Where in Europe are you? I know in the UK and Ireland there is Sky+ available for PVR style management.
I'm actually using it now, I'm in Ireland so I found the summary a little surprising.
Well SUSE has had YaST to manage repository-based installation. They have had rug and zypper as command line equivalents in the last few releases though many prefer to use the third party Smart Package Manager. So from that point of view you would think that all is solved as deb and rpm have roughly the same infrastructure.
But in actuality while most people that complain about rpm dependency-hell are people who insisted on installing rpm files individually there is still a noticeable difference in the quality of the maintainence of repositories between rpm and deb based distros. Even with the great Packman repositories there I have had YaST tie itself in knots more times than I care to remember. I have had to click the dreaded 'Ignore missing dependency just here' enough times to seriously limit the usefulness of the repos. And with 10.3 even that has become more difficult to do without the consolation of fully featured and self-resolving repositories.
I'm not saying Debian based distros are perfect and I am certainl not going to even dignify the rpm vs deb flamewar but I can say in all honesty that the standard of repository for Debian and Ubuntu is a lot better than for any of the rpm distros I have used. And that's from someone who ran Mandrake from 8.2 to LE2005 and then SUSE from 9.3 to 10.3. But I'll be using Ubuntu or Debian for the foreseeable future.
That's a big logic jump you made. Not all religions ban the teaching of evolution. Pope John Paul II never condemned evolution. Catholic schools throughout Europe teach evolution without any conflict of interest. Religion and science are not viewed as polar opposites. They do disagree on several points but that does not mean anyone with religion is against scientific teaching. Darwin himself was obsessed with the Bible.
Yeah I'm sick of Ireland getting held up on this one all of the time. Ireland collects taxes like any other country. This criticism of Ireland is usually a complaint of capitalists and free market proponents so you would think they would recognise competition as an essential factor within the free market. Ireland offers cheaper taxes to promote investment and promote growth. What's wrong with that?
No they won't let you order somthing from the UK site unless you have a UK address. The same offices deal with the UK as Ireland (in fact they are in Ireland) and UK Sales can't ship to addresses outside the UK.
If you ask me it's the obsession with excess and clebrity that has gotten us to the vacuum of talent we are in these days. Sure people like Jimi Hendrix and John Bonham went bananas but at least they were two of the finest in their field beforehand. Someone like Sid Vicious on the other hand is more of a pop-culture legend than a musical one.
No it is licensed under the GPL. The old problem was that earlier versions of QT were licensed under an open source license that had some restrictions which many found irreconcilable. You can read about it here
No they didn't. Schools were funded by the taxes you paid. Just remember that as much as it doesn't seem like it, the government work for you. They don't fund you, you fund them.
The key point is the difference between bits and bytes. A 10Mbps connection is a 1.25MB/s connection. 1.25 megabytes. Remember that a generic S-ATA or IDE hard disk writes at about 5-6MB/s and that can be a big bottlencek most of the time. So the 54Mbps connection you speak of is a total speed of ~7MB/s. That's not the internet speed. That's the LAN connection. So one person tries to send a large file to another on the network and all of a sudden we've hit that bottleneck and no one can even check their email. Although some of these numbers sound impressive realistically for daily LAN usage they are just about usable.
I agree that the content should be available on the internet without DRM, and of course import and export can occur simultaneously. My point was there is a vast difference between making something available for all to enjoy and learn from and trying to actively export a point of view. If I misunderstood your intention I apologise.
One minor question that has been bugging me for a while is this: has Britain totally given up any attempt at cultural influence beyond its own borders? I have for long time considered that the cultural value inherent in BBC's very high quality of programming could be a most potent tool in gendering understanding for "the British way/view" abroad if only the world at large were given ready access to it. I think that is a very narrow view, and if I may say so a very British one. What makes you thinkthe small island of Britain has a right to push cultural influence outside of its own borders? I think it would be far more valuable to Britain to venture out looking for cultural influence from outside. Don't get me wrong I am not attacking Britain, but we are long past the days of the British Empire and there is too much naval gazing and self congratulation in nations throughout the world without more pushing of their own views. Countries would have more benefit if they looked beyond themselves for their own growth.
Put it this way - I'm Irish (and that is not the motivation for my post;) )and my whole life I like most Britons have been watching American TV programs. I think the British and Irish have a lot of insight into how American culture has been shaped and to some extent popular opinion and even just straight out branding. I'm sure we could all name a few American car brands and the types of 'candy' that Americans like. I'm sure likewise they couldn't do the same of us, hell as an Irishman I have even had American people in all seriousness ask do we have electricity in Ireland
We have benefitted from this so on that point I agree - but don't you think it is a much better position to be in to pick and choose outside influence? Is it better than mandating into your national broadcaster that they should be pushing "the British way/view" as you put it? That sounds more like wartime propaganda to me, and not just a little arrogant. 59 million people are only a very small slice of six billion.
In my military training we were instructed that the shift from (in our case) the 7.62NATO to the 5.56NATO was because
1 - A dead man (7.62) is one less on the opposing side, whereas an injured man (5.56) is effectively three less (One injured and Two to attend or transport) 2 - The 5.56 was smaller and lighter and allowed for more rounds to be carried by each soldier (300 5.56 rounds being carried instead of 200 7.62).
I agree. If you are going to follow the letter but not the spirit of an agreement then you can't expect anyone to come to comfort you. The GPL and the FOSS community may exist in a world where legalese prevails, but it is the heart and spirit of the community that drives it not profit. Novell tested the GPL and won. It's only fair that the community push back to defend themselves.
I can't say I'm sold on this. I enjoyed the Clone Wars cartoon series but even as a die hard Star Wars fan I feel this is flogging a dead horse. Lucas should have his special effects taken away from him and be sent to his room until he remembers how to make a good film (or in this case series).
The saddest thing is that despite my protest I'm sure I'll watch it, secretly hoarde some action figures from the series and own every reissue of the new Clone Wars boxset for the next twenty years.
I agree. This isn't a geek-elitist attitude. I know probably 30 people who rushed out to buy Widescreen TVs, yet didn't know how to set the aspect ratio correctly. They boasted about the new TV even though the picture was skewed. And the one or two who did know how to change it, didn't have their satellite or cable box set to widescreen. They didn't see anything wrong with that either.
These are the same people who don't check the oil in their car and get angry when they have engine problems. The same people who don't indicate (turn-signal for you yanks) when at a roundabout and complain that someone cut them off.
In what sense was Windows 2k "an entirely new platform"? Don't get me wrong, I think it was a pretty good release, but it was just the next stage in NT not something "entirely new". Active Directory? Seriously that made it a whole new ballgame.
Not to mention Plug N' Play, System Policies, Microsoft System Console,ACPI....
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That's Avant Window Navigator.
It is in the Ubuntu Hardy repositories, though it has been available for some time through 3rd party repos.
I don't think I'm the first of us to say "Ah shit".
On the other hand though this is the beauty of open source. The problem is now known so I'm sure a fix is already on the way.
Where in Europe are you? I know in the UK and Ireland there is Sky+ available for PVR style management. I'm actually using it now, I'm in Ireland so I found the summary a little surprising.
Actually EU law supersedes national law when it conflicts. This has been upheld on many occasions
European Law Supremacy
Well SUSE has had YaST to manage repository-based installation. They have had rug and zypper as command line equivalents in the last few releases though many prefer to use the third party Smart Package Manager. So from that point of view you would think that all is solved as deb and rpm have roughly the same infrastructure.
But in actuality while most people that complain about rpm dependency-hell are people who insisted on installing rpm files individually there is still a noticeable difference in the quality of the maintainence of repositories between rpm and deb based distros. Even with the great Packman repositories there I have had YaST tie itself in knots more times than I care to remember. I have had to click the dreaded 'Ignore missing dependency just here' enough times to seriously limit the usefulness of the repos. And with 10.3 even that has become more difficult to do without the consolation of fully featured and self-resolving repositories.
I'm not saying Debian based distros are perfect and I am certainl not going to even dignify the rpm vs deb flamewar but I can say in all honesty that the standard of repository for Debian and Ubuntu is a lot better than for any of the rpm distros I have used. And that's from someone who ran Mandrake from 8.2 to LE2005 and then SUSE from 9.3 to 10.3. But I'll be using Ubuntu or Debian for the foreseeable future.
That's a big logic jump you made. Not all religions ban the teaching of evolution. Pope John Paul II never condemned evolution. Catholic schools throughout Europe teach evolution without any conflict of interest.
Religion and science are not viewed as polar opposites. They do disagree on several points but that does not mean anyone with religion is against scientific teaching. Darwin himself was obsessed with the Bible.
What about OpenOffice Base? It's more or less a clone of Access anyway.
Yeah I'm sick of Ireland getting held up on this one all of the time. Ireland collects taxes like any other country. This criticism of Ireland is usually a complaint of capitalists and free market proponents so you would think they would recognise competition as an essential factor within the free market. Ireland offers cheaper taxes to promote investment and promote growth. What's wrong with that?
No they won't let you order somthing from the UK site unless you have a UK address. The same offices deal with the UK as Ireland (in fact they are in Ireland) and UK Sales can't ship to addresses outside the UK.
This was the big news from Philips/LG last year. Did they score another patent on this or is it the same one?
Any word on them trying to patent this?
If you ask me it's the obsession with excess and clebrity that has gotten us to the vacuum of talent we are in these days. Sure people like Jimi Hendrix and John Bonham went bananas but at least they were two of the finest in their field beforehand.
Someone like Sid Vicious on the other hand is more of a pop-culture legend than a musical one.
No it is licensed under the GPL. The old problem was that earlier versions of QT were licensed under an open source license that had some restrictions which many found irreconcilable.
You can read about it here
I think it would be pronounced as a "Y", at least in modern Greek. Maybe someone who speaks classical/modern Greek can confirm.
No they didn't. Schools were funded by the taxes you paid. Just remember that as much as it doesn't seem like it, the government work for you. They don't fund you, you fund them.
The key point is the difference between bits and bytes. A 10Mbps connection is a 1.25MB/s connection.
1.25 megabytes. Remember that a generic S-ATA or IDE hard disk writes at about 5-6MB/s and that can be a big bottlencek most of the time. So the 54Mbps connection you speak of is a total speed of ~7MB/s. That's not the internet speed. That's the LAN connection. So one person tries to send a large file to another on the network and all of a sudden we've hit that bottleneck and no one can even check their email.
Although some of these numbers sound impressive realistically for daily LAN usage they are just about usable.
I agree that the content should be available on the internet without DRM, and of course import and export can occur simultaneously. My point was there is a vast difference between making something available for all to enjoy and learn from and trying to actively export a point of view. If I misunderstood your intention I apologise.
I think it would be far more valuable to Britain to venture out looking for cultural influence from outside. Don't get me wrong I am not attacking Britain, but we are long past the days of the British Empire and there is too much naval gazing and self congratulation in nations throughout the world without more pushing of their own views. Countries would have more benefit if they looked beyond themselves for their own growth.
Put it this way - I'm Irish (and that is not the motivation for my post
We have benefitted from this so on that point I agree - but don't you think it is a much better position to be in to pick and choose outside influence? Is it better than mandating into your national broadcaster that they should be pushing "the British way/view" as you put it?
That sounds more like wartime propaganda to me, and not just a little arrogant. 59 million people are only a very small slice of six billion.
In my military training we were instructed that the shift from (in our case) the 7.62NATO to the 5.56NATO was because
1 - A dead man (7.62) is one less on the opposing side, whereas an injured man (5.56) is effectively three less (One injured and Two to attend or transport)
2 - The 5.56 was smaller and lighter and allowed for more rounds to be carried by each soldier (300 5.56 rounds being carried instead of 200 7.62).
I agree. If you are going to follow the letter but not the spirit of an agreement then you can't expect anyone to come to comfort you. The GPL and the FOSS community may exist in a world where legalese prevails, but it is the heart and spirit of the community that drives it not profit. Novell tested the GPL and won. It's only fair that the community push back to defend themselves.
I can't say I'm sold on this. I enjoyed the Clone Wars cartoon series but even as a die hard Star Wars fan I feel this is flogging a dead horse. Lucas should have his special effects taken away from him and be sent to his room until he remembers how to make a good film (or in this case series).
The saddest thing is that despite my protest I'm sure I'll watch it, secretly hoarde some action figures from the series and own every reissue of the new Clone Wars boxset for the next twenty years.
I agree. This isn't a geek-elitist attitude. I know probably 30 people who rushed out to buy Widescreen TVs, yet didn't know how to set the aspect ratio correctly. They boasted about the new TV even though the picture was skewed. And the one or two who did know how to change it, didn't have their satellite or cable box set to widescreen. They didn't see anything wrong with that either.
These are the same people who don't check the oil in their car and get angry when they have engine problems. The same people who don't indicate (turn-signal for you yanks) when at a roundabout and complain that someone cut them off.
This is Joe Sixpack.
....61 days for those of you using the modern Gregorian Calender.