So sandals and long hair are lost,
If the line of success will be crossed,
We must not forget
Success does not permit
Gifting vibrating eggs to the boss
KDE doesn't install "all this useless crap that I don't want on my machine." Your distributor does. Gentoo allows KDE apps to be installed individually, rather than in monolithic packages. The fact that your Linux distributor of choice installs monolithic packages is the fault of the distributor, not KDE.
"I haven't had to untar and compile anything except my own software (and its dependant libraries on occasion)."
This may be true for you but is not true for everyone. It depends on what apps one might use. For instance, I won't use Debian stable for 2 reasons. One, I must have Apollon and it must support at least 3 plugins, giFT, openft, & fasttrack. Debian stable doesn't include fasttrack. I am sure I could compile it, but I would first have to view the installed files of the other plugins in order to know which directory prefixes to include in configure. Once I figured that out, I would then need to guess as to which dev packages I would need to install in order to get the fasttrack plugin built. Sorry, but that is way too much work for me to do for a simple plugin. I wish to use my system, not become a dependency detective.
Then I would face the KDE problem. I don't have to have the absolute latest KDE available. A relatively recent KDE would suffice. KDE 3.2.2, which stable offers, is too far behind the curve for me. This means I would either need to compile KDE on stable, when I don't even know if it would be possible. Would I need to compile qt & arts? Could I get by with only qt or only arts? Who knows? Again, too much detective work for me. I could always switch to Testing or Unstable, I suppose, except I have already been there & done that and won't ever go there again.
We could also look at Kubuntu. It inlcudes Kaffeine for media playback. This is all well and good except Breezy, just like the previous release, offers a Kaffeine that crashes constantly, as can be easily seen by reading the Ubuntu forums. Now I could install kplayer instead, except for the fact that kplayer does not exist in the Kubuntu repositories, so I would be back to compiling after guessing configure prefixes and guessing which dev debs would need to be installed. Mplayer is in the Kubuntu repositories, but mplayer does not integrate with KDE as kplayer does. I suppose I could forget my desire for a completely integrated desktop, but why should I have to? Isn't Linux about having the system I want, setup in the way I choose?
These types of problems are not possessed solely by Debian, but are shared with rpm based distributions as well. And lets' not even get into the severely cluttered menus whcih result from monolithic packages such as kdenetwork or kdegraphics, which require I install 20 KDE network apps in order to have the 3 I actually use available.
Binary distributions, however easy they are assumed to be, are most definitely not the holy grail of the covetted "Linux on the Desktop."
Lx 13:2 Behold! The salvation of thy system is at hand! Of the operating systems that shall be sold both from within and amongst the nations around you, of them none shall ye buy. 3 For thou shalt be but one way to enter the Kingdom of Heavenly Operating Systems. Thou shalt purchase thee a disk burner and keepeth it close to thine heart, just as thy keepeth thy karma close to thy heart. 4 From thy fattest data pipe, which is known as broadband amongst the heathen, shalt thou download and burn thy Linux the Christ, for Linux redeemeth almost all hardware. Thou can't worship Linux the Christ until thou first install thy Linux the Christ and Savior CD onto thy computer. 5 From thy computer shalt thy wipe the most evil and depraved Microsoft from thy hard drive, infested with more diseases than all of the harlots of Babylon! 6 Once thou has cleansed and purified thou hard drive from the evils of the Satan Gates, then shalt thou install thy Linux the Christ and Savior CD onto thy computer and the Kingdom of Heavenly Operating Systems shall be yours forever and ever, at no cost with no support. 7 If Linux the Christ shall not be installable on thy hardware, thou shalt follow BSD for he is risen! Thus saith Father Torvalds. Amen
Atheism is a religion only if not collecting stamps is a hobby. Lack of belief in diety does not equal religion. Additionally, your quotes about an "atheistic view of evolution" isn't entirely correct. There are theists who believe that evolution is the means by which their preferred deities manage biology/life. Google for theistic evolution to learn more.
"the People's New Testament commentary is the simplest and most common-sense."
Translation: "simplest and most common-sense" means whatever explanation allows us to continue to believe the fantasy that donkeys and snakes speak and slavery is morally acceptable per both jehovah and jeebus.
Those who wrote the babble believed the earth was flat. The Egyptians believed the same thing:
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him
all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
"All the kingdoms of the world" could not be seen from a high mountain on a spherical earth. This verse makes sense only when we know those who wrote it believed the earth to be flat. It was common knowledge amongst those who lived at the time that the earth was flat. The babble is not a scientific document, but is a collection of myths.
"While his contemporaries believed the world to be flat (along with science at the time), the prophet Isaiah spoke of "the circle of the earth"."
Now, let's all pretend a circle isn't really 2 dimensional and thus flat, while also ignoring that a SPHERE is three dimensional, in order to perpetuate the myth that the Bible holds any type of scientific weight at all.
Did you also know the babble also teaches us scientific facts such as the fact that the earth is immobile:
1 Chronicles 16:30 The world is firmly
established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 93:1 The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 96:10 The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved
Now surely if the baby jeebus' daddy said it 3 times, no less, it HAS to be true! Who needs education with science lessons like this?
Yes, I am. We have many office docs stored on the network - word docs, spreadsheets, etc. I knew from day one I would use OpenOffice. (This is in an environment of sales people. We are all self-employed and bring our own machines.) One of my co-workers had Word but not MS Office, so she couldn't read the spreadsheets on the network. I showed her how to install OpenOffice. Now she reads the spreadsheets.
I told the head honcho who wasn't pleased about this. He said the office may end up going all Microsoft and I was just spreading my "agenda." A few weeks later I over heard another sales guy, who had just purchased a new computer, asking the head honcho if he had a company copy of MS Office he could install on his machine. I never heard the answer. A few days later that same sales guy approaches me saying the head honcho said I knew of some office software he could put on his machine to read the docs and spreadsheets on the network. So that's three machines in an office of about 40 people that now have OpenOffice on it, with one by special request of the head honcho.
I also use OpenOffie to create sales material. Funny how when people have to actually pay to use MS Office, the alternatives become awfully attractive awfully quickly.
Through lawyers the courts Darl has mocked
Jail is where he will be locked
It will not be funny
When Darl's out of money
Then he'll pump more than just stock
Naaaaaa, no need for two code bases. A KDE plugin could easily be written that accesses the reiser4 plugins. Think filelight, for instance. A separate module, that doesn't have to be installed, but offers greater functionality if it is.
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We could bring Freedom
And Democracy to them
If they had some oil
It's hardly Apple's fault that Windows is a virus whore.
So sandals and long hair are lost,
If the line of success will be crossed,
We must not forget
Success does not permit
Gifting vibrating eggs to the boss
KDE doesn't install "all this useless crap that I don't want on my machine." Your distributor does. Gentoo allows KDE apps to be installed individually, rather than in monolithic packages. The fact that your Linux distributor of choice installs monolithic packages is the fault of the distributor, not KDE.
"I haven't had to untar and compile anything except my own software (and its dependant libraries on occasion)."
This may be true for you but is not true for everyone. It depends on what apps one might use. For instance, I won't use Debian stable for 2 reasons. One, I must have Apollon and it must support at least 3 plugins, giFT, openft, & fasttrack. Debian stable doesn't include fasttrack. I am sure I could compile it, but I would first have to view the installed files of the other plugins in order to know which directory prefixes to include in configure. Once I figured that out, I would then need to guess as to which dev packages I would need to install in order to get the fasttrack plugin built. Sorry, but that is way too much work for me to do for a simple plugin. I wish to use my system, not become a dependency detective.
Then I would face the KDE problem. I don't have to have the absolute latest KDE available. A relatively recent KDE would suffice. KDE 3.2.2, which stable offers, is too far behind the curve for me. This means I would either need to compile KDE on stable, when I don't even know if it would be possible. Would I need to compile qt & arts? Could I get by with only qt or only arts? Who knows? Again, too much detective work for me. I could always switch to Testing or Unstable, I suppose, except I have already been there & done that and won't ever go there again.
We could also look at Kubuntu. It inlcudes Kaffeine for media playback. This is all well and good except Breezy, just like the previous release, offers a Kaffeine that crashes constantly, as can be easily seen by reading the Ubuntu forums. Now I could install kplayer instead, except for the fact that kplayer does not exist in the Kubuntu repositories, so I would be back to compiling after guessing configure prefixes and guessing which dev debs would need to be installed. Mplayer is in the Kubuntu repositories, but mplayer does not integrate with KDE as kplayer does. I suppose I could forget my desire for a completely integrated desktop, but why should I have to? Isn't Linux about having the system I want, setup in the way I choose?
These types of problems are not possessed solely by Debian, but are shared with rpm based distributions as well. And lets' not even get into the severely cluttered menus whcih result from monolithic packages such as kdenetwork or kdegraphics, which require I install 20 KDE network apps in order to have the 3 I actually use available.
Binary distributions, however easy they are assumed to be, are most definitely not the holy grail of the covetted "Linux on the Desktop."
Lx 13:2 Behold! The salvation of thy system is at hand! Of the operating systems that shall be sold both from within and amongst the nations around you, of them none shall ye buy. 3 For thou shalt be but one way to enter the Kingdom of Heavenly Operating Systems. Thou shalt purchase thee a disk burner and keepeth it close to thine heart, just as thy keepeth thy karma close to thy heart. 4 From thy fattest data pipe, which is known as broadband amongst the heathen, shalt thou download and burn thy Linux the Christ, for Linux redeemeth almost all hardware. Thou can't worship Linux the Christ until thou first install thy Linux the Christ and Savior CD onto thy computer. 5 From thy computer shalt thy wipe the most evil and depraved Microsoft from thy hard drive, infested with more diseases than all of the harlots of Babylon! 6 Once thou has cleansed and purified thou hard drive from the evils of the Satan Gates, then shalt thou install thy Linux the Christ and Savior CD onto thy computer and the Kingdom of Heavenly Operating Systems shall be yours forever and ever, at no cost with no support. 7 If Linux the Christ shall not be installable on thy hardware, thou shalt follow BSD for he is risen! Thus saith Father Torvalds. Amen
Let me guess, you are in marketing?
... thank $DEITY for gcc.
Atheism is a religion only if not collecting stamps is a hobby. Lack of belief in diety does not equal religion. Additionally, your quotes about an "atheistic view of evolution" isn't entirely correct. There are theists who believe that evolution is the means by which their preferred deities manage biology/life. Google for theistic evolution to learn more.
"the People's New Testament commentary is the simplest and most common-sense."
Translation: "simplest and most common-sense" means whatever explanation allows us to continue to believe the fantasy that donkeys and snakes speak and slavery is morally acceptable per both jehovah and jeebus.
Those who wrote the babble believed the earth was flat. The Egyptians believed the same thing:
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
"All the kingdoms of the world" could not be seen from a high mountain on a spherical earth. This verse makes sense only when we know those who wrote it believed the earth to be flat. It was common knowledge amongst those who lived at the time that the earth was flat. The babble is not a scientific document, but is a collection of myths.
"While his contemporaries believed the world to be flat (along with science at the time), the prophet Isaiah spoke of "the circle of the earth"."
Now, let's all pretend a circle isn't really 2 dimensional and thus flat, while also ignoring that a SPHERE is three dimensional, in order to perpetuate the myth that the Bible holds any type of scientific weight at all.
Did you also know the babble also teaches us scientific facts such as the fact that the earth is immobile:
1 Chronicles 16:30 The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 93:1 The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 96:10 The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved
Now surely if the baby jeebus' daddy said it 3 times, no less, it HAS to be true! Who needs education with science lessons like this?To create the best Linux brew
We must join the very top two
To prevent any illusion
Of brand name confusion
Call it MandrivaGNU/KUbuntu
Yes, I am. We have many office docs stored on the network - word docs, spreadsheets, etc. I knew from day one I would use OpenOffice. (This is in an environment of sales people. We are all self-employed and bring our own machines.) One of my co-workers had Word but not MS Office, so she couldn't read the spreadsheets on the network. I showed her how to install OpenOffice. Now she reads the spreadsheets.
I told the head honcho who wasn't pleased about this. He said the office may end up going all Microsoft and I was just spreading my "agenda." A few weeks later I over heard another sales guy, who had just purchased a new computer, asking the head honcho if he had a company copy of MS Office he could install on his machine. I never heard the answer. A few days later that same sales guy approaches me saying the head honcho said I knew of some office software he could put on his machine to read the docs and spreadsheets on the network. So that's three machines in an office of about 40 people that now have OpenOffice on it, with one by special request of the head honcho. I also use OpenOffie to create sales material. Funny how when people have to actually pay to use MS Office, the alternatives become awfully attractive awfully quickly.Gravity is a theory, not a fact!
If you could put a Yugo engine in a Maserati would you switch?
It's spammers the FTC warns
Their business will surely be torn
Yet if this becomes law
It will be the last straw
How the hell will we get daily porn?
So Debian made harder is news
So many the installer abused
It's hard enough as it is
Much like taking a quiz
I wish I could apt-get "ease of use."
Darl could not sink any lower
He's tops as a bullshit thrower
But Darl showed his ass
Which is now only grass
And IBM is the lawnmower.
This makes about as much sense as having html in email.
Through lawyers the courts Darl has mocked
Jail is where he will be locked
It will not be funny
When Darl's out of money
Then he'll pump more than just stock
Scotty has a star you say?
On the most famous walkway?
When will they invent
A new type of cement
To hold Mr. Shatner's toupee?
Darl has but one innovation;
Ill-conceived litigation
It's a shame he cant find
Work made for his kind
But who'd pay him for masturbation?
To the press SCO offered litter
While leaving the stockholders bitter
If Darl hasn't cooked
SCO's books
Their position must be in the shitter.
Naaaaaa, no need for two code bases. A KDE plugin could easily be written that accesses the reiser4 plugins. Think filelight, for instance. A separate module, that doesn't have to be installed, but offers greater functionality if it is.