaties that enable it's current leader to press his lips near to the anus of the current leader of the US in the hopes that he can play with the big boys and be in there gang.
"Wtf makes him think he is so imporantant ?"
The fact that he is switching from Fedora to Ubuntu makes slashdot?
True.
Obligatory linux uses less ram post...
But... I have just moved from Ubuntu to Xubuntu, with Beryl (using nvidia, not XGL). In windows speak: I have aero-like graphics
Memory usage seems to hover ~250Mb (running no GUI apps) to ~350Mb (certainly < 400mb) running mplayer, firefox, audacious, abiword, gnumeric, Soft Squeeze etc at the same time. Windows speak: Can play pretty much any media I get, use IM, browse the web, write word and excel docs etc...
I have 1Gb of RAM and 1Gb of swap (which never gets touched).
Genuine question, what functionality would I gain by going to vista and quadrupling my ram?
"feel natural"
Since when has having electrical light been "natural"?
Speaking from experience, you get used to them. We swapped to CFL a couple of years ago when there was a big promotion and we got them for ~cost. The light seemed a bit wierd for a ~month (but the literature that came with the bulbs said this would be the case), but now we do not even notice.