So why don't you have to jump through hoops to install OS X? It has no annoying activation or some Apple Genuine Advantage (tm) daemon or anything. All they really do is request you don't illegally redistribute it instead of assuming that you're going to redistribute it and stopping you at any cost.
If you get a Mac Pro, you can continue to upgrade the hardware inside like you would a PC. The only thing that needs to be Apple in a Mac is the logic board (motherboard).
And since the Xbox 360 is far more powerful than the original Xbox, they should also be able to support H.264 and HD resolutions for all MPEG-4 profiles.
You pay him to fix the toilet and you pay for him to have spent years studying as an apprentice for him to learn how to do this.
No, I hire him because he has years of experience. I pay him to get the job done. The more experienced (or better) you are at something, the more money you'll probably make from doing that.
I was wondering about that. I, too, used the 686-smp kernel, yet now I have that generic kernel. What are you supposed to do to get SMP working again? Or is that done automagically?
Oh man, you'll love the new apt in Etch; right now, it has incremental package list updates (i.e. diffs), so doing apt-get update takes far less time now. I don't remember if Sarge's apt has gpg-verification, but that's an interesting feature in Etch's apt (it's been included in Ubuntu for quite a while now, though).
I also remember reading a discussion about possibly using 7-zip compression (LZMA) in.deb files in the future to save even more bandwidth.
For one, people simply don't use the official way to update their system. Instead they blindly edit their sources.list, then run into problems and take hours and hours to complain about them on their blogs and in forums when all they had to do was take the 10 seconds it takes to read the instructions.
In a Debian-based system, all you need to do to upgrade is change the name of the distro in sources.list, then run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade; this is the official method of doing so. If that goes wrong in an Ubuntu upgrade and you're only using software from their repository, it's probably their fault.
I had similar problems. Thank God I have experience with Debian Sid, so I know how to deal with package breakage in all sorts of fashions. This sort of messy upgrade, however, is unacceptable. I've always been able to dist-upgrade a Debian stable machine to the next release without these sorts of problems. Edgy and Etch have quite a few similar packages right now, and I'm pretty sure that Etch will be released with even more updated packages than Edgy, yet that upgrade should probably go fine.
It makes some common idioms, notably including embedded Javascript code, much more awkward to write correctly.
Uh, that's easy to do:
<script type='application/javascript'><![CDATA[/* javascript code here */ ]]></script>
The <![CDATA[ ]]> syntax is from XML itself, so that problem has never existed. You can do the same thing for CSS.
If you're talking about the onclick and related attributes, that still works. You need to return a value after the code, though. e.g., onclick='function(){ foo(); return true; }'
Like SVG, I don't think MathML is supposed to be written by hand; it can be easily generated by a program (e.g. KFormula, OpenOffice Math, Equation Editor (or whatever MS Office's math program is now)) just as SVG is generated by a program (e.g. Inkscape, Karbon14, Illustrator). If XHTML could be easily generated (correctly) by a program, you could combine the other programs and have an easy to use suite for creating web pages.
Old content was converted to HTML 4.01 Strict a while ago when Slashdot updated its markup to HTML 4.01 Strict. It's quite trivial to convert that to XHTML 1.0 Strict (and as a result, XHTML 1.1), so there's no big problem with that here.
MySpace is designed to get the maximum amount of ad impressions without pissing users off to the point where they stop using the site. That would explain why it's so fucking hard to do anything and why you have to navigate through like 50 pages to do anything.
I suppose we should be grateful that they're not still using quill pens.
I'd like it better if they did use quill pens; that way their laws they write would be far shorter, less ambiguous, and more to the point. You'd have to make sure they are the ones writing the actual laws, though (e.g. all laws must be submitted in writing on parchment via a quill pen).
Well, considering a huge amount of Slashdotters are Libertarians, and considering the massive amount of political debates we have on Slashdot, I think a lot of us "get politics". If politicians could hold the same interest in tech (and other issues they legislate on) as we do politics, they might not be talking about tubes.
Now that you mention it, I have been trying to store some data in/dev/null, but it keeps on disappearing, and I was wondering what might be the cause for that.
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I mean seriously, what the fuck is the point of posting this here? Damn astroturfers modding up Linux-bashing...
So why don't you have to jump through hoops to install OS X? It has no annoying activation or some Apple Genuine Advantage (tm) daemon or anything. All they really do is request you don't illegally redistribute it instead of assuming that you're going to redistribute it and stopping you at any cost.
If you get a Mac Pro, you can continue to upgrade the hardware inside like you would a PC. The only thing that needs to be Apple in a Mac is the logic board (motherboard).
And since the Xbox 360 is far more powerful than the original Xbox, they should also be able to support H.264 and HD resolutions for all MPEG-4 profiles.
Right, it's Debian with a faster release cycle, first-party commercial support, and far less supported packages.
I was wondering about that. I, too, used the 686-smp kernel, yet now I have that generic kernel. What are you supposed to do to get SMP working again? Or is that done automagically?
Oh man, you'll love the new apt in Etch; right now, it has incremental package list updates (i.e. diffs), so doing apt-get update takes far less time now. I don't remember if Sarge's apt has gpg-verification, but that's an interesting feature in Etch's apt (it's been included in Ubuntu for quite a while now, though).
.deb files in the future to save even more bandwidth.
I also remember reading a discussion about possibly using 7-zip compression (LZMA) in
I had similar problems. Thank God I have experience with Debian Sid, so I know how to deal with package breakage in all sorts of fashions. This sort of messy upgrade, however, is unacceptable. I've always been able to dist-upgrade a Debian stable machine to the next release without these sorts of problems. Edgy and Etch have quite a few similar packages right now, and I'm pretty sure that Etch will be released with even more updated packages than Edgy, yet that upgrade should probably go fine.
That's an issue with Linux itself more so than Ubuntu. For some reason, network device order doesn't seem to stay the same in each kernel update...
The first 10 amendments were all ratified at the same time y'know...
You still need to aim with a shotgun. ;p
It's a bit harder to aim a shottie than a rifle IME due to a much larger kick from shooting a shotgun shell as opposed to a rifle bullet.
If you're talking about the onclick and related attributes, that still works. You need to return a value after the code, though. e.g., onclick='function(){ foo(); return true; }'
Like SVG, I don't think MathML is supposed to be written by hand; it can be easily generated by a program (e.g. KFormula, OpenOffice Math, Equation Editor (or whatever MS Office's math program is now)) just as SVG is generated by a program (e.g. Inkscape, Karbon14, Illustrator). If XHTML could be easily generated (correctly) by a program, you could combine the other programs and have an easy to use suite for creating web pages.
Old content was converted to HTML 4.01 Strict a while ago when Slashdot updated its markup to HTML 4.01 Strict. It's quite trivial to convert that to XHTML 1.0 Strict (and as a result, XHTML 1.1), so there's no big problem with that here.
Frames were replaced with Ajax. Typical Ajax use loads shit into another fucking unsemantic div element, not span.
Oh, and Shockwave isn't really used much anymore (except for some games, but Java applets are being used for about the same thing nowadays as well).
MySpace is designed to get the maximum amount of ad impressions without pissing users off to the point where they stop using the site. That would explain why it's so fucking hard to do anything and why you have to navigate through like 50 pages to do anything.
Well, considering a huge amount of Slashdotters are Libertarians, and considering the massive amount of political debates we have on Slashdot, I think a lot of us "get politics". If politicians could hold the same interest in tech (and other issues they legislate on) as we do politics, they might not be talking about tubes.
Now that you mention it, I have been trying to store some data in /dev/null, but it keeps on disappearing, and I was wondering what might be the cause for that.