It would be trivial to set it up so that double-clicking a tar ball in kde or gnome would launch an installer script that would take care of everything, and I'd be surprised if some distro hasn't already done so. You can even set up mime types so that clicking the download link for a tar ball on a web page will install it.
Furthermore, it shouldn't be necessary to use a CLI, ever.
There is no way that a gui can ever make software installation as simple as typing the name of the program to install. There are fine gui solutions, like Mandrake's package manager, which lists all the programs available to install, and lets you sort them by various criteria, but the cli is simply faster.
And there IS a simple, standard way to distribute an application for all versions of linux -- all versions of posix, assuming it's portably programmed -- and that's source. Anyone can install a tarball and with great scripts like CompileProgram anyone can install it with one command. The so-called "problems" of having to provide a version of your program for all the different distros only arises if you're binary-only, and that's the price you pay for closing your source.
Real operations like America's funniest home videos presumably have their own mail servers, and thus can get dozens of gigabytes of email. I would assume so, anyway. I mean if I, as a college student, have the resources to do that, I'm sure any corporation does.
My wife is completely blind in one of her eyes too, if they screw up even one eye on her, she's completely blind (thus doubling her chances of complete failure).
Why not just get that eye done, if it's a possible operation? That way there's no risk. If that's a success, you could consider getting the other eye done 6 months later.
Do you work out?
No.
Do you swim?
No.
Do you do yard work?
No -- well, sometimes, and then I just (shock) wear my glasses.
Do you wear your glasses in the shower?
Uh..no. I can actually find nearly any part of my body with my hands.
Having sex?
No. I can actually find nearly any part of her body with my hands too.
What about your peripheral vision?
Peripheral vision isn't detailed anyway; it just alerts you to movement, and that works even if you have poor vision, so this doesn't matter.
What about the fog when you walk out of that cold movie theater in the summer, or you walk into that nicely heated store in the winter?
Remove the glasses, wipe on your shirt, replace. 2-second reflex reaction.
Or when it rains?
The glasses protect your eyes from getting acid rain in them.
These perennial references to the hell of wearing glasses bemuse me. I've been wearing glasses since I was 8 years old, and I've never had any issues with it.
Maybe I'm just so completely trained to put them on every morning that I don't have problems forgetting them, and others do. Or maybe these people only wear glasses when they really need to see or read, as people in my high school tended to do, instead of constantly. Or maybe they do things like sports that require lack of eyewear, which I've been careful not to let happen to me.
Other than the fact that my glasses get incredibly scratched quickly, which I can't even see anymore, I like it just fine. It helps hide the bags under my eyes from lack of sleep.
My Acer aspire from 1995 had working voice recognition. Worked like a charm. I could say "Shut down...yes," and it would shut down. I could say "Switch to Descent" and it would start Descent. I could say "Switch to Chess" and it would start Descent. I could say "Switch to CHESS you stupid computer" and it would shut down.
If it's not copied, copyright can't touch you. If you write a book that's word for word identical to a book under copyright, but can demonstrate that you were on a desert island and had absolutely no exposure to the other book, you're in violation of no law.
So even if it has the same values, that's not copyright violation.
Incidentally; Doom is set on Phobos, but the gravity there is negligible. Is this reflected in the game physics, with stuff taking forever to fall, or is it just dismissed and gravity treated as earth-normal?
Of course, this could be explained by the station having artificial gravity of some kind, but it would be interesting.
I'm agnostic myself but if you look at societies around the world most of the general belief in doing good stems from the belief in religion.
Bullcrap. The ratio of virtuous people (by the definition of law-abiding, because the only codified societal moral code we have are laws) to criminals are the same among the religious and among nontheists.
1. real page scaling , like PDF viewers, where the imags/text get scaled in perfect sync. DUH!!!! hurry up with this one.
There are a couple of solutions to this already extant:
Use Opera, which already has that feature
Or, on the webmaster side, it's actually possible to write the page that way in CSS. If you define image height/width in terms of ems, they scale with the fonts. Not ideal, but nifty.
There is a big complex explanation for this, which I've forgotten, but I'll try to get the gist of it.
In the TOS years, the klingons and romulans were allied, and klingons adopted romulan ships. But then the alliance was broken in bad blood and the two sides stopped liking eachother much. Conservative klingons are still using the same ship design, so they still have the birds of prey, but the liberal Romulans have moved on to bigger and better things, ie the warbirds.
> It's MUCH, MUCH easier to install things in linux than in any other OS.
>Okay, well, I don't think anybody really believes that, so... you know... whatever.
I do believe that, because it has become much easier for me to install programs. Rather than the windows cycle of "google for what i want to do, troll through the results for something that looks good, regoogle to make sure it isn't malware, discover it's crippleware, and spend a whole afternoon without finding anything that's actually freeware, settling for a 30-day trial, downloading, installing, rebooting, etc." it's just a two-step " -search function," then " app." Where might be urpmi, emerge, apt-get, Compile, whatever. It's much quicker than I used to deal with in Windows, and you know you're getting a good program that isn't crippled, timed, or infected.
And Mandrake's gui, with paragraph descriptions of all the programs you can install, searchable lists, and many ways of sorting the list, makes it even easier for the terminal-frightened newbie.
You're right though that something that automatically setup all the mirrors for broadband users and drew new users' attention to the installer program would help a lot. I'm not sure if Mandrake has one by now, I haven't used it for a while, but if it doesn't, you should write one.;)
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That doesn't happen. As long as you protect orifices skin may be safely exposed to vacuum.
Who is this Physic, and what is his rule?
It would be trivial to set it up so that double-clicking a tar ball in kde or gnome would launch an installer script that would take care of everything, and I'd be surprised if some distro hasn't already done so. You can even set up mime types so that clicking the download link for a tar ball on a web page will install it.
Furthermore, it shouldn't be necessary to use a CLI, ever. There is no way that a gui can ever make software installation as simple as typing the name of the program to install. There are fine gui solutions, like Mandrake's package manager, which lists all the programs available to install, and lets you sort them by various criteria, but the cli is simply faster. And there IS a simple, standard way to distribute an application for all versions of linux -- all versions of posix, assuming it's portably programmed -- and that's source. Anyone can install a tarball and with great scripts like CompileProgram anyone can install it with one command. The so-called "problems" of having to provide a version of your program for all the different distros only arises if you're binary-only, and that's the price you pay for closing your source.
Uh, netscape and mozilla have been the same thing for a long time now. You're thinking of Netscape 4; in case you hadn't noticed it's up to 7.2.
Real operations like America's funniest home videos presumably have their own mail servers, and thus can get dozens of gigabytes of email. I would assume so, anyway. I mean if I, as a college student, have the resources to do that, I'm sure any corporation does.
Why not just get that eye done, if it's a possible operation? That way there's no risk. If that's a success, you could consider getting the other eye done 6 months later.
Do you work out?
No.
Do you swim?
No.
Do you do yard work?
No -- well, sometimes, and then I just (shock) wear my glasses.
Do you wear your glasses in the shower?
Uh..no. I can actually find nearly any part of my body with my hands.
Having sex?
No. I can actually find nearly any part of her body with my hands too.
What about your peripheral vision?
Peripheral vision isn't detailed anyway; it just alerts you to movement, and that works even if you have poor vision, so this doesn't matter.
What about the fog when you walk out of that cold movie theater in the summer, or you walk into that nicely heated store in the winter?
Remove the glasses, wipe on your shirt, replace. 2-second reflex reaction.
Or when it rains?
The glasses protect your eyes from getting acid rain in them.
Maybe I'm just so completely trained to put them on every morning that I don't have problems forgetting them, and others do. Or maybe these people only wear glasses when they really need to see or read, as people in my high school tended to do, instead of constantly. Or maybe they do things like sports that require lack of eyewear, which I've been careful not to let happen to me.
Other than the fact that my glasses get incredibly scratched quickly, which I can't even see anymore, I like it just fine. It helps hide the bags under my eyes from lack of sleep.
It's sooo nice. Really. You can whip up a full web browser in about 5 minutes thanks to khtml.
My Acer aspire from 1995 had working voice recognition. Worked like a charm. I could say "Shut down...yes," and it would shut down. I could say "Switch to Descent" and it would start Descent. I could say "Switch to Chess" and it would start Descent. I could say "Switch to CHESS you stupid computer" and it would shut down.
So even if it has the same values, that's not copyright violation.
FX is a GeForce 5.
It has it in addition to the IE desktop icon, not replacing it, unfortunately.
Miami University is in Ohio, incidentally, not Florida. (as in, Miami was a University when Florida still belonged to Spain.)
Of course, this could be explained by the station having artificial gravity of some kind, but it would be interesting.
Uh, do you have a source for this or are you just making it up?
Bullcrap. The ratio of virtuous people (by the definition of law-abiding, because the only codified societal moral code we have are laws) to criminals are the same among the religious and among nontheists.
a bash script? that's definitely something to just be done from the command line. while true; do wget blah; done
KDE 3 runs fine on pentiums with 64 mb ram.
I usually use fooker@gpf.net.
The correct way is to use anything @mailinator.com
There are a couple of solutions to this already extant:
Use Opera, which already has that feature
Or, on the webmaster side, it's actually possible to write the page that way in CSS. If you define image height/width in terms of ems, they scale with the fonts. Not ideal, but nifty.
In the TOS years, the klingons and romulans were allied, and klingons adopted romulan ships. But then the alliance was broken in bad blood and the two sides stopped liking eachother much. Conservative klingons are still using the same ship design, so they still have the birds of prey, but the liberal Romulans have moved on to bigger and better things, ie the warbirds.
In reality, it was a mistake.
Make that
it's just a two-step "[program] -search function," then "[program] app." Where [program] might be urpmi, emerge, apt-get, Compile, whatever.
>Okay, well, I don't think anybody really believes that, so... you know... whatever.
I do believe that, because it has become much easier for me to install programs. Rather than the windows cycle of "google for what i want to do, troll through the results for something that looks good, regoogle to make sure it isn't malware, discover it's crippleware, and spend a whole afternoon without finding anything that's actually freeware, settling for a 30-day trial, downloading, installing, rebooting, etc." it's just a two-step " -search function," then " app." Where might be urpmi, emerge, apt-get, Compile, whatever. It's much quicker than I used to deal with in Windows, and you know you're getting a good program that isn't crippled, timed, or infected.
And Mandrake's gui, with paragraph descriptions of all the programs you can install, searchable lists, and many ways of sorting the list, makes it even easier for the terminal-frightened newbie.
You're right though that something that automatically setup all the mirrors for broadband users and drew new users' attention to the installer program would help a lot. I'm not sure if Mandrake has one by now, I haven't used it for a while, but if it doesn't, you should write one. ;)