If you seriously think that anyone here is going to take a sentence prefaced with "I would think that..", posted by some guy on slashdot as real legal advice, then you've got bigger problems.
The depraved can already tell where children are by looking with their eyes. They don't want your child. they want a child , so the one wandering across the road right now will do fine. They don't need to look one up on the internet. (Assuming that these wild packs of child molesters are really roaming the streets in the numbers we're led to believe in the first place - I thought it was family members who were most likely to be guilty of those sorts of crimes)
Should we gouge out peoples eyes so they can't use them to "prey" on children?
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's bad.
It sounds to me like you need to spend some time studying languages like Lisp, Smalltalk and Self.
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Whilst I'm sure it may break at least three or four contrived grammar "rules" that someone made up at some point in history, it's a common usage that has existed for probably longer than any of those rules.
Some electric burners come with dials, rather than buttons, and they have perfectly fine heat control. Some? I didn't know there was such a thing as an electric stove without dials. That sounds idiotic.
The existence of an alternative, even a subjectively better alternative is not in itself enough reason to change something as fundamental as that.
There would have to be serious unfixable problems with RPM for them to even consider it. Most of the problems people have with RPM based distributions are not problems with RPM itself, and even in the places where other package systems are better than RPM, they're only incrementally better, so the pain wouldn't be worth the gain.
There's not a whole lot of pain involved in switching web browsers, so it doesn't take much of an improvement to make a switch worthwhile. Besides, if a new web browser doesn't work for you, you can just switch back. If a distro tried to switch package systems, then switch back, they'd probably sink themselves.
He mentions exactly that. Did you actually read the article?
from the eight paragraph:
In 2004 the Bavarian authorities sent in the state troopers. Ostensibly it was as a response to a claim made by a former employee that we had illegal software installed on our machines.
no, it doesn't enable customers, nor is their product absolutely successful. Maybe you need to read the sentence again.
"...it enables consumers to be (absolutely) successful at creating games.."
There is nothing at all wrong with that sentence, apart from the unnecessary use of successful. Although I guess you could rephrase that as "..to enable consumers to successfully create games..", but that's not a case of marketing speak, just a kind of clumsy sentence. There's also nothing wrong with them claiming their tools are great.
If you're going to pick nits, make sure they exist first. That "PR speak" is called English. Plain, simple, (if a little over enthusiastic), English.
maybe because when RedHat started, this was the state of dpkg:
"Debian 0.91 was released in January 1994. It had a primitive package system that allowed users to manipulate packages but that did little else (it certainly didn't have dependencies or anything like that) Besides, NIH isn't all bad - without it, there'd be no competition, and there's a lot to be said for having control of something as fundamental as the package management system of your distribution. These days it's not so much of a problem, because dpkg and RPM are both proven to be able to suit the needs of a distribution, but back then RedHat would have wanted to be certain that their package manager was going to do what they wanted, and it may well have been easier to write their own than to try to adapt dpkg.
The decision to use existing software or build your own is always a tradeoff, it's never cut and dried, and no matter which way you go, you'll always get someone who thinks highly of their own opinion telling you that you made the wrong decision,
Saying that a CPU does "maths" and is therefore is specialised for any mathematical task is like saying that someone knowing "IT" is therefore qualified to fix the printer.
It entirely depends on _which_ mathematical operations you're talking about.
You saw it as a poorly timed joke - which by the way is stupud, it's a joke specifically _about_ this event, so it's perfectly timed.
But I saw it as turning an overused meme into a tribute. Given that there's not a single comment that will be made on this article that will actually make a difference, I found that one to be one of the most worthwhile.
Then "Europe" can be an abbreviation for The European Union.
I didn't say I had a problem with calling the USA America, just that making a fuss over Europe != EU was just as silly as America != USA. It's not my fault you failed reading comprehension.
You're wanting simple and clean, and don't want slow, but you do want [i]SVG[/i]? You want XML in the user interface?
I have no problem with a vector based user interface, but surely there's better ways of doing it than SVG. In fact, I think there's a couple of companies I've heard about that have non SVG vector based user interfaces. One of them was called NeXT, I think the other one starts with A...
Yup, if you have teenage kids and they don't resent you, you're probably not doing it right. But if they still resent you when they're over 20, then you were almost certainly not doing it right.
That has got to be the single stupidest thing I have ever read on the internet, and considering the percentage of internet browsing time I spend reading Slashdot, that's really saying something.
Yup, the easy way to figure this out is to remove the other person from the sentence and see if it sounds right. In this case "It may be weird to I" sounds completely retarded, so "me" is the word to use.
Alternatively for "Me and Bob went to the shop", "Me went to the shop" is totally wrong, so "I" is the word to use.
No, but "the Internet" isn't a product. Google has a near-monopoly on web searches A monopoly isn't "eveyone uses your product", a monopoly is "your product is the only one people can use"
Google's "monopoly" could dissolve at any minute if they made the wrong move, there's plenty of other search engines out there, and no barrier to using them.
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Nope.
It's always some guy in a suit that think's he's too important for laws or common sense.
Usually driving a big SUV or a BMW.
It doesn't contradict anything.
I think you need some help with your reading comprehension.
If you seriously think that anyone here is going to take a sentence prefaced with "I would think that..", posted by some guy on slashdot as real legal advice, then you've got bigger problems.
There is no disclaimer required.
The depraved can already tell where children are by looking with their eyes.
They don't want your child. they want a child , so the one wandering across the road right now will do fine. They don't need to look one up on the internet. (Assuming that these wild packs of child molesters are really roaming the streets in the numbers we're led to believe in the first place - I thought it was family members who were most likely to be guilty of those sorts of crimes)
Should we gouge out peoples eyes so they can't use them to "prey" on children?
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's bad.
It sounds to me like you need to spend some time studying languages like Lisp, Smalltalk and Self.
Whilst I'm sure it may break at least three or four contrived grammar "rules" that someone made up at some point in history, it's a common usage that has existed for probably longer than any of those rules.
There's nothing in the original specs for HTML and HTTP that prevents that ;)
why would your social security number be on your passport?
And why is it used for anything except dealing with the department of social security in the first place - particular orders of panties?
It seems like you've got bigger problems than RFID....
In what way did you think it wasn't successful?
The existence of an alternative, even a subjectively better alternative is not in itself enough reason to change something as fundamental as that.
There would have to be serious unfixable problems with RPM for them to even consider it.
Most of the problems people have with RPM based distributions are not problems with RPM itself, and even in the places where other package systems are better than RPM, they're only incrementally better, so the pain wouldn't be worth the gain.
There's not a whole lot of pain involved in switching web browsers, so it doesn't take much of an improvement to make a switch worthwhile. Besides, if a new web browser doesn't work for you, you can just switch back. If a distro tried to switch package systems, then switch back, they'd probably sink themselves.
from the eight paragraph: In 2004 the Bavarian authorities sent in the state troopers. Ostensibly it was as a response to a claim made by a former employee that we had illegal software installed on our machines.
no, it doesn't enable customers, nor is their product absolutely successful.
Maybe you need to read the sentence again.
"...it enables consumers to be (absolutely) successful at creating games.."
There is nothing at all wrong with that sentence, apart from the unnecessary use of successful. Although I guess you could rephrase that as "..to enable consumers to successfully create games..", but that's not a case of marketing speak, just a kind of clumsy sentence.
There's also nothing wrong with them claiming their tools are great.
If you're going to pick nits, make sure they exist first.
That "PR speak" is called English. Plain, simple, (if a little over enthusiastic), English.
These days it's not so much of a problem, because dpkg and RPM are both proven to be able to suit the needs of a distribution, but back then RedHat would have wanted to be certain that their package manager was going to do what they wanted, and it may well have been easier to write their own than to try to adapt dpkg.
The decision to use existing software or build your own is always a tradeoff, it's never cut and dried, and no matter which way you go, you'll always get someone who thinks highly of their own opinion telling you that you made the wrong decision,
Saying that a CPU does "maths" and is therefore is specialised for any mathematical task is like saying that someone knowing "IT" is therefore qualified to fix the printer.
It entirely depends on _which_ mathematical operations you're talking about.
You saw it as a poorly timed joke - which by the way is stupud, it's a joke specifically _about_ this event, so it's perfectly timed.
But I saw it as turning an overused meme into a tribute. Given that there's not a single comment that will be made on this article that will actually make a difference, I found that one to be one of the most worthwhile.
Then "Europe" can be an abbreviation for The European Union.
I didn't say I had a problem with calling the USA America, just that making a fuss over Europe != EU was just as silly as America != USA. It's not my fault you failed reading comprehension.
so if it's not emerge or apt, it's broken?
I'd say if it is emerge, it's broken, unless emerge supports dependency checking on uninstall yet....
it never fails - forget to preview and end up including bloody UBB tags instead of HTML. Gah.
You're wanting simple and clean, and don't want slow, but you do want [i]SVG[/i]?
You want XML in the user interface?
I have no problem with a vector based user interface, but surely there's better ways of doing it than SVG.
In fact, I think there's a couple of companies I've heard about that have non SVG vector based user interfaces. One of them was called NeXT, I think the other one starts with A...
If you want to be like that, then America isn't a nation either.
I'm not sure which bothers me the most, the fact that you took the time to post that, or that I'm actually replying.
Yup, if you have teenage kids and they don't resent you, you're probably not doing it right.
But if they still resent you when they're over 20, then you were almost certainly not doing it right.
That has got to be the single stupidest thing I have ever read on the internet, and considering the percentage of internet browsing time I spend reading Slashdot, that's really saying something.
Yup, the easy way to figure this out is to remove the other person from the sentence and see if it sounds right.
In this case "It may be weird to I" sounds completely retarded, so "me" is the word to use.
Alternatively for "Me and Bob went to the shop", "Me went to the shop" is totally wrong, so "I" is the word to use.
Google's "monopoly" could dissolve at any minute if they made the wrong move, there's plenty of other search engines out there, and no barrier to using them.