I've never understood that one. A species in which half the race all act as leaders cannot possibly succeed. Nor does it seem particularly efficient for them all to try to become leaders, with some simply failing and becoming laborers or something.
I agree with you, but there's a difference between productive structure of a work environment and simple suppression of all impulses. A boy who sits down and shuts up when told can still daydream rather than pay attention in class. You can never force someone to give you their full attention without a threatening their safety.
He said "just". I'm with him on this one. Not just 1/4 (1/3 in some classes?) of my high-school math grades were based on homework checks, 1/4 of our damn class time was spent on homework checks.
And there's nothing to say "You won't need this in the Real World" like telling students to look up the value of a function in a table without ever explaining what the function *is* on the "inside".
It could be that aliens honestly don't have a conception of a government that doesn't act entirely on behalf of its people. Maybe they have a hive-mind or their psychology works itself out to enable direct democracy to work well where ours doesn't.
Hey, my religion has no problem with aliens. Aliens are just as "outsiders" to us as the rest of humanity. A Gentile is a Gentile, no matter his race, creed, or species.
Well that certainly explains why my Electronic Thumb hasn't been able to signal any Type 40 Time And Relative Dimensions In Space ships for PAST 15 GODDAMN YEARS!
I take the opposite position. Until I see the blue box, I'm not believing a damn thing about time-traveling humanoids. FTL travel with proper aliens disguising themselves as humanoids is far more likely.
"If not better"!? I'm running my Linux partition right now as opposed to my OS X partition to play Portal, and I have to tell you, once I've configured this thing for a more Mac-like UI (What!? I *like* Cairo-Dock!) it looks much better than the Mac and has better usability. I honestly just keep the OS X partition around for multimedia features (when you need to rip to an iPod, watch DVDs legally or play several bits of audio at once, OSX works best), and might quite gladly migrate to Gentoo Linux with a much larger HDD partition when KDE 4.1 comes out (if Portato updates by then).
Technically if a user has enabled the D-Bus Compiz plugin any application can connect to the D-Bus desktop-integration system and start telling the eye-candy what to do. Nobody really writes code for that mostly because it doesn't come standard and no fall-back exists when the user doesn't have Compiz installed.
You're *mostly* right. The one place Mac beats Ubuntu is in third-party, "un-managed" applications. I can download an ISV's OS X bundle onto my machine and have it work in a few clicks (including, usually, checks for updates), whereas doing the same thing for an Ubuntu.deb not included in the main repositories involves adding a new source to my apt configuration. And let's not even start about what happens if the application in question doesn't come packaged in a.deb file...
What gave you the impression I was talking about the War in Iraq or the War on Terrorism?
Oh, and by the way, terrorists can also be defeated by killing the lot of them and salting their land. The fact that most people now consider that immoral doesn't stop it being a valid military tactic.
Yeah, but you've already moved past the ecstasy and to the laundry if your Slashdot post is any indication. You might as well tell God and the state you've done it.
If we had an open-source build system that could target.app, you could have more control. Pass whatever./configure options you like, and then install the resulting.app easy as pie!
I've really never understood why Linux sticks with the old/bin,/etc,/lib,/usr/{bin,etc,lib,share} conventions instead of switching to a.app-like system. It's just technologically better to support both.apps and an equivalent system for shared libraries, and I can only see one reason to hold back from such basic usability: backwards-compatibility.
1. Distributions are binary-incompatible across DISTRIBUTION-PROVIDED software. Third-party software usually runs on everything, ex: binaries of Firefox, Adobe Reader, Flash, etc.
In my experience (using Linux since 2003), the opposite is true. Distro-supported software I get through emerge or apt works great! Third-party binary blobs work when the phase of the moon is right and I shout "CTHULHU FHTAGN!". Because, again, Linux does not offer a standard ABI across distributions. It can't possibly do so, really, because "Linux" isn't even monolithic. If some third-party binary blob needs libXYZ-1.2.3 and the libXYZ developers made the stupid decision to break binary compability in libXYZ-1.2.4 instead of calling it libXYZ-2.0.0 and allowing users to install the old and new ABIs in parallel and two different major distros made different decisions on when to upgrade their supplied libXYZ package, the binary blob's developers have to go back and patch their code for no good reason at all, and simply might not be able to support all distributions with a single package at all. On Windows and Mac they don't have this problem because applications don't have to share the entire damned file-system with one another and can simply install with their own preferred library versions. The fact that Windoze programs suffered from DLL Hell last time I checked comes from Windoze developers sucking and deciding to use C:\Windows\ as a system-wide library directory rather than for mere storage of the bloody operating system.
2. All distributions have their build procedure published. Supporting a distribution is a matter of following simple build directions.
Why should anyone ever have to follow 5 different build procedures to produce packages for what purports to be one operating system?
A lot of these "Linux" problems could be solved by simply addressing Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo as separate operating systems, but of course that would send an even worse signal to ISVs than we currently send.
Of course, being completely unaware of anything even remotely related to development for Linux, you didn't know that, and therefore were repeating the words of your friendly Microsoft marketing person.
As noted above, I haven't actually used a M$ system since Windows ME. I've done a few packages worth of Linux development in C and Python, and I've used Red Hat Linux, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Linux From Scratch over the years.
But thanks for making an assumption that anyone disagreeing with you must not know what they speak of, thereby dishonoring the 1000 Slashdot ID. I always believed you guys were gurus, not gasbags.
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I've never understood that one. A species in which half the race all act as leaders cannot possibly succeed. Nor does it seem particularly efficient for them all to try to become leaders, with some simply failing and becoming laborers or something.
At some point a shepherd must have sheep.
I agree with you, but there's a difference between productive structure of a work environment and simple suppression of all impulses. A boy who sits down and shuts up when told can still daydream rather than pay attention in class. You can never force someone to give you their full attention without a threatening their safety.
He said "just". I'm with him on this one. Not just 1/4 (1/3 in some classes?) of my high-school math grades were based on homework checks, 1/4 of our damn class time was spent on homework checks.
And there's nothing to say "You won't need this in the Real World" like telling students to look up the value of a function in a table without ever explaining what the function *is* on the "inside".
Nay, nay, a thousand times nay!
Wapanese detected. Launch missiles, EXTERMINATE! Exterminate! EX-TERR-MIN-AAATE!
When you learn to speak proper English, then it really does end. I promise.
Except that FoxConn appears to *care*, but they care maliciously. They actively rewrote their BIOS code to detect and sabotage Linux.
It could be that aliens honestly don't have a conception of a government that doesn't act entirely on behalf of its people. Maybe they have a hive-mind or their psychology works itself out to enable direct democracy to work well where ours doesn't.
Hey, my religion has no problem with aliens. Aliens are just as "outsiders" to us as the rest of humanity. A Gentile is a Gentile, no matter his race, creed, or species.
So basically, they were selected for being the very peak of what American humanity had to offer?
Could you link to transcripts that "only make sense" in light of aliens?
Also, do the aliens come in saucers? We're really fucking screwed if they come in saucers.
Well that certainly explains why my Electronic Thumb hasn't been able to signal any Type 40 Time And Relative Dimensions In Space ships for PAST 15 GODDAMN YEARS!
I take the opposite position. Until I see the blue box, I'm not believing a damn thing about time-traveling humanoids. FTL travel with proper aliens disguising themselves as humanoids is far more likely.
"If not better"!? I'm running my Linux partition right now as opposed to my OS X partition to play Portal, and I have to tell you, once I've configured this thing for a more Mac-like UI (What!? I *like* Cairo-Dock!) it looks much better than the Mac and has better usability. I honestly just keep the OS X partition around for multimedia features (when you need to rip to an iPod, watch DVDs legally or play several bits of audio at once, OSX works best), and might quite gladly migrate to Gentoo Linux with a much larger HDD partition when KDE 4.1 comes out (if Portato updates by then).
Technically if a user has enabled the D-Bus Compiz plugin any application can connect to the D-Bus desktop-integration system and start telling the eye-candy what to do. Nobody really writes code for that mostly because it doesn't come standard and no fall-back exists when the user doesn't have Compiz installed.
You're *mostly* right. The one place Mac beats Ubuntu is in third-party, "un-managed" applications. I can download an ISV's OS X bundle onto my machine and have it work in a few clicks (including, usually, checks for updates), whereas doing the same thing for an Ubuntu .deb not included in the main repositories involves adding a new source to my apt configuration. And let's not even start about what happens if the application in question doesn't come packaged in a .deb file...
It's OK. We're used to it by now.
I think people are a bit more worried about "Backdoor Sluts 9" than "Parents Making Love".
How am I supposed to use this to order a dumb, mindless population into marching into my factories for Cyber-conversio... UPGRADING?
Yeah well just because this process sequesters CO2 it will lead to a global cooling cycle that will kill us all! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!
God I fucking hate kittens.
What gave you the impression I was talking about the War in Iraq or the War on Terrorism?
Oh, and by the way, terrorists can also be defeated by killing the lot of them and salting their land. The fact that most people now consider that immoral doesn't stop it being a valid military tactic.
Iraq was entirely unnecessary and immoral. But we should have razed Afghanistan to the ground until we found and executed Osama Bin Laden.
Yeah, but you've already moved past the ecstasy and to the laundry if your Slashdot post is any indication. You might as well tell God and the state you've done it.
If we had an open-source build system that could target .app, you could have more control. Pass whatever ./configure options you like, and then install the resulting .app easy as pie!
I've really never understood why Linux sticks with the old /bin, /etc, /lib, /usr/{bin,etc,lib,share} conventions instead of switching to a .app-like system. It's just technologically better to support both .apps and an equivalent system for shared libraries, and I can only see one reason to hold back from such basic usability: backwards-compatibility.
1. Distributions are binary-incompatible across DISTRIBUTION-PROVIDED software. Third-party software usually runs on everything, ex: binaries of Firefox, Adobe Reader, Flash, etc.
In my experience (using Linux since 2003), the opposite is true. Distro-supported software I get through emerge or apt works great! Third-party binary blobs work when the phase of the moon is right and I shout "CTHULHU FHTAGN!". Because, again, Linux does not offer a standard ABI across distributions. It can't possibly do so, really, because "Linux" isn't even monolithic. If some third-party binary blob needs libXYZ-1.2.3 and the libXYZ developers made the stupid decision to break binary compability in libXYZ-1.2.4 instead of calling it libXYZ-2.0.0 and allowing users to install the old and new ABIs in parallel and two different major distros made different decisions on when to upgrade their supplied libXYZ package, the binary blob's developers have to go back and patch their code for no good reason at all, and simply might not be able to support all distributions with a single package at all. On Windows and Mac they don't have this problem because applications don't have to share the entire damned file-system with one another and can simply install with their own preferred library versions. The fact that Windoze programs suffered from DLL Hell last time I checked comes from Windoze developers sucking and deciding to use C:\Windows\ as a system-wide library directory rather than for mere storage of the bloody operating system.
2. All distributions have their build procedure published. Supporting a distribution is a matter of following simple build directions.
Why should anyone ever have to follow 5 different build procedures to produce packages for what purports to be one operating system?
A lot of these "Linux" problems could be solved by simply addressing Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo as separate operating systems, but of course that would send an even worse signal to ISVs than we currently send.
Of course, being completely unaware of anything even remotely related to development for Linux, you didn't know that, and therefore were repeating the words of your friendly Microsoft marketing person.
As noted above, I haven't actually used a M$ system since Windows ME. I've done a few packages worth of Linux development in C and Python, and I've used Red Hat Linux, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Linux From Scratch over the years.
But thanks for making an assumption that anyone disagreeing with you must not know what they speak of, thereby dishonoring the 1000 Slashdot ID. I always believed you guys were gurus, not gasbags.