All binary packages are annoying in the same way (library requirements), regardless of the package format. What's in RPM that people see flaws general to binary packages and attribute it specifically to RPM?
The other thing is his *years* of jail time were spent before he was ever convicted, i.e. pleaded guilty to some of the charges to cut short his lack-of-a-speedy trial. He's done his time. He can talk as long as people will pay him.
I don't know how it is in the land of freedom, but in Europe, you can sue your government and get compensation for the lack of a speedy trial.
I love such arguments. Unless I'd see their balance sheet, I'd refrain from estimating what their profit margin is, but everybody has the right to be naive. There are few businesses in this world with over 100% profit margin.
If 800,000 people are willing to pay $15 a month, it means the price is good. It's the market which sets the price, supply and demand thing. Blizzard is not a monopoly in MMORPG business. If the price was unfair, people would not pay it.
Scientific community on unix is pretty settled down on Latex or postscript
You're totally wrong. Have you been to conference or a seminar recently? In my area (physics), people no longer print slides, they create their presentations either in PowerPoint (experimentalists) or in LaTeX (theoreticians), with a PDF file as a final stage. Two most important LaTeX packages for making PDF presentations are beamer (to be used with pdflatex) and prosper (to be used width dvips and ps2pdf). Also, most scientific article I download from the net are in PDF format.
The problem with the accountability of the European Commission is that it is negotiated by the governments, but accepted by someone else - the Parliament. The governments take a long time in agreeing to who will be the presidents, negotiating with the man over which country will get which commission, and then the whole structure is presented to the Parliament. Now, if the Parliament finds some flaws in the Commission, which would cause a similarly flawed cabinet fail to obtain acceptance of a national parliament (in most Europe, cabinets have to be voted through the Parliament, unlike the Secretaries nominated by the US President), it can't really trash the commission, if the flaw is not big enough, because the governments would say "we've been through all these negotiations to get a working compromise, and now you'd ruin it all??"
Another problem is, that elections to the EP are a bit weird, because people often vote for parties not based on how these parties acted in the EP, but on how these parties acted in the national parliament at home. This gives the Euro-MPs freedom to do whatever they want, because voters at home do not react to this too often. Insted, national parties join "fractions" in the EP and act according to the policies of those fractions, which is not always identical with what their voters would like to see.
Why the euroskeptics dislike the EU? Because it has too little democracy, they say. Why does it have too little democracy? Because the eurosceptics prefer to give national governments the right to decide matters over people's - and parliament's - heads. Why the euroskeptics don't wish to give those powers to the Europarliament? Because they dislike the EU...
Flash has its nice sides, too. I have yet to see a webpage looking as nice as good Flash webpages, coded without Flash. Flash is about the only way when you want your page to be rendered always in the font you choose.
You are much less likely to make a typo in a word you understand than in a meaningless set of letters.
Not always. I'm not a programmer, I'm a scientist. I do however write some numerical code in C and Fortran. I noticed that if I call a variable state_count, half an hour later I may think that I called it state_cnt, or st_count. If I called it scnt, I would simply have to remember that cryptic name, and had it right every time. I think the good approach is to pick names that are easy to pronounce, at least for me.
I still prefer the first approach, to save myself the trouble of wondering what the Hell stcnt meant 6 month later.
I think "Mein Kampf" should be published with a commentary, explaining the thing to naive readers (before you start asking questions, I met a few people dumb enough to be able to believe in Hitler's babble).
Germany's ban on everything connected with Nazism has two-fold implications: first, it helps keep neo-Nazis in check. But the second one is somewhat alarming and I will share some thoughts on that.
I attended a Polish-German meeting in a little place called Krzyzowa (Kreisau) in western Poland. During the conference, the Germans watched some Leni Riefenstahl documentary movies. It turns out, you practically can't see them in Germany. This is because they were brilliant, artistic, pro-Nazi propaganda shot in the '30s. Hiding such things away from the public may lead to 'this did not really happen' attitude. Since we hear no Nazis, see no Nazis, see no traces of them, why should we believe they ever existed? It smells a bit like whitewash.
Some people said that were NSDAP permitted to stand in 1945 elections in occupied Germany, it would win. So some hand-holding was necessary, I suppose.
If I walked up to a rape victim in public and claimed 'you asked for it', I'd be guily of harassment. But if I say on a radio 'rape victims ask for it', I'm only showing how ignorant bigot I am.
The question with 'Holocaust denial' (in Poland it's called 'Auschwitz lie') is that people who want it punished are afraid that some more people will believe in those lies and forget the tragic lesson of history. Whether this is a justification, remains subject to debate.
The difference is, that Germans went through a process of rethinking what went wrong and what should they do to not let it happen again. Russians still hold themselvs for innocents always harmed by others.
But dependencies are in the domain of RPM, not poldek! It doesn't matter which front-end you use, as long as you have broken dependencies, you have troubles. Don't blame the errors of the package maintainers on the tool you use to install the package.
I'm sorry, but I can't believe in asbesthos (or PVC) travelling over such long distances. If the Serbs built their factories with asbesthos, it's their problem and I'm fairly sure the Serbs inhaled most of it.
The aim of NATO bombings was not to kill Bulgarian people, not even to kill Serbs -- just to reduce Serbian military potential and make Serbia follow UN resolutions. If we are to fret ourselves just because something nasty may travel downwind (it's not as if NATO bombed nuclear plants, remember), then we may as well disband all armies and wait for less cautious people to arrive and do what they want with us. There wouldn't be any bombing had Milosevic obeyed the UN resolutions. Or do you suggest we should wait and see how the Serbs slaughter the Albanians in Kosovo, like we did (regrettably) in Srebrenica?
To finish my point, I do not recollect Bulgarian government issuing any sort of protest against NATO bombing of Serbian factories, neither now (like asking for recompensation) nor in the past.
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Did you ever hear about --nodeps and --force options?
All binary packages are annoying in the same way (library requirements), regardless of the package format. What's in RPM that people see flaws general to binary packages and attribute it specifically to RPM?
I mean like planting rockets on Cuba and aiming them at the U.S. Or blockading West Berlin.
They were acting all the time against the US and Western democracies, so it wasn't a paranoia at all.
The other thing is his *years* of jail time were spent before he was ever convicted, i.e. pleaded guilty to some of the charges to cut short his lack-of-a-speedy trial. He's done his time. He can talk as long as people will pay him.
I don't know how it is in the land of freedom, but in Europe, you can sue your government and get compensation for the lack of a speedy trial.
I love such arguments. Unless I'd see their balance sheet, I'd refrain from estimating what their profit margin is, but everybody has the right to be naive. There are few businesses in this world with over 100% profit margin.
If 800,000 people are willing to pay $15 a month, it means the price is good. It's the market which sets the price, supply and demand thing. Blizzard is not a monopoly in MMORPG business. If the price was unfair, people would not pay it.
Scientific community on unix is pretty settled down on Latex or postscript
You're totally wrong. Have you been to conference or a seminar recently? In my area (physics), people no longer print slides, they create their presentations either in PowerPoint (experimentalists) or in LaTeX (theoreticians), with a PDF file as a final stage. Two most important LaTeX packages for making PDF presentations are beamer (to be used with pdflatex) and prosper (to be used width dvips and ps2pdf). Also, most scientific article I download from the net are in PDF format.
The problem with the accountability of the European Commission is that it is negotiated by the governments, but accepted by someone else - the Parliament. The governments take a long time in agreeing to who will be the presidents, negotiating with the man over which country will get which commission, and then the whole structure is presented to the Parliament. Now, if the Parliament finds some flaws in the Commission, which would cause a similarly flawed cabinet fail to obtain acceptance of a national parliament (in most Europe, cabinets have to be voted through the Parliament, unlike the Secretaries nominated by the US President), it can't really trash the commission, if the flaw is not big enough, because the governments would say "we've been through all these negotiations to get a working compromise, and now you'd ruin it all??"
Another problem is, that elections to the EP are a bit weird, because people often vote for parties not based on how these parties acted in the EP, but on how these parties acted in the national parliament at home. This gives the Euro-MPs freedom to do whatever they want, because voters at home do not react to this too often. Insted, national parties join "fractions" in the EP and act according to the policies of those fractions, which is not always identical with what their voters would like to see.
Why the euroskeptics dislike the EU? Because it has too little democracy, they say. Why does it have too little democracy? Because the eurosceptics prefer to give national governments the right to decide matters over people's - and parliament's - heads. Why the euroskeptics don't wish to give those powers to the Europarliament? Because they dislike the EU...
Flash has its nice sides, too. I have yet to see a webpage looking as nice as good Flash webpages, coded without Flash. Flash is about the only way when you want your page to be rendered always in the font you choose.
You are much less likely to make a typo in a word you understand than in a meaningless set of letters.
Not always. I'm not a programmer, I'm a scientist. I do however write some numerical code in C and Fortran. I noticed that if I call a variable state_count, half an hour later I may think that I called it state_cnt, or st_count. If I called it scnt, I would simply have to remember that cryptic name, and had it right every time. I think the good approach is to pick names that are easy to pronounce, at least for me.
I still prefer the first approach, to save myself the trouble of wondering what the Hell stcnt meant 6 month later.
Because when you have 64-bit pointers, NULL is not 0, it's 0L.
I think "Mein Kampf" should be published with a commentary, explaining the thing to naive readers (before you start asking questions, I met a few people dumb enough to be able to believe in Hitler's babble).
Germany's ban on everything connected with Nazism has two-fold implications: first, it helps keep neo-Nazis in check. But the second one is somewhat alarming and I will share some thoughts on that.
I attended a Polish-German meeting in a little place called Krzyzowa (Kreisau) in western Poland. During the conference, the Germans watched some Leni Riefenstahl documentary movies. It turns out, you practically can't see them in Germany. This is because they were brilliant, artistic, pro-Nazi propaganda shot in the '30s. Hiding such things away from the public may lead to 'this did not really happen' attitude. Since we hear no Nazis, see no Nazis, see no traces of them, why should we believe they ever existed? It smells a bit like whitewash.
Some people said that were NSDAP permitted to stand in 1945 elections in occupied Germany, it would win. So some hand-holding was necessary, I suppose.
If I walked up to a rape victim in public and claimed 'you asked for it', I'd be guily of harassment. But if I say on a radio 'rape victims ask for it', I'm only showing how ignorant bigot I am.
The question with 'Holocaust denial' (in Poland it's called 'Auschwitz lie') is that people who want it punished are afraid that some more people will believe in those lies and forget the tragic lesson of history. Whether this is a justification, remains subject to debate.
The difference is, that Germans went through a process of rethinking what went wrong and what should they do to not let it happen again. Russians still hold themselvs for innocents always harmed by others.
There are people out there who do this, for numerics. Those GPU's are pretty fast in a number of linear algebraic operations.
The true geeks of the period had Tseng Labs ET4000 cards.
Oooh, I remember myself dreaming about that one.
Fortunately, English language knows also many ways of saying "I made an idiot of myself while posting on Slashdot and indulging in Frenchie-bashing".
Oh, but gravity waves may tell us many interesting things about large astronomical objects.
Why? What's the point of living if we can't poke our nose into space and ask fundamental questions?
But dependencies are in the domain of RPM, not poldek! It doesn't matter which front-end you use, as long as you have broken dependencies, you have troubles. Don't blame the errors of the package maintainers on the tool you use to install the package.
poldek is a nice tool for that.
I'm sorry, but I can't believe in asbesthos (or PVC) travelling over such long distances. If the Serbs built their factories with asbesthos, it's their problem and I'm fairly sure the Serbs inhaled most of it.
The aim of NATO bombings was not to kill Bulgarian people, not even to kill Serbs -- just to reduce Serbian military potential and make Serbia follow UN resolutions. If we are to fret ourselves just because something nasty may travel downwind (it's not as if NATO bombed nuclear plants, remember), then we may as well disband all armies and wait for less cautious people to arrive and do what they want with us. There wouldn't be any bombing had Milosevic obeyed the UN resolutions. Or do you suggest we should wait and see how the Serbs slaughter the Albanians in Kosovo, like we did (regrettably) in Srebrenica?
To finish my point, I do not recollect Bulgarian government issuing any sort of protest against NATO bombing of Serbian factories, neither now (like asking for recompensation) nor in the past.
And Americans were neglected, overlooked and mistreated?