Myself, my girlfriend and two of my housemates use Macs. No MSOffice here. (To be fair my needs are unusual since I have not needed a word processor or spreadsheet since I left secondry school (high school) since as a mathematician I learnt LaTeX, which is much more suitable for my document production needs).
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
The "Free Market" is neither free as in beer nor free as in freedom, it's free as in group - a mathematical construct. More precisely: it's a model - it cannot exist in reality.
Actualy, whilst a lot of Apple software is closed source a lot is also Open the Apple OSS site contains some info on this (as well as some pro OS X propogander).
As I understand it most of the less commercial distros get away with it by the amazing legal loophole of being based in teh EU, where software patents are illegal.
What a headache the global village causes for honest lawyers trying to figure out who they can sue.:)
(part of it may also well be that no one is going to make money by suing slackware)
There are already MP3 players that are phones, PDAs, small computers, toasters, etc...
And yet the iPod (which has very few features compared to most of its competitors) beats them all. Why? simplicity of interface design mostly I think, the iPod does almost nothing, so it isn't overencumbered with pointless features.
My phone can play MP3s... but I don't use it to do that, instead I use an iPod, because playing MP3s on the phone is a total pain, and syncing with the phone is a total pain.
Mars and Ares were assosciated by the Romans, but they aren't actualy very similar. Mars was an etruscan god of farming who became a soldier's god since the very earliest Roman legions were citizens levies raised from amongst the farmers (Equites, those who could afford to keep a horse, were the commanders). As a war god Mars was always a god of honour, tactics, strategy and the other elements that characterise roman warfare - Ares by comparison was a thug who ran around killing people:)
I don't believe in a god exactly, but the god I don't believe in is certainly smart enough tro construct the universe as a beautiful system or interlocking laws and processes:)
"Remmember it was with will and not hands that the all-creator made the all-encompassing world" - The Corpus Hermeticum.
Yeah, my K6-2 laptop is my only stage-1 machine for similar reasons. I should have said it's useful for realy obscure architecture that's no longer supported too.
Oh, I play with different compile flags all the time... for individual packages, not for the entire goddamned base system - and I think that for the vast majority of Gentoo users this will also apply.
The people who do want to change build options for the entire base system during instalation fall into the terminaly curious category, and if they aren't gentoo developers yet they realy ought to be:)
You may get a slight speed increase in your system when you switch to gentoo - maybe even a significant one, but this will be due to a number of factors including fewer daemons running by default than other systems and USE variables ensuriung that large staticly linked binaries only contain the features you asked for and not all the available features. It doesn't realy have much to do with the fact that you compiled it yourself using optimised code settings, all the binary distros use optimised compile flags too.
2. Stage1 does not make you more l337
Seriously, the only reason to do a stage 1 install is if you are building a system on an architecture for which gentoo has not been built before or if you want to try out some realy odd compile options (believe me, you don't unless you're a gentoo developer or terminaly curious). How do you think the stage 3 files are produced? might it be by running the exact same scripts that you run when you do a stage 1 install?
3. You can learn something about Linux from installing Gentoo
Yes, you can learn about partition maps, different filesytstems, how bootloaders work, etc... Sitting staring at the code as it compiles won't help much though - and you learn just as much from a stage 3 installation as you do from a stage 1 installation (with perhaps the one exception that you don't learnm quite how much of a waste of time a stage 1 installation is).
Yours Faithfuly from a Gentoo User who's sick and tired of all the ricers.
Actualy Gentoo doesn't have an easy tool for installing precompiled packages - the closest thing is the GRP -- which doesn't work very well, and it's almost impossible to mix GRP binary packages with normal localy compiled portage packages.
On the other hand the dependency and option handling in portage is so much better than any other package-management tool that it's unreal (and it would be quite hard to mainatin these features whilst also giving teh option for serious binary installs).
Swings and roundabouts - if you want maximum configuarbility then use gentoo - but to do so you have to (for most practical purposes) give up the option of using binary packages - if you want that choice then use debian, but you have to use apt's somewhat inferior package management as a result. (I use both)
The fact that windows is more popular is certainly part of why it has so many security flaws, but no operating system that runs with IPC ports open as default can make claims to be paying any attention to security.
Pretty much agreed. Now I've never realy watched porn (not because I'm prudish or anything, I'm just a very tactile person and don't get turned on by pictures), but I see no justification for preventing children from seeing it.
(and what is it with that whole "rare" female orgasm thing? I mean rubbing the clitoris gently and firmly is not that hard a concept! I find it quite hard to believe that some people find it as difficult as american popular culture sugests)
Yes, the rest of the world in this case probably means the UK, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, where liberal is generaly speaking considered a comliment, or at least a value neutral decriptor - not a politcal position.:)
(The rest of Europe doesn't speak english, so doesn't use the word liberal at all - most of the rest of the world isn't very liberal by anyone's definition)
C lacks a lot of features of more modern languages - but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a modern autogarbage-collecting dynamicly typed modularise language which can handle low-level programming anything like as well as C.
Certainly if I'm writing a pleasant little modern desktop application I'm going to write in Objective C or C# - would seem a little silly not to... but for writing a compiler, a network stack, or gods forbid a kernel I don't know of anything that works even close to as well as C. C still has a niche, can't realy change that.
Unfortunately it'll still get it wrong occasionaly, and succesive generatiions will be progressively less capable than the previous ones - which is the main reason that "grey goo" is pretty unlikely.
Now, there is a way of building a device that can self-replicate using only very comonly available materials, can error-correct so that few errors in replication occur, and those that do don't cause the device to become totaly non-functional, but rather just make it behave slightly differently. That method, of course, is to build your device out of DNA, RNA, and proteins.
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Chalk one up for Charles Forte.
And what's rather more damning, so does emacs.
Myself, my girlfriend and two of my housemates use Macs. No MSOffice here. (To be fair my needs are unusual since I have not needed a word processor or spreadsheet since I left secondry school (high school) since as a mathematician I learnt LaTeX, which is much more suitable for my document production needs).
The "Free Market" is neither free as in beer nor free as in freedom, it's free as in group - a mathematical construct. More precisely: it's a model - it cannot exist in reality.
Actualy, whilst a lot of Apple software is closed source a lot is also Open the Apple OSS site contains some info on this (as well as some pro OS X propogander).
Ah, but group in this case is singular. So "is" is valid if it is the group which is ramping up, or "are" if it is the members which are :)
What a headache the global village causes for honest lawyers trying to figure out who they can sue. :)
(part of it may also well be that no one is going to make money by suing slackware)
And yet the iPod (which has very few features compared to most of its competitors) beats them all. Why? simplicity of interface design mostly I think, the iPod does almost nothing, so it isn't overencumbered with pointless features.
My phone can play MP3s ... but I don't use it to do that, instead I use an iPod, because playing MP3s on the phone is a total pain, and syncing with the phone is a total pain.
The European Commission can essentialy do Whatever it wants. Remember that microsoft.
Lovely in theory, how're you going to get them there?
Mars and Ares were assosciated by the Romans, but they aren't actualy very similar. Mars was an etruscan god of farming who became a soldier's god since the very earliest Roman legions were citizens levies raised from amongst the farmers (Equites, those who could afford to keep a horse, were the commanders). As a war god Mars was always a god of honour, tactics, strategy and the other elements that characterise roman warfare - Ares by comparison was a thug who ran around killing people :)
I don't believe in a god exactly, but the god I don't believe in is certainly smart enough tro construct the universe as a beautiful system or interlocking laws and processes :)
"Remmember it was with will and not hands that the all-creator made the all-encompassing world" - The Corpus Hermeticum.
Yeah, my K6-2 laptop is my only stage-1 machine for similar reasons. I should have said it's useful for realy obscure architecture that's no longer supported too.
The people who do want to change build options for the entire base system during instalation fall into the terminaly curious category, and if they aren't gentoo developers yet they realy ought to be
You may get a slight speed increase in your system when you switch to gentoo - maybe even a significant one, but this will be due to a number of factors including fewer daemons running by default than other systems and USE variables ensuriung that large staticly linked binaries only contain the features you asked for and not all the available features. It doesn't realy have much to do with the fact that you compiled it yourself using optimised code settings, all the binary distros use optimised compile flags too.
2. Stage1 does not make you more l337
Seriously, the only reason to do a stage 1 install is if you are building a system on an architecture for which gentoo has not been built before or if you want to try out some realy odd compile options (believe me, you don't unless you're a gentoo developer or terminaly curious). How do you think the stage 3 files are produced? might it be by running the exact same scripts that you run when you do a stage 1 install?
3. You can learn something about Linux from installing Gentoo
Yes, you can learn about partition maps, different filesytstems, how bootloaders work, etc ... Sitting staring at the code as it compiles won't help much though - and you learn just as much from a stage 3 installation as you do from a stage 1 installation (with perhaps the one exception that you don't learnm quite how much of a waste of time a stage 1 installation is).
Yours Faithfuly from a Gentoo User who's sick and tired of all the ricers.
On the other hand the dependency and option handling in portage is so much better than any other package-management tool that it's unreal (and it would be quite hard to mainatin these features whilst also giving teh option for serious binary installs).
Swings and roundabouts - if you want maximum configuarbility then use gentoo - but to do so you have to (for most practical purposes) give up the option of using binary packages - if you want that choice then use debian, but you have to use apt's somewhat inferior package management as a result. (I use both)
The fact that windows is more popular is certainly part of why it has so many security flaws, but no operating system that runs with IPC ports open as default can make claims to be paying any attention to security.
(and what is it with that whole "rare" female orgasm thing? I mean rubbing the clitoris gently and firmly is not that hard a concept! I find it quite hard to believe that some people find it as difficult as american popular culture sugests)
(The rest of Europe doesn't speak english, so doesn't use the word liberal at all - most of the rest of the world isn't very liberal by anyone's definition)
Thoth and Enki seem keen, but they insist on writing in Objective n-Funge.
Certainly if I'm writing a pleasant little modern desktop application I'm going to write in Objective C or C# - would seem a little silly not to ... but for writing a compiler, a network stack, or gods forbid a kernel I don't know of anything that works even close to as well as C. C still has a niche, can't realy change that.
Unfortunately it'll still get it wrong occasionaly, and succesive generatiions will be progressively less capable than the previous ones - which is the main reason that "grey goo" is pretty unlikely.
Now, there is a way of building a device that can self-replicate using only very comonly available materials, can error-correct so that few errors in replication occur, and those that do don't cause the device to become totaly non-functional, but rather just make it behave slightly differently. That method, of course, is to build your device out of DNA, RNA, and proteins.
Begone with your value-judgements.
Seriously, that is not a troll.
For the mac-users out there this would be Pssst, Press Cmd-W