Thats not the same as nerds or geeks though you could correct me on that.
In general I think a geek is obsessive about his own usually non-mainstream interests and thus puts in a lot of time in it.
While a streber(german)/strever(dutch) is usually the teacher's pet, offcourse you could reason that since they are very interested
in school stats they happen to be test-geeks/stat-whores whatever. But I really don't believe they are the same, let me try to explain this with the following anecdote.
Stre[bv]ers are the people who study
4-5 hours every night for whatever course there is and memorise the most insignifcant details of the curriculum. They will flaunt these details in front of everyone right before that big important test, putting everyone on edge. But then when the results come in and they didn't get what they were expecting, they will start crying and society demands you have to be empahtic about it. Meanwhile you are standing there silently laughing your ass off, since you've put less than half an hour in a bullshit subject called ethics or religion, But still managed to pass !!!
firefox binary is compiled against a certain version of GLIB(C), if you don't have the major version of which it is compiled against you either have to
download compat libs if they are available or compile your own.
And yes there are reasons why you wouldn't want to run a recent linux distro:
1) gui userland has changed a lot and things have gotten really bloated (yet you still do most of your stuff on the cli)
2) you need to support an old purchased but EOL application
3) you just don't like upgrading and/or your distro maintains security fixes for your current version for a long time
4) you don't have the money ( or want to put up the money - see nr 1 ) to upgrade your machine for the newest version of your distro.
The gameplay felt like the original Duke Nukem epsiodes 1-3 (I didn't like Duke Nukem II all that much)
hear hear, dn II was weird you only knew it was duke when you saw the starting cut scene duke doesn't wear a space helmet and what's up with this stupid bird (phoenix) flying around.
I don't think mac developpers and this includes a few big name companies, would like
to develop their apps on touchscreens or on an OS as limited as iOS.
Plus there are huge sectors (art, photo, layout) , which would be standing out with
their cocks out in the rain if this was the case , industries they would have a hard
time getting back into if they drop them.
This is bullshit by a bullshit speculator/futurist.
Just out of curiousity how does one learn to read braille without being able to see or hear I'm talking about people who are born blind and deaf. How do you communicate the necessary concepts and abstractions through touch ?
Because instead of you the router admin opening up ports and tracking/knowing of what's open. You're now relying on applications to open up ports and close them properly again (or the system - don't know how upnp is implemented). Suddenly you have a lot of port forward entries (old unused ?) for stuff like Bittorrent, Limewire and other p2p software Plus malware that does get into one of your client machines will be able to use your network for hosting eg; compromise one client own an entire network for further distribution.
Not only that but by default javascript is setup in modern browsers to give focus and raise javascript windows, making killing the browser the only viable solution.
hear hear but i had a lot of the same issues with KDE 3.x
and it's a shame since ktorrent, k3b and konqueror in my opinion are awesome apps as was
amarok
Linux is a kernel ! Blame yourself or your distro for choosing poor quality software.
There is a valid point here though, i've always found the FLOSS GUI programs somewhat finicky.
Another anecdotal example here: skype on 64-bit slackware 13.1 doesn't crash as well.
It's true though that the linux (GUI) is actually like a lite version of what is presented to windows users.
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That's strange i seem to remember that there was a sort of time constant called tau iirc, that dictated how much electricity was discharged in time ?
Thats not the same as nerds or geeks though you could correct me on that.
In general I think a geek is obsessive about his own usually non-mainstream interests and thus puts in a lot of time in it.
While a streber(german)/strever(dutch) is usually the teacher's pet, offcourse you could reason that since
they are very interested in school stats they happen to be test-geeks/stat-whores whatever.
But I really don't believe they are the same, let me try to explain this with the following anecdote.
Stre[bv]ers are the people who study
4-5 hours every night for whatever course there is and memorise the most insignifcant details of the curriculum.
They will flaunt these details in front of everyone right before that big important test, putting everyone on edge.
But then when the results come in and they didn't get what they were expecting,
they will start crying and society demands you have to be empahtic about it.
Meanwhile you are standing there silently laughing your ass off, since you've put less than half an hour in a bullshit subject called ethics or religion,
But still managed to pass !!!
So it's about people enjoying other people's misery ?
Like reality shows.
What are you waiting for, release them !
If circus freaks were so unlikeable why would the circus have them in the first place ?
firefox binary is compiled against a certain version of GLIB(C), if you don't have the major version of which it is compiled against you either have to
download compat libs if they are available or compile your own.
And yes there are reasons why you wouldn't want to run a recent linux distro:
1) gui userland has changed a lot and things have gotten really bloated (yet you still do most of your stuff on the cli)
2) you need to support an old purchased but EOL application
3) you just don't like upgrading and/or your distro maintains security fixes for your current version for a long time
4) you don't have the money ( or want to put up the money - see nr 1 ) to upgrade your machine for the newest version of your distro.
Not only that now he has to maintain his own version of firefox or force his package manager to
honour its permissions.
Sudo does have some rudimentary shell-escape functionality.
No, No never do that. Some of us are still bitter (old/older) IT-janitors.
If you think this is turning way too hateful now just wait and see then.
then get the PC version it's 35 $.
hear hear, dn II was weird you only knew it was duke when you saw the starting cut scene
duke doesn't wear a space helmet and what's up with this stupid bird (phoenix) flying around.
That doesn't work !
I work there and that's CS/EE (ESAT ?) specific, There's a lot of fighting between them and central IT.
I don't think mac developpers and this includes a few big name companies, would like
to develop their apps on touchscreens or on an OS as limited as iOS.
Plus there are huge sectors (art, photo, layout) , which would be standing out with
their cocks out in the rain if this was the case , industries they would have a hard
time getting back into if they drop them.
This is bullshit by a bullshit speculator/futurist.
I don't really see a pattern here ! Wouldn't you have to use something like TTH to be able to do this ?
Just out of curiousity how does one learn to read braille without being able to see or hear
I'm talking about people who are born blind and deaf.
How do you communicate the necessary concepts and abstractions through touch ?
Actually the NATO uses the same system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Because instead of you the router admin opening up ports and tracking/knowing of what's open.
You're now relying on applications to open up ports and close them properly again (or the system - don't know how upnp is implemented).
Suddenly you have a lot of port forward entries (old unused ?) for stuff like Bittorrent, Limewire and other p2p software
Plus malware that does get into one of your client machines will be able to use your network for hosting eg; compromise one client own an entire network for further distribution.
Not only that but by default javascript is setup in modern browsers to give focus and raise javascript windows,
making killing the browser the only viable solution.
Patent encumbered codecs, libdvdcss, ...
hear hear
but i had a lot of the same issues with KDE 3.x
and it's a shame since ktorrent, k3b and konqueror in my opinion are awesome apps
as was amarok
hear hear i use kde 4.4.6 at work
and even that release is still not really out of beta
but i do remember even KDE 3.5 launching the crash handler way too often
Linux is a kernel ! Blame yourself or your distro for choosing poor quality software.
There is a valid point here though, i've always found the FLOSS GUI programs somewhat finicky.
What do you expect this is a linux website, and we've been fucked by Microsoft so many times
It would be very foolish to trust them on anything !
Another anecdotal example here: skype on 64-bit slackware 13.1 doesn't crash as well.
It's true though that the linux (GUI) is actually like a lite version of what is presented to windows users.