Gentoo will never be mainstream until it supports a user friendly installation method like Vista's MSI files.
I respectfully disagree with your statement.
1. Gentoo already has a (somewhat) user friendly installation method. For packages, it happens to be called 'emerge'. For the Gentoo install itself, there is a graphical installer. Now, if someone out there would like to create a GUI interface to emerge, that would be cool.
2. Gentoo doesn't really care about being mainstream. There happens to be a fairly large group of users who like bleeding edge. Gentoo is bleeding edge. Some people want to rice out their make.conf. Gentoo makes it easy for you to annoy everyone by ricing out your make.conf. (Hey, don't laugh, but all of my ricer settings in my make.conf file have really improved my server's performance by a whopping 0.0003%. That increase in performance makes doing absolutely nothing at idle go so damn fast!)
By the way,.MSI is a (poorly) reversed engineered version of the InstallShield Installer.
I really hate explaining jokes (read: my usual smartass comments), so pay attention, I'm doing this only once...
This will require some knowledge of Boolean logic or basic Algebra. A loss is a negative profit. We can express this as Loss = -Profit. A profit is a negative loss. We can express this as -Loss = Profit.
Proofs of this are outside the scope of this post.
Exactly how unprofitable was it? Does anyone have the figures? Ballpark numbers even?
According to IMDB, the budget was an estimated $30,000,000. Opening weekend in the USA, it brought in $16,025,987, and as of Jan. 1, 2006, it had grossed $56,068,547 (subtotal) in the USA.
Time to call in Indy for some special consultation. Next thing you know, they'll be dropping natives, snakes, and Nazis into the volcano.
In reality, Harrison Ford would just call George Lucas who would just drop Jar Jar Binks into the volcano, thus causing the volcano to experience a massive sudden existence failure and killing off that damn Jar Jar character.
Why bother? He should just roundhouse kick it shut!
That is assuming the possibility of Chuck Norris wanting it shut. He could have wanted to watch some mud wrestling awhile ago and roundhouse kicked it open in the first place.
I really wish that part of the settlement would have included a provision where the executives of Sony BMG would get one swift kick in the ass for each installed copy of the rootkit.
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Thank you, kind Massysett. I have spread this information to my research lab's mailing list.
I respectfully disagree with your statement.
1. Gentoo already has a (somewhat) user friendly installation method. For packages, it happens to be called 'emerge'. For the Gentoo install itself, there is a graphical installer. Now, if someone out there would like to create a GUI interface to emerge, that would be cool.
2. Gentoo doesn't really care about being mainstream. There happens to be a fairly large group of users who like bleeding edge. Gentoo is bleeding edge. Some people want to rice out their make.conf. Gentoo makes it easy for you to annoy everyone by ricing out your make.conf. (Hey, don't laugh, but all of my ricer settings in my make.conf file have really improved my server's performance by a whopping 0.0003%. That increase in performance makes doing absolutely nothing at idle go so damn fast!)
By the way,
And of those 3 stories, how many have to be dupes?
"Damn thing don't wur"
or
"Trust me, I'm an expert"
Personally, I find equipping kids with 100 watt irons a bit more fun. At least then they can properly solder on a PL-259 connector onto RG-11 coax.
Solaris...
Or, for truely sick and evil people, UnixWare... >:-)
I'm obligated to ask the following:
I wonder if this European guy is in any way related to some Puerto Rican guy.
I can just hear the engineers at Sony exclaiming "Ohm my God, watt the farad are we going to release to compete with that!"
I used to think Ogg Vorbis was a character from the popular Mortal Kombat series of video games.
This will require some knowledge of Boolean logic or basic Algebra.
A loss is a negative profit. We can express this as Loss = -Profit.
A profit is a negative loss. We can express this as -Loss = Profit.
Proofs of this are outside the scope of this post.
I really wish that part of the settlement would have included a provision where the executives of Sony BMG would get one swift kick in the ass for each installed copy of the rootkit.
I dunno... I guess people didn't want to have "pig fucker" (15 results), "shit eater" (5 results), "drunk" (2 results), or "President of the United States" (951 results) on their resume.
Just like the 17,054 results for "total asshole".
Or maybe the 74 results for "supreme asshole".