Comment Re:Qt (Score 1) 90
Wow - what a throwback - Wasteland FTW!
Wow - what a throwback - Wasteland FTW!
Even ignoring the lack of evidence for your claim, your statement is truly bizarre. You genuinely believe that an upcoming version of a live distribution that doesn't fit on a CD is why one distro is more popular than another right now?
No he appears to believe that many Ubuntu users are jumping ship to Mint (which is basically a Ubuntu-derived distribution that cleaned up all the stuff Ubuntu has done that its users hate) because Ubuntu stopped listening to its users. As a former Ubuntu and current Mint user, I have to agree.
Could we start a white list of compatible hardware manufacturers or a black list of offending hardware (which ever is easier to maintain) so it would help us users that are planning for our next PC build?
Here you go:
When I was at RPI in the mid-1980's, several RPI professors sat on the board for the local community college - Hudson Valley Community College. At that time, you could do two years at HVCC and transfer all of it to RPI, assuming you kept a decent QPA (which any simian could do at HVCC). This would give you the first two years of RPI ar 1/10th the cost of RPI itself. I'd be surprised if this hasn't changed since then, but it's worth looking into.
I'm looking at Mint, but I like apt.
I tried Debian, but video drivers are a mess, and the sudoers is just a neeedless PITA on a single-user use of a Linux.
Please, someone pick up the torch for Ubuntu seems to have dropped it.
Mint was built from Ubuntu, and uses apt (and su). In fact, they even use many of the Ubuntu repositories. I migrated from Ubuntu to Mint recently, switched desktops to LXDE, and am loving it.
Thanks for weighing in.
Before I type "sudo do-release-upgrade", any word on how well kubuntu works ?
I'm running it on my Asus EEE 900A. Did an in-place upgrade from 10.10. No problems. Typinng on it right now.
This is like MS offering a converter for Windows applications to run on Linux. I'm fine with that, although I don't get what sense Adobe sees in that help to kill off one of their cash cows.
It won't kill of their cash cow. The point is that you would theoretically be able to code your site in Flash, then convert it to HTML5 to make an "iphone version" available. This would presumably help keep sites already heavily invested in Flash from outright jumping ship to HTML5.
When I am forced to give my zip at a terminal, I ALWAYS hit random numbers. My card has never been refused.
Mine was, just the other day. After I put my real ZIP code in, the transaction went through. It could be that the first number I put in was an invalid ZIP code entirely. I'll have to test that next time
It was Norman Spinrad actually.
Norman Spinrad's Little Heroes, to be exact. Great book - I'd link to it on Amazon but it's only available from third-party sellers.
The industry can still get people for public uses. But chasing down individuals is hopeless. Except for those few lives messed up, it's amusing watching them try. Google surely understands this, so perhaps asking for money is their way of disingenuously saying no. The cartels should stop making such stupid demands. As it is, Google is being squeezed. If they outright refuse, they get sued. So they have to tread carefully, and give the cartels something reasonable that forces them to realize that they're asking the impossible. This is something the cartels won't be able to do much with, and they will have a hard time blaming Google for not being more cooperative. It would be better if we could stop pussyfooting around, and just laugh the cartels off.
Tread carefully indeed. The record industry might just go to Congress (or whatever lawmaking body presides over your country) and demand laws forcing Google (or, probably, "all search engines") to "freely comply", now that Google has come right out and stated publicly that it's within their technical prowess to do this. Alternatively they could take Google to court as a "willing accomplice" since they refuse to freely comply, although it would probably be more expensive and time-consuming than going for legislation. This could backfire on Google.
Seconded. Happy Birthday FSF!
No, not Linux.
This is just a cover story. For beyond the giant penguins resides the Plateau of Leng, the long-forgotten city of the Elder Things.
Beware! BEWARE!!!
The best part about this is that someone modded you informative. I'm scared now...
If you are keen on that kind of thing, you can always just pretend that a new version is released every three years in April, and the rest of them in between are kinda betas.
While this seems like an option, they still have to rush a Long Term Support (LTS) release out the door six months after the previous release, just like the "in-between" releases. I've been a happy Ubuntu user since Warty (4.10 - 10/2004), and haven't found the LTS'es any more stable than the other releases.
The only possible upside to this argument is that it may become more stable later in its support life; but I suspect the Ubuntu community (including Canonical) is more preoccupied with getting the next release out to put extra work into stabilizing the current LTS.
While I love having access to the Latest, Greatest and Most Shiny, I wouldn't have a problem with Ubuntu moving to a 9 month or even a yearly release schedule and spending a little extra time stabilizing and polishing.
"Giant lego penises": while it seems like a foregone conclusion that this will eventually happen, I played pretty extensively in the beta for over two months and never saw anything offensive. The areas where you can free build are human-checked before they are open to the general public. Chat is limited to a pre-defined dictionary list. Every name you type in for either yourself or your pets is human-checked for offensiveness or trademark violation before it is approved. Hopefully I'm not overstepping the bounds of their NDA by saying all this - my point is that I had no qualms about letting my 7-year-old play unattended. And that's saying a lot for an MMO.
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
