... would've posted on Slasdot, it would be hard to decide between moderating him "Funny" or "Insightful". Just like Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce, he was more than just a comedian.
You didn't convince anyone with this post. You just established that you do not value software freedom as much as the parent does.
Oh for Gods sake. It's not a pissing competition. Ask yourself this: why does valuing software freedom means you can't touch closed source software with a 10 foot pole?
So? Opera has been free (as in beer) for a long time now, and the guys developing it actually made an excellent work of porting it to several OSs/architectures; it works as good and snappy on Windows, Linux and MacOS. It's small, very fast, rock stable and packed with a lot of useful features (a.k.a, not bloat). FF3 is very nice on its own too, yes, but the more competition the merrier. What's not to like?
People dissing Opera because it's not FOSS are missing on a great browser, and perhaps the best UI available on this kind of software.
You can only hope. If the heat block attached to the CPU has frozen water, it'll end up absorbing a lot of it before it melts to liquid. Water has a very high specific heat.
You were downloading stuff and blame Pidgin for your issues? Stop whining or stop downloading porn. Your choice.
Which is funny, since both the official MSN client and aMSN work flawlessly under the same conditions. It was implied, but i'm pointing it out right now.
g query in the address line will take you directly to the Google search results. There's a lot of similar shorcuts for other sites - y for Yahoo!, a for Amazon, etc...
The MSN plugin is notoriously broken too, and not only because they haven't implemented MSNP14 yet; i'm not talking about camera support nor similar bullshit, but to be able to have a chat without messages bouncing with error or being disconnected altogether - i submited that bug myself, but a quick search will reveal a lot of people with similar issues. I hear the MSN developers were frustrated with the project in the sense that some requirements or patches were met with indiference or ignored altogheter.
It's a crying shame, because ever since 2.2.0, Pidgin is (otherwise) a fantastic IM client. The UI has been polished to a shine, and the program itself works faster and with a lesser footprint than previous versions. There's a lot of very nice plugins, and some nice work in progress too. I don't mind about games, but i agree - i'd rather have better IM support any time sooner.
I disagree - the book is an excellent read, IMHO, as long as you don't intend to make to much out of it (the reasoning behind it's, let's call it, "political stance", is flawed but still presented in a very interesting way). In that sense, i think of the ST move as much as a parody of the book as the He-Man movie a parody of the cartoon...
Looks quite nice, but not as much as those new HP Mini-note - i have no use for a laptop these days, and i'm considering getting one if i travel to the US in the near future. Those things look great, and the hardware is really nice.
See, this response is flawed. Monsanto does own their seeds because they invested a lot of time and money in the traits of those seeds.
No after they sell them to you, they don't. They do have a lot of IP an work invested on the developement of those transgenic seeds, but after they sell me a bag of them i can do whatever it pleases me with it. Even planting them on my neighours' field.
For instance, their work init might eventually result in aFor instance, their work init might eventually result in a faster booting system, or a better package system might mean the people putting together the packages can do so faster, but as a work in progress these are uninteresting to most users. faster booting system, or a better package system might mean the people putting together the packages can do so faster, but as a work in progress these are uninteresting to most users.
The point is, there is no such thing as an absolute better in the world of Linux distros - what's best for you or me might not fit the particular needs of a third party. If you're working on a new init or package system, why not tell us a bit about how it works and what it plans to achieve instead of publishing it as an improvement on something that exists (and works)... without any further proof?
Exherbo is not, at the moment, a user-targeted distribution. It supports packages that the people involved find interesting or useful; it probably does not support your favourite desktop environment or applications. That kind of thing will come later there are plenty of other options for users who want a distribution that does everything badly rather than a few things well....
It's not that we think that Gentoo is bad. It's just that we think we can do something that suits our needs better. We've tried, without success, to do this using Gentoo. Unfortunately, Gentoo has serious shortcomings in several areas that stopped this from being a viable long-term approach (...) Portage. (...) Gentoo management. (...) QA. (...) The users. (...) Lack of overall design and direction.
Thank God there's much more to that distro you don't think is bad at all....
- OK, I Want to Try Exherbo. - No you don't. - Yes I Do - OK, maybe you do, but we don't particularly want you to try it because we don't want to deal with you whining when you find that absolutely nothing works. (...) We don't provide packages for lots of things you consider critical. A lot of the packages we do provide don't work. A lot of the packages that worked five minutes ago all just broke because we just decided to redesign several large features. We don't provide support. We don't provide install media. We don't provide a usable init system. - But I'm a Developer, and I Want to Try Exherbo - Well, you know who to talk to if you need to be told where to find the shiny things. And no, we don't want to use Exherbo to implement your pet project. Especially not if it's a stupid pet project. Go and inflict it upon Gentoo, they think that porting ebuilds to run on SunOS 2 ksh under Cygwin is a great idea. ...
Wow! It sounds great! Do i need a secret decoder ring to read the sourcecode?
Seriously. I'm a Gentoo user and this sounded like a great thing to peek into - Gentoo is not without its share of things to fix/improve. But come on. What exactly are they announcing here? A distro tailored for a handful of users (which is nice) that we can't download, try or even ask about.
In Conclusion: It's not that we hate you (unless we do). It's just that we have nothing to offer you, and you have nothing to offer us.
Sounds like it's coming along great, eh? Do us a favor and make your work public when, you know, it is useable by the public. Or even watchable.
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... would've posted on Slasdot, it would be hard to decide between moderating him "Funny" or "Insightful". Just like Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce, he was more than just a comedian.
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May he rest in peace. Thanks for all the laughs, and even more, thanks for all your insights. And may Joe Pesci grant him a well deserved nirvana :)
So? You can't use both?
That would be "Hackers- 2 Nintendo- 1", actually...
You didn't convince anyone with this post. You just established that you do not value software freedom as much as the parent does.
Oh for Gods sake. It's not a pissing competition. Ask yourself this: why does valuing software freedom means you can't touch closed source software with a 10 foot pole?
They're similarly capable, but Firefox is FOSS
So? Opera has been free (as in beer) for a long time now, and the guys developing it actually made an excellent work of porting it to several OSs/architectures; it works as good and snappy on Windows, Linux and MacOS. It's small, very fast, rock stable and packed with a lot of useful features (a.k.a, not bloat). FF3 is very nice on its own too, yes, but the more competition the merrier. What's not to like?
People dissing Opera because it's not FOSS are missing on a great browser, and perhaps the best UI available on this kind of software.
Guess you never took a physics class then. He has published some well-reviewed work in his time, apparently...
As far as i know, only Motorolas' cells allows charging through the USB port. I might be wrong though.
About God damn time!
Lumbergh? Is that you?
OMG - Opera still supports the MDI stupidity when even its own author - M$ - has declared it a major mistake in UI design.
You mean "tabbed browsing"? The same tabbed browsing even Microsoft copied and implemented on IE7?
Give me a break. Opera's UI is fantastic, and very consistent from OS to OS. I know, i work with it on Mac, Linux and Windows on a daily basis.
What about FREEEZING????
You can only hope. If the heat block attached to the CPU has frozen water, it'll end up absorbing a lot of it before it melts to liquid. Water has a very high specific heat.
Works just peachy on both Opera/Firefox linux, using Flash v9.0.124.0
You were downloading stuff and blame Pidgin for your issues? Stop whining or stop downloading porn. Your choice.
Which is funny, since both the official MSN client and aMSN work flawlessly under the same conditions. It was implied, but i'm pointing it out right now.
g query in the address line will take you directly to the Google search results. There's a lot of similar shorcuts for other sites - y for Yahoo!, a for Amazon, etc...
/. :)
And nothing beats opening Slashdot with
The MSN plugin is notoriously broken too, and not only because they haven't implemented MSNP14 yet; i'm not talking about camera support nor similar bullshit, but to be able to have a chat without messages bouncing with error or being disconnected altogether - i submited that bug myself, but a quick search will reveal a lot of people with similar issues. I hear the MSN developers were frustrated with the project in the sense that some requirements or patches were met with indiference or ignored altogheter.
It's a crying shame, because ever since 2.2.0, Pidgin is (otherwise) a fantastic IM client. The UI has been polished to a shine, and the program itself works faster and with a lesser footprint than previous versions. There's a lot of very nice plugins, and some nice work in progress too. I don't mind about games, but i agree - i'd rather have better IM support any time sooner.
Let us hope the adaptation of Ubik doesn't repeat the mistakes of the adaptation of Fight Club.
I never read any of Palahniuk's work, but if the movie turns out to be half as good Fight Club, we're in for a treat.
Do you even know what a parody is? :)
I can appreciate parodies. Specially when they're unintentional :)
I disagree - the book is an excellent read, IMHO, as long as you don't intend to make to much out of it (the reasoning behind it's, let's call it, "political stance", is flawed but still presented in a very interesting way). In that sense, i think of the ST move as much as a parody of the book as the He-Man movie a parody of the cartoon...
Priceless!
Looks quite nice, but not as much as those new HP Mini-note - i have no use for a laptop these days, and i'm considering getting one if i travel to the US in the near future. Those things look great, and the hardware is really nice.
See, this response is flawed. Monsanto does own their seeds because they invested a lot of time and money in the traits of those seeds.
No after they sell them to you, they don't. They do have a lot of IP an work invested on the developement of those transgenic seeds, but after they sell me a bag of them i can do whatever it pleases me with it. Even planting them on my neighours' field.
Yeah, and the Safari "update".
Don't forget the infamous iTunes "update" as well. Like QT by itself wasn't annoying enough.
For instance, their work init might eventually result in aFor instance, their work init might eventually result in a faster booting system, or a better package system might mean the people putting together the packages can do so faster, but as a work in progress these are uninteresting to most users. faster booting system, or a better package system might mean the people putting together the packages can do so faster, but as a work in progress these are uninteresting to most users.
The point is, there is no such thing as an absolute better in the world of Linux distros - what's best for you or me might not fit the particular needs of a third party. If you're working on a new init or package system, why not tell us a bit about how it works and what it plans to achieve instead of publishing it as an improvement on something that exists (and works)... without any further proof?
I read "Room Temperature Semiconductor of T-Rays" and thought "how can they create AC so high in frequency"?
Do we need more of this elitistic bullshit?
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Exherbo is not, at the moment, a user-targeted distribution. It supports packages that the people involved find interesting or useful; it probably does not support your favourite desktop environment or applications. That kind of thing will come later there are plenty of other options for users who want a distribution that does everything badly rather than a few things well.
It's not that we think that Gentoo is bad. It's just that we think we can do something that suits our needs better. We've tried, without success, to do this using Gentoo. Unfortunately, Gentoo has serious shortcomings in several areas that stopped this from being a viable long-term approach (...) Portage. (...) Gentoo management. (...) QA. (...) The users. (...) Lack of overall design and direction.
Thank God there's much more to that distro you don't think is bad at all.
- OK, I Want to Try Exherbo.
- No you don't.
- Yes I Do
- OK, maybe you do, but we don't particularly want you to try it because we don't want to deal with you whining when you find that absolutely nothing works. (...) We don't provide packages for lots of things you consider critical. A lot of the packages we do provide don't work. A lot of the packages that worked five minutes ago all just broke because we just decided to redesign several large features. We don't provide support. We don't provide install media. We don't provide a usable init system.
- But I'm a Developer, and I Want to Try Exherbo
- Well, you know who to talk to if you need to be told where to find the shiny things. And no, we don't want to use Exherbo to implement your pet project. Especially not if it's a stupid pet project. Go and inflict it upon Gentoo, they think that porting ebuilds to run on SunOS 2 ksh under Cygwin is a great idea.
Wow! It sounds great! Do i need a secret decoder ring to read the sourcecode?
Seriously. I'm a Gentoo user and this sounded like a great thing to peek into - Gentoo is not without its share of things to fix/improve. But come on. What exactly are they announcing here? A distro tailored for a handful of users (which is nice) that we can't download, try or even ask about.
In Conclusion: It's not that we hate you (unless we do). It's just that we have nothing to offer you, and you have nothing to offer us.
Sounds like it's coming along great, eh? Do us a favor and make your work public when, you know, it is useable by the public. Or even watchable.