And even if you're not. Who cares for fsking around with unofficial repos such as the notorious medibuntu breaking systems left and right. Or is that better now?
No idea, I don't do 'buntu. Tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu back in the day, saw no reason to change to a distro that assumes I have no idea what I'm doing or even what I want to do.
OpenSUSE on the desktop here, CentOS or FreeBSD for servers.
(And I do use unofficial repos... But I don't try to cook sausages under the Brandenburger Tor.)
No, it's merely that we don't wish to hand over perpetual control over our power supply to GE any more than we want to hand the entire future of agriculture over to Monsanto.
But you guys never stop to think about that angle, do you?
Or perhaps you'd prefer that it not occur to us...
The patents already invalidated were challenged anonymously too. Why challenge anonymously? I don't see any particular benefit.
Pretty simple, really. It's so that:
(a) Apple can't claim on appeal that the USPTO are in cahoots with $apple_competitor, because
(b) the USPTO can state truthfully that they don't know who filed the challenge to Apple's patent, and thus USPTO will conduct the re-examination based on the merits, and not on the players.
Not to say you're outright wrong or anything but it's really becoming super hard to take anyone seriously who still uses "M$", espcially with such a low UID. It's 2012.
I'm sorry, were you speaking to me? I stopped using M$ in favour of Linux years ago.
Hello out there! Any potential overlords looking for a slave race that's advanced enough to be useful without being able to defend itself effectively? And might be tasty?
The use of the awkward word "stuffs" has been, in my experience, a strong (actually, perfect) indicator that the speaker is Chinese.
I almost didn't post this for fear that the chicom astroturfers (you?) will adapt, but i think it's important to get the word out regardless.
Protip to westerners: keep your eyes open for awkwardly idiomatic phrases, especially when the speaker is defending China either directly or indirectly.
Protip to the other side: stuff is an uncountable plural word already. "stuffs" is just "stuff." it's like saying "mices."
I've been using "stuffs" from time to time as long as I remember. Native American English speaker here, not a bit of Chinese in my family, other than in-laws.
Now that I think of it, I've NEVER heard anyone but other Americans or Australians even use it.
Protip: My anecdote says your anecdote is full of crap.
It must be really tragic to live a life so utterly devoid of worth or meaning that you've nothing better to do than make up stories about your invisible corporate friend.
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And even if you're not. Who cares for fsking around with unofficial repos such as the notorious medibuntu breaking systems left and right. Or is that better now?
No idea, I don't do 'buntu. Tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu back in the day, saw no reason to change to a distro that assumes I have no idea what I'm doing or even what I want to do.
OpenSUSE on the desktop here, CentOS or FreeBSD for servers.
(And I do use unofficial repos... But I don't try to cook sausages under the Brandenburger Tor.)
No, it's merely that we don't wish to hand over perpetual control over our power supply to GE any more than we want to hand the entire future of agriculture over to Monsanto.
But you guys never stop to think about that angle, do you?
Or perhaps you'd prefer that it not occur to us...
And yet you've never learnt to stop projecting, have you?
The patents already invalidated were challenged anonymously too. Why challenge anonymously? I don't see any particular benefit.
Pretty simple, really. It's so that:
(a) Apple can't claim on appeal that the USPTO are in cahoots with $apple_competitor, because
(b) the USPTO can state truthfully that they don't know who filed the challenge to Apple's patent, and thus USPTO will conduct the re-examination based on the merits, and not on the players.
Wikis are where information goes to die.
Meet your new best friends, the <code> and <tt> tags.
Should be an unofficial repo somewhere...
Stop. Right. There.
Seriously, are you high? This is Oma and Opa, and Onkel Jakob who runs a bratwurst stand on Unter den Linden, that we're talking about here.
I'm sure lister appreciates the assistance in making his point.
It's the same way in Swedish.
Use Open Office...
I have. In fact, I've written books using OOO and MS Word, and I can say without hesitation that MS Word does not even compete.
And No, Google doesn't get a free advance copy of my next one, thanks.
Not to say you're outright wrong or anything but it's really becoming super hard to take anyone seriously who still uses "M$", espcially with such a low UID. It's 2012.
I'm sorry, were you speaking to me? I stopped using M$ in favour of Linux years ago.
Obviously just waiting to see if December 21, 2012 was really the end of the world.
Sheesh! That was hours ago.
Next time they immanentise the Eschaton, try not to get too stoned, too early.
Sounds like you ought to be using Window Maker.
Remember when Slashdot was just news and not someone trying to insert a questionable-at-best opinion into a story?
No. Why do you ask?
No, I think stagnate could be a verb...
It is in fact a verb.
An intransitive verb.
Hello out there! Any potential overlords looking for a slave race that's advanced enough to be useful without being able to defend itself effectively? And might be tasty?
Since you bring it up, I have some Cherokee and Blackfoot ancestry (although I'm predominantly WASP).
But it was intended to be parsed as "Native speaker of American English".
All other things being equal, there's a roughly 90% chance that my vocabulary is larger than yours.
OTOH, I like have fun occasionally. With words, too.
And William Franklin Graham, Jr. refers to himself as "Billy".
You were saying...?
Dealing with multimedia codecs has fuck-all to do with your distro and everything to do with VLC.
BTW, "each" is singular.
I'm not the last one. Cool.
JSG has a 4-digit UID. He doesn't need to look up someone's 7-digit UID to know it's a new account.
The use of the awkward word "stuffs" has been, in my experience, a strong (actually, perfect) indicator that the speaker is Chinese.
I almost didn't post this for fear that the chicom astroturfers (you?) will adapt, but i think it's important to get the word out regardless.
Protip to westerners: keep your eyes open for awkwardly idiomatic phrases, especially when the speaker is defending China either directly or indirectly.
Protip to the other side: stuff is an uncountable plural word already. "stuffs" is just "stuff." it's like saying "mices."
I've been using "stuffs" from time to time as long as I remember. Native American English speaker here, not a bit of Chinese in my family, other than in-laws.
Now that I think of it, I've NEVER heard anyone but other Americans or Australians even use it.
Protip: My anecdote says your anecdote is full of crap.
Yes, we should all strive to be narrow-minded and devoid of any sense of humour.
And you'll have to get your 'maters over at the ICA or the Konsum now; Hassan the Vegetable Guy has folded his tent for the season.
It must be really tragic to live a life so utterly devoid of worth or meaning that you've nothing better to do than make up stories about your invisible corporate friend.
You don't seem to understand the difference between "ignorance of facts" and "ignorance of the law".
You also seem to have questionable taste in film.