I guess you never heard about yum. Or apt. Or urpmi...
This package dep sorting out thing is not xxx distro specific - you can get it on many many distros. Sure, some don't, but gentoo, debian, redhat/fedora, SuSE and mandrake do.
For me and people like me, though, things like that would be awful. If I socialise I do it because I want to - not because some agency, community, government or otherwise says I ought to. For me, socialising has to sit inside very tight parameters for it to work at all. It must feel natural - setting out to socialise ends in disaster because that's not the way it works. OTOH, if I meet someone in a bar by accident, and get talking with them, a great friendship could occur.
Sure, some people do purposeful socialising, but if you ask me it just feels fake.
You're missing the point. You didn't need I-Neighbourhood to bring the community together - you did it yourselves. Hell, even a slashdotter got involved - real life isn't that scary when we're faced with it.
A solid neighbourhood doesn't come from some superficial dating agency spinoff (which as people have mentioned, will probably used as one) - it comes from actually needing each other.
The fact is is that it's possibly dangerous, not that it's likely to bring the plane down. The fact that it could interfere with navigation/communication systems means that it could cause an error which means that it could bring the plane down.
It's a lot easier to make a sweeping statement than to have to check each and every electronic device coming onboard.
Exactly - the default driver is not an option if you want to do any gaming on Linux. And don't give me that "Windows for games" m'larky - there are some kickass games for Linux, proving that popular (e.g. UT2004) games can and do work.
I personally managed to find two patches and a prior hack that enabled me to use the radeon dri drivers with FC2. However, the installer did almost nothing to help with this.
But so far, the holes have proved to be few, and when present very quickly fixed This point is very important, as it shows that the coders are devoted to security.
And the popularity point always has one big, fat, sweating problem - Apache.
Those who post on/. are most likely going to be iptable'd, non-root'd and well up2date'd/yum'd/apt-get'd/uprmi'd/emerge'd/whateve rthefrickingelse'd You get the picture.
The fact is, Linux seems to make it easier for the technical user to secure his box. If the lusers get pwned, then that's nothing new - Linux or Windows.
What I found interesting was that as soon as you stopped trying to read, it became much easier to read. If your forget about the fact that the letters are farked, then you can read very quickly, but if you concentrate on reading then you get bogged down.
I assume this is something to do with the fact that consciously reading involves serial letter recognition, otherwise it's parallel or something else.
I guess this could cause some futzing of results, also.
But that's completely irrelevant - the fittest of those in the same situation survive that situation. Even then, chance is even handed so you have a net survival of the fittest even if, in one case, the fittest gets eaten.
The point of debate was that you could not say "survival of the fittest" because it is not just the fittest individual that survives. However, fittest can apply to more than just one - it can be used as a percentage.
Well, not really. If you think about it, the whole point of a password, which is very easy to use as long as you remember it, is that it's not easy for a cracker to get hold of it. Sudo is easy to use, but you still can't use it without enabling it, which requires the root password.
Ease of use is relative. Having to log out and log in as root to perform the tiniest administrative task is not ease of use, but it's no more secure than using su.
That's what you get with fox news...
It's somehow helpful to know that any guy "pulling a gun on you" is already breaking the law (unless he's a police officer... or farmer or something)
The closest you get to this at english unis is probably the Assassins club... (they're the guys who pretend to kill each other - although they're not allowed to use custard powder for anthrax any more. someone thought it was real)
Seriously, though... I'd like to think that any uni I went to had good enough people to not steal my stuff at every turn, and not to try and mug me.
What happened to good, old fashioned "don't walk down the dark alley alone with nobody watching?" It's unlikely that you'll be mugged in full daylight, in a college quad.
Merely showing the fair, even-handedness of the slashdot mods!
But seriously, it doesn't matter whether it really "works" or it's just a placebo - if the machinery does what you want it to do, you don't need to look at the insides.
That and the fact that there are an awful lot of people who've been hearing answers for a very long time, so you should never say anything with adamance.
It's some nameless thing - fine except it has an annoying habit of jumping (but that's quite rare and could be the surface) I'm also not sure about the resolution on the thing, but if I need to do hi-res image editing I have a graphics tablet - but that's not suitable for everyday use and doesn't have 5 buttons.
Wow... that cracked me up more than any of the jokes previously... "Beweee" Tee hee!
I always used to pronounce it Kwayside, but my Grandmother lived by the sea, so I was quickly corrected.
What pisses me off is when an English friend starts saying "prohsessoar"
Europeans laugh when people come over here and start talking about rowters and prohsessoars - but that's just pronunciation, nothing to do with innuendo!
I'm colour deficient - I cannot see red properly. I turned the red electron gun to binary (i.e. "off" or "full") forget, and didn't notice until someone said the monitor looked very blue...
I can't be sure, but I reckon I see more detail in the blue end of the spectrum, perhaps because of this.
Well, that's what the forward triangle, triangles + bar, two bars and square are for. Surely you recognise them?
Not sure what you mean about "the bottom part of the motion..." but yes, twisty knob widgets can be extremely annoying. OTOH, many skins come without them - you're not forced to use them.
There are so many different skins that you have both the convoluted and the simple - pick what you want.
So get a better skin? See, there's the beauty of the system - you can download another one! There's no point in saying "In one skin there was nothing but blackness" because it was probably done by some l4m3r who thought d00d, i cNa m4k3 teh skinz0rs!!
On a related note, you can still get media players of your preferred kind - try rhythmbox. Even if you prefer XMMS, you can often find a skin that's close to your GTK/QT skin, or - design your own!
What if people want a bit of art to go with their tunes? Art and sound go hand in hand, which, I suppose is one of the themes behind the iPod.
I personally think that media apps deserve to look as good as their physical counterparts. You can get some nice skins for GTK, QT, and the rest, but they DO need to be functional and easy to use. The Media player is going to be as easy to use with or without its skin, it's not like the buttons disappear.
I can say that I do like pretty media players. The thing is, the standard GUI is not designed with a Hi FI in mind - It has buttons with little triangles, squares, circles, vertical lines, volume knobs, trays, etc. You can't do this in a regular toolkit, so I think it's nice to get this back.
I mean, no-one complains that the Hi-Fi is in a different style to the table - that's because they're completely different things.
Difficult to put my finger on it, but I like being able to select a beautiful, shiny, fake-LEDy skin to make my media player MINE.
Actually, mainstream, desktop distros encourage the user to create a non-root account on startup.
Plus, what's the first thing a newbie hears when he/she goes online and says they have a problem, blah-blah-blah-root-blah-blah - "Are you running as root?" "That's bad!"
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I guess you never heard about yum. Or apt. Or urpmi...
This package dep sorting out thing is not xxx distro specific - you can get it on many many distros. Sure, some don't, but gentoo, debian, redhat/fedora, SuSE and mandrake do.
For me and people like me, though, things like that would be awful. If I socialise I do it because I want to - not because some agency, community, government or otherwise says I ought to. For me, socialising has to sit inside very tight parameters for it to work at all. It must feel natural - setting out to socialise ends in disaster because that's not the way it works. OTOH, if I meet someone in a bar by accident, and get talking with them, a great friendship could occur.
Sure, some people do purposeful socialising, but if you ask me it just feels fake.
You're missing the point. You didn't need I-Neighbourhood to bring the community together - you did it yourselves. Hell, even a slashdotter got involved - real life isn't that scary when we're faced with it.
A solid neighbourhood doesn't come from some superficial dating agency spinoff (which as people have mentioned, will probably used as one) - it comes from actually needing each other.
The fact is is that it's possibly dangerous, not that it's likely to bring the plane down. The fact that it could interfere with navigation/communication systems means that it could cause an error which means that it could bring the plane down.
It's a lot easier to make a sweeping statement than to have to check each and every electronic device coming onboard.
Exactly - the default driver is not an option if you want to do any gaming on Linux. And don't give me that "Windows for games" m'larky - there are some kickass games for Linux, proving that popular (e.g. UT2004) games can and do work.
I personally managed to find two patches and a prior hack that enabled me to use the radeon dri drivers with FC2. However, the installer did almost nothing to help with this.
But so far, the holes have proved to be few, and when present very quickly fixed This point is very important, as it shows that the coders are devoted to security.
And the popularity point always has one big, fat, sweating problem - Apache.
Those who post on /. are most likely going to be iptable'd, non-root'd and well up2date'd/yum'd/apt-get'd/uprmi'd/emerge'd/whateve rthefrickingelse'd You get the picture.
The fact is, Linux seems to make it easier for the technical user to secure his box. If the lusers get pwned, then that's nothing new - Linux or Windows.
What I found interesting was that as soon as you stopped trying to read, it became much easier to read. If your forget about the fact that the letters are farked, then you can read very quickly, but if you concentrate on reading then you get bogged down.
I assume this is something to do with the fact that consciously reading involves serial letter recognition, otherwise it's parallel or something else.
I guess this could cause some futzing of results, also.
Unless the doom/quake mods were created after counterstrike was.
But that's completely irrelevant - the fittest of those in the same situation survive that situation. Even then, chance is even handed so you have a net survival of the fittest even if, in one case, the fittest gets eaten.
The point of debate was that you could not say "survival of the fittest" because it is not just the fittest individual that survives. However, fittest can apply to more than just one - it can be used as a percentage.
Well, not really. If you think about it, the whole point of a password, which is very easy to use as long as you remember it, is that it's not easy for a cracker to get hold of it. Sudo is easy to use, but you still can't use it without enabling it, which requires the root password.
Ease of use is relative. Having to log out and log in as root to perform the tiniest administrative task is not ease of use, but it's no more secure than using su.
Disproof: "The fittest 50% of the population survived."
It's somehow helpful to know that any guy "pulling a gun on you" is already breaking the law (unless he's a police officer... or farmer or something)
The closest you get to this at english unis is probably the Assassins club... (they're the guys who pretend to kill each other - although they're not allowed to use custard powder for anthrax any more. someone thought it was real)
Seriously, though... I'd like to think that any uni I went to had good enough people to not steal my stuff at every turn, and not to try and mug me.
What happened to good, old fashioned "don't walk down the dark alley alone with nobody watching?" It's unlikely that you'll be mugged in full daylight, in a college quad.
Merely showing the fair, even-handedness of the slashdot mods!
But seriously, it doesn't matter whether it really "works" or it's just a placebo - if the machinery does what you want it to do, you don't need to look at the insides.
That and the fact that there are an awful lot of people who've been hearing answers for a very long time, so you should never say anything with adamance.
It's some nameless thing - fine except it has an annoying habit of jumping (but that's quite rare and could be the surface) I'm also not sure about the resolution on the thing, but if I need to do hi-res image editing I have a graphics tablet - but that's not suitable for everyday use and doesn't have 5 buttons.
I always used to pronounce it Kwayside, but my Grandmother lived by the sea, so I was quickly corrected.
What pisses me off is when an English friend starts saying "prohsessoar"
Europeans laugh when people come over here and start talking about rowters and prohsessoars - but that's just pronunciation, nothing to do with innuendo!
'Scuse, my laser mouse cost £4 and has 5 buttons. It'll probably fall apart after a few months of use, but for £4 you can't really go wrong.
I'm colour deficient - I cannot see red properly. I turned the red electron gun to binary (i.e. "off" or "full") forget, and didn't notice until someone said the monitor looked very blue...
I can't be sure, but I reckon I see more detail in the blue end of the spectrum, perhaps because of this.
Never heard of ink and paper than? Naa, too bad.
Not sure what you mean about "the bottom part of the motion..." but yes, twisty knob widgets can be extremely annoying. OTOH, many skins come without them - you're not forced to use them.
There are so many different skins that you have both the convoluted and the simple - pick what you want.
Alternatively, use rhythmbox or something.
On a related note, you can still get media players of your preferred kind - try rhythmbox. Even if you prefer XMMS, you can often find a skin that's close to your GTK/QT skin, or - design your own!
What if people want a bit of art to go with their tunes? Art and sound go hand in hand, which, I suppose is one of the themes behind the iPod.
I personally think that media apps deserve to look as good as their physical counterparts. You can get some nice skins for GTK, QT, and the rest, but they DO need to be functional and easy to use. The Media player is going to be as easy to use with or without its skin, it's not like the buttons disappear.
I mean, no-one complains that the Hi-Fi is in a different style to the table - that's because they're completely different things.
Difficult to put my finger on it, but I like being able to select a beautiful, shiny, fake-LEDy skin to make my media player MINE.
Actually, mainstream, desktop distros encourage the user to create a non-root account on startup.
Plus, what's the first thing a newbie hears when he/she goes online and says they have a problem, blah-blah-blah-root-blah-blah - "Are you running as root?" "That's bad!"