You still have to manually manage applications. Most applications (if not all) that come with OS X can be updated with the software updater, but all your 3rd party applications either need to implement their own updater (e.g. Firefox) or just tell you to check for updates yourself and re-copy them to wherever you installed it.
Of course, there is fink for OS X, but that is basically APT with OS X binaries instead of ELF ones.
I don't know about you, but I can build and install a computer in much less time than the time it takes to uninstall all the crapware on Dell machines and get everything working reasonably well. If you say I should just flatten and reinstall, then you're still wasting the same amount of time as you would with the installation minus maybe a half hour of putting it together.
Well, I don't know if any burners exist that can write to sector 0, but I do know that a DVD press can certainly do so, and since you'd have to be insane to burn all the copies of a DVD you're publishing, companies and people both use DVD presses to make mass copies. Since the only people who would also use CSS are the larger companies who don't feel the CSS and macrovision licencing fees are a waste of money (despite the fact that they are), they're also the same people using DVD presses.
Does anyone debate that we humans are at least partially responsible for global warming? If so, we should really try to back off in order to prevent human extinction. I don't know how much the global climate can change before we as humans either need to evolve or die off. Stephen Hawking believes that we need to find a way to get off this planet as soon as possible in order for the human race to live on, and if global warming has anything to do with that, we better start doing something useful about it rather than having long, esoteric political debates about who or what is causing global warming or whether it even exists.
What's the difference between a consumer DVD player and, e.g., an enterprise DVD player? Or a "prosumer" DVD player? Are they able to ignore regional settings and have a CSS licence or something?
There are so many unwarranted uses of the word "consumer" in TFS and TFA it isn't funny.
Why is it that Mr. Gabriel is constantly making an objection to form when the judge just keeps denying him with a lack of foundation? Is it a case of throwing enough shit that some will stick?
There's always Magnatune; they offer FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, VBR MP3, AAC, and even 128k MP3 (gratis) for all their albums. Hell, if you like Metallica, even they offer FLAC and MP3 recordings of their concerts. More sites that sell or offer FLACs are listed on FLAC's website.
Thankfully we have Krita which has much more potential to be a Photoshop replacement (especially since its interface is very similar to Photoshop's unlike GIMP). Come KOffice 2.0, we'll have a native Windows port, so then it can gain some more mindshare and people won't have to think that "free image editor == GIMP" all the time.
I don't think anyone has a problem with openSUSE; it's a good, Free distro that doesn't seem to be encumbered by Novell's inane patent agreement with Microsoft. We have a problem with Novell and by extension SUSE (SLED, SLES).
Do you buy anything from companies you don't trust? I don't mean companies you've never heard of, but ones you know are untrustworthy. Hell, I know you wouldn't buy those pop-up blockers that are advertised in pop-ups, right?
In some businesses, the thing you're selling is entirely dependent on trust (e.g. banks, credit, stocks, bonds).
And do you really think any Slashdotters actually click the ads? Nobody sells ads based on views; they're based on clicks at least. If we come here to flame each other about Microsoft, we surely aren't clicking the ads for Vista and other shit that's advertised here.
Well, the more users you have, the more DNS entries you can cache, so there's less need for new DNS queries.
I would not use OpenDNS only because I despise ads. I'd rather pay a few bucks a month for a good DNS service if it really mattered that much than have to deal with even more ads infecting the internet. Call me old-fashioned, but I liked it better when ads rarely (if ever) existed, or when there were only a few ad providers so you could easily block them via your hosts file.
Completely agreed. Nobody has an excuse not to have at least IE7 if not another web browser installed (e.g. Firefox, Opera) for normal web usage.
It'd make more sense to have IE6 for your intranet applications that require it along with Firefox or Opera (or anything other than IE really) for normal web usage than to stick with IE6 outright. IE doesn't seem like it was designed for the internet; it was designed for the intranet, and IE7 finally adds on sandboxing that makes it quite a bit more apt for internet usage, but it still has a way to go.
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Kopete is perfect. I've used it several times for webcam, and it works perfectly.
You could also use pretty much any H.323 application as well, but that isn't how MSN works.
People give the same exact answer when people bitch about lack of support in Windows [Vista] or OS X as well. Not much difference there...
You still have to manually manage applications. Most applications (if not all) that come with OS X can be updated with the software updater, but all your 3rd party applications either need to implement their own updater (e.g. Firefox) or just tell you to check for updates yourself and re-copy them to wherever you installed it.
Of course, there is fink for OS X, but that is basically APT with OS X binaries instead of ELF ones.
I don't know about you, but I can build and install a computer in much less time than the time it takes to uninstall all the crapware on Dell machines and get everything working reasonably well. If you say I should just flatten and reinstall, then you're still wasting the same amount of time as you would with the installation minus maybe a half hour of putting it together.
Well, I don't know if any burners exist that can write to sector 0, but I do know that a DVD press can certainly do so, and since you'd have to be insane to burn all the copies of a DVD you're publishing, companies and people both use DVD presses to make mass copies. Since the only people who would also use CSS are the larger companies who don't feel the CSS and macrovision licencing fees are a waste of money (despite the fact that they are), they're also the same people using DVD presses.
Does anyone debate that we humans are at least partially responsible for global warming? If so, we should really try to back off in order to prevent human extinction. I don't know how much the global climate can change before we as humans either need to evolve or die off. Stephen Hawking believes that we need to find a way to get off this planet as soon as possible in order for the human race to live on, and if global warming has anything to do with that, we better start doing something useful about it rather than having long, esoteric political debates about who or what is causing global warming or whether it even exists.
What's the difference between a consumer DVD player and, e.g., an enterprise DVD player? Or a "prosumer" DVD player? Are they able to ignore regional settings and have a CSS licence or something?
There are so many unwarranted uses of the word "consumer" in TFS and TFA it isn't funny.
Why is it that Mr. Gabriel is constantly making an objection to form when the judge just keeps denying him with a lack of foundation? Is it a case of throwing enough shit that some will stick?
Way ahead of you.
Just wait for Debian Etch; that should help update a lot of hosts into using modern languages (including modern versions of PHP).
And what about the Brits who live in UTC/GMT? They're set for life...
Can't you change to runlevel 1 and then back into whichever one you were using to restart all the necessary programs without rebooting?
UTC isn't affected by DST.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the problem here...
Yeah, because that delete button is so damn hard to press without accidentally clicking on an ad...
Google Ads don't make you money based on hits; people have to click them first.
There's always Magnatune; they offer FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, VBR MP3, AAC, and even 128k MP3 (gratis) for all their albums. Hell, if you like Metallica, even they offer FLAC and MP3 recordings of their concerts. More sites that sell or offer FLACs are listed on FLAC's website.
Remember, you're on Slashdot! Don't like it? Oh well.
Thankfully we have Krita which has much more potential to be a Photoshop replacement (especially since its interface is very similar to Photoshop's unlike GIMP). Come KOffice 2.0, we'll have a native Windows port, so then it can gain some more mindshare and people won't have to think that "free image editor == GIMP" all the time.
I don't think anyone has a problem with openSUSE; it's a good, Free distro that doesn't seem to be encumbered by Novell's inane patent agreement with Microsoft. We have a problem with Novell and by extension SUSE (SLED, SLES).
Do you buy anything from companies you don't trust? I don't mean companies you've never heard of, but ones you know are untrustworthy. Hell, I know you wouldn't buy those pop-up blockers that are advertised in pop-ups, right?
In some businesses, the thing you're selling is entirely dependent on trust (e.g. banks, credit, stocks, bonds).
And do you really think any Slashdotters actually click the ads? Nobody sells ads based on views; they're based on clicks at least. If we come here to flame each other about Microsoft, we surely aren't clicking the ads for Vista and other shit that's advertised here.
Apparently, you can get away with shit like that when you have a monopoly...
Well, the more users you have, the more DNS entries you can cache, so there's less need for new DNS queries.
I would not use OpenDNS only because I despise ads. I'd rather pay a few bucks a month for a good DNS service if it really mattered that much than have to deal with even more ads infecting the internet. Call me old-fashioned, but I liked it better when ads rarely (if ever) existed, or when there were only a few ad providers so you could easily block them via your hosts file.
Completely agreed. Nobody has an excuse not to have at least IE7 if not another web browser installed (e.g. Firefox, Opera) for normal web usage.
It'd make more sense to have IE6 for your intranet applications that require it along with Firefox or Opera (or anything other than IE really) for normal web usage than to stick with IE6 outright. IE doesn't seem like it was designed for the internet; it was designed for the intranet, and IE7 finally adds on sandboxing that makes it quite a bit more apt for internet usage, but it still has a way to go.
So whose fault is it when Linux doesn't support your hardware?
Uh, the 80386 came out almost 20 years ago, no fucking comparison to 4 years ago.